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The members of the Fox Club intend to give thei_
banquet on the 2nd of June, at the Clarendon Hotel. Th
Honourable Mrs. Charles Fox, relict of the celebrated states
man, whom she survived thirty-six years, though at a very
advanced age, is still living in the enjoyment of good health,
at her villa at Chertsev.

By the death of the Rev. R. Barneby, the valuable living
of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, has become vacant; it is in the
gift of the principal and tellows of Brasenose College, Ox-
ford, and worth £l,OOO per annum.

COCKNEYISM.—A servant in Georgia being asked from
what part of England he came, replied, " Why, sir, I was
born in Covent-garden, but I have always lived in the Hay-

ors to several of the workhouses in Ireland
have entered a protest against the poor-law commissioners
for not settling their accounts, though reduced to the lowest
scale by the commissioners architect.

The ce

The number of associations established in Great Britain at
present for the circulation of the Scriptures is 2228 ; in Ire-
land, 550; Continental Europe, 1500; Asia, 83 ; Africa, 16;
America, 2800 ; Australia, 15 ; and the West Indies, 226,—
sixty-nine of the last being conducted by free negroes.
ELYSIAN Sour.—The French have a soup which they
call " Potage a la Camerani," of which it is said, " A single
spoonful will lap the palate in Elysium ; and while one drop
remains on the tongue, each other sense is eclipsed by the
voluptuous thrilling of the lingual nerves."

PULLING DOWN THE BRITISH MUSEUM I—This is lite-
rally the fact, the original edifice is now in the hands of the
" housebreakers," or, as they are sometimes denominated in
the modern nomenclature of the march of intellect, the " ma-
terialists ' • " for it certain that about one-fourth of this an-
cient seat or palace of the Dukes of Montague was actually
knocked down (by the hammer) on Saturday last for the mo-
derate sum of about £l2OO, andlthe remaining three por-
tions will fall under the same instrument, in succession, but
not immediately. •

ACCIDENT ON THE NORTHERN AND 'EASTERN RAIL-
WAY.—ShortIy after two o'clock on the morning of Tuesday,
an accident occurred on the line of the above railway, near
Bishop Stortford, which, no doubt, will be attended with
fatal consequences. About two o'clock a man named John
Kemp, 26 years of age, was driving a cart along the line,
laden with bricks, on the top of which he was seated. He
was suddenly jerked off on to the line, and his right leg fall-
ing between one of the rails and the cart.wheel, it was lite-
rally crushed to pieces. He was taken up insensible, and
placed in a truck and brought to the terminus at Shoreditch,
and from thence conveyed to the London Hospital, where
amputation of the limb was performed by Mr. Andrews, the
surgeon : the poor fellow, however, is past all hope of reco
very.

A correspondent of the Staudard says " It has been erro-
neously stated in a provincial paper, not very favourably dis-
posed to the Oxford University, that the Theological Statute
recently passed in Convocation recognies Dr. Pusey as a
Theological Professor and; as such, :assigns him a place at
the Theological Board. This is so far from being the case,
that the new statute distinctly recognises him as a professor
of the Hebrew language ; ;and an application made on his
part to be designated a Professor of Exegetical Theology was
promptly and peremptorily rejected by the framers of the
statute." •

A BAD HUSBAND BETTER THAN NONE.—A married
woman was telling a staid lady, somewhat on the wrong side
of fifty, of some domestic troubles, which she in a great part
attributed to the irregularities of her husband. Well,"
said the old maid, "you have brought these troubles on
yourself. I told you not to marry him. I was sure he would
not make a good husband." "He is not a good one, to be
sure, madam," replied the woman, " but he is a power
better than none."

OASTLER ON THE AFFGHAN WAR.—I must confess
that the more I think about the Affghan war the more I am
convinced that the people of England have been deceived
into it. Every art was resorted to to prevent the people from
knowing that the resources of the state were devoted to but-
chering those whom the people of England had no wish to
injure, and who were anxious to be friends with us. The
necessity of the war was never discussed in parliament—par-
liament was never invited to sanction it. There were none
of those formalities gone through by which the nation might
know that it was at war. Both the Duke of Wellington and
Sir Robert Peel disapproved of, but still they are resolved to
4." w'r "" +l'o ""nrae nre fn he taxed for the ex-

prosecute, Inc war, i 3.1
penses I Thus do we, if we refuse further explanation, ex-
hibit ourselves to the world in the character of wholesale wil-
ful murderers, waging a war of aggression, without even the
semblance of provocation.—Fleet Papers, No. 22.

THE LATE AUta/MNT VN an nnanu,.lie ItAlLvv-Ay.
—The sad and solemn ceremony of the interment of the
remains of the twenty-five victims of the terrible event at
Meudon, which had not been removed from the cemetery of
Mont Parnasse, wasperformed on Tuesday, at eight in the
morning, by the cure of St. Sulpice and his clergy. After
the service, which made a deep impression on all present,
the bodies, which had been placed in separate coffins, were
deposited in one grave. M. Boulay de la Menrthe, a friend
of the family of the young Bouchard, one of the victims,
who had gained several prizes in the course of his studies,
delivered an oration on his untimely fate, and containing pas-
sages applicable to the whole of the sufferers, which produced
a painful effect upon all the auditors. The grief of the father
of this young man, who was present, became alarmingly in-
tense. The sister of another youth, who was unquestionably
lost in the same catastrophe, but whose remains could not
be positively identified, added to the distressing scene by her
lamentations, which she could not refrain. The cure of St.
Sulpice also pronounced a short discourse.
TROTTING MATcfr.—On Tuesday afternoon a trotting
match in harness, for £5O a-side, between Mr. Graves's
Lady Dart and Mr. Lipscombe,s chesnut mare, came off on
the London Road, between Harlington Corner and Long
Ford. The start was from the 13th to the 15th mile-stone.
Mr. Bragg, of Slough was appointed umpire. At starting
the chesnut took the lead, but was soon headed by Lady
Dart, who gradually gained ground, and came in about
fifty yards a-head. The distance (two miles) was perfor-
med in six minutes and a half. The horses were driven
by their owners: Lady Dart broke three times, and was
ordered to pull up by the umpire, but was given in her
favour by the referee. Betting at starting was 5 to 2on
Lady Dart.

DINNER TO THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE.—On Fri-
day afternoon last, the members and friends of the United
East Lothian Agricultural Society entertained• the most
noble the Marquis of Tweeddale, President of the Society,
at dinner in the Assembly Rooms, Haddington, on occasion
of his lordship's appointment to the civil and military go-
vernment of the presidency of Madras. Upwards of 150
gentlemen were present, and the large hall of the Assembly
Rooms was filled in every part. Lord Elcho was in the
chair, supported right and left by the Marquis of Tweeddale,
the Hon. Captain Keith, of Monkrigg, Sir Charles D. Fer-
guson, Sir Charles Gordon, Secretary to the Highland
Society, Mr. Wauchope, of Edmonston, Mr. Trotter, of
Mortonhall, Captain Hey, of Belton, Mr. Milne, younger,
of Milne Garden, Mr. Caddell, of Tranent, Colonel Caddell,
H.E.LC.S., Mr. Aitchison, of Alderston, &c.—Edinbnrgh
Standard.

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THE QUEEN'S VIOLET PERFUME.—We have been much
gratified by the sight of an elegant and chaste bijou, which
has been presented to her Majesty, in the form of a beauti-
ful scent bottle and stand, containing a new violet per-
fume, extracted for the first time from the flower, by Mr.
Robert Best Ede, perfumer to her Majesty. From its
novelty, we are doubtful of doing justice to the delicacy
and beauty of this elegant design. The stand, which i 3
circular, and about thirty-six inches in circumference, is
richly carved and gilt in burnished and dead gold, with
plumes of the Prince of Wales, and between these are en-
twined the rosc, shamrock, and thistle. The upper part of
the stand is covered with white velvet, over which is laid a
rich court satin tablet, trimmed wuitnhisgootlldwbitUhilitOhne fringeof
tassels ; on the tablet are some appropriate lines on theg birthn
is placed on the tablet, is of the richest cut Bohemian
of the infant prince, printed in gold. The glass stand, which
surmounted
manu-
facture, and the colour strictly in
beautifully
violet. As the top is a collar of solid silver,
with six plumes of the Prince of Wales's feathers athde
chased. Within the collar is placed the bottle,
coloured glass as the stand, and appropriately of the same
emblem-
atically engraved, containing the deliciousmost and emblem-
ever inhaled. In fact, so decided was delicatethe
the violet, that we could readily ima • odour
imagine we were surrounded
by a bed of those innocent flowers —B . perfume woof
• rzghton Herald.
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" WHO IS THE MURDELLER ? "—This is the title of a
very curious paper ia Blacktcood's Ma azine, by a skiltful
and practised lawyer, and involves a stiganin problem in he
law of circumstantial evidence. A man was tried for mur-
der in York at the last spring assizes, and the cirmixastarg:
of the case are among the strangest we have ever read• back prisoner was the intimate of the deceased, and so far
of
1830, became possessed of a sum of money. On the prisoner,
soner) murder he was seen at Goldsborough
b"sete Prisoner,
soner) ; and on the evening of that day he,
and a man named Garbut, were observed deceased
by, on
the prisoner with a gun—and all going to sto:
b deceased was
a poaching errand. From that moment
d remark that there
never more seen or heard of. We should re tooth
was one peculiarity marked his fae.e,,U caught every one's
wwielktrtogether—
on the left side of his under jaw, ITalroee was immediately
eye on first seeing him. His disaimo
A The prisoner. A quantity
noticed, and suspicion fasten the,d report of a gun in the
sot where the three had
adistinctly sworn to. Several
ofbe blooden see
nwas a
laklisnog seen
together.e!o seto n '
wood on the same night
waisier to know what had become of
I'l.4s°w:a be told different stories—to
for Liverpool to go to America,
a, bcnehol otnahegle►
I.:, wo f a l a rg e sum
one, that he had se DI
ptheersaobnssenaptpmliaend,ttouthal.le.listir:
bte reallyhad some intention of going—to
man, were found in his posses-
whither, thatem
went to some distant place to see his friends ;
In short
another, be t was different. Various articles of cloth-
aeeoun
of money, wl •
which must have
ist
nio
ogen,
web. be attempted to conceal ; and he even
made a disP—Y into his
what proof was there that
suddenly come i
the murderer. lie he was sup-
posed to have been .
a.a
for
wartiotototohf
his
possession.
_.
was taken up and dis-
cbarg— d been murdered, or
Huntley had been
was at all dead ? Thus, the
first step in the prosecution til in J failed. Matters so remained for
eleven Years, until . June, 1841 a human
discovered about five miles from th
e spot where the three had
been seen last walking ; and on l
bone, a long projecting tooth on ooking at the skull and jaw-
jaw was discovered. This t the left side of the lower
trial, having been lost in th tooth was not forthcoming at the
again arrested ; and from e meantime. Goldsborough was
from a man named Grundy, some observations which dropped
after the fact. Ile turned&lndy, he was charged as an accessory
tion implicating
hanged himself in the
was all eke= t
king's evidence—signed a deposi-
prisoner, and in a few hours afterwards
prison. The evidence against the prisoner
a antlal, but very acquitted.
atrong. lie was

e instructions about fingering are clear and
judicious ; those about time and tone, skilful and striking.
To these essentials the first part of the work is principally
confined, and from it we take the following extract :
" Unless extraordinary talent be prematurely developed,
. .
years of age is sufficiently early for any child to be
:d with the elementary mysteries of music, though for
:tar prior to such commencement she should have her
s trained for half an hour daily in the exercises of five
compass, so that the position of the hand and an even
(the actual secret of all good playing) may be accu-
--, obtained, before the eye and the mind of the child be
made to wander over the region of lines and space. From
eight to ten a complete course should be pursued ; those of
Burrowes, Cramer, Kalkbrenner, and Moscheles, are alike
excellent, with the first volume of Hummel, and during this
interval an hour's daily practice will be required.
" At ten, she may enter regular studies, commencing with
those of Bertine, continuing through Cramer, Kalkbrenner,
Moscheles, and Hummel, which will be fouud replete with
melody, combined with every variety of classical and brilliant
style that the most ambitious amateur would strive to attain;
for be it understood, these hints are addressad to the amateur,
and not to the professional student. These studies, united
with well chosen pieces, will occupy the intervening years
from ten to sixteen, allowing always for the casual interrup-
tion of recreative summer months. To do justice alike to
teacher and pupil, two hours daily practice should be sedu-
lously adhered to, from the eleventh year up to the boundary
of discontinuing lessons ; less than that is insufficient—more
than that is time unjustly wrung from literary study."
The second part is devoted to an exhibition of the scale of
practice, the pieces, &c., for the youthful pianiste, from the
9th to the 16th year,—the course of instruction being marked
by progressive transition, and the daily exercise of which on
the plan laid down by Miss Geary cannot fail to make the
rfect, not merely in the initiatory but in the more
complicated and exquisite melodies. To this succeeds suit-
able hints for semi-adult beginners, " when having com-
menced the study too late, are anxious to acquire in the least
possible time a flexible, brilliant, and expressive finger."
This portion of the little volume exhibits the powers of the
author as a thorough musician and a practised pianiste in a
striking light. Upon the whole we have rarely seen a work
of greater practical ability, or one that handles the subject of
which it treats in a more able, effective, and popular man-

student pe

Remarks on a late Advertisement from Oxford. By an
Aged Layman. London : Hatchard and Son.
_ _ .

" The advertisement from Oxford" which has called forth
this judicious tract, is the announcement, by the advocates of
what in common parlance is called " Puseyism," of " The
Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology," the design of which,
the promoters state, is to inculcate " the doctrines and disci-
pline of the Anglican branch of the Catholic and Apostslic
Church. The " Aged Layman," in a very happy style,
clearly establishes that, whilst making this profession, " The
Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology" is not permitted to
include the works of Hooker, Usher, and others, whose
writings have been justly recognised as the ablest expositions
and defences of our church's doctrines, of her formularies
and discipline. This inconsistency in the Oxford tractarians
is, in our judgment, treated far too temperately by the " Aged
Layman." All his remarks, however, whilst inflexibly

maintaining sound principle, are expressed in a tone of mo-
deration which forcibly illustrates his singlemindedness and

purity of motive

MONS. LAFONTAINE IN DUBLIN

(From the .Dublin Evening Post.)

We have a high respect for the faculty, and the Dublin
doctors are, we imagine, quite as good as any other similar
class in any other city. But we would not give one jack-
straw for the opinion they profess upon the subject of what
is called—we suppose, for the want of a better term—animal
magnetism. Upon this subject there was never a more per-
fect union amongst them than since, in the seventeenth cen-
tury, they one and all decided against Harvey's theory of the
circulation of the blood. But, indeed, this has been their
" wont" at all times. Anything new or extraordinary—any-
thing which they could not at once assimilate to their doc-
trines, or explain by their theories—has been denounced as
heretical, damnable, and idolatrous. The only " novelty"—
if such it may now be called—that seems to have found some
favour with some of the faculty is that hight phrenology—
but, more properly, we think, the doctrine of skulls. Now,
not being learned persons, we suppose we never could make
ourselves up to the philosophy of bumps, though, we doubt
not, half the profession are fast and firm believers. But,
with regard to animal magnetism, they are all, with a very
few exceptions, stout and uncompromising sceptics—nay, not
sceptics merely, but denouncers. And there is not one of
them, from the unfledged apprentice just introduced into the
mysteries of the dissecting-room, to the knight or the baronet
that rolls in his chariot, who will not furnish you with rea-
sons and arguments, as long as to-day and to-morrow, on the

gross dclusruos of tu'esulerim. It is -considered not only un-
professional, but almost fatal to a man's prospects in his pro-
fession, to admit, for a moment, that he has the slightest
doubt as to the utter impossibility of what he sees before his
eyes._ Or, if you press a learned friend to explain the mode

by which the delusion is practised, he forthwith enters into
a learned disquisition upon the nervous system, upon hyste-
ria, catalepsy, and most of the ills which flesh is heir to—a
disquisition which will leave you, at the conclusion, as wise
as when he began. We have had the honour—we believe
that is the word—of conversing with some of the highest
men—or at least the most fashionable practitioners in Dublin '
—on the subject, after the publication of some extraordinary
experiments in London, and, really, all we heard on the
matter was some gibberish about hysteria and catalepsy.
We did not then, nor do we now, in the least, doubt the
correctness of the theory or the mode of treatment. There
is no person we would sooner call in, in cases of this kind,
than the Surgeon-General, for instance; but we must say
that his arguments made little impression upon us, as to the
facts of the London cases. Granted, and it must be con-
ceded, we imagine, that the patient is nervous, liable to hys-
teria, epileptic,—and that it is alone upon such patients the
magnetiser can produce an effect. Granting this, however,
we demanded not the apparent mode (that was obvious), but
the secret and subtile influence by which such effect is pro-
duced. To this we never received, even from the most emi-
nent men in Dulbn, a satisfactory or sufficient answer.
They, indeed, were never so bull-headed or silly as to deny
facts. When pressed upon these points, they gave evasive,
or, what they called in lieu of a better phrase, scientific an-
swers. But we did not look for science ; we think the phe-
nomena, as already developed, beyon& the reach of an induc-
tive process, which can be applied to its explication. All
that we required to know was this—Did you believe what
you saw, or did you not? If you did not believe it, will you
be good enough to point out the mode in which the delusion
was practised ? Will you tell us why you think it was a
• !lend if a cheat—why has it not been exposed long

ago
We must say that to these questions, put to some eminent
men in Dublin, we never received a satisfactory answer.
But we are answered loudly enough by the whole herd of the
secondaries, and of the third and the fourth in place. With
one accord they declare that it is all a d—d humbug—all
folly—all nonsense. And we dare say the majority of the
physiculi think it so ; but, as we have already said, we would
notd
not give a twopenny ticket for a whole theatre of such opi-
nions. In the first place it is fashionable—it is just a parcel
of the doctor's profession to deride pretensions of the kind.
There is no probability that any man who professes himself
a believer will make any progress in his calling. He is sure
to be designated as a dreamer and an enthusiast, and, as
your stupid fellows never dream, and scarcely can compre
bend what enthusiasm means, they join in full cry wi'"
bell-wethers

They raise a shout—they repeat a sarcasm—
they propagate a sneer—and a practitioner who may have the
honesty, the fatuity, or the folly, to avow his belief in Mes-
merism, as they call it, is at once run down, and soon hooted
from his pursuits. This has occurred more than once in
England—once in the case of a very eminent practitioner—
and to him the result has been so disastrous, that we may be
perfectly assured no man of consideration in his art will,
hereafter, venture even to argue on the question. It is much
easier to scoff.

given, very fairly, in the preceding lines, our im-
pressions before ever we saw an exhibition of Mesmerism.
In Paris, last autumn, we were told of some extraordinary
examples of the kind—but we missed, through accident, an
oPPortunity of being present—an same cident which we very
tqueh regretted. It was much the in London. We
riht, through an introduction to Dr.Elliotson, which we
received in France, have had an opportunity
ever, we were prevented availing ourselves by
that
of our stay. the first occasion
of
the which,
shortness h ow -
Tuesday evening last waspresenteditself We were present at M. Lafontaine'ssoiree,
as they call it in the newspapers. what we saw ;our conte • "'e shall
enoughshall suffici-
ently explicit in their description. In making this assertion,
we do
tinent not offer it as a corroboration—that would be, perhaps,
good faith, and trueerwe only repeat their statement is in perfectly

hay

we do no

EXA M PLE.—Sir Harry Featherstonhaugh has in.
creased the wages of hia Sussex labourers, and given
each a quantity of malt to brew their own beer—upon condi-
tion that they abstain from frequenting beer shops and pub-
lic houses.

FATAL AcclDENT.—Monday forenoon, a slater, who,
along with others was employed in " rough casting" the
walls of Eglinton:street Secession Church, lost his balance,
fell to the ground, and was killed on the spot. The unfortu-
nate individual was working at a height of only 12 feet from
the ground, but having fallen on his bead he instantly ex-
pired,Glagow Mail.

With regard to the young woman
completely out of the' --n4 wornasniir mesmerised trick as
this might be acting
very was put to sleep nit
that it might be think it was—but we 'faiNvVere
to whiclht
near her •
sidered by others. Butrtlieadnait be so con
ao'
:leY, surely was she was sub.
jected during her somnambrees'
lied\to her
We shall say nothing of the :tong ammonia not a trick.
nostrils, the lucifer matches,
believe all was fair ; but these, peke aenpunetauPrpe
phe-
nomena exhibited, might be ex plair.al'ecl' " well as otherV e do
phe-
the experi-
derstand—and no doctor has been able taut we cannot un-
derstand— ,0 tell
,conseious-
legs were put in a state of catalepsy, so that us—how her
. If there
held them in nearly a horizontal position during
an hour she
ment, and an hour after she had been restor4gt
ness. Was there, could there, be a trick her:
it t..
was, we should like Sir Philip Crampton to explain
or Professor Lloyd of the University, on any doctrine us
physics, which he knows so well, and explains so lucidly.ne o
With regard to the deaf and dumb boy, there was, beyond
a doubt, no trick at all. He is the child of a gentlemanond
known to most of the young people in Dublin, in respectable
life, Mr. Macmahon, the professor of dancing, in Stephen's_
green. The child was deaf and dumb from his
to hiinfanm wcy ;
hen he
was mesmerised—certain sounds were conveyed
111 a semi-sleep--he repeated them faintly and indistincLatly,
indeed, and he repeated them also when awakened. M. -
fontaine thinks he will effect a cure. Of this, we will say
ioetaliting ; but if he succeeds, be will have accomplished a
gir
achievement. We did not wait to witness the third
experiment
; but we understand it was completely successful.