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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. FRANCE The feeling of dislike against the French National As sembly in France is fast extending, and " Down with it !" is almost the general cry. Petitions are being numerously signed to hasten this event. The people have grown quite tired of it, and are eager for its abolition. In order to bring the question to an issue, M. St. Hilaire has given notice of a motion for its dissolution on the 15th of April. A proposition, by M. Tinguy, that the Assembly shall dissolve itself on the 15th of February, after having passed the electoral law, has been referred to the commit tees of legislation and justice. The National Assembly of France decided on Thursday evening that the import duty on foreign salt in French vessels, from the Ist of February, should be lf. 75c. the 100 kilogrammes ; and in foreign vessels, 2f. 25c. ' A coll ?ction was made on Sunday last in all the churches in Paris for Pope Pius IX. The new Erench post-office stamp is of about the same size as the English stamp. The figure upon it is the head of a female, as representing the Republic. It is neatly executed, but by no means remarkable as a work of art. A man named Langlume, working in the quarries of Romainville, on Saturday, was taken violently ill, after eating mushrooms which Ile had himself gathered. He died the same night. Two of his children, who had also partaken of them, were exceedingly indisposed, but their lives are not considered in danger.—Paris Journal. TETE "BEGGING PROFESSION" IN PARIS.—We find, from the perusal of a case recently tried before c ne of the tribunals of a correctional police in Paris, that a detesta ble system of fraudulent mendicity is equally organized in that capital. A child of the tender age of ten years was charged with the offence of begging in the streets; Lis mother being summoned at the same time, as civilly responsible for the conduct of her son. It appeared, from the evidence adduced by this wretched stripling, whose emaciated appearance and state of semi-nudity shocked the feelings of all present, that his abandoned parent was in the habit of turning him out every morning for the pursuit of his " profession;" and that, unless he brought home at night at least 20 sous as the result of his day's " earnings," he was fated to be cruelly scourged with a thick rope's end or a cow-hide, receiving as many lashes as there were sous deficient. The only sustenance allowed the unfortunate boy during the 24 hours was a small slice of bread, in addition to the scanty morsels obtained from charitable individuals. When, on the other hand, the poor child contrived to scrape together more than the 20 sous " required by law," he was allowed a little soup as an extra gratification. These facts were extorted from the child in the absence of the unnatural mother ; for so great was the intimidation exercised over him by her menacing looks and gesticulations that the President was obliged to order her to withdraw before he could elicit a syllable. The brutal woman, on being in terrogated in her turn, of course denied the fact ; but the tribunal, notwithstanding, sentenced her to six months' imprisonment, and consigned the child to the care of a respectable master mechanic present, who most charitably offered to take charge of him. GERMANY.—SURRENDER OF PESTII.—The report that Pesth and Ofen had been taken by the Imperialists on the sth is confirmed ; the 12th army bulletin of Prince Win dischgratz announcing that event having been officially published in Vienna on the 7th. It is stated in the bul letin that no opposition was offered, and that further de tails will be given. Kossuth has gone to Debreczin with his adherents, in order to form a junction with the troops of General Bern. He took with him the regal insignia of St. Stephen, the Hungarian King. It is expected that as many as 100 vessels will be de spatched from the various ports of the United States _ _ Within th months for California There are now 60 cardinals, and out of the whole num ber of dignitaries only seven belong to Europe and the world, the rest belonging to the Italian peninsula, includ- ing Sicily and Sardinia ROYAL REPORTING.—The Times of Monday publishes " a hasty translation" of the speech that was to be de livered to the Portuguese Chambers, by Donna Maria da Gloria, " three days after" the sailing of the packet. The Pope is still at Gaeta, and even he and his personal ecclesiastic friends are at loggerheads. The latter recom mend an immediate recourse to an armed intervention for the purpose of placing his holiness at the head of civil affairs at Rome, but to the credit of Pius he has hitherto resisted the proposition. It is a coincidence worth noting, that the day of the flight of the Pope from Rome (the 24th November), was the anniversary of the foundation of the Papal Sovereignty, the date of which war 24th November, 800. Cape of Good Hope papers of the 16th November have reached us, from which we make the following interesting extracts. The proposition of Earl Greyito introduce fe lons from this country into that colony has excited no in considerable degree of alarm, and is likely to be met with the most determined opposition. Recent advices from the Cape of Good Hope state that an association for introducing the cultivation of the cot ton plant into Albany and Kafirland had been formed at Graham's Town, and a committee appointed to carry out that object. _ _ _ _ It is stated that Mr. Pierce Butler, despairing of suc ce3s in his suit against his wife, has made a proposition for a compromise. The terms are understood to be, that the parties are to live apart ; Mr. Butler to provide his wife a suitable allowance, and allow at least one of the children to live with her. Dr. Nicholson, an English Archbishop of the Roman Catholic persuasion, and coadjutor to the Most Rev. the Archbishop of the lonian Islands, has arrived in Malta, and is at present located in the palace of his Excellency the Governor.—Times [The Bishop of. Gibraltar who is also in Malta, and is a Protestant, has not the honour of being noticed by his Excellency, Mr. O'Ferral.] DECLINE OF PROPERTY.—III the St. Lucia papers re ceived by the West India packet, the sale of the Marquis estate in that island is announced for the sum of £3.600. This same property, comprising 3,000 acres, 2,000 of which even in the present depressed period are under cul tivation, fetched £50,000 seventeen years back, and was then considered to have sold only at a moderate price. ORDINATION IN THE VAUDOIS VALLEYS.—The Echo des fralWes gives particulars of the ordination at La Tour of six candidates to the ministry in connection with the Vaudois Church. The moderator of the synod presided upon the occasion, and preached a sermon from Rom. x. 13, 15. After undergoing an examination by the pastors, the candidates, on the morning of their ordination, signed an engagement, which they afterwards ratified, in the presence of an assembled congregation, to teach only sound evangelical doctrine, as professed by their ances tors, and contained in the Holy Scriptures. HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. — At New York, on the 22nd ult.. a German, named Francis Geiger, went into the apartment of a tailor, named Frederick William Marks, who resided in a room over a crockery store at the corner of Grand and Walnut-streets, with a large two-edged dirk knife in his hand, with which he stabbed Marks in two or three parts of the breast, nearly cut off one of his arms, and divided his left hand, from the wrist completely in two. Marks then rushed o t of the room and ran down stairs, and fell dead in the hall. As soon as Marks left the room, Geiger immediately attacked a woman who lived with Marks, as his mistress, and cnt off part of her breast, and stabbed her in several places until she fell to the ground. He then stabbed himself several times in the region of the heart, fell to the ground, and almost imme diately expired. JAMAICA.—A fact has recently transpired which incon testibly proves the fearful crisis of the affairs of this colony. It is this, that the value of exports for the last parliamentary year did not reach £900,000, whilst the imports exceeded £1,100,000; thus showing a balance of trade against the island of £200,000. During the last two years, also, the public expenditure of Jamaica has exceeded its revenue by £60,000 per annum. We cannot here help quoting an article under this head from the Jamaica Dispatch:—" The House of Assembly has rejected the Imperial loan as inexpedient under the pro visions which restrict its application. The house has thus done good service to the country. It has refused to sanction an addition of £lOO,OOO to the public debt of the colony to be jobbed away in road commissions and road allotments. Indeed, it is hardly possible to view this portion of the government scheme in any other light than as a deliberate insult to the colonies." Punch, looking to the flight of Louis Phillippe, Ferdi nand, Metternich, the Pope, &c. &c. &c., during the lase twelve months, decides that 1848 is entitled to be called " the flightiest year on record." RAILWAY AFFAIRS The traffic on the Chester and Holyhead Railway for the week ended the 6th inst. was—Coaching, £759 Is.lld. ; parcels, £25 lls. 3d. ; goods and cattle, £l6B 12s. 2d. ; steam boats, £93 13s. 6d.: total, £1,046 18s. 10d. The. Atmospheric System, so far as the South Devon Railway is concerned, has vanished into recollection only, and the Locomotive is henceforth to snort its triumph along the beautiful coast of Devonshire. Mr. Creed, who filled for upwards of ten years the se cretaryship of the London and Birminghrm and London and North Western Companies, has been elected to a seat in the direction of the latter company, in the room of Mr. Benbow, M.P., who has resigned. On Thursday a seaman fell from a carriage on the Blackwall Railway, owing to the door not being properly fastened, and being precipitated on the line, all the car riages passed over him, and mutilated him in a frightful manner. The embankment and sea-wall of that portion of the South Wales Railway which extends across the sands lying between the Llanelly harbour and Buryport, contracted for by Mr. Joseph Douglas and others, has been almost entirely washed away by Thursday's spring tide, which rose to an unusual height. A-Mrs. Cargill lately brought an action against the Dundee and Perth Railway for damages sustained in con sequence of the death.of her husband, caused by an acci dent on the Dundee and Perth line. The deceased was a farmer, living near Newcastle, and the accident took place on the 22nd of July, 1847. The damages were laid at £5OOO. After the trial had commenced, a compromise was come to—the comi?miy agreeing to allow Mrs. Car g ill an annuity of the for). lite. TRANSMISSION OF A NEWSPJS.PER REPORT BY TELE GRAPH.—During Wednesday night last, a report of the meeting in the Free-trade Hall, Manchester, that night, occupying a column and a quarter of the London Times, was transmitted to the metropolis, and appeared in the Times of the following morning, long before most of the speakers and hearers at the meeting had quitted their beds. The meeting terminated about a quarter past eleven o'clock, and the last page of the manuscript, transcribed at the central station of the electric telegraph in London, reached the Times office about 245 a.m. We notice this telegraphic effort, as the greatest yet achieved in England ; but undoubtedly much remains to be done, even before the speed of the American electric telegraph attained here. IRELAND. _._ When Sir Robert Peel said that "Ireland was his great difficulty," he went very far towards realizing his own dic tum, not simply by rendering it such to himself, but by projecting the dark shadow of his mal-administration upon the efforts of each succeeding government. Our weekly extracts from the Irish journals give evidence of the very sad and almost hopeless state of society in that ill-fated country. No class or grade is exempt ; the working of the poor-law has provoked the most unanimous reclama tion of all classes, except the well-paid officials. It makes paupers of the higher classes, without relieving the dis tress of those for whom it was intended. The Church is the especial victim of this legal spoliation. We heard, while writing this, of a rector in the west of Ireland, who, on making application last week for a rent charge of more than £26, received the sum of 18s., all that remained to him after the deduction of the poor-rate by the landlord. The landlords themselves are not in a much better plight than the clergy. And in the face of all this, we hear of endowing the Romish priesthood, and extending the franchise of the Romish people ! . An unfortunate pauper lately fell head foremost into the large boiler of Skibbereen workhouse, in which stira bout was preparing, and was scalded to death. THE NORTH AND THE WEST.—Tn Omagh Poor-law Union one person is a claimant for out-door relief, while in Ballina the number exceeds sixteen thousand. Mr. Smith O'Brien and the other Irish state prisoners have written to Mr. John O'Connell, " deprecating Rn y intervention on his part, in regard to the penalties they may have to suffer." IRISH SAVINGS BANKS. — There was a meeting of the depositors in the Cuffe-street Savings Bank ( Dublin) on Wednesday, Of the £50,000 lodged in it by the indus trious classes, the remaining assets are only £B7. . - The Ceylon, from the Clyde to New York, was wrecked on Sunday week in Ross Bay, south of Ireland. The ship soon became a total wreck, and twenty passengers and two of the crew were drowned. The rest, twenty-six in num ber, saved themselves in the boats. GOING THE WHOLE HOG.—According to the authority of the Galway Vindicator, the Connaught A'Beckett (Dr. M`Hale, to wit) has summoned a provincial synod to meet on the 20th or 22nd for the purpose of excluding Roman Catholic students from the Queen's colleges, under the most stringent obligations. A few days since, a woman, living at Newtown, near Waterford, left her infant asleep in an adjoining room, and on going back found the clothes saturated with blood, and the child dead. It was discovered that a rat had cut the leading artery behind the ear, and the poor child, in consequence, bled to death. WRIT OF ERROR.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Thursday, the Lord Chief Justice stated again at the sitting of their lordships that judgment would not be pronounced in the case of the Queen versus O'Brien, Meagher, &c., until Tuesday, in consequence of the in disposition of Mr. Justice Moore. INCREASE OF TAXATION.—The county cess levied on the county of Cork in 1785 amounted to £8,263 4s. 12d. ; in 1795. to £20,26855: 22d. ; in 1805, to £48,108 15s. 11d. ; in 1815, to £65,825 ; in 1825, to £82,116 , in 1835, to £62,655, 15s. Btd. ; in 1845, to £BB,BBB 2s. ld. ; and in 1848, to £108,690 10s. 9d., being an increase in the year within the last three years of £19,802 Bs. Bd. WONDERS OF THE POOR LAW.—Died, at the West port Workhouse, on Tuesday, the 2d instant, Owen Keregan, aged 106. He was the first individual who en tered the poor-house, and we have heard was paid for going in. What a change a few years ha v e wroug ht ? How many thousands are now seeking admission in vain ? —Mayo Constitution. THE CONVICT MITCHEL.—rhe total amount (on paper) of subscriptions raised for the wife and family of Mr. John Mitchel amounted to something under £2,000, no wonderful stretch of munificence, considering that the man did make sacrifices, although in a bad cause and for a worse object. But of this sum the total actually received by Mr. Richard O'Gorman, sen., the treasurer of the fund, and transmitted by him to Mrs. Mitchel, very little exceeded £9OO. AN IRISH CALIFORNIA.—RaiIways being somewhat out at the elbows, and iron consequently at a discount, the pensive Irish public is about to be tickled with another high-sounding speculation, which seems to be admirably adapted to divert men's minds from the pursuit of such common-place objects as improvements in the art of hus bandry, &c. The golden project is thus alluded to by the Railway Gazette :—" We perceive that an association has been formed to work the gold mines of Wicklow and Wexford, as the discoveries in California have turned at tention towards gold seeking. It is announced that more than twenty trials, during three months' labour, have proved that the auriferous deposit in Ireland occu• pies an area of upwards of 100 square miles in the coun ties of Wicklow and Wexford. The gold is found in quartz and black iron sand, as on the western coast of America ; and it is said that by an improved method of working sixteen men and women can wash 100 tons of sand a day, at an outlay of 12s.' " PRIESTLY RUFFIANISM IN IRELAND.—A leading arti cle in the Times of Friday has drawn our attention to the particulars of a most brutal outrage perpetrated on two unoffending gentlemen in the streets of Sligo, by a Roman Catholic priest, one O'Neil, and his companion, a Mr. M'Loughlin. The particulars are substantially those thrown into the following compendious form in the article of the Times;—" It would appear that the gentlemen in question had been dining in company with some friends on Christmas Eve (Sunday), and were returning home wards at night through the streets of Sligo, when they met the priest O'Neil, accompanied by M'Lnughlin. Screams had just before been heard to issue from a house of ill-fame, and Alderman Cordukes and his friend not unnaturally inquired of the priest and his friend what there was amiss. The reply to the question was given by M'Loughlin, who informed the party that he and the priest had been in the house in question 'whipping the girls.' Upon this, Mr. Delany, being himself of the Roman Catholic persuasion, endeavoured to take out of M'Loughlin's hand the instrument of flagellation. While they were struggling, Priest O'Neil came up, and with an instrument called a skulleracker' knocked him down several times. This instrument is stated by a spectator to have been formed of whalebone with a lump of iron,' and resembled, probably, that formidable weapon which is to be seen in our shop-windows under the name of a life-preserver. When Mr. Delany was thus disposed of, the priest turned his attention to Alderman Cordukes, who appears to have given not a shadow of offence to his ruffianly assailant. He states himself, that when he heard the first word of contention, 'he got a trembling, and said Come away home, boys' ; whereupon the priest came up with a deadly weapon and knocked him down.' For three days the unfortunate gentleman kept his bed ; and during a portion of the time his medical attendant was unable to pronounce him out of danger. Such are the facts of this revolting case. A minister of religion enters a brothel to inflict flagellation on the wretched inmates, and on coming out makes a ruffianly attack upon a party of gentlemen in the street, who rppear to have offered him no provocation." We trust that this atrocious occurrence will not be suffered to rest until this ruffianly priest and his accomplice are brought to justice. We shall watch too, with some curiosity, to see what steps the authorities of the Romish Church will take to vindi cate the character of their priesthood—hut, we suppose, that these matters, for politic reasons, are disposed of in secret. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. The Globe denies that the Government has any inten tiori of proposing a ss. duty on wheat. _ _ _ A soli of the rate Colonel Conolly is a candidate for the representation of Donegal. It appears from a parliamentary return, that during the last three years, 1500 new places have been created, the salaries of which exceed a quarter of a million. The Truro election has ended in the return of Mr. Wil liams, by a majority of 16, the numbers being—for Mr. Williams, 240, Mr. Smith 224. The Cambridgeshire agriculturists are about to hold a meeting to consider the propriety of agitating for a repeal of the malt tax. Mr. John S. Harford and the Hon. George Lawrence Vaughan have come forward as candidates for the repre .v..t.ti.,, of 41.3,c C...ai g .u.hire Boroughs in parliament. The Observer says," We believe that there is no longer any doubt that a committee will be appointed early in the session to inquire into the working of the Poor-law in Ireland. Sir Francis Baring has accepted the office of Chief Lord of the Admiralty. Lord John Russell offered the appointment to Sir James Graham, but the right hon. hart., whilst acknowledging the public motives which had suggested the proposal, declined to accept it. The Tinges tells of the public funds :—" The brief hour of credit which was obtained on the 27th July for the predicted ascendancy of riot and revolution in Ireland produced, even in its sudden and abrupt operation, less effect than followed upon an overcast atmosphere in the harvest month." MR. YOUNG AND GEN. NAPIER.—It is stated that the subject of Mr. Young's letter to Gen. Napier, relating to the alleged revolutionary movement in support of the Reform Bill, will be brought under the notice of Parlia ment, in the Lords by Lord Lyndhurst, and in the Com mons by Mr. Gladstone. When the Tories were in office a gleam of gladness pe riodically illumined the face of the financier as he read of the appropriation of the overplus of the revenue to the reduction of the debt but now, regularly as the year or the quarter returns, his anxious eye can discover nothing more cheering to relieve the gloom of the Gazette than a contrary announcement. MR. BUCKINGHAM ON THE "NATIONAL BUDGET." —Mr. J. S. Buckingham has addressed a lengthy letter to Mr. Cobden on his proposed national budget, which Mr. Buckingham pronounces a " bit by bit reform," not going to the root of the evil, and therefore leaving " ulcerous sore that will break out again before long." He prefers the course taken by the Liverpool Association in recom mending the entire abolition of all duties of Customs and Excise, and the substitution of direct taxation. The con templated reduction of ten millions in our armaments he thinks too little ; and he urges upon the people the wisdom of giving effect to the principles of peace, and substituting an International Congress for the present warlike tribunals. He demands the emancipation of all our colonies ; main taining that they will be more valuable to us as free na tions than as weak dependencies. Lastly, he calls upon the people everywhere. to " advocate and practise the greatest of all reforms, whether considered nationally or individually—the abolition of the use of all intoxicating drinks." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. * The Christian Knowledge Society has voted a second £lOOO for the cathedral at Fredericton. CHRIST'S CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE.—The Rev. Joseph Shaw, 8.D., Senior Fellow, and formerly tutor of Christ's College, has been elected master, in the room of the Lord Bishop of Chester, resigned. Another serious difference has occurred between Bishop Hampden and Dr. Merewether, which has already given rise to a " protest" on the part of the Dean, the latter declining to institute a honorary canon on the nomination of the Bishop. A correspondent of the Principality states, that on an average there are at least five Welshmen occupying pulpits in the Established Church in every county in England ; and there is hardly a town in England of any importance without a Welsh Dissenting minister in it. It is said that there are no less than seventy candidates for the Golden Lectureship, which is worth exactly £420 16s. a-year, being the rents of two houses in Size lane, long devoted to the foundation of a Tuesday Morn ing Lectureship, by some benevolent member of the Haberdashers' Company of the olden time. The Rev. Henry Melvin, the Principal of the East India Company's College, at Haileybury, and Chaplain of the Tower, is likely to obtain it. WHITEHALL, JAN. 10.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. the Earl of Harrowby, the Very Rev. William Rowe Lyall, D.D., Dean of Canter bury, William Page Wood, Esq., Robert Baynes Arm strong, Esq., John George Shaw Lefevre, Esq., C. 8., and the Rev. Richard Jones, M.A., to be her Majesty's Com missioners for inquiring how episcopal and capitular estates and incomes in England and Wales can be most beneficially managed with due regard to the just and rea sonable claims of the lessees ; and also how fixed, instead of fluctuating, incomes can best be secured to bishops and members of chapters. _ _ ANOTHER MOVEMENT IN THE CHURCH.—We learn from the Morning Chronicle that a large meeting of incum bents and beneficed clergymen, was held in Chancery lane, London, on Wednesday, to adopt measures for the " restoration and preservation of church principles." Tt was stated that one great design of the movement was, the extinction of church societies, and it was suggested that the external machinery which they afford might be supplied by the instrumentality of the cathedral churches. It was also unanimously decided to publish a series of papers, similar to the Oxford tracts in character, but taking higher grounds." The subjects of the first nine tracts were agreed on. They were to strive for the de velopment of the parochial system in all its integrity,— to treat occasionally on subjects connected with dogmatic theology.—to contend for the restoration of ancient dis cipline, and to discuss such matters as might be demanded by the necessities of the church. Resolutions were pas sed constituting the society, appointing officers, and pro viding for the contemplated objects. THE CHURCH INNOVATERS.—A memorial. very re spectably signed by members of the diocese of Exeter, was recently presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury, complaining of novel practices being i introduced by mem bers of the clergy into the churches n that diocese. His grace has written a very admirable reply, in the course of which he says :—" I could certainly have wished that the younger clergy, to whom your remarks are chiefly ap plicable, had thought themselves at liberty to follow the usage of their predecessors and the example of the great majority of their brethren at the present day ;—so as to acquiesce in those slight deviations from the Rubric which custom bad sanctioned, and which had not been reproved by competent authority. 1 could have wished they had considered the Apostle's example applicable to their case, and in non-essential things had yielded to the feelings of the people as he yielded to those of the Jews, for the sake of avoiding offence and gaining confidence. Especially I regret the introduction into our parish churches of a mode of worship which, however proper and suitable in our cathedrals, appears too artificial and elaborate for simple and general devotion." THE ACHILL MISSIONARY SETTLEMENT.—On Thurs day. a meeting of the friends of the Achill mission was held in the Hanover-square Rooms, London, for the pur pose of hearing from the Rev. Charles Seymour, rector of the district which is situated on the western coast of Ireland, and from the Rev. Edward Nangle, the superin tendent, a statement of the affairs of the colony, The Rev. Alexander Dallas, rector of Wonston, occupied the chair, and took occasion to speak in eulogistic terms of the great exertions made by Mr. Nangle and his coadjutor in raising the Achill colonists from the depths of Pagan infidelity to the height of Christianity which the people of England enjoyed. The Rev. Mr. Seymour entered into an interesting narrative illustrative of the progress which had taken place in the spread of Protestant principles throughout the colony, despite the violent opposition the missionaries' labours had experienced from Dr. M`Hale, the Archbishop of Tuam, and the Romanist clergy of the Achill district. When the Rev. Mr. Nangle first visited the colony there was neither a Testament nor a school to be found on the island but now no less than 800 of the inhabitants attended divine worship each Sabbath-day. There were 32 schools, and about 1760 children attending them. The Protestant Bishop of Tuam had become pre sident of the mission, and evinced the utmost anxiety for the propagation of the Protestant truth and the suppres sion of Popish error. The Rev. Edward Nangle explained the origin of the Achill mission, and declared his convic tion that if the Protestants of this country really knew the terrible evils which the existence of Popery inflicted on Ireland, they would strenuously exert themselves to sus tain the mission in its exertions to promote the spread of truth. He then detailed the difficulties against which he and his coadjutors had to contend—difficulties of an ille gitimate character—and having announced that he was responsible for the Payment of £BOO, the balance of £2,300, the amount charged for a cargo of Indian corn purchased for the starving people of Achill, he called on the meeting, composed as he believed it to be, of intelli gent and truth-loving English ladies and gentlemen, to sustain by pecuniary contributions the labours of himself and his colleagues in Protestantising the wild but romantic district of Ireland, where for the last fourteen years he had struggled to propagate the principles of their true religion, and to check the spread of Romanism. COURT AND FASHION. The Duke de Nemours and the Duke d'Aumale have been shooting in company with Prince Albert during their stay at Windsor. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Earl and Countess Fortescue took their departure from Windsor Castle on Friday. THE THEATRICAL REPRESENTATIONS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—The play of " Hamlet" was performed on Wednesday before the court, Mr. Charles Kean, of course, sustaining the principal character. Her Majesty was seated on the centre of the dais, the Duchess of Kent being on the Queen's right hand, and the Prince Consort on her left, the four royal children occupying, as usual, seats on the steps. Amongst the company present were Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Carlisle, and Lord Morley. ACCIDENT TO THE COUNTESS OF MANSFIELD. — The Countess of Mansfield, accompanied by the two Ladies Murray, was returning from the private dramatic perfor mances, at Windsor Castle, on Thursday night, to her residence at Wentworth House, near Virginia Water, when the carriage, in ascending Priest-hill, near Runny. mede, was backed into a deep ditch on the side of the road, and the Countess and her daughters proceeded on foot to Beaumont Lodge, the seat of Viscount Ashbrook. POPISH RELICS We are repeatedly assured by those who have an inter est in keeping Popish immutabilities out of the public view, that the Church of Rome is gradually relaxing the superstitious thraldom over the human conscience, to which she has been so long indebted for her influence over the minds and persons of her vassals. But that she remains the same spiritual sorceress may be ascertained — amongst other proofs—by a curious exposure for sale, by the Custom House authorities at Dover, of formularies issued from Rome to authenticate certain contemptible pieces of trumpery, called " relics" in those precious documents. These articles passed from the Custom House into the possession of a sound member of the Church of England, greatly to the vexation and indigna tion of two Roman Catholics who attended the auction, but arrived just too late to become the purchasers of the venerated lot. These " relics" each about the size of a pin's head, were certified to consist of a piece of the " true cross," and the Virgin's veil, together with a rosary "blessed at the shrine of St. Anthony, at Padua," and the I=s nt of .. d r iv r e e r a sZ s ß ,A le ic s i s i e a d t rVanirsgliantsionatotdf the 1 a printedr t r s . formulary, which is the same for eaci, „r " relics," a blank space being left for the names of the reputed owners to whom these humiliating memorials of mortality and mortal weakness are supposed to have be longed; and rather than that we should hazard an incor rect translation, we have retained the literal sense of the word " Venerationi," although we entertain a decided opinion, in which we doubt not that our Reformed readers will concur, as to the meaning intended to be conveyed by the ambiguous expression : "Constantine, of the Church of St. Silvester In Capite, "Priest-Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, of the Patri cian Order, " Vicar-General of our most Holy Lord the Pope, and Judge in Ordinary of the Court of Rome, and its district, &c. "To all and singular who shall see these present letters, we do certify, and testify, that we, for the greater glory of Almighty God, and veneration of his Saints, have identified these sacred pieces of the " Veil of the B. " which, having been produced from well-authenticated places, we have reverently placed in a silver-plated case, protected by glass, carefully closed, tied with a red silken string, and sealed with our seal; and we have consigned them, * * * with a power of retaining them, or of giving them to others, of trans mitting them beyond the City of Rome, and of exhibiting them for the public veneration of the Faithful in any Church, Ora tory, or Chapel whatsoever. In token whereof we have caused these letters testimonial, subscribed with our hand, and con firmed by our seal, to be prepared by the under-written keeper of our Sacred Relics. " Rome, from our palace, the 18th day of September, in the year MDCCCXLIV. _ " C. CARDINAL, Vicar. " Gratis. (Name illegible) "Keeper." And the Church which exports for sale, as a commercial speculation (for we do not see how else the consignment could have reached Dover), such awfully blasphemous trash as this—which cane upon its deluded votaries to fall down and venerate (we will not say worship) a rag of Manchester cotton, certified by the Vicar-General of the Pope, the " infallible" head of the scarlet abomination, as a portion of a veil worn eighteen centuries and a half ago by the Virgin Mary—this corrupt Church we• Pro testants are to be called upon to endow, forsooth ! We shall shortly begin to expect that some of our friends of the new Oxford school will afford to the cura tors of our national and local geological museums, an opportunity of enriching their various collections by means of a public sale of some " well authenticated" specimens of flint from the bed of Saint Rose. LAW INTELLIGENCE. —*-- Mr. Boothby, of the Northern Circuit, has been ap pointed to the Recordership of Pontefract. BETTING LISTS.—Sir Fitzroy Kelly and Mr. Badely, barristers,- have given it as their united opinion that it is not illegal for a licensed victualler to exhibit in his house a betting list of a horse-race, nor even to be the depository of the money if the race be a legal one. Two convicts, one under sentence of transportation, and Cie other undergoing a term of imprisonment in Millbank prison, have sworn that they were the parties who broke into the house of Mr. Revell, a watchmaker, at Slough, and stole £2OO worth of watches and jewellery, which they sold for £l5 to Mr. Isaacs, a publican, in Petticoat lane, and on their evidence Mr. Isaacs has been commit ted for trial. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. The following horses, forming Lord Strathmore's steeeple chase stud, were sold on Monday by Messrs. Tattersall :—St. Leger, 600 gs. ; Gayhurst, 200 gs. ; Crown Prince, 150 gs. ; Kangaroo, 125 gs. ; The Snare, 72 gs. ; and The Spinner, 56 gs. Red Lancer and Chatham were bought in. SOUTH LANCASHIRE COURSING CLUB.—The Chats worth Meeting was held on Thursday and Friday. For the Chatsworth Cup Mr. Barnes's Handy Andy beat Mr. Booth's Landseer, and won. The Devonshire Puppy Cup was won by Mr. Taylor's Spot, beating Mr. Pea cock's Pride. The Burlington Cup was won by Mr. Bake's Gin, beating Mr. Barnes's Bepporina. THE TRANSIT ACROSS THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ The following particulars appeared last week in the columns of the London Times : " We some time back referred to the inconveniences sus tained by passengers to India in the Egyptian portion of the overland route since Mehemet Ali took it into his own hands in 1846, and to the neglect with which all re monstrances were treated. It is satisfactory, therefore, to mention that there are indications of an intention of Abbas Pasha to include amongst the reforms with which he will begin his reign the improvement in the transit administration which has been so long needed. Accord ing to the last advices, it appears that the new Pasha has appointed, with full powers to act without reference to any divan, an intelligent man named Kenny Bey, to carry out the necessary measures, and as hitherto the reference of all questions to the decision of a committee has been the thief cause of the delays experienced by the agents of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, in their attempts to obtain an amendment of the system, there is reason to expect that the whole business will now be speedily placed on an improved footing. Abbas Pasha has suggested, it is said, that on the first five deep stations of the desert train rails should be laid down; and the rails being ready at Alexandria, the work could at once be put in operation. Orders also have been given for the appropriation of six boats for the exclusive use of the service on the Nile, and of one or two others for the port of Alexandria and the canal." Onterai Ilitgrellanv. A youth from Nottingham was found in the streets of Plymouth, a few days ago, asking the road to Australia. A WHITE SPARROW.—Last week, a fine specimen of the common sparrow, nearly white, was shot near the railway bridge, Durham. Mr. G. G. White states in a letter to the Lancet, that the rumbling sound perceived on stopping the ears with the fingers, proceeds from the circulation of the blood. The wale of the library at Stowe is now proceeding, and will last 24 days. The average produce of each day is about £3OO. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge has granted the sum of £lOOO towards the erection of the buildings of the Training College at Carmarthen. SUGAR CANES.—An importation of a considerable quan tity of sugar canes has recently taken place by one of the steamers arrived at the port of Southampton. The cholera has appeared in Deny. Its progress at Glasgow continues frightful-866 new cases, and 291 deaths are reported ; in other parts, both in Scotland and England, the disease is stagnant. At Upleatham Hall, the Earl of Zetland's seat, there have been laid down 900 feet of glass water pipes, form ing the longest line of glass tubes that has yet been placed in England. A child, son of a collier, was found dead last week in the bed, being smothered from overlaying by one of his bedfellows, consisting of father, mother, and six children in the same bed. The Newcastle courant, of the 15th ultimo, contains advertisements of forty-five farms to be let, containing upwards of 11,000 acres, to be entered on at Lady-day next. Derwentwater was completely frozen over during the late severe weather, and many hundreds of persons daily amused themselves by skating on the ice that covered the lake. During the last fortnight, the Dundee fishermen have caught great numbers of herrings in the day, off the en trance to the harbour, where such shoals of the fish have not been seen for nearly thirty years. At the Gainsborough market on Tuesday very fine sam ples of wheat fetched no more than 465. per quarter, and large quantities of excellent wheat were sold at 425. per quarter. As Mr. Robinson, a tailor, of Gateshead, was passing alotig the High-street of that place, lately, a sheep bounded against him with such violence that he was thrown backwards on the pavement, and his skull frac tured. He died next day. The mayor of Hull has expressed a determination to abolish the practice of cabs standing for hire on Sunday ; his worship has been recently reminded that in York no such thing is to be seen as a cab on a stand on the Sab bath. An inquest upon the body of Mr. Stevenson, the cele brated portrait painter, terminated on Monday. It ap peared that the lamented gentleman, who was 37 years old, expired on Saturday week upon the Windsor stage coach, after running for some distance to come up with it. On Monday three brothers went to shoot small birds in Chinford Marshes, Essex, and, while crossing a ditch, one of them imprudently held his gun with the muzzle towards himself, when a twig pulled the trigger, and a charge of shot was driven through his heart. On Sunday morning a fire broke out in a building at No. 2, New-square, Lincolns'-inn, occupied by a number of barristers and solicitors. The building was about 60 feet by 50 feet, and was quite destroyed. No doubt there were documents in the various offices of very great value. The newly erected water works at Hampstead, were destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. The total loss in machinery and buildings is estimated at £B,OOO, and the whole was uninsured. The premises had not been finished many weeks, having been erected for raising a purer water from a depth of 350 feet. NATIONAL SOCIETY.—EXHAUSTED STATE OF THE Fuxns.—Owing to the exhausted state of the Society's finances, the committee have been unable to make any fresh grants during the last month. The society's present liabilities under this head amount to the large sum of £27,908. MELANCHOLY.—A. short time since, a young won - al was sitting by the side of a farmer, at Catcoat, Durham, discussing arrangements for their marriage on the follow ing niorning, when she was suddenly seized with a fit of coughing, and in a few minutes died. An inquest was held next day upon her body, at the very hour when the marriage ceremony was to have taken place. A fatal accident occurred on the night of Tuesday last, on the Menai Straits, near the town of Carnarvon, whereby four men met a watery grave, the ferry-boat, in which they had embarked, having been totally lost in a tremendous gale of wind. It appears that the vessel plied between Carnarvonshire and Anglesey, running from a point about half a mile from Carnarvon. A Swansea paper mentions that a few days since, a man, who was unloading a waggon laden with hot cinders, from the Ystalyferd Ironworks, at a place where the cinders are usually shot, seated himself on the heap in order to warm himself, but was suffocated by the mephitic exhala tions, and was found quite dead, with his clothes and body scorched by the heat. The cholera, in its malignant form, has made its ap pearance at Margate, in the Pauper Establishment of Messrs. Perry and Co. Forty-five children from Drouett's Pauper Establishment at Tooting were conveyed by rail way to that place on Saturday week, since which time all have had diarrhoea, and seven well-marked cases of cholera have occurred, one which has proved fatal. JOgEPH ADV.— On Saturday, this notorious personage was ordered by the Lord Mayor to pay £lO 125., due to peacock, R pte- r 6reatignantiiiAt that the defendant asserted in his letters that one of the judges had recovered £lO,OOO through his correspondence, but there was not a word of truth in it. On Saturday, three parties were remanded at the Southwark police-office on a charge of conspiring to ex tort money from the North-Western Railway Company, by pretending that they had received injuries on the above line at Leighton Buzzard, on the sth of September, when, in fact, they were far from the place, and quite well. The company's surgeon called on them in October, and they were in bed, feigning illness. On New Year's day, a pilot yawl, which had been cruising off the Suffolk coast, made for the shore in order to escape a rising storm ; but at the moment when she neared the beach, she was swamped by a wave, and four of the seven men who formed her crew were drowned in spite of the efforts of the neighbouring boatmen, who fastened ropes round their waists and rushed into the breakers. in the hope of saving the drowning men. THE TOOTING DISORDER.—The prevailing opinion of the medical profession appears now to be that, instead of Asiatic cholera having broken out in Mr. Drouett's esta blishment, it was nothing more than bilious fever, accom panied by severe diarrhoea. This supposition is, in a great measure, strengthened from the fact of so many children having recovered so rapidly since they have been placed on more substantial diet. EXECUTION.—On Saturday, the lad Malkin, 17 years old, who, apparently under religious feelings, (both being Wesleyan Methodists), had courted Esther Inman, but towards whom he afterwards cherished feelings of hatred, and basely shot in her father's garden near Leeds, whilst pretending to speak to her, was hanged at York. He conducted himself with much propriety, and prayed ear nestly for forgiveness. There were about 12,000 persons present. The important office of priest of Hymen at the cele brated Temple of Lamberton Toll, has this week become vacant by the somewhat sudden demise of Mr. Henry Collins, who has officiated in that respectable capacity for a period of nearly twenty years. The duties of the situa tion are by no means of a light description, there having been, it is said, during the last year, 330 marriages cele brated after this fashion, and the usual average of years is upwards of 300. The fees realized from these must have amounted to something considerable. IRON TRADE.—The principal quarterly meeting of the irontnasters of the Midland districts was held at Birming ham, on Thursday. The trade was reported to be im proving, and prices remained firm at last quarter's quota tions. The orders for pigs were unusually brisk ; the make for two months in advance being already purchased. The demand for coals is brisk at existing prices. A paragraph having appeared in The Times of Sa turday last, mentioning the failure of the house of Mr. Robert M'Clelland, extensively engaged in the linen trade in the north of Ireland, we have been requested to state that the establishment is not that of Robert M'Clelland and Co., of Dungannon, who are also in the linen and flax-spinning business.— Times. Two decided cases of Asiatic cholera have occurred at the Holborn Union workhouse, London, and have both terminated fatally. The first case was a man, aged 57, taken ill on Saturday morning, and died at eleven o'clock on Saturday night. He had not been in the slightest de gree in connexion with the children or any of the persons at the. Royal Free Hospital. The other was a man, aged 29. He was taken ill on Saturday afternoon, and died on Sunday. THE GOLD MANIA.—The London Times of Friday says,—A glance at The Times advertisements will show that the public appetite for California is likely to be promptly met. The burden of the various vessels an nounced as ready for immediate departure amounts, even in to-day's impression, to about 5,000 tons, distributed in ships ranging from 190 to 700 tons, to say nothing of the West India mail steamer which leaves on the 17th, carrying goods and passengers to Chagres, or of a " short and pleasant passage" advertised to Galveston, in Texas, as aeheap route to the Pacific. WHICH WAY OUT ?—The Principality mentions that some time back, an assistant Poor Law Commissioner was at a meeting of the Board at Pwlheli and insisted on some measure distasteful to the guardians, who immediately began to converse one with another in Welsh. At length the commissioner asked the clerk what they were talking about.—Clerk : Oh, sir, it is merely a little chat among themselves ; nothing of consequence.—Commissioner (After a little time had elapsed, the discussion becoming animated): Why, clerk? I do not understand what their discussion is about. I ought to understand it; and I in sist upon your explaining it instantly ?—Clerk: Well, sir, if you must know, they are discussing whether you are to be thrown out through the window, or to be kicked out through the door. THE MUTINY AT THE NORE.—At Rochester, on the 4th instant, died Mr. W. Bardo, aged 80 years, 64 of which he spent in the public service. The late Rear-Ad miral Cunningham thus speaks of the services of deceased: " William Bardo, mate of the Chetham Yacht in the year 1797, during the mutiny on board the ships at the Nore, was taken out of that vessel to conduct H.M.S. Clyde, then under my command, into the harbour at Sheerness (the regular pilot having, through fear, refused to take charge of the ship) ; and having so done, and the ship being placed in safety, he was put into one of her boats, and sent by me to the St. Fiorenzo, at the Great Nore, he having previously concerted the plan for getting our ship away from the mutiny with her commander, Sir Harry Burrard Neale. He succeeded, and that ship was de tached from the mutinous fleet anti conducted to the Downs by Bardo. In this service, also, he displayed great judgment and courage." ELECTRICITY V. STEAM.--Since the discovery by Mrsted of the magnetic power imparted to bars of iron by an electric current traversing copper wire coiled around them, numerous attempts have been made, with various degrees of success, to move machinery by the enormous force which we have thus at cur command. The most re markable experiments are those of Professor Jacobi, who, in 1838 and 1839, succeeded in propelling a boat upon the Neva at the rate of four miles an hour. At this time an engine is in process of construction in London, under the direction of Mr. Hjorth, a countryman of the great dis coverer of electro magnetism, which the patentee supposes will give a power equal to five horses. We have seen the model, which certainly embraces many new features that promise to render the application of the power more ef fective than it has been hitherto. One of the electro magnets made for the large engine, in a recent trial, sup ported nearly 50001 b., and its attractive force at one-eighth of an inch was equal to nearly 15001 b. As this force can be multiplied without limits, the question is reduced en tirely to one of economy and convenience. . . THE MAIL ROBBERIES.—The prisoners charged with having, on new year's night, broken into the Post-office tender, while the train was in motion, between Bristol and Bridgewater, were brought up on Monday. The Chairman and Secretaries of the Great Western, South Devon, and Bristol, and Exeter Railways were among those present. Christopher Arden, Esq., the Mayor, presided. The prisoners, on being placed at the bar, looked anxiously round, but betrayed no further signs of emotion. One of the late guards said his name was Henry Poole ; the other refused to state who he was, and up to this time has not been identified. Several witnesses were examined to prove the due transmission of the mail bags from the Post-office. The guard of the mail stated, as formerly mentioned, that he had found bags broken open. He had ascertained, by trying it, that persons sitting where the prisoners were in the railway, might reach the mail tender by climbing along and over the carriages. He had done it when the train was in motion. Poole and the other man were fully identified by various parties. There is no. doubt that the up-mail was robbed by the same persons as the down-mail, though the prisoners are only at present accused of the latter. AN' APPARITION ON THE RAIL.—The Gateshead Ob server states that one night in the past week a butcher of Tynemouth was a candidate for a legitimate ride from Newcastle by the north train ; but, finding that he should not arrive from Shields in time, he took his stand upon the line, and made an audacious leap for the buffer as the train flew past. Clinging with a fearful affection to the hold which he had gained, and not daring, for some time, to move, he shook tremulously for mile after mile. Gra dually he ventured to better his position, until he gained the footboard of the carriage, and, rearing himself up, his white panic-stricken countenance presented itself, in con trast to the blackness of the night, against the glass of the. door. The guard started to his legs, thinking of " Spring-heeled Jack," and exclaimed at the top of his voice, ' Where did you drop from ?" Like the mariner in " Joe Miller," to whom, when he fell from the mast head off Cape St. Vincent, the same question was put by the skipper, our hero answered, " From North Shields !" " A long fall." muttered the guard, as he assisted his un expected passenger into the carriage, where a further ex planation took place; and the butcher having paid his fare he was safely deposited at Morpeth. THE DRAMA.—During the last few days, a determined opposition has been offered by the Rev. F. Close, and others of the Cheltenham clergy, to the projected amateur performance, at the Assembly-rooms, for the benefit of the Cheltenham Hospital. The project has been openly condemned from the pulpit ; and the rev. gentleman named has declared before the governors of the hospital, that if they sanction the proceedings, or accept the pro ceeds of the performance, he will entirely withdraw from the institution, and will never again preach in aid of the hospital funds. This has, of course, created a sensation in the town. In the meantime, all the arrangements have i been perfected, and the performance comes off on Thurs day evening. The pieces selected are " Love hla Mode." ' " Going to the Derby," and " Did you ever send your wife to Camberwell ? " The whole of the tickets, 800 in number, have been sold at 7s. 6d. each, and every possible interest is manifested in the entertainment. The com mittee for promoting the ; uncdc rtaking includes the names of upwards of 60 of our principal resident and visiting gentry, including a clergyman. our most active magistrates, and the member for tile borough, &c. How these gentlemen will reconcile themselves to the Rev. F. Close it is impossible to say.—Gloucester Journal. SINGULAR CANINE PREDILECTION. — A dog of the bull-terrier breed, belonging to Mr. Tibbey, of Blackmer stone, some time ago evinced a strong partiality to the various members of our police-force, and at the com mencement of their night duties at nine o'clock was regu larly in attendance at the station-house, to accompany some one of the officers upon whom his choice for the night might have fallen. Upon one occasion the officer, wishing to get rid of his canine attendant, somewhat roughly threw him over the Wyebridge into the river, but in a few minutes the dog was again at his heels. At the departure of the old year on Sunday fortnight, the prac• tice of burning the mistletoe-bough was observed at a respectable inn at the vicinity of Widemarsh-street, the glare of light arising from which was so strong as to cause the alarm of fire to be raised; some of the police sprang their rattles, and a hasty retreat was made to the engine station. Among other persons who were alarmed, and who observed the light above alluded to, was Master Merrett, son of Mr. Merrett, confectioner, High Town ; upon proceeding with others In the direction of thc,bitinii house, when near St. Peter's Church he encountered the inllithl i tVTllPEssEilifi l airo t tUdig l acrollielOrn f airias 1 speedily afforded, he sustained such severs injuries that surgical assistance was rendered necessary, It is evident that this dog possessed a power, whether instinct or a low degree of reason, of no ordinary kind ; and it is conjec tured that he must have " imagined," from the temporary excitement which prevailed, that an attack was being made on the police-officers, and that he must render them his assistance. The owner appeared before the magistrates on Thursday, and the dog was ordered to be destroyed.— Hereford Journal. STATISTICS OF POOR-RATES, &C.—The gross total annual value of the real property rated to the poor-rates for the year ended 25th of March, 1847, in England and Wales, amounted to £67,320,587, the expenditure for the relief and maintenance of the poor during the said year amounted to £5,298,785, equivalent to a rate on the annual value of ls. 7d. in the pound; that is to say, of Is. 61d. in England, and ls. 74-d. in Wales. The highest rate levied was in the county of Buckingham (2s. 41d.), and the lowest in the county of Derby (Is. Old.) In Middlesex the rate was ls. 42d. on a real property of £7,584,668. The total number of unions in England and Wales amounted, in 1847, to 592 ; the estimated popula tion of those unions to 14,997,581; the number of pau pers relieved in those unions (exclusive of vagrants and paupers not belonging to any parish of the union in which they were relieved), during the quarter ended 25th of March, 1847, to 1,322,120; the proportion per cent. of the paupers relieved to the estimated population, in 1847, to 8.8 ; the total number of paupers relieved in unions (inclusive of vagrants, &c.), during the quarter ended 25th of March, 1847, to 1,471,133; and the proportion per cent. of the total number of paupers relieved on the estimated population, in 1847, to 9.8 ; the estimated population of the counties of England and Wales, in 1847, to 17,325,123 ; the annual value of the real property assessed to the property and income-tax in 1843 to £85,802,735 ; the proportion per cent. of the poor-rate assessment to the income-tax assessment of real property to 78.6; the expenditure for the relief and maintenance of the poor during the year ended March 25, 1847, to £s f 298 / 785 1 • the rate in the pound for the relief of the " poor on the annual value assessed to the poor rates to Is. 7d. (viz., Is. Gid. in England, and ls. 70. in Wales), and the rate per head of the expenditure for the relief of the poor on the estimated population of 1847 to 6s. ltd. Janda, 1549,, DRURY LANE THEATRE.—M. Dejean has handsome manner invited the boys of the Green', Hospital schools, 800 in number, to a j uven il e fete, 0 0 1 given on Wednesday evening next at this house, and provided a bill of fare of the most attractive charante r ..; his youthful visitors. ce tie EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—At North w i c h, a .- i n t o man of the name of Green, late i n th e emp l o y o or Andert on Carrying Company, and who had, it was posed, nearly recovered from a men t a l affection, Pn', oo end to his existence in an extraordinary manner. Wednesday evening last, he rose, and was about to 01 ; 1 for the purpose of attending a party. His wife bs r ., l left the room - for a short time, h e s t ar t e d off, n th :ln sti l , state of nudity, direct to a r oc k sa lt m i ne i n the n e l.o bourhood, and precipitated himself down the shaft. , men had just before descend e d th e s h a ft, an d WA .down about forty yards,lwhen the unfortunate man l e , upon them. One of them was s evere ly h ur t, a n d Green was so severely injured that he died in a few NIGHTLY SCENES AT A LONDON WORKHOUSE' correspondent, instigated by the most commen d a ble!';', ings, invites public attention to th e p a i n f u l ex hibit e j which may be nightly witnessed a t th e wor kh ouse -40 1 0 St. Andrew's parish, Holborn—" From 30 to 5 0 P creatures may be seen sitting at the doorsteps, having ,4 home, and the parish refusing them a night's lodging , .:o even pouring on the paveme n t p a il s o f wa t er to pre y a them sitting down. If th e wor kh ouse i s t oo sma ll, .74 rates will pay for more ac c o mmo d a ti on , b u t the 105 part is taken up with rooms for officials very little u. Will anything excuse us allowing our fellow.ereature, s er o remain in the open air all n i g ht, i n a Ch r i st i an land." to so much is paid for taxes ? Ought not the rateWeL s 0 demand the cause of this inhuman conduct, and in=P: te n one man on its being altered, when they are paying heavy rates ?"—John Bull. ; tao DEATH FROM TIIE BITE OF A DOG.—On ,a.s a, Day, at the house of Henry Casson, Esq., Beverley- o , s Hull, an inquest was held upon the son of that gentle'nn Master Henry Casson. aged ten years, when it apPe'?i that on that day week the deceased went to his fate tan yard, between four and five o'clock in the afterne°_,A when he was seized by a large dog of the St. breed, which was there chai ne d. Th e deceased use d 0 stroke it and give it biscuits, and it was never knosO b/ bite any one before •, and although he called the dog; its name, " Lion, Lion," it is supposed that in col l ' o l quence of deceased having fresh clothes on he did 0 1 , know him. The dog held so firmly that one of the o'o men was unable to release his hold, and it was not 11 1 4 e two men choked the animal off that he let go. be deceased was attended by the usual medical adviser of t family, but on Saturday mortification of the right 6 15 (where the bite was) took place, and terminated his lifo' d ANOTHER LOLA MONTES.—Some of our readers I li ; remember that, in the course of last spring, we comma nicated the details of a most romantic passage in the and adventures of a young nobleman lately connected n i this university, who formed a connection with the - ter of an obscure tradesman in this town, who cultil the mystery of St. C r i s pi n , an d was actually on the I°A of leading her to the hymeneal altar, when certain frienj of his lordship rushed do wn f rom L on d on, and arrO just in time to prevent the solemnisation of the marril ceremony. The marriage so l ong con t emp l ated, an d o 5 so suddenly broken off, w as ac t ua ll y so l emn i sed in V.tv don about three weeks ago. It appears that the her o of this romantic history continued to associate with 08 handsome young stockbroker, who had managed to plant his lordship in her affections • and the noble could endure no longer to be baulked and baffled, in point nearest his heart, by a rival so i n fi n it e l y hi s i n feri i in rank and fortune. Hence the rash act, which is 11 ° irretrievable. The plot so deeply contrived, and cond gc l i ted with such consummate skill, h as b een comp lete successful. It is greatly to be feared that a marris l " contracted under the influence of the motives that app, to have operated in this case, will not be a happy one' Cambridge Advertiser. THE STANFIELD-HALL MURDERS.—On Tuesday, . 1$1 ;! Blomfield Rush underwent another examination. At various previous examinations of the prisoner, he evinell throughout Emily Sandford's prese nce , th e most bit and vindictive feeling towards her, as also to the rnae s trates. On this occasion, however, his conduct was 0 1 0 the reverse, and although her testimony was quite nes'. s him, and certainly more conclusive as regarded his f° than he had as yet h ear d, h e om it te d a ll t h at v ijlem, cross-examination!and blasphemous expression which) greatly afflicted his unhappy victi m , an d crea t e d so m ull' indignation amo ngs t th e mag i strates ; i ndeed, his vi` meanour, in this instance, to the poor woman was caltn and friendly as it was boisterous before. Her e 0; mination in chief being closed, he abstained from puttilN any questions to her, and sh e h av i ng d uly s i gned her 0,4,! ditional deposition, was co n v e y e d b ac k to the Wymoo4 / ham Bridewell. Rush's b e h av i our i n the gaol exh ibli almost the same coolness as h e di sp l aye d when first cused of being concerned in perpetrating the murdeP4 He is constantly engaged in wr iti ng , ge t t i ng up hi s on defence, and is frequently visited by his eldest daughter'; a fine, young woman about 18 or 20 years of age. 3 1! Jermy and the maid, Eliza Chestney, are progreo most favourably. As soon as practicable it is the i nters tion to remove Mrs. Jermy to London. DREADFUL STORM AT THE NORTH OF SOOTLAN.' e f crewO n Monda y save. of sa m an morning, forren i d n a g Ay, b , about etrwdoe e vesselsn, two wi t h o ' r c ce l o o aac c l k hs wd t a h t sh e es drivenhc h a o r .b o Mansfield,shore among the rock s a t B ro th erton, totally wrecker,/ of Stonehaven, with a l most h a i r b readth escapes. Au", nine in the morning, the U n i on , of and for Stonehaf;:, from Newcastle, was blown northw ar d, and when, ttl';',4 to get shelter in Aberdeen, when at the entrances 7 e' washed upon the pier and almost i mme di a t ely f e ll to „ side and sunk. The crew were extricated from theirlll rilous situation with difficulty. The sea continued to . 1 1/ to a great height until Tuesday morning, but e re the nigh, the storm again arose with renewed fiercen e s s , an d cont' nue with little abatement. On Wedne s d a y afte r, re j noon, about four o'clock, several vessels were di s cove , in the distance struggling very hard ; one sho we d sign distress, and appeared to be making fo r th e l an d. 1 C.,", hours after, the Isabella of Dundee, with a cargo o f seed, came ashore on the sands. The lifeboat was irne\; diatelyopfutthoe crut, a e n w. d those This coantabstoraorpdhe was fhaesr shortly effect of succeeded" rescue succeeded by another of a similar nature, but attend; with lamentable result s t o some o f t h e crews. The f',; zabeth, of Aberdeen, w ith timber, which now came asho re a good way northward of the Isabella, had lost her or tain, mate, and man. Th ey h a d b een swept off the c er sel befoie she struck the beach. Two boys, who still re' mained on board, were saved by pilots. On Thursday another vessel, the Dahlia, o f N ewcast l e, was also stra w' , alongon our beach ; crew saved. An individual, named a flesher, had ventured to go the north pier, and u"i fortunately a wave came suddenly upon him and saver l him into the sea. Two vessels have been w as h e d as hore r e Peterhead, supposed to be the Katherine of this port a,e o the Hero of Fraserburgh. One of the crew of the IPA a lo n s d t. al ? h n a t n h d e s s d a i m sa e pp d e a a y r , , t o w ir o v ß e u s e se h l a s n w n e e re ss, s a e v t ,,i f crew near Boddam. Several men who happened to be A is a to n s o f a t o i h u d e n r d ) v e e r b s , e sel a brig, is reported to have sunk withb o ' s he p'er w( r swept by! -ive in'o the sea ; some of th e did not appear again.—Edinburgh Post. MATRIMONIAL HOAX.—Not a hundred mies from tb i p "faithful city,"rom romantic ithe village, b ank of whichhe cSevern, formerlyis s situated a b te o d s i of being the residence of one of England's noble race, s ,/ aristocracy ; and in this village is an i ns tit u ti on w h e re V ti , rising generation-receive the rudi men t s o f a popular elgi: cation. A few weeks back, and a ft er t h e to il s o f t he d ad were over, the worthy pr ecep t or o f t hi s school was cu'eji ning over a newspaper, an d saw an advertisement heauj " Matrimony," purporting to come from some fair darD7 in want of a partner to join her in the social h ap piness;, connubial bliss, and requesting some honourable ners°oll age of the masculine gender, bearing the denomination 0 Bachelor," to apply by letter to the address given. i f Cambridge. Our hero having a strong inclination .„/ become a" Benedick," brought his mind to th e sticki n g point, and answered the a d ver ti s men t. A reply ,p soon forwarded, written in a beautiful feminine hatredstating the wish of the wr it er t o en t er i n t o th e mar r h ie state; that she possessed a goo d f or t une an d i nnu mersv o i etceteras, and in conclusion, from the very open styl e oi the correspondence, she felt perfectly satisfied, uponj, interview, everything would be satisfactorily arran!„4 Upon the strength of this commu n i ca tio n , n ew furnit` r " r was bought, a piano, carpets, and, in fact, everything to quisite to add to the comfort of his " bride" that Nc 3s o , be. A sovereign was given to the ringers to hold tbfA i l selves in readiness to give the wedding pair a 11 :0 " merrie welcome" upon their arrival. Leave of abse'; e , was obtained, and, notwithstanding the caution of 5 ,c1 1 spectable friend, of the folly of uniting himself in 5 4 ,; baste to,.the `` beaqif,l4 milravin t ,'; ii hnzalt,d e at b N77, o bridge. He soon found the required house, and speedily introduced to his intended p ar t ner i n lif e , too ai ther with one or two friends of the lady. A few days spent in delightful anticipations of future enjoymenr , ,bl they were eventually married a t h er res id ence , bounu ao l holy vow for better and f or worse . A l e tt er was cep home by our hero, requesting an entertainment to .# prepared for their reception. The evening at last c 3; /, for their arrival, the good things of this life were in Po paration, the ringers stood with bell-ropes in their han.4 all in fact were on the tiptoe of expectation, and listen''i each minute for the rumbling of the wheels of the ve4 i : e as the signal for commencing all manner of festivy t o The evening wore away, the viands were spoiled, and t bli ringers impatient, until all hopes of their arrival night were vanished ; the next evening, and for se've o o others, the same preparation was made, and all to # purpose. Nothing was heard of .the happy pair until ,4, morning a letter arrived, and alas ! instead of the wisi'd for news, a simple request was made that money sb4/,, be forwarded to effect our hero's release, he baying ' O O placed in uncomfortable durance for debt. It s'°o4 sett becoming that the " ladies " finding that his pockets At becoming exhausted, obtained some layman to perso e tts ! , a clergyman, and it is unnecessary further to explaill o r character of the ladies, or the house, the " preceP l ,o had fallen in with ; with ou t d ou bt th e marriage. Fat complete "do." The victi m 's po c ket s w e r e cleaned .0 and by some strange t urn i n F or t une ' s w h ee l h e got I se d. the hands of the d rea d " b um ." H e h as b een rele 3 and has returned home, but without his bride" still he hopes—too confiding man !—that she will 6 ,r/ cheer his solitary dwelling by her " bright presence . Worcester How s Journal. seldom do we feel, perceive, or think of the 5 0 beginnings of disease which surroun. operate * us in our enjoyments and interco - with the world. ~ " The young disease, which must a a due at length, ,„tp, Grows with our growth, and engthens with our straili 0, 1 An improper regimen a g upon.a particular ki ll o4, constitution, late hour- • oth of retiring to rest and riiir in the morning, lay , a foundation of intestinal as wel f il. skin diseases. T. : 1 such we would recommend,, i 4r!l a change of sys , and, secondly, as a powerful assis i dr for the recove of health, that efficacious Family /11 1 cine, Frani on's Pill of Health, which has procure P approba ' = of persons in every station in society. J; TO Tl] Itat Laro, 4 1) r I°o ad 2s. ;ward; knew land From pro ve bri ng] lead h are , The bf 4 , I 4 1 SC S„ t to iqu i k 4