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THE EXAMINER.

SS EN ST TE (deanings from our latest British, Foreign and Colonial Papers.

THE GREAT SEA SERPENT.

The great Sea Serpent reported by the Captain of the| Daedalus, is sti!! engaging the attention of the learned, |

and exercising the wit and ingenuity of the Newspaper Scribes. All sorts of articles, serious, historical, scien- tific, and humourous, in prose and verse, daily issue from the English Press. The following from a late No. of Douglas Jerrold’s Newspaper, is of the latter class,which we republish for the benetit of those who enjoy a good yoke : :

"ia speculations are afloat as to the nature and origin of our old friend, the “Great Sea Serpent.” The mechanic supposes, from the facilities with which the monster does fifteen miles an hour without apparent muscular exertion or goinga-head, as most serpents do, that he must be supplied with an apparatus, similar to a screw-propeller, in some part of the four hundred feet of concealed tail. The superstitious consider him to be an original, having existed between five and six thousand years in the bowels of Vesuvius ; from which, by a sub- terranean passage, he makes his way to the ocear for an occasional aquatic excursion, to the great relief of the short-weight baker of Wapping, whose habitat. in the game volcano is indisputable, it having been sworn to some years ago before my Lord Mayor. It is thought he will come on shore some day in search of the Wan- dering Jew, with whom he will probably fraternise. The learned altogether doubt.its validity, and consider “a production of Daedalus, a celebrated artist of anti- quity, who fabricated moving statues and figures, hav- sng all the appearance of animated nature.

“ Now let us sing, ‘God save the Queen,’ And Kraken, long iive he;

And should he ever come on shore, May I be there to see”

EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND,

“The tide of Emigration from Ireland,” says the Tipperary Free Press, “is flowing rapidly on, and what was called the superabundant population of Ireland, will ere long be spoken of as among the things that have been. We are losing daily and nightly the bone and sinew of the land. Hundreds have passed through this town (Clonmel) during the past few weeks, the greater

rt by night, on their way to Cork and Waterfard, some

r Australia, but the great majority bound to the United States.”

Better far to emigrate than starve. There are mil- lions of acres in the colonies, now totally unproductive, which want hands to cultivate them. Why, then, should the emigrant hesitate to choose between the evils of poverty and misrule, and the blessings of plenty and good Government ?

Sm C. Narier’s way wits tur So.prers.—With a jest he wins the soldiers’ hearts, for they feel their

eneral regards them as comrades and not as slaves. Thus, when some insolent and silly young men persist- ed, insubordinately, to ride violently through the camp aud bazaars, causing frequent accidents, he issued the following characteristic order, bringing ridicule and fear at once to bear on the offenders :—‘ Gentlemen, as well as beggars, if they like, may ride to the devil when they get on horseback; but neither gentlemen nor beggars have aright to send other people to the devil, which will be the case if furious riding be allow- ed in the bazaar. The Major-General has placed a detachment of horse at the disposal of Captain Pope, who will arrest offenders and punish them, as far as the regulations permit. And Captain Pope is not empower- ed to let any one escape punishment, because, when erders have been repeated and are not obeyed it is time to enforce them: without obedience an army becomes a mob, and a cantonment a bear-garden; the enforcement of obedience is like physic, not agreeable but necess- ary.’

Morats or Bettenoop.—The Knickerbocker thus truly and eloquently discourses :

“flere is a young lady who grows thin because she ts nota belle. Has she considered what the Jife of beauty is? Tobe flattered by every body, besieged with ‘blarney” and lies, mock affection, insecure friend- @uip; to be stared at in the Street, andto be conscious that beanty is preferred te worth; to feel the inferior and be superior in place; to be obliged to still every rue emotion of the breast; never to love, but be mar- ried in cbedience to what the fashionable world says she ought to do; fiaally to wear false hair, false teeth, aud to be false in every thing; and dying, give direc- tions about the grave dress ag becoming ornot. My dear young lady, be a milk-maid; dress your rich tresses in the glass of stil] water; love some honest lad who will doat upon you; become the mother of cood men; die with some sense that you have not lived in vain ; leave the memory of good deeds to the poor—that vou were a good mother, a nice housekeeper, a fruga! w.fe; and such a reputation is worth all the homace beauty receives a thousand times over,” .

RervtaTions Furnisnep.—The following adyer- tisement is copied literally from‘ The Times’ supple- ment, of Saturday week: —« Literary Assistance: Strictly Confidential, A quarterly reviewer, classical!

literature have elicited from ‘The Athenmum,’ ‘The Times,’ ‘Quarterly,’ and numerous other reviews and periodicals testimonials which will furnish incontestible evidence of his high standing and competence to the task, engages to enhance or to create the reputation of authors or diffident aspirants in any branch of the belles lettres. Poems, satires, essays, lectures, speeches, pre- faces, prospectuses, leading articles, sermons, or roman- ces of sterling value, composed and transferred for an adequate remuneration. Works prepared for the press. Manuscripts critically corrected. inviolable secrecy.” ‘The Examiner remarks on the above curious produc- tion as follows :—*“ T'his must be a wonderful genius; but strange to say, his gifts do not avail him for himself, and he can create any reputation but his own, or why this tender of services and accomplishments of a Scott, a Byron,a Junius, a Sterne, an Addison, and a Johnson! The collocation of performances is curiously happy; next to sermons being placed romances of sterling merit. The modest author dares not promise as much for his sermons. ‘The advertisement is not properly headed ; it should be ‘A Crichton to Let.”

Somebody, who edits a newspaper somewhere, not having the admonitions of leap-year, or the fear of out- raged female failings before his eyes, does up the mili- nery of a fashion plate, in one of the Philadelphia mag- azines, in the following style, which we hope is not the ‘latest fashion?’

“ A snipe nosed minx, wasp-waisted, wearing on her head a shovel shaped nightcap, set off by a cockade of green leaves and red roses, her slim body ‘all in white,’ loose sack ‘arrayed,’ flounced and fretted, having on in front a slatey blue apron, slit up and down in the mid- dle, the whole giraffe seated on a bunglesome flaming red woollen baize arm chair—and looking sleepy, stupid and languishing, like a Jame goose. Standing by, in the attitude and with the look of one nosing a not re- cently deceased fish, is another block of the fashions— tremendons bustle all round; green dress, flowered and flummeried in the most finical manner, buttoned up and down in front from neck to foot; face of the crittur silly, smirking and soporiferous, inmense pair of lace whiskers, pale red bonnet, with a cockade of red roses —the whole a very affluent caricature of female dandy- ism.’

TRADE WITH THE Provinces.—A glance at our weekly table of exports will give our readers some idea of the extent ofthe trade which within a few years past has sprung up between Boston and the British Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Of the brigs which arrived here last week from foreign ports, nineteen out of twenty-four were from the Provinces; and of the schooners which arrived here from foreign ports, twenty-seven out of twenty-eight were from the same quarter. ‘These vessels come to this port freight- ed with wood, coal, potatoes, and in some instances fish, and in return take back principally flour, meal, and other articles of consumption. The quantity of flour exported to the Provinces during the past four weeks has been 9211 bbls; of meal 1880 bbls. and 200 bush- els; and of corn 6728 bushels. Other articles for do- mestic use go to make up their cargoes, which, though generally sroall, in the aggregate form no small item in the business of Boston.— Boston Journal.

Harirax ano Quesec Rar~roap.—We hear that the Home Government has received with great satisfac- tion the report of the Surveyors who were recently en- gaged in exploring the route of the Railway from this city to Quebec, and also that measures for carrying the project into effect, shortly, are warmly entertained by parties in England of high influence.

The Fredericton Reporter says :—* In about ten days, the line of electric telegraph from St. Andrews to St. John will be completed and in full operation. This is the continuation—not, we hope, the completion—of a line which extends from the city of New Orleans all the way to St. John. Next spring it will be continued to Halifax, and, we trust, to Fredericton; as we know the House of Assenbly will give all proper encourage- ment to such a laudable undertaking.”

Dustin, Nov. 5.—A curious and very unpleasent adventure occurred to Mr, Butt, Q. C., the eminent

ing tohis house in Leeson-street, and had to pass by the corner of Hatcli-street, the lower end of which leads to some waste ground, close to which is St. Mathias’ charch, when he was accosted by a respectably-dressed man, who in the most earnest terms asked him to ac-

denly fallen down ina fit, and would die if assistance were not rendered. Mr. Butt at once assented to the request, and proceeded with the stranger some distance, until they had passed the range of houses, when in an instant the latter rushed at him, and erying out, ‘I am your brother,’ endeavouring to strangle Mr. Butt. The learned gentleman, however, made a most determined resistance, being a powerful man, and, although dread- fully torn in his face and hands, succeeded in getting his assailant down. The other then tried to get the hand that was on his throat into his mouth, but failed; and at length the police came up, and with consider- able dfficulty made a prisoner of the unknown, who it was then ascertained was labouring under aberration of

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BERMUDA.

Lines. Surr.—The principal local event, since opr last publication, is the trial, at the present Assizes, of Robert Ward, Printer and Publisher of the “ Bermuda Herald,” for a Libel upon the House of Assembly, con. tained in an anonymous artice which appeared inthat paper in September last. ‘The case was laid before the Grand Jury, on Saturday, by whom a “ True Bill” wag found; and the trial commenced on Monday. The Attorney Gereral and Seth Harvey, Esq., were asso. ciated together, on the part of the Prosecution; the Solicitor General and 8S. B.,Gray, Esq.,on that of the Defence. The arguments pro and con, together with the examination of witnesses, occupied the whole of Monday; and yesterday forenoon, after a charge from His Honor the Chief Justice, the Jury retired te consider their verdict. The Court shortly after ad- journed until half past three in the afternoon. At ite re-assembling, the Jury returned into the Court Room with a verdict of Guilty.—The sentence we learn wilt be pronounced at the adjourned Court—which is usually within a fortnight after the close of the term,

Third English Mail for November.

The Steamship Britannia arrived at Halifax on Tues- day morning last in 154 days from Liverpool. The English Mail for the Island arrived here on Friday morning. Latest dates are to the 18th instant We give below every item of news worth noting.

The weather in England has improved and has led to melioration of the cholera. The official returns of the Registrar Genera} for the week ending the 1th inst. only show an excess of 11 above the average. weekly returns of the preceding five years within the limits of the bills of mortality. In Edinburgh, however, little abatement has taken place. About 20 cases are report- ed daily, of which from 5 to 10 prove fatal. Mr. Bund, prime warden of the Goldsmith’s Company of London, bas fallen a victim to the disease.

The potato disease has disappeared, and the deficiency of this esculent will not be nedrso large as at fist ap- prehended.

The tone of commercial affairs in England has.under- gone some change. Whilst confidence is being restor- ed, transactions in produce markets are not extensive. Grain markets are dul]. At Mark-lane at latest dates, Wheat had fallen 2s. per quarter, whilst the sale for that article, Flour, and Indian Corn was very limited. At Liverpool market on the following day, American Wheat brought 8s. 4d. to 8s. 5d. for white, and 7s. Gd. to Gs. 9d. for red. Flour sold at 27s. to 30s. 6d. per barrel, according to brand and quality, On the 17th the market was very languid. Monday continued abun- dant, and the rates of discount low.

Two emigrant ships had been wrecked on the Good- win and Long Sands. Both vessels were from Bremen: the Burgundy, with 300 German emigrants for New Orleans, and the bark Allantic for New York. The whole of the passengers of the former were saved, by crews of surrounding vessels. Four lives were lost oa board the Atlantic.

The foreign news isimportant. At Berlin, the insur- rection has been suppressed. But immediatiely after the triumph of the Imperialists was known at Potsdam, a Proclamation was issued, transferring the seat of the Assembly to Brandenberg. The Assembly refused obedience, and passed a decree to remove. A strong excitement ensued, and after the assembling of the Chamber, Gen. Wrangel at the head of 15,000 troops, entered the city, and sent a message to the President that he had orders to close the doors of the Assembly. The members again refused to disperse, and now hea commenced a struggle between the Prussian King and the Berlin mob. ‘The city, however, is declared ina state of seige.

The Danes insist upona dissolution of the newly installed government, therefore the news from thence is of a most warlike character.

The Queen’s troops in Spain have gained a battle ia Arragon, and dispersed the insurgents. Seven republi- cans were executed at Huesca on the Sih ult.

‘dency assuming a very serious aspect. ‘The election | will undoubtedly cause a desperate struggle.

Suicipe From Lovr.—A young Clergyman of St. John’s, Oxford, and for two years past Curate of St. Stephen’s Leinster, committed suicide in consequenee of his visits toa young lady to whom he had become much attached, having been forbidden by her parents, on account of her youth. The deceased was of good family.

IRELAND.

We regret to say that in the south of Treland there have been some few partial indications of a renewal of the political storm. The project of a rescue of the state prisoners has been meditated by some rash persons around Clonmel. On the 8th instant, a body of about [000 or 1500 men assembled about a mile anda halt from that town and were being drilled by a student named O'Leary; it is alledged that they were about ts adyance on Clonmel when the police end military made