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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Eittraturt. SECOND EDITION. POETRY Standard Office, Six o'lcock , SONNET. TO A MAN BORN BLIND AND DEAF HOUSE OF COMMONS.-LIST MOT. captive of the night, si the dread silence; in profoundest cell !amity may delve, thou and thy sorrows dwell ; solar lamp, and Education's vhence the dew that keeps thy heart from blight • Hope's sweet whisper pierce thy dungeon wall' in Beauty's ministry, and Glory's call ; ...yre's enchantments ;—Art's serene delight ; ill all that Genius—Poesy—lets fall oar-track, beatifying nectar [We have received, by extraordinary express, through the kindness of Mr. Aylward, a copy of a late edition of the Sun, containing the fol- lowing important announceme gOblets pissihee,—Daylight's mirth, — 's witchery;—Yet, in sooth, some gall ; see'st not Grief's pale cheek, nor canst thou hear ain appeal from Famine and Despair ! SAML. HUGGINS 18th, 1847. THE BUDGET. At ten minutes to six o'clock, the House of Commons resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means. The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER then rose to make the financial statement for the year, and claimed the indulgence of the house while he made the statement, which he would make as short as was consistent with clearness. It was many years since a Chancellor of the Exchequer had to report such heavy demands upon the Exchequer, but those demands were occasioned by NOTICE The Oxford Magazine. ary, poliiiCal, and religious periodical, under this price only one shilling,) will, it is annou n ced, - is stated in the prospectus, "to assert and Vindicate scant principles and pure scriptural religion ; and to ve and expose the workings of a party within the .7.11 and Universities, which is striving, with too much ss, to make our great public schools, and the or ation of the Established Church itself, instruments e propagation of the most baneful errors." From a nen of the forthcoming number, it appears to us that .I.,sign has fallen into most able and zealous hands. the dearth of food, which was a visitation of Providence. Thousands of starving persons in Ireland appealed to this country for sympathy and assistance, and that he could not refuse. Never, however, had the finances of the country been so able to bear these demands. For the first time there bad been no deficiency bills, and the produce of the revenue had been sufficient to defray the expenses of the state. In the Customs, the produce of every article for the last nine months had, with the exception of articles on which duties had been re duced, exceeded the estimate. In the Excise, with the exception of soap the same had taken place. By the return of the quarter ending the 13th of February last, he found an increase of nearly half a million. The whole produce of Customs and Excise for the last year was £34,500,070. Of this £5,530,000 was contri buted by articles of food, £21,781,000 of drink, and by tobacco £4,336,000, making £31,653,000 out of the £34,500,070. This must have diminished in consequence of the diminution of employment in the manufacturirq districts. On the 9th of January, there were workir4 full time 25,845 persons ; short time, 11,851; and with. out work, in consequence of the stoppage of mills, 1,690 On long extract from an article entitled " Hopes of 4 Revelations from Oxford," principally an able re >f Mr. Newman's 90th number of the Tracts for the v. We have but room for a few quotations, - which e found elsewhere. V ARIETIES "'LASS-STAINING. --- The deep ruby red is conferred by the bright yellow by silver or antimony, deep by iron, green by iron or copper, blue by cobalt, by manganese and the various shades of colour dicious admixture of those metallic preparations other in originally colourless glass, the same as des may be produced by adding ordinary pig ,' upon the palette of the artist, with rifled colours will never fade treous relics of Egyptian art. tiere We persons ; short time . ; 15,862 ; and out of work The drain of bullion' on 'the Bank had not be io n rate ; witness th as might have been expected, the amount being only £1,200,000 less than it was this time 12 months. The late Chancellor of the Exchequer had calchlated upon a sur plus of £776,000, the actual surplus was £2,846,000, in cluding £304,000 paid as duty on the import of foreign sugar. He now would state what the probable in come of the year, from sth April, 1846, to sth April, 1847, would be. Last year the duties on corn produced £793,000. He could not calculate upon such an amount, but still be calculated in security. There had been an in crease in the importation of butter, cheese, and silk last year, consequent upon the reduction of duty, and he cal culated that this increase would continue, and he assumed that the probable revenue from customs during the next year would be £20,000,000. During the present quarter the increase of customs duties had been £204,000. Up to January the amount of excise duties had been £33,988,000, and he reckoned for the ensuing year an increase of £13,700,000. The increase on the excise from the beginning of the quarter had been £106,000, and in Ireland, extending to January, there had been an in crease. He contemplated from Stamps a revenue of £7,500,000, from Taxe5.£4,270,000, from Property-tax £5,390,000, from the Post-offices £845,000, from Crown Lands £120,000, from miscel £427,000 ; making a total [ti TED A COOK.—Cook did not wait till it had been how much of the sickness at sea was caused respec by bad ships, dirty water, rotten provisions, the Df ventilation and of lemon juice. He procured, great difficulties, all that he believed was requisite health of the men. The experiment, though not ierimenturn crucis, as applied to any one cause, was sful. It did not solve a physiological problem, but d the men's lives. If the general measures for the of towns announced are proceeded with, they will abt be as successful as the similar measures intro into the navy, and crowned in Cook by the award Royal Society in the last century. He who raises lustrious population of this many-citied kingdom natural standard of health, will confer a greater than Cook on the country.- , --Report of the Regis- & STRANGE ANOMALY. —People will, perhaps, urge as objection to our plans f for the improvement of the dition of the houses of the poor], the necessary inter- Ice with the rights of property. But is our respect be rights of property to be carried so far as to' en the public health and security ? The rights of thy letor are necessarily limited by the rights of society imit is inscribed upon nearly every page of our law. also exist for the speculator who lets his to the workman and indigent ? We impose is conditions on the sale of commodities ; we con `ion, meat of bad quality, putrid s, and bread below the legal weight ; confiscate these things, but we punish By what strange contradiction do the hideous dens, those infectious holes least as dangerous as the use of -notonly remain unpunished, tinue to enjoy a peculiar protection, and a sort of - "-ey are exempt from the greater imposed upon other proprietors. ~ale of arsenic, &c., why do we allow a d beings to famish by slow poison in the ne habitations in which they are necessarily .--Duepitiaux on the Mortality of Brussels. THE ROMANS SET TO WOMB TO BUILD A CITY. at circumspection was used in the choice of. a site ty, and one of the methods adopted previous to the q of an encampment even, was the institution'of re ites, when the livers of the victims sacrificed were " if they were found diseased, others tine test, in order to prove whether ice resulted from accident. If the lumber of experiments proved healthy, it con water and soil were salubrious. When were built, the next object was the best _.posing of the area between them ; the streets out to exclude winds injurious to comfort, and all and drains were well considered. Their pub- Aablished in convenient quarters, and foundations made adequate to hear the weight placed Laws were established which prevented in- Is from doing anything which would interfere with - —;.vment. These were the first and £52,065,000. The - expenses of the interest of the debt and the Consolidated Fund would be £30,735,000 ; for the Army, £6,840,074. The Navy vote would be £7,561,000 ; the Ordnance vote would be £2,679,127, being an increase of £135,568 over the vote of last 3es it not , without hesiti lulterated liquor he case o: which was due, as in t vote of last year. The residue was owing to an increase of 1,200 men and to putting the ports in a state of defence. The miscellaneous votes, exclusive of votes for Ireland. would be £3,750,000, being an increase of £397,000. The increase was owing to the expenses of the poor-law and the prosecution of prisoners, and another portion to the increase of printing and stationery for the Houses of Parliament. The whole of the estimates would amount to £20,851,077, making the whole ordinary expenditure £51,576,000. He had purposely omitted in his statement all allusion to the grants for the relief of distress in Ire land ; and he would now state what he thought would be required for the distress to be advanced by the Treasury, for whatever burden might ultimately be thrown upon the landlords of Ireland, hitherto they had paid nothing, save indeed £393,000 of poor-rates. It was not easy to state ist unwholesome food Forbid the wreteheC precisely what the expenditure required would be. In four weeks of November the expenditure had been £383,000, in December £742,000, in January £772,000. The persons relieved in October were 150,000, in Novem ber 285,000, in January 440,000, and in February 571,000. Up to 20th February there had been issued by the Exche quer to Ireland £2,400,000 in November, £2,000.000 of which had been issued by the Board of Works. The ex penditure for the future he expected would not fall be low a million a month. He expected to effect, however, a saving by administering relief through the medium of the soup kitchen. He expected that many labourers would be taken from the public works by the work ing of the Bill for the Improvement of Lands, but to work that bill it should be remembered that ad ha lvtr rho Tronairry It would be least until the 137 examined, ibiected to ti Ithit ldings were c erations. necessary that relief sl mstant supply of water for domestic purposes, as common sewer, which was dis whole was under the con )fficers." With the ex- next harvest, and for some short period after the harvest, advances would be necessary. Taking all these circumstances into consideration, he could not estimate the advances to be made to Ireland under £8,000,000, which, including the £2,000,000, advanced ement of ;e of the refuse into the Tiber, this system well worthy of imitation.—Eridence of Ed- Cresy, Esq., before the Health of Town' Com- since August, would amount , to £10,000,000. Now, if the 16,000,000 proposed by the Noble Lord had been advanced to railroads, he did not think it would be possi ble to have secured one farthing of this £10,000,000, and therefore he was rejoiced to see the majority by which that measure had been rejected. Under these circumstances, ALTER. SCOTT ANT* HIS GRANDMOTHER.—With his imagination, and strong passion for the marvellous, Rot to be altogether wondered at, if Mr. Barham him appeared a little disposed to give credence to the ex re of things undreamed of in our philosophy. He ed at times to endeavour to persuade himself into lity, much in the way that some people strive to t themselves of a bodily ailment. • He loved, as it to lull reason to sleep for awhile, and leave' an un ipted field for the wildest vagaries of fancy. Un - Lady Cork, whose enjoyment of "her murders" he never lost his relish for a " good ghost nothing delighted him more than to listen to one " true histories," properly fitted with the regular Lement of names, dates, and locale, attested by " liv itnesses of unblemished reputation, " and hedged in sides by circumstantial evidence of the most 'neon tible natu• e ; one, in short, of those logical cut de which afford no exit, but by unceremoniously kick awn the opposing barrier. It was Sir Walter Scott, Ylieve, who was thus driven to extricate himself from roar dilemma, when, on being asked " how he ac ed" for some strange tale he had related, on no less yrity than that of his own grandmother, he was d to reply, after some deliberation, " Aiblins my imither was an awfu' leear."—Memoir of the Rev. 4 ". Barham (" Thomas Ingoldsby"), in the third se ' the Ingoldsby Legends. _ ket to it was manifest he must go into the mar _ The question was, whether he should borrow t borrow only a part ; by following the latter course, he would con siderably reduce the balance in the Exchequer, from which source the advances have hitherto been made. This was a course he was for many reasons unwilling to adopt, and he therefore thought it more advisable to borrow the whole rather than put any further pressure on the Bank of England, or incapacitate the Government from making advances to the landed proprietors of England and Scot land. Besides, the prospects of the next harvest were uncertain. Hitherto we had been living mainly upon the produce of other countries of the harvest of the year 1845. There had been entered for home con sumption of 5,388,000 quarters of foreign corn, and he was confident that up to the harvest 0f1847 we should have an abundance ; but by that time the produce of 1845 and 1846 would be exhausted, and we should be dependent upon the produce of the harvest of 1837. The debt would not be permanent, because a considerable portion was to be paid out of the property of Ireland.—(A laugh,) The next question was, whether the loan ought to be accom panied by increased taxation. He was unwilling to add this amount to the debt without taking means for its extinction, but he thought that during the present year it would be unfortunate to attempt any change in taxa tion. The present year was an exception to all others. If we had a good harvest there would be no necessity for further advances : if it should be bad, it would be neces sary to make a further demand on the country for the assistance of Ireland ; and therefore he thought it better to postpone the question of the imposition of additional taxation. Besides, next year it would be necessary to deal with the income-tax • and it would be unwise to attempt to prejudge in what manner parliament—a new parliament perhaps—might choose to deal with that tax. He therefore thought it best to leave thci whole question open till next session. He calculated on a surplus of £489,000 of ordinary revenue over expenditure. He calculated he could borrow the £8,000,000 at 34 per cent., the 'interest of which would be £280,000 ; but then he calculated he should have to raise the interest of Exche quer-bills. The interest at present was lid. a day, and he proposed to raise it to 2d., which would amount to £142,000, giving an increase of interest of £422,000, ma king the total ordinary expenditure £51,988,000, leaving a surplus of £67,000. From Chinese money the next year he should receive £450,000, but against this he must place an extending expenditure of £185,000 to cover the excess of naval expenditure of the year ending sth April last. The total of income therefore would be £52,515,000 ; the total of expenditure £52,183,000, leaving a surplus of £332,000. decline( XPERIENCE OF THE bEAF.—There is an article in the 'ish Review on an interesting work called " The Lost es," in which the instruction of the deaf and dumb scussed at considerable length. The author of the c itself is Dr. Kitto, editor of the Pictorial Bible, having been deaf from the age of twelve years, de . ils his own experiences in society. Amongst the pas gm quoted are the following It will surprise many aders to know that few persons speak in my presence incerning whose voice I do not receive a very distinct siiression. That is, I form an idea of that person's voice r which it becomes to my mind as distinct from the Aces of others as, I suppose, one voice is distinct from rather to those who can hear. The impression thus rrveyed is produced from a cursory, but probably very !curate observation of the person's general physical con itution compared with the action of his mouth and the lay of his muscles in the act of speaking. I form a snilar idea concerning the laugh of one person as dis nguished from that of another ; and when I have seen a erson laugh, the idea concerning his voice becomes in my find a completed and unalterable fact. The impression has realised would seem to be generally correct. I have nnetimes tested it, by describing to another the voices of ersons with whom we were both acquainted ; and I have cat known an instance in which the impression. described v me has not been declared to be remarkably accurate. his faculty must be based upon experiences acquired sang the days of my hearing, and cannot be realised by me born deaf, seeing that it is impossible for them to have try idea of sounds produced by the action of the vocal Tans, and still less of the peculiarities by which one wee is distinguished from another." THE THEOLOGY OF ROME,—What, we ask, is the beology of Rome, stripped of its accidents and uninaport- Futaccessories ? Is it not this ?—SALVATION BY MEANS OF iACRAMENTS, MADE EFFECTUAL BY PRIESTS, WHO ARE THE PLACE OF GOD TO THE PEOPLE. This most as suredly is the substance, the very essence of Romimism ; [LEFT SPEAKING.] TATTERSALL S-YESTERDAY. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Preston's Brunette (taken freely) 12 to 1 agst Mr. Rowland's Red Lancer. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 20 to 1 agst Mr. Stephenson's Sheraton. 2000 GUINEAS STAKES. 6 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigot's Conyngham. CHESTER CUP. 22 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Mendicant 25 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's The Lamb 25 to 1 agst Hon. S. Herbert's Antler 25 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Camera Obscura 33 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free 40 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's The Flitch 50 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Bedlam 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Mangle's Golden Bee. DERBY. 7 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp. 10 1 Mr. Bowes's Epirote. 12 —1 Mr. Mostyn's Planet. 20 1 Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt. 25 1 Sir R. Pigot's Conyngham. 30 —1 Mr. Irwin's Horn of Chase. 35 1 Lord Caledon's Wanota. 50 1 A. W. Hill's Will-o'-the-Wisp. OAKS. 16 —1 Lord Eglinton's Nerisia. NCND THIS, TOO, IS THE SUBSTANCE, THE ESSENCE OF O XFO RD TEACHING. Absolute Regeneration at the woNT by means of the Priest—pardon for sin at the ALTAR, by means of bread and wine transformed to Di sine Humanity, by the magic of a Priest—this is the es sential faith of ROME—this is the faith of OXFORD, ex pounded, without reproof, in the earliest Tracts for the fixes, and now passionately affirmed and perseveringly taught, by hundreds of the younger Clergy, and diffused ?bough the land by incredible activity in every depart ment of literature. If it be so, and who will venture to ifkeny it ?—may not Rome well hope exultingly in the *mght of fully subjugating England to her authority ? That there are many who hold these essential doctrines Rame, who have not the remotest idea of joining that .rommunity, is perfectly true ; they have fine distinctions 'caetween the essential doctrines of Rome and some of the x xrpular opinions and practices in Catholic countries. They enlarge, too, on the undue authority usurped by the Bishop of Rome ; they enlarge, too, as might a Turk or A Jew, on the duty of remaining in the Church in which tf ,,,y were born, and plead the duty of enforcing Catholic ihretrine and Catholic practices within the Church. Thus sr find Dr. Hook, venturing to tell his Bishop, that "the extreme of High Church exough he fu ll y admits 4,...P.,trine and practice i 8 PoPerY ; he will at the same 'me maintain that this is no reason why that doctrine Ira practice should be renounced." The audacity rather than the logic of this declaration might be admired, and Larne would see little to depress her hopes in the excuses .of those who would be Romanists outside of Rome, and 1 " be preparing the unsuspecting people to receive " all Raman doctrine ;" thus accomplishing that which ten Ilid.-ousand of Ro m e's acutest agents would fail in attempt "i2.z — Oxford Magazine. HOPES OF THE ROMANISTS OF SUBDUING ENGLAND TO THE ROMAN SEE.—Never since Pope Sixtus V. blessed the " Invincible" Spanish Armada, and, in the name of Heaven, denounced certain ruin on heretical England, has Rome entertained such high hopes of subduing this coun try to the obedience of the Roman See as at the present time. The inikumentality by which this great object is now sought to Se gained, is, indeed, as different as is the sixteenth from the nineteenth century. Spain is decrepit, —worn out by wealth, popery, and France. A vast navy and infallible artillery cannot now be brought in aid of the Infallible Church. Apostolic Rome may not now " Prove her doctrine orthodox, By Apostolic blows And knocks I —Oxford lgaia;i2rle SIGNS OF FAMINE.—The granaries in and about Stock ton and Yarm are so loaded with the " staff of life," that In the Agricultural Gazette of Saturday last, there is many of them are in danger of breaking down, and on a very important tabular document. It is a statement of Wednesday last the waggons and carts containing grain the estimated amount, as compared with other years, of and pulse of all descriptions were so numerous in Stock corn and other food now remaining in the hands of the ton that the streets were literally blocked up with them. farmers. Being an abstract of ninety-four separate re- DREADFUL ACCIDENT,-011 Tuesday last, nine per turns obtained from practical farmers, in thirty-six Eng- sans left Bideford in the omnibus for Torrington, most of fish, Scotch, and Welsh counties, it must be presumed to them for the purpose of attending the market at the latter represent the truth as far as it can be represented by es- place. On passing the quay at Bideford, the horse took timates. fright, and plunged into the sea, when, dreadful to relate, The prospect is any thing but gratifying. It shows not eight out of the nine were drowned, the tide being up at only that farmers hold less than usual of any description the time. The driver of the vehicle was saved. of food, but that the stock of some is well nigh exhausted, CHINESE SUGAR.—The Sheba from China, was hauled into the St. Katherine Dock on Thursday, with a cargo of 600 tons of sugar, the growth of the celestial empire. It is of a remarkably fine quality, and quite white. it is packed in bags, each containing 61bs. This is the third cargo of Chinese sugar which has arrived in the port of London. STOCK OF FOOD and that the quantity of wheat in their hands is compara tively small. The editor of the Agricultural Gazette, by whom the returns in question were abstracted, infers that the stock of wheat is probably one-fifth or one-sixth less than usual, and that appearances are against an early har vest ; that there is , very little more barley in the country than will suffice for seed ; that the stocks of oats, beans, and peas are unusually short ; and that if there are enough potatoes for seed, it is only because no one desires to plant the usual quantity. We have carefully gone through the ninety'-four state , ments, and we find that in WHEAT twenty-two persons only speak of an average quantity on hand, four of an un usual quantity, and sixty-eight of much diminished stock, Yet it is of wheat that the most favourable account is given. If we turn to barley, oats, beans, and peas the quantity may he stated in the following table : Above an average An average Below an average Very much below an average None, or scarcely any, except for seed . I 14 1 22 4 It must be confessed that this T a serious state of things ; and what adds to their unfavourable appearance is, the very general announcement that turnips are rotting fast, or are actually gone. It, however;• appears on the other hand, that hay is unusually plentiful. The editor of the Agricultural Gazette attaches very considerable importance to the returns from which the con clusions have been drawn. They were prepared by, practical men, each well known as such in his own district, and, in most cases, the questions submitted to them were made the subject of consultation with neighbours equally well-in formed. In Yorkshire,. the Wheat crop is described as less than 0 7 the extent SOW/1, "as usual ;" but the " continued frost renders opinion as to the present appearance worthless." In Lancashire, wheat and oats are said to be average crops; potatoes are described as near the average ; of tur nips and other roots few are remaining ' • the present ap pearance of the crops is said to be backward and badly. In Cheshire, the'wheat is destribed as being two-thirds of the usual average ; of barley, little, if any, is on hand ; of oats, two-thirds ; of beans, none ; of peas, none ; of potatoes, " there will probably be plenty of seed here." Of young wheat there is a full average sown ; but " it has looked badly of late." COMPARATIVE MORTALITY BY WAR AND SICKNESS (From the 7'opie.) From these statements it may be concluded that cannon and balls are comparatively harmless things, and frighten more people than they hurt, and that military danger, and its inferential prowess, have been prodigiously over rated. A comparison of the registers of mortality will convince us that a hero, placed in the . trenches of a be leaguered fortress, where he- is exposed for weeks to a Le, I continued shower of cannon shot, or placed on a field of tie before the bravest anC mostresofute of his enemi has a much better chance of life, and runs less risk of premature death, than if he worked in some undrained street, and slept in a crowded room in Bristol or Liver pool. The chance of life was a t th e , I Siege of Flushing: . 420 to 1 I Shopkeeping Liver- 1 1 Siege of Antwerio.. 68 to 1 pool l7 to 1 Siege of Badajos .. 54 to 1 Weaving Manchester 17 to 1 Battle of Waterloo 30 to 1 Sawmaking Sheffield 14 to 1 The account of the loss of life in the "trade of war" and in " peaceful trade " may be stated thus. Assuming a fair average mortality to be 1 in 50, then in places where this is exceeded, it follows the excess might have been diminished or saved. It is now thirty-one years since the battle of Waterloo was won, and between that time and this there have, been the following numbers of pre- ventible deaths over and above the " regular annual mortality " in the towns specified. Liverpool Manchester Leeds firming; Premattire deaths Total in 99,200 66,030 31,217 Or in four towns, during thirty-one years, 227,850 human beings have been destroyed whose lives might have been preserved to their families and the public—a carnage equal to that of one hundred and three-battles, each as bloody as that fought at Waterloo. The " game of war, played by princes," has been a subject of vituperation from Nim rod to Bonaparte, but princes and conquerors have not, on the whole, been the most heartless or most desperate gam blers ; their battles have a cessation, and they end in peace. The real, remorseless, wholesale slaughterers and destroyers of mankind, whose deadly, work goes on from year to year and for ever, are men who shiver at the sight of a naked sword, and shut their eyes when an unloaded musket is pointed towards them ; who walk about with pens behind their ears and their hands in their 110/4cm-a handkerchief to their nose as they pass through die iirW, pestilential streets that intervene between their villas and their counting-houses, and-instinctively cross the road to avoid contact with their contagious-looking townsmen issuing from courts and alleys. These are the men who unconcernedly look on thousands of their neighbours at tacked by disease, disabled from labour, consignwl to the workhouse, or prostrated by death, and deposited by fifties and hundreds in revolting dead-pith ; while in feast ing, in jobs of every sort, in building exchanges, court houses, town halls, and other specious clap-trap unilertak- ARRIVAL OF JAVA. SUGARS. Two cargoes of Java sugar, belonging to the Dutch government, have arrived off the coast ; and one, consisting of 450 tons, bad already been sold in London, at 335. afloat.. The other cargo still remains unsold, though an offer of 545. has been made for it, duty paid. This offer was refused, and the rate of 33s afloat, was damanded, which. is somewhat higher than 54s duty-paid, as the landing charges and interest upon the duty must be added. LOANS FOR DRAINAGE.—The following were among the applications for loans under the new drainage act, which appeared in the London Gazette, of Tuesday last ; Thomas Clifton, Esq., for lands in the parish of Lytham,. £25,000 the Earl of Derby, for land in St. Michael's, £B,OOO ;- do. for Huvton, Prescot, Ormskirk, &c., £13,000 ; do. for Prestwich, Bury, &c., £10,000; Peter Ainsworth, Esq., M.P., for land in Bolton and Deane, £lO,OOO. A CORPORATION INTERLUDE.—The fondness of cor porate functionaries for good feeding, generally, has pas sed into' a proverb. The Leeds corporation illustrate the characteristic in a way peculiarly their own, for we are informed by the Leeds papers, that the council of that town, during a meeting last week, "adjourned for twenty minutes, and partook of the hospitality of the mayor, who had kindly provided turtle soup and sherry, ad libitum." They returned from the feast to discuss the state of the Leeds burial ground. Food rioting has temporarily revived in the north. Shipping grain- was, as before, the exciting , cause, and again the women figured as leading instigators.- At Beau ly the rioters twice deforced and assaulted the authorities, , and threw a cart over.the quay, but seventy soldiers from man were also carried off to Inverness jail. At Bailin traid, the mob, principally females, turned back the grain carts and loosed the offending vessel' from her moorings, but again the bayonet prevailed. Wick and Thurso have also had outbreaks, and it is feared that there the civil arm will require assistance.. squander t On Tuesday evening, a. respectable man applied at the Lambeth police-court, ferthe magistrate's advice and as sistance to obtain possession of his son, a lad 15 years of age who had been seduced from home by the widow of a distinguished officer, recently deceased. She was 60. The first intimation the parents received of an improper inti macy, was by the lad giving up an excellent situation in a merehant's office. The lady had made him rich presents, and his parents had discovered that they were going off to Guernsey, to be married. Mr. Elliott, the magistrate, said the only course was, to get the lad away, give him a good flogging, and keep him at home. DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.—NINE LIVES LOST.—A large brig, laden with iron, was wrecked on Sunday, at twelve o'clock, mid-day, on Ihe Nass Sands, and we are sorry to say that nine lives were lost, one man only saving himself by shimming. Five bodies are already picked up. It is a melancholy fact to relate, that the wretched crew were seen for some hours in the rigging, no assistance being at hand to save them, and a great sea breaking over them all the time. The brig, no doubt, will settle down in the sand and be entirely lost. There was a very thick fog in the channel, and hence this deplorable disaster.—Dristol Gazette: Fifty paupers, (men, women, and children,) belonging to St. Saviour ' s lr'sUnion Workhouse, London, were brought up, on Tuesday, at the Southwark Police-office, on a charge of riot and breaking windows. Mr. Cottingham, the sitting magistrate, said that it was no use committing them, for he well knew they acted disorderly in order that they might be sent to prison. He should therefore dis miss them. Some time after, they were again brought up on a similar charge- Finding that leniency failed, the worthy magistrate tried the other recourse, and committed them to Brizton Gaol for twenty-one days: At this sen tence the unfortunate wretches seemed rejoiced. enormous amount, which should be held sacred, and ap plied to promote improvements that would alleviate and prevent the havock and destruction made on the lives and :oil anc 1 the public wealt: ROBBERY. OF £10,000. - A robbery of no less a sum than £lO,OOO, in Bank of England notes, was on Tuesday, about one o'clock, effected in the vicinity of the Royal Exchange. A clerk in the service of Strahan, Paul, and Bates, bankers in the Strand, had been collecting in the course of the,morning at several of the city banks, and the last place he called at was Deacon's bank, in Birchin lane. On leaving, he carelessly deposited his leather case, containing the above amount in notes, in his coat-pocket, without a chain or any security being attached to it. It was raining at the time, and, during the confusion that existed in that crowded neighbourhood, some of the ex pert swell mob gentry managed to extract the case, and got clear off.. A reward of £5OO is offered for the restitu tion of the notes. ABUNDANCE OF CORN IN THE NORTH OF. ENGLAND. —Letters from Northumberland, Durham, and parts of Westmoreland and Cumberland, advise that never were corn stacks so abundant, and that even, stocks of old corn (1845) were yet on hand, waiting the highest prices to be obtained, the limit of which was supposed not to be then attained. The banks had been liberal in their ad- fore, were enabled to hold, and, if accommodation were continued, would be disposed to hold. Such are also the accounts received from private but accredited sources in Lincolnshire, and these are the 'principal corn-growing counties of England, where the farmers are generally well doing, and the bankers are ready to. assist on occa sion. It may be expected, therefore, that corn will be brought more freely to market now that the bankers will become rather anxious to recall their advances. Messrs. o,sler, of London, have just completed a mag nificent candelabrum for Ibrahim Pasha. This extraor dinary piece of glasswork consists of 500 pieces, is seven- teen feet in las been createc &rural fElfsreilanv. W. B. Ferrand, Esq., has been appointed a Deputy- Lieutenant for Yorkshire. The House of Assembly in Nova Scotia have contri buted £lOOO towards the relief of Ireland an d Scotland. The subscriptions in Guernsey for the Irish , amount to !,000. Chinese junk is stated to be on her voyage to London for exhibition as a curiosity. The late Mr. Byng's estate has been valued for probate duty at £400,000. It is most singular that nothing has yet been heard of the Rev. H. W. Starr, who is supposed to have perished in some of the defiles of Snowdon. The Mayor of Leeds has forwarded an invitation to Count , de Montemolin to visit Leeds on his contemplated tour through the provinces. The report about the Emperor of Russia having pro hibited the exportation of corn is a Mark Lane fabrica tion. A very large quantity of cocoa nuts have been imported into, Sunderland, which are selling at the low price of threepence each. The wages of the ship carpenters at Sunderland have been raised from twenty-four to twenty-seven shillings a week. _ _ Dr. Adler, the chief. Rabbi of the Hebrews, has been recently introduced to her Majesty. He is about to histi tute schools connected with the various congregations of Jews in Great Britain. St. VALENTINE'S-DAY.—The grand total of letters and newspapers, passing through the Post-office on Sa turday last stands as follows :—Letters, 422,000 ; news papers, 145,000. The Brummegem twelve shilling guns, says the Tippe rary Free Press, are doing se country New accounts are daily read of the last expio: height, and weighs a ton From a base richly decorated springs a shaft composed of triangular prisms. Upon this shaft, at twelve feet six inches,from the ground, is placed a large dish, from which spring the branches, and decorated with a solid star. The dish is likewise de corated with six pendants two feet long. The work about the base is on the inner side of the glass, and the conse quence is that the smooth side being outwards, the dust is not easily collected, and cleaning is effected without trouble. The whole is intended to represent the form of a Palmyra tree. It is not the least interesting fact con nected with this beautiful work of art, that its Construc tion has alone been rendered possible by the abolition of the laws requiring the superintendence of the excise. PROTESTANTISM AND POPERY ATINOTI . INGHAM. — On Tuesday last the Protestants of Nottingham held a great meeting in the Mechanics' Hall, which was crowded in every part by above 1,500 persons. The Rev. J. W. Brooks, the worthy vicar of St. Mary's, took the chairs The Rev. Dr. Cumming, the Rev. R. Blakeney, and others, addressed the audience at length, and amid much enthusiasm. A counter meeting was got up in the Ex change Rooms to receive the Rev. Dr. Wilson, the Roman Catholic bishop. The audience amounted to about 200. It was a strange scene. Mr. Wakefield, a well known Socinian, and one of the corporation, took the chair; and Mr. Cripps, the mayor, a dissenter and leading member of the Independent Chapel, under the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Gilbart, was seated between the Popish bishop and a Popish priest, as one of the chief patrons of tlae pro- Popery festival. While this is going on, these same liberal Socinians and Independents have refused these rooms on any terms to -the Reformation Society of Not tingham.—Herald. SURVEYING EXPEDITION TO THE COAST Or AFRICA.— of eh proceedingo one of Arrangements are in progress for fitting out the Minx and Teazer steam-vessels, of 100 horses' power. each, and light draught of water, and two other steam-vessels, the Rifle fimtatnedawndithShsarcrepwshowootepre,Bi.:B2, horses ' O f o orthe po w se er ea ch, pur power each class built of wood, and the others of iron, and all to the Bight of Bei in, on the west coast of Africa, to sur vey the extensive Laroon a t th e mon th. a a-- ----, ....‘,."...i.i. ~/. Lou .niger ur Nun river, as it ; is named by the Wives of that part of the coast. The Lagoon is a fresh -water lake, extending from Cape St. Paul, to Cape Fo rmosa , sepa rated from the sea by a narrow beach through its whole extent, in some places the land being scarcely half a, mile broad, and in no part exceeding two miles. The Lagos, the Benin, the Foseado, the Esclamo, the Rio Ramus, Nos. 1,2, 3,4, 5, and 6, the Rio Dodo, the Formosa, and the Rio Nun or Niger, all. rivers or mouths of. the Niger, some of them o nearly two miles broad where they enter the Lake Lagoon in tended to explore the banks of the recently-discovered rlasrtgeeaimnlavieulsserless,etrvhoeirmwm.x. IthanfdreTsheazweal.t,erar;ean of the rivers entering the lake, and proceed as upon them as will be found practicable. , UNWILLINGNESS OF HIGHLAND LABOURERS TO supply l bf l ar i r e n u lhae t n a h sd i e s WoßK.—From what we hear from various quarters, the Highland Destitution Committee will require to exercise 6 very strict vigilance, and to be firm to sternness, if they are to prevent the money with which they haVe been en trusted for the relief of helplessness and want, being con verted into an encouragement to idleness and dishonesty. There is no doubt whatever that a large number of the Highland labourers employed on railways in the Lowlands have returned, and are returning homeward, attracted by the hope of being able to live there without working. For instance, on ono contract on the Edinburgh and Northern, near Kirkcaldy, 90 Highland, labourers have gone home since the end of October, and of these about 50 left during December and January. The manager re monstrated with them repeatedly, and, almost invariably got the same answer—that they would now get " plenty of porridge" at home for nothing. About forty have also left another contract in the same district, avowedly on the same inducements. A short time ago, a contractor on the same line, suffering from want of hands, made a tour through parts of Inverness and Argyle, offering employ ment to 300 men, at wages varying from 2s. 4d. to 3s. a day ; and after making every exertion, could only obtain between thirty and forty,—Scotsman. Boz's LAST WORK.—It must be a matter of surprise to the public generally to perceive how varied are the opinions expressed by the leading newspapers, with re spect to Mr. Dickens's last publication. It may .well be imagined that some adverse criticisms upon the works of this and other celebrated authors may proceed from per sonal feelings or educational prejudices. These, however, could account for but a few. The majority, as we have the best medical authority for stating, may' be ascribed to irritability of temper, generally arising from a deranged state of the liver and other viscera, and which could easily be remedied by the occasional use of Frampton's Pill of Health, which is gentle in its operation and unfaiking in its effect. At present, in Great Britain, there is one in 1,585 of the population deaf and dumb, and one in 1,000 blind ; that is, the ratio of the blind to the deaf is about that of 8 to 5, and this, be it remembered, when the advantages of vaccination are very widely diffused and understood. On Tuesday last, a serious riot occurred at Leicester, between the police and the civilians, in consequence of the interference of the former, by order of the magistrates, with certain sports and diversions practised by a long es tablished custem on Shrove Tuesday. The wonderful patriarch of English tenors, Braham, is now in London, and is rusticating for a time, after giving 400 concerts in thirty-seven weeks, two each day, and tra velling, every morning by railroad, post-stages, &c. He is in excellent health, strength, and voice. _ The upper part of an immense dust heap gave way on Tuesday, at Camden Town, and overwhelmed a number of persons who were sitting at its base. Some escaped, others were taken out insensible, and recovered, and one was taken out dead. _ _ A young woman at Bradford, troubled with epileptic fits, has swallowed, on the prescription of a quack, a human skull, powdered and mixed with treacle, in occasional doses, as a remedy for her disease ! A belief in the effi cacy of powdered human skull for fits was formerly very Common. GLASS COFFINS.—A patent has just been taken out by Mr. Parkes, of Peckham, Surrey, for making, coffins of glass by a mould, or of thick plates of china joined toge ther by a durable cement, or of wooden cases lined with plates of glass, united by a mixture of fused glass and borax. THE WHEAT ,DUTIES.—The amount of duty paid on foreign wheat from the sth July, 1846, to 19th January, 1847, was £72,059 on wheat, and £60,929 on wheat flour, making a gross sum total of £132,988. Of these duties £114,964 were received on foreign wheat and wheat flour, and £18,024 on British colonial wheat and wheat flour. Alexandre Dumas, the French feuilletoniste ' usually sells his writings by the line, at prices varying from seven pence to a shilling. He is said to have been once offered half-a-crown a line for a novel, but to have refused the offer on the ground that the man who made it could never intend to pay him, as the sale of the work could never replace so great an outlay. WITCHCRAFT.—At Yarmouth police-court, last week, a Mrs. Leggett applied for protection against her sister, who had assaulted and threatened her, because the de fendant suspected that complainant had bewitched her husband, who was never well, though no one could tell what ailed him. The magistrate endeavoured in vain to convince the defendant that her sister was not a witch., Feb: 23, 1817. FOREIGN SILVER.—The Antonio, of London, arrived Gray's Inn. He further stated that his father had been at Newhaven, on Tuesday, with a cargo of silver from in good circumstances, but had become so reduced as to Callao, stated to be in value near £BO,OOO. It was, on be obliged to send him to sea five months ago, and that Thursday, removed to Lewes, in three railway vans, each the ship had left him at Exmouth. The worthy clergy drawn by four horses, and was thence despatched to Lon- man gave him a shilling, at which the poor boy burst into don by railway. tears of gratitude ; but the kindness of the former did not "BANK SNEAKS."—AN OLD HAND.—On Saturday end here, as, seeing the youth so foot-sore and distressed, last, two men were brought before the Lord Mayor of he gave him a note to his housekeeper at Yatesbitiy, London, at the Mansion House, under the following cir- desiring her to clothe and keep and feed the bearer until cumstances :—They had been observed to go into several his return. He told the boy at parting that he would banking houses in succession, mix amongst the customers inquire into his story, and if he found it to be true, he at the counter, and come out ag a i n wi th ou t d o i ng any would procure him a situation, or otherwise provide for business. As they were known to the police as members him. The gentleman did inquire, and found the father of the " swell mob," they were apprehended, in order to I " lodging on the third floor over a carpenter's shop, and ascertain whether any person had been robbed. It was in a state of extreme destitution, although he had for , stated by the police that their plan was, for one of them merly not only been the owner of the house, but had to go into bankinghouses andwatch in what pocket parties built a large portion of the street in which it stood. He deposited their money, and an accomplice waiting in the said that his son George was naturally of a good disposi neighbourhood ready to act on the information thus ob- tion, but that he had sent him to sea to keep him from tained. On the examination of the prisoners, one pro- the contamination of bad company. I told him of my duced a cheque for £4 ss. which was genuine, and said he intentions towards his son, for which he expressed much had gone into the banking house to get it cashed ; and it gratitude. I returned to Chippenham early on Saturday was stated by the officers, that thieves were in the habit morning, and then learnt to my extreme surprise and of getting these genuine cheques as blinds, so that, in the regret that the poor boy had been found dead." The event of suspicion, they might produce them, and then poor boy was seen on his road to Yaresbury, but missed it might be supposed to be a mere mistake their entering his way, and after a variety of sufferings over two days the wrong bank. The evideiree against them not being and nights (during which he was kindly treated by several strong enough to warrant their detention, they were dis- parties), his suffering affected his mind, and he was found charged. Shortly after, a member of the committee of as stated. The kind-hearted rector undertook at his bankers called at the justice roomy and said that a gentle- expense to inter the body in the churchyarl'at Yateshury man had been robbed of £lO,OOO after leaving one of the first banking houses in the city MATRIMONIAL CORRECTION.—The Times of Friday says, " It is our duty to acknowledge a compliment we ' hive just received, and to impart to our readers a fact of The Sligo Champion of the Bth i ns t an t s t a te s the har some interest concerning a historical fact which has ale rowing fact that in the district of M aug b arrow a l one no ready caused some excitement, and bids fair to occasion fewer than forty dead bodies were kept wa iti ng f or t h e a little more. In a recent copy of our journal we alluded, coroner. The Galway Mercury also relates. a number o f in speaking of the conquest of Scinde, to the brazen whip instances of death from starvation, and, as regards - one o f them, says—" - The cruelty of the policy sanctioned by with which Nusser Khan was wont, according to certain Lord John Russell is found in the melancholy truth, that legends, to chastise his offending wives, and we hinted our on Thursday morning last a miserable being was four in suspicions that fact had as lar g e a sh are as -f a bl e i n th e materials of this edifying n arra ti ve . T o ex tin gu i s h our the streets of Tuam, with her infant closely wrapped'to herbosom ; but, alas ! that infant had fallen a victim to doubts and confirm our faith, M a j or -G enera l N ap i er h a d not only the politeness to inform us that the ' identical' whip the fell destroyer which now, in every direction, traverses was in his possession but he was good enough to despatch it the land." The accounts from Dingle are t o the effect that deaths across the channel for our insp ec ti on , an d a gent l eman yesterday did us the honour to call upon us, at the •Gene- and starvation are increasing there, want carrying' off ral's request, with the veritable Scindian sca r ifi er i n all i ts many, and dysentery, the effect of want, also doing work. The Kerry E xam i ner says on the subject_its unnatural proportions. We regret extremely that ou r " unpictorial• character debars us from conveying to • our Persons are to be seen a t a ll ti mes go i ng about with readers so vivid an idea of this effective machine as could plates in their hands, co ll ec ti ng money to pay for coffins. be given by some weekly cotemporaries •, but we can There is not in this world a more - wretched or more desti readily enter into the unwillingness of a lady to share the tute locality than thi s . Th e s t arv i ng people go into the flight of a husband, who included such implements among tillage fields and re-di g th em ; t hi s they do in the open . y, , the necessaries of his household. To princes about to , day, for the chance of finding an o ld an d ro t ten potato ; ,- marry, we hope the story will 'furnish a warning as sere u an The Ma y o can assure you they labour h ar d at' this work." Constitution d e t a il s t h e deaths of many viceable as any in that immense stock of instructive ex- from disease and hunger duri ng the previous week. Of a amples supplied by the nuptials of last autumn." INTREPID CONDUCT OF A YOUTH.,--011 Friday morn- place called Breffny it is said— In this vill age th ere i s ing, between twelve and one o'clock, an express was re not a family that does not appear, likely to fall v i c ti m s to ceived at the London engine- In all, the names of twenty-four p oor creatures stations of the outbreak of a fa mine." most destructive fire in the town of Old Brentfo r d, i n th e who have perished from want in that locality are g ive n , premises of Mr. Grover, a boot and shoe ma k er . A y ou th and twelve more deaths had just been reported. The mortality in the Cork workhouse, owing to its conditi on named George Best, in the service of M r . O'H ara , b u t c h er , first discovered the fire, and, owing to his intrepid con- (saYs'the Examiner), had increased 36 over the previ o us duct, was the instrument of saving five lives from a hor- week, the deaths last week being 164. rible death. He succeeded, with the aid of a poleaxe used The county Mayo appears destined to occupy a' black for killing bullocks, in breaking open the door, when he page in the history of the famine which is desolating Ire ascended the staircase, and made for Mr. Grover's bed- land,. The following details are contained 'in one publica room, but the smoke had obtained such power over the tion of the Mayo Constitution : inmates, that they were' perfectly unconscious of what "In-the neighbo ur h oo d o f N ewport, on Sunday morning was going on, and, in the course of a very few minutes last, a poor man, named Mulloy, was found on• the road longer they must have been burnt to - death. Best side. His emaciated frame bet o k ene d that -his death, was having laid hold of Mr. Grover's leg, shook him violently, the result of want. He was a native of Burrishoole. On Friday last a poor man died at Deradda, near Newport, of and took up a couple of his children in hiS arms and ran down the stairs with them. Having placed them in safe actual hunger, leaving a family to follow in rapid slimes , custody, he returned and saved Mrs. Grover-and her hus- sion. On Saturday, a poor man wa s a l so f ound expiring band, and a third child was saved in 'a similar way. Not feel- from exhaustion at Rooskeen, and notwithstanding relief ing then satisfied that all were saved, he returned into the being bro ught, the poor ma n di e d, f oo d h av i ng - come too late ! In the neighbourhood of Breaffy - ,.near this town, burning premises for the third time, and inspected every room not on fire, and being convinced that all the inmates the following deaths had already been got out, he was about to run down stairs disease :—Michael M have occurred from Enally . , of Roe man , . on - th e 12th starvation and ; Peter Swords, of Derrinacrisham, on the 12th ; hi s w if e to escape himself, when a large sheet of flame overtook on the 12thq James Gayer', of Ballfshawn, on the Bth him, on the staircase and completely knocked him do wn , his wife on the 10th. All these cases pro cee d e d f rom d yse but having recovered himself he opened.one of the b ac k entery and exhaustion. On Sunday, the 7thinse, Mn.. windows and leaped into the back yard. When pi c k e d up he was quite insensible, and such a powerful effect had Atkinson, coroner, held an inquest on the body of Patrick the smoke upon him that the blood issued from his mouth Maughan, at Coonanarrow. The deceased has left a, and nose, and it was some time before the youth could be family, who are in the most indigent. state. The jury's vele-- restored. diet was—' Death be starvation.' In this village there is PROGRESS OF IRISH DESTITUTION REPORTS OF THE FACTORY INSPECTORS.—These re.- ports, for the half-year ending the 31st of Oetober,.lB46, have just been published. The several inspectors point out some difficulties which attend the enforcing of the law, especially that which is applicable to print works, and that which is intended to secure the factory workers from injury by machinery. Little is said in any of the reports about the time worked in factories during the past half-year. Testimony, however, is borne to the beneficial operation of those clauses of the last passed Factory Act, which regulate the employment of children and young persons. The depression of trade which more or less prevailed throughout all the manufacturing districts during the period over which the reports extend is- ad verted to ; and though such depression had " remoired all inducement to work more than 12 hours a-day," the occupiers of three cloth-dressing milk in Mr. Saunders' district had been convicted of working young persons.'in the night. Mr. Saunders dwells a good deal on the edu cation of the factory workers, and includes in this report extracts' from an able paper by Mr. R Baker of Leeds, On the educational state of his district," from which we• may probably make extracts next week. Mr. Saunders strongly urges the importance of granting pecu niary aid to the public schools in his district, or, as he says, "the absolute necessity of doing so, if the train ing and instruction factory children are to receive is schools are to be made really useful and efficient " There-has been," says Mr. Saunders, " a cons not a family that do not appear likely to fall . victims to famine. On the same day, on the body of James Brislane, at Kilcrimmin.- The deceased was put. on the• public works a few days previous to his death, and was hastening on Saturday evening to the office of the pay-clerk, but being very weak from want of food, he fell on the way, and was found dead next morning. Verdict—' Death .by starvation.' On• Monday, the Bth, on the body of Pat Howley, at Saltfield. The deceased was employed on the public works, and was found lying on the road; where he had fallen, by a person passing by ; when.reraoved to the nearest habitation he died shortly after. Verdict—' Death by starvation.' On the same day, on the body of Willi am Sheridan, at Cloonta. The deceased had been in a great state of destitution, and going from one village to another he fell into a small rivulet which he a tt emp t e d t o cross, and from his debility was unable to extricate himself ! Verdict—' Death by drowning, but attributed to starva tion.' This coroner states that there were 12 more inquests reported in his district, but which from indispo sition he has been unable to attend. During the past week, Mr. O'Grady, coroner, held inquests on the follow ing persons :—Ann Philbin, Patt Hannon, Francis Gan. non, Jordan Morrisroe, Anne Teatum, Thomas Costello, Constantine Munr, e Patrick Carey,, Thomas MulloY; Bridget Mullay. In each of these cases the verdis returned was—' Death from starvation.' " The Coroner for the Baroi . increase in the number of public schools opened for the use of factory children during the last three years. I have but little to add to what I stated-in 1843 in respect to them. Their efficiency depends much on the zeal and discretion exercised by the authority to whom the super intendence of the school is entrrusted. The general state and condition of many are improved. Well-trained and efficient teachers are more justly appreciated, and greater exertions therefore made for the purpose of obtaining their services ; but the want of funds continues to-opfrate very prejudicially in this most important particular. ECONOMICAL AND NUTRITIOUS &WM—M. Soyer, the cook of the Reform Club, has lately paid attention to the production, at the cheapest rate, of nutritious. soups for the poor. He strongly recommends the two following receipts to the attention of the public. For Soup No. 1 : Put one ounce of dripping into a saucepan holding two gallons of water, with a quarter of a pound of Nkg of beef without bones, cut into square pieces about half an inch, and , two middling-sized onions, peeled and sliced. Set the saucepan over a fire, and stir the contents round for a few minutes, until fried lightly, brown. Add the peeling of two turnips, green leaves or tops of celery, and of two leeks, cut into small pieces. Then add half a pound of common flour, and half a pound of pearl barley, mixing all well together. Add two gallons of water, three ounces of salt, and a quarter of an ounce o f brow n sugar, and allow all to - simmer gently for three hours. The cost of the Soup No. 1 will be as follows : Quarter of a pound of leg of beef at 4d. per lb . . id Two ounces of dripping fat, at 4d. per lb.. Two onions and other•vegetables .. • Half a pound of flour, seconds, at ltd. per lb. . ot Half a pound of pearl barley, at 3d. per lb. l4 Three ounces of salt,,with half an ounce of brown sugar, at 4d. per 1b..... Fuel 1 Two gallons of water 0 of Costello icid*Oriiiten ter to the editor of flu "Itmes, in WI he thus pictures ,o. big Affira present attenclin s " The duties of coroner in ordinary times are painful by the scenes presented ; but those now4to be endured render the office, to say the least of it, no sinecure, possessed, if he be, of human feelings. In this sir, lam sure you will agree, when I say, that I have beheld the mother and child both dead in the same bed, the latter embraced, even. in death, in the arms of the former,---when I say that I find a mother dead in the porch on•recess of a corn -kiln, with her still living child three years old lying on her dead body, exposed to the cold and inclemency of the night in such a place of refuge,—when I see the nursing infant die on the mother's breast, from .exhaustion of its source (the mother, with ten in the, family, living. on water tresses for four days previous, as her only means of• sup port),—when I see two children, of six and seven years old, both dead together, and the mother expiring and dy ing the following day,—when I see a man in rude. health, not 50 years old, struggling to walk the day before, thrown dead for four days on the high road (I should say private road), unremoved, being a stranger, under the inclemency of the weather. But, sir, these death scenes, heartrend ing as they may appear, are of no consequence compared to the still surviving moving skeletons of the _families of the departed, falling off from debility from the effects of hunger, aggravated, if possible, by their natural feelings of grief and heartbreak at the loss of the departed.mem ber of their family." The Cork Examiner publishes a series of communica tions descriptive of the destitute condition of several., lo calities in that county, including Mitchel's-town, Ka,nturk, Doneraile, and Ababallogne. The state of the latter, which is only nine miles from Cork, is frightful, There were no less than n i ne deaths from starvation on Monday, and an average of three each day duri n g the weep.. In one town-land, containing 800 souls, it is addedi . ZOO are starving. For Soup No. 2 proceed as receipt No. 1 explains (as regards the fat, meat, onions, and the other vegetables), but add one quart of water upon the whole, which you let boil twenty minutes, stirring now and then to prevent burning ; or else, if convenient, set it by the side of the fire, and add one pound of maize.; mix well together, and fill the stew-pan with six quarts of water ; season as above, let it simmer one hour, skim lightly, and it is then ready for use. One hundred gallons of this soup . will cost under £l. There are not 100ncres of land in the county of Mayo-- prepared for seed, nor is there any appearance of a change. In Drumod, a small district in: Leitrim, containing not quite 6000 inhabitants, eighteenpersons have died in ten days. On the inquest on one of them it appeared that for two months preceding he had been frequently eight and-forty or say hours.witho u t ea ti ng anything seaw eed _ ent Of pO cabbage stalks. A poor woman, ys a c o the Boyle Gazette, has just:alien den nab it was dragging wretched to t lin escaped. beholddeplorable dearth of provisions, an infant of afo w and from the same months . Even. old, dra a s t the o breast of its lifeless m other. .a I nqu ests were held on Monday on the bodies of John and Ellen Mulherm, (husband and wife,) who died, the former on Saturday, the latter on Sunday. The me dical gentlemen (Doctors Leeson, and Brady) said there was no disease, and ascribed the deaths to destitution.. Very few people," said they, " die of absolute hunger, but wanting fire, clothes, and having only a very small quantity of food and other comforts, life, of course, would gradually drop away." The Rev. M. T. Moriarty, writing from Dingle, says, in a, letter dated February 13th, that that parish contains three thousand souls, and that from December 26th to February Ist one hundred and five persons have passed into eternity from the one fell cause—starvation! and since then the work of death has progressed frightfully, The London papers have published a private letter from. Commander Catlin, of the steam sloop Scourge, which is now employed on the Southern coast of Ireland. This officer says that his vessel was lately ordered to discharge k a cargo of meal, —c-, at Schull, and that he consequently became intimately acquainted with the horrible misery, which the inhabitants of that neighbourhood are plunged- Three-fourths of the men of the village had wasted away to skeletons from the effects of hunger ; and their strength was wholly gone. When these unhappy men were - p fu o ln yl essed in unloading the sacks o f meal, the, greatest watch needful in order to prevent them from pur loining small qua n titi es o f t h e contents. As Commander Caffin wished to see with his own eyes the extent to which the famine really prevailed, Dr. Traill, the rector of Schull, drove him through the parish ; and the result of this drive is thus described by Commander Caffin :--" Famine exists to a fearful degree with all its horrors. Fever has sprung up, consequent upon the wretchedness; and swell ing of limbs and body, and diarrhoea, upon the want of nourishment, are everywhere to be found. Dr. Traill's parish is 21 miles in extent, containing about 18,000 souls, with not more than half a dozen gentlemen in the whole of it. lie drove me about five or six miles ; but we com menced our visits before leaving the village, and in no house that I entered was there not to be found the dead or dying." The most heart-rending details follow, and the horrible wretchedness painted in the letter is such as can only be likened to the frightful particulars related by the old chroniclers, who have transmitted to us the history of some of the famines by which Europe was wasteq during the m iddle ages. After describing w h a t he himself saw in the cottages which he visited, Commander adds :—" I could tell you also of that which I could vouch for the truth of, but which I did not see myself, such a bodies half eaten by rats — of two dogs last Wednesday g s hot bein Callaghan,' o dy to by Mr. O'Callaghan, whilst tea r i ng a b caffi pieces—of his mother-in-law stop h p a i e n k g , a a p n o d o , r h w ein om g woman, and asking her what she had on her that it was her son,tellingher said it wasthatshe woul d d e s ad me a ter ad it y! but the poor emaciated woman and she was going to dig a hole in the churchyard for it. These are things which are of everyday occurrence FUNERAL OF THE DUKE 01 , !NORTHUMBERLAND.—The remains of this much lamented nobleman were removed on Friday from the splendid baronial residence of the Percys,. Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, for , interment in the family vault in Westminster Abbey. The funeral procession left the Castle precisely at nine o'clock, the body being conveyed in a hearse drawn by six horses, and attended by the late Duke's household establishment and his numerous tenants in the northern part of the County of Northumberland. It arrived at the Gateshead Station of the York and Newcastle Railway shortly after five o'clock in the afternoon, where a special train was in readiness to proceed.with it to Northumberland House, Charing Cross, London, where it will remain till Tuesday (to -day), and then,be deposited' with august ceremony in the family vault, which is situate in that part of the ancient and venerable building known as the Chapel of St. Nicholas. The arrangements were on a scale, and in. a style of splendour, suitable to the exalted rank of the illustrious deceased. The body was inclosed within a mahogany shell of exquisite workmanship, and French polished, the inside being lined with pure white silk, pad ded and fringed with rich silk fringe and lace of the same colour, and' the shroud was of the same rich material. The shells was inclosed in a leaden coffin, and both placed in an outer coffin of oak, covered with rich crimson Genoa silk velvet, and ornamented in a magnificent style, the deceased's armorial bearings being emblazoned thereon in gold. At the sides and ends of the outer coffin, which was divided into compartments by rows of nails, plated in gold, were eight•massive handles, each surmounted by a ducal coronet, and on the top were the ducal coronet with the star and badge of the Order of the Garter, and other heraldic achievements. The weight of the coffin and body was estimated at about eleven hundred weight. There were upwards of three hundred of his Grace's ten antry on foot, and about six hundred mounted to ac company the procession. Nearly the whole of the popu lation turned out. At Felton, Morpeth, and other places the shops were closed, and the bells of the churches rang muffled peals. AFFECTING AND FATAL CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Friday se'nnight, an inquest was held at Caine on a youth who was found drowned in a ditch in Green-lane, Blacklands, Berkshire. He appeared to be about 15 years of age, of pleasing countenance, and was dressed as a sailor boy. In the absence of other evidence, a verdict of " Found drowned " was returned. After the inquest, the coroner received a communication from the Rev. J. S. M. Kyrie, rector of Yatesbury, stating that further evidence on the case could be given, and a further investigati on i n conse quence took place. 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