The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

arliainnitarp rourbings. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY In the morning sitting the Registering Births, &c. (Scot land) Bill was read a second time, as was also the Marriage (Scotland) Bill, on the declaration of the Lord Advocate, that he would take time till Friday next to consider whe ther he would proceed any further with that bill during the present session. In the evening sitting, after several questions had been answered by different members of her Majesty's govern ment, Lord MORPETH move d that the house should con- alder in committee the Lc Health Bill, and the hous 'the proposed committee Several Of the amendments ers dissented from ; and it In the cours .s made 13 - y the cholera .cautions best cal- direct taxation, and, aftE lion to 3f the country, and to increase th wereeagr - eed to, and some ott points upon v of the discus the two houses differ, despatches of our cor taining descriptions of and showir the commit which the I cabled to a louse of I tution of di the expedie rieral con eaten( Mr. HUME seconded the resoltition. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed that )n of the Mr. Ewart I nvited him to conside to iner taken th, is duty as not or the country durinC the present year had been in such a state that he had not been able to make any reduction of duties; except some very small reductions, which it was ortl. while to mention. He admitted that it to reduce duties in all cases where the re- scarcely auction of them would extend the consumption of the ar ticles on which the duties were imposed; but he could not consent to the reduction of nine or ten million's of duties, of the cou enter into any ( of Aug Ewart had i ussion on the various points which Mr I in the cours of his speech of that the as: orations in support of Mr 'ds from Dr. BOWRING on the same sid Ir. E war *►T. COBDEN hoped t mould not d►v principles he c him in the next general .ss would betide that h( sion, ti EWART, who protested that The. Lord ( the Act with a The SPEAKE ceived a come. quer wa mistaken in sui Line millions of duties t land, to the their hononra OF COMMO: son, and wa , Mr. H. B ILTESD AT bill to renew to clubs intimated to the house that he had r€ cation from the Lord Lieutenant of I:•€ W. S. O'Brien, a member of been arrested for high trea- le hou aKELEY then moved a resolution to the ef- t that the votes of th, sir. Fagan, Mr. F. Howard, Colonel Sibthorp, Lord D. Stuart, Mr. Urqu hart, and Mr. Tancred, Lord J. RUSSELL stated the reasons which would induce him to give his vote against the motion of the hon. gent After a protracted discussion the house divided the resolution, 86 ; against it, 81; majority, 5. The announcement of the numbers was receive loud cheers Adjourned, HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. Mr. GROGAN inquired, considering the state of Ireland, and the expressed opinion of several statesmen that there was no d .ifferenee between the repeal of the Union and civil war, what was the opinion of the Government with respect to the proceedings of those who advocated the repeal of the Union ? Lord J. RUSSELL said, an association for the purpose of effecting the repeal of the Union by other than consti- tutional means was undoubtedly illegal ; but if it was an association strictly confined to asking the house for a re peal of the Act of Union by petitioning Parliament, there was nothing illegal in associating for the purpose of peti tioning the house for a repeal of the Union. Mr. H. BERKELEY gave notice that early in the next session he would move for leave to bring in a b►ll to cause the votes of electors for members to serve in Parliament to be taken by way of ballot. The annunciation of Mr. H. Berkeley's intention to postpone following up his unex pected victory of Tuesday night for six months excited considerable laughter in the house. The house was occupied in committee of supply , upon the Army and Navy Estimates for the remainder of the sitting. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THIIRSDAY Certain Lords were appointed commissioners for con ducting a conference with the Commons respecting some alterations in the Health of Towns Bill. Earl GREY laid further papers on the table, having reference to Australian emigration, and in a speech of considerable length gave a sketch of the rapid rise and present prosperous condition of the Australian colonies, the state of which alone was a convincing proof, if any were wanted, that Great Britain had not lost the art of colonization. The noble lord then explained the mea sures which had been adopted by the government for increasing and assisting emigration to Australia, and regretted that the expenses of the voyage were so great as to render it necessary that they should be defrayed to a very great extent by the colonies which would be bene fitted by the labour of the emigrants. Lord MONTEAGLE said that he had listened with dis may to the statement of the noble earl, for there was nothing in it to show that he had considered the question with any reference to that great principle of systematic and continuous colonization of which the people of Eng land had heard so much, nor was there anything in it to induce them to cherish the slightest expectation that, through the agency of the noble lord in the colonies, any possible relief would be afforded. _ _ Earl GREY replied, and the papers were laid on the The Unlawful Oaths Act (Ireland) Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY Mr. LABOUCHERE obtained l toirw g ii . ; bill next session on the subject of the Navigation Laws, the Go vernment having been compelled to withdraw the mea sure already introduced on the subject, Mr. GLADSTONE expressing a hope that the measure would be the first one introduced next session. A discussion of some length took place on the proposal of inserting the city of Lincoln in the bribery bill. In the course of it Mr. ANSTEY, in his own particular manner. asked Lord J. Russell whether he hat, any objection to include in it the city of London ? He stated that £32,000 bad been paid in corruption and bribery by the Whig candidates at the last election for that city, and observed that he had been promised by an hon. member not then present (Mr. F. O'Connor we believe) that he (Mr. An stey) should be provided with the names of the persons bribed, and the amount of the bribes received, when he brought this charge forward. Unfortunately the docu ment which he expected had not yet reached his hands, but he ventured, from his knowledge of the hon. mem ber, to make this charge on his responsibility. Lord J. RUSSELL could not understand that because he had introduced this bill into parliament at the request of the house, he was bound to put London into its sche dule, in order to gratify either the curiosity - or the malig nity of those who wished to attack him as the author of the measure. The ground for inserting the name of any borough in the schedule was either the report of the Election Committee or some documentary authority on which the house could proceed. He then described the origin and nature of his connexion with the city of Lon don, and assured the house that, instead of paying £32,000 out of his pocket for his return, he had only paid the legal expenses. As he had not been guilty of any illegal practices himself, and had not employed any ma nagement to get rid of any petition against his return, he could not allow London to be inserted in the schedule on the authority of rumours of which he had heard from nobody but Mr. Anstey. In the middle of Lord John's speech, Mr. Anstey stalked out of the house with unusual pomp and stateli- ness. Mr. W. BROWN observed, that as Mr. Anstey had not waited to hear the reply to be made to his charges against the city of London, he might perhaps be permitted to remark that Mr. Anstey was not exactly the person to bring forward such charges. He had better look at home. The voters of Youghal were notorious for looking out for " a fat goose" at every election, and common rumour gave them credit for always plucking it bare after they had caught it. The committee then proceeded to insert in the schedule the names of all the boroughs selected by the government for investigation, with the exception of Bodmin, which was rescued from that fate by the chivalrous exertions of its two representatives, Mr. Wyld and Mr. Lacy. The Chairman was then directed to report progress. The house resumed ; but the bill was ordered to be re committed for the purpose of inserting two new clauses. Having been recommitted, it was reported pro forma', and ordered, with its amendments, to be printed. HOUSE OF CO -FRIDAY Several votes in the navy estimates were then agreed to. In the course of discussioa upon one of them, " a pretty quarrel" took place between Sir De L. Evans and Mr. Hume, which was, however, amicably settled at the com mencement of the evening sitting by a mutual explana tion, in which both parties protested that they meant nothing personally offensive to the other. The House proceeded to discuss the Navy and Miscel laneous Estimates till a late hour in the evening. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. FRANCE The Finance Committee hag expressed, through its re, porter at the tribune, its desire that certain parts of the evidence and documents which were brought WON te em should be withheld from publication, hinting in 0, 'manner provokingly obscure at the nature of this part of the evi dence. This mystery makes the assembly and the public only the more curious to know the nature of this forbidden Curiosity has even taken the start of the official disclosure ordered by the assembly. It is announced in als that one of the mysterious documents which evidence lion, is a the committee desired to withhold from public long letter written by M. de Lamartine, from wi sults (say the journals); that this manifesto is a vehement condemnation of the ultra-democrats with whom M. de Lamartine, at a later period, formed so close an a ti ►t re- The Message,- says, another series of letters was found on May 15, at the residence of M. Sobrier, the signature to which testifies an incredible intimacy between the most active agent of the policy of the red flag, and the person- J. A. -:- A.L personification of contrary try, t A PROFES ,HIP OF ATHEISM n, at Paris, met The Committee on ppOinted and paid by the state! The committee in iantly rejected the petition, and passed to the order of pt to ass insito \T struck by a shot lay week from an air gun, and evidently intended for him seems he had received anonymous letters threatenin life. The police had also cautioned him against wear Ist him, and that this part of his dress various hints grution; but he paid no On Saturday, however, also wears a white hat, was crossing his court=yard, when, hearing a child scream, who was sitting at the gate, be re turned, and found it had been wounded by a ball that had ssassin has yet been found ; it is supposed the shot came froM the roof of some of the adjoining houses. This event caused the greatest excitement in the National Te it a aid the s of several of t ITAL/ At an interview of the Minister of Sardinia in Paris, the Marquis of Ricci, with General Cavaignac, on Monday last, he formally demanded the armed intervention of British Government on the subject, t nnnPnr in n mpdintinn hotrupon mont that. would preserve Europe from a Austrians bad taken possession of Parma. King .I.s Albert had arrived under the walls of Milan, and determined to defend it to the last extremity. He id men. Radetskv had, on the had with him fifty thous: 4th instant, arrived in the neighbourhood of that city. Advices from Turin of the 7th, confirm the news of the evacuation of Milan by the Piedmontese army, in conse quence of a capitulation and the retirement of that arr Letters from Rome of the -e retirement of Count Mamiama That minister has made the following propositions to the Chamber of Deputies :-1. To open a voluntary enrolment ' 1 the cities of the state. 2. To extend the mobilisa- National - Guard to 12,000 men. 3. To autho ... of War to employ foreign soldiers to the amount of 12,000 men. 4. To employ a foreign general , ke the command of the troops. An address to 2d an- definit fficer to he prosecution of the war, was voted in the chamber The abolition of capital punishment has been voted by the National Assembly of Frankfort by a majority of 238 to 146. Several students belonging to the Academie Legion at rills and review by the awkv loess of their comrades, whose u NEWFOUNDLAND.—Two new churches have recently been consecrated by the bishop, one at the populous settle ment of Heart's Content, the other at Foxtrap, on the south shore of Conception Bay. The recent advices from Sydney bring intelligence of the borne its nal secession to Popery of the Rev. Messrs. Sconce and Ma kinson, incumbents of St. Andrew's and St. Peter's, in Sydney ARRIVAL OF THE " JOHN WILLIAMS AT TAHITI xtract from a private letter from t ae missionary printer ; ---" Saturday, April 22d, 1848. I have just heard that a vessel will leave here to-morrow for Valparaiso, so that any letters or communications we may have for England, will meet with a quick conveyance. We arrived here (Papeete) this afternoon, after a long trial of our patience by calms and cont- - 4 s. A I - land- __.nary winos. ..S we nearec ae we observes a canoe putting off to us containing two natives. They came on board to sell some fruit, but as soon as they dis covered the nature of our ship, they filled a bucket with 'oranges and refused any manner of payment for them, glad to be thus able to serve the missionaries. our captain, however, prevailed on them to take a few biscuits, with which they were much pleased. * * * I cannot speak favourably of this part of the island ; for cursed war has rendered it almost a wilderness." Another letter says : " I am now in the Mission field—the South Seas, Tahiti, —the birth-place of that Mission which is now fast spreading over the vast Pacific,—lies before me. - We had some rough weather on our passage from Hobart Town to Tahiti •, indeed, great fears were entertained for our safety. * * But in the midst of these dangers, we experienced the kind care of our Heavenly Father, so that we suffered no evil. On one of these gloomy morn ings, we saw the spar of a vessel sweep by us, belonging to some ship which had not so freely escaped the tempest -Patriot. as ours IRELAND. (From our Second Edition of Tuesday last.) DUBLIN, MONDAY NIGHT. All is quiet in the South. Mrs. Smith O'Brien was a passenger by the midday train to Dublin to-day. Before O'Brien started, he was told that he could not be allowed to speak or move, when he replied to General M`Donald, " I have played the game and lost. Had I won, my power would have been unlimited ; and I am ready to pay the penalty of having failed. I hope those with me will be leniently dealt with. I care not what happens to myself." On Saturday the eight persons charged in Dublin with the conspiracy to murder an inspector of police were dis charged on entering into recognizances to appear when called on. _ _ _ At Clonmel, the arrest of Dr. O'Ryan and F O'Ryan, jun., produced such excitement that the populace would have attempted a rescue but for the overwhelming force of artillery. At Carrick-on-Suir not less than ten horse loads of pikes have been captured, and destroyed by the police in the open street. MILITARY MOVEMENTS Lord Hardinge left town with his staff this morning for Kilkenny. _ _ . . The camp at Thurles has been struck, and General M`Donald has moved his troops, consisting of the Rifles, 74th and 85th infantry, together with the whole of his cavalry, to Limerick. The final destination of the column is supposed to be Abbeyfeale, where Mr. O'Gorman is said to be at the head of an insurgent force. THURLES, SUNDAY, 3 p.m.—At one o'clock p.m. this day, the Light Division (or Flying column, as they are termed,) which have been scouring the country for the last ten days, under Gen. M`Donald, consisting of two light six-pounders, Royal Artillery, one company sappers and miners, the 60th Rifles, and the 85th Light Infantry, received orders to strike tents and proceed by railway to Limerick, en route to the county Clare, where a rising is expected. The tents were struck, baggage loaded, and the men off the ground in one hour afterwards. The 74th Regiment proceed to Tipperary. The 85th Light Infantry escorted Smith O'Brien to the railway on ye6terday even ing. The men have been served out with canteens and blankets, as on service, and have suffered from the rain and damp of the ground in camp, but are, notwithstand ing, very healthy, and in great spirits. The 75th Regi ment are under canvass at Ballingarry, county Tipperary, vacated by General MacDonald." MORE ARRESTS. A number of arrests have taken place at Waterford. The gunsmiths' shops are searched, and the police are seizing large quantities of pikes and arms in Dublin, and through the provinces. On the other hand the peasantry of Limerick are plundering the private houses for their arms. Mr. Bergin, of New York, and Mr. Marron, editor of the Drogheda Argus, have been this day lodged in New gate under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. Mr. Bergin is a ship-broker, who arrived in this country only a few days ago. He has, we understand, forwarded a communication to the American Consul in this city on the subject. Mr. S. J. Meany, of the Irish Tribune, and Mr. J. Brennan, of the Irish Felon, have also been apprehended. These gentlemen, though seized in Gort (county Lime rick), have been transmitted to Dublin and lodged in Newgate. The following statement respecting them, and others of their fellow-prisoners, will be found interesting: DR. WEST, DR. M'CARRON (OF AMERICA), MR. STEPHEN J. MEANY, AND MR. J. DRENNAN, FULLY COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. On Sunday the Governor of Newgate prison received warrants from the Lord Lieutenant, fully committing the above gentlemen for high treason, the previous commit ments being only for further examination. The parties were immediately informed of the new warrants, with a view, we presume, to a preparation for defence. The committal sets forth the charge against all the parties as for having conspired, combined, confederated, and agreed, with divers other persons, to levy war against her Ma jesty, and deprive her of her just style and title of Queen of these realms. The committal of Mr. Mean) , is singu lar in this respect. He is not alone charged, like the others, with having conspired, &c., with " divers other persons," but with having conspired with " Richard J. Verner, and divers other persons." Mr. Verner is, we understand, brother-in-law of Mr. John Mitchel. It is understood that the trials for high treason will not take place during the commission, which opens to-morrow ; but that about the beginning of September a special com mission will issue for the purpose—that then the parties will all be put on trial together, and that the crown hav ing given proof of a conspiracy, the overt acts, by writing equally att and others whom they shall know to have been engaged in _ _ The following particulars are, among the statements arta hvy ltlr.. C... 41. tr, mainham. Some days previous to his appearing in open insurrection, a difference of opinion, terminating in a final rupture, took place between him and Mr. Meagher. The latter contended that operations should he postponed until the rebel organization was more perfect ; and on Mr. O'Brien's persisting in his resolution to. proceed immediately to action, Mr. Meagher withdrew, and has :soever with him since contrary, although unwi: actually to give himself into custody, he was resolved against any further endeavour to evade pursuit. He ac cordingly walked through the most public parts of the town of Thurles, for a considerable time previous to his hour under a lanr he believes - that he was recognized by several of the pas: Fers-by. One poor woman selling tionably knew him, for,looking up, she God !•it is himself." MR. SMITH O'BRIEN IN KILMAINHAM GAOL. — Some account of the appearance and demeanour of " the King ries unques- xclaimed, "01 been communicated to us by an eye witnes3. One morn ing during the past week Mr. O'Brien was engaged . in the game of hand-hail with one of the guard of soldiers, con sisting of about thirty men, placed over the prismer,when Mrs. O'Brien was admitted it being, we believe, the first time she had seen him since his capture. On beholding him she burst into tears, and asked him what he now thought about his foolish projects ? He replied that he saw his own folly now, when it was too late, — and the con sequence would be, that be should be torn from his family, deprived of his property, or either he shot, hanged, or banished for life from his country. His wife regarded him coursing dovvn her cheeks in rapid succession, and, at length affected by her sorrow, O'Brien himself shed tears, but evidently strove to hide them. We understand that his guard relieve each other in watching over him day and night. It is not very easy, therefore, for any one outside the gaol to obtain communication with the prisoner of THE CAPTOR OF O'BRIEN appears that Hulme, linen, was man. He • has had the £5OO paid to him through the Bank of Ireland, and has since arrived in this country, his continuance in Ireland not being deemed safe. Hana van, the man who would have let him escape, sought to cheat Hulme out of the reward, by asserting that he (Hanavan)made the arrest through the instrumentality of Hulme, but Mr. O'Brien coolly interposed and said, " That is the man who arrested me," pointing to Hulme ; and his claim was recognised by the government. He received the congratulations of many of the guards upon the Liverpool and Manchester line, and was quite an object of interest to many who recognised him during his stay. SUBMISSION OF THE IRISH REBELS.—It is but a short month since Meagher and the other giants had it all their own way. Lord Clarendon did not look much of a gigan ticide, and, if we might judge from the confidence of his enemies, there was every reasonable prospect of his being soon caught alive, and carried about Ireland, like Bajazet, in a cage, preliminary, of course, to his undergoing the fate described in the rhyme. A month has passed, and such is the mutability of human affairs that Mr. Thomas Meagher, the scourge of Britain, is now skulking some where ur f , lonions disguise, or doubled up in a meal tub, or a nermanent occupant of some very un dignified back premises. In this last citadel of his for tunes Thomas Francis Meagher, described in the Hue and Cry as of " no occupation, 25 years of age, five feet nine inches, dark, nearly black hair, light blue eyes, pale face, high cheekbones, peculiar expression about the eyes, cocked nose, no whiskers, well dressed," is at this mo ment endeavouring to avert the horrors of an assault, or the tedium of a blockade, by an immediate capitulation. Hard up in his fastness the rebel chief has sent the Rev. Mr. Mackey, under a flag of truce to " my Lord Assassin, the Butcher-General of Ireland," to beg for his life. On the sole condition that he may still be permitted to live under the rod of the oppressor, he is content to surrender himself and all Ireland. Lord Clarendon, fortunately, has no notion of bartering away the Royal mercy to every fellow who may think to rebel as long as it is safe, and to fall upon his marrow-bones at the first intimation of dan ger. His Lordship has declined to receive anything but the man himself, the animal Thomas Francis Meagher, as described by the political zoologists of the Hue and Cry. _ Richard O'Gorman, jun., is still at large, and the Lord Lieutenant has, by proclamation, offered £3OO for his apprehension. SEIZURE OF THIRTY TONS OF GUNPOWDER.—On the night of the 7th instant, the Coquette, Whelan, mas ter, went into Dungarvon Bay, and was boarded next morning by three of the coast guard. Her nominal cargo was " flour," and " othei Irish goods." On examining they found gunpowder. Information being given to the authorities, a detachment of the 6th' Foot, and a police force boarded the vessel. On a search, six hundred barrels of gunpowder were discovered—in weight about thirty tons. The master and one of his crew went on shore ; no doubt to make arrangements for effecting a landing at a part of the country so close to the Tipperary border--but were since apprehended. The crew were sent to bridewell, and each of them gave conflicting accounts. It was subsequently discovered that the powder was purchased at several places in Cork, to be conveyed by the person who brought it to Liverpool, paid for, and subsequently put on board the vessel, which immediately sailed from Cork. There was nothing known by the authorities of this transaction, until the police went about the city for the usual returns given by vendors of the amount sold in the week ; when, perceiving the unusual quantity sold, inquiry was made immediately at the Cus tom-house, where it was ascertained that no powder had been entered there; and it being subsequently ascer tained that this vessel had sailed, a war-steamer was immediately despatched after her, and came up just in time to see her put into Dungarvon offing. It turns out that this seizure, like the last, was unnecessary. The powder was purchased for and regularly invoiced to a firm in this town. Clonmel and the surrounding country are quite peace able. The constabulary were actively engaged in search ing for arms in the neighbouring districts. All the arms belonging to persons who joined the clubs have been seized. Arrests continue to be made in town and country, and many warrants had been issued for the apprehension of suspected persons. Several Americans had been placed in custody. At Dublin the grand jury have found true bills against Duffy, under the Crown and Government Security Act, and on Tuesday be was placed at the bar of the Commis sion Court. He sought to plead, but as the arraignment was not complete, he was not allowed to do so. The Attorney-General intimated that he might have sent up bills for high treason, but he would be satisfied to have Mr. Duffy tried on this indictment.—On Wednesday, the Dublin grand jury returned true bills against John Martin, the proprietor of the Irish Felon, Kevin Izod O'Doherty and Richard Dalton Williams, the proprietors of the Irish Tribune, and Denis Hoban, John Flanigan, William Murray, Henry Shaw, and other printers, connected with the Nation, the Felon, or the Tribune. Williams and O'Doherty were afterwards placed at th e b ar , an d p l ea d e d not guilty to an indictment, charging them, under the Crown and Government Security Act, with having pub lished certain libels in the Irish Tribune. On Thursday O'Doherty indicted for publishing sedi tious articles in the Tribune, was placed at the bar, and a jury was sworn. The Attorney-Gen era l addressed the Friday night, and as the jjuuryry,coaunlddtnhoettarigarleel theyted until viere discharged late on Satur day without finding a verdict. A newsvender who had been apprehended, was on Wednesday placed at the bar, and having pleaded guilty, was released on their own recognizance of £5O to come up for judgment when called upon. On Thursday, five or six persons pleaded guilty in the same court to indictments, charging them with having in their possession guns, pistols, and pikes. As it appeared that they might not have been awa re o f th e ill ega li ty o f their conduct, the Chief Baren, aft er a s t rong caut i on, di rected all of them to beimprisoned for 48 hours, with the exception a one, who was sentenced to one month's im prisonment. A special commission to try Mr. O'Brie immediately at Clonmel. On Friday Denis Hoben pleaded guilty, as a printer of the Tribune, of having printed seditious libels. On Saturday, in the cases of pro secu ti on aga i nst T . D . Reilly end J. F. Fitzpatrick, the traversers and their sure ties having been called and no response being made, the Chief Baron ordered the sureties to be est rea t e d an d b enc h warrants to issue.—Several parties charged with having guns and swords in their possession were discharged, on showing a reasonable ground for having such articles. A FELONIOUS PIE.—On Thursday, a large meat pie smoking from the oven was presented at the gate of the city gaol by a servant of Messrs. Varian, of Patrick -street, „n will be opened THE LIVCRPOOt STANDARD. or otherwise, of any portion will be made applicable as against all. A large number of the club leaders have taken their departure from Cork for America. Eighteen persons charged with the attacks on the Lime rick mails have been arrested. WARNING TO REIMS !-Of the thirty men who formed Smith O'Brien's body tnard, at and subsequent to the battle of Ballingarry, fifteen have turned approvers ! The Wexford Independent states, on credible authority, that warrants have been issued for the apprehension of more than 80 individuals in the county Wexford. A large placard, with a pike-head, and " Death to Lord Clarendon," written in on Wednesday at Galway. Letters of blood, was po: It was taken down b constable Since the proclamation, warning the peop harbouring the rebel leader, Mr. Smith O'Brien never once, up the hour of his capture, slept under a roof, al though the peasantry and f a rme r s were perfectly willing to receive him. [ e against kenny, which is, we believe, to be his heaajuarters forsome time. In the evening his lorchhip was entertained at mess by the colonel and offic Alonday Viscount Hardinge inspected the garrison incidences that Mr. Smith O'Brien was tried in Dublin on the 15th of May, the anniversary of O'Connell's death ; was arrested on the sth of August, the anniversary of his burial ; and committal to orison on the 6th. the anniversary of his birth , uring any of the rebel leaders, I ued a further caution, to the effect that the penalty of treason will i to all masters of emigrant ships, packets, vessels, should they he concerned in favor 11P TIPPCA T 1 Cl ahnvn na mpa rs,. ~3`:~ ~-- - - to be given to Isaac Stephen and Ralph Varian, prisoners for treasonable practices. Before the pie was forwarded by the outward turnkey the searcher pierced it with a long needle, and finding it contained something hard, lifted the crust and discovered a bottle. On drawing the cork, it was found to enclose five or six letters and scraps of news papers. The scraps gave accounts of the arrests of the rebel leaders and reports of the proceedings in Italy. Amongst the letters was one directed to I. S. Varian, pur porting to be written by one of his female relatives, which was very lengthy, couched in extraordinary language, and containing the most horrifying sentiments. It commenced by stating that the Irish revolution was crushed by the gold of England and the treachery of Ireland. but it was only for a time, though lie or shu might not live too see ano- ther effoi for nationality have their reward. The potato blight had again shown itself, and in a form more destructive than hitherto, and thank God for it, as it would rid Ireland of the degraded wretches who had not . manly heroism to risk their mi serable liVes in a batt' edom ; she would, however, ..., • • 1_ were not a hereafte the base Rornish p now about to be r letter proceeded to say that sold their country, and were Saxon passages. the i - nsp - ort of which it wow(' uu wrung to auu have been detained by the authorities. The pie was given to the prisoners.— Cork Constitution. THE SAVINGS' BANKS.—The Cork Constitution of meter of confe- Last week large derate feeling than the savings' barks rger given. and 1 Yesterday Pere, and no' numbers of the notices were withdtaw many of the drafts re-deposited, some of the owners re marking, ' We'll have no war now.' The arrest of O'Brien has had a very sedative effect." DR. WCARROV_ —Thig riPrann tolln true arrAel-ad ;71 Dublin, on Monday, and committed to New Aca.7.vit, allU WM/ buppuseu Uu represent. toe 00(ly 01 Irish sympathizers in America, was formerly a resident of Liverpool. His, profession is that of a surgeon, and he is undeistood• to be a man of remarkable ability some time past he has sailed as surgeon with the Sarah Sands, American screw steamer; and he only gave up this situation to follow his trpfisonshlk t actvs nn tbs. nth Pr side of the channel. The Executive have, for some time,. had their eye on him and his brethren in the crusade which he was conducting on behalf of the Young Ireland party in America : he need not hope to escape the fate which has befallen him. Dr. M`Carron was arrested in rather a strange manne Believing himself known and unsuspected, he sou g ht and obtained an order to visit his brother-in-law, Mr. Duffy, of the Nation, at present incarcerated in Newgate ; the officers of the prison treated him with all civility, and he was not disturbed in hat he v taken to secure to Tisoner, and that measures would be Duffy the solace of his brother- in-law's constant company. r Bergin, another American sympathizer, has also been arrested : he is also an Irish man. Papers are said to have been found in the posses sion of these parties which indicate a much more careful and well-provided conspiracy than was supposed to exist, and curious disclosures may therefore be expected on their trials. Michael Healy was executed at Clare, last week, for the iirdar 10'1\Ta.,n,.n The Cork papers announce that it is the intention o Mr. John.O'Connell to take up his permanent residence in London for the more efficient discharge of his duties as a director of the National Bank. The hon. gentleman, it is stated, means to retire from politics. . - SENTENCES.—At Nenagh assizes, Martin Ryan was sentenced to death for the murder of the Rev. Mr. Lloyd ; and William Cartlev and John Ryan. fnr ennsnirinp• to who is still living, though his murder Mr. Richard Bayly, life was despaired of for some time. At an assize ball, on Tuesday, at Cork, the dress of a young lady, named M'Carthy, took fire in one of the dressing-rooms, but the tire was fortunately extinguished by the aid of a gentleman, without doing the wearer more injury than slightly scorching her fair arms. At Newry, on Friday, a young child was in danger of being ridden over, and a woman, who ran to rescue her, . - woman, also fell, and the wheel of the heavily laden cart passed over them both, and killed them instantaneously. The child escaped uninjured. The anniversary of the relief of Derry was celebrated by the Apprentice Boys on Friday with all the usual demon strations. An excellent sermon was preached to the clubs by the Rev. W. Alexander, curate of the cathedral and chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant, from Isaiah, xxxvii. 34, " By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord." EXECUTIONS.—On Tuesday, at Roscommon, Patrick Hasty and Owen Beirne were executed, the former for conspiring to murder the late Major Mahon, and the latter for conspiring to murder the late Rev. Mr. Lloyd. They both confessed the justice of their sentence, and H^.tv attrib , ' asty attribute- his wretched end to "a knowledge and participation in the accursed system of Molly Maguire ism." The accounts from Ireland about the potato are very contradictory. Even in the same district. one person will tell you that " they are very bad,"—another, that "they never were better." A friend who left Dublin on Tuesday for the country some miles to the west writes that on his journey he observed " all the potato gardens, with no more than a dozen exceptions, black or nearly so ;" but in many places.. in which the same observation has been made, the root has, heretofore at least, been sound. MELANCHOLY EFFECTS OF CLUB LAW.—A working shoemaker in Dublin who was secretary to one of the seditious clubs, on hearing of the proclamation for dissol ving them, being apprehensive of arrest—fled. Shortly after the police clime to search for him ; and his wife, who was far advanced in pregnancy, became so frightened, that she was seized with premature labour, which ended in her death. She has left two infant children, who now have no one to protect them. So much for club law. HEROIC CONDUCT.—As Mr. John Hilton, steward to G. Gough, Esq., of Ardsallah, was proceeding to ring the work-bell at six o'clock yesterday morning, a dog that accompanied him, by harking and growling, drew his attention to the shrubbery, which was quite close. On turning round he saw a large athletic man, six yards dis tant, with a pistol presented at his face, and with great self-possession, made a sudden headlong plunge at the villain, which tumbled him ; a desperate struggle ensued, in which the pistol was taken and retaken several times, and which did not terminate for three quarters of an hour. Hilton, having inflicted a severe wound on the fellow's head, then collared and marched himin to the stable-yard, where he completely secured his prisoner. It is worthy of remark, that Mr. Gough had given some gunpowder to a workman on the evening before, for the purpose of pro tecting his crops. The wadding found in the pistol was, beyond doubt, torn from the paper in which the powder was enclosed, and the miscreant who attempted the mur der, though a stranger, happened to be a cousin of the labourer who had charge of the powder. —Clonmel Chronicle. EFFECT OF FIRMNESS.—The orders of General Mac donald for the preparation of a special train to take Smith O'Brien to Dublin, were conveyed to Thurles railway station by Captain Makensie, who on arriving there found the only engine in reserve puffing away and on the point of starting for some other portion of the line. He imme diately went up to the driver and told him that General Macdonald's commands were that he should remain, and take a special train up to Dublin. The driver refused to obey, stating that he would not take his orders from such a quarter, whereupon Captain Mackenzie quietly pulled out a pistol, and told the man that if he did not at once do as he was ordered, he would blow his brains out. This had an immediate effect, and the engine was retained for the purpose for which it was wanted. Had it not been for this firmness, Smith O'Brien must have remained at Thurles that night, and next day, by the pulling up of the rails or otherwise, his transmission to Dublin might have been difficult or impossible. As a proof of this we may mention that one of the trains next day between Thurles and Tipperary ran against a huge block of stone, which had been placed on the line during the night, and which did considerable damage to the engine. AWFUL SCENE.—At Nenagh assizes, on Monday, Richard, James, and Mary Conolly were found guilty of aiding at the murder of Thomas Dillon, on May 18, for the actual commission of which two brothers of the male prisoners had been previously found guilty. At the open ing of the case the female prisoner, an old woman, who was aiout eighty years of age,_ being unable to stand, sat down near the side of the iioCk. Mr. Henry Phillips, a juror, said that he as a juror, wished to have the old woman standing at the bar, so that the jury might see her. Court : She is too old and too feeble to stand. Mr. Scott (Counsel for the prosecution) : She is eighty years of age. Oh, is it not truly melancholy to contemplate that a woman of her years, being on the verge of eternity, should stand at the bar charged with being privy to the murder, with having held a basin to receive the blood which flowed from a gash in the throat of the victim, and which had been inflicted by her sons—(sensation). Court : Mr. Scott, Mr. Scott, I hope you will not go into those matters, and not become excited. I know the particulars of the whole case. Mr. Scott then proceeded to state the case according to the evidence, and having concluded, the old woman stood up and grasped the rail of the dock with her shrivelled bands. Her grey hair hung loosely about her head, and her appearance was that of a maniac; she screamed loudly and extended her at tenuated arms, and repeatedly clapped her hands, at the same time exclaiming wildly, and oscillating her head and shoulders—" Oh, gentlemen, look at me, look at me ; oh, trisha Dhei na Glora—my two boys are hanged, and my self and my other two boys here ; ochone, ochone," and she began to cry most bitterly. Thomas Looby, an ap prover, having been called upon ascended the witness ta ble, when Richard Conolly cried out—" Oh, Looby, Looby, you hanged our brothers, and now you are going to hang our poor mother and ourselves. I declare to God, this day, I will follow you, either dead or alive, until I have satisfaction from you. You took our land from us, and—" The old woman : " Oh, Looby, Looby, Looby." This was truly a touching scene, and, while it lasted, the utmost sensation prevailed in court." MORE INTOLERANCE. - At the Petty Sessions at Skib hereen, held about a fortnight ago, a case came on in con- sequence of the demolition of a garden-wall in the old churchyard of Abbey Stewry, which elicited of gross religious tyranny am^ MrAllw ..ner%onfnfif an exposure It appears that some year }lllmrs,n lrl send, vicar of the parish named, did his utmost during the famine to alleviate the distresses of the poor without re gard to the religion of those who were the recipients of the relief he had the means of bestowing through his own resources as well as the government fund. During his exertions he invited the co-operation of , the Roman Ca tholic priest, and they worked well and amicably together the worst period of that fearful visitation. ,During its continuance, Mr. Townsend found that the churchyard ,wall, where so many victims of the. contagion were. daily I interred, was in a delapidated state, and the dogs entered by night and rooted amongst and tore the bodies. He, in consenuence, had a wall which divided the churchyard from a garden repaired, and also a small gate-house, the expense being defrayed partly by himself, and partly by Lord Dufferin, in order to prevent scenes which were an outrage to all humanity, and which took place in the spring of 1847. After the worst season of calamity had passed away, Mr. Townsend erected schools for boys and girls, to which the children of the parish were indiscriminately ad mitted, and many of the Roman Catholics availed them selves of the boon. Lately, however, the wall was demo lished, though no objection had been urged against it as a nuisance for the first six months after it was built. The his it was provk by a Witness in t he case, man, also a Roman its children to Mr. Townsend's schools, and it further appeared (though not absolutely in evidence, as the question was not urged upon the witness) that the mischief had been urged from the altar of a Roman Catholic chapel. The people themselves, of all classes universally, approved of the erection of the wall their bu*;^' nd 4 Able, which it tnaKia t , —.al-ground respectb... never had been before. It now lies a heap of ruins. Rev. Mr. Townsend, in a moderate and feeling letter, stating the particulars, makes the following remark amongst t others, and we sincerely trust the writer's hopes may be s realized :—" I lave good reason for believing that such altar assailments will not long be borne. The people's wits have been too long in movement towards thinking and reflection from the appeals made to their reason and ing to the spirit of the age, they will disentr'ammel them- ,ye of e been I such encumbrances upon the Rht to make A. linnaphold wnrrl of for other purposes, by those who would crush it by their own weight when it begins to exert itself in a way they do not choose, viz. against themselves. But in vain nave gone roo tar cairn tile cry of noerty, and resistance to the spirit they have evoked will be ce r t a i n ru i n — s l ow per ' ' . haps, but sure. Though changes now come rapid as 1 and it is bard to say the turn on the instant the way fancy of these times may take against oppression." water then states what the schools are doing. rile boys' schools arc in full operation of usefulness, and one of the free boys will soon he sent to the upper school to prepare •• •. . • . . been erected, where the clothes of j the poor childieii are washed, dried, and mangled. A flax manufactory is also erected at which the boys and girls work alternate days, and acquire the art of hand-scutching, a novelty in that quarter. The girls' schools are equally efficient, and some sent to England. " And these," sacs the reverend writer, " are the schools it is so unrighteously sought to hinder the children of our people to frequent ! It cannot be that the friends of humanity will not support me in my poor efforts for their good ; neither can libr one moment doubt of, the Most High God, can be either forsaken by Him, or unsuccessful." POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Mr. Labouellere's Bill for the Repeal of the Navigation Laws will be in circulation early next week. Time will thus be afforded for its consideration during the recess. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—Her Majesty's Min isters left London via the South-Western Railway, for Gosport, on Friday. The Cabinet were conveyed to Osborne in one of her Majesty's steam yachts. f In the House of Commons. on Tuesday- n. , T. Berkeley succeeded in carrying, by a majority of 86 to 81, a resolution affirming the necessity of the ballot in taking votes for the election of members of parliament! fact not very generally known was stated by Mr. Berkely, in moving his resolution on the ballot, namely, that the House of Commons, in the year 1710, passed a bill for establishing vote by ballot, which w a s th rown out by the House of Lords. We find, on reference to an authority, that the statement is perfectly correct. We doubt, however, whether the radicals of 1849 will be as successful as the jacobites of 1710. _ _ The arrival of M. Gustave de Beaumont in this country as the envoy or representative of the present government France avoura le to t he rnainte mince 01 ami,.tne ICU/J./W uetween rue two countries. M. de Beaumont is a gentleman already well known to the society of the metropolis, both in person and by his lite rary productions. He shared with M. de Tocqueville in the mission sent out by the French government in 1831 to examine the penitentiary system in the United States; and some years later he became the author of a book on Ireland, which is one of the best foreign works on that inexhaustible subject, and does credit to his discrimination and his researches. In politics M. de Beaumont has been, since his entrance into the late Chamber of Deputies, an, active member of what was termed the dynastic opposi tion. SLEEPY MEMBERS.—At 12 o'clock last night the con dition of numbers of the honourable members in the two galleries of the House of Commons was most pitiable. Legislation is evidently much more fatiguing than the hardest agricultural labour. Who ever saw in the heat of harvest a dozen labourers fast asleep in a field of a few perches ? And yet last night, in the highest fervour of legislation, within a smaller compass, I saw at least a dozen of our legislatorial labourers recumbent at full length on the downy cushions of the galleries, and buried to all outward seeming in the most profound repose. It would be invidious to mention the names of the dozen sleepers; but a high legal functionary was among them, who snored unblushingly through a long debate. A metropolitan member, as if ashamed of his somnolency, did his best to sleep with decency by covering his face with both his hands ; but another without the slightest regard to the usual convenances of society, turned his face to the wall and exposed a most extensive surface to the admira tion of the House. At half-past 12 o'clock there was an attempt to report progress, but all in vain. The only result of the motion was that the cry for a division woke the sleeping members, who shook themselves gloomily, and then sheered off with tottering steps and slow, not into the lobby, but up to Bellamy's to obtain some slight refreshment to enable them to encounter the prolonged labour which at that hour they had still to undergo.— Times of Saturday. MR. COBDEN'S FALL.—The Times has long been in the habit of puffing off Mr. Cobden ; but in an article on Friday, stating that they had formed high exnectations from Mr. Cobden's recent continental tour, asks, " How have our anticipations been fulfilled ? Alas, how are the mighty fallen ! Mr. Cobden set out with advantages such as no other man in his position ever carried with him from England. The applause of crowds, the pane gyric of Ministers, and the Royal assent—all ushered him from the shores of a grateful country. He went as an ambassador, with more than the usual credentials and less than the usual burdens of diplomacy, to every court of Europe. Every town from Hamburgh to Trieste did honour to the successful champion of free trade. He was feted, belaudee, and toasted from Bourdeaux to Cadiz. His continental glorification was crowned by domestic honours. The West Riding of Yorkshire conferred on him the unsolicited distinction of its representation before his return, and expected that after he had returned he would justify the choice. What has he done ? What have been his tactics ? What is the sum and substance of the statesmanship to which all the world looked for ward so anxiously ? Simply this—a depreciation of our military and naval establishments, and an emulation of America. The first constitutes the whole gist and pith of the honourable member's speeches ; the latter, of his policy. England is to disband her fleets and armies, to give up her colonies, and to enter boldly on a course of Yankee statesmanship." A SCENE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.—Rather a strange scene occurred on Tuesday week in the 'House of Lords. A claim has been for some time pending before that tri bunal, at the instance of a Mr. Tracy, as the alleged legal heir to the Tracy peerage in Ireland, at present in abey ance. Among the muniments of claim some time ago produced, were the broken nieces of an apparently old tombstone, taken from the burial ground of an ancient church or chapel, and bearing an inscription, in antique characters, setting forth the death, interment, age, and title of a remote member of the Tracy family, and thus supplying a necessary link in the chain of evidence for the claimant. Nothing could be more satisfactory. There was the hardness of granite added to the durability of parchment ;—the title of the claimont was fixed in stone and enshrined in ink. But it was fated to a sad change. A stonemason and a quarryman were produced before the lords, and their evidence, particularly that of the former, was to the effect that the alleged old tombstone was of very recent manufacture—bad been secretly prepared in the silence and seclusion of night—had been darkened with the smoke of a turf fire to give it the appearance of age—and was, finally, fractured by a hammer into such convenient pieces, as, on being put together, would make out the required inscription. The stone mason deposed that he had himself cut out part of the inscription—that he had scientifically fractured the tombstone—and that he now recognised in the fragments before him, lying on the floor of the house, the specimens of his own handiwork. Not old Edie Ochiltree, the bedesman, had a greater triumph when he demonstrated, to the utter confusion of Mr. Oldbuck, of Monkbarns, that the long-valued stone, bearing the cabalistical letters of A. D. L. L., and very clearly indicating not only Roman origin, but the senti ment "Agricola Dicavit Libens Lubens," was of com paratively recent manufacture, and merely designated " Aiken Drum's Lang Ladle," having been so fabricated by himself, and "a wheen other wild hallensbakers." CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. The splendid service of plate, valued at £7OO, from the inhabitants of Birmingham to the Bishop of Manchester, was presented on their behalf by the Mayor on Thursday. The Rev. J. W. Birley, M.A., has been presented by the vicar of Lancaster, to the perpetual curacy of Little dale. Her Majesty and Prince Albert have subscribed £lOO towards the fund for re-building the parish church of St. Thomas's, Newport, Isle of Wight. THE C 0 U R T. The Court is expected to arrive at Buckingham Palace to-day, and to return to Osborne on Thursday. The Duchess of Kent arrived at Osborne House on Friday, on a visit to the Queen. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the royal children, proceeded from Osborne on Tuesday to the Portsmouth regatta, and returned to Osborne at about or" kr a.autaLlars taac el WAS perumueu oy her Majesty's desire, for the amusement of the juvenile royal family. This consists in a boy being put in a small boat or punt with one oar, and propelling himself in various directions, dabbling about with three or four fleet rowers in gigs or wherries after him, the object being to take him out of the punt : this was not accomplished in the usual way. The " Squirrel" being hard pressed, took to the water, whither his pursuers ought according to the rule of the game to have , followed him, but instead of doing so, one of them thrust a , boAt's hook at him, and booked him out. Zip prize was witt4eld in continence. Angnst 15, 1848. LAW INTELLIGEIVCE. 1 NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—CARLISLE, AUG. g • , .. (Before Mr. Justice Erle and a Special WILKIN v. SCOTT.—DILAPIDATIONS OF A RECTOR ] ; HOUSE.—The action was brought by Mr. Wilki e, t Rector of Bootle, in the county of Cumberland, to re' cover from Mr. Scott, the late incumbent, a sum ranging between £l4O and £155, fur dilapidations. £6O had been paid into court by Mr. Scott, as an ample sum for all re: nuisite substantial repairs. The rectory had been erected by the late incumbent in 1839, and the present rector, 0 11 entering it, found almost the w h o l e o f the wood work -in a state of dry-rot, and c er t a i n ou tb u ildi ng s in a had st ar t of repair. The principal witness was Mr. Wardle, al Newcastle, who estimated the amount for rtquisite pairs at £147 Os. 61d. ; the estimate of Mr. G. Robinson was £147 2s. 9d. • that of Mr. C. Armstrong, £155. ..°L t : the part of the defendant witnesses were called to sh", that the building could be p u t i n t o com pl e te repair fo r ' sum considerably under £5O. The jury returned aver' dict for the defendant. The August assizes commenced on Saturday at La1 1 „,, 8 " ter. The calendar we a re h a ppy t o sa y, i s light. PI procession of the sheriff, Sir T. G. liesketh, throng Preston, en route for Lancaster, took place iti the forenoon, Mr. Bouverie's new bill for consolidating the bankruP t l laws, restores, in cert a i n cases , th e power o f arrest o mesne process. COUNTY COURTS —ln a discussion which took place? the house of Lords, the Lord Chancellor incidentally pressed his hope, that before long a plan would be a dopted by which the fees in the county cour t s wou ld be reduce one-nan. • •st In the appeal made by the D u k e o f B runsw i c k again , the King of Hanover, for setti ng as id e an i ns t r umtilt which the defendant was made guardian of the propertYL the plaintiff, the House of Lords have confirmed the sion of the Master of the Rolls. filet as ri - cam ter 0 plained of was an a c t d one by a f ore i gn sovere i g n prtuf s . in his own country, it could not, therefore, be made tij subject of a suit in equity here. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. A correspondent of the Times animadverts on the sin gular fact that the Great North e rn R a il way h ave starte d a newspaper to publish their own reports. from Chirk 6 stated is the first week in October. The last arch o f the Dee viaduct will be " keyed " in the course of the presell week. The shareholders of the Lancaster and Carlisle RailsvoYs adopted their report without much discusion of the coo' tents_ Thp nr(Scpnap” t” , ,fS" a ts—„ and, indeed, the 01;1 yunsaTisfacto;ymatter, i; il7e;elat iot i of the line with the Lancaster and Preston. A divideur of £1 per whole, and 4s. 6d. Der third share was declareo! and plenary authority was given to the directors for the settlement of the Lancaster and Preston question. na ATROCIOUS CONDUCT OF AN ENGINE.DRIVER. -- " . , - the East Lancashire R a il wa y wor k s , a t Tunnel End , -f n '' Burnley, on' -P-' .day week, the driver and stoker o Medusa locomotive were drinki ng , an d h a d l e ft t h e engin e in charge of the cleaner, w h ose name i s Rhodes. S?". 1, persons in authority came do wn t o th e eng i ne , an d, w' s " .. ing to go to the " tip end" a t R ose - g rove, were ta .hel .. . . _ ken' driver, named Whittle; came down, and finding the engird gone without him, he was very much ve xe d, an d place formidable obstacles on the rails to obstruct the engine its return. On the engine's return, with a truck a ttache d ' it was cast off the rails, an d Rh o d es was t h rown to 01, ground, and had his a rms an d thi g h s b ro k en. Th er e l',: e c r „ e in the truck the Rev. T. G. J ames ; hi s b rot h er , Tames, of Lice' '"" : Mr. Donaldson, the engineer of the line, and another gentleman, all. of whom fortunately escaped. Whittle has been committed for trial. PRICE 01' RAILWAY SHARES.—On Friday a very c uti o i siderable depression took place in the price of several the rail Way shares. The immediate cause of this is t" reduction in the dividends by some of the leadinfr which is producing ,~, ...- idE•rab~y North-Westerntbi e o y n o o n f d t t the e i dividendn intrinsic n cs Company a ap l ta u n e tyh o eo f t im h F e e : e ig re bo nicl; Tedhueeed Londondetic:L:3l per cent., or at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, pro' duced a considerable sensati on , an d sen t th e s h are s do' 4or 5 per cent. The id ea th a t h a d b een f or a l on g Peri°, attached to this line that it wo u ld p ermanen tly support a dividend of 10 per cent. on the capital invested has hal b l g much more influence than th e d ecrease mer it s , because,, is quite clear that it is to a c on sid era bl e ex t en t caused the expenditure. upon new branches and extensions no yet become productive. The holders in that and sl lines should, therefore, be cautious not to throw their property away under the influence of a panic which there are always parties ready to foster and sustain for sinister purposes. The THE LONDON AND NOTH-WESTERN shareholders in this company had the satisfaction of find' ing that the dividend declared at the meeting on Friday was real—actually payable from the bond fide ascerta ined, earnings of the line, and not got up for show by any 01_ the " ingenious devices" of financial generalship , or ra ther financial jugglery—a resort to which species of third - r ate , dexterity might possibly, if th e di rec t o rs had condescend ed to such shifts, produced a larger nominal dividend for the nonce, but would h ave proportionately endangered the high, the unsullied, and universally trusted reputation which they peculiarly possess for honourable and straight forward dealing. Whatever might have been the sill% rent temptations to an evasive course of condu c t in t "'" instance, the directors may rely on it that they have taken i n pre the path not only of honour, but of true prudence, • a position at the tremendous occurrences of the year, Is most for which their constituents and themselyes'have the wentsentin o g f awnhuazd consideringisguised unvarnished, an in curn b uranneexeasg,g ( 8 7 d t e se t .k a ,! t n e s : ample reason to be proud and thankful. —Railway Reco !:_d e THE STRIKE OF ENGINE-DRIVERS.—On Monday, following notice was posted on the premises of the Norte st Western Railway Company :—" Euston Station , 7, 1848.—A statement having appeared in -the Observeorf newspaper of Sunday, and been copied into the Time s this day, to the effect that at a meeting on Friday of m B ' „, ; of the engine -drivers and firemen employed on the Loo, don and North-Western Rail wa y, it had been alleged t hob it was the intention of the directors to use the classifit?; tion as the means of ultimately reducing the wages of men, I am instructed to de c l are th a t so f ar from this he n) ; the case, it is their intenti on , i n ever y i ns t anc e, strictlY d carry out the regulation by which engine-drivers• alif firemen are to be successively advanced as vacancies roil occur in the classes above them, and that it is not, o n never has been, the intention of the di rec tors to retle', • the number of the men employed in these classes, or then rate of wages.—R. CREED, Secretary." On TuesdaY ! c i adjourned meeting of engine -drivers on the London ail North-Western Railway was held at the Railway Tev e he , Hampstead-road, to consider the question pending tween them and the directors. Mr. James Brown pied the chair, and 150 drivers were present. The man read a speech, which recapitulated the grievance by suiting from the new classification of wages propose„ Mr. M'Connell, the superintendent of locomotives are perfectly satisfied, he said, with our wages, but °el,' move is made because, we see in the background the r oe object of the new system—that of being subjected to is caprice of the superintendent." A variety of s taterne u b „ were made to show that great danger resulted to the P il o lie from the course being pursued by the companY. , to resignations had been sent in, and the men intende d t , adhere to them.—After thanks to the Chairman the ine., e o ing separated. It was expected that ne g otiations scw't.. To have been set on foot to terminate these differences. o p men however refuse to give way, and the whole of 6 .0. from Rugby to Carlisle, have forwarded their resigne ti t he A letter was read from Northampton, stating tha t to engine drivers and firemen there had been induee, be i withdraw their notice from a misrepresentation, but 1 . e a had since recalled their withdrawal, and were deterolo, to resign if they had only bread and water for six In° nt be cl MIXED GOAGE.—A pamphlet has just been publis,ieg on this subject by Joseph Locke, Esq., M.P. li n% , shown that the remedy of mixed gauge is a greater ; s o than the break of gauge, Mr. Locke next shows the cure for both :—" With the view, then, of avoiding the ei bi which must necessarily arise to the railway sYst elii to such extension of the mixed gauge, it is my intentiontoo show your lordship that, for a far less sum than l 9 ,b r eo about to be laid out on the mixed gauge upon the ' ol ,eo lines I have named, a railway of continuous and no br A o th gauge may be completed between the soutn coast oli a North of England on the one hand, and the nietroP Grue l and the whole of the North of England, by . the i 0 Western line, on the other. The mode Of doing,,t h the simply by laying the narrow gau g e conctirrentlY w.„"„ t log , broad gauge from Oxford th roug h R ea di ng to 1 . 41- 1101 and from Reading to Basingstoke—in all 77 mile' sited might be done either by independent lines or a V, an gauge; and although the latter would, I admit , be 14 evil, it would be much less in ext en t th an it could, s uge any other arrangement, short o f a lt er i ng the broad 14 Or to the narrow. The narrow gauge must be laid fre n li, ford northward; but why lay the broad gauge a t .0 5. proposed by the Great Western Company, at an exe tha e at the outset (from the mixed gauge) of more r ee l £BOO,OOO sterling ? Why not, instead, lay the % to t` gauge from Oxford to London, at one-third of the se ta' If this were done, the Guest Western could more %l i the ally compete in the north, if that be their object , or' Olt' North Western, than they can ever hope to d ° j3ir breaks of gauge at either Rugby, WolverhamPt e T4 the mingham, or Oxford ; and, for the south coast, ' by Ito Great Western carry out the pledge often mad: tn ke t ° l chairman, to lay the narrow gauge from Basin ,,s ic ts, Reading ; and thus the north and south coast di str , 0 01 - a cost of less than £lOO,OOO, would be saved the n WhP ance and expense of any break of gauge whetever• e wer; then, my lord, is this suggestion—so obviously the Xoo' est, simplest, and best for the public inte r r e ster n i adopted ? Must it be confessed that the Grea t ," ttee s relying on the conflicting decisions of come? . :_ in i%e! Parliament, hopes, year after year, to extend tt,e and tto, gauge further to the north on the one ben.l i ros t Southampton and Portsmouth on the other. o ctet owned, that whilst that company is thus urging a vow, - t lions, for th c L% l. an d 0 x for i d ts , g et . rni' o f th e 7 It is difficulty which affords a pretext for the extensntoatie broad gauge ? It was the Great Western that IV ne ve' introduction own (los of the p ot p uh o l ed s e mixed l ) i mx a eo d ds v nu e tg g i e e r e , liyt between. carefully , 00 re a t o b interfere rexceptionaleglui lines n declaring h . t h at it patty that is now seeking to introduce order to avoid, as it is alleged, the evils of , ots al°, o p in le ix o e t:l b e gre :;:a ; really in order to multiply breaks of gauge at P an ' se o l: b remote frorn,their own line ; and yet this een l y e i s y b alone confend that a mixed gauge is to constrUct and to work, hesit p ates to aPI let is to their own line, where no on e but the Yin awr have control over it." [This well-tim ed P published by Mr. Webb., of this town-] AI ir, This carried to bee( are, ,„ v wheth, Part 1! and c raft I scenes G ER habit a °f the injuri c crop s. , A( a nent h ouse. Parts COni m , Goldei Wife is