The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-23 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.. place on the 26th of August, off Criston Islands, by being driven ashore during a gale. She had a large number of passengers, twenty of whom are reported to have perished. FRANCE. THE POPE AND pi hNtil RZPVIIW.—The Papal i In Cephalonia five persons engaged in the late iusur question nearly wrecked the French ministri!".st WcF IC • rectlon (tw have, e of them a priest) we circle, beet? m. Thiers had drawn up a report, recommending the AS b a n g ed, and several others (amona thAi..! • to accent the terms of the P with stick.. .„. v v e, wnoserestoracte . ; - to Home he thinks essential to the Catholic wot" The Assembly was evidently disposed to adopt reCOM fiendation ; but Louis Napoleon is dete r 7,lnedio enforce the terms named in his letter to Ed- i.ar tdsters stand by i and lig mi- I le wilt s t leceed, we hope. Thiers's Move i's made, not for ear' ;or the " Catholic world," but for the sake of th P Orleans family, whom he hopes to bring in under 'cover of a rupture between the Assembly and the Prluee President. The old Bourbon party are h'iso li;oiclag 'to a disturbance as favourable to the chances of their idol, " Henri V." They, therefore, denounce the president; and, as an union between England and France is likely to defer the moment of their anticipated triumph, they and their journals are as bitter against England as malignity, mendacity, and small-mindedness can make them. A DUEL IN PARIS.—In the National Assembly, during the progress of the discussion on the Roman question, a !quarrel ensued between M. Thiers and M. Bixio, who charged the former with having said, on a former occa sion, that the election of Louis Napoleon to the Presi dency would be a disgrace to France. M. Thiers having denied that be had ever said so, and M. Bixio having re affirmed it, the two legislators went to the Dais de Boulogne together to settle the point with pistols. Strange to say, they missed each other, but both balls seem to have struck the point in dispute, as the palpable lie which lay between them had completely vanished after the discharge. Lord Brougham left Paris, on Sunday, for his seat at Cannes. A French swgeon in the hospital , of Toulon has been condemned to one month's imprisonment, and dismissal from the sort ice, for abandoning his post on the outbreak of the cholera. aiSO) ...ee editors of newspapers have ueen transported. PRUSSIAN IRVINGITES.—The sect of the Irvingites has acquired such a rapid increase of numbers of late in Ber lin, that the attention of the church authorities is begin ning now to be directed to the sul)ject. The number of the members is given at one hundred, and the augmenta tion to the previous insignificant amount has been as signed to a visit from the two so-called apostles, Barclay and Carlyle, both Scotchmen. A Mr. Smith, from Eng land, has had the dignity of prophet conferred upon him ; and an "angel' has been elected from the three presby ters.—Daily News. ROME, A letter from Remo of the 6th inct states that apart ments are actively preparing in the Vrxican, which induces the public "to suppose that the Pope will soon return. It is - believed. however, that the ;Papal Court opposes his return until the French shall have retired from the capital. 'The Pope -is said to be looking remarkably fat and well, and to be doing full credit to the luxurious living of the Neapolitan court. The 'Pope has agreed to some modification of the amnesty: the only members of the Government to be excepted from the amnesty are the Cabinet Ministers. 'There is to be no preventive detention for political offences, and a certain number of the members of the Assembly 'will be pardoned. This is all the French -diplomatists could obtain. Rome is calm, but the French troops are becoming exceedingly discontented. An aide-de-camp from the. Emperor of Russia has ar rived in Paris, and has had an audience with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The purport of the communication from his kuperial Majesty, it is said, was, that he should consider the entrance of a French fleet into the Darda nelles as a declaration of war. The treaty between the courts of Austria and Prussia, for the Commission of the 'Empire, has been duly ratified by both parties. The Emperor Nicholas has sent Gen. liaynau the insignia of the Order of St. Andrew in diamonds, accom panied.by an autograph letter- The Turks are making active _preparations for the worst, in case of a breach with Russia. The greatest activity prevails in repairing the fortifications of Constantinople, and raising new defences. Thetroops, &c., are engaged night and day. A letter from Vienna statesthat Bern, Dembinski, and several of the insurgent chiefs, have not only embraced Islamism, but have entered thnTurkish army. Kossuth, at all events, remains true to his faith; but it is strange indeed that in the nineteenth century a man should be called upon to decide between his faith and the scaffold. Kossuth's family consists of his mother and four sisters, his wife and three children. The Cologne Gazette states that Gen. Been having em braced the Mahomedan faith received the name of Amu rath, and was immediately raised to the dignity of a Pasha 'with three tails. The crown of St. Stephen and royal insignia of Hun gary are being conveyed, it is said, from Widdin to En gland- The dowry of the Countess Batthyani, amounting to 7,000,000 dollars, has been been confiscated to the Austrian Government. In compliance with the last wishes of her husband, the countess will leave Hungary and proceed to Bavaria. AUSTRIAN MASSACRES.—The execution of the thirteen Hungarian generals at Arad is confirmed. Four were shot and nine hanged. The particulars of Count Bathy ant's execution are also given. The wounds which this unhappy nobleman had inflicted on himself were of such a nature that he was at first expected to sink from the loss of blood; but although his aim at self-destruction was defeated, he escaped the ignominious death of hang ing to which he had been condemned. About twelve hours after he had committed the deed, be was shot. He walked erect to the place of execution, and, although pale and haggard, ho shouted "E/ijen a noza," (Hail, my fatherland,) just ere the ball of the sharp-shooter struck his heart. STATE OF VIENNA.—A feeling of depression is preva lent as well in the city as on 'Change. The hotel and shop keepers, however, seem to be of opinion that matters will soon assume a more favourable aspect, for they are preparing for the winter campaign on even a grander scale than usual. it is a remarkable fact that in such a large city as Vienna there has never been until now an hotel of the first class. At last a certain M. Munch has put an end to this reproach by opening an hotel which casts everything of the kind which we have hitherto seen here completely into the shade. Not content with intro ducing all the comforts and luxuries of the day into his establishment, he has erected a machine for winding his guests up to the different floors, after the American fashion. In the theatres all is dull, and the glory has departed from even our Court Theatre and the Opera, which institutions were once the pride of Germany. A MoNsTEnWEDDING.—There was recently, in a country town near Prague, a monster wedding. No less than _fifteen Jewish couples were married in one day ; and the solemn ceremony was assisted by their children and grand children. The following is the solution of the enigma:— Hitherto the number of Jewish families permitted to live in Bohemia was limited by a cruel law to 8000. Hence a large number of clandestine marriages had taken place among the Jews. Since, however, the emancipation of the Jews became the law of the land, and these oppressive restrictions as to marriage were removed, many of the couples who had been clandestinely married were anxious to have their marriage contracts legally acknowledged and their children legitimatised. WEST INDIA MAIL. The Severn arrived at Southampton, on Saturday morning, with dates from Jamaica to the 22d September; Demerara 18th. She brings the largest cargo ever brought in a West India packet. About a million of dollars on merchants' account, and 85,275 on account of Mexican dividend. At Jamaica, the differences between the assembly and the governor remained unsettled, although the present assembly entertain similar senti ments to the last; a more moderate tone, however, per vades it; they desire to proceed with business, but have intimated their conviction of the imperative necessity of a considerable reduction of the expenditure. After the mail was made up on the 21st, the assembly passed a bill to continue the scale of expenditure then existing until the 31st of December; and there was much anxiety to know how the governor would act, his instructions being to give assent to no revenue bill for less than twelve months. If rejected, the import duties would cease on the sth October. An export duty had been resorted to in Trinidad, which was expected to yield £12,000. Lord Harris was anxious to reduce this duty, and resort to direct taxation. Among the members of the new house of assembly at Jamaica, are two blacks and ten persons of colour; and one of the black representatives has already begun to take an active part in the debates. AMERICA.—The steamship Cambria arrived here on Wednesday night, bringing advices from New York to the 3rd instant, four days later than those furnished by the Hibernia. The Astor-place Theatre rioters have been found guilty, and the chief of them sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and a fine of 250 dollars. His associates have been more leniently dealt with. There are no further advices from California, but considerable apprehensions are felt by the foreigners that they will be driven from the country by the Americans ; these fears, however, are said to be groundless. Another large fire, which consumed fourteen houses, has occurred at Quebec. The city of Toronto has been resolved upon 'as the seat of the Canadian government. Money was abundant at New York, and sterling exchange had advanced a fraction. There is every prospect of the Quebec and Halifax rail road going on. INJUSTICE TO CANADA.—It appears from the accounts received from Canada by the Cambria, that the cereal crops haYe turned out considerably above an average, and the estimate is, that they will have upwards of 6,000,000 bushels of wheat clear surplus for exportation. The posi tion in which they are placed by the American tariff, however, calls for the immediate attention of our Free trading Whig Government. By the new measures Ame rican produce can be thrown into the British provinces without any duty, whilst every article of raw produce is protected by the American tariff. For example, the American farmer can get his wheat ground into flour by the mills in Canada without any duty, whilst a duty of 10s. per quarter is charged on wheat the produce of Canada if manufactured into flour in the United States. In consequence of the communications via New York from Upper Canada obtaining a preference over the St. Lawrence, and exclusively during the winter months, the loss which will be sustained by the Canadian producers on the quantity they expect to export during the ensuing season is estimated as approaching near to 2,000,000 dols. It is quite clear, indeed, that matters cannot remain in their present position, without giving rise to universal dissatisfaction in the British provinces. The hull of the Henry Clay, packet-ship, had been sold for 13,000 dollars. The vessel will be built up again. MRS. BUTLER.-It is confidently said that Theodore Sedgwick, Esq.,--a very accomplished literary lawyer, of New York, and connected with the Sedgwick family,— will soon lead Mrs. Butler to the hymeneal altar ; and that, henceforth, she will spend her winters in the fashion able circles of New York, and her summers in galloping on horseback over the lovely Lenox hills of Massa chusetts. Mr. Butler it is said will marry a daughter of s:-Senator Bayard, of Delaware. Lett( rs from Mazatlan communicate the wreck of the ship Roland, 700 tons, bound fur California. It took IRELAND. Miss Catherine Hayes is to sing in Cork next ruqntb. At the second weekly meeting of the Repeal Ilssocia kion, yesterday week, Mr. J. O'Connell delivered his usual addroF,s, but the rent was only a few pounds. A land-bailiff named Wheelau was shot dead in the public street, at Carrickbeg, Kilkenny. on Wednesday night. He was under-agent to Mr. A. W.'Sadlier. Two men are in custody. In order to give continual •employment during the win ter to the labourers in the neighbourhood of Curraghmore, the Marquis of Waterford intends digging up the etlre of his splendid demesne of IMO acres. On Friday thirteen young female paupers left the work house of the Derry union for New South Wales. Previous to their leaving, the guardians had each paupersupplied with a respectable " outfit." The Rev. Mr. Medlicott, of Pertlaw, has resigned the commissinn of the peace for Waterford, in consequence of the dismissal of Lord Roden, and many others are about • to follow the example. On Sunday week, a boat, with eight in, upset in the river Maieue, near Limerick. Five managed to swim on shore, hut Mr.Vianello, master of an Austrian barque, his brother, and a seaman were drowned. 'Lord Rodea says, in a letter just published. that twelve magistrates of the county 'Down, acting on first impres sions, had determined to resign their posts, but that his • I lordship had made a personal request that they would not persevere in their intentions. Lord Clarendon visited Cork last week on the occasion of the opening of the railway from Dublin to Cork. His reception was most cheerless—not a cheer was given, but his lordship was saluted with groans. Not a hat was raised, and the representative of royalty seemed sadly mortified with the reception. The 'Westmeath Gaerdian states •that this system of plundering is rapidly increasing in that county. On Sun day night a gang of marauders cut down and carried off the greater portion •of a crop of oats of four acres on the .lands of Bellfield, near Mullingar. The tenant, was of course, largely in arrear of rent. FRIGHTFUL MUIMER.—On Sunday morning week, as C.S. Gage, Esq., agent to Sir St. - George Gore, was on his way to Creggan Church, near Fethane, King's County, he was shot dead, by two persons unknown, from behind a hedge, in view of many persons, who saw the fellows run away. The left side of Mr.-Gage's head, neck,.artn, and side, in the region of the heart, was completely riddled with bullets and slugs. WATERFORD, TZIDAY.—We have four steamers off to Liverpool this week, all full to overflowing. Crowds of emigrants, carrying heavy chests and comfortable beds with them, are gone to-day by the Devonshire, on their way to America. Jolly times steamers have of it now. A month ago one steamer a-week had scarce enough of cargo ; and now, four steamers go full to cramming in every crevice, and we are shortly to have a fifth. The speech of the Marquis of Waterford, at an agri cultural dinner in the county of Waterford, is worthy of notice. He acknowledged to having received on the day previonsly his annual Munster yearly rent, viz., £22,000, —a fact which certainly makes .him a prodigy amongst fish lanfilords. He said also that he had received his Ulster rent of £14,000, and his Northumberland rent of £20,000. An inquisitive correspondent has elicited from the Mar quis of Anglesey a declaration, that " if he is supposed to be an advocate for the repeal of the union, there never was a greater error, as nothing can be .urther from his feelings and convictions than the propriety of severing the right arm from the body of the empire." "No one," his lordship adds, " is better acquainted with these my sentiments than Lord Cloncurry." The Right Hon. J.. Grattan, brother of the member for Meath, has resolved upon the sale of his Irish property, with the intention of leaving his native country for ever, and becoming a settler in Old Virginia, where he has already effected a purchase of 5,000 acres of land. Mr. Grattan's estates are not very extensive, but they are to tally free from any family encumbrances. The right lion. gentleman always bore the character of an indulgent land lord, and was a constant resident in Ireland. ARREST OF MAYNOOTH STUDENTS.—The Clonmel Chronicle has a startling statement :—" We learn that arrests, which have recently taken place at Dungarvon, implicate certain students of the Romish colleges of Wa terford and Mavnooth, in connexion with secret societies. A few of the students of the former are already fugitive, and it is rumoured, we know not how truly, that fifty or sixty of the youths at Maynooth will be expelled, for being connected with the secret conspiracy." THE NEN A on CHAPEL.—This place of worship remains yet firmly nailed ; and the stern determination of the majority of the parishioners not to open it appears every day to become more unalterable and unflinching. They say they will never permit the Rev. Messrs. Kenny and Bowles to enter the chapel, or perform any ceremony whatever therein, while the bishop and the parish priests are resolutely resolved to maintain their position. A COUNTY OF KILKENNY ELOPEMENT AND ITS CON- SEQUENCS.—A man named Cody was killed on Wednes day week by a man named Walsh. The former was on his way from Callan, in the county of Kilkenny, eloping with the wife of Walsh ; Cody had others, eiders and abet tors, with him, who were met by the unfortunate husband and his party on the road at Coals, where a fight ensued, and Walsh struck Cody with a pitchfork on the forehead, and killed him on the spot. On Wednesday night, the body of Lieutenant Ackland, R.N„ was found lying dead on a bed in his house, at Lon donderry, with a handkerchief over his face. A woman and two girls who lived with him had absconded, but have since been arrested. Only a few pence were found in the house, though the deceased had drawn his quarters' pen swn only a few days previously. His clothes had been pawned or otherwise disposed of. The women have since been released, as it appears that the deceased expired from the excessive use of ardent spirits. Wm. Darley Hall, Esq., of Fairburn, has addressed a spirited and temperate letter to Lord Clarendon, re questing that his name may be erased from the list of magistrates, as he " cannot any longer consent to retain a position which now seems to demand a blind subservi ence to the government of the day, or the alternative of an instant dismissal should that government prove tyran nical and unscrupulous." Mr. Hall has never been an Orangeman or political partizan, and is not the private friend of Messrs. Beers, though he is acquainted with Lord Roden. ORANGEISM. — Some former members of the Orange Society, who had retired from that institution on its break up in 1837, met in this city on Tuesday. The propriety of again starting their old warrant, which had been " boxed np" for the past 12 years, was talked over. The reson alleged, and which the unanimous voice of those present justified in again resuming the Orange and Blue, was, the conduct pursued towards their old friend and patron, Lord Roden, and the Messrs. Beers. The bre thren resolved to put themselves in immediate communi cation with the Grand Lodge of Ireland, with the view of having their :old warrant renewed. Orangeism of late has been at a discount in Cork, where at one period it prosperously flourished, but Lord Clarendon has given it a helping hand, never calculated on.—Cork Constitution. THE GOVERNMENT AND LORD RODEN. — The disgrace to which the government subjected our gracious and beloved Queen in Belfast, during her Majesty's visit to Ireland, has never been sufficiently brought to light. It was fixed, before the Queen left Dublin, that she should visit that noble institution in Belfast, the Ulster Deaf and Dumb Institution. It is supported by the first men in the Sister Island, and that it is no merely Church or sectarian Institution appears from the fact that the Rev, Dr. Cook is one of its Directors. Everything was prepared for her Majesty's reception. But the Queen was advised to turn away from it—to slight the bishop and noblemen waiting to give their Sovereign a fitting reception—and to turn — whither ? Why, to turn where Dr. Henry, the noted Arian—the avowed heretic, according to the sentence of the Church in all ages, but who had been appointed, (to the disgrace of Government,) President of the New Col lege was waiting to do her homage ! ! It is quite becom ing and suitable that the men who honour Dr. Henry, should attempt to disgrace Lord Roden. NAVIGATION OF THE SHANNON.—The Shannon is now a navigable river. A vessel may sail on this noble river from the broad waters of the Atlantic to the quiet re cesses of Lough Allen. This event has just been achieved, Charles Wye Williams, Esq., who has been called the father of the Shannon navigation improvement, having steamed almost to the source of this river to Lough Allen, and to the waters of the Boyle. The steamer, with the exploring party on board, proceeded on her voyage up wards, passing through Lough Derg, and successively sailing by Porturnna, Banagher, Shannon-bridge, and Seven Churches, to the important town of Athlone. On the next morning the party again embarked, and pro ceeded at the rate of about nine miles an hour through the various scenery of the river, until they arrived at Carrick-on-Shannon, being 125 miles from Limerick, and 51 from Athlone. The last day of the trip was spent in sailing to the source of the Shannon, and inspecting the various objects of interest. The Shannon washes no less than ten Irish counties, viz.,—Leitrim, Roscommon, Longford, 'Westmeath, King's County, G a l wa y, Tippe rary, Clare, Limerick, and Sligo. This river is in truth one of the great arteries of Ireland. It flows through some of the best parts of the country. On Sunday morning a large party assembled to carry off the crops of a farmer, named John Keyes, at Clonaslee, King's County, when the police endeavoured to prevent the removal, and a collision ensued, in which one of the constables 'vas shot dead, and, four others dangerously wounded. Several of the opposite party were shot, and one, it is believed, was killed. The letter of the corres pondent of the Dublin Mail fully confirms the above statement, with the following additional circumstances:— " At the first fire three policemen fell; and while some of their comrades assisted in carrying away the wounded men, those who remained were overpowered by numbers, and obliged to retreat into their barrack, into which several vollies were discharged after them. The entire booty was carried off in triumph to the house of Keyes, at Rahan, with the exception of one load of corn, which was thrown off by the road side, to make room on the car for the wounded of the banditti." The coroner's jury, in substance, finds that Joseph Keyes, (in custody) and Jae Keyes, c ; , , r ,! in custody. ee - wounded 4yeke present aiding — 7l 'tille r t," - 1 11 ,.gi g it t .t 7 arrnOd poly, and by which e ' "1 h e e"" '" #“ 45 - life, bat by whe.— .e. . party ceaged lost his .... tee snots were fired then was no evidence to prove. All the other prisoners have been re manded. None of the reported wounded civilians have yet been arrested, although the police from the surround. ing districts are scouring the country night and day. Thirty-eight prisoners have been arrested. The Dublin papers of Saturday announce the death of another police man. LORD RODEN.—The following address to Lord Roden has been numerously signed by the gentry of Westmeath —" MY LORD—An address, expressive of admiration land respect for your lordship's character and conduct, Irowe ever natural, as connected with recent events, mkght not at this moment be welcome to your lordship, still less one of sympathy and condolence, when there is place foe just indignation. Our object in addressing your lordship now is rather to join your lordship in protesting strongly against the false position in which the letter of the under secretary has endeavoured to place you; find in asserting our ccrdial concurrence in y'e'l,ur 101d:4143's view of the matter in question, which we trannot better express than in your own plain language—' Thee-there was no reason to consider you publicly arraigned, though you had been grossly maligned ; nor can we admit that you were impli cated in abetting the proceedings of an illegal assembly.' Waiving the question of the expediency of Orange proces sions (however invariably loyaltheie motive) we' delibe rately assert, that no magistrate, or any one else, had a right to-deem that to bean ' illegal assembly, which was openly 'encouraged by the exeoutive in 1848, and tacitly tolerated up to July, 1849. In 1848 Orange displays were encouraged, as composed of loyal anti-Repealers; in 1e549 they were unnoticed, until a wanton attack pro voked them to resistance, resulting in consequences deplo rable, though deserved ; - and these gave occasion to the factious cry for vengeance, which has coerced a yielding government to make the vain endeavour to degrade Lord Roden ! Had not the rebels tried to intercept the Orangemen, nothing would have been heard of the 'ille gal assembly'—and such events are seldom to be judged by consequences, never by such consequences. The principle, or want of principle, upon which your lordship has been treated, would render it impossible to do any act with that moral security which is the privilege of the British magistrate, when acting conscientiously. 'Official sophistry may readily `implicate' him in offences that come before him,-if such is to be the practice. We firmly protest against this most unwarrantable proceeding—we, at the same time, feel it a subject for gratulation that their first blow has been aimed chiefly at one whose posi tion—we mean not as a nobleman, but as a man—will rally the well-disposed against the unconstitutional act, and will bring about a strong union against the insensate policy which is influenced to-day by the rebels of the day before—perhaps reluctant, probably afraid to act—but more afraid to resist their evil influence. We leek to the imperial parliament for redress, and may, meanwhile, safely lead your lordship to the sure comfort you possess in this case, of a " conscience void of offence towards God and towards man." VISIT OF LORD LONDONDERRY TO HIS DONEGAL ESTATES. — The noble lord arrived on Friday week, ac companied by Lord Castleretigh, and his agent, Mr. Lnngtree. They started on a flying visit to the estates ; and, after breakfast, first visited Mr. Cassedys, of Bally lawn, and had luncheon. They thence proceeded to the schoolhouse of Balleighan, where a large number of the tenantry had assembled. His lordship proceeded to ad dress them. He was sorry to find that so little had been done by them in the way of improvements, and the old arrears were still accumulating. This should not be the case; nor could he allow such a state of things to conti nue. He understood that a neighbouring landlord, Lord Wicklow, could get all his rents paid, and his (Lord L.'s) tenantry were equally as comfortable as Lord Wicklow's ; he could not get paid. Arrears must be paid up, other wise he would adopt measures to obtain them. Some of them kept a good many cottiers on their farms, and re ceived rent for the houses they lived in. This should be the property of the landlord, and was so much out of his pocket. (Murmurs.) They thought they had a great deal to do, and many difficulties to contend with, but he could tell them that he had as much to do as any of them, when he paid his English servants and kept up his esta blishment. He had received a great many petitions, but he would not attend to one of them, nor would there he any indulgence given until the arrears of his property were all paid up. (A voice, " You will have your rent, but you will not read a petition."—Another, " In troth you'll get no money to day.") His lordship became ex cited and ordered his carriage, which he entered. The tenants, surrounding it, besought him to reduce their rents. He replied, " I'll do nothing untill I get my rents —all arrears must be paid up, and if you don't I'll know how to meet you ; I'll bring over English tenants, and have you ejected." A voice, " English tenants wouldn't live on rotten potatoes—they know the difference." Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Lanktree had left his lordship, and as they did not appear when lie inquired for them he ordered the postilions to drive on. Soon after Lord Castlereagh came up and took his seat. Mr. Lanktree then came up, but his lordship ordered him back, saying in a loud voice, " You must stop and get all the money you can, and then make your way to Derry as well as pos sible." His lordship drove to Derry. Mr. Lanktree re turned to the school and collected some rent ; but most of the tenants had departed. Thus elided the visit of the Marquis of Londonderry to his Donegal tenants_ On the previous day his lordship visited his tenants on his Tully estate, and treated them pretty similarly, refusing to hear what they had to say, or to receive any petitions from them. One petition which he got hold of, he indignantly threw over his shoulder. TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD CHANCELLOR. Newcastle, Castlewellan MY LORD,—I have had the honour of receiving your Lordship's favour of the 6th instant, honourinz me, at the command, if such I may call it, of the Lord Lieuten ant, with a supersedeas. I candidly confess that Mr Berwick's conduct at the investigation in Ca3tlewellan quite prepared me for such a communication. I did not hold the situation which I had the honour of filling 15 years, as a partisan of this or of any other Government, and it is now taken from me, as I firmly believe, not be cause I have dishonoured my magisterial functions, (for that I indignantly deny), but because I have had the honesty to avow myself as a fearless supporter of the Orange Institution, the glory and the bulwark of the land. I can hardly refrain, however, from expressing my belief to your lordship, that the Earl of. Clarendon has acted neither a fair nor a manly part in this transaction. He should not have sympathised with assassins, he should not have stigmatized loyal men, he should not have dared to say, because the characters of men as upright and as just as he, in his fancied infallibility, takes himself to be, have been blackened and defamed by a Popish and Whig Press, whose delight is in lies, that they are " publicly arraigned." The Protestant Press of England and Ire land has " publicly arraigned" his Excellency, and yet his Excellency continues in the exercise of his magisterial functions ! • I trust I do not offend your lordship by saying that I believe lie has usurped your lordship's prerogative in ordering the dismissal of three Protestant Magistrates, the humblest of whom considers himself as unstained in reputation, as high in character, though not in position, and, most certainly, a far more loyal subject of the Queen, than the nobleman who rules at Dublin Castle, and sends the statutes 'which are to bind British subjects to the Pope of Rome, for his revision, alteration, or annulling, as the case may be ; and thus gives that priestly potentate a share of the British Throne. Be assured, my lord, that a day of reckoning will come ; and that truth, Protestantism, and liberty shall prevail in Ireland. In that day, the wrongs of this may be for gotten and forgiven ; but the principles for which I and my Orange brethren stand, are those that will then be in the ascendant.'--I have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's obedient servant, 171 h Oef., 1849. WM. BEERS. DIVES AND LAZARUS-THE RIVAL CHURCHES (From the Dublin Herald.) Need we remind our readers of two remarkable cases illustrative of the sufferings of the Protestant clergy ? The one was the case of the Rev. Francis Patterson Studdart, who has just resigned his living of Corofin, in consequence of the entire income of the parish being barely sufficient to defray the poor rate and other public expenses chargeable upon the incumbent. The.other was that of an incumbent, the net yearly value of whose liv ing was under eleven pounds ! These are, however, but particular instances of what in too many districts is now most mournfully established to be the normal condition of Church property in Ireland. Let us now turn to another class of facts—the statistics of that poor alms-supported church, which humbly pre fers its frugal dependence upon the popular bounty to the tempting magnificence of a state endowment. The liberal Limerick Chronicle informs us that " the late Doctor O'Brien, P.P., of Slane, Meath, is now ascertained to have died worth upwards of £100,000." One hundred thousand pounds !—and that after all the slobbering, waste, and dirty revelry which attends a country priest's housekeeping, realized—how ? Why by fees, offerings, &c., levied in the name of God from a population to whom a meal of meat twice in the year was a luxury ! What do the people—what do the Government think of this ? May not the destitute peasantry fancy that they have hitherto been paying a little too high for the haberdashery of the priest's religion ? The layman dies in exile, in the poorhouse or in the ditch, while his " dependent clargy" expires in his feather-bed, leaving a hundred thousand pounds behind him ! What are Liberals, with this fact before them, to make of the feasibility of their meditated endowment of the popish church in Ireland ? But if we have thus a peep into the bank-book of the Irish priest, we have also a glimpse into the scale and quality of his housekeeping. Simultaneously with the appearance of the paragraph we have just been re marking upon, there has appeared in the Water ford Mail an advertisement bearing the signature of " Lorenzo F. O'Neill, auctioneer, Waterford." This gentleman has, it appears, " been authorised by the rep resentatives of the late Rev. Thomas Dixon, P.P., of Passage, to offer for sale the whole of his effects." These, accordingly, be roughly catalogues in his advertise ment, and from it we shall extract some passages which present a comfortable correspondence between the menage of Priest Dixon and the fortune of Priest O'Brien : "Brilliant looking glasses, lustres, and table lamps; rich Brussels, Turkey, and Kidderminster carpets of the newest and most exquisite designs • table covers of itreat beauty; gorgeous window hangings and draperies with gilt poles, and enriched with costly fringes; a rare and varied collection of richly cut glass; a large assortment of China, in dinner, des sert, breakfast, and tea services." Pretty well, it must be owned, for a bachelorts estab lishment 1 The " bed-rooms" come next, and exhibit a taste that is Quite curious, and a costliness that is abso- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. lutely wanton in an establishment over which female re- ' . . . +t ,r .Au wswiefr presputeu .;Mto hre furnished with the tetittisite n. s necessary fOr a gentleman's house—namely , a splendid mahog any any four-pOst bedstead, with drab damask hangings and OA !lasses ; several prime (new) feather bads t hair matresse s :" mahogany xreardrabes end nobbles : ditto dressing tables and basic-sitnds ; comm Odes, dressing-glasses„ new cir,peting, vizi told arm-chairs, cane seat ditto, damask wirul.,o haitg iil , boot-stand, t. few Scripture pieces ; fender and tre-itOns, chamber-stand., foot-pan and bath, &c., &c. And all this for a poor priest living au garcon at the babk of 0. Munster bog! The "sterling silver" is rated at " hundred buntes"—among wllich we find enumerated " a magnifi cent and richly-chased teapot, sugar-bowl, candlesticks," &c,., &c.; all whioh, we are informed, " have been very recently purchased new"—we presume , since the famine commenced. - - We have no clue to the amount of legacy and probate duty paid upon the rev, gentleman's will : judging, how ever, from the revelations of Mr. Lorenzo N. O'Neill, and the hoard of his brother priest of Slane, it must have been anything but a fleabite. The priests are the noisiest enemies of ecclesiastical wealth and The fiercest sticklers for Church reform to be anywhere found. Their congregations, however, whew they inwardly digest such disclosures as those on which we have just commented, may possibly fancy that, if Church revenues are to undergo a reform, the salutary process of retrenchment may begin a little nearer home than the taxed and beggared Protestant Establishment of Ireland. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. The Guardian says that it is intended to offer an oppo sition to the confirmation of Dr. Hinds as Bishop of Norwich. The Lord Bishop of Chester and his lady have been sojourning at Cae Gwyn, the delightful residence of John Finchett Maddock, Esq. The Church of England Quarterly Review states that the widow of the Rev. William Romaine, who died in 1795, still survives. On Wednesday, the Lord Bishop of the Diocese arrived in Blackburn, previous to the examination of candidates for the ordination which took place at the Parish Church, BlackbUrn, on Sunday. The Whigs have not been a very long time in office, and yet they have had the appointment of the two Primates— the promotion of Bishops to the sees of Hereford, Chester, Manchester, Norwich, and we know not how many sees in Ireland, and the Colonies! Now they have another mitre to dispose of. BISHOP 0.1 , LLANDAFF.—A public meeting of Welsh men was held in London, on Friday, to secure the appoint ment of a Welshman to the vacant Bishopric of Llandaff. Strong resolutions were passed, as it appears that there has not been-a Welshman appointed to a see in Wales since ttie accession of the House of Brunswick. The Hull Radical papers are again sounding the praises of the Rev. James Aspinall as the fittest man for the vacant see of Llandaff. The reverend gentleman would be quite as likely to succeed in his views if his friends would not be quite so noisy. The Hull Advertiser says that he has done the " State" some service, but our con temporary should have told us what " service" he has done his parishioners. DIOCESE OF CHRSTER.—The Lord Bishop of the Dio cese has licensed the Rev. Thomas Donkin, clerk, 8.D., to the preachership of the parish of Bunbury, in the county of Chester, void by the resignation of the Rev. John Egerton, late preacher there,—patrons, the Master and four Wardens of the fraternity of the art or mistery of Haberdashers in the city of London. The Bishop has also licensed the Rev. William Armitstead, clerk, to the perpetual curacy of Lorton, in the parish of Brigham, in the county of Cumberland, on the nomination of the Right Hon. William Earl of Londsdale, the patron. MUNIFICENT BEQUEST. —Died, Sept. 22, Dudley Fereday. of Ettinghall Park, county of Stafford, Esq., not long since High Sheriff of Van Diemen's Land. He became a Gentleman Commoner of this College in 1811, and in 1814 was created Honorary Master of Arts. He has munificently bequeathed £20,000 to Oxford college, far the purpose of founding four Fellowships to be called by his name, a preference to be given primarily to the donor's kin, afterwards to natives of Staffordshire. In case Magdalene College is unable or declines to accept the bequest, the executors are empowered to offer it to the other colleges in this university in succession, until some one shall accept the same upon the conditions before mentioned. COLLEGE EXPENSES.—What we are going to say may excite no little surprise; but we speak neither without experience nor information when we assert, that in no single cam: in Oxford or Cambridge need the yearly expenses of a student exceed £lOO, and they are often actually brought considerably within this sum by men maintaining in all respects the character and position of gentlemen. There are no lodgings in England so cheap as college rooms, no dinners in a London club-house so cheap as college dinners, and few lectures at a popular institute so cheap as college tuition. For £l5 a-year a man may have as good rooms as he can possibly need ; the most expensive set in the college would probably not exceed £3O. Those of our readers who have ever taken respectable lodgings in a country town will know how to estimate these figures. The charge for tuition, including lectures on every subject required for the academical degree, is £2 ss. per quarter at Cambridge, and £4 4s, at Oxford ; and every single necessary charge for board, lodging, and education, may be. and ofton io, brought under £25 a-term. The addition of another £lOO a-year for personal expenses, is amply sufficient for the wanis of any right-minded student during his academical career. All above this has reference only to those demands to which we have before alladed, and which are solely chargeable with the hazards of a collece life.— Times. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The long pending affair of a railway from Shrewsbury to Hereford, is now brought to a close ; Mr. Brassey, the eminent contractor, has taken the contracts for the works. A woman last week attempted to cheat the railway by dressing her dog in child's clothes and carrying it in her arms. The bark of the animal betrayed the fraud. The tunnel on the Caledonian line near Glasgow, and which passes over the the Edinburgh and Glasgow tunnel and under the Monkland Cane!, within'a few feet of each, has been completed ; and on Tuesday a locomotive en gine passed through it. RAILWAY RECEIPTS.—The receipts upon our main lines of railway have improved during the last week. The following statement gives the increase or decrease of re ceipts as compared with those for the corresponding period of 1848. The extraordinary decrease in the receipts of the York and North Midland, viz., from £10,003 to £6,859, must, we believe, be imputed to the " cooking " of the traffic returns : Increase. Decrease. 461,055 3,144 York, Newcastle, and Berwick York and North Midland Lancaster and Carlisle. London and South -Weste, n Lancashire and Yorkshire Eastern Counties London, Brighton, and South Coast Midland London and North-Western Great Western 4'537 .. .. 550 .... .. 1,702 .... 1,000 .. 613 YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY,—A meeting of the Liverpool shareholders of this line was held on Friday, at the Wellington Hotel, to receive a re port from Mr. Wylie, who bad been sent as a delegate to a meeting of delegates at York,—at which directors were nominated and other business done, preliminary to the general meeting of shareholders to be held there on Wed nesday next. Mr. Mellor was called to the chair. Mr. Wylie reported that there was a majority in favour of eight directors of 1,928 shareholders, 977 in favour of three managing directors, 1,959 in favour of the kind of audit proposed by the committee of investigation, repre senting 154,178 shares, and there were 4,072 shares in favour of a government audit. The eight directors selected by the meeting of delegates were, Messrs. Geo. Seeman, of York, Leechman, of Glasgow, Wharton, of Durham, M`Laren, of Edinburgh, Kipling and Plews, of Darling ton, Hodgson and Hunter, of Newcastle. He (Mr. Wylie) had opposed the nomination of Mr. Plews, from his omissions while in the direction with Mr. Hudson. On the grounds which he had stated, he voted against Mr. Hudson. The number of votes recorded in his favour were. 13 out of the 24 present. Mr. Wylie sat down amidst applause. The report was received, and Mr. Wylie thanked. A good deal of conversation then ensued. —Mr. Sidney said they stood in an awkward position with the Great North of England line, for which they might be called upon for £2,500,000 before the first of July next. The bargain was made by Hudson and his lot. It was a most infamous bargain, and they were now the innocent victims of it. Terms had been offered to that company, which they had refused. The Chairman said the matter could only be settled by the new directors. Some further remarks were made on this point, leading to no result. — A general conversation then took place, in the course of which the conduct of the late board was fiercely attacked, and Mr. Wylie, Mr. Sidney, and other proprietors present strongly desired all the shareholders to be present at York at the meeting on Thursday next. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Theobald, the father of the turf, died on Monday, in his 85th year. He died worth upwards of half a million sterling. Van Tromp has become the property of Mr. Kirby, for 2,250 sous., that gentleman, on seeing him after his acci dent, having found it to be of too slight a nature to be of any detriment. GOOD SPORT.—SOIDO of the best sport we have heard of in the Highlands this season has been at Carrour, the shootings of T. B. Crompton, Esq., of Farnworth, who with his friends, S. Blair, Esq., M.P. for Bolton, and E. Woolmer, Esq., of Exeter, with the assistance of a few occasional visitors, has bagged, from the Ist of September to the 6th October, 1424 grouse, 629 hares, 9 black cock, 23 ptarmigan, 18 snipes, and 1 plover—total-21 04 . Mr. Crompton never commences shooting until the Ist of September, consequently the birds are strong upon the wing, and in full feather. Game has been very abundant at Carrour, and it is mainly attributable to the vigilance of Mr. Crompton's keepers in the destruction of vermin and birds of prey. In three years they have killed 22 eagles, 35 foxes, 6 foulmarts, 17 weasels, 152 hawks and crows, 5 badgers, and 5 otters—making 242 vermin. The weather during the month of September has been remarkably fine, and from the Ist of October to the pre sent day (the Bth) the nights have been cold and frosty, but the days bright and clear, with'a brilliant sunshine; indeed, such a splendid autumn is not in the recollection of the oldest man in the 'Western Highlands. Captain William Peel, R.N., had the good fortune, on Friday last, to bring town a fine deer, with a very handsome head. This is the gallant captain's first successful stalk. At the shootings of Eileen Aigas, Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Frederick and Mr. Arthur Peel, enjoyed very fair grease shooting during last week. Sir Robert's sport has, on the whole, been eattiefactory.—lnrerneu Courier. POLL„ eAL MISCELLANY. • - only four candidates for Cork—Col. are nu A ..;rfitiCtiit on (tore), Serjeant Murphy (wills), geors. Carthy ido Kenea u aj. Lora 13rafLiley 6 recovering. Earl Stanhope has had another fling at Mr. Disraeli's amended scheme of policy developed in Essexti which he pronounces to be as absu?d as the Aylesbury original, " A most preposterous proposition." ANOTHER PREDICTION. — The prediction of Fleming, the celebrated Presbyterlan, in 1701, relative to the Papacy, has already attracted universal attention. That divine in the same work anticipates that in 1849 another vial`—the sixth—begins. The reader will, perhaps, be stantlekwhen he learns that it is to be poured out "upon the Mathomedan Antichrist," or, as he otherwise terms it, "The Turkish Empire !'. The events with which Europe is now ringing form the best commentary upon this pre diction. We need not point attention to this startling coincidence. BROUGHAM ON HUN.GAILY.—A letter from Paris says : " On Thursday evening Lord Brougham dined with the Marqnis of Normanby at the British Embassy. All the foreign ministers, except those of Austria and Sardinia, ware present. An animated discussion of the extradition question took place between Lord Brougham and Kisseleff. On the latter asserting that all the noise in England was made by the "liberal press," his lordship assured the Russian minister that Whig and Tory, Lord Aberdeen . and Sir Robert Peel, were united as one man upon the question and resolved to support Turkey. This silenced Kisseleff, who abstained from pronouncing another word on politics. We have had a good many pen-and-ink portraits of Lord John Russell. The latest was sketched the other day at Aberdeen, by a speaker at a Financial Reform meeting. It is not a flattering one, but such as it is we offer it to the reader :—" He knew of no man so little in mind and body as Lord John Russell. He was a viper, a gnat, a little stinging wasp, (laughter,) and there had not been a greater upholder of infamy in the Constitution than Lord John Russell since the Reform Bill bad passed. (Oh, and hear.) He wanted to see Lord John turned to the wrong side of the table, that there he might bite, and sting, and buzz about the ears of the' Protectionists, who were now rising, and who, if a dissolution took place to morrow. would have a majority in the new house." STRANGE REASONING.—The Financial Reform Asso ciation•sent a deputation to Aberdeen on Tuesday to en lighten the lieges there who had been cheering Sir Roht. Peel, L.L.D. The deputation con.isted of three noted' members of Parliament—viz., Sir J. Walmsley, Mr. G. Thompson, and Citizen Feargus O'Connor. There was an infinite deal of nothing uttered, and much that was worse : there was foul-mouthed abuse of the aristocracy, mingled abuse and flattery of the middle classes, and the grossest adulation of toe labouring population. It was accounted a sin in members of the peerage that numbers of them had relatives in the Army, Navy, and the Church. When this marvellous fact was announced, the whole meeting cried " Shame !"—as if occupation in the Army, Navy, and the Church, belonged exclusively t ) the Aber deen weavers and herring-salters, and that the latter were sorely wronged in consequence. REPEAL OF THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—The next step in the downward progress of the country, in consequence of the free-trade measures, is the effect to be produced by the act repealing the Navigation Laws, which comes into operation the end of the present year. Preparatory to this event, a number of vessels belonging to the Baltic ports, in order to avoid being frozen up during the win ter, are making arrangements to remain here in order to avail themselves of charters as soon as the period arrives. It is almost unnecessary to observe that these vessels will be offered for charter on considerably lower terms than British bottoms, if the latter are to cover expenses. It is another proof of the practical effect of the free-trade measures on the condition of the labouring classes, for all the advantage that the foreign vessels derive over British registered ships is based upon lower wages and an inferior description of food. In addition to the above, it may be stated upon indisputable authority, that the chartering of foreign vessels has already commenced in the ports of the United States for the purpose of loading in our North American colonies, and that Norwegian vessels have been already engaged at New York fully fifteen per cent. lower than on th.t closest calculation is considered remunerating for British shipping. Some of the vessels were engaged to load timber, the cargoes to be taken in before the navi gation of the river St. Lawrence closes, and the vessels to proceed to a French port in the Channel, there to wait until the Ist of January, when it may be legally discharged in our ports. These facts require little further comment. COURT AND FASHION. The Queen Dowager is dangerously ill. Dr. Davies is in constant attendance; but the disease of the lungs, under' which her Majesty has been labouring for years, has now assumed a far more serious appearance than hitherto, so as to leave little hopes from human skill. Her Majesty has condescendingly promised to be pre sent at the opening of the new Coal Exchange, in the city of London, accompanied by Prince Albert, on the 30th instant. It will be a state visit, and will no doubt give a general stimulus to trade eastward of Temple Bar. It is long since a British Sovereign ventured within the pur lieus of Billingsgate. Her Majesty will embark onboard her state barge at Whitehall at half-past twelve, arriving about one at the Custom-house Quay, where every suitable preparation will be made for the reception of her Majesty: a covered way will thence be formed for the procession to the Coal Exchange. Her Majesty will be accompanied by Prince Albert, and it is hoped by the Prince of Wales. Her Majesty will return by water between two and three o'clock. No steam-boats or laden craft will be allowed to move on the river. On Saturday the Prince of Wales hoisted his standard for the first time, on the occasion of his royal highness, with the other juvenile members of the royal family, em barking at Cowes, in the royal yacht Fairy, for Gosport, unaccompanied by her Majesty and Prince Albert. THE HIDDEN TREASURE. In the month of November last a young girl named Eulalie M—, of the age of fifteen, was brought to one of the hospitals of Paris while labouring under a most alarming attack of catalepsy. The case was a most curious one, and the mother of the girl declared that she was subject to this disease, but had never been afflicted for so long a period together, having been for four days and nights without consciousness. The doctors of the establishment were, of course, enchanted with this bonne aubaine, and forthwith began to experimentalize, and to prove and test a hundred different methods of cure which, nevertheless, had all been exhausted before the poor patient was restored to herself. Such, however, was the debilitated state in which the disease, or rather the "remedies," had left her, that she was compelled to remain for some time longer in the hospital to regain her strength. It was during this convalescence that a pheno menon of the most extraordinary nature was witnessed in poor Eulalie, which caused the greatest perplexity and confusion among the nurses and doctors in attendance upon her. She was seized with an unceasing, ungovern able flow of speech,—words poured in a torrent from her lips ; night or day, sleeping or waking, it was the same. This was no phenomenon at all, you will say : with persons of her age and sex nothing is more common ; but, gentle reader, it was the subject of her discourse which vas so extraordinary, and which caused even the oldest and most experienced of the medical advisers gathered round her bed to turn aside, some in wrath, others in con fusion,—it was the complete unveiling of every thought and desire which was passing through the mind of who ever approached within a certain distance of her bed. So great was the panic produced in the establishment, that, out of the seven holy sisters appointed for the guardian ship of the sick, but one had the courage to wait upon this extraordinary and marvellous patient ; and she was the youngest and prettiest of them all. The evil grew to such a height, so many secrets sot afloat, so many suspicions had grown into certainty by this means, that it was deemed expedient to dismiss the patient before a complete schism was created amongst the authorities of the hospital. Every celebrity in the magnetic science had been summoned to visit the girl, and all had declared that never before had a subject pos sessing such extraordinary powers of clairvoyance been met with. Every one of the professors, of-course, con tended for the honour of bringing her into public notice; but the young assistant of the hospital, who had attended her in the first instance, became the happy man, and bore off the treasure to an obscure lodging near the Rue St. Jacques, giving up, for her sake and for the dream of fortune promised by the wonderful faculty which she possessed, his present situation and the certainty of advancement he had acquired by many years study and steadfast attention to his arduous profession. For a while everything prospered with the young couple. All Paris flocked to hear the revelations of the Sybil, and her house was thronged from morning till night with eager inquiries. About a year ago Madame de S--, well known by her eccentric researches in every kind of science, became so enthusiastic in her admiration of Eulalie, that she insisted upon her taking up her abode with her, in order to aid in certain occult works upon which she was engaged, the end and aim being directed to no less an object than the discovery of all the buried treasure which exists throughout France. It would appear that the revelations of the fair Eulalie were of such a nature as to satisfy the most golden anti cipations of Madame de S—. Hundreds of visions, more gorgeous than imagination could supply, burst one by one upon the sleeping sense of the somnambula ; but of all those which were thus laid open to the greedy anti cipations of the consultar.le, none seemed to offer such immense and eertain chance of splendour as that which was beheld at the Chateau of Chalus. These ruins so celebrated in English song, became forthwith the object of a pilgrimage, and the Marquise du repaired thither with the firm intention of purchasing the ruins, if they were to be had for love or money. But the owner cared not a whit for the first, as far as the marquise was con cerned at least, and a great deal too much for the second ; so that the affair was rather more difficult to manage than Madame de 5 anticipated. Nothing, however, is impossible to those who are gifted with a will firm and resolute as that of the stout hearted marquise ; and the bargain was struck at an enormous sacrifice on her part, the only condition being the removal of the rubbish which encumbered the entrance to the principal dungeon of the castle, where, so the persuasion existed, the whole of the treasure was contained. The impatience of the fair purchaser was so great that, fearing the customary delay in all French proceedings, she in sisted upon the performance of the bargain before she would consent to sigp the contract. _ Accordingly, workmen were sent to commence the task at once, when lo ! by the very stroke of the hammer which levelled to the ground the - remnant of the old wall that barred all access to the dungeon, a_recess was discovered hollowed in the stone, and in the recess a casket of iron, curiously wrought in Me fashion of the Greek empire., mbieh casket, being opened. was found to contain a dia- Oct 23,18 mmilimmumagimmi. mond of wonderful magnitude, and of the first Wel ' o f I is said to be six times larger than the Dent, , lustre unrivalled by any stone known as yet to the ;ft 00 it The value of the treasure is supposed to be at 10 million' Ve Imes. . _to it it is now remembered that in many chronic..aystl mentioned that the determination of Richard the e d Fair siege to this castle was caused solely by the de= ..r' gaining possession of the immense treasure it vietcys posed tp contain, and that the death he inlet with was considered a'fit punishment for his avarice. Prot logs have already been instituted against the °woe! t i , chateau, who refuses to give up any portion of tu e sure to Madame de S-; and the curious circuartg# which have given rise to the trial will furnish mat much speculation during the coming winter. A ROMANCE OF THE PREST:gr DA". The correspondent of the Lore: ion Times gives tl! c so lowing sketch of the pact life an individual, wldgeof is just now occupying a prominent position in t h e e! tfilt Europe. If the facts. ere true, as vouched for.ulftbe writer, they convey to us as painful an example ° bol'; working of the conventual system in Roman Cel, countries, as the admitted proceedings against the. •ibi t n h o e,, now Rs p to) e nim n idesibtnegcn, or r o r fie hfotf7the years kind a g o o f t h toleration lived in p the o.r a s oto t of Viterbo, about thirty miles from Rome, on the 041 Florence, a young man and a beautiful girl, w i l l iev o tenderly attached, and who desired to marry. The on both sides opposed the union, and, after all h° e d! extinguished, and the impossibility of again M proved, a second edition of Abeilard and Heloisese i, ` J 03 took place : the lover became a priest and a 1 0° if„ the beloved retired into a nunnery and took th e vel d know not how convents and nunneries were Ina n .. ag f o ld those days, but it would appear that the Priestloo means of visiting the nun, and that several i n( ' gree' took place. which occasioned much scandal in the re`Vir Live establishments and in the neighbourhood. whicli bishop of the diocese interfered ; orders were giv en 0 would separate for ever the imprudent pair; bed. st d meeting, in spite of every difficulty, was rnaeogll' on the morning after, the nun was discovered de S t f tob° n dently pooisr could anyoned.irther trace cell, of his flight andtheiglt b friar i was Pro s 0° tc u e rr ii i found, Whether the nun poisoned herself in despair , pestered parted from her lover, or whether the friar adrn i rj ekl; to her the dose, is a question still legally undet er %eve! but the flight of the latter was considered to be ec! ros eit , against him, and as he was not present to defend i b l o th e the people of Viterbo imagined he was guilty, em„,` l ; fried matter was lost sight of and nearly forgotten I f went to the United States, after having visited Ng d tbc, Great Britain, and in the course of time ithiurt„ ' ten t Roman Catholic doctrine and embraced the faith. He became a member or agent of the Nu ss 'itotr e , Society, and when the late Republic flourished lit the Pere Achille returned to this part of the wor ,m o with the zeal of a convert laboured in his voestil,for' distributor of Bibles and an expounder of Protests'', c)1, trine. He had full liberty of speech and action unciteh the Mazzinni; but when the Republic expired beeeg'dore fire of French artillery, things took another turn , a n ,, i 4 of the first acts of the restored Government was th p e; u rcr of the missionary and his incarceration in the fret, prison. A double accusation weighed against hinr-ecele' the death of the nun at Viterbo; and, secondly , th e r a t° siastical crime of being a recusant priest. With r ee l one, it is proper to say that no evidence, so far as bet' learn, exists against him, and that suspicion has .11:a the ter ground than its being known that he ute ri tle" unhappy girl the night before her death, and that hewitli from S iterbo the day her corpse was discovcred• 019 respect to the other the case is not denied, and th e e do!" / question is, whether it be just and right that in th e " be itl a man who has changed his religion from convictio n, tlfr a priest, is subject to the criminal jurisdiction ° Church." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Last week, a great number of persons were fine d and costs for letting off cellars. s, e po S si e n v g era go l o s d h s o c p u k t e s e i p d e e rs th w ei e r re sh fi o n p e . d win 2o d s o . w a s. nd costs 1 : 00 °. • 4' On Wednesday, three female paupers in the „Itiq house were committed for trial, charged with. as i st:j a o: their superintendent and breaking several panes °' A blind Irishman was sent to gaol for a month oo 0 5 1; day for begging. He had in his pockets £2 25. ' sl will be spent in his maintenance in gaol. ctifig Several captains were fined 10s. and costs for a f' lights to be on board their vessels in the dock!' 5 0 6 Rushton said that the next time they committed the offence they would be fined £lO. a 10 LOVERS' QUARRELS.— On Wednesday, a Y °ll ee l of gentlemanly appearance. named Morris, a shoP ke in Church-street, was summoned by a Mr. M lf ‘ C°li bic l ' on a charee of assault. The circumstances under 0 03 the assault was committed were as follow :—lt a p p to ° that both gentlemen have been paying attentil sc ie young lady : but, owing to some circumstances, wh ic not allowed to transpire, Mr. Morris was forbiddeutlrcl• the lady's house. Since that time, however, he , ( 7,a ing to the evidence of Mr. M'Connell, has annoy rig" lady on all occasions when he met her in public. n the the past week, 'Mr. M'Connell and the lady.visigsl' Tbcatre-Ruyar. where they saw Mr. o rn s l a th,e o log lery, endeavouring to attract their attention .`; witb his hat, &c. They subsequently saw him in the P"'theo!! his back to the orchestra, " makiug faces...." a t Afonl Subsequently, when leaving the theatre, Mr*, ; t 1 b e ; rushed up to Mr. M'Connell and the lady, sei z- 5 hand, and on being requested to allow them to Pl y 'cls' struck Mr. M'Connell. This was most stre n uous: 01' nied on the part of Mr. Morris, who declared t hat or M'Connell was the aggressor. The evidence oei Pg satisfactory, the case was adjourned for a week. lo go' A MESMERISED PHRENOLOGIST.—During the s'" d SP" the Police-court, on Tuesday. an individual rose $ 1) ,0 5s pealed to the magistrate to be heard. The speaker. boOfi most respectable-looking man, but appeared to held 0 13 , ing under some strong mental excitement. He i sa iroA' ht . he lived in Upper Parliament-street, and he real' paper his complaint. He stated that he Wa s "ie Brunswick Hotel on Wednesday evening, the 100,,,b0 when one of the guests had operated on him, and l el i v o in a mesmeric state. The active class of orgar' s c(1 brain had been acted upon, such as combativen ess ' 5 0 , structiveness, self-esteem, ideality, rnirthfulness't i 0; language. He requested to be demesmerised, b ut i i i ceal e e t not attended to. and he was taken between /km P ° :t to bridewell, when the sum of two shillings, an' o t, property, was taken from him. The eonsplaie'iOte great length, stated his grievances, when them °.,at li e j inquired if the mesmeric action had yet ceased , I ° dt i,,, speaker replied in the negative. Mr. Rushto n a d t re ti v the unfortunate man to wait until it had ceased, aD to come for an explanation, which was assented t°", complainant left the court, but he continued a° sh e in the passage explaining the scienceof h e nologl' p r ht tO 5 giving some of the officers of the court an iosiP e ot , their character by their phrenological develoeinle coc t ; science in which he appeared to be an adept. b r d plainant stated that the organ of veneration e lit e° acted upon, and that he had made his knees black perpetually saying his prayers in consaquence of ,: LOCAL MEETINGS. 1,1! n 1 e :C i WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the us,, meeting, on Tuesday, a long but uninteresting cu s p ool o r i t; e t took place respecting the contract for meat , leading to any practical result. The Cholera C°"" if eo t v of Toxteth-park recommended that the breadiv the paupers s out-door relief should be bak Coot house. The report was referred to the Visitlot lt d mittee. The committee also recommended t y actic ie tt butchers' meat for out-door relief should be c c 'aistr9. for. Toxteth-park had been divided into tw,,,,, c) 0f for domicilary visitors, each of whom had a sa"'". 4 ll°"? per week. The salary paid to Dr. Whittle, 'V surgeon to the Cholera Hospital, had also bee n from £4 per week to 305., with rations. to eet.4 ,t i tP HOUSE OWNERS.—On Thursday a numerous ro s, of cottage owners was held at the Clarendon R° ling G. Sumner in the chair. The object of the me e dre;;oo he said, to enable the committee to report the,Pire rey their negotiations with the Select Vestry- --- e' t ' he ' 164 t0 1 , was then read, showing that, though some 0 1 ot to of; were opposed to the deputation, they had sf,, t y h pt Finance Committee, the complaints of the socl.naitttlie: far influenced the vestry that a committee of been appointed.—The report was adopted.—[ l ' . ', rer, who had remained in the room (after the e • ) of had ordered such persons to depart), was here of Mr. Jackson moved in effect that it was the clt n i f owners to combine against the oppressive mod e tok, ing rates from the poor, and that the best mod• 'O2 success was augmenting the numbers of t Or Owners' Guardian Society. This was carrie w a▪ l e o te un d o l vote of thanks to the deputation. It was rI that no support should be given to municipal st 9 who would not second in the council the intere t)/ house owners. SELECT VESTRY.—The fortnightly jestra e e io t : e o Select Vestry was held on Tuesday, the he fPotoo Campbell in the chair. The proceedings of t 'tlie Committee contained several instances where,te 4 tie _, seers had compounded with persons for the '"frowtgl their property.—A letter, sent to the Houseowners' Guardian Society, ' in proof of r ate;;Oe they had brought against the collectors of P° ° ' f be ° Y, r o the course adopted by the overseers towards er g. o rF,l of cottage property, was read by the Vestry-c',he %J r ' some discussion, a committee to investigate 'the was appointed. Mr. Harbord complained Of a food given to old people in the workhouse, 01044 ject was referred to the committee, with a,reaiselly‘ tion to them to allow the governor to use his velieoro the matter.—The proceedings of the 3 . ledical d r o yf lt t d mittee stated that the cholera was rapidly f and that in accordance with the suggestion Oapae,6 can, notice had been given to the extra medico jooProy after a date named their services would n ot u,uld i villi quired. Mr. Abraham said their service s '"Aft- w ry required after the end of the present week.. re ss fi I t/ brought forward a motion to prevent the Ins t i l ' belel f i of doors that the various tenders were Icac' w 0 .0, 1 1 f t contents were decided upon. Mr. Dentorqr, t 9 t o ) ," motion. After some discussion, in which " 0 ti„? he thought the resolution was an attack oo ' t ' e a to r PO as clerk of that board, Mr. Willmer corisek'voloick the matter to stand over for a while.-1\Ir• beb o° .' moved that Mr. Woodruff be elected t a , i cro„ board. Mr. Cafferata moved that Mr. D an ' e o f t" 0 , of North' John-street, be elected a member w oo l, 4, Mr. Ireland seconded Mr. Crosthwaite's nt, to ii iry" Woodruff was elected by a majority of ,`". tor t i Cdfferata then moved that he be re-elected :elle"' all the committees on which he hadforincrlY was carried unanimously. . 1 tart * le e rte a, sa 3s, tints tIP;(1 b ank Dolit ab l e of w tor n) t he t ao rAt mere