The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN 6• COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. I WEST INDIES The royal mail steam packet, Clyde, arrived at South ampton on Thursday morning, bringing 49 passengers, and the usual mails. Her dates are,—Tampico, Nov. 22; Vera Cruz, Dec, 1. She brings no dollars on account of Mexican dividends, but 1,837,361 dollars on merchants' 'en " of news. The Jamaica Despatch reco r rasihecleatli of Commodore Pring, of the British navy, on Sunday night, the 30th of November, of yellow fever, after a very short illness, hav ing been at church the previous Sunday in excellent healfh. The weather was highly favourable. The papers generally ings have been held, at which strong condemnatory reso lutions have been, passed. THE RIVER PLATE , rought letters from Monte Video to the The correspondent of the Times states authority on which reliance maybe nciation is on foot for the reconci- This negociation was begun 1 to possess much influence over Banda Oriental, serving in General The Crane I 29th of Octobei that he has team( placed, that a secret liation of the hostile parties by Garzon, who is the natives of II .1 Garton sent an agent to General the latter's departure from Monte "Video, for the purpose of making proposals for a coalition of himself and his friends with the party of General Rivera. The correspondent of the Times has been assured that the reply to this propospl was, that, if General Garzon es poured the, cause of General Rivera, he would be sup ported by the latter as a candidate for the Presidentship of the Oriental Republic. BRAZIL The Crane packet, which arrived at Falmouth on Wed 4teaday, has brought intelligence from Rio Janeiro, - whence she sailed on the 18th of November. The chris tening of the infant nrincess took place on November 15th, with much splendour The AMerican commodore occasion. The American minister at variance with the Brazilian go the Crane left all intercourse lore w( nd at the tin The difference arose from an American officer having been imprisoned for trying to rescue one of his seamen from a guard-house. The American commo dore, on the day that the emperor sailed around the port •in the Antelope steamer, placed the 'Brazilian ensign on the Gangway of his ship, the Columbia, of W that every one who came on board trod on it ceased , —an insult which was much res, f EXICO he Clyde, WoQt Indian steamer, we learn, with A. conducta of half a million of Mexico. in nine days for s packet can n, Lg were the merchants to avail themselves of the Santa Anna had published a letter in the Alexi- Papers, entirely disavowing the late conversion of .000 tr g the arrival of the troops from Amerie tack on Alvaredo. Santa Anna had col op, at San Luis Potosi, to await thi 11 ed him to fal lunteers being in a state iarq. ctrenuous be Mexican zovernrnent were making to strike a decided blow. General Salon Taylor had at cent. per annum. Gen. rociate with Santa Anna for who replied that no term" - Could he li.tened to in American so n man of war bloc an 'port :nd that poor-rate valuation of their respective holdings, the amount should be expended in out-door relief, care acknowledgement that a liberal Po - oilarriTtherQcir j e for one at least of the social evils of Ireland—the poverti , of its peasant class. The urgent appeals a Mr. Ralph Osborne to the Irish Landloids have at length evoked a favourable response c.aa 1.4111,...1111U va IaCJIJILIALLUII 4 . 1111,G apinun9g. There are 18,000 people ; 15,000 are now m extreme dis tress. There are only two resident proprietors, and 11,000 rn eininvpri in nnhlir wnrltc • resident ov PPM.. of the evil is, so givat as to render any help from private benevolence of little avail. I feel persuaded from what the - rector told me, that at a very low calculatioh, 5,000 people will perish in that parish alone within three months, unless aid on a large scale be sent them. The ring on Mexican g kaded STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—Our columns this evening present a sad and afflicting picture of the state to which The Dublin Post states confidently, that at least thirty this ill-fated country is reduced. Crimes of almost every persons perish daily from hunger in Ireland. hue are there recorded. The soil of Kilcoran is reeking several carts, laden with meal; barley, &c., Were, last with the lifeblood of the murdered Mulcahy, at-the same week, attacked, near Clonmel, by gangs of robbers, who moment that the flames burst from the burning home had carts ready and took off the booty. stead of Walshe, a t B ans h a . I n th e l a tt er case, by the One of the largest rewards since the death . of the late merciful intervention of Providence, the inmates of the - - were saved, and the fiendish designs of the IRELAND and conviction of the persons who attacked Mr. Ingworth. concoctors or this savage outrage were so tar frustrated. The Government offers £2OO ; Mr. Ingworth himself, The meal of Guiry, and the butter of Cormack, are, in £2OO ; and the magistrates, clergy, and farmers, £614. the mid-day, plundered by armed rnobs thenls Keating's Mr. John Augustus O'Neill has offered himself as a flour meets with a similar fate in an district of the candidate for the representation of Mallow, as a Repealer, country. From the mountain of Slievenamon sheep are ee of the Repeal Asso- stolen by wholesale ; from the plains beneath "lire stock This is a fear- ing been every deseri. ption is nightl abstracter fill state of society. Something must be done, and done passed over in previous election Something WHAT'S BECOME OF THE REPEAL ?—At the inaugu- speedily, to protect the lives and properties of the well ration of the new mayor on Friday, during four speeches disposed from the tender mercies of a lawless peasantry. — made by Repeal members of a Repeal corporation in our Tipperary Constitution. far-famed Repeal city, the repeal of the union was never REPEAL ASSObIATION.—A letter' from America, re once mentioned !—Kilkenny Moderator. - commending the purchase of waste lands in that country FEARFUL MORTALITY.—In the Skibbcreen poorhouse, for emigrants from Ireland having been read, Mr. O'Con during the months of November and December, 1845, nell said it would be a most afflicting thing to him to ad the number of deaths was Only seven, whilst during the vise the people to leave. Ireland. Live or 'die, he would softie months of last year, the deaths amounted to two never give that advice. It was the whole study of his hundred and eighteen P life to have Ireland for the Irish ; and, as to the present One of the embankments of the Irish Grand Canal was distress, the British Government was sufficiently indebted breached by some persons unknown on the 29th Decem- to Ireland to be obliged to give food to the people. ber, between Tullainore and Shannon Harbour. Had the Speaking of the Young Irelanders, he said they had attempt succeeded, the means of conveying food ta the made "reconciliation utterly impossible." Recommend- West of Ireland would have been entirely cut off. ing a particular tradesman, he said he wished " there was PUBLIC WORKS IN IRELAND.—A return, published by nothing sold in Dublin but native manufactures." Mr. the Morning Chronicle, shews that the daily number of Q'Connell said his own daily, hourly, and nightly thought persons employed on public Works in Ireland, during the was, how to relieve the people, of whom, he said, not - 26th ult., was 398,231. The counties thirty, as calculated by the newspapers, but three hun dred, were perishing daily of hunger. " Something must be done on a great scale." It is the duty of the British Government to feed four millions of the Irish people. I will give notice of what I mean to bring forward. I mean to bring forward a proposition that there be a loan of forty millions raised to relieve the Irish people ; a loan to be raised on the resources of the country ; a loan to be raised as the loan was raised for the purchase of the negroes. It is absolutely necessary to go to that length, and less will not relieve the people from the necessities they are in. The rent for the week, which included £5 from Liverpool, was announced to be £7l 6s. 3d. Awrui..—There is an appalling communication in the Dublin Mail of Monday. The writer, the Ret.. Charles Caulfield, dates his communication from Creagh Rectory, where the - greatest numbers are employed are, Clare, Cork, Cavan, Galway, Kerry, Leitrim, Limerick, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, and Wexford. The Marquis of Downshire for the last fortnight, has, with princely benevolence, been administering to the ne- amongst a vast throng of applicants, each applicant re ceiving with the allowance of beef, a shilling to puichase bread. Upwards of 1,300 lbs. of beef were then dis pensed to 300 poor families. _ A. RECONCII,LATION.-At the inauguration dinner of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, on Tuesday, a somewhat re markable incident took place, which seemed to tickle the fancies of the spectators of the scene. Just as the Master of the P (NI- T. B. S-- - • ',) 1 - Mr. O'Con- tons .r. i omith) was leaving, nen walked up to his quondam friend (the "vinegar-cruet Attorney-General) and warmly shook the hand of that once-dreaded functionary, who, apparently nothing loth, returned the friendly shake with equal cordiality. with two children, was lying in fever, in a wretched hovel ; five wretches came to the house, and notwithstanding the entreaties of the wife, robbed the family of all they pos sessed, taking away the blankets off the people in fever, and eventhe vinegar, and a small portion of meat. -The Jan. '2. We make a few extracts. The Skibbereen -dis trict is referred to :—" The mortality is very great among the poor, and the aspect of the burial-grounds assuming a new form : in many cases the dead are buried without coffins, and instances are known where they are not even brought to a burial-ground, but interred in the fields. In Skibbereen) on the Windmill, the body of a - man lay tor several days besides his child, sick of fever, there being no one to reinove it until the dispensary doctor had it buried, when it was becoming putrid ; this has occurred more than. once. This day in a glen, in a wild part of this parish, I was told that a family was ill with fever. I _ _ ___ _ at Woodford, and such is the fearful state of society that the miserable wife declined to identify even the pro- Limerick Chronicle. house ; five lying on some dirty straw in one corner, men and women, and five in another room in a kind of bed. Two children were up recovering, and one girl, the only person to hand them a drink of water. They had no been held at Muff, in the county of Donegal, to_coasider food, not even a drop of milk, nor even an individual to 3est means of provit iey were dying - - _ -- any. They would all have died as well as the father, but for a shilling given them by a neighbouring gentle man." • This is in a Christian country, and where Christian men are exerting then serves with Christian charity and Chris tian energy, yet' are they not able to avert tEe direful scenes the witnesses have described. Nearer Cork—in Traeton—deaths, it appears, are oc curring, too. Mr. Corkoran, P.P., in a letter to Mr. Redington, (in the Examiner) says:— " Over 16 deaths occurred in my parishes for the last ten - days. I am morally certain that each and every one of them was occasioned and accelerated by want of food and fire. Buckley, of Ballyvorane, and Sullivan, of Oysterhavert, died suddenly. Buckley dropped dead on the works, after a journey of three miles before day. His wife will make affidavit, that he had not sufficient food the night before he died, and that she and the rest of her family lived 36 hours on wild weeds to spare a bit of the cake for him.' (In this case a coroner's inquest was given without sight of the body.) This horrifying eco nomy is practised by scores of families in this district. Si milar eff I fear rects must be expected from similar causes. we must bury the dead COFFINLESS in future. My God ! ! what a revolting idea. Without food when alive, without a coffin when dead." UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. The Bishop of Newfoundland, during his stay in this town, prior to embarking on Tuesday, was the. guest of the Rev. Cecil Wray. The Rev. E. B. Chanter, who recently received three tokens from Great Crosby, has had presented to him by his parishioners at Sheffield, as a new year's gift, a very elegant pocket communion service. The amount already subscribed to the Liverpool Church Building Society exceeds £12,600, having been recently augmented by a donation of £5OO from the Society for B.C:P., ,per J. 8., 'treasurer. On the 4th instant, the parishioners and friends of the Rev. William Wood, incumbent of Altham, near NA _ ham, presented to that gentleman a purse, containing up wards of one hundred guineas. The Rev. R. W. Kyle, whose license was recently with drawn by the Archbishop of Dublin for his adherence to the Evangelical Alliance, has been appointed to a living in Guernsey. John Wakefield, Esq., of Kendal, has offered to contri bute £5OO towards the erection of a vicarage -house in that town, provided Trinity College will add another £5OO for the saine'purpe ose. The tail of Verulam has.given the munificent donation of 4:1,500 tc - posed new ( noble earl has also given a piece Of land as the site for the _ ary, three new churches will consecrated in the metro polis, viz., St. Jude's, Whitechapel ; St. Andrew's, Ox ford-street; and the Mariners' Church, near the north entrance to the London Docks, all of them having been erected within the last twelve months. Lord Ashley, the Rev. E. Bickersteth, the Rev. A. R. Dallas, and others, have raised a special fund in connex ion with the Irish society, amounting.to nearly £20,000, for a new body of 700 scripture readers in Ireland, the :OLONIES sole of this mission nE under the care of one missionary, Since his return from England, him- the Rev ritE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. NORK IN THE .uding six in length, is at pres Dr. S. Thompson. churches every Sunday, each taking three full —Visitation Journal of the Bishop of Frede- se.rvice ricton GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.—On New Year's Day last the teachers in the Sunday-school connected with the small church in the beautiful little vil- 'THE BENCH AND THE BAR, EQUITY COURTS.—The list of equity causes for hearing on bill and answer, and for adjudication on pleas, demur rers, &c., exhibits an unusually large aggregate of busi hess at the commencement of term ; but of equity appeals before the Lord Chancellor the number is remarkably small, being only 24. The Vice-Chancellor of England's list contains 163 causes ; Vice-Chancellor Bruee's, 66 ; Vice-Chancellor Wigram's;'67 ; and that of the Master of the Rolls, 150 ; total, 480. COUNTY COURTS' ACT.--' cuit under the Small D e bt s _ _ -The distribution of -the cir -5' Act has been completed. Mr. Bethune has list of them. In substance they are the same as those which were proposed_in_. November last, with some few alterations, which have been suggested by persons whose local knowledge qualified them to give advice on the sub ject. The number of districts will be sixty instead of fifty , nine. Wales has been diyided into four parts, instead of three ; one circuit has been added in the Eastern Counties, quence of an enlargement of the jurisdiction of the Liver pool Court. The whole number of court towns, exclusive of those in the metropolis, is four hundred and fifty-four. Eleven courts will be assigned to the metropolis, includ ing those parts of Surrey and Kent which form the envi rons of London. The basis of the whole scheme is tile division of the country which has been already effected under the Act for the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages. LAW - OF LIBEL.—In some remarks on an action brought against the Plymouth Journal and the Law of Libel generally, the London Times of Monday observes : " There is no duty of a public journal at once so delicate and so dangerous, as that of exposing fraud or misconduct in individuals. We do not fear the accusation of par tiality or undue regard to self-interest, when we say that the calm unflinching discharge of this duty is most essential to the well-being of society, and ought to be upheld and strengthened by all possible means. It sel- dom happens now, - whatever may have been done in for mer days, that a wilful or malicious libel appears in a public print of any reputation. The worst cases are never more than instances of negligence. But examples are numerous of dishonesty detected and villainy fru4- trated through the agency of newspapers. The public, we know, can express its gratitude•in a fitting mann& when once convinced that there is good occasion for it. It seems to us that a good occasion is always apparent in every case of fraud exposed. Here the Plymouth Journal has been the means of showing up a party of blacklegs (for such the verdict of a jury has pronounced them to be) who had insinuated themselves into good society, and who might have done more extensive mischief but for the exposure. The people of Plymouth and its neigh bourhood are, without question, indebted to them. Yet, —ll --a-- at. tor all return, they are mulct in a sum of £2,000, and, have only the beggar's satisfaction of being honest men. Surely this is a hard case." MARRIAGES WITH A DECEASED'S WIFE'S SISTER.— Mr. T. C. Foster, in a letter to the Morning Post, says, "an inquiry has been instigated into the number of these marriages in different parts of England: Four gents, have been engaged in four different districts of the pro vinces, exactly one month. Their inquiries, so far, have not progressed beyond fourteen towns ;—Their names are 11/1 1_ TT II d• I, lother- these fourteen towns (a fair sample of every class in Eng land), in that one month, the unaided efforts of four gen tlemen have ascertained upwards of 500 cases of infringe ment of the marriage law of William IV. In all these cases, the names, residences, occupations of the parties, the date of the marriages, and the cireumstancesconsti tuting their illegality, have been furnished to me ; whilst the gentlemen engaged in the inquiry have heard of about _ as many more such,marriages, the names of the parties to which were concealed and refused to be made known, les it should subject them to unpleasant ?roceedino or to .lan. 12, 1847. way in Doncaster; another railway diverging from the in tended main line at Wombwell, terminating with a junc— tion with• the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and-Man chester Railway, at Thurlestone, together. with a short branch therefrom at Worsborough, to join the main line of the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Hud dersfield, and Goole Railway ; and another branch there from at Oxspring, terminating by a j unc ti o n w i t h t h e Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway at Hoyland Swaine ; another railway diverging from the proposed main line at Wombwell, and terminating on the southern side of the head of the Elsecar branch of the Dearne and Voce Canal, at Nether Hoyland and Brompton Bieslow, or one of them ; also thre_short'brarrh railways, one cuvern irom the proposed fi rs t-d escr ib e d ma i n li ne at Adwick giupg Dearne, and terminatingwith a junction with the Midland Railway at Swinton, another diverging from the main line at Swinton, and terminating by a junction with the Mid land Railway at Ardwick-upon-Dearne;., and the third di verging from the main line at Swinton, and terminating by a junction with .the Midland Railway, in the same towushiri ; another railway diverging from the main line fire ~..-described at Denaby, and terminating by a junction with the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, otherwise the Sheffield and Rotherham Branch of Vie Midland Railway, at Kimberworth. The bill also_ proposes to take power for the company to purchase or lease the Sheffield ; Ro therham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Railway, the Dun Navigation, and the Dearne and Dove Canal. The scheme will, we understand, receive the sup port of the Midland Company.—. Railway Monthly May. LIVERPOOL SANATORY BILL. We resume our abstract of this important bill at clause 124, which provides for the appointment of one or more inspectors of nuisances, by whom all complaints before justices shall be lodged. Clause 125 directs all common lodging-houses to be licensed and registered to entertain only a certain number of lodgers, and to be inspected from time to tim e . 11,- 19g engines, or used in any manufacture, or in river steam boats, must consume their own smoke; and in all trades where noxious or annoying effluvia are emitted, the best practicable means of mitigating the nuisance must -be adqpted. Penalty five pounds per day during continu ance after a month's notice given. _ 'Clahse 128' inflicts a penalty of £5 for every oiTcnce upon parties killing beasts in any other than licensed and registered slaughter-houses. Inspector of slaughter houses has the same powers as inspector of nuisances. Knackers' yards must be licensed; mid the name. of the Occupier painted on the premises : penalty £5 per day. Clause 133 provides' for the putting down of any trfide proVed to occasion a nuisance, unless it can be shewn that the best means of preventing such nuisance has been adopted : penalty .R 5 per day until discontinued after justices' order. The clause does not bar proceedings for nuisances at common law. The next ten clauses relate to the supplies of water. The act of 6th and 7th Victoria (the Water Act of the Highway Board) is repealed, and its powers and the property of the Commissioners are vested in the Council. Its operation is also extended over the whole parliament.ru air uuiuuuu; .T4Ouv per annum are to be paid by the Council towards the tire _police ; water is to be supplied for all existing pnbliC cisterns, pumps, &c., gratuitously, and for any nubile baths ;and rr!,g - ir:ig waterworl swing corniptin atter notice ; but present gas c i .'f;:paul subject only to th e penalties in their resPective acts. By clause 151, a humane apparatus may be provided and maintained. 152 to 160 prescribe the mode of rating -Irl to remain the sewer for ten yc ge anti paving rates, and a fiu•the Lrs. The debt alreadN i of ,k.:375 ted in Toxteth- 'tares may be made prospectively or retrospectively; and owners of unoccupied premises may be .rated ; but the rates are not to be ealleetprl 3iLfl The ho week in ai A major tided aka. wigs, but The cor their eat!, elegantly tales in a The em •of Dublin Mr. Hem box, and DEATU child nit.-1", her clothe before tht On We at Oxton, silver tanl successful sh RELIEF Joseph 131 Holy Trir £lOO was three-four fourth to PORC I. large pig, forty-si;i : ! nefit of t bitors, Cantelupt „ on Wedin Poihick, i Mark's ci which is ti consequen repreni§te- A soire( Institutiol day night Liverpool Hoivitt, J .arc.) and the•Meeh: also woo SEASON sequence Matthew rality high of the wtt he also, la ner, whiel the year f DEPAR' bernia,:o board a cc Amongst Lord Rob Mr. Lasce Bishop of PRESEN fine oak tr As the mo rented are nearly fly evinced in SPAIN t ints f r om I'vra , lriti of the 30th tilt,. supply, a detail Cqtalonia was said to hay armed that Senor Olozag THE FRENCH IN OTAHEITE 31exicans his post. It arrPcted within mniir. which 1 lirpra bad c leagues of Madrid. - A ru had obtained little credit, was current that atalonia, at the head of 101)0 men were opened by Queen Isabella Throne, on the 31st ult. She an. if an intended religion of im " A fixed and suitable dofation worship and the clergy is an urgent and igqential for the good of religion as My Government shall shortly pre- -with a tie, of tl port for .ha T that. of the st - rec-ive4 from Catalonia, on the 31st, from various quar ters, thq four Carlist bands were sweeping through the. country. One of them consisted of not less than 500 Although Cabrera himself was not known to be y present, it was not doubted that he directed vement of these- forces. Government had marched regiments into Catalonia and the P aßque provinc aid had 'e have been favoured with a copy of the following letter, dated Her Majesty's steam-sloop Salamander, Otala^ite, June 1 1846:-- ‘!The_tiatilies here and at Huahine have proved them selve, }letter men than the French, having beaten them .out of the field at that Island, added to which they repulsed Uraine, a heavy frigate of sixty guns, and she returned to Ohheite without having effected a single advantage out of the many which they anticipated by the attack and here, no c le natives latarl by the example of the Huahineans, awl vary effective attack on the town; they came in 1)11 , 194 the hou:eq of the French officers who had madi them =elves most obnoxious, killed am many .oldiers, and retreated without 1 wounded a great losing a sing! in a mos' the=e unfrirtunate wretches afforded prime sport for the motives. who picked them off every day. Upon the arrival of the French Admiral in a 60-gun frigate they marched out to attack Papeno with 1,400 men ; they were beaten, and returned without having done anything but burnt a church. and stolen a few horses. They returned after a - nine days' absence, and the soldiers were allowed two days to recruit their exhausted strength before marching upon Bonnallia, which they did last Friday. They attacked the native fort at six o'clock a.m. on Saturday, and were cot cut up dreadfully. The steamer Phteton came up on Baltr(lay afternoon with fifty-four wounded, amongst Chief of the forces and the Governor's Aide-de-Camp ; tlwv are expected hack to-day (Monday). There is no .other news of consequence, except that her Majesty's brig has .uffcred total shipwreck at New Zealand. " P.S.—ThePhmton has just arrived with another cargo of w'unded and dying ;. they are taking them on shore f's sc possible; there are. I believe, about fifty. There is not at present the lca , t possible prospect of our getting out of this, let alone coming home." AMERICA —By the New York, Capt Wlarmion, Captain Edwards, we have advices from New York to the 18th ult., but the news is quite unimportant. SEVERE WEATHER AND HURRICANE AT GENOA.—A there as being of unparalielled severity. So much snow had not been known to have fallen there since 1820. The writer says, " The ice inside the windows of our cot tag- was often half an inch thick in the morning; the seater on the butter frozen in layers, and oil congealed to a solid mass in a mom with a fire ; the patient culture of years in the vegetable kingdom has been destroyed; orange and lemon trees, and almost all the perennials, except the very hardiest and most sheltered, lost in a night. The gardens are very wildernesses, the gardeners in despair." In additirn to this calamity, the harbour has been visited hose whic occur in t. Indies. The vessels were driven from their moorings, and wrecked in the harbour in the old quarter, the Doria terrace ; crews lost, boats everywhere capsized, and men swimming for their lives. Scarce a vwssel in the port, ex cept those immediately under the Molo Vecchio, but have 104 spars, bulwarks, figure-heads, masts, &c., and the cargoes of many are so injured as scarce to pay the ex pense of unloading. MESMERISM IN INDIA.—The Bengal papers are over flowing with mesmerism. A Dr. Esdaile has long been amusing himself with this science, or pretended science, and we some time since called attention to the ill success of some of his experiments. It seems, however, that the attempts to push mesmerism into notice had been so suc cessful, that it was deemed proper by the government to appoint a medical committee to inquire into the merits of the new practice. The committee consisted of the In spector-General of Hospitals, and six other members. After fourteen days' laborious investigation of cases se lected by Dr. Esdaile, and treated in his own way, the report is, on the whole. decidedly unfavourable. There were many remarkable facts connected with these experi ments, which we cannot undertake to notice, but they are narrated with much minuteness and care in the report of the committee. Wishing to pursue their inquiries fur ther, they proposed to Dr. Esdaile that he should take a hundred patients at random from Dr. Jackson's wards (Dr. Jackson is surgeon to the Native Hospital), subject them to mesmeri c man i pu l a ti on b e f ore t h e comm itt ee , an d chow what proportion of the number could be brought into the conditi on o f insensibility to pain. But . this did not suit Dr. Esdaile at all, and he refused to undertake the experiment. COURT AND FASHION, Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Royal Family, left Windsor for Claremant on Thursday, where they will remain until within a few days of the -7 of Parliament. 111CPtli.g The Varl and ountess of Ellesmere have left town on s visit to the Earl De Grey, at Wrest Park, Beds. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, accum _ Lord Adolphus and Lady Alexandrina Vane, have returned to Wynyard Park, from a visit to the D u k e of Cleveland, at Raby Castle. A hatter of Carmarthen has presented the Princess Royal with a silk riding hat, weighing only four ounces. It ig lined inside with crimson silk, embossed with the TWal arms,—the plume and feathers, the rose, the sham thi,tle, and leek. . L ,T le Countess of Shrewsbury has just received, from the '" n `P„ r ,",' , of Russia, a massive gold chain bracelet, bearing her Majesty's cipher, surmounted by an imperial crown in 7"mnd ; the whole encircled by a wreath of magnificent brilliants of great size. panied 1 ler flainiftoni one of the Universit members, and a gentleman whose position, taken in con nexion with his long services to the Conservative party • to Mr. Osborne, cordially coinciding in the project cf a general meeting of peers and of members of the House of Commons, to he held previous to the assemblage of Par liament ;—such meeting to be private,•and inore for the purpose of deliberation, than for creating effect by clap trap speeches and interminable displays of Irish oratory. BRUTAL Ml:mom—On Tuesday night, one of those brutal murders which unfortunately disgrace the annals of that county, was committed on the lands of Kilcoran, in the parish of Tubrid, Tipperary, on the body of a man named Thomas Mulcahy. The unfortunate man was met on the road near his own house by some person or persons at present unknown, who fractilred his head in several places, and not content with this, his throat was cut from only cause assigned for this cold-blooded murder is, mat the deceased was in the habit of lending money, and had several processes for trial at the quarter sessions of Cashel, then holding, against parties to whom he had ad vanced money in their distress. ATTACK ON THE PAYMASTER OF THE BTH ITO= ARS— DARING ROBBERY.—On Sunday last, at half-past two o'clock, the house of-the Paymaster of the Bth . Hussars, armed party They immediately proceeded to the cOom .1 where the gentleman and his wife were sitting, and enter. ing they presented two:blundeibusses at his head, and They then took his double j barrelled gun, two his servant's carabine, some powder and shot, and what mo ney he had in the house, amounting, we understand, to • about two pounds. This daring attack and robbery was perpetrated in the noon day, and but a short distance iron). the Military Barracks; . of Caller, where the head quarters of the Sth Hussars are quartered.—Tipperary Constitution. [or, the Chie tary, t the Rolls, and many other persons of the highest distinc tion were present at the inauguration dinner of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alderman Staunton, last week, for the land what was quite as unusual a circumstance, there was ions avoidance of every topic of a sectarian or po] nature calenlnted to local to stnv diversity of miinini no offensive toasts were properly shelved, even after the departure of tl functionaries who honoured the banquet with their sence, O'Connell not proposed Repeal" being very. leading toast laring to open his GREAT FIRE /N DILIBLIN.—A little after two o'clock on Tuesday morning, the sentry on guard at the gate of the Lower Castle-yard, perceiving smoke issuing from the shop of Mr. Mears, the bootmaker, in Dame-street, promptly gave the alarm ; but, before the family were well aroused to a sense of their danger, the whole premises Mears and his wife escaped by leaping into the arms of the soldier who discovered the flames. Their three children, who were left, were burned to death. The whole concern was, in spite of every exertion, completely gutted. The premises of Mr. Clifford, druggist, of Castle-street, were also burned down. At nine o'clock two men were ascending a fire ladder for the purpose of gaining the roof of an adjoining house, and had nearly reached the top story, when the ladder snapped across, and precipitated the two m en i n t o Shperfrard• hatom • /NMI OVIV,IA -'- post, but the other, falling on the pavement underneaili was so severely mutilated that he died shortly after th( accident YREVENTION OF NTARVATION.—We give to our rea ders to-day two very important resolutions, adopted una nimously at a •special meeting of the Guardians of the Balrothery Union, held on Wednesday last, presided over by George A. Hamilton, Esq., M.P.. the Chairman of was signec act of doing so, when the former, suddenly seizing intended victim by the head, applied a razor to his throat le to re .most - severed t the body, nothing holding it but the muscle of the neck. Of course he died instantly. Tie wife of deceased, on hearing the noise, went out, lain'iinz he was (man-pith -10- with the supposed party of marauders On the murder; seeing her, he - threw the corpse of the deceased on the manure heap, opposite to where he had done the bloody unate woman icting a same weapon (a razor), and on her falling he gave her a few kicks, and left her for dead. He then entered the house, and after looking whether the children were asleep, he commenced plundering the premises. In the mean time the woman gained so much strength as to crawl to the house next to where the tragedy took place. and raising the neighbours, they found the wretched, murderer eating bread and butter in the house. He.took refuge in a loft above the kitchen, threatening any person who would dare come up, and although the - re were upwards of forty men, armed with guns, none dared attempt to arrest him. When the poliae in Moneymore heard of the cir cumstance, they immediately started off. to the scene of the outrage, and at once ru shed upon and seized the criminal, who was brought to town. He presented a frightful picture, 'being actually covered with blood from the shoulders down.--Newry Telegraph. IEATENED DESOLATION of Skibbereen lenoe are to coun to go near, much less to get into, a crowd, for fear of in. fection. My two servants are in fever, from serving the Tinny pr, ,, fitnrpa who come to my house clan taking off as many as either ; they swell and the Union. It will be seen from the first that the Guar dians have taken upon themselves to order that any per son, or any number of persons, who may be found, after inquiry, in danger of starvation, shall receive a ,meal at the workhouse, upon an order for their provisional ad mission for this purpose. This will rescue all those who and this in their unknown cabins. I rescued a family the other day in this state, by the direct interference of Pro vidence, after one member had died. They were dying in the condition- of misery described in your report of our last Presentment Sessions—unknown by any one ! The poor creatures have pawned everything they hadcover inif and all ! Food at famine price without [mouse, an, _ there, from the horrors we have witnessed of Skibbereen any kind ! . For as to the puouc works, theyare -a mockery and elsewhere. And the Guardians, in their second of our woe I ' Eight... Pence a day for labourers with fami resolution, have called upon the Commissioners to sane- lies from four- to fourteen ! This latter is extreme, no tion the opening of the rooms, in the different districts doitht, but I have come across such extreme cases. And where distress prevails, in which similar relief may be one such case, at :preSent you will allow in such circum administered. In fact, the effect of these resolutions will stances to be bad enough. I put the extreme I have ,net be to create mendicity establishments throughout the with, as, in times like these, the worst that is fact may to And be employedll%o men, Union, where every person ascertained to be in a desti- be known. Fourteen funerals in this Ch urc h ar d i n one tute condition may receive one meal per day.—Dublin anothe r Committee, Mail. resolution , the'Relief dayl—nine i i n )y d a . gvnggraves o f HORRIBLE EXPEDIENT.—At an extraordinary sessions —and without coffins, too, from their numbers ! Few can held last week in the Court-house of Skibbercen, Cork, understand the humanity of that disposition that can a " presentmentfor the purchase of coffins" was put in, leave a people, without any fault of their own, but-under •in advocating which one of the gentlemen present thus the awful visitation of Heaven, to perish as they are, by I addressed the meeting :—" Gentlemen, can any of you hundreds and thousands on the public works—working, refuse this application ?—you who have beheld - the appal- as I have men theili, in wer - trencbes with naked feet ling spectacles of famine and destitution which our town having no sho es—of a cold east wind, shaping the fences abounds in—you who have seen mothers walking the and sides of the useless roads, until my own. blood was streets with their deceased children in their arms, begging chilled at the sight l—to perish on them without adequate for the trifle required to purchase them a coffin ? M'hen remuneration !—to perish on them by a forced necessity a rap comes to our hall door, and a person •attends to to work in cold and hunger and nakedness !—to perish by open it, a dead child-is immediately thrust in by a starving inability to get even this work !—to perish unable to work mother, who makes a sorrowful appeal for the price of a at all. They are perishing of fever, six in a bed, in their coffin." And another gentleman (Mr. Becher, a magic- own filth, without attendant o r any thing—but I must trate,) detailed the following horrifying expedient resorted hold—Oh ! my dear sir, get us means a or we perish: to where coffins could not be procured :-- In the extreme One hundred and forty death in the i'orkhouSe from west of this county, in the parish of Kilmoe, the Roman Ist of December to Ist of January . '! I The Lord God Catholic clergyman of that place told me, within the last look upon us•with pity and mercy, or we are all gone to week, that the condition of his people is such that a single gether." coffin, with a false bottom, is taken from house to house, The Cork Constitution of S aturday says:— " We were in which the bodies are carried to t he g rave, and there going to i nv i te attention to the evidence on the inquests rags that covered them, whilst the coffin reported in our second page ; b ut, deposited in the after all, what is there in it more than we read is taken to the -next house, and made answer a similar and hear of every day ; There are tendeaths, or rather inquiries on ten b • purpose." Th e deaths are more numerous —and bodies, for the DISTRESS IN THE SOUTH WEST OF IItELA ND.— from starvation would time was when ten deaths following shocking details of distress in parts of Clare and d ed us. Starvation have startled us ; but use has liar following are given by the Limerick Chronicle :—" The mat 01 They is the rule with our unhappy po workhouse of Scariff, county Clare, (within 16 miles of Pul i build . drop in the field or in the, road, or they this city, is so overcrowded with paupers that a disease themselves . up in their hovels, and the rats devour it s them as they die. We would make some extracts, but almost amounting to a plague has broken out amongst 1 I inrnatpa—flic. 41...,.+1,a ...,,........4.-..... f...,, , ,, form to twelve daily. 1 that we wish the evidence to be pondered as it stands. dog of Mars Ind Timothy M`Carthy, ' The cries of the child, Timothy, were terrible, but at ast he died on Sunday week. He died lying on his nother'S bosom, and had cut the nipple across endeavour.. ng to draw milk from her; on the day, following the nnthe/' died." It is horrifying to hehold a donkey cart, laden with fivt or six bodies, piled over each other, going to be interred, and not a person attending the wretched cortege, except the driver. The graves are so dug that the coffins are barely covered with earth, rendering the air infected. No coroner's inquests have been held ! The most munificent act we have yet to record is, the donation of £2OO on Christmas eve, by Mr. Thomas Wentworth Beaumont, of Britton-hall, Yorkshire, to Mr. Philip Refute, of Wood parks, in aid of a private fund established by this gentle man for the relief of the very distressed neighbourhood in which he resides ; and it is gratifying to record that not saYs— a single case of outrage or robbery has occurred within his " Her husband died of starvation, and nothing else parish of Inniscathra, though many are suffering extreme he was buried without a coffin, and . hey were all so weak privation. Not a shilling has, as yet, been subscribed by that they were not able to carry home the door on any of the proprietors.to assist i n re li ev i ng the misery- on which they conveyed him to the graze She and her their own estates in this district of Galway. t children have no food now,,nor the mean of -proeurin tnam and M'Cormick state. that " the wo part of her breast and nose bad been re also the limbs of the child I" to the death of her husband, and man's e eaten away by r Mary Brian, in the school-room with the children, (about two hundred) and took tea, which was provided by the Rev. John Dal ton, the worthy and beloved curate of the church. After handsome pocket communion service, the presentation of which was,made with so much simplicity and frank ho . nesty by Ar. Robert we, the schoolmaster, that the rev. gentleman was quite overpowered, and unable for some time to give utterance to his feelings. He had not be given him, which enhanced the value of it, and parti cularly as the gift came from the individuals solely con nected with the Sunday-school. The site of the first of the new churches for Toxteth Park having been fixed on, the Church Building Committee have, within the last few days, selected for its design one fur nished by Mr. John Hay, of St. George's Crescent. The Building Committee deserve thanks for the good taste and judgment they have shown in awarding to Mr. Hay that encouragement which his efforts on behalf of a strictly Church architecture so richly deserve. Over coming all the difficulties of the shape of the site, Mr Hay, with the assistance, we believe, of his brother, Mr James Hay, f s succeeded in offering a most beautiful design, which, when realised, will afford, as it were, a living proof that ecclesiology is beginning to find a home in the good old town. The style . of architecture is purely ecclesiastical—the middle-pointed ; the building will con- sist of a nave, with spacious aisles and cloiSlory ; the roofs, high-pitched and showing all the interior timbers, are to be constructed on a new principle introduced by Mr. Hay, and which combines two qualities not often united—elegance and economy. There will be open benches for 1100 people. Miss BURDETT COUTTS' NEW CHURCH AND SCHOOLS. —lt has already been stated that Miss Burdett Coutts had determined to build and endow a new church and schools for the education of the poor in the city of Westminster, which her late father represented for so many years in Parliament. The sum of £30,000 was named as the cost OUTBREAK OF LABOURERS IN TRALEE.—On Monday morning, considerable alarm was caused throughout this town, by a body of labourers, abolit 300 in number, and armed with spades, shovels, and .other such rude wea- if the Rev. Dr ent.. They proceeded first 'fo the house M`Diery, P.P. to request that he would t, but - either not finding- that gentleman at home, or_ he being unable to afford them this..state' they encountered Mr. O'Sullivan, an officer employed' under the board' of works, and it was after imminent danger he escaped being assaulted by :them The labourers next proceeded to Mr. J. Lynch's house and again demanded employment. Mr. Lynch them an some degree, by advising them to wait u )on the [ler committee. Several persons in the crowd then ye a most melancholy detail of their sufferings. They tted that on Clahane road several men .had'died within • ..•,• • ying four days without interment, because his family had a single penny to buy a coffin." The attention of he crowd was next attracted by the appearance of -Mr. stokes, the county surveyor, as he was preparing to go to the Spa. A tumultuous rush was the consequence, and the gig was instantly surrounded. Mr. W. Denny then addressed the lab_ ourers,_ but could scarcely procure a ; clamour for employment, estructiou of property if it threats of should be refused. Finally, however, Mr: Denny pre. vailed upon the crowd - to allow Mr. Stokes to- proceed without further obstruction. The wretched labourers then dispersed till the meeting of the relief committee.— Kerry Examiner. MURDER.. BY A DUMB 1301r.--Chi:tllo last M'Nulla, his wife, and three HORRIBLE children had mine to rest, expecting, no doubt, to spend the, new year in peace. IlOwever, a dumb boy, who had been hi the habit of attending M'Nulla!s, came to his window, knocking at it, and giving the unfOrtunate man in the first instance ; but no less than £45,000 will bi quired to carry out the intentions of Miss Coutts. The site chosen is in Rochester-row, opposite Emery Hill's Almshouses. A piece of ground has been cleared for.thp new church; the first stone of which will be laid in a few weeks. Adjoining the ground is a chapel, lately belong ing to the sect.ealled Irvingites, and three houses adjoin ing. The three houses have been purchased by Miss FoUtts at an expense of £7,000, and the eliapel,,which is a remarkable plain one, for £3,000 more. A district has a lready been assigned to the new church, and the Irvingite chapel was re-opened, under a licence from the Bishop 'of nn, on Monday, when divine service was solemnised, ime, according to the forms of the Esti blished Churc tie officiating clergyman was the Rev. William Tennant, M.A., the appointed minister of the district. The cost of the site, including the buildings, will be £lO,OOO, the endowment of the church £lO,OOO more, and £25,000 will be expended in the erection of the church, schools, and parsonage-house. ADDRESS TO THE BISHOP OF RIPON.—An address will be immediately presented by the Evangelical Clergy of this town to the Bishop of Ripon, on the subject of the recent conversions to the Roman Catholic Church. It remarks with just severity on the principles commonly known as Tractarian or Puseyite ; and it cannot fail to be felt by Dr. Hook, who has been mainly instrumental in introducing and snreksulincr thnan tinotrinpa In this nniah_ - ----0 K uwc .1.,1.14.1CUM aaa ..Lua Am:4gal bourhood. Dr. Hook endeavoured on Sunday last to exonerate himself from all blame in the matter. We do not suspect the Doctor of ever favouring the gross corrup tions of Popery ; but all persons holding evangelical opi nions, both in and out of the Establishment, have seen to what his opinions tended. The author of " Hear the Church," of " The Dictionary of the Church," and of the . , . Aetter apologising for and declaring substantial agree ment in Mr. Newman's Jesuitical Tract, No. 90, cannot shift from himself the imputation of attaching that false and dangerous authority to the Fathers, to tradition, and I 1 to apostolical succession, which are the 'chief appeal and reliance of Popery 'itself. We have ourselves said over and over again that Puseyism Contained the essential prin ciples of Popery ; and the result has proved to be true. We hope the recent events will he a warning to the High Church, whether strictly Puseyite or not, that there can he no solid foundation for any church in human authority, however high and venerable, but only in the New Testa ment.—Leeds Illercury.—[The address is signed by thir teen clergymen, among whom are the Rev. James Faw cett and the Rev. W. Sinclair.] PERVERSION TO THE CHURCH OF ROME.—ANOTHER JESUITICAL PLOT.—Considdrable excitement has been, caused in Leeds, by a clergyman and three other members of the Church of England, having left the pale of the Establishment, and gone over to the Church of Rome, into which they were received at St. Ann's Roman Catho lic chapel, in Leeds, on Friday week, by the Rev. H. Walmsley, the senior priest of that place o . f s _ t wal:hi The persons who have gone over to stheßmm Church of Corpus Christi are, the Rev. R. G. M I _}.l.Clllll _lin - in the county of Durham, and re 'lll;V. Wilkinson, 8.A., who belongs to with tr a o ; : ,,si f ei o r r L c : the Rev. Mr. v A i r ' a o rt i l l , a t s ile b je n ar Ff O eo t ll. S o ' sw t o . mSaevitoiUmre's residing Leeds a ceived his degrees at the Durham University, and who has also been residing with Mr. Ward ; Mr. Edward Bruce, of Leeds ; and Mr. D. H. Haigh, who lately offered to give £lO,OOO for the building and endowing of a church in Leeds ; and the offer having been acceptd by the Bishop. of the diocese, the foundation stone of the intended edifice was laid a few weeks ago ; but we suppose, whether or not he has paid any of the money over for the purposes of erecting the church, that it will not be erected, now that he has seceded from the Protestant Church. On the fol lowing Sunday a sermon was preached by the Vicar of Leeds, declaring against the whole transaction. But we cannot discover in any portion of the doctor's discourse any censure of Tractarianism, which has notoriously been the true agent on the occaasio n. It would be not un becoming in him to speak a little more explicitly on this point. But it must be acknowledged that, if he is inclined to shelter himself behind authority, he has quite enough of it for his example. What can be more astonishing than to see Tractarianism still unrebuked, still unsen tenced, nay, winked at, nay, protected, nay patronised ? The Bishop of Ripon has visited Leeds to make every in quiry into the Matter. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, SOUTH LANCASHIRE COURSING CLUB.—CHATSWORTH MERTING, Jan. 6th and 7th.—The Chatsworth Cup was won by Mr. Taylor's Blue; Mr. Barnes's Bounty ra up.—The Devonshire Puppy Cup waswon by Mr. Barnes 's Lady ; Mr. Taylor's Cambridgeshire ran up.—The Bur lington Cup was won by Mr. Barnes's Ben ; Mr. Slater's Sharebroker ran up.—The Cavendish Stakes was won by Mr. Jepson's Flisker ; Mr. William's Manchester ran uy. —The Ebensor Stakes was won by Mr. Barnes's Marquis; Mr. Robinson's Bob ran up . —The Bakewell Stakes was won by Mr. Bradley's 13ellona ; Mr. Bake's Rosetta certained void marriages are far from being all that are in like manner illegal in those fourteen towns, for in some of them the inquiry is not yet half finished ; ncir are these fourteen towns more than a mere fraction of Eng= ,nd ; yet t ae aseertainec lult in them by such insufg- dent means is five hundred cases of infriivrement of th law." Mr. Foster then goes on to argue from these re turns, and from the registrar general's reports, tha throughout England we have at the rate of 500 such mar RAILWAY so, but we ha% 4FFAIRS, It is supposed that the expenses of the enlargement of the Euston-square station of the London and Birmingham Railway, now in progress, will not be short of £50,000. of such astonishing power as to pump up 300,000 gallons of water a minute. It is to be used in the Leeds and Thirsk Railway at Bramhope. Mr. Wakefield of DeptfOrd has succeeded Mr, Watson, as resident engineer and superintendent of the locomo tive department, on the Chester and Birkenhead Rail- A most friendly alliance has been formed between the Edinburgh and Glasgow and the United lines, the Edin burgh, Leith, and Granton and the Edinburgh and Northern, on terms honourable and fair to all. parties. The express train on the Brighton Railway had a nar row escape on Monday morning. During the journey the wheels of one of the carriages gave way, and the train ran off.the.line. Happily no person was injured. LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY. — It is stated that the portion of this line between Liverpool and Wigan will be ready for opening by the end of June nett. The public will, we think, be slow to believe this, to -them, in teresting news ; but those who should know best, declare that it can and will be ready at the time stated. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY. —On Wednesday, a most deplorable accident occurred on the above railway, between Chorley and Preston, which caused the death of a stoker. He incautiously got on the roof of a horse-box, and coming in contact with a bridge, he was struck on the head, which knocked him down. He fell on the rails, and was in consequence dreadfully mutilated, both arms being cut off, and his head fearfully crushed. The poor fellow is supposed to have been killed by coming in contact with the bridge. RAILWAYS AND PAROCHIAL RATES.—The following instance of the Great benefits derived by parishes through which railways pass was related by one of the speakers, Mr. Hudson, at a public meeting of landholders and oc cupiers, held at Chobham, a few days since, to take into consideration the proposed Windsor, Staines, and South Western Railway. Mr. Hudson stated, as a proof of the beneficial results of railways on parochial rates, that, in the parish of Weking, a piece of land which before the completion of railway only paid lls. towards the rates.for the relief of the poor, now paid no less a sum than £175 ! The transmission of messages by the New York and Philadelphia electric telegraph was recently suspended for at t a h h yb le:yieamA Kingsvyecaol drivernua means luggage af g w e' several hours by the following curious incident :—" A large owl was found suspended from the wires, with his talons entangled among them, the copper wire having been twisted round the iron cords. The owl was dead when discovered, and it is supposed that he had lighted Langleytrain lN,asStsatotipopne,doant u w p a o s n b t l h o e w i n ron ag w ai i ns re t , and him w , h a il n e d in a th co at nn p e o x s i i o t i i , on be T n e g other tus Ashocking accident resulting in the SAD ACCIDENT. —‘,.. f d o e r p m ri e v d e , d h i e l i m receivedof life." a loss of two lives, occurred between one and two o'clock the station in order to detach some engines, and the car riagesh` train, which, l c i "points," i , nt ," co f n sro propelledem_ quence of the dense fog, was unable to see the signal lamps of the station -master and the coal train, till it was o b n e tw l inoweetroe engines,abneeint another, camee rm, too late to prevent a collision. The consequence was that the luggage train ran into the other (which consisted of about twenty trucks) with fearful violence ; both engines and many of the trucks were destroyed ; and the driver and stoker of one of the engines of the luggage train were crushed to death. The driver and stoker of the second engine jumped off just before the collision, and escaped with trifling bruises. The driver and stoker of the coal train were not injured. The jury, at the inquest, recom mended that more servants should be employed at the when vitleieapldwit:, station. NOVEL LANCASHIRE Scnrmu.—A new scheme of Mumps rai 11 va y s dham Alliance Railways. The Parlia vel title of the 01 mentary notices in the Gazette are for powers to incor porateoLleitilapinrola)sende,huonfdetrhethlelanno E in xt L en a s n i ca on sh o i f re t i h m e s a company to make the following railways :-1. A railway to commence by a junction with the proposed chester and Leeds Railway at Mumps, in the county of Lancaster, and terminating by a • ' junction with the Ashton, Staleybridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway, at Ashton under-Lyne, in the same county. 2. A line to com mence from the Ashton, Staleybridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway, at Ashton-under-Lyne ' and termina ting by a jun c ti o n with the intended branch of the Man- Chester and Birmingham Railway , from StockpOrt to .Guide-bridie, near the latter place, in the county of Lan caster. 3. Another railway, commencing from the said Mumps Extension Railway at Mumps, and terminating by a junction with the Manchester and Leeds Railway at Castleton, in the county of Lancaster. 4. A railway com mencing from the Oldham Branch of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, at Oldham, and terminating by a junc tion with the main line of the same railway, at the Miles 'Platting station, in .the county of Lancaster. 5. A rail way, commencing out of the intended railway last-de scribed, at Chadderton, in the county of Lancaster, and terminating at the Old Oak Colliery, Oldham. 6. Ano ther railway from the Oldham Branch of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, commencing at the Oldham station, and terminating near Royton-hall, on the road to Roch dale, in the county of Lancaster. It is proposed to take PoWers to lease or sell the proposed lines to the Manches ter and Leeds Company.—Railway Monthly Magazine.. TILE NEW SOUTH YORKSHIRE AND MIDLAND RAIL.. WAYS.—A new line is proposed, to be called the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster Junction Railway. This line will commence at the Marsborough station of the York and North Midland Railway, and run to Doncaster. It is a short line. Power will be applied for to lease or sell the line to the Midland, the Great Northern, the Sheffield,. Rotherham, and Barnsley ;, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole; Sheffield and . Lincolnshire; The Sheffibld and Manchester, or any other company. A very important line, called the Goole and Doncaster, was last year lost, in title of the South 'er, anc . Railway leri'ain al Barnsley, an d termi nating - The powersiought are to incorporate a comp an y t o e Great Northern R a il way , a t make a railway commencing by a jun ß e a t rn ion sley wi , th W t a h k e efi m el ai d n , l l i ia n ut e idndg o e f rbsi t fi h ea e mj ni, S al h en e td ffi i 0 G e l Sheffield, Goole ilte l h l l o t t hi Arksey, in the West Riding of 'Yorkshire, with a branch commencing at Balby, with Heatherpe, Doncaster, and ,terminating by junctions with the Great Northern Rail- By fBO the tenant may deduct one-half of sewer rates from the landlord. Clauses to 202 are borrowing clauses. 203 empowers the Council to make byelaws for the pre vention of nuisances, regulating slaughter-houses. knack- tiie hUeping of swine, the management of public privies, the removal of middensteads, and the re fering of lodging-houses, and to fix penalties for in • such byelaws to be approved by th Secretary 207 to 226 relate to the mod cLIIW applying penalties, and save the rights of the Dock Tru- tees, and the Railway and Gas Companies. The remain der are the usual explanatory clauses. 9ri LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCS•`' PERJURY.—On Saturday, Ann Williams was committed possession of a bed, from a pawnb'roker,TyM'eanso7; sworn declaration that the ticket was lost. The bed be longed to another. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Saturday, a man o f the name of John Hagan was committed for trial on a charge of having, with three others, knocked down Thomas Roche, in Waterloo-road, at the bottom of Chadwick street, and robbed him, whilst the other pinioned his He had, fortunately, only a few shillings in' his pocket On Saturday, Capt. Leary; master of the Queen, was summoned to - answer the compl a i n t o f th ree o f hi s h a nds of having refused to pay them the amount of wages stipu lated in the ship's articles. It appeared that the men had shipped at Quebec as able seamen, but the captain had not left that port many hours when he discovered their incompetency. Mr. Rushton, in consequence, directed the captain to pay them much less than one half of the sum mentioned in the articles. CnAROH OF R.. ;;;;;:L-011 Thursday, a seaman. named :William Sunlmertield, was brought up beforr ii t ir " Rushton, charged with ro bbi ng a man named am , P :V i rel n l e i r le ca w m a e s Gargell. The complainant, a man of colour, alleged from on Dublint he iut previous ie B r t a a y n n h a andststeamer , the in r seven sovereigns, his pocket having been cut away when hewsasslweeopre. he A e Ti p a i d ec t e ied of hi s s t string, money with a t the which bottom the com plainantof hi 5 pocket, was found upon the prisoner. He was remanded. POVERTY AND CRIME.—On Saturday man of the name of William Jones was brought before Mr.. Rushton on a charge of having stolen a cloak, worth about 305., the property of Mr. Wm. Okell, linen draper, of ,Paradise street. Mr. Frederick Bibby, an assistant at' Mr: Okell'st proved the case.' He said that the cloak stolen by the prisoner was hanging, with a number of other cloaks, in side the shop door, and that the prisoner was apprehended in Church-lane with the article in his possession. The oz b er be tr d oz o n f prisoner, upon being called upon for his defence, said, It was through hunger I stole it ; I had no food for four days." Mr. R us ht on: " Why not apply to the overseer ?" The' prisoner replied : I did, sir, and he only gave me two pieees of bread." He was committed for trial. thateostdwhroasneewcs sweepings ei wfl‘godnre epi n g s ; CASE OF STABBING.—On Tuesday, a female of questi onable reputation, who gave her name Mary O'Neil, was brought before misfortune, w ß i u i sh a t oknniofenn upon oend t charge mheap4 o r f s co l n t u a mo v i fru n o g insek in flicted lived together in a house of ill-fame h ., t e r c companions appearedmp several ani tohnas i stabs. n they in Williamson - street, and that on Monday evening they had a quarrel, and created considerable disturbance. Tho stabbing took place in the lower part of the house, and the injuries were so severe as to prevent the complainant from making her appearance in court. The prisoner al leged that the wounds were not inflicted with any mali cious intent, and that herself and complainant were more in play than in anger when the occurrence happened. Shs was ordered to he remanded until the " complainant could attend. ~,,,g —Oll CAUTION To CAPTAINS AND . SHIPOwN----:, Thursday, Mr. Todd, of the firm-of " Todd, JatliSOrit and Co. ' applied to Mr. Rushton under the following circumstances, which he said were interesting to ship owners and the public generally. He stated that the Ca ledonia Bramber was lately consigned:to his house, with 0 miscellaneous cargo of cotton, corn, and flour, and that ' after the ship had been aiseharged, a quantity of loose considerable quantity of loose corn and flour When the ship came to be in' corn and flour was foungdneaes supposingusttal,aad u e e o ev n thi c T ea ch l o e inin d s in the hold. A fellow then went as t ue' o nedasd t ' he ship, and offered £2 10s. to the captain f er t fl h i a v t id h ed e r a ece mo iv n e g d t aii he and the captain, in utter ignorance of the extent of those s w eepi ngs , and desirous of h av i ng the ship cleared, inadvertently sold the stuff. - When it came t° his (Mr. Todd's) ears, he put a stop to it, and upon is vesftgation it turned out that the sweepings amounted to a very considerable quantity, the extent of which may b e judged of by the fact, that the man whO made the pin:: chase for 505., came to the office since and offered X . s! subsequently he offered £lO, and that very morning b i v offered £l2. If it was worth his while to give £l2, it Ws" fair to presume that the sweepings were worth £2O. iki r ' Rushton said they had been long familiar with this prae' Lice of plundering•eargoes. He remarked that the purl chaser of the sweepings, who was a client of Mr. Davell' port's, was now threatening the captain of the'vessel Wit h an action at law, for non-delivery of the sweepings. g,,, r ; Davenport gave rather a diff eren t vers i on o f th e s t or y. P" said that he had been applied to by a young man to re' cover £2los. from the captain of the Caledonia Bramb efi to whom it had been paid for the sweepings of his vesseP' which sweepings had been detained as well as the £2 I° g ' His instructions were that his client had paid the sub named to the captain, and had taken five men on boa,. the vessel to collect the sweepings ; whilst thus engago m another man came up and made an offer of £5 to the ear l tarn for the same sweepings ; this the captain refused,l6 afterwards, when the same man came back and doublel :the offer, the captain ordered his client from the vessel an d refused to refund the £2 10s. The young man a p p li c d . '; him, and he wrote a letter to the captain requesting lin to return the money which had been paid to him O • letter was delivered to the capt a i n i n t h e s t ree t, b u t ir e stead of complying with the request contained in it, flung it from him contempt uous l y; ano th er l e tt er written, and had been t a k en to t h e vesse l t h a t morn il, that letter was now with the mate.—Captain Boyd O r , that when he understood the property was of some itnl l ,l# tance to the co ns i gnees, h e o ff ere d th e young mafl !ng money, which was declined ; in fact, he had that morie o , offered him £3 4 5 ., w hi c h was also refused.—Mr. Dol e d° port said he would have no objection to let the matte% to an action.—Mr. Rushton entirely - exonerated Mr. '-' lO .l venport from anything like a ch arge o f unprofessie t i j e conduct, and said something muse be done to stop,,, , ' depredations daily committed on b oar d s hip s by this 201 tem r -- 0 77.; wee ping. "—Mr. Todd said the Chamhe r o co Commerce had taken measures to prevent the recurrf,or of such frauds : they had printed a number. of Pace , w h ere in it was stated th a t all loose portions of carg ° 2,io l the property of the consignees, and not the coP" lo c' these papers were sent on board all the vessels from o f rice, as soon they arrived in port. The captain sc"' e n , dered to rcfund the £2 10s., and also to pay the five 111 employed to collect the sweepings, for their labour' ran up. The celebrated race-mare Alice Hawthorn has been sold to Mr. C. Peck ; the price £BOO. Earmaid, a brown name, fetched £BO ; Cphelia, dam by ED, £7O, and Miss Gilin mr, by Physician, £7l, pecimen KNOTHI held on Irishman, children a in food fath'er was upon goin MANSL before the Anne Mel parents name of ] girls ou ac w , .y. but I jammed f dreadfull3 verdict of EXAM P ing last, gave his After the given ani health of by a spee, of one of with the until one feeling of faction tA worthy a Syipit eas, veter formed. at whilAt un cap had ti experim toni of a head of t the 'jar, a During ti formed ar derive of the.effect. CORON by the vua dentally d 28 accid hock rec scalded, choked, 1 6; want ( s l a 2 n ; O t ci, l 4 4 a ; , and want! unknown' 2. Total SirpPEr roast beef Themasr by Mr. G the - vice c after the placed at Were made goo( Many The hilar o'clock, w Siasm, and DISTRE! the Scote] early opp o how deepi. countryme We under purpose o distress ni Scotland trust that I mar or opp general. r 1 are too apt of their co ao much o, substantial THE CO to the 23rd derick-stre £2Ol 23 I 1 .M 04 , dos the receipt ceipts for I 'The Palms the cost of street -esta baths fort and the re from the luxury of a clepartmen, hours, 4132 and the re grois receii BOLITII /note this Es, retn mad of light due reign trade t h's paid an ?ourited said that u , moved, m u not, be able ber of the .governmen AIT aisociat Meeting. meeting a• C°l'Ppany, and the su iuffieient tc FATAL A 65 years of steamer 1 1 . 1 g the sec Steward wa box ie re d his bacl SO f en t° i l ' naL.._ knocked-4; her head. girl was Qnabie to s tgulan,