The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-13 00:00:00

13,1 341 I to L w and a MEd ry hint. .71! a nd trS , again sectl` 31( of the P, O O le Was a VI S be brough t i; confounelPoor ;self as 11°t ,,,, t O O i t the lo tarily aFT - 00l and 1 09 ,,, sovereig n ` d at day-ud, ty Bridge. d vhere he ha " j ; reo ce o o r n e . , gad li o. : 11 ler seriou L ift! that it is t l .l. him for 1 11- ,V b r ought.h i ewr ed for Mal' 4 ; Fl IN T l°l, 8. 2 tality in ed, a nd 1 10 4 44ctory WO the reoM 0 ricts the F e op_ nlati° p find that t: heeverag e : The death' 7 were 531 f increase 0 0 4, is 11,8 01 ;• fl it ; opu latiou 1 o f h e a vcrag e o ei general rees,, in the five %, emi l cs set 1, , through cement to° ummer Re s c t,l cases, c4 ol, istricts 09 3 0 demic has ality. , he tality in id , listriets a qua rters n; the rett i ,' d. le 100, 1 * c it fly referrf o i „ )In, and r Feb. 13, 1849. tittrature. VAR TIES. uoNvErtikflON.—Fusels had a great dislike to eommonplace observation!. After sitting ,, perfeetly silent t .° F a tong time in his own room, during tbe bald dis jos.aiintteedrecsitijantg"aonfatsuormee, idle callers-in, who were talking s wit . n one another about the weather, and other topics of he suddenly exclaimed, " We bad Pork for climier to-day !" " Dear, Mr. Fuseli, what an ndd r emark to ~ bee n • W hy, it is as good as anything you have Dar. nc,' for the last hour." lectui e NG DISTINC TIONS. —Professor Cockerel!, in a tkie, ~on architecture, lately related an anecdote of Ren- N o lo ;to having repaired the wheel of a stage coach, in b otti `" cr , and an aristocratic fellow -traveller had previously treat,in eolloquial terms, found himself, as a workman, ania s i o wi lt great reserve and hauteur, and described the n ext d g discomfiture of the same traveller, on finding. With w a j that the most honoured guest of the noble lord roan, ';_tnn he had to dine was his companion, the work :N/47u° now treated him with corresponding distance. gards trAill• ED UCATION.—The state of the army, as re the _orth the expense of our military establishments, and att ra w ete p and intellectual culture of men and officers, has ve wtokeeiali our of late, a good deal of attention. . We have Mbar -r " 7 " Part in the mele'e, and it now gives Duke Pleasure to be able to announce that the of meats has entered into the arena, and that arranger officar'sa,,e made which will for the future impose upon our as wan me wholesome necessity of exercising their minds d a t e as their bodies. Probably in a few days from the Pear.,_ " ,thris Publication, his grace's general order will ap- Tat fr., aser. forto,, rRILANTHROPY OF THE DAY !—" Fourteen unat tile Ctle Prisoners were condemned to trrsportation timing „":"------ assizes." How shocking and cruel; "'Rs exampl e of the philanthropic cant of 0 . 0 t ons, a the newspaper, we sought a look at the con t % le fa a nd. found there were only two for manslaughter ; hadr child murder, mitigated by the finding of the jury h ad tentenee . 1.. defrauded r , ~ five burglaries, in one of which an old lady .1 4 f - 'lntened to death • two forgeries, one of which th ee , e'randed a widow and innocent family, and steeped II a o ,„ 1 1 1 Years of misery, and the other had impoverished tati a "a a ver of respectable persons ; one attempt at . ass e a nee i 1 -y ' a nd three hic•hway robberies, with viol . irau-rs, ril:titons i trans ports ' l—Literary Gazette. ~., uct, x viii, TRICITIES OF TRANSLATION.—The . Overland h l a / 1 //a7 a tr i -va • z -- ...Long Kong, gives a curious instance of h at• tioo. n official orders which may occur throuh ! - "via : ~,,,. The following order was issued by Sir John ak o „ " 0 Person except the harbour-inaster can boar ''e is ,;." vessel without the consent of the master, unless i ' l lable - ;', n ed with a warrant and accompanied bya t co n n s. - ~titoa:thelJPon examination of the Chinese official ra d 'Th e I. Passage was found to have been thus rendere alai polic e arbour -master, and persons carrying . warrants, . resse , l a m the,have teen leetnen power to board vessels :if there be t does not want them to enter e In co' h . i ll ea he may be able to obstruct and stop them." a t el le nl ii -en ting on this farrago the editor of the Ch . French ; 118 1ii ete s some more amusing parallels from a :,, Si r tr t.(lll , °f Mannering" which he had met wais a L 4l4 ekit B:i'ita?l,•e Scott speaks of Dominic 11 .r e er, o r •°' ,' that is, a minister who has Sampson ?trek in his ''"'s 'u„ ln his discourse. A French translator . renders banes' mMistre assassin' —a minister stuck with a yen thet4idtli 4 gain, in the same novel, Dandle Din ont is 'l' at • it has just chappit aucht on the Tron,.' m t . hat is, ,deredri°,,nbchnrch bell has just struck eight. This is re o n ; L 'rdrie "„firench, ' Il est huit heures, et le . Roi est sur s 5 ,.... 41 eiph":lch, being translated into English, inean •' the write."" o'clock, and the King is on the throie, a te t 11 4 ' Ptc 'ahly being led away by a confused notion ' . that th a ° t n t r. had something; to do with Paulus Pleydell . ben!g h igh jinticsill engaged in performing the part of King in Ci a , • at Si insTAN' HATRED OF RUSSIA.—A Turkish . captain d0r.,,11,°,De told Dr. Wagner the following interesting ai c feu years Circassian hatred of the Russians :—".ust asA a, u s e , , , r a ago a slave-ship sprang a leak out at sea, The Turkish j Nav e an SteallleT passed in the distance. t o ...rdaealer, who preferred even the chili bla ts of Siberia h alla tb re even in deep water, made signals of distress, 11 ,,irip• e ste amer came up in time to rescue the lii_cs and its nus s ; ea, cargo from destruction. But so deeply is hatred of °f tliO a I.4)Planted in every Circassian heart, that the spirit l lnr:iryeevolted at the thought of becoming ing the he p tikApt" gray -coated soldiers, instead of sharing the t o:t s t ; ti r g " B couch of a Turkish pasha. They had bid adieu mountains with little emotion, but a s s a t . h r e . „ l ag 8 0 . 1e 2 shin approached they set up terrible and d . e p he i rs grove-14s. Some sprang headlona. o hearts:-tothe sea , e o ro t nes death their knives into their these hero I ns. e avit w as Preferable to the bridal-bed of a detested 11 to c e ' The survivors were taken to Anapa, and married every es :.aeks . , or given . to officers as servants." Nearly Wiot e ristnan or Turkish steam-boat . that_m to akes in the Av e ;inonths, the voyage from . Trethzond Co'nstanti- Wag r ; ar as a number of Circassian girls on board. Dr. sev eral , Made the passage .. in an Austrian steamer with tireiv or of these willing slaves,chiefly mere children, ana ,P ar thirteen years old, with interestipg countenances cept'ark wild eyes, but very pale and thin; r with the ex- dres se d of two, who were some years older, far better slar: e d l i and carefully veiled. To this favoured_ broildealer paid particular attention,. pair the d f quently with g , ll l , t . them coffee. Dr. Wagner got into conversation d silks k i d Tis man, who was richly dressed in furs n a n n ers of ; geetZum, despite his vile profession, had th re e daughters a of ilobl e ' n en. The two coffee-drinkers we coodpen, h e said, with fine rosy cheeks, more mo and in better ney at e n th an the others, consequently worth ebt ; c . ,enst antinople. For the handsomest he hoped to of and (:)" ' ) °,000 p i astres, and for the o her 20,000—about The herd of young creatureshe spoke 2 000 ath contempt, and should think him elf lucky to get ther informed th e ~Diastres for them all round. He gsto,tor that, although the slave-trade was more dan taaca4a▪ nd difficult since the Russian occupation of the Net' sl an coast, it was also far more profitable. For 'll d ? ? w hen Greek and Armenian wome h n w m e o re st b h r e o a u u g t l i it . fia wds to the Constantinople market, e bleuireassians were not worth more than d t lo,ooo piastres ; 14 b a r a rosy, vvell-fed, fifteen-year-ol slave is hardly 4,,,,, h ad under 40,000 piastres.—Blackw _ood' s Magazine. teaehetital3 TRIBE ON THE MARCH n;ma W r, Kb the pasture grounds of the Sh e an h d a S d hi n e e k w h ,aot declared that Sofuk's tents could not be far dis itched almost atna a A. few days before they had been tLoalgst t he ruins of Al Hather ; but h had since left I'Ve states t was not known where he e k had encamped. the direction Poit early in the morning and a t s oo n kt b d ° la by Khalaf. Our view w bounded on the * el Y , a rising ground. When we reached re i d ts to su s m w m ar i m t, Irith,„°Ked clown upon a plain, which appea n ,f tl l - ', Zing objects. We had come upon t t o h d e now met, •IpPea,. - "ammar. It would be difficult e m se a r i i n be be t d h j e /mita — ,.. r . t ee of a large tribe, like that wehad . •ee tio i g r ating to new astures. The scen h e o c u a r u s s , e p d e i r n ha m p e s ,atip l .4 B Of ItelanchOly, fort recalled v gi ettaZ ta bly, though certainly happily m a.snpyenfotr; the ed joyous many ` re e(lo, s enne who now sighed in captivity i ho 6 -1 ., which those wandering hordesefnoju'onydedou; ourselves ' the'u Perished in its defence. We soon •f a midst of wide-spreading flocks ofsheteoptahnedlecfatm, and la f r ,, l• as the eye could reach, to the right, Ne Alt, still the same mov i ng erow_• d Lon lines of atitl,,,an,d bullocks laden with black tents, huge cauldrons abl e • •r'egated carpets; aged women and . men, no longer s i lents e W alk, tied on the heap of domestccfuriture th ; ru in s - t ltics eralinned into saddle-bags, their tiny heads . a ,..,114 t ,.. i"‘;it b., •,;',7, B narr•ow opening, balanced on the animal girls cl4 t l."n. or lambs tied n the opposite side ; which hs t 'Plitoc,,l ue ° only in the close fitting . Arab shirt, ; 10 th e ",.' - '' rather than concealed their graceful forms ; it p i i i t i og s fi e w e i k t s h o pi l eir h eh . ild en on their shoulders . , horsemen armed with their • long vise,,(st sPears Pi ' scouring arns the plain on their fleet m o a o r i e ce s j ttt eks 14 -'ng their dromedaries with their sh t or h seoted gallopin %Its ' and l eading their high bred steeds . by h h r e a halter ; d like g among the throng ; high born ladies Indtn_hose ~r i n the centre of huge wings, which exen hurnp "l a b utterfly from each side of the camel's I ' 74letite 11° l essgaudy and variegated. Such r w w a a s y the th e sal ,erowd through Which we had to wend ou : 'l : l 4 ::: n t i l c r s appearance created a lively sensatione ; aoen checked our horses the horsemen assemblcl rayl 44' and rode by our side; the children . yelled and saki.--L a yard's Nineveh and its Remains. i.;ll4lt.lekx. TITOI;GHTSY ON LEGITIMATE MONARCHY. :"ae "rePubcan ou know, holdinthat my loyalty ~ l l. s.crit h e . .t h , a c onstitu' ti 7 on of mY i i . v atay "0 the doctrine that this a own country; and yet . I idea of majesty is in s . l•al • i t a „ I ld that, confess it or not, even republicans feel ;n't •'' Tie icing's name is a tower of strength ; and it tl w d n at o l t?i ll ro ll „,as said co sovereign e princes, with a pregnant tl i ,.lng ofet_Y_ meaning —ye are gods. This is not the a e ui opi th I,o,usrts, but then admonition of Him who invests N at afte r tk'n sword of avenging justice, and gives them, ii k th at 1 ages the natural homage . of their fellow-men. if :Ikea, and old flatter monarchs .I see that they die t hin ° t lit. a . ;', What is worse, live, very often, like fools, be te g g i p bout Yet I am sure that they have some oth:s.iveil t r , L 2,,m which is personally theirs, and cannot ail , (1:. I) (!s a s re - : _? t t il n e er i s . , .and r a thing as any th,.• 'hey sl on• God has endowed them with . history, genesu; lying links which connect nations with not,tie' ri n a : EIT . Ld the a men of the passing age with . bygone i• oar p l ook ...,tte son about it as we may, it is impossible %N i ls of ve l2tn natural reverence on the breathing monu -1( ot g„, eerable antiquity. For a Guelph, indeed, I r , eel • ', up at , p ‘.l 4 l itieupil it ericitu iittie y false or romantic enthusiasm ; and Yet as impossible not to f 1 that the house of ate s , whi e L Fs Its royal members to feel that the house of • 5 its royal members to a degree of conside -40„ lisa th " is the ordinance of Heavr. For how many abs o ?ver t..at house been a great . reality, casting its sha eta Otely 4°1)9, and stretching it over the world, and as t Oe e arrie rs ecting the destinies of men as the geographi 'noeas ar e and highways of nations ! The Alps and the 'nos al ca r e M orally as well as naturally, ajestic , ▪ a . nd e a s lacl'h h i'stY like' theirs attaches to a n line of princ th " Bt ood es 111 ha s , lie storms of cerituries like them, and is th ati d gene ueen always a bulwark or . a bond between is ya4hereditrations. Like the solemnity of mountains lie en e l t i in th ar Y 1-9a.iesty of a family, of which the origin au' t ad . a yove t, e t wilight of history, but which is always her,, "le surfaceof t m orary events, a crowned , tie r ,,,. red tb , • co e p ' 4 hiit..loti t , "Log that never dies, but perpetuates, from fliadeglity 414 agneraton, a still increas . ing emotion r a r L and 'we, which all men feel, and none can fully taPte,ro,,; There are many women in England who, tekiiitonj"4.(palities and graces, would as well become ginate l n 1 4 4 $e whom you so loyally entitle " Our . S e.. i er N e Doss • . Why is it that no election, nor any a 'ear t' e . 4 °l' it ssw il of her place, could commend len tle 1214 ➢sta ' teche on of them to the homage of nation'sthe .. ti :^% (l ili .4 "e might wear the robes, and glitter like : klop,"‘ a v 0 i, 5 41 4 the regalia, and might walk like Juno; . V lci en't' l lot i o ' e b v 'otil . d cry God save her '—while there is iret vpsov at • e mistaken, which invests the daughter of t i t r i h i t n t ' oll it l theigs costaven when she is recognised, against th e b.. t h er me of travel, or when she shows her- m n tisa t ,"",,ne ft ,, l People and treads the heather in atn - ' 4 feera'usa.klihiand plaid. Why is it that ten ' r ill When her figure is seen descending from the woodeil Walls of her empire, and alighting upon some long unvisited portion of its soil ? It is not the same emotion which would be inspired by the landing of Wellington. Then the roaring of cannon and the waving of ensigns would appear to be a tribute rendered to the hero by a grateful country ; but when her majesty touches the shore, she seems herself to wake the thunders and to bow the banners which announce her coming. The pomp is all her own, and differs from the tributary pageant, as the nod of Jove is different from the acclamation of Sten tor. Even I, who " owe her no subscription," can well conceive what a true Briton cannot help but feel, when, with an ennobling loyalty, he beholds in her the concen trated blood of famous kings, and the propagated soul of mighty monarchs ; and when he calls to mind, at the same moment, the thousand strange events and glorious histo ries: which have their august and venerable issue in Vic toria, his queen.—Blackwood's Magazine. @rural Iltsrellanv. Nearly £20,000 worth of property, in Mitchell-street, Glasgow, was destroyed by fire on Thursday. Mr. Ballantine, one of the oldest stipendiary magis trates of the metropolis, has, from ill health, tendered his resignation. A Cornish paper mentions that a ripe strawberry was gathered last week from a hedge bottom at Vensoloe, in the neighbourhood of Liskeard, The salary of Mr. Simeon, the newly appointed medical officer of health for the city of London, has been fixed at £5OO per annum. A very destructive fire took place at Mr. Wheaton's hat shop in Hereford, on Tuesday, when the servant girl unhappily perished in the flames. A maker of gold pens advertises that fifteen years' expe rience justifies him in asserting that his pens are ever lasting The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received, in a let ter signed " Error corrected," £2lO, " presumed to be due to her Majesty's Exchequer." The amount will be paid into the Exchequer. The keel of the first steamer of a new line to run be tween Glasgow and New York, has just been laid down. She is to be on the screw principle, and of 1000 tons bur den. On Friday week, a waggoner and his boy, at Marton, near Shrewsbury, were killed by the waggon running over them, in consequence of the horses starting off unexpect edly. Last week an elderly female in Scarborough complained of a violent pain in the stomach, and subsequently in the head, which was relieved by a worm, half a yard in length, coming out of her nose.—Leeds Intelligencer. At a chartist meeting held last week, in London, the chairman, a Mr. Swann, recommended his hearers to be prepared for a revolution, and said that if it came the people ought not only to seize the lands, but to get rid of the present landlords altogether. The chartists would do well to consider whether Swann is not another Powell. The Duchess of Newborough has published a work, in which she declares that she is prepared with uncontrover tible eviaence to prove that Louis Phillippe is the son of Capperni, an Italian gaoler, and that he was substituted for au infant (who is the daughter of the Duke of Orleans) while she was in the cradle. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday last, Mr. M. Beverly, of Foncet, who formerly kept a pack of hounds, and has followed the chase for the past 40 years, was out with the harriers, and was about taking a leap, when his horse re fused, on which he was violently thrown over its head, and falling heavily on his skull, life was soon extinct. A tremendous snow storm occurred in the district of Troutbeck, Westmoreland, on Sunday week, when a large number of sheep were completely buried under the snow and perished. Mr. N. Wilson found thirty under a drift at the Dod, in Troutbeck, of which twenty-seven were suffocated by the snow, which lay several yards deep. Among the devices employed to discover the bodies of the men lately drowned in the river Lune, has been that of enclosing some quicksilver in a penny bun, which was set afloat at the place where the boat was upset, with the superstitious notion that the ben would become stationary wherever a body was lying beneath the water. _ _ _ A few days since, an apprentice on board a vessel lying in Dundee docks, had occasion to go to the bread locker, and was astonished by finding it tenanted by a numerous colony of rats. He immediately summoned the mate, who armed himself with a stick, attacked the intruders, and speedily killed the whole of them, to the number of 50. A Swansea paper mentions that, on Wednesday week, a farmer, living in the parish of Bettws, followed the hounds in pursuit of a fox which had committed great ravages in the neighbouring henroosts ; but on his return at night over Mynpdd Ystiad, he lost his way, and on the follow ing Friday he was found dead from exposure to the incle mency of the weather. A sergeant who was lately proceeding by railway to London, with some recruits, on arriving at the Swindon station, discovered, to his confusion, that a tall youth, whom he had considered as his finest recruit, was unfitted for the service by the want of a leg, which was replaced by a cork leg, so well made that the sergeant had not no - ti j ced the defect of the limb when he enlisted the lad. The Rev. Mr. Jacob, curate of Wilton, Dorsetshire, has been publicly horsewhipped, in a street of that town, by an elderly gentleman and his son, (names not given), belonging to Leeds, Wiltshire. The cause seems to have been the breaking off of a love connexion by Mr. Jacob, with the daughter of his elderly assailant, in whose house at Leeds, the rev. gentleman, it is said, was fed and lodged for two years. FATAL ACCIDENT 'WHILST DRIVING.—On Saturday week, as Mr. Williams, M.P., Mr. Jones, of Ruthin, and several others, were driving home to that town, their horse took fright at the flashing of the carriage lights upon a waggon which was approaching ; the animal shied, and the whole company were thrown out of the vehicle. The head of Mr. Jones was crushed by the wheel of the waggon, and he died immediately. He has left a widow and three children. His property is expected to amount to £150,000, in addition to a large landed estate. MADEMOISELLE JENNY LIND.—The popularity of this distinguished vocalist increases on every successive visit to the provinces. On Thursday evening she sang at the Town-hall, Birmingham, in Mendelssohn's oratorio of Elijah, and was most enthusiastically received. The hall was crowded to excess, and although the prices of tickets were high, hundreds were unable to obtain admission. CI F The Mesdames Williams and Messrs. Machin and Lockey acquitted themselves with great effect. The receipts could not fall far short of £l2OO, if they did not exceed that sum. A curious case of Somnambulism has happened at Bel ton, about a mile from Epworth. Miss Buttrick, who is about 13 years of age, went to sleep with a relation of hers, a short distance from her home. In the middle of the night she got out of bed, dressed herself, went down stairs, unlocked the door, and proceeded towards home. In her way thither she had to open a gate, pass down a plantation-side, climb over a stile, cross a river by means of only a narrow plank ; the whole route being about a quarter of a mile. When she reached home, she roused her parents, who let her in, " totally unconscious that she was asleep, until they had asked her why she had come home at that time of night. This awoke her." DREADFUL FIRE.—FIVE LIVES LOST.—On Thursday , morning early, a fire broke out in the premises of a ha berdasher, Lamb-street. Spitalfields, London, by which calamity not less than five persons lost their lives. The flames made rapid progress, and but a short time elapsed before the entire house, stock, &c., were consumed. By two, or half-past, further danger had subsided, when, through the exertions of the firemen, the bodies were re covered from the ruins ; one, a girl seven years of age, _ and two others, adults. One of the survivors was com pelled to leave his wife behind him on the stairs, and he narrowly escaped suffocation from the density of the smoke. THE IfORMONITES.-These people are increasing in numbers rapidly both in the neighbourhood of Camden and Somers-town, and intend, i; the spring of the year, to emigrate and colonize in California. They have arran- ged to hire the use of four or five vessels for their own immediate conveyance to the western world, not being desirous of intermixing with persons distinct_from their own sect. On their arrival in settlement abovenamed they intend to pursue their route to the " Valley of the Saltwater Lake," enter upon farms, and encourage agri- culture. They " hold all things 'in common" - among themselves, and are strictly bound by the ties of fraterni zation and socialism. Many thereabout have disposed of their furniture and the leases of their houses to raise money for the voyage. HEALTH AND 'LONG LIFE, SIMPLIFIED AND MADE EASY.—Published by Claridge and Co., 12a, Gough. square, Fleet-street.--This is a book of vast promise and pretension : in gratitude for the boon conferred on them, the old and the young, the hon-vivants and the gay Lo tharios of society, cannot do less than erect a statue, cere perennius, to its author. But to be serious :we have attentively read the little volume, and cannot but admire its judicious and salutary prescriptions, which not only claim the attention of the old and the infirm, but also that of the young and the vigorous. The author, who is an octogenarian, " hale and vigorous," and possessing all the flow of spirits and vivacity of temperament be longing to youth, has in his own person proved that his doctrines are not speculative, but are founded on the basis of truth, and are reducible to practice.—Journal of Literature and Science. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—On Monday, at Oxford, Mr. Charles Blackstone, a scholar of Corpus, was found in his rooms lifeless, the contents of a pistol having entered his heart. Mr. Blackstone was in the habit of keeping a loaded pistol under the pillow of his sofa, in order to destroy rats, by which his rooms were much infested ; and as he had continually been in the habit of firing at them, no person considered the report of the pistol as other than an ordinary occurrence. Mr. Blackstone is supposed to have laid himself on his sofa, and there, pro bably between sleeping and waking, fancying he heard rats, and endeavouring to get at the pistol, the fatal acci dent occurred. Mr. Bla c k s t one was a young man o f great promise, and gener a lly b e l ove d . H e ga i ne d th e Newdegate prize at the last Commemoration, the subject being " Columbus in Chains." HYDROPHOBIA. — A dreadf u l case o f h y d rop h o bi a h as just occurred in the town of Fishguard. About four months ago a dog, supposed to be mad, bit various ani mals, and among others a calf. In a short time the calf displayed some very strange symptoms, and in the attempt to administer a drench to it a man named W illiam Pouk, a retired marine, about 35 years of age, who had lately become hostler there, had his finger rather severely bitten. He felt no particular anxiety on the subject, though his wife expressed a constant dread as to the resu lt o f th e wound, and his health continued good up to Sunday, the 28th ult., when he felt an aversion to food. On Monday this aversion increased and medical aid was resorted to, and on Tuesday the dreadful nature of his complaint be came fully apparent. He was attended by four medi ca l men, who yainly attempted to relieve him.. The parox ysms became more frequent and more violent, till death relieved him on Wednesday. The communication of this terrible disease from a calf is, it seems, a very rare,, if not a solitary circumstance in medical experience.. TEE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. thisn eehtfassm,inheoatnthd there e he poor-law h s a p v e e ci a m lm en o s st t e o xt b i e ng f u o i u sh n e d d . m a jeseo eth zal Sutherland, who formerly comm the sth Fuelling, has been appointed to the comma WOOD - SIDE FERRY. ornfoGreoddetehpalny,tthheeyhuwmouanldirnastthruermaednotrse whicht he good e os Providence ed fo r the troops in me MaZir!tius, and the Major . Generan o d e nc e o.n of in t o h e t h s a p t r l e a k d o ionwg class blind were " b always e n e ra t a l k l y e o s t r ea o n r e g , o a f b Le y p t a h u e p i e r r s o . w o T f h r e i e f o o d r s m a e t r , sparing to us the doctrines of the Trinity and Incar- These men were by no means " the halt, the lame, or the ai, i 4,,.. , ~ ~, 1 cnoartriounptiionn ofth th ose evil times. e s s o . proceed forthwith to th:: Earl Cathcart, t station . of Lieutenant-General ic. " . us• - •-,lonel the 3d Dragoon TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL e ea/veetcp. Guards, is to succeed t he late . Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, SIR,—Yon were kind enough to insert a lettet fioin me not where to turn first for it. A very little later, and home. K.C.8., in the command of the ne:ther and midland in last Tuesday's Standard, having reference to a etate- long before Pope Gregory's Mission, Salvian in his Tree- When the decree went forth that " man should eat counties, and not Prince George of CaiNbridge, aa was ment of accounts connected with " Woodside Ferry," tse on the Government of God, declares of the bread by the sweat of his brow," no exception was made multiplies Evi erroneously reported by a military paper. 1 which appeared in the Liverpool Journal of Jan. 20th.— whole Western Church, " The Chu rc h of God herself in favour of mendicants. They appear for the most part A WHIRLWIND ON CONISTC.N FELLS.--On Wednes- which letter has met with some rather rough handling at who ought to be the Appeaser—what is she but to flourish in proportion to the Romish religion, and to day, the 24th ultimo, as Mr. John Pool, of Coniston, was a meeting of the Board of Commissioners. In last Wed- the exas g erater of God, or, with excepti on s the ve r y decrease as Protestantism advances. Take Spain and driving some sheep off Coniston Fells, a sudden and furl- nesday's Courier Mr. Fox is reported to have " asked, fewest, who P cease from evil doing, what is the whol e Ireland, and Scotland, as examples of the two extremes.. ous blast of wind lifted several sheep into the air, one of whether the statement contained in a letter published in Christian community but a sink of iniquities ?To such Few people are aware of the number of mendicant friars them to the height of several yards, carrying it to a con- the Standard of that day, to the effect that no interest a depravity of morals is nearly the universal body reduced, who range over the west and south of helmet, managing siderable distance, and dashing it on the ground with such had been paid to Mr. Price foe the purchase of the ferry, that among every Christian people it is really become a to get their living by a few appearing to cultivate a farm, force as to kill it on the spot. Some of the other sheep was correct." Mr. Fox surely .oes not imagine that his kind of sanctity to be le-s vicious than others. ' Let me whilst the reelainder scour the whole country for provi were more or less injured, and Mr. Pool himself was question has ary features in common with any of the commend this whole treatise to the admirers of ancient sions at certain seasons, with the sagacity of a military obliged to consult his safety by throwing himself down, statements made in my letter. I said, " This same Ferry churches. Of the eastern churches some ye ar s b e f ore foragin g p ar t y , setting off with horses and e m pty sac k s, and grappling with a l arge roc k.—K en d a l M ercury. Committee must be rather pinched that they h ave pa id Basil says " they resemble my decaying b o dy, with ou t in which they will bring back anything they can catch, POST-OFFICE ROBBERY AT CARMARTHEN.—We have no interest (which is equivalent to rent) for the last 1 8 any good hope in prospect, and ever falling off towards Iron, oats or bacon to an old gridiron. Besides this, they already reported the fact that one of the daughters of the months." I know not the meaning of no interest paid to a worse condition." (Epist. VII.) And let me remark exhibit relics to superstitious women, and sell " gospels,"' postmaster at Carmarthen is now in jail, awaiting her trial Mr. Price for the purchase of the ferry. I understood in my own vindication. that lam advocating no theory of as they are called, which, being hung round the people's for stealing money letters. It is now stated that about that the " Ferry Act of Parliament" authorised the boy- my own, but one which our ablest divines have granted necks next the skin, are supposed to keep away evil spi £2oo in bank notes were found in the possession of the ro w in g of money to pay Mr. Price for the purchase—that to be undeniable. Bishop Newton on the prophecies, rits. I remember taking one from off the neck of a prisoner, and other property, such as purses, jewellery, the money was accordingly borrowed—and that the in- as well as Mede, have both afhrmed that St. p au e s " small boy," and on examination found it to contain and other fancy articles, amounting in value in the aggre- terest is owing to the bondholders who advanced it. description of the apostacy in 2 Thess. 11. had its fulfil- the first two verses of the first chapter of St. John's Gos gate, including the cash, to about £600; and it is parti- Does it, then, come out in this innocent way that Mr. ment in the fourth century, and that Christendom was pel. cularly desired that persons who have lost letters, or any Price has not been paid, but that he is allowing part of then corrupt without any but individual exceptions. My Ham- —-- friend, Mr. Riddl e , i n th e pre f ace to h i s other property, will immedi a t e ly g i ve i n f ormat i on to t h e the purchase-money to remain, bearing interest ? Has honoured Ecclesiastical Antiquities," declares of those times that post-office authorities in London, with accurate descrip- the money which was borrowed for a specific purpose tions of lost property. ILLEGAL MARRIAGE.—An ille ga l marr i age so l emn i se d been misapplied ? Is anythi ng owing to Mr. Price ? I our Lord's mediatorial glory was obscured, the true fear there is indeed. Mr. Willi an oson's reply, however, doctrines respecting pardon of sin and acceptEnce with some three or four weeks since at the church of a neigh- i s a n explicit answer to my statement. He said. " Every God perverted or concea l e d, th e p h raseo l ogy used in bouring town has created consid era bl e i n di gnat i on amongst farthing of the interest then due had been paid." Here, regard to the Lord's Supper unscriptural and exaggerated, the clergy, as well as amongst the pious and well-dis- then, we are at issue ; and it is necessary to determine and that "it is matter of thankfulness that we belong to posed inhabitants of the district of Whitechurch Canoni- whether the meaning I attach to the term interest in a church where the truths of the Gospel are taught with a corum. It appears that a farmer, residing a few miles these communications is the same as the one Mr. Wil- simplicity and purity unknown to the churches in which from the town of Axminster, has married his first wife's liamson attaches to it in his reply. By interest, then, I Athanasius, Chrysostorn, and Ambrose taught." Unless, daughter. The issue of the first mrrriage was a daughter mean not only what is payable to Mr. Price (if any) from then, we suppose a miracle as great as that of Gideon's —that of the second is already a s on . Th us th e g i r l i s any default of payment of the purchase-money, but, more fleece (for which we have not a particle of evidence), the sister to her mother-in-law, and aunt to her brother. It particularly, what is payable upon all monies borrowed ancient church of Britain was neither better nor worse is said that the leading clergymen in the neighbourhood under the authority of the Ferry Acts of Parliament, and than her neighbours in doctrine and morals, and none of will use all lawful means to effect a separation.—Derset applied to Ferry purposes, whether borrowed upon bonds them such as we can thank God for as we can for our own Chronicle. on the Ferry property distinctly, or in the form of gene- Protestant church of the sixteenth century. What we A CORPORATION GOING TO PRISON.—The Exeter rad township bonds. Does Mr. W. adopt this view ?or require is positive evidence that the doctrines of grace, Gazette says—" At Totnes the corporate gentlemen are does he, when he speaks of interest, only mean the for- of free justification, human helplessness, and all that we beginning to put up long faces at the dreadful fate which mer ? I give the public my authority for stating that the call the fundamentals of Christianity, were held by divines awaits them. It appears that the Attorney-General had, interest has not been paid for 18 months. At a Commis- of that age as they were by Jovinian and Vigilantius, by as long ago as 1823, instituted proceedings against the sioners' meeting on the 16th ult., Mr. Bentham said Waldenses and Albigeois, by Wicliffe and Cobham. corporation of this town for the misappropriation of funds "he had been connected with the Ferry for many years, Until this be given, we must conclude unfavourably for entrusted to their care as trustees of the town charities. and had had many opportunities of watching its progress our ancestors; and if so, let us at once leave to tracta- At the town council held on Monday last, it was stated and capabilities • and he was strongly conv i nce d t h at, rians the thankless task of fo rg i ng an ti-R om i s h weapons that unless the corporati on a pp eare d b y a t torney b e f ore with their present responsibilities, they could never meet for the exhumed corruption of antique churches, and fall the Master in Chancery on Thursday next (and there them (the Liverpool Corporation) with a penny fare. back upon our tried and tempered weapon, the sword of were no funds to pay an attorney), an attachment would They had not paid the interest on their bond debt for the spirit, which is the word of God. If the Church of issue, and the Mayor and his brethren be taken into the last year and a half. He admitted the penny rate Rome be not condemned by the Bible, n o ancient church custody. A strange sensation was f e lt by a ll p resen t, would pay in ordinary times, but with present responsi- can refute her; if she be, no ancient church is required to many of whom wished themselves well out of the council. bilities the penny fare would not answer. If continued, confirm the condemnation. The Town-clerk and Mr. Edwards (a solicitor), are dele- it would be at the risk of the bondholders; and he would I will conclude by quoting a similar sentiment from the gated to proceed to town to arrange the matter if possible. not be surprised if, under such circumstances, the bond- bishop of St. Asapli's History of the Church of England THE SISTERS OF MERCY.—The above association is holders took the Ferry into their own hands." No dan- (chap. I. 26) :-" When the great features of are brought forward" (by anc i en t E ng li s h divines), Christianity now existing in the west of England, a n d e n j o y s th e pa - ger of this, surely, if " every farthing of interest then due e tronage of the clergy in the west—a st a t emen t w hi c h had been paid " ! I leave the settling of this " small they are perfectly correct : some of the prayers, for should either be confirmed or denied. The patronage is, difference " with Mr. Bentham and Mr. Williamson, instance, given by Turner, m ar k grea t p i e t y , correct at least, not universal. Of ourselves we k n o w s o little, premising that the inter e st may h ave b een pa i d dur i ng views of the Trinity, atone men t, an d sanc tifi cat i on. " S o but by mere report, of the obje c ts o f th e s i s t er h oo d, th a t the three weeks which i n t ervene d b etween their state- in the Homily on the Catholic faith it is said :—" The we do not feel called upon to make any comment upon it. ments. Again, Mr. Fox is reported as having " asked if Holy Father created and made mankind through his Son, We will add, however, a most significant fact that has the Ferry Committee had paid their last coal bill, as it and desires, through the same, to redeem us from hell come to our knowledge, and in which we have good au- was asserted in the letter that they had not." There is punishment when we are utterly undone." But, then, Queen thority for putting who had credence :not it i s th a t h er m ajes ty th not a word in my letter f rom b eg i nn i ng to end about the same ho m ily a dd s a t t h e en d :—" Come, then, let us Dowager,only subscribed munifi- e " coals." That assertion is more likely to have come earn that eternal life with God through this belief or good cently towards supporting the society, but allowed her from a greater distance, say Wigan or St. Helens; con- deservings,"—expressions which a believer in the 11th name to be enrolled as patroness of the association, has sequently I am not content to be " called over the article could never have used. In another the writer speaks recently withdrawn her name. Fe w thi ngs , i n th e way o f coals " in respect of it. Subsequently, Mr. Prichard is of redeeming transgression by almsgiving :" on the death testimony, could be more condemnatory of the designs of reported to have said, that "in consequence of the letter of a bishop alms are directed to be given out of his pro the founders of the sisterhood than the one we have men- alluded to, a statement had been made on 'Change that perty, and his slaves to be set free, " that by this means tioned.—Church and State Gazette. day, that there were bills on the file of the Committee of he may deserve to receive reward for his labours and A WIFE ACCIDENTALLY S H OT BY HER HUSBAND.— three or four , ears' standing, that had not be en li qu i- also forgiveness of si ns ." Al wyn, founder of Rarn- On the Ist instant much inte r est wa s c a u s e d amongs t th e d ate d." I sa id not hi ng that can, by the most ingenious say, desired the m on k s t o pray f or hi m, and to place their inhabitants of Thorne, Lincolnshi re , by a re p or t b e i ng f orc i ng , b e ma d e to appear to bear such an interprets- merits in balance a ga i ns t hi s d e f ects, and a monk prays " circulated that a man had shot his wife. This, on inquiry,- tion : there was not e ven an insinuation in the letter rin that his good deeds ma y counter b a l ance his the evil deeds, and shield hi s sou l at t h e last day. " More for Edgar, was found too true. The name of the man is Jas. Boy ers , th e St an d ar d t h at any accounts were in arrear except 18amples of the same sort mi g ht b e f oun d , b ut these are ex a sailor, who lives near Tenpenacre Bridge. It app ear s i n t eres t, an d I di st i nct l y stated for how long, namely, , quite sufficient to prove th a t th e f ru i t o f unorthodox doe his wife had requested him to shoot her some sparro w s t o mon th s . I am , t h ere f ore, cur i ous to know how such make a dumpling of, and he went out and endeavoured t o re p or t s can fairly be said to h ave b een ma d e "i n come- trines had grown up with th e a d m i ss i on o f these opinions; do so. After being absent for some time he retu rne d, quence " of the letter alluded t o . If M r . P r i c h ar d h a d and though we may b r i ng f orwar d th e A nglo-Saxon Church and while in the act of passing down the step into his o wn wr i t t en a l etter i n w hi ch he felt called upon to animad- as not having admitted a ll th e errors o f R ome, yet when house, with the gun in his hand, from some unac coun t- ver t upon t h e procee di ngs of the person to whom it was we would defend ourselves f rom th e a t tac k s of our enemies, able reason it went off, and lodged the contents in the wr itt en , an d if, upon t h e l atter receiving it, he had gone we must at once fall back u p on th e Bibl e, &c. &c. " To breast of his wife, who was standing by a table i r o n i ng . i n t o a pass i on an d ruptured a blood-vessel and died, Mr. this I most cordially assent ; an d now , s i r , b egg i ng to dis- She immediately rushed forward into the arms of her hus- P r i c h ar d wou ld have thought it unfair if the jury had claim all wish to "sneer" a t th e " mo ti ves " o f my Chris band, exclaiming, "I am shot." Medical men were soon returned a verdict, "Died i n consequence of Mr. Prich- tian opponents, and trusting that y ou B ill ki n d ly fulfil in attendance. She lingered until the following morning, aid's letter." No, no ; the poor , letter is blame . I tender you my observations, conclusive, 1 think, of this : when she expired. 'something rotten in for these reports. There must be that the Pone was never supreme in Britain till he chose MURDER.--John Manley, a plasterer, residing in the state of Denmark," or why do they and whence to be so, and that when he did, his claims were admitted Phoenix-street, St. Giles, London, is in custody, charged come ? Lastly, Mr. Hughes said "he understood the for 900 years ; that the ancient British Churches being with the murder of his wife, under circumstances of ex- letter was written by a disaffected shopkeeper," &c., &c. for independent were not pure, and that, until proved to be treme atrocity. From the evidence, it appeared that on I can pass over that. The temptation to retaliate . i so, they have no claim on the sympathy of members of Wednesday morning, about one o'clock, the deceased was strong, when (by abusing a person instead of answering „ the United Church of England and Ireland." turned out by her husband, without bonnet, cap, or shoes, his arguments) an adversary displays a weak point. But and took refuge with a female neighbour, with whom s h e I w ill not b e b etrayed into the folly of lowering a discus- A MANCHESTER INCUMBENT went to bed. About seven in the morning the hu s b an d s i on, i nvo l v i ng questions of immense importance to the Manchester, Feb. 10, 1849. came, and the door not being opened immediately at hi s ratepayers , i nto a matter of mere personal recrimination; command, he forced it open, went into the room, an d b es id es , l am not accustomed to the use of Mr. Hughes's g dra ged his wife out of bed by her heels to the window. " weapon of war." I have, moreove r , i n thi s a ff a i r no He then took hold of her by the shoulders, and dashed her personal antipathies, and I seek no personal quarrel. I head on the floor, and while she was lying there he kicked remem b er th a t th e ratepayers consented to purchase the her about the head, and said, " I will be the death of y ou ." F erry , un d er a prom i se t h at t h e profits would be consi- He then gave her a dreadful kick, and she dropped her derable. I have an opinion (which I have a right to) head, and never spoke again. The ruffian is said to have that the profits might have been considerable, but that, been quite sober at the time. on the contrary, if the truth could be got at, it has from THE LATE CONFESSION OFMURDERS ATPORTSMOUTH. the first been a losing concern ; and conscientiously en -Horrible as were the disclosures published in our last, tertaining these views, I have only done my duty in call and made 1)3 the miserable inmate of Portsea Island ing attention to the circumstances; and I hope the result Workhouse. it seems that we understated by one half the of all the talking and thinking which has been going on amount of crime. Instead of two murders, there have on the subject for some time, will be, that the Ferry will been four. And the events, instead of having taken place henceforth be worked so as to produce a revenue to the 10, occurred 20 years ago. The clerk of the person named township, which it was originally and very properly vit A in in the confession disposed of the body o f th e fi rs t c hild b y ten d e d i t s h ould. — l am, sir, your obedient RA RAT EPAYER. throwing it down a privy in Gosport (wher e its rema i ns ER, were since found). The deceased after that became en ciente with twins, which were destroyed by abortion ; and she subsequently was delivered of a male child in the open air at night, which was destroyed by the father and taken away by him in his silk pocket-handkerchief. The witnesses to these details are not, as may have been erro neously imagined, persons of discreditable or loose cha racter and life, but persons moving in an industrious and respectable sphere. ATTEMPTED MURDER IN BIRMINGHAM.—A most de termined attempt at assassination, arising from jealousy, took place in Cheapside, on Friday morning. A young man, named Benjamin Cutler, a tin-plate worker, having kept company for some time past with a respectable young woman, named Ann Reynolds, residing in 29 court, in the above street, became jealous for some cause unex plained, and the girl having requested him to discontinue his visits, lie did so for some time, and the young woman thought she had got rid of a person not likely to make a very good husband. On Friday morning, however, on coming down stairs, she found Cutler waiting at the door to be admitted, and on her going into the pantry to wash herself, he followed her, and before the poor girl was aware of his murderous intention, he plunged a knife into her body to a depth of two inches, and immediately after wards effected his escape. Medical assistance was in stantly procured, but the poor girl's life is despaired of, and her depositions were taken, under the impression that she would not survive. Cutler, after the attempted as sassination, gave himself up to the police, and is now in custody. CORRESPONDENCE. ...ow can any country flourish in which so much men dicancy and imposture of every kind is allowed to exist, where the fruit of a man's labour is devoted by a super stitious wife to what she calls the " glory of God," ani where a law has been obliged to pass to prevent the priest from seizing the property of a dying man in his hour of weakness, so that by a pretended will he may benefit the church at the expense of his orphan family ? The Protestant (more especially of the Church of Eng land) who can allow himself or his country to be taxed for such a system as this, without at least lifting up his voice against it, must have forgotten his own creed. If it is his duty " not to covet or desire other men's goods, but to learn and labour truly to get his own living, in that state of life to which it shall please God to call him," surely he cannot willingly assist in the extension of the very opposite doctrines in Ireland. It may perhaps be said that the endowment of the priests would stop this grasping after worldly power and riches. If we look back to the history of the Roman Ca tholic Church, we shall find that in the most flourishing times they were so far from being satisfied with their re venues, that they resorted to the sale of indulgences for all sorts of crime. The maw of Popery is and ever has been insatiable. Endow all the prieits to-morrow, and the mendicant friars, both locomotive and stationary, would immediately treble in amount ; and it would end in the old fable of a fresh set of flies come to gorge their empty maws on the ignorant and deluded population of that priest-ridden country. SENLIM. Feb. Ist, 1849. COURT OF CHANCERY—SATuaDAy. SHARP' V. TAYLOR. This appeal, from a decree of Vice-Chancellor Wigram, was argued in the month of April last, and stood over for judgment. The short facts were that the plaintiff and the defendant purchased an American built ship, called the Victoria, on a joint speculation of sale. With a view of disposing of the vessel to better advantage, she was sent to America, and registered there as the property of a person of the name of Robertson, an kmerican citizen. No sale, however, was effected, and two voyages were made by her between Liverpool and Charleston for earning freight. Subsequently the vessel was sold at Liverpool by Taylor, who represented her to be the property of Robertson. The bill was filed by Sharp against Taylor for his share of the ship and earnings, or for the restitu tion cf the vessel, on the ground of partnership, and that Robertson was only a trustee for the plaintiff and de fendant. The main reason for resisting de claim was, that by the navigation laws of England and the United States the plaintiff had no interest whatever in the ship. The Vice-Chancellor, however, made a decree for an account, from which the defendant appealed. The Lord Chancellor this morning gave judgment, and, after going through the facts of the case, said that the question of the violation of the navigation laws could not, in his judgment, alter the relative positions of the plaintiff and defendant as partners in the ship. Robertson was no party to the suit, and the only point for the considera tion of the Court was, whether the plaintiff bad an equit able claim against the defendant for an acconnt. He (the Lord Chancellor) thought that such a right had been made out, and that the decree of the Vice-Chancellor was correct. The appeal must therefore be dismissed. THE BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHE SHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY. On Saturday the half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held at the Town-hall. Birkenhead, to receive a re port from the directors, and transact other business. The attendance was not very numerous, but the proceedings became highly important. [We only received the above letter yesterday morning. but in order to give our correspondent all the facility in our power we have published his remarks at the earliest possible moment.] Mr. AkierUian James Bancroft occupied the chair. The Report was submitted, and the following are the heads : THE ARMORIC AND WELSH LANGUAGES Comparing the accounts for the half-year ending Dec. 31, with those of the corresponding half-year of 1847, the sum available for dividend is considerably increased. The balance for this purpose in 1847 was but £8,414; that for 1848 is £13,939; so that the present dividend would be TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—It may not be very generally known that the late patriotic and celebrated Le Gonidee translated the Scrip tures into Armoric for the benefit of his countrymen ; bus it appears that his translation is too deeply learned for the commonalty of the people, and a new translation has been made by some missionaries who are there from Wales. I was struck with the great resemblance that exists between it and the Welsh, and doubt not many would be glad to see a portion contrasted. The following is taken from the sth chapter of St. Matthew. The simi larity will appear greater when it is considered that the sound of the Welsh dd is represented by z in the Armo ric : it is the same as flat th in English. W. L. s pca per annum or me zzi ws. and the £22 shares. This has been effected by a steady increase in the business of the line, and a reduction of the expenses. The differences between this Company and the North western, Holyhead, and Shrewsbury Companies, have been adjusted on fair and equitable terms. The bill for limiting works &c. has passed standing orders. The Dock Trustees have entered into an agreement with an able contractor, for the completion of that portion of the docks necessary to accommodate several large portions of the trade, and the object for which the extension line was made is about to be realized. Interest at the rate 5 per cent. per annum will be paid to the proprietors of £27105. and £22 shares, on and after the 12th inst. A letter was read from Baron Goldsrnid, regretting that he had (owing to the distance of Birkenhead from London,) been unable to attend the meetings of the board since his election; expressing an opinion that the course with which they were threatened might annihilate their pros pects, and stating that he therefore resigned his seat at the board, to join with others in petitioning against the bill recently introduced into the Commons. Birkenhead, Feb. 9th, 1849, ANCIENT BRITISH CHURCH TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—Your paper of last week has only just been for warded to me. otherwise I should have replied sooner to its comments on my letter published in the previous num ber. Having followed your recommendation, that I should carefully peruse the whole subject—which, I may remark, has long been familiar to me—l hasten to give you its results. First, I remark that to disprove the su premacy of the Pope in Britain before the arrival of Augustine is simply killing the dead. I know none who are careful to maintain it. Mr. James must be aware that the theory of so-called developement propounded by Mohler, and Newman is that adopted by the Roman Church now, and that, even were it not, she would simply assert her right to rule every foreign land whenever it suited her to send a mission thither, which right she did assert under Pope Gregory, and made England a part of herself for 900 years. Doubtless the story of Britain's conversion by the Pope Eleutherius, to which I alluded in my first letter, has been supported by many Romish writers, and it is not so easy to confute it : but the fact is, as Fuller and the best writers acknowledge, that the scar city of materials of our early church history render all attempts to build any conclusion upon it little better than lost labour. But I now come to the all important ques tion of the purity of the ancient British Church. Mr. James asserts that its character was pure and scriptural, because, first, three British Bishops joined in condemning ARMORIC 1. Hag o oueled 1. A Phan toelodd 1. And seeing the an boll boblze, hen yr Jesu y tyrfavedd, multitude, he went a biniaz var ur me- efe a esgynodd Pr up into a mountain; hag o veza mynydd ac wedi andwhen hewasset, zisgibien iddo eistedd, ei his disciples came ddisgyblion a dda- unto him; ethant atto. azezet, e a dosta az outim 2. Hag o tigeri 2. Ac efe a ago- 2. And he opened c'henou, e kelenaz rodd ei enau, ac a'u his mouth, and anezei, en eul lava- dysgodd hwynt, gan taught them, say ret ; ddywedyd, in , r, 3. Eurus ar re 3. Gwy n en b y d y 3. Blesses' baour er sperat ; tlodion yn yr yap The Chairman congratulated the meeting on the revoit, and after allusion to the increased facilities brought about -p- poor in spirit ; for rag rouantelez an ryd: canys eiddynt theirs is the king lima a zo dezei. ywteyrnas nefoedd. dom of heaven. 4. Eurus ar re a 4. Gwyn eu byd y 4. Blessed are they oueil ; rag hei a rhai sydd yr gala- that mourn; for they vezo consolet. rtl : canys hwy a shall be comforted. for traffic, looked forward for a great increase on the pre sent return in another half-year. If the Chester and Bir kenhead proprietary had had no connection with the Che shire Junction, they might have divided 4 per cent per annum. (Hear, hear.) In future each company usinr 5. Eurus ar re 5. Gwyn eu byd 5. Blessed are the habasg ; rag hei a y rhai addfwyn : meek; for they shall herito an dour. canys hwy a etife- inherit the earth. ddant y ddaear. 6. Ennis ar re o 6. Gwyn eu byd 6. Blessedarethey dens naoun ha see'- y rhai sydd arnynt which do hunger the station would be required to pay just in proportiou to the extent it wss interested in the station, and no more. These terms had been consented to. He alluded to the opposition they were threatened with in Parliament, and complained that Mr. Webster, the barrister and chief mover in it, would not agree to their meeting the London hed eus ar justis ; herein a syched am and thirst after rag hei a vezo ras- gyfiawnder : canys righteousness ; for saziet. hwy a diwellir. they shall be filled. shareholders on the subject. After some correspondence between the chairman and Mr. Webster on this point had been read, the chairman said that as they had to complete the works by Christmas, it became necessary to take a decisive course. The board had, therefore, that day made rel A I • - - Eurus ar re 7. Gwyn eu byd y g hei trugarogion: canys merciful _ 7. Blessed are the for they HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND MURDER.—On Tuesday night a murder was committed on the highway, on a lonely spot between Terry Cross gate and Dale gate, on the Henfield and Brighton turnpike road. The unfortu nate victim is Mr. George Stenhouse Griffith, brewer, of Brighton, a gentleman well known and highly respectable. He was in the prime of life, about fifty years of age, and was formerly a solicitor practising in London. The body was found about half-past one o clock this morning by a party who had been out on a shooting excursion, and who left the house of Mr. Smith, of Woodmancote, near two miles from the place, about one o'clock. This party con sisted of Mr. J. Hodson, miller, of Brighton ; Mr. C. Hodson, his brother; and Mr. Kirton, of Shoreham. They saw what they at first supposed to be a drunken man lying against the bank which separates the road from an adjoining field. One of them got out of the spring cart in which they were riding, and found that the man was dead. They then lifted the body into the cart, after which they searched about the spot and found a pistol, which had been discharged, lying in the road, a pair of spectacles with the glasses out, with a piece of crape sewed over them biz enough to conceal the face ; and a whip which was broken. An empty purse and an open clasp knife were also found. Their next step was to convey the body to the Plough Inn, which is about a mile and a half distant, and on the way to Brighton. When they arrived at the Plough, they recognised the body as that of Mr. Griffith, and saw that he had been shot in the breast. They then proceeded to Brighton, and gave information to the police. In the meantime information was also despatched to the constables living in the neighbourhrod, and when they arrived the body was searched, and it was discovered that he had no money and no watch upon him. A loaded pistol was found in his right hand great-coat pocket, fellow to the discharged pistol which had been found in the road. A pistol case and two flasks for pow der and ball were likewise found in his coat pockets. THE POTATO DISEASE.—The Gardeners' Chronicle contains an interesting analysis of the information obtained in answer to inquiries into the circumstances connected with recurrence of the blight last year. " Printed cir culars were distributed extensively in October and No vember last, with a request that the gentlemen to whom they were addressed would fill up a printed form with such information as they possessed or could procure, authenticating it with their signature. Of these returns, 999 were filled up and transmitted to London-679 from England, 182 from Scotland, 92 from Ireland, 32 from Wales, and 14 from persons whose residences could not be ascertained. Of the 999 returns, 28 bear the signatures of noblemen, 401 of gentlemen, 50 of clergymen, 333 o f farmers, and 187 of gardeners. The results are classified under three heads, namely :-1. Effect of different periods of planting. 2. Effect of soil and manures. 3. Com parative power of different sorts to resist the disease. The effect of the time of planting, in England, is shown in the following summary trugarezus; r the Donatists at the Council of A'rles; secondly, because some of them condemned Arius at the Council of Sardica, and were congratulated by one father as being free from heresy, and by another as adhering to the decrees of the Council of Niccea. I may observe, by the way, that Cave, in his " Lives of the Fathers," disproves the pre. sence of any British bishops at Sardica, and that the scene of unseemly discord which took place at that coun cil would make their absence a far better argument for their purity than their presence could be. The ob servations of Cave are contained in his life of St. Athanasius, vol. 11, 247. But to return. If such be the criterion of a pure and scriptural church, then was not only the Roman Church of that time eminently so, but the present church likewise ; not to speak of the Greek and Eastern. Perhaps it may be answered that not only the modern Church of Rome has overlaid her orthodox Trinitarianism with false doctrines which neutralize it, but that possibly the fourth century churches, i. e. those of the Nicene era, did so too. I ac cept the admission, for it is true ; but then proceed to ask, how can the British Church of the same age be assumed pure, when the proof of her orthodoxy (and a scanty one it is) rests only on the testimony of men who themselves had defiled God's Word with the rubbish of tradition, and would have anathematized as heretical the Protestant articles of the modern Church of England 7 8. Gwyn eubyd y a call of £lO per share on the £3l shares on the Cheshire Junction portion of the undertaki ng . It was their inten . • B. Blessed are the re in heart ; for pur a gallon rag rhai r o galon VVUL s 3 Mtn Duey mignt, ir possible, be completed by Christ mas. He moved that the report be adopted and confirmed. After some replies by the Chairman to questions put to A. FEW ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE ENDOW MENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST HOOD IN IRELAND, BY AN ENGLISH PRO TESTANT. Mr. Gidlow seconded the adoption of the report. A good deal of discussion took place on this subject, during which the chairman said' that one instalment of £5 would be payable on the 16th March, and the other on the 16th April. he could not let it go fortlias unanimous ; he was a dis- THE CHASE SIR W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet— This day (Tuesday), Feb. 13th, at ' To-morrow (Wednesday), Feb. 14th, at .... Hawkstone Friday, Feb. 16th Saturday, Feb. lith . The CHESHIRE. HOUNDS— Wednesday.) Feb. 14th. sit A rmhstriti To-morrow Athanasius and Hilary, the Atlases of the East and West, as they have been called, to whom Mr. James appeals as witnesses of British Scriptural purity, were the firmest maintainers of the Ascetic institute, justification by fast ing and good works, the angelic character of celibacy, the commemoration of saints and martyrs, and familiar doc trines only a step removed from the full-blown abo minations of modern Popery. Let any one carefully peruse Athanasius's Life of St. Antony, Gregory's Eulogium on Athanasius, Hilary's Commentary on St. John, as his allegorical exposition of Psalm 127, for proof of what I say. The Churches of the European continent, in the 4th century, must he regarded as all but apostate by any upholder of the Bible as the rule of Faith; and I repeat that the best 'argument for the purity of the British Church would be her absence from any of their councils. Every adducement of evidence tending to show that they sympathised with them, that she was ap proved of by them tells against her Protestant purity. At present she stands cut off from and cursed by the immense majority of so-called Christendom, simply be cause she, resting on the Bible, has da re d t o say th a t so-called Christendom has become antichristian by its departure from the Bible. Now the Christendom of the 4th and sth centuries held in germ every doctrine of modern Rome ; prayers for the dead and to them were universal ; images were not worshipped, but bones and relics were ; Transubstantiation was unknown by name, but language on the subject was used by Ch rysostom, an d the best fathers, not to be distinguished from it ; and could a Protestant be transported back to an Alexandrian or Carthagenian service of that d a y, h e wou ld see no dif ference between it and a service at Paris or Turin of our own, except it were greater decorum in the latter than the former. If then the British Church had been of a cha racter which we now could claim as honourable, she would have protested in the 4th as she did in the 16th century. Certain noble Protestants were raised up in those times to call back the Catholic Church in her headlong course of apostacy ; and the most strenuous doctor, prefigured Leo and Cajetan in his own person, and the daring impugners of lying wonders and holy martyrs Jovinian and Vigilan tius were denounced as heretics by the very men who sang glory to the Trinity in the halls of Nieces. No voice of indignation was ever heard from the islands against such dishonourers of God. The very Council of Nimes was saved by the remonstrances of only one man, Paphnutius, from interdicting marriage to the clergy ; 1104, if Vrotestants would only study ecclesiastical, history . 15th. . 18th Each day at half-past ten . TwemlOW-hall Bradfield-green FLOATING CHURCH.—The church people in the United States have just built a beautiful floating church on two boats, with tower and spire. The exterior is painted to represent brown stone, and the style throughout is gothic. The boats supporting the structure are 90 tons' burthen, the deck is 90 feet long, the building is 86 feet long by 34, and has a passage all around it. This is better than the plan adopted in this country of fitting up" some old, condemned ' and unserviceable vessel, and calling it a " Floating Church,"—with few or no visible signs and tokens of its holy purpose, to invite and impress the sailors and boatmen of the port. SUSPECTED MURDER OF A MAN. — On Monday consi derable excitement was created in this town by the report that the body of a man had been found in the Barrnston drain, with his hands tied behind him in such a manner as to leave very little doubt that he had been murdered. On inquiry being made it was found that the body was that of a young man, aged 24 years, named William Hutton, who had been missing about ten weeks. Th e d eceas ed was rather weak-minded, in consequence of a fall which he re ceive() in his youth, and therefore he might without the least difficulty be persuaded to go anywhere or do any thing. On Saturday the 10th December the deceased was seen in company with two " navvies," and it is also said he had been during the day in Leadenhall-square. It is known that he had 18s. or 19s. on him that day, and from then until the time when his body was picked up nothing was heard of him. On the body were several marks of violence, particularly about the head and face. The place where the body was picked up was described at the in quest, but it is understood that it was seen floating down the drain considerably higher up than the place where it was taken out, so that it is not to be supposed that the body had been thrown in at that spot. The probable in ference is that deceased had been inveigled away from Leadenhall-square by the two men spoken of, or some other person, taken out of the town, and then, for the sake of the few shillings which he was known to have on him, knocked down and robbed. Whether the death of the poor fellow has been intended or not it is difficult to say, but on perusal of the surgeon's evidence it will be seen that after death had ensued his hands have been tied behind him, and then most probably his body has been thrown into the drain, where it has remained undiscovered until it has floated.—Hull Ackwtiler. No. Suffered Planted in of returns. much. Little. Escaped, October to Christmas 94 .. 11 .. 31 •.. 22 January l3 .. 1 1 .. 6 February March April - 228 .. 132 .. .. 84 .. .. 7 May June In Scotland, the results of March, April, and May, nearly correspond to February, March, and April, in England. In Ireland, February and March escaped tolerably ; but April suffering generally, and May all but universally. The results were similar in Wales. From these results, it appears that January is the best month for planting, February not quite so well, March very hazardous. and late in the season probable destruction ; in fact, that after January, or perhaps the middle of February, the danger progressively and greatly increases. . SECTION 111 The relief of Irish distress for the last few years ha borne very hard on the English tax-payers, and they hay, • 1 Lion of the relief funds, although it would p er h aps have been better to have made use of former experience and to have taken care that the poor got more than a third of the money, we will defer the consideration of this subject to a future period. There can be no doubt as to the fact of the people of England being very justly taxed, in order that they should bear the burden of the wretchedness and poverty which they themselves have been encouraging and subscribing to for some years. If the doctrines taught by the Col lege of Maynooth have disseminated fraud, idleness, mendicancy, deceit, and perjury through the whole land, England has had her share in ravine for the noison. and • • . it is just that she should pay the doctor's bill and the funeral expenses. , First let us take mendicancy as an exampl e . • Before the late famine, I should say that the number of sturdy beggars who were continually patrolling through the Roman Catholic districts of Ireland, amounted to upwards of a million of souls. These vagrants went from house to house, not asking, but demanding relief, " in the honour of God," as they blasphemously called it. In a sort of canting whine used only by mendicants, they would keep on till they obtained their demand, when they " hoped you might rest in the bed of heaven"—that " want might never come near your door"—that " the great God might increase your store," &c. If refused, they would call down the most blasphemous and bitter curses upon the heads of yourself and all your breed, seed, and generation. The relief given was not in money, but a fistful of oatmeal from the meal-chest, or a handful of potatoes. It was a mere trifle to each person, but as there were from ten to fifteen callers daily at every house, the poor people gave away very large sums annually, varying from two to ten pounds' worth annually, according to their circumstances. These vagrants and their families were often infinitely better off than some who gave them relief. They could always get potatoes, milk, and oatmeal, not only sufficient for their own wants, but enough to enable them to barter potatoes and oatmeal for whiskey and other luxuries. They carried their bedding about with them, and also its other inhabitants; and no poor Roman Catholic dare to refuse them a night's lodging whenever demanded, as it would be what their priest would call " turning the poor from their door." We sometimes in this country feel how heavy the poor rates fall upon our resources, but it is doubtful in my mind whether the poor-rates in England ever amounted to anything like the value taken in kind from the small farmers of Ireland by this crusade of mendicants. Pro bably it amounted to more than ten millions a nnua ll y ; and this sum drawn from the most industrious part of the community ! Imagine for one moment the effect of this blister upon the prosperity of the country : their language too blas phemous to be repeated, using God's name u p on th e mos t frivolous occasions, and calling upon him solemnly to witness any lie which they thought would extract alms — imprecating savage curses on those w h o re f use d t o give— averse to all kinds of labour, and rolling in filth and ver min.