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an—MBBM—MWWIi'lTTJIi iiHMB—EB——88—— I:=- A JOBBING TRANSACTION.—The following are the rumours in circulation, and it is well that the House and the country should be prepared for the Minister's silence or his reply. Captain Carnegie, it is said, was sent for by Sir John Pakington and informed that be was ex- pected to go to Dover, and contest the seat for that bo- rough against Mr. Bernal Osborne. Captain Carnegie replied" that he was a seaman, not a politician that when he had accepted office under Lord Derby's Govern. ment, no such condition was expressed or implied, and that he would not engage himself in a business for which he considered himself unfit." Sir John Pakington thereupon intimated to Captain Cargenie that, failing to win a seat in the House, he must resign his seat at the Admiralty, and the gallant officer accepted the latter al- ternative. The same kind of proposition was subse- quently made to the two Vice-Admirals Martin and Dundas. They also declined, and they also—each in turn-" tendered" their resignations. The predicament was an awkward one now one, now the other, was soli. cited to remain, until after a certain amount of negotia- tion the affair terminated, as far as the two Vice-Admirals were concerned, by a withdrawal of the offensive propo sition. Sir John Pakington was compelled to acquiesce in his defeat, and agreed to say no more about Dover, if only the two Naval Lords would consent to remain. Captain Carnegie, however, was dealt with as the Jonah of the transaction, and was thrown overboard. Then it was that the veteran Leeke was summoned to council. Would he consent to serve Lord Derby, and to contest Dover ? He would His services to the country hav9 not been much to boast of, but he will serve Lord Derby at the narrowest point of the narrow seas. Sir Benjamin Hall, however, is a hard man, critical as Iago, and de- termined as the Welsh Captain to make the First Lord swallow his Leek.— Times. THE GENERAL ELECTION.—There is a point of view in which the question becomes rather serious and painful particularly at this season of the yeir, when there occur two weeks still invested with a certain religious character and regarded accordingly. The point of view we speak of is pecuniary and moral. Not less than a thousand candidates are in the field; all of them have engaged canvassers, and auxiliaries of all classes, from the leading attorney of the county to publicans, brass bands, "mes- sengers," and flag-bearers. We leave others to compute the probable aggregate of the Parliamentary forces thus kept in full pay and in fighting condition. It has been com- puted that the Austrian army costs not less than JEaO,000 a day, and :we should think the preparations for the General Election are not costing less. That expenditure indicates a fearful amount of corruption and disorder. Every day, then, now added to the interval is so much addition to a ruinous cost and a fearful mischief.—Times. USELESSNESS OP THE BALLOT.-It is sought by intro- ducing the ballot to prevent the exercise of undue influ- ence at elections. How ? By relying on the refusal of the elector to inform the canvasser how he will vote, and by the impossibility that the canvasser can ever know. Are not the electors already so environed with partisan friends and employers as that such refusal would be taken as a sure sign of opposition ? The sluices of influence would then be opened on the unhappy recusant, without the possibility of proving that his actual vote had been unduly influenced. The ballot confounds any distinctions in the electoral body, so far as the result can testify. An unprincipled candidate may claim the credit of the votes polled against him, and those he has won his election by purchasing may be passed to the debit of his honest opponent. It thus gives the greaiest incentives to corruption and intimidation, for it is idle to suppose a lack of ingenious means to effect the object, assisted as they will be by the secrecy attending the vote. If it be said that this very secrecy will paralyse the liaml of briber and the .tongue nf thw in!imitator- by destroying imeii*wuuuetieO ,iftTtte reeuTt, aepeaTupoti if corruptible and dependent men will gi.e adequate and ample secu- rity for their obedience. If they have not honesty or pluck to resist now that they have the countenance of fel- low-patriots, when that support or restraint is withdrawn their chance of protection in the box will be small in- deed. The increased temptations to insincerity afforded by secrecy would tend to demoralise the community. The writer was told the other day by an advocate of the ballot that he should not like to refuse his vote if cer- tain parties canvassed him, but if he had the ballot he could please them and himself too The injury to social morality which such a system would introduce is fright- ful to contemplate, and would be a miserable exchange for the inconvenience from giving an honest vote openly. Who really want the ballot ? Do timid shopkeepers de- lude themselves that it will shelter by enabling them to give the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope ?" Do tenant farmers think that with it they can defy the agent ?" Do working men suppose'the mas- ter's gentle, kind, advice" will be repelled by silence (worse than speech), accompanied by a shrug, as in France ? Vain delusion!—" A Radical," in the Times. LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S ORATORY.—Who can describe the feelings with which he lan" intelligent foreigner"] has listened for the first time to Lord John Russell with what ardent anticipations he went to hear that statesman who has lead the House of Commons longer than any man living—how bitterly he felt, as he went away, what a satire on our institutions the eminence of such a man pronounces ? A long, dull, drawling prosi- ness, which would be thought tiresome in a vestry, argu- ments without a pretence to logic, platitudes without a spark of originality, are the strange spells with which he has fascinated the House of Commons. Who drives fat oxen, must himself be fat," is the only explanation of a career which the divinity that doth hedge about a Rus- sell, or the cunning pliability of his convictions, woald be of themselves insufficient to account for. So tho- roughly do his stammering arguments and watery truisms adapt themselves to the mental calibre of his hearers that it is as treasonable to doubt his talent as it it has been lately to inquire into his honesty. That his public life has been a succession of dirty tricks does not, perhaps, disqualify him from being the leading statesman of a great people, for as much can be said of Mr. Disraeli, and very nearly as much of Lord Palmerston. It is true that neither of his rivals can show such a goodly list of tri- umphs as he can. The Tithe Resolution of 1834, the Bedchamber Plot, the Free-trade letter, the Irish Arms Act, the Durham letter, the Aberdeen resignation, the Vienna negotiations, and the "crafty and catching device," the results of whose success we are now expe- riencing, make up a catalogue of merit which no living man can equal. But that all this moral meanness should be submissively adored without the gilding of a particle of eloquence or talent is a symptom of rottenness in public feeling which calls for reform far more loudly than the abuses of our electoral system.-Saturday Review. AOSTRIA AND FRANCE.—Austria feels that the Italian Sovereigns are devoted to her, but that if the Emperor Napoleon had a fair field for a few years, if Rome con- tinues garrisoned by his troops, andif the rulers of Central Italy find that his sword weighs heavier in the balance, the whole dominion which she has exercised in Italy may be transferred to him, the people being attached to French interests by their sympathies, and the Sovereigns by their fears. To prevent such a consummation Aus- tria has laboured earnestly, and is now willing to accept the chances of war. Such is the state of things at pre- sent, and so fruitful is of it danger that we may expect any day to hear that the conflicts of the First French Empire are to be renewed.— Times. THE GAME LAWS.—It is absurd to say that the office of a gamekeeper is a curse to the country," without sufcstituting another and more efficient officer in his place. Game is now the only kind of property which is obliged to be protected by its owner, because the State will not take care of it for him. Every game-preserver would gladly be relieved of the expense of keepers and watchers, if the law would take his pheasants and hares under its protection but as he knows that it is absurd to expect such a happy consummation of the theory of government, ho is obliged to appoint a keeper, in accord- ance with the Act of Parliament specially passed to settle the powers which he will be allowed to exercise. Either game must be exterminated entirely or it must be protected in some way, and at present the only mode of doing this in the hands of the proprietors of land is to appoint gamekeepers, most of whom are of good charac- ter and, indeed, considering all the aggravations which they have to endure, their couduct as a body of men is deserving of all praise.-Field. PENARTH HARBOUR COMPANY.—On Friday week the Managers of the Penarth Railway and Harbour Couipanv appointed Captain Chadwick harbour master. The tidal harbour will be opened in a few weeks, and will be commenced forthwith. THE SISTERS O? CHARITY.—A letter from Milan gives give the following instance of the enthusia3m of certain philanthropic ladies in that city:—"A society of the Sisters of Charity has just been formed at Milan, like those of the Crimea, with the purpose of going to the camp and atteuding upon the sick and wounded. It is composed of the most distinguished ladies of Milan- whetber as regards their wealth or rank, In all the cities of Lombardy, committees have been organised for the purpose of supplying those who wish to go to Pied- mont with the means of doing so. I have received at this moment, a letter from Forli, which announces the departure for Turin of several young men belonging to the aristocracy of the country, who leave in order to take service in the Sardinian army. In a short time the emigration movement in Romagna will assume the same proportions as in Lombardy and the Duchies. The greater part of the Milanese nobles have taken shares in the Sardinian Loan." EIGIIT CHILDREN AT A BIRTH.-About five months since the wife of Jacob Abbott, living about 10 miles east of Golconda, in Pope county, C. W., presented her husband with eight pledges of affection, at one birth. These children survived until six weeks old, when two of them sickened and died. The remaining six are still living and thriving finely. The whole eight were very small specimens of humanity when ushered into the world, as might have been expected. This statement is literally true it is vouched for by numbers of respect- able witnesses who saw the children.-Lockport Jour- nal. DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR JOSEPH THACKWELL, G.C.B. AND K.H.-Lieutenant-General Sir Joseph Thackwell, G.C.B., died suddenly on Friday, at Aghada-hall, his seat in County Cork, from disease of the heart. The gallant officer, who had greatly distin- guished himself, was fourth son of the late Mr. John Thackwell, of Rye-court, Worcestershire. He entered the army in April, 1800, and during his career of nearly 60 years had gained the highest distinction in the ser- vice, particularly in the East Indies. Sir Joseph ren- dered important services in the Peninsula, he commanded the cavalry division of the army of Gwalior through the Mahratta war in 1843, and the cavalry division at the action at Maharajpore, on the 20th December of that year. Sir Joseph greatly distinguished himself in the operations against the Sikhs in the campaigns of 1846 and 1849, for which eminent services he received the thanks of Parliament and of the East India Company, and was rewarded in the last mentioned year by her Majesty no- minating him a Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, the gallant general having formerly for his military ser- vices been made a Companion and Knight of that Order. During,hia honourable career in the service he had been several times wounded. At Vittoria he was severely contused on the right shoulder, and at Waterloo he was so badly wounded that he had to have his left arm am- putated, and had two horses shot under him. EXTRAORDINARY RANGE OF TEMPERATURE.—-The un- precedented range of temperature which has occurred within the space of a single week is worthy of record. On the 1st of April the temperature fell to 21.8 deg. in the air, and to 20 deg. on the grass, while on the 7th of April, it rose to 78.0 deg. in the shade, being a range of 56.2 deg. The hottest temperature before recorded here for April, is April 6, 1859-viz., 75.8 deg. In 1848 and 1852, it rose to 75.5 deg., and in 1854 to 74.8 deg. During the last 65 years the observations taken at the Royal Society, and reduced by Mr. James Glaisher, show that in 1807 the temperature in April rose to 77.0 deg. in 1841 to 76.5., in 1848 to 75.0 deg., and in 1844 to 74.9 deg., the thermometer to-day rising 1.0 deg. above this amount..The coldest temperature before recorded here for April is 1855-viz., 22.6 deg., and 1849, 24.3 deg. The Royal SooUty'o oU^ivtHiona give z<.u (leg. as the nnlfWt for April, and this occurred in the three yeara 179$, 1808. and 1847. Jo.Ui».' v«"«- the temp.™ ture has nmenaTZ" deg. below the amount. From the inland position of the Highfield-house Observatory, the temperature rises higher and falls lower than in the neighbourhood of London nevertheless the temperature has been 0.8 deg. lower, and 2.5 deg. higher than ever before recorded.-Mr. Lowe, in the Times. THE MINISTRy.-Is there any man in the room who can lay his hand on his heart and say that that Ministry has ever been guilty of propouding any distinct policy'? Have they not been living from hand to mouth by scraos pillaged from the liberal budget ? Have they not treated those measures as it is said gipsies treat stolen children -disfigured them to make them pass for their own ? Have they not passed, after opposing it with the em- harassing majority," the repeal of qualifications for members; have they not granted, though in what I think a most disgraceful and insulting form the emanci- pation of our Jewish fellow-subjects? Arc they not wil- hng to do anything that may conciliate support from that embarassed majority ?" Have they not shelved off every question of great moment or interest which the executive usually introduce, to be considered by com- mittees or commissions ? In fact whether we look high or low, to great questions or to small, this Government has systematically attempted to shirk all responsibility. It has conciliated support wherever it could be got, and at last turns round on the majority when it finds it to be embarasssing." The Ministry has been called by many names, but I think it most resembles a certain character in a play written by the celebrated Macklin, and known no doubt to many of you called The Man of the World. The principal character in that play is Sir Pertinax Mac- sycophant, who rises in spite of lax principles, bad ad- dress, indifferent character, to the highest office, and the greatest consideration. When asked how he has done all this :—" By your talent ?" Not at all," he replies By your character, then ?" Oh, no certainly not," returns Sir Pertinax. "Then, how have you achieved tt ?" By booing to all men on all occasions." This then I say, is the Macsycophant Ministry they have booed to all men on all occasions," and when found out and defeated by a triumphant majority they proolaim like other bankrupts that they are in embar- rassing" circumstances and send us to our constituents. -Mr. Bernal Osborne at Dover. THE ITALIAN QUESTION,—What I would advance, as a not improbable hypothesis, is the following Count Cavour, fading that appeals to Europe and especi- 0 allr to England, on whom he had long placed his chief leliauce, were unavailing, resolved to work upon her apprehensions, and, having obtained powerful co-opera- tion, he boldly engaged in and perseveringly followed up the plan which has led her to the brink of war. The danger of a conflict has now, we hope and believe, in great measure passed away, but we are not on that ac- count bound to conclude that Cavour remains a dissatis- fied a nd disappointed man, and that he will unscru- pulously resort to any means that may present them- selves of embroiling negotiations and reviving discord. Neither is it the inevitable inference from his alleged oontentment that Napoleon will aid him in this design and drive matters to hostilities. I repeat that it is doubt. ful whether the Sardinian Premier ever expected that the Austrians would be expelled from Italy. It is not so very long since he made no secret of his opinion that reforms in Central Italy and a cessation of Austrian encroachment in that direction would satisfy the country, and still, at least for some time, the troubled waters of Italian politics. That much, at least, we may fairly expect the Congress to obtain, or it might as well not meet. In Cavour's recent warlike demonstrations and in his attitude of menace towards Austria and towards the peace of Europe, I would suppose, then-and I believe the SUpposItiOn at least as likely to be well founded as others that have been advanced-that his object was to force the Italian question upon the serious consideration of the great Powers, by proving to them that it might at any moment become a flagrant danger to Europe. This he sought to do by violent means and by inspiring alarm, since humble and suppliant representations having proved unavailing. He has certainly succeeded. Europe is convinced that the condition of Italy must be amended. The Congress about to assemble will, it is to be hoped, obtain and secure for that unfortunate country those re- forms and improvements to which she is entitled. As to changing the map of Europe, that is not to be thought of, and it is probable that. Cavour does not, if he ever did, seriously expect it. He has been going for a great deal in order to obtain a part. As regards the question of Piedmont's admission to the Congress, it seems to be daily thought less probable, even in Turin—although here, to be sure, many disbelieve that the Congress will ever come to pass. It may be considered proper to con- sult Piedmont, but her admission on an equality with the Great Powers is unlikely indeed. I have heard it stated nere, in two or three quarters, that Cavour desires to keep out of the Congress, and this agrees with infor- mation on which I hays reason to rely,—Turin Corres- pondene of tM Ximu. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN DRPRY-LANB — On Smdiv I morning, between the hours of eight and nine o'clock/a nre, attended with the destruction of several thousand pounds worth of property, happened in the premises be- longing to Messrs. Essex and Sons, curriers and tanners carrying on business in Harford-place, Drury-lane, and Stanhope-street, Clare-market. The buildings in which the fire originated were of considerable length, probably about 200 feet, and in some parts, including the base- ment, were six floors high. The engines having arrived, the firemen, under the direction of Mr. CoIf, went to work in first-rate style, and by entering the blazing property with the branches from the different engines in hand they were enabled to follow the fire from floor to floor, until they had secured the whole of that portion of the factorv in which the misfortune had commenced but they were unable to get the conflagration extinguished until the stores in the currying department, the work- shops over the engine-house, steam engine, and other machinery were destroyed, as well as some thousand pounds' worth of leather being oonsumed. The total loss will amount, it is feared, to between £4,000 and £5,000 but great as is the damage done, it is satisfactory to know that the business of the firm will not be retarded by the disastrous event. THE FORTHCOMING EASTER TERM.—On Saturday, the lists of rules in the common law courts for the ensuing term, commencing on Friday next, were issued. They exhibit an aggregate in the three courts of 122 rules, &c., for judgment and argument, of which 37 are in the Queen's Bench, fi3 in the. Common Pleas, and 32 in the Exchequer. In the Queen' Bench, there are only 9 rules for new trials, 1 case in the special paper for judgment, and 20 for argument; and of enlarged rules there are 7. In the Common Pleas, there are 11 en- larged rules, 17 rules for new trials, and 4 rules for the decision of the Court (cur. adv. vult.), besides which 21 demurrers &c., have been entered. In the Courts of Exchequer, of Errors, and Appeal, there is 1 for judg- ment and 8 for argument. The peremptory paper con- tains 3 rules, and of new trial 1 rule is for judgment and 11 for argument besides 2 rules in the special paper for judgment and 6 for argument, of which several are demurrers and the remainder special cases. Being Easter Term, the Lord Chancellor will receive the judges at his residence in Eaton-place, and then proceed to open the several courts at Westminster. There is a good deal of business before the Divorce and Probate Court, which Court will sit on the 2nd day of Term in the Lord Chan- cellor's Court, Westminster, when his Lordship will sit in Lincoln's Inn. THE INDIAN MUTINY,—A voluminous return has been issued of the names or numbers of all the regular and irregular regiments which have mutinied or manifested a disposition to mutiny since the 1st of January, 1857. Much detailed information is also given as to the exact time when symtoms of disaffection were observed, their nature, the number of officers and men present with the regiment at the time, and so forth, while remarks are in each case subjoined by the commanding officers. The Bengal establishment is taken first. The return contains no sort of summary, and the information it contains is therefore in a very unmanageable form we find, however, that in all 64 regiments on this establish- ment mutinied, or manifested a disposition to mutiny. The following are the regiments of native infantry, the whole or a large portion of which absolutely mutinied -the 17th, 32nd, 3ith, 7th, 8th, 17th, 37th, 40th, 9th, 44th, 54th, 69th, 23rd, 52nd, 5th, 36th, 60th, 61st, 46th, 45th, 57th, 14th, 51st, 55th, 15th, 30th, and 72nd. In the Peshawur districts eieven regiments either mutinied or manifested a disposition to do so, the greater num- ber being regiments of native infantry. Eight re- giments or parts of regiments only in the Bombay army ovo in tVio usts as having joined the rebellion. UULLiaiOfJ 1M T«U"l'fNE.—^Tlic part?ealar3 1 UULLiaiOfJ 1M T«U"l'fNE.—^Tlic part?ealar3 of a very disastrous collision between two steamers, which resulted in the sinking of one of the vessels, have been received. The General Steam Navigation Com- pany's steamer Bruiser, with passengers and a general cargo, from London, was proceeding up the Tyne on Thursday evening, and when near a sharp angle in the river, some two miles from Newcastle, the Britannia steamer, for Leith, was observed coming down. Owing to the state of the tide, and the position of a sandbank which extends some distance into the Channel, the ships apparently w.ere unable to clear each other, and the Bruiser struck the bow of the Britannia with consider- able force and such was the character of the injury, that her fore compartment speedily began to fill with water, and she gradually settled down. The passengers and crew, however, had ample opportunity to escape. The Bruiser sustained but trifling damage, and pro- ceeded to Newcastle quay. Strenuous exertions were made on Friday and Saturday to raise the Britannia from the position in which she was placed, in conse- quence of the injurie(which she received on the previous day; and the hope that she may yet be got safely off is entertained. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BATLEY. On Friday last a desperate attempt at murder and suicide took place at Batley, near Dewsbury. A young man residing in that town, named Charles Gomersal, has for some time been afllicted with fits, which appear to have unhinged his reason. He has frequently threatened to take the life of his mother, and on the morning named he made an attempt to carry his threat into execution. He seized his mother in the house, threw her down, and, when interrupted, was in the act of sawing her thruat with a table knife. When removed by force, by Mr. Taylor, manufacturer, of Batley, who was near the house at the time, and his father, he made a second at- tempt, which was Hgain frustrated. He then broke loose, and ran to the village of Carlinghow, a distance of about a mile, and there entered a shop kept by a person named Kaye. He there seized upon a knife, and inflicted a wound on his own throat; but he did not succeed in doing much harm to himself. He was taken into cus- tody, and carried to the Workhouse at Dewsbury, where he now lies. His mother, though severely wounded, is not considered in danger. THE PAPER TAX.—A circular issued by the Associa- tion for Promoting the Repedl of the Taxes on Know- ledge, says :No Administration proposes to reduce the public burthens, or to relieve the producing classes from indirect taxation, which presses upon them in a ratio far exceeding the proportion of their income. Among these taxes one stands pre-eminent as the only remaining excise duty on a manufacture. It has been abundantly proved that the paper duty is a tax upon lite- rature, an obstruction to education, an impediment to commerce, and a hiuderance to production that it inter- feres with the process of manufacture, represses industry, and injures the revenue. Pledge, therefore, every can- didate to vote for its repeal." ENCOURAGEMENT TO INVALID CLERGYMEN. WE hear the good ladies of the Park-street church in Boston have been doing a great injury to the churches of the land. We see it stated that when their excellent pastor departed for Europe a few days ago, they all kissed him, and some of them thus testified their affection two or three times. Now, we do not wish to speak as though we desired to restrict in the least the liberties of the ladies when they are thus disposed to treat one of our sex nor as if we were filled with a malicious envy of a gentleman whom we esteem so highly as the Rev. Mr. Stone. But we beg leave to inquire whether, if this touching mode of bidding farewell to the pastor becomes general, it will not do more to increase the number of clerical invalids and empty our pulpits than even the arch enemy of preachers, the bronchitis. We confess that we fear such a result, if our respected friends of the pulpit share in any degree the weaknesses to which we editors plead guilty.-Proridence Journal. PROBABILITY OF MARRYING.—A table inserted in a paper in the Assurance Magazine exhibits results of a rather startling description. In the first two quin- quennial periods, 20-25 and 25-30, the probability of a widower marrying in a year is nearly three times as great as that of a bachelor. At 30 it is nearly four times as great; from 30 to 45 it is five times as great; and it increases until at sixty the chance of a widower marrying in a year is eleven times as great as that of a bachelor. it is curious to remark from this table how confirmed either class becomes in its condition of life-how little likely, after a few ),ears is a bachelor to break through his habits and solitary condition and, on the other hand, how readily in proportion does a husband contract a second marriage, who has been deprived prematurely of his first partner. After the age of 30 the probability ol a bachelor marrying in a year diminishes in a most rapu. ratio. The probability at 35 is not much more than half that at 30, and nearly the same proportion exists between each quinquennial period afterwards,
: EVELYN HOPE.
EVELYN HOPE. BBAUTITUI Evelyn Bo* £ Sit and watch by^ She plucked tb»t piece of geranium-flower, B". „ta die too, in the glass. iSttte^a8 yet been changed, I think— The shutters are shut, no light may pass Save two long rays thro' the hinge's chink. Sixteen years old when she died perhaps she had scarcely heard my name- It was not her time to love: beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little cares, And now was quiet, now astir— • Till God's hand beckoned unawares, And the sweet white brow is all of her. Ia it too late then, Evelyn Hope ? What, your soul was pure and true, The good stars met in your horoscope, Made you of spirit, fire and dew- And just because I was thrice as old, And our paths in the world diverged so wide, Each was nought to each, must I be told ? We were fellow mortals, nought beside ? NO, indeed! for God above Is great to grant, as mighty to make, And creates the love to reward the love,— »» I claim you still, for my own love s sake! y DeUyed it may be for more lives yet. Through worlds I Shall traverse, not a few~ Mnch is to learn and much to forget Ere the time be come for taking you. But the time wiU come,—at last it will. When livelyn Hope, what meant, I shall say, In the lower earth, in the years long still, That body and soul so pure and gay t Why your hair was amber, I shall divine, And your mouth of your own geranium's red— And what you would do with me, in fine, In the new life come in the old one's stead. I have lived, I shall say, so much since then, Given up myself so many times, Gained ma the gains of various men, Ransacked the ages, spoil'd the climes Vet one thing, one, in my soul's full scope, Either I missed or itself missed me — And I want and find you, Evelyn Hope What is the issue ? let us see I loved you, Evelyn, all the while; My heart seemed full as it could hold — There was place and to spare for the frank young smile, And the red young mouth and the hair's young gold, So, hush,—I will give you this leaf to keep- See, I shut it inside the sweet cold hand, There, that is our secret! go to sleep; You will wake, and remember, and understand. BROWNING.
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VARIETIES. "Have you much fine fish in your bags?" said a per. son to a fisherman, who was returning home. Yes, a good eel," was the rather slippery reply. Guilty or not guilty?" asked a Dutch justice of a J^Uoner. Not guilty." Den what do you want We ? Go about your pisness." Two men were conversing about the ill-humour of their wives. Ah said one, with a sorrowful expres- mine is a Tartar!" Well," replied the other, ^1 mine is worse than that — mine is a Cream of .Tartar?' Mrs. Partington addresses Isaac, while eating a dish of Vawberries. thus—" How guu»d hv vou will want to board at the Brevier House, on Mantilla ice cream. You mustn't be so o dear; I don't like to see a little boy with such 4T*l°city of appetite. ;i An Irish cab-driver made a very happy and eharac- Uiutic reply the other day. A gentleman had replied Pat's Want a carriage, sir ? by saying No, I am *0 Waitwhen Pat rejoined, • May your honour long able, but seldom willing." Moore in his journal, mentions that on the occasion Of one of his visits to the Duke of Bedford, the Duchess •aid to him, I wish, Mr. Moore, you could transfer you genius to me for six weeksto which Moore r p > Most willingly, if Woburn could be placed at my ois poaal for the same time." prosecuted by a fart, I' 1uarter sessions a man farmer Baid he 5"f.e.r J°r stealing some ducka^ wen(. oQ tQ de8Cribe •hould know them anywber^ CQUUSel for the peculiarity. such a rare breed—I have some theJ ^ard That's very likely," said the IStrm, r, di they are not the only ducks I have lately had ttolen A Lrrsbary CLUB.-You have no sentiment among yon I think that such a literary union would be a ^charming thing. The lion would lie down with He lamb and the child put his hand on the asp-if there be such a thing in the literary world. Imagine Ilr. Thunderbolt, of the Jupiter, on the same sofa with 1tr. Catlap, London correspondent of the Scilly Isles Gazette and giving Catty an insight into the real merits the Congress question, with a mot or two from high life for hia next letter. Mr. Bluebeaid, who writes Hovels that do sell, might be observed in friendly con- ference with Mr. Pumpkin, who writes novels that don't, i *nd evidently helping him to an outline of an effective !i Plot and a character or two of real passion. There comes *r. Blanketteer, the crack contributor to the Lictor quarterly review. He is leading up modest young dribble, of the Penny Zion, to the editor of the Lictor, urging on him to let Gribble try his hand at an ar- 8 tiole on "False Doctrine, Heresy, and Schism." There Hugo Yamp, the dramatist. He knows that Negro HjOunoe, the other dramatist, has a new piece on Satur- so he has come to make interest for Bounce with Ifty. critics he may see lying and smoking about, or lying Without smoking. Nor are ladies excluded in these days When ladies do all that is done well; and here comes Mrs. SiUertwist, out of her carriage, and in a crinoline that must bare made a hole in the check for her last fashionable gtory, and she sails in all smiles, and perfectly tolerant Of Charley Slangsby'a twopenny Pickwick, for she wants to make friends for that drabby little girl with her, Miss Porker who is to deliver a lecture of a slightly atheistic •nd immoral tendency, on "Woman and her Develop- taent*" at the St. John-street Institution, on Sunday **enmir I tell y°u that» neXt t0 the ^aPPy Family, the orojected re-union will be the most affecting sight in e projected^re u <reny Liteiary Gazette. Ali!men ALIKE — We need not fear to yield ourselves Experience—that we are all alike—that it one. All the novelists and all the dramatists that have -.er lived have set themselves to exhibit the din-erences between man and man. Here, they seem to say, are cir. Sttmstances precisely similar, and yet mark how various an the characters which grow out of these circum- stances. The Pharisee in the Temple felt he was dif- ferent from other men, thanking his God for it; and wbioh of us, in the immaturity of exDerienpf, is not forced chiefly to consider the differences between oUI- • selves and other men, often utterly forgetting the erand fact of an underlying unity > Here we 8ee monsters *Ul there we see angels, alien faces and m.»CceS8ibl' **tures. It is only alter much beating about, iong in. ^course with society, and many strange discoveries aad Elections, that the truism which we never doubted be. -s^Otoea a great reality to us, and we feel that man is like to even as fae,e answers to face in a glass. rt^ard to which philosophy two things aie to be toted—the £ ,rst '.hat, xvhethf. r true or false, it is the re- of uncountable; it is the expression of a warm buman sympathy. In point of fact, it is but a secular tendering of the deepest sentiment of Christianity—the tense of personal unworthiness in the presence of God, 1rhich teaches us the weakness of our nature and how Bear the very best of us are of kin to the chief of sinners and the most degraded of beings. The second, that a novelist, writing in accordance with this philosophy, has a most difficult task to perform. It is comparatively May to draw a character, so long as we dwell'mainly on points of difference and contrast. But when the object 18 to touch lightly on mere peculiarities, and to dwell Biainly on those traits which we have all in common, •nd which, therefore, are anything but salient, the diffi- culty of the task is enoimously increased.—limts, Re- low of How TO IMPROVE THE MEMORY.—What we wish to remember we should attend to, so as to understand it perfectly, fixing our attention specially on its most im- portan. and distinctive features. We should disengage our minds for the moment from other things, that we may attend effectually to that which is before us. No man will read with much advantage who cannot empty his mind at pleasure of other subjects, and does not bring to the author he reads an intellect neither troubled with care nor agitated with pleasure. If the mind be filled with other matters, how can he receive new ideas ? It is a good practice to improve the memory, and far better than making notes or transcribing passages at the time, to read carefully, and after the lapse of some days to write an abstract of what has been read. And this will give us the habit of storing up for future use our immediate acquisitions in knowledge. Again, memory is assisted by an orderly arrangement of the thoughts. It is obvious that in recollecting a speech or discourse that is most easily recalled in which the argument proceeds from one step to another by regular induction. So we ought to conduct our studies otherwise our knowledge being in confusion, our memory will be defective.-Letter from Baron Alderson. ADAM BEDE.—We extract the following from a review in the Times of "Adam Bede," the new novel I You're mighty fond o'Craig,' says Mrs. Poyser to her husband, speaking of a certain Scotoh gardener; 4 but for my part, I think he's welly like a cock as thinks the sun's rose o' purpose to hear him crow.' This is the Poyser style, a good pungent style, remarkably effective when it is necessary to scold her husband, to subdue her nieces, or lash the maids. Her style runs into proverbs. Folks must put up wi' their own kin, as they put up wi' their own noses—it's their own flesh and blood'—she says. If the chaffcutter had the making of us, we should all be straw, I reckon,' she says again. I'm not one o' those as can see the cat i' the dairy, an' wonder what she's come after' is another of her sayings. Ah, it's fine talking, it's fine talking. It's hard to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on' is also hers. Of mankind she says, The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts over-run 'em, an' they only catch 'em by the tail. Howiver, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish God Almighty made 'em to match the men.' She adds a little further on, Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there summut wrong i' their own inside.' A good homely woman, it will be observed, who knows how to keep her own, and doing her duty well, has a wonderful supply of self-complacency. Eh,' she says to her husband after a day of pleasure, I'd sooner ha' brewin day and washin' day together nor one o' these pleasurin' days. There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; an' keeping your face in smilin' order, like a grocer o' market day, for fear people shouldna think him civil enough. An' you've nothin' to show for't when it's done, if it isn't a yellow face wi' eating things as disagree.' This husband to whom she talks has a character different from here, but he has caught up her style of conversation, and often when he is speaking we fancy it is Mrs. Poyser, until she breaks in with her more rattling, clattering tones, 'I'm no friend to young fellows amarr'in' afore they know the difference atween a crab an' a apple but they may wait o'er long,' says Mr. Poyser, in terms which make us fancy that it is his wife who speaks. To be sure,' strikes in Mrs. Poyser, I if you go past your dinner time, there'll be little relish o' your meat. You turn it o'er an' o'er wi' your fork, an' don't eat it after all. You find faut wi' your meat, an' the faut is all wi' your own stomach.' « The schoolmaster, Bartle Massey, has met with a dis- appointment in early life, and has ever since been a womanhater, as will be seen in the following profound remark :—' Nonsense it's the silliest lie a sensible man like vou ever believed, to sav a woman makes a house fcw'uy,' mgg«w«rme wuiiiKiian)1 there, and something must be found for 'em to do. I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a wo- man, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way it had better ha' been left to the men-it had better ha' been left to the men.' The whole work indeed, leaves upon us the impression of something highly finished and well matured, and we close the votumes wondering whether the author is to do better in his next novel,-curious, also, to know who the author really is. Nobody seems to know who is Mr. George Eiiot, and when his previous work appeared it was even surmised that he must be a lady, since none but a woman's hand could have painted those touching scenes of clerical lite. Now, the question will be raised, can this be a young author? Is all this mature thought, finished por- traiture, and crowd of characters the product of a 'prentice hand and of callow genius ? If it is, the hand must have an extraordinary cuuning, and the genius must be of the highest order."
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THE MOOKUK.—It will be remembered that Captain Duthie, of the British Merchant, took home last voyage, in charge of Dr. Plomley, a passenger, a Mooruk, which arrived in excellent health, and was at once placed in the Zoological Society's Gardens at Regent's-park, being the first living specimen of this valuable and unique bird ever landed in Europe alive, and considered by the first ornithologists of Europe as one of the most interesting birds discovered for years. Captain Duthie has again, with praiseworthy liberality, taken charge of a pair, male and female, to be sent by Dr. Bennett as a present to the Zoological Society of London, which was adver- tised to sail from Sydney on the 12th of February for London. We hope lie will succeed in landing this valu- able pair of birds safe in England, for, should he be so fortunate, there can be little doubt the society will be able to rear these birds in their gardens, and, as the Sydney Herald patriotically observes, make them equally denizens of Britain in the old as Britain in the new world, and the rare and unique bird of an almost un- known island of new Britain will become a familiar inhabitant of the island of old Britain.Australian and New Zealand Gazette. Sin E. B. LYTTON.-It has been remarked that Sir E. B. Lytton has not attended in his place in Parliament for some days. The reason of his absence is understood to be the failure of his health, owing to the assiduity with which he has unremittingly discharged the duties of his office, and which has rendered imperative a tem- porary withdrawal from public affairs. Whatever differ- ences may have existed between ourselves and Sir E. B. Lytton, we cannot but respect 'the sedulous application he has paid to his public duties, and we are convinced that the sympathy of his countrymen will follow him into his retirement, which it 1s to be hoped will not be of long duration.-Timcs. VALVE OF A JAPAN CARGo.-We learn, in the first place, that 13 vessels have left China for Nagasaki within the last two months, and that strong indications exist of a very fair trade springing up. One of the ves- sels ( the American ship Florence, Captain D. Merrick, the first modern trading vessel visiting Japan) obtained at once a cargo of 10,000 piculs of vegetable wax (about 1,320,0001b,), which cost but$7 the picul, and which sells in Europe at from$18 to$20. Here is a clear gain of about $120,000-a very fair balance for one ship, while hundreds of others are lying idle east and west, ruining their owners, and affording food for worms.—Hongkong (Jan. 14) correspondence of the Philadelphia Ledger. LEAD IN WALES.—A glance only at Mr. Hunt's valua- ble Mineral Statistics is sufficient to convince one of the enorlllOUs value of the lead produced in Great Britain. Wales is particularly rich in this mineral, and possesses profitable mines, amongst which we are glad to see lat^y numbered the Aberdovay Silver-Lead Mine, which has commenced to give dividends; has good reserves, with the ends imP''0Vin8 and' amon8st other advantages, il Possesses an unfailing supply of water-power for all purposes, and is within four miles (on a level road) of the shipping pon of ^erdovey, where there are always vessels to be obtained for shipment of ores .— Mining Journal. a BREAKING Xhe Nfwr !During the summer of 1849 a Mr. JAME8 Wilson of West Jersey, died of cholera while some 50 miles from home. John Rogers was employed to convey the dead body in a waggon to his friends and home. By inquiry he learned the precise house of the deceased. 0n driving to the door he called to a resPectably-appeari whQ waS) in fact, the newly-made widow, and asked- Does Mr. Wilson live here ? Yes was her reply, « but he is not at home to-day. I know he's not/a't h w but he will be very soon, for I've got him here dead in the wag- gon I"—American Mmenger. ea 1110
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&tu farmer. CULTIVATION OF THE POTATO.—This season of the yuar, will, ere this time, have drawn the attention of farowrs to the cultivation of the potato. ID many dis- tricts \.ha crop has become almost obsolete, while in others its cultivation is still carried to a considerable ex- tent. The causes of its failure in those where it is now cultivated to a Ywaited extent, have not yet been suffi- ciently explained, as to lead to such a remedy as the ex- tent of the failure demands. Towards the end of the sixteenth century the poUto began to be cultivated in tins country, so that the period of time it has been with us has been long enough to acclimatise it to the soil and atmosphere of Great Britain and Ireland and, we may say, of every country of Europe. To this process of naturalization have some ot the more recent failures of the root been attributed; that the constitution of the plant has been by this means altered, and that, too,forthe worst, no onejwill doubt. We learn by experience that the productiveness of this root is lessened by a repeated use of the same variety, and that symptoms of dege- neracy are displayed when the potato-plums are freely produced. The varieties of the potato may be said to exceed those of the turnip, and. as one step calculated to produce a large and healthv yield it will be f und advantageous to change the old varietes for new ones. It is found to answer best as a general rule, not to bring the set into immediate contact with the manure- and that a portion of lime is beneficially applied to the ground before planting. There is not so much to be gained as is generally expected by contracting the dis- tance between the rows, if the stein of the varietv you intend to plant be on an average two feet in len th. The distance between the rows ought not to be less than two feet, but rather a few inches more. The prevailing shape, generally speaking, of new varieties will be found to be round. The kidney and long shaped potato were more prevalent thirty years ago, and thought more of than they are now. We know of several kidneys that have almost disappeared, and those that remain are chiefly of an early kind, as the ash-leaf kidney fltrice lapsioue, walnut-leaf, white blossam. red a^h-ieaf' The kinds cultivated for the chief supply of town and coun- try are included under the nnnie of regents of various descriptions, with other kinds, such as flour-biiis for v folds, and early Americans. All tuese are good varie- ties. The potato woich is of an early kind and grows with a still, erect stem, not above eighteen inches will be found to be the most productive. Early planting will be found, under any circumstances, t;ie best, Po- tatos grown with imported manure alone have vielded to the disease more readily than those planted with a mix- ture of substances. It has been fouud to answer well to manure with duugfroto the foldyard in autumn, and apply at the time of setting superphosphate of lime mixed with cake-dust. ithout the use of any portable manures, the usual weight of manure applied from the foldyards is from 12 to 13 tons per acre. The chief qua- lities 10 be regarded in selecting a tool potato will be productiveness, use, and keeping. For field culture we recommend all the Regents, the British Queen, and the American early, and that despatch be use i to bare them planted on those far s where the operation has not been already commenced. FIELD CABBAGES.—The cultivation of cabbages on the sheep and dairy farm will be found to be a profitable crop. The milk-producing properties of this plaut have attracted the attention of farmers who sell milk and butter, and rear lambs. To have about half a dozen acres of cabbages read y for use at the lambing season would supply such food for the ewes as is exactly suited to their wants at that season. A portion of the laud in- teuded for turnips may be now got ready fur growing this crop by cleaning it thoroughly, and allowing at the rate of 2fl tons of foldyard manure with 5 cwt. of guano per aere. The mauure being placed between two rid-wes and the guano sown broadcast upon them, the ridges are then split by a double mould-board plough, or'by the common plough, performing the same thing at one iu- stead of halt' a bout, aud afterwards rolled. The variety ot cabbage planted tnay be more than one—one of an early, aud another ot a late kind. The drumhead cab- £ fin±7ldvJ /or la March next, and the eaAy kind In August to Martinmas. Tney may be planted alternately in the same row; and, in order to give the smaller aud earlier kind a sp^ce to grow in • give the smaller and earlier kind a sp<>ce to grow in it is recommended by Mr. Mc'Laren, Lord Kinnaird's steward, that in the next and parallel row a drumhead be planted opposite to an early cabbage, and vice versà. ? "i1 ,rJy supply, for dairy cows is wanted, the plan ot planting two kinds—ihe one ear.ier than the Oi-her, is good but where a portion of a turnip-lield may be planted for the purpose of supplying the ewes in the lambing season an entires crop of drumheads will be the most suitable, i he price of a thousand plants will be about 7s. GJ. to 8s. They require to be watered after planting. Ine distance between each plant being about thirty implies, which is generally marked by means of a shallow furrow made across the ridges by the plough and in the place where the cross tarrow intersects the ridges, the cabbage is plauted by means ot the dibble i'ne plants made up in bundles of 100 each are left in steep for four-aud-twenty hours previous to planting- In clearing tins crop the treatment is the same as that applied to turnips. KOLLIXG.—Clover and grass aeeds derive great benefit from having a heavy roller passed over them at this season. Wheat is well known to be improved bv con- solidation, as are oats and other cereals; but more es. peciaily will attention to this process prove necessary from the advancement made in the construction of reap- ing-machines and grass-mowing machines—the applica- tion of which will become more general. Haviu. been various reaping-machines at work,and carefully observed the manner in which the work as a whole is performed in comparison with manual labour, there can lie IlCl ques- tion as to the superiorly of the reaping machine over the scythe, ihe scope which it affords the harvesters to execute their part of the work, in gatheuug up, oindiuj aud stacking, the uniform short stubbie wlllch it leaves behind it, the ord,r m which the cut grain is lelt, are adtantjges which far surpass tue most caretui work whictt can be performed by harvesters when following the SC) die. Rolling at this season is an important Pro" cess, both as regards the growtti and L'arves ing of the crop by iiie,ns of the leaping unchine.—The Field. GARDEN OPERATIONS. FLOWER GAlWEN AND SHRUBBERIES. -A thorough re arrangement of all herbaceous plants should take place every spring if this has not been done no time should be lost. Some ot the grosser kinds get into too large masses, and thereby destroy all proportion in the mixed beds. Sow annuals wherever required. Early struck verbenas, calceolarias, &c., way be planted out two or three inches apart in beds with proper protec- tion they will make nice plants by the inidd^ of May, aud may be removed either to masses or borders where' they will bloom at once, and soon produce a striking effect. HARDY FRUIT AXD KITCHEN GARDEN.—This is an excellent time to plant a full crop of pu atoes; ki4;,eys with well protected sprouts or any other early kinds plauted now will be little later than those planted in February, this, however, requiies a little care; the sets should be placed in baskets a single layer thick on damp litter, and carefully handled: they should by no means be planted during either sunshine or wind. Those with sprouts two or turee inches long, if managed thus and covered at night until the second week in May, will closely succeed those in frames. Let a sowing of all the winter and spring broccoli be made forthwith. Cape broccoli and cauliflower for Michaeimas way, however ,be sown a week or two later. See Urn plenty of green kale, Savoys, Brussels sprouts, leaks, scornzo- nera, salsify, bee:, &c., is got in without delay. Con- tinue successions of horn carrots; indeed sow a bed every month from January to September. This is the best way to be independent of the grub. Ridge cu- cumbers should now be got forward, also tomatoes und vegetable marrows. As soon as young asparagus is from three to six inches high, let new plantations be made. Put in successional crops of peas, and earth up and stake those above ground. Protect seeds appearing above ground from birds and slugs. Prick out cilery for succession crops, and attend well to the early plants with water; and if they ate under glass see that suffi- cient air is given to keep them stocky. Seed should also be sown for the late crop. Attend to keeping up a supply of all kinds of small salads by sowing frequently. Stir the surface of the ground among all growing crops with the view of preventing the growth of weeds and keeping the soil open. COTTAGERS' GARDENS.—Prepare a bed for a few February sown cabbages they will succeed the aututni. plants as well as give the latter time after the head IS cut to maue bold sprouts. A bed of swede turnips or mangold may also tie sown; if potatoes should miss (and we learn that disease has already made its appear- ance among eaily soits in frames) these will do fu li;l up blanks.—Gardeners' Chronicle.
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Loss OF A STEAMER—The total loss of the Preston steamer from Bordeaux, with valuable cargo, is re- ported. She was making her way up the St. George's Channel for the Mersey, N, lion she struck on a reef a fe', miles the eastward of the South Stack. The ship rc- pidly filled, her hull having been rent open by her work ing on the leet. In half an hoar or so the funnel and masts went, and the ill-fated vessel broke in two, and for miles the beach was strewed with her cargo. The loss will involve a considerable sum, She is reported to have been insured.