The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-27 00:00:00

71 .7 itrraturr. POETRY DO I FORGET THEE From a volume of exquisite poems, by T Ouseley.) Go in the summer, when the morning breaketh, nd all around is lull'd 'midst placid light; When the sweet tiny field-flower awaketh. And softly sighs its perfume exquisite Behold the lark, up to the clear sky winging, Thrilling aloud his luscious free-born notes ; From this bright speckled breast the dew-drops flinging, Away, away, till lost to sight be floats : Doth not the field-flower love the coming morning, Unclosing every leaf to drink the •ight ? Doth not the lark's eye swell to meet the dawning— His wings spread strong, to reach his airy height ? If flower and bird change not, why q uestion me— Do I forget thee? Go, in the noontide, when the sun is g To the deep forest—watch the pantir :learning, Under the trees umh .. . , ..._ __ Timidly starting it each sound they hear : List to the throstle and the blackbird singing, Whilst the calm breathing wind just rocks the leaves The emerald wood with melody is ringing, As light with shade and music interweayes:.. Their wide hot nostril! The songsters of the grove are sere ruff the welcome bowers to its mate the joyful tiding r If such as these change not, why question me — Do I forget thee ? Go, in the evening—watch the streamlet flowing O'e pebbly banks, through green and velvet meads ; The sportive fish, in gold and silver glowing, Plash in their crystal home as aay recedes: And mark the sun-flower, when the west is streaming With rainbow clouds of light, as Sol retires, ;s last smile beaming, Doth not the sun-flower, faithful in its tending, Linger to catch the LAST departing ray? Beloved, if these change not, why question me— Do I forget thee ? VARIETIES. ' is the name bestowed by Mr " The Cap of Liberty Trollope on a widow's cap ~ mentioning a dinner given the other day " to Samuel Bamford and the Lancashire poets," says that Mr. Bamford was the only one of the guests of the evening who was present," If this had been said by an Irishman it would have been called a bull. There is a town in the West-Riding of Yorkshire re markable for the singularly hard names of its inhabitants. In one street the brass plate on a house-door intimates that the dweller within is the proprietor of the name of Flint. The door plate of the next house is inscribed Harder. The ManAesler Guard RARA Avis.—There is in the possession of Mr. W. Ansel!, of Overbury, near Tewkesbury, a perfectly white black-bird, with pink eyes, and a beautifully yellow beak. It was taken - from the nest three years ago, has never changed colour in moulting, and possesses a beautiful song. There were two other birds in the same hatch, one white, and the other piebald. LUDICROUS MISTAKE.— A good lady who had two n • 1 I. .1 ,•••••,.. remedy, while the friend -had j another lady inquiring th received to mother of th them three or four ti them well with salt, and in a few d BooTs WANTED.—In our last advertisement, " Boots Wanted for in Town." In reply to this announ receive Gentlemen,—l hay to say that I am just your man, and I will be for both our benefits. A brok lately, neer haun this, I b they are at your bidding for tl o'er heed. Your servant, J. 'I hand aboot fifty pair o' Glasgow Constitutional n your egar, and sprink hey will be cured. Tted an i respectable II( men*, v have just , sment, and hay rusht the bargai ale of a man who light a hunder pair, and ;e shillings the pair, a' -N.B. I have also or f they are wanted."— T - 1e poet Campbell once went to Paisley races, got pro digiously interested in the first race, and betted on the success of one horse to the amount of £5O with Professor Wilson. At the end of the race he thought that he had lost the bet, and said to Wilson, " I owe you £5O, but really, when I reflect that you are a professor of philoso id that betting is a sort of gambling only fit for , I cannot bring tny conscience to pay the bet aid Wilson, " I very upon tl DU have 1 ph, blacklegs pies, and meant approveofthe princi- In point of fact, Yel (1, has won the race ; tow Cap, on wh and, but for conscience, I ought 3 have paid you £5( s Life of Campbell. but'you will exc SLAVERY IN AMERICA Berbice, has recently published an has paid to the United States. In preachin , the Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, he t of a visit I O'er the gloomy hills of darlcn In the second verse— " Let the Indian, let the nc Let the rude barb , he says, at selected the " the Indian" and " the nero" had vanished, and " Let the dark benighted Pagan" The altered readir TENDER -Sir Char work on Eastern v the way of carrying out military F THE He also paints ill-used, over-bu very graphically it cru rations promptly and fearful vividness the 1 along the march e drivers a cruel precaution, but said to be requisite to prevent the cheat ing tricks played by the contractors, who get paid for the camels that die, on producing their ears and tails. The '-ad, but are unable to stand; ~ there this ill-treated, patient and without food or water, till As the camels die, . • • . ammals are often not qu ite d the camel falls s bleeding, an end to its sufferings creature lie of course the loads of the more they are laden the sloe they move the more they a -, are beaten the :er they igorously put in on their weary al towr aware, the Howard f —,,.. unsferred rites as follow ture. In the heart of the city stood Duke of Norfolk, said to be the large kingdom out of London. In this inexed a tennis court trek Mr. Macau- is History, of the ear goland in e which will be mansion, to which ling green, and a I along the bank of the Wonium, the )ble family of Howard frequently resided, and kept a ate resembling_ that of petty sovereigns. Drink was the wet I: The very tongs ny Italian masters ere 'filled with a fine iat Earl of Arundel rnaments of Oxford. his Court were sump- Here, too, all comers were annually trolls to Twelfth Night. Ale flowed hes, one of which to the f oon round i with compli , When the reeted like a waited on th .ddresses anout attempting to found ..mental principle for which we are contending any of the single and scattered declarations of the .tine word, such as the prophecy of the text, Isaiah xlix. 23, and many others, powerful though they be, we would leave it upon this simple, broad, and intelligent founda tion—that the principle of a National Church was encou raged by God himself under the patriarchal dispensation, _ _ "t unto' that tion. Com cred establishment und( That it the Christian dispensa- fact founded on those moral obliga- 1 .rom which no possible change of circumstances can I free, and like the Divine institution of the Sabbath, though veiled for a while under Jewish types, and Jewish ceremonies, has come down to us stripped f these, and vet retaining all the force and obligation, the beauty and freshness of its Divine original; equally binding upon man in his domestic character, equally imperative upon him as a father wilik his children, as a master with his ser vants, as a king with his subjects; and never to be dis regarded without infringing the laws, and contemning the authority, of God our Maker. With regard to the prac tice of antiquity, it is sufficient in a single word to assert, what no man can deny, that with the exception of the first three hundred years of the Church's history, when every emperor was an unbeliever, or a persecutor, or both, and therefore when Christianity could not be the religion of the State, there never was a period when the religion of Christ was not fostered and protected by the Government. And that during the whole, or the greater part, of those first 300 years, miraculous powers remained in the Church, as if to protect its infancy, until the first Chris tian emperor, immediately upon his conversion, should establish it as the religion of the country and throw over its institutions the shield of the civil power ; a duty, which was not more seen by Constantine, than it was gradually and unhesitatingly accepted by the whole body of the Christian Church ; not a single dissentient voice having • ever been raised, not an individual Christian foretelling, or foreseeing that a day could arrive when the connexion between Church and State should be called an unholy union, or when men of any persuasion would unite to dis solve and destroy it. Upon this point, we will only add a single observation, that however dissenters may at the present moment view this question ; from the beginning, even among themselves, it was not so ; that in fact the greatest, the holiest among their forefathers, are all found ranged on the side of an Establishment, and fighting its battles. It is sufficient to mention the names of Owen, Baxter, Flavel, Howe, Henry, and Doddridge, in sup port of the assertion.—Blunt's Lectures. wildern and shovels w 3n of ge tuously entertain welcomed from ( in oceans for the populace the city to bring ladi( were always followed Duke of. Norfolk cam were fired; and t N. NATIONAL CH the fur THE CHURCH'S NECESSITIES. (From the Record.) Lord Ashley, finding that his notice for the 20th, stood too low on the paper to have much chance of coming on for discussion, has postponed it to the Ist of March, when it will be the first notice of the day. The difficulties which appear to attend the execution of , such plan, are,--as is usually the case, —partly real and substantial, partly unreal and romantic. We will say a few words of each ' • beginning with the latter class. 1. A considerable but natural alarm has been excited among statesmen, by such propositions as those of Mr. Palmer and others :—"We must have 5,000 new districts, and 5,000 more clergymen." Such language as this seemed to imply, that the whole country was intended to be cut up into a number of Owenite parallelograms, and that a downright social revolution was contemplated. But what is the fact ? Lord Ashley only asks, that an inquiry shall take place, as to the practicability of divid ing all parishes having more than 4,000 souls. How many parishes will this motion, if carried to the fullest extent, affect ? Five thousand ? No. One Thousand ? No. Five hundred ? No. How many, then ? Why, not quite three hundred. So that, instead of unsettling half the kingdom, it is only about one parish in each forty that will be in any manner touched by it. 2. But the same alarm continues in another direction. Where are the funds to be found ? Will you not want to build an immense number of new churches, and to endow some 2,000, or 1,000 new clergymen. Lord Ashley's notice says nothing of the kind, nor is such a consequence to be fairly deduced from it. We have said, that not so many as 300 parishes will have to be dealt with at all. Of these, a large proportion,—pro bably quite one-half, are parishes with 7,000 or 8,000 people, having already two churches, and two or three ministers ; or parishes with 10,000 or 12,000, having already three churches, and four or five ministers. All that will be needed, in such places, will be, a better ad- justment of the relative position of new churcti ana oia church,—of rector, and district incumbent, —an adjust ment for whicu the clergy themselves are now loudly call- But there will be many churches to be built, and mm isters to be endowed. Of this there can be no doubt. This necessity, however, exists at present. It is univer sally admitted. All that the proposed inquiry will do, is, not to increase the existing want; but merely to measure will produce a conviction, not that the supply of the wants of the church is impracticable; but, on the other hand, that it is easily practicable. The number of pa rishes having 100,000 is, we believe, only about 11 or 12. The number having from 50,000 to 100,000 is not quite 20. So that an accurate estimate of what the Church needs to her complete (external) efficiency, might be formed in a few months. And if it were found that some 300 or 400 churches were plainly needed, surely, rAnem - bering that voluntary efforts have raised a larger number in the course of the last ten or twelve years, we need not despair of entire success. _ _ _ _ _ FRENCH GRAIN.—Of thirteen vessels which arrived at the port of Bristol, a day or two since, from foreign parts, all of which were laden with grain, excepting two with entire cargoes of French potatoes, amounting conjointly to 164 tons weight, there were six vessels laden with French grain, nearly all of them being from Nantes. The arrivals of grain and flour from France have lately been quite unprecedented. DISASTER AT SEA.—FIVE MEN DROWNED. — On Thursday evening last, the brig Maid of the Mill, Captain A. Wilson, from Glasgow, bound for Rio Janeiro, was riding at anchor at Ramullen, in Lough Swilly, from which, during a heavy gale, she was driven on Inch bank. Five men immediately entered a boat, for the purpose of casting an anchor, in order to heave her off. Whilst thus engaged, a desperate squall came on, the boat filled with water, and went down, and the men were drowned. A " FLEA AND BUTTERFLY " RATE !—Sunderland, It seems, is one of the few towns by which a rate has been laid, under Mr. Ewart's bill, for the maintenance of a public museum. One learned and worthy member, how ever, of the Town Council, when the museum committee had presented a report last week, took objection to an item in the accounts, remarking that "he could not see the advantage of imposing charges on the ratepayers for fleas and butterflies.' " _ _ MR. COBBETT V. THE HOME SECRETARY.—Mr. Wm. Cobbett, who has been confined in the Court of Queen's Bench Prison nine years for a debt of £4l, costs of a Chancery suit, sought, on Saturday, in the Court of Ex chequer, to recover £6OO damages from the Home Secre tary and the governor of the prison for alleged illegal de tainment in the criminal wards of the prison instead of the more agreeable and wholesome debtors' wards. The jury found for the defendants. JENNY LIND.—It is now currently and confidently re ported that Mdlle. Lind's marriage with Mr. Harris is to take place within two or three weeks. Notwithstandir.g this, it is certain that another round of provincial con certs has been arranged, in which she is to be accompanied by Mr. Benedict. It is still said that she will appear at Her Majesty's Theatre in the course of the season. But this seems more than doubtful; and at all events, if she do appear, we apprehend it will only be at concerts. — John Bull. PILOT BOATS.—After the Ist of March next all the boats in the service of pilots licensed by the Trinity Board, in the several ports of the English Channel, on the east coast of England, and in the river Thames, are to be distinguished by a green light at the mast-head, and by a flare-up light, sliown at intervals of fifteen minutes. Pilot boats in the service of the said pilots, at the several ports in the Bristol and St. George's Channels, by a white light at the mast-head, and a flare-up light at intervals of fifteen minutes. CAUTION TO MOTHERS AND NURSEMAIDS.—A melan choly instance of the death of a child, aged 17 months, occurred last week at Bristol. The child met with an agonising death from biting off and swallowing a piece of the wine glass from which medicine was being administered to it. The medical gentleman who gave evidence at the inquest, very properly and judiciously observed—" medi. cines should always be administered to young children by means of a spoon, or something less dangerous than glass, because, when cutting their teeth, they are apt to bite." But we do not wish to evade the other branch of the subject, or to deny that real difficulties' do exist. These chiefly concern the proper endowment of perhaps 300 or 400 new incumbents ; and the legal division of these, and many now existing incumbencies, from the old parishes of which they form portions. On the first of these points it•is gratifying to know, main to the Church. It is anticipated that the Com mission over which Lord Harrowby now p which was cons ituted about Christmas last le estates of the Church a largely-incre And the mere relinquishment of tl lor's patr le Chancel- ge, on the part of the Government whieli Sir Robert Peel'is said to have contemplated, -L would realise, by the sale of advowsons, a sum probably approaching two millions sterling. The personal hindrances, those arising from legal diffi culties, interposed by patrons, incumbents, and others who might suffer, or apprehend loss, from the proposed subdivision,—would demand considerate attention, but surely ought not to be allowed to prohibit a great national improvement. A railway forces its way through the park of a nobleman, " for the general good,"—and surely the object we now have in view is still more deserving legal enforcement. But it is a happy circumstance, that the patronage of many of the larger parishes is so vested as to oppose no hindrance in the work now contemplated. The patron of Marylebone is the Crown. St. George's, Southwark, is in the same hands. Pancras is in the gift of the Chap ter of St. Paul's, and so is Cripplegate. Leeds, Chelten ham, Bradford, Bath, Islington, and St. Martin's, Bir mingham, are in the hands of trustees. Stepney, White chapel, and several of the larger parishes in the Tower Hamlets, belong to Brazennose College. In none of these cases, therefore, could any injury done to private property be pleaded; since in all of them the patrons merely hold their power for the public good. And if thE Chapter of c Nul's had the right of presentation to four church..s in Cripplegate, endowed with £5OO a-year each, instead of to one, endowed with £2,000, they surely would have no right to complain. MELANCHOLY EN]) OF AN ECCENTRIC PEDESTRIAN. — On Sunday, Robert Wrangha►n, of Barnard Castle, an eccentric character, of great local fame as a pedestrian, was sent from that town with a message, express, to Brough ; and on Tuesday morning he was found lying dead on Stainmoor, having doubtless perished in the terrible storm of Monday. The deceased has frequently travelled from Barnard Castle to Darlington and back, a distance of thirty-two miles, within six hours. He was seventy-two years old at the time of his death.—Gates- /lead Observer. SINGULAR DISCOVERY.-011 Saturday as some work men were repairing a house at Rouselench, near Worces ter. in taking off the thatch from the roof they discovered Otneral Altstritany. the skeleton of a full-grown infant crammed between a large beam and the thatch in the roof of the building, and from every appearance it had undoubtedly been there a great number of years. When discovered it was wrap ped in an old waistcoat, along with a small cloth or towel, which appeared to be much soiled, as if it had been used, and put along with the waistcoat. No clue whatever could be found to lead to a discovery how it came there. SINGULAR ACCIDENT -A gentleman, near Waltham Abbey, experimenting with the electric 'light a few days ago, having an incised wound on his left-hand, touched the conductor, a copper wire, and shortly afterwards ex perienced an irritation, which immediately spread in infla mation to the arm. The arm became immensely swollen, and large tumours appeared all over the body and limbs. Eminent surgeons have been in attendance; some of the tumours were opened, and every means resorted to for the purpose of checking the poison, but without avail. The unfortunate patient lies without the least hope of recovery. ANOTHER POPE.—There is a report, which is said to rest on good authority, that the Jesuits are going to make a new Pope. The used up infallibility at Gaeta is not to their taste. They never liked him • and only acquiesced in his advancement to the tiara in the expectation that his pseudo liberality would help to throw dust in the eyes of the many headed monster, while the ring of the church might be welded more firmly than ever in its nose. Two Popes, however, (for Pius would not cease to be Pope be cause of the Jesuit deposition,) would be no unprecedented thing. The world has seen three of them ere now, each denouncing and " deposing" the other, and we are not sure that the infallible Church has ever infallibly deter mined which was the true one. However, this is a matter in which we feel no concern. LOVE AND Stricron.—On Friday last Mary Ann Crow ther, aged. 22, poisoned herself with a large dose of arsenic, at Masborough, at the residence of her mother. A young man, named John Lidster, had paid his ad- Eliza Cook, the poetess, is about to commence a weekly periodical. Mr. Gilbert A!Beelcett has been appointed police ma gistrate in room of Mr. Jeremy. Some young leverets were seen on Monday week on a farm at Crosthwaite, in Westmoreland. at the present time, is a Syrian, name.. —.- ....,--,-. - .. - rile notes of the cuckoo have been distinctly heard dresses to her for a period o f o n e y ear and eight months; ar Newcastle-upon-Tyne during the last few days. during that period he had promised her marriage three A great many joint stock companies are now being !tine!, and once went so far as to put the `• spurrings" in. el 1 ' '' ..... e et wound up under the new winding-up act of last session. On the Sunday preceding the tatat event he was The far-famed Gretna-green is again in tribulation, her when she came out of Masborough chapel, but was Lord Campbell having once more brought in his bill for unfaithful in that promise also. Mary Ann sent for him the prevention of run-away marriages in Scotland. just before death terminated her sufferings, and when he The Jenny Lind concert at Worcester realised £ B4O for was introduced to her chamber she said, " John," hold the infirmary after the • payment of all expenses. A mural ing up her arms, " come to me ;" she then placed her _ . ._ tablet will be erected to record her munificence. arms rouna ms necx sou Kisseu mm, um,aniu, .....ve An Irishman, named Brennan, has died at Newcastle- brought me to this sad end ; but do no:, treat another in on-Tyne, in consequence of injuries received from two or a similar way." She only lived a few minutes after this three of his countrymen in a row. interview.—Derbyshire Courier. Henry Mitchell, one of the inmates of the Perth Luna- DESTRUCTIVE FIRE FROM DOMESTIC IMPRUDENCE. tic Asylum, was killed the other day, in a struggle with —A fire broke out a few nights since on the premises of one of the keepers, whom he assaulted. Mr. Henry Pagett, of the Red Lion Inn, Wolverhampton, The Devonshire Chronicle says that one day last week, and which resulted in the total destruction of the unin a sportsman who was shooting wild fowl on the river Exe, sured property, estimated at little less than £l,OOO. The fired into a flock of teal, and killed 49 birds by the shot. landlord of the house managed to escape down stairs, but Lord Denman has decided that the reservoirs of the his wife, and the servant girl, who first gave the alarm,. Huddersfield Water-works Commissioners are liable to be were compelled, from the progress made by the flames, to rated for the relief of the poor. leap from the windows of their respective bedrooms. The A fisherman, of the name of Campbell, while fishing at house, and all it contained, together with £lOO in money,. Gairloch, the other day, caught a cod, in the stomach of were consumed. The disaster seems to have resulted from which were found twenty•eight herrings, three flounders, the dangerous (practice of leaving clothes before the fire and a crab. to dry. It is to be regretted that, although the house had A Sheffield journal states on Tuesday night, a needle- been insured three years ago, the owner, a young man, grinder, who was somewhat intoxicated, lay down on the lately married, from motives of economy, discontinued heap of ashes near the Park Gate Ironworks, and was suf- the payment of the interest, and is thus deprived of his focated by the mephitic vapours arising from the cinders. property.—Wolverhampton Chronicle. epsded at Westminster during The death of the Countess of Bridgewater has again of fees to brought the extraordinary will of her husband under no- The Earl of Bridgewater bequeathed a large pro eerty to his great nephew, the present Viscount Alford, Between February, 1848, and the same month in 1849, on condition that he obtained the Marquisate or Dukedom there have been thirty-five new journals started in of Bridgewater ; but if the Viscount could not obtain England ; but thirteen of them have already ceased to either of these honours, then the Egertons of Tatton to appear. inherit the property. No minister of the crown has yet The carpet manufacture at Barnard Castle has lately been induced to advise the crown to grant the dignity very much improved. Several additional workmen have under such circumstances. It was felt that the precedent recently been employed by the different firms, and the would be too dangerous, as plenty of people would soon demand for goods is steadily increasing. follow the example of the Earl of Bridgewater in obtain- At a late rnApting of the Frome A '^ultural Society, ing honours for their descendants or relations. On the • 1 act £9 - ',387 ; in Scotland, during the same period, to 168, fees Mr. S. Pocock, of Thoulstone, stated that on his farm, other hand it was not thought a fair case for a specia. part clay and part sand, he had tried pig manure against of parliament to set aside the Earl's proviso, as was done guano and bone-dust, and found it quite equal to guano, in the case of the Duke of Portland, because thereby the whilst it beat the bone-dust hollow. Egertons would be unjustly deprived of their rev..trsionary The American steam-ship United States has been par- right. So the case stands at present, doubtless a bitter chased by the Neptune Ocean Steam-ship Company, and thing to Lord Alford, to see so fair a property pass away is intended, with the Franklin, belonging to the same from him, but at the same time it would never do to allow company, to ply regularly, and carry the mails between subjects to confer honours in the peerage in this way. New York, Southampton, and Havre. PROGRESS OF THE GAS MovlssEND.—Much excite ment exists in London at present on the subject of the - last week, one of the speakers Bunn and Jullien talk of opening Covent Gar en join • ,f • English talent that can be obtained. Balfe is to be the composer and chef-d'orchestre. The affair is to be called amounting, it.is said, tc part of an immense fortune, £BO,OOO, to Mr. Coleman, a farmer residing in the same village. The joint-stock bank projected by Mr. Macgregor, I M.P., formerly secretary of the board of trade , is about to commence operations. Under the title of the " British Bank," it is intended to be conducted strictly upon the Scotch system THE IF ON TRADE ,o one cus- said that 3s- 6d. per 1000 feet was c tomer and 6s. per 1000 feet to another. was, in London, 16s. 2d., and Liverpool I4s. The residual w.. of nmell more value in London than in Li- —The iron trade is remarkably re than usually abundant. So de- cheaper in the former place from that source alone, as the larger the quantity of gas made the cheaper was the pro duction ; the cost of manufacture could form no ground for its greater cheapness in provincial towns. The qutin tity of gas consumed in London was 500,000,000 cubic feet, conveyed through sixty miles of mains ; while in Liver pool there was but 211,000,000 cubic feet consumed ; but this quantity was conveyed through 150 miles of mains— in Loudon, therefore, there would be less loss- from a leakage. Another speaker said they were all entitled, as traders and commercial men,, to have the benefit of com petition in the supply of so great a necessary as light. One ton of coals, which he could get for 125., would pro duce from 9000 to 10,000 cubic feet of gas—consequently, his gas cost but ls. 21d. per 1000 feet, the coke and resi duum paying the cost of manufacture. If proper economy was used, Is. 6d. per 1003 feet would afford sufficient pro fit when the supply was large. He was supplying the Great Western Railway Company at Swindon at ls. Bd. per 1000, and certainly did not lose by'_it. SPIRITED CONDUCT OF A CLERGYMAN.---A few nights since, as the Rev.-Mr. Lamprell, of West Wickham, was on his way home from Cambridge, on his pony, he was stopped, about a quarter before twelve, by six or seven men. One seized hold of the bridle, and was immediately felled by a well-aimed blow from Mr. Lamprell. The re mainder set upon him and pulled him from his horse ; and• while the struggle was proceeding the man who had knocked him down cried out " Stifle the —; he has bunged my eye up." They then proceeded to rifle Mr. Lamprell's pockets, and succeeded in obtaining £4 12s in money, a gold lever watch and chain, a pencil-case, a comb, with a cheque-book, some memorandum hooks, and some other papers. They had a handkerchief tied round Mr. Lamprell's neck, and their hands over his mouth, and. he offered to surrender all he had, telling them not to be cowardly enough to hurt him, or if they meant to do so, to murder him at once. They then re moved the handkerchief. While down, one of the rascals rubbed some dirt over Mr. Lamprell's face. Finally, they let him get up, and then made off over a gate in the direction of Fulbourne. Mr. Lamprell called out to know where his pony was, and offered to write them a cheque for £5 if they would find it. One replied, " Oh, its gone the way you coom." Mr. Lamprell shouted out that his papers were no use to them, and one fellow then pitched the papers over the hedge. "My hat," said Mr. L. ; that is no use to you, and will lead to your identification ;" when another vagabond returned to the gate, and pitched it over to him, with a memorandum book in it. The last mentioned fellow then made off, with Mr. Lamprell in full chase, but was unsuccessful in catching any of them, cided . a start has the market taken that on the principal houses in South Staffordshire issued circu lars announcing an advance of 20s. per ton. A fine boy, four years of age, died last week at Tenter den, in Kent, from partaking of part of one of the green ornaments used to decorate a Christmas cake. Violent sickness came on shortly after the ornament was eaten, and the lad, after lingering a few days died from its effects. On Monday week, a game hen, belonging to an inhabi tant of Howrigg, in Cumberland, laid an egg of the usual size, which was boiled and broken, and was found to con tain, embedded in the white, another egg, perfectly formed, with the exception of the shell, and about the size of a common cherry. A labourer living in Westminter has died " from the ef fects of chloroform properly administered" by several me dical men. The deceased took the chloroform before having one pf his toes taken off. One of the surgeons stated that much larger doses had been given to patients without injury, It is said that the whole of the farms on the road from North Cerney to Cheltenham, a distance of about 10 or 11 miles, are either now in the hands of the proprietors, or about to be vacated by the tenants at Lady-day next. The soil of that district is very thin on the brach, and it therefore will not admit of tenants paying rent at all at the present low price of corn. A few Bays since, a cow ran after a lady in the streets of Darlington, and attempted to gore her, but the animal's horns entangled themselves in the dress of the lady, who was raised from the ground in such a manner that she was seated on the cow's face. The cow, confounded at being thus blinded, crossed the street, and quietly de posited her fair burthen uninjured on the pavement. The types and press of the Sta f fordshire Punch-bowl, a penny publication indulging in attacks upon individuals, and issued at Hanley, were on Wednesday seized by the police, and on Friday Mr. Peter Cooke, the owner, was I fined in the mitigated penalty of £5 and costs (11s. 6d.), for using the said press without having entered it at the , Clerk of the Peaces office, pursuant to the Act 39th Geo. . 111. cap. 79. j WEST INDIAN MAIL.—The next ship expected home will be the steamer due on the 7th March, with the mails from the Pacific, Wcst Indies, &c. The mails due on the 22nd February may probably not reach England until a. day or two after the arrival of those due on the 7th March ; and no correspondence from • Mexico can be looked for previous to the 22d March. The name of the steamer due on the 7th of March is not known. _ _ _ • _ On Friday last an explosion took place in one of Mr. Daniel Round's coal pits, known as the Henge Colliery, in the parish of Rowley Regis, Staffordshire. An explo sion of sulphur took place in the pit while the men were at work ; and three colliers of the name of Bate, father, son, and uncle, all living together in one house, were killed almost instantaneously. REVIVAL OF THE OFFICE OF ABBOT IN ENGLAND. — The ceremony of consecrating an abbot took place at the Monastery of Mount St. Bernard, in Charnwood Forest, on Sunday, whin the Rev. J. Palmer, otherwise Father Bernard, the superior of that monastery, was installed in that office, and presented with a crosier, rings, mitre, and gloves, each of which were separately blessed and sprinkled with holy water by the omanist Bishop of the midland district, Dr. Ullathorne. This being the first occasion of th e kind in England since the Reformation some interest was excited in the neighbourhood. _ _ _ AN AFFECTING SCENE. — One of the sufferers by the recent Caledonian accident when brought up to the Cita del Station in the luggage train, was placed on a chair in the refreshment-room. A limb had been torn off the poor man's body, and the fortitude with which he bore his dreadful loss excited general sympathy and admira tion. Looking down with an air of the deepest resigna tion he exclaimed, " Where's my foot ?" The bye standers, who had been regarding the poor fellow with a melancholy interest, burst into tears. About ten hours after that we saw the severed limb, still clothed with the shoe and stocking, taken from a heap of shattered car riages, dripping with blood.—Carlisle Patriot. WIGTON HORSE FAIR, &c.—This fair, which is the largest in Cumberland. was held on Tuesday last. It is somewhat remarkable that, although agricultural stock of every other description have lately declined, and still are falling in value, yet horses maintain high prices. There was a tolerably good show, and, a large number of south country dealers being in attendance, a great number of animals were sold. Strong draught horses were in the greatest demand, the prices varying for the first class from 35 to 48 guineas; second class, from 18 and 20 to 30 guineas apiece. Horses suitable for the saddle, harness, and hunt , ng, from 30, 35, to 50 guineas. The show of young horses was not very good ; prime ponies were also few in number. _ _ NEW INVENTION IN BAKING.—An invention has just been made in Glasgow, which promises to be of great ser vice in the process of baking. As it has not yet been pa tented, we are not at liberty to enter into details. Some idea of its effects may, however, be formed from the fact that a little model, a mere toy in appearance, standing upon a table less than a yard long, and only half as wide, is fully capable of doing the work of five or six bakers—a class of men whose labour is well known to be none of the lightest. The dough is both made and moulded by the machine into loaves of the required size and shape ; and, by an original and ingenious process of mixing and knead ing, which can be done either with on without harm ; the usual loss of weight, attributed to evaporation in "raising the sponge," is avoided; and a great laving in flour, as well as time and labour, is consequently effected. The bread manufactured in the model of the machine is of the most excellent quality.—Glasgow Citizen. HEADIFRENDING OCCURRENCE. — A lone cottage on the banks of the Kingsbridge Estuary was on Sunday the scene of a singular but shocking incident. The cottage was inhabited by a labourer, his wife, and child ; the hus band had gone from home to visit a sick relative, and at the usual time the wife went out to a pigsty adjoining the cottage to give the pig its evening meal. She entered the sty, leaving the child, between two and three years of age, outside the door, and whilst inside, the child, in play ing with the fastening of the door, contrived so effectually to bar her (the mother) in as to defy all the efforts to liberate herself. The child, tired probably of waiting, returned to the cottage, and pushing the door, fastened himself in the kitchen, as his mother was in the sty. The little fellow then, it is supposed, got playing with the fire, and was soon in a blaze; the agony of the mother need not be described crt hearing the Door child's shrieks, to which she added her own for assistance. The father re turned at this juncture, and promptly extinguished the flames, but too late to save the life of the child.—Exeter Gazette. _ _ _ Loss OF THE ROYAL WEST-INDIA MAIL STEAMER FORTH.—Accounts have, been received at Lloyd's of the loss of the steamer Forth, belonging to the Royal West Indian Mail Company, on the Alacranes, on the 31st of January ; but we are happy to state that the crew and passengers were all saved. The Forth proceeded into the Gulf of Mexico with the mails carried out from England by the Avon. The former ship, according to advices from the captain, dated the 11th of January, was to leave Havannah the next day for Vera Cruz direct. The Forth was a noble ship, and made 16 successful voyages to the West Indies, Mexico, &c., previous to this disaster. She was built at Leith in 1841, by Menzies and Co., and was of 1147 tons register, with engines of 450-horse power. She left Southampton on the 2nd of September. and was due there on the 22nd instant. It is not at all likely she had any specie or much cargo on board. It is worthy of remark that Mr. J. B. Rowland, her surgeon, was wrecked on the same spot in the ill-fated Tweed, and it was this gentleman's graphic account of the wreck, that excited so much interest at the time of this unfortunate occurrence. THE GLASGOW CATASTROPHE.—It is now ascertained with certainty, that the loss of life consequent upon the oors, on sixty-five persons. It will be observed that the great majority of those killed were youths—principally appren- go to the theatre. Their circumstances may be known from the fact, that on the persons of the whole sixty-one, at the Clyde-street Hospital, there was only found a total of Us. ld. The highest sum was 4s. Oid. ;- several had only ld., and the majority nothing. One of the lads, named. Hammond, who was severely hurt, but who is recovering, describes the heat as having been overpower ing, and the sense of suffocation so intense, that almost every other feeling was lost in a burning thirst. Cries for water and fresh air were yelled out on every side, but no relief reached them until numbers became quite deli rious and frantic. A little boy immediately behind him appeared to suffer dreadfully at first, but his cries gradu ally became weaker and weaker, until they at length ceased altogether, and then the lad Hammond knew that the poor boy had ceased . to exist. He attributes his own preservation, in a great measure, to a little boy who had got himself seated on a man's shoulder, and who kept up a sort of circulation of air by waving a handkerchief backwards and forwards. According to this lad, who seems very intelligent, there were two alarms given, the first of which was easily quieted, and great numbers who had made a rush to the staircase, being assured that there was no danger, returned, and resumed their seats. The smoke from the front of the gallery occasioned, as has been already stated, by the slight charring of the wood when the gas got ignited, still, however, continued ; and it was observed that the attempts which were made by parties in the neighbourhood of the spot to subdue it only tended to increase the density of the vapour ; the half-subdued feeling of terror again got the mastery of the occupants of the gallery. and a general and simulta neous rush was made to the door. Among the cases most deserving of sympathy we have to record the following: — A man named Andrew Donachy, aged 42, foreman cork cutter to Bailie Mitchell, during the interim occupied by his wife in cleansing up their humble abode in East Clyde-street, proposed to take the children to the theatre. Being a man of convivial habits, she felt no anxiety at his not returning shortly after the hour of closing the theatre. Supposing that he was enjoying himself in the house of an acquaintance, she retired to bed, and it was not until an early hoar on Sunday morning that she was apprised of the fact that the bodies of her husband and her two children—one a daughter, aged 17, and the other an infant, aged 4 years—were lying dead in the Clyde street Hospital. Bereft of the support of her husband and the solace of her children, she is left childless and lonely, in a state of delirium. THE CHARGE OF RAPE AGAINST AN ATTORNEY.— ' Mr. Robert Henry Bartlett, solicitor, charged with a rapt 1 lon the person of Miss O'Grady, in his own house 6th of November last, underwent another long examina tion before the magistrates at Epsom, on Wednesday. The complainant corrected her tormer sta ral particulars,,. especially transferring the date of tl alleged assault from the 6th of November to the 19th of October. The two women, also, altered their former statements. Mr. Bartlett gave a long Recount of the intimacy between himself and the complainant, which he deicribed as perfectly voluntary on her part. He com plained of harsh and cruel treatment towards himself, and said there were four or five gentlemen preient, pointing to- Mr. P. Borthwick, the complainant's coun sel, with others, who, with the two women, had been guilty of a conspiracy to extort from him the sum of £7OO, and he would indict every one of them at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court. Mr. Borthwick indignantly denied this charge, and called for its instant substantiation or retractation. Neither, however, was ( attempted, and ultimately, the accused was again remand -1 ed. Mr. F. B. Hughes, short-hand writer, was present, ' and took full notes of the prbceedings.—On Thursday, Mr. Owens, who appeared on behalf of the accused, ten dered evidence to prove that Miss O'Grady's mother had been heard to declare, that as Mr. Bartlett would not come to her terms and pay £lOOO to stop proceedings, she would be revenged upon him, and, in fact, that the case had been originally treated by the prosecutrix and her friends as a civil, case ; but the magistrates 'veld such proof to be inadmissible. Mr. Owens then addressed the bench on behalf of his client, not attempting to deny the moral blame that was attributable to him, but strongly contending that there was nothing in the case to render Mr. Bartlett the object of a criminal prosecution. Seve ral witnesses were examined on behalf of the defendant, whose statements, however, threw no light on the sub ject. After some consultation between the magistrates, the Chairman said—We have come to this conclusion, that from the evidence there is but too much reason to think and to fear that this unfortunate young woman has been very ill used—that where every generous and manly feeling should have been called forth to protect and de fend her, she has been sacrificed. It is not without doubt in our own minds that we have come to it—that there is not enough in the evidence to raise that fair and " pro bable presumption" that the legal crime of rape has been committed by the prisoner—to induce us to send the case for trial. The prisoner is therefore discharged, and this ' case is ended.—This announcement was received by the crowd of spectators with audible marks of satisfaction, which were immediately repressed by the officers of the court. Mr. Bartlett having been formally discharged, was here taken into custody by Mr. Keane on a civil pro cess for the debt for which he had been originally placed in Horsemonger-lane. Ho was conveyed back to prison under' proton, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. MURDER.-At the assizes at Newcastle• on-Tyne on Thursday a young man, named Thomas Mitchell. was found guilty of the murder of his own infant illegitimate child, by dashing it on the ground. A defence of insanity was set up. The jury convicted the prisoner, but recom mended him to mercy.—Baron Alderson—On what grounds ?—The Foreman—Because of our strong abhor rence of capital punishment.—Baron Alderson—Oh 1 that is a very foolish ground. Any other or better reason ? The Foreman—No my lord. His lordship then passed sentence of death in very solemn terms. _ _ EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT TO A HORSE.-Mr. Key, of Mansfield, trainer, has for some time had a steeple chase horse in training, the property of one of the officers of the 3d. Dragoon Guards ; and on Tuesday week one of his jockeys was out with the animal on the Forest, giving him a breathing on the Sherwood Gallop, when by some unaccountable means the horse came down, and broke both his fore legs immediately above the fetlock joint. What makes this accident so singular is the fact that the ground on which he was running is as smooth as a lawn. The horse was killed shortly afterwards.—Notts Guar dian. . . . . ENCLOSURE OF COMMON LANDS.—A bill brought in by Sir George Grey and Mr. C. Lewis authorizes the En closure Commissioners for England and Wales to enclose the following lands, for which provisional orders have already been issued, viz.,—Pyrton, in the county of Ox ford ; Chorley-green, in the county of Chester • Bell, Swann, and Silverlace-greens, in Suffolk ; Bickerton hills, in Cheshire; Brammerton-comtnon, in Norfolk; Headley, in Southampton ; Oakworth-common, in York shire; Buckland Newton, in Dorset; Abbotsford, in Southampton; Black Torrington, in Devon; Westwell Leacon, in Kent • Holster-yarc, in Devon ; Cradley in Hereford ; Firbank Fells, in Westmoreland ; Oxton, in Nottinghamshire • Dent, in the West Riding of York shire ; Mansfield Woodhouse Forest, in Nottingham shire; and Cefn Ertham-common, in Brecknockshire. HE WHO WINS THE WREATH SHOULD WEAR is not, perhaps, generally known that Sir Charles Napier's application for a peerage has been declined. The sub joined extract is the concluding portion of a notice of Sir Charles's pamphlet on Oriental Warfare, and appeared in Monday's Standard. It is unnecessary to direct atten tion to the last eight words of the extract, except for the purpose of saying that the sentence is ane plus ultra specimeri of conscience searching satire :—" If these sen timents were cited to a stranger, he would naturally as-' cribe them to the seclusion of the closet and the piety of the Christian. How utterly astonished he would be to find in them the meditations of one who had been cradled in the camp and educated amid the campaign, whose pen was the sword, and whose book was the battle field, and whose brow was crowded with such laurelled profusion that cabinets feared that a coronet would only crush them." MAD HORSE. — On Sunday last, an extraordinary case of hydrophobia developed itself in a horse belonging to Wm. Green, Esq., of this city, surgeon. It appears that on the afternoon f the above day, as Mr. G. was pro ceeding on a professional visit into the country, the animal on which he rode—usually we believe of a quiet and manageable disposition—suddenly became restive and ungovernable—shying at the gates and other objects passed upon the road, and evincing a strong disposition to bite. The appearance of these symptoms aroused suspicions in Mr. G's. mind as to the actual cause of the sudden change in his horse's temper, and therefore alighting at Alden Grange, he proceeded to bleed the animal, and after muz zling him, cautiously led him home. In the course of these operations Mr. G. had a very narrow escape from being bitten—the animal having seized hold of his clothes with his teeth and knocked him down, but for tunately without inflicting any material injury. On ar riving at home, the symptoms of hydrophobia became unmistakeable, and as the horse continued rapidly to grow worse. Mr. G. at once adopted the resolution of sacrificing him to prevent further mischief, and accord ingly, later on in the evening, after procuring the advice of a veterinary surgeon, he despatched him with his own hand. It is supposed that the dreadful malady had been communicated to the poor animal by the bite of a little dog, the property of Mr. G's. son, which used to sleep in the stable beside it, and which was itself destroyed a few weeks ago on suspicion of its being similarly affected. We believe that instances of equine madness like the present are of rare and unusual occurrence, and but sel dom fall within the observation of even the most experi enced veterinary practitioners, and therefore every case tending to enlighten the professional mind as to the diagnosis of this dreadful complaint must be deemed peculiarly valuable and interesting. The loss to Mr. G. is rather severe one; the estimated value of the animal being, we believe, about fifty guineas.—Durham Adver tiser. THE SISTERS op MERCY. — The result of the enquiry by the Bishop of Exeter is altogether favourable to the sisterhood. As faithful chroniclers, however, we must now make mention that a complete justification was given of the proceedings of those zealous and reverend clergy men through whose influence the enquiry was rendered necessary, and consequently instituted. The most serious charge made on the kart of these gentlemen had reference to the introduct. of the cross, the raising of pictures on the altar, the introduction and the constant varying of emblematic flowers, and the bowing to those things when on the altar, and to the altar itself when it was stripped of these adjunctive ornaments, In the proof, substan tially made, of the charges in which this matter was al leged, the accusers themselves were justified in having brought the matter forward. They were still further jus tified in the condemnation—somewhat reluctantly given as it appears to us—passed upon the offensive practices themselves—offensive, not so much in the passing act as in the probable results to which the constant observation of the act may lead. We should be on our guard lest the gratified, not by adoring the Spirit, but the Image. The bishop confessed that he had never been abroad : we have and in hundrei ' ' " we have seen how an innocent sentiment has developed itself into an act of idolatry. We have seen crowds of men, women, and children kissing the tooth or the bone of some hypothetical saint, and looking to the act as a meritorious act that would certainly bring advantage from the Giver of gifts. Had the bishop ever been abroad dur ing the " Month of Mary," he would have understood, still better than he does now, how flowers may be so used • . +1,,,.....0n1yraa +tin aynrcihin due only to the divinity in honour of whom the altar was ostensibly raised. There is no evil in a picture; but he who has seen illiterate peasants grovelling before one in the dust, or frantically kissing it, as though a heart beat, substantial form—he who has seen this—and we have seen it, not once, but hundreds of times—cannot but feel convinced that evil may come of it. It was in fear of such resulting evil, looked for as a natural consequence of the practices observed and enforced on the young at the Or nium Institution at Plymouth. that men. not more zealous as to compel upon the bishop a fullenquiry and a decisive verdict. The enquiry has taken place ; and, though we are not inclined to throw away much admiration upon the way in which the bishop presided at it, we are less inclined to dispute his verdict. The practices complained of and proved were condemned by his lordship. The accusers sought for nothing more, and with this they will rest 1-i<rfic.ri —Phurrh and State Gazette. The number of volumes in the Bodleian Library of Oxford is about 220,000, and the number of MSS. 21,000. LOCAL MEETINGS .—At the half-yearly meeting, — in the chair,—the report which was THE GAS COMPANY read stated that, though the consumption of gas had not diminished in the ratio anticipated from the depression of trade, yet that the directors deemed it prudent to divide at the rate only of 41 per cent. for the last half-year. The report also stated, that the company were about to dispose of their properties in Dale-street and Hatton garden, and in Queen-square and Colquitt-street, and to erect offices and workshops at, Newington. The report was approved of and adopted. HEALTH COMMITTEE. - At the meeting on Thursday, sauces made his usual report. __ exertions had been made to cleanse out ash-pits The building surveyor put in his report relative to repai still below the average—the deaths last week being ZO2 against 208 in the former• week. Five cases of Asiatic cholera had occurred, two of which proved fatal. One of the putients who died came from Glasgow, and the other was a vagrant. Orders were given to repair Back Port land-street. The Chairman said that, for the prevention of cholera, the committee were emptying the lodging houses of their overcrowded inmates. The necessary particulars were ordered to be supplied by the respective officers, to enable Dr. Duncan to prepare an annual re port of the proceedings-of the committee. There was no other business of importance. ANNIVERSARY DINNER OFTHE LIVERPOOL GUARDIAN SO C lETY.—The twenty-sixth anniversary of this excellent society, which has done so much to protect the honest tradesman against the fraudulent attempts of swindlers and other dishonest persons, was . celebrated last evening by a public dinner, at Mrs. Eastwood's Royal Hotel, Dale-street. Covers were laid for about one hundred gentlemen, and the liberality with which the tables were spread, together with the excellence of the viands. re flected the highest credit on the caterer. The chair was occupied by Mr. William Smethurst, the president of the society for the last year, the principal vice-chair by the president elect, Mr. John Pemberton, and at the side tables Mr. H. G. Ireland and Mr. Thomas Walker, offi ciated. The Worshiptul the Mayor was present; together with the Town-clerk. There were also present Mr. James Thomson, Mr. H. G. Harbord, Mr. J. A. Time, and Mr. J. B. Lloyd, Town-councillors ; Mr. John Smith, Mr. T. Crossley, Mr. J. Denton, Mr. A. Pringle, Mr. C. Ashlin, Mr. Venn, sergeant-at-mace ; Mr. Walters, and Mr. Quick. . THE FEMALE PENITENTIARY. — The annual meeting was held on Tuesday • John Cropper, Esq., in the chair. The conduct of the patients during the past year had been, for the most part satisfactory; and many of those who had left the institution were filling responsible situations, with credit. The state of the institution for the past year was as follows ; Applications for admission, 75 ; refused as unsuitable, 22 ; for want of funds, 17 ; taken into the probationary wards, 36, Total, 75. In the house per last report, 45 ; total in the house during the year, 81; restored to their friends, or placed out at service, 21 ; left by own desire, or for disobedience of rules, 7.; remaining in the house, 46; fully admitted, 39; on probation, 7. The total number since the establishment of the institu tion was as follows :—Admitted, 1,483; expelled, 190 ; eloped, 35 ; left at own suggestion, ox dislike of rules, 588; restored to their friends, or placed in service, 506 ; re moved to other institutions, 96; died, 22 ; in the house at the present time, 46. Total, 1,483. The committee called attention to the necessity of more systematic Scrip , total instruction for the inmates ; and that every. ttAttn§, Feb. 21, WO. should be adopted to secure the permanency of gee; pressions. From the financial accounts it appeared „ the society was in debt to the amount of £49 59 . 1 ";i i rl resolution was passed to the effect that, as the p eee ' a r• difficulties of the institution were but for the present cP tially removed, it was incumbent on those inter ested „p• its continued existence to renew their efforts for its ,to port, and that with such view, application be mad e t° clergy and ministers in its behalf. 0 5 SELECT VESTRY.—The usual fortnightly meetieg ° chair held on Tuesday ; the Rev. Rector Campbell, cw The minutes of the Finance Committee included clif, returns which had been forwarded to committee a 13 _,/,d Rushton, the stipendiary magistrate, containing o e ,:,7be , statistical account of the number of prisoners broug" fore the magistrates for various offences during the f o t and previous years. It appeared from the minutes ;01, there had been seventy-four candidates for the eigh,, t : t s lectors of rates, which the Vestry had determin ed is former meetilir to appoint, and that the committee to, reduced thatirumber to twelve, out of which num ber ; Atkinson, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Lodge, Mr. Downes , Arrowsmith. Mr. Christian. Mr. Hampson, and gr . t hat tam were elected. It was resolved by the committee to, the necessity which exists for further accommodattottolst indoor paupers be laid before the poor-law board, en d tot it be recommended that the necessary steps be taken ot • the immediate enlargement of the house to a size Pr e P o s tionate to the increasing wants of the parish. After 9 00 , discussion the proceedings of the committee we re -Aid firmed, and the feeling in favour of at once proem:, with the enlargement of the workhouse was unaniloc ni ; e s The report from the Industrial School Committee ris, very favourable account of the education which thefot mates are at present receiving.—A letter was read toe Mr. Dowling, complaining of the great annoyance t°,rhe public caused by the night asylum in Soho-street. here letter complained that the class of persons who wen t t ct id as inmates were in the habit of using the most disg e- ro s , language, and were composed chiefly of thieves and P titutes. Docx COMMITTEE.—At the weekly meeting on day, the sub-committee for opposing the Dock 'r at io Bill presented their report. It stated that " the deP u 'or had had interviews with the leading members of tbetbeit yernment, and were eventually assured by them of gi t, intention to oppose the bill ; while members of the b° oa t of ells parties, equally, and most readily, promised were committee their support. So numerous, indeedL these assurances, that, coupled with the effect of tn is ce dared intention of Government, your committe e reason to believe that, if the motion for the s econd r , $ 0 ing had been passed, it would have been rejected , almost unanimous vote of the house; a fact whic z y t lie committee think it right to record, for the sake 0 e m conclusive proof which it affords of the opinion of of bars of the Legislature, and the country genera l ' t a a! the principle of this measure, (the rejection tlP°` l ,, other ground of private bills being seldom resort ed !. toR that stage,) as well as of the hopelessness of anY t!' d be renewal of the same attempt."—The Chairman s °l tbl wished to be understood as not pledging himself t° o fr report. He entertained his former opinions on th e big ject. If he were right before that there was soln et witti illegal in their proceedings, he was right still. , t ol respect to the report. The object of the special we: be e was to consider the bill for separating the trust, an d !.bd was not a word said in the report as to that. He 0. ..%ft to know whether the sub-committee took steps to r e fit, that bill before the Standing Orders Committee ? - 1, 0 0 , Nicol, said that before the deputation proceeded t° ~/ don, that bill was thrown out on the standing orde e . ibet Mr. AIKIN said the notice calling the meeting de r, stated that the business was special and ifloportsProno, was the opinion of many gentlemen that the sp ec° , important meant not only one aggression, but a to get variety of aggressions, and they had happened n?s c , s ,,atli l rid of some of these aggressions. — Mr. TOBIN W ISI 'd bill had gone to the second reading, because the o ' f ments used would have prevented the measure from ceed brought forward another year. As it was, the Pr°depir ings were only pushed back.—Mr. MANN said the 0 ,0 1 tation wished the bill to go to the second reading , b j e j o gl l the number voting for it would have been We'" r insignificant.—Mr. BOLD : Not exceeding ten.- - cKa t o BINSON : Those who "fight and run away, fight another day." FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.—The ~t, sleeting of this association was held on Wednesday' * Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street; Mr. Charles tiLotfr in the chair, in the absence of Mr. Robertson Gla"-tint The Chairman, in opening the business of the riefooll congratulated the audience upon the fact, that f' ° „ ( 1 1, :l were the principles of the association being adon the manufacturers but also by the agriculturists, wh a go t now deserted the Duke of Richmond ; they '11 , ° ,0 11 ; adopted the Cobden budget, especially that part svir;10 0 :, ferred to the repeal of the malt tax. After having ~P, some inconsistencies in the conduct of Mr. W l . ls l ° ;a o editor of the Economist, in one of his financess4 ments, he stated that the words of the old toast ti e j Colonies, and Commerce." — meant quite the rectebee.r4 the meaning attached to them by the tories of , j school, and he objected to colonies being establisroft' the support of the lazy drones of society; in proc",,dl 100 he quoted the cases of the colonies of Demerara, v..,0 and British Guiana, which he stated cost the countqcotr shillings in the pound upon the cost of the articles " 0 1 sumption. This he attributed, in a great MeaSlir e l a , A absence in those countries of the laws of free trar, tY the countries where free trade prevailed, he proll:00,4 the principles advocated by the association were bre r .4 After a general allusion to the state of the coloni es %rit r , the chairman next adverted to the state of Gre/ 3 ,,,. 5 c1el and Ireland, and stated that if there was a fre e 4,,19: 4 land—at least in the management of the land i" il ld with h sen th t e w g a r s ea o t n is l t y h h e a e lf efi cu ts li t i e vate se d ei , e — ty it . 1 :0 1 m whichu the association with regard to the 125 admirals liaf r i4 attended ch a p t leased at the way in which the late state r ' received by the country and he expressed some cu p, priPl • as to whether any of these admirals wow(' rust. •:- wo v, as had been the case with a general who had sigoosei himself upon the tailoring question. As to the co ance of bullion by ships of our own, the chairlpflopi thatthis was merely a source of emolument tc:c. and admirals on the station. The amount of t_ of income was one and a half per cent., which 1 0 5.06 into three portions,—one quarter went to the a nd the station, one-half to the captain in comman°' 01 other quarter to Greenwich Hospital. But cbaoctio. as these were only given to some few favoured pale the words of Mr. Cobden, he thought this was o n the right direction. True it was, that by t 11 :4,0 s of this day, he saw that there was to be !'r,,e of the expenditure ; and what did o :ctort f, a reductipn in the naval exPe n o . l carcely £400,000 per annum. (Hear.) ,ated the abolition of all monopolies, the chairo9so4 pea ki n g three-quarters of an hour, concluded by 5 , ng a hope that this country would not , by he r IL_ the lAuffhine stock ^ t I c' in one bran( it was ? Why the world-L(louG t fulland i t n h t a e t gr th it e y y . w T oul he d ca fo rr lo y w o in u g t A i l s r a . n Co e b x d tr e a n e ' t s f b ro gi o d g r e tji%; port In laying before the friends of the LW, Dle? nancial Reform Association the proceedings 0 1 month, the difficulty has been found to lie, not ir l ,bt city, but in the plenitude of the materials from tbe make a suitable selection. At former meetings, ,c, ciples and objects of the association have bee,l b e '? and ably expounded and defended , that it woli , ". 00 , 4 o f supererogation to repeat them on this occasi„ present report, will, therefore, be confined to ' et . o tl e , narration of its more recent experiences and 0 1 4$ , toil The daily accession of members, from all qua r 7heP) fies to the strong impression already made on o f P',/ mind. While the catalogue exhibits the name . 0, ! l ir bers of Parliament, clergymen, learned prof.ordio,l smen of all grades and politica! - ' l O. l _he Council beg to direct especial attention I° i co f a I least interesting class of contributors, viz., . o e. men, in different places, who have cornb'tiopfl al n ries,* manna I.n n xllltab]P. subscriP% si. thus obtain and circulate among themselN): r e's publications of the association. The Connel,ilfD4 fully and earnestly recommend this example tol,es similarly circumstanced; and as their continu a ' c 'ego ing operations draw along with them corral expenditure, they take this opportunity 1° I'l all those who wish well with their peeunia o the cause to 0,14 Lance, without wh i liots ,shed. The Assoc ia s d r p ers, with confidenc e 10 0,) •__ faction, to their published tracts,—nine d been already issued, and' hundreds of thousani°,oo!,' are now being circulated, for the successful shameless waste, extravagance, and blundering o i 0! agement in the various branches of governme l) ret 9 tions included under the titles of Civil Lislif o otP Army, Navy, Ordnance, Ship-building, Forests, and Miscellaneous Expenditure." STEA'.9di DUBLIN AND LIVERPOOL COMPANY. reb The seventh half-yearly meeting of the silo Ay this company was held on Wednesday. last, at ° ,,y, at the Company's Central-office, 3, Burgh - q u 'rt,sl for the purpose of receiving the director's reP°oo, balance-sheet of the company's accounts, T r ectli December last, and for the election of nine 1 5 tee two auditors.for the ensuing year, and of a tr d fol room of Robert Smyth, Esq., deceased, at' business. . The chair was taken by Mr. James M'Cullogll') The secretary read the report, which eneel tor,r ,f• the gratifying announcement of a considerable/5 ment in. trade, the freights, principally of lA s e De cattle, having increased by £2,000 during . fo 01'40 r months. The number of the voyages Pe ;D O p two vessels had been 72. and the average reeelo rd, age .00. They had been in negotiation for t e a ; °,,o' of an additional vessel, which was much wan t „, 0 4 i 1 ; had at length secured the Waterwitch on re' l lio r n uo terms. This step had rendered necessary a e a " Ili/ per share, which they had made payable In jo ri molts. Some details were gone into of y nature to the public generally ; and the se Ise 0 been produced, were, along with the report,,P ,fOl meeting. lii ci) r 1 0 A lengthened conversation followed, in ``. 03 0 Fl the shareholders complained of inefficiency i°oo ment of the company's affairs, expensPie c 0 agencies, and of the fact that hitherto tile, f i t) very carried on without profit. To all til t Or i ll very satisfactory replies were furnished , 0 4° 1 0 that, whereas the agencies had been confine 0,4 6 possible economy, the great cause of the t il pe j# far, of profit to the shareholders, has been 0 meat by many of their liabilities, tbs s k e foo l t/ i directors to confine themselves to two bos,o,,w h ej is known to be impossible that such a line ' 17, 1 regularly, or profitably, with less than tbre e : o te 00 4 t i d ILlow be enabled to shew a more flattering 'aite c I At the conclusion a ballot took place for otl3 the meeting broke up in perfect , harmolliP thanks to. the . chairman I e 1 TI.Tv ARAI% Sle, and Tnio n, Blakele fr om Len, fro f g E l rp m an l) ti l d p M A Liv e 40;1 fro A R PO4l T 1;,.., ,r o , i Ili Ir k 41 At; de. er Li s