The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. —® FRANCE. The Red Republicans are outrageous against General Cavai2nac for having dispatched an expedition to Civita Vecchia to rescue Pio Nono, in case his personal safety should be endangered. The Era Nouvelle says : Saturdav in the N leer of (disposition, that lam about to speak. Some five-and twenty years since he had a quarrel with another (Polish) artillery officer, whom he challenged to fight with pistols. They met. On the ground they tossed for the first shot, and Bern lost. His adversary took aim, fired, and Bern fell. The officer, believing him dead, prepared to quit the field, but Bern, who had received the ball in his right hip, turned over on his left side, raised himself on his el 'w and said. " Sr--- Tal, Lop, comrade; it is my turn now. .ake your place." The officer did so, and in a moment fell, shot through the heart. Bern lingered long untie) the wound. The ball could not be extracted. During twenty years he suffered excruciating torments from its presence, and at last resolved on proceeding to London to consult the faculty there. He was told that the operation, to be successful, must be a very painful one. He at once said that he would submit to it. He was accordingly thrown by ether into a state of stupor, and the operation com menced. The circular saw had indented the bone round the bullet, when the intense agony roused the patient. The operator became alarmed, but Bern reassured him, called for his pipe, lighted it, and commenced smoking while the operation was resumed, and was crowned with complete success. The ball was extracted, and Bem per fectly recovered.—Paris letter. IRELAND Mr. T. B. M`Manus was la3t week very ill of a severe bilious attack. The attack was at first thought to be cholera. On Thurs —way week at Kirkpatrick, in Tipperary, an in dustrious man, named James Henessey. was shot dead soon after daybreak. Thp vrimp hnd ya as!. IIL ...putes about land. The Protestants of Derry are about to erect a testimo nial to the late Professor Butler. At a meeting for the purpose in the Cathedral, on Wednesday, the Bishop presided. auc rr uterjoru ivews states that Matthew King, one of the state prisoners recently liberated from the county gaol, finding himself worse off than when a prisoner, actually applied next day for re-admittance_ The Clare Journal desci starvation, near Ennis. Ft have been famished to deatl Mme dreadful case: the poor-law union' MURDER FROM JEALous . v.—A man named Long, a farmer, of Limerick, has murderad his farm servant. The act seems to have been suggested by je'ulousy. Long had, on Monday night last. returned from the fair of Rothkeale to his own abode at CappanihaneLnear Croom. He found ' • ' ' .1. tit in 1 lion of intoxication and jealousy prom the poor wretch lay asl hinirien of rue opportunity tor so doing. in pieces. The new ministry had issued their political programme, REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—We happen to know that a which declared their adhesion to the principles contained clergyman at Leitrim who has been receiving out-door in the resolutions of June s—resolutions that had been relief; two other gentlemen, one a captain of militia, the enthreceisived by the deliberative asse m bly w ith so muc h other having had a property of £GOO or £7OO per annum, uttstn. are now reduced to p au p er i sm i n an a dj o i n i ng county, the The French governme n t h a d determined upon despatch- latter having been for years defrauded by his tenantry. ing 3500 troops in six steamers to the assistance of the Another sad instance of reverse of fortune and station is Pope, for his personal safety. This has been asserted, by that of a lady candidate as inmate of the workhouse ; this the Reforme, an opposition journal, to be only a stroke of melancholy victim of fortune's frowns is the sister of a policy, on the part of General Cavaignac, for gaining po- gentleman who was once possessed of property amounting pularity with a view to the Presidential election ; but the to £9,000 a year.— Sligo Journal. fact that such a demonstration is looked upon as likely to DISORGANISATION OF SOCIETY. — gain popularity proves that the assistance thus proffered been made upon a poor man who was taking home a bag on the part of France, will be pushed forward vigorously of meal to his family, and he was desperately beaten be to its ostensible purpose. cause he would not easily surrender it. The perpetrators In the mean time there is good reason to hope that of this, however, have been taken and lodged in gaol. other means of succour to the Pontiff have already anti- One man is threatened with death if he acts as herdsman, cipated the French 'goiernment. ' The news from Naples it is presumed on pastures whence tenants have been states that the misfortunes of the Pope have been expected evicted ; and another if he takes a farm. Tenants are there for some time, and that Admiral Parker had a fort- sworn not to pay more than one half-year's rent, and night before despatched her Alajef;ty's steam-sloop Bull- landlords are warned not to receive more • while, to cap dog, Com man d er A . C. K ey, to Ci v i ta V ecc hi a, to assist the whole, the excise collector is warned that in a certain the retreat of th e P o p e , and to receive him on board for district named they will pay neither license nor paper duty, conveyance to any place he might select for an asylum. and he must not seek either there. —Liinreick vaper. Looking at the horrid state in which Rome is now placed, DREADFUL DESTITUTION.--1 he provincial pape in all the violence of anarchy, and amidst a host of assas- ceived from the South and West are tins whn ay.vvr _ _ violent attack has shall cettai found his y I.ll kug uv weir ',Lowy violence, we o f cases of the most frightful destitution,- disease,, ply hear with satisfaction that the Pope has death. The potatoes have nearly disappeared from these way in safety to Malta or some other place of doomed regions —the harvest earnings are spent in pur chasing food down to a recent period—the poorhouses are 21st ult. announce that a crowded to overflowina.. end nntw;th.f.,„,l:-.....t._ Letters from Rome of th! tie extent um...Jur reuer is auministered the poor in the . . on that day to vote an address to the Pope to declare the mountainous and boggy districts are suffering all the hor fidelity of the Chamber to his Holiness. The resolution rors of famine. Starvation rages in the counties of Mayo, The Abbe de Rosmini had quitted Pome Cork, Sligo, Kerry, Clare, and Galway, to a fearful extent and more or less in several P'• was rejected for Paris. c'A ged with a secret mission A despatch by electric tele- aer counties nearer to the graPi intell ultimo dated Paris, metropolis A evening, states that official strange report appears in the Monaghan paper ~ad arrived from Civita Vecchia to the 26th Saturday—namely, that Lord Blayney, one of our most fhe Pope had left Rome on the 24th in dis- constantly resident noblemen, and not an embarrassed ;wise, and bad arrived at Gaeta, to which place the one, had parted with his residence and estates at Castle steamer Lenare had gone to meet him, and convey him blayney, county Monaghan, and was about to reside in diffto France. Rome remained tranquil, and seemed in- England. This would be a most un ex p ec t e d remnvn l erent as to . _ Tinrta'a rharse...em.e. 'Ph,. 01. _ - tuu rt uepaure. Inc unarnner ma and one whi c h pro b a bl y would have a considerable effect passed a vote of confidence in the Ministry. on the local politics of Cavan, Monaghan, and Fermanagh, The son of Rossi, standing over the dead body of his in each of which' counties this nobleman and his ancestors father, vowed awful vengeance on the murderer, whom he have alw a y s exerc i se d great influence. Lord ~„.. says he will 4-14.,74,t,.1„. 1;r- 4-- •,,Rlavnno IJUctieSS de itignana had written a letter to the late mi- school. nister. cautioning him not to attend on the opening day. purchaser. The document was found on his person. TENANT RIGHT.—Last week a tenant in this county who owed a year-and-half's rent, called upon his land lord, and expressine his anxiety to I.v us rue _linden and An English capitalist, it is said, I es been tl The Austrian diet AUSTRIA was openec _ .ct i ue.Le u to oe lent a pair of horses to plough Kremeier. Two more military executions under the the ground. The request was granted, and after four orders of General Windischgratz are reported • that of days the horses were returned. The landlord being Dr. Becker, said to be an Englishman, and Dr. ' Jellench, desirous to see how the work had been executed. visited editors of ie Radical. A grand funeral ceremony with a the farm the day after the horses came home, and found huge catafalque, in the presence of 15,000 troops, with that the fields were unploughed, upon which he went to General Windischgralz, had been performed in the neigh- his tenant's house, but he was not a:, home, and the bourhood of Vienna, in honour of the murdered Count house was occupied by an appare n t p auper . O n f urt h er Latour. .. , • . PRUSSIA • • ___ ___... --- ~,,. uacu w au the crops and furniture, whi c h were so ld , and the remove occupier refused possession, unless he got £2O, asserting that he gave £lO for the tenant-right.—Cork Constitution. WHAT AN IRISH LANDLORD MAY DO.—The following is from the judges report of the late " show" on Lord George Hill's property at Gweedore, in the county of Donegal, a place which owes entirely its present compa rative prosperity to his lordship's excellent management, and tha i.,f..,,,. , :-- I._ i__ _.• , , . .. The Prussian Assembly met at Brandenberg on the 27th ult., but there was not a sufficient number of mem bers present to constitute a house; in consequence of which Count Brandenberg refused to bring the Royal Message forward, and the Chamber was adjourned to the day following. This failure of a house is not a favourable incident, and bespeaks a greater sympathy than was r --ntr with •• resenteu, recusant part of the Assembly, who attempted,to persist in their sittings at Berlin, in defiance of the Royal authority. " ue nas anoruect to his peas an t r y : — Taking into consideration the many difficulties the peo ple of Gweedore had to contend with during the last two years, in consequence of the failure of the potato crop, we were not prepared to see so many competitors for the premiums given, through your lordship to the Trish Pea. santry Society. The industry n Erfurth has been declared in a state of siege, after a fight between the people and the soldiery, in which the latter had the advantage, the National Guard having rAfn '2,3,1 .1 .‘ • . • _ women i percetible, from the quantitY and quality of the flannels, bed-ticpking, blankets, and cloth shown this day : the neatness of the several parcels would reflect credit upon any manufactory; the bed-ticking in particular is excellent. The butter is superior to any exhibited in former years, and quite equal to any we have seen in the neighbouring market towns. It is, indeed, most gratifying to perceive such an increase and improvement in this particular branch of trade, which must in a few years become very remunerative in this mountain district, where, at a very moderate expense. , deep bog can be made to produce from eight to ten tons I per acre of that most nutritious of grasses—fiorin." I PROGRESS OF DESTITUTION, DEMORALISATION, AND RUIN.—For some weeks past we have been forced to re r cord the progress of Ireland along the " road to ruin!' The work grows upon us, and we see no p rospec t o f cessation or diminutio n o f our most unpleasing task. t. rAr- tt fe!usea to support the authorities, and even threatened to join the side of the populace. The quarrel arose from the popular opposition to the distribution of uniforms to the Landwehr. ~ e rerenee to another part of this paper, exhibits a moss deplorable state of things : agrarian outrages, attempts at assassination, attacks on persons and habitations by armed men, burglaries, and robberies. In addition to all these, the country is rife with predial disorganisation, dishonesty, destitution, and retrogade morals : tenants flying from their farms, which they leave uncultivated—defrauding the landlords of years of rent, and sweeping away every thing which is capable of being removed—others holding their ground, but resisting totally the payment of rent ; ejectments, numerous and wholesale, following as a na tural and unavoidable result; resistance to taxes and poor rates, the latter of which are levied " at the point of the bayonet;" and, to crown all, hundreds of the idle and the discontented besieging the poor houses in crowds, and clamouring for indoor relief and outdoor relief—for that bread which they have been taught to look for as the pri vilege of idleness, and not the earnings of " the sweat of man's brow."—Dublin Mail. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. Mr. M. H. Irving, of King's College School, has ob tained the first scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford. The Dublin Mail says that there are twenty-two Colo nial Bishops, and amongst them not one single Irishman. The total amount raised by the Church Missionary Society since its commencement, in 1799, exceeds two millions five hundred thousand pounds. A Protestant Association is about to be formed at Don caster, and preparatory to it the Rev. Hugh Stowell will deliver a lecture there this evening (Tuesday.) The nave of Hereford Cathedral, it is stated, is forth with to be fitted up for the daily celebration of divine worship. The Rev. A. Thomas, M.A., has been presented to the vicarage of Rottingdean, Sussex. Patron, Earl of Aber gavenny. On Wednesday the 'living of Prescot, in Lancashire, was presented to the Rev. Charles Chapman, by the Pro vost and FelloWs of King's College, Cambridge, vacant by the death of the Rev. C. George Brit&id. The Bishop of Llandafr has received the thanks of the diocese for his endeavour to protect it from the intrusion of. Clergymen not conversant with the language of the Welsh people. _ The ifter. T. C. Makinson, 8.A., late of St. John's College, Cambridge, has conformed to the Church of Rome. Mr. Makinson was formerly curate at Manches ter for two years, and left this country in 1837, on an appointment in the diocese of Sydney, New South Wales, as a Government chaplain. A COINCIDENCE.—St. Augustine's College, Canter, bury, opened (partially) on Friday. Among the students there was one who gave in the following name—" John Bird Sumner Austin"—the combined names of the f irst and last Archbishop of Canterbury ! We hope this is a favourable omen for both college and collegian, GRATIFYING CIRCUMSTANCE.—The parishioners of Jarrow,. Northumberland, on recently - learning of the in tended removal from the perpetual curacy of the incum bent, memorialised the patron in favour of the curate, the Rev. J. M. Mason. In reply, the patron stated that it was his intention prior to the receipt of the memorial, to present the living to Mr. Mason, and that he was much deceived if he (Mr. Mason) did not value the compliment paid him by the memorialists more highly than the pre sentation of the living itself. A DESTRUCTIVE. The interesting old church at Buckenhall, six miles from Taunton, is undergoing entire demolition, the tine old gothic windows being broken up to mend a wall. A cross and other parts were taken t Taunton, to be kept as a memento of what appears a very strange proceeding. A faculty for taking the build-' ing down was obtained of the Bishop, by the Rev. E. Portman. It is difficult to say whether grief or indigna- THE BRAZILS News from Rio de JanehO,(Tihe 15th October, ac quaints us that another ministry had been formed on the 29th of September, of which Viscount de Olinda was the Premier. The new cabinet is Conservative ; that gone out was Liberal. Trade at Rio was exceedingly dull, with the exception of coffee, which was in great demand at improved prices. As it regards piece goods, there had been such a glut of imports, that it was impossible to get rid of the articles, even at a ruinous depreciation of their value. Exchange on London 231 d. to 24d. Certain information has arrived in Paris to the --c" that Ibrahim Pacha died on the 10th ult 4 and had been succeeded by Abbas Pacha. The Count de Grammont was married on Monday last Ito Mademoiselle de Praslin. The happy couple are to be established in the apartment of the late Duchess de Pras lin, the boy's mother, which had been newly cleaned and decorated for the occasion. Letters have been received from the Cape of Good Hope by the last arrival from Sir H. Smith, which de scribe his complete success over the Boers, and the pacifi cation of the extensive district which threatened so lately to be the scene of a protracted war. Sir H. Smith had imposed a contribution upon the Buers which would de fray the commissariat expenses of the troops employed, and would leave a small garrison in a fortified post at Blom Fontein to maintain order. At the last dates Sir IL Smith and the forces employed, with the exception of those appointed to defend the post, were on their return to bead quarters. HEROIC CONDUCT—ALEXANDRIA, Nov. B.—A vessel bound for Aden, with coals, having lost the master by death when about twelve days' sail from • her destination, the crew conspired to take possession and dispose of her on the coast of Arabia. However, the captain's daughter, Miss Arnold, a young woman of the age of twenty, was on board, and she, having received some intimation of the piratical intentions of the men, armed herself with a pair of pistols, secured all the fire arms, and getting the mate and another, man to join her, bravely forced the mutineers to work the ship to Aden, where they are now in confine ment. REVOLTING SPECTACLE.—One of those wretched spec tacles which are seen wherever the system of African slavery is tolerated, was presented in the streets of our city on Sunday morning last. A gang of negroes, con sisting of both males and females, accompanied by a white 'man, on their way to a southern market, passed along Chesnut-street, as the bells of the various churches were calling on Christians to assemble at their respectivepkce.s of worship. In front of the procession was a large waggon, in which were thickly stowed several women and children. This was followed •by forty-three men and boys walking, several of them chained together, the whole under the charge of a man on horseback. This miserable spectacle excited the honest indignation of our citizens, who regarded, it as a direct insult offered to them, and the day, and the hour.—Louisville Examiner. VIRGIN SILVER.—From the Swedish official paper, of the 27th of October last, we learn that on the 14th of September, the workmen employed in the King's mine, which is one of the Kongsberg silver mines in Norway, found a lump of pure native silver, weighing 2081b5.; and on the 6th of October another lump of virgin silver, equally pure in quality, of no less weight than 436 lbs., was dug out of the same mine. It is a fact worthy of being recorded, that about twenty years ago this mine was offered for sale in London for the sum of £lO,OOO ; but the capitalists of that day had not sufficient confidence in the treasures it was represented to possess, to advance this comparatively' small price. Subsequently the Norwegian Government was strongly urged by the scientific of that country to work the mines at the expense and for the benefit of that state. The operations were commenced, and prosecuted with vigour; and fora considerable num ber of years this mine has annually yieldad to the Govern ment of Norway a much larger revenue than the price which could not previously he obtained for the mine itself. GENERAL 13i;M.--"it is generally believed that General .130 m has escaped the search made for him by the Austrian . authorities. If he be captured, he will be shot without mercy—a fate for which he is prepared by the most daring spirit and the most extraordinary intrepidity. General lii m is the son of a German, but was bore in Poland. His reputation as an artillerist stands high ; it is, however, a his uaflinching courage, and whop* of hie relentless The silence observed on and M. 'Francois Arago is significative to induce M. de Lamprtine to speak. said to him—' I shall put intErnollatir It was attempted M. Gander Pages must speak. M. de Lamartine replied—' i will not do so, for neither myself nor the Executive Committee is in volved in the affair; get out of it as well as you can.' M. de Lamartine also declared that be was far from enter taining towards the Chief of the Executive Government any feeling of hostility or ill-will." In the sitting of the National Assembly on Wednesday, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the Minister for the Interior, gave certain explanations as to the alleged mea sures of severity which had recently been adopted in the treatment of Spanish refugees. It was reported on the Bourse that in consequence r.f the recent arrivals from Rome.the expedition to Civita V , rchia would be stopped. On Tuesday, upwards of 1200 National Guards, with the colonel at their head, had an audience of General Ca vaignac in his garden, congratulating him upon his de fence on Saturday last, and expressing the confidence they entertained of his character and conduct. Gen. Cavaianac replied in a few words of gratitude claimed, and the parties separated n• the sentiments Pro- The Paris jour r nal, the Reform, hints rather signifi cantly, that the order given by Gen. Cavaignac, to for- ware 35110 troops to the assistance of the Pope, was merely an electioneering manoeuvre, to forward his ambi tion in obtaining the presidency. The. number of burials in Paris, which amounted to 21,505 in 1845, rose in 1846 to 23,822, and to 24,187 in 1847. • ITALY. THE INSURRECTION AT ROME In the STANDARD Of last v of the insurrectionary proc Ito - Th we gave the particulars gs of the populace of moured, ttat his holiness, after being kept priso_ own palace, had succeeded in effecting his escape. Accounts from Rome of the 23d state that the report of the Pope's flight was premature, his holiness not having quitted the city up to that date • but whether he was a willing occupant of his palace, or d e t a i ne d th ere b y a con tinual watch upon his movements, does not appear. Certain it is, that every arrangement was made to aid the escape of the Sovereign Pontiff. should his holiness h. er in his TILE LUERPOOL STANDARD. tion prevail most among the parishioners. A new church, far inferior in architectural beauty, has been erected much nearer the clergyman's residence, half a mile from the old church. The Rectory of Bishopwearmouth has been conferred the Rev. John Patrick Eden, M.A., perpetual curate of St. Andrew Auckland, and son-in-law of Lord Brougham. In connexion with this appointment a re-distribution of the revenues has been made, but it has been confined to the parish of Bishopwearmouth. The disttibution may be summoned up in a few words. £2OOO is to constitute the income of the Rector. St. Thomas' Church, Bishop wearmouth, is to have £200; St. Andrew's, Depford, £l5O ; St. Mary's. Hylton, £lOO ; Trinity Church, Ry hope, £lOO. The surplus (X 1,450) is to be funded, and disposed of hereafter, according as the experience of the working of the above arrangement. during the next three years may point out to be most necessary. EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SCOTLAND. — DIOCESE OF GLASGOW AND GALLOWAY. — CONFIRMATION.—On Sa turday, the 11th ult. the Bishop of the Diocese held his first confirmation in Glasgow, within the temporary cha pel in Catherine -street, knderston. The Incumbent read the usual prayers ; and the Bishop having delivered a most impressive address proceeded to administer the solemn rite to fifteen candidates. After service a meeting of the clergy and churchwardens was held in the vestry, the Bishop in the chair, at which it was agreed that as the subscription now amounted to nearly £l2OO, immediate steps should be taken for the erection of the new church ; and that in the meantime, till the completion of the struc ture, a resident curate should be engaged, whose whole time should be devoted to the poor of the district, nearly sam building which they were baptised: His Lordship was pleased to lion these arrangements, subscribing £5O to the fund, and £lO to the curate's stipend for one year, when, the church being built, it is believed there will be ample resources from the increased congregation for -'-t of a ..,ergyman, without extraneous aid. HORFIELD CASE.—It has been known that there is evidence that Lord Melbourne entered into an under standing with Bishop Allen, that the valuable leases should be allowed to run out and go to augment the re "b.. Church ; that the estimated value of the are £3,000 a-year ; but that ....“moent has only £BO a year, besides £6O allowed by Government for doing duty at the barracks near venues c oristol; that, consequently, the incumbent and his curate have, on the average, between them, about £l4O a year ; and that the bishop has neither continued his prede cessors' customary annual payment of £5, nor done any for --, the schools of the parish ; that his lordship has - which averages £6,400 on the last septennial „.. 4t7.l'nfre. amount to at least 1. future, besides his palace and several valuable commendaws, the amount of which is not stated, but which would probably be underrated at£2,ooo a year besides. It is under these circumstances that the bishop proposes to renew the lives, instead of allowing the lease to depend on one, which is expected to drop from month to month. To prevent this catastrophe, the commissioners have agreed to pay the bishop £11,500, which might otherwise have been employed for the general good of the church.—Record. )0 a ye ORIGIN OF THE GRIEVANCES IN THE TEMPORALITIES OF THE IRISH CHURCH.—A century since, if a peer or a bishop had a son or a nephew needing a " good living," and none offered at the moment, how obvious the tempta tion to make a rich benefice, by uniting several small ones ! In such a state of things, and among such persons, can it be doubted that arrangements of this sort were often made ? . The principal law authorizing such " unions," and making them legal and permanent, was passed in the 2d of George I. And Bishop Mont tells us, that between 1721 and 1799, he finds mention of sixty one such unions having been formed, embracing, some two, some three, some four, and some even five and six parishes. But either this is an imperfect statement, or the practice of forming unions must have continued in full activity after the Union. For the Commissioners of Inquiry, in their Report of 1835, state, that they found s 907 benefices consis.' parish ; an d 4 , 70 - • ld of two or more. LAW INTELLIGENCE. -8-- IN Itg J. R. Pm—This bankrupt again appeared before Mr. Serjeant Ludlow on Friday. Mr. Rowe, solicitor, stated that the accounts were still unsatisfactory. There were £26,000 in biils not explained. The bankrupt stated that £17,000 of them were for bills payable, but they did not seem to have any connexion with the estate. The official assignee said he never saw such unsatisfactory ac counts. The case was adjourned sine die, with protection for a month. IN RE GOULDING.—This bankrupt, late a builder in this town, applied for a certificate. He was opposed on the ground of reckless trading. and that he had erected and obtained mortgages on worthless property. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow said this appeared to be the case of a party who, having no capital, or, at all events, a very small capital, made a number of contracts for land which he did not pay for; after putting together a few stones and other materials on that land, obtained a mortage .upon it, in consequence of the increased value which he appeared to have given it by so doing. He thought that was a mode of dealing of which the public had a right to complain. The result of such a system was the incessant demand for interest on mortgages, the payment of stamps, and other liabilities, under which it was impossible almost for a party to bear up. He could not, therefore, make his judgment absolute, but must suspend the bankrupt's certificate for twelve months from the date of his last exa mination. Mr. Barber, the solicitor, who, a few years since, was sentenced to transportation, with Fletcher and others, for alleged forgery of testamentary documents, and whose sentence has been recently reversed, and free pardon granted him, appeared on Saturday in the precincts of the Court of Common Pleas, Westminster, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins having been charged by him to make an applica tion to the Court to have Mr. Barber replaced on the rolls. The novelty of hearing such an application or motion made attracted a considerable crowd to the Court. In the course of the day the Attorney-General entered, and had some conversation with Mr. Wilkins, after which the lat ter gentleman withdrew, and it was understood that, on consulting with Mr. Barber. he agreed to the postpone ment of the application until next term, or at least for the present. The proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas on Fri day, the 24th ult., afford some evidence of the correctness of the opinions we have expressed with reference to the Acts of Parliament lately passed applying to Joint-Stock Companies. It appears that certain proceedings had been taken, against a shareholder in the Universal Gas-Light Company, and the rule for issuing execution discharged with costs, in consequence of 10 d s' noti Act, sec. 67, not having been given —the lawyers appearing not to have carefully read, or understood, the clauses of the Act; but, with the view of remedying the defect, counsel for the _plaintiff subse quen tl y o b ta i ned a rule against th e d-e- .vienclani„ calling upon hi m t o s h ow cause why execution should not issue, under the 66th sec tion of the Joint-Stock Companies Act, 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110. Mr. Serjeant Talfourd now contended that such rule must be set aside, inasmuch that the former application to the Court -- ' • against the defendant as a " former shareholder, the present was as a shareholder "for the time being- After argument on the part of counsel in support of the application, the Court granted a rule absolute for the is suing of execution against the defendant, on the ground that having been a shareholder once, and signed the de e d, by the 3rd an d 12 t h sect i ons of the Joint-Stock Compa nies' Act, he continued a shareholder until be bad di vested himself of that character by the transfer of his shares. RAILWAY A F'FAIII.B The Oswestry extension of the Shrewsbury and Chester railway has been opened. The Ardwick extension of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, uniting the latter line with the Sheffield and the London and North-Western lines, has just been opened. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ended 26th Nov.: Coaching, £705 15s. 7d. ; par cels, £BO Ils. ; goods at cattle, £257 3s. 2d. ; steam boats, £lO3 13s : total, £1147 3s. 2d. In the recent fatal collision case on the Richmond and Datchet line, the coroner's jury have returned a verdict of manslaughter against the driver and titeman of the Vul ture engine. The London and North-Western Company an d ti LancasP-- ' • • and re Coman have' n-ter mutual traffic arr angements, Yorkshi the effect of which will ed he to immediately transfer all the traffic of the latter to the Leeds and Dewsbury line. A remarkable tunnel on the Waterford and Dublin Railway, at Bray, has advanced so far towards completion that there is a communication throughout. Thp GREAT BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE.—The works of this great structure, which are of twice the stupendous character of those over the river Conway, have been put in full operation this week, and are already in an advan ced state. The platform for this purpose across the Menai Straits alone is half a mile long, and four large tubes, each weighing 1,700 tons, are now nearly comple ted. Each tube is 472 feet long, and will have to be floated half a mile along the straits, and then raised 106 feet home. The end tubes are also much advanced. The scaffold or platform on which they are being put together is 100 feet high. 230 feet long. and 60 feet broad, capable of sustaining a weight of 1,500 tons on the top. The cast-iron work of the bridge weighs upwards of 2,000 tons, and the chains used for raising it will alone weigh 100 tons. It will be floated on eight pontoons. Two of them are of iron, of 100 feet long, 28 feet broad, 10 feet deep, and capable of carrying 400 tons each. The middle pier, rising out of the water from the Britannia rock, after which the bridge is named, is to be 230 feet high. There are two other piers of the same elevation, and the entire length of the tube-bridge across the straits will be 1,420 feet, or one-third nearly of a mile. " AILWAY MANAGEMENT. — in.`qqin -”al ,n, the gene manager of the London and Nerth Western Railways published a letter on railway management, in reply to I, letter recently written by Mr. Whitehead, late Secretary of the South Eastern Railway Company,—whose object was to show that the present rates for the carriage of goods by railways is too low, and entail loss on the com panies —sinking a considerable portion of the profit derived from passengers ; and he contends that the North Western Company are losing much by the goods traffic, and that either the rates are too low. or the passenger fares too high. Captain Huish examines Mr. Whitehead's data and assertions, and supplies some statistical facts. He states that the total receipts from for the year ending 30th June last, were 4'2,140,035 ; namely, passengers and mails, £1,417,659 ; goods and coals, 4722,376. The total cost of working the railway in every department was only 4751,172. It thus appears that the merchandize receipts about covered the entire expenses of the line, leaving the passenger traffic net ! •".Che goods train earns as much per mile run as its vaunted competitor the pas senger train. The total weight of passenger travelling for the year was 399,956 tons, about equal to the merchan dise conveyed in eleven weeks; so that a run of 238,732 miles was sufficient to convey a weight of goods which it required 4.220,078 miles to transmit w h en conver t e d i n t o passengers." • LIGHT LOCOMOTIVE,—Messrs. England's new engine, the " Little Wonder," has had several trials. Her di mension,: are as follow :—Cylinders, 7 inches ; stroke, 12 carrying wheels 3 feet diameter; fire box, 3 feet diameter; boiler, 2 feet diameter, with sixty tubes 11 feet 4 inches long, 11 inches diameter. The tender is placed upon the the extreme length of which is nlinnt 9n rom- same frame ana tne we►ght, we are informed, is about 9 tons. The whole of the working parts are in sight, and within the immediate control of the driver while at work. From nu merous trials, during which a distance of nearly I,COO miles has been performed, we have ascertained, that for express purposes, with one or two cs , ;a —..reages, a speed of 60 miles per hOur is well maintained ; and that a twain of five carriages, with passengers equal to 20 tons, is run at 40 miles per hour. With this load she ascended the heavy incline at New Cross-1 in 100 for three miles—at the rate of 20 miles per hour; and upon the level line, one mile was passed in 80 seconds, being at the rate of 45 miles per hour, with a load of 20 tons—the consumption of coke not exceeding 6 lbs. per mile. This performance, we believe, is unparalleled in the histoty of the locomotive engine. The fact that a load of 20 tons was propelled at the rate of 45 miles per hour, with 6 lbs, of coke pe r m il e , while the qu an tity requ i re d for any of the heavy engines to perform the same work, would not be less than 25 lbs, per mile, shows, we think, the mistake of making loco motive engines of enormous weight—engines which spend two-thirds of their immence nntver s.. pa up t , LUCA& UWil weight. During the experiments, we were highly pleased with the very safe and steady working of the engine. NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.—On Saturday night week, an experiment was made on the Great Western Railway, to test the power of a new species of light produced by elec tricity, particularly with the view to its being used by railway trains. The light is produced by an apparatus invented by M. Le Mott, a French gentleman, who has been for several years employed in electrical experiments in Russia, and whose discoveries in that department are well known to the scientific world. At half-oast six Ing a woo, en square box, about the size of a sentry-box, and having a galvanic battery of some sixty or seventy small jars deposited around it, was attached to the last carriage of the train then about to proceed from Paddington. The light was produced inside the box, and the rays, condensed and heightened by a powerful reflector, were emitted by an aperture contrived . wurik runs through Kilkenny Point, and for its whole distance it passes through the hardest granite. It is said that this is the first tunnel in the United Kingdom entirely through such difficult material. - CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The Irish Ad vocate gives the average speed of the Dublin and Holy head packets. The power of the vessels is 350 horse each, and the distance 64 miles. The "Banshee" ap pears from the statement to be the fastest, having accom plished the passage in 3 hours 44 minutes. The average time taken by the four vessels on the station is about 4 hours 20 minutes, The gigantic scheme of railway amalgamation has proved abortive, at least for the present. The question on which the three great companies have split is that of representa tion at the Board of Directors, the Nolth-Western claim ing that, as its stake in the concern is nearly, if not quite, equal to - the other two combined, it shall have a propor tionate renresentntim, • agreed upon, an equality of representation was the prin ciple laid down. From official returns it appears that the amount of rail way traffic for the last week, on 4,205 miles of railway, was £183,068, thus accounted for :—£81,166 for the con veyance of passengers only, £55,351 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £46,551 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £23,122 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was £8,317. The average earn ings per mile were £43, whilst in 1847 they were £4B. WONDERS OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The New York correspondent of the Morning He) aid, in his letter received by the last mail, mentions some facts, showing the wonders of the telegraph. It appears that the returns of a particular district, in the presidential election, were received in New York in a few hours, after passing a dis tance nearly equal to a voyage across the Atlantic to Li verpool—and this too with, of course, sundry breaks and numberless interruptions. The electric telegraph, he adds, may in truth be termed " The nerves of the Ameri-' can republic." DESTRUCTION OF LARKS BY THE ELECTRIC TELE GRAPH WIRE. —One frosty morning last week, the plate layers upon the Whitehaven Junction Railway found no less than seven y larks lying dead beneath the telegraph wires between Workington and Maryport. The same day Mr. Foster, inspector of the line, found seventeen larks between Harrington and Workington. The heads of many of the birds were cut off, and their bodies other wise mangled. Seabirds and different kinds of game have also occasionally been found dead, having probably come in contact with the invisible wires at night when in full flight.—Carlisle Journal. T,HE EUSTON STATION. The station at London, which has been recently completed, at a cost of about £150,000, is situated between Seymour-street and Whittkbury-street, and comprises an area of about 2,100 feet in length by 500 feet in breadth. On either side is a platform : the one on the east side, or the arrival platform, is 1100 feet in length and about 40 feet in width ; and the departure platform is about 800 feet in length. In this space on the various lines there are 60 turn tables, and over this are about 700 feet by - 350 feet of glass roofing. There are also 16,000 feet of drains and sewerage. On the west side, adjoining Codrington-street, a number of coach factories have been erected, the area occupied by these being 300 feet by 400 feet. A smithy, with every convenience for the manufacturing of vehicles, is attached. In the course of the past week the waste materials which were not required by the contractors were sold, and rea lised nearly £l,OOO. LIABILITY OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE-MEN, --Mr. Blandy, the solicitor to a d e f unc t sc h eme, called the "Oxford, Theme, High Wickham, and Uxbridge Railway Company," had brought, an action against Mr. De Burgh, the chairman of the provisional committee, for work and labour done. A verdict had been found for the plaintiff; but a point was raised under what is called the Attornies' Act, which requires, in order to give an opportunity for axation, a solicitor's bill to be delivered a month before action to the party to be charged, therewith, or left at his counting-house, office of business, dwelling-house, or last known place of abode. It was not denied that the bill had been so left at the company's offices in Moorgate street, but it was urged that the "company" was then defunct, although a plate bearing the name of the cora pally on it was still affixed to the door. The rule nisi was argued on Saturday last, when the court differing in opinion, it fell to the ground, and the verdict accordingly stands. DEPOSIT OF PLAxs.—Thursday was the last day for the reception of plans and sections for new lines, &c. The number of plans and sections lodged in connection with railways up to the close of the offices was twenty-nine. two only being for new lines, namely, the Brentwood, Southall, and Pinner Railway, and the Faversham to Chilham Railway, and twenty-seven for branches, exten sions, or deviations. Besides these, but not requiring the deposit of either plans or sections, there are applications for upwards of twenty amalgamations in England, and eight in Scotland ; six cases of relinquishment or aban donment of portions of lines; five for extensions of, time for making railway or purchases of land, and a great many for amendments of acts. The chief feature in all the ap plications is that of future economy in constructive Works, and for internal mutual arrangement. Including all classes of applications, there are about 110 applications for railway purpoies this year, as set against 140 in the last session of parliament. 'V s A WATER R AILWAY .—Th e Gl asgow Citizen desc r i b es an invention, which is now in progress of accomplishment, for conveying the trains across the tidal estuary at • Broughty Ferry, on the route of railway to Scotland. The distance across is about a mile and a-half. Our contem porary says, " Mr. Robert Napier is at present building in his yard, at Govan, a floating' railway, for the Edinburgh and Northern Railway Company. It is being built of iron, 180 feet in length, and 35 feet in breadth. It is to have three lines of rails en deck, so as to enable it to take on a railway train of 500 feet in length, and is to be pro pelled by engines of 150 horse-power. As the main line of railway on each side ()Nile 'ray is considerably above the level of the sea, stationary engines on either side of the Frith are to he employed to draw Cl) or lower the trains. This railroad steamboat is expected to be launched in a few weeks." It will be seen that this is very much on The same principle as the floating bridges at Gosport and Southampton, although, of coure, on amuch larger scale about half an hour, till the up-train arrived, with which it returned to town. While at Slough the light was turned in the direction of Windsor Castle, as it was the expectation of M. Le Mott, who accompanied the expe riment, that it would be seen from thence. While there, a gentleman stationed himself at the distance of 200 yards or so from ihe apparatus, and read a newspaper by the light produced, which he found he could do with perfect ease. The apparatus then returned to town in the same manner, the light being continuously intense during the whole of the journey and return ; and it was stated by the ingenious inventor that there could be no difficulty in keeping it up for the whole night. The experiment af forded great satisfaction to all who witnessed it, the only drawback being that the apparatus, having been in the first instance adapted for stationary experiments, suffered considerably from the jolting inseparable from railway motion, a defect which the inventor considered might be with ease overcome in any future experiment. This is the first time that light produced by electricity has been applied to railway purposes ; and if its use should be found practicable, there can be no doubt that it will add greatly to the safety of night travelling by railway. POLITICAL MIS The nomination for the 'West Riding will take place on Monday next, and the polling on the Thursday and Fri day following. ___ HONORS OF WHIG REFORMS. — Capfain Kenderdine, of Stafford, has been fined one hundred pounds for re fu,ing the honor of the mayoralty of that borough ! MR. DENISON'S CANVA SSING .TOUR.—Mr. Denison commenced his canvassing tour at Leeds on 'Tuesday, where his reception was most flattering. On Wednesday the hon. gentleman visited Barnsley ; on Thursday, Brad ford ; Friday, Wakefield ; and on Saturday he addressed them at Halifax. MIL. DENISON'S OPINIONS.—Mr. Denison declares himself opposed to Romish endowment, but favourable to Church extension, scriptural education, and the further appointment of bishops for the colonies. He declines to give any opinion on the navigation laws, and is an advo cate of every possible retrenchment and economy. THE RIVAL CANDIDATES.-DH Wednesday Sir Culling Eardley and Mr. Denison met at the Doncaster Station, when a gentleman, who accompanied Sir Culling to Don caster, introduced him to Mr. Denison, and a cordial shake of the hands took place. 'The three 'gentlemen then entered the same first-class carriage for Wakefield, and left. Who out of Bedlam would have dreamed that the mur der of Rossi, the besieging of the Pope in his Palace, and perhaps his expulsion from his capital, were all the work of England ? Yet that is the explanation which the (Romish) Dublin Freeman offers to its readers. If the Khan of Tartary had to fly, England would by the same profound philosophers be pronounced the cause. Sourn DEVON ELECTION.--Mr. Kekewich has resigned all pretensions to represent South Devon at the coming election, for the seat expected to be vacated by Lord Courtenay. In a printed circular, he states,—" I find that in consequence of the opinion which T entertain with regard to some provision for the Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland, the number of requisitionists is not sufficient to induce me to disturb the peace of the county, and I therefore shall not offer myself as a candidate." Sir Ralph Lopez (conservative) has been brought forward. He was formerly member for Westbury, and is a sound Protestant. A BOON TO THE EXCHEQUER. —The expiring Corn Laws are pouring into the exhausted treasury supplies that are no doubt very welcome to Sir C. Wood. In the month ending October 5, the duties paid on corn amounted to about 4234,569, and that ending November 5, to about £165,492. These payments are after the rate of nearly two-and-a-half millions per annum ; and would relieve the tax-payers of the country to that extent without in flicting injury upon any one. When the duties cease, we repeat, the foreign grower or the speculating importer will pocket almost the entire amount, leaving the defici ency of the revenue to be provided by some other tax. THE LATE CHARLES BULLER AND THE DUKE OF Sussax.--The great fault of the late Mr. Buller was the affectation of a careless indifference,--a sort of insouciant spirit, as if the world and all its concerns, parties, politics, and principles, were matters of the supremest indifference to him. Thus, for instance, when he was but a young man, and when it was important that he should appear with his best airs and behaviour, 'he was at a dinner party given by late Duke of Sussex. , When the dessert had come in, he looked around him, and, fancying he saw nobody but pompousfull-dressed noodles on each side, he threw himself back in his chair, and fell fast asleep'. This was an act of rudeness of which Charles Buller would - not have been guiity at a very much humbler table. The free-traders of the West Riding . are divided in opi nion as to the fitness of Sir Culling Eardley to represent them. Mr. Baines attended at Manchester last week to advocate Sir Culling's claims, but met with a cold recep tion. A meeting was held at Lee& on Thursday, at which a resolution was carried, with only a few dissenti ents, in favour of Mr. Roebuck, and a deputation was ap pointed to wait on Sir Culling's committee, to induce them, if possible, to withdraw their candidate, but this they are not likely to do from fear of Mr. Roebuck's claims, thouch we should not be surprised to hear of his being withdrawn in consequence of the enthusiasm dis played in favour of Mr. Denison. All the old Whig fami lies have declared their intention to support Mr. Denison, nd his straightforward speeches have won for him the REWARDS OF INDUSTRY.—At a meeting last week, in Leeds, Mr. Beckett Denison, in a speech to the electors, said, " there is hardly a man in the possession of a large landed property in the West Riding of Yorkshire, or even in the whole county of York, whose father or grandfather was not connected with trade, and whose descendants • - • ,, ssess £6OOO, or £BOOO, or £lO,OOO, or even more ,or the purpose. The light was produced before the train a year. (A. voice —".No : Earl Fitzwilliam did not.") left Paddington, when a dazzling blaze filled the whole of And that is the reason, suppose, why you did not like the spacious station, casting the numerous gas-lamps his son. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) My own grand there completely into the shade. As the train proceeded father was as humble a man as any one I sec before me on its way, the reflector left a lon g train of clear bright t hi s d ay. ( Hear, hear, and cheers.) His son obtained a light for the distan ce o f a m il e and more behind it, in I good education, and worked his way up to a somewhat such a manner as to render it utterly impossible that any distinguished position ; and I hope I do not occupy a train coming up behind should run into it, except as the despicable position. (Hear, hear, and applause.) I say, effect of deliberate intention. The reflector, as seen from then, it is your own faults if you do not get yourselves and the carriage, was very beautiful, the prismatic colours your children well educated • and, when they are we ll being distinctly an d v i v idl y d e li neated along the cuter educated, it is in their power to ' rise to the most educated edge of the circle of radiation ; and as these fell upon the and prominent situations that there are in the State. dense column of smoke ascendin g f rom th e engine, the And it occurs only at this moment to my mind that the effect was singular and striking. The night was dark, grandfather. I have mentioned was not the only humble but clear, and so far favourable to the experiment ; and ancestor I had. I had another, and whose name I now objects, such as a bridge, were rendered distinctly visible bear, who was a charity boy in a bluecoat school in this at the distance of two miles. The experiment was made town.. _(Hear, hear, and a cry of " You h ave d one awa as far as Slough, on arriving at which stati on th e t ruc k with that now.'') .TiuhrA „„„. y ie wat y him unions, Now, if these unions consisted entirely _.....es only, it is clear that there would be 956 parishes, or more than half of the whole, held in union. Supposing, however, the average of these unions of two, flrn. bould R only 907 _ e astor to themselves. Nome other lamentable facts appear in this same Report of 1835, which may as well be given in this place. The Commissioners report, that they found 210 parishes without any church. And this was the settled state of things, to amend which scarcely any effort was making ! Of a piece with this was the further fact, that in 157 parishes there was no resident clergyman, and no service of any kind ! And this was the state of things in 1835, after a great revival of religion had long been going on, and when, beyond all doubt, there must have been far more vigour and strength in the Church than at any former period. What, then, must have been the state of things a century back ? Is it not wonderful, that even a million of Protestants should have been found in existence, after such a system of neglect and corruption had existed for more than a century ?—Recurd. NEW CHURCHES AND DISTRICTS.—A very important meeting of the incumbents of new churches and districts was held at the National School, Etruria, Staffordshire, on Tuesday, for the purpose of considering the present faree, we s n union, w quacy of " the voluntary system" in supplying funds for the maintenance of divine worship and the repair of the fabric, and to adopt memorials to his Grace the Archbi shop of Canterbury, the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, and the first Minister of the Crown, humbly praying that means may be devised to form all Chapelries and Districts into separatc Parishes, and likewise to nominate a depu tation to present such memorial. The Rev! H. Wynter, of Etruria, presided ; and on the motion of the Rev. F. Wade, a memorial to the dignitaries mentioned, was agreed to, praying for the entire separation of all districts and chapelries, as regards all rates, f ee s, an d appoint ments of church officers. The latter gentleman, in the course of his speech, alluded to a case "exhibiting the hardships to which churches erected under Sir Robert Peel's Act were exposed. The case was that of a church with which he was well acquainted : it was erected prin. cipaiiy through the munificence of a benevolent indi vidual : a district was assigned, but by being taken out of a district parish, the inhabitants had two rates to pay without partaking of any benefit from them. The sti pend of the clergyman was little more than £lOO, of which sum £5O was a grant from the Additional Curates Society; for repairs and all other expenses, about £9 per annum had been raised, £6 of which was derived from an annual collection. Was it, he would ask, reasonable or just that the parent churches should be freed from the charge of upwards 2,000 souls, and yet enjoy all the rates of the district, in addition to making a claim on all the fees which were collected in the poorer church ? Or was it to be expected that the ill-requited clergyman was continually to have his mind harassed as to how he was to provide for the support of his church ? He honestly believed that, at this moment, there were many clergy men who contributed largely out of their inadequate sti pends to carry on the services of their churches.' THE HON. BAPTIST NOEL.— On Sunday week, St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, Londcn, was at an early hour crowded to so great an excess that it was barely pos sible to obtain even standing room. A large number of persons were evidently attracted to the chapel by curiosity to ascertain the " reasons" assigned by Mr. Noel for his proximate secession from the. Established Church. They were, however, " sent empty sway," for the rev. gentle man, in the course of his long and able discourse, did not make the most remote allusion to the subject. The reve rend gentleman's retirement is, however, placed beyond doubt, as he has himself announced it. On Wednesday evening, at the usual weekly service at St. John's Chapel, where Mr. Noel .has officiated for the last 26 years, the rev. gentleman selected for his text, Rev. i. 5,6, " Unto Him that loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and bath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever, Amen ;"—and then proceeded es follows My dear Christian brethren, many of you have heard that, as the result of opinions deliberately formed, which T know not how to alter, and the force of conviction which I am not permitted to resist, I have been obliged to announce my intention of leaving this congregation, where I have ministered for so long a period with comfort and satisfac tion to myself, if not with profit to others. Since I ad dressed you last I have seen my diocesan, and he considers it to be his duty—an opinion from which I do not dissent —to determine that I shall not remain with you beyond next Sabbath. This, therefore, is the last Wednesday evening on which I shall have the privilege of addressing you. But let eq not think of little matters ; let us indulge in meditations on the best of all subjects; and I have chosen the words of my text because they speak of our best friend, and are calculated very much to console and animate us." The rev. gentleman then proceeded with his address, but in no degree further alluded to the pain ful subject of quitting his flock.—The chapel of St. John's is held under a lease from the trustees of Rugby School, and the term of years, which formerly belonged to the Bishop of Calcutta, is now vested in his son, the Rev. Daniel Wilson. The Globe says that it was not Mr. Noel's intention to leave the church until Midsum mer next, in order that due time might have been allowed his people to choose a successor and make the necessary arrangements for carrying on the schools and the various religious and charitable institutions maintained by his congregation ; but on Tuesday the Bishop of London sent for the rev. gentleman, and, after ascertaining from him that the reports of his intention to secede from the church were true, at once intimated to him that he would be pro hibited from preaching again in any church or chapel within the diocese of London. Mr. Noel, on receiving this intimation, said, in the most respectful manner, that he could not consent to act in accordance with the prohi bition, as he had not yet spoken to his congregation in their collective capaCity on the subject of his intended secession. The Bishop said he was determined to enforce the prohibition. It was eventually agreed that Mr. Noel should be, permitted to preach on. Sunday in his chapel, on the understanding that that is to he the last time on which he is to officiate as a minister of the Church of England. llis " Reasons for Seceding from the Church of England" have been put into the hands of the printer. On Tuesday the leading members of his congregation met, when they unanimously resolved to present a me morial to the rev. gentleman, entreating him to reconsider his resolution to leave the church, and expressing an ardent hope that the result of such reconsideration would be his still remaining with them. It was then agreed to nomi nate a deputatio❑ to wait upon him with the memorial, and to receive his answer; but it was found that those who were nominated could not be prevailed upon to un dertake the mission, owing to its very delicate nature THE CHASE. The CHESHIRE' HOUNDS meet to-morrow (Wednesday) at Warmingto❑ ; on Thursday, at Appleton Hall; and on Saturday, at Saighton—at 11. Sir W. W.' WYNN'S HouNns meet to-morrow (Wed nesday) at Little Ness; on Thursday, at Iseoyd ; and on Saturday, at Halston Gate—at half-past 10. Dee. 5, 1848. strongest assurances of support. As an instance of the division in the Whig-Radical ranks, we may observe that the Manchester Guardian ( radical paper), supports Mr. Denison, the Yorkshirernan (radical paper), supports Mr. Roebuck, the Leeds Mercury (another radical paper), supports Sir Cullin g E ar dl e y, an d th e Li verpoo l Mercury recommends " the liberal party to stand aloof and take no part in the struggle." This is evidence of a worse split than that which has taken place among the Conser vatives. POPERY AND MORALITY.—The Pope is practically de throned. His Prime Minister having fallen under the poignard of the assassin, and his Secretary by a ball of the rebels, he, by the last accounts, was a prison, r in his palace ' • anxious to escape, but wa t c h e d b y hi s d ut if u l subjects. An expedition has sailed from France for Civita Vecchia, composed of six war-steamers and a division of 3,500 men, with a view of affording security to the Pope. It is surmised that our noble fleet in the Bay of Naples, which, we believe, has on board an unusually large com plement of marines, will probably move in the same di rection. We only hope they will not bring the Pope here. What. arc. ..: • • . . . . Je virtues o _ .de le immediate ey e , an d en j oy i ng the fulness of the reli r gious influence, of the assumed spiritual father of the faithful ? Virtues ! religious and spiritual virtues ! Let the Times journal of last Monday reply. It says, in one of its able leading articles :—" It is a mockery to talk of national ana constitutional government in a country where the ordinary duties of police are not per formed, where law has no authority, and religion nu power but to absolvefrom crime." Well may a correspondent say, referring to this •judgment of the religion of Rome, by a journal which, under evil influences, is doing much to strengthen it,—" Surely the most ultra Protestant never expressed a severer opinion of Popery, and surely if this witness of the Times be true, as I assuredly believe it to be, what greater sin and folly can this Protestant nation commit, than to foster in her bosom a system which tarn. gradation, man's greatest blessing, into a means of his d misery, and increased depravity ?" ROMISH ENDOWMENT. — There is, after all, no way of dealing honestly with the question of Romish endowment, save that adopted by the Rev. Dr. M'Neile in his address, a few evenings since, to the three thousand listeners in Exeter Hall, to hear portrayed by the eloquent speaker " the distinctive features of Protestantism and Popery." If there be truth at all in revelation ; if that which we call scenes Writ cenesofa be not bjeet a rn uni c n ab e l r e ie ; s our ndour c h p u r r e c a h c e h s are ersth n e ot in t o h s z contemptible buffoons that ever lent themselves to the land, and to the people of as that which involves the prospects of a future st Party cpiestions sink into ins gnificance tive or Radical may be to assume a badie . indifferent ,se political views are subservient to the med by the HIGHEST. It can never be a . 4difference to the - let him conscientious ether he hnld, to one who, belong to what ...a. &I, asuuuJ I,IIC ULU or not with reference to the faith up on w hi c h results 1 the most tremendous hang. Commence the work of retro gression, and where shall you stop in the backward move rnent ? Confound the minds of the unreflecting with the public declaration that the state is bound deliberately to propagate that which the state acknowledges to be false hood, degrading to man, and blasphemy to God, and upon what other points will you have courage to enlighten them ? Can it be an act of intelligence or liberality to foster and encourage openly and unreservedly the errors for en tertaining which the recognized teachers of our church declare eternal punishment awaits us ? Is it left for the most advanced age of the world to make known aloud and unblushingly, that it matters little what you do, pro vided only that you preach ? Is it to be the crowning work of our "expedient" legislation to lift A veil from ti rising generation - , a fathers worshipped from ... • a,h4. d to make them mock the creed their We cannot drag ourselves away open confession of our faith. We make it in the church ; if it is worth a straw we carry it with us into our daily occupations ; if it influences our private prayers, it follows us into our public acts. Truth may be disliked, but it cannot be avoided. We may plant error by its side, but it must wither as a thing that takes no root. There cannot be two religious truths for one nation. The Bible cannot be true and wafer-worship right. We can not abide by the book and encourage the worship.— IfOrnin_q money to c • 7 •••• uucic ULM judges of the land. (Hear, hear, and applause.) thou and do likewise." COURT AND FASHION. The Court still remains in the Isle of Wight. Louis Philippe and suite were not last week on a visit to Sir Robert Peel at Drayton Manor, as stated. The Duke of Wellington and Lord Palmerston visited the Prince of Parma on Thursday, at Mivart's Hotel. M. Guizot arrived in town on Monday from visiting Sir Robert and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor, and has since gone to visit Prince Lieven, at Brighton. PRINCE ALBERT A HIGHLAND LAIRD.—On Wednesday. week the estate of Birk Hall, adjoining Balmoral, was ex posed for sale in Edinburgh, and taken out at the upset price, £14,900, for Prince Albert. At the same time the life rent of the entailed estate of Abergeldie, another ad joining property, was put up for sale, and taken for the heir of entail, Mr. Gordon, of Abergeldie. It is under stood that negotiations are in progress, whereby his Royal Highness will become lessee of Abergeldie. From these circumstances, it is but reasonable to conclude, that Balmoral will henceforth take its place in the same cate gory with Osborne H ouse . an d th e o th er rova. reqLl...en,vm Majesty regularly sper year. When his ro y a l highness arrives on Dftside next season he must be welcomed in his new character of a Highland Laird. STATE OF TRADE. - MANCHESTER.—The market has exhibited somewhat less buoyancy throughout the week, and this feature has been ob servable more generally during the lag two days, which may he arronntpri bar th. nv••••••••••,., spinners ant a course which they are justified in pursuing, by the orders the majority have on hand; and under such circumstances, it cannot he a matter of surprise that they should decline to put themselves under ex tended contracts, at anything below the highest rates current, but at such rates contracts for future delivery will be generally taken. The brisk demand which has existed for the last few weeks has put both spinners and manufacturers in possession of such orders as will see the major part of them fully through the year to execute. Buyers seem rather more unwilling to give the highest prices generally current, most probably in con sequence of some appearance of weakness in the cotton market since Wednesday, which prompts them to wait—in the absence of pressing orders—for a short time, to see the course prices are likely to take. Under these circumstances, although there has been a good general business done throughout the week, there has not been so animated a demand as lately for several weeks we have had to report. LEEDS.—The woollen trade of this town and neighbourhood continues in much the same state as we have had to report for some time past. For the period of the year, an average amount of business has been doing. Prices are firm, although stocks are rather on the increase. BRADFORD —Wools: There has been more wool changing hands during the past week, and the spinners generally have not large stocks. The supply in this market is now barely an average for this time of the . year. Noils and shorts are not altered either in demand or prices. Yarns : The contracts for bobbins for the month about commencing have not been done on such advantageous terms for the manufacturers as for the month now closing. For all kinds, both low, middle, and fine numbers, there is no disposition to take orders except at higher prices. Pieces : There is no slackening in the demand for plain goods, and the stocks in the bands of both merchants and manufacturers are unprecedentedly low, and the prospects for the winter are more favourable, so far as orders go, than we have had for some time past. Fancy goods are not active, nor any new styles introduced which aresafe to order for the spring for the home trade. HALtri.x.—ln worsted goods and yarns, we have no altera tion to report since our last. Wool remains firm, at the late advance, and the growers, anticipating a further improvement, are holding their stocks for still higher rates ; but the prospects of trade do not seem to warrant any such expectation. HUDDERSFIELD.—We have not had much of a inarket this week; the demand having been limited to the immediate wants of the parties concerned. There is no alteration in prices worth noticing. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—The flannel market conti nues to be well attended, and middling qualities of flannels are in good. demand.. Strong Yorkshire goods and dyed flannels are much sought after, and sell readily at previous rates. All other descriptions of flannel goods remain much the same -as our last, both in demand and prices. The wool market has been moderately brisk, and prices firm. The hands employed in the flannel trade have full work, and those employed on the band looms have not had so much work as at present for the last twelve months. The hands in the cotton mills have nearly a 11 of them full workt wages are low. PACKET LIST, GENERAL POST-OFFICE, DEC. 2. Destination Mails desp'dj Last Packet' Next Packet from Lon don I sailed. I due. Bzca -• lonian ' Islands . .1 ... S'HAMPTON STATION "-------- Lisbon . a ... ********** 7th, 17th, ,Jupiter Next Mail 5Pain.............. 1 Gibraltar. .. every m0nth...... . land 27th ell Nov. 27 due Dee. . 6 Greece and E g y pt.... of every 1 Nov. 20 due Dec. IS India, Ceylon,& Ch in a month. '3rd and 20th Indus Next M a id (1) Brit.Col.i n W . Ind. Itiei Malta (except Honduras & I Trent Bermuda,) For, Col. 2ad and 1 itli' of every . Nov. 17 in W. Indies,- except . month. H avana, Venezuela, and Madeira Next Mail ue .. Dee. 1 (2) Mexico& Havana . } 2nd of everylTeviot i r (3) Bermuda St. Juan month only. Nov. Next Man de Nicaragua, a n d 17th of every ; rent New Grenada FALMOUTH STATtoN. Madeira, Brazil, and Evng. of M i ll M Peterel'HM B Crave Buenos Ayres J!every month! Nov. GI Dee. 24 LIVERPOOL STATION.I ' I Brit, N. Ame r i ca , Ber- 1 Every' Fri - Niagara.... Niagara.. , . A., - muds, and U : - - , tatee I! day. ; Dec. Next arta 2:due Dec: —ll