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t evenir at would I of the potato crop ? there ought to be no de tress, and whose cons, greed with h ordinary cri He thought pert and flippant spec throwing oil of vitriol That speech, however would Persist in 1 inclination to list, upon the motion of adj to continue his addre: in the house thirteen durinz a n as tne that "If the r I if it wacin order th J. O'Connell that he term " buffo, mony to the incre tee to the author n high authority—that of an Irish with the habits of Irishmen, Dyne. Hhe might judge from the the grievances and distresses of natter to that house; and y r. That was not the time cts. We were assembled at our fellow-subjects ; and we , ck ought to be placed upon [Ail we had ascertained the .essed the grievances of Ire- rs have said if we had it country until we had rtained, the causes of the failure of He called on those who said that play in administering to their dis ant cry was, " Give, give," to be 19 which they had pursued. He )lleague, that for the repr linary law of the land was s sion of icient. aroposed to deal with madmen — t, and reason with them after would say, in the words of King .ough rag-headed kerns no venom else, to live." (Cheers.) O'CONNELL commented on the ch of the last speaker, which, he semblance to the clever but bitter )urnal, which was in the habit of n the irritated feelings of Ireland. smart, was not at all relevant to ►ate. He hoped that Mr. Fagan Lion, unless the house showed an the speeches of Irish members. &RON moved, as an amendment )urnment, that Mr. Fagan be asked is. Having had some experience ears ago, he bore his willing testi patience with which it now listened addressed it on the affairs of Ire- e to continue its generosity a perhaps Mr. Fagan would not - „ trouble it long. He hoped that the house would allow the debate to terminate with the same feeling in which it commenced Sir G. GREY interposed to the same effect. He was sure that if Mr. Fagan confined himself within proper limits the house would be glad to hear him. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL said that he had been sixteen years a member of the house, and in no Parliament had had never been in any Parlia. so much intolerance directet RLAND imes.) into tb ats con Dple, to a mu msible in an e e priest and al mg ca pi Auuip. ng their ,onsiderati letter, t Dnt to also presented a verbatim tran of hitti .hould zo Mr..J. O'CONN he chair, and retra derived fr bishop, well conversai Bishop Berkeley, of Cl speech e Ireland in the present 'll which there was PAPIER MACHE AIANUFACTURI (From the Birmingham Herald.) We recently visited the Papier Mgche manufactory of I Bettr in this town. In fu we had paper chairs, as compared with those made of wood ; and also of ascertaining, by comparison, the progress made in design since the first introduction of paper in furnitOre manufacture. That paper has an advantage over wood we have already remarked, but we were scarcely prepared to find such manifest improvement in the design of the paper furniture at present made, as compared with that first pro duced. At first, makers appeared to doubt the capability of the material, and were consequently cautious in their effirts ; but at the present time the power of the material is so well developed that no fear is entertained as to its capability, and therefore, no design is too difficult for pro duction. We were shown some chairs which are in every respect equal both in appearance and in firmness to the old Buhl furniture ; and others which are faithful copies from the richest specimens of old carved English oak.- -One of these latter has been copied from an example in Aston Manor House, the seat of James Watt, Esq., near this town, and presents an appearance of firmness and solidity equal in every way to its old prototype, whilst in the delicacy of finish the wood is, of course, far surpassed. Some chairs are slight and elegant, others massive and imposing, but all possessing, from the character of their material, a lightness of which other furniture is destitute. ,One chair is worthy of particular notice. It is Moorish in aesign, and the groend colour is white, which is picked out with blue, pink, green, and gold. The back is delicately perforated, and the ornament is in very good taste. On the whole, the forms given to the chairs are good, and great attention has evidently been paid to the importance 'of securing a well-formed outline. A charmin g an d valu able feature in the paper furniture is the truth and variety of the various perforations, which are of all descriptions, and in many cases most elaborate. Perhaps if the painted ornaments were freed from some of their gilding, and the high and glaring colours frequently employed were a little toned down, a better effect would be gained. In tables, of various kinds, considerable taste has been exhibited, both as regards shape and ornament. Much has been gained in decoration by the introduction of pearl, as an adjunct to the pencil, and by this means many effects are acquired which could not be otherwise produced. In one case, that of a small round table, a group of shells and coral, resting on sea-weed, is very effectively represented in pearl. The centre group is contained within a delicate gilded ring, and the whole is bordered by an arrangement of shells, again in pearl. The pillar of the table is good in design, the stem moulding being that of the lotus leaf.— The colour is rather gaudy, otherwise the general effect of the article is very good. Other tables are ornamented by scenes, epiel of landscapes mid genre paintings, .t the I y, said, t only, how TORM PREDICTED Society, last week, that Mr. Dwyer, :d to ask his opinion of a ver to the very lowest point. had observed a barometer which. lien considerably on he had remarked ry low If the there could be no doubt t of the me lefore, had )t in our locality, I aging at no great d Lre to hear of t prevent a str CHAIRMAN 10ths, a Wh en ev hout bad weather here, we were he Atlantic. Local causes torms i current from visiting any particu- 1, Col. Reed's theory was, that a a spiral form—in the centre leaves a va conseauence of that vacuum the barometer ated and tnysterio subject was as yetverycompli- case of a whirlwind s often retarded on the earth's surface, upper part of it careered through the air. Now showed the depth of a column of air, and this was the chief use of that instrument at sea ; for when I the barometer low, they prepared for nd according to the present prevailing sts'of wind blow upon them, they lower part of it w while t a hurricane ; theo as the first can tell upon what side of the ocean the hurricane is raging. There was an account, a few weeks ago, in. the "lustrated London News, of a typhoon in the Chinese the writer says,—" You will be amused to hear ng by." There was a we are stopping of a storm p little hand-booliof storms, which niiglit be the means of saving much life and property were it more generally known. He himself conceived it quite possible for a ship in the tropics to get out of a storm: The air, when it ma with resistance, sometimes went on with increased force; and it was a singular fact that many of the hurricanes commence where the trade winds cease. If heavy rains fall, an amount of vapour was extracted from the air, a vacuum was produced, and there must, consequently, be a set of air towards that vacuum. Perhaps condensation was the cause of the original set of the air • then there was the sun's reflection over a large portion of earth—and many things to bear in mind. But he thought it was a subject worthy the attention of governments. If they took it in hand ,it was possible, from the various lighthouses over Europe, and from vessels' logs, to ascertain, at a certain moment in the day, the direction of the wind over a whole hemisphere. Were this done, we might ascertain causes producing hurricanes which are not felt till weeks afterwards. Mr. SPENCER expressed his approval of Mr. Hesphy's theory. When a cloud formed rapidly, it was certain that the barometer would fall. A typhoon extends a very short way. He recollected reading a paper five or six years ago, at another society, when the late Mr. Turner said, on one occasion he came from New York to Liverpool. Another vessel intended to sail at the same time as the one in which he was, but was detained till the next day. He enjoyed a fine passage ; but the other vessel had en countered heavy storms, and did not arrive till two or three weeks after, almost in a state of wreck. She had come with them to the west coast of Ireland, then parted : and was in the centre of a storm. At first they saw astern of them a great cloud, and were then enveloped in it all the way till she got here. It was pretty generally known amongst captains that, to put the vessel's head to the point, whence the wind was blowing hardest, was the readiest way to get out of it. An interesting di"cussion followed, in which the correct ness of Mr. Hesphy's views were generally admitted. Mr. Dwyer thought, however, he was too local and limited in his observations. There were many facts which his theory could not account for. antral Ilitiszeilanv. The Times states that no fewer than 1,200 of the London police were at one time laid up of influenza. There is no truth in the statement of cholera having made its appearance in London. _ _ uesday, for The performances at Covent-garden, on Shakspeare's house, realised £BOO. Mr. D. Salomons was, on Monday, elected Alderman of the Ward of Cordwainers, London. The Macclesfield Chronicle has been bequeathed a le gacy of £lOO, by the late E. D. Davenport, Esq. Mr. Murphy, the celebrated weather prophet, died very suddenly on Wednesday. The bank with the lowest fixed issue is a joint-stock bank—the Helston Banking C -whose authorised )mpan imit of notes is to the extent of £1503 only At Buckenham, in Norfolk, the seat of the honourable F. Baring, a party of eight sportsmen shot in one day, besides hares and rabits, 930 pheasant and 90 partridges. Mr. John Cook, has sold the Snigsend Estate, about six miles from Gloucester, to Mr. Fergus O'Connor. The quantity is about 250 acres, and the price £l2OOO, HAY HARVEST IN DECEMBER.--On Friday last, we observed a man cutting grass with a scythe in a field near the railway station in this town.—Bradford Observer. On Tuesday night last, the Princess's Theatre, London, was closed, in consequence of nearly the whole of the per formers being laid up with the influenza. A " Beef Association " has been established at Mont rose. They advertise " boiling pieces "at 11. per pound, and " steaks " at sd. Oranges are arriving in London in great abundance. On one day last week no less than ten vessels arrived there from Oporto, &c., entirely laden with that fruit to the amount of several thousand packages. SMALL ECONOMY. - At a meeting of the finance com mittee of the Ruthin Town Council last week, the salary of the Town Clerk was reduced £5, and that of the Trea surer £1 per annum. The assets of Messrs. Coots and Ilillard of London, American merchants, are £35,462, to meet £72,057 of liabilities. It is not expected the estate will pay 10s. in the pound. The small country bank of Messrs. Gibson and Sturt of St. Albans, has stopped payment. Its fixed issue was less than any other private bank in the kingdom. It had only £l5OO of notes in circulation. A. plantation on the estate of Carnousie, in Banffshire, was lately wilfully fired by some unknown person, and fine young trees, covering nearly two acres, were destroyed before the progress of the flames could be stopped. A Goon SlGN.—Notwithstanding the distress which has so long existed in this borough, there :are only six cases from this neighbourhood for trial at the present assizes, being about half the usual number.—Halifax Guardian, GAS.—At a meeting in Southwark last week, one of the speakers said that nearly all the principal towns in York shire were supplied with gas at 3s. 3id. per thousand cubic feet, and that in the large manufacturing towns the price did not exceed 4s. to 4s. 6d. A soldier has lost his life at Glasgow in a singular w ay He had gone to sleep on a " common stair ;" in his sleep he slipped through the rails of the bannisters, and, falling, was caught by the chin, when his feet were within two feet of the ground, and was thus suffocated. SH DOI GS IN SWIT nt and classical subjects. Among the latter is a very notice able specimen, the subject of which is the story of Europa. the execution - is :haracterised by the highest finish. We must here advert o an omission which we feel convinced Messrs. Jennens and Bettridze will readil rated or e Irks of a :t of justice the of bould not be !use should ment. It fist as well ption of such a •eturn to our .ar exhibited Df its orr ) is re of a llias, lted ❑d effect xtteau, et when painted lowever, forward. We do not Two cheval copy is evidently r managed. Attie ranee-gate to the drawing of the stand irbappear!o be :I for our t s. The ted. 0 forms of the va I novelty form ar ETEOROLOGY THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE PRIVY COUNCIL AND EDUCATION.— Official notice has been published that the first general examination of schoolmasters who are candidates for certificates will be held in' Easter week next. The United Presbyterian Congregation of North Leith hove presented a house ard garden, of the value of £1,250, to the Rev. Dr. Harper, as a proof of the esteem in which they hold him as their pastor. Madame Mendelssohn Bartholdy, widow of the cele brated composer, has received letters of condolence from the Queen of England, the King of Prussia, and the King SIR WALTER SCOTT'S PIPER.—Among the latest vic tims of the fever at present raging in Edinburgh is J. Bruce, or " _John of Syke," for some years he Highland piper at Abbotsford. In 1813 Robert Duncan was wounded in the American war, at Chippeway by a musket-ball in the left knee. It could noL then be extracted, and it remained in his knee bone until last week, when Dr. Guthrie of Montrose took it out, as it caused the old pensioner great pain, in consequence of shifting out of the bone into the flesh. JOSEPH ADY CAU GH T.-At Bow-street police-office on Wednesday, Joseph My appeared to a summons issued at the .instance of the Post-office authorities, for the recovery of £1.145. Bd. being the amount due for postage on 208. unpaid letters which had been returned to the Dead Letter office, and which purported to have been written and sent by the defendant. He will have to pay ion of railway worl s has caused a great fall in iron, and in consequence, ruin amongst the iron mas- Scotch t which, during the late mania, went up ie bought at £2 7s. ! The article cannot to 40. can nov wed under £3. Co wovv in t' le prod ble orders from America which will help to clear off old and this once accomplished, like all other trades, mmeree will survive. While the fishing boat Miss Birch, the celebrated singer, has written to the papers to say that she did not keep her engagement wits the French Operatic Company in consequence of "air insurmountable terror having taken possession of lid on account of the imperfection of her French pronunciation." At the general rehearsal she was the victim of the laughter and jokes of the company. She adds, "You can imagine with what alarm I was seized on finding how easy it was for a public, so fond of a joke as the people of Paris, which mat ract name. of ovprufhincr inrindinn iteplf fn find in my acce n t a perpetual subject of pleasantry. PI Jenny thony, Esq., one of the most remarkable men of his day. He was of a very ingenious turn of mind, and effected many improvements in watchmaking, and other mecha nism : 30 years ago he joined in 'a patent for the applica tion of steam-power to passenger vessels in the Thames. In 1823 he singly resisted an attack of burglars on the house, where he had a consignment worth £2OOO .of watches for exportation. In 1825 (the bubble year), he engaged in many of the schemes then afloat, and lost con siderably ; but his love of speculation still led him to in vest large sums in exhibitions in the metropolis, and in chemical works in Clerkenwell. He was also one of the earliest shareholders in the Manchester and Liverpool line ; but his speculations resulted in great losses. He was engaged for nearly 20 years in a disputed reference of partnership accounts, which cost him above £30,000. He has left some freehold property to "his nearest of blood, ' and in c Mr. Charl —Four years ago, aiming within 12 Months, len to his first cousin's son, FAMILY FREAKS alt of nearer Notting- ham Journal, a young couple—the bridegroom twenty. the bride eighteen—took each other " for better for worse" in Nottinghamshire, and returned from church to a com- He was in easy circumst snug life-annuity—tolerable securities for happiness. But the honeymoon had hardly "filled its horn ' ere the bride became false to her husband. Several suitors were at first encouraged, but in a short time with a shoemaker, a married man and Itled down injured husband entered the arm together before they were forcibly separated, the shoe maker returning home, and his depraved companion going nobody knew where. Lately, however, an acquaintance received a letter from her, inquiring after her guilty lover, And took it to her bus'barid's father. He, strangely enough, entered into correspondence with her in the name of the shoemaker, and several letters have been ex- unbecoming, a correspondence should have been PENINSITLAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.—The seventh annual meeting of this company was held on Wednesday. This powerful association, composed of the wealth of the merchant princes of En gland, which has opened up such extensive facilities for communication with our important possessions in India, and, still more distant, China, is progressing most satis factorily. An additional capital of half a million sterling is about to be raised, for the purpose of extending opera tions in the East; and. in all probability, a line of coin munica n will be established with Australia, under con tract with the Government, for the conveyance of the mails between those colonies and the mother country, and which is to be effected by stated voyages from Singa pore to Sydney—a route at present almost totally unfre quented, but which, with government aid, it is expected would be rendered profitable. Such an establishment would be of tie utmost advantage to the rising colonies of New Holland, as tending to open new and extensive markets for their agricultural and mineral produce, and the supplying, with greater facility, many articles of merchandise which they now import. The financial statement is highly satisfactory—a dividend, for the whole year, being paid of 8 per cent., free of income-tax, with large reserves, in the shape of " depreciation" and " in surance" funds, and the ordinary reserve fund, preparing them for any casualties to their vessels, without a fear of being obliged to encroach upon the capital. Upon the whole, it would appear, that this important company was ~ • . . . never in a more prosperous state position, *ith the vastly extended un ly stamps it as t rtaking for a coy - ablished in the histo THE INFLUENZA IN LONDON ring the last twenty days has been somethin any_ of private me the civ d world The ra its, ever think, very far beyond what our bestinfor The autumnal we of mortality In the week ending Sattirday, Nov. 27, the total deaths were 1677, being 631, or 90 a day above the average. In the week ending Saturday, Dec. 4, the returns of which will not be published till to-morrow, the total number of deaths was 2454, being 1408, or 200 a day, above the average. In the fourteen days, therefore, ending last Saturday. there 2038 deaths more than usual, and as such to be ascribed to the epidemic, or the prevailing unhealthiness of the season. We are now informed, though we hope and trust without sufficient grounds, that since last Satur day,. the rate of mortality has continued to increase. It is scarcely necessary to remind the public that this is a greAter mortality than any which this generation has known. The total deaths from Asiatic cholera in the me tropolis and its vicinity in 1832 was not more than 5275. The most important feature of the epidemic is that which every household has probably experienced for itself, and which is borne out by the returns of the Registrar-Gene ral. It operates rather as a noxious and lethal element, attacking each particular infirmity of constitution, assist- ing ill tendencies, an, weakness, 3e last blow to si he weak the weak throat, ave had to stand the brunt of the in fliction. In the last published returns, i. e., for the week ending Nov. 27, very little is set down to the head of " influenza," which has, of course, a more limited signi fication in medicine than in popular parlance. The greatest increase is in what are called the zymotic class of diseases, and in diseases of the lungs and other organs of respiration.—Times. THE CHARTIST ESTATE.—A correspondent of the Gloucester Journal thus describes the politico-agricul tural colony recently founded in that locality. I deter mined to judge for myself, and there being 'a, fine day, last week, off I started for Lowbands. The first glance of the estate is anything but attractive to an Englishman—to an Irishman it must appear a kind of " model Tipperary." here the resemblance ends. The settlers are an intelli gent, sensible, and civil body of mechanics, who have left their profitable occupations in the north to enjoy, in the west, what they describe as a profitable independence.— Well, good luck to them—Mr. O'Connor's judgment was sadly at fault in his selection of the spot upon which to try his plan. The distance of the Lowbands estate from Gloucester is about nine miles ; it is nearly all arable, and the soil, in most parts, a strong, wet clay, unfit, since the last rains, to be much worked until the spring. They have not a draught horse upon the place, and consequently they are compelled to pay others for hauling their coal. Mr. O'Connor has had the estate partially drained, but the drainage is miserably defective. The morning I was there, several of the allottees were engaged in letting down the water from their allotment upon those of their neighbours. Unless some more main drains are speedily cut to suit the convenience of the holders, they will find that, after a deep fall of snow and a sudden thaw, it will be next to impos sible to live there in health. The young wheat is just above the ground, but not a barn or straw house is there on the estate ; there must, therefore, at additional expense, be erected on each allotment a barn and straw house be fore next harvest. The allottees will have no vegetables till spring, and no bread corn till harvest ; and I could not but notice that many of them were sorely puzzled to say how they were to exist till next harvest—how those who leave no money from other sources can ever live there an than I can see or they can tell. Again, upon the death of the present owners, the estate must be either sold or di vided ; and, if it should come to a division amongst the children, I shall feel that the landowners of Redmarley will deserve sympathy. Mr. O'Connor has got the wrong men for the work, and, more than that, he has brought them to the wrong place. _ _ EDUCATION INVALES.—COMMISSIONERS' REPORTS. —ln the session of 1846 a motion was made, praying her Majesty " to direct an' inquiry to be made into the state of education in the principality of Wales, especially into the means afforded to the labouring classes of acquiring a knowledge of the English language." The Secretary of State undertook to have this inquiry conducted under the authority of the Committee of Council on Education. Three Commissioners, Mr. R. R. W. Lingen, Mr. Jelin ger C. Symons, and Mr. Vaughan Johnson, were sent into Wales. The first undertook the inspection of the counties of Carmarthen, Glamorgan, and Pembroke; the second of Brecknock, Cardigan, Radnor, and Monmouth ; the third of North Wales. The reports, therefore natur ally divide themselves into three parts. Our present bu siness is with the first part. The object of the govern ment was to have a full and exact account of the state of education in the principality ; every facility, for this pur pose, was given—each commissioner having the permis sion to associate with him two or more assistants versed in the Welsh language. The area inspected by Mr. Lin gen contained 2376 square miles, and a population (1841) of 365,388. The number of day schools, excluding the few where the lowest terms exceeded 6d. a-week, were 712 day-schools, said to contain 30,910, or about 1 to 12 of the population, and 913 Sunday-schools, said to contain i 2,392, or just about 1 in 5 of the population. The edu cation of the district is therefore carried on principally by the means of Sunday-schools. Through them the younger portion of the labouring classes in Wales can generally read, or are in course of learning to read, the Scriptures in Welsh. A fifth of the population are in them, about half this number is returned as able to read the Scriptures. These schools organized some of them well, some of them ill, are especially attractive to the Welsh people. They are the best conception of the wants and objects of edu cation and of the means of applying it, which the volun tary principle, acting with great energy, has been able to work out for itself. Whatever the amount of instruction conveyed in them, they are stated " to be. real fields of mental activity." The activity, though, is within a piti able narrow range, and often of a most pernicious or waste ful tendency. "The topics current in them are those of the most general (religious) interest, and are treated in a mode partly didactic, partly polemical, partly rhetorical, the most universally appreciated. Whatever ignorance is shown there, whatever mistakes made, whatever strange Speculations started, there are no superiors to smile and open their eyes." FEARFUL MURDERS AND SUICIDE.-011 Wednesday this town was horrified by the news of a tragedy, such as Was never before known to have taken place within its precincts—the murder of four children by their mother, having cut their throats with a razor, and the taking of her own life by the same means. The woman who per petrated these crimes was the wife of a jobbing brewer, named Ridout, who, at the time of the occurrence was absent from home. The cottage in which the family re sided is situated in a garden, and the way to it is so in tricate; and the situation so lonely, that very few of the inhabitants cf Bath, perhaps, have ever been to the spot ; died, but, for this horrid occurrence, such a humble and retired recess would have remained unnoticed except by the occupants of some of the straggling houses in its vici nity: This• cottage has but one floor, which is divided in to two apartments, the one a kitchen or sitting room, and the other a sleeping chamber. A poorwoman, named Seers, lives in another cottaze, not far from it. and was- in the Ridotit but on trying to open the door was then induced to look in at th window, when the horrid spectacle presented to her eye was the wretched woman lying on the kitchen floor steeped in her blood. She immediately called the atten tion of another neighbour, a labourer, to the shockinj sight, who gave information to the police. Passing thi dead body of the woman, whom they found with he throat cut, and a razor lying by her side, the next objet which met joining room, wer which h throats. flowed from the fatal wounds inflietE G OCCURRENCE ueh fury that the men were obliged - to quilt their lines, ...!;e for the nearest haven. One boat was dashed to pieces, but the men were saved by a rope cast from the eight men drowned. By this calamity six widows and twenty children have been left destitute.—Bristol Mirror. The annual meeting of the Central Agricultural Protec tion Society was held at 17, Old Bond-street, on Thurs day, when an admirable report, to which we shall do jus tice next week, was presented by the committee. A long discussion took place on the subject of tenant-right, ori- on the e Gourock Ropework COmpany, at Greenodi were destroyed by fire last week. The pro oyed is valued at £20,000, and about 100 hands perty c Some idea of the intensit es may of the f _ formed when we mention, that in some quarters as many-as 200 barrels of tar were in flames at one time, and that in others 20 to 50 tons of hemp, probably more, were closely packed, and these for many hours emitted brilliant flames. has presented the munificent im of £5OO in aid of the building of a new infirmary for the criunty of Durham. The Dean of Durham has given a similar donation ; the Earl of Eldon £300; and the Bishop of Durham £250; the Marquis of Lord Ravensworth, Lord Harry Vane, Bart., and Sir Thos. Clavering, Bart., given donations of £lOO in furtherance of the same de- of Clevel iondonderry, Sir William Eden have respeetivell sirable object. In 1845, the tonnage of vessels entered inwards was 4,114,532 tons; in 1847 it was 5,189,220. Of vessels cleared outwards in 1845 the tonnage was 3,723,185 tons; in 1847 it was 4,066,134 tons. The increased tonnage is to he traced to the enlarged demand for foreign provisions, and to the suspension of the navigation laws. It is some satisfaction to observe, that the increase of the ships and tonnage of the United Kingdom keeps a primary place in the advance A meeting of the shareholders of the Northumberland and Durham District Bank, which recently suspended payments, was held at Newcastle, on Monday, when a resolution was unanimously passed, confirming the pro ceedings of the recent meeting for increasing the ca pital of the company from £600,000 to £1,200,000. — Mr. B. W. Ogden, who presided, explicitly stated that it is not the intention of the directors to make any calls upon the old shares, whether the new shares be taken or not. THE CHOLERA.— - `.,n' —The Globe tells us that we may now expect an immediate visit of the Asiatic destroyer; that it has taken possession of some provinces of Austria, and is b;und westward,—adding, that it is proved to be non contagious. It is universally reputed to travel inland, by river waters; if it land at the Humber, it will come from the north on us ; if at the Thames, it will first strike on London ; if at Bristol, it will advance up the Severn. But these may be all vain predictions. A SINGULAR ENCOUNTER.—The fishermen of Cadg with have lately been bringing ashore some good catches of fish. Recently, one of the fishermen caught - a large conger ; and, as soon as the monster was on board, he seized his captor firmly by the throat, and coiled himself tightly round the poor fellow's body, as if he would be at once avenged. The fisherman was unable to free himself until he took his knife, and drew it across the conger's head. Its jaws then became unlocked, and its victim liberated.—Cornwall Gazette. ENTICING BOYS TO BE SWEEPS.—At Doncaster, on Wednesday, a chimney-sweep, named Hatfield, was fined £5 for detaining two boys and using them as sweeps. Hatfield was applied to by an elder brother of the boys to give them up, and refused, stating that he had given £1 each for them, and had also paid a person named Holland, of Manchester, something for his trouble in_ procuring them. The boys had Veen made to ascend Chimney; sadly against their will, and in one instance when the older could not get up a flue he was severely thrashed by the defendant. On Monday week two boys, named Gabriel Harris and Thomas Howlett, were sentenced by the Mayor of Glou cester to ten days imprisonment for placing scraps of paper in the pews of St. Michael's Church, in that city, contain ing filthy language and doggrel rhyme of an indecent character. They had pursued their disgraceful proceed ings for six Sundays, dropping the papers from the galleries into the seats below as they left the church. The church wardens had watched some time before they discovered the perpetrators of the crime, which has been justly punished, as a warning to others. ROMANISM.—It appears from the Roman Catholic Di rectory for 1848, that the total number of Roman Catholic churches and chapels in England and Wales is 545; in Scotland 85, besides 22 stations where divine service is performed ; making a grand total of 630 churches and chapels. Of Catholic colleges, there are in England 10; and in Scotland, 1. Convents, 38, of which 12 are in the London district. Monasteries, 4. Of Missionary priests in England and Wales, there are 707, including priests without any fixed mission ; in Scotland, 99 ; making a grand total of 806 missionary priests in Great Britain, in.. eluding the Bishops. This is a goodly staff, and well calculated to extend and uphold the interests of the Church of Rome. POST-OFFICE SABBATH DESECRATION.—On reference to the Post-office Directory, page 1689, the following statistics will be found. In England and Wales, alone there are 4250 post-towns and sub-towns, in Scotland 715, and in Ireland 750, making a total of 5715 towns and villages which make up a letter-bag on Sunday. Al lowing two officers only to each of these places—viz., a postmaster and letter-carrier—and to 800 post-towns a clerk each additional, we arrive at a numerical result of twelve thousand two hundred and thirty persons who are compelled, by a government which supports a religious establishment, to break the fourth commandment. Truly an army of Sabbath-breakers under the patronage of the Crownl in fluential circlesCltEA that F Lre w THE a further augmentation of the army . The last made, about eighteen months since , amou n t ed to 10,000 men. ARMY.—ltrummoouartehds elapse, eaps , illbe ere many is Our readers may recollect that the late Secretary at War (the Right Hon. Sir Sidney Herbert) contemplated the formation of a voluntary militia force, and that the in tention was abandoned by the present Government. The staffs of several of the regiments had, nevertheless, been filled up, so that very little additional expense will be in curred should the militia be re-embodied. It would, perhaps, be well to inform the public, particularly those in the habit of writing to the Duke of Wellington on the . subject of the militia, that his grace has no more to do with that body than the Prince de Joinville, nor has he the control over the army which some are led to imagine. His grace is the Commander-in-chief, but, nevertheless, has no power to make the slightest alteration in the con stitution of the service without the consent of the Go vernment. POTATOES FROM SPROUTS.—The Rev. George Brown, of Egglestone, Durham, gives the following account of an experiment he made of raising potatoes from sprouts: —About the end of April I broke off some sprouts from some potatoes, both ash-leaf kidneys and a rough round sort. I had the sprouts (a good handful) planted in a box and raised a little, till they had got about five inches above the ground, and had a nice little leaf at the top. I then planted them out on the 26th of May, and they looked rather weak for some time in the top ; however they began to look better, and near the end of July I ex amined some of the tubers, which looked remarkablrwell and were considerably larger than any one expected. had them taken up on the 2nd of October. They proved to be an excellent crop, and larger in size than those raised from the potato, and•remarkably fine in quality. r had three pecks of fine potatoes from that handful of sprouts, and the potatoes I took them from I had cut and planted. This way of proceeding is a great saving, of seed, as a great many potatoes might be raised from a small quantity. There was one thing very remarkable ; the potatoes were nearly all a good size, and there were much fewer small than there are in the common way of growing them. THE FLOODING OF THE MlNES.—Since Wednesday morning, up to which time the river continued to flow into the mines, the most active exertions have been made to secure the embankment of the river Douglas against the encroachments of the water, and an apparently sub stantial barrier is now erected. The water still oozes a little underneath the pudding, but there is every hope that it will he stopped in a day or two. On Wednesday night the rains fell again so heavily, that the barrier was very strongly tested, and had the current, which was level with the top of the banks on Thursday morning been a few inches higher, it was feared that all would have been washed away. After that time, the stream abated a little, and the works progressed as before. The coal proprietors have, we understand, determined to work together simul taneously until the waters are cleared from the mines; at present they are, of course, in the same state as on Wed nesday, the first attention of the owners being directed to the stopping the current of the river entering them. The wife of Rutter, one of the unfortunate men in the mines, is very ill, and in an almost distracted state at the loss of her husband and son. Until the second flooding of the mines on Sunday morning, she indulged in a faint hope that they might be got out alive. RS of great s are good, vases are na in blo I on tip One of the murdered innocents is an infant nine months old, and the eldest of the four is about six year old, deaf and dumb. A large tub was standing in thi room almost full of blood and water, and the circum tance suggests the probability that the wretched mothe had, on making the incisions in the necks of her unhappl held their heads over the tub as a receptacle o One the vital current as it flowed from the w the little victims was found with his legs partly hang over the step leading to the bedroom, as if he had stri 1 effort to get away. The pe ed to have been tl le woman had be( of insanity, as it is st, toms of un Bath Chronicle subject to syrr ,s above stated; the )sed to being that lancholia, took her children to the canal side with the in tention of destroying them and herself, but that their cries, to use her own expression, " softened her heart," and she brought them home again ; and also that the sur geon who attended her had cautioned her husband to re move all destructive instruments out of her way, and had advised him to send her into an asylum for treatment. — The Coroner having summed up, the jury, in the case of the four children, returned verdicts of Wilful murder nd in t Temporary insani enuring under teared w end in mental derangement LATE GALES-Sill CKS AND LOSE OF LI The East of England and ble details of disasters at eastern and southern coasts d by th also in Ireland. cause merate the principal cotch papers contain lame& a, and on the she •eat Britain especially severe gales. We enu An Italian vessel. called the Addolante, bound from the Thames for Naples, sailed on Thursday week with a carge of tobacco, sugar, &c. Owing .to the strong head winds, she reached no further than - Beachy-head - by Saturday night, and there went on shore. The vessel and cargc were entirely lost, and nearly all her crew perished. Nine bodies had been picked up. Two of the men saved were so exhausted by Cold, fatigue, and exposure, that they are not expected to survive. The captain was picked up in a state of insensibility. He was not aware that he was sc near the land, and the vessel ran on a dangerous hank called " the Boulder." Her rudder was carried away and she became unmanageable. The crew were all Italians. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Erin, Captain Russell, sailed from Southampton on Friday, the 3rd instant, for the Mediterranean, with thirty-fly( senger3, and returned on the Bth in a disabled weather becam on Sunday it blew a gale I run into Dartmouth ; bu .W . The vE Aerated, the Pee. 14. MI. Karraturr. VARIETIES As we cannot bring events to our minds, let u bring our minds to events. trive to E WORD " SPECULATIVE."—This is an epithet in use among official persons, for the condemnation of what- soever proposition is too adverse to private interest not to 1, and at the same time too manifestly true to be ORTROGRAPHY.—The following is a true copy of X letter received from the Post-office of Bury, I —" Mr. Ackkin and Mr. Purhim berry In Lankyshur." Translation of the at and Mr. Berring, Bury, Engineers, Manchester Guardian correspo t complains his branch of )-tained for it, FRENCH POLISHING bitterly of the effect of the trade, and argues, if exern . that it would be used extensively in lieu of cheaper and incomparably better. He cons it is not French polishing alone that is sufferir laws ; the cabinet trade, the spirit varnish trad4 all, the manufacture of paper-hangings, as the Fx enabled to employ designers and use numberles producing a washable paper that is not to be eq this country. Our excise restricts us in every qua The Builder. THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.—Many can re .h ars ocks, led in the time ; for the heinousness of a libel in those days con sisted, in the view of a court, in its being or not on the ministerial side. Many can Walter, the grandfather of tl Times, was most cruelly treated for all was for stating that the Prince of Wall York had incurred his majesty's disani conduct in some trivial matter. had one year's imprisonment in r their ), and nce he was undergoing. He was fined £lOO stating that it was understood the Duke of Clarence had returned home from his station without leave At this ver princes, he was undergoing imprisonment fora year in Newgate, fined £5O, sentenced to stand in the pillory' once at Charing Cross, and to find security-for good be haviour for seven years.—Praser's Magazine. SuccEss.—Of all. silly things, nothing is me than, by elaborate proofs, to show to ourselvc ought on such and such occasions to have b lent, by iesem to fall. This is philosophy, a We have failed ; well, then, t in and again, is not, to prove that we do no fail, matters not. We have not fa T in tt enthusiasm, if it continue undaunted by obstac: dued by defeats, is itself success, and the most all success. The blows we receive, however I receive them as all true enthusiasts receive then )re silly that we preparing us for future triumphs ; for th , closely incorporate the idea which domina with the affections of our whole beir within an intense and more restless entliu . si make more radiant on our brow the high title so that the entire world may see it, and bow to YANKEE ENTERPRISE who entered Vera Cruz o Irrions of the owner of a small schooner from , anchored off the harbour. He might be seen with b less haste making his way to one of the best hot city, upon entering which he vociferated for tl lord ?"rhat important personage obeyed the instant, but in evident trepidation, as a matter of mos.. when the Yankee, in a sharp accent, which conveyed the idea to the uninitiated Mexican that his safety lay vi ltls implicit acquiescence, thus accosted him, " I " land -1 on the Pant this What'll ,eriEitted you take for it ?" The Mexican, happy to b the privilege of naming a price at all for pre supposed to be at the mercy of as he judged he wanted, to put a respec tween him and "los Yankees." the enemy, named so much shouted the down-easter, as he commenced she the money. " And now my friend (he add the least possible time it will take you to cl was told that half-an-hour would suffice. an-hour, accordingly, our friend, the Yank ig out rbat is And, in half- and otherwise ministering to the comfo and the commodation of his countrymen in particu public in general.—Norfolk Herald. OLIVER CROMWELL.—In Fraser's Magazine for this month are thirty-five unpublished letters from Olivet Cromwell, which are communicated by Thomas Carlyle, who states that these resurrectionised documents will per• form the following services .—" They present to us the same old Oliver whom we knew, but in still more distinct lineaments and physiognomy; the features deeply, even coarsely marked ; or, as it were, enlarged to the gigantic by unexpected nearness. It is Oliver left to himself,-- stript bare of all conventional draperies; toiling, wrestling as for life and death, in his obscure element ; none looking over him but heaven only. He `can stand no nonsense; he is terribly in earnest : will have his work done'—will have God's justice done too, and the everlasting laws ob served, which shall help, not hinder, all manner of work. The Almighty God's commandments, these, of which this work is one, are great and awful to him ; all else is rather small, not awful. He has pity—pity as of a woman, of a mother, have we known in Oliver ; and rage also, as of 3 ( these uniforms), or go home.' Hang him out of hand ;he wantonly killed the poor widow's boy—God and man will be well pleased to see him punished !' The attentive reader will catch not only curious minute features of the old civil war in these rude letters, but more clearly than elsewhere, significant glimpses of Oliver's character and ways." STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER.—This week has been, upon the whole, a quiet one, and no great amount of business has been transacted. Considering the season of the year, we could not, even under more favourable circumstances, expect anything like a brisk and active demand ; and we need not therefore be surprised at the character of this week's market. The principal buyerS have been the Greek houses, who have been doing a fair amount of business in the cloths suitable for their peculiar trade. For these descriptions of goods, some producers are engaged for the next two months. In all other kinds, the mar ket has been exceedingly quiet. In domestics for the home trade there has been rather more inquiry, but the business doing in them has been very limited. Prices during th week have kept low for all kinds of goods and yarn. No positive or general decline under last week's prices can be quoted, al though occasional sales have been made at lower rates; and had buyers been inclined to operate freely, there can be no doubt that slight concessions would have been submitted to. Flat although the market has been this week, yet a hopeful feel ing seems to be gaining ground that, after the turn of the year, we shall witness a decided improvement. The two main ele ments of a good trace we have, viz., a moderate price of food, and a fair prospect of a tolerably abundant supply of the raw material of our staple manufactures. LEEDS.--Deeemlier is generally the slackest month of the year in the Woollen trade; and from the depression which has for some time prevailed in the whole of the English commer cial circle, it could not be expected that the staple trade of this town and neighbourhood would be as brisk as at the corre sponding seasons of past years. The Cloth Halls, on both the market days since our last report, were thinly attended by buyers, and very few goods changed hands. Rather more be_ siness has been done this week at the shipping houses, off the market, than was done last week, but lower prices have had to be submitted to. Little or nothing is doing in the home trade; but from the caution manifested by all classes of manufac turers, stocks are not very heavy. BRADFORD.—WooI.—There is nothing new to reoort since to buy for distant delivery. Picas.—There has been rather more activity this week ? and several inquiries making for rem nant stocks of silk stripes and coloured checks, which, owing to the caution of the manufacturers, are scarce. As there is no disposition to make, except to order, we look for an early im provement, and a maintenance of present prices, if nut an advance.. ROCHDALE.—The Wool market has been extremely flat, and very little business transacted at similar prices to last week- The hands at several of the cotton mills in the Rochdale dis trict have this day commenced working rather longer time. There is not a doubt but there will be a brisk trade in the cot ton business there after this month. Confidence is certainly. restored, and there are good demands for goods, at small profits. HU6DERSFIELD.—There has been a little more animation in the market than for several weeks past, and more inquiries, although the amount of business done has been very limited. Prices are without any alteration, and•stocks generally low. HALIFAX. For pieces we have had again a very dull m arket, and only a small amount of business doing, at very low prices. More pieces would have been sold if the manufacturers could have taken the prices offered. Yarns continue in a very de pressed state, but the spinners are looking for better demand. Wool still continues much the same, the spinners only buy sparingly. THE IRON TRADE.—BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 10.—The susPen" sion of the various railway works has at length produced its injurious effects upon the iron trade and those engaged in it. The men engaged in producing the iron, and in the employ of several of the largest works in the neighbourhood of Dudley, have received notice of a reducti ,, n of 20 per cent. in their wages ; it is understood also that it is the intention of the coal masters to give notice of a reduction in the wages of the col liers to-morrow, to the amount o f is. p er day , thereby makingthe wages of the colliers 4 5. , and those o f the stonemen 2s. 9a of the iron masters have resolved upon suspending operations a lt o gether at present. A meeting of those engaged in the trade was held o ughou addition o to ut ht Staffordshire, time and many is now th e or d er of " at Wolver h am pton, on Wednesday, wh en i t was resolved also to reduce the wages of the men in that distri c t, so that the , thing will be general in the course of anot h er fortnight. • the per ddaTthrl n On night, Henry Quinn, a s eaman on board the e d rHumility, in Mo r p e th D oc k, Bi r k en head, was scShay drowned atounr whilst t r yi ng to get on b oard the vessel: SHOP EMB ELLISHMENT.-Dawbarn's establishment , in Bold-street, has long been celebrated not only for the high character and extent of business transacted in it but for the ornate character of the premises, their external and internal decoration. The show-room has been still further embellished by the addition last week of a colossal painting, of beautiful and ingenious device, and which mg challenge the attention. if not the admiration of connois seurs. The painting is the produce of Mr. Gurnell, Liverpool artist, and certainly argues well for his skill and taste. The subject certainly is unclassical, and the artist g fancy has boen inspired but by the comfort imparted 1 1 the patent paletat, in honour of which the painting ha been designed. The centre contains a view of Windsor park and pretty portraits of her Majesty and Prince Albert, mounted on steeds, and viewing attentively three, llamas feeding near. The top is adorned with the roYm arms ; the bottom enriched with the arms of Liverpool; and an emblazoned sepall-work of the most beautiful de vice encircles the •slcture, and in this the artist has le" geniously inserted4he names of such magnates of our owe country, and the leading potentates of Europe, as ha° honouied w4ktheir patronage this fan mia and f as i t i o nlibie coitt‘ y on the day after again put to sea. He had scarcely .ot when another gale arose. On Monday a tremer rolled, and it became necessary to ly-to almost under bar poles._ _ At 9 P.M.. Ushant Light was seen, bearing )tained a At half-past rine a frightful sea broke over the ship, car rying away the deck-houses and the greatest part of the larboard paddle-box, which was floated almost entire on the quarter-deck. At this moment the ship was literally ingulphed ; not a bit of the bulwarks or remaining deck houses was to be seen ; and although the weight of water on board must have exceeded 100 tons, the ship (an iron one) immediately rose. Had she not been so quick, the seas following might have done serious mischief. There was no resource but to put back for repairs. Fortunately no accident occurred to the passengers or crew. The mails and passengers for India were transferred to the steamer always kept in reserve by the company against an emergency. The gales caused much havoc on the more eastern parts of our coast, and an equal amount of mischief in the North Sea. At times it blew a perfect. hurricane from the S. S. W., and at its height several vessels were instanta neously lost on the Gunfleet Sands, The City of London steamer, from Rotterdam for London, had a very narrow escape. She left Rotterdam on Saturday, and the same night was thrown on her beam ends, the sea bursting furiously over her decks. A number of cattle were washed overboard and lost. Upwards of thirty bullocks and sheep also died on board during the raging of the storm. The captain, Mr. Cook, very wisely determined to run for Harwich, and, after encountering further fearful weather, succeeded in making the harbour.—A three-masted vessel and a brig were seen - to go down with all hands, it is sup. posed, to the westward of that port. The crews of the Albion and Bridgeholm were rescued, and are reported to have been taken on to Gravesend.—The accounts from Yarmouth, Cromer, and other places along the northern coast, communicate a sad list of casualties. In the road stead off Yarmouth the shipping suffered severely. The Concord, Mr. Clum, master, of Ramsgate, got ashore on the Sheepwash Sands during the night, and all attempts to save her proved fruitless. The life boat was launched, and by dint of the usual exertions of the Yarmouth boat men, rescued the crew. The unfortunate vessel was to tally lost, and in the course of the morning the Darling ton packet, belonging to Stockton, met with a similar fate on the Scroby Sands. The captain, however, and his crew were preserved. Every port along the coast has had to record its losses in shipping. On the Saturday a large ship, timber-laden, was totally lost with all hands, on the Godwin Sands. A quantity of the wreck had been washed up, but nothing that could lead to her name. On the same night the New Holland, from Port-au-Prince, for London, was driven on the same sands. The crew were picked up by the Tartar, lugger. A number of vessels run into Ramsgate, with loss of cables, . anchors, &c. _ _ _ At Shoreham the gale was severely felt. On Sunday the captain of the Diligence, of Brightonsea, descried two vessels to have foundered in the Swin, on the south side of the Gunfleet. Their names were not ascertained. Fur ther northward, on the Gunfleet, two other vessels, the Albion and the Bridgeholm were wrecked,—both crews saved. At Sheerness much anxiety existed, on Tuesday last, as to the fate of the Magnet, Rotterdam steamer, which had not been seen or heard of since the Saturday previous. She left Rotterdam on Friday. She was due in the Thames early on Sunday morning. — The Sylph of Dun dee,by thew f t e _ on bo t a h t e . Her , de Shields,sSta , ui a cni n a d a, t t at l le i s e mo c po r tf e i w nDg w u tn e o r d e em p e r,aeaksneedr vtthe Montreal, of South Tl harbour, got upon the same sands, and were wrecked, The crews were upwarc 'orty fishing vess€ .s are missing Jerwick chief. Three vessels Were lost in the district, namely, John Whall, belonging to Shields ; the Tyne, bound to Port Dundas ; and the Thomas, from Seahan;to Dundee. In each instance, however, the crews are stated to have been saved. Much injury has also been done on the French coast. The royal yacht Comte d' Eu, which went out in tow of the Alcide steamer on Saturday night, from Havre for Cherburg, parted from her companion during the gale, and was lost sight of near Barfleur. The Alcide got into Havre, and some alarm prevailed as to the fate of the other, which, however, might possibly have put into Cherburg. The Francis Lawson, barque, from America, for Bridg water, ran on shore on the 6th, at Warren Point, east ward of Minehead. The sea was making a breach right over her. She was from Quebec. SCOTLAND.—On the 7th, 20 or 30 beats were more or less damaged at Newhaven.. A schooner was lost off Cockburn path. The Scotsman of the. Bth says:—" The wind at the outset Tas E.S.E., but it ultimately veered round to the N.E., and in this direction it continued. At Granton, three sloops, named the Poulton, the Ann, and the Tontine, coal laden, from St. David's, ran ashore, and were dashed to pieces. All the crews, however, were saved, but some of them made very narrow escapes. Much damage has been done to the new slip in the course of construction, by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway at Granton ; and all along the shore from thence to Trinity, considerable injury has been done to the remaining wall, and to that part of the old road which runs between the railway and the sea-wall. Although the railway is far above the high water-mark, yet so heavy was the surge that it washed completely over it, covering it in several places, with stones and gravel. '1 he tide, we understand, rose five or six feet beyond its usual height. About three-fourths of 60 fishermen's boats in Newhaven bay were wrecked. The damage is estimated at £2OOO. Much damage was done to the harbour at 111usselburgh , and to the herring boats moored there. A vessel was driven ashore at Cockburn path, and it was reported that the crews were all saved by means of Captain Manby's apparatus, brought from Lunbar. of f re wr at ee d k a s m w ag as e At Dundee, on the ith, the wind rose to a hurricane. Point a foreign barque went to pieces. and the crew perished. Several casualties had also occurred on the g w r a e s a t d , o a n n e d a m l a al n o y n l g i v t e h s e w c e o r a e s l t. s to. The A n t number m c b c e a r r o w n es t t h c e o e a a s s t t o f Scot!and, but no t to so g reat an ex tent as At Berw . ick much injury was sustained. Th ree vesse l s w tsoe e ar Shields i e la l m o s t t o ;the i nh u n e district , dee Tyne,. boundT h viz., lz crews . ,t to h e rft John oerachp W u nadl were fortunatelye, belonging a s ; and the saved. Coming nearer to our own port, we h ave t o s t a t e th a t the Amelia, from the bay of Fundy, struck on Puffin Island, on Friday, and afterwards went on to the main, where she remains, and is likely to become a complete wreck. She has lost her rudder and keel, and is full of water. _ _ The Margaret Ann, for Liverpool. from Newfoundland, has put into Holyhead, with loss of boats, bulwarks, and sails. She shipped a sea which filled her cabins, and damaged her cargo. preserved for th Calliot Sarah, Airey, Chine! 30th Glenta Lady Fok, 11 beth 76 - §4 and sai Lana Lady _CountE ran], 2 Hasp• - Ist Dec Mert for NO, Rath , Marl to Live where I RAM verpooi ARRI Emblel SAIL Virythic Tyro, 3 Wilkie, The .1 was rdF logged; .Hang well. port Se Robe shifted. well. U'exfor betweer ILFR, from Li dismast MILF pool to yard, bi CARD verpool, and can gone, ar sated. 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