The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-17 00:00:00

MORNING SUN. THE THIRTEEN NEW COLONIAL • BISHOPS: • TO , THE EDITOR OF THE si R t h he. proposed, scheme for the appointment o f ur ch of England•Bishopa, independent.of the. Crown, , °ur different Colonial, dependencies, is one calculated :xcitthe utmost alarm in the mind of every one w ho m ") h, h es well either to the cause of true religion , or to t he " "sPerity of the British empire, and, if persisted in, Est p end in the loss of all our colonial possessions. Let - sat , hr ,. apse a casd. A colonial Chaplain, regularly ap rtited by, and responsible to, the executive, preaches a sio,ctrine which one of these unauthorised Bishops con rrs heterodox. - The Bishop remonstrates, the i t a Plain treats his remonstrances with that con , tr utpt with which every regularly appointed officer 4 the C rown wou ld treat the remonstrances to an unauthorised person. The Bishop proceeds tx,.communicate the Chaplain. Now if this excommu - Tion be valid, the ,Chaplain is ipso facto incapacitate d IL I n performing any ecclesiastical functions , and then w e 'brew•e this mons trous anomaly—of a person appointed by , b .gnised power in the State, responsible to no re '46"ised power in the State—who can, at his wi ll and r e llaure, dismiss an officer of the Crown, and overrule the Executive. If the excommunication be not valid, t hen soi-disant Bishop an impostor, a vagrant , 4 Mtteradine• in canonicals. The Bishop and the aplai n would each, in all probability, be supported by i,,Puty, and thfis another source of disunion would I t , added to the long list of colonial grievances. t t has hitherto been our pride, that however intense and i : . tter our religious animosities may have been at home, such, colonies have all escaped the infliction of, this curse. however, cannot much longer be the case if this irrt'ciou s scheme is suffered to be Carried into effect. The 'l,igrants to our colonies are principally either Catho li c oe Presbyterian Scotchrnen. The religion of Le first of these has been denominated by one of the ;, ( Itodox Prelates of the Church of England, " a church 4 1thout a re ligion," and that of the second " a religion thout a church," while, at the present hour, a large tl infl uent i a l c l as s of the members of the Church of gland openly profess their desire to follow out to the ut most extent the principles of Archbishop Laud, who ,Nlsiclered Presbyterianism a damnable heresy, to be ex- E lated by 'fire and sword. Is it to be im a g ined that - ` 4 , in whose veins runs the blood of the old Cove h'inters, will submit to have their faith insulted that Black Prelacv"—to oppose which their fathers, t i ti "no man, turned upon the hill side, nor sheathed , ir.we q )pns until 'they had not only scotched, but 41 ,4 - the snake? Will the Catholic po&lation, patiently q unlit: to the spiritual domination of a miserab le ino °,lsolising minority ? No Sir,' and the only result of q attempt at erecting; a Church of England Propa ra, will be to raise :ferment throughout the whole .our. colonial dependencies, which will end in a furious tation for colonial independence, as the only means wearing Irons sacerdotal tyranny. It also behoves h 'se : who feel an' interest in the success of our , r t ' is slon to exert themselves in opposition to this ne 'ktoils scheme.. Experience, as in the c ases of Canada ~, Judia, ,shOWp. - that whenever the C hurch of t i l tland has' - "`apPointed a Bishop . there, the missionary cause has been paralysed ; and this must , e2 essarily be so. The Church of England,- from her :27 nature, never can become an instrument for props ring the Gospel extensively 'among the Heathe n, and f t _ e refore in the true theological spirit she endeavours as th ' as in her lies to prevent others from accomplishing e f t Which she is unable to accomplish herself , and , like tpas, blights every wholesome plant within the pale' of „iletinfluenee. As a proof of the strength of i nflu- C'es to which Colonial Bishops must from their position ;exposed, I will merely allude to the unjust and unjus - Aetble attacks of Bishop Heber on the Baptist Missions sin India. If he, great and good, and enlightened te ar , kt 54 he was, could not escape the contamination of the r4 osphere of bigotry, envy, and uncharitableness, in k '''eh, as a Colonial Bishop he was force d to live and c4 e, and have his being, what can we expect from the me n of narrow minds and strong prejudices who would in all Ih babilitY be appointed by this new College of the Propa tam t,c a. Among the batch of new Bishops , it appe ars there ' s i ) '° a Bishop of the Mediterranean. A more d a n g erous ap sin)traent it is scarcely possible to conceive. Ourposses °ns the Mediterranean arenot, properly speaking, colo "0 they are Military Garri.sons,:and , what man in his P c law would wish to see the odium theologicum intro li"ed into the service ? At present, our soldie rs, Cathn te and Protestant, live together in peace a nd harmon y ; * long they would continue to do so after the appoint ent a M‘Ghee or a Stowell as Bishop of the Medi )4Nnean it does not require much of the sp irit of pro cy to determine. In one of the most important of 4 8 e colonies, Malta, the inhabitants are all Catholics, non-interference with their religion is g uaranteed to F'in by the most solemn treaties. Be it remembered that the t ench lost possession of this island. principally on ac coth'int of the contempt which they openly manifested for e religion of the inhabitants ; let it be recollected that th ° prejudices of the Maltese have been deeply i °eked by Queen Adelaide's most injudicious r esent of a Protestant Church to the island ; and then 4 t,statesm en , whther Whig or Tory, consider whether " Politic to alienate still more the Maltese from our S Gov ernment by the appointment of a Church of Eng nd to episcopal jurisdiction in that island. trely the Duke of Wellington, who knows the nui- Z e ' n es whi c h me ddli ng pr i es t s of every denomination 1 4 in g arr i sons , will exert himself to t he utmost to save 4 fell ow soldiers froM such an infliction. But his Lord - Pof the Mediterranean is, it seems, to have also jn iotioe, in partibus ; and Naples and B arcelona, na y , i ev en Rome itself, is to be considered within his diocese. I . , ° ‘e, in every one of these countries Roman Catholicism Part and parcel of the law of the land, and Church of “glandism is there as much blasphemy as Church of Wean is here. Now if my Lord of hould chance to ' be convicted of , blasphemy be -Boethe Neapolitan tribunals, and should be tc gged or sent to the galleys for attempting w . Convert a Roman Catholic—in what position,cnild this country - be placed ?We should either be obl; e, y to the Law of Nations, to go to war t yr th e p urposep of forcing a Foreign Power to alter its t ,.,n internal laws and regulations, or we should be forced iv y submit to the humiliation of quietly permitting a :rely of the Church of England to' be punished for :rely doing that which was his duty. In the latter t i; e, it might, perhaps, be advisable that those to whom ,e revision of our Criminal Code is submitted, should o ' a lisider how far it might be desirable to punish certain k lences, such, for instance, as obtaining money under us e pretences, by appointing the convict Bishop of the eliterranean, and sending him to propagate Church of liglandism at Naples. I am, Sir, Your most obedient servant,. SIGMA. • THE CASE OF M'LEOD. • TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Glasgow, Aug. 11, 1841. 1 / I ,—How we Britons ought to feel ashamed of t he to ld neglect of our Whig Government in not demanding 1 immediate release of poor 111‘Leod, whose only crime f t ts be en th e d e f e nding of his country, which, had he re d", must have caused him to be punished perhaps w ith de ath itself. I feel the more urgent in thus addressing 3. °LI On the subject, as the press alone is perhaps the onl y te ens now left of saving poor M'Leod. I have no doubt th at the blustering of the Americans, who wish his life f sheer venge, is not meant iu now resides earnest; but know- g intimately re a one o gentleman, who a in Glas ,7 ' , ` t ?w, who was f those actually engaged in the affair wh th e C aro li ne , I cannot forget the emphatic reply , tr , en asked what his opinion was on t his sub j ect. He j2s , if M'Leod escape. the American law , he will never aPe the American mob. And can it otherwise be t"-Illected—when the cool indifference has be en di sp la y ed b i the British Government, whic h must be a stain, I am h r aid, upon the British people for allowing the Go ,,trument to sleep on such an important matter—than that 'Rich bloodshed will arise out of this ? Whether M'Leod he murdered by the law or without the law—for every rational reflecting mind must see that, from the previous Mlle of the Lockport mob in returning him into gaol , 1 :tle is to be expected from such a rabble, that set all at defiance. That the British Press can and ought show the power they possess in warning the Ame e:tn-s, and telling them of the danger of such proceed bB, should such an event take place, it need scarcely Lltiire any argument from me. But, in the turmoil of poor M'Leod, a countryman, and a volunteer in 11 41 e defence of his country and his countrymen, should e suffered by the British Govern ment to remain for l Ivelv e months in a gaol, must be a stain on the reign ° ) f our noble Queen, which every Liberal must deeply .t pet for more reasons than one. -Ay friend says it will put a stop to volunteering after on behalf of a .Government who can treat them thus A WHIG. am, Sir, your's , &c., IVESTIVIINSTER .ELECTION. TO .THE EDITOR OF THE S . U.N. . SIR —I have been much gratified by seeing in your -4 mble raper, the spirited exert ions which the Reform . " I '3 of St. Ann's, Soho, and St. Martin's-in -the-Fields itre making to recover the late disast er which the Libe ral cause has sustained in Westminster. But what are the numerous badY of Reformers in St. Margaret's and 3 t. John the Evangelist,.about? Are they not preparing' t o be « up and at the Tories " on the first opportunity that offers ? Vul gar abuse and personal misrepresentation I despise ratbili as any man can do ; but however estimable Tay be the private character of the Hon. Captain Rous, hope I am guilty of no disrespect to the Gallant ytfice r , i n e xpressing my conscientious opinion, that he does not represent the sentiments of the majority of the electo rs of Westminster, and, notwithstanding late oc lurrences, I trust he will find , on a future occasion , tha t am right in my conclusions. Your obedient servant, AN ELECTOR. Rutland-gate, Aug. 14, I'B4l. OPENING OF THE GREAT PARK IN THE t EGENT'S PARR.-011 Sunday morning, at rix o'clock, by Command of the Commissioners of Woods and Fo rests, the new entrance - g ates (six in number) were thrown open to the public. The suspension chain -I;!idges over the ornamental waters adjoining .the planta ' rns of the Marquis of Hertfor d ' s house were particu larly admired ; they are paved over with large York shire paving-stones, and are le vel with the gravel-walks. "°Y are the first production of the new patent granted to Mr. Dredge, who has contracted with the Commis liclrlers to erect a most superb one, fift y -six yards in length over the broad part of the orname ntal waters r SusEsex-place. The Commissioners of Woods and Forests have granted to the Marquis of Hertford 'our acres of extra land, to be added ttilis plantations ; two acres to Mr. Goldstnid, and three to M r. Holford, fronting - North Lodge-gate. Numbe rs of smiths are usibr' engaged erecting light iron fences around the 'groat:as, as also between the walks on the banks of the I ' ftnamental waters. . • The warmest manner in which one Brazilian can Introduce another to a family is :—" This is a friend, if. N g tlteal 4 colything I ant accountable for it." PINE PORTRAIT OF LADY ADELIZA HOIVARD: Collins, London, 1841. A full-length portrait of the Lady Adcliza Howard, grand-daughter of the Duke of Nor folk, has just - been engraved by Maclean, from an original picture by Holmes. Her Ladyship is represented in a blue riding-habit, having ap parently just returned from a ride. A shaggy little black pony stands close beside her, and her arm rests negligently on the animal's neck. The lady's attitude is one of singular ease and negli gence, and the folds of her drapery are managed with a skill worthy of Lawrence. The back ground of the picture represents a beautiful syl van landscape, the lights and shades of which are cleverly handled. The picture, on the whole, is one very creditable to the engraver's talent; it is executed in lithograph, and would well suit a frame. THE OLD EQUESTRIAN CIRCUS OF THE SURREY THEATRE. 1782-1805. By its present revival of equestrian games, and the re-construction of a new Circus upon the site of the old, the Surrey has returned to precisely the same plan of entertainment with which it originally began and opened in 1782. . But as sixty years have transpired since then, and a lapse of some years has taken place since the dis continuance of its favourite equestrian games, our readers may find pleasure in recurring to their revival at the present moment Charles Hughes, a clever equestrian, and who had an exhibition near Stangate-street, Blackfriars, called ,the British Horse Academy, became acquainted with Mr. Charles Dibdin the eldcr, best known as the song-writer and musical composer; and they two having taken a lease of a vacant plot of ground, the site of the present Thew• tre, in St. George's-fields, conjointly . determined to erect a new building, which they began in the February of that year. and subsequently opened on the 4th of No vember following, in great style, under the appellation of the " Royal Circus and Equestrian Philharmonic So ciety." The stage management was conferred on Mr. Dibdin, and that of the equestrian performances on Hughes, both of whom were to enjoy these situations for life. Dibdin, in his " Professional Life," himself gives the outline of this plan, which appears to have been ori ginally his :--" Horsemanship," he observes, " was at that time very much admired, and I conceived that if I could divest it of its blackguardism, it might be made an object of public consequence. I proposed, therefore, that it should embrace all the dexterity and reputation of ancient chivalry ; that tournaments, running in the ring, and other feats of equestrian celebrity, should be per formed, and that a classical and elegant turn should be given to exercises of this description. I, therefore, pro posed to have a stage, on which might be presented spectacles, each to terminate with a joust or tilting match, or some other grand object, so managed as to form a novel and striking coup-de-theatre, and that the business of the stage and the ling might be united." But the chief attraction of these entertainments was, that they were all performed by children, agreeably to a proposition made by one of the fellow-managers, Cap tain West, whose philanthropical design was to render the Circus a kind of nursery for actors. His adopted brood, who were chiefly to be the offspring of theatrical parents, were to be instructed in " religious, moral, and useful learning," during the intervals of professional practice. The pieces first represented in the Circus were—" An appropriate Prelude ; a Grand Entree of Horses; a Grand Ballet, called Admetus and Alceste, with various feats of horsemanship." Miss de Camp, after wards Mrs. C. Kemble, and Miss Wilkinson, the late Mrs. Mountain, were among the sixty little children who were engaged. Mr. Dibdin, in speaking further of this plan, originated by himself, says—" The Circus was the child of my own : fancy, and I contemplated its extraordinary success with great exultation. I projected it, I fabricated it, I sup plied it with materials, I watched the growth of its im provement, superintended it, and gave it every advantage, perfection, and consequence." Indeed, under Mr. Dibdin's management, the Circus succeeded admirably, for during five months the receipts amounted to 9,5001. Litigations, however, ensued be tween himself and Hughes, and the season of 1784 being an unproductive one, Hughes at its close claimed a balance of 2,8001. as due to him for "the purchase and keep of horses, &c." This led to an aetion in the King's Bench, and in the wreck of the property which was expected to ensue, Sir John Lade, the fanious horse-racer and gam bler, got a share of the Theatre into his hands, and during his co-management with others, a real stag-hunt was exhibited on the stage. Hughes died on the 7th. December, 1797, and was buried in St. George's church, Southwark. The equestrian performances were still continued from time to . time, till the burning down in August, 1805. The present Theatre was commenced in the November of the same year, and on its being finished, it was let to Mr. Elliston, for five years. at a rent of 2,2001. It was at this period that the equestrian performances ceased. Mr. Elliston covered in the ride, the Circus was entirely abo lished, and the space thus obtained was annexed to the pit. This vivacious speculator also changed the name of Circus into Surrey Theatre, by which it has since been distinguished. The present spirited proprietors, Messrs. Davidge and Jones, it will be seen from the above account, have, by restoring the Circus and renewing the equestrian per formances, brought it back to the original state devised by Mr. Dibdin, and which, enhanced by the brilliancy of equestrian spectacles, caused him to reap, in former days, a very golden harvest. May theirwn enterprise meet 7 with the same success. MY LITTLE FLOCK RE-VISITED. (From the signature and the quarter whence they come, the following lines will be recognised as the production of a well-known Professor in the College of St. Andrew's, and refer to his quitting the parish of Cults, in Fifeshire, of which Sir David Wilkie's father was many years minister, and whom the Learned Professor succeeded. 'He should not have been ashamed to put his name to lines expressive of such kindly feeling :—) 'Tis thirty years, 'tis thirty years, (Alas how short that space appears), Since first a Pastor's crook I bore, And preached to many now no more. Kind and more kind, from day to day • My people cheered me on my way— The recollection still endears — Oh these were truly happy years ! Now half these years I've numbered o'er Since from the Manse my steps I bore, My heaving bosom still beats high, The starting tear still dims mine eye— Yes ! 'twas indeed a saddening day As from the Manse we bent our way ; And some there were that wept that hour Who ne'er shall weep nor sorrow more ! That Manse, the mansion of my bliss, My sweet retreat of happiness, What time my spirit free and strong Some kindred spirits dwelt among • And " Ministers of Peace " were then Good, easy, social, peaceful men ; Ere blasphemy had walked abroad And boldly called rebellion " God!" That Manse where Wilkie, Nature's child, First oped his lustroUs eye and smiled, - First plumed his wing for future flight, His pencil drew; and all was light— Pitlessie started into fame, And Cults became a household name. Alas ! nor worth nor fame can save! Nor does his Britain yield a grave ! Yes, there are some remember still What in old happy times befell — The playful jest, the stern rebuke, What text on such a day I took ;, Nor did I need assume a part I did not sanction in my heart — To calumny you scorned resort, " Nor e'er took up an ill report." And in your eyes I read your heart— The better, ah ! far better part, And saw you track my fervid way As half-inspired I burst away, Fearless proclaiming with all might What conscience told me to be right— Scorning to truckle or to flatter, To modify or mince the matter ! My Sabbath evening's Christian play At questions in our honiely way-- The anxious look, the listening air, The Scripture lessons conned with care, The breast yet free from every guile, The rosy cheek, the sunny smile, The all of YOUTH ere vice betrays— Oh, these were happy; happy days. The aged now no more remain, I ne'er shall hear their voice again ; And rarely men of middle years, A sprinkling scarce of such appears ; My boys and girls to parents grown, '• Remain to greet my steps alone. 'Tis Winter all, where once 'twas May— " This world's fashion fleets away." " My little flock," I love ye still, God guard ye safe from every ill— Kind and indulgent were ye ever • To him who can forget ye never, My many faults you scorned to scan, But in the Preacher loved the MAN ; And in return my heart is true, As e'er was needle point, to you. Beloved friends, who still remain, (Whom late I visited again), Accept my thanks in fitful lay In my own random off-hand - way, For friendship, undiminished, glowing, More bliss than I can name bestowing ; And now whilst tears begin to swell y7thhe.,a,trutfgeultst‘: 1841. G. Fare you well." St. Andrew's, The disputed question between the Great Western Railway Company and the parish of Corston is now settled by the Company paying all costs. The costs on the side of the parish were 370/.—Bath Herald. SYDNEY'S SMITH'S LAST.-.--" What is to be done with Dean Cockburn ?" said a person to the reve rend wag the other day in St. Paul's churchyard. " Done Sir, done, why he deserves to be preached to death by wild curates," was said to be the reply The Sava ns at t h e C ar lton are speculating on the cause which gave r i se t o P ee l's journeY toPortsmouth, and to the removal of his son from the navy. The youngster, it is said, has no predilection for the " dan gers of the sea," While some think, under existing cir cumstances, he might, be better provided for on shore. Ti] E SUN, LONDON, TIJESDA SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• - - - TATTERSALL'S:—YEsTEnnAy. -- The early part of the afternoon was occupied in a discussion on the new. Doncaster Cup ; an allusion to which appeared in 'our report of the betting last week. The Corporation have hitherto neglected to make it known whether the entry, which closed so long ago as the 7th instant, was sufficiently numerous to constitute a race ; at present, it is doubtful whether such was the case, and until this be known it would be loss .of time to enter into the subject. The St. Leger betting touched two or:three of the old established favourites at last week's prices, and brought into play a new one in Mr. Gas coigne's Jack Sheppard, against whom, 25 to 1 to a small sum, and 1,000 to 35 were laid ; the odds about Van Amburgh were taken to a considerable amount, but the general business was flat in the extreme. Closing prices:— • ST. LEGER. 5 to 2 agst. Scott's lot 5 to 4 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Coronation 9 to 2 agst Lord Westminster's Van Amburgh—t. 8 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Middleham 25 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Eringo 25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Lampoon 000 to 35 agst Mr.Gascoigne's Jack Sheppard—taken DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Lord Jerse7sßrother to Phoenix—taken 45 to 1 agst Mr. 'Melville's Amadou colt—taken TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES, We have received an Address from the South lohdon Auxiliary of the New British and Foreign Temperance Society, signed by the Treasurer and two Secretariesc. setting forth the great advantages which have accrued from the establishment of these societies, and adding this as a reason for increased exertions. The Address is too long for insertion, but we willingly insert the concluding paragraphs : " The Committee, however, feel that the success which, by the Divine blessing, has crowned their exertions in this cause, is to be regarded as a call and stimulus to more energetic and commensurate effort - strong drink is still destroying its hundreds and thousands around us, ruining our fellow-creatures and fellow-immortals in body and soul ; blasting their prospects in time, and hurrying them to perdition for eternity. That the simple, tried, and efficient remedy of Total Abstinence may be brought into more speedy and extensive contact with this. moral plague, the Committee ask your contribt4ions. " To Such as have embraced the priniple and prac tice of Total Abstinence they would first appeal ; and on the ground of gratitude, as well as of justice, would urge upon them the duty of doing whit they can to sus tain and enlarge the operations of the, Auxiliary. To those also who, while they have not ostensibly connected themselves with the Temperance movement, have by the discussion of the question, and its direct influence upon themselves and others, in any measure reduced the amount of their expenditure, the Committee feel war ranted in applying for pecuniary aid. " A third class, and'one probably more numerous than either of the preceding, upon whom they are desirous of pressing the claims of the Society, are those who thOngh not prepared to admit the universal application of the principle of total abstinence, nor regarding it as their duty to adopt the practice, yet acknowledge Temperance Societies to be beneficial in their character, and allow them a place in the system of means now so happily and variously employed for the social and moral im provement of mankind. Upon the Philanthropist, the Patriot, and the Christian, the cause presents distinct and powerful claims for support, in proportion as each re spectively perceives 'drunkenness to be an evil, and so briety a good ; and admits the suitableness of the means employed by the Society to diminish the one and in crease the other. From each and all they ask—and trust they shall not ask in vain—upon the ground of what they have been permitted to achieve, and of what they are still prepared to undertake, that among the various institutions of the day now favoured with their pecuniary support, a place may from tkis time be found for the South London Auxiliary.to the New British and Foreign Temperance Society." CITY COURT or REQUESTS.-011 Saturday Mr. Hutcheson, the late candidate for the representation of the borough of the Tower Hamlets, was summoned before the Commissioners of the above Court by Mr. G. Bagley, for 3/. 10s., the amount due to him for saves days canvassing the electors prior to the election. It appeared the claimant had made several applications for the amount at the office of Mr. Hutcheson without success, and that Mr. Bishop, the agent of Mr. Hutcheson ultimately re fused to recognise or pay the demand. The claimant produced Mr. J. J. Kelly, landlord of :the Ship and Black Horse, High-street, Shadwell, Who proved the hiring of the complainant, and who positively stated that he had the authority of Mr. Hutcheson and Mr. Stephens, the chairman of his central committee, to employ such persons as he thought wero well ac quainted with the neighbourhood and localities of St. Paul's, Shadwell, St. John, Wapping, and St. George-in-the-East, and that he consequently hired Mr. Bagley, considering him to be an active man as a canvasser. Mr. Kelly produced documents which completely . satis fied the Commissioners that the claimant was entitled to the amount claimed, and signed an order accordingly for immediate payment. Other decisions of a similar description had been tried during the week in the same Court, and it is said that Mr. Hutcheson has al ready paid upwards of 8,000/. for the honour of being a candidate, and without the honour of a seat in Par liament. Mr. Calcraft has, at an expense exceeding 2,0001., engaged Grisi, Lablache, Mario, &c., for the pro duction of Italian Operas, which will commence at Haw kins'-street Theatre on the 30th August.—Cork Southern Reporter. During the last few days considerable interest has been attached to a discovery recently made, and which is supposed to be the produce or concealment of some murder committed many years ago. The facts of the discovery after most particular inquiries,, have been found to be as follows :—One of the children of Mr. Gardener, of No. 1, Prince's-place, North-place, West square, Lambeth, was playing with a silver spoon in the passage of the house, when by some means she forced it through the crevice of the boards. Another child who had witnessed what had taken place, and who thought that the spoon could be got back, took up one of the planks in the passage, and in feeling about on the part beneath, his hand was much hurt by a nail, to which something was attached, and which was found to be the chain of a curiously embossed watch of about the time of Charles I. or 11. There were also seals attached to the chain, which were very much corroded. The watch was one of those small and globular pieces of workmanship at the present day out of the market. The dial as well as the glass was broken, and it had all the appearance of having been in the place where it was found for a very long time. Upon examining the works, the name of " liklward Pamer, London, 9,161," was found in very distinct cha racters, and they appeared of snore modern date than the case. The finding of the watch under such singular circumstances was followed up , by further search, and near the same spot a loaded pistol was taken out, but it fell to pieces soon after exposure to the air.. Perhaps the name of the maker of the watch may lead to a clue to this mysterious affair. SKELETONS FOUND.---A few days ago two human skeletons were found embedded in the sand on the sand hills between Mr. Muspratt's mansion and the Rimrose-bridge, Bootle. They appeared to have lain there for many years. On the wrist of one was the waistband of a shirt and a fragment of cloth. As the sand hills in which the skeletons were found embedded are much above high water mark, it would seem that they could not, when clothed with flesh, have been carried there by the tide of the Mersey. That they are the skeletons of persons who had suffered death by drowning there cannot be a doubt. It is probable, therefore, that, having been washed on the shore years ago, the bodies were stripped and afterwards buried in the contiguous sand hills. It is reported, indeed, that, when the rabbit-warren existed there, the keeper was in the habit, no churchyard being then within several miles of the spot, of burying bodies washed up on the shore. Were the bodies, the skeletons of which were last week discovered, so found and buried by the keeper ? THE BRITISH QUEEN.--This fine steamer has, we are informed, been sold by the British and Ame rican Steam Company to the Belgian Government. We have not heard the amount of the purchase-money. She is now getting ready for sea, and will sail about the end of the present week, under the command of Mr. Keene, who navigated the ill-fated President on her second voyage to and from New York, for Antwerp. It is not yet ascertained what the Belgian Government mean to do with this noble steamer: it is supposed, however, that she is destined to open and continue a communication be tween Belgium and the United States.—Liverpool Albion. MR. HUMS.—It is reported that Mr. Hume is to replace Mr. Chalmers as Member for the Montrose Burghs. Mr. C. is willing to resign in his favour. The Caledonian Mercury speaks of Mr. Stewart as likely to filmed Mr. Rutherford, the Lord-Advocate, should he resign his seat for Leith ; but the Edinburgh Observer seems to hold that Mr. Humo has the better chalice. ILLNESS OF MR. DUCROW.—Mr. Ducrow, Who is at Norwood, under the care of Dr. Sutherland, is so far recovered as to be enabled to see his friends in a few days. THE DUKE OF ARGYLE.—We are sorry to learn that the Duke of Argyle has been seriously indis posed this week at Inverary.—Seetch Reformers' Gazette. FAILURES IN LIVERPOOL.—We are assured that there is no truth in the statement which we copied from a Manchester paper, that a house had failed in Liverpool, which owed a Joint-Stock Bank 100,0001. Three or four failures have occurred in that town within the last fortnight, but the liabilities of the highest in amount do not exceed 60,000/., and there are, it is said, assets which, if realized, will enable the parties to pay 20s. in the pound, and leave a surplus. The liabi lities of another are stated at 16,0001., and of a third, at not more than 7,0001.-( Times, of Friday.) We are sorry to have to add another failure to the above. The house held a large quantity of cotton, which, if forced on the market in its present state, would have caused a serious loss. They preferred suspending for a time, and hope, ultimately, to meet all their engagements. We may remark, that the stock of cotton now held in Liverpool is larger than was ever before known. Its value is variously estimated at from five and a half to six and a half millions sterling.—Liverpool Albion. CHURCHISM.—The Bible must be exhausted at Trinity Church, Southport, as two lectures were deli vered there last Lord's Day on " The Book of Common Prayer." • A learned clergyman in Maine was accosted in the following manner by an illiterate preacher who de spised education :—" Sir, you have been to College, I suppose ?" " Yes Sir," was the reply. " I am thank ful,". rejoined the other, " that the Lord has opened my mouth to preach without learning." " A similar event," replied the latter, " took place in Balsam's time, but such things are of rare occurrence at the present day." ADDRESS tTO ENGLISH • MECHANICS. The evil days of Castlereagh and Sidmouth are at hand.. Our sufferings are already frightful. We cry for bread;—they give us stone for churches. France, Prussia, even Spain have freed themselves from the crushing load of an' enormous Church Estab lishment. We alone are Church crushed. Other nations have found in the useless wealth of the Church means for lightening the public burdens. All the children of the working classes of England might have an education equal to that of Prussia placed within their reach with that wealth which now maintains in splendour the ene mies of the people. The Bishops and Deans have been fighting for this wealth, and the Deans had the worst of it. Why cannot the clergymen be governed as the army is by one commander-in-chief, with an office in London ? The sum thus gained for the real improvement of the people is incalculable from its great amount. Let us look at these prelates. See them in the court of George the Fourth, wearing their mitres where John the Baptist could not wear his head. Look at them in the senate, arranged against the rights and liberties of the people. The length of their lives averages three times that of a Sheffield grinder. Theßishop has nothing to trouble him. He has secure enjoyment of his palace, and his park, plate and paintings, tilt title of a Peer, and the income of a Prince. One dies at last—he has cleared two hundred and forty thousand pounds. Another lives, brother to' the Marquis of Ely,—seldom to be found in his diocese, but enjoying his sinecure of ten thousand a-year in Ireland, where the peasant digs from sunrise to sunset for sixpence a-day. Compute the value of 'Church property belonging to Lord Stanley's family, hod you will not wonder at his zeal for the Church. The Church of England is the richest prize for which the worshippers of Mammon could strive. For it they raise their riots, such as that of Lord George Gordon in London, and such as that in which the house of Priestly was burned in Birmingham, when that emi nent philosopher had to fly for his life, and found an asylum in America. For .this Church they plunged us into costly and bloody wars. For this Church they pass the laws which hold us in degradation. It was the re sistance to this Church that made Scotland what she is. It was the cruelty of this Church that sent the finest of our ancestors to people the wilds of America. From this Church come all the woes of Ireland. ''And do we confound this incubus with Christianity, the last and best of the gifts of God to man. Look at Jesus. The carpenter'sson talks to his poor countrymen and tells them the blessedness of poverty. He tells them he brings tidings to cheer and raise the poor. He tells them truly that he himself is poorer than the birds, poorer than the beasts; that he has neithr nestzior4en, holes not where to lay his head. He" Wants a shilling to explain what he is teaching-=he has to borrow one from a hearer. He and Peter cannot raise half-a-crown to pay their taxes— . he is obliged to send Pf ter to fish. lie cannot bear to see the many hungry—hegives them bread. He is hated by his countrymen for not being rigid—they consider him a man of no religion. He did not make the Sabbath a time for death-like inaction and mere ritual obser vance, but an opportunity for acts of kindness, a rest and a blessing. In every innocent . pleasure of man he cheerfully joined. His first miracle gave additional wine to a feast, and one of his last speeches vindicated the use made of perfume by a grateful poor woman. He sees merit in a poor widow, in afflicted Lazarus, and even in the nation and sect most hated by his countrymen, in a Samaritan. He paints the future woes of the selfish and :heartless rich, he satirises the priests, and denounces as doomed the religious party, the oppressors . of the poor. •Dying, he leaves his mother a burden to his friend John, a poor fisherman. He. taught us to call no man " Mas ter," no man "Father in God." The Lords and clergy men joined and had this reformer crucified for sedition. Listen to Paul the tent-maker, when speaking—" For my own wants, and the wants of those who were with me, have worked these hands." Stretching out—not de licate hands from lawn sleeVes—but the hard hands of ' honest industry. Such hands have we. Let us unite, and with hand, head, and heart show ourselves to be men. Christianity was given by God to man ; poor men were sent by him to give it to poor men. It was not to make us tremble before man, to hate, nor to crouch. It was to enlighten and to cheer us poor men. Let no man deceive us, nor make us believe that it is our duty to be submissive, starving slaves. It has pleased the monopolists to place the Church in the front of their battle with us. They deafen us with their shouts of triumph. Is the battle really over ? AN ENGLISH MECHANIC. Liverpool, Aug. 14, 1841. THE KIRK. OF SCOTLAND. The Commission of the Assembly met last week and adopted a resolution which must inevitably lead to a schism in the Church. We cannot better describe the actual state of matters, or give expression to our opinion, than by the following extract from the Edinburgh Ob server of Friday : " The Assembly deposed the Strathbogie ministers. as all the world knows, for having carried into effect the statutory appointments with regard to the settlement of ministers ; and against that deposition a minority—large and influential—protested, and declared that they con sidered it null and void—illegal even on ecclesiastical grounds—and that they would not cease to regard their deposed brethren as still ministers of the Church. In addition to this, it was unequivocally declared by many members of Assembly, and by several hundred ministers and elders, that they would hold communion with them: as lawful and'undeposed ministers ; and following out this protestation and resolution, many ministers and elders have done so in the fullest manner—the flocks of those gentlemen still adhering steadfastly to their pastors. And, over and above all this , the Supreme Civil Court has, by solemn clecrtz.ss,'declard that the sentence of deposition is utterly illegal, and interdicted any effect whatever being given to it. In this state of matters, the minority, commonly called the rump of the Presbytery of Strathbogie, made a re port that Mr. Grant, of Leith, Mr. Robertson, of Elton, and several other highly respectable clergymen, have not only preached in the pulpits of the nominally-deposed gentlemen, but have interchanged the sacred symbols of our faith at the communion table—and for this ima ginary sin, desecration, and so forth, have ordered their several Presbyteries to proceed against them with the discipline of the Church ; in other words, this Commis sion of the General Assembly—a thing utterly unknown in law as a Court of the Etablished Church—has direct ed proceedings tending to deposition or excommunica tion, against their brethren, because they have disre garded an illegal sentence, a nd have conducted them selves as office-bearers in the Church, just as if no s uch illegal sentence had ever been heard of. Thus circum stanced, the majority have, by their rash and reckless -proceedings, forced on, and created a schism in the Church ; and the minority declare, that this being so precipitated and perpetrated, a n ecessity has arisen for an appeal to that power, by which the 'Church is esta blished as one of the institutions of the land—namely, the supreme executive and legislative authorities of the em pire. This is the present position of the Church. It were an easy matter to enlarge on the principles of high import involved in this new phasis of the contro versy—but we forbear. But of one thing we are quite confident, that neither the Government nor the people of this country will longer tolerate or endure the open and undisguised spiritual tyranny which these hot-brained fanatics aspire to fasten upon the necks of the pastors and the people of the Church of Scotland ; and we are greatly deceived if, in a very short apace of time, these arrogant priests and pettifoggers be not most effectually put down, and sent back to their native obscurity, and deprived of all power to do mischief in the capacity of ministers in our Established Church. They must ere long be left to the full enjoyment of their vaunted inde pendence beyond its pale, or brought to submit them selves quietly, like other folks, to the supremacy of the law, by which that Church alone has its existence as an Establishment. We learn that, in the course of Thursday, a requisi tion, signed by thirty or forty of the party who are at present in seeming ascendancy, has been got up for call ing another and extraordinary meeting of the Commis sion, in order further to take into consideration, and to decide on the course to be pursued in consequence of the schism which has now openly, and on all sides, been proclaimed to have taken place in the Courts and Coun cils of our National Establishment.: The proposed meet ing is sought for the 25th of the present month of Au gust—and we presume public notification of it will appear within a day or two hence. On Monday last Sir Windham Carmichael An struther entertained the numerous tenantry on his exten sive estates of Carmichael at dinner,. in the Clydesdale Arms, Lanark. A similar mark of attention had been shown by the tenantry to their landlord a short time ago, and this dinner was given in return for the compliment then shown to Sir Windham. Corers were laid for one hundred, and the Honourable Baronet was favoured with* the company of a number of the neighbouring gentry; and friends from a distance. Amongst the strangers wer9.. Wm. Lockhart, Esq., the Member for the County, Col: Hall, Mr. Godfrey Sinclair, Capt. Caulfield, the Rev.. Mr. Lamb, the Rev. Mr. Vary, M. A.ll'Neil, advocate; Mr. Henry Gordon Dickson, W.S., Mr. James Spence, W.S., Mr. Scott, of Douglas, Mr. Walker, Mr. Richard,. Mr. Gray, Mr. Annand,Dr. Gibson, and several others. The evening was spent with the utmost har mony, evincing the best possible feeling betwixt landlord and tenant. The Member for the county assured the meeting that it gave him, an Upper Ward man himself, the greatest satisfactton to witness the . very friendly terms on which the Representative of the noble house of - Hyndford and the tenantry on the estates of that ancient family maintained their respective relations. Mr. Dick son was happy to acknowledge that the same good feel ing prevailed on the estates of Anstruther, in Fife, where the removal of a tenant for any cause whatever, except with his own express consent, had never been known. The meeting was kept up till a late hour ; and all sepa rated in the hope of witnessing a similar happy assem blage at no distant day. THE ARTS.—Sir F. Chantrey, the celebrated sculptor, is now in this city, directing the fixing in the Cathedral a splendid monument, executed by him, to the memory of the talented artist Northcote. The spot selected is the chapel of St. Gabriel, on the south side of the " Ladye Chapel," in which stands the sumptuous monument of Bishop Branscombe ; the monument of }layman to the memory of Lieu tenant-General Sin:woe ; the mausoleum of Chancellor Fnrsman ; and other monuments. Several members of the Northcote family have been interred there. A drawing has been made of a most elaborate and splendid monument to the memory of Bishop Coverdale, who was promoted to this see by icing Edward VI., and assisted Tyndal in his translation of the Bible into the English language which, when executed, will be erected in the CathedraVin this eitYr!' Western 4reter Times. The General Steam Navigation Company's packet, the Giraffe, R. Stranack, from Rotterdam, ar . rived off the Custom - house, on Sunday, with the Dutch STATE OF THE :WEATHER AND LATEST IMPORTED. • CROPS, F: A BASHFUL LOVEI3.—A Green Mountain boy fell in z. BALLYNACLASH.—The rain has fallen all this day in , love with a very pretty girl, and determined to court her. torrents without a moment's cessation. The injury it To that end he dressed himself in his Sunday-go-to will do is incalculable. I am, sorry to add, that within meetings, went to her father's house, and found her this week or two there is a system of petty robbery ear- alone. " Bow d'ye du ?" said Jonathan. " I'm nicely tied on nightly, that until now never was heard of in • —take a cheer, Jonathan," says the girl. Jonathan this quiet county. No won d er ; t h e o ld potatoes are took a chair, and seated himself in the farthest corner three parts rotten or wholly gone, and their new crop, of the room, as though the beauty was a thing to be of course, not fit to dig. The increase of mendicancy feared rather than loved. " Aint you cold ? hadn't you is deplorable.—Wicklow Correspondence. J. better sit up to the fare 2" says Sally, supposing he The only field of wheat that we have yet heard to I would of course, if he was going to_ make lave at all, have been cut was a field belonging to Thomas Rose, do so in a proper manner. " No, I thankee, I reckon Esq„ of Court, in this county, which was reaped on Wed- I'm. cOmfortable," returned Jonathan. " How is your - nesday, and it was injured by blast and mildew ; it was, unarm ?" said Sally. "Well, she's a complainin A however, grown- on rich low land, to the crops on -which lisetle," said Jonathan. Here a pause of ten minutes the damage-was chiefly confined.—Limerick Standiird. ( msued, during which time Jonathan amused himself by Ross.—Notwithstanding the very fickle state of the wea- whittling a stick. " There's nothing new up your way, is ther of late, several fields of wheat are already cut in this there?" said Sally, which Jonathan might understand as neighbourhood, and next week we have no doubt ha rvest- applying to his present situation, or to his father's dumi ing will become very general.—Hereford Times. (ale. "Here a—oh-3gs, you meant to hum, well no, that is We have had another week of ungenial weather. his—our spotted cow's got a calf," said Jonathan. Sally There has been comparatively little sunshine ; a good would undoubtedly have laughed at this queer piece of deal of rain has fallen, and altogether that fine want - at information, only she was too much vexed at the bash for which we are accustomed to look in the middle of fulness of the speaker. At length, after another pro- August, has been almost wanting. As a matter of traded silence, Sally got up a small editiosi of a scream, course tie grain crops are in rather a backward state ; and in a loud voice exclaimed, "Let me alone." "Why," and whatever sort of weather may be in reserve for us, says Jonathan, dropping his knife and stick in astonish we are not now to have an early harvest.' We per- ment, ". why, I aint a touchin' on ye." " Well," says ceive that the same remar k app li es t o o th er districts or Sally, in a voice which might be indicative of fear, but the country ; and those who have good opportunitias sounded very like request—" Well, aint you gein tu?" of making calculations, affirm that the general harvest Jona than thought a moment of this equivocal reply, and will be under an average.—Leeds Times. ther„ after placing his knife in his pocket and blowing Considerable anxiety is felt in this neighbourhood as his nose, he drew his chair by the side of pretty Sally, to the effect of the weather upon the corn harvest, an d—the next week they were married. 'which is now partially commenced, though with pros- A CAPITAL HIT.—A gentleman in this city, yester :pacts not certainly of the most flattering description. tiny, met a friend who had been passing some time in 'Several fields cut have been exposed for the last week Texas, and had just returned. Some conversation en to almost constant and heavy rains, while the standing sued upon the country and the people, &c. The gentle crops have suffered severely from the winds, which, man from Texas remarked that the people were gene in violence almost equalled the gales of November: If rally a. very curious set of beings, and, among other some great change does not take place in a few days things, told the following anecdote :—Not long since a the result must be disastrous. Most of the wealthy person there killed a fellow-citizen in cold blood.. He millers of this neighbourhood and the corn-factors wen's immediately to a lawyer to consult him as to what have left for the Continent to get supplies.—Devonport coarse he should pursue to escape punishment. The Chronicle. lawyer, after patiently listening to his case, advised him Wednesday was really a beautiful day, and yesterday t o run away. " Run away ?" inquired the client, mani-. also continued fine till towards the time of nightfall, testing great astonishment. "Yes, 'tis your only s a f e when the rain again descended in torrents, and continued , course." " Run away ?" again exclaimed the murderer with little intermission throughout the night ; and to- —" Gaod heavens ! am .1 not in Texas already ?" day has been exceedingly unpropitious. We believe we Lowell Courier. may state with confidence that the wheat crop is seri- A MAN RUINED BY SUDDEN WEALTH.—The Balti ously deteriorated, and irremediably so, and that the corn more. Sun gives an account of a young man named Benton crops generally, as well as the potatoes, are in imminent Starks, from Athens, Ga., who had been remarkably in- danger.--Limerick Reporter. drastrious and had acquired a respectable property, but Owing to the very unseteled state of the weather, the w hose intellect was completely disordered by his sud hay harvest is very_back ward in this neighbourhood, and . .i.eniy coming in possesston of $7,000. H av i ng co ll ec t e d most of the hay which has been long down, appears .to his funds, he took the stage for Baltimore, through which be in a very bad state. The corn also appears to be he passed on to Philadelphia, New York, andßeston, and much injured from the long continuance of wet ; there- , ultimately ret urne d t o B a l t i more , h av i ng spent near l y a ll fore, the most intense anxiety is felt, not only among he had. A young gentleman from Virginia came on to the famers. but also throughout all other classes of the induce him, if possible, to return home, but failing in this, community, for a favourable alteration, otherwise thu requested the police at Baltimore to take him into cos injury to the grain crops will. be much more alarming, tody. He had, when taken, two pistols, valued at $75, and the result very serious. — Hereford Times. 47 pieces of gold coin, amounting to about $235; $9l in A great' quantity of wheat has been cut during the paper, and $1 in s il ver , ma ki ng i n a ll $ 402. Fi ve fi ne week in the neighbourhood ; but, f rom th e continued gold watches were found upon his person—the chains unfavourable state of the weather, little or none has been running round his neck and body. Three valuable breast- Carried. Bread is now selling in our shops at twenty- pins of the largest kind glittered in his bosom. pence per gallon, and butter at ls. 3d. per lb.—Hama- A DAY'S WORK.—A labourer in New York, recently, shire Advertiser. professed himself ready fo do a day's work at anything. Reaping has commenced in many places in this county. in an'honest way, for a dollar. Some wags -employed but, we regret to say, under very unfavourable auspices ; kin', to carry a brick, back and forwards, a certain dis indeed, if the last fortnight had been real dog-day tance, doing five miles each hour. Nothing daunted at weather, and that mostly summer period expired on Wed- this task, the applicant set to,—he did six miles and nesday last, we should at this moment be nearly at the three-quarters in the first hour ; in five hours he had height of the corn harvest throughout Herefordshire. completed 27 miles—he then took dinner ;he continued We have not had heavier rains for months past than Zell for five and a half hours longer, when he had travelled between Tuesday morning and 'Wednesday evening last 51 miles. The poor fellow earned his dollar, but he got —throughout Tuesday night and Wednesday morning fame beside. Some thousand dollars changed hands it came down in torrents, and cannot h ave been other- during his feat, and at its close he was backed by a wise than injurious to the standing grain,. which, as re- heavy purse, to step out against any competitor. ports say, is much down in many parts. In our corn A. SON MURDERED BI HIS FATHER.-'--We learn from market on Saturday last wheat was ve ry scarce ; the Surssex, that a most brutal murder was perpetrated in little in offer, realised a considerably advanced price, sr A that county, on the 30th of June. 'William Hearn, 76 it has now a strong tendency to rise rapidly. rn true years of age, of Little Creek Hundred, murdered his hop grounds the cold nights have done more mischief own son, Joseph Hearn, about 30 years of. age. It rip than the heavy rains. May the next month be maze pears that,there had been some misunderstanding be congenial both for corn and hops. There will be a new' tween the father and son, when, it is said, the son moon on Monday, and the weatherwise foretel .neus threatened to murder his father' and mother, and burn weather—may they prophecy rightly.—Hereford Tunes. the he-use. The father was apprehensive that these During the greater part of the present week this 'dis- thresei would be execnted, and after his son had retired trict has been visited with heavy rains, which have done to bed, deliberately took an axe, went to. the bed-room of serious damage to the crop. Large quantities of hay his son, and committed the unnatural deed, by striking still lie on the ground, and the corn crops are laid to the. unfort u n a t e d ecease d fi ve bl ows on th e h ea d. The e such an extent in many places, that a month of fino perpetrator of this most atrocious act has been coin weather will scarcely be sufficient to repair the injury Imtted to gaol, at George-town, to await his trial, which already done. More gloomy harvest prospects have will take place in October next.— Wilmington (Del.) scarcely ever been recollected. Manchester Times. .Republican. CORNWALL (NEWQUAY.)--The harvest has partially e hfaint I see you home from meeting, Peggy?" "No, commenced in the parishes of Lower St. Columb and you shan't do no such thing, I'm otherwise engaged." Crantock. SeVeral fields of wheat, barley, and oats are "Well, I swan, I guess you've missed it this time, for I've in progress of cutting, but from the showery state of the got my pockets chuck lull of gingerbread." " You may weather and want of sun, the harvest is more backwaret take my arm, Jonathan." than usual at this season of the year. The crops in flee Four persons were recently poisoned in New York, in neighbourhood are promising a fair yield.—Devonpoe t consequence of, eating some ground roots sold i n th e mar - Gazette. ket for horse radish. SOUTH OF DEVON.—The late rains have, in some places, where there is a great shear, laid the wheat. The crop f new potatoes is very good, and they are selling. ; from Bd. to 10d. per peck.—Devonport Chronicle. A field of wheat at Handley Wood, in the parish of Staveley, was cut on Thursday last. This may be stated• as the precursor of harvest in this neighbourhood, not its commencement. The heavy rains that have fallen during the present week will augment the embarrass ments of the farmer.—Derbyshire Chronicle. The weather has been wet, cold, and generally unfa vourable in this neighbourhood, for the last week ; but we are happy to learn from - farmers of the county, that the crops have not as yet experienced any injury, ;but what a few fine, days may remedy. Last evening the rain fell in torrents.--Monmouthshire Merlin. We turn with pleasure from the dull round of politics and party squabbles with which our exchange papers abound, to the following exquisite and truly pathetic scrap of poetry in the New York Evening Expi ess : " CAnnox.—Never lend to gals or fellers Parasols or umbrellas." RISEX.—The Natchitoches Herald, of the 10th, says, " the recent copious showers have caused a favourable rise in. our rivers." Hestor, of Philadelphia County, Pa., announces hitriself as the inventor of a flying machine. He has l'.tposited his model at - Washington. His ingenuity will* not be a recommendation to the sub-treasury—it would be difficult to follow the tracks of an aerial absquatulator, LUMBER RAFTS.—The Ogdensburg Times says, " that the present season has been fruitful in losses and disas ters of rafts in descending the St. Lawrence to Mon treal and Quebec, by reason of the sudden and violent storms and squalls that have occurred. At one time, it is said that the Lake St. Francis, as well as Lake St. Peters, below Montreal, were literally covered with broken rafts, masts, and various timbers. " Is Miss S. at home ?" asked a gentleman of her who had answered the call of the knocker. " I think not, Sir,—l'll go and ask her," was the reply. INNOCENT. The Rev. clergyman, of Rochester, charged with seduction, it is said, is innocent. It is almost as bad. as it could be to have the imputation. Falsehood is a race-horse—truth a duck waddling on one leg. The Whaling Ship, Clemates, irived recently at New London with 2,700 barrels of of She was out 11 months, and sailed round the wort r All in all, the voyage is said to be-the greatest yet.. 4 ARRIVAL OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN',TRADERS.--:-Tell barges or " Mackinaw Boats" arrived esterday morn ing from the had ,waters of the Missiuri and Yellow Stone, loaded down with buffalo robs, furs, buffalo tongues, &c. ; 'being the proceeds of the trappers and hunters employed by the American Fur Company at the Rocky Mountains. We should think the Company had made this trip a profitable one, as we 4arn the number of robes alone exceeds 20,000.—5 t. Louif.Penant,July 15. SHOCKING AFFAIR AT COBURG.—DREADFUL DEPRA VITY.--7We proceed to a brief narration 'of this most dis-, gusting and horrible affair, elicited before the Magis trates. On Sunday the 13th of June instant, a colourtgl man named Carter, who keeps a grocery in Cobourg; was married by special licence to a yougfg white wominv a servant woman, which becoming ka,wn, gave great, offence, it seems, to the prejudices and feelings of a portion` of a community, 'ycleyed Anti-abolitionists, who eschew with pious abhorrence the opinion that the freedom and protection of the Itioiia.h , Opstitution are alike the pri vilege of all her Majest?gideir distinction in colour or origin what it may, and abeerdingly a party of thoughtless, and, as it afterwards proved, some of them very wicked young men, assembled together in the still ness and under cover of the night, to mark their indig nation at so flagrant an insult to their Prejudices by two mysteries of a Charivari. Arrived at the house, mad dened with drink, the leaders at once broke open the door, scattered the poor man's . little stock of goods, drove him and his wife naked from their bed into the yard outside ; where, having most shamefully abused, beaten, and robbed him, horrible to relate—they seized the unfortunate woman, threw her to the ground ; and it is sworn to that, regardless of her piteous cries for mercy, four of the infuriate demons, we cannot call them men, gagged and held her fast, fo ur others of the party brutally assaulted and violated her person, and all this in presence of the miserable husband. Humanity shudders to think of such atrocity, and we are lost in shame and wonder at its enactment in any civi lised community. It remains but to say that warrants, upon complaint of the sufferers, have been issued against several individuals, alleged to have been implicated —all of whom, however, save one, we believe, have since ab sconded.— Coburg Star. There was a slight interru , St. Steven's Church, Coleman - street, a fev‘ whilego the Reverend Mr. Pratt was preachin g . Th Sundays a eC lerk who happens to be one of the criers in th e C en t ra l Criminal Court, and has a stentorian voice, imag ined himself, by som e means or other, in th e performance and o hr f his duties a under the nose of " my lord s the judges," creak, call e d out with as much energy ' door in the gallery as he could " silence in the court," to the astonishment of the congregation, who all turned their eyes to the poor fellow, and with great difficulty restrained a unani mous laugh. It is said that the same man, upon a former occasion, when he was - in the Central Criminal Court, imagined himself in St. Steven's, Coleman-street, and when the common-serjeant sentenced a boy to be whipped for pot stealing, instantly, terminated the case by saying "Amen." Every mail from India confirms accounts we for merly published of the decrease of drunkenness among the soldiery, consequent on the adoption of a better scale of rationing, and the relinquishment of spirits as part of the issue. It is generally observed, and we have seen letters from all tha chief stations, that a very large portion of the young soldiers abstain from ardent spirits since they are not issued gratuitously. Among the old men of all the corps, s pirit -drinking continues; yet even in this class excess is less frequent than formerly. T o encourage this distaste for arrack and rum, we know of no better means than to afford the soldier abroad a regular supply of good malt liquor, which we well know can be supplied to the troops in most of our colonies and at the principal stations in India at a rate to enable every soldier to purchase it. The very large increase in the amount of remittances from soldiers in India to their relatives at home, or for their own benefit when discharged, amply proves that, since November, 1840, when the new pay and ration system commenced, a better feeling and more forethought had been intro duced into the several regiments.—Naval and Military Gazette. The difference between love and law is this—in love the attachment precedes the declaration, in law the declaration comes betore the attachment. THE HERRING FISHERY. BERWICK.—Our fishing this week has been. pretty good, although on Saturday morning there were scarcely . any: - On Monday our boats proceeded to Holy Island, where the night before there was a good fishing, a - .ad some boats got shots as high as 27 crans, several, ho.w ever, having not more than two or three crans. Un Tuesday night some boats got nearly 40 trans, but many very few. Wednesday night being coarse weather, the boats were not at sea. This morning (Friday) the boats are returning with very little success. The fish last taken were very much spawned, so that it may be feared they have removed off this part of the coast. We learn that the fish taken were the same shoal that the week before were off Dunstanborough Castle. Our boats Ail' not average above 40 crans yet. HOLY . ISLAND.—This week the fishing has been better than last, the takes ranging from one to 30 crans per boat. On Thursday 12s. per cran was readily ob tained from the Frenchmen, of whom we have between 30 and 40 sail in our harbour. Owing to the wind set ting in from the North, the boats were not able to go to sea on Wednesday evening. NORTH SUNDERLAND.--The fishing here, and at Beadnell, Newton, and Craster, has been very partial since Thursday morning last week, although some boats which fell amongst the fish have had as high as 20 and 30 crans. On Wednesday morning last the fishing was much more general than for some previous days, being from 10 to 30 trans por boat, and every appearance of a good fishing. On Wednesday night there were no boats out in consequence of the stormy state of the weather. There are about 300 boats at the fishing here this sea son, affording a fine sight when they are proceeding to the fishing-ground in the evening. EYEMOUTH.—For the past week the fishery here has been very unsuccessful, until Wednesday, when there was a general take, some boats having as high as 52 crans. Prices from 13s. to 14s. per cran. Owing to the stormy state of the weather, there were no boats off on Wednes day night. There are twelve French vessels here wait ing on green fish. DUNBAR ' AUG. 11.—Yesterday morning the take was greater and more general than it has been for some years. This morning, although there are many splendid shots, the fishing is not so heavy. Last night there were up wards of 300 boats in the bay, and above 200 have de livered here this morning. Eighteen foreign vessels are now curing with us, and the shore is literally crowded with curing stances. Prices from 10s. to I Is. per cran. ANSTRUTHER, AuG. 10.—There has been a good her ring fishing here this morning, and the take has been pretty general. Several of the boats have caught thirty barrels. The price commenced with 18s., but soon de clinedlo p l i. as the t oits came in well laden. 4.€ AirEnuEU4Atta. 3.—The herring fishery here is now fullY` as Prosperous as at any station on the coast. The fishing on. Saturday morning was very successful—the •average Being from twelve to fifteen crans per boat ; W,hile'llib finality q the fish was uncommonly excellent. The , aVerage NO sine the commencement may be stated ti st froni f6rtylike tt, fifty crans. 1, i ',TIIITRS4, AND WESTWARD.—The boats in this district , were hindered from getting to sea, by rough weather, frotil 27th ' ult. 'Until Monday week. The total aveirgc for the season Will , not exceed seventy crans, and the : fishermen do not expect; V that much more will be done in this district this year. Wics, AUG. s.—The derring fishing at this place has been very successful for the last eight days. The gene ral average for the season up to this date will be about fifty crans—exactly double what it was in 1840, but twenty-five crans per zboAt under what it was in 1839. There is about the same quantity of fish caught this year as there was in iO9 - at the same period, there being about 200 boats more on the station this season, which makes the total tinangty-caught 35,000 crans. Price of cured fish may be quoted at 20s. per barrel. Most of the sales yet made have been at 20s. 6d. SHETLAND.—The fishing in Shetland has been as yet a failure. The season has not yet fairly commenced there. ORKNEY.—The fishing at the Orkneys, throughout, is yet very poor. Little or nothing was done before this week. WHAT WILL NOT A MOTHER DO TO SAVE TIER CHILD? —We learn that on Friday last, as a child of Mrs. M‘Gee, of Westminster, aged five years, was at play about the well, it climbed upon the curb, and was precipitated head foremost into the well, which was about twenty feet deep. Mrs. M'Gee, missed the child, and hearing cries from the well, although in very poor health and having a child only five weeks old, descended and rescued the unfortunate sufferer, who was clinging to the stone of the wall and crying for help. Such daring and bold achievements, although of rare occur rence, show what a mother will do to save a suffering 'child.—Cork Southern Reporter. A CAST-IRON LIGHTHOUSE.—Among the wonders of this wonder-working age we may mention a lighthouse of cast-iron (!) which is now nearly completed in London, intended to be placed on a dangerous reef of rocks at Morant Point in the Island of Jamaica. The lighthouse is 100 feet high, and 18i feet in diameter at the base.—Cork Southern Reporter. • . THE EGERTON YEOMANRY. - -___,____ . The following are extracts from a ;(atteF - a I.ddress -- `,l l -- , ordWan - cis Egerton to the 211anch oZr Chios c 1 yk ir tive to the formation of a yeomanr :terair in Lanni a . 43 ' ) . " I find that in some respects those vehci heive - undeal l e. my defence, and who are erroneous ) Aescz,ibeds as hi N 11 4:; done so under instructions from me , ave been II 1 1 '- - in mistaken in matters of fact as my assailants... kla,bott 8 Cl ing these publications I find myself ell*. toi - sviitlryttat ~(1 . 'us offences, some against common sense and disc.retida: ;a -ad others against the law and constitution of th e coup it' y and with intentions of a murderous and blood-.thirsty 475- - scription. " The first and most distinct charge is, that I have, or t my own authoriry, raised an armed force. Are the edit( na a o f papers in large circulation, and the corresponder It whoa: letters they admit, so ignorant as not to kn osv th at I should be immediately prosecuted by the Attc'frneY- General for such a proceeding, and that any armed _force raised without I: uthority from the Sovereign, procu 'rai through her MinisZers, would be instantly suppressed I proclamation? " I am described as having made myself its colon t i. It has no colonel, because, consisting only of thr et , troops, it is not, by the rules of the War-office, entitl ca t to a commandant of higher rank 'than a major, and it is to that command and rank I have succeeded, on . a vacancy, by permission of the Queen, procured as usi &al through the recommendation of the Lord Lieutena at. My son has filled another vacant and subaltern comm is sion, and after all these formidable proceedings, I b e lieve there are still some officers and marry privat es wanting to complete the corps up to the establiahme a t. allowed and provided for by the Government. .It wat 3 under these circumstances that some forty or fifty - -of 7.13 y neighbours and tenants expressed to me a wish toe farm themselves into an additional troop, in the hope of being commanded by ray son. The offer was made w., t: out any any previous knowledge or suggestion on my part " I amalesciibed as having done that which I have n, it done, on communication with Sir Robert Peel. I hal 'a had no communication, direct or indirect, with by xt whatever in the matter. " I have given elsewhere the reason why I have nc , t taken any one of the steps which would have been neces - sary towards raising the additional troop lam accuse , I of having levied. I repeat, however, my confession an, I assurance, that if the application of those who, withou t any suggestion of my own, wished to form one, hat I reached me earlier, I should have had no hesitation ii 1 recommending their appliclition to the existing Govern - ment's consideration. I should have done so on th to grounds, first, that I could strongly depend on the loy-alt y and good conduct of those who madeit ; and next, the it the establishment of the force in Lancashire is far inferi( k e to that of any county I know of similar irnpoatance. I do not believe that the corps, at the am ual exercise it at June, mustered above 150 men, includ.;.irp; officers. E. have served in the Staffordshire Yeomanry a +hen it was.. tered between 700 and 800. In Yorkshirt%, Cheshire, and Warwickahire, I believe this force is ..) n a similar footing. It is certainly possible that the presen t Govern ment, or any other, might not consider thosk - circum stances sufficient to authorise an increase. (hi t lions of public and private individuals may differ as to the^ value and efficiency of this description of force,. and circum stances of time and place may affect the exTecir iency of adding to its numbers. ,My own opinion is, that the force is a valuable one, and ought t i e be ens . ou raged within reasonable limits ; and that, whet, 'ler to be increased or not, resident gentlemen •dta well to undertake the command of existing corps, though the task may, under circum- stances of extreme, and, I trust, rare occurrence, be re sponsible and invidious. No man in his senses could: think it a desirable thing, per se, to command, a detaCii ment of yeomanry in a civil conflict, which I am said to anticipate, lam quite sure, however, that if the gen- • tlemen of England are always to be contemplating said. shrinking beforehand from such disagreeable poa-silaDi-- ties, the interests of the country at large vvill suffer with: their own. I will, however, at once admif, that if thee apprehensions of imminent disturbance which I ant sup posed to entertain had ever entered my head, the raisin, gent my own estate at such a moment a single troop of yeoman ry, is ant a measure I should have taken for my own pfotte ton or that of others,and that I should at least have waited:. for the fullest sanction of the existing Government be fore I for a moment entertained such a proposal taunt others. As it is, the proposal has originated exclusiv i elr in the desire of some friends and neighbours to server under my son, and I pledge myself has had no reference, whatever to any particular circumstances of the time:. On these grounds, I repeat, I should not have hesitated. at a proper period for such application—viz., before the, estimates for the year are made up—to state this roightv• matter in all its bearings to her Majesty's present Alini:-• stry, who, should they have thought fit to*reject thee offer of the parties, would assuredly have done so on., better grounds than the strange and unfounded supposi tions to which that offer has given rise. " I am not desirous to load your columns with a disqui- Isition or eulogy on the yeomanry force, but I am tempts ti 1 to allude to one of its attributes which I consider a. - • ------ ' merit; that, like many other institutions in this country,' it brings together for a common and legitimate purpose men of various polities. I have served mys.elf in the . Staffordshire corps under Lords Ratherton and .biebfieV . The latter, I believe, still commands it, an d pi.omot( s its efficiency to the utmost by his example and infLuenc , That among the officers in general my own pefsmi.• sion in politics may preponderate I think probable, .fiu.; in a county where I occasionally reside, Surrey, Lord: Lovelace commands the yeomanry. I see that the. Queen's escort of Hertfordshire Yeomanry, on her Ma-. jesty's recent visit to Pansanger, was commanded Ly- Lord Cowper. If I mistake not, I have seen addresse:_ moved or seconded in Parliament very lately, under- Whig Administrations, by gentlemen in yeomanry uni forms. At the last annual exercise of the West riding-, , corps,,Mr. Stuart Wortley happened to be mounted oil the horse of a brother officer ; the lender was Lord i 1 ton, his announced antagonist for the expected election. "I believe some of the Blue and Yellow farmers present; could hardly understand it. I do, and value it. " I really hope that my friends of the Whig or Raclic:Z Press, whom I have usually found fair though uncom promising opponents, will reduce their imaginations to a. peace establishment ; condemn the :yeomanry, if they please, or me for joining it, but in common justice acquit. me of the long-sighted, sinister, and blood-thirsty inten tions which I am bold to say are not consistent with my general conduct or reputation. At all events, let theiii acquit Sir Robert Peel, whom I am ready to expurgate upon oath of all. participation in or knowledge of the matter.—l remain, Sir, your obedient servant, ‘.‘ F. EGERTON." DEPLORABLE CONDITION OF ST. NICHO LAS'S PARISH, DEPTFORD.—On Wednesday the Magis trate at the Greenwich Poliee Court was occupiej for a considerable time in hearing cases against no fewer than one hundred and forty persons who had been sum moned for the non-payment of Poor-rates. The parochial officers and their solicitor, Mr. Sandon, were present. The first case that came on was that of a poor widow, who was summoned for not paying . 13s. 6d. Her appearance beipoke the greatest poverty,, and she declared that herself and seven childrenhad nothing to eat on Tuesday but a pennyworth of d b r r a e w a n. d. At the suggestion of Mr. Grove the claim vas ivi The second case was that of an old man w,lio was in arrears to the amount of 11. 4s. He deClared .his utter inability to :pay, adding that if it h a d not been for his landlord lie should have been starved. He further stated .that hinitelf, wife, and children, had nothing but bread for days ' ' together. He was released from the rate. Mr. Burlee, Lseerctary to the Deptford Pier Company, `and one: of the Churchwardens, said that no one could.:•pitY' more than he did the condition of the. persoils (the two cases above related being a sample of the others)whom they had that day summoned. He had gene round the parish, and had witnessed the extreme wretched ness and poverty that existed, a vast number being actually without bread or bed, and although literally starving, they preferred it to going into the Greenwich union, the Guardians of which had proceeded against himself and the other officers, and it had cost him 2501. Bs. 10d. to redeem his goods, which had been siczed by the guardians for the contribution due for the support o the poor of St. Nicholas. The parish under these circumstances, had no alternative but to take the proceedings against the defaulters. The other cases were gone into. Some were excused, and others allowed time. HER MAJESTY'S ARABIAN PONIES.—Great difficult has been experienced in rendering passably tractable the pair of beautiful Arabian ponies which were ' forwarded to her Majesty lest year as a present from the Imaum of Muscat. Indeed, the Queen has never yet ridden behind them, although some of the members of _ the Royal household have in fro er u d e_n ri t v ly es d i ne v n li t l h dse em r inac companying her M a j est y Great Park. They have hitherto been pretty quiet in harness, although in driving them great care and prudence were required to be observed from their well-known vicious propensities. On the afternoon of Friday last, as they were being .driven in one of the Royal phaetons from t h e mews in Sheet-street, Windsor, to the Castle, fer the purpose of Lord Alfred Paget taking an airing, one d them became exceedingly restive, and during a violent kicking fit, he got one of his legs over the pole, and and broke it in two ; and before he could be quiete d. d he got the other hind leg over the splinter-bar, where it was entangled between the spokes of the wheel. His leg, however, was extricated before he bad done himself very serious injury, and he was taken back to the stables. Her Majesty has since commanded that neither of the Arabian ponies are ever again to be driven in harness ; since it is very clear that, notwithstanding the greatpaina which have been bestowed in training them, by her Ma esty's grooms to make them tractable, there are no hopes, now, of ever rendering them quiet in harness. TIT FOR TAT.—A young Englishman, while at Naples, was introduced at an assembly of one of the first ladies by a Neapolitan gentleman. While he was there his snuff-box was stolen from him. The next day, being at another house, he saw a person taking snuff out of his box. He ran to his friend. "There, said he, " that man in blue, with gold embroidery, is taking snuff out of my box, stolen from me yesterday. Do you know him ? Is he not a sharper ?" " Take care," said the other, " that man is of the first quality." " I do not care for his quality," said the Englishman, " I must have my snuff-box again ;rn go and ask him for it." " Pray , ' said his friend, " be quiet, and leave it to me to got.haek your box." Upon this assurance the E n glishman went 'away after inviting his friend to dine with him the next day. He accordingly came, and, as he entered, "There," said he, " I hive brought your snuff-box." " Well, how did you obtain it ?" " Why," said the Neapolitan nobleman, " I did not wish to make a noise about it therefore I picked his pocket of it."—Duten's Memoirs. We have reason to believe there is no truth in the statement that an addition is to be made to our force already on the North American statien. Sir C. Adam is linea-roef-btoattrlee,pianacel the toi ;but these a twe of the same rate s, whi ch will be recalled. othertake the with p h i iz e two frg s a h t i e ps :