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LITERATURE. HARRISON AINSWORTH'S ROMANCES. Ns. XIII. and Xi V.—The Lancashire Witches. 2 Vols. With these two volumes the cheep republication of Mr. Ainsworth's romances has been brought to a "finl usien. Fourteen volumes, in every respect beautifully " go t up, " an d compr i s i ng, b es id es ot h er shorter and less popular productions, his ten most celebrated fictions, have yielded to the subscribers a little library of romance. By a very appropriate ar ranAement, the last work contained in the series, the °n e now lying before us for consideration, is the very 00 e the scene of which lies principally in the native county of the novelist,:among " the:woods and wilds," we I naY presum e to have been familiar to his childhocel. Pe a pe Forest has been selec'ed by him for the head quarters of the heroes and heroines of his " Lan- Vshire 'Witches," th a t t a l e w i er d an d marve ll ous . Yet any more explicit reference to the work here notic e d would be scarcely short of an inipertineree, se e ti I ng that the merits of the narrative are by this r nio tol era bl y well known to the nojerity of the , e aders of i mag i nat i ve literature. The excellence of th e cheap edition of Harrison Ainsworth's ro tpnces has been practically acknowledged by of .public th roug h t h e extraor di nary , rapidity, its circulation—several of the earlier vo 'nines being already, by this time, wholly cut of Pistint- It i s consequently with pleasure that we ob se so announcement intimating their speedy re- Production in an improved form, each volume to be p ri nted in uniform type throughout. The fact must be satisfactory to as the romancist, inasmuch it ti kff urd L s a v ery visible testimony that the cheap edi on nas tend e d t o extend his popularity among the masses, and in this manner to advance most mate rially his already large reputation. Among the readers of Harrison Ainsworth it is obviously un ofecherry te remark upon the prominent peculiarities diff i erent. It genius as a novelist. With others it may be may be as well, for example, to remind them Flat in the very selection of his subjects our romancist ha s ,h • ta k . °wn that his genius is essentially national in I th ind, racy of the soil, growing as it were out of in e st warmth of his patriotism. In this manner, for mso li . n,ee, be has flung the fascinating and fantastic pas' of his fancy over the palatial halls of Eels- Well -linking his own memory with the venerable and 08,ef,...the Tower of London, of St. James's Palace, ea; , Windsor Castle, and summoned again into .B'enee Cathedralcleared away for the foundatioa of the present Witi)derstructure. In he Rookwood," again, the Rinatioannd mysteriou s crea t ures of the ima -I,beingwere redoubled in their awfulness °ecur intimat e ly bl en d e d w ith every-day renees—a bold er ven t ure th an was eve r made even in her most daring movements by the genius of o"intnhelta„de..lifie. I n " C r i c h ton, " t h e m a r v ellous story yen I ncomparable " was told with a power and atpiltiattGmtY which b u t f ew wr i ters o f fi ct i on cou ld h ave ed like n ; and thi s , as we ll as o th er wor k s o f th e Rind from the sa me h an d, was p ro f use ly embel ed with snatches of song and ballad, which, from heir Peculia r combination of grace and vigour, have Place d Plarrison Ainsworth in the ranks of our first ,• a, Seizedforce the popular imagination with a 'V a i n that calumny and v ituperation have in attempted to s h a k e off—presenting to the pi 'lnd's eye" of th e rea d er one o f th ose p ower f u l h„, etn res, criminal and l ugu b r i ous i n it s nature, i n th e Ire -1 , 11 ' 12 Z of which, in anoth e r way, Hogarth has in hi3 name with immortality. A grand moral , saas sn in the narrative of the housebreaker, and • n wall a terrible power —yet for the sake of a h as t for th e sake of a semblance of morality, the bock vili been scouted as pernicious in its tendency and th e fictions in it s c h aracter. Perhaps the finest of all 9. in this Rembrandt-like gallery of romance these one Which we have not yet particularized, b e favourite of its author, the beautiful and these story of the " Miser's Daughter" With h _ese for his subjects, William Harrison Ainsworth Wa y Contrived to win himself a popularity which in no h i a Y. Rives token of its diminution. On the contrary, 2._lnduence as a romancist appears to be increasing r'reeptibly among the masses—insomuch that we all gar well for the reception of the reprint of his pre sent cheap republication. Q4117 R ; a Novel. By the Author of " The Ogilvies.' 3 Vuls. Chapman and Hall. The authoressof " The Ogiivies" found many ad baier% for her first novel. The story was not a KI l i- lea sing one, but the character of the impassioned a therin e was depicted with so much force and ap P are nt truthfulness as to render her history most in• i l 'esting and to a certain extent attractiv e . A very "" f ferent ' heroine has now engaged the same powerful gP e a• Inst ea d of th e v i o l ent an d se lfi s h K at h er i ne g th ls we have the gentle, de v oted Oli ve , d e f orme d 13er s°n, but gifted in intellect, and richly endowed Yet greater blessings—a loving heart and a meek is nu q u l et spirit. Th e b eau tif u l c h arac t er o f Oli ve delicately drawn and effectively developed. The znothe r of Olive, a silly, thoughtless woman, who at first recoil s in horror from her infant when she dis :°hvers its deformity, and afterwards depends with a submission upon her strong-minded, gentle - hearted daughter, is well sanie stern Described. The ar characteristics which, to our thinking, red "The Ogilvies," are, however, to some extent - le in " Olive." Th e ar ti s t, t o w hose teaching the h i t i l e tne owes so much, is somewhat repulsive, and ar e a l 14 the c h aracter an d a l terna ti ons of mind of e -d (the h ero ) are portraye d w ith con seiderable Power, th ere i s some thi ng i n his story, a v n e d a in the fact of his position—a clergyman Withinan infidel—which, although of course the l• • _ units of possibility, is not in harmony with '4.sYropathies and tastes of the generality of readers. a ti t,w. e must not expect too much. Few writers can eanalbine opposite characteristics ; and a pen whic h , Powerfully describe strong emotions may natuz hraoiwlye be deficient in softness. The author of " . ol w iv . e n , g th es ' J ar) can occasionally infuse into her drawing the e touches of nature which give an attraction to the least attractive theme. The sister of the artist, so_enlother of Harold, the old Scotch aunt, and . i others of the characters introduced in Olive" are so attractive and aS ake see n n o „ll us regret th at t h e au thoress so should natural ever she can Y a° to astonish and t o p a in her readers, when e asily fascinat e an d d e light them. The R OMANC E of the PEERAGE. By G. Lillie Craik at That truth • Vol. Chapman and Hall. ls stranger than fiction is verified in the tovv 'lge and interesting events recorded in this work, wheth°llepleted by the publication of the third volume. stories er regard e d only as a collection of romant i c chapter or as a suppl emen t a l an d most attractive b y k l , h" to the of history of Great B unritain, s folded ,44-v4r. Romance Craik, i s at once a most interest tere.od most useful contribution to historical litera of his 4414 mg the most conspicuous and attractive 1 )114 stories in this third volume, is that of Anne ea s of Monmouth and Buceleuch, to whom the v 1,2 minstrel " recited his memorable " lay," and dumeutsieontnisfortunes are commemorated in the intro- 46 Tho ugh ----- she had known adversity, born of such a high degree, In pride of power and beauty's bloom, } - 1 1(1 wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb." ear",B4SSINATION AT VERSAILLES. —On Sunday, Perren, of the Ist regiment of Carabiniers, stationed . e Petites Ecuries at Versailles, passed an inspection of d Ure e t ° 7 l PanY, and severely rebuked one of the soldiers, th n e am da e y b efor t e or not having his arms in good order; and, as ti lt the man had not appeared at muster, the captain anre e t t ned him, in the event of his again . offending, to re- Priv: 4 ' 1 . 41 from the first class of the repiment, and to de. fan e , ; h l nl of place he held in the fencing school. Grut ane,: 4l g that the captain had conceived hatred against him, his tVta, itreating him with injustice on that account, loaded the —°` and Waite d . for the captain on a staircase. When PitorirfiTanate ,breast appeared the . man discharge r d ea t u h d e , and th, gn,t in hi. The captain fell to . the g th e eo ,, 4 41 every assistance was afforded to him he died in resist: l ' B e of a few hours. The assassin made no attempt al : pe en at and d was secured; his conduct in the regiment bad goo. ha, 1 , tbORE POWDER MAGAZINE.—PubIic attention 0 , 1 ; 'Jaen aroused to the extremely unguarded and danger swa c"ndition of the powder magazine at Laudore, near powd er This magazine, which contains a store of gun ys er a mounting to nearly six tons, is situated in deo ger . - is d • P r °:timity to the South Wales Railway, from which it _ e istant only a few yards, and it is nightly passed by TIU• ro I as workmen hearing lighted torches, and often carrying inangerous combustibles. The danger, however, is greatly th e : e ased at the present time, from the fact that there is in Iti ; r oof a hole nearly half a yard square; and should fire by to re, chance communicate with the interior through this aper re, the consequences would be fearful to contemplate. rnt CORNWALL RAILWAY.—We hear that this II - °", _Net Will b e f orthwith achieved, and that arrangements are , n utg y which the Cornwall Railwa y Coin- VtaY makin will carry out their existin railway g from Plymouth to Pal ih, as intended when their Act was obtained. antxrLosioN or A. MAIL SAO.—An accident of a gular nature, and likely to have been attended by great oeenience occurred to the Canterbury letter-bag from .!-ondon, en donday night. On arrival at Dover (whither 'lle Canterbury mail is conveyed), it was thrown on the cart, when a sudden and violent explosion took place, re aenibling the fi r i ng of a rocket; and, on opening the bag, it "le ..as disc overed that th e contents were on fi re, b ut, ow i ng to tight manner in hich th letters and pape were Packed, fee/ were burnt w , the fire smouldering more. rs Wag'Bow many were scorched and blackened. A box, which it .esupposed occasioned the explosion, was detained for fur . - t_nar inquiry. Whatever it was that caused the accident, it sw, evident that the explosion arose from the tag being •nrow n u, o which brought the combustible into forcible con tact—Kentish Observer. ThSTATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY. — ere is no decided change in the yarn market since Tues e.4l3',the same features continuing to appear, the slight altera 11'gtriaprices favouring the buyers as before ; notwithstand ,ot for , t r i ni s e manufacturer:, are still well engaged; if it were , the dullness of the market would be felt more. tilutgands ntho . ere is a li ttle more inquiry since Tuesday, but re Di cbange in prices. T 11 141 DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The new comedy of the Old Love and the New still continues to attract crowded houses. We again witnessed its representation last evening, and were de lighted by the sparkling brilliancy of its epigrammatic dislogue, and the admirable manner in which the author has contrived to keep the attention of the spectator rivetted to the stage from the beginning of the play to the end. The play acts much closer than it did on the night of its production. Camilla Haythorn is per haps the most fascinating and vivacious of Nlrs.Nisbett's characters ; we' prefer it to her Lady; Gay Spanker, and consider it quite equal,:if not superior, even to her Constance. Mrs. Ternan, as the old maid, Miss Trimmer, was excellent ; and Mr. thrratt, as old Haythorn, is one of the most mellow and hearty old men on the stage. The pantomime still continues to draw. HAYMARKET THEATRE. .Mr. Macready appeared last night in the character of Benedick for the last time, at least so announced; but we strongly urge upon Mr. l'.lticready that he should repeat this, the finest piece of high comedy we have seen for years, at least once egain. During the many years that Mr. Macready has been on the stage he has a►ways been regarded in the metropolis as exclusively a tragedian, and until 1-e eppeared in the character of Benedick Lit Drury . lane, about eight years since, and took the town by storm, no one gave him credit fdr being superior in comedy, for so he undoubtedly is, to what he even is in tragedy. This is much to be regretted, for there is in Mr. Mac ready a rich vein of comic humour, which to the metropolitan playgoer is unknown and consequently unappreciated. We have seen him in the provinces act several comedy characters (among them Petruchio and Puff) in a style of excellence, and with a degree of humour and of true comic gusto, which we may seek for in vain in any professed commedian at present on the stage. Could it not be arranged that, at the conclusion of his present engagement, Mr. Macready should appear in a range of comedy character? At all events he ought not to retire from the stage until at least the conclusion of the present season ; it will be most unpatriotic in him to deprive our stage of its best actor, just when all the world are about to visit us. We hope that if it be only to sustain our dramatic character among our continental neigh bours, Mr. Macready will delay his final retirement from the stage until after the Great Exhibition. CHELTENHAM THEA TRE. The operatic company, who made their debfit on Tuesday evening last week at the Royal Old Wells, have performed on several subaequent evenings,.anti their engagement continues during the present and a portion of the coming week. On Thursday the splendid opera of La Sonnambula was performed, and rep-ated on Friday, and last evening the Bohemian Girl was played for the second time. This evening will be presented Donizetti's opera of La Figlia del Reggimento, and to-morrow Lucia di Lammermoor. Ot the manner in which these operas have been put upon the stage and of the talents of the principal singers, it would be difficult to speak too highly. Since the first evening, when the effect was marred by an unavoidable irregularity on the part of the orchestra, everything has gone on smoothly and to the perfect satisfaction of the au dience. On each evening Miss Isaacs, Mr. Travers, and ;Signor Borrani have been warmly encored, and their appearance demanded not only at the close of the opera, but between the acts, a compliment which they richly deserved. Miss Isaacs in particular possesses a voice of great power and sweetness, and she possesses also the happy art of so managing it that her most impassioned passages are given without any apparent effort. As an actress, too, she has very high claims on our admiration ; easy, natural, and graceful, yet full of power and truthfulness, her delineations of character are always pleasing and never overstrained. Of Borrani it is unnecessary to speak at any length; his splendid voice must be heard to be appreciated. Mr. Travers is, in truth, a magnificent singer ; from the first moment that he opened his lips on the Cheltenham stage he became an established favourite with his audience. In some of his arias, as well as in the concerted scenes with Miss Isaacs, the effect was equal to anything we have ever listened to—it was the very perfection of vocal harmony. We strongly advise every one of our musical readers not to neglect the opportunity of witnessing these operas. This evening and on Thurs day the performance will be under the patronage of the Right Hon. Lord Northwick, the Right Hon. Lord de Saumarez, Sir Archibald and Lady Mac laine, and Colonel and Mrs. Cox.—Cheltenham Examiner. THE GRAND BALL AT THE PAVILION. (From the Brighton Gazette.) The principal suite of rooms at the Pavilion has been the scene of great and brilliant assemblages in the times of the late monarchs George IV. and Wil liam IV., but we quesrion whether at any time during their reigns there was so large and brilliant a gathering as was witnessed on Tuesday night, the time chosen for the inauguration of the newly. deco rated apartments. It is . now several years since Queen Victoria gave up the Pavilion as a royal residence. As soon as it became known that it was not her Majesty's intention any longer to visit this unique marine abode, the di lapidation: of the beautiful rooms commenced, and in a short space of time various ornaments were literally torn down, and so recklessly was this work of spoila tion carried on that the great chandelier in the music room was smashed to atoms in the endeavour to re move it. Our townspeople will remember the dilapi dated state of these rooms, which only a few short months previously were admired by every observer for the elegance and extraordinary taste displayed throughout the whole range. To restore these rooms to anything like their for mer state appeared to be impossible, but that they have been so far renovated—not, it is true, with such costly materials as before—as to astonish those who were previously well acquainted with them is a fact, and the similarity in many respects is so great that it will require the nicest eye to discover the difference. The pleasing reminiscence of the gay scene on Tuesday night will not easily be effaced. Mr. Pen ley, we hear, has already a painting in preparation on this attractive subject, and many distinguished fami lies, we understand, have condescended to honour him by sitting for their portraits. THE POPISH MOVEMENT.--THE LORD-LIEUTE• NANT OF IRELAND.—A correspondent of the Morning Herald writes as follows :—" I have tome reason for saying' that you were right in your statement this morning, that Lord Clarendon had tendered his resignation. The real truth I believe to be this. It was originally intended that Ireland should be excluded from the Bill to obviate Popish aggres sion, and the heads of such a Bill were actually placed before the Cabinet some days ago. For some reason or another it was subsequently determined that Ireland should be included, and the heads of an amended Bill to that effect were sent over to Lord Clarendon, who on seeing it immediately ten dered his resignotion. I think you have been premature in stating that the Lord-Lieutenancy had been offered to the Duke of Devonshire. How the matter has.been patched up time will, no doubt, disclose." CARDINAL WISEMAN THE DFSCENDANT OF A SCOTCH CHEESEMONGER.—The Falkirk Herald says : —Our readers may perhaps be astonished to learn that this cele brated cardinal, according to current report, is a regular de scendant of the Wisemane cheesedealers, &c., in the town of Strathaven. It is generally reported in the middle ward of Lanarkshire—with what truth we know not—that one of the Wisemans adventured as far as Cork, about the middle of the last century, to try his fortune in Ireland ; that the said Mr. Wiseman took up a cheese and a provision store in Cork ; that, by a subsequent marriage. he became entangled with a Roman Catholic wife; and that the mother, thinking she was ruling the fate of the boy, sent him to Spain, whence we have received Cardinal Wiseman. There can be no doubt but that Wiseman is nearly a local name, and that it is peculiar to Strathaven. Many of the name are yet cheese dealers there. THE LAW LECTURESHIPS, INNER TEMPLE.--Pre vious to the lecture in the ball of the Inner Temple on Tues day last, the treasurer of the society, the Right Hon. S. Lushington, prese n t e d a set of Coke ' s Inst i tu t es an d Reports to Mr. Henry James, o f t h e Mi ddle T emp l e , who had ob tained the society's prize at the first annual examination (1850) of the students attending the lectures on common law. CHESS.—We have to record the death of another eminent chess player, H. Filson, Esq., of Spring Vale, Isle of Wight, one of the last surviving veterans of the transi tion school, betwee❑ those of Phil►dor and De La Bourdon nais. He was distinguished amongst the champions of the board by imperturbable amenity and courtesy. For these harpy qualities, not less than for his mastery of the noble game, be was selected as marshal of the lists for England, in the memorable contest at Paris, between Staunton and St. Amant—Halifax Guardian. CABINET OF CURIOSITIES.—A plate of butter from the cream of a " joke." A small quantity of tar, supposed to have been left where the Israelites " pitched" their tents. The original brush used in painting the " Signs of the Times." The apple of the " eye of faith." A bucket of water from " All's well." Some small coins in the change of the moon. Soap with which a man was " washed" over board. The loaf from which the " crumbs of comfort" fall. The strop which is used to sharpen the water's edge. The rope with which " Jacob lifted up his voice." A tooth from the mouth of the Mississippi. Part of the tail of the striped pig. A brick from the house th 4 Jack built. A spoke from the wheel of fortune. The pencil with which Britannia ruled the waves A portion of the yeast used in raising the wind. A portion of the sugar used in the sling with which David slew Goliath. A sheaf from the shock of an earth quake. The saucer belonging to the cup of sorrow. The handle from Jonah's gourd. The ear of the wrong tow very much pulled. CAPE or GOOD HOPE—Letters and papers have been received from this colony to the 4th December. The information furnished is far from satisfactory. Matters on the frontier had again become unsettled, and required the presence of his Excellency Sir Harry Smith, who, with his suite, and two companies of the 73d regiment. would leave Cape Town on the sth for that purpose. The remaining forces, consisting of two companies, under Colonel Eyre, would join his Excellency immediately. The accounts from Natal represent that colony to be steadily advancing in pros perity. Upwards of one thousand emigrants had arrived out in the space of a fortnight, and towns and villages were ra pidly rising. Agricultural pursuits were being carried on with spirit and Ames& SUN, LoviDO MR. COBDEN onNATIONAL EDUCATION, MANCHESTER, JAN. 23.—Last evening the. Ira• tional Public School Association, recently founded here on the basis of the late Lancashire Public Schoci Association, held its annual meeting, and Mr. Cobden , M.P., and Mr. Milner Gibson, having accepted invi tations to be present, there was a very large attendance of members and friends of both sexes. Mr. Alex an der Henry, the president, took the chair, and opened the proceedings, and after some prelimii iary and routine busine'ss Mr. Cobden was called upon to Move the first resolution. Mr. COBDEN presented himself amid loud arid pro longed cheers. He said the resolution was— " That the present' aspect of the educational +question gives high testimony to the value of the effort sof this asscciadon, and promises a complete and. speedy triumph." The Hon. Gentleman, after observing that' the aspect of tbe room, from its crowded state, affo riled great encouragement to the friends of education, continued —But Ido not disguise from myself, and lam sure ou will riot conceal from your minds, r: rat we are indebted in some degree for this meetirg to a recent movement which has taken place in your city by gentlemen who have hitherto not taker i a prominent port in the cause of national education. Now, I join most unfeiiznedly in the expressions •if congratula tion used by the gentlemen who have jinst addressed you, on the fact that these parties It av e come for ward to avow to some extent their, adhesion to th e principles of this association.—(:Hear, hear.) They have given the sanction of their approval to the main features - . of this association. As has been well observed, they have adopted the principle of local rating, and I may further say they har e, by one of the provisions of the scheme they have published to the world, given their adhesion to our principle of se cular education, inasmuch as they leave to the parents of children the power of demanding for their children exemption from that 'doctrinal teachi og hitherto held as indispensable.—(Applause.) I must confess I have always been so imbued-.with the difficulties of this question, that if a proposal had been made calculated to give an improved education, to the people, coupled with conditions ten times as objectionable as those which we have lately had propounded to us, Ido not think I could have found , it in my heart to offer any strong ,opposition to it., I have really passed that time that I could offer opposition to any scheme whatever, come from whatever party it may, which proposes to give to the masses better education than they at present receive. —(Hear, `hear.) I will say more. I have not taken up :any general se cular system from any original love' of a system of education which either separates itself from religien, or which sets up any peculiar or novel model of a system of education that shall be different from any thing that has been proposed in this country. I confess that, for fifteen years nearly, my efforts in education, and hopes of success in a system of national education had always been associated with the idea of coupling education in this country, with the various religious communities which exist; but I have found, after trying it, as I think, in nearly every , possible shape, such insuperable difficulties, in conse quence of religious discords in this country, that I have taken refuge in this, which has been called a remote haven of refuge for educationalists of all the secular systems, in sheer despair of finding any other system of education. I should, therefore, be a hypo crite if I said I was repugnant to a system of educa tion coupled with religious instruction.—(Hear, hear.) But there is no one can have a stronger con viction of the utter uselessness of attempting to unite the religious bodies of this country in any system of education. Indeed, I can hardly bring myself to give serious consideration to the plan brought forward by some gentlemen in this borough, no doubt with the very best intentions, and before they have been en gaged in it a year I believe they will perceive the hopelessness of the task. For what do they propose to do ? It it precisely what Parliament, the Govern ment, and the Council of Education have been at tempting to do for a great number of years. It is to give a system of education to the country which shall comprise religious instruction, and which shall call upon the people of the country to subscribe, by means of taxation, by rates, for the general religious as well as secular instruction of the country. There is no novelty in the scbeme ; it is merely a proposal to tranfer to Manchester, as a theatre, the contest which has before been going on in the Housef of Commons and the Government. It is, in fact, a proposal whereby everybody shall be called upon to pay for the religious teachers of everybody else.—(" Hear," and a laugh.) Now, that has precisely been objected to by a great portion of this community, and is what has prevented the present system, administered through orders in Council, from having been success ful. Certainly, there is this novelty—that for the first time abolly of churchmen have themselves come forward and reCcomnaended that all religious denomi nations shall be allowed to receive the public money for the teaching of their own catechisms and creeds. So far we have no difference with the quarter from which the proposal comes ; but this does not alter the character of the opposition of those who have opposed the Minutes of Council and the grants of Government and Parliament and national education. It is exactly the same thing, whether every Nonconformist, and all the religious voluntaries of the country, shall receive the public money and pay the public money for the pur pose of religious teaching through a Jocal rate, or whe ther they shall ask for the money which has, through the Minutes in Council, been voted by Parliament. There is no difference in the two proposals, except that one is to be done by means of local rates in Manchester, and the other out of the national taxes. How are we thus, then,to escape the difficulties in the religious question which we'have hitherto had to encounter ? if the members of the dissenting bodies have been sincere in their opposition hitherto to a national sys tem as administered through the Minutes of Council, there is not the slightest hope of that proposal which has now emanated from the Churchmen of Man- chester being accepted by the Dissenters of this country. But after all, perhaps, we are dealing with the plan of an individual rather than the manifesto of a party. lam not sure that any party in this city, any religious body as a body, or committee as a com mittee, have endorsed the proposal now submitted to us. Nor do I think the gentlemen who have so far given in their adhesion to it have considered the ultimate bearing and scope of the proposal put forward. It is based upon the principle of voting the public money for the teaching of the religious creeds of every religious denomination ; for if it does not recognise that principle it is an unjust proposal—(Hear and applause.) Now, I doubt if the gentlemen who have so far advocated this new system as to attend in person to hear it mooted, have fully considered the ultimate scope of what must he the result if it is to be carried out with anything like fairness; for it amounts to this—that you shall pay from the public rates of this city the money for educating children in church schools where, inde• pendent of the secular instruction which they shall receive, they shall be taught the Church Catechism ; and also to the Independents, Baptists, Unitarians, Wesleyans, the same system shall be applied, by which, besides the secular instruction which shall be enforced, they shall be allowed to teach their various creeds or catechisms. But there is a large body in Manchester and Salford—a large body lying in the very lowest stratum, as you may say, in society, whose education must be embraced in any way, or that plan must be worse than a pretence, for it must be fraught with downright injustice and negligence to the most necessitous portion of the community. I speak of the Roman Catholic population, which was described in Dr. Kaye's pamphlet, written some 14 years ago (he is now Sir Kaye Shuttlewortb) ; that part of the population of Manchuster and Salford which he has described, comprising 60,000 or 80,000 Irish, all Roman Catholics, who have imported into this city a great deal of that barbarism which has unfortunately characterised the country whence they came. Any system which does not embrace that portion of the population cannot be tolerated for a moment as a system.—(Loud cheers.) I say, therefore, that the proposal of the Church party must mean that money shall be paid out of the public rates to provide school ing for the whole of those Roman Catholic children and be , ides the secular instruction they shall receive they shall be taught their own catechisms and be per mitted to observe their own religious ceremonies pre cisely in the same way that the Church of England or dissenting schools are allowed to do. Have these gentlemen made up their minds that they will pay rates for the purpose of the religious training of the Roman Catholic children? I say I should be a hypo crite if I expressed very great repugnance myself to that which shall give these poor children an education even coupled with that sort of instruction which, I am sure, to many here present, would be very repugnant; but have they made up tbeir minds that the whole of the Roman Catholic children of Manchester shall be taught their religion at the expense of the ratepayers of Manchester ?—(Hear, hear.) When they talk of enforcing the reading of the Bible, have they made up their minds whqt version shall be used ?—(Cheers.) Has it been settled, and do they mean, that the Douay version of the Bible should be used in these schools ? Because, if they do not mean that, when they make the Bible the condition of receiving any schooling, then it is at once shutting the door most effectually to the instruction of the Roman Catholic children in this town. Do not let any one suppose for a moment that I am interpreting these objections as my own objections —they are what I have had to encounter for the last fifteen years. So long ago as 1836,1 remember when Mr. Wyse, himself a Ca tholic, and Mr. Simpson, of Edinburgh, came here to enlighten us and agitate us on the subject of educa tion. I remember as long ago as that having in my countinghouse ministers of religion of every denomi nation in Manchester, endeavouring to bring them to some sort of agreement on a system of schooling ; and I believe the insuperable difficulties I then encoun tered are increased now. And these very gentle men who, probably with the best intentions, have FRIDAY FVF,'NING. JANUARY 24, 1851, brought forward this Wan, will find before they have taken one-twentieth part of the trouble with it which some gentlemen in this room have given to the education question, they have attempted an impossibility, and will be compelled to turn aside from what they have attempted to do and join our ranks—that is, if we do nothing, as I hope we shall not, which shall repel them. Our difficulties are pre cisely those that have had to be encountered in Holland and America. Both have gone through the same ordeal. When the pilgrim fathers landed in New England, there no doubt the education given embraced religious teaching. Everybody was taught the same catechism, but as the number of sects in creased it was found that these religious questions became a great bone of contention. The Americans have had to go through precisely the same ordeal that we are going through in this country, and it has ended precisely as it will end in this country. The fundamental principle is laid down in the Massa chusetts statute for erecting common schools, which says, "that no hook shall be admitted into the schools. and nothing shall be taught in them, which favour, the particular doctrine or any peculiar Christian seer." —(Hear, hear.) In Holland they have come to the canoe conclusion. There they have adopted a secular system, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.—(Hear, hear.) Now, I think if ever there was a time when it was desirable more than another to try and separate religious education from secular instruction it is the present time. And I will tell 3ou why. We have arrived at that periou when all the world is agreed that secular education is a good thing for society. All were agreed that it is a good thing that English boys and girls should be taught to read and write and spell, and as much grammar and geography as they can possibly imbibe. There is no difference of opinion about putting the elements of knowledge into the minds of every child in this land, if it can be done. But while we are united on that point can any one who moves in society for a moment conceal from himself that we have also arrived at a time when we have probably more religious discord impending over us than at any other period of our history ?—(Cheers.) When I speak of religious discord, I don't mean merely the dissensions between the Roman Catholics and Protestants ; I will not allude to them except so far as they lead to schisms and controversies in the internal state of other religious bodies. But I think there is, no doubt, at this moment looming in the dis tance, and not in the very remote distance either, a schism in the Church of England itself.—(Hear.) You have two parties in that Church, the one perhaps stronger than the other in numbers, but the other far more strong in intellect and logic, which are going to divide the Church. Then I see the Wesleyan body also torn asunder by a schism which the most sanguine can hardly hope to see healed. Ido not think several other reli g i ous b o di es are perfectly tranquil in thei internal organ i zat i on. Now, while we have the prospect o f t h ese great internal dissensions in religi ous bodies, and while we are all agreed that secular education is a desirable thing, would it be desirable, if it could be effected, if it were practicable—which I believe it is not—that oar national system of education should be one united and bound up with the religious organizations, and by which the schisms which prevail in the churches must neces sarily be transferred with increased virulence to the schools ?—(Cheers.) For bear in mind that what you see now pervading in the churches in Scotland, where you have an irreconcilable dispute with regard to the appointment of masters to the parochial schools of Scotland—a dispute between the old Kirk and the Free Church—recollect, if what I say be correct, when you have an impending schism in the Anglicarr Church, you will have precisely the same difficulty in the appointment of masters, In one parish the High Church party will predominate, and will dwell upon the necessity of the master ob serving all the oldiorms of our Church and enforcing all the old ritual and observances prescribed by the Liturgy and Canons; and, on the other hand, you will have the Low Church party dwelling upon the more vital essence of religion, and encouraging the dis continuance of those forms which the other party re gard as of greater importance. And depend upon it, that while these discords pervade the Church you will have them in the schools also ; you will have to fight the battle again and again to reconcile the various religious bodies, and in the end you will find yourselves obliged to return to the secular system which has been adopted in the United States and in Holland.—(Cheers.) While I have been visit- ing Leeds and Huddersfield, I have repeatedly sought interviews with the liberal Dissenters, and have endeavoured to h ave an unres t r i c t e d discussion with them on this question, rather than in the public arena, where they might be committed to opinions which I hope when they have seen our plans they will be prepared at least to modify.—(Hear.) Now I have found that one of the objections to our plan has been that alluded to by Mr. Schwabe, when he spoke of the vast number of schools already in existence, and the objection that we were supposed to propose to supersede all the existing schools, and render the school-rooms valueless. Now, it is my firm belief that if a system such as we proposed were adapted, we should have no difficulty whatever in getting an Act of Parliament to levy a local rate in Manchester. (Hear, hear.) Ido not conceal from myself that if we establish free schools in every parish you will ultimately close all existing eleemosynary schools in which you now call upon children to pay 23. or 3d. a week. If they did not, they would not be worthy the name of national schools. But such being the case, I take it they would be purchased or rented as Mr. Schwabe has described, they might be rented on the week day and left on the Sundays in the hands of the different religious congregations for the purpose of reli g i ous teaching.—(Cheers.) Another objection I h ave h a d to encounter among our Dis senting friends is, that they have been inclined to imagine that the teaching children a little of reading, writing, grammar, and geography, is inimical to re ligion. Now, I have found a most curious refutation of this doctrine wherever I have been, in the practice of the very party who have objected to us. I re member, at Birmingham, I found a proprietary school, built by a joint-stock association, by men of every religious denomination—l heard, in fact, of a clergyman sending his son to it, Well, in that school there is no religion taught, and yet I found the' very parties who objected to us Were sending their sons to schools where secular education is avowedly separated from religious teaching.—(Cheers.) Again, I was present at a meeting in Yorkshire where one gentleman stoutly maintained that it was utterly , impossible to separate religious from secular teach ing ;it was in Huddersfield. Well, another E4'ntle man said to him, " How can you possibly maintain that doctrine when yo u k now you have sent your own son to our Huddersfield C o ll ege, where you know that we could not go on f or a d ay unless we all consented to separate religion f rom secular instruction ? (Cheers.) Again, the schools at the Huddersfield and our other mechanics' institutions are founded on that principle, and what I have said of the Hudders field Mechanics' Institution applies to all thoSe of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutions, of which our friend Mr. Baines is himself the president. —(Hear, hear.) I have found everywhere in my travels that gentlemen have afforded in their own practice the best possible augury of our future suc cess, and the best possibl e re f u t at i on o f t h e i r own principles.—(Cheers and l aughter.) However, , I am glad we have got from our Church friends in Man chester a corroboration of the doctrine with which we started—that the present system of schooling is very defective. Now, the great fallacy of school statistics has been that we have taken schoolhouses for school ing and bricks and mortar for good masters.— schools, and that it i s a I have no doubt there` have galva n i se an e ff ort i n a ' vb ( C ee re h yn e e v r ea s assty and h l laughter.) efforts u ng g h t o t t eor build.) con gregation to raise a school. And nothing is 8o common in men's minds as to think that when they have raised a school they have done a great "You have ; a n n l d en u ty ntil of school s , b u t th e thing for education. But I want t o k now w h at b r i cks and mortar do for education ? Th e gent l emen con nected with the Church school s system tell us that these schools in a great number o f cases stand"idle, and children don't come to them. N ow , i n connex i on with this point I have heard it menti one d w h erever I have been been that don't you adopt som e principle of compulsion and adopt a coerc i ve princi ple it is of no use building school s , for th e c hildr en will not attend them." Now, I have told them that we do not go so far as that yet. If you h ave good schools and schoolmasters I am firml y persuaded you t a t tte " n Y d will fill your schools; but if then you should find that people will bring up their children in idleness and ignorance, I do not know that it would be such an infringement upon the liberty of the subject if you did adopt some pl a n, first of all, perhaps, to seduce or bribe parents to send their children to school, or, if that would not do, to try a little compulsion. Mr. Cobden proceeded to say that some of the Dissenters years ago objected that they could not take money raised by taxes for teaching religion in schools ; and now, when it was proposed to accommodate them by sepa rating the religious from the secular, we were told by them that it was contrary to their religious convic tions to separate them.—(Cheers.) He must say he thought such a course, if persevered in, would go very far to alienate the feelings of the great mass of the community ; and as there was :n certain districts reason to fear that a great number of the working classes were not in community with either Dissent or Church, he feared it would very much alienate them from those who took an impracticable course —a course which should prevent the diffusion of education among the working classes, by setting up obstacles which it would be impossibl e for rational men to remove. If these gentlemen had a due ap preciation of the value of secular knowledge, he put it to them, did they not value it in their own case and that of their families ? He wished to know if such parties did or did not believe that secular knowledge was good in itself?— (Cheers.) Where was our boasted superiority over Frenchmen, Germans, Danes, and Italians, when the American Minister could come to our Town-hall and taunt us with the ignorance of our people, no one daring to rise up and say we bad done as much as they had in America? He agreed with Mr. Lawrence that there was danger in such a state of things, and that not a day should be lost till it was remedied. The Hon. Gentleman advised the association to pursue its own course steadily, showing no opposition to any- body, but inviting the concurrence of every one; and if he could be of service on any deputation, even to the new body who bad come forward in this town, to aid in removing any difficulties to unity of effort, he should be most happy to give his services. He sat down amid great cheering. Mr. AlimsEa GIBBON afterwards addressed the meeting in seconding the resolution, and it was car ried unanimously. Se.veral other speakers also followed in proposing and seconding routine resolutions. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—There is an account in your admirable paper of the 17th inst., of a meeting of the inhabitants of Birmingham in the Town hall of that important town, to consider of the propriety of again petitioning Parliament for the abolition of the law which prohibits a widower from marrying the sister of his deceased wife; there was a considerable attendance of ladies " The Mayor occupied the chair, and was supported by the Rev. J. C. Miller, Rector of St. Martin's, the Rev. J. B. Owen, Vicar of Bilston, R. Spooner, Esq., M.P., the Jewish Rabbi, resident in Birmingham, and Dissenting ministers, representing various con gregations of the town and neighbourhood. Letters were read from Mr. Scholefield, M.P., Mr. Muntz, M.P., and the Rev. J. A. James (Nonconformist), expressive of their concurrence in the object of the ' meeting, but regretting their inability to attend. The Rev. J. C. Miller and the Rev. J. B. Owen moved and seconded the adoption of a petition to Parliament, praying for the legislation of the marriages of the class above mentioned. The Rev. Prebendary Gray, warden of Queen's College, moved an amendment to the effect— 'That no petition upon the subject under discussion be presented to Parliament; that the marriage of a man with his deceased wife's sister was especially prohibited by Scripture, by the practice of the uni versal Church, and by the opinions of divines and theologians of all ages until a very recent period.' The Rev. Mr. Mackenzie, of the Scotch Church, se conded the amendment. Mr. Spooner, M.P., sup ported the p e titi on , an d t h e R ev. J. C. iller having replied, the Mayor proceeded to take the sense of the meeting. A very inconsiderable number (if hands were held up in favour of the amendment, and the original motion was carried almost unanimously, and amidst great applause." • With your permission, Sir, I feel a burning desire to speak a few words to the Reverend Prebendary Gray, warden of Queen's College, and to the Reverend Mr. Mackenzie, of the Scotch Church, the mover and seconder of the amendment. You say, most reverend gentlemen, " that the marriage with a deceased wife's sister was especially prohibited by Scripture,—by the practice of the uni versal Church,—and by the opinions of divines and theologians of all ages until a very recent, period '." to the whole of which assertions I very re s p ec tf u ll y beg leave to dissent, and to answer that yon do not assert the truth. Jo l h n n B th the chapter g and d ti e oy i u l; o ffi; a nd a y h o o u m t e o ly gi l v a e n verse which especially prohibits such marriages. Let us have no shu ffl ing, gentlemen, but speak out language ge the of like honest men. I have read my Bible as thoroughly and attentively as you have; and Ido not find the sub ject alluded to anywhere, but in the 18th chapter of Leviticus, and the 18th verse, and that applies only to the wife during her lifetime,—" Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, during her life time ! " Now, most Reverend Prebendary, Warden of Queen's College, and you also, most Reverend M r . Mackenzie, of th e Scotch Church,t rsubmit that you are bound to prove the authority you speak of, or, if you cannot do so, then common decency ought to compel you for ever afterwards to bold your peace ! What do you me a n by " the practice of the uni versal Church, and by the opinions of divines and theologians of all ages ?" I suppose you mean by " the universal Church" the Roman Catholic Church ; and there you are wrong, for in that Church the pro hibition was removed by procuring a dispensation, which was granted on payment of so much money, which varied in amount according to the wealth of the party, and the "divines and theologians" of all ages, until a very recent "period," which means the canons of the Romish Church. You might as well, I think, gentlemen, at this enlightened period, preach to the winds of heaven as to expect\ making converts for re-introducing the opinions of "divines and theo logians of the dark ages' again amongst us. It is now well known that the virulent and un heard-of opposition to the new Marriage Bill, both in 1849 and 1850, was headed by the Puseyites at Ox ford. Their wings are, however, in 1851, a little clipped, and few people will now attend to them ; and as to the members of the Kirk of Scotland, base and unnatural descendants of the pious and brave Cove nanters of old—bah! it is an abomination. I am, Sir, yours, ice., Regezit's•park, Jan. 20, 1851. ALFRED. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAN. 23. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert took their usual early morning walks. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise ,a the grounds around the Castle. Her Majesty rode out on horseback this morning, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The Hon. Miss Seymour (Maid of Honour in Wait ing), Major-General Wemyss, and Lieutenant-Colo nel F. H. Seymour were in attendance on the Queen and Prince. His Excellency the Baron and the Baroness de Brunnow, the Earl and Countess of Minto and Lady C. Elliot, the Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, Lord and Lady Ashburton, and the Right Honour able Fox Mauls are, expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty and the Prince. The Royal dinner party , at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Baron:and Baroness de Brunnow, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Earl and Countess of Minto and Lady C. Elliott, the Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke, Lord and Lady Ashburton, the Right Hon. Fox Maule, and Colonel Wilde. The band of the Coldstream Guards will attend during dinner. The Queen's private band will after wards attend in the Castle. Her Majesty's private band attended yesterday (Wednesday) in the Castle, and performed the follow ing selections:— Overture—"Muletier" ..... .. ilerold. Selection—" Fidelio" Des deutschen Vaterlands Fantasia on Welsh airs. The Governor of the Bank of England, and the Deputy Governor, had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. W. H. Lindsay had an interview with the Right lion. Henry Labouchere yesterday at the office of the Beard of Trade. The Rev. Daniel Wilson had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home•ffice. The Transatlantic Packet Station Commission held a meeting yesterday, at the Board of Trade. Present, Earl Granville (Chairman), Hon. William Cowper, Sir James Gordon, K.C.8., Sir John F. Burgoyne, K.C.8., and Captain Stephenson Ellerby. Lord Hobart (Secretary to the Commission) attended. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) left town yesterday, for his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. Mr. Green and Mr. Wood, Commissioners of Coal Whippers, and Mr. Tyrrell, City Remembrancer, had en interview with the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere yesterday. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Wednesday. The Hon. Col. Anson had an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet yesterday. Faith, Hope, and Charity, or Love, are three such inseparables that they have been likened to a plant, Faith being the root, Hope the upward rising stem, and Love the bright and glowing fruit. —Eliza Cook's Journal. CAUTION TO GAMBLERS —Some excitement was caused in Stourbridge on Friday evening last, Irons the cir cumstance of a man having killed another at a beer-house in the immediate neighbourhood of the theatre, while in the act of gambling. It appears that Elisha Loveridge, stated to belong to the gipsy tribe, and a man named John Clark, with others, were at a beer-house situate close to the theatre, kept by Jeremiah Knowles, where they had been drinking for some time, and where Clark and Loveridge were playing at a game called " Railway Bell," when some words ensued about some money which Loveridge said Clark had lost. On asking Clark for the money, the latter remarked that he had not got it to give him, upon which Loveridge rejoined, "If you don't pay, I'll knoi k your neck out," and immediately struck him a violent blow with his fist on the neck, which felled him to the floor. The poor man was quickly disco vered to be severely injured. He was unable to rise, but Wag heard to exclaim, "Oh, 'Lijah, don't strike me egal% Medical aid was sent for, but the poor man expire,elsicna p a c, out le minutes. Loveridge directly afterwards made his of the beer-house, when a diligent pursuit Was instituted, but as yet without success. The deceased .. On Monday ed was a glass cutter, and has left a wife and a largeteam ]:sq., and a jury, an inquest was held before Ralph Doc kr, l .0 es• at the Talbot hotel, and was adjourned till Fr id ay .— ter Chronicle. A HINT TO QUICK Ki rEas.—Locke says th a t the faster a man writes the slower others read what he has written. Napoleon could write fourteen pages in a minut e; unfortunately, however, ea ch page consists of eight blots and a splatter. Some of hie lines to Maria Lo u i sa appear to have been scatter ed over tue paper by an explosion of a bombshell, they are so knocked into cocked hats and mashed cockroaches. MURDER NEAR BURY ST. EDIIIUND'S. LAWSUALL, SUFFOLK, TIIURSDAY.—Since the dis covery of the murder of Elizabeth B Ainbridge facts have come to light which conclusively show that the deed was perpetrated under circumstances of peculiar deliberation and atrocity. As previously mentioned, the deceased wes a mar ried woman, but for some years had lived apart from her husband. She was about 30 years of age, and appears to have borne an exemplary character. Her parents, with whom she had resided since her sepa ration from her husband, are in comfortable circum stances, living at a small farm, and ere much respected in the neighbourhood. On the afternoon of the day on which she met with her fearful end she had been on a visit at her bro ther's house, the Harrow Inn. She left there between three and four o'clock to return to her father's, about mile and a quarter dnitant, the alleged murderer, George Can't, who had been lodging at her brother's for some days past, following her, as is believed. acroi , , , the fiel.k. It is evid-nt, from the tattered condition of her dte , s and the state of the grotml near the pond where the body was discovered, that a fearful struggle mu,t have ensued between the un happy victim and her murderer. It is conjectured that a refusal to comply with vowe improper over tures on his part led to a struggle, and that in a mo ment of revenge he forced her into the pond, when-, from the shallowness of the water and the pot.iLion in which she was fiaind, it is apparent she must have been held down with considerable violence in order to destroy her life. The pond is in a very lonely situa tion, and the banks are thickly studded with bushes. On Tuesday an inquest on the body was held be • fore Mr. Harry Way man, one of the coroners for the county, at the Harrow public-house. The body of the woman presented the appearance of a fine healthy woman of ordinary stature, possessing rather pleasing features, and, with the exception of a slight brui s e on the side of the head, there was no thing to indicate that she had met a violent death. Both arms, however, bore marks of having been tightly gripped, evidently inflicted while the poor creature was being held under the water. James Payne, the father of the deceased, stated that on Monday night, in consequence of his daughter being missed, he assisted in searching after her. He commenced the search between nine and ten o'clock at night, Police -constable Keeble and George Farrow accompanying him. They traced footsteps of one person along Mr. Bigsley's pastures and across two ploughed fields of Mr. Reeman, and then into two pastures belonging to the same gentleman. In the second pasture they lost the track. Just over the stile of that field, in a pasture of Mr. Payne's, was a pond, in which they first looked, and, not finding anything there, they returned over the stile and went to a pond in Mr. Reeman's pasture. They had two lanterns, and could see the clothes of a woman in the water. They got the body out, but before they had succeeded in removing it he discovered it to be that of the deceased. She was quite dead and cold. By the COKONEE—I had no personal knowledge of any intimacy existing between the deceased and George Carnt, but such a circumstance was mentioned to me once by a third person. Jane Clark was next examined—l am in the ser vice of Mr. William Payne, the landlord of the Har row Inn. I knew the deceased. She was my mas ter's sister. Last Thursday week she came to her brother's to assist, there being a club-feast. She continued there until Monday afternoon about a quarter-past three o'clock, when she left the house by the front door, having with her a bundle. When she left she went across the road into Mr. Bigsley's pas tures, where there is a footpath leading towards her father's house, it being the most direct way across the fields. That was the last I saw of her. She was in very good spirits and appeared as usual when she left. I know George Carnt, who has been lodging at the Harrow about a week. He was in the kitchen when the deceased left, and upon her going out at the front door I heard the back door shut, and upon returning into the kitchen I found Carat was gone. I did not notice in what direction he went. The next time I saw him was about seven o'clock the same evening. He came into the house by himself at the back door. He shook very much ; his clothes were wet and dirty. He had no hat on ; his neckerchief was off, and he brought it in in his hand. He stood before the fire about ten minutes before he made any re mark, when he said, " The halter is for my neck." My master said, " Nonsense," and asked him what he had been doing. He made no reply. My mas ter was about to take his clothes off, when he said, "Let me alone, it does not signify what becomes of me • the gallows is my d oom ." M y master gave him a glass of brandy, when he said, "This is the last drop of brandy I shall have." He then went up stairs, my master going up with hi m . By the CORONER—Last Sunday morning I saw the deceased and Carnt together in a room about twenty minutes. I have seen him attentive to her upon several occasions. I think he liked her, and from deceased's manner I think she liked him. John Keeble, an officer in the Suffolk constabu lary, was next called—On Monday night, between nine and ten o clock, I was on duty, and when pass ing the harrow public-house at Lawshall I was called in by Mr. Payne, the deceased's brother. Mr. Payne produced to me a man's day clothes ; they were muddy and wet. A pair of high shoes, partially filled with mud and water, were likewise p ro d uce d to me. In cons equence o f the condition of these articles, and of what Mr. Payne told me about his sister, I went into a room and there saw Carnt in bed. He was awake. I asked him what was the matter. He made no reply. I then asked him where Elizabeth Bainbridge was ; he made no answer. I then took him in charge. The deceased's father was in the room. I got a lantern, and, accompanied by her fa ther and George Farrow, I went in search of her. We went across the road into a meadow, at the end of which, by the gateway, I could see the footsteps as of a man and woman going in the direction from the Harrow, and the footsteps of the male person only proceeding or returning in the direction towards the Harrow. We then went across another meadow through a gateway, where we saw precisely similar foot marks. We went across another meadow into Mr. Reeman's ploughed fields, and proceeded over two of them up to a stile, adjoining Mr. Reeman's mea dow, where there appeared the footmarks of two per-' sons, male and female, as if they had trampled about very much. We went across that meadow into an other meadow, and at the gateway we could observe similar footsteps to those first described. We went up to the next stile, adjoining Mr. Payne's meadow, where we lost the trace of the footsteps. We looked in a pond in Mr. Payne's meadow, and then returned into Mr. Reeman's meadow and looked round a pond there, which is some six or seven rods from the stile. I saw something on the top of the water. I touched it with my stick, and then went into the pond. I found it to be the body of a woman. She lay upon her left side. I turned her over, and discovered it to be the body of the deceased, whom I previously knew. She was quite dead and stiff. She had no bonnet on. Her hair was quite dishevelled. Her gown was torn nearly all round from the gathers. There was blood flowing from one of her nostrils, and there was the appearance of a blow upon ber right cheek, just under the eye. There were scratches about her face, apparently done by thorns ; the pond is partially surrounded by thorn bushes. About five yards off the pond I saw a cloak and a bundle ; the cloak was much torn, and the strings cut off. I took from the deceased a lace collar, much torn. This morning I went with Superintend ent Death to the pond. We noticed the print of a man's foot slipping into the pond, and where he fell. We then went to the other side of the pond, and saw the prints of a man's footsteps coming out of the pond. We had Carnt's high shoes with us, and we compared them with the footsteps of the person leaving the pond. They exactly corresponded in width, length, and the size and form of the toe-plates. George Farrow,.a labourer living in the village, said he was in the Harrow public-house about seven o'clock on Monday evening, and saw George Carnt come into the . kitchen. His cl o th es were muddy and wet. He had no hat on. He asked him where he had been ? He said, " Pray don't say anything to me about it. The halter is for my neck." Witness and Mr. Payne went up stairs with him and put him to bed. He was shaking when he came in, and appeared very cold. Witness afterwa r d s w ent u p to him, i asked him how he was ? He said, "I am much bet ter, but the halter will be my d oom , f o r the Devil has got bold of me." He asked witness to giro him his band, which he did ; and he then said, This a the last night I ever shall see you." William Payne confirmed the testimony of the last witness. I never saw any inti macy b e- By the Cottoseit—_ Carnt, nor has either of t h em tween my sister and Image, surgeon of Bury St. Mr. William }Amu had mentioned the tCCdiretUtUl:t he examined the body of circumstance to me. Mr. King, of fieriest. Her hair bevelled, leaves being entangled amongst it. was e filled with mud. On the right aide of The, ears v‘er E th d e ni d u e i c ' e d a ' s B :T:vi th tho f„ce there were marks of abrasion of the skin, pa rtly on the cheek and chin. There was ecchymosis on the right eye; the pupils were partially dilated. The lips had a bluish cast, and there were blue patches on the face. The nails were filled with sand and mud, and just below the elbow on the outer side of both arms were found two bruises corresponding in intensity. The skin was not broken, but much d6culourca. Found the jaw firmly fixed, and the teeth tightly clenched. The tongue was covered with mud and froth, and the air passages were filled with froth and mud. He considered that the deceased died from suffocation, resulting from immersion in the water ; was of opinion that she had been forcibly detained in the water, and held down so as to effect her suffoca tion. The CORONER then summed up the evidence, and the jury having consulted •for a short time, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against George Cara," r:~~ -- ^ =~ SPORTIIN Gr INTEL LI GEN CE. TA I' fERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STARES. Offers to take 2 to 1 about Grecian. CIESTER CUP. 12 to 1 agst Mr. Treeu'a Rnesus—taken and after. wards offered 18 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack —take 20 to 1 18 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklana's The Italian—take 20 to 1 28 to 1 ugat Mr. Brown's Haricot —taken 30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evelyn—taken freely 30 to 1 sgst Lord Eglititon's Knight of Avenel—t 30 to 1 agst Lord evfiet.'s W alit rwer—token 50 to 1 agst Lord Clitden's The Elting (lout, 1 000 to 15 agst Mr. Downes'.; Strap—taken 1,000 to 10 agst, Mr. Nlnegau'), Ites,bor4,u.:ll—taken lt he, us. et,S;qld:, haricot, L:dly Eve]) 0. :end The Knight of Av(IA, e .1 41 /I..vieSt, *it improved gnotAlut.s. . lrouncer, is DLiBY. 5 to 1 agst Mr. H. Howrti's Grecittr. 13 to 2 agst Mr. Halford's Thu Prime 31iLi,t6r—tuke 7 to 1 12 to 1 sgt-t Osbaldestou'i•MouLtain Sylph colt —!,4110 13 to 1 12 to I agst. Mr. A. Nichol's N,wminstor—take 13 to 1 1,000 w 30 .gst air, Meiklaro's Cunhtelitvion— taken 50 .0 1 agst Sir J. llawle)'s 1,000 to 10 * apt Lord Zetland'. Lightfoot—take n 1,000 to 20 was laid three or four times a4.t Constel lation, and 1,000 to 10 seven or eight times agbt Light Lot. otacg. 15 to 1 agst Sir J. Havvle)'s Vermuth—taken INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. MANCHESTER RACES, 1851. Handicap for the Manchester Tradesman's Cup, forfeits to be declared on or before February 10. Age at lb Age at lb Peep-o'-day -Boy . a 8 12 Docility Cossack Dough 6 8 8 Achyranthes Th e 4 8 7 Mouse Russborough4 6 10 Elthiron Woolwictl ..... ... 5 8 5 Eva Pitsford Snowstorm 5 8 0 Baroness 4 6 11 Baby • 5 7 12 B c by Gladiator, Legerdemain Windischgratz The Italian Rhesus 5 7 8 Candlewick 4 6 3 Mark Tapley Escape 6 7 7 Flash Chautrey 5 7 7 Gaffer Green .a 5 12 Champion Alp Cocktail Wild Rose Bushranger 4 7 5 Black Doctor The Dart a 7 3Oh c by John Caprice Garforth Bro to Dough 4 7 0 Golials. enief Justice Christiana Gr hby Verulaw, ISeagull .. out of Whim ... 5 7 °Sunrise Juggler Lady Eden General Sale The Sweep 4 6 12 Little Ftewr 3 4 0 Prior of Lanercoat 4 6 12,'Colibri 3 4 0 Elcho Handicap for the Salford 1 declared Age at II Dough 6 8 8 Woolwich ...... Russboruugh Elthiron Ui iel The Iron Duke 5 7 13 The Italian Lady Hylda Rhesus 5 7 11 Miss Ann 5 7 11 Comet 6 7 11 Maid of Tenm 3orough Cup; forfeits to be Feb. 10. Age st lb Conveyor 6 10 Lady Jersey Baotou 4 6 10 Cauriri B c by Gladiator, _ _ out of Abbess 4 6 6 Flash Oxford Blue Blister 4 6 6 Abbess of Jervaux 4 6 6 Candlewick 4 6 4 Captain Parry Electricity ;Sir Philip .. 4 6 0 Birthday... 4 6 0 Lass of Uunderlay 4 6 0 ,Aristocrat /Unity I Pandemus sfaid of the Moun tain Pierre de Touche 3 5 0 Manchester 3 5 0 Paquetta 3 4 4 Valley 5 7 9 Champion Wild Rose Christiana Haricot Chief Justice Ribaldry 6 7 2 Heroine The Sweep 4 7 0 Elcho Alonz , ) 4 7 0 Docility Landseer 5 6 13! IIAWKING, It is stated that this aristocratic sport will probably be introduced on Lincoln race-course, at :he approach ing steeplechases. The inhabitants of Lincoln hate not had an opportunity of witnes,ing this sport since the days when the late Duchess of Sr. Albans exhibited her stock of falcons on the race-course. L 'AN TO BRITISH GUIANA. The tenders for the 70,000/. guaranteed 4 per cent. oan to British Guiana were opened at the Treasury this afternoon .hortly after two o'clock, in the presence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. J. 11. Prescott, the Governor, and Mr. Thomson Hankey, jun., the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England, and several of the parties making the proposals. The first tender opened was at the price of 9SI. per 1001, for the '70,000/. The next was at 95/. for 5.000/. Then followed an offer of 1061. for 5,000/., together with when; for 10.000/. and 30,0001. at 1011, and 1001.; Baily and Hammond offered 101/. 10,, 6d. for the whole, or any port; Mr. Ralph Ricardo and Mr. George Burnand, on behalf of a life-office, 1031. 6s. Bd. for the whole; and Mr. Goddard, as actuary fur the Rock Life Company, 1051., also for the whole. After a short conference, the Chancellor of the Ex ch.-quer intimated that the offer of the Rock Life Com pany at 105/., and the one at 106/., which was by a pri vate individual, were the highest, and tberefure they would be accepted. In answer to a question from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Goddard stated, that the Rock Life Company would have preferred the %hole amount; but never theless, they would take all nut tendered fur above their price. It was then stated that the Rock Life Company would have apportioned them 65,0004 at the price of 1051., and the private individual 5,0004 at the price of 106/. Both these offers, as well es ttli• tender made by Mr. Ricardo and Mr. Burnand, were understood to be above the minimum fixed by the Government. The following are the tot ma on which previous loans similarly guaranteed have been taken:— LoweAt of Price of the tenders Consols at accopt.d. the time. 108 95 • 109 ••• 93 1 ▪ 11211 99 1 111 k ••• 100 ,•• 112 i ... 99 105 i ••• 94i Dec. 16. 1842 ... July 7, 1843 May 3, 1844 .... Dec. 6, 1544 April 11, 1845... Dec. 5, 1845 ... COLLISION IN THE STRAITS.—The Confidence, of Bristol, from Newport to Barcena, was run d own b y the United States' frigate Constitution, in the Straits ot Gib raltar, on the let of December, and sank in three minutes. The crew were saved. The wind at the time was east south-east, the Confidence standing north-east, and the frigate running before the wind at the rate of nine-and-a half knots an hour. TITS LICENSED 'VICTUALLERS SCHOOL.—Tbe an nual ball in aid of the f un d s of this excellent inst itutiot.i. notk too place last night at th e London Tavern, and there a•ula was kept have been less than 1,200 people present. up with great spi r it to an advanced hour, a in Mr. Bathe's es t a bli s h ment being pit in requisition for thel rs Dancing ierge rooms were fazed r e e d fre to sh t m he en u ts t. , occasion. The demand for tea, coffee ,th numbers assembled, was on a scale commensurate h and the resources of Mr. wi f b s upport. The schools maintain, e d d a n s' 7 l Si C ' wit h bondtl earen7dafford the charitable their body a most liberal and most. Certainly the iccen t A s clothe,raisew institutions ort h connected amou it 0 their establishment upwards of 1,200 educate 126 orphans, who would otherwise be and been received in them. destitute, and PITAL.--The annual report of Cuaarsc boys and d g s s committee of this charity has just be presented to the i e r n i t chs s aia i : c v k csees p il e B - the It appears that • at a cost of 2,4301. lls. 1 I fd. Of these, 1,210 were subscribersin the course of the last year 110,106 ,n ns w •ere admitted on the books for i 'l n e . li p e a l lients, and 17,895 were out-patients (many of whom were visited at their own homes), and the greater part were restored to the blessings of health and to their occupations for the support of their families. These, with the cases re ported in fo rmer annual statements, made a total of 186,863 sick and needy individuals who have partaken of the advan tages of the institution, from its commencement to De• 'ember 31, 1850. Great as the amount of relief afforded would, from the above statistics seem to be, we are informed that the accommodations of the hospital are still inadequate to the wants and numbers of applicants for its amistanse. The cases of accidents and sudden injuries which have been . brought to it d ur i ng t h e last year amounted to . 2 ,766 ; of which 643 required to be immediately admitted as t in -pa patients. .Of the 19,105 mentioned above, as being ' 1 during the same twelvemonth, 1,220 were with I.4,t_Qa.rd'in,?!.BiBns troduction from governors and subscribers; whilst nli' all, tinder were admitted without,any recommendation t s o a a fact stated these circum-tances, we may call attectio t a be increased, without much additional expense, by the committee, that the efficiency be e noccupied for want of as a portion of the bui ding hitherto d fitted up, of fifty more of materiallycbarity might, funds would admit, if finished and . . beds being added to those already . . . more in-patients annually. which appeared in The ROBERT TATLoilli --This me and would thus afford the means of its receiving 500 or 600 DEATH. OF Loaf) 1. yesterday) took place at the barracks, 'ermoy, on Sun of . lancholy • last, in constquence of the breaking of a Sunday evening It lin the lungs. appears that his Lordship was blood-vesse in the town of Fermoy, when he saw a man besting walking event (a brief account of ~k , a dog. O n ' „ monstrating with hi m, t h e man struck Lord Robert a bl ow , which; he instantly returned, and then said, „ I am choking with blood." After lingering some days. he died without pain or suffering. Lord Robert was the second son of the Marquis of IleadfOrt, and had only recently ex changed from the Guards to the 49th Regiment. The Mar quis of Ileadfort, the Earl and Countess of Bective, Lady Olivia Taylour, and Lady Virginia :Sanders, were present o the sad occasion. We should like to have the handling of that calumniator, who said the ladies are the very reverse of their mirrors—the latter reflecting without talking, and the former talking without reflecting. r • and the Coroner issued his Nv..rrant f iZ the ftccuse At committal to the county gaol at B u ry St. EcialuiooCi..i:,-; for triNl at the next assiz.s. In :04 ( pfursi----DF 4,4 j i evening he w as conveye d t o th e gao l at EttiSN3l.-,1-i-r r 9