The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS.

The steam-ship Britannia sailed hence, on Tuesday,
for Halifax and Boston, with 45 passengers.
Mr. A. Willink, son of D. Willink, Esq., of this town,
and lately a pupil of the Royal Institution School, has
been elected a scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge.

The Rev. Moses Nlargolioth, (a converted Jew,) late of
this town, has been appointed to the living of Glasnevin,
by the Lord Bishop of Kildare.
The Recorder, Gilbert Henderson, Esq., has presented
the Sailors' Home with the munificent sum of one hun-
dred guineas.
The British and North American royal mail steam-ship
Acadia, Captain Harrison, which would leave Boston and
Halifax on the Ist and 3rd instant, may be looked for
about Thursday next.
DEATH BY SCALDING,-013 Tuesday, Lavinia Grogan,
aged 31 years, drank scalding tea from the mouth of a
teapot, which brought on an inflammation of the laryas,
from the effects of which she died.
DECREASE OF CRIME.—On Wednesday last there was
only one person brought before Mr. Rushton for felony,
and the total number of prisoners in charge that day was
only 19 ; about half of them were beggars.
SINGULAR DEATH.—On Wednesday week Mrs. Chap-
man, of Manchester, died from the effects of a scratch
on her hand inflicted a fortnight before. The part be-
came inflamed the day after and mortification ensued.

THE POLICE FORCE.—The temporary arrangements
for conducting the police are,—the town is divided into
north and south districts. Under Mr. Dowling, Mr.
Superintendent M`Donald has been appointed to the con-
trol of the north division, and Mr. Superintendent
Quick to the south division.

BEERSELLERS FINED ON FRIDAY. Thomas nice,
Finch-street, £3 and costs ; George Thomas, Faulkner-
street, £3 and costs ; James Lysaght, Portland-street,
£2 10s. and costs; William Draper, London-road, £2
10s. and costs; Thomas Kirkham, Upper Harrington-
street, £2 and costs ; William Jessott, Old Haymarket,
acquitted.

ROYAL ATHOL CAKE.—Mr. Gibbons, London-road,
has introduced into Liverpool the above favourite cake,
which, since the Queen's visit to Scotland, has had the
word " royal" prefixed to it, from its frequent use at the
royal table We certainly think her Majesty no bad judge
in such matters ; and, having tasted for ourselves, have
great pleasure in bearing testimony to its general excel-
lence, and recommend it to the patronage of our readers,
as well as the Edinburgh loaf bread—the quality of which
cannot be surpassed.

STEALING A GOLD RING.—On Friday, Margaret John-
son was committed for stealing a gold ring, the property
of Jane Rainfortb, 13, Peter-streer. The prisoner called
to see the prosecuttix, and, after admiring her wedding
ring for some tune, persuaded her to pull it off for a closer
inspection. As soon as the golden circlet was put into
the prisoner's hands, she ran away with it, and pawn?d
it some hours afterwards at Mr. Mason's shop. The
prisoner, in her defence, said she was drunk at the time,
and did not mean to keep the ring.
GUANO.—There are numerous arrivals at Cork and
Falmouth for orders, but, owing to eastern winds, only
two at this port. On the spot, sellers £5 12s 6d. to £5
15s. ; buyers £5 10s.: for positive delivery in the spring,
sellers £6. Peruvian is without change. There has,
latterly, been an immercantile system of puffing particu-
lar cargoes of this article, and statements have been made
calculated to mislead parties not intimate with it. Ex-
tensive adulteration is also spoken of. Purchasers, how-
ever, who place themselves in the hands of men of
character and standing have nothing to fear.
OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—On
the 4th instant, a man, named Ralph Windle, went to the
shop of Thomas Trotter, tailor, 26, Sir Thomas's-build-
ings, and said that Mr. Ball had sent him for a pair of
trousers, and if they answered he would bring the money
for them. Trotter, knowing that Windle had been in the
employ of Mr. Ball, green-grocer, Queen's-square, let
him have the trousers; but, on inquiry afterwards at Mr.
Ball's, found that the prisoner had left his service, and
that be had not sent him for the trousers. The prisoner
was apprehended some days after, and, on being brought
up on Friday at.the Police-court, was committed for trial
at the sessions.

SALE OF THE MANORIAL RIGHTS OF BIRKENHEAD.
Wm. Jackson, Esq., has purchased from F. R. ['rice,
Esq., of Bryn-y-Pys, the Lord of the Manor, a consider-
able portion of property, together with the manorial
rights of Birkenhead and Claughton. Amongst the pro-
perty included in the purchase is St. Mary's Church, the
large and extensive premises known as Gleave's Hotel,
the Albion Hotel, and the house, lately the residence of
J. D. Case, Esq., near Woodside Ferry. The amount of
the purchase is about £150,000. Owing to business en-
gagements, Wm. Jackson, Esq., has taken a house in
Belgrave-square, London, where it is probable he may
remain for some time.
THEATRE ROYAL.—Mr. Charles Kean and his accom-
plished partner commenced an engagement at this theatre
on Monday last, and have been delighting our playgoers
with their performance of some of the best of our national
dramas. It would be almost a work of supererogation on
our part to attempt anything like a detailed notice of ac-
tors whose talents and styles are so well known and ap •
preciated. We may remark, however, upon the particu-
larly fine manner in which Mr. Kean played Hamlet on
Wednesday evening. It was a faultless representation,
and conveyed fully to those of the audience who can ap-
preciate the character, its peculiar beauties and intricacies.
The house on this evening was crowded to overflow except
in the dress circle.

EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT.—Yesterday, at the Po-
lice-court, a young man, named William Harrison, was
charged with this offence.—Mr. Charles Gibson, clerk to
Messrs. Musgrove and Vance, cotton-brokers, said that
he paid to the prisoner, on the 16th October, the sum of
£l3 Is. 7d., to be paid to his (the prisoner's) employer.—
Mr. M'Bride, merchant, said the prisoner had been in It's
employ, and was authorized to collect money, but required
to account for, or pay over, the same every day by three
o'clock. The sum stated (being payment of an account
produced) had pot been accounted for by him.—Mr.
Docling stated that there were other sums, of a much
more serious amount, the embezzlement of which, he be-
lieved, could be traced to the prisoner, but these cases
would take some time sufficiently to investigate. The
prisoner was accordingly remanded, to give time for Ihe
necessary evidence to be produced.

MORTALITY IN LIVERPOOL, &C.—ln the official
quarterly table of the mortality in 150 districts of England,
ending 30th Sept., are the following particulars :—The
mortality in the districts of this town and West Derby,
on an average, was greater than the mean mortality, in
the same districts, in the same quarter, last year. In St.
Martin's district the number of deaths was above the
average,—consumption, diarrhea, and inflammation of the
lungs and bowels having prevailed. In Great Howard-
street district the increased number of deaths was, as
compared with the corresponding quarter last year, 88;
in Dale street, 56; in St. Thomas's, 2; in Mount-pleasant,
23 less; in Islington, 20 more ; in St. George, below the
average. Small pox is mentioned as having prevailed
in some of the districts. In West Derby, the mortality
did not exceed the general average ; in Crosby, a decrease
6 deaths as compared with the June quarter; and in
Toxteth-park, an increase of 58, so compared,—typhus,
scarlatina, and measles having been prevalent. Some
particulars as to the aeneral mortality of the country will
be found in a paragraph elsewhere.

BIRKENHEAD POLICE COURT, THURSDAY.—WiIIiam
Sanches, a beerselier. was fined 10s. and costs for per-
mitting gaming with cards.—John Jones was charged
with stealing the carcase of a sheep from the premises of
Thomas Beddoes, butcher, Bridge-end. He was shortly
afterwards taken with the meat on his shoulders, in Rus-
sell-street, and was committed for trial.—Sarah Barclay
was charged with stealing a £5 note from. the coat pocket
of John Jones, a farmer, of Lower Bebblogton, at home.
The complainant had been to Oxton's public-house there,
and on his return home went to bed. In the morning he
missed his money, and suspected the prisoner, who was
his servant. She admitted that she had removed the coat,
but had seen nothing of the money; and as it came out
that he had at the public-house taken off his coat to play
at skittles, and the girl bad hitherto borne a good charac-
ter, the case was dismissed.

COMMISSIONERS OF HIGHWAYS.—Mr. Aspinall called
the attention of the board to the disgraceful state in
which the gas companies left the macadam in the street
after opening trent hes for the pipes, and after a long dis-
cussion a resolution was passed, directing the law clerk to
write to the companies, and request them to separate the
stones from the soil, to put in the soil first, and if any
soil be left, to remove it after filling up the trenches.-
-Mr. Procter, in reference to the annual statement of
accounts, which will be submitted to the vestry, to be
held that day fortnight, said he found the enormoas sum
of £2,242 15s. 6d. for law charges.—Mr. Birkett—That
was for obtaining the act. There were two acts—one for
the second borough rate, and the other for the water rate ;
and in consequence of the opposition of the water compa-
nies, the act cost nearly treble. Mr. Procter—l find the
rate collected is only £29,000, and that the law charges
amount to 84 per cent. on the rate. The chairman said
they had been as careful as they could be. Mr. Procter
said it was an enormous sum, and he would sooner not
have gone to Parliament at all than have expended public
money in that way. Mr. Birkett said it ought to have
been put under a different head. They all knew the dif-
ficulty there was in obtaining the act, but if it had cost
five times the money, it was cheaply got.
THE NEW BANKRUPTCY COURTS.—The extensive
premises, situate in South John-street, at the corner of
Cable-street, a portion of which is to beamppp d. Therleotperiated es
Courts of Bankruptcy, are now nearly co
courts will occupy the second floor of the building, that
in the north wing being intended for Mr. Commissioner
Phillips, and the other for Mr. Sergeant Ludlow. Each
room is about thirty feet square, well ventilated, and
lighted with plate glass windows, and every arrangement
has been made for the convenience of the officers, and
other parties attending the courts, so as to facilitate the
discharge of the public business. Adjoining is a fire-
proof apartment for depositing records, and other valua-
ble documents, and advantage has been token of every
modern improvement, with the view of giving the most
perfect security in that important department. The upper
part of the building is being fitted up in a suitable man-
ner, with all the requirements for offices, &c., which will
be let off for the purposes of general business, and under-
neath the court-rooms there will be a range of handsome
shops, one of which will be adopted to the purposes of a
restaurant. The front of the premises is cemented, to
resemble stone, and is tastefully finished, a figure of jus-
tice placed, which occupies a niche in the centre, adding
much to the general effect. The work (which is under
the direction of Messes. S. and J. Ilolme) will be com-
pleted very ,shortly, when the courts will to immediately
occupied,

INQUESTS BEFORE MR. CURRY, BOROUGH CORO-
NER.-011 Saturday, on view of the body of William
Green, formerly an excise-officer. On Thursday night,
the deceased fell into the Clarence Dock, and was drowned.
The body was not found until Friday night. Verdict—
" Accidental death." Same day, on the body of Thomas
Walker, who resided in York Buildings, Dryden-street.
The deceased, who was of eccentric character, but of good
connexion, was last seen alive on Thursday night. Not
making his appearance next day, his room was broken
open at ten at night, and he was found quite dead, with
his head on the grate, and his face a good deal burned, he
having, it is supposed, fallen. The surgeon who examined
the body gave it as his opinion that the cause of death
was water on the chest, and that it wa•: probable
he (.4ied before he fell on the fire. WrdEct accordingly.
Yesterday, on the body of a man unknown, which was
picked up in the river by four boatmen on Sunday after-
noon. It was supposed that he was one of the men
drowned by the collision of the steamer Iron Duke with
two boats some weeks ago ; but of this there was no cer-
tainty, as the flesh on the hands and face was so washed
off or decayed that recognition was scarcely possible.
The verdict was to the effect that the deceased, who was
" unknown," was " found drowned."

CHILD DEAERTION.—On Thursday evening, a male
child, apparently about a year old, was left at the door of
the convent, Mount Vernon. street. The infant was wel
clothed, and was wrapped up in a diaper table cloth.
There were marks of violence upon the body. A reward
of £5 has been offered for the discovery of the unnatural
person who deserted the child. In consequence of a
public announcement of this circumstance, Margaret
Kelly, who resided in cellar No. 47, Pitt-street, was ap-
prehended by Police-officer Bray, No. 418, on Friday
night. The case was brought before Mr. Rushton on
Saturday. It appeared, from the evidence of Mrs.
O'Donnell, in whose cellar the prisoner lodged, that the
child produced in court was taken from home by the pri-
soner last Thursday week, and, on the latter returning to
her lodgings without it, she was interrogated respecting
it, when she stated that she had placed it out at nurse.
Witness sa;cl that the blue cloth cap then worn by the child
was made by herself, and that the dress generally corres-
ponded with that she had seen worn by the child previous
to its being taken from the cellar. Patrick O'Donnell
informed Bray that he suspected the prisoner could give
some idormation about the child, as, from the 'descrip-
tion given in the advertisement, he had no doubt it be-
longed to her. The mother, on a question being put to
her by Mr. Rushton, said she could say nothing.
Police-officer 327 proved the finding of the child and its
conveyance to the West Derby Union Workhouse on the
31st ult. The prisoner was committed for trial at the
sessions.

COWARDLY ASSAULT.—On Friday, at the Police-
court, Thomas Boden and George Holden were charged
with assaulting Lewis Marie, second mate of the Ameri-
can ship Berwick. The complainant stated that, about
half-past eight o'clock on Thursday night, he was going
on board the vessel, and when near the Victoria Dock
gate, a stone was thrown at him. It being very dark, he
did not see who threw it ; but immediately after the pri-
soners came up, one on either side, and knocked him
down, and beat him most severely. A man named Jones,
who was standing on the quay, heard the two men say,
" there goes the second mate," and tkey went after him.
Another witness, who was unacquainted with all the par
ties, confirmed the testimony of the mate. Mr. Rush-
ton said that of late there had been a number of most
disgraceful assaults committed, such as were not formerly
known in Liverpool, by American sailors. It was but a
few days ago since a gentleman, the captain of an Ameri-
can vessel, was murderously assaulted by one of his men
with a stone or bullet placed in the end of a stocking.
Providentially, however, in that case, Captain Woodhouse
had recovered from the injuries be received, and was able
yesterday to sail for• America. In the case now before
him, the prisoners had attacked the mate without any al-
leged provocation, on a dark night, which gave them
ample opportunity to effect their foul purpose, and as-
saulted him in a most cowardly and brutal manner. He,
therefore, sentenced each of them to be fined £5 for the
assault, and to be imprisoned two months ; at the end of
that period they must find bail, to keep the peace, two
sureties in 4720 each, themselves in £4O, or in default
thereof to be imprisoned two months longer.
WESLEYAN FOREIGN MISSIONS.—On Wednesday
evening last, a public• meeting of the subscribers and
friends in the two Liverpool circuits was held in Bruns-
wick Chapel, Moss-street, on which occasion the Rev.
Thomas B. Freeman attended for the purpose of making
communications respecting the progress of missionary
operations on the Gold Coast and in the kingdom of
Ashanti. The meeting was very numerously attended,
and the chair was taken, amid loud che. rs, by the Mayor.
—The Rev. G. Osborn, of Manchester, proposed a vote
of thanksgiving to God for the success of the society. This
was seconded by the Rev. W. C. Milne, M.A. missionary
from China, who explained the operations of the London

Society in that empire.—The Rev. T. B. Freeman follow-
ed in a long and deeply in'eresting address. He had, he
said, taken the banner of the cross, and unfurled it in dis-
tant :ands, amidst the perishing sons of men. One of the
most painful things that had arisen in his mind while tra-
velling there, was the comparison between the beauties of
nature, and the awful condition of the unfortunate natives.
In Ashanti, and other parts of Western Africa where he
had visited, the traveller passed through an almost unbro-
ken scene of the most wild and extraordinary luxuriance
—the poor native ,was the only growth that dwindled.
Nature triumphed in all her majesty and fertility, but man
was ignorant of the God that made him. 1-1 man sacrifi-

ces were of every day occurrence. In by-gone days, when
a monarch died, thousands were sacrificed ; when a chief-
tain, hundreds ; and when a subordinate, five to ten vic-
tims perished. The natives, on these horrid occasions,
became excited with ardent spirits, and danced furiously
round the bodies—proceeding from one degree of wretch-
edness and vice to a greater. They supposed it necessary
to send into the other world a certain number of slaves to•

v. v. • • ~•a, too,
attend on their deceased friends. The effect of these
scenes led the natives to imbibe tastes so extraordinary
that their very instruments of music were decorated with
scull bones of human victims. Man not only on the one
hand murdered his brother, but sold him also into foreign
slavery ;—and they not only bowed down to idols, but they
worshipped the very reptiles that crawled over the face of
the earth. This was a specimen of the greater part of the
nations and triber of Arica. It. was about ten years since
the first Wesleyan missionary had gone out to Cape Coast
Castle; and what wonders had they seen during the last
seven years. He had the happiness of reporting, that they
now occupied a district extending over 400 miles along
the western coast of Africa, and reaching 200 miles into
the interior. It contained 21 stations,a there were be-
tween 700 and 800 members in Society, and upwards of
500 children in the schools. There was an institution for
training native agents, with nine promising youths under-
going instruction, and between fifty and sixty native
agents were now actively employed in carrying out the
views of the missionaries. There were a number of cha-
pels erected, in which the true God was worshipped, and
he rejoiced to say that on every hand they had a most
pleasing and delightful prospect of still greater success.
The reverend gentleman enlarged on these topics. and sat
down amidst much applause. A collection was made at
the close, which amounted to the liberal sum of £265.

Docx CommirrEE.--Present, Messrs. Moore, Barclay,
Smith, Bulley, Evans, Bold, Boyden, Tobin, Kendall,
Sandbach, Moon, Aikin, Chilton, and Ripley.—The
tender of John Horrocks to erect the boundary wall
round the new docks was accepted.—A letter from the
Surveyor, complaining that police officers were never to
be found when required, was referred to the Harbour
Master's Sub-Committee.—One stage berth was appro-
priated for the Philadelphia line of packets in the 'Water-
loo Dcck, as an experiment, for six months.—Brick huts
with stoves or grates, were ordered to be erected for the
pier-masters of George's and Prince's Docks.—Mr. C. S.
Middleton sent a letter stating that as he had been elected
a member of the Council for Exchange Ward, he must
resign his seat in the Dock Committee as a member of the
rate.paycrs.—Mr. Evans : That is the first announce-
ment of the kind I have ever known.—The Chairman,
after speaking in the highest terms of the manner in
which the treasurer, secretary, and marine surveyors
performed their important duties, stated that he consi--
dered them much under paid, and suggested that Mr.
Withers the treasurer should have a salary of £l,OOO, in-
stead of £750 ; that the salary of Mr. Mason should be
£750, instead of £5OO ; and that Lieut. Lord should have
his salary increased from £5OO to £6OO. Mr. Evans ob-
jected to any advance being made, on the ground that
they were all sufficiently paid for their services, and
that were the situations vacant, they would get gentle-
men to perform them at even less salaries. He argued.
also that if the duties of these officers had increased, the
proper way would be to give increased assistance. Mr.
Bulley said he was not aware that any such proposition
would have been made ; but his intention was before he
came into the room, to take that opportunity of express-
ing his'sentiments as to the abilities of the secretary
and marine surveyor, and his opinion was, that
they could scarcely be over paid. Mr. Bulley
then returned thanks to his colleagues of the marina
surveyor's department for their uniform kindness
to him ; he also thanked the chairman and other mem-
bers for their courtesy, and added that his only regret int-
leaving the Council and the Dock Committee, was that he
should be leaving the members of the marine department.
Mr. Barclay spoke in high terms of the treasurer and se-
cretary, and said he believed there would be great diffi-
culty in finding persons to fill their situations, provided
they were vacant. Mr. Aikin said he had great regard for
these officers, and lima satisfied that they performed their
duties in a proper manner, but he was, at the same time,.
;r. Bold, dysed
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Mr. Withers should be increased to £l,OOO. Upon
a division the numbers were seven and seven, and
of course the motion wl,s negatived for the day. The
voting was as fcolil,oawtosn:,—BFooird,thserainitchr,eaßseo,yll,dleen,
ssrans.(ithe
Ken-
dall, Ripley,
chairman. Against it, Messrs. Moon, Aikin, Barclay,
Evans, Tobin, Sandbach, and Bulley. In voting, some
of these gentlemen having stated that their only objection
was to the large amount of increase, Mr. Tobin, seconded.
by Mr. Sandbach, proposed that an addition of £lOO a-
year should be made to the treastirer's salary. This was
agreed to without a division, Mr. Evans only dissenting.
Mr. Barclay, seconded by Mr. Aikin, then movedthat the
secretary should have an increase of £lOO. Mr. Ripley,
seconded by Mr. Bold, moved as an amendment that the
increase should be £l5O. On a division, the amendment
was carried, Messrs. Aikin, Barclay, Evans, and Tobin,
being the only parties who voted against it. The salary
of Mr. Lord was then increased from £5OO to £6OO, and
the committee adjourned.
ORSVALL'S Rusxs.—lt will be seen by an adveAise-
rcent in another column, that these celebrated articles of
food, fur invalids and children, are now considerably
reduced in price. The title of these buns but faintly-
describes thc: usefulness, but we feel assured that those
who have tried them will continue to use them. One
great advantage they possess is, that they are particularly
adapted to parties going to sea, and will keep any length
of time.

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ii.arraturr.

POETRY.

MAY YOU DIE AMONG YOUR KINDRED,

•
BY MRS. ABDY.
(From the Church of Englan4 Magaz:ne.)

- -
"How mach is expressed by the form of oriental benediction
' May you die among your kindred :' "—GREENWOOD.
"May you die among your kindred;" may you rest your part.

ing gaze
On the loved familiar faces of your young and happy days :
May the voices whose kind greeting to your infancy was dear
Pour lovingly, while life declines, their music in your ear.

4' May you die among your kindred ;" may the friends you love
the b(st,
List to your fainting accents, and receive your last request,
Read your unuttered wishes on your changeful features dwell,
And mingled sighs of sorrow with your faltering faint farewell,

" May you die among your kindred;" may your peaceful grave
be made
In the quiet, cool recesses of the churchyard's hallowed shade;
There may your loved ones wander at the silent close of day,
Fair buds and fragrant blossoms on the verdant turf to lay.

'Tis a tender benediction; yet methinks it lacks the power
To cast a true serenity o'er life's last solemn hour.
Ye whom I love, I may not thus love's Christian tart fulfil;
List, while I ask for you a boon more dear, more precious sti

So may you die that, though afar from all your cherished ties,
Though strangers hear your dying words and close your dying

eyes,
Ye shall nc.t know desertion, since your Saviour shall be near,
To fill your fainting spirit with the " love that casts out fear,"

So may you die, so willingly submit your soul to God,
That evermore your kindred, as they tread the path you trod,
May picture your existence on a far-off heavenly shore,
And speak of you as one not "lost," but only " gone before

So may you die that, when your death to pious friends is known
Each shall devoutly, meekly wish such lot may be their own :
Not heeding if you died in want, in exile, or in pain,
But feeling that you died in faith, and thus " to die is gain."
St. John's Rectory, Southwark.

COMFORT.

(BY ELIZABETH B. BARTLETT.)
" Speak low to me, my Saviour—low and sweet
From out the halle ujahs, sweet and low,
Lest I should fear and fall, and miss thee so
Who art not miss'd by any that entreat.
Speak to me as to Mary at thy feet—
And if no precious gums my hands bestow,
Let my tears drop I:ke amber, while I go
In reach of thy divio est voice complete
In humanest affection—thus, in sooth
To lose the sense of losing ! As a child,
Whose song bird seeks the wood for evermore,
Is sung to in its stead by mother's mouth'
Till, sinking on her breast, love-reconciled
He sleeps the faster that he wept before."

NOTICES.

Blackwood's Magazine.
The number for the present month is replete with arti.
cies of deep interest to the reader of the sound and argu.
mentative, as well as to those who delight in the literary
• and amusing. On the mortifying issue of the Irish State
trials there is a clever and learned paper, showing that
both in reason and in common law the traversers ought
not to have escaped the punishment due to their offences ;
but the writer imputes no unworthy motives to those few
members of the House of Lords who so hastily pro-
nounced the opinions of the judges who were called to ad-
vise them to be " cl, arly erroneous." "My College
Friend" is a light and pleasing exposition of College life
—yet to be concluded. " The Tombless Man," a poetical
drama, by Delta, has all the vigour and depth of mind so
often exhibited by that writer. It is an extraordinary
picture which he draws, of a succession of visions of
sepulchral desolation and horror, with occasional touches
of the sublime, but ending in an escapement of the sole
narrator, _ _

To sights and sounds familiar—to the birds
Singing alone—and the btight vale beneath,
With cottages and trees—and the blue sky—
And the glad waters murmuring to the sun."
An exposition of socialism, under the head " French So-
cialists," is, we think, a masterly view of all those utopian
and debasing systems of communities in common. The
" Memoirs of a Statesman" are continued, with unabated
powers of description and knowledge of character—in-
cluding the dreadful siege of Valenciennes, during the
French revolutionary wars. There is a long review of
recently published " Poems, by Elizabeth Barrett," with
numerous extracts. Some of the pieces are certainly
very beautiful ; but we think the reviewer has shown a
degree of partiality to others which their merits scarcely
warrant. We admit the lady to have great poetical
powers. but scarcely fewer faults, especially in diction,
which last she may be the less inclined to amend, when
they are treated with reproval so delicate. The review of
" Lamartine's Travels" will be read with much gratifica-
tion. The extracts are extremely beautiful and graphic,
and a tone of generous feeling and moral reflections per-
vade the whole. We furnished some extracts from this
number of Blackwood in our last publicatiofi, and others
will be found in the literary page of our present sheet.

Dublin University Magazine. Curry, Dublin.
The present number of this magazine fully sustains its
usual high standard of merit. Amongst the articles of a
purely literary character, " Glimpses in the Mountains—
No. 2," is a beautiful piece of poetical extravagance, and
well worthy of perusal. The most important article in
the number, however, is the article headed " The National
System of Education and the Established Church," in
which we have placed before us the present critical posi-
tion of the education question in Ireland. We have given
elsewhere some extracts from this article which will show
the spirit in which it is written ; and we recommend its
attentive perusal to all who are interested in the important
question of which it treats.

The Illuminated Magazine. London : No. 2, Crane

court,. Fleet-street.
The present number commences the fourth volume, and
is under a new editorship, Mr. Douglas Jerrold having
retired from his position as editor. We certainly cannot
discern, so far, any falling off either in literary matter or
illustrations. On the contrsry, some new contributors
have been added, and several valuable articles from their
pen grace this month's publication. The poetical contents
are especially excellent.
Fraser's Magazine. London : G. W. Nickisson, 215,

Regent-street.
Fraser this month contains a number of more than
usually lively articles, amongst which we may particularise
" A fine day at Stratford-upon-Avon," "The Smiths,"
and the conclusion of " The State Murder." The paper
entitled " Hints on the Modern Governess System" con-
tains some excellent and just strictures upon the unwor-
thy treatment to which that useful and deserving class of
females are subjected, and should be read in every family
of which the governess is a member.

The Medical Times. No. 263-266. Carpae, Essex-
street, London. 4to. A weekly medical journal.
This periodical of medical science was wanted in the
profession of the healing art, or it could not have risen so
rapidly into favour as it appears to have done, even though
its talent in editorial and original matter be great, which,
as far as we can presume to judge of such matters, is most
undoubtedly the case. Of course we are not competent
to discuss the full merits of a periodical on departmental
science—this must long ago have been judged by those
who are• capable of estimating its deserts ; and also its
demerits, if there be any—prominent ones they can hardly
be, though, when tested by " subtler fires" than ours,
some caput mortuum of rubbish way be detected in its
containing vessel—very possibly. The articles seem to be
lull of interesting and new matter; its reports of distin-
guished medical bodies—its valuable groups of cases—its
record of series of lectures by some of the most eminent
physicians and surgeons—its bibliographical and gossip
corners—its reviews—its leading articles, temperate yet
energetic—all must render it a publication worthy of large
support, we should infer, by the republic of medicine.
We venture no more ; but close with an extract from its
leader of October 12, which has reference to present
times, and present things, and the present place, which
must be gratifying to the medical practitioners of our
town, as alluding to an aggregate meeting they held to
memorialize Sir J. Graham on his new bill of medical
reform :—" The most important meetings we have had,
appear to have been those of Gloucester, Worcester,
Leeds, Norwich, Birmingham, and Liverpool, some of
the largest towns in the empire. In Birmingham and
Liverpool, the very proper precaution was adopted of
discussing in committee the clauses of;the bill seriatim,
before pronouncing on them an opinion in public meeting.
Our readers are acquainted with the result : the report of
the Liverpool meeting, this day published, shows how
entirely the opinions we so early expressed on this mea-
sure, are the opinions of some of the most enlightened
practitioners in the empire. We own to a strong hope
that a short time will reveal the profession acting in a si-
milarly cautious manner, speaking in a similarly judicious
way, and equally unanimous in giving the bill a general
support, while enforcing on it the great improvements
that are on all hands admitted as essential." We are
glad to find that our respected townsmen have won for
themselves such a highly creditable position—to have dis-
cussed temperately, and therefore wisely, legislational
measures touching directly their own professional inter-
ests, argues a state of most respectable mental, and, above
ail, moral attainments; and in so doing, we repeat, and
that advisedly, when their own rights are to them con-
cerned, in the first place, and the public health, in the
next, renders them an example to our senators themselves,
whose principles often swerve before the brazen face of
expediency, or become too frequently obedient to that
ventriloquist, self-interest, whose projected voice in the
distance often spoils all.

Punch.—Part 40.
Continues to pour ford?, his inexhaustible wit and drol-
lery, and, in his own felicitous style, to convey many a
useful moral lesson. The loss of this periodical would be
an event to call for a national mourning.

Chambers' Edinburgh Journat.—
Part 10.
The new series of this popular publication is very mach
superior in the value and variety of its literary contents to
those which have preceded it. We observe in it contribu!
Cons from several popular writers, amongst whom we may
mention Miss Camilla Toulmin, who has presented us
with a very beautiful tale of " The Neglected Child."

The Abboteord Edition of Waverley.—No. 67.
=The number just issued concludes "The Fortunes of
Nigel," and commences " Peveril of the Peak." The
illustrations, type, and getting up of the work, continue
quite equal to those of former numbers, and, indeed, are
even superior in merit.

SELECTIONS.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR, SHEIL, AND HUME.--•
Everybody must remember the " sweltering venom" with
• which Mr. Shell, Mr. " Success-to-fox-glove " Shell,
PROTESTANTISM V. POPERY.—It is the unceasing aim
some time ago revived against our excellent Lord Chan-
of the Romish sect to represent the church of England as
cellor the oft-refuted falsehood with respect to the im-
a schismatical body, and thus to brand it with contempt,e ,
Puled alien speech. Will it be believed that what Mr.
as having no existence previous to the reformation. Th
of Shell,
fact is notorious, however, that long before tbe. arrival with a " rhetorical artifice," attributed to the
Chancellor as applied to the Roman Catholics of Ireland,
a legate from Rome, or Augustine ever set his foot on
I was actually applied by a co-joint of the " tail "—no less
English ground, Christianity had been preached anded pert;e-
-' a person than the veritable Joseph Hume—to the Protes-
fessed in Britain. Whether the gospel was
thatpreacher]
ith
tants of that country ? On referring to the debate on the
by St. Paul himself, or not, it is indisputable
n 314 wtiales
previous to the close of the second century. I
King's speech in 1833, as reported in a generally-recog-
bishops of London, York, and Lincoln, were present at Pised journal of the proceedings, we find Joseph thus
--"
the council of Arles. The councils of Sardica, A.D.347, unbosoming himself: Why, I would ask, is it that
and of Ariminum, A.D. 359, were likewise attended by Catholics are carefully excluded from the list of twenty-
British prelates.—Church of England Magazine.six stipendiary magistrates recently appointed by Lord
A, ?
STAFFORDSHIRE EARTHENWARE..—If we compare frongleseym such in
situationslreland , an Why are they carefully excluded
d twentp-
the common earthenware of England with that of the
pointed to them ?" (Several members—" Hear, hear ! y-six FOREIGNERS a
')
French and Germans, or of any other nation, it appears o Yes, I contend that they are foreigners—they are not only excellent in quality, but also highly ornamental sons foreign in their habits and religion to the bulk of the
per-
und unsurpassably beautiful. The common French and people. I say, then, that foreigners were appointed to
German earthenware is comparatively ugly, coarse, and these offices." Mr. Shell heard this. The man who
misshapen. On the other hand, English porcelain, par- thus dared to malign the loyal Protestant population of
ticularly those articles in which beauty and elegance are Ireland was a Scotchman—yet, foreigner as he was, an
the main paints aimed at, are far behind those of the con- Irish member—the Kilkenny joint of " the tail ," an ex-1
tinent. I believe there is something characteristic of the conservative, and then radical! Verily, the'` rhetorica
English in this. In articles of ordinary use, the English artificers" who calumniate Lord Lyndhurst had better
seem better than we to know how to combine excellence look at home. At this time, however, the poor " tail "
of quality with outward elegance and beauty, whereas in had scarcely a home to look to.—Herald.
those articles in which grace and beauty alone are to be
kept in view, the English are never equally successful. WHAT IS THE CHURCH DOING ?—Tractarianism has
Their tools, their furniture, their machines, their knives seen its zenith. It was true that a few had gone over to
and scissors, their bread, their joints of meat, are not only Rome. Let Rome have her own. We could afford her
excellent, vigorous, and nutritious, but also beautifully a few traitors from the camp. He only prayed that, like
formed, and not to be at all surpassed ; whereas, their the sincere-minded Sibthorp, they might discover their
pictures, their sculptures, their pasties, and their cakes, error. He was happy to say that he knew several clergy-
and, in short, everything in which fancy takes precedence men who bad held Tractarian opinions, who had wholly
of usefulness, are far behind ours in excellence. Look, renounced them, and now preached sound Evangelical
not merely at the earthenware of the French, but at their doctrine. The Church of England, though troubled, was
tools and their implements of gardening and agriculture. not perplexed ; although persecuted, she was not forsaken.
They are all strikingly rude and little suited to the purposes If Rome had built fifty mass-houses within the last ten
they are intended for. Even the common bread in France years, the Church of England had built 600 new churches.
is inferior to that used in England. On the other hand,lf Rome had built twenty or thirty schools and colleges,
how much loftier flights of fancy are displayed by the
the Church of England had built and opened between 300
French in works of art.—Khol's England. and 400 daily schools. Rome had applied for aid to build
CHARACTER OF LORD ELLENBOROUGH.—Lord Ellen-
one or two schools; the Methodists two schools; the Bri- borough possessed many qualities which, had they not tish and Foreign School Society some thirty or forty; but
the Church of England had applied and received grants
been neutralized or vitiated, would have earned for him
for 500 new schools. This did not look as if the Church
much admiration as a statesman and much affection as a
of England was heartless in the cause of education. He
man. He had abilities of no common order, great quick- wished, however, for no amalgamated system of educa-
ness of perception, extraordinary ardour of tempera- tion. The Church of England was strong enough to
ment, unquestionable courage, amd indefatigible industry. stand by herself, and as it was a glorious English Queen
The moral sense was not very strong—as the appropria- who nursed and cherished the Reformation, in a compa-
tion of Sindb amply testifies ;• but he was capable of acts ratively weak state, so he hoped it would be a British
of justice and moderation and sometimes exhibited in his Queen under whose fostering care and protecting hand
conduct the gederosity Of a great mind. His impulses the Church would be rescued in the time of her peril. Of
were often kindly, often noble • and his errors were sel- this her Majesty had given some pledge when she went to
dom the growth of mean and corrupt motives. There worship in a church which had been branded as Samaria.
was nothing inherently low in his nature; but he was —Speech of the Rev. Flugh Stowell.
subject to very strong prejudices, which he had not
always the magnanimity to resist, and which therefore INVENTION OF GUNPOWDER.—Datens has selected
sometimes caused him to commit mean and unworthy many passages from Greek and Latin authors, favourable
actions. As in his policy, so in his personal bearing, he to the opinion that gunpowder was known to the ancients.
was impulsive and uncertain. With strong predilections He mentions the attempt of Salmoneus to imitate thun-
der, of the Brahmins to clothe same thing; but his most
and strong antipathies, which sometimes alternated
towards the same individual, he was by turns courteous
remarkable quotation is from the life of Apollonius Tya-
and uncourteous, attractive and repulsive, now produc- arena, written by Philostratus ; showing that Alexander
ing impressions of deep gratitude, now of ineradicable dis-
was prevented extending his conquests in India, because
like. Though he often showed great kindliness and con-
of the use of gunpowder, by a people called Oxydracae.
descension towards individuals, he at other times betrayed The passage to which we have alluded is so curious, that
an utter disregard for theirf eelings ; and hesitated neither, we make no apology for giving it. "These truly wise
as the whim led him to
he made many enemies and many to caress nor to strike those beneath men (the Oxydracw) dwell between the rivers Hypharis
him. In this manner
and Ganges ; their country Alexander never entered, de-
friends, and the different judgments which have been pas-
terred not by fear of the inhabitants, but as I suppose by
sed upon him by different parties can never afford matter
religious motives, for had he passed the Hypharis, he
for surprise. There is generally in the public treatment might doubtless have made himself master of all the
of an individual a just compensation in the end ; his country round them ; but their cities he never could have
virtues are exaggerated by one party, his vices by another, taken, though he had led a thousand as brave as Achilles,
and the undue enthusiasm of his friends is balanced by the
• or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault; for they
undue bitterness of his enemies. Thus has it been with come not out to the field to fight those who attack them,
Lord Ellenborough.—Culculta Review. but these holy men, beloved by the gods, overthrew- their
PRESENT FEELING OF A PORTION OF THE IRISH enemies with tempests and thunderbolts shot from their
walls. It is said that the Egyptian Hercules and Bacchus,
CLERGY ON THE EDUCATION QUESTION.—The time, when they overran India, invaded this people also, and,
they say, has come, when the friends of Scriptural educe- having prepared warlike engines, attempted to conquer
tion in Ireland, and especially the clergy, should look se- them ; they in the mean time made no show of resistance,
;lonely at the aspect which the education question has at appearing perfectly quiet and secure, but upon the enemy's
present assumed, with a view to such arrangements as may, near approach they were repulsed with storms of if the
possible, prevent the scheme which has been adopted nine and thunderbolts hurled upon them from above ."
by the government from operating most extensive evil. Polytechnic Review.
That they have appeared, hitherto, in an attitude of hosti-
lity to it, was only, it is admitted, their bounden duty. As EFFECTS OF SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND.
long as there was a possibility, by pretext and reclansa-
When the scheme of Scriptural education was decided on,
tion, of effecting any modifications in that system, by about six or seven and twenty years ago, confident predic-
tions were hazarded of its certain and speedy failure. The
which its anti-Scriptural character might be changed, so
long they were called upon to use their best exertions, that
Roman Catholics, it was said, would not read the Bible—
such modification of it should be procured. Those espe-
would not accept secular instruction, on condition of re-
ceiling Scriptural also. Notwithstanding the discourage-
ciallv, who occupied the responsible position of an este-
m blislied clergy, were imperatively required to use " allent of such,insinuations, the system was tried—and was
faithful diligence" in admonishing the rulers of the coup-
found to prove successful, to the utmost extent to which
try, respecting the evils which might reasonably be appre-
the parsimony of public grants, made for its support, ad_
heeded from an educational system based upon latitudi-
spitted of its being carried out. It is unnecessary, and
narian views. But having failed to move "the powers
would be tedious, to repeat the arguments by which this
truth has been unanswerably proved—but there is one form
that be" into the abandonment of their pernicious scheme,
true wisdom would seem to indicate, that the next best of the argument which has not yet received the notice it
thing would be, to extract as much good as possible out of merits, and to which we beg the reader's attention. The
inevitable evil. For the dangers with which the Irish experiment of Scriptural education was a trial whether,
education scheme is pregnant they are not responsible.
and how far, the Irish people could be influenced to re-
They have duly forewarned our rulers of what may be ceive the Bible. It was proposed first in the form of a
looked for as its natural fruits. This they have done, not-
test, whether their hostility to Scripture was such, as that
withstanding the sternest discountenance awaited them as
they would not accept of secular education, if accompanied
individuals, for their single-mindedness and fidelty to their by Scriptural; it gave, at the same time, to the people at
great master. Against their solemn admonitions the wis-
large, an opportunity of showing what they thought, (whe-
dorn of this world has prevailed. As spiritual advisers, the; favourably, or otherwise,) of the propriety of making
they have been set aside—religious truth has been deli children acquainted with God's word. The result
was very
-
berately sacrificed to political expediency—and any further remarkable. Before the end of thirteen years, exclusive
contest with the government or the legislature, in such a of the Sunday schools, amounting to considerably more
matter, would only be a bootless waste of strength, and than a thousand—perhaps, to nineteen hundred, in whichtwo hundred thousand children were instructed, there were
loss of time, from which, until a change has been operated
upon the national mind, no good result is likely to follow. found one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven
The clergy, therefore, are not bound to continue such a schools, under societies, in which Scripture was read—and
contest; on the contrary, it seems their bounden duty to of daily schools, not under societies, four thousand onehundred and seventy-nine were avowedly Scriptural. We
avail themselves of such facilities as the national system
may afford say avowedly, because a large proportion of schools bad
for carrying out better views, than could be,
without their agency realized—and for securing to the declined sending an answer to the query which demanded
children of their own communion a sound Scriptural edu- If Scripture were read in them. It is not, perhaps, too
cation.—Dublin University Magazine.
much to say, that nearly two thousand of these schools
should be added to the amount of the Scriptural. But,
EMIGRATION OF THE FOURGOUTH TARTARS INTO further, Scripture was read in 2,667 schools, under Roman
CHINA.—The nation of the Fourgouths, one of the Catholic masters—and was read in many schools under the
branches of that Tchong-kar, separated itself from the roofs of Roman Catholic chapels, and under the govern-
throne at the time when the most cruel wars desolated all went of their priests. Such was the result, when the state
the country of the Eleuths ; they removed themselves demanded of Ireland that the education of the people
from their native places, and by degrees advanced to those should be Scriptural. In the year ]Bl2, there were in Ire-
lands which are under the domination of the Russians, land six hundred schools, no doubt all Protestant, in which
and obtained from them permission to fix their dwellings Scripture was read—the attenticn of the people at large
in the districts watered by the Etchil- There have they was aroused to the question which the state propounded ;
dwelt more than 70 years, in a profound ignorance of all and in about thirteen years after the experiment was in-
that was passing in the neighbourhood of the empire- stituted, the judgment of the people was expressed in the
The ill treatment which the princes of the Fourgouths existence of more than eleven thousand schools in which
formerly received from Tchoung-kar obliged them to for- the Bible was read. Within that period, surely, secular
sake their country to seek a living in a distant land under schools had not increased in number—nay, notwithstand.
a foreign government. The ill treatment which the af- ing the great increase in the population, they appear to
terwards received from the Russians, have equally cow- have diminished ; while Scriptural schools, to which so
pelltd them to abandon their recent abodes, to relieve fierce and effective an opposition was anticipated, had
eased
some from a yoke which they found more burden- welcomed by all classes and communions, and had increased
some from day to day ; they determined to return to their more than tbirteen-fold. Such was the issue which a
ancient territories to live in peace under the dominion of Whig government regarded as a failure—let Abe cona-
our great emperor. The favours of his majesty extend pared with that which a Tory government exalt and en-
even to the most distant regions ; he treats foreign na- dow, as a great success.—Dublin University Magazine.
tions with the same goodness that be evinces towards the
Chinese themselves who are his own subjects. The Four- FORMAT) ON OF RAIN.—The opinion of Professor Ste-
veiny and' Mr.' Bowall is, that each
goutbs come of their own accord to be able to live under •• -
rising through the air carries with it its portion of electric
our laws ; he did not reject them ; he received them even
with pleasure and all the marks of the tenderest affection. fluid according to its expanded surface; that if it remains
within the electrical attraction of the earth, the vapour is
When they arrived on our frontiers (to the number of
condensed, and forms dew ; but, if it rises beyond the
many hundred thousand, although the extreme fatigue,
e hunger, thirst, and all the other miseries inseparable from electrical attraction of the earth, and is there condensed,
the electricity, being insulated, forms an atmosphere
a long and painful journey had caused the death of as
many more) they were reduced to the last stage of suffer, round each particle of vapour, and on the removal (by
ing; they were in want of all things ; the emperor fur-
any cause) of the electricity, including the vaporous par-
nished them with all things. He had prepared for them titles, the repulsion is removed, and they then attract
was more rain and less thunder at Belfast than in Lon-
dwellings suitable to their mode of life; he distributed each other, and form rain. Having observed that there
among them victuals to feed and clothes to cover them ; don, I was led to examine into the cause of the peculi-
he gave them oxen, sheep, and utensils to place them-
selves in a condition to rear flocks, and to till the ground arity, and especially on account of the electric fluid being
abundant in the atmosphere at the latter than at the
and this entirely at his own expense, which amounted to
former place, and found the above hypothesis to agree,
an enormous sum, without counting the money which
most perf
he liberally gave to every chief of a family, to put him
of Belfast perfectly with the peculiarities of the neighbourhood
which is surrounded by hills. The highest of
in the way of working afterwards for his own livelihood,
and to provide substinence for his wife and children.—
these is to the north of the town, and one of them, named
Chinese Olio.
Devis, twelve miles from it, is nearly 400 feet above the
BURLEIGH HOUSE.—Burleigh House, near Stamford level of the sea. Whenever any mist or cloud descends
, upon the top of this mountain, it is a sure sign of rain;
Lincolnshire, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter, to which and I have never observed it rain without some previous
the Queen pays her next visit, is a magnificent Gothic indication of the kind, which frequently takes place for
pile, remarkable for grandeur and for various interesting hours before the rain comes on. The cause of this ap-
associations. The founder of the family was the famous peers to be, that Devis, which is conical, acts as a con-
Cecil, the cautious and wise minister of Elizabeth. Here ductor to draw the electric fluid from the cloud. that a
are collected some of the richest paintings of the ancient portion of the clouds descends with it, and, as the fluid is
masters, including the famous Salvator Mundi by Carlo drawn off, the watery particles in the atmosphere unite
Dolce, which Sir Walter Scott said was "worth a king's and descend as rain. On the 6th of May last, I had the
ransom," and for which six thousand guineas were of- good fortune to observe a remarkable instance of the
fered. It is a small enamel-like picture, of transparent drawing off the electric fluid from the clouds by this
purity and brilliancy of colouring. The groves and park mountain. The weather, in the early part of the day,
of Burleigh are worthy the splendid mansion, and were was clear and warm. Between 1 and 2 p.m. clouds admired by by Dryden, who translated the seventh book of thered ; they became gradually more dense and were
the Aneid in this patrician and hospitable residence. strongly charged with electric fluid. When 'I
first ob-
Hazlitt has related a story of Burleigh House more touch- served them, they were moving from Devis to the west ;
ing and romantic than any fiction. The late Earl of Exe- but the wind, along the surface of the ground, was mov-
ter bad been divorced from his first wife, a woman of ing in the opposite direction, namely, towards that rnoun-
fashion, and of somewhat more gaiety of manner than tain. This was before the clouds presented any signs of
' lords who love their ladies like.' He determined to seek a strong electric charge ; after they assumed this appear-
out a second wife in a humbler sphere of life, and that it anee, a slight shower fell, and the clouds and wind at the
should be one who, having no knowledge of his rank, surface reversed their direction, the clouds moving from
should love him for himself alone. For this purpose he Devis, and the wind at the surface towards it. When
went and settled incognito (under the name of Jones) at this shower ceased, the clouds became stationary, and the
tureent, an
one oborscure
two village in
msel Shropshireei . H
boumre
hood, b ade or- wind at the surface of the ground ceased, the smoke from
to das in the ngh veut the factory chimneys, which had moved in the direction
they were too knowing to be taken in by him. His man- of the surface wind, rising perpendicularly. At this
juncture a peal of thunder ensued, and a heavy shower
ners were not boorish, his mode of life was retired, it was
odd how be got his livelihood, and at last be began to be fell; the clouds then remained stationary, and the wind
taken for a highwayman. In this dilemma, he turned to began to blow at right angles to its former direction. It
Miss Moggins, the eldest daughter of a small farmer, at then gradually veered round until it blew direct towards
whose house he lodged. Miss Hoggins, it would seem, Devis, and the clouds began to move to the same point.
there was In four minutes the shower became very heavy, but in a
had not been used to romp with the clowns ;
something in the manners of their quiet but eccentric short time the weather cleared up,. I was so situated that
guest that she liked. As he found that he had inspired I could not see Devis during the time of this pbenome-
her with that kind of regard which he wished for, he made non, but at 6 p.m. it was repeated, when I was able to
honourable proposals to her, and, at the end of some attend particularly too t, and watch tare mountain. At a
months, they were married, without him letting her know quarter-past six the cluds had gathered again, and were
who he was. They set off in a post-chaise from her fa- much charged with the electric fluid. After the occur-
ther's house, and travelled homewards across the country- rence of similar movements to those mentioned above,
In this manner they arrived at Stamford, and passed the clouds became stationary, the wind moving from De-
through the town without stopping, till they came to the vis, the clouds overhanging the mountains became denser
entrance to Burleigh Park, which is on the outside of it. and denser, but they appeared to be kept by some influ-
The gates flew open, the chaise entered, and drove up the ence from touching it, assuming the form of a mould in
long avenue of trees that leads up to the front of this flue which the mountains had been cast. After they had re-
old mansion. As they drew nearer to it, and she seemed mained stationary some time the wind still blowing from
a little surprised where they were going, he said, ' Well, Devis, some fragments of them began gradually to de-
wy dear, this is Burleigh House; it is the home I have scend to the top of that mountain, a peal of thunder
promised to bring you to, and you are the Countess of scarcely perceptible ensued, ands body of cloud, sufficient
Exeter l' It is said the shock of this discovery was too to cover the summit, descended with rapidity and rested
much for this young creature, and that she never reco- upon it, whilst the other clouds began to ascend. Within
vered it. It was a sensation worth dying for. The world two minutes after the thunder and descent of the cloud
we live in was worth making, had it only been for this. Ye upon Devis, a very heavy rain came on, accompanied by
thousand and one tales of the Arabian Nights' Entertain- violent gusts of wand. At 8
p.s m.
o the
meets ! hide your diminished beads ! I never wish to have and the clouds reposed in streak w rain had ceased,
white and black, on
been a lord but when I think of this story."
lines from north-east to south-west.—Polytechnicßeview.

MENTAL EXERCISE.—The great means by which the
mental, moral, and physical powers are to be improved is
by exercise. This has been well set forth in a modern
work on education, with an extract from which, and an
earnest prayer for the divine blessing on your labours, I
shall close these rema ks :—" The law of exercise is of
universal application. It is a fundamental law of nature,
that all the capacities of man are enlarged and strength-
ened by being used. From the energies of a muscle up to
the highest faculty, intellectual or moral, repeated exer-
cise of the function increases its intensity. Inseparable
from the very idea of exercising the faculties,andof course
from the practice of that exercise, is the requisition of ex-
ercising each faculty upon the objects which nature points
out as related to it. Muscular strength is to be gained
by familiarizing the muscles with the resistance of exter-
nal forces, and by the habit of conquering mechanical
difficulties, varied to exercise all the muscles, which
amount to several hundreds in the human frame. The
senses are improved by long and particular training, ap-
plying each to its object—sight, by habitual looking at
distant or minute objects; hearing, by accurate practice
in the perception of sounds; taste, in the discriminating
use of the palate. In the same manner, the observing fa-
culties are rendered acute and diversified by the constant
practice of observation of details in existing objects, their
qualities, and of passing events. The same law extends
to the moral world. For the exercise of justice, the child
must be made aware of his own and his neighbour's right,
and be habituated practically to respect them in all con-
tingencies. For the exercise of benevolence, the habit of
repressing the selfish feelings, and of actually doing good,
kind, compassionate, and generous things, not by fits, but
as a steady unvarying principle of action, will be found
indispensable."—Miss Mayo.
LORD ELDON'S DESPATCH OF BUSINESS.—Through
the only 10 years of Lord Hardwicke's Chancellorship
whereof we have any exact records, the annual average of
the matters despatched in the Court of Chancery was
4,220 ; while through the first ten years of the present
century, the annual average of the matters despatched was
6,081, being an excess of almost one-half. And this in-
crease of business and of despatch in Lord Eldon's time
was a progressive one. The last three of the 10 before-
mentioned years of Lord Hardwicke give an average of
4,230, or 14 beyond the average of the seven years by
which they were preceded; but the last three of the
before-mentioned years of Lord Eldon's give an average
of 6,948, being 1,238 beyond the average of the seven
years preceding them, and 2,718 beyond the average of
the last three of the 10 recorded years of Lord Hard-
wicke. Again, comparing the years 1752 3-4 with the
years 1819, 1820.1, we find the result of the tables as
between Lord Hardwicke and Lord Eldon to be, that—
Lord Hardwicke despatched business equal to 2,390 heavy
matters ; and that Lord Eldon, in a like space, despatched
business equal to 2,598 like matters, being an excess of
209 in Lord Eldon's favour. And, further, Mr. Twiss
proceeds,—lt results, that Lord Eldon not only despatched
in the Court of Chancery, during his three years, an
amount of 2,598 heavy matters, being 208 more than were
despatched in the same length of time by Lord Hard-
wicke, but moreover that Lord Edon effected this in only
455 days—or, if 61 days be deducted as before for politi-
cal and other duties, only 394 days—while his predecessor,
in clearing the smaller amount of 2,390 like matters in
the Court of Chancery, consumed 508 days—or, 61 days
being equally deducted, as in Lord Eldon's time, 447 days
—and Lord Eldon's real superiority, therefore, when cal-
culated, as it ought to be, with reference to the number
of days actually available for the Court of Chancery in
the course of each respective period of three years, is not
merely to the amount of 208 heavy matters beyond Lord
Hardwicke, but at the rate of 348 such matters, which
would be a superiority in Lord Eldon's favour of about
14 percent.—Life of Lord Eldon.
WRONGS OF THE LABOURING CLASSES.—An extra-
ordinary degree of public attention is at present drawn to
the state of the labouring classes. The whole press of
the country, in every phase of political opinion, joins in
proclaiming their wrones and the necessity for some re-
medies. "It were needless," says the Morning Chroni-
cle, " to adduce examples of the pressing nature of these
evils. Bishops furnish them in their charges ; country
gentlemen quote them in their speeches ; city orators cite
them at their public meetings ; newspapers give them at
full length from day to day. Such a state of things can-
not go on. Commerce is prosperous ; trade is thriving;
the revenue flourishes ; yet look at the condition of our
labouring people." What a throng of deeds of cruelty
and injustice has even the last ten days produced ! In
the metropolis, and in our great towns, we see, almost
every day, coroners' inquests on men and women, either
dying of want, or committing suicide out of mere despe-
ration. At this instant, in the wealthy parish of Mary-
lebone, such an investigation is going on. Meanwhile,
our slopsellers persist in giving their,fivefarthings for the
work of a shirt, and sixpence for embroidering a shawl
with eighty flowers ! And if we turn to the country, what
meets us there ? In one county, we find a poor fellow
who had brought up thirteen children, and inhabited one
cottage for twenty years, sent to gaol, under a sentence
which almost amounts to perpetual imprisonment, because
found with a hare, In the next county, we see another
man quietly sentenced to three months' hard labour, for
being found with a gun ; though whether he was intend-
ing to shoot crows or rabbits, no one could tell ! In a
third case, a poor man was sentenced to ten years' trans-
portation, having confessed, that, when almost starved,
he was tempted by a neighbour to assist in stealing a
sheep. Now we are not arguing for impunity in such
cases as these. No offence ought to pass without notice.
But whatwe press upon our readers' attention is this,—
that here are three men, in the adjoining counties of
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxford,—all tempted
into crime by want and wretchedness, and all instantly
punished with rigour, though in each case it was a first
offence, and though in each case the cost of maintaining
them and their families, at the public cost, in prisons and
workhouses, would inevitably amount to a far larger sum
than would have rendered them all happy and comfortable
in honest industry. But, in truth, the manner in which
the game-laws are now carried out, looks like infatuation.
Sir Harry Verney declared, a few days back, at a meeting
of the magistrates of Buckinghamshire, his conviction,
that the game of that county consumed one-fourth of the
produce of the soil. And a correspondent of the Globe
declares, that " a few weeks back the principal occupier
in an adjoining parish declared to me that the game cost
the occupiers of the parish more than the poor did, and
they were numerous." In fact, if we were to take the
average consumption of the fruits of the earth by the game
at less than half what Sir Harry Verney estimates it at,
it would still be true, of the whole kingdom, that the
landed proprietors actually bestow more upon their hares
and partridges, than they do upon their poor !—Church-
man's Monthly Review.

A MINIMUM OF WAGES.—We often observe, in this
country, an inclination manifested to regulate bylaw the
rate of wages, not with the view of instituting any such
naturally equitable partition, but of establishing a mini-
mum below which life cannot be comfortably supported.
These reasoners proceed, it will at once be admitted, not
on the rights of man, but on the claims of humanity. To
such a project there is but one objection ; itwill assuredly
fail of its humane intention. his presumed that the com-
petition amongst the workmen to obtain employment has
so far advanced, that these cease to obtain a sufficient re-
muneration for their labour. The thousand men whom
a great capitalist employs, are inadequately paid. The le-
gislature requires that they should be paid more liberally.
But the amount which the capitalist has to expend in wages
is limited. The same amount which sustained a thou-
sand men, can, under the new scale of remuneration, sus-
tain only nine hundred. The nine hundred are better fed,
but there is one hundred without any food whatever. Our
well-intentioned humanity looks round aghast at the. con-
fusion she is making. Suppose, it may be said, that a law
of this description should be passed at so fortunate a con-
juncture, that it should not interfere with the existing re-
lations between the capitalist and the workman, but have
for its object to arrest the tendency which wages have to
fall; suppose that the legislature, satisfied with the exist-
ing state of things, should pronounce it a punishable of-
fence to offer or accept a lower rate of remuneration, would
not such a law be wise? The answer is obvious. If there
is a tendency at any time in wages to fall, it is because
there is a tendency in population to increase, or in capital
to diminish ; circumstances, both of them, which it is not
in the power of criminal jurisprudence to grapple with.—
Blackwood's Magazine.
EASTERN WIVES.—The daughter of a king of Persia
having conceived an aversion towards her father's vizir,
said one day to her mother, " If I could destroy that vizir,
1 would do it with pleasure, for he is a man whose inaus-
picious presence disturbs me." "Be composed, my dear
child," said her mother, • I will manage the matter."
Having said this, she wrote a letter, in the king's name,
to the wife of the vizir, to the following effect . " Kill
your husband, for I have an affection for you, and wish
that you should be mine ; but as you have an, attachment
to your husband, who is my vizir, it would be rather a
disgraceful thing if I were to tear you from his arms, and
make you my wife whilst he is alive." When the vizir's
spouse read this letter, ambitious thoughts took posses-
sion of her heart, and she became intent upon finding
some stratagem to rid herself of the obstacle. One night
her husband being in a state of inebriation, she seized the
happy occasion, killed him without compunction, and
sent his head to the king by the hands of a young damsel.
" Whose head is this !" inquired the king with great anx-
iety. "It is the head of your vizir," replied the damsel ;
" his wife has sent it ; you know why." The king insti-
tuted inquiries into the matter, and discovering the truth,
took off the heads of the vizar's wife, his own wife, his
daughter, and the young damsel. He then summoned the
principal officers of his army, and said to them : " I want
you all to give me your wives ;" but they unanimously
refused. "We will surrender to you our property, nay,
sacrifice our lives for you," said they, but we cannot part
with our dear wives." After this, the king went secretly
to the wives of those officers, and said to each of them
apart, " I wish to make you my wife, if you can contrive
to get rid of your husband." That very night, each of
the ladies, by some stratagem, succeeded in cutting off the
head of her husband, and in the morning, the king saw
his generals' heads in his possession, sent by their wives.
He was horror-struck at the spectacle. " What !" ex-
claimed he, " I asked these men to give nee their wives,
and with one accord they refused; yet when I propose to
their wives to commit a barbarous act of infidelity, they
all consent, and kill their husbands!" His majesty, after
this ejaculation, ordered all the expectant widows to be
put to death without mercy.—New Asiatic Journal.
LORD ELDON'S SUCCESSORS.—The Chancery Com-
mission recommended in 1826 a great variety of alterati-
ons in the practice of the court ; but early in 1827, before
there had been time to make the necessary measures for
effecting them, Lord Eldon quitted the Court of Chan-
cery. Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, in 1828, put forth a
series of orders, which accomplished some of the objects
recommended by the commission, and the great combina-
tion of faculties which he brought into the administration
of the great seal, induced an expectation that, if any hu-
man strength could accomplish it, Lord Lyndhurst would
be able to overcome the arrears, of his court. But those
arrears continuing to accumulate, he was constrained, in
1829, to propose a measure for the constitution of an ad-
ditional judge. It was renewed in 1830, but strenuously
combated by the Whigs, who still maintained the notion
that the work was not too much for those already ap-
pointed to perform it : and the demise of the Crown
having brought the sessions prematurely to a close, the
measure did not ripen into law during that Chancellorship.
Lord Brougham next grasped the seals. He had been
the most formidable of Lord Eldon's assailants. But,
observed Lord Langdale in the House of Lords, on the
13th of June, 1836, when he himself (Lord Brougham)
became possessed of the great seal, at first he was so far
from supposing that the appointment of a new judge was
necessary, that he seems to have thought the Court
stronger than enough, and he actually expressed his opi-
nion that by the changes he was to bring about he should
be able to dispense with the office of Vice-Chancellor.
This was in February, 1831. In July, 1833, further ex-
perience had so far altered his lordship's views, that he
laid on the table of the house a bill, entitled, An Act
'for appointing a Chief Judge in Chancery, and for esta-
blishing a Court of Appeal in Chancery.' Yet the busi-
ness had not become greater since the time of Lord El-
don ; on the contrary, the number of bills filed on the
three preceding years, 1830, 1831, 1832, had been only
6,510; whereas during three years 1819, 1820, 1821,
which for the reasons before-mentioned have been selected
as the tests of Lord Eldon's judicature, the number of
bills filed was 6,654; and in the years 1821, 1822, 1823,
the last of which was the period when the war upon Lord
Eldon was at its hottest, the number was 6,988. It was,
therefore, under a pressure rather diminished than in-
creased since Lord Eldon's time, that Lord Brougham,
the great impugner of Lord Eldon, found himself com-
pelled in 1833 to 1834 to call upon he Legislature for ad•
ditional aid. Now, however, the criticisms of lawyers
may differ upon the judicial merits of Lord Brougham,
merits which probably will be more highly estimated here-
after than political causes have suffered them to be in his
own generation—arit enim fulgore suo—none will deny
him to be unsurpassed in vigour and in speed. And yet,
with all that speed, and with all that vigour, he was una-
ble to accomplish that feat, which, in the time of Lord
Eldon, he had conceived to be so easy, and which he had
rated Lord Eldon so roundly for failing to achieve. The
sanction of Parliament having been withheld from Lord
Brougham's measure, Lord Cottenham, the succeeding
Chancellor, though justly held in high estimation as an
equity judge, found it as little practicable as any of his
predecessors, to keep down the business of his court
without additional assistance. And thus, year after year,
the evil continued and grew, until at length a bill for the
creation of two additional judges was introduced by that
party in politics who, during Lord Eldon's time and un-
der an equal or greater pressure of business in the court,
had ever protested against any such increase as being
useless and profligate.—Lord Eldon's Life.
POPISH PERSECUTIONS.—The claim of infallibility, the
grand principle of Romanism, has led the church profess-
ing its tenets to the belief that heretics (all, that is, who
differ from her unscriptural doctrines) ought to he cut off
from the church, delivered over, as they term it, to the
secular arm, and put to death. Ido not speak of indivi-
dual Romanists—some assert that they do not hold with
this persecuting spirit—but I affirm, that to this very day
the cutting out of heretics is authorised by the decrees of
the council of Trent, which contain the standard doc-
trines of popery. If the church of Rome had the power,
and if the present age of religious toleration did not pre-
vent open persecutions, we might yet hear of such deeds
of cruelty as stain the history of the middle ages. We
have the clearest proof that Romanisrn is the same as
ever, in that it is seen to show itself in acts of persecu-
tion and treachery, even new, as far as it may. It is very
observable that, whether popery has been in an oppressed
or dominant condition, the same spirit has actuated her.
If heretics are to be destroyed in the palmy days of po-
pery, the reign of Queen Mary, the flames of Smithfield
are to soar up to heaven in the open light of day. If he-
retics are to be destroyed in the days of the first James
then is there the secret plot instead of the open persecu-
tion ; then, instead of the stake and the faggot, there is
the calm and stealthy deliberation of conspirators, and the
deed of darkness which, unless providentially frustrated,
would have tent suddenly into the presence of the judge
of quick and dead the king, the princes, and the nobles of
our land. Yes, the same persecuting spirit of popery
which in the thirteenth century (for I will not go further
back) spoke to the brave Albigenses by the lips of Simon
de Montfort, " Return to the Catholic faith, or ascend
that pile and die!" which, in the beginning of the fifteenth
century, excited Henry IV. to " pass the kw for the
burning of heretics, which (says Blackstone) was the dis-
grace of our statute-book for two and a half centuries ;"
which` in the sixteenth century, condemned Crammer and
Ridley and Latimer to the flames; and which (such are
its tender mercies) has consigned many to the stake after
they bad recanted and returned to their apostate church—
it is the same persecuting spirit which, in our own day,
excites the Irish peasant (taught by his priest that by any
means he may advance the welfare of the church) to per-
petrate the deed of bloodshed; and which would, if it
might—which may God, of his infinite mercy, forbid!—
destroy the Protestant religion in that unhappy country.
Let us think with deep and fervent gratitude, and at the
same time with serious self-examination, of our present
privileges. And here it should be observed that on the
fifth of November we praise and bless God, not only for
the deliverance of the king and nobles from the deep laid
plot of the Romanists, but also for the " arrival of King
William 111. as on this day, for the deliverance of our
church and nation." We may well render thanksgivings
to our God for the happy results of the revolution in 1688.
For, however men may differ as to the question whether,
in any case, the succession to the throne should be altered,
and although some may be of opinion that James If.
might have been induced to have ceased from his favour-
ing the interests of the Romanists had less summary mea-
sures been adopted, still we must all praise and bless the
goodness and the wisdom of God, who, " from the seem-
ing," yea, perchance the real evil of these political con-
flicts " educed good," for, assuredly, our religion and our
liberties were preserved y the accession of a Protestant
king to the throne. Let us heartily, then, unite in the
prayer that we may have " a spirit of fervent zeal for our
holy religion, which the Lord has so wonderfully rescued
and established, a blessing to us and our posterity." Let
us be truly grateful for our present religious privileges,
privileges not granted to our forefathers in those dark days
of which our subject has led me to speak ; permission to
read the bible, the services of our church conducted in
our own language, and the doctrine of salvation through a
Saviour's merits rescued from the " wood, hay, and stub-
ble" of Popery. Let us never suppose that the mere name
of Protestant, and a loud condemnation of the errors of
the
become Romanist,
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SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
The late storm has been extremely disastrous on the
Irish coast, chiefly between Dublin and Drogheda. The
brig Shannon, of Whitelsaven, struck on a reef of sharp-
pointed rocks, about two miles north of Balbriggan. Four
of the men took to the boat, and though it was swamped
the men were drifted ashore alive. Five men remained on
board the vessel, which was at length c3psized by the vio-
lence of the waves, and the men for a few minutes were
seen clinging to the keel—the next wave swept three of
them away, and they were drowned ; a fourth caught hold
of a spar, and was saved. The fifth held on to the keel,
but when reached the vital spark had fled.
A large brig, name unknown, laden with wheat, sup-
posed to be from Wexford, and bound to Liverpool, was
totally to.
at Clogherabont, and all hands supposed
to be lost, as there was no account of any of them.
Another wreck took place at Annagasson, near the same
place. Name of the vessel unknown. She was dashed
into pieces. A large vessel, about 700 tons burthen,
named the Rose, of Belfast, Montgomery, master, was
driven violently on shore at Skerries, but most fortunately
the crew, consisting of fourteen men and one woman, a
passenger, were all got off safely from the wreck. She
was timber laden, and left Quebec this day five weeks.
She was bound for Belfast. A large quantity of timber,
and other things belonging to ships, were picked up be-
tween Balbriggan and Drogheda; the figure head of a
ship and a piece of board with the name " Fairy Queen"
was found at Balbriggan. Several small craft were more
or less injured at Baldoyle, Malahide, and along the
coast. A large vessel, supposed to be an Indiaman—but
all inquiry proved unsuccessful to ascertain anything
about her—was seen in a wrecked condition off Ireland's I
Eye. _

At Kingstown Harbour, a timber-vessel, the William
and Isabella, of Sunderland, was dismasted close to the
quay, against which the surge of the waves drove her
with violence: beyond her was a coal-vessel, which had
completely settled down, her masts standing above water.
At the entrance of the inner harbour lay the Kingston, of
Liverpool, bound to Africa, which, had put in for shelter
at the commencement of the storm; she was secured by
a hawser to the far side of the harbour, and by a cable to
the quay, and bad every appearance of riding out the
storm in safety, when a cry was heard that another vessel
was dragging her anchors ; this proved to be the Capri-
corn, of Liverpool, a West Indian vessel, from San Do-
mingo, with a valuable cargo of rum and sugars on board.
She had been anchored at a distance of about 400 yards
ahead of the Kingston ; it was about ten minutes to three
o'clock when she began to drag her anchor ; it was fully
half-past three before she reached the devoted Kingston.
As soon as it was perceived that the collision was inevita-
ble, directions were given to cut away the cable of this
gvehsseitls twoerealatter vessel, and to get her round, so that theke might be
less resistance ; before this manoeuvre could be accom-
plished the stern of the Capricorn had dashed against the
tthhoeu
bows of the Kingston, the head of which went crashing
and grinding right through the bulwarks of the former ;
at every gust of wind this scene of dtstruction was re-
peated, the enormous bowsprit of the Kingston spring-
liantgh.anldt
was
srtninogw fromev
con-
tinue in this regard to each other, both would be speedily
dashed to atoms. The crew on board the Capricorn had
I inx gt
et
ei tnphgt.i 1 this
nw theao away
done nothing ; it was reported they had been ill, and were
Kiagraetmanai;netad
allon
unable to move. The greater part of the crew of the
cut away, the masts
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remainder
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eng
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who,soon with ht
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rigging
foolhardiness,ing w as
snapped across and tumbled over on the
appearance one fell right on the man who remained on
board, but he with much presence of mind
contrived
ton
give a leap away, and his arm only was caught. We be-
lieve it was only bruised, not broken.
At eleven o'clock on Saturday night
boonaerdm.anA,
an alarm of
lfire
was given on board the Kingston. An
prevailed that there was a great on
I.3tinAitnt opinion gendeerrald:
board, and this naturally had the' effect of gunpowder on
board, and this naturally had the effect of preventing the
necessary exertions to extinguish the fire.p The conse-
quence was, that the de •element h d ; it'
devouring got a- ea
burned during the entire night, and on Sunday the vessel
appeared completely consumed to the water's edge. The
Capricorn, which lay near, had the side next the fire con-
siderably injured—the burning mast and rigging of the

Nov. !2, 18-li,

Kingston fell across her deck, set fire to everything with
which it came in contact, and were it not for the tip
assistance afforded, she would, no doubt, have sbar
fate of the other. Opinion is contradictory as regardPbe
ig,
origin of the fire ; however, the prevailing
that some persons contrived to get on board with disho%
intentions, and that having made rather too free
rum, of which there was a large quantity in the vesr,
the fire took place by accident. This idea is strengthen
by the fact that a boy, in a deep state of inebriation,;
found concealed between the rocks were the brig laY.
Kingston was the property of Charles Horsfall and lo.t1;
of Liverpool, but we have not been able to ascertaint
vessel or cargo were insured. that
In addition to the above, we have ascertained 6
"The Success," from Demerara to Dublin, with sal
rdif experienced a heavy sea and violent gale on Sat,u,
evening, at five o'clock. She had her main top-sau that
reef fore-sail blown away, and the consequence was' ter
she was thrown on her beams, and was filling with
when assistance was afforded ; she was brought into la:tg',
bour without sustaining any additional injury. A fla br er
portion of the cargo is much damaged, and,Part
ground tier of sugar was wholly washed away. s
At Bally brack, midway between Killiney and Bra.l,„s
seaman's hat was picked up, in the lining of which ma;
was written—" John Trant, Liverpool, September 1""
16th, 1843, three."
supposition it
In the river some vessels were injured by dashing eltbcr
_.‘
against each other or the quay walls. Amongst those7o
the Autumn, of Harrington, which had her bowsprit▪ :1'
jibboom carried away, and her bulk-head damaged. .
other coal-vessel had her bulwarks stove in, and her
(.1;
sails torn to pieces. Several flats—more commonly • of
as the Ballast Board boats—were sunk at either saw
the river and opposite Ringsend, and a great many
broken against the walls. A number of row boats, be
longing to private persons, met with the like accident'
and some that were moored off the island at the ?MPb
Bull were carried away altogether.

COST OF MAINTAINING THE ROYAL FAMILY

' er)
We have frequently (says the Birmingham Adeeria,„
felt it our duty to correct a misunderstandinz which vl"
generally prevails, especially among the working class:
as to the expense of the maintenance of the[loyal Fail
and every time we have done it, have received the tha
of some or other of our subscribers for recalling atten;:
tion to that which, though we had mentioned it before►.
too readily lost sight of. Indeed, among the
motives
disloyalty, which demagogues and the mis-leaders oft
people urge, few, if any, have a more telling effect 04
those which bear upon " the vast sums of money AP's'
the people have to pay for the maintenance of the 10.1,
Family." We deem this, therefore, a fitting oppertuultP
when the Queen of England is brought with unusual Pr?:
minenee before her subjects, AGAIN to correct a mistil
into which so many fall, especially as we have
late
confinement—" the remark being made at the time of her Majesty's
confinement—" there is another young one for us to w°
tain."

The hereditary revenues of the royal house,• arising
from the crown lands, were, as we have more than oso
intimated, given up by George the Third to the country.
on condition of a suitable provision being always madell
the country for the Members of the Royal Farsiti
George the Third, it is well known, had not a very sts
family, and it might be consequently thought had Inau
a good bargain ; but how stand the facts and figures
the case?

The averyge annual amount received by Govern-
ment from the Crown Lands, and are applied
to public purposes for seventy years, from
1760 to 1830, was
The average of the annual payments to the Sove-
reign and Royal Family
Leaving a balance annually of
So that, in point of fact, leaving the INTEREST of tig
savings out vof the question, the country saves near,"
£400,000 a-year, by " KEEPING,' as it is called, 4'
Royal Family.
Let us, however, see what this matter comes to, wile!
interest is taken into account; for we cannot borro"
money off other parties without interest ; and this is $
light in which we have never c 'early viewed it before.
When last year Sir R. Inglis brought this subject bet
fore the House of Commons, it was shown that up to thas
time the government had received £17,000,000 more froni
the crown lands than it had paid to the royal family. lb;
interest upon £47,000,000 at three per cent. would corn"
annually to about £1,410,000. Let us then draw another
table to illustrate this matter.
Annual interest upon the balance due to the
crown in 1843 £1,410,000
Average annual payment to the royal family 940,335

Annual balance. ......
The interest then alone of the money received by the
country and applied to public purposes, beyond the amount
paid to the royal family from the time that George the
Third gave up his hereditary revenues to 1843, not only
pays all the expenses of the royal family, but leaves an
annual balance of £469,665 ! Let us then illustrate the
matter by yet another table. The country receives an-
nually, on an average,
From the crown lands
From the interest of the sum already saved, after
making all annual payments to the royal family 469,665
Making an annual balance of.

£1,804,971
....,...

CONVERTS TO POPERY.

(From the Record.)
The intelligence of the Rev. Mr. Penny's conversion to
Popery is confirmed, and we now state it as a fact that
Mr. Newman has written to the Rev. Isaac Williams (the
competitor with Mr. Garbett for the Chair of Poetry) an-
nouncing that it is impossible for him to continue in so
fallen a Church as that of England. Mr. Williams, we
understand, wishes this to be known ; and he has, in con-
sequence, broken off all connexion with Mr. Newman, and
the Romish section of the party.
We are now, in all probability, on the verge of a con-
siderable secession from our venerable Establishment.
The fact, we believe to be that Mr. Newman would have
gone over to Rome a year ago, could he have carried Dr.
Pusey with him. But Dr. Pusey was not ready, and his
secession, without Dr. Pusey, would have had compara-
tively little effect. From the intelligence we have re-
' ceived, we think it probable that about thirty Masters of
Arts, in Oxford, will accompany Mr. Newman, if Dr.
Pusey secedes also; and we have heard it computed. by
those well qualified to form a just opinion of the case, that
in Oxford, Cambridge, and over the country at large:
there will be, in all, about 100 of the Tractarians, who Will
secede to their appropriate place within the bosom 0'
Rome, if Mr. Newman is accompanied by Dr. Pusey.
Such a consummation is most devoutly to be wished,
as it regards the highest interests of our Church. nig
perilous matter has too long lain at her very vitals, and
the extent of the evil arising from its continuance there'
it were impossible adequately to estimate. And besides
this, the secession will afford a new proof of the just isstle
of those principles which, amidst much contempt and
obloquy, we have been pointing at for many successive
years, and will, we trust, also introduce a more whole-
some fear in regard to them throughout the Church and
the country. Even as it regards the unhappy men who
apostatise it is to be desired. For in error, as in other
things, it is better to be honest than dishonest,—to act in
conformity with specified or understood obligations, than
in opposition to them.
[Since the above was in type, a letter has been sent t°
The Times, from Mr. Williams, denying that Mr. Nov"
man has written to him.—Mr. G. Tickell, of Balliol Col-
lege, who recently apostatised to popery whilst travelling
in Belgium, has written to The Times also, and says'
" Now that I have the blessing of being a Catholic, the
result is perfect peace of mind and restored health ; and
my heartfelt wish is, that the many dear friends I have in
England may one day share the same blessings I now
enjoy." Alas ! alas ! for poor fallen human nature that
men can thus be lead astray.]

SUICIDE OF MR. AND MRS. BARKER, AT
KILMARNOCK.

These unfortunate persons were old inhabitants of Bir-
mingham. Mr. Joseph Barker was 61 years of age, his
wife was somewhat younger. They resided, previous s'
leaving Birmingham, at No. 54, Vittoria-street. Mr.
Barker was born at Preston, in Lancashire, from wine'
town he married for his second wife the partner of his ro-
mantic
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from that
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died
or y eobnneg ag e d in bust'
dote, also died when 21 years of ze. SiX years
appeared to
entered the service of Mr. Samuel KemPson,-floor-cloth
manufacturer, Constitution- hill where be remained as
chief clerk and traveller until May
last, when he entered
into partnership with Mr. James Archer, who bad also
been with Mr.
.Kempson, and the firm was opened in
Summer-lane, as James Archer and Co., table-cloth ma-
nufacturers. In the arrangements there was nothing to
disturb the equanimity of his proverbially even temper:
ago he
He appeared on excellent terms with all around him ; and.
when, two months ago, he left home, as be alleged to his
partner, on a visit to Manchester, there was nothing to
indicate the fearful resolve to which subsequent circum-
stances lead us to suppose he had made up his mind.
On leaving their house they told the servant girl they
bwaecrke goingi
n eieight
seeor an relationine
d aya a. t a
When distance,he
partedan dbo shouldafrrdo ma smhbirpe..
Archer he shook hands heartily, saying, " God bless you,
Archer;" and it was observed by Mr. Archer that he
mysteryhabits
discharged every tradesman's bill against the firm. It
on him when he left
awayftouurnneddthat
he
had,aud seemedprevioua atffoechtiead.depalrttuwraes,
called
dwaarndds
was supposed that lie had about £4O. .
rYempbaoirnratssomf embarrassment, and anthdewree have
not,Birmai
an Birmingham. mcan
alaneeratapi
nee, pecuniary
languages; and
ianngdileufenktilnydltyhedilsptaolaiaitnio,
nF,reernecahti,nagnrdegGaredrmanadn
self-destruction.
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etmo
at
nh
ley
love in those with whom he associated in business and iii
private life. Mrs. Barker washigahlwyoametromopflimahuecdh,
andamia-
bility
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fisdandumaNet nVvis al uityttesyCei
relic,
feifoundc
fandrmanner,iendtupon
in 1
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rr
..
KBeamrkpesro
nw,sas
employ an old:
anodf
mthaeni:
he knife was a present frorq
The description of the knife led to the identity of theut"
happy deceased. On seeing the London papers, MP
Archer sent his foreman over to Kilmarnock, to identiff
the parties.

Captain Mc. Arthur, formerly commander of
has
been Royal, Liverpool and Glasgow steamer, o
been appointed harbour master at Fleetwood.