The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. FRANCE. The French Assembly has rejected, by a large majority, the proposition of Colonel Chaurat for the sale of the crown jewels; deeming it, no dolfbt, inexpedient to dis pose of the trappings of monarchy, tiil it is more satisfac torily ascertained that France can afford to dispense with monarchy itself. A portion of the expeditionary army, which is ill lodged at Rome, has been recalled by the French Government. The Grand Duke of Tuscany has published an amnesty. The exceptions are pretty numerous, and admit the escape of none but the smallest fry of political offenders. The Emperor of Austria has returned to Vienna from his visit to Prague, much gratified by the reception he met with from his Boheitian subjects. M. Pierre Bonaparte and M. de Rovigo, fought a duel with swords on Thursday week, when the former was vopunded in the left side and wrist. It was proposed that pursuant to agreement, the combat should be continued with swords exchanged for the sabre. 1 ' T" Bonaparte hich would not agree to this, and wanted to have pistols, w M. de Rovigo refusing, the affair terminated. Unon Sun day, again, another duel took place between M. Pierre Bonaparte and M. Adrien de la Valette, principal editor of the Assemblee Nationale. The weapons, this time, were pistols. After firing a shot each at thirty paces, the affair terminated. In consequence of the frequent duels arising out of debates in the Assembly, it is said that the Attorney-General will demand authority to prosecute. _ Accounts from the north of France record, recent falls of snow, and other signs of a severe winter. A new reformer has risen up in the Romish Church in Prance, in the person of an Abbe Chantome, who has addressed a petition to the Pope for a variety of ecclesi astical reforms. A letter from Rome of the 20th states that the return of the Pope is indefinitely postponed The stat e is menaced with ex The Hull papers announce that the navigation of the Elbe is partly closed by ice. Goods may yet, it is believed, be landed at Gluckstadt. According to the Medical Times, 1 discovered on the American prairies, a plant property of pointing north and south, and has g name of sylphium laciniatum. The screw-auxiliary packet-ship Sarah Sands. leaves New York for San Francisco on the 10th instant. She is engaged to run for a term of years between Panama and San Francisco in connexion with a line from New York to Chagres... r Alvord has ssing the riven it the Arew York 4dverliser says, —a you actually in progress an invention, which, when completed, as he solemnly and seriously alleges, will enable him to cross the Atlantic Ocean in less than four days. The Standard of Tuesday frightened people from their propriety by an announcement in large type of the re ceipt, by electric telegraph, of the news of the abdication of the King of Prussia in favour of the Prince Royal. There is not the slightest confirmation of the news. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.—The reported rupture between Austria and Prussia turns out to be a false alarm. The Berlin State Gazette gives it an official contradiction, by declaring, upon authority, that Austria had not protested against the meeting of the parliament at Erfurt, in De cember. THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.—The native population is rapidly diminishing. Four-fifths of the population have disappeared since the first visit of Captain Cook, a period of seventy years, and about one-sixth of the remnant have died within the last year. The present population of the Was. FANNY KEMBLE. — We perceive that Kemble (so the American law of divorce has e Butler h forth to style herself) has resumed her r ings in t States, with greater success than ever. How seems to be her family name! But how co- impensl mica! a has even the most tragic celebrity Letters from New York state that Mr. Bennet has offered Jenny Lind 1000 dollars per night for 200 nights, and made a further offer to place a carriage at her disposal, and to pay every description of expenses attending the concerts or operas. He has also proposed to place £lO,OOO in the hands of her bankers in London to secure the fulfilment of his proposal. PROJECTED JEWISH TEMPLE ON MOUNT ZION.—The Jews.have obtained a firman from the Turkish govern ment to admit of their building a temple on Mount Zion, which they pray may equal in splendour that built by King Solomon. A sum of £250,000 has been raised in America alone for this purpose. The student of prophecy I every Christian ought to be such a character—will t as not the least important of " the signs of note this the time: SAXONY.—The Berlin papers state that the Saxon Chambers were opened on the 26th ult. by the King of Saxony. In the royal speech his Majesty protests that although the standard of German unity was disgraced in the bands of those who seized it for criminal purposes, yet his government would abide by that banner, and that he, therefore, joined a league of German governments, which promised to give the Germaption a C3IIIMOII and prac tical constitution. • A RELIC OF WATFIELD.—The New York Observer has a letter dated Newburyport, September 28th, which states that the right arm of the celebrated George Whit field, which was removed from the body by some relic bunter, so long ago as 1816, when the vault of the first presbyterian church of Newburyport was under repair, where the remains repose, has been lately restored to its proper place. The arm was in the possession of some person in England at least since the year 1825. WEST INDIA MAIL.—By the steamer, just arrived, we have dates from Kingston to the 22d of October. The Retrenchment Bill, in the House of Assembly ; there were 14 votes for the bill, and 19 against it, in the division of the House. The County Union makes the following statement :—" In the year 1840, in the parish of St. James, seventy-five sugar estates were in cultivation. In 1849, forty-nine !—and ere the next year shall have passed away four more estates will be added to the obituary of our once flourishing island." ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA.—By the Royal Mail steam-ship Hibernia, which arrived at Liverpool on Wed nesday, we have advices from New York to the 14th, and Halifax to the 17th November. The Cambria arrived at Boston on the 10th, and the America at Halifax on the 15th November. The West India mail steam-ship Dee arrived at Mobile on the sth. The Royal Mail steam-ship Tay arrived at Chagres on the 26th October, and left on the evening of the 30th for Carthagena, with the mails and bullion for South America. Thence she sailed and reached Kingston on the Ist November. The annexation meeting appointed to take place at Montreal came off on the Ist November, without causing any disturbance. CANADA.—This country is still greatly excited. The Montreal and Toronto correspondents of the Herald give particulars of meetings in favour of the annexation move ment. They state that the feeling is becoming stronger than ever, and that those who favour the project of se parating from Great Britain are becoming bolder and bolder every day. HEROIC HIIMANITY. — The Brazilian papers record another act of honorable humanity on the part of Captain Lisboa, who, it will be recollected, exerted himself in pre serving the lives of the passengers and crew of the Ocean Monarch some time since. While stationed off Rio Janeiro he hazarded his own life to save the lives of two negroes whose boat had been destroyed in a severe gale of wind on the night of the 7th of September. It was very dark, and, the poor fellows' cries being heard, the captain (Marques Lisboa) embarked in a small leaky canoe, with a torch in his mouth, and witk the assistance of two men, attempted to reach the rocks to which the negroes were clinging ; but before he could accomplish it the canoe was twice upset, and on each occasion the captain swam ashore, righted the canoe, and again put off amidst the breakers. He at last succeeded in rescuing them, amidst the cheers and hearty huzzas of the assembled populace, who, by the light of their torches, were witnesses of the bold and dan gerous exploit. .THE SANDWICH ISLANDS SEIZED BY THE FRENCH.— We have received startling intelligence from Honololu. A French force has seized on the Sandwich Islands under these circumstances :—M. Dillon, the French consul, sent to the King, in September last, a most unexpected demand, viz., that certain privileges should be given to Roman Catholic priests in the island ; that a French cri minal should be set at liberty ; and that the duty on French brandy should be abolished ! After due consider ation, M. Dillon received a negative reply. He instantly declared that France was insulted, called a French naval force into the bay, the ships opened their guns on the fort, marines were sent ashore, the fort was stormed, the defenders bayonetted, the cannon spiked, the royal flag torn down, the French colours hoisted, and the Sandwich Islands pronounced to be a French possession ! All the other Foreign consuls have protested against this outrage ous and bloody act, and M. Dillon has sailed for France to give an account of his insane commission, and, we hope, to be condignly punished. He and his proceedings must, of course, be disavowed. We had the pleasure, the other evening, of listening with astonishment to the transmission of music by tele graph over the wires from Boston to New York. We happened to be in the office, No. 5, Hanover-street, in this city, when there was a pause in business operations. Mr. W. Porter, a young but skilful operator in the Bos ton office, asked us what tune we would have. We re plied, " Yankee Doodle ;" and to our surprise, he imme diately complied with our request. The instrument com menced drumming the notes of the tune as perfectly and distinctly as a skilful drummer could have made them at the head of a regiment, and many will be astonished to hear that " Yankee Doodle" can travel by lightning. We then asked for " Hail, Columbia," when the notes of that national air were distinctly beat off. We then asked for " Auld Lang Syne," the notes or sounds of which were also transmitted. A friend called for " Old Dan Tucker," when Mr. Porter also sent that tune, and, if anything, in a more perfect manner than the others. So perfectly and distinctly were the sounds of these tunes transmitted,that good instrumental performers could have no difficulty in keeping time with the instruments at this end of the wires. This is one of many telegraphic novelties.—New York Herald. _ . PORTUGUESE COURT GOSSIP. — Great complaints are uttered of the parsimony of the court. There are no entertainments, no balls, no routes, nothing that would distinguish the Necessidades as being inhabited by people in 'fashionable life. Parsimony, rather than actual poverty, is said to be the cause. It was not long ago, that a man who had bought up some of, the allowances of the do mestic servants, finding no Money forthcoming for the payment of the wages and board wages which he regularly bought of the servants, who were obliged to sell to him in order to supply themselves with the common necessa ries of life, sued the treasurer of the household for pay ment, and at length execution issued against the goods and chattels, produce, and effects, of her majesty at Queluz. To avoid a more disgraceful scene, namely, the moving of her majesty's property to the public place for sale (as by a sheriff's execution), the money was paid ; but not without an attempt to pay in bank notes instead of specie. The other servants, stable men, &c., hearing of this success, thought of another expedient in order to save that sacrifice which the selling of their wages and board-wages would entail upon them, perhaps 25 or 30 per cent., and actually struck for wages ; the king consort was very much annoyed at it, and paid the money out of his own private resources. A curious incident has hap pened which will furnish a subject for tea-table chat. Donna Maria da Gforia was invited to a ball and supper by the Philharmonic Society of Lisbon ;. she had accepted the invitation, and preparations were going on to produce the entertainment; it appears, however that the entrance, as well as the building, are neither very commodious, and that therefore it was decided she should enter through the private dwelling Louse of the Baroness do Barcel lino's, whose husband is a strong progressita, whether for electioneering purposes or otherwise, does not appear, the queen was advised not to go, and accordingly she sent —Correspondent of the Daily News. an exc CALIFORNIA. The steam-ship Empire City reached New York on the 11th November, with late intelligence from California. She left Chagres on the 29th of October, and Kingston, Jamaica, on the 4th of November. She had on freight to New York about 750,000 dollars worth of gold dust, or, according to other accounts, 1,000,000 dollars. The convention at Monterey was still in session. It had been agreed to prohibit slavery, and free negroes were not to be permitted to enter the state. Pueblo San Jose had been agreed upon as the seat of government. The right of suffrage was to be extended to all free white male citizens of the United States, after six months' residence in the state. Banks of discount were to be prohibited, and banks of deposit were to be strictly pro tected. The boundary agreed upon includes all Alta Ca lifornia, but an effort would be made to confine it to the Sierra Nevada on the east. The districts had been arranged in the following order :-1. San Diego, Los An gelos, Santa Barbara, and San Louis Obispo ; 2. Monte rey and San Francisco, ; 3. San Jose and Sonoma ; 4. Sacramento and San Joaquin. The legislature was ap pointed to meet in December next to elect senators to congress, and to proceed to the complete formation of the state government. The correspondent of the New York Tribune says : " The southern mines have in a measure failed, or been literally upheaved by the thousands who daily re-dig and wash the soil abandoned by scores before them. Still, where gold is found, it is oftener revealed in large lumps than on the northern diggings. On the Micosma and Micalma, miners have been restricted, on account of the numerous tribes of warlike Indians ! but the poor Indi- ans are fast being driven into the mountains. The North and Middle Forks have produced more gold than any other portion of the whole mines ; but it is not so much from the richness of the mines as that they have been tho roughly worked. But the great theatre of mining is to be on Feather and Yuba rivers, during the winter; and thousands are only waiting the close of the fever season to wend their steps thither for winter quarters, and these are undoubtedly the richest mines in the whole of Califor nia. Immense dry diggings are reported to have been found in the mountains, and the rainy season will develop new and fruitful sources of wealth." The New York Herald gives a less favourable view of the intelligence from the mines. It says—" The intelli gence from California is interesting, but by no means so favourable as generally anticipated. The Oregon at Pa nama, from San Francisco, brought about 400,0000 dol lars on freight, and the passengers have about 200,000 dollars in their trunks. This makes a total of about 4,000,000 dollars received from the gold mines of Cali fornia. Our advices from San Francisco are to the Ist of October. The digging season at that time was nearly . over, and the miners were flockibg into San Francisco in large numbers, on their way to the Atlantic ports. We learn that steamers for Panama, which are to leave Cali fornia during the next four months, have been already filled up, and that tickets command a large premium. It appears t by this that there is as much anxiety to get away from, as to get to San Francisco. The mine s have . not made out sowell this season as they did last, or as they expected. It is estimated that about 100,000 have gone in the mines this season, and that the average pro duct of gold dust has not been more than 4 dollars per head. One of the most extraordinary results of this wonderful discovery is the impulse it has given to the enterprise of the Celestial Empire. Chinamen, hitherto the most impas sive and domestic creatures of the universe, have started into new life at the tidings from the mines, and have poured into California by thousands. Besides importing several suburbs, complete, they have constructed, erected and furnished nearly half the houses in San Francisco. They swarm in the settlement like Scotchmen in India, or Maltese in the Mediterranean towns. They have even seized upon the most profitable trades, and the best rest aurants in the place are kept by adventurers from the flowery land. Kong-sung and Wang-tong especially, have acquired by their chow-chow, curry, and tarts, a prodigious reputation, and, for the first time in the annals of the world, Frenchmen appear to have been superseded in their hereditary capacities of maitres d' hotel. A letter dated San Francisco, Sept. 29th, 1849, and written by a young man who was brought up in Liverpool, and whose statements may be relied on, says, This is a most wonderful country, every stream having abundance of gold in it, and I believe, from what I have seen, there is plenty of work for any number of men for fifty years to come, at from ten to twenty dollars a day. I and my party took out of one small place, about twenty feet square, upwards of 6000 dollars in a very few days. In one place, a small hollow in the rocks, not a foot square, I took out 175 dollars in two hours. If you would like specimens, I will send you them from all the rivers—one dollar's worth froze each. It passes here us current money, every store having scales to weigh it. We are here a nation of males, there being in this place about 40 women to 10,000 men • a petticoat is such a rare thing, that if one appears in the streets every one turns round to have a look. We have all to do our own washing, and as I have a small cottage with four others, we do our own cooking, and keep the house clean besides—but it is the cheapest way of living, and I have come out here to make money, not to spend it. Money is very scarce here, and 10 to 12 per cent. per month, is easily obtained on the best security. Rents are also very high. 60,000 per an num being paid for a place, that in Liverpool or New York, would not bring half that sum. There have been large fortunes made here, but there will be as much lost, as speculation runs to a fearful height, particularly in land, which sells higher than in New York. Things cannot last in this way long, and there will be a grand crash soon. lam waiting patiently, and put the little I have out to interest, on good security. Our store is to be ready in about a fortnight. In the meantime T am re ceiving twenty dollars a day from * * * and Co., to look after the ships consigned to them. _ _ . _ The Independent Order of Odd Fellows opened a lodge on the golden shores of California, on Saturday, the 22d of September last. IRELAND. The Limerick Chronicle states that " upwards of £lBOO was invested in the Limerick Savings Bank last week by depositors." _ _ That modern Chrysostom, " Ram of TUAM," has res ponded by a broadside of his own peculiar artillery, to the sharp fire of the speakers at Exeter Hall, at the recent meeting of the Irish Church Mission Society. _ _ A PICTURE OF THE POOR-LAW. — The 2Crenagh Guar dian says that in that union the out-door relief given in the last week by the twelve relieving officers amounted to £1 Bs. 6d.—the salaries of these officers amount to £461 per annum !! ! There is no truth whatever in the report in the Romish papers to the effect that Lord Clarendon had negotiated a compromise with the Orange body for the suppression of those disclosures respecting the Orange armament, which he has so much reason to dread. menace A thief lately stole some bank notes at Belfast, but, being pursued and captured, he jerked them into his mouth, chewed and attempted to swallow them. The policeman, however, seized the thief by the throat and compelled him to disgorge his intended banquet. WRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE.-011 the 17th instant, the schooner Confidence, of Cardiff, from Limerick, laden with oats, bound to Liverpool, was put ashore on the south side of Arnmore, county Donegal, and has become a total wreck. Two of the crew were drowned, and one of them the owner's son. A wretched-looking female, named Cusack, was found lying on the road quite dead, at Birdhill, Tipperary, last week. She was awfully emaciated, and died of utter des titution ; and yet on the police searching her clothes they found six sovereigns and fifteen shillings firmly stitched in her old gown under the left arm. . . . ceeded.". Signatures to the address to Lord Roden are said to be flowing in, in unprecedented numbers. Among other adhesions to the cause is that of Lord Mountcashell, who declares that " for more than twenty years it has been the absurd policy of the British Government to degrade as much as they could the old aristocracy of Ireland." Dr. Grattan, of Edenderry, who presided at a recent meeting of the Irish Alliance, has received a missive from the Lord Chancellor, preparatory to his dismissal from the magistracy. This step is, no doubt, taken upon the most approved system of Irish policy—the See-saw : one Young Irelander struck off to balance three Orangemen. A young gentleman named Carlayne, living near Cork, was, a few days ago, amusing some children, showing how he was able to throw a penny piece into his mouth and afterwards draw it from his nose. He had two penny pieces in his hand, and while in the act of performing the trick one of the pieces entered his stomach. He only lived a day or two. BERNARD CAVANAGH IN THE SHADE. —The truth of this paragraph will, no doubt, be questioned by many, but having heard it from a highly respectable source, we, ourselves, would feel a delicacy in relying on its veracity. Dr. Langley, as most of our readers are aware, has been in Nenagh Gaol on a coroner's warrant, and in conse quence of some favour, which at first he was allowed, being withdi awn, he refused to eat, and continued without food of any description for a poriod of thirty-eight days— partaking of nothing except cold water ! ! ! - -Nenagh Guardian. FRIGHTFUL ATROCITY.—Last week a drunken row occurred near Waterford, where two brothers of the name of Pennans, one of whom used his leather-knife, maiming and stabbing all which lay in his way. Th e night being dark, the work of destruction was not ob served except by the persons hurt. At this juncture William Lawlor passed, against whom the Pennans had a pique ; one of them rushed on him, and plunged a knife into his side, whilst the other beat him with a candlestick, (a long rod of iron driven into a lump of wood.) He ex pired immediately. The police arrested the two Pennans, under whose bed they found the fatal knife, covered with blood. At the conclusion of the late Kilkenny sessions the as sistant barrister, Mr. Nicholas Purcell O'Gorman, made some strong observations upon the indecorous conduct of the attorneys of his court, " who did nothing," he said, " but sneer at him, and endeavour to cast ridicule upon him. But I'll bear it no Longer," exclaimed the enraged judge, "as this very Alight I shall write off and insist upon being transferred to another county." " Does your worship think," said Mr. Michael Hyland, addressing himself to the irate law dispenser, " that a memorial, signed by all the attorneys of this court, backing your ap plication, would be of any assistance in obtaining your object ?" A look of peculiar ferocity was the only re sponse to the generous interrogatory. WHICH IS IT TO BE.—A severer castigation conld hardly have been administered to the perpetrators of the wanton insult recently offered to one of the first noblemen of the sister islan 1, than the address presented to the Earl of Roden by the Grand Lodge of Ireland, which will be found in another part of our columns. " You were," says the address ' " (his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant has com manded his under-secretary to insinuate) disqualified for acting as a magistrate by having been `publicly arraigned.' `Arraigned !—we would ask by whom ? Before what tri bunal ? Were you arraigned before any court of justice ? By any competent authority ? No. You were, as you have observed, in a sentence which ought to be felt and remembered, not ` publicly arraigned,' but ` grossly ma ligned;' and you had the constancy and courage to dis charge your solemn duty in the face of defamation and His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, who did not shrink from his rightful but stern purpose, when held forth to public indignation as the worst criminal in this country, 'ugh/ to have been the last man to impute as an o f fence in you the fearlessness and fidelity for which he had himself been honoured and rewarded by a gracious sovereign. It is a pernicious principle to lay down, that calumny and menace, and invective, shall be numbered among the recognised agencies of the constitution, and that the administration of justice shall be thus abandoned to the mercy of the slanderous and disa f fected." This is not only an effective retort upon Lord Clarendon ; it is a stern truth which reveals at once the social condition of a country in which the administration of justice is insepara ble from the imputation of partisanship, and in which the loyal have no alternative but either to lay themselves open to that imputation, or to abandon the field at once to the dis!oyal. Put the address goes further to inquire from what quarter the impulse proceeded by which Lord Roden was removed from the bench. "We have been informed that there was a memorial addressed to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, in which this act act of despotism was audaciously demanded. Was this the ' grand epistle,' which the judgment of the Lord Lieutenant, or the sym pathies of the secretary, confounded with an arraignment ?" An unmerciful question, and hard to answer ! There is, however, a bitterer pill even than this for his Excellency ti swallow. After stating the object of the memorial to have been to sow dissension in the Protestant camp, the address continues :—" And there may have been another reason for the memorial in which you are arraigned. It may have been the desire of the party who prepared it, not only to affront the magistracy, but to disgrace the govern -- Tf this were the design, they have, perhaps, suc '—John Bull. THREATENING NOTICE (From the Dublin Mail.) We copy from the respectable columns of a morning contemporary the following threatening notice upon a landlady, in a nor'-western county, which, for insolent ignorance, vulgar assumption, and priestly intolerance, transcends anything of the kind which we have ever wit nessed from the pen of either Lieutenant Starlight, or Johnny Mac Hale, or the most incendiary of our anti- Bible-reading schoolmasters. The intolerant " C.C.," who writes and prints this wretched sample of clerical tyranny, assumes, all through, that that which was the act of an humble man in his pri vate capacity—namely, the invitation of his neighbours to hear a preacher of the Word of GOD—was a "summons" to her tenantry by the landlady of the estate : and he calls upon her, under the severe penalty of her coffers suffering on gale day, to " remove for ever from her em ployment" the unfortunate servant, who, in all human probability, did no more than what, in his private capacity as a man and a Christian, he had every warrant in the laws of GOD and man—always excepting the law of the Church of Rome as adverse to both—an unquestionable right to do ; that is to say (we repeat it), to invite his neighbours to hear the Word of GOD preach Christian liberty the priest maims tp oppose fiers To this the lady in question • MI • to work upon her hopes and her fears, telling her, as a bribe, that, if she complies with his terms, her rents shall be punctually paid, and menacing her, on the other hand, with the threat, that her non-compliance shall be punished by an act of dishonesty on the part of her discontented tenantry. But we must let the document sp, TO THE EDITOR OF THE I rt, Nov. 21 " Baily castle, Ki " SlR—You'll not consider it I hope troublesome t insertion to the following letter in your paper.—Yours tr " M. A. CONWAY " MADAM—I trust you will be kind enough to inform us whether it was with your consent, directly or indirectly given, that your Catholic tenants of Kilbride, diocese of Killala, county Mayo, have been summoned by your driver to attend the preaching of a Presbyterian minister named Branigan. If not, I hope you will show your detestation of such abominably out rageous conduct, by preventing a possibility of a recurrence of the same. " Believe me, Madam, your coffers shall suffer nothing by removing for ever from your employ one who, actuated by the sheerest ignorance and foulest bigotry, could be capable of doing that than which, in the opinion of every sensible person, there can be nothing so nefarious. If you discountenance such conduct in the manner suggested, I shall not fail to inform the public or it, through the same medium that I now address you. We expect it from your known character.—Yours with respect, " MICHAEL A. CONWAY, C.C. " To Mrs. Armstrong, Chaffpool, near Tubber curry." V/ course, tne ropisn Mocesan Is not ashamed of the conduct of his clerical subject on this occasion. COW a' AND FASHION, .....---.- Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal family, have remained at Osborne since Friday last, on which day they arrived there in the enjoyment of good health. The Queen has been almost entirely without visitors during the week. The Court Circular announces that her Majesty is again in an " interesting situation," and, indeed, near her accouchement. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. — (Before Mr. Commissioner Perry.)—Yesterday week, a long enquiry took place, arising out of several disputed items in a bill of costs pre sented for taxation to the registrar by Mr. Charles Pem berton, attorney, for professional services in the affairs of Edward Roberts, a bankrupt. After acting in the case for.some time, Mr. Pemberton received notice that his services would be dispensed with, and Mr. Evans was em ployed in his stead. Mr. Evans now applied on behalf of Mr. Roberts's assignees to have certain items struck off Mr. Pemberton's account, on the ground that in one case he had acted without a retainer • in another in which the retainer had been withdrawn ; and in another, had charged for work that bad been previously paid for. [Mr. Pem berton's account contained a charge for preparing a deed of assignment in the case of a person named Mary Wil liams ; for executing a writ upon a person named Bollard, a debtor to the estate; for writing a letter in the case ; and an item of £1 ss. for attending before the commis sioner in bankruptcy on the choice of assigness.] Mr. Clarkson proved that he had paid Mr. Pemberton three guineas to attend on the choice of assignees. A good deal of sparring took place between Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Pember ton, and finally as the Commisioner declined to hear Mr. P. except as a witness, Mr. Yates, jun., undertook the case in behalf of Mr. P., who swore that he was in structed by Mr. Clarkson to obtain the writ against Bol lard. He admitted having taken certain proceedings after receiving notice not to proceed, but if he had not done so no money would have been recovered to the estate. After hearing some further evidence as to the serving of the writ. which was not very clearly made out, His Honour, in adjudicating, said, in reference to the bill in Bollard's case, the charges ought to be struck out; the items in re ference to Mrs. Williams's matter must be disallowed; and for the three guineas received for attendance at court, and included in the bill of costs, credit must be given.—At the same court on Friday, the case of Henry Cole was heard. Bankrupt is a builder at Birkenhead, and the present was a dividend which the assignees applied to have postponed, on the ground that a contract entered into by the bankrupt for some land in Birkenhead was still open, and that the vendor had called on the assignees to ascer tain if they would perform it. After some explanations the case was adjourned to the 27th inst.—ln re Michael Neale Baynes, timber merchant, in Birkenhead, a meeting was held to Choose assignees, but no creditor appearing the case was adjourned to the 27th. In the case of the dean and chapter of Rochester and Mr. Whiston, the latter has obtained from the Court of Queen's Bench, a rule nisi for a mandamus, for his resto ration to the office of schoolmaster, from which he has now a second time been ejected ; this time, it is supposed, in due form of law. In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Friday, between three and four hours were occupied in the trial of a cause, an action for goods sold and delivered, in which the real difference between the parties was a question of discount, which, if taken one way, would entitle the defendant to recover upon the balance of an account " three shillings and sixpence," or, in the other way, he would have a ver dict for one hal f-penny." In the Bail Court, on Monday, Sir F. Thesiger, follow ing up the rule he obtained last week in the inquisition on Mrs. Whalley, at Leeds, in which a verdict of felo-de-se had been found, applied to have the proceedings quashed, which application was granted by Mr. Justice Patteson on the first objection that the finding of the inquisition was not on parchment, according to the 6th and 7th Vic., c. 83, which so required of all injunctions in regard to mur der or manslaughter ' and felo-de-se was self-murder. Several other technical objections were raised, any one of which would have been fatal to the inquisition. The object of the patties concerned is to obtain Christian burial for the deceased. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FRIDAY. — CapeI V. the Overseers of Ashton and Others.—Birmingham Freehold Land Society's Claims.—This was an appeal from the de cision of the revising barrister of the North Staffordshire district, who decided that shareholders in freehold land societies were not entitled to be placed on the parliamen tary register. This decision excited great dissatisfaction smong the numerous persons interested, and an appeal was made to the Court of Common Pleas. The Lord Chief Justice gave judgment, reversing the decision of the court below, and ordering the names of the appellants to he placed upon the register. There were several other cases of the same kind, in which the same judgment was given. The decision will have the effect of greatly in creasing the parliamentary constituency of the county. COURVOISIER'S TRIAL.—Mr. Charles Phillips's con tradiction of the accusation of the Examiner has brought down upon him a reply from the 'editor of that paper, in which the accusation is. to all appearance, fixed more firmly than ever upon him, from out of the very report of his own speech (in the Times) which Air. Phillips appealed IRE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. to as proving his innocence. Mr. Phillips says Courvoi sier confessed to him on the Friday that he was the mur derer of Lord William Russell. On the Saturday Mr. Phillips twice solemnly declared that " the omniscient God alone knew who did the crime." Mr. Phillips knew of Courvoisier's guilt, and yet he stigmatised the police who apprehended the wretch and gave evidence against him, as "villains," "miscreants," and "conspirators." Although when he addressed the jury on the Saturday he was aware of the undoubted guilt of Courvoisier, he tried to terrify , the jury by telling them that "the memory of their ver dict would never die within them. It would accompany them in their walks, it would follow them in their solitary retirerfents like a shadow, it would haunt them in theirsleep and hover round their bed ; it would take the shape of an accusing spirit, and confront and condemn them before the judgment seat of their God. So let them beware how they acted." Other evidence is brought forth by the Examiner. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE The ease of Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter, is fixed to be heard on the 11th Dec. The large estates of the late Mr. Goring, M.P., will be inherited by his brother, the Rev. John Goring, of Wiston. The Mastership of the Charter-house at Hull is vacant by the death of the Rev. George Moore Carrick. The value of the living is in the gift of the Corporation. At the court of the Haberdashers' Company, on Satur day, the Rev. Henry Melville was chosen to the Golden Lectureship, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Thos. Dale. The Tractarians have had a correspondence with Dr. Hinds, Bishop elect of Norwich, in which his lordship repudiates the inferences drawn from his writings, and considers the erroneous doctrines those inferences involve as false and wrong. The tractarians are satisfied. The Rev. Dr. Warneford, in addition to a donation of £5OO to the Diocesan Training Schools, which was an nounced some few weeks since, has sent to the Lord Bp. of Gloucester and Bristol a like munificent donation of £5OO (making altogether £1000), in aid of this great scheme, for promoting the education of the children of the poor on the principes of the Church of England. BISHOP OF RUPERT LAND.—A subscription is now going on for the purpose of raising a fundto erect and main tain a college in one of the villages of this interesting dio cese, where there are about 300 Indian converts. Among the subscribers are the Hudson's Bay Company for £lOO, the Earl of Selkirk £lOO, Benj. Harrison £lOO, Earl of Harrowby £2O, T. D. Anderson, Liverpool, £2O, Adam Hodgson £5. Mafly of the bishops of this country are also contributors. MUNIFICENT GIFT.—On the thanksgiving day, an in dividual at Worcester, who is not solicitous for his name to be known, gave £2500 for such enlargement of his church (St. Nicholas) as might be determined on. With out imposing positive stipulations, he has expressed the following wishes, viz. :-1. That as many free sittings as practicable shall be made on the ground floor. 2. That if any pews are erected in any nea part of the church, they may, by faculty from the Lord Bishop of the diocese, be made over as rentable property to the rector of the parish for the time being. CURIOUS RUMOUR.—It is state t one of the dis- tinguished occupants of the judicial bench seriously con templates resigning his high office, and devoting the re mainder of his life to active exertions in the service of the church,—not, of course, as a minister at her altar, for that would be out of all question impracticable, but as a lay. member, who has learning, and experience, and wealth, combined with a deep sense of his responsibilities as hav ing so many talents committed to him, and who feels con strained to do his utmost to extend the blessings of the church to his less fortunate countrymen.— Oxford Herald. REV. JOHN HAMILTON FORSYTH, M.A.* (From the Church and state Gazette.) John Hamilton Forsyth was born at Anfield, near Li verpool, A.D. 1816. His father was an honest English merchant—his mother a pious English lady. At the feet of both, young Forsyth, with his brothers and sisters, learned their duty to man and their duty to God : so pleasing was the study of the latter to him that, from his earliest years, Forsyth looked upon himself as consecrated to the office of stewardship of the mysteries of God. After a preparatory course of study under the Rev. C. Prince, at Liverpool, young Forsyth proceeded in 1828, and in company with his brother William, to King's School, Sherborne, Dorset, then governed by the Rev. Dr. Lyon. It was here that he had first to practise the duty of self-government. Humble as he was in spirit, there was a fire in his blood which often led him to the commission of disobedience. The meek young scholar was given to fighting his fellows, and it was not till after vain reproof, on the third repetition of the offence, that Dr. Lyon chastised the youthful offender and dismissed him with a look. " Dr. Lyon's look (said Forsyth in re counting this circumstance) was so sorrowful as if disap pointed ; and 1 felt so completely the justice of the punish ment that I went down the school inwardly resolving that I never more would incur that punishment or give cause for that look"—and he kept his word. During the re mainder of the period of his sojourn, up to 1831, he never incurred or merited reproach : be was the true re presentative of a bright Christian boy—full of spirits, vigour, and good nature—and of such reputation that parents asked as a favour to have their sons to share their bed-room with young Forsyth. _ _ _ After a tarrying of two years by the paternal hearth, Forsyth went in 1833 to Cambridge : he had previously lost the mother that he loved. His estimation of her is seen in his wcrds, that he considered himself as a monu ment of the value of her prayers. He studied hard— learned heavenly wisdom from Simeon—and put it into practice with young men of sentiments like his own. His first year at Trinity would have been a happy year but for the home sorrows which overshadowed it. Two of his sisters descended into the grave : the young disciple com forted the sorrowing father ; and the son, in terms of ripened wisdom, taught the parent how best to endure the chastening of the Lord. But his own griefs, or the sorrows of those dear to him, never made him fail in his duty to others—still less could trial make him selfish. He could, amid hard study, find time to regulate the studies of young relatives at home, and was ever looking around him to see where and to whom he might be spiritually useful. Like Andrew, he had found Christ ; and, like him too, he was not satisfied until he had brought his brother to know the Messiah also. His religious bearing was of so cheerful a character that it brought him many followers whom austerity would have driven back into sin ; but he had a smiling welcome for all, and they who came as visitors tarried long with him as sojourners. His first object, in the way of college honours and pro fits, was a Trinity scholarship. He went up and failed ; the result was perfectly natural, and carries with it a warning. He had overstrained his faculties—the bow had never been unbent—he had read, and read, and read, un til he obscured his own powers. Rest, and a healthier system of study, restored health to him. His vigour came all the sooner for not being too energetically aimed at ; and, in 1838, he appeared in the list of honours as junior optitne in mathematics and a first clansman in the classi cal tripos—a degree of which it is said that it was suffici ently creditable of itself, and indicating that he both might and would have been much higher but for interrup tions to his course of study in the time between his leav ing Sherborne and his repairing to Cambridge—early, important, and not easily retrievable years. He resided in college, took pupils, and now laboured more indefatigably than ever. From his labours, how ever, he sought occasional relaxation ; and the long vaca tion of the last-named year was spent by him in congenial companionship at Inverary. If his heart was warmed and made strong by the beauties and the air of the north, it was soon sorely stricken by the intelligence of the death of another sister. The inevitable angel had often crossed the threshhold of his home, and the gentle spirit of death had now beckoned away six out of the twelve that had formed the circle at his father's hearth. In 1839, he was ordained : he accepted the office im posed on him with fear, hope, joy, trembling, distrust, confidence : fear, at his own presumed unworthiness ; joy, at the thought that God was with him; hope, in the pro mise that his " Father" would abide with him ; trembling, lest he should miss the path which he sought by prayer; distrust, of his claim to exercise the great stewardship of the vast mysteries of the Lord ; and a confidence above all these that he who had buckled on the armour of faith would not be left to fight the good fight unsupported. His departure from Cambridge was accompanied by an universal regret at his loss and an universal hope that he would reap the rich reward to which alone he aspired. He had been—as all men of similar character must be— invaluable to the college where he had so long resided in love and in honour; and when he left it, his own imme diate circle felt as though it had suddenly lost the sunshine. His destination was Weston-super-Mare—his office, curate to the Rev. Edward Wilson. His recommendation came from Mr. Carus. " I have sent you (said that gen tleman to the incumbent of Weston)—l have sent you the best B.A. in Cambridge." He did honour to the recom mendation: when he entered the pulpit to preach his first sermon the auditory looked with mingled curiosity, anxiety and favour, at the fair, youthful face of him who was about to deliver to them the message of Christ. At the close of his discourse he had knit to him the hearts of his hearers : they recognized a truly-missioned ambassador from God, and to honour him was as much a privilege as a duty. He was now in blooming health and buoyant spirits ; and yet the rustle of the pinions of the Angel of Death might already be heard in fancy upon the air. His labours and the unreserved surrendering of himself to their per formance soon affected his vigour though they could not bend his will. He sought, and temporarily recovered, the blessing of health in a tour to Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France ; and we have a strong impression that we descended the Danube with him and his brother from Linz to Vienna. However this may be, from the tour the valetudinarian returned only to shatter his health in strug gles:with increased labours, increased because of the retire ment of Mr. Wilson from the rectory and the illness of Archdeacon Law, throwing the entire management of a very important parish in the bands of two youthful curates. An entire stranger offered him a living in Warwickshire of about two hundred per annum. The temptation would have been irresistible to many men, for it offered competence, retirement, learned leisure, and many other advantages. It was avoided by Forsyth without a sigh. His duties at Weston were numberless, and the love of the people for him was without bounds. Whither God had first sent him, there he would for the present remain ; "Nolo episcopari" was pronounced without .hesitation. His duties, as we have said, were numberless : they were also admirably performed. He found them where many would not have thought of looking for them, and his eloquent letters show that he never wrote to a friend without finding for himself a duty and acccmplish ing it. In them we discern much modesty and practical *Sermons by the late Rev. John Hamilton Foroth, ALA., Curate of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset ; and afterwards Minister of Dowry Chapel, Clifton. Hatchard and Son. sound seise. Of the "Oxford Tracts," he says to a cor respondent—" We are young and not quite able to decide on such important matters : let us cleave to the Scrip tures as our rule of faith. This I hold as pay life." If many curates as young as he had followed, and would now follow, the example of modesty set by Forsyth, the Church would have been spared an illustration Of the line of the poet which says— " Fools rust► in where angels fear to tread." Our readers will remember, iii the memoir we penned of Bishop Shirley, the advice of that good prelate to his son upon hearty play and diligent study. The conse quence of too much of the latter to Forsyth was never forgotten by him, and he never omitted to urge upon others the necessity of relaxation after toil. In the summer of 1840, Forsyth went hp to Cambridge for his M.A. degree. On his return he paid a visit to the Rev. T. Methuen, rector of All Cannings, near Devizes. There he saw the daughter of Lord Edward O'Brien, brother to the Marquis of Thomond. They were a pair made for each other, and framed to make the same pilgri mage hand in hand together through the earth. They were married in 1842. The union was followed by much happiness : four sons were born to parents who dedicated them to God ; but the father was not destined to see them fulfil their dedication. The letters written by him between this period and the commencement of his long agony are beautiful for their honest, fearless, and charitable sentiment. _ During the few years of his married life his home hap piness was clouded by his failing health. He may be said to have been slain by that which destroyed Bishop Shir ley—namely, excessive duty and an unflinching determi nation to perform it at any sacrifice. This determina tion on the part of the curate of Westoa was suddenly checked by his one day being unexpectedly attacked by violent hemorrhage in the throat. It was ti of death : he to whom it was sent patient that he had long desired rest, for he was a- now God gave 'it in afflict duty and 'intl. Still to eted. I e hart and the invalid took his -v to Madeira while a thousan hearts wished him " God speed I" He return in 184(i health was too feeb to undertake clerical labour, and thr livings were as often by him declined : he had no id separate off enjoiing remuneration for labours that he could not fulfil. In 1847 he was compelled to resort to the continent, and at Chamouni the invalid protested with all the energy of his soul against the tyranny of the Popish Government of Sardinia, which would not allow two or three Protestan+ Englishmen to assemble tu, their God after the manner of and their consciences. ether and render worship to their country, their faith, His return to England was only to die: there were, indeed, hopes entertained of his recovery, but they proved fallacious. He accepted the charge of Dowry Chapel, Clifton ; but he was only able to hold it, and he held it worthily, for a brief period of usefulness. He then went to Malvern : there he lay, as it were, between life and death, until the latter came on the breath of the east wind and conquered. His dying hours were not allowed to pass by him without efforts on hib part to render them useful to those who stood weeping by. On the 23rd of June, in 1848, he fell calmly asleep and one of those men, who was not less the glory of our church for the humble but honoured station he held in it, went to reap the reward of his faithful stewardship. TO HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY MY LORD ARCHBISHOP,—.It is announced that Dr. 011ivant, of Cambridge, is appointed to the vacant see of Llandaff. The petitions, the memorials, the entreaties, the public and private representations of the Welch peo ple, to have a native bishop, after centuries of patient en durance and humble supplication, have again been disre garded by the Minister of the Crown. Xour Grace alone has now the power to remedy this grievous injustice, as it appears that no Englishman can resist the offer of a Welch mitre. A refusal of the dignity in question is not on record, however conscious the favoured parties must be that they are utterly unqualified to preside as bishops of a country whose language they do not understand, or at best know so imperfectly that they must be despised by every curate who can write his own sermons, and preach them in such a way as to be understood in the sense intended. To your Grace the eyes of the inhabitants of the Princi pality are turned, for an interposition in their favour. As Primate, your Grace may prevent the continuance of this awful mockery of religion. Independent of the riot which the peaceable and loyal Welch possess to have one of their own countrymen se lected to fill the vacant see, your Grace well knows that the Church in the Principality is expiring in consequence of the system so long pursued, of appointing bishops not only ignorant of the language and character of the peo ple, but antagonistical in all their feelings,—devoid of sympathy for their poor native flocks,—and equally una ble and unwilling to reform the abuses in their dioceses, where their Anzlo-Welch predecessors have, with the as sistance of the Anglo-Welch resident aristocracy, driven the native population out of the Church into dissenting meeting-houses, by abolishing the services of religion in the language of the people. To your Grace alone can we look, to put a stop to this grievous evil. The Church of Wales is under your command, and ought to be under your protection ; and your Grace is implored to insist, be fore consecration, that the Bishop elect shall undergo a proper examination by qualified Welchmen, as to his abi lity to write his own sermons, with proper grammar and spelling, to read them intelligibly afterwards, and to con verse with fluency and correctness. If your Grace will do this, it will afford the opportunity of testing whether our alarm° arc g rcranalcaa , but :should they prove to be well founded, it would be insulting your Grace to entertain any doubt as to the course you will pursue, in order to rescue the Established Church in Wales from a repetition of the injury and ridicule she has so long endured, by the elevation of Englishmen from Oxford or Cambridge to her vacant sees, merely to serve the end of party spirit or pri vate connexion, and in defiance of every law of justice and morality, divine and human.—With every sentiment of respect, I am your Grace's obedient and aggrieved LEGION in improved, but not rest RAILWAY AFFAIRS, AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOUNTS.-011 Thursday a numerous meeting of railway roprietors was held at the Clarendon-rooms, to consider the best mode of securing an efficient audit of railway accounts. Mr. A. H. Wylie presided, and expressed his opinion that the resolutions adopted at the delegate meeting in London were inade quate to the purpose, and some of them more fatal and destructive than any before extant. He strongly objected to the sixth and eighth resolutions. The sixth made the accounts passed final, subject to the eighth, which would prevent all such disclosures as bad lately been made. The eighth gave powers to certain proprietors, holding stock to the value of one-third of the total paid-up capital of the company, to appoint two of their number specially to examine the accounts of the current half-year, and that such auditors, and the public accountant selected by them, should have the same power as auditors appointed by a majority at a general meeting. He thought it a delusion to suppose that dissentient shareholders would go to the expense and labour of getting the opinions of one-third of the shareholders. The directors ought to devise some measure that would recognize the existing powers, and give the shareholders more power. He was opposed to the interference of government until he saw whether the shareholders could manage the matter themselves or not ; and he proposed a motion to the effect that the resolu tions of the delegate meeting of directors in London, in November, were not calculated to insure a satisfactory audit of accounts. Mr. D. Mather seconded the resolu tion, and it was carried unanimously. A desultory con versation ensued, which ended in authorizing the chairman to forward copies of the resolution agreed to, to the several railway authorities, and to • prepare a memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce the stamp duty on railway proxies to a much lower amount than 2s. 6d., now demanded. On Thursday, the shareholders of the South-Western railway, after a rather stormy meeting, resolved to aban don the scheme of carrying the railway to London-bridge. The engine drivers and firemen of the East Lancashire railway have given notice of a strike, in consequence of an attempt to reduce their wages. GREAT NORTHERN RAIIWAY.—About GO miles or th 3 permanent way of ells company's main line, between London and Peterborough, are already laid, and it is expected the whole length of it will be opened by August next. From some unknown circumstance, on Monday, Wm. Pilsworth, a guard on the Sheffield and Rotheram rail way, fell out of or from a truck when on his way from Sheffield to Rotherham, and was killed by the train pass ing over his head. The returns from the shareholders of the London and North-Western Company show about six per cent. only in favour of government audit. We are informed that the returns from the Midland shareholders are nearly in the same proportion. The Lord Chancellor, on" Wednesday, granted an inte rim order for an injunction to restrain the London and North-Western and Cheshire Junction railways from interfering with the station accommodation of the Shrews bury and Chester Railway Company at the joint station at Chester. Our readers, from previous statements, will perceive the motive for the application. YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. "—The meeting on Thursday was not very full. H. S. Thompson, Esq., in the chair. The second part of the third report of the committee of investigation, seriatim, was generally agreed to. The question whether the chair man and vice-chairman should be independent, and not in any other " direction," as suggested by the committee, was met by an amendment by the chairman, to defer the consideration till the half-yearly meeting. On a show of hands the amendment was carried, and a poll being de manded, the directors admitted proxies, who were against them, and so the amendment vies negatived, and the com mittee's recommendation confirmed. A committee was elected to confer with the directors, and arrange a scheme in reference to preference shares. The report to be con sidered at a special meeting on the 21st December. THE GUARANTEE SOCIETY.—The numerous defalca- tions amongst railway officials which have recently been brought to light, have placed on railway boards the duty of devising means for rendering peculation and embezzle ment difficult, if not impossible, among their servants in future. We believe it is the determination of most of the railway companies who have not already taken security from servants holding posts of trust, to ley down the gene ral rule of requiring security for fidelity of trust from the majority of their employe's. No doubt this rule will tend to protect the property of the shareholders very efficiently, and will afford a salutary check on those who have hitherto been placed under no kind of restraint whatever, except that which conscience and honesty impose. We should, however, be disposed to consider that such a rule, if rigidly enforced, would be productive of mischief and inconveni ence to deserving servants, who might not have sufficiently wealthy friends to resort to, were it not for the circum- Dee. 4, iS49' stance that public establishments have recently ntee► opened- for the purp 3 se of providing thus doing away with the doubtful and dangerous Pile. ace of private guarantee. The main difficulty with re• spect to these public companies is the difficulty of maitl.„.7 a correct choice. The Guarantee Society, of 1 3 ir cpi- o . f lane, however, appears to present so many featurq respectability, that we cannot hesitate to recommendrt tir the notice of those numerous railway staffs who InnY' no be seeking for the best means of complying with the rc ( l, sition of their boards of directors. The Guarantee Secl e " has been established on the advantageous plan Of ti acting guarantee business on the principles of absleg io of premiums after a certain number of payments• Tf o f a feature that has secured the company a large sb__ i n o f business, and combined with the reasonable s',; charges, will no doubt ensure its permanent prosperiir Railway Gazette. ample guarastecc, MR. HUME, M.P., AND TIDAL HARBOUR S RE SOUTHPORT ROADS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDO . have been favoured with a report of the Pr °. ceedings at Southport (for which accept my thanks), T o specting the anchorage ; and the want of buoys, Sze• r , aid the navigation thereof, in consequence of the 1 0 , e ro pool dock trustees refusing to buoy the channel lead in ., , the Roadstead, although belonging to the port of T. pool In 1845 I obtained the appointment of a I missioner, whose labours for four years are House of Commons and the country: The Admiralty, under Sir Robert Peel's g were so convinced of the tidal hart Cornmissi eve that the bill liament great advantages that thould be reterrt )r that purpose „' th e it tb° f t ha ..;0a nclations of the Tide bill was circulated wic of more than 500 publ very •- . r , cell to P,'„ 'rat to "- responsibility ecessary and s ittee of tip I with ti Linens. , on taking office, declined o placing the tidal harb°,6l parate controul, recomple ll :,s, lteuted himself with aPP°, I " O aye! officers " to inquiet, rivers and harbours,„ the mistake, entitled 0 fee," did good servLee. ol , 'rune, R.N., and A det lai , een employe .ssuu3e if the committee, altii Railroad and Harbo that department. [I Admiral Beauford, the hydrographer, to attend to si w z a l duties.] Lord Auckland added one additional 1 1 . ; e , officer, Capt. Washington, to form the committee oft%, s , members only to carry out these important national and I am able to state of my own knowledge that tt, services of that committee have been of the greatest I!. portance to the country, and that the work cast n them was overwhelming. O 5 The reports on the table of the House of Gon3o-nr, will at once show the variety, Me extent, and the Uni n " ce tance of Me labours of that committee; and the evi ue ' n cl of the intelligent men examined as to the advantage s s- v d the necessity of that department for the preservation il e j improvement of the harbours of the kingdom, exPl air „ l al in great detail, the various ways in which the sP e „, duties of that committee benefited the country; but I sorry to inform you that Sir Francis Baring, the successol of Lord Auckland' under the pretence of economy , a e d that the duties could be performed by two officers, rernof i , e Capt. Washington from the committee, and thus lef t n others less able to attend to the various duties that 11'. heretofore been assigned them. Captain Washington was a member of the Tidal 0 1 5 hour's Commission for four years I found him On the most e ffi cient public o ffi cers ever acted with , s e a ( informed on all matters connected with the t i ff harbours and rivers of this country, and consecille e _ better qualified for the duties (from his experience nautical surveyor, and the informations acquired 85 I member of the Tidal Harbour's Commission for so mit years) than any other o ffi cer I know; but all these co i, siderations made no impression whatever on the A d r° o ralty ; he was dismissed in September last to save , was alleged, some few hundred pounds. for When I see seven millions sterling expended yeav'Y A ig• marine purposes, and that Captain Washington vvas,, - , - at charged upon the plea of economy, the saving being a" o f £5OO of staff pay per annum, I conclude that the stat e tc , the harbours of the kingdom, the loss of life and proper .t, is considered of no importance by the present governo.e' The Gazette, since the discharge of Captain Wa5,,, 1 1 ton, and the reduction of the Committee of the 0 . Department, has published again and again the nvealo r tion of admirals, not required by the service, at a la r ,7„ e o , expense to the country than the pay of Capt. Washing`l' h e I requested the protection of Lord John Russell to tor tidal harbour's department against the ruthless disre e , s ; berment of Sir F. Baring, but without the least sue ce his and when I inform you that the Admiralty are at iR time expending many thousands of pounds, monthly attempting to form breakwaters in Jersey and Alder l (of doubtful utility to say the least of such expenditil' • s si while under the pretence of economy they are redo o 9 the Tidal Harbour's Committee, I can expect lot h: from such a Government t A o fter h a e l lnma national olnaablohuar harbours b f o o u r r s s o o m f a t n h y i s years country in e r n e d n e d a e v r oS tt i re e safety of its seamen, need not say I deeply most commodious and safe for its commerce, an d indifference, and great neglect, shown to what has appeared to me of so much importance to this great CO mercial and naval country. As the Mersey, however, is under the supervision hoof; government commissioned acting conservator, (w dull ' , service it is to compel the Dock Trustees to do their 0 . and who, I presume, is resident and duly qualified alb marine surveyor, being allowed £6OO per annum , if ;i 4 assistants,) I am in hopes the Fishermen and Coance Seamen of Southport, after the appeal made, Will re lbev that justice at his hands, which those connected with o t. ports have not the right to demand by act of Parliaraeli I remain, Sir, your obedient servant , JOSEPH HY.',.,00 1 P.S.—Could you inform me whether the Lav e ':,er Dock Committee or Pilot Committee, ever have, r sonally, inspected the channel and anchorage ? 30th November, 1849. r , egret THE CHASE The CDESAIRE HOUNDS will meet on , , a ,ije To-morrow, (Wednesday,) at Stamford '' co lef Thursday, 6th, at Saturday, Bth. at _ Each day at half-p_ast ten o'clock. „ Sir W. W. WYNNE'S HOUNDS will meet 0 " fief Clo fri o To-morrow, (Wednesday,) at Thursday, 6th, at .. Friday, 7th, ate Each day at half-past ten o'clock THE " FLY SHE the following e. A morning paper gives ntopmraofao:tpiroi m h coa e tfol hcit F eebbs / eytruese envoi, puSiupvnhtopeesiode,pst spite der c eowo o daf m ruri ecttmeht constrained olss n t e ms e tat w dd theienteshent dpde txrwoooi lithograp h ` varthidvnioaucsvimna i 0 pore leiiitsl t ei t appear to us very stupid and vulgar. We are v tel i Ya l 5 o1 1;11 to use coarse language, but the terms we have er r P h e go r are precisely those which express our meaning. ; thors of the Fly Sheets—and it seems that MeS s r t iO 0 ',"; rett, Dunn, and Griffith do not necessarily accept ' toe"' thorship—give us the idea neither of very illiterate.,o to nor of men whose station in life leads them to cony 9; common things a greater importance than we tionally regard them as possessing. On the contr t i ` e " crs. c f ; composition of these attacks indicates considera% 110 tice, of a certain kind, with the pen ; and the vit. o itic l o taken by the writers are such as are usual with tu ' e s class. . . . We wish we could relieve ourselc,ftedr the responsibility of pronouncing this opinion ex e,a let ,o o , o by recommending our readers to read the hear t hsparn lo form their own judgment. But we have not th e c o f t i tneasTrgsious publications advise any human being to follow us in the perlO r of s Fly Sheets. Our readers, therefore, must take (31 , 1 . 1 0 f that the work which has produced the disruP"-ot most respectable religious sect—besides a meeti n g pedal. ter Hall, sundry public breakfasts, and a steretYroce lume—is a very dull and very vulgar attempt to P f , v ow s Jabez Bunting guilty of " ascendancy," cupiditY,tebargo iteism, and a great many minor offences. The grs er ol fr mar possibly be sustainable, for we have lear ned 01' , 4 of Dr. Bunting, in the course of this con trover s li ce oc i `bi ceive that he is a great deal too like Wesley to liishe'f good Wesleyan. The second imputation is esta eose The dexterously debiting the Doctor with the ex.P u , 0)1 mission-house, of which he promoted the er eel lt e re b third appears to us to be simply asserted. But It is W ,tie no means deserve so summary a dismissal.. great satisfaction that we extract them baeltil,,isti7oo text, where they glisten like oases in a desert ° e o n° . fig nous abuse, and leave them to the appreciation 010 to o l they may concern. We gather, then, freTvesie ). .itl Sheets that Dr. Bunting's government of the of e bei t i e e or ' system,' produces ' an unnatural degree pr.A tii iv (page 6), as exemplified in the case of the lies i cos,,tbe a friend and ally of the principal offender, sr.",3,i.eil:looe ble, on a certain occasion, to get without help:180;00V door of a pulpit. We learn again (page 12) in Dr. Alder may ' congratulate himself'--a po sit). ins f a t we perfectly agree—if, when sojourning at IT h illiopy a r: journey, 'he escapes with less than twentY,.', .tte c lor' tea, supper, liquor, bed, boots, and breakfasl_ Alder is further charged (ibid) with riding T e if, of f tlie carriages. With regard to Dr. Bunting ilielb e rtf:, 0c,." I informed (page 49) that he is opposed to tlie__" ths t: o o l press—that he is the son of a tailor (page 26) f Napoi 0 0 19 : casionally experienced the ' joyous feeling we ekli fo gi ter a victory' (page 49)—that he reads the House o ( l pag c e orn lB2— ou t s b ( a i t tli h d e )— is tihnatthheehaaobteitdoofpap:;s:-1-tell wards a certain ' Joe,' who turns out aftervv.ar7,p, rather notorious personage, the Rev. Jo se P phens (page 16)—that be freighted a ba rrelsshipiTl 0 containing eight missionaries, forty - s even tted t ` f e ter, and etceteras (page 58)—that be perms(( (Pa' cellars to be built under the Centenary 118 11, e 60'0 . , --A in o ss and finally, that hi; A it _nle -tinaate of used. to be erecte fore T o -f ';it '1?1,/ s tronit a ti; fice a wooden platform, bearing resemblance to a gallows (page 43 of the Fly Sheets. The only conausiv.- drawn from them is, i either that the con cern of Wesleyanism are miserably me an an d tel Dr. Bunting has ,been the victim of a con,, ducer. We have said enough to i ndicat V " tie alternative to which we ourselves lean. Such " ' lie __:nn IC .1 wil Pal prs cas foil 533 203 Scc ach tre Sef II tioi th a an( ha; del Inau Zno the Cu Mc mu Rif ela: gla Re b'ai we r ef w a Inc oui l fir; btu Ala ch t co, 181 4 the ti o , fi r , b e , et,