The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN 6- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE, WEST INDIES The royal mail steam packet, Clyde, arrived at South ampton on Thursday morning, bringing' 49 passengers, and the wual mails. Her dates are,—Tampico, Nov. 22; Vera Cruz, Dec, 1. She brings no dollars on account of Mexican dividends, but 1,837,361 dollars on merchants' account, The West India papers are very barren of news. The Jamaica Despatch records the death of Commodore Pring, of the British navy, on Sunday night, the 30th of November, of yellow fever, after a very short illness, hav ing been at church the previous Sunday in excellent health. The weather was highly favourable. The papers generally continue to express the strongest indignation in reference to the Sugar Duties Bill, and some additional public meet ings have been held, at which strong condemnatory reso lutions have been passed. THE RIVER PLATE The Crane has brought letters from Monte Video to the 29th of October. The correspondent of the Times states that he haslearned, from anthori . ty on which reliance maybe placed, that a secret negociation is on foot for the reconci liation of the hostile parties. This negociation was begun by liarzon, who is said to possess much influence over the natives of the Banda Oriental, serving in General Oribe's army. General Garzon sent an agent to General Rivera, shortly before the latter's departure from Monte Video, for the purpose of making proposals for a coalition of himself and his friends with the party of General Rivera. The correspondent of the Times has been flAClll•Pti 1..•{1 reply to this propoal was, that, if G enera l Garzon 1J es poused the cause of General Rivera, he would be sup ported by the latter as a candidate for the Presidentship of the Oriental Republic. BRAZIL, The Crane packet, which arrived at Falmouth on Wed nesday, has brought intelligence from Rio Janeiro, whence she sailed on the 18th of November. The cliris- tening of the infant princess took place on November 15th, with much splendour. The American commodore refused to salute on the occasion. The American minister vernment, and at the time the Crane left all intercourse had ceased. The diff-rence arose from an American officer haVino• been imnrigoned for trvine to rescue one of his seamen from a vial-3-110nm American commo- dore, on the day that the emperor sailed around the port tagfangway' of his ship, the Columbia, of 80 pins that every one who came on board trod on it—an in which was much resented by the Brazilian authorities. MEXICO, By the Clyde, West I respect to this country, that the American authorities have intimated that for the future the ports were closed against further shipment. A conducta of half a million of dollars was sent from Mexico, in nine days for shipment, so anxious were the merchants to avail themselves of the packet, Santa Anna had published a letter in the Mexi can ncw , papers, entirely disavowing the late conversion of the Mexican bonds. A squadron of six ships w-- T arriv-' amr 0, awaiting th ~ at of the troops from Amerie maxe a land attack on Alvaredo. Santa Anna had col 4 2.5.P00 troops at San Luis Potosi, to await th of the American General Taylor, who occnnie, to mai , leek advan Saltilla with 5000 men, and a report wc.;curre --- titinVer; Cruz that Santa Anna had advanced against him with 10.000 men, and compelled him to fall hack on Monterey. The American volunteers being in a state of insubordina- Jinn, the Mexican goveriimei - rt were making strenuous etfortc to strike a decided blow. General Salons, the President. had decreed an advance of two millions of dnl- ara. the repayment to be gnaranteed by the de exnira,tiori of two years, at 5 per cent. per annul Taylor had attempted to negociate with Santa . peace, who replied that no terms could be listened in American soldier re , nained in arms on Mexican ground or an American man of war blockaded a Mexican port The news from Mexico is highly favourable to thi Mexicans. SPAIN. AP:Twits from Madrid of the 30th ult., supply a detail of the defeat of the rebel. under Count I3omfim. The Captain General of the Catalonia waa aid to have re signed his post. It is affirmed that Senor 9lozaga had IRELAND The Dublin Post states confidently, that at least thirty persons perish daily from hunger in Ireland. - Several carts, laden- with meal, barley, &c., were, last week, attacked, near Clonmel, by gangs of robbers, who had carts ready and took off the booty. One of the largest rewards since the death of the late Lord Norbury, has just been offered for the apprehension and conviction-of the persons.who.attacked.Mr. Ingworth. The Government offers £200; Mr. Ingworth himself, £200; and the magistrates, clergy, and farmers, £614. Mr. John Augustus O'Neill has offered himself as a candidate for the representation of Mailow_ as but not, it would seem, as a nominee of the Repeal Asso ciation. His address betrays great soreness at having been passed over in previous elections. WHAT'S BECOME OF THE REPEAL ?-At the inaugu ration of the new mayor on Friday, during four speeches made by Repeal members of a Repeal,corporation in our far-fa Med Repeal city, the repeal of the union was never once mentioned !—Kilkenny Moderator. FEARFUL MORTALITY'.-In the Skibbereen poorhouse, during the months of November . and December, 1845, -- same months of last year, the deaths amounted to two hundred and eighteen? )f the embankments of the Irish Grand Canal was breached by some persons unknown on the 29t ber, between Tullamore and Shannon Harbour. •Decem- Had the West of Ireland would have been entirely cut off. PUBLIC WORKS IN IRELAND.—A return, published by the Morning Chronicle, shews that the daily number of persons employed on public Works in Ireland, during the week ending on the 26th ult.; was 38,231. The counties where the greatest numbers are employed are, Clare, Cork, Cavan,. Galway, Kerry, Leitrim, Limerick, Mayo, Sligo, Tipperary, and Wexford. uis of Downshire for the last fortnieht. has. Roscommon, The Marc with princely beneyolence, been administering to the ne cessities of the poor. On Thursday week—the day be fore Christmas—two immense oxen were slain and divided CIL ceiving with the allowance orbeef, a shilling t o purchase bread. Upwards of 1,300 lbs. of beef were then dis pensed to 300 poor families. ILIATION At the inauguration dinner of Uesday, a somew it.h cu.nmont to tin fancies of the spectators'of the scene. Just as the Master of the Rolls (Mr. T. R. Smith) was leaving, Mr. O'Con neß,walked up to his quondam friend (the "vinegar-cruet" ittorney- d warmly shoOk the hand of tha . eadedfunetionary, who, apparently nothing loth lONSTERS.—At Derrygoolen, on the estate of the Marquis of Clanricarde, a man of the name of Burke, iUMAN with two children, was lying in fever, in a wretched hovel; five wretches came to the house, and notwithstanding the entreaties of the wife, robbed the family of all they pos sessed, taking away the blankets off the. people in fever, and even the vinegar, and a small portion of meat. The '• - -use was brought before the bench of magistrates 4 Q --P nl state of. society at Woodford, and such is ie rear►u, that the miserable wife declined to identify even the pro- been held at Muff, in the county of Donegal, to consider the best means of providing for the destitution of the dis trict, at which it was resolved, that the farmers and others should assess themselves at lid. in the pound upon the poor-rate valuation of their respective holdings; and that the amount should be expended in out-door relief, care being taken that it is administered judiciously, and only to the really destitute and deserving. This is plainly au acknowledgement that a liberal poor law is the real cure for one at least of the social evils of Ireland—the poverty of it 3 peasant class The urgent appeals of Mr. Ralph Osborne to the Irish Landlords have at length evoked a favourable response from a quarter where, perhaps; it was least expected. Mr, George Alexander Hamilton, one of the University members, and a gentleman whose position, taken in con nexion with his long services to the Con , ervative party, gives some weight to his opinions, has addressed a letter to Mr. Osborne, cordially coinciding in the project cf a general meeting of peers and of members of the House of Commons, bbe held + + 1 n. ev.ong fl figgPmhlnrrp of mour, which had obtained little creoit. was current mat purpoSe of deliberation, than for creating ei, Cabrera had entered Catalonia, at the head of 1000 men. trap speeches and interminable displays of Iris, The Spanish Cortes were opened by Queen Isabella, BRUTAL MURDER.—On Tuesday night, one of those with a speech from the Throne, on the 31st ult. She an- brutal murders which unfortunately disgrace the annals of nounces her marriage. anologises for the financialdifficul- that county, was committed on the lauds of Kilcoran, in ties of the country, speaks of an intended revision of im- the parish of Tubrid, Tipperary, on the body of a man port duties, and says that—" A fixed and suitable dotation named Thomas Mulcahy. The unfortunate man was met for the public worship and the clergy is an urgent and on the road near,his own house by some person or person,: posifive necessity, as essential for the good of religion as at present unknown, who fractured his head in several for that of the state. My Government shall shortly nre- . lug to be private, and ;h oratory - or content with this, nis L..—..,-_ _ El Clamor sent you a law on this important subject." ° announced that advices had be ear to ear, nearly severing the head from the body. Th u AI Public - only cause assigned for this cold-blooded murder is, th a t received from Catalo n ia, on th e 31 s t, f rom var i ous qua the deceased was in the habit of lending money, and had tern, that four Carlist bands were sweeping throu g h th e .1 was cu country. One of them consisted of not less than 500 men. Although Cabrera himself was not known to be personally present, it was not doubted that he directed the movement of these forces. Government had marched several regiments into Catalonia and the Basque provinces, and had sent two battalion; to reinforce the garriQnn at Feveral processes for trial at the quarter sessions of Cashel, then holding, against parties to whom he had ad vanced money in their aistress. ATTACK ON THE PAYMASTER OF THE BTH HUZZARS— DARING ROBBERY.—On Sunday last, at half-past two o'clock, the house of the Paymaster of the Bth Hussars, • bout two miles f armed party. They immediately proceeded to the room where the gentleman and his wife were sitting, and enter- THE FRENCH IN OTS.HEITE _ (From a Morning Paper.) We have been favoured with — a copy of the following letter, dated Her Majesty's steam-sloop Salamander, Otaheite, June 1, 1846 : " The natives here and at Huahine have proved them -4 better men than the French, having beaten them out of the field at that Island, added to which they repulsed La Uraine, a heavy frigate of sixty guns, and she returned to Otaheite without having effected a single advantage out of the many which they anticipated by the attack and capture of the island. The natives here, no doubt stimu lated by the example of the Huahineans, made a smart and very effective attack on the town ; they came in, burned the houses of the French officers who had made themselves most obnoxious, killed and wounded a great many soldiers, and retreated without losing a single man. This put the French in a most awful flutter; they sta tioned outposts on all the hills surrounding the town, and these unfortunate wretches afforded prime sport for the natives, who picked them off every day. Upon the arrival of the French Admiral in a 60-gun frigate they marched out to attack Papeno with 1,400 men ; they were beaten,' and returned without having done anything but burnt a church, and stolen a few horses. They retOitrned after a mg iney presented two blunderbusses at his head, and said that if he stirred they would blow his br.,..ns out. They then took his double barrelled gun, two pistols, his servant's carabine, some powder and shot, and what mo- uoume ' amounting, we unuerstana, to about two pounds. Thi s daring attack and robbery was perpetrated in the noon day, and but a short distance from the Military Barracks of Caher, where the head quarters of the Bth Hussars are quartered.—Tipperary Constitution. SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—The Lord-Lieutenant, the Lord Chancellor, the Chief Secretary, the Master of the Rolls, and many other persons of the highest distinc tion were present at the inauguration dinner of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alderman Staunton, last week, for the first time since the passing of the Municipal Reform Bill ; and what was quite as unusual a circumstance, there was a studious avoidance of every topic of a sectarian or poli tical nature calculated to lead to any diversity of opinion ; no offensive toasts were proposed—" Repeal" being very properly shelved, even after the departure of the high functionaries who honoured the banquet with their pre sence, O'Connell not daring to open his lips in fai-our of his darling object, though he has so often declared his determination not to attend where "repeal" was not a two days I leading toast. .iers were a. to recruit their exhausted strength before marching upon Bonnallia, which they did last Friday. They attacked the native fort at six o'clock a.m. on Saturday, and were cut cut up dreadfully. The steamer Photon came up on Saturday afternoon with fifty-four wounded, amongst whom were several officers, including the Commander-in- Chief of the forces and the Governor's Aide-de-Camp; they are expected back to-day (Monday). There is no other news of conQequenee, except that her Majesty's brig GREAT FIRE IN DUBLIN.—A little after two o'clock on Tuesday morning, the sentry on guard at the gate of the Lower Castle-yard, perceiving smoke issuing from the shop of Mr. Mears, the bootmak?r, in Dame-street, promptly gave the alarm ; but, before the family were well aroused to a sense of their danger; the whole premises were enveloped in a sheet of flame. Mr. Mears and his wife escaped by leaping into the arms of the soldier who Osprey has suffered total shipwreck at New Zealand " P.S.—The Pheton has just arrived with another, discovered the flariies: left, were burned to death heir three children, who were The whole concern was, in of wounded and dyin they are tall as fa - 4 'as possible ; there are, I believe, about fifty. There is not at present the least possible prospect of our getting out of this, let alone coming home." down. At nine o'clock two men were ascending a fire ladder for the purpose of gaining the roof of an adioininz had nearly reached the top story, when the AMERICA.—By the New York, Captain Cropper, and Marmion, Captain Edwards, we have advices from New York to the 18th ult., but the news is Quite unirrinnyt.nt _ Lauder snapped across, and precipit a t e d the two men into the street below ; one saved himself by clinging to a lamp post, but the other, falling on the pavement underneath, was so seikrely mutilated that he died shortly after the SEVERE WEATHER AND HURRICANE AT GENOA.—A private letter from Genoa, dated 21st. ult., represents the weather there as being of unparal!elled severity. So much snow had not been known to have fallen there since 1820. accident PREVENTION OF STARVATIV.—We give to our rea ders to-day - two very important resolutions, adopted una ' The writer says, " The ice inside the windows of our cot tage was' often half an inch thick in the morning ; the water on the butter frozen in layers, and oil congealed to a solid mass in a room with a fire ; the patient culture of years in the vegetable kingdom has been destroyed; orange and lemon trees, and almost all the perennials, except the very hardiest and most sheltered, lost in a night. The gardens are very wildernesses, the gardeners in despair." In addition to this calamity, the harbour has been visited with a hurricane similar to those which occur in the West Indies. The vessels were driven from their moorings, and wrecked in the harbour in the old quarter, the Doria terrace ; crews lost, boats everywhere capsized, and men swimming for their lives. Scarce a vessel in the port, ex cept those immediately under the Mob Vecchio, but have ...... uu3iy au pecitst meeting of the livardians of the Balrothery Union, held on Wednesday last, presided over by nany•frks A r n _ "Ns -• , the Union. It will be s een from the first that the Guar dianshave taken upon the m s e l ves t o or d er th a t any per son, or any number of persons, who may be found, after inquiry, in danger of starvation, shall receive a meal at the workhouse, up on an order for their provisional ad mission for this pnOse. This will rescue all those who are within the range of the workhouse, and able to go there, from the horrors we have witnessed of Skibbereen and elsewhere. And the Guardians, in their second resolution, have called upon the Commissioners to sanc tion the opening of the rooms, in the different districts whprr. "Ma+ • lost spars, bulwarks, figure-heads, masts, &c., and the cargoes of many are so injured as scarce to pay the ex pense of unloading. •ii taL;L, Late enect oI tnese resolutions will .be to create rnendicity establishments throughout the Union, where every person ascertained to be in a desti tute condition may receive one meal per day.—Dublin Mail. HORRIBLE EXPEDIENT MESMERISM IN INDIA flowing with mesmerism. —The Bengal papers are over- A Dr. Esdaile has long been At an extraordinary sessions and we some time since called attention to the ill success of some of his experiments. It seems, however, that the attempts to push mesmerism into notice had been so suc cessful, that it was deemed proper by the government to appoint a medical committee to inquire into the merits of the new practice. The 'committee consisted of the In spector-General of Hospitals, and six other members. After fourteen days' laborious investigation of cases se lected by Dr. Esdaile, and treated in his own way, the report is, on the whole, decidedly unfavourable. There were, many remarkable facts connected with these experi ments, which we cannot undertake to notice, but they are narrated with much minuteness and care in the report of the committee. Wishing to pursue their inquiries fur ther, they proposed to Dr. Esdaile that he should take a hundred patients 'at random from Dr. Jackson's wards (Dr. Jackson is surgeon to the Native Hospital), subject them to mesmeric manipulation before the committee, and show what proportion of the number could be brought into the condition of insensibility to pain. But this did *it suit Dr. Esdaile at all, and he refused to undertake the experiment. a "presentment for the purchase of coffins" was 'put in, in advocating which one of the gentlemen present thus addressed the meeting :—" Gentlemen, can any of you refuse this application ?—you who have beheld the appal ling spectacles of famine and destitution which our town abounds in—you who have seen mothers walking the streets with their deceased children in their arms, begging for the trifle required to purchase them a coffin ? When a rap comes to our hall door, and a person attends to open it, a dead child is immediately thrust in by a starving mother, who makes a sorrowful appeal for the price of a coffin." And another gentleman (Mr. Becher, a magis trate,) detailed the following horrifying expedient resorted to where coffins could not be procured :---` In the extreme west of this county, in the parish' of Kilmoe, the Roman Catholic clergyman of that place told me, within the last week, that the condition of his people is such that a single coffin, with a false bottom, is taken from house to house, in which the bodies are carried to the grave, and there ' deposited in the rags that covered them, whilst the coffin is taken to the next house, and made answer a similar .purpose." DISTRESS IN THE SMITH WEST OF IRELAND.—The following shocking details of distress in parts of Clare and Galway are given by the Limerick Chronicle :—" The workhouse of Scariff, county Clare, (within 16 miles of Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the this city, is so ove rcrow d e d w ith p au p ers th a t a di sease Royal Family, left Windsor for Clarem ant on Thursday, almost amounting to a plague has broken out amon gs t it s where they will Parliament. remain :until within a few d a y s of i inmates-.-the deaths averaging from four to twelve daily. meeting of It is horrifying to hehold a donkey cart, laden with five The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere have left town on or .ix bodies, piled over each other, going to be interred, a visit to the Earl De Grey, at Wrest Park, Beds. and not a person attending the wretched corage, except The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, accom- the driver• The . graves are s 6 dug that the coffins are panied by Lord .Adolphus and Lady Alexandrina Vane, barely covered with, earth, rendering the air infected. No have returned to Wynyard Park, from a visit to the D u k e coroners ' in quests have been held ! The most munificent of Cleveland, at Raby Castle. act we ha ve ye t to record is, the donation of £2OO on • A hatter of Carmarthen has presented the Princess Christmas eve, by Mr. Thomas Wentworth Beaumont, of Royal with a silk riding hat, weighing only four ounces. Britton-hall, Yorkshire, to.lrilipßa b de, of Wood- It is lined inside with crimson silk, embossed with the parks, in aid of a private fund established y . this gentle r3yal arms,—the plume and feathers, the rose, the sham- i m n a w n h f i tr h t h h e e r r e e s li i e d f es of ; atnhde itveisrygrdaitsitanssgedtonreeglridboturhahtonondt rock, thistle, and leek. Tne Countess of Shrewsbury has just received, from the a single case of outrage or robbery has occurred within his Empress of Russia, a massive gold chain bracelet, bearing parish of Inniscathra, though many are suffering extreme her Majesty's c ipher, surmounted by an imperial crown in privation. Not a s hilli ng h as , as yet , b een subscribed by aiamonds; th e w h o l e enc i rc l e d by a wreath of magnificent any of the proprietors to assist in relievi ng th e misery , on brilliants of great size. their own estates in this district of Galway. COURT AND FASHION. STATE OF THE COUNTRY.-Our columns this evening present a sad and afflicting picture of the state to which this ill-fated country is reduced. Crimes of almost every hue are there recorded. The soil of Kilcoran is reeking with the life-blood of the murdered Mulcahy, at the same moment that the flames burst from the burning home stead of Walshe, at Bansha. In the latter case, by the merciful intervention of Providence, the inmates of the farm-house were saved, and the fiendish designs of the concoctors of this savage outrage were so far frustrated. The meal of Guiry, and the butter of Cormack, are, in the mid-day, plundered by armed mobs ; whilst Keating's flour meets with a similar fate in another district of the country. From the mountain of Si -1- ..._tevenamon p are stolen by wholes a l e ; f rom t h e p l a i ns b enea th live sheep are stolen y Wholesale; from the plains beneath live stock of every description is nightly abstracted. This is a fear ful state of society. Something must be done, and done speedily, to protect the lives and properties of the well dpposed from the tender mercies of a lawless peasantry.- Tipperary Constitution. REPEAL ASSOCIATTn.• • Al. tter from America, re commending the purchase of waste lands in that country for emigrants from Ireland having been read, Mr. O'Con nell said it would be.a most afflicting thing to him to ad vise the people to leave Ireland. Live or die, he would never give that advice. It was the whole study of his life to have Ireland for the Irish ; and, as to the present distress, the British Government was sufficiently indebted to Ireland to be obliged to give food to the people. Speaking of the Young :Irelanders, he said they had made "reconciliation utterly impossible." Recommend ing a particular tradesman, he said'he wished " there was nothing sold in Dublin but native manufactures." Mr. O'Connell said his own daily, hourly, and nightly thought was, how to relieve the people, of whom, he said, not thirty, as calculated by the newspapers, but three hun dred, were perishing daily of hunger. " Something must be done on a great scale." It is the duty of the British Government to feed four millions of the Irish people. I will give notice of what I mean to bring forward. I mean to bring forward a proposition that there be a loan of forty millions raised to relieve the Irish people ; a loan to be raised on the resources of the country ; a loan to be raised as the loan was raised for the purchase of the negroes. It is absolutely necessary to go to that length, and less will not relieve the people from the necessities they are in. The rent for the week, which included £5 from Liverpool, was announced to be £7l 6s. 3d. - AWFUL. - There is an appalling communication in the Dublin Mail of Monday. The writer, the Rev. Charles Caulfield, dates his communication from Creagh Rectory, Jan. 2. We make a few extracts. The Skibbereen dis trict is referred to :—" The mortality is very great among the poor, and the aspect of the burial-grounds assuming a new form : in many cases the dead are buried without brought to a burial-ground, but interred in the fields. In Skibbereen, on the Windmill, the body of a man lay for several days besides his child, sick of fever, there being no one to remove it until the dispensary doctor had it buried, when it was becoming putrid ; this has occurred more than once.' This day in a glen, in a wild part of this parish, I was told that a family was ill with fever. I went to the cabin and found thirteen persons ill in the • louse; nve lying on some dirty straw in one corner, men nd women, and five in another room in a kind of bed. food, not even a drop of milk, nor even an individual to let the priest know that they were dying. The circum stances of one parish in the west which I visited yester day, present an amount of destitution quite appalling. There are 18,000 people ; 15,000 are now in extreme dis tresS. There are only two resident proprietors, and 11,000 employed. in public works ; veil), little, except by the cler gymen, have been done to aid them, and the mamitude of the evil is so great as to render any help from private benevolence of little avail. I feel persuaded from what the rector told me, that at a very low calculation, 5,000 people will perish in that parish alone within three months, unless aid on a large scale be sent them. The l• 1 • •1 consumes OUTBREAK OF LABOURERS IN TRALEE.—On Monday morning, considerable alarm was caused throughout this town, by a body of labourers, about 300 in number, and armed with spades, shovels, and other such rude wea pons, collecting in he streets, and exhibiting the utmost state of excitement. They proceeded first to the house of the Rev. Dr. M'Enery, P.P. to request that he would anp relief, they rushed thence through the town. u In this state they encountered Mr. O'Sullivan, an officer PM T 111117.1 -c , erninoyea unuer Lne noarci of works, and it was after imminent danger he escaped being assaulted by them. The labourers next proceeded to Mr. J. Lynch's house, and again demanded employment. Mr. Lynch calmed them in some degree, by advising them to wait upon the relief committee. Several nerconQ +h. ,„.,,‘„a gavc is MUSL melanenoly detail of their sufferings. They stated that on Clahane road several men had died within the last few days of starvation, one of whoni- was then lying four days win' nut, a Si❑gie penny to nuy a coffin." The attention of the crowd was next attracted by the appearance of Mr. Stokes, the county surveyor, as he was preparing to go to the Spa. A tumultuous rush was the consequence, and the gig was instantly surrounded. Mr. W. Denny then addressed the labourers, but could scarcely proem hearing amidst the vocif _ 'ous clamour for employment, and threats of plunder and destruction of 'property if it should be -refused. Finally, however, Mr. Denny pre- vaned upon the crowd to allow Mr. Stokes to proceed without further obstruction. The wretched labourers then dispersed till the meeting of the relief committee.— Kerry Kraminer. HORRIBLE MURDER BY A DUMB BOY.—On the last night of the old year, Toal M'Nulla, his wife, and three children had gone to rest, expecting, no doubt, to the new year in peace. llowever - a dumb boy, who had been in the habit of attending However, came to his window, knocking at it, and giving the unfortunate man to nn nv.e+nv.rl __A.. _ . - utr Lamm( itSLIU Mai ins came were taken from his cow house. M'Nulla rose, opened the door, and was signed to by the dummy to enter the shed. M'Nulla was in the act of doing so, when the former, suddenly seizing his intended victim by the head, applied a razor to his throat, and (horrible to relate !) almost severed the head from the body, nothing holding it but the muscle of the neck. Of•course he died instantly. Tie wife of deceased, on hearing the noise, went out, ;hin'cing he was quarrelling with the supposed party of marauders. On the murderer seeing her,. he threw thu corpse of the deceased on the manure heap, opposite to where he had done the bloody deed, and attacked the unfortunate woman, inflicting a severe cut, three inches in length, on her neck, with the same weapon (a razor), and on her falling he gave her a few kicks, and left her for dead. He then entered the house, and after looking whether the children were asleep, he commenced plundering the premises. In the mean time the woman gained so much strength as to crawl to the house next to where the tragedy took place. and t' f- dth lerer aising the neighbours, ,ney tounc. fie wretched mura, eating bread and butter in the house. He took refuge in a loft above the kitchen, threatening any person who would dare come up, A' ".” AI there were upwards r tort "*.med y men, armed with guns, none dared attempt to arrest When the police in Moneymore heard of the cir istance, they immediately started off to the scene of criminal, who was brought to town frightful picture, being actuall He presented a red with blood from houlaers down Newry Telegraph THREATENED DESOLATION " Famine and pestilen are stalking over the coTntry, ,and carrying off their usands ! It is dangerous now to go near, much less get into, a crowd, for fea r o f in fection. My two servants are in fever, from serving the poor creatures who come to my house clamoring for food 13 • ,_1 • tr. and this in their unknown cabins. I rescued a family the other day in this state, by the direct interference of Pro vidence, after one member had died. They were dying in the condition of misery described in your report of our last Presentment Sessions—unknown by any one I The poor creatures have pawned everything they had—cover ing and all ! Food at famine price without means of any kind ! For as to the public works, they are a mockery of our woe ! Eight-pence a slay for labourers with fami lies from four to fourteen ! This latter is extreme, no doubt, but 'I have come across such extreme cases. And one such case at present you will allow in such circum stances to be bad enough. I put the extreme I have met with, as, in times like these, the worst that is fact may be known. Fourteen-funerals in this Churchyard in one day !—nine another ! And two men, by a resolution of the Relief Committee, to be employed in digging graves ! —and without coffins, too, from their numbers ! Few can understand the humanity of that disposition that can leave a people, without any fault of their own, but under the awful visitation of Heaven, to perish as they are, by hundreds and thousands on the public works—working, as fences and n h g a have seenshoe shoes—of them, of a ii c ' e w ld et ea t i r t en wird s , swhaithpinngaktre feet — having and sides of the u.(l_ SS roads, until my own blood was chilled at the sight !—to perish on them without adequate remuneration !—to perish on them by a forced necessity to work in cold and hunger and nakedness !---to perish by inability to get even this work !—to perish unable to work at all. They are perishing of fever, six in a bed, in their own filth, without attendant or any thing—but I must hold—Oh ! my dear sir, get us means, or we perish. One hundred and forty deaths in the Workhouse from Ist of December to Ist of January !! ! The Lord God look upon us with pity and mercy, or we are all gone to gether." The Cork Constitution of Saturday says:—" We were going to invite attention to the.evidence on the inquests reported in our second page ; but, after all, what is there in it more than we read and hear of every day ? There are ten deaths, or rather inquiries on ten bodies, for the deaths are more numerous—and time was when ten deaths from starvation would have startled us ; but u 4e has har dened us. Starvation is the rule with our unhappy po pulation. They drop in the field or in the road, or they build themselves up in their hovels, and the rats devour them as they die. We would make some extracts, but that we wish the evidence to be pondered as it stands. Take, however, two. Catharine Hunt, speaking of Mary and Timothy M`Carthy, says _ "•The cries of the child, Timothy, were terrible, but at last he died on Sunday week. He - died lying on his mother's bosom, and had cvt the nipple across endeavour ing to draw milk from her; on the day following the mother died." Doctors Sweetnam and M'Cormick state that "the wo man's eyebrow and part of her breast and nose had been eaten away by rats as were also the limbs of the child !" Mary Brian, deposing to the death of her husband, says— Her husband died of starvation, and nothing else ; he was buried without a coffin, and they were all 80 weak that they were not able to carry hcme the door on which they conveyed him to the grove She and her children have no food now, nor the Items of procuring any. They would all have died as well as the father, but for a shilling given them bY.a neighbouring gentle man." This is in a Christian country, and where Christian men are exerting themselves with Christian charity and Chris tian energy, yet are they not ahle to avert the direful scenes the witnesses have described. Nearer Cork—in Traeton—deaths, it appears, are oc curring, ,too. Mr. Corkoran, P.P., in' a l e tt er t o M r . Redington, (in the Examiner) says : _ " Over 16 deaths occurred in my parishes for the last ten days. I am morally certain that each and every one of them was occasioned and accelerated by want of food and fire. Buckley, of Ballyvorane, and Sullivan, of Oysterhaven, died suddenly. Buckley dropped, dead on the works, after a journey of three miles before day. His wife will make affidavit, ' that he had not sufficient food the night before he died, and that she and the rest of her family lived 36 hours on wild weeds to spare a bit of the cake for him.' (In this case a coroner's inquest was given without sight of the body.) This horrifying eco nomy is practised by scores of families in this district. Si milar effects must be expected from similar causes.- I fear we must bury the dead COFFINLESS in future. My God ! ! what a revolting idea. Without food when alive, without a coffin when dead." TILE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS, The Bishop of Newfoundland, during his stay in this town, prior to embarking on T ues d a y, was th e gues t o f the Rev. Cecil Wray. The Rev. E. B. Chalmer, who recently received three tokens from-Great Crosby, has had presented to him by his parishioners at Sheffield, as a new year's gift, a very elegant pocket. communion service. _ _ 'The amount already subscribed to the Liverpool Church Building Society exceeds £12,600, having been recently augmented by a donation of £5OO from the Society for 8.C.P., per J. 8., treasurer. On the 4th instant, the parishioners and friends of the Rev. Wood, incumbent of Altham, near Padi hat* presented to that gentleman a purse, containing up wards of one hundred guineas. The Rev. R. W. Kyle, whose license was recently with drawn by the Archbishop of Dublin for his adherence to the Evangelical Allidnce, has been appointed to a living in Guernsey. John Wakefield, Esq., of Kendal, has offered to contri bute £5OO towards the erection of a vicarage -house in that town, provided Trinity College will add another £5OO for the same purpose. The Earl of Vernlam has given the munificent donation of £1,500 towards the endowment and building of the pro- o gifen a piece of ,nd as the site for the NEW CHURCIIES. — During the present month of Janu ary, three hew churches will be consecrated in the metro polis, viz., St. Jude's, Whitechapel; St. Andrew's, Ox ford-street ; and the Mariners' Church, near the north entrance to the London Docks, all of them having been erected within the last twelve months. Lord Ashley, the Rev. E. Bickersteth, the Rev. A. R. Dallas, and others, have raised a special fund in connex ion with the Irish society. amtnintim, to nesrly. -eon ono present tieing considered from recent personal visits tc numerous districts, a very favourable opportunity for the propagation of Scriptural truth. WORK IN THE COLONIES.—The whole of this mission including six churches, and being more than thirty miles in length, is at present under the care of one missionary, Dr. S. Thompson. Since his return from England, him self and his curate, the Rev. H. Tippett, undertake tc _ _ serve five ' S, ye churches every unday, each taking three full —Visitation Journal of the Bishop of Frede- GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.—On 1.1%, OIMUI cilium ►n the beautiful little vil lage of Kelsall, on the edge of Delamere Forest, assembled in the school-room with the children, (about two hundred) and took tea, which was provided by the Rev. John Dal ton, the worthy and beloved curate of the church. After tea the teachers presented the reverend gentleman with a handsome pocket communion service, the presentation of which was made with so much simplicity and frank ho -sty by Mr. Robert Rowe, the schoolmaster, that the rev. gentleman was quite over )owered, and unable for some time to give utterance to his feelings. He had not the least previous knowledge of the compliment about to s.vca, ..... wrnuu eimancea tne value of it, and parti cularly as the gift came from the individuals solely con nected with the Sunday-school. The site of the first of the new churches for Toxteth Park having been fixed on, the Church Building Committee have, within the last few days, selected for its design one fur nished by Mr. John Hay, of St. George's Crescent. The Building Committee deserve thanks for the, good taste and judgment they have shown in awarding to Mr. Hay that encouragement which his efforts on behalf of a I strictly Church architecture so richly deserve. Over coming all the difficulties of the shape of the site, Mr. Hay; with the assistance, we believe, of his brother, Mr. James Hay, has succeeded. in offering a most beautiful design, which, when realised, will afford, as it .were, a living proof that ecclesiology is beginning to find a home in the good old town. The style of architecture is purely ecclesiastical—the middle-pointed ; the building will con sist of a nave, with spacious aisles and cloistory ; the roofs, high-pitched and showing all . the interior timbers, are to be constructed on a .new principle introduced by Mr. Hay, and which combines two qualities not often united—elegance and economy. There will be open benches for 1100 people. MISS BURDETT COUTTS' NEW CHURCH AND SCHOOLS. —lt has already been stated th a t Mi ss B ur d ett C outts had determined to " 4 and endow _ bb- r• a new church and schools for the education of the poor in the city of Westminster, which hei late father represented for so many years in ........_ _c pork AAA • in the first instance ; but no less than £45,000 will be re quired to carry out the intentions of Miss Coutts. The site chosen is in Rochester-row, opposite Emery Hill's Almshouses. A piece of ground has been cleared for the new church, the first stone of which will be laid in a few weeks. Adjoining the ground is a chapel, lately beloilg ing to the sect called Irvingites, and three houses adjoin ing. The three houses have been purchased by Miss Coutts at an expense of £7,000, and the chapel, which is a remarkable plain one, for £3,000 more. A district has already been assigned to the new church, and the Irvingite chapel was re-opened, under a licence from the Bishop of London, on Monday, when divine service was solemnised, for the first time, according to the forms of the Esta blished Church. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. William Tennant, M.A., the appointed minister of the district. The cost of the site, including the buildings, will be £lO,OOO, the endowment of the church £lO,OOO more, and £25,000 will be expended in the erection of the ADDRESS TO THE BISIIOP OF RIPON.—An address will be immediately presented by the Evangelical Clergy of this town to the Bishop of Ripon, on the subject of the woversions to the Homan Catholic . remarks with just severity on the principles commonly known as Tractarian or Puseyite ; and it cannot fail to be felt by Dr. Hank- whn has haan mainly ingt-rnmpntsal in introducing and 'spreading those doctrines in this neigh bourhood. *Dr. Hook endeavoured on Sunday last to exonerate himself from all blame in the matter. We do not suspect the Doctor of ever favouring the gross corrup tions of Popery ; but all persons holding evangelical opi nions, both in and out of the Establishment, have seen to what his opinions tended. The author of " Hear the Church," of • The Dictionary of the Church," and of the Letter apologising for and declaring substantial agree ment in Mr. Newman's Jesuitical Tract, No. 90, cannot shift from himself the imputation of attaching that false and dangerous authority to the Fathers, to tradition, and to apostolical succession, which are the chief appeal and lliance of Pinery We Asc.. have ourselves said over and over again that Puseyism contained the essential prin ciples of Popery ; and the result has proved to be true. We hope the recent events will he a warning to the High Church, whether - strictly Puseyite or not, that there can be no solid foundation for any church in human authority, however high and venerable, but only in the New Testa ment.—Leeds Mercury.—[The address is signed by thir teen clergymen, among whom are the Rev. James Faw cett and the Rev. W. Sinclair.] PERVERSION TO THE CHURCH OF ROME.—ANOTHER JESUITICAL PLOT. — Considerable excitement has hop,' caused in Leeds, by a clergyman and three other members of the Church of England, having left the pale of the Establishment, and gone over to the Church of Rome, into which they were received at St. Ann's Roman Catho lic chapel, in Leeds, on Friday week, by the Rev. H. Walmsley, the senior priest of that place 'of worship. The persons who have gone over to the Romish Christi u are, the Rev. It. G. Macmullin, Fellow Corpus College, Oxford, , Rev. who residing w 's Church Leeds; Mr. T. W. Wilkinson, 8.A., who belongs to with i a n r espectable family in the county of Du r h am , an d re ceived his degrees at the Durham University, and who has also been residing with Mr. Ward ; Mr. Edward Bruce, of Leeds ; and Mr. D. H. Haigh, who lately offered to give £lO,OOO for the building and, endowing of a church in Leeds ; and the offer having been accepted by the Bishop of the diocese, the foundation stone of the intended edifice was laid a few weeks ago ; but we suppose, whether or not he has paid any of the money over for the purposes of erecting the church, that it will not be erected, now that he has seceded from the Protestant Chuich. On the fol lowing Sunday a sermon was preached by the Vicar of Leeds, declaring against the whole transaction. But we cannot discover in any portion of the doctor's discourse any censure of Tractarianism, which has notoriously been the true agent on the occaasio n. It would be not un becoming in him to speak a little more explicitly on this point. 'But it must be acknowledged that, if he is inclined to shelter himself behind authority, he has quite enough of it for his example. What can be more astonishing than to see Tractarianism still unrebuked, still unsen tenced, nay, winked at, nay, protected, nay patronised ? The Bishop of Ripon has visited Leeds to make every in quiry into the matter. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE SOUTH LANCASHIRE COURSING CLUB.—CHATSWOUTH MEETING, Jan. 6th and 7th.—The Chatsworth Cup was won by Mr. Taylor's Blue ; Mr. Barnes's Bounty ran up.—The Devonshire Puppy Cupwaswon by Mr. Barnes's Lady ; Mr. Taylor's Cambridgeshire ran up.—The Bur lington Cup was won by Air. Barnes's Ben ; Mr. Slater's Sharebroker ran up.—The Cavendish Stakes was won by Mr. Jepson's Flisker ; Mr. William's Manchester ran up. —The Ebensor Stakes was won by Mr. Barnes's Marquis; Mr. Robinson's Bob ran up•—The Bakewell Stakes was won by Mr. Bradley's Bellona ; Mr. Bake's Rosetta ran up. _ _ The celebrated race mare Alice Hawthorn has been sold to Mr. C. Peck; the price £BOO. Parmaid, a brown mare, fetched £BO ; Ophelia, dam by E 0, £7O, an d Miss alba:air, by Physician, £7l, ;ervices ricton THE BENCH AND THE BAR EQUITY COURTS. —The list of equity causes for hearing on bill and answer, and for adjudication on pleas, demur rers, &c., exhibits an unusually large aggregate of busi hess- at the commencement of term ; but of equity appeals before the Lord Chancellor the number is remarkably small, being only 24. The Vice-Chancellor of England's list contains 163 caus es ; Vice-Chancellorl3ruee's, 66 ; Vice-Chancellor Wigram's, 67 ; and that of the Master of the Rolls, 150 • total- 480. COUNTY COURTS' ' ACT. — The distribution of the cir cuit under. the Small Debts' Act has been completed. I Mr. Bethune has published a letter, which gives a detailed I list of them.th e y In substance are the same as those which were proposed in November last, with some few alterations, which have been suggested by persons whose local knowledge qualified them to give advice on the sub ject. The number of districts will be sixty instead of fifty nine. Wales has been divided into four parts, instead of three ; one circuit has been added in the Eastern Counties, and one has been suppressed in Lancashire, in conse quence of an enlargement of the jurisdiction of the Liver pool Court. The whole number of court towns, exclusive of those i n th e me t ropo li s, i s f our h un d red and 'fifty-four. Eleven courts will be assigned to the. metropolis, includ ing those darts of Surrey and Kent which form the envi rons of London. The basis of the whole scheme is the division of the country which has been already effected under the Act for the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages. LA OF LIBEL.—In some remarks on an action brought against the Plymouth Journal and the Law of Libel generally, the London Times of Monday observes : " There is no duty of a public journal at once so delicate and so dangerous, as that of exposing fraud or misconduct in individuals. We do not fear the accusation of par tiality or undue regard to self-interest, when we say that the calm unflinching discharge of this duty is most essential to the well-being of society, and ought to be upheld and strengthened by all possible means. It sel dom happens now, whatever may have been done in for mer days, that a wilful or malicious libel appears in a public print of any reputation. The worst cases are never more than instances of negligence. But examples are numerous of dishonesty detected and villainy frus trated through the agency of newspapers. The public, we know, can express its gratitude in a fitting manner when once convinced that there is good occasion for it. It seems to us that a good occasion is always apparent in every case of fraud exposed. Here the Plymouth Journal has been the means of showing up a party of blacklegs (for such the verdict of a jury has pronounced them to be) who had insinuated themselves into good society, and who might have done more extensive misithipf •-ta.V,ll.Cl V G InizuMel UUt ior the exposure. The people of Plymouth and its neigh bourhood are, without question, indebted to them. Yet, for all return, they are mulct in a sum of £2,000, and have only the beggar's satisfaction of :being honest men. Surely this is a hard case." MARRIAGES WITH A DECEASED'S WIFE'S SISTER.— Mr. T. C. Foster, in a letter to the Morning Post, says ; "an inquiry has been instigated into the number of these =marriages been in n a engaged ere ni fourpa r t s differento n g i a n districtsd. gentlementhepro Four of vinces, exactly one month. Their inquiries, so far, have not progressed beyond fourteen towns ;—Their names are —Manchester, Huddersfield, Doncaster, York, Rother ham, Ipswich, Yarmouth, Norwich, Southampton, Win cheSter, Portsmouth, Salisbury, Bristol, and Bath. In these fourteen towns (a fair sample of every class in Eng land), in that one month, the unaided efforts of four gen tlemen have ascertained upwards of 500 cases of infringe ment of the marriage law of William IV. In all these cases, the names, residences, occupations of the parties, the date of the marriages, and the circumstances consti tuting their illegality, have been furnished to me ; whilst the gentlemen engaged in the inquiry have heard of about as many more such marriages, the names of the parties to which were concealed and refused to be made known, lest it should. subject them to unpleasant proceedings or to injury, because of their illegality. Now, these 500 as certained void marriages are far from being all that are in like manner illegal in those fourteen towns, for in some of them the inquiry is not yet half finished ; nor are these fourteen towns more than a mere fraction of Eng land ; yet the ascertained result in them by such insuffi cient means is five hundred cases of infringement of the law." Mr. Foster then goes on to argue from these re turns, and from the registrar general's reports, that throughout England we have at the rate of 500 such mar riages every year. We hope it is not so, but we have no precise means of disputing the data. RAIL W IFFAIRS. It . is supposed that the expenses of the enlarger/lent of the Euston-square station of the London and Birmingham Railway, now in progress, will not be short of £50,000. A machine has been invented by a person at Bradford, of such astonishing power as to pump up 300,000 gallons of water a minute. It is to be used in the Leeds and Thirsk Railway at Bramhope. Mr. Wakefield of Deptford has succeeded Mr, Watson, as resident engineer and superintendent of the locomo tive department, on the Chester and Birkenhead Rail way. A most friendly alliance has been formed between the Edinburgh and Glasgow and the United lines, the Edin burgh, Leith, and Granton and the Edinburgh and Northern, on terms honourable and fair to all parties. The express train on the Brighton Railway had a nar row escape on Monday morning. During the journey the wheels of one of the carriages gave way, and the train ran off the line. Happily no person was injured. LIVERPOOI, AND BURY RAILWAY.—It is stated that the portion of this line between Liverpool and Wigan will be ready for opening by the end of June next. The public will, we think, be slow to believe this, to them ; in teresting news ; but those who should know best, declare that it can and will be ready at the time stated. FATAL ACCIDENT ON w. UNION I? THE NORTH lAILWAY -On Wednesday, a most deplorable accident occurred on the above railway, between Chorley and Preston, which caused the death of a stoker. He incautiously got on the roof of a horse-box, and coming in contact with a bridge, he was struck on the head, which knocked him down. He fell on the rails, and was in consequence dreadfully mutilated, both arms being cut off, and his head fearfully crushed. The poor fellow is supposed to have been killed by coming in contact with the bridge. RAILWAYS AND PAROCHIAL RATES.—The following instance of the Great benefits derived by parishes through which railways pass was related by one. of the speakers, Mr. Hudson, at a public meeting of landholders and oc cupiers, held at Chobham, a few days since, to take into consideration the proposed Windsor, Staines, and South Western Railway. Mr. Hudson stated, as a proof of the beneficial results of railways on parochial rates, that, in the parish of Weking, a piece of land which before the completion of railway only paid lls. towards the rates for the relief of the poor, now paid no less a sum than £175 ! The transmission of messages by the New York and Philadelphia electric telegraph was recently suspended for several hours by the following curious incident :—" A large owl was found suspended from the wires, with his talons entangled among them, the copper wire having been twisted roulld the iron cords. The owl was dead when discovered, and it is supposed that he had lighted upon the iron wire, and while in that position the other was blown against him, and a connexion being thus farmed, he received a shock of the electric fluid, which deprived him of life." SAD ACCIDENT.—A shocking accident resulting in the loss of two lives, occurred between one and two o'clock on Tuesday morning, at the King's Langley Station, on the North Western Railway. A coal train was stopped at the station in order to detach some engines, and the car riages were being moved, by means of " points," from one line to another, when a heavy luggage train, propelled by two engines, came up, the driver of which, in conse quence of the dense fog, was unable to see the signal lamps of the station-master and the coal train, till it was too late to prevent a collision. The consequence was that the luggage train ran into the other (which consisted of anda b about u many twentyany oof the nooef trucks) f otjfr w nit just tke T i ab t e he h nufeg fearful ordnreerdriver engines destroyed eoeerfstat violence cr nhooedlyliel ssudtigoo ; b ;luggage grnaedon o tf t dt r h engines hateihneescapedwdriver c eorae crushed to death. The d r i ver an d stoker of the second l and w en i t g h i t s i t e t o r jumpedkifleirnogf bruises.o train were not injured. The jury, at the inquest, recom sintaetniod n. edemployed that more servants should be at the. po ouret proposed Man chester a n s ne o odf - NOVEL LANCASHIRE SCHEME. The Parlia mentary title of the Oldham Alliance Railways. rmcahe Mumps elnwsttrailwaysaaeyr andt : ri L ecLnen i ess n er c odi a nens snhoc commence by Railway e e tb h h Gy a ea s az b e aj Oldhamet junction ne n meare proposed, iuomnßpf orwsßranch incor porate a company to make the following railways:--l. A Lancaster, and terminating by a junction with the Ashton, Staleybridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway, at Ashton under-Lyne, in the same county. 2. A line to com mence from the Ashton, Staleybridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway, at Ashton-under-Lyne, and termina ting by a junction with the intended branch of the Man chester and Birmingham Railway from Stockport to Guide-bridge, near the latter place, in the county of Lan caster. 3. Another railway, commencing from the said Mumps Extension Railway at Mumps, and terminating by a junction with the Manchester and Leeds Railway at Castleton, in the county of Lancaster. 4. A railway com mencing from the Oldham Branch of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, at Oldham, and terminating by ajunc tion with the main line of the same railway, at the,Miles Platting station, in the county of Lancaster. 5. A rail way, commencing out of the intended railway last-de scribed, at Chadderton, in the county of Lancaster, and terminating at the Old Oak Colliery, Oldham. 6. Ano ther railway from the Oldham Branch of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, commencing at the Oldham station, and terminating near Royton-hall, on the road to Roch dale, in the'county of Lancaster. It is proposed to take powers to lease or sell the proposed lines to the Manches ter and Leeds Company.—Railway Monthly Magazine. THE NEW SOUTH I ORKSHIRE AND MIDLAND RAIL- RrAys.—A new line is proposed, to be called the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster Junction Railway. This line will commence at the Marsborough station of the York and North Midland Railway, and run to Doncaster. It is a short line. Power will be applied for to lease or sell the line to the Midland, the Great Northern, the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Barnsley ; Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire ; the Sheffield and Manchester, or any' other company. A very important line, called the Goole and Doncaster, was last year lost in committee. It is to be re-introduced this year, under the title of the South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Rail. way. The towers sought are to incorporate a company to make a railway commencing by a junction with the main line of the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield Huddersfield, and Goole Railway at Barnsley, and termi nating by a junction with the Great Northern Railway at Arksey, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, with a branch commencing at Balby, with Hexthorpe, Doncaster, and terminating by junctions with the Great Northern Ran - A intipnnchohewwtt ho h er sefes undercctheme of Jan. 12, 1847. way in Doncaster; another railway diverging from the in tended main line at Wombwell, terminating with a junc tion with the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and .Man chester Railway, at Thurlestone, together with a - short branch therefrom at Worsboroug4 to join the main line of the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsler, Wakefield,. Hud dersfield, and Goole Railway; and another branch there from at. Oxspring, terminating by. a junction with the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway at Iloyland Swaine ; another railway diverging from the proposed main line at Wombwell, and terminating on the southern side of the head of the Elsecar branch of the Dearne and Dove Canal, at Nether Hoyland and Brompton Bierlow, or one of them ; also three short branch railways, one diverging from th e p ropose d fi rst- d escri b ed main line at Adwicup Dearne, and terminatingwith a junction with the Midland Railway at Swinton, another diverging from the main line at Swinton, and terminating by a junction with the Mid land Railway at Ardwick-upon-Dearne ; and the third di verging from the main line at Swinton, and terminating by a junction with the Midland Railway, in the same township ; another railway 'diverging from the main line first-described at Denaby, and terminating by a junction with the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, otherwise the Sheffield and Rotherham Branch of the Midland Railway, at Kimberworth. The bill also proposes to take - power for the company to purchase or lease the Sheffield, Ro therham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Railway, the Dun Navigation, and the Dearne and Dove Canal. The scheme will, we understand, receive the sup port of the Midland Company.—Railway Monthly Mag. LIVERPOOL. SANATORY BILL. We resume our abstract of this important bill at clause 124, which provides for the appointment of one or more inspectors of nuisances, by whom all complaints before ' justices shall be lodged. Clause 125 directs all common lodging-houses to be licensed and registered to entertain only a certain number of lodgers, and to be inspected from tune to time. By clause 126, all furnaces for steam engines, or used in any manufacture, or in river steam boats, must consume their own smoke; and in all where noxious or annoying effluvia are emitted, the best practicable means of mitigating the nuisance must be adopted. Penalty five pounds per day during continu ance after a month's notice given. Clause 128 inflicts a penalty of £5 for every offence. upon parties killing beasts in any other than licensed and registered slaughter-houses. Inspector of slat!ghter 13p3aipnrtoeldoons for the thepr e premise s : penalty d o I slaughter houses has the same powers as inspector of nuisances. ng Knackers' yards must be licensed, and the name.of the proved to occasion a nuisance, unless it can occupiera u s . be chewy that the best means of preventing such nuisance has been adopted : penalty £5 per day until discontinued after justices' order. The clause does not bar proceedings for nuisances at common law. The next ten clauses relate ol s a a ny trade day to the supplies of water. The act of 6th and 7th Victoria (the Water Act of the Highway Board) is repealed, and its powers and the property of the Commissioners are vested in the Council. Its operation is al so ex t en d e d over the . . - gn ; i,atJU per annum are to be paid by the Council uorou towards the tire police; water is to be supplied for all existing public cisterns, pumps, &c., gratuitously, and for any public baths and waciihnnepQ enauies are inflicted upon persons da maging waterworks, fouling the water, or upon gasmakers allowing corrupting matter to get info it. Clause 148 inflicts a penalty upon persons permitting gas to'-escape after notice; but present gas companies. are to remain subject only to the penalties in their respective-acts. By clause 151, a humane apparatus may be provided and maintained. 152 to 160 prescribe the mode of rating. By 161 the Cou nc il are t o pay £5,000 yearly in aidof the sewerage and paving rates, and a further sum of £375 for ten years. The debt already contracted in Toxteth park is to be charged on the rate for that district. Rates may be made prospectively or retrospectively ; and owners of unoccupied premises may be rated ; but the rates are not to be collected unless the premises are subsequently occupied. The clauses to 179 are the usual rating clauses. By 180 the tenant may deduct one-half of sewer rates from the landlord. Clauses to 202 are borrowing clauses. 203 empowers the Council to make byelaws for the pre vention of nuisances, regulating slaughter-houses, knack ers' yards, the keeping of swine, the mana gemen t o f public privies, th e remova l of middensteads, and the re gistering of lodging-houses, and to fix penalties for in fringing; such byelaws to be approved by the Secretary of State, published in the newspapers, and printed. Clauses 207 to 226 relate to the mode of enforcing and applying penalties, and save the rights of the Dock Trus tees, and the Railway and Gas Companies. The'remain der are the usual explanatory clauses. LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE. PERJURY.—On Saturday, Ann Williams was committed to the assizes for 'trial, on a charge of having obtained possession of a bed, from a pawnbroker, by means of sworn declaration that the ticket was lost. The bed be longed to another. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Saturday, a man -of the name of John Hagan was committed for trial on a charge of having, with three others, knocked down Thomas Roche, in Waterloo-road, at the bottom of Chadwick street, and robbed him, whilst the other pinioned his arms. He had, fortunately, only a few shillings in hiS pocket. On Saturday, Capt. Leary, master of the Queen, wag summoned to answer th e comp l a i nt of three of his h a nds of having refused to pay them the amount of wages stipa' lated in the ship's articles. It appeared that the men had shipped at Quebec as able seamen, but the captain had not left that poit many hours when he discovered thcit, incompetency. Mr. Rushton, in consequence, directed ,s tlz w cztitzicuay.itllLem much less than orie half o f the CHARGE OF ROBBERY.—On Thursday, a seaman named William Summerfield, was brought up 'before Mt' Rushton, charged with robbing a man named William Gargell. The complainant, a man of colour, alleged that on the previous day he .and the,prisoner came over frog!. Dublin in the Britannia steamer, w h en h e was ro bb e d of seven sovereigns, his pocket having been cut away when he was asleep. A piece of string, with which the coin' plainant swore he had tied his money at the bottom of hi,° pocket, was found upo n th e pr i soner. He was remanded' fk POVERTY AND CRIME. —On Saturday a man of the name of William Jones was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having stolen a cloak, worth about 305., the property of Mr. Wm. Okell, linen draper, of Paradise' street. Mr. Frederick Bibby, an assistant at Mr. °ken's , proved the case. He - said that the cloak stolen by the prisoner was hanging, with a number of other cloaks, iv; side the shop door, an d th a t th e pr i soner was apprehended in Church lane with the article in his possession. The prisoner, upon being called upon for his defence, said' It`was through hunger I stole it ; I had no food let four days." Mr. Rushton : " Why not apply to the overseer ?" The prisoner replied : " I did, sir, and he, only gave me two pieces of bread." He was com m itted for trial. CASE OF STABBING.—On Tuesday, a female of quest onable reputation, who gave her name Mary O'Neil, wag brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having ill', flicted several stabs with a k n if e upon the person of one o f . her companions in misfortune, named Mary Cumrniskl , It appeared that they lived together in a house of ill-farad in Williamson -street, and that on Monday evening thel had a quarrel, and created considerable disturbance. The stabbing took place in the lower part of the house, an the injuries were so severe as t o p reven t th e comp l a i ns /0 from making her appearance in court.' The prisoner 4' leged that the wounds were not inflicted with any mao' cious intent, and that herself and complainant were m ore in play than in anger when the occurrence happened. sl;e i was ordered to be remanded until th e complainant coin' attend. CAUTION TO CAPTAINS AND SHIPOWNERS. -1311 Thursday, Mr. Todd, of the firm of " Todd, Jacksos' and Co." appli e d t o M r. R ushton under the following circumstances, which he said were interesting to shit' owners and the public generally. He stated that the C ledonia Bramber w as l a t e ly cons i gne d t o his ho use , w ith' , miscellaneous cargo of cotton, corn, and flour, and th o after the ship had been discharged, a quantity of loos corn and flour was found as usual, and di v id e d among the consignees,consignee supposin g th a t h e rece i ve d sj? sp that ect d -a s a d every ueto him. When the ship came•to be 0° considerable quantity of loose born and tioll was found con cea l e d i n the hold. A fellow then well, down to th e s hi p, and offered £2 10s. to the captain f(); the sweepings ; and the captain, in utter ignorance o f th extent of those sweepings, and desirous of having the shLf cleared, inad ver t en tl y so ld t h e stu ff . W hen it came.); `q (Mr. Todd' s ) ears . h e nu t a stop to i t, and 0 upon -, vestigation it turned out that the sweepings amounted a very considerable quantity, the extent of which may P, judged of by the fact, that the man who made the 0 11 , 4 chase for 505., came to the offi c e since and off ere d' subsequently he offered £lO, and that very morning P 0 S offered £l2. If it was worth his w hil e t o g i ve £l2 , i t fair to presume that the sweepings were worth £2O. A,' Rushton said they had been lo ng f am ili ar w i t h t hi s p r tice of plundering cargoes. He remarked that the piv chaser of the sweepings, who was a client of Mr. Dave,s port's, was now threatening the captain of thevvessel r an action at law, for non-delivery of the sweepings. fi t, Davenport gave rather a diffekent version of the story. said that he had been applied to by a young man to, A , cover £2 10s. from th e capta i n o f t h e C aledon i a; Bram p T to whom it had b een pa id f or t h e sweep i ngs of his vess e 4, which sweepings had been detained as well as the £2 His instructions were that his client had paid the 1 4 1 named to the captain, and had taken five men on bo the vessel to collect the sweepings; whilst thus engar,, another man came up and made an offer o f £5 t o th e p tain for the same sweepings ; this the capt a i n refused, i d afterwards, when the same man came b ac k and dont') the offer, the captain ordered his client from the vessel r t g refused to refund the £2 10s. The young man applieoo him, and he wrote a letter to the captain requesting 13 ,0 to return the money which had b een paid to - him; letter was delivered to the captain in the street, but 'l i t stead of complying with the request contained in it, d flung it from him contemptuously ; another letter . ° :gi written, and had b een taken to the vessel that rnorniP7l that letter was now w i th the mate.—Captain Boyd si t, that when he understood the property was of some inlO t i t o tance to the consignees, he offered the young man money, which was declined ; in fact, he had that mornid --- offered hi m £3 45., wh i c h wa s a l so refused. Mr. 14 port said he wou ld have no objection t o l et t h e matterne to an a c ti on .—M r . Rushton entirely exonerate d Mr.. f..) ..v.a. ....a,az ge us unproien— conduct,and said something must be done to st9P,, depredations daily committed on board s hip s by this f'd t em o f " sweeping. Todd said the Chamber d Commerce had taken measures to prevent the recur l of such frauds : they had printed a number of p a t i c e, l4 wherein it was stated that all loose portions of cargo t ol the property of the cons i gnees, and not the caP , these papers were sent on board all the vessels from.' o f rica as soon they arrived in port. The captain wa s ,i„o dered to refund the £2 10s., and also to pay the five 1 " employed to collect the sweepings, for their labour,. Jan. The bo( week in ar. A Major tided agai ings, but t The coil their exec elegantly taeles in a The eni of Dublin Mr. Henn box, and si DEATH child nine grove, was her clothes before the On Wed at Oxton, silver tank successful ship. RELIEF Joseph Bal Holy Trinf' £lOO was three-fourt fourth to S PORCINE large pig, 1 forty-six sc nefit of th bitors, Me: at Easthan Cantelupe, CHARITA on Wednes Pollock, inc Mark's chu which is no consequenc replenished - /I'soiree Institution, day night 1 Liverpool, Hawitt, J. &c.) and of the Meehan also attend ( SEASONA sequence of Matthew G rality highly of the whole he also, last tier, which I the year for DEPARTU bernia, Cap Boston, wit board a con Amongst th General of Lord Rober Mr. Lascell( Bishop of /S PRESENT have recentl , fine oak tree As the mode seated are Ark nearly five evinced in tl that it has b specimen of ANOTHER held on Sati Iris hman,; children abo lorought ove in food. Al father was a upon going Hobson, a s the body, al- Want of food there any ar MANsLat before the b, Anne Meldo parents in 1 name of Ali, and that the cocoa rnanufa on Saturday Trohaosint baese,sf.abnjucl by Mr. Gralif the vice chair after the rem placed at eac were made bi many good ;C The hilarity o'clock, when slasm, and the DIS . 1 RES the Scotehme ZarlY opportur h ow dee p ly th, countrymen We uriders-ian7 g. g p e u n r e p r o s a : r o e f m distress now Scotland will trust that no s, mar or oppose are too apt to t of their county so much of ho substantial tok .Ttis CORPOI to the 23rd De , aerick- street e . 6203 2s, ld. 13,004 dozens Ic t axi e put r rys ec fo e o i fr p od: T b t f h ia: h rip e dti e eg.ahe u ri4tt p l o ti a t fli s neoe t y dßer m u o rt naetae f teb tt: 3 s . , , n l ge x el i - p it : t n a ta t oh r t ( i ' .., fr , ) ,? m titi t t h eil e No r t hours, 4134todtizi and the receipt groii receipts fc ante o ~.. ..e this object nam e E,,, , retur n ' ' - ‘ l. , A made t reign ft .; trade was di nlti paid by B r nva hl v that un i pss _ 4 . til e ' not he abl - lens b2r of th e l.:l v " ' government, h e A a aisociation v meeting. Mr. ' meeting ai the r a C t i o d m t p i n e y s a t p e: paid b e t ween um Between Dublin sufficient to pay PATAL ACCI DI 6a years of age steamer Tynwak In; the second steward was drug :box, he reeled ; upon the deck. and his backbone turday night. wee son, ten Years olc to Duncan -street knocked down b her h ea d . The i girl was carried tc unable to speak, axpired.—On Fri, Quinn, living in