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selve . s, have al it, how all such y though it this hope r ;ter is kept a 1 just no the hes ag their a under pec to pay Itianity undan its havi 3ves th een th A infidelity .0 to discover, tha A unifor ftleiSSAPrea,nrg-1., xs National Sin— S'r G Enlarged. Lond, WE noticed weeks we cordiall n. We tev. Au Et" tera turr. .c. NOTICES What is it ? A Letter to the Right Hon. l-rey, Bart. By the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, n of Chester, and Incumbent of St. Paul's rpool. Third Eilition, hard and Son ; Liverpool 3 Pamphlet when it first appeared a few e are glad to see that it has already reached aders, the animated part of the. original matter in this le concluding paragraph, in which Ling, on high Scriptural princi :ll have been urged against the n policy, we are fully per- hierarchy give, and land cdn never j'arious to the tws •chy extends to t silias bell° hijusto cap'.;:' session of heretic landlot To this iii hare no objection ; Nit the priests in. They will never co-operate in fish statesmen by see a boyhood, at 14laynoc ed to its original own I in the meantime by some of the ttur 2 fidelibus debent restitui pro. olio abeodern.' Hence the agrarian quam pertiuncil er ! in ziand into full and final ation can be appeased, wholly crushed, or wholly gratified. Vjngland Fier decidedly. By half measures the mon and by only half measures the monster is the secret of modern Irish history ? These and of ,nt wor the result of much thought m; and present matter for thought to any ishrnan. They lifficultv of our hi: vacilate bet and POl , in a short compass, the real y. The councils of England antagonist forces of Christianity To be consistent with her re aid require a decision which our , denounce as fanaticism. mr liberals consistently the Christian part of from as infidel rejection )rd of God. The result is that we have no deci- In 1848 a Romish rebellion is quelled, and its . . s wore a Protestant aspect, and e. In 1849 occasion is sought ,at a Protestant nobleman, guilty only at the utmost, y at all, of an error in judgment, and he is stigma ier Majesty's commission of pish aspect, and excites Po nce vibrates, and, as Dr. e monster is kept alive, and kept role of the preface is in the rev. doctor's le. of the population most pt enriched ;it! y to bear wears a P, whole is a HOW t to mention that the present edition is also !I several valuable notes, and appended to the ry fervid and scriptural prayer, with confes- Le to the times IS PROPER CONFIDENCE TO BE RE STORED IN RAILWAY PROPERTY ? The question, with which we have headed the present , is one v hich a large portion of the community are lg of themselves. We can easily account for 11 which has taken place in this description of property from the high prices of 1845-46. Those prices were absurdly inflated ; and, level, it was inevitable that they were the r cult of mania, and in finding their prop I suffer, f 'n the contraction of the currency, and other simultaneous causes which affected the whole of ter in proportion than The astounding disclo- sures of trickery and dishonesty in the management of railway concerns ti a furth naturally to give the price of se downwards, and to shake corn- even so heavy a bl mass of pi terests an The existc supposed the vita )W could not depress known to cial confid elasticity , i)erty so vast, and interwoven with the in- ience of the entire community in a few concerns, s we have seen it do, from pecies of investment f the whole bulk of a s less th aund foundation, and to yield f of the entire debt of the na- .operty has felt the return of general revival of commer- re property seems to possess no El Slinhtcst tPmnnrary rouival of ~ellers into the market. ... to jump at an opportunity to rid themselves of shares in railways, as of something dan gerous and unstable. They never look at the superior in terest which such property returns, as compared with other descriptions of investment. A rooted impression only the varnished and gilded - nil that the inside is un • ns only to bring Holders se an accession c seems to exist, that v 1 wait Pt outside o I rotten be rem edied blind panic, state of th —how is ti yielding to not throwing away valuable property— ated upon by Mr. Harry S to the Liverpool Stock I author of " The Railways of the United Kingdom statisti cally considered," in a letter to the Right lion. H. La bouchere, M.P. We shall endeavour to convey Mr. Scrivenor's views to our readers, as briefly as possible however, for we feel confident that most of those inte rested in railway property will consult the pamphlet for themselves. The writer sets out by remarking upon the under which this description of commercial difficulties of the past rously than any other ; and con- singular circumstance is felt prop thre( tend tane, tt more di from its magnitude, and its national impor come when the interference of the Go iew to prevent the recurrence of mai n the conduct of railway affairs, and to allow ith a v correct statements o known, bodies; tion by a Elam( from tt In Peru . practices tion of a of the present day ccounts ; the san ncy, and to nor thus si y or reckoning conduc the pre ;es to v ent. I ay private tra and Hatt and upon these deli they acted : from first to last, t and for a lengthened period they k fnture hoc Scrivenc railway boards, ar ments of raliwav accot some c superveiltanc ments and t with thei whose offi to a char is shewn aguished the manal ccur. We shou!d 1 actual condition to be made .avely called for. Public, or joint-stock .s, do not carry on their affairs with the ,ectitude and prudence which distinguishes of private traders ; and he justifies his posi t the history of the East India Company, a of its first formation, in 1599. until the es of the Board of Control by Mr. Pitt, in 1784. the facts of this brief history, we cannot but with its close resemblance to the Hudsonian We see the same mystifies went of dividends out of 3p up insol- Mr. Scri- ,ts upon the East India Company is instructive, especially at !‘v the infirmities of joint public Company conduct that would bring ruin and lasting tder. No merchant in his palate mitted the flagrant acts that these mer impunity in their 'corporate capacity : they of money, and were continually labouring —dry embarrassMent, pleading perpetually inability they declared dividends when no profits had accrued, .-Pd the money to pay them ; their servants fed them accounts of the state of their affairs, statements diligently cultivated,' r accounts were mysterious, :ept none ; they were bank were thrown upon the minis ving squandered all the fu nds s times, and roused against one general feeling of indigna )red them, and provided for their e extracts from the re. inn rind of Parlinnipnt uld interfere independent ludit office at Somerset Ifouse, to e of the expenditure of the army, licdepartments are submi r Accounts to such an or- eping of them, and prevents any de form plan. Under such a system of lent audit, which - must be conducted by parties unconnected with the companies —for he treat:, ant system as a complete delusion—no such prac- gement Exchan tails of } mark, tE t Somerset House, itv_ out at legitimate value, and inspire the public with cOnfiiience in such value. Another step, however, Mr. Scrivener, we think most justly, contends to be necessary—viz. the esta blishment, by every company, of what he calls " a depre ciation account;" or, in other words, the general adoption of the practice of setting aside, out of the ordinary income of railways, of a sum sufficient to keep up the efficiency of the carrying stock—locomotives, carriages, &c.—be sides providing an accumulating reserve sufficient to meet the expense of relaying the rails, whenever it may be found necessary, and also provide against any extraordi nary expenditure. Such a fund has been a f fected to be • Government Intervention in Railway Affairs; a Letter to the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, M.P., by Harry Scrivenor. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill. malversations similar m )lders would become Of shares; an _ sings being published upon public would be enabled at all respective position and prospects, y led to make investments, or to ot their property by unfounded interested representations of Scrivenor into the various d -office ; but merely re emble the Governnient Audit od can be formed and worked w a uniform the companies, it would to impart to railway poperty it eternal ar The present rs the whc )r the vt bul early acc Lli policy , .nMUM= provided by many companies ; but in all cases hitherto its amount has been mixed up with the capital account, and used indiscriminately for the construction of works. For the first time a real depreciation fund was proposed by Mr. G. Carr Glyn, the Chairman of the London and North-Western Company, in his speech at the general meeting, 17th August, 1849. Mr. Glyn says— -- ine principle or me system is smmiy tars:—we are apply ing to the piirmanent way, that is, to the duration of the rails, chairs, and sleepers—the same system which a Life Insurance Office employs in carrying on its business. We have, on evi dence which is open to the whole world, and which, I believe, cannot be gainsaid, arrived at certain conclusions, which manent way will probably require replacing. We have found, from practical results, how much it will take per annum to produce a sum which, at the expiration of that term, will suf fice for the restoration of the whole line. We propose that every half-year the necessary sum to give the annual amount required shall be taken frOm revenue, and placed out on security, at a rate of interest of 4 per cent. A separate and distinct fund from every other department of your business. And we know, also, gentlemen, from the calculations of ex perienced actuaries, that if that system is honestly and properly followed out, exactly in the same way as a Life Assurance Office follows out its system to meet the contingent liabilities on a ... life policy, we shall, at a given time, be in a situation to have saved for you the entire sum necessary to enable you to replace the permanent way. Of course, the successful carry ing out of this system will depend entirely upon the honesty of your performance of the duty you have undertaken. If there be any doubt—if there be any hesitation in laying aside from revenue the annual sum which is necessary for this purpose —if there be, as I have said, any delay or doubt in reinvesting . . the interest ever upon the y nciple of compound interest), in such case, the :curacy of the calculation would fall to the ground; and therefore, in order that you should keep your eyes open t'o the importance of this subject, we have thought it necessary to ap pend to the accounts of the first working of the system." The Company, we may remark, had previously established a.depreciation fund; but from its erroneous principle—the amount not being set aside out of earnings, but paid out of capital—it was inoperative. The same fund should be large enough to provide also for the wear and tear of car rying stock. To shew the necessity of such a plan, we find that, from a valuation recently made by Mr. Nicholas Wood, of the stock of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, the directors arrived at the conclusion that they had divided since the opening of the line -1 per cent. per annum, or £133,944 more than they would have been able to do, in order to keep up the efficiency of the line, stock, &c., had they not improperly paid this sum out of capital. It would be one of the most important duties of an audit-office to see that this fund was in reality reserved and kept intact. At present the fear that dilapidation may be taking place, and that at any moment shareholders may be called upon to forbear the receipt of half-a-year's or a year's dividend, for repairs, is one of the great in ducing causes of want of confidence in railway property. We have already exceeded our length, and must re fer the reader to Mr. Scrivenor's pamphlet itself, which contains much valuable matter for shareholders to reflect upon. DESCRIPTION OF THE CELEBRATED PICTURE " THERE IS LIFE IN THE OLD DOG YET," PAINTED BY EDWIN LANDSEER, ESQ., R.A. EDWIN LANDSEER is the most popular artist of the ri English school. This is due, perhaps, in some degree, r„ i=l to the class of subjects he frequently selects, but certainly Ft ro in a far greater degree to his rare and peculiar powers. His conception of his subject is ever such as to invest it 10 . with all the poetry, and the most characteristic truth, of •••= which it is susceptible. His skill, too, in the technical 23 qualities of art, is worthy of his high mental powers : c „1 fine drawing, a singularly faithful yet facile represents- 4 :g tion of texture, brilliant and harmonious colouring, ex- 8 quisite tone, consummate chiar-oscuro, and composition, • and, above all, a power to animate his figures, and endue them with those subtle traits of expression and character 0 that constitute the individuality of living beings. Ea . The picture before us is a fine example of both these kinds of excellence. The subject is an incident in that -- noblest and most exciting of sports, deer-stalking. This co 8: sport, in some of its many interesting phases, is Mr. c cf,;:, Landseer's favourite resource f or su bj ect, an d h as fur- F nished the materials for his most successful and popular productions. Lovers of nature, as well as of art, rejoice that it is so. It affords ample scope for the display of his great powers, as combining, in a larger proportion than any other class of subjects, the picturesque and the sublime. There is found that most picturesque of ani- : mals, the Red Deer, " Antlered monarch of the waste, with its graceful form and noble bearing, its instincts and strange blending of the most opposite and Seernineiv.inenmnatihlP onstlitip, Thn beautiful tures, yet, at times boldly confronting the invader of its forest-home ;—courageous in extremity as a lion, and yet so timid that the sudden start of any animal, even of its accustomed associates, the springing of a moor-fowl, the complaining note of a plover, or the wail of a linnet in :ress, sets him off in an instant lexed and le un se yet coot aryl most circumspect if his adversary is in sight; then is he wary in watching his disturber's slightest move ments, and decisive in his plan of frustrating them. Danger, indeed, only serves to sharpen his instincts which, on occasion, become, apparently, preternaturally acute. So accurate is his perception then of surrounding circumstances, and so decisive his resolution that a whnl I b her. ~as been known to force its way at the very point where the drivers were most numerous, as if knowing there were no rifles there. Or, if closely pursued by the dogs, flying " to bay" in some easily defensible spot, and there defending himself to the last extremity. In these cases should a lake or a river be within his reach his un erring instinct leads him to it, as if conscious that his greater length of limb gives him an advantage over his antagonists. Firmly does he there hold his position, whilst his pursuers swim powerless about him, howling wildly the impotence of their baffled rage. At other times he takes his stand on a rock in the mid-waters, and ap cnvenor , proachable only on o n e s id e , th a t i n hi s f ront , h ere h e and I stands ing ent defying his canine foes, and ready to destroy them by a single sweep of his spreading antlers. But, now, alas ! vain is his fleetness—vain his fine in stinct—vain his courage and his prowess; a foe against whom all these are of no avail has tracked him, and now the rifle-ball ends his proud career. Cade, come corpo morto cad The scenery, too, of the red deer's haunt is of the most sublime character. The wild, storm-girdled mountain, with its huge, splintery crags, standing like the fractured pillars of some primeval world, and its awful abysses, in whose depths Darkness and silence dwell eternally The desolate heath, with its solitary moor-lock, whose shores are untrodden by the foot of living creature, save the wild deer or otter; and in whose craggy rock-islets the sea-eagle builds her eyrie. The gloomy pine wood—the foaming cataract—the rushing torrent, and the sparkling muir-burn. Mr. Scrope has described these scenes with a graphic pen. Here," says he, " every thing bears the original impress of nature, untouched by the hand of man since its creation. That vast moor spread out below you ; this mass of huge mountains heaving their crests around yon, and those peaks in the distance, faint almost as the sky itself—give the appearance of an extent br.undless and sublime as the ocean. In such a place as this the wild Indian might fancy himself on his own hunting grounds. Traverse all this desolate track and you shall find no dwelling, nor sheep, nor cow, nor horse, nor anything that can remind you of domestic life; you shall hear no sound but the rushing torrent, or the notes of the wild animals, the natural inhabitants ; you shall see only the moor-fowl and the plover flying before you from hillock to hillock, or the eagle soaring aloft with his eye to the sun, or his wings wet with the mist. Nothing more shall you see, except the dun tenants of the waste, the red deer ; and, when I show you a herd of these magnificent animals, with their pointed and wide spreading antlers, ranging over this vast tract, free as the winds of heaven, I think you will agree with me that there does not exist a more splendid or beautiful animal ; for whether he is pinking his scant food on the mountain tops, or wandering in solitude through the birch groves, or cooling himself in the streams, h gives grace, charac- ter, and unity to every thing around him. The dogs, too, used in the sport furnish another source The Scotch deer-hound with his large size, knit, muscular limbs, and strong wiry hair, of pole ofinteres The old blood-hound is occasionally employed on ac- count of his superior scent, and affords a fine contrast to his colleague in his richer colour and dignified gravity of aspect. _ _ The incident which forms the subject of this picture is one_of somewhat rare occurrence. A fine stag has been hotly pressed by the dogs, and, with two of hi; len over a precipice it a rocky chasm deer and one of the dogs, a blood-hound, are killed, and the other, a noble deer-hound, though obviously much hurt, still lives. One of the foresters has been lowered into the chasm by means of a rope, and finds, to his great joy, "LIFE IN TIIE OLD DOG YET." He is communicating the welcome intelligence to his companions above. Such are the simple materials of this great work of art. No description can convey any idea of the effect pro duced upon the spectator. Every clement of it—the wild scene, tee ueaurnui animal 1111111 S, ana me powerful treatment—all conspire to excite the most profound emo tion. Although the artist has depicted such a catastrophe, there is nothing offensive to the most sensitive mind. There is no display of blood, no mangled bodies, hardly an evidence even of physical suffering. What there is of this is in the surviving deer. hound, and serves to call up admiration and the tenderest sympathy. . No ! Landseer knows too well the sources of human feeling, and has too profound a knowledge of art, to outrage both by painting the common horrors of such a scene. He has kept his subject within the bounds of pleasing emotion, and yet preserved all the energy which results from the power to pourtray the terrible apart from the beautiful. This is the very highest triumph of art, and is here achieved in the highest degree. When subsiding emotion ill permit a scrutiny of the means by - which it has been called forth, observe how exquisitely every part of the work has been eliminated, as if by some super-human creative power, rather than elaborated by a slow process of art. And it has, indeed, been produced by the creative power of GENIUS. Observe first how clearly the story is told : the stag and the dead dog have fallen on their backs by the natural operation of gravitation, which shows the great height from which they have fallen, and their present position shows they have not stirred since their fall. Their death has been instantaneous : nor do we wonder at this when we look at the sharp splintery granite crags on which they have fallen. Observe next the expressionary restrained suffering of the deer-hound : how touching is the serene, almost human character, of his noble countenance and calm ; Barley Id. cheaper. s and Pease little vari I was in fair country d mand at late prices. tt 0 .1 ii - WO 02.7.,0 6716 rn •-• enteral 115relianv, he Morning Herald boldly plants its batter Ordnance Office as a " Useless excrescence. . K. Haberfield, Esq., has been elected mayor For the fifth time. punishments THE LIVERPOOL StANhikii. ttitude! he reclines against his old master with the confiding affection of remembered kindness. This central idea of the picture is peculiarly felicitous, and removes every feeling of regret in the satisfaction experienced in his safety. Next look at the living action of the forester. You look again and listen, as if his shout were audible. The life-like character and full-toned colouring of this figure remind the spectator of the power of Velasquez. Now observe the beautiful texture of the animals. With how masterly a hand this has been depicted ! See the illusion of real projection in the deer's horns, and the solid prominence of the granite rocks ! and how the rope hangs detached in mid air, as if it might be handled ! Mark now the fine contrast of colour in the warm tones of the figures, and the cool iron-grey and iron-hard rocks ! In all this, we have not so much the illusion of pictorial representation, as the kindling of strong and I appropriate sentiment by the actual presence of living nature. Considered as a whole, this is perhaps Landseer's greatest work, and the highest of its class ever painted by the hand of man. This is high, but not exaggerated com mendation : a commendation in which every feeling mind must cordially acquiesce. Next to the good fortune of possessing such a picture will be the pleasure of having a good engraving of it. To diffuse the pleasure as widely as possible, Mr. Grundy (at whoseinterestingestablishmentthepainting is on view) proposes to place it immediately in the hands of one of our first engravers for that purpose. THIRD EDITION. Slandard-office, Two o'clock, p.m LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—This DAY There is no change worth noting in the Share Market this morning. More business would have been done had the stock been offered ; the bears appear inclined to pause a little, and of bona fide sellers there are none. The quotations marked to one o'clock are—East Lancashire pref., 7*; Leeds halves, 20i d. ; Do. fifths, si d.; London stock, 112 ; Do. quarters, 4,3 s. 9d. pm. ; Midland halves, 22* * dis . ; North Staffords, 9* dis.; Dover No. 2, 16 dis.; Berwick Ex tensions, 8j dis. ; Fire and Life, la p.; Royal Assurance, p. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET-THIS DAY. The arrivals of Grain into this port, coastwise and from Ire land, since Tuesd ,y last, are small, but of Irish Flour and Oat meal we have to note a further good supply. Exclusive of 12,838 qrs. of Indian Corn from the United States, the imports thence and Canada are limited, and those from the Continent of Europe only moderate in amount. Altho - ugh our market was tolerably well attended by the trade, there were very few actual buyers. New Wheat, both English and Irish, is fully 2d. per 701 b. cheaper; and Foreign is also depressed in value. Prime brands of American Flour were steady at late rates, but ordinary descriptions nominally rather lower. No change in Irish. Malting In Beau Oatmeal s agair 46*;MM Mr. Crawhall, the present mayor of Newcastle-upon- Tyne, is a conservative. For many years past, the whig?, being the majority of the corporation, elected men of the same political opinions to be the chief magistrate. Mr. Crawhall was elected by a majority of 25 to 23 over his whig competitor, Mr. Armstrong. On the thanksgiving day the London thieves reaped a rich harvest, by robbing the houses of many parties who had gone to church. In one case, plate of the value of £3OO, and nearly £lOO in cash, were stolen, in another the the thieves got safely off with £2OO worth of silver elate. At a meeting of the parishioners of St. Pancras last week, Mr. Brettingham stated that the books of the St. Giles's cemetery proved the astounding fact that within the list three years and a-half, no less a number than 10,000 bodies had been interred there, and that during the last six months there had been 3,000 bodies interred there. IRISH CHURCH MISSIONS.—A special meeting will be held, in London, on Friday, at Exeter Hall, the Duke of Manchester in the chair, to receive the report of the Society's deputation who accompanied the Bishop of Tuam during his recent tour of confirmation. The Rev. Dr. M'Neile, the Rev. A. R. C. Dallas, and the Rev. E. Bickersteth will take part in the proceedings. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.—At a late hour on Sunday night, a poor man was admitted into the hospital, Glas gow, in one of the worst stages of madness, caused by his working at his trade in quicksilver for glasses, and the quicksilver having entered his nerves he lost his reason ; it took not less than seven police-officers to take him to the hospital, where he remains in a very hopeless state. A NEW VOICE IN PARLIAMENT.—Mr. Barry has sent in a demand for something like £30,000 over and above the large sum that was voted to him for the houses of Par liament. We do not know what echo this note, which is certainly pitched a little high, will produce in the new house, but if it is responded to, the House of Commons will unquestionably be the finest building of its kind for any singer that has a tremendous Barry-tone. The infant child of a labouring couple, living at Whit tington, near Worcester, died on Tuesday, in consequence of its mother having administered to it four drops of laudanum, to keep it (quiet. The laudanum was taken from a large bottle of the drug, which had been sent as a medicine for the father; and though the bottle was labelled poison, the mother declared she was ignorant that laudanum was a poisonous or even a dangerous drug. The wholesale stationery house of Mr. George Magnay has been compelled to suspend payment. It is said, however, that the circumstance has arisen from tempo rary causes, and that on investigation Mr. Magnay's accounts and business management were found s) satis factory as to induce the creditors to grant a year's exten sion, under the conviction that in that time a payment may be realized of 203. in the pound. A deserter from the 10th Hussars, named Fitzgibbon, was convicted at the Middlesex session?, on Thursday, on a charge of having assaulted a labourer, by biting off his lip, in a public-house, at Colney Hatch. The ruffian at tacked the prosecutor without any provocation, threw him on the floor, case himself upon him, and immediately arose, with his face besmeared with blood, and spat upon the table the prosecutor's under lip, which was preserved in spirits, and produced in court at the trial. Captain Sir James Ross has issued an official report to the Admiralty of the proceedings of her Majesty's ship Enterprise, commanded by himself, and of the Investi gator, commanded by Captain Bird, between the 13th July, 1848, and their arrival at Scarborough, Nov. 8, 1849. Its value is more on account of its official character than from any additional information it affords of the expedi tion to that which we published in our last and in to day's paper. . . . THE TRAVELS OF A NEWSPAPER.—We have now be fore us a copy of the Weekly Register, an Edinburgh newspaper of the 9th August, 1848, which had been ad dressed to a gentleman in Smitliyhaugh, and been mis sent to New Zealand. It appears from the post-marks upon the paper, that it has been in Australia, Van Dieman's Land, and New South Wales; yet, strange, it arrived through the post-office the other day at Auchter arder, and was put into the hands of the gentleman for whom it was intended sixteen months ago.—Perthshire Advertiser. A SHIP DESTROYED BY FlRE.—About ten o'clock, on f,-; Tuesday morning, a large vessel was seen on fire off the g Isle of Wight, abreast of Shanklin Bay. She was making a for that place of shelt er w ith a ll s p ee d, an d even t ua ll y g the crew ran the vessel on to the sands at Shanklin, where they immediately abandoned her, as it was disco vered the whole of her cargo, consisting of upwards of 80 barrels of turpentine. were on fire. She was soon burnt 63 to the water's edge. It appears the vessel was bound to y Bremen from Wilmington, North Carolina, and was called the Gazelle. Her loss is reported at £2.soo.—London to ~.. paper. of Bris- The Royal College of Physicians have pronounced an opinion against the fungoid theory of cholera. Two fishing smacks came into collision on Tuesday off Dungarvon, by which one was sunk and four lives were lost. Count D'Orsay is building a handsome mausoleum to the memory of the Countess of Blessington. A cow was recently killed at Wakefield, and in the stomach were found a couple of shoe soles. Three hundred tons of potatoes and two tons of alum are said to be sold weekly to the London bakers. Fifty fallow deer have been purchased in Worcestershire for Louis Napoleon. Amongst the persons lately proclaimed outlaws in the Sheriff's Court, London, appears the name of the Prince of Canna, brother of the King of Naples. The Queen has issued a royal letter on behalf of the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor. GALVANISM.—The application of Galvanism as a medi cal agent appears to be all the rage in the metropolis. Its professors have played the very deuce with the Cold water Doctors, for the Medical Galvanists pretend to accomplish fully as much as the Hydropathists ; and as the cold water treatment is, without doubt, a very disa greeable one, whilst the galvanic treatment has nothing disagreeable about it, patients now generally resort to the latter. Mr. W. H. liaise may be considered the leader in this new branch of medical science, for who ever heard of galvanic rings. galvanic bracelets, garters, bands, &c., before he made galvanism so popular ? If galvanism be as powerful a remedial agent as it is pretended to be, the thanks of the invalid public are due to Mr. Halse, and to him alone, for it ; for without his extraordinary improve ments in the galvanic apparatus, the applications of gal vanism would be worse than useless. That Mr. Halse ranks high as a Medical Galvanist is evident from the fact that the most eminent physicians of the metropolis invariably recommend their patients to him, where they think galvanism will be of service.—Morning Chronicle. MORAL COURAGE.—A correspondent of the Morning Herald closes his letter on Mr. Rowland Hill's scheme and was killed on the spot. by relating the following facts :—" My honoured deceased The Cumberland Pacquet designates the inspector sent parent held a situation in Southampton-buildings, and round to the various towns in its district " the Govern- his employer told him to come on Sunday. He, without ment nuisance hunter !" making any reply, went to his usual place of worship. on The Hungarian committee in London have received Sunday, and returned to business on Monday as usual. £1,119. A residence has. been provided in Hyde-park for On the following Saturday, he was again told to come on the reception of the refugees. Sunday. Again he acted as before. A short time after Mr. Charles Dickens has another long letter in yester- he was told lie must leave. He politely inquired the rea day's Times, against the public infliction of capital son. With some hesitancy his masters"' You b. KNox's HOUSE AT EDINBURGII.—At the weekly meeting of the ladies—promoters of the fund for reviving Knox's house—it was reported that the donations since last meeting amounted to about £7O, in which were in cluded contributions from various parts of the country, from £lO downwards ; and, at the same time, notice was received of contributions coming from several congrega tions. The committee were given at the same time to understand that Mr. J. Smith had been strengthening and repairing. the house, so as to make it not only free from danger, but certain to remain standing for centuries. The tenants had been temporarily removed, and while nothing of an expensive or decorative kind had been done, seeing that he had been limited to a precise and very moderate sum, yet the building had been made quite safe. This puts an end to all law proceedings, either in superior or inferior courts.—Caledonian Mercury. CURIOUS CASE OF HORSESTEALING.—A boy, about fourteen years of age, named Johnston, from the Muir of Culloden, was in the town of Nairn on the fair day, about a fortnight ago. He saw, standing masterless at the door, a steel, not quite Arabian in its appearance, but the de sire " to possess it seems to have struck him ; and whilst the owner was enjoying his glass, the boy quietly mounted the bare-backed charger, and grasping the stable collar it wore, at once rode off homewards. From that time till last week, ho fed the horse by leading it at night from field to field ; and at intervals stole, from different quar ters, a pair of spurs, a bridle, a whip, an ostler's jacket and trousers, and some oats—all to make his "turn out" more genteel. His ambition has led him a step too far — that is, to the jail, for he was apprehended a day or two ago. ___ A WOMAN WITH THREE HUSBANDS.—At the Thames street police-court, a few days ago, an elderly man named Daley was charged by the parish-officers with deserting his wife, and leaving her chargeable to the parish. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Pelham. Evidence of the marriage, in April, 1839, of the defendant with the wo man (who then represented herself as a widow) was given. Mr. Pelham then proceeded to produce a certificate of the marriage, 26 years ago, of the same female to one Wm. Wilkins, who had been seen in Jamaica in July last. The defendant stated that it could also be shewn that she bad married a second husband, Havens, before marrying bim. The Magistrate said, " Then Daley gets rid of his wife." (Laughter.) " And," said Mrs. Daley, "lof my hus band !" The magistrate said that the first husband had been so long abroad, that she was not responsible in this marriage. Wilkins, it appeared, too,, had married again in Jamaica.• The ease was dismissed ; and the female (now called Mrs. 'Wilkins) said, " I suppose I am at li berty to marry again !" The magistrate said " No," and the woman left the court much mortified that she could not marry again. The Midland counties papers chronicle several full blown roses and carnations, which are growing in the open The Gateshead Observer says that snow fell in that neighbourhood on Tuesday and Wednesday last week in considerable quantities, accompanied by a sharp frost. Lady Franklin returned to London on Thursday, from the north, to see Sir James Ross and Sir John Richard son, on their return from their respective expeditions. The effigy of the ex-mayor of Wakefield was burnt in that town on Friday night last, by an infuriated mob, who displayed blue lights, and gave_three groans for the effigy. A prostitute his been committed fo - r trial at Birming ham, on a charge of stealing notes from a gentleman at a brothel, to the value of £ll3O. The Carlisle Journal announces that a poacher, being pursued by one of Sir James Graham's watchers, attempted to cross the river Lyne, and was drowned. The large spinning and weaving mill of Mr. Shepley, near Glossop, Derbyshire, took fire on Wednesday week. Property to the amount of £3OOO was destroyed. s, aged fifteen years, fell into a new coal eady fifty-one yards deep, Raid, _ . nave not enough of the Devil in you for me.' A banker's clerk happened to call who told him of a vacancy in Fuller's, Lombard-street. He went, they required £l,OOO security; he, poor fellow, long an orphan, could only muster about £l5O security. Mr. Fuller inquired his reason for leaving —he told the words of his employer. The banker then inquired where he went on Sunday ? `To Rowland llill's' was the reply. (Ghost of the dead, arise !) ' Tell your master I will call upon him,' was the Lombard-street banker's last words. He called. Fuller took him with out a penny security ; sent Lim to the bank next day for £20,000. He became beloved and honoured by the firm, and after some years, on his marriage, they got him a superior appointment." AN INGENIOUS DEVICE.—The following extract from the report of Sir J. Ross's expedition to the Polar Seas, in search of Sir John Franklin and his companions, de scribes an ingenious device adopted for conveying infor mation as to the locality of provisions, stores, &c., left for the support of the unfortunate voyagers :—" During the whole of that dreary winter the only other living ani mals seen were the white foxes. These were not allowed to be shot, but as many were taken alive as could be trapped, and about forty were then sent away with clpper collars round their necks, upon which was stamped the name of the ships. and the localities of the depots of pro visions, Bce Her Majesty's ship Pandora arrived at Portsmouth'from the Pacific on Friday, with gold dust valued at 100,000 dollars. From the Ist of January next all ships duly owned by British subjeccs will be admitted to registry without in quiry as to the place of their build. The Blenheim palace and stables near Oxford narrowly escaped destruction by fire on Friday, through the spon taneous combustion of a quantity of green grass. The Swedish government has reciprocated our repeal of the navigation laws, and hereafter all British vess2ls enter ing the ports of Sweden are to be treated like vessels of the latter country. A female, 33 years of age, has died, in Paris, from the administration of chloroform. She had previously been etherized, without ill effects, and on this occasion she inhaled the chloroform prior to the extraction of a tooth. RATHER ENCOURAGING.—The Tablet (Romish paper) will cease to be published in London after this year, for want of support. It will then be issued in Dublin as an Irish paper. Proceedings have beon commenced against a strolling manager, named Campbell, for performing at Stockton, in defiance of the magistrates, a trashy drama, entitled Rush ; or, the Stanfield hall murder. The number of ships on the stocks ready for launching and in course of being built at Sunderland, is 87. Many of them are of the burthen of 400, 500, 600, and 700 tons, and classed A 1 8 years, 10 years, 12 years, and 13 years. A ball took place at the Assembly Rooms, Maccles field, on Thursday week, in aid of the recently-erected baths and wash-houses. It was very successful, and £l5O was realised for the object contemplated. Sir T. B. Martin, G.C.8., has been appointed Admiral of the Fleet, consequent on the death of Sir J. H. Wilshed, Bart., and a number of admirals and rear-ad mirals hays been advanced a step. G. Linnaeus Banks, Esq., of Harrogate, has been lec turing this l as t wee k in th e Mechanics' Lecture Room, on " Gossip and Slander.', " the Signs of a New Era," and the best means of advancing Mechanics' Institutes. As it was well known that these . foxes travel an immense distance, this measure was resorted to with the view of making them the possible medium of acquaint ing the missing 'parties with the means taken for their relief and succour. The foxes were caught in a barrel converted into a door-trap ; and, to show the intensity of the cold, it may be stated that the poor little animals, in endeavouring to escape, often attempted to gnaw the iron bars, when in many cases their tongues adhered to the iron, and were frozen off, when they were killed from motives of humanity. The foxes were facetiously deno minated ' Twopenny Postmen.' The thermometer at this time was about 15 below zero ; but the Sylvester stove apparatus, which answered admirably well, always kept the lower decks at a temperature of between 55 and 60 degrees." In the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Court of Bankruptcy, the certificate of Mr. Cuthbert Rippon, formerly M.P., for Gateshead, was suspended for twelve months, —the Jueg.3 observing that the bankrupt was open to the charge of culpable extravagance and reckless proceedings. The debts are £156,000, and the assets will barely cover the expenses. THE PRIZE ENIGMA.—The prize of £5 offered by the editor of the Family Friend for the solution of an enigma, has been awarded to Mrs. A. F. Donoghue, London. The solution which is gutla percha, was attempted by 1,500 persons, 200 of whom were correct; but the most complete answer was furnished by the lady to whom the prize was awarded. - APPLES FOR THE QUEEN.—TIe Nottingham Guar dian states, that Mr. Samuel Voce, lacemaker, well known at Cotgrave for his knowledge of the natural history of the bee, has a young apple tree growing in his yard, near to his cottage door, which bears a remarkably fine fruit, and this year the fruit, being finer than usual, he made a pre sent of a peck of these beautiful apples to her Majesty the Queen. The present was kindly and graciously received, and, after inquiries as to the character and circumstances of Voce, a postoffice order for two sovereigns was remitted to him. Nov 20, iSt AN EAGLE CAPTURED.—A full-grown eagle was cap tured in Glenmarkie, Laggan, on Saturday week, by a gamekeeper. On the day preceding he had seen the eagle, and he immediately set to work with his traps to catch her. Early on the following morning he was lucky enough to meet with the noble bird within three miles of the place where the trans had been set. She sat down to rest, and before she was able to rise again he had hold of her, and rfter a sharp struggle, secured her in good condition, without a bone being broken. The bird is said to be full grown, and of a very large size.—Ross-shire Advertiser. °Me° STAGE ACCIDENT.—During the performance o f R r o and Juliet at th e Sheffield theatre, on Fr:d a f ,,' !.) Romeo had to disarm and kill Tybalt, Mrs. J. ' who enacted the part of Romeo, attacked Mr. R: ° nra ll! halt) under such stage excitement, that she aecl ue :ben, stabbed him in the side. A surgeon was called in , : or e, challenge/ Cl/0 D A AQUATICS.—The U oars,A T I withc . at first, it was feared that the wound was internallY.s" but by proper treatment Mr. Rolfe is fast recovering._ f o r the ° p li r h e e sen a ta nn t u io a n l medals for the second crew, given by the Oxford V t l e l rec l, sity Boat Club, and for which seven boats were eri ,ben terminated on Friday, after some interesting beet 2 ' ) who Messrs. Chitty (of Balliol) and Clissold (of Exete r 'l n dea had on the previous day won every heat they con. co , for, wrested the prize from the winners of last Messrs. Stuart and Bengough, of Oriel College. for The month of November has been characterisr‘i'soa three years past, by the appearance of very large sP ° l . , or the sun. At present there is a very extensive clas t t e o the series of connected spots, which appear as one sP; )t . 0 01 naked eye. The smallest telescope or opera s ' fon discern them as an oblong mark on the sun not far • the centre. The entire length measures, in round 01.'4 its breadth varies from 15,000 to 30 000. About Way. hers, upwards of 100,000 miles of the solar surface, ° ,4 1- intv spots may be counted, the several penumbra running each other with irregular outlines. , NEW CHURCH AT AMBLESIDE. — Tt IS in contempt, es . to erect a new church at this beautiful spot. przaoibrieotasr,eda n r d a , ce .ll ecru: ae pense of the building is estimated at £4OOO, exelu s l c ' e ast believe, of what might be required for a handsom e t he the window, an organ, and a few other accessories for bee' fitting completion of the design. About £2500 ha re f rbe promptly subscribed by inhabitants of the place of immediate neighbourhood. Mr. Benson Harrl' ° "' the Green Bank, who, as there was no residence for at clergyman, had already built an exce llent parsonar 3 ,, 1 his sole expense, heads the list with th e munificent dotin.o tion of £lOOO ; Lady Le Fleming gives £5OO ; C 3 , 11 300; and Mrs. Lutwidge, £5O; their niece, Miss Toylor , an d Mr. Luther Watson, Rev. James Hornby, Dr. Dol . 111rs...Trenchley, £lOO each ; Rev. E. Loder, f.- 5 ° ; - SILLY HOAX.—Ahoa; quite as stale as that of indit ing false accounts of marriages, was played off in this city on Saturday. Some persons forwarded notes to dif ferent respectable tailors, requesting them to attend at the residence of Mr. Lloyd, of. Hinton Cottage, the the newly-elected Mayor of Hereford, in order to mea sure him for a new scarlet gown, the honourable badge of that office. Accordingly they proceed to the place on the morning named, but only to learn that they had been duped by some one who, it is to be regretted, had no useful employment. A piece of public wit has arisen out of the affair in the apolication of the term " scarlet run ners" to the deceived tradesmen. who have more reason to complain than the mayor.—Hereford Journal. and Miss Riddway, £5O. FORTIINE-TELLlNG.—Elizabeth Newton, a ma rked PROPOSED REMOVAL OF MR. HUDSON'S PORTRAIT. At the annual meeting of the town council of York, on Friday, Mr. Alderman Matterson moved, " That the portrait of Mr. George Hudson be removed from the man sion house." Mr. E. Calvert seconded the motion. Mr. Woollons moved that on the vote the names be taken. Mr. Sotheran seconded this motion. The lord mayor elect would be sorry for such a proceeding to take place during his mayoralty. He had no reason to speak favour ably hf Mr. Hudson, yet he should be sorry to have this done. (Applause.) The lord mayor declared the motion to be lost by 13 to 11. THE " SISTERS OF MERCY" AT PLYMOUTH.—MISS Sellon and the other ladies forming what is known as the Sisterhood of Mercy, and who at present occupy a large house at Eldad, Plymouth, and who, under the patronage of the Bishop of Exeter, have raised funds for the purpose of building an establishment, to be called the " Orphans' Home," in which the sisters will take charge of a number of orphans—have made arrangements for the purchase of a field adjoining St. Peters's church at Eldad. The pur chase money will be about £l5OO, and the fund already collected amounts to about £3OOO. Two PERSONS SUFFOCATED.—On Saturday week, information was conveyed to the police of a fire in the house of C. Leadbetter, shoemaker, Hull. On going to the premises, the lower room was found full of smoke, so much so that the policeman could scarcely see any= thing, but perceived that there was a little fire near the window. He got it quenched, and when the smoke cleared off, he saw the bodies of Leadbetter and hip son. Christopher's body was lying on the floor, and the child was lying near the man's head. He had a pair of shoe maker's pincers in his right hand. His left hand was in a boot, upon which he appeared to have been at work. His stirrup was on his left leg. He seemed as though he had fallen in a fit. The clothes of both the deceased were very much burned. woman. about 44 years of age, living in CrOmpton'iter Macclesfield, has been apprehended on this charge._ the mode of proceeding is, by showing the person vrb° t t parties wish to find out in a looki ng - g l a ss ! L e m ; 6 l, Nantwich, a club had been robbed of a Or sum frui , t and all inquiries as to the d e li nquen t h av i ng proved of less, Thomas Shenton, of Nantwich, being a m eraber the dub, and consequently one of the parties aggr! eve to came over to Macclesfield, and it is said that, according the approved system of fortune-tellers, she told hinl y business he had come about, without having receiv edr _ information from him. After so me t a lk s he showed Du: the looking-glass, in which he saw a face that he rec ta nised as a party living at Nantwich. The conseque7o, was that Shenton, on his return, sp rea d the supPwe d d formation that be had received respecting the thief, 011 —, series of quarrels and assaults have been the consequ eau f , in which the authorities have found it necessary to br e parties to bail ; but the excitement still continuine , , it magistrates could discover no better method to al'', Z e f, than by having the woman, as the cause of nli' ca n ' u . taken up to answer for her conduct.—Macclesfield C° DISCOVERY OF A ROMAN AMPHITHEATRE AT RICH BOROUGH, KENT. - Mr. Rolfe, of Sandwich, well known for his antiquarian pursuits, has discovered the site and part of the walls of a Roman amphitheatre. The circular depression on the hill at a little distance had been con jectured by Stukely to be the site of an amphitheatre, and by the excavations now made this is proved beyond doubt. The diameter of this fine amphitheatre is nearly 200 feet. At the last meeting of the British Archaeological Associ ation, Mr. Rolfe announced his discovery at Richborough, described above, upon the hill on the left of the road from Sandwich to the Roman castrum. Mr. Rolfe, by the leave of Mr. Solly, the tenant, has tested the truth of preceding opinions by excavating the ground, and the re sult proves that the hollow was correctly called an amphi theatre. The work is still in active progress, and further discoveries are daily expected.—Kent Herald. THE CHARTIST LAND BUBBLE AND THE PEOPLE'S BAILIFF.—SO far as we can gather, from the latest infor mation on the subject, the affairs of the land scheme are now in a somewhat critical position. The " people's bailiff," it appears, has come to the conclusion that a wholesale system of eviction will be necessary, in order to gain possession of the various plots occupied by the Chartists at O'Connorville, Lowlands, Minster Lovell, and Snig's End ; and such, therefore, is the course he means to take. His own p a p er , Th e Northern Star, of Saturday, contains a public notice, in which he calls upo n all the tenants (ten an t s u p on their own farms !) to pay up all their rents by a certain time, or he will eject them. This sounds very much like a breaking up of the land scheme. The holders of these allotments are not in a condition to pay such an amount of arrears as that which stands against them. The natural consequence will be, that a general ejectment must take place. Mr. O'Connor will then take possession of the whole of the estates, as the " people's bailiff," and will, no doubt, furnish a most satisfactory account of his proceedings to the members of the National Land Society, at their next great meeting, which ought to take place soon, in order that they may decide upon what the future policy of the society ought to be.—Manchester Examiner. LAWLESS PROCEEDINGS IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.— For some weeks Upper Boddington, and its neighbour hood, have been- in a lawless state, and serious offences have been rife. Last week a stack of oats; valued at £25, the property of Mr. John Paine, of Upper Boddington, was destroyed by fire. Tt is believed to have been the wilful act of an incendiary. On the night of Saturday last Mr. John Boneham, of %field. a shopkeeper and carrier, was, when between Boddington and the above village, attacked by two men, who beat him with blud geons, and robbed him of about £4. Ho is, from the injuries, in a precarious state. Within a few weeks nearly 20 cases of sheep-stealing, besides other robberies, have occurred. Clarke, the police-officer, and Mr. Paine, the constable of Boddington, were recently shot at, and since then two guns were fired at the policeman. In neither case was injury done, but in the first one the shot hit Clarke. The district is in a state of terrorism and dis quietude. _ _ rier. AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.—The farmers of 1 18 1; shire, like those in Wiltshire, finding it impossible to 0 13 ,.. ends meet, had lately reduced their wages from gs. to On this, the men resisted the attempted reduction to ot a week, and left their work, saying they could belt° less keep body and soul together with Bs., and it Was u' e „ c is to attempt it with 7s. They then appe a led to Sir rra - , o f Baring, who recommended them to apply to the boa r° 27 guardians for relief. Accordingly, on Saturday last' a of them presented themselves at the union-house, 8.°_,5 claimed relief. Upon an investigation of their re specti f y r cases, it appeared that one man had wor ked 33 na r lifil his master, that he had four children and a s ick wife, - ibe 303. a year to pay for rent, (in most of the other cases . ea men had £2 a year to pay for rent.) Of th e o ther martl 3 o men with families one had worked f or th e sam e master 0) years, one 25 years, one 23 years, two 22 years, tw o c , years, and others 18, 17, 16, 10, 8, and 7 years resP i e l i e tively ; the remaining four or five were young men. `rho board ordered out-door relief immedi a tely to those into had sick wives, and the others were orde re d to come the union-house an Monday. Assuredly this story . .„t badly for Sir Francis Baring. The price of agricul tu Lt; produce has been lowered, by the acts of himself and hi colleagues, naore than one-fourth. ,indaf FALL OF SEVEN RAILWAY ARCHES.—On C Su nda morning, about half-past sevens. the inhabitants of car; den and Kentish Towns were alarmed by a noise 0 of most extraordinary character, the result of the falling no less than seven of the newly constructed s tupend, (B°. arches of the East and West India Dock and Birming, B l Junction Railway. The spot where the occurrence , place is situate on the western side of the Kentish.tovr: road, and but a short distance from the junction of re line with the London and North-Western Railway 8t Camden-town station. About the time a b ove -mention e e the seventh arch from the bridge which crosses o'3 Kentish-town road gave way, and the six others folloce in rapid suceession, and with a fearful crash. I ,b wreatest fears were entertained that the stupendous are hich crosses the Kentish-town road wculd follow , r, the-solidity of the structure, with the exception o !, b , slight cracking of the brickwork on the western side, 81 ' o f stood the shock. The arches which have fallen ar e n ., 0 from twenty to thirty feet span, and the first symPte— .l wa lls. of cracking observed was in the face of the spandrel , 00 it was rumoured that the accident had resulted fro it : he speedy striking of the centres of the arches. gad a fall taken place the day bofore, the loss of life would 1 18 r, been immense. The damage snstained by the oat° rence is estimated at about £2OOO. an d DESTRUCTIVE Fenu.—On Thursday the beautiful ase, extensive range of premises, known as Cleveland 1 1 °',,„ 9 tot ,. situate at the top of Cookham I-Ell, about three ~f from Maidenhead, the property of his Grace the Duke.cll Sutherland, were destroyed by fire. The p r emises, wl'!„ 0 were upwards of 60 feet high, extended in one direl er nearly 100'feet, and were joined at each end by 08°t 'f. i clump of buildings, forming a couple of wings, and g' oo .- in a splendid finish to the whole structure. A K l ls of contents of the library have been preserveu n i ar , likewise all the paintings that were on the lower, floor, valued, it is said, at £30,000. The original manse,_ ° . of . Cliefden was erected by George Villiers, second Dl B ,, v e re Buckingham, in the reign of Charles the Second, w 'bis this nobleman resided, and where he carried on amour with the notorious Countess of Shrew to From the Duke of Buckingham the mansion pa ssed . 11 ,',1 the possession of Frederick Prince of Wales, who re st Oft there many years, and greatly improved the place. out the 25th of May, 1795, the house was burned dow o, l T o ot the mansion now destroyed was built upon its site, B ,ho 25 years since, by the late Sir George Warrender , made it the receptacle of his valuable collection of we ur .. of art and vertu. Many of these treasures were P o f chased with the mansion by the Duke of SutherlantA Sir George Warrender's executors, and it is to be fer,; ( l a large portion of them is destroyed. It is undersw" YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.—OR Tues day evening the Rev. Hugh Stowell delivered the first of a series of lectures to the members of the above associa tion in the large room at Exeter-hall. The subject selected by the rev. gentleman was, according to the bills, " the Bible self-evidential," a phrase, which means, we apprehend', that the holy volume authenticates itself. For upwards of an hour and a half Mr. Stowell, in his usual animated' and energetic style, enlarged on the principal doctrines of Christianity, arguing that from their nature man never could have imagined or devised them. In the more forcible passages of the lecture his audience fre quently paid him the tribute of loud cheering and applause, which alone secularised the character of the meeting. The room was crowded to excess—floor, platform, and galleries—by a highly respectable body of men and women, who heard Mr. Stowell with great attention throughout his long and eloquent address. PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION OF LOYAX ORANGEMEN.— On Monday, the sth November, a tea party, on a large and splendid scale, took place in the Temperance Hall, Bradford. Upwards of 500 sat down to tea, and, after enjoying themselves with the cup which cheers but not inebriates, the business of the evening commenced. We noticed on the platform, Dr. Burnet, vicar ; Rev. Well. bury Mitton, incumbent of Manningham ; Rev. Francis Randall, incumbent of Eccleshill ; Rev. J. T. Brien, minister of Daisy Hill ; Rev. J. Blakeney, curate of Felle ; Rev. Mr. Colton, curate of Bowling ; Rev. Mr. Clementson, of Nottingham ; brother Sylvester, P.G.M., of Bolton ; brother Gibson, G.S., of Chowbent ; brother Bailey, of Leeds : and Councillor Squire Auty, of Brad ford. The choir of Bowling church offered their services gratuitously on the occasion, and after tea sang Non nobis Domine. Brother Sylvester, P.G.M., was appointed to the chair, from whence he gave the usual loyal toasts, and the building was insured. , „7;narf SCENE IN A PARISH CHURCH.—An exmor.--iast scene was witnessed in Westerfield Church, Ipswieht eie r. Sunday afternoon, in which the Rev. C. Drage, the t he gyman, and Oxborrow, the parish clerk, figured 85, principal actors. It appears that a feeling of ill wili., ifi g for a long time past prevailed between the parties, a ri l e li, out of matters altogether of a secular nature, and wh tie; after occasionally manifesting itself in "scorn niet t to scorn, and will preventing will," was at length broug u t he a crisis on the afternoon in question. The time fo r e rs afternoon service came round, and the village worshiP t f te ir were reverentially awaiting it s commencemen t, yawn' trf pastor, befittingly robed, ma d e hi s en t ry f rom the ° — " t he door. At that moment, Oxburrow, it seems, was act of putting a valedicto r y ques ti on t o one f his hours. Supposing him to be engaged in convers a iQ Mr. Drage rebuked him in the hearing of all prese n t t 'ot words to this effect, " You, parish clerk, you Inn s " e at , talk to the congregation r " You're very Mr. Drage !" was the prompt rejoinder of that fne cti t of ary. One can scarcely comprehend the astonishnielloi, the simple-minded rustics gathered within the san ctu u blic at so unseemly and unexpected a preparation for I've! ) prayer ; nor how much wider their eyes must have red opened at beholding Mr. Drage, after mounting the book ing-desk and turning over the leaves of the praY er :tiont for a moment or two, suddenly descend from his ele' r , ef ice advance to the front of the clerk's desk, and eom — o f th e a regular altercation with that individual. Several goo congregation, disgusted with the squabble, aroser'oge their seats and quitted the church. At length Mr•, e ser re-ascended the reading-desk and proceeded with !'' be ing vice, but not without the perturbation of his Win u e jos occasionally observable in his voice and manner.--''' Chronicle huperti".oo, A DUDLEY WEDDING.—One day last wet-- couple visited Dudley intending to buy a cloci‘ an, elde ft r e l ,10:19 ,t he called upon Brother Auty, Who advanced to the front of the platform, delegated to him by the members of Queen Elizabeth Lodge, held at the Commercial Inn, of which lodge their worthy Brother and Grand Chaplain, Dr. Burnet was a member. He was deputed by them to present to Brother Burnet an orange and purple scarf, ornamented with gold and silver lace ; and he was sure if that scarf had cost ten times more than its present value, it would have been given with the same generous feeling of thankfulness and gratitude. A THREE-SHILLING COAT. — Dennis Donovan was in dicted in London, on Friday, for stealing a coat, which was shown by the evidence to have been sold to a Jew in Petticoat-lane. Moses Jacobs, on producing the coat, was asked by the learned judge who sold it to him ? Jacobs : They say, my lord, as how a Jew can never be done ; but upon my word and honour I was taken in here. I gave 3s. for this here coat, and it's only worth half-a crown upon my oath. (A laugh.)—The Court : Who did you buy it of, I ask you ?—Jacobs (holding up the gar ment) : Look at it, your vorship, examine it, and you'll see that it was a regular do. I'll forfeit £5O if any old clothesman would give half-a-crown for it. My lord, upon my solemn oath I lost full sixpence by the transac tion. (Loud laughter.) Yes ; T was let in for it this time—the first in all my life, as I am a living man. Look at the article, your vorship—now do, and be convinced ? (Renewed laughter.)—The Court : Whom did you pur chase it of, sir ? That 's the question you are asked, and answer it.—Jacobs : Your lordship, I ' been in the old clothes line in Petticoat-lane full three-and-thirty years, and never was done in this way afore. If you'll only in spect the article, you'll see it aint worth the money. (Laughter.)—The Court : Do you intend to say of whom you bought it ?—Jacobs : Why a coat like this, I'd be ashamed to ask eighteenpence for it from any one, in the line or out of it. I never was sold so neatly in all my life. (Laughter.)—The Court : Answer the question, sir. —Jacobs : Well, you see, it was neither light nor dark when the gentlemag brought it, so I couldn't very well see; and, as I'm a very careful man, I won't swear to the prisoner. (A laugh.)—The prisoner was acquitted because I he was not identified by the witness. direction of the Upper Church : on arriving in , 911 :6 the sacred edifice the old man sudd en ly exclaimea , , was the third axing yesterday ?" To which Bet leirtlyi " Why, ave. mon." Upon this announcement thee date tOr matrimony replied, "Well, Bet, we mun fl i1;e• go in and get the job over at wunst, and save tittle i - e o As the lady seemed to acquiesce in the practical "ieest the case, the parties immediately p r oceeded to hu.s,with Bet, looking round, claimed a p ersona l acquaintan-c 04E13 several women who were loun g i ng a bout, watching . ',olv jealous eyes, the arrival of sundry matrimonial 51;25 tors; by some of these women s h e was attendec! ti nd sort of body guard, into the vestry, while the (as she endearingly termed the b r ide g room in Pe rs %isl er : entered the church, and walking un to themly coo ejaculated, " Well, zur, oi bin cum to be marreiar d / Of plaze." " Oh, indeed", said the minister, ', 811 W13 01 '; where is the woman ?" "The woman, star' that's Bet—her's behind the vestry door, s ur, oe b On st O a n te s m e e n n d t in , dressed. I just peeped in, sur, and its all right' tro e r of this body-guard, one of whom was busily engaged n iogly her face, another sat with a cap on her knee, o. ", s tefu. e l Betin t w o s t s h e v discoverede stto i a n s c t e h r e ta h i n t a b Lo s f b b .i borders, when a third lent her a scarf, and Was " - a iple,, L e t arranging its folds upon her shoulders ; having c ° ,o these essentials, "bobbed up her hair," and, i s te " toidy loike," she was led forth triumpbant;‘,Y„o"l church, on entering which she greeted then °ju g ': bers, eo a very affectionate nod, and exclaimed, e `far sTa - cl comes." The minister, after surveying theta : , they ~a'' time, turned to the clerk and made inquiry "gr ald — f et been properly asked in c h urc h, to which the be obe took upon himself to reply—" Whoy, ees, 10 4., 11g e . n e ar yesterday, and I asked Bet mare nor a tnonthaned, all right, sur." The pair were then legallYu n Ae a sae after this " interesti ng ceremon y" was el ided, c sbe t o ter inquired if the woman could write, to vill ic b "e a ei e to answer, " Noo, schools warn't so popilous ro b ed young ; feyther and mother couldn't afford,,t ° heS P er lam. Int I repose the old un don't iceer•_, Jad left the church, attended by the body-guard, Or I thusiastio circle of achuirers..-Birmingigns JAIME