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THE LIVERPOOL STANIAR& ORANGEMEN-THEIR ORIGIN AND PRINCIPLES. (From the Quarterly Review.) form a fair judgment of the Orange institution, it is necessary to take a retrospective glance at its origin. It isnot, as commonly supposed, a modern and partisan in vention. It is coeval with the principle of the revolution of 1688—and has been ever since in more or less active co-operation with it. That revolution—which we suppose even the modern Whigs will not venture to deny to have been the triumph of civil and religious liberty—was brought about solely by the church and aristocracy of England. The Papists, first and last, and without excep tion, adhered cordially and zealously to James ; and the majority —at least at the outset—of Dissenters of all de nominations took the same line, and were ready to accept the insidious and Jesuitical expedients under which he hoped to introduce popery and despotism. It was to the high, conscientious, and commanding attitude of the Church of England that we owed the immediate success, as well as all the subsequent advantages of the revolution; it was because the revolution was made by her and the Anglican aristocracy that it cost hardly a drop of blood— nothing like a struggle—and was accomplished with the least possible deviation from the ordinary course of the succession and the legal traditions of the monarchy. In fact, every man in England who was not a Romanist or Presbyterian dissenter—and, eventually, most of the latter class—felt that some kind of revolutionary obstruction of James's despotism and bigotry had become inevitably ne cessary, though the shape and extent of the obstruction was a subject of very discordant opinions, and at last de termined a little by the chapter of accidents—moreC by some personal ambitions—most of all by the despair of finding any secure resting-place but under the sword of the Prince of Orange ; and that was to be had on no other condition than giving him the title and constitutional power of King. - Thus the lievolution was accomplished in England— many, no doubt, lamenting both the cause and conse quences, but—we might almost say neinine contradicente. William landed at Torbay on the sth of November, 1688, and King James abdicated on the 11th of December. Five weeks (no doubt of great anxiety, but of marvellous unanimity and good order) sufficed for the settlement of England. Not so of Ireland ! There the Anglican church —the real spring of the Revolution in England—was less powerful; and there bigotry, tyranny, and foreign influ ence, found a stronghold ; there King James reappeared with a French army; and it was not till after three cam paigns —the two glorious battles of the Boyne, Ist of July, 1690, and of Aughrim, 12th of July, 1691, and three memorable sieges, of Londonderry, 1689, Cork, 1690, and Limerick, 1691—that the Protestant constitution was re estsblished in Ireland. If England—where there had been so little struggle—so little delay —no suffering, no danger —was yet enthusiastically proud of this reqult—if she ordered a form of thanksgiving—enduring in our liturgy even to this day—for that great deliverance—if we are still commanded by the joint authority of the Church and the Queen to sanctify the anniversary of the Gun powder Plot and King William's landing by thanks to Almighty God, "Who did on this day miraculously preserve our Church and State from the secret contrivance and hellish malice of Popish conspirators, and on this day did also begin to give us a mighty deliverance from the open tyranny and oppression of the same cruel and bloodthirsty enemies."—Form for sth November. If we say these memories are cherished, celebrated, and even sanctified in peaceful England, let us not wonder that the Protestants of Ireland, who underwent a mortal agony for three years—who suffered all the miseries and massacres of a most barbarous warfare, and all, the pro scription and spoliation of a jealous and cruel tyranny— should have had deeper and more lasting impressions of danger from their enemies and of gratitude towards their deliverer. But not only had the original struggle been more se vere, and its immediate consequences more memorable, but in fact the elements of danger, the smouldering embers of rebellion, were never totally extinguished in Ireland; the superior numbers—the bigotry, the turbulence, and the inveterate hatred of the - British name, of the Irish Papists, have kept the successive governments of that country in a constant state of anxiety and frequent alarm : and it is for this reason that, while the feeling of English men towards King William and the Revolution sobered down inso a kind of historical gratitude, it continued to be in Ireland an active principle, an habitual duty, kept alive by the danger with which both the internal peace and ex ternal safety of the country were incessantly menaced and frequently endangered by the Papist population. Hence it was that the loyalists of Ireland hailed and commem morated with a peculiar enthusiasm the two most remark able events and epochs of their deliverance--the Battle of the Boyne* and the relief of Londonderry —and that thenceforward these anniversaries have been celebrated not by a faction, section, or party, but until very recent times, by the government, the constituted authorities, and all the friends of British connexion and of the Protestant religion ; nay, until the last fifty or sixty years, by the better educated and more respectable of the Roman Ca tholics themselves. On the 4th of November in every year, throughout the last and in the beginning of the pre sent century, the Lord-Lieutenant held a court in honour of the birthday of King William, after which his Excel lency, in his state coach, followed by the Lord Chancellor and the judges, the Lord Mayor, and all the nobility and gentry who had attended the levee, went in procession round the statues of King William in College Green, and King George IL in St. Stephen's Green, at the close of which the Park guns fired a royal salute, and the garrison afeu de joie round the statue of King William. On such occasions the loyal Roman Catholics, as Mr. O'Connell himself stated before the committee of 1825, made no scruple to attend, and, if we mistake not, he did so him self after his call to the bar, Ladies used on those occa sions to appear at the drawing room with orange ribbons, and even those suspected of Jacobitism, and probably Roman Catholics, seem to have had no scruples in wear ing that colour; witness Lord Chesterfield's jeu d'esprit to a young lady at the Irish court : ay, pretty traitor, where's the jest Of wearing orange on your breast, While that breast upheaving shews The whiteness of the rebel rose ?" No Lord Lieutenant was ever more tolerant, more in dulgent to the Roman Catholics as regarded their religion, than Lord Chesterfield—but he knew both their political disaffection, and how to deal with it, In 1745 " One Roman Catholic, who had an estate in the neighbour hood of Dublin, and was looked upon as an agent to the Pre tender, was privately sent for to the Castle. Sir,' said Lord Chesterfield, ' I do not wish to inquire whether you have any particular employment in this kingdom, but I know that you have a great interest amongst those of your own persuasion. I have sent for you to exhort them to be peaceable and quiet. If they behave like faithful subjects they shall be treated as such, but if they act in a different manner I *hall be worse to them than Cromwell."—Chesterfield's Works and Men, 5-c., by Maty, vol. i. p. 267. Still more germane to the matter in hand are the mea sures that this Whig of the old school took on the landing of the Pretender in Scotland—he, as we may say, armed and called out the Orangemen. Maty's account of it is curious. Some great men advised the increase of the regular army by raising regiments—this Lord Chester field declined, as expensive, ineffective, and liable to jobbing. Bat, "On a very different footing were the associations formed by the Protestants of different provinces, and especially of those which might have been most exposed to insurrections from within, or attempts from abroad. To be armed, and ready for defence, could at no time be i m p ro p er; and those who, sensi ble of the blessings they enjoyed under a settled government, put themselves in a condition to fight for what is most dear to men, their laws, liberty, and re li gion, must at all times be an overmatch against private incendiaries or audacious invaders. This laudable spirit displayed itself, and was encouraged in a particular manner, in different parts of the kingdom. The county of Antrim alone furnished upwards of thirty thousand men."—lb. p. 267. As Antrim would do ag in the same cause. ain if their services were required The state procession of the 4th of November continued down to 1806, when it was given up by the Duke of Bed ford, as a step to the closer alliance between whiggery and popery which " All the Talents" were then forming. Similar, though not so solemn and authoritative demon strations, were made in other parts of Ireland, on that and the other Williarnite anniversaries; and for above a hundred years no one ever supposed that these tradi tional solemnities could be illegal, or considered as offen sive to any but to the (if any such should exist) secret enemies of the constitution. For instance, we find in a work called Derric:.a—a contemporary account of the centenary commemoration of the raising the siege of Derry, on the 7th of December (0.5.) 1788—that the mayor, corporation, county magistrates, and all the civil authorities, the Lord Bishop and his clergy, the Roman Catholic clergy, his Majesty's troops in garrison, one of his Majesty's ships, which was brought up the harbour for the occasion, took their respective parts. The festi vity concluded with a dinner of nearly one thousand per sons, and the account concludes with tl ' " Religious dissentions in particular seemed to be buried in oblivion, and Roman Catholics vied with Protestants in ex pressing, by every possible mark, their sense of the blessings secured to them by our happy constitution, and the cordial part they took in the celebration of this joyful day.'—Derrana: Appendix. It was not, in fact, until the abusive creation of the lower class of voters had thrown so much political power into the hands of the Romish priesthood, that these con stitutional commemorations of the revolution were corn plahied of by th e R oman i sts as i nsu l ts to t h em an d their religion, and that a party grew up which, strange to say, combined the old traditions of Jacobite bigotry with the infidel and anarchical projects of the French Jacobins. A PAINFUL STORY The London Commissioner for tne Morning Chronicle gives the following report o f one o f the cases he investi gated gated in the Asylum for the Houseless : Then came a tailor, a young man only 21 years old, habited in a black frock coat, with a plaid shawl twisted round his neck. His eyes were full and expressive, and he had a look of intelligence superior to any that I had yet seen. He told a story which my inquiries into the sl o p trade taught me wa s " ower true." " I have been knocking about for near upon six weeks," he replied, in answer to my inquiries. " I was working at the slop trade at the West-end. I am a native of Scot land. I was living with a sweater. I used to board and lodge with him entirely. At the week's end I was almost always in debt with him —at least he made it out so. 1 had very often to work all night, but let me slave as I might I never could ;et out of debt with the sweater. There were often as many as six of us there, and we slept two together in each bed. The work had been slack for some time, and he gave me employment till I worked my self out of debt, and then he turned me into the streets. I had a few clothes remaining, and these were soon sold to get me food and lodging. I lived on my other coat and shirts for a week or two, and at last all was gone, and I was left entirely destitute. Then I had to pace the streets all day and night. The two nights before I came here I never tasted food nor lay me down to rest. I had been in a fourpenny lodging before then, but I couldn't even raise that, and I knew it was' no good going there without the money. You must pay before you go to bed at those places. Several times I got into a doorway to shelter from the wind and cold, and twice I was roused by the policeman, for I was so tired that I fell asleep standing against a shop near the Bank. What with hunger and cold I was in a half stupid state. I didn't know what to do. I was far from home and my mother. I have not liked to let her know how badly I was off. [The poor lad's eyes flooded with tears at the recollection of his parent.] I thought I had better steal something, and then at least I should have a roof over my head. Then I thought I'd make away with myself. I can't say how—it was a sort of desperation—and I was so stupid with cold and want that I can hardly remember what I thought. All I wanted was to be allowed to sit down on some door step, and die ; but the police did not allow this. In the day time I went up and lay about the parks most part of the day, but I could'nt sleep then ; I hardly know why, hut I'd been so long without food, that I couldn't rest. I have purposely kept from writing to my mother. It would break her heart to know my sufferings. She has been a widow this ten years' past. She keeps a lodging-house in Leith, and has two children to support. I have been away eight months from her. I came to London from a desire to see the place, and thinking I could better my situation. In Edinburgh I had made my £1 a week regularly, often more, and seldom less. When I came to London a woman met me in the street, and asked me if I wasn't a tailor. On my replying in the affirmative, she told me if I wou ld come and work for her husband, I should have good wages, and live with her and her husband, arid they would make me quite comfortable. I didn't know she was the wife of a sweater at that time. It was a thing I had never heard of in Edinburgh. After that time I kept getting worse and worse off, working day and night and all Sunday, and still always being in debt to them that I worked for. Indeed I wish I had never left home. If I could get back I'd go in a moment. I have worked early and late, in the , hope of obtaining money enough to take me home again, but I could not even get out of debt, much more save, work as hard as I would." I asked if he would allow me to see some letters of his mother's, as vouchers for the truth of his story, and he produced a small packet from which, with his permission, I copied the following : "My dear Son—l have this moment received your letter. I was happy to hear from you, and trust you are well. Think of that God who has carried you in safety over the mighty deep. We are all much as you left us. I hope you will soon write.— Ever believe me, "Your affectionate mother, This was the first letter written after his absence from home. Since then his mother, who is aged and rheumatic (his letters vouched for this), had been unable to write a line. His brother, a lad of sixteen, says in one of the letters— " I am getting on with my Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and French, only I am terribly off for want of books. "My mother was saying that you would be bringing me a first rate present from London. I think the most appropriate present you can bring me will be a Greek and English, or a Hebrew and English Lexicon—or some Hebrew, Greek, or Latin A letter from his sister, a girl of eighteen, ran as follows : "My dear brother,—l take this opportunity of writing to you, as you wrote that you should like to have a letter from me. lam very sorry that you have been ill, but I hope you are keeping better. I trust also that affliction will be the means of leading you more closely to the only source of happiness. Oh, my dear brother, you are still young, and God has told us in his word that those who seek him early shall find him. ➢ly dear brother, we get many a sad and solemn warning to prepare to meet our God; and oh, my dear brother, what is a man profitted, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul." The last letter was dated the sth December last, and from his brother : "We received your kind letter,' it ran, "this instant, and we hasten to answer it. It has given my mother and me great relief to hear from you, as my mother and I were very miser able about you, thinking you were ill. We trust you will take care of yourself, and not get any more cold. We hope you will be able to write on the receipt of this, and let us know how you are, and when we may expect you home, as we have daily expected you since the month of October." Calera! 3lisrtilaiw. Sir Charles Forbes has left X5OO in aid of the Asylum for Idiots. THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851.—The Queen has contributed £l,OOO, and Prince Albert £5OO, to the funds. Llandudno, on the Great Ormsbead, is fast assuming an animated aspect. Several buildings are being erected. On Friday morning Cavershetn-park-house, the seat of Mr. W. Crawshay, the ironmaster, was destroyed by fire. The premises of Messrs. Christian, drapers, Ramsey, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday. A vessel called the Tycho Wring, of Wisbeach, from Galatz, laden with preserved meats, was wrecked off the Lizard Point, on Monday. A divorce has been granted against the Duke of Buck ingham, on the grcund of adultery at the suit of the Duchess. The Duke offered no opposition to the suit. It is calculated that no fewer than 1,000,000 flower-pots are annually required for the supply of the London market alone. The Secretary -at-war has notified to regiments having savings' banks, that Government is responsible to the several military depositors for their respective amounts. A game of cricket was played on the ice at Carlisle, last week, the place selected being the canal reservoir. The contest lasted three hours. SHIP BUILDING AT H HTLEPOOL .—An agent of a large ship builder at Hartlepool has visited Sunderland last week for the purpose of engaging thirty shipwrights for two years at the current wages. Mr. Henry Russell gave his promised concert at York on Monday evening last, in aid of the public charities. The concert passed off well. On the following evening Mr. R. redeemed his promise at Hull. At a sale in London, on Monday, of the lib rar y o f th e late Mr. Poynder, a- book containing an autograph of Milton, with autograph annotations sold for £4O Ios., and a first edition of Shakspeare's plays for £35 10s. Bassenthwaite Lake was frozen last week, and was visited by great numbers of skaters and sight-seers, for whom the landlady of the Pell Nyke Inn provided tea, coffee, and other refreshments upon the ice. A farmer, of the name of Bird, and his wife, have been committed, at Exeter, for the murder and mutilation, by brutal treatment, of a female parish girl, of the name of Parsons, in their service. A young man, named Webb, was married on Christmas day at the parish church of Newington, near London, was seized with illness on the same afternoon, and died on the following Friday. Two young females, named Elizabeth Pawson and Ann Healey, are in custody at Leeds, charged with forging and uttering a check upon Messrs. Tew, Leatham, and Co.'s bank at Wakefield. Earl Grey, Secretary for the Colonies, has removed from his mansion in Beigrave-square to his new residence on Carlton-house-terrace, lately in the occupation of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. THE PRICE OF FARMING STOCK. - Nearly 1,000 Southdown ewes were this week sold by auction at Blen heim Park, for the Duke of Marlborough, and they ave raged £2 ss. each. A woman, at Edinburgh, has been tried and sentenced to a month's imprisonment, for the most heinous offence of having hoaxed a medical gentleman, by informing him that his services were required instantly at a certain place, where it turned out that he was not wanted. A reward of two hundred guineas, with her Majesty's free pardon to an accomplice, has been offered for such information as will lead to the discovery of the mur derers of either of the three men whose recent sudden disappearance has excited such intense interest in Lynn. BRANDY AFLOAT.—OR Tuesday night the officers attached to the quarantine-ship, at the Motherbank, picked up floating 102 balf-ankers, containing about 350 gallons of foreign smuggled brandy, which was delivered over to the Customs at Portsmouth. In London, Mary Glennon, a girl fourteen years of age, has been committed for trial for setting fire to the house in which she resided. She assigned as a reason that her father and mother having sent her out to service, she set fire to the house in order that she might be allowed to go home again. CORN PRICES AT NEWCASTLE.—In our market last Saturday, good wheat, weighing 9it. 101 b. the boll, was sold for 7s. 6d., or 30s. a quarter, and first rate oats at from 4s. to 4d. 4d. per boll. This is a price which cannot remunerate the cultivator, or leave anything for payment of rent and taxes.—Newcastle Journal. THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Queen Adelaide's invalid chair was brought by Mr. Thomas Poole, Brighton, and by the time he got it home, it cost between £4O and £5O. It is a very handsome vehicle, built on eight springs, instead of the usual number, four—with a head, and, when put up, it excited the admiration of all. It is the intention of Mr. Poole to let this carriage out on hire. As Mr. Frederick Hardy Jewitt, of West Ham, Essex, was passing through Whitechapel-road, London, on Sun day last, a woman jostled against him, pressed a hand kerchief containing chloroform over his mouth, and, during the stupor which supervened, took him to a low lodging-house, and robbed him of his watch and nearly all his clothes. On Saturday last, his ex-Majesty Louis Philippe and family visited Banvard's panorama of the Ohio River. At the conclusion of the exhibition, his Majesty expressed himself to the lecturer as highly pleased with the correct ness of the scenery pourtrayed ; and, although many years had passed since he was there, yet many of the scenes were familiar to his eye. ►SLIPPING IN FROSTY WEATHER.—It is important, at this period, to know that by heating iron filings, rough emery powder, &c., on a shovel over the fire, and then gently standing upon the same, so as to imbed the grans into gutta percha soles, a roughness of surface will be produced which will afford the utmost protection, even on the most slippery roads. ANOTHER CHANGE IN THE DUBLIN MAILS.—On and after the Ist of February, the English mail which is despatched from Dublin at twenty minutes after twelve noon, will be despatched at fifty minutes after eleven o'clock, a.m. It is supposed the extra half-hour thus to be gained will enable the mail packets to save the express train at Holyhead with more certainty. A DIMINUTIVE AND ANTIQUE LOAF.—We were shown, the other day, a Lilliputian loaf, made in the year 1801, and sold for sixpence, being not quite so large as those now sold for a penny. It was very ingeniously enclosed hermetically under a glass bell in the year named, by an aged resident, at whose decease it came into the posses sion of a relative, Mr. W. Rowlett, jun., by whom it will be presented to the town museum.—Leicester Mercury. A Goon OLD AGE.—There is now living at Norton, near this city, an old woman, named Ann Finch, who has very nearly attained the age of 108 years. She is blind, almost deaf, and has been bedridden for the last few months, but she still eats heartily, and drinks a quantity of cider each day. Ann Burrow, her eldest daughter, who is living at Croome d'Abitot, and regularly attends Worcester market, is 69 years of age.— Worcester Herald. A VETERAN.—Our readers may not be aware that Mr. Thomas Rendel, who steered the Victory during the battle of Trafalgar, on the 21st of October, 1805, in which Lord Nelson fell, is actually living on the Strand, at Topsham, and has lately received a medal for that action. Lord Nelson's family had given him a medal shortly after the battle.—Exeter Post. MYSTERIOUS PARCEL.—A few days ago, a parcel, ad dressed " Mrs. Smith," which had come from Padding ton station by rail, was, delivered at the house of Mrs. Smith, at Reading, Berkshire, who, on opening it, found it to contain the body of a newly-born female infant, showing traces of violence on its face and head. The in quiry which took place was adjourned for a fortnight. LADY THIEFTAKER.-0O Thursday morning week, Miss Macadam, of the Postoffiee, Douglas, Isle of Man, made a gallant capture of a huge burglar, who had dared to violate the sanctity of the postal depository. The ruf fian escaped from the house, but was pursued and over taken by the daring fair one. A scuffle ensued, in which Miss Macadam was thrown to the ground; but she bravely held her prize until assistance was procured. An old man committed suicide by cutting his throat in his bed-room, at Salcombe, Devonshire, on Monday week; and a neighbouring surgeon named Gillard was summoned irstantly, though life was extinct when the body was discovered. On entering the room, Mr. Gillard was so shocked at the appearance of the corpse, that he swooned, was carried home in a state of insensibility, and died on the following day, ELIZA CHESTNEY.—This intrepid young woman, who is now residing at Wymondham, where she carries on the business of a milliner and dressmaker, is now so far re covered as to be able to walk up stairs and down without the assistance of either a crutch or stick. It must be gratifying to those who have taken such deep interest in this young woman to learn that this sufferer is at length restored to the use of her limbs.—Norfolk News. Sarah Garth, an old woman, descended from the author of "The Dispensary," on her return from Darlington to her house at Islington, was found lying against a hedge, quite stiff and cold ; she was not dead ; the warmth of a fire and other restoratives revived her a little, but she died next day. She had been to receive a pension ; she was fond of drink ; a bottle with brandy in it was lying near her, and she appeared to have spent a good deal of money. A LITERARY MADMAN.—A correspondent of the Glasgow Daily Mail says, " Some wild, mystical goose, or reckless comedian, has announced a book, showing that the locomotive is a symbol of God's presence, and chosen for his motto, Make his paths straight,' in allusion, I suppose, to railways. Whether this be blasphemy or in sanity I cannot decide: but it looks very much like Ger man philosophy, which is very often a compound of the two." DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES.—The following appeared in the Times of Saturday :—" Dear Charles,—lf you would re turn to me immediately all would be well in the quarter dearest to your heart, exceeding your most sanguine ex pectations. If you knew what I could tell you vied voce you would not delay an instant. You took your carpet bag and portmanteau on Thursday morning, the 3rd inst., at two o'clock, and was known to be at Mr. Heitzman's on Saturday last. Inserted by your broken-hearted father." DANGEROUS PROPERTY OF NAPTHA.—On Friday, the 4th instant, a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Alder, Dunn, and Co., Newcastle. A young man was lighting the gas burners in the windows with a naptha torch, when the naptha was accidentally spilled upon some muslin collars, which instantly ignited, and pre sented a most alarminc , appearance. The flames were ex tinguished, but m os t of' the goods were injured, and three of the large plate glass panes were cracked by the intense heat. DESPERATE CHARACTER.—At the Somerset Quarter Sessions, held at Wells last week, a prisoner, indicted for stealing ducks at Wick Champflower, was sentenced, after two former convictions, to ten years' transportation. Im mediately after the sentence was given, the prisoner took from his pocket half a loaf of bread and hurled it at the prosecutor, exclaiming at the same time, " There, take that you ." The prosecutor, howe v e r , avo id e d the blow, and the loaf met one of the witnesses on his arm.— Cheltenham Journal. A HORSE FRIGHTENED TO 9 DEATH.-011 Thursday morning as a waggon, laden with coals, and drawn by three horses, was waiting for passage at the Bobbers Mill Gate whilst the great up-train of coal waggons to Mans field passed by, the middle animal of the team became so much alarmed, though without displaying any extraordi nary violence of manner, that before the whole train, which consisted of upwarde of thirty carriages, bad passed by, he dropped down and instantly expired.—Notts Mer cury. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR CLEARED UP.—A rumour hav ing been extensively circulated in Wakefield that a gen tleman had kept his daughter immured in a cellar for eleven years, inquiries were lately instituted by a Magis trate, when it appeared that about eleven years ago the girl had an illegitimate child, and under a deep sense of shame had voluntarily, and with the concurrence of her parents secluded herself from society, and was neither confined in a cellar, nor affected in her intellect, as was also alleged, but enjoyed perfect liberty, and had no de sire to leave her parents roof.—Leeds Intelligencer. LAUNCHES ON THE WEAR.—Messrs. Booth and Blake lick launched a brig on the 9th instant; Mr. William Pile, jun., a brig on the 10th ; Messrs. Hall, a schooner, and Mr. Hardy, a brig, on the 12th ; Messrs. Hall, a barque, Mr. Crown, a barque, Messrs. Doxford and Crone, a brig, Mr. Simpson, a brig, Messrs. Robinson, a barque, and Mr. Wilkinson, a barque, on the 14th. And so the Sunderland shipbuilders go on, and so their ships go off, there being a palpable conspiracy on the Wear to convict the repeal of the Navigation Laws of having ruined the shipping interest !—Gateshead Observer. EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY OF LOST MONEY.—Last week, a gentleman resident in the neighbourhood of Had dington visited that town for the annual collection of his accounts. Having received about £5OO, he entered a shop there, and, upon examing his money, he missed the sum of £lOO. He immediately retraced his steps, and chanced to encounter a group of children in the street engaged in the examination of what seemed to be pictures, but which, upon a more narrow inspection, he found to be his missing notes, each of £2O value. They were of course recovered from the children, who received in return a small gratuity. ANNOYING A LADY.—At Marylebone Police-office, on Wednesday, Mr. Michael Elijah Impey, a gentleman of property, residing in Duchess-street. Portland-place, London, was charged on a warrant with having assaulted Mr. James Shives, a schoolmaster. It appeared that Miss Impey, a young lady of 18, was annoyed by the complainant addressing her in the street ; she told her father, who, having the fellow pointed out to him, seized him by the collar and shook him well. Mr. Impey was ordered to pay the costs, and the schoolmaster promised not to annoy the young lady again, —a very unsatisfactory deci THE BITERS BIT.—On Saturday three persons were charged at Canterbury with defrauding the South-eastern Railway Company by travelling in a second-class carriage with third-class tickets. It appeared that a guard on the line was travelling down on duty, when his fellow-passen gers, the three prisoners, became over communicative, and exulted how easy it was to take one class ticket and travel by another. The guard, having his lantern with him, threw a new light on the discussion, by showing his com panion who he was, and causing them to be summoned for the fraud. They were mulcted in penalties of 20s. each. A SUFFOLK BAvruE.—ln the preserves of Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., Oakley Park, Suffolk, last week, the Hon. Colonel Finch, Lieutenant. Colonel Smythe, Sir Charles Hotham, Major Archer, Captain Warrener, and Mr. French, with six double-barrelled guns, accomplished the following amount of slaughter :—First day, 130 hares, 154 pheasants, 2 woodcocks, 34 rabbits ; total, 320 head. Second day, 69 hares, 294 pheasants, 2 partridges, 17 rabbits, 6 woodcocks ; total, 388 head. Third day, 189 hares, 205 pheasants, 54 rabbits, 4 wild ducks; total, 452 head. Picked up on the following day, 40. Grand total, 1200 head. SUPPOSED MURDER OF THREE MEN.—For some time past the greatest excitement has prevailed in Lynn, in consequence of the sudden and mysterious disappearance of two male persons, and, from the inquiries made by the magistrates and police, no doubt is entertained of the missing persons having been murdered. A reward of £220 has been offered by the government for the appre hension of the murderers, and a pardon to any accom plice, not being the actual perpetrator of the murder, in either case, who shall give such evidence as will lead to the same result. One of the missing persons, named John Bell, eighty-one years of age, is missing since the 13th of November last. SEVEN FISHING-SMACKS AND THIRTY-SEVEN FISHER. MEN LOST.—We have to record a calamity of a most afflicting nature, involving, as it is feared, a loss of life unequalled for many years by any event in connection with this port. Seven fine fishing-smacks, whose crews numbered in the aggregate thirty-seven men and boys, which left Hull prior to Christmas Day, in 1849, and which should have returned a fortnight ago, have not since been heard of. It is supp ose d that the vessels perished during the gales of the 27th and 28th of Decem ber. Various causes of this fearful loss of life and pro perty are stated, but the most probable is that they foundered on the Lemon-oar sand, in consequence of the floating light drifting from her moorings.—HullAdvertiser. SHARSPEARE'S WILL.—Mr. J. C. Halliwell has ad dressed to the Times a letter, in which he deplores th e gradual destruction of this valuable document, in conse quence of the strict rules in force at the Prerogative Office, an exception to which he pleads for in the case of Shakspeare's last testamentary papers. They form, it seems, three sheets of foolscap, and being tied together at the top by a bond of parchment or whipcord, they can not be examined without injury to the handwriting, in con sequence of which manipulation the final e in Shakspeare has (he asserts) disappeared. The officials look on the connecting with such scrupulous awe that they neccessa rily will bring about the ultimate wasting away of the relic, and he suggests that some authority be obtained for placing the three separate sheets under plate glass, whereby they may be inspected without being handled. ANOTHER POST OFFICE MOVE.—The warm energetic opposition of the press and the public to the post-office Sabbath desecration has driven Mr. Rowland Hill on to the railways. About the middle of February nearly the whole of the Sunday work is to be given up in London, and the sorting the letters which leave the country offices for transit through London is to be effected in railway post-offices, which are to be established on the principal lines on Sunday. Twenty-four London clerks will be sent from St. Martin's-le- Grand, who are to be paid 20s. per journey. These men have " volunteered" to give their services for this extra salary, which in the aggregate will amount to £1248 per annum, and the total expense of these railway offices and attendant charges will amount to some thousands more. This new move is evidently in. tended to soothe the public mind on the subject of the present post-office agitation, but every practical person is aware that, with the mere shifting the work on Sunday from the central office to the railway lines, no relief worth mentioning will be afforded to the post•office establish meat. THE LAKES.—Derwent Lake, Keswick, is at this mo ment completely frozen over, from end to end, and in the course of the past week many hundreds of persons amused themselves daily upon the ice. On Saturday last, a tea party assembled upon Bassenthwaite lake, and afterwards the company joined in several sportive exercises. We understand that a deer, which has been presented by Sir Harry Vane, Bart., is to be roasted on the ice, and an in vitation has been sent to the Whitehaven and Workington Cricket Clubs, to play the Cockerrnouth cricketers for a rumpsteak and a dozen.—Cumberland Pacquet. SINGULAR APPLICATION OF CHLOROFORM.--A few days since, one of the keepers in Windsor Great Park ob served a man very busy, under suspicious circumstances, in the midst of some fern. Being satisfied that all was not right, be made up to him, and on searching a bag he had in his possession, found it contained five rabbits, not dead, but apparently stupified. His attention was then drawn to several pieces of fern, which bad been cut and stuck upright in the ground, having pieces of paper at tached to them, and which, it was afterwards discovered, had been steeped in chloroform, and been the means by which the fellow had secured his game. This is the first instance in which we have heard of the application of chloroform to the p urposes of poaching.—Reading Mer cury. FORGERY OF A BILL OF EXCIIANGE.—At the' Central Criminal Court, on Friday week, Lewis Joel, a jeweller, was indicted for forging an acceptance to a bill of exchange for £lOOO, with intent to defraud John Marcus Clements, an officer of the 13th Light Dragoons, and who had had money transactions with the prisoner in Dublin, while his regiment was stationed there. The evidence adduced consisted of two affidavits made by the prisoner on pre vious occasions, to the effect that the prosecutor had in July, 1847, when under age, accepted a blank bill on a stamp sufficient to cover the amount of £lOOO, which bill he ( the prisoner) was authorised to fill up when the pro secutor attained his majority. The jury found the pri soner guilty of uttering the acceptance, knowing it to have been forged. Mr. Justice Talfourd sentenced the pri soner to ten years' transportation. ATTEMPTED MURDER AT ABERDARE.—Late on Wed nesday night, a diabolical attempt at murder was made at Aberdare. It appears that for some time past the greater number of the sea-coal men at Cadlys and other works have struck for an advance of wages. Some, who thought better of the matter, continued to work, despite the threats of the others. On Wednesday night, the house of William Jenkins, Mill-street, was visited by, it is sup posed, a gang of the " strikers." The first notice given of there being any one outside was a stone thrown with considerable violence at the door, evidently for the pur pose of attracting the attention of Jenkins, who was then in bed, and getting him to the window. Immediately afterwards a shot was fired through the window, luckily escaping the intended victim. The miscreants, thinking, from the silence maintained in the house, that their deed was accomplished, decamped. —Cambrian. MURDER AND THEFT.—Margaret Lennox, or Hamil ton, was tried before the Justiciary Court of Scotland, on the 9th inst., for stealing a blank deposit receipt for £2O, in favour of the daughter of Jean Hamilton, with the lat ter of whom she lodged ' • and with having afterw ar d s murdered Jean Hamilton, by administering to her a quan tity of arsenic, or other poison, in her food. The jury found the prisoner guilty of the murder, but by a majority recommended her to mercy. She was sentenced to be hanged at Glasgow on the 31st inst. Since her condem nation the unhappy woman has remained in a very dejec ted condition. Her infant was removed from her, and the separation appeared to be acutely felt by the wretched mother. By the permission of the proper authorities, her husband and near relatives procured an interview ; but she has not as yet made any acknowledgment of her guilt. EVERY ONE TO MS TASTE.-0/1 Monday last, at a public house at Gotham, a party of " wise men" s a t d own to supper, the dainty dishes set before them being two large rat pies. The "game" was caught and supplied by William Dring, the Gotham rat-catcher, and the trim mings were found by the landlady and a worthy farmer in the neighbourhood. Among this party of epicures were three butchers from Nottingham. At the conclusion of the repast, there was not even a bone left for the cat to pick. Mr. Powdrill, one of the company, composed a song. which was sung on the occasion. The following is the first stanza : " Rats, kind friends, are now in season, Let's drive them from their thatched thrones; To destroy them is no treason— Then we'll suck their precious bones!" A few days ago, one of the same party, having his hands tied behind him, worried a large rat in two minutes. for the small sum of sixpence I — Correspondent of the Not tingham Journal. BANK OF ENGLAND.—The return of the movement of the Bank of England for the week ending the 12th Jan., gives the following changes compared with the week end ing sth instant :—ln the department of issue the notes in circulation had decreased £191,790, which had been pro duced by a decrease in the gold coin or bullion of £191,790 ; the silver bullion remaining unaltered. On the debit side of the banking department the rest bad in. creased £62.984, the public deposits had decreased £4,346,613, the private deposits had decreased £1,505,890, and the seven day and other post bills had increased £71,240, making the total of the liabilities £36,124,148. On the credit side the government securities had decreased £79,127, the other securities had decreased £1,591,975, the notes had decreased £1,020,790, and the gold and sil ver coin bad decreased £14,647, which equalised the ac count. The bullion in both departments of the bank had decreased from £17,020,480 to £16,814,043, being a dif ference of £206,437. The paper in actual circulation had increased from £19,341,669 to £20,241,909, being a dif ference of £900,240. NOVEL EXPORTATION.—A novelty in exportation has just been completed by Messrs. Winsland and Holland, the eminent builders, of Duke-street, Bloomsbury. This consists of an entire church, capable of accommodating three hundred persons, which is intended to be erected on the rock of St. Helena, for the accommodation of the English residents on that island. The edifice is in the early English style of architecture, from the design of Mr. Benjamin Ferrey. It is composed of stone, all of which has been hewn into form on Messrs. Holland's premises. This portion of the material is already on its way to St. Helena, in the barque Glentanner. The roof and other wood-work of the building, the iron -work, paving slates, &c., are all completed, and will be shipped on board the Juliana in a few days. The dimensions are as follows :—The body of the church is 75 feet long by 30 feet wide ; the chancel, 25 feet by 18 feet ; the vestry. 10 feet by 10 feet; and a muniment room of the same size. The design includes a belfry and a porch. The pulpit is of carved stone, and the seats of stained pine. THE TAILORING TRADE.—A public meeting of persons connected with the tailoring trade in the metropolis was held in the large room at Exeter-hall on Thursday evening. The object of the meeting, which consisted of upwards of 2,000 persons, was to consider the propriety of petitioning parliament in reference to the present slop and middle" system, which, it was stated, injured the fair trader as well as the working people. Several working tailors ad dressed the meeting, one of whom stated that he had been employed by Moses and Son for several years past as a confidential man at the rate of one penny per hour, and expressed his regret that with £400,000 per annum the Marquis of Westminster dealt with that establishment. Another speaker observed that it was very well known the working men engaged in making the clothing for the go vernment establishments, the post-office, the custom house, and for the soldiers and police, did not get more than ls., or at most Is. 6d. a day ; and a third speaker de clared that for making a coat for a first-rate master tailor, patronised by the Duke of Wellington and other aristo cratic customers, he had only received 55., out of which sum he had to pay for candle-light and trimmings. SHOCKING STORY.—A fine interesting girl, aged seven years, the eldest daughter of Mr. James Lockwood, of Gully Hole, having been left alone in the house with Mr. John Wortley, bar-keeper, her grandfather, at Snittle gate, near Holmfirth, on Tuesday week, received such injuries at his hands as to leave no probable hopes of her recovery. It appears that Wortley has, for some time past, exhibited symptoms of derangement of mind, and had more than once attempted suicide. On the day above mentioned, his wife, having occasion to be absent from home for a short time, left Wortley and the grandchild in the house together. The presumption is, from all that can be ascertained relative to the tragedy, that shortly after his wife's departure the poor desponding wretch again essayed self-destruction, and that, being checked by the little girl, as on a former occasion, he at once deter mined to silence her. For this purpose (having first locked the door) he armed himself with the poker, and with this weapon he struck the poor unoffending girl repeated and savage strokes over the head. This continued until a cart driver, passing by, heard screams, and the sound of heavy blows, which induced him to pause and listen at the bar house door. Being convinced that foul work was being enacted, Ile at once hurried to an adjoining house (the Junction Inn), and assistance having been procured, the doors were promptly burst open. A shocking spectacle presented itself. The old man, with an insane glare, stood brandishing the bloody weapon of his cruelty over the now almost lifeless body of his victim. Medical assistance, however, was immediately sought and procured, and up to Friday morning the poor little innocent still lived. Of her ultimate recovery, however, no reasonable hope can be entertained. Wortley seemed to be decidedly insane.— HaUfax Guardian. POISONING A RAILWAY PASSENGER.—On theday be fore Christmas Day a young man, named George Lam bert, who resides near Sheffield, was on. his way to pay a visit to a relative who resides in this town. When at the Masborough Station he was accosted by some men, who gave him a lozenge, and said that as he was coming to Doncaster, they would all travel together. They accord ingly got him into a carriage along with them, and at the same time gave him another lozenge to suck, He, how ever, put it into his pocket, and did not make any further use of it. He then gradually became unconscious, and remembered nothing hut that he at one time heard a cry of " Liverpool!' At length he was seized at a station some distance beyond that town, and was dragged out by the porters under a supposition that he was intoxicated. Here he was charged ss. for extra fare; but, to his sur prise, he found that he had been robbed of every farthing of his money, amounting to nearly £5. He was about to be locked up, but a gentleman who saw the proceedings had compassion on him, paid his fare, and took him to his own house where the young man was put to bed, and confined to his chamber for about a week, suffering from the effects of the drug which had been administered to him, and his friends in the meantime quite unconscious of what had become of him. The medical gentleman who attended him stated that if he had sucked the second lo zenge his life would have been in great danger. As it was, he had some difficulty in preserving his eyesight. When sufficiently recovered, the kind gentleman who had befriended him supplied him with money to pay his jour ney home, and thus he was restored to his f r i en d s. It is only right to observe that the young man is a person of steady and sober habits, and that there is no ground what ever for supposing that he was in a state of intoxication, except from the effects of the drugs administered to him. —Doncaster Gazette. INTERESTING DISCOVERY.—About three weeks since, three quarrymen, while at their labour at Lanyon quarry, discovered a couple of gold coins almost as perfect as when they were issued from the mint. They are aurei of Theodosius the Great, and of his son Arcadius, or rather solidi, as the aureus in later times was called solidus, and by Bezantian writers numisma, or the coin : chrysinos because of gold; and hyperpyros from its being of bright gold, flaming like fire. It was also called bezant in Europe because it came from Byzantium.—Cornwall Gazette. ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE.--A few days ago, one of the oldest and most respectable families in the north of Scotland, the descendants of the celebrated Lord President Forbes, and the present possessors of the exten sive estates of Culloden, was thrown into a state of con fusion and anxiety in consequence of the elopement of the young brother of the laird with his brother's scullery maid. The young gentleman is only about twenty years of age, and the fair damsel who won the heart and secured the hand of the gallant youth is a young highland lass of the same age, who possesses considerable personal charms. Upon the discovery of the flight of the fugitives, the hue and cry was immediately raised, and messengers were despatched in every direction to overtake them. The youthful and loving couple were traced along the High land road to Perth, and from thence to Glasgow. On their arrival at Glasgow, the youthful pair were imme diately married. The pursuers were two hours too late ; and, to their great disappointment and chagrin, they found, on their arrival, the happy pa ip asleep. The friends of the young gentleman soon reused them, but the bridegroom said he had made his choice, and resolved to live and die in the society of his blooming bride. FOOT-RACE BETWEEN A LORD AND A WEAVER.—On the 26:h of December, much excitement was caused at Castledawson, near Carlisle. by a whisper of a foot-race between a nobleman (Lord Lurgan) and a weaver, named Keenan. Multitudes were present ; and the two pedes trians came out in full uniform. His lordship is about five feet ten inches in height, slender limbed, lightly made, and about nineteen years of age. His countenance is very frank, and, upon the whole, a very likely-looking person to take such a thing in hand. James Keenan is about five feet five inches in height, proportionately built, about forty years of age, and has a wife and six children. The length of the race was eight miles, and the stakes £5 each side. His lordship backed himself, and the Dawsons backed Keenan. His lordship had on a pair of well made pantaloons, wash-leather pumps, and a yellow jacket. Keenan ran in a pair of white drawers, bare footed, and blue jacket. Keenan ran with his arms hanging down and quite loose, but he was well acquainted with the art of getting over the ground. When he had run two miles (which - he did in In minutes) he was about a quarter of a mile before his noble competitor ; so he (Lord Lurgan), thinking it of no use continuing the con test longer, rave up when he had run about two miles , and a quarter. Keenan, however, ran on, making the second two miles in thirteen minutes and a half; the third he ran in fourteen minutes ; and the last two in thirteen mi nutes and a half; running the eight miles in fifty-three minutes and a half, amidst the vociferous cheering of his friends and acquaintances.—Carlisle Patriot. DISTRESSING CASE.—After the disposal of the usual business at Guildhall on Saturday, a shabbily-attired woman stepped forward, and addressing Alderman Carden, said that she was unfortunately in great distress and with out shelter. She was authoress of Ada the Betrayed, Jane Briohtwell, Brentwood, and other works, but was now in the greatest distress. She was a widow, and had a daughter 18 years of age, who was married, and living in India with her husband. Her mother was a sister of the Earl de Clifford, and she bad a brother living in India. She had a work, of which she had done seven quires, and if she could get shelter in a workhouse, or anywhere, she could complete the work. She could get 60 guineas for it. Her brother, at the present time, was Sheriff of Calcutta, and she had several friends in London, but she had not communicated with them for many years, and could not apply to them now. The applicant, who addressed the court in a deep voice, with a strong theatri cal emphasis, stated that her name was Sarah Jones, and that she had written under the name of Anna Maria Jones. She admitted, however, that herself and mother had been disposed to insanity. She said the chief cause of her pre sent distress was a distraint for rent, and having been turned out from her abode at this inclement season. She felt herself much degraded at appearing in the streets in such attire, but had no objection to go to the workhouse for the sake of shelter. Alderman Carden asked her if she would go to the City Union if be gave her a recom mendation'? Having willingly assented, she was sent thither in charge of an officer. DARING ROBBERY AT HAWKSWORTH,—On Monday morning, about one o'clock, some daring burglars en tered the house of an old man, named Thomas Heaton, a person worth considerable property, and of rather penu rious habits. He had been receiving some rents recently, and it was generally understood that he kept a good deal of money in the -house, but which appears not to have been the case. The rogues gained admittance by forcing open with a crowbar both the inner and outer doors, and then proceeded to a lower room, where the housekeeper slept, and demanded her money, which she gave up, amounting to £3 17s. 6d. After, various threats if she made any disturbance, they proceeded upstairs to the old man, who is remarkably deaf. On seeing a light in his room, he sat up in bed, but was immediately attacked by the robbers, who beat him dreadfully about the head and face, which were soon covered with blood, bruises, and wounds. They then commenced a search for the ex pected booty, but only found between £2 and £3 in sil ver, and a gold watch, casting on one side a £5O note of a bank which stopped payment more than twenty years ago. They then went down to the housekeeper's room again, followed by the old man, who is above eighty years of age, and it appeared that his movements were unheard, for he had succeeded in getting down the gun, which was charged, and was in the act of presenting it, when one of the men sprang upon him, and prevented what, in all pro bability, would have been instant death to one of them. While the villains were decamping, the poor old man, though nearly blind, had found a large hedge knife, and seeing something move, he struck at the object with all his strength, which, unfortunately, turned out to be the poor housekeeper, who, thinking the robbers had fled, was coming from her room. Had the blow been dealt with more precision, it might have been attended with serious consequences, but, fortunately, a slight cut from which the blood flowed copiously was the only injury. —Notts Guardian SHIPWRECK.—A most exciting scene occurre dat Whitby, on Monday. The brig Vine, of Bristol, laden with oats, sprung a leak when off Whitby, and, either through ignorance of the time of high water, or a want of knowledge of the port, the vessel struck upon the bar. The crew, except the master, were soon landed in a pilot boat. The master, Captain John Honey, who, we under stand, is part owner, refused to leave the vessel. As the tide rose, the wind, which was blowing strong from the south-east, increased to a complete gale, and the sea ran very heavy, which soon stove in one side of the vessel, and dismasted her. The master still stuck to the vessel, and the storm increased, the waves breaking over her most furiously. The life-boat had been manned and sent to the vessel three times, and endeavours made to persuade the captain, if he valued his lif e , t o l eave t h e wreck, but in vain ; he expressed his determination to " stick to her." Ultimately, however, he was brought to land. On reaching the shore another unexpected peril awaited him. The crowd was so anxious to get a sight of a man who appeared to value life so little, that it was with the greatest difficulty he could be got to a house of refuge without injury, several persons having been thrown down in the crowd and trampled on. Whilst this scene was enacting, another of a more amusing character was being performed up the harbour. The sea having washed out the greater part of the cargo (oats), it drifted up the har bour with the tide, and the surface was literally covered, and hundreds of boats were to be seen well manned and the crews actively engaged skimming the water with bas kets and other articles that would hold the grain and let off the water, and many a treat is in store for the swine of the poor fishermen. The scene on Tuesday morning, at low water, was changed to one not unlike that of the " California gold diggins." The best oats having sunk to the botton, crowds of men, women, and children were industriously employed up to the waist in water, dragging the river for the grain. GRAND BONSPIEL OF THE CALEDONIAN CURLING CLUB.—At Lochwinnock, on Friday, the greatest gather ing of the lovers of this manly and truly national game that ever was held in Scotland took place. East, west, north, and south, they came in laughing bands, accompa nied in some instances with flags and music. There were loopy lawyers from Edinburgh —long-headed merchants from our own good city—farmers fro.n the Carse of Gou rie—ploughmen from the Mearns—with ministers and dominies from many a landward parish. The bonspiel was held on a splendid sheet of water, about a mile or so length, by rather more than a quarter in breadth, situ ated a little to the south-west of the village of Loch winnoch. Upwards of twelve hundred persons were engaged in this magnificent game, and the spectators must have amounted to nearly as many thousands. About half-past twelve, the players having been arranged into about a hundred rinks, a signal gun was fired, and immediately thereafter the roaring play commenced. But such a flourishing of brooms, waving of caps, sweeping of the ice, eager watching of moving stones, accompanied with shouts of laughter, directions for playing, cries of disappointment, or commendations of success, created altogether such a joyous scene of confusion, that the pen cils of a hundred Harveys, or the pens of a hundred Dickens', would have been totally ineffective in conveying the faintest idea of what was going on. Suffice it to say that mirth and good humour were observable on every hand ; and although a wee drap of the dew was occasion ally observed circling round the tee, nothing approaching to indecorum or ill-nature ever crossed the hog-score. Three hours after the commencement of the play,—and, indeed, while the enthusiasm was still gathering.—another boom was heard from the signal gun, and immediately the contest ceased ; the leaders proceeded to give in their reports, and the crowd began rapidly to disperse, —some to take their " beef and greens," the curler's favourite food from time i mmemor i a l, a t the club dinner party in Lochwinnoch ; others to fight their battles o'er again, and have a friendly dram for " auld acquaintance sake," in the tents that fringed the loch ; while not a few wended their various ways homewards, joking and laughing over the events of the day. The following is the total result of the playing :—North of the Clyde, 2,420; south of the Clyde, 2,276: majority, 144.—Glasgow Citizen. How THE WORLD IS PAPERED.—The press sends forth a printed surface which amounts in the year to 349,308,000 superficial feet ; and if we add to these all the papers that are printed, weekly and fortnightly, in the metropolis and the provinces, the whole amounts to 1,466,150,000 square feet, upon which the press has left in legible characters the proof of its labours. Of the newspapers, therefore, that have been published in the United Kingdom during the year 1849, we may say that they would cover a surface of 33,658 acres, or would extend, if joined one to another, to 138,843 miles—that is, they would nearly six times encircle the earth at the equator.—Bentley's Magazine. Jan 2Z, Iti 3Blofrict peluO. A gang of coiners have been apprehended in lir - Seven new cotton factories are about to be e refr Bolton. aq A uat m ic o , re an t d ha s n om u e su l a a l n n d u b m ir b d e s r , o a f re st s r a a i n d g t e o W h V e f i c i i i e; 4 ! lakes, rivers, and other localities in this and the *9 counties, in the course of the last few weeks. deo p The Messrs. Johnson, of St. Helens, have l e the whole of their property, in liquidation of. 9 0 1 made on them for the defalcation in the Savings funds, and it is thought that this will be sufficien t the deficiency. a On Sunday l a st, a criminal lunatic, named —r trived to m a k e hi s escape from the County Luna 414 a 1 lnm at Lancaster, and has not since been ,7 6 0 About thirteen or f ourteen years ago h e mou e wife by cutting off her head. 'th The tenants of Sir T. G. Hesketh, Bart., wives, sons, an d d aug h ters, celebrated the birtb b 0 01 their respected landlord, on Friday week, by 3 401 supper in the ten an t s ' h a ll, at the mans ion, " Sir Thomas and Lady A ra b e il a l ed o ff t h e dance' DOI QUEER NAMES FOR STREETS.—Among th e Ila )Vi of streets an d pl aces or d ered by the corpora ti o n 0 f to chester the other day t o b e pave d an d sever ed, ° r oi l declared public highways, were two places—on e " South Sea," and the other Northwest Passage;abti A desperate affray t oo k p l ace on S un d a y notni i ol tween a gang of poachers and three of the keePerl e 011 service of Pudsey D awson , E sq., of Horn b y Gas' eke Lancaster. Th e li ves o f two o f the part i es were cO5 in danger, but some improvement has since taken r o e On the 10th i ns t an t, M r. F elix Leach, the eldest," Felix Leach, Esq., o f B rungerley, near Clitheroe,, s 0 , 0 an outbarn to gi ve some cattle their hay, and ho se g o , gun in his side p oc k e t, w hi ch, during the time he 1%00 ing the cattle the hay, fell out of his pocket, and one barrels went off and shot him through the heart. The Mayor of M anc h es t er gave a grand di nn er Pi Friday Friday evenin g . A mong t h e company were trined3 Sheriff, J. S. Ent w i s tl e , E sq., t h e Bishop and ';ho Manchester, the Mayors of Liverpool, Oldham , -,1:4 &c.. several me m b ers o f P ar li ament, T. B. Horsfal,r, J. Bramley-Moore, Esq., G. H. Lawrence. Esq" FLEETWOOD AN INDEPENDE NT PORT. —A r U , ner, in celebrati on o f Fl eetwood bein,r an in da` pn 010 ) port, took place a t th e N ort h Euston d ote', on .I,"sif week. The repast, w hi c h was of the most suraral eir profuse characte r , was served up in the spacious f lu )itO gant ball-room of thi s fi rst-class establishment, voif Sharpies' customary skill an d lib eral i ty. Theg uns bered about 120. Sir P. Hesketh Fleetwood occur° chair. VEGETARIAN DINNER. —On T ues d ay l as t a ,:i Ira tire, e ng Christmas Dinner was held in the Vegetarian ri n irlftr tablishment, St. Ann's-place, M anc h ester. About five ladies and gentle men sa t d own to dinner, wwetioll sisted entirely of dish es recommended by the vege b e d The bill of fare app rox i ma t e d to that whic h ha to presented in the Vegetarian Messenger, the organ icef vegetarians. After dinner, addresses in advocacy tarianism and teetotalism were delivered by the ell (Mr. James Simpson,) M r . J osep h B rotherton , others.. THE SUPPLY OF Corrow.—A spe c i a l generaleja d of the Manchest er Ch am b er of Commerce was "` Thursday to take into cons id erat i on whether snir, ,01 1 be open whereby an enlarged commercial intercour s " °p plf India can be p romo t e d , and especially an increase d of cotton be obtained. Mr. T. Bazley, president A chamber, occupied the chair, and among the g,e p present were—the Ri g ht H on . T . M. Gibson, 1‘1•10 John Bright, M r . Willi am Brown, Mr. James Pilk°,,ice Mr. James Kershaw, M.P., Mr. Lewis Williams , 0) president of the chamber. The following resolut l o o o o others, was unanimously passed :—That this contemplating the early expiration of the East Ina l3 o o , pany's charter, is of opinion that a special commus s pot? inquiry should be sent forthwith to India to exaroi°'„ f if the condition of the country, especially within the r tilio dencies of Bombay and Madras, with a view to rice what are the obstacles to the growth of cotton, anu., , ei l extension and permanence of a profitable industrY l i ooP cultivation of the soil ; and the chamber is also of 9 . P of that the report of such a commission would furnisli be foll luable information to the legislature and tle publi T c „diotl the consideration of the future government of 1 " again brought before Parliament. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S SHOEMAKER l ' i'' '' TAILOR ARGUMENT. (From the Quarterly Review, just published.) .40 1 Let us suppose the c ase o f two artizans or dealers re g, O O in the same town— a s h oemaker and tailor. The one I t y clothes, the other shoes : th ey t hi nk it right to enco uragigh domestic industry of thei r own town—to deal with eac h and not with strangers. Th e s h oemaker gives ten shill' 4l the tailor for a certain quantity of clothes, which he C O " t o0 for seven shillings if h e b oug h t them in a neighbouring, st ol But, by way of compe nsa ti on, t h e tailor gives him his ettvOt, and pays ten shillings•fo r th e s h oes which he could bu y distar.t shoemaker for seven. Is there not a loss of ' i c i e ollo i lings to the town in which th ey live, as.the result of this ow between these tradesmen ?"—Speech of Sir R. Peel, 1849. The fallacy [th a t o f k eep i ng out of sight the fac t t the people are producers, as well as consumers,] is 10 0 , ingly exhibited i n th e ill ustration borrowed front Smith, but amplified, and we might almost say pelt;e, by Sir Itohprt Pep'. Th. Owida, '(N „ attempt to make his ow n s h oes , b ut b uys them O f ' shoemaker. The shoemaker does not attempt to vdii his own clothes, but buys them of the tailor.' merely exemplifies the advantage of division of enir t b/ 1 ments. Pursuing the illustration, the tailor all'!dellt shoemaker are represented by Sir Robert Peel as res'tit in the same town. Anxious t o encourage t h e dom e ` industry of their town, th e y reso l ve to deal with e. f o t other, and not with stra ngers .' E ac h g i ves the othe' r r the quantity of clothes and shoes each respectively t ps quires, ten shillings, while each could have purchase d d , same articles in a n e i g hb our i ng town for seven ir Now,' triumphantly asks the Right Honourable 1 30 'f; is there any encouragement in this to domestic inc i ti) —is there not a loss o f s i x s hilli ngs to the town ill "del' they live, as the result'of the dealing between these tr s ., ol l; men ?' We answer un h es it at i ng l y, there is in this tubeti dealing an encour ag e men t t o d omest i c industry ; and jirer is not necessarily any loss to the town in which theY sh oe' while there may be a p os iti ve ga i n. Tailoring and et° making are in this c a s e p ronounce d to b e much denrpe the town supposed than in the nei g hb our i ng l oca litt productions of those trades res p ect i vely cannot, "Yfore; argument, be sold elsewhere. Th e suspens i on , there arlGi of the demand of his fell ow -t ownsmen for clo thes .. 0 shoes is fatal to the producti ve i n d ustry of the tail°' acol the shoemaker, and conversely their resolution " t° oi# o w r i t u h n e w a i c s h e o e t c h o e n r 0 , m a n i c d a I n i y o t co w n i s t i h d e s re tr d a , n w ge h r i s c ' h ' —iswnhoetter heretae al question—must, beyond all doubt, afford en courn,,eato to their domestic indust r y, w hi ch would be destrOt4. without it. Nor is the rep l y to the second quel l s ' difficult. Surely it must be self-evident that, s° of!, the general interest of the town is concerned, t he o til can in no deg ree a ff ect t h at i nterest. The transac .i posed surplus price p a id b y t h e townsmen to elleh"tiosli ro, simply one of barter—the exchange of a coat for a 1?;4 shoes. How can the effect of this exchange be vs rl ic le s ; any variation of p r i ce app li e d alike to both er'reY,lo' How could the commo di ty b e e i ther richer or Pe° o,' the charge made for each being ten shillings or five 0 0 lings ? But take the facts as if occurring in °w „,pp ll 4 ' country, to which the illustration is intended to.; n ts`," Suppose the community of the town A bound to . 113 , t eri'' all tailors and shoemakers who, from want of emPlpY;to l are unable to maintain themselves. Suppose the ins; ffiej thirst for cheapness, blinding these tradesmen to th e pt, tidal folly of destroying their own market, to have prl e e on' them to purchase at the neighbouring town Bl•m o tbe'i ties they had been accustomed to buy from esc l '„ i icir t e 'j They continue this dealing as ling as their indet n rif, i means last; but each has lost his customer, and, d e l of demand for the produce of his labour, those „ P o, daily diminish, and at length fail. Whence i m s e e n i t t h_e ill o is t : to obtain the seven-shillings coat or the seven-t, shoes ? HAa A sn n di dt hastheno t ots tnnot, e unless community w h o loef otherpA ro—dwu employment o r p efio theiys nowiild i o bn b og t t a h? in ? ed, incurred the additional burthen of the 1 0,5 nance of both ? And where is other employmen t es' sought;? —to be hoped for? The argument suel le s o' o ' 6 town to be dear, in reference to its neighbour, ill t A ; portion of ten to seven, and the sale of clothes n ll ' ll ,o o l l' elsewhere is consequently impossible. Extend, th c e ivi ii .o argument ; let it apply to every section, every i n .01, r j, of the community. Dealing together, external P rl osvi: immaterial to them—they encourage domestic il l br e e i —they flourish. Pursue the phantom cheapness 8 5 e iar i let them buy from others instead of producing th e lle —they languish —they decline—they perish. ti , closing closing our remarks on thi s o ft- quote d i llust taltfe-ou, must not omit to notice th e st range . an d , we 00:1p us unintelligible explanation with which it is e° ll , e o Sir Robert Peel treats the shillings as each rell e ; r the labour of an hour ; and asserting that it is c' e- 03 10'.' c ls by the exchange between the tailor and the sho e 0 .10 1 ( ten hours have been devoted to produce that for ola te) seven, as it is proved, would have sufficed, he 8 , 135 ,. asks ' could not each party have procured that es"' t he gave the labour of ten hours by the labour If VII,' and thus have had three hours at his disposal?,, o icl'i; can the right honourable baronet mean ? How 7 1 0113° maining idle ten hours himself, and giving lov e " at labour to a tradesman in B, have left three hours disposal of the tailor or the shoemaker at A ? 5 i01: 7 7, ADVENTURES OF A £5 NOTE —A short tirnevior• lady, residing at East Ham, called upon the .740 d col" t treatfield, the vicar of that Parish, and in tb e .., 0 0 3- 0 1 conversation asked the rev. gentleman the 11 , 1- 00f i jf money collected at the church on the General th e se giving Day. The sum was mentioned, which 001 observed w as ra th er l ess than she had expe cted I t o husband had put a£s note into the plate. TJP °I / 11 0 g er ( vicar remarked there must be some mistake, as tb thing had been ret urne d i n the collection, and upon communicated the circumstance to 01 ';,„ c l. ,of' thews, by whom the plate was carried rn:; e en e ' ff ei Matthews, a highly respectable farmer, had - ref thing of the kind, and waited upon the gentleman n ot e to as the donor, who explained that he had tl io toll his hand some little time previously to droPPi n g 1 a 95 .44 plate, and had rolled it up in a very small CO inP o P at once occurred to Mr. Mathews that the 11 ,P nci tli9 have fallen ou t o f t h e plate and, upon makinK the 0 0 , 1 the sexton whe re h e was in the habit of throwelesoll the place was po i nte d out, and, after a rainnteosf,f,, Mr. Matth ews an d t h e v i car, t h e m i ss i ng nete.o 0 De in the long grass o f th e c h urc h yar d. 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