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Etteraturt. NOTICES. Freemasonry: A Sermon, preached by the Rev. J. Tay lor, A.M., V.W.P.C. of the Province of Cheshire; before the R.W.P.G. the Lord Viscount Cornbermere and the Grand Lodge, held at Chester, in September last. Birkenhead, J. Griffith ; and Walmsley, Liver pool. This sermon may be considered a defence, not only of Freemasonry, but of all secret societies which are bound together by signs and pass words, provided their objects are within the pale of the law and constitution of the land. It was delivered at Chester, before a large body of free masons attending the P.G.L., and a numerous and highly respectable congregation, by whom it was listened to with marked attention, and on whom it appeared to produce considerable effect. The whole sermon is deserving of serious consideration, not only on account of its intrinsic value as a literary production, but from the feeling of scriptural charity and piety which pervades it. We have not available space for more than the following extract : "Is there, then, any one here who objects to this association on the score of its mystery and secrecy? There may possibly be many such ; and for their sake, as well as for that of the lembers themselves, I will give you a short explanation of the There can be no doubt then, that all secret orders (anil matter, esDecia masons, who are the root from whence all ~,,ng) owed their origin, in the first instance, to the praiseworthy effort to promote the arts and sciences, and to preserve and perpetuate the true religion. All these orders were, without doubt, religious in their origin and in their aim. They looked out upon the wide domain of nature, and consi dered it as one vast allegory, replete with truths of moral and spiritual signific truths,.at a period when written language was scarce and inaccessible to the masses, they sought, and wisely sought, to interpret through the medium of expres sive signs, symbols, and hieroglyphical characters. And the principle upon which they proceeded was this, that the key for deciphering these symbols should be given to none but the worthy; in other words, that none but the worthy should be admitted to s participation of their secrets, and they only by degrees, and according to the proficiency that they had made in the lower steps both in theoretical knowledge and in moral at taimnents. Hence no candidate for admission into these or ders could be received, except he was free by birth, of full age, properly recommended, and duly qualified ; and even then he had to pass through a severe ordeal, before even the least and lowest of their secrets were imparted to him. After his first initiation, and before he could be eligible to the higher degrees, and consequently to the higher mysteries, he had on each oc casion to undergo a severe trial and examination, and to prove to the satisfaction of the members his qualification, both of an intellectual and moral nature. Thus these secret orders, whose origin is lost in the recesses of a remote an iquity, but which certainly existed many ages anterior to Christianity, were at once schools, both of philosophy and of religion, the great and enduring channel, by means of which, in dark and barbarous ages, the knowledge of the fine arts and the truths of pure re ligion were kept alive, and handed down by a perpetual and unbroken tradition. And had it not been for this very secrecy, which in fact was adopted partly as a protection to these orders themselves, and partly, perhaps, with a view to lure men on by the prestige of their name and the powerfutmotive of curiosity, from gross and ignorant ways to brighter and better baths—hut for this secrecy, there is no doubt that the arts and sciences would have greatly degenerated, if not have utterly perished from the earth, and the truths of religion have been even more obscured than they were." Mangnall' s Historical and Miscellaneous Questions. By W. Pinnock. London : Partridge and Oakey. _ _ We have, of course, in our time seen no few very useful publications for young persons, but we have never met with one which contained such a mass of important in formation as the work before us. Besides a selection of general biography, the contents include geography ; history, ecclesiastical, ancient, and modern; the elements of astronomy, &c., enriched with numerous maps and illustrations. Every page teems with instruction, and a series of questions being appended to each section, the pupil, by means of this book, can become acquainted in a familiar way with every necessary information in these important branches of study, brought down to the present day. A poor man desirous of obtaining an outline of knowledge by an easy expenditure of time and money can do so by means of this work. POETRY. AUTUMN. (FROM POEMS BY THOS. J. OUSELEY.) The flowers all are fading, Their sweets are rifled now; And night sends forth her shading, Along the mountain brow; The bee bath ceased its winging, To flowers at early morn : The birds have ceased their singing, Sheaf'd is the golden corn : The harvest now is gathered, Protected from the clime ; The leaves are seared and withered, That late shone in their prime. Thus when fourscore years are gone. o'er the frail life of man, Time sits heavy on his throne, as near his brow we scan; Like the Autumn leaf that falls, when winds the branches wave Like night-shadows daylight palls, like all, he finds a grave. COMMON SENSE VERSUS COMMON LAW. A SCENE IN AN IRISH COURT OF LAW HALF A CENTURY SINCE. (From the Dublin University Magazine for Nov.) " Before such masters of equity as Lord Redesdale or Sir Edward Sugden, an ignorant practitioner was soon weighed in the balance and found wanting. The stimulus to exertion which an early marriage gave Mr. Bennett, sent him speedily into the Court of Exciliequer. The Chief Baron was a man of peculiar sagacity ; the in tricacies of the Irish character were instinctively familiar to him. The strong common sense of Mr. Bennett soon brought him into favourable notice in the court, and busi ness began to flow in upon him rapidly. At that time proceedings of our courts did not, as now, become public property, by the aid of reporters ; and, in the natural course of things, liberties were taken, in the confidence of a coroner, which could scarcely be allowed in the open publicity of our present practice. The Chief Baron, in the nook of the Exchequer Bench, with his droll, waggish countenance, demolishing an argument with his wit, or scouting subtlety with a sneer, the fraud of the litigious tenant had no prospect of escape, and the claim of the landlord as little chance of defeat. ' A nice way of pay ing rent with a special demurrer,' was the caustic pre face to the ominous words, 'We must overrule your demurrer.' " How we remember our enjoyment of a scene in court, when a member of the bar, since honourably distinguished in his career, determined on making the Chief Baron listen to a ' learned' argument. A young fop had hired a horse to ride from Dublin to the race-course, at Bel lewstown, (about eighteen miles,) he returned on the same day, and from the length of the journey, and the severity of the ride, the horse died. The owner demanded the value of the horse, but the young gallant resisted : an action of trover was brought, and the defence set up was infancy. It was urged that this was virtually a case of contract, and infancy a full defence. The jury, however, under the direction of Baron Pennefather, found a verdict for the plaintiff, and his lordship reserved for the con sideration of the Court of Exchequer the question of the law. When the leading counsel, the present Judge Perrin, stated the point, he was interrupted by the Chief Baron, thus : " Mr. Perrin, suppose the young man had shot the horse, would you say he was not responsible ?' " The acute mind of Judge Perrin at once perceived that this question exposed the invalidity of the defence ; and he relieved himself from the difficulty by saying, That was not this case;' but that his learned friend who was on the same side, was prepared to argue the question on authority. The junior, with a pile of books, folio, quarto, and octavo, looked ' unutterable things ;' the Chief Baron leered jocosely at the `great guns' and musketry, and the attack commenced. " Counsel.—' My lords, I propose in this case to call your attention to some authorities two hundred years old, when judges understood the common law better than they do now.' " Chief Baron.—` May be so ; but we're better up to horses now " Some cases were cited and patiently heard ; when the counsel thought a little illustration might enliven the argument. " Counsel.—`Now, my lords, suppose an infant, wish ing to make a false show of property, borrowed my purse, of pocket-book, and refused to pay or return it, would trover be maintainable ?' " Chief Baron.—` Perhaps not ; it is hot unlikely that if the young gentleman disposed of the contents of the purse, he might properly be indicted and hanged.' " The discomfiture of the counsel, and the arch gravity of the Chief Baron's countenance, can never be for gotten by any who shared in the merriment of that me morable ren cont re. " Counsel.—` My lords, this is virtually a contract of hiring ; there is no tort—no vi et armis—nothing which any man who understands the law of the land can say brings this case out of the operation of the general rule as to the contracts of infants.' " After proceeding in this strain for a long period, and exhausting all the authorities which he had brought into court, he sat down under the belief that he had given the Chief Baron a ' nut to crack,' which would try his powt Now the peculiarity of the Chief Baron was this, ..henever he got hold of a good plain sterling principle, which disposed of the case before him, he disregarded ar gument and authority as the idle wind.'" " Here, said he, a horse was hired; he was ridden to the race-course; refreshed with a canter there, and then ridden back to town, and dies of the abuse he receives. A trespass vi et armis : which I will venture to translate into plain English, ith whip and spurs'? and sc it is plain to us all that, in law and justice, he who killed the horse should pay the price of him to the owner." VARIETIES. An Irishman, in speaking of a spell of sickness he had, said, " I laid spachless six weeks in the long month of August, and all my cry was, " Wather, wather." A judge asked a witness " How do you know that the plaintiff was intoxicated ?" " Because I saw him a few minutes after supper pulling off his trousers with a boot jack." The plaintiff was nonsuited. At an entertainment given to James VI. in his progress to London, it was proposed to his Majesty to eat some goose in the Cheshire fashion, namely with boiled groats; and being asked how he liked it, he said he should have liked it much better if they had given the oats to the poor animal before they had killed it. COMMUNISM DEFINED.--"The other day," says th• Constitutionnel, " a workman was declaiming in the midst of a group against communism. One of the group said, ' you talk against communism, and yon do not even know what it is.' The workman said nothing in reply at first, but taking off his blouse he tore it into fragments, and after giving a portion to each of the persons present, he said, ' Communism, my friends, has for its object to make of what may be very useful to one person a collectioD of morsels which are useful to nobody.' " THE ROYAL VISIT TO THE CITY. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, left Windsor on Tuesday morning, about ten o'clock, and arrived at Buckingham-palace shortly after eleven. They left the palace for Whitehall about a quarter-past twelve o'clock, and were received in their passage through the park with the most lively demonstrations of loyalty. At twelve o'clock, the lord mayor and the civic authorities entered the state barge, and proceeded up the river, followed by all the barges of the city companies, gaily decorated with flags. At twenty-five minutes past twelve, Prince Albert and the royal children, attended by the Master of the Horse, and by Lady Lyttelton, &c., arrived in three car riages at Whitehall stairs, where they were received by Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, who conducted them to the royal barge. They looked very well, and were enthu siastically cheered. The procession started from Whitehall at forty-five minutes past twelve, in the order mentioned in the pro gramme, and had a most imposing appearance. The river was covered with boats, of every kind. The windows and roofs of the houses, indeed every point fr3m which a view could be obtained were crowded with spectators. The Hungerford Suspension Bridge literally bent beneath the weight of the crowd assembled on it, and the other bridges were equally crowded. The weather was splen did, and the whole scene may be described as unequalled in the annals of aquatic pageantry. The procession arrived at the Custom-house at one o'clock, and the royal party were received on landing by the corporation, headed by the recorder, the Dukes of Cambridge and Wellington, the Marquis of Anglesey, and Sir Robert Peel. The interior of the exchange presented a magnificent appearance. At twenty minutes past one, the prince entered the building, leading the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, and accompanied by the lord mayor, the prime minister, and the other officers of state and mem bers of the household, and were received with tremendous cheers. The recorder read an address to the prince, who made a suitable reply. Several gentlemen were then introduced to the prince, and after some few minutes spent in admir ing the building, a splendid luncheon was served up, the lord mayor proposing the usual loyal toasts, which were warmly responded to. The royal party left, on their return, shortly before three o'clock, embarking on board the Fairy yacht. The pro cession reached Whitehall shortly after half-past three o'clock. The prince left for the Paddington railway sta tion, on his return for Windsor, shortly afterwards. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—THE DUKE OF BRUNS WICK v. HARMER.—In this case, in which the plaintiff had obtained a verdict with £5OO damages, for a libel in the Weekly Dispatch, Sir F. Thesiger, for the defendant, has obtained a rule for a new trial. Mr. J. B. Hume, a barrister, of only two or three years standing, and a son of Mr. Joseph Hume, has been ap pointed secretary to the commission for enquiring into the claims of the New Forest. Mr. Hume had the good fortune to be secretary to the mint commission, and from his last appointment we infer that is to be a perpetual secretary to commissions, a kind of security that while Mr. Joseph Hume shall remain in parliament commis sions will not be wanting. erntral lifltattlanv. A jury at Leeds, last week, disagreeing as to their ver dict, determined to arrive at a result by drawing lots ! General Sir George Anson, governor of Chelsea Hospi tal, died on Sunday. Two bank clerks have been arrested at Diss, Norfolk, charged with embezzling £lO,OOO. The Queen has conferred a baronetcy on the Lord Mayor of London. A bust of Mendelssohn has been placed in front of the orchestra of the Birmingham Music-hall. The Tontine Hotel, the principal inn in Sheffield since 1705, is closed on account of taking it for a market. The Duke of Newcastle has been suffering from severe indisposition, but from the latest account received, we trust his grace may be considered out of danger. A Royal Commission is about to be issued to inquire and report as to the most eligible site or sites for a cattle market, to be held outside the metropolis. The late Mr. Marshall, of Leeds, who was the most ex tensive flax spinner of England, said once that he yet ex pected to supersede cotton entirely by flax. On Monday, 119 bales of foreign hops arrived in London from Antwerp, being the largest importation which has ever taken place from a foreign port. The government has issued an order for the observance of a day of national thanksgiving, on account of the re moval of the plague. Amongst the new publications advertised last week, was one entitled--7'he Art of tying the Scarf and hand kerchief zn ten different Wave. A merchant in Newcastle insured £l6OO worth of tallow in Mr. Sporr's warehouse just twelve hours before the whole was destroyed by fire last week. The deputation to . the French and Roman Govern ments, agreed upon at the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance in Scotland, is no v on its way. A sawyer, who was cutting up an elmtree, at Holme Pierrepont, Notts, found a bird's nest, containing six eggs, enclosed in the very middle of the trunk. The Papists are striving hard to establish a popular periodical, to be scattered among the lower classes for the more effectual propagation of Popery. The Board of Health has ceased to publish returns of deaths from cholera, so that the disease may be considered to have almost left us. The article in the current number of the Westminster Review, on loans and standing armaments, is from the pen of Mr. Cobden. The Board of Poor.law Guardians at Swinton have introduced the phonetic system of reading (that is, by sound, and a totally new system of spelling,) into their schools. Dr, Wiseman has signified to his clergy that, in conse quence of the cessation of the cholera, the dispensation from the Friday abstinence, hitherto permitted, is to cease. A man employed by a farmer, near Leicester, was at tacked on Tuesday week by his master's bull, which gored and trampled him so frightfully as to leave him lifeless on the ground. The large warehouse of Mr. Spoor, at the Close, New castle-on-Tyne, with valuable merchandise, was destroyed by fire last week. The loss is estimated at near £lO,OOO, but the property was insured. Tom Moore, " the poet of all circles and the idol of his own," like Southey and Swift before their deaths, has lost the light of that intellect which has so long charmed the world. " 'Tis a sad darkness all." On Wednesday night week, some burglars entered Mr. Hanbury, the London brewer's house, at Ware, Herts, and succeeded in carrying off gold and silver plate, jewels, and scarce coins, to the value of about £3OO. A silver cup has just been manufactured for Louis Phi lippe, which is intended to be presented to the Lord Mayor (Sir J. Duke, M.P.) as a souvenir in commemora tion of his ex-Majesty's late visit to the Mansion-house. An infant, four months old, died last week, in London, from erysipelas supervening on vaccination, in conse quence, as it is supposed, of the vaccine matter having been impure. SALE OF THE FREE TRADE WRECIE.—The East India Club have purchased for 3000 guines, the Free Trade Club House in St. James's-square, with the library, fur niture, plate, and lease. The Elder Brethren of the Trinity-house, London, have contributed £l9O in aid of the funds of the Baths and Washhouses for the labouring classes, Goulston square, Whitechapel, London. In the pottery districts, and in Nottingham and Leices ter, the manufacturers are full of orders ; in Let, there is a scarcity of workmen, partly owing, no doubt, to emi gration. HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.—Monday week, th eJohn Bull steam-packet arrived at St. Katherine's Docks, from Ham burg, bringing with her the following distinguished Hun garians :—General Klapka and servant ; M. Fornet, Be rauyi, Kamvessy, Uhaze, Bandezza, and Ahednyanszkv. A reputed " old witch" died recently at Fife, after having enjoyed the perquisite of a fish from every fisher man who desired good fortune : and on searching her dwelling 2000 sixpences, 1020 shillings, 9 sovereigns, £7 in hank notes, and £4O were discovered. The supplies of poultry from Belgium at the present time to the metropolis are particularly large. The steam ship Triton, just arrived from Ostend, has brought 113 cases of poultry of various kinds, including large quanti ties of rabbits, which abound in that country. MEMORY.—There is a Devonshire gentleman in the Custom-house, London, who, it is said, can tell where any ship that may be named out of 2000, hails from, and in what port she is registered. He comes originally from Tiverton. An evening school for the indigent has been established in the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, in connection with King's College ; and every theological student is required in rotation to give his services as a teacher. The top reservoir of the Barnsley Water Company has given way, through the abstraction of coal beneath it. The pipes are to be supplied from a higher level, so as to supply every part of the town, the level being that of the top of St. Mary's Church tower. On the 20th ult., as a man, named George Hunter, a pitman at Conpen Colliery, near Newcastle, was walk ing home, he was waylaid and beaten so that he died a few days after. Three men have been apprehended. The deceased refused to join the workmen's union. A benevolent lady, who signs herself as M.O„ having read Lord Ashley's letter of the 19th ult., in the Times, sent to the Society for improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes £lOO, as a thankoffering for preserva tion of herself and family from the late epidemic. A serious affray took place on Thursday night, at Cheeseburn Grange, Northumberland, the property of E. Riddell, Esq., between some poachers and the keepers, who were headed by that gentleman. Mr. Riddell was shot in the leg, and one of the poachers, was seriously wounded, the others suffering themselves to be captured. At Leeds, last week, an old man, who was supposed to have died of cholera, was about to be deposited in his coffin, when, to the dismay of the bystanders, he started up and exclaimed, " Nay, I'm not going to stand that nother." The poor fellow died in reality shortly after wards. CHANGE OF FORTUNE.—On Thursday morning last, a poor man named Wynne, residing in Lower Bridge street, Chester, received intelligence of a long absent brother being at the point of death, under whose will Wynne was constituted heir to an estate in Buenos Ayres, valued at £12,000. , On the 12th of June last, four whaling ships—the Supe rior, of Peterhead, the Lady Jane, of Newcastle, the Prince of Wales, of Hull, and an American ship, the M‘Lellan of New London, were totally wrecked in Mel ville Bay:Davis' Straits. Providentially, not a single life was lost. At a recent chess-match between M. Harrwitz and four of the strongest players of Hull, M. Harrwitz won one game after a contest of four hours and a half, and drew the second after a strife of eight hours. A PRINCELY EMIGRANT.—A son of Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein, Augustenburg Noer, is about to emigrate to Australia in the Alfred barque, of Hamburg, which will call at Plymouth for other members of the family. EXTRAORDINARY MATCH.—At Newmarket Houghton races, last week, the match between Lord H. Lennox's Bee-Hunter, and Lord Airlie's Clincher, for £20,000, came off; and, after one of the most exciting struggles ever witnessed, ended in a dead heat. A NOVEL BED.—Early on Tuesday morning last, a police constable found a coat and waistcoat near the stocks belonging to a drunken fellow, who, seeing the upright posts on each side of the stocks, had proceeded to undress himself under the idea that he had got to his own bed. — Halifax Guardian. The governor of the Monmouth county gaol discovered, on Saturday week, that some person had endeavoured to break into the prison by cutting a hole with a tool through the lodge door, but had been frustrated in the attempt by the circumstaace that the door was lined inside with sheet iron. An important meeting was held on Thursday at the Mechanics' Institution, near Holborn, London, to de nounce the conduct of the British and Foreign Bible Society ; which, in order to circulate their Bibles cheaply, compels those engaged in producing them to accept star vation wages. MR. URQUHART, M.P.—This gentleman, in going in a small craft from Chesme to Ipsili, was attacked by nirates, and robbed of everything in his possession, even to his clothes. The weather being very mild, Mr. Urqu hart did not suffer much inconvenience from the absence of his usual covering. Mr. Urquhart believes the captain of the pirates to have been a Russian. If any one will bring forward a well-digested plan for closing all the post-offices of the kingdom, with their boxes, from twelve o'clock on Saturday night till the same hour on the following night, we (Daily News) will support it. Let no man throughout the empire be trou bled by receiving and by being tempted to write letters on Sunday. A memorial to the India-house was last week agreed to by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, in favour of Mr. Bourne's plan for navigating the rivers of India by steamers with their burden so distributed as to draw only twelve inches of water. A similar memorial has also lately been transmitted by the leading merchants at Aberdeen. Among the applicants to be admitted to bail, at the Insolvent Court, on Friday week, was Renton Nicholson, of the " Judge and Jury Society," described as the keeper of the Garrick's Head Tavern, Bow-street, and as formerly a part proprietor of Cremorne Gardens, and exhibitor of poses plastiques and female serenaders, and a lecturer at various places upon poetry, music, and song. The present was represented to be the fourth appearance of Nicholson as an insolvent. He has also been once bankrupt. SPIRIT DRINKING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.—From the excise returns, lately issued, the following summary of the consumption of spirits in the three kingdoms, for the half year ending July 5, is taken :—England, 4,107,000 gals. ; Scotland, 3,239,000 ; Ireland, 3,o9l,ooo—making a total of 10,437,000 gals.—giving an annual consumption to each individual of the population, according to the census of 1841, of, in England four pints ; Ireland, six pints ; Scotland, twenty pints. A REMINISCENCE OF NEWBY HALL.—A speaker at the meeting of the York, Newcastle and Berwick Rail way Company held last week, speaking of Mr. Hudson, remarked :—lt was a curious coincidence that Newby Hall was the patrimonial seat of that Chancellor of the Exchequer who, for his participation in the South Sea scheme, was expelled the House of Commons.—(Hear, and laughter.) It was, therefore, a fitting habitation for its present occupier. Thomas Maguire, the Irishman, who was certainly robbed and supposed to have been murdered at Chelsea, has re-appeared. A reward had been offered for the dis covery of his body, but he was recognised at Deptford, by an acquaintance. He stated to the police, that the rob bery was committed by Mrs. M'Donald, and that when he discovered his loss he rushed from the neighbourhood in a state of frenzy, and cared not where he went or what became of him. SECOND GREAT TEMPERANCE MEETING.—The second great public meeting in furtherance of the diffusion of temperance principles among the people of this country took place on Monday at Exeter Hall. The hall was ex ceedingly well filled. The 117th Psalm having been sung by the meeting, John Cassell, Esq., took the chair and proceeded to open the business of the meeting. Among the speakers were the Rev. E. Bickersteth and other clergymen. MILITARY RIOT.—At Newport, Monmouthshire, on the evening of the 22nd inst., from thirty to forty privates of the 14th regiment got intoxicated in one of the beer shops in that town. On their leaving the house, they grossly insulted every person they met, inflicting with theircross-belts tremendous blows, and completely clearing the streets. These attacks were ultimately subdued by the police, but not before several respectable inhabitants had been very much injured. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Monday night a fire broke out in the model establishment of baths and washhouses, Whitechapel, London, by which the large drying house and all that it contained (filled with towels left by poor women to dry) were destroyed, as were also the mangling and ironing compartments. Some of the, private baths were likewise very much damaged. The premises were fortunately insured, but the loss and inconvenience to the poor in the neighbourhood will be great. AN AUCTIONEER AND HIS CLIENT.—At Morpeth, the other day, a local George Robins, in putting up a few old houses in the town for sale by auction, took occasion to speak in such glowing terms of the advantages of the pro perty, that the vendor, an old man, who was sitting by, cried out, " Come, come, there is no occasion for all that ; my property should be sold first." The old man had been unable to identify his old houses by the auctioneer's eulogistic description of them, and kicked the bottom out of it. A LADY'S POCKET PICKED OF £4oo.—Last week, the wife of Mr. Hill, the architect, Birmingham, put into her purse Bank of England notes to the amount of £4OO, for the purpose of taking them to her husband's office, in order that they might be ultimately placed to his credit at the bank. On her way to New-street, how ever, accompanied by her little boy, she had occasion to go through the Market-hall, and, shortly after quitting the vicinity of the Bull-ring, she found that her purse, with its £4OO, had vanished. GOVERNMENT BRIBES.—Our readers are aware that the extended desecration of the Sabbath in the London Post-office commenced on Sunday. The authorities in that establishment having failed in tempting their officers to break the law of God, by offering them 10s. a-day for the act of desecration, next commanded them to break the holy commandment, however their consciences might thereby be offended. Some of them have obeyed man, and gone. Others have rather obeyed God, and refused to go. We shall mark how the Government act towards the latter in consequence.—Record. ARTESIAN WELLS.—A correspondent of the Times says—There is a fact connected with the artesian wells of London which is not generally known. It is this :—For the last 28 years the water has been getting lower and lower, at the speed of two feet per annum ; in some cases, recently, it has been observed to be four feet. In other words, while the water in all the deep-spring wells in London, at the time mentioned, ranged with the level of Trinity high-water mark, the same wells now, (notwith standing the frequent extra sinkings and borings which have been going on to improve the same,) cannot yield their supply of water so high by sixty feet. COLLISION AND Loss OF LIFE.—On Sunday a fatal collision happened about nine miles north-east of Benchy Head. The unfortunate occurrence took place between the barque Mary, a large American vessel, and the brig Greyhound, from Stockton to Exeter, heavily laden. It appears they sighted each other at about three o'clock, the weather somewhat hazy, when shortly after, by some mismanagement, they came in contact with fearful force, the American barque cutting the brig down to the water's edge, and sweeping away both masts. She sank almost immediately, only a portion of the crew having time to escape on board of the barque • the remainder were either killed below, or were carried down by the sinking vessel. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN AND THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. —The lords of the admiralty received, on Saturday after noon, communications from Dundee, dated October 26th, of the arrival of the whaling ship Advice, Captain Penny, from Davies Straits, in the roads off that port the night previous. Up to the departure of the vessel, eight weeks since, Captain Penny had been in communication with the natives, but could not obtain the slightest information of the arctic expedition. Another whaler, the St. Andrew, had also arrived at Aberdeen, which had had a quick pas sage from the straits in five weeks. She was unable to gain any tidings. At Messrs. Ransome and May's establishment, Ipswich, the site of a Workman's Hall has been determined upon, and the money is now ready to build it. It will cost about £l,OOO. There will be forty dormitories for single men and lads, which will be let at ls. 6d. a-week, inclu ding attendance; there will be a large room, for evening resort, a workman's drawing-room, a library, and reading rooms. The building will be fitted up with baths. There will be a resident matron and mistress ; a kitchen, and a cook. The privileges of the hall will be available to every workman upon the establishment, upon paying a subscrip tion of one shilling a-quarter. A WOMAN SHOT.—George Harman, a gas-stoker, of Ore, near Hastings, went to his work on Monday week, leaving a loaded gun with which he had been shooting starlings, in one corner of his kitchen. Before leaving the house, he cautioned his wife that the weapon was loaded, and desired her to forewarn their lodger of it when he re turned from his work. She appears to have forgotten to do so, and an accident, fatal to herself, was the consequence. The lodger, a railway labourer, who was on excellent terms with his landlord and landlady, had scarcely re turned home, and sat down to tea, when he began to play with the barrel of the gun, and, lifting it from the ground. got it entangled in the bar of a chair, so as to pull the trigger. The unfortunate woman received the whole charge in her head, and died almost instantly. lmmENsE TAKE OF FlSH.—During the last week, both the Yarmouth and North of England fishing boats which follow the shoals of herrings have been laden to a most extraordinary degree—particularly with herrings, soles, and codfish—the herring boats each having from 10 to 20 lasts (10,000 to the last,) or from 100,000 to 200,000 fish on board. So many were there for sale on Friday and Saturday, that the curers could not take half the quantity, although they were offered, in some instances, for less than the harbour dues ; they had, therefore, to be sold to hucksters at any price they would obtain, tens of thou sands being thrown overboard. Fresh herrings at is. per swill of 500, some at even less; slightly cured, known as Yarmouth bloaters, at from ls. to is. 6d. per hundred, basket included, fine fish. Soles at 6d. per score, weigh ing from l lb. to 211 b. per pair. Codfish, weighing from Nib. to 121 b. each, for from 6d. to 9d. per fish. till LIVERPOOL STANDARD. POST- OFFICE SABBATH DESECRATION.-ITS EFFECT. —We are happy to say that there is every prospect that this week an organization of the merchants, bankers, traders, and others, of the city of London, will be com menced, having for its object the final settlement of the Post-office question in the only way in which it ever can be settled, i.e., by enacting a total cessation of all labour in that department, during the twenty-four hours of the Sabbath-day. A movement of this kind, once begun, will quickly spread into all the provincial towns. Mr. James Russell, the eminent Queen's Counsel, was on Thursday fined five shillings for being helplessly drunk in the Hampstead-road, London. The learned gentleman not having appeared according to the recog nizances (£2) entered into by himself at the station house, 'vas further punished by the estreat of the same. Sir Hawkins Whitshed, Admiral of the Fleet, is just dead. He entered the Navy about three quarters of a century ago, and was not very far from a hundred years old. THE PUFF POPISH.—As a specimen of the style in which the Romanists recommend their holy works to their people, we give the following advertisement, which appears in last week's Tablet :—" Church of Our Ladye, Star of the Sea.* * *—Contributions for the completion of this Church are earnestly solicited. We have advanced a great way—for small means we have done much. The tower with its turrets is finished, and a large portion of its spire, but as we cannot incur debt, our work must soon stop if aid be denied us. Stella Maris, succurre Ca denti I' We last week sounded for a bell. As yet no friend has chimed in. Still we have hopes those silvery notes will sound those evening chimes. The rood screen is still an open question here. Fire has elicited smoke, but conviction comes of money. How logically would some £lOO conclude this controversy of taste. Come, Mediae valists, pluck up —no, pluck down—show your metal." PEACE CONGRESS.—A meeting was held in Exeter Hall, on Tuesday ; Mr. Ewart in the chair. A large num ber of foreigners appeared upon the platform, among whom were many distinguished Frenchmen, who had come over by special invitation to take part in the meet ing. The greatest possible interest was excited by the announcement that Gen. Klapka and M. Uhaze, the civil governor of Con - torn, and several other Hungarian refu gees, were present. They took their seats beside the chairman amidst enthusiastic applause. Several speeches were delivered. Those which excited the greatest interest were given by R. Cobden, Esq., M.P., Samuel Gurney, Esq., the Rev. W. Brook, and several members of the French deputation. The hall was crowded to its utmost capacity, and the proceedings passed off with the greatest possible eclat. Upwards of 1,500 persons were refused admittance. FREE TRADE AND PRICES.—The number of oxen and cows imported into the port of London last week was 1,448. There were also 152 calves imported, and 4,254 sheep. The competition from comparatively poor coun tries, where a little money goes a great way, tells very seriously upon the profits of home producers. Whatever butchers may charge to the consumers, the prices paid to the cattle owners at Smithfield have greatly fallen off. The beasts at market last Monday were in number 5,220, and many of them were driven away unsold. The num ber exceeded by 842 the beasts at market on the corres ponding Monday of 1848 ; and by 1,570 the number on the correspondinc , Monday of 1847. Prices ha v e fallen i n proportion. On Monday last the market price of beef in Smithfield was 23. 4d. to 3s. 4d. per 81hs. ; in 1848 it was 3s. 4d. to 4s. ; in 1847 it was 3s. 6d. to 4s. 10d. Thus it is " down corn, down horn," indeed. How is the English farmer to live ?—Post. SUPPLY OF MILK TO LONDON.—The London and North-Western Company have made arrangements for the carriage of milk from Willesden, Sudbury, Pinner, Ayles bury, and other numerous places on their line. They engage to bring it for one penny a gallon from Willesden and other places classed. Milk sells in Lonpon for ls. 4d. a gallon. We do not know exactly the price of milk in the several places named ; but, judging from the price of it in other country places, we should say it is not higher than eightpence a gallon, or half the London price. The cost of carriage will admit of a large profit in London, even under reduced London prices. Farmers and cow keepers will find an inexhaustible market for their milk, at a price which, before the existence of the arrangement just made, they could not hope to obtain ; and the inha bitants of the metropolis will have the advantage of hav ing country supplies as though they were living, in the country.—Herapath's Journal. THE MILITARY RIOT AT NOTTINGHAM. — This trouble some affair is now taking another turn. About nine o'clock on Saturday night, Private Broker, who was not implicated in any way in the charge of insubordination, went up to Policeman Gascoigne whilst on duty at the top of (lumber-street. After looking at the policeman's number, he exclaimed, " Oh, you are one of the that assisted in taking our men up a few days ago ;" and flaying unbuttoned his jacket, began to strike right and left at the policeman. The latter defended himself with a stick as well as he could, and, having charged some by standers to assist, ultimately succeeded in conveying the soldier to the police office ; but not until he had received a black eye and had his legs sadly cut by the prisoner, who kicked backwards at him with his spurs as they were walking together along the street. The affair had very nearly caused a regular row, many people being collected during the conflict, some of whom arrayed themselves on the side of the soldier and others on that of the police, and showed a ready desire to make a disturbance. CURIOUS FREAKS.—A gentleman, named Randall, a solicitor, in Southampton, was in the habit of taking a tour every year, which occupied him between two and three months. He would leave Southampton suddenly, scarcely acquainting his confidential clerks that he was going, and no one would know anything about him, until his clerks would receive a letter from him dated perhaps from St. Petershurgh or Vienna. About two months since be left Southampton suddenly and secretly, accord ing to his usual practice, and no one knew of his where about until his clerks received a letter about a fortnight since from him from Canada. Since which, information has been received that Mr. Randall was taken ill of cho lera, died and was buried in twelve hours in America. Had he died a day before no one in this country would probably have ever heard anything about his decease; but he happened to have been introduced to some one about a day before he was taken ill, which person attended him in his illness, and has written to Southampton the particulars of his death. Mr. Randall was one of the most talented men in his profession in the south of Eng land. He was unmarried, and about forty-five years of age. He was a great connoisseur in pictures, and his col lection is said to be worth £20,000. Mr. Randall has died wealthy, and has left a large portion of his property to charities and schools in Southampton, HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN CUMBERLAND.—On Saturday evening week, about seven o'clock, as Joseph Little, of Houghton, was returning home, after attending the Hemp ton fair, three men and a boy sprang from the hedge-side, a short distance beyond the lodge gate at the entrance to Rickerby Holme, and knocking him down, rifled his pockets, and abstracted 4s. 6d. in silver, a ft w coppers, and a handkerchief. He fought with the robbers as well as he could, but with such odds against him, was, of course, easily overpowered. When he was attempting to use his stick, one of them, finding all other attempts to wrest it from him fruitless, pulled out a knife, and smashed his thumb nearly in two. The fellows then, hearing two men approaching decamped—in which direc tion Little was unable to perceive, owing to the darkness of the night. With the assistance of two men who came up to him, he succeeded in walking to the Boot Inn, Houghton, whence he was conveyed home, in a cart, in a faint and exhausted state. Medical assistance was pro cured with as little delay as possible, and every means used to avert dangerous consequences. The unfortunate man believes ke can identify the man who maltreated him, who, as well, as his companions, spoke an Irish brogue ; but no trace of th em h a s a s y e t been obtained.—Carlisle Journal. SINGULAR ATTEMPT TO MURDER A CHlLD.—Great excitement has prevailed in the neighbourhood of Merthyr since the 18th inst., in consequence of the following dia bolical attempt to murder a child having been made by a single woman, named Ann Williams, mother of the infant. It appears that on the 17th inst. Daniel Davies, one of the gamekeepers to William Crawshaw, Esq. whilst going his round at a place called Gornos, on his master's estate, had his attention attracted by a noise, which he ' at first imagined proceeded from a hare in a trap, but on paying more attention, he found it to be the voic of a child. He looked round, and, after some search, he discovered a portion of a child's dress protruding from a rabbit hole, which was covered up with mould and leaves. On removing the rubbish, he found, placed in the hole, head foremost, a fine infant child, about six weeks old. It was crying strongly, and its limbs were black and blue with cold. He immediately took the poor child out, and handed it over to Mrs. Haryard, the wife of the head keeper, who took it home, gave it a warm bath, and by other kind treatment, saved its life. Infor mation having been given to the police, they ascertained that a young female had left Dowlais on the Tuesday morning, having a child with her. The child found hav ing been shown to her late landlady, she identified it as having been the one the female left with. Search having been made in all directions for this party, she was at length apprehended by police-constable Rees, at Glyn Cywr, near Bridgend. Upon the constable informing her of the nature of the charge against her, she pretended to know nothing about the affair, but on her way back to 11Ierthyr she admitted that she placed the child in the rabbit warren, and said her reason for so doing was that she had no means to support it. The prisoner stated that the child must have been left exposed in the hole the whole of one night and the greater portion of two days. She was fully committed to take her trial. HALSE'S PORTABLE GALVANIC APPARATUS.—The following is extracted from the Magazine of Science for April : We are continually in receipt of letters from medical men, inquiring the best form of galvanic apparatus for medical purposes, the essential requisites being con stancy of action, and to be always ready for use at a moment's notice. To those medical friends we reply, write to Mr. Halse, and order one of his portable Galvanic Apparatus, and you may take our word for it you will find them all that you can desire. His battery is constructed of zinc and silver plates, and he has so arranged his regu lating apparatus that the practitioner may apply just what power he may think proper. It is the most perfect thing we ever beheld ; and we do not see now it is possible, for medical purposes, to improve upon it. It is well known that quantity of fluid is the great desideratum in medical galvanism. Now, in the small machines which are usually sold, it is very evident to any one who knows anything of the principles of galvanism, that the quantity of fluid which circulates through the body of the patient is next to nothing, although the shock may be very powerful; for the human body is an imperfect conductor, and it requires a series of plates to enforce the current through an imperfect conductor. In Mr. Halse's apparatus there are both quantity and intensity brought into action ; and yet his machine is constructed in so beautiful a manner that even an infant may be galvanized by it without the least unpleasantness. As men of science, we consci entiously recommend Halse's Portable Galvanic Apparatus in preference to all others." 11915trfrt gebiff. The Bishop of Manchester presided on Monday at the Bible Society meeting in Manchester. At the audit of the Marquis Eliolmondeley, held at Halton Castle, near Runcorn, a few days ago, his lord ship's agent, Mr. Hill, returned 10 per cent. to all the tenants. On Tuesday two young men, named Griffith and Stew ard, were killed by a fall of earth in the tunnel now con structing at the Helsby branch of the Cheshire Junction Railway. The proprietor of one of the Manchester mills, now a baronet, and who has recently put machinery into the mill which cost £70,000, was formerly a working man, earning his thirty shillings a week. _ On Friday morning, at one o'clock, an affray took place at Sir T. Hesketh's preserves, at Rufford, between nine poachers and eight keepers. The latter were overpowered and severely beaten. One of them, named Hesketh. had his head laid open. On Monday, at Salford Sessions, Thomas Jones, an engine driver on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, was sentenced to nine months imprisonment for negli gently causing a collision between two trains at the Bury Station. SOUTH LANCASHIRE COURSING CLUB.—The first meeting for the season took place on Thursday and Friday at Southport. The Annual Dinner Stake was won by Mr. Slater's Sybil; Mr. Carr's Snap ran up. The St. Leger Stakes were won by Mr. Mallaby's The Colonel. Mr. Rogers' Formby ran up. The curates of Bolton-le-moors, the Rev. Thomas Lox ham. M.A., and the Rev. John Edward Cross, M.A., have been pres'nted with testimonials of respect by the teachers of the Sunday schools connected with the parish church. The tribute, in each instance, was a handsome silver inkstand with an appropriate inscription. DEATH OF MR. JOHN BROOKS.—We are sorry to learn that this gentleman, so well known for his connection with the Anti-Corn-law League, and for the prominent part which for many years he took in local and general politics in Manchester, died at his residence, Clarendon house, Cheetham-hill, on Saturday week. Though for a year or more in failing health, which had led him to with draw from business, Mr. Brooks had been for some short time past somewhat better, and able to take carriage ex ercise; and on the Sunday preceding his decease he had attended church. On Friday week, however, he had a seizure, said to have been caused by some sudden pressure on the spinal marrow, which terminated his life on the following day. Mr. Brooks was in his 63d year. GREAT PEACE MEETING ATMANCHESTER.—On day evening a meeting of the friends of the peace move ment was held at the above place, Mr. George Wilson oc cupying the chair. The object of the meeting was to receive a report of the Manchester delegation which at tended the Peace Congress at Paris, and to meet a depu tation of French gentlemen. Mr. Massey, secretary of the Manchester society, read letters of excuse from the following gentlemen all of whom expressed their deep sympathy and approval in the object of the meeting:— M. Emile Girardin, the Archbishop of Paris, M. Lamar tine, Mr. A. Henry, M.P., Mr. J. Kershaw, M.P., and Mr. J. Brotherton, M.P. On the platform we observed a large number of the leading and influential gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood. The meeting was ad dressed by Mr. E. Fry, Mr. J. Bright, M.P., Alderman Harvey, Mr. A. Prentice, and others. The French depu tation present consisted of M. Horace Say, Councillor of State ; M. Frederic Bastiat. Member of the Chamber of Deputies ; M. Joseph Gariner, secretary to the Paris Peace Congress ; and M. Pontonier, merchant. The two latter gentlemen made addresses in the French language, which were interpreted by Mr. John Scoble, who accompa nied them. President Mahan, of Oberlin College, United States, also addressed the meeting ; after which a vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. There were present at least 6,000 or 7,000 persons, and each foreigner of the deputation was received with most en thusiastic applause. MISSING MONEY TRACED.—In the month of May, 1848, a parcel of money was made up by Mr. Robert Brydon, agent for the Bridgewater Trustees' carrying de partment at Worsley, and taken to apartments which he then occupied in a house near that place. He placed the parcel in a leather bag, to be sent by the passage boat to the Trustees' principal offices, in Manchester, the next morning. Mr. Brydon locked the bag, and gave it into the hands of Mrs. Anderson, wife of George Anderson (the person who lived in the house), to give it to the cap tain of the boat ; but as the parcel of money never reached its destination, she was taken into custody on suspicion of having stolen it. Nothing could be proved against her at the time, but it was considered to be so clear that she had taken the money that her husband k who was employed as a watchman in the Trustees' service) was discharged from his employment. They left the neighbourhood, giving it out to some of their neighbours that they were going to Yorkshire, and to others that they intended to go to Ame rica. The money contained in the parcel was partly in gold and other coins, and partly in Bank of England notes, four in number. Of course nothing is known of the dis posal of the former, but, happily, the notes have found their way it to the Bank of England. One of the four bears the words "M. Anderson, Tropic, Quebec 7, 11, '48." It has been ascertained that a vessel called the Tropic sailed from London for Sydney in the month of November, 1848, and that in the list of passengers who sailed by her were—" George Anderson, aged 44, labourer, Hannah Anderson, aged 38." Mrs. Anderson's name is understood to be Harriet. The remaining three notes bear the stamp and progressive numbers of the Sydney branch of the Bank of Australasia. Whether Mrs. An derson's name is M. Hannah or Harriet it matters little; the paper that represents the money bears strong marks of its genuineness, and where it has been.—Bolton Chro nicle. ---._,..11,....--. MR. BRIGHT ON IRELAND The Manchester Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association held the first of their meetings for the winter a few evenings ago, at the Free Trade Hall- The orator of the occasion was friend Bright, and his eloquence seems to have exhausted itself on Ireland, whence the worthy quaker has recently arrived, primed with statistics relative to landlordism and protestantism, for the edifi cation of his compeers in the next parliamentary cam paign. The burthen of Mr. Bright's song at the Man chester meeting was of course to old and oft-repeated tunes, nevertheless, the reader and listener who stop to consider, at certain stages of the oration who it is that holds forth, and to reflect on all the circumstances attend ing quakerism, with the peculiarity of its dogmas, must feel some surprise at the bias its hopeful son Bright betrays for Popery. In reply to the hypothetical objection of the presence of " something in the Catholic religion which makes it impossible forany peopleto be prosperous with it," Mr. Bright points triumphantly to Belgium and Lom bardy, and asks if the people of those countries are not of the same religion as the Irish. We are not well enough ac quainted with the condition of the peasantry of these coun tries to deny that the demoralizing tendencies of supersti tion and idolatry, evinced wherever these causes exist, are absent in these special kingdoms. But granting (which we by no means can on Brother Bright's authority), that in Belgium and Lombardy Popery may be seen instigating industry, encouraging the arts, and developing generally the intelligence and capacities of its votaries, we are of opinion that the position has been maintained after a very negative fashion. What ! could the insignificant terri tories of Belgium and Lombardy only be indicated as the bright spots on the face of the Catholic continent ? What of Spain, Italy, France, &c. ? Should we not rather account for the misery we see amongst the Irish peasantry by causes which we know approximate the peasantry of two-thirds of Europe to their condition, than believe that their demoralizing superstition is not the origin of the evil, because the same religion is professed by two comparatively small kingdoms, the subjects of which are more prosperous than the Irish people ? Mr. Bright defies the imputation of " Special pleadings." But apart from the weakness of the position, another consideration arises, and that is the consistency of a mem ber of the Society of Friends advocating the religion of the Pope, for the positive defence of that religion, undertaken by Mr. Bright, is certainly tantamount to a vindication of its tenets. Mr. Bright too, in aiming a weapon at land lordism, obviously attempts mischief at Protestantism. Does he forget that to Protestantism his precious sect owe their existence and welfare, and though the Church may regard the Quakers rather as an excrescence than a healthy limb, still she has, in accordance with her mild rule, borne with the vagaries of the latter, hoping by indulgence to absorb the " proud flesh" into the sound body, ra ther than to extirpate or destroy ? If Mr. Bright think anything at all of his religious faith it must be to him a consideration of paramount importance ; and if so, where is his consistency, we repeat, in singing paeans to Popery, which would take very decided measures with such schismatics as the Quakers. Under Protestant ascendancy the Quakers have grown up a wealthy society, of whose wealth, indeed, Mr. Bright is no inapt represen tative. They could never have existed under Popish sway ; or if toleration had been extended, it would have been so limited that they must have continued a despised and persecuted sect. Ingratitude is one of the basest crimes ; but Mr. Bright's offence is that and something worse; the prais ing of a malignant enemy, from whose clutches he con ceives distance renders him safe, because that enemy happens to be the implacable foe of the persons who fos tered the sect to which he belongs, but which chooses to regard the source from which it springs with malice and an uncharitableness. Mr. Bright, in his speech, refutes alss another hypo thetical objection to the probability of the Irish becoming a prosperous people, under a congenial form of govern ment; and that is the objection of race—" that you can make nothing of them." This objection, conjointly with the one already dilated on, he meets by instancing the success which attends the Irish in America and elsewhere. Now. we believe in both these causes—that of religion and that of race—the former is certainly infinitely the more depressing ; and this is proved in the very instances ad duced by Mr. Bright to show the reverse. When the Irish emigrant leaves his land of ignorance and mendicancy, and lands on the shores of England and America, he assumes almost a new nature ; he is surrounded with the examples of industry and order, and, from necessity, is taken in and becomes a part of the novel system. His native indolence and Celtic inaptness in this mode is reproved and tutored, and he is benefitted by the influences under which he acts. Because the Celt, when transplanted, is susceptible of moral elevation, is it to be inferred that the same elevation can be accomplished in the mass at home ? The difference of the cases is obvious. In Ireland, the peasantry, whether from the instincts of race, or from other causes, the growth of ages,—and it matters not which be the cause, the consequences are identical,—the population are sunk in indolence, devoid even of the energies to turn the scanty means of subsistence which they see around them to the best advantage; where there is means there is extravagance and waste, where the former does not exist there is squalor and despond ing, —that is the character of the people. If we see them prosperous in the United States, we see them under the Nov. $) 11.4 AL _ favourable aspect of working up to the example of an trious nation, and surely it is no argument of the t r y 60 of their religion because the same degree of 111 ,: s recr. not attend them in that ne w l oca ti on . True 01 ,," os ee tholics still, but not so th e coun t r y they havennee their home, as a fraction of the population they wu'atO sarily share in the general prosperity ; the charsT, of the country are, i n f ac t, protestant, like Englisl." o iett Bright, to have illu s t ra t e d th e po i n t o f his *T am ._ plal should have shewn that the coun t r i es i n which b" 7 - 0 1 of Irish papistry are to be seen to such advantag e ie. Roman Catholic count r i es ; as the case stand s ' .00 stances go rather to refut e than to support his arg-seelc. The Irish emigrant does not leave his country Wa Del' home in the enlighten e d coun t r i es o f Lombardy 1113 0 big gium, but in heretical E ng l an d an d Amer'ica " gr , prosperity—if prosperity he has—is not owing' p ee Bright would have it, to hi s own ex t raor dinary %Op and the elevating influ ence o f hi s id o l a t rou s faith , m oi the fact of his being in a great measure freed f gollich last fatal power, and bei ng warpe d i n t o a s ystem in unwittingly he is benefited. CORRESPONDENCE, VINDICATION OF THE RECENT 00565 ADDRESS TO MR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST 4 ' L Sir,—Having seen in the Liverpool Mercury of the 34:It bi mo, some observations rel a ti ve t o th e address P _..en uted ,',a_re, Lodge No. 40 of Orangeme n i n Li verpoo l, t o Win. Pe'" ex J. P., for his warm and manly, but temperate letter , of dill addressed to the Protestants o f I re l an d, as a menlbefod the lodge, present when the r eso l u ti on was passe d end ed 01 honour of communicating w ith M r. B eers, I f ee l call l c , solicit a space in your widely circulated paper, in erq e „,„ r t efOe r ,. the public right as tone real facts which form thesab.l.; to address. The Mercury sets o u t by say i ng , th a t "it i t o f .. j tY hoped in common charity th a t th ese men are ignoran real nature of the events of which they express theirin 4 r o tte approval." Now, I would j us t b eg t o say , that it ',rooOrd! in prciple of Protestants, parti cu l ar ly o f O rangem en, to P. faith to another man's sleeve, and like the blinded duilt o Otf pery, believe im plici tly th e d ogm as o f t h e i r l ea d ers nO,u'', l lo o ° of Orangemen is, to "try all things, and hold fast throuttbe is good." Now, guided by this precept, it was not VIT T ' be most positive proof of the co ns i s t ency an d l oya lty of (/10t0 esteemed brother Beers, that Lodge 40 came to the of expressing their approbation of his gentlemanly an di terested conduct, in coining forward in the manner be 00 support of those institutio ns , th e b ulwarks of 0111 .' dete r liberty, which it has al wa y s b een t h e study o f P o pis lr of gogues to undermine and subvert. The editor of the ;,,00 1 * quotes a paragraph, f r o m w h a t aut h ority is only k n own to self, in which it appea rs , th a t " a b oy of ten years of 56::(011 deliberately shot, an old wom an o f 70 mur d ere d, and an ir brains beaten in." Now, if even thi s statement was - fie ll.O evidence, who were the parties proposed to swear to it • ow if the editor of the Mercury had only read carefully b.i r ,yttell wick's report, he would have seen his error; but as In e h - orr. god has wings both to his heels and shoulders, he can .700 0 these well known truths, and alight just on those sP e ,; e iriCk , best please a vitiated appetite. But let us hear Mr. o ;,,itoel (and one-sided as his report is.) what does he say of W h ose' who makes this assertion? Why, the very witness ~P. John Paul,/after several attempts to avoid taking tu;,, 0. acknowledged that "he was told to come forward and s ' o f t h e And who told him to do so? Just read the evidenee,,,tetti spiritual instructor of the peopl e , th e R om i s h priest, irb`l,, e pel , that he collected and in qu i re d f or ev id ence open l y in tbec, n eee and as he had before ble sse d th e pik es on the hill, so f s u e ietre he gave them absolution b e f ore tendering evidence, f9r eic o the testimony of Patrick M'K a y, who declares hi s eyidenf b (01 concocted in the vestry roo m of th e c h ape l . So 110 7 f SO priestly influence; and who does not know the extent. best Irish priest's influence? B u t t o return to J o h n Paul , ti lt ~ what Mr. Berwick says to M r . M oore : —" I ' ll direct 1;„ ) , 00 e ven to give all assistance i n hi s p ower to Mr. Beers , or .9 then else, to prosecute that mats for perjury !" H e (Paul) W ordered into custody, but was su b sequent l y liberated,sesopt*a""— mations were to be preferred aga i ns t hi m at t h e pelt)" iserstd Such is the evidence on whi c h th e s t atements o f the oi rest. It would be useless in me to follow out all the otber„rf, and equally unfounded assertions made by your cotenq s liOt but one other rema r k I canno t a ll ow to pass unnot i c ed, "the district immediately g contiguous bein almos t exclt! 0 inhabited by Roman Catholics." Now, I say, without le* O 1 contradiction, this is not the fact; I know the localitl%Add look again to Mr. Berwick's report, who, on Mr. Keovr o l7iir the priest, " How many persons on the hill were stranir, d er Mr. Berwick says, " I h ave p re tt y correct answers to that 9a tion already, I have it that the great body of the kol a strangers.' I would not occupy more of your valuable eu... is cal• but merely to inform the editor of the Mercury bowfin' u t weft culations fall short of the number of Orangemen in the ,rod' pool district. There are not less than 80 lodges, having, r od' 2000 regular attending members. But oh! like Belshazi_or ing the writing on the wall, how will his knees knock tOKO9 when I tell him, that in the county of Down alone there fewer than 238 lodges, numbering above 7500 merribers.,. ec tOt I am not sorry that the M ercury h as ta k en up t he Dolly's Brae, as there Popery, perjui y, and Ribbonisin SOOd out in all their glory ; and the investigation has dcale..ceo, were it only to show what Iri s h P o p ery i s i n t h e n i n eteen th , t he tury, and it has been the me ans o f arous i ng t h e s pirt n be it loyal men of Liverpool to g a th er roun d t h e s t an d a rd 0! to i r ig religious rights and liberties, and w i t h one h ear t a nd onr itrid unite to preserve, and hand down to th e i r c hildren, Pa r t her. unadulterated, that faith and loyalty for which our forn i died. Such are the sentiments of Lodge No. 40, 00 , d a Tgelle . believe also to be the feelings of th e b ret h ren o f En t rally. Your's faithfully , , , I N. WM. RAN THE NECESSITY FOR THE RECUSCITA T OF THE TEST ACT. vpdfflo TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STA , . f or SIR S We are now reaping with a vengeanc e the fruit s9 o f tbe liberal policy. We have repealed the s a l u t ar y provision s ate ille Test Act, and have admitted to res p ons ibl e o ffi c es of ste t infidel and papist. The conseq wences o f suc h aPPoin' peIP are now manifesting themselves : cause and effect can be separated. - bf Mr. Richard R. Sheil—who is a Papist—is appp.intr" of I/ ..sge ministers Master of tile mint, and the effectis the iss"i - ,,tjell coin fit only to circulate in a heathen land. The superscr!;ient on the new florin is "Victoria Regina, 1849," and the a7OOO and sacred words "Dei Grati a " are om i tte d . The 0 1 1 ,0 0 is highly offensive to the Chri s ti an p eop l e o f E ng land, !!, t ips I direct insult to Almighty G o d. Thi s comes o f a pPol" papist. Mr. R - ' ~tr. .owland Hill—a Unitarian unbeliever—is sin'', d a responsible position in the P os t-office and the exe . ,,, p t 11 successful attempt at Sabbath desecration. The att emp t highly offensive to the Christi an p eop l e o f Englas", pig g 5 direct insult to Almighty Cod. Thi s comes o f apls , " _A Unitarian. Mr. Richard More O'Ferrall—who is a Papist—is a vr fjP" Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Malta, and the_ ro ol is, that certain Italian refugees, who sought the cus„ t loo. protection which England gives to the oppressed of s'.., were refused permission to land on that island. very pleasing to O'Ferrall's master, the Pope, but in the hale degree offensive to the generous and hospitable Peep England. This comes of appointing a Papist. fis What now is to be done to prevent the recurrence o is to vexatious and perilous acts? Why, Sir, the only Pl an s e, remove the cause, and then the effects complained of cell o 0G say, again recur those provisions which the expelleiLiry to wisdom of our forefathers found it absolutely nee es ‘ ti tste' devise in reference to the high and responsible offices 0. „ i t Di guard these offices, as far as possible, from being occurlod men who, on the one hand, profess a n It a li an creed, s i " the other, from men who profess no creed at all. . loaf and people are deeply implicated by the acts of their , _ lo af and unless they protest with bold, manly, and sturdy; tkci against the exaltation of impious men to power, T",....-0 1 c1 must expect to have their Sabbaths stole n f r om them . ~sO, allegiance to heaven unacknowledg e d u p the their coin their own true, genuine hospitality de n ied to ' foreigner whom adversity throws upo n th e i r s hores ! f og it is far better that these religious questions should v, o glis_. met, discussed, and SETTLED, befo re th e s pi r it of the l ipe p becomes fairly roused and exasperated, an d a second L e is necessitated, in order to restore th e f u ll and unim blessings secured to all in the principles of the reforr s ioo. and from which we are diverging more widely every se' I tim,-Sir, Yours obediently, AN ENGLISHgAII' 27th October, 1849. NATIONAL SIN AND NATIONAL PUNISH 4 ,-0 0 TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL Nro" - JOY clear ps m ep S n i at ß v,a , i — ndwd O em, : iialeasc t ii h tes s e ivavie s cc u eaa b ssg j eu e c r c iale t ntcyo o wor f edfl n el n a db t oe i it o noi n nirs a icoa l andrugissipinntseuidnr.e, whichna national pt 6, 14 in the matter of Uriah, the Hittite : and, se a c g o ai n n dl s y t ,T l P: ll3: e ore; o l ing the people. Both of these incurred Divine chasit, o o..„, For the first, his died; for the second, seventy of the people were cut off by a pestilence. But why 0 0 741 1 5 rence ? Why was he punished for one sin, and the P e .aeifil the other? 'Clearly because, in the first instance, be ' e fro7,e an individual, in the second as king. The first was a :, tfi act of David ; the second was an official political a n c ds 01; king of Israel. In the first instance, a man sinned, e h i f / r,7,0 was punished: in the second, a nation sinned throug,.. o clw,", and a nation was punished. Here then we have a l„ s cOr n i of distinction, marked out by God himself, between s';01201 mitted by men in their private capacity as individuals as committed by men in their public official capacitY a n stieiio The one is not national sin, and does not bring down. punishment the other is national sin, and does b lin ' national punishment. This record also furnishes an answer to three ° Ist—That, if a nation were punished for having si.n ne ,.„lers„' iN its rulers, the punishment should come through its; i - og; bf was not so in David's case. The nation did sin to t ruler ; the punishment did not come through its ruler the direct hand of God in pestilence. oil OP 2nd—That, inasmuch as pestilences arise from net , o 0 and inasmuch as a far greater number of persons are , uo oa j i ordinary diseases, such a visitation ca nn ot be looks"11 1 ' national chastisement subjected by the hand of nod' inflicted in David's case. f tbe 11 00 1er6 3rd—That, if the punishment came for the s i n o . „rs A s it would fall upon the rulers. It was not so in Dari i iireSLl Nor is the argument at all a logical one: for it re.q.. s io fr"Of guilty persons to be punished as individuals, for T o il committed as rulers. They are punished as rulers the tit national calamity. ' 039triD e By this method of dealing, God accomplishes two enti?br objects :He asserts his own authority, for the pr o e„ „ft government of the world; and He gives the stron, ,es f i:Oni proof of the necessity, and therefore of the certainty, of state of retribution, when all these temporary in eci regards individuals will be finally rectified. Your obedient servant, EW cLTS. CL SPORTING INTELLIGENC. 31 45*9' SALE OF BLOOD STOCK AT NEWMARKET M r 50 ri TATTERSALL AND SON.— Antagonist, 5 yrs' 65d Tordesillas, 2 yrs, by Touchstone out of Ca re vo Oquetos, 3 yrs, 40 gs. ; bay yearling colt, by My O W/ out of Nitocris. 45 gs. ; Valentissimo, 40 gs. ;, 14 . 4 . 5 2 yrs, 30 gs. ; Grimston, 6 ys, 30 gs. • Nectar, 37 : - ,,ber!„ o , A walking match is to com off early ' in Nci c ` — ti lse u e d Dundalk, which has excited considerable sPectotioo,4, One of the officers of the 13th Light Dragooes,,,s2 hot i ; there, Mr. Messinberg, is to walk 50 miles le, for a bet of £5OO. The road chosen for th e le' cc t o. l ' from the Barrack-gate to the Blackrock, a di stal/ miles in and out. THE CHASE The CHESHIRE HOUNDS Will meet Wednesdsy, November 7th, at . • ..... . , Thursday, November Bth.. A Saturday, November 10th .................. ,0 0w Each day at half-past ten o'clock, except November Bth, when they will meet at eleven• n gt o Sir W. WYNN'S HOUNDS Will Meet ° vs/00_18f This day, Tuesday, November 6th, at ...... •. Wednesday, November 7th A • • .... •• • • Friday, November 9th e e Saturday, November 10th Each day at half-past ten o'clock. 1: 10 0 IC Sir THOMAS HESETH'S HARRIERS Will 121 Thursday, November Bth, at . • At eleven o'clock. ?tot 6 okkiry WEDN P EL P n • - "Vt11( kt il i Ztn e Z o v - --Ze g 41 14 1 :' chafer 0(11. 4, 4(1 Lg f/ I ln g n 4 a, Krau e Y , te, Hale] Co 4 LGr ii ° Tnas DE iki il ye 26th A 29 1 1 ,T. 29 S. and oi 11 4 e th e t ;',"ad he u water 1 1 04 ; 44 f1 I ,t ..t A! 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