MAY 6, 1843. And now the time in special is, by privilege, to write and speak what may help to the further discussing of matters in agitation. The Temple of Janus, until his tw0 controversal faces, might now not unsignificantly be set open: and though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter. Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.— MILTON'S AREOPAGITICA. EXPERIMENTAL TRIP OF THE AERIAL MACHINE. An account has been forwarded to us from Scotland of an experiment tried a few days ago near Glasgow, with a machine constructed on tlie same principle as that of Mr. Henson. The experiment was made by a Professor Geolls, a foreigner, and, but for an ac- cident., it appears would have established the principle contended for— viz., the capability of navigating the air. Not wishing, however, to make any misrepre- mentation upon the point, we give the particulars from a narative drawn up by Professor Geolls him- self. The Professor, after stating that he. construct- ed his machine in exact accordance to Mr. Hen son's specification, and that he had paid great attention to « I1 the circumstances connected with the flight of hi ids, says, he fixed upon the hill of Dnmbuck, near Glasgow, for the trial. He then proceeds thus:— " The aerial machine WAS properly placed at an a'titnde of 350 lineal feet from the earth, and fixed at the top ( near the fla.- post) in the usual way, being held by daggers, perfectly similar to those used by ship- builders, and only requiring one blow of the maul lo free it and allow it to flee. " It was with no small degree of trepidation, not unmixed with a lively excitement, that at an early hour, before the dawn had scarcely tinted the eastern horizon, I found tnv preparations all complete, and everything ready for my unusual and interesting flight. " At 3h 35tn. a. m., I entered the car, and exactly at 4h. 38m. 59sec. I struck the dagger, ami liberat- ed the machine, and away she shot with the speed of lightning. Before she reached half the extreme end of the ways, the mercury in the barometer had risen one and a half tenths, which exactly coincided with my calculations, and proved that the angle of the inclined plane was 32$ degrees. On reaching the end of the ways, from the velocity acquired, not only fr m descent down the plane, hut from the operation of the vertical farmers, ( the engine having been set going simultaneously with the precipitation of the daggers), she had begun to lift, and on clear ing the brow, had, in fact', risen a few yards, as was plainly indicated by the falling again of the mercury. This gave me great confidence, and enabled me to make a few necessary observations more calmly than I otherwise should have done, had matters not suc- ceeded so favourably. On looking back I observed that I was a considerable distance from the hill, and, in fact, the flag post was scarcely distinguishable— I had risen likewise 625 feet ( per barometer) in ad- dition to the height of brow of the precipice originally set out with, which, as stated, being 350 feet, made my presentaltitnde exactly 972 feet. The thennome ter here stood at 30 degrees, being two degrees below the freezing point; but, on account of the great in- terest I felt in what I was about, as well as from the slight heat emitted by the furnace of the engine, I Aid not teel the cold at all. " I must now speak of the engine, which did its duty heyond anything I can conceive or describe. The strokes of the engine averaged 922, with a pres- sure on the safety valve of 7 § lb. to the square inch, and a vacuum in the condenser of 10- flb.— the speed, as far as I could judge by the imperf ct instruments I had, being at the same time about 52$ leagues per hour— my altitude ( per barometer), evactly 22 min- utes after launching being nearly a mile. Matters thus progressed, my altitude getting greater and greater, and my speed in proportion. However, I must state a curious oiscoiery that I made at this particular moment, and which, but for the explana- tion that immediately followed, would have given me considerable uneasiness and alarm. The engine, whjch, at my former observation, had been, as I have stated, making 922 strokes per minute, I now found mane only 741. This, as I have said, was alarming, and would have immediately determined me to de- scend to the e<> rth again, hut that I happily was able to account for it, by discovering, through the appli- cation of Professor Russell's indicator, the incom- pleteness of the vacuum in the condenser, and which I likewise ascertained to he entirely owing to the great height I had then attained ; i: deed I found that the vacuum was reduced to onlv six and a quarter pounds, and the barometer indicated at the same tithe that I had attained an altitude of nearly three miles' from the ehrth From the extreme rarity of the air at this high elevation I now underwent the usual giddiness of feeling similar to that described by those individuals who have ascended Mont Blanc, and par- ticularly by Dr. Hvmeltof St. Petersburg. I had, in fact, considerable head- ache and ringing in my ears, so much so, that I determined to descend to a height not greater than a mile and a half from the earth. " This I easily effected, hv depressing the tail of the machine, which up to this moment I had kept at an angle with the horizon of nine and three- quarters degrees, to that of 45. My course I had not varied since leaving the hill ; it was, per compass, south- west and by west half- west, passing over Ayrshire, and in a direct line from Dumbuck to Ailsa Craig, whither indeed I was tending, with the view of land ing, the latter being admirably suited for launching the machine in a similar way to that adopted atDum- buck, on my return home again. " Daylight had now broken, and the scene was most gorgeous. 1 passed many ships, and particu- larly one sleatner, hut whose paltrv speed in compar- ison with mine was nothing. Alas! however, this was not destined to last, for just as I had shot a- head of the steamer, which was steering W. S. W., some- thing went, wrong with the machinery, and the fan- ners stopped. This did not at all alarm me; for, as described by Mr. Henson, these fanners are only ne- cessary for propulsion, and not at all requisite for maintaining the machine in the air. Unfortunately, however, I perfectly forgot, in the hurry of the mo- ment, to remove the weights from the safety valve, and the effects from this were disastrous in the ex treme. The great accumulation of steam that took place was too much for the pipes, and, consequently, bang went three of them at the same instant. The machine at this exact moment feeling its equilibrium altered, surged considerably, and the remaining pipes necessarily followed the example of the others ; fizz — hizz— whiz, away they went one after the other like pop guns. Unfortunately, one of these pipes, in flying off, struck a bamboo stretcher, and shattered it so, that the machine, losing bear nee on one side, toppled over, and became perfectly unmanageable ; she, in fact, whirled over and over in a way that may he iina ined, but which it is altogether impossible to describe. " I, of course, was now descending with fearful rapidity, and nothing was left for me to contemplate but death and destruction. lean only compare my sensations at this moment to those experienced in a night mare, which every one knows are not the most agreeable in the world. Sensibility now forsook me ; and, indeed, this was not to be wondered at, in con- sequence of the whirling of the machine. On coming to my senses again, I found myself in bed, with se* vere headache, nausea, and vomiting, the usual ac- companiments of such a flight through the air ; but, thanks to Providence, I am now in a fair way of re- covery, and willing to perform the same feat again." It appears that the commander of the steamer had sent a boat to the assistance of the intrepid experi- mentalist., and saved him, but the machine was lost. [ The above account has appeared, in several of the London journals, as a bona fide statement; but few, we fancy, of our readers will he disposed to give it credence. It is, in fact, a quiz upon Hen- son's patent; and was published in Glasgow, with the date of the first of April.] THE " FAST MEN" OF THE ARISTOCRACY. Our aristocratic youth we take the liberty to classify, as they do coaches, of which they are so passionately fond, into 1st, fast; 2nd, slow. The fast youth's have several degrees of swiftness, from the railway pace down through imperceptible grada- tions to ten miles an hour ; at which rate of going the fast fellows end, and the slow fellows begin. Of these last there are also many varieties, from the tandem and tax- cart, flown to the waggon and dog- truck ; and it cannot be denied that, as regards the former more especially, there is a great similarity between the youths themselves, and the vehicles they govern ; they go very fast, don't know what they are driving at, are propelled in any direction by much more sagacious animals than themselves, and are usually empty inside. The fast fellows are divided, moreover, into the occasional and permanently fast; and first of the occasional fast fellows : — These form a very considerable proportion of our fashionable youth, and combine the gentleman with a dash of th° petit maitre, overlaying a naturally good disposition with a surface of scampishness, which, however, they lay down when they marry, and thenceforward thev belong altogether to the slow school. The permanently fast fellows deserve a more detailed notice, since they are always before the p lice magis- trates and the public, in one shape or another ; and, although often committing themselves, are seldom or never committed. The members of this class it is who furnis. h the democratic Sunday papers with a never- ending suc- cession of articles, headed " The Aristocracy again," " Brutality of the Higher Classes," " Depravity of the Nobby Ones," and the like ; and it is from these fast fellows, unfortunately, that a great many ignorant people draw their conclusions of fashionable life and conversation in general, extending the vices of a few shameless profligates to the entire of the little world commonly called the great. The permanently fast fellows, or, as we think their general demeanor entitles them to be called, " Black- guard Nobs." are a lot of little, scrubby, bad blooded, groom like fellows, who have always, even from childhood, been incorrigible, of whom nursery governesses could make nothing, and whose education tutors abandoned in despair ; expelled from Eton, rusticated at Can1) bridge, good fot nothing but mis- chief in boyhood, regularly bred scamps and profligates in youth ; and luckily for mankind, generally worn out before tlify attain the wrong side of 40. A stable is their delight, almost their home ; and their olfactories are refreshed by nothing so much as by the smell of old litter, to which atlar of roses is assafoetida in comparison. Their knowledge of horses, which they get seconds hand from Field, or some of the " crack" veterinaiies, is their only pride, and indeed, the only thing they imagine ary man ought to he proud of ; they reverence a fellow who has a good seat in his saddl", and delight in horsemanship, because horsemanship requires no brains ; driving a 4k buggy " in good slvle is respect** able, but " shovi g along " a four in- hand the highest exercise of human intellect; as for Milton and Shakspeare, arid such inky- fingered old prigs, whe- never had a good horse in their lives, they despise such low fellows thoroughly. Their chief companions, or rather their most intimate friends, are the fellows who hang about livery stables, betting' rooms, race courses, and h ppodromes; crop- eared grooms, chanters,. dog stealers, starveling jockeys, blacklegs, foreign counts, breeders, feeders ; these are al| " honest fellows," and the " best fellows in the world," although they get their living by cheating the fast- fellows who patronize them. Of money they know no more than that it is a necessary instrument of their pleasures, and must be got somehow or anyhow ; accordingly, they are on intimate terms with a species of shark called a bill- discounter, who commits upon them every sort of robbery, under the sanction of the law ; and who alsQ is always an " honest fellow." They can be sufficiently liberal of their money, whenever they have any, to all who do not want or who do not deserve it. If a | rize- fighter becomes embarrassed in his circumstances, or a jockey is " down upon his luck," it is quite refreshing, to see the madness with which the, fast fellows strike for a subscription ; an opera- dancer out of an engagement, or an actress in the same interesting condition, pro- vided they are not modest women, have, they think, a claim upon their generosity ; and perhaps they have. They think it ungentlemaniy to cheat, or, as they call it, " stick" any of their own set, except in matters of horseflesh; but " sticking" anybody Out of their own set, especially tradesmen, is con- sidered an excellent joke, and the " sticker" rises several degrees in public estimation. We should he doing great injustice to the fast fellows if we omitted a brief notice of their accom- plishments. Driving is, of course, the chief; and, by long experience and impunity, wonderfully grand exploits are achieved by the fast fellows in this department. One of the most original is to get into a strong cab, with a very powerful horse, lamps lit, tiger inside, and to go quietly along, keeping a sharp look out for any night cabman who may be " lobbing," as the phrase is, off his stand ; ihemomentthe " game," u bo is generally one part asleep and three parts drunk, « * s espied, put your horse to full gallop, and guiding your vehicle with the precision fast fellows alone attain, whip inside the cab wheel, and take it off. The night cab comes down by the rtm, the night cab- man tumbles off, breaking his nose or neck as it may happen, and you drive off a? if the — kicked > ou. When you have gone a couple of miles, make a cir- cumbendibus back again to the night house frequented by your set, and relate the adventure, with the same voice and countenance as a broker quotes the price pf 2 THE HALIFAX FREE PRESS. stocks ; then order a cool bottle of claret with the air of a man who has done a meritorious action. Another accomplishment, at which not a few of the fast fellows excel, is that of imitating: upon a key buttle various animals, in an especial manner the braying of an ass. When the fast fellows drive down to the Trafalgar, at Greenwich, the Toy, at Hampton Court, or the Swan, at Henlev- npon- Thames, the bustle player mounts aloft, the rest of the fast fellows keeping a look- out for donkeys ; when one is seen, a hideous imitative bray is set up by the man of music, and his quadrupedal brother, attracted by the congenial sound, rushes to the roadside ; mutual recognition, with much merriment, is the result. The fast fellow who does this best is considered one of the immortals ; and weave not without expecta- tion, in due time, of seeing his talent rewarded by a pension. Breaking hells, twisting knockers, and " knapping" railheads, has descended so low of late that the fast fellows are ashamed of it, and have resigned it to the medical students, patriotic young members of parlia- ment, and others of the imitative classes ; but there yet exists, or very lately existed, a co lection of these and various other surreptitiously acquired properties, known among the fast fellows by the title of ' s Museum, every article being ticketed artistically, and the whole presenting an example of devotion to the cause of science we believe without a parallel, These are a few of the comparatively innocent amusements of the fast fellows ; others there are of graver character, which we need not refer to, especially as the fast school is fast wearing itself out, and many of the fast fellows already beg n to put on the drag, and go at a more reasonable pace.— Blackwood. THE NINE WISHES, Oil THE NEAPOLITAN COURTSHIP. CHAPTER V. The happy day fixed. More wishes. The stone lost; and some anxiety for the result. The ship, soon afterwards, cast anchor off the town ; and Wilhehnina leceived a li tter with the in- formation that her expected friends were en route, and would probably arrive at Naples in a week or ten ( lays. At this intelligence the Baron waxed very fidgety, and besought his angel not to defer his happiness. Wilhelmina demurred, and simpered, and protested that she really knew not what to say, and so forth j hut she gradually allowed herself to be won upon, and her scruples melted before the ardour of his pas- sion. They had now only three wishes left, to be obtained through the wonderful stone ; and three days were necessary to carry them into execution. To marry earlier would be throwing away good fortune ; but on the fourth day there could be no objection left; and accordingly, after a. vast expenditure of sighs, groans, glances, protestations, beseechings, and other ammunition employed in the artillery of love, that day was fixed upon for their union. The Baron left the stone with bis beloved, when they parted in the evening; and, after ransacking her brains, she at last came to the determination of wishing him an increase ot fortune by a sort of side wind. Since she could not transfer to him the pro- perty of others, and he had mentioned his vineyards as a principal source of revenue, she, on the following morning, wished that their produce might be doubled The intimation of teeming wine- presses was re ceived with philosophic sang- froid by tbe Baron, who declared that it would make no sort of difference to him whether they were doubled or trebled ; and again the lovers passed the day together as usual. It was now the Baron's turn to take p- ssessinn of the stone ; and lie politely insisted upon Wilhbhnina's informing him. of some object of her desire where- with to occupy the eighth wish. After some demur, the lady condescended to ac- knowledge that she had some fears lest, in the new position in which she Was about to be placed, her mode of accenting the French language might be noticed in society; and therefore she wished to speak it with the purity and fluency of a native. The Baron assured her she was already perfect; but be would, nevertheless, as in duty bound, obe> her commands ; and so they parted. Consequently, on the following evening, they con- versed awhile in the Gallic tongue; and though she was not, at first, sensible, of any vast change for the better in her style, yet. his' frequent asseverations that no " Parisienne" could speak' more correctly, at lenzth produced their effect. " But," said the Baron, " I love best to spoke, wid de English, by cause de praticks vill perfection me." Upon this hint Wilhelmina immediately resolved upon her last wish. " Ah 1" thought she ; " wh'a't a happy and accomplished couple we shall be! Each blessed with beauty, good temper, and affection ; and speaking each other's native language without any foreign accent. Our company will be courted bv all " So the eighth day of wonderful wishes glided away pleasantly ; and she retired to rest with delightful anticipations for the morrow and for future life. The morning came, and the wish that her dear Alphonse should hereafter speak plain English was duly pronounced, though she recollected that she bad left tbe marvellous stone upon the iWrirttelpiece in her sitting room ; tint that circumstance she conceived to be of no importance, as it was still in her posses- sion. When she came down to breakfast, Tom Blunt made hi* appearance, with a tenfold crabbedness of aspect, and brusquely said,—" I cau't hold my tongue no longer, Miss, and see sitch goings on. That ere Baron, as he calls himself,—" " I cannot bear you s y anything against Monsieur le Bar. HI !" exclaimed Miss Jon s. " No more a Baron than I be!" roared Tom Blunt. " I've ferivted out his haunts, and he's no more than what they call a shoveller d'mdustry " " I know he is a chevalier," observed Wilhelmina, calmly; " he told me so : but as for industry, I'm sure I don't know what you mean." " Whv, I means as how he's a black- leg," re sponded Tom. " Black leg !" exclaimed Miss Jones, " What's that? You appear to be talking to ine as you did before to him about cockfighting, and what else 1 never could rightly understand." While speaking, she had risen, and was looking on the mantelpiece for the p: ecious stone ; but it was not to be found. So, breaking off suddenly, she ex- claimed,—" What can have become of it ? Have you seen anything of . It's very strange'. I left it here, I'm sure 1" " What war it, Miss ?" inquired Tom. " A piece of stone," replied Wilhelmina, tremu- lously. " Oh 1 bless you !" said Tom. " I can find plenty of they ; a cart load, if you wants it," " But tell n: e," exclaimed Miss Jones, " have you seen it ? What have you dune with it ?" " Why, Miss," replied Tom, sheepishly, " 1 didn't see as how it could be of any wally, so I hurled it away, smack into the sea." The paroxysm of anger into which the sweet* tempered lady was betrayed, caused Tom Binnt to sneak off; for he perceived that it was not a fitting moment to proceed with his exhortation, which, how- ever, he resolved to renew, unless he could find an opportunity of having some further private conver sation with the Baron. Wiibelniina, after a while, like other heroines, " found relief in a flood of tears," which did not at all improve the appearance ot her two black eyes. Hope ' lien shone in upon her spirit; for it was yet possible that their ninth and crowning wish might have been uttered before tbe stone had been thrown away. Consequently, she " sate, on thorns," awaiting her dear Baron's arrival, and cogitating upon the al ternative. " He vv ill either speak plain English or plain truth, according to what the old woman said," thought she, " Well ! after all, there will not be any great evil in that; but, then, I recollect, we were both to speak the truth at our next interview. Let me see!" And she continued thinking ; but, from the uneasiness of her manner, it appeared as if tbe latter idea were not of the most agreeable nature. ( To be Concluded in our next.) POETRY. ORIGINAL. WHAT IS LOVE? What is love ? ' Tis that which shares The anguish that thy bosom tears, And gently tries thy woe to soothe, And make life's rugged pathway smooth. What is love? ' Tis like a gem Snarch'd from a Seraph's diadem; A foretaste of that world above, Where all things sweetly whisper love. What is love? Oh 1 friends may shower Caresses in life's sunny hour 5 But love alone, with angel form, Outlives the tempest and the storm. ' Tis love that cheers man's darkest hour; • Tis love that lessens sorrow's power. Oh ! Ever be it mine to prove The holy, happy power of love. Halifax, May 2, 1843. J. T r. SELECTED. SONNET Ox THR RECEPTION OF THE POET WORDSWORTH AT OXFORD. Oh, never did a mighty truth prevail With such felicities of place and time, As in those shouts, sent forth with power sublime. From the full heirt of England's youth, to hail Her long neglected bard within tbe pale Of learning's fairest citadel! That voice In which The Future thunders, bids rejoice. Those who through wintry fortunes did nut fail To bless wirh love as deep as life the name Thus welconi'd:— who in happy silence share The glory;— while their fondest musings claim Unhoped- for echoes in the joyous air That to their lung- loved poet's spirit bear A nation's prom se of undying fame 1 Monday, 4th April, 1843. T. N. TALF0URD. According to the French revenue tables the pro- ceeds for the first quarter of 1843 amounted to 1815,190, OOOf. being an increase ot 19,7- 8,000f as compared with those of 1841; and of 6,640,000f. over 1842. In tbe Scots Magazine for July, 1810, after a long list of births, deaihs, and marriages, appears the following emphatic notice:—" Several deaths un- avoidably deferred." QDF. EN ELIZABETH.— When the " virgin queen " was on the verge of sixty, she must have been an easier theme for the fluttering pen of the poet, than For the pencil of the artist ; and when she was about to sit for her portrait, to Mvtens, she said to him,— " 1 do not approve of shades in painting. You must strike otf my likeness without shadow." This elegant method of getting rid of her wrinkles, j was a device worthy of her sex's ingenuity. ADVERTISEMENT. GENTLEMEN'S BUST LONDON BBAVKR HATS.— J. ECKBRSLEY respectful y invires the attention of Gentlemen to his superb Stock of Best Heaver Hats, gust received from Three of the most eminent Houses in, London,) which for lightness durability, and colour in particular, stand quite unrivalled CashPrhe, 21s.; Beautiful Stuff Hats, from 12s. tul6n. » the Rich French Velvet Naps, on stuff Bodies, from 10s. to 15s.; Gossamer, and other Hats equally cheap. 25, Crown Street, Halifax, opposite the Upper George Inn THE FREE PRESS. THE EDUCATIONAL CLAUSES OF THE FACTORY BILL. Never was the energy of the people put forth so promptly and so vigorously, within so short a space of time, as it has been with reference to the educational clauses of the Factory Bill; and the vast multitude of petitions presented to the House of Commons has not only influenced the views of individual members, but has also compelled the got eminent to make, in appear- ance at least, some concessions to the loudly expressed objections to the measure. The con- cessionsj however, are not of much value; and the bill, in its altered shape, with all its so- called " amendments," is still replete with principles and details of the most obnoxious description. The principle of the bill is, indeed, as Sir James Graham avowed, unaltered; and its plain object is to establish Church of England schools, at the expense 0/ the rate- payers. Sir James told the House, that the " necessity for some such measure" was " urgent;" and that " imminent danger would result from its post- ponement !" " I am aware," he added,—" for the symptoms are but too evident,— that upon this question, the waters of strife have over- flowed, and now cover the land. This — [ here the ministerial hypocrite placed his modi- lied bill on the table of the Housi ]— this is my olive branch. 1 tender it in the hope that it may prove the harbinger of peace; and that, ere long, it will return with glad tidings that the waters of strife have subsided." To this flourish of rhetorical humbug we would say, in the classical language of Gold- smith, " Fudge!" The danger, if there bo any,— and danger we believe there is,— arises not from the ignorance, but from the hunger, of the people. It is not to the opening of schools in factory districts, but to the abolition of the food- monopoly,— the repeal of the hate- ful bread- tax, that we must look for an escape from the danger that threatens the community. How comes it, we should like to know, that the Tories and the church party are now such zealous friends to popular education, which they have, for so many years, bitterly and con- stantly opposed ? Is it to stop the cry for bread, that we have this offer of schools? If so, it cannot succeed. The people will not be so trifled with; and if their attention be diverted, for a short time, from the Corn Laws to the education question, their oppressors,— the bread taxers, may depend upon it that the cry for re- peal will very soon be renewed with an earnest- ness and an intensity that will brook no denial. We turn, however, to the alterations made in the government bill; and the first to which we shall advert relates to Sunday Schools. According to the new clauses, the state schools are to be open for religious instruction, on Sundays, to the members of the Church of England, in the doctrines and principles thereof, to every young person who may wish to attend school at those times, and to every child whose parents shall desire such attendance. Those younj* persons and children who avail themselves of this instruction, are to be taken, by the master, to church, at least once in the day. Parents are to be at liberty to prefer any other Sunday school. As to school certificates, it is to be enacted that all the schools in each district, without exception, shall grant certificates to the children attending them, 011 the condition that those schools become subject to the cognizance of an Inspector appointed by the Privy Council; and that, where Protestant children are taught, they use the authorized version of the scriptures. The instruction in the catechism and the liturgy at the state schools, is to be given on the first or the last of the three hours appointed for that purpose, in a separate class- room; and all religious books used by the children of the Church of England, are to be such as shall have received the sanction of the two Archbishops. By alterations in clause 59, it is made com. 3 THE HALIFAX FREE PRESS. petent for any person, even for a churchman, to object to the education of his children in the catechism and liturgy, without stating the grounds or particulars of his objections ; and, during ihe interval of Ihe retirement of the Church of England children, the education of the others in some branch of secular knowledge, is to proceed without interruption ; but, with reference to the children of Dissenters, it is to be enacted that the trustees shall appoint a day in each week, ( luring the three usual school hours of which the dissenting children may receive religious instruction from the licensed ministers of the chapels at which their parents attend divine worship, or from any person whom they may appoinl ; that is, upon notification, to the trustees, that such licensed ministers, or their nominees, will be present at the time so appointed in each week. The scriptures are to be read in the school every day; but the children of Roman Catholics, jiving in a district where there is no school specifically Roman Catholic, may be absent at s uch time, and employ themselves in any matter of instruction not religious, in a room apart. Considerable modifications are proposed in the appointment of trustees. The clergyman is to be still an ex officio trustee, and chairman of the Board, and is to have the power of nominat- ing one other trustee. A third is to bo elected by the subscribers to the local fund for building the school ; and the other four are to be chosen by the ten pound ratepayers; each ratepayer being allowed to vole only for two trustees. The trustees are to hold office for five years. " The change in the constitution of the Board of Trustees, is," says the Patriot, " perhaps a shallower and more impudent device to impose upon the understandings of men in their senses, than was ever exhibited by a merry andrew at a country fair. The trustees were to be eight; the clerical trustee, his two churchwarden nominees, the grantor of the site, and ( bur others chosen by the Justices of the Division. Now, they are to be seven; the clerical trustee, still retaining his second or Casting vote ; a second, appointed by him, ( who needs no longer be a churchwarden, churchwardens being sometimes dissenters;) a third, elected by a score of the wealthiest churchmen in the dis. trict; and four more, two of whom are to be chosen by the majority of the ten pound rate- payers, and two by the minority, be the church or the dissenters in the majority or in the minority. " Now, what is the practical difference be- tween the two schemes ? As the bill at first stood, all the eight trustees would, no doubt, have been churchmen : according to the amended clauses, five of them will inevitably always be churchmen ; and the remaining two would be dissenters, were the dissenting rate- payers to exercise their privilege. But we are quite sure that nothing would ever induce them to expose themselves to so vile a mockery as that of send- ing two dissenlers to sit at a Board with five churchmen, headed by a clergyman possessing a second or casting vote, and flanked by the Inspector of a Tory Committee of Council. Indeed, in the framing of the new clauses, this probability seems io have been taken for granted ; for, in default of any of the parties privileged lo appoint or elect trustees exercising their privi- lege, provision is made that Ihe trustees alieady in office, or who maybe appointed or elected,— say the clerical trustee and his four church co- adjutors,— shall, nevertheless, constitute a legal Board, and go to work, fleecing and thralling the whole parish, without let or hindrance." There are some alterations in the powers to be given to Ihe trustees; and some olher changes in the details of the measure: but we have stated enough to show that the bill is still fraught with mischief, injustice, and iniquity. VV hat is now to be done ? Petition, we reply, against the " amended" bill. When we con- sider that, up to Monday night inclusive, eleven thousand four hundred and forty four petitions had been presented against the measure; we may au^ ur well for thestrength of the opposition. Let the " amended" clauses be as resolutely and vigorously opposed; aud no government can withstand such an onset. The Watchman,— which is well known to be of Tory politics, and the organ of the leading men in the Wesleyan Connexion,— in its number of Wednesday last, says,—" In our judgment, these alterations, although in some respects decided improvements on the previous enact- ments, are far from amounting to such a change as would satisfy the reasonable requirements of Wesleyans and Dissenters. Their character may be learned from the Standard of last evening, which, in the midst of its glowing advocacy of the measure, makes the conclusive admission, —' the changes are but trifling changes in farm, AND SCARCELY AT AI. L CHANGES IN SUBSTANCE." The Patriot denounces the " amended" bill as strenuously as it did its predecessor ; and we have no doubt that the words which the Watch- man quotes from the Standard, will be generally responded to:—" The changes are but trifling changes in form, AND SCARCELY AT ALL CHANGES IN SUBSTANCE." THE WESLEYANS AND EDUCATION. The Ministers, Officers, and Members, of the W'es- leya. n Methodist Societies in Leeds, have addressed to the lion. J. S. Wortley and E. B. Denison, Esq, the' Members for the West Riding, a Letter, " on the Educational Clauses of Sir James Graham's Factory Bill." A deputation had been appointed to wait upon the two llbn. Members; but " local and per- sonal inconveniences" precluded an interview, and the views of the deputation have been published 111 the. form of a letter. We do not propose, at present, to take a survey of the objections here- urged against the government measure ; but shall direct the attention of our readers to the statistics ot denominational education which the pamphlet furnishes. " As Wesleyans," say the writers, " we have embarked a large amount of' ca- pital in the voluntary work of Day and Sabbath School Education. Without government aid, we have built aud furnished a great number of schools ; and have supported them in a state of efficiency, by our free, contributions." They then proceed to par ticulars:— " First, in reference to Wesleyan Day Schools. There are, in England and Wales,— Boys'Schools 119 being a reportedincrease, in two years, of.... 52 Girls'Schools 115 75 InfantSchools 28 4 Total Number of children 18,533 7,071 " These numbers may appear small ; but it is to be remembered that we h ive not long commenced the working of Day Schools ; and that our great impedi- ment is the cost of erecting the Buildings. Our Day- Schools are constructed on the principle of self- sup- port ; that is, after they have once become established. The Master, in the first instance, has a moderate salary guaranteed to him ; and his industry and skill are excited by the gain of so much additional for every scholar above a certain number. All these Day Schools have been established by local voluntary contributions; the London Committee being obliged to refuse every application, even for small sums, to aid in the commencement of these undertakings. All deficiencies in the annual expenditure are also made up by local subscriptions. The interest of £" 5,000, a grant from our Centenary fund, is applied, by the Committee for the General Superintendence of our Educational operations, to the expense of training Masters for these Schools." From the above extract it will he seen that the establishment of Day Schools has not been long in- troduced into the Connexion; but tint these useful institutions are rapidly gaining ground. It is, how- ever, to their exertions in the establishment, support, a. id management, of Sunday Schools, that we must look, if we wish to know what the Wesleyans have done for the cause of Popular Instruction. On this subject, the pamphlet before us says,— " Tbere are, in England and Wales,— Wesleyan Sunday Schools, 3,522, being a re- ported increase, in two years, of 78 Libraries 1,018 27 Teachers, 70,551 6,365.' " There are, in these schools, 374,611 Scholars ; and they are supported at an annual expense of £ 21,271 5s. 9|. To all these aggregates are to be added the amounts from sevenreen Circuits not re- ported in time for publication." From these general statements; the pamphlet pro- ceeds to the educational statistics of those places which would be affected by the government bill:— " Let us look at the statistics of Wesleyan Educa- tion in what may be called the Factory Districts. It appears that there are- 58 Boys' Day Schools, 54 Girls' Day Schools, 20 Infant Schools ; and in the whole 10,061' Children. There are 956 Sunday Schools, having attached to them 372 Libraries, for ' lie use of ihe teachers and children, during the week. There are 28,304 Teachers ; and 147,194 Children under their care. These Schools are supported at an ex- pense, to the Wesleyans, of£ 9,792 14s Od." The amount of capital embarked, by the Wesley- ans, in the work of Education, is very great. In the borough of Leeds alone, the amount invested in I uildings for day and Sunday schools is £ 115- 10. This, it must be recollected, is the work of only one denomination. Add the others, and the total will be a very considerable sum. The pamphlet also furnishes us with the following statistics as to the Christian labours of the Wesleyans, in the Borough of Leeds ; not including, of course, the adjacent villages that are comprehended within the Leeds Circuits:— " In the Borough of Leeds, the Wesleyans have erected places of public worship which have cost more than£ 54,000. They furnish accommodation for20,0G0 hearers ; provision being made, by free sittings, for 5,000 poor persons. The school buildings have cost £ 11,540. They educate 850 childien in their day schools, and 6,842 in their Sunday schools, at an an- nual cost of £ 625. There are 1,650 superintendents and teachers connected with their Sabbath schools. There are, also, 555 Officers who gratuitously serve their Church by preaching in the villages on the Lord's day, or by more private conversation on reli- gious subjects. Almost every Sabbath day, 892 per- sons are engaged in the distribution of religious tracts. " Besides supporting fifteen ministers and their families in respectability and comfort, the Wesleyans contributeannually, for Missionary purposes,£ 2,366; for the support of aged and worn- out ministers and their widows, the education of ministers' children, the training of the iising ministry, and other pur- poses, £ 724 ; and for the distribution of tracts, £ 100. Besides all private and individual occasions of liber- ality, they distribute to the poor of their own Societies £ 616 per annum." The Educational statistics of the other denomina- tions of nonconformists are not brought together in an accessible manner, as those of th'e Wesleyans are ; and therefore the aggiegate sum expended, by the friends of the voluntary principle, upon the leligious and secular education of the youtli ul poor, cannot be accurately ascertained. It forms, however, a vast amount; and, even contemplating the question in the low and paltry light of a money matter, there is gross injustice in any attempt to destroy or jeopardize so extensive a fund for purposes ol Christian benevo- lence. The pecuniary part of the question is, however, one of slight moment, compared with those parts which affect, the civil liberties, the religious freedom, and the Christian principles, of the people. The Factory Bill ol Sir James Graham is, like the Prus- sian system of education, an attempt to govern by fraud, those whom the ruling powers are no longer able to keep down by physical force. Its object is not to give the people a good,, sound, practical edu- cation; but to infuse throughout the rising generation such principles of civil and religious subserviency as may best produce a general feeling of passive obedi- ence and non- resistance. What effect such a system must necessarily have on the character of a people, may be learned from the military serfs of educated Prussia. Governed by fraud or force, a people must Be. or bee ' tne, unfeeling or unjust. What ean avail tne nursery aud the school, Should priests misguide, or magistrates misrule The pamphlet from which we extract the preced- ing particulars, was noticed, on Saturday, in the Halifax Guardian, as " a most excellent pamphlet;" and the Editor took care to place before his readers such of the preliminary observations as contain re- marks either deferential to the church or complimen- tary to the government: but he cautiously abstained from selecting any of the cogent arguments against the bill, with which the pamphlet abounds. Some of these objections relate to the principle of the mea- sure, and others to its details; and towards the con- clusion we find the following passage ;— " Further to dwell on the details would be super- fluous. No modifications of detail could obviate out objections to the principles of the Bill. We do not, and never can, consent that it shall be said, even by implication, that the labours of the Wesleyan and other non- conforming ministers are unauthorized or ineffective. We respectfully, but firmly, maintain ottr right thus to teach the children of those parents who prefer to commit them to our care." The Guardian, with its rharacterestic dishonesty, spe ks of the movement of the different bodies of non- contoiinists against this bill, as a " crusade5 against the church." It is no such thing. The ag- gressive movement is made by the church, not against it ; and the operations ot those who oppose the bill are strictly of a defensive character. That there should be any necessity for such a movement, is greatly to be rbgretted ; but the blame must fall upon the auth rs nf that necessity, and not upon the actors in the movement. The authors of the obnoxious bill may, perhaps, exult in the thought that they have oc- casioned the dissenters so much annoyance and so much expense; but they must beware of repeating such experiments upon the public feeling, lest they arouse a spirit that can only be quelled by larger con « cessions, on the part ot the established church, than have yet been demanded at her hands. PUSEY1TE LITERATURE. Ir » our twenty- eighth number, we briefly noticed a pamphlet entitled " Songs and Ballads fo'r the People, by the Rev. John M. Neale, B. A. of Trinity College, Camhridge;" and we gave, from the columns of'tha Patriot, a lively ditty in praise of the real services that the Church of England has rendered to the cause of vital Christianity. Mr. Neale's pamphlet is now before us; and we feel disposed to devote some attention to its contents, not merely on account of the light they throw upon the bigoted and persecuting spirit of the Puseyite party ; but also because they furnish us with tolerably legi le indications of ihe character and amount of the instruction, both religious and secular, which would be accorded to the people, were Sir James Graham's, Bill to enable the Puseyites,— as it certainly would, if passed,— to control and regulate the education of the working classes. The- " Songs aud Ballads " are sixteen in number; and we shall take them in the order assigned to thsas 4 by their author. The first is entitled " The Church of England," and runs thus:— 1 The good old Church of England ! With Her Priests through nil the land, And Her twenty thousand churches, How nohlv does She stand 1 Dissenters are like mushrooms, That flourish but a day ; Twelve hundred years, through smiles and tears, She hath lasted on alway ! 2 The brave old Church of England ! She hath eonquer'd many a toe ; She had Martyrs to Her children A thousand years ago ; She hath princes more than I can tell, Who by Her side have stood ; Like King Charles the Blessed Martyr, And old King George the Good 1 3 The true old Church of England 1 She alone hatb pow'r to teach : ' Tis presumption in Dissenters When they pretend to preach: They might take awav Her churches, They might take Her lands away ; But She would te the true church, And base intruders they. i God bless the Church of England ! The poor man's church is She ; Wp were nourished at Her bosom. We were fondled at Her knee. God bless the Church of England ! The good, the true, the brave 1 She baptis'd us in onr crad'e, She shall bear us to our grave. Let us examine this splendid piece of episcopalian c'ogserel. What does it teach ? What amount of christian instruction does it afford ? To confide in the church, because of her antiquity and of ihe princes who have been connected vvtth her;— to hate and despise all who are not within the pale of her com- munion;— and to trust for salvation to baptism and burial, by her priests, and accordinsf to her formul- aries ;— these, it will be seen, are the duties inculcated by the song before us. Alas ! flow many, in this professedly christian country, have no clearer and no higher notions of religion than these 1 But these are not the doctrines of the new testament; nor, indeed, are they of the Articles of the Church herself. The Articles, however, are too scriptural for the Puseyites, who prefer the erroneous doctrines and the false securities of the Catechism and the Burial Service. The politics of the song may he seen in the couplet, Like King Charles the Blessed Martyr, And old King George the Good ! The men who can thus blasphemously speak of the tyrannical, hypocritical, and faithless Stuart as a " Blessed Martyr," are not to he trusted with the liberties of their fellow countrymen ; and those who can contemplate the corruption, the extravagance, and the bloody wars, of the reign of George the Third, and then seriously speak of him as " George the Good," must have as strange notions of good government, as they have of humanity and morals. We might point out other symptoms of ominous import, in the song before us, but we have other songs in store, and shall present some of them in a future article. OUR SCRAP BOOK. " A thing of Shreds and Patches." LONGEVITY OF WOMEN.— According to recent statistical investigations, it has been ascertained that there died throughout England and Wales, between 1st July, 1810, and 30th June, 1841, 5,247 females, aged 85 and upwan's; whereas, of the same age, there died only 3,954 males, leaving a balance in favour of the old ladies, of 1,293. Among: the females who died, 71 had passed the age of 100, but only 40 males. By a singular coincidence, many of the crowned heads now living were born in the montbof April. The Queen of the French was born on the 26' th of April, 3782 ; the Queen of the Belgians on the 3d, 1812 ; Christiana, Queen Dowager of Spain, on the 27th, 1806 ; the Emperor of Austria on the 19th, 1793 ; Donna Maria of Portugal on the 4th, 1819 ; the Sultan on the 19th, 1823. WHALING OFF NEW ZEALAND,— The whale- boats are admirably adapted for the purpose for which they are intended. They are of various construction, and are designated as English, French, or American : each has some peculiarity to recommend it. They are capable of resisting the rough sea of Cook Straits ; hut are at the same time swift and buoyant. When starting on a whaling expedition, the boats l^ ai- p Te- awa- iti before the dawn of the morning. Each has either five or six oars, and a crew accord- ingly. The boat- steerer and headsman are the prin- cinal men in the boat, and are generally Europeans ; the rest are natives. They pull to the entrance of Tory Channel, where a view opens over Cook's Straits and Cloudy Bay from the southern headland, where they keep a " look out" for the spouting of a whale The boat which kills the calf claims the cow, even though it should have been killed by another boat's crew. If a whale has been killed, the different boats assist each other in towing it to Te awa- iti. I once saw ten or twelve boats towing in a ^ vhale. Each boat had a little flag, and the whole scene was gay and animated. One day a calf had been killed, and the cow, having been fastened upon, but not despatched, was towed inside the channel. Gasping in the agonies Of death, the tortured animal, when close to our ship threw up jets of blood, which dyed the sea all around # rid, beating about with its tail, it broke a boat right in the middle, and threw the crew into the water ; but it at length died, exhausted from the many wounds which the irons and harpoons had inflicted. The calf was slated by the whalers to be six weeks old ( on what grounds I do not know), and was twenty- four feet long. It was cut up in a few minutes, and gave several barrels of oil. The process wasso rapid, that when I caine ashore I found only the head. I cut out the brains, the weight of which, amounting to five pounds and one ounce, astonished me greatly. The whalebone was very soft, and therefore useless. There were two hundred plates of it on each side of the roof of the upper jaw. I got the whole roof cut ] off, and, intending to dry anil preserve it, I placed it 1 on the roof of a native h use ; hut on the following morning I had the mortification to find that the rats and native do^ s had found their way to it in the night, anil had eaten all Ihe softer parts, so that the rest fell to pieces. A portion of the heart of this calf was roasted and sent to our table. In taste I found it very like beef, hut it was darker in colour. The cow was sixtv feet long, and measured between the fins on the belly eighty- two inches. Her skin was a velvet like black, with the exception of a milk white spot round the navel. As regards the colour of the whale, I have been repeatedly assured that it is sometimes speckled ; and that even perfect albinos, or crea. n- coloureil unes, are seen, which must indeed be heauti fill animals. The fat or blubber of this whale was nine inches thick, and yielded eight tuns and a half of oil. Whales have been known to yield twelve or thirteen tuns ; hot I have been told, that so large a quantity is now very rarely obtained, from the great derrease of the whales. A whale which yields nine tuns is at present regarded as a very good one. The tongue was of a white or ash colour, blackish towards the root. This organ gave several barrels of oil, anil is a monopoly of the " tonguer." or " cutter- in." The latter operation is performed in Te aw. viiti near the shore, where, by means of a windlass, the whale is raised to the surface of the water under n scaffold called the " shears." The blubber is cut off in square pieces by means of a sharp spade : it is then carried to the shore, and immediately put into the trying- pots. The " cutting- up" of a whale, secundum artem, is a process which requires great proficiency, like that of the skilful dissector, who separates the cutis, and with it at once all fat and cellular tissue, from the subjacent muscles. In the whale the blubber is to be regarded as the cutis, in the cellular structure of which the oily m- itter has been deposited. Shortly after the death of the fish, the epidermis conies off in large pieres, looking like oiled and diied satin. Dieffenbach's Travels in New Zealand. At the last meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences, M. Arago read a communication from M. Hotnmaire de Hel, announcing that he had ascer- tained, by precise calculation, the difference between the level of the Black and the Caspian Seas; bv which it appears that the I vel of the latter is 18.30 yards lower than the level of the former. THE CORN LAWS AND MORTALITY.— The price of corn has a most remarkable influence on the move merts of population and of disease. We have not a sufficient number of data to enable us to estimate the exact amount of its influence, but we shall as- suredly not be mistaken in classing it among the most energetic causes which press upon the operations of life. This influence extends not only upon deaths but upon births ; it affects also the number of mar- riages, of diseases, and even of crimes. Variations in the price of food then form one of the most serious changes which can occur on the surface ot a state ; they may insensibly lead to the most unexpected, the most formidable result; and we may affirm with con- fidence, that one of the most important duties of a government is to temper, and to diminish, as far as possible, all the circumstances which promote those fluctuations in the price of the most necessary articles which man can purchase.— Dr. Hawkins. A WISE RESOLUTION.— A Badenoch clergyman, hitherto a very zealous non- intrusionist, alluding to the proposed throwing up of livings, is said to have made the pithy remark, that he would not leave his manse, till he had put his thumb on the door sneck of a better house 1 M. Arago states, that the surface of our globe was rather near being swept by the tail of the comet. This extraordinary phenomenon would inevitably have taken place if the tail had been longer and thinner, or if it had moved in the plane of the ecliptic. The learned secretary regrets much, as a scientific man, that it has been otherwise. THE GOVERNMUNT AND THE WESLEYANS.— The Wesleyans, as a body, have seldom directly interfered with the policy of governments. The last occasion on which they brought their full force to bear upon any qnstion before the legislature was in 1811, when Lord Sidmouth's Bill sought to subject " rrotestant dissenting teachers, or preachers," to some kinil of legalised examination, or test of sufficiency, and to limit the exercise of their functions to one congrega tion. Then, as now, the entire Wesleyan community was summoned into activity by their leaders. Hosts of petitions were prepared, signed, and forwarded to the noble lords who were k< own to discountenance that contemplated infringement on the Toleration Act, with a rapidity truly surprising, considering the shortness of the interval between the introduction of the bill and its second reading. When the noble author and supporters of the bill saw the table and the floor of the House of Lords literally covered with petitions, pile upon pile, and were informed that these were only precursors of hundreds more which weie at their heels, the measure—" which had been framed with the best intentions towards the dissenters, and was solely designed to render their ministry more respectable, by preventing unfit anil unqualified per- s IUS from assuming the office of the ministry,"— was withdrawn. Since then, every denomination of dis- senters has multiplied exceedingly. The Wesleyans have doubled their numbers, and quadiupled their influence. If, then, the government of 1811, when toryism and high churchism were in their glory, and the sectaries were comparaiively few and feeble, their- numbers considerably less, and their arrangements less perfect, for watching the government and the legislature with reference to their rights and privileges, anil for the purpose of calling up effective opposition whenever any measure affecting i ither was introduced into parliament; — if, in 1811, when fewer in numbers and less effective, by reason of inferior arrangements, they compelled the government to abandon a fondly- cuerished anil carefully concocted hill for discourag- ing and suppressing the progress of dissent, is it likely that, in 1843, with increased powers on the one hand, and reduced predominance on the other, the struggle now going on can terminate any other- wise than iu an inglorious defeat of the government which has so unwisely provoked the contest 2— Globe. A writer in the Railway Magazine calculates that Mr. Henson's flying machine, carrying fuel and water for one nay only, will require ait engine of 13,550 horse power to drtve it, instead of one of 30, as the projector proposes As a proof of the depth of the waves, and power of their action, atMadrns, itis stated by SirJ. Rubin- son, that, during a violent storm, a quantity of pigs of lead had been cast ashore near the fort, and it. was. proved that they had coue from a vessel which had been wrecked at more than a mile from the shore.. The Moniteur observes, that the quantity of sulphur exported to England from Sicily lias decreas- ed by one- half since English industry discovered a process for extracting trom pyrites, ( firestone), a portion of the sulphuric acids hitherto obtained from sulphur. A BOXING LORD BOXED HIMSELF— It should be premised, that it wa- his settled habit to endeavour to glean from every person who fell in his way some portion of the particular knowledge, whatever it might be, which that person was supposed to possess. Therefore, being in company, at Lowther, with a nobleman who professed great skill as a boxer, he contrived to turn the conversation upon the art or science of self- defence. Lord A H strenu- ously maintained, that a scientific pugilist could not by any possibility he struck by an uninstructed antagonist ; that iiis skill would enable him to ward off any Mow not dealt to him by a brother of the craft. The dean disputed this position; the com- pany became interested and the discussion animated j experiment only could decide the point. In order, therefore, to bring the matter to the test, Dr. Milner arose from his seat, anil walking into the middle of the apartment, coolly said, " Now, my lord, it you will only promise not to strike me, I think that in spite of any guard you can keep, I can strike you." " Impossible," & c. & c. exclaimed Lord A 11 They stood up accordingly; and, " within less than thirty seconds," said Dean Milner, with great triumph, when he afterwards related the circum- stance, " I gave him with my open hand such a slap, on the face as rang again through the large room." The company, of course, laughed heartily ; and Lord A 11 said no more on the subject of boxing ; but so irresistible was the influ ence of the dean's good humour, that it was impossible even for a man in his lordship's circumstances to be angry with him. — Life of Dr. Isaac Milner. A French paper publishes a curious analysis of the Aguado sale,— and mentions, among other facts re- lating to it, the following:— In 1839, when M, Aguado insured his gallery, he valued at 3,039.950 francs, the 383 pictures which composed it then. The amount of hts delusion may be estimated by the fact, that the present sale, of 393 pictures and fifty marbles, produced no larger a sum than (. 35,436 francs. A WIDE NEIGHBOURHOOD.— The Liverpool Stand- ard, in a paragraph about the meeting of tne British Association at Cork, says, " Nut only will the intel- lectual resources and the hospitality of Cork he thrown open to members and visitors, hut Limerick, Bnnilon, Belfast, and other large towns in t/ ievicinitgK are preparing for their accommodation." Belfast is only about 200 miles distant from Cork, INVETERATE SMOKING— The Central Americans t. re, probably, the most inveterate smokers on the tare of the earth. Men and women, girls and boys — all smoke, day and night— in bed, as well as out of bed. Mr. Stevens, in his Incidents of Travel in that wild anil picturesque country, relates, that atone of the mansions of the D ins, where he " put up" for a time, the lord and lady of the house " slept with their heads at different ends of the bed, so that, in the unavoidable accompaniment of smoking, they might not incommode each other." The amount i f British capital engaged in Brazil is est. mated at not lis. than ten millions sterling. Speaking of a heavy wind, Professor H. remarked, that it was literally a mathematical wind, as it had extracted several roots. ISLE OF SKYE— The Isle of Skye has within the last 40 years furnished tor the public service— 21 lieutenant- generals and major- generals, 45 lieu- tenant- colonels; 600 majors, captains, lieutenants and subalterns; 10,000 foot soldiers; 120 pipers; tour governors ot Bi itish colonies ; one governor- general ; one adjutant- general ; one chief Baron of England; and one judge of the supreme court of Scotland. The generals may be classed thus eight Macdonalds, six Macleods, two Macallisters, two M'Cashills, one M'Kinon, one Macqueen, and one Elder. The Isle of Skye is 60 miles long, and 20 broad. Truly the inhabitants are a wondrous people. This island is the birth- place of Cuthullit!, the celebrated hero mentioned in Ossian's poems. HALIFAX :— Printed and Sold, for tile Proprietors, at t he Gtmeral Printing Office of H. Martin, Upper George Y a r l