The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-23 00:00:00

Jan, 23, 1849, Xtterature. P 0 ET R Y. " THE IRISH BRIGADE." LINE S SUGGESTED BY SOME DOGGREL VERSES IN THE MAIL OF LAST SATURDAY. (For the Liverpool Standard.) and i,11...up i.ay chained with a dark . superstition, Old e cored in the wickers her ministers made, n, nerous Erin beheld her condition, And sent to her succour an ~ Irish Brigade. ,, Ves, Killi wi ., an the fearless led on the battalion, ,„ in faith for his armour, and truth for his blade; .rie Colman the pious and Totnan, and Gallon. AtDonatus and Ar neval;graced his " Brigade." id,llwrhen from Rome came a monkish procession, tier },, itain's old Church called to Erin for aid, And urz qa and Aidans withstood the aggres.sio_ , ~ A e ancient Northumbria blessed the " Brigade. wrLfroni the North once again claimed their pity, Wh o T brave Colurnbanus the summons obeyed, A" addened the heart of each hamlet and city, " severed their chains with his " Irish Brigade. We boast of our Alfred and well may we glory 'Twas a`-' Rot I,,,io''',llose green memory never can fiTe r ! c a o s t il li s i a t c h o e u e n h s i e e l f l o e r f ? t — h e T , ei l all th e o y . 0, . i. , ~ nto this moment, consecutive a ß g r e i s g a cte . 1...,1t, bright are the lines that illumine the pages ::it e e : wn s e t d or their achievements through Europe displayed A nd if v%t Y writes of the “ Irish Brigade." Th e p come home to the " Pool of the Liver,"- 11%., _on of the Nations,—the Haven of T , r . a r cle,— s,r cargo e'er honoureher sail-studded i iI , F, Trade, — They Precious to souls as the " Irish Brigade? a Diey fo u A nd her a dark and neglected old boroug : 11, handoarlY waste, and with weeds overlaid , ,r,l, ed the plough, and who planted the f . iu watered the seed?—'Twas the " Irish Brigade ! -11 Perish the pen which obeys the foul finger _ e tirl7r wishes its ti me-honoured name to degrad I Ere e c l i g,,iti our town ay the monuments linger, e `" to God by the " Irish Brigade!" Bi r k enhead, Jan. 22, 1849 ERIGENA, VARIETIES .lielr 0-17,Y e arth, indi gnant at t h e A mer i cans repu di at i ng to s h "curs, has cast up her treasures in the shape of gold 1,. TR a E n t t hem into payment.—Puppet Show. fB —Par ustaeet .4RATEst NOVELTY SINCE TOM T HUD . 2) Q I C4 P annOUTICed to meet on the Ist for the dis till We Q " 64808 8 .'" We shall certainly not believe it At or e t • 1 Insti t ,,,, e annual meeting of the Rawtonstall Mechanics' Xne tit ;"°, ll , M Bright,M.P., said—" Whatever. Gov parts te lt of ° „ u ' d °, l ' would do, it would leave nine taelrked ont hy him Ilundred of a man's happiness B seif.,, 11 , e ar c' t c' s 1( ,, s l '°R TUE FlRE.—Young readers—you whose .... uen ea, - a t h e ,l e Pet, whose understandings are n t o e t d y n e n t r h e a n r : 'ested b"" whose feelings are neither exhausted Prefeß s Y the world, take from me a better rule than any whetl; -°4 of criticism will teach you! Would you know in r, e r the tendency of a book is good or evil, You hat st at e ex amine of mind you lay it down. Has it in th ink '''''Pect that what you have been accustomed may be eolavvful, may after all be innocent, and tha t m nk harmlessii n which you have hitherto been taught to hi le l g at et e - e a t s ? Has it tended to make you dissatisfied and to row. , Under the control of others, and d d you laws of God ktdhat self-government without which t both the c°llse quentl to abate e nd man tell us there iiiibeno virtue, and Your ad„. Y end happiness ? Has it attempted . and 4.0 tarati _ 4 11 ' un ti i nis °uand reverence for what is great and good, ow-creat in you the love of yurcou te nt y ry an yo Yoo r va „ , Ores ? Has it addressed itself our pride, l a. °Pensi" t " , Your selfishness, or any other of your evil Is loatt v . les ? Has it defiled the imagination with what strol ls ) ' ° °le, and shocked the heart with what is coon vaieli ~ Has it disturbed the sense of right andwron l g f 1 . 3 0,1 tue Creator has implanted in the soulhuman th ? Intend:deo have felt that such were the effects at it was earne i t to P r oduce —throw the book in the fire,whatever Pou g may bear on the title-page ! Throw it in the fire, fri end . man, though it should have been the gift of a t hould' ~,3 t 47n prominenty with the whole set, though it .s'4 ll ll- -de furniture of a rosewood buokcase. llo w Y' 'Alitt, THE FAIRFAX CORRESPONDENCE" WAS PRE thee * -- The R ev . D enny Mart i n, having taken his mo t,eds olaid en name a n d hi s d oc t or ' s d egree , resided at Gases Castl t e as th e R ev . D octor F a i r f ax ; and be also e ti g died childless, left this property to his . brother, e war er fa l P bdiP Martin, who, cutting off the entml, left it 'Ably 4 °, 41 his family altogether, having bequeathed it to , t lj Ykeham. This gentleman early thought fe it desi und within 4 - , ee& ~,"st Much of the furniture whi . ch . he 182 2 ' k•astle should be swept out of it , s so, in the year iittl else than es e i: a Ailantity of strapwht was esteem l e e d 1 v41, 8 ,.1 1 l umber was art apparently forsa. a One of the lots with Dutch tiles; bu t old oaken chest, filledet s deceptive, and so they Provel'Pearances are (jf tut t i?, be in this case;som forsometimes deceptive, old oak chest, instead caref el ;-• tiles, was filled with . a quantity of MSS. most con e 'Y arranged and „unwittingly Ited ben . ea s th the few tiles t late owner was so 1-.cea ee'ea the m , Very unwie.aa treasure as that chest con t t o ai t i ned carried out of far ti: astle by its L new possessor—a reasure greater by i dea n a f a anY that Leeds Castle ever contained ; but the e . °lit h; sWeeping an old cse out in thi . s wa t y, itli t° best' oat n erefoally examining every article hatw w a e s van r,,„F„e,pt out, was undoubtedly a strange one, and so it Nr-a-:,'!'ts upon the fact nor account for it; but w as Sold ' f t" few old chest, unsearched and despised, 15°11tng. fora ''': shillings to a shoemaker of a neigh on('e ,dingunvillao-;e and be, upon examining his purchase rolls tl,i,vat it til es, co ls n contai d ed b n u o n t d h l i e n s g e t f ha l t et h t e ers wanted instead 0 f gai t , , nelm e , papers and to b e ' s e h e t ,u that he had. after all, made but a bad bar -11,,,,„ use.d t.„!,rust the whole lot of MSS. into his cellar o ion might call for it. th' - ' e !_t'er e Buoroxitaste ap s h oe cost se rat, found it, er fo as r the store being so great and let t , s elak e e : the parchments were found useful for th '4 for the e.asures and for children's . drums, and the tiese foundvillager's thread papers . some, however, of cke their way into London, and were' presently timedIIIIP by 'Mr. 1.43c0t and Mr. Jadis. A very short 43r to Gieore, would probably have sufficed. to cl- short U 'would probably have sufficed to disperse 4 0. sk I."s‘roY the vvh 1 ollection; but, happily, the : shoe ken a e t weiSaNirised to o e make c known to Mr. Hughes, a ban th des j ea 4 . 5 10 . ne, of what he was possessed, and Mr. ~ at re_ ,Itediately purchased the whole . of the MSS. f , ese aml .eain ed ; and, by dint of great ind b ustry and "In t,Z recovered very nearly all that hadbeen taken mistoi sq :,old oak chest since it was so contemptuously o. tepioie„-', froM Leeds Castle. We are by mii , means t fkthat en d n ecessarily, necessarily in a general sense, all's well ves;' s well ;" but inl this instance, foFtillatelienl ,eY's po?' since the whole collection is now in 1 ° othestesion • and so 'far as the public is conce r r . r n e ed_ , of 441 -.Olvoi d ` llonds Could they be better placed.—Chu h w 4.1, quarterly. I,AT )I)?.'we NOT ENCOURAGE OUR POOR TO . scaleExit -I,ll°lll-- istory has made us familiar with emigrations er e it of magnitude that appear like invasions, , I. att iall,, l:l°t that the invasions were upon countries either ' l3 4a gr, ll G ° ,,,.. 1. bat al 5 7 uninhabited. Grecce sent colonists t a o 1 ' h --ce is, to S'cly and to Asia Minor ; Phoenici , Ive iitt-age, and to I S I ii • and, since the days of Pen rt n, M atte- cettributd in pa n t o 'little extent to fill the No h a - continent with inhabitants. It is now less 1 44 lill Of eh °ice than necessity to emigrate ; and if we 3 filttl r e e ee d e4 i'l extending our aid to those who will fill, at °eriti :slats the vast expanse of Australia and its neiqh that w e ed s 1-, ,We shall have the satisfaction of knowing l ' i pil e l e l ham portioned off our " younger" sons with a 01. es er whi P e ll t ege that shall not be liable to the contingen- Dr i 4led at tend over-population, shattered commerce, h °Per ty I. enterprise • nor saddled with poor-law and .. A t le 4 a t t ion4 x ,l o 2'Fent u A es to come. Complaint cannot in kit h Y, titi d" from a want of labour for it is there in n) will Se t , ot th e . speedily form its own " organization" aid fti Se 'Will d o of the pseudo-philosophers. Common i ° , 3 t zitt t e ,i , tha_ it i and neither Montesquieu, nor Hobbes, b I wa rns_ "' will be required. T he r e can happen no na tic:4lrthol,? neither can a " Jacquerie" a " League," a tuck 4l llnh ullle w's Eve," a " Norman Conquest," or " "Na. br - o lr e rc do aught to in . terrupt the harmony of stri,, "ay pi, r ood. Probably in Australia may be found 'di h t lett e " ce vvherein to realize an U . topia—not . in the of `'"e r r of the old chancellor's vivid dream . almost ti. clis et e s s i °ar es of his Utopia are at hand-all the causes kll t er ione h Qil t ere removed ; for, in addition,. a well ordered 4 1, lie da „at home can always allay internal differences. fesettong attractions of military glory w?u t l e d ne b e e . tune,ith l'',4le pride of conquest could have no exi cot sto t1, 113 ° 1 or what, but the elements and with s nal 4 4 °Ili lia " 3 ' to War ? No, we repeat, we behold in the WeitlYN.,,, °f.Australia in the manner that we shall e- P ° se the ' aiitoight alai , e best boon to the present generation, t'lry f.: feel a t ilt ,saY, second to Christianity__ alone. After eheiar, he riaence in commencing. We have a salu the tri g i t c. 0 Much of being lauged at as that of ' l ‘ea't ll tici . ' r em our feeble advocacy fall Unheeded to I .onti e r and',,end Yet we are doing no more than others io,, e...... h .wiser .have done ; and, emboldened by our etreiraeat.vol?. faith in the efficacy of this plan, so seem l'i„eniid, 'caole—so interesting to every man, woman, ii t ,' wheiewithin the four seas of Britain—we proceed. 11,,,01,5, ~Of Australia and other neighbouring 1 tla le rnhfe lle .,..what is not, can be made . ours, a b fa l i s r and l'es . s' e ' s ety pe"rutrihase.of those tribes who m y i y n rig as htfully _ , I 4 liliberS and °ll of it ;or we can take them joint ad 'ltlg 41 ' Partners. The question of obtaining, or 4 4N h ad e it our own, is not the one to be urged or tet s e iedea: re er to: us take facts as we find them, a tid „ . %4(1, eth,“3ll! tO mould and rr nge them as we best can. to-t aken it everyinte a rio a r -- part be well explored all , lei' l veYs of its mountains, rivers, and lakes let th e e tata,,allie geologist discover . its mineral trasures, t'ti,_ IPailabl st find out uses for its various . pl_an . ts .. : e let : v i e ,s b e , e land possible be divined, subdivided, at • ql nn ' e lit so l arked out on those immense wastes where l'oled'ons . is Said to be at once fit for the plough : let th,,(ed w her e colonies be planned out, and places LlP hi i•ea, er e iii °4 er s t t 'c'llbl v e ° : d d , stone, or clay can be obtained with k, t of the t cost : let an army of labourers—the elso , ° cleat, are c ivilization—be sent forth to hew, to ka t i, 4 th e , e waY all that is necessary : let these men, 4 e r °Aio e d d i c.,.nt ew l e t rd of their toil, have their allotted portions b ' W a ,... fruit t,e_ Provisions be stored, corn sown in the e tit,`"q bi i i it es Planted, magazines erected, reservoirs se rs -) „'eh ef "i fine, let everything be done that can ,tit,..7 11 (1th,: All this it may be said, is the work of ' - ee,,,,: - 'd, b,,,." verY thin' that is being at present done : °ne sear po w " llot to the extent we wish. Let more men, L , 14 ,8 th - 1 1 410,,-,„ers, and all available auxiliaries do this for ZPll t . t.-1 4 1 'ils t. rl - 4 : 0 4 4 You can be prepared for the reception ti e I°t, :woof hu mr s• It will take five thousand vessels, 41 1. 14 Loo.Xell , ed passengers to each, to carry . over a hav e 4l ße mon, f ca d this number not be easily spare . d i (1. ° lent rcala Liverpool from Bristol ? And if this 111 4t e r e e tt i c d . 4 Ca ay rri t ed on - -.-as'it could—in ten years you tree, al n ot en millions of your poor, who, remain. P rease PnlY die, but eat you up in the terrin e 8 °tat no. --Church ofEnyland Quarterly. 43,151'. le Bede alla-- 121 ; s not tend Wri via., tha t o c Iplication fr () .o in the Chr. l - 0 e faith. Th' s of the Er n s, however , ending of cbs e to conclu d ,f e l ract the ni: 4 lo canno t cor,1(10 ter's Eccles'e-:4 he Third Ceo; r the British A o ire and rince7o things and i e t :.eptionable that the„ y, count*• is e, us, the e. 131 e xem plifyinfit l e individua l J." - , r. SO we P a er A ugu stine t „ 'hatever is d og l i island, th1;,5290 ICoOTO ' VaSi Onf 0 years ; the 3 to convert or callous I'u s . o its of Waled- o Thus I cor ai t ; [cting the Ro ere sent by ; whom G ° "tb This is OS 0 at fact is, th, eping cond,,e r ; impress of 16th century sth to a vaste acessary c in Wegh bI 9 DI ce a lteration s that his toney and his In tl t y: evangelizingoi opposition 01„ which, th e t po )re nor less 'Y of that here; 'organ), a" tare. Hence mosities to ery Roman_7oi ery oppone it for us 0E 0 . ; )0 years be (0 : that we gl°l lanCier( l3l4 ri Rome be ° d, other pr o r , 3 as we did. fr, much. cht t' a r l 6rer others t a f , is high tio e b e h regard to luld fain bar wishes, WC CUMBE O worms ° It week, at ij with a 1. 3 of engravy, itellectual V: 6 l. le arts has We selec , not first in tY. ours, confel nder espel, : work to WP3 ture by 2 in j and ly facee t lt i order that fully preser s ' e t Lure, thug P. amiable or foll, engracior'o rs, a gui , lkene o her host, R 4" ie, of Keswict'! 4 , talented ar t t striking r scenery ca 'eery, veriluk .rcel3 an oP u o ; listant i all its det; t l( byes appor e ?di ding a 1,1. :'he figures f i f a fallen PI leaves dr.! ig. A sal" ,, , ackgrounk-ti soot tO U S • Le pareued e . stlake has being engrt i Paris. y Prank ct delight n are seatc: ni Lt chess, .f, youth 1 5 second Pic eyed out> his conqu_e e story of der the su!ni and arc 1' —Our re , : b ,f our amo. nces and F ril of emineo t ] 13 4. 5 11 sr Ma j es.,,, e a to be ta b s d will be 1 ° impressie o e 'd, and cal Tespondcii he proceed ° ce " Coal° certainly pecially id; their qul),) delay' :in Ireland, he law 105., an's hair I`;'. other sio ly tngentleraOm lsel's fees though it be may be 0 0 ions of 141,41 terary aS °dation fu contrary Pa i are all 111 Lloyds. 1 , of men u eman ha s be seen ill, v . as well le_ gam e ` fl sere Che advart is* club, are here. •D 1 E.—On V I II infant jaw" usband, ~e sr out of ov - e l , Jolly o bser c o r Mr. Rus htd,l act toot u ? To O r ij i, is to vvql‘_,t!' our condu c ~b' great svarrrAl ke you. ' 4l l tephensnn ;0 1 ition, and VerY crf ie r, Ey towards izances 0 1 hs. Ancy at live he ' !datives. 1 .r,t red in arl ° l3f i dished agl i o d e ChelteP,Di rish, toge,:" abitants , equallY, Ire of vali c 9 ply froW 4 o, n is delis' 9 ings, ) the prir l _f, m inakitiF I P ipal subje c t , and tilV at of your 9 tted sting milt c o 0; ring for a i l, f the exc e l, aced, We ion the . e than 0 ' ossly ri° THE CHOLERA AT TOOTING. On Thursday, Mr. Mills concluded the adjourned inquest on Josiah Joseph Coster, aged 5, a pauper child, who died in St. Pancras workhouse, of cholera, after his removal from Surrey Lodge, Tooting. Mr. M`Gahey, clerk to the board of guardians, deposed that, with the approbation of Mr. Hall, assist an t poor law commissioner, and Mr. Tuffnell, inspector of poor schools, the guardians of St. Pancras farmed out the pauper chil dren to Mr. Drouet, at 4s. 6d. a head per week. They had previously satisfied themselves that the place was fully suited to the children. Every month a committee visited and reported upon the condition of the children. These reports were satisfactory until August, when, in consequence of a report of a boy who died having been ill-treated there, Messrs. Robinson and Johnson, two medical officers, were deputed to make a personal inspec tion of the boys. They did so, and found that several had wasted limbs, large abdomens, and suffered from debility, the results of bad or insufficient diet. Fifty-eight were so affected. It was also their opinion that the master was rather severe. The guardians communicated that to Mr. Drouet, who promised that those things should not again occur, and that it would not be his fault if the boys did not in future look plump. Mr. Pitt, actuary to the guardians, estimated, from the workhouse dietary, that the net cost of each child would be 3s. 7d., and therefore he fixed on 4s. 6d. as a fair sum for Mr. Drouet. Upwards of 30 apprentices from Mr. Drouet's passed through his hands. They all proved strong athletic lads, fit for sea, to which they were sent. Coroner.—lt was singular that he found the bodies of the children quite emaciated, although their faces appeared plump. Mr. Pitt.—Mr. Drouet gave notice of the outbreak of the cholera instantly, when the guardians removed the children without delay. Mr. T. P. Baker, a guardian of the poor, and who had been a medical officer in the Company's service 24 years, gave a favourable account of Mr. Drouet's establishment. When he visited it some of the children complained that they had not enough to eat, others of having been beaten, .and a few longed for their homes. When he visited it on the 2d instant there were 57 cases of cholera and 11 deaths. On the Friday following the cases were 240. Thought that everything possible was done for the sufferers. In his opinion cholera was not contagious. John Woodhouse, aged 14, one of the boys from Toot ing, examined.—He went with deceased and other boys to Tooting. They had not enough to eat. The master, who would knock down and beat the boys across the back with a stick until weals and sores were formed, beat a boy and nulled the ears of others because they complained of ins ufficienefood. Some boys ran away, and when brought back had their heads shaved as a punishment. If he were sent back he should like to get more food. He preferred the workhouse, because he got more food there. Some of the boys eat the potato peelings out of the pig tub. Mr. Drouet was opposed to the boys being beat. After some further evidence of a similar character, The Jury found the following verdict, " That Josiah Joseph Coster died from virulent cholera, a disease occur ring to him at a time when he was suffering from the effects of insufficient diet, defective warmth of clothing, and impure air at Surrey House, Tooting; and the jury add to their verdict an expression of their regret that the directors of the poor of St. Pancras did not bind Mr. Drouet, the proprietor of Surrey Hall, to fulfil his duty to such a large number of children as they had confided to his care, under a written and a more definite contract than appears to be executed by them ; at the same time the jury most emphatically condemn the practice of farming pauper children in the hcuse of strangers, because the system engendered by it affords to unprincipled persons disastrous opportunities of defrauding the poor children of their proper food and clothing, in a manner that does not seem to become publicly apparent, nor to produce such adequate effects on the minds of the guardians, as to lead them to the correction of the evils which inflict the most direful effects on the hapless population of such an esta blishment." CONSOLIDATION OF THE EXCISE STAMPS AND TAXES. The _Doncaster Chronicle says, that the arrangements for this consolidation, so far as the Boards are concerned, are completed, and there is now only one Board for all Inland duties. The following are its members and their salaries John Wood, Esq. (chairman) . John Thornton, Esq. (deputy chairman) (His successor to have £1,000.) John Hart Davis, Esq. (late deputy chairman) £1,500 (Mr. Davis is to retire in a few months.) Thomas Harrison, Esq Frederick Stephenson, Esq Charles John Herries. Esq. Charles Powlett Rushworth, Esq. . Alfred Montgomery, Esq Charles Pressley, Esq £1,200 The following . gentlemen (with their salaries annexed) have ceased to be members of the Board since the sth instant : Henry Lewis Wickham, Esq. Hon. William Henry Percy Charles Ross, Esq. Henry Seymour Montagu, Esq. Charles Pressley, Esq. (Mr. Pressley, as will be seen above, is now a Commis sioner. He was lately Secretary to the Stamps, &c., an office now abolished.) The present Deputy Chairman will shortly retire His salary As also another Commissioner's salary £2,000 £1,200 Besides these gentlemen many others will retire from the Secretaries' departments—solicitors, receiver generals, accountants, &c. &c., which, with the above reductions, will effect a large saving to the country. The secretary to the late Excise Board, Mr. Freeling, son of the late Sir Francis. Freeling, is appointed secretary to the joint Board. The receiver-general, Mr. Thornton, is to be re ceiver-general to the new Board ; the accountant-gene ral, Mr. Lyne, late of the Excise, to be the accountant general to the new Board. There are at present three solicitors, two in England, and one in Ireland, with an extensive staff, and two assistant solicitors. The services of two at least out of these five legal gentlemen are to be dispensed with ; but whether the Excise or Stamps gen tlemen go out is not fully determined; nor is it finally settled how many of their clerks and other subordinates are to retire. A great number of excise -officers, permit writers, and supervisors, have been dropped, or put on the superannuation list in those cases where the period of service has entitled them to a retiring allowance. Indeed it is averred that, amongst the latter, the pruning knife has been used much too freely for the due security of the revenue, and the protection of the fair trader. STATISTICS OF DISSENTERS (From Me Record.) About the year 1832 or 1833, when the Anti-State Church controversy first began to rage, Churchmen na turally looked into the statistics of this question, and they found in the Congregational Magazine for 1829, a com plete list of all the meeting-houses and ministers of that denomination in England ; and the number given was 1,289. In the Congregational Magazine of 1827 another tabu lar statement was found, showing "the three denomina tions :—lndependent, Baptist, and Presbyterian. The total of the ministers of the three sections was only 1,775, of which it was confessed that 204 were Unitarian. The free Evangelical Churches and ministers, of the Dissenters, then, were in 1827, by their own confession, 1,571. But the citing of these facts, though resting wholly on their own statements, greatly annoyed the Dissenters. Their writers immediately began a course of exaggeration which deprives their recent statements of all value. Thus, in ten years after, they contrived to swell the number of their churches and ministers (of the three denominations) up to a total, quoted by Mr. Noel, of 3,649—thus adding more than 2,000 in ten years ! In the same unscrupulous manner they set down the Methodist Churches and minis ters at 4,239, although the Conference knows no more than 1,010 ! ! Of what use are such statements as these ! - - The same wonderful change has been made in the American statistics also. In 1834, the American Baptist Home Missionary So ciety, in their Report for the preceding year, state, that "They have descried the land in its length and breadth. This survey has evinced a wide and fearful moral desti tution in the country." "To supply a population of 13,000,000 with religious instru:tion, there are about 9,000 ministers. But from this number a large deduc tion must be made for (Roman) Catholics, and such sects of professed Protestants as are propagating error; for those who are too ignorant of Christianity to teach its doctrines with advantage to others ; and for those engaged in secular occupations. These and others amout, in the aggregate, to several thousands." Several thousands less than 9,000 ! Such was the state ment printed by the American Home Mission Society, only fourteen years since. The same testimony was borne by the American Tract Society, and several other religious bodies; and this at various periods, from 1827 to 1835. But the exposure of these facts to England seems to have irritated the national pride of some of the American writers. And accordingly, we have per ceived a sudden enlargement of all the totals for several years past. The statistics which Mr. Noel copies are dated 1845 and 1846, only eleven or twelve years later than the statement above cited ; but these, instead of a total of 9,000 ministers, bad and good, for a popula tion of 13,000,000. tells us boldly of 15,000 ministers, all Evangelical, for a population of 17,000,000 ! If the Home Missionary statement of 1834 was reduced to minis ters of the Gospel, it would not exceed 5,000. Yet in the course of twelve years, these are suddenly increased to 15,000 ! What can we say to such things, but that it is impossible to set any value on such statistics ? Hence as a general result, we consider Mr. Noel's posi tion to be not satisfactorily established,—that we maysafely abandon all endowments; and cast ourselves hencefor ward, upon the Voluntary System. &tneral Mr. Bunn has accepted £2900 in satisfaction of damages and costs in his late action with Jenny Lind. Among the recent importations from the United States, have been American partridges in considerable numbers. A statue of Richard Lander, the African traveller, is to be erected at Truro, his native town. Don Miguel, ex-King of Portugal, is now residing at Stevenag, Herts. Captain Siborne, the constructor of the Waterloo Model, died on the 13th instant. _ At Bow-street Police-court, on Tuesday, two letter carriers in the pay of the General Post Office, were com mitted for trial on charges of stealing letters containing money, &c. Till LIVIIPOOL gTANDARIL Two old-established banks at Wrexham—Kenrick's and Lloyd's—have suspended payment. A clerk in the branch of the British Linen Company's Bank at Carluke, Lanarkshire, has absconded with nearly £l,OOO of the company's cash. A correspondent of the Times states the amount of the loss which his firm has sustained by light gold, during the last six years, at £875 ss. The Jersey Times mentions that French cows are often introduced into Jersey, and afterwards shipped to England as cows of the true Alderney breed. A Durham paper states that the caverns at Hepshead are to be explored, and remarks that important geological discoveries will probably be made. Two swindlers, Mrs. Green, an assumed widow, and Mr. Cross, her brother, have been cheating the trades men of Cheltenham to a great extent. A dove, which for about forty years had been the re tainer of a family residing on Montague-hill, Bristol, died of old age on 21st ult. The Birmingham Journal says that the young noble man who has married a young lady of humble rank of life, living at Cambridge, is the Earl of Stamford and Warrington. A destructive fire took place on Friday, at the coach and harness manufactory of Mr. Angus, Newcastle-on- Tyne. The premises were destroyed, and the loss is estimated at several thousand pounds. It is said that Mr. John O'Connell has obtained a situ ation in the house of a London mercantile firm ; and that M. Guizot has been appointed to an office in connexion with the library of a noble English family. EXPENSES OF PROSECUTION.—It transpired at a magis trates'meeting, at Kendal, on Saturday week, that the cost to the county of the case of stealing a fishing rod at Ambleside, was £32. At the Staffordshire sessions, last week, it was formally decided that a widow is not a single woman, and a thief got off in consequence of such a misdescription of the owner of stolen goods. On Saturday two men were committed for trial at Chobham, Surrey, charged with incendiarism. The pri soners acknowledged their guilt, and their intention to have committed several acts. On the 13th Inst. Mr. W. Milbanke Huskisson, nephew of the celebrated statesman, died at Greenwich. He was a clerk in the Foreign office, and like his uncle shewed much soundness of intellect and aptitude for business. On Saturday week an old gentleman named Naylor, of weak intellect, wandered on the Leeds and Dewsbury railway in the evening, and being overtaken by a train was unfortunately killed. At Messrs. Horne's, in Whitechapel, London, there is an engine working under the combined influence of steam and chloroform,—combination which the best engineering authorities state to possess many great advantages. A few days since a servant girl, who was washing her hands in her master's kitchen, at Kirby-le-Soken, Essex, found a half-sovereign imbedded in the soap. into which it had evidently fallen during the process of manufacture. On Saturday last, a Bradford barge, which was lying a little below the confluence of the rivers Aire and Calder, was sunk by the flood, and the master had the grief of seeing his wife and two children drowned before his eyes. The " British Association for relieving distress in Ire land and Scotland" have published their accounts. They acknowledge to have received £603,535, three fourths of which was appropriated to Ireland. As the Rev. William Smart, of the first United Pres. byterian congregation, Linlithgow, was on his way to the pulpit, on Sunday week, he suddenly fell in the street, and before he could be carried to a house he expired. A nephew of Mr. Cobden, M.P.. named Rogers, disap peared from his situation and home in London a few days ago, and no intelligence has since been received of him. He was a steady youth, seventeen years of age. There is now no doubt that Jenny Lind will appear this season at her Majesty's Theatre. She had resolved to appear no more on the stage, but has been induced to continue for another season. The cholera is abating at Glasgow ; 342 cases and 137 deaths only are reported. In London and the vicinity a slight increase has been produced by the dispersion of the Tooting patients, but the progress of the calamity is arrested. SOUP KITCHEN EXTRAORDINARY.—On soup days, at the West Riding house of correction, the spare soup is given away to any poor people who have a mind to fetch it. We understand numbers will avail themselves of the above gift at this trying season.—Wakefield Journal. A MODEL WATER COMPANY.—A water company in Sunderland supplies 400 poor families, gratis, with ser vice pipes and water-taps in their houses, and with an un limited supply of water at the rate of one penny per week. Dr. Lloyd Williams, for upwards of thirty years medi cal officer of the Denbighshire Infirmary, has had his own portrait and that of his lady presented to him. The pub lic subscription for the purpose realised upwards of 200 guineas._ The Rev. John G. Lonsdale, son of the Bisbop of Lichfield, has been appointed Secretary of the National Society, rendered vacant by the resignation of the Rev. W. J. Kennedy, who is now one of the Government Inspectors of Schools. At the Plymouth Yacht Club fancy dress ball, on Wed nesday last, the entrance was lighted by wax candles, placed in the muzzles of a row of muskets all up the grand staircase. The muskets bristled with bayonets, and had a glittering and beautiful appearance. Commander Peel, son of Sir Robert Peel, and late of the Daring, 12-gun brig, who distinguished himself by passing a most remarkable examination for the rank of Lieutenant when in the Excellent, has been promoted to the rank of Post-Captain. On Tuesday night, a servant of the Earl of- Stamford saw a man pick up what he supposed to be a couple of hares, in a field :war the earl's seat at Enville. The ser vant ran after the suspected poacher, seized the animals, and hastened to the gamekeeper's lodge, where he dis covered that he had captured two cats. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTII.—On Sunday, the 13th in stant, a most extraordinary lusus naturce took place in Rochester-row, Westminster, where the wife of a shoe maker, named Wright, was delivered of five children (boys) at a birth. The children are dead, but are per fectly formed. On Wednesday the extensive grocery and drapery shop of Mr. Spackman, at Corsham, near Bath, were destroyed by fire, and unfortunately, after the fire, Mr. Spackman's dead body was found near a chimney stack, his head re clining on his hand, as if be had been overpowered by suffocation. At the Longford sessions, a fellow was sentenced to seven years' transportation for swindling a respectable but most simple widow of money, under pretence that he was her dead husband and was then " in the fairies," and threatening that he and the fairies would " make para bles" (!) of the children if it were not forthcoming. MORMONISM AND CARLIFORNIAISM.—On Wednes day, several families, comprising twenty-three individuals, left Louth, Lincolnshire, for Liverpool, on their way to California. They say the " Mormon gatherings" are not the attraction, and we believe that this is the case with at least some of them, for it has long since been their inten tion to emigrate to this land of promise. NOVEL MODE OF SLIDING.— . At Chepstow, during the recent frost, some boys established, in Beaufort-square, slides, which the " navvies" improved upon, by procuring the loan of some frying pans, and seating themselves in them, holding the handles in front by way of rudders, thus merrily they sailed over the land, amid loud shouts and plaudits from the by-standers. DEATH FROM EXPOSURE.—On Monday, a man named Probert, who had been drinking at Brecon, proceeded home across the mountains, and was found next morning sitting amongst the snow on a heap of stones a few yards from the road. It is supposed that becoming drowsy from the combined effects of the cold and the beer, he had sat down, and falling asleep, had been frozen to death. MUNIFICENT DONATIONS. —The treasurer of the Gloucester Magdalen Asylum, and of the Gloucester Infirmary, has received for the benefit of the former in stitution a transfer receipt of X5OO 34- per cent., and for the benefit of the latter a transfer receipt of £2OOO 31 per cent., being in each case the munificent donation of William Page Wood, Esq., one of the members for Oxford. A number of persons have lately been drowned at the docks at Hartlepool, and on Thursday evening Mr. W. J. Vollum, mayor of that town, after enjoying the society of a few select friends at his own - house, took a walk down to the docks, where it is supposed he had fallen over the quay, within a quarter of an hour of leaving his own dwelling, as his hat was picked up floating in the Victoria Dock, about half-past ten o'clock, half an hour after he had left home. Some persons who were assembled on the cliffs at Ska eheraw, near Aberdeen. on Monday week, were anxiously . . , watching some fishing boats returning home in order to escape a rising storm, when, on nearing the shore, one of the boats was struck by a heavy sea, which almost swamped her. An old man named Masson, one of whose sons was in the boat, shrieked " they're a' gone," fell back, and instantly expired; but the boat reached the land in safety. POWERS OF THE BLIND. Passing through Temple Sowerby, in Westmoreland (says Southey), I was shown a man perfectly blind, and blind from his infancy. Fowell was his name. This man's chief amusement was fishing on the wild and uneven banks of the river Eden, and up the different streams and tarns among the mountains. He had an intimate friend, likewise stone-blind, a dexterous card-player, who knew every gate and stile far and near throughout the country. These two often coursed toge ther, and the people, here as everywhere fond of the mar vellous, affirm that they were the best beaters up of game in the country. The rapid and progressive increase of poor rates in Scotland is causing alarm. The expenditure for the year 1844-5 was £258,814; the year 1845-6, £306,044: and the year 1846-7, £435,367. The report for 1847-8 will be laid before Parliament next month, and in it it is calcula ted that the expenditure will be £550,000. In 1847 the assessment was at the rate of £4 13s. sd. per cent. on the annual value of the real property of the country, or nearly td. per head of the population, according to the last census. In 1847 the registered poor amounted to 85,971; casual poor, to 60,399 ; total, 146,370, or nearly one in eighteen of the population, provided there be no repetition in the cases set down as casual poor. _ _ _ The National Club have added to the already large debt of gratitude the nation owes them by issuing the following appropriate form of petition :—" That your petitioners have understood that a measure for the endowment of the Roman Catholic Priesthood in Ireland is likely to be submitted to your Honourable House,—That your peti tioners, believing the public support of a religious system opposed to the Word of God to be a grievous national sin, and the establishment by law of the popish priesthood in this country to be utterly at variance with the principles of the British Constitution, most earnestly implore your Honourable House not to give countenance to such measure." The same patriotic body have also, issued another form of petition on a cognate subject, namely, in behalf of the schools in connexion with. the Protestant Church in Ireland—the only schools in. the kingdom 0-,- cluded from Government aid.. A MINER UNDER GROUND FOR SEVEN DAYS.—A miner, named John Edwards, aged 24, employed at the Plymouth Works, Merthyr, missed his way in coming out of the level on Tuesday se'nnight, and was not heard of until Wednesday morning in the following week, when a party of his fellow-workmen went in search of him. They found him in some old workings, His feet were blistered by walking to and fro endeavouring to find his way out ; and he was in that dreary- and unwholesome place without having anything to eat or drink for that long period. He is in a fair way of recovery. He lost his light, aid had no matches with him. SHAMEFUL OUTRAGE.—NearIy three months ago, we mentioned the capture in the town of Hull, of a chimney sweep, named Sunman, and also the apprehension in Lin colnshire of a companion of his, upon a charge of hawing committed a most brutal and unmanly act, viz., that of having pursued a lonely milk maid into a field at Winter ton, near Barton-upon-Humber, about six o'clock in the evening of a cold day towards the latter end of the month. of October, and then and there stripped her of every ar ticle of clothing, and then stood over her while they com pelled her to go through the whole of her work, that of milking four cows. The men have since been tried, and sentenced to seven years transportation. BURIAL OF A WOMAN IN THE CLYDE.—On New Year's-day, the wife of a boatman, who plies a dung-boat on the Clyde, went on board and remained till the follow ing day with her husband, when she became ill, as he alleges, and died of cholera. He went on shore in the neighbourhood of Park, and attempted to dig a hole to bury her, but in consequence of the frost did not succeed, and instead of applying to the parish authorities. he tied a large stone to one of the woman's arms, and threw the corpse into the Clyde. The fiscal at Paisley having got notice of the barbarous transaction, caused a search to be made, and, after three days' work, in which the searchers were assisted by the husband, the body was found. The man was liberated in consequence of the surgeons report ing that the woman died of cholera. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—At Guildhall, on Monday, a young man, named Frederic Jacques, living at Hoxton, was charged with being off Blackfriars-bridge, with intent to destroy himself. The evidence against the prisoner was to the effect that on the preceding night he was seen stooping down in one of the recesses of the bridge, with his hat off and a cord about his neck, to the other end of which a brickbat was attached. The rope was immediately cut, and on being asked why he could contemplate so rash an act, he burst into tears and said, " Oh ! don't ask me." A letter was found in his pocket-book, addressed to his wife, pleading distress, in which he concluded by telling her, that by the time she received it her wretched husband would be no more. The magistrates ordered that the prisoner be retained in custody for a couple of days, in order that the state of his mind might be reported on, and also that he might be seen by the chaplain. ALLEGED FORGERY AT LEEDS.—On Friday, at Leeds, William Smith, late of the firm of Burton, Smith, and Co., in that town, and also of the firm of Burton. Colman, and Co., Manchester, was charged before two magistrates with having forged a bill of exchange for £7O. The hear ing of the case excited great interest. Mr. Burton and Mr. Smith are both respectlbly connected at Leeds. The prosecutor was Joseph Jubb, of Batley, cloth manufac turer. He said he sold to the prisoner, in August last, cloth to the amount of £126, and received a bill at three months for £7O, in part of £126 ; that the bill was dis honoured, and he believed it to be a forgery. It purpor ted to be drawn by Burton, Smith, and Co., Manchester. No such firm as the last could be found. The evidence as to who wrote the bill was very contradictory. It was ordered that the depositions should be taken in writing, and the prisoner, until the case should be decide 1, was admitted to bail, himself in £2OO, and two sureties in £lOO each from day to day. The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the St. Katharine's Docks was held on Tuesday. The general balance in favour of the company on the Ist of January last was £88,980 19s. 3d., and the balance brought forward on the Ist of the present year was £92,364 6s. 10d., showing an increase of £3,383 7s. 7d. ; and the gross earnings of the company were, during the past year, £235,696 10x. 5d., and the expenses less the charge for interest, £132,549 10s. I Id. ; left applicable to dividend ' in the six months ended December last( £37,394 2s. 10d. ; of which sum the directors recommended that dividends should be declared of 2 per cent. for the half-year ending the 31st of December last, and that the property tax thereon be defrayed by the company. The dividend would amount to £36,075 ss. 9d., when there would remain a sum of £1,318 17s. ld. to be added to the "rest," which would increase the amount thereof to £56,289 ls. ld. THE DRAMA.—We gave in our last a paragraph from a Gloucester paper, which commented in strong terms on an alleged determination of the Rev. Mr. Close, of Chel tenham, to oppose the handing over of the receipts of a theatrical performance to the Cheltenham Hospital. The Times of Wednesday remarked pointedly on this state ment, and in consequence the Rev. Mr. Close has denied that there is one word of truth in it The rev. gentleman adds, in his letter to the Times,—" I am perfectly innocent of every charge which you have brought against me ! Neither in public nor in private have I threatened to withdraw my support from the Chel tenham Hospital if the directors received the proceeds of the projected amateur theatrical amusements in the As sembly-rooms, nor had I ever the slightest intention of doing so. On the contrary, scruples having arisen in the minds of some persons on this very point, I attended a board of the hospital, and ascertained that while they would not refuse the proceeds of the proposed theatricals, the project had never been mooted in the board, nor had they any connexion with it." SURPRISING ESCAPE.—On Monday evening last, as a young lad, in the employment of Mr. Wilson, baker, Par tick, was engaged watering a horse and cart belonging to his employer at the customary place in the river Kelvin, near the bridge at the Patrick mills, he was floated away by the force of the current, and carried down the stream into the Clyde. Fortunately the cart kept above water •, the horse swam for his life, and the youth had sufficient presence of mind, notwithstanding the darkness of the night, to retain his seat, and hold fast by the reins. On finding the perilous nature of his situation, it seems he shouted lustily for assistance, but no one seems to have beard his cries until the horse, cart, and driver went down to the water as far as the silk mill below the village of Govan, where the watchman of the works, hearing the shouts of the boy, put off a boat to his aid, and succeeded in rescuing him from a watery grave. In the dark, the horse and cart went out of sight, and the parties who brought the boy to land naturally imagined that the horse was lost : judge of the astonishment of Mr. Wilson, how ever, on going down the river next morning, expecting to find only the remains of his horse and vehicle, to discover his gallant steed by the edge of the river alive a nd hearty. The beast had evidently reached the bank with much ex ertion, but had sustained no serious damage.—Glasgow Chronicle. SHIPWRECK AT CARDIGAN BAR, AND Loss OF TEN LIVES.—On Thursday, the 11th inst. it blew a violent gale from the north-west. About 3 p.m. a large brig was seen to run into the breakers. The vessel was ascertained to be the Agnes Lee, of North Shields, John Clarence, master, bound from Alexandria, with wheat. She left the Cove of Cork on Tuesday morning last. The sea beating very high, no boat could go out to render assis tance, although several attempts were made. There is no life-boat at Cardigan. The crew launched the jolly-boat, which was filled with eleven of the crew, captain, wife, and child, one of the crew taking to the rigging. The boat swamped after leaving the vessel. The fishermen, boatmen, and others on the shore, joined hands, and went into the water at the risk o f their lives, and saved four of the unfortunate individ ua l s . Wh en brought on shore they were quite insensible. The hoc the crew and the infant child were washed ashore, one of the parties saved being the mate, a native of Cork, named John Fortune. The night of Thursday being very dark and boisterous, no boat could go out. On Friday morn ing they put off, and found the man in the rigging, in a very exhausted state. The body of the captain's wife and one of the crew were washed on shore on Friday, one body on Saturday, and three on Sunday, leaving only the body of the captain to come ashore. ADVERTISING FOR A CLERK.-At the Thames Police Office last week, W. H. Johnson,desCr&dasan tioneer, was charged with obtaining £2O under false pre tences from John Cash.—The complainant stated that having some time since seen an advertisement for a clerk, with reference to the prisoner, he waited upon him, when Mr. Johnson entertained his application, but said it would be necessary that he should lodge £2O as security, which sum he deposited with the defendant, and he was installed as clerk to the prisoner. The office of the de fendant, who had not occupied it more than a twelve month, was hung round with showy posters of sales which had taken place more than four years ago, the object , evidently being to exhibit the appearance of a vast quan tity of business. On going to do duty at the office, wit ness found another young man also actin g a s c le r k , and perceiving that there was no business even for one, his suspicions were excited. The other young man told him that he was to lodge £25 as security for the moneys likely to pass through his bands, but after days and weeks passing, and no money coming in, the other young man left. Finding that there was nothing to do, and not re ceiving and salary, witness demanded back his money, to which the prisoner coldly replied " Why, how do you think I get my living ? I get it just by taking in such fools as you are." The prosecutor had made some com promise in the matter, and the prisoner was therefore discharged. _ The amount of damage done by the fire at Lincoln's- Inn, noticed in our last, was nearly £20,000. Most of it was insured. The premises were built in 1666, immedi ately after the great fire in London. For several days the ruins were literally crowded with barristers and solicitors, who were working like common labourers in removing the burnt timbers and searching the rubbi s h f or t h e remains of deeds and other documents ; every scrap of paper that could be found was carefully preserved and removed to a place of safe custody. The several parties by so doing ran great risk. Some idea of the importance attached to the documents contained in the building may be formed from the fact of one of the gentlemen holding chambers in the premises having offered £lOOO to any one who would mount the fire-escape, enter one of the front cham bers, and bring out a small parcel lying in one of the drawers. The fire, however, had made too much progress for any one to do so with safety, and there is no doubt that those documents have been destroyed. During Friday the work of clearing the ruins was continued, and towards the evening the firemen, under the direction of head-engineer Loder, succeeded in turning up a parch ment package, not in the least degree injured, which, upon examination, proved to be the deeds of an estate, left in Messrs. Jones, Bennett, and Bateman's care, amounting to £27,000. A mortgage deed of £lO,OOO has also been recovered quite uninjured, and another of £12,000 has been found in the ruins, together with a vast number of smaller amounts. The whole of the original wills, also left with the same fi rm , h ave lik ew i se 'been recovered from the rubbish, and s ecur iti es i nvo l v i ng some thousand pounds' worth of property have been taken from the basement and ground floors, where they had fallen from the upper part of the house. OUR COMMERCIAL PROGRESS.—The import of, raw ROBBERY or FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS.—On Saturday cotton into this country in the year 1710 was only forenoon, a very daring and dexterous robbery was effected 715,0081b5. ; in 1845 it was 659,584,4771b5, The price of in the Union Bank, Ingram-street. Donald Campbell, a pound of cotton yarn in 1787 was one pound eighteen the porter at the bank, had been out collecting bills in shillings; in 1842 it was two shillings and ninepence. In the customary way, and had received payment of a bill of 1787 there were only forty-one cotton-mills in Lancashire. £5OO, the money consisting of five £lOO notes of the In the year 1838 there were in the same county one thou- Clydesdale Banking Company. With this sum he re sand one hundred and eighty-seven, (sixty-two of which, turned to the bank, which at the time was much crowded. however, were empty.) The contrast presented by this and after enclosing the notes in a pass-book, threw them statement is rendered greater when we consider that over the counter, to Mr. M'Arthur, one of the tellers, factories in 1787 were in many instances one-tenth less in who was at the time actively engaged with other business. size than at the latter period. The number of persons About twenty minutes are said to have elapsed from the male and female, employed in cotton factories in Lance- time of the pass-book being thrown upon the counter shire in the year 1846 was 201,573. In the year 1782 a until it was taken up by the teller, when, strange to re panic was created in Manchester in consequence of 7012 late, the pass-book was found to contain no money of any bales of cotton being imported between the months of description whatever. It was not said whether the por— December and April. During one week, in February of ter kept his eyes upon the book during the whole time it 1844, 109,000 bales were sold in Liverpool. The year lay upon the table, or at what distance from him it was 1776-7 was the era of the first cotton-mill in the towns of thrown ; but certainly the notes were found to have been Preston and Staley-bridge.—ln 1825 Preston had 40 and abstracted ; and the thief and property are still undis- Staley-bridge 22. The capital supposed to be sunk in covered.—Glasgow Herald. cotton-mills in 1832 was £10,600,000. It was estimated BORDER MARRIAGES.—A host of candidates has arisen that the quantity of flour used in the manufacturing of for the vacant post of priest of Lamberton Toll, and their cotton goods in the same year was 215,824 barrels of announcements to a discerning public have formed the 1261b5., or 176,256 loads of 2401b5. each, the average of staple of the circulating literature of the week. The va each loom being 41bs. per week. rious styles of these documents are highly entertaining-. COMPARATIVE SMALLNESS OF THE ENGLISH ARMY. One gentleman courtly informs the matrimonial world —The Times of Friday commences an article on the that "he has succeeded" to the office of the late Mr. English army, as follows :—" No persons but the disciples Collins. Another, with a genius for puzzles, has tor of the New League will be astonished at being reminded tured the word " matrimony" into thirty-two different that the English army is not only, as compared with the positions—the matrimony he dispenses, we fear, will often population from which it is drawn, one of the smallest in be solved as easily as his puzzle. A third, who dates Europe, but that also it is hardly equal to the multifarious from Walkergate-lane, takes up very high ground. He and varied duties which are imposed upon it. An army also " has much pleasure in intimating that he has sue of 113, or 115,000 men, which is the largest number that ceeded to the office of Mr. Collins, deceased. The legis ours amounts to, after we have deducted its East Indian lature of the country have acknowledged its legality by contingents, is not a very great force to protect, or—if our their inability to alter the present mode of celebrating Manchester friends prefer the phrase—to cow a population marriages on the borders. Many of those now occupying of 28,000,000 ; nor can it be reasonably supposed to be high places in the country will, no doubt, feel a reluctance equal to the defence of colonial possessions which consi- to interfere with that system which enabled them to be derably exceed the area of all Europe in extent. Holland, come at once the husband of a fair maiden and of a rich with less than 3,000,000 of inhabitants, has an army of inheritance." This is a shrewd genius, not easily to be 40,000 men ; Belgium, with her 6,000,000, has an army put down, and well acquainted with the political and re 'of 100,000 men ; France, with 35,000.000, has an army ligious bearings of the question. His practice, we should which, if it does not exceed, does not fall short of, 400.000 fancy, will be confined chiefly to the higher classes. The men. If the home population were taken as the sole lucky dog, whom he makes the husband at once of a basis of military strength, the army of England should " fair maiden and a rich inheritance," will be sure to re be, according to one of these computations, 460,000 ; compense handsomely so sensible and argumentative a according to another, 285,000. But if national wealth priest. We should not wonder, too, to see the marriages were to be taken as the measure of military preparation, at St. George's, Hanover-square, fill off, and a trip to what an accession would this require to the existing esta- Lamberton Toll become quite fashionable. He should blishments of Great Britain." distribute his cards extensively among the aristocracy. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.—On Monday, one of the The vulgar herd of candidates will take their chance most extraordinary escapes from a prison that we have among the couples without " rich inheritances." heard of, occurred at the New Prison at Wakefield, when THE DOINGS OF POPERY.—The slow-going English a waterman of the name of Temple, and a native of Bris- Roman Catholics of the old school are, I hear, frightecl tol, had so matured his plans of escape that the officers from their propriety by the rapidity of proceeding adopted and warders of the establishment had not the slightest by the zeal of the recent converts, backed by the Italian suspicion of what was about to take place, or even what Monks and Jesuits—and above all, seconded oy the abili was taking place when the convict made his escape. It ties, the resources, and untiring energies which the appears that Temple was transported from the assizes " Bishop of Melip o t amus " i s b r i ng i ng to bear on the lately held at York, and th a t hi s sen t ence was f or 14 or 15 cause of " the propagation of the faith" in Great Britain. years. He had a hand-loom in his cell, with which he wove The soirees which I some time since alluded to are still canvass. With this canvass, and the material from held once a week at the episcopal residence in Golden. which he wove, he made a rope. He also took some square, when the metropolitan saloons are thronged by iron bars from his loom, and with these he succeeded in an assemblage of talent and eminence such as, I nnder forcing out the two iron bars which went across his cell stand, could hardly be met with at the abode of any other window. Watchmen are engaged nightly in pacing their ecclesiastic in Europe. Nor is this surprising, considering different beats in the prison yard, and right underneath the fame of the host, and the facilities with which the the prisoner's cell window a watchman passed every privilege of entree'is to be obtained, an introduction from. quarter of an hour. He says that at five o'clock in the any acquaintance of the bishop's being sufficient to ensure morning the prisoner was in his cell. The watchman did the stranger not only a polite but even a cordial reception. his duty there is no doubt, for he regularly touched the Would I could add that these reunions were confined to " peg clock" every quarter of an hour. After the pri- those whose character and creed would make them the soner had made his rope, thrust out the iron bars of his fitting guests of an avowed and unflinching opponent of cell window, and plucked up all his courage, he had to our Protestant Church. But unless report speak very squeeze himself through the window-hole, which is a untruly, there are hut too many occasional, aye and cul -1 small aperture of 7 inches by 15. He is about 30 years stant visitors at Golden-square, to whom their guardian. of age, and inclined to be corpulent, and how he squeezed spirit might justly whisper, " what doest thou here, through such a small opening is very surprising, and more Elijah ?" Some may condemn these disclosures ; but it surprising still that he was not discovered, seeing the fur- is better that the whole extent of our danger should be ther difficulties he had to contend with. The difficulties known, by the insidious advances of the foe being duly were something of this kind,—the ken of the watchmen chronicled. For the work of " perversion" is still going and warders to evade, a very high wall to get over,—and on. An undergraduate of Cambridge, and two more all these things to be done without noise. English clergymen, are among the last reported cases of ROMANTIC GENEROSITY.—Some 25 or 30 years ago the deplorable mania—one of them an incumbent of ad there resided in London an old sergeant of artillery. This vanced age. At Clapham, the order of Redemptorists, person in the course of his duties, by some means or w h o h ave lately established ' themselves there, are putting other, had been brought into frequent contact with Sir forth immense exertions to obtain proselytes, and are Francis Burdett, who had conceived a high opinion of the causing proportionote alarm among the friends of evan sergeant, and with that homeliness and good nature which gelical truth, who have long made that locality their fa distinguished him throughout life, the hon. baronet had vourite settlement. The Romish services and sermons at been accustomed to treat the worthy sergeant with great Clapham, as well as at St. George's, are attended by vast kindness and familiarity. One morning Sir Francis throngs, on whom the extraordinary eloquence of one of chanced to meet his humble friend in the street, and ob- their preachers, Father Petcherine (himself a convert serving him to be a little more anxious than usual, kindly from and once a priest of the Grmco-Russian Church) said to him, " Well, N—, what are you about ! You are tells with thrilling effect, and has already produced its looking duller than usual, has anything happened ?" fruits in the conversion of more than a dozen young men, "Nothing very particular, your honour," was the reply, not to mention f ema l es , o f some o f t h e leading Protestant only my wife has got a son this morning, and—and— families. One of their converts, a young man the heir to Sir Francis, now that I think of it, and if you have no a property of several thousands a-year, is at present, it is objections, I should like to name him after you." understood, undergoing the process of noviceship, preps " Surely, surely," said the amiable old gentleman; "and ratory to devoting himself with all his wealth to the ser remember. N—, when lie grows up, to bring me in mind vice of the order. The Monastery situate near the Cora of this—perhaps I may be able to do something for the mon is furnished with a large bell, which causes, I hear, boy." The ceremony of baptism over, at which Sir Fran- much annoyance to the peaceable inhabitants of the vici cis appeared as godfather, nothing more is said to have nity, by ringing out at most unseasonable hours for matins. passed at the time. The hon. baronet in the course of It is even stated that a petition to parliament is in course years was gathered to his fathers, as was also the old ser- of preparation at Clapham against these troublesome in geant. The boy meanwhile had been sent to sea, and by traders ' • and truly it would b e h ar d t o say w h y Protes application and good condu c t h a d b een promote d to t h e tants should be annoyed by such Popish bell-ringing, in a situation of mate in a merchant vessel. A few weeks country whose laws confine the right of having and using ago, while in Liverpool, the young man saw what he bells to the National Church.—London correspondent of thought a good opportunity of purchasing half a vessel on (Word Herald. his own account; but not being possessed of sufficient GOLD IN WALES.—About 900 yards north-east of the means he wrote to his friends in Edinburgh to inquire if West Cwn-heisian is the East Cwm-heisian mine, situate they could assist in the purchase. The idea now occurred on a group of 14 large and powerful lodes, or veins, to one of the young man's brothers that he might take it having many different bearings—the prevailing one being upon him to make Sir Francis's heiress aware of the for- north-west and south-east, which intersect each other mer promise of her father, and a letter was accordingly within a distance of about 200 yards. As might be ex sent to Miss Burdett Coutts, detailing the circumstances, petted, under such favourable circumstances, very rich and enclosing the young man's certificates of character. results have been obtained.; the veins contain highly The reply to this note was received in town last week, argentiferous lead ores, potter's lead, blende, iron, and and was couched in that magnificent style for which the arsenical pyrites, all of which ara mixed with gold. The lady has become celebrated. It contained no vain words, mine was originally opened as a lead mine, but a small but a bank cheque for no less a sum than £l,OOO. How- quantity of very rich auriferous ore being found within a ever extraordinary this story may appear, we have good few feet of the surface, yielding from 7to 16 ozs. of gold authority for stating it as a literal fact. —Edinburgh News. per ton of ore, induced an inquiry, whether the present DREADFUL DESTITUTION.—On Monday last, a respect- intention of working for lead should not be abandoned. able gentleman attended at the Westminster police-office, At first the discovery of gold was considered to be more and told the magistrate that a man and his wife, who had curious than valuable; but, on further examination, large been brought up very genteelly, had encountered great quantities of the tinstone, and ores taken from the veins reverses, and came with their family to lodge in a house at distant points, gave valuable results in gold. The belonging to the applicant in York-street, Westminster. owner then determined to have the mine opened to an For a short time they endeavoured to procure a subsist- extent which should set the question at rest, as to whether ence, the mother by knittin g wors t e d cu ff s , an d t h e f at h er, i t were really to be considered a gold or a lead mine. To who had been a schoolmaster, by writing small labels for this end, a shaft was sunk to the depth of 30 yards, many shop windows; both of which two of their children dis- fathoms of levels were driven, and several hundred tons posed of in the streets : but the slender profit derived from of ore raised from the workings. For a distance of 200 these sources was totally inadequate to supply the wants yards which has been explored, the masses of mineral, of their children, and, to fill up their cup of misery, both formed by the falling togeth er o f so many ve i ns, i s up . were taken ill a few days a g o, an d were una bl e l onger to wards of , 40 feet in width, and is found to be of equal assist, in the slightest degree, themselves or children. dimensions in depth. Beyond the intersection, both east Death had that morning released the poor man from his and west, the veins radiate, and are from 3to 20 feet in sufferings, and the picture their abode presented at that width, extending from three-quarters to one mile in length, moment was frightful. Further information of the within the limits of the setts. The result of the foregoing wretched condition of the family was given, and the ma- operations has been, to prove that wherever the veins gistrate directed inquiry to be made by the police who have been opened, they are found to contain gold, both 4nnnrl th..t i .44:- L_ _1 LUUMI I LIISL In a noisome attic lay the deceased sufferer in his clothes as he had expired ; by his side his stricken wife, who was weeping convulsively. She was lying upon a miserably dirty mattress, and appeared for some time unconscious of the chief usher's presence. She appeared very ill, and articulated feebly ; and, in reply to an in quiry from the usher, stated that some time ago they had had a little relief from the narish. but of late had been in depth and length, and that every kind of mineral con tained in them is mixed with gold. The whole mass of the veins must be wrought for gold as the primary object, and the lead and silver-lead ores will be obtained at the same time, without extra cost. The gold is remarkably pure, and free from alloy, and will average in value £4 per ounce, or 2d. per grain. In order to prove the value of the ore raised, an experiment was tried on "^ f reluctant to apply for any assistance, hoping that some favourable change might occur in their circumstances. The whole of the furniture the attic contained consisted of one broken chair, a form, and an old table, with the mattress before alluded to, upon which the woman was stretched, without a morsel of rug or bed covering of any description, Her children—pictures of squalid misery— were sitting near her. There was no covering of any description to shield the children from the inclemency of the weather, and their whole stock of ar the clothes they had on. The ushe attu tons oi it, fairly broken from all parts of the mines. The whole quantity was concentrated into 101 tons of washed ore, containing 84,487 grains of gold, or 176 ounces troy, giving an average of 16 ounces and a fraction per ton of washed ore, or 281 grains of gold per ton of raw ore ; and by carefully picking out the waste and slate from the raw ore, before it was pulverised, it was found that the average might be raised to more than 350 grains per ton. Mining Journal f SEnious CASE OF BIGAMY.—On Thursday Henry eldest child that they had had no food of any description on Sunday, and that for some days previously the only thing that had passed her father's lips was weak tea or cold water, a small jug of which was found in the wretched apartment, and there appeared but little doubt that he had died from starvation. The deceased and his wife had been both very well brought up, and the husband, who is described as the son of an eminent solicitor named Wil liams, possessed some talent as an author and an artist. Food and clothing were provided for the sufferers, who are progressing slowly. THE ROBBERY OF THE MAIL BAG , BETWEEN BRISTOL Mamma ryite, a solicitor, who practised some fourteen years ago in Norfolk, but who had latterly resided in Liverpool, in the employment of Messrs. Lowndes and Co., solicitors, of that town, was brought before the County Magistrates, on a charge of bigamy. In 1824,, while living in Norfolk, he became acquainted with Miss Emma Roberson Howlett, of Marsham, a young lady of most respectable connexions, t o w h om h e was married on the 4th August, 1824. He lived with her, but not very happily, up to the year 1838, when he was tried for for gery at Norwich, and sentenced to fifteen years' transpor tation. His ill-health and other circumstances procured AND EXETER.—It appears that Poole (the late guard) and his supposed accomplice did not enter the train at Exeter, but proceeded by private conveyance to Laira. the western extremity of the line, probably to avoid the recognition of Poole by the servants at the station. The other pri soner still persists in refusing to give his name. The first witness called at the last examination was Mr. Henry Lee, of Bristol, who came down nearly to Exeter in the ioi mut u commutation 01 tnat sentence, and he was liberated after an imprisonment of two years. Immedi ately after his release he left the city, and his wife never saw him again. Having obtained a situation as assistant clerk to the Magistrates at Stourbridge, he was accus tomed to visit this city frequently, and thus became acquainted with Miss Moss, third daughter of Mr. Moss, of Great Malvern, a young lady of very great personal A • train, from which the letters were abst'racted, on the 2nd of January. His evidence only went to show that, while waiting for the train at the Bristol Station, he saw Poole and the anonymous accused in close conversation on the platform. They retired, when observed, under an arch way, and continued to talk in whispers. When the book ing office was opened, Poole appeared anxious to conceal his face from the clerks, and the other man obtained two first-class tickets. The dress which he described Poole as attractions, to whom, after paying his addresses for some twelve months, he was married at Claines, on the 12th of March, 1844. They lived together about two years, when, in consequence of the exhaustion of his finances, she was obliged to return home to her father's house. Some time afteriVarus, he sent for her to London, where he very shortly deserted her in a most heartless manner. Since that time he had been lost sight of, but the fact of his prior marriage became known to Miss Moss's family, and in quiries were made about him. He was at last accidentally discovered in Liverpool by one of the unfortunate lady's own sisters, who was standing with the lady of the house where she resided, when a letter from Pyke was handed to the latter, offering to take part of her house as lodgings ; and giving the names of his employers as referees. As soon as his place of abode was known at Worcester, and the necessary informations could be sworn, a warrant for his apprehension was placed in the hands of Mr. Lloyd, D.C.C., who proceeded to Liverpool and had an inter view with his employers, solicitors of the highest standing in that town. They were amazed at the intelligence which Mr. Lloyd brought to them, and seemed not a little sorry at being obliged to part with a servant who had been so exceedingly useful to them, and in whom they' had always placed the greatest confidence as a man of honour. Pyke was not at the office when Mr. Lloyd called, and that gentleman proceeded to his lodgings, where he found him sitting at his table with a couple of decanters of wine before him. When Mr. Lloyd told him his errand he seemed thunderstruck, but said he should give Mr. L. no trouble, and begged him so to comport himself as to spare the feelings of a lady who was living with him, and of whom he took an affect iona t e parting, telling her that pressing business required his absence from home for a few days. Since he has been apprehended he has manifested the deepest distress and misery of mind, but has in no way attempted to deny the truth of the charge brought against him. Indeed that would be quite useless as the proofs of his milteare;com plete. He made no sort of defence, and.was ful .r gicsm-• witted for trial at the ensuing M arc h Asti ;bl. - i7 Wm first wife had no family by him ; his sec on d4 las ' one c hild.— Worcester Journal. wearing was similar to that found on him. Three other witnesses identified the accused. Mrs. Elworthy, a lodging-house keeper at Plymouth, stated that Poole had lodged with her about six weeks in last May and June. She had often seen his handkerchiefs, and the one pro duced (that in which the parcels and letters were found on the night of the prisoner's apprehension) was very similar in colour to one of his, but she was unable to swear to it. The next witness was Langley, a sergeant of the metropolitan detective police, who had been brought down to identify Poole's accomplice. He said that the prisoner's name was Robert Nightingale ; and that he had known him for eight or nine years, but bad lost sight of him for a year and a half. Both prisoners (and Night ingale in particular) seemed completely unnerved by this testimony. The mayor of Exeter then formally committed them for trial. In spite of the active search which has been made in Bristol, and on the line, not a tittle of the property stolen from the up-train has been yet found. The claims for lost property which continue to flow in at the post-office are enormous. Several robberies have lately been committed on the Great Western Railway. A few months ago, the company's strong box at Paddington, was broken open and cash to the amount of £2,000 was taken. On searching Poole's house, no documents have been found by the police, nor scarcely a scrap of paper, but on his person were several 1 0 U's for £2O, £5O, and £75. The passage from the first class carriage to the post-office tender, while the train was in motion, must have been hazardous in the extreme Poole, however, when a guard, used to boast of being able to leap from a train at full speed, which feat s it is said, he frequently accomplished.