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God.—( FICTI prefer real 1 breaks off thing. evc fluence f ever, as , tied up n of cot Augustus happy eN and trou Friend ' A R dosed ), with standir tion. lying prone not quite I( MILT( portrait of ar man of t being the is virtuosi poetry. Add with very unl s unworthy to s a frugal, in days, yet col not in Pascal all the attri valry in these are tempted to end of their e any he saw p %don of it a Mil tnn )logist farmers ( mcstic natu two and a f lublic at PRIVATE id, in ti or on c by the chuirinan fi cial 1 itrrature. VARI learn to upon .9 Solomon Hayes, of led on r ton and )ad and z th es, tho — ut the loss tesman unary, who ye born they. how- uited with in will often be , (1 to OH a part, notwith: ..itten novel 3, I - former, everything Nt tends to some great great in it fot Then alt one's On the whole, how e. where nothing i re there is no t )wth of t f obtain- ooms have but a igh to pass the with talc, where s not Where this iter only, with moss d, the ( coney is doorinto )1(1 air, it ascends cloud. But until there is no !anger of suffoca- and at last s quite to reach the which are id the black vapour om is thus left free, and set about their low. The first time , I was so disgusted in my choice be- le. f was, there the inmates lying es - e people I bad, Madame de Hell's ays are ti: lan of Loot at ellige nt without Johnson, students, cannot, taken to ,ount or the quality Lord Chesterfield m.' Franklin's man savours of nothing )t, even in her best LEI, not in Rosman, such perception of ntitle it to any ri- greatest writer parison; and yet we life seems to be the purer existence than El in the life and con and every writing of ducation to be and magnani- blic, or peace iuld aspire to ought hit and pattern of the ies, unless he have ice of all that which 'en of Genius. wyer is obliged to They are both S education and reckon chemist ut it is body, want the unsavoury r friends must tell plication.—Extract NEW IRELAND tters of a do wife or or fishing, As the pu- ly are prov !d for 1 South America. AAIENT.—When !e of a wrong fined on soul, say that the terpoied, become 1, not to mention ink quality of a that I could not ry evidence ne ; thong}, 00 per politely complim ,ping, t pen th not ha% ite iu Of the up aint words. e an a( n I sa m per ?,I tension to t Ins. The r rius of Frar inated in any one hel not in Fenelon,—into s of humanity, as to lists. In Germany, t ent to institute a comy that art a )r - C: But the idea of a and him, to be realised Lsyiied every rm justly, both private .ble thin , racteristics 3 obliged to a cer: t about 1 proper terferes i aren, an( througf or his family, a c ;e, and and, to a Me C called pi oath t non sut f our ni lbers of andred mnpany 1 ❑racy of Which I w• Elachrood. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIS DIGBY MACKWORTH AT WATERLOJ COMPARATIVE STATE OF THE COTTON NUFACTURING INTEREST FOR THE FIRST MA (From Sydney's Life of Lord Hill. v's "Life of Lord Hill," we SIX MONTHS OF 1846 AND 1847. find some interesting particulars of the battle of Water- That during the last six months the spinners and ma loci, and of the part which Sir Digby played there, which were furnished to the author by the gallant baronet him- nufacturers have been suffering severely, from the dis self, who is now seeking for the honor of representing proportion existing between the prices of the raw material In the Rev. Edwin Sydney Live rpool in Parliament. The following extract from the and the manufactured article, will be apparent from the '- " "to deserves republication, especially at the following statement, compiled from Mr. Burn's Commer cial Glance, just published. We give first the prices of he staff of Lord water twist and mule twist, in Manchester, on the Ist of witnessed of his July, 1846 and 1847 respectively : - Sir ao+ - Hill, 1 Gel .ckwortli, who v Ikindly communicated what h; efforts at the grand crisis of ; Water Twist. Common Seeds. Good Do. Best Do He placec ci the I Nos. 6 to 12 1846. 1847. 1846. 1847. 6kd 71d 1846. 1847. 8d 8d ancing No. 40 l2ld 13";td 13d 134 d 144 d 141 d under The advance here is on low numbers id on common and within good, and id on best—or about 9 per cent. on the two as former, and 6 per cent. on the latter. In the same numbers of mule twist, the advance was on Nos. 6 to 12, common id, on good id, and on best td,—the per-centage being on the average about the On No. 40's, water twist, the advance was id on )moron, Ad on good, and Id on best. On mule 40's, advance respectively d, id, and id. The ave on this number is under 5 per cent. 11, and 3 Wag I The G( but in the met( We knew not wl )een killed ; and none we felt when he rejoin again x rage per-centai increase. The price of Colonel( had b, nd cotton, on the Ist July in the two -d, and in 1847, 6d to 6d. •e, upon the top price, of Id or, taking the mean price of rease is IV, or about 30 per cent. on The price of Orleans was in 1846, Ist years, was, in le by Lord EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP."—ATI explosion of fire damp took place on Friday, at one of the pits at Aberca naid, belonging to Anthony Hill, Esq. Three men were severely burnt, and a lad, aged 12, killed on the spot ; two horses were also burnt so badly, than one of them died in less than twelve hours. DEATH OF THE O'CONOR DON.—The right honorable Dennis O'Conor, commonly called The O'Conor Don, one of her Majesty's Lords of the Treasury, died on Thursday morning, at his residence, 51, Pall-Mall West. He• was born in 1794, and was consequently in his 53rd year. He has been sixteen years in the House of Commons, and was a Liberal. NOTTINGHAM.—Instead of giving the separate accounts of the weather and crops, furnished from all parts of the country, we may say, once for all, that the weather is glorious, and the prospects of the harvest most brilliant. The potato disease is still talked of by individuals ; but the appearances on which they rely are very partial, and by no means identical with those of the disease of former ttinqham Review. At the Dorchester assizes, on Monday last, a boy named Hayward, who is only ten years of age, was indicted for havirg stabbed another boy, with whom he had quarrelled while they were drinking together at an alehouse. The youthful ruffian was found guilty of a common assault, but the judge postponed the sentence, as he knew not what puiiishnierit to inflict upon a child of such tender A severe thunder storm occurred in Reading on Satur- week, by w a new dis- pensary, now in course of erection, was Thrown down, and the crops in the neighbourhood were injured. The storm also did considerable damage at Southampton : the pre mises in the occupation of a gardener, near the town, were destroyed by fire, being struck by the electric fluid ; and five sheep on a common were killed. AMERICAN PRODUCE.—A vessel of small tonnage has Arrived in the Commercial Docks from New Orleans, named the Baring Brothers, having on board 16,000 bushels of wheat, 34 tierces of pork, and SCO bags and 500 barrels of flour, the produce of the United States of America. This extensive importation in a vessel of small tonnage into the establishment mentioned is an instance of the extent to which all kinds of craft are made avail able at this time for the introduction of grain and articles of food. A man named Williamson, who had been committed for trial on a charge of forgery, succeeded in escaping from the Yarmouth prison on Saturday last. While some bricklayers, who were employed in executing repairs, had with whitening, placed a hod on his shoulders, and suc ceeded in quitting the prison without awakening the sus picions of the keepers ; but he was retaken on the follow ing day by the police. FATALITY IN A MILL AT HYDE.-A girl named Mary Ellor, a breaker off in the factory of J. Sidebotham, Esq., of Hyde, was killed on Friday week. The poor girl was carried round the shaft five times by an engine strap. At the inquest on Monday last, evidence was ad duced to the effect that William. Bottomby, a man who worked at the same engine as deceased, and whose duty it was to manage the strap, had in joke thrown it over the. girl's neck, and thereby occasioned the fatal catas- trophe. He was con of manslaughter. THE POST-OFFICE of letters per week d —lt appears that the total number oliverrod in thn Tinitori T(intninnn has augmented from 1,459.761, which was-the number at the date previous to the first general reduction of postage on the sth of December, 1839, to 6,148;876, at which it stood entire period having gone steadily on, almost without ex ception, week by week. Of this total of 6,148,876, about 670,000 pass within the London disttict post, the increase in which department is about half as great as that which has taken place in the London General Post. DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO DESTROY LIFE BY GUN POWDER.—The government Police Gazette contains the offer of 150 guineas reward for the apprehension of the parties who, early on the morning of the 14th, placed a pound weight of blasting gunpowder on the sill of the bed-room window of the house occupied by Mr. Joseph Robinson, farmer, of Greewell-mill House, Ryton, in Durham, folded tightly in brown paper, so as to form a cartridge, with a piece of linen communicating with the powder, which had been set on fire., Providentially, how ever, the fire became self-extinguished before it reached the powder. THE MOORS. — We are glad to hear that in all the fine shooting districts in the upper part of Moray and Banff, the disease which for two years ravaged the moors has now quite disappeared, and that the grouse this seasonare everywhere healthy and strong. We have not heard of a single diseased bird having been found by the•springs and streams, where the last two seasons they could have been picked up by hundreds. From conversations with the keepers, they say the broods are numerous, but not large, from six to ten young birds, and scarcely a barren bird to be seen. The young broods are already strong, and by the 12th will afford excellent sport. So far as we have learned, the above statement applies equally to the upper districts of Aberdeenshire.—Elgin Courant. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Mademoiselle Lind ap peared on Thursday evening in a new part ; and it was time. It was in a new opera called I Masnath:- • posed expressly for this theatre by Signor Verdi, wh.. in London at present, and conducted the performance in person. A live "maestro," of continental fame, is an ob ject of curiosity when she appears in an English orchestra. 4eri; corn- The last of such appearances which we witnessed here were those of Rossinni and Weber, from whom to Verdi, it must be owned there is a considerable descent. Never theless, he was warmly welcomed when he took his place. He is a young man, with dark Italian features, handsome and intelligent; and promising more genius (we cannot help saying) than his works have hitherto exhibited. INTnEPID CONDUCT.—An astonishing instance of fe male heroism took place last week, in Morden-street, Troy-town, Rochester. in which a young girl, named Sarah Rogers, aged about 15, risked her life to-save an infant ten months old, who, in the absence of its parents, crept out of the parlour into the garden, and found its way to the well, the cover of which was on, hilt-owing to one of the boards requiring repair, the child slipped in. The girl who had charge missing it, ran to the well imme diately, and saw the infant at the bottom: The poor girl raised a loud scream, and without hesitation lowered the bucket gradually, and then descended by the. rope the depth of 63 feet, when she seized the child with one hand and with the other upset the bucket, which had-filled with water. She :hen placed the child in it, and anumber of neighbours having by this time arrived, the child and girl were pulled up. _ . . ! SINGULAR CASE OF DROWNING.—A short time since Mr. Henry Ralph, yeoman, of Bagber, near Sturminster, Dorset, went to bathe in the river adjoining his farm. He was followed by his favourite dog, and, as Mr. Ralph was swimming in the stream, the animal out of fondness for his master also took the water, and got on his master's -1, - which obliged him to turn himself over : ar w' LI , lei in this position, the dog got on his bosom and neck, which caused . his master to sink, to rise no more alive. 3, a servant of the deceased, v catastrophe without been able to render any assistance Mr. Ralph was a single man, and much respected by all who knew him.—Bath paper. Some interesting experiments are now being made at Woolwich on the comparative strength of guns of differ ent construction, in order to ascertain the most effective distribution of a given weight of metal. The guns under trial are 32-pounders, weighing just 50 cwt. each. Two have been fired till they burst, and the result is.a3 fol lows :—Mr. Monk's gun stood 130 rounds, the charges progressively increasing from tilb. of powder, with two shot and two wads, to 121 b. of powder, with three shot and three wads. It burst on the 131st round. Colonel Dundas's pattern stood 140 rounds, with similarly gressivc increasing charges.. It burst on the 141st round, the last round being fired with 131 b. of powder, three shot, and three wads, having stood ten rounds more than the other elm, with 12lb. of powder and treble-spotted. The experiments are still proceeding with other guns will decide the important quesilon which ha; _long been. dim, for the purpose of combining the greatest strength with the greatest steadiness. CONTEMPLATED SALE OF SHAKSPEARE'S BIRTH PLACE.—On Thursday, a large and influential meeting at Stratford-upon-Avon, of the members of the Stratford cially announced by the mayor, for the purpose of consi dering the best measures for providing against the destruc tion of the birthplace of Shakspeare, and for erecting some worthy memorial of the same dramatist in his native town. Dr. Pettigrew, F.R.S., presided. Amongst the nobility and gentry on the platform, we noticed Lord Brooke, M.P.,Sir C. Douglas, M.P., Sir William Bethar n , Bart., Sir ortunatis Dwarris, Bart., Sir H. Dillon, M.P., Sir . James Anneeley, T. Crofton Cooker, W. Harrison Ains worth, F. Ainsworth, J. 0. Halliwell, Rev. C. T. Southey_ Rev. J. Clayton, rector of Stratford ; Professor Unbasca (Berlin), C. Roache Smith, and T. Wright, M.A. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed in favour of the object for passed in furtherance of it.—The sale of Shakspeare's house is advertised at the Auction Mart, for September 16, by Mr. Robins. PERJURY IN THE DAGENHAM MURDER CAST Kimpton, formerly a police-constable of the K division, surrendered to take his trial at Chelmsford, upon an in dictment charging him with having committed wilful and corrupt perjury upon an examination taken before Mr. Lewis, the coroner for Essex. Mr. )3aron Parke having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Mr. Hkwkins then took an objection to the form of indict- ment, which, he said, merely averred that the offence was committed on a certain day in the year 1846 ; and he sub mitted that the indictment should have contained the appeared to be of opinion that there was something in the objection ; and he said he should take time to consider of it.—lsaac Hickton, another constable of the same division, was then arraigned upon a similar indictment, arising out of the same transaction. The jury found him guilty, but recommended him to mercy. Judgment was deferred. On the following day, Mr. Baron Parke said, that upon a further consideration of the point of law re served by the learned counsel in the case of the two men Kimpton and Hickton, the Dagenham policemen, he had resolved not to give effect to it by postponing the judg ment ; but he should pass sentence upon the conviction that had taken place, leaving it to the prisoners to adopt the course of issuing a writ of error, if they thought proper to do so. The prisoners were sentenced to pay a fine of ls., to be imprisoned for a week, and then to be transported for sewn years. At the Winchester assizes, on Friday, a verdict of £4OO damages was obtained by a Miss Harvey, a dressmaker, against Thomas Johnstone, a sur i geon in the navy, for breach of promise of marriage. The declaration differed from the ordinary cases of this' description, viz., stating that the plaintiff was residing at Toronto, and in consider ation that she would return to Ireland for the purpose of marrying the defendant, he (the defendant) promised to marry her. It then stated her return, of which lie had due notice, and his refusal, and the loss of the business the plaintiff had given, up, and the expense of the voyage were laid as special damage. The defendant pleaded that lie did not promise ; that the plaintiff did not arrive in Ireland within a reasonable time;: that he had not due notice of her arrival ; that she was not ready and willing to marry him ;. and that he had not due notice of her readiness ; that a reasonable time had not elapsed ; and that the plaintiff had discharged him from his promise. The evidence was very conclusive, principally arising from the letters of the defendant,the most ludicrous ever read in a court of justice, giving accounts of the dreams of " her dear Tommy." One of them was an earnest per suasion for her to return from Canada, where the plaintiff had gone, because she saw no prospect of his fulfilling his promise. On her return, hotook not the slightest notice of any of her letters. It appears that there was some ob jection on the-part of his family, and the counsel excused the warmth of his letters on the ground that they were written by an Irishman 1 TRIAL OF A WOMAN FOR HANGING HER THREI —At the Carmarthen Assize Court, last week Justice Cresswell, CHILDREN before Mr. looking middle-aged woman (altho - ugh by her manner it Sarah, Mary was evident that 'her mind was deranged,) N for the wilful murder of her three children and Evan Hughes, under the most horrible circumstances The husband of the wretched woman, who is a mason, rented a cottage at the foot of the Llanbyther Mountain, and on the morning of the 28th of April, when 'he left for work, the children were in good health, and the mother seemingly in her usual spirits. In the course of the day her sister had occasion to visit the house, but, not finding the unfortunate woman in the building, she proceeded to examine the place, and on entering a loft sh was horror-stricken on seeing the three lifeless children suspended by handkerchiefs from a large beam running across the roof. On being called on to plead to the in dictment, she stared steadfastly at the learned judge, and seemed to have no knowledge of what was passing around. The demand was made to her in Welsh, still she heeded not the challenge, and remained mute. The jud ge ex- amined the medical officer of the prison as to the capa bility of her mind to plead, who pronounced her to be insane. The learned judge then explained the law to the jury, as to the incapacity of prisoners to plead when their minds were affected, and directed them to return a ver dict of not guilty in her case. This was accordingly done, and the unhappy woman will, therefore, be detained dur ing her Majesty's ple i A MOUNTAIN ASSAULT BY A SCHOOLMASTER.-At the Lincoln assizes on Tuesday, an action was brought by a Mr. Humfrey, an independent gentleman residing at Leicester, against the Rev. Mr. Inman, head masterof the Grantham Free Gram - mar School, for an assault committed by the latter on pro secutor's son, a lad 16 years old. Defendant had inflicted the punishment for alleged misconduct on the part of the The iger, a surgeon, Miss the master paused during the operation for breath We have scarcely ceased to speak of. the melancholy fate of the Rev. Mr. Starr, whose remains were so recently found on Snowden, until we have to recerd a mountain adventure, in another lad's back, as described _ Payne, his aunt, and Turner, a man, servant, was a mass locality, of a townsman, on Friday last, which very nearly ended in the same fatal manner. Half-a-dozen friends left Ambleside about noon, to take a pedestrian excursion to Langdale, and, if possible, to ascend the well-known pikes. When they came to the foot of this precipitous mountain, they partook of some refreshment at a farm-house there ; and three of them, thinking they would be unable to•undertake the task, returned home ward, while the other three, after taking directions from the people at the farm house, wended their way up the lesser pike. From a misapprehension cf the length of the proposed journey.,, they had left Ambleside without din ing, taking only a few sandwiches, and these, with milk Ind bread at the farm was all they had. The th”— I leir ascent for about thre ° e-quarters of an V hour c of them (about thirty vt.m.. of arra \ horrinnincr •- kr.4 , -MO 41: tam y ycizr vi age) uegutimig LAI feel fatigued, thought he would stop to rest himself, and await the return of his friends. He sat down, and, after continuing to enjoy the scene for some time, bethought himself that they might possibly have miscalculated their return, and that if the clouds which he saw touching the tops of some of the higher ridges (Sea Fell and Bow Fell), should come towards him, he might have a difficulty in finding his way, there being no road or footpath, and he had trusted to his friends for guidance, he being a fo reigner, and not understanding or heeding the directions given at the farm. He therefore began to retrace his steps, and after half-an-hour's walk in what he thought the right direction, he found he was in error. In the hope of reaching the dale at the foot, he still continued his course ; it became steeper and steeper, and apparently would be more difficult to retrace his steps than proceed. Ho came suddenly to the brink of a precipice, which, as near as he could judge, seemed to be about thirty to forty yards high. He still thought it might be possible to de scend gradually by the help of a tree growing out of the rock, and to aid in his descent, he stripped, toc shirt, cut it up into shreds, which he tied tc toned to the tree, and, after weighing the chances of dan ger as to going down or up, lie deliberately chose the former, as the safer of the two courses, and lowered him self down to a ledge a good number of feet below the edge ! But when there, he saw the impossibility of further pro gress either way. It was now about seven o'clock, the , nether, fas- July 27,1347. LORD JOHN MANNERS AND HIS PRINCIPLES. His lordship is either a very ill-used or a 'very Unfortu nate political man. He is misunderstood, he says him self. He is misrepresented, his friends reiterate. But, somehow, neither himself nor his friends make much progress in showing us in what, and how, he is misunder stood or misrepresented. Perhaps- it may be that plain practical people cannot see the very fine clictinetinT.4 which his lordship draws; or that we get beWildered amidst the cloud of rhetoric with which he clothes every subject upon which he touches. Ills lordship says, for example, that his opinions with respect to the establishment of monastic' institutions and the repeal of the law of mortmain, are misunderstood ; that the only object of his bill upon the subject was to remove those provisions which void any bequest for reli gious or quasi religious uses, unless made upwards of three months before death. And he instane , -- wkere the effect of the provisions was to depriv Coat School, in this town, of a charitable bequest all this is beside the question, and is mere spec; ing. His lordship has declared, in hi s plate ment, and in F s a case the Blue Now plead- the re-establishment of monastic institutions in thig coun try, and that the operation of the act which he seeks to repeal or to modify, stands alone in the way of such re establishment. We gave in our last paper sufficient to prove this from his lordship's speeches, extracted from the pages of Hansard's parliamentary debat ceed to give an additional extract or two froi We pro,- before entitled the monastic and manufaCturinz ystems, by Anglo-Catholicism," and which is very generally understood to have been written by his lordship. The pamphlet in question was written (originally in the• Morning Post) soon after the disturbances which took ,he summer of tutions, or " Religious Houses," as the great remedy for that state of society out of which those disturbances arose. He says—" We believe that, as the misery and ignorance, which carried those disorders, sprung chiefly from the inefficiency of church administration and church educa tion, so do their remedies consist in what Mr. Gresley emphatically terms a restoration of the national Murch ;' but we also fear that the parochial system alone cannot, as at present constituted, fully provide for the spiritua wants-of our rnani _..-acturing districts : and we hope , . to be able to show that it is not without reason we call for the foundation. of Religious Houses." (Page 4.) And again. speaking of the parochial system, he says—" -.,. ui,pcine win lb even. in Blanchester; but to it in large overgrown towns we would add a monastic institute." His Lordship then proceeds to show, on the authority of Messrs. Gresley and Palmer's pamphlets, what he calls "the impotence of that (the parochial) system as it now stands, to supply the religious wants of our large towns ;" and after stating the sum of those wants, asks the question, "Does not the very sound of the figures alnn P not +h necessity of some sort of monastic institution?" • His Lordip proceeds to vindicate the principle of monastic institutions, by quotations from various writers, amongst whom are Sir William Dugdale, Bishop Tanner (in his preface to the ." Notitia Monastica"), Camden (in the preface to his " Britannia"), Southey (in his " Book of the Church"), Sir John Markham, Bishops Burnet, Pearson, Fuller, Archbishop Leighton, Paget, &c. Some of these writers have contended that a few of the old monasteries might have been kept up in a reformed condition, and without monastic vows being permitted to bind their communities, principally. to serve as colleges for the education of religious teachers. Many of them, however, only contend for their secular uses in past ages, and praise the munificence of their founders. His Lordship appears to be an ardent admirer of the Sisters of Charity, and thus advocates the establishment of similar orders in this country : "We are not much in the habit of holding up France, or modern French sayings and doings, to admiration, bid in this matter we have a painful pleasure in awarding to that nation our just meed of praise; for that when the revolutionary mad ness of 1830 impelled them to banish all monastic institutions from their land, wisdom and humanity had still sufficient sway over the public mind to procure an excel tion in favour of the Sisters of Charity, who now discharge their functions •in all the hospitals of that country with a self-denying, retiring, con stant zeal, far above all human praise —far above all human reward. We defy any one, though never so impressed with what is called the truly British conviction that everything in France must be wrong, to visit one of the large French hospi tals, managed, as they are, in every the minutest particular, by les &eurs de Charlie, and to leave it without confessinghow infinitely preferable is the system which trusts the wounded and the ailing to the fostering care of religious charity, to that which, as in England, raises an altar to Mammon even in the very temple consecrated to Mercy.* How many discontented, avaricious, gambling old maids, faded beauties, speculating widows, have, during the last' three centuries, in England, wasted their energies, and died miserably, because the 'great and fatal error" of the Reformation left thent no scope for use fulness; while the world, seeing the church set no store by their services, claimed them as its own, and bound its hardly gilded chains round their souls and bcidies !"- * "I should be glad to know why a society of ancient maids, who may unite together and agree not to go beyond their gar- den walls, are less respectable or less virtuous than the same nv.mber of ladies dispersed abroad, who collect parties at whist, or at any other amusement."—Wyndha;n's Speech on the Mo .. nastic Bdl. The selection of his materials here is rather unfortunate " Discontented, avaricious, gambling old maids, faded les, spi eculating widows, laracterfi whom his lordship says, as sisters of charity, " may once again appear as angels of light and mercy in the streets of our dingy and wealth-worshipping towns" (page 30), or who are at all likely to enable the poet to sing with truth, " By gentle stream, in sheltering wood And narrow-streeted town, The quiet convent's prayer cloth bring A quiet blessing down." ks to the extent to which he would car out the s "Before we quit this interesting subject, which will we are convinced, ere long force itself, by the courseof events, on the attention of churchmen and statesmen, and all who care, though never so little, for their country, we must guard our selves from the possible imputation that we wish to restore, in all its full-blown pride, the monastic system of the fifteenth century. The state of England at this thus would alone afford a sufficient answer to the understandings of thinking men; but to prevent all possible misconception, we emphatically declare that nothing would induce us for a momentio. entertain the idea of the revival of monastic institutions, unless with the most unqualified assertion of direct episcopafcontrol, their en tire subordination to the church, and the absence of vows. As assistants to the parochial clergy, as servants and handmaids to the church, we believe, and &ink we have proved, their ex istence would be most beneficial. independent of the parochial clergy, and only perfunctorily supervised by the bishop, it needs.but small•discernment to foresee that they would, even without vows, again split on the selfsame rock against which they were dashed in the sixteenth century, This, then, would be our pledge and their safeguard—subordination to the paro-_ chial clergyman, obedience - to the bishop, and the poVer of returning to the world, when the weAkness of the flesh, or the hope of being more serviceable to mankind, inclines the indi vidual to do so." And the mode is— " A repeal or modification of the mortmain law of 1736: s law which, we confidently assert, never would have become the law of- the land if an opportunity bad been afforded for the ex pression of the church's voice in convocation—a law which was protested, against by both the universities and by nearly every !Itto I ,4 • , itmen c t o s u t r l s i e e charity in the kingdom—a law based on views of policy the most grovaling_aric_l 7 c u m o c u h s rist ara'ait u e p ed o e r d t , ec in worst and most disastrous effects." of its operatio Now a single question, with respect to this part of the Lord John says " Nothing would induce hint subject for a moment to entertain the revival of monastic institu tions, unless with the most unqualified assertion of direct episcopal control, their entire subordination to the Church ;" and again, regards their members tants to the parociiiaTcle7gi, as servants and handmaids to the Church." The repeal of the law of mortmain will enable pious Roman Catholics, as well as Protestant churchmen, to bequeath money for religious houses, for we take it for granted that his lordship would not advo cate the creation of another Roman Catholic disability, by excepting them from the provisions of his measure; al' we ask—under what " episcopal control." in submilim tion to what church, mid as assistants to what parochiol clergy, will the members of those houses be ? We pre sume to the Romish Church and parochial clergy. How ever much, therefore, his lordship may tell us, that the repeal of the MGrtmain Act is designed by him to advance the interests and usefulness of the Anglican Church, WC tell him that it is infinitely more calculated to promote the power of a rival and apostate church, whose p r ineiplfs , tenets and practices have ever been those, against which the law of mortrnain was set up as a barrier— tortion of bequests for religious uses, from dyin iz. the e%: nen, 33 of their soulsre se in another N‘orla doubt as to his intentions with respect to the Church o .' Rome's participation in this alleged boon. His apiuion! s clearly shewn in the following passage of his speech, deli, vered Ist August, 1843, which we gave last seek, all' here repeat :-- " It would be said that if the mortmain laws were relaxed ! favour of the Church of England, they must also be relaxed °- favour of the Church of Rome and of Dissenters. He at 011 1 uould frankly avow that he was prepared to meet that objecti on by denying it to be one. The Roman Catholics and Dissent e,- , had been plated upon a footing of political equality, and utt with reference to this subject? In this matter he claii» e _ ^ocial immunity for the Church of England. He was Pr e ; thy Roman Catholics to build and enti ° and churches for theltoman Cathe i ti lT , t%T: ther and saY t i) —4,11 no s E pared to allow weal Romrn Catholic schoc population of the count among the boons which Parliament should grant to ranked the revision of the mortmain laws. Fla held this out m o p alternative to those who shrunk baekfrona the proposal a/PO re-. the Roman Catholic priests, and he said. if they were not P the pared to shift the burden of supporting their clergy fror t bat shoulders of the miserable and ground-do wn p e as an try of who country to the shoulders of the st a t e , a t l eas t perm it those s o. willing to bear their portions of those burdens to d° ^rmit the rich Roman Catholics to administer to t least r nts of their poorer brethren in that eountr noes-a -u— ge, o 100 )n, in o f s ,eful 1100„,,,h, of black bruises, the skin being broken in some places, and blood upon the flannel jacket. The jury found the de fendant guilty, but recommended him to the merciful con- not press ror punishment, the object in view being gained by the defen- Lie court dant's conviction. TUE MIRFIELD MURDERS. — On Monday and Tuesday, Patrick Reid was tried at York assizes, for the wilful murder of James Wraith, Ann Wraith his wife, and Caroline Ellis, their servant, on the 10th of May last, at Mirfield. Michael M`Cabe, the man first apprehended on the charge, gave evidence against the prisoner, and positively swore to seeing him in the house about the time the murder was committed ; but his statements were contradictory to those he had formerly made. The jury, after a lengthy retirement, returned a verdict of not guilty.—Mr. Bliss, on the evening of Wednesday, presented an affidavit to Mr. Justice Wightman, relative to the detention of Patrick Reid for trial at the next assizes, in which the deponent stated he believed he iect that accountday. The ha would lea r a b e d e would be prepared with further m a t er i a l ev id ence i n t h e a ca iv s e e n ; a a a n t d o als i o , thatahe,a pro am e oeere ef proceedings r judge said he would consider of It. ent day the trial of Reid for the murder of Mrs. Wraith and Caroline Ellis (the prisoner having been acquitted of the murder of James Wraith only,) was postponed until next THE SHEFFIELD MURDER. — George Bradley, aged 26,. and James Bradley, aged 23, two brothers, were indicted on Wednesday, at York assizes, for having, on the 12th of January last, at Sheffield, feloniously and maliciously killed and murdered John Riley. There was another in dictment against the same men, for having, on th same occasion, robbed the deceased, John Riley, of a silver Watch, 11s., and a fourpenny piece. This was a length ened case, and occupied the whole day. The deceased had been a tobacconist, in Waingate, Sheffield; and it appeared that on the night in question, after leaving his shop at about half-past nine, he went to an inn with a friend. In the course of the night he became intoxicated, and on his way home, about midnight, had evidently been robbed, and had also received several severe injuries on irts of the body. There was at least the head ar. .aspect, from the evidence against the clouds were descending the mountain, and his situation prisoners touching the possession of the property, that became most alarming. He endeavoured to attract atten they had been concerned in the personal violence, from tion by shouting and waving his vest and handkerchief, the effects of which deceased died on the following Satur- though neither house nor person was in sight. His however, both acquitted of the strength gradually gave way under the exertion and long following day they were ar- continued excitement. His footing was as nothing , an d r ood for the robbery, of which they were found guilty, he was, from his situation, incapable of moving. Most And the learned Judge passed upon them the extremest providentially, his alarm had been heard in the vale be mtence that the law allows—transportation for 15 years. low, and his signs observed. After a long interval of CoNFEssioN OF A MURDER. — AbOnt two years and a dread suspense and dire forboding, he had the unspeak fr. Henry Williams, a solicitor, was conveyed able pleasure of observing, at a great distance below him, one - night in a cab, insensible, and covered with six figures wending their way up a distant shoulder of the Afterwards he died. At the inquest, hill. Their steps seemed directed towards him ; and soon 'kland, a man who had put the de- he became sure of this, as he observed they carried a some- And attended him home, were ex- thing which he could not at first make out : it turned ild be learned of the manner in out to be a large coil of rope. One of the six was let down 1 1 , his death. The immediate by his fellows with the rope round his body. He fastened blow over the eye with a I an end round the almost sinking wanderer,. and he was An open verdict was returned ; and immediately. hoisted up in safety, and conducted by his more was then ascertained respecting the matter. deliverers to the farm-house, where the greatest attention '4eight, on Tuesday last, John Ramsden, a (" even as that of a mother's house ") was paid him by ..n, appeared at the Bagnigge Wells Police-sta- the good people there. He states that the good matron atoxicated, and surrendered himself as the mur- of this hospitable dwelling burst into tears when she saw of Mr. Williams ; and gave a circumstantial account him safe within their threshold. After a short rest, and the matter : he hit the man on the head with a stick ; partaking of such refreshment as he could, he got a cart Ae was in company with Strickland ; since the crime he to convey him back to the place of his departure. The had had no peace. Ramsay was brought before the melancholy fate of Mr.. Starr, the one now narrated, as Clerkenwell magistrate on Wednesday. Inspector Pmny well as the experience of many other parties, shows the A stated that Rarriay's wife had told him that she had been great danger of attempting these difficult ascents without ) kitchen-maid to the Duke of Wellington, and saved some a guide. However cool and collected an individual may i money ; she married Ramsay, and they opened a shop at be (and no one could he more so than the gentleman 11QW. Somers Town ; her husband became acquainted with Wil- spoken of), the first approach of danger brings with it a -4 through him they were brought to ruin and state of doubt ill suited to surmount a danger wholly un- The prisoner declined making any remark anticipated and entirely new. All former experience is trate ; and he was remanded for a week. A good for nothing; and every step iii the direction of sup m. saw him at the station, and, declared that lie was posed relief, only adds to the accumulating difficulties.-- prom a Correspondent. but on tl d into the vehiel ut now Williar 'eared to have beet' But at ir 3 iioi 1 . ham baiikruptcy 1 to the mars ' DRSE IN .nt of five s to a work E to ret Every a too mu please t t in five pla two fowls w HE EARL bout to wel ,ofned 1 perioct with z will look unseen-a: ith, and, close by i ellow, and shapeles ire pe- Observe the xi my 111111( and the five Increase Y REFO 21,023 ,Oicier!t I was becoi: was over, broth There is an inert in 1847, or 20 1. Lord Hill 1846 at 41d, the the raw material I full of The mer Lied as he v certain well known circumstan cavalry and infantry repeatcdl All nigh y the elite of the French d wi forty p: to leap - oier tle brist ABSTRACT OF BUSINESS reds of them were dropping in all directions from :nu up to supply s in vain to att Lock of Goods in Warehouse on the 30th June y swep. our rear, and rushing into ti d attempted to cut their way back to their ►e Nivelle )wn lines Increase our infantry on both almost im fell the re- Goods landing during the six Ith June rs, of whom not one Increase vound. The cannonade continued ; and about, six o'clock we saw ►SHIPPING AND TONNAGE a I Ships with cargoes a I Ships entered e I light to land 158 Increase. Total increase July, 3d to 7d; in 18:17, it was 7d to 9d. The price of Surat and Madras was, in 1846, 3id, and of common Surat 2id to nd ; in 1847, Madras was at 5d to 51d, and. Surat at 3id to 51d. These rates shew an immense dis proportion between the prices of cotton and of yarns; and prove that the trade must have been a losing one. In giving the relative prices of power-loom cloth for nase it to the two half-years, we shall take in 7-B's and 9-B's, ' 27-inch 72-reed printers, and 40-inch 60-reed shirtings. , had the re- These were, on the Ist Of June, 1846, as follows:-7-8's, d the proceedings of the past day. His 4s. 7d. to 4s. 9d. ; 9-B's, ss. 11d. to Gs. sd. ; shirtings, v sent for the service of this volume, Bs. 14-d. The following were the prices with cotton a -1... 11 p.m., Waterloo. After de- vanced from 20 to 30 per cent. in 1847 :-7-B's, ss. 41d. he proceeded : to ss. 9d. ; 9-B's, 6s. to 6s. 9d. ; shirtings, Bs. 11d. The ' - --n•ed in manufacturer, therefore, has not been doing a much more n abstract of the business done in : for the several years 1845, 1846, and 62,269.. 63,435 68,879 t) uj,ij 300.. 84,422 . 324.. 87,380.. 330.. 87,719 Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons. _ It was evident ht probabl perialGuard with music playing, paces in our li which deat Were covered with bodies of cav now ev a decisive, one With rapid pace they de I opened and left uch depended on this terrible Lt Napoleon farm of La led. Those The point at which formed by a brigade of Guards, and the Light Brigtide of Lord Hill's corps. Lord Hill was there in person. The French moved on with arms sloped, au pas de charge. They began to ascend the hill. In a few seconds they were within a hundred paces of us, and as yet not a shot had beeri fired. The awful moment was now at hand. A peal of ten thousand thunders burst at once on their devoted heads. The storm swept them down as a whirl- ind which rust over ti their advance ceased; they co heads of their columns front ; but death had al] )they to avoid a tir 15,294.. 112.. 11,440.. 130.. 12,479 w rend paa For ° half an hour this horribly last, seeing all their efforts vain, eserted by thei. cror who u ported by the hitherto Invincible 01 every direction. On The line at one anced, g g in one common end battle was over. Guns, prisoners, ammunition, wag gons, baggage, horses, successively fell into our hands. Night and fatigue compelled us to halt. We halted on each side of the Genappe road, and in a short time nu merous columns of Prussians came pouring along in pur suit of the enemy. Each battalion cheered us in paksing. The officers saluted, and many embraced us. Never was witnessed a more enthusiastic moment. We felt amply rewarded for the exertions of the day. The Prussians continued the pursuit without interruption. Lord Hill and staff retired to a small cottage where we now are. We have but one room between nine of us, including his pounds weight each about a V k earlier 18 1,039 24 1,378 erntral 111i5rt1ia1tp. ________,.._ It cost the Duke of Cleveland, last year. £5,000 in the conveyancing of an estate of £7,000 or £B,OOO a-year. Professor Wilson has published a letter disclaiming- all present connection with Blackwood's Magazine. _...,• they paused ; On Wednesday, the London bakers lowered the price _..menced firing from the of the four pound loaf a half-penny. and attempted to extend their The East Tndia Company have granted an annuity of du £lOOO to Major-General Sir G. Pollock. 1 i There were no fewer than twenty-five tankrupts in 1 l Friday's Gazelle. The Rev. W. S. Monck, one of the curates of the • At parish church, Leeds, has fallen a victim to the fever at tncir courage useless, present raging in that town. ,as already fled, unsup- On and after the Ist of August next, all paragraphs in ) were already beaten, t h e newspapers, referring to advertisements, are to be sub trd gave way, and fled in ject to the usual advertising duty. eons and almost painfully A curious race was run lately in Hyde Park, Sheffield. ''--- victorious ranks of A man, in regular Lancashire clogs, ran against another - -- I q. officers, in pumps, for a mile ; clogs won easy. A few days since, at a late hour of the evening, a lumi nous globe appeared in the sky, near Brighton, expanded itself to a considerable size, and then suddenly vanished. The Belfast News Letter says that Mr. Sheridan Knowles indignantly declined the offer of Lord John Russell" to settle on him a pension of £lOO a-year. The seventeenth. list of subscriptions to the General Committee for Highland destitution records the sum to be £109,978 Ils. ld. An electric telegraph has been fixed in the House of Commons for the purpose of transmitting communications between the lobby and the committee rooms. GOOD SPORT. — Three young men, the Messrs. Macgil livray, of Lochcarron, killed four hundred lythe - fish, in one evenin, lately at Le,9h Register. - The Royal College of Chemistry has offered a premium of £lOOO for the discovery of a means by which iron, when applied to ordinary purposes, may be rendered impervious to rust. The statue in marble of Prince Albert, subscribed for by the merchants to commemorate his having laid the foundation-stone of the Royal Exchange, has been placed in the vestibule of Lloyd's. Mr. Albert Smith has addressed a letter to the Times.. deprecatory of night balloon ascents,in which he describes himself as " one of those who joined in the perilous foolery." It is the general opinion that if the weather continue fine, the wheat harvest will be commenced in this neigh bourhood about the 9th of August, and, in some very for- IVilts Independe;it A gardener residing near Doncaster, lately gathered one hundred doze's of apricots from a single tree, upon which he left about two hundred dozens to grow to their full A JUST REWARD.—At Hornchurch, Essex, a few nights ago, a thief, who was busily engaged robbing a s killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol ho were surrounded by the tide and drowned between THE Pi their ease, from t They do not often ( " Feel their burdened 1 Heaving beneath incumbent lleit themselve So that to posterity their wreath: Here, perhaps, an . everlasting amar side, some weed of an hour, sere, y Their beauties will lose half their c company they k, event, to the r culiar to, and definite o might be told in two pug an epic poem from a romanc march of Milton ; his severe polish ; his deep metaph•s God before he began his t think of devoting 1 iversal scienu voyages, and I in the cor Ireland r Roden. I woul try, geology They rely too much c ,ecarne his daily fo, gathering cockles on the sands and Carsethorn on Thursday. is rumoured that ti Nicholas Wiseman, D.D . bop of Melipotamus, and Superior of St. Mary's Col- Oscott, is to be created cardinal in the room of Car- political connexion, the _At Hammersmith police-court on Saturday, it was de- Protestant, or, more properly speaking, the Orange party, t id e d th a t an omn ib us p ro p r i e to r may book passengers, he is, of course, looked up to as a leader; an d, by a life as in an ordinary stage coach, and retain seats for those of honourable consistency, and bold, earnest advocacy of w h o h ave p a id thei r f a res, or contracted with them for their cause, he has fully earned th . ' weave Giasgow uy an express trani EY spirit at 20 - minutes past 5 o'clock in the morning, and reach 'nferior London at 9 o'clock in the evening of the same day. In 'eking th e year 1810 the shortest time the distance could be per no- formed by ordinary coaching was 78 hours. A field of barley, on the farm of Mr. George Roberts, of Exwick, has been cut this week. The field was sown by the barley which fell out of the over=ripe ears last year, nd has not been touched since. The crop is. fine and re- in the natural con: ,sengers may nov will exalt into models of perfection men of a far• order to the Earl of Roden, if they succc themselves politically useful. But, in the e bleman, we have to record a more honourab One of the worst features of political affairs always been that party differences have too gendered personal hatreds. In England, i' overstep, in the very height of_our f ' Ireland has nerally en •arc that w•e calc - ulated upo h I kr -- et, however violently, in public, do not c lon on londay was no less than their cont 115, tl :rich were, with a f or wholly laden w calls of Wanted to purchase, of tit how diffc ,000 to and more civilise may he hoped to he viol they use in speaking hostile it certainly id entary n in the n( :e carrying with A. correspondent of the Morning Post states that Cop!- ear ton, the prosecutor in the two remarkable arts-martial recently held at Portsmouth, has a Court-martial on himself, in order to clear ter from aspersions cast upon it in reference to a shown a stern of oats the once, gigantic height of five feet ten inches, with an ear of un f the common length, containing no fewer than one hundred This extraordinary production is one, as there are numbers of Whiteluzven Herald, The junk Keying, whose voyage ited some interest. was spoken c N. long. 61 W., by the Urani The crew of the junk were in gre I were bearing. her up for the Am Imouth hermetically closed, of Sir Will been lid(' down adjoining y fellow I his love glects to bring in the )pplaint is made, the s just grounds to population of the .rm themselves with t with anxious st. he i prejud stands rc He has s where scarcely will always bear 1 touched on tende virtue so prized by tlu Ind set ti ,h mind. The land ha Church.—t)l e composition of the I on of it. So I would wri ity minds, 0: respecter parties than the _Earl of I Card za - rded levana s 411ogrt4in The ill. recom rtailt that Jenny_ Lind is to (lc 1 of the year th the gentlemat ver, turns out to be arelativ dergyrqgn, Sci; I by most very g it I his cl 'y if such 11, you We haw A. powerful ( to prevent all ox thiough the hear A YOUTH. Y LIND ay, Jame zes 41- Chelrn f of Mrs. G I Xll ti TESTIMONIAL MANIA Eyerybod3 body a testimonial, 'Wellin; high horse ; Cobden, the pe world—not a country ; and Hudson, the railwayl3 lo ,M it y. whose motto might be " Nulla dies sine lined. " -": 1 0 1 however, be confidently predicted that one might be n' e exertions in alleviating human suffering the just and willingly-rendered elaim e enumerated. This wal 11 to mind the almost in n ut' ar e o f th°s at o n lee c G a 1 01 : 0 1 ' o :d o calroa" A : de whose naeft apparent, when v •elieved by Blai! :or may rpr ii* sii ,b, __.o I :.—lt must e ba matter o , lv to pereo:- - ' -- qriod art. opinions expressed by the leading newspapers with P. :', 4 011. t 9 Mr. Dickens's last publication. It may welt bet t iii s guied that some adverse criticisms upon the vvorkg•P op al and other celebrated authors may proceed from Pe l , 3 , oii ld feelings or educational prejudices. These, however' e brt account for but a few. The. majority, as we have tPrri medical authority for stating, may b e ascribed to , 40 , 0 bility of temper, generally arising from a derangoA, of the liver and other viscera, and which could, eni,lll 1-Qmedied by the occasional use of Frampton s. 11 ; llealth, which is gentle in its cp,,roion and COW its effect from 6 vas ab, part of Ceorge Ann: Brews; bian, 1 Williai phia—l land°. aian, V Quebel Bills The Crosby and Ur( SAIL Leone- Sangst -Eltwo . o( ham, 11 Mayes; stantita wood, Newton Hambu Marseil Fofia, ( Monnol Stewart dam—S. ith July Ibrail. Flint Odessa Olive for this _ Geol.; July. Mani Hon! at Cove Mayfi Expei York' was ..pc previou MORI of Preit yesterd Gins Clyde, 1 QUEI gone, C her be; pool TO painted Luny —Ni lean! lierE lean! hove dor, —Ad Maio Jane