The Welshman

WEEKLY CALENDAR. 1- THE MOON'S CHANGE^.—Full Moon on Tuesday, tW othof June, at 27m. pastlOh. night. HIGH WATER AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES' FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. -H- '?Carmar- Cardigan Tenby AVp.vgt- DAYS. I: then Bar., a,, g and \h \1 Llanelly. Bristol. Milford. w — 1 ———- r<* JCE. H. (.I H. M. H. M. H Saturda" y 2 1 3 29 4 46 3 31 5 J Sunday 3,j 4 2? o 10 3 55 5 4C? Monday 4!j 5 10 5 55 4 40 6 0 Tiie.day 5 52 6 37 5 22 7 7 Wed. 6? 6 28 7 13 5 58 7 63 Thura. 7? 7 2 7 57 6 22 8 Friday 81, 7 38 8 23 7 8 8 &

THANK GOD FOR SUMMER. (From Eliza Cook's Xcic it-eekly Ioiti-ti al.) t loved the winter once with all my soul, And longed for snow-storms, hail, and mantled skies And sang their praises in as gay a trull As troubadollrs have pollrpd to Beauty's eyes. J. deemed the hard, black frost a pleasant thing, For loss blazed high, and horses' hoofs rung out; And wild birds came with tame and gentle wing To eat the biead my young hand flung about. Put. I have walked into the world since then, And seen the bitter work that cold can do— Where the grim Ice Kins levels babes and men With bloodless spear, that pierces through and through. I know now, there are those who sink and lie Upon a stone bed at the dead of night. I know the roofless and unfed must die, When even lips at Plenty's feast turn white. And now whene'er I hear the cuckoo's song In budding woods, I bless the joyous comer; While my heart runs a cadenc,, iTi a Of hopeful notes that say—"Thank God for Summer" I've learnt that sunshine bringeth more than flowers, And fruits, and forest leaves to cheer the earth For I have seen sad spirits, like dark bowers, Light up beneath it with a grateful mirth. The aged limbs, that quiver in that task Of dragging life on, when the north wind goads- Taste once again contentment, as they bask In the straight beams that warm their churchyard road. And Childhood—poor, pinched Childnood, half forgets The starving pittance of our cottage homns, When he can leave the hearth, and chase the nets Of gossamer that cross him as he roams. The moping idiot seemeth less distraught When he can sit upon the grass all day. nd laugh and clutch the blades, as though he thought The yellow sun-rays challenged him to play. Ah! dearly now I hail the nightingale, j And greet the bee-th-Lt merry going hummer — And when the lilies peep so sweet and pale I kiss their cheeks and say-" Thank God for Summer!" Feet that limp, blue and bleeding, as they go For dainty cresses in December's dawn Can wade and dabble in the brooklet's Sow, And woo the gurgle on a July morn. The tired pilgrim, who would shrink with dread If Winter's drowsy torpor lulled his braiu Is free to choose his mossy summer bed, And sleep his hour or two in some green lane. Oli Ice-toothed King, I loved you once-but now I never see you come without a pang Of hopeless pity shadowing my brow, To think how naked Ccsh must feel your fang. My eyes watch now to see the elms unfold, And my ears listen to the callow rook. I hunt the palm-trees for their first rich gold, And pry for violets in the southern nouk. And when fair Flora sends the butterfly Painted and spangled, as her herald mnmmer; Now for m4axin holidays'" my heart will cry, The poor will suffer less Thank God for Summer ELIZA. COOK.

[FOlt THE WELSHMAN.] pARK AGE LAWS AND FUSTY LEGISLATION." If any man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are Spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness."—GAI.. G, 1. Among my father's boyish recollections, I remember his describing the spectacle of human heads, on poles, grimly lowering over the crowd of living ones pressing through the narrow portal of Temple liar, and horrible .remains of human carcasses rotting above ground, on he equally crowded thoroughfare of London Bridge, ije remembered paying a baubee" for a peep through a itelescope to soiiie "cannie Scot" who was earning a penny by thus gratifying the young idea" with the startling ruin of a face (Lord Lovat's) brought to the ■very orifice of the tube. These great." physical lessons" were then thought absolutely necessary to deter men from-High Treason Among my own childish recollections stood equally prominent a gibbetted man The gibbetted man," being very near my father's country residence, that word became as familiar to us children, as the dog kennel, or the pigeon house, and actually fell into such contempt" bred of familinritv" (as my old copies" had it) that (horresco referent!) we used to run thither before breakfast, and try to bring down one of his long-bleached toes or fingers, with missiles. And this exploit was accomplished by a brother come home from school but that school was an aristocratical one—Westminster—perhaps had it been a plebeian and private one, he would not have set so bad an example to us juniors. 1 well remember the first ,ibbet c l ose to a lonely b,-trn impression of the tall dingy gibbet close to a lonely barn on the Uxbridge road, only five and half miles from Ty- burn Turnpike, facing a rural lane leading to the pretty villages of Burrows, Hendon, &c. It was all over studded with great rusty nail heads, (to prevent its easy cutting down, I suppose), which, at the distance it stood from the high road, some 200 yards, gave it the look of being coloured with blood dark from congelation, and this, with the audible creaking of the swinging cage, hooping in the dea,L in rags of his own dress, when the back- ground of sky happened to be lurid, formed a sccne of sufficient terror for womanhood and childhood at least. My mother, I well recollect, never passed it without averting her head, and complaining of the ghastly nui- sance, quite unaffectedly, and as our house stood at The Hyde, then a really rural wayside village, she had to pass it whenever she went to or from London. And this bug- tear to weak-nerved persons, was also then deemed ne- cessary to deter people from becoming murderers. It is now a wonder to us, how such abominations as men's heads and members festering in the sun, sickening the eye of heaven," as our fine old dramatists* expressed themselves, in full view of citizens going about on the day's business, could have been tolerated in the gay me- tropolis of England. Probably, it will hereafter be a curiosity of memory to our children, that in their fathers' time it was judged absolutely necessary, as a preventive to bad language,—a great practical lesson against foul- mouthedness,—a terror to evil-sl)pakei-s,-a, iv-.trnitig to scolds (fine as cucking-stools or stocks themselves) that any drunken babbler out of whose mouth should fly a trope," shaped into the terrible word, w let him repent, recant ever so elsewhere, must stand in church, in a white sheet, holding a candle, and thus converting a worship place into a stage, God's temple into a place of penal execution completely pervert its purpose and nature, and force the whole congregation to withdraw their thoughts and souls from the God they were ealmlv addressing, to witness a ridiculous mummerv, but not innocent in its very absurdity; a spectacle palpably in- volving vindictiveness. heart-burning, smothered fury in one bosom, most unchristian triumph in another, how- ever self delusion may hide its real character from the tiiumphing party aggrieved. I say, surely another generation (why not this ?) will look back on these barbarous penal vagaries of a Court proverbially the terror of good as well as evil doers, (though, par excellence, denominated Ecclesiastical") in the same spirit of angry astonishment and disgust, as ice now revert the mental eye to quartering men alive, to exposing heads on poles, bodies in cages, &c. Sir II. Fust might be only carrying out imperative rules of this Dark Age court, for ought I know, and "to do a great right" feared to do "a little wrong"—but if so, surely, both he and the people of all England have a right to be relieved from a court and a law which served to bring such a scandal on all Law and even the Christian religion itself (unless we deny its administrators to be Christians) as the frightful riot, fight and J'tin, and fury that dis- graced the church of Fen Dilton so lately-a locality within a mile or two of Alma Nlater -proh pudor under the very wing of that august and holy Mother! Two centuries ao-iii a comparatively barbarous age —among a semi-barbarous populace—in the height and heat of a great strug le between a king and a whole people, a scene occurred, almost as monstrous and inde- cent, and rebellious to Order and God himself in the then remote wild locality of the Scottish capital, when a prelate's head became the mark which (not monarchs," but) a mob aimed to hit"—with joint stools, hassocks, and other missiles. Yet with all the palliation of tyrannic edicts and excuse of barbarism, that desecra- tion of the house of God has been thought worthy of marked notice by all historians. "Magna componere parvis" -th,it is to say, to compare the most Reverend prelate of St. Andrews with the Reverend Mr. Small, who kindly officiated," we are told, for the worthy jvjear, that he (seated beside his gentle lady, in her rc- tiring injured innocence) might enjoy at leisure his glorious victory over his poor ruined gardener, there seems some slight similarity in their very awkward position but Mister Small's was a voluntary one, and for my part, I think lie acted very foolishly in persisting quite through a preposterous farce, which he saw was hurrying on spriolls results that might have become tragedy. Whpn he found that his proceeding was dt- rectly producing a breach of the peace, desecration of a temple, when missiles were flying, and the house of prayer" was converted into a den of-wild beasts-if not thieves," or something almost as unchristian, in the bestial passions which this abominable show had aroused, why, in the name of common sense (set Christianity's name aside) did a minister of a gospel of peace doggedly persevere? Was it temper, or devotion to his meek patron (and patroness) to whom he became the luckless locum tenons f Or cOllld if he n sense of duty ? Most mistaken, if it was\~Pantomine he perceived, it must be, for nobody could hear the man's recantation. Utter failure, he must also have perceived the whole wretched affair to be, for the tables were so turned that the aggrieved was become the punished party, the offending, the triumphant, the all-applauded one; again and again, I demand, why did not the "roan of God," the man of peace, end the insult to God, the violent ^breach of the peace, by ending at once, the irritating mummery, pantominr, tragi-farce, or whatever right reason might denominate it ? Really the luckless lucky fellow, who was only chuckling over his late master, in this punishment for a slip of a drunken tongue, seemed the oiilv rea.,oniib,e peroi, presc-nt. I am your prisoner," said the fallen hero of the fiddle, I will do what vou may dircct, you see irhat a state the Church is ùi"- implying his willingness to put to stop to the dis- graceftil riot. What could be more sensible, humble or reasonable ? The triumph was all his own vet he're- pressed all wish to prolong it, to enjoy the hurrahs, and bra v(ls of his party. And the educated, the clerical, the reverend" party would not sec the state the church was in, would not put a stop to its desecration, its con- version into a bear-garden, or a Donnybrook Fair booth or Prize-ring, or whatever else it was become rather than what it ought to bc-a temple under their especial, pro- tection 1 There, through all the hubbub still sat the sad victor over Smith, the \'il/age fiddler, mutterin ."another such victory," &c. There sat the partner of his sad triumph, trembling for his head and her own, as the torn up pew fragments flew by- Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee! Small heart had the reverend hero (the Church's "warlike son") to enjoy that good I'he lovely Lais" it will be recollected, could hit on no nobler or more J*niT)inc me.de of nmnsing her lord, than setting fire to n. tcr.pi^, It is iiai-(',Iy an to coti)l)iire the :emal'.?;o,?? inc('ndbr', whose poor and nnfcminine pKasur it ??K, to sit, the gazr of a Sabbath breaking, i'yj.toti*. «)(j h''stHe mob, to her prototYF; the mental ,0, It,.stile nicb, to l?er prot(?tyl?c the n;ctital, fires kindled by the one being no less palpable in the Christian than those lighted by the other in a heathen temple. To conclude, let us look grave (provoking to bitter laughter as the turning of the tables on the poor couple is) and remark on the monstrous character of th:" obsolete barbarism of dark ages, or if not obsolete, the I more shame to the present age (of Intellect!) that it is not. In what spirit is it expected, is it ordained, that a congregation shall approach the Throne of the heavenly Grace?" With a pure heart-" a humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart." Now. in how diametrically opposed a frame of mind must a great many of those who will throng a church, on the occasion of a public penance,approach that ttiroiie ? The ag- grieved party has, of course, numerous friends to witness his or her triumph over the slanderer. How different from such "pureness, humbleness," &e. &c., is the spirit of vindictive exultation, it needs no conjurer to perceive. Again, has the shamed, sheeted, ridiculous, yet doleful culprit no party, no friends ? In this case, at least, he had an overwhelming majority" literatim, for they had almost whelmed his opponents under Pelion I)i'ic,l on Ossa—hassocks heaped on prayer-books! In every case there must be tiro hostile parties gathered together, on the Lord's day"—face to face —smothering rancorous heartburnings—" curses not loud but deep"—one to enjoy over a paltry enemy, a far more paltry triumph- the other to suffer the short degradation and long malice of a punished culprit, malice tenfold bitter for the ab- solute ridiculousness of the figure he is compelled to exhibit. And all this conflict is to he forced on the abstracted minds and disgusted eyes of the neuter por- tion of God's sincere worshippers all for the good of the example no doubt, as efficacious as gibbetted men, and ''drawn" entrails, and "quartered" human beings! Bv the way, who is to pay the £ 42 odd, costs imposed on the poor man for using a bad word, toward his for- mer fellow-servant, the reverend gentleman's former house-keeper — PRESENT lawful lady, (of retiring noto- rietv) when, as he confessed, he was both drunk and foolish ? Good God! is it possible that virtual Impri- sonment for life can be pronounced by Ecclesiastical or any other Court, for such lapsus Ihtgnnc of a drunken man, in the England of the 19th century ? Costs to such amount do constitute such a sentence when against a poor village fiddler. Strange anomaly! that of all dreaded Courts (even Equity, (!) not excepted) none are so dreadful as that deriving its very name from the Church the Church of Him who said Love one ano- ther I?cqiriese(it in pace or at least, let it not foment breaches of the I)CIce! I Builth. D.

I THE COMTEXSATION OF BIBLICAL LEARNING. Look to the Episcopal bench, upon which we shall not find one man of any eminence in Biblical scholarship, ilthotigh there are not wanting men of renown in clas- sical Greek. Is more proof wanting ? Look to the his- tory of the living men of most note in this branch of sacred learning. Where is Thomas Hartwcll Home ? Fixed in the most expensive city in the world, in a small city parish, with three hundred and six pounds a year, and honoured with the least of all the London pre- bends, which makes the handsome addition of eleven pounds a year to his income. Therefore his days are g iven to the Biitish Museum, and to the dreary work of cataloguing. Where is Samuel T. Bloomfield ? lie is, what he was in 1814, vicar of Bisbrooke, Rutland, with an income of two hundred and fifty-two pounds by the year and a year or two ago there came to pass concern- ing him one of the strangest things we ever heard of- that he, a clergyman, for whom the richest Church in the world has such ample means of providing according to his acknowledged claims, was thrust as a pensioner for £ 200 a-year upon that miserably scanty fund at the disposal of the Government for the use of literary men. Then there is Dr. Samuel Lee. It might have been expected that bishops and chancellors would have has- tened to shower benefices and honours upon one who has so long enjoyed the reputation of being the first Biblical Orientalist in this country. But what is the fact ? That he was allowed to go on some thirty years without any notice from the Church whatever, deriving his income from entirely extrinsic sources—a poor pro- fessorship, aided by superintending the Oriental studies of young missionaries, and by editorial labours for the Bible Society. At length, in his old age, he has obtained an incumbency, affording an income not greatly below that of a middle-class tradesman, and which would have availed him much had it come twenty years sooner than it did. George Stanley Faber was more fortunate. He ob- tained early, through Episcopal patronage, about the same benefits that Dr. Lee found only late in life. Rec- tor of Long Newton he remained, until in his old age he was glad to accept the higher advantages which the mas- tership of Sherburn Hospital offered. He may have seemed fortunate compared with many of his brethren in the afflictions of Biblical scholarship—but we must consider what he obtained in connexion with what the Church has the means of bestowing, and with what it does bestow on men of another sDr t.N'orth British Pevietc. THE I.AOCOON CRITICIZED. An Englishman and an Indian were passing along by a very narrow trail through a thick forest, when a cry was heard in the wood like a child in great pain, or more like the noise a hare makes sometimes when in the fangs of a dog. They neither of them knew what it could be but pulling out their pistols, and tying up their horses, worked their way into the wood in the direction of the cries, which were still heaid. About a hundred yards inside the wood there was a thinner space, and as the cries seemed nearer, the party approached with more caution, until the Indian caught the other by the arm and pointed to an object that had already caught his eye it was a boa crushing a young roebuck—young, but still with short horns. If the sculptor of the famous Laocoon had had an opportunity of studying nature, he would have simplified the folds of his serpents it is true the elegance of the varied twinings would have been lost, but what would be lost in beauty would be gained by the strength of truth. There were only two folds of the heaviest part of the snake's body fairly round the body of the deer, just behind the shoulders; onefold over the other, to increase the weight and power con- centrated upon one spot. The head and neel. of the boa passed under the neck of the deer, and rising high on the other side, held fast by her teeth upon the back of the deer's head. The tail had two turns round a young tree close by. So furiously was the boa engaged with his prey, that he never remarked the observers it is true they were well concealed by the iiiiderii-ood but, no douht, if he had not becn so well occupied he would have been aware of their presence, and glided off. On a proposition to pitch into the snake and save the deer, the Indian answered by walking very gently off, and signing to the other to follow him. On regaining the horses, the Indian remarked that it would have been madness to have fought a. large, irritated brute like that, as one or other of them would most likely have got such a squeeze he would not soon forget. This was about seven o'clock in the morning so, after marking the trees carefully with the machetes, the party went on to an Indian village where they had some business; and on their return, about four o'clock in the evening, stopped once more at the notched tree. Dismounting, they proceeded cautiously towards the spot where the unequal contest had been going on in the morning and nearly upon the same spot, extended straight on the ground, was the porpoise-looking brute, with one of the horns of the roebuck protruding from one corner of his mouth, and the other seeming as if it would perforate the neck every instant; the tail was still coiled round a small tree, though not the same as in the morning and the centre of his body looked like a nine-gallon cask. Stand clear of the tail," said the Indian; and a few blows from their sharp macheter soon finished him lie was perfectly powerless tried to throw up the deer, but could not; and made no resistance.— Byam's Life m Central America. TIIE MARQUIS OF Dor"no .VXD THE EMPEROR OF I RUSSIA. Some years ago, the Marquis of Douro visited Russia, for the purpose of enjoying the pleasure of wild bear hunting. Just as he was returning from the Russian dominions, where he had been most hospitably received, having heard there was to be a review of 100,000 Russian and Prussian combined troops at Kalisz, in Western Poland, he stopped in that town. The Em- peror of Russia an,l the King of Prussia wcre present at this review and the former, wishing to oblige ali the foreign officers there present, invited them, collectively,* to dine at the imperial table. Douro, in considera- tion of his title, his connections, and in his quality of a British nobleman, recommendations fully appre- ciated abroad, had the place d'honncur assigned him, and was seated at the right of the Emperor. It was re- marked the first and second day that the Emperor con- versed freely with all the foreign officers present, at his table, but never addressed one single word to his British guest. The Marquis of Douro, who is un homme cville, and who has the reputation of possessing strong per- ceptive powers, was somewhat piqued at this apparent slight on the part of his imperial entertainer and gave hints, indirectly, to General Count Bekcndorf, the chief aide-de-camp of the Emperor Nicholas, that it seemed to hi:n as though he must, in some way or other, have in- curred the displeasure of his Imperial Majesty but that he was wholly at a loss to know in what manner he could have deserved the Emperor's anger. General Beken- dorf immediately answered, that the Emperor of Russia, his master, who rules over fifty millions of men, and who was always anxious to discharge faithfully the duty imposed on him by Providence, was at times absent and pre-occup'ed in his mind, and might consequently appear careless about his guests, though nothing in reality might be further from his intention; that his obliging disposition towards all foreigners, without exception, who did not meddle with politics in Russia, was so well know and fully acknowledged, that it needed no com- ment that he was sure that the next day his Imperial Majesty would redeem his unintentional neglect, and wou!d not flit to opcn to the noble Marquis the large stock of his knowledge and the hidden treasures of his ever-entertaining conversation — a mark of attention to which the Marquis was entitled,not only by his birth but by his amiability, numerous qualities, and unblemished cha- racter. The next day Douro was again present at the imperial table. The Emperor never once looked at him entering into a long conversation with a person seated at the right of theMarquis,but never addressed one single word to the litter it was even remarked, that when the Emperor accidentally turned his head towards Douro, the imperial features momentarily assumed that icy coldness and stern forbiddingness of expression, pe- culiar to the morose character which is often attiibuted to him. After the dinner, Douro again mentioned to General Bekcndorf that he was now quite sure that the Emperor was seriously angry with him but that of the existence of any probable cause of offence on his part, or of the reason for his having thus incurred the displeasure of his Imperial Majesty, he, the Marquis, was as completely ignorant as of the hour and manner of his own death. Bekcndorf, visibly embarrassed, an- swered, that, some time ago, it was reported to the brn- peror that the noble Marquis had been present at a ball given for the relief of the Polish refugees in London. That the Emperor was so much surprised at such a re- port, that he would not at first believe that the son of the Duke of Wellington could have attended such a ball, and that it must have been a mistake but that the news of his being actually present was subsequently officially confirmed to his Imperial Majesty; he thought, there- fore, that this circumstance might probably have dis- pleased the Emperor, and that this might perhaps be the real cause of the latter not having manifested to him those marks of kindness uniformly extended by the Emperor to all foreigners of distinction. After this explanation, the Marquis of Douro, to the great regret of the inhabitants of Kalisz, left. Polano. and returned to England.—Krasinski's History o f the Cossacks of the Ukraine. J

WALES OXCE AX ISLAND. It is impossible for any thoughtful man to stand on any of the outlying hills of the Cottcswolds, and look down upon the fertile vale of Gloucester, through whi('h the even now broad Severn winds its tortuous cour"c, without inquiring was this always so, or if not what are the changes through which so much of beauty has sur- vived, what circumstances have, in times past, operated so as to model a fine valley, with graceful undulations to high hills on either side, in a manner so picturesque and fertile ? The changes which have con- tributed the greatest share in altering the physical con- ditions of the Yale of the Severn are referable, first, to the denuding action of water and, secondly, to conse- quent influx of drifts from various sources. A careful examination of the geological structure of any of the outlying hills, such as Brcdon, near Tewkcsbury, and Churchdown, near Gloucester, will show us that they are composed of beds precisely the same as those whi\'h make up the base of the Cotteswolds. Here then is presumptive evidence that the beds once continlle,1 in a direct line, but that a separation has been caused be- tween the outlier and the main chain by the action of water and this strikes us with greater force if we ex- amine the combs and bays—beautifully rounded as they are -everywhere shown along the escarpments of the Cotteswold and bounding these trace the harder rocks worn in holes and undermined, as seen at Cleeve Cloud, Birdilp, and Lineover, while at the base of these, from the washing away of the clays from beneath the oolite, we find the latter has toppled over, and in some instan- ces formed subsidiary hills thus Shurdington-hill, three miles from Cheltenham, has been formed by slipping away from Leckhampton, and as a proof of this the beds of Shurdington will be found to occupy a position just the reverse of what they do at Leckhampton. Shingle has been traced by the author following the course of the river into Shropshire, where it appears to leave the river the latter winding off to the west, whilst the gravel, with shells, wends through Cheshire and Flintshire and on the supposition of this detritus being transported by marine agency, it makes a connec- tion with the sea, south of Liverpool. Thus a connec- tion is kept up by means of these shelly deposits from the Bristol Channel to the south, to the channels of the Mersey and the Dee to the north so that here appears evidence of the most conclusive kind, not only that the estuary of the Severn was at one time—within the mo- dern gealogieal epoch-considerably wider through the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, but that a strait absolutely connected the British Channel and the Irish Sea. j'rofcssor Buckham on the Ancient Straits of Malvern. I A PERILOUS SITUATION". Early in the summer of 1S46, two Englishmen were travelling in an open carriage in the south-east of France. Whilst descPJJdin a mountain of terrific steepness, down the side of which the road wound in a zigzag fashion, the wheel got jerked out of the skidpan or drag, and the horses gradually increasing their pace, flew at full speed down the almost precipitous road. The travellers, percei- ving the awful danger to which they were exposed, threw themselves down at the bottom of the carriage. Suddenly the leading horses shied at some object bef,)t-o tlien-i, and instantly dashed over the low wall at the side of the road, followed by the others, while the postillion threw himself on the ground. Down below was almost a sheer precipice of two or three hundred feet. Over went the horses and carriage. One of the travellers afterwards described to me his sensations. He said there was scarcely time to tliink,btitlie was perfectly conscious they weregoing down the precipice, and expected to be instantly dashed to pieces, when suddenly there was a violent jerk which almost shook them out of the carriage, their descent was arrested, and they seemed to be almost hanging in mid air. They both raised themselves cautiously to recon- noitre their position. Looking down the precipitous slope of the mountain, they saw far below them the hor- ses lying together in aheap in the lower road, apparently dead. Looking upwards they saw above them the broken wall in a few moments the blank and terror stricken visage of the postilion was seen peering hopelessly over. On perceiving them it was illuminated with delight, which, the next instant, gave way to horror. The drag of the carriage had become jammed in a crevice of the rock, and now sustained the whole weight of the vehicle as it hung upon the slope of the precipice. Ropes were procured, and the travellers were rescued.— Lofoden. THE EFFECT OF CHARCOAL 0:0; FLOWERS. About a year ago I made a bargain for a rosebush, of magnificent growth and full of buds. T waited for them to blow, expecting roses worthy of such a noble plant, and of the praises bestowed upon it by the vendor. At length, when it bloomed, all my hopes were blasted. The flowers were of a faded colour, and I discovered that I had only a middling multi-flora, stale coloured enough. I therefore resolved to sacrifice it to some ex- periments, which I had in view. My attention had been captivated with the effects of charcoal as stated in some Enghsh publications. I then covered the earth in the pot, in which my rosebush was, about half an inch deep with pulverised charcoal! Some days after I was as- tonished to see the roses, which bloomed, of as fine lively rose colour as I could wish I determined to repeat the experiment and therefore, when the rosebush had done flowering, I took off all the charcoal; and put fresh earth about the roots. You may conceive that I waited for the next spring impatiently, to see the result of this experim- ent. When it bloomed, the roses were, as at first, pale and discoloured but by applying the charcoal as before, the roses soon resumed their rosy red colour. I tried the powdered charcoal likewise in large quantities upon my petunias, and I found that both the white and the violet flowers were equally sensible to its actions. It always had great vigour to the rc,l or violent colours of the flowers, and the white petunias became veined with red or violet tints; the violets became covered with irre- gular spots of a bluish or almost black tint. Many persons who admired them thought that they were new varieties from the seed. Yellow flowers are (as I have proved) insensible to the influence of the charcoal.— ParÙ Horticultural Review. A ROMANTIC SOUTH AMERICAN TALE. A strange incident took place in Buenos Ayres a few few days since. A man far advanced in years had been employed to convey a box to a certain quarter in the city, but previous to reaching his destination he fell dead in the street. The authorities ordered the body to be removed to the hearse depot, the box being meanwhile left in an adjoining house. The inmates proceeded to examine the box, when to their astonishment it was found to contain the skeleton of a child, and the skull and some other bones belonging to the adult. This discovery was communicated to the proper authorities, and at length the following particulars transpired Don Ramon Duran, a native of Catalonia, in. Gpuin, married in Buenos Ayres many years agn, a wealthy lady called Donna Isabel Romero, for whom he professed the most tender attachment. The latter dying, D.uran, by some means, obtained the skull and some of the other bones of his deceased wife, which he ever after kept with the greatest care, wrapped up in a piece of black silk. Some years after the death of his first wife, Duran married a second-a person many years younger than himself. By this wife he had a daughter, on whom he fondly doatcd. but the latter dying about 1820, when only in her seventh year, Duran was plunged in the deepest grief, and determining not to part with his daughter's body, had it secretly embalmed, and subse- quently put into a box along with the remains of his former wife but, in order not to appear as opposing the laws and established customs, he went to the expense of a mock interment. This less exercised so strong an impression on his mind, that he seemed indifferent to all about him, and his affairs began rapidly to becline. Itig keenly sensitive heart was, however, destined to feel another, and from the attendant circumstances. still more painful bereavement in the elopement of his wife, which event almost "unseated his judgment. Ruin made now such rapid strides in the fortunes of this hapless man that in the course of a short time the once wealthy proprietor was reduced to the condition of a common beggar. But lie had still one treasure left; the humble suppliant wandering from door to door, dr- pendant on public charity for support, had yet in his possession an ignored and priceless gem, which shared with him his fortunes, whatever roof his claims al- lowed"—the box containing the bones of his wife and child. He thus lived for a series of years, and, when- ever it became necessary to shift his place of residence, the box containing the precious relics was ever his first care, and for which lie craved a shelter under the title of important papers. His last residence was the house of a widow who had known him in better times. Here lie lived until sickness overtook him, when the scanty means of his hospitable landlady, not allowing her to administer to his wants, he was removed to the public hospital, where he died about a year and a half since. This lady, who appears to have imbibed his prejudices, out of respect to his memory, would not for a long time allow the relics he so highly prized to be removed but the earnest solicitations of her acquaintances, who were already as well as herself apprised of the contents of the box,inducedher at last to consent. Proper steps hav- ing been consequently taken to ensure their admission to the public cemetery, an old man was employed for the purpose of conveying them to thf hearse depot, who, as we have seen, sunk under his burden to rise no more. According to the report of the medical gentleman who was called in to examine the body, death was occasioned by a fit of apoplexy, induced by over-cxcrtion and the effects of intemperance on a day of unusual heat — Buenos Ayrean Packet of tIle loth of February.

Ers(11 H.ACES.- TilE OAKS—(FRIDAY.)—Lord Ches- terfield's Sister to Arkwright, F. Butler, 1 Mr. B. Green's Lady Superior, Robinson, 2 Mr. Wreford's Woodlark, A. Day, 3. The following also started but were not stated :—Mr. Payne's Glauca, Mr. F. Clarke's Lady Trypena, Mr. Cuthbert's Emma Donna, Lord Strathmore's Eva, Lord Stanley's Escalade, Mr. Gre- ville's Clarissa, Mr. Gully's Ladv Jersey, Lord Exeter's Grace, Duke of Richmond's Highland Fling, Mr. Dell's Imperatrix, Mr. E. Jones's Docility, Mr. B. Way's Dolly Varden. Won by a length. 1.5 ran. NEWPORT, MONMOUTHSHIHB. -CAUTII)-, TO MAS- TEDS OF VESSELS BRINGING PASS EN GENS i-p(-)Il IRE- LA D.-A CAPTAIN FINED £ 200!!—Jasper Tracers, master of the James," of Kinsale, appeared on Thurs- day last at the Town Hall, to answer an information for having carried forty passengers more than allowed by his license from Cartmasherv, in Ireland, to this port. It was proved that defendant's vessel arrived Oil the 22nd inst. with 119 adults and 78 children passengers on board and also 16 horses and 30 sheep,-all con- fined together in the hold, the vessel being only 78 tons register She was much over-crowded, and in a very offensive state on her arrival. Never were seen such starved and miserable looking beings. The defendant's license allowed him to carry only 9S passengers. The defendant said he did not know the number he had r\<\ I)o.ird.-The case being clearly proved, Travers was being Ei eaeli for 10 passengers in default of payment lie was committed to L'sk house of correc- tion for two months. j AN IRISH REASON rou EMIGRATION.— One of our I compositors, who is of a delicate constitution, and about to emigrate to Sydney, consoles himself with the idea that night work there will have very little effect on his health, as night in the antipodes is contemporaneous with day here. —Lciuster Express. Fashinnablc society is II merry-go-round, that fin,t ¡ makes u? giddy and then »itk. — Eliza Cook's Journal. I

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY, MAY 24. Their Lordships met shortly after 4 o'clock. The Royal Assent was given to-day to thirteen private and public Bills. On the motion of Lord Brougham the Bankruptcy Consolidation Laws Bill was committed pro forma. Lord Beaumont presented the report of the Com- mittee, recommending the erection of a temporary Ite- porters' gallery. The Marquis of Lansdowne gave notice that, on the understanding that the temporary gallery would be erected, he should move on Friday that the House do adjourn to the Monday se'nnight following. NAVIGATION LAWS. On the motion of the Marquis of Lansdowne, their Lordships resolved themselves into Committee on the Navigation-laws Repeal Bill, Lord Beaumont in the Chair. On the clause enacting that the measure shall come into operation on the 1st of January, 1850, being pro- posed, The Earl of Ellcnborough moved that the word" one" should be added, so that the Bill should not come into operation until January, 18 1. Earl Grey opposed the amendment, which was re- jected by a majority of 13 the numbers being-for, 44 against, 57. Some discussion ensued on an amendment, moved bv the Earl of Waldegrave, to restrict the benefits of a British register to British built ships. On a division 37 voted for and 49 against the amendment. ljord Stanley declared, that after what had taken place, and the extraordinary measures resorted to by the government to secure a majority, he would no longer oppose the further progress of the measure. Lord Wharncliffe also withdrew an amendment of which he had given notice, and the bill went through collirilittee. Their lordships soon after adjourned. FRIDAY, MAY 11. EXCURSION TO PARIS. Lord Brougham called attention to an announcement that a deputation of the English people was about to visit Paris and he wished it to be understood that the persons comprising it were not clothed with any official character whatsoever. He hoped that our representative at Paris would not give them any countenance. The Marquis of Breadalbane said the people of this country had a perfect right to visit France either indivi- dually or in a body, and so long as they conducted them- selves with propriety, no person should interfere with them. Lord Brougham said he never proposed that the peo- ple should be prevented from going to France. The Marquis of Breadalbane was happy to hear the noble lord's explanation. Lord Brougham exclaimed, "Explanation I had none to make;" and the matter ended in a laugh. The Report of the Navigation Bill was brought up, and the third reading was fixed for Tuesday week. PROTECTION OF WOMEN. On the motion of the Bishop of Oxford, his bill for the protection of women was read a second time and their lordships adjourned until Monday next.

I HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY, MAY 24. The Speaker took the chair a few minutes before Four o'clock. Mr. J. Williams presented a petition from a place in Monmouthshire praying for an extension of the juris- diction of the County Courts. Mr Pryse presented a petition from Cardigan in favour of vote by ballot. Mr. Deedes presented a petition from Kent complain- ing of agricultural distress in that county. I NATIONAL ARBITRATION. Mr. Cobden postponed his motion for national arbitra- tion until Tuesday, the 12th of June. Mr. Ewart gave notice that on an early day he should move for the repeal of advertisement duty. I THE BALLOT. Mr. 11. Berkeley presented a petition, signed by 7,188 inhabitants of the eity of Bristol, in favour of the ballot, and another, signed by 2,000 inhabitants of Cheltenham, to the same effect. Mr. J. Williams presented a petition from Macclesfield, and another from Mr. Fowler, residing in Cardigan, to to the same effect. Mr. II. Berkeley then rose and said that in conse- quence of the resolution passed last session he had now the honour of presenting himself to the House to ask for leave to bring in a Bill to give the electors of Great Britain and Ireland the protection of the ballot in the discharge of their solemn and bounden duty to return fit and proper Members to serve in Parliament. (Hear.) He hoped he should not be told that the House was sur- prised at the passing of such a resolution, as such an accusation would be most unjust, since his motion was on the Votes and Proceedings of the House for full three months before the motion had an opportunity of being heard. All the usual notices had been before Hon. Members. There was the notice which they lia,l on their table every morning before and after notice had been given. There was the regular notice which they had a second time on the Saturday before the week in which the motion took place and thirdly, there was the printed notice on the day on which the motion was made, consequently it was impossible to say that the House was surprised at such a motion, and it was impossible to disturb the decision. In addition, too, to these regular notices, in consequence of the vexatious counts-out of the House during the last session, he addressed a letter to the editor of the Times newspaper, stating his inten- tion to bring on the question, even if he made use of the privilege of taking a government night. Nothing, then was left undone on his part to secure due attention to the motion and that motion, deferred by no fault of his, came on for hearing on the 8th of August last in a much fuller House than usually transacts the business of the country at that period of the session —a House consist- ing of 171 Members, exclusive of the Speaker. Now, if at that season there were Honourable Members not pre- sent who were more intent upon attending to their pri- vate pleasures than discharging their duty to their con- stituents, the decision ought not to be disturbed on that account, otherwise as well might they establish that the decision of a quorum of a Committee should not be binding because some of the Members thought proper to go to the Derby or the Oaks. How, therefore, Hon. Members could refuse him leave consistently, to bring in this Bill he could not understand that was if they de- | sired to uphold the dignity of the House. (Hear, hear.) There was one particular argument on which the oppo- nents of the ballot founded their case: it had been used by the Right lion. Baronets the Members for Tamworth and Ripon, and the Noble Lord the Member for the city of London, their whole case depended on the assumption that secret voting was hostile to the principles of the constitution of the country. He utterly denied the value of any such argument. At every general election tens of thousands of electors were driven to the poll under the screw of landlords, bankers solicitors, credi- tors, and customers, whde a similar number, owing to the prsent system, thought it advisable to pursue the middle course, and either refused to vote, or refused to register. (Hear. hear.) And it waS ridiculous to say in face of the evidence which was before their, that that was the exception and not the rule. The Honourable Member for Birmingham (Mr. Muntz) had stated that at least 1,000 electors in that town were deterred from giving a conscientious vote, yet in the face of a multitude of evi- dence of that kind the :N-ol)le Lord (Lord John Russell) and those who argued with him, would persuade the House that, this country' was in a primitive state of noli- tical innocence. lie, however, thought that the ove-ivcan- ing lust for political sway on the part of the higher classes had rendered nugatory all powers of resistance by the poor and middling classes, and reduced then) to a state of political bondage. (Hear.) The Hon. Member then read a petition from Bristol very numerously signed, stating the ballot had worked admirably in the United States. No higher etilogilim could be passed on the ballot than did this petition it was utterly impossible to do so. In America the ballot acted as a shield to the voter; but intimidation stood forward and sought its abrogation, in order that the slave trade might be per- petuated and tyranny do its work, and turning to our own country he found that its concession to the people was denied on the same ground—namely, that of intimi- dation. But if he had a doubt that the ballot would work well, that doubt would be at once removed on a comparison between our electoral system and that of Belgium. In 1830, under the influence of the French involution, a new Belgian Constitution was formed. The qualification to entitle a person to vote averaged, according to the different localities, from the payment of 20 to 100 florins. In 1848, however, the Belgians im- proved their electoral system one universal qualifica- tion of twenty florins paid in direct taxation amounting to £ 1.15s. 2d., being the qualification. Thus the electoral body was increased from 40,000 to 80,000, and the system had worked most beneficial for the welfare of the country. The progress that had been made under the system was perfectly remarkable. He pointed to Belgium to show that the ballot would be perfectly efifcacious liere-he pointed to it as a practical instance that the working of the ballot in England must rival the working of the ballot in Belgium, but it was not neces- sary that it shpuld do more than accomplish the sanie good purpose it had in Belgium. The Hon. Member then referred to a work addressed to the Conservatives of England by a Conservative, which as far as he could understand the Hon. Member, approved of such pro- tection being afforded to the voter as the ballot. The writer then proceeded to state the monstrous injustice that was done by Election Committees, and cited the case of the Honourable Member for Dublin, and the vexa- tious proceedings taken in that case. He had pointed the attention of the House to the example of Belgium, and having done so, he thought he had laid a solid foun- dation for his case. He \IS' much struck the other day by referring to a speech made by hisKoyal Higness Prince Albert during his late visit to Lincolnshire. HIsKoyaI Hig ncss on that occasion gave infinite praise to the rela- tions existing between landlord and tenant in that part of the country which he said did not depend upon mere written, but upon mutual trust and confidence between the parties. lie confidently believed that the measure he now proposed would tend to cement the good under- standing which ought to prevail between landlord and tenant., for he believed it would have a tendency to im- prove the relationship which all orders of society ought to bear to each other. Let them put their trust in the people and they would conifde in them. He believed that the measure if carried would cause the rich to be more careful of the interest of the poor—(Loud chcers)- It would have a tendency to prevent absenteeism he believed it would extend the use of the suffrage, and he asked leave to bring in the Bill because he felt it would cause the privilege orders of society to endeavour to gain that by merit which they were now trying to gain either by gold or force, namely, political distinctions —(Cheers) -aiid, lastly, he asked for leave to bring in this measure, because he believed it would tend to uproot terrorism, which was the foul blot on the escutcheon of the Consti- tution of the country. (Cheers.) Mr. John Williams seconded the motion with great pleasure, for under the existing system, intimidation and corruption was the rule, aud those who justified it must cither give up their case or put forward some new argu- ment against the present motion. (Hear, hear.) He stood there as the representative of a class of traders who were remarkable for attachment to the constitution but even they, while exercising the franchise, were com- pelled either to violate thrir consciences or submit to ,oss.- (Cries of Hear, Hear.") He had suffered much in this way himself. He had long considered it the right of every man of full age to be entitled to the franchise, and as lie never concealed his opinion in that respect, he had suffered much in trade through it.- (Hear, hear.) Some time ago he took an interest in the election of a friend of his for Marylebone, and because he refused to sacrifice his conscience and support to the other party, one of his best customets directed him to send in his account, adding that he should never darken his doors any more.— (Hear and a laugh.) So with re- spect to one of his neighbours in Regent-street, whose connection lay amongst the aristocracy, on the occasion at the same election a noble lady called upon him to solicit his vote but he had already promised it. Upon hearing which, she said, Oh, you tradespeople ought to oblige your customers, and if you do not vote for us, I will go the Duchess of So-and-so, Lady So-and-so, and the Honourable Mrs. So-and-so, and get them to with- draw their custom." That was a simple and true illus- tration of the operation of the present system, and it was therefore high time that some change were effected. (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member concluded by seconding the motion. Mr. Grantley Berkeley gave his cordial adhesion to the measure. He read several letters from tenant farmers, and others among his consitllents, complainin of the influence exercised upon electors by landlords, and stat- ing that they would rather be without the franchise than with it, and only allowed to exercise it as they did at the present moment. One tenant farmer had had his farm taken from him, which he had held under Lord Fitzhar- dinge for upwards of thirty years, and who did not even vote at the last election. The Honourable Member then read sevaral other letters from electors, showing the ex- tent to which treating and intimidation was resor- ted to during the last election. His Hon. Friend, the Member for Manchester, (Mr. Milner Gibson), might be compared to a political Joseph he had been obliged to flee from the Treasury bench in order to save his po- litical virtue. (Great laughter.) He was of opinion that shortening the dnratioll of Parliaments,without the ballot, would be valueless. Indeed, instead of having a beneficial effect it would place greater power in the hands of Peers and other persons of influence. He should be curious to see how those on the Government benches would vote on the question. In 1842 the follow- ing -gentlemen voted for the ballot:—Colonel Anson, Mr. Bellew, Captilin Berkeley, a relative of his own, the Hon. Geojge Byng, Admiral D,indas-(Tle-,tr, hear)—Sir George Grey— (Cheers and laughter)—Lord Marcus ifill — (Cheers and laughter)—the lIon. Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Fox Maule —(Hear, hear, and laughter)-Mr. I)arker- (Hear, h^af)—?%Ir. Ponsonby, Mr. Redington, Mr. Sheil -(Hear, hear) —Sir William Somenille (Laughter, and cries of Hear, hear")—Mr. Tufnell — (Cheers and continued laughter)—Mr. Ward, Mr. Buller, and Mr. Gibson Craig. —(Cheers and laughter. )-He was curious to know how these Gentlemen would vote on the present occasion—how far they would sustain their former pro- testations on the present occasion.—(Hear, hear.) He trusted the House would see the necessity of affording them the protection of the ballot. Captain Berkeley entered into a defence of Earl Fitz- hardinge. After a pause of a few minutes, during which there were loud calls for a division, Mr. J. W. Fox said he scarcely expected the house would have been disposed to dismiss in so snmmary-he might call it s,) coDteiilpttloti,a manner a proposition which had received the sanction of their deliberate reso- lution. He then proceeded to argue in snpport of the motion and was followed, amidst manifestations of great impatience for a division, by Sir H. Verney, who opposed the proposition. Mr. H Berkeley observed that the silence of her Ma- jesty's government on the motion had left him nothing to reply to. Whether that was a respectful mode of treating so important a question was for themselves and for the country to consider. He should divide the House. I The House divided, when the numbers were-For the motion, 85; against it, 136, majority against, 51. COLONIAL C.OVKKXMEXT. Mr. Roebuck moved for leave to bring in a bill for the better government of our colonies in North America, South Africa, Australasia, and New Zealand, and ex- plained at length the principles on which his measure would be founded. Mr. Ilawes and Lord John Russell opposed the mo- tion on the ground that the plan proposed could not effect the objects contemplated, while the laying of the bill upon the table might lead colonies to conceive that parliament was about to adopt all Mr. Roebuck's views. The motion was supported by Mr. Gladstone, with a view to ascertain what could be done in the way of improved colonial management but on a division the numbers were-For the introduction of the bill, 73 against, IIG; majority, 43. The encumbered estates (Ireland) bill went through committee. The landlord and tenant bill was read a third time and passed, after a division, in which 74 voted against, and 15 for, Colonel Sihthorp's amendment to take the third reading of tho hill that day six months. Mr. T. D'Eyncourt's bill to shorten the duration of parliaments was brought in, and read a first time. Second reading June 27.—Adjourned. FRIDAY, MAY 25. I THE DISTRESS IX IRELAND. I On Lord J. Russell moving the adjournment of the House until Thursday next, Mr Herbert asked Lord J. Russell whether he was aware that a dead human body had been cast on the shore in Ireland, and devoured by the starving pea- santry. Mr. P. Scrope wished to impress on the House and the Government the awful responsibility they incurred in not doing something more effectual for the relief of the Irish people Let it not be said that the people of England were responsible for this misery, for they were ready to sanction any measure Government might pro- pose to mitigate, if not to remove it. With the Govern- ment,then,must rest the responsibility, as they had it in their power to apply to Parliament for additional ad- vances, or to propound some scheme for the profitable employment of the starving Irish people." LorZI J. Russell replied that he had not received any official information of the horrible circumstance men- tioned by Mr. Herbert; and he reminded Mr. Scrope of what the Government had done this session for Ireland —" No less tii-in ESO,000 had been advanced for reliev- ing the miseries of her people, besides the other mea- sures of a remedial character, and whatever the hon. gentleman might say about the responsibility of Govern- ment, what he could only reply was, that Government had done, and were still anxious to do, all in their power to improve the condition of Ireland." (Cheers.) Mr: O'Connell, Mr. Monsell. and Mr. Osborne urged the necessity for im mediate relief. The Chancellor of the Exchequer reminded the Irish members that they had obstructed the rate in aid Bill :— The opposition to granting relief came not from him, but from Irish members, and Mr. O'Connell voted against the rate in aid, against measures for relieving districts, and now he turned round and complained that he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) was hard hearted and indifferent to the distress which existed. lie thought that those Irish members who made such appeals for the suffering Irish might have accelerated the progress of the bill through the House." (Hear.) The Govern- ment would not shrink from asking the House for a further advance when they believed it to be necessary to mitigate the distress, or from appealing to Parliament for money on the credit of the rate in aid. Mr. E. B. Itoche and Mr. Reynolds said hundreds of thousands of the Irish peasan'ry were dying of hunger Mr. E. Dcnison and Sir J. Young defended the Go- vernment. Lord Castlercngh asked whether he was to understand that no further grants would be made to Ireland ? Lord J. Russell said he had always refused to pledge himself against making further grants to Ireland; but the government must be left to their own course and to meet all exigencies in their own way. The motion for the adjournment over the holidays was then agreed to, and the conversation dropped. SALARIES AT THE ADMIRALTY. On the motion for bringing up the report on the Navy Estimates, Col. Sibthorp moved that the sum vote d for the salaries of the principal officers of the Admiralty Board should be reduced from £1:36,03 to £ 132,753. Sir F. Baring said the remuneration of the officers was small for the duties. THE ARMY ESTIMATES. The House went into committee on the Army esti- mates, and a number of votes were taken on account. The House resumed, and adjourned, at half-past nine o'clock, until Thursday next.

THE VACANT COLON r i.ci F, -The colonelcy of the loth Hussars has been conferred on Major General Ilrothei-to-i, Inspector General of cavalry. The appoint- ment is universally considered a tribute to service, worth, and professional talent. The gallantry of the 14th Dragoons at Fuentes D'Onor is inseparably connected with the fore-sigh t and in trepidity of Captain Brotherton. The Major General was wounded at Salamanca. Major General Sir John Grey, who has being transferred from the 73d to the 5th Foot, was formerly in the latter regi- ment during the Peninsular war, and was a major in the 2nd Battalion when it was assailed by a body of French and Polish Lancers at El Bodon. He was also at the siege and storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, the latter of which operations was carried by his battalion. Previous to his service in the Peninsula Sir John Grey was in India, and obtained a medal for his services before and during the memorable siege and assault of Seringapatam. In 1843, and for two or three years subsequently, Sir John Grey commanded a division of the Bengal army, and shared in the operations in the Gwalior territory, for which he was decorated and obtained the distinction of K.C.B. Major General Hare-Clarges (better known to the army as Major-General Hare), who has succeeded Sir John Grey in the coloneley of the 73d, dates his war services from the expedition to Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercromby. Thence he proceeded to Hanover, under Earl Cathcart, and afterwards to Spain, where he served under Sir John Moore, and was present at Corunna. During the inglorious and disastrous Walcheren expedition, Major General Hare Clarges was on the staff of Sir Thomas Graham. He subsequently served on the staff of the Duke of Wellington as Assistant Adjutant General, and received a medal and clasp for the Nivelle and Nive. The colonelcy of the 28th Foot has been given to Major General Duffy, C.B., an officer every way deserving to succeed so illustrious a soldier as Sir Edward Paget, Major General Duffy commenced his active career in the West Indies, in 1790, under the lamented Sir Ralph Abercromby. He was afterwards in the expedition to the coast of Holland in the winter of the same year, and then proceeded to the East Indies. When Sir David Baird proceeded with a force to Egypt, to combine with the expedition from England in checking Napoleon, Major General Duffy accompanied the force, for which service he obtained a medal. In 1407 he was at the siege and capture of Copenhagen, and the battle of Cioge served the Spanish campaign of 1808 and 1809, with Sir John Moore and was from 1809 to 1814 with the 43d Light Infantry throughout the Peninsula, serving at Pombal, Redinhn Sabugal, Euentes D'Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Vittoria, Vera, the Nivcllc and Nive, and several lesser affairs in the Pyrenees and in the Bidasoa. At Vittoria, Major General Duffy was wounded on the head.— United Scrvicc Gazette.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 1 So determined were ministers to carry their Navigation bill, that Lord Clarendon was in attendance from Ireland, Lord Normanby from Paris, Lord Cowley from Frank- fort, Lord Howard de Walden from Brussels, Lord Ponsonby from Vienna, and another peer arrived from Spain but two hours before the division. It is rumoured that Lord Gough is about to be ad- vanced to the rank of Viscount, and that General Sir Walter Gilbert will be raised to the Peerage. Lord Gough has sent over E70,000 for the purchase of an ancestral estate in Ireland Mr. Robert Vernon, donor to the nation of a splendid collection of paintings, died a few weeks ago, in his 75th year. At Armagh, last week Dr. Dixon, professor of scrip- ture at Maynooth, was chosen successor to the late Archbishop Croly. The numbers were: -For Dr. Dixon, 2G votes for Dr. O'Hanlon, 12 for Dr. Vueran, 12. Mr. Samuel Dickson and Mr. Thomas Fitzgerald, both Liberals (it is understood), are in the field to contest the representation of Limerick county, in the room of Mr. Smith O'Brien. The town-dues of Liverpool for Monday last amounted to EIIOO. James Burnett was executed at Aberdeen on Tuesday week, for the murder of his wife by poison. He con- fessed his guilt on the day after he was tried. In 1740 there were only two furnaces for smelting iron in Glamorganshire, two in Monmouthshire, and two in Breconshire, producing altogether 1900 tons of iron annually; and as late as 1790 the shipments of every description at Newport and Cardiff were carried away in two small sloops, trading weekly to each place.-Sb- Thos. Phillips's Wales. In the Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday the judges discharged a rule which had been granted to show cause why a writ of habeas corpus should not issue, directed to the keeper of the gaol at Shrewsbury, to bring up the body of a woman named Newton (tried last assizes for the murder of her mother, when the jury were discharged without returning a verdict) in order to her being dis- charged from custody. The court held that there must be a verdict, one way or the other. A little boy named Wildman died at Dewsbury last week, while in a fit of hearty laughter. Messrs. Newman and Pomeroy, ministers of the Methodist and Baptist persuasions, have been, it is said, murdered in California. The Marchioness of Waterford is building, at her own cost, a new church at Guilcoh, in the diocese of Waterford. The first stone was laid on Wednesday. The inscription on it is remarkable "To the Glory of God. Laid May, 1819, by George Wilson, aged lOG years; erected by Louisa Marchioness of Waterford." The grand ball, in celebration of the opening of the Manchester Exchange Extension, and in aid of the funds of the baths and wash-houses, was held on Friday night, and was a most brilliant and fashionable affair. There is now residing at Scalpa, Harries, north of Scotland, Marian Morrison, who, in December last, was 107 years old. She hears and sees as well as in her youth, and can travel, on a plain road, ten miles in a day, without being fatigued she never uses spectacles, and she can knit and darn without them. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, if bad fish was sold to the poor, the knavish fishmonger was decorated with a necklace of his own unsavoury commodity, and was then perched on a stand in the market. The extent of the debts of the fascinating Countess of Blessington, who is gone to Paris, may be judged by her owing H. and J. the milliners, upwards of £8000. The Exeter Flying Post says that Mr. Charles Bow- ring, youngest son of Dr. Bowring, late M. P. for Bolton, has been received into the Romish Church, intending to become a pt iest. We understand that the magnificent estate of Clief- den, near Maidenhead, late the residence and property of Sir George Warrender, Bart., with all the costly effects, has been purchased by Messrs. Farebrother and Co. for his Grace the Duke of Sutherland.—Standard. Mr. Mackinnon has abandoned all intentions of again bringing in his bill for preventing interments in towns. He will leave the matter to the government. The monks of Mount Melleray are about to abandon their settlement in the county of Waterford. Altered circumstances have so reduced the value of reclaimed wastes in Ireland that the brethren feel constrained to abandon their extensive improvements, and seek their fortunes in America. The men employed at the Leeds and Thirsk railway work have erected a monument to the memory of some of their fellow-workmen who were accidentally killed in the formation of the line. It may be generally known that ploughing up a public footpath is an offence at common law, and farmers who commit such an offence are liable to punishment for if • such, however, is the case. The United States government intend dispatching forthwith two of the national ships in search of the lost exploring expedition of Sir John Franklin, in the Arctic seas one to go East round Cape Labrador, and through Davis's Straits, and the other West to Behring's Straits. The law expenses in English railways it is said aver. aged £4,000 per mile, and the purchase of land £ 4,000 per mile. Three hundred houses of ill-fame have been sup- pressed in the metropolis by the exertions of the Society for the Protection of Young Women. Ensign Palgrave, of the 8t.h Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, has resigned his commission for the purpose of being ordained a Priest of the Roman Ca- tholic Church, to which he had been converted. The Rev. R. L. Carpenter, of Bridgewater, late mi. nister of the Unitarian congregation there, has ceased to hold that office, because he could not conscientiously, as an advocate of temperance, receive as a portion of his salary the rents of certain beer-shops. A native of Wales writes to the Liverpool Mercury that he, a few nights ago, discovered that a pretended Hindoo, who entered a tavern near Clayton-square, was a fellow-countryman, who had coloured his face and dressed himself in chintz, the better to obtain alms. At the close of the year 1848, the number of national schools in Ireland amounted to 4,109, and the number of pupils on the rolls to 507,409. From the annual report of the Ragged School Union, We learn that the m, tropolitan district now numbers 82 ragged schools and about 9,000 scholars, besides 20 industrial workshops in which boys are prepared for colonial life. From a Parliamentary document, just printed, it ap- pears that, in 1848-49, the sum of JEl.5,434 3s. 8d. was granted for educational purposes in Scotland, of which E:3,291 2s. 3d. was given to the Established Churq^, £ 12,521 lis. 5d. to the Free Church, and £ 328 10s. to other denominations. Mr. Jelinger Symons, Government Educational In- spector, was prevented from attending the dinner of the Herefordshire Society by serious indisposition, caused by a singular accident on Wednesday last. It appears that Mr. Symons was riding incautiously within the reach of the breakers on the beach at Aberystwith, when horse and rider were knocked down and immersed by an unusua'ly large wave. Mr. Symons was suffering from an attack of influenza at the time. Refined cookery is one of the most destructive in- ventions ever adopted for shortening life it heats and stimulates, and by its agreeable effect upon the palate, induces us to eat more than we ought, and give the stomach thrice or quadruple the amount of labour it is capable of performing the result is artificial fever, drowsiness, heaviness, and a disordered system and digestion. In an almanatk inlended for the religious portion of the public, and which gives a text for each day of the year-under a certain date stands Cambridge Term ends. The text which follows is—" Cease to do evil, learn to do well." A girl living at Carlisle was recently left at home alone, as housekeeper, in the evening, and fell asleep in her chair before the fire. Something suddenly and roughly awakened her, when she instantly discovered that her pinafore was ill a blaze. The cat had been her preserver having, on witnessing the ifre, mounted to her shoulder and torn her hair with its claws till she was fully aroused to a sense of the danger in which she was placed. The Athlone,' merchant steamer, having attempted to pass through Spithead, on Tuesday, without showing her colours, she was hailed from the Superb, 80-gun ship, and having made no answer, the Superb fired a shot a- head of her, upon which she hove to, had her papers examined. hoisted colours, and proceeded on her voyage. The West of England Dissenters' Proprietary School, at Taunton, has been empowered, by warrant under the Queen's sign manual, to issue certificates to students, entitling them to become candidates for de- grees in arts and laws in the University of London. It is calculated that the prime cost of the materials used in England and Wales to produce artificial light, viz., coal, oil, tallow, camphinc, &c. cannot be less than £ 11,336,000 per annum. It has been decided by the French government to give up the Marquesas, but to retain Tahiti. A large quantity of flax seed, supplied by Sir Richard O'Donell, Baronet, to his tenantry in Mayo, for the purpose of sowing, was disposed of at the mar- kets of Castlebar and Westport during the past week, at one-half the price which it cost the proprietor. Miss Wallace, a lady of fortune, has recently dis- covered a mode of gilding and colouring the interior of tubes of glass, which, when so prepared, form a most ) magnificent beading for the decoration of rooms. It is also applied to the framing of pictures with great suc- cess, and in a variety of ways, in connexion with decora- tive art, at once novel and attractive.

A HIT. On Sunday morning last, Professor Eagle," the great Wizard," who had a performing booth at Hereford fair on the preceding day, missed some of his horses which had been sent to graze in a lane contiguous to the city, and, in his search for them, he encountered a rustic who had chanced to be at his exhibition on the preceding day. The Professor" asked the rustic if he had seen his horses. Instead of answerin g the question, John asked another: —" Beynt you the conjuror as was cutting off the folks's heads and putting um on again isterday ?" The professor" answered in the affirmative. Then," said the rustic, if thee be'est a conjuror, I'm sure thee dost not want me to tell thee where thy bosses be !Ile?-efoi-d Times. A ROD IN PICKLE FOR ROYALTY.-—The gentleman who has been recently appointed tutor of the heir appa- rent to the throne of England, bears the somewhat ominous name of Birch. It is to be hoped that, under the discipline of his tutor, it may not be strikingly evin- ced that his Royal Highness is, in more senses than I one, 'he Prince of Wales. GEEROUS LANDLORDS.—At the audit of the ?'-  Hon. Earl Beanchamp, at Madresne?d Court, Wore* £ on Wednesday last, the stewards, by order of d ship, returned to the tenants 10 per cent, on the El ot, ot of their rents.—C7;?<-H/M?t The ev .gie II. Lee Warner, of Tiberton Court, in this cou'?.' returned 10 per cent. to his tenants, at his re t  on Monday last.—Hereford Journal. The Be?- <j mas Scutt, at his audit last week, returned to his ten8|i.e 15 per cent, on his rents.—Brighton Gazette. At ??e audit of Fulwar Craven, Esq on Tuesday last. J1 unsQ?rited, returned 10 per cent, to his G?oucester?' and WDtshire tenants, at the same time intimating,¡; should the present depres-ion continue, it wa intention to make a permanent reduction in ?his and do all he could to meet the exigences of the t'  Clteltenham Journal.

LONDON GAZETTE. T!AxIVRr'PTS,—( Friday, May 25J—T. Cox, Han-to)* Staffordshire, draper.—J. B. Davis, Newton Abbott, De< vonshire, ironmonger.—T. Fenwick, and R. Kidd,T?? mouth, Northumberland, brewers.—D. Grant,Greenw!? manufacturer of the patent gas Ught apparatus.?' MHcs, builder, Grcenwich.-N. D. MOHis, Herefor hop merchant.—R. Nott, Peter-street, Bristol, iron mer- chant.—W. Nicholson, Pontefract, Yorkshire, saddler.- W. Dakcs, Oldham, Lancashire, clock and watchmaker. —P. Perrett and C. Garton, Bristol, inaltsters.-J". Phillipps, Upper Bullingham, Herefordshire, H. Rogers, coal merchant, Whitchurch, Southampton' J. Snowdon, jun., Ingoldsmelk, Somersetshire, farfflff" —S. Stone, Strangewavs, Manchester, baker.-S. Si4 draper, Worcester.—R. Williams, Liverpool, tailor. Wilson and H. Corbett, Manchester, merchants. BAXKiu;rTS.—( Tuesday, May 29.)—W. Line, bW^ maker, Pavilion-place, Turjiham-grcen.—J. PhillipPS" banker, Upper, Bullingham, Hercfordshirl'J. Burnar,d. painter, Bideford, Devonshire.—E. Raisbeck, ironmasWO Dewsbury, Yorkshire,—J ohn Eastwood, manufacturer, Farnley Tyas, Yorksliire.-W. R. Allanson, corn factl)" New Malton. —M. L. Pritchard, and R. N. Dale, stacic and sh arcbrokprs, Liverpoo,G. Boggs, merchant verpool.—W. Labrey, grocer, Manchester.

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