The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

EXHIBITION OF THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY. Before proceeding to a detailed notice of the present exhibition, we must explain that we shall not feel our selves compelled to follow either the order of merit or artlf other definite course. The most satisfactory mode, to ourselves at all events, is to refer to each painting in the order in which it may have happened to attract us in our various visits. We make this explanation that we may not be charged with wilful neglect of any portion of the contributors. No. 23 is a picture in three compartments, by P. F. Poole, A. The subjects are from the tempest, and are treated with great skill. The colouring is transparent and delicate ; and, in the centre compartment especially, the sleeping figures are excellently painted. We object, however, to the birds introduced, and especially to the small one on the left, which destroys the balance of the composition. There is sufficient colour in the picture without adding to it their bright plumage. Near to this picture we have 28. View in Ashbourne Forest, by C. Fielding, a de lightful picture, which we are glad to observe has been sold. The foreground is elaborately painted. The avenue of gnarled monarchs of the forest is beautifully managed ; and the broad expanse of the Weld of Sussex, and the South Downs, with the hills just distinguishable in the distant horizon, is very clever. The picture is just such a one as would refresh the most wearied denizen of the busy town, and its monotonous pursuits, to look, upon for five minutes a day, as a pleasant sedative. 40. An Armoury. by Stephanoff, is an excellent little specimen of his peculiar class of subjects. 46. A scene from the Lady of the Lake, by A. Johnson, we Lave already stated to be the production for which the prize has been awarded. The subject is a scene taken from the second canto of the Lady of the Lake, in which Rboderick Dhu has just proposed for the hand of Ellen, the daughter of the outlawed Douglas ; and that chieftain is interfering to prevent a threatened rencontre between the rejected suitor and his favoured rival, Mal colm Grteme, " But Douglas rose And thrust between the struggling foes. Nis giant strength: 'Chieftains forego! I hold the first, who strikes, my foe; ;Madmen forbear your frantic jar, • What I is the Douglas fallen so far. His daughter's hand is doomed the spoil Of such dishonourable broil?' Sullen and slowly they unclasp, And struck with shame their desperate grasp; And each upon his rival stared, With foot advanced and blade half bared." The centre is occupied by the two rivals. between whom is interposed the commanding form of the Douglas. Hang ing upon the arm of Rhoderick is the Lady Margaret, his mother. and aunt of Ellen Douglas ; and on the left is the Lady of the Lake herself, with two attendant maidens. In a bay window in the back ground is the old harper, Allan Bane, an excellent figure. The composition as a whole is very striking and animated, and contains some very clever painting. To one or two portions, however, we conceive that objections may be urged. The fleshing of the female faces is not excellent, and the shadows rather course. The figures. too, are a little more muscular than generally characterises the fair sex. Ellen Douglas, for example, scarcely bears out the description of the poet : " And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A nymph, naiad, or a grace, Of finer form, or loviier face." The painter has represented her as anything but such an etherial being as we have been thus led to imagine her. V. 188. Mozart's Last Moments, by H. N, O'Neil. — We notice this picture next, because it is one of the same class of subjects as the prize picture, and we have heard some comparison drawn between their respective merits. The subject is an incident in the life of 111ozart, given by his biographer, Holmes :—" At two o'clock on the same day, which was that of his death, he had been visited by some theatrical performers, his friends. The ruling pas sion was now strongly exemplified. He desired the score of the requiem to be brought, and it was sung by his vi sitors around his bed, himself taking the alto part. They bad proceeded as far as the first bars of the Lachrymosa, when Mozart was seized with a violent fit of weeping, and the score was laid aside." The grouping is very good, and the painting throughout of a finished and first-rate character. The fleshing is perfect, especially of the two females, his wife and sister. The head of the former is very fine. The details—the draperies and costumes—are perfect. The two figures in the centre, however, displease the eye and taste. The stolid individual, who is still sing ing on, unmindful of everything, apparently, except his own sweet voice and the score before him, whilst the at tention of every other person in the room is fixed on the dying composer, is a blot upon the picture. The counte nance of the right hand figure in the foreground, too, is wanting in dignity. As a whole, however , Mr. O'Neill has added greatly to his reputation by this production ; an l we would point particularly to his flesh painting in comparison with that in the prize picture. 96. The interview of the Apostate Shaxton, Bishop of Salisbury. with Anne Askew in prison, by W. L. Windus, is one of the most striking pictures in the ex hibition. Mr. Windus is known as a very promising young artist, and a townsman ; and has added here very greatly to his previous high reputation. The subject is an incident from the " Life and times of Thomas Cranmer." in the meantime, Shaxton, unable to withstand the prospect of being burned, recanted his heretical opinions. He was then admitted to an interview with Anne, for the purpose of p2rsuading her to do as he had done. She re . plied, " death can come but once; but he who lives in in famy dies a slow death before the fire of his own con science. Oh, my lord, it were good for you if you had never been .born." The attenuated figure of the im prisoned woman, with her pallid features expressive of resignation mingled with sorrow for the backsliding of her visitor, is very finely conceived, and the expression of the latter, as he bends over the couch, his piercing gaze through the dim light of the dungeon fixed upon her face, is powerfully painted. The only other figures are those of the two attendant gaolers, savage-looking villains enough, who aid greatly the impressiveness of the scene. The dusky atmosphere of the dungeon is cleverly managed, and throws into striking prominence the prin cipal figure—the prisoner. We may hint, as a little un natural, the eye of Anne Claxton, which, it strikes us, the artist, in endeavouring to convey the idea of pain, has distorted too much. We congratulate Mr. Windus upon the production of a work of such great merit. 105. Henry V., when Prince of Wales, believing the King to be dead, takes the Crown from the cushion. J. C. Horsley. This large picture, from one of the frescoes exhibited at Westminster-hall, is very clever. The figure of the Prince is noble—just what we should have imagined the fne hearted Harry. The treatment and colouring are very fine. 142. The Coming Sh wer. W. H. Deverell, Jun., . is one of the few bad pictures in the exhibition. A more meaningless daub was never perpetrated. 203. The Stable Yard. W. Huggins.—This artist, who is one of our native school, has always pleased us by his animal painting. lie has been very successful in this little picture. The gray horse, in the centre, is excellently painted. Another portrait of a dog, 206, is very clever. 280. Hebe. D. W. Deane, is very coarse. Mr. Deane should never attempt a naked figure again. 213. A Bacchante. B. Norbury,—equally coarse, and quite out of drawing. 330. Christ Walking on the Sea. B. S. Lauder. — A striking picture. The treatment is highly poetical and clever. The figure of the Saviour, alone amid the waste of waters, is majestic ; and the effect of the solitary ray of light thrown down to illumine his footsteps, is beauti fully conceived and managed. There is in the picture no apparent effort. It contains, in fact, only a figure and an effect. Yet a sermon might be written upon it, so sug gestive is it throughout of devotional and sublime thought. We are reminded, in the light which streams down upon the form of the man of sorrows, of the power of the father present with him in the solitude, and supporting him upon the unstable element. 317. Lock and Mill, at Shiplake, on the Thames. E. Williams, sen. 318. A quiet Spot—North Wales. H. J. Boddington. —The hanging committee have placed these two pictures, which are both of the same size, most judiciously together, as if to suggest the idea of their being a pair. They pre sent a most striking contrast. Mr. Williams' picture is a night scene, the darkness of which is slightly relieved by the moon, which is just rising over the horizon, whilst the old mill and the figures in the foreground are all brought out by the light of a lantern. The effect of the double light is very cleverly managed. Mr. Boddington's picture gives a vast expance of mountain landscape, in which " Winding glens the swelling mountains close, And stillness casts around its deep repose. Here seems the lament of the world to cease, And all is solitude and all is peace.* -k And now the sun behind those heights descends, And wide o'er all the lengthening shades extends ; Yet, far as eye can sketch, yon summit gleams With the wild radiance of the setting beams." The effect is beautiful, and such as no one who has not seen a sunset upon the mountains, when Autumn has embrowned their summits, can imagine. The warmth of tone which Mr. Boddington has given to his mountain ridges is delicious. 180. The Village Green, H. M. Anthony.—The group ing of this large picture is very skilfully managed, and it is replete with incident. The rustic beau and belle danc ing ; the delighted look of the rosy-faced old dame who is looking on ; the envious looks of some of the more youthful spectators, and the flirtations going on here and there, are very cleverly given ; and the colourin ,, through out is very rich. Altogether this is one of the greatest paintings in the exhibition. There are throughout the rooms a large number of un assuming pictures, which display great talent, although not requiring particular description in a first notice of the exhibition. We may instance a few. 45, " Derwent Water," b Mr. Apsland—a sweet painting; 147, " The Dead Kid," by A. Cooper, R.A.,—a nice little piece ; 181, " Night in the Meadows," R. Shirley ; 288, " Emi grants going to Embark"—a sketch by J. Leitter ; 432, " The Cottage Pet"—a very sweet little pet too—by E. A. Gifford ; 416, " The Washing Place, coast of France," W. Lee ; " The Brook," a clever sketch, by H. C. Pidgeon, &c. Some of the water colours are well deserv ing of notice ; but we have now exhausted our space. A sermon in behalf of the Liverpool Church of England School Society, was preached ak St. Peter's Church on Sunday morning last, by the Rev. Henry 11. Higgins. The sum of £9 2s. 3d. was collected, a considerable por tion of which was the contribution of the poor who occupy the free seats. HAnvitsr operations have been further retarded in the north of England by theoccasional showers of the past week, which has greatly interfered with the labours of the rea pers ; and a large quantity of corn already cut, but not yet fit, fo►t the stack, remains to be carried. In Ireland, • Qa 'the -contrary, the weather has been fine throughout the :week, and great progress has been made in securing the portion of the harvest outstanding in late districts. •• • ~ . THE MANSELS : A TALE OF THE LATE MONETARY CRISIS. CHAPTER VIII. With the -month of April, 1847, it was generally ima gined that the worst of the crisis had passed by. The drain for specie had decreased, and money had become what is styled in mercantile parlance " easier," i. e., it could be had at reasonable rates of interest by the very wealthy. More cheerful faces were to be met with on 'Change and in commercial Ades ; and hope had been revived by the weekly returns of the position of the Esta blishment in Threadneedle-street, in many a breast which had recently throbbed with dread of impending ruin. Yet it was strange that, although the rate of interest bad fallen, and prices of commodities seemed gradually reco vering from their late terrible depression, an incubus was felt to hang over a large portion of the mercantile world. Confidence bad recently received too severe a shock to return all at once. Men looked at each other with dis trust, as each remembered what had been the extent of his individual losses. Speculation had almost ceased, and parties only purchased to supply individual wants. It was subsequently discovered that bankers and other members of the monied interest, were at this time sedulously forti fying themselves by a reduction of the sphere of their operations, and by accumulating money in their hands, against a possible return of the pressure. Commercial bills, as they became due, were withdrawn from circula tion ; and millions of that medium of exchange which in a healthy state of things would have served as the basis of extensive business operations, employed the national industry, and stimulated the nationat enterprise, ceased weekly to have existence. The effect was as if fetters had suddenly been imposed upon the limbs of commerce, or a line of circumvallation had been drawn round the empire, binding us down within our own narrow confines. _ _ _ _ ..... It was a hard, day by day, struggle with Mr. Manse! and his son to steer through the next two or three months. The secrets of commercial disaster are not invariably well kept. It had oozed out that their firm had sustained one heavy loss, and it was known that they had been called upon to make serious sacrifices, and their necessary mo netary operations were no longer effected so easily as in other times. Many a painful rebuff had to be endured ; many a cruel slight to be put up with in uncomplaining silence. Yet there were still happy hours spent within their little family circle. The evils of the day were com pensated for by the affection which surrounded them at the evening board. There was no longer the painful effort to conceal the truth of their position ; no longer the neces sity to smile when the heart was bursting with sadness. Occasionally, indeed, a fear of calamity worse than even ruin and poverty itself would have been regarded, rushed across the mind of Mrs. Manse!, as it struck her that her beloved son appeared to be sinking in body under his ar duous exertions. He was paler and thinner, she thought, than in happier days ; his cheerfulness of manner had left him ; and when he was affectionately rallied into an effort to be gay, his smile was languid, and his manner betrayed severe effort. He never coatplained, however ; and the fond mother would often reassure herself with the con clusion that it was perhaps only her mother's love which suggested the possibility of coming ill. Mrs. Mansel had well acted her part in the emergency which commercial misfortune had brought upon them. She had, indeed, more than fulfilled the confident expec tations which William had entertained of her firmness. Already her household had been new modelled ; and its expenditure, at all times moderate, greatly curtailed. She had beguiled Mr. Mansel into the resolution to part with his carriage. It would be, she said, so excellent a thing to be released from the trouble of additional servants ; and they could enjoy pleasant strolls together in the evenings, as in their early noon of life. She could accom pany him, too, in the fine spring mornings a part of the distance to the city, and meet him occasionally on his return. In a hundred graceful ways little savings were effected, in which her daughters cheerfully assisted her exertions. Yet these were characterised by nothing re sembling meanness. There were no diminished comforts — nothing calculated unpleasantly to remind either her hus band or her son of diminished means, or of altered pros pects. Invaluable to those who know how to prize them are the gentle offices of woman in seasons of suffering ; and Mr. Mansel never felt the innate beauty of character and disposition of his life's partner so deeply as at this moment, when she was thus assisting in lightening the load which unforeseen calamity had heaped upon his head. But a fresh struggle was to be gone through—a fiercer crisis than that which the Mansells had thus far sur mounted. As the summer advanced there were boding surmises about the yield of the coming harvest. Blight had been detected here and there amongst the potato crop ; and the wailing cry of Ireland—the cry of millions sunk in the depths of misery and famine, dreading to see their last hope swept from before their eyes, came bodingly upon the wind. Fever, too, had thrown its dark shadow over the large towns, and threatened to decimate our half employed working population. At length, the universal fear was confirmed. The fields of the husbandman, lately green with the chief food of the working classes, and of nine-tenths of the population of the sister kingdom, be came so many blackened masses of putrefaction ; and again we were thrown into dependence upon the foreigner for the elements of life for our people. Every market of the world was drawn upon for supplies, and our ware houses and granaries began to groan beneath the weight of the cereal products, which commercial enterprise had provided. But was there here cause for any great national calamity ? True, we had lost a few millions of capital embarked in the cultivation of the soil, but the extent of the loss was not a twentieth part of the national income. It was not half of what, at one period of our history, we had spent in foreign war; not half of what we had thrown away in foreign loans. Within only a few years we had spent ten times the amount in constructing railroads ; and under a sound monitary system, the loss of the potatoe crop would have been a serious calamity to the unfor tunate cultivators of the soil; but it could have exercised no serious influence over the resources of the bulk of the community. We might have even seen a revival of activity in manufacturing pursuits and other branches of industry, arising from the confidence that ultimately, our large importations of foreign bread stuffs would be paid for by British products. But we had not such a system : and had to go through the same trying ordeal as that which we had been subjected to in the year preceding. As food poured into our seaports, specie began to be withdrawn, as the only payment that would be accepted ; and as gold was taken away from the coffers of the Bank of England, the notes based upon it were withheld from circulation. We had to arrest the pursuits of industry, not because of any want of capital, but because we had not its representative —currency. The effect would only have been the same as if a decree had gone forth from the state, enacting that every loom should stand still; that every employer of labour should exist for a season by the sacrifice of his past accumu lations, and every labourer starve at home, or be kept idle in the workhouses of the country. Week after week this export of the precious metals went on, and the screw of the Bank of England was turned tighter and tighter, until discounts, except at the most ruinous rates, could scarcely be had. In vain were the government appealed to for relief, which it was easily within their power to grant. An advance to the commercial classes of a few millions of the notes, which were lying idle and useless in its coffers, would have relieved the pressure at once ; hut government was pledged to an inflexible system. The immediate " convertibility of the bank note" must be maintained, although half the community should be engulfed in the effort. Fiat lex ; ruat ccelum ! The torture became at length too much to be endured. We were on the verge of a social convulsion. The position of the commercial world will, however, best be explained in the language of the following striking memorial, presented in the month of October to the government, by the merchants of Liver pool:— " To the Right Hon, the Lord John Russell, First Lord of Her Majesty's Treasury. The Memorial of the undersigned Bankers, Merchants, Traders, and others, Inhabitants of Liverpool, SHOWETH,— That your memorialists beg respectfully to represent to your Lordship the present deplorable condition of the trade, com merce, and manufactures of the country, and the imperative necessity for such immediate relief as it may be in the power of the government to afford. Produce of every description is only saleable in small quantities and at an enormous sacrifice. Bills of Exchange and the most valuable securities are in convertible into cash, even at great depreciation, except in the most insignificant amounts. Foreign orders for produce and goods cannot be executed for want of the customary facilities for the disposal of bills drawn against them. Confidence is all but annihilated, and the currency of the country is in a great measure withdrawn and hoarded. " It is needless, on this occasion, to inquire by what combi nation of causes this lamentable state of affairs has been brought about. A crisis of unparalleled severity exists, and your memorialists believe that it is in the power of government to allay alarm and restore confidence, by coming to the relief of the commercial and manufacturing classes by a temporary advance on the credit of the country. " Your memorialists believe that it is not only the interest, but the duty, of Government to afford relief, inasmuch as they confidently believe that the utter prostration of the manufac turing and commercial interests cannot otherwise be prevented, whereby the labouring population will be immediately thrown out of employment, and an amount of misery and destitution will be witnessed, unexampled in the annals of the country. " Your Lordship may depend upon us when we assure you that, if the present pressure be not removed, merchants, and other traders of undoubted respectability, who are not only solvent but rich, and who have merchandise and bills, which, under ordinary circumstances, would afford easy and ample means of meeting engagements, will inevitably be compelled to stop payment." FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Mr. Anderson, a citizen of the Arkansas district, has been lately murdered by his slave. A child eleven years old, has been imprisoned at Naples as a political offender. The Dutch papers of Tuesday announce the sudden resignation of the Ministry on Monday night. The King had ordered the formation of a new Cabinet. Mrs. Mitchell, mother of the Irish exile, arrived at New York on the Ist instant and left next day for Wash ington. Lord Mandeville and a friend have been robbed of pro perty value £l5O at Nymphis, near Smyrna. There is no clue to the robbers. The King of Hanover has addressed a letter to General Haynau, complimenting him on his service in Hungary, and conferring on him the cross of the order of the Guelphs. The Duke of Parma has given intimation to the Jesuits to quit the States of Parma, the foreign members in twenty-four hours, the native in the shortest possible term, under penalty of being expelled by force. NEWS FOR DIGGERS.-A Californian party had quite a battle with some hostile Indians on the 16th of June. After killing 100 Indians, and losing 13 of their men, the diggers fled, leaving all their gold and six wounned men to the mercy of the savages. A solemn service has been performed in the Church of the Italians at Madrid, as a thanksgiving to the Almighty for the re-establishment of the Pontifical authority in the capital of the Roman States. The Pope's Nuncio officia ted. The church was decorated with great magnificence. A few days ago the bodies of a young man and woman were found bound together in the river Loing, near Mon targis. On the bank of the river was a note calling on the passers-by to pray to God for them, and intimating that they had committed suicide in consequence of the re fusal of the father of the young man to allow their mar riage. —Paris paper. The Times announces that the Turkish Government had resolved not to surrender the Polish and Hungarian refugees now in Turkey to the Russian or Austrian Go vernment. When this decision of the Tu►kish Council of Ministry was made known to the Sultan, he declared, in a most impressive manner, that the refugees should not be given up, no matter what might be the consequences. THE lONIAN ISLANDS.—The Milan Gazette of the 14th instant has news from Cephalonia. On the sth, the Malta steam-packet arrived at Corfu, having touched at Cephalonia, and brought intelligence that the insurrection had not been quelled—that the Governor had had a man killed by his side—that the courts-martial were sitting without intermission ; and that four insurgents had been hanged and three shot. The young Emperor of Austria and their Majesties the Kings and Queens of Prussia and Saxony have had a friendly meeting at the baths of Toplitz, whence they adjourned to Pillnitz, the King of Saxony's country house, on the Elbe. We are told to attribute no political significance to this family reunion, and it is very likely that no business of importance was really transacted at it. But Kings and Queens, however harmless their intentions, cannot be sociable together in these times without exciting speculation. HUNGARY.—The news from Hungary confirms the opinion that the Emperor of Austria is disposed to deal severely with the defeated insurgents. Even the fate of Georgey was doubtful for a time, his Majesty having felt inclined to send him before a court-martial. A remon strance on the part of the Czar is said to have dissuaded, the Government from carrying out this design. Mean while, it is certain that the fugitive leaders have no mercy to expect, and already a long list of names is drawn up, to be forwarded to the authorities in all parts of the em pire. This list contains sixty nine personal denunciations, including the names of Bern, Kossuth, Madame Kossuth, Petofy, a poet, and Perczel. DESCRIPTION OF KOSSUTH AND MADAME KOSSUTH. The Austrian authorities have issued warrants for the arrest of the chiefs of the late Hungarian insurrection. Accompanying them are descriptions of the different per sons. The following is that given of Kossuth :—" Louis Kossuth, an ex-advocate, journalist, minister of finance, president of the committee of defence, governor of the Hungarian republic, aged 45 years; born at Jess Berenv, in Hungary, Catholic, and married. He is of middle height, strong, thin ; the face oval; complexion, pale; the forehead high and open ; hair, chesnut ; eyes, blue ; eyebrows, dark and very thick ; nose, thin ; mouth, small and well-formed ; teeth, fine; chin, round. He wears a moustache and imperial, and his curled hair does not en tirely cover the upper part of his head. He has a white and delicate hand ; the fingers long. He speaks German, Hungarian, Latin, Sclavonic, a little French and Italian. His bearing, when calm, is solemn—full of a certain dig nity ; his movements elegant, his voice agreeable, softly penetrating, and very distinct, even when he speaks low. He produces in general the effect of an enthusiast; his looks, often fixed on the heavens, and the expression of his eyes, which are fine, contribute to give him the air of a dreamer. His exterior does not announce the energy of his character." Madame Kossuth is thus described : " Madame Theresa Kossuth, nee Meslenyi, wife of Louis Kossuth, aged more than 30, is Catholic. She is tall, spare, the face long, the complexion brown, the forehead long, the hair and eyes black ; the eyebrows black, long, and narrow; the nose rather pointed, the mouth regular, the chin long. She speaks the German, Hungarian, and Sclavonian languages. She is very haughty, and her look is full of pride." Early next year the Americans will have five steamers of 1000 horse power, and 3000 tons burthen each, (con tracts at the rate of £16.660 per ship, and 10s. per mile,) to run between New York and Liverpool. Some more of the same description are nearly ready for the New York and Havre, Southampton, and Bremen line. A Govern ment contract is nearly ready, to run regularly between New Orleans and Vera Cruz, &c., &c. Splendid steamers now run regularly and frequently between New York and New Orleans, calling at Havannah, and making the pas sage each way in seven days. Besides the splendid steamers of 600-horse power each, such as the Crescent City, two more still larger, the Ohio, between New York and Chagres. The steamers on this line now make the passage between New York and Chagres (calling at Ja maica) within nine days each way, and arrangements have just been concluded to call regularly at Jamaica. Five large steamers are now on the Pacific side, to run between Panama and Oregon, calling at San Francisco, Mazatlan, Acapulco, &c. THE PARISIAN SYNOD.—An episcopal synod has been sitting in Paris during the present week which is not un worthy of passing notice. Besides bishops, it appears that vicars general, " theologians introduced by the bishop," and delegates from provincial chapters, have swelled the numbers that make up the council. We find that, among the knotty subjects which this council is to settle, are " Profession of Faith"—(but we are not told whether it is merely diocesan faith or whether it is the general, universal Catholic faith) ; " Uniformity of Dis cipline," which we are surprised to see ; for we are con stantly told by our Popish contemporaries that there is but one faith and that there is but one discipline in their church, and that both are universally followed by every member of it ; the " Question of the Immaculate Con ception"—stupendous mystery which a Parisian diocesan synod undertakes to resolve, and whose interpretation will be adopted by the Bishop of Rome, now at Naples, and who hardly requires such interpretation if he be as infal lible as he pretends to be. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The Inflexible war steamer has brought intelligence from the Cape to the 2d of August, brought thence by the Brilliant sloop of war, and commu nicated to the Inflexible at St. Helena. In consequence of the repugnance shown by the inhabitants to receive convicts, Sir Harry Smith had intimated that he had made arrangements on the arrival of the Neptune, for the con victs to be turned over to the Seringapatam hulk, at Si mon's Bay, and there to be kept until further instruc tions regarding their disposal should be received from her Majesty's government. The Anti-convict Association was indefatigable in enforcing the pledge on all classes, to place beyond the pale of social intercourse all persons who either directly or indirectly favoured the convict measure, or who furnished the ordinary supplies of provisions to government which might be made available to the support of the convicts on their arrival. All the official members of council having resigned their seats, the estimates for the year had not been voted, and the treasury was nearly empty. Even the new members, whom Sir Harry Smith called to the council, to keep the machinery of govern ment in motion, were compelled to resign the very day they took their seats, in consequence of the popular dis approbation, which evinced itself on their leaving the council chamber. They were jostled by the mob, kicked, and suffered other acts of personal violence. The private property of one of their number, Mr. Letterstedt, the Swedish consul, and a person of opulence, residing at Rondeboard, was attacked, and injured to the extent of £2,000. His vessels lying in Table Bay were deserted by the boatmen engaged to clear them, and he and his col leagues were unable to purchase the most ordinary neces saries of life, until they bad announced their resignation, and apologised to the Anti-convict Association for having accepted the office. One of the members, who held out longer than the rest, was reduced, by actual want of food, to take refuge in Gevernment House ; and when this was known, the colonists went so far as to threaten to cut off Sir Harry Smith's supplies also. ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE OF AN AERONAUT. Some uneasiness had been felt at Marseilles, says a Paris paper, respecting the fate of an intrepid aeronaut named Arban, who set out from that town in a balloon on Sunday evening, the 2d of September, at 6 o'clock. Letters from Turin have been received, announcing his arrival on the 3d, at 2 o'clock a.m. (i.e., eight hours after his departure,) at the Abbey of Stupini, not far from the capital of Piedmont. We subjoin the itinerary of M. Arban :—" Having set out on Sunday evening, the 2d of September, from the Château des Fieurs (Marseilles), I passed over the wood of Esterel at 8 o'clock, and my experiments showed me that I was then at an elevation of 4,000 metres. The temperature was already cold, but dry, and my centigrade thermometer marked four degrees below zero. The wind blew S.W., and carried me to wards Nice. For two hours I was enveloped in thick clouds above my head ; my pelisse was no longer suffi cient to protect me against the cold ; and my feet suffered most grievously. I nevertheless resolved to continue my voyage, deciding to cross the Alps, from which I knew I was not far distant; my supply of gas being sufficient to raise my balloon above the highest peaks. The cold in creased, the wind became steady, and the moon lightened my path like the meridian sun. I was at the foot of the Alps ; the snow, the cascades, and the mountain torrents sparkled in the light ; the abysses and rocks formed large black masses, which served as a shade to this gigantic picture. The wind rather baffled the regularity of my course ; I was alternately obliged to descend and to ascend in order to surmount the incessant peaks. It was 11 o'clock at night when I attained the summit of the Alps ; the horizon then became clear and my course regular. I then began to think of supper. I was 4,600 metres high ; and was obliged, as a matter of necessity, to continue my voyage towards Piedmont. I saw only a chaos before me, into which a descent was impossible. After having supped, I conceived the idea of throwing my empty brandy bottle into the midst of the snowy waste, in order that any subsequent traveller might discover some vestige of my ascent. At half-past one, a.m., I found myself above Mount Viso, which I knew well, hav ing explored it on a former occasion. The Po and the Durance thence derive their source. 1 recognised the position, and discovered its magnificent plains. Before this conviction had been obtained, a singular effect of mirage, produced by the reflection of the moon on the snow and the clouds, would have led me to imagine that I was on the open sea. The west wind, however, had not ceased to blow, and my exact observations showed nae that I could not be much above the level of the sea. The stars came to my assistance, and I descried Mont Blanc, the position of which indicated that I was approaching Turin. Mont Blanc, on my left, soared above all the clouds, and resembled an immense block of crystal, which scintillated with a thousand coruscations. At a quarter to 3 o'clock, Mount Viso clearly showed me that I was near Turin ; and I resolved to descend. I did so without difficulty. I descended in the vicinity of an immense farm ; several watchdogs greeted me, and my pelisse alone preserved me from their rude caresses. Their barking awoke the peasants, who were more surprised than scared by my presence. They informed me that it was 2 o'clock in the morning, and that I was in the village of Pion THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. -.:-..-- Forte, near Stupini, six kilometres from Turin. 1 passed the night in the farmhouse, and the next morning obtained a certificate from the mayor, attesting my arrival. I reached Turin at 9 o'clock a.m., and in the evening I went to the Theatre of Angennes. I could not help meditating on the fact that on the preceding evening, at the selfsame hour, I was at the Château des Fleurs, at Marseilles, some 140 leagues distant !" IRELAND. Wheat is selling so low in Waterford as 14s. a barrel of 20 stone ; potatoes, 3d. to 4d. per stone. From the Clonmel Chronicle we learn that a number of pikes and daggers have been discovered by the police, se creted in houses. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin gave bis flock liberty to eat meat every day last (Ember) week. in consequence of the cholera. We hope they had enough of it. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have gone to the south on a short visit to the famed Lakes of Killarney. " A magnificent stag-hunt" was " to be" on Thursday in his lordship's honour. Lord Stuart de Decies has laid out £lO,OOO on a fishing station at Helvich, in the county of Waterford, where he has established a curing station on the Scotch plan. The noble lord's exertions have met with great success. The potato disease is progressing with destructive ra pidity around Dublin, and in the counties of Meath, Wicklow, and Kildare. Some parts of the country still indulge the hope that the loss will not be at all so serious as on any of the three preceding years. We trust their anticipations may be realised. The Clonmel Chronicle reports that " the success with which the peasantry have defeated the claims of the land lords is everywhere spoken of," and that the " movement men are ready for any emergency that may arise." One of these emergencies was an attempt made on the lands of Ballymore, Cashel, to collect the county cess, when the bailiffs were assaulted and driven-off and one of them mur dered on the spot. Irish agricultural produce, instead of "looking up," is sinking year by year—we may say day by day. Since 1848, since this time last year, red wheat in Ireland is reduced one-fourth. In the autumn of last year it was at 245., now it is at 18. Barley, within twelve months, is reduced one-third. This time last year it was at 155., now it is at 10s. 6d. Nor is the reduction in oats greatly different. This time last year the price was 10s. 3d., now the figure is 10s. ld. EXTRAORDINARY CAPTURE.—Last week, during Divine service, two young women entered the bathing-lodge of the Lord Bishop of Cashel, at Stradbally, and collected plate to the amount of £4O or £5O. After tying up the plate in a cloth, the two damsels were tempted to taste of some brandy that was in a decanter, and which totally overcame them when they had got about 200 yards from the lodge, where they were found laid drunk, with the booty along side of them.—Leinster Express. ATTACK ON A BARRACk.—The Dublin Packet of Tuesday contains an account of an attack by an armed band, on the police barrack at Cappoquin, when one of the storming party was killed, and forty-four pikes were left behind them by the insurgents, in their flight. It is stated that this affray had its origin in a drunken brawl, which led to an arrest by the police, and an at tempt at rescue by a mob, resulting in an attack upon the police station, in defence of which and of their lives, the constabulary in charge fired out and shot one of the rioters. LORD STANLEY AS AN TRISH LANDLORD.—The Rev. John Ryan, Roman Catholic curate of Coshel, in a letter to the Tipperary Vindicator, says :—" With Lord Stan ley's conduct as a landlord his tenantry have every reason to be content. He made within the last fortnight two visits to his property adjoining this city ; he inspected the farms and husbandry of his tenants and their houses; and, after seeing every thing with his own eyes—relying, as he ought, on nothing or no one but his own personal knowledge—he made abatements to his tenants of £l5 to to £2O per cent. The farms are generally what are called old takes,' and the rents therefore not high. To one tenant (P. Kearney, of Stephenstown,) he remitted one year's rent out of two year's rent due by him, because several of his (Kearney's) cows died lately of distemper, and offered him liberal encouragement to build a respec table slated house." THE RIBBON MASSACRE. — The Dolly's Brae iniesti gation has terminated. One of its most unpleasant fea tures is that there must be gross perjury, as Mr. F. Beers has denied upon his oath the statements made by Francis M'Phelan, John Paul, Thos. Morgan, and John M'Evoy. These witnesses deposed upon oath to the furious de meanour of_Mr. Beers upon the bloody day in question ; but that gentleman in the most solemn manner denied the various particulars alleged against him. This is a terrible exhibition in a court of justice. Nearly every one of the Roman Catholic witnesses, when about being sworn, tried to evade taking-the oath. Several of them put the book to their mouth three or four times before they would kiss it. Their conduct produced intense disgust in the mind of every right-minded person present. The most of them, too, had been arrested on the hill, behind the first ditch, by the police, and are actually under bail to appear and take their trial at the assizes. John Paul, one of them, as ordered into custody for perjury. POPERY IN GALWAY.—A sermon having been 'lately delivered in one of the Roman Catholic chapels in Belfast by the Rev. Dr. Cahill, on the infallibility of the Roman Catholic Church, the same subject was taken up by the Rev. A. Dallas, Rector of Watton, Hants, on Sabbath evening, in the church of St. Nicholas. The rev. gen tleman met with a patient hearing until he came to speak of the Virgin Mary in a way not agreeable to Roman Catholics, when there were some interruptions, and im mediately a rush was made by a large number of Romanists into the church, shouting and yelling like furies. A gene ral panic took place, especially among the female portion of the audience, and it was with some difficulty that their fears were quieted. In the meantime the rev. preacher shortly concluded his discourse, and the congregation retired amidst the yelling of a large rabble congregated outside the church gate. Were it not for the presence of a strong body of polio*, it is more than probable that much injury would have been done to the church and congregation. Such is a specimen of popish toleration. — Banner of Ulster. A NOVEL INTERMENT.—At the Cork Police Court, last week, a woman was charged with "raising the wind" under the following curious circumstances. Mr. E. New som informed the Bench that being aware of the various modes that parties adopted to plunder the citizens, by obtaining money from Church-wardens for foundlings, he was determined to prevent it. Children were put on the parish for support, who should have been supported by their parents ; the nurses, also, plundered by getting money for children who were dead ; and, as in the present case, plunder was obtained by interments though found lings had not died. The prisoner bad obtained a parish coffin for a foundling, which of course the citizens had to pay for. This coffin she carried to St. Finn Barr's church yard and interred there, which entitled her to a certificate from the clergyman of the burial of the found ling. On the production of that certificate to him, the prisoner would be entitled to the expenses of interment, and what nursing money was due. This the prisoner had done, but he (Mr. Newsom), thinking that all was not right, went to the c:iurch yard and had the coffin dug up, when, to his surprise, on its being opened, he found, it to be filled with stones ! (Loud laughter.) The prisoner at the funeral appeared deeply affected, and so desirous was she that it should be deposited iu its final resting place with every care and affection, that she would not allow any person to touch it, and actually placed the coffin in the grave herself. A FEMALE SAILOR.—The Cork Conxtitution, contains some strange particulars relative to a case of this nature. The party in question, who went by the name of "Jemmy," excited suspicion as to her sex, and on being questioned by the Head constable, said, " I will candidly tell you; I am a woman—my name is Abigail Lindsey." Since her committal to bridewell she has declared her desire to resume her proper costume, and return to the place of her birth. She says that many years ago her father and mother, who were Irish, left Belfast and proceeded to Halifax, in America, where her father carried on the trade of a shipwright rather extensively, and amassed some money, and at his death, which occurred nine years ago, he left her in the care of a guardian with a property of 2,700 dollars a-year. Her parents had four children— three sons and herself—she and a brother having been born in Halifax. Sonic years since she became acquainted with a man of the name of Ezekiel Bradford, who pro mised her marriage, but seduced her when sixteen years of age. He was master of the ship Britannia, of St. John's, which port he left never to return. Having been delivered of a child, she determined through shame to leave her native place, and go in search of Bradford, whose life she sought to satiate her revenge. To effect her object she five years back purchased a suit of sailor's clothes and went to St. John's, where she entered on board the ship Brunswick, Wright master, as cook and steward. In this vessel she made three trips to London, where she hoped to meet with Bradford, understanding he traded to that port, carrying a dagger concealed on her person, which she had determined to drive into his breast. When about to leave the Thames on her last voyage in this vessel, she espied her seducer walking along the St. Catherine's docks, and she implored her captain to permit her to go on shore for a few moments, but he peremptorily refused, and she waited in the hone that a boat would steer near the vessel, when she would have sprung overboard, in expectation of being rescued and landed on shore; but the anchor was weighed, and the Brunswick floated down with the tide, and no boat came near until she had lost all hope of overtaking Bradford. Having retur ed to St. Jan's, she left the Brunswick and went back to Halifax. Here she frequently met in the streets her hitherto intimate acquaintances, hut her dress and weather-beaten features prevented recognition. She again returned to St. John's, and shipped in the Calais as an able seaman, in which she made several voyages, some of them to ports in Ireland, and, amongst the rest, Belfast, which she longed to see. On her last voyage to America, a sailor informed her that Ezekiel Bradford traded to Cork, and finding the Beverley in St. John's, about to clear for that port, she entered as cook and steward. The voyage was boisterous, and the ship having sprung a leak, all hands, "Jemmy" amongst. the rest, had to take turn at the pumps, both day and night. She says that she was always considered a smart, willing " lad," and that she " was as well able to hand, reef and steer and box the compass, as any able-seaman." Being warned of the dreadful crime she would commit, and the certain punishment that would follow her in this lite, and after death if she committed murder, she declared her feelings were completely altered, and that if she now met Bradford she would not notice him. The heroine is a rather tall, well-formed female, with dark, sparkling eyes, , which she seldom raises from the ground. In manners she is a complete sailor, having all the slang and careless movement of the Jack-tar. When consulting about change of dress, she looked for a moment regretfully on her legs, which were encased in blue trowsers, and giv ing her thigh a sharp slap, exclaimed, " good bye, old breeches !" Being visited by one of the sailors of the Beverley, as he entered the room in which she was seated, he cried out, "Ahoy, Jemmy Browne—how's all this, boy ? —what makes you here, rummy ?" Ha! old shipmate," she replied, " here I am, bumped fast on a rock." " How's all this ?" asked the shipmate. " Why, Jemmy, my boy, they says your'e a woman ? ' This amused her very much, and she laughed immoderately. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. The Rev. Mr. Disney, of Armaghbreague, is the suc cessor to Dr. O'Sullivan, as rector of Killyman. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are about to make an inquiry into the present condition of all the cathedral schools throughout the kingdom. The Bishop of Norwich as " Abbot of Holm" has a double right to a seat in the House of Lords, and if he is excluded as junior bishop he may take his seat as mitred Abbot of Holm. In his recent tour through the diocese, the Bishop of Cork consecrated eight new churches—Ballymodan, Bal lymoney, Killowen, Ardfield, Ballycotton Clonpriest, Cullen, and Kilcully. The churches of Ballymodan and Ballymoney have high architectural pretensions. An address to the Archbishdp of Canterbury is in course of signature by the clergy. requesting his Grace to authorise the observance of a special day of humiliation and prayer throughout the province on account of the cholera. The Bishop of Bath and Wells has appointed Friday next as a day of fast and humiliation throughout his dio cese. In addition to the prelates mentioned in our last, the Bishops of Oxford, Chichester, Rochester, Winches ter, and several others, have made similar arrangements. It is said that Dr. Hind, Dean of Carlisle, hrs been appointed to the vacant bishopric of Norwich ; and that the Rev. James Aspinall, late of St. Luke's, in this town, is to be the new Dean. We regret to see the latter pro motion. Lord Kenyon has transmitted a donation of one hun dred pounds to the Irish Church Education Society, not a little animating the hearts of those who are identified with that excellent institution. The donation was trans mitted through the Rev. Dr. O'Sullivan. TEE RITE OF CONFIRMATION.—The following is the canon under which the Vicar of Leigh has summoned two of his parishioners for neglecting to attend his Sunday afternoon services And likewise, if any of the said fathers, mothers, masters or mistresses, children, servants or apprentices, shall neglect their duties, as the one sort in not causing them to come, and the other in refusing to learn, as aforesaid, let them be suspended by their ordi naries, if they be not children ; and if they so persist, by the space of a month, then let them be excommunicated." —Canon lix. NEW CHURCHES.—The twenty-ninth annual report of her Majesty's commissioners for building new churches was published on Saturday. The last report stated that 420 churches had been completed, in which accommoda tion had been provided for 464,008 persons, including 277,767 free seats, appropriated to the use of the poor. The commissioners now have to report that twenty-nine churches have, by the aid of grants from the funds placed at their disposal, been completed at various places through England, in which accommodation has been provided for 19,265 persons, including 13,309 seats for the use of the poor. Thus, in the whole, 449 churches have now been completed, and provisions therein made for 483,273 per sons, including 281,076 free seats for the poor. Twenty one new churches are now in course of erection, and plans for the building of twenty-two more have been ap proved. FUNERAL OF THE LATE BISHOP OF NORWICH.—The funeral of the late Bishop Stanley took place at the Cathe dral, Norwich, on Friday. Nearly all the shops were closed, and the blinds of many private houses drawn down. Business appeared to be entirely suspended. The mayor, the sheriff, and town-council, the guardians, clergy, and dissenting ministers, gentry, and inhabitants, formed the procession, and proceeded to the Cathedral, walking six abreast. The children of the different schools in which the late bishop took an interest were ranged along the north and south aisles. A muffled peal was rung on St. Peter's bells after the funeral. About 260 clergy, and 350 gentlemen of the city, exclusive of the town council, and thirty parish clerks were in the procession. 1,100 children of the different charity schools were present, in cluding those of Miss Manley's institution, who were in mourning. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BISHOPS.—It is alleged to have been the general practice to appoint Oxford and Cambridge men alternately to the English bishoprics, " and the last appointment was from Cambridge." It is not, however, the fact that Oxford and Cambridge men have been appointed alternately. Oxford has had no such justice done to it. Not only are both the Archbishop rics, and the three great sees of London, Durham, and Winchester, filled by Cambridge men, but out of the seven last appointments to Bishoprics, as many as five were made from that University. Within the last two years or thereabouts, this has been the proportion—five Cambridge men to two Oxford. If we add to the two Archbishoprics, and the three great sees already men tioned, Chester, Carlisle, Gloucester and Bristol, Ely, Bangor, Lichfield, Lincoln, Manchester, Peterborough, Worcester, St. David's, and Sodor and Man, we find seventeen sees filled by Cambridge men, leaving to Ox ford only the remaining eleven. A similar disparity, too, prevails among the Deans. Granted that Norwich is nearer to Cambridge than to Oxford—Gloucester, and Chester, and 'Worcester, and St. David's, are all nearer to Oxford than to Cambridge. But the claim of mere geographical proximity is too preposterous to be seriously argued.—Oxford Herald.. _ _ THE NEW BISHOP OF NORWICH.—Dr. Hinds preached the sermon at the consecration of Dr. Hampden, Bishop of Hereford, whose case excited so much attention last year. In the sermon preached by Dr. Hinds on that oc casion, the rev. gentleman expressed himself in so many words an admirer of the scholastic theology for adherence to which Dr. Hampden was censured, and strongly ani madverted on those members of the university who had been the leaders in the opposition to Dr. Hampden's ele vation to the episcopal bench. Dr. Hinds is the intimate friend of the present Archbishop of Dublin, Dr.Whatelcy, and lived also on familiar terms with Dr. Arnold, the late celebrated master of Rugby School, and entertains the same theological views as are held by those two eminent divines. Dr. Hinds was for some years chaplain to Earl Clarendon, the present Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, to whose interest he no doubt in some degree owes his eleva tion to the Bishopric of Norwich. The rev. doctor at tained great eminence in the University of Oxford, and at one time it was fully expected that he would succeed Dr. Hampden as the Regius Professor of Divinity. He was appointed to the Deanery of Carlisle last year, on the de cease of the Very Rev. Dr. Cramer. The Bishop of Nor wich has in his patronage three archdeaconries to which benefices are attached, and fifty-two livings, varying in amount from £1,077 to £BO per annum. The best living in the Bishop's gift is that of North Creak, Norfolk, to which he presents alternately with Earl Spencer.— Weekly Chronicle. A TRUE CHURCH REFORMER.—At a meeting last week of the constituents of Sir George Grey, M.P. for North umberland, the Rev. Dr. Gilly, Prebendary of Durham, said,—" I believe that he wishes to see the prizes of the Church awarded to superior excellence, .and distributed, not as two or three prizes. have sometimes been, to one fortunate holder, but in proportion to the number of de serving candidates. I believe he wishes to see a system by which some great inequalities could be reduced, and which would lead to a better adjustment of clerical labour and clerical remuneration. Until the clergy shall agree to a plan by which we may return to this principle, I, for one, who am fortunate enough to hold high preferment, would cheerfully consent to a well-digested plan of volun tary taxation—a taxation of the higher preferments—in order that the smaller livings may be increased, and that thus our ill-paid brethren may be raised to the level of those who are better endowed. I feel quite sure that if we were to take a step of this kind, the laymen who hold tithes would very gladly follow our example. lam happy to say that I was staying with a friend the oth. r day, to whom I mentioned this idea of mine, and what was his answer ? I declare,' said he, if anything of that sort is done, I, for one, will give up ten per cent. out of my lay impropriated tithes, to increase the poor livings in my neighbourhood.' Now, lam sure you will receive this intimation with equal goodhumour, when I tell you that my friend is a good Tory and Conservative. I have the honour to belong to an ecclesiastical corporation, which, within the last twenty years, has given away the interest of property to the amount of £200,000, in order to pro mote general education, and to improve small livings ; and, therefore, I think I may fairly look for equal libe rality from those of my brethren who are said to have the good things of the Church in their possession. I look with confidence to the good which will proceed from simi lar examples—similar exertions." MARRIAGE AND CONFIRMATION.—In the Standard of the 11th instant, we gave an account of the proceeding of the vicar of Leigh in refusing to marry unconfirmed persons. It will be recollected that the interference of the bishop of the diocese had been so far effectual as to cause the publication of the banns between John 'Wil liamson and Mary Ann Kearsley ; these were published, for the third time, on the 9th instant, at the parish churches of Lowton and Leigh. It was resolved that the parties should present themselves for marriage at the latter church, and thus test the vicar's resolution, and in the event of his refusal, the legality of his conduct. Accord ingly notices were served upon him, by th e p ar tie s st a tin g their wish to be united, and by the parents of both, ex pressive of their consent to the marriage. A certificate that the banns had been published at Lowton was also given to the vicar. The parties state that the vicar said, " he would not marry them," that " his curate had no power to do so," and that " he was glad they had taken that course." The parties said, however, that they would come in the morning. Accordingly they did so, and no further obstacles were offered, but they were mar 'led by the Rev. J. Brame, curate of West Leigh, and step-son to the vicar, who read the full marriage service, including the exhortation at the end. The Kearsley's have never presented themselves for instruction in the church catechism, in compliance with the citations of the vicar, and it yet remains to be seen whether they will be excommunicated at the end of the month allowed them. During the past week, two or three publications on rubri cal matters have been circulated in the parish, and consi derable excitement prevails. The grant of £BO per annum to the vicar, for a curate, hitherto made by the Additional Curates' Aid Society, has been withdrawn. Some of the church papers state that this step has been taken by the Bishop of Manchester, in consequence of a disrespectful letter being sent by the vicar to the bishop, remonstrat ing with him on the withdrawal of the grant made to the vicar's son-in-law, the incumbent of Westhoughton. LA IV INTELLIGENCE. SET OFF.-At the Dunmow (Essex) county court, last week, the judge held that where the original debt was above £2O, and the plaintiff allowed the defendant a set off, which reduced the debt below that sum, the action was substantially brought for a sum above X2O, and there fore the court had no jurisdiction, adopting the princip!e laid down by the Court of Common Pleae. Sept 25, 1849, RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The report of the Caledonian directors, to be Pre seP 'tJ at the meeting in Edinburgh, on Thursday next, "r e g re w to announce that the balance is insufficient for the f P ott ment of a dividend on the ordinary share capitsl company." bine ( ' It is pretty extensively understood that a en° ;n te , move will be made next session by the great rafivalLet• rests, in part to repair the madness of '45 and '46/ 11,rt ting powers to charge higher fares. The Govera me _ole considered not to be averse, provided reductions are"' in the charges for the conveyance of the mails. t Pr °. HerapalleB Railway Journal, alluding to the v as. o at fits of Mr. Hudson, gives a list of items culled mere' ) 9o 4 of the five reports already published on the I( ° r i, Tbelf Berwick and York and North Midland Railways' et are not pretended to comprise the whole. The am li b a s is the trifling sum of £593,695, of which .£168,75 already been repaid. If such be the opportunities of g , e l can we wonder at the desire and anxiety evinced t ° teo into directions ? There is not here included the a l received from the Bank of England, nor the ori rm, Newcastle and the Scarborough surplus shares given together about £70,000. I'vet t , GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—A special gen-- the ing was held on Thursday, at Paddington, to conei"', a e expediency of appointing two or three sharehol de r s recommended in the report of the auditors, to confer s ' oa l• the directors with regard to the management of the c pany's affairs ; and also for electing four proprietors, s't, be directors of the company. There was a very la r gStbe, tendance of shareholders. Mr. L. Heyworth mov e following resolution :—" That Mr. T. S. Gladstons,: Liverpool, Mr. R. Withers, of Liverpool, and gr. Sage, of Bristol, be a committee for the purpose of io n Sage, ferring with the board of directors from time W 6 0 01 the exercise of their powers with regard to the D er' expenditure of the company, the outlay of cap/Wl °. te. lines and works, and the regulations for establishing °their serve fund ; and that they be authorised to report s so opinions to the proprietors upon the several ma t tb tor: referred to them for consultation with the di re , c o lai thereon ; the board being requested to give every re go r ro y and proper facility to the said committee for the Per'„tioe ance of their duties." After a long discussion, the re" was unanimously agreed to. e 5 COLLISION ON THE LYTHAM RAILWAY. -- Q " rril - day night, an accident of a ver y f ear f u l description, s o f which might have been attend e d w ith immense , 1°5 0 5 00 life, occurred on the above railway. The last tra' n l i o n Lytham, owing to some delay, did not leave the st' i nt . o . for the last twenty minutes a ft er th e ti m e, and ba A ",ok ceeded as far as the Moss-side station, when a collision place. It may be necessary to state that there is single line of rail. By some mismanagement, a tra g nl nearly empty carriages was coming from Fleetwood tiori instead of the engine driver remaining at the k ll Leil till the Lytham train had passed, he recklessly Pr°o 4l up the line to the point we have named, when the O f the down trains came into collision. The driver ° t o, Lytham train had eased his speed to stop at the sta and fortunately the steam of the other engine vinn, ° „tbe exhausted, so that the speed was not very great be the engines met ; but sufficiently great to cause the i ll3°) to number of passengers in the Lytham train nearly be more or less injured. Broken noses, cut facee,b'i t ii legs and arms, were the natural consequence. O ne % tleman in the coupee had his head forced throw , ; window ; another had his clothes torn ; one or two fai n j o es and all were more or less injured. One of the e1 3 3: 0 g, being thrown off the line, prevented the train proeell)e so that the passengers bad to shift for themselves._.Ji seats in one of the second-class carriages were 'Lytle smashed to pieces, but the passengers in the ca rt escaped with very few bruises. RAILWAY RECEIPTS. The following are the receipts of railways for the pas! that is to say, up to the date to which the respectiv e are made:— Week ending 1849. Amount. ISept.ls RAILWAYS. Aberdeen Amiens and Boulogne Belfast and Ballymena Birkenhead, Lan. and Cheshire. Bolton, Blackburn, C. and W. Y Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Dublin and Drogheda Dublin and Kingstown Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen East Anglian Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh and Northern Eastern Counties East Lancashire Eastern Union Glasgow, Kilmarnock and Ayr. Glasgow and Greenock Great Northern and East Line Great Southern and Western Great Western Kendal and Windermere Lancashire and Yorkshire Lancaster and Carlisle Leeds and Ihirsk Liverpool, Crosby, & Southport. Londonderry and Enniskillen London and North-Western London and Blackwall London, Brighton & South Coast London and South-Western M'chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln' Midland, Bristol,& Birmingham' Midland Great Western (Ireland) Newcastle and Carlisle North British Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre Scottish Central Shrewsbury and Birmingham Shrewsbury and Chester Shropshire Union South-Eastern South Devon Taff Vale Ulster Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall Whitehaven Junction York, Newcastle, and Berwick York and North Midland, &c _ 8 d . 635 0 0 O 0 0 422 0 0 O 0 421 0 0 4308 0 0 7 4 2 1 1 241. 1 11 2 393233 103 8700 0238 :739 496189411:1 64 4853 80 63 6 7 , 99 6222;2 : 567 ! 976 49008265 3 447 6283: 0 000 00, 00 0 0000 00.00000 0 0000)0 0 1 00000000000u00 0 0 000: 1097 1 0 O 0 0 •I 2 31 304473: 5,31: 425 3 2 22637 g 44 0 94826 47105 5 3062911 00 0 0:00000009 v 6 OO , . 00:00zo: 0 s 0: 41 82 0 2 0 0 - 16 - 13 - IS - 15 - 16 - 15 - 15 - 16 - 16 - 15 - 13 - 16 - 15 - 16 - 16 - 15 - 16 - it; - 15 - 16 - 15 - 15 - 16 SPORT/NG INTELLIGENCE. AUTUMN MEETING OF THE LIVERPOOL - U ri CLUB. in 0 01 ; WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19.—The autumn races a 0; nection with the Liverpool Hunt Club comtnerg e M Wednesday, on their new course at Hoylake. was exceedingly fine, and the attendance was nnSijlit . " John Hurlestone Leche, Esq., of Carden, and - o p; Massey, Esq., of Moston Hall, acted as stewards,alice Or E. W. Topham as clerk of the course. The first 0 14 for the Hoylake Spring Cup, a handsome piece a .O added to a sweepstakes of 5 sows. each, twice re tl l3lol a distance, over eight hurdles, was won by Melo 013 , by about half a length, beating Rochester, Rasa ;$l l , Tom Bowling. The Dee Stakes, of 3 sows. each , bo at; silver cup added, was won by Young Ireland, 11 /5 bead, beating Energy, Mrs. Jones, and ihriseacr,: 4 Tallyho! Welter Plate, added to a sweepstan;gto sows. each, was won by Clatterbox, by somet'„'", than a head, beating Tom Bowling, Mrs. Jones , 9. : 0 0 1 Oak. The Hilbre Plate, added to a sweepstakiodro sows. each, was won easy ny Anchorite, beating 01 00; b The Shorts, handicap sweepstakes of 3 sovs. eac bea ts handsome silver tankard added, was won in two u .46 Primrose, beating Snowdrop. , he core THURSDAY, SEPT. 20.—The attendance on p this day was exceedingly limited. The Birkenh e l 220 die Race, a handicap sweepstakes of 5 sows. eaca,' ps with 20 sows. added, w a s won by R oc h es t e r, by tlitT i 'a P o i of a length, beating M ar y Bl ane , T om Bowling , t i ld f , sabel. The Liverpool Hunt Handicap, a sweell b ile.r ir 5 sovs. each. 2 ft, with 25 sows. add e d, was s'en. o Jones, be a length, beating Crazy Lady, Anchatit?!..„, torian, Primrose, Premier, Oversight, and C la 00'0 The winner was objected to, but the objection r_ O b i wards withdrawn. The Leasowe Sta „,'` e r y sows. each, with a purse of 10 sows. added, cr7 in g Pkbe Young Ireland, by three fourths of a length, be a- dy, 5 00 Jones, Energy, Crazy Lad, Wiseacre, and Old L a de d, Scurry Stakes, of 2 sows. each, with 5 sows. e" won by Primrose, in a canter, beating Rosabel. rerpool Cup, added to a sweepstakes of 5 sows.,s'o o s, g won by The Judge, easily, beating Jeanette and heg o o A Match, for 50 sows., was won by Pizarre' ns olitp Energy. The Ladies' Purse, added to a - the Stakes of 1 sow. each, for beaten horses, won by Lady, beating Snowdrop and Wiseacre. Oa plO /3 The Liverpool Autumn Steeple Chases take • .110 the 21st and 22nd of November. CHESTER AUTUMN MEETING.—This rneetins orp place on Thursday and Friday next. On t h : 3 0 5,.„ t13 0 there are five prizes, and on the second six PA i' ded v " contended for, the amount of public money au or 330 sows. g ilel e oll The Rossshire Advertiser says—" Mr. Franca , ( o 0 % zie, of Applecross, the young gentleman booti4o astonished the sporting world last year, while s s nb e a mark lately, at a distance of one hundred Yar.oo4 ball through the neck of a bottle without inJ . o of co ° 1 glass." 4, The Marquis of Waterford has just Wen shell/00 match. At Goodwood races, Mr. J. Villier s / 0 4 e' Mansfield-park, bet the noble marquis that the id sly in his flock was better than the worst in Lo to I °' • ford's. A competent person was appoin ted d, •ie and deride ; and the decision, as we have state 005 your of theN OF ALL marquis. ENGLAND V. EIGH TE— f OF Ijs ,4 AVi ro ti D , - —On Mond T• Iday. and • G AND ISTRICT. n onday, Tuesday. t a game at cricket came off on the Victoria-Cricke,"•,, fsl, Leeds, Leeds between these parties, which terminate?,4; of All ' England. All England, first innings, sf';oo which were obtained by Guy, and 27 by 3 8. „ , innings, 81 ; 35 of which were obtained by tte' and District—first innings, 60.—Second ditto, t.OO, The Derby and St. Leger have now been ( 00 191 6 P L E r e g rb er y ! i a n nd lB F l a , tm by an Su fo r r pl t i h ce e , s T t. e times by the same animal, viz., in 1800 by tbftbe ridden by Cleft for the Derby. nd by Buckl e j 'r o h ck e e F y lyz i g ar D io u w tc ) h f m or an t , h ridden t for both th i jo rn a r e n d e c bti ll i n i t n b Tr o te°ll 7l 4l° : 0 won three St. Legers, viz., with Blue BODDetrill." ola and The Flying Dutchman. on h fcisg ti i THE EGLINTON STUD.—The Earl of .—g-in t his celebrated horse Van Tromp. winner of tke Si. Leger, and the Goodwood and Ascot CuP s i rtri v to Mr. Kirby, of York, for a large sum , ! / ,'„ 0 01 t iol amount of which has not transpired. Va l ' len ° 0. close his racing career at the conclusion of the ifigoneey match with Surplice and Justice to cotnc 0 11. "1 0 be 00 the ensuing Newmarket meetings. He will vered up to Mr. Kirby, who some years n'ufroos purchaser of Lanercost, Van Tromp 's s i q r 'ooo. Ramsay, of Bullion, at the high figure of Leger; mPien Yer-o e b en 00 s, p