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LitkillOst STANDARD. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ' tffronted them, massacring men, and carrying women UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. into slavery. Their vessels were found built, armed, iEd _ . AMERICA. appointed for fighting only, nor was there anything on The Reghte i'rofessorship of Divinity at 'Cambridge The Royal Mail steam-ship Cambria, Captain Shannon, board resembling merchandise except the plunder, just has been officially declared Vacant, on the resignation of arrived onTuesday morning,about half-pasttbree,bringing carried off from Lien-Chou-fou, and sonde goods which the Lord Bishop'of Llandaff. dates from New York to the Bth instant, inclusive. She were identified as part of the cargoes of the un f ort unate At a meet i ng , on Monday,,of the Incorporated Society . left Boston on the 9th, and Halifax on the 11th instant,. Sylph and Greyhound. Hew are thesennen to be described, for Building Churches, a grant was made in aid of a new with seventy passengers. The Cambria made a most ex- if not as pirates ?—and, if as pirates, is not an agitation church at Newburgh, in the parish of Orrnskirk. cellent p'assage, when we consider the strong head winds for the protection of these innocent fishermen' about as ' A dissenting meeting-house at Wednesfield, and ano with which she has had to contend. reasonable as an appeal to the society for preventing cruelty they et Long Melford, have just been licensed as places of The weather at New York was extremely inclement, to animals in behalf of the now ravenous wolves in the worship for the Established Church. retarding all out-door operations. Pyrenees ?" It is generally reported that the Rev. Dr. Singer has From the 24th ult., to the day of the vessel's sailing, The cholerabroke out last week with great virulence at been appointed to the Regius Professorship of Divinity, an advance of fully one cent. per pound had been re- St. Andrew Auckland, in the county of Durham, and in the University of Dublin, vacated by the death of the alised on cotton. The bulk of the business had been several fatal cases have occurred. Rev. Doctor Elrington. 'done by speculators. The chief cause of the advance was Prince Edward of Saxe Weitncir has inherited from his The valuable living at Hawkchurch, Somerset, which the reduced estimate of the crop, which we gite below, aunt, the late Queen Adelaide, the sum of £BO,OOO. She was to have been offered for sale at Garraways, on the Nearly all the accounts agree in Mr. Stewart's estimate, has also left handsome legacies to his brothers and sisters. 14th instant, has been disposed of by private contract. though some are even lower. It is said that the President of the French republic has The advowson and the next presentation were purchased There is no later intelligence from California ; but the received a very flattering letter from the Emperor of Rus- a great many years since by the late Alderman Newnham, steam -ship Chercikee was daily expected, with fifteen days sia—a favour 'which Louis Philippe was never able to of Loudon, and by will he left them to one of his sons, later from that important quarter. obtain. a clergyman ; but when it became vacant by the death a In the Senate, Gen. Cass had introduced a motion for Sir James Emerson .Tennent, the Civil Secretary of a former incumbent, he refused to accept the nomination the suspension of diplomatic relations with Austria, on Ceylon, has arrived in town with Lady Tennent. It is and be inducted to the living from some scruples respect account of her cruelties towards the Magyars. This led considered probable that Sir James will assume the ing the oaths. The benefice became then a lapsed one, to a long debate, and the motion being opposed by Mr. government of one of our Australian colonies. and Dr. Grey, the bishop of the diocese, collated the Clay, and others, stood adjourned. The ministerial crisis at Berlin has come to a head. present rester, the Rev. Dr. Rudge to it. The slavery question continued to excite a good deal of The Brandenburg ministry is dissolved. M. Von Gerlach THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND THE REV. MR. GORHAM. attention. -Mr. Foote has introduced a motion in the and Baron Manteuffel are severally mentioned as having —The following important statement appears in the Senate 'for a compromise, which be has proposed be- been entrusted by the King with the formation of a new Morning Herald of Thursday ;—" We believe we may tween the North and the South. But the South also Cabinet. announce with certainty that the decision of the Judicial moves. A law has passed one branch of the Georgia A division took place in the French Assembly, on Committee of the Privy Council has been made, and is Legislature authorising the election of delegates to a re- Thursday, on the entire bill on the deportation of the in- against the Bishop of Exeter. Ms lordship has, of course, volutionary convention of that State, if the Wilmot surgents of June, 1848, when the bill was carried by a received a command to institute Mr. 'Gorham to the rec proviso should become law. The Governor of the State majority of 213 ; the numbers being 416 for, and 203 tory of Brampford Speke." This announcement, though of Alabawa had also announced to the Legislathre-of that a fact, as we believe, may be considered somewhat prema- State,ethat the time for decided action had arrived. A ture. The judgment has not been formally given, nor has any day been appointed for it. When delivered it cannot take effect till it shall have been approved by the Queen in Council. The judgment, if not unanimous, will be, we believe, undisturbed by a dissentient voice. Its open promulgation may be expected next week. WHOSE IS THE CHURCH P—When the two women con tended for the living child, Solomon rightly judged that she could have no natural love for it, or right in it, who was content to see it divided with the sword. Two par ties are contending for the Church. The Bishop of Exe ter is for dividing it, and excluding all who cannot read the Baptismal Service with his eyes. Mr. Goode, on the other hand, and the men likeminded with him, [though they hold their own distinctive opinions firmly and deci dedly,] state explicitly that they are not for the rigid ex clusion and excommunication of all those who may happen to differ from them. Is there no argument to be drawn from this ? Whose is the Church ? Which party most calls to mind the features of Cranmer, Latimer, and the rest of our Reforming Fathers ? Who love the Church most, , and most naturally care for its state ? TRACTARIAN PRACTICES.—Margaret-street Chapel, of which Father Oakeley was formerly the minister, and which has lately kept up its charter as a feeder to.Ro manism, by sending its curate, the Rev. Mr. Bittleston, late of Oxford and Leamington, into the Church of Ro mush schism, is about to be pulled down, and rebuilt in a style rivalling, it is said, the most gorgeous edifices de voted to Roman Catholic worship. It is not an uninstruc tive fact, taken in connection with this, that several of the Romanising clergy are developing their tastes and lean ings by lighting candles on the communion table at the noonday services, and braving a prosecution in the Court of Arches. We believe that in Margaret-street Chapel a species of mummery took place at a midnight service, on Christmas Eve, which was very reprehensible. A pro cession, we understand, of the congregation paraded round the chapel ; as midnight struck on the clock, ages star suddenly shot forth, on which all the people knelt down and sang, " Hail, Star of Bethlehem!"—Church and State Gazette. THE CHURCH AND THE GOVERNMENT.—Mr. Horsman has addressed to his constituents a damaging letter against the Government, the members of which be accuses of ter giversation, evasive procrastination, and even worse, in their treatment last session of the Ecclesiastical Commis sioners Bill. Amendments had been proposed by Mr. Horsman and his friends : Lord John Russell stated in the house that the amendments bad been adopted, that the house would go into committee pro forma, and that the bill would be put in such a shape as to secure its pass ing without difficulty ; and the Reformers relied on this Ministerial assurance : ten days afterwards, late at night, the house did go into committee pro forma; Sir George Grey handed in amendments ; they were gabbled ever in the usual manner on such occasions, and the bill was re printed : it did not contain a single line of the amend ments which had been professionally adopted ! The ge neral effect of the letter is summed up in a single passage: —" As for any legislative remedy for these proved abuses, we stand precisely where we were before the question was ever , stirred. Motions have been made, discussed, and supported on all sides, with an earnestness and unanimity which did great credit to the feeling of the house. The Minister commenced by opposing, ended by acquiescing in our proposals ; and, compelled to bow before the opi nion of the house, and to save himself from defeat, he promised everything, and has done nothing." resolute , iligence from Canada is to the 29th:December. The government continues to dismiss magistrates and militia officers who avow themselves annexationists; and -Rys that in some parts of Lower Canada whole pecting British aggression in Central America." more Hungarian refugees had arrivell at New York. The intc one letter regiments 1 - - A letter, the year of cotto Jeen left without officers ated Mobile, Dec.29th, says, that during ling off had been experienced in the receipt 39,000 r bales, and that the warehouses were The crops in nearly all the. States are .spo- almost bare ken of as Vie packet-ship Wisconsin arrived at New York on the 3rd instant. Lord Brougham visited the President of the French Republic on thural beet' discovered : the onspirators have been sent to the mines of Siberia. Hayti is a field of blood. The Dominicans are mur dering the Imperialist, and burning •their towns in all di- rectimra airie K suth has escaped from Hungary, .and reached Belgrade, on her way to join her husband at istence of an immense fresh water lake in the in ea is .confirmed , by recent accounts. Its to be fertile and thickly inhabited. li has undergone a second examination, and that the efforts made for his release will Shun)la The c terior of Atr shores a Dr. 1 itis ex eventually be successful _ays, " The bombardment of Rome, by the consent of the Pope, has made tremendous havoc in the ranks of Roman Catholicism in France." barn electrified the learned world of Paris, • delivering a lecture in French, before the fence, on the theory of light. His success was triumphant. A French writer Academy of S Clara Novello, who quitted the stage on her marriage with the Count .Gigliucei, of Fermo, has returned to her profession ; she is engaged as prima donna at Rome, under the name of Madame Clara Novell°. A fine American ship, the Charleston, from New York fn. qn..nyinh_ Wll4 destroyed by fire at sea at the end of against. Private advices from the River Plate to the end of No vember, via' Rio, state confidently that a treaty had been ratified between Mr. Southern, the British Plenipoten tiary, and Rosas. The documents had been despatched to England by the steamship Hydra, and may therefore be expected daily. A letter from Rome of the 20th inst. states that the 'courier bringing despatches from Naples was stopped by seven armed men between the Pontine Marshes and Vel letri. The leader of the party compelled three travellers to quit the carriage, which they searched carefully. They tock possession of the letters, but touched nothing else. The Peninsular mail arrived at Southampton on Friday, with news from Lisbon to the 20th instant. During the debate in the Chamber of Peers, on the address in reply to the Queen's speech, the ministry declared their inten tion to submit, during the session, a new law of election, The reply then, after a six days' discussion, being put to the vote, was carried by a majority, there being for it 33; against it, 18. A vast majority is expected to be in favour of the Government. _ The crew were taken on board another inch witnessed the signal of distress. ...Lie Mormons are forming a new colony in the sand Pitch Valley, about -200 miles south of the Salt Lake City. It is represented as being remarkably fertile, and the climate as being very fine. About 100 waggons were dispatched thither with provisions and property, and from 50 to 100 families accompanied them. ROME, Jan. 9.—General Cordova announced a few days 'hat he should shortly leave. He at the same time " I am recalled,-and as the retura of the Pope ap rostporred, I cannot remain any longer, per, I should have taken on myself to have 3 had any hope of shortly paying my respects in the capital." rrom Fort Philip, dated Oct. 1, 1849, states Sandford lost her brother a few days after d in the Caspar, emigrant ship, at Port Ade ,e brother, it will be remembered, volunteered my his sister and child as protector. By some in attempting to gain the shore from the ship, Ito the water, and, spite of the exertions made to save him, he met with a watery grave. The young man tition, addressed to the Queen of Spain by nineteen in cumbents of the Archdiocese of Toledo, states that, out of the last four years' stipend, two-and-a-half years are in arrear ; that in 1849 not a maravedi was bestowed either upon the stipends of the clergy or the support of the churches. They announce the impending cessation of public worship for the want of supplies, and complain that the church presents as beggarly an appearance in her ornaments as the clergy in their rags. TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST ON THE ICE IN HOLLAND. —The Dutch journals relate the following terrible acci dent from the giving way of the ice in Holland :—" Some days since some of the inhabitants of Haaren, in the eastern part of Hanoverian Friesland, amounting to twenty-five, went on the river l'Ems with a view to divert themselves by skating. The river at this part is rather broad. They had scarcely commenced their diversion when a part of the ice gave way, and five of them disap peared ; the others hastened to their assistance, when they unfortunately met with the same fate. The whole of the bodies were afterwards recovered, quite dead. Nearly all the sufferers were married men, and great dis tress has been caused by the calamity. NIAGARA SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—EarIy in the spring of 1847, several gentlemen, including Mr. C. Elet, the engineer of the bridge, were conversing at dinner, in the pears to be again r which, horny , done if T to his Holines s ara, on the subject of how a wire got over the river. Bombshells, rockets, &c., that Er their ar laide. to accon accident he fell it was 21 years of age. SIR JAMES BROOKE.—An address, signed by a number of European residents at Singepore, has been presented to Sir James Brooke, on the subject of the attacks re cently made upon him through a certain portion of the public press. The subscribers disclaim all participation in such sentiments, and express their opinion of the ine sity which exists for the suppression of piracy of Borneo, and their approval of the mea- vitable I on the c Al Ca which Sir James Brooke had adopted to effect this. DIIEL.—A meeting took place on Wednesday morning in the Bois de Boulogne, between the Marquis de Cois lin and M. Testelin, in consequence of an insult offered to the latter by the former, in the course of a debate in the Assembly. The insult was nothing more nor less than that M. de Coislin called M. Testelin a liar. M. de Coislin, who is the youngest member of the house, is a Legitimist, as M. Testelin is a member of the Mountain. The weapon was the broad sword. The affair lasted a quarter of an hour, when it was found that M. de Coislin had received a severe wound in the head. They were immediately removed from the ground, M. de Teslin being unhurt. A Com Eagle Hotel, at could be _ WITH AN INDIAN SNAKE. - The Moul of October 23, states that on the previous __lrge snake, measuring 15 feet 6 inches long, i by Lieutenant West, of the 11th Regiment ve Infantry. The snake was first seen while F swallowing a fowl, the noise of the fowl ght the servants to the spot. Lieutenant on the snake being pointed out to him, with his i pierced the head through and fixed the blade in round. The snake feeling the sudden shock, imme- mein Ti Tuesda3,: in the act having bro -.y turned round by the tail, and in a moment coiled round Lieutenant West, but his servants being present, they succeeded in uncoiling it from his body, after a long struggle, fortunately without his sustaining any injury from the embraces of the reptile. A CURIOUS CASE. — During the prevalence of the cho lera, in the city of Mompox, New Granada, a faithful and trustworthy slave,belonging to Donna B-, was attacked by the epidemic, and while in the second stage of the disease, and in a fainting state, the fatal cart conveying ten or twelve corpses to the burial place was passing, Donna B -, without ascertaining whether poor Lucas with cords attached, were successively suggested, and the conversation seemed at an end, when Mr. Fisk said that if they promised not to ridicule his proposal, he had an idea of a cheaper and simpler plan than any. The pro mise was made, and the plan disclosed, which was simply that of using a kite. Mr. Elet said he did not see why a kite should not succeed, and an intelligent schoolboy, named Walsh, was employed, who constructed a kite, and, on the second trial, threw a line across, making it fast on the opposite side, by doubling which, a small rape -was drawn over, and six or seven doubles sufficed to take ever the first small cable of 36 wires. Mr. Elet used this to pass over in his little iron car. Next, he and his lady and many others passed over. Since then, the present structure was reared, resting on wooden towers, 50 feet high, over which pass 14 cables ; five of them of 36 wires each, five of 72, one of 125, and three of 1500-5,165 wires in all. To these the bridge is suspended. It is capable of sustaining 1,000 tons. It appears so slight that strangers fear to pass it, and yet heavy teams, five at one time, besides many droves of cattle, have passed it. It is as safe as any thoroughfare, but will give way to the sublime railroad strncture now being prepared. This will require 16 cables of 600 wires each, all laid straight, not twisted, but wound with small wire. When completed, with its massive stone towers, this structure will sustain more than 6,000 tons beyond its own weight. was dead or not, required the cartman to stop and remove him with the others to his last resting-place ! Lucas was accordingly thrown into the cart, but upon reaching the place of interment, the old negro, somewhat revived, re. covered his senses, and asked the meaning of being buried alive ! He managed to get up and walked away. He has since then perfectly recovered, and now refuses to return to his mistress, alleging that as she sent to bury him alive she cannot claim ownership over him. Donna B— has gone into court to establish her right, and as it is natural to suppose every one is on the qui rive, anxious to know the decision of the court.—Barbadian. THE PIRATES IN THE CHINA SEAS.—The Times of Wednesday contained a slashing exposure of the folly of the principles and the unfairness of the misrepresentations of the peace society. This was done by a simple detail of facts concerning the expedition of the three war steamers which were despatched against a notorious and sanguinary pirate chief, Shapng-tsai, whose head quarters were in the Gulf of Tonquin and Island of Hainan. The pirates, hearing of the expedition, tried to escare amidst the islands and shoal water of the vicinity. They were tracked by the relics of their own devastation, by smok ing villages, desolated cottages, and other proofs of the vengeance wreaked on the poor inhabitants, who had failed to supply their oppressors with supplies of provi sion. From Chuckshan the expedition was directed to Hoonon,g, and from Hoonong to Fa-lung, where it was said that the population were actually awaiting an attack from this terrible chieftain. This intelligence proved cor rect, and as the squadron neared the specified point they at length saw the famous pirate fleet, numbering no fewer than sixty-four vessels, and carrying 1,200 guns and 1,350 men. " There," says the narrative in the Times, " still, however, remained the difficulty of closing with them, for they were within the shallows, where Shapng-tsai had boasted that no English could follow him, and in very truth for upwards of nine hours the British cruisers were hunting and prying about for the channel, as Capt. Hay's despatch expresses it, ' like terriers at a rat-hole. At last a native pilot contrived to escape from the shore to the fleet, and took them over the bar. On coming to close quarters, the first of Shapng-tai's proceedings was to behead his agent and his whole boat's brew on suspicion of treachery, and the next to lash to the mainmast as a target for our guns an unfortunate envoy who had been despatched to him from Canton. He then resolutely awaited the attack with a score of his heaviest vessels moored in line, the guns of which he presently opened upon some of his own junks, which showed symptoms of wishing to escape. The fighting then became very sharp till a lucky shell from the Phlegethon entered the pirate flag-ship, and blew all into the air. Singularly enough, the poop of the vessel remained afloat, with the flag of defiance still flying at the top of the railing until it was consumed by fire." On the second day the attack was carried on by th e b oa t s , an d on boarding one of the junks an instance of desperation was seen. A gun was found loaded to the m uzz l e , d e p r essed so as to bear upon the approachingboat, and behind it lay the captain dead, having the burning match in his hand. A shot, probably directed. "at a venture," had been the winged messenger of heaven, to avert the slau g ht er w hi c h wou ld o th er wise have ensued. It is added—" In the large junks which were captured everything was found in such fighting order as would not have disgraced the smartest European fri gate." After detailing the plirticulars of this expedition can we wonder at the following sarcastic appeal of our contemporary to the peace societies :—" Perhaps at the next meeting of the peace society some person will favour the world with a definition of what, in these days, is still to be considered piracy, and we shall be happy to apply the rules to the case before us, gere were upwards of 1,300 men sailing from place to place with a fleet of sixty four ships, mounting 1,200 guns, levying contributions valorem they found means, burning all t9W1113 which SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GRAND CURLING MATCH.—THE EARL OF EGLINTON AND EARL OF MANSFIELD.—A match between those two noblemen came off at Airthrey Loch on Wednesday ; the players consisting of gentlemen belonging to the north and west of Scotland, the latter, of course, being skipped by Lord Eglinton, and the former by Lord Mansfield. Seldom has finer play been seen than was displayed on this occasion. At the conclusion Lord Mansfield's party were declared the victors by seven shots, they having scored 26, and the Earl of Eglinton's party 19. On leaving the ice the Earl of Eglinton handed over a very handsome sum to be distributed among the poor of the parish. The winning side consisted of the Earl of Mans field, the Master of Strathallan, Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, and the Hon. Capt. Drummond, R.N. ; and the players, with the Earl of Eglinton as their skip, were Sir James Boswell, J. 0. Fairlie, Esq., and R. D. Ferguson, Esq. THE CHASE, The Cheshire Hounds will meet to-morrow (Wednes day, the 30th instant) at Dunham Massey ; Thursday, at Tabley Park ; Saturday, at Crewe Hall ; each day at half past ten o'clock, except Thursday, when they will meet at eleven. ARE ROMISH PRIESTS FAVOURABLE TO EDUCATION ? (From the Times.) " But why not leave us to educate ?" say Dr. M'Hale and his friends. For two reasons, each of which were sufficient in itself—you cannot, and you will not. The Romish priesthood cannot educate. They have, as a body, neither the moral nor the physical means—the minds, the learning, nor the money. These defects might indeed be remedied in time. Something has been done towards their better instruction in secular learning ; something might be done by English wealth towards bringing a better class into the priesthood, who would be free from those crying faults of temperament and preju dice, which, at present, the priests only share with their flocks. But, till this happy consummation comes, how are things to go on? Are we to leave the giant evil un assailed, till, by a careful application of indirect means, we are freed from every Irish priest of the species M'Hale ? This is purely absurd, especially if we also remember that the race does not wish to be improved. They know that their power over their flocks depends mainly on their resemblance to them and sympathy with them. Will they consent to be altered, and so destroy their influence ? This would be indeed sawing away the bough they sit on. Ireland must be educated ; this is the end. The new colleges are means, very imperfect and inadequate, it may be, but nevertheless real means, and as such are abused by Dr. M'Hale. We wish it could be said with truth that the work, which is scarce begun in Ireland, was finished in England ; but we can lay no such flattering unction to our souls. The experience of every day would confute us. It is not a search after intellectual monstrosities, a depraved appe tite for the exceptional, but the common course of every day life, which brings before us, every now and then, such significant cases as that of George Ruby. Our readers will remember the simple passage of that poor boy's life which brought him before the public. A policeman had been desperately assaulted; the supposed assailants were placed at the bar of the Mansion-house ; and George Ruby's testimony was thought likely to cast some light on the affray. He seemed about fourteen years of age. From his answers to the questions of Alderman Hum phery, it appeared that he could not read, never said his prayers, understood nothing of the nature of prayer, knew nothing of God, and, as he expressed it, had heard of the Devil, but did not know him. He sums up very briefly bis small stock of information—" I knows how to sweep the crossing ; that's all." He seemed to have lived somewhere near Bishopsgate ; where the " crossing" is on which all his intellect centres we know not. Any of our readers may have given him a halfpenny, and not observed that he was more dirty, more ragged, more stamped with the marks of ignorance and degradation, than half his young brethren of the broom. We may hope that even the clergy whom Dr. M`Hale counsels with so little moderation number none among their flocks who are quite in this depth of ignorance. Bat, should it be so, the diocese of Tuam may yet have little room for glorifying. Many of its peasantry are probably, in many respects, far behind George Ruby. Some of them, who hear mass and can answer questions about a God, have yet to learn, what George Ruby pos sibly knows,—that they have no right to assassinate a man because he is more fortunate in his holding than themselves, or to shoot at a landlord from behind a hedge, because potatoes have failed and they are starving. Ignorance has many forms, and calls for many remedies. Simple brutality is not one of its mildest phases, and simple intellectual culture does not always fail to cure. There is room for the Queen's colleges and much beside in Ireland. Meanwhile, shall nothing be done for England ? • A SURPRISING CURE OF A BAD COLD THAT HAD SET TLED ON THE LUNGS, BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Jane Kruger, residing at 33, Cursitor-str• •., ..ncery-lane, was reduced to a mere skeleto s . -ing to a violent cold, so that her liver and lungs . become dangerously af fected. When she last : • nded Bartholomew's Hospi tal, her mother was t. • by a medical gentleman " that he scarcely thought ~ e would live to reach home." Her father then, as orlorn hope, commenced rubbing her chest, sides, .. lotins, with Holloway's Ointment, and gave her t. :e famous Pills twice a day, which, to the surprise ' all, saved the child's life and effected a perfect POLITICAL. MISCELLANY. w his declamation." There is, however, good in Mr. Cob ' d en's 'vagaries. The man who rose above the polit ica Mr. William Brown, M.P., has addressed a letter to h orizon like a rocket, is falling like the stick. Mr. Secretary Meredith, combatting his doctrines. In America, the pro-slavery men are the free traders, James Heald, Esq., M.P. for Stockport, was enter- whilst the anti-slavery men are the protectionists. tamed at a grand dinner on Tuesday by his constituents. DESTRUCTION OF OFFICIAL PAPERS.—It is asserted The Times has sent out a " commissioner" to ascertain. ' by a correspondent of the Morning Herald as a positive the state of agriculture, and to see whether wheat can be fact that " our present most sagacious ministers have, for grown for ss. a bushel. some days past, been busily engaged burning all unneces - The Hon. C. P. Villiers, long known for his annual sary official papers." motions against the corn laws, holds a sinecure office of CONVERSIONS TO PROTECTION.—At the Northamp £l2oo a-year. tonshire county meeting, on Thursday, the Duke of Graf . There was a great 15`rotectionist meeting in the De Grey ton, hitherto found in the ranks of the Whigs, came for- Rooms, at York, on Wednesday, the Earl of Harewood in ward in person to declare his condemnation of free trade. the chair. Amongst the speakers were the Duke of Cleve- At the same meeting, Sir C. Knightley said, "he was land, Mr. Cayley, M.P., and Mr. W. B. Ferrand, and the proud to inform them that they had a deserter from Peel's resolutions were carried unanimously. camp, in the person of Lord Claud Hamilton, who repented A committee of inquiry is to be moved for, early in the of his sins, and would, he hoped, receive absolution at ensuing session, by Mr. Young, M.P., and Mr. Parker, their hands." M.P., to inquire into the general working of the Joint- NATIONAL CURRENCY REFORM ASSOCIATION.—The stock Companies Winding-up Act, as carried out by the first public meeting of the National Currency Reform Masters in Chancery. Association was held on Wednesday night at the London Lord Lyttleton has addressed a letter to his tenantry, Coffee-house, for the purpose of promoting the objects expressing his readiness to commute his present rents for which its members have in view. There was a very con rents estimated at the value of the produce. "I am quite siderable attendance of parties interested in the question. aware that there are objections to this kind of rent ; but, Mr. F. Bennoch, president of the Association, took the on the whole, I consider it is better fitted than any other chair, and in the course of a lengthened address ex for times like these." plained the principles of the Association, and replied to Adverting to Mr. Cobden's pretensions to speak his many of the objections urged against the issue of paper mind as " a landlord" at his Aylesbury soiree, the Morn- money by the Government under the sanction of Parlia ing Herald inquires how it happens that out of the 80,000 merit. The Association proposed to dispense with gold as or 90,000 pounds collected for him, not more than £3,000, an internal circulating medium, and leave it to its natural or £4,000 at the most, was invested in land by this saga- function of balancing foreign accounts. The new state cious patron of agriculture. of things in our fiscal and commercial relations, he con- Penenden Heath, celebrated for its public meetings, was tended, justified the re-opening of the question. Free the scene of a Protectionist gathering, called by the high trade in money had become a natural consequence of free sheriff, on Thursday last. The meeting was stormy in trade in commodities.—Mr. Twells next addressed the the extreme, and when the two parties met on the Heath meeting in support of the objects of the Association ; a desperate battle took place. About one hundred Pro- and the proceedings terminated shortly afterwards. No tectionists, who were on horseback, were pelted by vol- resolutions were proposed, the purpose being to communi leys of stones and mud, and were obliged to gallop off at cate information, rather than to call for any expression of full speed. opinion. On Thursday, a Meeting of the landowners and tenant farmers of Leicestershire and Rutlandshire, was held at Waltham. Mr. R. Norton was called to the chair. Among the company were the Marquis of GrAnby, M.P., the Earl of Wilton, Lord J. Manners, Lord C. Manners, M.P., Viscount Newport, M.P., Mr. Frewen, M.P., the Hon. W. F. Norton, and a large number of the most in fluential agriculturists of the counties of Leicester, Lin coln, and Rutland. Protectionist meetings continue to be held throughout the provincial districts. To describe one is, for the most part, to describe all. The free traders generally interrupt the proceedings, and get ejected from the meeting in con sequence. They then usually assemble in the streets, and, in masses, attack individuals as they issue from the locality where they had held their deliberations. Much street fighting has ensued, and probably the free-traders look upon such exercise as a good preparation for that revolu tion with which their chiefs menace the country in case of their own views being opposed. Also on Thursday, a public meeting of persons inte reited in the restoration of protegtion to British agricul ture, and its extension to every description of domestic industry, was held at the Assembly Rooms, George Ho tel, Northampton, a spacious apartment capable of hold ing 3000 persons. About a third of that number was pre sent. The chair was occupied by Lord Southampton, and upon the platform were—the Duke of Grafton, Sir H. Dryden, Sir C. Knightlev, M.P., Earl Pomfret, Mr. Maunsell, M.P., Mr. Stafford, M.P., Captain Vyse, M.P., Colonel Cartwright, Sir G. Robinson, the Hon. F. Vil liers, Sir G. Deering, and many others. JOHNSON ON PEEL.—At an agricultural meeting last week, Mr. G. F. Young said that he happened that day to fall by accident upon the word Peel in Johnson's dic tionary ; and if it had fallen under the attention of Mr. Disraeli the elder it might well have been introduced in his " Curiosities of Literature," or would well have been made the subject of enable comment by the gifted son of that illustrious author. (Cheers.) According to Johnson, the word Peel was derived from the French piller, to rob; and the meaning of the word was thus illustrated by a quotation from Dryden— " Lord-like at ease, with arbitrary power To peel the chiefs, the people to devour : These traitor, are thy talents." FREE TRADE AND ITS RESULTS.—Mr. Cobden says in the 146th No. of the Bread-tax Circular, " By the adop. tion of Free Trade there will be no complaining poor in our streets—no income-tax—no poor-rates ; but all classes will be benefitted." What is the truth ? Our poor houses are overflowing—poor-rates increased almost one half—the infamous income-tax screwed up to the highest point, and claimed and exacted not upon profits but abso lutely upon the deficiency of income ; the farmer pays it upon his rent—a rent which he cannot make under the present price of produce. When will the bubble burst ? when will the producing classes learn to cast off the incu bus of Peel and Cobden and the present Government, the causes of all their losses ?—when will Electors bestir themselves ? The " Times' Commissioner," in a concluding' article on the agriculture of Buckinghamshire, affirm that--" In Buckinghamshire' the attention of the farmers appeared intently fixed on prices as the only source from which could come any effectual relief. They seem to consider reduction of rents, or any increased produce on their farms by means of increased capital invested, as quite inadequate modes of helping Chem over their present difficulties, even if those modes were practicable. On the grass lands it was thought that something might be done by lowering rents, but on the tillage lands this source of hope still was generally considered quite unavailing. With reference to the increase of farm produce by an increased investment of capital, it was said that the farmers' means had already been exhausted, and that, even if high farming was be yond all doubt profitable in its results, it could not now be adopted." Mn. COBDEN AT SHEFFIELD.-Mr. Cobden arrived in Sheffield on Tuesday evening, on a visit to the constituent freeholders of the West Riding in that town. He was met at the railway station by a party of friends, and es corted to the residence of Edward Smith, Esq., at Fin Dale, where he spent the day. In the evening a meeting took place in the saloon of the Music-hall. The admit tance was by ticket at the small charge of sixpence each. Edward Smith, Esq., occupied the chair, and simply ex plained the object of the meeting, which was to receive the honourable and " distinguished member for the West Riding, and to express sympathy with him in his patriotic and philanthropic objects, especially in regard to financial reform, the extension of the suffrage, the land and build ing society movement, and the maintenance of peace." Thomas Birke, Esq., then moved a resolution recom mendinc, economy in the public expenditure, and a deter mined effort to obtain such reduction through the efforts of the financial reformers in Parliament. William Fisher, Esq., moved the second resolution, advocating a larger ex tension of the elective franchise, by the purchase by the industrious classes of forty shilling freeholds in lands or buildings. Mr. Cobden was then introduced by the chairman, and was, of course, received with acclamation. He spoke for an hour and forty minutes. Richard Solly, Esq., then moved a vote of confidence in Richard Cob den, Esq., and pledged the meeting to spare no exertions to maintain him in the representation of the West Ri ding. The meeting concluded at twenty minutes past ten with a vote of thanks to the chairman. The following morning (Wednesday) a public breakfast was given to the honourable member, in the Cutlers' Hall. LAW INTELLIGENCE. The final hearing of the case of Mr. Joseph Robinson Pim, a bankrupt, has been fixed for the Bth of February The certificate of Mr. Robert Tayolr, ironmonger, has been suspended for nine months, with protection from month to month. A first-class certificate will be granted. The Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay has been elected a bencher of Lincoln's-inn, an honour usually restricted to Queen's Counsel. The proposition was made by the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, and affirmed by a large majority. ft is said that the Bankruptcy Act of last session is to be repealed, and a new one substituted, restoring the measure to its origin< I form, before it was mangled by the Commons' Committee. A mere amendment act would not suffice to cure the legislative blunders. Leave was granted on Friday in the Bail Court to enter judgment in sixty-six cases of ejectment which Mr. Fear gus O'Connor had instituted against as many of his tenants who had been located upon the Chartist land estate at Lovell. The Court of Exchequer, on Tuesday, granted a new trial in the case of Higginbottom v. Waters, tried at Liverpool, last Assizes, when the jury, during their ab sence to deliberate, were supplied with brandy, sandwiches, and cigars. In the Court of Common Pleas a surgeon named At kyns has recovered £lOOO from a gentleman of the same profession, with whom he had been in partnership in London, for residing within two and a half miles of Dorset-crescent, the place of business of the plaintiff, contrary to agreement entered into previously between them. JUDGES' CIRCUITS.—MidIand : Lord Denman and Mr. Baron Parke.—Home : Sir T. Wilde and Mr. Justice Maule.—Norfolk : Sir F. Pollock and Mr. Justice Wight man.—=Northern : Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Baron Rolfe.—Oxford : Mr. Justice Patteson aAd Mr. Baron Platt.—Western : Mr. Justice Erle and Mr. Justice Tal fourd. North Wales : Mr. Justice Cresswell.—South Wales : Mr. Justice Williams. In the Court of Exchequer, on Friday, Mr. Cranston, a schoolmaster, obtained a verdict of £4O damages, being the repayment of £32 10s. passage-money, and £7 10. expenses, incurred by the plaintiff, who had taken his passage by the Asiatic, advertised to sail from Plymouth on the 15th of August, for Adelaide. The ship was de tained for some time beyond the period announced, and the emigrant went with his family in another vessel, the Constant, the proprietors of which had taken his receipt for his passage by the Asiatic in part payment, and were stated to be the real plaintiffs in the present action. SPRING CIRCUIT OF THE JUDGES.—Northern Circuit: Judges, the Hon. Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Baron Rolfe :—Northern Division of Lancashire, Saturday, February, 16th, at Lancaster ; Westmoreland, Wednes day, 20th, at Appleby ; Cumberland, Friday, 22d, at Car lisle ; Northumberland, Wednesday, 27th, at Newcastle ; Town of Newcastle, same day; Durham, Saturday, March 2d, at Durham ; Yorkshire, Thursday, 7th, at York. Castle ; City of York, same day, at the Guildhall ; South Division of Lancashire, Thursday, 21st, at Liverpool.— North Wales and Chester Cireuit ; Judge, the Hon. Mr. Justice Cresswell :—Montgomeryshire, Tuesday, March 12th, at Welchpool ; Merionethshire, Thursday, 14th, at Bala ; Carnarvonshire, Monday, 18th, at Cardigan ; Anglesey, Wednesday, 20th, at Beaumaris ; Denbighshire, Saturday, 23d, at Ruthin ; Flintshire, Wednesday, 27th, at Mold ; Cheshire, Saturday, 30th, at Chester Castle ; City of Chester, same day, Mr. Justice Williams, after proceeding through South Wales, will meet Mr. Justice Cresswell at Chester. CHURCH-RATES.—Judgment was taken on Tuesday in the Exchequer Chamber on the long-pending Braintree church-rate case, which has been before the public since 1841. The question in dispute, it will be remembered, is the validity of a church-rate made by a minority. There were seven Judges attending, and, not concurring, their lordships delivered judgment seriatim. The majority, Barons Platt and Alderson, with Justices Cresswell and Maule, being in favour of the validity, confirming the judgment laid down by Lord Denman in the Queen's Bench ; Chief Justice Wilde, with Barons Parke and and Rolfe, supporting the reversal of that judgment. Under these circumstances, there will no doubt be a fur ther appeal to the House of Lords. Baron Alderson, in giving his opinion that the judgment of the court below should be affirmed, said that " the parishioners were bound to maintain the fabric of the church. A vestry meeting bad been legally called to make a rate, and that rate was made by the minority ; and as the act of the ma jority, in refusing to make the rate, was an illegal act, the act of the minority must be held to be valid." The de cision is thus given by four judges against three. The Dissenters will of course make much of this fact. But let them not overlook another circumstance of at least equal importance—namely, that all the judges, of all the courts, entirely agree that it is the duty of the parish vestry to make the rate. They differ only as to whether the re medy applied by Mr. Veley was the right remedy. Those judges who question the propriety of the course taken by Mr. V. state distinctly that other means might be found to compel the parish to do its duty. Let the Dissenters ponder upon this circumstance. Let them never forget that there is not a single judge, of any court, who deems the refusal of a church rate a justifiable proceeding. MR. COBDEN'S " TENANT FARMERS."—A meeting of tenant farmers and tradesmen favourable to an equal system of Protection took place on Saturday last at Pet worth, and in the course of the proceedings the following amusing exposer of Mr. Cobden, his vast estate in West Sussex, and his " tenant farmers," was made by Mr. Wm. Hodson, of Cocking, who said that that estate consisted of thirty-nine acres of arable and 110 of wood. One of Mr. Cobden's tenant farmers hired nineteen acres — (laughter)—and was a miller; the other was a shopkeeper, and both paid their rents, not out of the produce of their land, but from their trades. One's name was Mill, the other's Newell ; and both hired their handfuls of land as a matter of convenience in their business. Mr. Cobden stated that he had no tall chimney, no town in the neigh bourhood to enhance the value of his land ; but he had the miller and the shopkeeper. Mr. Cobden stated that his estate was distant ten miles from a market town ; but those present knew that the estate was within three miles from the borough of Midhurst, and within seven of Petworth. The rate of these two farms to the poor rates was £27 7s. 6d. ; and Mr. Cobden held the remainder of the estate, the woodland, which was rated at £lO. Now the rateable value of the two farms was a high value ; yet Mr. Cobden obtained for them £4O a year. If these te nant farmers, as Mr. Cobden called them, lived on the produce of these farms, and paid for labour, tithes, rates, and rent, Mr. Cobden would seize the whole of the stock and crop, in less than two years. Yet Mr. Cobden sets himself up as the pattern landlord for West Sussex. That might do for his friends at Aylesbury ; they would not hear it at Petworth. It was humbug.—(Cheers. MR. COBDEN'S POLICY.—We are not the admirers of foreign loans. The country has already speculated in them to its hurt; and, besides, there are many domestic enterprises in which our capital might be invested profi tably and patriotically. But to prevent people from in vesting their capital as they please, is, in point of fact, to assume a joint ownership in their capital. If capitalists are not to lend their money to Russia, because it may be used to their country's hurt, then, for the very same rea son, we ought not to trade with Russia, because trade must supply the Russians, as it has supplied the British, with "the sinews of war." Why does not Mr. Cobden abuse the shipbuilders of this country for constructing war-steamers to the order of the Emperor of Russia ? , it l Every bushel bought o o f fkdrßcaienToutpirgsioonmssnitiaand enrichesevery thatton o f countryhem p ; and tthat of t i s t al supplies it with money with which it may fight us. Pro tectionists as we are, we do not adopt Mr. Cobden's argu ment ; for it is foolish, as well as impossible, to attempt to controul the application of money after we have parted with it in supplying our wants. We mention it to expose it, and to exhibit Mr. Cobden in the silly situation of blowing hot and cold. The moral of this affair is Mr. Cob den's native littleness. Here is a man who deliberately stultifies his own principle of •" buying in the cheapest, and selling in the dearest market ;" who bids us deal with Brazilian slavedealers, and forbids us to deal with the Russian Government, on the ground of morality ; who desires free trade with all tna War, ts e yehtaarbrane: aesrtatoei world, ooynhnou,yalseultt hhtandideteo revolution, British rsu authoritative vacancydma peo a p ea fyo o t hp w t lhbo e e ee r fp which it is vitally necessary to b w ri h n o g r i a n n to ks th h e im ne s w elf or a d s e a r nd of things ; who calls for a brother r h a o s o i d n o ex f p n e a d ti i o e n nt s, a a n n d d i y m e - t would d u i t s t c e i r p s eseonf breed ti p i neaeancet wars, d which, w ithenetoiva:Rcui denouncing Russia aw; a ofp-nfhtdaiaoabbrnnlshoocaoolyrudfoto,niafs m iigeba- m exhgg e ora n aeg s ran e ydrt a ree empire, m tst hrrapueenivgrgdege some god temeho, golden termi nating visiongo ethn races, eer militaryarttlsmaahhenn settled blfanuceaal:eanti hbane:r a tynruho n t:di ipef d ac teterdshct s abeayhi e ensies m etrscoue i semi-barbarous on which Mr. Cobden's eye ever gloats, and which redden LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, JAN. 22. PARTNERSHIPS _DISSOLVED, W. Walker and J. A. Bird, Liverpool, auctioneers—R. How arth and S. Ayland, Manchester, dyers. DECLARATION OF DIVIDENDS. J. Higginson and R. Deane, Liverpool, merchants—first div. of 2s. 3d. in the pound, and second div. of 9d. in the pound, any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool. W. Potter, Birkenhead and Liverpool, merchant—second div. of sd. in the pound, any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. BANKRUPTS John Hignett, Weaverham, Cheshire, shoemaker, Feb. 1 and 28, at 11 o'clock, at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy: solicitor, Mr. Dodge, Liverpool ; official assignee, Mr. Turner, Liverpool. William and Samuel Shaw, Upper Mill and of Grasscroft, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, timber merchants. James Bannehr, Exeter, law stationer. Jesse. Hinton and Jonathan Fisher, Foleshill, Warwickshire, silk manufacturers. Robert Kennet, Broadway, Westminster, and Wilton-road, Pimlico, licensed victualler. John Oliver, Queen's road, Bayswater, plumber. Daniel Bishop, York-street, St. James's-square, London, wine merchant. Robert Fulford, Fulford-place, Southgate-road, Middlesex, builder. George Hammond, Milton-next Gravesend, and of Mill-wall, Poplar. DIVIDENDS. Feb. 14, G. Hinchcliffe, Leeds, cloth manufacturer—Feb. 1 H. C. Brown, Winchester, builder. CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day of meeting. Feb. 16, J. Yeomans, Sheffield, merchant—March 1, C. Cur tis, Nottingham, corn factor. IRELAND. The Limerick Chronicle states that—" In one tract of the county Clare, where 20,000 acres were sown with wheat this time three years, not more than 300 are now laid down for seed." The monster address to Lord Roden was presented on Friday. It had attached to it nearly 9,000 signatures, amongst whom were upwards of 50 peers, 70 M.P.'s and baronets, nearly 200 deputy-lieutenants, and 800 magis trates. . . An elderly lady, named Harwood, while at dinner with her husband at Dublin, a few days since, had the misfor tune to fail in swallowing a piece of meat, which stuck in the passage, and caused her death in a few minutes, al though the obstruction was removed by surgical aid be fore she expired. The police-office at Cork was last week thronged with wretched vagabonds, who, disliking the workhouse, had committed depredations merely to insure quarters in the gaol. Four gas-lamps were broken for this purpose by as many boys, in the presence of the police, and many of the prisoners had been turned out of gaol on the previous day. - - - - - - - NEWS FOR THE FARMER.—On Friday. eight foreign vessels arrived heavily laden with breadstuffs ; Saturday, eleven vessels with a similar cargo ; and on Sunday these arrivals were followed by six others ! Total for three days : 25 cargoes, comprising 9 wheat, 12 maize, 3 beans, and 1 oats. With such arrivals, notwithstanding that the navi gation is impeded by ice, an advance in corn is not very likely.—Cork Constitutzon. POPISH INTERFERENCE IN CHURCH MATTERS.—It appears from the late Order in Council in Ireland, requir ing a form of prayer to be prepared on account of the vi sitation of cholera, that the Popish Attorney-General, Monahan, is one of the parties requiring a Protestant Prelate to prepare the form of prayer, and the same to be used in all Protestant Churches in Ireland. Mr. Monahan's name was appended to the order. ANOTHER ASSASSINATION IN LIMERICK. 011 the night of Tuesday, the 15th instant, ,Edward Hurley, of Ballynahinch, near Knocklong, was murdered in his own house, in the presence of his wife and five children. Hurley, after rising from prayers, directed his son to look after the cattle before they retired to rest. The boy pro ceeded to the door, and, upon opening it, observed an armed man outside. The fellow told Hurley's son to go back, and with the muzzle of the gun forced him to the centre of the dwelling, when his father, mother, brothers, and sister, promptly assailed the intruder, who was re pulsed ; but, alas ! the melancholy catastrophe remains to be told. As Hurley, the head of this brave family, was locking the door, the atrocious ruffian fired from without; the ball entered his left eye, carried away the upper part of the skull, and the innocent victim fell dead on the spot ! POPERY, 'SLAVERY, AND " DOMESTIC NOMINATION." —Day by day Popery is drawing her serpentine cords more closely round the neck of Protestant liberty, and taking to her embraces the congenial forces of anti-Saxon hostility. Doctor Kirby, a first-class Irish bigot, has been appointed to succeed Dr. Cullen in the presidency of the Irish Col lege at Rome; and our own smooth-faced and silver tongued Dr. Miley—the "prophet and the guide" of late demagogue O'Connell, is put forward for the same influ ential post in the Irish College at Paris. A fine provision, truly, for the future principles of the Irish students to be reared for the Popish priesthood in Ireland. Theaupoint ment of Dr. Cullen to the see of Armagh is a pregnant type of the policy of Rome, and the 14Iachiavelism of Tuam. Doctor Cullen is well known to be the gloomiest and most determined bigot perhaps in Europe; he was the friend — we may say, the bedfellow, of Doctor Mac Hale, who, in his late memorable visit to Rome, was domiciled in his mansion. Hence is manifest the servility and submission of that haughty and jealous hierarch, who, in the person of this Doctor Cullen, suffered the Pope to set aside the arrangements and the liberties of the Romish Church in Ireland, which it had been the labour of his own more youthful days to establish. Led by Hibernicus himself (that is to say by John of Maronia, now soi doisant Arch bishop of Tuam), the Popish clergy claimed and established a right of Domestic Nomination, whereby it became their privilege to put three persons in nomination for any vacant see in Ireland, as Dignus, Dignior, Dignissimus, and the Pope's jurisdiction in the final appointment was limited to a preference among the three.—Dublin Mail. COURT AND FASHION. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Royal children, remain at Windsor, in the enjoyment of good health. Amongst the visitors to the Queen, during the week, have been the Duke and Duchess of Nemours. The Count and Countess de Neuilly, the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, and the Prince de Joinville, visited her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert on Friday morning, and partook of luncheon with the Queen and Prince. Her Majesty, it has been announced, will not open Parliament in p erson , an d the r eason has been further assigned, that we are likely to have another addition to the Royal Family of England in April. The Duke of Rutland is surrounded by a family circle at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire. The Count and Coun tess Rossi (Madame Sontag) were among the visitors of the noble duke. The Earl and Countess of Stamford have arrived at Enville Hall, from their town residence, Hill-street ; and the Earl intends to celebrate his arrival with his new bride by giving a ball to his tenants and tradesmen. The gay Weir is fixed to come off on Wednesday, and will be fol lowed by a similar entertainment for the servanto of his lgdollip, on po following Friday. Jan. 29, Issl, RAILWAY AFFAIRS. LANCAMIRE ARD cornPaOY pose, with the sanction ar Parliament, to increase t et rates for express train and first-class passengers to 6 ,1 • P ro mile, for second-class to 4d. ' and for third-class to2d.i. mile, the Parliamentary of ld.-per-mile class excePtebato SOUTH-WasTtax RAILWAY.—Mr. Chaplin , 6 " os man, has recently paid up his £48,000, for which he_..m.t in arrear with his comp y, an together with £ 4,000 We ir , thereon, and Mr. Reed his £lO,OOO arrears ; 13t1 s or Chadwick, we believe, still stands indebted to the c° pany to a large amount. 11 Orr At a meeting of the Scottish Central Railway' —°_,,„Ls hold at Perth, on Tuesday last, a motion by the Ma r a .;:.l of Breadalbane for a committee to inquire into the "a, of the line was carried by 4938 votes, and £363,450 st,°„47 against 3886 votes, and £260,450 stock ; majority, ,Ic ta votes, and £103,000 stock. The directors, being signally defeated, immediately resigned.• The officers of the London and North-Western I'4' 1' way have raised £lOOO as a testimonial to Mr. Doc 1.4 ,8 the resident engineer of the Southern Divisio n of line. £5BO of London and North-Western stock ott s has been purchased, and he has been presented witied purse ,of 60 guineas. Mrs. Dockray has been Pre,se_ ll 4lo with a handsome service of plate and with her llitsu'w likeneas. n tbi SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—III a six MO t ot al return from the various lines of the kingdom, the tb°6o number of passengers carried was 31,000,00 0 , o f w i a fs, about three millions and a half travelled by the first e t la 12,000,000 by the second. and the remainder am fees of to nearly 16,000,000, by the third. As to the an d this mode of travelling, it must now be surely D,eY t ' o f question, even in the minds of the most timid• r i n g a grand total of 57,960,784 passengers conveyed durn,lsool period of twelve months, 21 only were killed, of w. 11 , 0 . 12 met their deaths by their own carelessness or Inist' o r duct, leaving but nine bona fide casualties upon 58,000,000 ventures, a nd giving the odds of more t° 6,000,000 to I'in safety of travellers' safety. n e n. MR. HUDSON AGAIN.—This gentleman has b ee n e n. deavouring to whitewash himself by a letter in the which, unfortunately for his kingship, has called f, two leaders from the Thunderer in reply, sinking his jesty only still deeper in the mud : es " In one place we find him confessing that what he did rat wrong, not morally, but legally ; i n another, not legall) e . 'i i ist perhaps morally; in another, that others would have dontiog' the same in his place. Then follows a slippery transac t O which was clearly in his interest had all the esclandre not place." W , t, tba.t.'g e would particularly call attention to the point ti one single material fact which was urged against big , "10* committee of investigation does M o r. Hudson attempt t o, the lidate. Whether you read his own letter or the report _1.1:i; committee, you will equally find that he falsified the acc o yo paid dividends out of capital : by his jugglery procure Id Id such shares as be desired should be allocated to him ; o ,f the own iron to the company; made illegal uses of the naule:' t teif association, and engaged them in speculations withoutact consent :—all these facts are found admitted in the Newllitie manifesto, just as they are set forth in the accusation committee. There is a difference in the lights and shado" ' none in the material objects. . . . • duct Let it not be forgotten that every part of this man's co7irl was but a link in the chain of policy so nefarious, that, to did it out with success, he was driven to the desperate esP e s of falsifying the books of the company. Now he c00 3 ,.. e e ward, holds up each link in succession, and asks us if. ", n i,eo , discern in it either crack or flaw. Mr. Hudson is inis'",,ost Now that he has escaped the legal consequences of Ws 'foe reckless and unprincipled management, his policy was W e be courted silence and obscurity. Whatever brings his 11 °,,eilo fore the public tells against him. He would have done ct 10 even according to his own miserable notions of advanta,, tjF have retired into an obscurity which might at least have den his shame from public observation." THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION CERTIFICATES GRANTED. J. Jackson, Wrexham, Denbighshire, farmer—G. Stedman, Forebridge, Staffordshire, currier. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Keogh and Good, Liverpool, cotton brokers—R. Wood and A. Crook, Wavertree, near Liverpool, builders. DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. Batson, Wilson, and Longhorn, Berwick-upon-Tweed, ban kers. R. Haylock, Cambridge, chymist. J. Tilley, late of Princes-road, Bermondsey, coal meter. J. Strange, Abingdon, wine merchant. J. Woodham, Tonbridge, grocer. E. L. Blackman, late of Gracechurch-street, Lonpon. tailor. C. Rowland, Horsham, Sussex, stonemason. A C. Handley, Maldon, Essex, draper. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. m Th erc o h m an a t. s ickenden, Harp-lane, Tower-street, London, wine BANKRUPTS. George Rennie, Liverpool, merchant, Feb. 8 and 28, at Ii o'clock, at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy : solici tors, Messrs. Littledale and Bardswell, Liverpool official assignee, Mr. Bird, Liverpool. Benjamin Hewitt, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, licensed victualler. Peter Mann, Leeds, corn factor. Thomas Smurwaite, Scarborough, wine merchant. • Johan Christian Bremer, Mark-lane, London, merchant. John Webster, Southgate, dealer in mining shares. DIVIDENDS. Feb. 15, J. Miller, Liverpool, saddler—J. Deakin, Liverpool, wine merchant—Feb. 15, J. J. Jackson, Liverpool and Birken head, wine merchant. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day of meeting. _ Feb. 15, T. Wheeler, Liverpool, fruit merchant—Feb. 18, II Horsley, Liverpool; warehousekeeper. CATTLE SLAUGHTERED IN LIVERPOOL, FOR THE WEEK ENDING JAN. 25. Beasts 783 Sheep and Lambs Calves l2O 1 Pigs . Captain Kellett, in a report to the Admiralty, d nel the following interestin g accoun t o f th e procee di n gs °i n to Majesty's ships Herald an d Pl over , i n searc h o f Sir J" Franklin's expe : Captain Kellet d t ition left Oahu on the 11th of May last, and in 35 days reached the point of Petropaulski, 'cfo " In our passage up, th e mas t ers o f th e th ree Ano t o vessels came on board to gain information relativeo, Behring's Straits, whither they were bound. The,/ 0 formed me that at least 20 A mer i can vesse l s w ould roe through those straits this year, in consequence of ro f success of one of their vessel s l as t season . Th e Enast. e 44 the successful vessel appears to have been an enterPrl - bot man. He had a roving commission from his owne r ' a ci. having been unsuccessful in the Japanese Seas, and r joi ing in Captain Beechey's voyage of the number of sc° e o he had seen in the Arctic Seas, he determined t o there. there. He did so, and suc cee d e d, en t er i ng the st' with a clear ship, and returning about six weeks after ° 4,oooThe barrels. 0 11 " Governor of Petropaulski had no t heard,, be vessel having wintered to the northward, nor couird inform me from what source such a report could P". sprung. l ir " I found lying here the Royal Thames Yacht c / 4 I schooner Nancy Dawson, owned and com man ded Kps Mr. Shedden, formerly a mate in the royal nall., o e informed me th a t hi s o bj ec t i n com i ng h ere was `r) through the straits, and as f ar nor th as poss ib le, in seitnd of Sir John Frankli n ' s ex p e diti on , H e was l as t ;P Hong Kong, having touched at the Loo Choo She is well found in provisions, stores, and instruirlo Her crew were entered at Hong Kong, the greater As them Americans; they appeared to be a most (11'0 _ ganised set of men. Mr. Shedden offered to placed vessel at my disposal, and appeared anxious that I sh ° send an officer on board to him. under`` O n c t h h a e m ls ie t e h o of le tu n ly d , , th c e e H m e m ra ii l n d d e e a r me l u lo p o t r o e ti c le an3 r e l ll board, from whom I was glad to lerrn that the officers crew were all healthy and in good spirits. He had et arrived at 6 a.m., the day previous, having passe 0 6 winter in a harbour discovered by the Plover on Asiatic shore, close to the south of Cape Tchukotskl•4l, " Whilst we were engaged, Commander Moore 11 ployed his boat's crew in diggi ng f or th e fl ou r lef t ted Captain Beechey 23 years before, i n a p os iti on indi e " c lg by directions on a rock, which we re as p er f ec t as 11'10 when cut. The sand was frozen so hard that it eo: t olt, sparks with every blow of the pick axe . Th e casic,`heis,llc4 was perfectly sound and the hoops goo d ; ou t o f 339' flour which it contained, 1751b5. was as swee t and : tasted as any we had on board." On August 16th, they discovered an island, with P e e 0 / 1,400 feet high, and took possessio n o f it i n the Til t be' her majesty. The captain ventures to assert that a 0 comes a nervous thing to report the discovery of le 04' these regions without a c t ua lly l an di ng on i t , a ft e r Vi e ro sio, fortunate mistake to th e sou th war d ; b u t as f ar as s can be certain, who has 130 pair of eyes to assist b l ,%iii e ad a k g .s r w el e i t n sh g ai:vn l ka, a re m alae c e e , r i t t ai i n e we have discovered an exLe tb ea all p la e n seen by the natives of Cape m continuation j o thanr a e kaonf t(he eo arprobablesatngoef ofA thatiooleireat! tioned by Baron Wrangell, in his Polar voyages. 0 0 turned to the ship at 7 p.m., and very r eluctantly 4r all the sale we could carr y f rom thi s interesting neigl i a se hood to the south-east, the wind at the time allowing to lie just clear of the pWO ack. /be " Mr this time kept company -1 Plover, and rendered her great kindness. " The boats all reached Dease's Inlet on the eve the 3d, but were detained until the sth by strong " Their time, however, w as w ell em pl o yed in st e i) o o, their boats and a baidar. Mr. Pullen bought at f tb Barrow. They were fairly away on the a ft ern ool/ ie c e tell j sth, having with them ten days' p rov i s i on s, beslc„,i'ilej cases of pemmican ; this little e xp e diti on then COl o of of two 27-feet whale boats, and one na ti ve baidar, n 3 with 14 persons in all. 11 ,let " I have sent their lordships co pi es o f Mr. Pll--ecell ters, both public and priv a t e , that have been r ar e „, since his departure. From them they will gain I cy formation than I could afford. ffil l) "Through these lette r s th e i r l or d s hi ps w ill also seeder what a noble and proper spirit Lieutenant Pullen.njolr took his voyage, being, nevertheless, fully alive tow tIP / gers and exposure. • cl ue a l o on " I don't know any offi cer more capa bl e o f c be 0 with success such an expedition. He possesses and ge o great bodily strength, and endurance, ability, s fl a decision of character. Coupled with all these O f % Wi l l in their leader, the boats had an open sea and a ja. so that I have no apprehension as to their reacbil e ego the Hudson's Bay establishments on the Mackenotto in this season, though not sufficiently early to re „ Cb g ' Kotzebue Sound this year. " The Plover was left to winter in the sound near inisso. The natives were interesting and friendly ' 0 , Herald then returned. trite ing arrived the morning previous." ` t ` e A a t nd M t a h z e atla a n n l cy fo D un aw d s l o y n in y g a h ch er t, m th aj is est li y t ' t s le sh y i e P o lb e j °: ' We regret to say that Mr. Shedden subsequently w e pe e ; e f i SUB-DIVISION OF POPULOUS PARISHES ."" w 8 by the Staffordshire Advertiser that the orign g e the important movement for the division of i i a' n 'eviji populous parishes, and the more complete devet, 0e . , 0 of the good old parochial system, are again in t ch l 9 actively working for the permanent good of the _ e etl o p , On Thursday last a very numerously attended "cotto+, favourable to the objects of the Staffordshire Ass o f was held at Stoke-upon-Trent, when upwar ds of i 0 t p clergymen were present, b e sid es a l arg e number s of ential laymen. Smith Child, Esq , presided , ail o at,, v ol address of much eloque nce an d research, pointe°oo grievances of the present system, by which the n plid D iti necessities of the people are so inadequately s i v er 0 , comparison with what they might be, and an d rs te s they are called upon so generally to pay double ' O O,O double fees for every church rite, or forego tbe, ti e d of their own district churches. And he sh ° ",:oce °l poil, able historical resume that the measures of igT u - t now proposed are no modern innovations, „h wor identical with ancient practice in the early similar circumstances." The meeting was sis ° ,; 0 ,5 ; i); by the Rev. F. Wade, the hon. secretary ef he e tion, who ably pointed out tbe great importsn escl/ movement, the universal sympathy which it 1 0 `,.' h is det: ( and the great success which had attended it both out of Parliament. He moved a resolution to stio lj tiO i . " That the past progress of the important qa`reticleicr the sub-division of populous parishes, and the,, ji st : completely independent existing chapelries an" 0,00 is a call for much thankfulness, and likewise J o n V, couragement for increased and judicious lu r t ial i r,„frj that it further appears to this meeting thahitherto arrived when this Association. which has ,opelicieel nearly the entire responsibility, labour , and t he . 0 0 this great movement, may, with advantage t ° p ott i T io t p ; share with the friends of the Church at large,°thot that responsibility; and to secure this object ~,,,beA mation be more generally diffused, and that . a e u eo pdeaif' invited to join in its operations." This was c r , f 3. 23ti9 the Rev. John Sneyd, supported by the Ref' 509 ! and carried with much applause. lA N P-,.....,....