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he overture with which it v

and un

ling, and the music of

the opening scenes contained little promise, and was in-
trusted to inferior artistes. It fell with ominous coldness
on the cars of the auJience, and that heavy silence which

precedes a th
gradually seta,

al, as well as an atmospheric storm,
wn, as it were, over the house. When

Miss Hayes entered in the middle of the first act, she had
in fact not only to contend against the ill-humour of a
disappointed and displeased auditory, but to sustain the
chief part in an opera that already had all but failed. Her
fame, howc.ver, fortunately for the author, had preceded
her, and when she entered, so young, so animated, so
graceful—when the first tones of her sweet soprano, so

silvery in their freshness and purity, were heard—the dis-
pleasure of the audience gradually subsided, and, ere the
curtain fell, she not only saved the opera from summary
condemnation, but rendered its first performance a trium-
phant success.

THE MINISTER AND A PROVINCIAL DEPU-

(From Blackwood

TATION

'agazine fi

November.)

Aridley had just finished this epistle, such as it was,
when the attendant in waiting announced the arrival of a
deputation from a provincial trading town, the members
of which deputation he had appointed to meet at two
o'clock. There was no office in London at which depu.
ere kept waiting less than at that over which
. The deputation entered—some
ged, comfortable looking persons,
their grievance—and considered

tations
Mr. F

their own interests and those of the country menaced by
a certain clause in a bill _brought in by Mr. Egerton.
Tim Mayor of the town was the chief spokesman, and he
spoke well—but in a style to which the dignified official
was not accustomed. It was a slap-dash style—uncere-
monious, free, and easy—an American style. And, in-
deed, there was something altogether in the appearance
and bearing of the Mayor which savoured of residence in
the Great Republic. He was a very handsome man, but
with a look sharp and domineering—the look of a man
who did not care a straw for president or monarch, and
who enjoyed the liberty to speak his mind, and •' wallop
his own nigger !" His fellow-burghers evidently regarded
him with great respect; and Mr. Egerton had penetration
enough to perceive that Mr. Mayor must be a rich man,
as well as an eloquent one, to have overcome those im-
pressions of soreness or jealousy which his tone was cal-
culated to create in the self-love of his equals. Mr.
Egerton was far too wise to be easily offended by mere
manner; and, though he stared somewhat haughtily when
he found his observations actually pooh-poohed at, he was
not above being convinced. There was much sense and
much justice in Mr. Mayor's arguments, and the states-
man civilly promised to take them into full consideration.
He then bowed out the deputation ; but scarcely had the
door closed before it opened again, and Mr. Mayor pre-
sented himself alone, saying aloud to his companions in
the passage, " T forgot something I had to say to Mr.
Egerton ; wait below for me."

Well, Mr. Mayor," said Audley, pointing to a seat,
" what else would you suggest ?"
The May or looked round, to see that the door was
closed ; and then, drawing his chair close to Mr. Eger-
ton's, laid his forefinger on that gentleman's arm, and
said, " I think I speak to a man of the world, sir."
Mr. Egerton bowed, and made no reply by word, but
he gently removed his arm from the touch of the fore-
finger. _

Mr. Mayor—" You observe, sir, that I did not ask the
members whom we return to Parliament to accompany us.
Do better without 'em. You know they are both in Op-
position—out-and-outers."
Mr. Egerton—" It is a misfortune which the Go-
vernment cannot remember, when the question is whe-
ther the trade of the town itself is to be served or in-
jured."
Mr. Mayor—" Well, I guess you speak handsome, sir.
But you'd he glad to have two members to support Min-
isters after the next election."

Mr. Egerton, smiling—" Unquestionably, Mr. Mayor."
Mr. Mayor—" And I can do it, Mr. Egerton. I may
say I have the town in my pocket ; so I ought, I spend a
great deal of money in it. Now, you see, Mr. Egerton,
I have passed a part of my life in a land of liberty—the
United States—and [ come to the point when I speak-to
a man of the world. I'm a man of the world myself, sir.
And if so be the Government will do something for me,
why, I'll do something for the Government. Two votes
for a free and independent town like ours—that's some-
thing, isn't it ?"
Mr. Egerton, taken by surprise—" Really, I—"
Mr. Mayor, advancing his chair still nearer, and inter-
rupting the official—" No nonsense, you see, on one side
or the other. The fact is that I've taken it into my head
that I should like to be knighted. You may well look
surprised. Mr. Egerton—trumpery thing enough, I dare
say ; still, every man has his weakness, and I should like
to be Sir Richard. Well, if you can get me made Sir
Richard, you may just name your two members for the
next election—that is, if they belong to your own set,
enlightened men, up to the times. That's speaking fair
and manful, isn't it ?"
Mr. Egerton, drawing himself up —" I am at a loss to
guess why you should select me, sir, for this very extra-
ordinary proposition."

Mr. MayOr, nodding good-humouredly—" Why, you
see, I don't go all along with the Government ; you're
the best of the bunch. And maybe you'd like to
strengthen your own party. This is quite between you
and me, you understand ; honour's a jewel!"

Mr. Egerton, with great gravity—`• Sir, I am obliged
by your good opinion; but T agree with my colleagues in
all the great questions that affect the government of the
country, and —"

Mr. Mayor, interrupting him—" Ah, of course, yOu
may say so ; very right. But I guess things would go
differently if you were Prime Minister. However, I have
another reason for speaking to you about my little job.
You see you were member for Lansmere once, and I
think you came in hut by two majority, eh ?"
Mr. Egerton—" Sir, I know nothing of the particulars
of that election ; I was not present."
Mr. Mayor—" No ; but luckily for you, two relatives
of mine were, and they voted for you. Two notes, and
you came in by two ! Since then, you have got into very
snug quarters here, and I think we have a claim on you."

&Ir. Egerton—" Sir, I acknowledge no such claim ; I
was and am a stranger to Lansmere ; and, if the electors
did me the honour to return me to Parliament, it was in
corn pliment rather to —"

Mr. Mayor, again interrupting the official —" Rather
to Lord Lansmere, you were going to say; unconstitu-
tional doctrine that, I fancy. Peer of the realm. But

never mind, I know the world ; and I'd ask Lord Lans-
mere to do my affair for me, only I hear he is as proud
as Lucifer."

Mr. Egerton, in great disgust, and setting his papers
before Sir, it is not in my department to recom-

tes for tht

honour of

food, and it is still less in mv department to ma
gains for seats in Parliament."
Air. Mayor—" Oh, if that':
T don't know much of the etic
it un- i I thought that, if I

ke bar-

s the case, you'll excuse me;
quette in these matters. But

put two seats in your hands, for your
own friends, you might contrive to take the affair into
your department, whatever it was. But, since you say
you agree with your colleagues, perhaps it comes to the
same thing. Now, you must not suppose that I want to sell
the town, and that I can change and chop my politics for
my own purpose. No such thing ! I don't like the sit-
ting members; I'm all for progressing, but they go too
much a-head for me ; and. since the Government is dis-
posed to move a little, why I'd as lief support them as not.
But, in common gratitude, you see (added the Mayor,
coaxingly,) I ought to be knighted ! I can keep up the
dignity. and do credit to her Majesty."
Mr. Egerton, without looking up from his papers—" I
e de= I can onl- "

fur you, sir, to the proper quarter.'
" Proper quarter ! Well
_ _

`SAE LIVERPOOIi

Mr. Henry Hicks, of Brean, near Burt'ham, Somerset
dug from his garden, last week, one hunted and eighty-
two potatoes, the produce of a single rood The whole
weighed fifty-four pounds and a half.
On Thursday Sirrell, the silversmith of the Barbican,
was brought up at the Mansion-house, to answer a charge
relative to one of the metropolitan plate cases. Bail was
taken for a few days. _

On the 17th utt., J. L. Barallier, Esq., of Milford,
committed suicide by taking poison. About twelve
months ago hi 4 wife died equally suddenly under very
suspicious circumstances. _ . .

WARNINGS IN BURGLARIES.—CouId not bell-wires,
or other apparatus connected with bells, be secretly
attached to lock-work or doors, so as at once to give
warning on the slightest attempt to pick the lock or
move a bolt.

A great improvement in the manufacture of watches
has just been made at Genera, by which watch keys are
rendered unnecessary. By simply turning a screw in the
handle the watch is wound up, and another movement
regulates the hands. _ _ _

A respectable married woman named .1-lardy destroyed
herself a few days since at Middleborough, by cutting her
throat with a pair of scissors. She had been attending
ranter's" meetings, and laboured under fanatical delu-
sion.

The Screw Steam-shipping Company's first steamer,
carrying the royal mail from this country to the Cape of
Good Hope, will leave England on the 16th of December
next. The mails will be made up on the 15th of each
month.

A pugilistic encounter, the consequence of a quarrel,
took place at Chewstoke, on Monday, between an old
man sixty-five gem's of age, and a young man of twenty-
five. Spite of the odds of age, the old man came off
victorious.

A WOVEN NEW TESTAMENT.—A weaver in Bradford
has been for some time employed in weaving in a piece of
cloth the whole of the New Testament. He has already
completed the four Gospels, and has made some advance
in the Acts of the Apostles.
Eight Jersey fishing-boats were taken by the French
cruisers last Saturday night, whilst dredging oysters on
the French coast. Seven of them were taken to Gran-
ville. The other made her escape with two French sailors
who.were left in charge of her.
At Worship-street police-office, London, on Friday, a
youth was brought up for attempting self-destruction. It
transpired that he was a married man, and that the united
ages of himself and wife at the time of their union were
only 31.
Mr. Macready has once more taken to the stage. He
made his reappearance at the Haymarket Theatre, Lon-
don, on Monday night, in the character of Macbeth. The
London papers say he looked well, acted well, and was
loudly applauded.

_ -
SALUTARY CORRECTION.—At Tewksbury, a waterman
named Charles Matthews, but more commonly known as

" Crab," charged with having, in company with four
others, profaned the Lord's-day, by playing at " Duck
Stone," and using profane language, was sentenced to be
placed in the stocks for the space of three hours.
Samuel Alfred Warner, of " long range" notoriety,
has been adjudicated a bankrupt upon the petition of
Messrs. Robins, printers and booksellers, in Tooley-street.
Messrs. Lawrence and Plews are solicitors to the petition.
The bankrupt is described as of Southampton-street,
London, projectile-manufacturer.
The True Love and the Anne, of Hull, arrived at that
port on Saturday last, from Davis's Straits. They bring
no news later than that of the Ist of October, the parti-
culars of which have already been published. The True
Love has but three and the Anne but two fish. The
fishery has been very unsuccessful.
A GOOD CAT.—Miss Hampsher, of Pontefract, has a
cat, 19 years old, which on the 23d ult. took one after
another 13 young rats, half-grown, and on her fourteenth
entry took the mother of the brood, and deposited the
whole safely in the pantry of her mistress. The cat, of
course, killed the rats.
Some boys quarrelled while at play in the streets of
Paisley, a few days since, and two of them stuffed some
clay into the mouth of a boy named Craig, about ten years
old, who was so much injured in the struggle with his
assailants that he died after lingering for three or four
days.
COOL !—The following notice was placed upon the
door of the French Catholic Chapel, George-street. Port-
man-square, London, and one to the same effect in
French :—" On Sunday, Nov. 3, after vespers, a solemn
Te Deum' of thanksgiving for the restoration of the
Catholic hierarchy in England."

It is stated, that in preparing for the reception of the
guests at the York banquet, the paintings, chiefly por-
traits, were all transferred from the Mansion-house to
the walls of the banqueting-room in the Guildhall, with
the sole exception of that of Mr. Hudson, which was left
in its place.

A distressing occurrence took place at Park Lane,
Tipton, on Thursday last, by the falling of the front of
three small houses, in consequence of mining operations,
burying in the ruins two children, named Sarah Hum-
phries, aged three years, and Elizabeth Lowe, aged four
years, who were playing at the time at the door-step of
one of the houses.

Mr. Marshall. who lives at Althorpe, Lincolnshire, a
man neaily ninety years of age, lately broke one of his
legs and otherwise injured himself by falling out of the
chamber window while asleep. He had been in the ha-
bit of walking in his sleep, and on the night of the acci-
dent he got out of bed, opened his bedroom window, and
lumped or fell to the ground.
THE LATE MR. GEORGE STEPHENSON.-At a meeting
at Derby, Mr. Mousley, the ex-mayor of that borough,
said that Mr. James Trubshaw, the architect of a new
bridge across the Derwent, had under his consideration
at the present moment the project of erecting a monu-
ment to the celebrated George Stephenson, i❑ one single
stone, which would be several feet longer than Cleopatra's
needle.—Derby Mercury.
SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr. Boothby. the well-known di-
rector of the London and North-Western Railway, and
the Great Southern and Western of Ireland, died suddenly
on Tuesday. The deceased gentleman went to bed in
perfect health on the previous night, but on rising in the
morning at a very early hour, had scarcely put his foot on
the floor when he fell back on the bed and instantly ex-
pired.

A clergyman of the Church of England, with the appro-
bation of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, proposes to
give a prize or prizes of one hundred guineas in amount
for the best essay or essays on the following subject:—
" In what manner the union of all nations at the Grand
Exhibition in 1851 may be made the most conducive to
the glory of God in promoting the moral welfare of man-
kind.",

On Saturday week a youth about fourteen years of age
patted the paw of the lion in Wombwell's menagerie at
Durham, when the brute laid hold of the intruder by the
hand, and drawing him close to the cage, fastened upon
his head with the other paw. The poor boy's head and
hands were terribly lacerated, and at one time his life was
despaired of. Luckily the boys cries alarmed the keepers
in time.

ATTACK ON A CHILD BY A FERRET.—Last week, as
a clergyman, named Hinne, was passing along the Che-
riton-road, not far from the Folkstone Laundry, he heard
continued screams from a hawker's cart left oa the road-
side, and, seeing no one near, he went to the vehicle, from
whence the cries proceeded, and there found that a ferret
had attacked a young child, and had fast hold of its face.
With great difficulty he beat the animal off, and then
found the child's face shockingly lacerated.
DARING BURGLARY.—Last Friday night or early on
Saturday morning, the house of Mr. John Bolland, in
Kirkgate, was broken into, and the sum of £334 10s.
stolen therefrom. The money was taken from a place
very near to where the owner was sleeping ; but he heard
no noise, and did not find out his loss until he gut up.
Mr. Bolland is a horse dealer, and had prepared on Fri-
day to start the following day for Ireland to purchase
horses.—Bradford Observer.

ENGINEERING MOVEMENTS.—Messrs. Peto and Betts,
the contractors, hove undertaken to reclaim the Norfolk
estuary of 32,000 acres, and so to drain the Bedford Level
and the adjacent low lands, comprising nearly half a mil-
lion of acres, as to get rid almost entirely of the present
expensive system of drainage by wind and steam. The
land• proprietors have contributed £60,000 towards the
cost, and an equal sum has been voted by the Corporation
of Lynn, in consideration of the Ouse.
Mr. Horace Mayhew has ceased to write for the Morn-
ing Chronicle, because the conductors of that journal
wished him to suppress in his reports, on the condition of
the working classes, facts which were opposed to free
trade. Mr. Mayhew was the Chronicle's " Commis-
sioner" for the metropolitan districts, and was the origi-
nator of the inquiry set on foot by the conductors of that
journal into the condition of the working classes of the
kingdom.

THE GREATEXIIIIIITION CATALOGUE.—MessrsClowes,
the eminent printers, have obtained the contract for print-
ing the catalogue for the 1851 Exhibition. They give a
premium of £4,000 for the privilege, and 2d. for every
copy sold towards the expense of the Exhibition. The
catalogue will be sold for ls. ; another catalogue will also
be published, which will he printed in several languages,
and be sold for 10s. Six hundred additional hands have
been employed upon the building, making altogether
1,500.
TURNING A PRIZE PIG TO ACCOUNT.—A rather lu-
dicrous story is now going the rounds of the clubs with
reference to a Yorkshire Yeomanry Corps. The other
day, at York, while a captain was inspecting his troops
upon parade, he observed one of his men decorated with
a medal. " Hclloa, my lad !" exclaimed the Captain,
" I did not know you were ever in the Regulars. What
action did you serve in 1" " Lawk, sir," replied the
Yorkshire trooper, " I was never in t' wars, not I ; but
my old sow won this at the Thirsk Cattle Show, so I pops
him on t' my breast, thinking as how it looks warlike !"

An attempt was made, on the night of Monday week,
to murder John Jones, who gave evidence at Pontrhyd-
fendigaed, with respect to the poisoning case near Abery-
stwith. As Jones was an the road to Pontrhydfendigaed
Abbey, he was attacked by three armed men with knives,
with which they tried to cut his throat, but fortunately
they did not succeed, as in the struggle the knife glanced
off to his chin, which it divided, passing into his mouth,
and separating the cheek on the opposite side. After the
miscreants left him he crawled into the Abbey, where he
found that his legs were also very much cut.
HORRIBLE MURDER IN JERSEY.--OR Sunday MOM-
ing Mary Carleton, a pensioner's wife, was found mur-
dered in her own house. The husband left the house,
locking the door after him, at nine o'clock in the morn-
ing, and about eleven the neighbours broke in and found
the unhappy woman lying on her back, and weltering in
her blood. Under the left side of the neck a wound had
been inflicted large enough to admit man's four fingers.
The instrument with which the fatal deed was committed
was a rusty knife, without a handle, found in the room.
The unfortunate deceased has left a family of six children
behind her, none of whom lived at home. The husband
has been arrested on suspicion, and lodged in gaol, They
had led a life of continual discord.

CURES FOR THE

NONCURED!

HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT

CURE OF ACUTE RHEUMATISM OF FOUR YEARS'
STANDING.
Extract of a Letter from Mr. J. Pitt, Dudley, 19th Jan., 1850
To Professor HOLLOWAY

IR.-It is with the greatest pleasure that I write to thank
you for the benefit I have received from your P'lls and Oint-
ment, which have completely cured me of e Rheumatism
under which I suffered for this last four s, at times I was
so bad as to be hardly able to walk. I : d tried every kind of
Medicine that was recommended wit ..ut receiving any benefit.
lat last thought I would give your edicines a trial, and pur-
chased from Mr. Hollin. Chemi ,of this Town, two Boxes of
Pills, and two of Ointment, a in three weeks, through them
and the blessing of God, I restored to health and strength.
and am now as well able . walk as ever as I was in my life.
lam well known in thi .arish, having been sixty-five years in
it, with an exceptio of ten years I served in the 24th Regi-
ment of Foot. (Signed) JOHN PITT.
CURE OF A 13, LEG OF MORE THAN SIXTY YEARS'