The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

ARE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. _ . __ -- a. ..... a •ap. a 4 Al /\ AM A. • _ , _,_ ~, ~,„, „,,, ~,,,.,,, ,_..„..,x,r4,- NeeeeeeereepaeaseseeseeKeethe ...5.4,..,,,3`.. , . ~ .4 • FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ' N, \‘', was reduced to 300 f, by the Tednction of two-thirds of the POLITICAL MISCELLANY. A brigantine named the Despatch, laden with deals, and national debt by the law of th e 9th Vencle niaire, the work —.— bound to Clovelly, from P r i nce Ed war d' s Island was UNITED STATES. of the great financiere Carnhon, so much admired by M. It is odd enough that the meeting arliament is fixed driven ashore on Thursday at Lynny Head, on the Welsh The. British and North American mail steamer Cambria L dru Rollin, and for this sum o 300 f. he now receives, for the first day of February, for the despatch of busi- coast ; and four out of the five men who formed her crew ar r ived at. Liverpool on Wednesday. She left New York at end has continued to do so for several years past, an an- ness,—being the exact day that the repeal of the corn- were drowned, a s th e i r b oa t, t o w hi c h t h ey had betaken noon on the 6th instant. Th e c h o l era h a d ma d e i ts ap - nul l i ncome o f 30,000 f. (41,200) from the Tontine La- laws comes i nto operation. - themselves, was swamped among the breakers. pearance on hoard the packet New York from Havre on Large. On Tuesday evening a meeting of electors was held in A few days since, a baker living at Boston, in Lincoln her passage to - New York. She had been placed in qua- the Town Hall, Little Bolton, to afford an opportunity to shire, pulled up the floor of his warehouse, in order to de rantine. Out of eighteen cases fourteen were fatal ; it THE BISHOP OF CAPE TOWN AND THE KAFIR Sir Joshua WalmsleY to explain his political opinions to stroy the rats which infested the place ; an d t o hi s as t se , was centined, however, to the steerage passengers of that CHIEFS. the electors generally. nishment he discovered that the vermine had accumulated ship. The New York canals were to be closed on tht At an interview held lately between Sir Harry Smith A CHRISTMAS Box. — The reformers of Bradford have a winter's store of no less than six pe c k s o f p o t a t oes , came 9th instaet. Congress met on the 4th, and the Presi- and the chiefs of the Kafirs, his excellency, after other presented Mr. Roebuck with the pattern of a - coat, of true fully packed in rows, and mixed alternat e ly with earth. dent's Mesenee was sent in next day. It is very long, business had been transacted, said to them : blue, dyed in the wool, as a compensation for "his manly EVADING PAYMENT OF TOLL.—A respectable farmer. and contains hut little of Europ, an interest. The Post- " Here is the Bishop of Cape Town, who rode nineteen conduct in the House of Commons." A more suitable residing not a hundred miles from the t own o f C am b r id ge. master-General's Report. says nothing of postal arrange- miles yesterday on purpose to De at this meeting. He has gift could scarcely be offered to a seedy patriot. has recently introduced a neat band- car t, w hi c h can b e merits with Great Britain. He recommends a u n if orm b een sent out L y t h e goo d peop l e o f E ng l an d to teac h you The Gl o b e states that Mr. Talbot Baines, Q.C., is to used for various agricultural purposes. It was seen dur rate of domestic postage of five cents and of fifteen cents Cie religion of the Queen of England. This is the man succeed Mr. Buller as chairman of the Poor-law Board. ing the past week, heavily laden with wheat straw, and per eall ounce for foreign letters, the franking privileges that teaches me the way to salvation, and has come to see Mr. Baines is brother to Mr. Edward Baines, of the drawn by two of his sturdy labourers, to pass through the to be abolished. Official papers confirm the report of what he can do for you in teaching you the way to he Leeds Mercury, but has no sympathy in that gentleman's pike toll free, to the astonishment of the gate-keeper. discoveries of gold in California. Late accounts from Christi an s. Thi s i s th e grea t c hi e f o f t eac h ers , y e t s till ant i -e d ucat i on crotc h ets. A clergyman in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, having refused Porto Rico :represent that island to be in constant fear of a regards the smallest child and the meanest man, who is The Hon. E. H. Stanley was on Friday elected for baptism to the child of a schoolmaster, the case went the servile revolt. . good and is a Christian, with the same regard as the ' In- Lynn. The hon. gentleman was opposed by a Chartist run of the Church Courts, and ended in the baptism of kosi Inkulu.' He wishes to establish schools fo r th e e d u - name d Di xon ; b u t, at th e l ast moment, t h e l atter d ec li ne d the child. The scho olmaster then institut e d a civil an- INDIA. cation of your children. Can none of you assist any way ? to go to the poll, although the mayor announced the show tion : and, in absence, the Lord Ordinary found the de- The overland mail reached London on Tuesday. Can none give a calf or a little corn ? Shall your daugh- of hands in his favour. Mr. Stanley is at present travel- fendant liable to £5OO damages personally, and £l5OO in On the Ist there had been some sharp skirmishing he- ters go about naked, and lie about in idleness in the ling in America. conjunction with hi s Ki r k-S ess i on. I n the mean time, twixt Moolrej's men and ours. The brigades of Colonels b us h es , lik e ca l ves ? [Th e G overnor h ere a dd resse d hi m- T HE DAILY NEWS.—It is said that Mr. Bright, M.P., the clergyman has commenced a new suit against the Godby and Eckford, and the cav a lry u n d er Brigadier"- self to Jan Tzatzoe.] Have you nothin g t o s a y !—Y on an d t wo or th ree ot h er persons, h ave b oug h t t h e Daily schoolmaster' s w if e , f or non-atten d ance at church. General Cureton, have been ordered up from Ferozepore have been in England, seen the great world there, and News. Mr. George Wilson, the chairman of the late SUICIDIK OF A BOY.—A boy of the name of Keen, aged and pushed across the Ravt e just above Lahore. The you saw that no man there eats the bread of idleness? Anti-Corn-Law League, is to be manager in conjunction sixteen, committed self-murder by hanging on Tuesday. force musters in all 7,000 men with 24 guns-3,000 cavalry And yet, fool ! you dared to join with the Kafirs against with Mr. Dilcke, the present editor. The paper is to be It appears that he bad offered, on the previous day, some and 4,000 ittlanrry. Brigadier 'Wheeler was about to cress th e p ower o f th e Q ueen. H ave you anyt hi ng to say to made the full size of the London morning journals, and old iron for sale to a blacksmith, who, suspecting it to be about twenty miles higher up the river. The enemy the bishop for furtherance of education among your coon- the price is to be advanced from 31d. to sd, stol6, refused to buy it until he had seem, the boy's mas evactiated both the forts he was sent to capture, and they trymen ?" Many of our readers must remember that at the time of ter. The boy went in the morning as usual to tend his were accordingly occupied and destroyed by us. Troops Jan Tzatzoe.—" The bishop is a great and wise man. the absurd and insane expedition to Boulogne, the Times master's cows, and not coming home at the usual time have been seat up from Perez, pore to take the place of and the great chief has already remarked that lam a fool. sneered, jeered, and scoffed at Louis Napoleon, and set at night, his father went to seek him, and found him sus those advanced—the L a ho re garr i son rema i ns un t ouc h e d . H ow, t h ere f ore, can I give any advice upon this subject ? him ,down as a drivelling idiot; and upon the occasion of pended from a b eam i n t h e b arn.— W orcester Journal. The Jamoo contingent, despatched by Goolab Singh, But we certainly require teaching to remove our igno- this election the Times has all along ridiculed his preten- As in 1832, the cholera seems to be more malignant in under Colonel Steiebech, was moving on the Jhelum, ranee. The bishop will best know 'how to accomplish sions, until it became manifest that his success was cer- Dumfries than in any other part of Scotland. Perhaps the peculiar sanatory state of the town may account for about twenty miles north-west of the fort of Rhotas, this." min ; and then, hey ! presto ! the Times all at once pros some,lso mites from Peshawur, and about as much from The Governor.—" The bishop wishes to speak a few Crates itself before the rising sun, and discovers that Louis this. The river Nith runs through it on one side, and Lahore. We have at present nearly 28.000 troops within words." Napoleon is " a marvellous proper man." on the other, but at a greater distance, is the large swamp the territories of Dhuleep Singh, and shall, before this The Bishop.—" Chieftains, lam glad to meet you all The long promised consolidation of the Boards of Ex- Locher Moss ;whilst, worse than either, there is no water reaches England, have at least 36'.000 beyond the Satlej here this day. As the great chief has told you, I rode cise and Stamps and Taxes into one Board of Internal brought into the town except by c a rts. Th e disease is and Betas, with about 30,000 auxiliaries. Some 30,000 yesterday all the way from Graham's Town, that I might Revenue has just been completed ; though an act of Par- , said to be prevalent amongst others than the lower ranks, regulars are on our not th-west frontier. The total nuts- he present at this meeting, of which I only heard the day hament will be required to carry out the new arrangement. and many have deserted the place. The medical officer her of Sikh 'malcontents egaiest whom this vast army has before. I am, as you have been told, the bishop of the The Commissioners will be reduced from 12 to 7, though of the Board of Health has lett Edinbur g h fo r Dumfries. been caibti our, cannot, at time highest estimate, exceed English Church i n this part of the world—of that Church for the present, and till a vacancy occurs, there will be - 8. A prisoner in the Brixton House of Co.rection made a 33,000. Sciatic continues healthy and quiet. to which our Que en belongs, and I with now t o as s u r e It i s unnece s sary to observe Lunt money will be saved .by daring attempt. to escape lust Friday. Assisted by a Co ori el a r c ed el despatc the hed 16th from Secundera oo bad, under you of th e i n t eres t—th e d ee p interest 2 -which I lake in the Change- As S O O ll as the arrangements can be effected towe l , h e manage d to climb a spout, and got on to the ul, on October, to Glburgah, you and your condition, and tell you of my earnest desire there will be a very considerable diminution in the staffof h -one-A are-well . here Le t... nh.,,,..,,--1 1.... «L.. -.--- __ _I aeainst a body of Rohillee. with a r . • t• ~,.• • • • eheninee 1.;...h ~ ....;,‘f ... A .. .- .- _ _-- .----- -- A -_ __ __ _ my I • you an tination on the 28th, and immediately set about making preparations for attacking the fort. However, the rebels surrendered at discretion. Lord Dalhousie was expected at Behares on the 6,h, front which place his lordship was to proceed to Meerut and Urn hall. am ready to assist you in this good work, for I feel that by education your own peace and happiness will be greatly SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY'S' POLITICS.-Sir Joshua is, notwithstanding his affected refusal on Tuesday night to promise to vote for " the Charter," a thorough-going Chartist. Universal Suffrage—Vote by Ballot—Trien nial Parliaments—Electoral Districts,—there we have all here lie was observed by the officers, and was hemmed in. On the top of the wall are loose bricks; these he began to hurl at the turnkeys. As he refused to yield, a musket charged with powder only was fired several times; this had no effect in terrifying him ; so the musket was loaded with small shot, and the charge lndged in hic, o promoted. I am also most anxious to send amongst you ministers of God, who may teach you the way of life, and bring you to the knowledge of the true God, and Jesus the points of the Charter, but one (paid members) , and Sir Joshua considers them all " i n di s p ensa bl e ." True it is that there is also a rather irreconcilable declaration that he believes " a return to those constitutional rights of which time, apathy, and misrule have been permitted to deprive us, is the only means calculated to give stability to the throne, and peace a n d con t en t men t t o th e peop l e, " and which declaration will bear reading by the light of the highest Toryism. But Sir Joshua intends it for quite a different signification. He means to be a Chartist. He thinks as a Chartist—speaks as a Chartist—feels, and will act as a Chartist. And he goes further, for he adds the impossible penuriousness of Hume, the imprac ticabilities of Cobden, and the " retrenchment" folly of Bright, to the dangerous theories of the Charter.—Bol ton Chronicle. was carried to the ttrrnary THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THI way to promote your own happiness in this world, and in that which is to come, is by becoming Christians—by re ceiving as your Lord and your God that blessed Saviour • • • TiE HAUNTED • CHAMBER !—ln the house at Ham green belonging to Philip Miles, Esq., is an apartment which has long had the reputation of being haunted, — noises, &c., proceeding, as alleged, therefrom. It has been hitherto locked, but on Mr. Miles lately taking pos session the door was forced, and on exploring a secret recess in one corner, the ghost or ghosts (for there were two) appeared in the shape of two old boxes, which on being touched fell to pieces, and there emerged to the light two massive pieces of plate, videlicet, a solid silver candelabra and a salver of the same metal. Nobody knows anything about them.—Hereford Journal. GAS METER FOR THE HOUSES OF PARLIA.4ENT.— This machine, which is to be placed in the New Palace at WestmitArter, is an almost stupendous piece of mecha nism, being upwards of 10 feet in height and 20 feet in circumference or girth ; it is in form a hexagon, the de signs are in the Gothic manner, and in exact keeping with the interior of the new Houses of Parliament, so that it is an ornamental as well as a useful addition to them, and ought to be placed so as to be seen by the public. The machine weighs four tons, and is of capacity to pass 10,000 feet of gas per hour, and of supplying 2,000 lights with, according to calculation, the loss of only half a tenth of pressure ; at which pressure it will work with the greatest ease. THE PAST AND THE PRESENT.—If we can survey Europe and its mighty convulsions with an equanimity worthy the Red Indian, who moves not. a muscle whilst 3im in agony, it will scarc.dy be supposed ,at the small changes which occur from day to day at home can produce even an ordinary excitement in our severely schooled minds. A year ago friend Bright appeared on the hustings in the West-Riding of Yorkshire, and so vociferously cheered was the gentleman that you would have thought the spirit of Bedlam was moved to do the Quaker honour. He shows himself on the same place to day to be screamed at like a dog on a race-course. En gland has had its revolution, though not accompanied, thank God, with loss of blood, or life, or throne. We should like to see the man who would have had the pluck to oppose Mr. Richard Cobden in 1847, upon the ground that tree• trade, as carried on at prese n t, ma y b e no thi ng better than a delusion and a sham, and that protection, under given circumstances; is a principle founded in equity and reason. This was before our revolution; after it we have Air. Denison not only telling Radicals that he will stand no more free-trade till he can get something like reciprocity from our neighbours, but asserting downright Toryism with deafening acclamations. The West-Riding scared opposition in 1847, and won the election of Mr. Richard Cobden by a coup de main. _ In 1848, opposition not only [e passes A HOUSEKEEPING CLUB.—AU association of individuals, consisting chiefly of attorneys, clerks in government offi ces, professional men, officers on half-pay, &c., is now being formed in the metropolis, to obviate the necessity of purchasing articles of food or other domestic necessaries from shopkeepers. They propose to establish a common larder and store, managed by servants in a similar way to the large club houses, with a manager to purchase for the common stock at sales and wholesale houses, each member to be supplied at cost price. It is calculated that in addition to a pure and wholesome article, members will effect a saving of X5O per cent. (;) in household ex penses. Great numbers of persons have already joined this novel club. ..,spears, but carries everything before it. Mr. Denison won't cut off a single pension," he " won't vote against the Queen Dowager's £lOO,OOO ;" he "won't vote against the King of Hanover's pension." He is " not in favour of a more equalised system of taxation ;" he •` will not abolish Church-rates ;" he " will not vote for the abolition of the Navigation-laws ;" he " will not support a Bill for the Emancipation of the Jews ;" he " willpopose the endowment of the Romish clergy," on " the ground of the errors of their faith and doctrine ;" yet he is received with open arms, is the popular candi date, and what is more, whilst we write, is making his way as fast as he can, to the top of the poll, leaving a free-trade rival, and an out-and-out Liberal, hundreds or behind him.—John Bull. UNFOUNDED CHARGE.—Baron de Sanlier and Marie Delonie have been in custody, in London, on a charge of being possessed of about £4,000 worth of jewellery and other valuable property , which belonged to the Count de Ncuilly, when king. Amongst the articles were some valuable shawls, one of which was on the point of being sold for £5OO The prisoners declared that the property had been legally purchased in Paris. The case was ad journed, and the accused liberated on bail. On Satur day the case was again brought forward, when the whole charge was withdrawn, it having been satisfactorily shown that the articles, though resembling some formerly pos sessed by Louis Philippe,i were not his property. A custom-house-officer, however, seized all the goods as not -having pain attry. IMPORTANT TO MANUFACTURERS.—A case of much importance, as affecting the rights of individuals manu facturing peculiar articles, in cases where the same are not insured by patent right, was heard at the Wakefield County Court, on Thursday se'nnight. It appeared that Mr. Seal is a scythe and whetstone manufacturer, and had placed a libel upon his scythe-stones, similar to that used by Messrs. Woodwards, lessees of the Talacre Stone Quarries, Wales, thereby depreciating the price of the company's stones. A verdict for the plaintiff was found damages, £5 and costs. The judge considered this amount very slight, and gave leave for the plaintiffs to take out a new trial, which was accepted. A CHURCH STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.—A remarkable instance of escape from the storm occurred on Wednesday week. Pelynt Church, near Exeter, stands in the centre of its village green, and is almost surrounded by houses. At four o'clock a flood of rain drove the various labourers employed in the neighbourhood of the church within their dwellings, and in one instant the pinnacle of the church, on which was fixed the vane, was struck by lightning, and large masses of granite were violently projected in every direction. One mass struck the handle of the shovel that the labourer had that instant dropped. An other glanced by him as he was entering his door, and some idea may be formed of the danger to which the neighbours were exposed from the fact that one teas of granite, forming half the base of the pinnac'e, and weigh ing 7511 b., wag thrown against the wall of a cottage, while a part weighing 3016. just cleared the roof, and fell, at a distance of 276 feet, in an adjoining field. Another mass fell close to the national school, in which were sixty children, and broke through the wall of the garden. Another weighing 2471 b. fell in quite an opposite direc tion' at a distance of 247 f eet , p l oug hi ng up the ground, and bounding 50 feet from the place where it fell. THE NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.—The second public ex perimental exhibition of the new electric light took place on Tuesday night, upon the raised steps forming the entrance to the National Gallery and the Royal Acade my. There was a large attendance of scientific gentle men. Upon the summit of the steps a kind of easel was raised, beneath which were placed the battery and a small lamp. About A foot above the battery was the light pro duced burning upon two pieces of charcoal, backed by a single tin reflector, and the light enclosed within a glass case. The light produced was of a most powerful cha racter. The easel on which the machinery was suspended admitted of being turned about, and as its position was altered, objects within several hundred yards' distance were rendered as clearly visible as in the light of day, and persons at a considerable distance beyond the Nelson column were enabled to read a newspaper distinctly. The patentee stated that the light would be particularly appli cable for lighthouses, and added that the light then ex hibiting (the expense of which would not exceed a half penny an hour), if placed at an altitude with the reflector above it, would perfectly illuminate an area of ten miles in circumference, and that it would be possible b produce a light which w/Juld illuminate an area of 100 miles. EXTRAORDINARY ACCOUCIIEMENT.—Last Friday night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, as a man and his wife, vendors of salt, were on their way home, through Hanbury Forest-lane, the poor woman was taken in labour. There was no shelter near, the night was very inclement, rain falling in torrents, and in , these circumstances there was no other course left to the man than to lay his suffering wife by the road side, and to proceed two miles to Feckenham for surgical aid. Accordingly he hastened there, and returned with a surgeon, by whose assistance the poor woman was safely delivered about 1 o'clock. To add to the indescribable misery of the occurrence, the wretched mother had not a rag of clothing for her babe—thus born in the damp grass, with a tempestuous wintry sky for its only covering. It was between 9 and 10 o'clock the next morning before any nourishment was procured for the poor woman ; and, strange to say, no effort to remove her seems to have been made. A farmer in the neigh bourhood sent some straw for her to lie upon, and there she remained till a brook rising, four days afterwards, threatened to wash this miserable bed from under her ! This was the poor creature's first child, and she had once seen better days. After paying for medical assistance, the unfortunate couple were left with sixpence, their sole pecuniary resource.—Worcester Herald. SEVERE GALE AND Loss OF LIFE.—The effects of the heavy gale of wind on Friday have been very destructive to property in various parts of the city, and several narrow escapes appear to have been made by different parties from imminent danger by the fall of chimney-cans, &c. In West Register -street a large signboard fell with great violence upon the street, having been detached by the wind, and a boy who was passing at the time escaped most serious injury by a hairbreadth, the corner of the signboard having knocked off the heel of his shoe, without othe: wise hurting him. The debris of chimney cans, slates, and lime, which lay on the streets on Saturday morning, showed the destructive nature of the gale ; and in the High -street the night-watchman near the cross made a narrow escape from a chimney-can which fell at his feet. The destruction of window-glass is very extensive ; in almost every house exposed to the fury of the gale, nu merous panes were broken, and the cupolas and windows on the roofs of houses were so shattered and broken, that it was found efficult to obtain glaziers in the course of Saturday to replace them. In St. Bernard's-crescent two large trees were blown down, by one of which sixteen Panes of glass were broken, and the other having block aded the door of the house against which it fell, all com munication was prevented till some sawyers and labourers were procured to cut a passage through the branches. A young girl, between four and five years of age, while amusing herself in Rose-street, was instantaneously killed by the falling of a tile from the roof of one of the houses. — Edinburgh Post. BURNING THE BIBLE AT BIRMINGHAM Mr. Greaves has published the following additional REPU BLIC It appears that the Government, on being informed that a demonstration was intended on the occasion of the proclamation of Prince Louis, and that the latter would be saluted by the crowd with cries of Five 1' Empereur! resolved to anticipate his installation by some days. in order.to avoid a sanguinary collision, and the Prince him self gladly acquiesced in that determination. In - the National Assembly on Wednesday, M. Rous beau, Itzpoiter of the Committee, announced that M. 'Lillis Nap Aeon bad obtained 5.434,226 suff GET) Ca. aiznac -Rollin. M. L .dr M. Ravait M G n !al Changarnier Vw es lost 1,448,107 370,119 36,900 17,910 4,790 Cenral Cavaignac having then ascended the tribune, said, " 1 have the honour of informing the National As sembly that the Members of the Cabinet have just sent me their collective resignation, and I now come fo rwar d to surrender the powers with Ma it had invested me. You rill widerstand better than I can express the senti- Idence placed in me by the Assembly, and of its kindness for me, will leave in my heart." This short address was received with deafening cries of " Vive Pa 1?e - publique."' M. Marrast then rose and said,— " In the name of the French People. " Vihereas Citizen Charles Louis Napoleon Buona parte; born in Paris, possesses all the qualifications of eli gibility required by the 44th Article of the Constitution ; whereas the ballot gave him the absolute majority of suf frages for the Presidency : by virtue of the powers con ferred on the Assembly by the 47th and 48th Articles of the Constitution, I proclaim him President of the French Republic from this day, until the second Sunday of May, t l b B_s2_, a tiTd I now invit him to ascend the tribune and take required by the Constitution." NI. Louis Napoleon, who was seated near M. Odillon Barrot, then rose and advanced towards the tribune. He was dressed in black ; on his left breast was a crachat set with diamonds, and under his coat he wore the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour. Havinc , mounted the tribune, the President read to him the oath of fidelity to the Constitution, to which M. Louis Napoleon replied Je le jure. He then asked leave to address a few words to the Assembly. The suffrages of the nation, and his personal sentiments, be said, commanded his future con duct, and imposed upon him duties which he would ful- Al as a man, of honour. He would, tot as enemies of the country whoever should attempt to subvert the Con -stitution, and between him and the Assembly would exist the most perfect harmony of views. He would exert himself to place society on its real basis, and to relieve the sufferings of a people who had borne such generous and intelligent testimony. He would endeavour to restore to the Government the moral force of which it stood in need, and to maintain peace and order. He had called around him men distinguished for talent and patriotism, who, notwithstanding the differences of their political origin, would assist him in consolidating the new institu tions of the country. He then eulogized the becoming conduct and loyalty of which General Cavaignac had given so many and such signal proofs, and pledged himself strenuously to labour to accomplish the great mission of founding the Republic, without recurring to reactionary or utopian means, and, with the assistance of God, he trusted to achieve useful if not great things. This speech was received with unanimous cries of Vive la Republique.!" and M. Louis Buonaparte, hav ing descended from the tribune, went up to the seat of General Cavaignac, and cordially shook him by the hand. The new President was then met by M. Odillon Barrot and his friends of the Right, who escorted him out of the hall. M. Marrast next announced, that M. Odilon Barrot was charged with the construction of the new Cabinet, which would be communicated by a Message to the As sembly. FRANCE. On Wednesday evening the President of the National Assembly received the following message from the Pre s dnt of the Republic:— " M. le President—i request you to announce to the isTationil Assembly that, in conformity with Article Sixty four of the Constitution, I have by a decree of this day named— " M.-Odillon Barrot, Minister of Justice, charged with the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in the absence of the President of the Republic. " M. Drouyn de Lhuys, Minister of Foreign Affairs. " M.. Leon de Malleviile, Minister of the Interior. " M. Rulhieres, General of Division, Minister of War, " M. de Tracy, Minister of the Marine and Colonies. " Falloux, Minister of Public Instruction and Worship. " M. Leon Faucher, Minister of Public Works. " M. Bixio, Minister of Agriculture. " W. - Pussy (liippolite), Minister of Finances. " Accept, Monsieur le President, the assurance of my high consideration. Louis NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE " ODILLON BARROT." (Counter —The Great Western steamer, with the West Indian and Mexican mails, arrived at Southampton on Friday. She is the bearer of 37,313 dol lars, onaccount of the Mexican bondholders, and 2,000,000 dollars‘bn merchants' account. The news, both political and commercial is unimportant. Sugar, in Jamaica, was falling. At Barbadoes, the yellow fever had broken out among the troops. About one-third of the artillery, and a proportion of the 66th Regiment had fallen victims. At Jamaica, there was a good deal of sickness among the troops,. including those stationed at Newcastle and the lowlands, and many deaths had occurred. At Saint Lucia, also, sickness prevailed. Mrs. Darling, the wife of the governor, was one of the victims. Mexico was quiet, and trade a little better. AN INDIAN PRINCESS ABOUT TO VISIT QUEEN VIC *TORIA.—There are in New York two interesting young Indian girls, one of the Mohigan tribe, about twelve years of age; and the other a beautiful maiden of seventeen, a princess of the Chippewa tribe, with jet black hair, three feet long, who has arrived bete with a view of visiting England to pay her respects to Queen Victoria, whom she appears fully resolved to see before she returns to her =five place. —New York paper. The Pope is still at Gaeta, to which place it is under stood that the official correspondence of the Holy See is for the present to be addressed. Positively refusing to listen to the expostulations of the Provisional Govern ment at Rome, he hai named a commission to govern the country in his absence. The mandate is, of course, dis regarded ; and General Zucchi, the principal commis sioner, remains at Bel9gna, waiting till circumstances may put it in his power to march on Rome and restore the fugitive sovereign. THE KOH-I-NOOK.—This famous diamond (the largest and most precious in the world), forfeited by the treachery of the Sovereign at Lahore, and now under the security of British bayonets at the fortress of Govindghur, it is hoped will ere l ong , as one of the splendid trophies of our military valour, be brought to England, in attestation of the glory of ouCartris in India. The mischievous super stition attaching to the possession of this unique and invaluable diamond might be utterly crushed by this re tributive consignment. FRENCH SUPERSTITION.—It was generally understood that the fishing population of Boulogne had unanimously determined to vote for Cavaignac, but on the day before the voting a fisherman returned from his avocations, and proclaimed to his fellows that during the night he had seen in the firmament a huge letter " N," formed by a combination of stars. This, he alleged, was tantamount to a conimand from heaven to vote for Louis Napoleon ; and the entire body, moved by one common impulse, gave their suffrages accordingly to the fortunate Prince. LONGEVITY. — The following extraordinary case of Lon gevity is to be found in Paris Girard do Bury was born on the 17th of December, 1716, and has, conse quently, entered his 103 d year. He i s th e sen i or advo cate of France, and is in full possession of all his faculties. He placed 900 f. (X 36) in the Lafarge Savings Bank, which in whoa our hope. And now I will not keep you any longer ; but, I repeat, T shall be glad to be able to do you aLy good, and I hope you will tell me how I can do it." I RE Li 9 N D The names of all persons convicted of drunkenness are read every Sunday from the altars of the R oman Catholic The Grand Lodge of Orangemen in Ireland have re eently passed resolutions condemnato►y of the national system of education and of the Romish endowment scheme- The exurr, t' rish Pa pists have been holding meetings len. sympathy with the sufferings of the Pope, and r talk of " something practical" in the shape of contributions to " St. Peter's Fund," to aid his restoration to the Vatican. A SMALL RETURN.—The high sheriff of the Queen's County, who had a writ to execute for £33,000 aga i ns t _ the property of the Duke of Buckir has made a return of £4, the mon viously conveyed away to trustees SKIBBEILEEN UNlON.—There iq no possible safety for the union. On the 18th inst., the inmates in the main building and auxiliary houses were 4,500, and this after 1.500 having been discharged of those coming at all within the three classes mentioned in the Ist section of the late act ; and upon the outdoor relief there are, it is considered about 10,000. A tremendous crash must come, in which all interests and all classes must be swept away. I un derstand a sealed order from the commissioners was received on yesterday to reduce the number in the house to 2,500, and to give outdoor relief to the able-bodied. The consequence must be that the present board, which struggled with so much credit to itself during two years of unexampled pressure and difficulty, must dissolve, as no enort upon their part could even partially meet the difficulties which now exist. Only think of the rates struck within the year amounting to £32,000, while the tithe rent-charge and county cess amount to £15,000, on a union the yearly value of which at present is not £60,000. An unfortunate pauper on Saturday fell head foremost into a large boiler, in which stirabout was pre paring, and lingered a few hours in extreme agony. Two boys at one of the auxiliary houses were found dead on, Saturday morning, it is said by suffocation. The inspec tor has caused a post mortem examination, the result of which is not known.— Cork Examiner. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS, The Bishop of Exeter has " censured." the Rev. V. H. Somerset, of Honiton, for allowing a meeting of the Church Missionary Society to be held in his church. The room in which it was intended to hold the meeting proved too small for the numbers who attended, and therefore the people adjourned to the church, The Rev. t H. Hawker, of Devonport. in a strongly written letter of remonstrance to the Bishop of Eyptpr complaining of a reproachful allusion by his Lordship to the reverend gentleman's father, thus concludes " There is, however, one hope left for us—the see of Rome is now vacant and you have my earnest wishes for a speedy translation." YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.—On Tues day last, Exeter Hall was again filled by a deeply inter esting audience, composed mainly of young men, to hear a lecture by the Rev. Canon Stowell, of Manchester, on the subject of " Modern Infidel Philosophy," who gave a most powerful exposition of the various aspects in which Infidel philosophy is presented in the present day, and concluded by an affecting appeal to the young men to test and prove the truth of the Word of God by the commis sion of the will and of the heart to its gracious and vivi fying truth. THE NATIONAL SOCIETY AND THE PRIVY COUNCIL. —Will it is believed, after all that has been said, that even the appellate jurisdiction which is laid down in the extract is confined to questions of appeal not relating solely to religious instruction. In religious questions the Bishop of the Diocese is sole arbiter. We have been in formed that the Archbishops of the two Provinces have expressed their entire concurrence in the management clauses as they stand. Without professing any special confidence in the Government, we feel relieved by the as surance that the highest ecclesiastical authorities find it possible to act in concert. NEW PARISHES CREATED UNDER SIR ROBERT PEEL'S ACT.—Some persons, says the Manchester Cott rier, having found it convenient to doubt that the right to solemnize marriages between parties residing in such new parishes belongs exclusively to the respective incum bents, the subject was laid before the Ecclesiastical Com missioners, who replied " that im me di a t e ly upon t h e con secration of a new church approved by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, within a district constituted under the act 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 37, it becomes und er th e 15th section a new pa r i s h hurch for all ecclesiastical pur poses, to the entire exclusion of the incumbent of the original parish or parishes out of which it was taken ; which parishes, in fact, stand for le ga l p urposes i n no other relation to it or its inhabitants than any other neighbouring or distant parishes." ALIENATED TITHES.—A petition to both Houses of Parliament, for restoration of alienated tithes, has been numerously signed in order to be presented during the ensuing session, By a report made to Parliament, in 1834, it is shown that the tithes of seven hundred parishes are held by deans and chapters of cathedrals. It was de cided, so late as the reign of Charles 11., that the bishop might compel the holder of the great tithes to restore a part or the whole, according to the need of the narish— (as parochial tithes were only held by monasteries and chapters on this condition) ; and that the lessee who held for lives came in subject to the same charge ; and, if it be said that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have now the management of the deans' and chapters' revenue, it remains for Parliament to call on them to concede to the parishes their undoubted right as having a claim prior to that of distant places however populous, or universities however learned and deserving. NEW DISTRICT CHURCHES. We gave a fortnight since a report of a meeting held at Etruria, Staffordshire, for the purpose of effecting a separation as regards f ees , &c., of all district churchs, erected under Sir Robert Peel's Act. The chairman, Mr. Adderley, member for North Staffordshire, appears to have mentioned the main subject that cauld be raised in opposition to the proposed measure, namely, the necessity for compensating incum bents of parish churches for the loss they would sustain in the deprivation of a large proportion of the fees they now enjoy. Mr. Wade met the matter boldly at once by declaring that such loss must be sustained, on the ground that the extensive wrong endured by the districts was greater matter to be thought of than the minor right of the parish ; in other words, that an acknowledged evil should gain no immunity because of its lengthened existence. In principle Mr. Wade may be correct ; in practice the objection alluded to by the chairman will have to be fairly provided for. At present the parish incumbent has a valuable interest in all the fees ; but it does not follow that his successor should have such interest. In the mean time, however, the fact must be carefully thought of, and a plan suggested for meeting the difficulty when it is raised in a proper quarter. The prime movers in this important question are naturally anxious not to be consi dered " innovators ;" and they will not, we should ima gine, tolerate the introduction of a change which can be proved injurious to any person. The Rev. St. John Mildmay, rector of Chelmsford, has refused to bury within the church walls, deeming the prac tice dangerous to the public health. This entails a great pecuniary loss to the rev. gentleman, as almost all the wealthy families in the district have vaults underneath the church. ROBBING LIBRARIES AT OXFORD.-011 Tuesday, Mr. Andrew Belany, described as an undergraduate of :St. Peter's College, Cambridge, underwent an examination at Oxford, on a charge of having stolen 59 vols. of various books from the University Union Reading Rooms, to which he had access, through the recommendation of a friend. The prisoner had been fully committed on a previous charge of stealing books from the shop of Jr.l Blotter, bookseller, of the High-street, Oxford. TO THE EDITOR OF ARIS E S GAZETTE " Sir,—lt is with much regret that I am obliged again to come before the public on the subject of the Testament which was burnt in London 'Prentice-street, in this town, by the Rev. W. Molloy, a priest of the Church of Rome, but the cause of truth demands it of me. It is stated in the apology put forth by that rev. gentleman and his coadjutors, ' that the act was regretted afterwards by the clergyman by whom it was done, and strongly dis approved of by his brother clergy as soon as known,' and that it was under the excitement of the moment that the act, which it is not attempted to justify, was done.' " Now, Sir. I ask you, and I ask the public, are these statements consistent with the following facts :—The Testament was burnt on Thursday, Nov. 16, about two o'clock, p.m., and it was not till the following Saturday, about mid-day, that I had any conversation with the priest on the subject. " Being in London Prentice-street on the Saturday, Mr. Molloy sent for me to the house where he had burnt the Testament, to ask if I supposed that the woman to whose daughter t:ie book had been given was a Protestant, because he had heard that I had visited her the day before. It was upon that occasion that I enquired of him whether or not he had burnt the Testament ; he told me that he had, and would burn every Bible or tract he found in the houses of his people. I warned him that I should make his words public, and he told me I was perfectly welcome to do so. I further remember saying that I had often been told that I had unjustly charged the Romish priests with denying the Bible to their people, and his reply was to this effect—' You have stated the truth, and are per fectly welcome to state it when you will ; you are further ing our objects in doing so.' There are several other points in the apology on which 1 should much like to dwell, but I think it best simply to state facts, and leave the public to judge for themselves whether the apology that this act was done in the excitement of the moment can apply to Mr. Molloy, who, atter the reflection of two days, threatened to repeat the act again and again. " I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, "JOSHUA GREAVES. " Incumbent of St. Peter's, Birmingham. " December 14, 1848." General Ottsrellanv. A cattle guage, to ascertain the weight of a beast by its bulk, has been invented by a gentleman of Newcastle-on- Tyne. _ _ The coal trade is in such a depressed state that there are now about 250 ships laid up in the Wear, and ships can only be sold at prices that are ruinous to their owners. A respectable old lady named Morris, ninety years of age, was burnt to death on Thursday at Leominster through her clothes becoming ignited whilst she was seated at the fire. Mr. M'Can, a principal steward on the railway line at Bawntard, near Kilmallock, was shot on Saturday night by some of the workmen, whom he had displeased, and died the next morning. WYNYARD PARK.--This magnificent residence of the Marquis of Londonderry has recently been lighted with gas, complete works having been erected within half a mile of the hall. The Diamond Steam Packet Company have been sued by a party for personal damages from a collision with one of their steamers near Gravesend, and the verdict against them is for £9OO. The Emperor of itussia has presented to Sir W. Snow Harris. F.R.S., a msgnificent ring, richly set in diamonds, and further embellished with the Imperial cypher as a mark of his Majesty's high sense of the value of Sir W. Harris's scientific labours. At a public-house, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, last week, two fellows named Christie and Dawson, began drinking rum for a wager, to see which would be drunk first. They had nearly finished the second bottle, when Christie fell insensible. He died the following morning. During the storm which visited Scotland, on Friday, one of the luggage trains of the Scottish Central Railway had to stop, near Blackford, in consequence of the high wind tearing off the canvass coverings, and scattering the goods along the line. A seizure of sweets, or bonbons, was lately made in the market of Montrose, which on examination were found to contain forty-five per cent. of flour, eighteen of plaster of Paris, and only thirty-six of sugar. The whole stock was thrown into the river, and the confectioner is to be further punished. FREE TRADE IN CORN.—About 20 French vessels laden with corn have arrived in this port during the week. Before the repeal of the corn laws, the average arrival here of French vessels was not more than 25 in the course of the pear; but within the last two months alone the arrivals have exec tided 50.—Gloucester Journal. A numerous meeting of noblemen and gentlemen took place in the Shire Hall, Stafford, on Friday week, to form a branch of the Colonization Society. The chairman wrs Lord Harrowby, and among those present were the Bishop of Lichfield, Lord Ingestre, Hon. E. R. Little ton, &c. On Wednesday last the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners appointed a vessel for the conveyance of two hundred military emigrants, out-pensioners of Chel sea Hospital. their wives and families, to Auckland, in New Zealand. The men will embark at Gravesend on the 15th of February next, under the,command of an officer. 41 orai -~- On Wednesday Wm. Clarke, a seaman, was going on board his vessel, lying in the King's Dock, when he fell into the dock and was drowned. On Tuesday se'nnight Alexander Thompson fell from the mast-head of a ship lying in one of the north docks, and received such injuries as to cause his death about a week afterwards. BIRKENHEAD HOTEL AND FERRY.—On Thursday this property was offered by auction to be let for a term of 14 years from March next. £lOO a-year was bid, but there being no advance the auction was withdrawn, Mr. Win stanley not stating what was the reserve bid. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, the bankruptcy commissioner, sat for the last time here on Tuesday. His successor is Mr. Stevenson, of Bristol, who is expected to commence his duties here about the middle of January. Mr. Perry will take the whole of the business at present. On Tuesday the examination of the children of the South Schools took place; and both boys and girls ac quitted themselves with great credit, and ;o the entire satisfaction of the committee and visitors. They were subsequently addressed in an affectionate and impressive manner by Mr. J. A. Tobin and the Rev. C. W. Law rence, after which rewards for good conduct were distri buted. A SHIP ON FIRE IN THE ALBERT DOCK.—OR Wed nesday a tire broke out in the ship Masconomo, lying in the Albert Dock. The flames issued from the forecastle, but the vessel being got out into the dock basin, and the fire-engines brought into operation, the flames were ex tinguished in a short time. Part of the forecastle and a quantity of sailors' clothes were destroyed. During the fire, two persons were seriously injured by falling down near the dock bridge. Captain Knight, commander of the New York packet ship New World, who. with his officers and crew, ren dered such essential service on the occasion of the loss of the Ocean Monarch, has refused the gold medal which was awarded to him by the committee of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, as he .had previously done in Am. rica when offered a similar testimonial by the Massachusetts Humane Society, feeling conscientious objections to the reception of any testimonial involving the outlay of funds of a charitable institution. The com mittee of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society have resolved that the silver medal of the society should be presented to Mr. W. E. Baahlam, third mate of the New World, and senior officer in charge of the boats; £5 to the boatswain ; and £3 each to seven of the eight. men that manned the boats, the eighth man (Jerome) haying been already rewarded by this 'society. INQUESTS ON SATURDAY.—On the body of Isaac Cunningham, a child three years of age, residing in a court ho was sea appliances, death was the consequence, on Saturday morn ing. —On view of the body of Thomas Hanley, a middle aged man, who died at the Infirmary on Saturday morn ing. Deceased fell from a coal cart in a coal yard in Crown -street, on the previous day, and received mortal injuries. —On the bodjof Joseph Jackson, aged 38, who resided in Back Leeds-street. On Saturday night week, decea.ed fell in the street, and was much injured. On th e e following Sunday and Monday he went to his work, but died on Saturday.—On the body of a child named Fairelough, whose clothes cought fire while he was reach ing an apple from a table, and was so much injured that he died. PATENT RAPID WATER PURIFIER.—We have on several occasions prognosticated that the Patent Rapid Water Purifier would be found in almost every house ; and this prognostication is in a fair way to be realized : for, notwithstanding the very recent date of its introduc tion into this town by Mr. James Foster, of South John street, some hundreds of them have already been fitted up, with one universal result—general satisfaction ; in deed, we can speak from our own experience of their great utility ; and, at this time, when we are threatened with that most fearful of all disorders, the cholera, and when it is a well-known fact, that nothing tends so soon to disorder the bowels as impure water, we feel it our duty to urge this admirable invention on the notice of our readers, for the cost is so small, that there are few to whom the expense could be any object. But as every one is the best judge of their own requirements, we would. advise a call at the office of the Proprietor, and parties can examine into its merits for themselves. " OBTUSENESS " OF MR. JAMES, THE BARRISTER.— In the course of the mining case, tried by Mr. Justice Erie on Wednesday, a number of old and not over brilliant witnesses were examined to prove the extent and mode of working the mine. The following dialogue took place between one of them and Mr. James—the barrister en gaged by the prisoner :—Mr. James : " Now, you say you worked at the mine ?"—Witness : " Ees, sir. '—Mr. James : " How did you work ?"—Witness : " Why, it wos woorked oop and down, you 'no,—this way, that way, t'other way, foot-ridden way,—dang it, every way." (Loud laughter.) Mr. James: -" I must confess I don't understand you."—Witness : "I think I spoke plain enuf." (Great laughter.) Mr. James : "No doubt you did, but the stupidity is on my side, not on yours." —Witness :—" That's it. You are quoit stupid. (Roars of laughter.) You conna understand English !" (Con tinued laughter.) The Judge :—" It we had been in the habit of working in mines, doubtless your language w:Juld he perfectly intelligible, but, as it is, we cannot under stand you !"—Witness : " Well ! I canna' spake ony plainer. Mum Ent if rvt r I nerd /melt at upid peuptc, cirlre I left pit."—Some further attempts were made by the learned counsel to obtain a more definite answer to the question, but it was •` no go," and the witness was at length told to leave the box, which he did apparently with a still stronger conviction than before of the natural and irremediable obtuseness of Judge, jury, counsel, and au ditory. AURORA BOREALIS.—We have been favoured with the following accurate description of this strange phenome non, as observed on Sunday night week. The aurora com menced about half-past seven o'clock, and continued until midnight. Early in the night from the west, all round northerly. to an opposite point in the eastern horizon, a bank of clouds in separate masses covered the sky to a height of about 20 degrees, from which the light pro ceeded upwards in fitful flashes. A cloud of smaller di mensions, at the western extremity of the illuminated part of the hemisphere, and about 40 degrees above the horizon, appeared to collect the electricity that passed laterally from the other clouds to it,—and from whence it flashed in waves of considerable intensity towards a point nearly northwest—the waves of light often emerg ing from the upper margin of the cloud, and proceeding upwards to the zenith about eight degrees or so, the flashes then appeared as if suddenly arrested by an op posing force that turned the stream of light in a kind of parbolic curve. The velocity of the waves, or pulsations of light, were too rapid for the eye to follow. The pheno menon bore a close resemblance to what I have seen during a snow storm in a mountainous district, where clouds of drift are driven fiercely through a mountain gorge, and are suddenly changed in their onward career, at the flank of the mountain, by a more powerful opposing current of wind ; but still hurrying them on with increased impetuosity down he valley. The surface of the sky under the arc and bank of clouds was filled up with patches of aurora in short fleecy streams, but with an occasional stream of light shooting upwards to the zenith. Portions of the aurora were cf a reddish tinge. The general surface of the sky, except where the aurora appeared, was quite clear; and at a to 11 o'clock the sight was beautiful. The wind was due south, and blew pretty strong in gusts. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. James Robinson, broker, Dexter-street, was sent to gaol for seven days, and had his license revoked, for buy ing two foot-scrapers for a shilling cgibch had been stolen from the doors of different houses. CAUTION TO PAWNBROKERS.—On Tuesday, a pawn broker, named Moss was ordered to pay £5 to Catherine Madison, at the Police-office, the value of a mahogany chest of drawers. He had had the drawers seven years in pawn for 305., and the pledger paid him 6s. 4d. a year for the accommodation ; but when she came to release her drawers he offered an inferior set, and attempted to defraud her by substituting one label for another on the goods. PERSONATION or SEX.—A young man, named Michael Pearson, was brought up at the Police-court. on Tuesday, in custody, charged by Margaret Evans, of _Renshaw- street, with putting her in great bodily tear. It appeared that the prisoner, who is a young man. from Devonshire, had applied at-the prosecutrix's house for lodgings, dressed in widow's weeds. She furnished him with a bed, but doubting the voice to be that of a man, she sat up all night in great fear, and in the morning gave the prisoner into custody. No wrong having been done beyond personal fear, the transmuted widow was discharged. CHARGE OF DEFRAUDING A FIRE INSURANCE COM PANY.—On Friday, at the Police-court, a man named Demain, a paper-ruler, was charged with arson, with a view to defraud the Yorkshire Fire and Life Insurance Company. It appeared that on the Gth of last month, a fire took place on. the prisoner's premises in Swift's Court, Castle-street, and that some disclosures had been made by the prisoner to the effect, that it was said that he, by means of a wire communicating with some sand-paper and lucifer matches, bad produced the ignition. The case was involved in considerable mystery. The prisoner was remanded until to-morrow, Wednesday. Mr. R ushton considered the case of too serious a nature to accept of bail, for the prisoner's appearance, and he was consequently locked up. ROBBERY OF TEA.—John Duffey, a porter in the em ploy of the London and North Western Railway Com pany, was charged, on Thursday, with stealing a quantity of tea. In consequence of several robberies of tea from the railway terminus, at Wapping, search was made in the dwellings of the men' employed in the yard. On Wed nesday. officer Marks went to the shop of the prisoner in Crosbie-street, andafter entering one of the rooms by the window—not being able to gain an entrance by the door — he found a small tin box filled with tea. The article pro duced was of the same kind as that lost by Messrs. Peak Brothers and Winch. The prisoner, it appeared, had weighed the tea on its arrival in the yard, and had after wards trucked,it to another part of the premises. In try ing to account for the tea, he said he had purchased it in Park-lane, but this turned out to be untrue. He was committed for trial, SINGULAR CHAR'. OR FRAUD.—On Tuesday, a t a ll respectable-looking man. named Timothy O'Callighan Horgan, was placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with defrauding seve ra l i n di v id ua l s . The first charge b roug h t forward w a s th a t he had by false pretences obtained £6O from Thos Smith, whom he had engaged as clerk, cash keeper, general agent, &c., to the Carrigaully Mills, near Cork. Mr. Smith said he had come to know the priso ner through an advertisement in the Mercury, in which the applicants were directed to call on him at the Talbot Hotel. Witness called there, and after a day or two's ne gociation prisoner appointed him to the situation, and he paid prisoner £6O as security. Witness was to go to Dub- Dec. 26, 1845. lin on Fridry night, but, on going too see prisoner, he found he had gone to reside at the Commercial Hotel, where the waiter told him, he (prisoner) was probably' a swindler. Mr. A. B. Walker said he had advertised for a situation in the Mercury on the Bth instant, and received a note from the prisoner, who offered him a situation at_ the mill before mentioned. Prisoner finally offered the situation at a salary of £l4O. Witness gave him twa promissory notes as security. Prisoner asked him for a loan of £45. This aroused the witness's suspicions. Prisoner said he had £4,500 on some life policies, and re quested witness to take a letter on the subject to the post-office, which he handed to him. Witness took the letter, but opened it when he got out, and 'founil it con- tamed only a' blank sheet of paper. Another witness said he had been imposed upon in a similar way, and it came out that there were no such mills as those named. Mr. Beswirk, of the Manchester police, identified the pri soner, as having been concerned in similar practices there. Prisoner (who boasted that he had received 160 replies to advertisement) was remanded. iNst nrt jartus, On Tuesday, Mr. Thomas Geddes, solicitor, was elected clerk to the Warrington Guardians by a majority of seven. C. R. Jackson, Esq., of Barton Lodge, has presented £lOO to the fund tor providing a poor man's aisle at the Parish Church, Preston. The Prince of Parma and his lady visited Manchester on, Thursday. They were the guests of Lord de Tabley, having previously been staying at the residence of Sir W M. Stanley. On Wednesd ay a special meeting of the Chester Town Council proceeded to the palace, and presented a congra tulatory address to Dr. Graham. the newly-appointed bishop. The fourth and fifth stories of the premises of Mr. Clayton, engineer and boiler maker, at Preston . , - known as the Soho Foundry, were destroyed by fire, on Monday evening last. The damage is estimated at £lO,OOO. The large of Messrs. Hineksman and Fur ness, in River-street, Preston, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning last. The damage is estimated at from £lO,OOO to £15.000. The Art-Union states that the collection of paintings bequeathed by the late Frank Hall Standish, Esq., of Duxbury Park, in this county, to Louis Philippe, is to be withdrawn from the Louvre Gallery, and sent to London /. Sir John and Lady Gerard intend to give a magnificent banquet and ball at St. Helen's, near this town, early in the ensuing month, on a very extended scale, to 400 of the nobility of Lancashire. The Town-hall and Market be converted into saloons for the purposes of rreston Loan ociety, has, by means of adding tigurez...r his book to sums l en t, an d inserting sums as lent whic h were never lent at all, defrauded the society of £s oo ► with which he has got clear off to America. He was a professed teetotaller, and an " ardent" chartist The r gister of electors f or th e sou th ern di v ision of this county, for the year 1847-8 included 23.081 names; that for the present year, 1848-9, contains 22,235, being 846 fewer than last year. The register for the northern divi sion, for the year 1847-8, contained 11,619 names ; that for the present year, 1848-9, contains 11,318; being 301 fewer than last year. The annual Mess Dinner of the Officers of the King's Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry, took place at the Royal George Hot e l, K nu t s f or d , on the 15th instant, on w hich Occasion a m os t magn ifi cent p i ece of plate was pres ented by the Offi cers t o th e i r l ate Commandant, Colonel Eger ton. The pl a t e cons i ste d o f an exceedingly h an dsome and massive sil ver can d e l a b rum. MANSLAUGHTER AG AINST A W IFE. —O n Th u rsday. at Menai Brid ge , an i nquest was h eld on view o f th e body of Owen Parry, aged about thirty-fi ve , pilot of the Cam • • • brie steamer (Hunter, master.) lt'aPpeared that de ceased and his wife quarrelled in their own house on the night of Bangor Ferry fair, (14th ultimo,) and that the woman, in the heat of passion, struck him a blow on the he jury was manslaughter against the wire OF MANCHESTER.--A meeting of the sharehol ders of the Bank of Manchester was held on Monday, at which the proposition to recommence the bank under the advantage of th e o ld c h arter was di scussed, an d d ec ided in the negative. It wa s d e t erm i ne d i mmed i ate l y to pay e ight shillings ner share of a return expected to amount in the whole to fifteen shillings ; and it was also proposed to paY immediately fifteen shillings to trustees for any shares held by them. ANTIQUITIES AT CHESTER.—A subterranean passage at Chester has been discovered, passing under two of the principal streets : this is hewn out of the solid rock ana sandstone, and it is just wide enough to allow one peon to go along, ,with wider pares at intervals, used, n o doubt, as passing prices- This passage has been opened before, and it appears its internal dimensions are 16 feet high by 5 feet wide, and it is divided by planks into a double road way, one above the other, each eight feet high. Ti is subterraneous passage has never yet been explored. Its object has been, there is no doubt, either for defence or religious purposes. THE JENNY LIND CONCERTS AT MANCHESTER. — Th a total receipts of these two concerts at which the Swedish Nightingale" sang gratuitously for a new wing to the Manchester Infirmary were £2877. The expenses were not quite £4OO, so that nearly £2500 remain to realize that The seconii concert was given in the great Free-trade Hall on Thursday. and the Man clvster Courier thus describes the enthusiasm at the con clusion :—" The concert concluded with the National Anthem, Jenny Lind (who, by the way, articulates English very well) and Signori Belletti and Lablache_ talking the solo parts, and the Madrigal Society (and audience) the chorus. This finished, the audience (as if they had had their feeling pent up since the demonstrations at the commencement of the concert) burst forth with all the vociferation of earnest enthusiasm, until the applause was worked up into a perfect furore. Jenny departed, and was recalled, and we thought that there never would have been an end to the `last words.' Even after three or four grand volleys had been discharged some straggling shots were fired, until a faint ' one cheer more' died away in the hall's vast space. Thus were expressed the Manchester people's admiration of true genius, and their gratitude for the generosity of one who has laboured for them in the cause of charity. In their applause Jenny Lind heard the thanks and blessings of the Poor. Tbrics blessed is the creature who is thus blessed." TARVIN HALL SCHOOL. The Public Examination, Speeches, and performance of Sacred Music, in connexion with the ahove Institution, took place on Monday last. The attendance was highly respectable, and the most marked interest was taken in all the proceedings. Amongst those present we n oticed the Rev. Chancellor Raikes, the Rev. G. R. Moncrieff„ Rector of Tattenhall, W. P. Hutton, St. Bridget's, Ches ter, J, W. Hill, Waverton ; H. S. Joseph, Chaplain of Chester Castle, &c. Letters had been received from many clergymen and gentlemen in the county, expressing their interest in the welfare of the institution, and re gretting their inability to be present on the occasion. Amongst others, from the Lord Bishop of the Diocese; Sir Edward Walker, Mayor of Chester • Sir Philip Eger ton, M.P. ; G. Greenall, Esq., M.P., *alton Hall, War rington ; J. Duncuft, M.P., who for some time has had sons at the school. The Bishop said in his letter,—" On Sunday last, when I was at Tarvin, I was very much gra tified by the appearance and behaviour of your scholars." They h'ad had the honour to submit to the Bishop the ex amination papers for the pr, sent year; of which his Lord ship thus speaks,—" The printed examination rapers for the present year, which you kindly sent me, intiniate a very extensive range of attainment in the various branches of instruction. The mathematical examinat ion, in parti cular, very much exceeds what is usualiy included in the He senior which rh a pi l c s uh o p i b lt e sh e et n h a ha s ti g s u dh r ae e ys d s. Rev. J. R. Moncrieff, himself a first class w bc u oy e b u r i tr e h e s c l ee i t i soßg of hadellav; s pct been handled of the Diocese, and by the man, that they w th ail e y he failed to receive from all present their appro e accuracy with which the lowest forms had An wered the questions proposed to them. The First Class was examined in the following subjects :—Homer, the Orestes of Euripides, the Greek Testament, the Satires of Horace, and.the Satires of Juvenal ; Butler's Analogy, Paley's Horse Paulinte, Watt's Scripture History, New ton's Principia, the Integral and Differential Calculus, Mechanics, Conic Settiors, Trigonometry, Euclid, Algi bra, and Arithmetic.—The boys who distinguished them selves in these subjects were Sprague, Long, Utterson, C. Macartney, Broome, D. Shaw, and Arthur Thomas. val of tl: RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The Extension Railway from Lincoln to Hull was opened for general traffic on Monday. Mr. Hudson is about to take in hand the entire com pletion of the docks at the Tyne, which will give to the York, Newcastle, and Berwick, a perfect water terminus. The calls for January amount. to £2,587,225, being about a million and a quarter more than for the present month CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ended the 16th instant :—Coaching traffic, £BBl lls. ; parcels, £6O 9s: 7d. ; goods and cattle, £lB6 4s. 3d. • steam-boats, £lO7 Gs. 4d. ; —t o t a l, £1235 lls. 2d. A man named Rawson, a frame-work knitter, was killed last week by a train on the Midland Railway, near the Wingfield station. It is supposed that he had placed himself on the rails on purpose. GILLARD V. THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAIL WAY COMPANY.—On Thursday, was tried this action, brought in the Court of Exchequer, by Mrs. Gillard ; to recover compens a ti on a t t h e h an d s of the defendants, for the injury sustained by her through the death of her husband, brought about as alleged, by the negligence of the company's servants. under circumstances well known in Manchester. The plaintiff's husband was in the ser vice of the Electric Telegraph Company, at Leeds, and was killed at the Sowerby-bridge Station, on the 16th of September, in consequence of there being no break on the last carriage of the train he was in. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £750. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—On Monday the mail train upon the Newcastle and Berwi was proceeding niirth, and when near to Cr ,ton sta in their tion, a party of horned owls, being di_ roost, by the noise; made a furious attack upon the en gine and those in charge of it. 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