The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

FuREIGN AND COLONIAL An interesting proof of the mildness of Madeira is, that swallows do not migrate from the island. Sarah Gale, who was transported for her connexion with the Gr«-enacre murder, is now keeping a fashionable confectioner's shop at Sydney. Marshal Bugeaud's troops have been again smoking the Arabs to death. In the last week in November they burnt and baked not fewer than 100 in a cave. Cape of Good Hope papers just received state, that the discovery of the guano islands had, in the shape of licences for vessels making shipments, yielded £28,705. A num ber of vessels were still in the neighbourhood of Saldanha Bay waiting for cargoes. There are 208 " backs," 250 cabs, and 239 omnibuses in New York • making in all 697 public conveyances in that city. All the omnibuses are the property of six firms; 64 being in the hands of one firm, and the mini- mum number of 20 in those of another. ALEXANDRIA.—The English Protestant Church is pro gressing very fast, but the works are likely.soon to be stopped for want of funds. The amount already sub scribed, including £5OO given by her Majesty's Govern ment, will fall short of the architect's estimate ; con sidering the great number of English Protestants who now pass through Egypt, a place of worship is essentially ne cessary. The Siamese twins are no longer singular—they are now matched, and a quadruple alliance might be easily formed by their junction with the prodigies now in Paris. The phenomena consists of two girls, enjoying perfect health, of the age of three months, and soldered together through the greater extent of their bodies. They were born on the 6th of August, and were baptised in the names of Philo- mene and He The Frankfort Journal states that the differences be tween Russia and Rome have been settled. Russia will not seek to coerce Romanisti to conform to the Greek Church, while Rome engages to watch that Romanists shall not take part in political movements against the state. This settlement is attributed to the conciliatory interference of Austria. The Paris papers of Sunday contain the details of an attempt of " the students" on the preceding day to bring themselves into notoriet;, rapairing, to the number of 1,200 or 1,500, to the house of M. Quinet, Professor of the College of France, to compliment him for his anti- Jesuitical principles. 'They iniended afterwards giving a charivari to the Minister of Public Instruction for pre suming to suspend M. Quinet for his refusal to suppress a notice that he would in his lectures introduce matters dispersed jells de vile, who captured fourteen of them FRANKFORT. Nov. 27.—The German Diet will meet immediately after the new year. The Prussian Ambas sador, Count von Donhoff, will preside, as Count von Munch-Bellinghaustn will remain for some time longerin Vienna. Among the questions for discussion in the Diet, that of the religious movement is not the least important. It his now become so important, in a political point of view, that a serious consideration of it has been indispen sable, and the way is already prepared for it. The Ger man Catholics find support here in the circumstance that a number of respectable Roman Catholic families have declared in favour of the efforts to bring about a reform made by the clergy who hold the opinions of Wessenberg. Hambu'ph Paper. DESTRUCTION OF A SYNAGOGUE.—The 'Jewish syna gogue at Avignon was destroyed by fire on the night of the 24th November. The conflagration originated acci- dentally in a cellar occupied by a vender of provisions : it lasted until the next day at noon, and the walls alone were left standing. The material loss was estimated at 55,000 francs ; namely, 34.000 francs for the building and wainscoting, and 21,000 francs for the curtain and the ark (make of silk. gold, and silver), the ark itself. the chandeliers or lustres. and the sacred books, some of which were very old. This last loss was more seriously felt by the Israelite community than all the rest. The collection of the Sepherem, or books of the law, was composed of forty-two parchment rolls, and considered one of the richest in the world. The temple, one of the finest in France, bad been rebuilt and enlarged 30 y ears bekre the revolution of 1789. _ —The packet-ship Hottinguer, arrived on Sunday with New York advises to the 21st ult., the news is not important. The auxiliary-steamer Massachusetts, Capt. White, arrived at Hohne's Hole, near New York, on the 19th ult. The cause of her very prolonged voyage of twenty-eight days we have been unable to learn. We presume that either her screw had been damaged or that she ran short of coal. The Britannia steamer, Capt. Hewitt, was telegraphed off Boston, at 4, p.m., on the 20th ult. The formation of the contemplated packet-line between Baltimore and this port appeared probable. The estaWishment of a steam line from New York to Charles ton had also been mooted. A new and beautiful ship, named the Niagara, and intended for the Liverpool trade, had been launched. She is to be commanded by Capt. W. Russell, late of the Saratoga. Foreign Ex changes were dull, in consequence of the non-arrival of the Boston steamer accounts. Sterling, 1081 to 109. AMERICA IRE LAND Lord Roden has contributed £lO to the Dublin Protes tant Operative Society. Dr. Kennedy, the Romish Bishop of Killaloe, has written from Rome, to say that his visit to the " Eternal City" has no relation, directly or irrtirectly, to the Col eges Act, the Bequests Act, or any other act. 'MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—AIderman Hearn, of Clonmel, was, on Tuesday last, found drowned in a we tervat, in his brewery. The deceased had been impli cated in a case of defalcation to the extent of from ten to fifteen thousand pounds. MURDER.—On Tuesday night, John Hogan, of Bal linderry, Tipperary, was shot close to his own house. His family ran out and found his mutilated body—his clothes at the time were partly on fire, so close were his murderous assailants to him. He was brought into the house and laid on some straw—bis body actually riddled in every part with balls, and a wife and nine children mourning over him. THE POTATOE DISEASE.—The Irish provincial jour nals represent the potato crops as nearly free from disease, and that very few cases of recent attack have occurred. The following is from the Newry Telegraph :—As a proof that the progress of the disease is stayed, we may just mention that an extensive farmer in this neighbour hood concluded, the day before yesterday, an examina tion of about forty tons of potatoes, which had been pitted about a fortnight previously, and found them all in a state of the most perfect preservation. That this is the case generally appears to be the fact, from the several communications published, from time to time, by prac tical persons in the public journals. PROGRESS OF ORANGE ORGANISATION. —Cavan is up and doing. The awful ribbon code pervades that and the neighbouring counties, and the Protestant yeomanry are therefore determined to be a more united band than ever. The name of Orange has a talisman's charm to bind the loyal men together. They will not give it up. The Hon. Somerset Maxwell has become their leader, and at a meeting on Tuesday with that gentleman in the chair. it was resolved to reorganise the Orange Institu tion, on strictly legal principles, as the best means of pre serving under God the blessings handed down under a Protestant constitution established by William Prince of Orange of glorious memory. IMPORTANT CASE.—The dining-hall of Trinity Col lege, Dublin, was, on Thursday, the scene of much in terest. It arose from the rare occurrence of a❑ archiepis copal visitation to decide upon the claim of Mr. Heron, a Roman Catholic, to a scholarship of the college. He had, after due examin aion, obtained the appointment of scholar of the house some time ago, but was declared in competent to fill it on account of his religion. The visitors are the Lord Primate of Ireland and the Archbishop of Dublin. They were assisted by the Right Hon. Richard Keating, Judge of the Prerogative Court as their assessor. The dining-hall was fitted up for the occasion as the Court of Inquiry, which, it will be remembered, was di rected to be held by an order of the Court of Queen's Bench, made last Trinity Term, which granted a writ of mandamus upon the application of the appellant, requiring the Primate and Archbishop of Dublin to hear the case and adjudicate upon it. The arguments of counsel con cluded on Saturday, but it is not expected that the deci sion of the visitors will be given for several days. OUTRAGES.—The Tipperary papers last week are full of outrages. Near Youghall, a man, named Castel!, and his son, were attaked and frightfully beaten. The son's skull was fractured. On Sunday night week, some ruf fians, with blackened faces, entered the house of John Flynn, near Nenagh, and beat him severely. On the sth instant, four men, well armed, went to the house of John Gleeson, and compelled him and his son to promise to leave the country, and not act as stewards any longer. On Sunday week, a party of police were attacked and fired at near Ballynahinch. One of them received a ball in his arm. Two houses, near Shinrone, were set fire to, and consumed on Friday week. The tenants were about to be put out of possession. On the sth instant, two bailiffs, at Castletown, were about to make a seizure, when they were attacked by a large party, and compelled to leave without carrying out the process of law. On Sunday night week, a party of seven men, armed, en tered the house of Michael Murray, of Crimlin, Tippe rary, and beat him and his wife, and left orders that he was to give up his land, and that if he gave them the trouble of coming again, it would cost him his life. REPEAL AssociAnow.—The weekly meeting of the association was held on Monday, James Kelly, Esq., M.P. for Limerick, in the chair. Mr. O'Connell having handed in a number of remittances, adverted to a further attack which had been made by the Times " Commissioner." lie was aware it was foolish on his part to take any no tice of the barking of the cur of the Times, nor would he do so on the present occasion, but for the purpose of returning his thanks to the Evening Mail and Packet. Conservative journals, for the gentlemanly feeling which they exhibited towards him. if the Times were guilty of calumniating him (Mr. O'Connell) he held the Ex aminer to be still more culp a bl e , f or th a t jou r nal pub lished every lie that was uttered against him, but never gave one word of the contradiction. He (Mr. O'Con nell) would not condescend to read a line in the Exam 4nring his life unless that journal changed hands. Ariell having entered into some details for the purpoe of shoving that the Times Commissioner did not isit his estate at all, continued to say that no one need Mr. O'Co be .urpris 1 at anythi from the mother of. lies Times.) Times fabricate that atro in corn and the stool; derive profit from the atrocious falsehood circulated on Thursday last. lle then stated that he proposed p'ro ceeding. to Waterford during the present week, for the purpose of reconciling the conteriding repealers in that town, but he felt that his mission would be unattended with any beneficial results. At the termination of the proceedings, the rent was announced to be £291 12s. 9d. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWs. CAMBRIDGE.—The folloiging , degrees were confirmed on Friday :—Master of Arts.—B. E. Metcalfe, Sidney College. Bachelor of Civil Law.—W. Seymour, Trinity Hall. Ad Eundem.—J. W. Warner, 8.D., Christ's Church College, Oxford ; and J. Chapman, M.A. Tiinity College, Dublin. Dr. Pusey will preach the Oxford University sermon (unless steps are taken to purge the university of the scan dal) on Sunday, the 18th of January next. The Earl of Eidon has presented the munificent don ation of 1,0001. to the Durham Diocesan Society for the employment of additional curates. _ _ _ _ SECIISSIONS.—The following names must be added to the list of Oxford perverts :—Rev. Robert Aston Coffin, B.A. student of Christ Church, and vicar of St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford. C. Cholmondeley, Esq , commoner of Balliol College. WITHDRAWAL FROM TRACTARIANISM. - -We are happy to announce that the Rev. W. Palmer, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, the learned writer of the " Origines Liturgicre," and author of " A Treatise on the Church of Christ," has withdrawn from all connection with the " Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology," pub lished under the superintendence of Dr. Pusey and Messrs. Newman and Keble.— Church and Slate Gazelle. Sir Lancelot Shadwell, the Vice-Chancellor, has just given a significant opinion of Oxford education. In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on the 26th ult., in a case " Johnson v. Tucker," Mr. J. Parker mentioned a peti tion which related to the maintenance of a ward, who ex pressed his desire to enter the Church of England as a priest, and wished to matriculate at the University of Oxford. His honour (smiling) said it was a doubtful question whether matriculation at Oxford was likely to make him a priest of the Church of England. Is IT TRUE ?—The Cornwall Gazette says. " The Rev. C. G. Davies, late vicar of Charles, Plymouth. on resign ing his living, received testimonials signed, amongst others, by the Rev. Jonn Hatchard, M.A. [B.A. 1817], Vicar of St. Andrew's Plymouth. On their being for warded to the Bishop of Exeter, his Lordship refused to countersign them until the name of some other clergy man had been substituted for that of Mr. Hatchard. re marking that he was sorry he was under the necessity of declining to countersign a testimonial with Mr. Hatch ard's signature, because, whilst he would readily attest his belief that' he was worthy of credit' as to a matter of fact, yet he could not say so in respect of his judgment of what was 'contrary to the doctrine or discipline of the Church of England.'" THE COURT 6 , FASHIO IBLE WORLD, Her Majesty and Prince Albert left Osborne House on Saturtlay. and arrived at Windsor the same day. The Duchess. of Kent arrived at Frog_ Friday, after a visit to the Queen Dowager. Sir W. M. Stanley arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, London, on Fr.iday, from Hooton Hall. more House on The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster were to leave Grosvenor-square for Eaton Hall yesterday. Prince Albert has offered to pay all arrears of taxes for his Flemish farm, and to contribute annually a certain sum towards the send of the poor, but without admitting that the parish has any claim on him. The palish officers demur to this proposition. Hampers of mutton are sent regularly from Windsor to the King of Prussia, at Berlin, where it is considered the lelicacy at the royal table, as it well may be, ussian mu :on is scarcely e CHRISTENING OF LORD ELDON'S SON AND HEIR. — The christening of the infant son and heir of the Earl of Eldon took place at St. George's Church, Hanover square, London, on Wednesday morning, the King of Hanover (who was represented by his minister Count Kielmansegge), the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Mrs. Farrer, mother of the present Earl of Eldon, standing sponsors to the young Viscount Encombe, who was bap tized by the namg of John, after his great-grandfather, Lord Chancellor Eldon. _ when Sir Robert Peel retires from public life it will be with a peerage. In the meantime he is forming an exten sive connexion with the aristocracy of the land. His eld est daughter (Viscountess Villiers) will be the Countess of Jersey, should her husband and she survive the present earl ; and it is now said that his second daughter is about to be married to the Marquis of Hertford. The marquis is on all hands highly spoken of, and is accounted to be a man altogether different from his father, of no very esti mable memory. RAILWAY INT.ELLIGENCE. The Sheffield and Manchester railway is to be opened through on the 22nd instant. . . It is calculated that every mile of railway requires six acres. It is estimated that £5,000,000 would not pay the mere outlay for the preparation of the railway plans, &c. that have been lodged at the Board of Trade. For the last five months of the present half year, 3,187, 7881. has been receivedfor railway traffic, being an increase over the corresponding period of 565, 5621. The last arch of the viaduct over the Borrowdale valley, on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, to a junction with the Lune, was successfully keyed last week amid great cheering. TAKING CARE OF NUMBER ONE.—Tile Railway Re cord recommends the postponement of any discussion in parliament on the corn-law question until the railway schemes are disposed of. RAILWAY DEPOSITS.—The Speaker of the House of Commons has, after consulting with the Attorney- General, resolved to grant orders for the paymerit of the uired from railway companies by the standing urn req orders of the House by three, four, or five instalments, as the parties applying may wish. This the speaker will do by specifying in the order the number of instalments. Part of the Furness Railway, having to run along a marsh called Salthouse Marsh, which is covered by high tides. an embankment was formed whereon to lay the rails. During the late gales, the sea swept away the whole of the embankment, doing damage to the estimated amount of £2,000. The works will not be resumed this winter RAILWAY SHARES AND A DISSOLUTION. Appre hension of a dissolution of Parliament has had great in fluence on many of the scrips, from a belief that all the bills left over last session will have to begin de novo. We may, therefore, remind holders that it is quite com petent for a new Parliament to get over this difficulty, by a resolution, or, if necessary, by a short bill ; and that as a matter of fairness it is almost certain. they will do so. THE BROAD AND NARROW GUAGE.—The experiments for testing the tractive capacity of the broad guage engine will commence on Tuesday (this day). The first experi ment will be made with a train of eighty tons, exclusive of engine and tender, to Didcot, fifty-three miles. From our knowledge of the working of the Great Western line, we venture to predict that the time occupied in the journey will vary from about fifty-eight to sixty-four minutes. — Railway Standard. _ _ LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.—The London and York board have at last determined on considering Mr. Hudson's proposals, and it appears most probable that they will accept them. The greatest indisposition has been exhibited, on the part of the London and York board, to the interests of the shareholders in this matter ; but those who know Mr. Hudson, are well aware that he does not headily give in in anything he undertakes.—Rail way Herald. TuE CROYDON ATMOSPHERlC.—Preparations are be ing made for laying down a second pipe on the Croydon line. If the Atmospheric system is to be made use of at all there must be a double pipe and a double set of rails. This will make a complete thing of it. Hitherto it has proved a decided failure; occasionally they cannot get a vacuum at all in the pipe; and this is not the fault of the engines, which are of the most beautiful and perfect work manship, but of the longitudinal valve itself. It is within our knowledge that the engines have pumped for twenty minutes without any effect whatever. This is the true reas.in why the public are not carried upon the line. We venture to predict that, if they ever carry out a double atmospheric line, they will find the expense not less than from £17,000 to £20,000 per mile, in addition to all that is necessary for the working of a locomotive over it.— Railway Standard. NAMES IN RAILWAY PROSPECTUSES.—At the Man sion Howe, London, on Wednesday, Mr. Charnock, barrister, applied for a summons against the Secretary of the Thames, Southend, and Northern and Eas ern Railway, for inserting the name of Mr. Richard Garde, a member of the bar, in the prospectus of the company, without his authority. Mr. Garde had called at the office of the company and requested his name to be withdrawn, which was promised, though it afterwards appeared. Un the sth inst. Mr. Garde was amazed at receiving from Messrs. Cope and Eales an application for £lOBl, being expenses incurred in surveying the line. . The demand WAS made on the defendant " as a member of the com mittee of the line." Mr. Garde immediately wrote to the surveyor, denying any connection with the line. The magistrate wished for a copy of the prospectus, which was not at hand, but which will be produced on a subse quent day. NORTH UNION RAILWAY--A special general meeting of the proprietors in this undertaking was held in the offices of the company, in Preston, on Thursday last, for the purpose of confirming a conditional arrangement made on the 15th Sept. with the Grand Junction Company and the Manchester and Leeds Company. The report stated that all the works, property, and effects of the railway would be vested in, and transferred to, the Grand Junc tion and Manchester and Leeds, subject to all engage ments, obligations, and liabilities, in consideration of a perpetual annuity of £lO for every £lOO of stock A, and £7 for every £lOO of stock B, to commence at the expi ration of the present year, and to be paid in perpetuity in half-yearly payments, free from all deductions, save in come or any government tax of that description. The Grand Junction takes and has the exclusive management of the line from Parkside to Preston, and is to pay £42,168 9s. per annum ; the Leeds Company takes and is to have the exclusive management of the line from BA ton to Preston, paving £23.895 9s. per annum ; making a total annual payment of £66,063 184. Payments to be made on the 15th February and 15th August ellen year, and, if default is made, in fourteen days the North Union to have the option of proceeding to recover the arrears either at law or in equity, to distrain,-or to appoint , a re ceiver. The chairman highly eulogised the favourable arrangements made on behalf of the company, for they were secured a very handsome dividend upon the faith of the first lints in the kingdom, without the slightest risk on their part. After some conversation of great length, the resolutions for the leased transfer of the line were agreed to, and the directors invested with the powers usu ally conferred upon them when going before Parliament. the branch to Norwich was confirmed, on the under standing that if the amalgamation line was lost this ses sion, it should not be proceeded with. The cost of this bran& will be £20,000. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, PRIDAY ACTION ON A BANKING ACCOUNT : POTTS AND OTHERS V. EATON AND ANOTHER. In the Court of Common Pleas, on Friday, an action was brought by Potts - and others, bankers' assignees,; against Eaton and another, for the recovery of the balance of a banking account. It appeared that the defendant, Eaton, had established a shop at Mostkn-quay, in Wales, and that his main object in opening the concern was to supply the workmen of a neighbouring colliery, in which he had a part interest, with necessaries on-the old truck system. He had , a partner of the name of Jones. The trade at Mostyn-quay went on until the year 1840, when the premises and most of the stock were destroyed by fire. The balance of the account with the bankers, Wetherby and Co., when this occurrence took place, was £2,983, and for that the action was' brought. The jury found for the' defendant. In the Court of Queen's-Bench, on Thursday, damages to the amount of £lB4 were obtained against an attorney named Caldwell, for negligence, in not entering a writ of record in the manner required by law. On Friday, in the Arches Court, Sir H. J Fust pro nounced sentence of deprivation on the Rev. Mr. Heath cote, convicted of an attempt at crime. - In the Arches Couri on Friday Sir H. J. Fust pro. nounced a sentence of deprivation and loss of all prefer ment on the Rev. Arthur Loftils, rector of Fincham, and vicar of Heighton, Norfolk, for adultery, and other ex. cessf..,s, and condemned him in the costs of the suit. NON-LIABILITY OF SHAREHOLDERS.—In the Exche quer Court, last week,-the case of Key v. Giles and others was tried. The action was upon a bill of exchange for £322, and the defendants pleaded that they were not ha. ble. The case was nonsuited, with liberty to the plaintiff to move, on the ground that no sufficient evidence had been given of a recognition on the part of the defendants, that the-company was to be carried on by the directors until the whole of the capital had been subscribed. CAUTION TO PUBLISHERS..—Henry Patterson, sta tioner, Auchtermuchty, pursued the Rev. T. Martin, Strathminglo, for the value of the Penny Cyclopredia from July, 1841, to December, 1843, amounting to £2 ss. The Sheriff-Substitute assoilzied the defendant, the publishers having pledged themselves, in the first volume, to com plete the work in twenty volumes, whereas it extended to twenty-seven volumes. The Sheriff held that the pub lishers were bound to complete the work, and that the subscribers and purchasers were not bound to pay for more than twenty volumes, in terms of the publishers' pledge.—Scotch Gazette. BARON DE BODE versus THE QUEEN.—FinaI judg ment was delivered in this long-litigated case, by the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday. The present Baron de Bode is the son of the late Baron of the same name, who was born at Neuhoff, in tie princi pality of Fulda, now part of the electorate of Hesse. and was a Colonel in the Regiment of Nassau Saarbuck Ger man Infantry, in the service of. the King of France. The late Baron married Mary, the daughter of Mr. Thozhas Kinnersley, Loxley-park, in the county of Stafford, and the present Baron, the issue of that marriage, was born at Loxley in 1777, and baptized at Uttoxeter in the following month. At the breaking out of the' French Revolution, the Baron was in possession of the ancient lordship of Soultz.sous.Foret, in Lower Alsace, now forming the de partment of the Lower Rhine, in the kingdom of France. This lordship was confiscated during the Revolution. At the peace it was stipulated by treaty that all British sub jects should be adequately indemnified for their losses during the Revolution. A large sum of money was paid over to the British Government for that purpose—and the Baron being a British subject, preferred his claim. After an unparalleled course of law, the Baron recovered a ver dict in June last year, for the sun , of £364,206, with in terest from the Ist January, 1819. The Crown disputed the verdict, and on Thursday the Court delivered judg ment, to the effect that the sum which was the subject of the inquiry was not received personally by the Sovereign or by any other pert-on for the personal benefit or use o the Sovereign, and that any argument fo ed upon the contrary supposition, was inapplicable and invalid. For these reasons the judgment upon the verdict was ordered to be entered for the Crown. GENERAL MISCELL ANY Parliament has been further prorogued until the 30th instant. The Papists have pompously announced their intention of praying "by name," for Dr. Pusey's conversion. A serious boiler explosion, resulting in the death of two men, took place on Friday week, at Segbill colliery. A quantity of gooseberries were plucked from the gar den of Mr. Wood, of Tockwith, near York, last week. Her Majesty has granted a free pardon to the Brazilian convicts under sentence of death at Exeter. The Bank of England is about to reduce the rate of interest. A young lady, yesterday week, at Neyland, while driving a gig, cams in contact with a waggon, and was throw n on the road, when the waggon passed over and killed her. A poor child, which eras left alone in its cradle for a few minutes. last week, at Pentonville, had its face fright fully mangled by a rat, its nose being nearly bitten off. At the York Assizes last week. a man named Watson, was acquitted on the ground of insanity of the murder of his wife. A free trade meeting was held at Perth oft Wednesday, and though convened by the Lord Provost, the Whig aristocracy refused to attend. - The tenant of a mill and land at Durham has been fined £lO for making n false return of the amount of his rent to the Property Commissioness. Peel Castle, Isle of Man, is at present undergoirg ex• tensive repairs, preparatory, it is supposed, to troops be- . . _ ing permanently stationed - it that place. A ripe strawberry, grown in the open air, in the gar den of Miss Lilly, Retreat Cottage, Glanmire, near Cork, was pulled last week. The Rev. J. N. White, rector of Tivetshall, and brother of the poet Henry Kirke White, who has been for some time suffering from, defective vision, fell into a pond on his premises, on Tuesday last, and was drowned. The directors of the South Shields Water Works pur pose, if three thousand families will agree to take the wa ter, to supply the working classes of the town with water ad libitum at the rate of a penny per week. POST-OFFICE MISMANAGEMENT.—It is a strange and anomalous fact, that a letter from Paris reaches Galashiels sooner than one from Glasgow, the latter usually lying 24 hours at Edinburgh.—Border Watch. THE VALUE OF A SURVEYOR.—A London engineer, who visited Taunton during the last week, publicly offered £3OO for the services of a surveyor acquainted with the locality for ten days! At the York assizes last week, Edward Lunn, a re spectable druggist at York, was acquitted of a charge of manslaughter in occasioning the death of an aged female, by dispensing to her laudanum instead of a cough mixture. Mr. WM. Akers, a parsimonious and eccentric indivi dual, who died the other day in London, aged 87, has be queathed £6OOO to her Majesty, to be applied towards the liquidation of the national debt. SCARCITY OF MASONS.—At Merthyr, and the district of the iron works, it is almost impossible to get masons, even at high wages. Many more houses would be built if carpenters and other workmen could be procured. Jane Clifton, a child aged nine weeks, died lately at Burwash. from the want of sufficient nourishment, the mother being in great destitution, living principally on turnips. The Perthshire Courier states that Blackwood and Mr. Stephens are right in estimating the crop in Scotland equal to, if not above an average, and as far as the cereal crops are concerned, there is an abundant return. The High Sheriff of York has convened a public meet ing of the inhabLants of the West Riding at Wakefield, on Wednesday (to-morrow), to petition for the repeal of the corn-laws. _ _ _ MUNIFICENT DONATION.—The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge has just received the handsome sum of 1,0001. from an anonymous contributor signing himself " A Friend Unknown." The Court of Exchequer has decided that the Great Western Railway Company, in running the special trains past Swinton without stopping, violated their agreement with the keeper of the refreshment rooms there. A tailor, on Wednesday, returning from Dumfries to an adjoining village, fell into a ditch and was dr.wned. although the water was not more than three inches deep; but the obstruction of his head caused it to overflow. On Monday night a man on Leith pier hearing some thing struggling in the water, sent in his dog. The gal lant animal soon returned with the body of a female, who had a few minutes prevously fallen in. She was speedily restored. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, in re= publishing a little tract on " Palestine," by the Rev. C. P. %I ilbraham, late curate of Bolton, has carefully sup pressed the word Protestant wherever it occurs in the original. _ _ A mother stands charged at the Hereford assizes with endeavouring to murder her illegitimate male child, not three weeks old, by leaving it quite naked and uncovered, in a field, exposed to a cold wind and pitiless storm a few evenings ago. A man of very depraved character, a letter carrier at Rugby, has been taken into custody, for stealing letters containing money and other valuable property. The students at Rugby School are said to have lost nearly £SOU worth of property by this man's treachery. The celebrated Professor Liebig says that wine, spirits, and beer, are necessary principles for the important pro cess of respiration ; and that the stomachs of all mankind, teetotallers included, secrete those articles from the food which is eaten. M. Fadieff, a Russian chemist, recommends that gun powder should be mixed with powdered charcoal and black lead, which will prevent it from exploding. When the powder is wanted for use it can be readily separated from the mixture by means of a hair sieve. The Secretary of the Board of Stamps and Taxes offi cially states, in reply to a dissenting minister, that parties whose incomes are derived solely from voluntary contri butions are not required to make a return of the same for assessment under the Property Tax Act. At Edinburgh, last week, an old woman who was in a state of intoxication, after loosening her stays, attempted to pull them over her head, and pulled them so firmly over !Inv. mnnth na to tia nrs Wiz to p‘trient, herself. and to caused suffocation. Mr. Spencer 'Hall, in a letter to the Standard, claims for mesmeric science the honour of the victory the Tones . has obtai ~ed in revealing the decision of the Privy council on the corn-taiv . question, •He says the Times 11;39 staked its credit' on the revelatiorr of elairvOyent. In answer to a question agree( oy tine Doncaster to be submPtedto Robert Hall, Esq. the re. conler of the borough, as to the legality of the council t.lcing shares in any projected Tine or lines of rail Way, the learned entleinan is nlideistbod to hale "expressed his opinion, that the adoptidn of such a proceeding is illegal and contrary to the intention of the municipni act. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. EXTENSIVB FAILURE.—We are concerned to an nounce the stoppage of an eminent mercantile firm in this neighbourhood—that of Edward Rawson, Esq., of Ash Grove. The extent of the liabilities it is said amount to nearly £2oo,ooo.—Halifax Guardian. The Morning Advertiser states, that in the event of a dissolution of parliament, Sir Robt. Peel will be so!icited by We free trade party:in the City of London to,allow himself to be put in nomination, jointly with Lord John Russell, to_represent that constituency. The Hyderabad prize money has been fixed at £400,000. Sir C. Napier's share will be one-sixteenth, or £25,000: as there were but two lieutenant-colonels, seven majors, nine captains, and twenty-two subalterns, at Meanee, their respective shares will be handsome. Whilst the Mammoth Horse was exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, on Thursday, the flooring gave way, and the horse's hind legs went into the apartrnentunderneath. The horse plunged tremendously, but was got up at length with but few injuries. A young lady, aged 16', residing in Wigmore-street, London, was attacked with most violent convulsive fits, for upwards of two hours, on the return home of a brother whom she had believed dead for the last three years, -and on recovery from her fit she had lost the power of articu lation, and is seemingly CORN-LAWS.—Mr. Labouchere, ,M.P. for Taunton, has published a letter to his constituents, in which he slys he was formerly in favour of .4 fixed duty, but that the progress of events has extinguished all chance of such an arrangement. He declares that he will now vote for the total repeal of the Corn-laws. - The Rev: W. Marshall, a clergyman of the Established Church, was last week 'received into the Roman Catholic communion at Oscott. Mr. Marshall was Curate of Archdeacon R. Wilberforce, and is the second person of the same name who has lately left the establishment.— A subscription has been. commenced for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of Sir T. F. Buxton, Bart., in Westminster Abbey ; to be placed with those to the memory of Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Granville Sharp, and Mr. Zachary Macaulay,. as recording his labours in coniunction with tbose distingOishe'd individuals. At the annual meeting of the Yeovil Agricultural So ciety last week neither of the county members (T. D. Ac land and F. H. Dickinson, Esqrs.) could obtain a hearing in consequence of their not baying supported agricultural protection to the satisfaction of their constituents. The meeting was.tbro.uglkout a scene of complete confusion. A few days back, according to the Birmingham Gazette, the postman in the neighbourhood of Great Barr, found a man bleeding on his ,back. in a ditch, and during his re moval to a neighbouring public-house, he expired. The man is believed to have been robbed and murdered. The affair is undergoing . investigation. NOVEL IDEA.—One of the established companies, 4ith express powers at.their command, peremptorily refused to the promoters of a competing line an express train for their deposits to town. Not to be outwitted, they hired an un dertaker's hearse, placed plans, sections. and clerk inside, and despatched it by special train to town." On Friday morning week, Robert A. Davison, tsq., solicitor, of Sunderland,' and clerk to the trustees of the county f Durham turnpikes, committed suicide by hang ing himself in his greenhouse. He had lately been inat tentive to business, but beyond' any compunction he may have felt on this ground, no cause can be assigned for this deplorable occurrence. _ _ _ Another man has died of the effects of the explosion of the boiler at. Sunderland, and one or two more 'are in danger. The explosion was of tremendous violence : for hundreds of yards in every direction, bricks, pieces of iron, and other articles, were carried through the air ; while enormous portions of the boiler were borne to a less distance. _ --- fIIACT ARIAN !—Where shall we find a confessed Trac tarian ? We never met one yet. Is Dr. Hook, a Trac tarian, or Mr. Dodsworth, or Mr. Blunt, the purifier of the parish of Helstone, or the. Bishop of Exeter ? By no means. They are various specimens, in their own esteem, or, at least, by their own declarations, of what sober and orthodox members of Oa church ought to be. CONSUMPTION OF WHISKEY.—From a statement made by Captain Cameron, at quarter sessions, it appears that no less than upwards of 6000 gallons of whiskey were per mitted to Dingwall in the six months from April to Oc tober last. The population of Dingwall, by last census, being 1732, this would give about three gallons and a half in the half year to each inhabitant. A few days ago, a fisherman, named Gillarn, met with a singular accident, which has occasioned the loss of his arm. It appears that a dog fish became entangled in his net, and in removing it his finger was priCked by the back bone of the fish. A few days afterwards his hand began to get painful and swelled; and on Saturday he was obliged to undergo amputation of the arm.—Brighton Gazette Mr. Cayley has addressed a second, and our readers may easily suppose a well reasoned letter to Lord John Russell. Alluding to the faggot voters system of the League, he very justly says that it " shows the distrust the anti-corn-law party evince of constituencies and of their own creation." To be sure, bow could they hope to get through their dirty work but by the aid of their own creatures. _ _ FORBIDDING BAN DM—A singular incident occurred in the psrish church, Preston, on Sunday week. When the banns of marriage were published, a female rose, and in a loud voice forbade the marriage of a couple whose names had just been read over by the curate. She pleaded, with tears in her eyes, that he had paid his addresses to her for three years, and had now deserted her to marry another person. The plea, of course, could not be enter tained. THE MIDLAND MANSLAUGHTER CASE.—Five bills have been found, by the Grand Jury, at the present Yorkshire Gaol delivery, against Thomas Wheatley, late engine -driver on the Midland Railway, for the man slaughter of Mr. Commissioner Boteler, and Policeman Stubby, of Leeds"; and the trials were to be heard yester day (Monday.) Wheatley has not yet surrendered, but it is expected that he would deliver himself into custody yesterday, at the opening of the court. A Cow's AFFECTION FOR HER OFFSPRING.—At the late fire at Ellington a valuable cow had calved the night before, and when the flames had reached the place, she, with another cow, was let out, but the door being open she returned to the calf; twice again she left it, and en deavoured to get the calf to follow her, but the little animal refused to do so, and on her last return the smoke and fume had become so strong as to overpower her, and she fell beside her young one, and both were burnt to death.—Bury Post. PEDESTRIANISM. The celebrated runner, named Maxfield, known in sporting circles as the " North Star," having been matched to run eleven miles within an hour, the event came off on Friday close to the village of Longford. The stakes amounted to £6O. The match was performed over one mile of ground, out and in. The man started in healthy condition. The rough state of the road, however, in consequence of the thaw after the recent frost, was decidedly against him. He lost the match, but only by five seconds. A MAYOR'S ttEmusEEArrox.—At a meeting of the Tiverton Town-council last week, in consequence of the demand of a salary from J. G. Tucker, Esq., mayor, (which no other mayor has done since the municipal act passed), it was carried by a majority of one, that five pounds I should be allowed him for his services during his year in office. We understand it is not to be taken from the borough-rate, but raised by voluntary contribu tions ; and the overplus to be placed in the mayor's box for casual expenses during his worship's mayoralty.— Exeter Post. _ _ _ . . SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday, a young girl, named Tomlinson, a servant belonging to Mr. Parton, brewer, Birtt,ingham, put an end to her existence by hanging herself from the rail of her bedstead. Shortly alter the discovery of the unfortunate girl, and while the neighbourhood was in a state of considerable excitement about her unhappy fate, an elderly woman, named Mal lard, who lived in the yard adjoining that in which Tom linson had destroyed herself, very deliberately procured a cord, and, as if under the influence of some suicidal sym pathy, suspended herself from the staircase of her house. Her daughter, however, fortunately entered the place at the moment, and cut her down before life was extinct. GROSS IGNORANCE.—Some few weeks since a mys terious robbery took place of sixteen sovereigns, from the house of a respectable widow, a farmer, residing within a mile of Over Church. The police were sent for, and their investigation seemed to be crowned with the dis covery of the delinquent, when lo ! it was found out by them, that, not satisfied with their measures, the cre dulous old lady had been advised by some friend(?) to consult with, and had actually gone to " a wise man" living at Bctley. This imposter (who it is hoped will ere long be brought to justice) desired his tool to look into a pail of water, and afterwards into a charmed looking glass, where he told her she would see the face of the thief. And she now actually declares that she saw, both in the pail of water and in the looking-glass, the face of a relative, " whom she had all along suspected !"—Chester Courant. EXTRAORDINARY RIGA TIDE.—The highest tide known for the last 25 years occurred in the Thames on Thursday night and Friday morning, and we are sorry to state that the destruction o; property on both sides of the river has been enormous. The tide influencing the Wan dle, caused the latter to rise to an almost unprecedented extent. The water covered the plain, and the charge room and cells in the station-house were six inches deep in water. At Putney the tide committed great ravages, and so great was the body of water in the cellars of the Bell tavern, that Mr. Avis, the landlorn, was obliged to en - ploy the parish engine. At Fulham the water rose so high, that the Bishop of London's grounds were flooded. The churchyard was under water. The fires on the ground floor of the Swan were extinguished ; and the wa ter flowed to the King's Arms, a distance of a quarter of a mile. Immense quantities of timber and casks were floated away. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—A man named II ichd. Sheane, one of the Bath city police, took his place on Monday evening at the Bristol station of the Great Western Rail way, to proceed to Bath by the mail train. Soon after the train started, both he and a boy who accompanied him fell asleep, and were carried some distance beyond their destination before either awoke. The rushing noise of the engine in the box tunnel aroused the man from his slutnbers, and he then dis Covered teat he bad ridden some rifileA fu►ther than he wished. His first impression was, that the train would stop at Corsham. but it was not so. Onwards he was carried at the rate of forty or fifty miles an hour. He at last nnened the door of the carriage, on the btep, mad a spring, an!. the'boy, and immediate search was made for him, but he could at first nowhere be found. lie states that be re- collects nothing but corning in •iolent contact ullh some- ..1..A VW II 6,1i1 UC C upputcs iv .c , lay he does not,lsnnw; but on_ recd ering hts senses he crawled to a house close at hand, where he was lodged for' the night., -.The next mor n ing be was well enough to walk into Cdesham to a medical man, when it was found that, besides being much cut and bruised, his shoulder was dis located. Mr. Parker, the Assists nt Poor-Law Commissioner, is abont to publislrftlie. particulars of the- Andover Union inquiry. He stateOthat he and the other Assistant Com • missioners have oft(fri.been forced to act illegally in obedi ence to the superief 'Commissioners. Sir James Graham has reminded Mr. Parker that this publication will be an improper revelation of official secrets. The family of Mr. Marshall, of Houle, near Eye, con sisting of six or eight persons, had a narrow escape last week from _ dee*, owing to a quantity of wheat that had been dressed with arsenic for seed having been ground into flour and made into bread. They were all ill, more or less, and the servant boy was not considered out of dan ger for several days. SUPPLY OF Foon.-At the meeting of the Cirencester Agricultural Society, on Fr Bowly, a practical agriculturist of experience and intelligence, said that from what he had read, and Flew of his own observation, he would pledge himself, his honour, and every thing else he had, that there is at the present time more human food in the British Islands than ever was known at this time of the year. ATROCIOUS MURDER.--On the 2nd inst., the dead body of Ann Meyrick, a young married woman 23 years old, was taken out of the Cardiff and Merthyr canal at Rhydicar, and on examination two frightful gashes, from which there was great haemorrhage, or bleeding, were dis covered upon the body. It appears that she was last seen, in a state of intoxicatiOn, with her husband, who has been apprehended on stispicion. The accused, how ever, has always borne a good chat acter. A WIFE FINED FOE BEATING HER HUSBAND.—At the Hammersmith police-court, the other day, Mrs. Chapman, who manages the - ,business of the Ship public house, Hammersmith, was summoned for having slapped her husband on the face. The husband, it appeared, spent some time in drinking with the customers of the Ship, and his wife, in a moment of exasperation, rushed into the room where he was carousing with his friends, and slapped him on the face. She was fined one shilling. Another case of assaelt was brought against her by one ' of the husband's drinking companions, for which she was fined sixpence.. Changes in the temperature are more prevalent in Great . Britain than in any other part of the globe, varying, in a few .hours, some 20 degrees or more,; the , effect of such rapid changes on theiandily health is very trying to many thousands, especially those. who suffer from asthma, in fluenza, coughs, colds, hoarseness, shortness of breath, and other affections of the chest and lungs ; happily for those who are afflicted with the above distressing com plaints, they have now an unfailing remedy offered them, Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam : we recommend it with confidence as a medicine giving immediate relief, and a cure will certainly follow the use of it. (See adv.) THE CHALLENGE DECLINED.—A duel has been avoided at Bristol by the refusal of one of the parties to accept the challenge. Mr. Charles Bli;sett having at a' meeting of the Tine-blue'Club asserted that Mr.'Leech, the Editor of the Bristol Times, (conservative paper) had been guilty of wilful falsehood in a statement which appeared in his paper relative to crown patronage, Major Shute, on Mr. Leech's behalf, requested Mr. Blissett to name some one to meet him with reference to a charge which could not be passed over.—Mr. Blissett declines either to retract s, or to accept the c here the matter rests enge to fight a duel, and TWO CROPS OF POTATOES IN A YEAR.—Early in the month of March, Mr. Johnston, shoemaker, Letham, planted out'a plot of ground in", his garden with the ash leaf early potatoes, which he found fit for use by the end of June, when the ground was cleared of them. On the Ist of July, the ground having been well prepared, he planted a crop of the common second earlies, which grew rapidly. They were lifted on the Ist of November, and turned out above an average crop. He laid aside a por tion of both kinds for seed for next year, which appeared to be perfectly free of any kind of disease.—Fifeshire Journal. AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION—ITS HOPES AND CHAMPlONS — Notwithstanding the large and enthusiastic meetings held, we were almost going to say everywhere, calling on Sir R. Peel to open the ports, not one counter movement has yet been made by the "farmer's friends." And although the Times has announced that Government itself is preparing.to go with the stream. actually not one bulwark has yet, been attempted to be set up to limit its effect or to counteract its influence. In the regular pro cess of events the annual meeting of the Central Protec tion Society fell on Tuesday last; but the Society had no plan to propose, and only about 50 gentlemen thought it necessary to attend the meeting. EXTRAORDINARY FORTITUDE.—A few days ago, Sa muel Mason, tenter in one of Mr. Swan's mills, near.Kir kaldy, met with a severe accident in the following manner —Having observed a cord entangled with one of the belts, he went up a ladder to relieve the same; but, on doing so, the slack portion of the cord took a turn round his left thumb and arm as it was drawn onward by the movement of the belt• Being thus fixed. he foresaw his instant de struction if drawn up to the pulley by the belt, and, with singular fortitude and presence of mind, he grasped a co lumn close by with his arms and legs, and held on till his arm .was literally sawed and torn asunder : being thus re lieved, he slid down the column to the floor, took off his bonnet and clapped it on the bleeding stump, holding it with his hand, rushed out, and across the street to his fa ther-in-law, where, exhausted and breathless, he fell on the floor before the engine was set off, being the first means by which any assistance could have been rendered him. Medical aid was immediately procured, when his arm was amputated above the torn part, but, finding the bone so much injured, they made another amputat 4 on a little be low the shoulder joint. He is doing well now.—Edin burgh paper. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last, about mid-day, a party consisting of four young men and a girl, left the boat-house of Inverdruie, for the pureoco of oroatt ing the Spey. Their names were John Munro, John Macmillan, Janet Macdonald, and Angus Macdonald, Owing to the late heavy falls of rain in the district, the river was very high, and, after reaching the opposite shore, the party found themselves surrounded with water in the direction which they intended to take. To avoid the distance of going round, they proposed taking the boat across, and after they bad got well over, it was dis vered a safe landing-place could not be found. They plied the oars for some time, and at last were bore down with the impetuons stream, until the boat struck against a tree, and the whole were precipitated into the water. Macdonald and Mackintosh instantly disappeared. Munro being a powerful young man, succeeded in swimming ashore. Macmillan got his breast across a strong branch of the tree, and the girl got hold below, standing in water to the shoulders, and Macmillan grasping her from above. It very fortunately happened that some shepherds were near the spot, and in less than half an hour scores of peo ple were congregated on both sides of the river. Boats were procured with as little delay as possible, and seve ral ineffectual attempts were made to rescue the unfortu nate sufferers. Macmillan held the young woman fast with one hand for an honr and a-half. No boat, how ever, getting near them, and his strength failing, he could retain his bold no longer, and the girl was swept away by the current. By three o'clock he was rescued from his perilous situation. The parties drowned were all unmar ried.—lnverness Courier. INCONSISTENCY.—Lord John Russell, who has just come out as an advocate of the total and immediate repeal of the corn laws, thus wrote to the farmers in 1825.—" A duty of 40 or 50 shillings a quarter upon foreign corn could hardly be enacted ; and, if enacted, certainly would not be persisted in. But lam inclined to think that, if foreign corn were admitted, even if you had scarcely any taxes to pay, it would not be easy for the farmers of Eng land, who require to live in a certain degree of respecta bility and comfort, to compete with the lords of Poland and Russia, whose vassal peasantry are unacquainted with the wants of a civilised state. Corn is a manufacture (to use our new phraseology) cheaply produced in a fertile soil, wretched ploughs, wretched horses, and wretched men. There is a party amongst us, however, distin guished in what is called the science of political economy, who wish to substitute the corn of Poland and Russia for our own. Their principle is that you ought always to buy where you can buy cheapest. They repeat with em phasis that the nation pays a tax of £25,00,000 yearly to the growers of corn. They count as nothing the value to the country of a hardy race of farmers and labourers. They care not for the difference between an agricultural and manufacturing population, in all that concerns mo rals, order, national strength, .and national tranquility. Wealth is the only object of their speculation ; nor do they much consider the two or three millions of people who may be reduced to utter beggary in the course of their operations. This they call diverting capital into another channel. Their reasonings lie so much in ab stract terms, their speculations deal so much by the gross, that they have the same insensibility about the suf ferings of a people that a general has respecting the loss of men wearied by his operations." _ _ _ CURIOUS CASE.—On Wednesday a man named Ed wards was brought up at Worship-street Police-office for creating a disturbance in a crowded congregation assem bled in the Free Church in •White's-row, Spitraelds, and endangering the lives of several persons. The Rev. G. Montgomery West, D.D., stated that he was the mi nister of the above place, which was licensed for divine service, though not yet under episcopal jurisdiction. The defendant was a member of a body of professed infidels, assembling in a building called the Hall of Science, and bad had with him (Mr. West) several public discussions on Christianity, and the champions of infidelity had been routed. The doctor then went on to say that for the in struction of the neighbourhood, a New Zealand Chief had been engaged to deliver a course of lectures on the progress of Christianity in Australia, and was lecturing in the place the previous evening, when the defendant in terrupted the proceedings, and a regular row commenced, when the police were called in to restore order.—The defendant said that when he entered the church he ob served a man fantastically dressed in the equipage of a savage, who was described in the printed circulars as a certain New Zealand chief, named " Pahe a-Range," or " Son of the Clouds," but whom he (the defendant), on closely looking at him, instantly recognized as an Irishman named Byrne, whom he bad known for the last 20 years, -as travelling bout the country, exhibiting himself at dif ferent fairs, booths, and public-houses in the character he bad upon this occasion assumed. As soon as he re- covered from his surprise, thinking it right the audience should be apprised of the deception ehich had been prac tised upon them, he addressed the lecturer by his real name of Byrne, and inquired how long he had been in England ; but the only reply the lecturer deigned to give consisted of a strange gutteral sound closely re,ernbling not to satisfy his curiosity flounced the imposture to the a,sembly. and nce the row. Twopence each was collected from the peoule. Dr. West said that what had been called the gobbling of a 'turkey was merely the enunciation of the language of the natives on the part of the lectur'er, who, after the defen dant had been ejected, translated it for the andi , thce. The magistrate bound the defendant to keep the peace for three months, by which time the course of lectures will be completed. Dec. 16, 1846 i ELOPEMENT.—The town of, Stowroarket was thfei l l into no small excitement 'on Wednesday, by the inforop a ' tion that the fair daughter of the Rev. Sir Augustus Hew niker, of PlashwoOds, Hatighley, had eloped with Charll Rotiert Bree, surgeon, of that town . It aopea" d ti Sir Augustus being absent from home, Mr. Bree met the_ lady, (whe is abOut twenty-four years of age,) about a al i r from her father's residence with an open carriade, in wb . . o . they proceeded to Bury, and then sent the vehicle bac On the return of Sir Augustus the lady was missing , a n d ._ they were traced to Bury, but no further tidings could b e gained of their progress. It is understood the lady has independent property.—Buey Post. A MAN'S LIFE SAVED BY A DOG.-011 Sunday night; as Mr. 'William Digghs, pork-butcher, Bradford, was on his way home, in company with two friends, large dog of the. Newfoundland breed stopped him, refired up against him, pawing him with his fore foot, making a pitiful, howling noise at the same time. He spurned the dog from him, but it would not leave him, but in creas ed its exertions to draw his attention. At length he folloWea it, and it led the way to a deep rut on the other side of the read, and at some distance from the spot where they were, and there Mr. Digghs found a man lying, with his fac e downwards, in the ditch, and nearly dead. He was found to be a sawyer employed at White Abbey, and he, the dog , __ and Mr. Digghs were all strangers to each other. Leeds Intelligencer. hel d INTERESTING CIRCUMSTANCE.—At meeting some time ago in connexion with Sunday-schoo ls, company were much interested by the presence of an old sailor, eho is probably one of the oldest Sunday - s chool scholars in England. He produced a Bible on the ()ea: . sion, the fly leaf of which contained a narrative, a schi cil the following is a copy This Bible was presenteld to me by Mr. Raikes, at the town of Hertford, Jan. l , 81 ' as a reward for my punctual attendance at the Sunday school, and my good behaviour when there. And afte r being my companion for fifty-three years, forty-one ( which I spent in the sea service—during which time I 4 1 . 1 , 11 in forty-five engagements, received thirteen woundsi three times shipwrecked, once burned out, twice capsize d in a boat, and had fevers of different'sorts fifteen titres; this Bible was my companion. As witness my b an James Beach North.—Sussex Express. t SMITHFIELD CATTLE SHOW.—The cattle saws' a Smithfield took place on Wednesday. The quantity r stock sold during the day was unusually' large, and th e facilities of railway transit were never more clearly ex; emplified than by the distant localities for which inanY9' the animals were purchased. Amongst the novelties which the bazaar presented was an enormous bear, wh i i , ch „ bad been fed upon bread for the last twelve months. IL'', adiwal was fattened by the celebrated Perruquiers , °` Bear's Grease notoriety, Messrs. Ross and Sons, gate-street, London. The bear was exhibited dead, skin ned with the fat, and attracted no midi degree of at tention! The short-horned ox bred by the late Lord Huntingfield, and fed by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, to which a prize of £lO was awarded by the judges' was purchased early in the day by Mr. John Banister , ' 0 ' Threadueedle-street, purveyer to her Majesty, for 'tl l ° large sum of 80 guineas. SUICIDES.—At Leeds, Blanshard Bradley, -4 age, vflio, in consequence of misconduct, by his mother the wh-' of fourteco as eon" in the hells.. ,gore w po a s s t o b n y M a b o a n n d d ay ko m m o b r i n e i r t : g go fo it u e n ( d suspended ierd.—Age m nt f l r e o man th o e a b m e e il a ; Rice, employed as clerk in the Prerogative-court, London , committed suicide last week, by forcing himself, he ad A first, into the soil in a privy. His body was quite Hate d when discovered, tind his clothes were found in his bed' I.—A young man, 19 years of age, a baker, and th e of respectable parents, who was committed to t he House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, for fourteen daf-t for having left his work without notice, and who w as about to be married, put an end to his existence on Sa turday last, by taking a quantity of the essential oil of al; monds.—Mr. William Croft Fisb, aged. 55, proprietor of Finsbury bank for deposits, and senior churchwarden ';' r the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, committed suicide last week, whilst labouring under a fit of insanity , 10 shooting himself throUgh the right side. THE LATE GALES.—The shipping along the coast ol Furness has suffered greatly by the recent storms, and is to be feared that accounts from other quarters will all be of an unfavourable character. The bark Bona Des, Liverpool, registered burden, 600 tons, Mr. J. R. Brow"' master, which sailed from the last-mentioned place on the 23d of November for New Orleans, experienced fel tremely stormy weather, being driven leeward near ney Isle. In this dangerous position the captain threw out a bottle containing a letter, dated the 28th of Noveli ber, which stated that there wis no chance of saving t" , ship, and that they were expected to go down shortly' The bottle was picked up a few days afterwards. Provi dentially there was a man on board who bad a knowledge of the coast, to whom the captain entrusted the managed tnent of the ship, and by his local knowledge he oil° te ,, the vesselinto Pile hardour, where she has been staYlo? for a few days. The Dauntle s s, a l arge Li ver p oo l veo e " bound for Charleston, was driven by stress of w eathe r into the same harbour. This natural harbour has times innumerable proved of the greatest service to the Po" mariners, and, by a little outlay, would prove one of th e most valuable and useful harbours on the coast. THE PADDLE-WHEEL V. THE SCREW-PROPELLER''' . The Fairy, Royal yacht tender, propelled by screw Iva chinery, Captain Crispin, took the members of the Privy Council from Southampton to Cowes, on Wednesdayl as " on which occasion she was followed by the South-We3tern Steam-Packet Company's paddle-wheel vessel, the Little Wonder. The Parties on board, feeling certain that the Fairy.would return to Southampton, thought it a good opportunity for trying the speed of the Little Won de r against the Fairy. The Fairy, having embarked the Duk e of Wellington, Sir R. Peel, and the other members, started on the passage back, the Little Wonder chid lenged, and a very sharp trial took place. In the ru n ' however, of 50 minutes' duration, the Little Wendel' gained an advantage over the Fairy of three minutes an ° a half. The following particulars, however, of the t oo vessels will show to which 'propelling principle the victory is in reality to be ascribed. The paddle-wheel yeast lis ° a 350 tons burden, and 160-horse power. She had a i r: - cons of coals on board, and the she worked pressure at which '` worked during the trial was 371bs to the square ble u ,: The screw yacht is of 320 tons burden, and 128-hor s : pews!. She had 27 tons of coals on board, and NO' wetking at 101 b pressure to the square inch. of A WORD IN SEASON.—The end to which the acts the late Ministry are concentrating, is an act of nation,' apostasy ; of apostasy from the pure faith of our fore fathers, which was committed to our charge, as contr a ; distinguished from that of idolatrous Rome ; 0 0 , 4 national apostasy from Christianity in the a b s tract, a; committed to our keeping. Sh a ll a n a ti on b e bl e ssed so', the light of pure Christianity as this nation has be en blessed; and after holding it forth to the world for ag es and geperations, shall it turn into the straight road tp up all national profession of religion whatever, and ab l . i t God not see it, shall the Goe of heaven not regard It. The dream of an enthusiast, the delusion of a meda l " „ ' answers the man of the world. We reply, it is nothirt; more or less, than what the word of God reveals. IC u t revealed to faith, and not to sense ; to that faith, wit t is which a man is-a mere lost creature, sporting his ":00 hour, and then lying down in darkness. So the n t declares; ll and from that revelation of the mind and o e , of God we draw all our principles and all our knowle d c , ve. These things,—national judgments, appear, in this I stance, to follow quick on national sins. We were ' O3 ceutly struck by the observations of a man, than ob e d few are better known to the chnrch,—that in the ease l ! ) the crimes or apostasy of nations peculiarly favoured ° e a the revelation of the Divine will, the judgments folio./ quick on the transgressions, while in the case of idolatro n 3 countries the judgments of God were long delayed e , seemed to linger. This truth, he asserted, past exPlv rience, enlightened by the word of God, surely held for p If it be a truth, it seems to receive abundant illustrstwo from the position of this country at this hour. A se e events, every man, above a practical unbeliever, must t `lies and acknowledge the band of God in the eater y ' 0 , threatened to this great people. God's great judg ry 'l l ard " the sword, the famine, and the pestilence,"—" a a t without, pestilence and famine within," appear ne ar to hand. God grant we may have grae.e, as a natie n re ' a te consider our ways : and like Nineveh of old, avert t he tined judgments, by sincere and timely repentance Record. - gr. CONFESSIONS OF A DOCTRESS.—On Friday s Bedford held an adjourned in ques t a t Lincolns . '"o, Fields, on the body of Mary Ho s kins, a married vronVii, The jury returned a verdict of " Natural death. u v r y , zabeth Barnett examined—l live in Russell-court, Dr, de . lane, and am a doctress and a botanist. I attendettedoi, ceased for the last twelve months fur a cancer. 1 nistered to her sweet herbs, knotted marjorum, 1 1 )7 5 1 - bet thyme, sweet marjorum, herbagrass, and things Of o ur 'ere sort. The Coroner—What do you receive for end; attendance, my good woman ? The Doctress—lt der e & sometimes 6d , sometimes Is., according to circurnstanoo The Coroner—Then you have no fixed charze . fee , Doctress—Sartinly, 10d. is my reglars ; my reele r means. The Coroner—l think you should be mor e y 0 tious about prescribing, and demand a regular fee P 1, 4 11 , may run foul both of Newgate and the Apothecaries one The Doctress—l should not like to do that, for the to place is as bad as t'other. A Juror—Then you 9 e 'rrbe say your medicine is sweet and pleasant, like wine • yOd Doctress—l do, Sir. The Juror—Then, my de/' gee shall always prescribe for me. One of the medics Die tlemen present asked, what sort of cancer was i t ' Geo' Doctress—lt was a stone cancer, Sir. The Medie"r, the tleman—You mean to tell us you use nothing fr ° . t billi chemist ? The Doctress—Forbid ! I should use en/jics l from them pison shops ; I never uses no kind of re' s. e : medicines. My remedies be sweet and simple 00 0 et• 11 0 0 Juror—Does your medicine contain any portion et e $ loway's ointment ? The Doctress—No, Sir ; !,! e f 0 () ; my things from Clare-market, without the trolly' e 1 t ing to Holloway or Hornsey for them. I repea ts ' d sic'; no medicines whatsomever, only my own sweets oblige 4 pies, and herbs. A Juror—Madam, will ye° , with your card. The Doctress—Sir, I tell you ” b " i n ng u •;. a doctress, and give my patients no cards, n ° 'i t e sweets and simples. The jury said they were 2 ° , 0 , e l fled, and recorded the verdict we have given au ° ' c or,eo, o understand that the doctress is not a solitary. sC . e , n j 016' the species, that they abound in the metropolis , a good living by their sweets and si THE CHASE. SIR. W. M. STANLEY'S HOUNDS will D3f et° , l :l Wl ' ; ednesd.y, Dec. 17th, (to - morrow, ) a t .. Baclo' stag W in— nf Sutton Sto At eleven o'clock if ' • THE CIIESE IRE iIOUN DS will meet 00, 1 , 8 10 Wednesday, Dec. 17th, at ................ • • k''''-illofi e i Thursday, De,. IBth, at %I v o.. Saturday, Dec. 20th, at .... At IF.II-past ten. 0 Sta. W. W. WYNN'S F. ou-Nins w ill meet o ( 7, liu rt o l Tuesday, Dee. 16 , h, (this day,) a , ............ • o • Ch pt Saturday, Dec. 20tb, at ........ 18th, at c r aib . Thursday, Dec. -... .......... Dudles.troo At half-past ten.