The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA The mail steam-ship Acadia arrived in the river on Tuesday morning. She brought New York papers to the 28th ultimo, and Boston to the 29th ; the news in the latter is unimportant. The session of the Thirtieth Congress would begin on "Monday, the 4th December. The most important of the measures for the considera tion of Congress, is the establishment of territorial juris diction over the newly acquired territory of New Mexico and California. And another important subject is await ing legislative action—the foreign and domestic postage system. According to present appearances (says the New York Herald), the obstacles placed in the way of a free postal intercommunication with England by the pas sage of the retaliatory postage law, are in a fair way of being adjusted by negociation between the English minis try and the American minister. Doubts are entertained as to whether General Taylor has yet made up his mind on the particular measures and policy of his administration. One thing, however, is highly probable—that both moderate men and moderate measures will be in the ascendant, and that the mere par tisans of any faction will have little influence in that quarter. An effort is about to be made to grow tea in the States of Georgia and Alabama. it is said that Forrest has lowered himself much in the public estimation by the course which .he has pursued in his quarrel with Macready. sea coast at Salt Key, or Creag, belonging to Capt. Shep pard, GOvernor of San Juan. - The previous reports of the gold mines of California are confirmed. The celebrated Mormon Temple, in Nauvoo, has been entirely destroyed by an incendiary fire. No effort was made to stop the progress of the flames. The magnificent structure was erected at an expense of 200,000 dollars. Nothing now remains but the blackened wall. NEW COMET.—On Saturday evening, the 25th Nov., at Oh. 30m., a telescopic comet was discovered at the Observatory, Cambridge, United States, America, by Mr. G. P. Bond, the director. It is situated in the constella tion Cygnus. Its motion is towards the south. THE DIVORCE CASE OF MRS. KEMB Butler has commenced an action tier divorce in II; Court of Philadelphia, against Frances Kemble Butler, which was part heard on the 27th ult. The allegation is, that she has absented herself from her husband's house and Lome without lawful cause for upward of two years, - which, by the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, is a reasonable cause for divorce. No infidelity on her part is alleged. HAYTI AGAIN IN TROUBLE.—The President of this unsettled country has issued a proclamation informing the people of Hayti that it is his intention to send an army against the Spanish part of the island, for the purpose of subjecting it to his rule, and on the 13th ult. an expedi :tion was fitting out to proceed at once to the southward. LIST OF PASSENGERS.—From Boston : Mr. H. Witte, Mr. A. Cuvillier, Mr. J. H. Asgood, Capt. Grange, Mr. J: Potter. Mr. J. Astor, Mr. P. Kerman, Mr. J. Brodie, Mr. S. Vonchond, Mr. F. Furnival. From Halifax : Mr. Finlay. NEW YORK, MONDAY, Nov. 27, 6 P.M. The stock market opened heavy this morning, and quotations for several of the fancies fell off a fraction. The demand for without any change in rite (inn at Al to Q 3 nor non+ nrg We quote the best bills Amsterdam Hamburg:, 35i to 35i ;'Bremen - ja so 761. ine amount or spec►e exported trom this port, from the 3►l to the 27th instant, was <8'274,142; previously this year, .$10,043,815 ; making a total of $10,317,957 from January 1 to Nov ember 27, 1848. BREADSTUFFS.—r iv... about 6 a 7000 barrels, including,' 4 Oswego, at about $5 37i, with some l( 45 44. About 1,003 bbls )t 561; 400 do. Troy, at ) ..7 s in the aggregate reached 5,000 bbls. this State and straight brands do. at pure Genesee at .85 44 a $5 50-545- do. Genesee (fanc a $5 68i sold at £5 ( brands. Sal 'here was no change in Southern Ohio, baker's brands, were made nit 40 a reached _ private terms, 3 a 4,960 old round yellow, at 7_ 20,000 bushels old and new Southern and Western whit.... mixed, the latter at GI a 62ic., and the former at 66 a , 2,500 do. old mixed, on private terms, and 1,000 Southern mixed, on private terms, and 10,060 high mixed at 66c., and 6.000 New Veirk vallnwir sat AOl., at _ t $3 12 lots at 62 to 6.2 260 barrels of New Jersey were mad The sales reached about 6000 bushels, in I a small lot of 800 bushels at market. Rye Floi_. Barley —Sales of 3000 cargo were made at 34 to 35( ales of 100 barrels were made at steels were made at G4c. Oats— lusbels corn were at 70. A vessel was chartered for Belfast, - tri load with corn at 9d. in bulk, and flour at 2s. Ed. To Liverpool, 6,000 bbls, - flour were engaged in a transient vessel at 25., and corn, it bags and bulk, at 2s. A vessel was chartered for Cork and - market, to load in Baltimore with corn, at 9s. in hulk ; 10,00( bushels corn were P , --- - - _ c, c engaged for Glasgow, in bulk, at Bd. COTTON MARKET.—The tendency of prices to favour the seller have been as uninterruptedly uniform since the 14th inst. as they were the preceding fortnight to favour the buyer. The sales to-day arc reported at 500 bales. Prices not quite so stiff, although no actual decline has been announced. Closing quo tations : LIVERPCOL CLASSIFICATION Uplands N. Orleans, Ma Florida. bile& Texas. none none Inferior Ordinary Middling Good middling Riddling fair 6 a 61 6i a 6i Fully fair NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 25, 1848. - -sales of 2,000 bls. Sales The cotton market continues of the week reach 22.000 bales. zi 75; the sales are 3,000 bbls.; corn is dull and prices less firm; sales of 15,C00 bushels at 48c. for mixed, and 53c. for yellow; mess pork has advanced, an d now com mands $lO5O. Of lard there were sales of 120 kegs at Oc. Sales of 310 Ws. molasses at 20c. In freights and sterling ex hange we have no change to notice. , Nov. 28. FLoun.—The general operations have been BOSTON to meet the usual trade demand, Genesee .s 5 75 to $5 87, and Michigan and simi lar descriptions, 45 62 to 45 75 per bbl. GRAIN. —The sales indicate less firmness in prices. with rP.. All I,CO, t e ceipts greater than the d eman d. Yellow flat Corn, new, 63c and old 67c, white 63c to 64c per bu; other grains the same a previously reported. ALBANY, Nov. 27, 1848. Receipts by canal since Saturday—Flcu: 28,000 bbls. ; whe a t, 2,600 bushels ; cor n , 3,500 d o. ; barley, I ' l,ooo do. 'I he flour market is dull, while quotations remain about the same; sales of 2,500 bushels of rye at 60c. Of barley there were sales of 9,000 bushels at 61 a 66c., according to quality. In oats we notice sales of 6,000 bushels at 33 a 34c. A lot of 100 Mils. ken at private bargain There were alarming riots at Memel on the 4th inst., the town being completely in the hands of the populace during four or five hours. Great excesses were committed. The French brig.of-war Pandour was wrecked in the River Plate during the month of Septenct-- - mearly all her crew unhappily perished. Prince Louis Napoleon is to ;- I Last, ark the Presidency by a general amnesty, from which will be, excepted, however, the prisoners at Vincennes, who are to be tried. No less than four hundred and five members of the National Assembly have been to inscribe their names at the residence of the new President of the Republic. People worship the rising sun in France as well as else- The Portuguese war steamer Mindelho, was despatched on the 10th inst. for Naples in search of the Pope, to offer him an asylum in Portugal, should he think fit to accept it. The Queen's Chamberlain, Count de Penafiel, is charged with the mission. Maffra is being prepared for his reception. AUSTRIA.—The accounts from various parts of the Austrian dominions testify the general approval of the people at the abdication of Ferdinand and the accession of Francis Joseph. The latter, it appears, wishes to act with much independence. The ^ young Emperor always appears in public - in military uniform, and also Cvl;en — lie gives audiences to deputations. Some Ruisian saints in the catacombs at Kiev, with their own hands built themselves into the niches of a •vw, .•••••••• IGIlialllTl 411,16 1.111 death, they one by one expired in the conviction probably that by this meritorious sacrifice they had entitled them selves to a place in heaven. Letters from Rome of the 4th inst. announce that on the 3d inst., one of the Cardinals remaining in Rot having received •i• • • v... um, vpc, uuuuuiug am the acts of the new Ministry, and commanding the dis solution of the Chambers, be communicated it to the Chamber of Deputies, who convoked an ext raor di nary meeting of that Assembly. The House met at midnight, and, after a discussion which lasted until morning, it was determined that the rescript of his Holiness should be iegarded as of no value, as it was not signed by any re. sponsible Minister. The Assembly resolved further, that His Holiness to pray him to return to Rome. A GALLANT YOUNG WOMAN.—A letter, dated Madras, 18th October, has been addressed to the editor of the Madras Spectator; by Captain Biden, detailing the in trepid conduct of a Miss Arnold. It appears that the Rainbow, from Southampton to Aden, arrived there on the 16th ult., Captain Arnold had di e d t en d a y s b e f ore, and the chief mate was incapacitated from drunkenness. The Captain's daughter, about 16 years of age, was on board. After her father's death the second mate made an attempt to entice the young lady to run away with the ship. She indignantly repelled his attempts, and though in deep grief for her bereavement she rushed on the quarter deck and made a public appeal to the crew as - British seamen—throwing herself upon their protection. They all, but two who had been led away by the second mate, said they would protect her, and intimated to the rest of the crew that if any one injured her they would throw him overboard. She then suggested as a further - means of safety that all the spirits should be thrown over. board, and they instantly did so. The young lady after wards slept and remained constantly on the quarter 0 - guarded by three faithful tars, and attended by P'" - female. She represented the ^^— ship, and the second mate and arrested and put in prison. Mist. educated and amiable young lady guest at Aden of C. - 'tamp "" e arrive Arnold, w•ho is a Wjll r, became the weleomi omas. 'The reains ber father, whi c h at her request . had been preserved in a of cask of spirits, were buried at Aden the day after the ship's ar rival. She bad always kept his accounts; the second mate navigated the ship, h u t severa l o f the crew knew the coarse to Aden, and watched his proceedings. ' American editor thu s l og i cally nudges his delinquent subscribers — We don't want money desperately bad, but our creditors do, and no doubt they owe you: , If you pay us, we'll pay them, and they'll PaY•YOU." . . Mr. Catlin states that one of the most violent causes of the Indian's hatred of white men is, that nearly every Indian crave is peened by them on the frontier. , for their or for the and trinkets him from ti day name of preserve I taining of the S 0( THE ( chant the IRELAND. --.-- The William Penn, steamer, arrived at Waterfcrd from Liverpool on Thursday. with fifty persons who had emi grated some short time since. Six human beings were last week found in a hut at Cross, Tipperary, who had subsisted for three days on tainted horie flesh. The grand jury of the city of Dublin have returned true bills against Mr. Duffy, for felonious articles in the Nation, and for the letter to Smith O'Brien, urging him to rebellion. The Dublin Freeman's Journal of Tuesday is in a towering rage, becausa Mr. Connellan, one of the Castle Secretaries, writing to the Very Rev. Dr. Spratt, ad dressed him simply as "Sir." A SIGNIFICANT HINT.—A human skull was deposited at the hall-door of Mr. Kemmis, the crown solicitor, in Kildare-street, on Friday night or Saturday morning, as a premonitory caution against " jury packing."—Dublin Herald. PRAYERS FOR THE POPE.---The Dublin Freeman's Journal says :—" We understand prayers are being of fered up, throughout the entire of Catholic Ireland, for the speedy deliverance of his Holiness Pope Pius IX. from all his enemies." Who are they ? PAUPERISM.—On Tuesday there were in the Cork Union Workhouse no fewer than 5,057 paupers, and those in a union the workhouse of which was originally built to con- There are now .....khouse, two other large and convenient auxiliary houses provided for the paupers. iruay night a man named John Hagarty, under driver in the Ballinrobe Union, on Lord Sligo's property, was brutally murdered within a short distance of the town of Hollymount. The deceased sold some oats in Hollymount, and was returning home when the barbarous attack was made upon him. There are already 1,500 applications for the professor ships of the new colleges in Ireland, and singularly enough there is not now living a single man who had taken a scholarship in Trinity College, Dublin, for the last fifteen years, save a few who have succeeded in their professions, who are not among the candidates. On the 16th November, William Allice, living near Clonmel. was going home when he was assailed near the village by four men, one of then, armed with a r-- with which their unfortunate victim was struck on the head ; he was then taken into a public-house not far off, but he expired on the 3d instant. The following melancholy narrative may well be classed among the dreary annals or the poor. A cottier tenant of five acres of land owes £2 odd poor _rates—his two cows are seized for the amount; he begs that one only may be taken—his manner is not very composed, and the bailiffs, believing there is mischief in his look, f a ll u p on an d kill • Such is the substance of the report, which is taken ' e Roscommon Messenger. ENGLAND'S CRUELTY TO IRELAND.—The rates actually collected at Westport in Ireland have been at the rate of 5(1. in the pound, per annum, on the estimated rental of the union, amounting to an aggregate of 2s. 4d. in the pound for the whole five years and a half; while, in the period of two years only, the sums brought in aid of the resources of the union by the British lecislature and British benevolence have amounted to upwards of 68s. in the pound on the valuation. Is not that enough to knock a man down? Three men, accused of a murder c o mm itt e d e i g h t months since, have been arrested in the Duharrow mnun- 3appy victim in this affair was a man named and, being overtaken _ by rain he directed 1 neighbouring house for shelter. This house was,' it ap pears, at the moment in the hands of a' party which had attacked it. Their sentinels warned him not to approach, but Devitt, not heeding the warning, went on, and was ahot dead as he entered the house. IN RE CONCILIATION-HALL, BANKRUPT.—The Cork Examiner, most probably itself a creditor of the wretched swindle on Burgh-quay, Dublin, has the following pathetic announcement :—" Conciliation Hall has offered that por r• . . . . _ ps the provincial press fares worse than the but these are the terms offered, and per the provincial proprietors." " How are mighty fallen !" iNenan, itchy, uabbons, and Corporal Mills, left the Ranalagh Harbour, near Athlone, about dusk, in a small boat. Unfortunately they had not proceeded far when the boat struck against an embankment made across the river by the contractors under the Shannon Commis sioners, in carrying on the navigation improvement, over- however, was saved, having clung to ssistance reached from the shore. The remaining party were drowned. nt Gibbons iat until iELANCHOLY DEATH OF Two CHILDREN.—On Fri- iron, a t two chi Irath, he being 14 rather and sister of the and she 16 years of age, were returning, between nine and ten o'clock at night, from Dergbridge market ; their way, for two miles, lay across the bleak mountains of Tiernan, where there was neither road nor dwelling. There, it seems, the storm and cold of that tempestuous night became too much for their physical powers. In the morning they were found dead by each other's side. The girl, on leaving home, 1 ad a shawl and small woollen handkerchief ; one of these was found wrapped round the brother's feet and legs, and the other round his head and neck, while his two hands were folded in her bosom ; she, it seems, was trying to Dublin Freeman's Journal. GOVERNMENT EMIGRANTS.—I saw at the North-wall a number of pauper female orphans from Cavan Union, nn 14..6 vsdravr 1.. —1- a • , vernment for Australia, and I was surprised at the neat, healthy, handsome, nay elegant appearance of these poor girls. The relieving officer and the matron informed me that the ages of the girls average from fifteen to eighteen years—that they can all read, and all write but two, some of them superiorly, both as to style and penmanship, and that in general they do most kinds of needlework. The impression left on my mind is, that they are quite accomplished young women ; and I must add that, enter- itherto law, Imust confess that it has some redeeming features. The girls, with others from Boyle, Loughrea, &c., in all above 100, sailed by the Duke of Cornwall at one o'clock on Saturday.—Correspondent of Saunder's News Letter. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.--At the Kilkee petty ses sions, whilst the magistrates were delivering their judg ment in a case of Curtin v. O'Donnell, Mr. Studdert, one conduct relative to the case, when aVoThe;;;g;;;;;7,7 Vandeleur, caught up the remark and said, " Do you mean to say that I acted unhandsomely, as you insinuated on former occasions ? If you do, 1 say your conduct is unhandsome and ungentlemanlike." He then rose from the bench. and rushed at Mr Stmlfi.v4- collared. A parted by M uggle ensued, until the belligerents were Little, by the chief of notice. and other They then add _ct each other in violent language, which is not reported. Colonel Vandeleur left the ronrt hilt tone 'on" mse 1.- T ..••••-•• • T UULII aus uruiuer JUSLICCS ior trielr undignified conduct. Both gentlemen seemed to feel the force of this reproof ; and, after an explanation on the part of each, shook hands and parted apparently onfriendly PROTESTANT AND ROMAN CATHOLIC JURORS.—The complainers about the rejection of Roman Catholic jurors from the state trials in Ireland, have ignored such particu lars as did not suit their end quite as freely as they pre tend the officials have shut out Roman Catholic jurors. They have totally omitted all allusion to the setting aside of Protestants, w that a foreigner- hether by the Crown or the accused, so and these documents are fabricated with I view to foreigne —might naturally imagine that this practice of challenging was an instrument of tyranny in the hands of the Crown, and not a constitutional gua rantee of fairness open to the accused, and used by him as freely as by the prosecutor. Much less have they allu ded to the fact that the Crown set aside very nearly twice as many Protestants as Roman Catholics, viz , of the for mer 71, and of the latter 37. On Mitchel's trial 42 ner- On O'Doherty's the Crown, of whom 3 were .holies. On his second trial, 1 3 Ro Roman Catholics. On his third trial, 22 by the Crown, of whom 16 were Protestants aside by the Crown, of whom 14 were Protestants and 6 Roman Catholics. Thus, on all the five trials, including the two which did not lead to conviction, there were, as we have said, 71 Protestants set aside and only 37 Roman Catholics. The memorialists have industriously suppres sed this fact; not because the Lord-Lieutenant knows it, but because others possibly do not. Such unfairness would be scandalous if it WPM not UNIVERSITY 4ND CLERICAL NEWS The Rev. Robert Brickel, 8.A., formerly perpetual curate of Shireshead, in this county, has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Manchester, to the Rectory of Hoole, near Preston, vacant by the decease of the Rev. Miles Barton. On Sunday week, whilst the Rev. Canon Parkinson was preaching in the Manchester Cathedral he was seized with an affction of the throat, and though water slightly relieved him, he was only able to pronounce the bene diction and dismiss the congregation. There has been a good deal of agitation at Plymouth in consequence of the mode in which-the Rev. G. R. Prynne, the minister of the new district church of St. Peter's, Eldad, performed the service. A letter has been made public from the Bishop of Exeter to the Rev. G. R. Pryr.ne, permitting his concessions to his parishioners re- specting the surplice and the chanting of the Litany, but refusing to advise him to take their " dictation" on the subject of a short prayer before the sermon,_. lONARY hoc - enn, for t the Chtirch Missionary society. The subsei church door 3 amounted to £5O 16: hpi Mnia:tv avid Priv 16014 In addition to this of XlOO. In the evening a meeting of the friends of the ociety took place at the house of Lord Wriothesley Rus sell, one of the canons of Windsor, at which resolutions 'e adopted for the effectual promotion of the interest at Windsor and Eton HDRAL AT BRISTOI —Considerable •exeite- ment was created at Bristol on Sunday, owing to the fol lowing circumstances :—lt appears that the Dean .and Chapter had recently come to a resolution to give up 1 ---.........., .••••• u•u• va,.......aaa taIG 1.-0.1.11U1a/.1, 4./LlLa .O au ~..., SA i•A111.,-.. stood that Sunday was the day when the new practice was to be attempted, and as-it was also intimated that one of identiary canon Ltion to J, . considering it his duty, ,there was a strong muster of the inhabitants determined to sup. port him by chanting the responses. The cathedral was crowded, but it appears that some compromise had been entered into. The Rev. Canon Sartis read the service without chanting, but the choristers appeared in their gowns and chanted the responses as usual. The inhabi tants generally are very averse to having this old custom abolished. EMIGRATION AS A CHURCH MOVEMENT. - Why should not the Church of England, which ought to be united in the holy cause of propagating the Gospel in every corner of the British empire, organise an association for assisting, wholly or in part, under rule and regulation, poor Church people of good character, to remove from a precarious competition for subsistence, which rages in many of our overpeopled districts and villages, to those more genial latitudes where industrious habits will not fail to ensure to themselves and their offspring, at no dis tant period, an honest and easy independence ? As it is, Churchmen do combine with members of other commu nions for the promotion of emigration. We see Lord Ashley and his friends urging on our Christian sympathy the claims of the " ragged." In another direction Lord Harrowby is at the head of a Society of kindred spirit; while the City Mission and its agent, Mr. Jackson, are at work among the convicted law-breakers. In all this, however, where is the poor Churchman and his children ? Who is considering the distressed of the "household of faith ?" THE REV. BAPTIST NOEL'S FAMILY.—Mr. Noel's grandfather was made First Lord of the Admiralty on the impeachment of Lord Melville in 1805, being then an aged man. We have been informed by an intimate friend of the family, that on accepting office, he stipulated that he should not be expected to attend any Sunday Cabinet dinner, or in any way to violate the Sabbath. He was created Lord Barham, and as he had only a daughter, the succession was extended to the female line, a favour which Lord Collingwood, who was similarly circumstanced, so licited in vain. His only daughter and successor, the Baroness Barham, was married to Sir Gerard Noel, for very many years M.P. for Rutlandshire, by whom she had several children, the present peer, created Earl of Gains borough by the Whigs, being the eldest. The marriage was not happy, Sir Gerard Noel being, according to the assertions of his lady's friends, a gay and even dissipated whilp Lady Barham qua a weak and fanatical zealot. They separated, and white Sir Gerard remained in Rut landshire, Lily Barham went to reside at Fairy Hill near Swansea. The childrei we believe without excep- tion, took part with their mother, and were educated by her and under her eye and direction. In W a l es , L a dy Barham occupied herself in buildinz and directing small meeting-houses in the several villages of Gower, a district west of Swansea. Her doctrine was th a t of th e Calvinis- tic Methodists, and her chief friends and advisers were ministers of that persuasion. She associated little, if at all, with the neighbouring country families. She com mitted the general management of her affairs to a person whom she advanced from being her footman to be the chief of her preachers, and the superintendent of all the rest. He built himself a handsome villa, and lived in af fluence. Her family had much reason to believe that this person was not worthy of her confidence, and they saw occasion to institute an unpleasant inquiry after her death. The dissenting education which Lady Barham's children received produced its effects. Her eldest son, the present Eat'', was once fined, under the Conventicle Act, for hold ing meetings for public worship at his mansion, we think, in Essex, a Dissenting preacher officiating. Mr. Baptist Noel's irregularities may be referred to the same course. —Cornwall Gazelle. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. riking a @metal :I+ltsrtlianv. -AS EAST INDIA WHEAT.—An arrival of 30 casks and 227 bags of wheat has taken place from Bombay. A Glasgow inventor has obtained a patent fora machine for cutting hides or leather into thongs, in such a manner that each hide may be converted into one continuous strip. Mr. J. Williams, M. P. for Macclesfield, has given £5OO towards supplying baths and wash-houses for the poor of that town. A female died a few days ago of cholera, at Hudders field. The place in which she lived was little better than a cesspool. A fishing boat, belonging to Portskerra, in Sutherland shire, was lost in a storm, on Tuesday week, and the eight men who formed her crew were all drowned. The electric light has egain beeu exhibited by Mr. Staite in London upon several occasions. A company is in formation for introducing the light into general use. As Mr. Wood, of Clayton-in-the-Clay, was on his way to Barnsley in a gig, to record his vote in favour of Mr. Denison. on Wednesday last, he had a fit and expired. Mr. Wood was between 70 and 80 years of are. Ayrshire was visited by a severe hail and thunder storm on Saturday last. A flock of crows sitting on a hedge were struck by the electric fluid, and sixty-two of them were killed. Sir E. K. Kerrison, says the Suffolk Chronicle, has this week sent to a friend in Eye a hare, a brace of pheasants, and a leash of birds, all packed within a turnip, which measures fifty-one inches in circumference. ' The news from Dumfries is sad indeed. Provost Chrighton, one or two of the medical gentlemen, and many of the principal inhabitants, have fallen by cholera spasmodica, in addition to others already reported. The report that Sir Charles Napier's squadron has been ordered to Tangier to call to account the Emperor of Mo rocco for the numerous acts of piracy perpetrated by his subjects has been contradicted. The infant child of two " latter-day saints " recently died of an abscess at Northampton, through the obstinate fanaticism of its parents, who refused to obtain medical attendance for their infant, on the ground that human aid in cases of sickness is not only useless but sinful. A few days since, a labourer. who was working in a field at Adwalton, Yorkshire, was gladdened by finding a purse containing 388 sixpences; but upon a closer exami nation of his treasure, his joy was damped by the dis sovery that all the coins were base. On Sunday morning week an affray took place in Kent between some poachers and keepers, when one of the. for- keeper _ with As gun, was s oreaking and exploding_ _. entered the poacher's body, and he fell lifeless_ The Droitwitch salt trade is at present in a state of great activity. The stock on hand three months ago of manufactured salt was about ten thousand tons, the whole of which has been cleared off, and all the works are em ployed in production to the full extent of their power. Fie contents - While an old gentleman named Nottage was at meeting on Sur.day morning last, at Saffron Walden, in Essex, some impudent thieves entered his house and stole £l7O. On retiring with their booty, they had the assurance to writein chalk, on the door, " Watch while you pray." The floods in the Trent have lately been so strong that the low lands bordering on the river have been over flowed in many places; and on Sunday a sloop laden with coal was sunk by the rising of the waters, which drowned a boy who was in his berth on board. In a Darlington lodging-house there is one room con taining nine beds. The charge per bed is threepence, whether it be occupied by one or two persons, or the lodgers sleep "as thick as three in a bed." One man pays threepence ; two pay three-halfpence, and three pay a penny each ! The tide rose to such a height in the Thames on Tues day afternoon, that the Essex, Woolwich, Wandsworth, and Battersea marshes were covered with water; and se veral streets in Lambeth were so deeply flooded, that it was necessary to use boats to ferry the inhabitants to and from their dwellings. Mr. William Underwood, farmer and grazier, of Lut terworth, was attacked in his own field the other day by a large ram of the Wiltshire breed, which knocked him down repeatedly—though he broke a gun with b ea ti ng it about the head—and would probably have killed him, had he not contrived to, blindfold the animal with his hand kerchief. On Friday night a quarrel took place among a company drinking in an inn at Badminton, and a fight ensued lie tween Elijah Hobbs, a carpenter, and James Watts, an as ___ sistant in the stable yard. Subsequently Watts was found dead in the yard, having received two mortal stabs on the left side, near the heart. Hobbs has been committed to gaol for the murder. A Dumfries paper mentions that, on Wednesday week, four workmen employed in blasting rock in the Drum lanrig railway tunnel, applied matches to four holes filled with gunpowder, and retreated to a place of safety, where they remained until they heard an explosion. They then returned, but one of the " bores." which had not taken fire with the others, suddenly exploded, mortally wounded one of them, and severely injured the other three. A Shrewsbury paper states that on Friday week, a ser vant girl, who was cleaning some kitchen utensils that hung over the chimney-piece in her master's kitchen, near St. Briavels, accidentally knocked a flask of gun powder from the peg on which it was suspended. The flask fell into the fire, and while she was attempting to snatch it from the flames the powder exploded, and so severely scorched her face and arms as to disfigure her for life, although she was not dangerously injured. On FridP - at a ..ay morning a daring burglary took place at farm-house, called Winfield, about seven miles from Bir mingham, when several men entered, and used great vio lence towards Mr. Thomas Sly, an old man seventy-eight years of a -‘. and his 1 -- -- ' the only inhabitants, to compel t '”•ok, ~tiem to be quiet. Having broken open one or two chests, they at last found the object of their search, a bag with five hundred sovereigns in it, the old man's hoardings, and made off with it. They have not since been heard of. BIBLE BuRNING.—The Roman Catholics of Birming ham have published an acknowledgment of this act, as follows :—" We, the Catholic clergy of Birmingham, having seen it stated in a letter from the Rev. Joshua Greaves, that one of our body had burnt a copy of the Protestant version of the New Testament, found in the house of a Catholic, have no hesitation at once to admit the fact ; but wish at the same time to add, that the act was regretted afterwards by the clergyman by whom it was done, and strongly disapproved of by his brother clergy, as soon as known "—&e. HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES.-Mr. Pen nigton, in his auction mart, on Saturday evening, offered for sale Hansard's Debates, but no person seemed inclined to purchase them. " Gentlemen," said he, " I'll sell them to you as a horse was sold the other day in England by the pound." The offer was accepted, and the debates were knocked down at lid. per pound. " What will they weigh, do you think ?" said the fortunate purchaser to the auctioneer. The reply, which created considerable merriment was—" One ton and a half, about £l5 will pay for them I" ATTEMPTED ROBBERY AND MURDER.—On the morn ing of Sunday week some thieves entered Brickendon bury Hall, near Hertford, the residence of Mr. Russell Ellis, the East India Director. Mr. Ellis and his friends had been out shooting on the day before, and being very successful, the larder at the hall was well stocked with game. The groom was armed, and saw one man watch ing, and another carrying off the contents of the larder. Instantly he heard a gun go off close to him, and felt the flash upon his face. He drew back, and heard the man say, " You disturbed us before, and we meant to give it you this time," upon which he went off. The groom wa3 not wounded, but a bullet was found imbedded 2i- inches deep in the door-post. Two men and two boys have been taken into custody on suspicion. Two CHILDREN BURNT.—On Monday, Edward and Mary Pritchard, the former five and the latter three years of age, children of labouring people residing in that parish, were left, during the absence of their parents at their daily employ, in the care of an elder sister, aged eight years. The whole were out of doors at play, and the lit tle girl asked permission to go in to warm herself, which was assented to. Shortly after, her cries were beard by her brother, who rushed in, followed by his eldest sister, who found her enveloped in flames. The whole, for want of knowing better, immediately ran out of doors, and the boy Edward, in assisting to extinguish the flames of his poor sister, lost his life, both, we understand, lingering for a short time only.—Herqford Journal. A DOG'S MAJORITY.—We have often had occasion to record pleasure parties, but we think we shall now throw all previous accounts into the shade. A good lady, whose favourite spaniel had attained the age of 21 years, gave (no matter when or where) a festival in honour of the event. She invited all the dogs of her friends and neigh hours to a good substantial supper, which, in chief, was nothing less than a boiled leg of mutton. She had them all placed on the table with a plate before each, and, if not sensible of the event, they did justice to .her bounty, and behaved with great decorum. We need not heighten the absurdity by enumerating all the viands of the feast ; but as something of a redeeming quality, she did not omit to invite the owners of the dogs to rejoice with her on so interesting an occasion.—Carlisle Chronicle. LOWERING A Housz.—A clever application of mecha nical power was made at Angleton last week. A silk ma nufactory was lowered a story in a few hours. The whole affair, which rivals the removal of houses in America, was thus performed, In the first place the operator made two inclined planes, with four long planks on the edge, sup ported by poles outside the buildings, and had waggons to slide down the bricks, &c., the full waggons to pull the empty ones up by means of a rope and pulley. He then lifted with long levers, alternately, the beams which sup ported the roof, and supported them with small blocks of wood, whilst he lowered the walls one course of bricks at a time, so that the roof was gradually and imperceptibly lowered about eight feet to the top of the third story, without the least accident occurring, or without the break ing of a single tile. WANT AND SUICIDE.—On Saturday Mrs. Emily Brown Staples, aged 50, widow of the late Captain Charles Sta ples, an old Peninsular officer, committed suicide at her lodgings in London. The deceased had become very much reduced hi circumstances, but was excessively proud in her poverty •, and latterly contrived to live by the ex ercise of her talents in drawing, painting, and millinery. She had fallen into a few week's arrears of rent ; the cir cumstance evidently took a deep hold upon her mind, and at last her intellect became so deranged that she commit ted suicide by swallowing the contents of two bottles of laudanum. On a paper on the table near her bedside were found the following heart-rending words : God bless you all—remember me. Distress, disappointment, wretchedness, and despair, drive me to this unhappy end, arid are the cause of all. The late Mr. Youatt, in one of his orations to the members of the Veterinary Coll es—" That by ler emistry, the m ical pro sfully to treat diseases which as not within the reach of medi- POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Parliament has been pror;gued to the Ist February. The reformers of Manchester are going to hold a great meeting in the Free Trade Hall, on the 4th January, to discuss the questions of parliamentary and financial reform Lord Seymour, eldest son of the Duke of Somerset, has not been appointed to succeed Mr. Charles Buller as Pre sident of the Poor Law Commission, as stated. ,T 7 WEST RIDING ELECTION.—The polling took place on Thursday and Friday, and the majority for Mr. Denison almost gradually throughout kept increasing. At the close the numbers were—Denison, 14,256; Eardley, 11,246 ;—majority for Denison, 3,009. It is stated on the best authority that Ministers, yield ing to the force of the representations made to them by the commercial interests of the north, have consented that a secret committee of the House of Commons shall be an- pointed next session to inquire into the expediency of li miting the responsibility of the proprietors of joint-stock banks. are so well kniiwn, has been appointed her Majesty's Con sul at Canton, worth £lBOO per annum. The learned gentleman has long been in a state of health which re quired his residence in a warmer climate. Sir J. Walmsley will try to succeed Dr. Bowring in the representation of Bolton. Four otherseats in Parliament are vacant—South Devon, Liskeard, Leominster, and Truro. The first will be filled by Sir R. Lopes without a contest. The second by Mr. Crowder on the Liberal interest ; the third boasts of two candidates, Conservative and Whig, in the persons of Mr. F. Peel, the second son of Sir Robert, and Sir L. Bulwer. Earl Stanhope has addressed a letter to the chairman of a Conservative Society that may be considered in some sort a Protectionist manifesto. He says, in considering the term " Conservative," he sees little difference between you designate those who wish to preserve the existing institutions in Church and Stat.!, I must observe, with my usual frankness, that I cannot entertain any hnna ni thair Innincr which are now pursued should be abandoned, and unless others should be adopted to satisfy the just claims and reasonable expectations of the people." He asks what attachment fsr institutions can be felt by paupers, who, without any faults of their own, have been deprived of employment and the means of subsistence by free trade, and have been confined like criminals in union work houses ? It is the bounden duty of every Conservative to defend, not only existing institutions, but the "rights of labour in their utmost extent." If it is impracticable to reimpose the corn laws, an opinion he does not agree in, and free trade is persevered then, then will the people have the right to demand the immediate repeal of the land tax, malt tax, and hop dutx; the equalization of the poor, highway, and county rates ; an alteration of the tithe commutation act, no longer just or applicable ; a legislative enactment empowering leases for an unconfined term of years, to be given up on six months' notice; and every payment by contract to be reduced according to the different average price of wheat, now and then ; the authorised cultivation of tobacco and sugar without duty ; the repeal of the duties on soap, colonial sugar and coffee, and the minor sorts of tea and tobacco used by the labor ing classes. COURT AND FASHION. Her Majesty will return to Windsor Castle on the 22nd i:tant, and the Court will pass the Christmas holidays The Bishop of London has addressed a circular letter to his clergy, requesting their assistance on behalf of the Additional Curates' Fund, which will be compelled to withhold a number of its grants at Easter, unless the funds be augmented by 4:2000 The Royal family are still in the Isle of Wight. On Tuesday Prince Albert attended by Major General Weinyss embarked on board the Fairy, and proceeded to the Ajax steam-vessel, to witness the experiments with the new steam propeller fitted in that vessel. llis Serene Highness Prince Victor Hohenlohe Langenbourg paid a visit on Wednesday to the Queen and Prince Albert. The marriage of Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, the late British minister at the Court of Madrid, and the Hon. Georgiana Charlotte Mary Wellesley, youngest daughter of the late Lord Cowley, and niece of the Duke of Wel lington, was solemnised on Saturday evening, by special license, at Hatfield House, the Marquis of Salisbury's beautiful Elizabethan seat in Herefordshire. Among the distinguished company present were, the Duke of Wel lington, the Marquis of Douro, Sir Edward Bulwer Lyt- per of ti presentation of Leominster, &c id candidate fo: the ie- A grand banquet for 30 guests was given on the occasion RAILWAY AFFAIRS, The discontinuance of the " Return-tickets," is found to operate injuriously on railway interests, in the dimi nished amount of traffic. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Trnffic for the week ending the 9th instant—Coaching traffic, £727 11d.: parcels, £43 2s. 4d. ; goods and cattle, £164 Bd. ; team boats, £lO5 16s. 6d. ; total, £lO4O sd. • The directors of the Caledonian Railway announce that on of the traffic occasined by the de, has been overcome, and that the trains are again running as usual. An entire stoppage has been put to the further progress of the railway bridge over the Tweed at Berwick, in con sequence of the men in a body having refused to work any longer for the contractors without wages. On Satur day night the arrears amounted to nineteen weeks. Captain Laws, who lately resigned the management of the Great Northern, has been re-appointed managing director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire, which he left to join the Great Northern, at a salary of £1,500 per annum. _ _ On Saturday evening, a timekeeper, employed on the Oswestry branch of-the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. got drunk, and lay down on the rails near the Rednal Station. The'evening train from Chester soon afterwards arrived, passed over the body and killed him on the spot. SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER. RAILWAY. — OPENING OF THE BRANCH TO OSWESTRY.—The branch from the mai❑ line to the town of Oswestry being completed, it is intended to open it for traffic on Saturday, the 23d inst. The directors of the .Shrewsbury and Chester Railway contemplate starting a pleasure . train on some day, not yet fixed, during the Christmas holidays, at a cheap rate, starting at an early hour from Shrewsbury, so as to allow the passengers ample time to view the ancient city of Chester. it is stated that Mr. Ormsby Gore has resigned the office of Chairman of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway.—Sifretesbury Chronicle. LANCASTER AND PB.ESTON JUNCTION RAILWAY.-- A meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at Lancaster, for the purpose of considering an agreement entered into with the Lancaster Canal Company respect in.' the lease - of the above railway, Mr. Bushell in the chair. It was stated that the Lancaster Canal Company had agreed to surrender the lease of the railway to the Lancaster and Preston Railway C on con, .cton of .1,1,e0u ror se. the railway eon). .on of receiving an annual compensa the 15 years yet unexpired of the lep asing the annuity within after the ratification of the agreement. Rtso. lutions were passed confirming the agreement. , fession are enabled suc has been manifested for many year?, but in n ct o l lsta‹e of greater importance to mankind than by the overy of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. This erg A few days since, a bridegroom at Littleworth, Leices tershire, astonished the clergyman, by replying to the question whether he would take the bride for his wedded wife, that "he would if she would give him £20." The bride was unable to comply with the condition, and would have been compelled to return unmarried to her home, if her brother had not paid the necessary sum to her affec tionate bridegroom, who then allowed the ceremony to proceed. FALL OF A SUPPOSED AEROLITE.—(By Dr. Fowler, M.D., F.R.S.)—During a storm of rain, hail, thunder, and lightning, which occurred about eight o'clock on Fri day, the Ist December, a .servant girl in the wash house of Mr. Atkins, painter, plumber, and glazier, Fisherton, was scared by a loud crash as of a heavy body having fallen, and been broken on the pavement of the yard ad joining. Owing to the darkness of the night, she could not ascertain by what the crash had been produced, but early on the following morning she found scattered about the yard fragments as if of an iron-stone, the external surfaces rounded and polished, the internal radiating to many centres. Some of the rounded prominences of the stone have a blistered appearance, not unlike some speci mens of chalcedony. None of these fragments (of which Mr. Atkins picked up one pound twelve ounces) had the slightest influence on a magnetic needle. Numerous other fragments reduced to powder were not collected, but unfortunately swept away.—Salisbury Journal. HOW TO EARN AN HONEST SHILLING.-0110 morning during the late racing meeting at Worcester a gentleman was riding up the course, when he was accosted by a groom looking man, " Please, sir, your horse has got a stone in his fut, I'll pick it out if you'll 'low me." Suit ing the action to the word, he caught up the animal's off hind leg, and after a minute or two spent in working about it, produced a tolerably sized pebble, observing as he touched his apology for a hat, and kicked out his leg by way of adding grace to his remark, " There it is yer honour, 'nuff to have lamed for life an 'under giuny 'unter." His Honour, completely imposed upon, pulling out a shilling, bestowed it on the fellow with thanks for his timely attention, and rode off. The whole transac tion had taken place in the immediate presence of half a-dozen of the groom and ostler fraternity then looking at the race-horses taking their exercise, and it was quite clear that the ingenious extractor of the stone had com menced the operation by picking it up from the course, and-only pretended to extract it from the horse's hoof as free from atones as last year's snow at the successful effrontery of their brother, one of the fraternity ejaculated, " Well, I,m blest, if this here aint the rummest game as ever I seed !" "Is it, spooney ?" quoth York. " I s'pose nou you's 'stonished, and so you may : it ud be some time afore you idle rascals there ud which was amazed rich a thing as arnin an honest shilling in that Worcester Fierald. COLONIZATION.—On Thursday, at Birmingham, a numerous meeting was held to hear 9,n explanation from the Colonization Society of the objects contemplated in a colonial empire. Lord Ly - ttelton took the chair, and the deputation consisted of Lord Mandeville, the Hon. F. Scott, the Hon. W. Wrottesley, &c., who addressed the meeting, as did likewise Mr. Adderley, M.P., Mr. Muntz, M.P., and Mr. Scholfield, M.P.—The Hon. W. Wrot tesley said that he had travelled over New South Wales, and had seen the whole produce of farms boiled down for tl• I ne tallow it produced; and he had seen exposed legs of mutton, that were not worth the boiling down, at less than 6d. each.—The Hon. F. Scott said that at the pre sent time emigrants were being sent out to Australia at £6, £7, and £9, instead of the £2O that was charged for merly. It was of the greatest importance that some ef fort should be made to relieve the vast mass of poverty now existing in the United Kingdom, and no better means could be devised than promoting emigration to a colony the whole population of which did not exceed 200,000 souls, while they had 2,000,000 of cattle and 10,000,000 of sheep. This was the more essential, as the pauper population was increasing at the rate of 1,000 souls weekly ; and population ,- while —ie whole population was in creasing at the rate of 300,000 per annum, the pauper population of England was increasing at the rate of 65,000 per annum. The number which had been sent out from Ireland by a charge upon the poor-rates was very insignificant, and yet there were not less than 3,000,000 of souls in that unfortunate country depending upon public charity. Even in England, where the re sources were much larger, the number sent out by the parishes in the course of 11 years did not exceed 11,000, at an average rate of £6 14s. sd. per head • and yet if that number had been considerably increased, it would greatly have diminished the expenses for the relief of the poor in this country. A NEW METHOD OF POPPING THE QUESTION days ago, a young lady, residing near Dudley, called upon a publican to spend the day with his daughters, oho were intimate acquaintances of the belle in question. The lat ter had not arrived many minutes before she became the cynosure of two pair of eyes, the property of two dashing young fellows who happened to be staying at the inn on that day, and who very speedily entered the bar, and commenced an animated conversation. In the course of the day the parties seemed to be on such an intimate foot ing, that a stranger might have imagined they were old friends, or at least acquaintances. At length one of the young men grew tender, and declared that the fair lady had made an indelible impression on his heart at first sight, and proceeded to vow the fondest things, much to the apparent annoyance of the blushing belle. This only seemed to increase the tenderness and passion of our hero, who " popped the question," and swore that, unless the lady gave him a favourable answer, he would immediately poison himself. But the " ladye faire" still remaining ob- durate, he rushed from the house, entered a druggist's shop, obtained a powder having the appearance of ar . sonic, returner and, at the fee he agitated maic !en, drainec to the dregs. He was immediately seized with dreadful spasms, rolled his eyes wildly and expiringly, and fell on the floor in a perfect state of immobility, and apparently a corpse. Our heroine shrieked and wrung her hands, and, with a perfect storm of tears, declared that she had killed the young gentleman by her unkindness, and that she would give the world to see him recover. The com• panion of the passion-stricken youth readily promised to obtain a liquid of such wonderful efficacy that it would restore his friend to life and health, if the lady would pledge herself to treat the poor fellow affectionately when resuscitated, as a still unfavourable consideration of his suit would inevitably produce such a shock to his nervous system that the next paroxysm would assuredly f - • d op ate-. _ne promise was given, the lignin stained and placed to the patient's lips, and he was immediately " so far recovered as to encircle the blushing and agitated did not seem to be unkindly receirec now fully recovered, and with his fair inamorata passes the winter evenings in " whispering soft nothings," and .e gent Leman is the usual declarations of eternal love, and all that sort of thing. The secret of his sudden recovery, though sa credly kept from our heroine, shall be disclosed to our readers. The packet of powder was simply one of pul verized loaf-sugar, and the liquid by which this sudden resuscitation was effected, a draught from the crystal stream. It is unnecessary to add that the spasms, &c., were only pretended, and that our hero's companion was in the secret, and played his part to admiration.—Staf fordshire Courier. AN EASY WAY TO SATISFY ELECTORS.—When Mr Sheridan first stood for Stafford, he made abundant pre _ _ mises to procure places for such electors as would vote for him ; and, wonderful to relate ! he kept his word, for numbers of them were appointed to offices in Drury-lane theatre and the Opera-house. By this munificence be gained his election ; but in a_very short time he found Opportunities to oblige new frietids, most of the others being obliged to relinquish their situations from receiving no pay LAW INTELLIGENCE: The case relative to the " Royal etchings" occupied Vice Chancellor Bruce the whole of Wednesday and Thursday, and at the close, his honour stated, that he would consider the case upon the materials before him when he granted the injunction. CHARITIES THE EASTERN DISPENSARY ROSE-HIL Patients visited at —Persons relieved at the Dispensary, 7 their own homes, 71 ; Total, 144. Physician, Dr. Imlack ; Consulting Physician, Dr. Ash . croft; Surgeons, Messrs. Lockwood, Harris, and Dodd; House-Surgeon, Mr. Ball; Apothecary, Mr. Lloyd. 00 SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL, DEC. 13 WEEKLY REPORT INDOOR: Cured, 12; Relieved, 1; Dead, 2; Entered, 15; Under treatment, 63.—Otnnoott : Cured and relieved, 32; Dead, 0; Entered, 31 ; Under treatment, 35. Chaplain, Rev. Thomas Nolan, A.M.; Treasurer, B. Platt, Esq.; Visitors, Rev. J. Robberds and C. Challinor ; House-Surgeon, Mr. Thos. Morris; Assistant House :turgeon, Mr. Thomas Armstrong Cammock ; President Jos. B. Yates, Esq. LIVERPOOOL °DISPENSARIES Number of entered on the Books of the Dispensaries during the last week. NORTH, VAUXHALL-ROAD.—New cases received advice and Medicine at the institution, 256 ; new cases visited at their own house; and supplied with medicine, 133: total, 389. Visitors, J. A. Tobin, F. S. Ilull, F. Mill, and J. King, jun. SOUTH, 1, UPPER PARLIAMENT-STREET--New cases received advice and medicine at the institution, 212 ; new cases visited at their own houses, and supplied with medicine, 308; total, 319.—Visitors, Charles Booth, J. IV. Williams, John Rogers, and Rev. C. Moffat'. D. H. GIBSON, Secretary. oo LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT, DEC. 16 DISCHARGED : In-patients cured, 28 ; Relieved and at • own request, 2 ; Made Out-patient, 1 ; Irregular, 0 ; Dead, 2. ADMITTED : In-patients,4o ; Out-patients, 2; Casuals during the week, 10 ; Remaining in the House, 182. Consulting Surgeon, J. Dawson, Esq. ; House Surgeon, Mr, C. B. Wilson; Apothecary, Mr. J. Newton; House Visitors, H. Lawrence and A. Thompson, Esqs. ; Chap.. lain, Rev. W. Blundell ; Treasurer, Richard Gibson, Esq. NORTHERN HOSPITAL REPORT. DECEMBEIt 16. ADMITTED : Accidents, 25; Medical and Surgical Cages upon recommendation, 17 ; Total, 42.—DiscuAna ED : Cured, 23 ; Relieved and at own request, 1; Attending as Out Patients, 12; Irregular, 2 ; Died, 2; Remaining in the Hospital, 95. Consulting Surgeon, J. M. Banner, Esq. ; Physician and Surgeon for the ensuing week, Dr. Scott and Mr. Stubbs; House Visitors, Daniel Neilson and Jaques Myers, Esqs. ; House-Surgeons, Mr. Tearne and Mr. Wall ; Treasurer, B. H. Jones, Esq. ; Chaplain, Rev. Wm. Hughes. WEEKLY REPORT OF THE FEVER AND WORK HOUSE HOSPITALS. Remaining per last week 577 ; Admitted, 193 ; C ure d an d relieved, 141; Died, 10; Remaining under treatment, 577; Fever cases included in the above—Remaining per last report 98; Admitted, 32; Cured and relieved, 361; Died, 3; Re maining under treatment, 86. '^v: Resident Medical Officers, Mr. potnecary, Taylor and Mr. Steele ; Non-resident Ditto, Dr. Burge, Dr. Gee, and Mr. Leather; Chaplain, Rev. D. Anderson, Governor, Mr. J. W. Evans. Dcc. 19, 1845, •iterature. VARIETIES Revolution has added 45 per cent. to the direct taxation of France. A;4l Nines and Semiramis, who reigned 2017 years before Christ, had armies amounting to nearly two millions of fighting men. The first guards and regular troops, as a standing army, were formed by Saul, 1093 B.C. So says Eusebius. CIVIL WAR.—A worthy miller was reading an account of the first disturbances at Berlin ; and, among other matters, he read that " the burgher guard and the people, when the conflict was over, shook hands in the most ami cable manner." "Ah (said he) now I see—now I see — that's what they call civil war I reckon." He had heard of civil war before, but never could comprehend the civi lity of it till then. HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES OF WALES.—An old gentleman, who was somewhat of an antiquarian, retired to spend his evening of life to a remote village in one of the Welch counties. He was exceedingly desirous of picking up whatever information he could find respecting the locality in which he had fixed himself. In one of these rambles he encountered an old Welch farmer, when the following dialogue ensued :—" Good morning, friend ; can you tell me if there is anything remarkable in this neigh bourhood ?" . Anything remarkable did you say ?" en quired the old farmer, not quite sure what was meant by . the word. "Yes, my good man, anthing remarkable?" "0 ! aye, well,• iss—(exclaimed the farmer, as a light broke in upon him)—is, iss—remarkable--aye, indeed! Do you see that field, sir ?—do you see that field ? Well, it was there that Oliver Cromwell fought with Julius Saisar I" A FOREIGNER'S OPINION OF ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES. —But what is the University of Oxford ? A corporation composed of ecclesiastics and laymen—of doctors of every kind, some very Christian, others very little so, and others again as little as possible so. It is also a body subject : to all the variations of the political temperature, which twenty years ago turned out Sir Robert Peel on account of his vote for the Catholics, and to-day adops Mr. Glad stone though he votes for the Jews. How beautiful would be the dogmatic authority of a court presided over by his Grace Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington, Chancel lor of the University, and Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, and doubtless of British consciences also ! —and besides, why Oxford rather than Cambridge ? The University of Cambridge has also a very suitable Chan cellor, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the husband of the head of the Church. There is an ancient rivalry between the two Universities : it was said formerly " that Oxford had always the honour of burning the bishops which Cambridge had had the honour of educat ing." Who shall pronounce between these two authori ties ?—M. Lemoine, in the Revue des Deux itiondes. AvAtucz OUTWITTED.—The case of John Eyre, Esq. ' who, though worth upwards of £3OOOO, was cony .cted at the Old Bailey and sentenced to transportation, was rendered more memorable by the opportunity which it gave Junius to impeach the integrity of Lord Mansfield, who was sup posed to have erred in admitting him to bail. An anec dote is related of Mr. Eyre which shows, in a striking manner, the depravity of his heart, and may help to account for the meanness of the (-rime of which he was "Alia • •• convicted. An uncle of his, a man 9... ,of very considerable property, made his will in favour of a clergyman who was his intimate friend, and committed it, unknown to the rest of the people, to his custody. However, not long before his death, having; altered his mind with regard to the disposal of his wealth, he made another will, in which he left the clergyman only £5OO, leaving the bulk of his large property to his nephew and heir-at-law, Mr. Eyre. Soon after the old gentleman's death, Mr. Eyre, rum maging over his drawers, found this last will ; and, per ceiving the legacy of £5OO in it for the clergyman, without any hesitation or scruple of conscience, put it into the fire, and took possession of the whole effects, in consequence of his uncle being supposed to have died intestate. The clergyman coming into town soon after, and inquiring into the circumstances of his old friend's death, asked bite if he had made any will before he died : on being answered by Mr. Eyre in the negative, the clergyman very coolly put his hand in his pocket and pulled out the former will, which had been committed to his care, in which Mr. Eyre had bequeathed him the whole of his fortune. amounting to several thousand pounds, excepting a legacy of £5OO to his nephew. A VISIT TO THE LONDON SEWERS.—How few of all the curious and intelligent inhabitants of London have any conception of the vast channels which have been formed under our leading thoroughfares to convey the re fuse of London to its present ill-chosen destination ? We wish we could induce some of them to accompany us in 3 subterranean excursion from Oxford-street to the outlft of King's Scholars' Pond Sewer. In the good old time of the heptarchy of dirty waters, when it was not thought amiss to preface animal or biennial ceremonies by a sub stantial breakfast or ajeuners al a fourehette, the offici als and a privileged few were wont to fortify themselves for the important tour of inspection by such creature comforts. The consolidated commission eschews all such extravagancies, and serves the public without fee or feast ; about the expediency of which proceeding we have a misgiving or two, for we confess to a prejudice in favour of paid officials. But be this as it may, the breakfast under the old system was a right good one, and as satis factory a preparation as could he desired for our discent into the realms of darkness. But the breakfast was not by ition required of_us. There y means tl- le, by the certain vestments to be pat on, woulc Thick 1e have effectually disguised an Irish rebel. of felt, thick leathern boots reaching to h. +Mob mnrintnch of amnie dimensions, and a slouched hat, were the chief items of the costume. Down, then, we dived, till we splashed into the waters of the far-famed. tributary ; and on we toiled, with the black stream above our knees, erect under the substantial arch of brickwork, lighted with fragments of candles. There was something very striking in this world of brick and mortar, stretching as far as the eye could reach , echoing with the roar of mimic cataracts pouring from the higher levels, and resounding with the shouts of the presiding genii, as they hunted a poor solitary rat, till he suffered the unexpected fate of being squelched, after Carlyle 's fashion, beneath the merciless heel of his pursuer Thus, .. always and everywhere, has man the spirit of the chase moving in him. We shall scarcely be believed when we affirm that the chief inconvenience in the excursion con- 'sisted in the heat of our strange garments, and the fatigue of wading through so many hundred yards of flowing water. But so it was. The atmosphere is much less objectionable a.1.:«1, + 1.2,7 th wt. emerged from our underground pilgrimage, not burry lA, put off our strange garments, and ready to appreciate to the full the luxury of soap and water. A short walk brought us to the Thames, where we took a last view of our tributary stream flowing in all its darkness into the mass of muddy waters. Who would have thought that this foul burn was carrying with it the very wealth which our merchants are sending thousands of miles to procure —that it was nothing less than a guano stream, with a clear marketable value in it of between £30,000 and £40,000 a-year. Such are the wonderful revelations of that science which is skilled to see things impure and offensive to the senses the source of almost fabulous wealth.—Fraser's Magazine. PHONETIC SPELLING. — In a former number of our journal, we stated that the cause of the great difficulties felt by children in our National and British Schools, when learning to read, arose from the complexities and absur dities of our orthography. The amount of this is best T, • 4, -I- 4-I,it ay tne following statements. Ao no one can tell the sound of an English word frcm its spelling. Proof.—To readthe book he has read; to pre sent a present ; the slough of a snake in a slo u g h ; l e a d , • rot - use. &c. &c. ; the me to the lead mine ; refuse the rcj - words in italics are pronounced differently, that is, different spoken words, ac cording to their meaning alone , and there are 201 words of this kind in our language, which are pronounced in 406 different ways.-2. The same combination of letters has very different significa tions in different words; compare hear. heard, heart; here, her, rum where ; hoe, s, lover, clover; lum- titer, slaughter; doe, doe's, (v.,) doeth There is a very large number of concerning the pronunciation of which even crr are not agreed : as, knowledge, (nolledge, no zhur, lezh-ur,) inimical, inimical: nite number of cases words thoepists ledge ;) leisurl ; o one can he sure o of any word he h not been previously taught let the rowlock, reader try the unusual words, batman, beaufin, bourgeoise, (type ;) and the riames-of -places-and - , , eisone , Beaulieu, Auchinleck, Hochelagu, and so on. Those who do not know how to pronounce these words, may turn the page and read : .yvfiyolysoHVATv'yozaipaorpng‘annna‘ugpquntai no g 11. It is a fact, that no one can tell the spelling of an English word from its sound. Proof.-1. There are 364 spoken words, each spelled in two ways, (waste waist , hall haul, leek leak, stake steak, &c.;) 36 spoken words, each spelled in three ways, (ewe you yew, pairpare pear , meet meat mete, &c. ;) 4 spoken words, each spelled i n four ways, (I ey e a y a y e , by buy bye b'ye, road rod e rowed Rhode, rite write right wright ;) 1 spoken wor d, spelled in five w a y s , (air ere e'er eyre heir;) total , 405 spoken words, spelled in 857 ways ; but the variations of the spelling never depend on the sound, and cannot be learned from it.-2. There are upwards of 1500 word!, about the spelling of which authors are not agreed ; and writers also disagree with regard to the spelling of maul classes of words represented by honor, honour, beveled bevelled, benefited benefitted, centre, center, dependent dependant, patronise patronize, appal appall, inquire! enquirer, negotiate negotiate, control controul, expene• expense, allege alledge, complete compleat, connexion connection, precede preceed.-3. The style of spelling cannot even be predicted from a knowledge of etymology compare fancy phantom, concede succeed, island, bey , husband house, rhyme, ghost, city, flys flies, burgess burgeoise, burgher, &c. &c.-4. No sound in the lee' guage is uniformly represented by the same sign ; there are 2 modes of writing the sound of the italic letters the ; 4 for those in yea, way, hay ; 6 for those in pea; for those in be, cheese, go, thin, vision, sing; 8 for those in foot, do, view ; 9 for that in joke ; 10 for those in 0 , 14 r, row ; 11 for those in oil ; 12 for those in art, tea, fee's" , lea: 13 for those in on, me ; 16 for that in am ; 18 for that in as; 19 for those in cat, sin, no; 21 for that in a ll; 24 for that in up; 26 for that in idle; 29 for that in who 30 for that in use; 34 for those in ale, hole ; 36 for that 37 for that in ill ; and 40 for the sound expres so ' the italic letters in eel.-5. Every letter of the alpha' :cept j, is occasionally mute : and every letter bf more than one phonetic sense ; s water, many -nd au in gauguiP !ee a in hatin catbcrt haul, , hat, want, al,. _., 6 , aunt, hauteur, Jervaulx Abbey, laurel, meerschaum, Menelaus The detailed proofs of these-extraordinary facts, WWl' those who are accustomed to mechanical correctness °f I spelling all the on use, by ye ! s Plea .fo; .1 of entertaining matter and startling fa( 1 pondent. Dec, I,ma,:monnino LIVER On Fri( was held i ball was Assertion temporari body of tl pleasing fi thusiasm effect a do: govern me compelled There mu! multitude, would has Rev. Dr. the Revs. hard, Mr. Tyrer, Mi - On tak Rev. T. IS The Re and wa3 When sile and brotl that, as y good eauii been grac reetly and religious, had sound Protestant have now history, bi own time centuries, as comps] Europe, I guishing c authority deed we IN man a few that here : true frate abruptly, willingly. would ask Our rates the Conti[ have lean (Cheers.) either to labouring when ever since eve' There is o cheapness Continent the world of great in point of vi than our p mean the (Loud the his infalliE prosperity, anti-Chris One of the little auto plenty. C minds will but I now .ply as coin Spain Bib] Spain has civil war. glorious with pull sovereign hese, tha which gro jesty's mi the natio Ireland, a Scotland. Protestan measure, (Hear, ht the recer well as p testify. ter, when fellow-lal spirit-stir tantism, E fervid elo, of, who h this eveni ation of those gen by your question priests, tx friends of tive can Ix rangemen the count they poss opinion o tiny indix moves ii life ? A the press of despai has been what can regard to be suppos be fairly such. 0 the head tantism e and to c try, with he would that con( noble for so balanc to secure Common! who wish thirty or neither of the pri 1 those vot, I hei r rove Bess the Peelism Tractaria the hand, naged as really Pr confident mention ceedings tute the electors of Corns -effective what the I will tali gatively, would dc the quest would hi