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tt 11 that I had of good in other's sight,
orrowed light.

The lute unstrung—the meals in silence ate

We wont to share ;
The widowed bed—the chamber desolate,

Thou art not ti

arting, and tl

,e greeting kiss

'Who would not miss ?
Endearments fond, and solaced hours, and all
portant trivial things men comfort call.

Oh! mayeat thou, if permitted, from above

The starry sphere,
Encompass me with ever-during love,

As thou didst here;
Still be my guardian spirit, lest I be

Unworthy thee ;
Still, as on earth, thy grace celestial give,
IDE MY LIFE AS THOU WOULDST HAYS ME LIVE

blin University Magazine.

LITERARY

NOTICES.

THE MAGAZINES

Fraser. Nickisson

This number is very clever and amusing. Amongst the
best articles are " Jack Moriaty and his Contempoparies ;"
" Reminiscences of Men and Things," (in which we are in-
troduced to Guizot and David.) " A Tale of Bramber
Pleasures, Objects. and Advantages of Lite-
& good story is narrated, entitled

Indicated,
de Tropp

' in which a " distinguished foreigner"
natives in. " The Life of Sir Murray Maxwell"
contains the account of the battle of Lissa, and other inte-
-,,ents connected with the hero's career.—Fitzboodle
He has decidedly improved upon last
What is to be done for Ireland?" is a question
- This article ought to be very carefully

es again

:ry apropos

Blackwood's Magazine for February. Edinburgh
Blackwood.

excellent number. AU the articles deserve at-
al, and we feel assured that the reader will be

profited thereb.

Colonial Magazine for February. London : Fisher
and Co

is not in the present number of this useful periodical
4 very useful information as is usually to be found
' it has several papers worthy of being
-- The article on Fisheries

ises of reference

.nformation, and the hints which are
appear to us to be of practical utility.

s valuab

The Englishman.
A cheap and useful publication

The Magazine of Domestic Economy
nnantity of interesting and valuable

a and contributions

Punch

Usual, full of pleasant jests and jokes upon things in
general, and a great many people in particular. The wood-
cuts are admirably designed, and executed with much spirit.

Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry
the continuation and close of " The Party Fight

and Funeral,'

THt 6ItEAT EXPLOSION AT DOVER

From the Athenceum.)

Having witnessed the great explosion at Dover, on Thurs-
day, the 26th, from the summit of the cliff next adjoining it
to the southward, and from the nearest point to which any

access was permitted, I would gladly place on record, in your
valuable journal, some features of this magnificent operation,
which struck me at the time as extremely remarkable.
These features are the singular and almost total absence of
all those tumultuous and noisy manifestations of power
which might naturally be expected to accompany the explo-
sion of so enormous a quantity (19,000 lb.) of gunpowder,
and which formed, I have no doubt, the chief attraction of
many who came from great distances to witness it—viz.,
noise, smoke, earthquake, and fragments hurled to vast dis-

tances through the air.
Of the noise accompanying the explosion, I can only de-
scribe it as a low murmur, lasting hardly more than half a
second, and so faint, that bad a companion at my elbow
been speaking in an ordinary tone of voice, I doubt not it
would have passed unheeded. Nor was the fall of the cliff
(nearly 400 feet in height, and of which no less than 400,000
cubic yards were, within an interval of time hardly exceeding

ten seconds, distributed over the beach on an area of 18 acres,
covered to an average depth of 14 feet, and in many parts
from 30 to 50) accompanied with any considerable noise ;

certainly with none which attracted my own attention, or
that of several others similarly stationed, with whom I af-

terwards compared notes. A pretty fresh breeze from the
south-west might be regarded as influential in wafting it
away, were it not that the fall took place under the lee of

the cliff on whose edge we were stationed.
The entire absence of smoke was another and not less re-
markable feature of the phenomenon. Much dust, indeed,
curled out at the borders of the vast rolling and undulating
mass, which spread itself like a semi-fluid body, thinning
out in its progress ; but this subsided instantly ; and of trace
smoke there was absolutely not a vestige. Every part of the
surface was immediately and clearly seen—the prostrate*
flagstaff (speedily re-erected in the place of its fall)—the
broken turf which a few seconds before had been quietly
growing at the summit of the cliff—and every other detail of
that extensive field of ruin—were seen immediately in all

their distinctness

highest part of the expanding mass, while yet in rapid mo-
tion, my attention was attracted by a tumultuous and up-
ward-swelling motion of the earth, whence I fully expected

to see burst forth a volume of pitchy smok

and from which

my present impression is, that gas, purified from carbona-
ceous matter in passing through innumerable fissures of cold
and damp material, was still in progress of escape ; but whe-
ther so or not, the remark made at the moment is sufficient
to prove the absence of any impediment to distinct vision.

As regards the amount of tremor perceived, I must con-
fess having speculated with some little anxiety on the proba:

ability of the abrupt at

tood ; and might therefore

The Duke of Northumberland, it is not generally known,
is a freeman of the city of Durham, by patrimony. His right
is derived from Sir Hugh Smithson, who was admitted a mem-
ber of the butchers' company, A.D. 1700.
A requisition is now in process of signature in London, in-
viti❑g Dr. Chalmers to come to the metropolis during the
sitting of parliament, and deliver a course of lectures on the
present position of the Church of Scotland.
OPPOSITION OF FANATICISM.—WhiIe Miller is proclaim-
ing the end of the world to be next year, one Dr. J. Smith
is lecturing at New York and telling the people matter is
eternal.

Rescues of cattle distrained for poor-rates have occurred
in many parts of Kerry. A man named Courtenay, from
Glanmon, was lately committed to gaol for attempting to
run the rate collector through wth a hay-fork.
Lord Jocelyn has resigned his situation as Steward of the
Household to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant. Mr.
Seymour, who is married to Lady Emily Murray, the sister
of Lord Mansfield, will be his successor.
A female, respectably connected, and said to have an in-
come of £4OO per annum, lias been committed for trial at
Southampton, charged with stealing three pairs of children's
shoes. Bail to the amount of £BOO was afterwards taken.

ANY OTHER DESCRIPTION.—An analysis of the various
parliamentary returns relative to the poor-rates, &c., from
1747 to 1841, a period of 94 years, has been eompiled by J.
Rowbotham, Esq., at the request of E. Wodehouse, Esq.,
M.P., which furnishes the following indisputable facts:—
With regard to the comparative amount paid by land, and by
other descriptions of property, such as dwelling-houses,
mills, factories, &c., and manorial profits, which is the only
classification that appears to have been laid before parlia-
ment, I have referred to the Appendix E, p. 14, attached to
the report from a select committee on poor-rate returns,
1824 (420); to the account of the amount levied by assess-
ment in England and Wales for the year ending 25th March,
ordered to be printed Ist March, 1827 (No. 120); and also
abstract of returns for the year ended 25th March, 1833,
printed by order of the Ilouse of Commons, 27th May,
1834 (No, 335). By computing from the abstracts of re-
turns, for the year ended March 25, 1833, I find that land
has paid on poor-rate assessment the sum of
£255,150,063
Dwelling-houses 123,716.217
Mills, factories, &c.
Manorial profits, &c 8,652,285 '.

Total amount of assessment in
94 years £404,065,955
Hence it appears that land has paid £lO6 per cent. more than
dwelling-houses, and £1,442 per cent. more than mills, fac-
tories, &c. By taking the average on the abstract of returns
for the years 1823, 1826, and 1833, it is found that on assess-
ment
Land paid....
Dwelling-houses 112,687,055
Mills, factories, &c.
Manorial pro fits, &c 6,741,552

Total..
According to these estimates, land has paid £l3B per cent.
more than houses, and £1,625 per cent. more than mills,
factories, &c. ; and £99 per cent. more than dwelling-houses,
mills, factories, &c., and manorial profits combined, whether
on assessment or for relief of the poor. Or, land paid 66'5
per cent.; houses, 27'9 ; m ills, factories, &c., 3'9 ; and ma-
norial profits, I'7.—Berwick Warder.
CAPTLRE OP A CORPSE.—On Monday a Car was stopped
at the corporation toll-bar, Lee-road, by the collector, who
demanded toll for the contents of a box that was on the car.
The carrier offered to pay, but declared his ignorance of the
contents, on which the collector broke open the box, when,
to his astonishment, he discovered a corpse. A crowd in-
stantly collected, and it was with difficulty that the people
were prevented from inflicting summary punishment on the
carrier, his wife, and a boy, who accompanied him, another
man that was with him having escaped. The police was then
sent for, and four of them took the parties into custody, and
were conveying them and the corpse to, the Bridewell, when,
the crowd having increased to a large mass, a rush was made
on the prisoners, and, had it not been for a reinforcement of
constabulary that arrived, the prisoners would in all proba-
bility have been murdered. When they arrived• at the Bride-
well. the carrier produced a note, purporting to be from Dr.
Madras, of Coachford, to a surgeou in this city, belonging to
the College Buildings Anatomical School, certifying, in con-
formity with the provisions of the Anatomy Act, the name
and age of the deceased, the disease, which was fatal, and
that he died naturally; This certificate, the right worshipful
the Mayor bad transmitted to Dr. D. B. Bullen, Anatomical
Inspector, who immediately proceeded to the Bridewell,
and, haviug examined the body, said that if the subject was
legally procured, as he presumed it was, from the physician's
certificate, the corpse should be given to the school for dis-
section, and the prisoners liberated. However, in the course
of the day, a man named Herlihy identified the body as that
of his brother-in-law, John Lane, which was a fortnight since
iwnatsersrteodleinn
tahegrreafvreomin. the, parishrhenrporfieAtoharsboufllotgheue, sehaonod l thatrefo refuse
to claim the body, and deny having any knowledge of its being
procured for them. In consequence of these statements, the
Mayor sent for H. E. Jones, Esq., coroner, and directed him
to hold an inquest. The coroner says that he will confine
his inquiry to the mere fact of the cause of the death, and
leave all other matters to the Inspector of Anatomy. Should
the body have been stolen from the grave, the parties who
disinterred it are liable to be transported for felony, while
those who were concerned in its illegal transmit are liable to
heavy penalties under the Act for the Government of Schools
of Anatomy. The matter has created the greatest possible
excitement.—Cork Constitution.

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TELEGRAPH OFFICE, FEB. 9

moderate at 8 a.m.; E.N.E. ditto at 12
at Windnoon at Holyhead East,
noon.
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for New York. _ _

Off Great Ormshead, at 10 30 a.m. the Monongahela, A.S. for
Philadelphia, and several other vessels, outward bound, at 11 a.m.
No further communication for fog.

[MONTHLY REPORT.]
EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY.
CORNER OF HARFORD-STREET, MOUNT-pLrASANT

Surgeons Dr. Edwards and Mr. Neill
Treasurer.... Henry Crossfield, Esq.

EYE DEPARTMENT

New Patients admittecTinthe month of January lBB
Patients prescribed for, and who have received Surgical as
sistance during the month ofpar:uary 874

Total since the commencement .... 35,052

EAR DEPARTMENT.
Patients prescribed for, and who have received Surgical as-
sistance during the Month cfJanuury ....
Total since the commencement 6457
_____

DISPENSARY FOR CONSUMPTION AND
DISEASE OF THE HEART.

Warren-street, corner of Russell-street

WEEKLY REPORT.--FFBUARY 4.
Received Advice and Medicine 2C2 cases. Cases
Relieved Spasint.dic Asthma .............................. 21

Spitting of Blood
Inflarnation of the Lungs
Palpitation of the Heart
Incipient Phthisics
Confirmed Consumption

LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES

Number of new patients entered on the books of the Dfspensarie
during the last week:—

Received advice andmedicine atthe Insti-
North. South. Total
tution 26S 250 518
Visited at their own houses and supplied
with medicine
Total at each Dispensary

391 76

vlsurons.
Korth—Mr. C. Booth, Mr. Macgregor and Mr. J. A. Case.
South—Mr. Jordan, Rev. C. Morrall, and Rev. W. Parker.
J. WHITBY WILLIAMS, Secretary. pro tern
Dispensaries' Office, 1, Fenveick-street, Feb. 6, 1843.