Monmouthshire Merlin

GOOD HEART AND WILLING HAND. IN storms or shine, two friends of mine, Go forth to work or play, And when they visit poor men's Homes. They bless them by the, way. 'Tis willing Hand 'Tia cheerful Heart. The two best friends I know, Around the hearth come joy and mirth "Where'er their faces glow. Come shine—'tis bright! come dark— tis light. Come cold- 'tis warm ere long. So heavily fall the hammer stroke Merrily sound the song Who falls may stand, if good right Hand Is first, not second best; Who weeps may sing, if kindly liea Has lodging in his breast. The humblest board has dainties poured, When they sit down to dine; The crust they eat is honey sweet, The water good as wina. They fill the purse with honest gold, They lead no creature wrong; So heavily fall the hammer stroke t Merrily sound the song! f Without these twain, the poor complain Of evils bard to bear, But with them poverty grows rich, And finds a loaf to spare Their looks are fire-their words inspire- Their deeds give courage high About their knees the children run, Or climb, they know not why. Who sails, or rides, or walks with them, Ne'er finds the journey long ;— So heavily fall the hammer stroke Merrily sound the song! CHABLES MAOKAY.

THE ADULTERATION OF FOOD. TSECOND NOTICE.] „ -4 Key to the Adulteration of our Daily Food, Compile bv William Dalton. London Marlborough and Co. ^eYonrdedour extract, from Mr. Da t on's compl- etion last week from the chapter on spirits. We pro 'sufficient to prove that most gross deceptions are T in this article, and now, lest the reader should imagiu t b drjnking wine, he will escape the mise- *ies.of "coffee, cocoa, beer, or spirits, "We extract a J portion of i- 'fayior'3 evidence on „ PORT WINE. "it appears, x. that port wine ia som«times manufactured oui <J. • £ » -r..l b»d ttmiima rrnO, .-j wines, bought at and then, by ttie sdtiitjan of a mixture of geroP^,«^d extract of elderberry juice, Lisbon grapes, brownsug^r -andy, bitter almonds, and logwood, a mixture « which is called London port. I have detected brown sug^ iogwood, and brandy, in English port." Another chemist gives a recipe, saia e used in the manufacture of Port Wjne. ingredients are cider, ripe sloes, and brandy, '1 quantity of good port wine. The consequence of all tb^ ration is oftentimes most serious. nnYj £ e to be tPr' fihallicp that he has often ordered port wine to be tu Challice that & t) ey are recovering from sici. nesa1 and ^be^ng purchased at public-houses, "insteadof Se as a Wholesome stimulant and a restorative astringent, it has produced pain, acuity, gnpmg, JInta- "ore e»il oonaeqaeooo, «ri«s from the adulteration of MUSTARD. It k invariably mixed with turmeric, flour, Cayenne JeDoer and Ser. People will not buy pure mustard on account of its turning a blackish hue two or three days after it has been mixed. Nevertheless, loss of life has actually followed the use of adulterated mustard in poultices, in cases of inflammation of the lungs, &c. PEPPER, again, is most poisonously adulterated. Dr. Hassall declares that He is satisfied that red lead is often present in cayenne in amounts sufficient to produce Bympto^ toown Jbe caused by provided the caye^e forinstanca. Snuff is adulterated Xth anotlSr'preparation of lead, and not to a larger with another p p 8ent in cay0nne; and several Sws11 ha^been recorded recently of the production of ttaralvsis by the use of snuff containing lead: now if Inuff which merely passes up the nostrils, will give rise to paralysis, it is extremely probable that cayenne will do ao^vhen introduced into the stomach, especially when taken in curry powder, in which far larger quantities are •consumed than when taken alone. CONFECTIONERY. «T ihinu » 8ava Mr. R. Gay, "carraway comfits are verr extensi'vely adulterated, and also many of the pep- very exieiifivcjj K li v ti.e basis of both those and pery nt lozenges I Mieve After coriander and al litt!e syrup js thrown over them, and ?kV?« ducted over with either flour or whiting, or pbwte^of paris Apretty strong coat is put upon them £ 3hC £ |, and then they are Vav^Thl and belter svruD. They are adulterated in that way lna colouring matter is sometimes red lead or vermillion, lake liquor, cochineal, gamboge, and chrome yellow. Such, then, are a few of the modes of adulteration practised in different articles. We have only presented small specimens of the practice, as will be more apparent when the fact is stated that every article of food, and most medicines, are adulterated in the abominable manner 'we have pointed out. We shall conclude our extracts 'With a few on TOBACCO AND SNUFF. The results obtained from the numerous analyses, -chemical and microscopical, instituted of the various •descriptions of tobacco," said Dr. Hassall, were to the tfolSjg effectthat the tobacco-leaf itself presents •certain JLculiarities of structure by which it may be rea- dily distinguished from the eaves of all other plank. sa £ to be etonloved in the adulteration of tobacco, especially in the form aud structure of the hairs, and of the mid- ribs and veins. These peculiarities are so decisive as to enable the observer by means of the microscope, at once to distinguish tobacco in all the forms of cut and roll tobacco, even when the leaf is still more minutely di- vided, as in some kinds of snuffs. The majority of leaves not tobacco, which have been detected from time to time in adulterated tobacco, also present certain peculiarities in their organization, by which they may be all distin- guished, not only from tobacco but from each other. While tbe structure ot the tobacco leaf is constant, its composition varies very gieatly, particularly as regards the .quantity of gum and sugar which ,it contains, and the amount of ash furnished on incineration; thus we find that, in the six samples of unmanufactured leaf tobacco, the amount of hygrometric; moisture varied from 10*8 to ,13 4 per cent., the extract from 4) 8 to 60-0 per cent.; the sugar, from mere traces, to 3 6 per ctpt.; the •from 7 4 to 10"1 per cent and the ash ixojn 10;6 to 22-6 per cent., it being composed chiefly ofchloridea, sulphate, carbonatM and phospates, combined with much lime. In the eight samples of leaf stalk, the analyses of which ,are now given, the bygroinetric moisture varied from 11 CO to IS 16 per cent. the extract, from 21.04 to 39.8P -per cent.; the sugar, from traces, to 4 91 per cent and -the ash, from 20'00 to 28 24, these ashes being remarkable for the large amount of soluble salts which they contained. These differences are evidently so considerable and varied, as to render it manifest that by imitating its chemical composition, tobacco may be adulterated to a considerable extent, without the possibility of our being able to declare with certainty that it is so adulterated. From the examination of 43 samples of snuff of aine- xent kinds the conclusions were, that chloride of sodium or salt is added in large and very variable quantities to 0 aU descriptions of snuff, the proportions ranging from 1 0 to as much as 12'8 per cent. Where ?f chloride is less than 1*0 per cent., it is probable that it is derived from the tobacco itself as well as. the water used to moisten it: that the alkaline and earthy carbonates, chieflv the carbonates of potash and lime, are likewise added to snuff, sometimes in considerable quantity, but usually to a less extent than chloride of sodium. One of the samples yielded 3'9. It would appear also, that in some cases the alkaline and earthy phosphates are in excess^in snuff, as much as 7*0 percent, of the former having been detected in one of the samples, and 4 8 per cent of the latter in another; that the alkaline sulphates are likewise somewhat in excess, amounting in one sample to 5-4 per cent. in this case the addition efn intentional; that oxide of iron derived from different de- scriptions of coloured ferruginous earths, as red ochre yellow ochre, and some of the brown earths, as umber, was present in upwards of two-thirds of the samples, amounting in one case to no less than 5-0 per cent. while all the Scotch snuffs contained iron, the oxide of that metal was not present in any of the samples of Welsh and Irish snuffs submitted to analysis. The presence of the above-named ferruginous earths constitute so many adulterations, that chromate of lead was detected in nine of the samples, amounting in one instance to 4 6 per cent It occurred in five out of the nine samples of Scotch snuff examined; in one of the four samples of Welsh, and in one of the three samples of Irish snuff submitted to ana- lysis. The presence of this metallic compound in snuff constitutes an adulteration. There was a substance at one time introduced, called African pepper. We have found the same substances in tbat-rioe, sago, chillies, linseed meal, husks of red and white mustard seed, common salt, rape seed, the bark of pepper, and sometimes inferior pepper itself. With re- Sard to tobacco, we have found in cut tobacco, sugar liquorice, gum, catechu, common salt, saltpetre, and vari- ous nitrates yellow ochre, epsom salts, glauber salts, green copperas, red standstone, wheat, oatmealmaltcommmgs, chicory, and the following leavescoltsfoot, rhubarb, chicory! endive, oak, elm; and in fancy tobacco I once found lavender, and a wort called mugwort. It is a fragrant herb, suggestive rather of the nutmeg. *u ro £ tobaeco. we have found rhubarb leaves, endive, and dock leaves, sugar, liquorice, and a dye made of logwood and sulphate of iron. There was a case tiled in Glasgow in reference to the adulteration of tobacco and snuff, the parties were pulled up by the Excise and it was proved Fn those cases that the tobacco was chiefly madeof cab- bages grown near to the town of Airdrie, in Scotland. A Treatise on the Cure of Stammering, with a general account of the various systems for the Cure Zents in Speech. By James Hunt. London Long- THTSO Mr Thomas Hunt was the originator of the most successful and expeditious expedient for Je ^re of stammering and stuttering ever designed. IheaDove treatise was written by the son of this g » contains the instructions requisite for the remova o one of the most painful and distressing, maladws inc dea al to speech. To eVery person who is afflicted impediment of either stuttering or stammering, we would strongly recommend the book, as affording them a means of relief easy, simple, and free from surgical operations. Testimonials are appended from eminent men, among others, from the author of "Alton Locke"—the Key. Charles Kingsley. There can be no doubt of the great Charles Kingsley. There can be no doubt of the great success and advantage attending the adoption of Mr. Hunt's plan.

VARIETIES. "John, did you ever bet on a horse-race ?" No, but I've seen my sister Bet on an old mare!" Why is an individual cured by sea-bathing like a con- fined criminal ? Because he is sea-cured (secured). BON MOT.—A wag arose from his bed on the 31st of last August, and exclaimed—— This is the luat ww of ""what is the difference between a reddish horse and a horse-radish ? About as much as exists between a house- leek and a leeky house. A country editor thinks that Columbus is not entitled to much credit for discovering America, as the country is so large he could not well have missed it. A COLTJMBIBUS.—Why should physicians have a greater horror of the sea than anybody else ? Because they are more liable to see sickness (The faint comes in here.) # CURIOSITIES.—Sam and Seth were talking about fen- cing, the art of self-defence, and the like. Sam remarked hat he had seen a rail fence. Pooh said Seth, ^at's nothing—I've seen a hat box." nandKi1 Politics run high in tbe Western country. A marria^/or a county clerk, in Texas, offered to register Iiab«» „ nothing. His opponent, undismayed, pro- °Tw °r d° U pamef and throw a cradle in. Wife, saiB j00ti„g for a boot-jack, I have places where X keei. things, and you ought to know it." "Yes, said sht(,,j t0 know where you keep your late hours." "They pass best over thb;vorld., said Queen E1jza. beth, «• who trip over it quiCK, 'for u but a bog_if we stop, we sink. An indifferent pleader asked Cat., 11 jjaye j not succeeded in making a very moving ^eecjj p.. "Cer. tainly," said he, for some of your audib.^ itied and the rest walked out of Court." SUPPORTING THE PRESS.—To take in a paper tjjree years, without paying the subscription, and then, ,lleu asked for the money, to get into a pet, and threaten discontinue the paper!—American paper. POETS, ATTEND !—An American contemporary says it will publish original poetry on the same terms as adver- tisements. We have received a few choice specimens of the same commodity, which we should be pleased to dis- pose of in the same manner.-Albany Journal. And if the supply should not be equal to the demand, we can furnish any quantity, to make up the deficiency.— Traveller. And so can we !-ED. Merlin. A negro, in Boston, had a severe attack of rheuma- tism, which finally settled in his foot. He bathed it, and rubbed it, and swathed it, but all to no purpose. Finally, tearing away the bandages, he stuck it out, and with a shake of his fiat over it, he exclaimed, Ache away, den, old feller; ache away. I shan't do nuffin more for yer, dis chile ken stan' it as long as you ken so ache away!" 0 One of the cleverest caricatures issued in Paris during Napoleon's reign, was levelled at the Prince Borghese, the husband of the Emperor's sister, Pauline. The Prince was a good-humourpd, thick-headed sort of a personage, possessed an immense fortune, and was greatly devoted to the pleasures of the table. The caricaturist placed him in the centre of a group of jackasses, making him exclaim, "Where can one be happier than in the bosom of his own family ?" A LUDICROUS MISTAKE.—One of our booksellers, says the Rochester American, who hangs, out a flaming placard of "Yeast, by the author of Alton Locke, had two ap- plications for it the other1 day from ancient females do- mestically inolined, and bearing tin pails. One asked for a pint, and the other wanted a penny'orth." Mrs. Partington, on reading an account of a schooner having her jib-boom carried away on Long Island Sound, one night last week, wondered why people would leave such things out o' doors, nights, to be stolen, when there was so many buglers about, filtering everything they could lay their hands to." "Pray, madam what do you charge for re-covering an umbrella ?" said Michael O'Flaherty, of Tipperary, the other day, walking into an umbrella shop. Let me see it," was the reply. "Ah, faith! and that's just what I want to do, for I've lost one, and I see you offer to re-cover them at a very small charge, so I was just thinking 1 would get you to recover mine." The shop- keeper was instantly immersed in a fit of the deepest speculation. NKVER ASK QUESTIONS IN A HURRY.Tom, a word with you." Be quick, then; I'm in a hurry." What did you give your sick horse, t'other day ?" A pint of turpentine." John hurries home, and administers the same dose to a favourite charger, who, strange to say, drops off defunct in half an hour. His opinion of his friend Tom's veterinary ability is somewhat staggered. He meets him the next day. "Well, Tom." Well, John, What is it f" I gaTe my ll0rse a pint turpen- tine, and it killed him as dead as Julius Caesar." So it did mine!" # A sudden gU8t 0f wind took a parasol from the band of its owner, and a iively Irishman, dropping his hod of bricks, caught the parachute. Faith, ma'am,' said he, if you were as strong as you are handsome, it would not have got away from you." Which shall I thank you for first, the service or the compliment ?" asked tbe lady, smilingly. "Troth, ma'am," said Pat, again touch- ing the place where originally stood the brim of what was once a beaver, that look of your beautiful eye thanked me for both." HINDOO CASTES.—Up to the present time, each caste among the Hindoos has not only been self-governed and j separately organised, but may be looked upon as a sepa- i rate nation, unconnected by blood, pursuits, or sympa- ( thies with the population around it. Hence it is that f there is no such thing as Hindoo public opinion. So ( long as a man preserves the good opinion of his caste, he may commit the gravest crimes against the general public, the grossest perjuries or frauds that will demand exclusion from society, still, if his caste is uninjured by him, he is not deemed to bear any blot on his escutcheon. -Perry's Bird's Eye Vieto of India. Do you believe in ghosts, Mrs. Partington ?" was ¡ asked of the old lady, somewhat timidly. "To be sure I do," replied she, as much as I believe that bright fulminary there would rise in the yeast to-morrow morn- ing, if we live and nothing happens. Two apprehensions have sartainly appeared in our family. Why, I saw my dear Paul, a fortnight before he died, with my own eyes, jest as plain as I see you now, and thought it turned out arterwards to be a rose-bush with a night-cap on it, I shall always think, to the day of my desolation, that it was a forerunner sent to me. 'Tother one came in the night, when we were asleep, and carried away three candles and a pint of spirits, that we kept in the house for an embarkation. Believe in ghosts, in- deed I guess I do, and he must be a dreadful styptic as doesn't. i ONE JUDGE.—A somewhat eceentric but celebrated judge, some years ago, was asked by a counsellor to put down a certain case for the last Friday in the month of March, which happened to be Good Friday. His Honour indignantly said, "No, sir, I won't set any case for that day. There never was but one judge who tried a case on that day-that was Pontius Pilate, sir." A maiden laiy, not remarkable for for either youth, beauty, or good temper, came for advice to an old friend as to how she could get rid of a troublesome suitor. "Oh, marry him," was the advice. Nay, I would see him hanged first." No, madam, marry him, as I said i to you, and I'll assure you it will not be long before he hangs himself." GREY HAIRS REPROVED.—There used to be on our floor," in one of tho hotels of this city, a very lady-like, < tidy, pretty chambermaid, whom it is well enough to call Rose. A grave-seeming, good-looking, but grey-haired gentleman of fifty odd, occupied 103; and as he sat at his little table one morning, Rose came in to brush a little. Rosej" quoth he, I have fallen in love with you. Can I venture to hope you will think well of me ?" Be sure you may your honour," replied Rose, with a twinkle of her bright eye, for me father and me mo- ther iver taught me to reverence grey hairs all the days of my life." Rose switched out of the room, and the elderly gentleman went to the barber's. JUVENILE Wrr.—An old physician was dilating in our hearing the other day, upon the propensity which a ma- jority of people display for eating unripe fruit and vege- tables. Said he-" There is not a vegetable growing in our gardens that is not best when arrived at maturity, and most of them are positively injurious unless fully ripe." I know oue thing that ain't so good when it's ripe as 'tis when it is green," interrupted a little boy, in a very confidential but modest manner. What's that ?" sharply said the physician, vexed at having his principle disputed by a mere boy. A cucumber," responded the lad. The doctor winked at us with both eyes, but said nothing. GEORGE THE FOURTH'S U FRIENDS." George the Fourth never had any private friends; he selected his confidants from his minions. Macmahon was an Irish- man of low birth and obsequious manners; he was a little man, his face red, covered with pimples, always dressed in the blue and buff uniform, with his hat on one side, copying the air of his master, to whom he was a prodigi- ous foil, and ready to execute any commissions, which ♦ta1 »'m> »umu w'ftut1 da PluuaiMefa- was a handsome man, and owed his introduction to court to his musical talents; he was a Lieutenant in the Artil- lery, and by chance quartered with his regiment at Brighton. The Prince, who was always fond of music, gave frequent-eoncerts at the pavilion some one happened to mention that a young officer of Artillery was a pro- ficient on the violoncello; an invitation was sent, the Royal amateur was pleased, the visits became more fre- quent, a predilection ensued, and the fortune of the young Lieutenant was assured. In the latter days of his reign, and before his health had rendered it necessary, he very seldom went out, even in his favourite low phaeton and ponies, at Windsor; his mor6 general habit was to remain in his robe de chambre all. the morning, and never dress till the hour of dinner. In this dishabille he received his ministers, inspected the arrangement of all the curiosi- ties which now adorn the gallery in the Castle, and are standing monuments of good taste, amused himself with mimicking Jack Radford, the stud groom, who came to receive orders, or lectured Davison, the tailor, on the cut of the last, new coat. His dress was an object of the greatest attention to the last; and incredible as it may appear, I have been told by those about him, and by Bachelor, who, on the death of the Duke of York, entered his service as valet de chambre, that a plain coat, from its repeated alterations, would often cost £ 300 before it met his approbation. This, of course, included the several journeys of the master and his men backwards and for- wards to Windsor, as they almost lived on the road.- Raikes's Journal. The Austrian dominions are ruled with great mildness and paternal care; the late Emperor Francis was a great reformer, and always took the side of the people; al- hpugh in the Hungarian States they are tyrannised by ^-own nobility, who pay no taxes, and se the lower V rf8 dogs. As an instance of the Imperial par- tia lty tow.r(j8 tjj0 pe0pje> take the following fact:—A ai or at Viei^ came to the Emperor on one of his public [?}.. o V complaint against one of the highest nobility a Sch w „tzeQb _that he had ruine £ f the character of his daug « What has he done ?" asked the Emperor. "Oh," lied the plaintiff, "I own he has no acquaintance with ™ but ev 'd he ride8 down the street and kisses hu hand to her, which has S3' -f.er ToPUtaUOn Tefr> and impedes her J ,i C Emper°r 8eBt/or-he noble gallant, and notwithstanding it was proved that i,e haf nev changed a word with the girl, ordered h^70 J Iter a compensation of 2,000 florins. He might i* rL;9tfid but as he felt it might make him mal vu d la eo&. ke n»id the money. u CONFORMACY TO CUSTOM.—I whispered to Frtz /a touring companion) how I had always understood it vas the proper thing in this country (Iceland) for traveller departing on a journey to kiss the ladies who had been good enough to entertain them, little imagining he would take me at my word. Guess my horror when I saw him, with an intrepidity I envied, but dared not imitate, first embrace the mamma by way of prelude, and then proceed, in the most natural way possible, to make the same tender advances to the daughter. I was dumb with consternation—the room swam before me I expected we should next minute be packed, neck and crop into the street, and that the young lady would have gone off into hysterics. It turned out, however, that such was the very last thing she was thinking of doing. With a simple frankness that became her more than all the boarding-school graces in the world, her eyes dancing with mischief and good humour, she met him half way, and putting out two rosy lips, gave him as hearty a kiss as ever it might be the good fortune of one of us he- creatures to receive. From that moment I determined to conform to the customs of the inhabitants.—High Latitudes by Lord Dufferin. q It A POOR ARTIST'S STUDIO.—An artist's atelier seldom exhibits much neatness or comfort, even amongst the highest or richest of the profession but that of Mr. Ashford presented the most wretched and desolate appearance. On the walls were hung several half-finished sketches of the human frame in every imaginable attitude studies from the Elgin marbles, and plaster of Paris casts of various portions of the body a human skull, together with skeleton feet and hands, were upon the mantel-shelf. There was no carpet, but patches of paint, stains of oil and grease, were apparent on the floor whichever way you trod not a chair was to be seen, and only one stool, besides an old-fashioned couch covered with black horse-hair, very much worn, on which all manner of articles, such as colours, oils, chalks, brushes, and portfolios, lay in inconceivable confusion. In one recess was an entire skeleton, which served him for a lay figure. The fire-grate, which, notwithstanding the piercing cold, bad not had fuel in it for many a day, was rusty, and filled with broken vials, wcrn-out brushes, and fragments of materials used by artists. On one of the window seats was Mr. Ashford's untasted breakfast, a crust of dry bread and a glass of cold water sorry and comfortless food on that inclement morning for a scholar and a man of genius,—TU Artist's Family; "mw nmcU A TOUGH CONSCIENCE.—An editor of a Carolina journal says that a gentleman told him one of his subscribers was seen to be laughing very heartily over a certain paragraph. The editor expresses his wonder how a man with the weight of two years subscription on his conscience could laugh at anything WONDERFUL EFFECT OF TRAVELLING ON A RAILWAY. -Among the very miscellaneous articles left in the car- riages of the Aberdeen Railway, and sold in Castle-street under the sheriff's warrant the other day, were, we un- derstand, a pair of crutches. The remarks of the by- stmders were more varied than conclusive. "W eel" said one, "is it na surprisin' that ony lamiter wad na hae missed his staves?" "I'll tell ye," said a second, it's been a thimbler." No," said a third, it's been some chiel that hisna paid his fare, and has had to rin." A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE,-Anything in the nature of a new translation I take to be needless, harmful, and in effect nationally impossible. The Eng- lish Bible is the very soil out of which our mind sucks its sap, the mother earth in which our oak is rooted its vigorous Anglo-Saxon is a nature to us; and anything like modernising it, or touching it up with so-called literary gracefulness or scientific accuracy, would be wormwood to our popular taste. Again, consider the multitude of Bibles in existence, not so much the tons of unsold stock and vast properties in stereotype, as the sacred phalanx of family bibles, heir-looms and personal treasure, sown thick in every home. What a folly, what an evil, what a waste, what an impossibility would it be, even to attempt to make these obsolete.—Dublin Univer- sity Magazine. NEW TITLES.-One of Henry Fox's jokes was that played off on the late Mrs. who had a great fondness of making acquaintance of foreigners. He first forged a letter of recommendation to her in favour of a German nobleman, the Baron von Seidlitz Powdertz, whose card was left at her door, and for whom a dinner was immedi- ately planned by Mrs. and an invitation sent in form. After waiting a considerable time no baron appear- ing, the dinner was served; but during the second course a note was brought to the lady of the house, with excuses from the baron, who was unexpectedly prevented from coming by the sudden death of his aunt, the Duchess van Epsom Saltz, which she read out to the company without any suspicion of the joke, and to the entertainment of her guests, among whom was the facetious author.- Raikes's Journal. AN ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND.—The scene is Rockland, in New Zealand. One day, having been led by curiosity to visit the market, and in consequence of the heat suffered my shawl to slip from my shoulders, I met with the following adventure :-A Maori drew near, and with sparkling eyes and fascinating smile took my arm between his thumb and fingers, while he distinctly pronounced the word makai, which word was re-echoed by the surrounding orowd with evident symptoms of approbation. The man appeared to be some sort of chief; he wore, besides his mantle and dangling fringes, an old regimental cap, a stiff shirt collar, and spurs, upon his naked heels. He was accompanied by a kind of aide-de- camp, who was attired io a European coat sleeve which reached from the waist to the elbow of one arm. Per- oeiving my bearers laugh heartily at the compliment which had been paid me, I enquired the meaning of the word makai. Very good," was the reply. But how can they tell whether I am good or otherwise ? Oh very easily. The man of the cap, collar, and spurs means his compliment to be taken au physique, not an moral, as with us." I understand; he means to insinuate that my appearance pleases him." Not exactly that either -the fellow wishes to imply that you are young, plump, and tender-in a word just fit to be eaten!" I must own that a cold shiver seized me from head to foot, and that I no longer Bought to prolong this hazardous prom- enade among the cannibal Maoris."—Madame Trovanni's Jettmnt, ——— — —— THB DEATH OP PABBNTS.—The first conviction that there is death in the house is perhaps the most awful moment of youth. When we are young, we think that not only ourselves, but that all about us, are immortal. Until the arrow has struck a victim round our own hearth, death is merely an unmeaning word; until then, its casual mention has stamped no idea upon our brain. There are few, even among those least susceptible of thought and emotion, in whose hearts and minds the first death in the family does not act as a very powerful reve- lation of the mysteries of life, and of their own being; there are few who, after such a catastrophe, do not look upon the world and the world's ways, itt least for a time, with changed and tempered feelings. It recalls the past; it makes us ponder over the future and youth, gay and light-hearted youth, is taught, for the first time, to regret and to fear. On Cadurois, a child of pensive tempera- ment, and in whose strange and yet undeveloped cha- racter there was, amid lighter elements, a constitutional principle of melancholy, the sudden decease of his mother produced a very profound effect. All was forgotten of Lis parent except the intimate and natural tie, and her warm and genuine affection. He was now alone in the world for reflection impressed upon him at this moment what the course of existence too generally teaches to us all, that mournful truth, that, after all, we have no friends that we can depend upon in this life but our pa- rents. All other intimacies, however ardent, are liable to cool; all other confidence, however unlimited, to be vio- lated. In the phantasmagoria of life, the friend with wbom we have cultivated mutual trust for years is often suddenly or gradually estranged from us, or becomes, from painful, yet irresistible circumstances, even our deadliest foe. As for women, as for the mistresses of our hearts, who has not learnt that the links of passion are fragile as they are glittering? and that the bosom on which we have reposed with idolatry all our secret sor- rows and sanguine hopes, eventually becomes the very heart that exults in our misery and baffles our welfare ? Where is the enamoured face that smiled upon our early love, and was to shed tears over our grave ? Where are the choice companions of our youth, with whom we were to breast the difficulties and share the triumphs of existence ? Even in this inconstant world, what changes like the heart ? Love is a dream, and friendship a delu- sion. No wonder we grow callous; for how few have an opportunity of returning to the hearth which they quitted in levity or thoughtless weariness, yet which alone is faithful to them; whose sweet affections require not the stimulus of prosperity or fame, the lure of accom- plishments, or the tribute of flattery; but which are con- stant to us in distress, and Qonsole us even in disgrace — .Disraeli's Venetia." JSUUENK OUE.—-Eugene Sue, whose death is reported at Annecy, in Savoy, at the age of fifty-six, came of a nedical family-his grandfather being a distinguished [hysician, and his father physician to the Empress Jose- rhine. Eugene Sue was held at the baptismal font by Josephine and her son, Prince Eugene, who gave the child his name. He first studied medicine, but soon abandoned the lancet for the pen-his first literary ven- lure being a vaudeville, composed in partnership with M. Forges. He afterwards served, however, in the the Breslau, as navy surgeon, in which vessel he visited Asia and America, and, as the French say, "assisted" at the battle of Navarino. In 1831 he returned to Paris, to run rapidly through an estate accumulated by his very respectable parents, and to begin, in revenge, the series of romances which the public neglected for a long period, and at last received with enthusiasm. In 1832 appeared CI Plick et Plock," and Atar-Gull," and these were fol- lowed by "La Coucaratcha," "La Salamandre," and La Vigie de Koatven After these failures came his most conspicuous failure, his History of the French Marine," for which he received a silver medal from some waggish officers at Toulon, inscribed The gratitude of the French Navy to Eugene Sue, for the history he has lot written." Multitudes of romances followed, in which ■vice, as usual in French romances, triumphed over virtue. In 1840, sick of vicious novels that would not sell, M. Sue resolved on trying virtue as a commercial article- and wonderful was the success. The appearance of Mathilde" in the feuilleton and on the stage was one of the great literary events of the reign of Louise Phillippe. The Mysteries of Paris," The Wandering Jew," fol- bwed Mathilde," and are, perhaps, better known in this country. To them were added Martin the Found- ling," "Mysteries of the People," and The Seven Deadly Sins." But with the return to these insalubrious sub- jects he took leave of his immense popularity After his letirement to Annecy-wbich occurred in consequence of political events—he continued his literarv wnrt„ r™»J, periodicals .Hhou,^gain at £ £ 3* except on one occasion, whpn tHo 6 u no"ce> story of hi,, a,Uh6 ° Cd OhW among Aess later loisTa," u° Ma"' Cornelia d'Amalfi." M. a professed Soaahst, lived like a prince. u^oted by the Parisians as the only man of letters mem- ber of the Jockey Gl\ib,—Athenaut/h THE EMPLOYMENTS OF LADIES.—Have you not re- marked the immense works of'art that women get through ? The worsted-worked sofas, the counterpanes patched or knitted (but these are among the old-fashioned in the country), the bushels of pin-cushions, the albums they laboriously fill, the tremendous pieces of music they practise, the thousand other fiddle-faddles which occupy the attention of the dear souls—nay, have we not seen them seated of evenings in a squad or company, Louisa employed at the worsted-work before mentioned, Eliza at the pincushions, Amelia at the card-racks or filagree matches, and, in the midst, Theodosia, with one of the candles, reading out a novel aloud They only do it because they can't help it, depend upon it; it is a sad life, a poor pastime. Mr. Dickens, in his American book, tells of the prisoners at the silent prison, how they had adorned their rooms, some of them with a frightful pret- tiness and elaboration. Women's fancy-work is of this sort often -only prison work, done because there was no other exercising-ground for their poor little thoughts and fingers; and hence these wonderful pincushions are exe- cuted, these counterpanes woven, these sonatas learned. By everything sentimental, when I see two kind, inno- cent, fresh-cheeked young women go to a piano, and sit down opposite to it upon two chairs piled with more or less music-books (according to their convenience), and, so seated, go through a set of double-barrelled variations upon this or that tune by Herz or Kalkbrenner,-I say, far from receiving any satisfaction at the noise made by the performance, my too susceptible heart is given up entirely to bleed for the performers. What hours and weeks, nay, preparatory years of study has that infernal jingle cost them! What sums has papa paid, what scoldings has mamma administered ("Lady Bullblock does not play herself," Sir Thomas says, but she has naturally the finest ear for music ever known !"); what evidences of slavery, in a word, are there! It is the condition of the young lady's existence. She breakfasts at eight, she does Mangnall's Questions with the gover- ness till ten, she practises till one, she walks in the square with bars round her till two, then she practises again, then she sews or hems, or reads French, or Hume's His- tory, then she comes down to play to papa, because he likes music whilst he is asleep after dinner, and then it is bedtime, and the morrow is another day with what are called the same duties" to be gone through. A friend of mine went to call at a nobleman's house the other day, and one of the young ladies of the house came into the room with a tray on her head; this tray was to give Lady Maria a graceful carriage. MonDieu! and who knows but at that moment Lady Bell was at work with a pair of her dumb namesakes, and Lady Sophy lying flat on a stretching-board ? I could write whole articles on this theme.—Thackeray's Miscellanies. A YANKEE ROMANCE.—A lady writing from England, in the Dollar Weekly Times, an American paper, tells the following absurd stories of the great Baptist minister, Mr. SpurgeonThe church was well filled, without being overcrowded, and we were much pleased with Mr. Spurgeon. His style is rather peculiar, and I dare say you have seen many of the newspaper anecdotes about him. He is very eloquent, but, at the same time, he makes use of very ludicrous expressions, which cause much amusement. For instance, he designated us (his congregation) the small fry, and then after expounding that part of the revelation in which it speaks of the angel keeping the gate of heaven," he pretended to hold a dialogue with said angel somewhat in the following manner,—Angel ?" shouts Mr. Spurgeon, so loudly that he made the church ring again, and his audience were so much surprised that for the time being perfect silence reigned. "Well?" answered the angel. Mr. S.: Have you got any Methodists in heaven ?" Angel: "No." "Any Baptists?" "Not one." And he went through along catalogue of Presbyterians, Episcopalians, 1 &c., &c., at the top of his lungs, as though he were talk- Mgr-to son ooo m tk»aext otrwt, ttIB angel otJjectfiig- to each, until at length he said,—Have you got any be- lievers in Christ ?" Upon which the angel said he bad got a few of that stock on hand." Of course every one was in a titter, and you could hear them laugh all over the church. He told one or two rather ludicrous stories, but still it is nothing to what they tell of him in Lon- don. A few weeks ago he singled Lord Palmerston out among his congregation, and told him that he needn't think much of himself, for his father (meaning Adam, of course), was a market gardener, and his mother was brought up on a charge of stealing apples Upon ano- ther occasion, he told the assembled multitude that the way to hell was smooth and easy, like this,"—he hera opened the pulpit door, put his leg over the banister and slid down to the bottom, as you often see boys do. He then stopped for a moment, and then said but the way to heaven is hard like this"—and then pulled himself in the same manner up again, which operation was rather difficult, but the congregation received this practical illus- tration with great applause. It is really wonderful that so young a man (he is only twenty-two), should create such a disturbance, but still many go to hear him only from curiosity.—[We need not insinuate anything against the truth of this nonsense. It is an obvious tissue of falsehoods.]

GARDEN OPERATIONS, &c. FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES.—Propagation of stock for next season must now soon be commenced, and carried on with expedition, so as to secure strong well- established plants before winter, and without the necessity of keeping them so close or warm as to induce weakly and watery growth. It cannot be too often repeated that to be able to winter bedding stock safely with ordi- nary care, the cuttings should be put in sufficiently early in the autumn to allow of having them well established and fit to be exposed to the open air by the end of next month. Begin with such as are found to be the most tedious to propagate and prepare for winter. Holly- hocks are general favourites, but they do not afford cuttings freely, and are in general not over plentiful about most places. These should therefore be examined often in search of any cuttings which they may afford, as those rooted about this time will make strong plants for next season. Attend to the tying up of these and dahlias, and go over the masses of verbenas, &c., fre- quently, for the purpose of regulating the growth, so as to keep it orderly and neat. Sow ten-week or interme- diate stocks for spring flowering; transplant Brompton and Queen's stocks, and if the situations in which they are to flower are not at liberty, prick them out in nur- sery beds, allowing them plenty of room to prevent weakly growth. HARDY FRUIT AND KITCHEN GARDEN.—Winter onions may now be sown; also cauliflowers for the early crop next season, a small bed of pickling cabbage, brown cos, and some hardier sorts of lettuce to stand the winter. The tops of the main crops of onions had better be laid down if they are inclined to be rank, going over the bed with a wooden. beaded rake, and checking the tops down sufficiently to check further growth. Plant out a good breadth of endive on well-enriched soil of a light dry na- ture. Also see to providing a good supply of lettuce, &c., for autumn use. Attend to celery, keeping it well supplied with water in dry weather, giving it as much manure water as can be spared for it, and keep the early crop rather closely earthed up. Vacant ground, or that which can be cleared of early crops, may be still planted with winter stuff, first giving it a good dressing of ma- nure, and a good deep digging. Stir the surface of the SOJ1 among growing crops. This has a highly beneficial effect. Cut box edgings, and keep every corner clean and neat. COTTAGERS' GARDEN.—Let scarlet runners be tormpa °Dke kte ?e^8' if overrunning their sticks be dubbed" at top. A few cabbage plants sot in „ will be found useful. Green kale maybe still 1? where blanks exist, and a few Dutnh ♦„ • g 4 m sown; a little of'the Blttco, American cress, and a few turnip radishes If kept, it is an excellent plan to sow rve j^^ter ZCr %7 8P?re gr0U,,d intended for gJ>^pa nex.t year. This at cutting win ieave a ground almost amounting to turf and ma*™" Wl11 hel? m a great measure to keep down wV^

ET T7 A 4 .^from the Rev. J. H. Gurnev. in tVm ING* AJlSment made by the Rev. James UDton a* 10 the etfect that filiza Penning Up on. a Baptist^ The statement is contained in a hadconfessedJ^e la,e Mr. Wiuiaia Brodie Qu 1^ memorarny^.jjand writer. The Rev. Mr. Upton related emineggfgnce with the condemned girl, and said—" Before "JSiffaone she was quite melted down and then it all came I said, Do you mean ihat she confessed that crime?' • Oh, yes,' said he, 'there was no reserve then.' She confessed that it was all true, and I besought on her behalf the forgiveness of all her sins, and of that among the rest, and I hoped at the time that she had joined in that prayer, but I understand that after this she still per sisted ia assuring those who yisited her of her innocence"

mom THE HARVEST. IVENT, The wheat harvest is three weeks earlier than last year. The crop of wheat, in 1847, may have been equal to tho present one, otherwise we have not had so great a crop since 1822 If tho wheat crop is secured in good condition it will be full one-third more than last LTA.h iPFf 7 Wheat « not so great a breadth as last year; the high price of barley has induced many farmers to sow more Barley may be two-thirds of a crop, peas very bad, beans an average oatabad The potato blight is extending itself. The rains have somewhat impeded the progress of harvest operations. YORKSHIRE.—The continuance of fine weather is* ra pidly bringing the crops to maturity. In many places the wheat is quite ready for the sickle, and one or two farmers in the neighbourhood of Wakefield, intended to commence cutting this week. Nearly all the wheat is very full and close in the ear, and gives token of a most abundant yield. The other cereal crops are in a most promising condition; and the pastures, since the hay harvest has been cot in, look most luxnriant. We have heard no complaint, either of fly in the turnip, or of disease in the potato. SUSSEX. The crop which now covers the ground has rarely been equalled. Wheat, barley, oats, peas, and beans, all promise a first-rate yield. An immense breadth of wheat has been cut, and peas, beans, barley, and oats are also down" in some districts. Of wheat, a large average has not only been cut, but carried—and carried in the most splendid condition. We hear o* large yields in point of bulk, and heavy estimates as regards weight. HAMPSHIRE.—Should the present fine weather last but a few days longer, nearly, if not the whole of the wheat will be carted in this locality. The crop will, no doubt be an average one but the barley, especially the late sown, is not good. The same remark applies to oats, which, in addition, are short in the straw. The turnips have been much infected with the black palmer, which commit great ravages. DERBYSHIRE.—Harvest partially commenced the latter part of last week, and generally about Tuesday last. There is not so much straw as last year, consequently a great portion of it will be mown. The yield must be large, judging from the size of the ears and the boldness of the grain. It would be easy to point out many crops which will produce twenty loads of three bushel per acre. Some ,winter barley is gathered. Potatoes are free from disease at present. LINCOLNSHIRE.—We have been favoured with glorious fine weather for the harvest, and many of the crops in thisloc lity are now ready for the reaper. Operations commenced here on Monday, and harvesting is now very general in this district. NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM.—The crops in these counties are rapidly maturing, and there is every pros-, pect that the corn harvest will be at least three weeks earlier than in ordinary seasons. The wheat crops are exceedingly bountiful; in a word, the oldest inhabitant never saw a finer prospect. Some few fields of oats, in very favourable situations, have been cut. The hay har- vest has been well won. SCOTLAND.-In Haddingtonshire, wheat and barley are ripening fast, and will be cut down in a week or two hence, if the present favourable weather continue. The crop is above the average. Oats are also far advanced, but not quite so full a crop, in some districts, as that of last year. The cereals are generally good, but on the higher lands they have suffered to some extent for want of rain. In Lanarkshire, the crops are scarcely so far advanced as in the Lothians, but they may be pronounced as above the average in appearance. In Fifeshire, there are greater varieties as to quality and ripeness than in any of the more southern counttes. Oats are rather thin and wheat unequalled. Potatoes are somewhat stunted, and the turnips show many blanks. In Perthshire, on the heavy deep lands, the crops are remarkably strong, and will, with a good harvesting time, give a large re- turn. In Forfar and Kincardineshire, where the soiL generally, is light, the crops are thin, and have suffered for lack of rain. In Aberdeenshire, oats are good, and about ten days in advance of last year's crop. TurniDS are an excellent crop, in most places; but, generally speaking, the oat crop is light in the higher districts— in Sutherland and Cailhnessbire-but heavy in Rosshire, where there is also a large breadth of wheat ripening well. Taking the crops as a whole, they are early and good, but not heavy. WALES.—The weather has recently been exceedingly favourable to the growing crops, and the cereals wear a healthy and prosperous appearance throughout the prin- cipality. The wheat will be a full yield, and an unsually large breadth of land has been sown. Barley and oats show well, and promise to turn out an unusually good crop The former is very.forward. The potato disease is extending in some parts, but this vegetable is not very extensively cultivated. The fruit crops are not so large as in some former years, and have afforded scarcely an average. The markets bear at present an upward ten- T xr. wheat has yet been shown. It may be added, that the hay has been entirely secured, mostly in good condition, though some is reported to be very infe- rior. FRANcE.-The intelligence which reaches Paris from all the departments relative to the harvest is very satis- factory. Although the harvest is not quite finished in the north, there is no doubt that the yield of cereals will be one of the most abundant in France.—Sunday Times.

pipping Untrlligrait. CHARLESTON, JULY 22—The ship ini-oul t rie. from Cardiff 'till remains on shore on t'-o North Breaker of .Shin Bar On Monday evening, an unfavourable change took n!ace in the weather, the wind blowing in squalls very heavily from L° Wl,h n a heavy sea which worke l the ship on the highest part on the beaker, causing her to leak badly, ar.d making the chance of her coming eff very small. The steamers Ni m and Carolina proceeded to her yesterday afternoon, but soon after they commenced work, the steamer Niau parted her bow chain, which was attached to an anchor to hold her in position. This acci- dent, which was caused by the great force of the wind and sea, rendered it impossible for the boa's to work and tliey, had to leave the ship. Should tin weather moderate an at tempt will be made to take snme of the iron out but should the present sea and wind continue, it is generally thought that the ship must bilge. The -Mouluie now lies wi'h her stern in 13 aud bow in 16 feet water. ShP i» loaded with 900 tons railroad iron. GUERNSEY, AUG. 4.-A waterlogged vessel laden with flour was fa len in with by the schooner Jubilee on ruesday previous, at about 35 miies to the north-west of this island, and by their joint exertions it wa8 taken *1 Alderney. The derelict vessel is the French 8<-hn« Marie Francoise, from Havre for Cardiff, which ?!' night of the 27th ult was ran down, when nine A,;? £ Plymouth by the brig Stranger, of Jersey The v? • saved on board the latter vessel. beinS ALDER*EY, AUG. G.- -The French schooner M»»; -D coise, from Havre for Cardiff, has been towed f Fran" derelict; part of the cargo, (flour) was sold ve.? a here5 the remainder has been landed, yesterday, and ST, <" aasr mtts S ffiurras CAIIDIFF,, AUG. 8.—W.N W squally at intervals; p.m. N.\V '(he American i*1? I>aniel Elliott, Small "while moving to the ballast in the East Bute Dock' capsized and remains yS*™»sts Partly under water. The Pilot cutter Eliza, r^«rt|ted as having been on shore at Sully Island, was last evening by the Cardiff Castle tU|' 5,°^^ADG. 6, PUT IK.-The Alfred and Edward ,a"d ?,aulV0? Pac.ket> Git>bs, from London' JSSrfor Cardiff-the latter with jibboom carried away* i>#ut back— 1 he sunshine, Turrell, for Chepstow away« SPOKEN.—Kinderdyke, Dutch barque. from'Cftr.Uff Singapore, July llth, lat. 1G N, long. 27 w • b? S* Rodney, Bissett, off Plymouth Snera r>»ni0i, from Newport for St. Thomas, July 8th', lat. 18 10^66- by the Juliet Boger, Perkins, at New York 'AU» I Hall, from Cardiff for Caldera. June 18th lat'lfi N i 26 VV. Aleoonda Jacoba, Dutch barqie from CardiiT* Batavia, July 5th, lat 10.5 N„ lonS'w TS Luckham, from Cardiff lor Patras Jnlv <>i w Vincent.' Queen of the West JU?^ Smyran, July 21, of! Cape St. Vincent T«^ n ^neSe23frw Cazitt f°r lp°ng Kon~' June J7, latn.30 NU'

TEXTS AND SERMONS.-The ministers of the present M?y irk? tate their texts from Barnum as from e B.lble* lhey pay no attention to the context and the meaning of words. I knew one who, preaching on Cor- nelius, the centurion of the Italian band, went on to rap against the Italiani opera and all instrumental music Whatever,—Dr. £ a4ic} of Glasgow,