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of cireurn.stances,, be lilac(
had he not been the lesser light of this b

selfish, meagre;. and 'into
be submitted to the Counl
himself as he did towards
of the light of, his, sectic
bow great the darkness ! He conclu
to vote for the committee.

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Mr. BHNNErr.—Did I and
the little mind of Mr. Earle ?
Mr. URQUHART.—I said the (
Mr. Avlsow.----'-It is not usual to m
tions in the absence of gentlemen.
Mr. BENNEIT was understood to say
tleman in Liverpool to whom such
be so inappropriately made as to Mr. l
Mr. StEAtiva thought it desirable th
the Board sbould express their distil:

posed by Mr. Poole, was crrried u
Mr. Smethurst, Chairman to the Gt
Mr. Reay, the Secretary, then en
deputation from the Guardian Sod
operation of the Vestry in opposition to the Dock Bill
Mr. REAY said they had prepared a memorial to the
Council, praying that body to adhere to their
lution not to proceed to Parliament f -
had no confidence in the promoters of
therefore, they could not leave it to t
insertion of the rating clan

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At the request of the Chairman 3
leputation the resolution which h,

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passed by the

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Board, and the interview closed.
After some little conversation, Mr. Hugh Molynenx
was appointed to the vacant seat at the Board, and the
proceedings terminated a little after one o'clock.

In reference to this subject, the Guardian Society hap
sent a letter to each member of the Council, in whicA,
after alluding to the intention of the Dock Committee
" to renew the discussion on the Dock Bill with a view to
rescind the resolutions already passed by the Council, the
Society calls the attention of the Council to a memorial
from the Society, to be presented at the Council meeting
to-day, in which the memorialists state that they " deem
such a proceeding discourteous and unjust, and, therefore,
calculated to destroy that confidence in public bodies
which they are ever anxious to maintain. The memorial-
ists, therefore, respectfully, but earnestly, urge upon the
Council to be again firm, and carry out in its integrity the
resolution passed on the 10th instant."

The separation of his faithful follow
Kader had obviously prothiced upon his
so alarming. that orders were given for their confinement
in the same prison with their illustrious chief.

•s from Abd-el

h an effect

The beautiful model of the battle of Waterloo is still ow
view. The gentleman in charge of it gives an interesting
and graphic description of every object delineated, and
every spectator becomes thus minutely and accurately ac-
quainted with the occurrences which have been of such
momentous consequence to his cou-

,ry's history

THE FEMALE AMERICAN SERENADERS.—The first of
five concerts, by the Female American Serenaders, was
given last evening, at the Concert-hall. Lord Nelson-
street. The attendance was extremely good, and from the
rapturous applause that followed each piece there could
be little doubt of the general satisfaction the concert gave.
As a body they are clever, and play the various instru-
ments assigned to them with great precission. Their
costume is characteristic of American Indians, and many
of the melodies they execute are of a more refined charac-
ter than those usually produced at Etheopean entertain-
ments, but here and there are introduced such songs as
" Old Joe," " Buffalo Gals," &c., &c., which have the
effect of enlivening the affair, and from the quaintness
with which they are given, keeping the whole audience
in laughter.

THE NAUGHTY NUNS OF NEWINGTON.—At Newing-
ton, in Kent, are the very slight remains of the nunnery
of Newington. By whom it was founded no record re-
mains. Tradition, however, gives its Gothic walls and
cloistered seclusion an evil repute. The nuns of Newington
strangled their prioress in her bed, and, to hide the deed,
cast her body into a deep pit. The crime was, however,
discovered, and Henry 111. delivered the unscrupulous
sisterhood who were guilty over to the secular power, to
be dealt with according to their deserts. After this be
filled their cloister with seven secular canons. This fra-
ternity, however, seem to have been as bad a lot as the
sisterhood they succeeded ; for four of the shavelinga,
very soon after their admission, murdered one of their
brother canons and they were ousted and executed in turn.
So much for the nunnery of Newington !

FALSE HUMILITY.—Amongst the false humilities by
which the world is most flattered and beguiled, is that of
bniznusrrom an censure and
reprobation of what is evil, under cover of the text,
" Judge not lest ye be judged ;" as if it were the intent of
that text, not to warn us against rash, presumptuous, and
uncharitable judgments, but absolutely to forbid our tak-
ing account of the distinction between right and wrong.
" It is not for us to judge our brother," says the humi-

1 tarian of this way of thinking ; "we know not how he
may have been tempted ; perhaps he was born with
stronger passions than o'her people; be may have been
ill brought up ; peradventure he was thrown amongst evil
associates ; we ourselves, had we been thrown in the same
circumstances, might have been in like manner led astray."
Such are the false charities of a false end popular humility.
If we are to excuse all the moral evil that we can account
for, and abstain from judging all of which we can suppose
that there is some adequate explanation, where are we to
stop in our absolutions ? Whatever villainy exists in the
world is compounded of what is inborn and what comes
by circumstance ; there is nothing so base or detestable

b'ut it is the consequence of some -adequate cause

we are to make allowances for all but causeless wicked-
ness, there is an end of condemnation.—Taylor's Notes
from Lffe.
THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER.—There's a world of
buxom beauty flourishing in the shades of the country.
Farm houses are dangerous places. As you are thinking
only of sheep or of curds, you may be suddenly shot
through by a pair of bright eyes, and melted away in a
bewitching smile that you never dreamt of till the mis-
chief was done. In towns and theatres, and thronged
assemblies of the rich and titled fair, you are on you.
guard ; you know what you are exposed to, and put on
your breast-plates, and pass through the most deadly on-
slaught of beauty safe and sound. But in those sylvan
retreats, dreaming of nightingales, and hearing only the

lowing of oxen, you are taken by surprise. Out steps a
fair creature—crosses a glade—leaps a stile. You start,
you stand lost in wonder and astonished admiration ! You
take out your tablets to write a sonnet on the return of
the Nymphs and Dryades to earth, when up comes John
Tompkins, and says, "It's only the farmer's daughter."
What! have farmers such daughters now a-days ? Yes,
I tell you they have such daughters. Those farm-houses
are dangerous places. Let no man with a poetical imagi-
nation, which is only another name for a very tender
heart, flatter. limself with fancies of the calm delights of
the country—with the serene idea of sitting with the far-
mer in his old-fashioned chimney-corner, and hearing hna
talk of corn and mutton—of joining him in pensive
pleasure of a pipe and jug of brown October—of listening

io the gossip Of the eointo- rtable farmer's wife of the pal:
son and his family, of his sermons and his pig—over a
fragrant cup of young by son, or rapt in the delicious turn-
ries of custards or whipt creams—in walks a fairy vision
of wondrous witchery, and, with a curtsey and a smile of
winning and mysterious magic, takes her seat just oppo-
site. It is the farmer's daughter, a lively creature of
eighteen : fair as the lily, fresh as May dew, rosy as the
rose itself, graceful as the peacock perched on the pale
there by the window; sweet as a posy of violets and clove
gillivers, modest as early morn, and amiable as your own
imagination Dt!?deniona or ertrutio of Wyoming. Yes

are lost. It's all over with you. I woulirnt jive an
empty filbert or a frog-bitten strawberry for your peace of
mind, if that glittering creature be not as pitiful as she is
fair. And that comes of going into the country, out of

the way of vanity and te'inpiation, and fancying farm
houses nice old fashioned places of o!d-fashioned content—
ment.—" The Hall and the Hamlet," by William
Howitt.

How TO Cuai ITYSTERICS.—Mr. G. Corfe, in the
Medical Times, gives the following as a specimen of MO4
of hysteria frequently met with at the Middlesex Hos-
pital :—" It is usually about the dead of the night, at
least most commonly in the evening, that a large posse of
police, with a fair attendance of women, parry into the
out-patients' room a female, strapped down on the

stretcher. It is stated that she has had a fit, and screvrneel
and became so violent that all efforts to control her were
quite ineffectual. We are summoned to the case just as
we have retired to bed, perhaps ; we fold a fat, healtl-1,
looking young woman prostrate on this stretcher. 131cr
eyes are fixed, pupils dilated, act7ng slightly under a
strong lamp ; she is pinched, slapped, her hair pulled, rz.4
every effort made to rouse her, but all is in vain•
hapt we may see through the case at once, howeve
moral force here is invariably more effectual than the
phys:cal. We notice a nictating eyelid, and a snort or
groan is given, yet there she lies, utv.n.--:- -
to all that is going on around her.
ing and authoritative order, that
inediately_ excluded;' thus,

r--the

actous, apparently,
We raise a com mead-
-11 pexsoas shall be be-
Policemen, turn out the

whole el-these persons, both male and fernal
paeemen s'op here to as9ist us ;"-
poljeernen, bring her up to the light

again patusinj

'`Sonu severe measures mast be takerrin this tz.l3.
liOit!se-surgeon." Nnrse bring in two or three pails
full cf cold hater!" "You, night nurse, go and pro-
oureitwo or three thick blauketi." " Call up the gummy
man'to shave the head.' " Get tlit

sto ranch

one order follows another ;
all attention and mute' there is a pause between each
order: So riven ; the mediral officers whisper tegethes roto
the prnbi7ble expos 6. that will 60011 take plaet., and whit It
the cold water is running into the pails, and the blanketu•
are belt* passed around her waist, and the clack- of Cho
t ;rge scissors is heard over her fine but dirty hmka of hit*
the patient opens her eyes, ancry4tii (apparent astonish-
meat cries out, ''Where am le ~;%1-at-jtre.,yoa going in
do with me ? Lei me go•hoja.li (Vniuther,'dolahe.mee
away from these cruel lyrtlers,"..--,,-.--a4,1 4114 on one!
,ften does our paticat getilaftftem!,the stretcher, rn. her
eyes, walk about the ro4ftujitall kiere'thkhuiLding witimet
a situtle attempt. made 0tr,1:41.E,;,1*.t- thia rclqi.

le poliv.,:ilen stare, and are

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ay be softened by a degree of heat not exceed-
F melted lead, and may be afterwards moulded
quired shape.

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to have paid more attention to
iodern English, for Mr. Layard states
hick he found in the ruins of Nineveh,

_ to system of sewerage, and
connected with a main sewer.

ished with a core

DUTY AND GLORY.—The Duke of Wellington, being
asked if he had seen a French criticism on the fourteen vo-
replied in the -negative, and in-
Vhat do the French say of them ? " He was
-eviewer remarked the word glory did not
't duty frequently did.

lumes of his Despatches

LITER

Y DISCOVE

]Sir. F. Devon has found an

Ament of the letters belonging to Edward, the first
Prince of Wales; which, from its antiquity of above
its interesting contents, with its historical
les being the only record of that nature in
existence, is decidedly the most important discovery of

!nturies,
gs. besiC

rn times and would amply repay any one who 'Am-
.

dertook i

Tun LAST AND BEST.—A correspondent of the New
York Spirit of the Times has the following :—A chap,
walking out, came across " Old Mose," sitting in the
Well, Mosel' says he, " what
ou-ioing there ? " " Fiffin." "What ?"
ina ! well, what's the reason you can't
" Oh, nuffin but wums for

broiling sun, fishing

pearan
differel

it's in your mouth

the sava