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itevaturc. POETRY. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. BY W. C. BRYANT. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying suet, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown. and from thesis the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through aft•fte gloomy day. - - - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately spring and stood, In brighter lights and softer airs, a beauteous reigtbourhood?, Alas ! they all are in their gravcs: the gcutle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair end good of ours. The rein is falling where they lie, but the cold Noveinr rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones aglin. The wild-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the briar-rose and Orgbis died amid the summer's glow; But on the bill the golden-rod, and she aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood, • Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen. And now when come the calm mild days, as still such days will come, • To call the squinel and the bee from out their wintry home; When sound of dropping nuts is beard, though all the woods are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill ; The south wind searches for the flowers, whose fragrance late • he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no snore. And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died, The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side; In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And wept that one so lovely, should have a life so brief; Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. NOTICES. Goers Voice in the Cholera. A S..rmon, by the Rev. J. H. Jones. Liverpool : Neuling. Tans is a discourse delivered by the present amiable and talented incumbent of St. Augustine's Church, on the day appointed for public humiliation in this town. Tt is founded upon the latter clause of the fifth verse of the tenth chapter of FgAiel. The author, after recognising 4 ' the voice of Almighty God" speaking in the various operations of Providence, and expressing his thankfulness that "as a people we have acknowledged the ;land of the Lord in the chastisement which he has sent," modestly suggests the following thoughts regarding our national sins:— " Now we must premise that we cannot agree with those who hold that the term NATIONAL FIN necessarily implies—some transgression of God's law sanctioned by the legislature of the country, and carried into execution by its gorernme. I—or who affirm that vice (however universal it may be among a people) is not to be accounted a national crime, so long as it does not receive the countenance of their rulers. " Or COWER, the violation of God's law by the statntes of a nation is a national sin—in the very strictest sense of the term. We only contend that it is not the only one that can be com mitted. "If the opposite theory he true ;—if i. e. we must, when we speak of national sins, limit ourselves to sins sanctioned by the gocernment,—then, by a parity of reasoning, we affirm that when we speak of judaments as national punishments, we must confine ourselves to those which are inflicted upon a nation through its government:—as (for instance) the discomfiture of its counsels, the defeat of its armies, or the loss of its wealth. " And, perhaps, if we were technically defining the difference between national and individual crimes and punishments, this would be just the distinction we should have to make. And therefore it might he right to say, 'Nothing can with truth' (meaning by this, with technical aceuracy)‘l - e called a national sin, hut a national act, that which is a transgression of the laws of God;' only then in sense,—speaking i. e. with the same technical accuracy,—we must also add, that this very judgment under Wick we now mourn is note NATt(INAL punishment. " But we find no such distinction laid down for us in Scrip ture, and we do not see either the necessity or the advantage of introducing it. In the word of God, the sins of a people (indi vidually committed, but great enough in the aggregate to call for special punishment.) are charged against them by the prophets as the cause of national divine vengeance. And so we conclude, if the sudden death of thousands and tens of thousands among a people is to be considered a NATIONAL JUDGMENT, we believe also that the vice and irreligion of thousands and tens of thousands among a people is regarded in the sight of God RS a NATIONAL SIN. "And, therefore, in seeking for the cause of the visitation under which we are now labouring, we cannot but thit.k that a minister of Christ is justified in referring to the sins wine!, are so fearfully prevalent in our land. as NATIONAL CRIMES." The author then proceeds with affectionate plainness to call attention to some of our leading national transgres sions, and to their prolific root—unbelief of God's Word— and concludes with a most solemn and practical appeal, calculated to arrest the attention of even the most thought less. A short preface to the sermon contains some allu sions to one of the arguments advanced in a recent pam phlet of the Rev. Dr. 161`Neile, pointedly alluded to in the preceding extract. A Journal of Summer Time in the Country. By the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bearwood. Barks; author of " Jeremy Taylor, a Biography." London : John W. Parker, West Strand. 1 vol. Bvo. 1849. .How many find thoughts and fancies—what a host of delicate images, and original imaginingsare lost for ever, -and hays beemne_to mach of beauty and power blotted out of the pages of human lire, because men will not give themselves the trouble of jotting them down ! What would not the world give for a record of the dream ings of a Coleridge in his hours of reflection, when his wonderful mind was left alone with nature ! What would it not give for the unfinished sketch of Chrystabel, or for the " psychological curiosities" which may have wan dered through the cells of an imagination such as his, and of which " It was an Abyssinian maid, And on a dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora," is all that is left to us ! What would it not give for the labours of some Boswell, to have chronicled the streams of wisdom and poetry which welled continually from his lips at the social board ! The published works of hun dreds of popular authors would have been feathers in the balance, if weighed against such strings of intellectual pearls as these would have been. In all ages such men have gone down to the grave, bearing with them unre vealed treasures of wisdom and genius. Of hundreds we have had to say, with our great dramatist,— " Where are the flashes of wit, Were wont to set the table in a roar ?" Alas ! perished ; no record left of them for future gene rations ; gone for ever, like the bubbles on the stream ; the brief blaze of an hour quenched in the darkness of obvivion. The very pleasing and clever work before us suggests these reflections. It is delightful to have traced out for us, by his own band, the thoughts and views of a man of reading and mind, such as the reverend author of " Sum mer Time in the Country." We have placed before us such an intellect in its undress; an intellect, evidently highly cultivated, ranging over external nature, and leav ing for our instruction and amusement its impressions. It is not always in the performance of a set task that the mental powers are stretched to their utmost tension, or their conclusions the most felicitous. All men of think ing habits are conscious of flashes of deep wisdom, of poetry, of just conclusions upon matters of import to their fellow-men, which have escaped them, and cannot bo recalled. We read some suggestive work ;we visit some particular scene, and are led away, sten by step, into some train of thought, which never comes again, however anxiously we may strive to recal it ; and it is as wanton to destroy, or to leave to perish, these sugges tions of the better part within us, these voluntary efforts of the mind or the fancy, as to destroy or leave to perish the creations of our hands i • and it would be well if the world of intellect would adopt the practice of Mr. Will mott, and allow us occasionally to contemplate them en dishabille. There is scarcely a page in his volume which is not graceful in style and instructive in matter; and we thank him for his literary offering. We append a few extracts, selected almost at random : THE USES OF WHAT THE WORLD STYLES IDLENESS. " It is delicious now to creep under the scented copses— ' the green-wood side along'—until you steal on the leafy haunt of the woodlark. There is love in this idleness. I know that formal John Wesley put a brand on it : never be unemployed, never be triflingly employed, never while away time.' Such an admonition might be expected from one of whom Johnson left this character : John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure ; lie is always obliged to go at a certain hour.' When Lord Collingwood said, that a young person should not be allowed to have two books at the same time, he fell into a similar error of judgment. The blackbird, that pipes in the warm leaves before my window, is a witness against the preacher and admiral. He tired of the lime-bough, and is finishing his song on an apple-branch, that swings him further into the sun. He wanted a change. Then what is whiling away time? When Watt sat in the chimney-corner, observing tne water force up the cover of the saucepan, he aroused the anger of his relations ; but he was discovering the s te a m-engine. Sir Walter Scott, walking one day by the banks of the Yarrow, found Mungo Park, the traveller, earnestly employed in casting stones into the stream, and watching the bubbles that followed their descent. ' Park, what is that engages your attention?' asked Sir Walter. I was thinking bow often I had thus tried to sound the rivers in Africa, by calculating the time that elapsed before the bubbles rose to the surface.' 'Then,' said Scott, I know that you think of re turning to Africa.' I do, indeed,' was the reply; but it is yet a secret.' Such is the idleness of genius. But people for the last eighteen hundred years have been finding fault with it. The uncle of Pliny reproved him for walking; he declared it to be time lost. liow much truer was the confession of Warbur ton to his friend Hurd : It would have been the greatest plea sure to have dropped upon you at Newark. I could have led you through delicious walks, and picked off for your amuse ment in our rambles a thousand notions which I hung upon every thorn as I passed, thirty years ago.' They whom the world calls id:c are doing the most. In villages and bye-lanes, ope; , eyes are always learning. ' Let a reflective man, when he stands in a garaen, or meadow, or forest, or on the margin of a pool, consider what there is within the circle, although invisible to him.' In that circumference lies a whole library of knowledge, waiting only to be read everlasting types, which Nature, in her great printing-press, never breaks up. And surely he is happy who is thus taught ; for no man can afford to be really unemployed. The tree, it has been said, may lose its verdure; the sun need not count its rays; be cause the sap will strike out new foliage, and another night refills the treasury of day. But the thinking faculty does not suffer waste. The most saving and thrifty use of it wilt only make it sufficient for our absolute necessities." EVERY MAN IS HIS OWN DECEIVER. " A painter may sit before a glass and draw himself, but the mental portrait must be taken by other hands. Every man is his own deceiver. I will not give the Algebra ist sixpence for his encomiums on my Task, if he condemns my Homer, which I know in point of language is equal to i t, and in variety of numbers superior." The self-love of Milton was not weaker than Cowper's. A preference of Paradise Lost to Regained, made him angry. When Johnson was requeste'l to name the finest couplet he had ever written, he repeated the two most pompous verses in his works. Taso was willing to let the Jerusalemme be estimated by its weakest stanza. The mistake • pi Milton and Cowper in a literary, other authors have made Iv a moral or personal sense. `What has this hook,' exclaims terr.e of Tristram, 4.1.)nc more than the Legation of Moses, that it may not swim down the gutter of time along with it!' Methinks, when I write to you'rsaoys Pope to Congreve, I am writing a cont . ossion. 1 have got (I cannot tell how) such a custom of throwing myself out upon paper without reserve.' The last time Dr. Warton saw Young, he was censuring the irtlated style of poetry. H e said that such tumultuous writers reminded him of a passage in Milton : Others, with vsst Typhman rage more fell, Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air . . In whirlwinds.' And yet Sterne must have known that his book was steeped in corruption ;__l - ipe, that even his commonest notes 4 of invitation were artilict%l ; anu Young, that a swelling exttavagance of 'isuse was the besetting sin of his genius. • " We have an amazing instance of this self-blindness i n Hcgarth. Talking to a visitor about his favourite line of beauty, he affirmed that no man who really understood it could. by any accident, be ungraceful in his man ers. ' I my self,' he added, ' from my perfect knowledge of , sho u ld no t I) hesitate as to the becoming mode of offering a - thing to the greatest monarch.' And at the very moment when be was enlarging upon the advantages of being familiar with the line of beauty, his own attitude was so unspeakibly ridiculous, that his friend struggled, almost in vain, to refrain from laughter. These examples are so many calk to reflection, self-examina tion, and knowledge. After the Bible, a man ought to make himself his chief reading. He must not skip a hard page, but work out the meaning." CAFACITY OF lIECOLLtCTION. " English theology furnishes several splendid examples of the faculty. Jewell was especially distinguished. On one occasion, the mirtyr Hooper wrote forty Ir:sli words, which Jewell, after three or four perusals, repeated according to their position, backwards and forwards. He performed a feat not less difficult with a passage from Erasmus, which Lord Bacon read to him. Faunderson knew by heart the Odes of Horace, the Offices of Cicero, and it considerable portion of Juvenal and Persius. Dates, the eloquent friend of Howe, rivalled the Greek philosopher mentioned by Pliny; and having delivered a Vublic and unwritten address, went over it again with perfect ease and accuracy. Warburton was not inferior to his illus. trions predecessors. His comtnon•place-book was an old al manac, three inches square, in which he inserted occasional references, or hints of thoughts and sentences, to be woven into his compositions. But all the erudition of the Divine Legation was intrusted to memory. Pope's description of Bolingbroke is true of Warburton : He sits like an intelli. Bence, and recollects all the questionswithin himself.' Lord Clarei.don declared that Hales, of Eton, carried about in his memory ire learning than any scholar in the world. "Tiirtilift.; into a wider path, we find men of different ages and dispositions employing this endowmentin poetical acqui sitions. Gassendi had on his lips the poetry of Lucretius; H. Angelo, the greater part of Dante and tetrarch ; and Galileo, of Ariosto, Petrarch, and Berni. To these instances may be added that of Pope, who had not only a general, but local memory of much strength. He recollected the particular page of the book in which the fact or story was related. ' lf,' wrote Atterbury, you have not read the verses lately, lam sure you remember them, because you forget nothing.' " I will put down one case of memory ingeniously used, and another of the talent largely possessed, but without flexibility or advantage. The former refers to the renowned Hyder Ali. Unable to read or write, he had an ingenious contrivance for insuring the veracity of his correspondence. His secretary, having prep red the letter, read it aloud; it was then given to another person, who repeated it; and any discrepancy between the two was punished by the execution of the scribe The next example refers to Walter Scott's friend, 1)r. Leyden. A single perusal bf an Act of Parliament, or any long document, pre pared hint to recite it; but the collective was unaccompanied by the analytical power. lie remembered the whole, not the parts. To recover a passage or sentence, he was obliged to return to the beginning." VARIETIES. REPEAL REDUCED TO ITS LAST PENNY.—The price of admission to Conciliation Hall is now one penny. The car boys in Dublin call it "TheO'Connell Peni-teutiary." —Punch. A physician stopped at the shop of a country apothe cary, and inquired for a pharmacopoeia. " Sir, said the apothecary, " I know of no such farmer living about these parts." How calm and unpretending is everything in God's visible world ! no noise ! no pretension ! You never hear a rose growing, or a tulip shooting forth its gorgeous streaks. The soul increases in beauty as its life resem bles the flowers. Addison said that our time is most profitably employed in doings that make no figure in the world. In a lecture at Gloucester, Mr. G. Dawson said of Cromwell's Ironsides: " With the Bible in the girdle with the sword, they first read from the book and then laid on with the weapon. And, however much he and his hearers might think the Bible and the sword incon gruous, he hated the excessively detestable peace fanati cism of the day, which undervalued and cried down the unconquerable valour and sterling piety of our fighting forefathers." THE JEWS.—At the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance at Glasgow, last week, the Rev. Ridley H. Herschel' said, " The position of the Jews throughout Europe was differ ent now from what it was fifteen or twenty years ago. A vast change had taken place in their character and condi tion. They now studied general literature, which was not then the case. Throughout all Germany, extending even into Russia, a movement has taken place among them, so that. there is no country throughout Europe (except Eng land) that has not one or more Jews in high office. In Germany, also, the newspapers are generally under their control. In their religious movements they are also undergoing a striking change. They have got quite a new idea in the minds of many of their leading men ; it is this—that Judaism and Christianity should never have been pieced in antagon'sm to each other. Now this is a very remarkable thing, though arising in an infidel feeling— that religion is a philosophy for an age. But still there is an extraordinary mysterious desire for union." THE WORKS AT THE BRITANNIA Tune BRIDGE.— The locality selected for the formation of the tubes having been cleared, a substantial platform, composed of balks of timber covered with planks, was very quickly laid down. In the rear of this immense wooden stage, which extended along the shore no less than half a mile, covering about three acres and a half, there were erected three large workshops, containing forges and machinery of various descriptions, for belabouring, punching, and cutting plate iron. There were likewise constructed five wharves, with cranes for landing materials, as also six steam-engines for constant work. The number of men to be employed was —on iron-work, about 700 ; at stone work, for the towers, 800; total, 1,500. Temporary shanties or wooden cot tages, whitewashed on the outside, like mushrooms, sud denly appeared in the green fields and woods immediately adjoining; besides which accommodation was provided for a school-room, schoolmaster, clergyman, and, in case of ac cidents, a medical man, the whole being agreeably mixed up with a proportion of wives, sweethearts, and children, sufficient for cooking, washing, sewing, squalling, &c. Nevertheless, notwithstanding these alluring domestic arrangements, many sturdy and independent workmen preferred sleeping in villages four or five miles further off, to and from which they walked every morning and night, in addition to their daily work ; the remainder gipsving in the encampment in various ways, of which the following is a sample :—An Irish labourer, known only by the name of " Jemmy," bought for himself a small clinker-built. room. As " lodgings," however, soon rose in price. and he had not time to keep a pig, he resolved to be satisfied henceforwards with half his tiny den, and he accordingly let the remainder to a much stronger fellow-countryman, who, being still less particular, let half of his halt to a very broad-shouldered relation, until, like other Irish landlords we could name, poor " Jemmy" found it not only very difficult to collect, but dangerous even modestly to ask for, " his rint !" and thus, in a short time, in con sequence of similar " pressure from without," almost every chamber was made to contain four beds, in each of which slept four labourers. As soon as the preliminary wharves, platforms, shanties, and workshops were com pleted, there instantly commenced a busy scene, strangely contrasted with the silence, tranquillity, and peaceful soli tude that had previously characterised the spot.—Quay. terly Reuietc. ENGLAND'S PATRONAGE OF ROMANISNI.—The fact of endowing Romanism in the colonies ; the fact of appoint ing Roman Catholic chaplains to gaols and workhouses in Ireland ; the fact of the city companies in London, who hold estates in Ireland, giving grants of land for the build ing of Roman Catholic chapels: the fact that Irish land lords have done the same ;—none of these touch the prin ciple. None of them reach the conscientious scruples. None of them interfere with the fact, that England as a nation is teaching and paying them to do what God has forbidden any man to do—viz., bow down to images, and commit small thefts. And if the question be retorted, and we be asked, as practical men, what should be done under such circumstances I think the answer is a re ference, in the first place, to what should have been done from the beginning. Were we mistaken when we thought that the mission of England was to extend over the world a pure and reformed church ? Were we mistaken when we thought that England, blessed with a reformed religion, and, in the providence of God, made the mistress of so many colonies, should have made an effort to introduce that religion among all the people over whom she acquired influence by commerce or conquest ? Were we mistaken in this ? It appears so. England, it appears, had not confidence in her own creed. Instead of saying, as I humbly think she ought to have said in all her colonies, " We will not molest you in your opinions, whatever they are, but we will not teach you any except those we think true; we will not injure feu whatever you think; we will endeavour to teach you to think aright; but if we respect your conscience, and refuse to enforce upon you opinions that you disapprove of, we ask you to respect our con science, and not request us to endow opinions of which we disapprove." Instead of this, Englaud has acted as if her own creed were no better than other creeds, and as if she were at full liberty to teach them all alike. Are the peo ple in every colony to have their cons c ie nce an d th e i r religion respected, and is England herself not to have the same ? Is England to present, in the aggregate of her colonies, an exhibition upon a large scale, similar to the picture so pointedly drawn of an honourable member by Mr. Wilberforce, in a debate upon this very subject of Maynooth ? A noble lord, on the opposition side of the house, made what is called a " liberal" speech. Mr. Wil berforce got up to reply, and he said he was one of those who believed the New Testament, and he had no ambi tion•to be an honorary member of all religions. Then, if it would have been right in the first instance for Eng land to have refused to teach anything but what she be lieved true, surely it is right now that England should cease to teach anything but what she thinks true. We advocate no persecution. We advocate no coercion. We would not force a single individual. however helpless, to learn of us against his conscience. But , sir , while weutterly repudiate the sin of propagating truth by the sword, we equally repudiate the sin of perpetuating falsehood by the treasury. This is our answer, then. 'Why should the British government pay for instruction in what England as a nation has declared to be false ? by should Eng land volunteer the gross inconsistency of requiring us, the clergy of her national church, to make a solemn declara tion concerning certain doctrines, that they are " blasphe mous fables and dangerous deceits," and that they involve " idolatry to be abhorred of all true christens," and then give £lOO,OOO, or £9OOO or £lOOO, or even one , penny, to pay for instruction in those very doctrines? Should she not rather say, to all her subjects who bold such opinions —whether in a part of her United Kingdom at home, or in any of her colonies at a distance-1 have a conscience, as you have : I respect your's, I ask you to respect mine ; I will not require you to learn contrary to your's, and you ought not to require me to teach contrary to mine. Learn as you will, instruct yourselves as you please, in terpret Scripture as you please, add tradition as a rule of your faith if you please, have what teachers you please: but do not, in the n me of common sense, in the name of fair dealing, in the name of our God, who has given me a conscience, and who holds me responsible for the use I make of the power he has given me ; do not ask me to teach what I believe to be wrong and false, what I know to be false, what the clergy of my national church have sworn to be false, what my Sovereign upon the throne has solemnly proclaimed to be superstitious and idolatrous : do not, I say, ask me to teach this, because in me this would be sin.—National Sin—What is it ? By Dr. M'Neile. THE LIVERPOOL §tiNhAtti). (Enteral giforellaiip. A locust was lately taken alive by a man who was ploughing at Smethcote, in Shropshire. Several bunches of ripe white currants were gathered on Thursday from a bush in a garden near Doncaster. On Thursday night the ship Ranger was destroyed by fire at Plymouth. She was scuttled and sank. The ship Rhodes, of Newcastle, was destroyed by fire at sea on the 26th ult. The crew were taken on board another vessel. The loss is estimaied at £9OOO. The culprit Robb, on whom the sentence of death was passed at the last Aberdeen assizes, for the twofold crime of rape and murder, was publicly executed last week. On Friday week, a fine cock thrush was observed to alight on the telegraphic wires at Leeds, and instantly to fall dead to the ground. The Bank of England have contributed an additional sum of £lOO (making £300) in aid of the funds for pro moting baths and washhouses. Mr:Hotigson, of Whitehaven, objects to the challenge of P. Pusey, Esq., respecting south and north-country farming, as of too vague and indeTtaite a character. While a livery-stable keeper, named Donkin. was placing a gun in a gentleman's gig, at Bridlington, York shire, on Tuesday, the gun went off, and shot him dead. Her Majesty's yacht Fairy sprung a leak on Tuesday, and made much water, damaging the furniture and stores considerably by submersion. The butchers had a festival this week at their charitable institution in London, at which the Lord Mayor presided. During the present year the pensions to decayed members amounted to nearly £l,OOO. Sir Culling Eardley Eardley was one of the chief men at the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance, at Glasgow, last week. He presided at all the " conference meetings," and he described the Alliance as his child. The magistrates at Clerkenwell, last week, refused licenses to the Casino and numerous other dancing rooms in London ; and also refused music licenses to the " Coal Hole" and other taverns open for singing and drinking. An ox forced its way into a tambouring factory in Lon don, on Tuesday last, and was not removed until it had dispersed the workwomen, tossed the tambourine frames, and destroyed about £5O worth of property. Endeavours are being made to establish ragged schools in various parts of Wakefield, with every prospect of suc cess. One was opened last week, when 39 children and youths offered themselves as scholars. Three hundred pounds will be paid from the clubs of the Merthyr district towards the funeral expenses of those victims of the cholera who were members of the Odd Fellows Society._ The Hereford Journal says, that during a fire which destroyed a barn and homestead at Ross, on Friday week, the heat was so intense for a time, that many apples were roasted on the trees for some distance around. Fifty tradesmen of Kingston trot on Thursday last to dine in celebration of the defeat of their candidate for the office of parish clerk. They afterwards made him a pre sent of £9, the overnlus of money not spent. At. the moment when the minister of the Independent Chapel at Newark was closing his sermon, on Sunday, a gentleman of the congregation dropped dead in his pew from disease of the heart. An intimation has been given by Lord Grey to parties interested in emigration to the Cape of Good Hope that the plan of sending convicts to that colony has been with drawn. The Chinese exhibition in dull has closed, after being open about ten weeks, during which it was visited by from 60,000 to 70,000 persons, of whom about 9000 inspected it during the last week. It is in course of removal to Edinburgh. When the Mannings were examine.l in the Southwark police court, on the 6th of September last, an artist con trived to hide a camera obscure in his hat, and thus ob tained daguerreotypes of the prisoners, whose lithographed likenesses have since been published. At Glasgow, on Wednesday night, two lads, who slept in a room in which a fire had been left burning to dry the newly-plastered walls, were suffocated by the noxious fumes of the coals. An unfortunate lark, whose cage had been placed in the room, shared their fate. A most serious accusation against the surgeon of the Ramilius, government emigrant ship, has been laid before the Board of Emigration Commissione:s, for flogging several female emigrants on their outward passage in that ship to Port Philip and Melbourne. ISLE OF MAN.—The herring fishery came to a close on Tuesday ; the boats are all gone home, and being stripped for the winter season. A more successful season has not occurred for many years, with regard to the quantity taken ; but prices have been unurecedentedly low. The" Lord" Mayor of London, Sir James Duke. M.P., entertained the members of the Town Council of Edin burgh, on Monday last, at a splendid dinner in the Man sion-house ; his lordship's guests having travelled four hundred miles to partake of his hospitality. The large arrivals from Denmark during the past two weeks have trebled the ordinary number of horned cattle usually brought from all parts of the continent, and their continuance gives an earnest of a consequent increase in the ordinary supplies from abroad to a very important extent. A new Roman Catholic Church, to be dedicated to St. George, the patron of England, "is about to be erected at York. This church is intended to be one of two or three which it is proposed to erect in that city. It will be in the style of the decorated period, and is to accommodate about 700 persons. Last week, a young female named Scarfe, living at Hal stead, Essex, who had been married only about three months, committed suicide by hanging herself, in conse quence of some playful remarks respecting a pudding made by her husband, and of some taunting observations made by the friends of her husband's former wife. A soldier of the Grenadier Guards, while on sentry at Windsor Castle, a few days since, fired his musket for the purpose of mutilating his left hand so as to render him self unfit for military service, but only blew off the mid dle finger, so that he will probably have failed tq attain his end. He was immediately arrested, and will be tried by a court-martial. The Leeds Mercury mentions, that on Sunday week, the trunk, legs, and one arm of a man were found lying on the flue of a flint kiln in the Old Pottery, at Hunslet, the head and one arm having been entirely destroyed by the heat of the fire. The remains have since been iden tified as those of an old pauper, named Dufton. of intem perate habits, who is supposed to have gone to sleep at the kiln, and to have been suffocated by the smoke. A MAN SMOTHERED IN GRAINS.—A few days ago a drayman was loading a cart of grains in London, and, whilst levelling the grains on the top of the cart, was suddenly seized with a fit of epilepsy. The workmen above, unaware of the circumstance, continued to shovel out the grains till the man was completely covered. A passer-by, having witnessed his struggles, raised an alarm, and the poor fellow was rescued, but died soon after. LATE GOOSEBERRIES.—The Stamford Mercury says, that in a garden at Corby, near Colsterworth, there is growing a gooseberry tree, which has this summer borne two crops of fruit, of which the first was gathered at the usual time, and the second. which was quite equal to the first, was gathered last week. This is the third time that the same tree has brought to maturity two crops in one summer. THE CPRRENCY.—The circular to bankers of Friday, says :—" Rumours are creeping out respecting the inten tion of the government to take some proceeding on the currency in the next session of Parliament. It is believed by intelligent persons in this city, that some new regula tions concerning even the standard will be recommended, at least so far as the obligation of the Bank of England to buy gold, at all times and in any quantity, at the fixed price established by law is concerned." There are at this moment (proclaims the Times) in the metropolis 500,000 powder-barrels, awaiting, open mouthed, the sudden spark which, whenever it may fall, will infallibly produce a tremendous explosion. These powder barrels are the stagnant cesspools, the breeding coffins, and the subterranean slaughter-houses of the city. The spark whose kindling touch they wait is the invisibly floating cholera sporule, and the dreaded explosion is a fresh outburst of devastating pestilence. A hare made her appearance on the North Inch at Perth on Tuesday last, and after having been chased by a crowd of boys for half an hour, she leaped from the bridge into the river, and swam to the Tanner's Island. Her pursuer's followed her in a boat, but were baffled by her for another half hour, at the end of which time she again took to the water and swam to a place called the Headlands, where she was at length killed, after having cost her capturers a hunt of nearly two hours in all. On Monday week, Mr. H. Phillips was travelling on the East Lancashire Railway, and when near Accrington, (he being in the coupe of one of the carriages), the ball that is attached to the screw of the coupling chain by some accident got out of its place, and in its revolutions beat in the front of the carriage, completely smashing it. Mr. Phillips was unable to alarm the guard, and had almost concluded to adopt the alternative of leaping from the carriage, but most fortunately the train arrived at a station, and he was released. SIR. JOHN FRANKLIN.—BEHRTNG STRAITS EXPEDI TION.—We stated two months since that her Majesty's ship Herald, Capt. Kellett, C. 8., had left, Wooahoo, Sandwich Islands, on the 19th May, for Petropaulanski and Behrirg's Straits. Another letter from the Sandwich Islands states that she left with a full supply of provisions for herself and her Majesty's ship Plover, Commander Moore ; the captain (Kellett), officers, and crew, in good health and spirits. Whilst we are anxiously watching for Sir John Franklin at one entrance, we still think it pos sible he may emerge at the other, in which case it is satis factory to know that he will find ample relief provided for him by the Admiralty. INCENDIARY FlRES.—Swing has made his appearance in Berkshire, to the great terror of the farmers ; he com menced his operations a few nights since at Wingfield, on which occasion several valuable ricks of corn were buried to the ground, and on Monday evening last, about eleven o'clock, the farm-yard of Mr. Peto, two miles distant from Maidenhead, was maliciously set on fire, and property to the value of £7OOO was totally consumed. Although every effort has been made the incendiaries have as yet escaped detection. These fires are the natural consequence cf the free trade in corn princip!e. The agricultural labourer's wages in Berkshi e have been reduced to Is. 6d. per diem : out of this paltry pittance he has to pay rates, •s well as to support himself and family. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—At the proceedings of this body, in Glasgow, a sum was collected; aminnting to £lOO 18s. 4d., to defray the expense of the deNtation to Rome, for the release of Dr. Achilli. A vote of thanks to the Glasgow committee for the arrangements they lad made, and for the hospitality with which the members of the alliance had been entertained, as well as another acknowledging the services of Sir C. E. Eardley and the office-bearers, was agreed to. The next meeting of the alliance will take place in Dublin. HELMSLEY.—PRESENTATION OF PLATE.—On Friday, the 12th instant, the parishioners of Helmsley, Yorkslllie, assembled in the court-house, in that place, for the pur pose of presenting to the Rev. Chas. Kipling. who is about to leave the place, a testimonial, expressive of thers regard and esteem for the manner in which he has dis- 1 charged the duties of curate of the parish, for uwards of three years. The testimonial consisted of a sits* p salver, which bore the following inscription :—" Presented to the Rev. Charles Kipling, 8.A., by the parishioners of Helmsley, as an acknowledgment of his valuable services as curate of that parish, for the space of three years and upwards. October, 1849." An address. signed by Lord and Lady Feversham, and the principal inhabitants of the parThh, was also presented to the rev. gentleman. Dr. Ness took the chair on the occasion, and, after a few re marks, called upon Mr. J. H. Phillips, the senior church warden, to present the address on behalf of the parish ioners. THE MURDER AT CLAPHAM. —James Weston, the man who stands charged with the murder of his wife and infant child, was re-examined on Thursday. The prisoner appeared to have got over his nervousness, but exhibited indications of mental aberration, which, coupled with other circumstances, leave little doubt of his insanity. He refused to cross-examine any of the witnesses but the surgeon, who, he said, was the murderer ; the surgeon had given him drugs to take away his senses, and had mesmerised him ; he had been told that he should be re leased and his child restored to him in two years ; last night, while he was in his cell, the superintendent of police came to him and tried to murder him. As the pri soner was rambling about in this way, a brother informed the court that his mind had been previously affected, and he could produce witnesses to that effect.—The magistrate said that such evidence would be of effect at the trial, and committed the prisoner to the Central Criminal Court for wilful murder. STRANGE LONGING.-At the Pocklington Police-court, on Saturday last, Christiana Johnson,4l respectable mar ried woman, who was enciente, was charged by Leonard Richmond, of Fangfoss, with stealing about a quartern of plums from trees in his garden on the 10th of September. In her defence she stated that she took the plums, and that she could not resist doing so as she was `• longing for them," and she could not have been prevented unless some one had held her. The plums were quite green and unripe at the time. Though she ate them, after doing so, she went to the prosecutor and told him what she had done, offering at the same time to pay him for the plums ; he, however, would not accept payment, but said he should have all that the. law could give her. The prosecutor admitted the truth of her statement. The magistrates ordered Mrs. Johnson to pay for the plums f value 6d., and that the prosecutor and the defendant do pay the costs equally between them. The magistrates at the same time censured the prosecutor for his conduct in bringing the case into court.—Hall Packet. A BALOON FROZEN IN THE AIR.—A danger which we have never heard of as menacing an aeronaut before, nearly proved fatal to Mr. Gypson, who made an ascent from Bedford, on Friday last. When about two miles and a half above the earth, the gas was suddenly affected by a rapid and powerful expansion. so that it became necessary to open the valve, and relieve the baloon of the extreme pressure inflicted on the whole surface of the silk. But here arose an extraorcinary incident—the hose of the safety-valve, which had been tied up before leaving the earth to prevent the admission of atmospherie air, was found to be frozen quite hard, so that it became impossible to extend it to allow the superfluous gas to blow off. Under those circumstances, Mr. Gypson endeavoured to open the valve at the crown of the baloon ; but that, too, from the peculiar description of luting with which the valve was luted, was found to be imperatively frozen. As Gypson bad but one alternatiue, he quickly passed himself through the hoop, and, with his knife, made a large incision in the lower part of the balloon. The gas streamed forth in one continuous stream through a two foot opening ; and the gas that had been passed into the silken globe an invisible vapour rushed out as white as the steam from a steam-engine, such was the effect of the frosty air upon it. Thus the aeronauts were rescued from the jaws of destruction; for had not such an expedient as the knife been adopted, nothing could have prevented the silk giving way to the extreme force then acting upon it, at three and a half miles above the earth, for such was then their altitude, as shewn by the sinking of the mercury in the barometer. AFFLICTING SUICIDE BY A LADY.—On Friday an in quest was held, in London, by Mr. T. Wakley. M.P., on view of the body of Miss Sarah Whittaker, aged 53, who destroyed herself by swallowing a large quantity of laudanum. The dee .ased's brother was formerly a soli citor in a very extensive practice. and possessed of con siderable property. Some years since he became unable to attend to his professional duties, through an aberration of intellect. His property and his sister's were soon ex pended, and the deceased was compelled to seek her livelihood by becoming a daily teacher. Her brother gradually became worse, and he was eventually confined in a lunatic asylum. He remained there but a short time, and was liberated through the intercession of the deceased, who recently hired furnished apartments for herself and brother. She was in the habit of leaving home in the morning, and attending to her duties as a teacher, and returning in the afternoon. On one occa sion the landlord opened the room door, and found the deceased struggling with her brother, who had the tongs in his hand, and was flourishing them over her head. The deceased never complained of her sufferings, nor did she ever appear reluctant to attend upon her brother, although, at times, it was quite evident she was suffering from great mental anxiety and bodily fatigue. During the last few days her brother had become very outrageous, and would, no doubt, have killed her, if prompt assistance had not been rendered. In consequence, a certificate was procured for his admission into the infirmary, at St. Pancras workhouse. He was removed on the following morning, and shortly afterwards the deceased was found lying upon the sofa in a state of stupor. The landlord instantly sent for Mr. T. Wakley, (son of the Coroner,) surgeon, but the deceased died in about an hour and a half afterwards. A search was made in the room, and four bottles which had contained laudanum were discovered in some drawers. SOMNAMBULISM.—AN EARLY RISER.-At the manu factory of Messrs. John Deheer and Co., in English-street, in this town, it is the custom to admit, every morning, the first workman who arrives, by a door through the house. On Thursday morning last, Mr. Deheer having been de tained to a late hour before retiring to rest, bad scarcely fallen to sleep when, about two o'clock, he was aroused by a loud knocking at his door. On opening thewindow, he found at the door one of his men, a young married man, named James Whit e. He asked him what he wanted, and he said he had come to work. Mr. Deheer told him that it was not six o'clock, but only two. However, as he had come, be would let him in, and lie might sit in the kitchen till work-time. On opening the door, White walked in, with his breakfast-tin and breakfast in it. Mr. Deheer perceived that the man had but one boot on and the other foot bare, but did not say anything respecting it. After a moment, the man said he would go home again, and immediately set off, leaving his breakfast tin. At six o'clock in the morning, White's wife awoke, as usual, to call her husband, whom she found laid acros the bed, with the greater part of his clothes on and onE boot, the other foot being bare. She aroused him and he went to work, and was very much surprised on being told by his master what had occurred in the night. It appears that he was perfectly sober, that he retired at the usual hour to rest with his wife, that he had risen about half past one o'clock, partially dressed himself, taken up his breakfast, and walked three quarters of a mile to the ma nufactory, gone into the house. conversed with his master, and returned home—having never been missed by his wife, and being, when he awoke, utterly unconscious of having ever left his room or his bed. White is a young man of steady habits, and has been married about six months.— Hull .Adverliser. _ . FEARFUL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday week, as the train was running from St. Bees to Whitehaven it had to descend an incline of something like 12 feet into the latter town, and there being a hoar frost, the train went mu " h faster than usual. The driver tried to stop the engine, but failing, put on the breaks and once more attempted to reverse the engine, but in doing so the engine got four strokes forward, and passing the station, ran through the outer wall of the house of Mr. Pennington, and through another wall into his back parlour. A little girl, Jane Pennington, was at the time sitting singing in the kitchen, when the engine passed over her, much mutilating her, and causing immediate death. The engine, on dashing into the parlour, knocked the fire-grate out of its place, throwing the burning contents over the forehead and breast of a little boy, John Pennington, eight years old, the occupier's son, who, however, is likely to recover, though he will in all probability bear the marks for life. The collision was rurely an accident, as all the witnesses stated that the parties in charge of the train did the utmost in their power to prevent its happening. The coroner qnd jury, however, thought that it might have been prevented, had the railway company placed a proper check at the end of the rails; instead of which, there was only a slight curve, a foot in height, placed to prevent the carriages getting off the line after having been turned on the turn-table close by. The inquest occupied upwards of four hours and a half, during which time no less than fifteen witnesses were examined. The jury, after a lengthy discussion, returned a verdict of "Accidental death, in consequence of an error in judgment of the engine -driver; and they considered that there was a great want of pro tection to life and property at the Furness and Whitehaven terminus." Mr. Pennington kept a school, and fortu nately, being Saturday, it was a holyday, and be and his wife had not risen, but on any other day the whole family would have been seated at breakfast. BERMONDSEY TRAGEDY.—Repeated unsuccessful . • - plications having been made for copies of TIIE VI - SERVER of Sunday, Sept. 2, containing the woodcut Profile LIKENESSES of the MANNINGS. those woodcuts will be reprinted in The Observer of Sunday, October 28, with the trials at length ; and, in order that the public may not be disappointed of the usual miscellany glen in The Observer, owing to the probable room that may be occupied for those trials, it is intended to print a GRATUITOUS EXTRA HALF-SHEET SUPPLE MENT, so that The Observer of SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, will contain sixty folio columns. The price, as usual, only Sixpence. The extensive publication of THE OBSERVER commences at four o'clock on Sunday Mornings. Newspaper Agents can have any number of copies before five o'clock on Sunday morning, in time to supply passengers going by all the railways. Published by Mr . Clement, jun., 170, Strand, London.—Monday's Edition of The Observer is regularly published at four o'clock on Monday afternoons. INDITSTRI EXHIBITION Of ALt NATI O NS.—A very interesting al l important meeting was held on Wednes day, at the Mansion House; London, for the purpose of receiving a deputation of the Council of the Society of Arts, which had been instructed by his Royal Highness Prince Albert to ascertain the feelings of the inhabitants of the city of London with regard to the proposed exhi bition of arts and manufactures ; and to take such further steps as might be deemed adviseable for promoting, that object. Some members of the deputation have already Miter! most of the large towns of England, Scotland, and Ireland—and have received a very general assent to *e principle, all parties appearing to concur in the great value and importance of such an'cxhibition. The meeting on Wednesday took place in the Egyptian Hall, and shortly after twelve o'clock several hundreds of the leading manu facturing and commercial inhabitants of the city of Lon don were assembled. The Lord Mayor, in whose name the cards (ii; invitation had been issued, presided. Reso lutions for furthering the object in view were unanimously carried. SUPPOSED CASE OF CATALEPSY, OR TRANCE.—On Friday week, at Bristol, Mr. Byron Blythe, son of an independent gentleman of London, was apparently taken with cholera, and, though three medical gentlemen at tended him, he gradually sank, and, at two o'clock on Sunday morning, apparently expired. One of the medi cal men saw the body several hours after, and found it still warm. He did not, however, think much of this, and gave his certificate that deceased had died from cho lera. He called next morning, and finding the body had been screwed down, had the coffin-lid taken off. The body was strewed with saw-dust, and when this was re moved, he found no traces of decomposition, and it was still warm. He called on two other medical men, and they ordered that the interment should not take place. They returned, and still finding the body warm, injected the veins with warm water, without producing any effect. They then applied powerful galvanic shocks, which changed the colour, and rendered the hands more supple, but no signs of life appeared. At five o'clock on Monday afternoon warmth still remained, and there was no ap pearance of decomposition. But on Tuesday morning all doubt of the extinction of life was at an end, and the body was interred. MILITARY INSUBORDINATION AT NOTTINGHAM. There has been some military rioting at Nottingham this week. Many of the horses belonging to the 3d Dragoon Guards stationed there were found to be labouring under the scurvy, caused by the want of proper cleaning. As a punishment, some of the men were confined to the bar racks. They broke out, absented themselves from duty, and when apprehended resisted. So refractory were some that swords were drawn and used. A sergeant, in com mand of one of the pickets, saw a tall private about to strike him, when he instantly dealt a blow at the fellow's head, but reaching somewhat too far, he caught the point of his sword against an adjacent wall, and his weapon snapped in two •, the hilt, however, fell upon the refrac tory soldier's face and inflicted rather a severe gash. Three of the fugitives in another instance broke iron rail ings, made pikes, and collected a heap of stones. The sergeant, seeing them so well prepared for resistance, rushed in upon them, crying, " You villains surrender," at the same time driving the pommell of his sword into the mouth of one of the delinquents. This man replied, " D—n you, we have surrendered ; and what is more, I've tasted your steel," and at the same time spitting a great quantity of blood. On Monday two of the privates were imprisoned fin a month by the civil power ; others will be tried by a court martial. STRANGE PROCEEDING.—At Marlborough-street, on Monday, a lady, accompanied by two gentlemen, applied to Mr. Bingham for advice. On Saturday the lady was attracted to a fur-shop, No. 250, Regent-street, by the display of cheap ticketed goods in the window. She went into the shop, but not finding the inside answered the expectations raised by the outside, she was about leaving, when the person in charge of the shop put his arms out and barred her egress, with the intimation that she would not be allowed to leave the place until she made a pur chase. Being much intimidated, she agreed to become the purchaser of what was represented to be a pair of minx fur cuffs, at the price of 14s. 6d. She paid the money, received a regular bill of parcels, and was told if the cuffs did not suit they would be changed any time within three months. The lady, as soon as she got home, obtained an opinion as to the value of her purchase, and she was then informed that the same sort of cuffs, for which she had been constrained to pay 14 s . 6d., mig ht be bought in any respectable shop for half-a-crown.. On returning to the shop in Regent-street, and requiring the cuffs to be changed, the owner, or manager of the shop, would only make an exchange on these terms, that the the lady should take a pair of cuffs at 305., paying the difference. These 30s. cuffs were worth about 10s. Of course this offer was refused, and as the lady could get no real redress, she had come to that court for advice. Mr. Bingham said he would tell the applicant the advice he gave to another party the other day who had made a simi lar complaint to him, which had reference to the same shops He told the complainant to go back to the shop, and require the goods to be taken back, or the money to he returned. If a denial was given —as, in fact, it had been given, with scorn—then to go to the County Court and take out a summons for the amount.. This was done, and when the day of hearing arrived the complainant received back the whole of the money and costs, without going into court. He had no doubt a similar course in this case would follow. CORRESPONDENCE. EXCHANGE WARD AND THE NATIONAL CONFEDERATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, In last week's Standard, you inserted two letters on the subject of the late election,— one from Mr. Macdonald, and the other from Mr. Callis. Both these gentlemen deny that dictation is practised by the National Confede ration, and I beg permission therefore to make a few re marks, in order to unmask the special pleading contained in their avowal. First,—lt is part of Mr. Macdonald's duty as the paid secretary of the Confederation, to summon the Council, —the Council from branches in every ward,—or see that such are organised, and these ward associations dictate to the electors of each ward who shall be the candidate. Is not the machinery of the confederation which thus pre sumes actually put in motion by the gentleman himself ? What says Mr. Callis,—" It is the duty of the Council to see that there is a branch committee formed in every ward." This " duty" devolves upon Mr. Macdonald. Again,—Will Mr. Secretary Macdonald deny that the circulars issued by Mr. Honorary Secretary Townshend were addressed exclusively to the select and modest mem bers of the Confederate Club ? I think he will not ;—and pray what was the nature of the communication ? Let Mr. Townshend's circular speak for itself,—" To select a fit and proper person to represent the ward in the Town Council !" How exceedingly modest ! Again,—How puerile to deny the co-operation otherwise, dictation of the confederation,—when the Council not only pull the wires, but the members and officers of the Council, urge on the wards, and personally assist the nominee thus in directly foisted on the public by themselves. Will Mr. Macdonald deny that committee-men of the confederation, although not belonging to this ward, took part in the choice of a candidate? I think not. Mr. Callis shall illustrate this point himself. At the meeting appointed to select the candidate, Mr. Callis made the following re marks, (I quote from the Chronicle,) whith-paper stated that Mr. Gillis was not a voter in Exchange Ward. For himself and two gentlemen residents in his own ward, who had accompanied him to the meeting, he would say that they were prepared to assist in any way that might be pointed out. And again, "He had come to them as a Tory to do all he could to support Mr. Johnson." Mr. Johnson must have three stronger posts to lean on for support before he offers again to bear the dignity of Town Councillor for Exchange Ward. The humiliating confession made by Mr. Callis with regard to St. Peter's Ward shows how the work is managed after the confede ration dabble with a ward. Alas for Gibraltar ! I recommend Mr. Callis and all other Tories to cut bad political company. It is ignoble to blow hot and cold, to take one part of the confederate plan, and repudiate the other, nor can the members be seperatedfrom the respon sibility attaching to the club. Mr. Callis states that the ward was not canvassed. This, of course, is telling Mr. Owen Roberts, the chair man, Mr. Townshend, the secretary, and Mr. Johnson's committee, that they were too lazy, or too ignorant to complete the business they took in hand. Where was Mr. Callis himself, and his two unnamed " friends ?" it is clear that the confederation, by means of its agents, selects candidates, and thus dictates to every per son not in membership with their club, nor was this ever denied until Exchange ward nobly crushed the usurpation. Was it ever denied that Mr. Bell was returned by the Confederation ? But, to be sure, there the battle was won. Trusting that my brother electors will keep a watchful eye upon that agapemone of patriotism and purity, styled the National Confederation. I remain sir, your obedient servant, AN ENEMY TO CANT. THE HUNGARIAN. REFUGEES. TO HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY THE EMPE- ROR OF RUSSIA SIRE,— Previous to my laying most humbly the follow ing prayer at your Majesty's feet, your Majesty will most graciously permit me to make your Majesty acquainted with my pol►tical creed and principles, both of them founded upon Holy Writ, and especially that part of Holy Writ which gives to the church an insight into the nature of the second coming and present reign of our Lord Jesus Christ, when he shall sit upon the throne of His Father David, and when He shall be King of Kings and Lord of Lords. _ Sire,--I bold that emperors and kings are the represen tatives of Jesus Christ here upon earth, in His kingly office, which lie is to execute at His second coming in glory and in majesty. The Word is given to them from above ; and every rebellion against legitimate sovereigns on earth, is, therefore, a rebellion against Christ the Lord Himself, and will be punished by Him, like the gainsaying of Kore, with everlasting fire. (Jude, verso 11, &c.) 1 therefore looked with horror and dismay at the events of 1848, in France and Germany, when subjects rose against their legitimate sovereigns ; and was deeply pained when I ob served that so many of the Jews were carried away by the spirit of rebellion, and became vile and miserable defen ders and supporters of order, destroying democracy ; and I herewith avow loudly, before the world, that I rejoiced when at last the Highest expelled that momentary panic from the hearts of kings, and inspired them with the deter mination to put down rebellion, with that arm of power which has been given to them from God ; and I also thank God that he has made you instrumental in enabling the Emperor of Austria to quell the rebellion in Hungary, by which means he will be enabled to overthrow the bar barous constitution of that otherwise brave and noble nation of the Magyars, which constitution upheld for cen turies the following terrible abuses :- 1. Serfdom. 2. Usurped power of the clergy, with Oct. it, IS, ••1 0 se r l ` their enormous income. 3. Lft.tiness ftnclinune n , t be ß, of the monks, who vow poverty. 4. Neglect° be orl pairing of the public roads. And sthly. O ver ef f3' conduct of the nobility of Hunga r y towards thei r o te! And having been acquainted with the barbarous lop of the Hungarian constitution for more than thY 4 by travelling in that country, I cou ld not !NAP be i, e oe prised that so many excellent m en c onsidered r v i e itil throw of the Hungarian constitution a misfortun e ; 1 t proved that they were not acqu a i n t e d with it. "ist They might as well regret that the King of •": 4 9iP a stop to the forays of the Tu r co man s, which 'OO not only sanctioned by the constitution of the Ture ° but also by their religion. ngell!.10 •• _n accordance with the constitution of Hu". i c or , sands of Jews and Protestants w ere put to death. ! horrid acts a stop was put by th e arm y of Austri s l But, sire, you ought not t o f orge t that the wi ci said, and who was himself a monarc h, that foe% re° truth preserve the king !—and th a t m onarchs al° 6 IO!, give account of their con d uc t t o th e Ki ng of King s ' o f Majesty ought to have admired the determinatintr; DOLL Mussulman ruler to give protection, shelter, an pin tality tc the unfortunate and disarmed refugees. 7 ,DjEf to Kossuth, Dembinski, and Bern. And your '4O ought to have never dreamt for a moment of de t °3 „; yob the blood of defenceless refu g e es . By acting tn" 1, 01 Majesty has given cause , tb the Mohammedan to o'2'lol' observation, " These ehristians reproach us , s'i th e or thirstiness, and here the Autocrat of Russia thyeaty!., with war if we do not infringe th e l aw o f hosPitaijo 1 064 Sire, I never considered your Majesty, nor 0 0; consider your Majesty, a tyrant, but a man of detd - tl9 ' tion ; but, remember, you are s till a man • an gee!: matter you have sinned, as man, a s monarcb , man, and as Christian ! And I, no t o::ly in the Pope of an ambassador of Jesui Ch r i s t, b u t also as ° O O O. loves your Majesty for the many most g raciou ry s o llit e , scensions shown to me by you r M a je s ty drain. , no t , ' ° peregrinations in Persia and abode in Bokhara, e sn to sit,. l4 , otherwise than most humbly bes eec h y ou r Maie,s A t T er ed your determination respecting th e re fugees Sil v ' th l Sultan in the fortress of Widdin. .1. I ° l have the felicity of signing myself, sire, In -- grateful and humble servant, __ Eg o JOSEPH WOLFF, Vicar of Isle Bream L'ingport, in Sosnersetshire• Vicarage of Isle Brewers, near Langport, in Somersetshire, Oct. 10, 1849. WARD MEETINGS. c S h e!, ADERCROMBY WARD.-011 Wednesday, 3 ~ir °t t.J meeting of the electors of the above ward was ile`"„ Phoenix /an, Mount-pleasant. The chair was ° ' e c ,iii4 l ' by Mr. James Sykes, who briefly opened the pore er . F OO Alderman Griffith then proposed Mr. Hall As 1' 0 1; properly qualified to represent Ahercromby Wa ru c ledt" Town Council, and Mr. W. W. Waddington secoc proposition, which was carried unanimously. --3 Ttot,,l': addressed the meeting, expressing himself We Pike scheme, and favorable to the rating of t he nev! t '' ite as a l nan l i l nt r d u o . d, d as N e tt tniueol long statement rths s oht u ceah r kt g e7c o e m o den n exednn , putyr e i ci n rtnsesgs a eopdfet Aihatiiitnri s p e e chn.gssuet such ofhef no Earle,wowateragt con s ider a bl e eeh rooisoco,ulgrpiutirptiy pi went'rit face com impregnated with the filth of the sewer, or the r e , graveyards. Ith; RODNEY STREET WARD.—A numerous ineet'L L- 4 1 ° 0 electors of Rodney -street Ward, was held on F r ' 9 to: the large room at the Adelphi Hotel. Mr. J 3 . tite amidst loud cheers—he felt deeply embarrasser s o ng,' the first time he had addressed a popular assemb'Y'del t ; quently he hoped every indulgence would be eaten beo, him. He could but express his astonishment 0 17 ; called upon to be the representative of one oll,l o lo l ' important wards in this important town. For 3lr' s ,„ cse . personally, he felt no feeling of animosity; on t, n; cer trary, he admired his talents and abilities; bet P:diffSt' duct on the Pike question had been such asto t3rtA e (P r ' ent view with respect to his public conduct. Jones) pointed to the great meetin g in Febrea r ihr• e 0; where the arguments adduced were all old and duct bare. He particularly reprobated M r . Holmes — lo• ser at the vestry meeting in demanding a poll when 0 0 ' the majority against him was overwhelming. 8e 00' on to show that as far as cheapness was concer3b, fo r professions of the corporation had fallen thr t l. g eid, now the water rate was from 20 to 40 per than before. Arguing in favour of a local , suPPae▪ r t , Jones stated that the h our ly su pply a t th e Edge-b,," ;110 7 belonging to the London and North Western Company, was 12,000 gallons. He expressed his „ e- , r be that so well qualified a gentleman as Mr. Becip,„`;;, not been called upon for his opinion in them ,37, 8 : er e h , attributed it to a determination on the part of I— e a' meters to blink the question. Mr. Jones coritinuote carry the meeting with him throueh an analysis,_"%tli ii S. Holroe's speech at the Music-ball, and througn° address received hearty and vociferous approhati ee• f SCOTLAND WARD.—On W e dnesda a meeting 6 :e, James „46 electors of this ward, called by M r . 1 143 i ”i,'re,`" retiring candidate from the Council, who is again thud' of being re-elected, was held at the Castle Inn, See 'IP road. Mr. Thomas Wilson occuoied the clia ie : e stie l !; Holme proceeded to say that on the a bsorbing 'i t ' o f li t ' he might have the misfortune to differ with E 033 %t coe' constituents, and on that question he could state Tne, coo' scientiously that any vote he had given was under t` R to scientious conviction that he was doing that fl'';, e r best to give the largest and cheapest supply e i ts w igt' e it ; this large and growing town. H e (M r . Hoime)" B with the town ; and he might - say that the 'great O r o' tune of Liverpool had been that questions of ° Jost' prehensive character had not been sufficiently car ri !, I h o and he thought a great loss h a d been sustained et'creso town by not looking to the great and g rowing ii ; b vicr there were about them. In connexion with the ' o retr ton scheme he stated that he was a most decided E lie nent of one large pipe being carried , i n to the CO nl e was an opponent to carrying out the whole s e " once: He would make use of two or three of the l e " ter pal stations,—he would put down a smaller dieu! o 0 0 11 pipe, —he would have one reservoir made at Rilloiefe and with a smaller pipe and our present suppi9 h e f s okte c r i that fur years to come, they would have plenty °. 0 0 .4 Mr. Holm() then proceedecrto detail the reasetervi" induced him to support the Rivington scheme , that it was the best and cheapest scheme, an d ‘ , 1 04, /1 any three of its most strenuous opponents to sc cnrtp k i, e o o'4 him there, and he would convince them that w O5 . of tb He then expressed himself favourable to the ra tie b e' o roo ,P f docks, and a reduction of the expenses of the n ee, engineer. Mr. Burroughs then moved that the °jot ' er the meeting be given to Mr. Holme, for his .. 313 2 Vo c f r , the Council , during the past three year. r ho t b e seconded the motion. Mr. Watson then m s ovea r t d J. Holme is a proper person to represent the wsb0; 1 1 Council. The motion was seconded by Mr. who .0 d , and supported by Mr. Alderman Henderson, ber a e that the services of Mr. J. Holme, as a practical e.• were of inestimable value to , the Dock Counittethef‘or, motions were carried, with one dissentient. ---I , ll id to f° vious evening a meeting of the electors was u e e eno ward the election of Mr. Bigham,, but the PP - u lt9 t rg e were so uproarious that it was with great diffic coif, chairman could restore order. An extraordin a let of an alleged breach of contract was made sga l d , e l Bigham, which that gentleman has since e xplain e xe rti°o hope Mr. Holme's committee are using proper e ver t to secure that gentleman's return, as in that c have no fear of seeing him again in the Council. BiStrtrt getus. ri• • The members for Manchester, John Bright nu t, a sbe Gibson, are to be entertained at a grand bangto ° Free Trade-hall, in the fi r st week in December- s or , i A strong feeling exists in Manchester and re-elect, for the ensuing year, John Potter, r 454.- ot he R. Dongwnrthy , Esq., the present mayors. 00 The foundation stone of the new market-0100 Cross, in the town of Mold, was laid in due the Tuesday, the 2d instant. No fewer than eleven sheep, which had straY e +er , Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, near Lance „de killed by the mail train on Friday morning- ifb°lo o On Monday, at Lancaster sessions, AldernT.i.o son, M.P., Underley-hall, qualified, and took "'" e ;11 , a magistrate of the county. 5 e 0 1 tO Mrs. Hill, who with her husband, kept h() %ll ot tlite fame in Little Lever street, Manchester, w' in o. o death on Tuesday morning last, having, Whilstd t° of intoxication, set fire- to her own clothes A sop house. ,tiou„. o o EAILURES.—Letters from Manchester 111 ' - is en" failures amongst the spinners. The parties i i i ., ftc; f oo are Mr. J. Spencer, of the Holt-town mills ;,„--"' Cb, 4 'se , son of Portwood, near Stockport ; and Matter Pboley, of Manchester—the amount, in the is bo ll being stated at £50,000. per the NEW COLLIERY.—On the 10th instant, the 10 05, fb ° Coal Company reached the seam of coall'uToey, o l o. Orrel or Arley mine in their deep winning at en °l 4 ll' shaft in which it was. found is 414 yards, in Pi l e 0' depth, from the surface, being the deepest iu bourhood of Wigan. s Or e ° At Manchester Police-office on Thcrada99, - 0 s een,. ll ,lol human form, was charged with attempti n g' s s fe his own daughter's eyes with a pair of scissors o , ss pr 9 dl o ' s y in bed. The cause of the horrid act, whic h n ° was, that his child did not bring him in e A v• - • 00 support. 4 . 1 ,; s fin e ,st l ,o ELLESMERE CHURCH On Friday, church was re-opened with the service for c h o ca 0 co r e by the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, who Preu e f th e / Op sermon on public worship. The contributions _,,° st o_ t io gregation amounted to £230. The whole r a b s crl i r o tt ° restoration is said to have been £B,OOO, the n r ide list having been headed by £3 : 500 from theci, family, and £5OO from C. K. Mainwaring, S-4 1 01' l 'b ut e cti V THE APPROACHING MUNIGIPAL ELlggilof tP lowing is a list of the retiring members, an didates, as far as at present ascertained lowing is a list of the retiring members, .-- didates, as far as at presenil ascertained :"-- Caudid ate rro, Retiring Scotland .. I I 3 W. Ward. 1 Members. Anti-Pike. ----"".nti -.------- shit ._ e Evertors J. t i l t Vauxhall .. :. L i. G. Merrill J. Atkinson J. St. Paul's 'J. Stitt J. Games ..rcrer . H A o t i h na er e ton T. Chalmer,jun. J : H I, T. Godfrey J. -100 Exchange Castle-street...J. Atkin Thos. Avison , j. A. St. Peter's... ,J. A. Tin ne J. C. Fern boug h i Thos. Clarke Pitt-street IT. Toulmin T. Toulmin c. fo rlje j Great George IJ. Rogers J. Rogers . ilo' Rodney-street S. Horne A. F. /ones Abercromby T. Kaye B. Hall Lime-street St. Anne's 'W. Bet sett W. Benn ett 0 . 1., West Derby i A. Henderson D. Mather S. Toxteth N. Ttotteth „ R, Um og. 1,1".4'. let, --%---_!: P. 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