The Sun. — London, England, 1848-09-14 00:00:00

NOWP -- Of Int )e• ~ ~...~;~ DEFENCE OF LAMARTI74IE. [We gladly resume our translations from the elo quent and unanswerable pamphlet of M. de Lamar tine. We are at last enabled to fulfil our promises in this respect by the receipt this forenoon of a copy of the new work of this illustrious publicist—a beau tiful historical volume,entitled Trois IlloisAu Pouvoir, --to which the Letter to the Ten Departments is pre fixed. Having already published in our columns the first accusation and its rebuttal, we recommence with the second and its refutation. We commend our successive extracts from the pamphlet to the perusal of all honest Englishmen.—ED. Sun. j SECOND A CCUSATION. I have conspired with Communism ; I have in toxicated the people with illusions by promising them the organization of labour. The very day after the Red Banner was rejected, the Socialist workmen presented themselves in a body at the Hotel de Ville, accusing the Government Of having falsely guaranteed a complete social revo lution, and calling upon us in an imperative manner to sign a proclamation, assuring the people of the Ultimate organization of labour. They required us to pronounce this ,‘ phrase," and their demand was enforced by the terror of their armed hands. They had doffed neither the crimson caps nor the blood coloured coats with which they evidenced their devotion to the red banner. Their requisition was peremptorily refused by the members of the Government. The insurgents insisted upon our compliance ; they even went so far as to utter menaces. Then it was that I advanced in my turn and commenced my reply to this summons in these Nv orda—Behold, they are in the illoniteur :—" Citi lens! if you were to place me at the mouth of twenty Pieces of cannon, you could never induce me to sub scribe to those two expressions when united together, O rganization of Labour ! and I am going to tell you W herefore. Firstly, it is because I believe myself to he neither gifted with more nor less intelligence than other men of my time and country, because I have Passed fifteen years of my life in studying this ques tion of the organization of labour, as you call Its and because I have found it utterly impos sible to reduce it to my comprehension. I will 'lever subscribe my name to that which I (1 ° not understand. Secondly, it is because lam an hon est man, and do not wish to make any engage- Merits to the people which I shall never be able to fulfil. As to the inherent right of labour to fraternal assistance, on such conditions as can in no measure ibterfere with the freedom of industry, the only B Ystena of labour which can effectually lead to the nourishment of many millions of men ; as to those aeries of fraternal institutions which the Republic °ught to organize in succession for the purpose of e levating the condition of the artizans both in their l'elation to posperity, to property, and to instruction .. " 1 will subscribe my name to those assurances with Profound pleasure, because they are among the Promises which I myself spontaneously enunciated befor e tii.,re was Lny attempt at a revolution." Was that, I ask you, the language of a political d reamer, of a dreamer who yielded to circumstances by adjourning, and consequently by increasing, the difficulty ? On the sixth day (after the explosion of February) a thought struck me, and the same inspiration de leended at the same time from Heaven into the souls my colleagues. "Let us give a brilliant denial to t hose who always wish to soil with blood the prin ciples of Republicanism; let us confound the fury some, the panic of others ; let us break in twain t he weapons of reaction ; let us abolish the scaffold; tet us suppress for ever the punishment of Death !" Never shall I forget the moment in which this Proposition emanated from the hearts of all, and Ras voted by the enthusiasm of all, when we fell into the arms of one another, and gave each other t he ki.s of life ! We had in that moment a sublime P r esentiment of the blood which we saved to huma nity, and of the crimes which we spared to the Re- Public. I at once wrote out this proclamation and re ad it to the people. And that people made the edict their own by adopting it with their acclamations a nd signing it with their tears. AN as this, again I ask you, a concession to the executioner, or a concession to God ? On ' the following day another presentiment caused_ me to propose to the Council the organi zation of twenty-four battalions of that Garde mobile composed of the youth of Paris, snatched from insurrection, and given to the law, to disci- Pline, and to the country. On the 23d of June t his Garde Mobile saved Paris—it was the salvation of Prance. And was this, I ask of you, an evidence 01 a want of prudence and foresight ? Those beautiful and terrible days being passed, the same subterranean faction which had raised aloft the red flag renewed, under other pretexts, its attempts a t the usurpation and degredation of the Republic. On the lath of March, the old National Guard had made a very inopportune demonstration for the purpose of Protesting against the suppression of certain insignia In its uniform. On the same day the Provisional Government had adopted a proclamation addressed by myself to th e Fr e nch people. This proclamation had for its object to specify the true principles of the Re- Public, and to re-assure those who might have been alarmed by that ill-considered language, the direct meaning of which was disavowed by the hearts of us 411 * I said in this proclamation—" that it did not r equire either an eve or a morrow to indicate the date of unanimous Republicanism; that the 614 parties passed through the experiences of t i century in the lapse of three days; that there was no necessity for the electors to have )31 ade a deliberate acceptance of party, but rather to h ave so acted towards light and patriotism; that, in fi ne, it by no means constituted a crime not to have b e en a Republican before the establishment of the : 14 ePublie." The entire Government associated itself In putting its signature to these principles. On the v ery day after this occurrence, about a hundred thousand men, evidently obeying the word of com- Th and uttered by the representatives of the ex treme factions, and acting in subservience to an Occult organization, of the origin of which th ey themselves had no certain knowledge, came a nd surrounded the Hotel de Ville. Calm at first,' this manifestation soon began to reveal its hostility. The most daring of the chiefs of the differ ent clubs penetrated into the halls in which we were de liberating. They summoned us in the name of the ! )e nPle, of whom they called themselves the org ans, out b y whom they were in reality disavowed, to adjourn the period fixed for the elections, t ° prolong the dictatorship, to postpone the epoch of the inauguration of the National Assembly, t o decree, without any reservation, a series of Measures, such as would assure them of the Continued domination of Paris. My colleagues and myself, without one except ion, re p lied to their demand by a formal refusal to deliberate under menaces. Thereupon the clubs, disconcerted by this resistance, and by the cries of the people in favour of the Provisional (13vernment, retired. Read the language spoken by us all, for all of us spoke with intrepidity, and say if there are there any evi dences in that language of shameful concessions to numbers, and to the intimidation of the multitude ? It was in the same week that the first temptation Was held out by the Polish democrats. Abusing the ienerous devotion of France for a cause which Pran ce has always cherished in her heart, some amongst these enthusiasts had determined to force upon the Provisional Government the hour destined for the liberation of Poland instead of the hour destined for the liberation of France, and to transform the favour of the public into a sort of right to sedition. They came at night to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. " If to-morrow Morning," one of these orators said to me, " if to morrow morning the Government has not proclaimed 'war for the re-establishment of Poland, to-morrow at tw o o'clock we will overthrow the Government by attacking it at the head of sixteen thousand work- Men, whom we have assembled for the purpose, and whom we will direct upon the Hotel de rifle." " If prance," said 1 to them in reply, if France were to allow her Government to be subverted by an insur rection of foreigners to whom she has given hospitality but not empire, it were necessary that France should descend in degradation below even those nations who are without a country !" The sensible and moderate men of that noble country, reanimated by these words, disavowed the person who had spoken. They came on the morrow without any seditious procession. I ad dressed them then in the same terms in which I had ad dressed them already•—proclaiming our sympathy for their cause, without (in obedience to their rash and insensate wishes) lighting that torch which would have inevitably resulted in the incendiarisrn of Europe Was that, I ask you, a concession to the aspirants for universal war ? Besides these, there were some men from Ireland. They came, in the name of the principles of demo cracy, to ask of me encouragement and arms for the carrying out of civil war. I said to them that the brand of civil war, thrown from amongst us, among our neighbours, should never be a weapon employed by the administrators of the Republic. I recalled to their recollection those supplies of arms and of money by which the Britannic Government had promoted the heroic but disastrous war in La Vendee, a species of intervention which France would never imitate. Was that, I ask you again, a concession to civil war? It is said, however :—The concession was evidenced in those attempts at armed propagandism, which you consolidated, which you authorised, and which pos sibly you yourself directed against Belgium, against Germany, and against Savoy, at the very time in which you addressed the language of peace to their respective Governments. Citizens ! I reply to that accusation so characte rised by the distinctive marks of duplicity, through the correspondence which was kept up with such activity with the Commissaries of the Government upon the frontiers ; I reply to it through the decrees and the proclamations issued by the Provisional Go vernment; through the fact of the dispersion of those assemblies wherever we happened to have sufficient force to enable us to achieve their dissolution ; through the cordial tokens of good fellowship afforded to Germany, to Piedmont, and to Belgium ; through the offer made directly to the Sardinian Ambassador to dispatch ourselves a corps of soldiers to Chanabery, in order ourselves to prevent there, by an armed hand, an invasion pro moted by the refugees and by the agitators of Lyons. I reply, moreover, through a medium still more powerful, and one whose veracity you can under no circumstances call in question—l reply through the testimony of interested nations. Yes ! I appeal to all those Republics, to all those courts, to all those ministers, to all those ambassadors, to all those dif ferent nations whom I am accused of having pretended to re-assure, while I only secretly deceived. If one amongst them can charge the Minister of Fo reign Affairs with complicity, or even with negli gence in the repression of these endeavours ; if there is one amongst them who does not attest the frankness and the vigour of the foreign policy of the Provi sional Government, I declare myself to be convicted of felony. The tribunes of Berlin, of Frankfort, of London, and of America have already responded. Hear how they speak of the diplomatic atti tude which we have maintained since February ! Would you wish to render a Minister of Foreign Affairs and an entire Government—a Minister and a Government who are alike actuated by sincerity and patriotism would you wish to render this Minister and this Government responsible for the conspiracies of those Belgian Clubs and of those Clubs of French auxiliaries, s hich they have never, in any one instance, ceased from combatting and repressing? This policy, loyal and firm, Republican and pacific, I, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, was especially charged with, for the purpose of causing its accept ance at once by France and by Europe. I had to consult, if it was possible, the safety of France, the dignity of her acts and the preservation of that peace which was particularly requisite for a Republic almost wholly disarmed, but which was above all necessary for a Republic economical of human blood. (To be continued.) TH E SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, SEPTEMBER 14, 18-18. LITERATURE. BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY: Ranke's His tory of the Popes. Vols. 11. and lIL Milton's Prose tt'orks. Vol. I. BOHN'S ANTIQUARIAN LIBRARY: Chronicles of the Crusades. Early English Metrical Romances. We have so frequently spoken in commendation of Mr. Bohn's Libraries, and their merits are now so generally appreciated, that it is almost superfluous to do more than enumerate the new additions to the different series. "Ranke's History of the Popes" is now completed in three volumes, and a first volume of Milton's prose works has just been issued, which con tains Milton's " Defence" and his " Second Defence" of the People of England, and also his " Eikonoklastes." This volume is adorned with a very finely engraved portrait of the Roundhead Poet. The two new volumes of the " Antiquarian Library" are the " Chronicles of the Crusades" and the " Metrical Romances," the former of which contains the " Chronicle of Richard of De vises, concerning the deeds of King Richard the First, King of England ;" also " Geoffrey de Vin sauf's Chronicle of Richard's Crusade," and " Lord de Joinville's Memoirs of Louis IX., King of France." It is unnecessary to say that this volume will be most attractive to all who love the quaint simplicity of the old chroniclers. " Ellis's Early Eng lish Metrical Romances" contain some most interest ing and attractive pecimens of old legends, such as " Morte Arthur," " Guy of Warwick," " Roland and Ferragos," and many others whose names are familiar and dear to us all, " Beloved as fable, and believed as truth." All the volumes of the Antiquarian Library are em bellished with an illustrated frontespiece, and the frontispiece of this volume—a splendid frontispiece— the back ground of which is, apparently, of solid gold, represents neither more nor let.s than the Cou r t of King Arthur ! It is taken, we are told, from a manuscript in the British Museum. The foremost figure represents Arthur in a robe of cerulean blue ; his Majesty's attitude is sufficiently dignified, but is hardly possessed of that air of royalty recently eulogised by the poet—that air by which " In the man, the King of men is seen." On Arthur's right hand stands Queen Ginevra, and by her side a lady-in-waiting, in a crimson robe. On Arthur's left is Merlin. In the foreground are the grand carver, the cup-bearer, and the minstrel, bear ing their insignia of office, namely, a large knife, a goblet, and a violin. The scene, of course, is by the side of the round table, which is spread out with golden utensils. ALARMING FIRE IN WAPPING WALL—About one o'clock this morning a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Fryer, a carpenter, No. 12, Wapping-wall (late 'Air. Dowding's cooperage). It was discovered by a per son passing through the street, no person residing on the premises. The engines of the Fire Brigade, under the superintendence 01 Mr. Fogo, were on the spot >hortly after the fire was discovered, and by great exer tions prevented the flames from communicating to the adjoining premises. Considerable damage was done to finished work, materials, and workmen's tools. The fire is supposed to have been occasioned by a spark from the boiler of a glue•pot, and which had fallen upon some shavings. It has not yet been ascertained whether the premises are insurtd or not. ACCIDENT ON THE CAMBRIDGE AND ST. IVES „ _ llamway.—On Thursday evening last, as the down train neared the Oakington station, the guard perceived a man standing on the line; he immediately blew the whistle, and the steam was turned off, but without effect: , the train struck him, and one leg was completely severed from the body above the knee-joint, and he was other wise so mutilated that death was instantaneous. On being picked up he was recognised as George Howorth, a dealer of Rampton; it was supposed that he was intoxi cated at the time. An inquest was held on the body on Friday last, when a verdict o f "A cc id enta l death" was returned.—Carahridge Adiuhrtiser. NARROW ESCAPE ON THE C ALEDONIAN RAILWAY. On Thursday agg ea e afternoonia which were last a a ballastna number b e r engine ef r railway l w w with t cut ting s everal w l abourers, was proceeding from Lock er by t o E cc l efechan on the Caledonian line. When passingthrough on the farm of Lawn, parish of Middlebie, the en gine-driver observed at some distance that one of the rails had been removed; he immediately turn off the steam, put on the brake, and jumped to the ground ; the labourers followed his example, and no one was injured, as luckily the train was proceeding at a very slow p ace when it reached the vacancy and was thrown off the line, otherwise the accident would have been very serious, a s there were upwards of thirty labourers on the train. A party of plate-layers had been repairing the line and removed the rail, neglecting to exhibit a sign al of warn ing. The officers of the company will, no doubt, insti tute an investigation into the case.—Dumfries Courier. SAILING UP RIVERS AGAINST THE CURRENT.—A very slight declivity suffices to give the running motion to water. Three inches per mile, in a smooth straight channel, gives a velocity of about three miles an hour. The Ganges, which gathers the waters of the Himalaya mountains, the loftiest in the world, is, at 1,800 miles from its mouth only 800 feet above the level of the sea, that is, about twice the height of St. Paul's Church in London (or the height of Arthur's Seat, near Edin burgh), and to fall these 800 feet, in its long course, the water requires more than a month. The great river Magdalena, in South America, running for 1,000 miles between two ridges of the Andes, falls only 500 feet in all that distance. Above the commencement of the thousand miles it is seen descending in rapids and cata racts from the mountains. The gigantic Rio de la Plata has so gentle a descent to the ocean, that in Paraguay, 1, 500 miles from its mouth, large ships are seen, which have sailed against the current all the way by the force of the wind alone; that is to say, on the beautiliy in clined plane of the stream have been gradually lifted by the soft wind, and even against the current, to an eleva tion greater than that of our loftiest spires. In the next issue of camp equipage to the army the tents will be made waterproof, as the present canvas is no protection against a heavy fall of rain. IRELAND. ESCAPE OF MR. RICHARD O'GORMAN. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.—We have learned from a well-informed source, that Mr. Richard O'Gorman, for whose apprehension, on a charge of high treason, a reward of 3001. had been offered by the Govern ment, has at length effected his escape from this country. On Thursday last Mr. O'Gorman, with two other fugitives, Messrs. J. O'Donnell, solicitor, and Doyle, of Limerick, got on board a fishing smack at a place called Carrig-a-gunnial, on the Lower Shannon, and were safely conveyed to a vessel which had been waiting at sea, out of reach of the Government cruisers. The vessel at once got under weigh, and the owner of the smack returned to the Shannon. It is stated that he received 2001. for his exertions, after producing a certificate from Mr. O'Gorman of the faithful discharge of the perilous duty he had undertaken. FRESH INSURRECTIONARY MOVE MENTS. Accounts arrive in such various shapes, of renewed appearances of disturbances in the district between Carrick-on-Suir and Slievenumon, that it is difficult to withhold some degree of credence, although no thing short of absolute madness in the population could account for such proceedings on the eve almost of the Special Commission in the same county. The Limerick Reporter, a " Young Ireland" journal, contains the following announcement :—" Just at going to press we have heard that a large body of armed peasantry (consisting of several thousands) are congregated in the vicinity of Slievenamon. Mr. Doheny and several other leaders are said to be with them. We have no means of verifying the rumour." RE-COMMENCEMENT OF THE REBELLION. The Clonmel Chronicle contains the following astounding intelligence : "RUMOURED OUTBREAK AT CARRICK-ON. SUIR, PORT-LAW, AND CURRAGHMORE. " The most exciting reports reached Clonmel this morning of an outbreak at Carrick-on-Suir. A man from that place came into Clonmel this morning in great haste, bringing with him all the money he could collect, to get gold for it. He describes Car rick as being in an awful state. The hills all round covered with armed men, who have forced all the farmers to give barrels of bread, meat, and other supplies, as well as arms and ammunition. Many of them have been also forced to join the movement, and he stated that Carrick was to be taken forthwith. Not a labourer was to be seen between Carrick and Clonmel, until he reached this town ; all have joined the rebels on the hills, who are represented to number several thousands. "We have made every effort to get the facts in detail ; but, in order to give all particulars to the public, we dispatched two gentlemen this morning, at half-past eleven o'clock, for the scene, and now anxiously await their arrival." " Two o'clock, Tuesday, " Chronicle-offices, Clonmel. " The most distressing anxiety still prevails re garding the state of Carrick-on-Suir. One of our reporters has just returned by the Carrick car, and gives the following particulars from his own obser vation, and from what he has been enabled to ascer- ;ain "The road and country along presents the most deserted appearance, but few persons are to be seen, the labourers have left their occupation, and every thing seems at a stand, At Cottage, as I passed along, I saw a man having all the appearance of a detective, lurking in a recess which commanded a most extensive view; he eyed our car with a suspi cious and scrutinizing gaze. At liilsheelan a few clusters of persons, chiefly women, were to be seen talking together mysteriously, each having his own say about the war now upon them. A little further on I was informed by a gentleman that Mr. O'ila bony had a review of a large body of armed men, estimated at nearly 1,000 last night, on a road ►eading from Slievenamon to Carrick, which they lined at either side fora considerable distance, and who are supposed to have gone on towards Curragh more. " At Newtown-hill the insurgents, it is believed, have formed an encampment, and I am assured by a person who travelled close by it, that it is covered with people. The military have formed a camp close by. Last night Curraghmore was attacked by a body of insurgents, for the purpose of taking the swivel-guns and cannon, with which the Marquis of Waterford recently fortified it. The Marquis sent for the troops, but I did not hear of the result. A large body of Marines left Waterford this morning for the scene, having been first served out with bis cuit and meat for some days; they were marched off by Major-General Macdonald, who is busily engaged at that place in the disposition of the troops at his command. Everything leads me to believe that we are on the eve of another insurrection. When passing by Coolnamuck wood I easily perceived that several of the trees had been recently cut down : they consist chiefly of fine young ash, exactly suitable for the purposes for which they are supposed to have been taken—for making pike handles. "At Carrick the greatest excitement prevails, in consequence of the belief there that the bridge of Garney had been broken down to prevent the troops crossing. The arches are still standing, but the battlements are all demolished, and the roadway picked up. The 3d Buffs and 83d Regiments, which were to pass through here to-day, have been stopped at Carrick, and dispatched to the scenes of disturb ance. A gentleman informed me that at Pilltown two pieces of artillery had arrived and a large number of troops. The military, which had been sent for to Carrick, were returning towards Curraghmore ; horse, foot, and artillery are now on the move in all directions." " LATEST FROM CARRICK- ON- SUM. " We stop the press to promulgate the following most important communication received from our special reporter, from Carrick-on-Suir : " Carrick-on-Suir, Four o'clock, Tuesday evening. " As your reporter who accompanied me as far as the suburbs of this town, and returned by Bianconi's car which we met there, has doubtless given you a full account of whatever we learned as we journeyed along the road, I content myself with relating the in formation I have obtained since my arrival here, pre mising in the first place that I only vouch for it as being current here, and looked upon as correct. " Doheny and O'Mahony have been hovering about this neighbourhood for the past week, the former is positively stated to have been here a few nights ago; one person who does not deny sympathy with his cause, told me that he saw him on Wednes day night, about half-past nine o'clock ;he was disguised very little, and had as an object for his visit to discover the movements of the soldiery, as well as communicate with Clubbists, who are more numerous than in any other place in Ireland, taking into account its size. "On last Friday evening the excitement com menced here when the 85th were passing through ; one of the men having become inebriated and quar relsome, got into a broil with some of the towns people, bad blood arose, so that the town was threat ened with a serious disturbance. Things went on snore quietly, however, than could have been expected, and the place itself since then has been peaceable. Meanwhile the most alarming rumours began to prevail ; seven Confederate leaders were said to have imitated the tactics of the military, by getting up " a flying column," 'whose quick and sudden movements are the subjects of general surprise : one time, at the hill of Carrickbeg, another at Low ry's-bridge ; in the evening encamped at Curragh more-wood, and away at Kilmacthomas in the morn ing. Informers themselves are puzzled in giving secret information to the authorities as to the where• about s of the rebels, their movements are so daring and uncertain. " Last night there were bonfires on the mountains. At two o'clock a constable went to Mr. Coulson, R.M. and roused him from sleep to inform him of a rising that had taken place near• Kilmacthomas ; he imme diately dressed and dispatched an express for a com pany of the 3d Buffs, to assist the Carrick troops in an expedition against the insurgents ; they arrived here at four o'clock, A.M. Meantime, picquets pa trolled the streets and vicinity of the town in the ex pectation of an attack., In half an-hour after the arrival of the 33 Buffs they started, accompanied by another company of the Buffs, from Carrick, and one company of the 833, together with a troop of the 4th Light Dry goons and a party of artillery with two pieces of cannon. They proceeded to Kilmacthomr.s, where the rebels were said to be encamped. " ARRANGENIENT OF THE REBEL FORCES. "It is reported that Doheny headed the armed insurgents who made the attack on Curraghmore for arms last night. He has taken the command of the Waterford rebel division, whose present rendezvous is to be Portlaw; and the Tipperary rebel division, under the command of O'Mahony, is to rendezvous at Slievenamon. Their commissariat is said to be most abundantly supplied at the expense of the neighbouring farm-houses; an it is a condition on all recruits joining, that they are to bring arms, ammunition, and a supply of bread, meat, &c., for a certain number of days. This has all the appear ance of a determined and sanguinary rebellion. It is also reported that General Macdonald has de manded an immediate reinforcement of artillery and cavalry." The following has been received by electric tele graph : DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. As the Cork mail was on its way to Dublin, it was met last evening, between Clonmel and Glenbower, about six miles from the former, by a party of the people, who told the coachman and guard to return, as there was a collision between the police and the people at the Glenbower police-station. On arrival there, a man was found lying dead in the road; the police were still safe, but expected a renewed attack. The coachman hurried on to Callan, where he deli vered a note from the police, asking for assistance. The mail-coach did not meet with any obstacle on the part of the peasantry, who are in a high state of excitement, in consequence of ejectments in the neigh bourhood, and seizures of corn for rent. The Waterford mail, which left Dublin yesterday (Tuesday) morning, was stopped near Granny-bridge by a large party of men, who in the first instance would not allow the coack to pass, as they were about to pull down the bridge. After some remonstrance, they permitted it to be draw❑ across. On arrival at Waterford, the guard reported the circumstance to the Postmaster and to Sir C. O'Donnell, the General of the district. According to the Nenagh Guardian Messrs. S. Egan, Nicholas Nagle, Michael Doherty, and James Russell, all of Roscrea, will be tried at the approach ing Special Commission at Clonmel, on a charge of high treason. All the parties hitherto held a respect able position in society. Among the anecdotes connected with the late rebellion, and which are daily coming to light, the following, furnished by a correspondent of the Cork Reporter, is substantially correct. The hero of the tale is Mr. Eugene O'Reilly, the son of Mr. Matthew O'Reilly, a respectable solicitor in this city, and law agent to the Chief Secretary for Ireland. " Very soon after it was known that Smith O'Brien and his companions had assembled in the neighbourhood of Ballingarry, five or six young men, holding a respect able position in society, some having attained collegiate honours, went down from Dublin to join him. They reached the locality of the rencontre the evening after the affair at Widow Cormack's house, and on learning the result, and finding that the leaders' were divided and dispersed, they made their way back to the county Meath, where they purposed to lie perdue for some time. There, however, they found that the police were on their track, and they determined on returning to Dublin and taking their chance. Accord ingly they did so, and reached the city about eleven o'clock at night. Here, after consulting for awhile, they resolved on calling upon a young friend and asking quarters for the night until they could decide on their future location. Proceeding to the house of their friend's father, a respectable professional gentleman, whose po litical sentiments were greatly at variance with those of his son, they knocked at the hall door and inquired for the person with whom they desired to communicate, who presently came down to them. While conferring in his po c k e t, an d, having t in the hall as to how he could best provide for them, his father overheard ,the conversation, and coming out he lucked the eall ehallcalled for assistance, putting thee sent a servant through y the back door for the police. The son intreated, prayed, and pleaded the sacredness of a stranger seeking shelter and hospitality ; but in vain. His parent was immov able, and, seeing the urgency of the case, ho said to his friends, Come, boys, this shall never be.' In an instant the father was seined hold of and overpowered ; he was brought into a back parlour and tied hand and foot in an arm-chair ; the hall door was opened, and the son having seen his friends safe out of danger, returned to the house. Next day he was made a prisoner, as' sus pected of treasonable practices,' and sent to Newgtve. His father went to visit him, and he refused him an in terview. He is now in the prison of Belfast, and his mother, who knew that no act or deed of her son had compromised him in any illegal proceeding, was, I am told, refused an interview with him there within the last fortnight." DISMISSAL OF POLICEMEN. The Cork Reporter of Tuesday contains the fol lowing : '• In consequence of ass order received from Colonel Macgregor, inspector-general of constabulary, the two policemen, Tone and Whealan, who permitted Mr. T. B. Dl`Manus to escape from them in Monkstown, were dismissed from the force on yesterday." THE STATE PRISONERS. the T .F he ree f ma ollo n w ,s inf ou e r x na pllanreagtoarrydinsgtatethmeenrtumape rs ars in culated in respect to the secr e t a ry of the Confede rates : " Mr. Halpin is at present con fi ne d in the gaol of o p ucir. Naas, to which prison he was brought on Friday last from the Belfast Bridewell. Several rumours respecting Mr. Halpin have been in circulatio n for the last few clays, in . consequence of a paragraph w hi c h appeared in one of the Belfast papers respecting him. These rumours are not only exaggerated, but for the most part without any touadation. It is true that officials have visited some of Mr. Halpin's relations, in order to ascertain from them if he could give any information respecting the S tate prisoners; but the parties referred the officials to Mr. Halpin himself, and we are in a position to state that Mr. Halpin informed the authorities that be had no evidence whatever to give —that the acts of the body to which he belonged were open to every one—and that he knew nothing more. It is right to state this much, as prejudicial reports have b2en circulated regarding Mr. Halpin's character." The following accounts are from local correspon dents:— WATERFORD, SEPT. 12.—1 t is with much regret I have to acquaint you that for the past week armed parties have been going about at midnight through some parishes in the neighbouring coun t y of Kil kenny, warning the farmers and labourers to be pre pared to attend when called upon. These proceedings are said to have taken place owing to the newly cut crops being in possession of bailiffs placed over them by the landlords, who appear determined t o have their rents at all hazards. This morning some uneasiness was felt here as to the Dublin coach, due at five o'clock, which did not arrive at the appointed time, but at ten minutes before six o'clock it reached the post-office, when James Dolan, the gu ard, .reported that he was stopped at Granagh- bridge, within one mile and a half of this city, by 500 armed men, who declared their intention of detaining the mail until the bridge was blown up, which it i s said they en deavoured to do, but failed in their purpose. The bridge has been visited by several persons to-day, the battlements are much broken, and the centre torn up to a considerable extent. The postmaster, Thomas Parsons, Esq., on receiving the guard's report, proceeded to the residence of Sir Charles O'Donnell, com mandant of this grrrison, who at once took measures for the defence of the city. A guard of M ar i nes was placed on the magnificent bridge which here crosses the Suir, the portcullis was drawn up, and all per sons forbidden to pass. At a later hour, however, some relaxation was perm itted, and persons were permitted to pass as usual. A Government steamer which fortunately arrived was moored within fifty yards of the bridge. In the meantime a police cava lier arrived from Portlaw for assistance, and 500 men of here w the 85th Regiment who had only arriv e d from the Camp of Turtulla on Saturday, and h o were expecting to enjoy a little rest after the fatigue they had undergone, were ordered off to Curragh more, the rumour being that that villa at tacked last night ; that the police fired village from r was their barrack window ; that two or three of the rebels killed ; that the police barracks were entered an their arms taken ; and that seven swivel-gun were s n taken from the Mar q uis of Waterford at Curragh more, which place it will be recollected his L or d s hip promised he could d efend a g ains t the assaults of 10,000 pikemen. WATERFORD, SETT. 12. This . open disaffec tion is once arms,niore in so a m s e tate of thousands being hl thoroug y arm ed with pikes, ~ & c . Portlaw is also stirring, and report has it that Cu rraghmore, the seat ; of the' Marquis of Waterford, had been attacked, several pieces of cannon, and a number of sma ll arms , powder, ball, &c., have been carried off. The Noble Marquis ' had not returned from the last Curragh meeting. The mail coach, while on its way thr oug h this city, and passing through Mullinavat, was sur rounded by a large mob, and detained for a consider able time. When the mob first interrupted the coach, the guard, James Doolan, ordered the driver forward; the coach succeeded in getting clea r o f t h e crowd running after, and shouting that they would soon stop them. Accordingly, when the coach arrived at Granny Bridge, about two and a half mil es f rom Waterford, the bridg e was in possession of the insurgents, who were endeavouring by every means to pull it down. The coach was then forcibly stopped, the horses taken from it, an elderly gentleman, an inside passenger, taken out, questioned, and searched, and, after a delay cf nearly half an hour the horses were permitted, after much entreaty on the part of Doolan, to be again put to and the coach al lowed to proceed. The mob was under the imme diate control of an apparent gentleman, mounted on a large bay horse, well accoutred, and nothing done except by the directions and command of the captain, as this person was called. It is intended to send an escort of military with the mail to-night. EJECTMENTS IN BELFAST. Monday forenoon, North Anne-street, Earl- street, and part of Corporation-street, presented a scene which, from its very novelty in this quarter of the country, and the peculiar circumstances connected with it, may, with all truth, be said to "baffle description." Upwards of forty individuals, the inhabitants of about twenty houses, were forcibly dispossessed from their homes, their furniture cast out, and themselves obliged to seek shelter where they could best find it. The circumstances under which the strong arm of the law has in this case been brought into operation are somewhat curious. The title to the houses, which are three stories, capacious, and well finished, has been several years, and is still pending, in the Court of Chancery, in the case of Wise v. Medill. No receiver, we understand, was appointed over the property. No individual was re cognised as having the slightest claim to it, and the consequence has been that those who were in posses sion at the commencement of the suit have remained so ever since, without paying a fraction of rent, and houses which were then unoccupied became crowded by some unknown means, with a class of tenants who, we may presume, never harboured the ambitious idea of being the immediate proprietors of such valuable and splendid mansions. Tinkers, " gather-ups, " carters, navvies, and a heterogeneous mass of the refuse of society had not only managed to get and keep possession of several of the dwellings, but had actually secured, in a few instances, numerous lodgers, who were paying them a tolerably round sum for the use of apartments for which they themselves had never paid, or intended to pay, a single shilling. With such tenantry it might be expected that the houses would suffer; and so they did, most shockingly. For some time past repeated notices to quit were served upon the parties ; but the servers were treated with ridicule and contempt. The inhabitants seemed to be fully persuaded that no power could reach them until the Court of Chancery had given judgment in the case of the claimants ; and even yesterday, when the warrant for the forcible ejectment had been received, and a number of police men had beset the houses, to see it carried into exe cution, the doors were found to be well barricaded, and a number of the " unwashed" peering from the upper windows, put their finger to their nose, and jocularly exclaimed, " It's all right, Mr. Peelers— don't you wish you may get in ?" It was not with out considerable difficulty that an entry was effected, but when effected, the bailiffs made a clean sweep, the result being as we have stated.—Banner of Ulster. THE ARMY. Cornet Frederick Arden, 12th Royal Lancers, has been detached from Cork garrison to Ballincollig. Captain C. J. Longmore, Lieut. Hon. S. F. Carew, and troop of the Bth Royal Irish Hussars, arrived on Friday at head-quarters, Newbridge, from Thurles. This troop was a portion of the flying column under General APDonald. Captain Walter's troop, under command of Lieutenants Thomkinson and G. Lock wood, arrived also at head-quarters on Saturday from Kilkenny. Captain J. Thompson's troop still remains at Kilkenny. The following troops are now stationed in New bridge barracks :-Bth Royal Irish Hussars, three troops and head-quarters; 4th Queen's own Light Dragoons, two troops and head-quarters; 6th Ennis killen Dragoons, recruits and young horses ; twelve rank and file of the 7th Dragoons; and a company of the 71st Highland Light Infantry. A brigade of the Royal Artillery, consisting of two guns, with ammunition waggons, arrived in New bridge on Friday from Thurles. A large body of invalids, consisting of cavalry and infantry, doing duty at Beggar's Bush Barracks, with the local force, for the past three months, have been inspected by Prince George of Cambridge; with few exceptions they have been returned to their various corps, his Royal Highness being of opinion they were still fit for further service. The Bth Royal Irish Hussars expect to move shortly for England. The company of Royal Artillery, to replace Lieu tenant-Colonel Chesney's at Ballincollig, may be ex pected by the 21st inst.— Cork Constitution. THE FAILURE OF THE MALLOW SAVINGS' BANE.— Some meetings of the depositors to the above bank have been held, and it appears that the liabilities of the esta blishment amount to about 8601; that the property of Mr. Mahoney, the actuary, who has absconded, will realize over 5001., and that there is about 1301. with in terest in the Provincial Bank to the credit of the depo sitors. It seems that the amount of the depositors in this bank never exceeded 1,6001., and that, on the sav ings' bank panic having broken out, several of the de positors withdrew their money, which of course mate rially lessened the amount in the bank, and the serious loss will be confined to a very few depositors, the num ber of claimants not being more than twenty-four or twenty-five. It is now nearly six weeks since the ac tuary absconded, and it is understood that his property will be immediately made available towards the liquida tion of the debts due to the depositors by this establish. ment.—Cork Reporter. (B Y ELECTRIC TELE GRAPH). DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The further accounts this day confirm the intelli gence of the insurrectionary movement. It extends to parts of the counties of Tipperary, Waterford, and Kilkenny. A rebel party was defeated by a small police force at Portlaw, and two of the insurgents killed. Several police stations have been attacked by the rebels. A large military and police force went down by railway this day, and General M`Donald goes down this afternoon to resume the command. WATERFORD, SEPT. 12. Since I left my dispatch with the Commander of the Rose I have seen the guard of the mail which was stopped at Granagh-bridge. Ile states that- on reaching there the coach was stopped and the horses taken from under it, and left walking about the road. The guard remonstrated, and the leaders of the people informed him that they would not injure him or his charge, but that they would detain him whilst they made [preparations for the destruction of the bridge by gunpowder. They then demolished a portion of the battlements near the centre, and drilled some holes near the key stone of the arch. 'When these were charged, they assisted the guards to put the horses to, and allowed him to proceed in safety. The explosion at the bridge, which did but little damage, took place soon after ; it only failed for want of sufficient gun powder. The houses of several quarrymen were previously searched for that article, and but litile procured. I will send you correct particulars about the affair at Portlaw to-morrow. I am told it ori ginated in this way :—The Marquis of 'Waterford lately raised a corps of armed specials, whom, it is said, he paid. These were lately disbanded tempo rarily, and, it appears, circulated false reports as to the movements of the peasantry. These men the latter resolved to find out and punish, and on their way to Portlaw for that purpose this morning they fell in with the police patrol of that village. Firing took place, and one policeman was wounded in their retreat to the barracks, whence they fired on the people and wounded three persons; it is also said that the " specials" fired upon them. The war is not now for a repeal or a red republic, but to protect them from the avaricious hand of the landlord. By the next post I will send you all particulars, as I will proceed to the seat of war, and do not expect to re turn to-night. — Chronicle. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) Just before going to press we received a second edition of the Kilkenny Moderator, from which we extract the following interesting and succinct narra tive of the outbreak The intelligence received since last night has been more alarming than we had anticipated. No doubt remains that an insurgent force has assembled and shown a spirit of the utmost determination. The main body of the insurgents, said to be 4,000 strong, has encamped on Aubrey-hill, in the county of Tipperary, but immediately adjoining the slate quarries in this county. The position is an ex tremely strong one, and every possible measure ap pears to have been taken to add to its security. There is no doubt that leaders of some military experience are amongst them, and the peasantry are being re gularly drilled. They are chiefly armed with pikes, but many have rifles. hichard O'Gorman is said to be chief commander, and Doheny is also supposed to be amongst them. About four o'clock yesterday afternoon a detachment from the camp proceeded to the police barrack of the slate quarry, which the constabulary had quitted only twenty minutes pre viously to take refuge at Noeltown. The insurgents, at some distance from the house, fired through the windows, but finding there was not any person v.ithin it they soon took possession, and ultimately 59t fire to it, reducing the entire house and furniture to ashes. It is rumoured that the surrounding con stabulary stations vtere attacked and in some places the police were disarmed, but in others the men had fortunately quitted the barracks, and retired upon Clonmel and Carrick. The driver and guard of the Cork Mail, which ar rived here about ten o'clock last night, report that the police had quitted the Glenbower Station, and retired to that of Nine-mile House. Shortly before the arrival of the coach at the latter place a party of rebels had surrounded the station, and demanded that the men (about 10 in number) should surrender their arms. The police refused, and upon their proceeding to at tack the house the little garrison fired upon the insurgents, and soon put them to flight. The fate of the gallant little party is, however, still doubtful. Rumours, which are not authenticated, assert that a skirmish took placa yesterday at Portlaw between the police and the rebels, in which some were killed on both sides. Another report asserts that, yesterday morning, 800 armed men, with pikes, marched through Coolnamuck, and from the county of Waterford, to join the insur gents at Aubrey Hill. FRANCE. [The following appeared in our Third Edition of last night]:— Letters received in Paris from the departments announce partial disturbances, and complain of the menacing attitude assumed by the operatives. The miners employed at Rive-de-Gier, in the neighbour hood of Saint Etienne, had struck work for the pur pose of obtaining an increase of wages and a diminu tion of the hours of labour. They refused to work upwards of nine hours a day, and demanded 4f. 25c. (3s. 6d.) for that time. The Attorney-General of the district having remonstrated with them, they returned to their employment on an understanding that their demands should be taken into consideration. At Lille some alarm has been created by numbers of unemployed operatives parading the town, demanding work. At St. Servan and St. Malo the population rose to prevent an English sloop from loading corn and potatoes, which were purchased for the English market, but the gendarmes and the coast guard having marched against the rioters, whilst the National Guard refused to act, the quays were cleared at the point of the bayonet, and the sloop having received her cargo proceeded on her voyage. PRUSSIA. A Berlin letter of the Bth says :—" The most con tradictory rumours are circulating in town. Some say that M. PINDER, superior president of Silesia, was to be charged with the formation of the new Cabinet; others continue to pretend that Messrs. PHILLIPPE and UNRUH have a good chance. Messrs. BECKERATH, MEVISSEN, &c., were also spoken of. It is a complete break up. All these Tumours are so many suppositions. An absurd rumour declares that the KING had refused to accept the resig nations of Ministers ; that the proclamation to the army was accorded, and that Ministers remained, declaring that they yielded to the wish of his MA JESTY ! The news from Frankfort and Schleswig have augmented the agitation. The Funds have fallen 11 per cent., and Railway Shares from 3 to 4 per cent. There reigns in the city an increasing emotion as in the days of March. MODENA_ Advices from Modena, of the 2d, anrounce that the Duke, in consequence of the agitation reigning in the town, had placed two cannons before the gate of his palace. An Austrian superior officer having attempted to interfere in a menacing crowd, received a pistobshot in his hat from one of the bystanders. The perpetrator was discovered. ROME. On the occasion of the secular anniversary of the death of Saint JOSEPH CALASANZIO, who arrived at Rome in 1648, a Tridus was celebrated at Rome on the 25th, 26th, and 27th ult. On the third day the POPE went to the Church of Saint Pantaleon, and, having administered the sacrament, passed into the contiguous oratory of the college, and, being seated on the throne, published the decree for the beatifica tion and canonizatiofr of the Reverend Father PETER CLAVER, of the Jesuit Society. The POPE, having received the thanks of the Father Postulator, replied : " I render thanks to God, who, in these days of so many difficulties, testifies to Italy, and to the world, how much He has at heart his holy religion, by raising up men of fervour in those places where the labourers are few and the harvest is abundant. It is no small encou ragement given to us by the Lord, when he gives to our contemplation men who have for so many lustres devoted themselves to enriching the Church with new new con quests. This consolation is the more grateful, as it is most painful to see in the times in which we live that there is being introduced into all Catholic Italy, and even into the centre of Christianity, Protestantism, not by one accomplice, but by thousands and tens of thou sands of accomplices. They manifest the most ardent vows for Italian nationality, and yet, in order to promote it, they use the most abominable means, calculated only to destroy it. At the moment when Germany, animated with the same spirit, acknowledges that a diversity of religions is the greatest obstacle to the end proposed, inasmuch as the Protestants form projects of a union, there are found in Italy men who, without dreading an immense religious scandal and an immense political danger, presume to introduce the pestilential seed of separation of the unity of faith in order to obtain unity of nation. This is the point to which passions blindly lead. Let us pray to God that he will disperse this darkness, and, confiding in Divine promises, let us recal to our minds that the gates of hell shall never prevail against the Church." STATE OF TRADE, MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The, improvement which has taken place in the weather during the two last days, and the appearance of a more settled state of the atmo sphere for the present, would probably have caused some improvement in our market, had not the good t ffects of the change been counteracted by the very unsettled condition of Germany, not only as regards the Schleswig-Holstein dispute, but also the internal condition of Prussia, and one or two other German states, which has caused a number of orders on German account to be countermanded. Some apprehensions are also excited by the continual spread of the cholera in the Levant, and especially at Smyrna, where its ravages have latterly become extensive, and have tended to check the purchases of the Greek merchants who trade to that quarter. Influenced by these causes, the market has been very quiet; but, although in some few cases rather lower prices have been submitted to, by parties whose stocks were accumulating, the great bulk of the spinners and manufacturers have been exceedingly firm in their demands. In all cases where orders have been given for future delivery, full prices have been paid; and a general impression appears to prevail that the troubles on the Con anent will be speedily appeased, and that an improve ment in business here may be expected at no distant day. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We , have had a brisk market to-day for flannels ; the merchants have purchased very freely, and rather better prices have been obtained by the manufacturers. The wool market has undergone little change , since last Monday ; both prices and de mand aro much the same as they have been for some weeks past. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—But few purchases have been made to-day in the Cloth Hall, and the complaint is general of the lack of goods adapted to the present season. New orders come to hand rather slowly, but for the next month or six weeks there is every prospect of full employment being given for the operatives in this district. HALIFAx, SATURDAY.—Our Piece Hall is AS thinly attended as ever, and the general worsted trade of the district remains as dull as heretofore ; but those manu facturers who have turned their attention to fancy goods of very light texture—and, though by courtesy called worsted, yet containing as much cotton as wool—find pretty fair demand for such fabrics. Heavier goods, as lastings, damasks, &e., meet with little or no sale. The demand for yarns has not improved, and what is doing is much below the productive power, as well as below the point of remuneration. Wool continues firm, but the spinners, finding money and orders alike scarce, buy very cautiously, and the quantity sold is not large. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—We have no alteration to report about our cloth market. There was a good business done in the Halls on Saturday, but to-day the market ap pears less animated.—Manchester Guardian, NOXIOUS CONDITION OF THE SERPENTINE. All those who have promenaded during the summer on the banks of that large pool of water, or miniature lake, called inappropriately the " Serpentine," In Hyde Park, must have obser Jed the increasing impuuty of its waters. A green slime has been gradually covering the surface, advancing from the banks and extending towards the middle. Ot mornings particularly, for on hour or two after sunrise, when exhalations are most perceptible, the offensive and no doubt noxious smell emitted from these waters, once celebrated for their purity, was observable, disagreeably and painfully so, to those who walked early in the Park, even at a reasonable distance from the water side. We have had several communications on the subject, one of which states " that the evil had now become so monstrous, as to have caused the so called river, and even that part of the Park in which it is lo cated, to have become positively deserted by their usual bathers and promenaders. The total number of the who bathed in the Serpentine river throughout persons 1846 exceeded 350,000. But so great was year however, that the daily number of bathersfalling h o ff, exceeded throughout the present summer, on an average, had not, fifty, which, even reckoning for the six su rage, months, was poly about one thirty-fifth part of the number pre viously quoted. The medical`' : the neighbourhood had strictly ordereet etfapTtilleo which they attended:to avoid this great tanli - Of niaiti;Pro hibition alleged to have been - enforced household by Mr. E. Chadwick, a great authoritiiiigslid tary subjects, for several months past. Ireproof of iflet'ex • tent and character of the nuisance, and of thelieassify of endeavours for its speedy reinsual - if . e - retireetgat a etfga t rNA the lady passing over the bridg Mith Wi river, found the stench from the water so 5 ensive, that it hung about her several days, and it gave rise to a violent attack of diarrhoea.' With such startling facts as these, it is to be hoped that as soon as Sir John Rennie (to whom the subject has been remitted) has discovered a remedy for the evil, that the same will be forthwith supplied. Such concessions, when requested, not by the lawless and disaffected, but by the public generally, are, on the part of the authorities, not less expe dient than they are imperatively called for." We may remind our readers that about three months ago the Observer gave a report of a meeting held upon this very interesting subject, and at which meeting the Earl of Harrowby presided, and said that he had received a communication from Lord Morpeth, in which his Lord ship promised every assistance in his power to remedy the evil. The remedy certainly has not as yet been applied. At the meeting referred to, Drs. Copeland, Hodgkin, Lancaster, and other eminent medical authori ties adduced instances of the unhealthy condition of the waters of the Serpentine, and Dr. Hodgkin likened the probable effects he had himself experienced while cross ing the Park to those of the marshes in the vicinity of Rome, and gave various proofs of disease and death aris ing from the malaria produced by such stagnant water as that of the Serpentine. The result of the meetiag was the appointment of a deputation to wait upon the Com missioners of Woods and Forests, but we have not heard with what success. The approaching autumn, at the latter end of which all water weeds rot, will be the best season for cleansing the Serpentine, and as every au thority consulted agrees that the water is stagnant, some means should be adopted to cause a perennial current of clean water to flow through it, which we know can be ac complished by having recourse to the various springs contiguous to the Serpentine.—Observer. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BELFAST. A very alarming fire broke out about 11 o'clock on Thursday night in the large stores belonging to Mr. T. Gray, of North-street, which extended to the rear of those houses in Rosemary-street, which lie between the Rev. J. S. Porter's meeting-house and Hercules street. The structure in which the conflagration com menced is, or rather was, a large building, prin cipally used for the purpose of storing canes, cork-wood, and other miscellaneous articles. There was also in it a small steam-engine, for the purpose of grinding Indian coin, a considerable quantity of which was stored in the premises. A large number of pigs were like wise kept in the offices, which communicated with the main building. It was stated that there was a consi derable quantity of gunpowder in these stores, and much alarm was, in consequence, created in the neighbour hood ; but, on inquiry, we find that Mr. Gray's stock of that article was stored elsewhere, and that he hail but a very small quantity in his shop. Before the engines could render any efficient assistance the fire had gained such a height that the attempt to save the store was abandoned, and the exertions of the firemen were directed to the prevention of flames commu nicating with the adjoining buildings. There can be little doubt that, had the wind been high, the two Unitarian meeting-houses, which are situated in the immediate vicinity of the store, would have been destroyed; but, fortunately, the burning mass was almost isolated, though lying iu the midst of building run ning from North-street, Rosemary-street, and Hercules street. In less than an hour the store was completely gutted; after which, a range of lower offices or stores took fire, and as these communicated directly with one of the sides of the Rev. John Scott Porter's meeting-house, for some time great fears were enter tained lest that edifice should fall a prey to the flames. However, owing to the exertions of the fire men, all apprehensions as regarded that building were allayed. Shortly before two o'clock the whole of the front of the building facing Rosemary-street fell in with a loud crash; and, though many persons were present, we are happy to say that no accident occurred. We have already mentioned that there was a number of pigs on the premises, so many as 87; and we have been informed that no fewer than 62 were either burnt or had to be slaughtered in consequence of the injuries which they had received from the fire. The store, as well as the range of offices connected with it, is a mass of ruins. We understand the premises are insured. Though it was supposed that the fire had been completely subdued, we regret to say that it again broke out about half-past two o'clock on Friday, and, though every ex ertion was used by the authorities to stay its progress, the workshop of Mr. Murdock, cork-cutter, Hercules street, which was contiguous to Mr. Gray's stores, took fire, and, from the combustible nature of the materials which it contained, was in a very short time thoroughly gutted. Mr. Murdock, who is a very serious sufferer by this fire, is not insured. The origin of the fire is at pre sent unknown.—Aothern Whig. THE WEATHER.—Since our last we have had a great alteration in the state of the weather, for while Saturday was throughout cloudy, with occasional showers, and while the rain fell nearly continuously and sometimes heavily from about eleven o'clock on Saturday night to about six o'clock on the following evening, Monday and yesterday have been through out fine and bright days. The temperature has however, even on these last two days, been very low for the season of the year. The maximum temperature was, on Saturday, 62 deg.; on Sunday, 67 deg.; and on Monday, 56 deg. The following returns by electric telegraph, at seven o'clock yesterday morning, show that the fine weather has been pretty general throughout the country, and the prevailing north wind would also seem to indicate that the lowness of temperature is also general:—Glasgow, S. fine; Edin burgh, W. very flue; Newcastle, W. very fine; York, N.E. very fine; Hull, S.W. fine; Normanton, N.W. fine; Leeds, N. fine ; Rotherham, N. cloudy ; Man chester, N.W. by W. fine ; Liverpool, N. fine • Not- Nottingham, W. very fine ; Derby, N.W. cloudy ; Leicester, W. very fine; Peterborough, N.W. by N. fine; Brandon, W. fine; Yarmouth, E.N.E. cloudy; Lowestofie, N. cloudy ; Birmingham, N.W. by N. cloudy ; Glouces ter, N.W. cold; Rugby, S. by E. slight fog; Chelmsford, N.E. fine; Colchester, N.W. fine; Gosport, N.E. fine; Poole, W. fine; Southampton, N.W. fine; Hertford, N.W. fine; Chesterfield, N.W. very fine; Crewe, W. fine; Alnwick, N.W. fine ; Cambridge, N. fine; Chesterfield, S.W. by W. fine ; Ipswich, N.W. fine; Dorchester, N.E. fine; Dereham, N.N.W. fine; Newmarket, N.W. fine.—Manchester Guardian of Wednesday. THE GLASGOW YEOMANRY CAVALRY.—This corps, which promises to be one of the most complete of the kind in the empire, is likely to be embodied very shortly. The Marquis of Douglas will, as has already been an nounced, be the commander. He is at present at Baden, but is expected home shortly. The Duke of Hamilton, father of the Noble Marquis, has examined the various commissions, and has approved of them. The uniform, it appears, will be blue, Laced with red and trimmed with gold lace. The helmet will be of composition silver, having a plume of horse hair. The horse trappings will be equally splendid. PITCH AND TAR UNINFLAIIMABLE.—On Saturday afternoon some highly interesting experiments took place in Mr. Royden's yard, Baffin-street, with the view of testing the non-inflammability of pitch and tar, pre pared by Messrs. Bagot, Boissage, and Tindel, mer chants, at Bordeaux. The tar prepared by the new process is applicable, we believe, to sails, rigging, and other general purposes, and it is stated that it a ship's bottom be coated with it , it will be as effectuall y pre served from worms, shells, and seaweed, as it it were sheeted with copper or ziue.—Liverpool Standard.' NIAGARA OUTDONE. — Among the cliffs of the Eastern Ghauts, about midway between Bombay and Cape Comorin, rises the river Shirawati, which falls into the Arabian Sea. The bed of the river is one fourth of a mile in direct breadth; but the edge of the tall is elliptical, with a sweep of halt a mile. .This body of water rushes at first, for 300 feet, over a slope, at an angle of 45 degrees, in a sheet of e kite foam, and is then precipitated to a depth of 850 more, into a black abyss, with a th un d er i ng no i se . I t has, therefore, the depth of 1,150 feet! In the rainy seasons the river ap pears to be about 30 feet in depth at the tall; in the dry seasons it is lower, and is divided into three cascades of varied beauty and astonishing grandeur. Join our fall of Genesse to that of the St. Lawrence, and then treble the two united, and we have the distance of the Shiraa ati cataract. While we allow to Niagara a vast supe riority in bulk, yet in respect to distance of descent, it is but a mountain rill compared with its Indian rival.-- American paper. OAYINGTON.—An eccentric old lady, named Rad .ord, has lately departed from the chequered scene of life in this village, who, though in her life time reputed among her neighbours to be possessed of considerable wealth, always endeavoured, both by her speech and mode of living, as well as the dilapidated style of her habiliments, to give a contradiction to such rumours. She died somewhat suddenly, in a bed minus sheets, and surrounded by indications of the most abject poverty, Atter her death her repositories were searched, and a large number of homespun sheets and a quantity of household linen of other descriptions found. Accumu lations of plate and other valuables were ransacked, and e hat created something like a feeling of awe among the s.Cambridge Advertiser. s uperstitious of the village, a golden image of cu r i ous man ufacture (most probably a heathen idol) was dis covered. She has left two nephews in good circum stances, as the inheritors of her hoard ourang-outang has l a t e l y b een brought to the Garden of Plants, the object of a l most uni versal _ver youn g serk. and animal is 3' is only six months old, appearance of a child aged ed three y ears , o f but h as e u a r l i l o t s h i t e y . The a grave and reflecting character. He is at the same time affectionate, shaking heeds kindly, but with a certain Arabian solemnity, with the keepers. H e f ee d s d e li ca t e ly, taking roast m ea t , wine, chocolate, and even liquors. Being very susceptible ofthe cold, old, he sleeps between a large cat and a rough-coated dog, and wraps them both as well as hi mse lf in a blanket. In the day time he is • coloured dressed in a re d blouse and white pantaloons. —Paris paper. BURY. —ARREST AND COMMITTAL OF A CHAR TIST LECTURER,—OR Monday last, Joseph Bowker, of Woolfold, Tottington Lower End, a schoolmaster and Chartist lecturer, was apprehended by Superintendent Sellars, and taken before the Heywood magistrates, charged with haling, on the 13th of August last, used seditious language at Hey wood. He was committed for trial, but was afterwards admitted to bail, his sureties being Mr. David Thomas, cloth manufacturer, Agar street, and Mr. John Jones, lamplighter and nee s -agent', Princess-street. —Manchester Guardian. IRISH SPORTS.—We see Ministers and Members are going this year to Ireland instead of Scotland. co in it be on account of the superior shooting?—Punch.,