The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

goverr accede t HOUSE OF COMMONS an ame day six ,ble ma It human hands of the leclined WEDNESDAY of former acts for the relief of acts of her Majesty, still a num- Churd 3g or t The Ne of Wal y when fallen plendi in with by the er) were in the sperate had be- of sacrificing cne of their number for rest ; accordingly lots were cast, and i fell upon one of the seamen named ho was killed, and upon whose flesh the 3oor wretches live until picked up corresponden s the foil Some thirty y s of a dnation had occt :ulprit was taken I e was put under rson should be crest, with positive orders that no allowed, to v. He was tried, onvicted and condemned. The priests went, and were excluded under the general order. They urged their office, but were still refused, and the affair loop - -' - They reported it to the bishop ; the bishop went - said simply. that hi. him definite. The clay of execution arrived ; the man was led out. The governor, Sir . was on the ground. The priests again urged their suit that they might i ad minister the rites of religion. The man threw himself on 1 his knees and besought that he might not be sent out of d, new, we imagine cal Commis net capital stock Of the London and Is for railw Ihiated, as thecon.pany have ju! instalment of £5 on the £25 ngharn) shares, under the pow legraph Company have d iinghanr will very shortly enjoy the ac traffic in February next. ?—The Court of Common Pleas, nst attorneys for work done, last w( led that attorneys were only agents for Railway Co es, well known to be such, and not to engage, or ig ready f Tway communication with the Loath WHO H two actions a as principals; therefore, the employed (a surveyor case, a local lawyer in the other) must ordinarily From official returns traffic for the last weep T payment, unless the circum-- if appears that the amount of on upwards of 3,227 miles of .ounted for :—X73,309 for 227, thus a railway, v the conveyance of passengers only, £46,888 for the car riage of goods, and a remainder of £35,030 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ' • being an increase of £21,107 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was about 2,505. MALIGNANT TRICK.—A malicious outrage has been perpetrated on a railway in South Wales. The lock of a switch was broken off at night, and the points were wedged hack, so that any train coming up.would dash into a siding. At nine o'clock a long goods train, on its way to Merthyr, arrived at a high speed ; it rushed into the siding, and came into collisio - n with some loaded waggons Of course the crash was frightful. The driver and firernar escaped by jumping off. RAILWAY ACCIDENT behind the private carriage o: On WE inesday an umbrellE Sili....ssim.ta.r6LNlZ=lll{Mix.. Varliamtntarp Vroterbingc;. HOUSE OF LORDS Lord FARNHAM inquired whether it was the intention MONDAY man Catholic priests the altar. attracted who was he serious attention of the Lord Lieutenant, communication with the law officers upon it. 10th Marquis) thought th. IV. rendered parties i the two to proceed HOUS that tt ,he bill which to have the )f the c of old statt t of Sur Aulely to exclude from this country sub .sty for the simple reason that they be Jects of her lon mi it be devised Roman Catholic barristers Chancellorship of Ireland. _ Mr. CARDWELL cordiall ire exclud the necessity of considering seriously the real condition of the Roman Catholics, promising him that if they laboured under real grievances the House of 1 grievance, that the Home Secretai ssing his extreme Mr. Gladstone. He Commons would remove them. Mr. J. STUART could not avoid exp surprise at the opinions expressed b (An. k to the first part of the bill, because supremacy of the crown in matters he could not vote for the it trenched upon the - - al and, therefor ecclesias second reading. The house divided—For the second reading, 168 ; again it, 136. Majority for the second reading, 32. lie out was read a second time and ordered to be com mitted this day fortnight, with the understanding that it would then be further postponed. ROUSE OF COMMONS.—THUR3DAY. Mr J. O'CONNELL asked Sir G. Grey if he could afford the Irish members any information as to the time when the su FOREIGN t 5 COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE THE POLISH CONSPIRATORS. - Eight of these conspi rators have been sentenced by the Court of Berlin to be beheaded as principals, and others to confiscation of pro- Thirty-seven labourers, employed on the works of the railway from Dresden to _Prague, were drowned as they of Sebousci, in the district ofiTutssii,oaitr g the El ago, in a n for the pur , lucing reforms in the Jewishes obvervances ssembled at Be able to come to au understanding on some of the leading points, but a new assembly had been convoked for May ening in the United States for ,s lately refused admission into carriages at New York, be- was forced by a paralytic - affection to walk with rt of a black man, who has lived in the baronet's The progress of in uropean soldiers of Her not been at en held N IN INDIA der-in-( provinc ject of dispelling the delusion receive on :essary to order ti ) be carried into execution out in two in 3erne of the 4tl 319 reception on t bridge ( ent of cavalry arsday, ti ter havi on of C. dc at Antwerp. Gates, Co of Watl £20,000 ng-stree ).—The al )n mad, din his 1 hout ex ceptio louth America yam. _ . ~_ _... .. .. _ ~_ ,~;~ ngths to ring in the an sold soi peratively required tc death were m . r.ch The East I THE POPE AND THE SWISS WAR.—We regret to see it stated, that the Three Powers have agreed to recom mend the Swiss to consult the Pope in their arrangement of inter-religious differences. • Now this can only apply to the Romish cantons, for surely it would be preposter ous for England to join in such advice if addressed to Protestants. But even addressed to theßomanists it is an advice in which England should tai no part. The Jesuits have been proved to be the enemies of civil govern ment all over Europe ; they are watched with jealous care in Austria ; they are banished from France, and Pope Clement XIV. suppressed the Order as a public nuisance. Under such circumstances, if the Swiss Diet chooses to dismiss the Jesuits, what right has Austria, or France, or England, or all three combined, to urge the Swiss to re tain a body of men, who have ever conspired against civil and spiritual liberty, and who have been in Switzerland convicted of :opposing education, plotting against the Go vernment, and justly meriting the confiscation of their property. But, whilst we deprecate any aid being given to the Jesuits, we lament that the wild ungodly Liberalism of the Federalists, and their hatred of all religion, are calculated to inspire alarm and distrust with regard to their future movements.—Record A REMORSELESS CREDITOI Creditors are a some le 'race, but they rarely proceed to the ich a dealer in furniture, named Bitter, sue St. Antoine, has just ventured. This furniture to a clerk in the War-office, ich was to have been paid for by instalments ; but Bit become bankrupt, the clerk had to pay the ;noes. Bitter nevertheless insisted o; In the clerk's refusal, he laid wait fo ving the War-office, seized him by th d by three of his men, thrust him int Lntoine. The clerk resisted as much as he coilp ►e four men overmatched him,and, to prevent h held their hands over his mouth. Arrived at Bitter nce, the poor clerk was dragged up stairs, and in sort' note for that amount d thre g him V cruel persecution, the unfortunate clerk became so . fled that he consented to give a promissory note. he had drawn it up, a creditor of Bitter's entered apparently under the belief that he was warranted in what he had, Bitter cried, " Look at this swindler have had a great deal of trouble to make him pay th 1 with scrat isted t ) lay a complain RAILWAY 'AFFAIRS victim s the Tir, ~: specially authorise THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. violent ird ; co: IRELAND, A verdict of wilful murder has been found against Robin Sullivan, at Bandon, for roasting his child alive, as re ported in our last. On Wednesday as Mr. Waldron, of Dublin, was out shooting, he became immersed in a bog-hole, and his gun going off lie was shot dead. There are upwards of a hundred and fifty prisoners in Clonmel zaol. and the annroachinv aSAI7PS there nrnmicP .aolz.ca tAIVIG 1/11JIIIIJG to be the heaviest on record, as there are already nineteen murder cases. The storm last week was severely felt at Cork. Seve ral houses and stores were much injured, and a young woman was killed by the falling of a stack of chimneys. Some trees were broken down. At Galway, the nephews .of a deceased farmer and his adopted son quarrelled about the deceased's property, and during the affray a young man, assisting the adopted, received a violent blow from a spade, and he soon died. Since the murder of Mr. Lucas, the tenants whom he dispossessed have entered on the lands, and refuse either to surrender or pay any rent; and Mr. Lucas, who has been threatened, is afraid to proceed against them. • The brother of the murdered Rev. Mr. Lloyd dares nc go out even to church, unless attended by four policemen This is the case with several of the clergy in the district and the Bi , hop of the Diocese ment for their protection. VALUE OF LIFE IN IRELAND.—Some Of the insuranc offices have refused to grant policies in Ireland on any except the n bout applying to gover s, and even then at in ned is the system of ass The cause assi 0 Two men have been taken up on suspicion of the r g der of Mr. Lloyd. The wadding of the gun was foi I, and turned out to be part of a leaf torn from a manu; book which was found and led to the apprehension of s prisoners. On Sunday night week, a gun loaded with a bullet .red into the window of the Rev. E. Mayne, of aain. The bullet passed close to the head of the boy, who was sitting at the fire, and, strik -1 -Qhed the ashes about Mr. S. Mayne. —Mr. John Cranitch, of. Cork, las week, exported a hogshead of the berries of haws t 4 Auckland, New Zealand. They were remarkably fin. berries, and collected in that county. The purpose fo which they were intended was to introduce this usefu quickset in the now. civilized colony of New Zealand. ' REPEAL - . ASSOCIATION.—At the weekly meeting a lette ing under a NOVEL EXPORT of Com for clef( Dublin 11 of Mr. Reynolds for the ( Irish Co► il, the f ince the tenant-right debat( repor portan c modifications maximum rate, beyond which local taxation should nol hiirne by that of the able-bodied IRISH COI of ni in lON BlLL.—rThe , en gentlemen who voted he Outrages (Ireland) B an, W. S. Crawford, J. 'I T. Devereux, Fox, J. Gm 1, J. O'Br F. O' Brien, nold Meagher, H.l‹.G M, O'Connell, A 1, E. B. Roche, F O'Flahertv Power, J ScuU and 1V tnd T. Wa John O'C CAL FIRE Tellers Mr.'Feargus O'Con . nc t which Roman Cat' been the principal sp A. meeting was held at Cas- remains to th 1, and nought Pr but th'e wild execution' of revenge worthy riot interfering to remedy your I hope, therefore, you will ilo so yourselves." Th minister of a God of mercy, concluded by de )cr several landlords to the armed and excitabl of the la pondent of the Times. in describing the funeral Rev. Mr. Lloyd, in Ireland, says, " I saw th the respectful str ttend I 11 near relative, rdv. deceased ral with desperation in every Tied with double-barrelled rifles, &c., the son walkinc , or riding by the side of his father, the faithful servanearmed, close by the side of the agent, the police constables in every direction, looking out for another murderer. Such was the funeral procession of the good Mr. Llo3d as it approached Elpbin churchyard! MORE MURDERS THREATENED -A gentleman from the vicinity of. Strokestown, the scene of the late Major Mahon's murder, where he had been endeivouring to col lect rents on a property of which he is the agent, states that he saw a list posted on the road, containing the names of several persons who are to be murdered. The first name was that of a Roman Catholic gentleman, who holds a considerable property in the county of Roscommon. It was also very generally reported that a Roman Catholic magistrate, of the county of Kildare, was murdered-adja cent to his residence. It is asserted that two resident noblemen, whose lives have been threatened, have deter mined to fly from the western counties where they possess extensive estate The Earl Fitzwilliam, although an " absentee," is not inattentive to the wants of the poor on his Wicklow estates, as well as to the necessity of keeping down the etor, occupier, and labourer P rondpci hv his nrnsnernris I The noble lord, who . is Well _ in a voluntary rate for the support of the unemployed for four months. The subscription is one pound on the poor L- • L_ _ti i• man of THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.—A parliamentar tinted on Thursday, on the motion of Mr. Hun diocesan return of 1847, contains some int, blished Church. It annears Form th luty of their parish 1,177, sequestrations and supensior 13, total numoer of glebe houses 7,785, total number ( enefices 11,386. The total number of curates servin enefices on which the incumbents are non-resident i ?,,048, of these 276 live in the glebe houses, 350 in tb 3arish, and 1,817 are licensed. The stipends vary fror £lO per annum to £3lO. The numb who receive the whole income of th allowed 10: 5, paid by pew rents 3. a Sunday 1, allow ary contributions stipend 4. The rental p, glebe house varies from £5 to £4O per annur The Rev. Mr. Miller, rz_ ham, has issued an appeal to his parishioners for help his parochial work. He proposes to employ four Scrip ture readers for two years certain, at an annual stipend of £75 each, and asks his flock, the re f ore , t o ra i se hi m £6OO or £3OO for each year. The following is an extract from Mr. Miller's appeal :—" Let it be remembered that the Rector of St. Martin's, aided by a few district visitors, walks to and fro along the streets of his parish ; those streets branching into courts on every side ; their courts swarming with life—immortal life. Go up that entry, it is a narrow one. It leads you to a wide court -yard —a id by ct tor of St. Martin's day's hard work is before you every such street—every house of every court—every room of every house should be visited. By every family should the clergyman —or at any rate the Scripture reader, as the clergyman's emissary—be known. With every family should the tract be left. Every living soul should know that he has a comforter in sorrow, a visitor in sick ness. The faithful minister feels—and he should feel — "They are my people, the sheep I am to . feed, the wan derers I am to gather in.' " Dr. Hampden, who is rector of Ewelme, has received from his parishioners an address on his elevation to a bishopric, in which they say,—" You have ever made the great doctrine of justification by faith in the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ aprominent feature in your And every such court of of the depravity of human nature, and the necessity for the renewing and regenerating influence of God's Holy pirit on t lave endeavoureC I,Arelat 1, died on Friday Leviticus xviii. 1 I the Queen's IOOTT'S OPINION OF MARF rE's SISTER.—In commenti arrying is absolute to us ; rnd, by parity of rea •oman marrying the husband of her de- A LADY ACTING AS COUNSEL.—An action for libel was tried before Mr. Justice Coleridge on Monday, in which the plaintiff was a Miss Hoare, and the defendant was the proprietor of the Nautical Standard, The lady, who sat within the bar amongst the Queen's counsel, conducted the case in person, and delivered a long address Wednest was orc ) I £27, y retur jected ( ly, which M by the fraud VIGNOLES V. PAILI mght to r HEQUER, TH hich the plai and labour, and for money due on an The payment of £l5OO was admitted into a company for the purpose of constructing a railway with the view of connecting Blackburn with Liverpool and the plaintiff was engaged to make the veys. He was subsequently appointed ( company, whose bill, however, v ns tor services were never diS( verdict for the plaintiff for t UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS, I . DIOCESE OF CHESTER. The Rev. Geo. Wilkinson to the rectory of Whicham, in the county.of Cumberland, on the death of the Rev. Alexander Scott ; patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. Value, house, £243. The Rev. Arthur Wilkin to the rectory of Bootle, ii the county of Cumberland, on the death of the Rev Dee. 14, 1847. clear, must make a pretty good sum out of such a course of proceeding, at all events. Baron Parke remarked, that the question had under gone very considerable discussion out of doors, as to whether a large debt could be split into small sums, so as to bring them within the operation of the new act. Mr. Martin.—Supposing the defendants were liable for the debt, it was manifest there had been but one order given by them; and it_was scarcely possible for one mo- J •- ment to conceive that th e legislature could ever have in tended that a debt arising out of one single order might be divided and split into 3,000 parts, and then that & separate action should be had in respect of each part. Baron Alderson said there was another thing, too, that was quite clear. The legislature never could have meant that a man should be allowed to be a witness in his own case when the debt amounted to £3,000. Baron Parke wished to know ilice — ;ightly understood that there was but one order given - Mr. Martin.—One order only ,hat was all Baron Alderson observed, that if this principle were to be admitted and to be carried out. an apothecary might bring a separate action against a patient for each ingredi ent of each pill that he might chance to send out pill-box The Lord Chief Baron said that the learned counsel might take his rule; and then went on to add, that if such a course as had been described by the learned gen tleman were to be permitted and pursued, it was quite clear that the act had been misnamed; for, inst s was and Act for the m it ought to have been Debts i ' Act to bplll e Purpose of Increasi [e. Value The Rev. William Armitstead to the perpetual curacy of Whitbeck, in the county of Cumberland, on the death of the Rev. Thomas Caddy; patron, the Earl of Lons dale. Value, house, £76 per annum. There is no truth whatever in the assertion that sixt( bishops have protested against Dr. Hampden's promoti The Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge has refused to nose an address to_ the Queen, deprecatir tg the app inent of Dr. Hampden. The Rev. G. L. Parsons, student of Christ Chun. Oxford. and incumbent of Benson, has been appoint vicar of Kirkham e confirmation of Dr. Musgrave to the archbishop on Friday at St. James' Church, Lo )ps present were Winchester, Exet, and Ely. of York took place on Frid Salisbury, Chester SCOTCH. CATHE Ls.—At the Glasgow Cathed in taking down the clu m sy t o% • appointed " Bishop of the Cl and the Netherlands annexed iannel I of the dic vard's Grai presented a flattering cong it• Rev. J. P. Lee, Lord Bist s promotion .o that se€ latory address to the R Archbishop of in by educatioi . u;shed pupils whom the late master of the Richmoi The ne York shir be considered of the many d Grammar School; the Rev. James Tate, afterwards t canon of St. Paul's, sent to the university of Cambridge At a meeting of the Bath Board of Guardians, held Wednesday, the Rev. Henry S. Whitley, son of the la Rev. Legh Richmond, author of "Annals of the Poor the " Dairyman's Daughter," &c., was elected chapl to the Union Workhouse. A singular question has aria n between the I if the I granted T CONN 1845, a man describing I chant," hired a horse and gig at Wakefield, which were never returned. Mr. Thomas Drewery, of Hull, druggist, was apprehended as the felon, tried, convicted. sentenced Sydney the evi( lieved ; and further evidence procure( not listened to at the Home-office, becaus( ) ten years' trail: His mot v ctesr who swore to an alibi was dish I after the trial w to release ;oiler upon evidence corroborative acquit a p pleaded at the trial was witho must " take its course," althoug ... A convict, named John Webster, now in Australia, having heard 'of brewery's conviction and t ranspor t a ti on , has been stung by conscience into confession. He states, in a letter to a clergyman of .Tasmania, that in Julyor August, 1845, being then resident in Newcastl e . h e wen t b y - train to Wakefield, and there hired a horse and gig in Drewery's name, with which he returned home. On the Saturday following. the gig was sold by auction in Newcastle, and he shortly afterwards exchanged the horse at Newcastle fair. Drewery, we presume, will now be pardoned Gateshead Observer. ...,........... POLITICAL MISCELLANY. The London corporation intends to petition in favour of the removal of Jewish disabilities. Mr. C. Buller is the chief commissioner of the Poor Law, and has resigned the office of Judge Advocatt ie election for South Lancashire will tak( Monday next at Newton. Mr. Henry is the or TAMWORTH lere ‘ is every probability that Capt Chr %o the The to-day Mr. 'to the Mr. Royal Thei pied, a tants t It is sadly on his We to adoi exam p Kehoe Royal Dublit It is Gas a audio] Sacks( The salary the AI into a so inju On' in Lo allege( deem rubbir THI fever c has d ceding are ICIE itAI Newt wheth On Thuile Birmii pinto i upon I On South consid arisin trian pursui Engla he suc LE( has sc as to such this so instru . . under consideration, and that they would be introduced as soon as they had attained a shape in which they could be presented to the house. It was now the intention of the aracter Morning Paper THE QUEEN OF SPAIN'S HEALTH.—Experience, says the Aladrid correspondent of the Morning Post, has demonstrated that the clique, into whose hands the un increase of the police force, to leave the increase of that force to be effected in any disturbed district, to the dis fortunate Queen of Spain has fallen, is as remorseless as it is unscrupulous in the pursuit of its darling object—the accession of the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier to the Spanish throne. Isabel ll.'s health has lately declined, whir' `.-(1 ' - to l - ''--fa cretion of the Lord Lieutenant, to charge the whole ex- pense of the extra force upon the disturbed district to which it might be sent, and to form a reserve depot ade quate to meet the exigencies of the public service. The right honourable gentleman then briefly recapitulated the state of the law in England as regards accessories, to which the law in Ireland had several years since been assi milated. —cn is attributed by some ler being in the family way, by others to care, by many to irregular habits, high feeding, and an immoderate addiction to sweetmeats, and by not a _few to all the above-mentioned causes, except the first. I thought the same, but within the last twenty four hours I had reason to change my opinion, although Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL had listened with patience, amazement, and sorrow, to the speech of Sir G. Grey, who seemed to treat an invasion of the constitution, so far as Ireland was concerned, as the lightest thing in the world. After a lengthened debate, Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD said that if he could per suade himself that the bill would repress crime in Ireland, he would give it his ready support ; but it was because he believed that instead of repressing it, it would only aggra vate it, that he felt himself bound to vote against it. The system of Irish landlordism was the true cause of Irish crime. They heard much of the rights of property, but were they to have no respect for the rights of labour ? In Ireland the poor man had no security for the fruits of his labour. Hence the crime which they all deplored. Mr. MOORE supported the bill, severely criticising the conduct of certain organs of public opinion, which " pan dered to the vile animosities of race, and poisoned the social virtues of the English people." After a few words from Captain Harris and Sir W. Verner, the house divided, and the numbers were—For the second reading, 296 ; against it, 19 ; majority for, 277. The bill was then read a second time. 4s. there is little doubt but that the - Queen's present mode of living is calculated to shorten the existence of a person of a scorbutic habit of body. It is not certain that she is enceinte ; her symptoms, instead of being such as are peculiar to that state. may prove indications of a general break up of her constitution. I have a suspicion respect ing the real state of Isabel Il.'s health, as well as of the eventual results of the medical treatment she is undergo ing. Time will clear up the mystery, and let us hope that the denouement will not be a terrible and a startling one. NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE.—ProbabIy one of the most remarkable feats of a newspaper enterprise, is the result of that which appears in this morning's Herald—the reso lutions of Mr. Clay, delivered at Lexington the day before yesterday. The distance is nearly one thousand miles. Knowing the importance of Mr. Clay's opinions and movements in the popular contest now about to take place in this country, we made extraordinary arrangements last week to run an express exclusively for the Herald. We have, however, taken into the enterprise, since our arrangements were made, two of our contemporaries, who will also publish the same this morning. About 11 or 12 o'clock, the day before yesterday, the meeting was held at Lexington. Our reporters were there, and when the re solutions were read, and Mr. Clay had delivered his speech, HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY. our express started on horseback, running 84 miles, to Sir R. INGLis inquired whether it was true that the Cincinnati. At Cincinnati the notes of our reporters Earl of Minto was now at Rome, and whether he had were written out, and the whole was sent on through the signed a convention with the Court of Rome for the electric telegraph, to this city, a distance of nearly 1.000 establishment of diplomatic relations with the Sovereign miles. The speech and resolutions were received ear l y of Great Britain. yesterday morning, and. but for the intervention of Sun- Lord PALMERSTON said he was happy to have an op- day, we should have b e en able to portunity of answering the question. The Earl of Alinto wh?le_L'xingtpniroceedings I_ll. less York H erald. hours from had been, as was well known, for some months in Rome, their delivery in Kentucky.—New York Herald. but he was not there in any official capacity whatever. WEST INDIES. The steam ship Forth arrived at He had no instructions to negotiate any convention with Southampton on Tuesday with the West Indian and Mex the Court of Rome, nor was he in any way accredited to ican mails. She has brought upwards of 300,000 dollars. that court. The rumour alluded to by the right hon. In lat. 43 18 N. lon. 35 40 W., on the 30th Nov., she baronet was, therefore, wholly destitute of foundation. fell in with the wreck of the Amity of Liverpool, timber He would add, that as long as any doubts remained of the laden, but no papers on board. In Jamaica things were legality of holding diplomatic relations with the Court of still very flat, and no improvement whatever had taken Rome, her Majesty's advisers had too much respect for place. The markets continued in the same sluggish state the law to do anything which would be construed into an as per last advices. In Trinadad they were beginning to infringement of it. The doubts he referred to rested recover from the effects of the late hurricane. At St. upon the construction to be placed upon the word " com- Christophers on the sth ult. the weather changed, and munion." The law forbids the Crown to hold " com- that showers had been general throughout the island. munion" with the Court of Rome, and the question was, Although the rain was late for the season, it was never whether this " communion" had reference only to the theless expected that the supply would benefit not only sacrament of religion or to diplomatic communion. It the old, but also the young canes. The weather at An was not for him to state his opinion upon the subject, but tigua, previous to the 20th ult., was also exceedingly he had no difficulty in saying that until Parliament should favourable for agricultural operations, and the next year's have cleared up this doubt as to the law, her Majesty's crop would, it was thought, prove productive. Barba government would take no step which could by possibility does on the 6th still suffered from the want of water. be construed into a contravention of the law. " This," it is remarked, " is the hottest November we A short discussion arose out of a statement made the have ever experienced. For the last ten days, not a previous evening by Mr. B. Cochrane to the effect that shower has fallen in the city to refresh the earth, or im- Dr. Ryan, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick, had part the slightest coolness to the air. There is a great in his address to his clergy incited the people to assassi- dearth of American arrivals, and we fear this scorching nate their landlords. The Earl of LINCOLN, Mr. LABOU- weather will materially affect the present supply, so that cugaz, and other hon. members spoke iz very high terms probably this description of provisions will again rise high of Dr. Ryan, and spoke also in high terms of eulogium of in price." the general conduct of the Roman Catholic clergy. SANGUINARY AFFRAY ON BOARD A SLAVER.—On the The house went into committee on the Crime and 22nd July, H.M.S. Waterwitch, in company with an- Outrages (Ireland) Bill, and the discussion of the clauses other, captured a Brazilian brigantine, which was subse occupied the remainder of the evening. quently given in charge in Lieut. W. G. Mansfield, R.N., and four seamen, to be conveyed to St. Helena for adju dication. Oa ing to adverse winds, he bore up for Sierra Leone. On the 11th of August, about midday. while the crew were all engaged, the lieutenant, being at the mo ment pulling a rope which had been recently spliced, was murderously assailed from behind by one of the prisoners (who were four in number, and during the day time al lowed the liberty of the vessel) with an axe used for chop ping firewood. At the same moment the other prisoners furiously attacked the sailors in the bunks, who, from the unexpected nature of the assault, were driven from their post wounded and unarmed. Lieut. Mansfield, laying hold of a piece of firewood, gallantly, but unequally, contended with a Brazilian armed with a cutlass. In the course of a desperate struggle, the officer received no fewer than nine , ounds. With the assistance of two men, who had been up in the shrouds, the crew rallied, and three of them rushed aft upon their antagonists, whom they speedily overpowered, one of the prisoners leaping overboard and perishing in the waves. The lieut. himself was dangerously wounded, and one of the crew had been previously killed. Lieut. Mansfield fortunately reached Sierra Leone, and the prisoners were brought to trial, but acquitted, as the Court found that the alleged crime had been committed in an attempt to recapture their own vessel, then under the Brazilian flag, and not amenable to British jurisdiction, the sentence of the C ourt o f Ad m i ra lty n ot having been then pronounced. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ALTCAR CUI3MEETING, DEC. 9 AND 10. The SEFTON CUP was won by Mr. Woolf's Major ; Mr. Graham's Lion ran up. The MOLYNEUX PLATE was won by Lord Sefton's Sea Breeze; Mr. Swan's Scorpion ran up. The CROXTETH PURSE was won by Mr. Taylor's Tiny Salute; Mr. Woolf's Nimble ran up. GOOD SPORT.—During a short stay at Redcastle, D. Baillie, Esq., and A. Baillie, Esq., shot 1200 head of game. The list includes six red deer, five roe, pheasants, partridges, hares, rabbits, a good many couple of wood cocks, and last, though not least in the bag, four seals. Some of these huge aquatics find their way up the firth ; their general place of resort is a sandbank nearly opposite to Redcastle, where the performance of their uncouth gambols is occasionally arrested by the arrival of a few well-aimed rifle-bullets.—lnverness Courier. -.......--- THE CHASE, THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS—OnWednesday(to-morrow), at flankelow ; Thursday, at Cholmondeley ; Saturday, at Wrenbury- at half-past ten. SIR W. W. WyNN's HOUNDS—On Tuesday (this day), at Kennels ; Thursday, at Queen's Head ; Friday, at Carden—at half-past tent maid, who were In' the carriage, got out on the truck, when the maid threw herself on the railway. On the ar rival of the train at Rugby, an engine was sent back, when the young woman was found severely injured. Lady Zetland remained at Rugby, where she was joined by his lordship and the family physician last night. _ _ THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH versus TINIE.—TIME DEAD BEAT.—In a letter received by a gentleman of this town, from a friend in Indiana, United States, is the following passage relative to the electric telegraph in that state "That wonderful invention, the Magnetic telegraph, passes through our country from the eastern cities, com municating intelligence almost instantaneously : news has been transmitted from Philadelphia to Cincinnati, a distance of 750 miles, on one unbroken chain of wires. Of course, as Cincinnati is ten degrees west of Phila delphia, or 40 minutes of time later, the news is that much a-head of time ! " OUR MILITARY DEFENCES.—A few days since, there appeared in the Times newspaper an article, in which the writer earnestly pressed on the government and the public the great importance of forming an immediate junction between the London and North-Western and London and South-Western Railways, with the view, in the event of any military exigency occurring, of enabling us to tran sport troops from the midland and northern counties to the south-western coast, without the delay which would be at present caused by the break between the Euston -square station and the station at Vauxhall. It is a curious coin cidence, that the views of the writer had not only been anticipated by a gentleman of high distinction in the railway world, but that a company was then actually in the course of formation for carrying those views into effect. It is proposed that the new scheme shall unite the two great lines we have named, by the construction of a line running out of the London and North-Western, and joining the Brentford branch of the London and South-Western. This junction will be seven miles in length, and of easy construction. It has already met with the special sanction of Mr. Robert Stephenson, the engineer ; and in addition to its great advantages in the c el both lent t p o r prospect m of ar o m m er o a s k t a ea m d p y le m r e e n y t e i n o u n e ed fr , om the t r h e and passengers.—Railway Record. straanffiecx, ALTAR DENUNCIATIONS, (From the Cork Constitution.) Our remarks on Tuesday on the speech of Priest Hughes we concluded with these questions:—`• Is it any marvel that murder is the pastime of the peasant ? And will any sane man tell us that the Priests are blameless ?" After what has recently occurred, few, we apprehend, will be disposed to deem these questions so uncharitable as once they might have thought them; but should there be one still sceptical, let him read the following, which we take from the Dublin Evening Herald: — "We happen to know a very recent case of altar denun ciation, the particulars of which are now before the govern men, and will soon be, we trust, before the pubic. In this instancethe ' Clerical instigator' is stated to have distinctly indicated two individuals for assassination. This *as done without any kind of reserve or mystification. He simply stated what Ms line of conduct would have been had he been placed in the shoes of the evicted tenant. His language was exquisitely simple, and perfectly adapted to the comprehension of his audience. 'He would have taken,' he said, a loaded gun and done for the villain that turned him out of his land.' To this was, a few days subsequently, superadded language directly addressed to the denounced individuals, and so frightfully menacing that they are, we believe, immediately about to leave the country—in the belief that by doing so they are consulting their only chance of safety. It is, indeed, high time that this priestly prerogative should be a little clipped." Until the:exercise of it be prohibited, and the Pope's sub jects be stripped of the power of obeying it, by being de prived of the " gun" which they are ready to " load" for any person " indicated" at the altar, the legislation which, consumes so much time and temper will be of little use. But it would be unconstitutional ! Unconstitutional to wrest from a Priest the " prerogative" of preaching murder and from his disciple the means of committing it I Be it so, but the sooner both are put beyond the pale of the Constitution—in short, hanged by the same halter, the better for the country. Is there any rational Roman ist who will say us nay ? In Tipperary, Father Laffari's county, they have got a safe mode of carrying out the councils of priests of this stamp. A man who has a grudge against another encloses a sum of money to a club, whose members meet at " a shibeen house,") by the way these " shibeen houses" ought to be looked after, for many a murder is hatched in them), and there sit in diabolical deliberation on the mea sures necessary for compassing the death of individuals doomed by their atrocious law. There is a regular seas, we are informed, and this scale is said to be well known among the population. A Pound is stated to be the Price of a caution or a threat, and on its receipt a " Notice" is despatched that curdles the blood of the denounced. Three Pounds are the." consideration" for a beating, and for Five, the assassin is sent on his bloody mission, and the victim is dogged until, unsuspecting and unpre pared, he drops dead under, perhaps, the aim of an eye that ought to have looked on him with gratitude and affection. This, we are told, is the system in Tipperary. signea to, the subscribers in proportion to their subscrip tions. If a proprietor has not work, he may assign his right to any person he pleases. There is a re-ballot of labourers each week. STATE OF IRELAND.—The following is an extract of a letter from a clergyman in Tipperary to a friend in Oxford : " We are retrograding fast here in Ireland ; really, I heard an official congratulating himself that no murder was reported for the last two days I A letter lately from New Zealand, detailing some atrocities there, contained the writers consolatory reflection, that, bad as things were they might be worse. He explained, " but New Zealand is not Ireland !" Think of having that said of us, and what is worse, deserving it. I see that an orator of Con ciliation Hall declares that there is not a more pions, learned, and amiable priest in Ireland than Archdeacon Laffan ! This is, indeed, but a sorry character of the whole, given by one of their own people, who ought to know." A SERIOUS CHARGE.—In the House of Lords on Mon day, Lord Farnham alluded to a denunciation of Major Mahon by a Roman Catholic Priest, the Rev. Michael M‘Dermot. His lordship said that the expressions used by Priest M`Dermot in denouncing Major Mahon from the alter, on the 31st of October, were :—" Major Mahon is worse than Cromwell, and yet he lives." A respectable person coming out of chapel, remarked, " If the major lives a month after this, he is immortal." And on the 14th of November ult., the same priest (Rev. Michael M`Dermot) stated from the alter, " That' there was a Pro testant conspiracy against his life, and made palpable allusions to two persons in the town of Strokestown as heading the same." The language used by the priest was of the most violent description ; and he left it to their lordships to say whether it was not of such a character as to demand punisi.ment by the law." The rev. gentleman has published a letter in the Dublin Freeman's J ou rnal, in which he emphatically denies that he ever denounced ill-fated major, and it would have been well had he the ted here ; but, not satisfied with purging his own conduct, he goes on to give a highly coloured picture of the miseries he witnessed, by the cases of ejectment on the estate of Major Mahon, and expresses his opinion that his murder was owing there' o. DEATHS FROM STARVATION.—On Saturday, at Mel mount, near Strabane, an inquest was held before Dr. Hamilton, on the bodies of Thomas Gilroy, sen., and Thomas Gilroy, jun., his son. The wife of the deceased, and her family of six children, belonged originally to Manorhamilton, in Leitrim, and had gone to Scotland in August last. About November, they were seized with fever, and were greatly neglected, so that, in a half-dying state, they were shipped by the steamer for Derry, on the 24th ultimo. During the passage they had only one roasted potato each amongst them, and on their arrival in Derry, three persons gave them 10d. with 7d. of which they paid for a miserable lodging, and with the remaining 3d. they purchased some meal. They next applied for admission into the Workhouse, but were refused, and, in a state of utter exhaustion, they crept onwards to Stra bane. Here, too, the Workhouse was shut against them, and with great difficulty they procured admission into a hovel without fire, and filled with wet and mud. In this hovel the man died during the night of Thursday week, and his son expired during Friday. The jury returned a verdict of " died from starvation," and were about to append to it a strong expression of censure upon the Workhouse authorities, but this, at the instance of the foreman, was withdrawn, as the parties had not been heard in their own vindication. Another boy, also a son of Gilroy, died on Saturday, in the Strabane Workhouse. —Derry paper. ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONS.—It is a remarkable fact, that at the very time when, on the score of poverty, Government endowed Maynooth, Ireland was remitting about £B,OOO a year to Paris, for "the Propogation of the Faith, a missionary Institution, which, according to Roman Catholic profession, is soon to boast of an annual income of £600,000. Just at that period also the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin succeeded in opening the Roman Catholic Missionary College of All Hallows, Drumconcira, Dublin, " a splendid building, (says the ad vertisement,) standing in a demesne of 24 acres in the immediate vicinity of Dublin, and capable of accommo dating 200 students." The Nation, Irish newspaper, for 3rd October last, contains an advertiseme n t o f near ly four columns of subscriptions to this Roman Catholic Missionary College amounting to £1,126, in which sum the English and Scotch subscriptions are not included. The Dean of Ardagh, an ultra whig, and utterly un connected with the landlord and tenant question, has written a letter to the Dublin Mail, in which he says that he has received a notice threatening him with the fate of Major Mahon, for selling " turnips at too high a rate," The dean then goes on to say—" Same day as the letter reached me by post, a friendly notice was left in my yard, warning me not to return by the same road I had gone to Tubbercurry, and not to be on the roads without a policeman. It may providentially have saved my life, as I took a different road back from the petty sessions—my' steward having sent the notice to me while I was still sitting on the bench—and I took two armed policemen with me on my car. Since then I have two policemen in my offices every night; and even going to and from the church (at foot of the lawn, and within 400 yards) I am obliged to have their protection ; and, when going l a t e ly to Sligo, in my carriage, I was obliged to take an armed policeman on the box." must have met in the spotless sacrifice for sin. His birth, his life, his passion, his death, his resurrection, and his ascension, have formed the constant subjects of your preaching among us; and on these subjects your teaching has been in clear conformity with the doctrines and arti cles of our church ; while without intolerance you have upheld her claims and asserted her rights. It may be some satisfaction to you to be assured, that if elsewhere your views have been misrepresented, or your meaning perverted, here at least you have not been misunderstood ; while your personal kindness on all occasions has endeared you to those whose constant intercourse has given them the best opportunity of knowing and appreciating you." COURT AND FASHION. Her Majesty and the Court still sojourn in the Isle of Wight, and the Royal Family take exercise in the grounds of Osborne House, and on the beach, at such times as the weather will admit of. The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere and the Ladies Egerton are at Worsley Hall, where they purpose to pro long their residence until after Christmas. The Lords Chancellors of England and Ireland, and the Premier and his lady, have laid up for several days with influenza but are now better. THE QUEEN-DOWAGER AT MADEIRA.—The Queen- Dowager has a very convenient residence above the Loo Rock, commanding a fine view of the bay, as well as the south side of the island. Her Majesty goes about a great will then embark the on Howe, 920, is expected to arrive; she a view of the Peak of Tenerife, and Her on board her, take Majesty'sdea soesttiamyeisnritchlien g i;la a n n d d:v w e i r l . l Y b fr e eq u n n e t n il t A ly p w 'ril l , k le return to England by way of Cadiz , &c. A LITTLE ROMANCE.—R. C. Wood, Esq., who was appointed one of the pages of the presence to her Majesty in 1840, died suddenly, at Broadstairs, on the 2nd instant. A curious circumstance is connected with the first intro duction of Mr. Wood to the notice of royalty. It is stated that when the Duchess of Kent and the young Princess, her daughter, now Queen Victoria, were sojourning at Ramsgate, they one afternoon found Mr. Wood, then quite a youth, sleeping on the sands. The Duchess awakened him, and upon asking him if he should like to enter her service, the lad readily assented. Within a few days afterwards, he was appointed to a situation in the Duchess of Kent's establishment, where he remained until he was promoted to a lucrative appointment in the house hold of her Majesty. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, SATURDAY, Nov. 13 PRACTICE IN THE COUNTY COURTS, SPLITTING DEMANDS-CHEAP LAW GRIMLEX- V. ACROYD AND ANOTHER. Mr. Martin moved in this case fora rule to spew cause why a writ of prohibition should not issue, directed to the Judge of the Worcester County Court for the reco very of small debts, to stay all further proceedings, and to return into this court the plaint which had been heard before the learned judge in this case, upon the ground that the subject-matter of the action was beyond the amount in reference to which the County Court had jurisdiction. The learned counsel stated that the defen dants were railway contractors, and it was alleged by the plaintiff that they had given orders to supply the men who were engaged on the works with certain articles ; and in this way the claim had arisen which was brought before the judge of the County Court. This court would, perhaps, be astonished to hear that no less than 3,000 summonses either had issued or were about to issue from the County Court, in respect of the debt claimed by the plaintiff from the defendants ; and if all these summonses were proceeded with in the ordinary manner, the costs consequent upon them would amount to no smaller a sum than about £54,000. The case that has been already heard in the court in question was for the recovery of £ll 55., and upon which the costs were as much as £8 Bs. Bd. Chief Baron Pollock inquired whether, even if the costs did amount to so large a sum as £8 in each of the 3,000 actions commenced in the County Court, the costs of a similar number of actions in the superior courts would not greatly exceed that amount ? but then, if there chanced Mr. Martin said, no.doub, ; to be 3,000 actions brought, as these in question, in a common-law court, the decision in on e would decide the remaining 2,999. It seems that the case came on for trial on the 23rd of August. 0 . e ofd he defendants de fended in person, and, a fter hav ing ddressed the judge, upon the part of the proceeded to call two witnesses. The defendant (as was d y verdict. Now he understood) was then himself submitted to an examina tion, were liable at all, action at the suit of the plaintiff, stl t s ai i h 7met o n iy u o d p a t f i coulda. sieonerwnpt onlyt e i hw tffe o n i n d i s ie b n :b h eee t ri t h n t : li a g h e ta t e hb r e t e i e hl f e n ap dw t ttl hoaaivieosnohbdtnaat obtaine d ft o r f e i e en tv n p o e e e orkthoeutor2cl2eBr summonses it was given at one time, and that on the 10th of July'. On the against the defendants for an aggregate amount not ex ceedinz £303, whilst the various sums of which the total was composed ranged from ss. to less than £5 each. Baron Alderson. —Some person or persons, then, it was The only English member who voted on Tuesday night in favour of Mr. Feargus O'Connor's motion for a repeal committee, was Mr, Thomas Wakley, the ner for Middlesex :entric coro Lord Minto has signed a convention for the establish ment of diplomatic relations between England and Rome. It is said that Cardinal Breffondi, " a man of very liberal mind " is to be the Pope's representative in London. THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—On Thursday Lord J Rr - that t" asse_ announces _ae measure respecting the navi gation-laws alluded to in her Majesty's speech, would not be brought forward until after the Christmas recess. The London correspondent of the Scottish Press, giving a description of the scene at the opening of parliament, says, "C. J. Fox, lately Unitarian minister, and Anti- Corn-law lecturer, sat on the bench immediately behind Mr. T. Duncombe, who was not pres en t." NEW SANITARY COMMISSION.—Mr. Chadwick, it is expected, will be at the head of some such board. The Morning Chronicle describes him as having "been in duced, by his great zeal in this investigation, to traverse upon his brown pony countless miles of the London sewerage An ally-reasoned memorial against the Colonial Immi gration scheme has been presented to Lord John Russell, by the British and Foreign Anti slavery Society ; and ti series of resolutions, to the same effect, has also been for warded to his lordship from the Birmingham Anti-slavery Committee. FREE TRADE OPERATIONS.—Thp value of corn and provisions imported into Great Britain during ten months in 1845 was only £4,410,091, while i n 1847 it amounted to £31,241,769. The value of British and Irish produce exported in the same months of 1845 was £41,732,148, which in 1847 had diminished to £39,975,207. At the personal request of Lord John Russell, in con sequence of the indisposition that at present renders him unable to attend to public business, Lord George Bentinck has postponed for a short time his motion on the state of the West Indies, of which he gave notice in the House of Commons a few days ago. In the House of Commons, on Wednesday, Lord Arundel—a Roman Catholic—said that the bull, In Cceni Domini, had not been published—and was not therefore in force in this country; but he added, with his usual candour, that the publication of it mattered little, for be was ready to admit that this bull was not stronger than other canons now in use, by which all are excommuni cated who differ from the Church of Rome. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC " RELIEF " BlLL. — Amongst those members who voted for this bill were Sir T. B. Birch, E. Cardwell, Sir J. Walmsley, W. E. Gladstone, W. Ewart, Sir J. Graham, J. Heywood, Sir J. Jervis, Lord R. Grosvener, Earl of Lincoln, and T. Thorneley. We find the following amongst those who voted against ; Lord Ashley, Sir R. Inglis, H. Goulbourn, Sir P. Eger ton, W. T. Egerton, J. C. Herries, G. Hudson, Col- Sibthorp, Lord Seaham, and J. Tollemache. COMMERCIAL Diexe.t.ss.—.-The following are the names proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to compose the committee to inquire into the causes of the recent commercial distress :—The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir R. Peel, Lord G. Bentinck, Mr. Herries, Mr. Goul-- burn, Alderman Thompson, Mr. Labouchere, Sir James Graham, Mr. Francis Baring, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. ,r C f ob . den, Hudson,M r Mr. Hume , M Mr. Clay, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Thornel e y, M r . J ames Wil son , Mr. Home Drummond, Mr. Cayley, and Mr. Tennant. CORN AND NAVIGATION LAWS.—On Monday, in th e .W. Ricardo, ck Beckett, Mr. M G r iyn Cardw ell , g l ir svell :vv House of Commons, Mr. Sanders, M.P. for Wakefield, the first of March. l apctp Stockportoo t f n r .n e f ree t i t T r t trade dne of tfemhffeue regainingr t t b e minwn si handed elot b its e e tloabackstcheck cih et to move w fi d t a h sk e ed sus the pen g s o io v n er o n f m t e h n eT t hc w eo h prn e re th as e ni r dde t Nn h ta e ol y ifg in tah t t e ieo n nß de o t aardw to so p fb r eTrado o y p o o n s d e replied that it was not the intention of her Majesty's go vernment tOßwnrripsirsiwpooes:elvaordnedyenrefeursdd,tahycor extension, so that on grain for a season, and so give to commer eiwrlioostwufndFamisanioinfimraOorns prescribed in the Corn Bill tow ar ds it s mops, fi t csb e h ipnyate e :rl tc firs t heuEnreclllevs: gradations qf h u e :seilrit. Housecupo Cobden , nd o e f n ,C d o uble wornh who has made his election to sit for West Yorkshire ; for Kil kenny in the room of Mr. John O'Connell, who sits for Limerick ; and South Lancashire, in the room of Mr. C. P. Villiers, who sits for Wolverhampton. New writs were also ordered for Liskeard, in the room of Mr. C. Buller, who has accepted the office of chief commissioner for carrying out the administration of the law for the re lief of the poor; for Weymouth, in the room of Mr. Christie, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds; and for Edinburgh, in the room of Mr. Cowan. The Times says that Sir. R. Peel's late speech was an irresistible appeal to the "honesty of the nation," and then tears him piecemeal for his ignorance on other points, apd for not travelling with the Times, in the same line" of causation. Sir Robert sought to make the house merry with the poor bankers, who were going from place to place trying to borrow money, and meet ing everywhere with no effects ! This, we are told, excited, "roars of laughter!" Very funny, to be sure, for the scores of firms ruined—partly by his free trade with foreigners and slave-grown sugars, and partly by the de pletion of his currency bills. The " ponderous levities" of the ex premier must, in his present isolation, be some thing like the pas end of a lame elephant. nexio by thi evidei doubl tually it has tials 1 societ evenit man's that m that g are lei the ad is not tulate the al lofty, but w is adal anotho there desiral will sc scripti It par ;ham of ] port hea mac retain there tleme that c CaSI dar pro opr tou drum stean Wedi lungs Th Open lic to ters the I !leal. load dent told thei, in g of tl Bros hone indis obse whic opini beco Lieu to pr tenti be re of th acqu Burn Asti( team novel at th start diffic Them ceal t rest, gave I Do STE A that t under are n( equal which perfec in tha