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THE REFORMATION SOCIETY AND STONYHURST SCHVOL. At a meeting of the Committee of the Blackburn Auxiliary to the British Society for promoting the Religious Prin ciples of the Reformation, it was resolved that the following invi tation to a public discussion be forwarded to the Reverend the Principal of Stonyhurat, and to the Clergy of the itomish Com munion resident in and near Blackburn Reverend Gentlemen,—We, the undersigned Members of the British Society for the Promotion of the Religious principles of the Reformation, beg leave respectfully to invite the ttev. Fathers of Stonyhurst. and the Clergy of the Church of Rome, and any res pectable laymen belonging to that Church, to en open and public discussion (with members of the above Society) of the points of difference in controversy between the Churches of Rome and England. We beg to inure you, Reverend Gentlemen, that we address this invitation to you io the spirit of Ch istian charity and personal good will, Influenced by I sincere desire to investigate and promote religious truth, and firmly convinced that such public discussions as that to which we now invite you, so far from fomenting, do most materially allay the irritation p roduced by religious animosities, and promote personal respect among the members of different communions. It is our ardent wish to remove every probable and even pos sible cause of complaint or dissatisfaction on the part of our ex pected opponents—for which purpose we beg leave to propose that the thre, subjects, and detailed regulations of the discussion (if our invitation be accepted) shall be settled by two Committees, which may mutially arrange all preliminaries, and, previous to the Meet ing, give sufficient notice of the same to the gentry of this and the adjoining counties. With the further desire of giving entire satisfaction, and rentov . ing all apprehension on the part of our opponents, it has been our object to select a Chairman who shall be perfectly acceptable to our Roman Catholic brethren. Peregtine Edward Towneley, Esq. of Towneley, has appeared to us, from his personal character, the esti mation and antiquity of his family, and other considerations, emi nently qualified for the situation —one, whose character as a gentle man, and whose nobleness of disposition, place hint beyond all sus picion—in whom the Prote.tatit disputants can entirely confide. We bet leave to inform you, Reverend Gentlemen, that Mr. Towneley has had our whims in this respect intimated to him, and has consented to preside at the proposed discussion,prov filed it takes place, and the previous arrangements be satisfactory to both parties. In the earnest hope of learning at your earliest leisure that our proposal is received and accepted with the same liberality and per senal good feeling in which we make it, we remain, Reverend Gentlemen, very respectfully your obedient servants, (Signed) J. ww. WHITTAZAH, JONATHAN MACKINAW, JACK*ON PORTON, P. CONLIRPONO Law, G. LAILDNZIL FOZTOU, EDWARD IRAWSDIIN. Blackburn, Nov. 6. THE 71 . RDENS. In the course of last week Dr. Brookes delivered two lectures on the ostrich at thercologkalGardens, in the Regent's•park. The subject upon which he lectured was a male ostrich which be longed to the society, and which bad been for many months previ ous to its death in an ill state of health, so as to render it advisable not to exhibit it to the visitors, in consequence of which it was kept out of sight in a stable by itself. The bird having died, and Dr. Brookes having consented to lecture upon it, one of the rooms in which the wild beasts arc kept was fitted up as a sort of temporary lecture-room, and a platform of boards raised to receive the body of the bird. The greater prt of the learned anatomist's lectures applied to ornithology, and, indeed, to anatomy generaUyi; but he, nevertheless, made some very curious remarks on the ostrich itself, though, at the same time, he bad to lament that the long illness under which the bird before him had suffered bad relaxed a great deal of the internal anatomy of the body, and, consequently, prevented its being so fine a spe cimen in that respect as he could have wished. Dr. Brookes then called the attention of his audience co the construction of the legs of the ostrich, which were so admirably formed for running, by which means nature had supplied what she had taken away In depriving it of the power of flying. The ostrich was one of those few birds which have but two toes on each foot ; but here again, that nature might not seem improvident, she has made those toes of such a length, and supplied them with so pow erful a joint—a joint acted upon and strengthened by the very weight of the body—that they were adequate to all the purposes for which they were wanted. But, although the ostrich was in capable of flight, its wings were of use to him, as in running be ex panded them to assist his progress; added' to which, the ends of them were armed with sharp spines, which, though not of the length of those of the porcupine, were sufficiently long to assist it in repulsing any animal that might attack it, and to inflict a pretty severe wound. This, however, was not a feature exclusively be longing to the genus struthio, (amongst which the ostrich is en rolled) but was to be met with in the screamer, the African goose, and perhaps some others. With respect to the bones of the os trich, there are two things very remarkable—the one, that it was without that bone which is familiarly called the merry-thought.; and the other, the amazing strength of the pelvis ; this latter cir cumstance was, doubtless, a provision of nature to add to the strength of the lower part of the body ; and, when it was consi dered that the ostrich, though it weighed from eighty to one hun dred pounds, was able to outrun the fleetest horse, it would be easily apprehended how necessary such a provision was. The In ternsl arrangement of the ostrich was in many respects curious, and among other things might be noticed the enormous length of its in testines; for the curiosity of the thing Dr. Brookes mentioned that be would measure their length ; but. as he did not do so in the course of the lecturer, it was probable that the circumstance sub sequently slipped his memory. We heard a scientific man make a guess that they were from thirty to forty yards long. During the second lecture a piece of brick, or stone (about 2 or 3 inches in di ameter) which had been found in the stomach of the ostrich, wu handed to the doctor, and he took occasion thereon to suppose that it had been thrown to the bird by some of the visitors to the gar dens, who came there full of the mistaken idea that the ostrich's powers of digestion were such as to be able to digest iron or any bard substance. As to the stomach, it would have afforded. hint much pleasure to have dissected it, and to have lectured upon it on that occasion ; but it was thought advisable by those who had the mlnagentent of the affairs of the society to preserve the stomach whole, in order that it might be kept in spirits ; and with respect to the organs of the voice, which presented many interesting cir cumstances, he should not touch upon them, as a member of the society. Mr. Yarrell had made that portion of zoology his pant. cuter study, and gone more deeply into the consideration of it than any of his predecessors. In the course of the second lecture Dr. Brookes mentioned that the body of an ourang outing had been sent to the society for dis section ; it would have afforded hint great pleasure to have assisted at the operation ; but, unfortunately, his avocations at the present season of the year were so numerous, that be was quite unable to spare the time; be regretted this, however, the less as the Zoolo gical Society had the good fortune to enrol amongst its members some of the first zoologists and physiologists in the world, and he had no doubt through them the subject would be done ample justice to ; and, even should that fail, as the animal was in spirits, perhaps at some future time he should have it in his power to enter upon the examination. He likewise mentioned that within a few days a fox, in the possession of the society, had died, which presented the curious phenomenon of having but one kidney. Such instances were rarely met with, though they were nut without example; and, indeed, instances of the same thing had occasionally been met with in the human species. It is hardly necessary to add, that this great anatomist was lis tened to throughout with the profoundest attention, and, by his observations, afforded the highest gratification to his auditory, among whom we observed some of the most scientific men be longing to the Nety. The Custom-house gentlemen are all on the qui vive look-out for the elephant, whose arrival is expected to take place to-day or to-morrow. It is to be hoped for Mathews and Yates's sake, that the Government duties are not to be paid by weight. A very common notion has obtained, that in the early periods of the world its inhabitants were both more juve nile and more perfect; that they were of a gigantic sta ture, incredible strength, as well as of an amazing leng.ll of life. In consequence of these notions, many roman tic fictions have been broached, such as, that Adam at tained to the height of 900 yards, and almost to the age of a thousand years. But philosophy has converted the supposed bones of giants, discovered in different places, into those of the elephant and rhinoceros; and divines have proved, that the chronology of the early time was not the same with that which is now used : some have gone so fat as to assert, that the year, till the time of Abraham, consisted only of three months ; that it was afterwards extended to eight ; and that it was not till the days'of Joseph that it attained to twelve. According to this view, the 1600 years before the flood will become 414; and the 900 years of Methusalem will be reduced to 200, which is no improbable age, when we consider the temperance of the period, and the age to which many have attained inmodern times.--Health Without Physic. Wheat Barley Oats. .. Rye Peas ........ Beans All other Grain Total Qrs. of Grain.. Cwts. of Flour .... 1,556,067 288,259 429,329 64,730 38,852 42,0116 47,158 1,343,933 233,515 188,426 63,914 21,081 33,582 40,496 200,477 54,911 459,619 26,055 23,091 26,139 5,257 2,466,474 1,924,947 I 795,6 W 440,794 : 7;35,382 57,656 TABLE TALK, . HISTORICAL, POLITICAL. LEARNED, and HUMOROUS —" Pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection. auda cious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy."—Snausrwts. MOLIERE.—When Aristocratic pritte, or more fre quently private malice and wounded self conceit, assuming the pretext of difference of rank, endeavoured to put an affront upon MOLIERItE, he 'usually received instant in demnification from some noblemen of better taste. Thus When the other valets-de-chanthre of the royal household showed an unwillingness to assist MoLIERE in the dis charge of his office, Monsieur de BELLOCQ, a man of genius as well as rank, rebuked them by saying aloud to the object of their paltry spite —" Permit me to assist you in making the King's bed, Monsieur de Mott E shall esteem myself honoured in having you for a companion." THE LATEST INFORMATION !—M. de E— was relating a story. M. de B— said to him, " That cannot be, for I have a letter of the 31st, which says the con trary. " Ah," replied the narrator, " but mine is of the 32d !" GREY HAI as.—Lou is XII. one day looking at him self in his mirror, was astonished to see a number of grey hairs on his head. "Ah !" said he, " these must be owing to the long speeches I have listened to ; and it is those of . M. le —in particular, that have ruined my bair."—Menage. YOUNG CARDIN A LS.—The two youngest cardinals on record, are ODET de CIIATILLON, who afterwards be came a Calvinist—and the CARDINAL INFANT. The first was only eleven years old, and the second some months younger.---Loriguerue. FRANCIS I.—FRANCIS I. was one day playing at tennis, when a Monk, who was playing on his side, by a successful stroke, insured the victory to the King's party. " Well done !" said the King, " a brave stroke for a Monk !" " Sire," replied the Monk, " your Majesty can make it the blow of an Abbe when you please." Some days afterwards the Abbey of Bourmayen became vacant, and the King presented the situation to him. —Duchat. LEARNING ENCOURAGED.—One of those booksellers in Paternoster-row, who publish things in numbers, went to GIBBON'S lodgings in St. James's-street, sent up his name, and was admitted. " Sir," said he, ""I am now publishing a History of England, done by several good hands : I understand you have a knack at them there things, and should be glad to give you every reasonable encouragement." As soon as GIBBON recovered the use of his legs and tongue, which were petrified with surprise, he ran to the bell, and desired his servant to show this Encourager down stairs.— Walpoliana. MA Z EPPA.—The mode of punishment, so powerfully described by BY RON in his poem of " Mazeppa," was of great antiquity. The horrid custom of tying a criminal to an unbroken horse, which was then driven at full speed through brakes and forests, was actually inflicted on BRUN MIA UT, or BRUNECIIILD, a very wicked Queen of France—but who, with all her iniquity, might boast . _ of being the daughter, sister, aunt, wife, mother, and grandmother, of Kings. This event was confirmed by the examination of her tomb, in the abbey of St. Martin, at Autun, in 1632 ; one thousand years after her death. in it was found thtt. remains of her bones, and the rowel of a spur, which it was formerly the custom to fix on the sides of horses used in such executions, to render them more furious. EXTR AORDINART EEQUEST. EUBREQUIUS in forms us, that ACIIIIZT BASSA, when condemned in 1555 to be strangled, by order of the Sultan, made it his particular request to the executioner that he would deprive him of life by degrees, and that after be had tightened the bowstring, he would loosen it again, that so he might know minutely how the pangs of death made their approach ! MINISTERIAL INFLUENCE.—A Minister, by ill advising his Prince, and putting him upon wrong me thods, has often had the honour to see a flourishing country reduced to beggary.— Tom Brown's" Laconics: POLITICAL INTEGRITY.—A man that keeps steady to one party, though he happens to be in the wrong, is still an honest man.—lbid. ENGLISH LAW. The atrocious character of the English Law is evi denced in this, that any man who is indifferent to public opinion may at once, under the mask of illegal proceed ings, so manage matters as to Owe a man possessed of a small property in an utter impossibility of preserving it without the aid of a rich man. Our readers may re member a singular case of oppression of two poor women in a county bordering on Wales, who, in consequence of the manoeuvres of an attorney to lay hold of some free hold property they possessed, were forced into law by him, and beggared and thrown into prison.—Morning Chicle. HISTORICAL PA RALLELS. Cow Lev, in his " Discourse by way of Vision, con cerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell," has in troduced " a strange and terrible apparition," which is no other than the ghoet of the Protector himself, feotii whose " sepulchral jam," very properly issue a defence of " His Highness" aiel a flaming panegyric of his Government—which prove bet the prelude to the severe and terrible castigation which the indignant Poet has inflicted upon his flagitious usurpation, and his tyrannies: ride. Hunt, with a paltry disingenuousness, unwo; thy of the historian, and subversive of the purposes of his tory. tranefers to his own summary of the Usurper's chiracter, the egotistical eulogy which Cow Lev put into the mouth of " the strange and terrible ap parition," merely as an introduction to, and gratifica tion of, his hitter reply : and then, not content with " altering the passage in some particulars from the ori ginal," HUME comments upon it, as if it were the inten tional commendation of " a writer attached to the memory of that wonderful person," and instead of ap pending Cowell v's honest declaration of his own senti mente, closes the panegyric, by saying " My intention 14 not to disfigure this picture drawn by so masterly a hand; I shall only endeavour to remove from it some w:nat of the marvellous"—totally regardless of the still greeter marvel which he was preparing for posterity, in t'ee exhibition of a grave Historian deliberately falsifying era contemporaneous record, which should here aidel his impartial development of the usurper's charaettr, and not have veiled his guilt in the dazzling "is - play of his mental qualifications. The tribute which HOOP. -has thus constrained COWLEY to pay, to the ' memory of a man whom ho execrated, is too familiar to Eitglish readers, to require transcription in this place; hut the faithfel picture which COWLEY actu ally drew of the Tyrant, is bat little known. Some of the feetures—aed those nut the least appalling—have been so horrilsly, so seikingly, resuscitated in the blood stained Usurper of Portusral, that be seems to have chosen Citootw Ei. L o 3 the loodel on his guilty greatness. —Cow LEY , in first addreseing the spectre, says, " Such a Protector we have had, as we would have been glad to !Iwo changed for an enemy ; and rather receive a csustent Turk, than this every mouth's apostate ; such a n e eceecto as man is to his flocks, which he shears t • and sells, or devours himself; and I would fain know what the wolf whom he protects them from, could do more ? • • There would be no end to instance in the particulars of all his wickedness ; but to sum up a part of it briefly, what can be more extraordinerily wicked than for a person, such. 33 yourself qualifie him rightly, to en deavour not only to exalt himself above, but to trample upon, all his equals and bette:s ? to pretend freedom for all men, and under the help of that pretence to make all men his servants? • • to set up councils of rapine, and court:; of murder ? to fight against the king under a commission for him ? to d: we , him into his net with protestations and vows of fidelity, and when he had caught him in it to betray him with as little shame as conscience or humanity, in the open face of the whole world! • • * to fight against Monarchy when he declared for it, and declare against it, when he contrived for it in his own person ? • • •to break his faith with all enemies, and with all friends equally? and to make no lees use of the most solemn perjuries, than the looser sort of people do of customary oaths ? to usurp three kingdoms without any shadow of the least pretensions, and to govern them as unjustly as he got theni ? to set himself up as an idol, and make the very streets, like the valley of Hinnom, by burning the bowels of men as a sacrifice to his Moleck.ship ? • * • I call him (said I) a Tyrant, who either in trudes himself into the government of his fellow citizens, without any legal authority over them, or who, having a just title to the government of a people, abuses it to the destruction' or tormenting of them. So that all Tyrants are at the same time usurpers, either of the whole, or at least a part of that power which they assume to themselves, and no less are they to be accounted rebels, since no man can usurp au thority over others but by rebelling against them who bad it befole, or at least against those laws which were his superiors ; and in all these senses no history can afford us a more evident example of tyranny, or more out of all possibility of excuse or palliation, than that of the person whom you are pleased to defend, whether we consider his reiterated rebellions against all his superiors, or his usurpation of the Supremo power to himself, or his tyranny in the exercise of it." THE TO WOMAN. (FROM Tilt FItENCII.I I helieve--whurver old it : But woman of a tongue possest nave power to keep that tongue at re•t ! No :—that I cannot credit. , QUlrtcrs im- Quar- charged i kers with Our). tined. for Home, 1 V cansump 'bin. price for e, Description of Grain. Duty per Wheat Barley Oats Rye 58,937, 29,577 16,50 e 87,552 49,506 i. 54,956 1,232. .... 1,563! 4,994 1,412 . 15,459 730 22,658 Pr . as Beans All other Grain Total Qrs. of Grain 1132,916' 213,956 Cwl l l. of Floor • • ... 7,6861 10,269 That even without a tongue, a woman Should speak, although it seem uncommon, PErta Sot LEMIIIL. STATEMENT OF IMPORTED GRAIN AND FLOUR. Av.:lape l nate Nett price. 'from ivbicb all charges of freight., Ecc.are To be I deducted. s. d. 23 8 17 9 8 7 11 6 C 3 9 24 11 Week ending Nov. 14, 1 1 1829. l i Ciaar ter. s. d. ja. d.i 56' 4 !:',O 8i :'ll 7 113 101 22 4 ;13 91 32 9 '2l 31 36 12 6! 37 5 12 6 -!- 71 . The above shows the extent of the operrtiun in Foreign Grab in the month of October. The following shows the extent of the same from the Ist January to the 31st October, 1829: Dexription of Grain. Total Quarters imported. I Quantity charged with 1 Duty for • Home Con ! sumption. Quarters remaining in • Bond on the lallovembee. 1829. THE FRENCH OPERA.. It is to two Cardinals that we owe Tragedy and Opera, said Voltaire, in some work. As to Tragedy, the statement is not exact; a long while before Richelieu protected the great Corneille, while writing his master-piece, tragic pieces woe performed in France. They were detestable, no doubt ; but it is not the small pension that Richelieu gave to the Author of the" Iloratii," which developed the genius of this great man • and Corneille, if be bad not had the honour of being one of the live poets in the pay of the Cardinal Minister, would not the less have written his admirable • works. This is very well remarked by Laharpe, in the conscien tious examination be made of the Theatre of Quinsult. As to the Opera, it is incontestibly to Maurine that we are In debted for it. It was the exhibitions, given at the Louvre, by singers, whom he had brought front Italy, which gave rise, at a later time, in the minds of the Marquis de Sourdeac and lse Abbe Perrin to the ides of naturalising in France this kind of theatrical representation. The first letters patent of Louis XIV. to este blith throughout the kingdom academies of opera, or performances of music in the French language, on the footing of titre of Italy,was in 1669. They were granted to the Abbe Perrin, who enjoyed his privilege in a hall of the Rue Guenegaud, and made no fortune by it. These letters patent ate curious in the distinction they draw between the ordinary comedians and the .angers of opera. " rrovided," it is there said, " that the said operas and performances are works of music quite different from recited plays, and we establida them, by these presents, on the footing of those of Italy. where gentlemen sing without derogating from their rank, and we will, and it pleases us, that all gentlemen, young ladies, and other persons may sing in the said operas, without derogating front their title of nobility or their privileges, dignities, rights, and immunities." Although dancing made a part, and an important part, of this exhibition, there is no question in these letters u to these dancers; but, , can we doubt that they had not also over the dectimatory. Comedians the advantages of not derogating from their rank, when we call to mind that the great King himself had made steps in the Theatre, and especially when we read the test of the letters patent of 1661, eight years before the establishment of the Opera, which founded a Royal Academy of Dancing in the City of Paris? Here is the preamble " Though the art of dancing has always been recognised as one of the most virtuous and necessary dispositions to all sorts of exer cise, and, among others, to those of arms, and, consequently, one of the most advantageous and useful to oar nobility, and others, who have the honour to approach us, not only in time of warn our armies, but even in time of peace in the diversion of our ballets; nevertheless, during the disorders and confuden of the late wars, there has been introduced into the said art, as into all others, so great a number of abuses, capable of carrying them to their irre parable ruin, that many persons, however ignorant or unskilful they may have been its the art of dancing, have undertaken to exhibit it publicly, in a manner that there is reason to be astonished that the small number of those who are found capable of teaching it have, by their study and by their application, so long resisted the essential defects, without which the infinite number of the ignorant have endeavoured to disfigure and corrupt it in the persons of the greater part of the people of quality, which will make it so that we shall see few in our Court and suite, capable of being in a state to enter our ballets and other like diversions of dancing, whatever intention we may have to call them here. For which, it being necessary to provide, asd being desirous to re-establish the said art in its first perfection, and to augment it ai mqch as possible, we have deemed it right to establish in our goo! City o f Paris a Royal Aademy of Dancire, after the example of that of Painting and Sculpture." Let not peupk be surptised after this that the liathylli and the Pilade of our theatres have sometimes shown a little pride. Had cot old Vestris some reasm to reckon himself among the great men of his age, wheat he called to mid dal re fi,ction of Madame dc &visite, after belong danced with Louts XlV.—' It must le • owned that the King has great qualities ; I believe that he will ob score the glory of all his predecessors." Would to Goo be had always occupied Min.& with reforming by professors th.• legs able Nubility, an.: had never direct4d fire and fi me atiost the con sciences of its subjects ! What astonishment must the Rpimenide have cap denced, who Laving gone to sleep in the fine days of Sulli, and who awoke in the rear o: gr -re, 1829, in the hall of the Opera ! What would J. J. Rousseau himsel, have said. theuzli be has left us these fifty-years, if he could now have heard the perform ince of William Tell ? Would they nut agree that the prosody ut our language can be musical ? Could they hear, without dropping tears, in the admi rable trio itt the seeund act, the piercing cry of a son overwhelmed by the death of his father? he expires ! Always the sure affluence. even transports of enthusiasm at the performances of this masterpiece. The novelties being able to succeed only slowly at the opera, we *ball say little of this exhibition in our papers, but it is much talked of in the saloons of Paris. Three times a week this vast hall is completely filled ; that is a reply, without an.wer, to the detractors of the high administration of the Royal Academy of Music. Never has there been such excellent singing in our days at the Opera ; and the dancing. which a long while ago seemed to have attained perfection, yet makes new conquests. Mademoiselle Tn- Lool has carried further the boundaries of this art. less important than it appeared in Louis XIV. but one of those which charm the multitude the most. _ ----- Here we have now the two yowl( her of the graces and to lents of Albert, the most correct, the most elegant, of our dancers. His son, h's daughter, formed by his rumples, have, from their first step on the stage, sustained the glory of their family. The little boy is )o.inger than hi. ,istet, hut we see that both bare been t a good school. Buds la.v4 übtained the most compltte su:cess. —Cisricr Francais. CORONER'S INQUEST, BEFORE MR. CECIL, oxvrAti). wcdnesdav het, an Inquest was taken at ti.' Horse, St. Clement's, Oxfordshire, before Mr. Coca., Ceroner, n view of nit body of Jane Coors, who was that ntorterg towel drowned in the liver Cherwell. John Hemming deposed—l this morning found Jane Cope.. dead, in the river Cherwell, in the parish of St. Clement", in the county of Oxford ; I put her into a boat, and brought her to te house ; her father this morti;ng, asked me to look for his .I.u.:hter, a. she had been missing since I.alepast four last night. lie did vet give me any reason for asking me to go and look for her. I went in consequence, accompanied by Thomas Young and Edward Hichman, and they were to the boat with me when the body was found. The father lodged with me. I never beard or saw bni beat her. Last night I offered her father to go and search for its daughter, but he would nut consent to it ; he was at that tinte in liquor ; her father had lodged with me about two months. Jane Colima is about Micro or sixteen years of age , she bid not been at home with her father much more tit in a fortnight—when I asked ler father last night whether I s hould go and see after her, he said either" 13—her, let her Sine w. b e ' , a id, ts he r, let her drown." I saw Copus take a sword last night in the sheath and go down the yard with it—be was in a great passion—ard he gni I, " F.-- her eyes, I wish I could fied her"—l fulloNe 1 him down the yard, and he endeavoured with hie foot to force the dye hou•e door of Mr. Jones—this was bet ace. five and six o'clock in the eveuing—the last time I saw her was between eight and nine o'cliick in the morning—she then appeared in good health and spirits, and in full possession of lee senses— there was no appearauce by the side of the river, where I foutid her, of her h ivies slipped into the water, and it was impossible tor her to have fallen in accidentally who re we hound her A n n, th e wife of John Hemming, deposed—Ttioneis father of June, lodged with me and my husband the last five or six weeks. Jane Copus had been living with her lather the east three weeks ; they seemed to sgree pretty well ; I never saw him beat her—l have heard him threaten ; I saw bet yesterday after noon, about half.past four o'clock ; she then appeared to be in very good health, and perfectly in her senses ; her father was thee, at borne with his wife and three others of his family ; he was not then quite sober; I heard nothing pus between her and her father ; her father sent hie three times to ask me to take tea with hint and his mistress ; I sent word 1 bad rather not ; this was the last time I saw Jane Cupus; in about two minutes after Jane Copus het called on me the third time, I went into Mr. Copues room, when I found Mr. and Mrs. 011111$ and three chielren. but Jane was not there; about five minutes after I bad been there hie. Copui missed Jane, and sent his little boy and girl to see fur her ; they accord • ingly went down the yard, arid returned, and s iid they criel3 not find her ; he then sent his eldest son William, and I after wards went to look for her, but could not find her; r.Coeus then went and shortly returned, and said be could not find her ; I then said to him I ant afraid she is drowned ; be replied he did not thirk she was; be thought she was gone of an errand for some one ; my husband then offered air. Copus to go with hint and look fur her; I did nut hear his answer; my husband offered Mr. Cupus to go in search of his daughter two or three times ; Copus replied it was of no use to go and look for her ; and he did not go—Mr. Copus had been out yesterday, soldiering, and returned very much in liquor —he is a serjeant in the Oaford• shire militia—l saw hint last night going down the yard with a sword In a sheath—my husband was with hint—he was at that time in a great passion—he swore and threatened if be found his daughter he would beat her—two or three minutes before I last saw Jane Copus, she came crying to me in the yard, and said," Do pray come in and sit with father, or I ant afraid he will kill me this night"—she also said her father bed thrown a red-hot iron at her, but it bad missed her—that her father went to kick her, and she got on one side of her mother ; that her father had thrown a plate with toast in it at her; she appeared very much a'anneJ, and I went into Copus's room in consequence, and afterwards in search of her; almost imniediately after, she was found, concealed between two hod tuts* and the well, close to the river; there was only a key and a pocket handkerchief in the pockets; I loom& the pockets immc. diatcly to the house, and delivered them to Jane Cnpus's mother, and site was then very much alarmed. and expressed her fear that her d. ughter was drowned ; Mr. Copus w.s present, and said something. but I don't kaow what ; be did not appear at all concerned ; be afterwards *W." her, let her Boat!" Deodatus Stone, of the pa: lots of St. Clement, surgeon and apothecary, deposed-1 have this num ing examined the body of Jane Copus, and there are not any marks of violence upon it. I have no doubt she died from drowning. The Jury returned the fiinnw ng verdict—" The said Jane Copus was found drowned in the river Cherwell, in this cote ty ; but, although there is no proof how the deceased came into the river, there appears from the tvidence too much reason to fear that the deceased was induced to destroy ht ruff in consequence of the ill treatment and violent threats re her father, Thomas Cerise a Serjeant in the Oxfordshire Militia." It is announced with so:tie solemnity in the Par ;s papers of Monday, that the SaAiniangirl with two he.:;.ls died on the preceding day. During the last week the follo-vinx distingui.hed ii.- dividuals visited the Railway at Rainhill :—Lord and L.riy Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Grey, Lord and Lady Hen:) , Cholmondelev, Lord Sefton, Lord and the Ladies Moly- . neux, Hon. Mr. arid 'Alias lie Roos, Lady Wilton, I La. E. G. and Mrs. Stanley, the Hon. Mips • tanley, the IL v. Jas. and Mrs. Hornby, of Winwiek, Rev. G. Mrs. a.id Miss Hornby, of Bury, Captain and Mn.s P. florie4;:, and Mr. Creevey.—Lioerpool 7in:es. The following Catholic Noblemen and Gentlemen Lave been added to the Commiijon of the Peace for the eoe::tv of Norfolk :—The Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Surrey, Lord Stafford, and the Hon. Henry Stafford Jerniuglam. A farmer's daughter, a beautiful young girl, in the parish of D—, PerthAire, made an elopement on S -•- turday night last with one of the farm-servants, a puiseant highlander. The " gallant Lothario," in addition to his lovely bride, will hereby, in " inangre and despite" of all, have a few hundreds of the " yellow-boys," which now a-days seldom fail to enhance the value of even a lovely woman in the eArnation of most lovers.---Stirling Journal. On the evening of the 10th instant, . na Thomas Da niel, the son of a respectable farmer, living in the neip bourhood of Ystradfell►te, Brecowbire, was attempting to cross the river Melite, which was much swollen by rain, he and his horse were carried away by the torrent, and were precipitated down the stupendous waterfall of Clyn. gwyn ! His body was found half a mile below the ford and the horse was found in the . river, having been car ried to a distance of nearly four miles from the fatal spot.