The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

: 7 0REIGN 6- COLONIAL INTELLIGENC THE STEAM-SHIP 'WASHINGTON. AMERICA. (From the 'Halifax Morning Post.) The Caledonia steam-ship, which arrived here on Sa- Our commercial circles were startled yesterday morn turday, brings advices from New York to the 14th ult., • ing by the report of a large steamer, bearing American Boston to the 15th, and Halifax to the 17th ult., and has colours, being off the harbour. She came to Cunard's brought £37,000 on freight. Wharf at half-past nine o'clock, and proved to be the The intelligence from th e var i ous St a t es i s un i m p or tant. U n i ted States' steamer, Washington. From Mexico we learn that President Anaya had ordered ' The Washington left Southampton the day after the that . no election should be held in any part of the republic Caledonia, (which vessel arrived here on Monday morn vecumed by the United States troops. ing• week, in fifteen-and-a-half -days, and sailed at eight The New Orleans Picayune states that a report was o'clock the same morning for Boston.) The Washington circulating in that c ity t o th e e ff ec t, th a t commissioners, encountered a series of very heavy gales, which dislocated empowered by Anaya, had actually arrived there. The some of her machinery, stove her wheel-house, and thus Picayune says that they believe the report to be correct. protracted her passage even to this • port to twenty-one It also says th a t th e comm issioners appeared afraid to and-a-half days. She put in to refit and take a fresh prOceed to Washington as long as Santa Anna remained supply of coals, and starts this evening or to-morrow. in the country. ABSTRACT FROM THE LOG. It is further stated that commissioners, authorized by Sunday, Dec. 12th : left Southampton this afternoon President Anaya, were in the city of Mexico charged with and, ran down Channel ; set in rain and gale from the instructions to enter into negotiations for peace. south. Monday, 20th : Heavy gales from south. At General Scott had issaed an order announcing that the, ten, pan., the Start Point bore north at twelve miles dis 'United States army is about to spread over and occupy tance. Tuesday, 21st : Blowing a heavy gale and head the whole republic of Mexico, and that it will hold pos- sea from N.W. Wednesday, 22d.: Ditto. Thursday, session until Mexico sues for peace, upon acceptable terms, 23d : Light winds and pleasant. Friday, 24th : Set in to the United States. All fines heretofore payable to the with heavy gale from N.W., and heavy head sea. Satur- Mexican government are demanded to aunnort the Tinitpd -n_ h breeze Fresh breeze Monday o, wher Necchia Feb. 1, 1848. sy an application to that Court for a mandamus. H • DENSE FOG AT: GLASGOW.—During the early part el third objection was, that if opposition had been made to last week Glasgow was visited with a fog so dense that e° the proceedings of the Court at the confirmation, and if object could be seen at the distance of more than a fe ll it was to be contended that the Court had not competent feet. The inhabitants do not recollect its equal for twenty jurisdiction to refuse to hear the opposers, remedy might years past. On Monday and Tuesday so dark was theek have been obtained under the provisions of the Church mosphere that no steamers ventured up or down th e Discipline Act. Certainly the Court of Queen's Bench Clyde. The frost was at the same time excessively keel!' had no more right or authority to inquire into and try the thermometer being below zero. On Wednesday, w e this case than it h a d t o try offences which clearly came a i r was again clear. under the decision of the Ecclesiastical Courts. And SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. —The public will learn Wi his fourth and last objection was, that under the whole great satisfaction that the admiralty have lost no time in of the circumstances of the present case there was no meeting the wishes of the government and the public' ground whatever to justify that Court in granting a generally, by providing superior ships, and selecting u e s mandamus. efficient officer to command the perilous enterprise el The Solicitor-General followed on the same side, as searching for this gallant o ffi cer—the distinguished Coe' did also Mr. M. D. Hill • the latte r quoted the opinion of Sir James Clark Ross, who returned about four th at Blackstone, that the statute of Henry the Eighth vested since upon a polar voyage—and who is the nephew o f that the election of a bishop in the Crown. other celebrated arctic voyager, Captain Sir John RuE''' On Tuesday, Mr- M. D. Cr Dr. Bayford, and Mr. Waddington, were heard aga i ns t th e ru l e an d in support C. 8., in wh om th e most unanimous confidence will be reposed as a most ex p er i ence d navigator. of the argument th a t th e C ourt o f Q ueen ' s Bench had GOVERNESSES.—At the last selection of annuitants ,Y, no jurisdiction in the matter. Dr. Addams spoke at great the Governesses Institution, in London, there were N length in support of the rule, contending that the Dean candidates for three annuities of £l5 each-84 ladle , and Chapter were not bound to elect the person named many reared in affluence, and all accustomed to the coo' in the letters missive, under the penalty of prtemunire, the forts and luxuries of at least our middle ranks, all seeldt only penalty att ac hi ng t o th e act o f t h e D ean and Chap- an annuity of £l5 ! Of these, 70 were unmarried, all ter-in the election of any other person being that of the of this number 7 had incomes above £2O, two deriveu appointment by the crown, by letters patent, of such from public institutions ; 16 had incomes varying five person as they might name. If the Dean and Chapter 365. to £l4 ; and 47 had absolutely nothing ! It will be had elected some other perso n i ns t ea d o f D r. Hampden recollected (say the committee) that all these ladies are to the see of Hereford, could it be maintained th a t th ey above 50 years of age; and of the utterly destitute 0 would be liable to prxmunire ? Would not the person were above 60. so elected have been bishop to all intents and purposes? AWFUL EVENT AND Loss or Lira.—On Saturday, fi t The learned doctor then proceed e d t o rea d, at cons i derable Stirchley, a company of men and boys were being let down length, several authorities, for the purpose of showing into one of the pits, when one of those destructive and that bishop the authority of was the not sovereign, extensivea" as was con- a " runner"--that is the chain flew off the arrel, au', tended for by the couns e l a b ou t ma ki ng the rule absolute. prec ipitated them all , to the bottom ;by whic b h dreadful The learned counsel had not concluded the citin of these g occurrence three poor boys have been killed in a mome nt. authorities when the court rose at half-past four o'clock. There were about sixteen men anbos in the hains, and On Wednesday, Mr. Add ams resumed his argument. several of them ha ve been more o r less injured c . The three and in answer to the argument on the other side, that 1 boys were in the centre of the group upon whom the the proceedings of the election, confirmation, &c., were 1 chains fell, and they were killed almost instateneouslys .- all " a show and a shadow," the appointment actually I Shrewsbury Journal. I vesting in the Crown, suggested that the Solicitor -General PRICE OF WHEAT.—It was precisely at this time last should bring to be in a bill t con ti o abolish such that useless ce d remonies ; y ear th a t w h eat made a sudden jump of 12s. on the er' or, they w ere nued,woulbring in a The price of wheat is at present less by 20s. than it 1 % 1 ' 4 bill fixing future confirmations for the first of April, so in the corresponding week of 1847. The Cambridge that the old story of making April fools might be carried returns for Saturday last gave it at 49s. p er quarter • far out to the letter.—Mr. H. S. Stephens, Mr. Peacock, and the same week in 1847 it was 725. having p 'n the pr'evi- Mr. Baddely followed on the same side, and the further ous week of that year, been only . 60s. Ev i en then the consideration of the case was adjourned to Thursday. foundations were being laid of the recent tumble dovre On Thursday, Mr. Baddely again appeared in support panic. The bubble was already swelling out into those of the rule for a mandamus. Sir F. Kelly then followed overstrained proportions which eventually yielded to the on the same side ; a ft er w hi c h t h e Attorney-General re- first breath of disappointment, and burst with a loud ex plied at some length to the arguments of the counsel in PI FATA L paper. support of the rule, and concluded by imploring their lord- FATAL EXCURSIoN.—A very sudden event occurred on ships, as early as was consistent with the importance of the Humber on Monday. The deceased are two young, the ouestion, to i n ti ma t e t h e op i n i on of the court upon it. men' ra both clerks in th e o ffi ce o f M r. George Camel!, o f On Friday sc6c m .whew,oao e r7swio r nsel merchant hdim h awom e meyi n : rhod t cG. uahsdo a nra and gntlydebet ducks n,fytsa s oe h n;Hgna i de p odanw p wlnlo i iei n idwnnB g ogt: ohws e ifwsrn g ooaHo e nunar n agdt bti Hamburg of bwa wmuoto O rafurgcn n p. mi t: e oGi alnyodrn o rfort f dt yehoment his h . a_iHo e pnc m tiauToeagnin ici el: , i 0 :: court will be delivered on Tuesday (this day). ap n L ga a e en m e di d t od e o f n d e2 , erntral - :fEtOrrllann. ... The Queen Dowager has sent £lOO for the relief of the Spitalfields weavers. t b w er e The other night a fisherman off Maryport caught no ment they ran foul of a schooner off the Citadel, their boar fewer than 6700 herrings. filled with water, and sunk with them in it. The / never A steam-ship arrived last week from Boulogne has rose to the surface. brought a cage of live foxes, consigned to order. WALES.—By the great outcry in letters and leaders, in An anniversary festival is about to be held at Dundee the liberal press of the Principality, we assure, e that the in honour of James Watt. Lord Kinnaird will preside. Dissenters begin to have some fear of losing their hold of It is said that the Postmaster -General intends to close this paradise of sectarian doctrines. The London the Post-office on a Sunday, in such towns as a majority Examiner has called it the British Bceotia, though it has of the inhabitants shall declare a wish to that effect. never produced a Pindar or a Plutarch. The only excuse In the London Gazette on Tuesday last, no less than for this nickname is the silly replies of scholars and school thirty-six bankruptcies were named ; and in the Friday's, masters to the questions of the Education Commissioners; ys, one twenty-six more; making sixty-two in one week. but let them put the same questions to the schoolmasters - -- , an o. A few days since, a number of boys were skating on a of the rural districts and villages of Northamptonshire, ' mill dam near Halifax, when the ice gave way, and four Gloucestershire, and a dozen other counties, and they will of them were drowned. find the same abundance of wiseacres. The Whigs have It is stated that the celebrated Whitfield was born in been the chief aids of the Dissenters, in extending their the house, the Bell Inn, at Gloucester, in which th e pre- i n fl uence i n W ales ; and now they complain of the igno sent Bishop of Ex e te r first saw the light. ranee they helped to propogate and extend. On Saturday week, a man and two b o y s were d escend- BURGLARIES AND MURDEROUS ATTACR.—Recentlyy,. ing a colliery, in Parr, when the rope broke and the three the rectory of Lea was broken into, and plate, amounting fell to the bottom of the shaft, and were instantly killed, to upwards of £3O in value, taken therefrom. The par- , Mr. Nunn, who was prosecuted by the Society for the sonage houses of Laughton and Blyton have, also, been prevention of cruelty to animals, for riding his horse, for plundered ; and the vicarage of South Leverton has been a wager, from Leamington to London, gave £5O to the ransacked, and the whole of the plate packed up, but for-- Sinceoey, afr deducting the fine. tunately the burglars were disturbed before they had the general flag promotion in November, 1846, no opportunity of taking it away. We have now to record an fewer than twenty admirals have died, and three retired another attempton the rectoryof Saundby,which had partly rear-admirals. Nine admirals on the active list have died succeeded ; but through the determined spirit of Mr. Hud-- within the last three weeks. son, and his capital defence of his house and person, the' MURDER.—A small farmer, named William Howell, burglars have not been successful, but on the contrary, one living at Llanellen, has died from arsenic being adminis_ of the guilty party, at least, was captured. He turns out tered, and a verdict of wilful murder has been returned to be a returned convict, named Joseph Palmer, alite‘' against his wife, an d aga i ns t J ames P r i ce as an accomplice. " Duddy Palmer, " a native of Clarborough, with whom/ A very numerous meeting was held in Newcastle-on- from all we can learn, were three other guilty associates, Tyne, on Wednesday, with a view to prevent that port who are still at large. Palmer was brought up on Wcd being deprived of Custom-house facilities, and brought ' nesday week at Redford, when, after a long examination, within the range of North Shields. he was remanded. Mr. Hudson, whose face was covered . SOAP TRADE.—In the 'Excise Covrt, on Thursday, with blood, was well enough to give evidence before his John Renton, of Walworth, was convicted of fraud in his brother magistrates. The shirt he had on whilst engaged business as a soap manufacturer, was fined £lOOO, and all in the affray was exhibited, and presented one m a ss of his stock was condemned.—Sophia Bertram, convicted of blood. A gun, the stock of which had been broken into making soap without a license, was fined £4OO. three pieces ; a life-preserver, heavily charged with lead ;- ORANGE PEEL.—FATAL ACCIDENT.—On the 9th inst., and a bludgeon, partially covered with blood, which the a female named Sophia Martin, slipped at Clifton through burglars had left on the premises, were also produced.-- -, treading on some orange peel; and sustained a compound Hull Packet. dislocation of the thumb. Lock jaw set in, and she soon E AST I NDIA S HIPPING.—The East India and China' died. Association have published their annual compa "tfvei Last week, known aboils_at Smith Shiolda_oinilo sa qtatement nf the aurn6or vf British - shi m -wise- their) poor idiot mu, as " Billy Cowans," drunk, and tonnage, which have entered inwards and cleared out filled his pockets with squibs. They went off and set him wards from and to places within the limits of the East on fire, burning hire in a severe manner. The offenders India Company's Charter in the years 1846 and 1847• in parish pries, earned divine then have not been found out. The return of shipping entered inwards shows a total goes on to state, that in the time of Henry VIII., the On Saturday, the directors of the new South-Western increase, in favour of 1847, of 150 vessels, with 66,54 3 , monasteries were dissolved, and the then existing revenues Steam Navigation Company made a trial of their ship the I tonnage, the respective numbers being 852 vessels, with of these bodies were transferred chiefly into the hands of Dispatch, to the Nore and back. The engines made forty 360,039 tonnage, in 1846, against 1,002 vessels, with rapacious laymen ;—and he then gives a table of what the revolutions per minute, attaining a speed of eighteen 426,582 tonnage, in 1847. Of this increase the port of Russells and Howards derived from such transfer, naming statute miles per hour. London received 107 vessels, with 47,830 tonnage; Lis the Abbeys, &c., apportioned to each, and by which table On Friday week a servant girl employed by a family verpool, 32 vessels, with 16,523 tonnage ; and Bristol and we see the Duke of Bedford gained £150,000 per annum, residing at Birmingham. was suffocated by a piece of Hull, 9 vessels, with 3,173 tonnage. The most numerous and the Duke of Norfolk £25,000 per annum! That tripe, an inch and three-quarters, square, which she had aarivals this year have been from Madras, Bombay,_ m a ny lay impropriators are now deriving large incomes endeavou re d to swallow while she was carrying down stairs Singapor e , a n d Penang, the Mauritius and th e South from Church revenues there can be no doubt. We hope the remains of a lodger's supper. Seas. The return of shipping cleared outwards shows a for the sake of the country, success may attend the exer- An animated discussion took place at a recent meeting t o t a l d ecrease o f 16 vessels in the year 1847 compared tions of the Committee we have named, and that proper of the governors of Heriot's Hospital, in Edinburgh, as with the preceding twelve months though with respect to regard will be shewn to the wants of the really pious to whether it was desirabl e t o su b st i tute steel pens for the gross amount of tonnage an increase of 17,782, in working clergy. quills in the hospital and out-door schools; but, i n con_ measurement, is established for the same period. These sideration of the "importance" of the subject, it was results are thus arrived at :—ln 1846 the clearances in resolved to defer it till t h e next meeting. eluded 979 vessels, with 413,849 tonnage, while in 1847 LAW IN7'ELLIGENCE. So many infants have lately died a t L oug hb oroug h , t h ey included 963 vessels, with 431,631 tonnage. The The trial of M r . G u tt er id ge . , for libelling the Bishop of from the eff ec t s o f l au d anum administered to them by port of London in this respect was in decrease 1 vessel, Manchester, will take place at Warwick, in March. their mothers or nurses, that the coroner has intimated but the tonnage showed an increase of 8,207 in measure Arule nisi for Bench, criminal e - his intention of re com mending-the jury to r e t urn a v er - me at ; Liverpool was i n d ecrease t o t h e extent of 21 by the be the Dublin Pilot, for ch arg i ng L or d Cl anr i car d e , th roug h dict of m ans l aug ht er if anot h er case of the kind s h o uld _vessels, with 2,492 t onnage increase , while Bristol, an Queen'seb, Dublin, against the has been ir° p r ietor granted of Occur. Hull, and th e Cl y d e , an d ot h er ports contributed, on the his " cruel, unrelenting, and ironhearted agent," with Mrs. Hannah Thomas, aged 45, a lady respectably con - other hand, an increase—in the former case to the extent fleeted, who was com m itt e d f rom B ow-street , on °a t ur - o f 2 vessels, with 829 tonnage, and in the latter case 5, exterminating his starving tenantry. re f l u n se day, fo r giving a false character to a servant, died on vessels, with 6,254 tonnage. The chief clearances wits ceased wh tonnage have been for Calcutta, Madras, SinMy in Tothill-Fields prison. The d i thof her e " t d he to V d ic i e ss - o C l h ve an t c h e e llo i r n ' j s u C nc o t u io rt n o a n g T ai u n e s s t d p ay u , bl h is is hi H ng ono t r e taken into custody, said it " would be the ea A MELANCHOLY STORY. —A singular instance of mit raßitsehofoprmof.HeDrerf.oHrdal Lpdifeenof wroteTh r t a fo s for the if she were sent to prison. ternal affection, and melancholy misery, occurred in this Metropolitans, and declined to allow it to be published A •cl 1 f t tl fr city aew ays since. wi ow, w so, un or una ey o as a distinct work. and felt no pain during the oerationwhen she re- them, was the mother of six children, found refuge in a THE ASSIZES.—The following days have been arranged i since, le .a dentist a 1 a lady y . was residing drawing sdt i ans discovered vo, r _oeShields,r unsoundedd t iola i Id e rdt inhaled orhaoowtrbn. tooth, . f d . covered from her insensibility, she dilapidated dwelling in one of the lanes. The youngest with regard to the Northern Circuit :—Before Mr. Baron ror that the dentist had made a ch A loro fe f w orm da w y_ h s Hants letter of her children fell ill, and died. The whole family were Alderson and Mr. Baron Rolfe :—Lancaster.—Saturday, in a state of the utmost destitution, and the disease rapidly February 19 ; Appleby.—Wednesd ay, February 23 ; Car lisle.—Friday,A LONG TIME C0M1NG.—..... mastered the young orphan's energies. A coffin was be February 25 ; Newcastle.—Tuesday, Feb. her soundest tooth instead of A th fe e w de d ca a y y e s d s ? in n e e e . a red. Co ffi n and corpse would have been borne, perhaps, s . . 29; Durham.—Saturday, March 4 ; York.—Thursday, which was posted at Tewkes- ' • says time without the mother s assistance, to some graveyard near- March 9 ; Liverpool.—Monday, March 20. co I n tl t d a ep in en ing de:t L a eci g u e e l:tleman at Romsey' receive d But she had lived at a distance of many miles from this BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—In the Court of Exchequer on Thursday, a young lady, named Caster, its way to Rome ! where it has been l ying till the present bury in 1846 : from a misreading of he address it found city, and in the burial ground of her native place her time. friends were interred. The distance was far, and as few the daughter of a retired victualler, obtained a verdict, coffin, containing would consent to carry a £lOO damages, against her false swain, Charles Clare, a trialat the Hereford A • has been committed for As sizes far unnecessarily, the poor mother resolved to bear it her gr gro cer in the Kingsland-road, near London.—ln the FATAL ASSAULT ON A &W.—A man, named Jenkins, charged with beating a boy, named IVlaib, to death. Both self. She actually did so. She had it placed on her back, Sheriff' Court, on the same day. a Miss Rogers brought parties were in the employ of a butcher at Hay, and o n and slowly and wearily she bore it away, reached the an action against a railway cler k , named Batchelor, for the 29th December, Jenkins beat the boy so severe ly graves of her kindred, scratched a trench, we have heard, breach of promise. Judgment had gone by default, and with a stick that one of the blood -vessels of his head was ' with her hands, and thus consigned to the earth where the jury awarded the fair spinster £64 for the loss of her has rece n tly she wished they should rest the remains of her offspring- Batchelor. CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS. --The Times . She returned to the orphans. A second took sick, died broken, and he died a few days afterwards. NEWSPAPERS CANNOT BE LEGALLY LENT ON HIRE, been rich in these eccentricities. Take the following quickly, like the other ; like the other, was placed in a —At the Bloomsbury County Court, on Wednesday, a notice as au example : — Rodolph B. acknowledges the charity coffin, and conveyed in the same way, by the un news-vendor named Miller, sought to recover from a Mr. receipt of a slice of part pudding, sent him by post to- fortunate mother, to the same place of burial, and buried Chem ion, a'retired tradesman, the sum of 6s. for news- The wholey enjoyed it uncommonly at in like manner by her own hands. She returned ag luncheon, it being as rich as the idea.—Belgravia, New A third child took sick, died speedily also, was stretched papers p lent to him to read. Theplaintiff baying proved da y' his case, the defendantadmittedthe debt, but doubted Year's Day, 1841. in a coffin procured from the charitable, borne away as whether he could be compelled to pay. The judge ob ed that such a remark from him he considered dis-POSTA GE.— In Ro wland ffeet o fHi hisll before by the sorrowing mother, and interred near to the other two by the hapless poor creature's almost excoriated graceful ; but still he could not entertain the claim, as the expressed PENNY c on fi P Te s n i t increase 39ttb, the et number hands. She returned a third time. A fourth child was law now stood the same as years ago, when it had been penny postage would be to plant transmitted by post five-fold within a very few years. m e b e er of letters ill ; fell a victim as quickly as each of the others, was cof d uld t decided that persons lending newspapers to rea co no This prophecy is already all but verified. The number r fined by charity, and carried off and laid Isgsseessesalie recoeer,but ss -ere liable for so dointo a penalt of £5O, of chargeable letters transmitted by post in 1839 was 76 beside her three children. She came back to her wretched suchtrafficking in stam s y to be de it being considered by . . p . Milllons_, in 1817 it amounted to 322 millions. _ s,-, stmsnt A fifth eliild was seized by the malady, a r.-- -vl-.. ,1 -- -----, " r" . " --. `" - ` - '"" '''''."' ". '`''''''' There was -e a esp rate attray between a party 01 potiefietS-,- fifth co ffi n procured, a fi ft h wearisome journey made alone He therefore must dismiss the plaint.—Judgment for de- . number, and the keepers and upwards of twenty in by the mother, and a fifth body consigned to the earth, fendant. watchers at Chillingham Castle, a few days ago. One of there, at all events, no longer to feel the pangs of disease, EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.—In the Court of Arches, on the keepers was dangerously wounded and is not expected or the slow wasting progress of unalleviated hunger.—' Saturday week, Dr. Addams finished his reply in the case to live. Both parties fired at each other, and it is stated Limerick Examiner. of Geils v. Geils, which has been so long before the Court, that the poachers were seen carrying off one of the by trusting that the Court would speedily deliver its sea- I OUR DEFENCES.---The Glob wounded of their party. tense, in order that if any one point were decided adverse a very good article, in the wf There is now on view at the to Mrs. Geils the case might be taken to the Privy Coun- Atheneum,• Cornish Olympus, under the "The Ship- Birmingham, a large painting, entit led ofL.___,_ . . ss , „ , cif. There was, however, he said, another tribunal to builder," which is ii i stended to form one t which the cause must be taken—the bar of public opinion wonfil ..,;t1,,,.- urize , 4 of t T 4 —and he was satisfied that in that case they glected in the bishopric of Tuam, what is the answer to that grave charge ? Simply, that the neglect is altogether to be attributed to the obstinacy of the governMent in re fusing to place the entire control of the national schools, property and all, in the hands of the priests ! "Is your lordship aware," he asks, " that it was the instruction of his Holiness that the property of the national schools, re sorted to chiefly by Catholics, should be. vested in the Catholic pastors ?" The instruction, however, not hav ing been complied with, though proceeding from what is audaciously called the supreme authority of the Pope"— supreme in Ireland !—Dr. WHale would have no connec tion whatever with the national system, and accordingly lost no time in establishing seminaries of his own. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE e of Monday came forth ay of ridicule, against the auspices of the pacific Si' ie principal --on for 1848. The picture is said to be the work of Rembrandt, and will no doubt, therefore, attract the attention both of the dil letanti and of the general public of this town. AN UNREASONABLE WANT.—A person advertises for a regular supply of a daily threepenny London newspaper at half-price !—that is, at barely the cost of the stamp and white paper, leaving labour, talent, wages. rent, taxes, wear and tear of materials , rent, anxiety of mind, risk of W. Molesworrn, .u. wie Birmingham Peace Club, of f argument. Th ere is now another chance for Cobden and Sturges frater n i za ti on. Th e su b ject does mi e t e o l on his to follow th e guide of the " unadorned elo quence"of the design er of pr i nt patterns, and his serfs n s o ir t R ad. P piece prices. Cobden argu e s th a t th er e th ere are no lon ger any national antipathies in France towa rds Engla n d ; and beyond the clubs, &c., none in England towa r d s F rance. The Globe instances the fol lowing effects of disarming : —We saw thi s re d uct i on , which bad b een devised by a Tory, carried into effect by a Whig Ministry accordi ng t o th e usua l i n fl uence on each starving others' measures of British parties. And we saw the consequences, in the state of the British Mediterranean squadron in 1839 and early in 1810, and in the effect which that comparative condition to the improvements the French had been making produced on French opinion, and indeed on European opinion generally.—Captaia Plunkett observes, (Past and Future of the British Navy) :—" In 1839, and early in 1840, our ships in the Mediterranean were, generally speaking, small, and under manned, and with very indifferent crews ; our flag ship, although a three-decker, was smaller, and of less force in men and guns, than the French two-decked ships. Our squadron was also numerically weaker ; and though a subsequent increase of complement, by means of drafts from England, inspired confidence and improved the morale of our fleet, there certainly was a time when its situation was very precarious."—l nc id enta ll y, in his famous " Note," the Prince de Joinville remarks o n the same point—" We had at that moment the advantage over . the British squadron in organisation and in numbers. Our sailors, commanded by an able and active chief, were exercised, and all promised a victory. Ido not here rely on my own recollection, but upon that of one of the most skilful officers of the British navy."—To the ques tion why we have wanted increased armaments since 1840, we should have thought it enough to answer—because our force was then dangerously low; and because nothing but a " happy accident," and a " petty fortress," sawed our fame in the sight of Europe. affirm the sentence nor remit the cause. Dr. Curtei;;;; to fellow Dr. Addams, but the learned Judge said, I will hear no more to-day after what 1 have heard. It is dis graceful to the Court, disgraceful to the public, and dis graceful to the profession. The way in which the cause has been argued has been most disgraceful. The learned Judge then rose to leave the chair, and as he was doing so, Dr. Addams, with great warmth, said, I protest against your observations, sir, and I treat them with contempt and disgust. he ven- rs of newspapers meet with a sorry return for giving UP .sonable profit. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH (Sittings in Banco) THE QUEEN V. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY MONDAY SUPPER IN A CASK.—On Wednesday, a respectable party were invited to suppe r i n a l arge oa k cas k, m ade by Mr. Isaac Aulton, of D u dl ey , at t h e h ouse o f Jr. John Hughes, Five Ways I nn , Ti p t on . Af ter t h e cloth was drawn, the usual loyal t oas t s were d ran k, and several excellent songs were introduced on the occasion. Many persons attended out of courtesy to witness the novel scene. HAMPDEN'S CASE.-MANDAMUS. Shortly after ten o'clock, Lord Chief Justice Denman, Mr. Justice Patteson. Mr. Justice Coleridge, and Mr. Justice Erle, took their seats, when the case of the Queen v. the Archbishop of Canterbury was called on. The Attorney-General then said he was instructed by her Majesty's government, with the full sanction of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, to oppose the rule obtained by his learned friend Sir F . Kelly, for a manda mus in this case ; and the objections which it would be his duty to urge were so numerous that he hardly knew where to begin, and what course he ought to adopt. He then proceeded to state the following as th e or d er o f hi s principal objections, and cited a vast mass of antique laws in support of them. He said that at the confirmation of bishops it was usual to make proclamation requiring op posers to come forward, but he should be able to prove that at alltimes that part of the ceremony had been treated as a form, and throughout the ceremony o f con fi rma ti on the Arch bishop or his Vicar-General only acted minis terially not judicially ; that was his first objection to the rule. He should secondly contend, however, that whe ther the act of the archbishop was ministerial or judicial, if wrong was done the remedy was got by appeal, and not SALE OF THREE OF E. LANDSEER'S PICTURES.— Three early pictures by Edwin Landseer, were sold on Wednesday week. The first was a small picture repre senting " A thorough-bred Scotch terrier with a dead rat in its mouth." It fetched 68 guineas. The next was called ".Waiting for orders," and was a portrait of a coachman ; 32 guineas was given for it. The last was called The Paddock," and representing an old chesnut horse and a white Scotch terrier. Sold for 100 guineas. A few days since a tradesmen residing near Stratford lc-Bow, Essex, who had suffered several heavy losses, resolved to sell some freehold property which he inherited from his father. He consequently went to fetch the title deeds from an iron safe, into which he had thrust them soon after his father's death. fourteen or fifteen years before, and which had never since been opened, when he discovered a sum of £4OO in Bank of England notes, which are supposed to have been placed there by his father. THE LuntreeL STANDARD. IRELAND. Comparative tranquillity pervades the counties in.which the Special Commission has been sitting. Lamb, the first of the year, was exhibited at the New tewn meat market, Limerick, on Friday. The Rev. J. Moore, incumbent of Mulaghfad, near Enniskillen, committed suicide on Friday week, by cutting his throat. He was one of the most benevolent men living. It is said that the Government have two cases of altar denunciation, by Roman Catholic clergymen, on their books, which they may legally and effectually prosecute. Bishop O'Higgins has written a letter to Mr. J. O'Con nell, in which he calls Englishmen " pagans," and deals in a variety of other phrases equally significant and charitable. Two brothers, named Nester, were amusing themelres near Mayo, firing at a mark, when one playfully presented a pistol at his brother, which unfortunately went off, the ball entering the forehead. —*— The Church and State Gazette states that the Arch bishop of Canterbury is in a precarious state. The Rev. S. B. Sellers, of Rufford, has been appointed chaplain to the High Sheriff, Sir T. G. Hesketh, Bart. The Bishop of Tasmania has left England for his far distant diocese. The Archbishop of York has accepted the office of patron and presid en t o f th e Y or k A ux ili ary to t h e Church The allegations respectin g th e mys t er i ous d eat h s o f the Missionary Associ a ti on . Rev. Mr. Maguire and his b ro th er an d sister-in-law have The Bishop of Manchester will hold his first ordination rain, all been denied. The first, it is affirmed, died of gout in; on the 19th March at Manchester. Candidates are to v , the stomach, .and the two latter " suddenly" of fever. send in the requisite papers before the 19th February. i-E Nevertheless, , the report is still current that the stomach Mr. C. H. Frewen, M.P. for East Sussex in a letter to es of the brother of the rev. gentleman was forwarded to the Record, says, " There are strong reasons ' for believing, y; Dublin for analysation, and that poison had been disco- that if it had not been for the interference of one or two lont -a heavy sea ; ship .labouring very vered sufficient to cause death. heavy hail s t orm f rom N.W. Thursday, 30th, LARGE SURRENDER OF FI RE - AR M of the bishops, Mr. Montagu Villiers would have now S, &c.—He a d con- been upon the ben c h." gale from N.W.. w ith h eav y h ea d sea; s t op- s t a bl e H ayes , on Th urs d ay, deposited at the military The Bishop of Exeter is causing great excitement ../ty hours to .repair engine. Guard of larboard barracks, Nenagh, 300 stand of arms, together with a among the clergy in his diocese by a new rule, of subject -el-house stove and washed away. New Year's Day : large quantity of pikes, bayonets, and ammunition, sur- ing to a re-examination every elergyman who may apply January . lst. Blowing fresh, with heavy sea from north. rendered under the Lord Lieutenant's proclamation. The to be instituted to a benefice, or licensed to a curacy, how of Cut the wizen topmast to brace the cylinders. Sunday, same head-constable, on Saturday, took up in the town ever long he may have been in holy orders. and Jan. 2d : 'Wind increases to a gat- from N.W., with heavy and vicinity of Nenagh, between 20 and 30 stand of arms, It has been remarked, that in the case of Dr. Hampden, hail squalls. From eight, p.m., to midnight, wind light all of which were urregistered.---Nenagh Guardian. , the supporters of eccle s i as tical j ur i s di c ti on appear i n the "v sea rolling from N.W. Mond a y 3d. : COM - LORD STANLEY versus THE CONFESSIONAL.—Th e Court of Queen's Bench in the name of the Crown, while _ and rain. At half-an-hour past noon Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry (Dr. Maginn) is palpa- the assertors of the power of the Crown defend it on be -,,,rrie, the blower engine pipe having burst. bly emulous of the fame achieved by the western metro- half of the Archbishop. The weather is even colder in Paris and in the South- ";-. `t -- a r ried engine again at 3h. 45m. p.m., and the d a y en d s politan, the renowned John of Tuam. The northern eastern parts of France than it is in England. The Derby Mercury states, that the Bishop of Lincoln with a heavy gale from W.S.W. Tuesday 4th: Heavy " lion," like his prototype, has a morbid ambition to rush has given it as his opinion that no consecration is neces- Some French engineers have been engaged to construct gale continues from W.S.W., with fog. At half-past two into print ; and the speech of Lord Stanley, in the late a suspension -bridge over the Rhine at Cologne. - • sary when the whole or any part of a church is rebuilt. It p.m., stopped' to, repair breaks in pipes, and after t en lsession, in which his lordship attributes much of the pre- On the 20th the goods warehouse of the Stuttgard and appears that it is sufficient for a building to stand upon hours and a-half, started again at 1 a.m. - Wodnesday sth : valence of Irish crime to the practice of auricular conies- Posen railway was totally destroyed by fire. The loss is consecrated ground, and that it thereby partakes of the Fresh breezes and thick fog. At middle watch blowing sion, has afforded Dr. Maginn a fitting plea for addressing met down at 50;00A tholes. heavy gale from the S.W. ; carried away larboard wheel three monstrous epistles in refutation of the charge pre- privileves of the sanctuary, without being formally sepa- The committee of the Prussian United Diet, now sitting rated from common uses, further than by its locality. and house. At six, p.m., cut off half speed, on account of ferred by the noble lord. The last of the series spreads in Berlin to revise the penal code, has just decided for the , THE LABOURER NOT PAID.—A correspondent of a sea. Ship labouring hard. Thursday, 6th : Heavy gale over five columns of Thursday's Freeman, and for scurri maintenance of-the punishment of death by a of daily paper writes :—" It is a fact that the perpetual cu.; rate of the united parishes of Wetheral and Warwick, in majority from W.S. W., and very heavy head sea; at one, p.m., lily and virulence this letter altogether eclipses . any pro -463 to 34 votes. the county of Cumberland, with an area of twelve miles passed an English brig bound eastward. Friday, 7th : duction that has yet emanated from the classic shades of Excellent coal has been discovered at Vancouver's Continued fresh breezes from S.S.E., from four to 6, p.m., St. Jarlath's. Island. It runs in extensive fields, and in clumpy in length, with a population of £4OOO souls, and with two when, the wind increased to a heavy gale ; tremendous sea ; JOHN OF TUAM A POOR-RATE DEFAULTER.—From a mounds, and will, we hope ere long, be brought within churches, two miles apart, which he has to serve every Stopped at half-past ten, p.m., to secure braces of engine; letter addressed from the Poor-law Commission-office, the reach of the fast ,increasing number of our steamers Sunday, has assigned to him by the dean and chapter of started again at one, a.m. Saturday Bth : Stiff breeze W. Dublin, to the secretary of the Board of Guardians of the en the west coast of America and the Pacific. Carlisle the miserable pittance of £52 per annum out of by N. Sunday 9th : Commences calm and clear. Found Tuam Union, it appears that several " persons of rank The foundation stone of the monumental church of St. the tithes and other hereditaments, which amount to our coal short, and shaped our course for Halifax. At and consideration, some of whom are guardians," are John, at Colaba, Bombay, was laid by the Governor, on nearly £2OOO a-year. The tithes are leased out to a Ro two, a.m., made Sambro light, bearing N.W. by W. by still in arrear for their poor rates—that some of them the 4th of December, assisted by the Bishop and clergy. man Catholic !" compass. Laid ship off and on. Wind hauled to S.E., have paid no part of either the present or the previous The whole of the European society of Bombay was present with rain and thick weather. At daylight stee r ed i n f or rate—and that amongst the number who have thus set the P ROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE VICAR OF HAREWOOD.— on the occasion, and an immense crowd of natives. harbour; fog increasing hauled off; Sambro bearing law at defiance, and frustrated the means necessary for For some time it has been known that proceedings have been commenced in the Ecclesiastical Court, against the The waters of the Rhine are at present so low that the W.S.W. six miles. Day ends blowing very heavy gale the preservation of human life, is no less a personage than foundations of the piers of the great bridge which the Dr. M`Hale, Archbishop of Tuani. This p " Lion of the Rev. Mr. Hale, vicar of Hardwood, for a series of perso from S.E., with rain, ship heading off land with full steam. nal attacks which the rev. gentleman is alleged to have Emperor Constantine had built over this river in the year Between six and eight,,p.M., began to moderate. At ten, Fold of Judah" accuses the English government of whole -308 are visible. Active search is at present being made made from the pulpit on certain of his parishioners who p.m., steered north. Monday, 10th : At one, p.m., made sale murder for not feeding the Irish people, and refuses to discover some remains of the bridge thrown over the have frequented his church. We may safely add that Sambro, hearing north twelve miles distant. At half-past to pay his own poor rates. The guardians are told that Rhine by Julius Caesar, but hitherto without result. Mr. Hale's character as a gentleman and divine is not seven got pilot on hoard, and at half-past nine o'clock, unless they exercise their powers to enforce the collection n the in the least implicated in • these . proceedings. "ViTe un -4- made fast to Cunard's Wharf, Halifax. of the rates they will be superseded by paid officers. derstand that the Rev. Mr. Hale is 74 years of age, and The Halifax Morning Post, of the 17th instant, says, DEATH OF THE REV. CHARLES GAYER.—On Thursday death folded the Rev. C. Gayer in his relentless embrace, , that he has been minister of the parish for 47 years.— "TI "-finch steamer Missouri again put into this port, Leeds Intelligences. -- a supply of coal. She left Havre for New in the midst of a life of usefulness and in the prime of life. I Mr. Gorham, the clergyman whom the Bishop of and experienced moderate weather The Church of God has received a heavy blow in Dingle 1 Exeter refuses to institute to the living of Bramford - ---bt. twenty-nine cabin pas- by his death; to his young and numerous family the loss I Speke, on the presentation of the Crown (and whom he will be irreparable ; and the poor of his neighbourhood I has harrassed by an examination of several da - -dp will not again look upon such a f " id— '-- 'hem 1 A coroner's inquest was held in Kells, county of Meath, last week, on the bodies of two women, named Elizabeth and Catherine Doggett, mother and daughter, who, ac cording to the verdict of the jury, " came to their deaths from cold and privation and actual want of the common necessaries of life." rr 11r1 M 11.14. .1/31 States army, General Scott is said to have pushed for- Sunday, 26th ward a column to Queretaro, the seat of the Mexican I very heavy head sea. rom W. S.W., and and heavy weather: 27th : Blowing very fresh government A rumour, not confirmed, however, was current, to the erect that General Scott h a d b een reca ll e d f rom th e com- I heavil sea getting larger • ship labouring Wednesday, 29th : hopped to repair engine The troops at Sant Les, Wi ere in a state of Berea t insubor- Mr. Clay had met with a brilliant reception at Wash ington. Continued ped t Two severe steam-boat expl ins had occurred. On€ steamer, bound to St. I gunpowder on board, blew up with a report that was forty miles from the scene of accident. The passengers Uppity escaped. The boilers of another vessel burst, and and heavy out of seventy passengers, twenty to thirty perished. mences light ai - stopped ea.; Eighth, King of Denmark, and Duke of Sales, stein, and Lanenburg, died on the 19th ult., at hagen. He was born on the 18th September, 1786, ana succeeded to the throne December 3, 1839. The Crown Prince, Fred. Charles Christian, was born on the 6th of I a October. 1808. anss rreaenca Herschel', sister of the great astrono mer: has just _died suddenly at Hanover, aged 98. This he steerage - - - --, - - --- me.. . —to t_ m -ay a use- continuing it eleven hours and a-half), is a clergyman of . fulness during the worst pressure of the past year cannot thirty-seven years' standing in the ministry, and graduated lady had acted for many years as secretary to her brother, LOSS OF THE SCREW-,STEAMER ARAM. be told. The Rev. Mr. Gayer was in the 42d year of his with high honours at Cambridge. He obtained all the and possessed great astronomical knowledge. She pub- when he fell, after a few days' illness, a victi.n to ty- • • lished several important works, and to her is due a selenic On Sunday, by the arrival at this port of the packet-age prizes in his college whilst an undergraduate. He was globe in relief, long celebrated, and which is now at ship Susquehanna, Captain Dunlevy, from Philadelphia, pnus fever, brought on after . influenza,. at his residence, the only competitor with Professor Sedgwick for the geo- Ballintaggart. His remains are interred in Dingle Greenwich. The deceased was engaged in astronomical intelligence was received of a serious collision between chair. His literary, and theological attainments observations the night before her death. that ship and the auxiliary-screw steamer Aram, Captain Church. In the Church be occupied the position of chap_ logical induced the late Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst to give him The Bishop of Cape Town arrived at Madeira on the Easterby, by which the latter vessel was so seriously da- lain to Lord Ventry , rector of Dunurlin, and curate of Dingle,he Y' been chief instrument ' where has the under the valuable living of St. Just, in Cornwall, worth more 30th December. His lordship, on New Year's Day, held waged that she sunk, and six of her crew were drowned.than £5OO a year ; but the situation in some respects not a confirmation in the English Church, in the prezence of The disaster occurred on Sunday evening week, at seven God in fostering the work of reformation going on there being congenial, Mr. Gorham gladly accepted on the ber Majesty Queen Adelaide ; and in the evening the o'clock, off the southeast coast of Ireland, about forty so successfully for some years past.—Kerry Post. presentation of the Crown, the living of Bramford Speke, Bishop and Mrs. Gray had the honour to dine with her miles below Tuskar. The ship, which for some days pre- REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the meeting on Monday, although the income is nearly £3OO per annum less. Majesty. On the 4th January, on leaving the island, viously bad been contending with strong east winds, was the Lord Mayor, who had been so well abused during RESTORATION OF TITHES TO THE CHURCH.—A coin - ..I_, --- • 'ishopio the beach, at the time of the collision standing to the northward, the week by his friends, the Repeaters, took the chair. mittee consisting of Lord John Manners, Lord Robert close-hauled, with the wind about E.N.E., and the wea- A letter was read from his " lordship" explaining , his con- Grosvenor, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Stephen At least one hun tto the Bishop ther being very cloudy prevented the steamer from being duct with regard to the omission of O'Connell 's name Glynne, Bart., the Dean of Chichester, the Rev. Robert the moment of seen till they were close in contact. After the vessels got from the list of toasts at the recent banquet—the letter Spranger, D.C.L., the Rev. R. Chandos, Pole, &c., has clear of each other, Captain Easterby, of the Aram, find- also contained his subscription of £l. A communication ' been formed, for the purpose of restoning the tithes now says that a ing his vessel in a very dangerous state, ordered the boats from Dr. O'Higgins was also read, inclosing subscriptions held by lay impropriators to the exclusive use of the , haviour of to be got out, when seventeen persons, including himself to the amount of £4l. The assembly was addressed by Church. The patronage of the Church is as follows: Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Timothy O'Brien, and Mr. ~,1 the first and second mates, got into them, and were Clerical Patrons, 2353 ! Collegiate (Clerical and Lay), Ford on the subject of the Dublin Improvement Bill. A Awards taken on board the Susquehanna. It 805 ! ! Lay, 7553 !! ! Thus nearly two-thirds of the Mr• Burke, of Tintrim,spoke at considerable length on mend that six of the crew were missing. Every • withpatronage of benefices in England and Wales is in the various subjects, and concluded an attack on Mr. 3n, s made by Captain Dunlevy in searching for them,hands of laymen, and not of the Church itself ! The Rev. td, after lying-to near the spot till daylight the next Shiel. Alderman Hyland, of Kilkenny, next presented J. D. Schomberg, a learned and able writer on Ecclesias himself, and in moving the adoption of a petition to the 'ling, no trace of the vessel or the poor fellows, whotical matters states:—`• By the particular constitution of House of Commons from the Roman Catholic clergy of it have 'mated on spars, being visible, the ship bore his • England. every acre of land in the country is titheable, Ay for t' 4- locality, stated that there was not a more peaceable unless an exemption can be shewn ; and the reason that The Ar Mersey on Saturday week, bound for county in Ireland than that of Kilkenny, though there had every acre of land is titheable, is not by prescription, as been between eighty or ninety ejectments issued at the last nle, to which ports she was aSir R. Peel and others have alleged, (which is no title) quarter sessions, a l arge num b er o f w hi c h were against , the u superior ves se l, r i gge d as a but because the parochial clergy were endowed with this ,of tenantry a judge of the l an d—J u d ge C rampton — who on thetithe by the thanes or lords of the respective manors, who - q he supposed, should an y ou t rage occur i n consequence, made the payment of it a charge upon their estates, and would be sent down to try the offenders. Mr. Hyland , against their descendants for ever. ** * Now, this spoke with great energy, striking his knuckles against the being the case, it may be a matter of surprise to many, table with considerable force at the close of every sen- I_lmm the tithe came ever to slip away from the parish. :La 4-- 1,.... -C.•arr • f pric,..to . iu miler. ......,,,i, nun tn. elltiOvv mum, Daring CATASTROPHE IN Roscommo N .—O n th e 26 t h o f last I been, as it were, clenched by the law of the land, so many month (Wednesday last), a melancholy event took place 1 parishes came to be deprived of `their own' maintenance It Ashford, in Roscommon, which threw the neighbour- for their ow- - - -- '-ct." The 1 ' Bred persons paid this mark of respect to the b The whole company fell on their knees at the - his lordship pi‘.4-- the bened It will be remembered ion. I away for this port. a 7 left ti e "kr and Const! le sixteen c she had been receiving new machinery, &c. the copy of a note from Captain Dun the Susquehanna, posted in the Underwriters'- I The following January N. E. 23, in E, by compass, distant gues bq dead recKonin ..„, ~.. . . Aram, Captain A. E as t er b y , from Liverpool, bound to Constantinople. Hove the ship to, and found part of the stem and cutwater carried away. Shortly a ft er saw s i gna l s ....4. a:,..,... e__ ~. hood into an unwonted state of excitement. are briefly these, as stated in the Dublin papers bailiff of the district, Mr. Peyton, proceeded to PT The facts The I up two boats' crews, consisting of the captain; second officers, and seventeen of the crew. . . law process issued at the suit of ' gr:oeorgeCiLOh, of Carrick-on-Shannon, against Hubert R. Waldron, Esq., J.P., of Ashford, near Drumsna, the object being to dis train. ' The bailiff took with him a number of the police force ; but, on reaching the entrance gate to the country house, was met by Mr. Waldron, who, with his son and other persons, stood inside armed, and in an attitude of defence. The gate was closed, and the bailiff denianded ••, • , ran to the steamer's light, when ,red, and have no doubt they perished the ship to near the place where the saving more of the crew ; at it sudde ix men missi unk, in hopes of saw a gang cask alongside again. Feelinz assured' t at eight, a. m., saw .as, ULM il, - and proceeded o n our passage towards pensn Liv aamission, winch was peremptorily refused by Mr. Waldron, he stating that he was an old man, and had but ___. 1: 4.. 1,.,... -1- L _ 1• 1 one sue to lose wnicn ne cud not much value. The bailiff explained that he must do his duty. Soon after, the bailiff's men endeavoured to force the gates with crowbars. It appeared that just before this a gun in the hand of one of the police had exploded, which, it was explained to Mr. Waldron, was by sheer accident. He, however, still resisted the legal entrance of the officers. It is stated that Mr. 'Waldron then fired from within the bars, and wounded one of the officers. The police im mediately fired (whether by order of the bailiff or not does not appear), when the affray became general, and twelve to fifteen shots were exchanged through the bars. Mr. Waldron was shot dead on the spot. He was fifty five years of age. One bailiff's officer was severely wounded, as was a police-officer. The officers afterwards discovered a quantity of fire-arms in the house, and several armed men. The son of Mr. Waldron, aged fifteen, was taken "prisoner" to the county gaol. Some of the pro perty sought to be seized was left on the premises, there being no sufficient force to protect it. An inquest will be held by the magistrates—and, no doubt, some official enquiry will be made as to the real facts. THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.—The special commission for the county of Tipperary was opened on Monday, at Clonmel, whither the judges had proceeded on that day from Limerick. The Lord Chief Justice delivered an able address to the grand jury, in which he enlarged on the necessity of repressing the disposition to crime and out rage which has spread terror through Tipperary and the neighbouring counties. On Tuesday, a man named John Lonergan was indicted for having murdered Mr. Roe, at Boytonrath, by firing a gun at him. Several witnesses were examined, and their evidence showed that the pri soner, who had been ejected by Mr. Roe from some land, because he had not paid his rent, and who had used threat ening language respecting the deceased, was going towards the spot where the murder was committed, in company with another man, a short time before the fatal shot was fired. One witness, a girl about fifteen, and a niece of the prisoner, who had gone out of her house when the report of the gun was heard, admitted that she had seen the smoke, but refused to answer the question whether she had seen any one she knew. After shedding a torrent tears, sl - - " " " ae said that she had not seen any one in the grove whence the shot was fired; but when further pressed and questioned whether she had seen any one in the field, she wept bitterly, and refused to answer. The Chief Justice then order.d her to be cormratedi bmtt nhe was asaill brought up, and owned that she saw the prisoner in the field next the grove, that he was coming from the ditch, and that she saw the smoke on the road. Some 'other evidence was heard, and the jury, after halfan hour's cor suit ..,ation, returned a verdict of guilty. Denis Brien, Pa trick Ellard, Patrick Mullanphy, Patrick Hickey, end George Hewitt, all young men under thirty 'ears of ag them to be transpor tor seven years This case was the first sin January, which seemed to excite feelings of sympathy upon the part of the audience in favour of the prisoners. Two " lent the sentence was pronounced, andhad to be removed from court. Freeman's Journal devotes neatly seven columns to the long-threatened reply of Dr. M'Hale to Lord Shrews bury. As to " points," you might as well look for cor ners on a balloon ; indeed, this pamphlet is just as flatu lent as the " Great N a s sau ." Th e l e tt er is Wefaced with an appropriate quotation from the Council of Trent, inti mating that " in former times" certain prelates had de meaned themselves too submissively towards ministers of state and other exalted individuals. The English earl, it will be recollected, confined himself principally to an ex pression of his surprise and regret at the apparent sanc tion given by the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Ireland, to the vile and deadly calumnies uttered by their clerical subordinates against the upper classes. It was, indeed, a species of gentle remonstrance ; no more. But how does Dr. M'Hale treat it ? He commences by sneeringly ask ing the noble lord where he had " taken out his commis sion to encroach on the Divine authority of bishops ?" To interfere in the matter at all he pronounces to be " a foul conspiracy against the lives of the Catholic peoPle, and the character of th e C a th o li c hi erarchy. " The lay peer had the courageous boldness to affirm that Popery, as it exists in this portion of the United Kingdom " is a conniver at injustice, an accessory to crime, a pestilent sore on the commonwealth." But the spiritual lord meets the allegation by ridiculing the letters as "erratic," and assuring its author that his astonishment and the sur prise of Englishmen in general will only have the drat of strengthening the accused parties, himself among the number, in their " determination" to persevere. Then as to the assertion that education has been scandalously ne- sudden and marked change is visible in the the people since the return of the deputatioi dead calm at sea befor the Genoese nobil to Turin to petition for Balbi, &( demands would have u, The King is reported to ha\, poi . a casfa" (let them go and aid, " Vada alb bought in the town, as _ WEST INDIA AND MEXICA NavulYo, Southampton Water otylikarla pia?' fir her mails. The Teviot left Demet Bermuda, 10th New 0 of jalap, 2 bales of tot; plantain fibres. Punt north. English were unusually a Anna in r f peact3, leputation, headed by some of the leading n the Dori .n less: felt by the creiui s expected. —The Teviot 1 19th Decemb )th December. : ,sers for cotton at New Orl ill at Talaneigo, and The Mexican army v egotiations with Trist had N. letter from Civita irement at Teht nearly extinguished. been renewed, with p: INSURRECTION IN SICILY ,f January 16. say term° in the outbreak of the 12th, fou killed, and the arrival of the inhabitants of the surround ing country decided the troops to retire and shut them selves up in the forts • and a provisional govern men t N appointed. The English minister at Naples sent I to Wagllari, where the Engliish squaerm is with orders to send two frigates to Pal ter from Captain Easterby, addressed to Mr. Mon the owner of the Aran, and dated Jan. 25, after _rsomg the collision, states that he (the captain) did .6 yacht not leave the Aram until he thought that all on board now l y i ng, were in the boats, but that as he sprang from the starboard mo, and two to quarter into the life-boat, three persons rushed on deck, A revolutionary one of whom he thinks was Mr. Livingston. the ehief Val 4 proclamation has been circulated at Rome. but it pro- engineer. They were called to and beckoned to follow, duced no effect. It was considered as an act on the part but they appeared paralyzed. Every endeavour was made .of the enemies of the present progress. It is confidently to regain the ship, but it was found impossible. owing to the cross sea, and th e b oa t b e i ng so heavy. Capt. Easter ~aanla+inns of that the Council of Ministers has appr ove d o f th e 41,0 c by StIPSVICQ 1.e..... 1- • ‘-t . . _ _ young, ana to the publication of the proceedings at the I .. Ms numane and seamanlike conduct; and wbil.;t he sitting. The Consults is at present busy in preparing an regrets the unfortunate accident, he considers that the ~ collision was purely accidental, owing t o th e d ar k ness o f address to the Roman people for the arming of the State. CALCUTTA CATHEDRAL.—The following letter was read the night. The following is a list of the persons who at the last meeting of the Christian Knowledge Society, second engineer; were lost :—Mr. Livingstone, chief engineer; Mr. Hardy, Robert Logan, fireman; J. Selsby from the Bishop of Calcutta:—" The anxious labours and cares of many years (he says) were amply rewarded seaman ; ditto; and I. Quin, engineer's boy Lewis,,, on the day of consecration, October Bth last. Such a sight had never been seen in Calcutta as on that day. An THE CHAS E. uninterrupted success had attended the progress of the - works. The deviation from the regular gothic, imposed "" - _ by the climate, bad long been acknowledged to be - • and proper. Exp- - all .--,-- Ine UHESHI RE HOUNDS , Will meet on Wednesday at Wilkesley Village; Thursday, at Oulton Park : ° at Hoo Green—.t h..ie ...-_, aturdav lectation wa cence of the seine, both within and without the sacred edifice, must have been witnessed in order to be fully credited.... When I entered the great western door (ob serves his lordship) the whole length of the sacred edifice 'opened before me-248 feet, including the walls ; a sea of beads on all hands ; the beautiful picture of the Cruci- Axion, rising above them in the great eastern window ; the holy table, with her Majesty's superb service of com munion plate ; the stalls for the clergy on the south and rth sides of the choir, &c. In a moment the organ Sir W. V;Wg4)::NuNTSI LCH. • UNDS wil on edda, at Bangor ; Th ursday, at Oteley Par l k ; meet Saturd W ay, at nes Cary den—at half-past ten. POLITICAL VARIETIES The deputation appointed at the late tea meeting are to have a meeting with Lord John Russell to-day. burst forth, and the procession began. Forty clergy were present, and twenty divinity students.... At the Offertory, nearly 2,000 rupees were collected for the Calcutta Addi tional Clergy Society. The Holy Communion then com menced. The clergy kneeling round the sacred table, all in their surplices, as in cathedrals at home, was a touch- Between 140 and 150 communicants partook ....” , ..w.vrpeut Will suurily oe summoned to the Upper House, a a colleague with Earl Grey. A vacancy is caused for West Cornwall, by the death of Mr. E. W. Pendarves. The Right Hon. F. Shaw has intimated his intention of retiring from the representation of Dublin University, on the re-assembling of parliament. Mr. Shaw assigns ill health as the cause of his retirement. Mr. Napier, who was defeated at the late election, will probably be the new ing scene Lord. The entire service lasted about five hours. The impression of the whole scene on the native crowds was Prtrannlinary. and scarcel less on the East - Indian popu lation. Daily service has been celebrate since, and two full services on the Lord's day, with every prospect of steady congregations. About 400 on Sunday mornings, and from 30 to 50 on week days.... I trust.... that the edifying usages and rites of our Protestant Episcopal repres The London Standard reports a speech alleged to have been delivered by Sir Robert Peel at a private meeting of fri.uds, whinh Sir Robert Peel is declared to have said, that, on her Majesty asking him to make one request on his late retirement from office, he desired that "he should never be again commanded to accept office as a minister of the crown. On Thursday last a deputation of th e W es t I n di a Asso . Hooker, may be most carefully and strictly - 'observed." HORRIBLE MASSACRE BY THE KAFFnis.—The intel ligence from the Cape of Good Hope is of the most pain • MACY L.B.,IZAJ • • ciation, Brook-street, consisting of the following gentle men, were introduced to Earl Grey, by Mr. Pattison, the member for the City of London :—Dr. Hodgkin, chair- mutilated. From the f hand, we learn that the amaica Colonel %/Ten, of Deme rinitiAti • Mr Ca p tai LLICIL IC/4 LLIC c amp at head-quarters on the Komga, (we must say im prudently, having no attendants, and merely carrying with them a double-barrelled gun each,) in order to ...,ocueuus rianoury, sir. Kobert Alsop. Mr. Pattison, in introducing the deputation, stated that among those in troduced to his lordship were several determined free heir curiosi rounding country, which v to be obtained from a 1 rock or mountain, some miles distant. „eroactica, and this little band had not returned to the camp. Doubt -and anxiety immediately arose in the minds of their bro ther officers, and several of them went in search of their missing comrades, when at break of day they discovered their bodies, most horribly hacked and disfigured. Mr. Burnop had three balls in his head ; Captain Baker was stabbed and mutilated in several places ; poor Dr. Camp bell must h ave su ff ere d great l y, t h e fl es h being actually pared from hi s b o d y ; the n a ked b o d y o f Li eu t. F aunt had been apparently flogged with chains—their eyes had been scooped out—their teeth extracted—and the head of Assistant -Surgeon Loch had been severed from the body and carried . away. The latt er , i t i s supposed, was dragged to some little distance from his companions, to a smooth flat stone, and there behe a d e d. All were stripped, and their remains left on the spots where they fell. Two Kaffirs lay dead a short distance from them. The strug gle had, no doubt, been severe; but overwhelming num bers, it was believed, had alone completed the frightful tragedy. Detachments were instantly ordered out to scour the country around the scene of the massacre. A body of many hundreds of cattle and Kaffits were speedily come upon, who had taken up a most advantageous posi tion in a large bend of a river, forming a peninsula, and where they appeared determined to make a stand. Two companies were ordered to charge them, and although the Kaffirs shewed great determination, they could not res i s t the impetuosity of our troops, who completely routed them, killing 23 and wounding twice the number, as well as capturing WO bead of cattle and several guns belonging to the Kaffir. Night al NAVIGATION LAWS. — MOVEMENT AMONGST THE SEAMEN.—In calling attention, on Monday last, to the spirited movement made by the masters, mates, seamen, and shipwrights, of Shields. to resist the threatened alte ration or repeal of our navigation laws, we said that we had no doubt they would be joined by the seamen and shipwrights of the Thames in their praiseworthy determi nation to lay before her Majesty a memorial, setting forth the serious consequences of such a step. We have now the pleasure to state that active measures are being taken to carry out the object. Upwards of ten thousand seamen from the Tyne are now in the port of London, who are prepared to act upon the resolution passed at the meeting which they held previous to their leaving the Tyne.— Shipping Gazette. THE GREAT FACTS ON THE TEA QUESTION. --The great fact for the advocates of the reduction to keep before the public is the population of the country, which we treat in such a conciliatory way. They are at least 250,000,000 ; some say nearer to 350,000,000. If every individual of the smaller number consumed but to the value of one shilling per annum of our goods, the amount would be £12,500,000. Our exports to China at present are about a fifth of that amount. On the other hand, we consume about 45,000,0001b5. of tea in a year. Whereas, if each individual in the United Kingdom, taking our present Population at 28,000,000, consumed the moderate average of two ounces per weep. our annual consumption would amount to 182,000,0001b5. ; and the duty on that con sumption at Bd. a pound—and we could not venture to anticipate so large a consumption at a higher duty—would amount to £5,600,000, or considerably more than the revenue which is produced by the present duty of 2s. 20. .lar track ''.... THE Egyptil tine. 'BO _.. . 19 w hat Ailig.',_ Mr. Bro tesponsil With the knew its