The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

FOREIGN 6- The British and North American Royal Mail Corn pany'ssteam-ship Hibernia, Captain Ryrie, arrived in the Mersey on Sunday, at noon, with advices from New York to the 2nd, and from Halifax to the sth instant. Her annointed day for leavine New York was the Ist, but owing to a d fniWiahprevailed, she did not sail till ge from New York, includ- the Glowing day. the passa, ing the detention at Halifax, I has been made in fourteen and from Halifax in little more than ten-ana-a-nail The run from New York to Halifax occupied 72 being the quickest on record. She brings £90,000 in gold on f ledonia at Halifax on the 3rd, and proceeded to Boston West India mail steam-ship Teviot had arrived at New Orleans. _ _ _ _ !stable meeting of merchants had taken .k. convened for the purpose of expressing their gratification at the establishment of a direct steam communication between Liverpool and New York. An address on the subject had been presented to Captain Rorie. .t damage and loss of life has been occasioned by the overflowing of the Ohio. The accounts from Mexico are so conflicting that it It to understand the real state of affairs. have assembled at Queretaro, - and, with one e were inclined to peace. Another account states that no propositions of peace had been made by the Mexican Government. Another that, by a decisive vote, they had rejected propositions, and de clared against all negotiations with the United States while her armies and fleets occupied their country. President Anaya bad issued an inaugural address. It is stated that many me Lion, bac 3rs of the Congress, displeased with his elec en up their seats, and retired in disgust from There remained, however, more the city of Queretaro, than t ixed number which is reqUired to form a quorum Some three or four of the northern states, including Saa Louis Potosi and Tamaulipas, are stated to hold out strongly in favour of a continuance of the war. General Scott, United States General in Mexico, had arrested two of his generals, Worth and Pillow. Late accounts from Santa Fe state that a body of 3,000 Mexican troops were busy at Chihuahua in erecting forti fications and mounting cannon on the castle and other defensive works. m of Mazatlan and Guaymas by t. States na levying of taxes upon English residents in Mexico, to sup port the war with the United States. These levies were made some six months since, when the English residents petitioned against The financial condition of the states of Pennsylvania and Maryland was extremely satisfactory, rendering easy the punctual payment of their dividends. There had '- The stec ex-1 .eadful steam-boat acc L. U. Johnson blew u r Magsville, Kentucky, from some defect in '. Between sixty and seventy p pot, and a large number frightf p with a tree ,y injured Browne Rumour is again rife that Mr. Robert Dillon about to receive a colonial appointment. The Berlin journals announce that Princ( Prussia is about to imitate his cousin, Prince Waldem by visiting the East Indies and other parts of Asia The Hon. T. J. Bernard, member of her Council in Jamaica, has been admitted into t' church the! The Qu, of Spain's illness does not create so much alarm now as it did at first. It is attributed to the means adopted by the medical men to cure a cutaneous complaint to which her majesty is subject. brought to America in the ship which conveyed iritan settlers, is still preserved, and was lately t New York, at a meeting held to commemo niversary of their landing. has decided that a small the first rate ti between AM .:coed on .ie spot where the inter -el-Kader and the Duke d'Aumale tuate the memory of that event. Ist of January, 1847, to the Ist of 0 798 European emigrants arrived at Boston New Orleans, and Baltimore,' ig year the number was only 151,662 ague jourm .8 announce that the his privy purse, for the construction of a' house of refu, ,, ' for old men of the reformed evangelical communion at tl Hague. siderably more than"' 100,000,000 of francs of Nemours and Montpensier and the Prim are each to have 30.000.000 francs. The The Duke T";mr;11 1 marriages are reported on the Continent : the King of Sardinia's youngest ted with a daughter of the Hereditary Prii settled or piobabl is to be t of Saxony Louisa of Prus a dau Prince Francis 0 r of the Prince of Wasa. A , FEMALE RENEGADE.—A French woman, named Juliette, was found, says the Toulonnai B , i n th e d e i ra o f the F . !ctly h. uated to ti she earnestly entreated that she might not )m the man to whose fate she had united h, self.—Galignani. The King or the French has received an autograph letter of condolence from the Queen of Great Britain on the occasion of the death of Madame Adelaide. The letter is written in very affectionate terms, and exnresses great sympathy for the King and Royal Family in their grief, Her Majesty has also written a letter of condo lence to the King and Queen of the Belgians. The French government has broken faith with Abd-el- Kader. It has announced to him that it cannot con sent to his going to St. Jean d'Acre on any terms, and that with regard to Egypt it must first see whether the Pasha will agree to receive him.—lt has since been deter mined that Abd-el-Kader shall be imprisoned in a fortress at Lamalgue, which is being fitted up for his reception. General Espartero arrived early in Madrid on the 7th, and thus avoided the demonstration prepared to greet his return. The people, however, on hearing of his arrival, _ repaired-to his residence, and rent the air with deafening cries. "Three times," says a letter from Madrid, " the multitude have already burst into the house, determined to see their idol. They rushed to his presence, they lifted him from the ground, fell at his feet, and hundreds of these wild-looking fellows wept and sobbed like child ren. Espartero cried like a woman." A New York paper, after urging various reasons why the capital of the United States should be removed from Washington to New York, reserves,for its climax, the fol lowing conclusive argument :—" In less than a year we Shall communicate (by means of railroads and the electric telegraph) with the remotest points of the Republic—with New Orleans on one side, Chicago on the other, and Boston on the north. New York will then be just such a place as the government of this great country ought to be in—the great central city of the country and the great centre of its decency, its dirt, and its fashions." NEW ZEALAND.—An unpleasant state of things exists in New Zealand, where the natives claim the sole right to the " wilderness" or waste lands, and are aided in their efforts to obtain them by the new Bishop, who has ex pressed his determination to assist in the maintenance of their rights as British subjects by peaceful remonstrance and petition to the Imperial Legislature. On the other hand it is contended that the ownership of such lands rests with those who reclaim and cultivate them. Early in July a collision took place at Wangnini, between the na tives and the British troops, about 400 on each side, in which the loss was considerable. Of the British, 3 were killed and 11 wounded. According to the last American papers, it appears that a mail service for Oregon, by means of steamers on the Pacific, will soon be established. " Two splendid steamers," it is said, " have been contracted for, to run on the coast of Peru, the starting point from Panama, or rather Callao, to extend as far as the mouth of the Ore gon River, touching at the various places between these two points. They are to carry the United States and Oregon mail, in connexion with Mr. Law's steamers, which are to ply on the Atlantic side, having Chagres as the terminus, or depot. Two of the latter ate now in course of construction. They are to be large, and of ele gant build and finish. - CROSSING THE DESERT.—A new common road locomo tive carriage, on a large scale and of a novel principle, has been invented by an intelligent engineor. namPti Marton, for the conveyance of passengers and baggage on the de sert between Suez and Cairo. The Pacha has required a committee of scientific men to report upon the adaptation of the machine for the purpose contemplated ; and as that report has been favourable, instructions have been given for the construction ofan experimental one of 200 horse-power. on three wheels of thirty feet in diameter, and possessing a saloon for passengers, capable of accommodating one hundred persons. Its speed is calculated at 20 miles per hour, and is expected to be in operation in six or eight months. THE MONKS OF ST. BERNARD.—The Augustines of the Great St. Bernard have received rather severe treat ment from the new-fledged authorities of that canton. Not content with demanding from them a fine of some X 5,000, these persons, headed by the notorious M. Druey, have taken actual possession of the monastery. At two o'clock in the morning they broke open the doors with pick-axes, seized the keys, and rifled the house from top to bottom. The baggage of casual inmates was rudely searched. Soldiers are planted at the doors and windows, with orders to shoot any yerson seen to carry away the most trifling article of furniture. In short, every wooden platter in the monastery has become the absolute property of the canton of Valais. At Martigny, the i n fi rmary _ house, to which the octogenarians of the hospice retire for a somewhat milder air, and the enjoyment of such ease as ague and rheumatism will allow, the same scene was repeated. LOLA AiONTES.-A letter from Munich says—" It ap pears that Lola Montes is increasing in favour at the Court of Bavaria. The Queen has conferred on her the order of St. Theresa, calls her ' My dear Countess,' and admits her into her intimacy. The ladies of the Court, of course, feel it their duty to caress the favourite, and, in fact, she has all the world at her feet. The style of luxury in which she lives passes all bounds, nothing equal to it having ever been seen at Munich, even in the Royal pa laces. The whole of her sleeping-chamber, even the walls and ceiling, is hung with guipure, lined with rose-coloured satin. The mantelpiece is of Sevres porcelain, painted by the first artists. The furniture is of the time of Louis XV., enriched with gold and silver. A description of her din ing -room would exceed those in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, and we s h a ll c o n t en t o u r sel v es with stat ing, that the service isof massive gold, bearing the arms and coronet of the Countess. To this is joined a revenue of of 150,000 f., which is attached to her title, and of which nothing can deprive her." Prom ti AMERICA York, P for the p COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. The Board of Health at Naples has thought fit to place all vessels from the United Kingdom of England, Scot- I IRELAND land, and Ireland in quarantine, in consequence of a re- Owing to the flooding of the pits at Clonbrock, &c., in port that two cases of Asiatic cholera had occurred in the Queen's County, a thousand colliers have been thrown London in the month of November last. It is intimated out of employment for several weeks. that all vessels which may have cleared from the port of A fire broke out on Wednesday, in the house of Mr. London since the 3d of December will be refused admit- Lanauze, No. 33, North Frederick-street, Dublin, by tance altogether into the port of Naples, and that vessels which an e ld er l y l a d y , age d 80, me t h er d eat h . .11 7 1 rom any other port of the United Kingdom will be sub- A renewe d attempt at reconciliation has been made by jetted to a quarantine of f r om 14 to 21 days. We trust the " Old Ireland' 'party ; but Mr. O'Brien has rejected that the Foreign Secretary will lose no time in protesting the overture, and the co-operation of the parties seems with suitable alacrity and vigour against this absurd mea- now as far off as ever. sure, so extremely injurious to the mercantile interests of The extensive corn mill and stores of Mr. Corban, at this country, and so utterly unwarranted by the facts of Kilworth, Cork, were burnt down on Wednesday. 6000 the case. barrels of wheat were destroyed, and the premises which ENGLISH MUSIC IN SPAIN:—The Lancashire bell- were wor th near l y £6OOO he I ringers, who, when i )ne of the leading conspirators in the murder of the Rev. Mr. Lloyd has died in prison. It has clearly tran spired that he held Mr. Lloyd's horse and gig, while the a other assassin was engaged in the bloody transaction. t lAt the late Tuam Sessions, the assistant-barrister said, vo months ago, had the honour of performing before the King and R o y a l fa mily at St. Cloud, made their appearance last week at the Grand Theatre of Barcelona, and were received b 3 crowded audience with a warmth even exceeding t which tney experiences at tne navannan. The Spaniards that thefts of sheep and cattle had lately been so corn appear to be delighted with this kind of music, but they mon in the western district of Galway, that every peasant's were near being disappointed by a curious circumstance, ca bi n m i g ht b e sa id t o h ave b een turne d i nto a felon s When the bell-ringers reached the Spanish frontier from shambles. 'iris, on their way to Barcelona, all their bells were At the Cork City Sessions Mr. Robert Hardy was found -ed, on the ground that the importation of bells is guilty of assaulting and beating Captain Bunbury, but the *sited in Spain. In vain did they observe that these jury added that though in the eye of the law he was eir musical instruments, and not bells introduced guilty, he was fully justified in every other respect," the and it was not until the British Consul at Bar- complainant having broken his promise to marry the de- celona had sent an express to Gerona, with a strong re- fendant's sister. monstrance against the rigid interpretation of the law by The Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin is pleased to the Spanish functionaries that the bells were released. style the indignation which has been excited in every EMANCIPATION v. SLAVERY.—At a recent meeting at honest and manly mind at the denunciations by priests Brownsville, Jamaica, a series of resolutions were passed from the altar "as the calumny of intemperate bigots declaratory of the actual and anticipated evils resulting against the ministers of our holy religion;' and this is from the application of free trade principles to the culti- believed in Ireland. At whose door lies the fault if the vation of sugar. And by whom were these resolutions report has gathered strength ? passed ? Not by planters. but by emancipated labourers. THE PRICE OF THE LIFE OF A PROTESTANT.—A re: Nor is this all. At the meeting which adopted them, spectable man in Wakefield has received a letter from a several of the speakers were emancipated labourers. The near relative of his residing in Limerick, which states - - - - -0-nag I t 1 ,to , ,e in which they expressed ,neir sentiments was not among other alarming intelligence, that for is. 6d., the perhaps as classical as the orations of Cicero, but the rea- Terry Alts would engage to take the life of any Protestant, soning it clothed was sound and clear. Independently of who was a working man. For destroying the life of a Pro- their novelty, as emanating from such a body, these reso- testant person of higher station, a larger sum was fixed ! lutions are deserving of consideration, as our readers, we A GOOD EXAMPLE.—The Rev. Dr. M'Ennery, P.P., are sure, will admit after perusing them. Petitions, it of Tralee, delivered an address to his congregation the will be seen, founded upon them, are to be presented to other day, earnestly deprecating crime and outrages of the Queen and both Houses of Parliament. If we can every species ; inculcating the obligation of industry and find room, next week, we will extract from the Jamaica mutual charity; and exhorting all classes, landlords, Dispatch, in which there is a report of the meeting, a tenants, and peasantry—to the christian-like discharge of • nen or two of negro oratory. their mutual duties. On Friday, Andrew Dea, a youth of seventeen years of age, was found guilty, at the Limerick Special Commis- TRAORDINARY 6( ties. the i with a pistol. The reason alleged for - the act was some quarrel with deceased about land rented under him. Sentence of death was passed upon him. The 7th of A split has taken place among the " Irish Confedera tion," or Smith O'Brien's party : Mr. Duffy, the pro prietor of the Nation, preferring to fight theoretically in his newspaper, whilst Mr. Mitchell, an eloquent, though very indiscreet, speaker at the public meetings of the body, wishes to throw off all flimsy disguise, and, repu .. , . diating all attempt to conciliate the gentry, at once to declare war and abide the issue. The Cork papers report two awful murders at Castle townroche, those of a widow and her niece, who were found strangled in bed on the 6th instant. Round the old woman's neck was a cord by which she was choked, and the young woman, who slept with her, had marks of vio- took her life. Both were in bed when they were mur dered, and the young woman evidently had struggled hard with her assassins. It appeared that plunder had been the object of the murderers, who are supposed to be two men who lodged in the old woman's house. On the very day when the notorious convict Ryan was sentenced for murder at the special commission in Lime rick, a farmer named Martin M'Malion, residing at a nlace called Cratloe. in the County el.rp_ had his habi- ~ • tation broken into at midnight, by a party of eight men, armed, and with their faces blackened. On making a search for arms, resistance was offered to them ; after a conflict, desperate though unequal, M`Mahon was shot dead, he having previously smashed with a shovel a gun of one of the party which had been presented at him. Six of the party were almost immediately arrested. ORANGISA . I.—The fearful outrages committed for so long a period in many districts of Ireland appear to af- ,he orange arid much good wif , ss result from men selected from the middle and lower class, themselves together for the purpose of self-protection I resistance to the aggressions of the lawless and dis ' A meeting of the orangemen of the Dartree affectec he town o the 11th of January instant, the Right Worshi aful the District Master in the chair, when resolutions were passed regretting the dreadful occurrences which are taking le institution. —On the 24th December a Some of the parties engaged ier clothing ; and subse- place, and tully organising SIGNIFICANT DOCUMENT riot occurred in Ballymena. in the melee stripped off their u from Mexico is Of T17,1Q hocriwn afnf _ spectable inhabitant, who found the document, of which the following is a true copy, in one of the pockets :—" Obliga tion.—l solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, h ; and that 1 will, at all times, as far as in my power, do everything that may disadvantage all Protestants, by night and by day, and in all places ; and that I will aid and assist all Catholics, in all wiarrpla. and that T will tin all in my power in this Kingdom of Ireland. So help me God, and keep me sted cf. ;In +Ma my 11 not be taken out of your lodg ye-room, on an account, only by the secretary." ... This document speaks volumes. SKET CH OF AN IRISH LANDLORD BY ONE OF THEM SELVES).-At a dinner given to Mr. Howe, one of the agents of the Dufferin estates, Lerd Dufferin said :—" An Irish landlord is unlike any other landlord under the sun. (Laughter.) He lives in a peculiar atmosphere of his own. (Renewed laughter.) The daily conditions of his life and the occasional conditions of his death are totally dissimilar from those of other men. He is a complete ge nius of himself—an erratic body in the social system. (A laugh.) He may be described as an individual who does not get rent ; as a well-dressed gentleman who may Late cockshay of th inc _tate neighbourhood ; a superficial aex, by which to mark the geographical direction of the undercurrent of assassination; a cause of bewilderment to coroners, and of vague verdicts to distracted juries ; a subject for news paper paragraphs, and a startling text for leading articles ." (Loud laughter.) AN ARCHBISHOP POlSONED.—Alarming reports are current through town about the state of John of Tuam 's health. A Shrewsbury Cake, sent as a New Year's gift, by an officious friend, has so disordered his powers of di gestion, that he cannot away with it ; and he is "in his retirement marvellously distempered." It is supposed that nothing short of a visit to Rome, and a course of the famous Vatican antibilious powders can restore his system to its wonted tone and action. The Town Commissioners of Tuam, to mark their sympathy with the illustrious suf ferer, have forbidden pastry cooks and others, under heavy penalties, to deal in the like unchristian dainties in future. Any person seen in possession of Shrewsbury confectionery, after this notice, shall be put to his purgation after a me thod of treatment still less endurable than that of the Vatican Doctors. We have just learned that the hon. and learned member for Limerick is suffering most pitifully from the same cause.—Dublin Mail. REPEAL ASSOCIATION, MONDAY.—Mr. J. O'Connell read a letter from Dr. Cantwell, relative to what he called "'the presumptuous letter" of the Earl of Shrews bury. Mr. T. O'Brien, M.P., next addressed the assem bly on the subject of the Dublin Improvement Bill. Mr. Reynolds spoke at considerable length on various topics, and concluded by reading a petition to the House of Commons for the repeal of the Jewish disabilities, and moving its adoption by the association. Mr. J. O'Con nell read a letter from the Count de Montalembert, a peer of France, inviting him (Mr. O'C.) and the other members of the family to be present at the Cathedral of Notre Dame on Thursday, the 17th February, when the funeral oration of their immortal father will be deli vered in the presence of the Archbishop, by the first ora tor of France and perhaps of the Church, Father Lacor daire. The memory of the great O'Connell will then be celebrated by honours which until now have not been rendered save to kings and the inheritors of the throne." The letter goes on to invite the O'Connells to a banquet to take place on Sunday, the 13th, or Monday, the 14th February. Mi. O'Connell then said that he would willingly take two or three days off his exile in England, and give them to the good friends of liberty in France." The rent was £69. STARVATION,—_The Tralee_Chronick.renorts the death. of four childrenfrom starvation, on being turned out of the Kenmare (Kerry) union workhouse by the master, in obedience to an order he received from the board of guardians to get rid of all widows having two children. The following is the poor mother's evidence :—" Cathe rine Connolly sworn.—The poor woman wept most bit terly, and after some time told the following melancholy tale :—She and her children, the eldest of whom was 14 years of age, were in the Kenmare poorhouse. Was put out.. Was put out a good while after breakfast, and got no relief since. Asked the relieving officer for relief, and he answered her that her name was not on his books, but to come to him the following Monday at Lauragh and that she would get it. Asked the master of the work house for a ticket, and he said there was no occasion, as her name was on the book of the relieving officer. Parted with the children for the purpose of getting her name on the book, thinking they would be able to make out their home by themselves. Is sure they would have lived, had they got anything to eat. They had nothing to eat from the time they left the workhouse but one plate of gruel between the five of them ; they got it at the house of John Harrington; and has no doubt on her mind but they died of hunger." The jury returned a verdict that they.came by their death through the neglect of the board of guardians. SPECIAL COMMISSION AT ENNIS.—On Friday, the Chief Baron and the Court were occupied the whole of the day with the trial of the two men, Patrick Ryan and James Hayes, for the m ur d er o f Mr. Watson ; and from the notoriety of the case, and the peculiar nature of some portions of the evidence, the court was crowded. After the trial, the jury, after an absence of ten minutes, pro nounced a verdict of " guilty" against both the pri soners. Hayes betrayed considerable emotion at the announcement, but the prisoner Ryan appeared to treat it with the greatest indifference. After the trial was coueluded, several prisoners against whom true bills had been found by the grand jury were brought up to be arraigned. Amongst them were Thomas Winernherny and five others, for the murder of a man named M`Mallun, on the 3d instant, and M'lnernherny, on the Clerk of the. Crown asking him whether he was _guilty or not guilty, immediately answered, " I am guilty, my lord, but these five others are not." Mr. O'Hea said it must be some misapprehension. The Lord Chief Justice pointed out to the prisoner that, if he persisted in his plea of guilty, he must most assuredly be hanged. The Prisoner : I am guilty, my lord, and there were five others with me : but not these men hi the dock.—The Lord Chief Justice then directed an attorney to explain to the prisoner the position in which he was placing him self ; and, after a few minutes' conversation between the prisoner and the attorney, the question was again put, and they all then pleaded " Not guilty." IDENUNCIATIONS FROM THE ALTAR, The Dublin Mail of the 12th has a most extraordinary account of the boldness of a gentleman named Holmes, who, at the chapel of Ballaghaderreen, county Mayo, de nounced to his face the parish priest, a Mr. Tighe, for having used inflammatory language towards his brother, a resident proprietor. Mr. Holmes had travelled from England for the purpose of addressing this priest's con gregation, and on Thursday, the 6th instant, he was accommodated by Mr. Tighe with a place at the altar, and after pointing out in plain but forcible language the kindness and sacrifices of his brother to benefit the people, he thus continued : And what is the return he has met with ? Do you require to be told Why, when he left home, a month ago, it is notorious that the assassins who were to murder him had arrived in the parish, and were harboured amongst you! There are those amongst you that know it. I can account for the presence of those miscreants. They were attracted hither by the inflammatory harangues of your priest here (pointing to Mr. Tighe). I tell him so to his face. (Tremendous uproar in the chapel. Cries of "Turn him out," " he is a liar," and a scene of great confusion, during which the curate in vain attempted to address and appease the people, followed). At length Mr. Tighe suc ceeded, after many ineffectual efforts, in obtaining a hearing. Mr. Tighe—lt is false that I made any attacks on Mr. Holmes ; there have been houses levelled in this parish, and poor wretches turned out, but. I never attacked Mr. Holmes. Mr. Holmes—l know that you did, and I tell you at this altar, to your face, and in the presence of the congre gation, that your attacks on my brother from this spot have brought these murderers to this parish. Here the uproar re-commenced, and some of the more violent of the congregation appeared to pass over the rails to the altar, the priests endeavouring to restrain them. Mr. Holmes (advancing in front)—l am not afraid of you. I came here to tell you these truths alone, and I am not to be deterred by five hundred of you. Mr. Tighe—My friends, this is the house of God. Let us have no more of this. Mr. Holmes has charged me with attacks on his brother, which anyt'-' - let him ad,' ling more to say, chapel. you outside Mr. Holmes, having declined any further address to the people, left the chapel surrounded by the mob, who refrained from any act of personal violence him with groans and execrations on his driving away but saluted CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE Mr. Wm. Henry Foy, of St. Bees' College, has been appointed to the lucrative office of British chaplain to a district in the north of India, by the Bishop of Calcutta. MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL.—A lady has lately for warded to the Dean of Manchester the sum of £5O, for the erection in the cathedral of any article of furniture or ornament which might be thought advisable. The dean has decided upon appropriating the money to the erection of a font. The Rev. J. Garbett, Rural Dean of Birmingham, has been appointed examining chaplain to the Right Rev. James Prince Lee, Bishop of Manchester, and is ap pointed to preach the consecration sermon at Whitehall Chapel, on Sunday. The Oxford Magazine for this month says, " We know that the foreseen reaction has come. Puseyism has natu rally developed' into Infidelity in some of the •acutest minds among the younger members of .the C avocation. They have not seceded to Rome : they remain where they were born and nurtured. Many of them retain nothing of their early Puseyism, but its hatred of evangelical and scriptural truth. This is a most melancholy fact." The articles presented by Mr. Gutteridge against the Bishop of Manchester repeat the charges as to divers al leged acts of intoxication at the Blue Coat School and Bishop Ryder's Church, as also at his lordship's own pri vate residence, the latter being alleged to be notorious to the members of the household, and amongst others to Mr. Abbott, one of the under masters of the school. Mr. Abbott, since the publication of the statement, has denied in tot° the truth of this allegation, to which he gives the most unqualified and emphatic denial. In the Arches Court, on Tuesday, Sir H. J. Fust sen tenced the Rev. J. Mayor, Perpetual Curate of Forest hill, to be deprived of that benefice, to which he had been nominated in 1823, because in 1825 he procured himself to be inducted to the living of Hadleigh without procuring a legal dispensation. The Bishop of Oxford, through his secretary, instituted the suit, relying upon a decree of the Council of Lateran, binding upon the clergy of this country, and which declares that whosoever shall take a second benefice of souls without license shall forfeit the first. The new archbishop of York was enthroned on Thurs day with the usual ceremony. The lord archbishop was conducted to the Chapter House, where be made his pe tition to be invested in all the rights of the archiepiscopal dignity. A procession was then formed to the altar in the choir, where the lord archbishop petitioned as before, and he then took the usual oath. administered by the re gistrar. His grace was then conducted to a chair, near the altar, and the president placing his hand on the head of the archbishop, invested him with the pastoral and archiepiscopal dignity. . DR. HAMPDEN.—Among the signatures of the clergy to the address of confidence in Dr. Hampden, we find the following of reverend gentlemen connected with this town and neighbourhood :—Revds. Drummond Anderson, Dr. Booth, J. P. Boutflower, G. H. Bowers, Dean of Manchester, Dr. Byrth, J. Cordeaux, H. Cowan, J. H. Crowder, John Crump, George Cuthbert, Robert Davies, George Dover, W. W. Ewbank, A. Hamilton, W. F. Ancock, W. Hughes, Dr. Hume, Andrew Knox, A. M'Conkey, W. Maynard, J. W. Milner, T. Nolan, A. E. Obins, T. Radford, W. Rawson, E. Roberts, R. Wall, R. C. Welsh, R. Wilde, J. E. Bates, and J. E. Gladstone. The clergy of the Archdeaconry of Gloucester held a meeting in the Cathedral of that city, on Tuesday, for the purpose of presenting an address of sympathy to the Lord Bishop of the Diocese on the rejection of the remonstrance against Dr. Hampden's appointment to the Bishopric of Hereford, transmitted by the Bishops to the Premier. The Rev. Mr. Kennaway, of Campden, moved the address, which was seconded by the Rev. Mr. Estcourt. The Rev. Dr. Jenne, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and Canon of Gloucester, moved, as an amendment, that it was inexpedient to address, and this was seconded by the Rev. Mr. Close, of Cheltenham. Long speeches were made by the gentlemen named, and, after a warm discus sion the meeting divided, when the address was carried by 71 to 28 votes. THE RIGHTS OF THE CROWN.—In the course of the proceedings relative to the confirmation of Dr. Hampden's appointment, Dr. Lushington touched the point of the case, when he said—" No doubt there may be inconsis tency in these modes of proceeding; indeed I think it would be in vain to deny that such is the case. But really, what are the facts ? The times when this statute was passed were times when we were emerging from the power of the Papacy into the freedom of the Refofmation, and when practices—and, I am sorry to say, principles too—vacillated ; and is there any wonder that a Sove reign upon his throne in those times was anxious to re tain the ancient form, though at the same time anxious to engross into his own hands the real power ?"—namely, the power of the nomination of bishops, from regularly ordained and qualified persons, instead of that power being exercised by the Pope. The Bishop of Exeter has put forward an appeal to the Christian charity of England for aid in relieving the spi ritual destitution, " almost unequalled in intensity," from which Devonport suffers. For 26,000 inhabitants there is no parochial church or Chapel. There are two conse crated chapels, but they have no proper free seats. In three districts, containing a population of 18,000, and separated from the town under 6 and 7 Victoria, c, 37, there is no church or even chapel whatever. There is another district similarly unprovided. In no part of Devonport is gratuitous accommodation afforded even by Dissenting meeting-houses. The absence of free schools is equally to be deplored. There is only one "ragged school," recently established, and a day school for the sons of seamen, &c. Applications have been made to the Government ; but they have " no funds applicable to such a purpose." Four large churches are required for the four districts ; and to build and endow them a large sum is nePilPri. ,j - is to meet " curb arrnmitlatinn ~f api_ ritual wants that the Bishop makes this appeal. EXTRACT FROM ARCHDEACON HARE'S PAMPHLET ON THE BAMPTON LECTURES.—The author, having shown in detail the unfairness of the quotations made from the Bampton Lectures by the Corpus Committee, he thus continues :—" Here at length we may pass out of this valley of death. There are still three or four propositions that I have not noticed ; but they seem to be merely stuck in to swell out the list, and, after what has already been said, need no examination. Such a collection of frandu lent misrepresentations has hardly ever come under my notice, though I have had much experience in this way ; and it has been a painful task to oppose them. But, as I have had to say, on a former occasion, a lying spirit is stalking through our Church, and even taking possession of some minds that would otherwise be among its pillars and noblest ornaments : and this spirit we must endeavour to cast out, at whatsoever cost. Who the collector of this series of propositions may be, I know not. Most probably he will befound:among those whose love of truth has sought a congenial resting-place in the Rornish schism ; an d hi s natural end seems to be, unless some higher spirit arrest him, to become a familiar of the inquisition." CONFIRMATION OF THE ELECTION OF THE BISHOP OF HEREFORD. The confirmation of the Rev. Rena Dickson Hampden, D.D., to the Bishopric of Hereford, took place on Tues day, at Bow Church, Cheapside. Long b e f ore t h e ti me appointed for the ceremony the church was crowded to excess, and numbers were unable to obtain admission. The proceedings excited intense interest. At 11 o'clock the commissioners of his Grace the Arch bishop of Canterbury, viz., Dr. Burnaby, Vicar General of Canterbury, Sir John Dodson, Master of the Faculties, and Dr. Lushington, took their seats at the table in the middle aisle of the church. Proclamation having been made, calling on opposers (if any) to come forward, Mr. Townsend (Proctor) said he had a protest to pre s;:mt against the proceedings of that day, which was signed by Dr. Walbroke Hendley, All Saints, Oxford • John Jebb, Tri n ity C o ll ege , Dublin ; and F. W . Powell, Cam bridge ;_ ommissioners decided that the protest could not which he prayed might be read. C The be azeceived ; they were assembled under a :commission, s igned by the Archbishop of Canterbury, to proceed with. the confirmation of Dr. Hampden, Bishop Elect of the see of Hereford, and if they neglected to do so they were liable, under the statute of Henry VIII, to heavy pains an dpenalties. The Bishop Elect was here introduced, and took his seat at the table where the Commissioners were assemb led, and on proclamation being made a second time for the op posers to come forward, Mr. Townsend said, as 'the Court had refused to hear the protest, he begged permission to hand in the copy of a libel which the objectors wished to have argued in the ecclesiastical courts. Dr. Burnaby said it could not be received. The Com missioners were sitting that day under provisions of the the statute of Henry VIII., and they were bound to pro ceed with the confirmation. The opposers had no legal right to be heard, but the Court would not object. Dr. Adams then, in a long speech, addressed the Com missioners. The learned advocate contended that the protest against Dr. Hampden's election to the see of Hereford ought to be fully considered in the Arche s Court, and he trusted no impediment would be thrown in the way. He considered that the statute of Henry VIII. had no bearing in the present case, and therefore he should be indeed surprised if the Court refused to enter tain the protest. If an individual had been unduly elected to the office of Bishop, surely, on sufficient grounds being shown, the Court would not proceed with the confirmation . Now the opposers stated that Dr. Hampden had not been duly and according to law, elected Bishop of Hereford, as the election by the Dean and Chapter was not unanimous. He would not speculate on what other objections might be argued, if the Com missioners allowed the confirmation to be stayed until the case could be heard in the Ecclesiastical Courts. If the party elected was a Jew, Turk, or heretic, or infidel, would not the Court, in such a ease, interfere ? Parties oppos ing the election were called upon to appear, and state their objections, or otherwise they would be held contu macious ; and when they did so, was it not a farce, a mockery of justice, to be told that the objections could not be entertained ? At the conclusion of a long argument, Dr. Burnaby said he was decidedly of opinion that the Commissioners had no power or authority to entertain th e objections against Dr. Hampden's election. Dr. Lushington and Sir John Dodson were of the same opinion. The ennfirmation was then proceeded with, and at its conclusion the Bishops and Commissioners left the church. THE BISHOPS OF HEREFORD AND OXFORD The subjoined letter has been addressed by the Bishop of. Hereford (elect) to the Rev. R. R. Faulkner. of Haver ing-atte-Bower, Essex : " Christ Church, Oxford, Jan. 7, 1848. " DEAR SlR,—Your warm congratulation on my pro motion to the see of Hereford demands my sincere thanks. The sympathy of one who has himself stood his ground so firmly against a violent Tractarian assault is most wel come to me. You did essential service by your resistance to that outrageous attempt of the Camden Society to in trude on your rights in your parish, and overbear your Christian conscientiousness. lam much obliged to you for the report you have sent me of the proceedings in that case. I shall have much satisfaction in going through it when I have leisure from the engagements which press heavy on me at this moment. " 1 have had abundant matter of vexatious doings the last few weeks. But I feel more than compensated for any personal annoyance by the good which I am sure will eventually come out of the present disturbance. The strength and designs of the Tractarian party (the real movers throughout, whatever may be said to the con trary) will have been disclosed, and the necessity of rally ing the true Protestant spirit of our Church will have been demonstrated. I am deeply thankful to a good Providence for the course which events ha ye taken. " I am, dear sir, your's faithfully " R. D. HEREFORD (Elect) " P. S.—The Bishop of Oxford would insinuate, in his letter to the Times, that I have made concessions to him. I shall be obliged to you most positively to contra dict any such statement, should you hear it alleged—it is not true. " The Rev. R. R. Faulkner." DR. HAMPDEN AND DR. WHATELEY The Archbishop of Dublin has published his "thoughts" on the proceedings against the Bishop of Hereford. It occupies nearly a page in the London Times of Saturday. We can quote but one passage to-day, and that we cite the rather that it suits our space than that it has, of all other passages in the book, the most excited our admira tion. The Archbishop, after imagining a churchman who has for years resided far away from the possibility of being ac quainted with the passing state of things in reference to the church, and who suddenly returns at the present crisis, points out several things that would raise his wonder, and thus proceeds : " And, to crown all, he would find the remonstrants urging Ministers, on the very grounds of Dr. Hampden's theological unsoundness, to leave him in the office of Re gius Professor of Theology. For if they bad thought it possible, and desirable, to remove him from that office, by bringing him to a regular trial for heresy, and obtaining a sentence against him, of course they would have done so many years . ago. _ _ . _ _ _ " And yet, one would think, soundness in religious opinions must be, at least, not less requisite—perhaps even more so—in a professor, who is necessarily occupied in training for the ministry successive generations of divinity students (who are required, generally, by the bishops, to attend his lectures), than in a bishop, who may, and sometimes does, take no part, personally, in the instruc tion and examination of candidates for holy orders—hand ing them over altogether to his chaplains. From this most important and 'responsible office, held by Dr. Hampden for so many years, no attempt was made to remove him. The celebrated vote of Convocation only deprived him of a seat at the board which appoints the select preachers before the University, which was a post of comparatively small importance; because, in the event of any question arising as to a person's fitness to be select preacher, the professor has only one vote among several. But when it was proposed to remove Dr. Hampd en f rom the professorship, by raising him to the bench, then the remonstrants loudly called for an enquiry into his doc trines ; not on the ground of any conviction that they were heterodox, but avowedly on the ground of the cla mour that had been raised against him. ' And as they cried out , and cast o ff th e i r c l o th es , an d th rew d us t i n t o the air, the chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging, that he might know wherefore they cried so against him" (Acts xxii. 23, 24). " A stranger, then, such as I have been supposing, would be struck with this as one of the most extraordi nary features of this strange transaction—that men pro fessing great zeal for purity of doctrine should be found imploring ministers to ' make choice of some other person' for a bishopric, and to leave Dr. Hampden in an office especially calling for sound theological views, BECAUSE his views are UNSOUND ! —ln the Spanish Chamber of schment of Salamanca for peculation the 6th instant, when Senor Benavides warmly defended the conduct of his late colleague, the ex-minister. The debate was brought to a close for the day by a very ani- dared that 6alamanca could not be considered free from suspicion until he should have undergone a solemn trial. I up Salamanca, who declared the statement to Ly, and added, " r demand a solemn judgment, t I may go to the gallows if I merit it, or that be a calumr in order tha esciibable confusion ensued, numl inv. Iticulating vio: bers of de and others ! order! Senor Salamanca was pro nly exclaimed, " I cannot conti -1 fell back on his seat. (He has for ;hould be observed, been labouring tion.) Senor Salamanca was borne er in the arms of his friends, all of whom 7 agitated, and many of whom cried, " It y ! It is a calumny !" The c h am b er deter the debate should be adjourned. shouting " Or ceedir appeared when I ROME.—Letters from Rome of the 2nd instant mention the failure of a new conspiracy against the people of that capital. The Retrograde party had circulated a report that the Pope had declared that he would not receive the felicitations of the Romans on the occasion of the ne w _ _ Ist of January to the Q of his E 3n. A deputation - of the inhabitants, waited on Prince Corsini, the senator, Le truth of the report, the latter repaired . , nal to ascertain if su c h was the determination After some difficulty he was admitted ae Pope, who said to him, " What ! ed to present me their wishes ? After into the presence of ti expect that they would treat me with that in and coolness.' " But." replied the )osing that you were suff e Quirinal 'ering or ill, have sent wishes they form for ness." The Pope assured the Prince that he was not ill, and that he h a d g i ven no such o r d ers , an d •• your H from COM the people." On since tne people have been prey( e, to-morrow I will myself vis t universal acclamations, stopping at all the rivir crilaraa ~• great interest , rpool arrived on Tues- New York to the 23rd Santa Anna having, as 4- the issued a pronunciamento a nent at Queretaro, calling upon them of 50.000 men_ for the nurnncua of re_ on the 22nd of November, and had assumed the command of the army at Oaica. He says that he was deprived of the command of the army at Oaica by Pena y Pena, in order that the latter might find no obstacle in making peace with the Americans. He avows his determination to 000nqr. nnv negociation for peace with the American torces occupying any nortion of the Mexican tArritory Na at the head of a force of 16,000 men of all arms, and was threatening Congress in session, at Queretaro, most of meinbers:were inclined to peace entertained at So great Mexico by the Americans of Santa Anna's succeeding in breaking upCongress a la Cromwell, that General Scott had ordered thither a strong force to The General-in Chief, Basta -quarters at Guanajuato with an with a force of 2,000 men mente, bad yet his head army of 9,000. RIOT AT MILAN.—The burlesque and the bloody have been strangely mingled in Milan. Thr. nicrar Mfr. rrtnrt °tiler LrIVIZIILLICS 111 weir time,—has become a political badge, and a man ranks as a n A ustr i an or an I tal i an, and may be cut down either by the soldiers or the people, as he chooses to make an open manifestation of his respect or disdain for tobacco. It had already been announced that the people of Milan, to embarrass the government, had resolved to discontinue the use of tobacco, from the tax on which a very large revenue had been derived. The pledge seems to have been universally kept w ith ou t an y other demonstration of feeling on either side until the 2nd instant, when the appearance of two persons on the Corso, an Austrian officer. and an American. beeMili , HIP neon- sion of an unfo r t una t e excitement,—the officer received a blow on the cheek, and the American's cigar was knocked out of his mouth. A wise policy would have overlooked the affair; or at most have mildly dealt with it, as an or dinary police affair. The military authorities, however, judging otherwise, hit upon the most senseless and dis graceful course which it was possible to pursue. Cigars were distributed among the troops during the night with orders to smoke them on the morrow in the town. This could be neither more nor less than a provocation to bloodshed. From 100 to 200 men of the garrison, it is said, flushed with wine, smoking their cigars, swaggered through the town jeering at the people. This stupid in sult was borne patiently for some time, but at length the people began to hiss ; the soldiers then fell upon the peo ple; a sort of fight was then kept up from six o'clock to midnight, the people showing great firmness, and leaving no means untried to repel their aggressors. Several parties were killed and others injured. Two days after wards the Municipality, apparently displeased with this military outrage, issued a proclamation couched in kind language, exhorting the people to be tranquil. The Vice roy, who was absent at the time, pursued a similar course. Meanwhile, the people call upon each other not to be provoked into unseasonable violence; though they openly cry for vengeance, and are supplying themselves with arms. Another step in the policy of passive resistance has been resolved on ; the lottery is virtually put an end to ; every man in a dependant position who takes shares in it to be dismissed; every independent man to be held up to public contempt. All this is serious. It is another in gredient of mischief that the introduction of Austrian troops into Modena and the Duchy of Parma has greatly exasperated the Italians. The various Cabinets of Europe cannot look without anxiety on the actual aspect of the affairs of Italy THE CHASE The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, (To -morrow,) at Hankelow ; on Thursday, at Cholmon deley ; on Saturday. at Wrenbury Village. Sir W. W. WYNN'S Hounds will meet on Tuesday, (this day,) at Bangor ; on Thursday, at Oteley Park ; on Friday, at Carden. Each day at half-past ten o'clock. COURT AND FASHION. The Court has removed for a short time to Claremont, where her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the junior mem bers of the royal family, have been taking their habitual out-door exercise since our last. The Earl of Fowls, who was accidentally shot by his son, the Hon Robert Herbert, while shooting in the pre serves at Powis Castle, on Friday week, is going on well. Raby Castle, Durham, has been the gay scene of those festivities usual at this season, and the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland have entertained their guests in a style of magnificence worthy of that truly princely residence. Lady Zetland has recovered from the effect of her fright on the railway, her maid is also in a fair way of recovery, and instead of her hands having been cut off by the en gine, she has only lost two fingers, that were amputated. It is now fully admitted that had her ladyship and her at tendant remained in the carriage, no accident would have occurred. During the festivities at Woburn Abbey, private the atricals were indulged in. According to the bill of the amusements, the performances were "in honour and under the patronage of Chevalier Bunsen, the Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of Prussia." The selection made on the occasion was an extravaganza, entitled "Our Virgin Queen ; or, Too Much Supper," the dramatis person& being as follows :--- Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess Dowager of Bedford ; Duchess of Rutland, Lady Rachel Russell ; Sir Walter Raleigh, Mr. R. Monckton Milnes; Sally Swallow, Lady Rachel Russell ; A Friend (who drops in), Mr. Augustus Stafford, M.P. It was an nounced to those anxious to witness the performanc es , by the authorised bill, that " The perfo rmances com mence as soon as claret and coffee will allow." We un derstand that Mr. Stafford created much merriment by the able manner in which he enacted the humorous part of A Friend who drops in. Lady Rachel Russell, as Sally Swallow, and Mr. Milues as Sir Walter Raleigh, ably acquitted themselves. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. -- -FRIDAY. THE QUEEN V. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY MANDAMUS.:fR:IIAMPDEN AND THE SEE OF HERE FORD.-Sir Fitzroy Kelly moved for a rule, calling upon his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue, directing him to declare the proceedings of confirming Dr. Hampden, Bishop of Hereford, at Bow Church, on Tuesday last, illegal, and therefore set aside. The learned counsel said, he had a petition and affidavits signed by the Rev. Huntley, clerk, and two other clergymen of the Church of England, stating they attended by counsel and proctors to oppose the, confirmation ; but on presenting themselves the commissioners stated that they could not be heard, although in a due and formal manner they had been called upon to state their objections. They now, therefore, prayed this court to interpose its authority in a case which involved a question of the highest possible importance to the church.—Rule nisi for a mandamus granted. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, IN RE W. F. FARLIY.—RAISING MONEY UNDER POST-OFFICE STAMPS.—This insolvent was opposed by Mr. Cooke for Messrs. Evans and Payne. The trade debts amounted to £1,700. It appeared that the insolvent had kept a toy-shop, and was appointed letter-receiver by the posttoffice authorities, for which he was paid £56 a-year. On the postoffice being removed from his house, he was found " wanting " in the sum of £331 17s. 4d. — Mr. Cooke put several•questions to the insolvent, and from his replies, it transpired that he had be en i n th e habit of pawning postage stamps, and that he had disposed of as many as twenty-five to thirty pounds' worth at a time in this way. Altogether he had raised about £3OO upon his " government security." The rate at which the money was lent him was 10 per cent., receiving from the pawn broker £lB for every £2O worth of stamps,—Mr. Cooke submitted that the pawnbroker who had sanctioned this dishonest traffic must be entered as a creditor, and must also be examined.—The Commissioner said there was no doubt whatever that the insolvent had wilfully left all mention of these transactions out of his schedule, for the purpose of screening himself and the pawnbroker. A traffic in government stamps—which the insolvent had re ceived from the crown to sell in his official capacity— would never be sanctioned. The matter must be sifted to the bottom, and the whole particulars set forth. The case would therefore stand adjourned for a week.—Ad journed accordingly. MR. SEYMOTJR'S DEFENCE OF REID.-Mr. Seymour, like Mr. C. Phillips, whose example he h a s f o llowed, is an Irishman. It is important to the E ng li s h bar that it should.be asserted, that the principles enunciated by Mr. Seymour are, as it would appear, mere ly importations from the other side of the c ha nne l, an d are not born and bred, and domiciled on our own soil. Mr. Seymour as serts that counsel is bou n d t o p reserv e the secret reposed in him in professional c o n fid ence , So far be is right. Counsel is not bound to re a d hi s brief to the jury. H e i s also, says Mr. Seymou r , e qua lly bound "to fram e th e best defence in his power f r om the evidence given a t hi s trial." Here lurks the fallacy. This is the truth, but not the whole truth. He should have added, " provided that in doing so he violates no moral obligation ;" and a fore most duty is, that we shall inflict no wrong upon others even for our advantage. The definition of the duty of counsel we take to be this. He is to say for the prisoner what he might say for himself had he the ability. His business is to show to the court, not so much that the prisoner is or is not guilty of the crime charged, as that he is not legelly proved to be guilty ; and this he may do, even with a full knowledge of guilt in fact, without the slightest violation of the strictest morality. But, in doing this, 'religion and morality forbid the resort to falsehood of any kind, and humanity unites with them in denouncing so monstrous an injustice as the attempt to shift the o]urge from the guilty to the innocent.—Law Times., Jan. 18, 1848. RAILWAY AFFAIRS, The differences of the Lancaster and Preston and the , , Canal Company ar e no t ye t h ea l e d . At the spe co meeting the conferences between the boards of the V° corporations were stated to havete;nin;tedwiThout anY result—except an intimation from the Canal ConwanY seeking legal assistance. Four: men were buried alive by the falling of a bridg e on the branch railway from Rawenstall to Bacup, fell upon them while they were repairing some damage it had sustained by the floods. After several hours two Welr e got out alive, but in a dangerous state. The other's named Bently and Halstead, were both dead. From our official returns it appears that the amount traffic, for the last week, on upwards of 3,423 miles ' 0 railway was £160,026, thus accounted for :—£81,077 fo r the conveyance of passengers only, £39,720 for the ca" riage of goods, and a remainder of £39,229 for passenger s and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; an increase of £21,726 over the corresponding week °` the former year, when the mileage was 2,660. The average earnings per mile for last week were £47, whil si in 1847 they were £52. ATTEMPT TO DESTROY A PASSENGER TRAIN.-At th e quarter sessions held at Cardiff on the 9th of this month' William Scott was convicted and sentenced to seven years' transportation, for wilfully attempting to o ver turn a passenger train on the Taff Vale Railway, 133 ' removing the rails. The train proceeded at its usual r ate, and with apparent security, until it had arrived 18 mile 3 from Cardiff, when the engine, tender, and three of the t carriages went off the line. Fortunately for the lives c e the passengers, the engine went off on the side of the mountain. On inspecting the line, it was discovered tbat two of the rails had been taken up. Had the rails bee' displaced only a few yards further on, the train must have gone into the river. AMBERGATE, NOTTINGHAM, AND BOSTON RAILWAY' —W. F. Norton, Esq. (the chairman) and the whole of the directors of this company, met at Bottesford, on Tuesday, for the purpose of looking over the line frore, that place to Grantham, a dist anc e o f a b ou t seven a nd a-half miles—which they found in a very forward state - ' four and a-half miles of the permanent way having been laid, and the remainder nearly ready to receive the per manent way. The bridges, culverts, and embankments ! are all nearly finished. Th e y th en v i ewe d th e G one sbk tunnel, near Grantham, which is upwards of five hundred yards long, nearly half of which is completed ; and after wards walked through the cutting at the east end-of the tunnel, and examined the station ground at Grantham , and also the branch line to the wharf. The directors e 1 pressed themselves highly satisfied with the p ro gress made. FATAL RAILWAY RIOTS.—On the sth inst. a numbe.r, of navvies engaged o n th e Ab er d een ra il way were paid their wages, after which they began at midnight to offer insults to some of the villagers at Stonehaven, who were then engaged in celebrating Christmas in the old style. Towards morning a good many houses were forcibly ell' tered, and soon after it became evident that a premedi tated attack was about to be made. The constabularl force were able to hold in check the earlier disturbances , but the Highlandmen, being armed with bludgeons, and perfectly ferocious, every attempt to resist their barbaroe s onslaught was futile, and the police had to abandon the ground. Houses were now broken into, bakers' and bat' chers' shops ransacked, spirit cellars in some cases emP' tied, and one young man was so severely bruised by the blows of a ruffian that he died on Wednesday night others were more or less bruised, and some of them now lie in a very hopeless condition. ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTER' RAILWAY.—On Friday, the six o'clock p.m. up-trail' from Southampton had proceeded a s f ar as a p l ace ca lle Frimley, about a mile and a half on the S ou th am pton. side of Woking, when, owing to some disa rrangemen t of the machinery of the engine, it was brought to a stand,' still. The engine -driver in charge of th e t ra i n , David Martland, immediately proceeded to repair the defect , and, in order to prevent the possibility of accident, the second guard was sent back with a red light to stay the progress of the usual night luggage-train from Southarer ton. This officer had been gone twenty minutes when the expected train was heard approaching, and, in order to insure safety, another person was sent back with 5 red lamp. This person had scarcely cleared the Pas' senger-train, when the luggage-train ran into it with terrific force, carrying destruction on every side. Mart' land, the engine -driver, who was just putting the finishing stroke to the repairs of his engine—the fit guard holding his lamp to him at the time—was crushed. to death beneath it, and the breaksman and the stoker of the luggage-train were very seriously injured, the former more especially. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, THE GREAT CRICKETING MATCHES IN THE NORTH•I One of the first of these exciting events to be play o ; during the approaching season will be between eleven °` England and twenty two of Birmingham, which is fixed to come off at the latter town, on Thursd a y the 4th o f EXTRAORDINARY MATCH.—Mr. Nunn, a gentleman well known on the turf, having undertaken for a larg e wager to ride a steeple-chase mare from Leamington to Long's Hotel, Bond-street, London, (nearly 100 miles)' in 12 hours, started at 12 o'clock on Sunday night week , and reached his destination about a qua r te r before 12 o'clock on Monday morning, winning by a quarter of e n hour. The rider, we believe, is very little worse for the journey ; but his gallant, ill-used mare is not .expected t° survive. POLITICAL VARIETIES. The Morning Chronicle emphatically points to the sig° nificant fact that the French papers do not made the most distant allusion to the Duke of Wellington's letter on oll! national defences, or to the excitement prevailing amongs t us on that subject. _ In 1846, we had a revenue exceeding the expenditure bY £1,781,659 2s. ld. In 1847 an expenditure exceeding Mt income byX326,608 Bs. The retrograde movement, there' fore, is to the extent of more than two millions per annum' But the worst point is, that the declension from bad to worse is still rapidly going on. In 1841, the late Lord Sydenham, in writing to a friend at home, used these memorable words :—" I have se nt to the Colonial Office a. long report on emigration, which some of you won't like, because it declares that to throvi starving and diseased paupers under the rock at Quebec ought to be punishable as murder." Two Cabinet Councils have been held last week, i n D ow ning-street, and it is understood that Her Majesty Ministers are an x i ous l y engage d i n t h e preparation ° measures to submit to Parliament on its re- assem bling early next m on th. A n aw f u lly-d e fi c i en t revenue Tints', prepare the people of England for additional taxation in the thirty-third year of peace and the sixteenth of reform,' The Whigs were always wretched bands at finance, an" they appear determined to maintain thei r unenv i a ble re' putation. CONSERVATISM AT BIRMINGHAM.—We are identifie d with Protestant Toryism, and to the extent of our h u mble, ability, we have never shrunk from maintaining Ri g ht arl,!.. Truth, because for a season they may have chan ce d to ov unpopular ; but we own with reluctance that while the circulation of the Advertiser has more than tripled within the last nine months, the Conservatives of Birminghto' as a body, have manifested but little interest in the sve' cess of our enterprise. That we have studied to deserv e support we can conscientiously declare ; an d th e grea t reason we have not accomplished more will be found 1 1 the depressing influence which the scarcity of f r ie n d s Wl' of necessity occasion. We have in several cases met with noble and most disinterested supporters. To them we beg to award our sincere and ardent thanks ; but there is FACT which we will not seek to disguise ; that on severe' occasions, when, to serve the Conservative interest, W e have incurred great expenses, we have met with a very ill' adequate return from those connected with the Tory partif while our political opponents have testified by their eage f purchase of our journal, that the matter was at least o r serv ing of attention.—Birmingham Advertiser. PEACE WITH ROME.--The Times hints that one of th e first measures of the government, after the recess, w ill b` the introduction of a bill into parliament calculated to re:, move the legal d ou b ts w hi c h ex i s t as to our diploma tic relations with the Papal See. There are two statuteA which preve n t it. B y t h e s t h o f Eli za b eth, cap. 1, it.'" enacted, that " an y person who sh a ll a d v i se dl y and vc“': tingly attribute, by any speech, open deed, or act, 3 % manner of jurisdiction, authority, or pre-eminence to tu a Bishop, or See of Rome, within this realm, shall incu r ..., prcemzmire." The next statute is that of the Ist William 111., e xplanatory of th cap. 2, which enacts the exclusion from the Crolc,'; and Government of this realm of " any person who sha ll on with the See °, se to te th rm e s e . aP l re:i be reconciled to, shall hold communion with the See 0 : Rome, or shall profess the Popish religion." Some doub t s h i a o s n beens "reconciled atta ch ed , to by and gre holda t le g c a o l m subtlety, mun Rome ;" but the next clause, " or shall profess the Polit e religion," is evidently object of the act was to exclude from the throne of Ea; land a Prince who, like James 11., would h ave em brace the Romish faith, ' and the word s, " reconciled to and bola' communion religiousel. Sovereign. Wh a t ever th ese arra nge; says the:T; - -meg, they must of course rest 0 a footing of complete equality, if England recognize s the Sovereign of the Pap a l St a t es an d th e P ont iff o f 01 R o man See, Pius IX ., recogn i zes the Protestant Queen °, mntsbe, faith with, i o t h f , theclearly rel a t e ent i rely to the perso n ' these realms, and the legal head of the Reformed Chorea of England. - LIBERAL MISRULE.—" Experience," says Dr. John" son is the great test of truth, and is perpetually contra" dieting th e th eor i es o f men ." "If an empire,' said 1"; poleon, "were made of granite, it would soon be reduce' to powder by political economists.,' Never was there period when the truths stated by these master minds wer e so clearly and strikingly illustrated as the present ; n eve r was there an epoch when the necessity was so fearful'' evinced of casting off the speculativ e do gmas o f forn3e , ," times, and shaping our course by the b roa d li g ht w hich experience has thrown on human transactions. If this be l done, if wisdom is learnt by experi ence , an d error e x pelle, by suffering, it is yet possible to re m edy th e ev il s ; th o ng ': not before a frightful and yet unfelt amoun t o f m i ser y, ha been encountered by the people. For the last thirty year'' the liberal party have had the almost uncontrolled dire(' tion of the affairs of the nation. One by one they have beat down all the ancient safeguards of British industry' and given effect to the whole theoretical doctrines of th e political economists. So complete has b een t h e i r ascent': ancy, in the national councils—so entire in general the acquiescence of the nation in their direction, that withou t one single exception ALL their doctrines have been earrie t into practice ; and the year 1847 exhibits a fair, and it xi be presumed average result of the libe ra l system when r e ; duced into execution. The re su lt i s so cur i ous , it s l es soo r so pregnant with instructi on , it s warn i ng o f com i ng di sa ste , so terrible, that we gladly avail ourselves of the openii of a new year, to portray them in a few paragraphs to ow . xeaders.—Blackwood. The Do money to On d fuo Wales foi Place, fell The fine gone extei Saturday. The roy her new c and Bostc fifty passe On Thi mates, a and £l6, of valuab About Thompso . 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