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goet's Ccrua. ( THE STREAM THAT HURRIES BY. An unpublished poem, by the fluthor of The Collegians." The stream that hurries by yon fixed shore Returns no more The wind that dries at morn yon dewy lawn Breathes, and is gone Those wither'd flow'rs to summer's ripening' glow No more shall blow Those fallen leaves that strew yon garden bed For aye are dead. Of laugh, of jest, of mirth, of pleasure past, Nothing shall last; On shore, on sea, on hill, on vale, on plain, Nought shall remain Of all for which poor mortals vainly mourn, Nought shall return Life has his hour in heav'n and earth beneath And so hath Death. Not all the chains that clank in eastern clime C:in fetter Time; For all the phials in the doctor's store Youth comes no more No drug on Age's wrinkle. 1 cheek renews a Life's early hues Not all the tears by pious mourners shed Can wake the dead. For all Spring gives, and Winter takes again, We grieve in vain Vainly for sunshine fled, and joys gone by, We heave the sigh*; <> On, ever on, with unexhausted breath, Time hastes to Death Even with each word we speak a moment flies, Is born and dies. If thus, through lesser Nature's empire wide Nothing abide, If wind, and wave, and leal', and sun, and flow'r Have each their hour,- He walks on ice whose dallying spirit clings To earthly things And he alone is wise whose well-taught love Is fixed above. Truths firm as bright, but oft to mortal ear Chilling and drear, Harsh as the raven's ercak the sounds that tell Of pleasure's knell Pray, reader, that at last the minstrel's strain Not all be vain And when thou bend'st to God the suppliant knee, Remember me. -Corn" illlrIagazine,
THE EDUCATION QUESTION.
THE EDUCATION QUESTION. SHALL NATIONAL EDUCATION BE RELIGIOUS OR SECULAR? Te following excellent letter has been addressed to the Western Mail. It well deserves a studious perusal SIR,—Before any of the would-be Reformers can fairly claim to be heard, they are bound to show, not only that the system which they wish to upset is too hopelessly aud radically bad to be capable of revision and amendment, but that their own new scheme which is to supersede it is, in most, if not all respects, very much superior. This is what the Birmingham League professes to have done most triumphantly. z!l or' But there is another side to the question, which was brought out very strongly at Manchester by the Educational Congress and I wish now to place the two views in contrast that it may be seen how far the Leaguers are justified in declaring that the deno- minational or religious system has failed, and to what extent the country would be benefitted, or the reverse, by substituting for it their much-vaunted scheme of compulsion and secularity whether, in short, this latter is not mere sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal, simply Brummagem metal of the basest kind :— 1. For all the education that the people have hi- therto enjoyed, whether in the Universities, or the public, private, or parish schools, they aie indebted to the loudly-decried religious principle, acting on men of various denomination, and prompting them to sacrifice their time, labour, and substance for the benefit of the young in their own and succeeding generations. 2. There are about 15,000 parishes in England and Wales, of which 12,000 are provided with schools, one or more. Of the other 3,000, 1,400 are within easy reach of schools in adjoining parishes, and only seven per cent. of the whole population live in the remain- ing 1,600. Geographically, therefore, the present system has fairly covered the ground. Let us see whether it does so numerically. 3. The population of Great Britain is reckoned at twenty-four millions, and the children of school age (three to twelve) at one-sixth of the whole. This is the Prussian estimate adopted by the Committee of Council. 4. Of children, between three and seven, there are about two millions and between seven and twelve, about two millions more. If we allow haJf-a-million for the children of the upper and middle classes, we have three and a half millions left to be dealt with by the parish schools. 5. In wsek-day schools alone, the Church is educat- ing in England and Wales more than one and a half million of poor scholars. 6. About another million probably are being edu- cated in the week-day schools of the various Protes- tant and Romish denominations. 7. Half-a-million more are receiving something of an education in the numberless Church and Chapel Sun- day Schools throughout the kingdom. In brief, six-sevenths of the children between three and twelve are at this moment being educated under the denominational system. How, then, can it be called a failure ? And why should it be destroyed for the sake of the one-seventh whom it has not yet reached ? So much for the present denominational or religious system. Let us now glance briefly at the compulsory, and see what it has to offer in exchange. 1. It 13 essentially partial and unfair. To be con- sistent, and worthy of being called national, it should treat all classes alike compel rich as well as poor to send their children to school fur so many days in each year, and subject the squire as well as the labourer to domiciliary visits from the police to make inquiry about absenteeism or other offences against the new code. This it does not propose to do. It is clas^ legislation of the worst and most offensive kind. 2. It is most dangerously destructive. For when once the free system is started, pay schools must in- evitably go down. The poor will no longer contribute their weekly pence, nor the rich their yearly subscrip- tions. The self-respect of the former will be thereby lowered, aud the springs of benevolence in the latter, on this head, at all events, dried up. 3. And in being thus destructive it is frightfully wasteful. At present our poor schools cost about one-and-a-half millions annually, which sum is made up, in nearly equal proportions, of pence, grants, and subscriptions. All this "the compulsory system" I will throw away. 4. It will necessarily entail the evil of a large ad- dition to the already-grievous burden of local rates. For a new impost of one-and-a-half million will not by any means supply the place of the one-and-a-half million thrown away, inasmuch as to make the sys- tem do its proper work, a new educational police force must be organised, to look after the absentees, hunt up defaulting parents, and punish all evasions of the law. 5. It takes the management of schools out of the hands of the clergy and others who started them, and to whom it has been a labour of love, to place it in the hands of men who are interested, not in raising the tone of Education, but in keeping dowu the rates, and who would much rather not be bothered with anything of the kind. 6. These local managers, being of all sorts of per- suasions, will never be able to agree about the kind of religious teaching to be adopted. Hence religion must be cut out altogether, and the schools will then be purely secular, not dealing with the pupils as children of God, but as human atoms, merely'informing their heads without touching their hearts, and helping to turn them out, as it has been said, "nothing more than clever devils giving intellectual sails, as it were, to the human ship, but withholding that re- ligious ballast which alone will enable the barque to reach its desired haven. 7. It strikes a heavy blow at religion. For if this be cut out of the children's daily school life, it will insensibly, but certainly, come to be regarded by them as of far less consequence than the Three R's, &c., upon which six days out of seven are bestowed. 8. It tends to lower the character of even such teaching as is given. For" cheap and nasty is pro- verbial and when it comes to be a question of saving the rates, it is obvious that the successful applicants for' masterships will be, not those whose attainments are the highest, but whose expectations of payment are the lowest, and whose capabilities, in all proba- bility, will be of the same character. 9. It is a gross infringement upon the liberty of the subject. For whereas every parent now has the choice of sending his children to either a religious or a secular school, according as he may think fit, there will then be no choice left to any for the denomi- national being all destroyed, irreligious schools alone will be available. 10. Aod this enforced attendance at a school to which the parents may very strongly object, while it is-a grievous offence to the conscience and religious feelings of the great majority, tells with especial cruelty and force, not only on that large class of peo. pie who, though vicious themselves, desire that their little ones should be brought up religiously, but on those millions of our honest hard-working peasantry for whose particular behoof these parish schools were first established. Daily Labour, debasing homes, com- parative ignorance, inability to express themselves, all prevent the working man and woman from teach- ing their children the awful probabilities, the mighty truths, about their lives here and in the world to come. This is the great point about the case of the poor man which renders secular schools a deadly wrong to him. It is obviously in the school or nowhere that the chil- dren of the working class can get sufficient answers (which they may comprehend and retain) to all those perplexing questions about the past, present, and fu- ture of the world and its human occupants that are continually cropping up in even the dullest brain it is in the school or nowhere that they will learn (so as to remember) the true reasons for cultivating truthful- ness, honesty, decency, self-denial, reverence for sa- cred things, and other Christian graces, and be tanght to practice them in daily life and conversation, so as to become abiding habits when childish times have passed away, and the sons are, or should be, growing up as young plants, and the daughters as polished cor- ners of the temple. And it will be a most serious wrong done to the poor in another way. For, while the parents cannot teach their children, the children do very, very often, unconsciously, but no less really, teach their parents, whose hearts are touched by the simple prayers and hymns and Scripture truths ac- quired at school, and repeated at home. For these not only revive the memory of their own long-forgotten childhood of innocence and happiness, but from their elementary nature, and the tender associations with which they are connected, find ready admittance into their minds, and are just the fitting pabulum for intel- lects like theirs to feed upon, too much dulled by con- stant brainless toil to be capable of any-greater effort. In numberless cases has it happened that the chord thus struck by infant hands has continued to vibrate, ustil, by slow degrees, the whole nature of the parent has become changed for the better—responsive to the higher teachings of the Church, and thoroughly at- tuned to the heavenly harmonies of the city of God. To all this home mission work, with its blessed influences for counteracting the inevitable debase- ments of poverty, the secular system will completely put an end. This is necessarily a brief and imperfect sketch, the a priori argument in connection with the subject in hand. Just one word, d posteriori How has the compulsory system worked in America, where it has had such undeniably free scope and opportunities for being thoroughly tested ? Now the evidence of Mr. Fraser, Bishop Designate of Manchester, who was sent out by Government some time ago on a special mission to examine and report upon the state of the transat- lantic schools, is dead against it. He says that cheap and nasty" is rampant everywhere that the school- houses are wretchedly built, on sites which often suggest the idea that the worthlessness of the land was far more considered than the convenience of the population that the school furniture and apparatus are of the most paltry kind, and the acquirements and teaching power of the masters of the lowest character. Only one-tith of the whole number follow teaching as a business, and of the remaining four-fifths, many were so obviously unsuited to their position, that he was tempted to ask more than once, What was your great inducement to take charge of a school ?" and the ready answer, most unblushingly given—" Two dol- lars a week," seemed exactly to indicate the wretched poverty, the miserable inefficiency, of the whole sys- tem. Of course there are exceptions to this but they are to be found in the towns, where people are already educated sufficiently to take a little pride in the appear- ance and management of their public institutions whereas, in country places, where the light is needed to burn with the greatest brilliancy, the illuminating power is least, and far too frequently nothing at all. For the sake of economy, these free schools are kept open during the shortest possible number of weeks in each year and the teaching in them of course is en- tirely secular, with, as might be expected, such utterly irreligious results in point of language, truthfulness, honesty, decency, and general morality, that respec- table people will not allow their children to be conta- minated by attending them, but in self-defence have actually started numbers of denominational schools, where something like a religious education may be secured for the rising generation. Mr. Fraser says plainly that this secular system results in the depreciation of the value of a creed and fixell forms of faith." Nor is this merely the preju- diced statement of an unfriendly critic. Dr. Cheever, one of themselves, writes thus The lamentable fact is that five-sixths of the parents of America do not even attend any place of public worship and there are two millions of children between the ages of five and fifteen who are receiving no moral education." Mr Pattison the Commissioner who was sent to Prussia, as Mr Fraser was to the United States, came to exactly the same conclusion, from his observations in that country. "The time," he says, "which has elapsed since 184S, when the plan began to be tried, appears to have wrought a general conviction among all practical men that the denominational school is the only school at present possible in Germany." Ac- cording to the letter of the law, indeed, any district may have a mixed school, i.e., a school where all re- ligious persuasions meet under one roof, and where religious teaching is therefore of necessity excluded. But so strong is now the feeling against mixed schools, that it is scarcely likely that the consent of the autho- rities would ever be asked, or, were it asked, would be granted and this is the result of attempts made under very favourable circumstances to perfect the system of what is called "unsectarian" educa- tion! In fact, these "mixed" schools are expressly recognised by Government as having failed, and are only to be continued exceptionally in such localities as cannot maintain a denominational or religious school. As to the law, it is everywhere shirked public opinion being so decidedly against the system, from Z, 1:1 many years' experience of its evils, that seldom or never is it alluded to, or any attempt made to en- force it. One special form of compulsion, however, might be made to operate in a very wholesome and effective manner for the improvement of such education as our poor children are even now receiving in religious schools, by simply extending the provisions of the Factory Act, and adopting the principle which is already a very widely-prevailing one among the middle and upper classes of society—viz that no child shall be permitted to work for any employer of labour without a certificate of scholastic competency, granted by some proper authority, such as her Majesty's In- spectors. This would ensure a longer stay at school, with more regular attendance, and a greater anxiety on the part of parents both to help them on, and to avoid putting hindrances in the way of progress, as is so often doue now by short-sighted people, who think far more of a little present gain to themselves than of the injury they are inflicting upon the genera- tion that is to come after them. But, on the other hand, wherever, as in England, the proportion of un- taught children is so small upon the whole (however great it may appear to the eyes of dwellers in our densely-peopled towns) the'idea of fettering with an offensive compulsory enactment-such as the Birming- j ham secularists propose, the vast majority of willing j educators, for the sake of catching the reluctant small minority, is as absurd as it is insulting and in- quitous, since this object might be gained with in- finitely less cost and greater effect by simply giving more liberal, or rather less niggardly, grants to school of the existing type, and so increasing the effective power of that machinery which has already wrought so wonderfully for good. With such reasonable aid from the State, the tribe of street Arabs, gutter chil- dren, vagrants, &c., might, no doubt, be gradually reached J and, by way of quickening the process, to this class the legislative screw might fairly be applied. Nor would the increased grant be any additional burden to the country for it is obvious that the money would be doublyl and trebly saved out of the present enormous expenditure upon police, gaols, and reformatories, which are kept up, to a very large ex- tent, for the special purpose of correcting, in the adult stage, when reform is often hopeless, those unhappy members of the community who, when at the impres- sible age of childhood, were utterly neglected by the State, and permitted to acquire all manner of vicious habits, for lack of better teaching in Christian schools. It remains but to express my very deep regret that the various Nonconforming bodies should have shut their eyes to the evils of the proposed compulsory scheme, and, whether from jealousy of the Church, or some less unworthy motive, joined hands with the Leaguers of Birmingham, thereby helping immensely to strengthen the spirit of indifference, if not hostility to religion, which unquestionably lies at the bottom of the movement, and throwing all the weight of their influence into the balance against our common Chris- tianity. All the more need, then, is there that the Church at this juncture should stand boldly forward as the Real Defender of the Faith, and show the people that she is, after all, their own true Alma Mater, who has their best interests at heart; that though in past years she may have neglected her duty, yet she will do so no longer, but that-she will now rise up in her might and fight their battle to the death-the battle for Christ against the world, for re- ligion against atheism for the rescue, in short, of their precious little ones from a frightfully unjust and vicious system, which would destroy their chance of being trained up as good Christians, andxonvert them instead, into a mere Brummagem imitation of the I smart but godless" masses of America.—I am, &c., I J. SIDNEY BOUCHER. I SUPPLEMENTARY PROGRAMME OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION UNION. On Thursday, at the Westminster Palace Hotel, the Central Executive of the Union held a Conference, to consider a supplementary programme, intended to ob- viate the objections raised to their scheme by those favourable to its principles, but deterred from sup- porting it by its imperfection in detail. After several hours' discussion, the following supplementary pro- gramme was agreed upon — The National Education Union, desiring to 'se- cure the primary education of every child, by judi- ciously supplementing the present system,' consider that their right course is to await the promised Government Education Bill before bringing forward any detailed measure of their own. But in order to place their scheme clearly before the public, and to prove that under it there is made due provision for securing the means of primary education to every child in England and Wales, they are prepared to affirm the following resolutions :— 1. That in order to maintain public pledges of faith already given, to avoid needless and extravagant ex- pense, and to secure at once religious education and perfect religious liberty, it is desirous to preserve the existing schools, and to maintain the leading principles of the present system (under which the action of of the present system (under which the action of the Government is to aid, control, and direct vo- luntary agency in the work of education), but to ex- tend their application to the utmost possible limits. 2. That it is desirable to bring all public schools of primary instruction under Government inspection, and to give aid from the State to all such schools, if they comply with the regulations which may be im- posed from time to time by Government, and prove that they are doing satisfactorily the work which they have undertaken to do. "3. That without interfering with the trust deeds of existing schools, it ought to be provided, as a con- dition of Government grants, that in all schools in which religious teaching is given, any parent or guardian may, by giving to the managers personal or written notice of objection, secure the withdrawal of his child from such teaching, or any part thereof. "4. That, with a view to secure the attendance of children at school, the general provisions of the Factory and Workshops Act be extended, as far as practicable, to all other branches of juvenile labour and that a certificate of satisfactory school attendance for a given number of days or half-days in the year, or of having passed an examination equal to the present sixth standard before Her Majesty's Inspectors, be a con- dition of work for all children under 13 years of age, not subject to the provisions of the said Acts. "5. That in order to meet the case of children of the pauperised and vagabond classes, Mr. Evelyn Denison's Act (for the education of the children of those receiving out-door relief) and the Industrial Schools Act, now permissive, be made compulsory. That in- dustrial schools be established, where possible, for day scholars, and that support be given to ragged schools under less stringent regulations than enforced now. "6. That, in regard to all these Acts above-men- tioned, the power to ascertain and enforce obedience be given to the Government,experience having proved that the Factory Act, which is so administered, has worked satisfactorily. 7. That in initiating schools greater liberty be given to the Education Department to vary the amount of their grant according to the conditions of the locality, and to modify the present rigid require- ments as to local contributions and building regu- lations. 8. That the general principle of parental respon- sibility be maintained by the requirement of suitable school fees. "The National Education Union, judging by the experience of the last thirty years, believes that these provisions, fully and liberally carried out, will meet the educational necessities of the country in the large majority of cases but, in order to provide for the exceptional requirements of special districts, they are prepared to add the following subsidiary recommen- dations :— 9. That if in any locality it be proved to the sa- tisfaction of the Government that additional school accommodation is required, the Education Depart- ment give due notice of the fact through the local authorities of the parish or union district, offering a public grant, and calling upon the district to supply schools by voluntary agency and contributions within a given time. That if this notice be neglected, the Government have authority to direct the erection and maintenance of suitable schools, partly by Govern- ment grants and partly at the expense of the local rates, and to determine the subjects to be taught in such schools. That in such cases the managers be no- minated partly by the Government and partly by local election. 10. That in cases of compulsory rating such rate- payers as contribute to existing authorised schools, in the rated districts, shall be exempted from such rate to the full extent of their contributions, and no further. "11. But that managers so appointed shall have power to transfer the management of the schools to any voluntary body of school managers who may be able and willing to accept the responsibility of their maintenance, and in such cases the new managers shall determine the subjects to be taught in the schools "12. That while, in accordance with resolution 8, suitable school fees shall be required, provision shall be made to meet all individual cases of real poverty, as distinct from pauperism, by the payment of such fees after due inquiry by the local authorities."
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THE WELSH FASTING GIRL.-There is no definite information about the prosecution in the case of the Welsh fasting girl. A correspondence has passed between the Treasury office, the coroner, and the magistrates' clerk for the district. The coroner has furnished the solicitor to the Treasury with a copy of the depositions taken at the inquest, and these have been returned. The magistrates' clerk yesterday oflicially waited upon the secretary to the local com- mittee who undertook the watching of the girl, a Unitarian minister, who always disbelieved the truth of the fasting story, and officially obtained the names of the committee, 15 in number. Most of them were farmers, except the vicar of the parish and a local solicitor. It is believed that the committee and medical men who attended the girl will be tried for conspiracy, although it has been ascertained that the surgeons were not on the committee, but only ap- pointed to give warning on the approach of fatal symptoms. The girl's father's legal adviser has offered the brief for the defence to Mr Hardinge Giffard, Q.C but that gentleman has declined a retainer. The assizes commence on the 8th March. The trial is ex- pected on the following day. There is ample time for magisterial investigation if it should be determined to z, prosecute the committee and surgeons. ADVICE TO MOTHERS.—Are you broken of your rest by a sick child, suffering with the pain of cutting teeth go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately-it is perfectly harmless it produces natural quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub wakes "as bright as a button." J t has been long in use in America, and is highly recommended by medical men. It is very pleasant to take-it soothes the child—it softens the gums—allays all pain—relieves wind-regulates the bowels—and is the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Sooth- ing Syrup. No mother should be without it.—Sold by all Medicine Dealers at Is lid per bottle. London DepOt, 205, High Holborn. CURES OF ASTHMA BY DR. LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS.- From Mr. Forrester, Chemist, Pittenweem: Dr. Locock's Wafers are highly famed in this locality. They prove very beneficial to those troubled with asthma, &c. indeed, they are the only medicine appreciated in this district. A great number have told me the good effects which they have found by taking them, and I send you this as a memorandum of the good repute your medicine has gathered for itself here." They give instant relief to asthma, con- sumption, coughs, and all disorders of the breath and lungs. To Singers and Public Speakers they are in- valuable for clearing and strengthening the voice. Price Is. 14d. and 2s. 9d. per box. Sold by all Druggists. 2-8 1:1. DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER PILLS. -Prepared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe or Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent. For affections of the liver, indigestion, flatulency, bile, sick headache, giddiness, loss of appetite, lowness of spirits, with sensation of fulness at the pit of the stomach, paih between the shoulders, and the distressing feelings arising from indigestion and general debility, Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills will be found the most effectual remedy. They can be taken at any time without any danger from wet or cold, and require no restraint from business or pleasure. They act mildly on the bowels, without pain or griping, giving strength to the stomach, promote healthy action of the liver, by which they prevent and cure the jaundice and dropsy, clear the skin, remove sallowness and pimples, purify the blood, brace the nerves, and invigorate the whole system. Females will find them most invaluable, and should never be without them. Prepared only, and sold by W. Lambert, chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing Cross, London, and sold by most druggists and booksellers in boxes, Is. lid. or three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be sure to ask for Dr Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills." The genuine are in a square green package. 14,463
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fewral JIMS. i 1; Y' New letters of Mendelssohn, like those of BOB- sini, are perpetually making their way into print. Two—the second of which is dated, from Interlachen, a few weeks before the master's death—have just been printed in the Signale. The first three volumes of Prof. Jowett's trans- lation of the Dialogues of Plato are expected to appear in the course of the present year. Pro- fessor Jowett is also preparing an edition of the text of The Republic," with English notes. When the six new theatres for which the Lord Chamberlain has granted licenses are open, Lon-_ don will have more places of dramatic entertain* ment than any other city. At present, the num- ber in Paris and that in London closely approxi- mate. The French Academy will proceed, on the 17th of April, to fill up the seats vacant by the deaths of MM. de Lamartine and Sainte-Beuve. The date for filling up those vacant by the deaths of the Due de Broglie and M. de Pongerville has not yet been fixed. SUICIDE OF A MAGISTRATE.—Mr. Samuel Henry Watson, J.P., of Lurnclone, Co. Carlow, shot him- self dead on Friday night. He was supposed to be in embarrassed circumstances. He has been a mag- istrate for some years. The deceased used a revol- ver to commit the fatal act, and his wife had previ- ously ordered all arms to be removed from the house. THE ASSAULT BY CAPTAIN MADDEN.—At the Manchester Police-court, on Monday, Captain Madden was charged with violently assaulting two gentlemen at the Queen's Hotel with a life-pre- server. The complainants were willing to withdraw from the prosecution, as the prisoner's brother was ready to become surety for his future good be- haviour. The Bench considered that the prisoner was not in a state to be answerable for his actions, and committed him for trial at the assizes. Mrs. Blomfield, the widow of the late Bishop of London, died on Saturday last at her residence at Richmond, Surrey, at an advanced age, not far short of eighty years. She was the daughter of Mr. Charles Cox; and previous to her marriage with the Bishop she was the relict of a Mr. Thomas Kent. By the Bishop she had a family of ten children, more than half of whom survive, and almost all of them were present at her bedside dur- ing her last illness. She had survived the Bishop about eleven or twelve years. The waves which assailed the breakwater at Wick during the storm were estimated by the resi- dent engineer at 42ft. in height from hollow to crest. On striking the breakwater they rose to such a height as to pass in a solid mass of blue water as high as 25ft. to 30ft. above the very top of the parapet, which is 21 feet above high water, while the spray rose to about 150ft. above the parapet, and was carried by the wind as far as the old har- bour, a distance of 1,500ft. These gigantic rollers were observed to strike the pier every seven or sometimes ten minutes, and these shocks were con- tinued without intermission for three day and nights. THE LATE WALSALL ROBBERY.-The reward of £ 50 given by Messrs. Duignan and Lewis, solici- tors, Walsall, for the apprehension of the two boys who robbed that firm, has just been apportioned by Mr. Preston, the stipendiary magistrate of Birken- head. Mr. Preston has awarded X20 to Constable Whereat, who apprehended one of the lads at Wood- side Ferry; X10 each to Mr. Simons and Mr. Parr, who gave the information; and .£10 to the two Walsall detectives who took the other lad into cus- tody at Chester. In addition to this handsome re- ward, Messrs. Duignan and Lewis have also sent • £ 5 to Inspector Davenport, of Woodside Ferry, for his services in connection with the affair. THE FATAL EXPLOSION AT PENDLETON.-On Monday, the coroner's jury terminated their in- quiry respecting the nine colliers who have died from the effects of a blast of gunpowder in a mine belonging to Messrs. A. Knowles and Sons. The evidence was very satisfactory as to the working of the mine, and its freedom from firedamp. The verdict was that the deaths were accidental, from the effects of a powder flame, in consequence of the shot being blown out. In reply to Mr. Dickinson, mine inspector, the jury said they had no means to recommend for ensuring tight stemming," and the placing of powder up to the top of the hole, but from the testimony of experienced workmen, they recommended that the distance to which the miners should retire from the place of blasting should be at least fifty yards. TERRIFIC GALES IN THE ATLANTIC.—By the arrival, at Liverpool, of the Cunard steamer Russia. we have accounts of very heavy gales in the At- lantic. Captain Lott reports that, two days after leaving New York, on the 4th, the wind blew I strong from the N.E., the distance run being 268 miles; on the 5th, with a similar wind and heavy sea, she ran 316 miles; on the 6th, the wind being N.W., blowing a strong gale and heavy sea, the run was 338 miles; on the 7th, with the wind from the same quarter, accompanied with heavy squalls, the distance made was 330. On the 8th the wind changed to S.E., the sea still running very high the run was 315 miles. On the 9th the wind was S.S.E., blowing ahard gale, with atremendous sea; the distance made was only 195 miles. On the 10th and 11th, with similar weather, the run made on the former day was 210 miles, and on the latter 180 miles. CONVICTION UNDER THE SALE OF POISONS ACT. -On Tuesday, the Court of Queen's Bench heard an appeal from the justices of Worthing, who had convicted a chemist for not having complied with the provisions of the Act. The appellant had sold prussic acid and rose water as a lotion to be applied externally to a person, who said it was for a Mrs. Newton. It was argued on behalf of the justices that the Act had not been complied with, because the person who took the medicine actually made an attempt on his own life with it, and that the object of the Act was to prevent such occurrences. For the appellant it was contended that he had dispensed the poison and taken every reasonable care, believing that it was for Mrs. Newton. The Court held that the chemist having acted bona fide as to his belief, the conviction was not good, and ought to be quashed. Conviction quashed accor- dingly. CLEVER CAPTURE OF A FEMALE BURGLAR IN MANCHESTER.—On Monday, Detective-officer Mar- shall, of Rochdale, late of Leeds, succeeded in cap- turing a female burglar named Mary Wood, alius Elliott, alias Postle, and recovering nearly a cart load of valuable property, the booty, no doubt, of many robberies. On the night of the 8th of Jan. last. the dwelling-house of Mrs. Bussey, situated in Equitable-street, Rochdale, was forcibly entered during the absence of the occupier, and a large quantity of property, valued at between X30 and £40, was carried off. The boxes and drawers had been forced open by a small crowbar, and entrance had been effected by breaking a pane of glass to unfasten the catch, and thus open the window. Mrs. Bussey gave information of the robbery to Chief Constable Stevens, who commissioned Detec- tive-officer Marshall to trace out the perpetrator. Mary Wood, now in custody, has been carrying on her nefarious business, in large towns, but in Jan. last she sojourned in Rochdale, and disappeared after the above robbery. Marshall traced her to Manchester, where he found her occupying apart- ments, and in her boxes several articles marked with Mrs. Bussey's name, as well as a number of burglars' tools. FIRE AND ROBBERY AT PRESTON.—EXTRAOR- DINARY AFFAIR.—About three o'clock on Monday morning, Mr. Alexander Rae, grocer, Preston, was awakened by a curious crackling noise, apparently coming from his shop, which is situated imme- diately below his bed room. He at once ran down stairs, and found the whole place filled with smoke, whilst behind the shop counter a fire was discover- ed to be furiously burning. He aroused his wife, and conjointly, but with very great difficulty, they succeeded in extinguishing the flames, which for a time burned up in front of some of the shelves very furiously. Whilst putting out the fire they were almost stifled with smoke; and it was with some difficulty that they kept their children, who were sleeping above, from being suffocated, having to open the windows, &c., to let out the smoke. On subsequently examining the premises, it was found that a window at the rear had been prized up until the fastener had been broken, so that after this, ingress by lifting the lower sash would be quite easy. The money drawers in the shop had been ransacked, some money had been taken out of one or more of them three large tea chests nearly full of tea, were burned, a quantity of lard, some bottles containing oil, &c., a quantity of wooden shelving, and a sewing machine worth about seven guineas were also nearly destroyed. There being much woodwork about the place where the fire was dis- covered, it is quite certain that if Mr. Rae had not come down stairs at the time he did, the whole pre- mises would have been speedily in flames, and that the lives of the family would have been sacrificed. It is a. complete mystery when the burglars got in, at what time they left the place, or who they ate.
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LITERARY SELECTIONS NotMng serves more effectively to lighten the calami. ties of life than steady employment. Nature is a book of sweet and glowing purity, and on every ilium mated page the excellence and goodness of God are divinely portrayed. It is a base temper in mankind, that they will not take the smallest slight at. the haadg of thoae who have done them the greatest kindness. Luxury is the conqueror of conquerors, the consump- tion of states, the dry-rot of the constitution, the avenper of the defealed and oppressed. A GOOD EXAMPLE.—I never am in debt one shilling. Fo r people ought always to pay ready money, by which means th. y live as if they were rich. By not doing so, the rich often live a3 if they were poor, and die insol- vent.—LADY MORGAN. Educa ion does nOl; rommence with the alphabet. Ib b,g:ns with a mother's iook with a father's smiie of approbation, or a sign of reproof with a sister's gentle p.u-s ,re of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbear- "nce with handiuls of flowers in green and daisy mea- dows wish bird's nest; admired, but not touched with creeping ants, and almost imperceptible emra ts wi h hamming bees, andgiass bee hives with pleasant walks in shady lanes, and with thoughts directed in sweet and kindly tones and words, to mature to acts of benevo- leuce: to deeds of virtue, and to the source of all good -to God himself. KISSING AND CANVASSING.—It was necessary for the earl's son 10 bestir himself. For some time previous to the election he went about among the tenantry, flatter- ing them, making them little presents, and kissing their pretty daugb ters. Heing a clansman of tho earl's and a nine hundred and ninety-ninth cousin, I was enlisted in the service. I was rigged out from top to toe in a suit of tartan—the tartan of our clan-and thus arrayed, and mounted upon t,n ancient grey mare, I accompanied the earl's son as an outrider. 1 had a rather pleasant time of it. I came in for a great deal of haggis mince, collops and whiskey, and where there was more kissing than my chief could do 1 helped him out with it. In that tartan suit-it was bright red-and on that spanking grey mare, I felt that I shot through the land like a fiery meteor. I was very impartial, and kissed the old women as well as the young women, and without vanity I do hink they would have elected me in preference to the earl's son. if I had not b en so very far r. moved from the heirship to the property. We didn't bribe, wa' didn't hint at ejection, or abatement, or increase of I rent-tho earl was too honourable a man for that—we; merely flattered and condescended, and we kissed and we prattled with all the fair maids, and called each the' fairesl she, as the song says. We won tho election too It was a very innocent affair, and I wish I had never seen anv worse mode of canvassing for votes. -.D ickeits' "All the l'exr Round." VIOLENCE OF THE PRESS IN 1832. — Itwas evident that not only were the lower classes almost to a man in favour\ of the bill, but that even in the upper and middle clases the desire that it should be passed speedily and without any considerable change was rapidy spreading. Of this fact the character of the daily papers of the period affords1 a sufficient proof. These papers circulated almost ex-' clusively among the classes we have just mentioned, and it appeared that out of thirteen, which was the whole number of them at the time, ten were on the side of re-1 form, and that while, during the last ten days, more than! 100,000 slamps had been issued to the papers favourable to reforms, those issued to the anti-reform journals wero under 40,000. The violence of language in which the for-! mer class of papers indulged at this period also furnishes I an index to the feelings of their readers. A writer in the Morning Chronicle, denominated the Bishop of Exeter, that obscene renegade Philpots." Royalty itself was not spared. The Queen was stigmatised as a nasty frow." Another writer uses the following language in re- ference to the King's natural children :—"The bye blovs of a king ought not to be his bodyguard. Can anything be more indecent than the entry of a sovereign into his capital with one bastard riding before him and another by the side of his carriage ? The impudence and rapa- city of the Fitz Jordans is unexampled even in the annals of Versailles and Madrid. The demands made on the person of their poor drivelling begettery are incessant," &c., ko. In fact, the King's popularity was now com-1 pletely gone. He was no longer "the patriot king" or "the sailor king." Dirt was thrown into his carriage as he came up to London, and he was received in the metro- polis with hisses, groans, execrations, and obscene out- cries, and was only protected from personal violence by the exertions of the guard who surrounded his carriage. —Motesn ortli s History of the Reform Bill. THE WORD" NAVVY." Mr. Smiles, in his "Life ot Stephenson," refers its origin to the period of the con- struction of the Bridgewater Canals, in the latter half of the last century. He states that these canals, the first great undertaking of the kind in Britain, were commonly spoken of as the Inland Navigation," and the workmen employed upon them were popularly termed "Naviga- tors." This last word, being of rather an inconvenient length, was gradually shortened into "Navvy," which in more recent times, came to be applied as a distinctive epii het for railway labourers. This theory, though plau- sible, has frequently been called in question, and appears to me to be open to two serious objections—first, that it confounds cause with effect in the account which it gives of the application of the term "navigators" to men who never did navigate and secondly, admitting it so far to be correct, how are we to explain the circumstance of the word "navvy." as a contraction, being always written with two v's ? Besides, the employment of such a long and cumbrous word from the latin as "navigator," seems very unlikely to have originated among English workmen for the purpose of every-day life. The opinion which I now venture to offer as to the derivation of the term under consideration is, that it is identical with JYabbai or NaatM, a word of Danish origin, but in com- mon use among the Gaelic population of the counties of Sutherland, Ross, and Inverness, to denote neighbour, It corresponds with the Danish or Norse Nabo, which has a similar signification but the term itself, so universal in the North, is wholly unknown in the South Highlinds. During the construction of the Crinan Canal, which con- neets Loch Fyne wi, b the Atlantic, and was commenced in 1793, numbers of Highland workmen were assembled from the counties just mentioned, and by them the word Nabbed or Naabai was constantly employed in addressing each other, just as an Englishman in similar circum- stances would use mate or "comrade." It sounded oddly, however, in the ears of the Argyleshire men, who fas'ened it as a nickname on the north-countrymen work- ing at the canal, whom they styled the Naabbia. That is a well-ascertained fact and it is also equally cert iin that most of the engineers and contractors cr-ineet -d with the works, came from, and returned to, the South of -Scotland and England. It is an unlikely hypothesis, that they carried back with them a term which must have b. came familiar to heir ears during !heir sojourn in the! nirth, and which. from its whimsical expressiveness, is likely to havs tnde an abiding impression 1—Chambers' Journal. Hra JOH" T'r- T'S ENTRY INTO PARLIAMENT.—Eliot | was iu his 24 h j ar when he took his seat (as member for tile borough of St. Germans) in the council of the nation. It would not have been called together at that time but for Sir Henry Nevile's plan of managing the, i elections by supremely skilful people, who were 'o "undertake" for a court majority. Nevertheless tho court majority did not present itself which Mr. At. torney (Sir Fran -isBacon) accounted for by the absence of the supreme skill promised, by the hot opposi'ion the ntfempt aro sol, and by the too great suing, sta,id- and striving about elections and places it led to, that the wisest and ablest persons shrank from such a corfict, and three parts of the elected "were such as had never been of any former Parliament, and many of them young men, and not of any great estate or qualities." The remark is to be taken wi;11 allowance for Mr. Attorney's general dissatisfa tion at the result, but no doubt substantially it expressed the truth. Among the men young like himself, however, whom Eliot then first saw on the benches around iJim were some that like himself, were now beginning the career that has identified their names with our En .dish st/ry. Slightly his elder, Robert Philips, son of Sir- Edward of Montacute, Master of the Rolls, there took his seat for the first time, and began his illustrious but too brief career. Another Somersetshire gentle- man of eraver aspect, now in his twenty-ninth year, a client and Counsellor of the Bedford family, commenced there the experience which was to carry the name of Pnn over the world as almost a synonym for the Par- liament of England. Sir Dudley Dicrges there tried his earliest flight of eloquence, less earnest than ornate vot, moving ana influencing many. Oliver Luke, a voir h of old Bedfordshire family, some of whose ancestors had re- sist 'd on the bench the tyranny of iheearlier Tudcrs, > nd who had married into the stock of the Northamptonshire Knightleys, began there the friendship with Eiiot whi-h. ceased only with life ;andwi'h which another more il.us- trious nam; became soon connected, for f mily aliiances had associa ed with the Lukes yountz Mr. ILmpden of Hampden, nowin his twentieth year, studying law at tha Inner Temple, and not to take his seat among the Com- mons till the nex1 following Parliament. And finally here, among the legis!ators;raw and inexperienced, who had s't in no former convention. Eiiot's glance first f it upon a tall young man from Yorkshire, Thomas Wentwortb, whom men no'ed eveiitbus early (a contemporary tells us) for his stoop in the ne k, for the cloudy shadow ou his free exeep when lighted up by anything that m 'ved him and for the a rce far reaching look of his eye. Hut beside these youths were men of elder ar.d larger experience, who mffi ed in themselvi sto give no common character or fame to the proceedings of this short-lived Parliament. In it S Fr ncis Bacon closed his career as a. represen- tat.iv of the people. Sir Edwin Sandys, the second son of Elizabeth's Archbishop of York, now in bis 53rd yoar, a ripe and mature scholar who had written learnedly a Grains' Popery, p'ayed a distinguished part in it. Sir E. Giles a knight of large estate, Cornishman and neighbour of Eliot's, and his fast friend in many suhsequent trials was one of its leaders of Opposition: and he had worthy colleagues in Sir James Perrot, the son of Elizabeth's famous lord-deputy; in Sir Robert Cotton, under whose hcs .itab)e roof, where priceless stores of learning were gathered, Etiot passed many of his happiest la'er d., vs and in Sir John Savile. of Howley, a knight of the West Ridincr who had served the Court in the Old Queen's time but now, in his fif ty-third year, was out of favour with the Kin?, and bad carried Yorkshire, despite the Wentworth in the ex reme popular interest. Those experienced srid liberal lawyers, Crewe, Hakewoll, Hosins. Thomas "Wentworth of Oxford, Nicholas Hyde, and Sir James Locke, also gave in it their services to the popular side. Ft' s!s-'t Life of Eliot. LINGUISTIC.—It is a mistake to suppose that Ire-
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F ACE T I X. 44- ——j$04 Srms.—'The mall artillery of coqu3fctes> an quenee of beggar. life" apprell' If you want your s a to lead a. dog s tice him to a cur-rier.. ^asy 011 What is it that helps to make paveme a wet day ?—Dripping rain. Brown Mr. Day advertises the loss of his dog > everf he will succeed in finding him, he doesn t day should not have his dog. » topet In a discussion with a temperance jt asked—If water rots your boots, what eaec on the coat of your stomach?" The following advertisement appeared la their escape—a husband's affections. ^d immediately on seeing his wife with.her lac unwashed at breakfast." Mrs. Partington, when Ike was about to Pr e Black Sea, among other parting admonition > strict injunctions not to bo ths in it, for she o liot to see him come back a nigger. The absence of specie, says an American a n«'w cause of uneasiness. When youngSpee > jiinifT day beard his father threaten that he would i^ed with a dollar, he looked in his face, and coolly where he would get the specie. to ro" A wag some years ago advertised a caf^d without horses, with only one wheel, and ^jje j curious in mechanics to see it. Many aT"0 bers of the Saciety of Arts attended and in of expectation they were shown—a wheelb»rr poet* THE MAN AND TTTE FELT.OW.—Longfellow, n0tiCE7, was introduced to one Longworth, and some o° << the similarity of the first syllable of the names. nv* said, the poet but in this case I fear Pop9s jt t*1 anply: 'Worth makes the man, the want 0 felio'v':1" es&M While recently engaged in splitting wood, nfalse blow, causing the stick to fly up. 3u the jaw, and knocked out a front tooth. y of* Bill, meeting him soon after, "you've had a dan^jte'i ration performed, I see."—"Yes," replied the$ "axe-idental." PERPLEXING PROBLEMS FOR PENETRATING Jr- THERS.—If twenty-four grains make a penny jjjc^ how many will make a penny-run. If tliirty-91% ople, make a yard, how many make a mast ? ff three make one dram, how many make one drunk- quarters make an ell, how many make aD alphabet? f A Quaker at Bristol was remarkable for not M? direct answer. A gentleman one day laid a wa^r(jji)(W lie would draw a dircct one from him. He a,cC°t s went out, and meeting the Quaker in the Pray, sir, is the post come in?—"Dost thou letters ?" asked the Quaker. The late Charles Wynne, M P., known in the v°iCrfi of Commons as "Squeak," had a feeble, pip Happening for some reason, to be put in the saip with a blind old gentlemen whom hedidnot know, ygtj the remark' to him, Very tine weather, sir.' fine, indeed, ma'am." rejoined the other. jjjjrf THIS ERE" AND THAT AIR."—A lady, in a railway carriage, was much annoyed by r 0 companion continually embellishing his conversati This' ere and "That 'air." A few moments^, wards she quietly requested him to close the remarking "This ear is affected by that air." ^iff PUTTING DOWN A LAWTER.—A brow-beating cross-examining a witness, asked him, among tions, where he was on a particular day, to which plied, "In company with two friends."—Friend^^n. claimed the lawyer two thieves, I suppose y"Hj.ey — "They may be so," replied the witness, "fort" ">oth lawyers." Charles Lamb was one day invited to dinner some people who were strangers to him. "Ob, "'LjU* M and N the kindly wit said to his ent^VfC^ *■* I hate them !"—" Hate them ?" was the reply'-o you never taw them in your life."—"Well, of responded Lamb you don't think that I I have seen, do you ?" Jjt A postman was once astonished to see a brft^^er^ with the number of 95 between two houses nU oje 0 i respectively 15 and 16. In answer to his inqii^tgf lady who tenanted the house said that the nuflo piw belonged to her former residence, and thinking jt that it should be thrown away, she had aW her new home, supposing that it would do as w ether number a0tci> A black cook on board a vessel having offence, was ordered to be flogged. Everyth^ th» prepared, and the ship's company assembled a(jdres8 to punishment inflicted, the captain made a ^°nfifed of the enormity of his offence. Poor Mungo, -the harangue, and having his back exposed or if axclamed, Massa, if you floggee, too' areachee, preachee but no preachee and1)0 9C CCRE FOR WEAK EYES. — An elderly customed to "indulge," entered tho r00II1T-ffng a Pt inn, whei o sat a grave friend by the fire. L' j^jg of green spectacles upon his forehead, rubb^in;g ]j<j Samed eyes, and calling for hot brand v-and-wat '^pd complained that His eyes were getting weaker, and that even spectacles didn't seem to do »ny good."—"I'll tell thee, friend," replied the what I think. If thee was to wear thy spectacle ,„i thy mouth for a few months, thy eyes would get r° again." A story is told of a clergyman who was very n- cl A Quaker at Bristol was remarkable for not M? direct answer. A gentleman one day laid a wa^r(jji)(W lie would draw a dircct one from him. He a,cC°t s went out, and meeting the Quaker in the Pray, sir, is the post come in?—"Dost thou letters ?" asked the Quaker. The late Charles Wynne, M P., known in the v°iCrfi of Commons as "Squeak," had a feeble, pip Happening for some reason, to be put in the saip with a blind old gentlemen whom hedidnot know, ygtj the remark' to him, Very tine weather, sir.' fine, indeed, ma'am." rejoined the other. jjjjrf THIS ERE" AND THAT AIR."—A lady, in a railway carriage, was much annoyed by r 0 companion continually embellishing his conversati This' ere and "That 'air." A few moments^, wards she quietly requested him to close the remarking "This ear is affected by that air." ^iff PUTTING DOWN A LAWTER.—A brow-beating cross-examining a witness, asked him, among tions, where he was on a particular day, to which plied, "In company with two friends."—Friend^^n. claimed the lawyer two thieves, I suppose y"Hj.ey — "They may be so," replied the witness, "fort" ">oth lawyers." Charles Lamb was one day invited to dinner some people who were strangers to him. "Ob, "'LjU* M and N the kindly wit said to his ent^VfC^ *■* I hate them !"—" Hate them ?" was the reply'-o you never taw them in your life."—"Well, of responded Lamb you don't think that I I have seen, do you ?" Jjt A postman was once astonished to see a brft^^er^ with the number of 95 between two houses nU oje 0 i respectively 15 and 16. In answer to his inqii^tgf lady who tenanted the house said that the nuflo piw belonged to her former residence, and thinking jt that it should be thrown away, she had aW her new home, supposing that it would do as w ether number a0tci> A black cook on board a vessel having offence, was ordered to be flogged. Everyth^ th» prepared, and the ship's company assembled a(jdres8 to punishment inflicted, the captain made a ^°nfifed of the enormity of his offence. Poor Mungo, -the harangue, and having his back exposed or if axclamed, Massa, if you floggee, too' areachee, preachee but no preachee and1)0 9C CCRE FOR WEAK EYES. — An elderly customed to "indulge," entered tho r00II1T-ffng a Pt inn, whei o sat a grave friend by the fire. L' j^jg of green spectacles upon his forehead, rubb^in;g ]j<j Samed eyes, and calling for hot brand v-and-wat '^pd complained that His eyes were getting weaker, and that even spectacles didn't seem to do »ny good."—"I'll tell thee, friend," replied the what I think. If thee was to wear thy spectacle ,„i thy mouth for a few months, thy eyes would get r° again." A story is told of a clergyman who was very n- shooting, and used to take his clerk to mark f°r^. oi One First of September he had been out for an two, but was obliged to return to his church .^° a couple happy so putting his surplice over his ing coat, he commenced the ceremony. As he Vr.° one of the birds revived, and strugglingoutof hisp^^gU flew to the other end of the church. Being aback, he stopped, when his old clerk said, ihP sir, you can go on, for I have marked him down gaUery!" A person, speaking of the tenacity of life in asserted that he had seen one which had cut off, open its jaws six weeks afterwards. ft pany seeming rather sceptical, he said, I saW I trust none of you will doubt my word." Then rpjja to one gentleman, he asked him what he though • gaJ gentleman, observing that it was very remarka tf,, to the relater, "If you yourself, sir, had n°(<rBdee circumstance, could you have believed it ?"— said he, "Icould not."—"Then,"replied the^ I hope you will excuse me if I do not." rIu»ni>e* Foote was in the habit of imitating the of General Smith, whom he introduced into of The Nabob," under the name of Sir g^id he, One day the general sent for Foote. Sir,' ^nd I t hear you have an excellent turn for mimicrX' 0f yoUJ that I, among others have been the aU Py ridicule."—" Oh," said Foote, gaily, "1 icquaintances off at times—and, what is more w I often take myself off." —" Pray let ushavea to° jaid the general. Foote put on his hat and* 'bo^B lis cane, made a short bow, and retreated from tne without uttering another word. ^$ TURKISH POLITENESS. — A few years ago, there gf—srous Turkish ambassador in England. Whe^t 'ady happened to praise one of the handsome shawls decorated his person, he immediately presented tier. This led to a very general expression of admi^-jt for his excellency's shawls, and, in consequence, to » O, diminution of the ambassadorial wardrobe. At when his excellency's stock was reduced to the ooe 0{ wore, upon a lady fondly expressing her admirati0^ ;s .ts beauty, instead of his former reply — it your service," he said, with Turkish composure' with more than Turkish gallantry, Madame, I aD° you like it I shall wear it for your sake." oect" A man who had seen nothing of genteel life, edly succeeded to a fortune. His riches procurs g 0{ ittentions, and invitations to the houses of Ve rank. He dined one day at a gontleman's house, j ^0 after a good quantity of wine had been druuk, ^pot* company proposed going away, the host drank yj-ed repos." This new toast the man of money ty carefully in his mind, and soon having a large V dine with him, after "the Queen," he gave th" To his astonishment, the company rose, and 1 gfifiK house. The cause of their sudden departure bei°?j ''l wards explained to him by one of them, he really thought Jio i repos was a French general- .jjgrC THE CONTENTED ENGLISHMAN.—In the 10°^' countries of Europe the summer days are ?tb0 9 especially towards the frontiers of Lapland, wbef getti^> at Midsummer remains several nights witho^ 01 U o behold this curious phenomenon a great 11 tourists ascend Mount Ava-Sacar, situated Amongthese tourists was a rich Englishman. ?njgbt at the summit of the mountain at ten o'clock the last day on which the phenomenon was v tended by a domestic, who carried an filled with provisions, and seated himself on eati°^ grass, under the shade of pines and firs. i. and drinking copiously, he fell, about clo#?' into a deep sleep. However, feeling his eyeh^a^/ he ea jJ his domestic, and told him to awake nbef&v»jb at ire i-ii.-ut. When it was close on midnight, yjjjgv John s,u>ok his master violently by the is midnight, sir ;awake "—"Oh no; I well," said his master leave me alone-Ijnd," said know that it is tho last day, sir."—" g back next' the happy tourist; "let me sleep: I can year-" hewasnar- B'.ll Jones had been to sea, and onhis ^tlTmet with o° rating to his undo an adventure which be taff1"8 board ship. "I was one luglitleaningf^n-^ "when looking down into the mighty ocean," saw „j;ately 311 my watch fell from my pocket, and an hour, out of sight. The vessel was going ten kn but, nothing daunted, I sprang over the ra > un(jei tM long search found the watch, came up cv?.oUt any stern, and climbed back to the deck, his uncle, knownit;- [ had been absent."—" William, JjoW, fast diet opening his eyes to their widest capacity-^ an hour, you say the vessel was sailing ?"'—into the sea, replied William. "And you dived n^d climbed dp William and came up with the And you expcc* the rudder chains?"—"Yes, uncle. reDliedWilli*111,j me to believe yon r story ?"—"Of cours t (( you wouldn 't dream of calling me a ia any body eaid his uncle, gravely "you know in me and sa> names nt if the mayor were to cc!tn" Liverpool,' I 'Josinh. 1 want to find the biggest Jiar. m the r-oil1-1 ■me straight to youandsay. VVUI wants to see you. —
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