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THE MYSTERIOUS LODGER. FROM THE "DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.' ( Coi'ti.wed from our last.) There iq nothing, I believe, more infectious than that species of nervousness which showlS itself in superstitious fears. I began—although I could not bring myself to it—to partake insensibly, but strongly, of the peculiar feelings wilh which my wife, and, indeed my whole house- hold, already regarded the lodger upstairs. The fact was, beside, that the state of my poor wife's mind began to make me seriously uneasy and although I was fully sen- sible of the pecuniary and other advantages attendant upon his stay, they were yet far from outweighing the constant gloom and frequent misery in which his pro- tracted sojourn was involving my once cheerful house. I resolved, therefore, at whatever, monetary sacrifice, to put an end to these commotions; and, after several debates with my wife, in which the subject was, as usual, turned in all its possible and impossible bearings, we agreed that, deducting a fair proportion for his fire weeks' sojourn, I should return the remainder of his £100, and request im- mediate possession of his apartments. Like a man sud- denly relieved of an insufferable load, and breathing freely once more, I instantly prepared to carry into effect the result of our deliberations. In pursuance of this resolution I waited upon Mr. Smith. This time my can was made in the morning, somewhere about nine o'clock. He received me at his door, standing as usual in the stealthy opening which barely admitted his lank person. There he stood, fully equipped with goggles and respirator, and swathed, rather than dressed, in his puckered black garments. As he did not seem disposed to invite me into his apart- ment, although I had announced my visit as one of busi- ness, I was obliged to open my errand where I stood; and after a great deal of fumbling and muttering, I contrived to place before him distinctly the resolution to which I had come. But I can't think of taking back any portion of the sum I have paid you," said he, with a cool, dry, emphasis. "Your reluctance to do so, Mr. Smith, is most hand- some, and, I assure you appreciated," I replied. "It is very generous; but, at the same time, it is quite impossi- ble for me to accept what I have no right to take, and I must beg of you not to mention that part of the subject again." And why should I take it?" demanded Mr. Smith. Because you have paid this hundred pounds for six months, and you are leaving me with nearly five months of the term unexpired," [ replied, I expect to receive fair play myself, and always give it." < But who on earth said that I was going away so soon?" pursued Mr. Smith, in the same dry, sarcastic key. have not said so—because I really do6;'t intend it; I mean to stay here to the last day of the six months for which J have paid you. I have no notion of vacating my hired lodgings, simply because you say, go. I shan't quarrel with you-I never quarrel with janybody. I'm as much your friend as ever; but, without the least wish to dis- oblige, I can't do this, positively I cannot. Is there any- thing else ?'' I had not anticipated in the least the difficulty which thus encountered and upset our plans. I had so set my heart upon effecting the immediate retirement of our in- auspicious inmate; that the disappointment literally stun- ned me for a moment. I, however returned to the charge: t urged, artd prayed, and almost besought him to give up his apartments, and to leave us. I offered to repay every farthing of the sum he had paid me—reserving nothing on account of the time he had already been with us. I sug- gested all the disadvantages of the house. I shifted my ground, and told him that my wife wanted the rooms; I pressed his gallantly—his good nature—his economy; in short, I assailed him upon every point—but in vain, he did not even take the trouble of repeating what he had said before-he neither relented, nor showed the least irri- tation, but simply said— I can't do this; here I am, and here I stay until the half-year has expired. You wanted a lodger, and you have got one—the quietest, least troublesome, least ex- pensive person you could have; and though your house, servants and fu. niture are none of the best, I don't care for that. I pursue my own poor business and enjoyments here entirely to my satisfaction." Having thus spoken, he gave me a sort of nod, and closed the door. So, instead of getting rid of him the next day, as we had hoped, we had nearly five months more of his company in expectancy; I hated, and my wife dreaded the prospect. She was literally miserable and panic-struck at her dis- appointment—and grew so nervous and wretched that I made up my mind to look out for lodgings for her and the children (subversive of all our schemesof retrenchment as such a step would be), and surrendering the house abso- lutely to Mr. Smith and the servants during the remainder «f his term. Circumstances, however, occurred to prevent our put- ting this plan in execution. My wife, meanwhile, was. if possible more depressed and nervous every day. The servants seemed to sympathise in the dread and gloom which involved ourselves the very children grew timid and spiritless, without knowing why—and the entire house was pervaded with an atmosphere of uncertainty and fear. A poorhouse or a dungeon would have been cheerful, com- pared with a dwelling haunted unceasingly with unearthly suspicions and alarms. (would have made any sacrifice short of ruin, to emancipate our household from the odious menial and moral thraldom which was invisibly established over us—overcasting as with strange anxieties and an un- defined terror. o < Meanwhile, the unaccountable terror which our lodger's presence inspired contiuued to inciease. One of" our maids gave us warning, solely from the dread of our queer inmate, and the strange accessories which haunted him. She said-and this was corroborated by her fellow-servant tbat Mr. Smith seemed to have constantly a companion in his room that although they had never heard them speak, they continually and distinctly heard the tread ot two persons walking up and down the room together, and described accurately, the peculiar sound of a stick or crutch tapping upon the floor, which my own ears had heard. 1 hey also had seen the large, ill-conditioned cat I have mentioned, frequently steal in and out of the stranger's room; and observed that when our little girl was in greatest danger, the hateful animal was constantly writh- ing, fawning, and crawling about the door of the sick room after nightfall. They were thoroughly persuaded that this ill-omened beast was the foul fiend himself, and I confess I could not—sceptic as 1 was—bring myself ab- solutely to the belief that he was nothing more than t. a harmless, necessary cat." These and similar reports— implicitly believed as they palpably were by those who made them- -were certainly little Calculated 'o allay the perturbation and alarm with which our household was filled. The evenings had by this shortened very much, and darkness often overtook us before we sate down to our early tea. It happened just at this period of which I have been speaking, after my little girl had begun decidedly to mend, that I was sitting in our dining-parlour, with my little boy fast asleep upon my knees, and thinking of I knftw not what, my wife having gone up stairs, as usual, to sit in the room with little Fanny. As I thus sate in what was to me, in effect, total solitude, darkness unper- ceived stole on. On a sudden, as I sate, with my elbow leaning upon the table, and my other arm round the sleeping child, I felt, as I thought, a cold current of air faintly blowing upon noy forehead. I raised my head, and saw, as nearly as I could calculate, at the far end of the table on which my arm rested, two large green eyes confronting me. I could see no more. but instantly concluded they were those of the abominable cat. Yielding to an impulse of horror and abhorrence, 1 caught a water-croft that was close to my hand, and threw it full at it with all my force. I must have missed my object, for the shining eyes continued nxed for a second, and then glided a little nearer still. The noise of the gla» smashed with so much force upon the table called. in the servant, who happened to be pas- sing. She had a candle in her hand, and, perhaps, the light alarmed the odious beast, for as she came in it was gone. I had had an undefined idea that its approach was some- how connected with a designed injury of some sort to the sleeping child. I could not be mistaken as to the fact that I had plainly seen the two broad, glaring, green eyes. Where the cursed animal had gone I had not observed: it might, indeed, easily have run out at the door as the servant opened it, but neither of us had seen it do so; and we were every one of us in such a state of nervous excite- ment, that even this incident was something in the cata- logue of our ambigiuous experiences. • This cry, or rather yell, reached my ears as I sate read- ing in the parlour by myself, and fearing I knew not what I rushed to the apartment, before I reached it, the sound had subsided into low but violent sobbing: and, just ar- rived at the threshold I heard, close at my feet, a fierce protracted growl, and something rubbing along the sur- base. I was in the dark. but, with a feeling of mingled terror and fury, I stamped and struck at the abhorred brute with my feet, but in vain. The next moment I was in the room, and heard little Fanny, through her sobs, ° 44 Oh, poor baby is killed-that wicked man has killed him—he uncovered his face, and put it on him, and lay upon the bed and killed poor baby. I knew he came to kill him. Ah, papa, papa, why did you not come up be- fore he went ?-he is gone, he went away as soon as he killed our poor little darling baby." It was quite plain that she despaired of the child from moment we had ascertained that it was unwell. As it hap- pened, her presentiment was but too truly prophetic The apothecary said the child's- ailment was "suppressed small pox;" the physician pronounced it typhus." The only certainty about it was the issue—the child died. While I was thus lost in a sorrowful reverie, the gen- tleman who had stood near me at the grave was once more at my side. The face of the stranger, though I could not call it handsome, was very remarkable; its expression was the purest and noblest I could conceive, and it was made very beautiful by a look of such compassion as I never saw before. *4 Why do you sorrow as one without hope t" he said gently. 441 have no hope," I answered. Nay, I think you have." he answered again; and I am sure you will soon have more. That little child for which you grieve, has escaped the dangers and miseries of lite; but he will receive in the end the crown of Jife. God has given him an early victory." I know not what it was in him that rebuked my sullen pr.ide. and humbled and saddened me, as I listened to this mltn. He was dressed in deep mourning, and looked more serene, noble, and sweet than any I had ever seen. He was young, too, as I have said, and his voice very clear and harmonious. He talked to me for a very long time and I listened to him with involuntary reverence. At last, however, he left me, saying he had often seen me walking into town, about the same hour that he used to go that wav, and that if he saw me again he would walk with me, and so we might reason of these things together. It was late when I returned to my home, now a house of mourning. (To lie continued.)

» The first great gift we can bestow on others is a wood example.—6ir C. Moore. ° .J.ruth is 'possible to be soiled by an outward touch astAe sunbeam. —Milton. pi *w?ESTY'~A beautiful fl<wer ,hat flourishes in secret j .T*° \™h™n on« d*y. one of them inquired of the other if he had seen his friend Pat Murpliv lately 1 y'/Z^T" *° !,hl,n ,hal y°u »•« know him at all You are thin, and 1 am thin, but by the now- ers, he is thinner than both of us toy, tlier. I NOT TO BE BoRNE.-MrS Herbert, the Bedchamber Woman going to Court) In a hackney-chair, the chairmen were excessively drunk and, alter tossing and jolting her t'lr some minutes, set the chair down and the foreman up the top, said 14 Madam, you .ire so drunk that it I yon do not sit still it will be impossible to carrv voii" Horace Wulfmte. 1 liere an? ,„(irt. f,)0|s fcr)nv,-s in the world, else the [ fcudVfs would u.)t Ii<ivc tuougii to live upon. a

VARIETIES. "Father, aint you opposed :0 monopoly?" shouted a little fdlow, as his free-trade parent took up the brandy bottle. 44 Yes, my boy." Then give me a drink too." Mr. Timm," -.aid a wag, "how do you keep your books?" 44 Oh by double entry." 44 Double entry, how's that ?" Oh, easy enough—I make one entry, and father makes another." 44 If you area single man, Pik, taik my advice, and stay so or if you permit yourself to be overcum by a widder! Thems the sentiments of one who has tried and noes." 44 Be careful how you drink, or you'll wash the colour from your cheeks I" said a gentleman, ai a fashionable party, as he handed a glass of water to a lady." There is no danger of your ever taking water enough to remove the colour from your face was thejgood-natu.ed retort. Ah M Simpkins, we have not chairs enough for our company/' said a gay wife o her frugal husband. 44 Plenty of cnairs, duckey, butlittle too much company," replied Mr. Simpkins wi;h a knowing wink. By relying on our own resources, we acquire mental strength; but when we lean on others for support, we are, like an invalid who, having accustomed himself to acrutch finds it difficult to walk without one. THE three most difficult things are—to keep a secret— to forget an injury—and to make good use of leisure. Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding. That civility is best which excludes all superfluous formality. An honest man is believed without an oath, for his re- pudiation swears for him. Often from our weakness our strongest principles of con- duct are hot n and, from the acorn which It breeze has wafted, springs the oak which defies the storm. It is more noble to make yourself great than to be born so. Benevolence is allied to.few vices selfishness to fewer virtues. Humility is the low but bread and deep foundation of every virtue. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in our families, our tempers; and in society, uur tongues. It is the prerogative of genius to elevate obscure men to the higher class of society. Reading is the ally, not the adversity of genius; and he who reads in a proper spirit can scarcely read too much. Proud men never have friends; either in prosperity, because they know nobody; or in adversity, because then nobody knows them. Never condemn a friend unheard, orwithout letting him know his accuser, or his crime. The commentary of a severe friend is better than the embellishments of a sweet-lipped flatterer. 11 is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured. He that has cut the lion's claws will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth. Where merit appears, do justice to it without scruple. You can never overtake time. It is best therefore to be always a few minutes before him. Wickedness is generally a plant of slow growth, and we rarely find that extreme youth is totally devoid of virtues, though it may be stained with many vices. Go not to your doctor for every ail, nor to your lawyer for every quarrel, nor to your bottle for every thirst. Errors are good examples. Politeness is like an air cushion—there may be nothing solid in it, but it eases the jolts of the world wonderfully. Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those in- genious men who are deprived of honours and of wealth. A man's works make a man of him. PRINCIPLE IN LITTLB THINGS.—Principle should always be unfolded, and especially in connexion with little things; tor it .here be no principle in things which are small, sure we are there will be none in things which are great. GENTILITY.—Eating your meat with a silver fork, though you have not paid the butcher. READING AND THINKING.—Those who have read everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading -urnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load ot collec- tions; unless we chew them over again they will not give strength and nourishment. Richard Cromwell's retirement was so complete that when, late in life (1705), he appeared in the Court of Chancery, he was not recognised until the Lord Chancel- lor (Cowper) desireu him to be pointed out. requested him to take a seal on the judicial bench. "Forty.six years ago," exclaimed Bulstrode Whitelock, who was present, 44 I saw my father carry the great seal before that man in this very hall."

■■ FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY. Our millineis are, as usual at this season of the year, busily engaged in preparing ball dresses. Several of very beautiful description, composed of tarlatane and crape, have been completed during the past week. Tulle, also, is very generally employed tor ball dresses. The skirts of some crape dresses are trimmed with three flounces, each edged with a narrow ruche of pinked crape, and gathered up on each side of the skirt by a bouquet. When the dress is white this bouquet may consist of three roses of different colours. We have seen a dress made in this style, in pink, and a single white rose, with its foliage, was sub stituted for the bouquet of three roses. Several very elegant dresses, suited to evening and din- ner parties, have been made of white, pink, and blue plout de soie, embroidered up the front of the skirt. A superb dinner dress, recently made for a lady of rank, was com- posed of blue therry velvet, embroidered with white silk, the pattern small bouquets of flowers, thickly scattered over the dress. Artificial flowers have been produced this season in grerft variety. The garden, the field, and the hothouse, having been exhausted for models, our florists explored the woods and hedges, and at length have had recourse to fancy. As elegant examples of fancy flowers we may name some wreaths for the hair, composed of foliage of purple or of crimson velvet, interspersed with golden fruit of various kinds. Wreaths mounted in the Italian style are among the most fashionable ornaments for the hair. They are worn very backward on the head, and have, on each side, pendent branches, drooping almost to the shoul- der. The wreaths most suitable to the introduction of diamonds are those having velvet foliage of dark colours. Among the wreaths for ball dresses are some composed of small monthly roses, in different colours, with the addi- tion of sprays of fuschia, with gold stamens. The new bouquet de corsage is worn, not in front of the bosom, but on one side of the waist. Some of the new bouquets de corsage have affixed to them a bow of ribbon and long flowing ends. This ribbon may be embroidered with gold or silver.—Lady's Newspaper.

THE WORKING MAN.—Why should not every working man be a gentleman in his behaviour, and every woman a lady! Gentleinanliness, or ladylikeoess, does not con- sist in birth, in wealth, or robes, or jewels, or fashionable and costly clothing. There are those who possess aU these, and yet are very unmannerly. A gentleman literally, ori. ginally, and properly, signifies a gentle man, or one who is urbane and. kind in his conduct towards all pesons what- ever may be their rank, but especially towards those! who may, in any. respect, be deemed his inferiors. A A proud and haughty monarch, lord, or squire, is not a gentleman. A contemptuous, fastidious, disdainful, arro- gant, insolent princess, or duchess, is not a lady, and does not deserve the name of a woman. The working class have, generally, very distinct ideas of the true attri- butes of ladies and gentlemen. He is no gentleman," said an ostler, the other day, concerning a wealthy squire who had been assuming all sorts of airs about his horse which had stopped for some hours at the stable, for which he paid twopence! 44 My mistress," exclaimed a poor scullery girl, "is no lady, for she gives her orders like a vixen, and struts above like a turkey cock. It's true, she has plenty of money and finery, but she does not know how to behave herself to the poor. On the contrary, we have often heard such words as these:—His Lordship is quite a gentle!" Mrs. A. is a perfect lady!" and the rea- son assigned in each instance was.—44 They have no pride, and are so very kind to every oDe Hence, manners and morals, not money, or titles, or costly garments, make men gentlemen, and women ladies; and, therefore, we ask again why should not every operative bea gentleman, and every working woman a lady 1 The distinction is not a property qualification nor a hereditary right, but a mental and moral accomplishment which all may possess.— Working Man's Friend. AN INDIGNANT U BRITISHER.We had a very amu- sing example here of the power of womankind over the rough people, and also of the habitual respect and deference which is paid them. A stage was stopping to change horses, and when it drew up, we perceived that in its interior was seated a solitary individual. This individual was a gentleman, and we saw, with half a glance, that he was English. He was busily engaged in reading a newspaper, and with his feet comfortably stretched out on the back seat, was.paying no attention to the external sights and sounds. He was not, however, allowed to enjoy his luxurious solitude long; for imme- diately after the stage stopped, the master of the inn open- ed the door of the carriage, and' civilly requested him to move to the opposite seat, as some ladies were about to bear him company on the road. The Englishman's face of astonishment and disgust was highly amusing. He stared at his interlocutor, and looked anything but iu- clined to comply with his request. The mnkeeper con- tinued to assure him in a bland but still peremptory man- ner, that the move must be made, for that the ladies" were, on all occasions, to be considered first. This doc- trine seemed entirely new to the indignant traveller, who, after keeping silence for some minutes during the harrangue, with a dignity and solemnity worthy of his country, at last broke out with a degree of violence truly insular. He insisted that he had engaged the particular place he occupied at Cumberland, that he had paid for it, and would not give it up for any one living. It made him ill, he affirmed, to sit anywhere else, and being an invalid, he required consideration quite as much as any woman in the world. H is opponent only grew the calmer as the Englishman waxed the more violent. At length, the Yankee seemed to understand that there was no chance of concession, on the part of his dogged oponent, so he quiet- If shut up the door of the carriage, saying, Very well, sir, just as you please; you may stop there from this to all eternity, for what I care." Upon this the Englishman, evidently considering that he had obtained the victory, resumed his newspaper, perhaps his feet, and without condescending to cast even a look on the surrounding crowd, wrapped himself up in his studies. In the mean- time, we, who were behind the scenes, looked on, and smiled at the ingenious device to which the innkeeper had recourse. Within an almost incredible short time, another STAGE, which stood under a sort of open shed, was made ready for the journey, and the horses, which were to have been attached to the carriage in which sat the unsuspicious traveller, were affixed to the vehicle, which it was evident was intended by the treacherous innkeeper to take its place. The passengers were already seated in it, and there still sat the" Britisher," in the enjoyment of his lignified solitude, and perfectly unconscious of the absur- :lity of his position. A shout of laughter from the assem- bled bystanders at length compelled him to look up the stage was the very point of starting; already had the "all -ight," "go-a-heaa," been sung out, when perceiving that here was not a moment to be lost, the Englishman, with I degree ot moral courage for which I honoured him, umped out of his hiding ptace.with his pride in his pocket, jut with manifest confusion on his brow, and took his tiace in the contemned" back seat," amidst screams of aughter from the crowd, who were overjoyed that the fankee had "come 'possum' over the 'Britisher. I did tilt envy him his drive with the "women scorned," during he tedious hours that must elapse before lie would arrive it his journey's er.J.ilespero. of Troach III t/ui West.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7. No business of any public interest was transacted to- day. FRIDAY, FEB. 9. Lord Stanley gave notice that he should on the 18th inst. call the attention to the affair of Dolly's Brae, and to the conduct of the Lord. Lieutenant of Ireland in the matter. Lord Roden stated his intention of being at his place in the House on the 18th, and trusted that Lord Clarendon would also be present. Lord Brougham laid on the table a bill for consolidating and amending the criminal code, which was read a first time. Some other business was also despatched, and their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WBDNESDAY, FRB. 6. Mr. Hawes having moved the reappointment of a select committee upon the grievances of Ceylon, Mr. Baillie, the chairman of the committee of last session, read a cor- respondence between Earl Grey and himself, in which his lordship had declined to send for certain witnesses, named by him (Mr. Baillie), by direction of the committee, on the ground that the committee had no power to delegate such a power to its chairman; the result of which refusal would be to protract the inquiry beyond the present session. If the inquiry were fully and fairly carried out he declared that acts of atrocity would be proved in comparison with which the deeds of Field-Marshal Haynau in Hungary would appear mild and merciful. Mr. Baillie detailed certain acts of illegal severity on the part of Colonel Drought, Captain Watson, and others; but he could not undertake to prove his case if the witnesses required were not produced. If there was to be any inquiry it should be a fair one; and the house should not support a Minister of the Crown in a bold and unblushing attempt to baffle and defeat it. Mr. Hawes said that the proceedings of Mr. Baillie with regard to Ceylon had been matked with his usual injustice and want of candour. There had been no refusal of witnesses; the witnesses named by the committee had been sent for, and were now in this country. He denied that the committee had given power to their chairman to name witnesses, the expense of bringing whom would be from £400 to jE700 each. Mr. Hawes appealed to the House whether Mr. BaiUie's personal attacks, especially upon Captain Watson, one of the witnesses to be examined before the committee, were not most unjust, Mr. Hume, who had previously present a petition from Ceylon, signed by 37,965 persons, complaining of abuses of the Government, promised Mr. Hawes the House would have full satisfaction on this subject before they had done with it:—He would repeat the assertion of the hon. member who commenced this debate.thatthe atrocities com- mitted in Ceyton were unparallelled by anything that had taken place in Hungary, and that proceedings ot General Haynau were mild compared with the execution of mar- tial law in Ceylon. He denounced the conduct of Eail Grey as an attempt to stop the course of justice, and to prevent the elucidation of the fact whether the lives of her Majesty's subjects in Ceylon had not been trifled with. Twenty-eight persons were shot during these disturbances, twenty-two were banished, and sixty-six were imprisoned, and all this was owing to the wretched proceedings of the panic-stricken Government of Ceylon. And yet, on a question of such immense and vital importance to the colonies, a member of a Government that squandered millions upon millions could not take upon himself to incur the expense of bringing home these four witnesses. Mr. Disraeli accused Mr. Hawes of mystifying the House by the manner in which he had read the documents, and declared it would not be creditable to the House to desert their cemmittee. He appealed to Sir J. Graham to state the facts connected with the undertaking given by Government at the close of last session. Considering thattheconduct of the Government had been of a tendency to evade a fair inquiry, he proposed to amend the motion by adding the words, that;—44 In consenting to the reap- pointment of the committee, the House deemed it ex- pedient to express its disapprobation of the manner in which her Majesty's Government had evaded the under- taking of last session for the further production of wit- nesses." Lord J. Russell gave his exposition of the nature of the undertaking given last session, and contended that the committee had gone beyond its legitimate powers if it meant to delegate to its chairman an absolute authority to command a Secretary of State to summon any witness he might choose to name without reasons assigned. Had proper explanations been given, Earl Grey would have secured the attendance of the witnesses. Lord John regretted that Mr. Baillie should have raised these painful discussions, which would tend to disturb the tranquility of the colony, where inflammatory reports were already in circulation, so that the peace and happiness ot an im- portant possession of the British Crown were involved in this question. Sir J. Graham exonerated Lord J. Russell from the charge of having violated his promise; but practically the great question was, not a vote of censure moved without notice, but what the ends of justice required. It was impossible that this inquiry could be stifled; it must be prosecuted without reserve, and with the least possible delay, The committee might meet to-morrow and name the witnesses. Mr. Disraeli acknowledged that the amendment was open to objection for want of notice, and offered to with- draw it; but Lord J. Russell refused his consent, and the House divided, when the amendment was negatived, and motion carried by 140 to 68. Mr. Hume then mowed a resolution that certain wit- nessess should be summoned ro attend the committee, which Lord J. Russell resisted as a vote ot censure on tha committee, and upon a division, this motion was negatived by 109 to 100. The house adjourned at six o'clock. THURSDAY, FEB. 7. Mr. Roebuck addressed a question to Lord J. Russell in reference to Mr. Horsman's letter to his constituents, in which his lordship and Sir George Grey were, charged with an awful fraud upon the House, in having promised to introduce certain alterations and improvements into the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill, and having, notwithstand- ing, subsequently passed it without such introduction.— Lord John Russell, premising that it would have been but civil if Mr. Roebuck had given him some notice of his ldtention to bring this matter before the House, said he had not read the letter; he had been told that an attack had been made upon him, and he had expected that Mr, Horsman would have preferred his charge in that House, where he should have been ready to meet it. Lord John then gave a detailed denial of Mr. Horsman's allegations, declaring, in conclusion, rhat he dispised the charge, and could securely leave it to the House to decide whether he would be capable of a disgraceful fraud. Sir George Grey, with considerable warmth, denied all Mr. Horsman's charges, and commented with severity upon his conduct.—Mr. Horsman complained of the warmth manifested by the Ministers. He stood there to avow, to reiterate, and to prove his charge, and he left it to the House to decide what course he should take.—Lord John Russell said that Mr. Horsman ought to ask for a committee of investigation, the appointment of which he (Lord John) would not oppose.—The matter then dropped and some amusement was occasioned by the formal tone in which a matter-of-course motion was put immediately afterwards from the chair, forming a striking contrast to the animated discussion which had just terminated. Lord Dudlay Stuart (in a house of about fifty members) moved an address for copies of correspondence and other documents connected with Russian, Turkish, Austrian, and Hungarian affairs. He wished for information as to the part which Government had taken in the questions referred to in these documents. His lordship went at very great length into an examination of all the recent operations in Hungary, and, having detailed many cases of alleged atrocity on the part of the Imperialists, he defended the cause and conduct of the Hungarians, stig- matized Russia as a violator of treaties, and declared that this country was roused to the determination of protecting the Ottoman empire against the Czar, of whose" tradi- tional designs" he avowed himself apprehensive. Lord Palmerston said it was the wish of the Govern- ment to give all the information which it would be con- sistent with the public interest and with the courtesies between Governments to afiord; but the motion embraced so large a mass of correspondence that he trusted he should be allowed to make such a selectiou as would show the course which the Government had pursued. Although the result had not been exactly what might have been Wfu ^ie matter depended altogether upon the will of her Majesty's Government, under the circumstances the arrangement was the best that could have been made. There were, his lordship added, substantial reasons why he could not accede to the motion as it stood, Mr. Anstey did not think the explanation satisfactory, and would support the motion if pressed to a division. Lord Dudley Stuart was not satisfied with the power of Turkey to protect the detained refugees, for Austria was unscrupulous, and attempts had already been made to assassinate Kossuth by poison Mr. Disraeli thought we should look at home before Austria was condemned in such unmeasured terms:— Open the 4 History of England,* aud you would find a hst of confiscations and executions which had taken place ever since the present Royal Family, to which we were so much indebted for liberty and progress, acceded to the throne. Would it be fair to refer to the execution of the untoitunate Earl of Derwentwater, and the confiscation of his estates, and also the accomplished Balmerino and say, 4Lookatthe horrors committedjby this dynasty, which could only substantiate its position by such atrocities V The list of executions, even if it were authentic, was nothing more, therefore, than might be found in our own history, at no very distant date. But it was unnecessary to go back to 1740. The echoes of the speech of the hon. member for Ipvernesshire in the debate of yesterday were yet ringing in the House. In Ceylon the executions ordered by courts-martial had, it appeared, been carried into effect with such a want of discrimination that the judges themselves acknowledged that in many instances the victims were not criminals. Might it not be said, 4 What can you think of a Government which sanctions such proceedings, and what of the state of society which tolerates such a Government?' In his opinion his noble friend was perfectly justified in expressing his indignation at the speech of the noble member of Marylebone. If the noble lord felt a conviction that the charge he had made against the Austrian Government was founded in tact, he ought to have given it a much more prominent place in the discussion. As it was, the noble lord introduced into the epilogue to the entertainment of the evening an insinuation that an old ally of her Majesty meditated murder and assassination. Now, that was as unwarrant- able a proceeding as ever took place in that House." He was, however, rejoiced to.ee so strong a conviction of the necessity of preserving the Ottoman empire. It had not always been 110. But what had endangared the Turkish empire? The crusade of the ignorant Liberal party, who did not understand the interesting country it maligned, and which had, twenty-five years ago, excited the popular passion of Europe against Turkey, until they led up to the catastrophe of Navarino. Tim motion was a recantation by the Liberal party of their extreme diplomatic ignorance by which they were always embarrassing Lord Palmerston. The discussion then terminated. Mr. Stuart Wortley moved for leave to bring in a bill to alter the taw of marriages. Its main object was the same as his bill of last year. with two amendments, one of which confined the bill to the abolition of restriction upon marriage with a deceased wife's sister the other omitted the portion referring to the law of the church as regards clergymen celebrating such marriages. The numbers were—For the motion, 149; against it, 65; majority for the motion, 84. Mr. Chisholm Anstey moved for leave to bring in a bill for the repeal of penal acts against the Roman Catholics. Sir George Grey did not attach much importance to the bill, nor did the Catholic members but he should support such portions of the measure as he had supported before, as the acts complained of were, perhaps, better out of the statute-book than ifi it. The House divided, when the numbers were—For the motion, 72; against it, 77: inajniiiy against the bill, 5. The liouseadjourned at one o'clock. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8. Several petitition? were presented against Sunday labour in the Post-office; for the establishment of local boards for regulating county expenditure; for grants for national education in Ireland; and from New Zealand and New South Wales complaining of grievances. In reply to a question from Mr. H. Berkeley, Sir. G. Grey said it was the intention to introduce a measure if possible in the present session, upon the subject of intra- mural interments. Mr. Horsman gave notice of a motion for the appoint- L ment of a select committee, to inquire into the charges which he had made against Lord John Russell and Sir George Grey. AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. On the motion of Lord John Russell, the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole House, on the Austra- lian colonies. The noble lord sketched the history of our colonies, commencing with our first settlement in the West Indies, in the reign of James f. It had been the policy, he said, of the Government, from an early period, to make a monopoly ot the trade between this country and its colo- nies, though of late years that policy had undergone consi- 'o derable alteration. Great changes had been at various periods introduced into the Government as well as into the commercial policy of the colonies down to last year, when the repeal of the Navigation Laws put an end to that mo- noply which had been first encroached upon by the liberal and comprehensive measures of Mr. Haskisson. Some of those colonies had rapidly grown into wealth and popula- tion, and the West Indies had gone through the change from slavery to freedom much better than might be anti- cipated. if they were to judge by the amount of produce which they shipped to this country. To those who alleged that we should abandon our colonies, we would reply that they were a portion of the strength of the empire, and, in- dependent of the moral obligation which rested upon us to promote the happiness and civilisation of communities with which we had so long been connected, it was to be remembered that they afforded to our commercial marine harbours in all parts of the world, very beneficial in time of peace, but absolutely indispensable in time of war. Many of them were so situated, surrounded by hostile tribes of natives, that, if we were to withdraw our protec- tion, they must inevitably look for protection from other powers. The noble lord having gone at considerable length into the history of sotne of the colonies, proceeded to describe what was intended to be done with the Cape of Good of Hope and other colonies. With respect to the Cape of Good Hope he proposed to Rive to it a represeta- tive government, to consist of an Elective Council and a Legislative Assembley, the constituency to consist of per- sons possessed of a certain amount of property, the legis- lative assembly should be re-elected every five years, and the co ^r.cil every ten yeart, but one half to be re-elected every five years. The alterations he proposed to introduce into Australia were similar to the provisions contained in the bill last session, and similar changes would be extended to New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land. Power would also be given, on the requirement of any two of these Australian provinces, that there might be an assembly from the different provinces to agree upon the same tariff for all, or upon any other matters calculated to confer a benefit upon them all. With respect to New Zealand, it was also the intention shortly to extend to Jiat colony the advantages oPrepresentative government. The noble lord then stated the opinions of the Governors of British Gui- ana, the Mauritius, and Malta, as to the changes which might be advantageously applied to those places respec- tively, and said that these were the only colonies to which representative government could at present be applied. With respect to transportation, Parliament had decided that that punishment should be continued. He was not himself very favourable to that mode of punishment, and he felt that its future management would be attended with great difficulty. The Governor of Van Dieman's Land had intimated his wish that no more convicts should be sent there, and as there appeared to be a growing desire amongst the colonies that transports should not be sent to them, Parliament would have ere long to consider whether some changes should not be made in the present system. With respect to emigration, it had recently gone to an ex- traordinary extent, amounting in the last 3 years to no less an amount than 796,354 persons, being little less than the average increase of the population. He believed that this voluntary emigration was upon a greater scale than would possibly have been the case had it been done by the aid of Government grants. The noble lord concluded by moving a resolution upon which to found a bill for the better go- vernment of the Australian colonies, and resumed his seat amidst cheering from both sides of the House. Sir W. Molesworth expressed his disappointment at the noble lord, and his dissatisfaction with the present colonial policy of the Government. Mr. Anstey objected to the plan of Government for Van Dieman's Land, it being, in his opinion, undesirable to have one third of the council nominees ot the Crown. Mr. Baillie remarked upon the sort of constitution which the Government had accorded to British Guiana, especially as to its representative system, which he showed was much more exclusive than had been described by the noble lord. Mr. Labouchere contended that the plan would be grate- fully received by the colonies; and in proof of this opinion he quoted passages from the Sindey Herald and the Victoria CoUmist of Port Phillip. As an abstract principle he was in favour of three estates, and it was only in deference to the understood wishes of the people of the colony that they had departed from that principle in the bill which was about to be introduced. Mr. Roebuck remarked upon the incongruities of the scheme, as applied to particular colonies. They would never be satisfied with two or three kinds of measures. All would demand the same'degree of freedom. The plan which was to let one third of Government nominees into the re- presentation, simply meant clique government, and would be odious. Such legislation would never satisify the peo- ple. We were going to make five new constitutions for Australia alone. Mr. Hawes read documents to show the satisfaction the plan for New South Wales and for Van Dieman's Land would give them. The question of a double or Single chamber had been debated in the legislature of New South Wales, and nine elected members had voted against a double chamber, and only four for it. The constitution proposed for the Cape, and which might be demanded else- where, was an evidence of the spirit in which ministers wished to treat the colonies. Mr. Gladstone thought that ministers had lighted upon a most imperfect plan of a constitution for our Australian colonies. The objection of the people of Australia to an Upper House was confined no doubt to an Upper House of nominees. If they had made the Upper House elective, as they proposed to do at the Cape of Good Hope, he had no doubt the poeple of Australia would at once embrace the project of a double chamber. The appointment of the twelve men in the council by the Crown was in his opinion a fatal error, for it assumed that the Crown had an interest separate from that of the colonists, and would teach the colonists to think that the Crown had something to defend which it thought the colonists would be likely to attack. Mr. Hume approving highly of the intended constitution for the Cape, wished the same model had been copied for Australia. Mr. Aglionby defended the Colonial Reform Association, ar.d could see no reason why New Zealand should be im- mediately allowed the privilege of a constitution. That opinion he should hereafter express in an amendment to the bill. The Hon. F. Scott denied that the single chamber was approved by the inhabitants ot New South Wales. After some observations from Mr. Adderley and Colonel Thompson, the resolution was agreed to, and the report was ordered to be received on Monday. The County Cess (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed. Aajourned to Monday.

SPADE HUSBANDRY. SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATION OF THREE HUNDRED ACRES IN THE WEST. A very successful practical proof of the advantages derivable from the substitution of the spade for the plough, has occurred during the last season, on the estates of that truly energetic, indefatigable, and enterprising gentleman, Col. Knox Gore, near Ballina, in the county of Mayo. We have been favoured with a very able and business- like report, drawn up by the Colonel, which will be found at length in our columns of this dav. Colonel Gore, see- ing the destitution of the poor inhabitants of the Ballina union, took the humane resolution ot mitigating their destitution, by employing them in the cultivation of a por- tion of his extensive estates, thrown on his hands by emi- grating tenants, in an exhausted condition, and by that means enabling them to support themselves and families, reducing the number of claimants for out-door relief, and improve his property, establish a means, by practical proof, of removing the frightful blotch on the country, of thousands of acres going out of tillage, and a whole nation dropping piecemeal into the grave by starvation. The result has been, from the combined forethought, energy, and determination of one man, that, from Decem- ber to July, with untrained, half-starved, emaciated men, there were 100 Irish acres dug 14 inches deep, sown with flax; 100 acres dug 10 inches deep, sown with oats and 100 acres dug twice, drills opened, manure deposited, covered with the spade and sown with turnips, which, de- ducting all expenses of labour, manure, and seed, has left a profit on the 100 acres of oats, at £2..2.. per acre £ 210 100 acres of flax, at 42 10s.'per acre 250 100 acres of turnips4 at t2 ICr., pea acre (a low average}.< 180 Rendering a total on 300 acres, of 740 to meet rent, rates, and taxes. It has been said, and that truly, that one established fact is worth one thousand ar- guments but here is a fact that puts to confusion millions of frothy arguments. Here is a man who nas put his shoulder manfully to the wheel, rising up early, add late going to rest; arranging and keeping steadily in their proper places an army of his destitute grateful fellow, creatures, and paying each individual every night. What a work of labour f Colonel Gore at first intended to em- ploy these poor people by task-work; this arrangement would have saved him great personal exertion, both mental and bodily; but this was found impracticable from the utter poverty of the employed, who could not subsist unless paid every night. Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand would have given it up in despair, but Colonel Gore determined to brave every difficulty. We now beg to request the attention of our readers to this most satisfactory report; it is a practical proof that men can be extensively and profitably employed, still the statements so often put forth by us, during the last four years, on the necessity, on the score of humanity and thorough development of the hitherto neglected and hid- den resources of our fertile soil, by the substitution of the spade and manual power, for the plough and animal power, was not altogether visionary. Ignorant or interested disputants will be thoroughly at fault here. Col. Gore is a gentleman moving in the highest rank, of extensive property, and of active, cool, calculating habits. The experiment has not been tried on a small patch of ground, but on some hundreds of acres, and did not involve only a few days, but several months of un- wearied application, and continual bodily exertion; and we are much inclined to think that the difficult query is now solved, whether the spade can be as wetl or more profitably employed than the plough. It is a most gratifying thing to find that Col. Gore has not been a loser by his humane and philanthropic exer- tions; and that, instead of having a wild, desolate, uncul- tivated, unprofitable tract of land to look at, the senses are relieved by the prospect of a fine tract, producing all the necessaries of life, and a surplus after the expense of cultivation, to the amount of a fair rent and taxes. But we are not blind to the fact, that though this is so far satisfactory to him as a landlord, if the case were a tenant i farmer's it would be ruinous; for after paying the expense of cultivation, rent and taxes, nothing, or very little, would remain to compensate him for his time, capital I employed and hazarded, or yield any support to himself or lamily. So that we cannot come to the conclusion that the Colonel has coine to, n.imeiy, that this example would tend to the cnu»urageiucnt ot farmers, ot skill and t-uffi- cient capital, to come and settle amongst us. It rather goes to confirm an opinion formed by us, that landlords should turn farmers, and employ the people on the land they were no longer ab.e to till on their own acconnt; and not permit the land to run out of tillage, by which the distress and famine, which has since continued, would have been averted, and the land preserved in a productive state, and under superior management, go on improving progressively, the necessity of which we endeavoured to enforce upon more than one noble proprietor. The pro- perty would not then be sinking in value, as it has done since, till at the present time it has become not only pro- fitless, but an insupportable burden to many. We hope many more will follow the example of Colonel Gore, anl no longer leave the land waste, and trust to better times for a better class of tenant farmers.—Irish Farmer's Gazette. SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATION OF THREE HUNDRED ACRES IN ONE SEASON BY THE SPADE. SIR,-Last December I saw such destitution among the labouring population of the Ballina Union, that I felt most anxious to alleviate it, if possible by giving employment; I therefore determined on a trial of spade cultivation, and as I had in my possession a quantity of land lying for years in a neglected state (since the tenants had emi- grated to America), I saw it would be also beneficial to myself, if it could be effected on remunerative terms. I accordingly commenced to dig, 14 inches deep, 100 acres of clay ground and to give a just idea, not only of its state, but also of a vast proportion of the best land in this district, I will just mention that, to prepare this land for farming purposes, 1 was obliged to level 1,400 perches of small useless ditch and bank, to drain 10 acres of land hitherto unproductive, and to subsoil about ten acres that, from its shallowness, had never been cultivated before. These operations had been carried on under the Land Improvement Act. The yearly instalment payable for 22 years, for these improvements amounts to £ 8. I endeavoured to get the digging done by task, and I offered the price per acre at which it has been done in other parts of Ireland; but the people were so wretched, and had so little confidence in each other, that they de- clared they could only work by the day, at the usual wages of the country, and I promised to pay them every evening. I thus engaged in an undertaking, the difficulty of which none can appreciate who have not tried it; and though I was assisted by a most efficient and energetic steward (Mr. James O'Connor), vet, as he had to attend to my usual fa-im operations, which are on an extensive scale, (having had 200 head of cattle tied up last winter), the principal duty of overseering and paving these labourers devolved on ine, and froai it I never flinched from Decem- ber to July, being out each morning before light in winter, and five o'clock during the other months, and not home till dark or eight o'clock, according to the season. I men- tion this solely for the purpose of showing proprietors, who are similarly circumstanced, that, if they seriously wish to regenerate their country or their estates, they must not be stopped by difficulties which can be over- come by energy and resolution. To return to my detail. I continued digging land after the 100 acres were completed; so that by the beginning of April the quantity had reached to 200 acres, 100 of which, having been dug 10 inches deep, was sown at once with oats or barley, and with the assistance of a moderate dressing of guano, has proved a good crop. The other 100 acres were dug at least 12 or 14 inches deep, being intended for turnips; but having been fortunate enough to induce Messrs. Bernard, Hay, & Co., to form an estab- lishment at Ballina, for the steeping of flax on the patent system, where I have built a scutching mill for them, I found it necessary to sow near 100 acres of flax, the land for which I principally selected from that intended and dug for turnips. I, however, still determined to have 100 acres of turnips so I continued digging fresh ground, and by the 1st of June my operations extended over 300 acres. The flax crop was put down after the out crop was finished, and was not completed until the 3rd of June it also has proved a fair crop and remunerative, as can be seen by reference to the concluding table of expenses and returns of each crop. For the reasons before stated, I was unable to begin my turnip crop till June; I then dug over a second time, 100 acres, harrowing and rolling after this as well as the preceding digging, new marked out the drills along a line by men with spades opened the drills, put in the manure, and closed the drills-all the opera- tions, except the harrowing and rolling, being performed by men, women, and boys. The seed was sown by a pony with a machine, sowing two drills at a time. There was no failure over the entire 100 acres; but owing to an un- interrupted drought during the month of June and the beginning of July, the seed lay dormant for several weeks particularly in the strongest and best laud; so that the crop, as far as the swedes were concerned, became a late crop. The moment it was possible, the plants were sin- gled and weeded with the hand and hoe, and afterwards dug over between the drills, the land now presenting a garden-like appearance-not a weed to be seen and not a blank in the crop-it will, at a low estimate, pay all ex- penses, and a fair rent for the land, which has been trans- formed, by the cultivation, from a mangled, exhausted waste, to a fertile, highly-cultivated field, quite equal to and Scotch or English farm, and which will yield next year a superior grain or flax crop at a small expense. During these operations I have employed almost every person asking for work, most of them unknown to me by name or appearance. The thankfulness with which these poor people received their wages each evening was most gratifying, and, as a proof of their gratitude and kind feeling I may mention that my cattle and sheep were the only stock unwatched in the county, and yet I never lost one, nor can I complain of any injury done my property. At first I found the people unable to work, being weak, ill-fed, and unskilled (except those who had been em- ployed by the excellent Society of Friends last year), but sn a short time they improved, and we got on tolerably well; men actually came each morning six miles to my work. When I found a family was large, I employed a snfficient numher to make their wages support the entire family; and I thus gave employment to children who had never earned a penny before. I am convinced if this sys- tem were generlly adopted, even to a small extent, by each proprietor and landholder in each electoral division, the labourer and the lane* would soon rise in value; for I do not think the labouring population too great for the requirements of this country, were its agricultural re- sources fully developed. The deductions of public interest to be drawn from detail and the annexed table are, I think, as follows :— That the upland of this large district (a great part of which is now lying a barren waste) is capable of giving, even without manure, a remunerative crop of flax, of which we cannot grow too great a quantity, if good. The land is also capable of giving a good crop of oats and barley, with a little dressing, of turnips, at an expense which the crop will fully pay. '19 That, by thus employing the labouring population, there would be an end to out-door relief and its attendant evils that, by adopting the system here detailed, a farmer of capita!, settling in the county, could, within one year, put the land, which now strikes the eye of a stranger as so unmanageable and valueless, into a suitable state for pro- fitable farming, at no greater outlay than the crop of the year would repay. That to enable this class of farmers so much required, to take land in the country, the provisions of the Land Imp) ovrment Act should be extended to the building of farmsteads; as farmers are unwilling to employ their capital in the erection of buildings, and proprietors, with scarcely any exception, are unable to do so. Table of Expenses and Returns. OAT CROP. £ s. d. Digging, 9 to 12 inches deep, per Irish acre 0150 Four cwt. of best Peruvian guano ..300 Twenty stone of seed, at Is. per st. 1 0 0 Harrowing and rolling 0 3 0 3 18 0 The value of the straw is set against the expenses of harvesting and thrashing. Produce 24 cwt. of oais, at 5s 6 0 0 Deduct expenses. 318 0 Profit 2 0 FLAX CROP. Digging twice, per Irish acre 17 0 Weeding. 0 2 0 Harrowing and rolling 0 4 0 One barrel of Riga seed. 116 0 Pulling, stooking, and ricking 1 0 0 Total expense 4 9 0 Produce 7 0 0 I have sold my crop to the Messrs. Hay, for 97 per Irish acre. Deduct expenses 4 10 0 Profit.. 210 0 TURNIP CROP. digging twice, per Irish acre 1 10 0 Harrowing and rolling 0 4 0 Opening and closing drills, and putting in manure 0 12 0 Six lbs. of seed.. 06 0 The manure was either—per Irish acre -twenty cubic yards of farm-yard manure, and four cwt. of Peruvian guano; or three tons of dry sea- weed, and four cwt. of guano; or thtee cwt. of the best Peruvian guano, and four cwt. of vitriolized bones; or seven cwt. of best Peru- vian guano. The average cost of manure being, per Irish acre 4 0 0 Singling, weeding, and digging between the rows 0 12 0 Total expenses 7 4 0 Produce, per Irish acre, 15 to 20 tons of swedes, or 25 to 30 tons of yellows 10 0 0 Deduct expenses 740 Profit 2 16 0 The turnip crop varies much in produce, per acre: some descriptions of swedes (the earliest sown) will reach 35 tons per acre), whilst others (late sown) will not reach 20, I, however, calculated the entire ten tons per acre under the estimate of persons capable of judging, being deter- mined not to overstate anything.- Yours, &c., F. A. KNOX GORE, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Custos, Co. Sligo, December 3,1849.

THB BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON CLERICAL DUTIES. -At a meeting in aid of the funds of the Society for the Employment ot Additional Curates, the Bishop thus ac- quainted the meeting how lie would act in disposing of the funds of the society44 Where I find a willing and ready population I would gladly relieve them; where I find a neglected, abandoned, godless population, still more gladly would I seek to aid them. I will aid on no princi- ples of party-on no principles of private or individual pique or opinion. But if I find incumbents preferring their wretched ceremonial of a past time to the vital es- sence of Christianity-if I find men dwelling upon a dress in the church instead of the spirit in which the doctrines of that church should be taught, clinging to the surplice of ministration instead of the word and vital truths of God- and telling me (for unfortunately I am not speaking of imaginary cases) that they must cling to those antiquated follies, unsanctioned alike by the letter and spirit of Christ, ( telling me, I say, that they must cling to those antiquated follies, or that they must become infidels—then on them I will not bestow your bounty. And if I find, under the fiffected plea ot catholicism, and the ancient customs of ? your church, any claiming to themselves the right of with- holding baptism and burial from others—sending children 1 from the church gates whose parents are anxiously craving l 'or them to be received into the church-sendjng the same :hild unburied from their church gates in consequence of s :he want of that baptism which they themselves refuse-on :hemI will not confer your bounty,"—ManchcskrGuardian,

THE STORM OF LAST WEEK. The Metropolis and its environs were on Wednesday morning visited with a tremendous gale, which did con- siderable damage. The wind, which had previously blown with great violence, increased to a perfect hurri- cane between four and five o'clock. In Praed-street. Paddirigton, several houses were unroofed, and the in- mates had narrow escapes. In Battersea-fields a large brick building was completely razed. In St. James's, Hyde, and the Regent's Parks considerable havoc was committed amongst the plantations, and several of the most stately trees were uprooted, as also in Kensington- gardens. The conductor of the St. James's fire escape, stationed in Golden-square, in passing through Cambridge- street, was struck by a zinc chimney blown from one of the houses, and narrowly escaped with his life. At Hox- ton, Hampstead, l-lighgate, Camberwell, Balham-hill, and Clapham damage has been done to an almost incon- ceivable extent Scarcely a house but what has sustained some injury. Numerous accidents, occasioned by falling materials, were received at the different hospitals. The waters of the Thames were lashed into a perfect fury, pre- senting more the appearance of an arm of the sea than an inland river, washing over the decks of the steamers and the river craft. At Woolwich the Witch and Dryad, steamers, broke from their moorings, and were driven on shore, the former being nearly broken to pieces. In the Poo! great damage was done by the tiers of shipping drift- ing. Off Cory's-road, Lambeth, several barges laden with produce were sunk, and a waterman and his son, named John and Edward Colley, were drowned, their skiff being blown over by a squall. All the lamps on the bridges were shattered, as were those ot the greater part of the Blackfriars-road. At eight o'clock the wind veered round to the N.W., and the gale moderated, though it blew very hard all day. The storm was fe]t with peculiar severity throughout the midland countries, and along the whole western coast of England, sweeping the Irish Channel, and raging through great part of Ireland. From Liverpool we have the accounts that the gale was more serious than any since the memorable storm of January, 1839, when so large an amount of life and pro- perty was destroyed. The following details are from the Liverpool Courier:— 44 The wind began to blow on Tuesday about five o'clock, and continued to increase in violent gusts till three or four o'clock on Wednesday morning, when it had attained its maximum strength, and blew with tremendous force, rocking the houses in exposed situations like cradles. In the town the ravages of the gale have been much less severe than might have been expected, though a consider- able number ot chimneys are dismantled. In some places the windows of the houses have been blown in. One of the windows of Trinity Church is riddled of the glass. The force of the gale was severely felt about the old church, especially upon the new range or offices known as Tower-buildings, from some parts of which the lead has been stripped like paper, and is now hanging from the roof in ribbons. 44 The storm was most severely felt at Berkenbead and the Cheshire side of the Mersey generally, where it raged with extraordinary violence, and excited the terror of the people. Christ Church, in Oxton-road, has suffered severely from the gale, about three yards of the spire being thrown down into the body of the church, and the base of the spire being so seriously injured as to make it a matter of necessity to take down and rebuild the remainder. The pinnacle of the Scotch Church, in Grange-lane, has been blown down, and thrown through the roof. A bouse near Grange-lane, in an exposed situation, has suffered so much from the gale as to have the entire roof carried away, leaving nothing but the bare ratters standings 44 The new market in Berkenhead has sustained con- siderable injury, the roof being stripped of the lead, and it has been found necessary to keep the doors closed to pre- vent the roof being entirely carried away. A consider- able portion of the roof of this structure has been blown off. 44 On the Chester and Berkenhead Railway, near the Bebbington station, a luggage train was thrown off the rails by the violence of the wind, and impeded the way for some time. "There has been much damage on the river, and amongs the shipping, by the driving and chafing of vessels. The thickness of the morning prevented communication by telegraph before nine o'clock. At 9.45 a.m. a signal of distress was made to the affect that a large three-masted steamer had a signal of distress flying on the Burbo Bank The steam-tug immediately proceeded to her assistance with a life-boat in tow. The steamer proved to be the screw-steamer Diana, from Waterford. The crew and passengers were saved, but the fate of the steamer is un- certain. "About eight o'clock a fore and aed aft rigged schooner named the Sailors' florae, and laded with stone on ac- count of the corporation, hove round the Rock Perch, having on her mast a flag of distress. As soon as the ves- sel came within view of the half-way house, or life-boat station, a boat belonging to the active and ever-inde- fatigable body attached to the life-boat station between Egremont and New Brighton put out to her assistance. As soon as the life-boat neared what then seemed to be a sinking schooner, exertions were made by those on board to heave a rope to the men in danger, but so great was the gale that every effort to do so proved ineSectual. As a last resourse, howvever, the crew of the life-boat found it expedient to run alongside the sinking vessel. This nau- tical manoevure accomplished, the men on board the schooner got into the boat and were taken ashore. Scarce- ly had the crew and the boat left the schooner when she sunk. Her cargo, as before stated, being ot stones, when a few planks were started by the severity of the gale, her preservation of course became hopeless. It has been said on 'Change, and we fully agree in the opinion, that the captain and crew deserve great praise for their indefatigable manner in which they stuck to then vessel after she became a comparative wreck. The vessel sprang a leak when some miles from the entrance of the river, but her captain resolved, if possible, to bring his charge (both men and ship) to a place of safety. We need not add, that as regards the former we are happy to say be has succeeded; and as regards the latter, evety hope is entertained that when the gale subsides she will be raised, and again become an article of value to her owners. 44 At an early hour in the morning a small smack, named the Duchess of Kent, the captain ot which found that his light anchors could not withstand the fury of the storm, attempted to make the entrance of the Nelson Dock, in the basin of which she expected to find shelter, but un- fortunately the tempest was so violent that the little craft became unmanageable, and the result was that she sank near the entrance of the harbour of refuge for which see was making. We have not heard of what the cargo con- sisted, but she is reported to be from the Isle of Man. We are happy to add that the crew were saved. A flat from Runcorn—her name has not yet been reported—was sunk opposite the Collingwood Dock. There were two men and a woman on board, all ot whom were saved through the able assistance of some boats which happened to be contiguous. 44 We should state that all the life-boats from Egremont were out during the morning, rendering aU the assistance in theii power, and that they were ably assisted by one or two of the steam-tugs belonging to the river." In Manchester it did great damage to the roofs and chimneys of houses and factories. The most serious casualty, however, which resulted from the storm in that neighbourhood was a railway accident at Clifton. The heavy gusts of wind which swept across the Bolton, Black- burn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire Railway had the effect of setting in motion three heavily-laden coal wag- gons belonging to the Earl of Balcarres, on a siding about five miles above Bolton, which ran into the passenger train with extraordinary force, dashing the last three car- riages in it (third class) almost to atoms, and strewing the fragments across the line in all directions. The other four carriages escaped from the collission with strained buffers merely, but the engine, in front, singular to say, was con- siderably damaged, one of the buffers and buffer-plank being nearly destroyed. There were not many passengers in the train, but such as were in it suffered more or less from the accident. At Preston a tall chimney fell through the roof of a bake-house, in which a man was engaged in making bread; though the bricks, slates, &c., were scattered close to him, he escaped uninjured. A garden wall in Winckley-street, was levelled with the ground. Almost every street in the town is strewn with slates, tiles, bricks, and fragments of chimney-pots, scaice a house having escaped the violence of the hurricane. The storm was extremely violent at Nottingham. It was ushered in with flashes of lightening and thunder at intervals, being followed by heavy rain for a time, during which and afterwards the wind blew in fitful but tremen- dous gusts of the west, with a degree of violence perhaps never before experienced during the present generation in the midland counties. The consequence was that, upon the inhabitants of Nottingham arrising from their beds next morning, they found many of the streets strewed with chimney-pots, tiles, slates, and a portion of brick chim- neys; and soon afterwards damage of a more serious nature became known. A tall chimney to Mr. Smythe's house, in the Park, fell with a tremendous crash upon a wing of the building, two stories high, carrying in the roof and forcing the whole, with a bedroom floor and the contents of the room, into the kitchen below. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smythe were sleeping in the room at the time, and were buried in the ruins, but happily they were preserved alive. In Dublin much damage was done to the bouses, and a great number of fine trees were torn up by the roots in Phoenix-park. Considerable damage was done by it in the southern and western coasts of Ireland. In the north likewise the storm was felt, but it does not appear to have been so severe in thot point.

THE LONDON MARKETS. J FROM THE "MARK LANE C r. F K U S S." FF MONDAY, FEB. 11. J1 • At this morning's market there was an extremely small show of wheat by land-carriage samples from Essex and Kent, and there was less offering from the east coast than of late. The condition was but indifferent, being more or less affected by the wet weather; having, however, a somewhat improved demand, a clearance was made with- out difficul,y, at terms quite as high as those obtained on this day se'nnight. We had no fresh arrivals of wheat from abroad; the country demand was of quite a retail { character, and the local inquiry by no means lively; holdet4 were nevertheless firm, and the business done was at fully the prices of Monday last. Quotations of flour underwent no change fresh ship marks were, however, held with increased firmness. The arrivals of barley coastwise were quite trifling, and quantity exhibited by land-carriage sain- p es was moderate. Superior malting parcels were readily placed at late rates, but the commoner sorts moved ott slowly. The transactions in foreign barley were of a retail character, but there was no giving way in prices. Malt moved off tardily at the recent decline. The receipts of English oats were small, but we had several cargoes fresh" up from Scotland. The dealers did not show much di> position to purchase, and consumers were satisfied wid> buying just sufficienc for immediate use, it was consequently impossible to establish any advance on previous prices, Roon • tUTv w,as' on the whole> in favour of the seller, iieans excited little attention, and' their value underwent no change. Peas were taken in sMail quantities at about former terms. There wasgiiothing rtöing in floating car' CURRENT PRICES OF CORN AT IfARK-LANB. Shillings per Quartet 7 WHEAT,Essex and Kent, white. 39'to46 Ditto, fine selected runs 45 47 £ iu"'red 37 41 36 40 °'^xt.ra 38 40 40 41 Ditto, Talavera Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire 37 38 Ditto, white 41 43 —' BARLEY, English, malting and distilling— — 22' 2^ Ditto, Chevalier .T — — 2;i 2/ Ditto, grinding yf MALT, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk 52 53 54 Kingston, Ware, and town made ..53 54 55 5 OATS, Essex and Suffolk ..15 Lincolnshire,and Yorkshire,(Poland) — _"] ? l9'F Ditto,feed .'v jfi f Devon Jfe West Country, feed or black — — 13 15; Northumberland and Scotch feed i— — 78 Duntlalk, Newry, and Belfast, potato- 16 ] £ Limerick,Sligo,andWestport,potato 16 1% Ditto, feed 14 if Cork, Waterford, Dublin, Youghal,) lo arid Clonmel, black — — ..13 Ditto, white iff, Galway ]# RYE ,T T> M 22 2^ FLOUR, best marks (per sack 280lbs)' — — 35 40 Norfolk and Suffolk, ex-sbip — 28 3$ BKANS, Mazagan 23 25 22 24 Tick 27 29 24 2jf. Harrow. 30 31 26 27 Pigeon, Heligoland 32 36 27 2? PEAS,non-boilers — 23 25 White, Essex, and Kent, boilers — — .26$ Ditto,fine Suffolk .— — ..27 2^ Maple 25 Hog and grey 24 TARES, winter, per bushel .— —— T FOREIGN GRAIN. FREE. „ Wheat, American ^s to 4^ Canada 35 to 4? Barley, malting 20 to 2*3 Grinding and distilling 18 to Oats, Russian 14 o if

LONDON AVERAGES. £ s. d. £ s. Wheat qrs. 2 2 10 Rye qrs. 0 0 9 G»ley 1 6 7 Beans I 5 Oats 0 17 6 Peas 1 7

BREAD. Theprifces of wheaten Bread in the metropolis are frof bcl. to 7d.; of household ditto, 4JLI. to old. per 41bi Joaf.

POfATO MARKETS.-S&UTHWAR&, FER II. The arrivals the past week coastwise have been Jimitedr notwithstanding which trade is heavy, and in consequent of the very large supply per rail, it is with difficulty following prices are sustained Yorkshire regents 90s. to 120s. per ton. Wisbech do. 70s; „ 100s. „• Scotch do 70s. „ 80s. „ Ditto cups 60s. „ 70s. „ M French whites 70s. 80t. „ m Belgian 65& „ 75s. „ |

S VUTHFIELO MARKET.—MONDAY, FEB* 11. ? The supply of foreign stock on to-day was very limited, and of but middling quality. Fresh up to our marked this jmorning the arrivals of home-fed beasts were moderate, Their general condition was, however, sonflC what superior to these exhibited for some weets pag; Owing to the unfavouiable state of the weather for slaugl'' i l6"1* t'le kee^ trafte ruled exceedingly inactive, at barely » last Monday's quotations: the top figure for the best Sco*» was 3s. 10d. per lbs^at which a clearance was not effected- i trom Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, received 1,9-10 Scots-and short-horns from the norther"* counties, 300 shorthorns; and other parts of England 750 Herefords, runts, Devons, &c. The Scoteh supp'J | was only 120 head, Comparatively speaking, the nun1'% bers of sheep were small. As the arrivals of dead mea* up to Newgate and5 Eeadenliall have fallen off, the muttoH. trade ruled steady, at Friday's improvement in value o» ?'iJberf?mest °,ld sold at from 4s. 2d; 'ff' Per /he supply of calves was again limited' while the Yeal trade proved tolerably firm, at last week* currencies. In pigs very little business was transacted' but we have no change to notice in value. Per 8 lbs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d s. d. s. 0 s. d. s. d s. d. s. 0 Coarse & inferi- Prime coarse wool- „ or Beasts 2" JO 3 2 led Sheep ..3 10 4 9 2nd quality,do. 3 4 3 6 Prime south down Prime Oxen 3 6 3 8 ditto 4 Z 4 ø Prime Scots, &c. 3 8 3 10 Large Calves '3 2 3 Coarse and infe- Prime small do 3 8 4 nor Sheep 3 0 3 2 Large Hogs ..3 4 3 I 2nd quality, (fo. 3 4 3 8 Small porkers.. 3 10 4 9 Suckling Calves 18s. to 25s.; and Quarter-old Store Pigo I 16s. to 21s. each. f

■■ | TALLOW MARKEtf.-Mot«>AY, Feb. 11. f Since our lsait report this market has ruled very tive, and prices have further recedied 3d. to 6d. per cwj* To-day, P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 37s. 6d. to 37s. 9&' per cwt. We have offers, but no buyers, of new Y.C«> deliverable up to the end of the year, at 39s. per cwt' Town tallow is 37s. per cwt. net cash. Rough fat is 2s. fid' per 8 lbs. Advices from St. Petersburg, to the 26th uto state that prices ot tallow, owing to the improved tone 0' the letters from London, had advanced to 115s and 1^ roubles, with hand money.

BUTTER, BACON, & HAMS.-MoNDA Y, Feb-. 4. We have no alteration to notice in the English buttef market, expect that old Dorset butter is now become aJ" most a dead letter with us, the only demand being for neO milk butter, which as yet appears in only small quantities- The transactions in Irish butter since this day se'rvnigh* have been moderate: the mildness of the weather infl' encing the demand, prices remain without change. I'J bacon we had but little doing; the trade having purchase" pretty freely recently on board, have a present supply which caused the demand landed to be limited. Ham and lard as lard required.

HOP !NTELL<GENCE.—MoNMY,Feb.iL Our market remains in a very inactive state, and tb* ( few sales effected are at unaltered rates. I

BRITISH WOOL.—LEEDS, Feb. 8. There has not been any change of moment in this brancb of business this week. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 2.. There has been a moderate business doing in La'" Highland wool, white is also more looked after.

"SEEDS. Cloverscpd, red 35s. to 40s. fine 45 & Ditto white 35 Linscd (p»-r qr.) sowing 54 5^ Linseed Cakes (per 1,000 of 31bs. each) £ 9 0s. to' £ 10 ° Trefoil (per cwt.) 14 1

HAY MARKETS.—SATURDAY, Feb. 9.. | Smithfield—Supply good, and trade dull. Cumberland ? —A full average supply, and a steady demand. At per load of 36 trassesk 1 SmitbneId.Cnmberhnd.Whitechape'' Meadow Hay 50s to 70s 50s to 70s 45s to 70s Clover Hay 60s 90s 60s 87s 60s 90s Straw 21s 23s 22s 29s 21s 28s .-#,

TIMBER. £ g. £ s. Baltic Timber per load of 50 cubic feet. 2 15 0 to 3 10 9 Yw. Deals per standard hundred 10 10 0 15 10 9 Deck Deals, per 40 feet 3 inches 0 16 0 1 2 9 t Pipe Staves 105 0 0 ..125 0 Lathwood per fm. of 4 feet 9 0 0 10 0 j Red Pine Timber, per load 2 15 0 3 10 Yw. ditto 2 10 0 3 15 JJ f Birch ditto 3 10 4 10 9 1 Elm ditto 2 15 0 3 10 9 I Oak ditto 3 10 0 4 10 9 Puncheon Staves, per mile. 10 0 0 17 0 9

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