feet 9 inches in height, fair hair, dark eyes, fair delicate face, and employment, and therefore have earned money, and paid his way: of weak appearance, long back, weak in his walk, small whis- and thus the disturbance of June might have been avoided, for ers; clothing indifferent. Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.'" John Hetherington Drumm, medical student, 20 years of age, 5 feet 3 inches in height, very black and curly hair, black eyes, pale delicate face, rather thin person, delicate appearance, no whiskers, small face and nose; dressed respectably-Methodist. Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee, connected with the Nation newspaper, 26 years of age, 5 feet 3 inches in height, black hair, dark face delicate, pale, thin man; dresses generally in a black shooting coat, plaid trowsers, light vest. Joseph Brenan, sub-editor of the Felon newspaper, 22 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches in height, dark hair, dark eyes, pale sallow face, very stout, round shoulders. Cork accent, no whiskers, hair on the upper lip, soft sickly face; rather respectably dressed, a lit the reduced. Thomas Devin Reilly, sub editor of the Felon newspaper, 24 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches in height, sandy coarse hair, gray eyes, round freckled face, head remarkably broad at the top, broad shoulders, well set; dresses well. "John Cantwell, shopman at a grocer's, 35 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches in height, sandy hair, gray eyes, fair face, good looking, short whiskers, light, rather slight person; dresses genteel; supposed a native of Dublin. per, **Stephen J. Meaney, sub-editor of the Irish Tribune newspa26 years of age, 5 feet 11 inches in height, dark hair, full blue eyes, dark face, small whiskers going under the chin, smart appearance, was a constable of C division of police, discharged for dirty habits, stout person, generally dressed in black. "Richard O'Gorman, jr., barrister, 30 years of age, 5 feet 11 inches in height, very dark hair, dark eyes, thin long face, large dark whiskers, well made and active, and walks upright; dress, black frock coat, tweed trousers." Poor fellows! Who all might have been heroes, but now they are only felons. THE POWER OF FASHION.-The foreign correspondent of one of our city papers makes the following just remarks on the power of fashion viewed merely as an element of commercial prosperity: "At present we are indebted to the combination for half the trade of the old world. It is not sufficient that you invite your friend to your house, and give him ample food and homely wel come; his dinner must be served on earthenware, china or plate, in accordance with the station of the giver. The humblest artisan would scorn to have his dinner put on table in a plate, it must be put on a dish, and his porter must be drank from metal. in a higher station, Hock cannot be drank from any other than a colored glass; claret must have a bell one, and schnaps, which accompanies the coffee, must be taken in their own peculiar dram-glass. All this, to the backwoodsman, is very foolish and very unnecessary; and yet it keeps employed in producing the most inutile of all inutilities, thousands of workmen, who otherwise would be living on the poor rates. Taste of Fashion dictates everything. The garment may be sound and serviceable, but it is not appropriate to the season,' and therefore cannot be worn. [The gentleman, in this particular, are not a whit less fanciful than the ladies.] The number of artificial wants are astonishing; the extent to which they are carried, marvelous. The table-cloth may be of the purest white, but if it has a hole in it, it cannot be produced before a stranger. The flowers in the vase are not presentable unless each Piccolee, each Geraneum, each Verbina, is of a known and named variety. The books in the library [never mind about their contents] must be bound in all the beauty of leather and gilding. Of course when some violent shock is felt, all these wants' cease to be such; when men are doubtful about the certainty of their prosperity, they dispense with these things, and then trade comes to a stand still, and all the world discusses the possibility of again putting the wheels of business in motion. Should we ever carry into effect the proposition, that it is the bounden duty of every man to earn the money, and of every wife to spend it, (this being an equitable division of labor') there will not be much chance of dull times recurring, unless indeed the purse should sometimes run dry. The ladies are the greatest encouragers of taste; nothing is ever too good for them; and it is fortunate for the higher classes of artisans that it is so. Were it otherwise, if economy alone were the presiding genius, many a man who now supports his family, must find another location,' and become a mere tiller of the earth. During the interval between the revolution of February and the rebellion of June in France, could the Provisional Government have persuaded and enabled each bankholder of Paris to repair a single room in his house, and in addition to the papering and the painting, to refurnish it; to order a suit of clothes for each member of his family, and to give a single soiree, more would have been done towards finding employment for the people than could be accomplished by all the national workshops together. It may seem strange that this apparent extravagance would have worked itself back again;' every one would have What a changeable world this is, and how difficult it is to stretch back our thoughts to the time when our ancestors shaved off their hair and wore wigs on their heads, and did other strange things, which would cause a man to be put into a straight-jacket for doing now. The diary of Pepys, a new volume of which has recently been published, brings very vividly to the mind the domestic habits of our pilgrim ancestors; it is a pity that every age could not have just such a gossiping ridiculous chronicler of small events as Pepys', to reflect to posterity like a faithful mirror, the exact image and pressure of the times. The following is an extract from his diary in 1662: "24th. Dined with my wife upon a most excellent dish of tripes of my own directing, covered with mustard, as I have heretotore seen them done at my Lord Crewe's, of which I made a very great meal, and sent for a glass of wine for myself. Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, tells me how ill things go at Court: that the King do show no countenance to any that belong to the Queen; nor, above all, to such English as she brought over with her, or hath here since, for fear they should tell her how he carries himself to Lady Castlemaine; insomuch, that though he has a promise, and is sure of being made her chyrurgeon, he is at a loss what to do in it, whether to take it or no, since the King's mind is so altered in favor to all her dependents, whom she is fain to let go back into Portugal, thongh she brought them from their friends thing for them. That her own physician did tell him within against their wills, with promise of preferment, without doing any these three days that the Queene do know how the King orders things, and how he carries himself to my Lady Castlemaine and others, as well as any body; but though she hath spirit enough, yet seeing that she doing no good by taking notice of it, for the present she forbears it in policy; of which I am very glad. But I do pray God keep us in peace: for this, with other things, do give great discontent to all people." A dish of tripes covered with mustard! What stomachs they had in those days. It is no wonder that the King was such a reprobate, if that was the style in which he fed. HONOR TO WHOM IT IS DUE, &c.-We have often been complimented on the extremely neat and beautiful manner in which our Magazine has been printed since the commencement of the present volume; and we are very happy to acknowledge our obligations to the great practical skill of Mr. Grossman, who has given his personal superintendance to the press upon which it is printed. The great improvements which have been made in printing presses during the past ten years-while they have increased to an astonishing extent-the rapidity with which papers can be printed, have also increased the difficulties of gaining good impressions, and rendered the services of capable pressmen more than ever necessary, and they become doubly and trebly necessary where fine wood cuts are given, which requires the utmost accuracy and nicety to preserve the delicate delineations from distortion. We print so large an edition of our Magazine that we are compelled to avail ourselves of all the recent improvements which add to the rapidity of the press, and but for the service of so capable and efficient a workman as Mr. Grossman, we should hardly be able to publish the fine wood cats which we have introduced into our Magazine since the commencement of the present volume. Mr. Grossman is an artist in his line, and at his office, No. 12 Spruce street, (Grossman and Newton,) he executes all kinds of fancy printing in a very superior style. THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN MARRYATT.-This eminent novelwriter died in England, at his country seat in Norfolk, in August. Captain Marryatt was an original writer, although the field in Smollet and Cooper which he exercised his pen was an old one. had made the ocean their own, but Captain Marryat gave an entirely new interest to the sea novel by his masterly delineations of the sailor character. In inventing a plot he had no particular power, and his descriptions of nautical evolutions, although more various subsidery buildings, coke and coal sheds, lime house, &c., are arranged with a view to harmony of proportions, with convenience of access. The entire cost of these works, when they shall have been put in operation, including the laying of a main to the present works on Centre street, is estimated at $400,000. GAME LAW OF NEW YORK.-The following is the law of New York on the subject of killing game: "If any person or persons shall kill," &c., " or animals commonly known as grouse, partridge, quail, English any of the birds snipe, hare, and rabbits, except only between the fifteenth day of September and the fifteenth day of January, in each and &c.-See Laws of 71st Session, (1848,) State of N. Y., p. 409. every year, he, she, or they so offending shall forfeit and pay." The New Orleans Bulletin says: correct and technical than those by Cooper, do not possess the story buildings, also of stone, from which it is separated by ornainterest for the unprofessional reader which the same kind of at-mented gateways, the whole presenting a front of 197 feet. The tempts do in the pages of our great romancer. But in portraiture he was infinitely the superior of both Cooper and Smollet, while his style was equal to Defoe. We always liked Marryatt, not only as an author, but as a man, and have ever thought that our countrymen were entirely too sensitive to his blunt remarks about us. He was an exceedingly pleasant and companionable gentleman, entirely free from affectation and all false delicacy; but his manners, which were the result of his sailor training and habits, seemed blunt and coarse to our squeamish gentlemen. He certainly was no Miss Nancy, neither in his speech, manners, nor writings, but a genuine specimen of the British naval officer, who differs very materially from the officers of our navy in manners, if in no other respect. John Bull cultivates ruileness of manner, and thinks it peculiarly becoming in sailors, while Brother Jonathan strives to appear as polite as he can under all circumstances. We like the latter method, ourselves, but in judging of British naval officers, we must make allowances for the school in which they are trained. Our people did not make sufficient allowances for Captain Marryatt, and he returned to England, after his traveling in this country, with a reputation considerably damaged by his visit. He was the son of a well-known London banker; it is said that his death was hastened, if not occasioned, by the shock which his system received from his reading in a newspaper of the death of his son, a Lieutenant in the British Navy, who was drowned in the steam frigate Avenger, which was wrecked on the African coast in the Mediterranean last spring. His works have all been very popular in this country, but Peter Simple and Jacob Faithful the most so. Captain Marryatt established the Metropolitan Magazine, and edited it during the first two years of its existence, but afterwards abandoned it. He was fifty-six of age at the time of his death. years "This law is precisely the opposite which the law-makers intended to enact. They meant to say that game should only be killed between the fifteenth of September in one year and the fifteenth of January in the next following year, instead of which it allows the game to be killed only between the fifteenth of January and the fifteenth of September of the same year, which is the very time they are out of season. A CO-PARTNER OF TIME.-All the world, probably, has heard of Willard, the clock-maker, of Boston, or at least, have seen the hours marked by his hands, if not heard of his name. The first time keeper that we ever saw-ah! if it had but kept time a little longer by the wings, and not suffered him to fly over our heads so rapidly!-bore upon its cream-colored dial the name of Willard; the big church clock, too, of our own native town, whose solemn tick-tick, used so to inspire our young mind with the fearful import of its dread warning, that at each swing of the heavy pendulum a link of our existence was broken, was made by Willard. We used to think that Willard was some mysterious old personage who was in some way or other in partnership with Time, and that he bore a scythe and hour-glass in his hand like the figure we had seen in our primmer, walking upon nothing. And it appears that Time has had the old clock-maker in his keeping, and kept him a long time, too, for we learn that the venerable old Patriarch has but just paid the debt of nature, as ceasing to pay any debts is poetically called. The following notice of the death of the venerable old gentleman we find in the Boston Transcript: THE MORAVIAN MINSTRELS.-Among the public singers who have recently made their advent in New York, has come a band calling themselves Moravian Minstrels, but why, we know not, unless they are of that religious denomination; the disciples of John Huss, unlike other religious societies, make music a part of a common school education, and teach the rudiments of musical composition at the same time that they begin to teach the alphabet. These Moravians are Germans; the band is com- "THE MASSACHTSETTS CLOCK-MAKER.-Among the recent posed of three male singers and a very charming young lady, deaths in this city, we notice that of Mr. Simon Willard, on the 30th ult., aged 95 years and 5 months. He was well known to fraulein Lovarny, assisted by a young man who gives very odd the past generation as an accomplished clock-maker, and many of performances on an instrument called the Xlicordian, which is his old-fashioned eight-day clocks are still in existence to bear composed simply of straws and bits of pine sticks. They have witness to his skill as an horologist. Time was when it was renone of the pretensions and graces of Italian singers, but resem-quisite to have one of Willard's clocks in a Massachusetts family as it now is to have a piano-forte. Not many years since, Mr. ble the Hutchinsons in the simplicity of their manners and style Willard went round the country on a visit to his old clocks. Conof singing. nected with them were reminiscences of revolutionary times and men; and he was welcomed by the descendauts of his old customers with cordiality and interest. What changes, alas, he found. But there were the old clocks ticking away, as unconcerned as they were the day the cannon were booming on Bunker Hill. What hours freighted with momentous issues had those unresting pendulums numbered! The old clockmaker's visits were at once mournful and pleasant to his soul. Every Bostonian must well remember the old establishment on the Neck. M. Willard, after his long dealings with Time, has now left him for Eternity. Peace to his blameless and honest memory!" A very unexpected calamity befel New York last month; in consequence of the conflagration of the Gas Works in Canal street, the city was left without light for an entire night; the theatres, museums, concert rooms, and similar places that depend upon the Gas Company for light, were suddenly left in total darkness, and were obliged to suspend their performances. The great hotels suffered the most, for it made it necessary to purchase an enormous number of lamps and candlesticks at a moment's notice, which were useless the next day. One of the newspaper offices used up a bushel of potatoes in making temporary candlesticks. Fortunately the Gas Company had erected new works further out of town, which were nearly ready to go into operation. The buildings of the new works are seen very conspicuously by steamboat travelers on the East River, near the old Fever Hospital. The chimney has the appearance of a monument. The main building is constructed of wrought free stone, and roofed with iron. It is 205 feet long, and 50 feet wide. The end fronting on the street, is flanked by a couple of handsome two We have reserved for ourselves but a very narrow corner to be merry in, but the truth is, it is difficult to be wholly light hearted while there are so many serious subjects pressing upon us. There is a vast amount of comfort in our blessed country, and a greater number of happy homes, we believe, than any in any other nation, whether christian or pagan, but there is not, it must be confessed, much of that light-hearted jollity which proclaims a mind at ease. There has been more this past summer, we believe, however, than has ever before been seen by the public. At Saratoga and Newport, and, in fact, at nearly all the so-called "watering places," there has been a great display of fashionable frivolity which passes for gaiety and amusement; at the two great watering places, Saratoga and Newport, there have been most impress ive and solemn doings called Fancy Balls, where a great crowd of ill-assorted people meet together and stalk about in borrowed or hired dresses, making believe to act characters. The most remarkable thing about these exhibitions of vapidity and vanity, is that the people who engage in these representations take great pride in assuming the characters of the greatest villians and most notoriously vile women that ever lived. Thus we see reported in the papers that Miss Jones, a lady of the highest respectability beyond a question, assumed the character of the loose Madame Pompadour; the daughter of an eminent and pious pork merchant, went disguised as Lola Montes; a clergyman's daughter assumed the character and dress of Fanny Ellsler, another that of Nell Gwynn, and another as the Queen of the Harem, and so on. The gentlemen took peculiar delight in personating Turks, Pirates. Earls of Rochester, Henry the Eighth, and Charles the Second, while banditti and corsairs were as thick as clergymen at an Anniversary meeting in the Tabernacle. If we were going to such an exhibition ourselves, we should want to assume the very best character possible, and would much prefer looking like Howard the philanthropist, to being mistaken for Fra Diavolo or the most picturesque villain that ever picked a pocket, or gave an unarmed traveller the privilege of giving up his purse or his life. A correspondent who signs hintself Cupid-ity, has drawn for our pages an affecting picture of blighted affection. But as he has OUR notice of Niagara in the last number not being a pictoria one, and our views of the cataract not very much in detail, we have taken the trouble to sketch and give to our readers an illastration (applicable, perhaps, to Saratoga as well as Niagara) of the Spring and Fall. Deshong, the great mathematician, would doubtless call it a mathematical problem solved by a horse. The animal is certainly very quick at casting up figures, and as be has drawn the line underneath the carriage, seems inclined to SET DOWN Two AND CARRY ONE. We are compelled to apologize for the omission of "Border drawn it too long for our use, we shall give but the pith of the mat-Bullets, No. 3," and "Living Pictures of American Notabilities, ter. The affectionate inquiries of the mother, the discernible an- No. 7." Owing to the ill health of their respective authors, they guish of the young lady, and the sympathetic devotion of the at- have unwillingly been deferred. We hope to renew the number tendant Grimalkin are eloquently portrayed in the touching picture below, a picture worthy the genius of a Jenkins, a Tomp kins, or a Smith. The anxious solicitude of the mother explains the dimmed lustre of the daughter's eyes, and we can almost sob as we hear her ask with an effort of cheerfulness, sadly contrasting with the grief of the other, next month. 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