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‘Tuomas Cartrue is about to write the life of John Sterling, the poet, who died about six years since, and with whom Carlyle was very intimate. Archdeacon Hare has already published a memoir of Berling, but the friends of the latter con- sidered it unjust to its subject, in its en- tire omission of the history of his religious es.perience.

A Madras journal records, that a private i one of her Majesty’s regiments of foot has recently come into possession of three lace of rupees, £30,000 sterling.

According to a parliamentary paper,the declared value of British and Irish pro- duce and manufactures exported fron ao oor of London in 1850 was £14,137,. -

A century ago the amount expended jn books, periodicals, and aewspapers, did: not exceed £100,000 a year, whereas the sum now so expended annually is calcu- lated at £2,100,000,

At the suggestion of Sir John Herschell, the new plenet just discovered by Mr. J. R. Hind 13, in aljusion to the tranqullity now reigning in Kurope, is to be called Irene, properly, Eirene, peace:

The failure of the firmof W. and D. Oidenburg, a Cerimean house at Leeds, has been announced. ‘The total liabilities are stated at between £50,000. London and Manchester firms are losers.

ImrortaNr From Van Dinman’s Lanv.—By a recent arrival from Hobart Town, we learn that an important meet- ing had taken place at Port Phillip of the various delegates appointed by the public meetings held at the several Australian colonies for the purpose of adopting mea- sures to prevent the further introduction of convict labour into those settlements. At the above meeting of delegates it was unanimously resolved that resolutions be drawn up by which the colonists pledge themselves to employ no convict labour after the present time, nor to hold any communication or have dealings withany who shall empluy such labour. It was also resolved thata sum of £20,000 be raised by public subscription to carry out the object of the meeting. Before sepa- rating, the delegates drew up an appeal to the people of England, ealling upon them.to co-operate with them in their anti-convict agitation.

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ATTEMPTED Malt Ropeery.—An at- tempt wae made to rob the mail Stage going Westward, between this city and Brantford, on Thursday night. The mail bag was. cut so as to afford an aperture large enough to admit of the abstraction of its contents. Marks of blood were dis- covered on the bag, indicating the fact of the thief having maimed himself in his: thievish exploit. Weare not aware of anything having beentaken from tie bag, fatther than Mr. Ritchie (Post master of of this City,) has shown us some frag- ments of a letter picked up on the road, which ig a striking evidence of the To- onto mail having been taken out. The driver of the return mail the same night, discovered that a similar attempt was me- ditated on the mail-bag in his charge _Suspecting foul play he alighted, when coming through the Grand River Swamp, and on examination found that the straps which bound up the bag bad been unbuckled. He immediately removed the bag to the front part of the stage, and thua gecured it froin further encroach-

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The Canadian Parliament, in session at Toronto, adjourned one day last week. at five, P. . to breakfast. ‘The Montreal Courier thus notices the matter ;

“This refers to a public breakfast given the Earl and Cuuntess of Elgin, on Wednesday evening, at five,rp. mu. A breakfast at five o’clock in the evening! A very jngenious device to save the Go- vernor General's port, which, after ail, is not reported to be of the very best vin- tage. We wonder when the Earl and Countess of Elginedine. Ourstaid sover ancestors used to sit down to that meal at the meridian. ‘Two o’clock then be- came the fashionable hour, whence it crept on later and later, until it reached six, seven, and even eight o'clock in the evening, which gave occasion for the sage remark of an Irish butler, that he be- lieved ‘the gintry would by and by, put off their dinner ti]! to-morrow.’ ”

Canavtan Propucts ar tHe [npus- TRIAL Exnisiren.—We learn that Ca- nada is making quite a figure at the Chrystal Palace—her wares having at- tracted the attention and elieited the commendation of Her Majesty, and nu- merous other visiters, whose views with respect tothe value and importance of that appendage of the British Crown, has, in consequence, undergone a_ great change. The black wa]nut is much ad- mired,a nd parties have expressed a desire te secure pre-emption of all that may be sent to England for sale. Among the articles most admired are the Sleighs and a Fire Engine, and it is said thatas a whole, the Canadian Exhibition excels that of the United States, and the proba- bility is thatshe will derive profitas well as honour from the pains she has taken to make herself known among the enlight- ened of the earth,

It is stated on the authority of the Fi- nance Minister, in the “ Canadian,” that the provincial authorities have the right to make the St. Lawrence River free to the vessels of all nations without reference to the Imperial‘zovernment. At Toronto, the Government introduced a bill to abo- lish the right of Primogeniture in the succession of reafestate. Bills to pre- vent the unauthorized expenditure of public money, and to limit the granting of pensions, were defeated by the op- position.

Dears or Lavy Cotrerooxe.—Bar- badves papers announce the death of La- dy Colebrooke, consort of His Excellency Sir William Colebdrooke, late Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, and at pre- sent Governor of the Windward and Lee- ward Islands. Her ladyship died on the 19th of April. The annexed extract is a copy from the Barbadoes Liberal :—

“f,ady Colebrooke is no more! She was well on Saturday evening, when she left Government house for Dunscombe, in the parish of St. Thomas’s; so well that she got out of her carriage and walk- ed up the steep hill to the house; on ar- riving at which she complained of a se- vere pain in her chest, called fora glass of water—sat down, and almost iinme-+ diately breathed her last!—and thus passed away from ns an ornament to so- ciety —a pattern to her sex as a wife and a mother, and a liberal and kind benefac- tress to the indigert and the poor.

The remains of this gifted and Jament- ed lady were followed from Government House to the Cathedral, at half past five last evening, by an immense multitude of all ranks and classes of this commu- nity: At the * Governors gate” they were received by the Lord Bishop and several of his Clergy, and, after the usual service, were consigned to the tomb in the Cathedral burial ground, and the ge- neral grief of the largest and most per-

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Inpian Trousiesin Minnesora.—The St. Paul (Min.) Pioneer, of the 16th inst., apeatting of the feuds among the Indians, in that territory, says:—The quarrel com- ménced about the middle of April, upon disputed hunting grounds, between a par- ty of Sioux hunters and a party of Chip- pewa hunters.—The hunting in question is ground whieh the Chippewas claim to own by conquest from the Sionx, but which the Sioux seem determined not to relinquish, Early in April, upon this disputed ground,the Sioux fired upon and killed a Chippewa half-breed. Soon after,

one ofa pariy of Chippewa hunters, of

the Pillager band, having spied out a lodge containing five Sioux, returned to his three companions, who was guid- ed to the Sioux lodge in the night, and who surrounded the lodge and fired upon the inmates, who were asleep in their blankets, killing two men and one child at the first discharge, when the lodge fell down and the Chippewas continued to fire through the skins of which it was made, wherever they could perceive any motion. One of the Sioux squaws ¢rept out from under the lodge, and tried to crawl off. Two Chippewas followed her up and discharged titeir rifles at her; but discovering that she was only a squaw, one of then) magnanimously stepped for- ward and knocked her brains out with the breech of his rifle. ‘They took prisoner a little child ; but, finding him too trouble- Some, one of them took the little fellow by the heels and dashed out his brains against a tree. Gov. Ramsey has writien

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requesting him to demand of the Chippe- wa chiefs the surrender df these murder- ers; but it is not probable they will be given up. In the meantime, the various bands of Sioux, hearing of these atrocities, are stirred up with fell purposes of ven- geance. A few days since a band of 130 Warpeton Sioux warriors, armed and painted, took the war path, and, by the last accounts, were directing their marc! against the Chippewas at Mille Lac. About the same time, another small war party of Sioux, from another band, left, and, it is believed, are gone to attack tre Chippewas who live fear the river St. Croix. What further barbatities may re- sult from these movements, we are ear- ful of conjectuting.

Repusiican Aktstocrats. — The class of gentry known in this country as Aristocrates, is thus described in Hunt’s Merchant’s Magazine:—

Twenty years ago, this man butchered, and that one made candles; another sold cheese and butter; a fourth carried ona cistillery ; another was a contractor on canals; others were merchants and me- chanics. They are acquainted with both ends of society—as their children will be after them, though it will not do to say so out loud.—:*or often you will find that these toiling worms hatch butterflies; and they live about a year.

Veath brings division of property ; and it brings new financiers; the yoiing gen- tleman takes his revenues, and begins to travel—towards poverty, which he reach- es before death—or his children do; if he did not. | So that, in fact, though there is a moneyed rank, it is not hereditary—it is accessible to all; three good seasons of cotton will Send a generation of men up; a score of years wil! send them al) down, and send their children again to labor.

The father grubs and grows rich; his children strut and use the money: their children inherit the pride and go to shift-

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less poverty: their children reinvigorate by fresh plebeian blood, and by the simel of the clod come up again. Thus society hke a tree, draws its sap from the earth. changes it into leaves and blossoms, spreads them abroad in great glory ; min- gle with the soil, at lengii to reap- pear in new trees and fresh garniture,

Yankee Notioss.—Waar 1s ro BE PONE WITH THEM?—In the advertise— ment of the Clerk of the House of Re- presentattves for the next congress, there is set down among things needed, 250 dozen pen knives—about a dozen for each member—of which 150 dozen are required to be “ four bladed, pearl hand- led, and of the highest finish and best quality, and 100 dozen of two blades, pearl handled, and of the highest finish and best quality.” ‘I'welve knives toa member may seem a large allowance; and to the unsophisticated people, who pay for this large stock of cutlery, the query at the head of this paragraph will naturally suggest itself. But it must be understood that many of the members have severai boys, each of whom wiil ex- pect at least one- of every kind of knife ordered by the Clerk, and others who are not blessed with boys have choice friends who wil] entertain the same expectations. Then the “ hundred dozen of two bladed, pear! handled, and otf the highest finish,” aré principally intended as presents for ladies, dear souls,whe do not care to drib- ble away their money paying for pen- knives. Itis safe tosay that all the knives will be satisfactorily disposed of before the session is half ever.—[Buffalo Advertiser.

A Harp Srory.—The ‘ People’s Own’ tells the hardest story we have seen for many a day. [t is about a very pious old lady in Kentucky, who had for a hasbant and sons four of the greatest scapegreces that ever lived. ‘The-old lady had efter prayed fortheir conversion, but seemingly to no effect. At last,one day, while working in the corn field, one of the boys was bitten by a rattlesnake. He had scarcely reached home, before he felt the poigon, and in his agony called aloud on his Maker. The pious old lady when she heard this, forgetful of her son’s misery, and everything else but the glorious hope of his repentance, fel] on her knees and put up the following prayer—

“QO Lord, [thank thee that thou hast at last opened Jimmy’s eyes to the error of his ways, and I pray that in thy mercy thou wilt send a rattlesnake to bite the old man, and another to bite Tom, and another to bite Harry, and another to bite Dick; for A am certain nothing buta rattlesnake or acrowbar will ever turn em, they are so hard hearted!”

Portrtanp, June 12.—Mr. Freeman. of Gilead, Me., last night entered bis bed room afid shot his wife who was in bed with an Irish girl. Hethen ran into a field and shot himself. He afterwards cut histhroatand died, Mrs. Freeman i8 not expected to survive. ‘Cause un- known.

Sohn Harley, an Irishman, was killed at Lewiston Falls this morning, by the caving inof an embankment. Another man had twoor three ribs broken, and several others were more or less injured.

By way of kev to the following para - graph from the Boston Bee, we mav state that Mrs. Bloomer is the Milliner who introduced the new style of Femule attire into the United States.

Broomens, — Yesterday afternoon, Washington-street was alive with Bloom- erdom. In going from State to Boyiston street, we met overa doten. One waa dressed in a magnificent brocade silk, with trousers of the same.

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