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arliamtntan) irortrbings _.0.--- c.. a—Whig Lord B aled, and to do the fa! )ut claimed th se who w sed to sed inquiry, lcticable object 1 - of the publ which td realised one of the fears otion of L i not a ailment 3 no alterai to dec one and a swept awa diocesan to one rusted with nder ti $ pigs imported of London alc upon some speeches nen members of the Anti '-ke metropolis, calculated sing away of innocent life. He would not r mnrp nartienlarlv at that moment, but ...Acme reverend gentlemen wou, at least for an explanation of their conduct of RADNOR opposed the motion, and strongly .ended the total repeal of the corn laws. I ASHBURTON said he was always a moderate free "t he was not so absurd as to argue for the abroga qtrictions without reference to the peculiar cir ' country. In the artificial state of this in enormous national debt, it was impossible ►eve] system of free trade. In this country • - f n r sugar, or tobacco s of t flowed to grow uem-iuw..— -o • be most profitably cultivated), because to do 3 destroy a proportion of our revenue which we ford to lose. pis of CLANHICARDE said that, as a free trader, magine, or, in his opinion, did any one of the ad •ee trade imagine, that all duties whatever were to 'ay with. They only contended that differential Id be abolished, that monopolies should be abo that all protective duties should be, as far as was ible consistent with safety, abated. irl STANHOPE replied; after which their lordships di d, and the motion of the noble lord was negatived by a 3ritv of 25 to 4. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THIIRSD. -- - R respecting a from Sir C a quest, ecent transactions in Syria, Et. PEEL expressed a hope that hon. members would heir principles of non-intervention so far as not to the British Government responsible for the deeds of Turkish autno: In reply to a question from Mr. HAWKS, Sir R. PEEL said he did intend to bring in a measure of urch extension, the chief object of which would be to make accruing and increasing property of the church, which ght to be at the disposal of the ecclesiastical commission s. availiable for providing for the spiritual wants of the oved for leave to bring in a bill to alter ,Istice In ,urts Of England and Wales of the n which had been encroache ordinat Lasing annu these courts was long called for, equacy he spiritual jurisdiction a judge to be appoirited )y the ( fiction; and thai.ce lower over spirit, I to bay transfe stry of wills, and to unsdic The bil ions of cht names a STOCK with t al improvement, and adation of the ,ch was composed of men eat weight and authority w JERVIS and Dr, Duld not consent to the bill 11 e courts of the two universities were not to be sion, leave was given to bring in After some fart Mr. C. WOOD wed for a return of any copies or extracts Inications . • '^h had taken place between her vernment anti LUG authorities of Canada, duties levied on wheat imported from the o Canada, or from Canada into the United _...munications win( lace LIIC 15 Uily v• e • ,NLEY would not oppose the motion, as the re enable the house to enter hereafter upon a proper of the v . SMITH moved for a copy of any despatch from the Ir-General of India to the Court of Directors, con proclamation addressed to the chiefs and princes of iecting the recovery of the gates of the Temple of and any answer of the Court of Directors to the He commented at considerable the Governor-General of India, licentious idolatry, and ,etween the Hindoos and India,ri r-Generalof India ite a far M ahomedans: ss and iCal animas. , erson who could issue such a proclama +ed with the govern . Hi unfit to be trust eneath his f India, which must necessarily be unsate ot There were other points which almost led to the con k that Lord Ellenborough's head must have been turned My. B. BAILING said that the financia .. attacks ri India reforms effected by of enemies, whO I raised him a ho )ugh tt possession ? gates of Somnauth 'I as by )phy by Hindoos as gratification of a ge -6 of triumph over their Affghan oppressors in his Aons to the chiefs and princes of India. He would documents moved for so far as the Government had re, for his objec the means of doing so. Sir R. INGius thought the defence of Lord Ellenborough , by the hon. gentleman, an utter failure. In point of fact, the gates of Somnauth and their history were wholly . un known or forgotten by th e Hi n d oo pe ople, the temple its elf having been so utterly destroyed and desecrated as to have lost all veneration in the Hindoo mind. The removal of the gates might have been undertaken from motives entirely po litical, but if so, he would ask who had been conciliated by this extraordinary proceeding? No one. While on the other hand they risked the ill-feelinc , of the millions of the ,Ma homedans, who were placed under the rule of Lord Ellen borough. He wished his hon. friend had repudiated the proclamation of Lord Ellenborough, although that would not have satisfied him (Sir R. Inglis) ; for he would be satisfied with nothing less than the censure of the house at the very ?EEL said it was unfair to Lord Ellenborough to idenee, as had been done by the motion before the . _ d yet before that evidence was produced to pro ce to the charge and condemnation. The right !man admitted that the appointment of Lord El - was a judicious and proper one, and the only inst him was the issuing of this proclamation. He itation in saying that any one who knew Lord El- .ii;oTough's religious feelings must know, that at all events, s innocent in his intentions, as was indeed evident from ct that at the very time about which this proclamation sued he, in the very midst of the excitement attendant _ "er for a public thanksgiving sued also an or ,nty God for the uninterrupted successes of the ar ms. The right hon. baronet then quoted from the of India, written by Mounsteuart Elpbinstone, a it was expressly stated that these gates were ,con. Ghuzerat by Sultan Mahmoud when be n his last invasion of the country, as a trophy of He had no doubt that it ever entered the head orcuzh that in restoring this trophy to the -;n , the slightest compliment to Almig He would frankly admit to the house that V.e had felt it their duty to communicate with the neral of India upon the subject of this procla still be would say that it was not fair to judge • tenour of his conduct, but; by _ _ Never able I 3 eloqt unt of ation by a vote of ding for his good ,nent. his good favour the WO moult : h of Si s in this wn to ler rfoiso great g him to this enormous ,cting opinions ; and nit to the house that vm for the Connected w NEWSPA spire ; and a a in Jr go were sailing u ted in a peoiland one third From a s far as to which cl Stanhope Tntnent snoutu y bad only carried the Premier was anything is intentions with went t yen in anower but satis- length of saying that he woe l the pressure from without by overnment would - - • .ushing that he Anti-Corr giant monster which n-law League." ever side of the corn- g and w lering eye, he c ade which le ruin of I only 3,100 per cent. on the result of g of the_free t re had ine o the noble earl, spreact ie country. The noble and R. fee f his J verboar a the a .t Lord Ellenborou e modifications, V HOUSE OF LORDS ,-FRID.% X question Duke of WELLINGTOI, rs, and would in ve no discussion, e its and services of a :vents. r.vet )ut of the ins Ntighanistan -FRI D NY report sbareh koble lord to found uct in India, come on. He moved for some returns re riancial orders of the Governor-General of .9 Of CLANRICARDE brow had no reference to political mat- iilitary force employed in the recent ry paper should be produced, from the breaking urrection to the latest proceedings of the army C:BuLt at had ght to advocal kingdom as unques- s—a confisca- udicial character, knew it d in another w and the God and to ustice to HOUSE OF COMMONS urros moved for leave to introduce a aw which relates to turnpike-trusts and ereon.—After some conversation, in which Mr. Mackinnon, and Mr. Fox Maule took part, the granted. Mr. IMANNERS mortgages t Rice, Mr. motion was Mr. LIDDELL desired lea to bring in a bill for thepur- se of preventing personation of voters at elections. Some alpractices, he said, had been removed by the Reform Bill; but there were other evils which that bill had increased ; among which were bribery and the offence he now sought to In particular, at the elections in 1841, fur the f Derby and for the town of Belfast, personation ounty o aad been committed to a great extent, and had been proved ,n due course of law. By the 58th section of the Reform Act, it is sufficient that the person claiming to vote make answer to the qt stions there prescribed, which questions if his vote must be registered. rtain number of the he answer in the affirmative Mr. Liddell now proposed, that if a c bystanders offer to make oath that the voter is not the per- urning officer shall have power, not to refuse the vote, but, after recording it, to give the voter forthwith into the custody of an attendant policeman, to he taken before two magistrates, and bound over to take son he assumes to the magistrates should have power to impose a fine instanter on any one falsely imputing personation. He wished he the iunistiment likewise of the tempters pro- chief he could not perceive any adequa no party proposal, and he should gladly receive suggestions from any quarter. remedy This was Mr. Bo:ss, the member for Belfast, vindicated his own committee from any connexion with the alleged personation at the election for that place. _ _ _ After a word or two of approval from Mr. BanTimitToN, ye was given to bring in ti adjourned RAILWAY INTELLIGENCI NORTIIERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this undertaking was held on Thursday at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate street, at which the chairman of the company, Wm. Mar shall. Esq., presided. From the report it appeared that the receipts for passengers and parcels for the last six £33,716, exceeding the previous half year by months wer £6,760 7s. Bd. After deducting £3,906 debenture interest, there would be a balance of £9,702 3s. 4d., out of which the directors recommended a dividend at•the rate of 4 per cent. per annum on the paid-up-capital, or 18s. per share, which would leave a balance to be carried forward — namely, £1,276 7s. ld. The cost of the railway hitherto had been £809,666 18s. 4d. A special report was also submitted, recommending the line to be continued northward, and esti mates had been made for taking it on to Newport (10 miles from Bishop's Stortford) for about £170,941, and to Cam bridge for £523,560. After a long discussion the report was adopted, and several new directors were elected. The Hert ford and Ware branch was agreed to, but the project for car rying the line northward was adjourned for consideration, when thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—The half-yearly meeting of the directors and shareholders took place on Fri day at the Euston Hotel, Euston-square. Mr. G. C. Glynn, chairman of the board of directors, presided. The minutes of the two last meetings having been confirmed, the chairman said he regretted to announce a falling off in the receipts for the last half year as compared with the preceding; but he believed it might by fairly accounted for by the extraordinary depression under which every branch of trade and manufac tures had been suffering. The company had also lost, during the same period, the tolls previously paid by the Derby and Junction Line, and he believed, taking all circumstances into consideration, there was every reason to hope for the in creased and permanent prosperity of the undertaking. The greatest falling off in the receipts was shown in the first class passengers, and there could be no doubt that, during the recent disturbances in the manufacturing districts, many of the higher classes of society had been prevented from using the line. There was also a falling off in the second class, but not in so large a ratio. In the third class there had been a considerable increase, and he felt much satisfaction in alluding to this, as it showed that the interests of that class, for whose use it was more especially designed, had bee❑ properly pro- The diminution in the expenses of working the been very large, amounting in three years to and the efficiency of the system had been improved The company had been called on recently vided for line had at the say s of troops from one part of the country had been done in a manner that had 3 government, and greatly given t military nditure of the country. Mr. from which it appeared that the Adst nalf year were—from ordinary traffic, 959, and from rent and interest on balances, £5,720, ' of £426,679, or £8,355 less than the corres ar of 1841: The net profit to be divided among rs was £248,818 13s. 5d., and a dividend of the capital stock, amounting to £242,445 165., ; that the balance be carried to the credit __ tax be deducted —.en proprietor. The report concluded -Ale proposed branch line to Northampton and Ugh, which would be commenced forthwith. The rt was unanimously adopted, and the five directors who t out by rotation having been re-elected, thanks were cl to the chairman and the board, after which the meeting £0 p,. was recommei,“,— , - of the next halt year, and that the income t from the dividend of r•. Peterborot BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMJ'ANY.—The half-yearly meet ing, held on Thursday, at the London Tavern, was most numerously attended, and deputations from Liverpool, Man - Leeds, and York, were present, with great strength -- the future management of the company , the present direction. The business of the day was opened ay Mr. Harman, the chairman, who made a very active speech, and, from the applause which it occasionally received, it appeared' likely to produce a powerful effect in favour of the present management. Among the causes which he as signed for the slow progress made in the traffic of the line during the last half-year, were, the counter-attraction of the Queen's visit to Scotland, and the disappointment which en sued when she did not visit Brighton, as was expected. These points told rather weakly with the meeting, as it was felt that after so much had been said on previous occasions about the line not being absolutely a pleasure line,; it was strange that chester of proxies, to oppos MISR CHURCH he united diocese of ..at, wt,. ,e we regard it as a cause of —less that these doctrines have made small progress, if any, in Ireland, we yet feel bound to testify to your lordship our increased alarm at the introduction into these dioceses of a society for the ostensible purpose of church architecture, in connexion with one of a similar character in England—the Cambridge Camden Society—the existence and proceedings of which latter institution have too manifest and painful a connexion with the errors and doctrines already referred to. " That we have reason to btlieve the apprehension arising from the introduction of such innovations amongst us, through this institution, has already operated most unfavour ably, in impairing the efforts, and impeding the further pro gress, of that valuable society, the Church Accommodation, to which we have already alluded; and our firm conviction is, that the same evil efforts will be speedily and fatally felt, in paralyzing the operations of our other diocesan insti tutions. such mere contingencies should, in the opinion of the directors, compromise the prosperity of the company. Referring to the unsettled accounts between the Brighton and the South-Eas tern companies, Mr. Harman stated, that the difficulties which Mr. Stevenson, the engineer of the South-Eastern company, was endeavouring to throw in the way of their set tlement, would not avail, as the Brighton company were quite ready to meet them with accounts which would substantiate all that had been charged fos. After stating that about £30,000 more would supply the wants of the " construction account," and that the present revenue would admit of a dividend of £1 per share, which the directors accordingly re commended, he declared that he and his colleagues left them selves to the meeting to point out their future course, as he was prepared for a motion being brought forward respecting their continuance in office. The meeting was then addressed by the representatives of the Brighton shareholders of Liver pool, Leeds, and York, and these descanted most forcibly upon the management of the railway, from its first commence ment to the present day, and the constant excesses occurring in the estimates, when the directors, or their advisors, should have been taught by experience the true position of their af fairs. The facts that these gentlemen adduced made the deepest impression on the meeting, and turned the tide of opinion completely against the directors. The chairman en deavoured to explain that the engineer was the only respon sible party; whereupon the shareholders retorted, that the power of continuing the engineer was vested in the direction. Mr. Parsons, the chairman of the committee of investigation, declared himself in support of the motion which the deputa tions from the country had brought forward, as an amendment to the report, viz., that the shareholders had no confidence in the present direction. Having had the opportunity of in vestigating the accounts, he affirmed that the whole principle of management was unsound from the foundation, which was the grand point he wished to keep before the meeting. The result of a very animated discussion o❑ the principles of rail way management, the oppointrnent of directors, their salaries and patronage, was, that the want of confidence was carried by a large majority. The announcement of the success of the movement was followed by tremendous cheering. It was af terwards resolved, that, in the bill which is to be brought into parliament in the present session, the number of direc tors shall be limited to 10 instead of 20, and that the shall all be newly elected at the next half-yearly meeting. Seven va cancies in the present direction were then filled up, five, in cluding Mr. Parsons, being taken out of the body of share holders in the room, and the two directors re-elected being Mr. Watson and Captain Beauclerk. The last gentleman seems to owe his re-election to some very stringent remarks on the endeavours he had long made in a minority to resist the lavish expenditure of the company. A hope that he would ultimately carry his point was, as he represented, the sole cause of his consenting to remain in the direction till that day. ' The final business of the meeting was the declaration of the ' dividend of £1 per share, payable on the 15th March.— Times " That, influenced by these considerations, we earnestly and respectfully entreat of your lordship to take such steps, by withdrawing your countenance from the Church Archi- tecturc Society in these dioceses, or by any other means which your better judgment may suggest, as will relieve our minds, and those of our poorer brethren, from these doubts and fears which at present harass and distress us, and thereby enable us to act, as we desire to do, heart and hand with our ministers, in endeavouring to promote the glory of God, and the good of our fellow men." The reply of the bishop is too long for insertion, but we select the following extract relating to the Church Architec ture Society : " For many weeks that society has been the object of false and slanderous accusations, of insults and reviliugs, from certain assailants, especially from one, who, masking himself under a general designation, which he has disgraced by his unclerical and unchristian conduct, under its protection has scrupled not to villify and denounce the society in the face of the public; and from others, who have vauntingly proclaimed that it must and shall be dissolved. The essential question, therefore, in my mind, is become one quite distinct from the merits of the society itself. It is one of ecclesiasticai disci pline. It is a question, whether a bishop, in the discharge of his office, is to have the liberty of following his own con scientious judgment, or to be placed under the dictatiou and the ban of any of his clergy who may take it upon himself to say—' This shall be, or this shall not be done ; or we will raise the laity against the bishop.' This phrase, gentlemen and brethren, is no figure of speech of mine ; this project is not of my fiction or imagination. How far the present movement may have arisen out of this notable and dutiful device, I have not the means of judging; but thus circumstanced, I am bound, by a sense of duty to the Church Architecture Society, to yourselves, likewise, gentlemen and brethren, to the diocese in general, to the church at large, and in all, to the great Head and Guardian of the Church, not to suffer my office to be thus depreciated, insulted, set at nought, and trampled on by a subordinate minister." SALT.—In the interior countries of Africa, the greatest of all luxuries is salt. A child there will suck a piece of rock salt as if it were sugar. The poorer classes of the inhabitants are, however, so very rarely indulged with this precious article, that to say a man eats salt with his victuals, is the same as saying he is a rich man. The long use of vegetable food creates so painful a longing for salt, that no words can suffi ciently describe it.—Park's Travels. The nomination of candidates in th stead of Major now Lord Vivian took place at Bodmin, on Wednesday The candidates were Si► Samuel Spry, the old and Mr. Sawle, of Penrice, near St. Austell, candidate, brought forward, under the patronage of ir - the Liberal interest. On the declaration of red for Sir Samuel Spry FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. _ dred of the most respectable persons in the diocese has been Another insurrection has taken place in Oporto. On the presented to the Bishop of Down, and Connor and Dro- and the military In n •••• • - The following passage s f rom a correspond 2wnedreitc)satititendt o th u e t. people rose in large masses, Memorial of the lay members of the Established ent of the Times give the causes of the revolt. •-—•- - - ..ceps since (tutu of January) I described Oporto Down and Connor and Dromore. as " in an alarming state, and upon the very verge of an ex " Respectfully showeth, plosion." "My advices" (I said) " where of the gloomiest " That we are warmly and firmly attached to the Church, character. Not only is an universal bankruptcy daily appre of which your lordship is a chief overseer ;—we venerate and hended, but starvation is reaching the working classes. Su would uphold her in all her offices, discipline, ordinances, peradded to the intense suffering, the most direct proximate and doctrine, from a persuasion that they are in accordance cause of this dreadful state of things is the indifference, with, and based upon, the word of God. amounting almost to contempt, with which the Government " That the clergy and laity of the united diocese have, for has treated the repeated memorials sod ternonstances pro a long period, lived together in amity and mutual confidence, ceeding from these and the other wine districts throughout more particularly during the last four years, in which it the kingdom, and of which there are at this moment no pleased Almighty God pre-eminently to bless their united ex- fewer than 300 stuffed into recesses at the public offices." ertions, for the extension of the Redeemer's cause, making And I added "An appeal to arms is at last significantly the diocese second to none in these kingdoms for union and hinted at." I regret to find that I have been so true a pro usefulness. ohet. Three days before this letter reached Port , 1 the • p_ Aga, • That we are thankful t o th e G rea t H ea d o f th e Church. outburst which it predicted had occurred. In a previous for the signal blessings conferred on us and on our brethren letter I stated that the mercantile houses had been assessed in a common faith, by means of the Down and Connor exorbitantly to the maneio, " some houses to the extent of GO Church Accommodation Society, over which your lordship milreis," and that great discontent was the consequence. so efficiently presided, but which has now, to our great re- When the assessment on the body of the people and the gret, virtually ceased to exist. working classes was made public, the ferment reached its " That we heartily desire and hope for the speedy forma- height, and their feelings of indignation overflowed. tion of another Society, similar, in all essential points, All the disposable force of the mounted Municipal Guard to one which has been made the instrument of so much were, as already stated, called out to disperse the rioters ; good. but the hissing, hooting, wild vociferations, and menaces of " That we have perceived with alarm and apprehension, the mob, by whom they were far outnumbered, had speedily for some time back, the rapid spread of the false doctrines the effect of putting the mounted troops to flight. Even the upheld and promulgated in the Tracts for the Times, a series Government journals admit that the conduct of the soldiers of publications emanating from Oxford, where so many of was most disgraceful. The people be it remembered, were our clergy are educated, and the heretical tendency of which unarmed ; no arms, at least, were displayed. The crowd needs but little comment in a document such as this, especi- did not separate until nightfall. ally as addressed to your lordship. - -hil d •• lankfulr th The Right Hon. Premier, Sir Robert Peel, Bart. attained his fifty-fifth year on Sunday week, having been born on the sth February, 1788. Lady Rachel Russell, in her Letters, mentions that Dr. Beveridge objected to read a brief in Canterbury Cathedral for the benefit of the distressed Protestant refugees, because it was contrary to the rubrics. " Doctor, Do c t or ," rep li e d Archbishop Till otson , " charity is above rubrics." The good Archbishop alluded probably to the text, " Have ye never read what David did when he was a huugred ?" THE LONDON CoAcH.—A beautiful sight it is—a fine, well-appointed coach, of what we must now call the anc i en t fashion, with its sma rt driver, brilliant harness, and thorough bred team. Then it is a spectacle pleasing to gods and men— the knowing and instantaneous manner in which the grooms perform their work in leading off the h orses an d putt i ng fresh ones to—the rap id diving for carpet bags and portman teaus into the various boots and luggage holes—the stepping down or out (as the case may be) of the passengers —the tip to the coachman—the touch of the hat in return—the re mounting of that functionary into his chair of honour--the chick, chick ! with which he hints to the pawing grays he is ready for a start ; and, finally, they rolloffinto dirn distance with the splendid vehicle, watched by the crowd that have gathered round it till it is lost from their sight. A steam-coach, with its disgusting, sputtering, shapeless, lifeless engine, ought to be ashamed of itself, and would probably blush for its ap pearance if it were not for the quantity of brass that goes to its composition.—Blackwood. MARRIAGE v. INSANITY.—Few people are aware how much more insanity prevails among bachelors and unmarried ladies than among the married of both soxes. We learn from the examination of very many reports, that of every Live of all lunatics sent to American hospitals, three are un married, and only two are married, and that almost all of them are over twenty-one years old. On the other hand, it is pretty certain that in all the community over twenty-one years of age, there are more than three times as many in as , out of wedlock. If this be the case then the unmarried are more than four simes as liable to become insane as married ppople. To make thiscmore certain Dr. Jarvis, of this town, has written to some gentlemen in almost every town in Mas sachusetts, and in some towns in 'Connecticut, requesting him to count on the list of voters in his town—the married, the unmarried, and the widowers, and to give him informa tion of the number in each of these classes belonging to their respective towns. We earnestly hope his correspondents will be able and willing to give him an answer to these points, and thus settle one very important principle in life—that mar riage is a great protective of society against the awful disor der of insanity.—Concord Freeman. A LAND-SURVEYOR'S HORSE.—The best of architects and land-surveyor's kept a horse, in whom the enemies, al ready mentioned more than once in these pages, pretended to detect a fanciful resemblance to his master. Not in his outward person, for he was a raw-boned, haggard horse, al. ways on a much shorter allowance of corn than Mr. Peck sniff; but in his moral character, wherein, said they, he was full of promise, but of no performance. He was always, in a manner, going to go, but never going. When at his slowest rate of travelling, he would sometimes lift up his legs so high, and display such mighty action, that it was difficult to be lieve he was doing less than fourteen miles an hour; and he was ever so perfectly satisfied with his own speed, and as little disconcerted by the opportunities of comparing himself with the fastest trotters, that the illusion was the more diffi cult of resistance. He was a kind of animal who infused into the breasts of strangers a lively sense of hope, and possessed all those who knew him better with grim despair. In what respect, having these points of character, he might be fairly likened to his master, that good man's slanderers only can tell. But it is a melancholy truth, and a deplorable in stance of the uncharitableness of the world, that they made the comparison. —Martin Chuzzlewit. CAUSES OF CONSUMPTION.—MineraI dusts are exces sively destructive, giving rise to local irritation and tubercu lization in those who inhale them ; just as particles of quick silver are said to do when this mineral is passed down the trachea of rabbits. Thus, the stone-masons of Edinburgh, the needle-pointers of Redditch and its neighbourhood, the dry-grinders of Sheffield, and the flint-cleavers at Berri in France, as well as elsewhere, unless they leave off in time, are destroyed at an early period. Some occupations are preservative; butchers, who live in the open air, take abun dant, though not excessive exercise, and consume rich, nu tritious food, are almost all exempt from tubercles. The piactice of keeping sitting-rooms darkened to save furniture, is decidedly injurious. We are insufficiently clothed, espe cially in winter ; and in place of living in the free, open air, grovel in the narrow and often sordid precincts of rooms and houses. The consequence of all this, more especially in large cities, is evident in the young. Depressing passions are destructive; not so much, perhaps, by their direct influ ence, as by withdrawing attention from acts necessary to the healthy maintenance of animal life. Laennec speaks of a nunnery in Paris; the inmates of which, with few exceptions —such was the austerity of the rule —were swept off by phthisis twice or thrice within ten years. Despondency, weariness of mind, and uncorrected sedentary pursuits, are alike injurious. THE ORIGIN OF "THREE TIMES THREE." —Amid the enjoyments of the festive board, they recal to mind the friends of other days; and, having first performed libations to the gods, those best and purest of friends, drank to the health and prosperity of former associates, now far removed by cir cumstances, and this they did not in the mixed beverage which formed their habitual potations, but i n pure wine. There was something extremely delicate in this idea, for tacitly it intimated, that their love placed the objects of it almost on a level with their divinities, in whose honour, also, on these occasions, a small portion of the wine was spilt as libations upon the earth. The young, in whose hearts a mistress held the first place, drank deeply in honour of their beloved, sometimes equalling the number of cups to that of the letters forming h er name—which, if the custom prevailed so early, would acco unt for /E g isthos 's being a sot. Some times, however, tak in g the hint fro m the number of the Graces, they were satisfied with th ree go bl ets; b ut, when an e tw s aii e c tr nh u Ne s ‘is e vuhws f i eoictsri fordthri r n et k eh i drinking'` three. This i s th e num b er o f cheers favourite g" bottle deep" was sought, th ey c h ose political toasts a re rece i ve d at our pub lic dinners, though every , one who fill s hi s b umper, and cries " Hip, hip, hip, hurr ah ! on this occasion, is, probably, not conscious that he is keeping up an old pagan custom in ho nour of the Muses. CONVECTIONby Mr. THE;V ea lT th ll erst ß a t v c e a r N y —h state Spoeme December, bpf papers of 0117. s France, morning a an lcied, aw pa p ers ansla d r a tj w ll o n h a A u l b E , gmpsthalteetment" respecting the settled north-eastern with a strong red line, DISCOVERY disco vered lately, a note by Dr. Franklin to the Count de \Ter " 'flit limits of the United States as settled in the prelitnitiaries between the British and American Plenipotentiaries ;" this map had pas- Il published pas sed through the hands of Mr. Webster to the Committee of frombß oOsututaiNrdatial) pamphlet R . Y CI Among u E s T I ° the l4 6 t . Foreign Affairs during - the discussion of the disputed boun ;igehnienhes he e , d h a a t d e d markedr aril, dary : " the strong red line," says Mr. Jared Sparks, who discovered the document, " runs wholly to the south of St. John : in short, it is exactly the line now contended for by Great Britain, except that it concedes more than is claimed." With this map, says a writer in the Times, it ' ap p e ars that Mr. Webs t er_ • vvEts provided during the wh o l e o f his late negotiatio n ; and we feel sure that the British public will hardly credit that lie had this map before his eyes at the ti m e that he solemnly protested to Lord Ashburton his be lief, not only in t h e justice of the whole of the American c l a i m , but his conviction of the intention of the framers of the treaty of 1783 to carry the line to the north of the River St. John. --- MATRIMONIA L MARKET AND COURTING INTELLIGENCE. —But little has been doing farsirnecaelloyurgolaodst,aannddutesermfasl h a s been some demand ; which demand, may be considered though far from great , h as exceeded the supply, s o th a t t h ese cannot be quoted at lower prices. Ready -fu rn i s h e d h ouses, with or without small annuities, have been fr ee ly o ff ere d , an d in some instances accepted; b u t cas h terms seem generally preferred, as it prevents any mistakes an d muc h disappoint busines a s easier ; descriptions there ment ; papas, bachelor uncles, and maiden aunts, not always cutting up as expected. In ordinary descriptions there is nothing doing, and prices nominal. All are eagerly looking forward to the results of the Christmas flirtations, when, un less things assume a livelier appearance, thousands of our fellow-creatures will have to sigh away their lives in per petual celibacy. In the foreign market, although things are dull at present, owing to the colonial market being overdone and the Australian in bad repute, yet it is confidently ex pected that a reaction will shortly take place, in consequence of our late successes in the East. Chinamen (to whom Providence allows two, a privilege of which they seldom avail themselves) will no doubt gladly avail themselves of our superfluity ; whilst Affgbanistan offers an unlimited market, numbers being no object, provided the ladies are approved of. There has been a proposal for exploring the polar regions.-- Punch. WrretteitAFT.—A most distressing case of superstition occurred a few days since, by which a respectable young man, a son of Mr. Cooper Elsden, of Soham, was near losing his life. The facts were related by the young man himself, who states that he left &ham a few days since for Thetford, in the Isle of Ely, about three o'clock in the afternoon. Having occasion to call at Stuntey, he proceeded by way of Ely, and thence by footpath across the meadows. Darkness coming on, and not being certain of the road, he made up to a light in the stable of a small farm occupied by a man named Dent. Here he found a young man, of whom he inquired the:way to Thetford. The youth seemed greatly alarmed, but consented to show him the road. I-hiying to pass the door of the house, he saw a man in the act of nailing a horseshoe on the threshold. The moment he saw him, the man—believing it was the witch —rushed upon and struck him a violent blow with the ham mer he was using at the time. Fortunately it missed his head, and descended on his shoulder. He then ran into his house and called for his gun, threatening to put an end to the exist ence of the supposed author of his trouble. The feelings of a young man who had lost his way in a lone place, suspected of witchcraft ; children clinging round the father, and scream ing for fear of the witch ; the mother holding the father's arm, imploring him not to shoot; the son calling out, " It's not the witch, father, but a man"—expecting every moment to be his last, can be better imagined than described. The young man he first saw endeavoured to get him out of the way of his infatuated father, saying he was sure he would kill him, and related to him their misfortunes and sufferings und er th e influence of witch cra f t for some ti me pas t, saying that he him self had dreamed three successive nights that his father was nailing a horse-shoe on the door, that the witch made her appearance, and was shot, and that they had lost, through witches, a cow and cafe, and their old mar, within the last few days. Fortunately, the young man escaped to the road, and reached Thetford in safety. We vouch fur the tr u th o f the above, witho u t exaggerat i on , although one can scar ce ly believe that in th e y ear 1 8 4 3 , an d within a mile of the coll eges and cathedral chur c h o f El y , su ch superstition and ignorance could prevail.—Cambridye Independent. THEATRE-ROYAL, WILLIAMSON-SQUARE. Mr. BRONVNE and Mr. STUART HIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 11th instant, 1. the Musical Play of THE LORD OF THE MANOR. After which, a Burletta, never acted here, called FORTY AND FIFTY. To conclude with the Musical Farce of LOCK AND KEY. TO-MORROW, (Wed❑esday,)—THE TEMPEST, and THE LAST MAN. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL ON THURSDAY next, the 16th February instant, MR. W. J. HAMMON 'S BENEFIT, on which occasion MR. W. FARREN Ai\th MRS. GLOVER will perform, positively for that Night only. The Entertainments will commence with the celebrated Comedy of THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE. Lord Ogleby Mr. W. Farren. Mrs. Heidelberg Her first appearance here for many years. Brush Mr. Browne. After which, the favourite Drama of UNCLE FOOZLE. Uncle Foozle . Mrs. Quickfidget Their original characters. To conclude with a new Farce, now acting at the Theatre- Royal, Covent-garden. called COUSIN LAMBKIN.. representative -• a vou the poll on Thursday, there app 165 votes, and for Mr. Sawle, 161 A commission of lunacy was opened at Southwark, on Thursday last, to enquire into the state of mind of Mr. Thomas Alarchant. The unfortunate man, according to the evidence of the physician, imagined that he was inspired by the Deity, that he felt so happy, for he knew more than any other person, and had a secret which would make any per son's fortune, which he would sell for £30,000. He imagined he was Nebuchadnezzar, and had become a beast, a pig. and other animals ; that Sir Walter Scott was his precursor, as St. John was to our Saviour; and if he were to throw him self out of a window and were killed, it would be no conse quence, as he should rise the next day, for he was immortal, and had already died six or seven times ; the Almighty had spoken to him, and supernatural voices had commanded him to cut his throat ; he was Daniel 111, and had the world in his hands ; had vast wealth, and was to be the only pawn broker in London; and intended putting some pieces of wood together to float to Waterloo-bridge, and there form a flotilla, on which he would place three millions of men, and vas to be towed down the river by a goose and a duck, ould go and beat the Chinese, and conquer ..,to the names, and prove to the world that he could come out unscorchcd. It further appeared that he had twice tried to destroy himself. The last time was the 25th of inuary, when he endeavoured to drown himself by keeping !,;s head under water in the warm bath till the attendant hauled him up; he then said God had commanded him to do it, and that he mould go to heaven if he did. t forwa THE GOSPEL PROPAGATION SOCIETY Considerable excitement has for some time existed amongst the supporters of this society relative to a statement made by the Rev. Mr. Campbell, the Society's secretary, at a meeting in Cheltenham, " That the Society never, with their eyes open, appointed a missionary to a foreign station holding these (tractarian) opinions ; to prevent this they took double and anxious pains." The Rev. F. Close was chairman of the meeting, and in consequence of some explanations entered into by Mr. Campbell, in a letter to a brother clergyman, Mr. Close addressed to Mr. Campbell the following letter, in which it will be seen he refers to those explanations : Cheltenham, January 23, 1843. " Rev. and dear Sir,—l regret to be obliged to trouble you again upon this painful subject, especially as I have reason to believe that between us personally there is no difference of opinion relative to the doctrinal views of the party in ques tion : and I am sure nothing is further from my mind than to wish to involve you in controversy. But the principles which govern a great Society are at stake, and they must be more clearly defined, or it will lose the support of many persons why have long been its cordial friends. " Your letter of the 19th instant to Mr. Kinsey, which is intended as an answer to mine of the lith instant, is far from satifactory, and conveys an impression widely different from that which was produced at the Anniversary Meeting in ques tion. And lam bound, as chairman of that meeting, to re mind you of what then took place. " In the close of my introductory address I took occasion to allude to the principles of the Tractarian School of Theo logy : it is true that I named only a few of their opinions— and it is also true that I did not state them very accurately— that no mention was made by me of any terms such as • Ox ferd Theology,' `Tractarians,' or any similar denomination — but it is equally true that every person in the room fully un derstood what I meant. " The newspaper report of what I said is not verbatim, nor is its verbal accuracy material, as my meaning was clear to every one. I was anxious to know whether the Venerable Society voluntarily employed persons who held these opinions. No allusion was made by me to any particular case, nor pre vious controversies, and I consider that my question was essentially the same as the more elaborate one put to the Parent Society by Mr. Perceval. " Now I believe I may, with truth and accuracy affirm for myself and for all present, that you were understood entirely to disclaim, on the part of the society which you represented, the intentional employment of any persons holding these opinions. " The expression you repeatedly used was,—' The views alluded to by the Chairman,' but no one could or did doubt what those views were ; and you distinctly affirmed, That the Society never, with their eyes open, appointed a missionary to a foreign station who held these opinions; to prevent this they took double and anxious pains I' You bad established this by a fact, viz.:—that on a recent important occasion, when the Society was called upon to fill up one of the most responsible offices, they had rejected the claims of a candidate against whom there was no earthly objection, solely because it was known that he held the opinions pointed at by the Chairman !' Your allusions to the sentiments of the Bishop of Montreal tended to confirm these disclaimers— identifying beyond a doubt the school referred to, you rejoiced that his lordship bade his clergy not to conceal the truth,'— ' to be careful that they did not pass the limits of truth,' ' and exhorted them to be good Protestants.' "That your meaning was apprehended by the meeting was manifest by the repeated cheers with which your statements were received—by the congratulations of each succeeding speaker upon the Protestant character of the Society—and in my own concluding observations I am represented to have said, that I thanked you for your full and unreversed * ex planation : it relieved my mind very much, and would afford a complete contradiction to the various rumours which had been afloat on the subject. * * With the honest, Christian, and truly Protestant reply of the Secretary of the Parent Society, every one present must have been exceedingly gratified.' If we all thus misapprehended your meaning, you should surely have disabused our minds : your silence inti mated that we had not mistaken what you said. More especially as you had an opportunity of doing so when you ' thanked the meeting for the unanimous expression of their opinion.' " It may be added, in proof that there was no mistake on this point, that two members of the Society, who favour the Tractarian School, at the close of the Meeting, intimated their intention of withdrawing their subscriptions from our District Committee, in consequence of what had fallen from the Secretary of the Parent Society. " Yet now, my dear Sir, you affirm *—'that to represent you to have said that the Society took care to exclude from their service all persons holding what are vulgarly called Ox ford opinions (which are neither more nor less than " the views alluded to by the Chairman,) is to make you talk not only as a liar, but as a fool or a madman, since every one knows the direct contrary to such an assertion I' " This is so obviously contradictory of your former state ments, that I can only conclude from this disclaimer that you were not authorized by the Society to say what you did at our Meeting—that ' the direct contrary' is true—and that the Venerable Society does not take pains to prevent mis sionaries from being sent out who are imbued with ' the prin ciples alluded to by the Chairman'—that is, those of the Ox ford Tractarian School of Theology ! I see no escape from this conclusion—and if this be true, I am persuaded that many, who are far from being party men, will hesitate in their support of a Society whiCh is careless whether it em ploys persons who profess principles which have been offici ally and solemnly condemned by so many distinguished Fa thers of our Church. _ _ _ . I must request you to lay this letter before the next meeting of the Parent Committee, and I respectfully solicit from them, on behalf of the meeting of which I was chair man, and on behalf of_many contributors who are prepared to - corroborate all that I have advanced—distinct information on this point—Does the Venerable Society, according to your original statement, take pains to exclude from its em ployment agents at home or abroad who are known to be imbued with the principles of Tractarian Theology? " Believe me, Rev. and dear Sir, yours very faithfully, " Rev. A. Campbell." " F. Ctosz. To this letter Mr. Campbell replied as follows : "Pall-mall, January 27, 1843, " My dear Sir,—ln compliance with your request, I have read your letter of the 23d instant, to the Committee of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, informing them at the same time that I consider myself solely responsible for wheel said at the Cheltenham Meeting, and suggesting to them that they are not called upon to answer a question which involves a misapprehensio►► of what I stated on that occasion. " I sincerely regret that such a misapprehension should have arisen; but 1 assure you that I misunderstood you as completely as you and the meeting appear to have misunder stood me. " I am, my dear Sir, yours truly, " Rev. F. Close." "A. M. CAMPBELL. Tit E LATE AWFUL GALES.—The sacrifice of life and pro perty at sea during the last six weeks has been, we regret to say, without parallel in the history of our mercantile affairs. Upon reference to Lloyd's books and other authentic docu ments, it appears that the total number of vessels lost during the dreadful hurricane on the night of the 13th of last month was about 180, and that the number of persons who perished with them amounted to no less than 453. On the coast of England 154 vessels were wrecked, and 190 lives lost; on the coast of Ireland, five vessels were lost, with 104 lives; on the coast of Scotland, 17 vessels were wrecked, and 39 lives lost ; and on the coast of France, four vessels and 100 lives lost. The value of the vessels and cargoes have been roughly esti mated at £585,000.—viz., the vessels at £405,000, and the cargoes at £lBO,OOO. On the three following days after the 13th numerous other wrecks occurred, to the extent of nearly 60, the losses of which were upwards of £240,000; this, with the others, making a total of £825,000. To this is to be added the great loss of vessels that occurred in the course of the storm of Friday and Saturday last. ROYAL LIVER THEY'RE Mrs. Last week of th e appearane.WMr.;:rk . T 7, WILLIAM, and Mr. BUCKSTONE, th e Popular C edian,i; Dramatist. PHIS present TUESDAY EVE NG, the 14th instant, will be performed a D rama , c led THE BANISHED STAR; OR, A LEAF FROM TIIE LIFE OF AN ACTRESS. Mademoiselle Fanny Mrs. Fitzwilliam. Charley To be followed with the Farce of A KISS IN TILE DARK. Mr. Pettibone Mr. Buckstone. To conclude with the Favourite Drama, entitled THE PET OF THE PETTICOATS. Paul Monsieur Zephyr.... Mr Buckstone. ROYAL AMPHITEATRE. FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY. THIS EVENING, (Tnesda‘,, Feb. 14,) it is respectfully 1. announced to the Public, that the late MR. DUCRO NTS SPLENDID AND UNEQUALLED STUD, And Company of Foreign and British Artists, are engaged FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, who will appear in several novel and effective Scenes, peculiar to that Establishment. Signor HILLIER has delayed the embarkation of this su perior and original Establishment, in order to appear as above stated, previous to their voyage to Dublin, where they are engaged positively to appear at the Theatre Royal, in that city, on Saturday next, the 16th instant. The following celebrated Artists will appear in their va rious and surprising performances : LE PETIT DUCROW ; Signor BALTONI, his first appear ance •, Mr. STICKNEY ; Signor HILLIER ; Mr. FULLER, the Celebrated Clown ; Mr. WIDDICOMB ; Mr. MOSELEY, the British Horseman; also Madame HILLIER, Mrs. STICKNEY, Mrs. ADAMS, Mrs. FULLER. The wonderful Pony, FIRE Fix. The Horse ALFRED. The Evenings performance will commence and terminate with Dramas of great interest, in which Mr. SLOAN, Mons. LE CLERCQ, &c., &c., will appear. Prices.—Boxes, 3s. ; Side Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. Gd. ; Gallery, 6d. Half-Price.—Boxes, 2s. ; Side Boxes, Is. 6d ; Pit, Is. ; no half-price to the Gallery. TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c. The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester a f fords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday —occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers —is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it words us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. TO CORRESPONDENTS " A. B." shall be noticed in our next. The communication of " J. L.," along with the money trans mitted with his letter, will be returned to him on appli cation at the publishers' office. " D. R." is not sufficiently . interesting for public perusal. The letter from " A Dissenter" in our next. Ebe ktberpool Atanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1843 In a recent publication, we pointed to some expres. sions made use of by Lord Stanley in the House of Commons, from which we were led to entertain a very sanguine hope that, at length, the government was about to take upon itself the important duty of pro viding more efficiently for the religious instruction of the people. In this hope we have not been disap pointed. On Thursday, in reply to a question from Mr. Hawes, the Premier embraced the opportunity of stating the course which the cabinet proposed to take with respect to the question of Church Extension ; and although upon one point we are a little disap pointed with the decision to which Sir Robert and his colleagues appear to have come, yet viewing the exist ing state of the national revenue, and the widely -spread distress of the commercial and industrial classes, we are satisfied for the present to receive, as a boon gained, and a principle, to some extent, conceg i ed, the measure proposed by them. Sir Robert, on behalf of the government, admits the deficiency of the means of affording religious instruc tion to the people which has, for some years past, been a subject of complaint and regret to most right-minded members of the community, and has been, session after session, urged upon the attention of the House of Commons by Sir Robert Inglis and other Conservative members. He admits, in similar emphatic language to that made use of by Lord Stanley, and to which we on a former occasion referred, the baneful effects which such deficiency is producing upon the moral health of the population, and points to the recent ex cesses in the manufacturing districts, as affording evi dence of the state of society created. He admits the duty of the• state to provide a remedy for such a state of things ; but here the ever-cautious statesman pauses, in order apparently to throw a damp upon our satisfaction. We must not, he interposes, imagine that, although prepared to make these admissions, he is prepared, at present, to recommend a large grant of the public money for the purpose of supplying the des titution which exists. He is not so prepared; but he hopes to be able to make available for the objects in view the credit of the funds which will at some dis tance of time, however" —accrue in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In plainer terms, the government, we presume, will advance, in exchequer bills or otherwise, taking as security the sums falling mo the hands of th e comm i ss i oners, a certain yearly ount, to be expended in the erection and endow ment of churches in those districts where the deficiency of church accommodation and the want of religious in struction for the population is greatest. _ _ Such is, we believ e , a fair description of the pro posed measure of Sir Robert Peel's government, in aid of Church Extension. That it will satisfy the most ardent of the supporters of the plan advocated by Sir Robert Inglis, and of the sincere friends of the Church of England, we do not believe. We are not, our selves, satisfied with it, and yet we scarcely know that, at the present moment and from the government of Sir Robert l'eel, we were justified in expecting more. On the one hand, it affects to admit and establish the principle that the state is bound to care for the supply ing of religious instruction adequate for the increasing wants of the population ; but then it stipulates that the means for providing that supply must be furnished from the existing property of the Church. How far the increasing of the endowments of small livings— which we have always understood to be one of the prominent objects of the Ecclesiastical Commission— can progress pari passu with the devotion of the funds at its disposal to Church Extension, we know not; and we are afraid that, until the details of Sir Robert's measure are before the house, we must suspend our judgment as to its value to the community. 'We feel, however, at present, that we have gained something, although time may prove that gain to be, for all prac tical purposes, almost infinitesimal in amount. As COnServatives, we have never hesitated to de nounce any parts of the policy of the present Admi nistration, against the principle or the details of which we entertained objection. Such, we believe—and it is an honourable trait, which the organs of the Whig party—have seldom had to boast of—is, and has been, the practice of the entire Conservative press of the country. We feel that, whilst we possess at the head of affairs men to whom the fame and welfare of our country is dear, we possess also men who would spurn in, their supporters, that reckless and dishonest adula tion which, to cloak an error committed, or to screen the offender, would vote or swear that black is white, that falsehood is truth, or that folly is_wisdom. We know that we belong to a party, each individual mem ber of which can afford, and dares, to be honest. In pursuance of such a course, it may have been expected from us to join in the outcry—somewhat too loud for the occasion, we think—which has been raised against a certain proclamation issued by the Governor- General of India. We have not done so, and for this especial reason. We dislike the taste and the spirit in which that proclamation is dictated. It is absurd in style and vicious in conception. It is in fact an error, ' and a glaring one, of the noble lord. But, on the other hand, it is too much a Godsend to the faction which is now making it their cheval de battaile, for us to aid in magnifying its importance. Practically, we believe that it can produce no results, prejudicial or otherwise, to the cause of christianity, or to the peace of India ; and the indiscretion which it displays we leave to be re buked by the Government, of which Lord Ellenbo rough is an important and valuable official. But, we may ask, do the wretched " rump" of the Whig faction in Parliament, or their organs amongst the press of England, hope by the clamour which they are just now raising upon the subject of the despatch in question—do they hope by misrepresentation, buffoonery, and caricature, to blind the eyes of the people of this empire to the blessed result of Lord Ellenborough's policy in India, and its contrast with the disastrous issue of that of Lord Auckland in the same country ? Do that' hope that the people of Christian England can be duped by professions of pious horror at the tone of this or any public document or public proceeding on the part of those very men who scrupled not to bring into the presence of virgin roy alty the atheist, Robert Owen ? Can these men hope that the flimsy veil which they have assumed can hide from discerning men—whatever be their political creed—the utter hollowness and insincerity of their motives ? Surely, they cannot. The world sees the gnawing dread of coming shame, and perhaps punish ment, which prompts their hollow and hypocritical professions ; and will disappoint them in the hopes which they entertain of the success of their cunningly devised movement. Lord Ellenborough's conduct, as a whole or in de tail, will be submitted to the judgment of the country. We doubt not what will be the verdict, for Englishmen were ever just. But be that verdict what it may, ano• they issue still remains to be tried, and MUST BE TRIED, and WILL BE TRIED, let Lords John Russell and Palmerston wriggle and fence their utmost. The indiscretion, or even the guilt, of Lord Ellenbo rough cannot blot out the memory of the disasters of Cabool, or of the policy which led to them. That dark page in the history of our country must be cleared up, BY A FULL AND SEARCHING PARLIAMENTARY ENQUIRY! The untiring energy with which the propagators of the baneful heresy of Tractarianisrn continue their crusade against the Protestantism of our Church is astonishing ; the expedients employed, and artifices resorted to, for the purpose alike of overreaching the watchful and of beguiling the unwary, are equally surprising. The Tracts for the Times, 'Lis true,. have been discontinued; but only to make way for a different mode of attack. The popular novel and the nursery tale are now made the vehicle of the same poison that formerly flowed through the channel of a mystical and elaborately obscure ract. The subject of Church Architecture is even pressed into this unhallowed service. Good men must therefore be on their guard, and watch narrowly the tendency of every new publication they receive, and the working of every new society with which they connect themselves : otherwise they may be uncon sciously giving countenance to doctrines which they abhor, and actually undermining the foundations of the very church they are only desirous to strengthen and extend. We have been led to these remarks by the perusal of a most important document that ap peared in the Belfast Commercial Chronicle of the 4th instant, being a memorial to the Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, (and which appears elsewhere,) signed by upwards of fifteen hundred of the lay gentry of his diocese, including eleven deputy-lieutenants and fifty_ four justices of the peace, professing their attachment to the Church : " We venerate," it affirms in the first paragraph, " and would uphold her in all her offices, discipline, ordinances, and doctrine, from a persuasion that they are in accordance with, and based upon, the Word of God; " and protesting against the " false doctrines upheld and promulgated in the Tracts for the Times;" the cause of present alarm being, as expressed in the memorial, " the introduction into these dioceses of a society for the ostensible purpose of Church Architecture, in connexion with one of a similar character in England —the Cambridge Camden Society —the existence and proceedings of which latter institution have too manifest and painful a connexion with the errors and doctrines already referred to." 'Tis painful to think there should have arisen an occasion to call forth such a memorial; but, now that it has arisen, the consequences . are char gea bl e not on the me mor i a li sts, but on thug ,who have rendered such a step necessary. 'Tis cause of thankfulness to the true friends of our Church, as she is, that, in her moment of difficulty, she numbers in her staunch friends the rank and intelligence, no less than the piety, of the land. We have no fear for our beloved Church. " Her foundations are upon the holy hill : God loveth the hill of Sion." The Britannia, in the passage that follows, speaks the sentiments of thousands. The article was written in reference to the appointment of Dr. 011ivant (late Vice -Principal of the Welsh College) to the Regius Professorship of Divinity in Cambridge, in preference to a competitor said to be of high Tractarian princi ples : "The attempts to introduce Popery into the Church of England are notorious ; the feebleness of all the remon. trances made on the subject is unluckily not less notorious. The timidity with which authority has ventured within sight of the discussion is actually melancholy ; and the triumphant tone which has been adopted by the party is arrogant and of fensive. All is concession, all trifling, and all utterly incon sistent with the manliness which ought to characterise the possessor of national confidence on matters of such infinite interest. It is now that the theologians appointed to the leading offices of the Universities must expect to be looked W. They must explain to the country and their colleges how it can be that, for a hundred years, the Church of England has been ignorant of her own principles ; how it is that the adoption of Popish forms, gestures, and vestments is essentia I to religion ; and how it is that a rejection of the foulest super stition of Christendom is a schism, a rebellious defiance of the divine will ? Let Dr. 011ivant look to those things, and let him crush the traitors who assert them. Sincerity before God may not be the best way to the favour of the world ; but t will after all, be a better comfort on his death-bed, than if the crosier of Canterbury lay in his dying hand. " We solemnly call upon him, and up all the influence ari s i ng e i t h er from rank or on from office in the who possess Church, to consider th e condition in which their silence or their submission is placing the people. They are suffering a succession of changes to be made wholly offensive to the na tion. We can tell them that discontent and distrust are growing up on every side ; that the people ask —why are those changes of worship, and even of clerical robes, more essen tial now than they have been for the last hundred years ? Why are we to approach Popery any more than our Protestant forefathers? Why are we to adopt even the externals of a religion which our common knowledge of the scriptures iden tifies with their degradation —a religion of frivolous ceremo nial, false doctrine, and fabulous miracle? Has the Church of England required any of those restless changes? Has she grown more unscriptural within the last hundred years, or more inactive, or more unacceptable to the empire? Quite the contrary. On the other hand, has Popery disclaimed any of her absurdities, any of her persecuting doctrines, any of her fierce anathemas against Protestantism ? Not one. Why then, are we to put our sacred freedom at her mercy ? Woe be to those who do these things ! Woe be also to those who wink at them !" Whilst an enquiry was pending into the wholesale charges brought by Mr. Rushton against the manage ment of the Liverpool workhouse, taken wi t h such evid ent alacrity by his worthy fellow-labourer the editor of the Liverpool Journal —we studiously ab stained from offering a remark, or indicating an opi. nion, with respect to the truth or the falsehood Of those charges, or the propriety of the course taken by the , stipendiary magistrate to procure the adoption of a better system. Our hands are now no longer bound. The select vestry, after a full and searching investiga tion into facts r -which are alone valuable in such a case—have made their report ; that report is before the world—not, we are afraid, so prominently as the &- pante assertions to which it is a reply, but still suffi ciently so for those who wish to arrive at truth—and we may therefore now venture upon a few comments upon the whole case. But first, before proceeding to deal with facts, may we be permitted to glance at the animus which appears to have instigated two of the parties who have figured most prominently throughout this affair? The parties to whom we allude are, of course, Mr. Rushton and his twin in sagacity—" long° intervallo," however— tile Liverpool Journal. In our limited course of human action, we have often been struck with the conviction that, if it be true that—to use the language of the immortal dramatist— " There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune," the corollary is equally true, that there is a period in the career of men—whether they be barristers or jour nalists—at which they are occasionally content to buoy themselves up in the ey© of the world by discovering mare's nests. Now we much suspect, from their ap parent haste to catch at an opportunity for this un seemly quarrel with the authorities of the township, that our worthy stipendiary and his associate have ap proached, or are approaching, the " shallows" which lie before those who " let slip opportunity." And this is our reason for such suspicion. The sense of de corum which ought to surround the bench—a sus tained dignity of personal character even—would in our opinion have prevented a man, assured of his posi tion in the estimation of those around him, from rush ing to the utterance, in his public capacity, of charges, imputing, to those against whom they were made, utter unfitness for the performance of their highly-responsi ble duties, and, by implication at least, gross insensi bility to the claims of morality, and even decency. If perfectly convinced that every imputation which he made could he sustained ; that the workhouse was ill administered; that there was an indiscriminate inter mixture of the , sexes within its walls ; that it was, in fact, worthy of the term which he applied to it in the presence of Mr. Birkett; that the means of religious instruction were withheld ;—what should have been the course of the paid magistrate of a town in which such abominations existed ? To denounce them, from the bench ? To invite popular clamour and direct par tisan animosity against those authorities ? Surely this was not the course of a wise and prudent magistrate-- anxious only for the peace and honour of the town over whose well-being it was his duty to watch, or anxious even for the welfare and morality of the poor, in whose name he made his public protest ! It was a course only worthy of a mortified spirit, which had discovered a weapon of retaliation upon a world guilty of the heinous offence of overlooking its own fancied perfections, or of a blatant journalist, anxious to make a noise, even if he beat his drum or gong with his ink stand or his head. We rather imagine that a very different course was open to Mr. Rushton ; nay, he admits it himself. " He had made a formal communication to the Guar dians," with respect to the evils of which he com plained,--when ? " Twelve months ago I" Nothing, he urges, was done to correct those evils. He admits the difficulties which pressed upon all parties. And yet how did he act ? Where is the evidence of any appeal to the magistrates to co-operate with him,—when those admitted difficulties had increased,—in endea vouring to surmount them—the course which he is now adopting, and which might, as far as we can see, have been pursued without the popular outcry which now exists on the subject. He might have brought to the aid of th e guar di ans the weight of his experience ; i or n the event of a disinclination to amend, to the utmost of their power, the system complained of, he might have addressed the Central Board. But was any part of this course pursued ? We have no ground of knowledge that it was. But the daily or weekly obser vations of Mr. Rushton, and which have now f o und eofthea et i‘ • Boroughvent in his recent magisterial explosion, have made thousands o f peop l e throughout England, who had never previou s ly d reamt of his existence, for the first time acquainted a Stipendiaryi nt ed with mt. Magistrate amazingst rat ityand of wisd°lll of the a Li verpool ! It is with sorrow that we make these remarks upon the conduct of such a man as Mr: Rushton, of whose public conduct, and general efficiency in the perfor mance of his public duties, we entertain the highest opinion. But we like not that morbid ambition to shine out of his sphere which he occasionally displays —those fits of spasmodic energy which occasionally come over hi m . U pon the bench of justice we must prefer a fixed luminary, though his beains may not be of the brightest, to your erratic planet. And now let us come to the sum and substance of the question involved in this, we repeat, unseemly con troversy. The report of the Select Vestry is before our readers and our fellow-townsmen. The charges to be met have been for some time before them. Th e only fact established—which has indeed never, of lat e ' been attempted to be denied—is, that the accommoda tion afforded by the Workhouse to the numbers re' quiring relief and shelter within its walls, is insult cient, and incompatible with proper classification 0 ' the inmates. A few deficiencies in the order and sys tem of the establishment have indeed existed; but the principal p o i n t d eterm i ne d i s t h e insufficiency of the building itself. And what man of any discernmen t would not h ave pre di cted that such insufficiency wou ld result from the application of the Somerset-house sY s. tern—however modified, however mitigated in its re s, sure, whether by a Board of Guardians or by the Se ; lect Vestry —to the poor of this town ? Surely 1 1011e _ . And if th e S e l ect Vestry have erred at all, it has beeP i in not foreseeing those events—the embarrassment e h the commerce of the country, and other causes—wh ic , e have pr ec i p i tate d that insufficiency, whose ultima t e approach was certain. But even if this be charged against them as a crim e, —which we b y no means admit to be reasonable,- 411 , extenuating cir cumstances are many, to which i n de ed the rep or t re f ers. The probability of being relieved f a portion o f t h e i nmates of the building, who will Deir transferred to Kirkdale ; the hope of returning Pr e n perity t o t h e commerce of the country; and the .11 , willingness—su re l y praiseworthy !—to press, at a time of difficulty like the present, upon the resources of the inhabit an t s , f or the forty or fifty thousand pounds , re quired fo r t h e erections necessary to furnish the r quired accommodation : these are strongly induc e reasons for pa s t d e l ay; and there are few, lneleeo; amongst our fellow-townsmen by whom they will 1 :,,g be admitt e d as va lid . If, however, there be, arnolll%, the community, a f ew such unreasonably Captions epe e rits as our c on t emporary of the Journal; if the spite of this neglected scr ib e ex i st in a few breasts ; would suggest t o th em t h at, after all the zeal wblep they and thei r f e ll ow- R adicals have displaYe d ": precipitating the evil, i t i s a little too ba d to ee 3 plain that th e exert i ons of others to keep pace with I have not b een success f ul. For the attainment o f th e y political end s th ey f astened an enemy of paupea, " v p ot e. '" ot upon the vital s o f t h e rate-payers; and if we have or yet had tim e t o prepare for the accommodat i on of guests, they must remem b er that they came Inli n vi ot o The •` PRECURSOR" SOClETY—fitting name I fellow-townsmen, when they are called upon to /0 Workhou se rate, will not forget the " PnEc in CO g t or SOCIETY, which f urn i s h e d so many Radical e r , sellors w i t h const i tuencies, and the parish 0 f L tv l l' pool with an overflow of paupers, and a FIFTY rr SAND POUND S W ORKHOUSE RATE. „ t he pay The L on d on T i mes of Saturday says, tha t a re parish authorities complain, that when Pa tt P e doet , brought before the police court for disorderly c on . _ s been Mr. Rushton, instead of simply correcting them, h as in the habit of publicly denouncing the want 01 ; jo ie° classification in the house, whereas they are „ o eir his that other modes and times of uttering tions might more properly have been selected' belie This is p rec i se l y our own opinion, an d we _lO. that of th e great b ulk of the inhabitants o f t he te, ev -4 —ab t er' " DUNOLOE, COAST OF DONEOAL, FEB. ' 4 .• ro ni Scotland, of Quebec, James Buckanan master, f r o nibie pool to Charleston, with salt, was driven on shor e . — d• near the entrance of the Guaydore River; cre w Is l e s I li- 116 vessel will become a wreck ;part o f the mat , saved."