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such wel

hang for a time, then dress it in rather thin steaks, serve
it up very hot, properly accompanied by Hervey's sauce,
and there will be a dish which neither the beefsteak of
England nor the turtle steaks of India can rival. The
latter is out of the question ; and as venison is to mutton
so is ostrich to beef ; the flavour and tenderness surpass
anything of the kind, and ve-
It should appear upon the

son is not easier of digestion.
anion of the next civic feast.
!sus, anything can be pro-
>even YearB' Service on the

in London for, by somi
duced there in these days

Slave Coast

NEGRO WEDDING AT SIERRA LEONE.—The beha-
. •

the applicants for the I

ads of Hymen is, for the
iornetimes compelled to
the friends who attend
allowance for their not

read them a lecture, as well
them. I t

e, however, every

was. us.aLy as tu trgutate aua Kcep In order the
ill—
behaved, and very often disreputable character, who
noisily and irreverently crowd into the church on such
occasions, and would, if not restrained by severe .nrl

cisive interference, bring their indecencies and ribaldry
up to the railings of the altar. I have often been obliged
to send for a policeman to preserve decorum ; and then
the miserable beings will run out of the church with
laughter and grins and every other expression of igno-
rance and contempt. The dress of tli bride and bride-
groom at the bridal merits a better pen than mine to
describe it. The uglier the parties, the more pains they
seem to take to show it off to the utmost. by the most
conspicuous contrast of colour and finery. Fancy a short,
dumpy, addling bit of a body, black as jet, covered with
k or satin ! Flounces four deep, white satin

white silt

shoes, white gloves, artificial wreath, or a fillet of nai;;;;11
flowers encircling her curly pate. There is no exaggera-
tion in this. Then the massive earrings of virgin gold
depending from two monstrous lapping ears, the almost
imperceptible nose, the pouting Hp, and white pearly
teeth. So much for the bride. Now for the bridegroom.
Scarcely able to turn either one way or the other, so
tightly is he case 3 in a blue swallow-tailed coat, with gilt
figured buttons, white folding waistcoat, and everything,
else to correspond. The wedding-ring must not be over-
looked, as it is frequently a curiosity of itself and not
always of gold, or plain, but sometiaies silver. brass, tin,
broad and twisted. The glove of the bashful lady has
generally to be violently taken off to admit the putting on
the finger the precious emblem of fidelity and perpetuity
of love ; and I have never wanted volunteers to officiate
for me in helping the most interested of the party to get
the ring honestly and fairly in its appointed place. The
most painful part of my duty was to get them to repeat
the words of the service after me. The wretched stupidity
they would show in trying to do this exceeds all belief :
and the unseasonable ridicule it would ,provoke in their
people was distressingly trying. In short, their utter
ignorance in numerous cases of the nature of the respon-
sibilities they were undertaking could not fail of causing
rcret that they marry at all.--Rev. Dr. Poole's Life in
Sierra Leone.

POLITIUAL lIIIS'C'ELLANY.

Mr. Dickson, the Whig, has been returned for Lime.
County by a small majority over Mr. Goold. Mr.
e tenant-league candidate, was a the bottom of

the poll
At the Council on Friday, Parliament was ordered to be
further prorogued from this day, the 17th of December,
until the 4th of February, and a proclamation was ordered
summoning Parliament to meet on the 4th of February
for the dispatch of business.
Lord Brackley, M.P. for North Staffordshire, in a
letter dated Torquay, states that he has no reason to ex-
pect that he shall be able to attend Parliament in the
early part of next session, on account of ill health, and
that ha will resign if called upon.
SPLIT IN THE CABINET.—This is one of the rumours of
the day,---a common thing of the approach of a session.
But how can we reconcile sach ministers in the same
councils as Lord Grey, who hopes to see " Roman Catho-
lic Bishops in the House of Peers," and Lord John Rus-
sell, who is threatening to annihilate the very name of
them ! Yet, rather than lose office, wo shall find them
level in opinion on the treasury bench, at the opening of
the session : the proud earl will stoop, and the dwarf
brevet lord will stand on his toes.

THE NAVIGATION LAWS,-114 portion of the public
who, with Adam Smith, are of opinion that national se-
curity is even of greater importance than national opu.
lence, and who believe with hhn that an extensive mer-
cantile marine is the only solid foundation of naval
strength, will be somewhat startled by the following reve-
lation, founded on parliamentary returns, and especially
on the last monthly return of the Board of Trade. In
he year 1810 the total amount of tonnage entered inwards
hi the foreign trade of the United Kingdom was 4,105,207
tons, of which 2,8(1,367 were British, and 1,297,840
foreign. In 1845 the British tonnage had advanced to
3,669,853, and the foreign to 1,353.735, making an aggre-
gate of 5,023,588 tons. In 1849 the British entries were
4,390,375, the foreign 1,680,891, together 6,071,20 tons.
Thus, in ten years, with a growing commerce, but under
Protection, British tonnage had progressively increased
1,583,008 tons, or 561 per cent, and foreign 383,054 tons,
or 291 per cent. At this point protection was withdrawn.
Free navigation has now been ten months in operation,
and the following is the result :—The aggregate inward
entries during the ten months ended the sth of Novem.
ber, 1849, were 5,081,592 tons, of which 3,651,589 were
British, and 1,430,003 foreign. During the correspond-
ing ten months ending the sth of November of the pre-
sent year the aggregate entries are 5,114,064 tons, the
British being 3,363,033, and the foreign 1,749,031. Thus,
comparing the first ten months after the repeal of the
Navigation-laws with the corresponding tau months of the
preceding year, when those laws were in operation, we
find that British tonnage has increased within this brief
period no less than 286,556 tons, or 8 1-10 mossnt. while
foreign tonnage has increased to the enormousextent of

319,028 tons, or 22 3-10 per cent. the whole entrie3 have
advanced only 32,472 tons, thus sh .wing that our mari-

ime commerce has not been augmented in nny appre.
!bible degree by the alteration, but that it has simply
.hanged hands. The foreigner has taken what we have
❑adly surrendered.

eUaiw,

There are 193 horses entered for th
A.n explosion rook place, on Friday

ow, by which

iontm nt to t

Several entire
rted into Lon,

he Derby of 1851

Leech to the memor

o be a bronze statu

lon-from

s to Peru and the P,

On Monday last

ately been im-

young. man named Thos. Ware

hooting himself througl

roe strength of the British army is 123,768 men of all
ns, beside 55.000 odd of pensioners, yeomanry, &c.
land engrosses an army of 25,100 men.
the Prince Consort was a successful competitor at the
~,hfield Cattle Show on Monday, carrying off three
ml two for his pigs.

Mrs. Jermy. the lady whose husband was shot by
James Bloorefi ld Rush, was married at Dover, on the
tenth inst., to Mr. Beevor, eldest son of Sir T. B. Beevor,
of Hargham-hall, Norfolk.
The coal trade is said to be brisk in South Durham.
During the month of November above one thousan.l
waggons of coal's a day were conveyed down the Stockto
and Darlington R
On Saturday
aged 82, re

n old woman named Elizabeth Draper,
t Donington, Lincolnshire, who was an
bitual opium eater, poiscned herself with an accidental

Ashborne Church, Derbyshire, took fire during divine
service on Sunday week, from an overheating of the flues.
Fortunately a plentiful supply of water was at hand, and
the danger was speedily overcome.

The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land had decreased from £16,009,871. to £15,942,193,
being a difference of £67,673. The wiper in actual circu-
lation had increased from £19,782,856 to £19,960,708,
being a difference of £87,852.

The keeper of the tavern which was Haynau's refuge
from the mob of London has been ruined by the throng
of visiters to the marshal's haunt. Good customers were
driven away, whilst the new-comers drank little or no-

The Postmaster General. bar seen fit to hand over
in a lump the appointment of the letter carriers in Rugby
and its vicinity to a convert to the Rornish faith, named
Captain Hibbert, who selects the letter carriers from
among the recent proselytes to Romanism.
The New York Herald pompously informs its readers
that " there is hardly a counting-house in Great Britain
the business of which is not regulated by a Yankee clock"!
—1 that " American pails, clothes-pins, and other nic-
)ronounced a nerfeet hlpg.inr, L

The Daily News says that a German manufacturer,
represented by an agent in the city, is constructing a
musical bed for the exhibition of 1851. Directly the
occupant of this bed presses it, soothing airs will be emit-
ted, and, thus lulled, he may sink luxuriously into the
arms of sleep.

A IVlonm-outhshire paper relates that a man called
Will the Thatcher," who was smoking his pipe when
e was last seen, was found burned to death .by the road-
ie, on '" •sday week. It is supposed that he had pla-
ed pipe in his pocket, and that his clothes
be was asleep under the hedge.
Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, the major-general corn-
landing the south-western military district, has issued

-commissioned officer on duty shall

tpproach a drunken soldier, lest the latter in his into.,
ion should strike him, and thus add the offence of mutiny
o that of drunkenness.
At Dover police-
- •

)urr last week a Neapolitan sailor was
f n'Q---"t `nom he in.

Ivo u' Li,-73patiisti girl, w._
uced to elope with him from :Gibraltar. During the
oyage a heavy storm arose, and the girl was ordered by

[mei( ringlets, as a pro-
pitiation to the Virgin Mary to appease the tempest!"
The Rev. F. Close had a narrow escape from fire on
Monday evening. He was alone in his study, ati•l
spark from a candle fell among the papers on his w
desk, which were speee••

n'ately, t

y enveloped in flames. Fortu:
s extinguished before it communicated

th the furnitu

of the room

acuity all
the papers on the desk were destroyed or mutilated.
M. Soyer, so celebrated for his magic cookery, has taken
Gore House, formerly the residence of the late Lady
Blessington, for the six months of the Great.

,s runt, ui LVUU 'or tnat time. it is to be fitted up as
an hotel, and the beautiful grounds are to be laid out for
`-rtainments in the style of those afforded to the public

Cremorne

While two gentlemen named Bloxsidge and Done, were
driving in a fly from Hallows to Worcester, on Wednes-
day, the horse suddenly took fright • , -

.tsun,.,guy, near tienw7ek, gal-
loped towards the bridge, and then turned towards the
river. Fortunately, posts and a chain stopped the fly,
but the horse broke the traces, d..sheu into the river, and
was drowne.i.

JENNY Limn.—The Sweeish Nightingale will be in
London in the month of June, not under the auspices of
Mr. Barnum, but for the purpose of giving two grand
concerts ; after which she will make a tour in the pro-
vinces, not under the auspices of anybody but herself.
Her success in America has surpassed all expectation.—
Musical World.

Lately, a miser, named Shelford, who had lived by con-
tributions from bis neighbours, died in Kentish Town,
London, and left behind a fortune of £15,000. The room
he occupicd had not been cleaned for twenty years. He
was so penurious in his habits as to deny himself a coat,
and seldom wore a hat, and would pick up bread out of

FATAL HUNTING ACCIDENT,
trquharson's hounds, on Mor