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      From The London Gazette Of Friday, May 1...

      From the London Gazette of Friday , May 17 . BANKRUPTS . E . lward Buckton Lamb , 10 , _Bursou crescent , _bnilder . —S _^ . -ah _B-. _' j ks Ipswich , _victu-i-1 _> r . —Robert Masterman , late of 127 . _liivh-stfeefc , but now ot 3 , Trinitystreet , _Sontrnvark , su'geon —Peter _Cattaneo and Joseph . _C-itfc'neo , _Rebate , Surrey , jewellers—Thomas William _Yountchnsband , now of 27 , Upper Balgrave-place , bub late of Poplar , bitumen manufacturer . —Charlea Newton and Charles WorssaiB , _Kingslpud-basin , Kingaland-road , engineers . —Hichaid Maifcs , Old Sulnion public-house _. Union-street , Suuthwark , and Dake of York publichouse , Liquorpond-street , Bedford-street , victualler . DIVIDENDS DECLARED . George Walton , _Stockton-upon-Tees _, Durham , wine merehant . first dividend of 4 s . 3 d . in the pound , payable at 57 , Grey-street , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , on May 18 . or on any succeeding Saturday .

      John Leech . _Newcastle-upon-Tyne , ironmonger , first dividend of 3 s . 4 i . in the pound , payable at 57 , Greystreet , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , on May 18 , or any succeeding Saturday . Thomas Habson , of Carlisle , mercer , fourth dividend _, of 3 ' . and three-sixteenths of a penny in the pound _,, payable at 57 , Grey-street , Neweastle-upon-Tyne , on May 18 , or on any succeeding Saturday . Thomas _Townshend , of Birmingham , railroad contractor , farther dividend of 2 * . lid . and two-fifths of a penny in the pound , payable at 27 , Waterloo-street , _Birniiiujham , on May 23 , or on any subsequent Thursday .

      DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLARED IM THE COUNTRY . James Southern , of Birmingham , grocer , June 10 , at eleven , at the Couit of Bankruptcy , Birmingham— Q Hawkins , of Bristol , mason , June 13 , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Bristol—William Watson Tait , of Liverpool , merchant , June 13 , at the Court of Bankruptcy , _Liverpool—Jaruea Richardson , Liverpool , merchant , June 8 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool—Benjamin Jasper Wood , of Liverpool , optician , June 7 , at _hulf-past twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool—Mark Marks and Samuel Barnett , of Liverpool , tailors , June 12 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool—Charles _Humbettaoa and Samuel _Frodsham , of Liverpool , commission merchants , and of Ramsay , Isle of Man , ship-builders , May 29 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool—John FiBber and George Henry Fisber , o f Manchester , Manchester

      warehousemen , June 11 , at one , at the Conrt of Bankruptcy , Manchester—Saloman Lipman Polack , and Ridolph Lipman Polack , of Manchester , merchants , June 11 . at one , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Manchester—Thomas Lucas , of Brampton , Derbyshire , ironfoundor , June 11 , at twelve , at the Cornet of Bankruptcy . Ma _^ Chester—Edward Wilcock , George Teasdale , and John Turner , of _Ulverstoiie , Lancashire , paper manufacturers , June 10 , at twelve and one , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Henry New , late of Birmingham , but now of Blakedown , Worcestershire , iron-manufacturer , June 10 . at _halfptiafc eleven , at the _Ceurt of Bankruptcy , Birmingham-Mark Marks and Samuel Barnett , of Liverpool , tailors . June 8 , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Liverpool . certificates to be granted , unless cause be shown

      * to the contrary on the day of meeting . George _M'Donell , of Mincfng-lane , City , wine-broker , June 7- _^ George Hawkins , of Bristol , mason , June _10—Ebenez _^ r Rogers , of Newport , Monmouthshire , firebrick manufacturer , June 7—Robert Paddou , of Hartlepool , Durham , chemist , June 7—Jonathan William Ord , of Durham , linen-draper , June _7—E-lmund Pickup , of Manchester , fustian manufacturer , June 10 . _certificates to be granted by the Court of Review , unless cause be shown to the contrary , on or before June 7 .

      Joseph Scholefleld , of 39 , _Cbeapaide , City , cutler-William _Cheesman , John Hodson , and William Oliver Cbeesman , of Brighton , chinamen—George Foord , of Lttnhain , Kent , seed merchant—John Leech , of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , ironmonger—Wm . Robert Hawkes , of Brighton , common brewer—Robert Josiah _Craneis , of Maldon , Essex , _butcher—G-eorge Walton , of _Stockton-upon-Tees , Durham , wine-meichant—Thomas Bayley , of West SHiithfteld , City , licensed victualler-Christopher Teesdale , of "Westminster-bridge-road , Surrey , furnishing warehouseman—John Clews Jackson , and Job Jackson , of _Burslem , Staffordshire , earthenware manufacturers—Frederick Scott , of St Alban ' s , Hertfordshire , apothecary—Joseph Lidwell Heathorn , of 3 , Abefaurch-lane , City , ship-owner— John _Conaway , of 3 , _Gray's-inn-lane , cheesomonger—Charles Conchman , of 46 , Edwardea-square , carpenter—Thos . Millar , of Liverpool , hosier—George Chamberlain , of Wivenhoe _, Essex , shipowner .

      PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . Henry Brownbill _, Edmund Smith , John Hulton , Joseph Wood , and John Worsley , of Newburgb , Lancashire , coal-miners— "Wm . Cross and Joseph Jackson , of Liverpool , leather-dealers .

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      FIELD FLOWERS . Te field flowers ! the gardens eclipse yon , tia true , yet , wildings of _"future , 1 dote upon yon , _Pgi ye waft me to * ummerB of old , Trees the earth teem'd _aronnd me with fairy _delight , . And -when daisies and buttercups gladden'd my sight , Like treasurts of silver and geld . I love yon for lulling me back into dreams Of the bine Highland mountains aud echoing streams , And of broken glades breathing their balm , _^? kile the deer was aeen glancing in sunshine remote , And the deep mellow crush of the wood-pigeen _' a not * Hade music that _Bvreeten'dthe calm .

      _Iiet a pastoral song has a pteasanter tune Thanye _^ peak to my heart , little wildings » I June i Of old ruinous castles ye tell , Where 1 thought it delightful your beauties to And , When the _magic of _latere first breathed on my mind , And yonr blossoms were part of her spell . _JBy ' n now what affections the violet awakes ; What loved little islands , twice seen in _theirlakes , Can tbe wad water-lily restore ; What landscapes I read , in the primrose ' s looks , And what pictures of pebbled and iniunowy brooks In _ib * vetches that tan clad their shore .

      XirtL ' s cwtoreless buds , to my heart ye were dear , Ere the fever of passion or ague of fear Had scathed my existence ' s bloom ; Once I welcome yon more , in life ' s passionless stage , With the visits of yonth to revisit my age , And 1 wish you to grow on my tomb . Tkosnas Campbell

      Within A2cd Without:. X Xo:Si>0>- Ltric....

      WITHIN A _2 CD WITHOUT :. _x xo : si > 0 > - LTRIC . ( Without . J The winds are bitter ; the skies are wild ; From the roof comes plunging the drowning rain Withont in tatters , the world ' s poo ? child Sobbe-h abroad her grief , her p : un ! 2 \ o one heareth her , no one heedeth her : Bat Hunger , her friend , with his bony hand , Grasps ber throat , whispering huskily—» ' What dost Than in a Christian land _!*»

      ( Within . J The _fckies are wild , and the bl _&* t is cold ; T « t riot and lnxnry brawl within ; Slaves are waiting , in crimson and gold , Waiting the nod of a child of sin . Tbe £ ie is cracking , wine is bubbling rp in each glass to its headed brim : 1 h _& jtsteis Ere _laughing , the parasites _qnsfSng " Happiness , "— _bonear , " —and all for him ! ( _WiihtxL ) She who is slain in the winter weather , Ah ! she once had a viUage fame ; listened to iove on the moonlit heather :

      Sad gentleness—vanity—maiden shame : Now , her allies are the Tempest howling ; Prodigal curse *; self-disdain ; Poverty ; misery . Well—so matter ; There is an end unto every pain ! The harlot's fame was her doom to-day , Disdain—despair ; by to-aorroWs _liiht The ragged boards and tbe pauper * * pall ; And so she'll be given to dusky night I - - - Without a tear , or a _hnmin sigh , She's gone , poor life and its " fsTer" o ' er ! So let her in culm _ohlrrion lie ; While the world runs merry as heretoforeJ

      ( _W-HkUi . ) He who yon lordly feast enjoyeth , He who doth rest on his conch of down , He it was , _who threw the forsaken Under the feet of the trampling town . ; liar—betrayer—false as erael , What is the doom for his dastard sfn 1 His peers , tbey scorn J—high dames , they _afasr / fin _n 1 dinar yon palace , and _-gsza within-There—yet Ma deeds are all tnaapet -Bounded ;; There , npon si-ken seats recline _Miiatns as fair as the saBmer mon ang ,

      Watching him rise from the _Bpsr _slinj wine . Mothers ail proffer their stainless d aughten ; Men of high honour salute him * ' _fritsdj " Skies 1 0 , where are yoor cleansinj i waters ! _WuildJ 0 , where do thy wonders end- ? . _Bare _^ iCCTKaaA .

      • The Mixers' Magazine—May. Contrary To ...

      • THE MIXERS' MAGAZINE—MAY . Contrary to our nsaal wont , we return a second time to this _magazine . We do so not , only on account of ihe very _clever contents of this advocate ofthe industrious toilers , bet also because we-are anxious to do all that m our power lies to serve the men of the Jsorth in their present struggle . This we can best do by 'keeping before tho pcblio the grievances of which thev complain , and the justice of their demands . "With this view we give the following lengthy extract from an article

      headed—THE STBIKE . This is tbe ¦ _subject which , _beyood > £ ll others , is now occupying the public attention of -fee two counties , X orthumberlan _* and Durham . The different newspaper accounts ,- published by the direction _and-sssction of the _mastere , hare represented tbe whole dispute to be one _entirely-cf _traces—that the pitmen have-demanded a most extortionate price for the -required laY _^ m *—more than the prcflts of the trade would allow ef . It is well < known that there are several other points of difference besides wages . In order te make ourselves understood , we will here britf 7 recapitulate the points in dispute , and then comment upon what tbe owners say about them . 1—The . _psynent of wages ; 'the pitmen require to be paid every week all that" they have earnedclose sd .

      The _owsere refuse this : they say they will pay but once a fortnight—and then -cnly up to the preceding Satoriaj—always keeping a week's wages k > hand . 2—The tens ofthe hiring . The jrsk _^ - propose that it be _- » for six months : tbe owners propose one month—from month to month , determinable bj either party giving- * month ' s notice tothe other . 3—Tbegrarantee : during the period of the hiring , the pitman is to be tbe servant of the owner _^—to _woifc for him , and him only—to go tc gaol if he works any where else : is the -wort man for this to receive any oertain means of _snbsiatfenee ? The _snen propose that for tb » servitude they may be guaranteed ave days' work in tha week—of three _ahillings a day . The _ouncrs refuse this : tbeyrefuse tobisd _themserves to give either wages or work .

      4—Tbe-wori of hewing is dose by the men ; the work of pvittug the coals by boys . The _tntti agree to hew at all times , but they refuse to put , except is some cases of absolute necessity ; tbey refuse also to _woik—save with their own consent—at any other work but colliery work , or at any other oel-Eery but that which they were hired to . Tbe _otBne _^ s insist tbat the men work at hewing , putting—or any other work—either at the colliery or any where else . 5—How shall the wages be _calculated—by weight or measure" ? The _mtx . insist that tbey be paid , by weight alone , far all that they _actnally send to bank , neither more nor lea : tbatthe weight be ascertained by Beam and Scales ; and that in the event of dispcte , the same be _adjusted by the District Inspector of Weights .

      The _oxomers insist npon the old system—weight or measure , as tbey think proper- the men to be bound t _« send a certain amount te bask ; if tbey send less than that amount , to lose their labour and be paid nothing . ; if they send more than that , however great the excess , so additional remuneration is to be given . 6—The pay-bills . Freqnently there are disputes before tbe _^ _nagistrates _, in which the principal question is—How _siach have the men been paid ? In proof of their case the men turn to -their pay-bi _^ _ls which have bees given them at the _tisie of payment by tbe owners ; the owners then swear -that they have paid more ; tbat " in order to please the men / ' they inserted a less bum in the pay-bills : this latter assertion is then denied by the men ; the bench _always decide with the masters .

      The men re quire that when paid , they be furnished with a _papii'l—specifying what has been paid , and what deducted—and tbat such pap _^ _OU be evidence in case of dispute of snch payment and deduction : tbat tbe masters be not at liberty afterwards to deny the truth of the p & y-bilL The _oime / _s-ey nothing ss to this . proposition ; but during tbe latttr weeks of the last binding , they refused in one or _t"o instasces to give the men any pay-bills at all 7—A fair day ' s wot * . What is it ?? A master can send a man to . geol for three months sad hard labour , if he does not " perform a fair day ' a woifc "

      The men _req-ire that what is a fair daj _s work , be _aetUed ,. as far as possible , beyond dispute ; tbey say , that the 'doing of eight houig weik and tbe earnicg three ehillicgs in that time , _eh & U be deemed esongh . The owners do not object to the eight hours' Btandard —themonty standard they refuse . 8—Liberty to attend delegate meetings . The general _inteHtsts of the pitmen are managed by _delegates selected irom eBch colliery ; these meet ten or twelve times , or perhaps _oftener , in the year . Under the " fair days wort" provision , the delegate who left ; hia work , even for a _single day during the hiring would be liable to the gaol and the treadmill , or he _jnay fee -fined 2 s . " 6 d . Attending a public meeting , or in fact leaving their work for any cause whatsoever , wonld entail the _smub penalty .

      The men require that no imprisonment or forfeiture be ii _^ icted for the above absences , provided they give -one or two day ' s previous notice . Tbe owners insist on maintaining their former power ; in thtir pamphlet they h & _j , that if they yield in this point , it will be considered as a " recognition" of * ' the Pitmen ' s Union . _9—> 'o fly doors . Considerable inconvenience and danger is incurred by the men from fly doors ; tbe only saving to the master is the _expense of a little boy to open and shut them . The men require that there be no By doors—titat a *• trapper " ' be placed at each door . _Tht owners refuse this : the expence of a trapper is indeed very small : but the concession , it is said , wonld be a bad precedent . 10—Injury . or death from accident in tbe colliery .

      The mea require , in case of aecidait , to be paid ten shillings per week , with medical attendance . In case of death , tbey _rtgniss five shillings a _wisek to be paid to the widow and children for one twelvemonth , and that five pounds be paid towards the burial : these allowances not to be paid un _. _ess the accident or death are occasioned by thtir employment in the colliery . The masters , in their new bond , say nothing about this . In their last _pamphlet , they propose five shillings per week in case of accident -, as to death they make no -offer , but b & j , thty axe always very _chsritahfy disposed in snch cases . U—With regard to " fines for foul , " the men desire that so fine shall be inflicted beyond the loss of their i labour , -The masters nqnire something very like the ! old " threepence per quart , " which sometimes leaves ] the hewer in the position of having five shillings to pay I asd sixpence to receive .

      12—The arbitration clause , in case of differencesarising not provided for by the bond . j The men require that this clause which is based upon a shnQaT one in the old bond , shall be made _effective : at present it is of no avail to either party . The masters _leguire that it remain as formerly . ] 13—Trials before the magistrates . A man under the ' old bond has been taken up after breakfast , aud Bent to gaol for three months before dinner time , withont having an opportunity of obtaining any witnesses or _pro-/ essicBal . assistance whatever . _The _/ noi require that before being tried and sent to ! _•* 6 i , they receive a week ' s previous notice of the : ; , _Ajjges , and the namei of the witnesses to be brought ' ¦ ¦ " _^ 1 them j the masters say nothing . J

      • ) 1 ' \ 1 _^ The ' abovesrethe differences now ejesLlng between m < u _^> i sjid the men The masters , ever ; one of v -v _^ e _strwk against the men ' s bond ; and the _™ ' _^ * , _ji eof them , have _strusk against the mas-Ts'loni % i _^ px & _Kc haTe now _iotij cases before iem , and wh . _* _^ aifficDlty _* "ivmg at a ) rTcct cenclnsioi _'< * 3 ,. , .. ,. . , . . „ , It has been _ob _^ _" _^ _&&* ' _^ _'hDle of the local _^ _wbdsmi _TBeas is _gainst the _pttmen . This is natural _JSSS _S _^ t VL _KtnSn *> not _^ Gazettes id Journals ; _ChronC- * B . _Coureaf * _. and Observers . itmen don't advertise * _th * _7 * av _« no " grazing _ock" nor "fashionable iJvaiture , _- " no _J * l m plBnen . BP

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      of husbandry , p ' _ata , _je- _^ _els , and wines , " "to v _d Sold by Aa tioc , by Messrs . _Smail mid tirou _^ h _, without any refer 7 e "—tbiy have no " R ( _jities to It , with immediate possession- '' B-at _theae are tbe things that pay tbe press : these are the Meat th _.-it _flrtftors and publisher : ) live upon . They are supported by ths . ' . class ot _parsons to which the cocA owners belong . It _Ib not , therefore , a fair subject of surprise—still less of anger—tbat the local newspapers take part witfe the masters . Publishers and editors , however , ar ? , like _tiair

      purchasers , subject to the jadigmest of public opinion : — AH of them will yield . - their yielding will be , indeed , slow sad unwilling , gro » py and _awkward but they will yield at _ltBt : and the time that will elapse before their enlightenment takes place , will be much shortened by the f act , that _^ cA af is wanted by each party is now clearly explained j it is stript of the mystification by which it has been surrounded , and -henceforth will toe easily comprehended and fully understood . The time for falsehood is gone by , and a very ehort period only will be allowed for further deception .

      Within a _fortmjtht;—now mark the words , and see if the propbeey is not an accurate one : —Within a fort night after puWic opinion shall have decided , that tho pitmen ' s _-tcopes ought to be _calculated by weight ;—thiit the coals ought to be Weighed by ' oeam and _scales , _snd each man paid -for tbe weight of coals he actually tends to bank : _witfcin a fortnight after this—and tbe time is galloping rapidly oc—the whole newspaper press—Guardians , rod Gazettes . CourarJs , and Chronicles _Mercuries , Mentors Journals . Advertisers , and Obseicere . —all of them—each running aa fast as it can in hope of getting before the other , and _raying , * ' I did it _"flrBt "will admit that the pitmen ' s claim is a rea & oncble one , and ought to be complied with .

      Aye , it is a _reasonable one , and it shall _be'complied with ; and within five days—mark too , this prophecy —within five days after the newspapers— 'tbe owners will _gaHop up to the pnblin ( passing by tbo _*« ditors and publishers— whom it _waa-heretofore expedient to keep in the-van—and taking now no notice whatever of them , )—and they'll say—end that frequently and loudly to _aU'tbey meet in the street—" that tbepitmen ' _s determination is a most correct and just obc" They will not ndmit , indeed , that any change has taken place in their own opinion—not they , indeed *—far , very far from it ; they " were always in favour of beams and scales ; and of paying the men by weight" —tbey ** never

      fined a man for a Quart—Mr . _Pnttipson knows it" told him so last Thursday "—then they'll look at each other—and Mr . _Philipaon , holding down bis head , will look at them— " in fact they wished to introduce the beam and scales—the weighing system—and to abolish the fines long ago , bnt tbe men wero so obstinate—so contrary—they would not -let then : do it ; " and te £ _nish tbe thing _bravsly they'll swear most lustily—like Km of _Tbernley—& at " they have had the beam and -scales on thbir collieries for the last six months , but they _havn't had time to fix them" —and so they'll all ¦ swallow together—and even _Jarrew will swallow the bitter dose at last !

      One comfortable draught for tbe pitmen before we conclnde . The press of the last few days have avowed tbat if the Master * coi . _quer , the first use they will make of tbeir power will be to pay themselves for the _losa tbey have sustained by the strike ; by bringing the wages _lewer than tbey were before . What a glorious prospect f or _the-Eummcr mon tbe I We would gladly havo inserted a most important article , or at least portions of it , on " The Truck _SyBtemf but considering that everything pertaining to the Sirike had , at the present time , first claim upon our space , we preferred giving the above There are besides those already named , several articles of great importance to the miners generally . From "Notes of the Month , " we extract the following for the good advice contained therein , —advice which we trust will be unhesitatingly adhered to : —

      Let tbebe _; -be ho _Yioiation of the Law LET THEB . E BE KO _BUEiGU OF THE PXACE . —The success of tbe movement depends npon this _being strictly observed . Since the commencement of the Strike Mr . _BtesUy has been indefatigable in his attendance upon meetings of _isrge bodies of the pitmen ; frequently two , three , and sometimes four meetings in a day , snd those often at _considerable distances from each other , and baa omitted no opportunity of exhorting and- urging tbe men to keep the peace and respect the Law . The _success of hi » endeavours-ia evidenced by the peaceful

      firmness which distinguishes the present from former strikes . The-soldiers continue in the _neighbourhood and are doing good service : tbeir sauntering inactivity is the most _powerful proof of _strength yet produced by tbe Union—by far the severest blow with which the masters have had to _contend . TV hat would -they not give—for a trumpet—a blast—a cry , * ' to _horae" the sabre flash , and tho clattering of iron hoofs through tbe streets ofJDurbam ? l What a treat it wonld be f How they'd send for the Lord-Lieutenant "—* ' read tbe riot act , " and " write to the Home-Secretary for more troops . "

      The troops won't be _* ent for—the masters must b 6 ar it—let tbem sack their thumbs ! In concluding this notice , we have much : pleasure in transcribing the following from the Weekly Dixpalch : — "The _Mabch of Iupbovemem—Tho miners of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , have now an organ of tbeir own , in the shape cf a Monthly _Wagsafna Some of tbe articles are cleverly written , and forcibly bespeak the oppression which _ibtEe hard-working sons of toil receive at the tia & ds of those who govern the pits . This _magazine will do more to prevent tyranny , if it go on in a right course , tban _^ U the Strikes that can ever take place . "

      This Magazine tcill ' _? go « n in a right course , and _rwiH " prevent tyranny , " if only backed up as it should be , by the miners themselves . Lot our friends then see to it that that support is _universally aocorded ; for , by so doing , they will indeed . make Mr . Roberts the " terror- of evil doer ? , " and effectually protect themselves from the consequeaoeB of the calumnies of tbe-corr _^ pt press-writers , who , sold body and soul to the devil of Capital , employ their pens to tbe perversion of truth , and the propping np ef tyranuy . With an organ like this they may defy the machinations of ihe prostituted press-gang , aud in their holy Btruggle of right againBt . might , ga . oa conquering and to conquer .

      The Polish Ball And The English Poor. Th...

      THE POLISH BALL AND THE ENGLISH POOR . The Annual Ball for the benefit of the Polish Refugees is about to take place at Willie ' s 'Rooms , St . James , The Poles are amongst the bravest and noblest people upon the fcoo of tho earth : their name is associated with ideas of freedom , patriotism , and glory , whioh excite a feeling of emulation in the soul ; and the noble struggles of that gallant nation against the accumulated powerand fury of the Caw , entitle it to tho respect and _adiairation both of the present age and posterity . Tho philanthropy of _^ England was never better exercised nor more Judiciously displayed than in its relations with the Poles ; and most sincerely do we hope that a handsome balance will remain above thv expenditure upon the

      approaching occasion , to swell the exchequer of _tho'Sooiety of Frienos of Poland . Amongst the Ladies Patronesses ofthe ball wefiud many illustrious names , and those alono would prove a host in themselves to attiect the fashionable and gay to thefaceue of pleasure . There is no doubt , then , that the affair will be a brilliant one , and that love of epjoyment and feelings of sterling humanity will combine to concentrate a crowded assemblage at the rooms selected . We have not taken up tho subject with a view to aot as a marplot :: our opening observations testify our perfect sympathy with ; _theobjects of thejball . We cannot , however , behold this ready demonstration , annually made , in favour of foreigners , without uttering a word in favour of our starving and suffering poor at

      home . We have no annual balls for those whoso wives and families are our own fellow-citizens , and who aro undergoing all the fearful privations which utter dcsti . ution can possibly entail upon them . At long intervals we hear a whisper , or read anewspaper puff , of sums given by the members of the arisfcooracy to charitable purposes ; but we must also remember that the nobility and the wealthy classes derives all their _riehes from tho labours of the poor ; and that when they give an alms to the starving operative , they merely returne a pittanceout of that enormous whole which they wring from the sweat of the brows of our mechanics and industrious population . Tho newspapers , daily and weekly , unfold to view the most _heart-rendijig situation of human misery ,

      —starvation in all its most horrible stages , —misery , gaunt , lean , and frightful , in all the dwellings of the poor ; and yet the efforts of the law , and of spontaneous charity , are totally insufficient to provide a remedy for this extent of suffering , or even materially to mitigate the severity of the pangs which it inflicts . What we' should wish to see is this : —our aristocracy ( if we must have on « , or while we have ono ) not only essentially and effectually aiding onr own poor , but also able and willing to afford a mite to patriots in distress like the gallant Poles . Out of ten noblemen , each with an income of £ 10 $ 00 ayear , does any ono give a clear hundred pounds per annum to charitable , —really _charitablepurposes ? And yet that entire revenue is derived from the

      labours of those who are so deeply suffering . When we think of the enormous sums of money lavished upon ostentatious ceremonials , and pleasures of all kinds by our Court , aristocracy , and wealthy classes , and then turn to the appalling picture of human misery presented by the condition of tbe working population—to say nothing of the fearful embarrassments of the trading and commercial community in general , —we feel grieved and astonished that human nature should bo so weak and pusillanimous , as to allow so vitiated a state of society to exist a moment longer . But now a word upon this ball , or any other ball , the object , of which is to obtain a fund for charitable and philanthropic purposes . The case rests upon a

      certain amount of human distress and misery , whioh is to be relieved ; and in order to collect money to alleviate the most acute sufferings to which man is liable , a party of pleasure and enjoyment is proposed . What J are Englishmen and Englishwomen so selfish that they will only give their gold to remove human pain , when they receive an advantage by way of compensation ? It is evident that our aristocracy will subscribe to a ball for a charitable _purpobe , when they will not draw their pursestrings for the mere charity itself ; they require a bribe—a quid pro f uo of some kind or another ; even their very philanthropy is but another name for selfishness . It is impossible that the real dispositions of our wealthy classes can be put in a more odioiiB light ; and yet there is not the slightest exaggeration in the pioturo . The industrious classes possess more sterling ptiuoiples of charity aud humanity _amongst themselves , poor though they

      e ; their alms are given without ostentation ; their enevolenoe requires no spur to urge it into operaon . We despise that conduct which makes an stcntatious display of what it is pleased to call _oarity , and which holds forth inducements of pleaire and dissipation as the prices of the alms it _ilicits . The tickets for this ball will sell with mazing rapidity ; but the money received will have sen given for the pleasure anticipated at the jsembly , and not for the relief of the really worthy _ajeots of this vaunted philanthropy . It is highly isoreditable to those who are pleased to call _themdves " the upper classes , " to make the sufferings ' their fellow-creatures the means of their own _ijoyments with the money which is to supply read to the needy . A shilling given without return ' any kind is worth more on the Bcore of charity , tan fire guineas laid out to procure the _blandishents of Almack ' _s at what is called " a Philanthroc Ball . "— Weekly Dispatch .

      Song Of Libe Rty. Air—'*¦ Colleen O^E," ...

      SONG OF LIBE RTY . Air— ' _*¦ Colleen O _^ e , " £ ee ' . see ! the morning breaks , Aad light is _Sawing oe ' r ns J Hark . ' hark J a spirit wakes Throughout the land that bore - -as J And Freedom ' s sun that darkly _aefc , In shame and gloom- « Ed sorrow , ¦ Shall rise in kindly brightness yet . "Upon & _clondless morrow . On , on , 'Us Freedom ' s cry I _Cur ancient sunburst reads * i Live free , or bravely die ForXiberty and Erin i

      _Hsrk ! hark ! oar fathers call The dead of years _dep & _rted"Soft , soft , their voices fall—-St _& U we be cold , fainthearted ? _Thtii spirits linger _Btill jtronnd To rouse , to guide , toxfc & er ns ; Where ' er tbe free and _brsve are found , O ! Lhtre they _bo-wr near ns . On , on , * tis Freedom ' s cry , « ct Bise ! riae ! be fearless ,. _proad , Xct not with red sword , gleaming ; lift _i lift ! onr voices load ,

      _JSut sot on vengeance _Qjeaminr . 2 fo crime shall mar , bo blocd shall stain Oar cause , the cause of members ; Onr sry shall ring across the main , And scare th' oppressors' _dambers . On , on , " ' sis Freedom ' s cry t Ota ancient sunburst rearing . ' _s live fr » e , or bravely die Far liberty and Erin . 'The Nctizz

      .London Corn Exchange, Monday, Mat 20.— ...

      . London Corn Exchange , Monday , Mat 20 . — The demand for Wheat was in a sluggish state . The finest qualities found buyers at prices about equal to those obtained ou Monday last ; but , in ths value of the middling aud inferior kinds , an abatement took place in most instances of Is per qr . Since Monday last the present duty of 17 s per qr has been paid on about 3 , 500 qrs of Foreign Wheat . The best descriptions of both red and white supported previous rates , but inferior parcels on easier terms . Foreign Barley realised late rates . Malt at unaltered quotations . Oats at last week ' s figures . Beans at an advance of Is dearer . The value of

      ' other kinds was supported . Flour at previous j figures . ! London Smithfield Cattle Market . —We hava j to report a decided improvement in the Beef trade , ; at an advance on the rates obtained on this day se _' n-I night , of quite 4 d per 81 bs for the best Soots and homebreds , and 2 < i for the middling and inferior - ' descriptions . The Mutton trade was very firm , at a : rise on last week ' s quotations of from 2 d to 4 d per 8 _lbs , the best old Downs , out ofthe wool , producing 4 s per dibs ; Kents and Kentish half-breds , 3 s 6 d to 3 s 8 d per Bibs . The best Down qualities of Lamba ¦ sold readily , other kinds slowly , at unaltered quotai _tions , they ranging from 4 s lOd to 6 s per 8 _ibs . Tha Veal trade was steady , 4 s 8 d per 8 i . bs being realised _i for the best kinds . Irish Pigs at barely late rates j ; English Pigs at a full prices .

      Borough and Spitalfields . —Although the supplies of Potatoes are not to say large , the demand for them is in a very sluggish state , and some difficulty is experienced in supporting last week ' s prices . . Wool Market . —Since this day se _' nnight , nearly 3 , 000 bales of wool have been imported into London from Now South Wales , but the arrivals from other quarters have been limited . By private contracts very little business is doing at late rates . Borough Hop Market . —The accounts from tha plantations still coming very unfavourable , an alarming increase of fly being apparent amongst the young bine , the demand for all kinds of hops is active , and last week ' s advanced rates of from 8 s to 10 s per cwfc are fairly supported . So small a quantity of hops oa offer in this market has not been known for upwards of 25 years as at this moment .

      Tallow . —We have no alteration t © notice respecting prices for Tallow . The demand for Y . C . during the week has been very limited ; other descriptions , such as South American , New South Wales , Town Tallow , & c , being considerably less in price , naturally throws the demand on them . In New Y . C . there is very little business doing , and tha price is 41 s 6 d for the last three months , at whioh there are good buyers . Town , i Tallow is 39 s to 39 s 6 d net cash . Liverpool Corn Market , Monday , Mat 20 . — The supplies of Grain . & c , coastwise and from L ? e « land since * this day se ' nnight , have been light , but there have arrived from abroad 24 , 800 qrs . of Wheat , 800 qrs . of Oats , 2850 _ors . of Barley , 270 qrs . of Peas

      and 2700 barrels of Flour . The business ofthe wee * has on the whole been only to a moderate amount , and some parcels of tbe foreign Wheat offering esship have been sold at Id to 2 d per bushel below tha rates quoted in our last report , most Other descriptions beiDg at the same time easier to purchase . Oats , Oatmeal , and Flour have each been held for previous rates , but have met a slow * sale .. Barley has barely sustained last week ' s rates . Beans and Peas , upon a moderate inquiry , are fully as dear _. Appearances have threatened rain , hut as yet Very little has fallen in this quarter . _Liverpool Cattlb Market , Monday , May 20 , — We have had a large show of Cattle at market

      today , which met with dull Bale at last week ' s quotations . Beef 5 _^ dto 6 d . Mutton 6 id to 7 d pet lb . — Cattle imported into Liverpool , from the 13 th to the 20 th May . —1 , 366 cows , 20 oalTes _, 2 , 954 sheep , 1 , 042 lambs , 6 , 776 pigs , and 62 horses . Manchester Corn Market , Saturday , May 18 . — At our market this morning all descriptions of Wheat were in extremely limited request , and had buyers appeared , purchases might have been made on lower terms . Flour likewise met a very dull sale , except choioe fresh made parcels of English and Irish superfines , whioh , upon a fair demand for consumption , _realiaed former rates . Oats and Oatmeal continuing neglected , were the turn cheaper .

      Exexeb Hall Pets. ^Religion, Like F Ancy...

      EXEXEB HALL PETS . _^ Religion , like f ancy , has her peculiar favourites-Ladies and gentlemen have , among tbe various heathens , _their . pet proselytes , jus' as _amwig birds and doge they have their pet macaws , their < pet poodles . It is an adage old as Truth—whose register of birth was not lost at -the Flood—that tbe human heart must _P ve something : hence , beautiful is it , in this balmy month of May , to see crowds of lovers—spiritual lovers we : mean—ascending the crystal _stepB of Exeter Hall to ; testify their affection for the benighted sonsand daughters of earth _thousands and thousands of miles away . ; Elastic , indeed , are human heart-strings , for they stretch i

      from pole to pole . Indeed , with many of the worthy people of -ixeter Hull , distance is essential to love . Just as _counoiBSturs take a backward step truly to consider the _beaatiea of a picture , do many of these good folks require distance to see tbe miseries of human nature tbrongh an attractive medium . They have no taste for the destitution of the alley tbat abuts upon tbeir dwelling place , bnt how they glow—how they kindle at the misery somewhere in Africa ? Familiarity truly beget * contempt- The famishing shoe-binder or setupstreBS is a homely common-place ; tbe btnighted Chinese an exotic darling . With some folks sympathy , like Madeira , is all the butter for a eea-voyage .

      We have said that proselyte-mongers havo tbeir special pets : Among them , the Hebrew people bear a great price . Hence , as was shewn at a late meeting , upwards of £ 2 i , DO 0 are annually _snbscribod for the conversion of the J _ew _« . at Jerusalem , Hebron , Beyrout , Constantinople , Smyrna , and we not how many other places promising in _apobtacy . We must confess , we abonid like to see a fair balance-sheet of this account . We should like to know the exact number of converted Hebrews , that we might arrive at something like the maiket price of a renegade Jew . We own it ; we more than fear that be is a great luxury ; a bird of Paradise of exceeding cost . Hence , we confess it , we would have our gentle countrywomen retrench their outlay on tbe foreign curiosity , tbat tbey _nrlgkt better afford to buy up somewhat of the misery pro need at home .

      A day or two after the meeting was held of these benevolent people , whose hearts yearn for the Jews in Sapet and & _rasburg , there appeared in the papersbut then the tragedy happened at No . J ., Angel-court , Long-acre , not a quarter of a mile from Exeter Hallan account of the death of Mary Wall , aged 35 . She died famished . John Bitton , of St . Martin * * workhouse , testified as follows ;—» " On opening the door of a room on the ground-floor , or , more properly sj caking , a lumber-room , there being no floor to it , he found the deceased lying on her face on the earth , her body covered with shavingB , and her head resting on part of an old basket similar to a winemerchant ' a hamper . She waa groaning , and seemed quite insensible . " Mr . Lsonard , surgeon , to the out-door poor of St . Martin ' s , deposed : —

      " On being taken to the workhouse , remedies were used to restore animation ; but she never rallied , and died within twenty-four hours after . The place where deceased dwelt emitted a most noisome smell , from the quantity of decayed _garden-Btuff . On making a post mortem examination , he found inflammation of both lungs , which so doubt arose from the non-application ! for medical assistance ; which , ; together with her not j receiving any domestic comforts , and lying on the bare 1 and cold ground alone and neglected , produced extreme exhaustion , of which she died . " ¦ j It must , however , be allowed that the death of the 1

      woman was doubtltEB accelerated by her determination ; sot to go into the workhouse ; nevertheless , had we ; societies as actively benevolent in the _Angel-conrts of j London and our great towns , as in Constantinople and Smyrna—had we home missionaries of charity to tempt ; the fetid dangers of Seven Dials and Spitalfields , conld j theBB Bcenes of honor be enacted ? But then there is this bar to the z & al of the philanthropic—both Seven Dials \ and _Spitalseds are close at hand ; they are real , ten- ! gible foulness ; the eye turns from tbem—tbe nostril shrisks at them ; whilst what a picturef queneBB _inveBts j Constantinople—what a hallo of duty does distance ; cast about Jerusalem ; j

      Exexeb Hall Pets. ^Religion, Like F Ancy...

      _As _^ iu ; consider the great difference between the _ohjo _^ _ts to be _succoured . The dwellers of English lain * ana alleys are co : iuuon , _vulvar things : creatures ot ' foui ami violent _speech '; commonplace in their very rags ami «! _ias : _li" ( su Bat , the Jews—the spiritually forlorn of Jerusalem ! O , the Evangelical imagination clothes them with tbe myatic beauty of the place ; uplifts and sublimates them by the magic of religious tenonr , ana the very tatters of tbe Hebrew become rare and beautiful aa Joseph ' s coat of many colours . And _ao , soft-hearted ladies and gentlemen , rapt by the _forlornness of tbe far-off Jew , wri * e tbeir cheques , er put their money in their plate , too _deliciouaiy possessed by the sweet apostate in tho distance ever to dream of the famishing Christian . at their right hsnd . Coald we but transport our destitute population to China or 10 Africa , we have no doubt that many English

      Samaritans wonld then be marvellously piteous" of them . O , ye miserable Christians , who hunger and waste unvisited in English lanes end cellars , —why are ye not Jews , glorified by distance , dwelling in Beyrout and Hebron ? Even religion to some people ia mote attractive when invested with a certain ajr of romance . Tne modern _missionary is , to aome folks , picturesque as was tha Templar K -i « ht of old . To be sure , he goes not forth to slay the unbeliever ; but—happier condition of the world—to make proselytes . He carries neither sword nor spear , but hard cash , with which be turns the heart of the needy Hebrew , and writes home " a soul saved . " And every _gtntlewoniau who gives a guinea to the _goodly fund is softened and upraised by the thought that she hasher soldier of peace fighting iu Palestine ; and with sneb sufficing belief _sho may give a chicken wing to _Bigou her dog though a Christian mother shall whine with hunger at her gate .

      On the last meeting of the Society in question , tbe Bishop -of Winchester preached a _sernion . Eloquent no doubt wasthe _diaciurae ; _fccart-touching , pockot-penetratiug . We would , _howevtrr , tbat his Grace—if only for one round—would visit the _Angel-courta of London : the _pllRritnage might , wo think , give an impetus te the _sluggish imaginations of those who think that true misery , r _^ al mental darkness , is only to bo found , like thelr flue hyson , in a far country . Allowing , however , that It Is necessary to the apoplectic philanthropy of 'aome folks to bleed tbeir purses for the heathen , we think tbat at least the Jews might be left as tbey are until other _unbelievers should bo converted .

      - > Here , madam ,- —you , who at the last meeting invested five pounda in apostate Jews , —here ia the map of the world . Cast your eye over it . Here is the poor Esquimaux doomed to whale-blubber aud a soulblighting creed—here the Red Man—here the Hottentot —here the New _Saalunder—here people on people , aud tribe on tribe , all In uttermost darkness . Bulighten them , and then , if you will , bfcgin with the Hebrew . Meanwhile , for ourselves—we confess it—we have more than a sneaking respect for a people who had Mcsea for a leader and a ; law-giver . We rarely meet with a long-bearded Ka _*» bi tbat be does _> aot carry our thoughts to the plains of Mambre—to tho first patriarchs of'the first nation .

      And ye , who would convert- 'the Jews , first copy the Jews'great virtue " , _fiiat take care of your own poor ; feed and clothe tbem , and then , if you will , with the superfluity make proselytes Of the Hebrew . Meanwhile , with misery wasting thousands of our fallow-Christiana at our very doors , we bold the subscription of large sums of money for , at best , the questionable conversion of the Juw , as the offering of a miserable , morbid egotism ; and should still think bo of the purpose , though the . whole Bench of Bishops wagged their silver tongues in aid of it— 'Punch .

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      CLEAT £ 73 GAZETTE OF YARIETY _, Paut . 3 . The third Part of this Ably conducted Miseellany is before us , and fully _ceaiises all that was _pro-Jabed -si tie cemmenc-ament of the new series . 'The biosraphit _^ l sketches are really first rate , aad in the present Part _consprise the Florentine poet _Dxxze ; td \ e _celtirated aeixess ' -Mrs . _Siddoj . s ; and ihe famous " calculating _hay" _^ tnAH _Colbttrs . As _miay of cur readers may BOt be so conversant with . the came ef this latter ptodigy we subjoin a few t xtneis : —

      _ZzaxB _CvS-Brun—whese _« stracruinary powers of is _Uastaneoos _ratntai ealcul & iiitfi , when a mere child , so p at } y excited the attention < _£ _tbe , _srorld some thirty yet -a heck—was born Sept . 1 , 1 S ( U , at Cabot , in the liai e at Vermont . He was the sixth , child of a farmer , vfco * iisfOTered his talent when he was less than six jtars oid , by hearing him repeat the multiplication table _loiimsdf as be was playing on the floor . Surprised ' . at this , be asked his ion what 1 £ times 97 made , and it stamiy recerred the answer , 1261 . He _"vaa taken t 5 Boston , and here , —

      Q _^ es _^ aooa multi pl icati on two _erii & ree places of fipji za were _ansscjed with much greater rapidity than th _\ y _coeld be solved on paper . _-QneatioEa _involTine ia _application of this rule , as in Eeduc _^ ion , Rale of _Zfcree , and . Piactice , seemed to be perfectly » dap * . cd to Ms znind . 3 "he extraction of the roots of _xact sqnai"es and cnbes was done with very little * _£ . < rt ; and what has been considered by tbe jnatheg _;» Hcians of _JEcr-ape an . operation for whieh so rule existed , y ' 2 . finding the factors ef numbers , was

      periormed by t * 'm , and , in course of time , he was able to p & _ujt oct t Is method of obtaining them . _4 _£ _sesh _' ons in Addi 'ion , _Snbstraofion , and Division , were done with ies 3 i \ cility , on account of the more _com-Jftcated asd continued _tfiort of the memory . In re-§* rd to the higher _biwicbes o ! arithmetic , he would _obserje that be had _soxnles peculiar to himself ; but If the common preset " _* was pointed ont as laid down In the book * , he eonld eanry on hie process very readily in his head . "

      In 1312 , young * Colon . _^ j accompanied by his father , visited England . On the arithmetical _qnestiom" _' which young Colburn _Bolred at tbat time , we give the _bUowing extract from a paper pnbli * hed in londonin lb _^ - - _""r __ .. " Among other _gnestiens , he wa _^ fsked the numb er of seconds in the lime elBpsed since x W . commencement ef the Christian Era , 1813 years , 7 _i _* m _?*^ da _3 he answer was correctly riven : 57 , 234 , _$ _^» - At _aaeeting of his friends xwhicb was held fc _" * _^ e purpose & concerting the best method of promoting '» _® mte 5 _^ of the child by au education suited to his to _^^ ¦ _^ ! he undertook and sneceeded in _saisiiss the i _^^^ _f * * » the sixteenth power , and gave tbe _anawer & . '> ** _% cU 7 _™ _^ tbe last result , viz . 281 , 474 976 , 710 , 656 . He ' yas " _^ a tried as to other nnmbers . _consistinc of one flc . _^*»

      * _4 _<* " » bich he raised as high as the tenth pom _^ 'th so much facility and dispatch that the person _rj _^ _fc ted to take down the results was _obliged to en- _# _» him not to be too rapid . _Witltrevpect to numbers _~ _^ tiEg of two figures , he would raise some of them ¦ * the sixth , _^ _erentb , and eighth power , bet not always ¦ _Jjh . tqma facility 5 for the larger the producU _beeame _, _S aore dJmtnltlie found it te proceed . Hewasasked _« e _iqtare root of 106 , 829 , and before the number conld written down he immediately answered 327 . He _| _* f tben rtqnested to name the cube root of _< 236 , 125 _^ and with tqnal facility and promptness he ¦ _" _^ _ufcd , 645 . . _^ Mioua ether questions of a Bimiiar nature , _respect-^ _tte roo ts and powers of very high numbers , were , _fVVJSed by several of the _penrJemen nrssent . to all of sa of

      _Jj _^ hsf & ctory answers were given . One the ] _SSt ! _$ * * - ' d him to name the factors which pro- : " _^ »* swnber 247 , 483 ; _irhjcti ce did by _saeaUon- j

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      inj 941 and 2 l 3 . v _hieh ndeed _ars the only _twr » factors that will prodnco it . Another of tt _:-. m proposed 171 , 395 , and he nsteed tbe follo _^ _iog fact _« r 3 as the only ones , -TI ! S 427 D by 5 , 24485 by 7 _^ 2905 by 59 . 2065 by 83 , 4 897 by 35 581 , by 295 , 415 by 413 . Be was then asked to give the factors of 36 083 , bat he immediately replied that it had none ; which in fact was the case , as 36 , 053 is a prime number . On another occasion , he was reqnesled to give the _sqaare of 999 $ 39 ; he said he could not no this , but he accomplished it by multiplying 37037 by itself , and that product twice by ST . Answer , —999 99 $ " 900 . 001 . He then _uaid he could multiply that by 19 , which he did . Answer , —

      45 , 999 , 902 . 000 , 049 . He again undertook to multiply this number by 49 . Answer , —2 . 400 9 S 5 , 1 ' 98 002 . 401 . And , lastly , he multiplied this _sreat sum by 25 , giving , as the final product , 60 . 024 . 879 250 , 060 _< i £ 5 Various efforts were made by the _friendB of the boy to elicit a disclosure of the methods by which he performed his calculations , b * i for nearly three years he was unable to _satisfy their _fcqniries . There was , _'flirougb practice , an increase in his power of computation ; which , at first beginning , went no further in multiplying than three places of _fignrea ; it afterwards became a common thing with him to -multiply four places by four ; in some instances five "figures by five hare troen given . "

      We have not space to follow tho career of our _herot for tbat we must refer onr readers to the _magsime . This wonderful man , whose education however appears to have _been shamefully thwarted by _hrs-own fatheT , and hence the comparatively trifling results which -So-wed from the possession of this extraordinary faculty , i _? , we _\> plieve stilHiving , and is , or was , a minister in tke Me _& odist persuasion , in the Siate of Massachusetts . _Thz tales , romances , traveller ' s _narratives , _criticisms , & cu , which £ toek this cheapest of the cheap _, and truly useful publication for the million , are _nrery cleverly written ,-and all entertaining . We truss that this excellent periodical will -meet with _-thtst support it so well deserves .

      Doctors And Lawyebs.—Amongst The Policem...

      Doctors and Lawyebs . —Amongst the policemen 1 the Great Western Railway are eight members the Royal College of Surgeons , and three ( ex ) _lioitorB _. Wreck of tIie Ship Wellington . —This vessel , liile on her homeward passage from New Orleans Liverpool , laden with cotton , ran upon rooks on irtugas , on the night of the 31 st of March last—iu a subsequent three days became a total wreck . A rge quantity of her cargo , comprising near 700 bales cotton was saved . She belonged to Belfast , and is upwards of 400 tons burthen . She is not

      inred . One of the splendid American liners , the ship tadiator , Captain Britton , was nearly lost on the th of last month , by running ashore off Sandy ook , near New York . Fortunately , through the nely arrival of plenty of assistance , in the course of _^ enty-four hours she was got off without sustaining y material damage . The vessel belongs to St . atherine ' a Docks , and had a very valuable cargo on ard , besides a great number of passengers from mdon . Latjnceston Election . —On Monday , Admiral _iwk's was returned for the borough , of _Launceston , thout any opposition .

      Doctors And Lawyebs.—Amongst The Policem...

      Modesty and Pir . TY . — The following _advertisem < _-m _aopi'ars 111 a Mane' . _oferj p _^ pr : — "To Drapers , Haberdashers , Warehousemen , _Sco . —Wanted , towards the latter end & f April , by an eminmtly pious young man , of _Scotland , > vho has been regularly brod to the above branches , and _considerably experienced generally , a situation as assistant clerk , manager , salesman , or travellerl The advertiser is twenty-four years of age , possessed of excellent health , an amiable disposition , good ability , extensive knowledge of the great Scriptural doctrines , strictly evangelical , and would be found ot immense advantage in assisting to advance iho claims and reign of the Messiah ' s kingdomi amidst all the oivil

      and ecclesiastical opposition so | prevalent amongst the nations of the earth in these latter agitating times . Testimonials and references to several eminent evaugelical dissenting ministers and members of the Gospel , as well as to ! the former and present employers , of the most strict and _satisfactory tendency as to character and ability , with portrait , may bo had on application . No objections to town or country , and would be willing to conform tothe rules of a liberal Church or dissenting family , holding evangelical principles , and make himself generally useful . A hou . _^ e favourable to _evangelical , presbyterian , or independent ] Church principles , affording permanent employment , aud _progressive advancement of salary , _proierred- "

      _Shipwueck . —On the morniugof Sunday last , the 12 ' . h iustant , about 2 o ' clock , the principal keeper at Kinnaird _lighthouse , while on kfcs _crutch iu the Li _^ htrooin , was attracted by thu noise of some oue knocking at the door ofthe house . Having summoned the assistant keeper , it was found that tho person who sought admittance was a shipwrecked seaman in a very wet and exhausted state . When his necessities had been provided for , the statement he gave was that his name was Alexander Hutchison , and that hia vessel was the _Elizi , of Kukcabright , bound from Liverpool to Dundee , with salt . She struck on a rock on the 9 _ih instant in passing through the Pontland Frith , but from the ! fog did not know exaotly where it was . The wind was favourable for

      crossing the Moray Frith , and this they attempted to do by working the pumps till the morning of the 11 th ( Saturday ) , at 5 o ' olock , when the pump leathers being worn out and the water above the _oabin floor they determined to abandon the vessel . In putting the boat out for this purpose , however , the rope by which she was attached to the sloop slipped , and she went adrift . Upon this the crew , consisting-of four men , jumped overboard , leaving a boy who was unable to swim , on board the vessel Hutchison was the only one who made the boat ; the rest all perished ; and the vessel went down in about an hour after ho left her . He was unable to render any assistance , as there were no oars in the boat , which was gradually drifted ; towards the shore , which he saw m the afternoon . \ The wind changed at night , and , afraid of being drifted off again , he determined to swim to shore , ; about half a mile distant , whioh he reached at midnight , about a mile

      west of the lighthouse , and , keeping the light in view , he arrived as already mentioned , —Edinburgh Paper . Ma . Sharhan Crawford has made his annual move towards a bill enacting "Complete Suffrage , ' as it used to be called ; though ! its promoters seem already to have grown ashamed of the title . The guise with which this measure ! comes forth is > not imposing . It is " the Charter , " but called by another title , as if in effeminate fear of a name , —a very idle kind of evasion . But , good or bad in itself , the parading it merely to be so slighted that the onlj speakers on the motion were the : mover and seconder wa 3 still more idle . Such _courting of failure d ( not advance the cause of Parliamentary Reform , bu the reverse ; for they indispose people to think abou a thing so despised , _> o successless , and so irksome It would be better to propose tho simple " Charter ' at once , in a manly way ; still better to wait , watch fully , till a practical interest in the class of question revives . —Spectator .

      Thb Startling announcement has reached Lon don , that a treaty to annex Texas to the Unite . States has actually been concluded—ay , sealed au signed ! But _S'ay—it has yet to be ratified by th Senate ; so that the impudent mat > o _* jvre may b stopped , or at least delayed . B y losing its _grosenes vice loses half its evil ; and some years hence , b being less palpably a flagrant offence , the absorp tion of _Tesas into the Union would become reall ; less wicked . The case of this state is known to aj the world : ; it has arisen before-the eyes of the gene ration now living . Texas is a Mexican province American _citizens migrate into : it , upon sufferance they grow to be amajority _. or at least the most power fui class in that province ; they declare themsolves in

      dependent ; and now they wish to be taken bacl into the Union , as American citizens , along with thi Mexican territory ! It is as if the English in Bou logne were first to declare themselves "independent , ' and then to off r to annex Boulogne to England In the very same way , if Mexico _wera hospitable ti foreigners , the whole ofthe Mexican republic migh be decoyed into the Union . The success of the mea euro , however , is doubtful . It is suspected to be ai electioneering ruse of John Tyler , anxious to curr favour with the populace , in hopes that ho may b forced to accept another term on the Republi can throne . It is only wonderful that Mr . _Calhoui should havo lent himself to the trick . Luckilj however , there are other political leaders : Mi Henry Clay , the chosen representative of the Whig

      in the approaching election for ] the Presidency , ha forcibly denounced the plan ; and Mr . Martin Va Buren , the ebosen representative of the Democrat ! also deprecates it : reflecting and rational men c " the two great parties in the state , " therefore , ar ashamed of consummating the spoliation with suci barefaced haste ; the Senate ia likeiy to revise Mi Calhoun ' s diplomacy rather unfavourably ; and thei tho treaty will be rejected . Some , day , probably Texas , in the nature of _things , must be " annexed " but time to forget Mexican associations—timo fo witnesses of the trespass to die off—time for a littl further insight into the social nature of slavery am of the Negro race—is due to decency , before anothe : slavery-tainted star bo added tothe " _star-spanglei banner . " —Spectator .

      The _Priuceton Calamity . —The terrible catas trophe of the Princeton , with which the publio mini is at this moment so deeply impressed , is one of thos < occasions which should be seized to grave in with th deep impressions _something good . Such visitation : are not sent us by chance , and though I am not om of those interpreters who are constantly _frittering down Clod ' s providence into a _serias of petty con trivancos , yet I cannot help remarking here that 1 dreadful lesson has been given to the people wh < wanted one , and at the time when they wauted i most . Those legislators whose ! va _pourmgspeeche : about Oregon have been uttered ) at the htzard , an < apparently with a wish to produce a war , _nevei dreamed , probably , that the path of carnage wouk

      come near them ; they thought ! of popularity and applause , and votes to be acquired ; and never thought at all ofthe bloody quarter-deck , the groans of the dying , and the wail of the Iwidow and orphan . They haVe never seen and heard ; these things ; and when they raise their voices again to invoke a war , let them bear in mind that tbey are invoking a thousand repetitions , or ten , or twenty thousand , of the tragedy ef the Princeton—not among their friends and intimates , perhaps , but among men whose blood is as red , whose pangs are as real , whose wives and children as dear , and more dependent , and whose souls , too , are as precious before j God . How many hearts do you suppose are now throbbing with anguishing suspense till the names aro known of

      those six sailors who were joined in this calamity . To-morrow ' s news will tell them , bringing relief to many , but desolation to a few . Here is the matter to reflect upon ; the dead can be buried and commended to Heaven ' s mercy , and then our minds naturally find repose ; but we must give more thought to the living . Consider deeply , and realise , if you oanv the sufferings that women and children must endure ; and ask if the man has the heart of a man who would not hate the light ifj be had wittingly had any share in bringing such evils upon the earth . Not but that we must fight in case of need ; for it is unhappily but too much proved that passive submission leads to greater evils than resistance ; but we should first of all resist the devil , who paints _wsv

      to us in gaudy colours , and inspires mob-orators with insane common-places about glory .: Before we begin to destroy human life with gunpowder , we must fight the war-demon , the war-spirit ; we must make war on the causes of war ; we must exert ourselves as for life and death , to resist , obviate , Or elude its possibility , trample out its sparks , and silence its exciters . Bnt if all honourable means fail , and the dogs of war must be let loose , then probably it will bo found they owe their horrid feast to these exoters who are now so ready to be their jackals ; Think of the Princeton , and you will know what to think of them . New York Evening _Poiti Official Change . —Sir Henry Hardinge goes to

      India as bovernor-Ueneral , and bir James Graham , who expected tbe appointment , goes for the present tothe Wall . —Punch . A Cool Retort . —The Duo de _Feltre , who was indebted for everything to Napoleon , abandoned him on his first reverse of fortune , and became a Royaliste Exagere . Some time after bis second abdication , the Duke , seeing in the presence of Louis XVIII . an officer of the Emperor ' s Old Guard who had faithfully stood by his late master during the Hundred Days , _Bneeringly asked Him how long he had served the Usurper ? " Just three months longer than the Due de Feltre , " was the reply . The King , who could relish a clever saying , smiled and handed his snuff-box to the gallant old soldier .

      Death of a Highland Bard . —Alasiair Buidhe Mac-lodhair _^ the celebrated G « Ucbard , died lately at Gairloch , Ross-shire . He was poet to the lairds of Gairloch , from whom he had a pension , which he enjoyed up till the period of his death . Alastair reached the patriarchal age of eighty-four—a longer term of life than is usually allotted to the poetical tribe . He was at a wedding some years ago , when a miserly gentleman , observed that '' the bards were extinct . " _"No , " said Alastair , "but those who rewarded them are gone . " He may bo considered the last of the Highland bards , with the solitary exception of ihe author of " Loch > Aic , " Maccoll . — Inverness Courier .

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      From The Gazette 9/ Tuesday, May 21. Ban...

      From the Gazette 9 / Tuesday , May 21 . BANKROrrs . John Cooper , smith , _Stoney-Iane , Southwark . _—Wnu Lickfeld _, licensed victualler , Hezlemere , Surrey . —Wa . _Cowland Buttress , silk throwster , _Sewardstone , Essex . —James Swelling , eating-housekeeper , _Blackman street , Southwark . —Isaac Alden , butcher , Oxford . —Pearson Richard Morrison , merchant , Liverpool . —Thomas Car _« line , builder , Shrewsbury . —David Parker , hop merchant , Salford , Lancashire . —Wm . Gray , wine merchant , Sheffield . —Lewis Langdon Hall , tea-dealer , ' Taunton . John Ward , coachmafcer , West Broinwicb . —William Fletcher , maltster , Cinderball , Staffordshire—Edward Riley , grocer , Stratfovd-upon-Avon . Mary Lewis , straw-bonnet manufacturer , Derby .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 25, 1844, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/nss_25051844/page/3/