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or her privilege)! oat as a religions benefactress, ..,tering the seeds of divine truth over the habitations of the globe, and sending forth her Christian ministers to preach among the heathen the unsearchable riches of Christ. (Cheers.) It had been said by an eloquent advocate of mis sions, though not in connection with the missionary subject, that the more we multiplied and diffused ourselves for great objects of benevolence, the more we guarded against the ex cuses and palliations which usually were in our power. Per haps nothing was more true, and he believed that the more we extended and multiplied ourselves for sacred objects the more we guarded against the acrimonies that embittered and met us in the course of life. He knew, indeed, of no field of exertion more sacred than that which was the object of-this society ; and if it were true (and no man could doubt it) of those who remain , ignorant of that truth, if the silence of na ture h'id not been broken, that there is joy in heaven over one sinner, what enjoyment could be more important, or more eloquent or safe, than the undertaking in which they were that morning engaged ? (Cheers.) The result of efforts of this kind would flow on concurrent with ourselves through all eternity ; but our connection with both exertions and re sults in time would be short, forward to assist in-them Ilodgson concluded by moving that the repert read to the nice, lated under the direction of the committ mittee be re-appointed. The Rev. F. OWEN, one 'of parent society, seconded the risen so much to make a speech as in the way of a witness to give some testimony upon the state of the heather: world. It had been his lot, under Divine Providence, to visit a portion of it, and to return to his our opportunities of coming he first resolution, to the effect )pted and circu- and that the corn- ion from the ►id he had not ►ve couurty again, with the view, he trusted, of stirring up in the minds, it it were of but a few individuals, a sense of the perishing condition of the heathen. Yet it was but a small portion of the heathen world which it had been his lot to visit. The population of Southern Africa was exceedingly thin, there being, perhaps in the whole of it, not more than half a million of people. Among the Caffre tribes whom he journeyed through, there were abuut 70,000, or 100,000: the tribe to which he was 4.0 sent as a missionary, the Zooloos, contained about 50,000 ; and after the abandonment of this mission (of which he might have an opportunity to give some account,) he went into the interior of Southern Africa, to the northward of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, where there was a scat tered population over an immense extent of country, within the reach of Europeans, of perhaps not more than 160,000, if so many. Perhaps one might be disposed to say that the population of Southern Africa being so exceedingly thin, she had not so great a claim upon our benevo knee as other countries where the population was so much greater. Yet it seethed to him, and he was im pressed with the conviction, that the circumstance of the thin ness of the population of the south of Africa, was a reason why we should more abundantly commisserate the heathens there, who were walking in darkness. (Hear.) Especially when we considered to what the thinness of the population was owing, and the reason why there were immense tracts of country wholly without inhabitants, through which, indeed, he had.travelled from day to day, and week to week, without meeting a single soul. \N - liat was the reason of this ? It was crime that thinned the country of its inhabitants. It was not that the country was unable to support the population, be cause in some parts it was very fertile ; but it was crime which had emptied the country of its inhabitants. And what was the crime owing to? It was owing to the circumstance that the heathens of that country were not acquainted with the grounds of moral responsibility—because they were unac quainted with the first principles of religion; because they were ignorant of the being of a God, and did not acknow ledge the doctrine of a Providence, or the superintendence of an invisible Being over the affairs of men, nor believe in a future state of rewards and punishments. (Hear, hear.) This being the case, we could easily comprehend how there could be no restraint to crime—how the passions of men, being uncontrolled by religion, must break forth and produce the most disastrous effects ; and the consequence of this had been, that nation had risen up against nation, tribe against tribe. They had, by their weakness and their injustice, pro voked Europeans to attack them ; and the effect had been, that society could not in that country hold together, the very bonds of society were dissolved, and society itself melted away. This was the reason why there were in that country so few inhabitants ; and it appeared to him that this was the reason why we should more abundantly commiserate these wretched persons. (Hear, hear.) He believed the object of the committee, in requesting him to attend this anniver sary, was, that he should give some account of what he had seen with his eyes, and some of the details of the mission, the unprosperous mission, to the Zooloos. He would remind the meeting that, although he had retired from the mission ary work, it was not because be himself had turned his back upon it, but because he was not supported in his sphere of labour by the society which had sent him out, and which could no longer support him because they were not helped by the funds of the Christian public. (Hear, hear.) After the abandonment of the Zooloo mission, and having encoun tered great difficulties and perils for ayear or two, he could 0- have returned to the quiet labours of his own country. but he went to another part of Southern Africa, to the north of the Cape of Good Hope, where he would have laboured to this day had the Church Missionary Society been able to support him there. It was the Zooloo mission, however, which was more properly the mission of the Church Mis sionary Society. They did not assist him in the Bettuanah country. He went thither upon his own suggestion ; but when the society received the tidings of his departure to that country, they felt they were not able to curry on a mission in that remote region, although there were circumstances which rendered it peculiarly favourable to missionary enterprise, and it would have opened a way into the very interior of Africa; for beyond that particular place were innumerable tribes which had not been explored, and who would, from all accounts, be willing to receive missionaries among them. But as he had said before, it was the Zooloo mission which was the mission of the Church Missionary Society, and with which the attention of the meeting must be principally en gaged. He sailed to that country about five years ago, along with his friend Capt. Gardner ; and having travelled irough the tribes of Caffre land, and a large extent of uninhabited country beyond, he arrived at the south-east coast of Africa, from whence he went upon a visit to the Chief. The Chief might be considered, if the place had no idol, as the great idol of the nation. He was the object of their worship : they felt accountable to none hut to him; and the posture in which they approached him was the posture of worship. They used terms towards him applicable to no human being ; they talked of him as if he had neither beginning of days nor end of years ; and they ascribe immortality to him. When he gave, as was customary, food to eat to the people who live in the town where he resides—when the meat was cut up and distributed among the people, they were accustomed, in their way of exclamation, to send out his praises in these terms— " Thou that art greater than the heavens." Many other terms of flattery they were in the habit of applying to him. This chief allowed him (Mr. Owen) to reside in a hut which he built for him in his own neighbourhood, about a mile from the town, in view also of a hill upon which criminals were wont to be executed for the most trifling crimes. On this spot he remained for four months, beholding from time to time—every morning almost—criminals dragged thither and butchered in the most summary way, being knocked with hive knobsticks upon their heads, and so instantly murdered. ' It was not possible for him to carry on the mis sionary work there with much success on account of the hostility which this tyrannical chief showed to the word of God. It seemed indeed as if he could not endure to hear of another being greater than himself ; it seemed as if he could not endure that his people should be instructed that there was another being whom they were to serve and regard a b ove him, for when he (Mr. Owen) spoke to him and his people of God, it plainly appeared they had no conception of the spiritual essence of that Being, to whom he glory, for ever. (Hear.) Although by his questions to him (Mr. Owen), and his own answers thereto, he spewed that he con sidered he was himself some deceased chief of the white peo ple. According to his own ideas, they have a way of vene rating and worshipping the spirits of their ancestors, and particularly the spirits of their chiefs, to whom they offer propitiatary sacrifices, which spirits they suppose to exist after death. When, therefore, he spoke to them concerning a spiritual being, the creator and governor of all the world, the chief supposed he was talking to him of some deceased king of England ; and when he enumerated to him the list of kings and queens of England, from William the Conqueror, he asked which of them were our Gods. (Hear.) Where the mind, there fore, was without religion, and it did not know the grounds upon which moral responsibility rested, there was no knowing to what extent their evil passions might carry them. This was the case with the king in whose dominions he lived ; he was a tyrant ; be acted according to his own will and fancy ; he was not restrained by any moral or religious considerations from putting any of his subjects to death whom he suspected, or whose cattle he desired to obtain, upon the slightegt pre tence, either by public prosecution, or otherwise by secret assassination. He was the only being to whom his subjects looked up to with any reverence. They had, indeed, no no tion of any being superior to him, and thus they were desti tute of all the spirit of liberty. He might have another op portunity of giving a detailed account of the actions and manners of this cruel heathen king, which might not only interest, but show what a miserable and unhappy creature man is without religion, when he is left to his own evil passions. He felt, however, that he could not at that time, addressing them at the early part of the meeting, when so many of his rev. brethren were waiting to speak. He should at the follow ing meeting bring before them, on the part of the Church Mis sionary Society, the general state of the heathen, and give a further account of his mission to the Zoloos ; but at present he should sit down by seconding the resolution. The resolution was then carried unanimously. The Rev. THOMAS NOLAN said that, by the arrangements for the meeting, he found himself privileged to introduce the next resolution : " That the success which it has pleased God to vouchsafe to the labours of our missionaries during the past year, espe cially in Western Africa, India, and New Zealand, calls for devout thankfulness and renewed prayer that the Lord of the Harvest would continue to own this society in gathering souls from among the heathen." To every true Christian the terms of the resolution affirmed only what he acknowledged at once to be an obvious duty, and felt, in the discharge of it, to be an exceeding great and happy privilege—to offer prayer and to render thanks. It was a good and pleasant thing to give thanks. The heart that is constrained, by an abiding sense of mercies past, to praise and bless the Lord for his goodness and the wonders that he doeth for the children of men, is the most likely to engage again with cheerfulness and vigour—the best elements of success—in fresh efforts of practical benevolence and active love. So that the frame of mind, implied in the spirit of this resolution, while it is the only becoming one for the Christian, is unque s ti ona bl y th e b es t a l s o for the interests of the cause which he seeks to advance. A spring of latent energy is detected, a f ounta i n of exhaustless hope is opened, an ardour is awakened in the mind, duly thankful for the past, and humbly trustful as reg ar d s th e f u ture, that will neither be deterred by difculty, chilled by delay, nor even defeated by disappointment, inasmuch as the cause to which they are devoted must needs be a good one , an d th e z eal thus tempered must certainly be according to knowledge. When the uncertain futu re * iscontemplated through the pr ayer of faith, the buoyancy, excessiveperhaps, of hope is tem pered, that might arise fro m a remembrance of former su ccess; and, as the tide of pious thankfulness is poured out for that success, new energies are enlisted, and high as well as holy resolves are formed, the harbinge+s t , iis under God, of renewe d and increased triumphs again. , he took it, w as the great prin ci p le of missionary _elieving it to be enterprise, as well as the great secret of missionar y suc cess. B sound and scrip tural, he give it an hum ble but most - cordial support. The Church Missionary Society went forth in o b e di en ce to the com mand of the Lo rd Jesus, " Go ye unto all nations and make Christians of them," nor would it cease from its labour o f love so long as that command w as uncan celled ; and certai nl y they could not for a moment d oubt of eventual success, so long as the accompanying promise was unrecalled, " Lo, I am with you always even to the end of the world." Without furtherespassin on the time and in he begged leave to propose the re dulgeuce of the meeting. solution. Mr. Jonx HOWARD seconded the resolution, and i n t h e course of his observation s, he s tated that some years ago, a gentleman, a friend of his from York, named Graham, on hearing that Liverpool only ty then contributed .1:800s 0 per e, sa annum to the Church Missionary ocie tonished at it, especially as the little town of York, with a population not exceeding 30,000, remitted £lOOO, whilst Liverpool, with 200,000 inhabitants, sent only £BOO. Mr. Graham threw out the hint, and it was not without its use, for the contribution eventually reached £2OOO. This cir cumstance showed that Liverpool only wanted to be stirred up in order to do more ; and the best argument to address to her on the subject was the word of God, expressed in the command of our Saviour, " Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel t o every creature, for there is j o y in heaven over every sin ner th at repen teth." (Hear, hear.) The resolution was then unanimously carried. The Rev, A. R. C. DALLAS proposed the next resolu tion. The meeting hadjust heard , read a resolution which expressed thankfulness and gratitude to God Almighty, for the success he had been pleased to vouchsafe to the la bours of the society during the past year. He trusted they felt thankfulness and gratitude when the resolution was put, that they perceived how much cause there was for gratitude, and how much their hearts ought to rise up and sing the praises of God. He was afraid, however, that he should be found to have risen, to alter the key in which this music was set,—rather to take their harps of praise, and hang them upon the willows. The resolution he bad to move, as the meeting might have gathered, was therefore of a different character to the last. I t was as follows That feeling deep regret that at a time when God is so manifestly blessing the labours of the Church Missionary Society among the heathen, the Parent Committee should be com pelled by financial difficulties to adopt measures for contract ing the sphere of missionary labours abroad, this meeting would earnestly press on the friends of the society the ne cessity of renewed activity in behalf of an institution which has p rove d an instrument of blessing in many lands." This resolution spoke a painful truth. It referred to the financial difficulties, to the contracted sphere of theoperations of the Church Missionary Society, and it told the necessity for renewed exertions. To bring this appeal before them would require much of the power of the Spirit of God, to do it effectually. Oh, that his Holy Spirit might be with those who had to speak upon it, and enable them to put plainly, boldly, truly, and honestly before the meeting the real state of the case ! In the motion that was made, and in the report generally of the state of the society, there was too much of the habitual supposition that things would go right; too much of general statement without going into particulars; too much of the kind of feeling of the difficulties of a commercial position when men were begining to feel they were going a little wrong ; and that they might possibly find something very differentlin the balance from what they ex pected. He feared this was too much the case with regard to the Church Missionary Society ; but it was precisely a state of things which required a close investigation. On this occasion it was nothing more nor less than a duty,—they must look the matter manfully in the face. He did not scruple to say that the society was in a very serious con dition. It had arrived at a criiis which the active members of the society had been endeavouring, should he say to stave off? Tbat would be the expression they might apply to the case, but he would rather say, bear off, to ward off putting their faith in the Christian liberality of the public. But it had come at last. The society was in debt ; and the debt had been a growing debt, inasmuch as the funds which had been laid by to meet the emergencies of the society had been gradually swallowed up one after another. A very earnest endeavour had been made from time to time to bear up against the falling off, and calls were made upon the whole of England upon this great subject. Those efforts bad been responded to to a certain degree ; funds had been raised ; and although they had been raised during the year before last and last year, the society now found itself £13,000 in debt. (Hear.) Now this was a fearful condition; and in such a place as this, where strict honesty in all commercial pursuits was the very life of society, it was a bounden duty to shew how such a state of things came to exist. It must be taken into consideration, then, that there were continually fresh openings for missionary exertions ; and the society was con tinually falling back upon that large and inexhaustible fund of Christian love which they had hitherto been able to draw upon continually, and upon which, with the blessing of God, they would still continue to draw. It only remained to shew that there were peculiar circumstances of necessity for drawing much more largely upon the great fund of Chris tian love. The committee calculated upon the fund of Chris tian love in proportion us particular cases opened for sending forth the power and the blessing of the gospel. There had been such openings, and oh, how very abundantly ! Who had not read of the great opening at Tinnevally ? Who had not read the religious history of New Zealand, of the Western Coast of Africa, of Sierra Leone ? Let the meeting glance over them in their minds, and consider what, under such circumstances, would have been the duty of the committee ; would it have been their duty to go forth and enlighten these people, or would it have been their duty to stop and enquire whether they ought to go on ? They had been drawn on, and they could not have done otherwise; they could not re sist the opportunities ; and when they looked back to see whether they had the means to go on, they looked back not to the balance sheet, but to England, to the Church of England, to the glorious spirit of Christ shed abroad so largely in the length and breadth of the land. (Ap plause.) They knew this was the spirit which distinguished England ; they therefore went on and said, " the money will come, the means will be brought, we will trust' in God ;" and they had gone on. (Hear, hear, hear.) It had pleased God, however, to give them a very serious check ; but if there were any person present, who, in the strictness of commercial honesty said, "they ought not to have done this, they ought to have seen that the means were supplied beforehand," let them just put this case :—Suppose there was a house here which stopped payment—a house of the highest honour and probity, and when enquiry was made it was found that their agents in America had withheld the supplies which they expected—would they blame the house? They would at once say it was a lamentable case, but none would be found to say it was dishonourable. Letters of credit had been given but not answered, in the one case, in the other it was not written down, but it was founded on the impulse of the heart, and did not want writing. It was felt. When the public gave their money to support this cause, they gave a warrant for supposing it to come from Christian love ; and that was the letter of credit which the committee of the Church Missionary Society had used. (Hear.) If it came to this, that the Society had stopped not payment , but work , and the public said it was dishonourable, they must look to themselves. He said, " stopped not payment, but work." Did they not weep when they heard the report of the Church Missionary Society in London, to the effect that they must give up three missions and stop all the others from go ing on any further ? How lamentable was it that when young men, qualified for the work of missions, presented themselves at the institution in Islington, to be sent to on that labour, they found the door locked and barred ! And who made those bars and locks? Those who refused to grant the letters of credit. (Hear.) They had no means of admitting ano ther missionary ; and the answer to all at present was—" you must wait." Having enlarged on this state of things, the rev, gentleman made an earnest call upon the public to in crease their subscriptions and to present liberal donations to the society. The Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL seconded the resolu tion in an able speech, in which after some prefatory observa tions, he said he should speak of the finanical part of the question at the meeting to-morrow (this day). At present he would simply say that he believed the committee had never for a moment shrunk from the full examination of the finan cial condition of the society, had never shrunk from the re sponsibility of meeting their engagements, neither had they failed to provide for the important emergencies before them. The present emergency had arisen from a matter, the investi gation of which would, he doubted not, fully justify them to every considerate mind. The rev. gentleman then took a rapid review of the state of the African missions of the society, and from which he showed the necessity of sup porting the society in all its extended operations. The resolution was then carried. On the motion of Mr. RIGBY, seconded by Mr. BOUT FLOWER, the thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Rec tor Campbell for his conduct in the chair. Mr. CAMPBELL having returned thanks, a Doxology was sung and the meeting separated. The adjourned meeting will be held this evening in the Amphitheatre. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, MAY 23. Wind at Holyhead, E.S.E. moderate in the morning ; South, a t noon, and S.W. light breeze in the evening. Off Point Lynas, outward bound, at 5 p.m. No. 1468, Black Cat, schooner. Off the port, at 7 15 p.m schooners 2 ships, 2 barques, 3 brigs, and 3 LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT-MAY 21 DISCHARGED ADMITTED. In-patients cured Relieved and at own request 11 Out-patients . 1 Made Out-patients ... .• ... I Casuals during the last week 2 Irregular Dead Consulting Surgeons, Mr. Forshaw and Mr. Dawson." Chaplain Rev. R. Davies. House Visitors, Jas. Bold and C. W. Reade, Esqrs. Apothecary, Mr. W. Burgess. House Surgeon . Mr. Brandreth. E. W. JACKSON, Treasurer NORTHERN HOSPITAL, MAY 21. ADMITTED. DISCHARGED Accidents .. Medical and Surgical cases Upon recommendation ..... 11 Cured Attending asOut Patients 16 Irregular Died Remaining in th, e Hospital House Visiters, Daniel Neilson and Walter 0. Heyworth, Esqrs Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq. Chaplain, Rev. E. Maginnis.—Rouse Surgeon, Mr. Parker. The Toulonnais of the lith instant states, that it was re ported in Algiers, that General Bedean bad defeated the army of the Emperor of Morocco, with the loss of 300 killed and a great number of prisoners. Some further failures have taken place at Oporto, and let ters from that city charge a large proportion of these disas ters on the Oporto Bank, who, at a crisis of great embarrass ment, had contracted their credits in a very extraordinary degree. The Moniteur publishes a decision of Marshal Soult to in stitute a committee, charged with preparing a grammar and a dictionary of the Kabyle or Berbere language. The Duke de Montebello, Ambassador of France, in Naples, landed at Marseilles on the 15th, on his way to Paris. THE PRUSSIAN MINISTRY.—The Augsburg Gazcite of the 17th instant states, that M. de Rochow would continue to direct the Ministry of the Interior at Berlin until the Ist of July, when Count Arnim would succeed him. M. de Sa vigny is to preside at the Council of State, in place of Gene ral Muffling, who is about to resign. It is said that the King had offered the Senate of Hamburgh a million of crowns for three years, without interest. THE ALLEGED FATAL DUEL AT PALERMO.—A letter has been received from Mr. Johnson, of the 88th Regiment, dated at Malta, the 27th of April, at which period that gen tleman was in good health. He had not been absent from his regiment at all, and, of course, could not have been at Palermo ; the story of his having fallen in a duel there is, therefore, completely disproved, and there remains no doubt that it was the heartless invention of some mischievous per son. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. — An accident, attended with a fatal termination, occurred at the Glasgow terminus of the Glasgow, Ayrshire, and Greenock Railway, on Satur day last. One of the men employed in the coke-house, it appears, was coming out of that place when a waggon was being run into it, and, the entrance being narrow, he placed himself in a perpendicular positi on close to the wall, to avoid its coming in contact with his person; but, owing to an in clination of the waggon towards that side of the entrance, some part of it caught hold of him by the face and breast, and he was so severely lacerated that he survived only an hour after the occurrence of the accident. The deceased was a young man, named Fitzgerald. —Glasgow paper. MunnEn..—On Thursday last, as a respectable farmer, named Foley, residing in the parish of Comragh, in this county, was returning home from the fair of Kilmacthomas, which was held on the 12th instant, he was attacked at half past 10 p.m. by a party of persons, one of whom struck him a violent blow of a stone on the head, which caused a dread ful fracture. The poor fellovi.lingered for a few hours, when death terminated his sufferings. Owing to the praise worthy exertions of that very efficient officer, head-coustable Johnson, together with the activity of his party, two persons have been made amenable to justice — namely , Martin Shee and Thomas Power, who are now lodged in the Waterford gaol, for the homicide, by virtue of the coroner's warrant. Sufficient praise cannot be given to the police on the occa sion. No cause has been assigned for this outrage.— -Water ji)rd Mail. Suitilui.s.—The office of shrimps seems to it be anala gous to s ome o f t h e i nsects on l an d, whose task is to clear away the remains of dead animal matter after the birds and beasts of prey have been satiated. If a dead small bird or fr9i, , be placed where ants can have access to it, those insects will speedily reduce the body to a c l ose ly- c l eane d s k e l eton. The shr imp f amily, acting in hosts, as speedily remove all traces of fi s h or flesh from the bones o f any d ea d animal ex posed to th e i r ravages. They are, in short, the principal scavengers of the ocean; and notwithstanding their office, they are deservedly and highly prized as nutritious and deli cious food. THE PIANOFORTE. Amongst the extraordinary improvements of the present age, we may notice, that in the manufacture of the piano forte the greatest strides have been taken. Our attention has been casually drawn to an article on this subject which appears in the supplement to the Penny Magazine for this present mouth. We therefore take from it the following extracts : " It has been said, in a recent article of the Westmilater Review—` With a little allowable flattery of the truth, the bookcase, in an inventory of the goods belonging to any well ordered English house, might be design a t e d as one of its necessary articles of furniture—not as one of its luxuries : the place of popularity among the latter being claimed by the pianoforte.' Whether we rank it as an article of furni ture or as a luxury, it is certain that the pianoforte has be come diffused in an extraordinary degree in this country. Those who can carry their recollection back over a period of thirty or forty years, will remember the pianoforte as an in strument for the noble and the wealthy, sparingly seen in the houses of the middle classes : they will remember the gradual steps by which it has reached the domestic firesides of the bulk of the class just alluded to; and they will be prepared to expect that such an extension in the use must have brought along with it extensive plans of improvement, and equally extensive manufacturing arrangements : yet there are probably few, even of those who are familiar with the use of the pianoforte, who are aware of the complex me chanism of the modern instruments, or of the gigantic scale on which the manufacture - is conducted." Speaking of Messrs. Broadwood & Sons, the writer says : —" This firm, which has existed in the metropolis for more than a century, is one of those by whom the pianoforte has been brought to its present state of perfection. Like most other products of ingenuity, this instrument is indebted to many minds for its advancement. One improvement we owe to a Broadwdod, another to an Erard, others to Cle =nth Stodart, Tomkison ' Collard, &c., and all have pro fited by the labours of each." To form some idea of the extent of the manufactory of these great makers, the following description of their premi ses will prove acceptable : " In the Horseferry-road are two double 'gates, opening into courts or quadrangles; and in Holywell-street, 300 feet southward of it, are two other gates, also opening immediately on the same quadrangles ; and the whole of the intermediate space, spreading to a wide extent east and west, is occupied by the factory. On entering one of the gates we find before us a long open court, occupied principally by piles and tiers and logs of wood, and bounded on either side by ranges of workshops extending three hundred feetin length. Advanc ing half-way along the court, we find, on either side, an archway, leading beneath the buildings to other courts or open quadrangles, one to the east and one to the west of that by which we enter : these quadrangles, like the first, are bounded on both sides by long and uniform ranges of work shops. We are then enabled to see the extent and form of the factory. It consists of four parallel ranges of buildings, every ranee lighted by windows on both sides, and having in general three tiers or stories of workshops in height. The four ranges separated by the three court-yards, and at the ends are four dwelling-houses inhabited by the superinten dents and foremen of the establishment. Each range is wide enough to have in most parts two workshops in width ; and as most of the ranges are three stories in height, there is an aggregate length of workshop truly enormous, in fact it con siderably exceeds half-a-mile—an extent to which there are probably very few parallel instances in the metropolis. " In these four ranges of buildings three or four hundred men are engaged in the four component parts of the piano fortes, from the first sawing of the rough timber, to the po lishing and regulating of the finished instruments. Besides these there are many others engaged in the smaller branches of the manufacture, who do not work on the premises. The wood of which the pianoforte is manufactured is a subject of no little interest to Liverpool, considering how great the import of mahogany is into this port. "It is ge nerally known that Honduras mahogany is not so highly valued for cabinet-work as Spanish mahogany ; it is there fore in the pianoforte manufacture used for some of the parts which are afterwards veneered with Spanish mahogany, rose wood, or some other kind of fancy wood, But in the pre sent case a tree of Honduras mahogany, imported about six teen years ago, has far exceeded what Spanish wood could exhibit. Spanish mahogany is decidedly the most beautiful ; but occasionally, though not very often, the Honduras wood is of singular brilliancy ; and it is then eagerly sought for, to be employed in the most extensive cabinet work. Some time ago Messrs. Broadwood, who have been long distin guished as makers of pianofortes, gave the enormous sum of three thousand pounds for three logs of mahogany. These logs, the produce of one tree, were each about fifteen feet long and thirty-eight inches wide." It is stated that the strings of an improved grand piano forte require nearly one thousand iron pins or pegs, each one inserted in a hole made with great exactness to its dimen sions; but the following statement is still more surprising:— "We find that in one of Messrs. Broadwood's most im proved six-and-a-half octave pianofortes (for which, we believe, a patent has been taken out) the mechanism con nected with the action' consists of about three thousand eight hundred separate pieces of ivory, ebony, cedar, syca more, lime-tree, mahogany, beef-wood, oak, pine, steel, iron, lead, cloth, felt, leather, and vellum. Every one of these has to be fashioned with the most scrupulous exactness, and as scrupulously adjusted to its place. Many of the pieces are not more than a quarter of an inch square, some even less." _ _ _ Of the workmen in this large establishmant, and the good feeling existing amongst them, we may take the following as an example : " The pianoforte manufacture is one in which nothing but highly-skilled and manual dexterity can make and adjust the numerous pieces of mechanism involved in it ; and those workmen who possess this skill are 'not likely to be supplan ted by any automaticmachinery. Hence it happens that the same workmen are seen year after year, occupying their old benches, using their old tools, coming to work and leaving work at the old hours, and seeming as if the old shop be longed to them and they to the shop. We noticed, not only that many of the workmen in the factory are elderly men who have occupied their present situations twenty, thirty, or forty years, but that a kindly feeling prevailed among all, illustrative of mutual confidence between the employers and the employed. The patriarch of the establishment is a vene rable ci-devant foreman, not far from ninety years of age, who has seen out two or three generations of workmen, and whose connection with the establishment dates back through a period of nearly sixty years. That such a man is respected by the firm, and deemed almost part and parcel of it, need hardly be said." ORANGEISM TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Make thyself the friend of all pious and peaceable men, avoiding strife, and seeking benevolence, slow to take offence and offering none, thereby, so far as in thee lieth, turning the injustice of our adversaries into their own reproof and confusion. SlR,—The above quotation forms part of a very beautiful initiatory address, given upon the introduction of a new member into the Loyal Orange Institution. A writer in the Journal, of last Saturday, who has (although shortsighted) adopted the title of " Argus," charges the Orangemen of Li verpool with a desire to create turmoil, because a neighbour has told him that the 12th of July will be kept up by a public procession. _ - - Now, sir, I observe in reply,—First, I believe that the Loyal Orange Benevolent Societies will walk on their an niversary in honour of one of E n gland's kings ; an d I hope " Argus" will not consider it treason so to do. Secondly,—l do not believe that there is the slightest in tention of wounding either the feelings or prejudices of the Irish Roman Catholics, or to offer the smallest disrespect to the religion which they in their consciences believe to be true. Thirdly,—That no tumult can arise, unless by the most wanton and determined attempts on the part of the factious to create a noise ; for, I believe, it is not intended to approach any of the neighbourhoods in which the Irish Roman Catho lics reside, and thus, if a collision should take place, it would be the seeking of our opponents. Fourthly,—The banners will be all truly loyal, and unlike some which are carried on St. Patrick's Day, which bear the figures of the Irish rebel Sarsfield, with the motto of " Sars field the brave," and of an Irish agitator, with the motto, " Repeal of the union." Fifthly,—The loyal orangemen are determined that there shall be no tumult ; for they will leave their cause with the proper authorities, and will call upon the guardians of the peace to be ready to repress any violence which may be at tempted whilst they enjoy their privileges as British subjects, in acting peaceably, loyally, and determinedly, in honouring the memory of a British king and hero. It will be seen, should circumstances require, that the loyal orangeman is as patient under taunt and provocation as he is brave, when called upon by the magistrate or his Queen to put down re bellion. • Lastly,—Let us hear no more of justice to Ireland, or re ligious liberty, from the lips or pens of pseudo liberals ; the sons of Erin walk in our town, enjoying their own principles and pleasures, and secure in the protection of our rulers, and justice to England demands that Englishmen should, on their own soil, enjoy, at least, equal advantages ; and it is most insulting to hint, for a moment, that any one claims a right to deprive us of our undoubted rights as Englishmen and lovers of our Queen and supporters of our constitution. I trust that our fellow-subjects, among the poor Irish Ro man Catholics, will exercise a sound discretion by minding their avocations, and not minding such writers as " Argus,' and I can promise them that they will never know that a pro cession has taken place, much less imagine that any insult was intended. Let it be borne in mind, that formerly Irish Roman Catholic loyalists, and even dignitaries of their church, walked in honour of the king who freed us from ty ranny and gave us the bill of rights ; and so they might again if bigots, who have more bile than charity, did not knowingly pervert the truth, and affirm the oft-exploded falsehood, that we have vows against men, or any animosity except against bad principles. W e surely may be allowed to honour our own principles, without being charged with intended insult to others. If indiscreet and foolish men forget their obligations, and at times deserve reprehension, we are sorry, and deplore the circumstance, but such cases are the exception, and not the rule. What large body of men will not contain exceptions ? I will not notice the other confused and unfounded statements of " Argus," as my object is to comment only on that part which hears upon the procession ; I do not think that orange ism can suffer much from the pen of " Argus," when it has stood the test of two parliamentary inquiries, and came out of the inquiry refined and more resplendent by passing through this ordeal.—With the best of good will to " Argus" and all mankind, I am, sir, yours, &c., AN ORANGEMAN & PURPLE MARKSMAN. Liverpool, 23d May, 1812. A great fire is announced to have befallen the Austrian town of Steijer, not far from Lintz, where 400 houses were consumed and three-fourths of the inhabitants, who were celebrated for their iron manufactures, were left without shelter. A LOCOMOTIVE IN DISTRESS.—A somewhat ludicrous circumstance occurred on Sunday to a party who had made a trip with an engine and tender, on the Manchester and Bir mingham Railway, from Stockport as far as Crewe. They started early in the morning taking dinner at Crewe; and having enjoyed the creature comforts of the world, they pre pared to return in the evening. They came at a convenient speed to Sandbach ; but at Holmes Chapel, Billy became somewhat uneasy ; at Chelford he began to lag ; at Alderley be grunted ; and near Wilmslow he groaned and made a dead halt ! Not a peg would he stir—stupid as a mule. The party, in their extremity held a " council ;" an investigation into Billy's grievances and complaints was duly entered into ; and lo ! and behold ! it was discovered that all the water was consumed, and that the vital principle of locomotive " rail " was extinct. To get up steam without water was a problem too diffieult for even a modern reformer to solve—and they cons ider themselves no bird's meat. Here then was a regular fix," as Jonathan would affirm. They could get no water in that particular vicinity ; and being far from help of this essential supply, they might as well have up to the neck in the deserts of Arabia. Well, what must be done—they could not release themselves ; and, therefore, like a stranded ship, they awaited the possible arrival of another engine. Such was their wise resolve ; and towards midnight an engine and , 13 7 i l g ri h s t t l r i o n go foul, o l lotl at t w h a e y s a a t m t e h e t i t ro o tender were dispatched hence in the utmost alarm in quest o o ff thetlr e steam,distressed lest C t e e w e e n - g s i e o r e s expecting the usual response from the object of their anxiety and solicitude ; but it was as vain to expect a whistle with out steam as to produce steam without water. They were, h owe ver, luckily relieved from their dilemma somewhere near Wilmslow without any accident ; and having been at tached to the other engine, were towed into harbour at the Stockport station, the vessel being all right, and the creice bpi high spirits at their safe return. —Stockport Advertiser. ELEVENTH LECTURE OM THE CREED OF POPE PIUS. The eleventh in the series of lectures on the several arti cles in the creed of Pope Pius the Fourth, was delivered by the Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan, D.D., on the evening of Friday last, in the Music-hall, Bold-street. There was a most respectable auditory present. On the motion of Mr. HOWARD, seconded by Mr. SHEP HERD, the chair was taken by Mr. MIDDLETON ; after which, the Rev. F. PARRY supplicated a blessing upon the proceedings. The Rev. Dr. O'SurzivAN, who was received with great cheering, commenced by reading the clause upon which he was about to lecture, namely : " I likewise undoubtedly receive and profess all other things delivered, defined, and declared by the sacred canons and general councils, and particularly by the holy council of Trent; and I condemn, reject, and anathematise all things contrary thereto, and all heresies which the church has con demned, rejected, and anathematised." From the various objections which might be urged against this clause, he should content himself with selecting four. The first was, that the promise was too vague and extensive, and that it imposed obligations to an extent of which he who made it must be altogether unconscious ; the second objec tion was, that it enforces contradictory obligations, contain ing a promise to receive, as truth, propositions of which the acceptance of one would necessarily imply the rejection of the other ; in the third place, it contained a promise to re ceive as holy and t rue , and as essent i al to Ch r i s ti an faith, doctrines and principles which he who swears to the Church of Rome to receive them, has, in many instances, sworn to the state in which he i s a su b ject to re j ect as anti-Christian and abominable; and the fourth objection was, that the article is in itself a direct violation of the principles which it enjoins to receive, pron ounces an anat h ema u pon all whom every council has anathematised, and, in the very act of so expressing its adherence to councils, committing the offence upon which an anathema has been, by anticipation, de nounced. He should pr ocee d to cons id er th ese objections, and the validity of the replies which Romanists made to them. The Ist objection arose from the extent of the obligation— " I promise that I will receive, without any doubt, all things defined, delivered, and declared in the sacred canons and general councils." Now this was a very extensive under taking, an undertaking of which the comprehensiveness could be understood only by those who understood what was the extent of that mass of doctrine, discipline, and wor ship, which they have pledged themselves thus without mo dification to receive and revere. To what extent did the works containing the sacred canons extend? He thought he might very confidently assert that there were not within the Church of Rome in this country ten men who had made themselves acquainted with it ; and he remembered distinctly that Dr. Doyle, a Roman Catholic bishop, without the least hesitation, affirmed to committees of the parliament, that there were but few canonists in this country. The code of canon law (many of which he enumerated) comprehended a vast body of divinity, if divinity it could be called, which in some editions extended to a hundred folio volumes. It was perfectly enormous ; and it must be remembered that he who promised to receive them, did not merely pledge his pro mise as a professional person in this country would pledge himself to respect our laws. He would pledge himself to respect the laws because they were the laws, not binding himself to an asseveration that those laws were necessary and important to the church, but simply binding himself to receive as law whatever is enacted under that denomination. But here there was a promise —a promise implying that not only were these documents received without any qualification, but they are received as essential to salvation. The rev. --------. - - . gentleman proceeded to point out the manifold distinctions which are made in the councils by the Italian and French schools of Romanism, some being ac j cepteciii7;;;;;drejeit: ed by the other, by which the infallible religion was involved in the most palpable contradictions. This difficulty, however, was got over by the Pope of Rome propounding his claim to be received as the interpreter of the councils. In the next place, Dr. O'Sullivan enlarged upon the third objection to this article, namely, because it contained a promise to re ceive, without any doubt, and as of necessity to salvation, principles which many of those who swore to Romanism to reeeive them swore to the state to reject, and to " reject, detest, and abominate as anti-Christian." In the same style of commanding eloquence he urged the fourth objection, namely, that in this clause the men who make this promise provoke upon themselves the anathema which they express . themselves willing to fulminate against o th e rs. We regret that our space is too limited to report the arguments of Dr. O'Sullivan at a length proportionate to their force and truth. Having gone through these objections he noticed the an- swers given to them by Romanists, and concluded nearly as followi: I have now gone through the arguments, briefly, by which Romanists would reply to such objections as I have urged; but there is one consideration without which I should leave my subject imperfect—l mean more imperfect than I am willing, upon this occasion, to leave it. If you were to con sider the promise respecting canons and councils which I have repeated, in itself alone, you would not understand its efficacy and its influence. You must compare it with the promise which is made respecting Scripture and the promise which is made respecting tradition, in order to understand the full amount of injury contained in this engagement which Romanists take to receive without a doubt what has been de livered in sacred canons and general councils. What engage ment does Romanism require of her victims respecting tradi tion? It is that they will embrace steadfastly what is called " apostolical and ecclesiastical traditions." What promises respecting God's Holy Scripture ? " I admit also the sacred Scriptures in that sense in which the church delivers it, shows itself the judge of Scripture, and I will never take or interpret it unless according to the unanimous consent of the fathers." The man takes to his heart traditions—"l embra ce s t ea df as tl y apostolic and ecclesiastic traditions ;" but what of Scripture ? " I admit it." (Hear, hear. hear.) I admit it! But how admit it? (Hear.) Is it admitted in its own inherent ex cellence, admitted for its own prevailing claims upon all men's accptance ? No ; but because that in so far as the church condescends to interpret it, thy receive it from that interpre ter, and,that is their admission of Scripture 1 (Hear.) And what is the further engagement ? " I will not take and in terpret it unless I can do so according to the unanimous con sent of the fathers," that is to say, " I embrace steadfastly ecclesiastical tradition; 1 reject without qualification all Scripture to which the unanimous voice of the fathers has not borne a- new and a human testimony; and while I thus put aside Scripture with a species of contemptuous toleration, I propose to receive without any doubt, whatever has been delivered, declared, and defined, in sacred canons and general councils." (Cheers.) Now, if a Roman Catholic would m y dear friends, to as k hi m a quest i on, permit any of you, will you ask him whether he would, in his conscience and his heart, object to see these two clauses change places—to see the Scriptures spoken of in the language in which 'councils and tradition is honoured, and to see the authority alone which Romanists ascribe to the Scriptures given to ,their can ons and councils? In other words , to s a y this--" I receive, without any doubt, all things declared in God's Holy Scrip tures, and I will consent to receive tradition or canons or councils provided they contain nothing which is not in perfect conformity with God's Holy Scriptures." (Loud cheers.) This would be Catholic doctrine : the doctrine of Pius IV. is Romish doctrine. (Renewed cheers.) And brethren, I spoke of putting the question to Romanists : does not such an examination as that, through which we have been steering, teach us that we should be very gentle in our judgment, and very earnest in our prayer, for the conversion of a people la bouring under such difficulties as they? Can any reasonable man feel surprised that a Roman Catholic priest, whose con , science and judgment hav e b een war ped into an acquiescence I in the dogmas of his church, shall offer stedfast opposition to the Bible ? Remember what it is he has promised to receive, what it is he is compelled to promise he will reject. Oh, if a man has once been brought so low in heart and mind, as to think that, although God is the author of all Scripture, Scripture contains snares by which God can bring man to destruction,—that although God is the author of all Scrip ture, there are parts of Scripture which it would bring the curse of everlasting ruin for a man to contemplate. If a man's mind and heart are brought into such a state as that, while they believe God to have raised up a true church, and to have com missioned a faithful ministry, and to have given a holy word, who could, at the same time, believe that this church and this ministry, may exclude God's word, or interdict it to the people, and set up as a sufficient standard, as a necessary substitute, a word which they have framed themselves ? if men'smindsand hearts have been brought to an acquiescence to dogmas such as these, then, how can we be surprised to find that their acts are consistent with these mournful pro positions, or how can we feel anything but a sort of mingled wonder and veneration and thankfulness, to feel and to know that the Scriptures, thus interdicted, have yet been preserved, that they are with us still, that the creed against which Romanism has so despitefully raged, still remains and re tains its authority among us ? (Cheers.) There are men Whose delight it is, in their indifference to the truth, and in their professed love of peace, to discourage all exertions to make the truth known. (Hear.) They say that the word from above is peaceable; they should remember that the first attribute of it is, that it is pure. (Hear.) There are men who tell you that efforts to disseminate truth have little result; but are productive of ill feeling and contention, and dis honourable and unchristian discord. Far be it from any of us to say that even the truth itself may not sometimes be advocated in a spirit which generates strife ; but if the truth sets free from acrimonious passions those who teach it, the heart that is struck out in the controversy in its promulga tion, the objections to it and those who maintain the vindi cation of it, will not be productive of evil. (Hear.) They tell us that there is evil ; let it be for those who delight to shew what is evil in God's dealing, and obnoxious to God's love, labour in the vocation to which they assign themselves. Let them desport themselveslin discanting upon the strifes and schisms which have disfigured and rent the church of Christ ; let them delight themselves, if they please, in saying that when persecution wearied of its rage against God's church, left the church to repose, there were internal convulsions which would not permit it to enjoy it—that strifes and envyings, jealousies, schism, and heresies rose against it, and inflicted evil upon it from within more than from without. Let them say so, hut let them not deprive us of the privilege of meeting, and from ea ul ting with joy in feeling that although Pius may have taken their churchfromood'ti ehurch.truthwass never taken from it. (Cheers.) Let us rejoice, that although it did not enjoy its repose, it was compelled and coerced to retain the truth. " When they persecute you in one city, flee ye into another," was a precept which the apostles illustrated in their lives and conduct ; and it is precisely the same precept which has been illustrated in the history of the church. In one place there may have been persecutions, corruptions, and tyranny so fierce and fell that they silenced the voice of those who could speak the truth ; but in another place,—it ma y be at the sam e momen t,—th e church in the wilderness, in the uninhabited parts, was speaking the saving truth. (Cheers.) The corrupt principle of the church might be introduced in the place which God's church occupied; it might sit in the seat of Peter; it might parade its corruptions in the assemblies of crowded resort ; it might have asserteda u decrees of power an d autho rity not given to it ; but, at e same time, it never had the power either to kill or to conquer truth. It could subdue the truth ; it could reduce it into abject places, into an ob scure state, but it could not retain it s seat of power without having the truth besides it. It was with it, sir, sometimes as the slave sat with the Roman general in his car of triumph, reminding him that his triumph was transitory. Like the two witnesses in the Revelations, I am not interpreting, I am only reveren tially borrowing an i mage ; lik e the two wit nesses of the Revelations,. there were w it nesses t h roug h out the whole fold of t he Christian_church ; thes e were the wit nesses of God's tr uth which he sent d own f rom h eaven ; these were witnesse s b y which earth lent its acknowledgment to God's word, the c reed, the creed, that venerable tradition, the ancient creed. These witnesses. testified, it may fairly be said, against the d clip y h e cb n ru c Te e hwt tseilasbeni heresybdb li eb t l h et e h delinquencythen —dtith semechigri eshemt d o bi f ewn the e whole visible church. contests in it, in it too. (,Loud cheers. strifesi lent h i e n e ;) but the was . by none adulterated. The creed was certainly a creed which uttered its voice amid many corruptions of a false religion ; but the voice which it uttered was true. (Hear.) Although there were idols in the tem. pies wherein it was sppk . en, although there w ere corrupt i ons in the services Li which it was read, a lth ough there were falsehoods in the hea rts oft en pf those wh o spoke it, there was truth in the utte rance of the creed. (Cheers.) It was a creed which inspir ed in men's hearts a love of truth, a underfi re cir in cu tr m iu s m ta p n h ce ; s a o n f d ig after nom m in a y n a y nd a knowledge of saving truth, and which s ustained many a heart throughout the mar t y r's century of struggling' shame, can we feel other than a most deep and thank ful sen se to God, that he _has. it may b e said, already given this creed the victory? Where is the spot ?—but do not suppose I speak of the creed because it i s th e composition i truth of God' s bl esse d word ' of m aa — no , but because is a bri g h t enumeration of that great truth which is the central. —this h as the victory--"is there a spot, I as k , now upon the civilised earth , i n which the British tongue is not heard ? and is there not more than an ordinary consolation in feel ing that in every spot where England has set her foot, it is there the pure and good water of life will gush forth, and it is her desire to be foremost in erecting pillars of testimony ! And not alone where the British t ongue i s spoken, and pure religion established, as in these realms, is it acknowledged; but even where papal despotism is heaviest, and where spi ritual destitution is dreariest. Under all disadvantages, the witnesses, the ancient venerable tradition, the creed, and the book of God's word, are still known, remembered, and dreaded. Popery has waged a long war with them, but she has been condemned to feel that she could not sustain it. She has endeavoured to entomb them in a living grave; she has endeavoured to put aside the Bible, and put in its place a body of the subtle and unchristian glosses and commenta ries of unsanetified men (hear); she has endeavoured to cast upon the creed, the ancient witness, that mighty mass, that huge and fluctuating mass of canons and councils; but al though she has erected a grave, or a tomb, as it were, upon them (the Bible and the creed)—memorials and mementoes of her own canons and councils, this creed, this formulary of Pius the Fourth—even beneath this haughty structure, there is mysterious life, and sometimes it is felt to move. Yes; beneath, entombed and under the mass, the hideous mass, superimposed upon them, the witnesses of God's truth live still, and sometimes they are felt to live • and whenever they move the mysterious mass around, all iomanism trem bles—trembles lest the buried witnesses shall 'come forth, and, as they ascend from the tomb, the light go up with them which her enchantments can no longer bind—a light which shall shew forth the workings of iniquity in their darkest recesses—a light which shall spread its sound, spi ritual, well-sustained effulgence round, until the temple in which Romanism reigns shall shrink into its natural dimen sions, and expose to light the foul charnel-house,—until the idols in which multitudes had trusted shall fall prostrate before the cross,—and until those attractions which hal brought into Romanism hearts unsustained by the faith, shall be reft of the illusions that gave them power, and shall be revealed by the light, as they are pronounced in the words of Scripture, " dead men's bones, and all manner of un cleanness." (Loud cheers, during which the eloquent and rev. gentleman resumed his seat.) On the motion of the Rev. F. PARRY, seconded by the Rev. W. PALLOON, the thanks of the meeting were voted to Dr. O'Sullivan for his magnificent lecture. A doxology was then sung, and the meeting separated The closing lecture on the — Creed of Pius IV., by the Rev, Hugh 111`Neile, was announced for Friday evening, June 10. MR. NOTTINGHAM'S SECOND LECTURE ON MESMERISM On Friday evening, Mr. Nottingham, surgeon, of this town, who, it will be remembered, during the stay of M. Lafontaine in Liverpool, devoted considerable time to the task of investigating and watching his experiments, delivered his second lecture upon the subject of animal magnetism, at the Literary Institution, St. Anne-street, before a highly respect able although not very numerous auditory. Having briefly introduced the subject, The LECTURER proceeded to insist on the necessity of studying the phenomena of magnetic somnambulism, or cata leysy, in connection with diseases, such as hysteria, epilepsy, and catalepsy, occurring s p on taneously,—the analogy being shown to be more remarkable than we should at first have anticipated. The greater number of the more surprising features of the magnetised state were said to remember closely the symptoms of the diseases we have just named, affording fancied illustra trations of the power of art, in producing conditions of the economy, closely allied to such as occur spontaneously, or are the result of such accidents and causes as account for the or dinary appearances of disease; for not only the magnetic sleep but also the complaints alluded to, and compared with it, were shown to be frequently produced by nrntal emotion ; the unnatural workings of a disturbed imagination being em ployed as the key which often seemed to unlock the great difficulties of the subject, and to remove the veil from the sanctum sanctorum of its wonders. The lecturer noticed some curious facts observed by Messrs. Ferrus and Rostan, and reported by the latter, whose veracity could not be doubted respecting the condition of clairvoyance, which appear at first sight to present insurmountable obstacles to the progress of physiological inquiry. On one occasion a gentleman took three young girls to the house of Mr. Roston ; they were in a state of somnambulism at the time, and knew nothing of the residence of M. Rostan before, noChaving been informed respecting the place to which they were about to be taken. When in M. Rostan's room the question was put—Do you know where you are ? They all answered—What a question ! we are at M. Rostan's ; and next described the darkened chamber in which they were at the time. in this instance, if there weT not detected. The following nol points of view analagous, deServes perhaps to be placed side by side with it. In the year 1838 a member of the Institute of France offered a prize of 3000 francs to any one who should produce a case of somnambulism, in which the patient might be able to see, to describe objects, and to read without the use of the eyes. _ _ _ Pigeaire, or Pignaine, of Montpelier, accepted the challenge in favour of his daughter, 13 years of age, and tra velled to Paris for the purpose of the exhibition.. A number of scientific men were appointed to superintend the performance ; the young lady's eyes were tightly ban daged, and a book placed before her, on the page of which she read with correctness and apparent facility, following the lines, however, with the point of the index finger of the right hand. To do away with any suspicion of the reading being done by the employment of the sense of touch, a pane of glass was put over the page of the book, and the girl read as before. To make the experiment more conclusive by adding to the difficulties, a sheet of paper was now laid over the glass, which, to the surprise of the by-standers, immediately put a stop to the reading. At the next experiment a gentleman present proposed to M. Pignaire that he should be allowed to bandage the eyes with a handkerchief which he had brought for the purpose ; but the proposal was not acceded to. The bandage employed by Mademoiselle Pignaire was now carefully examined by a member of the commission of inquiry, and it was found to contain innumerable small and not easily perceptible aper tures made with a needle, or some such instrument ; and the gentleman who examined it having tied it before his own eyes, found that through it he could distinguish the different kinds of playing cards which were thrown on the table before him. Here, then, the nature of the deception was tolerably obvi- ous, and despite the great number of cases of somnambulism with all the wonderful performances which bad been previ ously observed in connection with it—France could not sup ply, in the year 1838, a single case of seeing without eyes, although tempted by the glittering and attractive bait of 3000 francs. M. Rostan has reported some very interesting cases of " clairvoyance," where magnetised patients described some of the internal parts of their own body : one in particular, where the position, size, and form of the heart were the sub ject of description ; the patient also telling the number of blood -vessels connected with the central organ of the circu lation—naming the colour of the fluid which they contained, and the rate of circulation—as quicker or slower—in different neighbouring tubes. While M. Calmeil, a recent writer on this subject, and long on the alert for such phenomena, has never seen any case where anatomical descriptions given by such people were couched in better language, or distinguished by greater accuracy, than would have accompanied an attempt in their normal condition and waking hours. In all the instances observed by M. Calmeil where the heart, liver, or any other internal organ was described by a magnetic somnambulist, the approach to correctness was in variably such as could be at once associated with that degree of anatomical knowledge (frequently not amounting to an acquaintance with the commonest outline of things) which the patient, as well as others in the same social position, might be easily supposed to possess. When the magnetize/described remedies, or suggested their employment, a like degree of intelligence and a correspond ing accuracy prevailed; if an ignorant person were converted into a sleepinc , seer, the ptisans, teas, and syrups came recom mended by the oracle—not in any new or classic dress, but with such names as they bear amongst the most experienced female practitioners, or on the pages of the village Pharma cophtea ; in short, the new, or the fancied new, intelligence on such occasions never went beyond the accuracy or the science of those written medical documents which are pre served by the midwives of every hamlet, and now and then, by accident, rescued from oblivion by some one raising the broken lid of a disused teapot in the chimney corner, or turningupside down the precious things which an antiquated cupboard contains. M. Rostan details one case where his patient told him— and this at several different times without any mistake — whether he (the doctor) had his stomach full or empty. M. R. does not inform us respecting the possibility of the som nambulist knowing his dinner hour ; or attending to the state of his circulation, or the temperature of his hand while he was engaged (as might happen) in feeling the pulse. No doubt he would guard against any possible source of fallacy of this kind, and would not allow the fair sybil to discover his condition of plenitude by his breathing the vapours of wine. Truth, indeed, is strange!—stranger than fiction! Even if we were to believe in the existence of the magnetic fluid, which Mesmer said he demonstrated,—to suppose it capable of the movements he described, and fancy it yielding to the influence of his will, we should not have in all this a phe nomenon half as surprising as many of those which, from their every day occurrence, and from the manner in which they constantly minister to our enjoyments, are lost sight of because always present, and not appreciated until we are deprived of them. For who will compare the flight of Mesmer's fluid with that of the invisible source of visibi l ity —with the light which outstrips the lightning? or allow its asserted wonders in any way to equal the returning emana tions of the sun ? Yet all this has been done! There would not be anything wonderful in all the practices of Mesmer, supposing every fact to be real, every influence he assumed to be really possessed, if compared with the power of the human eye, or the endowments of its central aperture known to every one. For that, on one hand, we should take in the aspect of the distant celestial orbs, measure their mighty mass, or estimate their periodic revolutions—while, on the other, with the aid of the microscope, we aspire to cal culate the myriad of animalcules which a single drop of water contains—and that not only all this, but even the wide pic ture of nature, and the faithful representation of all created things, should, in travelling to the mind, have to find their way through an organic aperture, the pupil of the eye, (at mid-day scarcely larger than the head o f a pi n ,) an d th a t, be yond this, they should drop o n a li v i ng canvas , o f b are l y an i inch n . diameter, which receives with eq ual ease, an d trans mits with equal truth, the fascinating tints of a Titian, or the startling gloom of a Rembrandt—is certainly to be looked upon with more surprise, as a well-known work of God, than are any of those productions of the hypertrophy of fancy which are now-a-days so common amongst men. The lecturer concluded by remarking, that any investiga tion which, directly or indirectly, might tend to throw light on the hitherto half studied functions of the nervous system, ought to be regarded as valuable and praiseworthy, and that no inquiry or experiment con nec t e d w ith this subject, how ever fallacious it might at first sight appear, should be con demned as unfair, or slighted as contemptible, until it could be associated with that dishonest intention which, in some instances, has been mistaken for philosophical zeal. Indeed, it deserves to be remembered, that the bold empiricism of Panacelsus, and the reveries of Van Helmont and the alchy mists, did their share in paving the way to that devhlopement of modern chemistry, which has adorned the civilized world with its productions, and astonished man with his own power. At the conclusion of the lecture, which was received throughout with the marked applause of the audience, a vote of thanks to Mr. Nottingham for his kind explanations of this mysterious subject, was passed by acclamation. A young man, respectably attired, shot his brains out on Saturday morning, on Croydon Common. On the blank leaf of a book found in his pocket was written, " Because of not knowing how to make better use of my brain, I have come here to shatter it." RIGHT OF PROPERTY IN W I ND.--Water-mills were at one time, particularly on the continent, included among the re galia or rights of the crown; and, on the introduction of wind mills. this assumed right was extended over air as well as water. A whimsical instance of the attempted exercise of this privilege is on record. It seems that the Augustine monks belonging to the monastery at Weindsheim, in the province of Overyssel, were desirous of erecting a wind-mill in the neighbourhood ; but the lord of the soil opposed their project, on the extraordinary presumption that the wind in that district belonged to him. Upon this th e mon k s appl i e d to the Bishop of Utrecht, wh o decided, in a towering passion , that no one had power over the wind i n h i s diocese but him- , self ; and thereupon he immediately granted letters-patent to the good monks,—Guide to Tracy. THIRD EDITION. Standard-office, Three o'clock •••-•- , ..-...,•3,......---_. ELECTION OF SURGEON TO THE LADIES' CHARITY.--A meeting of the subscribers to this valuable charity was held this day, at one o'clock, for the purpose of electing an accou cheur for the institution, in the room of Mr. W. H. Bain brigge, who was lately appointed one of the surgeons to the Northern Hospital. There were only two candidates, Mr. H. Canty and Mr. H. S. Taylor ; and on casting un the votes the former gentleman was declared the successful can- diate by a m Mr. Taylor 134 v votes, M having 189, and LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, Tats DAY (From Messrs. R. MAKIN 'ONS' Circular.) Although somewhat increased sine, Friday, the supplies Coastwise and from Ireland are on the whole still very mo derate, and from America the receipts amount to 746 barrels of Flour only since thi d South s day week ; from the he import of Wheat is rather liber of Europe, however, t which, as duties are not freely paid, is mostly going into The buyers at this day's market being rather numerous and the improvement in London yesterday imparting more firmness to the trade, all descriptions of English and foreign free Wheats were 2d. to 3d., and Irish 3d. to 4d. per 70 lbs. dearer; but the advance having checked any extensive d mand, the amount of business done was upon a limited scale, and the amendment not generally complied with. All kinds of free Flour were in moderate request and steady in value Barley, Malt, Beans, and Pease evin stability, and fully maintained late prices. Oats were saleable at an advance of Id. per 45Ibs. ; and Oatmeal moved off rather freely at an improvement of ls. ced a little more per 2401b5., having an increased demand for eountry con- sumption as well as for Ireland In bonded WI since Fri& transactions have been repeated daily but the advance required this morning has prevented any further bi fecteC ness of moment; in the sales ef- our increase ions have eels of prime States' Flonr in bond have obtained 30s per ARRIVALS OF CORN, From the 17th to the 23rd May, 1842, inchaive CANADA NO EL O.STS. REIG3 1047 I 20 113410 1 15017 300 Malt Qrs, Oats Rye Qrs Beans Qrs Pease. Qrs Shelled Barley Indian Corn Qrs Rapeseed Qrs Oatmeal . . . . Loadl 1 3118 :—Wheat, qrs Into Runcorn, Ireland and Cop 161 qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids; Flour, 260 sacks EXPORTS.—Foreizn qrs.:: Oat Beans, 150 qrs 3 Qrs. ; I ; Flour, , Indian Corn, 31 qrs. ; Oat meal— loads, 494 brls.—lreland. Wheat, 1 61t - 5. ; Rye, 50 qrs. ' • Indian Corn. 101 qrs. • i Oatmeal, Ids. , ur, 30 sacks 794 brls.—Coastwise. Wheat, 1689 qrs. ; Barley 5. ; Malt, qrs. ; Oats, qrs. ; Beans, 15 qrs. ; Rye. Pease, 10 qrs. ; Indian Corn, 5 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 19 Ids. Flour, 312 sacks 102: barre Average prices of Grain, for Wheat Sgs. gd. 1 Barley 265. 3d Wheat.. Gas. Od:FB;ri; Beans los. 6d e week ending May 13, 1842 19s. 6d. I Rye.. 31s. overage of the six wed Gs.lld. I Oats.. igs. sd. ! Oct. Pease-305. lOti Beans:. 31s 'ease.. 10s. 6d. 1 Ind. Corn Os. Or Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe 6d. I Oats .. 2s. Od. I R: 2s. 6d. I Indian Corn.. Os. I Flc .. Is. Od. Bartel 2s. Od I Pease Liverpool Average meek ending,May 17, 1, Wheat. I Bal'ley, I Oats. t Beans. 308 dgs. 3d. Os. Od. I os . — od. Od . Is. 6d os. 7.1 d 842. Pease LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, 3 P.M We have had what may be considered, for Tuesday, ano ther large business in our Cotton market. Fully 5,000 bales have been sold, at yesterday's prices. Speculators have been very busy, and have taken 2,000 bales, all in American descriptions, and buying WHITE SLAVERY s still going IN ENGLAND (From the Halifax Guardian.) How would the following anecdode, from the report of the Children's Employment Commission, have roused the sym pathies of a crowded auditory, if it had been told on an Anti- Slavery platform ? _ _ _ _ " One of the most disgusting sights I [J. C. Symons, Esq.] have ever seen, was that of young females, dressed like boys in trowsers, crawling on all fours, with belts round their waists, and chains passing between their legs, at day pits. * * * In one, near New Mills, the chain passing high up between the legs of two of these girls, had worn large holef in their trowsers ; and any sight more di, - igly indecen or revolting can han work— can bea And how would the white handkerchiefs of our fair coun trywomen have been bedewed, had the following narration been given as the words of a married negress :—" I have a belt round my waist, and a chain passing between my legs ; and Igoon my hands and feet. The pit is very wet where I work, the water comes over our clog tops always, and I have seen it up to my thighs. My clothes are wet through almost all day long. The belt and chain is worse when we are in the family way." Or this :—" 1 have worked in a pit since I was six years old. I have had four children ; two of them were born while 1 worked in the pits. I had a child born in the pits, and I brought it up the pit shaft in my skirt." Or this : I have wrought in the bowels of the earth 33 years. Have had nine children; had two dead born ; thinks they were so from the oppressive work ; a vast of women have dead children and false births. I have always been obliged to work below till forced to go home to bear the bairn, and so have all the other women." And yet true charity will be as active for these poor Eng lish and Scotch women as it was for the African population of our West Indian colonies. What ! have we paid twenty millions for the abolition of West Indian slavery, and shall we hesitate for a moment to put a legislative stop to this worse than West Indian slavery, this harder than Egyptian bonda ge ? Is the philanthropy of England so perverted, that like the love of Desdemona it moves only towards a black visage? Or has our English charity such a telescopic eye that it can only see and magnify distant objects? Surely not. The " Report" shows (as we may next week prove) that these barbarities are not required or necessary (the tyrant's plea) for the purpose of coal getting. The em ployment of girls has been forbidden by the Low Moor and other great companies ; and the use of infant labour can also be similarly dispensed with. Surely, then, the " philanthro pists" (egotistically so-called) will join us in this work of mercy—this labour of love. The ten hour bill then niust also join us; for there is not a single argument against infant factory labour, that comes not w it h ac cumulated force on the employment of children in coal mines. Was factory labour commenced at too early an age ?—in fants are sent to coal pits at five, four, and even three. Was factory labour prolonged to a wearisome length ?—the hours of labour in coal pits are 11, 12, and 13, in Yorkshire and Cumberland; in Derbyshire, Durham, and Northumber land, from that to 16 hours; and in the east of Scotland, from 15 to 18—" from two in the morning till six at night." Was it the practice in factories to have night work in addi tion ?—in some mines in Northumberland and North Dur ham " boys and young men work in the pits what is termed double and treble shifts, i. e., for twenty-four or thirty six consecutive hours ; and some instances are stated of their having worked quadruple shifts, that is, for 48 con secutive hours ;" and John Dixo n, 11 y ear s old, says in his evidence, " Last fortnight I was down the pit three days and three nights without coming up at all." Is it the tendency_ of infant factory labour to crippl e the "human form divine," and to bring on premature old age ?—we have undeniable evidence that infant colliery labour produces " a crippled gait, often connected with positive deformity"—that in York shire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Shropshire, and Staf fordshire, " there are no old colliers"—that in South Dur ham " they are generally short lived"—that in Scotland " most of the men drop off before they get the length of 40 years"—that in Derbyshire one race of them is old at 28 or 30—and that in East Lothian "the men die off like rotten sheep." Was it proved that the air of factories was perni cious ?—and is it not equally certain that the atmosphere of coal mines is more so, and therefore less fit for a child to whom pure air is more necessary than food itself? Is factory labour liable to many aceidents?—and are not coal mines equally full of danger, though equally open to be made innocuous if the legislature decree that they shall be so made? NATIONAL EDUCATION (From the Ulster Fes.) The subject of national education has long been a matter of contention in Ireland. It has given rise to a controversy, in one sense, not yet settled, though all men, who prefer principle to expediency—who are willing to forego mere temporal advantages for the sake of adherence to Scriptural instruction and Christian truth—regard it as set at rest for ever. Men may flatter themselves into a pleasing belief that it cannot be far wrong to give up some of their own con scientious scruples, if they can thereby secure what they may regard as substantial benefits. But it is dangerous, indeed, to adopt such a grievously erroneous idea—an idea that, if once carried out to its legitimate consequence, might lead to the rejection of the most important doctrines of Christianity itself. Besides, we ought to be fully aware of the danger of countenancing a system which abounds with acknowledged evils, such as the present Board of Education for Ireland, — not to speak of the criminal and and ominous silence as to witnessing against those evils , necessarily, it should see m , imposed on all who have consented to receive a portion of its funds. These remarks have been drawn from us by reading the subjoined letter, from the pen of an able minister of the Church of England, in reference to the subject of education, w hich we shall present to our readers without further preface,' as it sufficiently speaks for itself : " TO THE REV. HENRY MOORE. " DEAR SlR, — The address to Sir Robert Peel, which you have been requested to forward to the clergy for signature, and which, as you report, above eight hundred of them have already subscribed, 1 cannot sign, even after its recent alter ation. I think that it still states the principle of scriptural education most vaguely, and our chief objection to the un scriptural system of national education insufficiently; that it is further capable of being practically interpreted in a sense which the great majority of the subscribers have wholly dis claimed, and is consequently, on the whole, for more likely to do harm than good. " I am, dear sir, yours faithfully, " J. E. M A &TIN• " Rectory House, Killyshandra, May 17, 1842." WHIG CORRUPTION.-All the corruption, or nearly all the corruption, practised at the late election seems.trao dical been practised by whig-radicals. The cases of g wh ar i e—Sud corruption proved, either formally or virtqapani 2, Brid. bury 2, Ipswich 2, Lewes 1, Truro 1, Not ting u conservative side, port 2, Newcastle 1-11 in all. On the not a trifling o one, Southampton 2. Here is a balance , canrruption.. in favour of W hig-radical bribery and SECOND EDITION. Standard-qffice, Eleven o'clock .-rd102...--- EXECUTION OF DANIEL GOOD THE MURDERER. (From last night's London Standard.) nderwent the extreme penalty te, at eight o'clock mentc of the onduct ves- This hardened miserean of the law, in front of the this morning. Before describing unhappy convict_ wp will br;,.44v terddyiSunday) and the nighty after 12 o'clock on Saturday ni our reporter, the convict requested one write to his wife Mary , Good • his reque: It a few minutes Mr. Cope informed of the turnkeys to ed with, :St was COLT ana a communication, dictat - ed by the mar' , of a rambling and incoherent character, terday morning to his wife. He retired to res. and 1 o'clock, and slept tolerably sound until 5 o terday morning, when he arose and dressed himself in a froch coat of a dark oli ve green. and dark grey trousers, which had been sent for by Good's desire, and which were brought to the gaol by Inspector Busain, of the V division, at a late hour on Saturday night. At an early hour the Rev. Mr. Carver visited the culprit in the condemned cell. and re mained engaged with him for a considerable time in prayer, but he evinced not the slightest intention to make any con- At half-past 10 o'clock Good attended divine ser e chapel. He afterwards partook of dinner with a seeming relish, and a few minutes before 3 o'clock he again attended the chapel, when the Rev. Mr. Lewis, from Rochester, preached an excellent sermon from Psalm 13, v. 13, " Wherefore cloth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it." The chapel was not much crowded in the afternoon, there being less than a dozen hearers in the body of it, and the conduct of the criminal was therefore more easily observed th an i n t h e morning. Upo n th e p ra y ers being read the prisoner turned round and knelt covering the upper part of his face with his hands, during which time he appeared as if repeating the responses after the clerk. Occasionally he stared wildly round the chapel, and clasped his hands to gether, as if appealing to heaven. In appearance he was much altered for the worse since the trial; his dark, quick. penetrating eyes were inflamed and sunken in his cheek, and his countenance altogetlip” I,„. •er, which wa was dispatched yc between fession vice in the private nue. -.ts.t tne con- clusion of Di v i ne S ervice he rose, , and pawn standing in the centre of the chapel, an d ev id ently struggling with his feelings, en deavoured for a few seconds to give utterance to them. At length, in half choked sobs, he falt ere d ou t, as he wave d hi s hand, " The Lord b e with you all !" " God bless you!" The two turnkeys who accompanied him then led him out of the chapel to the cell, where he was doomed to remaining hours he had to exist. Jass the few Messrs. Alderman Magnay and Rogers (the Sheriffs,) ordinary, and the governor, were unremitti ng i n t h e i r atten tions to the malefactor until a late hour last evenino. ; all their endeavours, however, to brin g hi m to a true s i nte of repentance were totally fruitless. When pr esse d c l osely con cerning the atrocious crime which he had committed, he avoided the question, and dwelt upon some frivolous circum stance connected with his dress or his travels abroad. At twelve o'clock last night he went to bed for the last time and slept soundly for abyut two hours ; he then awoke and re quested the turnkey to read prayers to him, waich was done, and between three and four o'clock he fell into a doze, during which he exhibited great restlessness, and finally rose at five o'clock, and dressed himself in the same clothes in which he appeared in the chapel yesterday. Shortly afterwards Mr. Cope entered the condemned cell, when the culprit ex claimed, " I am no murderer ; I am no murderer !" but finding his assurance of inno cence ma d e no impression upon the governor, he desisted from making any further remark to that gentleman. By four o'clock the fatal drop, the barriers and all the ne cessary apparatus for carrying the law into effect were com pleted, and even before that hour groups of people assembled in the Old Bailey. Before six o'clock above 200 of the City police, under the direction of Major Shaw, the superinteudant, in addition to a considerable number of the Metropolitan police, were stationed in front of the gaol, and at this time a more dense mass of human beings bad assembled than has been known since the execution of Fauntleroy. All the houses opposite the prison had been let to sight-seekins• - , ers 'd in several aE u . enormous price, anc. _ instances the whole of the casements were taken out, and raised seats erected for their accommodation. In one case a noble lord was pointed out to the reporter as having been a spectator at the last four or five executions, his price for his seat was said to be £l5. The house-tops were likewise covered with per hnth male and female ; and the number of spectatcirs '•-•qe who were present at the execution of Greenacre or Courvoisier. The usual ribaldry and c jokes were indulged in, and drunkenness and debauc were prominent characteristics of the scene. — Shortly before six o'clock the Sheriffs, Under Sheriffs, the Ordinary, and other officers of public justice, arrived at the prison, and proceeded t o th e condemned cell, where fresh attempts were made to induce the culprit to acknowledge the justice of his sentence, but with no better success than on the previous days. About a quarter past seven o'clock his breakfast was taken to him ; it consisted of some coffee and thin bread and butter, of which he ate heartily.— Calcraft, the hangman, arrived soon afterwards and at twenty minutes to eight o ' c l oc k t h e reporters were ad mitted into the condemned cell, on entering which they found the convict seated on a form, with the Rev. Mr. Car ver by his side. The first words he was heard to ejaculate were, " Oh, my dear sir, I would not deny it at all if I were guilty." He appeared at this moment to be in a most distressed state of mind, but extremely cautious in what escaped his lips ; indeed it appeared as though he was acting in the hope that by crcating a belief in his innocence he might avert-that ignominious death which in a few minutes he was inevitably doomed to suffer. After a momentary pause he lifted his hands and, clasping them together, ex claimed, as he looked around, "The Lord bless you all, the Lord of Heaven be with you all." Then, fixing his eyes upon the Sheriffs, he said, "The Sheriffs—may God bless you both; I return thanks to you all ; may the Lord God bless you." Mr. Cope, the governor, then advanced near the culprit, and was immediately recognised by him ; he ex tended his hand to that gentleman, and remarked in a tone of deep lament, " Oh, Mr. Cope, you have been my best friend, and may the Lord God bless you. I declare, as I shortly expect to stand before my Maker, that I never took a.life. A_s I have often told you, Mr. Cope, when Iwa _ in SenThi a Id Portugal for many years, I have seen many a man killed, but I never took a life, I declare to Almighty God." During the time he was giving utterance to this solemn declaration, he continued to fold his hands in an imploring attitude. The Ordinary then observed, "You are now about to quit this world —have you any thing more to say? Are you prepared to go into the next world ?" The malefactor again replied, " I never took a life ; may the Lord receive me into the gates of Heaven. I never took a life." The reverend divine then said, " Do you adhere to the statement ? Remember, you have but a few minutes to live." The prisoner here laid his left hand on the Ordinary's shoulder, and taking one of that gentleman's hands into his right, said, " Oh, my dear Sir, I should own to you if I was guilty; fur I have now only two or three minutes before I go to my execution. I never took a life. May the Lord bless you and be with you all." The chaplain then reminded him of the scriptural passages he had frequently read to him, and which said, that those who confess their sins would find mercy in God. The culprit, however, still repeated that he never took a life— adding, as he pressed the Ordinary's hand, " If I had I would tell you, for you are the man I love; I love the ground on which you tread. You have prayed with me— you have read and you have talked with me; and I would not deny it now that I have only a few minutes to live. I hope the Lord will receive my poor soul." Mr. Carver ob served, if you are truly penitent he will, to which the culprit responded, " Why should I tell a lie when I've only got a few minutes to live? Oh, my dear Sir, I told a gentleman when he came up from Norwood, that I would tell you every thing. Mr. Sheriff Magnay here desired the unhappy con vict not to dwell on that subject, as he was only making his case worse. The ceremony of pinioning here took Owe, nad the culprit, with a ghastly smile observed, " I think I see my Maker now before me." He then requested to have some wine and water, which was administered to him by Mr. Cope, and the executioner took off his muslin necker chief and placed it between his bosom and his coat; upon this being done the culprit requested the hangman to re move the neckerchief, and accept it for himself. The shirt collar of the wretched man was afterwards unbuttoned and turned down at his request, and the chapel bell having sounded his funeral knell, the solemn procession moved along the gloomy narrow , windings of the gaol to the scaffold. Good frequently imploring, in loud accents, the Almighty to save his soul. He walked with a firm step, and ascended the steps of the scaffold without assistance. The prisoner, on being placed under the gallows, was assailed with the most hideous yells and long-continued execrations by the mob. When the hangman was about to draw the cap over his face, the murderer cried out " Stop, stop," and ap peared anxious to address the crowd. Calcraft desired him to attend to the prayers of the Ordinary, and in a few seconds the bolt was withdrawn, and the unhappy criminal was launched into eternity. He seemed to struggle violently for some seconds, and his body, after hanging the usual time, was cut down. Dr. Elliotson afterwards took a cast of the murdergr's head in the presence of several medical and scientific gentlemen. DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF THE GEORGIA, INDIAMAN.-FIVE LIVES LOST. yastilnetelligence of the , an Indianian, loss by fire of the ship On Saturday afterno G on en t r il a 7 Lloyd's, attended, we regret to • h say, with a at Captain Mitchell, bound to * London, was received by the n e melancholy c a h w o n l underwriters deplorable sacrifice of human life. The ship was between 800 and 900 tons burthen, and was valued at £7,000, being splendidly fitted up for th e accommodation of passengera. She had a very rich cargo on board, consist ing of jewellery, merchandise, and other valuable property, which perished with the vessel ; a loss iu total of nearly £20,000. The unfortunate event occurred on the morn ing of the Ist of last month, while on her passage to England, from Calcutta, whi c h place she left in the early part of February. From the accounts brought over by the ship Thomas Sparks, from China, which arrived off D a . r , i t ; mouth on Friday morning, it appears that, early on s t s ' e 1 morning mentioned, the " watch' on deck, when the ve Madagas car, in latitude 30 south, and longitude 36 east, off ~ he discovered a strong smell of burning about the ship r p es ' t et . aroused the commander, Captain Mitchell, and thee, a-on the ship's crew, and a strict search was determ a r e ?__ f r off, On the boats being removed, and the main hatches the burning was found to proceed from the so as t o get orders were given to remove over a portion t it, and s hortly aftcr at the fire. The crew, however, had not p fore a volume of smoke burst upon theul, a w i t h excessive cell wards it became so intense, accompa nied t Captain ' M every heat, that they were forced to desist. , ,i B bi cie ' e- fire. BLit . then had the hatches replaced, of _„, iieg t r h a e the flames aperture in the ship, in theho about s"'• h "" "lce ° w u ise from. the this proved unavailing, for. in ,__,., and noceeded far, be hand dismay of all broke through the cabin windows, terror a . , tb t the destruction hatchway over the forecastle, to on board. Captain Mitchell, _,,„ te d "'"-- they immediately set of the vessel was inevitable , h w hich g the crew to prepare in number) over the themselves to leave the the 'g o ats ( 112 (moment, for the sea was about doing by lowermaginost trYinge of wind, and with the vessel's side. It was ,. vy . 0 1 h Lia a meg. ' between 800 and 900 miles extremely roug-, 5 . r , being ci to meet with a watery f t e• ,lied knowledge o soul P ex f k the chief mate,' • d every b lock with nine from lans ,pereeitivino about elg j ag vessel in the jolly boat ; and grave. by Captain Mitchell and the tl followed . e ...wee g four in number, in the small boat. they were ship crew, rest o f the f a quarter of an hour afterwards the work of In the course had reached the mast, and she appeared embo of the c A re t w,. devastation ass of flame, forming a terrible, though magni ficent in one : nee. left the burn At this critical period a vessel was ob ficent aP.P a ea di e t an ce bearing towards the ill-fated ship, and chie fserveda mate turned to make known the joyful intelligence , the Mitchell and the rest of the crew, when he was to CaP horrorstruck on finding that the boat had foundered, and of them were to be seen. They rowed about in hopes nonepiki them up, but u nfortunately none of the poor fel lows ever rose after. The ship Thomas Sparks, which proved to be the vessel they saw bearing down to their as sistance,. came up alongside soon afterwards, and took ,the chief officer and the rest of the Georgia's crew on board, and they remainedwithin short . ship until she went down, which event took place at a late a distance of the burning hour in the afternoon. The Georgia and cargo are reported to be mauled to the extent of £25,000.