to the home of their early days, and to the arms and
hearts of their parents. Fortified by the results of
experience, the committees had from time to time
extended the institution. Large additions had been
made in the course of the last two years, chiefly with
the view of making more productive the labour of the
inmates. The earnings of the penitents had consequently
increased, and hopes were entertained that they would
still further increase, and thus tend to place the resources
of the institution on a more secure basis. The receipts
had not been sufficient to meet this outlay, and the
treasurer's account showed that there was a balance
of £106 19s. 8d., which would be increased by two bills
not yet sent in, to £200. The applicants for admission
in the course of the year were 116, of whom 52 were
refused. There had been restored to their friends 8,
and the whole number which had left was 69, leaving
53 in the house.

Returns have been printed by order of the House of
Commons respecting the Import and Export Trade of
the United Kingdom. In 1822, the value of the imports
into the United Kingdom, calculated at the official rates
of valuation, amounted to only £ 30,531,141, and in
1850 they reached to £100,460,433 In 1822 the exports
from the United Kingdom were £53,470,099, and in
1850 they had reached to £197,309,876. There is also
an increase in the value of the articles and produce
of manufacture of the United Kingdom exported. In
1822 the real or declared value was £36,966,623, and in
1850 the value of such exports amounted to £71,367,885.
There has been an improvement in the trade of this
country until it has reached its present high state, as
evidenced by the document now printed.

Some parts of Ireland, hitherto the most disturbed
and wretched, appear to be in a state of unprecedented
Quiet and Prosperity. The shortest and lightest assizes
known in the county of Tipperary for a long series of
years, have closed without a conviction for murder, or
indeed for any very serious crime. The Limerick papers
state that there has not been a single labouring man or
woman, able to work, unemployed in that part of the
country for several weeks past. Emigration, nevertheless,
proceeds at as great a rate as ever, and the price of
berths in emigration ships has been considerably raised
in all the Irish ports.

Miss Sellon, the Superior of the Sisters of Mercy at
Plymouth, having been charged by the Rev. Mr.
Spurrell, vicar of Great Shelford, with Popish
practices, has published a reply at the request of the Bishop
of Exeter. Miss Sellon acknowledges that she has
advised her pupils; or "children," to confess, and she
states that that confession is practiced "by thousands
in the English church," and that "the benefit of
absolution" is granted by Episcopal clergymen. She
does not deny that one of her pupils, as an act of penance,
was ordered to make the sign of a cross on the floor,
with her tongue—this was "an act of self-abasement,"
and she has heard that it has been recommended for
sins of falsehood, &c, "by one of our bishops and
eminent divines." Miss Sellon also washes the feet of
her "children" and others, doing it "in obedience to
our Lord's commands." Her pupils also wear "religious
symbols" under their dress. She is said by Mr. Spurrell
to have used the words, "My child, when you hear me
speak, you should think it is the voice of Jesus Christ."
"The sisters remark that it is so exceedingly unlike my
manner of speaking, that it bears evidence to them that
these words were not said: I am quite certain that the
words were not said as is represented. It might be that
I was saying that the directions of a superior ought to be,
and were, the will of God for a person; so they are in
all things lawful, and so I always teach and believe."
She also acknowledges to burning candles before a print
of the Virgin and Child in her private oratory, and
argues in favour of praying for the dead and for the
guardianship of angels.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

The Queen held a Chapter of the Order of the
Thistle on the 25th, when Lord Saltoun was elected a
knight, and invested with the insignia of the Order.

The Duchess of Athol has been appointed mistress
of the robes to her Majesty, in the room of the Duchess
of Sutherland, who has resigned.

Mr. J.Marshall has been elected Dean of Faculty by
the Scotch Bar in the place of Mr. Anderson, now
Lord Advocate.

Lord Monteagle has been elected President of the
Art-Union of London.

Professor Blackie, of Aberdeen, has been elected by
the Town-Council of Edinburgh, to succeed the late
Professor Dunbar in the Greek chair of the University
of Edinburgh.

Sir William Gibson Craig, and Sir William Johnston
have been added to the members of the General Board
of Directors of Prisons in Scotland.

Obituary of Notable Persons.

THOMAS MOORE. died at Sloperton Cottage, near Devizes, on
the 26th of February, in his seventy-second year.

THE MOST REV. DR. MURRAY, Roman Catholic Archbishop
of Dublin, died on the 25th of February, in the eighty-third
year of his age.

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JAMES COCKBURN, of Langton, Bart.,
G.C.H., died on the 26th of February, in the eighty-first year of
his age.

JOHN LANDSEER, Esq., A.R.A., the father of Sir Edwin and
Messrs. C. and T. Landseer, died on the 29th ult., at his
residence, Southampton-street, Fitzroy-square, in his ninetieth
year.

M. MEELE, the senior of the dramatic feuilletonists of the
Paris press, died on the 27th ult., aged sixty-seven.

LADY MARGARET MlLBANK died on the 8th inst, in Eatonplace,
in her twenty-seventh year. She was the only daughter
of the late Lord Grey of Groby, and sister to the Earl of
Stamford.

MADAME SOPHIE GAY, the celebrated-writer, and mother of
Madame Emile de Girardin, formerly Madlle. Delphine Gay, died
iu Paris on the 4th inst.

THE REV. DR. KEATE, formerly Head Master of Eton
College, died at his house in Hartley Westphall, Hants, on the,
5th inst., in his seventy-ninth year.

SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MONTAGU, C.B., K.C.H, Vice- Admiral
of the Blue, died on the 6th, at Ryde, Isle of Wight, He was a
midshipman of his Majesty's ship Russell, at Camperdown.

THE REV. SIR HARCOURT LEES, Bart., died on the 7th. at
Blackrock House, county of Dublin, aged seventy-five years.

MARSHAL MARMONT, DUKE OF RAGUSA, the last of Napoleon's
Marshals, died at Venice, on the 2d inst., aged seventy-eight
years.

M. ARMAND MARRAST, the principal author of the Constitution
which President Bonaparte tore up on the 2d December, and the
once influential editor of the National, has died at Paris.
Apoplexy struck him two months since; he never rallied: and
he has passed away in the prime of life.

JOHN SEALY TOWNSEND, a retired Master in Chancery, and
one of the distinguished ornaments of the Irish bar in the days
of its greatest brilliancy, died at his residence, Kilvara, near
Dublin, on the 18th inst., at the age of eighty-seven, He was
the contemporary and competitor of Plunkett Curran, Saurin,
Bushe, Pennefather, &c.

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR H. WHEATELY, Bart.. C.B., died on the
21st inst., aged seventy-three years.

SIR CHARLES P. FORBES, M.D., Deputy-Inspector-General of
Hospitals, died on the 22d inst., aged seventy-three years.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

The news from the Cape of Good Hope has assumed
a more favourable complexion; the latest operations
against the Caffres having proved successful. These
operations commenced in the beginning of December by
the concerted march of two divisions under the respective
commands of Major-General Somerset and Colonel Eyre.
Their columns mustered between them some 5000 men,
levies and regulars, including 90 of the 12th Lancers.
After encountering some spirited opposition from the
Caffres, who not only manœuvred with a force of native
cavalry, but discovered some knowledge of stockading,
the two columns succeeded in crossing the Kei, sweeping