The Sun. — London, England, 1851-11-29 00:00:00

TKO -- _....... A PROTESTANT ALLIANCE. l' ro - e g s! tieral ateetieg of the members and triet ds of the ball, ~pt meeting ayes held yese•rrlay et Freemasons% , tt h pa t ; the Purpose of edopting resoluti ma teuceieg ksto e i n •-• Pere cari , us on the continent, and fin peti synng "th Eleus:s of Parliament far the repeal of the ...,: (I , :i t t etti v ot e rl t ilt i l l: t: as e i: d us e rte w i za en ~•i,e /slrcul•g"g :1:18tv w t ee h re ; isv'd' crowded; i d : ; h i ainendhic indicated ,7 5 1tiet , e .,_ _ nas ex r. mt. . tt,e taiii. e Persons were in attendance than the hall would Slow The gellery was filled with ladies. las e , . Y after noon the Eert fe Shaftesbury, aho had k kis i p il t : : ° ° ,hed as pre:lid, nt, took the chair. Ho was ken On 'Nolte the hull by a large numb-r of gentle ki_ 4„,,.auel about the pla?form there were-the Hon. Y, ad„, a . l rd, Captain the Hon. - Maude, Sir C. Eard i_ell e4,11.%1 ewer, Admiral Vernon Harcourt, Mr. J. ,:stl, 4 - rj L'• M.P., Mr. P. Cator, Sir Peregrine Malt 4hote44 ea„,lral Elope, Sir Heron Al•tx eel!, Bart., Mr. ate v h'lnpsen, Sir William Baynes, Bart., I' l lete r j ew , 4 l °, M l a ., Sir Thomas Blecuefiel,l, Bart., elm et`7'exander, Admiral Sir Henry Hart, Mr. J. Leorriar Marsh Ili hes Mr. T. Colley Smith, Mr Li. a•,, °n th, Mr. R. Pra g rce ' Mr. W. A. Ilankey, Mr. J. It '• C et i'l CaPtein Trot ' r • Lieutenant Colonel Mitchell, 4 44 ° quhoun, Mr. Seeley, ' Mr. J. Cook Evans, Mr. W. ON 41411, Mr•T. Farmer,'llr. Garrett, Mr. W. B. hi:sl.,'NtiVievs.. C. Mol)nux ' , Dr. Cox C. J. Jordan, i t ' R4l ( ii) 4 .) Dr. Campbell, 'P. Binney, Goodhart, ‘ 1 4 141 ,11', r.,,b;eane, Dr. Langley, D. Wilson, E. Hol g• E. ,4,7; ; ""atai,h, F: Close. J. Stratton, Dr. Bunt /Pita la VI , C. F. Childe, J. Tucker, M. Preston, J. evsjir's;steilton, Dr. Beecham, R. Burgess, A. S. <af ter • c. 'h e e P'syer, b y the Rev. E. Auee ,L, of th Asrl of c• 1 Q ,,,, 4 day bee rose to open the business 4 ,..• ol io ." bee s4id they were assembled upon a sub -4411/14tille delicacy, but of singular importance. They ttl , y on 4 ot to institute a society, for that had been.al bl!tl th e e : but to confirm and extend an association - Nee of ' Protestan, Alliance," an association corn }„_ te„,,l°fee members of the Church of England, and iFtheirers of the great Nonconformist bodies, united 0,, ,to p:,,, r ,tbe purpose of offering a consolidated resist ),,,.‘ sold„Ea a ggressions -those aggressions alike crafty tilt°to"fgalu matert and political liberties. The tr o . th e A y iui t „ , was short and simple. The out tettst leoleace of the Papal power, as exhibited in k i l te sdk et ttr • and the sense of c4mmon danger, had k ipi t l o o44i n d 3' to look into the existing state of things, kd ie,„" whethar we did not present, by our un hk_lrinet7ll3, abundant opportunities to our insidious tiortaeiii°7(Hear)-and to see whether it would ii, , r ,=e, notwithstanding our differences-thank dottprpot4aiferences-to unite in one great effort for 4 .44, 4 of maintaining spiritual and political free klotiatetizi)w l in ft d er in so e m ve e ry other region of the carp.- preliminary conferences this as- Ilt k prie d i , 114 farmed on the 25th of June, and these were t l - 14 41s PeB on which it was based :-" That it appears ki, l44ll ofii i° rm an association which shall combine all ha_tet2otestants whose object is not merely to op kal7:al Zut aggression of the Pope, as a violation of d kett:sibePendence, but to maintain and . defen l 1,„ sere encroachments of Popery the Scripturs . i kthlart,,the Reformation and the principles of reit eed J• as the best security under God for the tem ii,„ 44,„„Spiritual welfare and prosperity of this k o lket e kkAteers.) But the objects of the associa -4114,t(14 : 1 0 limited to these islands. They desired 4 11t 4 ' l the,,, R e tt views and sympathies much further. , eel co me co me when events of magnitude in any lk,„.`evi not be indifferent to the people of any other Weratlihntra hear.) The association appealed for t O l a„Peit te l e° • 'operation to their Protestant brethren itt e 4 f 111 . -m tb Stll tes-(Hear, hear)-to the Waldensian titid e t i etc c b, e subjects of the House of Savoy, now res 31e kali!? abasement and oppression by the noble- Nhllapeedlrral Government ot Sardinia.-(Cheers.) noble ``-- '' k ee -e '' also to th r e nm e c o le of Sardinia themselves, No n ikliti„ 3 ' ,Were the objects of attack from spiritual IX4' dott', p o wer. -(Hear, hear.) Beset by the 4 1 ;,I)...,,Zilation of Austria ' on the one side % tteler.,(," the autocratical insolence of the Pope on tllt6tlmeears hear)-that people knew what it was o ''ele its 'ur political freedom.-(Cheers.) With aNtlesee ss l /i ews, and principles, it seemed indi.spen "l▪ a k i lat wit ilt 7 and inevitable to direct attention to 17tej,i' be 4 t 1 1 3 our own realm, the greatest monument . 04 , `-(hi e Ought, and no one could deny of 'neon „Oatti La, hear)-that was ever reared by the 11‘F e 44 : 4 1, 4 1 , 4 1 7 tu .en•-(Elear, hear.) The College of kih Ave nstituted and endowed by the statesmen l e. Pri enh ago for the purpose of conciliating the . te The ele d and propitiating the Irish ~,,t404 .transaction was never in Parliament ittl l 4 - I;Ned r i l k u h el Ple•-(Hear, hear.) It was maintained 14„ 41 of. tC e Y. -- -(Elear, hear.) But what had been (04 41 3? e l s sacrifice of principle, this worship . o op , 004„.,;(ziatead of peace we had found wart-in -4,444'"e5a)-1411ton, insult-instead of safety, peril.- Ici i ltill i ~`lnd what now remained? Maynooth m e sol e •• 0 More character than this, that it was , 1 14 i4 ** (0 1.6e 1,:_ rd of disappointed hopes and violated Y triutsto_ers,) V ii. kel ot the re ,, 47 moved the first resolution:- 110 h to lieet Pre al ' on the part of the Church of Rome,. Ar e %y rrpetensions and most intolerant doctrines_ li4kkinte ete °' the middle ages, renders it the duty 9f IN hOli t i o t° tMite, both for the defen . ce of their N et,q44 ti . us liberties, and for the maintenance of ks 4ti l lea.,N h a nt h on which depend alike the temporal 16 ie." it said of mankind." 4: 1 tof 4,41 d--he saw it written-" What is the ki h g hlit ': i s Strange medley of sects and par 4f, ~.•z14 14 %i- e r „ e YOU doing, you gentlemen of va• 0 4 11,7011 ed " 8, who meet on the same pla.t -44;1, t .. d . Wh et " the Church of Rome ? Will il k ht,',, °4 l h Y"U are going to substitute? You want la' 4 4 , 4 %) v i ,T . , great and beneficent influence.- 1414t"Year 1 " You tell us upon what basis you mean d he to uki Christian union?" These writers i k kaltite 41 4 n e n r , at ftnd the first principles of this ques -11(26 .. "(El en - ,,‘ understand the principle of our corn ,Vsylli,liti ~",: he ar)-certainly they did not under :l4.4"g e e e reu of English freedom-(Hear, hear) it,. the:ft,4 ll ,iently sponged out of their memory ' 4 41 1 ,411: wer e ° I _, s u history,-(bear, hear.) It was hi l ,, le ,`,.thee ere differences-among gits Itere ea I mt re assembled; but when the Noble ef‘ eth kr b ,1„,. - (lx so tee ~sd called upon them, in past time, to \ '`a : 41. ).....:,°; the sorest evils which afflicted hems- LyittieTtileee9"44 wearing and excessive toil- (Hear) Zitllc ~L U tte__Abzi disease stalking in our streets as a '3'he -le ud Is tt ', e ur)-was it ever heard when they V I , "WI, y 4t 4 ta these common enem'es of humanity ,hlll % "°iTa g , ° PPed them and said-" 'rake care what Wo e keet ep T hat gentleman is a Baptist; don't ri,*%, 44 te es . ;(A laugh.) This gentleman with ik t t t itst re4l ll: -144 ing to establish a ragged . school tap h e .Uttal l ane, I tell you, I know it for a ht,i 4 e e k h, 1 1 ' 4 Nonconformist-(Laughter)-and ZI• I.1b) Sus you, you was seen last Sunday er,NCseewljcieus neighbourhood near Covent 4-eti t i,Nit 'w l aughter) -and that other I inaeNt e klaef gent-square." -(near.) Would such 4 , l sh,„' 14 1 1 1 1 4 1 , i"4teued to?--(Hear.) No, whatever L'lthnt 1 t:, 11 13,3 conflict now opening before us we t i. l ti li ( 1 / 44 * Ith Z l ' L er, brother by brother-(Cheers)- kNi l o e „ ll eie, (l " e u other, and zeal for the cause of eg 00%4 )4 cheers.) But our question was not K i k? e ltee,' with the religious . doctrines of the ''4 - 4 ' i t m e ito - k e g lis hat we complained of „was, not that t C h lee „IN N • nd, as we thought trom the truth, "atell'',‘llat When the scales were turning against lo ti sf th kid ti ;raYs throw away the sword of the .e Oleg ° gaol e axe of the executioner, and into I leliNkl e , e l% and the bludgeon of the mob, into I llo t ! i tt eit th to'lear, hear •) Now, Other speakers ,klaellttede,.,h2l" open the Contient the axe and tilla iL he it t eed 41:IelIscation were doing their work against 1,4 - ‘ )l; 4 ' % I t ? j ia tsPet. But how was it even in our ‘ L t ti, N a..e, two mrogheda, under the very as that icings b 0 th e G __eo, whose . o . nly offence iil4lelieett tr "3 I acifesd a to nd vr f r o l%n o g we e d ar b s y and w thirsty mob (by i k 4 4, 1 1 / 1 4 1 41 4 41 h : would not say-that was a matter for )llle t ta t Nl, ' a nd they were beaten till one of them t„ t% h e the 6 1:1 ,.1 the other at the latest ascount was qtl tl t, h ad " breath of failing life under the cruel ittjitil l Pteel reeeived.-(Loud cries of "Shame.") tyjt et e d b y l 'i l r last, wrote the Rancher -a periodi atiti''4lteettlllotiiht t u tt e e to n m_an Catholics in this country, ti r e i i . le y of ~. sentiments of the more cultivated k ik, 1,), ,•glott4 i. zngland?- tkiittiettterl, toz:berty in this sense, of a liberty pos 104,44:kited 11 to choose his own religion, one tt a ti a el .t of all delusions ever foisted upon this age Ail i ,Ple 4 n i ,gioe . t deceit. No man has a right to choose 011 et - :. teli e i ll orle but an Atheist can uphold the Oty t ttli shs 4 tie 7 1 ; °43 liberty. Shall I foster that dam- V,40 B et te tie d tt Socioianism and Calvinism, and it , Ot t 18) k® li 0 udaisna, are not every ono of them ,iit; 1 1 5 4 i f .l th e /.,r_raurder and adultery? Shall I hold I t t t , 0 C hac e will etestant that I will not meddle with li l i t4 :ha ,Ihlt that' net meddle with mine? Shall I lead N I . 4eril relj • - Nl t i t, IA h i _ mu i s a matter for private opi iot tit 08 ,i e ' 1 to forget that he has no more right 1 t5,,11t,,,/ liN k w , s than he has to my puree, or my tk sll lti'tt. 4lll d b' e “ )ecl . ?" ` A Catholic temporal go iism,4; ktic te r 4euguided in its treatment of Protest- Pa 4; tstat Ptiog 511 ust, solely by the rules of expe poet; be et . Precisely that line of conduct which tith'i'y i,ll of ",°,_ their conversion and to prevent the , i t I t Y '4llll°ketyril:,eir errors." "A: fanatic who denied (1 ) 0 6 .t,eed „ „would bo put in Bedlam, and is iii s. - Le e t enuer Chancery - . Just such would be YIP llie r re4t tnent of unbelievers by a Catholic t4t ti lle atki derisive 4 '4 ; 4 isse the laughter.) Nor let it be said qa t illd the ~ L.,,eculations of the learned. What k,Vett°.,qtinas'lstory of England for Catholic Chil- Vof to tnlig earliest youth? Here was a pu ll' V I, . ''Ur r reign of Mary, and especially the ,3 1 , ty elernaers, Cranmer, and Ridley, and 11 ) 1‘% is t le? d i ffi e titN l th h The nit now to say what should or should 4a L t . l e , er esy whole country was unsettled and dis- VaNe s c rae s. ' whole it was clearly impossible to stop it lottLf taco d tat -ta this ea:e, you know, when men are (it1N,04,03 , e th er s .Y not only their own souls, but the k..kt 1 4 64 1, e ~i ; fs, they are to be treated as male k‘t i', 1 ,,, 0 . • . "Ta over by the church to the law to Vp,914, ) W t il , p i. iy,, ily . ,, ut t , 0 ,. ' .et us turn to France. Among the colait 3 o 4 ehat."l there were the journalists of the 'll t' N rI Ve ' of B , 4 , id, in August last, the Univers, 1) lis t 111 y the great Ultramontane and Jesuit l !i ' t t , di 4t the ° " Part I tlt‘th.. there Y did no . avow frankly my regret is not Ilitly'te i i , Well y sooner burn John Huss, but that ( ti l 'tq l , ll ota l4tl ' 1 (1 b,„ ur n Luther ; and I regret, further, tlitt,cytit_ol4l Politic•:1? of the time some prince suffi ,i tl ilitta,i, tO have made a crusade against 1 4 q‘ 6 t h4 vinr, 1 Lio Lteti e cs been commented on, he wrote bile doi e kami ner y ' Win- t tred " and convicted by the church sa 4. 4 .. over to the secular power and "4 N ot hi ng , Jig uakeyer appeared tit uo THE SUN, more natural or more necessary. The prompt repres sion of the disciples of Luther raid a crusade against Protez,tuntism would have spared Europe,thrce centuries of di,corcl and of catastrophe in which France and civi liz Ition may peiiih." (Laughter.) But, to cite the highest of all authorities, the Pope himself—what was the account given in the Roman Catholic paper, the 7 Wet, only laq month, of the allocution of Pope Pius IX. on the sth of September, 1850? It related to the concordat between the Pope - _ and spain; it stated that all ecclesiastical property un jthtly confiscated was to be resumed, that all property which had been or should be given to the Romish Church was to remain immutable and inalienable, and that all colleges and 5 chools, public and private, were to be paced under the entire and absolute control of the bishops. It went on:— " But it has also been decreed that all the magistrates of the kingdom shall do their endeavour to secure that due honour, ohsei vatic , , and ob .dicricc shall be shown by all to the ecciesiaAical authority and dignity." To this was added: " I bat the most illus . rious Queen and her Govern ment promise to give all assistance by their powerful patronage and protection to the aforesaid bi..hops, when, in the exorcise of their pastoral office, they shall have occasion to restrain the wickedness and audacity of those min principally who impiously seek to pervert the minds of the faithful, and to corrupt their morals, and when they shall have to scat er and drive away from their fl :cks the detestable and dire plague and ruinous evil of perverse books." (Hear, hear.) Nor were these mere words ; hero was their application in the case of a work published lately by a professor at Turio, who had written two works on eccicsias:ical law, in which ho had laid it down that the Church should employ moral and religious influence, but n t the power of the sword and of the magistrate, to carry out her views. Upo❑ this out came a rescript from the chair of St. Peter, " In the sixth year of our Ponti ficate," forbidding the work to be read, under pain of the greater excommunication. The Pope said— " By such a doctrine and by such maxims the author tends to destroy the constitution and the government of the Church, and utterly to ruin the Catholic faith, since he deprives the Church of its exterior jurisdiction and coercive power, which has been given to it to bring back into the ways of justice those who stray out of them." (Hear, hear.) Here, then, was a system of the most deadly intolerance against every thought which erected itself in opposition to the doctrines and superstitions of Rome. Would England, the refuge of the oppressed, stand by and not put forth her hand, and give the influ ence of her policy, to rescue these nations from the grasp of the Pope?—(Elear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN here stated that he had received among the letters of apology for absence one from Earl Ducie, who stated that, having formerly voted for the Maynooth grant, he should have been glad of the oppor tunity of giving his reasons for an entire and total change of opinion.—(Cheers.) The Rev. Dr. TIDMAN, secretary of the London Mis sionary Society, seconded the resolution, and insisted that, whether Churchmen or Nonconformists, those en gaged in this Alliance were here of one heart and of one mind, united in the great principles of evangelical Pro testantism, and not only thinking alike and feeling alike, but determined also to strive together.—(Cheers.) Not that they were going to exhibit the spirit they con demned. He was willing to give to every Papist the liberty he claimed for himself—the right to teach, and use moral influence to enforce the lessons he inculcated — (Hear, hear)—but no more.—(Hear, hear.) We were asked" what we wished to set up?' We did not wish to displace Popery in one form to put it up in another. — (Hear, hear.) Let us have a fair field and no favour; let us meet on just and equal terms; let us not have the sword of the magistrate and the thumbscrew thrown into the scale against us.— (Hear, hear.) Let us have an honourable conflict, and we need not tear the issue. The resolution was then put and carried. The Rev. R. BURGESS, rector of Upper Chelsea, moved the second resolution, which was as follows: " That the recent movements of the Romish priest hood throughout Continental Europe, coupled with their late aggressive proceedings in England, prove the exist ence of a settled purpose to overthrow religious freedom; while their success in France, in prosecutions for the sale of controversial tracts, and in preventing the circu lation of the Holy Scriptures, shows to what an extent that freedom may be curtailed, even under a constitution framed to secure both civil and religious liberty. That this meeting, therefore, approves of the purpose of the committee of the Protestant Alliance to interpose, whenever practicable, in behalf of those suffering wrong at the bands of that priesthood; and it calls upon the Protestants of all countries, and especially upon those of the United States of America, to unite with the people of Great Britain in defence of those principles of the glorious Rsformation for which our ancestors laboured and suffered." He should be very glad to keep clear of politics on this occasion, but the Papists, and not they, had entan gled the religious question with politics.—(Hear.) Popery was not a confederacy against the religious liberties only of men; but a political conspiracy against their civil liberties.—(Cheers.) He wonld briefly refer to the state of things in France, with which he had had opportunities of becoming somewhat acquainted.—(Hear.) France pre sented an anomaly such perhaps as history never saw. It was a republic with universal suffrage; the principles of liberty were proclaimed far and wide upon a larger basis than was ever laid in modern Europe, and yet no where was the power of Popery and the Romish priest hood more rampant.—(Elear.) The resson was this— the political power of Rome was always greatest where civil government was weakest.—(Hear.) It was mar vellous to look at the power the priesthood had acquired in France. Under the monarchy of Louis Phi lippe it was restrained within somewhat reasonable limits. That monarch had the courage to drive back the Jesuits into the shade, and to resist the demands of the bishops to have all education placed in their hands.—(llear, hear.) But in February, 1848, they came out to offi ciate in public under the shouts of the multitude, and, embracing the republic they despised in their hearts, blasphemously assimilated the trees of liberty to the cross of Calvary.—(Hear, hear.) Ever since that time the Government had been anxious to pay them every kind of compliment. There were eighty episcopal sees in France, and upwards of 40,000 clergy, and those bishops and clergy received in 1850 out of the public Treasury a sum of 1,600,0001. for their salaries. There were 240 diocesan buildings maintained by the State, under the name of public works. There were about 38,000 churches, and more than one half that number of priests' houses, maintained at the expense of the State or the municipalities.—(Hear, hear.) Lie considered himself called upon by his resolution to show that if they founded a constitution to secure civil and religious liberty, still they could not work it with an ermy of priests against them.—(Hear, hear.) Take again the case of France; there the priests had got pos session of four things—the school, the provincial judg ments, the press, and the tribune.—(Hear, hear.) They had got possession of the school, the rising generation. Instruction was said to be free, but it was directed by one supreme board, of which the Minister of Public In struction was of course the president, but which com prised also four archbishops or bishops, three Councillors of State, eight members named by the President of the Republic, only one minister of the Reformed Church, elected by the consistories, another of the Confession of Augsburg, and a member of the Israelitish synagogues —so that the poor solitary Protestant pastor was wamped.—(Hear, hear.) The composition of the local councils was similar to that of the general board. Louis Pnilippe resisted the priests having this power, which they had got under the Republic; but the weakness of the civil government was ever the strength of the Papal power.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Burgess) must not detain the meeting further, but there was plainly a confederacy to overthrow religious freedom in Europe. The concordat with Spain pronounced the Roman Catholic the religion of Spain, " to the exclusion of every other." For Portugal, let the excellent Dr. Kelley bear witness, and that poor woman who through our intervention just escaped being put to death. If Italy was not involved in the charge why was Guicciar dini here?—(Hear, hear.) Did not Austria, too, intend to put down religious freedom?—(Hisses.) A remark able foreigner lately among us—(Hear, hear)—said that Russia was the rock against which every sigh for free dom broke. Lot us hope that England would be the bulwark against which every wave of Papal tyranny should roll in vain.—(Cheers.) The Rev. W. CHALMERS seconded the motion. The Governments on the continent, in their mad attempts to support a policy which could not live in the nineteenth century—(Hear, hear)—had called in the Romish priesthood.—(Hear, hear.) Whether this alliance was going to lead to a crusade against the Protestantism and liberties of England we could not tell. Hints had been thrown out that the Catholic Powers of Europe would not see their Church disrespectfully treated here; and Lord J. Russell had alluded in Parliament to the pos sibility of a great Popish league. We might yet bo called to stand in this respect in the Thermopylle of Europe.—(Hear, Naar.) Let that be as it might, there was enough in the events of the last few months to put us upon our guard. However the ad herents of Popery might disguise the recent Papal aggression, it was manifest that mere toleration was not what they aimed at—they bad it.—(Hear, hear.) They bad what we knew that, if they had the power, they would withhold from us.—(Hear, hear.) Toleration was not what they wanted, but ascendancy.—(Hear, hear.) again to be th e au t ocra t of the world.—(Hear, hear.) They were the servants of a master who hoped We must regard that aggression as the result of the con spiracy agoinst the liberties of Europe. He went for an aggressive movement to carry the war into the quar ters of the foe, not against the liberties of Roman Ca tholics, but against the Papacy itself; against that politicceecclesiastic a l organization which, appropriating to itself exclusively the title of " the Churc h ," aimed only at secular and mundane objects; which, under the name of relgion, aimed at a political ascendancy fatal to national r ‘ih r C . resolution e sol ntion independencewas and religious freedom. — ( Cheers.) i then put and carried una nimousl y . Sir EARDLEY moved the third resolution, which was as follows: " That this me e ti ng d esires to express its sense of . the contrast afford e d to t hi s retrograde mov ement m France and elsewhere, by the protection recently given by the Government of Pi e d mont to the anc i ent Church of the Waldenses, and by the firmness with which that Government has withstood the arrogant pretensions of the Papal priesthood. It trusts that the house of Savoy may have the honour of carrying on to completion the work of liberty of conscience, the surest guarantee of civil freedom and national prosperity. And it desires to express i:s firm conviction, that in maintaining the independence of the Sardinian Crown against the ag gressive claims of Rome, the Piodinontese Government may rely on the warmest s 3 Inpathy of the people of Great Britain." lie wisILA first of all to mention that Mr. Burgess, in referring to France, did not notice two circumstances which should be mentioned. One was, that the tracts of LON DON, SAT URD -AY M. Roussel, which were circulated with perfect liberty during the reign of Louis Philippe, had now been seized, and tie Government of the Republic had put tho prin ter and publisher into prison.—(Hisses.) The other was, that one of the last acts of M. Leon Faucher, the late Minister, was that of sending a circular to the prefects of departments, enjoining them not to allow the Pro testant version of the Scriptures to be colporteurcd. There was one consistory of which ho could speak, the colporteurs of which were resolved to go to prison rather than to give up the circulation of the word of God, and the ministers had resolved to take their places and go to prison too. Was there not a case, then, fur English sympathy ?—(Hear, hear.) Last week he waited upon Lord Palmerston with a deputation in the case of a British subject who had been thrown into prison—he alluded to Dr. Marriott, who had published a tract against the Jesuits, which was circulated in Canis rube. The traot bad been seized there. Dr. Marriot went to protest against it, and had been arrested, and was now in prison.—(Cries of " Shame!") Only about a fortnight ago MArshal Radelzky marched into a Pro testant church at Milan, and turned the congregation out, because he said they had not only worshipped (which they had liberty to do), but elected a committee to manage their affairs.— (Laughter.) Last week a friend of his returned from Florence, where he saw in prison parsons who had been sent there for designing and intending to read the Scriptures. A professor of canon law at Turin was excommunicated, although his sentiments wire almost word for word with those which Cardinal Wiseman had end( avoured to persuade us were the sentiments of the See of Rome. The Government, however, greatly to their honour, had appointed a pro fessor of similar sentiments, and he (Sir C. Eardley) hoped the Alliance would assist their continental brethren in their struggle for religious freedom. H.l hoped that this resolution would be com municated not only by post, but in person. He should like to see a deputation of Protestant Christians to the Continent of Europe, with Lord Shaftesbury at their head—(Hear, hear)—who should speak in the name of British Protestantism in favour of civil and religious liberty.—(Hear.) The Rev. F. CLOSE, incumbent of Cheltenham, who seconded the motion, reminded the meeting of the case of Queen Pomare and Tahiti. Except in one country— Western Africa—there seemed to be no part of the world where we had planted missionaries to which the Popish priest did not track them. We had to fight Romaniim, not here alone, but throughout the world. The resolution was put and agreed to. The Rev. C. PREST, Wesleyan minister, moved the last resolution : " That, as the nearest and most practical duty of the British people, an earnest endeavour ought forth with to be made to terminate that intimate connexion with Rome into which this Protestant nation was brought in 1845, by the Act which settled upon Maynooth College a permanent national endowment. And that for this purpose petitions to both Houses of Parliament be now adopted, praying for the immediate and total repe el of that enactment." Mr. Prest went over the various pleas for the establish ment of Maynooth, and argued that all of them failed, or had been falsified by the result. The endowment of Maynooth was a national sin and a national blunder, and the sooner we got rid of both the better, The Rev. Dr. BEGG, a deputy from Scotland, seconded the resolution, and said as to the Maynooth affair, that any old woman in Scotland with her Bible and catechism might be matched against the Peels and Russells for guiding the nation to a sounder conclusion.—(Laughter.) Any ony one who looked at Ireland could see that Po pery had cursed that country; and why were we to add to that curse by giving 30,0001. a-year to:train up the agents by which that system was fostered ? Much as we might despise the Pope, he would not be guilty of such an absurdity. Catch him giving 30,0001. to train Protestant teachers !—(Laughter.) There should be a vast machinery brought into operation for the purpose of leavening the public mind, and organizing the masses of Protestants in these three kingdoms.—(Hear.) If they were organized, Popery could not stand before them for an instant.—(Hear.) England might count on a large measure of support is this cause from the other side of the Tweed.—(Hear.) There was no subject on which Scotchmen were so unanimous as in their determined opposition to Popery.—(Cheers.) Mr. J. C. EVANS supported the resolution, and recom mended the formation of Protestant alliances in every town in England, as had already been done in York and Bristol. The resolution was then put and carried, and the fol lowing petition adopted : "TO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. " The petition of the undersigned inhabitants of London and Westminster, " Humbly showeth—That your , petitioners witnessed with great concern the endowment granted by Parlia ment in the year 1845 to the Romish College of May nooth, believing, in common with vast numbers of their fellow-countrymen, such endowment to be indefensible in principle and at variance with sound policy. " That your peiitioners believe that subsequent events have shown that the reasons of expediency by which that measure was then sought to be defended were alto gether foundedl in error; that the fruits of that endow ment have been entirely different from those which were anticipated by its promoters; and that the worst predic tions of its opponents have been fully realized. " Yoar petitioners, therefore, feeling an increasing re• pugnance to that measure, pray that your Hon. House will repeal the Act of 1845, and will withdraw the sup port given to that college as promptly as may be consis tent with the engagements entered into with the parties now holding office under that Act." On the motion of Mr. FREWEN, M.P., a vote of thanks was given to the Noble Chairman by acclamation. The CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the vote, took oc casion to refer to what had been said by a previous speaker about the public press, and said he must not omit to speak with commendation and gratitude of one por tion of that press. He himself had drawn very largely upon their exertions. He alluded to the reporters.— (Cheers.) Whether he referred to their reports of the proceedings in Parliament or of meetings such as the present, he was astonished, and bound to express his gratitude for the great talent and fidelity which charac terized then.—(Renewed applause.) But, having thus spoken of the mighty talent exhibited by the public press, he must be permitted to express his surprise that a writer could be found to say, as was said in one of the journals of that day, " If you get rid of the Church of Rome what will you put in its place? " What a green horn that writer must be I—(Laughter.) What would we put in its place? Why the Bible, to be sure.— (Cheers.) That was what they held out as the great substitute for those enormous impostures on the reason of man. In conclusion, the gentlemen present that day had taken upon themselves a mighty obligation, and they must meet it upon the peril of their responsibility. The time was at hand—the conflict would be sharp—but by the blessing of God the issue would be final. • The Rev. Dr. STEANE closed the meeting with prayer. The proceedings did not terminate till tome time after five o'clock. CALIFORNIAN MINES. Extract of a letter from Grass Valley, Nevada co., California, July 18, 1851. " Of the mills now going up at Grass Talley, one is by Sir Henry Huntley, on the Union Quartz Mountain, 2} miles from the village of Centreville. This vein has been the longest worked of any in the township. The Chili Mill, small power having been in operation upon it for about ten months. The mountain is owned by two companies, one, and the oldest, the Union Company, and the other the Wolf Creek Gold Mining Company; the latter is organiz-d under the General Incorporation Act of California, and has a money capital of 100,000 dolls. An arrangement has been made by both companies with Mr. Huntley to work the vein for half the gross produce, which will give an annual dividend on the stock of 100 per cent. per annum. This mill goes into operation in December of this year." (From the San Francisco Post, Oct. 1.) From all parts of the state we have the most encou raging intelligence of the success of the miners, and we h aza rd nothing in saying that the present yield of the mines exceeds that of any former period. The season, so far, has been very favourable to the success of the various damming companies throughout the state, and the result has been large yields in that department of mining. The prospects for the approaching rainy season are still more encouraging. During the dry season great numbers of miners, who have not been operating along the beds of creeks and rivers, have been engaged in raising dirt in the dry diggings to wash when the rains afford them the requisite supply of water. Besides, a steady business is now being prosecuted by the various quarts companies, particularly in the vicinity of Nevada City, and along the tributaries of the San Joaquin. These companies will bo able to prosecute their labours as well in the rainy as in the dry season. It may be well to remark that the quartz business appears to be that which, to a considerable extent, is attracting the attention of capitalists as a source of investment. The extensive outlay for costly machinery, in order to prose cute this branch of mining successfully, necessarily limits it to those who have accumulated the requisite capital by other and cheaper modes of mining, and to those other capitalists who are ready to make heavy investments. It appears to be a matter of debate among miners as to the comparative richness of the northern and southern quartz veins. The companies, however, established in either section upon an economical basis, are doing, so far as we can ascertain, as well as the most sanguine could desire. Many fail of suucess from the want of a practical acquaintance with this mode of mining. From what we hear, we are led to expect for the approaching winter, a very large increase upon the yield of the last. A deputation on the County Rates and Expenditure Bill, hcaded by the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. THE RUFFORD POACHING CASE.—The Mansfield bench of magistrates have decided on committing for trial at the next assizes, the four men, Sims, Roberts, Bawskill, and Alvey, charged with the murder of Roberts, Lord Scar borough's gamekeeper. Bail was applied for in the case of one prisoner, but was refused. The evidence is at present incomplete, but it is expected that much additional light will be thrown on the case before the commencement of the assizes. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Ointment and Pills wonderfully efficacious in curing several Wounds in a per son's Leg.—Extract of a letter from Margaret Jones to Messrs. Russell and Watson, of Bacchus Marsh, Melbourne, Port Philip, dated Jan. 6, 1851. " Gentlemen,—Since I ap plied at your stores for a supply of Holloway's Ointment and fills, I have made a sound cure of my leg after havingsuffered from several wounds in it for more than two years. I tried previously many doctors in the country without obtaining any relief whatever from their remedies, but by using Holloway's valuable medicines for a few weeks every wound is healed, and my leg is now perfectly sound."—Sold by all Druggists, and at PlOierSOr 119114 way's Eata)Altlunent, 244, Strand, London. THE PROTESTANT ALLIANCE. (From the Times.) There is nothing more sliflicult in human affairs than to discriminate the exact point at which activity be comes hurtful, and apparent inertness the wisest and most efficient policy. Deep-laid intrigues have been frustrated by too earnest a desire to urge them on to their final consummation, and battles have been lost in the moment of victory from a natural wish to push the advantage to the uttermost. Gaston de Foix had gained a splendid triumph at Ravenna if he could have been content with what he had won, but in the rash attempt to ride down a retreating battalion of Spanish infantry he fell, and with him departed the success of the arms of France. We put it to those excellent and zealous persons who met together yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern, under the auspices of Lord Shaftesbury, whether it is not possible that their cause may be better served by apparent inaction than by the most strenuous and de termined efforts. Since the revolutionary crisis of 1848 Popery has had tolerably fair play in every country in Europe. Trembling Governments have only been too happy to call in the Pope as their ally, and to barter the ecclesiastical liberties of their subjects for a slight in crease of coercive power over the spirit of revolu'ion. The consequence has been that, in spite of the Con cordat which she has dictated to Spain and the momen tary ascendancy acquired in Austria and France, Rome by again linking her destinies to those of Governments already nodding to their fall, has voluntarily prepared for herself a succession of self-sought reverses and hu miliations. In our own country the Pope has assumed the right of perfectly free action, and neither Queen, Church, nor Parliament have been suffered to check his arrogance, or to control his aggression. In Ireland, by a similar abuse of usurped jurisdiction, he has pro scribed the Government schools and colleges, declared open war against the far more respectable part of his own bishops, and placed the govetnment of his Church in the rash and incompetent - Ilan& ;ve) Primate Cullen. We will not apply a vulgar proverb to his Holiness, but will content ourselves with remarking, that - he has em ployed the liberty which he enjoys most efficaciously to ruin his own cause. The result has been that the con versions to Rome, once so frequent, have been arrested, that the spirit of the English people is more than over alive to the dangers of Romanism, that the more sober Roman Catholics draw back with shame and fear from the intemperate zeal and preposterous credulity of over-zealous converts, and that the people of Ireland seem on the very point of emancipating themselves from a spiritual tyranny whose deformity was hidden by per secution, and has been only revealed at last by its marked antagonism to education and enlightenment. Agreeing with the speakers of the Protestant Alliance in the denunciation of the intolerant, unscrupulous, and encroaching spirit of the Roman Catholic priesthood, we would put it to them whether it is possible by reviving political agitation on the subject to accelerate the doom which the present policy of the Court of Rome is infal libly preparing for itself. We see more and more evidences every day that the Ultramontane party of the clergy are separating themselves from the laity, and that the, free action which is left to the Romish Church by the cessation of Protestant meetings is tending to dis gust her best and most honest supporters. Nothing could arrest this tendency to dissolution, except some aggres sive movement on our part which might have the effect of uniting, from fear of a common danger, the elements whose dissociation has commenced. All the invectives of the Irish hierarchy and their representa tives have failed to persuade the people that the Eccle siastical Titles Bill is really a measure of persecution. At present they have no grievance greater than the existence of the Queen's Colleges, and with that misfor tune to the Roman Catholic Church their flocks cannot, it seems, be induced to sympathise. It might be ex tremely impolitic, in the present state of things, to pro vide them with such a grievance. When Sir Robert Peel, in 1845, proposed his perma nent endowment of Maynooth we did not support him; and assuredly, if that question were now in debate, we should see no reason to alter our opinion. It was un answerably shown by Lord Shaftesbury and several other speakers at the meeting, that no one of all the consequences anticipated from this measure has been attained. It was, indeed, a mere fragment of a policy, the only chance of the success of which was in being carried out as a whole. The necessary complement of the permanent endowment of Maynooth was a State provision for the Roman Catholic clergy, cud it was obviously not worth while for a Minister to propose the one who shrank from carrying out the other. Con ciliation is a game which cannot be played by halves, and therefore the endowment of Maynooth appeared to us, and still appears, taken by itself, a political mistake, and a needless trifling with the Protestant feelings of England. Sir James Graham admitted in Parliament that this measure shook the Government to its centre, a danger which would certainly never have been in curred had its profitless results been foreseen. Still, however, the measure has been taken, and it is a widely different question whether we shall undo what we ought certainly never to have done. To those, indeed, who look upon such an act as a national sin, and regard the contest for the repeal of this law as a sort of Parlia mentary crusade, or battle of Armageddon, the ques tion presents no sort of difficulty. But those who look on this matter in a light purely political may well pause before they suffer themselves to be hurried by zeal, by irritation, or disappointment, into a step the first effects of which may have so impor tant a bearing on the future destinies of Ireland. No intelligence could be more agreeable to Dr. Cullen and his associates than the announcement that the English Government had determined to withdraw all Parliamentary support from Maynooth. They would feel at once immensely strengthened in their efforts for the formation of the Catholic University, against which there is at present no more powerful argument than that the existence of the College at Maynooth rend- re such an institution absolutely superfluous and gratuitous. The withdrawal of assistance which had been granted by Pitt and Percival, by Liverpool and Wellington, would be easily tortured into a recurrence of the policy of the darkest times which preceded Catholic emancipation. On this subject the minority of the Synod of Thurles would probably feel as strongly as the majority. Nor can we doubt that the position of the Established Church in Ireland would would be considerably weakened by the severing of the only link which binds the majority of the nation to the State. If it offend Protestant zeal that we should be contributing to the teaching of what it deems error, it must be remembered, on the other hand, that the Irish Roman Catholics are compelled to support a church to which their objections are equally strong and equally conscientious. We believe that we could in no respect better serve the interests of the Ultramontane party than by opening and unsettling the question of religious endowments. That the settle ment existing in Ireland is not the one which would be adopted now, were the matter open for fresh discus sion, may be seen from the analogy of our colonial churches, where Protestant and Catholic are alike sup ported by the State on principles of the strictest reli gious .equality. We have shown that the Maynooth gran ought not to have been imposed alone, and it may be very questionable whether it could be repealed alone. It were but poor policy, for the sake of a few Protestant cheers, to rush into a measure the results of which lie far deeper than is, at first sight, apparent. Possibly, many of Lord Shaftesbury's Nonconformist allies might view with satisfaction a complete re-adjustment of ec clesiastical property in Ireland. The Protestant Al liance is enthusiastic and unanimous against the Pope, but on every other question of policy it is a mere rope of sand. The revocation of the endowment of the Ro man Catholic College would be looked on by many Protestunt Dissenters as the first step towards the vo luntary system. Will the contingent furnished by the Church of England sympathise in the aspirations of their allies ? EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1851. THE FATAL COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND NORTH- WES'T'ERN RAILWAY. The coroner's investigetion into the causes of this accident voTs resumed yesterday, at noon, at the Globe Inn, Weedon. As on the previous day, Mr. Hayes, of the legal firm who are the solicitors of the railway company, appeared on the company's behalf; and Mr. Martin on behalf of the deceased's (James Currie'.) relatives. Captain Laffan, the Government inspector of railways, was also present. Samuel Grew, examined by CORONER—I am the sta tion master at Rugby. On Saturday last a telegraphic despatch arrived, stating that an engine with some cattle hat broken down. This was about half-past four. A foreman named Goodman dispatched the cattle train. I do not know at what time it was dispatched. I saw the train come into the station, but did not observe at s hat time it left, hting engaged at the moment with the mail train. The mail train was a down train going on the Midland line. The next train which left for London after the cattle train was the erre o'clock train from Birmicghaea; it arrived at Rugby at eighteen minutes past two, being due at fifteen minutes past. The first cattle train 'left at 1.50. A coal train left at three. At ten minutes offer four I started the cattle train, which ran into the passenger train at Weedon. The wheels of the engine slipped so much that it could not ha gut along at the station without the assistance of another engine. At the time I started the cattle train I was not se are of the engine of the other cattle train having broken down. Mr. Crawford dispatched the engine that was telegraphed for. Cotton drove the engine of the special cattle train. Cross-examined by Mr. Martin—Our first cattle train started at 1.50, and the Birmingham train started at 2.18, the Midland one at 2 25, the Lancashire third class one at 2.39. The next train which followed the Lancashire one was a special coal train, which started from Rugby at three o'clock. The special cattle train was not in the regular list of trains; its coming was an nounced by a red board on the coal train. It is open to the station master to detain trains, according to his opinion of the weight of the engine and other circumstances; but trains must never follow each other in less than five minutes. Cattle trains are con sidered goods trains, and as such must not travel at a greater speed than 20 miles per hour. The four o'clock train is not an express train; its estimated rate of tra velling between Rugby and Weedon is about 30 miles an hour. When I started the special cattle train I thought it would travel at the ordinary rate of 20 miles an hour. Two engines were dispatched in consequence of the re ceipt of the telegraphic message; they left at about half past four. James Crawford examined—l am foreman of the loco motive department at Rugby. It is my duty to exa mine all the engines before they leave my station. I examined the engine of the cattle train which left at 50 minutes past one on Saturday. It was in proper working order when it left Rugby at 17 minutes past four. I re ceived a telegraphic dispatch of its having broken down at Weedon. The message was, " Cattle standing here. Send an engine immediately." That was the market Har borough train. I dispatched two engines to its as sistance. I examined the engines of all the other trains on the same afternoon; they were all in working order. I examined the engine of the cattle train twice before it started. I have examined it since, and found it in good order after the accident. The works were all good, except that the buffer part was broken. I did not examine the regulator at Weedon. Th at could not be done without taing the pipes off, which would have occupied three or four 'hours. The proper way of stopping an engine is to shut the steam off and apply the break. Engines are not reversed except in cases of great emergency. To reverse an engine is likely to do it an injury. If the breaks will not stop a train the only remedy is to put the gear out and to reverse the engine. I did not myself try the regulator of the engine of the special cattle train at Rugby, but I saw a man in the act of doing so. I have never been an engine driver. I have heard that it is a common occurrence fur an engine when reversed to start into forward gear again. A man of ordinary power can manage by means of the lever. Directly the engine is reversed the driver ought to be careful in holding the handle. The use of the regulator is to regulate:the amount of steam. There is very little trouble with regulators. If they are not cut they will work for a length of time. By opening the regulator you can always find out the stato of the steam. We have had the engine in question about three years. John Hoskar examined—l am foreman of the loco motive department at Wolverton. I know the engine that was attached to the special cattle train run into last Saturday; it is No. 67. I examine the engines every time they pass the Wolverton station. I examined No. 67 at Weedon on Saturday, to see if any injury hed been done to the axles or wheels, my object being to take it to Wolverton. It is now at Wolverton, and it has not been at work since the accident. It was taken to Wolverton by another engine. Mr. Rowland, examined by the CORONER—I am an engine fitter at Wolverton, and foreman in the ,erecting shop. I examined the engine No. 67, on Monday morning last. The valves, pistons, and reversing mo tion were all correct. In taking out the regulator valve, there was a small stay which had got loose out of the :steam pipe; it was used in the steam pipe for car rying the regulator rod. By drawing the regulator back it came into the regulator, and was taken out by an assistant. I cannot say whether that would prevent it from acting. Mr. M'Connell, the superintendent, observed that a piece of iron had been found in the regulator out of its proper place. The regulator was then placed on the table, and Mr. M'Connell Explained to the coroner and the jury the manner in which the displaced iron had obstructed its action. There was a marked abrasion where the iron had pressed. The Conorma—That would prevent the driver from stopping the engine? The Witness—Not altogether; it would prevent him from shutting the steam off. By Mr. Martin—There is nothing to lead me to be lieve that if the engine -driver had kept his band firm he could not have thrown the engine out of gear, not withstanding the accident to the regulator. There are three modes of stopping an engine —shutting off the steam, applying the break, and throwing the engine cut of gear. if a driver found that he could not stop an engine with the break, it would be his duty first to reverse her. and if that would not do, to throw her out of gear. The CORONER observed that Mr. M'Connell must to examined on the point. Mr. Martin said he thought it was the cream of the whole question. Thomas Forsyth, examined by the CORONER —I am an engineer -assistant to the locomotive superintendent, Mr. M'Connell. I was present with William Howland when the regulator was examined on Monday morning. I saw the iron taken out, and have given similar evidence to what Mr. M'Connell has given. James Edward M'Connell, examined by the Co- RONER--I am superintendent of the locomotive depart ment at Wolverton. It is my:duty to superintend the man agement of the locomotive engines throughout the line. The engine drivers are all under my charge. There are printed rules applicable to them. These rules are read ever to them every month, and they sign a declaration that they have received ,them and understand them. Their signatures are forwarded to my office. William Cotton has been a driver on the line ever since 1845. He was made a fireman in 1840, and previously to that he was a cleaner. I have examined the engine which he drove on Saturday last. Early on Monday morning I requested the foreman, Mr. Forsyth, to take it to pieces, and report to me. I have since examined the engine myself. I found it, in all its points, as far as I could ascertain, is good working order. The only injuries apparent were those done to the safety-valve, and the stay of the steam pipe. From the face of the valve I have come to the conclusion, as I sec nothing else that would have done it, that the stay must have got between the first face of the valve and the seat, whith would prevent the valve from shutting, and produce the abrasion. There is a twist on the spindle, showing that great efforts had been used in trying to shut the valve. As far as the regulator is concerned, that would prevent the driver from shut ting off the steam, but he has other means in his power of stopping the engine, which are to throw the work ing valves out of gear and applying a break to the ten der. Amore rapid mode of stopping the onward motion, although except in extreme cases not called for, is to reverse the :engine, which must have the effect of stopping the train sooner. The steam, not being fully shut or, would assist in retarding the onward mo tion. I have always found Cotton a very careful man. lie has always performed his duties in a satis factory manner. By the CORONER—How long would it take to stop an engine by reversing? Witness—lt depends on the gradient*. The CORONER—What are they in this case? The Witness—One in 500 approaching from Rugby. That is one circumatunce. A slippery state of the rails would render the power of stopping less; and the weight of the train would have a good deal to do with the effect. Looking at all the circumstances, I should suppose that this train, going eight or ten miles an hour, might have been stopped in five or six hundred yards. The rule with respect to cattle trains limits them to twenty miles an hour, without special orders. An extra speed would increase the difficulty of stopping. I cannot say, from the appearance of the piece of iron found in the regu lator, how long it had been out of its proper place. In reversing an engine the driver should keep his hand on the catch, lest it should fly back. Both reversing the engine and putting on steam in the reverse way are evidence that the train is going too fast; and both those operations strain the engine. Sometimes the engine flies into forced gear after being reversed. There is nothing in the printed regulations with regard to the mode of reversing an engine. To put down every thing would make too long a code of regulations. The engine-drivers have all undergone a probation before being appointed to the office, and are instructed in their duties. RAIL WAY. On being asked if he had anything more to say. Mr. m.Coneelt said, I wish. to state that 1 have a very high opinion of Cotton. I have always considered him a careful and experienced man. Captain Laffan, examined by the CORONER—I am the Government Inspector of 11,1l4ays. I have examined the engine, No. 67. 1 directed my attention chiefly to the valves of the regulator, and to the reversing appa ratu°. I did not minutely examine the rest of the en gine. I think the reversing apparatus was in good order. The regulator was in the state in which you see it. It was the day before yesterday that I examined it, and you have the same materials that I had to form an opinion upon. It is not now in good working order. The face of the valve has been cut apparently by some obstacle between it and the seat. The effect of the stay interposing would be to prevent the driver from shutting off the steam; he could only close the valve so far as this obstacle would permit him. It would deprive him partially Qi pne 11104113 of stopping the train Ai a ciao of emergency it is a comparatively easy task to reverse an engive, and throw lice engine out of gear; but that was a vry extre me mea,ure; it has led to many acci dents; and in this case the state of the regulator would render it more difficult for the driver to avail himself of it. The CORONER—Do you consider that it follows from the reversing of an engine that the train must have been going at too great a speed? The Witness—l think a driver of great experience and judgment would look to the state of the rail; and take care to run at such a speed as would obviate the necessity for reversing the that I think th e practice of reversing engine. At th e same time I think it right to observe, engines is far too general. By a jurym an —I could not say without trying the engine, whether or not it was impossible for the driver to reverse it or throw it out of gear. Alfred Bird, a boy, examined --I am a clerk et the Telegraph-(hies at the Weedon station. Last Saturday I telegraphed to Ilegby to say t h at the cattle were stand ing at Weedon, and requested t h at an engine might be soot directly. This was at n i ne minutes past re ur. I received no r e ply to that message. I telegraphed to Wolverhampton at fifty-two minutes to seven to tell them to send an engine to Wet den. The CORONER then addressed the jury. Ile said there could be no doubt that the deceased met with his death by eeeident. Thu only question was whether any criminality attached to any party who was connect, d with it. They had heard the opinion of the Government inspector as to the state of the engine; and the real point for them to determine was whether the death of the deceased was the result of accident or of gross and criminal negligence on the part of the driver The room was then cleared. After the lapse of a few minutes the following verdict was delivered;—" The jury are of opinion that the olreeased met his death by a cattle train running accidentally into a passenger train at Weeden, but without blame to the driver, on account of the engine being out of order and the rails slippery. The jury cannot let the opportunity pass without recom mending, for the better safety of the public, an alteration and enlargement of this station forthwith, it bein g too without a siding." small for the qu an tity o f t ra ffi c _ The inquiry terminated at about half-past four. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-COAST FORD, Nov. 28.—An awful accident occurred on the South-Coast Railway last night, in consequence of the neglect of an engin e -d r i ver to a tt e nd to a danger signal. The last train from London leaves London-bridge station at seven o'clock, and on its arrival at Brighton passengers for Shoreham, Arundel, Chichester, and Pealsmouth are dispatched by a branch train leaving Brighton at 9.50. Last night this train was sent off at the precise time, the greatest regularity . being ob setved on the Brighton and South-Coast Railway. goods train leaves Portsmouth at 7.30 daily; this train also started at the accustomed time. These trains arrive at the bridge over the river Arun about the same time; and, inasmuch as the bridge, which, as most of our readers are aware, is moveable, so as to allow of the passage of brigs of considerable tonnage from Little hampton-harbour up to Arundel, and is consequently of light construction, is a -single line, the greatest care is necessary with regard to the signals. " First come, first served," is the principle acted upon. Either train being discerned by the signal-man has the " all right " signal displayed for its guidance; and at the same time the red, or "stop" signal, is exhibited on the other line. These regulations being duly observed, accidents would be impossible. It seems that at 10.15 last night the up goods train was first discerned, and consequently the " all right " signal was displayed, the " stop " signal being at the same moment given to the down passenger train. The goods train was an unusually long one, consisting of nearly forty trucks. The engine and tender and the first part of the train crossed the bridge, and had diverged from the single line on the " up " rails, the remaining portion of the train being partly on the bridge, and partly on the western side of the river, when the pas senger train (its driver paying no attention to the " stop" signal) came up, and, of course, precisely at the point of junction, dashed against the goods train. The con sequence to the goods train was, that three carriages were shattered to splinters and thrown off the up line. This was the only casualty, so far as the goods train was concerned ; but the results to the passengers' train was more serious. The engine, tender, luggage box, and two second-class carriages were thrown off the down rails and toppled over the embankment, here about twelve feet high. Fortunately there were only four passengers in the train; three having arrived from London, and the remaining one having booked at Brigh ton. Two of these entirely escaped injury, and the other two were but slightly bruised, but the stoker, Martin, of Portsmouth, was seriously, and, it is be lieved, fatally injured, his skull being broken and his brains driven in. The driver, John Pemberton, of Portsmouth, seems to have escaped injury from the con cussion; but seeing the serious consequence of his negli gence, he at once determined on suicide. Jumping on the engine from which he had been thrown, he seized his jack knife and out his throat; and, this attempt not being effectual, he threw himself into the river. Bur gess, the guard of the passenger train, had a miraculous escape. He was in the break carriage which went down the embankment. It was crushed to pieces, but the guard escaped with a few slight bruises. He crawled out of a smashed window just as Pemberton jumped into the water. Quick as thought be divested himself of his jacket, plunged into the river, and, with assistance, dragged him out. Mr. Stedman, of Littlebampton, sur geon, was quickly on the spot, and as soon as informa tion reached Brighton, Mr. W. Verrall and Mr. J. Law rence, jun.. surgeons at Brighton, joined him. The re quisite attention was paid to both Pemberton and Mar tin by the medical gentlemen, by whose direction they were both removed to the hospital at Chichester. It was expected that Pemberton would recover, but not the slightest chance remains for the stoker, Martin. The account giTen by Pemberton of the cause of the accident is this:—He said that after lea vir g the Arundel station, be looked into the fire-box, and that the glare blinded him so that ve hen he looked up he could scarcely see anything. The first thing he did see was a red light waved to and fro, the next, the light of the ap pros cling train. He acknowledged also that he only was in fault, and that he entirely lost his presence of mind. Before he was removed to the Chichester Hos pital he declared his determination to commit suicide; and in consequence he is under the close surveillance of two men. As quickly as possible information of the disaster was conveyed to Brighton; and, at three o'clock in the morning, Captai❑ Mackenzie Shaw (superintendent of the railway there) went down to the spot; and at six o'clock the passage was sufficiently cleared to allow the goods train to leave. No obstruction occurred to the passage of either the up or down trains which followed. On reaching the spot this morning, our reporter found Mr. Tiling (chairman of the directors of the rail way), Captain Shaw, Mr. Craven (superintr ndent of the locomotive department), with Mr. Saddler (foreman of the fitting department), Mr. Smith (superintendent of the carriage department), Mr. Yates (inspector of the ways and works), and Mr. Greaves (contractor fur the maintenance of the permanent way on this part of the line), all engaged in superintend tendiDg the efforts of 50 or 60 workmen in clearing the line. Already one of the broken carriages had been conveyed up a temporary inclined plane to the rails and removed; another was brought up in our reporter's presence; and the engine which, although much broken, is said to be capable of repair, was undergoing the lifting process. It was most fortunate that the bridge was not open for the passage of a ship. Had this been the case, and the signal been neglected, the train would have gone plump into the river. We understand that the Admiralty originally objected to a double line bridge, on account of the time which it was thought the extra weight would cause to be consumed in removing the viaduct obstruc tion to the navigation of the Arun; but this, the second accident which has occurred on the spot, both which would have been avoided by a double line bridge, will probably lead to the application of such a remedy for such accidents. Strange to say, only three of the rails of the permanent way were displaced by the accident. FIVE o'CLocK.—An inhabitant of Chicestor, just arrived here, states that th e s t o k er M ar ti n was dying when ha left the city. Prin.l.,e Edward of Saxe-Weimar and his bride were passengers by the previous train on their way to Good wood, where they spend the honeymoon. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, Nov. 2'. . . _ STocK Exur.A.NGE.—The share market has been firm a g a h i e n o-d stocks. ay and , Th a The principal considerable transactions, avance took however, p place o we n r e v . a rio in l G eh re d at s N tee Ve k s , te s 7 — , O se ri u g t i h n - al Eas S t t e o rh ck, an whi d c D h e c v l e o r s , ed 2l at 9 B .l 6 6 % . LIVERPOOL, Nov. 28. STOCK EXCHANGZ.—The share market was scarcely to good to-day, end we had less business generally doing. The transactions were as follow :—Caledonian, 1614 —Eastern Counties, 7 1-16—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths 8 die. —Lancaster and Carlisle. Thirds, 91,4 p.— London and North- Western, 117—Ditto, New Quarters, 3% p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 34—Midland, 56 3 1 Eastern and Dover, 21%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Extension, Nos. 1 and 2), 6 dis.— Dutch Rhenish, 4 11-16 dis. MANCHESTER, Nov. 28. STocx EXCHANGE..— We have had another active market to-day, and prices had an upward tendency. The transactions were as follow:—Caledonian, 1 6%-- East Lanca shire Quarters, 15%—hlanchoster, Sheffield, andLincoln shire, 31 %—Midland, 56%—North British, 7J%—North Staffordshire, 73j4 dis.—Shropshire Unions, 3% dis.—South- Eastern and Dover, 21% n.—Ambergate 23f 1 dis.—Black burn, Preference (11), 17%—B r i s t o l and Exeter, 79—Edin burgh and Glasgow, 271„ Fleetwood, P res t on , and West Riding Junction, 13-16 p. n. 1111011.NGUAM, Nov. 28. STOCK E XCHANGE. —A fair amount of business has been done in the share market to-day, and prices generallym,e re pretty well supp orte d . It closed a shade lower. Th e trans actions wero, as follow : Coventry and _Nuneaton 1! ):: London an d N orth Western, New Quarters, 33y Shro d p i s s. hire Union, 31. Bs. 9d. dis.—Souths laffordshire, 2Ya _ Mr. John Moore Airey hscl an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Cilonial-offico. A fatal affair occurred at Leigh a few days since, through the practice which prevails too commonly amongst ignorant country people of " doctering" themselves. A woman named Hannah Brown, nearly forty years of age, having been taken ill, sent a messenger to a medical man living two miles from the ,village, and received a b o ttl e of medicine, the medical man promising to call and ace t h e patient in the evening. Before he arrived, however, the woman determined to be bled, and the operation was per formed by a shoemaker of the neighbourhood, who had bled Die h i e e ( a l r s m u d . d e A n l c y o , r o f r n o e m r' a t i h n e qu e e fi s ,e t c h t s a s o f r e s h u a l y t i e n d z i n b t e h en e her several times before. She died a f ew m i nutes after he v h e a r d d t i c i e d t of bled II 4 13911:Dadicg Alall.':.+Saiistvy*Tturnal, COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, Nov. 28. The Queen and Prince took their usual early walk yesterday morning. The Rev. Mr. Birch had the honour of dining wiSh her Majesty in the evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, arrived in town yesterday from Frogmore, and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Glbucester House; and in the afternoon returned to Frogmore. Dispatches were received at the Colonial office yester day from the Governor of the Gambia. Dispatches were sent off to the Governor of Canada, and the Go vernors of the other North American Provinces. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council, sat yesterday in the Council Cham ber. The Lords present were—Lord Cranworth, Sir J. Knight Bruce, the Judge of the Prerogative Court, and Sir Edward Ryan; the appeal from the High Court of Admiralty, " Lunt v. Burnett" (the Fanchon), part heard, was resumed; and an appeal from the High Court of Admiralty, " Burns v. Finney" (the Europa), was commenced and adjourned.: IRON IN FRANCE.—The annualiron fair held in the month of November, at Chalons, has just concluded, and has been remarkable for the exceedingly limited amount of business transacted. Prices, however, were fairly main tained. The great subject of conversation amongst the forgemasters was a new preparation known by the name of sharbon Vulcain, and which, it is said, both from its eco nomy in fuel, and from the superior results which it pro duces, is likely to effect a great alteration in metallurgical matters. DEATH FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING. --Yesterday Mr. W. Carter held an inquest at the Brown Bear Tavern, Southwark-bridge-road, respecting the death of Mrs. Esther Elizabeth Cope, aged 44, late organist to the church of St. Saviour's, Southwark. The deceased occupied apartments at No. 2, Morriss-place, Bridge-street, and bad been some years engaged as organist at St. Saviour's Church, but for irregular conduct had been discharged from her appointment. On Thursday morning she was found lying dead in bed. There were no marks of violence, nor anything near her to account for death; but Mary Brooks, the servant who waited upon her, stated that she had procured for her mistress gene rally three pints of brandy daily for the last ten weeks, which she usual y mixed with water. Deceased always had a glass by her side. Mr. Wooldridge, the surgeon, had been sent for, and prescribed for the deceased,who told witness to throw the medicine away, for brandy would do her more good. The surgeon, who was called to see the deceased, said that when he visited her he generally found her suffering from the effects of drinking largo quantities of brandy, and no doubt la he died from exhaustion consequent upon ouch habits of in temperance. The coroner remarked upon the case, when the jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased died by the ex cessive drinking of brandy." THE HOLYWELL-STREET NUlSANCR—Notwith standiAg the proceeding of St. Clement Danes' late vestry meeting, held only a few weeks since, and the recent con viction of the notorious Dugdale for selling indecent prints, &c., the denizens of Holywell-street are now pursuing their illegal traffic with more effrontery than ever, and at some ! of their shop windows they have even dared to exhibit placards, headed, " Holywell-street Pest," announcing the " Selling-off" of various indecent publications. How long will this su i t, o f t hi ngs be permitted to continue?—ild veriiser, - RA: _LL . WA Y INTELLIGENCE. when theaerteicPuolratrosf WATERFORD KENNY. -- London Tavern, The ordinary half the proprietors in .yßeyaD er --... l3.terNd - e —____ arleyt the,iinlilgitoLf a ;P h L e e l o d d in the chair, th i iasj ocre-Genera a w l the di rector,e WAS submitted to the shareholders, (Tbe report eppears d in The Sun •of yesterday.) The CHAIRMAN having introduced the business of the day to the consideration of the meeting, requested Mr. Bates, the managing director, to explain any p upon which the proprietors might be willing to get in formation. Mr. BATES accordingly entered into an explanation, from which it appeared that the line of the Waterford and Kilkenny Company was at that moment in active prosecution beyond Knockwilliam, for which the direc tors were entitled to credit, since it might be in the re collection of many of the gentlemen present that only two years since doubts were entertained whether thay wauld be able to gct even to Knockvvilliam. With re gard to the financial condition of the company, during the lust s•ix months the capital account had been swelled by certain large payments, and the only item of which he entertained no sympathy for was the subject of law ex panses of Ireland. Tho traffic receipts he considered highly satisfactory, but the working e xpenses were higher than they ought to be. _ is answer to questions, Mr. BATES said the capital account would be closed at 450,0002, but he hoped that it would be less than that amount. The report was unanimously adopted, and after a ♦ote of thanks to the chairman and Mr. Bates, the meeting separated. RAILWAY RETURNS F.TU`NS FOR THE PAST WEEK. Miles I ____„ _ Receipts. opened, ' N AME OF RAILWAY. 1851. ------------------ 1850. I 1851. *RI TISH. .....- 33 Birkenhead, Lands hir wn e, 5•,,a•W • •ies•l•dr-e 72 Aberdeen .. £1,314 C 37 % Belfast and Ballymena ••••••• ••• • - " • • .• - 566 575 17 Belfast and County Do ••••• 136 167 836 1,19 i 26% ' Bolton, Blackburn 549 664 189 85 % 1 Bristol and Exete; a..d West York -•• 3,586 3,770 I Caledonian..... • ' ••• • • •••• ••- •• £1,291 7,765 8,587 • ...... • ••••• • .. 94% Chester and Holyhead ••• - • • 2,360 2,673 6% Cork, Blackrock, and Pas•;a.• • • ••• - " - 117 49 Dublin and Belfast Junction g ?. "•• • • 473 593 53 Dublin and Drogheda...-. • • 6 Dublin and Kingstown .....:.: .:•:•.: • • • • 6 928 897 05 573 16 % Dundee and Arbroath ........:• • . 369 430 31 Dundee, Perth, an d Aberdeen*JunctiOn • 605 6 19 I Dundalk and Enniskill en • ....... 169 1 74 174 68 East Anglian-. .. - . ... ................ 643 - 79 East Lancashire .• .......... ••• • •. 322 Eastern Counties an d Norfolk.. .... .. 3, .. 12,940 93 3,13,998 101 9 5 Eastern Union -••- .. . .... •••• .. .. 1,921 1,685 89 Edinburgh and Glasgow .... .... •• • . 3 .695 978 Edinburgh, Perth, an d D undee...- 3.3 1. 2,262 1 6 Exeter and Credlt on .. • ...... . 2 ,20 ...... 25 19 Furness Railway ... .. - •......... 310 347 17114 Glasgow, and South-Western - ...... 3,270 3,633 241 Great Northern and E. L........... 6,216 10,301 188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 3 • 95 7 4,198 264 Great Western ... 25 Irish South Eastern ...............„ _--- ,9 7 75 90 Lancaster and Carlisle-- • ... 3 14,9 686 9 3757 260 Lancashire and Yorkshire........ • ... 01 15,924 i 39 Leeds and Thirsk • • ................ 39,607 4 0 412 29 12% Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 5 .166 539% London and North Western .... 655 7bo 173 London, Brighton, an 5% London and Blackwell •••• • • • ....... d South Coast.. 8,149 8,3.521‘ 24414 London and South We5tern......,.. 7,690 8 , 5 65 6,025 6,439 128 155 15 Londonderry and Enniskillen ........ 106 117 347 466 9 % Manchester and South JUnction • • .... 661 -28 Maryport and Carlisle •• - 20,529 21,407 16 1 7 1 k5 Manchester, manehester s lr eifi to e n ia , , an an d d it i a n ti c o o c ins k, mr,. &c . . 3 496 Midland •••••-••••••'' • • " '' • • • • • • 126 Midland Great Western (Irish) . 1,206 2,190 ..... 37 Monkland s•••••••••••• • • '• •• • • • ' - 3 60 Newcastle and Carlisle.. •• .• • ..... • • 2, 762 899 20 2,553 149 North British .. • •• '" " 3,403 3,516 4 844 5,192 222 North Staffordshire •• •• •• •• •• '''''' ' 405 533 47 North - Western --•••••••• •• •• " •• ,426 1,644 45 Scottish Central --••••..-- • • •• • • 1 32 Scottish Midland .............. •• 432 514 29% Shrewsbury and Birmingham 47 Shrewsbury and Chester 29 Shropshire Union - 58 South Devon-- •.. • ............ ,, 1,595 1,569 261 South 8 a5tern.................... __ 9,313 10,877 93% South Wales ...• . .... . _ 716 1,262 77 South York., Doncaster, and GOoTe 40 Taff Vale •-••••••••••••• ••- 36 •• • 2 ,059 2,451 • 859 938 25 Waterford and . Limerick - 13 West Cornwall ...... ........,- 252 250 12 Whitehaven Junction 294 York and Newcastle, and Berwick 279 York and North Midland .•• .. FOREIGN. 152 Central of Franca .................. 3,442 3,288 57M Dutch Rhenish .......... 21% :Marla Antonia ........ ••• 63 Montereau and Troyes .............. 994 723 442% Northern of France - .... ...• ...... 20,376 20,445 13414 Orleans and Bordeaux.. • • ... 3 492 4,478 240 Paris and Lyons ........ -• • 82 Paris and Orleans .................. 8,473 8,335 84 Paris and Rouen. .......... •••• • • . 5,714 5,301 194 Paris and Strasburgh ........ ••., .. 5,118 7,040 59 Rouen and Havre - - ...... .• •••• - 2,242 2,116 121 Tours and Nantes.... • ...• ........ , 1,242 2,514 IRELAND. Dunrazi, FRIDAY.—The Cullen project for closing the gates of the .Queen's College goes on " swimmingly." Letters have been received by the working committee which give a most flourishing account of the result of the raid on the pockets of the American sympathisers. A turn of not less than 1,000/. has been already netted in the city of New York, and hopes are held out that contributions to a fourfold extent may be expected be fore the world is many months older. Father Mullen, it is anticipated, will wJrk wonders the moment he sets foot on the short sof the Unitzd States. The total con tributions towards the university up to the present con siderably exceed 30,0001. THE ACTION AGAINST THE CHIEF SECRETARY.—An applie4tion was made yesterday in the Court of Queen's !Loch out the part of the plaintiff in the case of '• Birch v Somerville," to fix a day for the trial. It is an action fur work end labour, brought against the Chief Store tary fur Ireland, and etoed first in the list for Monday, and from the efficial vtitresses to be examined it was desirahlq to have the case !hard on a day selected for the purpose. The Chief Justice icquired if notice of the application had been given to the other tide? Counsel replied that there was not time sufficient to give any notice. The Chit f Justice observed that in the absence of the opposite counsel he could make no order on the subject. THE CHANCELLORSHIP OF THE UNIVERSITY.—It is stated that a portion of the college authorities have come to a resolution to select the Lord Primate as the suc cessor to the late King of Hanover in the office of Chan cellor of the University. His Grace has for a long period held the appointment of Vice-Chancellor. The feeling out of doors continues favourable to the claims of the Earl of Rosso. SEABORNE MAILS. [N signifies that the mails are sent front the General Post-office by the night—and M by tho morning--elispatch.] When made up is I From what PLACES. General romt-odice port dia -1 London. patched. When due. America (by Brit. pkt.)N Dec. 5 .. Liverpool . America (by U.S. pkt.) N Dec. 9• • • Liverpool America (by U.S. pkt.) M Dec. 3 .• Southampt. Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month Plymouth Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. Belgium .. •• N Daily •• .. Dover .. Brazil .. •.. M 9th of the month Southampt. Buenos Ayres .. M 9th of the month !Southampt. Cal lfontia(via Chaves) hi 2d 17th of month South am pt. Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymuth.. Constantinople* .. • • 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover o .. Central America .. hi 2d & 17th of men. iSouthampt. Channel Isles .. N Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Chili .. • • .. • M 17th of the mouth ISouthampt. France .. M& N Twice daily Greece* .. • • N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover Hambragh •. N Tuesday & Friday London Holland ‘. •• •. M Wednes. & Satnr. London .. Honduras N 17th of the mouth Southampt. Ireland .. M& N Twice daily India (via Southamp.) M 20 t h o f t h e mon th ,Seutharap India (vialtiarseilles) NBth& 24th ofmonth Dover Mediterranean (via - Southampton) hi 20th of the month Mediterranean (via I (Holyhead Marseilles) 8 th& 24th of month M 2d of the month.. Madeira M 9th of the month S 7th,17th,19th,27th Mexico .. 22 & 30th of month N ap l es ' ,sth 15th 25th of me Papal States* Nisth 15th 25th of mo Peninsular.. M 17th 17th 27th of mo Peru •• • • hi 17th of the month Tuscany' N sth 15th 25 th of mo west Indies .. •• hi 17th of the month tb mo ua nth mar .. k ßo od u ( th s) an a i r p e t c .lee o D nny . 01 5 by West Indies (except N s toasaathuo)seMe countries t ea he Havana m a 8 :11 French packet via Marseilles. CALIFORNIA. —Mails to and from California, via the United States are now despatched and due by every American packs* The direct Havre mail from London via Southampton during this month will be made up three times a week only, instead of daily. • Dec. 1 Dec. 4 !Dec. 11 Dec. Nov. 28 Daily Dec: 16 Dec. 16 Dec. 5 Dec. 3 Nov. 30 Dee. 5 Ta. T1ii.644 Dec. 20 Twicedaily Nov. 30 Tues. eat. MeN.7 hur. Dec 2 , i Twicedally Dec. 24 Dec: 2 ISonthampt. Dec. 2i Dover .. Southampt. Southampt. IDover Dec. 2 Dec. 5 Dee. 16 Malta• .. .. (Dover .. Dover .. !Nov. Southampt. Southampt. Dover .. Southampi. Dec 2 Dec. 2 Dec. 6 Dee..2o Dec. 2 Dec. 20 LOVE, J EALOUS; AND SUlClDE.—Thursday morn ing about seven o'clock, as Samuel Last, a man employed a , foreman at Mr. Cannon's ice wells, dose to the Surrey Canal, mae was proceeding to his work, he observed the body of a i nstant fe l floating on the surface of the water. He ga v d e res a s n ed young alarm, and the body, which was that of a weli t . aken on shore, woman, about twenty-five years of age, . w as iher pocket was but life vas found to be quite extinct . found a long letter addressed to towards her, acknowledged ac cuses her mother of unkindness bad been violently attached that for the last two months shee he gives, and that jealousy to a young man,a friend, L in which she planting her in the affection ind to self-destruction, and her first her m caused by a young whose woman, of her making up was to have cut her throat. The letter intention, she said, _ na whose m o e fh er l name eve r, she was also the gives, sole c sup. aus new year. The body wa s her friends a merry , Arms public-house to await the co d to the Mug 8 remove . is written in a good a bo nd id a ha h u e d p , p a y nd concludes by wishing all 's inquest. co roner's MINERAL RICHES of GREENLAND.--A letter from Copenhagen of the 17th says :—" Intelligence has been re ceived here of the commencement of p rocee di ngs on the part of the scientific expedition sent out some time back to ex plore the mountains of Greenland in a mineralogical point of view. At the very commencement of their operations, near Julianchaab, an abundance of copper ore was found almost on a level with the surface. Afterwards, immense masses of ore of from 2001bs. to 3001bs. weight were rolled down the mountain, containing 60 per cent. of pure copper. The en gineers at the head of the expedition write word that con sidering the great analogy which exists between the forma tion of these mountains and that of the Ural chain in Russia, they sh 11 not be surprised to find gold and silver." HINTS TO MOTHERE.—If you wish to cultivate gossiping, meddling, censorious spirit in your children, be sure when they come home from church, a visit,.or th an e z other place where you do not accompany them,howto ply with questions concerning what everybody wore,... every bodyfina anything loe d, and all whatthi this everybody said censure, alawnady always do ita n d i n i f ytheirou The British Telegraph Company have just con eluded an arrangement with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company for the use of their lines for telegraphic purposes, by which the important commercial and ma nu f ac . turing districts extending from Liverpool to Goole will de rive great advantage. fr fi 4v CA 4 d sd d ; , 6 4) di" ,u 41 1 0 0 i oi 3 Of 611'