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n ,TnOMAS J. tEMAY, gDITOR, AND PBOrIETOR.7 . ' " " ' ' ' Sl. ';, "i; -i j 4mciii, tlir eollarsaar ia iM m MT iin t t lb yaar's Mifc. HptiM ia RATES OP ADVERTISING. 1 roesvatrsaaarsfaot Mtdi U liaeslhis alia I . Mt iawl maadallar, nek aabseOBeat- t hargS sr " kf hrM de-jrtk 93) ft Mi. i MMS frM lk ragr Ml Itr Mwnncrt ij i LtUff f the Editor wtU a i.pam. TIIE. VERY LATEST. In these day of trouble, the necessities of men bin prompted almost every method of I vaisne- the wina. '"t h I .vT,v been reported, that we had eon I there was no means of touting which 7 Mmained undiscovered. But we acknowl- Iedge bur error, mortal ingenuity has made another improvement in rascality and impu- f duence. A sinple minded aad honest eoun-- tryman, wnue wwuiu mwu m ... j - . . it j i .i . lerday, obaerveu a wen ureaseo. neuuemau, a few yards in advance of him, drop his pocket book He picked it up, and hailed the careless strainer, -who turned with much apparent surprise, and waited until the other approacnea. . Isn't this your pocket "book?", said the countryman, I thought I. saw yon 'drop it," " Well, upon taf soul' it is. 1 owe y ou ten thousand thanks, sir; you are an honest cmo. ' There is a large amount or money here, and had I lost it beyond recovery, I should have been ruined forever.". The worthy rustic wss delighted beyond conception. The feelings' of deep, gratifica tion which always arise in consequence of performing a praise-worthy action, were much increased by the thanks so plentifully bestowed upon him. " Ninety-nine persons in every hundred," said the loser of the pocket book, " would not have acted as you have done. I feel compelled to evince my gratitude in a sub stantial manner -you must permit me to make you a present of twenty dollar." He tumbled over the toll of notes and said: I have nothing smaller than a fifty dol lar bill; can yott give me thirty 'dollars in change?" -, - . ' Oes, easy," said the o'her The transaction -was; completed, and the poor dupe walked away, not a Utile elated with his good fortuner-Two hours after wards, the unfoitunate countryman was ar rested,' for attempting to pass an Ay dollar counterfeit note. It is almost needless to add, that it was the note he received from his worthy friend, who so strangely dropped his pocket book. A'. O. Pic. Hard work. It s hard work to go np liill n'ilknul lunnini I A nrt it m Kavvt fucm wiuioui teauing eiuicr one way or uie oilier, - r ? - v Il'a hard work to make a dinner of grape shot, unless they are well, boiled: and it's hard work to digest fool s argument, unlets I be soaked something like reason. It's hard work to look at the sun without winking; and it's hard work to look at some L'irls without feeling inclined to wink. It's hard work to do nothing, and have too collect a debt of one who says, " I'll pay it I It's hard work to squeeze cider out of abrick Siat ; and it's hard work to scratch out ideas Jfor a paragraph after being on a spree for (twenty -four hours. ' U s hard work to hold lightning by the tail; and it's hard work to "stem the torrent of a woman's will' .. It's hard work to refuse a good offer ; and it's harder still to be compelled to accept a had one. It's hard work for many people to Hye ; arid doubly liard for some to die. P' ICEBERGS. : The recent accounts of the immense num bers of icek-rs lately seen in the Atlantic jraused us to turn again to Dana's " Two vears before the Mast." for the following' no- ' 9 le and graphic description of one of those ihuge floating mountains of Ice. At 12 o'clock we went twlnw. n! JUJt got through dinner, when the cook put iit iicau iiwn uiv KuiuCf mu iuiu us lO come on deck and see the finest sight we had ever seen. Where awav. cook?" mL. ed the first man wbo was op. 6n die lar board bow.",.,, And were lav floating on-Ute o-can, several miles off, an immense regular mass. Its tops and points covered with snow. Stld its centi of a iWn inilian nilnr. This was an iceberg, and oLjiij largest size, vuv ui uur uioii aaiu, who nao oeen in the Northern ocean. As far as the eye could reach, the sea. in everv 'diraatinn. m- nf a deep blue color, the wavna rnnninir kiirh and fresh, ; and sparkling in the light, and in tlie midst lav this immense mountain iulanrl rairities and valleys thrown into deep ahade, and ita ipointa and pinnacles glittering in the sun. All hands were soon on iWL innk.v. at it, and admiring in variou ways its beau. '1 a"" gmiKiCAH. . ucBcnpuoa ecn give any idea of the strangeness, splendor, and really the sublimity .of the sight. ' Its great size, for it mart have been from two to three miles in circumference, and several hundred Teet hieh: its slow motion, as its hatt mm and sunk in the water, and its high points noHuea against the clouds; the Cashing or the waves fipon it, which, breaking tiigh wiih oanu lined iu base whh white crustr 'and i?ie thundering sound of the cracking of the nuuie Dreaaingana tumbling down ""S" ps; togeuier witn iu nearness an- approach, which added a alight element fear, all combined to give it the character or true auWimity. The main body of die ""J I have aaid, of an indigo color, its base fruit i crusted foam; and as it grew thin n,l ,. , i. . . ."eolor shaded off from a deep blue w the whiteness of snow. It seemed to be Owing toward thn nnrth. !... t.. 'wy and arot .led iu It was in siirht all th -ernoon; and wh?n we got to leward of it. :V,iiiai . : - - i .-- . ' ) Nobtb CAMOturAPowerfuI ia moral, in intellectual, and jn physic!) resources the land of our sire, and the voL.xxxii f , . ; r ' " . ' J '. , , , RALEIGH NC. WED)iE8DAYr JULY 21, 184 the wind died away, so that we lay-to quite near it for a greater part of the pighL Un fortunately there Was no moon; but it Was a clear night, and we could plainly mark the long regular heaving of the stupendous mass as iu edges moved slowly against the stars. Several times jn our watch loud cracks were heard, which sounded aa though they must have run through the whole length' of the iceberg, and several pieces fell down with a thundering cosh, plunging heavily into the sea. No petcil has ever yet given any thing like the true effect of an iceberg. In a pic ture they are huge, uncouth masses, stuck in the sea; while their chief beauty and gran deur, their slew stately motion, the whirling ot the snow about their summits, and the fearful groaning and Clacking of their parts, the picture cannot jjive. This is the large iceberg, while the small and distant islands, floating on the smooth sea, in the light of a dear day, look, like little floating fairy isles of sapphire. "THERE'S ALCOHOL IN EVERY THING." Thls'is a favorite argument witE many op- posers of total abstinence, and is generally uttered with a triumphant, and sometimes even with a reverent air, as if alcohol pervad- j ed all space, and waa almost the soul, or at least an essential part, of God's creation. One thing is ceitain, that a large part of our race, in all ages of the world, have made it their god, have paid it devout homage, have surrendered it to their temporal and eternal gjod. But the doctrine that alcohol ia in ev ery tiling, in our grain, our tread, our veg tables, our fruit, and that it is therelore idle to denounce it,' and wicked to declare war a- gainst iU-is entirelyvvithout foundation.Jt Has, however, presented difficulties to many good friends of ur cause.'and we will, there fore, briefly examine ifc i -'Alcohol, wherever it ia found, is an intoxi cating article; and in those liquors that con tain the least of it, such as cider, winc. and beer, produces an immediate excitement, in greater or less degree, according to the quantity drank. " I here s alcohol in every thing," says our opponent. Will you please, sir, to enter with me into that field of grain, now waving gracefully in the wind, and indi cating by its colour and drooping heads, tha( it is ripe for the harvest; or, go to the orch ard, whose trees are loaded with golden fmtt 4t tna elknt fWtnAtWSa awl wwtlAsaA fSK!k or purple clusters invite to a rich, nourishing ana healthful banquet, and ahow me, in ei ther, a drop of that poisonous, intoxicating srticle, called alcohol. Eat until you are filled of either grain or fruit, and then tell me if you experience the least sensation of in toxication.' Gather any of the grains or fruits, and lay them aside add partake of them at any period, until decay has destroyed them, and again say do you feel the effects of alcohol. Then go abroad throughout all God's Works; range earth, air, and ocean, and ahow us a particle of this poison in any of their products in their natural state. We hesitate jot to say, you will find it not; it is not to be found; and we call upon you, there fore, to retract your assertion, and no longer deceive yourself, nor bewilder others, by a doctrine so unfounded. It is true, alcohol may be made by fermen tation, and separated by distillation, from al most thholr egetable wrirroV A deadly poison may also be obtained both from air and water. But, in the state in which a bountiful Creator has provided air and water for our use, as well as such vegetables and fruits as are intended for our subsistence, no poison exists, for where there is poison, its effects will be manifest. The production and use of alcohol is a device of man, a perver sion of God's good gifts. God has also giv en man 'the power of speech that he may utter right things, but how often does he a buse this power, to blaspheme his name and utter lies; and the power of vision that he may admire and righdy estimate the beauty of his works, but now much docs he turn a way and seek aftef forbidden objects, and an inward monitor to warn him of evil, but how generaUt does lw?sti(le-it whisperiBgst These are all perversions of good tilings; and as well might we justify sin, because all our faculties rosy be enlisted iuiu service, aa justify the use of alcohol, because it msy be made from all ,the producu of the soil. Iu invariable e fleet upon mind and body ahow plainly that it is a device of the enemy of ajoi ana man. Aias: kh) weu. naa u uone n , r-A-'- II 1 1 1. I'' iu work.- Temperance Almanat. . J Excellent. A. Tennessee paper tells ns of a chap at Holly Springs, who was so as tonished at seeing 'a lady bringing music from her piano, that after listening for a min ute or two, he withdrew his head and hal looed after his companion, "I say Jim!-" Just come back here. 1 Parnation seize me. u here aint a woman purlin music out of a chest!" , -?'-:t' i - - -" - ' Well Patrick, asked the' doctor, how do ' yon do to-day T''TT?'?'. TSfXX: O dear, doctor. I enior 'verv bad health! entirely." This rhumstis is very distressing indade. " Whin I co in aloon T u- ,ir,V- n night; and my toe is swelled on as biv as a ! goose's hen's egg, so whin I sund up I fall A loafer I feel too lazy to work, said a loafer, and I have not time to play. I think I'll just go to bed and so $plit the dip Jerenee, u -.ss v'' .;fvs,v M Facu are often extravagant and num. atrous. because we do not know the whole system that explains and legitimatizes them A Goad Story. We have heard a great j many very plausible stories in our day, but iust at this Deculiar iuneture w art ntaK1 in think of any thing which will kveiyho)d si candle to the one which followar''lf any! i j i ... il '.. . - r .7. . . . "T "Tir . . two-legged animal, witli a " human face di vine" for, frontispiece, can tell . any tiling more reasonably we should be exceedingly! nappy to near iu a. u.ruayune. . Ifkere'e Babylon? TKt queryTat last has been answered. The editor of a coun, try paper, reflecting upon the influences a time on men and their works, breaks out ii this fashion: 'j i Where is Babylon, whose towerinir wait and massy gales rendered it, in tbsK viar ef iu Inhabitants, secure from Uievtn vast ve foe; and whose magnificence, wealth and gran deur, constituted it the glory of the woridT Where is Troy, Athens, Palmyra, and favor ed Jerusalem, M where the glory of Solomon shed iu splendors, and where the Son of the Highest redeemed a world?" In all of these, riches and elegance have given place to bar renness and shapeless heaps of fallen great ness. Where is Solomon, whose wisdoai attracted the attention of the Queen of Slte ba. and whose fame was so extensive? The United States Gtifelae, always politt and accommodating, undertakes to answei these questions. He says all the places ant persons are safe and thriving. Babylon is in Suffolk county. New York, and, if it is not the glory of the world, it ia undoubtedly tlie pride ol the neighborhood. Athens is in every State of the llnion almost, except ing tlie New England States; and frovj spite of the poet's reinark,'if yet.1iri 'to ulung late 1 almyra a are lound by scores in this conntryi"witlr as greet women and good critics as ever; and Jerusalem is still in Virginia," remarkable besides other things, for good, oysters.. Solomon, therefore, Is well. And on 'the whole, we think that had any decent place been apostrophised, from Paradise to Jericho, we should, by looking over some gazetteer of our country, have been enabled to say " all's well." WHISKEY AND THE MONKEY. During a recent scries of meetings in New York dtjvone pf. the delegates from the Baltimore Temperance Society related the following: We , copy from the Ameri can Temperance Union," -Weekly Mete. Mr. Pollard concluded tlie meeting. " He said he waa a kind of an . old Butcher to bring up the rear. So much had been said, ho scarce knew what to talk about. But there was one thing he would talk about and always intended to. For fifteen years he was in die gutter, the watch-house, the jailv and, if he had justice done him, had once been in the penitentiary. He had seen aa much of tlie miseries of drunkenness aa perhaps any man, and he waa now deter minea if possible to put down and drive it out of the country. Men boasted that they were not drunkards, but only moderate drinkers. He did once; but he believed that if six glssses made man a drunkard, hi wtiA rtranlr am a-loaa waa at 1mb( nn. .... - R - . once or twice and not call themselves drunk-1 ards, and then they would get drunk They had not the abhorrence of the thing, and they had seir control ot the beast, in his drinking days, he was the companion of a man down in Anne Arundel county, who had a Monkey which he valued at a thou sand dollars.- We always took him out on our chesnut psrties. He shook all our ches nuU for us, and when he could not shake them off he would go to the very end of a limb and knock them off with his fist This was great sport for as! One day we stopped at a uvera and drank freely. .About half a elans of whiskey Waa left, ami Jact took: the glasa and flranx it n tip. -Soon he was meirrrskipped, hopped, danced and tot alf ..iau a roar At jaughtcrw . ... - ' & a . " " Jsckv was drunk. We all agreed, six of us, that w would come to the tavern next day and get Jack drunk again, aad have sport all dav. I called in the morninr at mv friend's house We went out for Jack. Instead of bejng'on his box, he was not to be seen. We looked inside and be was crouched up in a heap.l: Dome outhcrc, said his mastci. Jack came out on three legs, his fore psw was on his head. ' Jack had the head-arh. I knew what was the matter with him. He felt just as I had felt many a morning. Jack was sick and could hot go. So we put it off three days. We then met, rand while drinking, a glass was provided for Jack. But where wss he! Skulking behind the chairs.' Come here, Jack, taid his master, and drink,7 holding out the glass to him. Jack retreated, and as the door opened he slipt out, and in a moment was on die top of the house. " His master went out and called him dowiu ile would, not ;comewH got; a cow-skin and shook at him. . Jack aat on the ridge pole and would not, come.: His master got a gun and pointed at him., , A, monkey is much afraid of a guru Jack slipped over the back side of the roof.' His master then got two guns and planted one on each side of the house, when the monkey seeing hie bad predicament, at once whipped op on the chimney and down in oue of the Hues, holding on oy nis tore paws, i net man kept that monkey twelve years, and could never get him to taste one drop of by the recollec'ion of some bad qualities they whisker; Tbebcat bad mere tense than a 'happened to possess ; and we are very apt man who has an immortal soul and thinks to tranqoilixs our minds by similar reminis himself the first, and Ought to think himself eences, on the death of those friends who I the first of all creation. mm THE FINANCIAL QUESTION. ll IHMlilHl lMHlalvk.l l,mMin ttiaf i i l j- i intra iiumu ue sucn suversiiy 01 opinion aa to the true condition of the Treaary, when that condition ia susceptible of such easy illustration as the following: . Tbs amount of Treasury notes unredeemed by f settlemsnt of aneoanu, and therefore oautao .ding (debt,) oa 1st January, 1841, waa $ifl6CJM6 The aatauatsf outitandinganpropn atiooa (liabilities) o 1st January, 1911. waa 13.306.3te Tbs actual amount of debt and lis- , ,' ' biliuas oa I st January, 184 1, was 17,a73,(Hl Tke amount of appropriations of sll : - J kinds mad st the last aesaioa of fi tweaty-aixth Conjresa for the " s. ssrvic of the year 1841, was iy,7l9,0i Tbs sctasl smonot of debt sad Us -. bilitirs between the 1st January and 4ib March. 1841. was i3fi.99i.17C Tbs amount of Revenue received betwsea 1st January and 4th March, 1841, including ths bal ance in tbs Treaaery on I at Jan- r wyi 1841, as appears by tlie Trsasory Report of 3d June, and including also an amount reeeiv- , en rront ths tlaolc of the United Stales, waa . Which, deducted, leaves the a- mount of debt and liabilities on 4th March 1811, ,i This amount is chargeable upon ' revenue accruing and to b re ceived attar 4th March, 1841; of which it is estimated there will be received between 4ih March and the end of the year, (per Treasury Report,) Which, deducted, leaves tlie prob- aoie aiaouiit ol jSudi and,atiiu. ties on 1 at January. 1849 18.394.440 To which should Wadd w-" -- - terest on Treasury note redeem ed during the year, probably 300,000 Making the war ef- - f I8,t4,149-Wai; This mm will be diminished r .ureas he had before discovered. The matter ed exactly a the revenue which may have having now become public, his ebligationi been received betwen the 4ih Match and to this Government need no longer, we diet December shall be greater er Irsi thould suppose bind him to concealment, than the amount ettmated. Now, what- if he thould think they do, the Gov ever portion of thit nty be required to be ernmsot will no doubt' relieve' him from met dtfring the year 1841 can only be " v ; ' ' v met by borrowing money or' by deferring. Had the U. 8. ship President been de psymenta by mean t of Treasury notes. '''n,a ln(C before the tailed at The appropriations which may be' c'0 uf war; the would prob- made at ths extra seklon trettotlncludtd "bl.7 not into the hands of the in the foregoing statement, but.' roust be British Squadron which captured her, at added to make the true aggregate fur the Mr' Stevens wat on hit way to board her, entire year. with tome-ol his shot, snd only arrived At to the ihoice of modes for tupplying half art hour toe late. ; this drfici-ncv, fbetween Treaturv note! HOUSE OF COMMONS. June 16th. and a temporary Loan,) it strikes ua wiih IT. IfSnill,- f Mjr iflVr irnn,?.?r.Z 1 1 ''"f V"?"".JAe M'K r "?ort!" mbZ ..VkT V. ii , " th ease, he hoped theywould extend to atT,-? i'w P0U0,!1 h' few momenta, hi th3,t.r .1. L;.ei 1 r h" W, J Aogu.t, 1840. an editorial notice ep bo thought, of the wisdom of an y man in d n lht r,met n.Wipip,P,'.,,tlITt private life who, having occasion for mo- . .i: u..i i ... Lf.i Ar .. .uL ,J Lli t 8 H' b,,"f JSl 1? fc a, It n" '""k Bt ' -0W I.. , . . . . . pfom'Mory notes, knowing that at the end ImJ!! '1 of meeting those engsgemeott but by issuing gain renewed at the end of the next and successive years? - .j , - , . , . .'- , Analogous to such conduct would be that of a Government, deficit in the Treaau resort to inch mere kJkT-; la at sr .." v . i " ,Ml SliSi-,,.,e; h lw7P- peared o ot.-AV. hit. . .. non w001!1 uken place in relation to the subject be t,lth an ascertained fore hii ' Msjestr William JV and the rj, supplying It by a i,rdl 0 tut Admiialty., It .appeared that To make u beautiful Urt &reen.-Draw 1" tf t Pr"? Mm,,,er! alandacapeonpapc,: with Indian ink repre- MelbourM, whorrferrtd the ease 1o he senting a! winter scenes or mew- onUirie.'ihe- k4 $ lh? ;AlT 7 f 3JLl?l foliagel. to be ihVrSthSfbiS fpy4freacetate, muriate of copper for yeUow, -which btalg H dry will be inviable. Put the screen to the .fcpf",s fro W5KM"" h m,"'r fire, and the gentle warmth wiU occasion he '!;,rt,,,h' ,',,,d .r7 M1. flowers, Ac. to dimity themselves in their i D.BPnfct '"i roonlh .Botnef oUft PP,r i i j i laJ In ih Time, and an account was ris natural colors.and winter bechanged to sorinr. When it cools the colors disappear, and the effect can be re-produced at pleasure, "" Imitation is the means,' and not thoend of art. Air J. Reynold, - -. - " Iq the days of our grandfathers . there was one Joe Bower, conspicuous above all wooers for his unremitting attention to his lady-love.' By night and day, in storm or in calm, he knew but one road, and that led to his mistress homo. 'His dog, his horse, his eat every thing that belonged to him went that way;" and no other. Even an old pair of boot which he threw away one night; were fonnd the next morning kick ing against her door, with the' toes turned out fast as he used to Vear them, having travel led two miles in a dark night, with ,no other guiae man tne knowledge of the roaa i 1 ' ';V JVdltriimsn True ' love never did run smooth," as the lover taid when he heeled it over the fields, with the dogs, and father of his beloved after him. ..", . .' - T When we have lost a favorite horse or a dog, we usually endeavor to console ourselves have left us nothing. Lacon . t ' home of ourtnections7 ' NO. -29 . ; --r n-ii i Front the Baltimore Ameritan. 1 -DESTRUCTIVE WAR MACHINE, Some notice ha heretofore been taken of the destructive invention which formed the subject of the debate in the British House of Common, which is published be low. The New York Courier thinks that the invention is in alt probability not of English origin, but of American and that the inventor is not a Mr. Warner, an Engliahman, but Mr. Robert L Stevens, our countryman, and advances the follow, ing reason fur ita opinion. During the last war, Mr. Steven constructed a shot which, on exp-riment, proved fully as pow erful and destructive aa that to which al lusion lies been made in tlit. House of CiimnoM. It was offered for saleto Gov ernment, who ' appointed a Commission consisting of Commodores Rogfrs, Cbaan cey, and we believe Morris, of our Navy, to report upon its meri's. Uedcr their - supvrinrendence, a stractnre - was raised j on Governors's Islsnd of solid? timber, 1 some fifteen feet taaarf nd clamped Jo tether with Von spike, which- the inven- j tor in question on the first discharged "in I staateneously scattered into a thousand 3,987,797 fragmerta.,, Upon this, the" Government paid Mr. Steven twenty-five thousand dullara for hit discovery, but peace lol 33.0C 1,449 lowing almost Immediately afterwarila, 1 no opportunity offered for testing It by i actual practise, A number cf the shot . were however made by Mr. Stevens and delivered ; to Goveromenr. ' These have been laying abeln our Navy Yards and 14,670,000 Arsenals; andj it it very likely that , from aome of them l4hc Englishmen obfained the secret which be now offer! Id the Brit- ii...an a v wr a . "n "menr y w r-nappy. at tj t -pre sent in England, and we tretf he will put forward his claim to the 'invention,' it he should find, as we certainly believe he (hat the prihcTple It " the tame wMcK un. WiaNca't I!vxtio. , . Mr. W.kley taid that, teeing the BoWe h of which he h.d given notice, and, in order that the houte might endentand eonfeqnsnre. and which, in the opinion of rtai5 gentlemen waa ealcal.ted to af- !VU. It w,i p.,,....-..,! be the. discover of power it such vast magnitude, that the ,onld ic.rc.im lt .i,;..ji.,k. . ii,i. ai first believe such chsllengvd in- quiry, and in the article aiiaded to gave a a a Ajanlk w f txt tkaw nrAerl I eatwai tawtaasak laail H9 esssisi ass in sii mvisj ejss an account of the proceed ii i r.t.,.nn ,i .m., iv. ub.equent invettigationt were made into the nature of the ditc-verv. and that the V.rcumelancee w.re bnmrtt inder th. en of an experiment taid to have been per formed on a sheet of water on the proper ty of r Mrr Boyd,- in-.- Essex.- He would read the first part of Jhe article alluded to. It stated 'that an experiment rat tried, on Saturday afternoon.of one of the invent tiont to ' which we alluded lut tutumn, which a friend on" whom we have relitnce had an opportunity: of witeiligThe trial took place on . the ground . of- Mr Boyd, in the county of Essex a few miles from town, in, the pretence of Sir Robert Peel, Sir George Murrty, Sir Henry Her dinge. Sir F. Bardett, Lord Ingestre, Colonel Garwood, Captain Britten, Cap tain Webster, n,d some oilier gentle- - The report went on loiltte that a boat. weighing two and a hail toos, ana siiea with five and a half tone of solid timber, emscd aod damped together . with iron spikes, wet set in motion and en a signal front the inventor wat, to ase the words f the reporter, Minttintanea!y settled into a thousand fragments. The re port farther etatea that the arrangement! had all been nnder the inspection of Cap tain Britten, and that Mr. Vt a Tier, the in vent of, never went near the workmen em ployed, lie had stated what he believed to be the marrow of the question. It we a discovery of tech vast importance to the maritime power of thit country, and at regarded the interest of huiranity, that he thought both the hou and the country had a right to to informed on the tobjec. If such a power really eiitd,tnd could be ed.he might almost say war would be at an end, for aa one would expete (hrmtvlvtt to the rertsinty of bemg dcstroi ed.: The no ble lord having witnrssed the experiment, he (Mr Wakley wished to know whether the acceaat given of it in the Times, and repeated by Mm Velesbta genteman of B'idoabted veracity, was to be consider ed as true and entitled to. public cre dence? ' -0- ' ,' Lord Ingettre laid,' in ' answer to the Jeestion of the Honorable ': member for insbury, lie would etate shortly to the house his opinion of the experiment allml- -ed to He regretted very math that the subject hid been noiiced either in a newt- Esper, in a pamphlet, or in that house, r cause he considered that a discovery of tuch vatt importance ought to be kent at aecret at possible. He hid known or il. invention for upward a twelvemonth, and hit attention -waa firtt accidentally called to it by a ''paragraph in a tiewipa- 1 perr- At first it struck him lhat there was something behind the announcement of ' the discovery, that more waa nant h it -' ' than met the eye but he'coeltl now tta'tr,' from what he had witneited, that, be tt convinced thit the discovery wat obe, of -the greatest Importance. , - lie would have -hesitated, perhaps, to have ta ted this,-had tt it merely been hie own aniaiom but when soch. ilistinguikhed oflicert at Admiral King and Hardy now ho more had left I their opinioa of the ' ditcoverj recorded ' on paper, he had no hesitation in giving " , his opinion to the house. ' lie htf further to atafeTlHif it bit soli- . - citation Sir G. Murray had gone to wit- " ' nes the second experiment, and that he ' wat psrticutsrly tlruck. t. indeed, everv body mutt be, wi;h the immense power k " contained in tot tmall av' combtsi. That gallant officer had since bid communica- ' tion witr. the inventor, aod had imlurmed him (Lord :IntetreV that ha had been wih ths First Lord of tlia'TrfSsury, and ' had received the assurance of Lord Msl- bourne that an inquiry weald be institu-' td into the merits of the discovery. The Inventor had been now for ten vears en- . deavoring to impress the government f tbit country with the importance of hi invention,' ind daring" that period lie had""."'" tfuggledj; with " the severest "dilliculliee rather thin accept the tempting efiVra of thtt so powsrfol-an ongine -aool4 nt bo r lost te his own country. He had frequent ly orged these considerations en the First " Lord of tne Treasury,- and alia , that it could enily be ascertained whether or not the ioitruratnt wit worth haying, It wat. eruel te the Individoal and enjust to the country that the matter bad not long since been decided on; " , 1 Sir Francis Burdett having been a wit-! net! te the experiment!, would iav that - he had never aeen anything more aton' ishingj nor.hid he ever conceived that any-" Ll .11 I . m . . - niing an aroan ana inning, i companion to it effect, could ever hive been inven ted. An immente fabric of wood-work, trongly clamped together with iron, wit it ' the diitince of two or three hundred yard , scattered into frtgment. Foreign Gov-' ernmente were anxioua to peenre thie In venticn, which eo far exceeded all others ' for the time purpose bat he hoped one ef- -feet of thit discaition would he . to secure it for this country. , Mr. Brotherton waa ttaite. willing to pve encouragement to all penons who - invented engines for Increasing the indus try or segmenting the happiness , of the : people, but he must protest against any encouragement being field out to the inven- : tion of engine which he Considered to be la w . Liojariana to-Oho peace and welfare of oc--; - ety. it miaht be aaid that the invention of these machinee would put an end t-war-- "hear," aad cheera. bathe doubted that. . War wat a remnant of barbirimr and ought to. be discouraged by a- civilictd ' (fat in all pottible way. ; The (object ' then dropped, 'aac? the' home adjourned at (ix o'clock. ; , f : J3 Book, A. book is a thing formerly p.; aside to be read, and now1 read to be put s side. The world is at rresent divided iMo two classes -those who forget to read, and-.' those who read to lorgeU , ; Bck-makinf i ' which nsed to' be a, science, la now a mtnu- ' facture, with which, a in erery thing else. ' ' the marici Is socompletely. overstocked, diet Our literary operativca, if they wish-to avoid' " Aiavfltiinar. -- - .Asm.tanjajWakssi TAa La for some time, been employed In cutting np - -each other, as if to prepare for the meal Alas! they must have- reason for their feast, -withou finding it a feast of reason. . ' '" "' "WasaalBaaMBaaaa r " ' '' Importance of punctuation. 'Tlie ne. es sity or correct punctuation is most atrik- J ingly illnstrated by the following lines of po etm The lines as they now stand without . EMnts, are absurd, and assert impossibilities. y inserting a semicolon in Its proper place . ' in each line except the last, (which place I -leave the reader to discover, the true mean- ..' ing is rendered apparent, and the impossibil tie removed f. i-Y?-:i " ;" ., " ' t mw a peacock with l a fiery tail ' I aaw a blatlng star that dropt down bail - r -I ssw a stood begirt with ivy roand ' -I saw a stuidy oak oreep oa w ground 1 raw a pismire swallow sp a whale ; ' . I aaw tba biackiah tea bil fMll f.alL. , I uw a phial glass sit tew yard deep 1 taw a well foil offlwa's tears to weep I ssw msa's eyes all oaa flams of Ere ' , I aaw a bouse high as the moon or higher I saw ths radiant sua at midnight , ' , I aaw the man wbs ssw this dreadful sight. : The first elemenU of wealth are obtained : , or labor from the earth and waters, '..Prank.'!.,. , - Qoiaa fift encinei iquirt nodfgkt water. ,,. A., . ; A entail petition, eigned by ttvcA hund red thoutand noma, waa lately handed in to the British Parliament.