The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR — MONDAY.—Her Majesty held a privy council at the castle, this afternoon, at half-vast two o'clock. It was attended by the Marquis of Norman - by (who officiated as pre sident,) Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Earl of T./abridge, Hon. G. Anson. Viscount Falkland, Hon. Col. Grey, and Sir F. Stovin, were the lord, groom, and equerry in waiting. The Hon. W. Bathurst was the clerk of the council. Her Majesty was conducted to the council chamber by the Marchioness of Tavistock. Lord Holland was absent in consequence of the illness of Lady Holland, and Lord John Russell was also absent in consequence of the indisposition of the Duke of Bedford. At the council Lord Lyttleton was sworn in as the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Worcester. The council broke up at three o'clock. In the afternoon her Majesty took her accustomed airing in the park. The Queen was accom, anied by Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, Lady C. Barrington, Lady C. Dundas, Viscount Melbourne, Hon. Miss Paget, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Falkland, Count Kolowrath, Baron Alvensleben, Lord A. Paget, Sir F. Stovin ' Hon. Wm . Bathurst, Marquis of Normanby, Lord Cottenham, and Sir George and Miss Quentin. _ Prince Ernest, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, fol lowed the royal party in a pony phaeton. The Hon. Misses Cocks and Paget followed in a pony phaeton. . _ In the evening the Princes Ernest and Albert of Saxe Co burg enjoyed several hours' hunting in the park. The following personages arrived at the castle to-day, and will have the honour of joining the royal dinner party this evening :—Marquis of Normanby, Lord Cottenham, Lord and Lady Lyttelton, Hon. W. Bathurst, Hon. George Anson, Earl of Uxbridge. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—This afternoon the Queen took her accustomed ride in the park on horseback. Her Ma jesty was accompanied by Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir F. Stovin, Hon. William Cowper, Count Kolowrath, Baron Alvensleben, Baroness Lehzen, and Sir George and Miss Quentin. The Hon. Misses Cocks and Paget drove out in pony phaetons. Prince Ernest of Saxe Coburg and Loid Alfred Paget left for town, this morning, and will return to the castle in the evening. Lord Hill will arrive at the castle, this evening, to be present at the grand review which will take place to-morrow. Tne Marquis of Normanby, Lord Cottenham, Lord Lyttel ton, and Hon. William Bathurst have taken their departure. The following will be of the royal dinner party this evening : —Duchess of Kent, Prince Albert and Prince Ernest of Saxe Coburg, Ladies Tavistock, Dundas, and Barrington, Lords Melbourne, Hill, Palmerston, Falkland, and Paget, Hon. Misses Pitt, Paget, and Cocks, Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir F. Stovin, Mr. G. Anson, Hon. William Cowper, Count Kolowrata, Baron Alveusleben, and Baroness Lehzen. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—In consequence of the unfavourable state of the weather, the grand review, which was to have taken place this day in the Home Park, in the presence of her Majesty, was postponed till to-morrow. In consequence of the death of the Duke of Bedford, the Duchess of Bedford, who was at the castle in waiting upon her Majesty, took her departure this morning for London. Viscount Palmerston left the castle for London this morn ing, and will return to join the royal dinner party this evening. The following distinguished personages will be included in the royal dinner circle this evening :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Princes Ernest and Albert, of Saxe Coburg, Lady C. Dundas, Hon. Misses Cocks, Pitt, and Paget ; Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Falkland, Lord Alfred Paget, Count Kolowrath, Baron Al vensleben, Sir Frederick Stovin, Hon. C. A. Murray, Hon. W. Cowper, Lord Hill, Hon. Colonel Grey, Colonel Brown, Major Irton, and Captains Hill and Fletcher, of the 2d rifle brigade ; Colonel Townsend, 14th light dragoons ; Colonel Reid, 2d life guards ; Hon. G. Anson, Baroness Lehzen, and the two aides-de-camp. WRECK OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) The operations have been continued with great vigour during the whole of the week. On Monday last a small charge of 451bs. failing to move a large fragment of the wreck, another charge of the same quantity was fired near it, after which it yielded to the capstan, and when brought up proved to be the lower part of the foremast, perfect from the step upwards, to the length of 24 feet •, about 16 feet of which had been under the mud, above which it was nearly, but not en tirely cut in two by one of those small charges. The same afternoon a charge of 2601bs of powder was fired under the ship's starboard quarter, which was knocked to pieces, and part of the counter got up in consequence. On Tuesday the large wrought iron cylinder, which did not explode on Satur day last, having in the meantime, been emptied and filled again, was fired by the voltaic battery, at 20 minutes before 3. George Hall, the active and skilful Whitstable diver, had prepared the place for it in the morning by fixing a block and pulley, with ropes passed through the latter to one of the chain-sweeps placed round the wreck nearly two months ago by Mr. Sadler ; and on this occasion, instead of trusting to the ropes, he was diercted to go down with and guide the charge into its place, which he did by making signals from below, and occasionally coming up to explain himself when not perfectly understood : about an hour was consumed in this process, which he conducted with great deliberation, un til he got the cylinder near to the stem of the vessel about 3 feet from the bottom. He then came up, and when he had made his report, the lighter from which the cylinder had been lowered was moved to the distance of about 50 or 60 yards from its original position, and the conducting wires of the voltaic battery, previously connected with the charge, were veered out from a boat in which the battery was placed, this also removing to a similar distance. Colonel Pasley, who was on board the lighter, directing those arrangements, then caused a bugler to sound the preparative, as a signal that the explosion was about to take place, and soon after he ordered the same bugler to sound the fire the last note of which was still audible when the shock of the explosion was heard and felt ; the voltaic circuit having at that moment been completed by Lieutenant Symonds, who had taken post at the voltaic battery for that purpose ; he having previ ously assisted in carrying all the preliminary arrangements into effect. The mass of water thrown up does not appear to be more than 15 feet in height, and the spectators were amused by seeing an old boat, which Mr. Sadler, by permission of Annum nouverie, nau indeed the air in the column of water thus thrown up to the height of six or seven feet, after which it was turned over, and fell upside down, and for a little while disapp eare d. The subse quent circle of water gradually increasing in diameter, and swelling all round from the centre of the explosion, was not so black as on former occasions, but had a browner tint, as if coloured by iron rust and a yellow vapour passed off to leeward, seen by all, and supposed, by most of the specta tors, to be smoke—a phenomenon which had never been ob served in any of Colonel Pasley's former great explosions. The weather (unpromising in the morning) was beautiful, and a vast number of spectators were present in yachts and boats, both from Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. The tide ran too strong for the diver to examine the result that same day, but this explosion has since been ascertained to have been most effective. The whole of the fore part of the ship has been broken into large pieces. On Wednesday last the larboard and starboard sides of the bow were got up, each consisting of a mass of timbers with the outside planks and inside breasthooks, &c., attached to them, and each having two hauseholes and their leaden pipes perfect, as well as a large massy iron knee to each part, one of which had been broken in two by the shock. One of these fragments of the bow, measuring 18 by 21 feet in extreme width and length, was obliged to be lashed to the side of the Lively lighter, as it was too large to be got on board and in that state it was conveyed to the dockyard, where it was necessary to take it, as well as the other side of the bow, to the sheers, as either of them would have broken down the crane, by which all the former fragments of the wreck had been landed. On Thursday morning, the stem, consisting of a great number of massy pieces, bolted together, was got up, and in the afternoon the ship's coppers, or fire hearth, was got up with great difficulty, which had often been attempted before unsuccessfully. The boilers were of pure copper, di vided into two compartments by a vertical partition of the same metal, with two brass cocks, one of which was broken, but the other turns as freely as it could have done when new. The size of these boilers has been estimatedat rather more than 400 gallons. They were enclosed in an iron case of much lar ger size, to which the bars of the fireplace were fixed, and which the diver found perfect when he first went down, but which were broken by an explosion that Col. Pasley ordered to he fired the week before, for the purpose of loosening the coppers. A good deal of brickwork and some paving stones were attached to the iron case above alluded to, the mortar of which was quite soft, as all common chalk lime mortar must be when immersed under water. There can be no doubt that the last great explosion, by removing the whole of the stem and bows of the wreck, which stood 30 feet above the bottom, and thus admitting the tide to wash away the mud, has cleared the way for getting up the coppers. Those officers and gentlemen who have paid frequent visits to Spithead to see the operations, and who have examined the state of the fragments brought up, are now unanimously of opinion that it would have been perfectly chimerical to have attempted the removal of the wreck of the Royal George, in its present state, by any mechanical means, however powerful, without the aid of gunpowder in large masses. The charge fired on Tuesday was about 2400 lbs. The cause of its not exploding on Saturday last, was ascertained in the most satisfactory manner. Both the large charge of gunpowder, and the small priming charge of about three pounds, were found to be per fectly dry : but the two conducting copper wires, which were attached to a rope, had rubbed hard against the wreck on lowering the cylinder down, and thereby they had been de ranged and brought in contact with each other, and thus the voltaic circuit was completed, and the spark came back without reaching the powder. The wires, thus acted upon, were prepared about a year ago at Chatham, and not in so perfect a manner as another set fitted up lately on board the Success hulk, to which that accident could not probably have happened, and which will be used exclusively in future. Co lonel Pasley has had two of the cylinders made at Chatham yard taken to pieces, and has ascertained the cause of their insufficiency to have been a mistake on the part of the inge nious and skilful mechanic who superintended the making of them. The colonel had caused each cylinder to be composed of a wooden buoy inside, to be made and finished exactly like the mooring buoy for shipping, by caulking and paying it over with pitch and tar, which was then to be inclosed in a leaden cylinder, perfectly water tight, secured by pieces of elm, as well as by matting and a rope moulding, against the injuries to which that soft metal would otherwise have been liable. Nothing could possibly have been better than the workmanship both of the leaden and wooden cylinders; but unfortunately the caulking and paying over of the latter had been omitted. Hence in the first cylinder which failed, two small holes having been made through the lead by some point, probably the end of a bolt projecting from the wreck, the water penetrated through the pores of the wood, and spoiled the whole of the powder. In the second cylinder there was careless workmanship, not on the part of the men who made the buoy, nor of the plumbers ; but in putting on the outer casing, and moulding to secure the lead, one nail had been driven entirely through the metal, and some others nearly through it ; and thus the water got in, and, forcing its way through the pores of the wood, about one-fourth of the powder was spoiled, though it had only remained under water about an hour. By this unfortunate mistake in the con struction about 30001bs. of gunpowder were spoiled, and a good deal of time lost in consequence, whilst the two divers, whose services might have been better employed, were ex clusively engaged in attempting to get up the first cylinder, which was not recovered until a week after it went to the bottom. Colonel Pasley has made up his mind in conse quence never to use a double casing in future for such ex plosions, but to confine himself to one material, whether wood or metal; but upon the whole he considers the wrought iron cylinders, with conical ends (of which he used a num ber of small ones, made, under his direction. by Mr. Stebbing, and one large one by Mr. Taplin,) to be the best and most convenient vessels for submarine explosions, especially if it be necessary to empty and refil them, which may sometimes he required. SATURDAY, THREE, P.M. -- The Lively has just gone into harbour with a cargo from the Royal George, which has been recovered since Thursday, consisting of the stern and stemson, with the: remains of the knee of the head—a frag ment of several tons—a perfect breast hook, part of the counter or buttock timbers, with planking, rider, and knee. The whole, from their size, being portions of the wreck worth seeing. They will be landed this afternoon or Alon day morning. Seven muskets have also been got up in the course of this week. The boat blown up has been recovered with but little or no damage. -‘ ,"‘ ".• MARRIAGE OF THE QUEEN. (From the Britannia.) Among the alarms of the Protestant people of England is the new connexion which her Ministers and family are, it is presumed, 'about to form f or th e Q ueen . O n t h e su b ject of the royal individual, we shall always speak with due respect. We must regard all her public acts as those of her advisers : and in this feeling, while we lament that her Majesty should be the victim, we can have no consideration for the contri vances whiFh have thus raised a new source of surprise and vexation between the Throne and the people. That Lord Melbourne should have counselled the choice of a boy of nine teen for the Queen's husband, is perfectly consistent with his notorious principles ; he loves the Palace cookery too well, the comforts of the Palace parlour fire, and the lively asso ciation of the Palace chamber-maids of all degrees much too fondly, to give them up for any conceivable public object. A boy husband clearly affords the most feasible prospect of the continuance of a system of cheap gratifications, which— though any gentleman of England would regard as a mere system of mendicancy, a mere begging of his daily bread, a mere living on alms, and in the eye of public ridicule,—the easy conscience and unblushing cheek of the Premier regard as the luckiest appendage to office, the true scavoir vivre, the original evidence of his fitness to hold the reigns of supre macy. If a husband of nine years old could be found, he would answer the purpose only so much the better ; while the presence of a manly, intelligent, and high-minded person at the side of her Majesty would be a sentence of banishment from the Palace and its gratuitous meals ; the heaviest af fliction of political life to the cheap-feeding Minister. But to the actual match. We pass by the fact, that, of all the sojourners in England, the Prince Leopold rapidly con trived to make himself the most unpalatable of all princes to the nation. At his reception, highly popular for the sake of the Princess Charlotte, the national regard abandoned him within the next six months. About a year or two, he sank wholly from public view, and except for the appearance of his carts :at Claremont, with his name on them, and the weekly sale of his currants and gooseberries in the public market, it would have been forgotten that the gallant Prince Leopold had ever existed. By the annual receipt of his £50,000 for twenty years, he netted about a solid million of English gold, and was supposed to be the richest Coburg that ever existed, or ever will exist. The sum judiciously laid out would probably have purchased the whole princi pality, with its live stock of princes, and all. But our concern is not with his disposition to make cent. per cent. of our money, but with the blood which he sends among us in return for our past benevolence. The Coburg family has now three heads. Nothing can be more impartial in point of religion than this triple-headed dynasty; one of them professing to be Protestant, one of them to be Papist, and the third we must leave it to himself to decide what he is. The first he is a Protestant (according to the Protestant ism of Germany). Ernest, Duke of Saxe Coburg, whose son of many names, Prince Albert Francois Auguste Charles Emanuel, is the reputed candidate for the Royal hand. The second is a declared Papist, Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg, whose eldest son is the husband of the little Portuguese Queen, and a Papist. The third is Leopold of Belgium, who is married to a daughter of Louis. Philippe, the condi tion being announced, that his children shall be Papists. Without saying whether this lucky personage (who, by the way, still continues to receive a portion of his salary from England), is a Papist or not, we m a y conce i ve th e f ee li ngs with which an English Protestant would see his sons and daughters worshipping stocks and stones, pictures of the Virgin, statues of St. Nicodemus, and the thigh bone of St. Dominic. We think that the spectacle must require a good deal of Protestant philosophy, and a very remarkable sense of the value of a French alliance. However, the result will be, that our Protestant Queen will find herself suddenly sur rounded with Papist cousinship. We have had some speci mens of the kind already. Her litt'e Papist aunt, the Bel giant Queen, has tripped it among us with French vivacity, settled her secret business with a smile, and fluttered back to her land of burgomasters, to flutter over again when the next little affair to be transacted dexterously at court shall, make it necessary for her to put herself into the steam-boat. Then we have had no less than three Papist cousins taking their Sunday morning's leave of her Majesty at the break fast-table, to go off in the prettiest manner to hear mass at the chapel, while her Majesty went on her way to the church ; and all this done in the most simple and affectionate style. Who can imagine that there is any great harm in Popery, when it moves about palaces and terraces in such gay and graceful forms ! However, on the strength of these royal and princely promenades, the priests are about giving up their old chapel, and building a showy affair, fitter for the reception of Papist princes and princesses, of whom they evidently ex pect a regular supply in the season ; and bringing it nearer the palace, too, for the convenience of those gay strangers and their converts. Doubtless we shall have .the honour of a visit from little Donna Maria, the most bigotted little woman in the most bigotted kingdom of the globe. Then the Coburgs are like the clever inhabitants of thenorthern portion of our island, prodigious ramifiers, great spreaders of their blood ; they have planted little crooked stems of themselves all over Ger many, and we shall have them all one after another. Where the carcases are there will the crows be; where the dinners are there will the Coburgs be. In the mean time we shall have a succession of Popish kings, queens, princes, dukes, generals, and duchesses constantly running over here—a per petual grand gala of the hungry, the gay, and the crafty, all laced and liveried, driving about from show to show all day, dancing all night, but going in solemn sanctity to the chapel on the fasts and feasts, to count their ten ayes to one pater noster, and then after performing their genuflexions, and raising their eyes to the holy wafer, come back to sport through the feast and the dance as festively as ever. But they will have their confessors, too, and their secret devo tions, and their dexterous correspondence, and their pious aspirations for the restoration of heretic England to the arms of the holy mother at Rome ! What would not such a restora tion be worth to the restorer? Why it would sweep away every tin of the most frolic princess since Margaret of France; Ninon de L'Enclos herself would be sure of canonization. It would secure a donative from the Papal exchequer worth twice the fortune of the most successful opera. dancer ! Can we doubt that there are thousands of eager eyes turned from the cells and palaces of the continent, at this hour, on Eng gland, regarding the whole as a great experiment, rejoicing to see the, growing facility with which we suffer Papistry in all its shapes to overrun our country, and rejoicing most of all in the prospects held out to them by the rapid rise of the most venomous clients of the priesthood into power. Popish ascendancy, if not instantly checked, must break down the Constitution and the Church of England. We ask, which of the Protestant bishops has formed the guest of the palace, under Lord Melbourne's government ? which of them is ever consulted? Is the venerable primate placed at the right hand of majesty. Is the sar , acity of the 13ishon. of London =once tne tavounte enjoyment s o r me royal circle e is any distin guished ecclesiastic sought for by ministers, as the natural friend of the first Protestant Sovereign of Europe ? We have treated this marriage and matter in a lighter manner than its infinite importance deserves. Protestantism is not an opinion, nor the power of a sect—it is Christianity in its purest form ; it is religion in its most freeborn, sacred, and essential activity : it is virtue of heart, vigour of intelli gence, and liberty of being. If Protestantism is enfeebled among us, all is weak ; if perverted, all is stained; if de stroyed all is destroyed. We stand at this hour like a people gathered on some vast cliff, overlooking a stormy ocean. Hitherto, the heavings of Europe have been only things of remote contemplation. We have followed the fate of its thrones as we watch the course of ships struggling through the tempest, and anxious as we were for their safety, .we could feel but as men on solid ground ; but a new agent of ruin is in action, we feel the ground shaking under our feet—the more solid the bulwark the more precipitate will be the fall ; it is not the tempest that we have now to dread, but the working of the subterranean fire—our enemy is the earth quake. The danger is under our feet, and if we perish, not even a remnant will be left on the shore ! THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD. THE DOUNE, PERTHSHIRE,—MONDAY.—It is with deep regret I forward you intelligence of the death of the Duke of Bedford, which took place yesterday morning, at half past one. His grace had an apoplectic fit (the third) on Friday, after which the noble duke never spoke. The Duchess of Bedford, Lady Georgiana Russell, Lady Rachel Russell, Lords Cosmo and Alexander Russell, and several other mem bers of the family, were present at the melancholy dissolution of his grace. The late duke, who was Duke and Earl of Bedford, Mar quis of Tavistock, Baron Russell of Cheneys, in the county of Bucks, Ba r o n R usse ll o f Th orn h aug h , and ' Baron Hough land, of StreAham, in the county of Surrey, in the peerage of the united kingdom, was born the 6th July, 1766, an d mar ried in March, 1786, to the Hon. Georgiana Byng, daughter of the late Lord Torrington, by whom his grace had the Mar quis of Tavistock, Lord George Russell, and Lord John Russell. In 1801, the above lady died, and in March, 1802, the late duke succeeded to the title and estates on the death of his brother the fifth duke. In June, 1803, the late duke married the Lady Georgiana Gordon, the daughter of the Duke of Gordon, by whom his grace has left issue the Lady Georgiana Russell, Lord Henry Russell, Lord William Russell, Lords Cosmo and Alexander Russell, Lady Rachel Russell, the Marchioness of Abercorn , &c. His grace, in addition to his before mentioned titles, was a knight of the Garter, F.S.A. F.L.S. Recorder of Bedford, &c. The Marquis of Tavistock, now Duke of Bedford, is in his 51st year, having been born in 1788, and married Lady Anna Maria Stanhope, daughter of the late Earl of Harrington, in 1808, by whom his grace h as i ssue L or d R usse ll , now Marquis of Tavistock, born in 1808. The Duchess of Bedford was at *Windsor Castle, in attend ance on the Queen, as one of the ladies of the bedchamber, when the intelligence of the late duke's sudden death was re ceived from Scotland. The Duke of Bedford is at Oakley House, Beds.—Correspondent of the Morning Herald. NOVEL IMPORTATION.—A vessel just arrived at Aberdeen from Hamburg, has brought over a ton and a half of comb honey! THE ST. HELENA RAT.—One of the most gigantic specimens of the rat breed is now to be seen in Glasgow at the premises of Mr. L. Smith, 141, Saltmarket. The animal is a female, and was brought from St. Helena about fifteen months ago, when she was about_eight months old, and weighed the same number of pounds. Now her weight is 13 lbs., sixteen ounces to the pound, and she measures 2 feet 9 inches between the tip of the nose and the point of the tail. Her incisors are fully an inch in length, and from the girth of limb, which is nearly equal to that of an otter, the animal must possess immense power. She is of the water tribe, and her hind feet are webbed. In every respect she has the appearance of an ordinary rat, though of immense magnitude, and as the beast is visited by many who are curious in natural history, almost all instinctively start back when she is placed at liberty on a table. Yet she is as gentle as a rabbit, and has never tasted flesh or fish, though she is very fond of a plunge in the Clyde. Her food is vegetables, and, strange as it may appear, the drink which the animal prizes above all others, is ale or porter, while she rigidly eschews whisky. Occasionally she allows the " malt to get aboon the meal," and cuts curious antics while in merry mood. Specimens of the same breed have not before been known in this part of the country, and an addition of the tribe to our present list of vermin is a matter more to be " honoured in the breach than the observance." —Glasgow Mail. FAVOURABLE RESULT OF THE RECENT REVISION IN MARYLEBONE.—It appears from a very elaborate table of the recent revision, drawn out by Mr. Rook, the assistant secretary to the Loyal and Constitutional Association of the above borough, that the result of the revision is extremely favourable to the conservative cause. The number of voters on the register for 1838, was 11,481 ; for the present year it is 11,626—an increase of 145. On the present register there are 2,798 voters, who were 'not on that of 1838, and the pre sent register loses' 2,653 voters who were on the register of last year. Of the latter number, 593 voted for Lord Teign mouth, 559 for Ewart, and 22 for Thompson ; 512 did not vote at all, and 977 of them were on the register only of 1838. Of 411 who voted in March, 1838, disqualified that year, but now registered, 228 voted f or L or d T e i gnmou th, 177 for Ewart, and 6 for Thompson. Therefore the increase of new electors is 2,798 ; so that abating the number who voted in March, 1839, now registered, and adding Thompson's 16 vo ters gone off, there remained on the register of 1838, who voted, 3,513 for Lord Teignmouth, and 3,298 for the liberals ; leaving on this year's register, who voted, 3,158 for Lord Teignmouth, and 2,900 for th e liberals, being a majority for his lordship of 258—a clear gain of 40 in favour of the con servative majority of 218 over both the ,liberal candidates at the election of 1838. Besides such majority, it is to be ob served that a large number of conservative voters has been recently added to the Paddington list. In this parish, during last year, a great many of the first-rate and respectable houses recently built have got into rate, and it is well known that, of the occupants, a decided majority are conservative.—Morn ing Herald. S A BRIEF ACCOUNT or TEE REVIVAL oFRELIGION AT KILSYTH : IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND. BY THE REV. W. M. HETHERINGTON, A.M. Minister of Torphiichen Linlithgowshire. (From the Scottish Christian Herald) MY DEAR SIR,—As you expressed an earnest wish that I would write to you an account of the religious reviyal of Kil syth, as soon after I had visited the place as possible, I shall, without farther delay, give you an outline of what I either witnessed myself or learned from the statements of others, — persons whose testimony, were I to mention their names, would command the most implicit confidence, as beyond all suspicion. You are aware that lam not myself disposed to admit rashly, as true, any report of a strange or wonderful character; but having repeatedly heard it stated, that a re markable revival of religion; or what bore strong appearances of deserving that designation, had taken place at Kilsyth, I thought it my duty to take an early opportunity of visiting that parish, that I might ascertain by personal investigation what reality there seemed to be in the reports that had reached me. I went, therefore, resolved to make the most minute in quiry in my power, —to believe nothing without what should appear to me sufficient evidence, and to reject nothing which should be, supported by what I might deem sufficient evi dence. On my arrival at Kilsyth, I had the good fortune to meet with a clergyman, now settled in another part of the country, who had resided several years in Kilsyth, and was intimately acquainted with the place and its inhabitants. Accompanied by him, I went among the people freely, from house to house, and mingled with them while engaged in their daily labours, in their own abodes, or in public manufac tories, and quite unaware of my visit, so that they could not be in the least prepared with answers to my questions, or with appearances arranged for the purpose of deceiving me. .I conversed familiarly with old and young, men and women, boys and girls, and gathered from their own lips a plain ac count of their feelings, views, and entire state of mind with regard to religion ; judging, at the same time, as accurately as I could whether their language and conduct were those of truth and soberness or whether they we r e m ere ly th e resu lt of some strange and temporary excitement. But before proceeding to state what came under my own observation, it may be expedient briefly to mention the cir cumstances which preceded the events which at present have attracted, and still attract, so much of public attention. I cannot, of course, in this be very minute, nor shall I attempt it ; as in all probability, a full account of the matter will ere long be given to the public by the much respectecl,minister of the parish himself. It appears, that for many years the utmost pains have been taken by Mr. Burns, the minister, to promote the progress of vital religion among his people. Sabbath schools were established as early as 1809, and have been in operation ever since. In 1826, the parish began to enjoy the benefit of an able, pious, and zealous schoolmaster, all whose labours were based upon the principles, and con ducted in the spirit, of scriptural religion. A gradual change was consequently effected iu the rising generation, the fruits of which are now becoming extensively apparent. In 1829, the kirk session appointed a fast-day to be obseryed, ex pressly for the purpose of humbling themselves on account of the prevalence of vice and immorality, and the low state of personal religion among them. Though this was opposed by some, yet many were awakened to a degree of serious con cern on account of their sinful condition. From this time forward a greater degree of earnestness in religious matters began to appear among the people. In 1832, the terrible scourge of the cholera excited an unusual degree of alarm in the minds of great numbers ; and many prayer meetings were formed, which were numerously attended. Nor did they drop into neglect upon the termination of that awful pestilence, but were continued ; and the object for which special suppli cations were offered up to God, was very frequently that He would be graciously pleased to awaken a spirit of earnest and vital religion among them, and throughout the Christian Church generally. In 1835, at the March communion, many were seriously impressed, and gave proofs of having obtained a saving change of heart and principles. There had thus been gradually growing a sort of serious under-current of re ligious inquiry, though without making any very decided ap pearance till of late. A short while previous to the last dis pensation Of the Sacrament, the people were impressed with an earnest desire that God would be pleased to make it a period of more than usual refreshing from his gracious pre sence ? and many prayer-meetings were held, expressly for the purpose of supplicating a more than usual outpouring of the Holy Spirit on that solemn occasion. These meetings, it is of importance to notice, wereheld by the spontaneous im pulse of the people themselves,—not got up by the impor tunity of their minister, as is generally the case in America, and sometimes elsewhere ; and the tenor of them was chiefly that God would bless his servants, the minister, and their ministrations, for the promotion of his own glory. Along with this spirit of prayer, there was a dim, indefinite, hope that it might be g ranted,—a wish ripeni ng i n t o an expec t at i on that the prayer of faith would be heard. The ministrations of the Sacrament Sabbath was attended to with deep and earnest seriousness, and great solemnity ; but not beyond what had been - the case on former occasions. On the Mon day after the Sacrament, a stirring of the mind of the con gregation began to appear. Next day Mr. William Burns, son of the minister, preached to those young persons who had been his own early friends and companions. His sermon was a sort of farewell discourse, as he was about to depart to another scene of labour, and ere long to enter upon the mis sionary enterprise. At the close of some urgent_ and affec tionate appeals to their conscience, the impression became manifest. From countenance to countenance, from eye to eye, from heart to heart, it spread, like the thrilling of the electric spark, or the rapid gleam of lightning. Tears streamed'down many a face, and many a bosomheaved with strong emotion ; yet the excitement was, upon the whole, mental rather than bodily; or if bodily; only so because the mental emotion could not be concealed. The state of mental feeling was also purely scriptural. It could not be more ac curately expressed than in the account given of the Pente costal converts,—" They were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do ?" Or, in the language of the jailer of Philippi, they cried out, " What shall 1 do to be saved ?" Next day, numbers came to the minister, desiring to in quire how their souls might obtain relief from the deep con victions of sin, by which they were wrung even to agony. Nor did this awakened state of feeling pass away like a mere transient emotion. Day after day, they requested that the word of God might be preached to them. They did indeed " hunger and thirst after righteousness ;" and could not be satisfied till they obtained an interest in the perfect righteous ness of Christ. From that time, till now, there has been preaching every evening in the church, neighbouring minis ters willingly lending their aid in so good and important a cause. - these particulars I learned from various persons wh o had been personally cognizant of the whole matter, from its commencement till the period of my visit. I must now state 1 a few particulars of what I myself witnessed. - I conversedvvith many who had experienced these impres sions, and endeavoured to ascertain their beginning, progress, and present state. I found they had been invariably impresses" with a deep conviction of sin ; and that not in the vague manner which too often leads to nothing, nor merely on ac count of some individual sins of peculiar enormity, but of the sinfulness of the• heart, the deep depravity of human nature, and of their own in particular, which they felt to be the source of all actual sins. They felt intense, almost over- - whelming sorrows on account of their sins ; but chiefly on account of their heinousness in the sight of God,—their aggravated character when viewed as committed against infi nite goodness, mercy, and redeeming love. They sought not to shelter themselves under the frivolous excuse, that they had not been worse than others ; nor under a searching sermon did they evade its force, by imagining how well it might apply to others ; but each took the admo nition to himself,—each felt the plague of his own heart,— _ each felt his own burden to be greater than he could bear, — and yet entirely his own. Some endeavoured to shake off the impression, betaking themselves with double assiduity to their worldly pleasures or labours ; -but were again arrested by the power of Divine truth, and compelled to flee for refuge to Christ finding all their devices ineffectual. Those who thus sought relief found it after a longer or shorter period, where alone it is to be found ;—in contemplating with earnest faith, the " Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world ;"—only in that complete " change of heart" which is the result of being " born anew of the spirit." In all of them with whom I conversed, I found the main features the same, yet diversified in conformity with the va ried shades of character and circumstance of those who had experienced the power of the same Divine truths. They all expressed deep humility,—entire abandonment of all trust in themselves,—faith in the finished work and perfect rigteous ness of Christ, as the only and the all-sufficient ground of salvation,—deep and grateful adoration of their great G o d an d Saviour.—and love to every 'Christian, accompanied by pity for every sinner, and an earnest desire for the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom,—the reign of peace, of holiness, and love. The external effects are also deserving of notice. Drunken ness, which formerly prevailed to a great degree, strife, rail ing, evil-speaking, political agitation, and animosity, are, for the present, completely suspended. The master manufac turers by whom the workmen are chiefly employed, were at first apprehensive that such a degree of religious excitement would seriously interfere vi ith the duties of the people, but they have found that the time devoted to religion is much more than compensated by the greater regularity, faithful ness, and alacrity with which they attend to their work, and by their increased sobriety, and the obliging and attentive manner in which they conduct themselves. This has natu rally given rise to a corresponding degree of kind, considerate, and generous conduct on the part of the masters and em ployers,—thereby proving that vital Christianity is the very life and cement of society, that " godliness is profitable for all things," and that tobe " fervent in spirit" promotes " di ligence in business." It should be added, that in walking along the streets about bed-time, instead of the boisterous din of drunken revelry, which formerly abounded, there is now only to be heard, as I can myself testify, the solemn tones of prayer and praise to God, through Christ, and by the As I was desirous to explore the matter as thoroughly as possible, I not only conversed with the people in their own houses, but also went with them to church in the evening. They came as they had left their work—it was a week-day evening —grey-headed men and women, others in the prime and strength of life, others still young, down to almost child hood, not a few mothers with their infants in their arms, dis playing at once the sweet solicitude of maternal love, and the earnest anxiety of immortal creatures seeking the way of eter nal life. The deep, devoted seriousness with which they lis tened, the bright looks of awakened life which beamed from their eyes, the heart-worm .earnestness end fervency with which they sung the praises of God, surpassed any thing I ever saw or heard. Instead of the discouraging uncertainty whether people are attending and receiving benefit, which too often strikes a chill into the heart of a minister, it was impossidle not to feel that every word found ready entrance into hearts prepared to receive the truth in the love of it, with the simplicity and the teachableness of little children. They seemed as if they could never tire listening to the tidings of salvation; and I felt (for I too addressed them) as if I could never tire proclaiming these glad tidings. I have frequently met and conversed with pious individual Christians, and felt my heart refreshed by the converse, while I regretted deeply that such intercourse is comparatively so rare. But never have I witnessed any thing at all to compare with what I saw and heard at Kilsyth. I could have imagined that eighteen centuries had been rolled back, and I had been permitted to obtain a glimpse of pure, true, living Christianity, as it was seen in apostolic times ! I could not help saying in ply own mind, " What hath God wrought !" " This is the doing of the Lord, and wondrous in our eyes !" " God hath visited his people !" I could give you anecdotes illustrative of each and all of these statements, from the intercourse I had with the people both in my first and my second visits to Kilsyth,—for 1 may mention that I made a second visit, which has only con firmed in my mind the impresSions produced by the first—but I think it is premature yet to 'relate any such anecdotes, and scarcely consistent with the - respect due to private conversa tions—scarcely expedient, lest it should subject individuals to troublesome, and perhaps injurious, intrusion. I may add, that there is, no doubt, a considerable degree of excitement in the place, which must needs abate, for it is " first joy, then peace in believing," but not more than this is due to a state of mind awakened to a right sense of the respective va lues of earth and heaven, time and eternity, sin and holiness, and to the infinite importance of these considerations, as in volving the welfare or the woe, for ever, of their own immor tal souls. The wonder is, not that such deep interest is oc casionally felt, but that it is not always felt when such topics are brought before the mind. If this work be of God, as I believe it is, my earnest prayer is, MAY IT BECOME UNIVER SAL! Among the recent arrivals at Paris is the Countess of Essex, formerly Miss Stephens. Her ladyship is said to be in rather ill health. MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. Leigh Hunt has written a play, which has been ac cepted at Covent Garden. We have accounts from Martinique to the 2d ult. About twelve vessels were in port waiting for loading. Mercantile affairs were at a complete stand still. Le National states, " that the. Prince de Joinville had ob tained a firman from the Sultan, authorising him to winter at Constantinople with the Belle Poule, a frigate of 60 guns, which he now commands." M. 131anqui, a gentleman of good family, who is charged with being a party to the insurrection at Paris in May last, was arrested in that capital,'on Monday night, on his return from London. Last spring, Mr. Peter Gowran, of Ballinabroekey, county Meath, sowed two ounces of the potato called "Early Re lievers," which produced this harvest twelve pounds and ; or, two hundred ounces! This we think good news for farmers.—Limerick Standard. Rinsoxism.—A Cavan correspondent has communicated to the Newry Telegraph the astounding fact that papers con nected with Ribbonism have been found in the barracks at Cavan, and that some of the soldiers have been committed to prison. —Evening Packet, Nurs.—ln the neighbourhood of Kendal, which has in former years been so very prolific in nuts, there is scarcely one to be found. The scarcity will, we believe, be general. Our advices from Cuba are to the 17th ult. Coffee had experienced an extraordinary rise, the crop having totally failed. The fine qualities were quoted as high as 17 piastres, and the ordinary at 11 piastres. Prussia is about to despatch an agent to this country com missioned to report on the penny postage plan, which is ex citing the most lively interest in the German papers at this time.—Post Circular. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—It is currently rumoured that a matrimonial alliance is expected to take place between the Hon. George Wentworth Fitzwilliam and a daughter of Earl Carlisles, and sister to Lord l'lorpeth. Some letters from the Swan River to May speak well of that settlement, its improvements proceeded slowly yet steadily. Some respectable emigrants had arrived out from Liverpool by the Hindoo ; others were expected, whose chief object would be the extension of the fisheries. SUICIDES.—The number of individuals who have com mitted self-destruction in London within the last week or two, alas! has been greater than ever known before in such a period. As far as can be ascertained, there have been no fewer than 40 inquests on suicidcS in the course of the pre sent week.— Courier. Somebody says—" Mr. Turton, who went to Canada, is to be the new judge."—We should not be at all surprised at it, for nothing is " too b: d" for the whigs; and the appoint ment would in some sort be appropriate :—Lord Melbourne for prime minister, Lord Headfort for a lord of the bedcham ber, and Mr. Turton for one of the judges of the land ! MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—Some very absurd specula tions have been afloat, and have been published in several journals, as to the probability of an early assembling of par liament. We arc able to state most positively, that as there exists no reason for such a course, so there is no intention of adopting it. Parliament will be prorogued as usual in a. few days, and will not assemble until the usual time in the coming year.—Globe. POLITE REQUEST.--If the persons who stole the stack of wheat, the property of Mr. Walker, coal merchant, of Lei cester, from the barn at Birstall, this week, will be so good as to return the sack, the said Jos. Walker will feel obliged; as he wants to winnow again and, moreover, as the sack was borrowed, and has the owner's name marked on each side of it in large letters, it possibly may be inconvenient for them to use it in common.—Leicestershire Mercury. ALL THE DIFFERENCE.—The other day many influential members of a religious society in this neighbourhood were equally surprised and delighted to receive manuscript circu lars, stating that after the services on certain days named, " collations will be taken." Judge of their disappointment, when they were informed at the proper time, that " colla tions" had been accidentally written for " collections.— Sunderland Herald. ANOTHER PRESENT TO CAPT. HOSKEN.—A splendid silver telescope and case has just been completed, with the inscription Presented to Capt. J. Hosken, commander of the Great Western Steam Ship, as a testimonial of regard and esteem on the happy termination of the shortest voyage ever made from Europe to America, having left Bristol the 18th of May 1839, and arrived at New York on the 31st of the same month." GLASGOW AND - GREENOCK RAILWAY.—Mr. Wallace, M.P., and Mr. James Loch; M.P., who are both interested in the line, visited the works on the 10th inst., accompanied by the Chairman and others connected with the Railway. They expressed themselves much gratified at the progress made, and the engineer assured them that notwithstanding the late severe rains, he had every confidence, in opening the entire line early in the next summer, as originally contem plated.—Glasgow Mail. FOSSIL REMAINS.—During the week, as the workmen employed in sinking the new coal-pit belonging to Messrs. Day and Twibell, situate in the valley on the Eastern side of Barnsley, they discovered, at a depth of 150 yards, imbedded in the solid rock, some beautiful specimens of fossil, some of which represent the bole of the fir tree, others sprigs of myr tle, shamrocks, and various other vegetable productions. The owners of the pit have carefully deposited these works of nature in the counting-house attached to the works. NEW SOCIETY OF PomoLoorsTs.—ln consequence of the recent reduction of duty on foreign apples, the home growers have entered into an association, entitled, " The British Pomological Society," for the purpose, not only of counter acting the importation of foreign fruit as much as possible, but of convincing the metropolitan dealers and the public that even better apples, pears, &c. are gathered generally on the English soil than those now and recently imported from France, Germany, and the Netherlands. " The generosity of Paganini towards M. Berlioz has just been thrown in the shade" says the Nouvelliste, " by an act of princely munificence of M. Listz. This celebrated piano fortist, seeing that the subscription which has been opened for a monument to Beethoven had not reached the desired amount, has completed it by the munificent gift of 60,000 f., the entire fruit of his economy. The detachments of her Mrjesty's troops destined for the West Indies will be kept back until the proposed new esta blishment of the deplt companies is decided. The state ment of a cpntemporary, that fhey,,have been decide 1, was .not only a guess, but an unlucky guess. The details of the new arrangement of the depot system, announced by us as in contemplation on the 21st September, have not yet been com pleted. A difference of opinion on the subject is understood to have arisen between Lord Hill and the government (Lord John Russell) on the subject.—United Service Gazette. The grumblers have • had their murmurings stopped. Thursday and yesterday were glorious days for the country. Bright and warm, they must have gladdened the heart of the hnsbandman, and brought joy to the cabins of the poor, who, in fearfulness and alarm, have been anticipating scarcity and famine. All classes of the people have much cause for thank fulness to the bountiful " Lord of the harvest."—Newry Telegraph. THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD AGAIN.—Mr. Sheepshanks, residing near Spalding, Lincolnshire, had a bill brought into him, from a village blacksmith, as follows :—‘.‘ To menden to broken sorspuns-4 punse. To handl to a kleffer-6, To pointen 3 iren skures-3. To repairen a Milton 2. A klap per to a bel-8. Mensen atenden a cow sik the an norman a bad i-6. To arf ada elpen a fillup a taken in a rik—l sil lin. To a hole day elpen a fillup a taken in arvist-2 Totte 4 sillins and tifpunse." THE BRITISH QUEEN STEAM - SHIP. —DIABOLICAL AT TEMPT.—Previous to the British Queen leaving New York the engineer detected several pieces of iron put into the ma chinery by some •evil-disposed persons, which would have caused extensive destruction had the discovery not been made in time. This should he a warning to all engineers to exa mine their machinery carefully whenever they have been in a position admitting of the possibility of malicious persons hav ing access to their vessels. The officers of the British Queen have not been able to fix suspicion on any particular party. — Shipping Gazette. PROPORTION OF CRIME TO POPULATION.—III the sixteenth report on the Preston House of Correction, presented to the visiting justices the other day, by the Rev. John Clay. the chaplain, we meet with the following paragraph is well known that a dense population is much more productive of crime than en equally numerous one more widely spread ; but this circumstance is scarcely sufficient to explain the glaring discrepancy between crime in Preston, which appears to be as 1 every 245 inhabitants—and in the district of Ressendale Forest, where it seems as 1 to 3,739—0 r in Pendle Forest where it is 1 to 7,092 !" , POSTING AND STAGE BUSINESS. —The falling off of the posting and stage business was never more visible than dur ing the Doncaster race week, the greater portion of the com pany having travelled by railway ; and one of the oldest stages that was always taken up before the time, came down with a single passenger on the principal day. On the roads leading from the railway every vehicle was full, and at one of the leading inns on the road five pairs of horses were sufficient for which twenty were formerly needed. A much greater falling off may be expected on the opening of the North Mid land Railway.—Leeds Intelligencer. NEW VARIETY of BARLEY.—A paragraph appeared in this paper a few weeks Since, stating, that a new variety of barley, named Providence barley, was then growing in a field belonging to Mr. Samuel Barnes, of Westbury, and was then supposed would average from ten to twelve quarters per acre. • It has since been cut - and thrashed ; the quantity sown was one quart, which stocked twenty-four perches of land, the produca of which was three sacks one bushel and a half,being at the rate of more than eleven quarters per acre ; and it would have yielded at least three bushels more, had not a considerable quantity of it been destroyed by the rooks when the seed was springing up, which would then have averaged more Than twelve quarters and a half per acre.—Wiltsinde pendent. BEAU BILUMMELL.—It will be matter of news to many persons to hear that this -once celebrated person, the arbiter elegantiarum of the days of, George IV., when Prince of Wales, and the " glass in. which the' youth—that is, the fashionable youth of England, did. (in those times) dress themselves," is now in confinement in a place set apart for those who labour under mental derangement, in Caen, in Normanby. This admired of all admirers is existing on the almost extorted benevolence of relations, and the contribu tions of old friends. The whole amount of his income is scarcely £lOO a-year. Poor George ! How differently must his luxuries be now so what they once were ! £lOO a-year for one who began life with a good fortune, high expecta tions, great connections, and princely patronage. The ruling passing reigns triumphant even in the walls of a mad-house. Beau Brunimell still imagines himself a fine gentleman, and assumes all the airs and importance of by-gone popularity and gone fortune. Amongst other feats he rings the bell of his solitary apartment continually. The keeper, who with great hnmanity hun,ourS his insanity, asks what commands? " Order my carriage," says the light of other days ; " I must go directly to Carlton House to see the prince."— Morning Herald. ANCIENT GLOVES.--A short time ago, one of our High land exquisites discovered on the counter of one of our shops a lot of " Hedgers Gloves," and, from his never having sec n such'articles, his curiosity was awaken id to learn their use. The shopman, with a deal of assumed gravity, waggishly in formed him that they were fac-similes of those worn in the fourteenth century ; that they had been ordered for a noble man in the neigbourhood, for the tournament, but had arri ved too late to be used on the occasion. Eager inquiry was made by the dandy whether he could get a pair, which being assented to—the price was instantly told down, and the gloves pocketed with an air of triumph. Since this fortu nate acquirement, our hero may be seen promenading the streets, and occasionally escorting some of the fair maids of Perth, gloved up to the elbows like one of gude King Jamie's Falconers, quite unconscious of the dignity he has conferred on the hedger's gloves.—Perth Advertiser. ADVENTURE OF, A TEN POUND NOTE.—On Monday, a youth, in the employ of Mr. Trimbie, woollen manufacturer, Bury, was sent by his master to the post-ofEce in that town, with a letter containing a note for £lO. The youth had placed the letter in his cap, but having occasion to scratch his head during the walk, he unluckily dropped the letter in the street, and he, not. perceiving his loss, proceeded to the post-office, when lo ! on examining his cap the valuable article was miss ing. In a pitiable s t a t e o f mind the youth retraced h i s steps to the dwelling of his employer, and informed him of his mis fortune. The letter was afterwards found in the post-office, having been picked up by a female, who, perceiving it was not directed for any person in Bury, very properly put it in the post-office, wh6n, after sending the town's crier round the town, and some hours search and enquiry for the missing treasure, it was found.—Manchester Courier. The Marquis of Huntley, it is now expected, will pay 12s. 6d. in the pound. The railroad from Naples to Castellamare was opened on the 4th instant, with great rejoicings. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.—The result of the registration for this county gives a conservative gain of 69. Mr. Charles Layfield, of Richmond, grocer, has two apple trees-.in his garden in full bloom. RUSSIAN FORESTS.—The boundless extent of wood with which Russia is covered, may be inferred from the condition of one government alone, in which of fifty millions of acres (its whole extent), forty-seven millions consist exclusively of forests. According to an estimate made in 1809, which re fers only to the north of Russia, these forests appeared to contain no fewer than 8,192,259 pines fit to be masts, each being at least 30 inches in diameter. The accuracy of this estimate has since been amply confirmed by actual survey, in the course of which it has been ascertained, that, in the three northern governments of Vologda, Archangel, and Olonetz, there are 216,000 acres of pine and fir. IMMENSE METEOR.—As we were proceeding from Beau maris to Bangor, on the evening of Tuesday last, we were startled by the sudden apPearance of a meteor of most unu sual size and splendour, which darted from the constellations in the vicinage of the polar star, and shot over to the stars of the south with the most astonishing brilliancy and speed. Its diameter occupied a space upon the retina more than double that of the sun or moon, and its light was as perva ding and intense as that of the most vivid lightning. It lasted, however, but an instant. Our horse cowered under the flash, and our fellow-travellers were astonished, having never before witnessed so large and luminous a meteor. Its extinction and transit were alike destitute of sound. The evening was close and damp.—Carnarvon Herald. A curious circumstance took place last week. At Kibbles worth, near Lamesley, a farmer (Mr. W. Thirlway) has an excellent cow, that suddenly left off giving her usual supply of milk. She was " erowdied," and every pains taken to restore her; but, in spite of all that was done, she still grew worse ; when, lo! a neighbou r i ng l a d, w ho happened to be going through the field where she was grazing, saw a colt, the foal of an ass, very industriously sucking the favourite cow ! This fully explained the matter, and set at rest the conjectures as to who was the thief. Mister Donkey (who was no ass) was immediately removed; and the cow is now giving her accustomed quantity of milk. It had been ob served, that the little ass was getting very fat in its good pasturage.—Gateshead Observer. • THE EXPERIMENTAL . WOOD PAVING IN OXFORD STREET, LONDON.—The vestry of St. Marylebone having de termined on paving with wood the whole of the carriage-way of Oxford-street, from Rathbone-place to Wells-street; being a space of 4000 superficiallards, the paving committee met on Monday to consider the matter ; and, after considerable discussion, it was resolved to invite all the known projectors of plans for wood paving to lay down specimens of their dif ferent modes of, performing the works within the above named space. A variety of specimens of wooden blocks, some of a most singular character and appearance, have al ready been deposited at the Court-house, and the committee have extended the time, for th ose o f other projectors to be sent in, until Thursday next (yesterday), when they will again meet to hear. the, proposals, appoint the space to be allotted to each eXperiment, &c. The issue of these experi ments will be conclusive as to the eligibility of wood paving for the streets of this metropolis, as this portion of the work will be subjected to the severe test of the wear and tear of Oxford-street for the space of one year. The experiment al ready laid down will then have been, at the termination of that period, subjected to a trial of two years, and the ques tion of durability, slipperiness, and the facility of taking up and relaying after gas and water companies, will all be deter mined.—Morning Herald of Tuesday. HOITY-TOITY ON THE CORN LAWS.—" Down at Wol verhampton," as the song goes, A sprightly little fellow, of the naive of James Ackland, who snips up snuff by spoonsful, appeared last week to support a repeal of the corn laws. He challenged a Mr. Thorneycroft to answer him. Mr. Thor neycroft, like a most sensible man, asked who Mr. James Ackland was? and finding that he was the identical James Ackland,—the (see all the country papers in that part of the kingdom without exception)—who had, as a precocious ridi cal, been imprisoned within the walls of the three best pri sons of England, Mr. Thorneycroft asked himself, as a gen tleman, whether he ought to meet such a man in discussion. He decided in the negative, and he decided correctly. This James Ackland has not been very long out of Bury gaol, where he was imprisoned for his fooleries at Hull. He had previously been sentenced for similar fodleries at Bristol, and other places ; and altogether he has been in gaol for such vagaries some six years, or thereabouts, out of the last 16. But he is a delegate of the anti-corn law league, established at Manchester ! The sooner Mr. Cobden draws in his £lOO a-year, the wiser man he will be.—Morning Herald. , LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—From returns laid before the parliamentary committee, it appears that the total access in the actual cost of the London and Birmingham Railway over the parliamentary estimates, including the ex tension line to Euston Square, was, up to the 31st of Decem ber last, £2,233,849 ; the parliamentary estimate being £2,750,000, and the actual expenses £4,983,849. The actual cost of tho land was more than double the estimate, the sums being respectively, £250,000 and £537,596. In the parlia mentary estimate, a sum of £99, 133 was set apart for gene ral charges, and was then deemed ample ; whereas the mere cost of obtaining the act of incorporation was X 72,868 18s 10d. Shame upon the legislature, that it should have been so ! The extension line cost less, it appears, than the parliament ary estimate, by £17,286, the respective amounts being £232,714 and £250,000. The mode in which the capital of the company has been raised may be thus briefly stated : By calls, £`2,375,000; by debentures i 0 anticipation of calls, £750,000.; and by debentures on mortgage of tolls, £1,375,000, making a total of money raised of four millions and a half.---Railumg Times OPERATIONS OF THE RIVER RIBBLE.—This interesting and important undertaking appears, as it progresses, to at tract a corresponding share of the attention of our townsmen. Last Sunday, the banks of the river, especially in the neigh bourhood of the coffer dam, and where the dredging is in progress, were crowded by visitors, who appeared to take a lively interest in the auspicious aspect of the work. In fact, the operations excite so much . of the attention of those who feel an intere s t i n suc h matters, and are inspected so fre quently and so numerously; that it becomes 'the less neces sary for us to make communications on the subject to our readers. The dredging has continued to proceed with all possible success, and could not, in short, present results more gratifying. The coffer dam has fully borne out what we pre dicted, a fortnight ago, and has remained perfectly strong and staunch. The'excavators, to'tbe number of about one hundred, have been buisily at work, and have succeeded in removing rock, in a proportion fully adequate to what was ever anticipated could be accomplished in a given time--- Preston Chronicle. BURN'S COMMERCIAL GLANCE.—In these days of cotton gambling on one side of the Atlantic, and short-time on the other, Mr. Burn deems it necessary to publish his very laboriously compiled table at shorter periods. We had one in July last, and now another has just been issued, exhibiting the imports of the'raiv material and the exports of yarn and goods (with a great mass of other useful matter) during the first nine months of 1839. The total exports of yarn in these months have been 72,6957841 b ; and in the same Period in 1838, 85,231,9891 b ; so that there is a decrease on the nine 'Months, as compared with last year, of 12,5362051 b, in our exports of yarn.—There has been a decrease in the import of raw cotton in the first nine months of 1835, as compared with 1838, of 317,726 bags, or about 25 per cent; the quantities being in the nine months of 1881, as much as 1,297,125 bags; in the same period of 3 9 972, -9 bags.—There appears to have been an increase in the export of plain calicoes, as compared with the same period of last year, of 2,710,000 yards ; and of printed and dyed calicoes, of g 4,622,388 yards. It seems that the supply of cotton de ducting that.exported) for the first nine months of this year was 1,399,760 bass ; and the consumption of 39 weeks (nine months) estimated at 2,000 bags weekly, would be 780,000 bags ; leaving the present stock of cotton in Great Britain, 619,760 bags ; or equal to 32 weeks' consumption, if only 20,000 bags are consumed weekly. CHURCH MISSIONS.—It is computed, that 300 additional clergymen might be advantageously employed at the present time in the British colonies ; and supposing that the society allowed stipends, amounting to the average of £lOO a year, to each of these clergymen, the increased expenditure for the colonies alone would be £30,000 a year. The demand for new missions and additional missionaries to the heathen must also be taken into consideration, and on the whole it may be said that three times the amount of the present annual subscriptions, or £60,000 a year, are required in order to place the operations of the society on an adequate scale. That the whole of this very large sum can be raised at once. t would be rash to assert. But looking at what is done by other institutions, both among Churchmen and Dis senters, there seems no reason to depair of obtaining it at no distant time. It cannot be admitted that the claims of the society are less urgent, the field of their labours less ex tensive, or the number of their friends less considerable, than those of any other missionary establishment. The division of the whole land into dioceses, archdeaconries, rural deaneries, and parishes, may supply an organisation as complete as can be desired for the establishment of com mittees and associations, and nothing more is necessary than to bring this machinery to bear upon the great body of the English nation. There are still many of our great towns and many of our richest agricultural districts where the re ligious destitution of the colonies, and the efforts of the society to relieve it, are equally unknown. And they can only pray fervently to the Giver of all Good to put an end to this ignorance, and to stir up the minds of his faithful people, and strengthen them for the discharge of their duty.-- Report of the Society for Propagating the Gospel. SUBSTITUTF FOR THE CRANK AXLE.—An ingenious cor respondent hag 'forwarded to us the following description of a method of disknsing with crank axletrees, which we give in his own words, without ourselves expressing an opinion on the subjeCt. First, on the top of the piston let there be placed a rectangular piete of iron, with 'cogs on each side, of equal length with the piston, and on each side of it place two cog wheels that will be connected to each axletree in one direction by means of palls, and loose on.the other; and on each axle tree let there be two wheels of equal dimensions connected With each other? Then when the piston is moving upwards, it will drive one-pf the wheels round, it being connected with one axletree and fly wheel, and when the,piston is moving in the reverse direetion, the opposite wheel will be driven round, which being connected with the other axletree by means of two wheels of equal dimensions, will keep' it in the same inn tion. The advantages of this method as stated by the corres• pondent alluded to, Mr. R. Armstrong, of Claremont-place are a saving of steam and an abatement of friction. A CONTINENTAL DUEL.—The Gazette des Tribnnan.v publishes, on the authority of a letter from Russia, a roman tic account of a recent duel, near Moscow, in which both the combatants were killed :—" A Russian count, named Nor voslimo, had seduced, under promise of marriage, the daughter of an old general, and really intended, it appears, to marry her, but his mother objected to the marriage on the ground of the general not '.being of noble blood, and com pelled her son to remain with her at Moscow, so as to pre vent, all chance of his carrying his promise into effect, the young lady living at a considerable distance from that place. When the old general discovered the seduction of his daugh ter, he called together his five sons, who were all officers of the 20th regiment of Cossacks, and, revealing to them the shame of tlieir sister, it was resolved to take vengeance of the seducer, or to compel him to fulfil his promise. For this purpose the five sons obtained leave of absence from their regiment, and arrived in Moscow. The countess, having ascertained the object of their visit, applied to the governor of Moscow, who arrested them, and had them confined in _prison for three months, at the expiration of which period of Imprisonment they were sent back to their regiment, the colonel of which received orders not to give any of them leave of absence even for a single day. They now cast lots as to which of the five should give in their resignation, in order that one at least might be able to take vengeance upon the seducer. The son on whom the lot fell immediately re signed his commission, and set off for Moscow, accompanied by a servant. On the road, he accidentally met the seducer on horseback, and, having challenged him, the count alighted from his horse, to which he gave a shake of the whip, in order that he might return without the rider, and thus an nounce the accident that had befallen him. ' for,' said he to the brother of the young l a dy, both of us must die.' They fought with pistols at a distance only of three paees, and both fell mortally wounded, but livtd sufficiently long to relate what had passed, and for the young count to entreat his mother to adopt the child of the female whom he had be trayed. They were found by the police immediately after the :fuel, and the servant was arrested, but upon the declara tion of the count and his master he was released. The account adds that the countess is nearly heart broken at the consequences of her own pride, and has adopted her grand child as some atonement for the• calamity which she had caused. LIVERPOOL MICHAELMAS SESSIONS.-TUESDAY STEALING INDIGO FROM A WAREHOUSE. Thomas Cooper, aged 34, was chargedwith having feloni ously stolen 591bs. weight of indigo, the property of Richard Rowlandson and Co. The case was one of purely circumstantial evidence, the prisoner not having been seen to take the indigo. John Williams, a warehouseman in the service of Messrs. Richard and John Rowlandson. They had indigo in their warehouse. A seron was a package containing about a hun dred weight. On the 22d of August, he (witness) was in the warehouse, where a seron of indigo was. The prisoner was employed by witness as a porter. The warehouse was secured by a large gate, fastened by two bolts and a lock. On Saturday morning when he went, he found that the bolts had been withdrawn, but the lock was fast. The gate was a peculiar spring gate, and it had been lifted up, and some per son had crept under. The seron had been removed ; it had a large hole in it, and a quantity of indigo had been removed. Indigo was worth 5s per pound. After this, he went with a man to a cellar in Midghall-street. Here he rubbed his finger on the floor, and it became blue, somewhat like indigo. He afterwards found the prisoner in Tithebarn-street. He put his hands into his pocket, as if to conceal them. Having procured the assistance of a constable, the prisoner was taken into custody. His hands were blue, as if he had been hand— ling indigo. Michael Cloony, a porter in the service of Messrs. Row landson stated, that on Saturday morning he found the gate in that state des cr ib e d b y M r. Wi ll i ams. A quantity of in digo was strewed about the ground. The seron was weighed on Saturday, and a deficiency of 591bs was noted. Henry Smith, a porter, of Bent-street, deposed, that on Friday night last, about half-past nine o'clock, he was in bed, when the prisoner at the bar knocked at the door, and asked him to get up and get something to drink. He• assented after a little pressing, and accompanied the prisoner to his cellar, where there was a m an name d Wil coc k an d hi s w if e. They had ale and whiskey. The prisoner and Wilcock went away after some private conversation, and were absent about half an hour. When they returned, they had each a hand kerchief as full as they could be crammed of indigo. He remarked, " You now will get yourselves into some serious trouble ;" to which the prisoner replied, " What are you talking of? mind your own business, or it'll be worse for you." The prisoner raised his hand to strike witness. They went out together, and witness followed them, though they had requested him to remain and drink, as there was plenty. He, however, tracked them, and saw them go to a court in Key-street, where a man chaffered with them for the pur chase of the indigo. They asked five pounds for it ; but he said he would not give any such money. The man gave him a sovereign. Witness, fearful of being observed, with drew, and heard no more. Thomas Sherwood, a police-officer, stated, that he took the prisoner into cus t o d y . H e searched the prisoner, and found several grains of indigo in his waistcot pocket. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The prisoner was sen tenced to seven years' transportation. CAUTION TO SHOPKEEPERS. _ _ Margaret Breeze, aged 25, was charged with having stolen 32 yards of linsey, the property of J. C. Evans. A constable of Cleveland-square market, named Goff, stated, that he saw the prisoner with the linsey in her pos session, and having questioned her, and her answers proving unsatisfactory, he took her into custody. It was discovered that the linsey had been stolen from the door of Mr. Evans' shop, where it was exposed for sale. The RECORDER said, he would not allow Mr. Evans his experises on account of the goods having been exposed out side the shop door. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended her to mercy, because of the temptation which had been offered. The Recorder said, he perfectly concurred in the recommen dation ; every shopkeeper who exposed his goods outside his doors was liable to a penalty of £2. The prisoner was sen tenced to be imprisoned one month. THEFT FROM THE PERSON. Elizabeth Davis, aged 40, was charged with having, in August last, stolen a watch, the property of John Bartington. It appeared that the prosecutor, being intoxicated, met the prisoner on his way home, and entered into conversation with her, in the course of which she stole hi s wa t c h. Sh e after wards pledged it. The pawnbroker's assistant identified her. The prisoner, in defence, said that a woman gave her the watch to pledge. The Jury found her guilty. The RECORDER said, he would not at present pass sen tence. Addressing the prosecutor, he said all this arose from idle and drunken habits. Eliza Kelly, a female of dissolute character, aged about 25, was charged with having, on the 19th instant, stolen two half crowns and three shillings, the property of Lawrence Fish, a bricklayer. The prosecutor is a bricklayer, working at Birkenhead. He met the prisoner, on Sundaynight, the 19th instant, and pro ceeded home with her, when she robbed him of all his money. THE DOUBLE ROBBERY CASE. William Telford, aged 21, and Margaret Anderson, aged 21, were indicted for having, on the 12th instant, feloniously assaulted Ellen Gibson, and stolen fro m h er a wa t c h, a sove reign, and eighteen shillings. This was a portion of the case, the circumstances of which have been recently fully detailed to the public under the title of " The Double Robbery." We deem it unnecessary to enter again into the particulars. The two prisoners at the ' bar were the parties who robbed tllen Gibson of a watch, a sovereign, and eighteen shillings, she having previously rob bed her master and mistress of the same watch and two so vereigns. The indictment contained two counts, one of which alleged the property to be that of Ellen Gibson, the other al leged the property to be that of Mr. Douglas, Ellen Gibson's master. The principal witness was Ellen Gibson, who varied her evidence considerably from that which she had given be fore the magistrates, her evident wish being to shield the fe male prisoner. She gave full and complete evidence of Tel ford's brutal violence when he committed the robbery upon her, but was very unwilling to admit anythin g that tended to criminate Anderson. She, howe ve r, m a d e admissions rela tive to the participation of the latter, which forced her, under the scrutinising examination of the learned counsel for the prosecution, to confirm her statements made before the ma gistrates. She, however, said that she heard Anderson coun sel the male prisoner against the act which he was about to commit, a circumstance on which the Recorder dwelt in his summing up. The Jury found Telford guilty, and acquitted Margaret Anderson. Telford sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. Ellen Gibson was then placed at the bar. She pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON. Moses Joynson, aged 25, was charged with having in July last, feloniously stolen a watch, chain, seal, and two keys, from the person of Joseph Whitehead. Joseph Whitehead, a warehouseman in the service of Messrs. Booth and Walmsley, stated, that on the 17th of July last, he was passing along Whitechapel, when he met the prisoner and several other persons, who jostled against him. The prisoner made a snatch at his watch-guard, which snapped, and the prisoner obtained possession of the watch. He immediately ran off pursued by witness, who overtook him at the end of Whitechapel. 'the prisoner threw the watch over his shoulder; it fell upon the pavement, and was picked up by a friend of his (Mr. Whitehead's.) He (wit ness) never lost sight of the prisoner, and held him fast when he had seized him. Mr. Samuel Towerson stated, that he was walking in Whitechapel on the night in question. He saw Mr. White head seize the prisoner, and saw the latter throw the watch over his shoulder. He (witness) picked it up. The Jury found the prisoner guilty. A previous conviction was alleged against him, to which he pleaded guilty. It ap peared that he had been twice previously convicted. He was sentenced to ten years' transportation. FELONY. Thomas Williams, aged 23, was charged with having stolen a cart-saddle and a breech-band, the property of John Johnson. It appeared that the prisoner had been jointly engaged with another man in the commission of the felony. His com panion was tried and acquitted some time ago. The prisoner escaped, and had only recently been met with. Police-officer No. 165, proved that on the 24th April last, he found the door of Mr. Johnson's stable, in Back Ashton street, open. He went into the stable, and found the pri soner and another man taking away a saddle and breech band. They were wishful to escape, but they told him that Mr. Johnson had sent them for the articles which they were taking away. He seized the young man who was holding the sack, but the prisoner escaped. He had been teken into custody by another officer for this offence. Mr. Johnson, the owner of the property, proved that on the 23d of April he had left his stable locked, and that he did not, on the 24th of April, give any person authority to go to it, or to remove his harness. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended him to mercy. The Recorder sentenced him to three months' imprisonment. The Court adjourned shortly before five o'clock. WEDNESDAY. CHARGE OF KILLING A FEMALE CHILD. Elizabeth Pewson, 23, was indicted for having feloniously attempted to suffocate her female child, with intent to mur der it. Mr. Murphy appeared for the prosecution. After the evidence had been heard at considerable length, substantially the same as it has previously appeared in our paper, Mr. F. E. O'Gorman, who had attended the prisoner in a medical capacity, was called, who attributed the death of the child to debility, arising from want of food. Mr. Munplly said he thought the evidence did not bear out the indictment. Mr. Hector's name was then called ; but the jury said they did not :think that any medical evidence could induce them f A) find a verdict of guilty of intent to murder. The prisoner was acquitted. THE SWINDLER EXTRAORDINARY. John Molt, 29, was indicted for having unlawfully, and by ,alse pretences, obtained from Margaret Huffy the sum of one penny, with intent to cheat and defraud her of the same. Mr. Bliss conducted the case for the prosecution; the pri soner was undefended. Mr. BLISS said, that early in the month of September last the prisoner went to the house of Margaret Huffy, and asked her whether she was willing to join the Grand Junction Fund, the objects of which he explained by presenting her with a card, of which the following is a copy:— " Patronised by her Majesty. Grand Junction Fund, for the Support of the Poor during the ensuing Winter.' Every poor person, who feels inclined to join this society, is to pay One Penny per week •or more ; and each Member will be supplied weekly with good Beef or Mutton, Tea, Coffee, Su gar, Bread, Butter, Bacon, Potatoes, and Coals during the winter, or good Clothing, Sheets, and Blankets, or th e y may draw their mo ne y out o f the Fund, and be allowed one Shil ling in the pound, as interest. JOHN MOLT, Treasurer. " A Public M ee ti ng w ill b e h e ld t h e first Monday in every Month, at No. 5, Anso n - s t ree t, Li verpoo l." This flattering description of the benefits which would ac crue to those persons who became subscribers to the fund, together with the mention of the name of Sir John Tobin, who was said to be one of the heads of the society, induced Huffy to pay her penny, and •to make a promise to pay more in the ensuing week. He (Mr. Bliss) need not inform the jury that the whole thing was a fiction,—a contrivance for the purpose of raising money. The amount charged as hav ing been obtained in this instance was very small ; but the magnitude of the prisoner's crime was not to be estimated by this single case. The prisoner had carried on his operations to a large extent, and his offence was a very aggravated one, inasmuch as he had defrauded the poor, who, being the most liable to such imposition, welt the most entitled to protection. Margaret Huffy was then called. She deposed that she was the wife of John Huffy, and that on the 3d of September the prisoner came to her, and asked her to join the Grand Junction Fund. She asked what it was, and he handed to her a card, which she read. She inquired who were the heads of the fund, and he mentioned the names of several gentle men well known in Liverpool, amongst others that of Sir John Tobin, who had, he said, subscribed sixteen shillings to encourage the fund. In consequence of this she became a subscriber, and paid one penny. Sir John Tobin proved that he had never sanctioned or been at the head of any Grand Junction Fund, and that he knew nothing of the prisoner. Samuel Lloyd, a constable, stated that he apprehended the prisoner in the act of collecting money, in Midghall-street. On him were found five packs of his cards, several collecting books, and eighteen-pence in copper, which he had collected. The prisoner, as he did on his examination before the ma gistrate, said that he had acted out of pure good nature, and an interest in the welfare of poor people. He declared, be fore God and the court, that he had not intended to defraud the poor, but to return their pence doubly and trebly. The jury found the.prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment and hard labour. Mr. Bliss mentioned that there was another indictment, and that a great number of persons had been imposed on by Molt, but it would be unnecessary to proceed further, a ver dict having been obtained. DISCHARGE OF THE GRAND JURY. At twenty minutes past one the grand jury brought into court several bills, three of which were against A MI and James Vincent Hughes, for misdemeanours, and ing concluded their labours. The learned RECORDER addressed them to the followerto effect :—Previous to discharging you, I hope you Will e/c o n me for making one or two observations. We are na` v the eve of winter ; and there is not one of us but must r . ce lect the melancholy occurrences which took place in this other towns on the 7th of January last. I extreu); happy to learn that the lighthouses along the whole Peter Hughes have been inspected, and have been found to be M veryotrod tisfactory state. The life-boats, also, are in a vet! '`,, in se state, and ready to assist in any occurrences similar to I , e which unfortunately visited us at the beginning I hope, however, that such another awful calamity wi ll n i.• ow • again visit us ; 1 think that we would act very iniPr ° Pi,n• if, after what has occurred, we did not allow those rue - to choly events to have their influence on us, and induce ' .1 . 5 „0 adopt every precaution in our power to mitigate su er ~d, such as those to which I have alluded. We should, in de ‘ , O exhibit a great want of foresight if those events w ere 104V il , of the 41 0 t us, and led not to those measures of precaution whi, e ' tbe re manity makes incumbent on us. I may also state th a t' rata is a great desire on the p ar t o f th e mag i s t ra tes of thi3 ec o ' vc, if to improve the rural police throughout the county. N n eed that force is strengthened as the magistrates desire, 1 13 o f hardly say that that additio na l cons t a b u l ar y force mu st for material service in the wint er mon th s , as their attention,,, 'e • be directed to the preservation o f lif e an d property alma. 'co, whole line of our coast. Thi s cons t a b u l a ry force 0 10 , 7 -, he , operate with the town police here, as well as with t" theY shire police, and, all acting with one common object , ei of will be powerful in repressing these disgraceful criinll plunder and ship-wrecking which have taken place. A _ t ies must, I think, be productive of great good. In the com„i„ce of Gloucester and Devon, I perceive, the constabularY.o7of is strongly recommended, and it has received the saa., c „, ti ibc the magistrates at Preston and Lancaster. Though It 1 11 be • a costly mode, it will be powerful and efficacious, and ee re dovoted to no other purpose than that of preserving the Pt. the and securing property, inte r f er i ng no t w ith the righ t ' t 'esrY people. I may also menti on th a t I h ave seen the s ect ve .) , • of the Humane Society, and he tells me that it i s in, a i„• flourishing state, and quite alive to the necessity of aq'P e i every precautionary measure, so that you have two u° acting for the promotion of this great object. The grand jury were then dismissed. The following is a list of the sentences:— Transported for fifteen years :—Mary Ann Thon l o ° w ,„," Margaret Burke, for stealing a p urse an d £7, the pro"' Wm. Cropper. ~, for hem!. ig _Tansported for fourteen years :—James h stealing 11 yards of pri n t, b e l ong i ng. t o P e ter Mar s "',, r ty 01 Buckley, for stealing 100 yards of canvas, the proPTherti Nathan Cairns ; Willi am K e ll y , f or s t ea li ng 3 5 ., thePr ° ' of John Platt and others, his masters. brea lc. Transported for ten years :—Hosier for a ste al. ing into the dwelling-house of John Hitchmough , an, „buryi ing three shirts ; Thomas Hanbury and Margaret lia . :q e re for stealing 10s. 6d., the property of John Jebb Joh n ' bet' dith, for stealing 12 g l asses , th e proper t y o f Joseph prty of ton ; David Brooksha w , f or s t ea li ng 10 s ., the Pr T ° l) ;" s ,ls Richard Lloyd and ano th er , his masters; Thoma s ' °9 3 1 0 ''; ~1 stealing a jacket ; Elle n Willi ams , f or s t ea ling i c hst" belonging to James Kenyo n ; M ary Fi nn elly and pr o , Finnelly, for stealing £99 and a bill of exchange, t il o oll perty of John Atkinson; Moses Joynson, for stealing a . e .for from the person of Joseph Whitehead; Blizabeth pa . ! p 0; stealing a watch from the person of Joseph Ba rtln e loar,' Charles M`Chri s t a l, f or s t ea li ng a variety of articles I) ing to William Atkinson and Jseph Ashton. t,010" Transported for seven years : o —Jane Jones, for s — Mari t yards of Saxony cloth, the property of Wmni Smith, for stealing 47 handkerchiefs belonging to ChrT ° l3 r o o4 Whalley ; Michael Waistell, for stealing 13 Yard s ° the property of his employers, Messrs. Jeffrey rtY of Thomas Cooper, for stealing 591bs of indigo, the prope for Richard Rowlandson and another. Dutton , Imprisonment for three years :—Thomas for stabbing J. Eves, with intent to maim. Slatcr.;_4o, imprisonment for eighteen months;—Ellen w oo' stealing a watch, two s o v er ei gns , an d severa l articles Telford, ing apparel, the property of David Douglas ; (II!, for stealing a watch, and £1 18s., the property of fro' son ; Charles Houghton for stealing a handkerchie,te3iialf the person of Thomas Brown; George Roger:, f ° ' )fact ill 1121bs. of colleo and a bag, the property of Thomas and others. f o r , u r„,oo, Imprisonment for twelfc m on th s : —Th o mas ol stealing two boxes, one key, and One knife, the prop!rolvx Sal D. Edwards and another, and one pair of plilemeb;reill°;, measure, two knives, and one pencil case, the 1 00 P e ;teal' Joseph Wand ;—Eliza Kelly ;—Charlotte White, f0r,,i0,00, ing 255. of the moneys of Peter Porter ;—Martin for stealing a Mackinto s h c l oa k an d a wor k box belong' foe Henry Chapnis ;—Catherine C owan an d Ann l rc lo y c es ' stealing articles of wearing apparel belonging to Wilt i inia Wm. Thomas, and John Owens ;-John John Molt, for riti7;ol4 money under false pretence s :—David Broderick , M11;"' a watch from the per s o n o f th e R ev . Ri c hard Carthce,hief, James M`Laughlin for stealing 'two vests, a liantikenr'ey and a pair of stockings, the property of J. W• Live 'iag A t° William Lynch, for s t ea li ng 3filbs. of copper , beic qs. Samuel Taylor ;—William Davies, for stealing £ 3 . 'Nfa, (l , wearing apparel, the prope r ty o f P a t r i c k Dougherty Ann Stewart and Brid g et Littl e , f or s t ea ling Ils. ir ‘ry llo' person of Wm. Thompson ;—lsabella Walker and berts, for stealing five handkerchiefs, the propertY,°4e, the r Fox ;—John Robinson, for stealing 231bs. of she", o, l° property of John Macaire and others •,—Jolin Whi teile Crte stealing a coat, belonging to Thomas Croxford ;- 40 , 11n chari g% ley and Eliz. Tyrrell, participators in the offence of steal Christal. Imprisonment for nine months :—John Draper, for:ooer ing one firkin of butter, property of Wm. Rose and riot, tb,e —Mary Kelly, stealing a shawl and 69 yard p s ar o t f ici P p il o it ; property of Wm. Williams ;—Mary Burke, a Mary Ann Thompson and Ivlargaret Price in stealing ohlig the person of Wm. Cropper ;—Edward Mutch, for s' one ton of horse manure, belon 'n to Samuel S, En ,,, et t b Sc r ;, tba i i Michael M`Dermot, for stealing g a quantity or "s' rvf property of J. S. Royle. r Imprisonment for six months ;—Mary O n o saz, 28 yards of print, the property of Pearson Do e dgo n ; s s, t"i ther ;—James Hughes, for stealing a quantity of b. s ibt , ro t property of Joseph Foster and another ; —Henry %re e l , stealing a bag from the person of Elizabeth Aga t r ; fro Nuttall, for obtaining cloth es un d er false preences washerwoman: Four months :—John Kehge, and Charles Maguire, 6 . , 7 0 ing three watches, th e p ro p er t y of Henry Bolt o9 ' VS . -- Three months :—Robcrt Robinson, John Quinn, Dean, Thomas Williams. yard, cur One month :—Ma rgar et B reeze , for stealing „ 32 he s, linsey, the property o f J. 0. E vans ; —Sarah A ster . ' stealing one spoon, belonging to James Radley , her waster One day :—Charles Gils, Edward Jones. a . 3 115 4 ' Discharged—(no bills fo un d)—Margaret Kelly, Fraser, ton, Mary Murphy, Margaret Roberts, Margar e ' To hnsl Anne Hunt, Daniel Russell, Hi ram Laird, A" ;i; 1 1 G ri Mary Brown, Richard Barry, Ellen Patterson' E,"`, 15 , fiths, Margaret Ande r s on , J a n e M on ks, I,lrin. . us , It is proposed by the radicals of the Stirling , ef ea t bring eDn Ei nA f o Tp r Ha w r a loi r Fa d mT M eHn rEt atE A A y t h t ß o e : e n oeF a x s tK a icandidate election. . _f o v t e h Chi b p A reC ° aveto Err col' d. the demise of the Earl of Kingston, which took 0 0 , 0 0° day last, at the family' residence, Hull-place, St.John he P e e The late Earl, who was Viscount Kingsborough in t. of t ,, e , age of Ireland, and Baron Kingston, in the Peer y United Kingdom, was born the Earl April, 177 1 1,f AP,be ceeded his father the second on the 17th I l ied 1779. On the stl; of May, 1794, his Lordship inantcoliv Lady Helena Moore, - daughter of the Earl of . 31 9 }, o( t ot o and aunt of the present E ar l, L a dy Jane Peel , h y iv",f Right Hon. W. Yates Peel, and Lady Robins on, eh ' i rl his Lordship has left issue, Viscount KingsboF .. ° r a te Earl of Kingstown), wh o was b orn i n 1795. Tuhic, fa was elder brother of Viscount Lorton. Several erd-hiP' lies are placed in mourning by the death of bis d ti• Standard. g 11 '0 , v co. i 0). ADMINISTERING LAUDANUM IN MISTAKE fata' - nor BARB.—An accident which had nearly proce", a , t , ti:`, te r• consequences, occurred at Cromford on Sunda! , a quantity of laudanum having been accidentallY,3l,,ek P ce r, ed instead of rhubarb, to Mrs. Manhart, of MaL - a go IV by her son, Mr. Smedley. Mr. Smedley, 01° o the r and also sells drugs, on being applied to by h' s ro - is ° tai., 4 " e o an ounce and a half' of the latter medicine, In a d i e at ministered the opiate. The bpttles containingm cliv e rpo were standing near each other, and it being: il ea h or. , t : 1 the time, as well as the fluids being similar in e ° 3 l o ,oP;;lte the mistake, which was not discovered by l‘le s 'v ieti es tor' after she had taken the whole of the dose. -1-" lj at li administered, and recourse was had to the stoo' c ona and Mrs. M. is now out of danger. This is the : I _,,,bbou stance of this nature which has occurred in the 5, hood within a short time.—Derbyshire Courier. ocT• 5, f hiP EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED ALEXA ,- A 1839.—" O n our arr i va l we f oun d a l a rge fleet O c o a t a .04 the whole of the T ur ki s h an d E g yptian fleets. Tu v rio t he here rogue Mehemet Ali is When the , he bor,' a ht off they drew too much water to cross "_; B oP.T i ich pacha with great politeness sent to their assistanF a m ened them, by taking out their guns, powder, aaaf t ' he ir Foot enabled them to get into harbour ; he then sea' water the on board, which put them so much down in the o wn o il they cannot get out if they wished ; he did t i,b powder and shot. He declares that if the -ig e ' Tai t be French interfere, and insist on his giving "P fi f e, we a r ships, he will immediately destroy the whole by ~ eprtiee t few English residents here, who know him wet.iel have no doubt but he would keep his word. Ti`frigatri'wea is about 35 in number, only eight of which are, 1 5,00 the others two or three deckers, with ah ou " afloat." ORlPli9l3tin'°( COLONISATION OF THE CANADAS.----in C- w ee j .. a requisition, the Lord Provost convened a Pu b h i ipoal le :P r the bankers, merchants, manufacturers, and ociooos, this city, in the Town Hall, on Frid, at oir h of k o f th e the purpose of hearing from D • Th omas R O4 ? I.hi) ter, and the Bishop of Kingstown—now in s. al , '" ter of 5 ` to country by the appointment of the House ; h er endeavour to remove the erroneous impression,- ht 00, 01 , tamed, in order that emigration and capital raig i , oo Jit. l oo al the province as heretofore—a statement 011 Canada, and the importance of a systeraati o c 0 of strt'oars, it, from Great Britain and Ireland, with the vie._ n eigl i ening that province against the designs of liost7tire o gr o. t he and as a means of preserving inviolate and e The li` r t nial possessions in British North America. Lord Provost presided. His Lordship having ers' t i $ siness of the meeting, introduced Dr. It')P coal, some length in exposition of his object. ludo° t . , taii te e d spog i; tio 3 o afterwards took place,*and the business c 01, %. h ics vote of thanks to Dr. Rolph—Scottish Guard th at ! or wrrterlis°thelsseTfeHwEAUTHOß.—Abler remarksuTxo n . will set on Sir Robert P ee l. The question h ere , , w author of it ? The Times of yesterday Phu posi t bll bler forth hands the ni t e h r a; 5 o f f il t o be tte l Lord Duncann on as b e i ng the authority—th e s e haril e tiol; thority;” but this may reasonably, as IA eu a s doubted. There is a more probable man for. o tio„ n b o b There is a man who could have done this 135 . 1 rti tita_d ri `j1 the vindictiveness which is inseparable frolnil-Z,. bC Y~ik ti' man whom Sir Robert Peel patronised inh" to ' worth, because he was poor comparatively ,„ r ool o fficf, man who, on the sudden occasion of Lordtitla'n'euittavy. for cal demise, deserted his patron for a con e q to , A man,_who„upon C • ' death which v , .‘" - a dhol V anning s ;0 his , o n o e, den as Lord Liverpool's infirmity., gav e ' sc" °l 6foe'Ll 4 ' the sake of o ffi ce, to Lord Goderich. A 11 ` )-n n ;ily 01; S' A iti Goderich declaring himself, on account of afa t t be 5 t Till 1 14 incapable of carrying on the governmeni;but notyie afief 1110;e Peel again. Why Sir Robert forgave him_ and here—charity does step out of bounds the most "positive authority" d en y the sw „ vi .. 4 time heart y imputation • and the " ositive authority ;",,,.ain e n al tl o ie f p i t a't W el l; for let the sY tc;rl ( c e l lo —e , 0 0 - co , did this man do ? I DESERT HIM ! Here e t , , What has the man done since under tha, o ffice called whig-radical rule ? Always reinaoine_a,ke coar:,, t ; yo re pie can put two and two together so as t s. _7 t s ubi a v' o t it t s i t i a u r e te g a;e :h w my Lord Palmerston! this is quiteL" of r P ) s tati° l .o% therefore, do not connect them to, . 0 Sir Robert Peel ? Did he not restore Yo. 1" tr% int ,s life in the beginning of 1826, after your a" a t of th e aaio st eed the early part of 1825 to make a fortune o rs _ tilt ac, i e l3 . f mania that distinguished it? Was his pa : upe rl i a 4 ,o l :o at that period to help you out of the no a T o 0C„;i. be used—out of a very awkward situation haveieuce the crown ? Your own friends say that Y n i °ll eia te pall` p(;3 folly." It is not a folly—it is that inter. h Foie epo ciousness between folly and crime, %dil e Globe. berg of 1116 blunder. Deny it. Deny it through the, "pro' shoot round a corner.—Corresponden I i sTat A ''ioik th