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THE MANSELS : A TALE OF TIIE LATE MONETARY CRISIS. CHAPTER VI. We have already referred to the sacrifices which had been submitted to by William Mansel, in the effort to sustain the credit and solvency of his father's house. The most readily available and less depreciated descriptions of property produce and merchandise both in foreign markets and at home, had been already disposed of at ruinous prices. The real property, however, of which Mr. Mans .1 was possessed, has been thus far left untouched, as well as the sum invested in the funds. It had been hoped that the crisis could be worked through, without having to part with either ; but the loss recently experienced, and the possibility of its not being a solitary oue, imperatively suggested an effort to realise the whole, or a portion. There was a cruel task, however., to be performed before this could be effected. The funded portion of the pro perty had some years previously been transferred into the names of Mrs. Mansel and her two daughters, to provide them with means for their private expenditure, and their unostentatious little charities; and it would be necessary at length to lay before them, what had all along been en deavoured to be withheld—a knowledge of the sad change which had been wrought in their position and prospects. The property so invested was, moreover, naturally the most ready for Gale, and its disposal was attended with the least sacrifice; for to sell freehold property in the open market, however eligible, was attended at tins period with enormous loss, and the necessary publicity of the trans action was to be avoided, if possible. A loan upon mort gage it wan impracticable to procure, whilst money was worth ten to fifteen per cent to the capitalist. Mr. Man sell's, broker was therefore instructed upon the subject; and in the course of a few hours a sale of three per cents was effected at 854. They had cost, when originally pur chased, 98. The young merchant sate alone with his mother on the evening of that day, after Mr. Mansell and the rest of the family had retired to rest. There was a constrained silence between them at first ; for the interview Lad been requested by William to take place alone. A sense of some impending announcement of evil hung upon Mrs. Mansell's spirits ; for such a request was unusual. Never had there been, in their communications, anything of secrecy or reserve. Yet she remembered, that, for months past, her son had been moody, at times; that his wonted gaiety had deserted him ; the hue of health had left his checks, and his form had become thin, and occasionally betrayed languor and even debility. Her husband, too, — how often had she felt certain that a weight was preying upon his mind—a weight which " murdered sleep," and appeared to be dragging him rapidly to his grave ! She had heard him sigh in his dreams, and occasionally she bad imagined that tears filled his eyes, when her own sud denly met them fixed upon her face. She had read, in the columns of the public journals, of monetary difficulty existing ; of the effects of overspeenlation ; of men, reputed wealthy, having been laid prostrate, and of suf fering being spread abroad amongst the entire industrial community ; but s:le could not imagine that her husband's firm—so cautious in its transactions, one which had never speculated in the bubbles of the day, but had preferred the longer and the safer path to the acquirement of com petency—could have suffered severely, or be seriously involved in the difficulties of the times.. She knew no thing, in short—what woman does ?—of that mysterious agency which, ever and anon, snatches the result of years of enterprise and thrift from its possessors. She knew nothing of that far more fearful instrument of torture than any which ever worked in the dungeons of the Inquisition— " the screw" of the Bank of England ; and had been ac customed, like the majority of the world, to attribute com mercial disaster to individual misconduct alone, and to regard it as a disgrace, scarcely to be effaced. Hence her apprehensions were the more confused and the more painful. The brief silence was at length broken by William, who entered at length into a detail of the sad sacrifices and losses of the last few months, and laid before his shocked parent the exact position of affairs. Need we say with what pain the effort was gone through, or describe the mental agony with which the disclosure was listened to ? A more heartrending scene than that unburdening of the mind between parent and child, in that still midnight hour, whilst some dear to both were dreaming, perchance, happy dreams, beneath the same roof, can scarcely be imagined. What fond aspirations were dispelled in that hour! What recently bright vistas of the future were then darkened ! What hopes dashed to earth ! At one moment Mrs. Mansel felt as if the trust and confidence of a life were fled for ever. The idea that years of patient industry and unwearying painstaking. such as she had spent with Mr. Mansel, could be rendered fruitless, without some impru dence on his part, some unfortunate omission, some blameable error, was incompatible with all her precon ceived opinions of mercantile matters. The explanation offered was unintelligible to her woman's mind. But the misgiving was only for a moment. When she looked up to the sad, truthful face of her son ; when she remem bered his undeviating affection, his early developed steadi ness of purpose and maturity of judgment, and listened more calmly to his clear and perspicacious explanation of the causes which had brought difficulty and sorrow to his home, her heart smote her for her doubts and her unwor thy suspicions, and her mind was at once strung to a sense of the effort to be made by her to do a wife's and a mother's duty in the evil days which had fallen upon her and hers. " Bear with me for a moment. dear William," she said, " I will be myself again after I have had .a little time to reflect upon this sad calamity," and she relapsed into thought : and, by the working of her face, by the throb bing of her closed eyelids, and the convulsive heaving of her breast, her son saw that the thought was very bitter. " Your poor father !" she murmured, after a while, " I know it will kill him." " No, mother !" William interrupted, in a re-assuring tone; "his thoughts are all for your sufferings, and for those of my sisters and my brother. In any event, we cannot lose our honour. I will toil, my father's name and experience will preserve us from the unkind censure of all, except the ignorant and the worthless ; and though we may be poor, we shall be happy, and love each other still." There was an indescribable fondness in the look which he cast upon his mother, as he took her hand and pressed it in his own. It was responded to with a flood of tears, as she threw herself upon his breast, and sobbed forth— it was all that she could utter for a time—" My son ! my dear boy !" Another hour passed by, during which the pair talked calmly over the prospects of the future, and the means to be resorted to for repairing the disasters of the past. • Not a word of repining escaped from Mrs. Mansel's lips. She was, indeed, the more composed in manner of the two—more fertile in resources than her son—and more thoughtful with respect to every expedient by which pain might be warded from those who were destined to suffer along with her. She could point to many modes in which expenditure could be lessened in her household affairs, frugally as they were administered, without sacrificing comforts ' • and, although some of these were of a nature at which William could barely refrain from smiling, it was gratifying to be thus assured that her best endeavours would be directed to ward off thc blow which was being dealt against those dear to both. The dying fire at length reminded them that it was time to retire • and they passed up stairs together until they reached the bedroom of Mr. Mansel, the door of which he had left open. The chamber candle bad burnt down into the socket, and threw a gloomy light over the room. With a gentle hand she drew her son, on tiptoe, up to the bed, and gazed sorrowfully on the face of the unconscious sleeper. " He is changed, 'William," she whispered, " his hair is whiter, I think, than it was a few months ago, and his face has furrows, which I never noticed in happier days. God give us both strength to lighten the load which is pressing upon his heart ! You shall see by his looks in the morning that he knows I am willing to bear my part. Good night !" CHAPTER VII. • It was as Mrs. Mansel had promised. On the following morning, when they met at breakfast, it was clear to Wiiliam Mansell, by his father's restored ease of manner, that all had been explained—that there was no longer any concealments between two, who had vowed at the altar to go hand in hand to the grave, as they had gone hand in hand through life, together. Gladsome thing it is whom there is this perfect confidence between parties, when God's holy ordinance has joined ! Another cheering cir cumstance it was to William, when his mother and his two sisters called, during the forenoon, prepared to make the necessary transfers. There were no reproaches from the lips of those two amiable girls, as they consented to resign their little store of personal wealth, beyond the 1111 simple chiding exclamation of Mary, the eldest, " How could you, brother, doubt our willingness to suffer with you and our dear parents ?" The sacrifice required was duly made ; and it was with some degree of pride that William Mansel was enabled that day to withdraw the bill of the suspended house, which had been dis counted by the friendly capitalist referred to in a preced ing chapter. We must now glance briefly at two scenes which were occurring at this period, in portions of the empire many miles apart. One of these exhibits the effects of mone tary crises in humbler walks of life than that of the Mansel family. It has already been explained that, at the outset of his mercantile career, Mr. Mansel was in the habit of supplying foreign produce to retailers in various parts of the country ; and that, after his rise in fortune, and the consequently larger scope of his business trans actions, he still continued to supply a few houses, con sisting of his most attached and tried friends. It is to an occurrence in the domestic circle of one of these that we shall first draw the attention of our readers. Mr. Wilson—we use a fictitious name of course—was a grocer and general dealer in the flourishing principal town of a county in the north of England, through which a railway had been recently projected, and had been for some months in course of formation. He was not a wealthy man, in the sense that the word is received in the larger marts of the world's commerce. lie was, however, in his own sphere, what is called "well to do." His family was large, and his name and credit, with a little pecuniary assistance, had been sufficient to place them around him in respectable callings. The employment in his neigh bourhood of three or four hundred railway labourers, smiths, masons, &c., had given greater extent to his busi ness avocations ; and his stock, and the amount for which he was induced to draw upon his hitherto unsullied credit, had been largely increased. Mr. 'Wilson was indeed re garded:by all, with whom he dealt, as a man upon the high road of competence. But the same reverse came upon him, which had come upon the bulk of the indus trial world. Week after week had seen suspension of the works of the --- Railway ; cessation of the labour of hundreds of the working class ; the approach of poverty to many families, and the partial depopulation • of a recently busy and flourishing locality. In such an emergency Mr. Wilson found himself called upon to meet a heavy acceptance. given for goods supplied to him by his friend, Mr. Mansel. He had striven to avail him self of every resource upon which, in ordinary times, he could have safely depended,—but it was only to meet with repeated rebuffs. His agricultural customers could not answer even the demand of the landownor and the rate collector. His professional customers, the landlord class , even, and tradesmen of undoubted means, were similarly unable to aid him. Money seemed to have been altoge ther withdrawn from amongst that little community. The the gold to have been returned to its native mines, and its paper representative to haveteased to circulate. There were still the bright green fields around, with the herds grazing upon them ; there were the-farm houses and the barn yards; there were the shops filled with every neees sary and luxury of man ; there were stately vessels in the neighbouring port, laden with rich products of every portion of the globe. But all industry and commerce seemed to be paralysed. Enterprise was no more. The sole end and aim of every man was to get possession of a few pieces•of money to supply absolute wants, or to stave off demands, which could not be postponed. A few amongst the community, it is true, were in possession of money ; but these hoarded it,—clutched it as their only hope of safety amidst the impending wreck, or used it as an instrument to cxtort from their neighbours an undue portion of the fruits of their hard toil. The last day had come, on which the acceptance must be met, or loss of credit, almost ruin, must ensue; yet Air. Wilson was still many pounds short of the sum re quired. The bank had altogether refused to aid him. They were only intent upon protecting themselves ; and with difficulty were enabled to do so, by exacting rep y- Tent of advances, wherever it could be effected. They were the screw upon a small scale, worked by the giant screw, which was torturing the entire commercial world, crushing fortunei at every turn. The worthy tradesman was almost frantic in his efforts, and maddened still fnrther by every failure. In vain, for the first time in his life, the aid of the pawnbroker was invoked, and his house stripped of the few articles of plate, which had been regarded as heir looms—humble, indeed, but prized as the tokens of their station, equally with the epergnes and salvers of the noble. In vain the single horse which Mr. Wilson kept, partly for his own use and partly for business purposes, was disposed of at half its price. The post hour came ; and Mr. Wilson knew that he was a dishonoured man. We change the scene to a counting-house in one of the leading business streets of the metropolis. Half a dozen clerks in the outer office ply their active pens in silence, interrupted only by the chink of gold, as it was told out into the drawers, or the rumbling sound of notes counted by busy fingers. There is wealth beneath that roof, the use of a mere fraction of which, for a few hours, would save the credit and fortune of thousands—would heal hearts that are breaking, and drive agony from many an over wrought brain. But it is the harvest of the bullionist— the man of millions. Others have sown and reaped, planted and watered, during years past; and be is now gathering in the fruits, See that grey-headed man who has just now, wild•with excitement, emerged from the inner room—the temple of the deity of money-getting— and flung upon the counter, with a groan, a scrap of paper, in exchange for which, a clerk, with the impassive action and look of an automaton, is handing over a roll of notes and a large sum in gold. He has gone now, with hurried steps. That merchant will weather the storm for a few days or weeks longer; but he is a ruined man. To avert immediate downfal, he has sacrificed the accumulation of half a life's striving. This is the working of the boasted monetary system of the greatest commercial country in the world ! Oh, shame upon such philosophy I in tstrut Pclus. The ravages of cholera in the beautiful and healthy town of Clitheroe, have been most painfully distressing. Henry Gaskell. Esq., bas given the munificent sum of £llOO, to complete the erection of St. Thomas's Church, `Wean. At the Salford sessions, on Monday week, Thomas Barnes, Esq., of Farnworth, near Bolton, qualified as a magistrate of the county. Between 1830 and 1848 inclusive, the length of main and cross sewers, as also private drains, completed in the borough of Manchester, amounts to 66 miles 901 yards. On Monday, Mr. Thomas Tvndal, actuary of the Wrex ham savings' bank, &c., was drowned whilst bathing in a pool, about two miles from that town. The deceased was on the eve of marriage. On Tuesday a number of the friends of Mr. E. W. Topham, Clerk of the Course at Chester Races, presented that gentleman with a handsome Silver Tea Service, in testimony of their approval of his exertions in promoting the prosperity of the Racing Meetings. THE CROPS IN CHESHIRE.- Most excellent harvest weather prevails. Stock in general sells very low at our country fairs, and potatoes have a slightly downward ten dency, notwithstanding the disease, which, however, has not half the alarming features of former years. Apples would appear to be very abundant in some quarters, as we hear talk of 3s. per bushel for them. Damsons are a very scarce article. HORSE-FLESH v. STEAM.—On Monday, a gentleman, a resident at Bowdon, who daily comes to Manchester by the omnibus, laid a wager of £lO to £5 with another gen tleman who prefers the rail for his daily journeys, that, on the next morning the omnibus should beat the rail to the Knott Mill station. The rail and the road omnibus started at the same time from Bowdon, and the latter was at the appointed goal some minutes before the train. Civic BANQUET AT MANCHESTER.—Among the dis tinguished persons who will be present at this entertain ment on Friday week are the Prussian Ambassador, Chevalier Bunsen, the Bishop, Dean, Canons, and Arch deacon of Manchester, W. Brown, Esq., M.P., A. Henry, Esq., M.P.. Sir T. B. Birch, M.P., R. Cobden, Esq., M.P., Alderman Copeland, M.P., and other M.P.'s, twelve mayors of the Lancashire boroughs, Sir Wm. Warre, &c. 'TEN HOURS' ACT.—On Friday se'nnight the result of the ballot, which had been taken to ascertain the wishes of the spinners working in the parish of Leigh, on the ques tion of the duration of factory labour, was publicly de clared. The number of spinners to whom balloting tickets had been sent was 226 ; deduct the spinners of Messrs. Jones, who were prevented from voting by intimidation, 30 ; the number at liberty to vote, 196. Voted for ten hours, 182 ; voted for eleven hours, 1 ; did not vote, 13 ; total, 196. GUANO OR NOT GUANO ?—A Garstang farmer, some time since, bought some stuff called guano, by auction, and after the sale, on having some of his purchase ana lysed, he ascertained that it was not guano at all. He had paid £3 Os. 71d. for it, and applied to the auctioneer to get his money back ; the auctioneer refused, and last week the case was heard in the Garstang County Court, when the judge decided that the money must be returned, the auc tioneer having sold for guano that whieh was not guano, and, there being no other name to the advertisement of sale, he was made the responsible party. MANSLAUGHTER.—A most diabolical murder was per petrated on Friday, at Ardwick, Manchester. The mur derer is a blacksmith, and was at work when the unfortu nate man entered the smithy. The latter having given some provocation, the murderer rushed upon his victim with a pair of red-hot irons, and thrust them through his body. He expired in a few minutes afterwards. The de. ceased has left a wife and six children. After committing the horrid deed, the murderer immediately resumed his work for a few minutes, whilst the unfortunate victim lay writhing in the most dreadful agonies, at his feet ; he afterwards went out and gave himself up to the police. PERVERSICN. — On Sunday week the lady of Mr. John Sparrowe, justice of the peace for the county of Lancas ter, made a public renunciation of the Protestant faith in the Romish chapel of St. Alban's, Blackburn. After celebrating mass, the officiating clergyman, the Rev. P. Kaye, robed in a magnificent white cope, proceeded to wards the font, which had been decorated with a profusion of flowers, where Mrs. Sparrowe immediately afterwards presented herself, accompanied by three ladies, her hus band, and his brother, Mr. T. Sparrowe, who, with one of the ladies abovenamed, subsequently officiated as her sponsors. She was attired in a costume appropriate to the occasion. MURDER OF AN INFANT BY ITS MOTHER.—A case of murder by a mother of her new-born infant child, at Chorlton-cum-Hardy, near Manchester, has just come to the knowledge of the authorities, the circumstances of which are of a most horrifying character. The mother, whose name is Mary Ann Page, is a servant out of place, and had obtained lodgings at the house of a person named Philips, where she delivered herself during the night of Tuesday, of a male child, and deprived it of life by pierc ing its cheeks and temple with the points of a pair of scissors, which she had borrowed from the son of her landlady. The landlady appears to have suspected that she was with child and attempting to conceal the birth, and the close watch she kept upon the unfortunate woman led to the discovery of the truth, but not in time to pre vent the crime. She haS been committed for trial. PROPOSED ADVANCE OF FACTORY WAGES. On Monday, a meeting of delegates from the factory opera tives was held at the Millstone Tavern, Thomas-street, Manchester, to consider the propriety of applyiug to the master spinners and manufacturers for an advance of wages. The meeting was at,ended by about sixty dele gates. Philip Knight was called upon to preside. A cotton-spinner submitted the following resolution : " That this meeting is of opinion that the time has arrived when the factory operatives of Manchester should use their exertions for obtaining an advance of wages."— The motion was seconded. Several artisans addressed the meeting in support of the resolution, which was carried almost unanimously. The following resolution was then proposed :—" That this meeting appoint a committee of 12 persons to carry into effect the objects of the foregoing resolution." The motion was carried without discussion, and the meeting proceeded to select the members of the committee. A memorial was subsequently adopted. A LIBERAL LANDLORD.—TweIve months ago we had the pleasing duty of reporting an act of most unparalleled liberality on the part of the Right Hon. Thomas Pember ton Leigh towards his workpeople, viz., of depositing £2 for each in the Savings' Bank, Wigan, and for every £1 up to £5 added to it in the course of twelvemonths he would add £2 more. The right hon. gentleman has again met his workpeople, to command them to give an account of " the pieces of money which he had entrusted to the care of his servants," and we are glad to hear that he had the pleasure of commending them as " good and faithful servants," and that the result which he has looked for ward to with so much interest has answered his expecta tions. On Saturday last the right hon. gentleman enter tained his servants and tenants to a dinner in the spacious coach-house at Hindley Hall, when about sixty sat down to a substantial old English repast. The right. hon. gentleman can assert what we imagine no other employer in the kingdom can, viz., that there is not one of his men but can boast of having £5 " to the good."—Wigan Herald. REPORTED INSUFFICIENCY OF MEDICAL AID IN MAN CHESTER.—The cholera appears to be making more pro gress in Manchester than it has hitherto done ; and in consequence of complaints that the means taken by the boards of guardians, and other authorities, to provide medical officers to visit poor patients, and treat the disease while in a premonitory (or even in a more advanced) stage, an inquest was held on Friday, on the body of a cholera patient. At the close of the inquest, the coroner said, if he recollected rightly, when the eholera visited this country in 1832, three hospitals were established in different parts of the town ; on this occasion there was.but one, and the staff of medical visitors appeared to be too limited. A gentleman observed that on the last occasion there were three hospitals provided before a single case of cholera occurred, and it appeared to him the provision was then much more ample. Ultimately, the jury found a verdict of " Died from Asiatic cholera," and recom mended that the coroner should send copies of the &- positions to the Board of Guardians, and to the Board of Health in London. LANCASHIRE COUNTY SESSIONS. — The adjourned an nual sessions of the county justices was held at the Court house, Preston, on Thursday. The Ven. Archdeacon Brooks presided, and there was a large assemblage of magistrates present. A discussion took place relative to the expenses of witnesses at assizes, and a resolution, calling upon government to reduce the charges paid to the same scale as those allowed at quarter sessions, was submitted. The matter was referred to the finance com mittee, with instructions to pursue the subject. An ob jection was raised to the payment of a guinea and a half per day to Mr. Dolling, examiner of weights and mea sures for Kirkdale, whilst examiners in other districts received only a guinea per day. The finance committee recommended that this should be done away with. Sun dry other items of expenses were discussed and allowed. After a desultory conversation, the general rate of one penny in the pound was passed, as were also the following rates :—Lunatic asylums, ld. ; ditto loan account, 1-16th ; general police, id. Local Police—North Lonsdale, led. ; South Lonsdale. Id. ; Amounderness, lid. ; Higher Blackburn, 2d. ; Lower Blackburn, ad. ; Leyland, 2d. ; Bolton, lid. ; Bury, 2d. ; Middleton, 2d. ; Oldham, 2d.; Ashton, ad. ; Manchester, 2d. ; Kirkdale. 3d. ; Prescot, ; Ormskirk, 21d. ; Warrington, 3d. ; Preston and Kirkdale Gaols, lid. ; Salford Gaol, Id. Bridges—Lons dale, id. ; Amounderness, id. ; Blackburn, id. ; Leyland, id.: West Derby, jd. ' After a conversation, the follow ing motion, proposed by Mr. Ashworth, was adopted, by a majority of 54 to 23 That the settlement of the balance due from the borough of Bolton, on the orders made by the county treasurer, be forthwith come to, by adjusting such orders on the same principle, and for the same period adopted with regard to the boroughs of Li verpool and Manchester!' It appeared that the borough of Bolton considered they had overpaid to the county, some time ago, £617. and they refused to meet any further demands until this dispute was adjusted. Mr. Ashworth submitted a motion that, William Adam Hulton, Esq., the county treasurer, should be removed from office. The grounds upon which the motion had been based were, that the accounts of Mr. Hulton were not satisfactorily kept, and that his sureties were insufficient. Several gentlemen warmly addressed the court in defence of Mr. Hulton, and the proposition made, and the course adopted by Mr. Ashworth, were denounced as most abominable. The resolution, which did not meet with a seconder, was withdrawn. VRV LIVERPOOL STANDARD. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. WEST INDIES. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Dee has arrived with the usual British and Foreign West India mails. From Carthagena we learn that the miserable state of that unfortunate place was beyond description, as starva tion, filth and disease were rapidly thinning the inhabi tants. In 29 days 900 persons out of a population of 10.000 had died by cholera. When the Dee left, the disease bad sensibly abated, although the fatal cases at one time amounted to 90 or 100 per diem. We learn from Jamaica that sickness prevailed in many parts of the island, and an unusual number of deaths had taken place. The weather generally was unpleasant, the heat being almost intolerable. There were said, however, to be prospects of favourable crops in 1850. The elec tions were progressing very favourably to the popular cause of retrenchment. Letters from Barbadoes mention that the sugar crop was nearly manufactured, and would exceed 33,000 tons, generally of superior quality. The weather was very seasonable, and such a spread of canes had been planted that a crop of 40,000 tons for 1850 was calculated upo.l. The advices from Trinidad are to the 6th of August. The island was healthy, the crop finished, and the last of it in the course of shipment. It was expected to reach 28,000 hogsheads. Grenada was healthy—the exports of sugar were expected to exceed 5000 hogsheads, and the weather was favourable for the ensuing crop. We learn from St. Vincent that the weather had been favourable for agricultural operations, but the crop had been much retarded by the prevailing sickness. Few of the islands in the West Indies have come up to the usual average in the yield of the sugar plantations. Trinidad and Barbadoes excepted, which are in excess of the general quaitity. In Demerara the continual rains had almost wholly destroyed the crops, and would, it was thought, endanger those for 1850. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. Field Marshall Prince Paskiewitch arrived at Warsaw on the Ist instant, from the theatre of war in Hungary. He was honoured with a most brilliant reception by his Majesty the Emperor, in presence of the troops drawn up on the parade, before the palace of Lazienki. Comorn still continues to hold out; and notwithstanding all the efforts of Klapta to convince the garrison of the impossi bility of a resistance, and the continued desertions from the fortress, there are still from 12,000 to 14,000 men fanatically resolved to hold out. in the vain hope of vic tory for the Magyars. Count Nugent will take the com mand of the siege of the fortress, if Comorn refuses to surrender at the expiration of the armistice. The Emperor of Austria has pardoned Georgey, and the latter has departed for Styria, where he intends for the present to reside. The report of the Emperor being about to espouse a Saxon Princess seems to be confirmed. The Emperor will bp crowned during the year at Presburg. General Haynau has ordered the Jews of the Banat to deliver to the Austrian army, within four months, 100,000 havresacks, 10,000 cloaks, 10,000 pairs of shoes, and 5000 pairs of boots. For every day's delay the Jews are to pay 1000 f. fine. At Arad the Austrian general Schlick has also exacted considerable contributions from the Jews ; but the Lloyd's says that in the latter town the Jews were getting themselves baptised Christians. ROME. Louis Napoleon has written a letter to Elgard Ney, his aide-de-camp at Rome, which has been published there. In this letter the President Napoleon says the Fr.-nca republic has not sent troops to Rome to stifle Italian liberty. He considers the temporal power of the Pope to be possible only on the following conditions,—general amnesty, secularisation of government, Code Napoleon, and liberal government. The government states that an aid-de-camp of the President of the Republic had set out for Rome with instructions to General Rostolan to take from the cardinals an administration of which they have mades uch a dangerous use. The exiled Jesuits have returned to Rome, and in large numbers, are taking possession of the pulpits and con fessionals. _ _ THE ROMAN PRINTERS.—The typos of the eternal city are famishing. The Cardinal Triumvirate have told told them that a few hundreds had better starve than the minds of the whole populace be poisoned by their produc tions 1 _ _ _ FRENCH LYING IN ROME.—The Piedmontese Gazette says :—" It appears that the French anticipate a long residence in Rome, as on the 17th an order was given for 11,000 beds for their use." Every sort of bed, no doubt ; save and except a bed of roses and a bed of glory. Colonel Ney has arrived in Paris from Rome. General Oudinot has arrived at Marseilles. Coulon, the well-known operatic dancer, died at Paris a few days ago of cholera. A stratum of coal, near the Nile, in Upper Egypt, has been discovered. _ . Oscar, King of Sweden, has turned teetotaller, and is sending teetotal missionaries throughout his country to detail the blessings of temperance. Father Mathew has proved a renegade to bis philan thropy, by refusing to join the anti-slavery movement. He does not want to lose his chance of curing the slave drivers of drunkenness. Considerate man ! _ _ _ The Cape of Good Hope papers mention that valuable copper mines have been discovered in the neighbourhood of Port Elizabeth, and that steps have been taken to obtain Cornish miners to direct the working of them. The Austrians took possession of Venice on the 28th ult., without any exhibition of feeling either on the part of the conquerers or the conquered. The victors marched into the city without any ostentatious display. The German papers announce to grocers and cheese mongers that upwards of 500 bales of the stenographic reports and archives of the Ex-National Assembly of Frankfort will be brought to the hammer, and sold as waste paper, in order to defray outstanding expenses. The Morning Post mentions a cavern of extraordinary dimensions discovered in the vicinity of Bilboa. It con tains galleries of more than 500 paces in length ' • spacious halls, large enough to hold five companies of soldiers ; wonderful crystallisations, and a thousand of nature's whims and oddities. _ _ NOT A BAD JUDGE.—A captain writes from Califor nia :—" The other day I had a judge on board, who said he went to Oregon, appointedto that office by the United States, but that the inducement to come here in search of gold was so great that he gave up his appointment, with out leave or licence, and came to the diggings." We have a high notion of this Yankee. Depend upon it, he had heard the gold condemned, and thinking it in his heart " pure," he went out of his way purposely. as a good judge, to give it a fair trial. LAW INTELLIGENCE. IkLEGAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.—A case was on Wednesday tried at Hungerford County Court, in which a person named Bishop. who resides at Ramsbury, in Wiltshire, was charged by the Apothecaries' Company with practising as an apothecary without being legally qualified. Mr. W. H. Rowland explained that the action was brought under the 55th of George 111., chap. 194, commonly called the Apothecaries' Act, by which it is pro vided that it shall not be lawful for any person or persons (except persons then in practice as such) to practise as an apothecary in any part of England or Wales, unless he has passed his examination and received a certificate of his be ing duly qualified. He then adduced evidence to prove that Bishop, who possessed no certificate, had acted as an apothecary, and furnished medicines for the use of a man named Henry Bagman, who subsequently died. Mr. Astley, for the defend, endeavoured to show that the evi dence had failed in proving the charge, and raised some technical objections which were overruled by the Court. He denied that there was any proof of his client, who 'was a very respectable man, practising at Ramsbuay as a ph, - sician and chymist, having compounded the medicine. The jury, however, brought in a verdict for the plaintiffs for £2O, the amount claimed. This is said to be the first case of the kind which has been tried on the merits. IRELANII ......................-. Major Jenner, of the Lord Lieutenant's Household, is among the victims of cholera at Dublin. On Sunday week, two youths, sixteen yerrs of age, were drowned while bathing in the river at Londonderry. The large Methodist chapel in Donegal-square, Belfast, has been destroyed by fire. The building was insured for £.4.000. Michael Hogan, a bailiff, died on Thursday, near Wa terford, of the injuries inflicted on him on the 23rd ult., when distraining for rent. Five out of one hundred " Whiteboys," who, with blackened faces, were attacking a few keepers on a farm in the county Waterford, were gallantly captured by a small party of pol ice a few days ago. The Nenagh paper reports several more cases of a mul titudinous carrying away of the crops, by the peasanty—to cheat landlords of their rent. The thing is settling down into a systematic procedure in that county. It is said that several regiments are to be withdrawn from Ireland, the quiet state of the country not requiring the presence of the powerful force at present stationed here. The Scots Greys and two other cavalry regiments have received orders of readiness for England. A FOOLISH CONFESSION.—Mr. M`Gee, in a" personal narrative" in the Nation, states that he and some other Young Irelanders wished, in July last year, " to land 400 to 500 stanch men at Sligo or Killala, where the Govern ment were completely off their guard. It would be like hitting the enemy on the back of the bead." It is pitiful to repeat such braggadocio now. THE OTONNELLS.—On Tuesday Mr. Maurice O'Con nell, the firstborn of the late Liberator, arrived in his yacht in the Suir. He was accompanied by his brother Dan". They promenaded our quays for some time, accompanied by a young gentleman, probably a nephew or relative, and passed along without a cheer or scarcely a recognition by any of the serfs who kissed the dust at the footstool of their father.—Waterj ord Mail. There has been a most comic debate in the Cork corpo ration about some twopenny-halfpenny expenses incurred on the occasion of the Queen's visit. The scene was perfectly Pickwickian in its character. The account given by the treasurer of the trip down the river on a Friday, when the catholic corporators could not eat meat, and their solacing themselves with tea, was very laugh able. The opposition to paying the expenses arose from only four members of the 64 town councillors. " HARVEST HOME" IN THE WEST OF IRELAND. — The " stop the harvest" cry has been caught up west of the Shannon, the " croppies' having extended their ope rations to the neighbourhood of Athlone, on the border of the counties of Westmeath and Roscommon, where, it appears, so great is the scramble for growing crops be come, and so widespread the new system of fraud, that the police are kept constantly employed in endeavouring to prevent affrays between bailiffs and defaulting tenants. FATALITY.—On Monday, the cholera took off a daughter of Mr. William Murphy, the eminent sale master, of Dublin, who died on the preceding evening ; and in the course of the following morning, the lady was seized with illness, which terminated fatally before night. Her remains were' removed from her father's house for burial just one hour before the body of her parent was consigned to the same resting place. The Dublin Post of Frday announces the death of Mr. Murphy's third son, Charles, by the same cruel malady. The Nenagh board of guardians have selected three hundred female paupers as eligible emigrants for Austra • lia. They were all between the ages of 16 and 19. They were seated in the dining-ball, some of them occupied in writing, others in reading, and all manifested deep anxiety and the utmost gratification at the idea of becoming in dustrious " emigrants," instead of being worthless, idle " paupers." They were neatly and cleanly dressed— they appeared active and intelligent ; and, although in mates of a poor-house, they possessed rosy cheeks, smi ling countenances, and healthy-looking appearances, and many of them could lay a bona fide claim to that unpa ralleled beauty for which the daughters of Erin are so characteristic. Out of these three hundred, Lieut. Henry, emigration agent, is to select one hundred and fifty—the number which Government will only send from any one union. They will be sent off forthwith, and be provided with outfits, &c. TUE REVIVED " NATlON.—Emboldened, or cheered, it may be, by the favourable reception given to the first number of the revived Nation, Mr. Gavan Duffy gains courage, sees more clearly the way before him, and on Saturday more fully developes the fine of policy which he conceives to be the most practicable towards recovering the ground lost by the two systems of agitation which, after a series of blunders and convulsions, have left Ire land in the same position in the year 1849 which she oc cupied just 20 years previously. Mr. Duffy commences by reiterating his repudiation of the war policy. Fight they cannot; to fly the country would be cowardice; and as to the middle course, the formation of an Irish League, "it is already a vague and distant tradition of better times." It is, then, on the effects of the famine that Mr. Duffy grounds his hopes of working out• the task he has assigned to himself. The famine, he says, has done part of the work that revolution might have accomplished at a smaller waste of life and property. "It has shattered the stronghold of the people's chief enemy," the depopulating landlords, to wit. He insists, too, that no experiment has yet had fair play. " National independence" is still the shadowy prize for which he means to contend. The destruction of the oligarchy in both countries, as the basis for liberty laid in the formation of a small proprie tary, Mr. Duffy thinks might be easily accomplished by a junction of Irish Repealers with the "advanced party in England." But listen to his description of those same " Repealers " :—" I know that the Repeal party in Ire land have used their political franchises and social influ ence in a way to degrade and dishonour the country : and I desire to see the best men of the party set deliberately to work to reverse this system. The Repeal members, the Repeal corporations, the Repeal agitators, are a visible and standing reproach to Ireland, more discouraging to our hopes than 20 Ballingarry failures." The Irish members of Parliament next come in for a taste of Mr. Duffy's quality:—" While Ireland sends to Parliament fellows like dunghills, so foul that honest men hold their noses when they approach them, and hurry past with all reasonable despatch—what, indeed, could come of Parlia mentary operations ? But if we cannot reverse all this utterly we labour in vain." In conclusion, Mr. Duffy lays down a map of duties for the National Association, which smack marvellously of the old Conciliation-hall fraud. Who is there that does not recollect the 11 pro positions propounded by the late Mr. O'Connell for the redemption of Ireland, and the disappointment of the Re peal party, who, even then, regarded them as but a shabby subterfuge to shelve the once " darling project" of the Liberator's life ? The Duffy nostrums are, if possible, more astounding specimens of humbug. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. -'• The traffic on the Chester and Holyhead Railway, for the week ending Sept. 2, was—Coaching traffic, £1999 9s. 9d. •, parcels, &c., £5316. 3d. ; goods, cattle, &c. £213 9s. 9d.; steam-boats, £225 2s. 6d. Total, £24911f35. 3d. The late Mr. Justice Coltman, at the time of his death, held £20,000 of stock in the Great Northern line, £16,000 of which was paid up. In his will he expressed a wish that this investment should be continued, and that the remaining £4,000 should be paid up. . RATING OF RAILWAYS.—The London and North western Railway Company appealed, at a late special session held at Newton, against the rates assessed upon the Liverpool and Manchester and North Union line, situate in that parish. They have it was proved, been in the habit of paying one-fifth of the entire rates to the parish (which contains upwards of 3,000 acres, and has a population of 3,000), although the entire quantity of land occupied by the railway is but 43 acres. Mr. Marsh, the solicitor for the parish, admitted that, with respect to the North Union line, the assessment ought to be reduced form £l,OOO to £4OO per mile. The Magistrates, how ever—Mr. Allcard and Dr. Green—confirmed both rates, granting an appeal from the decision to the court of quarter ses.ions. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—The half yearly meeting of this company was held at Manchester, on Wednesday, Mr. 11. Houldsworth in the chair. The revenue account for the half-year ending 30th of June showed that £276,062 had been received, and £119,855 expended, including £12,526 for taxes, leaving a balance applicable to interest and dividend of £156,206. From this the directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, leaving a surplus of £22,868 to be carried to the next account. The report was unanimously adopted, and the accounts were passed. The following resolution was also adopted : "That the directors be autho rised to raise the sum of £560,000, by mortgage of their several undertakings, under the powers of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. That under the pro visions of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Act, 1849, this meeting consents to the payment, in full, in advance of calls, of any of the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury £lOO, Manchester and Leeds £lOO, £5O, and £25, and Liverpool and Bury £5O shares, for the time being held by any shareholder, and that such of the shares as shall be so paid up shall be converted and consolidated into the general capital stock of the company." ' MIDLAND RAILWAY MEETING.—The half-yearly meet ing of this company was held on Friday, at Derby ; J. Ellis, Esq., M.P.,in the chair. A dividend was declared and agreed to of per cent. for the half-year. The report of the directors was agreed to, with the exception of the clause respecting the lease of the Leeds and Bradford line, and the opinion of the directors on Mr. Waddingham's conduct.—Mr. Ellis gave notice that four new directors were to be elected, and he recommended the following gentlemen as the choice of the present board : Messrs. Garbutt and Beverley, of Leeds ; Mr. Mercer, of Bristol ; and Mr. Smith, of Sheffield.—This recommendation was agreed to by the meeting.—The attempt to elect Mr. Wylie, of Liverpool, was ineffectual, the objection being that he did not reside upon the line.—Many questions were asked by shareholders, requesting explanations of small items in the report, which Mr. Ellis regretted he could not explain from the incomplete state of the ac counts of the company, but promised, if he continued in the direction, that the accounts should be so explicitly rendered as to have no such questions unanswered in future.—A vote of thanks was unanimously passed to Mr. Wylie, as a shareholder, for his conduct during the late investigation of the proceedings of Messrs. Waddingham and Murgatroyd.—The meeting, with the exception of some personal recriminations between Mr. Chas. Greach, of Birmingham, and Mr. Wylie, of Liverpool, was re markably quiet, and concluded at half-past six, after last ing five hours and a half, with a vote of thanks to the cluOrm an. RAILWAY DISCLOSURES—YORK AND NORTH MID - LAND.—It appears that the capital account is charged with £21,493 for shares in the Malton and Driffield rail way; also, £48,178 for shares purchased in the Hull and Selby Railway, after repudiating £38,843 of the last mentioned shares, purchased by Mr. Hudson, and for which, among, the assets in the balance-sheet. stands Mr. Hudson's promiseory note and interest, £40,392. We hope some other names are joined to this promissory note besides Mr. Hudson's, or at all events that the sharesjust mentioned (value as returned on Mr. Hudson's hands £38,8431 are held by the York and North Midland Com pany, as collateral security for his note of hand. In the balance-sheet the debts owing to the company w ere stated at £BO,OOO. This sum cannot be for arrears owing by carriers ; and must, we fear, comprise a large amount of bad debts, and may include moneys Owing by some of the directors, or moneys misapplied to some illeg al purposes. This company appears to have raised already £606,327 for the purchase of the Hull and Seiby Railway, none of which seems to have been applied for such purpose, ex cept the £48,178 above mentioned : nor have they any thing in the way of cash or other assets to pay the balance of £558,149, except £239,403 (including 80.000 sundry debtors, and Mr. George Hudson's note for £40,392). The remaining amount of £318,706 has therefore been actually misapplied and misappropriated from the express purpose for which it was raised. The York and North Midland is not the only board guilty of such malversation as certain bills filed in Chancery will shortly demonstrate. The accounts showed a balance in hand of £17.875. No dividend was declared. Mr. Hudson was railed at by many speakers, who denounced him as a sharper, scoun drel, liar, &c., and all the directors were called upon to resign. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Mr. Best, conservative, has been returned for Kidder minster by a majority of 17 over Mr. Gisborne. Mr. John O'Connell has just completed a new work, which will be published by Mr. Bentley. It is entitled Recollections and Experiences of Parliament Life since Mr. O'Connell entered the House in 1833." Sir Robert Peel's desired price for wheat, in 1842, was from 545. to 58s. It will not surprise us to find the ave rage of wheat in this month of September, 1849, fluctua ting between 345, and 38s. ! It was the pleasure of the Whigs to ascribe the failure of the Ballingarrry insurrection to the loyalty (!) of the Romish priesthood in that neighbourhood. Their rever ences have taken a very satisfactory method to throw off the stigma of loyalty which the Whigs would fix upon them. It seems that during the Queen's visit to Ireland, the priests in the district of BallingarryA presented an ad dress to her Majesty, which has just been given to the world in the new Nation. It speaks in insolent and dis gusting terms of the church of which the Queen is the sworn defender and temporal head ; and then the loyal priests in plain terms avow that they kept their flocks from taking up arms against the Queen's authority on this one principle, that that authority was a monster too strong for them, but which they hated as they did the wild beasts that would ravage their homes ! Here are their very words :—" In relation to the ill-advised attempt of the last year, the great majority of the Catholic clergy of Ireland acted on the same principle, and none other, which would impel a father to snatch his son from en un armed encounter with a lion or a tiger. He would fain save his son from the fatal consequences of his own rash impulses, or the no less rash suggestions of others, but he would not love the monster who had ravaged his fields one whit the more !" An address containing this passage, and rearm others of like spirit, was politely acknowledged by the Queen's ministers ! THE PROFESSED SYMPATHY WITH THE HUNGARIANS. —The movement has been so utterly light and unreal that we cannot even dignify it by the title of a delusion. In a delusion there is commonly a definite belief and something of an object. Here there has been none. Crowds have met at public meetings to " express their sympathy," as it is called, in formal resolutions. While a dozen different tribes on the banks of the Danube were cutting one another's throats and destroying the little civilization they had attained to, comfortable gentlemen were expressing sympathy for some of the said tribes—it was difficult to say which—in our provincial town-halls and suburban tea gardens. They met to pat Hungary on the back, and did not take the trouble to consider whether it were kind to do so, or the most abominable cruelty. Their conduct was that of a passenger in the streets who sees a plucky little fellow showing fight to a big one, or, perhaps, to two big ones, and amuses hi mse lf b y t a ki ng th e par t of the little one. " That's right," he cries, "At him again," " Don't be beat." The victim of this sympathy begins to show signs of punishment, and forthwith his generous backer sneaks off to his own avocations. Hungary has succumbed, and where is British sympathy ? Is any man eating one dinner the less, or would any man eat one dinner the less if Russia were to decree the utter desolation of Hungary ? Then what is the use of such sympathy—sympathy which knows nothing, costs nothing, intends nothing, means nothing, is nothing at all? When Dr. Johnson was an noyed by the flattery of a silly woman, he said, " Pray, madam, have you c o nsid ere d h ow much your approbation is worth ?" • We may ask the friends of Hungary, " Pray, gentlemen, what is the value of your friendship ?" It is worth nothing at all, and that is the reason why it is offered so freely; just as the countryman in Horace thrusts his pears on his friend, because he has more than his own pigs can eat.—Times. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. The next ordination of the Bishop of Manchester will be held in the parish church, Blackburn, on the 21st of October. On Wednesday, the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new church, at Chorley, to be dedicated to St. Peter, was performed by the Bishop of Manchester. The Rev. Cyprian Rust, for many years minister of the Baptist Chapel, in Colchester, has withdrawn from that body, and is preparing himself for holy orders in the Church of England. - The Rev. R. Parkinson, Principal of St. Bees' College, has presented to the church a reading desk of fine oak, admirably carved, after an elaborate design, embracing varied and well-selected details from the rich tracery of the style of Gothic architecture, known as late pointed or perpendicular English, and prevalent during the period embracing the 15th century. AFRICAN EPISCOPAL dIIIIRCH IN NEW YORK.—The Rev. A. Crum mell preached on Sunday morning at Christ Church, Preston, and in the evening at St. Peter's, in aid of this object. A public meeting to promote the same was held last night in the Corn Exchange, Preston. To morrow, (Wednesday,) Mr. Crummell will preach in Mr. Stowell's church, Manchester. On Wednesday last (the.day appointed by the clergy of Hull, with the sanction of the Archbishop of York, as a day of humiliation, in consequence of the dreadful visita tion of cholera), special services were held in all the churches and chapels of that town. The day was gene rally observed as a Sabbath by all classes, and every place of worship was crowded to excess both morning and evening. THE REV. P. CLOSE.—This gentleman some time ago became responsible for £2OOO for the benefit of the Chel tenham Training College. The difficulty in raising that sum, the liability the engagement entailed upon him, and the opposition raised against the scheme at Bristol and elsewhere, has, it is said, so preyed upon the rev. gentle man's mind as to seriously affect his health. Under these circumstances his friends have determined to come for ward and relieve him from the responsibility ; and to that end, we understand, that the life-governors of the training school have guaranteed the payment of £l5OO, and his friends in Cheltenham have put down their names for the remaining £5OO. THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND MR. GORHAM.— The appeal in the case of Gorham versus the Bishop of Exeter is expected to be heard by the Judicial Council of the Lords about the end of the year. In addition to the usual Law Lords, including Lords Brougham and Camp bell, but excluding the Lord Chancellor, as being the pre senter to the living, and tbereby an interested party, there will be summoned, it is said, both the archbishops and a few of the bishops. Should the opinion be confirmed, the case will not be settled. There is another proceeding, it must be remembered, going on—that in the Court of Queen's Bench, under the title of the Queen versus the Bishop of Exeter, the object of which is to compel the right rev. prelate to institute Mr. Gorham to the living in question. This will be tried, it is understood, at Nisi Prius, at the next Exeter assizes. Should it be decided against the bishop, an appeal will then be instituted to the twelve judges ; and should4t result in a similar issue, it will be then carried to the House of Lords. Thus it may be a long time before the case is finally decided ; and all this time Mr. Gorham is deprived of his living, as well as subjected to heavy legal expenses. MARRIAGES OF UNCONFIRMED PERSONS.—For some, time past the Vicar of Leigh and the Incumbent of Bed ford have refused to marry, or to publish the banns of marriage, of unconfirmed persons. A government pro secution has been instituted against the latter clergyman for refusing to marry two parties whose banns had been published in the usual manner before the board of guar dians, and who presented to him the registrar's certificate. The trial is expected to take place at the next Liverpool assizes, and the offence is described as one of misdemea nor. A few weeks ago a young man named James Wil liamson, of the parish of Lowton, and a young woman named Mary Ann Kearsley, of the parish of Leigh, de sired the Vicar of Leigh to publish the banns of mar riage ; but he refused, on the ground that the female had not been confirmed. An appeal was therefore made to the Bishop of Manchester, who directed the vicar to pub lish the banns. They have accordingly been published during the last two Sundays. The vicar, however, has intimated his intention of instituting proceedings against the female, her father, and brother ; the father for neglecting to cause his children to be confirmed, and the children for neglecting to come for that purpose. THE FUNDS OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.—It will be remembered that in May last, we had to congratulate our readers on the flourishing state of the finances of all the great religious societies. Simultaneously, and in a very remarkable manner, their incomes had been augmented during the year 1848, and, as far as mere pecuniary pros pects were concerned, all seemed in the highest state of prosperity. Yet those who possessed the longest experi ence in these matters felt, and plainly avowed their belief; that a re-action would naturally and inevitably follow. To be at ease, to have money enough for all demands, is a state of affairs often coveted by committee-men ; but nothing is more certain than that a society which is in a comfortable and easy position as to finances, having all that it can desire, will first find its advance checked, and then will perceive a retrograde motion beginning. The public desiring to use their money to advantage, will send con tributions to societies that are in need, and will withhold them from those that appear to have abundance. The publications of the different societies now state to us these facts :—The Church Missionary Society, on an average of five years, had generally received, between April 1 and July 31, the sum of £17,675 is. In 1849, those four months produced only £13,310 ss. 10d. The Church Pastoral-Aid Society reports its deficiency of receipts, in the same four months, to amount to very nearly £3,000, as compared with the same months of 1848. The London City Mission reports that its Receipts in May, June, and July, 1848, were £3,547 13s. 4d. Do. in May, June, and July, 1849, only £2,547 Os. Od. Thus we perceive that it is not a sudden loss of popularity in one society, but a general stoppage of a large portion of the usual contribu tions to all. Sept 11, 1840, COURT AND FASHION. a" The Earl of Aberdeen arrived at Balmoral , n il lid on Monday. t A Court was held at Balmoral on Wednesd a Y:lo V a Form of Prayer was ordered, to be used in al' 'met° and chapels, beseeching Almighty God to Ten' plague of cholera from amongst us. ,10 ' After the arrival of the royal party at the 01 0. ' 0 V on Thursday, they enjoyed a boating excur s in. n te ppl, Muick. His Royal Highness had no sooner ' t ber board than he stripped his coat, and, addressin,gio litd who mere employed in propelling the hand,roiig, craft, said, " Come, let us have turn about ; t ben' the same time a place beside them, and aiding " tugging at the labouring oar." 0 On Sunday week , as usual, albeit the dal to, tremely bad one, the Queen and Prince Alberta I°,ooo, places in the church of Craithie precisely at the goie, hour. It rained throughout the forenoon 39 it.,os;:i only for up among the mountains, and this circ " may have induced many who had proposed to be itbett to determine on remainin g within doors. S til o cA gregation was a numerous one. Mr. Anderso n ii the pulpit. He read in his usual course, an d bill , with an energy and confid e n ce suc h as he had n ot exhibited, a very excellent and edifying discours e ' 0 10 The Prince of Wales, clad in the Highland er b 15 of 0 seen wandering among the hill s in the vicinity parents' home. Gse Prince Albert is taking occasional lessons tihougo from the Rev. Mr. Anderson, of C r athie, wh o, Lowlander, is a good Gaelic scholar. ' diga es' The bluff frankness and contempt of frigid ro diry 4 a hibited by Prince Albert have made him ~,,"r si lly favourite with the class from whi c h the comPet' " Gatherings" are drafted. ee 1391 j! On Wednesday, Lord John Russell, fico r " P pst,• Horatio Ross, went out deer stalkinte in Mar Ft ) ,, r r hief 4 after a successful stalk, in which he showed us,n o rt, rest as in the hottest parliamentary debate,m,sov shot a fine stag dead at 120 yards, and w ounde d which, however, got away. Do o General Cabrera is at present on a visit withi-oOt of Rutland, at his grace's shooting-box, Longab asre Derbyshire. I b,A The Earl of Jersey has left Brougham Hall'll , were, h ir noble earl has been staying d ur i ng the week , w;0'01' a Brougham, for Dupplin C a stl e , P er thshire, t c " - circle of the Earl and Countess of Kinnoull. COURT ETIQUETTE.—A volume bearing th is „V i which Mr. C, Mitchell is the publisher, has s s "„ n de; the press. It is the largest, the most e l a borateybos dently the most authentic book of its class tba" td appeared. o FASH lONS FOR SEPTEMBER.—At this se wool 'wool year, although most of our elegantes are at thela s :ior 4 watering places, yet they no not forget to a dopt ..,"" recherche toilettes, for which there is ample se° l lb, as regards morning and evening costumes ; let 1 1;0i1t 3 7 4 fore see what is the last mode respecting stra w ,colle' c i which are now very generally adopted. Fl r ibboPol they are simply decorated either with ruches °' ', e oV e t a bouquet at the side; whilst the Italian stravT o f 1 1 °, 0 ',4 entirely without trimming. Those comP"' et. c, o l ,)l hair are of the lightest description. For carriag e ., ale' O f we remark that feathers are very generally w` w ,," 1 ,10 6 0 (1 those which are shaded and droop gracefully --, 4 u tio s ,o marabouts knotted at the ends, tips of feather s dited 'three colours; whilst those which are deeersa r et e t flowers are mostly formed in wreaths of verdure, boo upon each side in clusters. That favourite styl e t! t , c otsid made of paille deniztis extrem e ly e l egan t, when u cr otti li with rows of lace, which also serve to form the t icols i t i e the bonnet, having a very disti ngu e effect, S i" :11i 0 d If when enriched with a cluste r o f marabouts colours for the present month are still of licht ' 1 ,0;0 0 colours predominating for out-d oor d re ss, ond w- in! 0, blue, and straw colou r p re d om i na ti ng for morPach evening ; plain colours are a l so muc h i n vog u e lilac, different shades of green, and purple---' Fashion. THE BERMONDSEY MURDER' Thursday being the eefic ol , tjr tion of Mr. and Mrs. Manning, the vicinity 0 ' 0 0a 1 1/i was thronged at an early hour by a considerahled for t v prisoners o e n rs e o r n s s t , o a b n e d b a r s o t u w g e h l t ve u p o: o'clock, orect., near,tbe h t o h u e r i . n fi t s e e ri of t co The e u d n e p n ie s a e s l a v n c t ro s w ee d n e e d , . taix orJ er The governor or norsemonger-lane Gaol, i°, l ,,,ce u db place 111 h off er ere h d us t b o a a n l d lo , w bu A t lrs s . h 3 e l r a e n tu li c r e ig d t t o o ha t ' a v k e e a a n dvan„,oooo „, offer, observing, " don't want to have anY r' t , o net, tion with . twelve o'clock the male P n( 11 0 '0 1 brought in and placed at one end of the dock , i t Fe f ' d a diately afterwards the female prisoner, who toN 500 „it the other extremity. Manninc , was re'uesied t° o , bei ee i on a chair, but, being a great, hulking fe ll° upon the side of the dock in a careless attitude,,,, resting upon the chair, and hands on his oil 1 1 which he laid his hat. He looked much better tbsop,iol last occasion when he was brought up. He ltad of thick blue paletot, buttoned yup to the, teu b b'd a pink silk 'kerchief round his neck, which t1) , ' 10 11 flash fashion. It may, perhaps, he rnentio ue r oce' d countenance has altogether a repulsive aei'" )o o/1 0 :0' that his neek.is very abort, and so thick that , s - 0 It from behind, it seems t o p ro j ec t out a l m es"; e d 8. 15- o' ol part of the head. Mrs. Ma nn i ng was ralne s ; h at stand up on a chair, but d ec li ne d, observing gt‘ t- i te' too high, and she was allowed t o , stand on t' 8 0i 0 1:.A She looked extremely well, and entered into sl i do es . ," of conversation, previous to the examination r c esr:c€ with Mr. Keene and Mr. Solomons, in tue nat efrfi t er which a continued smile played upon her 0 , - 40 11 01 When she was requested to lift up her veil rou„,lost,„ie countenance, she immediately complied. The'Laskr seemed to leave her countenance, and it aftervm" 1 04 pale. The court was nearly cleared before the Pr's,,,,ce,;" o 9 removed from the dock. Manni n did 11 0 t,:dook , "; from the positi on h e fi rs t t oo k on the side of t"' ol is' .l 6o l he only spoke once to his solicitor during the el r alei co V' to which he gave great attention. He looked the appeared quite at his ease. Mrs. Manning, 00 4 trary, several times turned round in the cours e A or dence, and consulted with Mr. Solomons.loot‘rt:cl4 Towards the close of the p rocee di n gs she „,.0 ~ fatigued. More than once she was noticed to bun , round, and give a searching gl ance into be r b i, to l pf e face, but when be observed her he hung de o% On Friday the prisoners were a g ain brougo n d viously to their appearance in court Manning t,..vae, c were allowed to see each other privately, but ti - ilie,`l l ° F all communication with each other, and duriegbeElpe! prolonged examination they studiously avoided t re , sri l glance of recognition. Both affected conient o nce d l i ll indifference; but neither could altogether ',her anxiety as to their perilous position. That„ ' :,, e 0 0 „ 0 committed for trial is a matter of course. T r es sion of the Central Criminal Court comnr!, 01 1 °,4 a 17th of this month, but should the execurn' t pos e oll crown prosecutors to accede to a request for P° the trial will not come on until the close ", 5 e v 3 ° ec to t , October. yeandeloil` The male prisoner appeared eAler and ro ° and having complained of being unwell, he 1 0 , 6 1 10 dated with a seat. The female p r isoner 1001 health, and stood the whole morning. I cal l 6" p' Amongst the remarks, Manning said, " i'.; t rat° o .o" (Mrs. Manning) in the presence of Inag t- hot clergyman, she will confess it was her that 5 00; nor." After the examination of a number of witntre testimony was the same as at the inquest' adjourned to the 15th instant. es rt 'of Mrs. Manning has somewhat recovered o°o be eit,, she displayed on the fact being made known i t 5 11e 4f husband's arrival in Horsemonger-lane Ga expresses much concern about Manning, s n ", t re'y ing of him remarks, " Ah, poor boy, he ouglipoll3io „J been taken." Scarcely a word escapes her t ol‘e it oe'leP ence to the part she is supposed to have h , are dreadful crime. All her thoughts apparen t gr . ,,Xlr l to dress. Having obtained permission frOlarid ' w ry the police magistrate, for some satin dress es be re s ce found in her luggage when apprehended, to. 0004 her, she has been employed most of the tI F / a b ad d s last appearance at the police-court in prelt ri „ s y tiQi for her examination. She has been very u n " bet d a double fall to her bonnet, so as to ser er ; Ol e f i i vyi says, from the vulgar gaze of the,wob. ,b J ieffroso desire to see Mr. Moxey, the superinterlueLo o odl ~ burgh police, but being told that that Qc o tyt the met ropolis to attend his official duties in seemed rather disappointed, and o bserve u r 11 00 l wished particularly to have thanked him 1° g o " manly conduct ;" adding, " but I intendt,&4llll'ooo,o Scotland as soon as I have got over this d i llP t iale re kAl will call and see him." During the schtn e o bse r c rA been in the prison, it has been generalill she relies much on the belief that she g w be rb e l ocl i tl satisfastorily clearing away all suspicion 0' „pest i rV, cerned in the murder of O'Connor. The.,,% l tt coo conduct of Manning have undergone! , .„ 9 1, 1 d , prison. Monday he seemed depressed 'tl 'l,OlO day week he expressed a wish to have al l j o rrar rea r his wife, but Mr. Keene, the governor , in .;ra ilar o te'Y on a previous occasion when he made a r „G"V that it could not be granted. Mrs. 14 - 8 " 0 ..10 11 #l, Divine service in the chapel at Horsernolter,oooo ,y Sunday week, both in the morning aod 111J I !fe t ° husband was not present at either serv.ice•bis 0 1 i0 1," 0 0 ( 11 asserts his own innocence, and upbraids to e sr!aol, I, sole perpetrator of the deed. The police or PI A reoY gaged in making inquiries after the air fordo:, which the bullet found in deceased's h" j f r olY will be recollected that a dress was foul' t be . co o t qi i Haynes in one of Mrs. Manning's boxes', rflit s deilsP, left shoulder of which bore marks of blooa• r o i etio 6 the admission made by Manning, when to,roed,, Mrs. Manning invited O'Connor down sr', sts l t bet t , hands, and when reaching the bottom 0 f the one arm round O'Connor's neck, and W i e dress tie° him through the head. The stains on th,_ st g eo examined by Mr. Odling, surgeon, and t n b i o oclAplet of opinion that they are marks of human og , " It having been reported that Mrs. Ma itortl,4olobl,4 to be a Swiss, and her maiden name e co oriT 9 Roux, is a relation of the man Francois ,rancitirocii murderer of Lord William Russell, Mr. Fran Co o ., (P who was engaged by the Crown to pros i , paP A .O O ,lr, has corrected the error in a letter to a n e 3 ` ri ' o d, ' O O5 voisier was, (lie says) a native of Swilz_ d v erl t i o yy same canton as Mrs. Manning comes: t :b e rer,, hi% same city of Lausanne, but among all, vo ca ";:pe „if friends of Courvoisier who were made 1'. 0 , 0 % 0 ` Ovio" coan so irfe tinvyasaienastlrl town wocfocnr Courvoisier uuomrr otherwise, vrrvA:idiristiaiserg. eAlc anmn t mt h ne: e i enisrg n ts: a amb m mtei. r ene arg o e f flo rl tnroe i vbs n: od s wri ttyrey