The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-30 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

" You can't make a noise here," as the wooden pavement
said to the omnibus.—Punch.
A SAGACIOUS ANIMAL.—At the fair of Ballintubber, a
horse, on which a celebrated sporting character was mounted,
actually kicked two latitats out of a fellow's waistcoat pocket,
d;sabling his arm so as to prevent him effecting service upon
the owner; and in less than half an hour after prostrated two
p ocess-servers, who had civil bills to serve upon the same
gentleman. Roscommon Journal. (Let our American
friends match this, if they can !)
THE GOLD MINES OF RUSSlA.—Russia now yields four
times as much gold as all the rest of Europe ; and the
yearly produce of this metal (400 pood. or 16,000 pounds) is
s ifficient to load from 40 to 50 sledges. The silver needs
for its conveyance a caravan of from 120 to 150 sledges. The
platina requires but three or four, and the copper, which is
also conveyed chiefly by land, sets in motion 5,000 sledges.
By far the greater part of these metals come to the mint in
Petersburgh.—Kohl's Russia and the .Russians.

SIR WALTER SCOTT AND A SCOTCH BLACKSMITH.—It
happened, at a small country town, that Scott suddenly re-
quired medical advice for one of his servants, and, on inquir-
ing if there was any doctor at the place, he was told there
were two, one long-established and the other a new corner.
The latter gentleman, being luckily found at home, soon made
his appearance; a grave, sagacious-looking personage, attired
in black, with a shovel hat, in whom, to his utter astonish-
ment, Sir Walter recognised a Scotch blacksmith, who had
formerly practised, with tolerable success, as a veterinary
operator in the neighbourhood of Asbestiel. " How, in all
the world !" exclaimed he, " can it be possible that this is
John Lundie ? "In troth is't, your houour ; fust a' that's
of him." " Well, but let us hear ; you were a horse-doctor
before ; now, it seems, you are a man-doctor ; how do you
get on ?" " Ou, just extraordinar weel; for your honour
maun ken my practice is vera sure and orthodox. I depend
entirely upon twa simples." " And what may their names
e ? Perhaps it is a secret." " I'll tell your honour, in a
low tone, " my twa simples are just landamy and cutamy."
" Simples with a vengeance !" replied Scott. " But, John,
do you never happen to kill any of your patients ?" " Kill ?
On ay, may be sae ! Whiles they die, and whiles no; but
its the will of Providence. Ony how, your honour, it wad
be long before it makes up for Flodden !"—Reminiscences of
Sir Walter Scott.

HOW TO PROCURE SLEEP.—Rabelais tells a story of some
monks who, oppressed with waketulnesss, resolutely ad-
dressed themselves to prayer, and, before they had concluded
half a dozen ayes, or paternosters, we forget which, they all
fell asleep. Macnish repeated some lines of popery ; Sir
John Sinclair counted • and Franklin took his air-bath, that
is, walked about his chamber sans-culottes. All these re-
sources seem at times to have produced the desired effect,
but never to have been always successful. The following
plan has never failed, so far as we are aware, but in two in-
stances ; and they are remarkable cases, as both the parties
move in very different spheres of life, the, the one being an
ornament to the house of lords, the other a talented editor
of a morning journal. We then suppose all these attempts
have failed, and the patient. for he is, indeed, a " sufferer"
w:lo cannot sleep, still awake. Let him turn to his right
side, place his head comfortably on the pillow, so that it
exactly occupies the angle which a line drawn from the head
to the shoulder would form, and then, slightly closing his
laps, take rather a full inspiration, breathing as much as he
pos,iblv can through the nostrils. This, however, is not
absolutely necessary, as some persons breathe always through
their mouths during sleep, and rest as sound as those who
do not. Having taken a full inspiration, the lungs are then
to be left to their own action, that is, the respiration is neither
to be accelerated nor retarded. The attention must now be
fixed upon the action in which the patient is engaged. He
must depict himself that he sees the breath passing from his
nostrils in a continuous stream ; and the very instant that
he brings his mind to conceive this, apart from all other
ideas, consciousness and memory depart, imagination slum-
bers, fancy becomes dormant, thought subdued, the sentient
faculties lose their susceptibility, the vital or ganglionic sys-
tem assumes the sovereignty; and, as we before remarked,
he no longer wakes, but sleeps. The train of phenomena is
but the effort of a moment. The instant the mind is brought
to a contemplation of a single sensation, that instant the sen-
corium abdicates the throne, and the hypnotic faculty steeps
i: in oblivion.—Binn's Anatomy of Sleep.
WELLINGTON, BLUCHER, NAPOLEON, WATERLOO:
he 18th saw Blucher again in the saddle. at the head of
Bu ow's newly-arrived division, urging its onward course,
and his own, like Milton's griffin through the wilderness,
cheering the march-worn troops till the defile of St. Lam-
bert rang to his old war-cry and soubriquet " Forwards"—
remiuding them of the rain which had spoiled so much pow-
der at the Katzbach, and telling them of the promise of as-
sistance which he stood pledged to redeem to the English.
Nobly, indeed, was that promise redeemed, and the utter
ruin of the French army is to be ascribed to that assistance.
Ungrateful we should be not to acknowledge such service,
though we cannot subscribe to the theories, whether French
or Prussian, which gave it the full merit of saving from de-
struction an army which had, while as yet unsupported, re-
pulsed every attack, and annihilated the French cavalry.
We know that no thought of so disastrous a result crossed
the minds of those about the duke's person, and that officers
of his staff who left the field wounded towards the close of
the action did so with no other feeling of anxiety than for
the personal safety of him they left behind. His servants,
who, in the village of Waterloo, bad the opportunity of wit-
nessing the incidents of the rear of such a battle—which try
the nerves more than those of the fray itself—knew their
master well. The manoeuvres of the Kitchen were conducted
with as much precision as those of the Foot Guards of St.
James's. Reign what confusion there might in the avenue
of Soignies, there was none in the service of the duke's ta-
ble, and the honour of the vattel of his establishment was
preserved free from stain as his own. That he ever returned
to eat the dinner so prepared was certainly not due to any
avoidance of personal exposure on his own part. Of Bona-
parte's coiduct in that respect on this his last field-day we
have seen no account on which we could rely. We have no
doubt of his sang froid under fire; but whether Waterloo
witnessed its conspicuous display we are ignorant. On di-
vers celebrated occasions he is known to have abundantly
exposed himself ; but, in general, he would seem to have
been as-free as our own commander from the vulgar osten-
tation of courting danger, and in most of his greater battles
there was little call for it. We have beard that Bertrand,
at St. Helena, set much stole by an opera glass through
which Napoleon bad discovered th6English general at Wa-
terloo. We believe that neither the duke nor his staff suc-
ceeded at any moment of the action in identifying the person
or exact position of his great opponent, though few great
battles have brought rival leaders so near. That our chief
was everywhere except in the rear is well known ; and the
casualties among his own staff, of whom many were hit at
his side, bespeak the hot service he went through. Danger
pursued him to the last. After sixteen hours in the saddle,
he was alighting at his own quarters, when the spirited ani-
mal, long afterwards a pensioner in the paddocks of Strath-
fieldsaye, as if conscious of the termination of his labours,
jerked out his heels in a fashion which a slight change of
direction might have made fatal to his late rider. Such an
exploit would have rendered poor Copenhagen rather more
famous than the little gentleman in black velvet, so often
toasted in our Jacobite revels of the last century.—Quar-
terly Review.

THE SERVIAS REVOLUTION.—The recent Servian revo-
lution may render interesting, at the present time, the fol-
lowing " hurried glance at some of the great landmarks of
Servian history," as given in the Athenown of Saturday :
"The Servians have been known in Europe since the sixth
century, when they past from the north of the Carpathians to
the Danube, and formed various states, which now go by the
names of Servia, Bosnia, Herzegowina, Dalmatia, Crostia,
and Slavonia, under Princes who are called Shupans. In
course of time, the idiom and termination of the first
languages of these states underwent a change, but there is
still a perfect identity of words. The Servians assisted the
Greeks against the Avars and other Asiatic hordes, who
were making eruptions into the West of Europe. In the
rniddle of the twelfth century they increased in power ;
and at that time the royal race of the Nernanjas arose,
rd
sap to the end of the fourteenth century there were eight
Servian Kings and two Emperors. To this very day, the
peasantry of the vast woods of the interior of this beautiful
count"
i,:
eh in the umbrageous picturesque surpasses all
others
Europe, sing ' that old and antique song' which
records the valour'. of s
fill, who took from the de
tephe f
genneDr
autseh adne s
cseunrdn
aanmt
se do
fthe
oPnoswt
aenr :
tine all Macedonia,
except Thessalonica, all Thessaly,
Atolia, Epirus, and Albania Shade of Alexander! here
is a Scythian Roland for a Greek. Oliver. What a pitiful
figure our Milosehes, Milans, and Michaels cut beside Du-
chart, who styled himself Ding of Servia, Greece, Bulgaria.
and Albania! What a magnificent
boundary
ing for its northern
Danube, its western the
Adriatic, its eastern the Black Sea, and in the south ap-
proaching. the Mediterranean ! This extended, but ill-con-
solidated empire, was under the local
-- governments of
; but trosh, his son, who
woywodes, and preses, or princes;
ill able to contend
succeeded him at 18 years. o ape, was i
render t
with these men, who wished to -
a_ invited tothemselves indepen-
in keeping with
dent. This poor boy ahunting party, by a
monster of the name was
Wuhachiu, who,
his brains with
the spirit of the age, dashed out
a mace.
Last of all came Prince Lajarus (to whose mummy care-
fully preserved in one of the prettiest convents in the Fr .
visit). The 0 • used Osmanli eres-
Cara, we shall, by and by, pay a
Scythes,
who was now in the ascendant. The Christianised Se
who had come from the north of the Black Sea, must '
yield to the Mussulman Scythians who had come from the
17th June, 1389, the fate of
steppes of Turkistan. On the
the kingdom of Servia was sealed. They met on the field of
Possowo, the Campus Meruloram, or Field of Ants, as it is
called. Lajarus lost his life and kingdom ; the flower of the
feudal nobility fell; and that people never again became
a nation until the 19th century.
The Turks now got
hold of all Servia, Bosnia, and Herzegowina, and at that
time there were carried out of Servia Proper upwards of
200,000 slaves. We are now in the 19th century, and a
change has come over the scene. Servia is again an almost
independent prinCipality." Milosch (who spent his youth in
herding the tamed swine of Servia) was born in 1780. and at
length became virtually Prince of the Servian people, and
his dignity was afterwards confirmed by a finnan of the
Porte. Through the machinations' of Russia and Austria,
however, in 1837 and 1838, an, oligarchy took place of the
rule of Milosch. ,‘ In May, 1838, his faithful and younger
brother, Jowati, raised the peasantry of the interior, and
with some 1,500 men marched towards Belgrade to release
Milosch, where he was a sort of prisoner of state ; but the
senators skilfully detached the chiefs, no,fighting took place,
the troops were dispersed, Jowan was put iii prison, arid
Milosch, under the. drawn swords'and-cocked-pistols of Wa-
citz and his brother -Jefrem, signed his abdication, and' re-
tired to his extensive estates in Wallachia. His son Michael,
a mere boy, is now Prince ; but the countrYhas been ever
since his accession in a most unsettled state." The young
Prince has now fled to Semlin.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Several waterspouts were seen off the coast near Sunder-
land, last week.

The gross receipt of window-tax in 1833 was £1,125,387
lls. ; and of the inhabited-house tax, £1,175,093 14s. Bd.
There is no truth whatever in the report that Mrs. Butler
(formerly Fanny Kemble) intends to appear again on the
stage.

The racing prophets• Vales, Judea•, &c., were all at fault
on the St. Leger. Blue Bonnet, the winner, was never named
even as one of the horses likely to start.

A newspaper has just made its appearance in Egypt, the
first ever published in that country, it is entitled the Pharos
of Alexandria., and is printed in French.
A general strike for new prices has taken place among the
tin-plate workers of Staffordshire. A. similar strike exists
to a considerable extent in Birmingham.

Capt. Basil Hall was landed on Thursday,:irom the Havre
packet, in a most precarious state of health, on his way. to
London, having been seized with paralysis.
Three first-rate, three second-rate, and four third-rate
men-of-war are ordered to be brought forward at Sheerness,
ready for commissioning. India and China are reported as
being the destination of some of them.
A person who was lately shooting small birds in the vicinity
of West Harptree, feeling fatigued, sat down and fell asleep.
On waking, his gun had gone off, some rogue having pur-
loined it during his nap.
We have heard that our military force in Canada is to be
reduced immediately, and that, should the war in China con-
tinue, several regiments will proceed from America to the
East.—Naval and Military Gazette.
WRECK OF THE MOUNTAINEER.—Preparations for raising
the hull of the 11ountaineer steamer, wrecked on the Swillies
about two years ago, are nearly completed, with every pros-
pect of a successful issue.—Carnarvon Herald.
In addition to the monument to be erected in Rugby
Chapel to the late Dr. Arnold's memory, it is proposed to
establish an Arnold scholarship either at Rugby or Oxford,
to be enjoyed first by the doctor's sons, and afterwards
thrown open to general competition.
COST OF COLLECTING REVENUE.—Last year (1841) the
cost of collecting the customs was £1,226,548 ; the excise,
£988,136 ; the stamps, £162,413 ; the taxes, £195,421; the
post-office, £930,933; pension tax, £108; crown lands,
£39,076 ; total, £3,582,639.—" Finance Accounts."

The amount of duties received at Sunderland- on the ex-
portation of coals between the sth of July, 1841, and the
sth of September, 1841, did not amount to £l2O ; whilst,
under the new tariff, upwards of £2,000 has been received,
for the exportation of coals, in one month.
Several thousands of Israelites of Poland and Russia have,
says a letter from Berlin, in the German Journal of Frank-
fort, entered into an engagement to proceed, on the first fa-
vourable opportunity. to Jerusalem, there to await, in prayer
and fasting, the coming of the Messiah.
At the meeting of the Bank of England Proprietors, a Mr.
Thompson stated that a rumour had gone forth that the
Bank had lent £300,000 on mortgage to the Duke of Buck-
ingham, but the chairman of the company said that the
Bank had not advanced any money to the Duke of Bucking-
ham.
A RAILWAY MEASURED BY PENCE.—If the sum of
money expended in making the London and Birmingham
Railway was turned into pence, which measure 14 inches
wide, and placed in a line, one touching the other, the length
of that line would be 31,915 miles, or considerably more than
the circumference of the earth.

The Edinburgh Observer says—" No sooner did her Ma-
jesty reach Taymouth Castle than she wrote to her mother;
and by accident we saw the letter posted at Kenmore, ad-
dressed in the Queen's own beautiful handwriting, thus—
' Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Frogmore Lodge,
Middlesex. From the Queen.' "
A new law of clivorce has been announced in Prussia, which
will reduce the grounds on which separation can be sued for
to four. These are, adultery, drunkenness, abandonment,
and unchristian conduct. The last point includes, among
other signs and tokens, that of abstaining from the com-
munion-table.

DISFRANCHISEMENT OF " Boz."—At the court for the
revision of the list of voters for the borough of Mary-le-bone,
on Thursday, an objection was made to Mr. Chas. Dickens
(Boz), on the ground of non-occupation, and that, during
his recent absence from England, he had let his house. The

vote was expunged, so that, for the present, Boz has become

a non-elector.

ISLANDS OF FISH-BONES.—On good grounds, it appears
to be impossible to over-fish, so as to reduce the apparent
number. If men do not catch them they will continue to
devour each other. Immense banks of their bones are at
present being formed at the bottom of the sea. One in par-
ticular may be mentioned, lying east of the Faroe Islands ;
this bank is composed almost entirely of bones, and it is
two miles and a half long.—London Paper.
IMPORTATION OF GRAIN.—In the London docks alone
there arrived, during Saturday and Sunday, no fewer than
12 vessels, with cargoes of grain, viz., from Trieste. 1; Mar-
seilles, 1; Taganrog, 1; 'brad!, 1 ; Odessa, 1 ; Alexandria,
1 ; Barletta, 1 ; Ancona, 2 ; Archangel, 1; Malta, 1; and
Leghorn, 1. On Friday the number of vessels in the Lon-
don docks was 258 ;on Monday they amounted to 283. •

DREADFUL DEATH.—An aggravated and fatal case of
assault, if not a case of murder, took place in Carlton, of
Glasgow, on Wednesday last. Two men, named Robert
Campbell and William Smith, in the employment of Peter
Neil, nailer, in Main-street, Calton, had had some difference
or quarrel, when Campbell seized the red-hot rod of iron
with which he was working, and by thrusting it against the
abdomen of Smith, inflicted several severe wounds or barns.
The unfortunate man died on Thursday afternooon. Camp-
bell has been apprehended.—Caledonan Mercury.

A PROMISING FAMILY.—TWO boys, named Charles Bay-
-croft and Luke Baycroft, brothers, the elder being about ten
years of age, were brought before the magistrates at Stock-
port, on Saturday, on a charge of vagrancy; and being old
offenders, were each committed to prison for twelve months.
During the hearing of the case against them, Mr. Sadler,
superintendent of police, stated to the bench, that the com-
mittals and prosecutions of these two boys and two of their
brothers, on various charges, had already cost the county of
Chester between -.E400 and 4500.

Mr. Stephen Plummer, of Ludgate-hill, London, has pub-
lished a statement of the number of persons, vehicles, and
horses, that passed his house on the 13th instant, from nine
o'clock in the morning till nine in the evening of that day,
being an ordinary day of business, and at a time when Lon-
don is considered empty, and no business doing, by which it
will appear there were 8,572 vehicles, in 12 hours, 714 per
hour, 12 per minute ; 13,024 horses in 12 hours, 1,085 per
hour, 18 per minute; 105,252 persons in 12 hours, 8,779 per
hour, 146 per minute.
IMPORTANT SURVEY.—The survey of the coast of France
in the Mediterranean has just been terminated as far as the
frontier, of -Spain. This great operation, which is destined
for the completion of the set of charts entitled " Le Pilote
Francais," has been executed in four expeditions, under the
able superintendence of M. Monnier, the bydrographic
engineer. It will furnish materials for 18 charts and 18
plans of ports, roads, or anchorages, accompanied by docu-
ments relating to maritime currents, and instructions for
navigating along all parts of the coast, from the Bay of
Villefranche, in the Compte of Nice, to Cape Cerbere, situated
at the boundary between France and Spain.--Journal des
Debats.

Mr. O'Connell has opened his campaign for the winter
by a letter from Darrynane, in which he proposes to agitate
for the following objects, under the category of justice for
Ireland :—" Justice to Ireland requires these things :
First—The total extinction of the tithe-rent charge. Se-
condly—The protection of Irish industry, and the promotion
of Irish manufacture. Thirdly—The fixity of tenure of land,
in order to encourage agricultural improvement, and recom-
pense the tenant for his labour and capital. Fourthly—A
complete representation of the people in the Commons'
House of Parliament, by the greatest possible extension of
the suffrage, and by the protection of the ballot.- Fifthly—
The abolition, or entire beneficial alteration of the poor laws.
And sixthly—The repeal of the union. The repeal of the
union is the only means by which the other great objects
can be achieved."

THE HEBREW LANGUAGE.—At a meeting, recently held at
Bristol, a converted Jew impressed upon his hearers his con-
viction that the great means of conversion of the Jews was to
read to them in Hebrew the 53d chapter of Isaiah. He had
first come to the knowledge of this fact in the followieg man-
ner. Some years since a clergyman, named Hawtrey, had
requested him (then a rabbi) to allo4 him to address the
Jews in the synagogue. He objeccted to this; but a conver-
sation ensued between him and the clergyman, the latter
reading portions of the 4th and Gth verses of the chapter
alluded to. The Jew immediately exclaimed, "This is not
our doctrine; it is from your Testament." Mr. Hawtrey
then pointed out to him the passage in a Hebrew Bible : he
was at first struck with shame, as a rabbi, at his own igno-
rance of the Bible, but he found afterwards that, in the por-
tions of the Bible read by the rabbis in the synagogue, this
chapter and part of the 52d were omitted, By this means he
was converted, !and by the same means he had converted
many others.
LORD DENMAN AND THE POOR MATCHM AN.— On
Saturday, Lord Denman passed Chlough Sheffield, accom-
panied by his son, for his seat at Stoneraliddleton. On his
lordship's carriage stopping in front of one of the fishmongers'
shops in Fargate, a tall, venerable-looking artisan of the town
approached with a small basket in his hand, and lifting his
hand to his hat, his lordship inquired what he had for sale ?
lie then unwrapped a clean white cloth, and exposed to the
noble passenger a small stock of matches. Immediately after-
wards the vehicle drove off; and a by-stander going up to the
old man, put the significant question to him, " What's he
gi'en thee ?" " Nothing," was the ready reply. The other,
however, assured him he had seen something fall into the
basket, and on its being again, opened, to their surprise, a
sovereign was found amongst the humble wares. The car-
riage driving away, the old man lifting up his arms and
uttering blessings on his unknown benefactor, and the
gathering knot of people to inquire into the " way and the
wherefore thereof," altogether afforded the .elements of a
picture worthy of a first-rate pencil.
While Prince Albert and the Marquis of Breadalbane were
enjoying the sports of the hills on ihursday morning, her
Majesty and the Marchioness had a private walk through
part of the extensive grounds. In the course of their ex-
cursion they paid a visit to the dairy, which is fitted up in a
style every way becoming the princely mansion to whicha is
attached. After several minute inquiries of the principal
dairymaid regarding the different varieties of cheese made
within the premises, her Majesty asked whether any porridge
had been made that morning, significantly enough letting it
be understood that she wonid have no objection to partake of
our homely fare. The dairymaid, not being aware of the
exalted rank of the lady who was addressing her, after
politely stating that the dairy was not the usual place where
such a dish was manufactured, presented her Majesty with
as near a substitute as she could—some oat cakes and cream.
Her Majesty portook heartily of the homely fare, and on
going away forgot not to present a small portrait of herself to
the dairymaid, to remind her in after years of the Royal visit
to Taymouth.—Caledonian Mercury.
THE LATE SEIZURE OF CONTRABAND TOBACCO.—The
captain and crew of the schooner Eliza Anne, on board
which 28,2691 b. of contraband tobacco were found last week,
were brought up for trial yesterday, at the Mayor's office.
The magistrates before whom the informations were exhibited
atwerehp ep ecaitriVyzlr. William Morris, Justice of the Peace for the
county, and Mr. James Keating, Justice of the Peace for
were nou.t. defended
Hassard and Harris, with Mr. Elliott,
and, in default of e
fseunpapeodprtba
yo.ifenothe prosecution.
selo r
solicitor,
pleaded
de d prisoners,
" Guilt "
Michael Collins, Daniel
months' imprisonment.
£lOO penalty, were sentenced to six
namesmT,hceairfferty,
an ared
James
mJeoshAdair,Miller.—
Waterford
Waterford Mirror.

MARSHAL GROUCHY.
hadagoPinson.Marshal a grand wolf hunt in the woods
P o more assembled
t spot ortsmen of the surrounding
,icket at the
Country, amounting in cumber than 300 h
on the exciting occasion. The chief
end of a narrow valley, commanded by was a t
the healthy heights of
Plessis and Roucamos, in which seven or eight wolves had
couple of hounds,
but were not
taken shelter. The pack, consisting 0
sportsmen.
were thrown in, and did their work gall—lan•unnte,
able to drive more than three wolves out of gallantly,
close covert,
,ill of ,;iich fell by the shots of as many diffielor
Unfortunately one of the Marshal's best also
'killed; heists, from his colony, mistaken fur one of'thweas
The Marshal intends to renew this sport until the country.
shall be cleared entirely of wolves, which cause great injury
by their depredations.—Galignanrs:Messenger.

THE WILL OF THE LATE Ma. LON GMAN.—The will of the
late Mr. T. N. Longman, of the firm of Longman, Rees, Orme,
and Co., the well-known booksellers of Paternoster-row, has
just been proved, by the executors, in the Prerogative Court
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in Doctors' Commons.
The personal property of the deceased has been sworn under
the value of £200,000, which is principally left to his widow
and family. The melancholy death of Mr. Longman, from
an accident by being thrown from his horse, arid from which
he never recovered, is too fresh in the memory of our readers
to need repetition.—Britannia.

The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Teviot left
the river on Monday last with thirty-five passengers, pro-
ceeding as an extra ship to St. Thomas, to be prepared for
commencing the new plan of mail service in the West Indies.
The same company's steam-ship, Forth, appointed to convey
the West India mails on the Ist of next month, proceeded
from Blackwall to Southampton on Tuesday ; and as afford-
ing some evidence of the confidence with which the com-
pany's new plan of operation is regarded, we understand that
not only the whole of the passengers' cabins, but even the
sofas have been engaged for several days; considerable ship-
ments of quicksilver, &c., are also making by this vessel.—
London paper.

PARIS.—It is said that there has not been for many years
Past so few English residents in Paris as during the present
summer. The hotel-keepers complain bitterly of the ab-
sence of their best customers, and many of the shopkeepers
have no cause for rejoicing. The improved facilities for tra-
velling on the continent cause tourists to explore Germany
and the Rhine in preference to France, and the " war fever"
caused by M. Thiers has not yet subsided sufficiently to in-
duce the English to make Paris their abode as of old. The
absence of our countrymen is, however, in some degree sup-
plied by the Russians, of whom there are great numbers in
the French capital. They are not, however, very popular
with the Parisians, their habits and customs being so widely
different to those of our gay neighbours,

THE STADT TOLL.—By the treaty on the eve of conclusion
for the regulation of the Stadt toll, the King of Hanover will
lose at least one-fourth of his toll revenue ; and that his Ma-
jesty voluntarily submits to this sacrifice, from a generous
desire to promote the interests and convenience of commerce
in general, and of British commerce more especially. The
intended treaty will simplify the mode of levying the toll, by
the removal of all unnecessary and troublesome forms. The
duty is henceforth to be imposed upon the cargoes exclusively,
and will, therefore, fall upon the consumers ; while it will be
too insignificant to deter them from the purchase of a single
yard or pound of British manufacture that they would have
bought had Lord Palmerston's unjust and insolent proposal
been carried into effect. At the same time, the shipping in-
terest of Great Britain will be highly benefitted by being
freed from all fees, charges, and impediments whatever.—
Morning Post.

THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.—The conference directs
that the first Friday in October next shall be observed as a
day of special fasting and humiliation before God in our
societies ; that public prayer-meetings shall be held that day
in all our places of worship ; and calls upon our ministers
and people to unite in earnest supplication to Almighty God
that His blessing may rest upon the commercial interests of
this country, so that ,the labouring poor may everywhere
obtain employment and be satisfied with bread ; and that a
more rich and copious effusion of the Holy Spirit's influence
may be vouchsafed to ourselves, our societies, and congrega-
tions, in order that the ministry of the word, and the other
means which are employed for the extension of the cause of
Christ, may be rendered abundantly successful in the con-
version of ungodly men and the edification of believers. The
conference also directs that, on the sabbath immediately pre-
ceding that day, the ministers of our body shall, in their
public discourses, enforce the duty of religious fasting, as
connected in holy Scripture with the maintenance and im-
provement of personal godliness, and the prevalence of in-
tercessory prayer.
ECCLESIASTICAL HOUSES OF RESIDENCE.—An act was
passed in May last (5 and 6 Victoria, cap. 26), to amend the
law relating to ecclesiastical houses of residence, by which
it is provided that a bishop having more than one episcopal
residence may be relieved, or any bishop may be supplied,
with one, or a residence miy be taken down, rebuilt, or im-
proved, according to the diroctions of the ecclesiastical com-
missioners. By the 3d section, a former statute, allowing
mortgages on sees, is rep'aled, and by the next provision
power is given to supply the deficiency of a bishop's income
which may be affected by the act. Deans and chapters may
alter their residences. Episcopal houses may be made the
deanery or a canonical house. The 11th clause is an important
one, by which it is enacted " That it shall be lawful, by the au-
thority aforesaid, to direct that any house of residence pur-
chased, built, rebuilt, added to, altered, or improved, under
the provisions of the said recited acts, or either of them, or
of this act, shall be insured and kept insured by the bishop,
dean, or canon for the time being in the occupation thereof,
at his own personal charge and expense, in some public office
or offices of assurance from loss or damage by fire, and in
such sum or sums as by the like authority may be deemed
fit ; and such house shall be insured and kept insured accor-
dingly, and that the receipt for every premium payable for
any such insurance shall be delivered to the said commis-
sioners within 14 days after such premium shall become due ;
and that in case of loss or damage by fire to any such house
so insured, it shall be lawful, by the like authority, to direct
in what manner the money received under any such insurance
shall be deposited, in trust, to be applied towards the rebuild-
ing, or repairing, and the reinstating of such house, or of any
such part thereof, as may have suffered loss or damage, and
also to direct in what manner the same money and the in-
terest, and the accumulations thereof, if any, shall be applied
to such last-mentioned purposes."
THE NAVY.—The following paragraph appears in one or
two of our morning contemporaries :—SIEIEERNESS, Satur-
day, Sept. 24.—Three first-rate, three second•rate, and four
third-rate men-of-war are ordered to be brought forward at

this yard, ready for commissioning. India and China arere-
ported as being the destination of some of them ." The
truth of the matter we believe to be as follows :—Some
months ago, as may be seen by referring to the Standard of
the 26th of July last, the Lords Commissioners of the Ad-
miralty ordered estimates to be prepared for them at the
principal dockyards, showing the expense of putting a num-
ber of ships of the line in such a state of repair and
forwardness as to be available for immediate commissioning,
should circumstances make it necessary that a larger
naval force should be employed in active service, or should
the ships on foreign stations require to be relieved or want
such repairs as can be done only in our English dockyards.
Their lordships having obtained the estimates from the au-
thorities, have it, we believe, in contemplation, although no-
thing has yet been definitively settled, to do away with the
system of having what is foolishly called " demonstration
ships," and to bring forward in lieu of them ten ships of the
line at each of the three principal ports, viz.,—Sheerness,
Portsmouth, and Plymouth, to be denominated "advanced
ships of the ordinary." It is understood that these ships
are always to be kept in such a state of readiness for commis-
sioning and proceeding to sea, as regards their hulls, that
they shall neither require docking nor caulking, nor any
work to be performed on board of them, on being ordered
for service, except to adapt the ports to the guns, and to
take down any temporary ordinary fittings, such as ship-
keepers' cabins, ordinary galleries,. &c. To meet this in-
tention the ships selected for advanced ships will be regu-
larly docked in turn from time to time to have their bottoms
properly cleaned, &c., as necessary, so that they may be
in such a state as to proceed to sea when ordered, with-
out risk of waiting to be docked for either a year or two.
Should these intentions of the Board of Admiralty be ulti-
mately acted upon, of which there is little doubt, a bona fide
force of 30 sail of the line, the majority comprised of new
ships, will always be ready for service on any emergency.
This force, not being commissioned, will be no additional

expense to the country; and the constant overhauling that
the ships will have in their turn will preserve them from that

decay which many fine ships in ordinary have heretofore
suffered ; and in the long run will amply compensate for the
small amount that is required to be expended upon them to
keep them in a properly efficient state ; while the inestimable
advantage will be gained of having such an imposing fleet
ready equipped for sea in the space of ten days or a fortnight.
We are confirmed in the above statement by our private
correspondence from Plymouth, which states that the St.
George, 120, the Royal William, 120, the Royal Adelaide,
110, the Albion, 90, the Canopus, 80, the Clarence, the
Bombay, the Foudroyant, the Wellesley, and the Impregna-
ble, line of battle ships, are likely to be brought forward here
as " demonstration ships."—Standard.
NEW GOVERNOR OF GIBRALTAR.—Gen. Sir Robert Wil-
son, Knt., who has been appointed Governor of Gibraltar,
in succession of Sir Alexander Woodford, K.C.8., whose
term of service is expired, entered the army in 1793, and
served in Flanders and Holland in that and the succeeding
year ; in the rebellion in Ireland in 1798 ; in Holland again
in 1799 ; in the Egyptian campaign of 1801 ; at the capture
of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806; and raised and com-
manded the Lusitanian legion in 1808 and 1809 in Spain and
Portugal. He likewise served in several campaigns with the
Russian army in Russia, Poland, Germany and France, and
with the Austrian army in Italy. The dates of his commissions
are as follow :—cornet, 1794 ; lieutenant, 1794 ; captain,
1796 ; major, 1800 ; lieutenant-colonel, 1802 ' • colonel, 1810 ;
major-general, 1813 ; lieutenant-general, 1815. In August,
1821, the name of Sir Robert Wilson was erased from the
army list, in consequence of the part he took at the funeral
of the late Queen Caroline. He was also deprived of various

foreign decorations bestowed upon him for his gallantry.
He represented the borough of Southwark in Parliament for
many years; and, upon our late beloved sovereign William
the Firth ascending the throne, he was reinstated in the
army hs colonel of the 15th hussars with all his former
honours, and on the 23d November, 1841, created a general.
He is acknowledged by all military men to be a soldier in
every sense of the word. He proceeds to his destination
early in October in one of the government steam-vessels.
SERIOUS RIOT IN AIRDRIR.—FIVE PRISONERS RES-
CUED.—On Thursday evening, a riot took place in Airdrie,
which for a time threatened the most serious consequences.
The military, it appears, were withdrawn from the town that

forenoon ; and during the day more bustle and excitement

were observable in the streets than usual. No disturbance,
however, was for a time apdrehended, as the colliers in the
neighbourhood had partly n2surned work, and as no disposi-
tion to outbreak had been manifested by the great body of
them, still on strike, since shortly after the commencement
of the dispute. Still no breach of the peace had taken place,
and all might have passed over quietly enough ; but, on the
arrival of five prisoners in the afternoon, on their way to
Hamilton gaol, in custody of a party of sheriff's officers, who
had been apprehended at Ballonhney for a breach of engage-
ment with their employers, or accused of intimidation—the
story is told both ways—the excitement increased, and the
shopkeepers, apprehensive of a riot, shut their shops. At
this time a meeting of the idle colliers was being held at the
Potteries, in the vicinity of Coatbridge ; numbers of them
were likewise congregated in various parts of the town of
Airdrie ; and it was, from circumstances which had been al-
lowed to transpire, understood that the rescue of the prisoners
had been resolved upon. Ullon the prisoners being brought
to the town, application was made to have them lodged in
one of the inns until they could beexamined by the authorities;
but this, it is said, the innkeeper refused, from fear of the
mob destroying his premises. About this time, a band of
about 400 stranger colliers, apparently from the east, appeared
in the streets, and the officers in charge of the prisoners im-
mediately took them to a public-house adjoining the inn.
After some consultation amongst the mob, the result was,
that a rescue was determined on ; and accordingly the house
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ture, glass, &c., carried off, or destroyed. Before this was
accomplished, the magistrates met opposite the place where
the crowd—ultimately amounting to upwards of I,soo—had
collected, and read the riot act; but, as they had no military
force at their command, they had just to look passively on
during the time the disturbance was going forward, without
being able to take a single effective step towards putting a
stop to the lawless proceedings. Several shots, we are in-
formed, were fired by persons in the crowd during the pro-
gress of the riot; and before, the house was gutted, the sheriff's
officers repeatedly fired blank out of the windows to intimi-
date the riotous assemblage. To this, however, they paid no
attention, but proceeded determinedly to effect their object.
While this was going forward, the magistrates sent expresses
for aid to the Glasgow police office and to Sheriff Alison ; but
before the Sheriff, accompanied by Captain Miller, arrived,
the rioters had dispersed, and the town was quiet. The mi-
litary did not arrive till yesterday morning. We are informed
that the secretary of the colliers' association was apprehended
in his own house late on Thursday night, and committed to
gaol, but we have not heard upon what charge. The town
was quiet yesterday. Two of the policemen who assisted the
officers in repelling the ,attacks of the mob were slightly
wounded. The affair, we understand, is undergoing a most
rigid investigation.—Glasgow Courier.

SOMNAMBULISM.—A few nights ago a young woman in
this town got up in her sleep, and with a pair of scissors cut
off the whole of her ringlets and retired to bed again, wihout
being conscious of what she had done. What is more re!'
markable, she had taken more than usual pains.with her hair
the night before.—Bradford Herald.

ALLEGED CHARTIST PLOT TO MURDER. THE QUEEN.—
Bills have just been issued in Southampton, offering a reward
of £lOO for whoever will give information that shall lead to
the conviction of the person who shot at Pierce in the
Houndwell in Southampton, arid who was recognised as one
of the party engaged in a Chartist plot to murder the Queen.
£5O will be paid by government, and £5O by Pierce himself.

THE DANGERS OF SOLITUDE.—On Wednesday, a young
lady was enjoying the charms of a lonely ramble in Little
Bolton, with a volume of "Zimmerman on Solitude" in her
hand. A passage of singular beauty, and in strict keeping
with the romantic little spot she was then traversing, oc-
curred to her, and, in order to give it uninterrupted atten-
tion, she sat on a bank to peruse it. She was still perusing
the work, when two men, driven to seek for solitude, but
from different motives, stood before her, and in very good
Fkench asked for charity. The lady gave a courteous refusal,
without lifting her eyes from the page. The foreigners, for
such they appeared to be, seeing the fair student in a state
of abstraction, thought the feeling so enviable that they com-
menced a little on their own account,,and forthwith pro-
ceeded to detach a gold watch, and chain which hung rather
loosely about her. She was not, however, quite so passive
in their hands as her sentimental situation led them to sup-
pose, and, after a loud scream and a call for " police," the
foreigners d—d the police in right good English, and took to
their heels. Zimmerman was put by for that day. If we
would deduce a moral from this little scene, it would be that
it is not good for man to be alone, nor women either.—
Ipswich Express.
THE ARTESIAN WELL AT PARlS.—the operation on
tubing the well at Grenelle has recently been completed in
the most satisfactory manner. In order to understand the
importance of this work it is necessary to refer to the causes
which have rendered it necessary. In the month of February,
1841, after eight years' persevering labour, the spring at Gre-
nelle began to pour forth a volume of water of not less than
2,600 litres a minute. But, although the source was as pure
as that of the Seine, it had as dark a colour as the waters in
the gutters of the streets. A pipe of joints, 1,800 feet in
length, copper turned, made as a telescope, was placed in the
excavation; but not being strong enough to resist the force
of the ascending waters, it was soon flattened and destroyed.
M. Mulbt, thereupon, had a new tube of beaten iron, each
joint of which was thick enough to resist a pressure equal to
70 atmospheres. On the 20th of this month, after only four
days' labour, the tube was properly fixed, and the water now
flows abundantly, clear as rock crystal, and at a milk-warm
heat. The old workshop from the middle of which the cur..
rent flowed is already half destroyed, and on its site the car-
penters are erecting a scaffolding of strong pine boards, 100
feet high, which will direct and form a channel for the waters
rising to this height. Paris will now possess an inexhaustible
supply of excellent water, rushing from such an elevation as
to be easily distributed to the loftiest situations in the city.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT THE HAVRE THEATRE.-

On Sunday evening there was a crowded house to witness
the performance of the opera called " La Dame Blanche."
In one of the scenes the stage had to be left vacant for a mo-
ment or two. On perceiving this, an Irish gentleman wiio
was behind the scenes it, a state of intoxication coolly walked
on to the stage. He was attired in a gaudy plaid shooting-
jacket, with huge leather gaiters, &c., and carried a great
thick stick. The audience was, for a moment, literally as-
tounded at the intrusion ; but anon rose a perfect storm of
yells and hisses. The Irish gentleman, therefore, stood still,
looked fiercely at the audience, and flourished his stick.
Some of the audience, thinking fun might be got out of him,

gave him a round of applause-, whilst-othersstormed more
than before. At length there was a pause, and, will you be-
lieve it ? the gentleman began singing one of his national
melodies, something about
" Oh ! Teddy's the boy for bewitching 'em
Whoop ! hullabaloo ! hullabaloo !"
And as he sang he whooped, and yelled, and danced, and
flourished his thick stick right gloriously. Was there ever
such an exhibition? The people roared again with laugh-
ter, and our friend the Irishman appeared perfectly happy.
But alas for Paddy ! the stage manager called for the assist-
ance of the Gendarmes, a party of whom rushed on the stage
to apprehend the Irishman ; but he resisted, and many of the
audience took his part. Some English sailors who were pre-
sent
called out, " Go it, Pat—ao it Paddy," and Paddy did
go it, for be did considerable damage to the heads of his op-
ponents with his terrible shillelagh. At length, however, he
was overpowered and lodged in the station-house ; and so
ended one of the most extraordinary scenes ever witnessed
in a theatre.—Dublin paper.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.—A letter appears in the Tou-
lonnais from M. Germain, a botanist of Algiers, stating that
a curious discovery has just been made by General Lamori-
ciere, which may prove important in a commercial point of
view to the colony. It appears that the general, seeing a
quantity of fig-peelings thrown about the streets of Masca-
ra, thought they might prove prejudicial to the public health,
and ordered them to be collected together and thrown in a
heap outside the town. Some days afterwards, in passing by
chance the same way, he perceived some white substance
lying on the heap. On examining this he found it was a
sort of sugar, which the fig-peelings had produced, from the
heat of the sun causing a certain fermentation in the heap.
These figs are of such slight value that a pound of the sugar
can, it is calculated, be produced for four sous. All, in fact,
that is required to divide the fruit in two, and expose it to
the rays of the sun, and then take off the efflorvescence with
a soft brush. The governer-general, the letter states, has
taken with him a pound of this sugar, which he intended ex-
hibiting at a banquet he is about to offer to the principal
colonists of Algeria. It is said also that he has given orders
to the colonists to plant the cactus, or Barbary fig-trees,
wherever they can, and that solders are to be sent out to
cover part of the plain of the Meticija with cacti. This ope-
ration will be easy of execution, as it is quite sufficient to
let one of the shoots enter the ground to have vigorous roots
immediately sent out. The vegetation is possible in the
most arid ground. The saccharine matter of this fig is de-
scribed as identical with that of the sugar cane—namely,
purely crystallizable.
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A JEW.—On Saturday
week an inquest was held at the Paul's Head public-house,
White's-row, Spitalfields, London, before Mr. Baker, coro-
ner, on view of the body of Hyam Hyams, a Jew, who corn-
' mitted suicide. James Valentine deposed that on Friday
morning, between the hours of one and two o'clock, be was
awoke by the cries of Mrs. Hyams, and on his inquiring
what was the matter, she informed him that her husband had
hung himself. He procured a light as soon as he could, and
on entering the room be found the deceased lying lifeless
against the bed. A juror : Do you know the cause of him
banging himself?—Witness : I believe it was in consequence
of some report that was spread about him that had caused
him to commit the act. Mr. Israel flyam, baker, of Mid-
dlesex-street, deposed, that on Thursday evening the de-
ceased called on him and asked if he had heard the report in
circulation about him. lie replied in the negative, and the
negative, and the deceased, who appeared very much ex-
cited, then told him about his being seen to purchase some
meat on Wednesday, the day of Atonement, by a member
of his congregation, who had circulated a report of his doing
so. The deceased did not acknowledge at the time that the
report was true, but admitted he had not been to synagogue
the whole of Wednesday, which was a serious oflence against
tbeir religion, but he added, he hoped he would make atone-
ment for the omission. He also said, he was sure the report
would be the cause of his ruin, as the members of the clubs
whom he supplied with boots and shoes would withdraw
their patronage from him, and himself and his six children
must come to ruin. The jury returned a verdict of " Tem-
porary derangement."
DISCOVERY ON SABLE ISLAND.—The Halifax papers pub-
lish the following singular discovery ;—" The following facts
have been made known to us by a gentleman of this city, who
has had his information from the best authority—viz., Capt.
Darby, sen., Governor, (as he is called) of Sable Island. For
the last twenty-five or thirty years there has been a large
mound or pyramid of sand, about 100 feet high, on the island,
and not very far from the residence of Captain Darby. The
winds for some years have been gradually diminishing its
height, and after a severe blow some weeks since it was com-
pletely blown away, and, singular to say, a number of small
houses, built of the timbers and planks of a vessel, were quite
visible. On examination they were found to contain a num-
ber of articles of furniture and stores' put up in boxes, which
were marked ''l3d Regiment;' the box or cases were per-
fectly rotten, and would not admit of their being removed.
A brass dog-collar was, however, discovered by Captain
Darby, with the name of Major Elliot, 43d Regiment,' on
it, and which Captain Darby brought to the city, and pre-
sented to Major Tryon, who belongs to the 43d Regiment."
—Hallfax Herald. Captain Darby has endorsed this extra-
ordinary announcement. Addressing the editor of the Hali-
fax Herald, on Wednesday, he says, " The houses are ap-
pearing at the base of the hill, about two miles long, and 60
or 70 feet high, lying parallel with the south coast of the
island, the eastern end of which bill is about 55 feet high,
covered with grass and other vegetation, about 35 feet below
the surface, and 23 above the level of the sea ; these houses
appear as the sands Wear away with the action of the winds.
There appeared at times numerous bullets of lead, a great
numbar of military shoes, parts of bales of blankets and
cloths, brass points of sword scabbards, bees' wax, a small
glass convex on both sides, a copper half-penny of George
11, dated 1749, some military brass buckles, a great number
of brass paper-pins, a very small dog's brass collar, with
' Major Elliot, 43d Regiment,' engraved on it, numerous
bones, some whole with the scalp of hair and head-dress of a
young female, a piece of gold hand. There are three build-
ings, which seem to have been constructed of the fragments
of some ship ; they are situated about 10 feet apart, in a tri-
angular form, and are 10 to 12 feet square."
THE PRESS.—During the Royal sojourn in this county
the " gentlemen of the press"—or as one of themselves
facetiously denominated them, the press-gang,—constituted
no inconsiderable portion of the Court following. There
were two from London for the Times, two from the Morning
Post, one for the Morning Herald, and several for the weekly
journals. From Edinburgh, the Evening Courant,. the
Caledonian Mercury, the Witness, the Evening Post, the
Advertiser, the Scotsman, and the Observer, sent their
editors and reporters. Of the GlaS'gow journals, amongst
others. the Argus, Chronicle, Constitutional, Courier,
Guardian, Herald, and Scottish Reformers' Gazette, were
ably represented in this way. The conductors of the Perth
press were also there; and the spirited editor of the Inv&-
ness Courier came all the way from the capital of the High-
lands to Perth, the day before her Majesty's arrival there,
and attended the Royal progress through the mountain tour.
The expense sustained by the public press, supporting such
a host under such circumstances, must have been very great.
One of the reporters of the Times assured us that his travel
ling expenses from Edinburgh to Taymouth alone, passing
only one night by the way at Perth, (he sported a auricle and
pair, however,) amounted to not less than thirty sovereigns,
besides what, beyond this, his stay at Kenmore must have
cost him. This marks in a strong light the anxiety of the
conductors of the press to cater for the information of the
public; for no extra sale on the occasion could at all com-
pensate for the amount laid out in obtaining the facts cor-
rectly.
ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE OF A TIGER.—On Wednesday
last, three caravans containing a number of various animals,
attached to a travelling menagerie, attempted to descend the
almost perpendicular hill, called Fellwood Pitch, on the
road between Carnfield and Wieldham. Two of the caravans
arrived safely at the bottom of the hill; but the third,
through want of proper caution, was allowed to proceed
at a rapid rate down the bill, and was overturned at the bot-
tom. One side of the vehicle was stove in, containing a
tiger and several smaller animals, who set up a most vigorous•
roaring. It was attempted to introduce a strong iron grating
so as to cover the broken part of the tiger's cage, prekiaratory
to making an effort to haul up the van by means of ropes ;
but the application of the grating was found to be impracti-
cable. Whilst the parties were debating as to what was next
to be essayed, a part of the shattered caravan suddenly gave
way, and the tiger sprang out of his cage, almost in the very
midst of the crowd, who, with the exception of the melt
attached to the caravans, immediately decamped with what
they could. The tiger, however, gave no indications of a
g
sanguinary attack, but, after gazing for a space in seeming
bewilderment around him, he bounded over a low fence into
the adjoining wood, and disappeared within the cover.
The limiter of the concern and four men immediately set off
in pursuit, and found the tiger crouched down at the foot of
a tree. Upon the owner of the menagerie calling to the ani-
mal in his usual tone of voice, the tiger instantly started up,
and bounded playfully towards him ; when, after caressing
the creature for some time, the net was thrown over its body,
and its bind and fore legs being tied, it was conveyed in a
cart back to the caravans. Fortunately the tiger in question
is of a remarkably quiet and docile disposition, and has been
reared by its present owner from a mere whelp, or the con
sequences might have been very calainituous.—Macclesfield
Paper.

Tax DEAgERY OF WESTMINSTER.-111 correction of va-
rious statements which have appeared respecting the Dean-
ery of Westminster, lately vacant by Dr. Ireland, we give the
following as the simple facts of the case. The existing re-
venues of the deanery are somewhere about £3,000 per an-
num, which will, under the Cathedral Acts, be reduced to
£2,000 in the following manner:—Either a fixed annual burn
or a proportion of his whole income, as remains fo he deter-
mined by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the Queen in
Council, will be payable by the dean, its amount being as-
sessed upon the best cal:elation that can be made of the
actual existing income. A similar course will be pursued
with respect to future canons, so as to leave to them an aver-
age annual income of £l,OOO each, in reduction of what they
now receive, which is somewhere about £1,200. Besides
this contribution, one object of which is to augment the in-
comes of ill-endowed deans and canons, there will be paya-
ble to the commissioners for the augmentation of poor
livings, but not, as erroneously stated, towards building
churches, the proceeds of as many canonries as may from
time to time be suspended in the orderfixed by the act, until
the canons are reduced from their original number of 12 to
6. The whole chapter property still remains under the inde-
pendent management of the dean and chapter, subject to the
foregoing charges. The dean is, ex officio, a member of the
corporation of the ecclesiastical commissioners for England.
—Times.

HoAx.—The wags of the town have been highly amused
during the last few days by a very capital hoax played off
uyon the worthy host of one our principal inns (Yarmouth).
At the time the Queen passed through the roads mine host
and his fair partner displayed their loyalty by taking a boat
and going off to greet her Majesty on her way towards the
metropolis. A few days after a letter was received, bearing
the Royal Arms in the seal, and purporting to be a commu-
nication from the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment expressive of the gratification her Majesty felt at this
display of the loyalty of this worthy pair, and offering, as a
peculiar mark of Royal favour, to confer the honour of
knighthood upon mine host. The letter being read to his
lady she was in extacies at this mark of Royal condecension,
at the same time expressing her opinion that so dignified a
tittle was rather too much for her spouse to accept, when a
friend suggested that a much better plan might be adopted by
bargaining with some gentleman in the country who might be
desirous ofobtaining such an honour, and selling to him the title,
which her friend assured her the Queen would trasfer to the fa-
favoured individual she might be pleased to nominate. £3,000
was the sum named, and the lady thought so substantial abenefit
being more useful to people in business than stitle without a for-
tune, was about to commission the gentleman forthwith to
commence a treaty for the sale, when a junior member of the
family expressed her indignation of the use about to be made
of the Royal favour, and thought the title should be accepted
rather than so shameful a use should be made of it. Whether
this eloquent appeal of the young lady had its full influence
or not we are by no means prepared to say. Suffice it that
on Saturday the worthy host was congratulated in the mar-
ket by a number of friends, who, without waiting for the
Royal letters patent,' greeted him by the title peculiar to the
rank of knighthood. Whether it is the intention of the
party to apply to receive the honour we have not yet heard.—
Ipswich Express.