The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-13 00:00:00

This is an exqui-

site poem—full of grace, spirit, and beauty
A----E are beautiful, they are a credit to the writer's head

and heart. TI

The Lines to

mencement of
brated Authors
The PhiloFophy of the Insane is a cm rnis article. There
can be little doubt we should think of the necessity of placing
the Autobiographist in his " shady, blest retreat." " May
Day in the Country and in the Town " is a pleasant, Leigh
Huntish article. The paper "De Re Veniculari" sets us
wondering whether to laugh at the drollery of the matter or
admire most the ability and research exhibited. Hoaxing
Histories is a funny story. The Premier at Home and
Abroad, and a very interesting translation from the German,
conclude the number.

,1 with pleasure the corn-
,n the Characters of cele-
the :tore for this month.

NEWCASTLE (STAFFORDSHIRE) ELECTION PETITION.—
The committee have decided that Mr. Quincey Harris (ra-
dical), was not duly returned for this borough at the last
election, and that it was rendered void by bribery.

THE MURDER AT HIGIIIIERV,--A supposed accomplice
of Cooper, who murdered the policeman at Highbury, was
arrested on Wednesday, and was remanded for further exa-
mination. A verdict of wilful murder has been returned
against Cooper at the inquest.

On Saturday evening a jewel box, exceeding in value
£2OOO, the property of Lady Corbet, and three dozen silver
spoons and forks were stolen from her apartments in Paris.
Mr. Joseph Sturge has consented to become a candidate
for the representation of Nottingham, in the room of Sir
G. Larpent, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
THE FIRE AT HAMEURGH.—A subscription amongst
the leading merchants of London, for the hundreds who are
sufferers by this severe calamity, has been opened in Lon.
don, and before any public announcement was made, the
amount subscribed reached upwards of £2,300.
MARRIAGE IN Limn LIFE.—On Wednesday morning,
at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, the Hon. Capt. George
W. F. Liddell,
of the Scots Pusileer Guards, son of Lord
Ravensworth, to Miss Cecil Elizabeth Wellesley, youngest
daughter of the Hon. 4nd Rev. Gerald Valerian Wellesley,
D.D., rector of Bishop-Weartnouth.

THE CROPS.—Never was there a better prospect of crops
than there is this season. During some days past there has
been a considerable quantity of rain, which was very much
wanted, after the long drought. The effect is seen in the
refreshed and forward state of the oats, potatoes, &c. Fiom
every part of the country there is the same favourable ac-
count. There will not be such a scarcity of fuel telt between
this and next spring as there has been during some years
past, advantage having been taken of the late fine weather
to cut large quantities of turf.—Mayo Constitutional. .-

THE EXCHEQUER BILL FRAUDS.—The commissioners
appointed, pursuant to an act of parliament, to enquire into
the Exchequer bill frauds, are daily, though not rapidly,
proceeding with the important task assigned to them. There
have been already under examination Lord Monteagle, the
Secretary of the Bank of England, and two members of the
of repudiated

_...-..xchange. The " innocent holders
Exchequer bills are well satisfied with the commissioners,
all being practical men of business. The result of the in-
quiry will prove, we will venture to affirm, the correctness
of our original statement, made soon after the frauds of E.
B. Smith were discovered, that the great majority of the
claimants for relief at the bands of the House of Commons
for amounts of forged bills they hold, are really " innocent
holders," and that the submittal of their books to prove the
bone fides of their transactions will be most readily ac-
quiesced in.—Observer.

Many have an intellect only for learning, and none for the
common affairs of life. How many animals walk badly, but
climb admirably.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind ; discretion the key
to it ; and it illustrates all other learning, as the lapidary doth
unpolished diamonds.

A WITNESS TO CHARACTER.—At the late Gloucester
assizes a letter, of which the following is a copy verbatim et
literatim, was handed to the judge :—" My Lard—This poar
boy ass whorct for Mee for sumb time past & Hee lam!:
never newn for The least Disonesty & for others farmers in
the parish wheare lice have ever add the Carractor for
honesty Came of honesty parents But poar I Remain yours
most amble and obediant Servant."
The Court Gazette has the following anecdote of the Rev.
F. Close :—" Mr. Close, of Cheltenham, at a recent mission-
ary meeting in Dublin, gave an anecdote of 'himself, which
conveys a very solemn hint to extemporaneous preachers.
' When,' said he, I was a young man, and on one occasion
had preached before a member of parliament, the only re-
mark he made was, What a fatal facility of Composition that
young man possesses !' This compelled me to think, and to
add to fluency matter, "
by laborious study and preparation,
and to steep the work in prayer.

COLD WATER.—In the midst of society, says poor old
Cobhett, where wine and spirits are considered as of little
more value than water, I have lived two years without either ;
and with no other drink than water, except when I have
found it convenient to obtain milk ; not an hour's illness, not
a headache for an hour, not the smallest ailment, not a rest-
less night, not a drowsy morning, have I known during these
two famous years of my life. The sun never rises before me,
I have always to wait for him to come and give me light to
write by, while my mind is in full vigour, and while nothing
has come to cloud its clearness.

MATRIMONV.—Some men think themselves very clever in
tantalising their wives—some, unpossessed of feelings them-
selves, may not understand how a vile word or stupid act can
vex a keener soul ; but it is meet they know and remember
this, there is no greater crime than to take a woman from her
father's hearth, where she stood in blooming independence,
to load her with the cares of a family, and then to trample on
her hopes by proving that he is no better than those for whom
she never cared or sighed—that he is no worthier than those
who were forgotten in her dreams, and passsed unheeded as
she clung with fondness to his arm. Children of disappoint-
ment, why do women consider their lovers the choicest
among the sons of men ?.

CLARET ABSOLVED.—Lord Brasfield being one day at an
entertainment given by Lord Douglas to a few of his neigh-
bours in the old Castle of Douglas, port was the only descrip-
tion of wine after dinner. The Lord Justice-Clerk (Brax-
field) with his usual frankness, demanded of his host if " there
was nae claret in the castle ?" " I believe there is," said
Lord Douglas, "hut my butler tells me it is not good." " Let
us pree 't," said l3raxtield, in his favourite dialect. A bottle
of the claret having been instantly produced and circulated,
all present were unanimous in pronouncing it excellent. "
propose," said the facetious old judge, addressing himself to
Dr. M'Cubbin, theparish priest, who was present, " as a
fania clamosa has zone forth againt this wine, that you absolve
it." " I know," replied the doctor, at once perceiving the
allusion to church-court phraseology, " that you are a very
good judge in civil and criminal law, but I see you do not
understand the laws of the church. We never absolve till
after three several appearances ?"—Biographical Sketches
to " Kay's Portraits."

A FRACAS, BUT NO FIGHTING.—A rather singular cor-
respondence has recently taken place between a Captain de
Trafford and a Mr. J. Deacon, by which it appears that the
former was very intimate with the father of Mr. Deacon, at
Densworth, where he was treated most hospitably ; that he
gained the affections of Miss Fanny Deacon, their sister,
and a marriage was agreed upon, he having represented
himself as being possessed of £6OO a-year, without con-
trol, and the heir of au entailed property of £5,000 a-year.
Capt. de Trafford. in November, went to Trafford, and there
received his father's injunctions not to marry Miss Deacon (it
is presumed the objections to the match were from religious
scruples, the Traffords being a Catholic family 0 yet he re-
turned to his regiment at Chichester, and continued his atten-
tions to the lady, though he knew he was forbid to marry her;
and it was not till the 16th of February that he wrote to the
Rev. J. W. Deacon, stating his inability to marry his daughter,
as his father theatened to make a beggar of him if he did.
It appears that on the 10th February Mr. James Deacon.
jun., wrote a severe letter to Captain de Trafford, accusing him
of his ungentlemanly, cruel, and inhospitable conduct, and
concluded by promising him a horsewipping. This letter was
kept three days, and then returned unanswered. From the ab-
sence of Captain de Trafford the matter rested till the 3d of the
present month (May), when Mr. J. Deacon sent a copy of
this returned letter to the Major of Captain de Trafford's
regiment, and the consequence, doubtless, was, that he
was told by his brother officers that the mattter could
not rest there ; hence the fracas of Tuesday, which Mr.
James Denton thus relates :—" I certainly did not feel
myself called upon to give him the satisfaction of a gen-
tleman, having treated me as a blackguard by publicly horse-
whipping him. I hope when my letter to Captain de Traf-
ford has been carefully read, it will show that he is the man
who ought to take the name of ' coward' for wantonly trifling
with the feelings of a woman, and that he received a pro-
per chastisement from a brother. After reading Captain de
Trafford's letter, it will be seen he challenged me to meet
him between the New Church and the Barracks. I met
him with two other officers, both of his own regiment. I
asked him if he did not consider his conduct to my sister
to be that of a blackguard? He said, no! I asked him
if he recollected the promise he had made to me the
night before he left Densworth? He said. no ! upon
which, on my preparing to horsewhip hima,n he e
saidim mheediilaotielelyci
pulled from his pocket a short stick and struck me over the
head twice. I broke his stick, and then gave him his well-
merited thrashing, and which his letter provoked maebltloat lco'nkld.
flict. Mr. Campbell then stepped forward,
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hint
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had met
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actedtisfac t:ioa
guard, and I treated him as such. In the course I have
taken I have acted under the advieecoafppataesrisnwoeni. who know the
as Captain de
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Captain
has excited in, this
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fo
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neighbourhood a feeling of the most. unmitigated disgnsfoind
have b such as no that it is universally considered to have been
t I epmoaLoßr moarn of honour woulden.--
1
CHURCHWARDENS ToeenDifsuPilotysaof.o'r Tor
question is sometimes asukred,
GOODS OF THE CHURCH.--A
by churchwardens, as to their power of disposing of church
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churchwardensyne dw . Thre7rpapow,ers in this
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for the benefit of the parish and not to the prejudice of i'.:
they cannot dispose of any of the church goods without
not
aefireneadc,oarpncdraarree
bdoedsvcr,i,badd
consent of the parish and the license of the ordinary;
_ht.7rt
without the consent of the parish, beanie they '
arecause
goods—and not without the license of the ordinary,
they appertain to holy things, of which be bath the care and
ordering ; and therefore if the churchwardens woulde sell an
ld cOmmunion
old bell towards other repairs, or put ff_
h tbey cannot do it
church, although to the use of the paris the license of the
plate to buy new, or dispose of any otker°of the goods of the
without the consent of the parish andsal of any of the said
disposal
is void in law; for the
ordinary as aforesaid—and the
goods without the consent of the pa,r,
and
in
nhetheir
name
ebring threarstlo
- f them, and the church-
parishioners are the proper non .
in this case, the parishion-
.viiehre,their custody for the use of
wardens are only entrusted we
the said parishioners.
action. for such goods thus dis-
posedof—either against of ; for,
for any
although the goods
belong yet not
belong to the the corporation in whom they are vested
churchwardens, ,
8 r ,e) tnereiore, when there is cause
must wait till they have
churchwardens for disapvoe
for their use; an • not°l.fe r them ,
such action, y . new churh-
tt, who have a right rs to an account g
their predecessors
.. before the ord.
to call
mence a snit against them 'nary—
and also to commence
the trust invested
for any such waste
wardens,
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in the ch h
done the parish cont aforesaid, or for any.
other darnage
the churchwardens
other
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Again,
Rut, ifthere
hindrance urc which may be an
no power to
de-
faceshoolodrhotoandyemthoilnisghpuatnyutphing in the
church.
hindrance in the due performin
or be inconvenient to the parish'
g o and of the divine offices,
them, the license of the o • loners in their attending upon
ordinary they can be legally removed • ary must be first had bet Ore
obtained for their . but that authority having been
fully justified in removal,. the churchwardens would then be
putting it i
intent of the church binto execution; for the original
nothing is to be eing
the
worship of Almighty God,
struct it ; and, of what permitted there which shall in any way ob.
sole judge,—Rev . at is or is not so, the ordinary is the
T. Mackretlee Churchwardwn's Manual.

HER MAJESTY'S FANCY BALL COSTUME.

(Front the Observer)

The near approach of this royal entertainment has added,
es was to be anticipated, no little to the previous anxiety of
the haul ton with regard to the character and magnificence of
the dresses to be worn by all those who have been honoured
by the sovereign's command to personate particular indi-
viduals of days long since passed.
Through a peculiar source we have been enabled to make
various additions to the accounts which, during yesterday,
were placed before the public. The late hour, however, at
which our information was completed, will prevent our enter-
ing so much into detail as a longer preparation would have
put us in a position to have done. It is known that the cha-
racter selected by her Majesty is that of Queen Phillippa, a
choice which would alone secure a surpassing interest and
magnificence.
DRESS or THE QUEEN.—Her Majesty will wear a robe of
magnificent gold and silver brocade, over which, from the
shoulders, will hang a splendid mantle of the same material
as that of which Prince Albert's robe (more minutely de-
scribed below) is to be composed. Her Majesty's display of
jewels will be of immense value. From the upper part of
the robe we hear that her Majesty will have suspended a de-
scription of pendant stomacher of the intrinsic worth of
£60,000.
DRESS OF PRINCE ALBERT.—We are enabled, from a
personal inspection, to give the following description of the
dress which will be worn by his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert as Edward the Third. His Royal Highness's cloak will
be composed of the richest scarlet velvet, which (as well :as
every other external part of the attire of his Royal Highness
and of her Majesty) has been expressly manufactured in
Spitalfields, lined throughout with ermine of the first qua-
lity. Round the entire extremity runs a splendid gold lace,
three inches in width, bearing upon it a raised pattern of oak
leaves and acorns. This lace is edged top and bottom with
two rows of pearls of an unusual size, amounting in number
to no less than 1,200. The cloak is cut so as to fix itself in
such a manner as to hang pendant fully from each shoulder
without any fastening. His Royal Highness, however, will
connect the too sides of the cloak across the breast with a
band compose,, of, and most gorgeously studded with,
diamonds, emeralds, rubies, topazes, and almost every other
description of precious stones. Underneath this cloak his
Royal Highness will wear a full robe, reaching from the
throat to the feet, constructed of a material which in its ma-
nufacture has cost fifteen guineas per yard. It is a brocade,
of which the component parts arc gold, and blue satin and
silk. The splendour of the effect of this robe will be greatly
enhanced from the circumstance, that from the knee down-
wards it will be slashed with royal blue velvet, the slashing
being fully studded, like the connecting band of the cloak,
with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, &c. The collar of this

robe will be arranged with respect to the brilliancy of its
jewels, so as to match the band of the cloak.
It would be difficult to conceive the splendour of the ap-
pearance that this dress will present to the beholder.
His Royal Highness has tried the cloak on, and has been
graciously pleased to express his approbation at the complete
realisation of his Royal Highness's wishes with regard to the
peculiarity of its shape and the excellence of its fit, by
Messrs. Jackson and Roth, his Royal Highness's tailors.
We are also enabled to state that Messrs. Jackson and
Roth have received orders for the dresses of the Earl of Pem-
broke, the Hon. Colonel Dawson, Darner, the Hon. W.
Cowper, Captain Seymour, and Captain Duncombe, besides
those for various other noblemen and gentlemen.
The Earl of Pembroke, who will personate the Count
D'Angouleme, afterwards Francis the First, it is said will
wear a brilliant in his cap of the costly -value of £lO,OOO.
The Duchess of Sutherland is expected to display jewels to
the enormous worth of £lOO,OOO.
The beautiful costume the age selected has afforded her
majesty, our description has rendered familiar to our readers.
That of Edward the Third admits of a display those not fa-
miliar with the chronicles of the time would scarcely attri-
bute to that stern and warlike sovereign. His royal high-
ness's costume will possess the due historical splendour.
Near her majesty, the fearless heroine of Neville's Cross and
the merciful intercessor of the siege of Calais, will be grouped
some of the loveliest dames of the English court, habitually
in attendance on Queen Victoria. Need we say how exqui-
sitely attractive will appear the lovely Lady Jocelyn and the
fair Mrs. Anson, with the whole bevy of ladies of the bed-
chamber, bearing the picturesque dress of the age—in he-
raldic surcoats quartered with lions and the fleure de lia.
There will be living pictures of the great men of the age,
such as the Earls of Warwick, Salisbury and Suffolk ; Lords
Chandos and Audley ; Sir Walter Manny and the Captal de
Bach, &c., besides the high officers of the royal household of
the great Edward's period.
The cortege of Anne of Brittany is daily increasing in at-
tendant dignity. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duchess
of Saxe Weimar, who have just arrived in England, will join
this brilliant group, dressed in the costume of noble ladies of
the court of Louis XII. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager
and the Duchess of Kent have already chosen the costumes
of their illustrious relatives. It is to the Duke of Beaufort,
as Louis Douze, that devolves the honour of chaperoning her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge as Anne de Bre-
tagne, whilst Lord Cardigan, as Chevalier Bayard, will follow
in the train of the resuscitated Queen. The Princess Augusta,
as Claude de France, confers on the Earl of Pembroke—who
enacts the part of the Count d'Angouleme, afterwards Francis
the First—the honour of her hand, to lead off the quadrille
de la belle France. Lady Augusta Somerset will be Anne de
Bourbon. Mdlle. D'Este will bear the costume of the royal
and beautiful poetess, " La Marguerite des Princesses tresil-
lustre, Reine de Navarre." Another noble lady proposes to
wear the costume of Marguerite d'Autriche. In the Spanish
quadrille the Earl of Chesterfield, as King Philip the Second,
will lead off with the Duchess of Beaufort. In the quadrille
of the Crusaders, the Marchioness of Londonderry's eldest
daughter will enact the Queen Berengaria; her fair sister will
be Rowena. The Greek quadrille has unfortunately disap-
peared for the moment from the programme, owing to the
decease of that deeply lamented officer Lord Henry Russell.
Another new quadrille is forming of noble ladies of the age of
Louis XIV. _ _ .

The costume de earactere of the Cavaliers in this quadrille
is not less becoming and brilliant than that of the ladies.
The quadrille a la Louis XIV, which will probably have
for its dignified and tasteful leader the ambassadress of
France, has the advantage of finding in the pictorial art
abundant models for a guide. Fortunately for the costume
of some members of her Majesty's group, the pencil and the
imaginative inspiration of Mr. Hayter have effected a work
of necromancy. M. Planche's antiquarian and theatrical
lore has likewise been moat effective for the band of her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. More than
twenty of the moat noble and distinguished mummers are
indebted to those spirited designs which Count D'Orsay
imagines and traces with the rap►dity of magic, and whose
execution afterwards proves faultless when submitted to his

critical bon gout.
In the characteristic quadrille of cosaques of the Baroness
Brunow, many noble aspirants and aspirantes have sought
admission. Besides the handsome Baroness, the Count de
Kaudriaffsky and M. de Berg, Lord Cantalupe, Lord Cran-
-lev, Ladies Mildred Cecil and Mary Taylor, the Hon. Miss
Cavendish, and other noble and fair personages, are engaged.
The performances at the rehearsal of the Mazurka de riquerer
by our compatriots: is already pronounced sans peur et sans
reproche.
A still more unique travestissement than any of the above
was thought of, and was near coming to pass. We allude to
the representation so much talked of—of Earth, Air, Day,
and Night. One noble marchioness was to appear as the
Earth,

" Dight with flowers
That voluntary grew, and sent forth odours sweet."
Another noble marchioness, with taille elancee visage vapo-
reux, and blonde flowing curls, indicated that her part was
to flutter forth as the ambient air ; while two other noble
ladies were to appear, the one with the youth and brilliancy
of day, the other a placid brunette, with large beaming eyes,
in the dark robe of night, studded with jewelled stars.
For years there has not been a season of so much festivity,
and so many amusements of every description, as at this
moment; but all thoughts are absorbed in breathless ex-
pectation of her Majesty's masque.

The party that are to come under the class of "La Quadrille
de France " are the following :

LA. QUADRILLE DE FRANCE.
Louis XII. Duke of Beaufort
Anne de Bretagne H .R.H . the Duchess of Cambridge
Comte d'Angouleme Lord Pembroke
Princess Claude H.R.H. Princess Augusta
Gaston de Foix H.R.H. Prince George
Duchesse de Ferrare Lady Ailesbury
Jean d' Albert de Navarre Lord Granby
Germance de Foix Lady Clanricarde
Bayard Lord Cardigan
Jeanne de Conflans Lady Exeter
Le Connetable de Bourbon Lord Hillsborough
Duchess de Bourbon Lady A. Somerset
Louis de la Tremouille Lord Craven
Charlotte de la Tremouille Lady Wilton
Comte de Chateaubriand
Anne de Villeroi
Chevalier d'Aligre Count Esterhazy
Clemence d'Armagnac Mrs. Stanley
Guy de la Motte
Claire d'Aubigne .......
Comte de Montpensier
Blanche de St. Paul Miss Forester
Comte de Dunois
Clemence Jeanne Lady Hillsborough
Robert Stuart d'Aubigne
Louie de Renoux
Marechal de Chabaunes
Madame de Lapalisse
Charles d'Amboise
M. de Chateaubriand

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CAlan"'"..
the winter was agreeably surprised by the mildness of
but it appears
at Cahoot, after all I had been told of its severity ;
temperate. The
that this year the weather had been unusually
The people have no knowledge of lighting their
apartments,
was not except
by means of oil-paper or cloth ; and it
quicksilver to 1::
rgureat surprise that they saw me cause the
their bazaar, and bbed off mirrors, which we purchased in
though this Al-
glass,t‘he glass fitted in window-frames.
cost little morel been brought all the way from Moscow,
The comfort whieit,' in half-a-rupee for a large-sized pane.
khans to imitate my thus cheaply obtained led some of the
26th of February, thPe :11 for keeping out the cold. By the
somed ; on the Ilth of 1),1/°,,w, or" bedee mishk," had blos-
the " sosuu," a kind of smrocill, the first flower of spring, or
appearance ; and,Aprill,the sweet-smelling iris, made its
cotsshowed their blossotn. It
snowed on the 27th of March , and tradition states that
Ghuzni was destroyed by „,:,
as to prevent not
the vernal equinox. The cold was not days and a half after
so intense, even in
from riding ont, my
the depth of winter, so
ne
differs very yPerr°yv
horse being ice-shod ; but experiencer
ge proved
etaot
ityn
ien,
that the severity of the winter inCabobcEdaisaffir
different parts. During winter the
but in the country the people literally dos are well filled ;
sit outside their forts wrapped up in sheepskins, nothing. The
If there
and basking
in the sun, which is always warm and agreeable.
were any manufactures in the country, the people
employ themselves
well and usefully during the se might
d
but, at present, their days are unprofitably passed • season;
in relating
stories and adventures. From so much idleness, one is dis-
posed to infer favourably of the natural resources of the
country, and of the mildness of its government. I remem-
ber to have met with the remark in a late number of the
Westminster Review, " that a ciestic nation can
me t only bhie
„hut,
great during a career of victory. ; however ts
may be as an abstract principle,
in Affghanistan at least we
see that a cessation from conquest has not been followed by
ruin ; and if that greatness has left this people, they still
retain a large share of comfort and enjoyment, although the
splendour of their monarchy be no more. The Affghan in-
vasions of India were not made by open warfare ; they
were as the prowling of wild beasts after their prey, d and,
like them, the invaders were contented secretly, an by
surprise, to obtain their spoil, and drag it back into
their dens. Happily neither the ,
kffglian, nor his
neighbour the T ' artar, any longer dares to ravage the
land. British supremacy now hems them within their
own limits ; and the vastwhichwe have esta-
blished power
brings these nations instead
as suitors for our alliance,
of invaders of our.
and in a degree territory. It will nom el a restless people,
their own thas already done so, to fall back upon
ment of many resources, and must, in time, lead to the develop-
long lain negl elements of power and happiness which have
, ected in their
of an Affghan is pro fine country. The impatience
proverbial. He has a homely expression,
Not to use the wager is, to seek to cut his m
e of the knife," (shurt i harun,) that
is at varience with el9n before he buys it ; but his con-
ducthowever, been made in so his proverb. Greater reforms have,
society
than that of weaning an Affghau
from his evil habits; time
them familiar to him, and circumstances have rendered
efface them.—Bird. ' and
Barnes's
and circumstances may also i
Cabool.

ANOTHER CONSPIRACY TO MURDER
LOUIS PHILLIPPE.

Another conspiracy to assassinate the King of the French
has happily been detected, and several persons, chiefly
ouvriErs, have been arrested, among whom is the notorious
Considere, twice before implicated in similar plots, but
acquitted. A quantity of petards, arms, and ammunition,
found in their possession, has been seized. The following
letter contains the fullest particulars relative to this atrocious
conspiracy :

" PARIS, May 7.—A rumour prevailed yesterday that a I
conspiracy to murder the King had been discovered, to
which, however, little credence was attached, the more es-
pecially from the silence observed by the government journals
last nigbt, and the absence of all allusion whatever to it by
any of the journals of this morning. I find, however, upon
inquiry, that the fact is but too true, that a discovery has
been made by the police, which leaves no doubt of the ex-
istence of a plot not only to murder the King, but to in-
volve in the same fate as many members of the Royal Fa-
mily as should be with his Majesty at the chosen moment for
putting the atrocious plan of the conspirators into execution.
It appears that during the surnuicr months the King is in
the habit of driving out from Neuilly, in a large open
caleche, accompanied by the Queen and other members of
the Royal Family. Upon such occasions the carriage is un-
attended by a military escort, and the horses are driven at a
merely ordinary pace. These circumstances seem to have
suggested the idea of an infernal machine, and one has been
invented of a simple character, being in form an ordinary
sized ball, calculated to burst upon falling, and to shatter
everything near it with irresistible force. The principal ma-
terial is said to be a fulminating powder of a very powerful
character. The instruments for working, the materials, and
some balls, were found upon the premises adjacent to Con-
sidere's wine-shop in Rue Montmartre. This Considere has
been twice tried for complicity in plots to murder the King,
and each time acquitted. He was one of those tried
in connection with Quenisset. Considere has been ar-
rested, with seven others. This conspiracy will lead, in all
probability, to more stringent laws. The police authorities
complain that they have no preventive power—they say that,
no matter how strong the moral certainty may be on their
minds that marked and suspected persons are planning wicked-
ness, yet that they cannot interfere; and then when the plot
comes to light, people ask what were the police about? Of
what use are they ? And what has been done with the secret
service money voted for preventive objects ? Upon the other
hand, the abuses to which so dangerous a privilege might
give rise cannot be lost sight of. Up to Thursday night the
police remained in ignorance of what was hatching.
" On Sunday evening last the king sat at an open window
looking upon the garden of the Tuileries during a whole
hour, while a musical band was performing below in honour
of his fete day. The garden was densely crowded, and it
was observed that the greeting of the multitude was of an
unusually cordial character. The public mind has latterly,
thanks to a wise and moderate government, been so calmed
and regulated, that a return to loyal feelings appears to have
taken place, and the discovery just made will excite horror
and disgust universally.
"The chartist petition, which excited some curiosity, no
longer attracts attention. The dangers just discovered at
home from regicide ruffians have destroyed all interest,
if any existed, in the proceedings of the malignant and cow-
ardly demagogues of the other side of the water."