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sours terrific might,
Christ shall give thee light l"

endless theme
rpbets spake of him

, Jesse's rod,—
Dn and David's God

from the flood ;
mb; the sprinkled blood;
Ptless robes arrayed ;
'orth our glorious head.

) sympathise

.enial ties

ieside the grave,

God Co save !

is work in twofold glory shone ;
As substitute, he stood alone,
one in Bozea's wine-press stood,
And stained his raiment o'er with blood

But as in sorrow, weakness, shame,
The head and members feel the same,
So quenchless sympathy overflows
To him who Christian union knows.

Man helpless, born in sin, and base,
Condemned in Adams fallen race ;
Jesus in moral motives moves,
And new creates the souls he loves.

And hark I what means that glorious song?
'Tis Zion's sons forsaken long ;
Ephraim and Judah join to sing,
And hail their long-expected King.

No new Messiah meets their gaze,
No God the Gentiles may not praise ;
Gentile and Jew before him fall,
'Tis Jesus! crown him Lord of all!

On Olive's Mount his feet descend,
Lo! Satan's empire bath an end !
Millennial glory,—earth restored,—
For Jesus reigns as sovereign Lord !

et Lord thou knowest that none of these
Can of themselves the conscience ease ;
ie preacher's voice shall sound in vain,
Unless thy saving grace restrain.

m let thy promised power, indeed,
3e with the sower and the seed;
:ak up the hard heart's fallow ground,
end let much fruit to thee abound.

THE MIND.

From Charles Swain's new work.)

fine associations of the mind,

own loveliness invest each hue

form of nature !

'—Unless thus combined

_say, eloquent, and true,
this gorgeous firmament of bine—
nntains of a vapoury sphere—
monwealth of flowers—this vast review
y splendour, bursting far and near ?
earth itself, unless the mind were here?

the soft,

warm, summer morn,
sparkling with the early dew ;

ake, and buds and flowers are born,
an appears, half trembling, through
aze, and d;m luxurious blue
ern heav'ns :—there's beauty deep
n tops to catch the distant view
-wood path—wild craggy steep—
:oast where lonely waters sleep.

le noontide atmosphere ;
their graceful boughs to meet
s—d elicatel y clear :
en the wild lark carols sweet ;
le tender traits which fleet
res and isles of gold,
ied for holy angels feet,
of an immortal mould !
t, while men such scenes behold

he still blue hour of night,
softly through the moonlit vale,
shoot forth the stars to light,
and spiritually pale.—
the ocean, when the gale
billows to the strand ;
ona flirts some wand'ring sail.
-beam on the glittering sand,
touched by some skilful hand.

lake afar,

Jpon its voiceless breast ;

ry west

3 beauty in that rest—
lonely—and so deep—
r dare to whisper—lest
;ic of that sleep,
tch around it keep !

eak the ma

phs who wa'

ty on the mountains—when the snow—
ages on their forehead lies ;
littering in the sun-set glow,
t of the Italian skies :
msly the clear prismatic dyes
.built arches—crystal walls
e mirrors of the spheres, arise ;

sionary halls,

old monastic pile,

wilight, like a nun, appears
iin'd arch and wasted aisle—

of departed years—

rk above the victor, ivy rears
out banner o'er the shrine,
witu a dying Martyr's tears;
t dust, and darkness, and decline,
still the edifice divine !

1 bereft of mind, which is the light
Its the shadows of futurity !
ly morn, nor noon, nor summer night,
wild billows of the lonely sea ;
the sweet and plaintive melody
nt flute-notes on the moonlight shore,
ich one heart with beauty! If the free
i-like spring of thought could act no more
past to man, and dark his path before.

ty is the mind's. The dews of earth—
;Hest breathinAs—her serenest skies—
arm'd such noble feelings into birth,
our own imaginations rise ;

_st iCummated memories
ch are the rays of the soul's world !—the gay
I fond creations of our youthful eyes :
tuties which set not with the setting day,
a life within—a charm against decay !

Wiliam Halford, a fellowship porter, appeared on Thesday
at Guildhall, to answer the charge of Charles Howcroft, the
calf of whose leg he had severely bitten, while being con-
veyed, on conviction, by that turnkey to Giltspur-street
prison. Mr. Alderman Thompson ordered that, as the pri-
soner had behaved like a mastiff, he should be Mated as one,
and his teeth filed or drawn by the prison surgeon. The de-
fendant having repeatedly cried for mercy on this score, he
was permitted finally to make compensation.

It has been decided at the Court of Exchequer,—and the
police magistrates have acted on the decision in several re-
cent cases, that shopkeepers have a right to ticket their goods
at any sum they please, and afterwards to refuse if they
thought proper to sell them at the ticketed price. The false
price then can be regarded only as a fair warning to the pub-
lic,—as plain as the words—" Don't deal at this shop if you
would not be deceived."

At the Insolvent Court on Wednesday, before going into
the list several motions of course were disposed of, and
amongst them one for liberty to give bail in the matter of C.
P. Gardiner, son of the Earl of Blessington. The schedule
debts of the insolvent exceeded £30,000, but property was
returned which, after payment of these debts, would leave a
surplus amounting to £150,000, the Blessington estates hav-
ing been willed to him.
A SERIOUS STRIKE.—The Worcester Journal states,
that it is estimated that in the coal and iron districts not less
than froni 10,000 to 14,000 operatives struck work on Satur-
day se'nnight. This includes workmen discharged by blow-
ing out several blast furnaces ; and it is gratifying to state
that there has been no infraction of the public peace. At
the Stourbridge ironworks a machine has been invented for
squeezing the cinder out of the puddled iron, consequently
there will be no further use at those works for the service of
the men called shinglers.
DREADFUL COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.—On Thursday se'n-
night, an accident occurred at Green-bank Colliery, belong-
ing to Mr. Gerard, at Blackrod, by which two aged men
lost their lives. It appears that the men were about leaving
their work, and had to ascend the pit in turns. Mr. Gerard,
who was at the bottom, was about to ascend, but being in

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conversation with one of the workgeople, allowed the unfor-
tunate men, who names are James Atherton, aged 51, and
Simon Rogers, aged 54, to ascend in his place. They got in
the tub, and when nearly at the top an accident happened at
the head gearing, by which the tubs became detached, and
the men were precipitated to the bottom, and killed upon the
spot. The pit was exceedingly deep, and such was the im-
pelling force of the fall, that the bone of Atherton's leg was
driven through the heel of the boot.—Bolton Chronicle.

HORRIBLE. DEATH.—On Tuesday last an inquest was
held at the Snipe Tavern, Dukenfield, Cheshire, before Mr.
C. Hudson, coroner, on view of the mutilated remains of
James Ogden, aged 43 years. Deceased was an engineer at
the Victoria colliery, Dukenfield (worked by Messrs. Swyer
and Lees), and on Monday was engaged along with several
other men in making some alteration in the rope which drew
the coals up the shaft of the mine. For this purpose the
deceased was standing near the top of the shaft, holding on
by the rope, when, the rope being jerked by some nnaccount-
able cause, he was thrown down the shaft of the mine and
fell to the bottom, a depth of 345 yards. In descending
he came in contact with sundry pumps and pieces of timber,
and on two persons descending to look for him, he was found
quite dead, one side of his head being cut off, both his legs
and thighs, one arm, and part of one side also cut off, his
bowels dashed out, and every bone in his body broken.
MEsmERISM EXTRAORDINARY.—A party of gentlemen
of this town having determined to make some experiments
in animal magnetism, or mesmerism, with a view to deter-
mine whether operations could be successfully performed at
a considerable distance, went on Friday last, by railway, to
Brightside; sending the operator forward to Rotherham.
It was agreed that at a given time the operator should make
the usual manipulations in the station-house, at Rotherham,
when the subject, a young man, should be in a room at
Brightside. Precisely at the time appointed sleep was pro-
duced, and in less than one minute afterwards the young
man was drawn towards Rotherham with a force so power-
full that it took several strong persons to hold him. After
a few minutes were passed, the gentleman about, among
whom was an experienced medical practitioner, were able,
with great exertions, to restore him to partial conscious-
ness ; and on the operator arriving by the next train from
Rotherham, he was instantly set right. All present were
perfectly satisfied with the success of the experiment, but
they concurred in saying that great danger would be likely
to result from its frequent repetition. When the operator
and the patient can be brought together immediately in cases
of emergency, there is little to fear; and certainly no in-
dividual ought to attempt to magnetise another without being
sure that he can instantly put his patient into a natural state.
The distance from Rotherham station to Brightside station
is three miles and a half; and as the train leaves Rotherham
in a few minutes after its arrival for Brightside and Sheffield,
a similar experiment could scarcely be made in less time.—
SheffieM Iris.

MURDER OE A SON BY HIS FATHER.—An inquest was
held at North Collingham, Nottinghamshire, on the 23rd of
May instant, before Mr. P F. Falkner, coroner, over the
body of Mr. George Raworth, who was a respectable currier,
aged between 30 and 40 years. He lived with his father, but
the latter had never spoken to him for two years. The de-
ceased on Saturday last had put his horse into cart, and was
ready to start to Newark, when a neighbour, Mrs. Gilbert,
called and requested him to wait five minutes whilst she
fetched a basket which she wished him to take to Newark.
She was not absent more than five mniutes, and, not seeing
him in the yard on her return, with the cart, went into the
house, when she found him in an inner room in a state of
great suffering, and scarcely able to speak, with blood flow-
ing profusely from one of hia ears, at the back of which he
had received a violent blow. His father who is a shoemaker
or pomps and carnivals. was sittir ' work. - • *ndifferen

....g inthe same room at his , quite inu._
and unconcerned, and offered no assistance, and evinced no
sympathy for his son. A medical man was sent for, and
soon after arrived, and found the deceased rapidly sinking
and insensible, in which state he continued till his death in
the evening. The father at first denied any knowledge of
the injury, but afterwards confessed he had inflicted it with
a thick bar of wood, with which the outer door of the house
was fastened, but alleged that his son had provoked him to
it. He had evinced no contrition, and never went near or
inquired after his son, and when speaking of him, after be
had injured him, used oaths and other violent language, by
which the state of his mind towards him was manifested.
On opening the head it was found that the skull was exten-
sively fractured at the back of the ear, and that the deceased
had also received three or four other violent contusions on
the head. The jury immediately returned a verdict of
" Wilful murder," against the father, who was committed
by the coroner to the county gaol, to take his trial at the
next assizes.—Nattingham Journal.
BURNING OF RILEY-NOUSE AND LOSS OF LIFE.—At
a late hour on Wednesday night last accounts were received
in the city, at the principal insurance offices, of a dreadful
fire happening at the village of Hinnock, in Devonshire, on
the afternoon of Monday, which occasioned the total de-
struction of Riley-house, an elegant seat in the occupation
of a gentleman named Weekes, and attended, it is feared,
with loss of human life. From the letters received from the
correspondents and agents connected with the offices in ques-
tion, it appears that Riley-house was a noble brick building,
beautifully situate within a short distance of the village, on
a commanding eminence, surrounded by vallies and pleasure-
grounds. It was built upwards of a century ago, and was
approached by a spacious court-yard. Immediately in the
rear was the farm, which covered a large space of ground,
consisting of one barn, two granaries, cart and coach-house,
stables, cow-houses, and numerous outbuildings. At the
time of the commencement of the fire, which was about half-
past four o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Ryley and his fa-
mily were out on a visit, leaving two female servants in care
of the premises, and they, it appears, were first alarmed, by
flakes of fire falling down the flue of the dining-room chim-
ney, where there was no fire. They immediately proceeded
to examine the cause, but were unable to do so for nearly an
hour, when hearing a crackling noise in the upper room, they
became alarmed, and called in a labourer, who was at work
in one of the neighbouring fields ; on his proceeding into the
uppermost apartments, he discovered the flames breaking
through the ceiling. He directly obtained several buckets
of water, and made great efforts to stop the fire spreading ;
but it had obtained an alarming ascendancy, and soon made
its appearance through the roof. Upon the fire being ob-
served at Hinnock, a great number of. persons hastened to
give assistance, and the chief constable started off on horse-
back to South Hovey, a distance of five miles, for the fire-
engines, which were got ready with the utmost alacrity ; but
long before they reached the spot, the terrible conflagration
had spread over the entire premises, and one poor fellow
had perished in the flames in consequence of the floors giv-
ing way upon him while in the act of saving some valuable
property. There were many others with him at the moment,
but they contrived to escape by leaping out of the front and
back windows, without sustaining any injury. Within a
very short time after the flames caught the barn at the back
of the mansion, and subsequently extended, notwithstanding
every possible exertion to prevent it, to the granaries that
adjoined, and afterwards over the whole farm. In less than
two hours not a vestige remained ; all the buildings were le-
velled to the ground, and nothing remained of old Riley-
house but its blackened walls. The fire continued burning
furiously for many hours, during which period thousands of
persons had been attracted to the scene of destruction from
all parts of the surrounding country. The amount of pro-
perty destroyed is stated to be very considerable.—London
Paper.

LASCAR SEAMEN.—On Wednesday, a long investigation
took place before Mr. Baker, coroner, at the Lord Nelson,
East India-road, Poplar, on the body of Ali Gheurn, aged
20, a Malay seaman, on board the George Fourth, East In-
diaman, now lying in the East India Dock. She arrived
about five weeks since from Calcutta, from which place de-
ceased and about 17 other natives came as seamen. He ap-
peared to have very good health on the passage, and up to
Wednesday week, when he complained of pain in his sto-
mach. Witness gave him some castor oil, and he afterwards
seemed a little better. On Friday he became much worse,
but recovered on Saturday. On Sunday he had a relapse,
and appeared dying. He complained of violent pains in the
head and stomach, and witness gave deceased six drops of
lavender spirit to revive him, and then sent for Mr. Bright,
surgeon, of the East India-road, in the meantime himself
applying a mustard poultice to the deceased's chest. Mr.
Bright arrived in about half an hour, before which, however,
the deceased had expired in the most acute agony. In an-
swer to the coroner and jury, the witness stated that when
he considered any of the Lascars dangerously ill, he gene-
rally sent them to the hospital-ship, but he did not do so
int:e present instance. He had unlimited orders from
since the
make Z. Ma and Jardine,
mates of
They had no the owners of his ship, to
consisted Lascaro seamen comfortable. Their food generally
forced to be their hrice, peas, fresh mutton, salt fish, and vegetables
could speak En
tiTerehbeen here. There were four at present in-
tnee:pital-ship, and one previously had died.
in his bowels for
medical man on board when at sea, and
diet during that tiraeubra were
:iioszn doctors. Pooka Rajah, a Lascar, who
English, deceased complained of a bad pain
ther of his messmates h days before he died. His principal
the same complaint. d been cold rice and water, and ano-
ther
he called he found the
taken ill on Tuesday night of
Mr, Briht the surgeon, deposed that
deck of the George Fourth. deceased lying dead on the lower
his belief that the deceased From what he was told, it was
doubt had suffered great pain' as died of influenza, and no
ae.xposure to cold might pro-
duce mortification and gangreahs
taken ill,
ought to be
sent for as soon as these men were
ofrigdical aid too long
happened they were let to go without
the lives'
as it frequently
want of menicault
before sent to the hospital. Several
evident that
, and
the treatment of these men, and consideredu:
al advice. It
rY condemned
the deceased bad lain four days without medical
uh
ree
s dutyw e
were
ef
notowners
sa r
itfioc
esee
forthat
t.:l these poor
they had no right to expect that the captain could
cwraesatt
all the diseases of men coming from so warm a climate. The
coroner coincided in the views of the jury, and having de-
clared clared it his intention to write to the owners of the George
Fourth upon the subject, a verdict of " died from natural
I causes" was ultimately recorded.—Times.