The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-09 00:00:00

.3-' s! - - . _ FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. THE OVERLAND MAIL. From Bombay and Calcutta, by the overland mail, another despatch has reached London by extraordinary express, conveying dates of nearly a month later from Bombay, and 13 days from Calcutta. The intelligence, however, is not of great importance. All India was more than, usually tranquil. The sentence of death passed upon the prisoner Dewan Moolraj had been commuted into transportation for life, and was officially communi cated to him on the 31st July, in the Am Khas of the fort of Lahore. We do not learn that he expressed one word either of gratitude or of grief at the remission of his original sentence. The place to which he is destined is said to be Singapore. The enormous corruptions developed in the Post-office mannagement at Calcutta had excited intense interest ; and as the inquiry was proceeding, the greater the defal cations appeared. It was understood that Sir C. Napier would return home in March next, and that Sir W. Gomm or Sir W. Colton will succeed to the vacant office of Commander in-Chief. The shipping at Bombay had been visited with the cholera. On board the Hastings two midshipmen, named Schneider and Eider, had died, and other officers and seamen hal suffered extreme illness. The Hon. C. A. Butler, Surgeon Edgcome, Assistant-Surgeon Porteous, and Ensign Freeling, had fallen victims to the disorder at Jaulna. At Poona also several men of the 10th Hussars, and of the 64th and 83d Foot, had been afflicted with the malady. FRANCE. M. Dupin has been elected, by 339 votes out of 479, President of the Assembly till the end of the year. The Budget for 1850 gives a deficit of about 320,000,000 f., or nearly £13,000,000 sterling ! It was reported in the Assembly that M. de Falloux has resigned the Ministry of Public Instruction. A private in the second battalion of the Garde Mobile in garrison at Givet has been sentenced by court-martial to imprisonment in irons for five years, and to be inca pable of ever again serving in the army, for having used violent language to his superior. The Maire of a village who holds the key, having kept the Archbishop of Rheims out of the church, his grace threatens to keep all the villagers out of heaven :—he will excommunicate them ! The National Assembly of France had assembled on Tuesday ; the members met to elect the president, four vice-presidents, and six secretaries. M. Dupin, having obtained 339 votes out of 479 votes, was proclaimed pre sident of the assembly until the Ist of January, 1850. M. 3lichel de Bourges, his competitor, obtained 107 votes. The four vice-presidents elected were Messrs. Barouche, by 330 votes ; Daru by 338 ; Benoit de Azy by 312 ; and Bedeau by 271. The Paris correspondent of the Glasgow Mail writes, relative to the state of religion in France, that suicides are common amongst, not persons poor, or in love, or diffi culties only, but young men who declare that life is dis gusting. POVERTY AND CRIME.—A terrible " drama," to bor row the expression of the Paris Constilutionnel, was enacted a day or two ago at the barriere de Passy. A pastrycook, whose affairs were not very prosperous, thought to better his condition by establishing two shops in the interior of Paris, one in the passage Vero-Dodat, and the other in the house of a brother. Three days ago the brother repaired to Passy for orders, but was told that the indigence of his relation rendered it necessary to shut up shop altogether. The same answer was repeated the following day. At the expiration of the third, the doors of the house at Passy were found to be fastened ; they were broken open by the police and four corpses were found stretched on the floor. The wretched pastrycook bad, it appears, prepared a " last supper," of which he partook with his family, and having well seasoned the meats with arsenic, poisoned himself and his wife and two young children at the same time. ITALY. PROHIBITION OF THE BIBLE.—In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of Turin, of the 28th ult.. M. Battini asked a question of the Minister of the Interior concerning the manner in which liberty of conscience was understood by Government, since the Bishops had threatened dealers who sold Diodati's translation of the Bible, and the Minister of the Interior had prohibited the sale of that book ? The Minister very laconically answered that the measures alluded to were perfectly constitutional! The subject then dropped. THE INQUISITION FOILED.—A correspondent of the Daily News writes from Rome—" A grand escape of condemned, or, more properly speaking, accused priests, took place on the day before yesterday from the Inquisi tion, where they were confined, some for having acted as regimental chaplains, some for having blessed the Re publican troops, and others for similar offences against ecclesiastical decorum. They succeeded in effecting a subterranean excavation from their dungeon to upper day, or rather night, for they made off about one o'clock after midnight, without being molested by the French sentries in the neighbourhood, for, as it had been denied that there were any prisoners in the vaults, the soldiers did not consider themselves obliged to watch very strictly. Some women of the Trastevere quarter are said to have assisted considerably in the liberation of the prisoners, of whom from nine to thirteen are variously stated to have escaped. A few, amongst whom was M. Gazzola, of literary and newspaper fame, refused to leave the prison, some alleging that, being accused of pecuniary peccadillos, flight would be equivalent to a confession of guilt ; and some unfortunates, finally, were prevented from profiting by the general move, and emerging with their companions to ' riveder le stelle,' by the dreadful predicament of one of their number, who, being a very stout man, got jam med in the escape hole, and fixed himself so firmly in the wall by his own efforts, that, finding return as tedious as to go o'er,' he was obliged to remain until the affair got wind, and lie was captured midway. The French artil lerymen, walking from the neighbouring guard-house, saw the first prisoners escape, and pretended not to ob serve them. The fortress of Comorn has surrendered to the Aus trians, and hostilities have therefore ceased. Eight Jews have been elected members of the House of Assembly in Jamaica. INTOLERANCE OF TRUTH.—In the Baths, at Lucca, a British officer has received notice to quit, for giving a religious tract to a sick man at the hospital. A New York mercantile writer states that from ten to twelve millions of dollars of specie are expected to arrive in the United States from California during the autumn months. Advices from the Upper Missouri state that a battle occurred on the 4th ultimo between the Pawnee and the Omahu Indians, resulting in the defeat of the Pawnees, with the lose of much property, forty-two horses, and twenty warriors and chiefs. The quantity of port wine exported from Portugal during the first six months of this year was 21,451 pipes. A considerable number of the trees of liberty planted in Paris were removed privately during Saturday night, by order of the Government. The Feuile du Commerce, published at Port-au-Prince, gives a long account of the proceedings at the nomination of President Soulouque to the title and dignity of Emperor of Hayti. The Cologne Gazette of Wednesday, affirms on the au thority of Vienna letters of the 27th, that Kossuth and his companions were already safe on board a British man of-war. Several of the German republican leaders, who fled from Baden, and among them Struve, have been ordered to quit the Swiss territory ; and have already taken their departure, it is said, for England. Even in Vienna the publication of the mock amnesty and mock constitution granted by the Pope has been re ceived with indignation and disgust. The Vienna journals of the 28th are unanimous in protesting against the intro duction into Rome of a system of government so opposed to the wishes of the mass of the Roman people. EMIGRATION. —During the first seven months of the present year, no fewer than 143,222 emigrants arrived at New York from Europe. There is an increase of 32,818 over the number arriving in the same time last year, and the number is fourfold that which arrived in an equal time of 1844. Of the first-mentioned number, 101,220 belonged to Great Britain and 34,142 to Germany. A gentleman in England, as yet unknown to the Cana dian public, has offered to make a gift of the means neces sary for opening 500 schools in the interior of Canada. The Montreal Gazette of the 12th states, on positive information, that by the last mail a despatch was received on the subject of the Rebellion Losses Bill, forbidding a single claim to be paid under the act, until the British. Government is satisfied that not one rebel nameis recom mended on the list. Loss OF THE CHINA MAIL.—A letter from a lady, who is a resident at Ningpo, states that the March mail from England was lost in the Torrington, on her passage from Shanghae to Ningpo. The ship went down at her anchors, and the mail-bags in her, but the crew and pas sengers were saved. The writer's letter is dated June 21. Her Majesty's steamer Antelope, from the lonian Is lands, arrived at Malta, on the 25th ult. ; she reports that the two revolutionists, for whom, dead or alive, the Lord Commissioner had offered 1000 dollars, had aotbeen taken, and the island of Cephalonia was still disturbed. The .Sharpshooter (steamer) and the Racer (brig) were there, and the fleet cruizing in the vicinity. It is said the French government has received news from Constantinople, from which it appears that Russia has presented a new ultimatum of a very energetic cha racter, and that the Russian agents were endeavouring to gain over a portion of the Divan and of the population. It was said that the refugees had been allowed to with draw from Turkey, and that no attempt had been made to stop them. THE BLESSINGS OF SLAVERY.—Eight slaves recently attempted to cross the Ohio river, below Maysville, in order to get into Ohio and secure their freedom. There were too many of them for the skiff, which upset, and lour were drowned. The other four clung to the bottom and cried for help, which came to them in the shape of a gentleman who had them all put in gaol for their masters. Another slave, who was helping them across, was flogged to the extent of the law-39 lashes. THE POPE ON THE STAGE.—A good deal of conversa tion has been excited by the production of a piece at the Theatre of the Porte St. Martin, Paris, bearing the ambi tious title of Rome. The hero of the piece is no less a personage than the Pope himself—the actual present living Pope, Pius IX. His Holiness having in his younger days served as an officer in the Russian campaign, con trived like a romantic young officer to fall in love, was disappointed, and then, renouncing the world, entered the Church, rose to be Pope, threw the world, with the best intentions, into flame, and had to fly. All which circumstances are boldly woven into a play. We have also put on the stage Mazzini, Garibaldi, and some other well-known heroes; the whole winding up with the entry of General Oudinot at the head of the French army, at which point the prudent dramatist stops. -- ` i ~, ri ~a ~ S-•s ~ BRITISH SOVEREIGNS NO LONGER A LEGAL TENDER IN BELGIUM.—The following significant intimation ap peared in the London papers of Wednesday :—" The Afoniteur Belge contains a royal ordir.ance annulling the legal currency of English gold in Belgium. Until the 3d of this month only the exchange of sovereigns is per mitted at the rate of 25 50 against other money or notes having legal circulation in Belgium." GEORGEY SHOT.—The Vienna correspondent of the Times says—" It is universally said that Georgey has been shot by Count Edmund Zichy, whose brother was hanged by Georgey's order in the Danubian Island of Csepel.—lt is not positively known whether the insur gent chief fell in a duel or not. The account which I have heard is, that Count Zichy walked up to Georgey, who was sitting in a coffee-house, and shot him dead on the spot." AUSTRIA.— CHANGE OF MINISTRY—VIENNA, OCT. I.—The dissensions in the cabinet, on the Hungarian and German questions, have reached a crisis. The portion of the cabinet expected to go out is the most liberal, and represents the principles of the March constitution. A courier has started for London, with despatches to Collo redo, who is invited to accept the ministry of foreign affairs in the new cabinet. Schmeriing is talked of as president. The new policy will be to sink the constitution of March 4, and to assume a very decided attitude on the German question. MELANCHOLY DISASTER.—The following catastrophe happened at Lyons a few days ago. A young artist, named Pinel, was returning in a came with some friends, from a pleasure trip to Montluel. It was dark, and the water party rowed themselves towards a small luminous point, with the intention of asking shelter for the night. But, alas ! the light proceeded from a water-mill, and in a few seconds the canoe was dragged under the wheels, then rapidly revolving. Three of the crew were disposed of instanter; they were torn and submerged. A fourth young man saved himself by his presence of mind. At the moment of the wreck he seized the wheel of the mill , clambered into the interior, and there remained, turning round with the wheel until rescued from his perilous situation. DOCTORS FOR CALIFORNIA.—It appears that the gold country has excited cupidity in every shape. According to the French papers, a certain number of adventurers were preparing to proceed to the Sacramento, and offer their medical services to the diggers, who, it would ap pear, are greatly in want of doctors. In order to give plausibility to their assertions, they have hit on a strange trick, by which they enrol themselves clandestinely among the profession. The widows of medical men are carefully sought after, and offered very handsome sums for the diplomas of their husbands, with which these en terprising gentlemen intend to practise in California. The poor gold-seekers seem really condemned to every kind of deception.—Lancet. The Constitutionnel says,—" The Governments of England and France have agreed to approve of the con duct followed at Constantinople by the two countries. We are assured that they have sent a collective note to St. Petersburg, and that they have - adjourned their answer to the questions put by the Ambassadors, in the event, which is fortunately not at all probable, of a violent rup ture between Turkey and Russia, until after the answer w hich the Russian Government will make to the repre sentations which have been addressed to it in favour of the Ottoman Porte." The Genoa Gazette states from Sezze (Roman States), that on the 20th ult. a M. Boffi, an advocate, while on his way to his country house, was attacked by several brigands, who, after having taken him to a wood, on the territory of Sans Larenzo, demanded a ransom of 75,000 francs of his family. The latter being unable to pay so exorbi tant a sum, the body of the unfortunate man was found dead the next day with 11 wounds upon it. THE BRAZILS.—The Seagull packet, Lieut. Smail, commander, has arrived with the Brazil mails, having left Rio Janeiro 16th of August, Bahia 2ith August, and Per nambuco 30th August. She brings on freight about £24,000. At Rio nothing important of a political nature had transpired ; business transactions for the month of July were characterised by much flatness ; the march of European politics continued to impede that activity which might otherwise have been expected in produce. Of im ports the receipts were moderate, and the arrivals were principally confined to the last week of July ; the market, in the interim, was without animation, and its monotony only occasionally relieved by some inquiry for re-export. The Constantinople correspondence of the Times, pub lished in a second edition, states that the time required to obtain the replies of the Emperors of Russia and Austria will occupy from twenty days to a month, and it is only then an eclaircissement can take place. The Turks thena selves do not expect an unfavourable termination of the affair; but, nevertheless, all the available troops have been ordered from the frontiers; the army of Roumelia, 40,000 stron g , is ordered to hold itself in readiness to march at the first signal ; and the principal redifs, or local militia, have been embodied. The castles of the Bospho rus are to be fortified ; the greater part of the fleet is armed and equipped, and can, in the course of a few hours, cast anchor at the mouth of the Black Sea, so as to defend the entrance of the Bosphorus. AMERICA.—The North American mail steamer Niagara arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, with advices from New York to the 19th ult.—A serious difficulty had arisen bstween the United States Government and the French Minister, M. Poussin, which has resulted in the offer to him of his passport. We learn that it originated in a question of salvage, which dates back to the blockade of Vera Cruz during the Mexican war.—The " Henry Clay" had been towed up the river. It was found that her lower deck frame and hull below were not materially in jured. The rosin and flour had not been damaged by fire. —Canada continues tranquil. Lord Elgin had arrived at the Niagara Falls.—From Mexico we have advices to the 21st ult. It is asserted that England has offered to mediate between the whites and Indians in Yucatan, on the basis of certain concessions to be made to the Indians by the American Government, together with the assign ment to them of a portion of territory, to remain exclu sively theirs. The trial of the Macready and Forrest rioters com menced on the 12th ult., at New York, and excited great interest. The first four days were occupied before the jury were sworn, and the trial had not concluded on the leaving of the packet. Some strange scenes had occurred during the trial. One of the jurymen complained that Mr. Smith, one of the counsel for the prisoners, bad abused, insulted, and trifled with the jury ever since the trial commenced. Mr. Smith, to the juryman: "The only reply I have to make is, that you are a very unfit man to sit on this jury."—Juryman, rising and speaking snore warmly than before : " Mr. Smith, you tell a false hood,"—Mr. Smith, to the court : " There, your honour, you see how it is."—The court intimated to Mr. Smith that he had brought all this about by his public appeal. WEST INDIES.—The mail steamer Medway, which ar rived at Southampton on Monday, has brought about £192,000 in coin and bullion. The legislature of the island of Jamaica was assembled on the sth of September, when the Governor addressed the members in a lengthy speech, replete with statistics on the financial condition of the colony. He urged them to apply themselves reso lutely to the business of the country, and at once to ena ble the several parishes to raise the customary taxes. The House of Assembly agreed to a reply on the night of the 6th, couched in terms which plainly indicated its deter mination to adhere to the same line of policy as that which brought about the former rupture. The members of the house favourable to the Government did their best to substitute a milder address for the one agreed to, pro mising to raise the ordinary revenue ; but the amendment was lost by 24 to 14. The number of the country party had been augmented by the general election ; and among the new members returned was a Mr. Price, a black man, for the parish of St. John. The country party having a large majority, it was generally believed that they would carry through the house the bill reducing the expenditure, which was passed by the former house, and rejected by the council ; and another dissolution, therefore, was ex pected. On the very first night they showed their supe rior strength by displacing the former speaker, who, it is alleged, was favourable to the legislative council, and electing in his stead Dr. Morales, one of the country party.—Her Majesty's steamer Plumper, Commander Nolloth, arrived at Jamaica on the 31st of August from Port-au-Prince, with the extraordinary news that Gen. Soulouque, president of the Haytian republic, had been declared emperor, and had assumed the imperial func tions. CALIFORNIA. — The last accounts from California (to August Ist) indicate that all the parties now engaged in mining will have an opportunity of retaining the produce of their labour, and of returning home with considerable savings. The average yield is uniformly spoken of as an ounce per day, and as provisions and clothing are at pre sent cheaper at San Francisco than in England, there is nothing to prevent those who may preserve their health and escape plunder from leaving with a handsome balance. The number now estimated at the mines appears to be 25,000, and consequently the monthly produce ought to be between £2,000,000 £3,000,000 sterling. Making allowance for exaggeration, and also for the probability that this rate of produce can only be obtained during a few months of the year, it is sufficiently large to lead to the supposition that distinct effects will be observed from it when the eason closes, and the mine rs re t urn t o S an Francisco with their hoarded gains. It must be borne in mind also that the present number of workers will be largely augmented every month. In July alone no less than 3,614 persons arrived at the port. A very great over supply of merchandise still exists, and continues to in crease by fresh arrivals, the consequence of which is that the market is quite glutted. The only articles that leave good results are lumber, ready - prepared wooden houses, dried fruits, and preserved meats, and now and again a sale of champagne. " Dry goods" continue abundant, and dull of sale. Some unusually large specimens of gold have lately been brought to San Francisco from the mines. One large lump, weighing 14alb. troy, was bought for $3,560 on account of the house of Barron, Forbes, and Co., of Mexico, and is said to be intended as a present to her Majesty Queen Victoria. This is an irregular-shaped slab, one side of which is all pure gold, and the other side quartz, weighing about one-third of the whole, streaked with lines of fine gold : its length is 60 inches, breadth 5a inches. Another specimen was raffled two days ago for $1,500: it weighed 71b. 10oz. troy of pure gold. Its in trinsic value is less than this; but all the large lumps sell high as curiosities. The steamer California arrived at Panama on the 25th ult. in 21 days from San Francisco. bringing 51 passengers and about £500,000 in gold. Considerable alarm had prevailed at San Francisco, in consequence of a riot which took place on the 16th of July. Seventeen men were arrested and tried before the Alcalde, and two gentlemen selected by the people, on charges of robbery and attempts to commit murder; the ringleaders were convicted and sentenced to hard labour in such penitentiary as the governor may direct, with fines of from $250 to -B'l,ooo each. Very rich deposits of gold had been found on the north fork of the American river. The American steamer Empire City sailed from Jamaica for New York on the sth of September, having sailed from Chagres on the 29th of August. She had on board 50 passengers from California, and it was said gold dust from Ban Francisco, valued at 51,000,000. Gold .... • ...!. • . \ TUE LIVERPOOL STANDAR% dust continues to come into San Francisco or sale, was not in such abundance as to reduce the price, which is .6154 per oz. for cash ; and it is taken as a legal tender for goods and in all mercantile and professional transactions at S'l6 the oz. troy. Vessels continue to arrive in con siderable numbers with goods and passengers, chiefly from the Atlantic States of America and from Chili. The only English vessel that has arrived direct with an English consignment is the Secret from Liverpool, which came in on the 29th inst. ; 205 days out, having called at Valpa raiso. Her cargo realised good prices, which seems rather opposed to the truth of the other advices. IRELAND. Turf is used in preference to coal for the railway engines between Limerick and Tipperary. Lord Stanley has reduced his rents twenty per cent., and his conduct to his tenantry in Tipperary is the theme of general praise. The repeal association is to resume its labours—or rather its weekly nonsense. The first resumed meeting would be held yesterday. Mr. Daniel Callaghan, M.P., for Cork, died of cholera. Mr. F. A. Walsh has addressed the electors, as has Colonel Chatterton, a Conservative ; and Mr. Sergeant Murphy is expected to be a candidate ; Mr. Isaac Butt is expected to offer himself. Lord Stanley visited on Monday the Schools of the National Board in Dublin. He was present for more than two hours, and expressed himself much pleased with the system of education, and with the discipline enforced. The conspiracy against the payment of rent has, we re gret to say, extended from Munster and Leinster to a few districts in Ulster; but it is to be observed, that this or ganized system of plunder is carried on by the Popish te nant farmers alone. We believe it to be a fact, that not even in a solitary instance has a Protestant tenant at tempted to defraud his landlord by carrying away his crops. A RAILWAY CHAIRMAN IN A DILEMMA.—At a meeting of the Dundrum Railway Company, in Ireland, a few days since, it was moved that the chairman should be thrown out of the window ; an amendment was proposed that he should be shoved down stairs; the original motion was, however, adopted, and was about to be carried into effect, when a general fight ensued, and directors and shareholders appeared next day at the police-office. Some years ago an Irishwoman married a sailor, who shortly disappeared. Deeming herself a widow, at length the woman married again and subsequently entered the Killarney workhouse with her new husband and their four children. Here her husband died ; but shortly afterwards her first partner returned and claimed his wife. The children, however, he refused to receive. He has since been committed on an information from the Poor-law Commissioners. THE POTATO.—Unhappily there is no longer any con flicting testimony as to the extent of the fatal blight in Ireland. It has set in everywhere, and in some districts with a rapidity far exceeding anything that marked its destructive progress in the former. From north and south, east and went, the accounts scarcely vary, and the most sanguine are now reluctantly compelled to admit that no reliance can be placed on the late crop as an arti cle of food. The people are night and day employed in digging them out ;—so says the Irish correspondent of the Times. The Sligo Champion, however, says that the rot is not nearly so widespread as here alleged, and that there will still be plenty of potatoes for the requirements of the people. THE RIBBON MASSACRE AT DOLLY'S BRAE.—The Dublin Herald says that " There is much reason to be lieve that this murderous onslaught was but an incident in a deep-laid and formidable conspiracy. There is rea son to believe, that while the Ribbonmen of the neigh bourhood were in conference with their priests, and pre paring for the assault on the processionists, multitudes who came from long distances were waiting, as a reserve, the moment when th'y were to strike in and finish the work of extermination which was to be begun at Dolly's Brae. To fathom that deep conspiracy should have been the aim of the investigation. Was it to turn out it of its proper course aspersions were cast upon the Orangemen, and on the magistrates who dared to do their duty ?" A NEW UNIVERSITY FOR IRELAND.—A long commu nication has been addressed by Prince Albert to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, advocating the establishment of a second university in Dublin. the government of which he suggests should be intrusted to a senate consisting of not more than seventeen persons, including the presidents of the Queen's Colleges and representatives, the most dis tinguished that can be obtained, of the several faculties of arts, law, and physic, of the exact and natural sciences of agriculture, and of belles lettres, with a chancellor and vice-chancellor, all of whom are to be appointed by the Crown. This senate, his Royal Highness further suggests, should have the control over the system of education prac tised in the provincial colleges, and of the arrangements for graduation. It is nearly certain that the plan thus shadowed forth will be acted upon without much loss of time. PERSECUTION.—A clerical looking character, who de scribed himself a priest of the " Catholic Church," went the other day into the shoe of a resident in Patrick - street, in this city, and solicited some money for a sub scription, for the purpose of sending a Catholic Mission ary to America. He was not known to the shopkeeper, who respectfully yet firmly declined to subscribe, urging the badness of the times, a numerous family to provide for, heavy rates, and occasional donations to Catholic charities and similar objects. The " priest"—if priest he was—still urged his suit, but observing there was little chance of its being complied with, he left the shop— assuring the owner that on the following Sunday " he should be denounced from the altar, and that he would follow that up by excommunicating him from the pale of the Holy Catholic Church !"—Cork Constitution. IRISH MlLLlONAlRES.—Notwithstanding all that is said about the poverty of Ireland by its friends and foes, it is an undeniable fact that there have died within the last thirty years individual citizens of Dublin who have left behind them money upon which duty has been paid in proportion to £10,000,000 worth of personal property, without any reference to sums varying from £4,000 downwards. Enormous sums have also been derived from the legacy duty paid by the representatives of citizens of Cork, Belfast, and other towns. There are some curious events connected with the life of the late Mr. William Murphy, of Dublin, the announcement of whose demise has lately appeared in this journal. His perso • nal property was sworn at £646,000. Repossessed extensive estates in the counties of Mayo and Dublin, and held mort gages on many others. During the last 15 years he was on terms of intimacy with every hig Lord Lieutenant. He died as he had lived for many years, a stanch Whig and a determined opponent of the repeal of the union. By reli gion he was a Roman Catholic, and though his politics have been moderate of late years, they were not so in his early days. Mr. Murphy was obliged to fly the country in 1798. Himself and some others fled to America, where they re mained for several years. His career in the new world was a most adventuresome one. On his return home he devoted himself entirely to business, carefully eschewing physical force doctrines •, but, notwithstanding his im mense wealth, he followed his occupation of salesmaster with great perseverance up to a short time previous to his demise. Amongst other wealthy Irish commoners lately deceased we may mention the names of Mr. Nathaniel Hone, who left behind him upwards of £500,000 in ready money, Mr. Peter Purcell, Mr. Nicholas Mahon, Mr. Alderman O'Neil, Mr. Martin, the celebrated timber merchant, who died about twelve months since at the advanced age of 108 years, Mr. Grogan, father of Mr. Edward Grogan, one of the city of Dublin members, also died possessed of immense wealth, and Mr. Luke White, the eminent bookseller, father of the Messrs. White, who have on many occasions represented the counties of Long ford, Leitrim, and Dublin, left the sum of £BOO,OOO in hard cash to his children. CARRYING AWAY CROPS.—At Clougbjordan sessions, Tipperary, on Friday, 25 persons were fined 4s. 7d. each, and costs, for cutting down and carrying away, on Sunday week, the produce of an acre of oats. At Nenagh sessions several persons were fined for similar offences. On Tuesday, Mr. F. Morgan, late the solicitor of the Corporation of Dublin, was held to bail for sending a letter to the proprietor of the Dublin Evening Mail—a letter calculated to lead to a breach of the peace. The cause of offence was an article in that paper reflecting on Mr. Morgan. The entire furniture, necessaries, &c., of the Castlebar workhouse and auxiliaries have been seized under execu tion, at the suit of a person named Quin, a butcher, for milk and water supplied the inmates. So particular was this butcher in having an inventory of the goods and chat tels, that he had the paupers' clothes taken down. GENERAL ASSEMBLY—THE QUEEN'S COLLEGES. — The Irish general assembly, specially convened, have, it seems, in effect refused to entertain the question of not permitting their students to attend the Queen's College ; but with admirable liberality they decline to sanction the attendance at any but the Northern College. The object of this is, according to the Belfast Whig, to make that establishment as sectarianly Presbyterian as may be. Dr. Cooke has been appointed Dean of Residence. BALLINASLOE GREAT OCTOBER FAIR.—The prices o sheep in the fair, on Thursday, were quite as high as they were last year ; if there was any difference, it was in wed ders, which were, perhaps, a shade cheaper. Ewes were quite as high, if not higher. The prices of what were considered the top lots of wedders in the fair were as fol lows :—Mr. Robert Taaffe, 100 wedders, £2 9s. ; Mr. Burton Persse, 100 ditto, £2 9s. ; and Mr. James Smith, 100 ditto, £2 7s. 6d. The supply was estimated at fully 10,000 short of last year. ELOPEMENT.—A respectable family, residing in this county, (says the King's County Chronicle,) have been thrown into a state of great grief, during the past week, in consequence of the elopement of a young and beautiful daughter, whose age was love-breathing—just eighteen— with a person of inferior rank, who was employed at the family residence. The gallant Lothario was what is gene rally called " a handy man," and, consequently, was frequently, sometimes daily, employed at " small jobs" in the house ; thus an opportunity was afforded him of wooing and winning Miss , who, in her more imme diate neighbourhood, was " the admired of all beholders." The " happy couple," notwithstanding an active pursuit, have escaped detection. It is thought they have gone abroad. EXPORTS or PROVISIONS.—The Nimrod steamer car ried the following cargoe to Liverpool on Tuesday :-501 sacks flour, 750 ditto oats, 60 ditto bran, 200 ditto wheat, 1125 firkins butter; Magnet for Neath, 40 firkins butter, 10 barrels oats ; Isabella, for Liverlibol, 480 quarters oats ; Alice Yoe, for Newport, 400 quarters oats, 102 firkins butter; Unicorn, for Cardiff, 400 quarters oats; Rowena, for Liverpool, 525 sacks wheat, 180 ditto flour, 182 ditto barley, 120 ditto oatmeal ; Harry King, for Newport, 500 firkins butter, 1230 brls. oats ; Margaret, for Cardiff, 420 brls. oats, 130 firkins butter; Moderator, for Portsmouth, 650 brls. oats ; Speedy, for ditto, 990 firkins butter ; Pretty Maggy, for ditto, 1100 barrels oats. Foreign Food.—On Monday two vessels arrived in:Queen's-town, one with wheat and the other with maize ; same day three sailed with maize for other ports. On Tuesday one arrived with maize, and five sailed with a simlar cargo, for home con sumption.—Cork Paper. A TERRIBLE AFFRAY NEAR BLARNEY.—On Sunday last a terrible affray took place, at Bantry, near Cork, arising out of the removal of crops. The scene was the farm of a widow, Mrs. Callighan. On Sunday night 45 horses and carts arrived at the farm. On each of the carts were six or seven men, carrying a scythe, hay-fork, or reaping -hook. They were accompanied by seven com fortable-looking farmers, on horseback. All having dis mounted, they rushed towards the barn, where the keepers were assembled, and, with a fiendish yell, commenced removing the roof. This was the work of but a moment, considering the numbers engaged, and the bailiffs were ordered to retire or they would be murdered. The keepers obeyed the command, and when outside the door, one of the sons of the widow pointed at two of them, roaring out, " Pin them fellows." Immediately, one of them was knocked down and severely beaten. The alarm being given, seven policemen appeared. A battle ensued, and the policemen were beaten off. A company of lancers was sent for, and, after another conflict, several prisoners were made; but several loaded carts got away. Singularly enough, no life was lost ; one man, however, is in a dan gerous state. DREADFUL MURDER IN QUEEN'S COUNTY. —An inquest was held on Saturday week, at Tolerton, in Queen's County, on view of the body of a man then unknown, which had been found, dreadfully mutilated, in the wild and lonely bog of Rossmore. The murdered man, Patrick Moore, was husband of the murderess, Catherine Moore, and the tragedy was participated in by her daughter, Bridget Thompson, Catherine Thompson, an interesting peasant girl, married some time ago a per son in her own class of life--Patrick Moore. The mar riage was an unhappy one, and a separation took place. The husband went to live at the house of a relative named Brennan. He contemplated going to America, and went to Liverpool, but having a hankering for home he returned to his old locality. On the 2nd September a message was sent to him through a girl, from his wife, to the effect that she wanted to see him that evening. He attended to the assignation. Between ten and eleven o'clock on that night he was seen by two men leaning against a ditch at the back of his mother-in-law's house, in company with his wife. After this night he was not seen or heard of in the neighbourhood. He did not re turn to Brennan's ; but a rumour was set afloat that he had left for America; and the following Sunday Mrs. Moore left Tulla for the ostensible purpose of joining him in Liverpool-, in order that they might proceed together to New York. After she left, vague reports were circu lated through the village, and people surmised strange things, and asked why the wife did not accompany her husband. These reports reached the ears of the sub inspector, Mr. Warburton, and the coal pits in the neigh bourhood were searched for the body, but in vain. Whilst thus engaged he received a letter from a brother of Mrs. Moore, to the effect that his sister and her husband had gone off from Dublin to America, and that they were quite reconciled. This allayed suspicion at the time. On Wednesday week, however, the body of a man, or something like it, was found in a hole, in the centre of the bog of Rossmore. Dogs had devoured a portion of it, and one of the arms was uplifted. The nose and one of the cheeks had been cut off, the eyes were gone, and the face otherwise fearfully mutilated. On examination the limbs were found to be very much mangled. The remains were identified and removed. At the inquest several wit nesses deposed to the fact stated. On the same morning when it was held, who should return from Liverpool but Catherine Moore; she had come home with a pitiful tale of how her unnatural and brutal husband had deserted her on the quay of Liverpool, leaving her a lonely and unfortunate woman to beg her way home. Her astonish ment—her horror on hearing of the discovery of the mutilated remains of her husband, operated so strongly on her feelings, that she confessed her guilt, and all the circumstances connected with it. It seems that Moore's brains were beaten out on the night he was last seen with his wife; and that on the next day the wretched woman and her motherdislocated the limbs, so that they fitted on an ass's car ; being concealed by straw, they then pro ceeded to Rossmore bog, which was seven miles distant; and, in the loneliest part of that lonely place, they flung their gore-clotted burden into an unclean hole. The jury, after some brief deliberation, found a verdict of wilful murder against Catherine Moore and Bridget Thompson, mother and daughter. It further appeared, that Mr. Warburton, not being able to discharge from his mind the impression of Moore's murder, wrote to the man wi; h whom he had stopped during a previous trip to Liverpool, and who had been a friend of his, to ask if he and his wife arrived safe, and inquiring if he was aware of their getting off to America, as the neighbours were an xious to hear of their welfare. Mrs. Moore happened to be at the time an inmate of this very lodging-house at Liverpool ; the man read the letter for her. She expressed her uneasiness, and said she should return home, as some thing must have happened to poor Pat. She accordingly left Liverpool for Tolerton, and reached at the very crisis when her presence was so necessary for the fulfil ment of the ends of justice. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The Aberdeen and Scottish Midland railway companies have come to an amicable arrangement, as have also the Scottish Central and Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee com panies: During the half-year which ended on the 30th June, there were 96 persons killed and 75 injured on the rail ways open for traffic in the United Kingdom ; and of these 78 were killed and 36 injured in consequence of their own misconduct or want of caution. WORKING EXPENSES.—The engine -drivers upon the Great Western Railway have, for the last five or six weeks, been receiving, in addition to their wages, some Bs. per week per man as premium upon the amount of coke saved by them, below the amount fixed by the regulation table of the superintendent. PUNCTUALITY TO TIME BY RAIL. ENFORCED.—An Exeter solicitor, detained for an hour at the Starcross station on the South Devon line, was lately awarded 10s. damages by a jury, on the ground that an hour's delay in the arrival of a train, without good excuse, was actionable under the contract to carry passengers at a certain time, implied in the company's time table. RAILWAY CALLS.—The calls advertised for October amount to £1,046,749. £11,106 are on account of foreign companies. For the corresponding month of last year they were £1,693,655. The total calls for the first ten months of 1849 now amount to £17,700,964, against £30,072,610 in the same period of 1848. The amount of traffic for the last week, on 5,048 miles of railway, was £230,180, thus accounted for :—£17,458 for the conveyance of passengers only, £49,499 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £53,223 for passen gers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £9,300 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was £4,167. The average earnings per mile were £46, whilst last year they were £54. RAILWAY COMPETITION.—There is a probability that the present ruinous competition between the carrying companies between Liverpool and Manchester will imme diately cease, and the former rates be resumed. A depu tation for this purpose waited on the Earl of Ellesmere on Tuesday, the result of which will be more satisfactory to the shareholders of the rival undertakings than the system hitherto pursued. INDIAN RAILWAYS.—A despatch from the East India Company has been sent to Lord Dalhousie, on the sub ject of the railways in India. It declares that there is no intention of strictly enforcing the clause limiting the dividends of the company to ten per cent., and that this power will not be exercised unless the charges of the rail ways become oppressive to the public of India; that a return of fourteen per cent., provided it is not obtained by oppressive charges, it holds out will not be considered. excessive. With respect to additional capital the instruc tions are equally liberal. If it be shown to the satisfac tion of the governor-general that an extension of either line is necessary to make it remunerative, the same terms will be accorded to the additional capital as is given to the original capital. PROGRESS OF THE BRITANNIA BRIDGE.—In answer to some enquiries which we made by letter addressed to Captain Claxton, R.N., (who is appointed to superintend the floating off of the huge tubes of the Britannia Bridge, preparatory to their being hoisted to their places between the towers,) we have received a polite note, dated Beau maris, of which the following is an extract :—" For your information and that of your friends, I beg to acquaint you, in reply to your letter, that the lifting process goes on daily, early and late, at the rate of six feet per diem ; that the tube was raised twenty-seven feet from the Ist to the sth instant, and that, in all probability, it will be in its place by the end of next" (now the present) "week. Your enquirers, therefore, should be here before that time. I shall be most happy to afford any facilities in my power; but the whole of the lifting process is with Mr. Clarke and Mr. Amos." The three additional tubes are either completed or nearly completed : that known as the G tube, standing next to the piers on the Carnarvonshire shore, is perfecsed, the scaffolding on which it rested has been cleared away, and the mass will be floated in the course of a few days. There is now a clear height of sixty feet beneath the tube now raising at high water, so that small vessels begin to pass under it. Its permanent level will be 100 feet above high water. COURT AND FASHION. The Court removed to Windsor Castle yesterday. Prince Albert honoured Mr. Charles Kean with an in terview, at Osborne, on Thursday, relative to the private theatricals to take place at Windsor Castle next Christ mas. The Queen, before leaving Balmoral, transmitted to Mr. Wilson, editor of the North of Scotland Gazette, a donation of £2O for " the Aberdeen Ragged Kirk." Their Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and the princesses of Saxe Weimar, arrived at Bentley Priory, near Stanmore, on Saturday, on a visit to the Queen Dowager, from Germany. Prince Albert, in a kind letter to the Gustavus Adol phus Society, founded for the support of poor Protestant churches among Roman Catholics, offers to subscribe 100 dollars per year to supply the place of a subscription made by his deceased grandmother, the Duchess of Altenburg. The Earl of Bessborough was married on Thursday, to Lady Caroline Gordon Lennox, eldest daughter of the Duke of Richmond. The Duke of Wellington intends to remain at Walmer Castle until the close of next week, when his Grace leaves for Strathfieldsaye, for the winter. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz were on a visit of several days, last week, to the Earl of Wilton, at Heaton Park. They visited several of the public buildings in Manchester, and paid a visit to the Earl of Ellesmere, at Worsley. THE MANSELS : A TALE OF THE LATE MONETARY CRISIS. CHAPTER IX. The memorial of the merchantsof Liverpool, referred to in the preceding chapter, was brought up to town, accompanied by a most influential deputation ; and pre sented to the premier and the Chancellor of the Exche quer, in the middle of October. The interest attached to it amongst commercial men in the metropolis, and through out the country, was tremendous. The fate of thou sands was to be decided by the impression made upon these functionaries, and the course which they would determine upon adopting ; and by none was the issue watched with more tremulous anxiety than by Mr. Mansel and his son. It was to them an issue of life or death ; of the maintenance of their commercial reputation and solvency, or the sur render of all further struggle against• the difficulties by which they felt themselves surrounded. A very short explanation will suffice to convey to the reader an idea of the exact position of our merchants; and of the circum stances under which they indulged at this crisis, in a temporary gleam of hope, and, this failing them, ultimately adopted a decisive step. _ _ Al the period in question, calamity had followed calamity in the commercial world. Houses previously regarded as far beyond the reach of danger, had been compelled to suc cumb to the universal pressure. The governor of the Bank of England, in evidence beforethe select committee of 1848, upon the distress of the country, gave in a list of 33 houses, who had failed up to the end of 1847, with aggre gate liabilities amounting to £8,000,000 sterling. Every foreign mail had brought the news of some fresh disaster —of some commercial Leviathan laid prostrate in the dust. In our East Indian dependencies nothing was to be met with but unparalleled sacrifices of British goods, mo netary disarrangement, panic, and insolvency; and not a market in the world held out the prospect of a favourable issue for mercantile opi rations. The wretched returns for investments abroad were so much waste paper, for the time, in the hands of those who received them. Not a banker would look at the bills drawn by foreign houses against the produce forwarded for sale in the British mar ket. Many of those houses had been driven into suspen sion,—some with undoubted means in their hands for meeting ultimately all their engagements ; and produce of every description was unsaleable, except at the most disastrous sacrifices. The extent of these is strikingly shown in the following statement, vouched for by the committee of the Liverpool Currency Reform Associa tion, in a letter addressed to the editor of the Morning Chronicle, dated the 20th December, 1848 : " For every £lOO the importer or holder of the following five staple articles had to give, in January 1847, the smaller, and in October 1847, the larger quantities : Sovereigns. 100—Sugar .. 59 cwts. in January, 93 cwts. in October. 100—Tea .... 2181 lbs. in January, 3200 lbs. in October. 100—Rum .. 500 galls. in January, 1263 galls. in October. 100—Cotton .3090 lbs. in January, 5189 lbs. in October. 100—1r0n.... 25 tons in January, 44 tons in October." Every other description of property was equally unsale able at anything like its fair value; and securities for money were only negociable upon the most usurious terms. Railway debentures, the bonds of public com panies, bank stock, and even exchequer-bills, could only be turned into money by submitting to the loss of a con siderable portion of the capital which they represented. Under these circumstances it is not to be wondered at that the remaining capital of the Messrs. Mansel had dwindled away, in the process of conversion into money, to such an extent as to place the house upon the verge of insolvency. They were in this position at the period in question. They held negociable securities, and a few lots of produce, sufficient in amount, if they could have been realized, to meet their few outstanding liabilities ; and William Mansel had steeled his mind to the determina tion of following the example of many of the firms which had already succumbed to the storm, and, in the event of a dogged course of action being persisted in by the Go vernment, and the prayer of the mercantile body being spurned, of surrendering the management of their affairs into the hands of trustees, for their creditors. It was not without many an hour of anxious consulta tion—many a searching investigation of their means and prospects—that this course had decided upon. Even yet it was regarded by Mr. Mansel himself as the bitter est dispensation which could have befallen him. The pang, however, which in ordinary times the thought of declared insolvency would have inflicted, had been in some degree lessened by the examples which the late calamitous times had afforded on every side. When the merchant princes of the land—men sitting in the councils of the Sovereign—reputed millionaires, whom the world would not have wondered to see elevated to the highest rank in the social scale—had been compelled to stoop from their high places, why, he reflected, should an humble house like his own feel so sensitively at being involved in the general prostration ? The world, his conscience told him, could impute no reckless trading— no wild speculation—no straining to be rich in a day —to him. He was but the victim of a system ; a sacrifice upon the altar of the national idol—gold. The widowed and the orphan could call down no reprobation upon his head. Their pleadings were addressed to a higher autho rity—to the Government of the day—which had insisted that the mysterious visitation of Providence, the blight which had fallen upon our fields, should sp rea d desolation and suffering throughout every region of the globe, in which British capital and enterprise were embarked. It was hard to see the fruits of a life of honest striving thus j ruthlessly swept away—to see them sacrificed to the maintenance of a crotchet. But the lot was a common one. It brought with it suffering and privation ; but no forfeiture of self-respect—no dishonour. The mercantile reader requires not to be told what was the response of Government to the memorial in question. The public were informed that at all hazards " the con vertibility of the bank note " must be maintained. In vain was remonstrance used. In vain was the Chancellor of the Exchequer warned, by men of the first standing in the commercial world, that without some concession, some relaxation of the stringency of the Bank Charter Act. a general crash must ensue. In vain was it repre sented to him that even the slightest movement in the direction pointed out would at once unshackle commerce and reassure the mind of the nation. The Government was stubborn in its determination to keep up the harvest of usurers, and to sacrifice the commerce and industry of the country, rather than injure the reputation of the me tallic bantling of the Peels and Lloyds of the world ! The dictum went forth, and the columns of the Gazette shortly afterwards told the result. Yet in a very few days from this decision, the Govern ment were themselves compelled, with the Bank of Eng land, within twenty-four hours of a forced suspension of payment, to intimate to the community a suspension of the very law which had beggared thousands ! After hav ing been permitted to exact the blood and sinew from the commercial community—after having run riot in usury, and enabled the money-lending portion of the world to glut their appetites for gain upon the hardly-earned profits of enterprise and industry—the Bank itself was allowed to substitute its paper promises for that very gold, which millions of the property and the labour of the com munity had been thrown away in the markets of the world to attract towards our shoresl It may not be out of place here to give the opinions of two statesmen, of conflicting politics, upon the process to which British industry had at this time been submitted. The first is an apologetic passage from a speech delivered in Nov., 1847, by the Premier, Lord John Russell : "I find," said his lordship, "on looking to the returns, that, in the nine months ending October 10, 1845, the amount of articles of British and Irish manufactures exported from the kingdom was £41,732,000 ; that for the same period in 1846, it was .e 40,800,000, and for the same period in 1847, to ."39,975,000. This does, to be sure, exhibit a difference, as compared with the two preceding years, but it is no such falling off as should inspire any one with despondency, or that, coming after those prosperous years, it is such a falling off as should dispirit any one looking to the future for the permanent prosperity of the country. (Hear.) 1 find that the exports from Liverpool of British manufactured goods to the United States for the three quarters ending Oct., 1846, were to the amount of €4,529,585, and that for the three quarters ending October, 1847, they amounted to .:6,79l,ooo,—making a difference in favour of ex ports this year front Liverpool to the United States, of £2,261,414. (Hear, hear.) This fact shows us, that according to the wholesome process of trade and exchanges the food we imported into this country in greater quantity than usual had been the cause of greater export of our manufactures." This very increase, upon Which his lordship congratulated himself, was simply the effort of the commercial com munity to turn the exchanges in favour of Great Britain, by sacrificing our manufactured goods to bring back our idolized gold standard. Had the " wholesome process" mentioned by his lordship taken place, we should have had no monetary crisis. The second extract is from a speech delivered by a statesman, now no more,—the late lamented Lord G. Bentinck—in the same month : " Within my own knowledge," said his lordship, "during the last six weeks, some of the merchants and importers of Liverpool have sold 22,000 bales of cotton at a loss of £8.8,000 ; and in the year before last, their loss upon the same commo dity amounted to £lOO,OOO, thus affording a premium,la bonus, and a bounty to the foreign manufacturer to come here and beat the Englishmen in their own market. (Hear, hear.) For eight years past the stocks of cotton at Liverpool were never so low as they are at the present time. These gentlemen tell us that a short cotton crop is the great cause of all the distress. But what is the spectacle which England presents? Why, that she is at present the greatest exporting country of raw cotton, the material of our staple manufacture. Then is it a want of cotton that has produced this distress? No; is it a want of credit ? It is your restrictive monetary laws, your cruel Bank Charter Act; your system, the true object of which we were let know by the Elbing letter, of endeavouring by anticipation to correct any too great commercial speculation ; it is your act of parliament, passed with the view of making things in Eng land artificially cheap, so that when, by your free import*, you have allowed all the gold to pass from the country, because foreign countries would not take your manufactures in return, you might then bring back the gold again —this it is that has produced the distress. (Hear, hear.) You have cotton selling at ..t4 the bag below the cost price, sugar at 6s. and Si. the cwt. below the price it was purchased at in Cuba or Brazil; tea sold by the pound retail at a price less than what it cost the merchant by the chest in Cantor.. These are the works of your free-traders, who must bolster up their new-fangled schem e s by means of this Bank Charter Act. lam assured—l speak in the presence of mill-owners and cotton-spinners, who may contradict me if they can—that for the first time in the history of cotton manufactures, calicoes and yarns have been sold at the price the cotton cost. (Hear, hear.) Do you think that is a profitable trade for England? (Hear, hear.) It will bring back the gold, perhaps—it will bring back tke golden image for the right hon. baronet the member for Tamworth to worship— but will it benefit the country ?" CHAPTER 10. The suspension of cash payments by the bank, thus per mitted by government, came too late for the unfortunate Mansels. Their course had been taken already, and their affairs had been placed in the hands of their creditors. One of the most potent reasons for the adoption of this course had been an unfair privilege, claimed in their course of business by the Bank of England itself, which is thus explained by an eminent merchant of free trade opinions— Mr. Hamer Stansfield—in a recently published pamphlet. Mr. Stansfield says :-- _ . _ " The Bank of England does not wait, as all other par ties do, till the acceptance of a house stopping payment becomes due, but returns it so soon as the suspension is made public to the parties for whom they discounted it. One hard case, in 1847, particularly struck us. The head of a firm had been attending a meeting of the creditors of another firm, when, on returning to his counting-house, Ott 9,1 ' 1 ""RTTnT!!;0 10 he found a notice from the Bank requiring hie l a r s ,;to, l l l 6 £20,000 for bills so situated, which caused hie' b p s sea s his creditors together. Now, supposing the ee ,, a dtio t have been due of two months, he would have, .7 1 - o is so o have looked about him, to have got together kmber means, and perhaps have heen enabled to we '"olst storm. His failure very likely brought on otherst6oor like a pack of cards reared one against anoth er, A , O mercantile community might be affected by practice of the Bank."Dj In the very pasition here described were tl3e 04; __,,, Mansel, with respect to the Bank at this Pets rode, in a great measure, it influenced them in theonroot ings. Their suspension, however, once 911 , 0 there were no difficulties placed in their path ei! upbraidings—nothing to grate upon the feeli A n g s e d 01 1 1 father or son. A universal sthy pre 61 favour, and, the first shock overeat would " b - ,,delaft seemed that happiness, the first time for years o lo upon the hearts of the prostrate merchants. ""„ yolk felt the wearing effect upon the mind of soul:00 which cannot be shared—the weary days and nig t toe which we are compelled to hug to our breaswbich* sciousness of calamity impending—the 80 1 by s l, tends the conviction that we are rogre ssing, ste t P at or:. nearer to the precipice over which we feel t° destined to be impelled ? What man is there v/i!I Ah period of his life, has not felt all this, and reiol'iost at length he has been enabled to throw asid e the ortiosfr concealment, and to walk erect, before the world ? a a tt " - m! To Mr. Mansel the step to which he had NZ, to; i n his just POP was a grateful relief. The cheerful energy , libse:, character, returned afresh ; and the necessal; the u' which he took upon himself in the winding up oL oe nen; gled affairs of the firm, were gone through v/i,t b 3 0 0 : and cheerfulness which surprised all around of il ltifs!,i asionally, indeed, a pang had to be endure u Ld to P r 64 sore grief, for example, when he was comPeu"-,ad" from the loved home in which he had hoped to el l ib i tth ° declining years. It was with a sinking he ert beirs l i strove to sustain the spirits of his beloved wife, w an ing that scene of so many years of past hopeintik. fortunate it was for the poor old man that ' n c eo oP ,' struggle he was supported by those for vibes!, he' above all things, he was solicitous. The trial, w* D ere" ever, gone through at length. A more bumble t o pe ceived the ruined merchant and his family : ance made by their credito rs f or th e services oi to lice , ' sel and his son enabled th e f am ily for a tim e iv Or o something approachin g t o ease an d happiness. , be' side circle was diff e r en t, it i s t rue , t o w hat it us e ? 080 1 ' more prosperous times. Many objects, trivial in V selves, were missing th ere , an d a t ti m es regre t lOW loved piano -forte, and the old f am ili a r melodies , P the one or both the Miss M a ns e l s , no longer wiled .„„y long evenings. The well selected library, too,rollicl parted with ; and the graceful employments, 11,(1,01), both Mrs. Mansel and her daughters bad deligToest w been exchanged for more homely and hurobleofd. The work. A seat was vacant, too, at their Sunday b a er t be ., old clerk, Mr. Williams, no longer came to chat titev red business topics of the day, and to tell his hun.,,,t l hs dolLs repeated anecdotes to his beloved employer. il e ,,," o rel° l ; into the position of the ill-paid drudge of some '1100" tunate house ; and feared to abstract a drop from ober stinted cup of the ruined m erc h an t. Another °loot' also—the youngest—of that once happy circle was ~0 0 ° Henry Mansel—a mere boy—had been launched e !,:i r efis . ,, rough ocean of life, and was now commencing w h op': tile career as the clerk of a house abroad, to w rOft, t " father had been for years the valued corresponcle%t bo,w' and often the mother's heart followed to his dist a Lou'" that first of her children, who had ever wandered 0" parental fireside. d 501 But William Mansel—what of him—the re s liely„, perhaps ask. Patiently, uncea s i ng ly, the heart-sot, young man toiled by his father's side, in the e yC which he had devoted every energy of his being' u asse object was the restoration of their firm's hitherto tf lied mercantile reputation. Step by step, heL "" trfios,,° restore its ultimate solvency—t o ensure the rea' n isr its remaining assets, a n d th e li qu id a ti on of its e• - ,00 , ments to the uttermost f ar thi ng _ Th e day would irsses9 he trusted, when he should enjoy the proud consciogroy of reflecting that justi c e h a d b een d one t o all : se d 0 4 ! ally he saw the anxious Yearnings of his soul 00 ,0 1 ; nearer to their fulfilme n t. There was a restless t e a oc' in his eyes, as the pi c t ure o f com i ng suc cess tiiiirde ° casionally before him ; and a glow of proud saL" treo:„ would, at such moments, fl us h hi s s peaking '7 4 0 yr But to the careful obse rv e r it wou ld h a ve beers plain that the mind within was wearing out the sr, 1 of its outward frame. He was thinner and fe e ri t esl by day ; and at times the change was apparen t e ves 7, those not so observant as the friends to whom 0 0": most dear. The constant efforts which he vroto,'' dd A to seem cheerful, and in the full vigour of hon e d bi s many a bar trom the maternal eye, which wat e i k" e, to struggles • but that mother feared, for other's " - won entrust the secret consciousness, which she felt , " her own breast. She hoped too—who does not Ito that the excitement at an end, and the object su - "I' for achieved, the buoyant energies of youthwoul d no reti t :tbe and a confidence in that success, and in its effect Tier spirits of the beloved partner of her life, buoyed re f, amidst the sad forebodings, which she could not P continually stealing over her mind. mad c iss Months wore away. Slo w ly th e gloomy e -- dO O / withdrawn from over the commercial world; a n ,, d o4o' passed away, new successes rewar d e d th e anxious be the young man and his revered father. At 1eng .. .." final step was achieved : to congratulate himself that the last debt of tn` v ol° would be liquidated, and that his beloved parents 0 eell' t not be left beggars in their decli n i ng y ear s. It! c r „ ic ith'," solation worthy of a noble mind ; yet miner, came thoughts full of bitter p a i n . How cou. ho e° e :otf: template the fact of their p er f ec t so l ven cy, /ow' " r asy,' cruel sacrifices which they had b een compelled 0 4 Os' without a deep convi c ti on o f th e h ear tlessness ft y o tor iniquitous machinery, which had swept away the' 00 l lations of a life ti me , an d we ll n i g h c onsigne d dearest to him to dishonoured graves , or a fife of rt l . bs,it servitude ? How could he look back upon the hl i g o oo had wrought, without cu r si ng i n th e ver y bitternes s f t bel soul the tyranny of sy s t ems an d th e se lfishness ° roll authors ? But two years before h e had been t ha bif r and happy son of a wealthy parent—the stay a lble te spring of a prosp erous fi rm . H e was no w only t bel console himself with the re fl ec ti on th a t he had 11 ° 0 ets"/ crushed entirely beneath th e w h ee l s o f the 'toe - Juggernaut, and hi s name b ran d e d w ith th e inWi l l g ers,v; unacquitted debt, for the reali za ti on of the 13 1% crotchet of absurd statesmanship—the "Sec convertibility of the bank note." CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE• +— of The Bishop of Llandaff is better. The Rev. A. P. Stanley has declined the De ° Carlisle. th e The Bishop of Chester will, it is said, succee d el. ( I Bishop of Norwich as clerk of the closet to the Qu o ell The Bishop of Victoria will sail fo r China abou t of the month, in the ship Sir George Pollock. ,fi c ,ll oe 4 t n On Saturday, the 29th of Sept em ber, (St. .fhileti day,) the first stone of a new church, to be bi , e Fed Thomas. was laid in the Leyland's district, in '',"„eo o ,o of Leeds. The church is to be erected at the e ',,` D oPLid Matthew John Rhodes, Esq., assisted by dorlanter„) , the Diocesan Church Building Society, Mr. ItooPr, is the architect. It is designed to be a red briCA fte f.y THE WEALTHY (?) ESTA BLISHMENT.--Tb e Studdert has resigned the living of Corofint a n t . county. It appears that the income only 11133 N ro £l6O, three-fourths of which has been a bsorb p rates, and the remaining £4O was not found Su 40 defray other public expenses connected with the:P o t ment—thus leaving the rev. gentleman actuallYhlo bee p nothing to live upon. Another clergyinaum offered this preferment, but begged to decline "" e Clare Journal. POLITICAL MISCELLANY ff , end Mr. Richard Cobden. Sir Joshua Walmsleit Greg Williams had an interview with Sir Georg e 001 Tuesday. off The Conservatives have succeeded in striking s ttriej, 200 voters from South Cheshire. Mr. Peacoc k ce sl o pe on behalf of the Conservatives, and for loon_,lY "0 0 0 attended this registration court, and on each otr.tiolnk the greatest service to the interests of the Prow - vOO, THE CORN DUTIES AND THE FARMERS. '";4 14# to 1845 the duty on foreign corn was regoltd pe ( Robert Peel's amended sliding-sc a l e as Pier o , 9P" ID ° The price of corn from 1842 to 1849 averageo';;(o o o: qr., and the duty 18s. These fi gures a t once t bei notion that under a system of protective dutiOuetS t r, lish landowner and farmer b e t ween them P e t Ong whole amount of the duty impos e d on g rain. 009" admitted by the most arde n t su pp or t er of free., 3 49. English-grown corn could not h ave been a sb if ote, per qr. which is all our farmers would have 0 . 160. 1 "01 tire difference of the duty, viz., 18s., had twv,l i er,r o ir, clear bonus to them. Do not these figures ,r l l te cO° o t; what has been so frequently advanced by the r 1 ",,0cl OP —that the abolition of the duties on corn I _ l i e tsV considerable part of those duties into the PT:7O foreigner and the importer ? When there was duty of 18s. per qr. on foreign grain, foreign. 4 o r neveretheless imported, thus prouing that the o li be brought into this country and sold at a P"..,c01 0 t,, i 94d. per qr., the 18s. duty making up the P h - es o f i 94d. What then is the fair inference from Im t heir Why, that they could from 1842 to 1845 seo, 4 , 944 to this country and sell it in our market for °?„,. ,04 doing so now, and are thus pocketing the on. r er - fori per qr. difference between that price and the tr, tjlo; Fi b in England last week ! Is the system whi ch to 1 j0 , ,,i our revenue of the foreigner's fair contribution or vt e imposes it upon our native industry either w e i7l 4 . l i oTo Is it fair that the foreigner should be perm i t .goti t iV a e his commodity into our market and under e- dati , " produce without being subject to any tax 0r,,, t0 e0 the British labourers, mechanics, artisans, far or r chants, and traders cannot pursue their cra fty?" without paying heavy and onerous fiscal bade' caster Chronicle. v „ BE S ;Ise I 1 DEATH OF ONE OF THE BOSJESMEN PLE. -On Sunday week a curious funeral W es bibl, Hyde. For some days past there has been on evoisre this locality a number of Bush people, a nd it f ; r , Pg,. during their stay at Hyde one of their nu . T i. 1 1 , 407 named Fanny Bush, has died of consurePti et t i c oo P oofi;ii ral was most respectably conducted. s eriPhely Placed over the grave with the following,le t he woe " Sacred to the memory of Fanny Bu born oo f 1.1? child of Simon and Gaikin, Bush peoPle , e j. day of August, 1846, on board the brig Fl ll 2_ o oo o / o• pool, Captain Wheeler, on their voyage f° day died of consumption, at Hyde, on the 2910 teriter, 1849." • Oct.