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The Tk.v IIours Bill. - A foreign correspondent of' the Tribune, spenking of llie doings of the British ParJi.-iment, s.iys : One bill, Kowever, deseivos a passing remarle. Lord Ashiey nnd h:s frii'ivis, and all the friends of llie opprrssed have rcason to rejoice that an important bill is now the lavV of the land. 1 refer to that bill whïch gives to the Factory Operative an hour to I) is family and an hour lo his God. The task-mas:er can no I nger compel tha poor of both sexes to serve liiin frorn early dawn till night. The "Ten Hours Factory Bill" has passed both houses, has received the roya! asent, and is now in full operation. The fViends of humanity wil] rejoice, ftt even thisone step toward nüeviatitlg the misery of Ihe poverty-stricken and oppressed Operntive. Il' no olher measure had occupied the altention of Parliament during the session, th:s one would alone redeem all its sins of omission and comm:s"on. Trade in Gods ! - La Democratie Pacifique states tlial there is a warehouse in Paris, wiih the title, "Depot for African Gods !" The firm of Regis carries on an exlensive business with Senpgal,where there are about as many kings as mcdiaeval Itily had princes. These African kings make war by way of a litlle pleasant excitement. When one of them has lost a batlle lie dismisses his "gods," and orders new French ones f rom Regis aad Go., who employ artists to make them of deal, with serpents' heads, lio:is' manes and tigers' claws. When a Senpgalian potentate obtains a consignment of new "gods," he goes to war in order to tesl their eflïeacy. Ililherlo, Regis and Co. have been lucky in their "gods." A King's Lonoings. - The African King, Maria de Gallyna, has addressed a letter to the Queen of Spain, in whicli he calis her sister, and assures her of his lively sympathy for her and ihe Spaniards, who are., says he, the only foreigners allowed lo reside in his vast Stale. In his letters he furthermore curiously asks of her Majesty a three-cornered hat with a large red plume, a coat wilh two long bobs, a cañe wilh a gold head of the size of au orange, and a pair of red pantaloons corded with gold. Her Májesty lias resolved to give the African King all llmt is asked, and also to add thereto a gold lact) scarlet mantle. Railway Compass. - We find in an English paper an account of an invention called an Itinerarium or Railway Compass. It wil] at all time? show the speed of the ongine, the disiance to the next station, and the position of the train on the line. A chronemeter connected witb it shows '.he railway time. It vvill note ihe time occupied at each station and the speed of each mile on a paper] which can be taken off. One index on the dia' points to ihe place which cnrresponds to the one on the railway ; another indientes the speed ; a ihird revolves once in 10,000 miles, showing what di-tance tl e engine has travelled. This instrument is moved by a sepa rite wheel running on the rail, is not affected by breaks, anti, being illuminaled at night, is easily s-een by the engineer. The experiment bas been successíully tried, fitlly realizing the anticipations of the inventor. - Sheet Anchor. Whaling Gvs. - We saw yesterday at the store of Capt. E. W. Gardner, a very curious contrivance for killing wliales. It is a short gun.weighingsome ttventy-five pounds-- the stock being of solid brass - from which a hnrpoon is to be fired into the animal. The handle of the harpoon goes into the barrel of the gun about a foot, and a line is fastened to it - of course outside of the gun-- by which the whale is to be held. There is also a lomb lance, for the purpose of killing the animal. This instrument is loaded with powdc-r, and a slow malch is led from the magazine, to the handïp, to the end which goes into the gun. When the lance is fired into the whale, the slow match ignites ; and in about half a minute the tire reaches the powder in the head of the instrument, wliich instantly explodes, killing the animal outright. At least this is what thf arlicle is intended to do. - Nantucket Inquirer. Sknd along the Workmen. - Frorn seven to ten hundred ir. en are now wanted on the Central Railroad, where the contractor is now on the line to commence work west of Kalamazoo. This line of road is located in a healthy, vvell watered and productive part of our State, where all the necessaries of life can be procured at a reasonable price,'and on the completior. of the road the workmen with prudence could save enough to buy a small parcel of land tosetlle on. One gi-nnd feature adopted is that no llquor is to be used nor will any one be employed who indulges in the arderit. - Free Press. Progress, - The Ilon. Joshua R. Giddings of Jefl'erson, Ohio, left Canandaigua, N. Y., twenty-eight years ago, anJ was four weeks performing the journey. A few weeks since, he was only six'.een hours in aecoinplisliing the same journey. Libel Süit for readino a Sentknck of Kxco.mmünication. - One of the most respectable ministers of Massachusetts h:is been prosecuted for a libel, in liaving read frorn his pulpit a sentence of excommunicalion passed by the church. There is no "allegalion, we believe, that tlie sentence was not well founded ; but the nllegetion is, that there was no good reason for reading it before the wliole congregation. The proceecling was according to the custom of the church. Steam HodCahrier. - The conlractors on the Bay Slate Mills nowhoist their briek iind mortar by steam. A small engine is stationecflh the lower story of the mili, to which is appended an endless chain, running from the engine to tl. e door upon which the woikmen are engaged. To the chain the hods of brick and mortar are faslened bj' a liook, which is firmly affixed to the hod. On aniving at the top the tenders tnke the hods from the chains and carry them to any desired part of the building. A man stands rear the engine to take ofT the empty hods as they approach the floor by the dow'nward side of the chain. The labor of about twenty-five men is saved by this ingenious invention, which was first adapted for this purpose, we understand, at Lowell last summer. - Lawrence Courier. New Motive Power - Mr. Fox Talbot has taken out a patent for a new, or rather n modification of a plan, for generating and applying motive power. This he lias effected by exploding gun-cotton alternately on each side of the piston. - At the boltom of the cyhnder on each side, are two circular holes, in which the explosive material is supplied by a tubular slide. Passing through the cylinder is a platina wire, for the purpose of being exc'ted by the galvanic battery, and thus explode the cotton. In preparing the cylinder, the tubular slide is first filled with gun-cotton, in each división tliereof, so as to allow it to be exposed to the mmediate aclion of heat passing through the cylinder, by being biought in contact wilh the platina wire, taking care that one chargeshall have been dischnrged befure another is introduced - and thus causing, by repeated explosión?, a motive pow r for giving motive power to machinery, &c; such power being regulated entirely by the quanti'.y of explosive material employed. - London Mining Journal. Another Slave case is agitating the people of this vicinity It is that of a coJored man named Joseph Dudley, who was employed by a Mr. Mintzer. Dudley had saved money enough to purchase the freedom of his wife, who is a slave at the South. To oblain her liberation he placed the money in the hands of another colored man, (o go South, ascertain the whereabouts of the womcn nnd purchase her freedom. The friend proved filse, and led a slaveholder there a few days ago, and Dudley has disappeared. It is reported that he was kidnapped and carriedoffto the South. A charge has been made ngainst William Mugg, the potind keeper of having been concerned in the kidnapping. The Grand Jur)' of Cnmden is investigating the aflair. - Phila. Bulletin. Capture op a Slaver with Five HtJNERED SLAVES ON BOARD. Capt. Clarkson, of the ship Woodside, from Cantón, lenrned at St. Helena that the Britisb brig Waterwitch, on the 12th of June last, 100 miles W. S. W. from Ainkie, captured an American built brig, having "Bantah, of Portland," painted in large white letiers on her stern. No colors or papers on board. On the log slate was wrïtten Capt. Forsyth. The crew were all Brazilians. She had on board 508 live and two dead slaves. The Bantah was eighi days out from the coasl, between Congo River and Ambuselle. The SciIeme is Workinc. - The Washington correspondent of the Journal of Commerce writes as follows : "The slaveholders of Cuba havo also, in anticipation of the possiiile transfer of the Island to Great Britaio, signified to our goverr.ment a wish to bring the Island under the protection of ihe United States. The annexation of Texas, while it increases the power of the slaveholding interest in the United States, alo increases the necessily of protecting that interest from the near approach of the British policy, power and example." Parasols in the Drawino-Room. - The introductioH of gas-liglit into private houses in Europe has been taken odvnn tnge of bv the ladies, who, under pretext against the glare and dazzling uncoinfortableness of such bright üghts, deliberately spread pafiisols in an evening soiree, ('incidental advantagesj converse under and behind the $ame very greeably. Slave Stealers Sentenced. - On Salurdny last John Robison, mate, and Calo R-icfcéU, seaman, ('both rolored, were brought before tho Ilustings Courl of this cily, for trial, on two separate indictments, for secreting on board the schooner Mary Augusta two runaway slaves, with the design of carrying them beyondtho State. After a hearing, they were declared guilty on both indictments, and sentenced to seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary. - Norfolk Herald, August '3. Decline of Heathënmsm. - Among tlie cheering intelligence IVom India, is the ab.lishment, in Ivvoof the provinces of th.-it country, of the sutlee, o burniug of widows, and the proliibition of infanticide. It shows on incrensing spirit of huniaiiity in that country; wliicli it tnay bc lioped will prevail. PlOUGHINO WITII El-ETHANTS. It ÍS itated thatin Ceylon elephants are em ployed n ploughing rice fields and in preparing new grouds lor cultivalion of cofFee, pepper, &c. One of these nnimals, well trained, it is said, will do lhp work of tvventy oxen ; consequently, more labor is performed in a given time, and tlie period is hastened for pu'.ting in the crops. The price of an elephant in Ceylon varies from $50 to $75. Rev. Mr. Bridgman gives a dark picture of the depravity of the people at Cantón. lie says, unJer date of Febuary 9; Tlie cotnmon jails aro glutted. Large partios of robbers, pirates, murderers, &c. &c nre thrown n to ihem almost daily, and the public executions are verv frequent. Beingobliged to pass the execution ground on Fridn y last,I saw some of the freah blood and the trunkless heads tliat continuatly mark the spot. Three men had just been decapitated: two of the bodies had been removed, and the third was lying ir. his own blood. Today furly one more have fallen on the same spot, and more are to follovv soon. South Carolina. - The Charleston Courier gives a sad picture of the situation of the wl.ite laborers of the South. Doesn't the editor know that where labov is undervalued, the laborer despised because he labors, and a portion of them converted into articles of merchandise and sold in the shambles, that ighorance vice and poverty will abound in such a community? Listen to hitn- he is good authority: "Many a one is rpared in Droud South Carolina from his birth to rnanhood, who hns never a month in which he has not for sorao part of the time beenstinted for ment. Many a mother is the re who will tellyou that herchildren are but scantüy supplied with bread, and much more with meat; and if they be ciad in comfortable raiment, it is at the expense of their scanty allowance of food. " It is perhaps not generally known that there are twenty tbousand white persons in this State wHio can neither read nor write. This is about one in every thirteen of the white population. That we nre behind the nge in agricullure the mechanic nrts, industry, and enterprise, is npparent to all who pass through our State. "Our good city of Charleston speakr a languagfi on this subject not to be mistaken; she bas lost one thousand oí hor populntion, according to the census of 1840, whileYier sister cities havo doubled and quadrupled theirs." China. - Rev. Dr. Bridgman says in a recent letter : - " VVhen Mr. Abeel and myself'arrived in China, seveuteen years ago there was only one Protestant missionary in this country. Now there are more than thirty. But what are thirty missionaries among three hundred and sixty millions of the Pagans!'' Chaplain to the State Piusoñ. - We see that the "Board of Inspectors," (consisting of Messrs. Shoemaker, Bascom, and Pierce,) have appointed Mr. James Billing, a Universalist Evangelist, to the office of Chaplain to the Prison. - Jackson Gaxette. Ar Unwomanlt Sentiment. - At a " Native American" fair, recently held in Boston, some sentiments we re drank 'by the ladies,' as is common on such occasions ; and here is one of them, in allusion to the starving emigiants who have been driven by the mis ry and starvation at home, toseek an asylum arnong us. " Foreiga Pauper Emigranls: - We will welcoine them as our mothers welcomed the British in '7G' - i. e. run bullets for their craving stomuchs." What a dear,delightful,amiable ivoman she must be, who got ofF such a grist of pat-riot-ism es that, al) in one breatb. So tender hearled a crenture should not be suiFered long to remain in a state of single blessedness; and we cannot but hope that such an exhibkion of kindness of temper, will commcnd her to some equally tendir heartcd native. What n pleasant companion she would maks ; how gingerly she would troat her busbond, and what afleciion s!ie would manifest towards the babies. Surely a man in search of a wife, unless he wishes her to possess all the cliaracteristics of a hyenn, need go no farther; and even if he did, we doubt if ho could be better suited by any specimen of female humanity, this sido the "Caníbal Islands. "-Chrislian Citizen. IIow to Read on a Raii.way. - By holding a card or slip of paper over the line below that which you are readmg,the pye is freed from the disturbance caused by the tnotion of the carriages and you may then read with comfort. The Journal of Commerce ciphers 115 whigs nnd IKí democ rats into the next hou-ic dfcotigress, 228. Masón chufteita has 040 miles of rnilwny, New York 300, Peiinsylvanm 754, Maryl.uiil 2:-_!, VTrginfa 333,Soulh Carolina 249, Georgia 052. üluo 19'J, Mk-liignn 326 luiilt and under cuntí-.. ct, Florida 1Ü4. Sanctity. - The Charleston Mercury says thut lwo men in Lowell, a few Sundnya since, left t he Churcii because the cicrg) m:ii, a stranger hnd sucli a darle skin. Tliey took liiin for ;i "nigger," and wduld noi stop, although tlie sexton told tliem lie wos not a '-niggor," but n white, respectable, congregational t-lergyman. Emancipatiun. - The Examiner, of Louisville, :iys tliat thfy "hear from all parts oí' Kenluckv, there is more or less ofemuncipation in every cunty, by will.' Ín one direction as mnny as 1200 are s'ated to be ihus set free. Ons number cf a New Orleans papers contains ihe petitiunsoí' sundry persons for ihe emancipation of 22 slavrs before :he "Council of Municipaliiy." Tiie Pope. - The Po e has etablished a kind of represe ntative loíly;coinposed of delogates from the difFerrnt provinces, u ho are to assemble in Rome at stated periods, and disouss with hís Holiness, affairs of state. The measuie has given unbounded hopes lo the people, wlio exoect to find in the succecsor of St. lJeter another and bettpr Rienzi - a true tribute of the people. Austria frowns on bis proceeding, but as et dares not interferc. English papers are regulaily publjshed in China, Hindoostan, and thc East Indies, in Asia; in Liberia and Cape Good Hope, in África; the Sandwich ís] anda and Australia; Ronic, in Plaly; California, Oregon, and Mexico; also in South America. He had learnt a most use ful principie of life, which was, to lü.y nolhingto heart which he could not help, and how great soever disappoinlments had feil out, (f possible,) to think of them no more, but to work on upon other atl'airs, and some, if not all, would be better natured. - Life of Sir D. North. The two vohinteer slave-catchers, who were knocked down by a colored man in [lollidaysburg, in sf If defence, and supposed to be dead, wore nol so badly hurt as at first thought. They are recovering. and have learned a lesson which ouglit to keep them out ofsuc'.i scrapes in future. Penn. Paper. Hioir Pbices por Church Pews. - It is stated that Sá out of 190 pews of the new cliurch recently erecled in New Orleans for the Rev. Dr. Hawks, sold at auction for sixty-three thousand dollars. Alb. Argus. Fire in Ktnoston. Tlie new steatn saw mili by Page &Webster, in Kingston, was emirely destroyed by fire on .Mouday evening, the 21st inst. - loss about .'Í4000 - insured $2000 in the New England office. ".Mis. Raiii-üoltom" herself could hardly e.xceed the blunders of the man who vvalked into the office oftho Judge of Probate, in a neighboring State, and asked: "Are you the Judge of repróbate." "I am ihe Judge of Probate." "Wel!, that's it, I e.xpeet. You see, my father died detested, and he left several infidels, and I want to be their executioner."