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rti K HORRORS 1, WAR.-Dr. Dick calculates that
creat -orld 14,000,000,000 of beings
rave fallen :la cite wars whicn man has waged against his
fellow-creature—man. If this amazing number of men were
to hold each other by the hand, at arm's length, they would
extend over 14,583,330 miles of gruund, and would encircle
the globe upon which we dwell 608 times ! If we allow the
weight of a man to be on an average one cwt. (and that is, if
anything, below the mark), we shall come to the conclusion
that 69450,000 tons of human flesh have been mangled, dis-
figured, gashed, and trampled under foot. The calculation
will appear more striking when I state, that if the fore-fin-
gers only of every one of those 14,000,000,000 human beings
were to be laid out in a straight line, they would reach more
than 600,000 miles beyond the moon ; and that if a person
were to undertake to count the number, allowing 19 hours
to the day and 7 days to the week, and to number at the rate
of 6,000 per hour, it would employ that person 336 years ;
and awful is the consideration, that 3,500,000
blood have been spilt in battles." pipes of human

since the creation of the wu

FASRIONS Ton THE COURT OF MARIE: ANTOINETTE.
Mademoiselle Bertin, the celebrated marehande de modes,
was introduced to the queen, and made a total revolution in
the dress and decorations of the French ladies. The queen,
who had previously been very simple in her toilet, now made
dress her principal employment, and all the ladies of course
followed her example. The young were led by it into great
extravagance, some of them into debt, and mothers and hus-
bands murmured and complained : many most disagreeable
domestic scenes, quarrels, and dissensions ensued in s fa
uni-
mi-
lies ; and the queen was blamed for all this, a to tthe ladies
wa
versally alleged that she set a ruinous example
nt, and the
of France. The fashions changed every mome
head-dress was built up at last into such a pile of gauze,
feathers, flowers, ribands, Sce., that ladies could not sit up-
right in a carriage, but were obliged twill ean forward, or to
put ther eads out o te windows,while others knelt on
pillowsi at h
the bottomf ofh the coach, lest they should derange
the towering structure.—Hisfory of Our Own Times, Vo. 1.

ORDINATIONS TO BE flotnEs.—Sunday, June 11, Bishop
of Oxford, at Oxford. Sunday, June 11, Bishop of Peter-
boro', at Peterboro'. Sunday. June 11, Bishop of Exeter,
at Exeter. Sunday, June 11, Bishop of Hereford, at Here-
ford. Sunday, June 11, Bishop of Worcester, at Worcester.
Sunday, June 11, Bishop of Chichester, at Chichester. Sun-
day, June 11, Bishop of Lincoln, at Lincoln. Sunday, June
11, Bishop of Meath, at Ardbraccan. Sunday, June 11,
Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, at London. Sunday,
June 11, Archbishop of York. at Bishopthorpe. Sunday,
June 18, Bishop of Ely, at London. Sunday, June 25.
Bishop of Ripon, at Ripon. Sunday, July 9, Bishop of
Wiucheater, at Farnham. Sunday, July 23, Bishop of
Durham, at Auckland. Sunday, August. 13, Bishop of
Norwich, at Norwich. Sunday, September 24, Bishop of
Salisbury, at Salisbury.

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THE REV. DR. PUSEY.

The decision of the vice-chancellor, in regard to Dr.
Pusey's sermon, has naturally caused much excitement in
Oxford, and the Tractarian party are endeavouring to make
out that the board of inquiry was not fairly selected. We
are therefore induced to copy the following article from the
o,iford Chronicle, although we wish to be understood as
not coinciding with the writer in attributing quasci Tracts-
rianism to some of the individuals mentioned :
(Prom the Oxford Chronicle.)
The consciousness that the eves of tens of tkousanda are
turned toward Oxford has induced no little commotion in our
colleges and common rooms this week ; and the constitution
of a committee of advisers, to examine Dr. Pusey's sermon,
has greatly stirred the Tractarian mind. A voice of loud
lament was beard through the Timer, and reproaches and
misrepresentations have been freely dealt out.
The defence set up, and the charges made in the Time:,
and which were repeated in the Neictnan Paper of Thurs-
day, are these :

First—That taking the report of the azford Chronicle,
" The sermon is, without exaggeration, identically the same
with that which he (Dr. Pusey), and all who agree with him,
have publicly held and taught tor the last ten years, and
which multitudes of the best Church of England divines
Lave taught before."

It is freely admitted that similar doctrines have been
taught in Oxford by the Tractarians for some years past ; and
it is not our fault that they were not noticed before. In the
second number of this paper the warning was raised, that the
youth of Oxford were being led within the very portals of
Rome; and that certain semi-Popish divines of the Church
of England have in other days taught similar doctrines may
be admitted ; what then?

The next as,,ertion is most audacious and truly Tractarian ;
it is this, that in constituting the board a majority of anti-
Tractarians were secured. We must briefly expose this
statement, so evidently made with a view to mislead the pub-
lic mind. First, the vice•chancellor, Dr. Wynter, is
attacked, and unfairness imputed to him. Now, there must
be, there shall be, no mistake upon this subject ; we there-
fore do not hesitate to make it known—

That the vice-chancellor is a very high churchman ; that
he objected, and hesitated to take cognizance of the sermon ;
that he actually appointed the Rev. W. Sewell, of Exeter
College, the most cautious but most determined of Tracta-
rians, to preach the sermon on the 29th May (and a strange
sermon it was). Beside, the vice-chancellor is not a mem-
ber of the board, but the ultimate judge upon the report or
reports of the board or committee.

TILE COURT.

THE KING OF HANOVER

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and Prince
George visited His Majesty on Wednesday ; Prince Frede-
rick Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg!) Strelitz, also
paid a visit to His Majesty at his residence iu the Ambassa-
dor's Court, St. James's. . .

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glocestar gave a
grand dinner to his Majesty at her residence, Gloceater-
house.

The company included His 'Majesty the King of Hanover,
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Augusta, Prince Frederick, Hereditary
Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, the Lady in Waiting
on the Duchess of Cambridge, Lady Augusta Somerset,
Major-General Hattori, Major Stephens, and a select party.
The Duchess of Glocester had afterwards an evening party.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived, atten-
ded I,y Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Cooper.
His Royal Highness Prince George arrived, attended by
Baron Knesebeck. Baron Falke, Baron Malortie, Baron
Reizensiein, and Captain Slicker, of the King of Hanover's
suite, were present, and a large party of the nobility and
gentry, who Lad been honoured with invitations to meet His
Majesty.

VISIT TO Wll`Daoß.—The Queen and Prince Albert left
Claremont soon after nine o'clock on Monday morning, for
Windsor Castle; the Equerries in Waiting, Colonel Buck-
ley, and Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, attending.
Hey majesty and his royal highness returned to Claremont
about two o'clock. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of
Wales and the Princess Royal were taken an airing in the
afternoon, in a carriage and four, in the vicinity of Clare-
mont.

DEvoNstmtv. LAcz.—We are given to understand, that
the Queen, from an anxious desire to encourage the British
manufacturer, ordered some collars of lace to be made at
Beer, a retired village in Devonshire, the shape being fur-
❑ished by her Majesty. They have been just completed,
and forwarded to Buckingham Palace ; and the Queen, with
her usual discriminating taste, has been pleased to expre►s
her admiration of the extreme beauty of the design, and of
the manner in which the work has been executed. The
collars were made under the direction of Messrs. Cheek and
Tucker, Beer, and the pattern designed by Mr. Butler
Adams, jun., London. 'We trust that the patronage of her
Majesty, whose correct judgment in all matters of taste is so
well known, will draw the attention and favour of the public
towards this valuable production of British industry.