The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-21 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ASHDOWN PARK COURSING MEETING. THURSDAY. First Ties for the Craven Puppy Stakes—Crape beast Eleatic ; Frighten-'em beat Liii Scott ; Vesper bet , t r° "en: 2 e; Eisler beat England's Queen. cond Ties—Elsier beat Frighten-'ern; Crape beat ve sper. Second Ties for the Gold Cup—The Winner beat 4-ers.everiince; Feathers beat Brilliant. Yu - at Ties for the Dog Puppy Stakes—Frantic beat Westover; Westend beat Breadalbane. Ring Ties of Bitch Puppy Stakes—Magpie beat Aintre-nous; Blessington beat Wit's end. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Sir IL Sutton's hds., Mon., Carlby ; Tues., Ayston ; Thurs., Colsterworth ; Fri., Seaton Windmill ; Sat., Alarket Overton-11. E arl Fitzwilliam's lids., Men., Sawtry Gorse ; Tues., Barnwell Wold ; Fri., North Wood-10. lids., Mon., Keirwick Toll-bar ; Tues., Thornton Village ; Fri., Girsby ; Sat., Welton ..Wood-11. J ur Majesty's stag-lids., Mon., Thorpe Greene ; Fri., S• toke Common-11. Dray's hds., Mon., Pointington ; Fri., Holnest Kenl. Lord Elcho's hds., Non., ilarchniont ; Tues., Ayton ; Beauley. •clndon hds., Mon., Ham ; Tues., Appiesham ; Thurs., Es sex ; Sat., the Hobnbush— 11. sax Union hd s ., T ue s., Kennel ; Sat., Purleigh Wash. East Essex, Mon., Helion's Bump stead ; Thurs., Marks n Hall . ; Sat., High Wood. ' 4 ° l 'n hds., Mon., Shearsby Inn ; Tues., Steward's Hay; „, hurs., Rolleston Hall ; Fri., Six. Hills-14 4Ylehley hds., Mon., Buttock's Booth ' • Tues., Walcot Village ; Fri., Fox Hall ; Sat. Brack Hall-14 lo adsworth hds., Tues., Doncaster Bar; Thurs., Mickleto n nall ; Sat., .Ackworth Moor Top-104. Air. Poljambe's hds., Mon., Rossington-bridge ' • Tues., North C ar l ton ; Thurs., Blythe Law Hill ; a Grintgley---on-the-Hill. €.O l o Harewood's hds., Mon., Sickling Hall ; Tues., Itramham Moor Cross-roads; Fri., Wighill Village, 104-. •Imdrord hds., Mon., Kennels ; Thurs., Ossington ; tangwith Lodge. fo rd Henry Bentinck's hds., Mon., Langford Lodge ; Tues., Gate Burton ; Thurs., Sadbrook ; Fri., Bran stort Wood ; Sat., I3ardney-11. u ir• Farquh arson ' s hds., Mon., Clifton Wood. V • 1 1., Tues., Milborne Port ; Fri., Bishop's Caundle. t' A ,• Smith's hds., Mon., Clatford Oakcuts ; Tues., Walc o t and Wherwell Wood ; Thurs., Weyhill ; Fri., Everl e i g h ; S at., F accom b e . tt erssood harrs., Tues., 2d milestone, Nottingham Road; Dalestorth. I/• tact harrs., Mon., Sarre Mill ; Wed., Viecent-104. ` 44 t Kent hds., Mon., Sandling Park ; Tues., Storting C9nunon ; Fri., Black Mill-104. 4411 rworth hds., Tues., Sweaton-bridge ; Thurs., Moon Bank ; S a at., Neesham-104. B al P Ws., Tues., Middleton yes; Sat., Wakerfield, 104. " of Cleveland's stag-hds., Tues., Caldwell -12 . P W. ' Wynn's hds., Mon., Bryn - y - pys ; Tues., A 'ias Teg • Thurs., Farndon ; Sat., Iscoyd-14. • therston e hds., Mon., Canwel Gate; Tues., Cricket's , Inn ; Thurs., Nailstone Village ; Fri., Camp Hill; sat, Three ots—m. —r * Candler's hds., Tues., Woodcote Green ; Fri., ii ,Bredon Hill. ` m .; Archer' s lids., Mon., Vroudon ; Thurs., Dolsdown C heshire hds., neshire hds., Mon., Tabley; Tues., Aston Hall; Thurs., Church Minshull; Sat., Devonport llall-104. C rawley and Horsham hds.. Mon., Crawley Gate; Thurs., u Ockl ey C ourt; S at., T urner ' s Hill Vill age -14 ' tcr efordshire hds., Tues., Myne Park; Fri., Chilston „, b. harrs. Mon., Weston Lodge. 44adlove hds., Tues., Bouldon Village ; Fri., Onibury T r. Tar. Morg an ' s hd s ., T ues ., N ew Bridge Hill-10 -- ' 4 copshir e hd s ., T ues ., Migh Hatton ; Thurs., Chipnal A Wood ; S at ., T wem l ows -14 461 brighton lids., Mon., Wassail Top ; Thurs., Onslow ; • Gatacre-104. -*fled P ac k, Thurs Little Stretton-9. V i :heatland hds., Tues., Sidbury; Sat., Homer Hill-10. stgomeryshire hds., Tues., Guilsfield ; Fri., Halfway I nne • , B rriew. b n ghton, harrs., Mon., Patcham ; Fri., Dyke. co okside harrs., Mon., Newmarket Hill ; Thurs., Tels ec'nabe Tye. BSe X and Suffolk hds., Tues., Thorington Hall ; Fri., T iverton Hall. '''verton lids. Mon., Cruwy's Morchard ; Thurs., But wterleigh • gat., Seven Crosses-104. t _. 4l ‘wicksla ' ire hds., Mon., Wellesbourne; Tues., Mitford 7dge; Thurs., Shuckburgh Park; Fri., Print Hill, 104. ,Iderness hds,, Mon., Brandsburton Moor ; Tues., ~,L on desboroug Gate, York-road ; Thurs. Winestead; Welton Grange ; Sat., Rise Mile. Yarborough's hds., Mon., Swinhop House ; Thurs., %sa x • s ir by Mill ; Sat., Swallow Cross-roads-11. th e Windmill, 83'kes's hds., Mon., Settrington Beacon ; Thurs., t b `Le Windmill, Stocton Forest ; Sat., Scampston- IL, rid ge -1 f. Attire's hds , Mon , Euston Park ; Thurs., Depden iten---16. g * • Ingram's hds., Mon., Catton ; Thurs., Foston ; Henhurst-104. Don et harrs., Mon., Sarra Mill, Cavendish -bridge. its v eN l4 Aton hds., Mon., Belton Grange ; Thurs., Ca - Asow n „ 1 , 4 h-bridge Sat., Clifton Village. jkby"gobridge harrs., Tues., Great Ouseburn ; Fri., CZrrs. (RECEIVED THIS DY.) 48 HDOWN PARK COURSING A MEETING.- LAST DAY. Gold Cup (Deciding Course)—Mr. Fowles's Feathers beat Mr. Etwall's The Winner, and won the Cup. The Craven Puppy Stakes—Mr. Gordon's Crape beat 4r. Flesher's Eisler, and won the stakes. The Dog Puppy Stakes were won by Mr. Etwall'a West- end, and the Bitch Puppy Stakes by Mr. Bowles' Blessington. MANCHESTER BETTING —FRIDAY. Very little done. Most of the members being absent attending the great coursing meeting at Lytham, the o nly bet laid was 500 to 7 against Grotesque for the Derby, TAE DISPUTED GREAT BOAT-RACE BETWEEN THE CHAMPIONS OF THE THAMES AND THE TYNE. The referee has pronounced his decision on this great, race. The dispute to which we alluded in our yester day's paper, in vs hich it was alleged that Parish (a e*l!brated London waterman) had held up his hand as Signal to C oom b es to dir e ct his steerage, was then re serrtd to the r e f e ree, who, on Thursday, gave his deci tn.in favour of Coombe's. Clasper, nothing daunted n 8 defe a t, seemed, at the time of our communication . 1 Newcastle, in a fair way of being backed against f'ev!el, o f B att l e -b r id ge s t a i rs (the severe opponenttgainst Coombes last year for the London championship) , w tl t Whether a match would be made appeared doubtful. e are informed that the Newcastle gentlemen behaved e rY well to the London watermen. MURDEROUS ATTACK BY POACHERS. FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) FIVE GAMEKEERS SHOT AT. W ORCESTER, }IIIDA.Y EVENING. —A most desperate a ttack w as ma de this morning, between twelve and one °c lock, by a body of armed poachers, to the number of 4t least twenty, upon five night-watchers upon the pre serves of the Earl of Coventry, at Croome, about seven tulles from this city, by which it is feared human life will be sacrificed. It seems that the keepers were watch ing a portion of the preserves near to Mr. Woodward's, of Pirton Farm, in the parish of Croome, when they w ere suddenly surrounded by a gang of some twenty Poachers, armed with guns and sticks, and having with th em a number of snares for taking game. The fellows " once attacked the keepers, who, seeing there was no chanc e of successfully encountering so numerous and desperate a body of assailants, fled, and were imme diately fired upon by the gang, who wounded °" or two of them, though not seriously, th e shots striking them in the face, an d k nockin g off their hats which were perforated with the shot. O ne poor fellow, however, did not suoceed in e scaping without receiving such injuries as, it i thought, will brin g him to an untimely grave. Not being able to s nake his escape with his fellow-watchers, the gang set tl Pou him and beat him about the head in a most in human and barbarous manner, leaving him senseless on t he ground. The poachers were heard firing their guns let the preserves sonic time afterwards. The poor fellow last mentioned was this morning b rought in a cart to the Worcester Infirmary, where the Promptest attention was paid to his wounds. It was found that, in addition to numerous bruises on the head and upper Portion of his body, his skull was extensively fractured Presenting literally a mass of horrid gore. The operation of trepanning was skilfully performed this afternoon by the surgeons in attendance, but the unfortunate patient remains this evening in an insensible and hopeless state. Some of the gang are known to the police, and it is h oped that in a few days they will be captured. They belon g to a large body of poachers which has long in fested this part of the country, and are indeed becoming a terror to the neighbourhood. A party of the same gang d the keeper's house at Croome Perry Wood ,a short time ago, and called upon him to get up and find t hem some game, for " they'd be d-- d if they could find any." They have also made similar visitations in Other places, and have sent threatening letters to two or three game preservers. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In your paper of the 18th, in your leading !trtiele, you allude to the Great Britain steam-ship us being propelled by the Archimedean screw. That vessel is not propelled by the Archimedean. or , crew, but by a propeller, consisting of four curved blades, or sections of a screw. I am desirous of correcting the statement, as the pro peller she has on is the patent of Mr. James Lowe, which was established on Monday last in the Court of Queen's Bench, on th e t r i a l o f M r . Penn, of Greenwich, for as infringement of his patent. Your insertion of this communication in your next itniirtssion would much 0 1, 14 N, Sir, tour most obedirtit servant, T. EYRE WYCHE, Solicitor to the plaintiff. 13) George-street, Mansion-house, Dec. 20. COURT OF SEWERS. A Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Westminster, and part of Middlesex, was yesterday held in the Court-house, Soho-square. The chair was taken at twelve o'clock by Thomas Leverton Donaldson, Esq. On the minutes of last Court-day being read, Mr. LESLIE objected that they were incorrect, in asmuch as a statement inculpating him, and which was read by the Chairman to the Court, thereby making it a public document, had been omitted. A motion was founded on it and carried ; and when, as the person charged, he requested the chief officer of the Court, Mr. Hertzlett, for a copy of the document in question, the answer returned was that the Chair man had it in his possession. He (Mr. Leslie) took his stand upon the ground, therefore, that the record was not a correct one. The CHAlRMAN—Certainly correct, as far as it goes. It, may not be full enough, perhaps, but assuredly correct. Mr. LESLIE did not think it correct. Surely when an officer of the Court, a person paid by him (Mr. Leslie) as a Commissioner, in common with other Commis sioners, chose to write a long letter, inculpating him, and when that statement was read by the Chairman, he (Mr. Leslie) was confident that every Hon. Member of that Court would grant that the person charged had a full right to a copy of the document. He had wished that document • entered upon the minutes, but the Chairman, by taking it into his own possession, had interfered in the chief clerk's duties, and rendered nugatory the proceedings of the Court. Now he would ask if the Chairman would enter the matter, by giving up the statement referred to? The CHAIRMAN—I will not, unless by request of tke Court. Mr. LESLIE—It is a question for yourself alone. You have extracted a public document. The CHAIRMAX—I have not; for it never was put in. Mr. FULLER—I cannot understand, in that case, what constitutes a public document. Mr. Mnuans—What iz the object of reading the minutes, excepting for the purpose of confirming the accuracy of the Court's proceedings ? And how can those minutes be accurate, if the statement on which the resolution is founded is left out ? Mr. LESLIE said he would conclude with a motion, " That the minutes now read are not a true record of the proceedings of last Court, inasmuch as letters from Mr. Hawkins, the assistant-surveyor, dated the 19th of November, was read by the Chairman, and a motion founded and carried upon the subject-matter; that the minutes be altered by the insertion of such letter, or by placing it among the public documents of the Court, and a reference to that fact made in the minutes." Mr. MuLLnirs seconded, And the motion was put from the Chair, but lost by a majority of two, six Commissioners haying voted against, and four for it. The salary of the chief clerk — wasjon the motion of Mr. WHITE, increased from 4001. to 500/, per annum, the Commissioners each expressing their admiration of the business-talents and general courtesy exhibited by Mr. Hertzlett in the arduous duties of his office. Mr. LESLIE then brought forward his motion " To print and circulate to every Commissioner the details of the contractors' charges, as allowed by the surveyors and Court, during the respective contracts, commencing at Michaelmas, 1841, in such a form as to show clearly and intelligibly the expense of every particular work done." The Hon. Commissioner said he had examined the statements, and gone through many of the contractors' accounts, and had found what he believed to be great errors therein, but without a printed form it would be impossible to convey in an intelligible manner the proof of those errors to the Court. The ordinary course of business, they were aware, was to have a standing contract for all works. Now, these works were, as he thought, so improperly taken by me asure and value, that it was next to im possible to arrive at the cost price of any single work. The items were spread over a series of quarters, sometimes, indeed, all contained in one, but frequently extending to two or three. Now, as the remedy for disease depended upon a thorough knowledge of its causes, so it behoved them to look well into these accounts—to have a thorough knowledge of them before parting with large sums of that money which was entrusted to their care. These works were ordered at a given estimate, but when they were completed it was gene rally found that the actual cost greatly exceeded the sum which the Court had before ordered ; and if they would refresh their memories by a retrospection, they would find that, in some instances, they had in this way paid 100 per cent. more than they ought to have done. In the neigh bouring Commission, if one wanted the cast of any particular work, a book was produced in which the information desired was exhibited in a few lines; but in that office they had to run over a vast number of bills, and trace the work in different stages at various periods of time. He maintained that contractors had been in the habit of charging more than they were entitled to do ; and he was of opinion that Mr. Ben net and Mr. Bird ought to refund large sums of money to that Court. He would instance mainholes, which were almost invariably over the sewer. Yet they were charged for digging, aye, and for carting away the rubbish. Concrete was put in at four shillings and sixpence the cube yard, yet in many , one shilling and sixpence was charged extra for cart ing away superfluous rubbish, although that, he con tended, was included in the two shillings charged for digging. But all this could not be properly exhi bited unless they had the bills printed, as he desired they should be. One further instance, however, he would add, namely, the work in Bow-street, where the estimate voted by the Court was 1,4001., but where the actual cost exceeded 2,0601. He would ask them, should they devolve the duties which the Crown had entrusted them with, to other parties who were not responsible ? Surely not. They ought, then, as he had before that day suggested, have their plans and sections properly drawn out, and then they would get parties to tender willingly for the work. He hoped they would allow him for once to carry his resolution, convinced as he was that it would lead to a considerable saving of the public money. A discussion ensued, and it was finally determined that several works, estimated at 2001. and upwards, should be extracted and laid before the Commissioners in a form prescribed by the mover of the resolution. The other business was then disposed of, and the Court adjourned. MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. On Wednesday evening, Mr. Clarkson discussed the project of connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, by means of a canal or railroad across the Isthmus of Suez. The time chosen for the lecture was most opportune, as the above subject occupies a prominent place not on'.y in the English, but the con tinental papers, and has called forth many able pamphlets. Not that there is any novelty in the idea, but it seems at the present moment to be taken up with more earnestness than on any previous oc casion. The canal that was used in bygone times (and of which considerable traces remain) to connect the Red Sea with the River Nile, sug gested to Bonaparte nearly half a century ago the practicability of a navigable canal being constructed from north to south, a distance of about 70 miles ; and he accordingly ordered the engineers who ac companied his expedition to Egypt, to survey the ground, and to furnish plans, &c. Copies of these plans and a vertical section were exhibited by the lecturer, together with a large and distinct map of the localities under discussion, which rendered the different bearings of the subject intelligible. Mr. Clarkson gave a history of the navigation of these parts, from classical authors, and pointed out, very distinctly, the principal geographical and topographical details connected with them. The advantages that would accrue to Europe in general, and to England in particular, by effecting a communication between the two seas, are obvious enough ; and, therefore, i was the lecturer's object to put his auditory in pos session of the information absolutely necessary to enable them properly to appreciate the merits of the contending plans now under discussion. For having done this in a most lucid and efficient manner, he de serves the thanks of every friend of the Institute.— Cambridge Independent Press. MELANCHOLY DZATII FROM TAKING LAUDANUM. —An inquest was held in Whitehaven, on Monday, the 17th inst., before Win. Lumb, jun., Esq., on view of the body of Jane Temple, who came to her death in the following melancholy manner:—lt appears that the un fortunate sufferer was ill on Friday last, and her mother sent a boy of about eight or ten years of age, to Messrs. Randleson and Foster's shop with a teacup, for sonic tincture of rhubarb, which the boy obtained, but, on returning home, spilled it, in consequence of which a girl, a year or two older than the boy, was sent upon the same errand. The girl stated distinctly that she asked for the tincture of rhubarb, which she obtained, as she supposed, and returned home with the cull. The mother administered a dose of te supposed tincture, an d she fell asleep. When she c h oke the dose was re peated, but as it did not produce the desired effect, Mr. Clark, surgeon, was sent for, and on examining the cup, he at once discovered that, instead of tincture of rhubarb, the unconscious mother had ad ministered two doses of laudanum to her suffering daughter. Mr. Clark applied the usual remedies. His efforts to preserve lifa were unavailing, and she died soon after. The jury, after a careful investi gation of the ease, returned a verdict of " Accidental death, caused by laudanum having been administered by mistake for tincture of rhubarb." At the request of the jury, the Coroner severely reprimanded Messrs. Randleson and Foster's shop-boy for the careless manner in which he had sent the poisonous narcotic from uurd er ' H shop. (lad the usual and neces!.ary pre can tiou been taken of labelling the cup containing the drug with the word "poison," the melancholy cirounastanoe would, in all probability, have been prevented. Week Last RI r; ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. z , '' ~: ~. o U 4.. Doc. 14 Arbroath and Forfar •..• • • . ..... •• • 114 145 13 Birmingham and Gloucester • •• • • 2,067 1,594 - Brandling Junction ..••••••• • • • • • • • • - 789 14 Bristol and Gloucester .. •••••• • • • • • • 980 - 13 Chester and Birkenhead .•• • • ...... • • 432 314 12 Dublin and Drogheda• 636 581 17 Dublin and Kingstown ........ ••• • • • 467 601 15 Dundee and Arbroath ..... • • 14 Durham and Sunderland .•• • • • ..... • • 309 604 14 Edinburgh and Glasgow . • ..... ••• • • • 1,835 1,734 15 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 4,020 3,239 14 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr •.• • • • 1,365 1,091 14 Glasgow and Greenock•• 14 Grand Junction 14 Great North of England .. •.••• • • • •! 1,526 1,321 14 Great Western . ....... ..... ...... • • 14,845 12,940 13 Liverpool and Manchester • • 4,490 3,505 14 London and Birmingham . 15 London and Itinckwall. 606 610 14 London and Brighton 17 Londoa and Croyd0n... 19 London and Greenwich .•• • • .... 386 692 16 London and South Western ......• • • 4,579 4,840 15 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ••• • • • 603 696 13 Manchester and Birmingham • • .... • • 2,814 2,552 14 Manchester, Leeds, and. Hull Assoc• • 5,672 5,179 14 Midland Counties 14 Newcastle and Darlington ...... •• • • 1,002 - 14 Newcastle and Carlisle 15 Newcastle and North Shi elds.. ••• • •• 314 30 13 North Union a n d B olton and Pruden 1,317 841 16 Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans ...... .• • • 4,325 3,852 16 Paris and Rouen ........... •••• • • • • 4,162 3,005 14 Preston and Wyt - e.................. 303 229 14 Sheffield and Manchester ...... 579 470 19 South Eastern ...... 14 Taff ............. ••••. • • • • 4,145 2, 5 8 ..14 06 809 15 Ulster . .. .., .......... 15 Yarmouth and Norwich ...... •••• .. I 611 691 251 - 14 York and North Midl and . ... • --- STATISTICS OF DRUNKENNESS.—A very curious document has been lately drawn up on the origin, causes, results, metaphysics, philosophy, and physiology of drunkenness. One of the most curious chapters is that which contains a table of the various circumstances to which inebriety may be attributed. The report divides intoxication into several heads, including the muzzy, which is a sort of minor branch. Among the muzzy, six cases out of ten may be traced to spasms, and that one nineteenth arises from birth-days ; that among confidential clerks inebriety is rare, but when it occurs, pickled salmon, or the arrival of a friend from the country, are found to be the most usual causes of the malady. Drunkenness has also been known to srizse in some instances from taking up a bill ; but as the latter is an operation which persons given to intoxica tion seldom perform, the number of cases to be attri buted to this source is very insignificant. A wi!'e's birth-day has often been known to lead to a total pros tration of the husband ; but it is a remarkable fact, that the day is frequently mistaken in these instances, and such is the power of imagination, that a man has been known to drop down into the gutter eight or nine times in a year, through having fancied that the birth-day of his wife occurred repeatedly in the course of a twelve racnith.—Punch. LETTERS ON THE CORN-LAWS, No. XII, (from the Teague.) , ,•- --- LETTER FROM SOME, OF ti-is WOMEN' OF ENKILAND TO THE NORWICH WEAVER ItOY. LONDON, Dec. 2. It may be generally supposed that the. women of England who contribute to ,the AntiTrn-law League Bazaar, or. at leest thOse who raise their voices in ad reire.tloii of the principles and proceedings of that, League, are the only ones who approve of free trade, or disapprove of umecessary and undue legislative Inter ference with the affairs of the natien. Such a supposi tion would, however, he erroneous. There are English- Wothen, an-1 to their number we belong, who deprecate this interference, who are most anxious to see free trade toed direct taxation introduced, who sees the whole bearing of these matters upon the sufferings which they commis aerate, but who still are prevented by every feeling of duty and humanity from upholding the principles of the League, the evident tendency of which is to let doctrines of political economy supersede those laws which God first wrote Upoh the heart of m an, and after wards revealed itt language which admits of but one in terpretation. These laws teach us to love our fellow creatures as ourselves, and most forcibly enjoia charity; but that word has in the gospel a far more ettencled meaning than that In which it is usually employed ; and te do not there see it used as giving some classes of our fellow -creatures an exclusive right to our love, while, at the same time, we are allowed, not only ourselves to hate and revile ether claeees, but even to teach the pear end ignorant to do so likewise. The repel is a doctrine of love—of love so comprehensive that even the sinner is embraced in it, though sin is ab horred and reviled ; and we are taught in humility not to judge others, that we may not ourselves be judged. It teaches nowhere to denounce, though throughout it teaches us hew to reform. It tells us who is blessed; it it than who has added who is cursed. The members of the Anti-Corn-law League may be the propounders of sound doctrines of political economy: but we do not see that they are on that account to ar rogate to themselves all the virtue in the community, and to denounce every opponent, not only as ignorant. upon the Subject (so far they would be justified), but as an object deser v i ng the hatred and execration of man kind. What will be the benefit to society, if, to ensure triumph in the struggle for free trade, hatred between class and class is to be not only nourished, but incul lated ? What will be the advantage of bread in every mouth, if there is to be hatred and jealousy in every heart ? Is it with feelings such as these that justice is to be worked out, or when obtained by dome is to be ex tended to other, ? little lV wr i ting s ,are thaw conscious at a t r ho e ofy tthathine ind i gnant l y ie he mem b ers gondaenn t c l tendency of o repel t hoef their r t v h eo e rwyi aLeaguespeeches euesoaht a ir r os e n o s o o rf the kind here brought against them ; yet to every un biassed observer such is their tendency. The answer which these gentlemen make to the materialism of their doctrine is, that it is not their mission to preach the gospel. We admit that it may not be their mission to preach it, but it is their duty to follow its precepts; and only when free trade is advocated in terms which are not at variance with the laws of God enjoining peace and goodwill amorg men, can the advocates be joined by those who do not allow that any human necessity can supersede the necessity of obedience to those laws. We know that religion is in our day looked upon as a Sunday business only—a thing having nothing to do with the business of the week days; and as such, perhaps, it is excluded from the week-day labours of the Anti-Corn law League. As men passing judgment upon public measures, and advocating a new system of administra tion, the members cannot, however, pretend to be exempt from the consideration of all other state matters but those the study of which they have made their peculiar avoca tion. They ought to know that every citizen, though bound to do his best to correct errors of government, is likewise bound to do it in a manner that shall not subvert public order. Now, though we heartily wish to see the corn-laws abolished, we cannot agree with those who think that this cannot be done without pulling down the aristocracy of the land, thereby virtually subverting the constitution of the realm ; nor do we see the intimate connexion between the aristocracy exclusively and the corn-laws. The aristocracy of Great Britain is not an exc:usive class, for centuries separated from the body of the nation by an insurmountable barrier of onerous pri vileges ; it is, on the contrary, continually being re cruited from the middle classes, which in their turn re ceive numbers from the classes below ; and it is in fact only in the precedency of rank that the main distinction between the aristocracy and the wealthy members of the other classes of the community consists. The corn-laws are connected with the prejudices of the landed pro prietors ; but surely these are not exclusively members of the aristocracy ; and, even were it so, the advocates of free trade have nothing to do with them in that capacity ; they have merely to combat their erroneous opinions as to administration. Administrative mea sures can never be meant to be more than temporary, and ought to be repealed as soon as they are discovered to be pernicious. Not so constitutional laws : these are part of she life of the nation ; and none but the nation, in its entireness, can lawfully make any change in them. We do not see that there is in England any call or any disposition for such a change ; and it is therefore with profound grief that we see the Anti-Cora-law League, while following out its legitimate ends, sowing the seeds of unholy things. Besides, we think that the Anti-Corn-law League, if working honestly for the abo lition of the corn-laws, and for nothing else, is rather defeating its own object by attacking with such virulence the class with whom the power of abolishing them, in so great a measure, rests. If the League, however, prefers carrying its point by brute force, and is only trying to get up a masked democratical movement, then, to be sure, the means used may be efficient, though they, as well as the end, are criminal. And then it will remain to be ex perienced whether in England, as in France at no very distant period, the poor, after having been deluded by the middle classes into the belief that, by destroying what was obnoxious to the latter, they would be work ing for their own happi nes s, when discovering the decep tion,* will not tarn upon their former flatterers, and exercise upon them th e p r i nc ipl e s of hatred and revenge instilled by them. SOME OF THE WOMEN OF. ENGLAND. REPLY TO "SOME OF THE WO ENGLAND." Ladies,—The perusal of your reply to the writer of these letters w ill, i n one res pect, afford high gratifi cation to the advocates of the Anti-Corn-law League. You apprise us that the desire, in your sex, to see the labourers' bread untaxed, and the ports open for the admission of that food of which multitudes are in want, must not be measured by the number of those who contribute towards the proposed Bazaar, or who (at our meetings, I presume) " raise their voices in admiration of the principles and proceedings of that League." Beyond this body there is, you tell us, a wider atmosphere of female sympathy in free trade principles. You vouch for the fact as yourselves be longing to the number w h o occupy that position. The soundness of your reasons for standing thus aloof I shall discuss presently. It is just first to observe that those who do not stand aloof are so numerous ; they shed such a halo of grace and beauty around our cause ; they blend so becomingly the unobtrusiveness of wo men's nature with her keen and courageous moral sense; their very presence has so purified the movement from the common coa rseness of party strife in politics ; the wealthier of them have given so liberally to our funds, and the poorer have so cheerfully imposed exertion and privation on themselves to become con tributors; their suggestions as to the Bazaar plan, first in 'Manchester, and now in London, have been so ju rdicious, and their co-operation so efficient; and, bring ing into our agitation whatever of peculiar truthful ness, delicacy, compas ion, and piety, constitutes their distinctive character, they have so imprinted on it the mark of a holy and Christian work, that it is gratify ing to learn there are more of their sex who will re joice in their triumph, although they do not aid in the needful means for its attainment. It is something to have the good they do appreciated; especially by those who leave the previous exertion unparticipated. You approve th e pr i nc i p l es of free trade, and y e t withhold your countenance from the League. You will not contribute even to the Bazaar, which is, at any rate, free from the offence given you by other proceedings. Allow me, then, to ask what else you will do, to promote your own principles and satisfy your own consciences ? You behold the production, by monopoly, of " sufferings" which you " commise rate." What is your process for their alleviation ? Are you content to stand by as inertly as if you were utterly indifferent to the wretchedness of which you know the source and the remedy ? Is it a sufficient excuse for doing nothing, that those who are doing something speak sometimes erringly ? If the very devils confess Christ, is that a reason for practically denying Christ? Are you willing to remember the injured poor in your prayers, but to remember them nowhere else ? What is your intelligence worth, or your sympathy, if it shun the company of the like - minded, and adopt for itself no other course of action ? Christian women, you cannot be at peace with your selves, if you prolong this moral incongruity. You accuse the League of letting the doctrines of political economy supersede the laws of God. And whose laws are the doctrines of political economy ? 'What are those doctrines but the exposition of provi dential facts ? They teach mutual dependence, mutual service, and common interests, in all the tribes and nations of mankind. They exhibit that wisdom which in varied climates and remotest regions has stored up the materials of useful ex change and friendly intercourse. They identify the objects of individual pursuit with the means of universal enjoyment. They abate the pride of wealth, and render industry honourable. They show how to replenish the world and subdue it, by making the wilderness a garden, and not the garden a wilder ness. They interpose the strongest obstacles to the ravages of warfare ; and, as with the voice of angels, raise the season-song of " Peace on earth and good will among men." Were there no revelation, political economy would suggest a religion. Were there no Christianity, political economy would shadow forth some faint outline of its divine benignity. * We use the term deception, because we cannot but see that, although much benefit would accrue to the country from the introduction of free trade, the blissful state of utopian felicity which is held out as a lure to the poorer classes would be far from attained. Suffering will be the lot of mankind until the laws of Christ reign in all hearts ; and woe unto the land if one of these laws is to be set aside, were it even t') facilitate the introduc tion of a more perfect human code than has ever yet been known. You say that you can only join the free trade tause ; as sustained by the League; when it is " ad vottted in. tt4ibs. which pre !int at variance with thj ikt la of Lind enjoining puce and good-will to Mei. ° If your requirement only related to the principles on which the League is founded ; and the olliects at which it aims, no'hing ettild be more tensonablt. In that case, I venture to affirm that your immediate ei-operation may be challenged. But t if your re quirement extend to all the speeches and writings of individuals, then nothing can be more unreasonable. You are requiring perfection of humanity; and making the absence of perfection the excuse for not helping the effort for improvement. No large asso ciated body can stand such a test, whatever be its objects, or whoever its supporters. There is no mis sion to the heathen or charity to the poor, no work of truth or mercy, in the language of whose sup porters yott may not find some taint or flaw, and go justify yourselves for passing by on. the other side. You thus exonerate yourselves from all useful service. You claim permanent leave of absence from the warfare of good against evil. You plead a letter of license from the labours of benevolence. And, Strangest of all, the very terms of your fancied ex• emption are taken from the precepts by which it is most emphatically condemned; the commands for practically evincing that universal love which would leave no grief unsolaced, no wrong unredressed, no want unrelieved. Might not some of your charity be well bestowed on those whom you deem too fervent in a righteous cause ? You allow them to " denounce every oppo nent as ignorant." There has been little of rebuke employed which such leave does not cover. Is igno rance a virtue in a legislator? Is it excusable, when he is surrounded by the means of knowledge ? Does it not become a fearful sin, when the interests and lives of millions are dependent on his using his powers wisely ? Should he be coaxed by soft words into contentment with his pernicious blunders ? Is ch.i rity so enamoured of Barnabas, that it must needs unchristianise Boanerges ? Have not both their work in the world ? And would Felix ever have trembled before Paul had the apostle only told the tyrant how much he loved him ? .Can we, in Chris tian sincerity, and consistently with moral integrity, call bad things by good names ? Is there no dif ference between the righteous and the wicked—the friends of the poor and their oppressors—those who would secure to labour the full amount of its earn ings, and those who make laws to lessen that amount and fill their own pockets ? Love the sinner as much as you will, but do not hide from him that he is a sinner. You can do him no greater mischief. It is worse than being " angry with the wicked every day.' Is not your charity offended on the other side ? Do you observe no falsehood, no calumny, no vitupe- ration, on the part of monopoly ? Is the bad cause purer in its proceedings than the good cause ? If not, your disapproval, extending in that case both to means and ends, must needs be much stronger than your disapproval of the League. And yet your con duct tends to support, in preference, what you most disapprove. For when the question is of repealing an existing law, the motive, as derived from public opinion, is exclusively formed by those who speak out against the law. The quiescent are acquiescent. Their silence tells for support. Their inaction is a sanction. Not showing themselves for change, they are reckoned as being against change. This is your inevitable predicament. You become responsible for the prolonged mischiefs, abhorrent to your principles and feelings, against which you do not protest. The muster-roll of monopoly includes all who do not erase their names by some act of adhesion to the opposite principle. Can you rest till you have done this ? When one looks at the titled and wealthy sub scribers to the League, the notion of a " masked de mocratical movement" for " pulling down the aris tocracy " is almost too absurd for notice. Doubtless, many members of the League have their democratical partialities; as you, ladies, have your aristocratical partialities. No political creed is imposed by the League ; nor by the opponents of the League either, who have from the first been not very scrupulously anxious to enlist the extreme democratical party in their cause. It is not by the League that any subsi dised alliance has ever existed with the Feargus O'Connor Chartists, the physical-force democrats. And if there be anything democratical in the present plan for extending and purifying the county consti tuencies, it is only that sort and degree of democracy which our Governmental system has sanctioned and presupposed for centuries. The power to be thus called into action has been, however dormant, the people's privilege from the days of the despotic Tudors. The mission of the League is merely to make this part of the Constitution a reality. It brings a "great fact" out of a dormant but conse crated principle. There is some truth in your distinction, though it is rather fine, between the aristocracy and the land owners.: Practically, the two classes are identical. But it is not as an aristocracy that the majority of our legislators tax the people's food ; they only do it as traders in land and the products of land. You may also be correct in thinking that the results of corn-law repeal have been sometimes, and by some advocates, overrated and utopianised. It would be very strange were it otherwise. Results so natural of this species of struggle for an immense good, ob stinately withheld, may be much more easily and rationally accounted for than by your hypo thesis of the middle classes deluding the poor; an hypothesis which serves to show how the extreme of charity towards the selfish wrongers of others may slide into the extreme of uncharitableness towards the injured party. I have thus endeavoured to avail myself of what appeared to be your invitation to discuss certain reli gious objections to active co-operation with the League. Their religious character entitles them to a respect which could not else have been felt for difficulties that tend to render all extended co-operation for redress of grievances impracticable, and so to prolong the mi series which man inflicts on man by the abuse of power and authority. The inertness of a portion of the religious public on this question is a phe nomenon which you deserve thanks for helping to explain. Explanation cannot justify it. Even by passiveness and silence to encourage those who grind the faces of the poor, and abridge their pittance of daily bread, is a virtual renuncia tion of the gospel. To leave the industrious undor injury, and the helpless unaided, when protest and exertion may serve them, is not doing as we would be done unto. There is no love in the allowance of wrong, even to the wrong-doer. ISre should bear and forbear with the mistakes of those who are striving to obtain redress, as well as with the mis takes of those who refuse redress. The corn-laws are a demonstrated source of vice, wretchedness, crime, disease, and death. The path of Christian duty is most plain. The League aftbrds oppor tunity for the discharge of that duty. It thereby enhances the obligation, and devolves upon all a deeper responsibility. Deepest of all should that responsibility press on those who make a religious profession. Neglected opportunities of good are the sternest of accusing spirits. Nor will they be silenced by carping at those who improve such oppor tunities earnestly, if not always (in your opinion) unexceptionably; and who have, by their zeal, been pioneers to clear the highway, through a wilderness of ignorance, error, and indifference, in which Chris tian principle, moral duty, and human feeling, enjoin you to unite and advance. There is yet time to " enter into their labours," and accelerate their pro gress to the great result. To woman, as well as man, applies the admonition emphatically uttered by the Rev. J. Burnett, at a Covent-garden meeting of the League—" Let every one solemnly charge his (or her) own conscience with the high duty and sacred obligation of carrying out this work to its full and final completion." A NORWICH WEAVER BOY. OF DART- COURT CiRCULAR. WINDAOIt, pkipAy.—The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk in the plea sure-grounds of the Home Park. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback, attended by Major-G-eneral Sir Rd*ard Bo water. Their Royal Highttet , teA the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred were taken airings this morning. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty at the Castle this morning. The Earl of Liverpool, Lord Steward of the House. hold, left the Castle to-day for town. The Countess of Gainsborough was prevented coming to the Castle yesterday. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, the Countess of Wratislaw, Sir George Cowper, Major-General Wemyss, and Lieut.-Colonel Colvile, Scots fusilier Guards. Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner in the Castle, and performed in the evening. The Queen has honoured Mr. Thorburn with sittings during the week for her portrait. Lord de Mutiny had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Lords Committee of the Pricy Council for the affairs of Guernsey an dJersey sat yesterday in the Council-chamber. There were present the Lord Chancellor, the Secretary of State for the Horne Department, Mr. Baron Parke, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, resumed and con cluded his reply on the subject of the two petitions from the Royal Court of Guernsey, touching the con duct of the Lieutenant-Governor of the island. The case being conchided, their Lordships rose. MR.WILSON'S ENTERTAINMENTS Concerts, we have always thought, labour under a disadvantage from which most tither kinds of enter tainments are exempt—namely, the continual inter ruption of tilt interest of the audience by the cessa tion of the performances, and the appearing and dis appearing of the performer, with all the noise, chat. tering, and moving about, which invariably follow. In ordinary concerts of Vocal music, this defect is irremediable. The performer cannot sing right on, song after song, till the performances are done ; litst, because he is not equal to the exertin ; secondly, the attention of the audience would be thereby kept too much on the stretch ; and, thirdly,• the agreeable succession of the humorous and the sentimental, which so greatly enlivens a concert, would cease to harmonise. And as nothing could me more absurd than the performer, in the interval between his songs, standing twirling his thumbs and looking at the audience, and the audience twirling their thumbs and looking at him—off he must go Mr. Wilson was among the first to devise a remedy for this—certainly the first who did so systematically —by giving, as it were, popular musical lectures with vocal illustrations. By a well-chosen series of amusing anecdotes and critical remarks, with which he introduces each song, he at once keeps up the interest of his :audience from first to last, and adds novelty and variety to the other attractions of a con cert. Never was popularity better merited than that which Mr. Wilson has thus attained. As was to be expected, he has had may followers ; but, we are happy to say, he has had no rival. Too often have we seen the person who had the talent to strike out for himself a new path to wealth and distinction, outstripped by some more fortunate but less deserving competitor; and we repeat, that we are happy that, in the present instance, Mr. Wilson's talents have bid defiance to competition, and have secured the fruits to him that planted. Ably and pleasingly does Mr. Wilson go through his performance; anecdotes well chosen and well-told—delightful songs as delightfully sung : indeed, with him, the gems and their setting are alike admirable. There is no vocalist whose manner . we think equal to Mr. Wilson's. It is varied and full of animation, and alike in the humorous and the pathetic, never fails to carry the audience along with him ; indeed,in the dry and somewhat caustic humour peculiar to the Scotch, and with which many of our songs abound, Mr.Wil s9n is unrivalled. Yet his manner is never forward—he never o'ersteps the modesty of nature ; everything is chaste and polished, yet nothing is missed ; it is nature in its most pleasing delineation. In his style of singing, Mr. Wilson is simple, tasteful, and very effective, without seeming to aim at being so ; and the more critically his style in singing any piece is examined, the more fully will his discrimination be conceded. His style, too, is quite free of what is commonly called " stage effect," but which may be often more fitly denominated clap-trap ; and he never indulges in a flourish at the end of a song, as many a one does, merely to announce to the audience that he is now ready to be ruffed! From the first note of the song to the last, all is in good taste ; and as he faith fully and beautifully expresses the transitions of feeling—the lights and shadows of the piece—his singing never wearies by sameness ; yet so de licately is this sometimes done, that we rather , feel the transition, than appreciate it by ear—the music seems still the same, yet ever changing. His voice is rich, and singularly sweet and pleasing, and seems not even yet to have reached its full development— some new perfection (if we may use the term) be coming every year perceptible ; and so smooth and steady is it, that during his late concerts we failed to detect a single roughness. Mr. Wilson has lately been giving concerts in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the reception he has met with in both cities has been most flattering. On Friday and Saturday last week, he gave two concerts in Edinburgh—an evening one in the Music-hall, and a morning one in the Hopetoun-rooms. On the latter occasion he gave a selection of German songs, which were quite new to us. They have very rarely been performed in this country, and then only at some of the classical concerts in London. The " Journey," by Mendelssohn, is a magnifi cent composition ; but the piece we liked best was " Fair Annie"—a perfect gem —as sweet a little song as we ever listened t o — resem bli ng much, as Mr. i t t sweet ev, e wa have and simplethought , o u hon l ytlays sspoamco some f o N ) V f ur i those e . lsoown nt) land,b o s f e r the%observed, ld Emerald asomelso onfo I tt s h al left to mention the "Curse of Dunve " gan —a singular and striking piece of music, which Mr. Wilson has lately added to his list of Scottish songs. He first sang it in the Music-hall, and had to repeat it , desire, in the Hopetoun-rooms.—Scottis h Dramatic Mirror. Mr. Wilson is at present giving his entertainments in the Athenaeum, in Manchester, with great success; and, after visiting Liverpool and the principal towns in Lancashire, he will resume his evenings at the Music-hall, Store-street, in the course of a few weeks. " Happy Land" is the constant accompanyist of Mr. Wilson. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.-1110 following are the Total Receipts of ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year : REPRESENTATION MOUTH. DARTMOUTII, FRIDAY.—Both Mr. Somes and Mr. Moffatt have returned here to complete thir canvass. As the day of election approaches, both the candidates ap pear confident of success, and each gives out that the re sult of his canvass leaves his return beyond a dcubt. The constituency of the borough does not, after deduct ing deaths and removals, exceed 250. Of these not more than 235 are expected to vote; and both parties state that they have more than half that number of votes pro mised them. There is no doubt, whichever party may gain the day, it will be a small majority only. At a meeting of Mr. Moffatt's friends, which took place on Thursday evening, a correspondence between the Vicar of Dartmouth and the Chairman of Mr. Moffatt's Committee was read, in which the former gen tleman declared that " he could not allow the church bells to be rung for any election matter in which that gentleman might be concerned, if Mr. Moffatt, intended to vote against church-rates;" and the latter replied that " Mr. Moffatt could not be in favour of the continuance of a payment which presses hard upon those who differ conscientiously from the tenets of the Established Church. At the same time we must be allowed to ob serve, that we cannot understand how you can be justi fied in making a coincidence with your own sentiments a necessary condition for a service which is, on these occasions, invariably given to either candidate without reference to the party to which he may ,happen to belong." Mr. MOFFATT, in the course of his speech, 'pledged himself to that meeting, in the event of his being re turned to Parliament as their representative, to do every thing in his power to obtain the speedy abolition of this obnoxious impost.—(Cheers.) Mr. Moffatt in the course of his address ably advocated the principles of free trade, as did also the Chairman of his Committee. His is the good cause, and he has every probability of suc ceeding. BATE( AND WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY.—The Marquis of Lansdo%lne has offered two premiums of 501. each for the most improved system of draining on a farm of not less than 100 acres, of which not leas than 15 acres shall have been thorough drained. DR. PUSEY. The following letter from 1)r. Pusey has been ad dressed by him to a friend : " dear ask me what I should do in case this new test, to be proposed to Convocation, should pass. I would say at once, that others, not so imme diately affected or intended by this test, need not, I should thirde, make up their minds yet. I plainly have no choice ; it is not meant that I should take it, nor can I. You will not mistake me. I sign the Articles as I ever have since I have known what Catholic antiquity is, to which our Church guides us, in their • literal grammatical sense,' determined, IN here it is ambiguous, by the faith of the whole Church (as good Bishop Ken I says), before cast and west were divided.' It is to me quite plain that in so doing I am following the guidance of our Church. " The proposed test restrains that liberty which Arch bishop Laud won for us. Hitherto high and low Church have been comprised under the same Articles; and I have felt that in these sad confusions of our Church things must so remain, until, by the mercy of Almighty God, we be brought more nearly into one mind. But as long as this is co, the Articles cannot be (which the new test requires) certum atque in dubitutum opinionum signum.' 110 w can there be any certain and indubitable token of opinion,' when they can be signed by myself and --? This new test ri quires that they should be : one then of the two parties who have hitherto signed them must be excluded. We know that those who framed the test are opposed to such as myself. It is clear then who are henceforth ex. chided, The test is indeed at once miserably vague and stringent ; vague enough to tempt people to take it : too stringent in its conclusion to enable me to take it with a good conscience. Beginning and end do harmonise, if it be regarded as a revival of the Puritan ' anti-declara tion ' that the Articles should be interpreted according to the consent of divines) . they do not in any other case. This shifting of ground would indeed (were not so much at stake) be somewhat curious ; how those who speak so much of men ' would require us now to be bound in the interpretation of the Articles by the private judgment of the Reformers (it being assumed, for convenience sake, that Cranmer, Ridley, and Hooper agreed among themselves), instead of Archbishop Laud's broader and truer rule*, according to the analogy of the faith.' It would indeed be well, if all who have ur g ed on this test could sign the I st and Sth Articles in the same sense as Cranmer and Jewell. Well, indeed, would it be for our Church, if all could sign the 27th in the same sense as the Reformers, except perhaps Hooper, One could have wished that, before this test had been proposed td us, the Board who accepted it and proposed it to us, hay thought of ascertaining among themselves whether the themselves all took ail and singular of the Articles in on and the same sense. And yet, while they enjoy thi latitude, how can the signature of the Articles be any. certain and indubitable token of people's opinions ? " However, this is matter for others ; my concern is with myself. I have too much reason to know that my own signature of the Articles would not satisfy some of those from whom this test emanates, since, when a year and a half ago, I declared repeatedly (as I then stated) that I accepted, and would subscribe, es anima, every statement of our formularies on the solemn subject upon which I preached, that offer was rejected ; and this on the very ground (I subsequently learned) that they did not trust my interpretation. When, then, they require that the signature should be certum atque indubitatum opinionum mearum signum' it is plain that they mean something more than what I offered and they refused to accept. " The Articles I now sign in the way in which from Archbishop Laud's time they have been proposed by the Church : this test I should have to receive not from the Church but from the University in the sense in which it is proposed to me by them. Could I then ever so much satisfy myself that I could take the test according to any general meaning of the words, I must know from past experience that I should not take it in the sense in which it was proposed to me. I could not then take it without a feeling of dishonesty. " You will imagine that I feel the responsibility of making such a declaration, knowing, as I must, that is case, in the present state of excitement, the statute should pass, younger men, whom it might invelve in various difficulties, might be influenced by my example. I know, too, of course, that some will be the more anxious to press the test, in hopes that my refusal to take it may end in my removal from this place. Whether it would or no 1 know not. But whatever be the result, it seems to me the straightforward course. It is best in cases of great moment that people should know the effect of what they are doing. " I am ashamed to write so much about myself, but I cannot explain myself in a few words. What is my case would probably be that of others. It has often been painful to witness the apparent want of seriousness in people when things far more serious than office, or home, or even one's allotted duties in God's vineyard have been at stake. But people now feel more readily what it is to lose office and home, and the associations of the greater part of life. It will he a great gain, if what is done is done with deeper earnestness. For myself, I cheerfully commit all things into His hands, who ordereth all things well, and from whom I deserve nothing. " Ever yours, affectionately, " Christ Church, Advent, " E. B. PUS EY. Ember Week, 1844.—Tuesday." * Vide Heylin's " Life of Laud," pp. 178, 182. MR. WARD. OXPORD, THURSDAY.- The friends of Mr. Ward have caused the following to be extensively circulated amongst members of Convocation : " New Form of Declaration which the proposed statute will enable the Vice-Chancellor to impose. . . " Ego A. B. Articulis Fidei et ReligiOnis necnon tribus articulis in canons XXXVI. comprehensis sub scripturus, profiteor, fide mea data huic universitati, me articulis is tis omnibus et singulis eo sensu subscripturum in quo eos ex animo credo et primitus editos ease, et nunc nzihi eb universitate proposilos tanquarn opinionunz!nearuni certain ac indubita turn signum: " The attention of members of Convocation is re quested to the following considerations : " 1. That the proposed statute institutes a new reli gious test in the University. "2. That a local test, thus instituted, places the members of the university in a religious position different from that of all other members of the Church, and the whole body of the clergy. " 3. That the imposing any new test of doctrine be yond those which rest on the authority of the Church, is a serious innovation, and alters at once the constitution of the University, and its relations to the Church. "4. That a great difference of opinion has always been permitted among those who subscribe the Articles, and that it is now proposed to introduce a new limit and restriction to that difference. " 5. That the test proposed, being itself liable to dif ferent interpretations, is likely to cause perplexity, and to operate as a snare to conscience. "G. That it is not right or safe to rest on the suppo sition that this test will not be applied ; since the ob vious presumption from its being proposed is, that it is meant to be used. " 7. That a test not applied to all, but liable to be im• posed upon suspected individuals, according to the wll of the Vice-Chancellor for the time being, is an objec• tionable form of test, likely to encourage a system 01 secret and underhand information, and to destroy mu• tual confidence and freedom of intercourse in the Uni versity." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.—On Thursday last a deputation of the provisional committee of the Dunstable Branch Railway to the Birmingham Trunk at Leighton Buzzard, consisting of Messrs. Edward Burr, Richard Gutteridge, Henry Goude, William Elliott, Benjamin Bennett, together with the solicitors of the projected line, Messrs. Parker, Twisden, and Co., of Lincoln's Inn fields, and Mr. James N. Cartwright, of Dunstable, waited by appointment on the Directors of the London and Birmingham Company at Euston-square. On the following Saturday the resolution agreed upon by the said Company at their meeting was communicated through the secretary, Mr. Creed, to the effect that the London and Birmingham Company agree to lease the projected branch line of the Dunstable Company in per petuity, and to give a guarantee of 4 per cent. on the capital employed, with an equal division of surplus pro fits ; the capital not to exceed 50,0001. The proposed railway is likely to prove a great advantage to Dunstable —a town which, having recovered from the depression occasioned by the withdrawal of the traffic on the turn pike-road, is gradually rising into importance. At pre sent there is none but the most inefficient conveyance for coals, and all descriptions of heavy goods, which will be conveyed at a very reduced price by railway. Tw.o MEN DROWNED.—SEAHAM, DEC. 19.—Yes terday au inquest was held at this port, which is about seven miles north of Sunderland, on the bodies of two pilots belonging to the latter place, named John Givens and W. Maddison. who had been drowned on the pre ceding day. It is customary for the pilots of Sunder land to conduct vessels in and mut of Seaham, (which is a private port belonging to the Marquis of Londonderry, for the shipment of his coals), and on Tuesday a coble, containing four men, was proceeding out to sea " to seek ships," as it is called. The sea was very high at the time, and a heavy wave having struck the coble, it was dashed with great violence against the pier and swamped, all the crew being precipitated into the water. Assistance was promptly at hand, and two of the unfor tunate men were saved. The remaining crew met a watery grave. The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death," and after the inquest the bodies were removed to Sunderland. The deceased have left large families to deplore their loss. THE CONDEMNED CRIMINALS.—We understand that the execution of William Potter and William Ken drew, the former for setting fire to the dwelling- house of William Neville, at Wistow, near Selby, and the latter for the murder of Mr. William Inchbald, at Low Duns forth, near Boroughbridge,will take place (should no re prieve be received) on Saturday week, the 28th instant. William Potter does not betray the same indifference which he exhibited on re ceiving his sentence, but, we hear, has become much softened. William Kendrew, however, still maintains a dogged sullenness, and seems not properly to understand the awful position in which he is placed.. , :—Doncaster Gazette. BURGHEAD.—UNSEEMLY DISTURBANCE.—We have just seen a private letter from the fishing-town of Burghead, near Elgin, stating that a great deal of ill-feeling and an unfortunate riot had taken place between some of the people of Hope man and Burghead. The occasion of the disturbance was a meeting held for the purpose of letti ng the seats in the new Free Church erected in Burghead. The parties quarrelled as to the appropriation of the seats, and an unfortunate adjournment took place to the public-house. There, inflamed with drink, the dispute was continued, and fighting took place, more or less, throughout the whole of the night. The Free Church clergyman, Mr. Waters, endeavoured, but in vain, to effect a reconciliation, and get the parties to disperse. Next morning one of the men was found dead in a quarry in the neighbourhood. Such are the terms of the letter, but, of course, an investigation will t ake Plem—lnvertiess Courier. PLYMOUTH. At a highly respectable and influential meeting of the parishioners of the parish of Charles, held in the parish church, Mr. Richard Martin, churchward e n. in the chair; Resolved,—lst. That this. meeting views with deep re:;ret and painful manifestation the changes directed by the Bishop in the services of the Church, and moat miser' getically proclaims to his Lordship the earnest desire or the parishioners that he will not, in order to obtain con formity, compel the clergy and laity to ,return to prac tices which have generally become obsolete. - In urging this upon the attention of the Bishop, this meeting would remind him, that if a departure from the law of cere monies and observances has arisen, his Lordship and his pr e decessors have sanctioned these departures, not only y their tacit consent, but doubtless by their actual pre sence upon many occasions. 2d. This meeting most emphatically declares that, should the Bishop persevere and succeed in his object, the most ready means by which the parishioners cue testify their dislike and determination to resist, will be to retire from any church in which the innovations may be attempted, and seek to carry on the Church service in unconsecrated buildings until the Bishop shall remove the mandate and restore peace. 3d. That this meeting reserves its high seise of the charity and Christian conduct of the ministers of this parish, and imploring the Almighty to vouchsafe to them a right understanding, earnestly desires they will exert their beat efforts to preserve the services of the Church in their accustomed form—this meeting presents to the Rev. Chancellor Marti-. I), ctor Bell, and the other mi niW.c.rs of the Chapter who supported their views, sin cere and grotefid hanh, Stir having stood forth in the present crisis, ts.erehy affording high and excellent ex amples to those of Ow clergy who resist the present in novation. 4th. `That this meting proposes a systematic arrange ment throtig‘iout the land, to ensure the mcvt powerful opposition to the preposed innovations, as well As to cir culate the knowlz.ftge of authentic information Pf the proceedings of th-.)so of the clergy who, having rack lessly followed the vi ew s and practices of the Tractariaz school, despite of the objectiors of the laity have ac quired suppert by tie Bishop's letter, and have, in con sequence, introduced other and more Romish prac tices, the object of disseminating such information being to exhibit the design of the party who have commenced this movement ; and with this view the meeting urges upon the parishioners of every parish the expediency of forming pernrinent committees. This meeting also sug gests that a central committee should be formed in every deanery, to which the parish committees should comtnut tt( . that in Exeter one or two persons should be dephted from each parish to form general committee o corresponden for the country. THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION. Yesterday an adjourned inquest was held by Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the House of Correction, on the body of - a late prisoner, named James Hodges. It appeared, the evidence of the various warders of the prison under whose charge the deceased bad been having been read, that another prisoner who had been in the same yard with him was examined in the absence of the officers of the prison, and in the course of his statement he said that the cell in which the deceased bad slept at night was an extremely cold one ; that he had himself slept in it, and consequently was in a condition to state the fact ; that the prison diet did not allow a sufficient quantity of sustenance for the maintenance of health and warmth in the body during the winter months.. He also stated that if a prisoner made a complaint to the surgeon of the gaol that he was ill, and the latter thought he was not so, that he was punished by being deprived of half his meal; and that if it happened to be on one of the meat days, then that meat would be taken from him, and he would be put upon gruel. The effect of this system was to deter prisoners, when they were ill, frequently from making the complaint of their being unwell, and especially if that visitation should chance to be on a " meat day." The witness also made further statements, which were of so serious a character, WI affecting the general treatment of the prisoners, tfrAt The CORONER at length said, it was most painful to hear such statements without possessing the power or means of applying a remedy for them. If these acensa-• tions were justly made they demanded a remedy, and as from the length of the inquiry it would be impossible to conclude the investigation upon that occasion, he wotild endeavour to procure the attendance of the visiting jus tices, to hear them on the next occasion—on the day to which an adjournment of the case might eventually be agreed upon. Mr. MILLS, the deputy-coroner, accordingly waited upon the visiting justices, who happened to be sitting ire another room in the gaol, and who, upon being informed of the nature of the statement which had been made by the prisoner, at once arranged with him to be 'Present upon the renewal of the inquiry on the following Friday (yesterday). The proceedings on the return of Mr. Mills to the coroner's court were adjourned accordingly. Yesterday, therefore, the jury re-assembled at the prison, when a number (if inactßd they were not the whole of that body) of the visiting justices were present. Amongst them were Mr. Wilks, Jr. Tulk, Mr. Rotch, Mr. Hoare, Mr. Bluck, Captain Bague, lAlr. Rose, Mr. France, Mr. Crake, and Mr. Kemshead. The father, step-mother, and widow of the Oeceased were also in attendance. The inquiry occupied upwards of four hours, and was again adjourned. The prisoner, who had been examined on the first day, again underwent a protracted examina tion, but failed to confirm many of the heaviest charges he had set up on the first occasion. 'We, therefore, think it to be fairer to all parties to abstain from publisking any report until the whole proceeding has been brought to a conclusion. STATE OF TRADE. The imports of the week have been very insignifi cant, and a very large fleet of vessels, which must be in the immediate neighbourhood, have been pvwented getting in, owing to the still continuing easterly vginds. Holders of produce on the spot are reaping collat ., derable advantage from this circumstance, and per.. haps, on the whole, adverse winds were never less seriously felt; for, so late in the year, we seldout led the market for goods brisk, and importers have always abstained from pressing sales until after the first week in January. The stock of cotton is, from the same cause, getting into smaller compass, and the excess over last year is now only about 100,000 bales. There has been a quiet market this week, without apparent change in prices; but buyers have the best of the bargain. Strenuous efforts are making to obtain the abolition of the duty on this article, the work being committed to the hands of influertial parties. In Liverpool, generally speak ing, there seems a strong feeling that no particular claim exists to entitle cotton alone to be exempted from duty. The soap trade are making an effort Ail a remission of their duty, and, as it seems to us, with a more general ground for the application; they complain bitterly of the system of collection, ea it now exists ; and whilst, perhaps, a 11404' ficatiun of that system would satisfy mail, yet they go for a total repeal. This is a branch din nufacturing industry which is in a great measure confined to this immediate neighbourhood, and mighi be, as we hear, very considerably increased, even the trade were freed from the annoying survey t which they are now subject, whilst, at the same time it is thought the revenue would be very much assisted It is evident from what is passing in all quarters that there will be again an anxious session, and th door will be opened to all sorts of speculative invest ments, in the hope of a favourable change of duty t( assist the articles purchased.—Liverpool Mercury o Friday. DRAYTON MANOR.—The Right Honourable Si Robert Peel, Bart., gave an entertainment at the manor on Monday last, to a party of above forty of his princi pal tenants, mostly in the occupation of large farms o his estate. Dr. Buckland, Dr. Playfair, and Mr. Smitt of Deanston, the well-known Scotch agriculturist, wt were on a visit to the Right Honourable Baronet, afte dinner addressed the company. Dr. Playfair delivere an eloquent discourse on the different descriptions manure, and the most approved systems of manttrir land, to which the assembled farmers seemed to dero the greatest attention. It was after eleven when tl circle broke up, the tenants retiring with expressions their high sense of their esteemed landlord's hosjayalit SEASONABLE BENEVOLENCE.—Mrs. John Master man, jun., after having attended prayers at St. Dioni back Church, Fenchurch-street, yesterday morning, wi the other ladies of the Committee of the Infant School that neighbourhood, distributed blankets, flannels,. al other useful winter clothing to upwards of 60 mothers the infants under their care, the benevolent contributit of that lady. SUPPOSED SUICIDE IN A PUBLIC DINING-ROO —Mr. Payne held an inquest on Thursday at St. Be tholomew's Hospital, on the body of Walter Stet aged forty, a paper ornament maker. Joseph Coop eating-house-keeper, of No. 26, Newgate-street, so that on Wednesday afternoon the deems whom he had never seen before, entered t shop end called for some roast beef for 1 dinner. Deceased sat down in one of the boxes, appeared as if nothing was the matter with him, bat soon as he had mkt n one mouthful of meat he seized with a great desire to vomit. Witness led la out to the street, and by that time deceased was so we as to require support. Ho took him to a chemist's Newgate-street, where a cordial was administered, t without success, and from thence he was taken to t above hospital. He never spoke after the first moms of the attack. Some friends of the deceased said tl he left home in the morning in a good state of heal having reco+ered from the effects of a dose of arse] taken three weeks ago. Mr. Philip Hurlock, residt medical officer of the hospital, said that the decea: was dead upon his admission. A post mortem examb Lion was made that day, but there was some difficulty arriving at the precise cause of death. Considers inflammation of the stomach was found, such as we be produced by some corrosive poison, arsenic or OXi acid for instance. Those appearances might, howei have arisen from natural causes. Verdict—" Died fr inflammation of the stomach, but how caused there it evidence to show." ACCIDENT TO THE CHAIRMAN OP THE GLOIX TERSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS.—A rather serious a dent befel Mr. Purnell, the chairman of the Glouces shire Quarter Sessions, this week. He was skati along with some other gentlemen, on a pond near residence at Stinchcomb Park, near Dursley, and, consequence of a fall, his thigh bone was broken. Purnell is an accomplished skater, and fond of the et cise, and one report is that he was skating backwa and came in contact with another gentleman, who doing the same, but coming in an opposite direction, that the accident was occasioned by the collision. TAE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2l MIL