The Express. — London, England, 1853-02-03 00:00:00

, lIP, EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENINn. FEBRUARY 3, 1853 UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 2.—At a Congregation holden this day, the undermentioned degrees were conferred : Hentsetre M.A. : the Hon. John Robert Orlando Bridge eaut, Trinity College (youngest son of the Earl of Brad ford); Allen Aleaander Bathurst, Trinity College; Thee. : Villiers Lister, Trinity College.—M.A.: James Hunter Gandy, Trinity College ; Wiliam Gurney, Emmanuel Col lege; Samos' !NU. King, Catharine Hell.—L.L.B. : Chas. 0. Denys Melon, Emmanuel College.—B.A.: Gee. John Shaw Lefure, Trinity College; Tho. Theophilue Bradly, Bt. John's College; Edward Charles Luard, Jesus College. At the same congregat on the following graces, amongst others, wen offered to the senate : To appoint the Vice-Chaneellor, the Master of Clan Hall, the Master of Pembroke College , the Master of Em -1 minuet College, the Muter of St. John's College, the Master of Sidney Sussex College, the Muter of Trinity College, the Master of St. Catharine's Hall, the Magee of ! St. Peter's College, the Provost of King's College, the 1 Muter of Christ's Colleg e , the Master of Trinity . Hall, the Master of Downing C o ll ege , th e Master of Cana/ College, Dr. timers of St. John's College, the Regius Professor of Divinity, the Regi na Professor a Laws, the Regius Pro f fuser of Physic; Mr. Pei% of Qarens' College ; Mr. Col -1 • Boon, of St. John's College; Mr. Cocker, of St. Peter's College; Mr. Martin, of Trinity College; Mr. Arlett, of Pembroke College; Mr. Thompson, of Trinity College •, Mr. Theed, of King's College ; Mr. Raven, of Magdalene College ; Mr. Sykes, of Downing College ; Mr. Marsh, of Trinity Hall ; Mr. Croker, of Caius College; Mr. Gibson, of Jesus Col lege; Mr. Bright, of Magdalene College; Mr. Westmor land, of Jesus College; Mr. Atkinson, of Clare Hall; Mr. Gell, of Christ's College ; Mr. Nic holson, of Emmanuel College; Mr. Howard, of Sidney Sussex College; Mr. Emery, of Corpus Christi College; Mr. Purton, of St. Cathuine's Hall; and Mr. C am pi on , o f Q ueens ' C ollege, a syndicate to consider whether it is expedient to adopt any measures, and if so, what, for augmenting the existing means of teaching the students of the 'University by public professors and public lecturers, and for regulating and en couraging the 'tulles 12 taught; and to report thereon to the senate from time to time, until the end of the Easter term, 1853. _ _ _ To accept the fund, amounting to 5001. Three per Cent. Consob, offered to the University by several friends of the Rev. William Carus, M.A., Canon of Winchester and late Fellow of Trinity College, for the purpose of founding a yearly prize or prises for the encouragement of the accurate study of the Greek Testament. The Rev. Benedict Chapman, D.D, late Master of Caine College, having bequeathed to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University, the sum of 1,0001. Three per Cant. Reduced Bank Annuities; the dividends thereof to be applied to the augmentation of the salary of the Norrisiau Professor of Divinity for the time being, under the same conditions as me prescribed in the original foun dation :—To accept the same. To authorise the Syndicate—which was appointed Oct. 29, 1852, to consider generally the privileges of the Uni versity—to confer with a committee of the Council of the borough upon matters affecting the relations between the University and town, and to report thereon from time to time to the Senate. To add the following to the Regulations marked A,which were adopted October 31, 1848:—That, alter Ash Wed nesday, 1853, students, who may have been candidates for mathematical honours and been declared by the Modera tors and Examiners not to have deserved such honours, but to have passed for the ordinary di gree so far as the mathe matical part of the examination for such degree is con cerned, be subject to the same requirements with respect to Menden°, on professors' lectures and examinations as though they had not been candidates for mathematical honours. That, after Ash Wednesday, 18.13, students, who may have been candidates for mathematical honours, and failed altogether to obtain the approval of the Moderators end Examiners, be subject to the same requirements with respect to attendance on professors' lectures and examina tions, as though they had not been candidates for mathe matical honours. Four of these graces were non-placeted : of these two were carried, and two rejected. The others passed without op p.eition. Subjoined is the voting : Number 4 Onwc Black [fool Honor. white Hood Howe. SUSPECTED MURDER AT RATCLIFF. Yesterday morning, about half-past ono o'clock, as police-con/tibia 3400 K, was going his rounds in Glans honse-street, ltAtelitf, be stumbled over the apparently life less body of a man lying in the roadway, nailer the win dows of the Newcastle and Sunderland Arms beer-shop, at the corner of Broad-street and Glasshouse-street. The men had only his shirt, drawers, and stockings on there was blood oozing from one of hi. ears, and from the position in which the man was found the policeman was at once led to believe that he had either fallen or been thrown from the upper floor of the beer-house. The policeman immediately knocked at the door, and some of the inmates, who lied not gone to bed, anawered him, and the mutimted and wounded man was at once identified to be Captaiu Edward Penning ton, the master of the ship Pallas, trading between the north and London, an old frequenter of tiro house, who was there on Tuesday evening, and went to bed in a room ou this second fluor, the window of which overlooks Olambousc-street, at 11 o'clock on Tuesday night. Mr. Carson, a medical gentleman in Broad-street, and others of the faculty, were immediately sent for, and did everything in their power to restore the unfortunate man, hut he was beyond the reach of human skill, and expired about in hours aftvvrards. Bayliss, the budlord of the ceer-house, and his wife, said their opinion was that the deceased had thrown himself from his bed- room into the street. Very strong suspicions, however, are entertained that Captain Pennington has come by his death by unfair means, and that he was thrown into the street by some of the inmates. From a minute examination of the pre mists made by Mr.Pemble, beadle of Rstelaff and summoning officer to the coroner, it appears that the window of the bedroom was raised to a height of 1 foot 9 inches, when Captain Pennington was found in the street. There are marks of a person's hands on the window-sill, or stone, as if he had tenaciously clung to it for life as ling as be was able, and there are also marks on the brick-Mork beneath. The deceased, in his fall, struck the first floor immediately under the window of his bedroom, and dislodged two panes of glass. The frame of the window is also broken. There can be no question that the deceased fell in a perpendicular direction, and that he made a desperate effort te ease himself. Ms body was found close to the side wall of the house. If he had flung himself from the window of his bedroom his body would have been in the middle of the street. It appears that the house in question is frequented by thieves and prostitutes. Many robberies have beta committed there, and some of them have been of a very serious nature. The upper part is re gistered as a common lodging-house, and there were sevtral women of the town, visitors, and others staying there on Tuesday night. A few of them slept on the same floor as the deceased. The affair has caused a great sensation in Rateliff and its vicinity. Very recently Captain Peter Gray was hocussed and robbed in Garden's-court, in the same vicinity, and, on a post modem examination, opium in suffi cient quantity to destroy life was found in the stomach. A SHAM BURIAL SOCIETY. At the Borough Court, Manchester, on Tuesday, a man named Harvey Wellman was charged with obtaining money by false pretences. Mr. W. P. Roberts, aatorney, who appeared for the prosecution, stated that the prisoner had distributed handbills, circulars, and cards, falsely repre senting to many thousands of penous that there was in ci istence a burial society, of which he (the prisoner) was an officer. Ever since ISO it had been professed that the society had been in existence, at one time under the name of the " General Assurance Burial Society ;" at another time, the "Instant Benefit General Assurance Society;" and at other times under other names. Agents had been di rected by the defendant to represent that there were direc tors and trustees of the society, and that there was a fund belonging to the minty amounting, according to one of his statements, to 400,, and according to another, 7 0001. Mr. Roberts produced some of the handbills and cards, in which tits society was professed to have for its objects the pay ment of nuns of motley at the death of the numbers, and the granting of loans. Its address was stated to beCar penter's Hall, Brook-street, and its officers Harvey Well man, superintendent director; Joseph Moore, president; and W. F. Heywood was secretary. One of the bills stated that 3.501. would be reserved for the payment of funeral expense , and the rest of the funds would be lent to the members. Mr. Roberts called as witnesses several persons who had been members of the society, but had been unable to obtain money for funeral expenses, the defendant plead ing various excuses for not giviag it to them. One of these, named Jane Jackson, applied to Wellman for 51, which was due on the death of her husband, who had also been a member, but the defendant told her she was not entitled to it, because her husband, being above 60 years of age when he entered the society, ought to have paid 2d. a week in stead of Id. which had been paid. She told him that she had paid him all that he asked for, and that her husband's age had been stated to him. He then offered to pay her 41. 10s., if she would sign a receipt for 51. ; which she re fused to do, and then he said he would not give her a far thing. Sa mueli Clegg said be had once been appointed a nominal president of the Society by Wellman , but had no voice in the management. He believed at the time that the society was genuine, and bad canvassed for it, and en rolled about 1,000 members. He saw any directors. He had known persons recants the benefits of the society. He did not think any proper ledger was kept. He knew nothing about either the money or the books. The only oel een of the society besides the president wen Hey wood,and other canvassers. There never was a public meeting of the society, and the only persons who attended the quar terly meetings were the o s and persons who had ammo to complain. In defence, the defendant boldly enbsehled that there was no ease against him. Supposing he bad NU (which be utterly denied) that the society bad a capital of 7,0004 it had not been shown by the prosecution that such was not the ease ; neither had it been shown that the so ciety was not is esistenee. Ho celled one or two witnesses but they did sot show that anybody possessed authority in dependent of the defendant, wbe was then committed he trial at the sessions. The anwant of bail was flied at, two sureties of 301. each. Mr. Roberts stated that the defen dant bad mot before bees canvieted of obtaining money woke hiss pretences. DISCII.OIO2 OF MU. TIMM SLOalri rho. Ifewatra.—Yesterday eteraimg 31m.Slimas was disgorged tram the poi of Mamie. bevies tempasted the term of whir* she was eseloaset. It will Mre- =111.8111110•4 to s* Me Febraeriwriw of 1861 at this mart, Osoege TIMM* Moan', the gem▪ ior. gloodei Meft M a sedge et most madam th *de newt I* lase Inbred, sad wee ` e•MiNIS IMO VOW imOsemisia la Margate. la OM bet, being Sat waived a pardon, and Imileameted Sem • Zy li t e r g here he sly thetnight. in loss rot seem to ban erred silelsiSl her bee Desa lt: Mimi she teemed la good ipaa 8111113 g the leek/ft eareewhat a r ea by malmeasut. does net Mal 11) bees tug Ihriao soft Mr Deviate, wile is stated to be a • i r em marriage, Dot any me has called at the pi to I iIItIOSAST-TRAPPESS DI LIVZI1•001.. —At OM yesterday, a pair of misuablrieeking emir sew et before Mr. Mel on askew of de. heedleg a pees gal of the sea ef 10L Their same were Autirew end Rosanna Dam. appose* hothead sad wife. They were both attired ha Ma seemlied reimemh aid seemed to below to the hoed grade of eselatp. The gfri, who appeased to be &heat 1$ reeekd tee, NM ever bola Dublin by the sterner at Thad. lea She elates that she has so father or media Moe; cad do. as both of her brothers were he Amite in. she boned exceedingly to be with them. else bribe Mb ter melohez of an uncle who resides is Datfia, deloulleit HR dillattolll, and took a passage la the damn he Os her arrival her. she we assosted a rid ray eli gthe male prisoasy, Amirew Dom, who, hallo addressed a series of questions to her, sad learned that she was as emigrant. said he would take her to " dayeint" ledglega. la the mares of the IMMO= or evening of tie some day he segspeted her to give him the money she band, dad be midi tette we of it Ste her. She intimated that sheatied te maws ism *Wel ; next day theseseleit seedisy—the gld WM/ pummels—to the 111 Mr. Barlll4 Beam et let Dean gave the gill meaty Wet @gala; hat la the asp Its asked it him Mt ease mare. awl afar they led purchased some wit eat with the peahend purpose of peeving Is the waselisee ewe pees rasa is the shop bad haiesir amgielem immeid as to the men and the elder fe male ; eel ea greethreki the gat side, they elicited tat 411MINIMIN et MO moo. While this was going ea tea din Male eaddeely disappeared, and neither as gat Me leshead came back @gain. The police were at awe somminted with the case, and wrote off to the Dahlia mike authorities relative to the robbery of the girl's suds. • reply was received on Sunday morning stating that se ea* man as the uncle could be found at the address @applied. Subsequently fresh particulars relative to the girl s were transmitted to Dublin, but of course no answer bad yet been received. The two salesmen in Mr. Brissee's shop, and the girl herself, mere positively that the pdreuer and his wife were the guilty parties • but, in spite if this, Duca asserted in the most solemn Manner that he bed sever seen the girl in his life before that morn ing, out he knew nothing of her, and that on the very day she had elated that she had given him 101. to keep for her be had set Wei food for the long period of 24 hours. The female priateer dated that they could produce evidence to show that try bed been elsewhere than at Mr. Briscoe's shop at the time smattemd, and, in order that the culprits might Is zo sza p a s :=2 of doing so, the case was remanded.— OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE ON ALLEGED MURDER OF A GE ISY HIS HOUSEKEEPER. y is i i .rday Elitabelb Vickers, a middle-aged and a ,- . ..an.sed female, was charged at Lambeth Police-mart co bs „, i , / by violence caused On death of Mr. William roan an &did gentleman of considerable property, with gb.lll she had lived for many years as housekeeper. Th,,,Latle of M. Jones was discovered on the 10th ult., lays after it occurr ed, and Its causes were investigated "h bit pl • ty who attrihw te event to a fall. The faets bplol, however e , d led h to the prisoner's apprehension, inu.ediii,,..tiestaadieig the verdict of the inquest. tie int was' , called yesterday was Mr. David Key, „ or al, of Unstun, who said—l attended Mr. Jones, who mast tteringfield Cottage, near Aere-lane, at intervals provers:years. On the 10th of January I was called to J Jnees house about half-past five or a. (Mink the monied, and went there a light ahoy e e.t. I found Mr. Jones dead, lying MSS a m the hack parlour. He was dressed as ad s s e; :viug or. a blanket which was wrapped runnel Yes. he. • 1V44 in the ',cent at that time. I asked IMR bow hag be had then lying there. She said she amid Melt rot Ms ep to bed the night Wets ; that he asked her far • brae water, +(hied she gave him, and that he died at hall. pest three iieock is the gunning. She said she could not .t lma up staff., bee ,use he was so helpless, and that be ,spre.ed a wish that she should act up with him. I .ho what tme he was down on the Sunday (the day Info.), and the s .id she could not tell me the elect Mmes but that he had owed up-stairs, and after that he stem a Ass. I asked her if tie had had any spirits, and she midis* bad a little gin and water, but could nut tell the enact quantity. bur said he had lain on the sole from the lea came down until he died. I asked her if he bed any steering wine, and she said no. I asked her if was inenoible, and she said no. She said he died di why after talsics the water. I asked her if he had swat. tit it, aittlalf) said she we. not certain whether be had swallowed any. It appeared to mo to be a eery valved account that she gave. I then ezamined the bdy, and found several wounds on the forehead. Ice witness here described the wounds with considerable antennas they were contused wounds, and seven or subt in Dumber, but the two prin: ipal were use on the lap:heed and the other on the right temple. The lower whites , of the nose was also broken. The injuries could wr. hoe been enacted more than five days before, bat chiht have been ut much later date. Corresponding with the bruise on the 'epic temple, there was sufficient effusion st blood between the dura meter and the skull bone to press upon the brain, by whi h death was caused. The limner told witness the injuries had been caused by Ms. The old man was di cideelly a healthy subject. Nu simile WI would produce such wounds, nor, in witness's opinion, PAN they he accounted fur by a succession of falls. Whi m* added-1 have been to see the deceased several times, when I could not get in, but not for a month or two before his death. I saw him once in August last ; he had then two black eyes and a slight scratch or two upon the non, and likewise uphn the thin. The prisoner was present at the time, and I asked him, in her presence, if he had fallen doin stairs. Ile made n's answer; but the prisoner, before be had tame to do so, exclaimed, "Don't answer," and he did cot. N.ss SlOll Allen, of No. 5, Springfield Cottages, Am ine. heist in, said—The deceased resided uezt dour to me. the New Year's-lay last Mr. Juan came to the fence of the garden and spoke to me. He was then in excellent health and very cheerful, but he had a very large bruise si big as a walnut, on the right side of his head , near thi; temple, an/ • large bruise above that as large as a middle sired teacup un the right side of the head. lie had his nightcap en at the time, and it was much stained with blood. It was put on so as not to cover the injuries, so that she could pluihly see them. I have frequently seen bruises on him before this, sad he has complained to me about them. I have seen the prisoner beat him violently and pull hintabout by his grey hair. I have seen her pod him from the garden fence to his own house by the hair, beating biro on the head and shoulders with her cinched fics. I have seen her beat him with both her fists Omen the head. That was in the course of last spring. I have son violence used by her in the autumn before. She pulled him in thee by the hair of the head, and beat him with her data on his head ; and she said then she would make him Te member ring out, as she had desired him not wh I. she was out. For the last twelvemonth not a week had j used without my hearing her beating him. I eau hear it from outside the house. I had listened at his request. The prisoner frequently come home intoxicated. I believe she has scare* been sober fur an entire day for a year. She told me WA Mr. Jones had made over 1,0001. in their joint names, and she wished it in her own name, but Mr. Key bad persuaded Mr. Jones not to dose; but she would make bun remember going from his promise as long as he lived: that she weak' let him know that she was a Leon resolved; and, as be had called upon Mr. Key unknown to her, he should never go out of the house by himself again; and if Mr. Key came there, she would kick him out. Os the Sunday following Mr. Jones cams to me and showed me bruises on his head. His eyes were blackened, and his head bruised and bleeding. I have repeatedly heard her drive him up stairs and lock him up, then go out, and come home drunk. On the Friday night before he died, at about II o'clock, the prisoner came home drunk and lay on the ground °amide their door for about three quarters of an Usti, abusing . Mr. Key, and calling out, "Old Jones, come and let me in." Then the door opened, but was shut again, for the policeman was then with her. When the policeman went away the prisoner went in and shut the door, and in two minutes after I beard a heavy fall la the passage or en the stain. It appeared to me that the prisoner had fallen on Mr. Jones at the door. I went inside then, and went to bed. The nest morning, at seven o'clock, heard the door of the house shut. At nine o'clock I found the shutters still closed. At one o'clock in the day I saw the prisoner, and was going to speak to her about Mr. Jones, bat she shunned me. I listened the whole of that day and night, but evil not hear Mr. Joan. 11. had a cough, white I Waal gemerally, bat oa that day I could not hear it. Oa amp essariNgswg I leaked for the prisoner, but could mod see or i = Wag of her, and at eleven eas Me Isar de I went Whea I returned, at one o'clock, Ilia found the diallem Weld. I then looked at Mr. Jaass's window, and aim the Iliad up, and the primer stood at the side of the win. dew. She looked very ashatMl. and I nodded to her, but tie did not return it, ad emend mash ountased. I re postal ray sod to her. but she did sot aides it. sad I then ' wen to the beck of the bow, sad hued it fastened. I notsised the home, but sew as sae go est. At five o'clock I nevi a cab drive away hem the gen. sad Mee penes . At that mmemet the F = NM an awl up the popes that bed beset lato the the mime at sin o'slesk ibe mmalog o astr a Z hem Meg then all day. I waled the Yaw all day sad sew on lien or nerd say peens tent the Merily, wins I saw Mr. Key den with the imisoleher. Oa the New Year's Day, whoa the bens In the ems, the ri sme/ beet Ides sod theselseed that If he idesared himself eat main she weal kish tie Mb out. I disdastly heed the pinion " ter year eyes out, you 'old devil," sat the l baud Metes soda sewed se if • dish was geed. The elseseesd all minim aminisel est Ms best him se I tick be was pen dela saythiag. She t= OM Ids le inn ea the oa t eM she should leave han, sad be begged her set to de so. She went eat at Wilma en, leaking him ups imittimm ie was iatoxicated Mrs. Annie Gray, a respectable mauled boa* mil the bow I lived is we ant deer to the We Mr. Jeseeli, but that loess was 1.1 ea the ith of Destiabor lest. "I knew Mr. Jens well, but sew had a ornemation with him but twin The Ihet i.e, la July, I Oil Wm I was lorry to les bin so peed/ mad faint, and 'Mid that it was a pity to as him Is dr some be was in. His reply to me then any "lam • shied& mos." I veld !anent if he wanted *glides sad lapped at in wall, I would render him all the seassese Ia my pew*. I have sties beard cries In the hem el the dmesed Mr. loam and the prisoner teed te in. mine &pates about mosey natters. I hays Wei Mee king eat, me the mosey and let me go." M ease Vile I her beat the on man. The de emed need to say to her, "don't leave me." I distinctly nerd the send of a elm; on the face which the prisoner gave the deceased. I have frequently' heard them q uarrel sad beard the deceased utter the cries of " mur der" ea two or three occasions. The Ant time I heard these Wee was in the month of July I thick, cm that oillaha huebead heard them as irell es m yself, sad he spoke to a penman about it. The next time I board the sties of " murder " was is the latter end of November. Most that time they wen the* nerd the soiled 3 4 'n' Ili ng and I Mows. Is on • these Wallah I lewd the prisoner s a y g i n ma s h e :17 sag id no ead hie was, mean Ices you." She t he, y eeked i nee 'Dca bow "sa l: find imput r ie r n tO ral li bio r. , lxy ? The eld mu sot answering her, and greens, as if they earns from a penes in Wean spay. I have sea a-"m lashilen, but refased. Ia apply for have let gentlemen over the wall of my garde., on their tailing me that the print ner would not let them in, though I kn ew she time. This was in themonth of October. They ra was al at then the g hen, and Mr. Joie same to he could not admit the m . " T t hry s wa Y t k ne to plie t ts s ef , saittiesmiade wend, and said they particularly wished to take Mr awn, as:they understood his life 'in d GINS Min Maria Ham mon d, w h o a l so li ve d nest door to the decemed, detailed at some length the particulars of what she saw and heard of the ' 061 that oa the eight on prison e r ret eee l d the deceased. son nub „ flatbed Mr . ones died, she . mite by the quarrelling between the prisoner lad the deceased. In the coarse of the night she was awoke by one of these quarrels. From the voices s h e co uld dis tinctly tell that there were only the primer and the de- 1 tameezbraran the . room (the back, parlour) at the time. Div a the prisoner talk angrily sad heard the do omed say, "Oh, what do y Ibis she beards heavy fall on she sa.y andieunthitedia.liteaoaftewedr by a perfect deathlike sile nnot kesr ce , donna which winless did or whisper. This was broken by i;',',_Y!'?° Mutts the door and adasittiag, as the witness believed, some person to her amistaaes, as she maid die thelinetli_hear several Totem, and, for theNeaailli" part of morning, t he noises from the room appeared to be moat unpleasant. ir. Elliott—What did this noise resemble ? Witness —The scratching and scraping of the floor with a shovel. Police -constable John Grant, 170 P, said that on the morning of the 10th of January he was on duty in Acre lane, Brixton, and at about five o'clock in the morning he saw the prisoner come out of the house of Mr. Jones and go in at the gate of a person named Evans, which win throe doors oft• He wished her "good morning," but she made bias no reply. She appeared to him to have been drinking, sad seemed much frightened. He saw no more of her that fig• Mr. Wm. Jones, 153, Tottenham-mart-read, said the de ceased Mr. Wm. Jose* was my aside. In the swath of August last I visited at his late midair., and on say ear temp the hems I found him shaving kinsielf, and could see that be had marks of serious siolence on Ms fem. I asked him bow he had receive! there, upon which he ex claimed, " Hash, hush, she's in the met room; I can't tell yea sow, bat will presently." The door of the nest room was opened, and the prisoner, who must have beard my qualities, eatered the room whew ire were, and my awls seemed se nervous 'boat it that I did not press the question a emend time, as the prisoner took care not to leave us Gloss or give us en opportunity. I have made four or are attampts to we my uncle, but could not. as the prisoner would sot admit me inside the house or to his presence. Mr. Elliott laving announced his intention of sending the cue before a jury, the whinnies mere bound over to pros..i.uto, but the pris ,ner was remanded. She left the bar with a carelmanese amounting to levity. SUNDAYS. A general meeting of delegates of the worki ng dame of the 'metropolis took plus, last evening, at St. Martin's hall, " use orgaaited danooatration of the hal m° end opinions of the labor:mg popaletioe of the metro-1 polio in &mu of the opening of the Crystal Palace is Sundays." It was stated that delegates bed been elected fronievery branch of labour, representing the sentiments I of 92,600 working men. A bort one honored delegates oc-I copied the platform, arid the body of the hall and spacious gallery were deasely crowded with the general public, chi" fly members of the working elcsses. Mr. HINDI MAYHEW was called on to preside amiast load sheering. He said the meeting was a remarkable from the numbers present, nearly double the inhabit ants of some German principalities ; u was still more re markable from its representative character, the whole of the London trades having been polled, and the delegates re nrcseated abut 100,000 of their fellow-workmen. (Cheen.) It was ode of the most righteous meetings ever held. (Cheep.) Their übjeet was not to en courage Sunday labonr to*lxidge the poor man's rest, but to ensure to him the meanie' rational rest and improve • went. (Rear, hear.) The puritans would hare them be lieve that this was to eummit a national sin. Was it na- tional righteousness to keep the people brutally ignorant and deny them any pleasures more intellectual than gin and tobacco ? A country which did this could be neither nationally righteous nor nationally wise. The question was, was there to be any medium &Unction on the Lord's-day between religious esereiwe and debasing sensuality ? It had been proved to be impouible to make the people religious by act of parliament; multitudes would not go to church ; and it was at least desirable to wean the minds of such, by . . intellectual pursuits, from gram and debasing pleasures. (Cheers.) Some urged that there was a divine command for the Sabbath to be kept strictly, and to this consideration they first addressed themselves. They did not reject the authority of a divine command, but merely claimed the common protestant right of interpreting the injunctions of Scripture according to their consciences. (Cheers.) The theological obection being the main one in this cue they could not over l ook it, unless at the risk of being ch arred with playing Hamlet, and omitting the chief part. (Hear, hear.) Christians, be it remembered, observed their Sabbath, not on the seventh day, as commemorative of the rest of the Almighty after the work of creation, but on the first day of the week, as com memorative of the resurrection of Christ. The one was a Jewish, the other a Christian obeervince. Without quibbling it was impossible to deny that the Old Testament commecd referred to Saturday. (Rear, hear.) What authority, then, was there for the present Sabbath law ? It was admitted that the Saviour enunciated no such law , the Sabbath of which he spoke was the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday. Nor did the Apostles lay down any such in junction ; and there was no evidence that they ever re garded any other than the Jewish Sabbath, the observance of which was believed to be obligatory en all Jews and Christians, till the destruction of Jeru salem. Some relied on the pas-ages which spoke of the disciples coming together "on the first day of the week." But this merely showed that the early Christians were accustomed to meet on that day, not in compliance with any direct command. There was no injunction to abstain from labour or worldly enjrry anent on that day. So far from this the observance of the day was evidently regarded as one of the " weak and beg garly element s"of Judaism. During the lst mid 2nd centuries of Christianity, it appeared, from a letter of Pliny, jun., that the Christians were accustomed to meet for prayer on • certain day of the week ; but there was no mention of abataiuing from labour or worldly occupation on that day. Thu same appeared from the writings of Justin the Martyr and others. As early as Tertullian's time Sunday was °b ogeyed as • day of Christian rejoicing, the Christians in dulging in mirth and festivity. (Rear, hear.) A decree of the council of Demarco, io Paphlagonia, A.D. 357, anathe matised those who passed the Sunday in bodily mortifies tion ; and cn edict of Constantine, while exhorting to • general rest from labour, made an exception in femur at agricultural labourers. lieu declared that the prone. at a total abstinence from labour on Sunday,though beensfillin by Constantine with good intent, was to be condemned, as not abolishing Judaism, but merely shifting it to undue day. The early reformers held similaropimions. Cranmer, in 'his Catechism of 1188, claimed for Christians full liberty to select their own day for religious observances and rest from labour. Melancthon declared that the non-observance of such day ought not to be regarded as sin. Calvin pro posed to transfer the observance from Sunday to Thursday, as a proper exercise of Christian liberty, at the same time denying any obligation to observe use day in seven. It was a tradition that when John Knox visited Calvin on the Sunday, he found his austere coadjutor bowling on the bowling-green, and it was customary with the bishops and clergy to recreate themselves in this way after divine ser vice. (Cheers and laughter.) The notion of a strict rest on the Sunday being obligatory on Christians was first pro mulgated by Dr. Bone, in 1694: it was opporied by many divines, bat was warmly espoused by the Puritans. The dogma found its way into the "Westminster Catechirm," mid had thus come down to our day. Paley, in his" Moral and Political Philwrophy," admitted that there was no injunction by Christ or his Apostles for an ab- Wsenee from labour on the Sunday, but that it was merely an ordinance of human institution. (Rear.) BOWS might ray that, even if this were so, the fact should be withheld from the people, lest it should lead to a greasesl desecration of the Sabbath. This would be one of the piens frauds for which bigots were so notorious. (Cheers.) If the strict observance of the day were an idol of the ear venticle, the sooner it was overthrown, and the institatieni plaited on its right footing (the improvement of the beep and mind of the labourer), the better. (Cheers.) The ob servance should rest on the necessity of our physical nature for a certain portion of relaxation, and to those eternal principles of justice, which were at least as obligatory as revelation. (Hear.) The social grounds for the observ anm of the day he should postpone till next Wednesday, to which time this meeting would be adjourned. He would conclude by reading the declaration of the working men which had been drawn up and s*ned. It was as follows ; a 1. That the working men wash it to be understood that they are in no way desirous of questioning the authority of the decrees upon which the 'institution of the Babbitk I. this country :is founded, but merely assert for themselves 1 the right to interpret those dunes as their conscience die tates.-2. That the mode of observing the Sunday sung the early Christians proves incontestably that the present sabbath is a social rather than a divine institution.-3. That the sabbath, whether viewed as a divine or a social institu tion, is designed especially for the benefit of the labourer. 4. That while the working classes are dethrone of obtaining such a relaxation of the putout rigorous mode of observing the Sabbath aa will bring it beck to its true eses—the recre. diem sod seilmaing of the labourer--they Si. likewise apeciay cashes to guard the day of rest soaks' an other emereseimment than what is absolutely seemessy, mil at the sues time to ppe[aoersnfor their Maur weakens whe may be sopped la to their seconshise ea as Sunday eons saber llap el rest in the weak, ee net the less of the Who* any be equally extended to all.—S. That the work lag 11111111110, 'moreover, emirs no ent of the day of rose, but stash as is absolutely required intrkgem for their physical sad intasetual neensities.-6. That physical recreation is as I. the working man oohed and drink is to him on the h.-7. That refined and ildiestioaXenjoyment as well as the moans of oblniang ialbsmation are even more seesenry to the worths erea sso nsa l =isel reenation oa the sabbath ; and that if dues In denied Mtn on the present day of rest, dila two salmis, must be sp polnted is the week, one day le he obeened se a day of mere repose, and the other as a day hr the recreation of W mental and bodily angles of the labourer." Mr. PAIDLITI, a delegate from the cabinet-makers moved the adoption of the declaration. Me said this was twitber mare nor less than a betds with and creed = (Cheers.) It was a only priests sad : gems were God's ministers ea red . (Cheers.) They swill not Mint that Belgravia bat up its nose at the =Palms, and convened it le !ad a better site, where Ins Mined by theme ellefebersey. (Cheers.) Immediately Ihe new sift woe istennieed on, the bigots hod mocked the "Clergy List" to get up en opposition to it; but they might as well seek to stop the waves of the Atlantis as to Tall bosh the tide of intelligence. (Cheers.) The declaration lantana no Infraction of any individual right ; It left every one free to act eceerding to the dictate. ehis sosseknes. Mr. W. NSWTOW esommded the resolution with gnat limsom• and said he subscribed to every one of the pita dvhe embedied in the declaratim. Kr. Ihmair•ano delegate of the silk weaversoaid he segensated the in habitants of lipilelnelde sed Bnknal where there had lately bees a Meg* espply of iesebce; but he could state Mat cot men them me in INV of the weavers atteadal Sees churches. Maar, t e res er a lTkey were low is the and male, sad their PIM. WY II positive M i st Mn essenuatty. Kr. MAD (the bakers' ea thee we dot mete weeded beellittal retreallea leek be represealsd. limy bed Mimes bees dowlel rye medial mt, by tbe imp sneers ethers; brew Ulm et Lades mil that by ewe baker staying at home, twenty peruse wars stewed Elf le shun*. (Hear, bear.) The bakers of the meter wo to rked from 16 21 hours • day, with chest sad latervals for net, and some at the east ad se eseighlreediedf men that 144 hours in the week. It was meet imported te Ole bogy o Om Mislaid be afforded them. (Rear hear.) Dr. Cum ming admilied that not non than • dOsea bakers, though number of them were Sootchmen, attended his ear.) Ven= h was thea put and carried, with not more Ilia wieis diewatients. Loud cheering followed the an of the result. ag ib la rtrl. T. BATLIN, Secretary of the Lord's Day Oballismes Society, who announced himself as a working di expressed his wish to speak. VralliliAN said the meeting was confined to work ing. men and their representatives, but he was willing to waive the rule in favour of the rev. gentleman. (Cheep.) Mr. BAYLIS said he claimed the privilege of an English man to correct some misrepresentations that had been made. 'lb Ardmore, argument had gone to prove that the &b -link woe taped both for the recreation of the workinngg ass wed ht his labour. (" No, no," and interruption.) was an advocate for every man enjoying the Sabb atfih Wording to his conscience, but let him do nothing to inter- erre with another's enjoyment of the same. (Cheers, and cries of " The bishops.') He for one never employed his follow men on the Sabbath. (" Rear, hear," and erns of -'s Time.") The meeting becoming impatient and some what clamorous, the rev. gentleman exclaimed, "Ah ! you're afraid; you due not listen to argument or to the truth." (Uproar, amidst which the rev. gentleman retired.) Mr. Nawrox announced that the meeting would be ad journed at its elms till Wednesday next. Mr. WIMITEI proposed a vote of thanks to the chair ' epees, which was seconded, and unanimously agreed to. 1 3 11 12 17 Unop Unopposed 6 The congregation was a very full one, owing partly to the interest excited by seme (tithe graces, and partly to the Bachelors' ball having taken place over-night. There were a number of ladies present. CLARE HALL.—The under-mentioned gentlemen have been elected (after an examination) to scholarships at this college : Derwin (Freeman's, augmented), Holmes (Mr. Cherry's), Mrares (Dr. Green's, augmented), Lloyd (Mar quis of Exeter's), Braithwaite (Dr. Green's), Stretor (Dig gons'), Incledon (Dr. Green's), Rah, (Dr. (hen's). Tun CLASSICAL TRlPOS.—Candidates for the Classical Tripes are to send in their name, to Mr. Ounson, of Christ's College, on or before Tuesday, Feb. 10. HERISZW.—The Regius Professor of Hebrew will resume his critical lectures at the schools on Saturday, Feb.l2, with psalm and will continue them every following Wed nesday and Saturday during term. MINERALOOY.—The Professor of Mineralogy will com mence his lectures on Monday, Feb. 7. These lectures will be given on Mondays, Tuesday s , Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, from two to three, in the Mineralogical Museum, muter the west end of the new library. Gentlemen who attend these lectures with the intention of obtaining the Professor's certificate, mast be provided with the prefiasorial lecture ticket, for which they are requested to apply to the registrary, or to their college tutor. Gentlemen who do not require the certificate are admitted gratis. There will bo an examination of the candidates for the Professor's certificate on Monday, March 14, at 11 a.m. CLERICAL Rev. John Eccles, to St.l , ;ioeS Curacy, Drogheda. Rev. Joseph Gould, Rector of Bnrwash, Sum:, to the Canonry of Hurst, in the Cathedral Church of Chichester. Rev. William Sewell, 8.D., Exeter College, Oxford, to be Principal of Radley_College, Abingdon. VACANCI3II. Ricrontas.—Bow alias Nymet-Tracev, with Broad , Nymet Rectory, Devon ; diocese Exeter; value, 3361. ; pat. the Rev. F. Van der Menden, promoted. Nash-with-Upton Curacy, Pembrokeshire; value, 1301., with residence; patrons. the Representatives of the late Rector ; the Rev. W. P. Evans, deceased. Wormley, Herta ; diocese, London ; value, 2351., with residence; patron, Earl Brownlow ; Rev. T. Pickthall, deceased. Vicxasons.—Broxboutne, Herta ; diocese Rochester; value, 3611.. with residence ; patron, Bishop of Rochester; Rev. T. Plckthall, deceased. Gringley-on-the-Hill, Notts diocese Lincoln ; value, 1581., with residence ; patron, Duke of Rutland ; Rev. K. N. Beaver, deceased. lialvemate, Norfolk ; diocese, Norwich ; Talus, 8651., with residence; Rev. George Burgas, deceased. Moulton, Norfolk ; diocese, Norwich ; value 1771. ; patron, Rev. Mr. &Ulan ; R ev . G. Burge', dece ased. NAVAL. ADMIRALVE, FEB. 2. AePonnintrre.—Pay roaster J. Marks, and Clerks A. laws mad B. Amphlett, to Duke of Watiagton. AssienefilMftinsers of the let ohms G. Robertson to liarcsessere ; sad J. Justice, to Sidon. IiOVEMENTL—At Jamaica: Cumberland. with the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir G. Seymour, arrived from La GUM Jan. 10. Jan. 11—H.U.S. Lamm, High flyer, Geyser, Bard , and Persian.—At Barbados,: M.S. Daunllem, having lost seventy-three men and fifteen officers of yellow fever.—Trinidad : H.M.S. Deviate tion.—On a cruise : H.M. schooner Bermuda, having been towed out of Grey Tows, on Jan. 2, by C.S.V. Dee. WHERE ARE OUR SHIPS $13,—1 quits concur in your observations of to- day ; there is no reel necessity tee an increase of the stand ing army, and the experience of all time, especially of the I lpresent, shows that the necessity of keeping up large standing armies boa always been destructive to public liberty. Our transatlantic brethren well understand this, for while their regular force is small, the militia is large. Any danger from abroad could only be from a hostile navy—it is by • fleet alone the enemy could pontoon the channel. Our strength and security depend upon the ap plication of our fleet. We bays ships enough and to spare if they are properly placed, and in those, not in more soldiers, must reside ourstrength. G. Londca, Feb. 2, 1853. ILL-TREATMENT OP A CREW.—Captain Charles Percival Dizon, master of the ship Sarah Charles, 222 tons register, kust left London on a foreign voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, but which put into Swanna for a cargo of patent fuel, summoned the whole of his able seaman before the magistrates of Swansea on Saturday, for non-perform anise of duty. The men, being called on for their reason, made a long statement to the beneb, the effect of which wee, that when they left London for Swansea they bad no lights allowed them to cook victuals with. They could not eat the pork given them, which woo all alive, full of mag gots, and the bread so mildewed that they could not town it. They signed articles for half a pound of flour per day per man, but the steward told them he could not cook it for them—he could not break the lumps in it. They also signed fir peas three times a week, but they had beam given them instead. Ti.e sugar they could not touch, it was so bad. The mate produced some of the arti cles. The dough made from the flour was quite black, the bread quite green and mildewed, and the liquor called soup looked more like dirty water than anything else. The cap tain said the men had the provisions as he bought them. A full bench of magistrates decided that the captain had evidently broken his contract with hie men, and refused to compel the men to go on board. The Custom-house au thorities were ordered to make a survey of the ship. The proceedings created quite a stir in the town, and the decision of the magistrates gave very general satis faction. SPORTING. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. CHESTER ACCEPTANCES FOR '1 Ass at. lb. 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'HE CHESTER CUP. Age 'Lib. The Queen 3 6 0 Banshee Ha Tray 4 6 Joe 4 612 The Carrier Lady Harriett The Deformed Charley Madeline The Sutler 4 5 8 Richard Primmer 4 5 8 I Termagant 4 6 8 Missive Recommendation 4 6 8 Valour Moscow By Faugh-a-Bal lagh, h m out of Miniature Snowdon Dunhill 3 Tremble Sextus 3 Tickton Ann Eliza Peggy 3 Fairplay 3 Ida 3 B e by Crosier, out of Summerhill 3 Prevention 3 Tavistock St. Andrew ' Pastrycook 3 Ratchet 3 Helena I B e by the Empe ror out of Be- IG MEETING. AND 80BUILDAN HANDICAP. bt lb Elbe'heft Age. 3 613 Tiekton Stamford Helena Tariatock Misa Delamere 3 6 9 The Hatchet I d, Peggy 3 6 7 Madame Landean 3 6 7 Prevention 5 Sister to Binga pore 6 7 Winter The Varmint 4 5 5 Snarry 4 5 4 J utile& EUea Matter Norton Pancake 4 8 2 Appleton 4 6 1 Little David B f by Cotherstone out of Wedlock 3 6 0 Miss Emma Cassique 3 412 3 4 12 Anne Page 3 4 9 Tobolskl 3 4 9 The Kersey C by the Emperor oat of Coral 3 4 4 COLLISION ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. A collision, Musing considerable destruction of pay, but happily unattended with loss of life, en Tuesday morning on the Midland Railway, about three miles north of Leicester. Close by the side of that pars of the line where the collision took place is a ballast-hole, end shortly before nine o'clock a ballast trails was leaving this hole and entering :upon the down line of rails upon the main line. The engine only had got upon the main line, when • luggage train, which had left Leicester for Derby and the north of England about • quarter before nine, van against it, and turned it completely over. The engine of the luggage train was turned upside down, and several of the goods vans were shattered to pieces, scattering their varied contents in heaps on the up line. The driver and stokes of the ballast train, strange to may, escaped uninjured, bat those of the luggage train were not so fortunate. They were at first thought to be very seriously hurt, and were removed to the Infirmary at Leicester as speedily as pos sible. On examination it was found that no bones were broken, and their injuries were principally bruise' of the legs and hips. After recovering from the shock they were able to be removed to their homes at Derby, whithes they were sent by the mail train in the afternoon. One of the engines, or • goods van, appears to have been vio lently thrown against a telegraphic post, and all the wires were broken, putting a stop to telegraphic eommunica tion for some hours. At the time of the accident then was • dense fog, so that it was impossible to see any object more than twenty yards off. It mans that the men with the ballast train had turned on the signal, which is situated about 600 yards up the line towards Leicester, but the goods train had either passed the sig nal before it was turned or had not seen it. It is thought that they bad passed it before it was " on." • consi derable body of workmen were soon taken to the spot by the beads of the various departments at Leicester, and as . rangemente were made for meeting each passenger train with empty carriages. The passengers by walking over that pert of the line which was rendered impassable for the regular traffic were thus enabled to pursue their journies with little delay. We believe that no train was delayed more then an hour, and by half-past two o'clock the up line was clear. The' down line would not be passable for some hours later. The damage to the goods is not so met as it wee at first thought to be. A piano and two atelle boarda were smashed, and • quantity of coffee was spilt. The other goods scattered upon the line did not appear much injured, but the extent of the damage cannot be as certained until the packages are opened. The fog coati ruled to be very dense in the locality where the collision took place throughout the day ; even when the sun was shining brightly (about noon), two; miles off it wu incur able to see more than 40er 60 yards. ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS.—A specimen was laid before the last meeting of the Bombay branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of • substance called "gild sand stone," from Hattiwar, and as we have seen more than one of these of late we presume they are plentiful at the presi dency. The sandstone in reality contains not one atom of gold nor of any other substance of value ; it consists of • tars of the microscopic shells called from their resemblance in form and size to millet seed, the same as constitute the masses of limestone in Hutch and Hattiwar, only in this ease martial pyrytea or sulphuret of iron takes the place usually occupied by calcareous matter. Though valueless for economic purposes, as cabinet specimens they are very beautiful ; when looked at throug h • magnifier of moderate power not only are the forms of the shells meat manifest, but their irrideseence shines in all ita primary beauties. —Bombay IRELAND. DUBLIN, FEB. 2. The " great /Cells meeting"—" the gathering of Leinster, as it was absurdly termed—came off yes terday, and, if we judge it according to the boastful preparations trade fur tt, the affair was a miserable failure. The numberof people who congregated on the occasion did not exceed some 3,000 at the out side, and the persons of any note who were brought together were very few indeed, while the popular enthusiasm was below zero, and the principal feature which gave an air of respectability to the proceed ings was the parade made during the morning of military and constabulary reinforcements whielt some timid magistrates of the neighbourhood thought it might be necessary to have at hand for the preser vation of the peace. It so happened, however, that the soldiers and the extra constables might have been dispensed with, and, in fact, they were with drawn before the commencement of the meeting. The meeting was held in the open air, a platform having been erected under a large elm-tree, in front of the Roman Catholic School-house, and near the chapel. The principal occupants of the platform wore Roman catholic clergymen from the neighbour ing parishes, and a deputation from Dublin, consist ing of Mr. Lucas, M.P., Dr. Gray, Mr. J. M. Cant well, and a few others. The meeting was culled, according to the requisition, "for the purpose of adopting a petition to parliament, praying for the enactment of a measure of 'religious equality.' in accordance with the resolutions passed at tilt Reli gious Equality Conference recently held in Dublin ;" but as I have already stated the principal object was to abuse the Irish members who had taken office, and to deter others from adopting a similar course. The chair was to have been taken by Mr. Corbally, the member for the county, but that gentleman hav ing excused himself by letter for his absence, the honour of presiding was conferred on Mr. Edwin M'Evoy. The Rev. Mr. Geoghegan, C.C., proposed the first reso lution, as follows : —"That the source and origin of most of the social and political grievances, of which, above other civilised nations, the people of Ireland have to complain, is the established church, in its character of a political and temporal institution ; that the maintenance of such au in stitution in the enjoyment of social superiority over a people of a different religion, and iu the exclusive possession of enormous funds, plundered from that pt ople, by the piety and munificenceof whose ancestors they were accumu lated, for purposes not only different, but directly contrary to this, their present application, is an abuse of so gross a kind that, in no age of the world, amongst no race, kindred, tongue, or people, would it ever be endured willingly by the subjects, or could it ever be maintained by the rulers, except at the sword's point. That the catholic people of Ireland never have endured, and never will endure it, otherwise than as they endure famine, pestilence, and other inevitable calamities ; and that it is impossible that tranquillity and contentment should ever prevail in Ireland, until not only this monster grievance is removed, but until all laws which impede a perect religious equality of all Irishmen, of whatever class or creed, are absolutely and entirely removed. Mr. Malley seconded the resolution, which was carried. The following resolutions were also adopted: . , . 5 4 5 4 5 4 6 2 5 2 5 2 6 2 6 2 5- 2 6 2 4 7 4 7 4 7 4 7 4 7 4 7 Resulved—That the pr testant established * church (not only has absorbed the property of the Irish catholic puor, but) displays her peculiar malignity in countenancing and encouraging itinerant soupers, whose sole duty it appears to be to outrage the religious feelings of a mural people, to insult their priesthood, to blaspheme their religion, to pro mote desertion and disturbance wheresover they make their appearance ; and this becomes the more intolerable when we reflect that those eoupers are encouraged by the minis ter of the established church, these living on the plundered property of the poor, come amongst us under the false pre tence of enlightening our people, whereas there is no coun try in Europe more steeped in ignorance, more disgraced by outrageous immorality, than England, the very country from whence those soupers come, and deliberately to pro voke breaches of the peace. That the maintenance of a party of Irish members of parliament, hound by their own convictions, no lees than by their public pledges, to be independent of, and in oppo sition to, all governments that will not remove the two great and leading grievances from which proceed the unpa ralleled nuisances of which Ireland Las for ages lnen tau victim, and which, at the hands of a just and prudent go vernment, admit of a safe, speedy, and certain redress, is a policy not only wise in itself, but absolutely necessary at the present crisis, was first propounded by the leading Irish liberal constituencies of the last parliament—was adopted at the earnest and repeated solicitations, backed by the most solemn promises, enforced by oaths—and was esta blished by the people at the last general election, who, on the representations made to them of the benefit that would result to them, of the benefit that would accrue from such a course, made the most heroic sacri fices to increase the numbers of such a party. That, consistently to pursue such a policy, irrespective of the personal character, feelings, and interest of any existing or possible minister, is the only course by which permanent redress can be obtained of the abeve mentioned evils, and affords the only means by which it can be made the interest of all political parties, in their turn, to respect the feelings of the catholic people of Ireland, and to treat them with impartial justice in the transactions of daily life ; and that for some of the original propounders of this policy to desert it for place at the earliest possible opportunity can only be regarded as an act of the basest ingratitude and treachery to the people, by whose sacrifices and sufferings they were raised to political power. The Rev. Mr. Ennis, P.P., proposed the next resolution: " That although we deeply deplore the nature of the issue that has been just tried at Carlow—in which evil principles on the one hand, or abandonment of all principles on the other, was the melancholy alternative—we hail the result as a great popular victory, vindicating the national honour, avenging a betrayed people, and proving to the electors who sacrificed so much in the national cause that that cause paned be sold by any of their representatives with impu nity ; that the people of Ireland now look to the electors of Athlone to consummate this great act of national justice by executing judgment upon a representative in whom betrayal of trust has been aggravated by false pretences and breach of promise, and by the infraction of the most solemn and meted engagements." Mr. Peter Arnold seconded the resolution, which was pared. The meeting then separated. In the Encumbered Estates Court yesterday a small leasehold property, of which the net yearly rent and value was about 941., was sold for 2,6151. The competition was very brisk. The lands are situated near Aughrim, in the county of Galway. The commissioners appointed to inquire into the arterial drainage system in Ireland, consisting of Richard Oriffith Req., Sir William Cubitt, and Wil liam Bendel), Esq., C.E., are now at Loughrea, hav ing inspected the works in the neighbourhood of Portumna and Tullamore. A man named Thomas M'Cormiek was on Monday Hill y committed to the county prison in Tullamore by Thomas Brereton, Esq., R.M., Parsonetown, for trial at the approaching assizes charged with the murder of William R. Manifold, Esq., who was shot dead in his gig at Logien, near the Blue Bali, on thaecening of the 19th October last, when returning tram Tullamore to hie residence at Annaghmore. The Kilkenny Moderator has the following as scant of a murder : On the night of Monday last a man named Michael Magrath, a tenant upon Lord Clifden's estate, and holding about twenty acres of land, was shot lead by some person whose name we have not as yet ascertained, but who was supposed to be engaged in watching oats, the property of that nobleman. The deceased was in constant em ployment at the castle, as were also his sons, with their two horses, at wave, we understand, of about two pounds per week. It appears that oats were frequently missed for the last fortnight, which caused the steward to represent the matter to Mr. Muggeridge, the agent, by whose direction a watch was ordered. The steward and every person connected with Gowan Castle now positively.deny all knowledge of the person by whom the unfortunate man met his death. The - body was found near two bags of corn, one of which appeared branded with she initials of the deceased man's name. It was removed home by friends before morning who did set ommunicate the matter to the police. :From facts stated to 'nit seems scarcely to admit of doubt how the oceurrenee took place; however, it will be matter for the usual in quiry, whea, of course, every facility to oecessary scrutiny will be afforded, as it would be most injurious to the in terests of society if any hesitation was felt in avowing every —stance connected with the transaction. TIIE CAMBRIDGE BACHELORS' BALL—This fashion able and pleasant re-union took place in the Town Hall, Cambridge, on Tuesday evening last, and fully sustained the reputation it has aequirsd in past years. It is given, se most of our readers may be aware, by such of the outgoing bachelors as may have been fortunate enough to sec ure a place in the Bumblers Lists, to their fair friends and others, in order to celebrate their successful image through the perils and dangers of the University examination. The arrangements were, as usual, under the management of a committee and stewards selected from t he Bachelors. Lord Iduncuter officiated as president; the Hon. P. Bridgeman as hon. secretary, and Mr. Burden, of St. John's, as tree , surer. 'There were about 450 invitations issued, and the whole affair passed off with the greatest eclat. ASCENT OP THE GREAT-I3LOCKNER.—A letter from Klagenturth, in the Austrian States, announces that, on the 19th, two English travellers, Mr. Sharpe and Mr. Thomp son, as oended to the summit of the Gross-Glockner, the highest mountain of Myr* which is 2,894 yards above the level of the sea. This was the second time the summit of the mountain has been visited ; the first ascent to it was made 60 years ago by M. Warlopf, an Austrian geologist. Owing to the mildness of the temperature, Mr. Shane and Mr. Thompson sunk to their knees in the anowtwlaalt, . , ~. covers the upper part of the Gross-Glockner, anff•eikeir It .n ro obliged to throw off their great coats. Whilst at wiL "- lefff t, the mountain their guides played at cards. 1 .....;„ • ~..., • • . k . 5. 611 , i\ i' 14 , 41 ; . ..:•; 1 ...if - ;). ~.\.• . ii ...-,. 4. . / .....A.: - • lagillgiSANW