The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-16 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND CeLONIAL•. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA. The royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, Captain Stone, arrived in the Mersey on Saturday evening, at six o'clock, from New York direct, after a run of fourteen days against heavy head easterly winds; bringing from that city intermediate mails to the 29th ultimo and twenty-one passengers. The West India steam-ship Severn arrived at Mobile on the 22nd ultimo, from Vera Cruz, with about £200,000 sterling specie on freight, chiefly for England. Our accounts from New York contain few political details of any interest. The announcement is now con tradicted that a sharp correspondence had passed between our Charge d'Affaires at Washington and the 'United States Secretary, Mr. Blayton, in reference to the Mos quito territary question. There are few new details relative to the French Mi nister's dispute with the American Cabinet : M. Poussin had retired to New York to await instructions from his Government. . The sympathy of the citizens of New York for the de feated Magyars had not declined. An influential com mittee had been appointed to aid any refugees who might arrive ; and subscriptions were being set on foot. A verdict had at length been rendered against the prisoners charged with the riot which occurred some months ago at Astor-house Theatre. The prisoners were found guilty. They would be sentenced on the '29th ult. .The money market exhibited little or no change since the date of our last accounts. Exchanges were unaltered ; but for the Hibernia mo derate business was transacted at steady rates, 1091 to 1091 and 110 for sterling. Good bills could be had, how ever, at lower rates. In freights there was rather more produce offering, but the rates were still very low. Some 30,000 to 40,000 bushels of corn had been taken at half profits freight, and some flour on the same terms ; cotton 75 cents. ; dead weight, 105. to 155. ; 2,000 boxes cheese at 15s. Telegraphic accounts from New Orleans, to the 27th ultimo, published in the New York journals, report that the advices in regard to the growing crops continued very unfavourable; and that, ' according to persons ca pable of judging, the crop would be very short." In the cotton market holders were firm, and did not offer freely. The accounts unfortunately confirm to the fullest ex tent the serious injury to the growing crop of cotton. an evil alike prejudicial to the United States and Great Bri tain, and pregnant of great hazard to the importers of the coming crop. The state of the weather in the cotton growing districts will for the next two months be ob served with more than usual attention, as upon it depends the welfare of a large mass of our labouring poulation. ROME. Letters received from Rome spew that the French Go vernment has lost all hope of getting better terms from the Pope in favour of the Romans who in any way held office under the Republican Government. These letters state that the deputies of the Roman Assembly who had remained in Rome since the dissolution of that body, quitted that capital on the 30th, to the number of sixty. They were accompanied for a considerable way beyond the walls of the city by a crowd of the people, who cried out from time to time, " Long live our deputies ; we shall never forget them !" This demonstration made a great impression as well on the Government as on the French garrison. The deputies have embarked at Civita Vecchia, some of them going to Marseilles and others to Toulon, but the greater number going to Genoa. Eighteen have already arrived at Marseilles. Several French soldiers have been assassinated in the public streets at Rome, in consequence of which General Rostolan has issued a decree demanding the delivering up of all kinds of arms within tweaty-four hours, and inti mating that all persons in whose houses such weapons should be found hereafter should be tried before a council of war. The Pope has caused a medal to be struck, for distribu tion among the troops who assisted in his restoration. How far it will be regarded by them as a decoration re mains to be seen. The accounts from Germany state that the affairs of Schleswig Holstein are still in a most embarrassed position; the people of the duchy refusing to pay the taxes to other than the German authorities. The Russian question will be amicably adjusted, and Austria will not go to extremities. Reports of the execu tion of the Hungarian generals at Aara are confirmed. Comorn is completely in the hands of Austria. 18,000 Hungarians were sent home on the 4th. Count Louis Bathyany, and thirteen other Hungarian generals, have been sentenced to be hung. WARSAW GOSSIP.-Tt is said that the honours con ferred upon the Prince Field-Marshal by the Czar, have created great dissatisfaction and jealousy, especially in the guards and imperial family. Since, independently of his requiring the former to pay the same honours to Prince Paskiewitch, with standards, &c., they pay to the Czar, all members of the imperial house are obliged to stand in the marshal's presence. Indeed, it is reported generally at Warsaw that this subject led to the attack which car ried off the Grand Duke Michael. His imperial highness, it is stated, presented himself to the Czar so soon as the order was issued, remonstrated warmly, and declared that be would never submit to rise or to pay the required com pliments. A hot discussion is said to have ensued, which so much affected and irritated the grand duke that he was attacked on parade in the manner known to all.—John Bull. The Jesuits have been restored at Naples, by the King, at the urgent request of the Cardinal-Archbishop of Na ples. . _ VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.—The prospect of this colony is gloomy. The convicts have driven the capitalists out of the islands. Trade is much injured by the excessive taxation on the produce imported from the neighbouring colonies. The oldest man in France, M. Jean Baptiste Robil lard, died on the Ist of October at Fontenay, near Paris, .at the age of 113 years 4 months and 2 days. He was born in June, 1736, liobillard retained the use of all his faculties to the last moment. FANATICISM.—The feast " the Holy Rosary," ori ginally instituted by Pius V., in commemoration of a victory over the "Infidels" at Lepanto, in 1571, with which subsequent commemorations of victories in the wars between the Christians and Turks are associated, was celebrated this year in the Church of Notre Dame des Vietoires, at Paris, with extraordinary solemnity, in honour of the recent triumphs of " the Catholic arms." Mdlle. Lind has, at length, quitted the Rhineland, for Stockholm, where it is her intention to pass the winter. Mr. Lumley recently appeared at Ems, with a view to in ducing her to engage herself to his theatre for the next season ; but Mdlle. Lind declined all proposals made by the London manager. Judging by the past, we should be justified in deducing from these rumours the certain assurance of the lady's reappearance in the Haymarket. DESTRUCTION OF `MOUNTAIN BRIDGE.—The Vedette des Alpes states that, on the night of the Ist of October, during a violent gale of wind, preceded by a thunder storm, the suspension bridge of Savines, in the Hautes- Alpes, was carried away. This deplorable event has plunged the inhabitants of the district into conste rna tio n . The accident is attributed to the force of the wind, although some think that the lightning affected the cast iron work of the bridge. MRS. BUTLER'S CASE. --The long-vexed question of divorce between Pierce Butler and his wife Frances Ann (Fanny Kemble) Butler is at length settled. By the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, on the 22d day of September, 1849, the court ordered, adjudged, and decreed, that " the said Pierce Butler, the libellant, be divorced and separated from the bond of matrimony contracted with the said Frances Ann Butler, the respondent; and with all and every the duties, rights, and claims accruing to either of the said parties by reason of the said marriage shall henceforth cease and determine, and the said parties he severally at liberty to marry again, in like manner as if they never had been married." The above is understood to be the result of an amicable arrangement, and it is said that Mr. Butler is to allow his divorced lady 1,500 dollars a year, and the children ere to pass a part of their time with their mother. AN UNREASONABLE LODGER.—" A few days ago," says a contemporary, " M. —, one of the most promi nent Socialists of the Mountain, arrived in Paris to resume his seat in the National Assembly, and enraged a lodging in a furnished hotel. On giving his name to the mistress of the hotel, he said, ` Je suis un representant—rouge, tout ce qu'il y a de plus rouge ; ' to which no reply was made. He took possession of his apartment, and on the folio wing morning, as he was leaving his bedroom, a gen tleman, who lodges on the same floor, was also leaving his room, humming the air of a song which is not in the repertory of the Socialists. M. --- was much annoyed, • and instantly went to the mistress of the hotel to com plain of a reactionist being on the same floor with him, and to demand that she should instantly give him notice to quit, M. declaring that he would not permit the reactionist to sleep two nights longer under the same roof • with himself. The mistress of the hotel replied, that the gentleman in question had lodged with her two years and a half, and that she could not think of turning away a lodger of nearly three years' standing for one of yesterday. She added, ` And, permit me to say, Monsieur, that for a Socialist chief you give me a very poor idea of your social feelings and your fraternity.' "—Galignani, A MUSICAL MURDERER.—The Journal de l' Indre et Loire, of the 7th instant, reports a most extraordinary case of attempted assassination. M. Creton, bandmaster of the Ist Lancers, had resided for four years at Tours, and left there many honourable recollections. On the 2d instant a man named Chivallon, remarkable in the de partment of the Indre et Loire for his talent as a player on the cornet-a-piston, presented himself very politely to our friend Creton and showced him a quintett of his own composition, inquiring whether it could be performed by his band. M. Creton replied, that he had only to distri bute the parts, and that when they were ready it should be tried. At nine o'clock at night the fellow Chivallon re-appeared at M. Creton's door, on the opening of which he rushed in, presented a pistol, and said (still very po litely), "M. Creton, you are a dead man !" He then fired a pistol, the ball of which was found in M. Creton's shirt, its further course having been stopped by a girdle which he wore. He was, nevertheless, wounded in the hand. M. Creton's first impulse was to rise and throttle the murderer; but the latter remarked, with great sang froid, " It is useless, M. Creton ; it is too late; you are , a dead man !" M. Creton, however, felt sufficient vital energy to continue the operation of , strangling, and he would certainly have anticipated the work of Jack Ketch had not a policeman arrived in time. The ruffian was forthwith placed in confinement, and awaits the sentence of the law. This strange scene was enacted at Ram bouillet. CONTEMPLATED RAILROAD BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS.---By the last advices from Americs it appears that two great conventions are to be held this month in the valley of the Mississippi for the purpose of oromotinß a line of railroad between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. One of the meetings is to be held at St. Louis, the other at Memphis, each with the view of advocating its claim to be the head quarters of this gigantic conception ; the route from St. Louis is advocated by the northern interest. while that which is proposed to commence at Memphis is represented by the middle and south-eastern portion of the Union. Memphis is one of the many towns which have sprung up, mushroom like, in the United States. A few years ago it was scarcely known ; now it numbers 12,000 inhabitants, and is daily increasing in magnitude. It stands on the east bank of the Mississippi River, about 750 miles above New Orleans. It is close to the boundary line which divides the States Mississippi and Tennessee. Steam-packets of the largest class ply regularly between it and New Orleans ; and its great advantage over St. Louis is said to be, that the river is navigable at all seasons for the largest steamers of the western waters as high as Memphis, while the navigation up to St. Louis is interrupted in summer by the want of sufficient water, and not unfrequently in the winter months the river is closed with ice as low down as the Ohio. MAGNIFICENCE OF THE TRINITY CONVENT IN Rus- Sl.A.—This convent is important on account of its wealth, and famous from the historical recollections connected with it. It was in the beginning of the seventeenth cen tury the centre of the Russian opposition against the usurpation of the Poles, who vainly endeavoured to reduce it by force of arms and bribery. It suffered another siege in 1615 ; and the peace of 1619, which for a time ended the feuds of the rival nations, was signed within the walls of Troitza Lawra. Here, too, the Czars Ivan and Peter sought and found safety in 1685, when their lives were threatened by an insurrection of Russian praetorians, the Strelitzi. Peter was four years later again compelled to fly to this sanctuary, and it was from thence he defeated the intrigues and broke the power of his sister Sophia. The convent escaped the French inva sion of 1812. The army of Napoleon surrounded it, hut not a single French soldier entered the sacred walls. The Russians are fond of alluding to this circumstance, which, according to their belief, was brought about by special interposition of Providence. It is to be presumed the French geiierals had no idea of the immense wealth which lies hidd 61 within the old walls. The convent is a vast building, almost a little town in itself, with above seventy cupolas and steeples, most of them richly gilt. It com prises a palace for the emperor, and another for the arch bishop, nine churches, a bazaar, and other buildings,—the whole surrounded by a thick wall, 50 feet high. The principal steeple of the palace is 250 feet high. It con tains thirty-five bells, one of them of fourteen hundred weight. The Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Mary (Irpenski Kathedrale) is said to be one of the finest churches in Russia ; but the Trinity Church (Troitza,) after which the convent is named, is thought more respect able. In it there is the tomb of St. Sergius, famed for the profusion of gold and silver jewels with which it is orna mented. The frame-work of the canopy over it is of pure silver, and weighs 12 cwt. But this is nothing com pared to the wealth collected in what is called the " trea sury of the convent," consisting of clerical dresses, orna ments, sacred vessels of astonishing value, and remarkable for their workmanship. The value of precious metals and jewels in this treasury is computed to amount to above, fifty million pounds sterling. The episcopal dresses, altar cloths, and palls are literally covered with pearls. It is almost impossible to count the number of pearls in the picture frames and dresses in Troitza. Many pictures have broad frames of pearls and precious stones. In Troitka alone there is said to be a greater quantity of pearls than in all the rest of Europe ; and as the riches of this convent have in cases of need been offered to the Rus sian czars, it is to Troitza the present emperor would turn if Mr. Cobden's naive proposition of " stopping the sup plies" to Russia, were, for a marvel, adopted by the money broker.—Frazer's Magazine. MODERN POPERY.—An awful piece of tomfoolery was performed in Naples on the 19th ult. It was the annual ceremony of what is called the liquefaction of the blood of Saint Januarius, the patron saint of the Neapolitans. You are aware that the principal church has for centuries possessed a big bottle half full of black dingy substance, which is represented to be the blood of the saint; and once a year this bottle is brought out for the adoration of the faithful ; some prayers are muttered, and a lot of mummery is gone through ; after which the bottle is publicly shown, and the substance therein proved to be hard and dry : then come more prayers and more mum mery, and lo ! the blood all at once becomes liquid. " A miracle ! a miracle !" is the cry ; and the poor, ig norant, wretched people, squatted on their knees on the cold stones, are gravely taught to believe that this prezious miracle confers some inestimable advantage on them personally, and on the nation at large. The repe tition of the solemn imposture yesterday was on a grander scale than usual ; eight cardinals, and I know not how many bishops, were present. After the usual singing, bowing, walking, and other theatrical performances, the famous bottle, with the famous blood, was produced ; hard as a rock seemed the latter, and almost as black as coal—a nasty mess to look at, by the way. Hey presto ! hocus pocus ! behold ! the blood is flowing down the sides of the bottle, and is quite red ! The miracle is done ! Mr. Anderson himself, great wizard of the north though he be, could not have conjured more cleverly. The Pope was to have been present, but by some mistake did not arrive in time. As, however, it was deemed prudent not to wait, the trick was got through without him. But to make up for this he had a special liquefaction all for him self, which was represented to the people as a special miracle. How this liquefaction business is effected lam not chemist enough to explain; but it is supposed that the priest who exposes the bottle drops through the stop per some chymical substance which has the effect of melting a few drops of the coagulated blood. Be this as it may, I am bound to confess that the thing is very cleverly managed, and really does great credit to the skill of the Popish clergy in concocting and executing impos tures. I will not waste your time by moralising on the infamy of prelates,' cardinals, aye, and even the Pope himself, sanctioning by their presence such a scandalous piece of humbug. Whilst the thing was on I looked hard at the cardinals, expecting to see them laugh like Roman augers when they met in private; but to my surprise the good fellows played their parts so admirably as to remain perfectly serious. Apropos of the blood of St. Januarius, it is related that, when the French were here in Napo leon's time, the priests, with the view of incensing the people against them, prevented the liquefaction from tak ing place. The bottle was brought out—the usual mum meries done, but the blood would not dissolve. "It is by the express interposition of heaven, to mark its wrath at French domination !" said the priests : and the people believed them. Bnt this suited not the French general in command at Naples. He sent down his aide-de-camp to the holy men. " What !" said the officer with an oath, and so the miracle can't take place this year ?" " The holy saint so wills it !" answered the priests, making the sign of the cross. " Pooh, pooh ! Be reasonable, now — let's have the miracle !" " The blasphemer !" ejaculated the priests. " Satan avaunt !" and they sprinkled the place with holy water. " What ! are you really decided net to let us have the miracle ?" " Impossible !" " Well, then, my dear reverend fathers, I just give you formal notice that if the blood be not liquified to-morrow morn ing, before nine o'clock, the general swears he will come down and liquefy it himself !" Miraculous to relate, the blood became liquid before the appointed time. I am bound, however, to state that this liquefaction, in obedi ence to the French, brought a good deal of discredit on poor St. Januarius. The people believed that he had be come Jacobin in politics, and accordingly transferred their reverence and prayers to St. Antoine, or St. Somebody else ; and it was a long time before the unlucky Jan got into favour again.—Britannia. FLOGGING OF A LADY. Vienna, Oct. 5. Tite Wanderer vouches for the authenticity of the fol lowing letter : "Ruskberg, Sep. 18. " I will narrate to you the fate of my family with calmness and composure, for my heart is become stone. In our neighbourhood an army of Hungarians surrendered, 10,000 men with 40 cannon. Two days later the Austrian troops entered our town. They consisted of a detachment of Lich tenstein light horse, commanded by Captain —, a native of Ruskberk. It is possible that the great domestic happiness which I enjoyed may have stirred envy and gained me enemies in Ruskberg. but of no other crime am I guilty. Two families, low and coarsely bred, and —, set this captain on this horrible crime. I was torn from the arms of my husband, from the circle of my children, from the hallowed sanctuary of my home, charged with no offence, allowed no hearing, ar raigned before no judge. I, a woman, wife, and mother, was, in my own native town, before the people accustomed to treat me with respect, dragged into a square of soldiers, and there scourged with rods. Look, I can write this without dropping dead. But my husband killed himself. Robbed of all other weapons he shot himself with a pocket pistol. A cry of horror filled the air. I was dragged further to Karansebes. "The people rose, and would have killed those who insti gated these horrors ' • but their lives were saved by the inter ference of the military. My eldest son was taken prisoner with the army of Georgey, and sent as a common soldier into Italy ' • and so is the measure of my . grief full. Can you pic ture to yourself the state of my mind? You knew not my husband. I tell you that no nobler, more elevated, more adorable character does or ever will exist. The productions of his intellect are known. He was the inventor of iron bridges. In him the world has sustained a great loss. My misfOrtune is boundless, and unexampled are the tortures which I have endured. My grief will be eternal. You will perceive that I can dwell on nothing but my sorrow. One only wish still animates me—to liberate my son. They have transported him to Gratz. If you have friends there, think of my poor boy of eighteen. F. VON MADERSBACH." Madame de Madersbach is the relict of .a member of the firm of Hofman and Madersbach, the proprietors of some large ironworks. KOSSUTH'S LETTER TO LORD PALMERSTON, The ex-chief of the Hungarian republic has addressed a long end eloquent letter to Lord Palmerston, dated Wid din, Turkey, Sept. 2. Kossuth refers in moving terms to the fail of his country. After describing the hospitable way in which himself and fellow refugees were treated by the Turks, he gives a narrative of the extraordinary at tempt made to coerce the exiles into abjuration of the Christian faith : " A fresh letter from his Majesty the Czar arrived in Constantinople, and its consequence was the suggestion sent to us by an express messenger of the Turkish go vernment, that the Poles and Hungarians, and in parti cular myself, Count Casimir Bathiany, minister of foreign affairs of Hungary under my government, and the Gene rals Messaros and Perczel, (all here,) would be surren dered unless we chose to abjure the faith of our forefathers in the religion of Christ, and become Mussulmans. And thus five thousand Christians are placed in the terrible alternative either of facing the scaffold, or of nurehasing their lives by abandoning their faith. So low is already fallen the once mighty Turkey, that she can devise no other means to answer or evade the demands of Russia. " Words fail me to qualify these astonishing su-c7e&tions, such as never have been made yet to the . fallen c - 'l,i.-ff of a generous nation, and could hardly have been expected in the I9th century. " My answer does not admit of hesitation. Bo.tween death and shame the choice can be neither dubious nor difficult. Governor of Hungary, and elected to that high place by the confidence of fifteen millions of my country mep, 1 know well what I owe to the honour of my country even in exile. Even as a private individual 1 have an honourable path to pursue. Once governor of a generdus country—l leave no heritage to my children—they shall, at least, bear an unsullied name. God's will be done. I am prepared to die, but as 1 think this measure dis honourable and injurious to Turkey, whose interests I sincerely have at heart, and as 1 feel it a duty to save my companions in exile, if I can, from a degrading alternative, I have replied to the Grand Vizier in a conciliatory man ner, and took also the liberty to apply to Sir Stratford Canning.and General Aupick for their generous aid against this tyrannic act. * * * * * " I am informed that the whole matter is a cabal against the Ministry of Redschin Pasha, whose enemies would wish to force him to our extradition, in order to lower it in public estimation, and render impossible its continuance in office. It is certain that in the Grand Council held on the 9th and 10th of September, after a tumultuous debate, the majority of the council declared in favour of our extradition, the majority of the ministry against it. No decision was come to, in consequence of the altercation which took place—but, notwithstanding, the Ministry thought fit to make us the revolting sugges tion I have named." These are noble expressions of personal resolve, while the narrative is thrilling to the last degree. We trust that immediate means will be taken to end a state of things disgraceful to the age, and which ought to arouse and shock l the Christian powers of Europe. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. IRELAND. There are no less than eight candidates for the city of Cork. The Dublin Post denies on authority a statement in reference to a contemplated new University in Dublin. Lord Desart has made a reduction of 25 per cent. to his Irish tenants. Two convicts have escaped from Strike Island by climb ing over several walls and crossing over in a boat without oars to Ringas-Kerry. A cocoa-nut tree was drifted ashore a few days ago on the island of Valentia, near Kerry—another proof that the Gulf Stream, after running along the coast of America, sets across the Atlantic. The Marquis of Waterford has paid the full amount of the rate-in-aid for his tenantry, without making any de duction from them, although not one of his tenants received either in-door or out-door relief. The extensive estates of the Marquis of Sligo, in the west of Ireland, which are mortgaged to one of the prin cipal insurance companies of London, will come under the operation of the new act for the transfer of encumbered properties, at the first sitting of the commissioners, the encumbrancers having made arrangements for asking power to discharge the encumbrances by sale. WHAT THE QUEEN HAS DONE AND WILL Do.—" We," says the Irishman, opposed the Queen's visit. She has done nothing for us, and will do less!" This calculation appears to have been made on the same principle that Sir Boyle Roche accounted for the prosperity of the Dub lin fishmongers, who " went down to Ringsend when the boats came in—bought the fish for half nothing, and sold them for twice as much !" O'CONNELL POPULARITY.—Mr. John O'Connell ap plied to the Lord Mayor to take the chair at the re-inau guration of the old pest-house on Monday last, but Sir Timothy, not having the fear of the late Liberator before his eyes, and not choosing to play second fiddle to such small deer as Mr. John, not only refused the soft invita tion, but did so in terms which preclude the likelihood of a second application from the same quarter. There has been an extraordinary manifestation and commotion amongst the Roman Catholics of Nenagh, in consequence of the Bishop, Dr. Kennedy, having ap pointed Mr. Kenny to the parish, instead of Mr. Power, who had been curate for twenty years. The people nailed and barricaded the gates and doors of the chapel, and set the Bishop and his nominee at defiance. This state of things had lasted for about a week when we last heard from Nenagh, and at that time neither party seemed in clined to give in, the people pertinaciously maintaining possession of the chapel, and the Bishop as pertinaciously endeavouring to force Mr. Kenny upon them. A sect of Ranters could not exhibit a more remarkable specimen of disunion and contempt of authority than is to be witnes sed in the Church of Rome at Nenagh, with its boasted perfection of discipline obedience. DISMISSAL OF LORD RODEN.—LORD CLARENDON'S LETTER.—The phraseology of the letter is remarkable. By no slip of pen or memory does it happen throughout the entire letter that the body who walked in procession are called " Protestants," the " Protestant party," or any otherwise than " the Orange party." A designation which slander has not been spared to render odious, which is not applicable here either, because it is in proof that many of those who attended the procession were not Orangemen, and never had been so ; but which, at the same time. we are far from objecting to, inasmuch as every good Protestant, whether initiated or not, is, of ne cessity, an Orangeman in spirit. But we do object to the Lord Lieutenant's description of the assassins who way laid the loyal Protestants with intent to,murder them. It is not that he avoids calling them by their proper name. That was not to have been expected. He does not even venture to call them as they are styled in their own jour nals " the Ribbon party"—nay. he shrinks from styling them even as the " Roman Catholic" party. His Excel lency blandly terms them the " Catholic" party. When his Excellency, therefore, prays for " the holy Catholic Church," it seems, lie prays for the Church of the Pope and cardinals of Rome, as contradistinguished from that pure and scriptural Church of which he is himself an un worthy member. It is not enough that the Queen's commission is placed at the disposal of the priests—must the Queen's English, too, be mauled and abused to gra tify their bigotted pretensions ? But he abuses language to other purposes. With a small cunning, which he no doubt thinks vastly clever, and which will render the substantial injustice of the proceeding still more odious, he labours to reduce by a systematic petitio principii, the loyal Orangemen and the assassins who conspired to murder them in cold blood, to a moral and legal level. They are studiously placed in the same category as " these armed bodies," and " bodies dangerous to the public peace"—a tendency attributed by his Excellency to the Orange procession, not only without evidence to support it, but in the very teeth of the evidence actually taken be fore the magistrates, and as his Excellency conveys, care fully perused and considered by himself. The Lord Lieutenant, too, persists in calling the line of road by Dolly's Brae, " the disputed road," a phrase intended like others employed in this statesmanlike performance, to reduce the Orangemen and the Ribbonmen to the same level. Now the Orangemen " disputed" nothing; they simply asserted their undoubted right to walk upon the Queen's highway. They asserted precisely the same right which Lord Clarendon exercised, when in the acme of his unpopularity, surrounded by his plumed staff, and followed by his dragoons, he rode into the Phoenix Park to celebrate an English victory, upon the very day on which he transported John Mitchell. Had a mob of in sulted Dublin clubbists, led by Messrs. Duffy, M`Gee, Ryan Puck, &c., and comforted by Fathers Kenyon and Laffan, occupied the passage from the viceregal grounds into the Park, it would have been in precisely the same sense " the disputed road ;" and conscientious Mr. Ber wick must have pronounced his Excellency's gaudier cor tege upon precisely the same principle " an unlawful procession," have placed him and his companions upon precisely the same legal footing as the aforesaid Duffy, M'Gee, and Ryan Puck, and demanded informations (notwithstanding the evidence) against the gentlemen who took part at the " English" side and against the " Catho lic party" in a demonstration so perilous to the public peace. Nay, the upright Mr. Berwick must have done more. The attempt to assassinate his Excellency having failed, and the " Catholic party" having been dispersed by the dragoons, he must have protected the aforemen tioned priests, Laffan and Kenyon, when pressed to iden tify the rifle clubmen, with whom they had associated themselves, against so unreasonable an invasion of the priestly prerogative. He must have said, " under all the circumstances, I would strongly urge your not pressing the rev. gentlemen, who were there, of course, in their clerical capacity, for an answer to such a question."— Dublin Herald. WHIG SYMPATHY WITH RIBBONISM.-DIS MISSAL OF PROTESTANT MAGISTRATES. Lord Roden stands dismissed from the magistracy, and I Protestant protective associations are declared illegal— hostile to the spirit of the age, to the constitution, and all that kind of thing. The Messrs. Beers 'are also deprived of the commission of the peace ; and, in short, the Go vernment has poured out the full phial of its wrath upon the recognised parties indirectly connected with the pro cession of Orangemen, which fairly fought its way through the pass of Dolly's Brae. The report of Mr. Berwick to the Lord-Lieutenant has been made the groundwork for this extreme proceeding, which is intended to propitiate the Papists of Ireland, and inflict tiwound upon Protes tant feeling for some Whig purpose r .not beyond compre hension—but far as ever out of the - reach of that party — popularity. The murderers of Dolly's Brae have thus obtained a triumph, and Lord Roden, who has held the commission of the peace for forty years, has been insulted. We have referred in another place to the letter from the Lord-Lieutenant containing Lord Roden's supersedeas but we may say here that, as if to confound all Lord Cla rendon's insinuations, and to blast his suggestive logic, the game of the Rihbonmen has been again played before the magistrates at Castlewellan. and that in the absence of Lord Roden and the other obnoxious magistrates, and see what is the result. A second hearing of the case came on on Tuesday, and the little town presented an ani mated appearance from the influx of the gentry belonging to the surrounding districts. There was not, however, what might he termed excitement manifested. During the day it gradually became known that Lord Roden and the Messrs. Beers had been dismissed from the magis tracy. The intelligence produced a deep sensation throughout the whole community ; and on all sides no thing was beard hut expressions of regret and astonish ment. Mr. 'William Beers came into the town during the day ; and if Lord Clarendon could have seen the manner in which he was surrounded and greeted by all present, his excellency would have perceived that the blow he aimed has fallen innocuously on his intended victims, and that he has roused a spirit in the province of Ulster that will probably prove fatal to the reign of the " base, bru tal, and b—y Whigs." " What next ?" cried one ve nerable gentleman ; " I think they would dismiss her Majesty if they could." Among the magistrates present (eighteen in number) were George Shaw, Esq. (chairman), the Marquis of Downshire, W. Blackwood Price, Esq., Major Nugent, &c. &c. After the evidence had been heard in support of the application which was to grant in formations against several Orangemen, the Chairman said the magistrates had agreed, with only one dissentient voice (that of Capt. Skinner) to i efuse the informations.— Capt. Skinner: As the name has been given, I wish to mention my reason for disagreeing with my brother ma gistrates. It is that, from my experience and from what I have seen, I wish all these things put down.—Chair man: From Capt. Skinner's explanation it might be in ferred that the rest of the magistrates are anxious to keep up these things ; but I believe they are all, without ex ception, desirous that they should be put down (hear.) — Thus terminated this essentially " frivolous and vexatious" proceeding. After the case was concluded, the majority of the magistrates, and a large number of gentlemen, pro ceeded in a body to Tollymore Park, to pay their respects to Lord Roden. Surely. after this, it will not be said that Lord Roden has acted from party motives. He has evidently been guided throughout by nothing but a stern sense of duty ; and it is clear that no other decision than that which his lordship pronounced could have been impartially arrived at, or, on this second inquiry, the magistrates, whom no one will dare to charge with factious motives, would cer tainly have arrived at a different conclusion. The following letter, written with that becom ing forbearance which always characterises Lord Roden's words and deeds, has been addressed to the Lord Chan cellor : " Tollymore-park, Oct. 8, 1849. "MY Loan,—l had the honour of receiving your letter yes terday, informing me that, in consequence of the recommenda tion of the government, your lordship had directed a warrant to be prepared for superseding me in the commission of the peace for the counties of Down and Louth. I cannot help thanking your lordship for the kind and courteous manner in which you have communicated to me what I must consider a severe sentence, but to which I respectfully bow as a right vested in her Majesty's government, to remove from the ma gisterial office any individual—although their services therein may be as long as mine have been, for a period of nearly forty years. " I have also received, through your lordship, a letter ad dressed to you by Secretary Sir Thomas Itedington, detailing the reasons for the proceedings in question, and resting them on the report of the government commissioner, Mr. Berwick. " I shall not now detain your lordship at any lergth by re ferring to the parts of that document communicated to your lordship in Sir Thomas Redington's letter. There will proba bly be a future opportunity afforded me of doing so, and of proving that I was in the strict performance of my duty, when acting as a magistrate, on the 9th of September; and that I had no reason to consider myself as being 'pubiicly arraigned,' though I felt that I had been grosßly, maligned. Nor can I admit that I was implicated in abetting the proceedings of an unlawful assembly.' Having the honour of holding her Ma jesty's commission of the peace, I felt bound in justice to re fuse taking informations against a large body of loyal men, charged with the offence of being engaged in an' unlawful as sembly,' the illegality of which there was no evidence to prove; but, on the contrary, the witness, Mr. Hill, brought forward by the crown solicitor, proving the reverse: it also appearing that the procession was sanctioned by the pres'nce of her %la jesty's troops, the county police, and stipendiary magistrates. It was natural, under these circumstances, for me to conclude that had such a meeting or procession been unlawful, the go vernment would have instructed their officers to have dispersed it, more especially when they had sufficient force en the spot, if necessary, to carry their instructions into execution. " I regret to find that, in the reirrt of the commissioner, I am charged with not using my utmost endeavours to keep the peace, inasmuch as I did not, when addressing the people at Tollymore Park, request them to go home by a different road from that by which they had come. I respecttully submit that it would have been more ingenuous of the learned commis sioner, had he stated the reasons given in evidence, why I did not press this point on the people; and had he quoted from the evidence, the advice I did give them, part of which was—' to take evil rather than provoke it—to let nothing induce them, on returning to their homes, to resent even any insult which they might receive.' He might also have added with truth, that my advice was most scrupulously attended to by the Orangemen until they were barbarously attacked and fired at from behind walls and houses by Ribbon conspirators, who had, during the day, been lying in wait for their prey, whilst, on the hills around, great bodies of armed men were collected from distant parts of the country, to effect a murderous attack upon the Protestants of the district, had the Ribbonmen as sembled at Magheramayo succeeded in their object, which,un der God's blessing, the bravery of the police and the deter mined courage of those of the Orange party attacked were, as apears is the evidence, the means of averting. " I beg your lordship's pardon for referring to these circum stances—l have done so only with a desire to obtain a just and fair consideration of my conduct in this unhappy transaction. I have no will to remain any longer in the commission of the peace, if my doing so were not considered by all classes of my .-ountrymen as beneficial to the community at large. I shall rest satisfied with the conviction that, however painful to my feelings the course adopted by the government must be, yet that, in the whole of my public career in this country, I have upheld her Majesty's authority in this part of her em-'ire; I have endeavoured to act justly, without favour or affection to any particular denomination. And, in conclusion, I trust your lordship will forgive me for saying, that it is a great consola tion still left me, that the last act of my magisterial life was the conscientious refusal to take informations against forty two loyal men charged with an act not proved to be illegal by the evidence brought before the bench. " I have the honour to be, my lord, with great respect, your lordship's faithful servant, "To the Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor." " RODEN. The opinion of the Irish people is universally opposed to this shameful stretch of authority. The Dublin Mail says,—" The object of this display of authority is palpa ble. Tt is hoped that the public indignation may be thereby turned aside from the parties who are really chargeable with the outrages and bloodshed which were permitted on the 12th of July at Dolly's Brae. But that shift won't do. Until Lord Clarendon or his people can show that they had not sufficient notice of the intentions of the aggressive faction on that day, or that they bad not a sufficient force present to prevent a breach of the peace, let them not hope to walk away scathless through this mean attempt to transfer the blame to other men's shoulders." The Cork Constitution pertinently remarks that "the aet may be arbitrary, but it is consistent :—yes, consistent, What more consistent than that when rebels are ' indem nified' in Canada, loyalists should be discountenanced in Ireland ? or than that a policy which, according to the confession of the Times, is producing discontent in the colonies should be alienating in Ireland the affections of the men on whom England once relied for her reten tion." .COURT AND FASHION. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived at Buckingham Palace on Friday. The youthful royal family are still at Osborne. On Saturday her Majesty and the Royal Family left Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle. The Queen has given an excellent site in the parish of Balmoral for the erection of a Free Church. Lieut-Colonel the Hon. Charles B eaumont Phipps, equerry to Her Majesty, and who officiated as private secretary to Prince Albert, under the late Mr. Anson, will discharge the duties for the present of that gentleman filithe Prince's household. LAW INTELLIGENCE. TIIE NEW LAW OF BANKRUPTCY.—On Friday, the new act (12 and 13 Victoria, cap. 106,) to amend and con solidate the laws relating to bankrupts, came into force. Fiats are now abolished, and proceedings in bankruptcy are to be commenced by " petition." Instead of £3O in fees at the commencement of a case, £lO is to be paid in stamp duty. Henceforth no trader can pass on his own petition, unless he has a clear estate of ss. in the pound for his creditors. There are some stringent provisions as to the conduct of traders both before and after their bank ruptcy. Nine offences are specially set forth, such as con cealing and altering books, making away with property, vexatiously incurring law expenses, or emitting to keep proper accounts. An appeal is given to one of the Vice- Chancellors in all matters of bankruptcy, especially with reference to the allowance, suspension, or refusal of a certificate. There are also provisions for arrangements of a private character, under deeds, and the majority of cre ditors are to bind the minority. The new rules to regulate the practice of the courts are expected to be shortly issued. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. -3 , --- COLONIAL POLICY.—If the connection of the colonies with Great Britain is to be made a mere matter of time and convenience as to when it shall end, or how, then it is of little use in hoping much, or thinking deeply, upon what may be pregnant with such vast consequences to England's race in America, and even America's own race in it. A time, it would seem, which has taught Britons to know what their institutions are worth must cost them in America these institutions. A time which has exhibited, during the principal settlement of the Canadas, the fall alike of the political enthusiast and the fortress of the despot in Europe, must cost, it seems, the colonies of that Government which bore freedom aloft through the wild storm. England has stood upon a rock, and after pointing out to her colonies the wreck of human institutions, she is about to push them off to share the fate she has taught them so much to dread. If England has the heart to do it, it must be done. Three millions of people will cease to say " God save the Queen !" The sun will set upon her empire. Full many an honest tear will be shed at hearing that it must. Full many a heart will be torn from what it would but too gladly die for. But the days of chivalry are gone; the days of memory are fled. The selfish, mercenary nineteenth century will be marked with the loss of the best jewel in Britain's crown.—Blackwood's Magazine. MR. WISRAELI AT CASTLE HEDINGHAM.—The an nual meeting of the Agricultural Club for the Hundred of Ilinchford, in North Essex, was held on Friday, at Castle Eledingham, a small village about nine miles from Brain tree, on which occasion Mr. D'lsraeli, who happened to be on a visit to Sir John Tyrell, attended the gathering, and in a very lengthened speech entered into a compre hensive expositions of his views on political affairs. The Hon. Member stated that he was for practical measures and immediate exertions. He contended for an equitable ' adjustment of the burdens peculiar to rating property, and explained to the meeting that by the unequal system which at present obtained, the real property of England had been pillaged since the peace to the amount of nine millions a-year. He did not look for the repeal of the malt tax or any other peculiar tax pressing on the agri cultural body as a comprehensive remedial measure; but that which he deemed to be by far the most politic and most advantageous for the country was, a reduction of the national debt. In 23 years of war we had increased that debt 630 millions ; while in 36 years of peace we had re duced it only one-eighth. The Hon. Member insisted that a sinking fund ought to be established, for this among other reasons, that if adopted it would force on a re construction of the financial resources of the country on a rational and national principle. He said—" My opinion is this—the case is urgent—Parliament ought scarcely to be a week assembled without all England praying for the institution of a sinking fund ; and my opinion is, that the best and most practical—many as are the suggestions that have been made to me—many as are the means that have occurred to myself—my opinion is, that the best and most practical way of obtaining it is, to lay an ad valorem duty on all articles of foreign import whatsoever." He re minded the meeting in conclusion, that in Buckingham shire a society had been formed for the relief of real pro perty, and he called upon the men of Essex to follow the example, and petition Parliament " to cease tampering with the fiscal fortunes of England, which has been so long indulged in." The hon. member for Bucks was listened to with marked attention, and many of his obser vations were responded to by the vociferous cheers of the meeting. Upwards of 200 persons were present. Ashurst Magendie, Esq., president of the club, took the chair on the occasion, CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Bishop of Llandaff remains in la very precarious position. The foundation stone of a new church, at Moor-Aller ton, near Leeds, was laid on Wednesday. The new church of Holy Trinity, Meanvrood, in the parish of Leeds, was consecrated last week. The Rev. H. L. Mardague, curate of Didsbury, has been appointed to the incumbency of Haslingden, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. N. Morgan. THE WESLEYAN RUPTURE.—We are informed on good authority that many Wesleyan ministers, dissatisfied with their system, and not the least so with the recent procEed ings, are meditating a resignation of their charges and a course of study preparatory to offering themselves for or dination in our church.—Church and State Gazette. CHURCH . RATES.—The church rates for all England are about £600,000 ; of this sum £30,000 only is paid by Dissenters. What is specially for the service of the church is not more than £200,000. If the gross sum (£600,000) raised for church rates were equally divided amongst our population, it would amount to about 34d. per head. What may be expected from the voluntary system is not difficult to conjecture. Not many years since, a church, in which our poorer brethren were especially provided for, was burned down. A rate was objected to, and it was given out, that the Dissenters when released from com pulsory exaction would contribute largely to the rebuild ing of it. Of the £B,OOO required, twenty siv pounds were subscribed by Dissenters. It is said, that in America there are nearly 5,000,000 souls unblessed with the means of grace. The Morning Herald has a noble protest against the dependent position assigned to the church by the reply of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the memorial of the clergy, in which his grace maintains that to authorise a day of public humiliation throughout his province, "is a privilege which belongs only to her Majesty in Council." We know not," says our contemporary, with noble frankness, " which feeling predominates as we write, re gret or indignation ; regret that a prelate of, personally, so exalted a character, so endeared to every class of persons in this country by his piety, so universally respected for his moral and intellectual ability, should have given such occasion to the enemies of the English Church to ridicule her present position ; indignation, that the primate should have so very inadequate a notion, as it seems to us, of the duties which devolve upon him as the spiritual head of the English Church." SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.— At the monthly meeting (October) of the members of this society, the Bishop of London in the chair, the following business was transacted :—A letter was read from the Bishop of Victoria, thanking the society for its grant of £2,000 towards the proposed collegiate institution in Hong Kong, and for £3OO for translations into the Chi nese language. The sum of £l,OOO was voted towards the restoration of the cathedral at Toronto. This grant was made in pursuance of notice given by the standing committee at the general meeting in July. A letter was read from the Bishop of Madras, informing the society that in consequence of his ill state of health he had felt it necessary to resign the bishopric. His lordship added that he should continue to feel a lively interest in the society, and thankfully embrace any opportunity of pro moting its designs. The Bishop of Colombo (Ceylon) requested the society's assistance towards a collegiate institution in his diocese, to be dedicated to St. Thomas the Apostle, and designed for the education of a native clergy, catechists, and schoolmasters. His lordship said that he had purchased for £2,000 nine acres of ground, and that, in addition to this, he would give the proposed college £2OO per annum during his episcopate, together with the use of his extensive library. The standing com mittee gave notice of their intention to propose, at the general meeting in November, that £2,000 be then voted towards the collegiate institution for Colombo. Grants of a liberal character were made to several of the -colonial dioceses, and 65 grants of books and tracts were made to lending libraries and schools at home. Donations to the amount of £3,764 9s. (inclusive of £3,251 4s. Bd. to the Jubilee Fund), and legacies to the amount of £1,600, were announced, and 28 gentlemen were elected members of the society. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. 4 NEWMARKET, SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. TUESD AY, The CESAREWITCA STAREB of 25 sovs. each, with 300 added ; for 3-yr olds and upwards ; the winner of the Doncaster St. Leger to carry 121 b. extra • the second in the St. Leger, or winner of the Doncaster Cup, the Great Yorkshire Handicap, or the Epsom Autumn Handicap, Glb. extra ; the extra weight not accumula- tive. The second to receive 50 sous. out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 30 sous. to the judge. 66 subs. Lord Stanley's Legerdemain, 3 yrs., sst. 71b., (Hiett) 1 Mr. Meiklam's R.aby, 3 yrs., sst. 71b. (Arnold) 2 Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evelyn, 3 yrs., 7st. 71b. (Flat man) . • 28 others started. Betting-4 to 1 agst Vatican, sto 1 agst Raby, 7to 1 agst Gienalvon, 8 to 1 agst Legerdemain, 10 to 1 agst Malton, 20 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn, 20 to 1 agst Glen Sad dle, 20 to 1 agst St. Rosalia, 25 to 1 agst Essedarius, 25 to 1 agst Miss Ann, 25 to 1 agst Amazement, 25 to 1 agst Fire-eater, 30 to 1 agst St. Antonio, 40 to 1 agst any other. Won by a length, a length between second and third. nuu in exactly 4 min. Sir Thomas Hesketh's harriers will meet this day at New Lane Head ; on Thursday at Walmer Bridge ; and on Saturday at Devil's Wall, at eleven each morning. Lord Stanley forwarded a challenge to the Earl of Eglinton last week, to run Canezou at Bst. 101 b. against the Flying Dutchman at Bst. 21b., to come off in the New market Houghton Meeting; but Lord Eglinton declined the proposed match. CHALLENGE EXTRAORDINARY.—The Jockey Club have received, through the medium of the English Con sul-General in Egypt, a challenge from the Pasha to run a match for £lO,OOO, to come off in Egypt, ten miles ; the club to send as many horses and to put up what weight they please. LORD STANLEY LUCKY AGAIN.—For the Cesarewitch stakes, at Newmarket, on Tuesday, there were 66 sub scribers at 25 sous. each, with £3OO added, the owner of the second horse to receive £5O, and the judge £3O, from the stakes. Lord Stanley was the winner with his horse Legerdemain, beating thirty others, so that if we deduct the £BO, and his lordship's own stake, (£25,) there re mains a net balance of £1,845. A omeOtir. A great effort is now being made in Edinburgh to pre vent the destruction of John Knox's house. Lord Brackley still continues in a state of great debility, but is better than he was. The bodies of two male children, evidently strangled, have been found enclosed in brown paper in a holly-bush hedge-row, at Handsworth, near Birmirrgliam. The cholera is rapidly disappearing in London. The deaths on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last, were, respectively, 11, 15, and 18. DETERMINED SIIICIDE.—On Thursday the body of a washerwoman, named Lewes, living near London, was found standing in a water butt, so as to put the head under water. She had often threatened to destroy herself. A curious law decision has recently been given in one of the Scotch courts on an appeal from a domestic servant. The sheriff ruled that a servant " engaged to wash for a family" was not bound to wash for a black nurse, who had accompanied some relations on a visit to that family. On Friday the ship Bangalore, 500 tons burden, arrived in the London Docks, from the East Indies, with an entire cargo of gutta percha, being the first vessel that has been entirely chartered for the conveyance of that material, now, from its multifarious uses, a staple article of commerce. The Great Western cotton mills, near Bristol, were seriously damaged by fire, on Friday. The loss is esti mated at 1;2000. The machinery and raw materials were so much injured that the works will have to be suspended and no fewer than 1700 persons will for that period be thrown out of employment. ATROCIOUS ACT.—On Monday night some miscreant threw some peas and oats, soaked in poison, over the garden wall at the residence of the Rev. B. Weaver, of Road, Somerset, and thereby caused the death of about seventy of his pigeons. The lives of some of the children of the village were also endangered by picking up the grain.—Bath Chronicle. DARING ESCAPE OF HIGHWAYMEN.—A few d ays since as Mr. Furrisky, head-constable of Thorpe, was convey ing two men to York Castle, when near Selby, the fellows, who were handcuffed together in a cart, fell upon the constable and overpowered him, and taking from him the key of their handcuffs, they released themselves, and then fottered him, leg and arm together ; taking all his money, 195., they got clear a vay. The place being a very retired spot, the constable remained for three hours before he was released. THE CONDEMNED POISONER, CHARLOTTE HARRIS.— Some charitably disposed inhabitants of Taunton recently memorialised the Home Office to spare the life of this convict, condemned for poisoning her husband, and now awaiting her accouchement, previous to the sentence of the law being carried into effect. Sir George Grey has officially announced his regret that the case presents no grounds that warrant his interference with the due course o f law. The prisoner is expected to be confined every day, and as soon after as possible the extreme penalty of the law will, it is stated, be carried into effect. SIR ROBERT PEEL IN ABERDEEN.—On Friday the citizens of Aberdeen entertained the right hon. the ex- Premier at an elegant banquet in honour of his distin guished character as a statesman. Previous to the ban quet the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon the eminent guest by the senators of the University and King's College, Aberdeen ; and on his route to the Town-hall the adulations of the large crowd were freely bestowed. The Earl of Aberdeen, Chancellor of the Uni versity, accompanied Sir Robert ; and st the banquet were present many of the most distinguished and influential of the burgesses, citizens, and county gentlemen. INTERESTING DISCOVERY OF A CAVERN IN WALES. —We have been favoured by a correspondent with the following interesting announcement, dated from Conway, October 12.—" On Wednesday the miners at Llandno broke, in the course of their labours, into what appeared to be an extensive cavern, the roof of which, being one • mass of stalactite, reflected back their lights with dazzling splendour. On examination, the cavern turned out to be an old work, probably Roman, the benches, stone ham mers, &c., used by that ancient people having been found entire, together with many bones of mutton, which had been consumed by these primitive miners. The hones are, to all appearance, as fresh, though impregnated with copper, as they were when denuded of their fleshy ef,ver ing. after remaining, as they must have done, nearly 2,00 years in the bowels of the earth. The cavern is about forty yards long, and must be a subject of great interest to those fond of investigating the remains of bygone ages." Ott 16, IS4li pitte d e , DOUBLE MURDER.—A double murder was ers- -E° o l- ; Clapham on Saturday morning. In a court ne ar sa turd i 4 square lived Weston, a jobbing gardener. ° 3 tor t ' morning he was found in his own room, standing s oo tl bodies of his wife and infant child, who were IY lt i g hlo)-ii floor with their throats cut. He surrendereu,„ s itL without any resistance. and replied to questions '''rob3bh incoherent manner. He was evidently insan e ' P from extreme want. a te 0 EVERY MAN FOR RIMSELF.—During a deb nod.oi took place some time ago in a Scottish Town C °ll 4lo , i• a question where much diversity of opinion pre,,,,,00 1 ' Bailie. among other reasons in support of the ''„,terg: stated that it would be of immense benefit to p o ' se lo' The Provost, who headed the opposite partY, To ny lose fury and said, lam really surprised to bear %fet e , bring forrit sic an argument. What reason 11 0 t ot, sacrifice ourselves for the gude o' posterity ? ,P o ' i n ns tife e e he said, striking the table, " point oot ae sin l" where posterity has been o' the least benefit W MURDER OF A FEMALE.—On Friday, at ia;ne , i l street office, London, a man named Charles -I°'llo. e labourer in the docks, was fully committed for trial,t'i, with the wilful murder of Mary Ann Baines , ° es ter Moody, a woman who passed as his wife, by reP Whe! kicking her in the stomach and on the brea st ' b a doe'' called upon for his defence, the brute said thst he scribed, this to state,—that he owned he did kick her as des but the deceased was always in a very ailing state! t - blooy; frequently in the night obliged to get up and i f, l „isye 4 or she would have been choked by it. He u"'" carelessness almost amounting to indifference throiirs, fro m THE MANNINGS.—The removal of the prisone,„ o to' Horsemonger-lane Gaol to Newgate will take P.'te(lo morrow (Wednesday), which has been cotioniin ica ., pro' 10 . them. Both of them seem reluctant to leave theei bee sent quarters, and, since the announcement, 80 rather down-hearted. Manning, however, svrn t :oobl spirited letter to his solicitor (Mr. Binns) on '-' be lie° morning, which certainly would lead any person 00410 he was innocent. He, however, is much deP re „d spirits, and is watched strictly by the governor ;$0 turnkeys. Mrs. Manning still keeps up her sPir . , l tt sor e asserts to her guardians that she is innocent a nd to be acquitted. o f re' s A LION IN A Fix.—The following curious pie k c,,, h ed is given in the Shropshire Conservative, ntle"', 9 o , Shrewsbury :—" There is some talk of a lion in st or at the house of Mr. Henry Shaw, animal preserverVrico e , latch. The lion is a noble specimen of the South Atip breed, and measures 10 feet frotii the nose to tbf o liO the tail. Mr. Shaw, very cleverly, stuffed the ° be sit e one of his upper apartments, without considering t of the door, and now finds it totally impossible to t rr e ';io , it from the room, except through the roof, or by t ‘ P e oth e dow. We can vouch the talk is true, for we hav e e ditr lion ; it is really a first-rate specimen, and highlY cr ee ble to the ingenuity of our townsman. The legs too the knees, and below, are thicker than that of 0 horse !" THE EDUCATIONAL QUESTION.—A long roc , dence has taken place betwixt the Committee of it 10' on Education and the National Society since th e t weel l meeting, with reference to the matters in dispute i ' e ca tio! those bodies. The Committee of Council on P e ,,io' have made various modifications of the 101 3 t Ve clauses, chiefly relating to the enforcement 0 ' ' to cisions of the Bishop, the terms of the declaration to, taken by laymen, the mode in which subscri l ' e p.' schools are to determine on the adoption of clause,,Vetl but they refuse an alteration of the rule by which {v of schools are to be restricted in their freedom of 'lt among the clauses prepared by the committee'tv 0i; understood that a meeting of the National Soc ie th take place on Thursday,•the Bth of November, wb e O, IIJ correspondence will be submitted for considerat iel' ' the question brought to a final settlement. ea ell WEYHILL PAlR.—This important fair comve%heet the 11th instant. There was an average supplY About 30,000 more than last year were penned, o , rl ",red attendance of dealers was large, a clearance was eu e- 01°; ls. a head above the prices obtained at late fairs' the' , : 7s. a head lower than last year.—Four tooth we 365.; obtained 325. to 40s. ; two-toothed ditto, 245. t° lo t °I ewes, 20s. to 30s. ; lambs, 16s. to 30s. One pl./o),e ewes belonging to Stephen Mills, Esq., fetched 3 t)f e ' an extraordinary fine pen of lambs belonging,:bri Payne, of Houghton, were sold at 365. 6d. In () Ft e ' fair there were not so many cart colts as usual ; ' l3 t,lt those exhibited sold at from 25 to 35 guineas 0 00 h. Ther e Hillier Reeve, of Wroughton ' showed the best were a great many nags, and good ones sold readit ito high prites. But few hops have yet arrived, and by more are expected.—Devizes Gazette. ,01 ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY A LADY.—On morning, shortly after eight o'clock, as the superi r r et ,, d ie of the Royal Humane Society was proceeding 01°-;dis' north bank of the Serpentine river, he saw, at so r e d tance from him, a well-dressed woman, who aPrtbef°l be divesting herself of her outside garments, anu, 0", he could get up to her she rushed towards the wa` e :ipor' uttering a loud shriek, threw herself into the deel' e '..icre' of the river, and immediately sank. An alarm was n''o o r and one of the watermen pushed off in a boat, and a ho t riving at the spot, caught hold of the woman by of her head, just as she was going down the secon She was speedily conveyed to the receiving-house, "toe the usual remedies were resorted to, and after so on she was so far recovered as to inform the su perime. OP' that her name was Newell, that her friends were n " r oll respectable, and that the cause of her attempting t he act wan that her lover had proved unfaithful to BAPTISM OF A MAN ATTACKED WITH Coor-11▪ 00; Much excitement was aroused in Haverfordwest on • Itt e o , day last, in consequence of its being publicly ratp ° to' that the death of a man, named George Thoin s .' s ,; th e been caused by his being baptised that morning 0 1 "iii0g Priory Mill leet, according to the creed of the sec t joll themselves " The Latter-day Saints," by Brothe r o c e Thomas, a mason in this town, who fills the O. " priest" in that denomination. The deceased, t atth e stated, was labouring under an attack of choleraibeeo time the rite was administered, and that be Tbotu ale urged or forced to receive it by his brother., of the poor fellow having occurred soon afterwalit coroner, Mr. James Owen, very properly consider" de9o: duty to have a public inquiry into the cause cf hi s p th' when, these facts being "Thati by evitien ch e ,,j jury returned a verdict, the deceased died co';f lera, his death being accelerated by immersion necl, water by John Thomas, at the request of the (Wes -Welshman. A le l CHURCHYARDS IN THE PLAGUE OF 106 6 ", nti o.„y the plague at the above period raged violently in reset s if we compare it with the present disease and 'Ai 0 1 ,," 0 amount of population, it was much less fatal. , s p time there were no other sanitory commissioners i magistrates, and yet there is one of their rneasu re P respect to their places of sepulture, not unders er cv :ot e j notice. It may be premised that the London"es r dates its beginning at that period, No. 1 having °Pr ied t . ' d on the 16th November, 1665, and it was then s t k.' s i Oxford Gazette, the Court having removed to wof,tl'6, on account of the plague. In the 16th nurober,66o,s Oxford Gazette, published on the Bth of January', '4oot„ it states that " such persons who shall have oec a ' o o s ` o resort to Westminster will do so with more s afetYc r /j count of the care of the Right. Hon. the Lor d ;o' l° ll and the rest of the Justices of the Peace for the 'twit:, liberty of Westminster, who have given orders, boo). the bedding and other goods in the several infect ed off be well aired, the rooms all new whited, and the yards to be covered with earth to o feet high." 1„4: 4C C PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE COUNTESS OF FELT'S BAlL.—Summonses have been issued 0 5 8 fet h hr bail of the Countess of Landsfelt, Messrs. Dayl e i :lc and son, attorneys, of Notting-hill, to be hea r t he Id Marlboroug . h-street , court, on Wednesday next , .10,, t fendants being called upon to show cause why thet: bg e r i not pay over to the crown the sum of £5OO en c ar sac e ,o the amount of their recognizance for the aPP e 'l l sttr Mrs. Heald, Countess of Landsfelt, to answer a, n ot h ot bigamy. The proceedings, it is understood, a ° ,. t ies , ;sh pend on the co-operation of the prosecuting Poeo e l ,o l take place as a matter of course, the Receiver - r to ' t ll/ Mr. Wray, requiring the money to be paid or, e Aco ac t , on behalf of the crown, in default whereof he '1;c0 ~"c course pointed out in the 45th section of the l' ° o re? which indicates the way the amount of estreat e it is ll ,ol l nizances may be recovered before a magistrate. ofr • o o generally understood that Mrs. Heald declines;ber the chance of a trial, and, therefore, nothing ft i 5 C' o l be done in the case as far as the charge of bigatifed cerned. It is reported that the bail have amount for which they became responsible. „....0 0 40' e DREADFUL EXPLOSION AND Loss OF LIFE . c o t et day night, at Brook-street, Bermondsey, an u .nie occurred on the premises of Mr. Barlin, firesv nr wer e , t d . At the time of the calamity, thirteen person s 5 11 0 0 0 f. the premises, when a very loud explosion l o icsa: which blew the tiles off the roof, forced the von i ., e ir vt,o; both back and front, lifted the floorings from t 'tle t f r o°' ings, and sent two children sleeping on the firs,', o edith e of the window, and an immense sheet of flame ' s ' te r o ' ti t the building. Owing to the inflammable chara c pa contents of the premises, but few minutes claP i s ' on e' e r., property from the bottom to the top, presente u t ii6co s' i4 of fire. In turning over the ruins the firemen ..„ o n a t the bodies of two persons, one that of a young seventeen or eighteen years of age, and the othl r ' s 1• 1: o te, some one a few years younger. Mr. and , 3 t i g ett t o ; were also found so severely injured as to be nu is sAlle d removed to the hospital. Two more are I n 'iso there is no doubt entertained that they have a vel a prey to the fury of the destructive element., „ t both sleeping on the first floor—one was an it a- yes"o 4 ' months of age, the other was a child about f our iod The calamity was owing to the top of a napt ha in the room having turned over. r th e WHOLESALE MURDERS OF INFANTS. ---F° oeia b four or five years, the town of Handsworth c° s fir: hood have obtaned unenviable notoriety for lovr , of newly-born ; children bearing marks of t P „ftece 0 , been deprived of life by violent means so on brought into the world, that have been foon",%te i . i fO l i lanes and other remote places. To such an : c al P',4 tratests h t a e t e a , t r ah o na c dv i oehulesar isystemMajesty's w b e o n lgeo p yf r ae a rc e nt t s i m s e be d ne , fto t rh l eiaavtteht lieeul.9l,,relectari se reward as will be likely to suppress the r v_v„ iti e o „lo, e ; During the past week, a farmer's labourer, roaillO; was proceeding along Cramp-lane, near the f t , 0, 5 0 1 ;,, road, when he observed a brown paper pal -o _ l , o o ll 'Al bush in the hedgerow. On opening it, the m u cb t r, discovered to be the bodies of two newlY o o o Der The coroner of the district held an inquiry r ier e o o,. , and a surgeon expressed an opinion that the,Yhe alive, and that strangulation was eviden tl y' which they had come by their deaths. Other _ l o ' ll P o p o that the innocents had been murdered as sfbeir were horn, and the coroner's jury found , as `...etsoV? Wilful murder against some person or Fof, known." ,The coroner however, with a vie' r _ u ptV,,ol°L' ha coul.l in the matter, waited upon two c' i t s trates, and it was at len,ith d e t er miaed to se n tit fo t , the secretary of state. The result has 1 3 k:01 , O . O J Grey has authorised a reward of .£sobeinifi oll_..ioe, capture of the perpetrators of this atrocio „__Oct: