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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. INDIA AND CHINA We have received by our extraordinary express, in an ticipation of the Bombay mail of the Ist of November, our despatches to that Gate. The affairs of the l'unjab continued in the same dis turbed state. The ranee or queen-mother continued to be the nominal head of the government ; but she had since the assassination of her brother expressed her willingness to retire, and even to take her son, the boy-king Dhuleep Singh, into obscurity, provided that a snitable jagheer was secured to them both. Old Gholab Sing continued to re side in his mounta , n fortress of Jamoo. Although the Lahore soldiers wished him to be wuzeer, he did not ap pear desirous of assuming that most precarious dignity. The Dussera had passed over in quiet at Lehore, for the troops were masters. The Ralah Lall Singh had taken part of the power from the queen-mother, but neither of them dared to demand vengeance on the perpetrators of the frightful assassina tion of the late Wuzeer. Of Peshorah Singh, who was nominally a favourite with some of the troops, little was known ; the report of his being still alive had died away, and he was believed to have been murdered at the instiga tion of Jowahir Singh—a belief which subsequently pro duced the death of the latter. I • The Governor-General, Sir Henry Hardinge, reached Agra on the morning of the 16th of October, having tra velled with great speed from Calcutta. He was to leave that station on the 28th, and to proceed to Delhi, where he would meet the commander-in-chief. The decision of the government of India with respect to Lahere was not known. It was not thought possible for the British go vernment to permit such a lawless soldiery as the Sikhs to keep the frontiers in constant alarm. It was therefore considered highly probable that the governor-general would propose some decided arrangements to the Lahore government, for the control of those soldiers ; and that the introduction into the Punjaub of the British troops ome necessary to enforce those arrangements. would t In Scinde tranquility prevails. Sir Charles Napier was at Kurracbee. In Gwalior the measures adopted by Sir R. Shakespeare had produced the be,t results in the paci fication of the country. _ . The surrender of Serampore was effected by order of the Danish government, on the 9th of October. The British flag was hoisted, end the Danish rule then ceased. A fearful fire had taken place in Bombay on the first night of the Dewallee (lamp festival) of the natives. It took its origin from some fireworks in a shop where a quantity of powder was stored. Having destroyed near 200 houses of various descriptions, it was stopped by the energy and activity of the Europeans. Fifteen persons lost their lives. Bombay escaped a dreadful calamity, for about -1,000 lb. of powder were removed from the houses on fire. . • , The latest ne.vs from China extended to the 30th o September ; but it contained nothing of importance Trade was dull, except at Shanghai. THE RIVER PLATE Advices from Buenos Ayres to the 27th September, and from Monte Video to the 20th, have been received by the arrival in the Channel of the Sara Johanna. A private letter dated Sept. 23d, alluding to the official notification of the blockade of Buenos Ayres (subjoined) says that "The Ministers have not been moved to the adoption of this measure solely by the late decree of this Government prohibiting intercourse with British and French vessels of war, but from a general consideration of the various grievances of which they have to complain, and which have been embodied iii a declaration sent in to this Government. The charges brought against the Government in this document are of so serious a charac ter, and, we understand, are so minutely stated, that it will be, hereafter, almost impossible for Ministers to resume any amicable relations with the Government of General itosas. There is every prospect that a trade will now be opened from Monte Video to Corrientes and Paraguay ; and as individuals in Monte Video are desirous of chartering foreign vessels for this trade, it would ap pear probable that all flags will be protected in the navi gation. Another letter dated Sept. 26th, says, "There is a very general report to-day .that the force under General Urquiza has gone over to the Monte Video party. If true, it will not be long before we have a satis factory settlement of affairs. There is evidently some• thing wrong with Rosas' troops in the Banda Oriental. There is no popular excitement ' in this city, and no molestation has yet been offered to foreigners. Another letter dated a day later, says, " Captain Hope, of the Fire brand, landed here yesterday morning, and, we under stand, communicated that an extension of fifteen days time would be granted for vessels to leave the port, which term will expire on the 24th October; but no official notification has yet been made of this extension. We have accounts from Monte Video to the 20th instant. A meeting of the merchants had been held at the house of Mr. Ouseley, to hear propositions for making a loan to the Monte Video Government of 300,000 dollars, Monte Video currency, repayable from the duties of the sear 1848, with thirty or forty per cent. premium, repayment guaranteed by the British and French Ministers. The terms were not, however, definitely settled. A question was asked at tibia-meeting as to the opening of the naviga tion of the river Parana, to ishich Mr. Ouseley replied, that possibly in a fortnight's time a convoy of British and French and Oriental vessels of war might be given to merchant vessels, but that he would make an official com munication as soon as anything was decided upon. There is, consequently, a prospect that the navigation will short ly be opened and efficiently protected, and an extensive trade established from Monte Video to Corrientes and Paraguay." We further learn, that all the British vessels in Buenos Ayres had been chartered, at 90s. per ton for salted hides and tallow, £7 to £8 for dry hides, and 70s. for bale goods. The Alciope, from this port, had been refused admis sion from the blockading squadron. line. The Morning Chronicle says a project is in contempia tion for laying along the line of the Birmingham and Gloucester, pipes for the conveyance of brine from the salt-pits of Droitwich and Stoke Prior, to the port of Gloucester. As one of the coal trains was proceeding on the Stock ton and Darlington Railway, near Sbildon, on Friday last, the fireman, William Preston, got up to alter the chimney, to make it pass through under a bridge, when his head came in contact with the bridge arch, which caused instant death. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A serious accident took place on Tuesday, at the Barnsley statime by an express train NOTIFICATION OF BLOCKADE. (with three gentlemen from Derby) running into a lugg a ge "Buenos Ayres, September 22d, 1845. train, which was standing on the down line ready for " SIR,—I have the honour to intorin you, that, in con- starting. The driver of the express train was solely in sequence of a decision which the Ministers of England 9 fault he having paid no regard to five red lights attached and France in Monte Video have found necessary, a to the luggage train. Fortunately no one was seriously blockade of the ports and coasts of the province of Buenos hurt. The engine of the express was comp letel y disabled. Ayres has been declared, and that such blockade will be Few of the luggage waggons were left whole. Some 20 enforced by the combined squadrons of England and sheep were. dreadfully injured, and many killed on the spot. France forty-eight hours after the date of the present The Committee of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield notification. Railway announce that " the plans and books of reference "Fifteen days, however, will be allowed for the de of the line were duly lodged with the Board of Trade, and parture of vessels from Buenos Ayres. with the clerks of the peace, on the 30th ult. ; but, in " I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient consequence of the fraudulent abstraction of twenty bumble servant, (Signed) sheets of the sections from the premises of the lithogra " FRANCIS LEESON BALL, p- her (a fact which the Committee are in a position to "Her Britannic Majesty's Cha r g e substantiate, and for the discovery of the perpetrator of d'Affaires. I which felonious proceeding they have taken the most de- WEST INDIES.—By the Medway we have received our ; cisive steps), the sections, though deposited at the Board usual files of West India papers, but they are remarkably of Trade, were a few hours too late a t the o ff i ces o f the destitute of interest. The islands were all healthy, and i clerks of the peace; they were, however, deposited before had not been visited with hurricanes this season. The office hours on the following morning." crops were generally looking favourable. The Jamaica THE HUNGERFORD-BRIDGE RAILWAYS. — The report papers are still fully occupied with the discussion of rail- of the Directors of the Hungerford-market Company, ways in the islands and immigration, both popular sub- laid before a general meeting of the proprietors, stated jects with the colonists. An influential meeting of the that an agreement for the sale of the Hungerford and parish of St. Mary had been held on the latter subject, Lambeth Suspension Foot-bridge, for the sum of £226,000, and petitions unanimously carried, praying the House of reserving the rights of the Hungerford-market Company Assembly to offer every encouragement to immigration therein, had been entered into. The report further stated on an extended and efficient scale. In the action " Sal- that negotiations had been pending for the sale of the teil v. Bravo," to recover damages for a libel published market to the same parties as had purchased the bridge, in the Portuguese Synagogue, at Kingston, the plaintiff but as the terms were such as the market direc t o r s could obtained £2OO damages ; two gentlemen of the Hebrew not recommend the proprietors to accept, the negociation persuasion applied for permission to retire from the fury i was now at an end ; but the directors had given notice of box, after much trouble to complete the number, the application to parliament for power to dispose of the mar cause was tried by eleven only. ket property, in case such a course should be finally de- The ceremony of laying the corner-stone of the cathe- termined upon. dral and parish church of St. John's, Antigua, was per- 1 RAILWAY LITIGATION.—At a meeting in London last formed on the 9th of October, by his Excellency Sir Chas. week of persons interested, D. W. Harvey in the chair, Fitzroy, the Governor-in-Chief of Antigua, in the pre- it was resolved, that proceedings at law having been Bence of a large attendance. threatened in various railway matters, it is very desire- MexlCO.—We have received from Mexico advices to hie that with a view to the equitable arrangement of just the 30th of October. The Mexican Government had demands, and the resistance of claims obviously made agreed to a Minister of . the United States, and to nego- under the impression that the dread of ruinous law tiate for frontiers and the settlement of claims. The charges will induce compliance, as also to ascertain the le- American fleet had left Vera Cruz, that being the first gal liabilities of committee-men, shareholders, and appli step of the arrangement. The city of Mexico was cants for shares: and further, to elicit the actual circum tranquil, though reports of Federalist conspiracies were stances of various railway projects (matters far too weighty frequent. The Indians called Camanches had ravaged for individual responsibility), a confidential meeting be the departments of Durango and Zacatecas, and one body speedily convened of parties who are interested in these was within seven days of the city of Mexico. The objects. Messrs. Amory and Co., Throgmorton-street, financial state of Mexico was deplorable. The one- were appointed solicitors. third of the new Congress to be renewed on the Ist of LODGING OF RAILWA Y PLANS.—Most commendable January was composed of Radicals and friends to exertions were made in many quarters by the officials to Federation. The Minister of Justice had resigned ; he secure their arrival in due time, while every trick of ri was succeeded by Senor Montes de Oca. We learn that valry was resorted to to delay and embarrass opponents. the French Minister had left Mexico, in consequence of ' Forestalling post horses is an ancient trick, so is making the disturbances that occurred four or five months ago. turnpike men drunk, and leaving the rivals in the rear to He came passenger from Vera Cruz in the Medway, and knock at the gates. One ingenious individual we heard landed at Havannah to await the instructions of his Go- of, who, to provide against such a contingency, carried an vernment. Santa Anna was still at Havannah. axe in his post chaise. A celebrated engineer, bringing The Emperor of Russia has put in a claim to part of the his plans from Ireland, arrived at Bristol at eight o'clock disputed Oregon territory ; he contends that his posses- , in the evening, took an express train at Bristol, for which sion extends to 54 deg. 40 m. I he had to pay £l5, and five guineas as a refresher to the The renowned General Tom Thumb bad the honour to ; engine driver. Great Western energy, however, carried wait on their Majesties the King and Queen of the French 1 the day, for he arrived in one hour and fifty minutes, and on Friday, at the palace of St. Cloud. I deposited in time. One party only arrived just in time to The Hendrick Hudson, a new steamer plying between make his lodgment, by throwing the bags into the closing Albany and New York, has accomplished the distance, doors of the Board of Trade, as a crowd of applicants 150 miles in 7 hours 40 minutes. were at the door, and the Horse Guards struck twelve. BORNEO.—The Government of Holland have demanded An arrangement has been entered into between the of the English Cabinet an explanation of their intentions Manchester and Leeds and Leeds and Bradford for an with respect to Borneo. They have even threatened war, , amalgamation of the two companies, in virtue of which should England take possession of that island. the Leeds and Bradford and Leeds and Bradford Eaten- The King of Bavaria has issued a decree, ordering that 1 sion shares become Manchester and Leeds stock to the in future all persons killed in duels or who had committed extent of their share of the capital, namely, £900,000. suicide shall be interred without religious ceremony of The Leeds and Bradford proprietors are also to have 75 any kind. per cent. additional on the £900,000, which per centage The Qu een o f Sp a i n an d her sister have just completed is to be issued as follows, viz.: £300,000 in £2O shares, two pictures, under the direction of their master, Bernardo which will realize, when paid up, the amount authorized Lopez ' which they intend to offer as presents to the Queen to be borrowed by the Leeds and Bradford. The re of the French. mainder of the 75 per cent., viz. £375,000 will subse- Lord Cowley, our ambssador at Paris, met with a se- sequently be issued to the shareholders, subject to a call rious accident on Wednesday. In descending seer steps at the time of £2 per share, in addition to the calls of £5 on the Boulevards his lordship missed his footing, and on the original shares, and £lO on the extension shares, had the misfortune to dislo ca t e b o th shoulders. Several now due, which will make £2O paid up on each; it is in physicians were immediately i n attendance, and reduced tended to call for a further sum of £2l per share in the the dislocations. course of next year, which will then make the paid-up It is said the Jewish Reform Committee sitting at capital £4l per share. Both the old and the new shares Frankfort, at the bead of which are Mes s r s . Goldschmidt, are to remain unproductive till the opening of the railway, advocate ; Greusenach, professor ; and Schwarzchild, when they will begin to receive dividends in proportion physician ; and to which all the most eminent Jews of to the extent and cost of the lines that shall be in opera- Germany are attached, have decided that the Jewish Sab- tion. 1;alhsha111; kept on Sunday. WILL NOT ANSWER.—We mentioned on Saturday that the wires of the e;ectro••magnetic telegraph were laid on the bed of the East River, encased in a leaden tube. We regret now to announce that the connection between the shores is already severed. The ship Charles, from Liverpool, on Saturday afternoon, brought up the ccil on the flukes of the anchor. The great weight caused THE CHASE THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at ........... Thursday, Dec. 11, at • ............ Saturday, Dec. 13, at ........... At half-past ten. SIR W. W. WYNN'S FOUNDS will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 9, (this day,) at Penlev Friday, Dec. 12, at Nescliffe Saturday, Dec. 13, at • At half-past ten. Withington Minshall Vernon the sailor boys to Cea;;;:ith a will, and when it began to wriggle and writhe near the surface, they thcught they had i c aught the veritable se a ser pent himself. Ropes were n immediate demand, but before they could be used the pipes and wires parted, and the two shores are as distant as they ever were.—New York Commercial. IRELAND. The reward for the apprehension of the assassin of the late Patrick Clarke, Esq., now amounts to £1322. The statement that Mr. Wilson, of Carrickmacross, had been murdered, turns out to be a malicious fab rication. Belfast is at length chosen as the site of the Ulster College, and Dr. Henry, a member of the National Board of Education, has been chosen principal. On Thursday last John French, Esq.. son of the Dean of Elphin, and nephew to Lord De Freyne, was fired at, at his own gate, at Cloonquin, Roscommon. Mr. French's only fault was, that he had spoken disrespect. fully of the Molly Maguires. THE TIDES.—The only place on the earth where the solar tide is greater than the lunar tide is at Courtown harbour, south of Dublin. In all other places the lunar influence predominates to the extent of about four times and a-half (according to Newton.) REFORMATION IN DUBLIN.—On Sunday week, the Rev. Roderick Ryder, and four other persons, publicly abjured the errors of Popery, and signed the renunciation roll of the parish, in St. Audoen's Church, Dublin. One of the four was formerly a student of St. Jarlath's College, Tuam, and is now a student of Trinity College, Dublin. Mr. Ryder is described by Romish bishops as a man of eminent zeal and piety, and is the sixth priest who has renounced Romanism in Ireland within a short time. ATTEMPT TO MURDER. — On Moneta? evening, about the hour of seven o'clock, as James Henzie, steward of Mrs. Bennett, of Monaquil, was about eating his supper, and in the act of raising a potatoe to his mouth, a shot was fired in through the kitchen window, which drove a large musket ball through his hand, under the thumb, which passed up along the wrist, down towards the elbow joint. There were two policemen in the house for pro tection, who were sitting in the same apartment, but owing to the doors being locked, they had some little delay in getting out, and when they did, there was no trace of any one to be seen. BARBAROUS MURDER.—On the evening of Sunday week, a man named James Costelloe, a tenant of Burton Persse, Esq., of Moyada Castle, county Galway, and who acted as rent-warder, was murdered on the townland of Killeshulan, near Freshford. The unfortunate man was seated at supper with the members of his family, and was shot through the window by some unknown assassin, who took deadly aim from the outside. The ball passed through the neck, and killed him on the spot. The deceased was a witness most instrumental in the con viction of the notorious Tracys, which circumstance would be of itself sufficient to adjudge death to him by the Rockite code ; but he was also lately concerned in driving stock distrained for rent on a neighbouring farm. STATE OF IRELAND.—Last week an address, signed by the Marquis of Westmeath, Lord Castlemaine, twelve deputy-lieutenants, and thirty-three magistrates of the county of Westmeath, on the disturbed state of that county, was presented to the Lord Lieutenant. From this address it appears that from the summer assizes of 1844 to the present period, there were in that county 31 cases of attacking houses, 7 burglaries, 8 waylaying and assault, 15 aggravated assaults, 84 threatenibg letters, 29 injuries to property, 10 appearing armed, 13 burnings, &c. &c. His excellency states in reply, that the acting crown solicitor of the circuit has been sent to Mullingar to make inquiry, whether a special commission should issue for the trial of the persons now in gaol as suggested by the address. BRUTAL MURDER. — On Wednesday fortnight a Miss Irvine (sister to the clerk of the crown for Fermanagh) was found dead under the feet of a horse in the stable at tached to her residence near Enniskillen. She was co vered with wounds and bruises, especially about the head. No inquest was held, and it was supposed that Miss Ir vine, who, though an elderly lady, was of active habits, had upon this occasion gone to fetch some apples from the loft above the stable and bad fallen, in descending, under the horses' feet, and had thus been trampled to death. Things remained in this state until last week, when, suspicions being excited, Miss Irvine's maid ser vant was arrested, and she has been committed for trial charged with the wilful murder of her mistress. The ser vant had been reared by Miss Irvine from infancy, but circumstances that have since transpired leave little doubt of her guilt. The poor lady is supposed to have been mur dered by a cleaver which was in the house, and cannot now be found. RAILWAY EV TELLIGE CE, The Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company have abandoned all the proposed extensions and alterations of their line, and will not go parliament next session. The Railway Director, hitherto published every even ing, will, up to the opening of Parliament, be published only once a week. Wednesday's publication of Herapalh's Journal has been discontinued in consequence of the decrease of rail- way business. The Lancashire and North York Company have amal gamated with the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junc'ion. The Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, an ex- Ming railway, has also been amalgamated with the same UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. Dr. Samuel Wilberforce, the new Bishop of Oxford, and tutor to the Prince of Wales, has just attained his 40th year. " An Octogenarian friend of the Bible Society" has transmitted £5OO for the Association through the Bishop of Chester. The Jamaica Journal mentions a rumour of the inten tion of the Venerable Dr. Pope to resign his archdeaconry in that island, and to return to England. The Rev. Benjamin Harrison, M.A., one of the Arch bishop of Canterbury's chaplains, is to be the new Arch deacon of Maidstone, vacant by Archdeacon Lyall's pro motion to the Deanery of Canterbury. THE SEE OF OXFORD•—The income of this bishopric has hitherto averaged but £2,500, but will now, under the recent act 6 and 7 Will. IV. regulating the incomes of future bishops, be augmented so as not to be less than £4,000, and not to exceed £5,000 a year. At the meeting of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, held on Tuesday, Mr. Blunt's motion to circulate the Apocrypha with the Bible, although people had been fetched (as was confessed in the debate) more than one hundred miles to vote for it, was negatived by 176 votes against 62. The vicar of Leigh having submitted to the bishop the question, whether the inhabitants of chapelries, having burial grounds of their own, have any right to interment in the parish churchyard, has received the following reply, dated November 12th :—" I conceive the individuals in chapelries, which have cemeteries attached and a district formed, can no longer claim sepulture in the parish churchyard, except when a family vault, assigned by faculty, gives an individual a right not belonging to the inhabitants generally." THE COURT 4 FASHIONABLE WORLD. The Queen is expected to return to Windsor Ca; tle from Osborne-house to-day. Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council on Thursday or Friday, when a proclama tion will be agreed upon, appointing a day for the meeting of Parliament for the despatch of business. The Duchess of Kent, Duke of Cambridge, and Prin e Edward of Sage Weimar are staying at Witley Court. The ship Ernest, from Africa, brings two lions and a lioness for the menagerie of the Queen. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD LADIES' FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER The winter fashions may now be said to be in a great measure decided. Velvet, satin, and velours epingle are the materials for chapeaux and capotes. Velours e'pitial6 is also fashionable for half-dress, but not for the promen ade. Several capotes have appeared composed of black satin and velvet, striped in equal stripes. Fancy velvets have not yet appeared, but we have seen a few chapeaux spotted and lightly figured with velvet. The Pamela has been considerably modified within the last two months ; it is shorter at the ears, and not near so wide at the sides, which renders it more generally becoming. The capote form has not altered ; it is most in vogue for the promen ade, particularly in plain walking dress. We m,y cite, among the most novel capotes, those composed of satin, the materials laid full on the brim, and the fulness con fined by narrow bands of velvet; three are generally em ployed. The lining is usually satin, of a full shade of red. A good many are trimmed only with fringed ribbon ; these we consider very well calculated for walking bon nets, particularly when they are black.. Cloaks and pelisses will certainly be this season as much in vogue as they Were last year, but we think with more variety in the forms. We ma•; cite, for promenade dress, the mantle Catherine 11. as 1:).-Itig at once a com fortable envelope, and of a rich plainness that renders it perfectly gentlewomanly ; it is rather more than a three quarter length, composed of black satin, and lined with crimson sarsenet ; it is made to fall in easy folds from the shoulders, but is tight on the upper part of the bust, with a standing and rather high collar, and large pelerine falling over the shoulders in such a manner as to have something of the effect of a sleeve. The trimming is either an em broidery in chenille, which has a very novel and elegant effect, or else from three to five bands of velvet ribbon of different widths, which encircle the whole of the cloak. We have seen these mantles also made in velvet, and trim med with fur. Indeed, it was in that they first appeared last month, but that style will not be much see❑ till tne season is further advanced. Coloured velvets and satins are the materials most in favour for carriage cloaks; violet, pensie, and a new and beautiful shade of blue, called blue Victoria, are most fashionable. _ Some splendid winter silks and satins for evening dress have appeared in the course of the month ; there are also damasks and brocades, which really might vie with those worn by the court beauties of 1740 ; the forms of these dresses will vary very little from those of last season ; the skirts of some that we have already seen are equally full, and made with demi trains. There is again a report that long trains will be introduced; hut that has bee❑ the case so frequently that we do not give much credit to it. The corsages continue to be deeply pointed before, and, in some instances, behind also, but not so deeply, they are cut very low. Sleeves are not so short as they were last winter. Passementerie, of new and very beautiful kinds, will divide the vogue for trimmings with black and white lace. Fashionable colours are the same as last month. — Ladies' ( abinet of Fashion. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-SATURDAY PUFFERS " AT AUCTIONS -THOHNET V. HAINES This action was brought to recover the sum of £315, deposit paid by the plaintiff to the defendant, on the sale by auction of a public-house. . . .. The real question was, whether a sale by auction was vitiated by the employment of a person, technically called a•• puffer," to enhance the price of the thing-sold by ficti tious biddings. It was proved that, in this case, a person named Robinson, who was the only bidder against the plaintiff, did not mean to become a purchaser, but bid at the request of the owner of the property, the real defen dant in this action. On the close of the plaintiff's case, counsel for defen dant submitted, on the authority of the case of Woodward v. Miller, which had been lately decided before Vice- Chancellor Wigram, and was not yet reported, that the presence of Robinson as a bidder at this auction did not vitiate the sale, and that consequently this action would not lie. . . _ _ . .......... The counsel for the plaintiff observed that all the corn mon-law authorities were, without exception, the other way. The Chief Baron told the jury that, according to the current of all the cases in the courts of common law, the presence of a puffer at an auction vitiated the sale. It was competent to the owner of the article to be sold to protect his interest by having a person to buy it in, if it should not fetch the price he set upon it, but he could not employ what was commonly called a puffer. It was arranged that there should be a verdict for the plaintiff for £315, and interest since the deposit was de manded back, with leave reserved to the defendant to ap ply to enter a nonsuit. Verdict for the plaintiff accordingly. E. S. Bain, Esq., of the Northern Circuit, is about to be made a Sergeant-at-Law. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Burge (for merly Attorney-General of Jamaica) to the commission ership of bankruptcy, vacant by the death of Mr. Boteler. At the Arches Court, on Wednesday, Sir H. J. Fust de livered judgment in the case of the Bishop of Lincoln, against the Rev. W. Day, rector of Hawbridge, Bucks, who was charged with drunkenness, and bad been con victed of an assault at Aylesbury Assizes, and sentenced him to pay costs, and to be suspended for three years, and until be produces a certificate of good behaviour. CRAM. CON.—SPENCER V. 111 6 DONALD.—This action was brought by the plaintiff, a tradesman, carrying on the business of a straw bonnet maker, in High-street, Shore dit:th, against the defendant, a comedian, who, at the time of the transaction, was performing at the City of London Theatre, for criminal conversation with the wife of the plaintiff. The plaintiff's wife was thirty-four years of age, and it was proved that they had lived happily to gether. The jury gave the plaintiff £lOO damages. The action was tried in the Common Pleas on Saturday. CRIMINAL CONVERSATION.—CLARK V. DURNSFORD. —ln this action, the plaintiff, a solicitor of eminence in extensive practice at Bristol, sought to recover damages against the defendant, a practising surgeon, of the same place, as a compensation for the injury sustained by rea son of a criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. The case was beard in the Court of Common Pleas, be fore Mr. Justice Cresswell and a special jury, on Tuesday and Wednesday last. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £5OOO. A CURIOUS CASE.—A trial in the literary world will take place in the court of Exchequer, either in the present or the early part of the nsuing term, which will excite some interest. It is an action brought by Trinity Col lege, Cambridge, against the trustees of the British Mu seum, for their possession of a manuscript alleged to have been stolen from the library of the former. They have been intermediately in the possession of Mr. J. 0. Hal liwell, F.R.S., whose suspension from the library of the Museum has recently caused a painful interest in literary circles. LIVERPOOL HEBREW PHILANTHROPIC . SOCIETY. — It will be seen, that the friends and subscribers to the above institution will hold their annual dinner, at the Angel Hotel, on Tuesday, the 23rd instant. The sup porters of this charity, which is for the relief of the re sident Hebrew poor during the winter months, have hi therto held rather aloof from their Christian friends, but the sensitiveness which bas prevented them from appealing boldly to the general public is no longer to stand in the way of the institution. MR. HADDOCK'S GRAND CONCERT THIS EVENING. —Many of our most distinguished musical families have eagerly come forward in support of this stirring event, and few, if any tickets remain unsold. This will no doubt embolden our highly gifted and spirited townsman to give many similar concerts. In our next, we shall haue the pleasing duty of presenting our musical friends with a correct report of the whole, and we are sure that many will be the gems of so truly classical and intellec tual a performance,—See Advt. CHANGE OF HAIR.—The following observations re lative to the hair we copy from an essay on that subject, written by Mr, Ayres, of whose successful treatment we have before spoken. Our readers will perceive his address in another part of our paper. "In the convales cence of our fevers and recovery to health after a long coutinued indisposition, the hair invariably indicates considerable change. The changes presented are various. With some a loss of colour is observed, the, heir first assuming a lighter appearance, which continues to dr crease in shade until actual grayness supervenes. Probably the change most generally perceived is a gradual falling off of the hair, extending frequently so rapidly that unless arrested in time it is sure to be followed by partial baldness or its entire loss." GENERAL MISCELLANY. The sale of the autographs of Gray, the poet, which took place on Monday last, realised upwards of £l5OO. There are 30,000 miles of turnpike-roads in this coun try, and there are at present 6,000 miles of railway. On Monday, the fishermen of Sidmouth, while out with their herring nets, captured a shark eight feet long. Samuel Quennell was, yesterday week, fully committed for trial for the wilful murder of Daniel Fitzgerald, in Lambeth, by shooting him deliberately with a pistol. The rebuilding of Lord Francis Egerton's mansion, in Cleveland-square, formerly belonging to the late Duke of Bridgwater, is to be commenced early in next March. The notorious Barnard Gregory, of the Satirist, opened the Strand theatre, London, on Tuesday night, in the character of Shylock. The uproar was tremendous. Dwarkanauth Tagore (attired in the native Indian cos tume) attended and spoke at the meeting of the Peninsu lar and Oriental Steam-packet Company on Friday. The schooner Williams of Perth, c , al-laden, struck at the mouth of the Tay, on Saturday week, and was wrecked. The captain and an apprentice were drowned. PROPERTY TAX.—Many tradesmen in Worcester have been surcharged this year, because they have given dinner parties, and lived in better style than last year. Kegworth was last week literally ransacked in search of an unemployed labourer to do a day's work, but without success.—Leicestershire Mercury. John Harrowbin has been committed to Newgate, charged with the manslaughter of his mother, aged 67, by blows inflicted during a quarrel. In anticipation of the calling out of Militia the " Mili tia Clubs" for providing substitutes have commenced making arrangements for their re-organisation. On Saturday night, Mr. R. Avery, of Walworth, had his coat-pocket picked of 685 railway shares, near the Elephant and Castle, Southwark. Two women are sus pected. A few days since a poor man at Hull was ordered by the magistrates to pay ls. 6d. per week for the mainte nance of his grandchildren. The father of the children had been transported. Ellen Parry, spinster, late a farm servant at the farm yard of Plasnewydd, in the parish of Llanedwen, Angle sey, has been committed for trial, charged with the mur dor of her twin children. The Lord Mayor of London has refused to call a public meeting in compliance with a requisition, respecting the opening of the ports, but he has convened a Common Council to consider the subject. Cooke's Circus, Saltmarket, Glasgow, lately used as a minor theatre, was totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday. The building, which was of wood, was insured for £BOO, and the scenery, &c., for £3OO. A Treasury order has been issued, allowing all articles legally importable into the Isle of Man, and not enume rated in the table annexed to the Act Sth and 9th Vic., c. 94, and upon which the duty of £l5 per cent. is im posed, to be imported into the Isle of Man duty-free. At a meeting of the Edinburgh town council on Thursday the freedom of the city was presented to Sir Charles Napier, M.P., who has been residing there for some time past Sir Charles made a long rambling speech on the occasion, but there was nothing in it. The coroner's jury, at the inquest on Police-sergeant Stubbs, who, with one of the commissioners of bank ruptcy, lost his life by the collision on the Midland Rail way, have returned a verdict of manslaughter against the engine driver. Mary Ann Taylor, aged 33, died in London, last week, from an effusion of matter on the brain, arising from an abscess on the bone, through constantly pricking the ear, —a remarkable propensity which she always showed when excited. INCENDIARY FIRES. — The Nottingham Journal of Friday contains accounts of three destructive fires in Nottinghamshire, which have taken place within the last few days, and by which a large amount of corn and other farm property was destroyed. At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, William Carney was sentenced to transportation for life, and Ben jamin Barnett and Wm. Lewis to fifteen years' transport ation each, for cutting and wounding a police constable while in the execution of his duty. In consequence of the Privy Council having allowed the plea of exemption from serving the office of Sheriff of Suffolk for the ensuing year to William Mills, Esq., he has signified his intention of presenting the sum of £4OO to each of the county hospitals at Bury and Ipswich. On the 25th ult. a cook in the service of a gentleman at Taunton was poisoned by taking two ounces of " black drop," which her fellow-servant had procured from a drug gist. The servant was directed to get that quantity of " black draught," but made a mistake in delivering her message. John Snowden, who lost his watch upon the moors of Northumberland, in the year 1836, found it again last week, and after winding it up it resumed its movements, and has since kept time with great regularity, although it had lain nine years exposed to the winter's pelting storms and the scorching rays of the summer's sue. Mr. Justice Coleridge, during a recent trial at the Cen tral Criminal Court, made the following remark :—" It seems to me to become the practice that the moment a person is presented in a witness-box, he is to be treated as though he were tied to a stake, to be baited by every one. Such shall not be the case where I preside." Three houses, in the course of erection and nearly com pleted, in Cavendish-place, Wandsworth-road, London, fell to the ground on Tuesday night last, and Oliver Car roll, aged 20. the son of the builder of the houses, was killed by the fall. Several workmen and a brother of the unfortunate deceased, had narrow escapes. At a Mint prosecution last week, Mr. Powell, the Mint solicitor, detailed several instances wherein parties charged with " smashing" had swallowed both good and count r feit coins, and from which the delinquents paid the penalty of their lives. In one case four half crowns were found in a man's stomach. A boy named Nicholson was killed in a mill at Keigh ley, last week. He had been ordered by an overlooker to hold a belt while he put it on the pulley. The belt twisted round the shaft, which drew the lad up and down forty to fifty times before the machinery could be stm.ped. He died the same night. RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD. On Wednesday the bakers of the east end of the metropolis increased the price of the best bread from 81d. to 9Ad. per 41b. loaf; seconds ditto, 7d. to Bd. On the Surrey side of the river the price of the best is from 9d. to 10d.; seconds from 71d. to 84d. for the 41b. loaf. Messrs. Deighton, of Cambridge, have withdrawn their names as publishers of the Oxford and Cambridge Re view, and it is stated that, had not the exposure been made of the article which appeared therein, written by a Papist, though a Protestant publication, Mr. Ward was engaged to contribute an article for the number. QUEER MISTAKE.—There was one of the largest con gregations ever known at a village church, not twenty miles from Ipswich, a short time since, during a visit of Sir Robert Peel at the seat of a gentleman in the parish. The rural population went with the full expectation of hearing the Premier preach, having been informed that he was the first minister. The case of the Queen v. Serva and others, for murder and piracy on board the Feliciade and the Echo, was argued before the judges on Wednesday. Their lordships have not yet given their decision, but it is understood by the bar that it will be that the finding was bad, and that consequently all the ruffianly murderers will be dis charged. A meeting at Gateshead, yesterday week, called by the Mayor, turned out a complete failure. The Newcastle Advertiser, a free-trade paper, says the attendance was extremely limited. There was very little speaking, the same print attributing the want of animation in the pro ceedings " to an unwillingaess to argue a question already settled, so far as reason is concerned." FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, as Mr. Lewis, of Maldon, was riding on horseback, accompanied by his man, be was overtaken near Orsett, on the road to Brentwood, by a farmer named Stephens, whose horse was running away with him, and came in contact with that upon which Mr. Lewis's man was mounted. Such was the violence of the collision that the man was thrown from his seat, but fortunately he escaped unhurt. Mr. Stephens was also precipitated to the ground, and his horse lolled over him. He was much injured upon the hip, and greatly bruised. The poor animals fella sacrifice to the casualty, the one rode by Mr. Lewis's man expiring, from the effects of the shock, in about five minutes ; and Mr. Stephens's being so much injured that its sufferings were necessarily put an end to with the knife half an hour after the occurrence. HORRIBLE OUTRAGE NEAR LLANYMYNECH. — We recently gave an acc.unt of the horrible treatment which ayoung girl named Elizabeth Rider had received from her mother, who, probably in a fit of madness, rushed upon her and beat her with such brutal violence that her life is not, even now, considered out of danger. On Fri day week the prisoner was brought before a bench of ma gistrates, and her daughter, who was in a most deplorable condition, was accompanied by the surgeon and nurse. On being carried into court weak wine and water was or dered for her, and shortly afterwards the miserable look ing prisoner took her place at the bar, not at all concerned at her awful situation. She stated that she locked the door to prevent her mother from wandering, when the old woman flew upon her, tried to strangle her, and, not succeeding in this, tore the hair from her head, beat her first with a broom-stick, and next with a bottle till she broke it; she poured boiling water over her from the kettle, and then seizing a potato-masher, and subse quently a rolling pin, beat her about the head and face with them till she was nearly insensible. The prisoner is then supposed to have made use of the billhook, for the poor girl resumed her evidence by saying, " I held on the broom hook with one hand, when my mother could only work with the point at my head ; I was not then insensi ble, for I quite recollect my mother working at me till I was covered with blood ; the blood ran from my head down into my mouth, and almost smothered me." To a question as to whether the mother, when using the roll ing- pin, did also strike with the billhook, witness said, " I suppose that after she beat me a good while with the rolling-pin, she must have taken up the broomhook when I had lost my senses ; 1 strove against my mother and kept the hook from me as long as I could ; the blood was after I was struck with the rolling-pin ; I was insensible for a little while and then came to myself again, and was again insensible; when 1 came a bit to myself my mother was lugging me into the pantry ; she had hold of my two arms, and my head was against her body ; I think she did not lug me long by my arms, but that she pushed me by my legs ; does not know how far into the pantry ; I was then somewhat sensible; as she saw I was not dead she began to beat me about the head with the heel of an old shoe, saying, You're a tough 'un, but I'll finish you!'— (Great sensation.) The shoe was an old one of my own, and had nails in the heels; after that she fetched the broom, and began to purin me about my legs and thighs with the stail." The remainder of the evidence is unfit for publication. It made all who heard it shudder. The young woman does not consider her mother to have been in her senses. Other witnesses having been examined, the prisoner was committed to Shrewsbury gaol, to await her trial at the next assizes. Last week, at the Court of King's Bench, Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel, who pleaded guilty to four in formations, charging him with writing letters to parties having the patronage of offices in the East India Com pany's service, inducing them, by promises of a corrupt consideration to themselves and wives, to exert their in fluence to obtain him an office, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment. . SUICIDES.—We gave last week the particulars of a melancholy suicide at Huddersfield. Since that unhappy event we regret to say that a rumour prevailed, that on Friday or Saturday last, two other attempts at self-de struction have occurred there, the one of a professional gentleman, the other of a most respectable tradesman, both, it is alleged, from railway speculations. Happily, both attempts were frustrated. WHAT NEXT ?—The servants in the post-office depart ment may well complain of being overburdened with em ployment in these cheap transit days. On the 25th ult. a grindstone of rather unusual dimensions was sent through the post, from the quarry of Mr. Deighton, Stockeld, near Wetberby, Yorkshire, to a respectable firm, carrying on business as spindle-makers, at Burnley, in Lancashire, a distance, by the mail-route, of more than 50 miles.—York Courant. On Monday, a communication was made to the town council of Doncaster by E. Denison, Esq., M.P., ex pressive of the wish of his Grace the Archbishop of York to give the sum of £5OO, if that amount could be met by an adequate sum on the part of the council and the inha bitants of the borough; to raise an annuity for the vicar of the parish. in order that the annual Christmas collection made for that reverend gentleman may b.: rendered unne- cessary. On Sunday, Miss Francis Heath, aged 50 years, of remarkably strange habits and weak intellect, died from the effects of injuries received on the 28th of September last. On that day she precipitated herself from one of the windows, and in her descent fell on several iron spikes, which entered her head, causing an extensive laceration of the scalp and concussion of the brain. On being questioned as to what induced her to jump out of the window, she said, " The devil came and rang the bell three times." At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, in the course of trials for passing bad money, it was elicited that in order to detect this description of offenders, the police assume various disguises, such as cobblers*, itinerant green-grocers, and costermongers. The Recorder in quired whether the practice was permitted by the Com naissimers of Police. The answer was, that it was. The persons so disguised did not belong to the body called " the detective force," but were entered on the " plain clothes" list. The choice of disguise was left to their own discretion. German sheet glass of very large size may be delivered in London at 4d. per foot, of sixteen ounces on an ave rage ; and Belgian glass of the quality of the best English " crown," of similar sizes, at 31131. a foot, provided pur chasers take the boxes in the rough, as they are received, and cut their squares for themselves. Such glass has been used, of both qualities, in a greenhouse lately con structed in the garden of the Horticultural Society at Turnham Green, where every one can see it who procures admission from a Fellow of the Society. This price will be reduced by three farthings a pound in October, 1846. —Gardeners' Chronicle. WILL OF EARL SPENCER.—The will of the late Right Hon. John Charles, Earl Spencer, has been proved by his brother, the present earl, the sole executor. The per sonal estate within the province of Canterbury was sworn under £160,000. His lordship has devised and appointed all his manors, &c , freehold, copyhold, or leasehold, in the counties of Nottingham, Lincoln, and York, to his brother, the present earl, (heretofore the Hon. Frederick Spencer,) subject to and chargeable with the payment of the legacies and annuities, and in exoneration of any mortgages or other incumbrances. He has left to the Rev. Christopher Nevill, and to his brother, George Nevill, Esq., £lO,OOO each. GALLOPING MATCH AGAINST TIME.—Ors Thursday afternoon a galloping match against time, for a stake of £lOO, came off on Sunbury Common, Mr. Cannon, a farmer, of Maidenhead, having backed his horse, nine years old, and a little more than 15 hands high, to gallop 20 miles within the hour. The distance gone over was five miles out and five miles in. The first ten miles were run in a shade over half an hour, which appeared to the knowing ones (and those supposed to be in the secret) to be anything but winning. The result was that the horse lost the match by 1 minute and 35 seconds. The horse, throughout the 20 miles and up to the finish, appeared to be not in the least distressed. ANOTHER MURDER IN LONDON.—Martha Browning, a young woman, apparently about twenty-five years of age, is in custody in London, charged with the murder of Elizabeth Mundell, an elderly woman, with whom she re sided. It appears that shouts of Murder" were heard proceeding from the room in which the deceased resided, that the prisoner was in the room at the time, and that the body was afterwards found at the back of the door, with a cord, as thick as a finger, twice round the neck, the knot being tied on the right side. The prisoner, when taken to the siation said, " I did it; I did it ; Lord have mercy on me." On Wednesday, the case was par tially heard, and adjourned till Monday, in consequence of the state of the prisoner, who remained in a senseless condition in the dock during the proceedings. POLITICAL RUMOURS.—A variety of rumours have been current in political circles with respect to the move ments and intentions of the ministry. It is confidently said that at the cabinet council on 'Wednesday, Sir Robt. Peel intimated that if his colleagues refused to support a proposition for the total and immediate repeal of the corn laws, he should feel it necessary to resign office. This intimation is said to have overcome the opposition of the Duke of Wellington, who, at length, gave his reluctant assent to the Premier's proposition. It is said that the resolution of the majority of the cabinet is likely to lead to the resignation of at least three of its members—Lords Wharncliffe, Stanley, and Ripon. The name of Lord Haddington has also been mentioned as one of the pro bable seceders.—Morniny Chronicle. '1 HE NATIONAL CLUB.—A general statement of the objects of this important Association has been published. The objects are, to maintain the Protestant principles of the Cons itution in the administration of public affairs. To uphold a system of National Education based on Scripture and conducted by the ministers of religion. To preserve the Church of England and Ireland in its truth and integrity. To use every effort that the govern ment of Ireland may be conducted according to the principles of the British Constitution ; and for the esta blishment, in Ireland, of civil and religious liberty. To communicate with all who hold these principles, and to diffuse them, by forming Local Associations for these purposes, and by presenting in the metropolis a central place, where all who hold the same views may meet, and may devise the fittest means of promoting their common end. The Duke of Manchester is the chairman, and amongst the vice-chairmen are the Dukes of Marlborough and Newcastle, the Marquis of Downsbire, Earls Cherie vine, Erne, Mountcashel. Roden, and Winchelsea, Lords Hill, Lorton, O'Neill, Kenyon, &c. The committee consists of first-rate protestant gentlemen, comprising twenty members of parliament. The annual subscription to the Club is five gunieas except in the case of clergymen who are to pay one guinea. MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Saturday night week, as two men were going over the new iron bridge at Laverstock, near Salisbury, they heard distant groans, but the night being stormy they were long before they could ascertain the precise spot whence the sound pro ceeded. Having gone a little further, they came to a water-carriage, which they crossed, when they heard the voice of a woman, who was struggling in the stream, very nearly breast high. Owing to the darkness of the night, it was a considerable time before they could ascertain the identical spot where she was; but, at last succeeding, they plunged into the stream, and, with great difficulty, owing to the depth of the mud, rescued her from her perilous situation. When taken out, she was entirely un conscious how she came there. The men, with some considerable trouble, then conveyed her across the water carriages into the main road, thence to the police-station at Salisbury. By this time she was a little revived, and could say her name was Maria Wheatley, of Wilton ; but, she added, that how she came into the river she could not tell. She must, she supposed, have lost her way going home to Wilton from Salisbury, whereas Laver stock lies quite in the opposite direction. She was then conveyed from the police-station to Bugmore Hospital, where she received every attention. The next morning, the unhappy woman seemed quite recovered, and very anxious to quit her new lodging, and actually put on her wet clothes and made her escape. Had she fallen in higher up the stream and then been washed down under the bridge to the spot where found, she must have been drowned, and how she could cross the water-carriage seems still a greater mystery. It has been ascertained that she is in the employ of, a respectable tradesman of Salisbury, and has, by some heartless villain, been seduced. EARL STANHOPE AND THE CORN LAWS.—Lord Stanhope having been invited to attend the dinner of the Cambridgeshire farmers, in January next, has declined the honour, and, in a letter to Mr. Twiss, the secretary, says,—" The free trade policy of the present Ministers, who would never have been restored to power if their new corn laws and their new tariff had been expected by those who supported them at the last general election—the base and treacherous and unprincipled conduct of so many of their adherents, who, by an utter disregard of their pro mises and professions, have covered themselves with inde lible disgrace, and justly incurred the hatred and contempt of their fellow-citizens—the indefatigable exertions and reckless attempts which are made by some enemies of the corn laws, and the culpable supineness of the agricultural community, which seems at present to be quite benumbed and paralyzed—all these circumstances concur in placing this country in a state of the utmost danger, from which it could be rescued only by that which I have so often, but so ineffectually, recommended—by energy and union. Patriotism and public spirit appear to be almost extinct. I am aware that in some parts of the country there are farmers who, without being misled by the misrepresenta tions and falsehoods of their enemies, began to view with indifference a repeal of the corn laws, as they suppose that it is inevitable, and that it would be ess injurious to them if it were immediate, than it would be after their capital had been entirely exhausted. If, indeed, that measure is to be considered inevitable, from the zeal and perseverance of those who oppose corn-laws, and from the lamentable torpor of those who ought to support them, I do not, like Lord Ashley, wish or seek any compromise, in order, as he expresses it, ` to break the force of an inevitable blow.' On the contrary, if free-trade is to be applied with respect to corn, the same principle must also be applied with re spect to all other articles of general consumption, and to all the other products cf British industry, and in such a case let the repeal of all protective duties be immediate and entire. Under such circumstances, I say again, as I did in the House of Lords, I throw down the gauntlet, and dare you to the attempt.' The effect would be so vio lent and so sudden, that even those who are the most su pine would be compelled to act, that even those who are the most prejudiced would be convinced, and there would probably be produced a ' pressure from without' which no government would be able to resist." Dec. 9, 1846. -------- c —thef 1- GUANO IN THE ISLANDS OF THE RED ...,EA. --- °— lowing is an extract from a letter written by Cata.trt Withers, of the Colchester, at Aden, oth November .---re " During our passage down the Red Sea we were raao., fortunate than in going up, as we discovered three isl od e with guano on. The quality is more like the South Aro,7 rican than that from Ichaboe. The quantity, however , !: i small, say from twenty to thirty tons on each ar e from a nd it ei scattered on the summits of the islands which 400 to 500 feet high, and, as the trouble of collecting would be so great, we left it. A small sc hooner we,„," 1 . 1- amining these islands. We examined fro m 200 to 3 1 N 5- lands in all. DESECRATION OF THE SABBATH.—The s tir of age nts, all but belated with their plans, made last Sunday any' the country. The offices of clerks of the thing but a day of rest or devout observance throuooll‘ doors of the Board of Trade were stormed by. breathless depositors till the stroke of midnight. Frantc " stand' ing-order missionaries" from H arwich, driving tiP 1 minutes afterwards—mis-carried, alas ! by blundering about post-boys, "who drive for an hour and a half Pimlico" (so says the tale), seeking the office in vain l have to besiege its inexorable doors, and " fling their Plr, b s into the lobby,"—" breaking the Passage larnp"--wit• in their no effect but that of having them flung back again d four doleful faces ! In Worcester, "so many coaches an have never been seen in one day before"—not even in race and festival weeks. " Dire was the tossing', on every road, and in some instances, it may be feared, .t,deep. '---or groans" were not wanting, nor cases of " despair , forlorn agents arriving too late, after all ! On the Great had Western line, the haste to overtake " spare minutes" f nearly led to a tragedy dark enough to fill the cour ts o Gray's Inn and the purlieus of Chancery Lane with in: consolable mourning. A squadron of " solicitors to son* of the projected lines" had borrowed the wings of an i " other, "which had started with several legal press, which unhappily broke down at Alaidenhead• in peace anct the this disahlt d condition the engine was charged 139 a n gen tletaee Cor n : connected with the Great Western and E xeter panies," and the carriage with the learned freight vcl" dashed to pieces, as might have been expected ; tune which keeps watch over the men of law having the fe r i le t the passengers off with no worse harm than " the fright and a few bruises"—a better fate, indeed, than wig have been feared. —Railway Chronicle. CORRftSPONDENCE. • TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARThbe SIR,—You will, I trust, permit a far-off strange' . t° at tri heard, for as short a space as possible, from ben, atb Y° o STANDARD. In times of poltical and religious " s_f and contention," a word, or phrase, becomes a sort u, leader, or chieftain, for a troop of motives, interests, 0 f their results, that are held to be legitimate follower s king, or priest, or statesman or confederacy. Thus tell; a re whig, radical, (to say nothing of clubs and leag ues,) terms that imply or carry " a tail." So Romanist, evan" gelical, dissenter, are words that bear each " their own burden." The secular, or sacred names and interel; represented by these, may oppose, or coquet with, ea° other, or amalgamate ;—and after all this course of definite indefiniteness, the true and divine meaning b e I selected, or, rather, revealed names and phrase s, 11,0 to be recognised, and legitimatised, in the face of friendss and foes. " CHRISTIAN UNITY" is one of the se mottq or terms of gathering. ECCLESIA—the Church —is 01351/; ously anothr and firstborn. "Anti-Church and Sta" Society" is another. To this latter I will not here au- vert. In your correspondence between Mr. Baylee and i lr. Brown, we seethe present antagonism of mottos or worn!. Both these gentlemen are doing, as I trust ,—for tbetr own sakes and for ours, — good service to our conira° faith. I hope, vet, that the war of principles now W I°eil cially and happily begun, and so rapidly spreading/ 1 end—so my faith firmly anticipates—in " peace on earl lltt and GLORY IN THE HIGHEST." This. I trust,, Wi t ! 1 .,t least be its primary, if not perpetual result. " Staci e. unto the day is the evil thereof." I see, or think r esent ee; far off and enduring peacefulnesses, as well a s a p and progressing quietudes. The " true church, s wr, i i te i , Mr. Brown in his last letter, (quoting Mr. Bayl ee,) made up of all really-converted persons." T his is 11 ia „'" the saying of Mr. Baylee only. It is that of ultra n centers also, who deprecate and deny all centralisatioa and visible concretion, except after their own expedienell fashion.* So far, indeed, do some of these (BaP tists known to me) carry this mania of individuality , sePate,i tion, and false freedom, as to say — in plain black an' white—that " Never I—perhaps not in heaven iiself", will the church arrive " at that much-to-be-haled-u"n:4, state when Christians shall in all respects be one. B " these really-converted persons," Mr. Brown proceed' to say for himself and Mr. Baylee, " shall live toileihtesr‘, in heaven." That, too, I doubt not, is admitted u. 7 churchmen, and dissenters, and conciliators of all shade s and degrees. But, whilst we thus advance, we 51 03°5 recede, and are no nearer definite unity. Mr. B rown " infers"—he might, I think, with equal certain t y ha ! e assumed as conceded this also, namely " that theY ought to act together in promoting Christ's cause olcii earth." Thus far, then, our standards app roach/ f ar % " though clouds and darkness" are yet upon us, " well"! But, Mr. Brown adds, " they ought to thusad together by" some such organisation, or through " SO O Stich means," as the " EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE._ Here we stop, not because I oppose the saying, but It' claim words of exposition and caution. Mr. Editor: this " some such means" must , as a matter of cause all effect, sooner or later result in justifying M r. Baylee 5 statement, viz., that the present question of Christian, unity ultimately resolves itself into the very praeliCaii inquiry, " What is [or, may I insert, what ought to be ?..t the visible constitution of the true church"—the true Ecclesia—of God? Now, so far as the recorded resolu tions of the Liverpool Conference describe—or are to 11 taken even as temporarily describing—the principles and limitations, the doctrines, or pretensions, or organiza tions, that ought to give visible locality (or, to use a word of more extended yet more impalpable signifi cation —territorialise) to " the true church. ' Mr. Brown s definition on the part of the Conference, as well as his former one. namely,—" That the true church is termed the body of Christ. That body is made up o f all be' lievers—all really-converted persons, of all denowlin e ,7 tions, now in heaven, or on earth, or who vet shall exist:, —would, to use Mr. Baylee's words, " be sadly inappli cable." There is some flowery and ambiguous language toward the conclusion of Mr. Brown's last letter (that of the 17th instant), which I now pass, in common with a with titude of other matters of ob/ervation associating tO this " Christian Unity " correspondence. It is do e him, however, to observe, that Mr. Baylee's last let ter is not equal to his former one in its evidences of a disl' o sition to " bury our di f ferences," as is so distinctly su„F i ° , gested by Mr. Brown. Mr. Baylee, in his letter of aw October, seemed desirous to draw near to the Conferen ce ' on their admitting, or avowing , as the present basis,°, progressive unity first, " Unconditional Election ' second, " The Baptism of Infants"; third, The e n ; dowment of the Church by the State." Thesethr,,e points of possible union—infinitely important po!ntS (for such they are when considered in their admitted re; lations)—are extended by Mr. Baylee's last lett er (th e , of the Ist November) ,to fourteen heads of practical e; aration,—two, or at most three of which — viz. , the fi rs s nd fourth of doctrines, and the first in discipline, would have embraced every truth of doctrine, and of 1 1 '2 now in agitation amongst men, or ever to be legitimateY. agitated amongst them, to the consummation of all thing s ', Here, therefore, I venture to remind the friends of li i ° l ` ; , conciliation, wherever found, that they, and the' once," must proceed much further in the way of sinnYrd reliance upon GOD'S revealed and written word, h ef° o t we laymen (unordained, unministering men) can copse „. to bury ourselves, or our unsurrendering con victio n l The true place " to bury strangers in"—i.e., our severe, evil imaginations and pretensions—is not yet, as opened, or consecrated, by the repentances, and defit° acknowledgments, of reforming, and " gathered togeto ther," and redeemed men. We trust, however, 5° iv speak, " the dry land" of the " new creation" is divi ne /s ordered " to appear," and that it waits not for n' d. disabediences of any kind for permission to be manifesteof This hope is best expressed in the beautiful langnag e ,,„it the prophet Micah :—" And the remnant of Jacub be in the midst of many people as a dew from the La i ]. as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for o' 4 nor waiteth for the sons of men." Amen, and Acne nog I find that I have already gone beyond the limit of own intentions, and more possibly also of your conve:i, believ.tee ence. I bad designed especially to urge " forward" oes ling movements, on the ground of common del in g nE of before God, of all legal forms and conventional waY,s_iog men. With reference, particularly, to the succurnueo of dissenting pretensions, (for churchmen, not towith ET the of dissenters, seem to deal faithfully enough e a Apostolic claims of their own brethren,) I had de sie he 'o aver, that, if obnoxious terms, however tru e, are to,rar used by dissenters, they must not be surprised if siidmlthe terms are applied to themselves, by those who 1 10 - - wa y true CHURCH and STATE " idea,' h owever these o f admit, in conference with faithful and forgiving reenent every name, that that idea, in its practical developeretioo hitherto, has been fearfully productive of prestos! ta te and suffering. But, Mr. Editor, if high chu rch an.".,„5 doctrines and courses are presumptuous absolutiss'es e° Crosby-hall anti-church and state doctrines and Ime are presumptuous atheism. If the " adulterer al' state whore" are terms that apply to unholy church anu d, of legalities, the lewd promiscuousness of the drunka r ,, 3 01 Ephraim are terms not less applicable to anti-chores that state conventionalisms. This is the sort of languagetiam events may force into use. Mr. Brown's suggesoual and that of the Conference perhaps, to bu r y the tttiliogs/ manifestations of a fallen nature with forgotten tivcoaid is. surely, not more necessary than wise, if we J esus spend the rest of our days " as those that are a live j es os the dead," waiting for the coming of our I.orun Christ in the " manifestation of the SONS or LIO'" II Thess. 2. st bu t te ° I much desired to edd some extract!, short, and appropriate, from Mr. Gladstone's work on eburctor Of state relations. One extract from Mr. Yorke (it'd pro- Shenfield, Essex) I must transcribe. He b ails th., the posed alliance. He thinks that the times requ ire, ‘ ( ears . part of faithful Chri , tians. a step in advance —ti ° ides of tion to 'the effect, that, " although the prinaP„ ie tion Christianity, direct and indirect, enjoin the constr . ,' „ro of a suitable organisation, nisation has the authority of prescription"-7-be str too to my mind, adds—" nor is it an ii.tegral part s a-f i 3 O iibe" yet no svEtclPic mode ' ll tianity itself." This may be expedient. It i rat. It is not the " idea," or hope, of a true rrt. tr i 29th Nov., 1845. ISRAFIJ" -- --- d Ste le * This was significantly set out at the Anti-Church an_ ,los , Soiree, lately held in London, (see Nonconformist, 26tly-cop, inst.,) where all the ultra dissenting D.D.s appear to our „fest• our own : who is Lord over us ?"—but where, it was F i s " en ting the practical difficulty felt was that of bringing the d ; i n s c iple u i ,,, s liberals into " ORGAN ISATILN." All the absolute pr.- thin O' almost in all instances overthrown by treachery wi its ovo Icamp. So will or does the popular principle find, in unrestrained professors, its own discomfiture.