The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-11 00:00:00

EDUCATION

MISS HARTLEY has respectfully to announce her
REMOVAL to No. 4, PORTLAND-PLACE, DERBY-
ROAD, BOOTLE, where she will be happy to receive YOUNG
LADIES as Resident or Daily Pupils.
References are kindly permitted to Rev. Dr. Tattershall,
Shaw-street; to Rev. John Gladstone, A.M., Bootle; and
D. M`Gregor, Esq.. Walton.
17, Beau-street, Everton, 3d October, 1842.

DANCING AND CALISTHENIC EXERCISES.
MR. HARWOOD, PROFESSOR OF DANCING, 42, Nel-
son-street, Great George-square, continues to give IN-
STRUCTION in every mode of Fashionable DANCING,
either by Private Lessons or in Public Classes.
The JUVENILE ACADEMY is Open every THURS-
DAY AFTERNOON, and SATURDAY MORNING and AFTER-
NOON. Academies in or out of town attended.
The EVENING CLASSES will Re-open on TUESDAY
and THURSDAY next.
October Bth, 1812.

AUTUMN GOODS,

IN MATERIALS EXPRESSLY FOR CHILDREN'S

DRESSES

j FERGUSON, having returned from LONDON, now
0 • offers to the inspection of his Customers a variety of
NEW MATERIALS, suited for CHILDREN'S DRES-
SES, which he will warrant to wash and wear well.
The following are respectfully recommended:—

FRENCH MERINOS.
ANGOLA AND CASHMERE PLAIDS.
CLAN TARTANS.
PRINTED AND PLAIN VELVETS.
PRINTED MERINOS AND FLANNELS
GAMBROON AND CHALLY MIXTURES
FANCY CLOAKINGS.

These (taking into consideration the quality of each) at
Prices exceedingly low, and in any length that may be re-

piked.
4, Bold-street, Ist October, 1812

NOTICE TO RAILWAY AND STEAM-BOAT
TRAVELLERS.
ANDERTON'S HOTEL,
IE4, FLEET-STREET, LONDON._ _

THE Proprietor returns his sincere thanks to the Profes-
sional Commercial Gentlemen and the Public for the
liberal support he has received since occupying the above-
named Hotel ; and hopes, by unremitting attention, to retain
the patronage hitherto so generously afforded. The Proprietor
begs to assure his Patrons that the DINNERS in his Esta-
blishment are conducted upon the original liberal principle
which has procured him the Public patronage for the last
thirty years.
Lodging, 10s. 6d. per Week; Breakfast, plain, Is. 3d. each.
A Porter in attendance to receive Visitors by the Night
Trains
N. B

—Families supplied with Wines and Spirits of the
choicest quality, at the Wholesale Prices, for Cash.
Observe—W. Hardinu , Anderton' s Hotel, 164, Fleet-street.

STEINKELLER'S PATENT SQUARE AND DIA-
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To cover 100 square feet of Roofing with the Cwt. qrs. lbs
above will require
To cover the same surface with the best Welch

9 0 0

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Saving in Weight, per 100 square feet, by usu
of Zink
SHEATHING ZINK, for Ships.
SHEET ZINK, for Roofing, Verandis, Flats, Paper
Press Plates. _

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(One interest.)

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in price and quality, in distancing all competitors, being
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the b
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THE MANCHESTER AUTHORITIES. —At the Chester
special commission for the trial of., the parties the case forgaged in the
recent riots, the Attorney-Gneral, stating
the prosecution, gave a succinct history of the commence-
ment and progress of the disturbances in the manufacturing
districts. Having arrived at that point of time when the turn-
outs reached Manchester, the learned gentleman dealt a well-
merited though mild rebuke to the Manchester anti-corn-law
magistrates. Gentlemen (he said), it happened, unfortunately,
that some of the civil authorities in Manchester held a sort
the
of parley with the chiefs of this procession, with
prin-
cipal persons who headed this mob. They protested that
their motto was " Peace, law, and order ! and promised
and pledged themselves that no breach of the peace should be
committed—that they had no desire but to march through
Manchester as a sort of procesion, and that anything like
doing any mischief or creating any alarm, or stopping work-
men, was far from their intention. In an evil hour the civil
authorities, unfortunately, gave way to their assurances, and
permitted them to continue their march. They entered Man-
chester, and immediately they stopped labour of every kind
throughout the town. They demanded bread in some places
—money in others—and for some days the town of Man-
chatter was entirely at their mercy. The authority of the
magistrates was at an end. The mob went where they pleased,
exacted, ordered and commanded just as they liked. All
the shops were shut up, and Manchester bad the appearance
rather of a town taken possession of by a force, thau,as ex-
hibiting the ordinary symptoms, as it generally does, of
access ful industry.—Morning Herald.

ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND MAIL

The mail from India arrived on Friday,

.cutta to the

gence from Bombay to the 28th, and from t
13th of August, and China to the 16th of Junc
The most remarkable fact is the decision taken by the Go-
vernor-General to send forward the troops from Candahar
and Jellalabad to Caubul. This decision appears to have
been adopted immediately on the receipt of despatches which
reached India by the mail that left England on the 15th of
June. There had previously existed throughout India a
strong feeling of dissatisfaction, to which some of the journals
had afforded a decided vent. That discontent took its origin
from the presumed apathy of the new Governor-General,
who, having some months back taken himself away from Cal-
cutta, seemed, in his comparatively retired retreat at
Allaha-
bad, to have resolved that the troops should be left to inaction
at Candahar, and to suffer a variety of misery at Jellalabad.
The soldiers expressed their eagerness to be led against the
enemy, and in particular against the murderer, Akbar Khan ;
but the order for the onward movement had been delayed by
Lord Ellenborough. The efforts of the government had,
however, in the interval been actively directed to sup-
ply the troops with every requisite. The force at Candahar,
under General Nott, was so well furnished with carriage
cattle as to be able in July to move in any direction. The
spirit of those troops may be learned from the following
anecdote. When that general was told that he should
evacuate Affghanistan, he is said to have inquired "by which
route, whether by Quetta backwards, or to Caubul for-

wards
The Candahar army having, on the 30th of July, received
the welcome notes for a movement, was ordered to form into
two divisions : the one under General England to proceed
towards Quetta, and the other under General Nott to move
to the northward. These two divisions are thus composed :
under General England, the Bombay troops, which are
coming towards the Indus, viz., Cooper's troop of Horse
Artillery, Bullock's battery (six-pounders,) detachment of
Poonah Horse ; two Rasselah's, Christie's Horse ; 25th
Bombay Native Infantry ; Company's late Light Battalion ;
Ist, 2d, and sth late Bengal irregular Infantry. Under Ge-
neral Nott, the Bengal troops, with her Majesty's regiments,
about to gather fresh laurels, viz., Leslie's troop of Horse
Artillery, Anderson's ditto, ditto, Blood's nine-pounder
battery, detachment of Bengale and Madras Sappers, 3d
Bombay Cavalry, ad Christie's Horse, her Ma-
jesty's 40th and 41st Regiments, 2d, 18th, 38th, 42d, and
43d Regiments of Bengal Native Infantry, 2d, or Craigie's
irregular Infantry. The latter division has taken the batter-
ing train, which fact indicates a disposition not to spare the
Affghan fortresses, and especially Ghuznee and Caubul.
The abandonment of Candahar seems to be decided on, for a
general destruction of guns, ammunition, and small arms,
which could not be conveniently removed, was stated to have
taken place. Among other arrangements, the distribution
of warm clothing to the Bengal troops was not neglected.
The report at first circulated among General Nott's division
was, that they were to proceed from Candahar towards
Ferozepore, via Khelat-y-Ghilzie' and Dera Ismael Khan.
'
This line of route, a part of which is unknown to Europeans,
was considered to be but a feint.
The position of the force at Jellalabad under General Pol-
lock during the months of June and July had attracted much
attention, for the difficulties which surrounded them had
been exaggerated to extremes by the croakers. There was
abundance in the camp of every necessary, but not of luxury.
The principal want was beasts of burden. Among the ru-
mours was one that the owners of the animals taken on hire
from India had refused to allow their cattle to proceed fur-
ther than Peshawar. The activity and energy of the Govern-
ment agents had in a great degree obviated this difficulty.
The force at Jellalabad was then considerable, for, besides
the " illustrious.' garrison, which had, under General Sale,
withstood the siege of Akbar Khan, and the troops that
stormed the Khyber Pass, under General Pollock, a con-
siderable body of Sikhs, against whose behaviour, as auxilia-
ries, no great complaints were urged, was collected there,
and to whose custody it was said that the fortress of Jellala-
bad and the care of the Khyber Pass were to be intrusted
after the retirement of the British.
The unwarlike hesitation of the troops at Jellalabad having
been misinterpreted by some of the Affghan chiefs in the
neighbourhood, whose bullying propensities lead them al-
ways to assault those who exhibit any symptoms of doubt or
fear, and above all those who seemed inclined to retreat from
before them, it became necessary that General Pollock should
chastise the most refractory. Detachments were, therefore,
sent out, which soon brought those worthies to their senses,
and obliged them to pay the sums due to the revenue.
The removal of the troops from Jellalabad appeared to be
necessary, as sickness prevailed, and several officers had died
there since the arrival of General Pollock. Every prepara-
tion was making at the period of the latest intelligence for a
speedy movement.
It is stated that the troops were to march from Candahar
on the Bth, 9th, or 10th of August, and rumour asserted that
Akbar Khan, whose great object was dely, had sent another
of his prisoners, Captain Lawrence, on to Jellalabad, to try
to make some further arrangements.
On tha 13th of July a new negociation on behalf of Akbar
Khan was commenced. Captain Troup, who had been Major
of Brigade in the British contingent to Shah Soojah, and
who is one of the prisoners, came to Jellalabad ; he was ac-
companied by a Candahar chieftain. The object of his mis-
sion was, under pretence of making terms for the restoration
of the prisoners in exchange for the reinstatement of Dost
Mahommed, to gain time, and to delay operations until the
approach of another winter should be sufficient to paralyse
the movements of the Indian troops. But these negotiations
had, as far as Akbar Khan was concerned, tended to no pur-
pose, and several letter s brought by Captain Troup from the
Prisoners, both females and males, addressed to their friends
in India, have contributed to allay the great anxiety felt on
their account. They were then confined in a fortress five
miles distant from Cabul, the approach to which is described
as rather difficult. Some of them were allowed to move about
the mountains, and to ride in small parties into Caubul.
Lady Sale, who occasionally botanized, was always guarded
by two Affghans. The officer might, perhaps, manage to
escape, but Akbar Khan's agents took too good care of the
ladies and children, whom he looked upon as his safe host-
ages. The most accredited report respecting the real posi-
tion of Akbar Khan was, that he had appointed himself Vizier
under Futteh Jung, the son and nominal successor of Shah
Soojah, but that he was not in favour with the inhabitants
of Caubul, over some of whom he exercised the most horrible
tyranny, and who also appeared to dread the approaching ven-
geance of the British troops. The Kuzzilbashes, a party of
that town, were opposed to him. He was, therefore, com-
pelled to act with some moderation towards the prisoners,
for the people of the town and district looked to them being
protected by Futteh Jung as the acknowledged representa-
tive of his father in the alliance with the British. The re-
port industriously circulated by interested parties some
months ago, that Akbar Khan intended to take the prisoners,
in case of his being hard pressed, over the Hindoo Khosh
into Bokhara, had lost credit, for it was said that the King
of Bokhara, although he treats Colonel Stoddart and Capt.
Conolly, his present captives, with great rigour, does not
wish for more Feringhees ' • and, having subdued the Chief-
tain of Kohan, and gained influence with the Walee of Kho-
loom, had obliged the latter to refuse permission to Akbar
Khan to take those prisoners through the passes. It was,
therefore, supposed that, on the arrival of the British troops
from Jellalabad and Candahar at Caubul, the ill-acquired
domination of the ambitious son of Dost Mahommed would
speedily be terminated. There is no doubt now of his hav-
ing murdered Sir W. H. Macnaghten, for the fact of his
having done so has been admitted by himself.
Simultaneously with the receipt of the order by General
Nott, an advance movement had been effected from Jellala-
bad by Captain Broadfoot, who took post on the 24th of
July at a small fort 15 miles from Jellalabad, at which fort
it was supposed that a part of the force from that fortress
would soon arrive.
The distance from Candahar to Ghuznee vii Khelat-y-
Ghilzie is about 240 miles. In the year 1839, Sir John
Keane's army took from the 27th of June to the 21st of July,
both days included, to perform that march. Ghuznee and
Jellalabad are nearly equidistant from Caubul, each being
somewhat more than ninety miles. It was expected that
both armies would meet in Caubul before the middle of
September.
Most of the Affghans in and around Caubul were stated
to entertain great alarm, and were begging written notes and
little bits of scribbled paper from the prisoners to serve as
tokens for their preservation. It appears to be expected in
some usually well informed quarters, that little or no opposi-
tion would be made to the advance of the British.
All these statements, coupled with the facts that have
occurred since the disastrous retreat of last January, serve to
prove that the fatalities of November, December, and January
were owing more to the want of talent and energy on the
Part of the British leaders than to the enterprise or patriot-
ism of the Affghans. Captain Troup had declared, " that
no doubt exists, if a single wing of a regiment had marched
into Caubul on the 2d of November, the much-talked-of
insurrection would have been completely and effectually put
down."
The transports sent from England with the reinforcements
had arrived. The 78th Highlanders and 86th regiments,
having made rapid passages, reached Bombay in the begin-
ning of August. Some of the men had died of cholera.
The 28th Regiment, from New South Wales, had also ar-
rived there. The resolution and activity displayed by the
British government on this occasion had infused new vigour
into the whole of the Hon. Company's Service.
The news from China was to the 7th of June. It contains
the account of the capture of Chapoo, on the 18th of May,
which was effected without loss to the British ; but, when
the troops were moving through the town, violent resistance
was made from the Joss-house, into which some Tartar
soldiers had retreated, fearing that if they surrendered they
would be cut to pieces, unexpectedly fired on some British
companies. Colonel Tomlinson, of the 18th Royal Irish,
was killed, and Colonel Mounfain, Captain Campbell, and
Lieutenant Jodell wounded.
An apprehension prevailed in India, that but little would
be effected, this year, against China, in consequence of the
delays that had taken place. The want of vigour in tha pro-
secution of this war was much spoken of, particularly as the
season for sailing along that coast, without that danger, was
allowed to pass over. The expedition was, however, said to
be preparing to attack Nankin, the southern capital.
The monsoon had set in rather late, but a plentiful fall of
rain had taken place subsequent to the well-known holyday,
called, " Cocoa-nut day," when the Indians suppose that
the violence of the storms have ceased. The cholera had
continued its ravages, but the heavy rains would, it was
hoped, speedily lessen them.
Several shipwrecks had occurred; among them were men-
tioned that of the Adele, from Bombay for Mauritius ; of
the Copeland, from Liverpool for China; of the Martha
Ridgeway and the Two Sisters, in the Eastern Seas.
The fall of rain in Bombay during ten days previous to the
departure of the mail had been very great. It was stated
that the overflowing of the Ganges had done considerable
injury to the indigo crop.
The commercial intelligence differs little from that received
by the last mail. The markets were generally dull, and
freights continued extremely low. Bills of Exchange, on the
12th of August, were quoted at from ls. Ild. to 2s.
Letters from Mauritius mention that some commercial
difficulties had arisen there, caused by the want of sufficient
metallic currency. The banks had, therefore, narrowed
their operations.

. ITN•rs roil. TURN-OUT IiVORKMEN.—Lord Chief Baron
°3l_ tiger, in the course of his charge to the grand jury on
fol-
lowing the Special Commission, at Chester, made the fol-
g in
sbrrieems arks :—" There is another class of of-
fenders who will be brought before you—namely, those who
joined ' of the people, the object of which was
by force to turn others out of employment, or prevent them
from conti •
nui at work. This is a species of tyranny quite
intolerable. What right has any man to dictate to another
he should labour? If the party who labours,
contract, they have nothing;
at what price
or the •
party employing
contract. lam afraid, for I believe
is dissatisfied with the terms of the
d o btuhte tola
~p,uht
aasnbeld
altered
rtehde
in this respect. that even a combination of a number of
ceasedworkmen n forbe theandictating terms to masters has
purposeind ictable offence in itself. But, though
this is not an indictable offence
be conducted in a peaceable andlong as the combination
quietctl manner, yet if they
attempt to force others to join them, by terror or intimida-
tion,,
iafring and outrageous
they are guilty of one of the
act government dif-
gntavin)oty:tdwireercetforce
acts of tyranny. What would be said
ferently constituted from our own, and
on the people, if the powers of such a govern
exer-
cised in a similar mariner, in order that the
a just ground for
not continue at their labour? Would it not be demsrcernibuledighast
an insupportable tyranny, and as forming
insurrection ? Yet you will find that these
were not content with exercising the privileges wPhPiYehmthne
law allowed them, of agreeing among themselves not to work
without a certain rate of remuneration, but they attempted
by force to compel others to quit their labour."

THE CHURCH

(From Thursday's Times.)

We see daily; and we rejoice to see, signs of increasing
power, and increasing consciousness of power, in the Church
of England. We do not speak of temporal or political, but
of moral power—increased ability and willingness on the pact
of the Church and her rulers to carry out and to discharge
to their legitimate extent the duties of spiritual government
and spiritual guidance which are 'confided to her. Not only
is she labouring everywhere, with a zeal and success which
would have been ridiculed as impossibilities a few years ago,
to supply by her own unaided resources the wants of that
vast portion of the people who are destitute of the means of
instruction and the opportunities of worship, but a new life
is gradually developing itself in her own inward organic sys-
tem, of which the importance cannot be over-estimated.
Politically speaking (though it would be the worst sort of af-
fectation to deal with this subject as if we regarded it from a
merely political point of view), it is of incalculable importance
at the present moment that the Church should act with vi-
gour, energy and union. She:is the only power in the State
which can deal with Chartism, or counteract the evil effect of
that bastard, truth-despising, pride-fostering: system of
" education " with which the liberalism of the present day
supposes that the lower orders can be made virtuous. But
for her, the State, which seems to have already lost the
power of resistance to these false principles, might soon be
disabled from making any effectual opposition to their con-
sequence's. And though she may be aided by the State to
provide herself, more speedily than she otherwise could, with
the outward appliances necessary to give due effect to her in-
fluence, all this will be of little avail, unless she brings a
spirit to the work which the State must needs receive, but

can never give.
Numerous cases have in times past operated to check and
fetter the Church of England in a manner highly prejudicial
to her own spiritual efficien..y and to the true interests of the
people. It is not necessary to enter into these at length ;
the chief of them we think, has been the paralszed, nerveelss,
and almost useless state of the internaligovernment. Her
legislature has been silenced and forbidden to transact busi-
ness for the last century and a half ; her jurisprudence and
courts of judicature have been thoroughly debased and secu-
larixed, and made useless and worse than useless, for the
preservation of order. morality, or purity of doctrine among
her people and clergy. Her bishops have been nominated,
in a majority of instances, either on political grounds. or for
qualities more ornamental in tranquil, than useful in
difficult, times. Embarrassed on all sides by the encroach-
ments of an unworthy jealousy on the part of the State, they
had, at no great distance of time, sunk into functionaries,
administering with diligence and circumspection a few neces-
sary rites and ceremonies and exercising the scanty powers
entrusted to them by Acts of Parliament concerning matters
of a mixed temporal and ecclesiastical nature. So far did
this proceed, that a bishopric came to be looked upon by
many persons as a sort of retiring pension in the Church—an
" OtiUM 0071 digiltlate," as it was seriously called only two
years since by a writer in the Quarterly Review, when criti-
cising the publication of a learned prelate now on the Bench.
It requires neither much argument, nor any depth of re-
flection, to perceive what must have been the necessary, as
they have been the actual, consequences of this state of things.
The Church was frozen down into the accidental formulae of
two hundred years since, without the power either to realize
or to alter them, while a thousand modifications were taking
place in the face of the society every day. Villages expanded
into cities, but the old parish church and the solitary minis-
ter remained where they were. The wealth of a parish was
increased a million-fold, but the Ch'urch continued to starve
and keep silent upon a stipend of fifty or a hundred pounds
a-year. Vast colonies were planted, and were falling away
from Great Britain for want of heart-binding ties ; immense
territories, inhabited by heathens, fell under our dominion or
became the emporiums of our commerce; yet the Church
stood still, and suffered these great fields of moral exertion
to be occupied by her enemies, while those within her whoes
charity lead them to be eager in the same work, were com-
pelled to devise anomalous and unauthorised modes of action
for themselves. Men arose burning with zeal, full of activity
and self-denial, able to move the hearts of thousands, desirous
(if it might have been so) to supply the deficiencies of the
Church under her own guidance ; but after a cold attempt to
frown them down, the Church calmly suffered them to go
out of her, and lead with them into schism half the people
who ought to have been hers, contenting herself all the while
with writing treatises against enthusiasm. Later still we
have seen new schools of doctrine arise, and vehemently dis-
puted questions by competent authority ; changes have crept
in in practical and ceremonial matters, to such an extent that
in many things the clergy are living under two contradictory
laws, the one written, which they have sworn to obey, the
other unwritten, but peremptorily enforced upon them by
custom ; and, to crown all, and make confusion worse con-
founded, Parliament (now constitutionally including Dissen-
ters of every kind) has been meddling every year with the
temporal arrangements, the judicature, the discipline, the
episcopal organization, everything, in fact, but the doctrine
of the Church.
These evils have happily attained their maximum, and
the state of things which: produced them is rapidly pas-
sing away. The parties to whom the credit is due of having
roused an effectual spirit of reaction, not only among large
numbers of the laity and inferior clergy, but in still more in-
fluential quarters, have (whatever may be their merits or de-
merits in other respects) conferred a real service on the
Church and on the nation. Of all the fruits of such a reac-
tiou which we have yet seen, the most remarkable, as well
as the most full of important consequences, are the episcopal
charges of the present year, especially those of the Bishops
of Exeter, Salisbury, and Oxford. It is impossible to read
them without seeing that the Church is beginning to have
something like real government; that episcopacy is already
something more than a name among us, The Church of
England wants nothing but this to made the most powerful
moral organ in the world. That she should be what she is,
that she should have accomplished the good and surmounted
the difficulties which she has done, in her present disorgani-
zed state, is enough to warrant us in expecting almost any
amount of good from her influence, when she has acquired
the strength which the union, consolidation, and just direc-
tion of her energies under capable rulers must inevitably give
her.

You really are too open-hearted for me, as the gardener
said to his bad cabbages.
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I" Father, do they light up railway cat riages at nights with
gas?" " No, my dear, with train oil."

" Dear me, why does that bald gentleman walk abroad
with his hat off." " Why, because he wants a little fresh
hair, to be sure."

MILTON COMPARED WITH SHAKSPEARE.—MiIton also
could paint the forms of mankind, though in a lower degree,
for his excellency chiefly consisted in the power with which
he poured out his own spirit in an ideal person ; Milton
painted a Satan, which was a Milton. The poet Milton had
little sympathy with angel or archangel, with cherub or se-
raph ; the transcript of his own mind was the archangel
ruined. The inquisitive speculation, the indomitable cou-
rage, were drawn direct from the poet's soul. The victory
of Gabriel, the sentiment of Raphael, the faithfulness of
Abdiel, the repentance of Adam, were the respects which the
habit of the man of active life paid to the prejudices and pro-
fessions of his fellow men. Satan was the hero of the poet's
heart, and the grandest heeo which genius has ever dared to
offer to the admiration of mankind.—The Herberts : by the
author of " Elphinstone."
DESCRIPTION OT A FIGHT BETWEEN A MUNGOOZE
AND THE COBRA CAPELLO.—Being desirous of seeing a
combat between a snake and its inveterate enemy, the
mungooze, (an animal siniiiar to the ichneumon of Egypt,)
I requested the charmer to exhibit a fight of the kind. He
instantly consented, (as every one of these men carry not
only snakes, but mungoozes with them,) and led us out
into the compound—the field attached to almost every
house in cantonements. Having expressed our fears lest
any of the party might be injured by the reptile, he pro-
posed that the exhibition should take place under an enor-
mous pheasant-coop of worked wire, which was lying un-
used in the court-yard. This arrangement was acceded
to, and, at our suggestion, the snake first taken in the
morning was selected for the encounter. The mouth of
the vessel in which he was enclosed was placed under the
edge of the coop, and the covering suddenly withdrawn.
In a moment after the cobra capello darted out. The
kedgeree-pot was then taken away, and the edges of the
pheasantry let down. During two or three minutes the
monster poked his nose all round the enclosure, evidently
wishing to escape ; but, finding this impossible, he quietly
coiled himself up, freeing, however, his magnificent head
from the folds, and remained in a sort of listening attitude.
Presently the man produced the mungooze, and let him in
to his adversary. Never was I more surprised. This was
the first time I had seen one. I had expected to behold a
somewhat powerful opponent. Never could I have fancied
that so small an animal could have dared to cope with ser-
pents of the largest and deadliest kind : such, however, was
the case. The little creature which now sniffed round the
edge of the coop was about half as large again as an English
rat, of a mottled colour, with small red eyes, and would have
been a very ugly animal had it not been for its tail, which
was long, and bushy in circumference near the centre,
almost as large as the little body to which it was attached.
For a time the mungooze ran about without going direct up
to the snake, which, however, having perceived its tormentor
on its first entiance, had prepared to give him battle. Sud-
denly the tiny creature, which seemed to be little more than
a single mouthful to its adversary, saw the snake, and,
without hesitation, ran at it. So apparently unequal a
contest I never beheld. The cobra capella had reared
itself, and spread out its hood, a sort of fleshy cape
it inflates when irritated, and which has given rise to
its designation. The marks round its eyes resembled
a pair of spectacles. Its marble-stained scales seemed all
alive, as it raised itself some three feet high to meet the
attack of the little savage, whose fiery eyes seemed suddenly
to glow like red-hot cinders as it rushed towards its mighty
enemy, and bit it. The snake darted at it, squeezed it, in-
flicted its dreadful wound, and then threw itself back. The
mungooze was evidently disabled. Faint, and almost dying,
it retreated. Many of us fancied the battle over, and re-
gretted the untimely end of the courageous little beast.
After limping about for some time, and even lying down with
exhaustion, the mungooze began to poke its nose on the
grass. What it swallowed none have ever been able to trace,
though large rewards have been offered for the discovery.
What the herb is which this little animal partakes of none
can tell, but certainly its effects are miraculous ; for no
sooner did the creature imbibe the sought-for antidote than
it suddenly discovered its pristine strength, and again at-
tacked the serpent. This scene was re-enacted no less than
seven times; each time the cobra appearing weaker and
weaker, till actually tired out. The mungooze at length suc-
ceeded in catching the monster by the throat, and destroying
it, to the surprise and admiration of all present.—Bentley's
Miscellany : Hours in Hindoostan.

ALLEGED LONGEVITY.—(From the Athenceum.—The
French papers have of late quoted from a work, entitled Les
Cennaires, some astounding statements respecting the age
attained by individuals in the different countries of Europe.
Thus, we are told, that " that there have died in England,
in the course of the last century, 49 persons who have reached
from 130 to 180 years of age ! Of these seven reached 134
years, four 138, two 146, four 155, one 159, one 160, one 168,
one 169, and one 175." Now, we believe it to be beyond the
power of the writer to prove any one of these assertions,—to
prove that any one man or woman in England ever attained
the lowest of these ages, or 130 years. We do not, of course,
mean, when we speak of proof, the gossiping nonsense which
passes current on such occasions, but such evidence as would
be received as conclusive in a court of law ; and surely, in a
country where every parish has its register, the age of a party
is a fact very easy of proof. Some years since (see Nos.
200-3), we were drawn into a controversy respeeting the age
of a man of the name of Patrick Gibson, of whom a portrait
and a memoir were published, setting forth that he was in
his 111th year. W. e proved to demonstration, that every
assertion from which his great age was to be inferred was
false ; yet, since then, his portrait, with the falsehood deli-
berately written on the frame, has been placed in the hall at
Greenwich Hospital. Our incredulity on the subject of these
Old Gibsons, Old Parrs, and Old Jenkinses being known,
we have, on more than one occasion, been sent by friends in
search of cases, admitted, they said, of no doubt ; but, on
inquiry, it turned out that, instead of " no doubt," we
os hr orual dt
hread p L.eed noss proof. The parties, indeed, recollected,
to recollect, many circumstances which
occurred more than a hundred years before; but in no in-
stance could they recollect where we might procure a copy
of their baptismal register. This question is not altogether
one of mere idle curiosity ; the length of
insurance,
time
that men may
live must affect questions of annuities, and other
like calculations ; vet, though every season brings forth new
insurance companies, new life tables, new expositions and
illustrations of the subject, no writer, that we i
are aare of,
has devoted a single chapter to a careful investigatonw of the
age which men have attained. If any of our actuaries have
considered the subject, a later from them would, we are
sure, be interesting to our readers.