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      Buffalo . I have not seen the Shakers yet ; but am Invited to spend two or three days with them at Shirley , which 1 shall not fail to do . Whilst here , we heard a lecture from a Mr . Andrews , of New York , u visitor like ourselves He said . it was not important that men should live in community . The world might be saved without it if people were strictly honest to each other ; which he defined to be exchanging commodities , not at their but at

      market value , which is the present system ; their cost price , which would do away with rent , interest , and profit of all kinds . For instance , if one man made shoes , and another hats , instead of selling them to each other at their market value , they would each calculate the time spent in making the articles . The shoes might be twelve hours a pair ; the hats more or less , as the case might be , if more , probably the shoemaker would have to mend a pair of shoes , as well as make a pair , in order to pay for his hat .

      The lecturer said there was a village in Ohio , where thi 9 principle was successfully adopted . If you asked the price of new milk there , you were told it was ten minutes a quart ; corn was three minutes per pound , that is , you could get ten minutes * labour for a quart of milk , nnd three minutes' labour for a pound of

      corn . Mr . Andrews has agreed for some land on Long Island , where he and some others intend to commence living on this system very shortly . Affectionately yours , M .

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      CHARLES GEORGE HARDING . The following letter has been published in the Reasoner , and we insert it out of respect for the memory of the brave fellow now no more : — ' My Dear Hoi / stoake , —Will you permit me to say a word for our departed mutual friend , Charles George Harding ? An earnest soldier of Democracy , brave , intelligent , disinterested , and devoted , he was , as you know well , ever ready with his purse , his pen , and his time , to work in that good cause in whose ultimate triumph he so firmly believed . In 1847 , alone and unaided , he set on foot the Republican , a journal in which will be found great earnestness , great candour , true chivalry , and a more than ordinary intelligence . Essentially a man of the People , Charles Harding wrote for the People , uttering their thoughts and feelings in their own lauguage . Gentle , graceful , affectionate , yet strong and firm , possessed of unfailing good temper

      and unwearied zeal , hs passed through life a useful servant and a sterling ornament of our party . With a mind free from all superstition , without orthodox be liefs of any kind , Republican in politics and Rationalist in religion , yet full of belief in the great truths of nature , full of reverence of the great men and great thoughts of humanity , he lived and died ( alas ! too young ) an honourable man and a noble citizen . His was one of those happily balanced minds which never fret at difficulties , but work on , ever steadfast and ever believing . His was one of those genial hearts which see more of gladness in human life than sorrow , without selfishly ignoring that sorrow ; sympathizing , kindly , generous , true . Where work was to be done , there in the midst of it was Charles Harding ; where sympathy wae needed , from the fountains of his warm heart it sprang up clear , and fresh , and abounding .

      " But , alas ! the seeds of that fatal disease which robbed us of Robert Nicoll were implanted in his system ; and on the 22 nd , only twenty-six years old , after great suffering , gently and unmurmuringly borne , he died true to his early and cherished conviotions , and firm in his faith in our great cause . I know you will mourn with me the loss of one who would have fought bo manfully in the coming strife ; and over his grave drop the tear of sincere but unavailing regret ; and in your heart , as I in mine , as all his friends will in theirs , inscribe his name witli those of the true and good , whose memories we hold in . honour and remember with affection , and whose example helps to suHtain us in the arduous path we pursue . Yours in truth , G ^ ouoe Hooper . " August 2 ( 5 , 1851 . "

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      PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP . When we went to picas last week , our account of the Queen ' s progress left her Majesty on the roud to Balmoral . After remaining at Ilolyrood on Thursday , driving out about the town in the afternoon , she held u Iev 6 e in the evening , at which the Lord Provost was knighted . Prince Albert , « ay « n Scotch paper , handed the ( luccn the Hword , with which her Majesty atruck hia lordahip a smart slap on each shoulder , and suid — " ltiHO , Sir William Johnston "—which Sir William immediately did !

      Tin ; Queen left Ilolyrood the next morning booh after ei ^ lit , o ' clock , and took the train at St . Margaret ' s station . The carriage was very handsome , being in fact < iuhe a drawing-room . The engine and tender which drew the train were gorgeously decorated ; and the royal party Htarted off amid loud cheers . Thoy lunched at Sionehaven , taking carriages from thence to l $ alnioial , and arriving there on the name night . Very le > v of the peasantry were assembled to receive her . We quote the Aberdeen Herald : — " Nine retainers , in full Highland costume of Vietoria and Royal Stuart tartan , wen ; drawn up in front , of the lawn , a fow yardrt apart . Prince Albert / a yager was easily < 1 ihtingui . shable from his large , and powerful-looking Ji ^ uru . The Queen ' s piper , during the » approach of her Majesty and for a nhort time after ahe had

      alighted , performed with good taste and spirit several fine airs , dwelling specially on ' Johnny Cope , ' « Tullochgorum , ' The Glen ' s My Own , ' and ( of all the tunes in the world ) * The Wee , Wee German Lairdie , an air to whistle which in the royal ears would , in former times , have been reckoned rank and atrocious treason . " Prince Albert has had an iron ball-room constructed at Manchester , intended for Balmoral . It is sixty feet long , twenty-four feet wide ^ and ten feet high , with a peaked roof , supported by pilasters . The floor is made of wood , and it is said , by the Manchester Examiner , to present an agreeable and satisfactory effect externally , and that the constructive arrangements are

      praise-Lorcl Cranworth and Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce have been appointed Judges of Appeal , the latter with a seat in the House of Lords . Sir W . Page Wood and Mr . J . Parker are to become Vice-Chancellors . A vacancy is thus created in the post of Solicitor-General . A short time since the Duke of Wellington started early for Bangor , walked through the Britannia tubular bridge , returning outside the structure—a service of no uncommon peril—and then came back to town to dinner .

      The Times of Thursday contained the following : — " Arundel Castle , September 2—On Sunday morning his Grace the Duke of Norfolk , E . M ., attended Divine service at Arundel Church , when an excellent discourse was delivered by the Reverend G . H Hart , chaplain in ordinary to the Queen . The Duchess , Lady Adeliza Howard , with Lord and Lady EUesmere , &c , were also of the party . " Lord Saltoun is to be a Knight of the Thistle in the room of the late Viscount Melville .

      Mr . Samuel Morton Peto , has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers . —Gazette . Signor Sam " , one of the Triumvirate of the Roman Republic , testified at the Evangelical Alliance to the religious persecution practised by the Court of Rome . Mr . Charles Keenig , aged 78 , for many years keeper of the mineral department of the British Museum , fell down in Museum-street , on Friday , and died shortly after . He was observed to stagger by a sentinel , who ran to his assistance . The cause of his death was

      extravasetion of blood to the brain . John , the only son of Mr . Henry Grattan Curran , has been shot accidently at Strokestown , in Ireland . He and some companions were playing with pistols , which were believed to be unloaded , and one of the boys pointed a pistol at John Curran and pulled the trigger , when to the amazement and horror of all present the weapon exploded and the poor boy dropped lifeless . „ The boy who unwittingly fired the pistol has been suffering so intensely from the shock he received that his life is despaired of .

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      Major-General Sir Henry Watson , Knight , Colonel of the Fifteenth Regiment , died in town on the 3 Lst ultimo . He entered the army as cornet in the Third Dragoon Guards in May , 1795 . He served in the Peninsula , and was present at the passage of the Douro and battle of Oporto , capture of Campo Mayor , siege of Olivenza , actions of Los Santos and Usagre , battles of Albuera ( in which he commanded a regiment of Portuguese cavalry ) , Fuentea d'Onor , and Salamanca , where lie was severely wounded . At Toulouse he commanded all the Portuguese cavalry . He became a Major-Generul in 1838 , was made Colonel of the Sixty-third Regiment in 1847 , an 1 was removed to the Fifteenth in November , I 860 . By his death the colonelcy of the latter corps is vacant . Sir Henry Watson had a gold medal for Salamanca , and the silver war medal with two clasps for Albuera and Toulouse .

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      Accounts from Madrid of the 29 th ultimo , announce that the Duchess of Montpensier was safely delivered of a daughter on the previous evening , in her palace at Seville . The mother and child were doing well . A legitimist correspondent from Germany states that Dun Miguel ( whom he calls King Don Miguel ) is about to marry the Princess de Lowciistein-ltosenberg , a relative of Prince Sehwarzenberg , who , although not appertaining to a royal house , is still of the very highest nobility . An agent of the Emperor of Russia has just ordered of Messrs . ltansomes and May , a Universal Ridge Plough .

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      Ilolnicote , Sir ihomas Aclanu ' s beautiful neat , in Somersetshire , was deHtrowed by fire on Saturday ; but at present no particulars arc known . The house and its contents wrro insured with the West of England Company to the amount of £ 7000 , a sum thought to be furbelow the amount of damage . The Exeter ( iazette nny .-i , that a bronze medal lias been lately handed by Captain Scott , K . N ., to a waterman named Hitchcock , who had jumped overboard and saved the life of a gentleman from drowning . He had mink , but Hitchcock dived ufter him and brought him to the surface , He was icntorcd , and in now in a fair way of recovery . Captain Scott , by way of rewarding him , has collected sufficient funds to give him a new boat also .

      On Tuesday week , as a young man named Henry Myth was on the west Hide of the river at Yarmouth , he heard a cry of boy overboard . The boy was going on boiird a smack on . the ea * t side of the river . Mr . Myth immediately pulled a boat to the , upot , and found the boy wax ( linking , and the tide taking him rapidly under Mr . Clarke ' s coal depot . He immediately jumpt-d from the boat , dived , oaught the boy in his arms , and swam with him to Mr . Ambrose Palmer ' s dock , to the great delight of many that were standing by . Both he and the boy

      were , however , much exhausted . This is the fourth life Mr . Blyth has saved in a very short space of time . The last was about three weeks since . The Giornale di Roma gives an account of a most singular meteor which was remarked on the 19 th after sunset , in the vicinity of the Volscian Apennines and the Alban mountains . The phenomenon was ushered in by sudden flashes of light , shooting fiora two distinct points of the eastern horizon behind the Hernic mountains , near Monte Fortino . The colour of the light greatly resembled that of the aurora borealis . After some time a splended fiery globe , apparently as large as the moon , when seen at the horizon , rose to the altitude of about 30 degrees . From the rose-coloured light it ^

      cast upon the adjoining clouds , it was evidently above them . It continued its course , describing something like a parabola , from west to east , for some time , and at last burst with the noise ot thunder , scattering thousands of luminous fragments arouud , which soon disappeared . The phenomenon had been preceded by several falling stars in the same quarter of the heavens . A correspondent of the Daily News says : —On Saturday last the necessary preliminaries and conditions were arranged and finally agreed upon by which Commodore Stevens transfers the America to Captain de Blaquiere , of the Indian army , for the sum of £ 7000 , who will this day ( Monday ) become her sole and undivided possessor .

      It was the intention of the American commodore to visit the London waters , for the purpose of giving theinhabitants of the metropolis an opportunity of inspecting this nautical wonder , but this arrangement has been set aside by the ready acceptance of the ownership on the terms proposed , without any abatement whatever . Sunday being the last opportunity of inspecting the America at Cowes , she was visited by an immense number of persons from London and elsewhere , who universally expressed their admiration of her extraordinary feats and singular and unique construction . The present , or rather future owner , it is stated , will at once proceed with her on a voyage of pleasure to the Mediterranean .

      We cut a queer bit of gossip from the National : — " Count Orloff has just presented to the Emperor of Russia an extraordinary musical phenomenon , in the person of a young Wallachian called Frederick Roltz . This man has been born with four hands , each having five fingers . He was brought up by a clergyman , who taught him to play on the organ , but the young man , iu the course of time , made a pianoforte for himself , of considerably greater power than that of ordinary instruments . He enjoys excellent health , and , with the exception of the hands , presents nothing strange in his person . It is only from the elbow that the malformation

      commences . The arm there divides into two limbs , each ending in a hand with a double supply of fingers . These additional arms are regularly made , and the only remarkable point observed by medical men is the immense development of the deltoid muscle at the summit of the shoulder . The clergyman who had brought up Roltz at his death left him a small property , and the young man immediately purchased diamond rings , with which he loaded his twenty fingers . It was with them so adorned that he performed before the Emperor of Russia , who expressed his surprise at the musical powers of the young man . Roltz , it is said , is to shortly visit Paris . "

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      MURDEL . A master butcher of Morpeth , named Milburn , left hia home on Tuesday week , on horseback , for Boshall Rectory , where he had to settle an account . On his return home he called upon a friend at Choppington , and they parted company at the Guide Post Tavern , at twelve o ' clock . Early on the following morning , Mr . Milburn ' s horse was found roaming about Iiippscot , with the bridlerein cut . Nothing could be heard of the unfortunate

      man . Search was made along the road , and at a distance of about half a mile from where his friend had parted company with him , was found his riding whip broken to pieces , his hat smashed , and his memorandum book with some leaves torn out and the pockets emptied . Near to where these articles were found were symptoms of & struggle , spots of blood , and footmarks of two persons , with appearances as if a body had been dragged along the road and over two or three fields to a wood , where all traces ceased . Great exertions have been made to find the body , but without success . There is a mysterious rumour floating about on the coast of Lincolnshire , according to the Boston Herald . Fifteen years ago a boy named Enderby disappeared lie was the adopted son of an innkeeper at SkegnesK . Every search wm made without avail . A few yearn since , a man of the name of Milnes , of Croft , made some unintelligible reference to this mysterious event before he died , but nothing definite could be gathered from his semi delirious ravings . However , a " navvie , " called

      Candy I aylor , who had married a wister of Milnes , died very recently , and before his death made the following horrible diucloMiires , viz ., that as young Knderby was bringing home some horses , he lighted upon Taylor nnd Milnen engaged in Nliiiightering a sheep ; that , to prevent detection , they muidcml the poor lad and buried hia corpse in the Hand about four nnlea oil ' , at IiiRoldmells Out-end . These two fellows , Taylor and Milnes , were desperate diameters , and the terror of the neighbouihnod .

      Miiry Ann Borehaiu witu found drowned in a pond near 15 rixton , alleged to have been murdered between the l / ith and 2 7 'h of August . * Sh « wan a servant , and her disappearance was connected with the loss of Home property , tme . h as slipper-topn , a gold pin , a knife , »»« pencil-case . Mr . J « a . i < : N , whose servant h 1 io _ w « b , for some rcuHou or other , suspected Maihew WilliumH , the clerk of a wine merchant who lived opposite , mul ( inked him about tho miiisiiiK tf irl . Il « denied all knowledge of her . Itut on an application being iwui « to Inn master he wu « forced to confer that ho did know he . and also that he had got the « lipper-t «> p » . 'lhl * l » d to hi . arrest , when other articles -where found at hia lodgings . Ho

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      M . Berenger , President a la Cour de Cassation at Paris , had an interview with Mr . Waddiugton yesterday at the Home-office .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 6, 1851, page 845, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1899/page/9/