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      TIIE COUNTESS OF KUDOLSTADT [ Sequel to " Consuelo . " ] Bx George Sasd .

      IKE MARRIAGE . At this moment the gates of the temple opened w ith a hraien clang , and the Invisibles entered , walking two and two . The mauic tones of the harmonica , then newly inven ted , as" ! unknown to the wonder truck ear of Consuelo , were h eard in the air , seeming to descend from the cupola , whi ch was half-opened to the rays of the moon , and to the vivifVin ? breezes of the night . A shower of flowers fell slo wly upon the happy couple , who were placed in the centre of this solemn procession . Wanda , standing beside a golden tripod , from which with her right hand she caused brig ht fl-mu-s and clouds of perfume to burst , forth , held in her left a chain of flowers and symbolic leaves , which she threw around the two lovers . The chiefs of the Invisibles , their faces covered with their loop red drapery , and their heads encircled by similar garlands of o . ik and acacia , consecrated by their rites , were standing with thi-ir arms extended , as if to receive the brethren , who heut before them as they passed .

      Those . ciiiefs had the ni- 'jesty of the ancient druids ; but their hands , pure from blood , were opened only to bless , and a religious respect replaced in the adepts the fanatical terror of the religions of the past . As the initialed presented themselves before the venerable tribunal , they took off their masks to salute , with uncovered faces , those august unknown chiefs , who had never manifested themselves to them but by acts of clement justice , of paternal love , and of exalted wisdom . Faithful , without regret and without mistrust , to the religion they hud sworn , they did not seek to read with curious glances beneath those impenetrable veils . Doubtless , their adepts , without being conscious of it , knew these magi of a new religion , who , mingling with them in the society , and in the -very bosom of their assemblies , were the best friends , the most intimate confidants , of the greater number among them , of each of them , perhaps , in particular . But in the txercise of their common worship , the person of the priest was always veiled , as was the oracle of ancient times .

      Happy childhood of artless beliefs , almost fabulous aurora of sacred conspiracies , which tho night of mystery envelopes , in all times , with poetical uncertainties ! Although hardly a century divides us from the existence of those Invisibles , it is problematical to the historians ; but thirty years later , illu : i : inism re-nssum » -d these forms unknown to thevulgir . and drawing both from : the inventive genius Of its chiefs and from the traditions of the secret societies of mystical Germany , terrified the world by the most formidable—the most scientific—political and religious conspiracies . For a moment it shook all the dynasties upon their thrones , and sank in its turn , bequeathing to the French revolution , as it were , an electric current of sublime enthusiasm , of ardent faith and terrible fanaticism . Half a century before those days marked by fate , and while the gallant monarchy of Louis XV ., the philosophic

      despotism of Frederick II ., the sceptical and mocking r ' -yalty of Voltaire , the ambitious diplomacy of Maria There-a , and the heretical tolerance of Gangenelli , seemed to renounce as t he destiny of the world , only decrepitude , antagonism , chaos , and dissolution , the French Involution was fomenting in the dark , and germinating beneath the soil . It brooded in minds ardent even to fanaticism , under the for m of a dream of universal revolution ; and while debauchery , hypocrisy , or incredulity reigned openly over the worl d , a sublime faith , a magnificent revelation of tho future plans of organisation as profound , and perhaps more scientific , than our Fourierisin and Saint Simonianism of this day , realised already in some groups of exceptional men , the ideal conception of a future society , diametrically opposed to that which covers , and still conceals , their action in historv .

      Such a contrast is one of the most striking features of that eighteenth century , too full of ideas , and of intellectual labour of all kinds for its systems to have been yet made with clearness and profit by the philosophical histori ms of our day . The reason is . that there exists a mass of contradictory documents and of misunderstood facts , incomprehensible at first sight , muddled by the tumult of ihe age , which it would be necessary to purify patiently , in order to reach the solid bottom . Many energetic labourers have remained obscure , carrying with them to their graves the scenes of their mission ; so many dazzling glories then absorbed by the attention of their contemporaries ; so many brilliant results at this day seize upon the retroactive examination of critics ' . But , little by little , lig ht will issue from this chaos ; and if our age succeed in recapitulating itself , it will also recapitulate the life of its father , tho eighteenth century , that imnvnse loaogriphe , that brilliant nebula , in which so much

      meanness stands opposed to so much grandeur , so much science to so much ignorance , so much barbarism to so much civilisation , so much light to so much error , so much seriousness to so much intoxication , so much incredulity to so much faith , so much pedantry to so much frivol us mockery , so much superstition to so much proud reason ; that period of a hundred years , which saw the reigns of Madame de Maintenon and of Madame de Pompadour ; Peter the Great , Catherine II .. Maria Theresa , and the Dubarry ; Voltaire and Swedenberg ; Kant and Mesmer , Jean jlcqaes Itoussseau , and tho Cardinal Dubois ; Schroepfer , acd Diderot ; Fenelon , and Law , Zinzendorf , and L' -ionite ; Frederick ll ., aud Bobespierre ; Louis XIV ., and Phillipe Egaiite ; M-trto Antoinette , and Charlotte Corday ; Weishaupt , Babue f , and Napoleon ; a frightful labaiory , in which so many heterogeneous forms were thrown into the crucible , that they vomited , in their monstrous ebullition , a torrent of smoke in which we still walk enveloped in daykness and confused images .

      Neither Consuelo nor Albert , neither the Invisible chiefs nor their adepts cast a very clear-sighted glance upon that age , int « the bosom of which they burned to rush with the enthusiastic hope of regenerating it by storm . They believed themselves on the eve of an evangelical republic , as the disciples of Jesus had believed themselves on the eve of the kingdom of God upon earth ; as the Taborites of Bohemia had believed themselves on the eve of a paradisiacal state ; as , more recently , the French convention believed itself on the eve of a propagandism , victorious over the whole face of the globe . But , without this insensate confidence , where would be the great acts of devotedness ; and , without great enthusiasm , where would be great results ? "Without the Utopia of the divine seer Jesus , where would be the notion of human brotherhood ? Without the infectious visions of Joan of Arc , would we still be Frenchmen ? Without the coble chimeras of the eighteenth century , would we have acquired the first elements of equality ? That mysterious revolution , which each sect of the past had

      dreamed of for its own time , and which the mystical conspirators of the last century had vaguely predicted fifty years beforehand as an era of political and religious renovation , neither Voltaire , nor the calm philosophic biains of his time , nor Frederick II . himself , the great realiser of logical and cold force , foresaw either its rough stoims or its sadden abortion . The most ardent , as well as the most wise , were far from reading clearly in the future . Jean Jacques Rousseau would have denied his work if the mountain had appeared to him in a dream , surmounted by the guillotine ; Albertdo Rudolstadt would suddenly have again become the lethargic madman of the Schreckenstein , if those bloody glories , followed by the despotism of Napoleon and the restoration of the old regime , followed by the reign of the vihst maternal interests , had deen revealed to him ; to him who thought he was labouring to overthrow , immediately and for ever , the scaffold and the prison , the barrack and tile convent , the board of tho money-changer and the citadel !

      They dreamed , then , those noble children , and they acted upon their dream with all the strength of their soul . They belonged neither more nor less to then- age than did the skilful politicians and the wise philosophers , their contemporaries They saw neither more nor less than did these , the absolute truth of the future , that great unknown , which we each clothe with the attributes of our own power , and which deceives us all at the same time that it confirms us , when it appear * to our sons clothed in the thousand colours of which eicb of us has prepared a shred for its imperial toga . Uappilv , each century sees it more majestic , because each eenturv produces more labourers for its triumph . As to the men who would wish to rend its purple and cover it with eternal mournin ? , they can accomplish nothing against it—they do not comprehend it . Slaves of the present reality , they do not know that the immortal has no age , and that whoever docs not dream of it as it may be to-morrow can bno means see it such as it must be to-day .

      y Albert , in this moment of supreme joy , when the eyes of Consuelo at length rested upon his with rapture—Albert , renovated bv health and radiant with happiness , felt himself invested " with that all-powerful faith which would remove mountains , if , at suc moments there were any other mountain to bear than the weight of our own reason troubled by excess of bliss . Consuelo was at length before turn , like the Galatbicn of the artists beloved by the gods , awaking at once to love and to life . Silent and collected , her coamc-iiance lighted up by a celestial glory , she was , ior the first time in her lifepcrfectlvincontestabiy beautiful ; for

      , , in fact she now existed , completely and really , for the first time . A sublime serenity sliono upon her brow , and in her largo ami liquid eyes might be read the rapture of her soul . She was so beautiful only through her unc onsciousness of that which was passing in her heart , and over her countenance . Albert alone existed for her , or rather , she no longer existed but in him , an 1 he alone appeared to her worth y of boundless respect and admiration . For Albert , too , was trsiisronaed , and as if enveloped by a supernatural radieuae , in contemp lating her . She saw , indeed , in the earnestness of his look , all the sulrmn grandeur of the

      sorrows he had borne ; but tins p . ist bitterness had left upon hisf .-aiures no trace of p hysical suffering . He had upon his brow the calmness of the martyr awaking from death , who sees the earth dyed with bis blood ~ rying from beneath his feet , and the infinity of heaven opening above his bead . In the grandest days of antique or of Christian art , no inspired ai"ti > t ever created a nobler figure of hero or of saint . All the Invisibles , struck in their turn with admiration , paused , after having formed a circle aroumd them , and remiinci a few moments in contemplation of this pair , so pure

      before G <* 1 , and so blessed among men . Then twenty manly and powerful voices chanted in chorus , to a measure of antique traudear and s-jsnplic ty , «¦ 0 hymen ! 0 b ymenial 1 " AH the InvL-ji / i es had opened and thrown back " upon the ^ r shoulders ih < ir long somber-l . iokintr black roues . A purple and white costume , elegant and simple , bri ghtened by a gold chain , bearing the insignia of their order . " gave to their group a festive aspect . Their masks were sli pped over their Tvrists , ready to be replaced on their f aces at the slightest signal of the watcher , placed as a sentenel upon the dome of the edifice . The orator who officiated as an agent between the chiefs

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      of the Invisibles and their adepts , likewise took off his mask and came to congratulate the happy couple . He was the Duke of - — ,-a wealthy prince who had dedicated his fortune , his intelligence , and his enthusiastic zeal , to the cause of the Invisibles . He was their host when they assembled , and his residence had long been the asylum of W . uida and of Albert , who were there concealed from profane eyes . That residence was also the chief , though not the only scat of tho tribunal of the order , and-their numerous meetings were held there only during a few days in the summer , unless required b y some emergency . Initiated into all the secrets of the chiefs , the duke acted for tbem and with them , but he did nnt betray their incognito ! and taking upon himself alone all the dangers of the enterprise , ho was their interpreter , and the visible medium between them and the members of the association . -., ... . ...

      Tho marriage formula was pronounced , and the simple and touching rites of the new worship were performed with devotion and fervour . This engagement to love each other was not an isolated act , performed in the midst of indifferent spectators , strangers to the moral tie which was thus contracted . AH wero called upon to sanction this-religious consecration of two beings , bound to them by a common faith . They stretched their arms over t e married couple to bless them , then they all took each other by the hands , and formed a living enclosure , a chain of fraternal

      affection and of religious association around them , pronouncing an oath to assist ami protect them ; to defend their honour and their lives ; to sustain their existence in case of need ; to uso all their efforts to reclaim tbem to good , if thoy should relax in the rugged road of virtue ; to preserve them as much as possible from persecutions and seductions from without , on all occasions , and under all circumstances ; in short , to love them as sacredly , as cordially , as deeply , as if they were united to them by name and by blood . The noble Trenck pronounced this formula for the whole assemblage , in eloquent and simple terms .

      All the brothers affected and carried away , . drew their swords and swore to turn those blades against themselves rather than break the oath they had pronounced by the month of Trenck . But the sybil , excited by one of those enthusiastic transports which gave her so much ascendancy over their imaginations , and which often modified the opinion and the decisions of the chiefs themselves , broke the circle by rushing into the midst . ' * Hide from my eyes those glittering weapons , " cried the shudderine Wanda . "These are impious oaths , which take as ; the object of their invocation instruments of Intred and of murder . I know that the usages of the old world has bound that steel to tho side of everv man considered

      free , as a mark of independence and bravery—I know that in the ideas which , in spite of yourselves , you have retained from that old world , tbe . sword is . the symbol of honour , and that you believe you assume a holy engagement when you have sworn hy its blade like the citizens of primitive Rome . But hero it is profaning an unjust oath . Swe > r rather by the flame of the tripod : the flame is the symbol of life , of light , and divine love . But do you then still require emblems and visible signs ? Areyou still idolaters , and do lhe figures which adorn this temple represent to you anything else than ideas ? Ah ! swear rather by your own feelingsby your best instincts—by your own hearts ; and if you do not dare to swear by tho living God , by the true , eternal , and sacred religion , swear by holy humanity , by the glorious bursts of your courage , by the chastity of this young woman and by the love of her husband . Swear by the genius and beauty of Consuelo , that , your desire , and even your thought , will never pro f ane this holy arch of marriage , this invisible and mystic altar upon which the hand of angels engraves and enregisters the oath of love .

      "Do you , indeed , know what love is , " added the sybil , after having reflected for a moment , and with a voice which became every instant more clear and more penetrating ; " did you know , 0 venerable chiefs of our order and ministers of our worship ! yoa would never have caused to be pronounced before you that formula of an eternal en g agement which God alone can ratify , and which , when consecrated by men , is a kind ot profanation of the most divine of all mysteries . What force can you give to an engagement which is in itself a miracle ? " for which every soul is eternally free by virtue of a divine right . And yet , when two souls givo and enchain themselves , each to the other , by love , their mutual possession becomes as sacred , as much of divine right , as is individual liberty . You see that there is herein indeed a miracle , of which God for ever reserves

      to hi i : s -If the mystery , as much as he does that of life and death . You are about to ask of this man and of this woman , if they wi-h to belong to each other exclusively in this life ; and such is their fervour , that they will answer you—Not in this lite alone , but in eternity ' , God , therefore , inspires them , by the miracle of love , with much move faith , with much more strength , with much more virtue than you could , or would dare to ask of them . Away , then , with sacreligious oaths and brutal laws ! Leave to them ihe ideal , and do not bind them to reality by the chains of the law . Leave to God the care of continuing the miracle . Prepare souls so that the miracle may be accomplished in them , form to the ideal of love ; fidelity , without whicbthere is no strength , no sublime love . But do not intervene , as do the-Catbolic . priests and magistrates of-the old world in the execution of the oath . Prepare souls for the holiness of a sacrament ; and as the f ather o f a f amily seeks to establish his children ; n conditions of well being , of dignity , and of security , so do you , our spiritual fathers ,

      assiduously endeavour to establish your sons and daughters in conditions favourable to the development of true love , of virtue , of sublime fidelity . And when you have caused them to undergo religious trial , by means of which you can ascertain that there is in their mutual attachment neither cupidity , nor vanity ; nor frivolous intoxication , nor blindness of the senses devoid of ideality ; when you shall havebecome convinced that they understand the greatness of their feelings , the sacredness of their duties , and the freedom of their choice , then permit them to give themselves to each other , and mutually to alienate their inalienable liberty . Let their family , and their friends , and the great family of the faithful intervene , to ratify wilh you that union which the solemnity of the sacrament must render respectable . But pay strict attention to my words ; let this sacrament be a religious permission , a paternal and social authorisation , an encouragement and an exhortation to the perpetuity of the engagemeat . Let it never be a command , an obligation , a law with threats and punishments , an imposed slavery , with scandal , prisons and chains , in cases of infection .

      " 0 love ! 0 sublime flame ! so powerful and so fragile , so sudden and so fugitive ! fla « h of heaven , which seems to cross our life and be extinguished in us before its end , from the fear of consuming and annihilating us ! We feel truly that thou art the vivifying power emanatinn from God himself , and that he who could fix thee in his bosom and preserve thee there until his last moment , always as pure and as comp ' cte , would be the happiest and the greatest among men . Thou dost not dwell in the harem guarded by vigilant sentinels , any more than in the Christian family placed between the threats of the priests , the sentence of the magistrate , and the yoke of opinion . Thou wilt return as in the fabulous times of Astrea , as in the visions of poets , to fix thyself in our terrestial paradise , when , by sublimo virtues , we shall have deserved the presence of a guest like thee . Oh ! then the abode upon this earth will ' be sweet to men , and it will be good to have heeo born here ! When

      we shall all be brothers and sisters , when unions . shall be freely consented to , and freely maintained by strength derived from thee alone ; when , instead of this frightful , this impossible strife , which conjugal fidelity is obliged to sus . tain against the impious attempts of debauchery , of hypocritical seduction , of unbridled violence , of perfidious friendshi p and skilful depravity , every husband shall find around him only chaste sisters , jealous and delicate guardians of the happiness of them whom they l . avo given to him as a companion , while every wife will find in other men so many brothers of her husband , happy and proud in his happiness , born protectors of his repose and his dignity . Love can then endure ; and who knows ? Perhaps , then , the priest and the magistrate , trusting with reason to the permanent miracle of love , may one day consecrate indissoluble unions in the name of God himself , with as much wisdom and justice as they now display , unknowingly , impiety and folly .

      " You aro under the influence of the miracle . God blesses your oath , because it is he who inspires you with the faith to pronounce it . Always is the most passionate word that can ' come to the lips of lovers in the ecstasy of the ' r divinrst joys . It is an oracle which then escapes from their bosoms . " Eternity is ths ideal of love > s it is the ideal of fa ; th The human soul never more completely attains to the hei « ht of its power and lucidness than in the enthusiasm of a great love . The ' always' of lovers is then an internal revelation , a divine manifestation , which should throw its sovereign ' brig htness rnd its beneficent warmth upon every moment of their union . Woo to him who shall profane this holy formula 1 Such a one falls from a state of grace into a state of sin ; he extinguishes faith , light , strength , and life in his honrt . "

      " And I , " said Consuelo , " I accept thy vow , oh Albert 1 and 1 adjure thee to accept mine . I , too , feel myself under tne dominion of the miracle ; and ! tbis ' always' of OUT short life appears to mo as nothing in comparison with the eternity for which I desire to promise myself to thee . " " Fearless , noble soul ' " said Wanda , with a smile which seemed to beam through her veil ; " pray to God that thou mayest enjoy eternity with him whom thou lovest , as the reward of thy fidelity to him in this short life . " " Oh , yes ! " cried Albert , raising towards heaven his wife ' s hand clasped in his own , " that is the aim , the hope , and th e reward ! To Jo ve each other nobly and ardently in this phase of existence , iu order to meet again and be eternally united in those which follow ! Oh ! I feel that this is not the first day of our union ; that we have already loved , already possessed each other in a former state of existence . Soii'tich happiness is not the work of chance . It is the band of God which brings ua together and reunitrs us , as the two halves of a single being inseparable through all

      6 After the celebration of the marriage , and although the ni lit was far advanced , they proceeded to the ceremonies of " tfc ° defii . i'e initiation of Consuelo into the order of the T-ivi-ibles and afterwards , the members of the tribunal bavin' disappeared , they wandered under the shade of the sacred wood , b < t soon returned and seated themselves around the banquet of fratermi communion . After the repast , the guests resumed their cloaks and ™! hed uuon ihe gentle declivity of the hill which was 1 d d bv the raerwl grove . The ruins of the old chateau reserved ' for the triah , overtopped this beautiful spot , of which Consuelo by degrees revised the paths she had hasttlv run through in a stormy night a short time before . The dav be"m to dawn , and the pure morning a > r brought forth a thousand exquisite odours . It was one of the most beautiful days of summer , the nightingales sang under tie foliage and answered each other from hill to hi ! . Ihe groups which formed every moment around the newly ' marr ied [ couple , far from being troublesome to them , added to

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      their pure transports the delights of fraternal friendship , or at least of the most exquisite sympathy . All the Invisibles present at this festival were made known to Consuelo as the members of her new family , "i'hey were tho -elect-of the talent , - the intelligence , and the virtue of the order , Consuelo had thought-she should faint with fatigue and emotion when she knocked at the door of the terapla . Now she felt strong and animated as when ehe . played upon the ' shore of the Adriatic in all the vigour of youth , under a burning sun . tempered by the sea breeze . It seemed that life -in all its power , happiness in , all its intensity , had taken possession of her in . every fibre , and that , she drew then in by every pore . She no longer counted the hours ; she could have wished that this enchanted night would never end . Why can we not stop the sun beneatlithe-horizon , in certain watchings , when we feel life in-all'the-fulnessof our being , and-when all . tho dreams of enthusiasm seemed realised or realisable ?

      t At last the sky became tinged with purple and gold ; a silvery-toned bell warned thc'Invisibles that night was withdrawing from them her protecting veil ; they sang a last hymn to the rising sun , emblem of the new day of which they . dreamed , and which they were : preparing for the world Then they bade tender farewells , made-appointments . for meeting : some at Paris , others at London , others at Madrid , Vienna , St . Petersburg , Warsaw , Dresden , Berlin , All engaged to be feund in a year , at such a day , at the gate of the blessod temple , with new neophytes , or with ancient brothers now absent . Then they closed their cloaks in order to hide their elegant costumes , . and noiselessly dispersed under the shady avenues of the park .

      Albert and Consuelo , guided by Marcus , descended the ravine as far as the stream ; Karl received them in his close gondola , and conducted them to the pavilion , upon the threshold of which they stopped to contemp late the majesty of the luminary which was ascending the sky . TJnlil then , Consuelo , when replying to Albert ' s impassioned words , had always given him his real name ; but when he roused her from the contemplation in which she seemed to forget herself , she could only say to him , as she rested her burning brow upon his shoulder : '" 0 Lwrani !" ( To be continued . ) .

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      Put fob Protectionists . —A young lady , resident in one of the chief towns of an agricultural county observing some gentlemen , weighing apparentl y seventeen stone , and being informed that they were distressed agriculturists , -remarked that "she was sure thev mua / be very much distressed this . hot weather . "—Punc / i . ' T ^ NT L"iR- "—A certain lawyer had his portrait taken in his favourite attitude-standing with his hand in his pocket . His friends and clients went to see it and everybody exclaimed- ' 'Oh , how like 1 it ' s tho very picture of him ; An old farmer only dissented . "' Taint like' " exclaimed everybody , "just-show us wherein ' taint like ' . " ^ " 1 V . ' nt ' , res Pon < * ed tho farmer ; « don ' t you see he has got his hand in his own pocket ; 'twould be as like again it he had it in somebode so ' s "

      y . In Mr . Burnet s account of "Turner and his works " ( lust . published ) , somo good stories aro told of that painter ' s skill in bargain-making . When arranging for a new work '" , nu b V V pr ! oe of cach Rawing was settled , no without deliberation , at twenty-five pounds . e ' went away expre sing full satisfaction . Ho oauo speedily back , thrust his _ head m at the door , and cried- " guineas . " S i ! t -V " » -th J 8 P ublisllcl ' s " In » *>» minutes a hastystep was heard , and Turner put in his whole person , saying- " My ^ Expenses . " « Oh , certainl y , ^ sir , " was the answer . Put this was not all ; a few minutes after he

      was for a third tune at the door : breathless and eager , with his whole body ia tho room , for he expected resistance to his new demand , " and twenty proofs ? " Another story is to the following . effect : —He had painted a picture for tho famous Jack Puller , and was asked by Fuller to breakfast with him next morning . He took the picture in a hackneycoach , breakfasted , received tho cheque , thanked tho purchaser and left . He had not been gone live minutes , when a knock was heard at the door . Tho . painter was back— '' I must see Mr . Puller . " He was shown in . "Oh ! I'd forgotten ; there is three shillings for tho hacknev-coach . "

      ihe sum was paid , and Fuller loved to relate the story to his friends . The following advertisement appears in tlie " Times' ' :-" Mr . Bringley Itichards desires to announce that ho will not return to London until September . —Wiesbaden , July 23 , 18 > 2 . " V / e would hog to inform Mr . Bringley Richards that London docs not care a ¦ if ho never returns . —Plain Speaker .

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      Pboveeb By Dr. Puset,—When You Are At Ox...

      Pboveeb by Dr . Puset , —When you are at Oxford , do as the Romans do . TJmiform Pbaud . —The uniform Louis Napoleon wears , ho never . having served in the French army . Emotion ItMuitss . —We . do not wish . to be severe upon any one who has met with a misfortune ; but the best thing Lord Derby can do with these " Kefcurns " is to put them in his pipe and smoke them . An Extract trom . otjr Political "Dictionary . — & ' What is thederivation of -the word "Empirical ? " jl . \ -lt must be from M . P ., ( thus , M . F-rical ) , from the . popular notion that every Member of Parliament is more or less a Quack . THE BETTING OFFICE FREQUENTER'S PROGRESS . Air . — " She wore a wreath of Roses , " He wore a suit of Moses ,

      The night when hrst we met . And knowingly his hat was cocked Upon his curls of jot ; Plash " Publics" ho frequented , Where " Sporting cards" were seen ; And many a Derby Sweep got up To ease them of their " tin . " I saw him in his glory—( The word seems doubtful now ) , When to . his stable wisdom His admiring chums would bow . A betting-book he'd started , When . next this youth I saw ; And hourly lie was lounging at Some Betting-Office door ; Or standing treat to stable-boys , With a " weed" between his lips , And listening to their sage discourse

      Of " great events" and "tips . " He told me that he stood to win A fi' pun' note or two , Upon a certain " prophecy—I doubt if it came true . And once again I see this youth , No betting-book is there " ; The prison scissors close have cropped His once luxuriant hair . They tell that " cleaned" completely " out , " He closed his short career By bolting with his master ' s till ,

      When " settling" time drew near . I see him shipped—the Government His passage out will pay ; ; And at some penal settlement , He'll spend his Settling Day .

      The Late Election Of M.P. Por Ayrshire.—...

      The late Election of M . P . por Ayrshire . —Cumnock . —On Monday , the 19 th inst , A . Oswald , late M . P . for Ayrshire , addressed tho electors in the public Square here , at two o ' clock p . m . —Lord James Stuart , late M . P .. for the Ayr district of burghs , in the chair . This being the first meeting on the so-called Liberal side , the attendance was very numerous . Lord James Stuart , a good old Whig , of the Russell School , began by referring to what he termed " the lamented death of Sir Robert . Peel ¦; " by which tho Liberal Free Trade party were deprived of their most efficient advocate ; thereby intimating the close alliance by which the Whigs of this County , at least , were endeavouring to bring about between them and the Peelites , and which the Radicals and some professed Chartists were ready enough to indorse . His whole speech in fact was nothing but an euology of Peel and his Free Trade measures , to which he . tackedE . Cardwell , Peel ' s confidential Secretary , as eminently entitled to their suffrages . He was loudly cheered . lie then introduced Mr . Oswald , who in a long , and rather witty speech , went over tho same topics ,

      asserting broadly , and without any reservation , that universal contentment , and plenty to eat , had been the consequence of Free Trade ; that it * had even thatched the houses in Auchinleek , as ho had seen as he came along ; and that where he went , instead of hungry discontented faces , he saw smiling and cheerful looks . This even raised a faint cheer , but , in truth be it said , only from the well-fed electors , though it was wonderful to hear working men afterwards trying to qualify what he said about their condition . His whole speech , in truth , would have done more honour to the boards of a penny theatre , he being in the comic lino , than to an exrepresentative of St . Stephen ' s . On Tuesday , the following day , the polling commenced , and ended on Wednesday , at four o ' clock . Majority for Blair throughout the County 102 . Thus after all the coalition of Chartists , Radicals , an " Whigs , electors and non-electors , with the Tory Po test " pure Derbyism is triumphant , which being inte ' preted , means despotism in the eventful year 1852 — Correspondent .

      The Recbst Emigration Act . —At the Liverpool Police Court ' o « Saturday , Richard Boothroyd , an emigrant , claimed a payment of £ 10 and the return of passage money from Mr- - s - , ie Wolf > as charterer of the emigrant ship Ottillia , bound for Port Phillip , which vessel had taken her departure on Sunday , the lSth July , instead of Monday , the 19 th , as he had been informed , causing him and other passenge ' rs to be left behind . The decision of the bench wa * that the pnssage money should be returned , and that tlie " defen dant should pay £ o as compensation . Bekksfokd at Praintree . —A public dinner was given at liraintree , on Monday , to celebrate the return of tho " Conservative tin" for Essex . BevesfoYd attempted to address tho electors from the window , but he was at once erected bv a volley of stones from the " vile" rabble . The windows 6 f the Hotel were smashed , and one of the stones came in contact with the head of the " despiser , " who beat a hasty retreat .

      Improvement of the City of London . —Among tho local acts of Parliament , which numbered 1 CS in tho last session , was one for affecting improvements iu the City of London : The obj ect of the act is to widen and improve the north end of Dowgate-HiJ !; Threadneedle-street , opposite Old Broad-street ; the south-east corner of Mark-lane , and part of the north side of Great Tower-street .

      Scientific*. Patkntn.Useiess Wheels—Mr. ...

      SCIENTIFIC * . PatkntN . useiess Wheels—Mr . Longbottom , the secretary to tlm Polytechnic Institution , has inv .-iited an ingenious process l . v which the n . iseof vehicles in . travelling over the s'ones is entirely lire vented . The invention consists in the application of a . solhl baud of vulcanised India-rubber over the . iron tyres of the whoels By its means a well built carriage is rendered perfectl y noiseless , siUovviim conversation to be earned on . wi . how any more effort -than is . re Quired in a qu'e troom : and a muehftreater amount of case is im parted'than can bo . tutuiiie > l in the ordinary vehicles . The durabi " lity of India-rubber tyres ha * now been tested by more than lhi-eu years' experience , ami it v affirmed th it > t exceeds that of iron tyres . Anothcr . peruliarity of the vulcanise ! India . rubber tvres is that they regain their original form after bein ;; subjected to nnv amount of pressure , and they possess the same firmnes » andcla * . ticity under . all temperatures , neither becoming softer in summer , nor harder i'i winter . . It appears that Mr . Longbottom ia provided with numerous valuable testimonials as tn the efheacy of Uisiuvention ; and in proof of ite increasinjrpojiularity , it may be muittiotie I thatno less Hum seventy-four vehicles wi-. h the noiseless wheels are no > v 'in motion' in different parts of England .

      ftix Cotton . — A Parliamentary paper recentl y printed contains a farther report from Sir Itouert liune . tho . director of ih « Museum ot Irish industry , oii M , Clauwen ' s invention lor the production of ilav . cotton . From this it appears that in August last , Mr . Uar- 'iu havingofiered full facilities at his ivories at Kildiiman , for the preparation of flax-cotton on < i large fcale , Professors Murph y ami Hodges , under instrucvioiis from Sir Kubert , proceeded to the spot to inspect the course of operations . It was , however , then discovered by Mr . Graves ( M . Clausen ' s agent and representative ) that from want of complete machinery , a postponement would beneces ' savy . The 19 th of September was accordingl y appointed , wh . ii , in . stead oftheprooass being carried out on the great inauut ' aeturin " scale first announced , it . was limited to about a lOQlbs . of flax . Kx . periments . were made of . two , kin s . The first was as to the direct preparation of flax-oottoii from . fla . v-straw , iu which the separation and cleansing of-the fibre fiom the refuse part of the stalk was made a part of the process , and this was not by any means satis , factorily done . The seei nd-was as to the . conversion of tow in- low .

      nviced-flax intoflax-cotton ; and , although in this material the fibre has been already proparcdand cleaned by the previous dressings , the product obtained did not approach in fineness of texture , , imiformlty of-tructure , or cleanness oftmiss , to the quality of the spccimensoffl-jx cotton that are usually exhibited hy M . . CUuuseu ' s agents . Under these circumstances , Sir ltobert Untie considers ilie trials' to have been in so far negative as the agents nciiiig lor M . Claussen found it impo .-sible to produce satisfactory rosults-in ih se works which thoy had themselves selected , and . where , they had been working previously . ' At the same time , it is admitted ilmt much weight must be conceded to Mr , Graves ' s complaint of the defective mechanical arrangements . In winding up his report , after mentioning incidentally that when tho trials had been concluded and found unsatisfactory , u letter was received from M .-Clausscn de . dining to be responsible for the results , and stating that lie would prefer that the inquiry ihuuld be conducted at some works he hud erected at Stepney-green , near London , Sir Robert Kaneobserves' In regard to the more purely scientific portion of the inquiry , 1 beg leave to report that several interesting facts have been already ascertained as to the real nature of the material produced , mid as to the true action of the materials used . Without being under .

      stood to announce a positive conclusion , which in a . report of pro . gvess would be premature , I beg to state that I am prttiy well satisfied that M Claussen ' s process d . es not at all produce a material approaching in structure or organic quality ti cotton . Tho views of the bursting up of the fibres , put torwavd by some persons who have come forward to explain the process in public , do not appear to be well founded . The . flax fibres are ,. in M . Claussen ' s process , excessively finely divided , and separated from each other , but cach remains still a thorough and complex flax fibre , and quite u-ilike cotton , and the name amount of division , and the same fineness and pliability of firbe may he given , and often is given , to flax , by simple dressing , especially if the flax had been ovcr-retted . This point as to structural character-is , however so fundamental to ihe value and quality of the fl : ix-cottoii , that I deem it indispensable to followup still further the careful microscopic examination of the material hi all its stuges , and shall therefore reserve for a faiurc complete report details and drawings . Regarding the other processes of ilas maiiagoniciit ( Schenk's , & c ) , I beg to state that wo have as yet made but some preliminary investigations , as the peculiar interest of the flax-cotton question demanded that our first attention thould oC given to its discussion .

      ekicsson ' s . calokic engine . The fystem of propulsion adopted by Captain Ericsson , and the engines constructed by him , have lately attracted so much nitontion that au abridged account , taken from an able article in the ' New York Merchants Magazine , ' will be read with interest . Two engines upon this plan are now in operation at tho Woi ki of Messrs . Hog . ; and Delamater , at New York , one of five horse power , the other of sixty horse . pjwerj the latter has four cylinders , two of six feet diameter , side by side , surmounted by two of much smaller size . Within these are pistons exactly ttttine each cylinder , and so connected that those in tho lower and upper cylinders move together . A fire is placed under the bottom of each of the largo cylinders , called the ' working cylinders , ' those above b ^ -ing termed the ' supply cylinders . ' As the piston in the supply cylinder moves down , valves at the top admit the air ; as it rises these valves are closed , and the air passes into a receiver and r < g' HKK'tor , where it is heated to about 400 ( leg ., and , upon entering the wvrkii . g cylinder , it is further heated by the fire underneath . At-ISO dcg .

      the atmospheric air expands to double its volume , and , supposing the supply cylinder to bo half the size of the working cylinder , tha air which enters tho supply cylinder , in passing through the regenerator , fills the working cylinder ; in like manner , presuming that the urea of the upper piston bo 500 square inches , and that the air presses upon it with a mean force of ten pounds to each square inch , the air , whew expanded to . twice the volume in the lower cylinder , will exert tlie same pressure on each square inch of its piston . If the area of the lower piston be twice as large as that above , it follows that with a pressure of 5 , 000 3 b . exerted on the upper piston wo have a force of 10 , 0001 b . applied to the piston in the working cylinder . This surplus power furnishes ahe working power of the engine . It will be readily seen that , alter one stroke of its pistons is made , it will continue to work with tbis force so long as sufficient heat is snpplied to expand the air in the working cylinder to the extent stated ; for so long as the area of the lower piston is greater than that of the upper , and a like pressure is upon every square inch of each , so long will the greater . pision push

      forward' the . smaller , as a two pound weight upon one end of a balance will be quite sure to bear down one pound placed upou the other , We . need hardly say that , after the air inthe working cylinder has forced up the piston within it , a valve opens , and , as it passes out , the pistons , by force of gravity , descend , and cold air again rushes into and fills the supply cylinder , as wo have before described . In this manner the two cy . inders are alternately supplied and discharged , causing the pistons in each to play up and down , sabstautially as they do in the steam engine , the most striking feature in tin ' s engine consists in what is cullid by i > s inventor the ' regenerator . ' This structure is composed of . wire net , somewhat like that used in tho manufacture of sieves , placed side by side until the scvi-. 's attain a thickue-s , say , of twelve inches . Through the almost innumerable cells formed by the intersection of those wires the air must , pass on its way to the working cylinder . In passing through these it is so minutely subdivided that lhe particles composing it are brought into close contact with the metal which forms the wires . Now , let us suppose , what actually takes place ,

      that the side of the regenerator nearest the working cylinder is heated to a Mali temperature . Through this heated substance the air must pass-before entering the cylinder , and , in ctYeciiug tills passage , it takes up , as is demonstrated by the thermometer , about 450 dog . of the 180 dcg . of heat required , as we have , before stated , to double its volume . The additional thirty dcg . are communicated by the fire beneath the cylinder . The air has thus become expanded ; it forces the piston upwards ; it hai done i s work j valves open , and the imprisoned air heated to 480 deg ,, passes from the cylinder , and again enters the regenerator , through which it must pass before leaving the machine , ft ' e have said that the side of this instrument nearest the working cylinder is hot , and it should be hero stated ttiat the other side is kept cool by the action upon it of the air catering iu the opposite direction at each up stroke ot the pistons . Consequently , as the air from the working cylinder passes out , the wires absorb its heat so effectually that , when it leaves the regenerator , it has been robbed of all except about thirty degrees . In other words , as tho air passes into the writing

      cylinder it gradually receives from the regenerator about 400 dcg . of heat ; and us it passes out tbis is returned to the wires , and is thus used over and over , the only purpose of the tires beneath the cylinders being to supply tho thirty digi-toa of heat we have mentioned , and that which is lost by radiation and expansion . Extra , ordinary as this statement may seem , it is nevertheless incoinroverlibly proved by the thermometer to be quite true . The regenerator in the sixty horse engine measures twenty-sis inches in height and width internally . Each disc of wire composing it contains U 7 G superficial inches , and tho net has ten meshes to the inch . Each superficial inch , therefore , contains 100 met > hc > , which , multiplied by 07 ( 3 , give 07 , 000 meshes in each disc , and , as 200 discs are employed , it follows that the regenerator contains 13 , 520 , 000 meshes , and , consequently , as there are as many small spaces between the discs as thei e are meshes , we find that the air within is distributed in about 27 , 000 , 000 minute cells . Hence it is eudeiit , that nearly every particle of tlie whole volume of air , in passing through the regenerator , is brought into very ' close contact with a surface of mttal which heats and cools alternately . The wive contained in

      each disc is 1 , 110 feet long , and that contained in the regenerator is consequently 228 000 feet , or forty-one miles and a half in length , the superficial measurement of which is i-qual to the entire surface of four steam boilers , each forty feet long and four feet in diameter ; and vet the regenerator , presenting this greatamount of heating surface , is only about two feet cube , less than 1-1 , 920 of the bulk of these four boilers . This engine , according to the account from which we quote , has been run at full speed for twenty-fours hours , with a consumption of only 9001 b . of coal . After feeding the fires it continues to run three hours without replenishment , and after withdrawing them from the grates it operates with full power for an hour , inconsequence of the astonishing action of the regenerator alone . A ship of 2 , 200 tons burden , to lie fitted with these engines , is now being built by Messrs . I ' errine , Patterson , and Stack ; the engines , by Messrs . Hogg and J . ' elamater , comprise four working cylinders , each of 108 inches diameter . We know of no instance in which such an important invention has been brought beCo . e tlie public in so complete n form as to warrant its being carried out on a scale of the first magnitude from the outset .

      VENTIbATIOK OF BA 1 LWAV CABEUGES . A plan which appears to be well adapted for introduction during the present weather is proposed , of applying to the rootV of railway carriages horizontal tubes wi h bell mouths , arruOA'cd to catch the air while the train is in motiovi and direct it into Hie interior , the current of air being divided into streams l « y passing through wire gauze screens , and outward current's of air being produced by deflecting windows , composed of vertical panes of glass , and mounted so as to be capible of being turned in either direction and accommodated to the motion of the train .

      ItAILlVAl" OATES , A Lincolnshire paper describes an exceedingly clever and ingenious invention for the opening and closing of railway gates without the attendance of a single individual . A spring connected with the gates is fixed at any Riven distance on the line , immediately on tlie engine toueMng which the gates fly open , md remain so until the engine touches a spring on the opposite fide , when they instantly close . It can bo . so fixed and arranged , by placing the spring at a nearer or greater distance from the gates , that a train of almost any length can pass through before closing .

      Daring Robbery At Ji Ihfield. — Early On...

      Daring Robbery at JI ihfield . — Early on Friday morning , the cloth warehouse bolonuuiw to Mr . Joshua Barker , manufacturer , Mirfield , was broken into by eoiiio daring villains , and cloth amounting to from £ 100 to £ 150 taken away . The entrance was effected by cutting a round bole , four and a half inches in diameter , in the panel of the door , and by putting the arm through , the door Wits unlocked and tho chain taken off by which it was secured . Although the warehouse is connected with tho dwellinghouse , and under ouo of the rooms , yet not the slightest noise was heard by the inmates . So cool and collected were the desperadoes , 1 l 1 . 1 t thoy took time to assort tho cloth , taking with them the best black wool-dved cloth that was

      in tho warehouse . It is supposed it would weigh about . quarter of a ton . The robbers wero traced throuuli tlie garden , over the wall , and up the field to Knoll-lane , where it is supposed a conveyance was in readiness 10 receive tho plunder . About two o ' clock in the tnorniti " , some p ersons attending a brick kiln close at hand hoard a spring cart drive by and stop , when a person went up to it and said something , when tho cart drove immediately in the-direction of Knoll-lane . As Mr . Ilowarth , the constable for M ' . rficld , and Mr . Green were at York , Mr . Inspector Kayo , of Iluddersfield , was inuuedutel y on the spot , and measures are bein ^ taken , if possible , to detect the robbers . — Wakefield Journal .

      Tub Law of Evidence is Scotland . —Among tho acts passed in the late session was one to amend the law of evidence in Scotland . It is now provided tbat witnesses are not to be excluded b y reason of crime , & c . The Mtjbdek nbar Bath—At his re-examination on Saturday tho prisoner was committed to take his trial at the next assizes on the charge of wilful murder .

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      The Julmarnock Journal vftMi & tea the lois the town iias sufli > red , b v , tlie bitejoods M 350 . OO . Q . . The " Holy Well , " in Uulywjjll-stkbkt , STRAND .--. Qn Thursday week tho public wen .- ad-Jiitttei 10 . nsnect the farfsmied relic of antiquity known as the " -Holy Well . " Death of the Oonsekvative Mkjibek f . e Oldham . — Mr- John Duncuft , died at his country home , FrOJBuam ,, Cheshire , on Tuesday , after two d ; . )» ' illness . , Sun . MAiti . NE Teleoiiaphs . —Tbo arrangements for increasing the existing means . of telegraphic uotumuucatioii-with the continent of Europe by sutiiiiiriiic route , iu addition to the route between Dover and Oa ) ais ,. are pngretsing .

      PusEvisM . —Tlie Bishop of Ely lias ordend lhe Rev , J . T . B-. 'nett , M . A ., llwwv of Cbevely , near Newmarket , to bold morning service on every stum ' s day throughout the year . C ontinuation of Victohia-stuekt . —The ClcrkenwelUmprovements arc once more , in progress , workmen being engaged in the removal of the houses at tlio bottom . of retei-street , Saffron-hili . HEMoviL of Whito-uiahs' Dock . —The Committee of the City Lands have ordered this long standing nuis . mcc , the tortile aource of annoyance and disease to tho neighbourhood , to bo filled up . Australian Mail Steamkks . —Tho steamer Australian ,, which left with the first wail by btcam for . Austr . ili > on the otliof Juno , is due at P . yinoiuh , according , 10 Posl-tfiLe regulations , on the 30 th of November . Offences against the Excue Laws . —By an act now . in force informations for penalties , itc , under tho Exoiso laws may be heard before tho Inland Commissioners or by the metropolitan magistrates .

      P . oou Law Commission Continuance Act . —The Irish Poor Law Commissioners are further continued by a recent set—15 and 16 Victoria , c . 37—until tbo -Srd of JiiJy , 1854 , anil to the end . of the then session . of Pitiltament . Nubian Lions . —The Pacha of Egypt has put on-boar J the Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s steam ship tlie Uipon several lions and panthers , bouides soino very curious and rare animals . fromti 0 Subian Pcsert , as a present to tho London Zoological Society . WooDciiKsiKn . —The famous dlonian p » vcmonta in this town are about shortly to tie uncovered , for the purpose of affording to archjcologists an opportunity of inspecting those celeb rated remains , which have not been seen for several years . Robbery by Policbmes at Leeds , — Two officers of ti 0 Leeds police force wero last week sentenced to ten days ' imprisonment for robbing two young women , strangers in the town . Thoy got possession of thoir uiouoy Qu uiotcuco of finding lodgings fur . tbem .

      IvioN College , —Saturday last being what is termed "Election Saturday" in this institution , the delivery of speeches by the boys took place according to annual pust-ni . The usual banquet and ri / jjatuv alio took place in the afternoon . A Ship IJuhnt at Sea . —On Saturday , intelligence was received at Lloyd ' s , under . dato St . John ' s Kcwfound-1 -nd ., July Gth , of tho total destruction by fire of the British ship Reciprocity , on tho 28 th of June , whilst on her . passago from ilohile to Liverpool . New Romanist College . —A wealthy Romanist in tho South of England is about to purchase tho Hornby Grange Estate , near Grout Smeaton , Yorkshire , lor tho purpose of converting the spacious mansion into a Popish college , and the park into pleasure grounds for tho students . Tuukdek Stohm and Heavy Fall of i ' AiK . —On Siinday atat ' uw minutes paat one o ' clock , p . m ., tho metropolis ami suburban districts for miles distant were visited by one of the most fearful storms of thunder , rain , is ., that has happened for some considerable time .

      Catholics i . n the New Parliament . —The Globe , states that tho only Roman Catholic who has been relumed " . in the whole length and breadth of England , Scotland , and Wales , is tho nominee of the Protestant Duke of KorfolU , the husband of Miss Talbot , Lord E . Howard . " Election Riots , Bristol , July 25 th . —We regret having to record tho death of a person named John Godding , who breathed his last yesterday , at the Bristol Infirmary , and who was severely wounded at Banwcll , by a pike by some miscreant , at the recent election for the eastern division of the county of Somerset . The late Rains . —Intelligence reached Glasgow on Monday that the rains of Saturday had swept away a bridge iu the vicinity of Kowmilua , and that , the inundation had extended to Galston , and hud been seriously destructive lo property in that neighbourhood . It was ahso currently reported that two or three lives had been sacrificed .

      1 he Foreign Office . —A change in the administration of foreign affairs maybe anticipated . It is expected that ere long Lord Malmesbury will succeed Lord Cowley . at Paris , the latter to go to Constantinople , and that the portfolio of the Foreign office will bo presented to Lord Stratford , late Sir Stratford Canning . The Board of health . —According to the General Board of health Act passed in tho late session -No . 2—local boards are to-be established at the following . places : —WUbcacb , Vfalsoken , Salisbury , Aahby de-la-Zoucb , Woolwich , Stratford-upon-Avon , Leamington , and Newbury . Tremendous Thunderstorm . —On Sunday afternoon a thunderstorm broke over Woolwich shortly after 5 o ' clock , and the rain continued to fall in torrents for upwards of an hour . All the houses in low-lying situations were filled with water The storm commenced in tho southwest , and made an entire circuit of the four points of the compass .

      Irish Leatiieh . —A great trade in Irish Leather is now going on with Prance . It is sent iu the hidulroin Dublin , is tawed , tanned , and dressed in France , and couie . s buck in that beautifully mellow article called "Trench leather . " The leather , if made up into boots or shoes , would pay a hi gh duty ; but there is little or no import duty on tho dressed skins . A Genuine Protectionist . —At the recent eleetiomfor West Kent , which ended in Punier and Smith being .. rcturned , Mr . Chalkin , of Kent House Farm , Beckenham , was so overjoyed at the return of two Protectionists , that in tho exuberant enthusiasm of tho moment he announced to tho labourers on his . farm that for the future ho should raise their wages Cd . per day !

      Monster Blast , —An extraordinary blast or explosion of powder , ignited by means ot" electricity , look place in Garantully quarry , near Edinburgh , on Monday last . Something more than half a ton of powder was used There were thirteen simultaneous charges , shearing off , on & rough calculation , not less than 140 , 000 cubic feet of stone . This is the fourth explosion of the same kind that has taken placo in this quarry . Abolitiqs of Feus os CtKurr .. —P > y the Nisi Priiis Officers act it is declared , "tho fees heretofore received on tho circuit by thomarnhall ' s man and the judge s bailiff respectively shall be and are hereby abolished , and no foe , gratuity , or reward shall be demanded or accepted by any ono exercising , or claiming to exercise , cither of the said offices , or other person attending the circuit in any subonlinste office or employment "

      A New Way of taking Cod-Liver Oil . —Dr . Bunedctti recommends the following means for disguising the nauseous taste of cod-liver oil : —Make a paste With the oil . nnd powdered starch or arrow root , and prepare tho bolus by wrapping it in a moistened wafer . About sixteen of such boluses night and morning butiioo in the beginning ; more may subsequently be taken , ov they may be iiiaiiu larger , as the swallowing of them becomes easy by habit . Bathing on the Banks of the Thames . —A notice . has been affixed in tho most public places adjoining the banks or shore of the river Thames , stating that " AU persona are cautioned against bathing in an indecent manner near a

      public high « ay or near inhabited houses , from which they may be seen . Tho police have directions to enforce-the law to prevent such offences , and , if necessary , to apprehend the . offenders , and charge th <* m before a magistrate . " Woods , Forests , and Land Revenues . —An act was pas > cd in the late session to alter and amend certain acts relating to tho woods , forests , midland revenues of tho Crown . Tho object of this act , which contains cloven clauses , is to vest in tbo commissioners a large discretionary power in leases , and with regard to rent , & c . The Commissioners of woods , dsc , may with the consent of the Treasury suspend tho collection of or merge tolls of markets and fairs .

      New Act of Piukmacv . —Among the public acta passed in tho late session wasono for regulating the qualifications of pharmaceutical chemists . It is declared to bo expedient for the safety of the public that persons exercising the business or calling of pharmaceutical chemists in Great Britain should possess a competent practical knowledge of pharmaceutical and general chemistry , and other branches of useful knowledge . The Commons' Enclosure Acts Extension Act . —An act of Parliament was passed on the 30 th of June to amend and further extend tho acts for the enclosure , exchange , and improvement of land . The provisions of several acts aro now amended and further extended . No lands aro to be enclosed without the previous authority of Parliament . The Enclosure Commissioners arc empowered by this act to do a number of things to carry out tho several acts which hitherto they were not empowered to do .

      Registered Letters , —The Postmaster General has ordered a relaxation of the stringent rules now in force respecting the delivery of-registered letters . At present a registere i letter can only be delivered to the party to whom it is addressed , and whose receipt alone is taken for it . For the future , when this is impracticable , a receipt will be taken for a registered letter from the husband , wife , or , failing this , from a member of the same family residing under the same roof of the party to whom such letter is addressed .

      Extensive Fire sear Bromley Church . —On Saturday morning , between tho hours of nine and ten o ' clock , a ( ire , which , at one tinic , threatened to destroy tbo-parish church , broke out on the extensive premises , belonging to Mr . Pawley , the proprietor of the White Hart , Brom ' ey , termed Church Farm , and almost atijuiuing tho church . The damage done may be thus enumerated : A largo barn destroyed , insured for £ 150 . Tivo timber buildings , the cowsheds ; nine loads of tares , several loads of peas , a waggon , and some outbuildings . FovtunaU-ly tbo pvopetty was insured in the Phoenix Fire Office .

      Alleged Discovery of Gold Quartz . —Wo havo been informed upon credible authority , that on 1 ' riday a quantity of gold quartz was . discovered between Iladlcigh and Boxlord . It appears that a labourer was upon Friar ' s-Ilill , when seeing something tion was directed to what he had raised portion to a silversmith ' s shop , when found to contain pure gold . Tho covery threw tho town of Uadloigh into a general rush was made to tho " Journal .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 31, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_31071852/page/3/