The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

THE RAILWAYS OF LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. YORK. NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY, There is no company whose proceedings have raised of late so much stir in the world as this company, of which Mr. George Hudson was lately the presiding spirit. We therefore select its history for the next place in our series. The nucleus of the lines now incorporated under the title of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway, was the Newcastle and Darlington, for which an act was passed in 1842, with a share capital and borrowing powers amounting in all to £886,000. It had been previously brought forward in conjunction with the Great North of England in 1835 ; but was laid on the shelf owing to the depression in trade which followed that year. In the three years following 1842 the company had procured additional acts, authorising the purchase of the Durham and Sunderland Railway, the Wearmouth Dock, and the Pontop and South Shields Railway, and to raise the capi tal required. In the beginning of July. under the powers of these acts, it had a total capital and borrow ng power of £2,705,066. At this period one of the most extensive transactions was resolved upon ever attempted in the railway world— viz., the purchase of the Great North of England Rail way ; and on the 21st of the month an act was obtained for the purpose, and authorising the raising of an addi tional four mi:lions sterling. The wlio!e capital, by this and other acts. was now raised to £7,064,000. The terms upon which this purchase was effected were considered at the time extravagant, a premium of £l5O being agreed to be paid upon each £lOO share. The transaction is thus described in a note to Mr. Scrivenor's Railways of the United Kingdom : "The most remarkable transactions in which the York and Newcastle Company has been engaged, is the agreement for the lease and purchase of the Great North of England Railway, which was authorised by an act passed in July, 1846. Under the authority of that act, the purchase is to be made at a pre mium of 150 per cent., about .e 230 being payable for each .4'loo share. 7, 1 i is stated that previous to the purchase, the full guaran teed dividend is allowed upon the 4'40 shares, though only .4 , 5 has been paid up, interest at the rate of 4 per cent. on the opaid capital being deducted. Thus 10 per cent. is allowed on the .W 5 I:aid, and 6 per cent. (the difference between 10 and 4) on the .e 35 unpaid. In other words, an annual interest of £2 12s. is paid on £5, being at the rate of 52 per cent. It is stated in the returns of the Company, that the remaining calls on these shares are never to be made, the amount due upon them being of course deducted for the purchase money in 1850. The purchase money l'eing .elOO, there will then remain a sum of .£65 due to the shareholders. The transaction would, there fore, be as foNows. The sum of .e 5 only having be.m advanced on the share, an interest of £2 12s. will be payable upon it annually up to the year 1850, when a bonus of .i'6s will be added. In other words, an original shareholder, to whom a number of these new shares have been allotted, will receive upon the money so advanced an interest of 52 per ce..t. up to the year 1850, when he will, in addition, obtain a bonus of 1,200 per cent. " It is curious to trace the effect of these transactions on the price of the shares. "In July, 1845, the shares of the Great North of England Company were at 37 discount. In January, 1844, at 14 dis count. In July, 1844, they were at par. In January, 1845, they had risen to .t'3B premium. and in July, 1845, when the arrangements had been made, they rose tot 144 premium." The whole concern now includes the following lines : Length of Lines now open for Traffic. Miles. Chains. Newcastle and Darlington Junction 23 201 Durham Branch Durham Junction Newcastle and Berwick 6l 72 North Shields and Tynemouth Pontop and South Shields Brandling Junction Great North of England Richmond Branch Boroughbridge 6 54 Durham and Sunderland Bedale Branch 5 40 Hartlepool Dock and Railway 26 9 Monkwearinouth Extension 0 52 Railway through Newcastle & High Level Bridge 1 5 270 13 Lines in course of Construction Washington Branch Kelso Branch Ainwick Branch Warkworth Branch 6 1 5 1 2 60- 4 75 34 37 There are other deviations and works proje ted, which will make the entire length of railway, when completed, 330 miles. The following was the position of the capital account, as given by the directors, on the 14th November, 1848: Total amount expended on works £5,375,483 Estimate for the completion of works in progress. 1,869,228 Gross amount to be raised £7,244,711 Or, to leave a margin for contingencies, say £7,300,000. It is stated that the capital wanting can be raised by calling up what remains on the extension shares, and by exercising the company's borrowing powers to the extent of £1,550,000, including the existing mortgage debt of £722.073. The directors anticipate that when the whole line is in operation the receipts will not be less than £1,040,000 per annum, or at the rate of £20,000 per week; which, after deducting for working expenses, interest on loans, rent and interest to Great North of England Com pany, and Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company, £561,030, will leave a clear annual profit of £478,970, equal to a £7 per cent. dividend upon the share capital of £5,750,000, and allowing £76,470 per annum. The traffic at present produced is at the rate of about £720,000 per annum, or £13,846 per week. The directors consider, however, that this amount, in a period of great commer cial depression, warrants their expectation of the amount = necessary. Great reliance is placed on the coal traffic. The quantity exported from the counties of Northumber land and Durham has increased within the last four years 45} per cent.; and the Auckland Valley line, which they propose to construct immediately, is expected to increase further this branch of revenue. The formation of the Tyne Docks and the completion of the Sunderland Docks, with the improvement of the general traffic by the facili ties afforded by the bridges across the Tyne and the Tweed, are relied upon for the fulfilment of the expecta tions of the directors. CORRESPONDENCE. THE CHINESE SCRIPTURE DIFFICULTY OBVIATED. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD , Tranmere, Sept. 10, 1819. .._ DEAR SIR,-A serious impediment to the diffusion of Christianity in China has arisen from the suspension of reprinting the Chinese Scriptures. The reason of the suspension is a disagreement between the Protestant mis• sionaries as to the translation of the Hebrew word Elohim and the Greek word Theos. One party, with the Ameri can bishop at their head, propose Shin as the general ap pellative for all the Chinese gods. Another party, with Dr. Medhurst at their head, propose adopting one of the names, or rather titles, of the chief god of the Chinese, as Shang-fe (supreme ruler), or simply Te (ruler), &c. &c. A dear brother clergyman, a great linguist, and a profi cient Chinese scholar—the Rev. Jacob Tomlin, of Tan kersley—whose heart's desire it is to see the word of God have free course in the vast empire of China, wrote to me on the subject, asking for my opinion on the merits of the different translations. lam no Chinese scholar, and am not presumptuous enough to so beyond my depth ; but I feel as great an interest in the dissemination of the Scriptures of Truth, and the promulgation of the ever lasting Gospel amongst the Chinese, as Mr. Tomlin him self, and have therefore ventured to suggest a plan which would obviate the literary difficulty, and cause the seed of the Word of God to be scattered at once over that exten sive field. I send you herewith a copy of my letter to Mr. Tomlin, and if you have room to spare I should feel obliged for its insertion in your next number. It may be the means of eliciting a more practicable mode from more efficient sources, and thus bring about the object all true Christians have at heart, viz. the promotion of the Sa viour's Kingdom in all the ends of the earth : " Tranmere, Cheshire, Sept. 8,1849. " MY DEAR FRIEND, —Many thanks for the " Corres pondence on the version of the Chinese New Testament, now carrying forward at Shanghae ;" as, also, for Sir George Thomas Staunton's little work, entitled, " An inquiry into the proper mode of rendering the word GOD in translating the sacred Scriptures into the Chinese lan guage." I read them both very attentively. The ques tion interests me very much. I regret that I have not more time to devote to the important subject. The curacy of Tranmere is no sinecure. The latest hours at night, and the earliest in the morning, are the only portions of the day that I am able to use for reading. Not being a Chinese scholar, it would be arrant pre sumption, on my part, were I to obtrude any opinion whatever on so learned a controversy. From the limited knowledge I possess of the etymology of the appelations for Gpd and Gods in the Chinese language, it would ill become me to pass any judgment in the m atter, or even to express any preference fur one appellation to another. However, since you, so great a linguist and distinguished Chinese scholar, have been so kind as to ask and to insist for my opinion, I diffidently venture to give it ; but you must bear in mind, not as a Chinese scholar, butt as a humble disciple of Jesus, whose constant prayer it is that God's word may be known throughout the length and breadth of this habitable globe. " If Elohim must needs be translated into the Chinese language, I certainly prefer—from all I have read on this vexed question, the appellation Shin. An idea occurred to me--it may have suggested itself to some one before — that V.,e Hebrew latter, 'in, con !Hu; in the ancient language of three points joined together, may have been the origin of the term, that letter being the first in the word Shaddai, which signifies Almighty, and which name was claimed by God when he announced himself to the "father of the faithful." (See Gen. xvii. 1.) Take it for what it is worth. I give it simply as a conjecture. Some may not scruple to pronounce the idea fanciful, and far fetched. Others, however, may perhaps deem it worthy of being investigated, and Chinese scholars, who have ac cess to the ancient traditions of that vast empire, may find something corroborative of my conjectural theory. I said if Elohim must needs be translated.' Truth to speak, I do not like to see the word translated into any language. A great deal of controversial jar would have been avoided, if the word appeared originally in the dif ferent versions, that are already extant, of the Bible. Had I any voice amongst the Chinese translators, I would have ventured to propose that the words Elohim, Shaddai, &c., be retained as in the original, and no attempt be made to render them into Chinese. Why should not the Chinese learn to pronounce those names, by which the true God revealed himself to his people, in the days of yore ? It is true, the Chinese would not know their meaning, at first sight, but let the missionaries teach those people their signification. The Bible will have to be explained to the Chinese, it no difficulty what ever occurred in the translation. The English translators, I need not tell you. left a vast number df words untrans lated. And there is not one Englishman in a thousand wko does not need to have explained to him the words Jeluivah-jireh, Peniel, and a host of other such expressions. The English clergyman is, therefore, expected to be a man well versed in the languages in which the Bible was originally written, so as to be able rightly to divide the word of truth, and make it indeed profitable for dcct rine, for reproof, for correction, for in struction in righteousness. The missionaries in China — who are all learned men--might easily explain to the natives the import of the respective names by which the Almighty is and was called by all his true worshippers. I confess I long for the time when every Chinaman, as well as every human being, shall know the names of Elohim and Jehovah. 'The whole creation growneth and ira vaileth in pain' for that period. It will be the dawn of the most august period in the annals of the universe. Then, ' the Lord shall be King over all the earth : in that day shall there be one Lord, and his NAME SHALL BE ONE.' " T am, my dear Mr. Tomlin, " Yours affectionately in the Lord. " MOSES MARGOLIOUTII. " The Rev. firbob Tomlin, Rectory, " Tankersley, Yorkshire." ST. MARK'S TRAINING COLLEGE, CHELSEA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—With reference to the meeting of the friends and subscribers of the National Society for promoting the Education of the Poor in the principles of the Established Church, reported in your last edition of the STANDARD, it appeared from what passed at that meeting that the late Tractarian doings at St. Mark's Training College have, I regret. to say it, in a great measure damaged the Society. I had hoped that no reference would have been made to the subject ; but Mr. Warren very injudiciously and unnecessarily introduced it, and this led to the dis cnssion which ensued. Your reporter never told you this. Good frequently comes out of evil; and I trust it may be so in the present instance. The resolutions passed just like a cow getting over a hedge with a heavy clog about her neck, as they were allowed to pass only with the un derstanding that it should be reported by the agent at head-quarters what an unfavourable impression the ru mour of the doings at St. Mark's College had produced on the public mind. As to unanimity, there was no such feeling, in the proper sense of that word. There was, it is true, a cold assent to the resolutions, but there did not appear to me to exist any great amount of cordiality on the occasion. This was perceptible from the looks of the Romanizers present. There is no doubt that the proceedings in that College have been, and probably still are, of a very qu:stionable character, both as regards doctrines there preached and certain practices adopted in the training ; and as pre sumptive evidence that such is the fact, a Rev. Tractarian said (when a departure from some of the admitted prac tices of the College was proposed) that if any alteration took place there from the present mode of proceeding, he would hare nothing more to do with the Society ! I consider this a pretty significant declaration. Some time ago these proceedings at St. Mark's College were specified and denounced in several editions of the Record, and the challenge to refute the charges preferred was never accepted. Under pretence of that institution being of a strictly collegiate character (which it certainly is not and need not be), there is preaching in the sur plice, intoning of prayers, and singing precatory parts of the Church service, for the singing of which there is no rubrical authority. It is very fit that the persons who are to be the teachers in our parochial schools should be taught to sing ; but is it proper that they should thus be given a taste for Popery, and have in addition con tinually before their eyes the Romish pageantry and religious pantomime which are exhibited at St. Murk's College, Chelsea ? Let every portion of the Church ser vice be sung which is directed to be sung; but the into ning and singing of prayers appears to me quite inconsis tent with the nature of prayer, and destructive of devo tional feeling. Can we suppose that Solomon intoned or sang his dedicatory prayer, or that Hezekiah intoned or sang the prayer he offered up when he was threatened by Sennacherib ? It is not said in the Acts of the Apostles that Paul and Silas intoned or sang prayers and praises in the prison at Philippi, but that they " prayed and sang praises," which makes it clear that they spake the prayers and sang the praises. I feel quite convinced that were the training in St. Mark's College conducted with tnore simplicity, and with fewer Tractarian accompaniments, the Society would obtain twenty subscribers for every one with whom it meets at present. The proceedings to which I have called attention have given great offence. Some of the practices were at a former period, perhaps, matters of indifference ; but since they have latterly become the symbol of a party in our Church, who would again entangle us with the yoke of Popish bondage, from which it cost our forefathers so many sufferings and so much blood to deliver us, they should be abandoned. This was the conduct of St. Paul, who would give " no offence in any thing, that the minis try be not blamed," and who would " that no man put a stumhlingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way."—l am, Sir, your faithful servant, S. PRESBYTER, 15th September, 1819, EXECUTION OF GLEESON WILSON. Never in the history of capital punishment in Lancashire has the execution of a criminal excited the same interest in the public mind. The enormity of the murderer's crime has concentrated attention on his doings for months past, and the same desire to see a wretch who has so out raged humanity, that induced many to come some hundreds of miles in order to be present at the trial, continued until the majesty of the Taw had been vindicated by his extinc tion. In the belief that the execution would have taken place on Saturday week, thousands of people were early on the ground, determined not to leave ungratified the morbid desire to witness the culprit's end, and it was not until after twelve o'clock, the usual Maur of execution, had passed on that day, that the crowd on the ground could be induced to disperse. On Saturday morning, as early as seven o'clock, many were wending their way to Kirkdale, in order to secure the best possible view of the gallows. Each hour increased the number, and before the time appointed for the execu tion had arrived, every point commanding a view of the fatal drop was occupied by anxious gazers. Various esti mates have been made of the numbers present; the lowest we heard was 40,000, and many contended that twice that number were in attendance. The railway turned the occasion to a business purpose, by running cheap trains, all of which were densely packed. Madame Tussaud had a representative present to pos. sess the clothes of the wretch, for exhibition in the me tropolis. Mr. Bally, the eminent phrenologist, was also present to take a cast of the murderer's head. All the vacant ground in front of the prison, and spread ing down to the canal, presented much the same appear ance with respect to numbers as Aintree or Epsom on the Cup or Derby day. A barrier was erected round the scaffold for the accommodation of the reporters and others, the pressure upon which was so great that an irruption appeared every moment inevitable, notwithstanding the most sturdy efforts of all the police and javelin men to beat the crowd back, for since Sir James Graham was at the home office, the press have been refused admission on these occasions to the interior of the prison. About eleven o'clock one of the priests in attendance on the prisoner, had the had taste to obtrude himself on the attention of the assembled thousands by coming for ward, and placing his head under the gallows. He looked up oracularly, touched the iron chain across the transverse beam, and shrugging his shoulders, retreated into the gaol. What this pantomimic action meant, puzzled every one ; but the grave occasion did not prevent the crowd from laughing heartily. A few iminutes before twelve, the iron gate leading to the drop was again opened, ard immediately the prisoner appeared between two priests, the Rev. Mr. Duggan and the Rev. Mr. Marshall. A general feeling of horror seemed to pervade all present, which found expression in the most distant part of the assemblage by bursts of exe cration. The priests read in English the service of the Romish church for a departing soul, and the lips of the prisoner moved to the responses. lle looked calmly on the dense mass of human beings before him, without evincing the slightest apparent nervousness. The priests continued to read, and as the bolt was drawn they prayed on their knees. Calcraft, the executioner, was unable to be present from illness, and the odious office was performed by Howard, from York, who was specially brought to Liver pool by Mr. Wilson, the under-sheriff. Some artistic skill is requisite even in strangulation, and the ineffici ency of the new functionary was offensively painful at this critical moment. Instead of drawing the cap over the face, as usual, the whole of the features of the murderer in the agonies of death were distinctly visible. The greatest lover of the horrible must have been satiated to repletion by this sickening sight. Many turned away their eyes, unable to contemplate the effects of the strug gle with death on the features of the criminal. His suf ferings, however, were brief, for he seemed to die almost immediately. The neck appeared to be broken by the fall. When life was extinct, the hangman turned the body, then swinging in the air, round, and lowering the cap, concealed the features. This was caused by the shouts of those around, " Cover his face ! cover his face !" Altogether, it is hardly possible to conceive a more dis gustingly painful incident. The phrenological development of the murderer is such as to account for the course of conduct he has pursued up to the last moment of his existence. Secretiveness is largely developed, and so is self-esteem—feelings that too often constitute a fool or a madman. On the platform, in addition to the prie.ts, was Mr. Wright, a philanthropist, whose pleasure it is to visit the public prisons of the country, and administer, by every means in his power, to the mental comfort and instruc tion of criminals. A considerable number of females, many of them very respectably dressed, was present. Several cars had been hired to convey them to and from the scene. Up to the time when the prisoner retired to rest on Saturday morning, which was about three o'clock, he appeared quite calm, indeed rather more so than usual; still he had no wish to go to bed, and although often requested to do so by the officers in attendance upon him, he declined to comply. When he did retire it was only upon the most urgent desire of the officer, and at that time he was quite overpowered with sleep, and would have fallen off the chair had not the officer prevented him from doing so. Before going to bed he had directed the officer to call him up at six o clock, and the request was promptly complied with. When he awoke, the same indifference which had all along manifested itself was still observable. About seven o'clock the Rev. Mr. Marshall and the Rev. Mr. Duggan joined him, and these two gen tlemen were alternately in attendance upon him up to the time of execution. Hopes were entertained that not withstanding the way in which he had persisted in assert ing his innocence of the crime, he would make a con fession of his guilt before the time for the execution arrived, hut up to the last moment he refused to make any such confession, and strongly maintained that I.e was an innocent man. _ When his breakfast was brought to him, about eight o'clock, he refused to partake of any ; but about eleven o'clock he expressed a wish to have some refreshment, and a cup of coffee and some bread and butter were Arrnished to him, of which he seemed to partake heartily. Shortly before twelve o'clock, when he was brought into the press room, he was placed upon the usual chair, aml the process of pinioning commenced. The Rev. Mr. Duggan and the Rev. Mr. Marshall accompanied him to the press room, and during the time the pinioning was going on, these gentlemen fervently urged him to make his peace with God. He looked around him and at those near him with a painful indifference, and just before the pinioning was completed be offered up a short incoherent prayer, arid declared that he was an innocent man, and at twelve o'clock, as the melancholy procession was ap • proaching the scaffold, the culprit again repeated that he was altogether innocent of the dreadful crime laid to his charge. Thus terminated the life of one of the greatest criminals that ever disgraced the human family. It was rumoured last week that Wilson about three years ago sailed as carpenter on board the Duncan, with Captain Hinrichson, and the report became so prevalent that Captain Hinrichson expressed a desire that the mate of the Duncan should see the culprit. Accordingly, on Thursday, the mate, accompanied by Mr. Dowling, pro ceeded to Kirkdale gaol. On entering the condemned cell the prisoner had a cross suspended from his neck, and a book in his hand. His religious instructor was in at tendance. The prisoner was asked if he had ever seen the mate before, and he said " No." The mate was next asked if he had ever seen the prisoner before, and the answer was, " No." The prisoner smiled, and said, " Thank you." Mr. Dowling and the mate then re turned. As they were leaving the cell, the prisoner, in a cheerful manner, bid them farewell. The prisoner had previously been informed of the rumour, and he expressed a great desire to see the mate. " In connection with the murders, a very curious fact was communicated to Mr. Dowling, which, however, owing to the technicalities of the law, could not be made avail able on the trial. It appears that on the very (lay on which tt o prisoner took lodgings at Mrs. Hinnchson's, in Leveson-street, he had also taken lodgings at the house of a widow lady, in Upper Pitt-street, in the same neigh bourhood. He came there at seven o'clock in the even ing, and took his tea. After tea, he requested to have some paper and writing materials. She brought him in a piece of note paper, and he said that was too small, nod desired to have a proper skeet of letter paper. She brought him one, and in a few minutes he rang the bell, and folded up the sheet on which he appeared to have written something. The interval, however, was so short, and the apparent writing so brief, that she thought to herself that the note paper would very well have done. She was in the act of removing the inkstand when he abruptly asked what o'clock it was ? She answered, "The clock is outside, I'll enquire." On this he got up, and placing himself between her and the door said, "Tell me now, you have a watch, I see, by the chain round your neck." The lady, somewhat startled, hesitated for a moment, and then pulled out her watch, a cold one, and told him the hour. On this, he let her pass, and she went out. The circumstance, as may naturally be sup posed, greatly alarmed her, and she kept her eye upon him. He went up stairs to the bed-room appointed for him, and she, placing herself in a position to observe his movements, distinctly saw him enter every bed-room in the house and examine them. Her impression was that he had asked her the time to see what kind of a watch she wore, and that his intention was that night to rob the house. Her father, who is a most respectable tradesman, lives opposite, and to him she communicated her fears. He agreed that there was quite enough to alarm. He went to the house, and stopped there till twelve at night, when they closed the door; the prisoner never returned. lie slept that night at Mrs. Ilinrichson's, and the frighful proceedings next morning are already known. The lady has deep cause for gratitude, for she had, it is evident, a narrow escape. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. On Thursday a sailor, named Thompson, was com mitted for three months for having broken open a fellow tar's chest, and stolen therefrom some wearing apparel, a gold watch, &c. Wm. Whittaker, the occupier of a court house in Cur rie-street, Bevington-bill, has been fined £5 for having ejected a bailiff from his house, who was in possession for the non-payment of parish rates. This is the first of a number of distraints which the parish mean to make. John Woodhouse was charged. on Tuesday. with dis orderly conduct at the Clarence Hotel, Waterloo-road. and with having assaulted a policeman in the execution of his duty on Monday evening. The prisoner was ordered to pay 15s. for the damage done to the policeman's clothes, and was fined 10s., in default, he was committed for twenty-one days. SUICIDE.—On Thursday evening a butcher, from St. John's Market, was taken into custody upon the charge of abusing his wife and being drunk. Having been placed in the Hotham-street Bridewell, he was risited by one of the keepers, who found him in a sitting posture. but his neck was fastened by his neckerchief to one of the iron bars of the window ; of course he was quite dead. SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER.—On Tasday last, a man, named Samuel Fowler, was charged before Mr. Rushton, by Mr. Henry Morris, of the George Canning public house, Giidart-street, London-road, with having been found concealed under a bed in his house, yesterday even ing week, about eleven o'clock. It appeared that the prisoner's wife resided with the complainant, and the pri soner said that he was about to leave the town,. and had come to the house to see his wife before doing so. He was discharged on entering into his own recognizances of £2O to keep the peace towards the complainant. THE BOLD-STREET SHOP ROBBERIES.—For several weeks past the ladies usually shopping in Bold-street have been followed by a parcel of pickpockets, who have plied their vocation with the utmost success. The- robberies thus committed have been to a most serious extent. Con. sequently, the detective police have been on the look out, and the result was, that a mother and daughter,. and a boy were captured. The girl, whose name is Stewart, was taken by police-constable Marks, one of the active officers of the detective, just after she had relieved a lady's pocket of £8 odd. The other two were in custody upon an affair of a similar description. The prisoners were all com mitted for trial. EXCISE INFORMATIONS.—On Tuesday last a respect ably•dressed man, named Thomas Longridge, who carries on business as a confectioner at No. 5, Lime-street, was charged with selling foreign wines without a license. On the 20th of June two excise officers went to the defen dant's shop, and asked what wines he sold. He replied port, sherry, and ginger wine. The officers took glasses of port and ginger, and Com the taste thought that the bulk of the wine was Cape, but believed it to be foreign wine. The defendant denied the charge, produced in voices and documents to prove that ho bought the wine from a dealer in British wines, Mr. Robert Stone, of 61, Crown-street, Finsbury, London, and produced a sample which the magistrate pronounced to be a most pernicious compound, and not foreign wine at all. The case was dismissed—Patrick and William Connor, and Arthur Dowdall, were each fined in the mitigated penalty of £5, for using an unlicensed cart, at Aintree races, for the conveyance of passengers.—Hugh M`Giverson and Henry Taylor were both convicted for keeping an illicit still, and fined in the mitigated penalty of £2OO. The parties did not appear.—Luke Finnagan was fined .£lOO for having in his possession, on the. 23rd of June, in Chisenhale street, several bottles of whisky. They were found in his house, and on an excise officer demanding to know where he obtained it, he refused to telli The bench intimated that houses like that of the defendant were the worst the authorities had to deal with, for men got drunk in them when public-houses were closed.. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. -- DONCASTER RACES. THE ST. LEGER.—This great event came off onWednes day, Lord Eglintoun's Flying Dutchman (the winner of the Derby) beating Mr. Nichol's Nunnykirk by two lengths, Sir J. Hawley's Vatican third, and Lord Clifdeu's Honeycomb a bad fourth.—Not placed : Mr. Bowes's Thringarth, Lord Eglinton's Elth iron „Mr. Green'sWestow, Mr. Payne's Saucy Dick, Mr. It. H. Nevill's Herbert, . and Mr. Pedley's Old Dan Tucker.—Betting at starting 9 to 4 on the Flying Dutchman (taken freely), 15 to 1 agst Vatican, 15 to 1 agst Nunnykirk, 100 to 6 agst Old Dan Tucker, 20 to 1 agst Thringarth, 35 to 1 agst Her bert, and 35 to 1 agst any other. After a delay of three or four minutes, arising from Honeycomb and Ethiron having broken away, a good start was effected, Saucy Dick taking the lead, followed- by Herbert and Vatican. Old Dan Tucker and Thringarth next; and in the rear, Nunnykirk, Honeycomb, The Flying Dutchman, and Elthiron ; the latter got into the ruck before they were over the gravel road, at the kill was fifth, and at the mile post was in advance of Old Dan Tucker. Saucy Dick and Herbert maintained their positions to the Red-house Turn, where they were beaten, the running being taken up by Vatican, the Dutchman waiting on him. At the Distance the latter deprived Vatican of his lead, was clear of him at the Stand, and won in a canter by two lengths, amidst cheering, loud and prolonged, from all parts of the course. Nunnykirk drew towards the leading horses at the turn. caught. Vatican at the distance, and beat him for the second place by two lengths ; Honeycomb fourth, Elthiron fifth, and Old Dan Tucker sixth. Run in 3 rains. 20 secs.—This is the third St. Leger Lord Eglinton has carried off, his previous successes having been with Blue Bonnet in 1845, and with Van Tromp, half-brother of the Flying Dutchman, in 1847. THE GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP of 25 Soya. each (66 subs., 42 of whom declared), was won by Mr. Meik lam's Snowstorm, beating Sir J. Hawley's Fernhill, and Mr. Nevill's Letitia. The following also started, but were not placed :—Psalmsinger, Keleshea, Mrs. Taft, b.c. by Don John out of Impertinence, Miss Harrison, Maid of Team Valley. Thringarth, Castanette.—Betting : 4 to 1 agst Fernhill, 9 to 2 agst Mrs. Taft, 5 to agst Snow storm, 6 to 1 agst Psahnsinger, 7 to 1 agst Thringarth, 14 to 1 agst Castanette, and 20 to 1 agst Letitia. Letitia made the running, followed by Mrs. Taft and Keleshea, Miss Harrison and Snowstorm lying up. This order con tinued to the Red-house, where Femhill and Snowstorm joined the leading horses, with whom they laid to the distance. Fernhill and Snowstorm then singled them selves out, and ran a fine race home, Snowstorm winning by a head. Letitia a good third, and Cassa l nette a bad fourth. Run in 3 mins. 22 secs. Doncaster Cup, value 300 sovs., was won by Lord Stanley's Canezou ; Mr. Green's Westrow, second. 12 Co I on Canezou, who made all the running, and won in a canter by two lengths, Run in 4 wins. 52 secs. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. AUSTRIA. Nothing certain was known at Vienna on the 9th re specting the fate of Comorn and Peterwardein. A com plete amnesty for the Imperial officers now serving against the Emperor is, it was said, demanded as a sine qua" non, It was also rumoured that Peterwardein surrendered in the afternoon of the sth instant. Georgey arrived at Vienna on the Bth. with his wife and physician, having been ten days on the road from Grosswardein. He was accompanied by Major Andrassy, with whom he left on the same day for Klagenfurt!), which, and not Gratz, as before announced, is to be his future residence. Various distinguished officers in the Hungarian army have been shot. No doubt now exists of the treachery of Giirgey. He is at present at large, and the courted of the cabinets of Russia and Austria. His name, however, will for ever be execrated. Social betrayal, is bad enough. but national treachery is the climax of infamy. The patriot Kossuth and Bern have, it is understood, escaped to Con stantinople, where, it is said, they have ben received with favour. ROME. A letter from Rome of the sth in the Debate states that the cardinals will, according to the prevailing rumour, leave Rome, and throw the civil administration on the shoulders of the French. There is no longer any hope, says this letter, of an understanding being come to be tween Paris and Gaeta. The Pope has expressed the greatest irritation at the President's letter, and the diplo matic corps at Gaeta would, had the letter been offered, have agreed to a joint protest. The Univers signifies that the Pope had left Gaeta for Portici. A letter from Rome, of the 6th instant, announces that M. de Rayneval had arrived in the Eternal City, and ap peared to be perfectly satisfied with the Pontifical Court. Everybody was curious to know the cause of his satisfac tion, as the Government was enforcing its system of seve rity, unaffected either by the public press, the popular in dignation, diplomatic notes, or the President's letter. The Emperor of Russia has just removed all the Russian artists from Rome, after having caused their debts to be paid. deneral Sir Charles Napier quits India in the spring of next year. General Cavaignac is now suffering from a consumptive affection, hereditary in the family, and which carried off his brother Godefroy. M. de Lamartine has declined a proposed national sub- scription to relieve from embarrassment his patrimonial estates, affirming that the produce of his literary labours is more than sufficient for his wants. The storm which prevailed in Paris during the last few days has torn up from the roots several trees in the Tuile ries and the Champs Elysees, and has laid prostrate the Tree of Liberty planted in the Place de la Bastile. Mr. Layard, author of " Nineveh and its Remains," left Constantinople on the 29th ultimo in a Turkish steamer for Trebizond, on his way to the scene of his late brilliant discoveries, accompanied by an artist, a medical man, and a secretary. Letters from Toulon, of the 10th inst., state that the French Government has ordered an expedition to Tangier to support the representative of the French Republic in his claims on the Emperor of Morocco. The expedition will be composed of six vessels, including, two ships of the line. Cholera has now existed six months in the French ca pital, and from its first appearance till the 31st of last month there have been 10,195 deaths in private houses, and 8406 in the hospitals, giving a total of 18,011, or an excess of 200 over the year 1831. The population of Paris, however, has increased since that period by 300,000. Accounts have been received from the lonian islands of an insurrection in Cephalonia, attended with circum stances of considerable atrocity. One of the most respectable inhabitants of the district, with two of his servants, were burnt alive in their house. Several other habitations were fired, and a band of from three to four hundred men in arms paraded the district, compelling by force the well-affected to swell their numbers. Tran quility has been restored. DRAINAGE OF THE HAARLEM LAKE.—An Amster dam letter of the 3d instant states, that the difficult operation of draining the sea or lake of Haarlem is being carried on with the greatest activity. The works are not even suspended on Sundays or fete days; nay, they are sometimes continued during the night. During the month of August, the waters of this immense lake were lowered to the extent of 27i. inches, Dutch measure. It is hoped and expected that they will be entirely drained off before the month of March, 1850. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO M. DUMAS.—M. Alexandre Dumas, the celebrated romance writer, narrowly escaped destruction a few days ago. He was returning with his family from a hunting excursion, in a two-wheeled car riage drawn by one horse. In descending a steep decli vity near Compiegne, the horse was unable to sustain the weight of the chaise, and endeavoured to throw himself on one side into a valley some 40 feet below the level of the road. Happily the drag of the vehicle acted as a sort of anchor ; but the sudden jerk threw the four travellers to a distance of 10 or 12 feet. Poor Alexandre Dumas escaped with some severe bruises and a broken gun ; his son, with a torn pantaloon, and their friend with a long swoon from sheer fright. The Cape of Good Hope papers extend to the 10th- of July. The greatest excitement prevailed in the colony owing to the publication of the order in council making the Cape a penal settlement, and this, coupled with the anticipated' arrival of the first vessel with convicts on board, had tended more than ever to incite the inhabi= tants to combine together and destroy, if possible, the success of the experiment. Meetings had been held, and memorials and petitions passed, one of which was ad dressed to the Queen, praying that the "obnoxious order" might be rescinded without any delay. The Anti-Conviet Association, formed with the express view of agitating the question, were actively engaged in en rolling members, and the topic furnished materials for all descriptions of advertisements in the newspapers. BLOWING UP OF THE SHIP MINERVA.—The ship Minerva, Captain Hovenden, left Sydney on the 6th February last, bound for Portland Bay, having on board, besides passengers, 200 barrels of gunpowder, and a large quantity of rum, brandy, and sulphur. She was obliged to put into Jervis Bay to undergo repairs, and left that place on the 20th of March.. On the following day, the hold was discovered to be on fire, and the crew, being aware of the nature of the cargo, launched the boats, and made their escape in them withoutl delay, accompanied by the cap tain and passengers. Within fifteen minutes of their leaving the vessel, a tremendous explosion took place, carrying the decks 500 feet into the air. The rum and brandy, &c., were ignited, and the vessel, after burning to the water's edge, sunk. The boats made for Port Fairy, and, after being tossed about in a tempestuous sea for six days, and having nothing but a keg of water and some baracootas to subsist upon—the baracootas proved poisonous and were thrown overboard—succeeded in reaching Port Philip Heads, where assistance was obtained.. The loss is estimated at several thousand pounds. LOLA MONTES AT NAPLES.—A correspondent of the Times writing from Naples says :—A youthful bridegroom and a fair lady who, though still beautiful, once was younger, answering in all respects •the descriptions given of the enamoured couple who lately figured at the Marl borough -street police-office, appeared at, and disappeared yesterday from, Naples, with all the circumstances of eccentricity which have ever distinguished the movements of la belle dame, whether recognized as Mrs. James, Lola Montes, the Countess of Landsfelt, or Mrs. Heald. The happy pair arrived at the Vittoria Hotel by the railway from Capua, in one of those modest vehicles which ply at the town terminus; but a smart travelling carriage, a courier, and afemnae de chambre followed in the course of a short time, and the small rooms at first destined for their use were changed into the handsome apartment, No. 10 on the Pianno Nobile, or first floor, lately occupied by Madame Tadolini. There was an instinct of propriety in thitsarrerngement, as the premiere danseuse ever follows the prima donna, and who more worthy to succeed the brilliant star of the San Carlo than the luminous Georgina Sidus ? A lady's caprice or a lawyer's letter which awaited the gentleman at his banker's, has, however, baffled all imaginings, and possibly changed the fate of the peninsula, for no sooner did the brilliant constellation appear than it vanished in a misty vapour. Tn plain English,. no boat being on the berth for Marseilles, and the exigency not admitting of a moment's delay., a special steamer was hired at the small cost of s une four hundred pounds. awl in it Mr. and Mrs. Heald embarked, sole passengers, leav ing courier, famme de chambre, and the best part of their goods, behind. OUTRAGII.—On the 22nd ult. the English schooner Treffy, Captain Jenkins, arrived at Oporto, shortly after which she was boarded by two boats, like custom-house barges, the men from which jumped on the deck, seized the apprentice, pinioned him, and then forced him down the companion into the cabin, where four of them, wearing masks, armed to the teeth, and in a sort of undress mili tary uniform, followed him.. The captaild was roused from his sleep by their entrance, but no sooner had he raised himself in his bed, than two pistols were presented at his- head, with a declaration that if be resisted he would be murdered. The mate was dealt with in the same man ner, and both of them were pinioned. While this was going on the others of the party bad secured the men in the forecastle by nailing down the companion over them, having likewise bound and gagged the Portuguese revenue officer who was on board. This done, the object of their visit was proceeded with. One box of Spanish dollars they found, and with it they were about to depart, when a demand from the deck was made, in good English, for a second box, which was named in the manifest, and as the captain hesitated about giving it up, the same voice threatened him with instant death, if be did not say where it was, which he did, and they took it away, hav ing, before they left the vessel, carefully nailed down the cabin companion, and fastened a sail over it. The cebin boy was the first to free himself, but so much time was lost in forcing an outlet from the cabin, that the boats were clear out of sigh:, long before an alarm could be given. The Portuguese authorities have exerted them selves actively to discover the perpetrators of this out regeous act of piracy, but as yet to no purpose. LOVE AND ASSASSINATION.—A dismal tragedy was enacted at Orleans, in the Rue de l'Aiguillerie, on Sunday ; week. M. Desbordes, a young man twenty years of age, residing with his mother in the rue Nationale, was desi rous of marrying Mdlle. Estelle Hareau, a youthful workwoman, of that city. Some time ago, he addressed to her a love-letter declaratory of his affection and his honourable intentions ; the young girl asked " time for I reflection," knowing well that to wed in haste was to court I unhappiness for life. At length, in spite of the ardent appeals and passionate entreaties of the gallant lover, I Mdlle. Estelle decided adversely to his suit, on the ground that she was too young to marry. On Sunday morning, the distracted youth presented himself to the father of her whom he still called his betrothed, and asked to see her. He was told that she was working at her atelier, in the rue de l'Aiguillerie, and immediately repaired thither. He asked permission to speak to the young girl, and was allowed to retire with her to an adjoining apartment. M. Desbordes forthwith locked tha door, put the key in his pocket, and asked Estelle to re turn him his first letter, declaratory of his flame. She replied that it was at home, but that she would return it at her earliest convenience. The lover, pale and dis tracted, hereupon exclaimed, " Ah ! Mademoiselle, you know that I love you dearly, and the love of r man is not to be trifled with. You must die !" Suiting the action to the word, Desbordes seized the unhappy girl by the head, drew forth a pistol, and fired at her twice. He then retired to the other end of the room, took from his pocket two other pistols, and administered the same deadly discharge to his own person. The report of the firearms alarmed the neighbours, they rushed in, and, seizing Desbordes, conducted him to the mairie, whence he was remanded to prison. The young girl was but slightly wounded by one of the balls, but the other pene trated to some depth into the nape of the neck. Des bordes fired into his mouth and temples. Estelle was promptly attended to, and is now out of danger. It is even. hoped that the wounds of Desbordes are not mortal. Estelle Hareau is a girl nineteen years of age, and of remarkable beauty. IRELAND. 4 Lord Cloncurry (now in his 75th year), is writing a history of Ireland during the last 50 years. The celebrated Dr. Cooke Taylor has fallen a victim to cholera. It is, unfortunately, beyond further question that the potato disease has attacked the plants in many districts in Ireland. The Limerick Examiner prints the names of 750 per sons evicted in Clare, from the properties of four land lords. The Roscommon Journal says that many of the unoc cupied farms in that part of Ireland have been taken by English farmers and agriculturists; and that contractors have commenced the erection of dwellings, out-offices, &c. EMIGRATION. — On Monday 180 emigrants from this county and Clare, left en rozzle to Liverpool, for America. Yesterday 26 additional passengers proceeded by same conveyance.—Limerick Chronicle. The Rev. Francis Mahony, better known as " Father Prout." and the author of certain private correspondence from Rome, has been for some time on a visit to his relatives in Cork. The furtive cutting down of corn, and tenants removing it illicitly, thus robbing their landlords, have compelled many to distrain on the Sabbath, which latter course, from the best opinion of barristers, is perfectly legal.—Limerick Chronicle. THE REVIVED "NATlON."—Alt'mugh the topics touched upon on Saturday by Mr. Duffy are of a more miscellaneous nature than he has yet ventured upon. the third number of his journal is, in point of vigour, deci dedly inferior to the two nree'ding ones. The leading article, " Rights of Property--Who shall eat the harvest ?" smacks strongly of Communism, and is indeed a scarcely concealed defence of the new " clearance system" adopted by the peasantry to avoid the liabilities of rent and taxes. This Mr. Duffy calls a " popular Lex talionis," and was only carried into effect in instances where the landlord had commenced the war by serving ejectments on the tenantry. IDOLATRY OF POPERY.—On Sunday week, dnring " a series of devotional exercises in honour of the mother of God," at one of the chapels in Dublin, the preacher "dwelt with great effect on the necessity of studying the virtues conspicuous in the life of the holy mother of God, im pressing upon them that all appeals to her patronage would be ineffectual, and that all hopee in the efficacy of her prayers would be superstitious, most offensive to God, and highly displeasing to her, if the precepts inculcated by her Divine Son—so strongly illustrated through her virtuous life—were not faithfully observed, and if the ob servance of them did not constitute the chief foundation of all our hopes in obtaining her assistance towards the attainment of the salvation purchased for all, the sole and all-sufficient means of the end, Jesus." Freeman's Journal. EXTRAORDINARY EseAPE..—Michael Hannelley, a few days since, effected his escape from Roscommon gaol. At midnight, he made his escape, breaking through two doors by smashing the locks—this brought him into the chapel, to get to the door of which he had to climb over an iron spiked railing, fourteen feet high. Having effected this, the next obstacle was the huge door of the chapel. He wrenched the four massive nuts off the lock, and appears to have failed in his attempt to get the lock off ; as he got out by breaking the heavy hasp into which the bolt of the Lock shot.. This opened the way into an enclosed passage between two of the day yards ; here he mounted a fixed ladder, leading up to the cistern, and by a drop of about sixteen feet on hard paving, landed at the other side. This is an enclosed corridor, into which all the day yards open, as al's° , the cook house and bread store—the latter he broke into, and took thereout one loaf of white bread. Out of this enclosure he got over a wall about twelve feet high, into the governor's yard, out of which he took a ladder about 15 feet long, and one-and-a-half inch thick board; and, unlocking the gate of the yard, the key being merely turned, he pro ceeded round the inner grounds of the-gaol to where the store yard ends, and where he would only have one wall to cross—here he tied the ladder and board together, and thus got over the boundary wall, which is about twenty five feet high. Having got on the wall, he pulled up the ladder, and let himself down at the other side. TRISH STRIFE.—THE DOLLY'S BRAE AFFAIR.—We Will state the matter with somewhat more distinctness than the noble Earl has done. The facts are notorious that in 1848, Lord Clarendon received addresses in their collective capacity from Orangemen as such ; he replied to those addresses in encouraging terms ;- - he was consulted as to the propriety of discountenancing the processions which his Commissioner and his Crown-Solicitor now declares to be illegal, and he then encouraged and sanc tioned them; nay, he placed stores of arms in convenient places for the service of the very men against whom he now directs the vengeance of the law, forhaving expressed by the peaceable act of holding guns in their hands, their adhesion in 1849, to certain political opinions, which they were that day twelvemonths commended for having made known in a precisely similar manner. Fie, fie, Lord Clarendon ; here is matter that falsifies the proverb, and makes the fault of Mr. Berwick merge into a quasi virtue, through the merits of his exposure of your diplomacy. We will cap the climax of this miserable example of the Anglo-Irish policy of dividing and governing, by the quo tation of two or three sentences, spoken at the close of the Castlewellan sessions, by the most prominent repre sentatives of the two parties, the unthinking members of which were led on by the government to the mutual bloodshed of Dolly's Brae :—" Lord Roden—Why should there be another trial next petty sessions day ? Would it not be better to have done with the case and allow a good feeling to grow up among the people ?" " - Mr. Rea—Your lordship cannot be possibly more anxious taunite the two sections of the Irish people than I am.. I have made every effort to do soi and shall continue so to act." Will the time ever come when the noble English people shall no longer tolerate a policy of strife thus illustrated and mourned over by its unwilling victims.—. Dublin Mail. -ROMAN CATHOLIC LOYALTY. — Must - we then, acknow ledge with grief, must we avow with indignation, that there were any to be found who withheld the expression of their congratulations on this auspicious occasion. Yes, be it ever remembered, that no fewer than twelve of the Roman Catholic prelates of Ireland withheld their signatures from the address to the Queen, cautious and lukewarm as it was, which was presented by their fel lows, and that that address guardedly declared that those who signed it, fourteen in number, did not profess to speak the sentiments of others. Twelve Roman Catho lic prelates were found in Ireland who declined to ac knowledge the supremacy of their Queen. Our own opinions are welt known. We are entirely convinced that the Roman Catholic priesthood do not now, and we greatly fear that they never will, bear true allegiance to the Protestant monarch of a Protestant state. And we believe that their influence, so long as it lasts, will be exerted to the uttermost to curb and to divert the loyalty of their people. And we are equally convinced that the loyalty of the Roman Catholic laity who have shaken off, or are removed by their station from the political tram mels of the priesthood, is steadfast and sincere. Every step that is taken towards the improvement of the peo ple, everything that tends to restore the landed gentry of Ireland, or where that is unhappily impossible, to in troduce a new and vigorous proprietary, to secure to Ireland a race of landlords who Ere discharging the duties will command the influence of their station, will rapidly diminish the political influence of the priesthood, until it entirely, disappears, and the loyalty of even the lower classes of the Irish laity present no blemish. And surely, so far as the spirit of loyalty can be developed by religious•faith, no form of Christianity can compare with the Roman Catholic, greviously as it is in error. Its claim to antiquity, its solemn mysteries, its spacious tem ples, its gorgeous ceremonies,, its authoritative teaching, control and keep in check the arrogance of man's intel lect, and develope, evens to an undue intensity. his ima gination and his affections. They teach him to bow to that which is above him, and to invest it with mystery, with reverence, and with awe. The usurped and anomalous assertion of political influence by the priesthood may to some extent obscure the object to which the loyalty of the heart would turn ; but this will disappear,, and with affections and imagination naturally strong, and discip lined to a great extent by religious faith, the heart of the nation will recognise the true object of its loyalty in the powerful, benign, and lovely monarch who has graced us with her presence.—Dublin University Magazine. POLITICAL MISC.ELLANY. Alas for the Pbace Cdngress ! it has already lost one of its most zealous, if not eloquent advocates. La Presse er (which comes to the same thing) M. de Girar. din, has just declared himself the adverary of a general disarmament. The letter of the President is the cause, and it must now be taken for granted that the distinguished journalist no longer believes in the possibility of a system df general arbitration. FINANCIAL REFORM.—The Liverpool Financial Re form Association, it appears, is not prepared to go the whole hog with Sir Joshua Walmsley and the other financial and suffrage revolutionists. They have issued a circular, in which they state that, having received several communications recommending the adoption of parlia mentary reform as an additional object of their associa tion, the council, from its importance, have deemed it to be their duty to give the subject their fullest considera tion. Having looked at it in every point of view, they have come to the conclusion to confine themselves to the objects proposed at the formation of the association, namely :—the enforcement of the most rigid economy in the public expenditure, and the substitution of direct for indirect taxation. Sir Charles Napier, in a letter to Lord John Russell, says—" All general promotions must be put a stop to, for they are the overwhelming evil. In 1841, when the Tories had been so long ont of office, they made up for lost time with a vengeance, and under pretenee of services on the coast of Syria and Chins, no less than 79 captains, 147 Sept 18, 1841, commanders, 194 lieutenants, were added to thelis;.,tbi addition to this, after the House of Commons 11511,00 most liberal manner, voted £30,000 for a retired list, removed 180 captains, a general promotion toll P. , which added to the lists 70 captains, 132 cotmen uer ,ioic ei ,,, lieutenants. This was done by the Whigs, ceb,'" f i c e they were nearly as hungry after being out 01 n „,, e n;', yea as the Tories were, after their repose of 5i1`: (3 , 0 ;,5,' that what between Tory Admiralties and Whig " 01 0 ties, John Bull, poor honest beast, is sure to be ba ht which he has hitherto• borne with patience; b ut e el I stands it any longer, he has his own self to bla has no right to grumble." „ fli • efO r j, MR. DISRAELI AT AYLESBURY.—The meeting of the Royal Bucks Agricultural Society' pro . held at Aylesbury, on Wednesday. The orthnar„,Yol ceedings of the association, including th e ploughin:oo cr and the distribution of prizes to aricultural launeighll occupied the morning. At two o'clock, between t for and ninety gentlemn and farmers dined together 5 , t v George Hotel; Mr. e W. Lowndes, late high sheriffet'oo county, in the chair. The usual loyal and patriotiepo having been drunk, Mr. Disraeli, one of the ole m ; b. ios. the county, proposed " Prosperity to the assoc` B ,lio s ' The hon. gentleman said he would avoid political ,ter sion, and though the society7was f oun ded for the PLS tion of agriculture, he would say nothing about theTthe of the corn laws. But he called their attention "rio, burdens affecting lard. He stated, the tgrien it n u ftbe after contributing their fair quota to the revenue of country, paid an extra revenue of £12,000,00 0, fr°,...n i dt other classes were exempt, under the name of ra'i tbit asked that other classes should bear a share ° D ot' Again, the land tax was very unequally levied. I n , i; in inghamshire it was Is. sd. in the pound on the rem' in Bedfordshire, ls. 6d. ; in Hertfordshire, Is. 6d.; % n od , many other counties more than Is. On the otheririgh• in large towns, such as Manchester, Liverpool , an d „, 0 0 1 ` 1 ton, it was only 2d., Id., o r even /A. Now he P i r V o the that all through the country it sh ou ld be levied'Ole same proportion as in Bdckingham s hi r e, which so n vi itv said, realise a yearly income of £5,000,000. This, n , e ,.b the come should go to constitute a sinking fund, of c 0 tbe cperation would be to maintain consols at par, so t ",. i 0; farmer would be able to get capital at three per eenSof stead of four-and-a-half, for the purposes of sgr ie "„ ob . improvement. This scheme, he said, should be , th ;fe s ject i of mouths tleir in t ore ag o i r ta l t e i s o s n ~ andhe e pledgedtheir that they would succeed. UNIVERSITY AND CLE.RICAL il did of Archdeacon Jefferies (late of Bombay) bay cholera at Exeter. dioccr The Bishop of Victoria will s a il f or his distant in•about three weeks. been 6P 4: The brother of the lion. T. B. Ma c aulay has L o wFur' , pointed to the rectory of Aldi ng b am , in Lancashire. The living is worth £lOOO per annu of n'oew The living of Ballymore. i nc l u di ng th e town olee d rag ee, to which Dr. O'Sulli van h as b een p r esented," at -C1.235 va The three Queen's Colleges in Ireland are to b e a bar e under t ie name of the Queen's University, and t° the power of conferring degrees. and T h m e oßis ho pto f bile o R I) f o Ross all Manchesterl I an d the 0 /10 bishop of Canterbury has promised to send a cell works. rfs ° ' A meeting was held, last night, in the Exchange' Col' Coiiege, li F as ie m et a w d o e o a d p;resent 0 tr o. cbester, to assist the establishment of a MissionarYg c led , lege at Hong Kong. The Bishop of Manchester Pr e and the Bishop of Victoria addressed the audien ce 'dioce 4 DIOCESE OF NORWICH.—The vacancy in thi s se the occasioned by the death of Dr. Stanley will ce n i4 o o elevation of the Bishop of Chester to a seat in the ' l ibe of Lords, wherefrom the New Bishop of Norwich : : b l o pe. excluded until another vacancy in the list of 13 b ' r idge' Dr. Wbewell, Master of Trinity College, Cam D ec will, it is expected, b e D r . Stanley's saccessor• Stanley was the second son o f Si r J. T. Stahl rela te Alderley, Cheshire, of w hi c h pl ace th e d e cease'; P„ the was formerly rector. He was married in 1810 he daughter of the Rev. Oswald Leyester, by whom left a large family. „, fre s ; THE CHURCH AND DISSENT.—The !rondo- ° mill, pendent of the Manchester Guardian, an able dis se " c erf paper, is obliged to confess that " the church with active now ; in fairness it ma y be said to be actingoiter as much energy as any dissenting body." Th e 0 116 4 becomes a little more particular, and says : "Th e the individual who walks the s t ree t s ma y no t e it, that a far 0 external characteristics of a London Sunday, in en poll' divine worship is concer ne d, i s i n f avour of the P. l et nance of the establishment. In a ll th e suburban e" a liat not even excepting Hackney, no t e d o f o ld as the P e f.,T e ry' habitat of dissenters,—in Brixton, or Clapham, o r ha ul" ington, or Highbury, or Islington, where Me rc A i s rric t stockbrokers, and tradesmen n ow res ide, —new ' - ' ‘t is' churches start up almost daily, an d th ese are alle n i ca r variably crowded. I simply state this as a fact..., e yed not shut my eyes to the p a lp a bl e ev idence aebn as see , Sunday affords, that, with the middle a nd upper c a . ec ted; the church is more popular, or at least more 3 . ,, o jei' than dissenting chapels. More than once 1 hav e „,"" a uriag my business , to note the con g re ga ti on s of peoP'el a seer: out of churches and chapels, that I might try lase e '' tain, so far as externals go, the ch a r ac t e r of the e „,,nof who attend them ; and I repeat, th oug h the assert ie ' that wound the self-love of sincere and ardent dissentereipilf the evidence afforded by a London S un day is dei st th e in favour of the predominance of the c hurch att,"” a3 - middle and upper classes of the metropolis. 1 , - 41 00' Paul's end Westminster Abbey,—f rom the Gris t parish church of St. James's to the plainest scoot chapel of' ease, there is palpable demonstration jA w here of this conclusion ; and though Surrey chaPe" t hree Rowland Hill once held forth, usually contains it 9 thousand auditors ; and though crowded congrePsg, may attend the ministrations of a Binney, a Cur orn e li Leifebild, a Burnett, or others of the able men °h°, . d ; the the dissenting body,—it is not p os sible to inin c . 2 ' e ' tali e fact that the church more than k e eps its place, it r , sr mere numeration and appearance as our guides. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ll °. There is a clause in the N e w ba Bankruptcy Actr 5 , co a' ing oaths so far as a b an k rup t an d hi s w if e may cerned. --) 11 ' .1.- BANKRUPTCY COURT,. —IN RE ASPINALD}e' Commissioner Perry gave judgment i n this case 0 0 ,0 day. suspending the bankrupt's certificate for , ec tior l months from the Gth day of August last, with PO : be el' for the present six months, with leave to apply at v ' piration of that period for a renewal of the proteet l° o oo o Lord Brougham has occupied the leisure of the J oe by publishing, in a pamphlet shape, a letter to Sir f the Graham, on the subject of "Making and Digesting. ° o o o Law." One main feature of the letter is a criticise the defects of our present law-making machinery, thieb hibited in the history; of the Bankrupt Digest,; Isle Lord Brougham passed through parliament in ",. 40 5 session ; the remaining portion embodies the coilo ce iti to which these criticisms point, insisting on the I, % ; th e of our resort to some new machinery, and sugg outline of an improved system. LONDON COURT OB , BANKRUPTCY, THUBSZ 6 , I I I OL KRE M. L. PRITCHARD AND R. N. DALE.--T h e rupts were stock and sharebrokers, in Liverpotitb e i Pritchard was also the deputy chairman of the eastern Railway Company, and was at one time el o pe; of property of the value of £156,000. The a: istvi sheet of the joint estate, extending from Augus t c o unt to May 25. 1849, has the following items :—A- 113 :Aitol" debts owing to unsecured c re dit ors , £6,101; to cr:,,,01, holding security, £1;142. Credit :—By debtors, £1;739 ; property in hand s o f cre dit ors , £1i11 4 ; 40 0 Pritchard's transit accoun t, £7,436. The ban" thet owed £1,034 to Messrs. M oss an d C o ., an d £l, 73 .' h is Liverpool Fire and• Li fe I nsurance C om pany; item was disputed, and after cons id era bl e discuss) ft, honcur allowed the debt to be ent e red asa leave to apply on a future day, in the event of the In the ; ( 1 not coming to an, agreement upon th e matter. „pie course of his examination, Mr. P r itchard 01 1 0 0 ; that, although he had had transactions with A tn e o oo P e d mercial Bank of Liverpool to the extent of Z sti "' nt year, the bank had declined to give him an a'", fir the securities they hold. After the case had beeol tit gone into, his honour remarked that he was inf °r c d t t Mr. Whitmore that the bankrupt's books were ke i l: e i r singular accuracy. The bankrupts then. Passed t Sof elli' amination, the commissioner appointing. Frida y, ber 9, for the certificate meeting. COURT AND FASHION. of a rl The Prince of Wales has been gazetted as 0 . Dublin. N M e A x .:ES L T e Y tte A r ND stat l e ß s is t ß hat der l B lE 's ß multitude . ..)roke through the barrier of militar3 in which surrounded the Queen after the revi ew iung . "ll Park, one of the boys cried out with stentorian a ae he " Blood alive, madam, get rid of the horses n o t t? carry you home ourselves." Another brawny ` t he 113 % 1 sod having seized hold of the Queen's arm with the rood, rapturous delight, her Majesty turned round to It' g Oe consort and exclaimed, "Albert, I fear there tic natured Irishmen will take me away from you' a aiO ce ber. GA wh L e L n AlV i i i i o b i• i be c e AN IRISH PRESENT TO THE QUEEN. —A 0 1 bog-oak bracelet was presented to her MajestY late visit to the Irish metropolis. The s evere B ° o the bracelet, which are joined by loops of Wiel ;p 15 9 ia compose the name of " Victoria," and the is' o f Irish harp. The bracelet is enclosed in a benu t ' u itsi ° case of arbutus wood, also indigenous to the n , ° -1 1` Killarney. 1 4;,,, lan d THE BRAEMAR GATHE:tING.--ThiS a rt which takes place annually, under the pat r° ll3 ' - ulo t lioi Duke of Leeds Gen. Sir A. Duff, and 3SIr. F O 4 l l OO t o of Invercauld, Came off at Braemar i Castle, onl,itri°,if week, with great eelat. Her Majesty and ' her Consort were present. No sooner had the r ° ., o g arrived than the games were begun. The thro u : ni sn.,;ol" hammer commenced the proceedings. The fir''' rd'' to stepped forward succeeded in makin'g an es tra n u ag el bi a cast, which none of the other competitors tu a 03 0 ,08 equal, and was, of course, declared the victop f be race came next, and was the most exciting sPel„ it• , day ; at least, it had mo. attention bestowe d ' n dreo,oe' total distance ran over was between seven hu t he eight hundred yards. A part of this was ove r hor o fti holm, where an amazing degree of celerity ur_l.l,o3iLet• but the winning post was a flag placed on the ofßg° the hill that overlooks the Castle at an elevation de the only accessible path being right up tbq c l i aar, eminence, which seems next filing to perPenu i ru an° l 7ls. of it being wooded as well. Here there was no fo the con3paitors seemed content to crawl oU: r och tio d Donald 111 1 Donald, a carpenter was the fi rst t", e Ar c bet top. Dancing came next. 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