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Lives Q, The careful an of tho Queens 0 lon the d . _ an epoch, most inter readers ; and either by the b and, ac to Jan: rival a , r centui , and n- will en es which w iii ber t n very I over 'that ied an -c comp' birth the enm ICE. T CD OR and E h and London L. I tetaturr. POETRY YOU MUST NOT COME HERE, MR. WISEMAN You'll never come here, if you're wise, man You'll never come here, if you're w;se, man. Ws now very clear` There's no room for you here indeed, Mr. Wiseman You must not cony You must not coin sate h of ofd Rome Indeed, they will not, Mr. Wienlan .ere, Mr. NV Mr. Wiseman liemain Under tt ails of o Rome; you here Mr. Wisema And w 1 Of the old Protest. They'll ke They'll navel But their " t And for God laws, won't t other ( WHAT IS A SIGH ? J of some thrilling thoug' ver by the Whose d In common sympatil Percha Perch a e sadly, NOT Queens of S gliBk Pr i6n of Great thed authoress of the " Lives ' enters, in the volume before and characters of n of the mann th to English and Scottish n little explored list. The former little of the private history of the period erto t gh on of great national importance, the germ of a new at fusion of the then, iingdorns of England e, c eviy for tti y, hostile 1 E Imeneing by the ;t, to the British first bi to us in tl to our own Henry I:ied to the chivalrous Scottish monarch lan h; the career of thi r more E damagin, 3 circumstances it o that re, nial alliar it the roy u►naly. at an e art of b d upon him 1 cllg une, the you r to join the bust presents a curious present day of rtd' here a portion of it at H lieriff of t sily to appreciate to give from the work the eldest daughter of Henry of Shakspeare's play of EUabeth of York. At the ty existing between the two ?arfal pitch ; and the inroads tted by our Scottish neighbours sere a sore annoy- ent peace nce being lies of the two countries ; c, Margaret was betrothed mirth, the gallant and accomplished Prince that time grown up to man's estate. Such d not be expected conducive to con- happiness ; and it was nearly prevented from lace by James's private espousal of the Lady t Drummond, who, after bearing him a daughter, ig with her two sisters, poisoned, it was said by 'a husband. On the death previously devised for him Privy Council; and in the ig princess started off upon and selected for her. The ",s described by the chroniclers, of sovereigns in the We give am locomotion am. she met Sir Ralph • a fair company in their te,she - wag received wbo i her the cross to kis , en of constant occur Ts, and and my Lck, to t Sir William Bulmer, rham, met her in company with " honour of that coun r to Darnton. At the 'ae Vicar and his folk of anor of the Bishop of noon being the 20th of am, was encountered by Sir - with folk in their ; and the bride wn, very richly an Durt ti number of fifty And all her escort - attireil le Earl of Northumberland, red with et mines. He was arness was of goldsmith's ewn small bells, making a and he did not spare gam ere dressed in long jackets th his devices, as were all ald indubitably con- t once th great man and nor is he ever weary of describ d gowns, the gambades be per .ampanes) that chimed, sweetly he equestrian_ capers were cut. lord with faiour, perhaps, because he cer-at-arms for the especial service of his Northumberland Herald, who gave his n this grand progress. My lord of North .plete with bells and tinsel, in the spring was no other than that solemn and couse- vendish, who draws no very g picture of my lord of Northumberland, when he nip s the bud the passion of his son Lord Percy, with the fair 31eyli. Queen Margaret lodged in the immediate protection of the e until the 24th of July, when to Newcastle. She made her .ntered that town, in which her unusually brilliant; for, besides the religious ith their banners and crosses upon the bridge were many children vested in white surplices, who dious hymns, and played on instruments of divers lie streets were hung with tapestry, and all the oops and ship tops were full of people;' and 'there emen and gentlewomen in such great numbers it have beer ribed 'by ( at Dur am and no artille6 or ordnance was Is our herald thought. 'But to his c divelling.' The festival of nt of Quee^. Margaret's w lord, was celebrated at Newcastle, that 25th of July. She lay in the town, and was at the church-mass nobly courtly gentleman Ld, with his " small bell n he moved," must have .eception by James was worthy of so distinguished t and sovereign ; and notwithstanding the disparity letween them, the union might have been attended erate happiness bad there not been a still greater aray in their respective tastes and temperaments. -e series of flatteries," says her biographer, " she bad ienced in her bridal tour, had only puffed up the v and presumption to which the female character at age {fourteen) is peculiarly liable. The sedulous • I and little fond indulgences with which her ac d lord had humanely endeavoured to soothe and sole her for her removal from her country and parent were all utterly thrown away on a thankless and murmur ing spirit." Nor did the object for which the marriage y riiod had Been contracted appear to be at all realized. Driven by the discomforts of his domestic position almost to desperation, James rushed into feuds with his powerful nobles, and ultimately into a quarrel with England, -which, together with the life of the monarch himself, came to an issue upon the fatal field of Flodden. At the age of twenty-four Margaret was left a widow, with one child, afterwards James the. Fifth, during whose minority she was to exercise the office of Regent, aided by the Lord Chancellor, James Belon, Archbishop of Glasgow, the Earls of Arran, Huntley, and Angus. From this period the bad qualities in Margaret's cha racter rapidly developed themselves, the most prominent being a grasping love of money, consummate treachery, and a gross disregard to the sanctity of the marriage vow. On the accession of Henry VIII., her brother, to the English throne, she became his unwearied correspondent, her letters consisting principally of importunate demands for money, as the reward for repeated betrayals of the best interests of the country committed to her keeping ) and of the rights of her young son. At the same time; she maintained an equally di s h ones t an d begging corm-. spondence with' the Regent Albany, and with others of the Scottish party. Her whole career indeed, up to her death, appears to have been one of constant meanness, rapacity, ingratitude, and unpatriotic intrigue. The Nord feature, however, w liargaret'a character was her THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR D. disregard of the sanctity of the marriage vow. On the death of James she cast her eye upon and married Archi bald Earl of Angus, then a stalWart youth of 19 years of age. After a few years spent with him in no very felici tous manner, she seems to have set her affections upon the Lord Regent Albany, and, in hopes of the death of his wife, she sued the Pope for a divorce from her hus band. One of the pleas upon which she grounded her petition is very singular. Her biographer states that EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS, - CAUTION AGAINST MONEY-LENDERS. A case came before the Common Pleas on Tuesday, in the form of an application for a rule nisi in the matter of Sibury v. Wilkins, the rule being to show cause why a judge's order to stay proceedings in the action should not be set aside. In the month of April, 1849, the Rev. Thos. Hodsoll Wilkins, of Ringstead.house, Northampton, received a printed circular from a person who gave his address as " Alpha, 57, Button-street, Tavistock-square," and pro fessed his readiness to lend money on security or nego tiate bills of exchange. Having at the time some occa- A , and suetn to be, that ua.v.. sion for a loan, he addressed a letter to Alpha, and re - b us _ ceived in return a communication signed "J. Gardiner," but which he had afterwards reason to believe was in the handwriting of the plaintiff Sibury. After some corre spondence it was agreed that Mr. Wilkins should accept a bill of exchange for £l5O at three months, receiving, however, only half that sum himself, and being made liable, of course, for that half alone. Accordingly, he accepted a bill in blank for £l5O, which was dated the 27th September, 1849, and forwarded the acceptance to Gardiner. Having waited some days in vain for a re mittance, Mr. Wilkins despatched successively two let ters, stating his uneasiness. In the reply which he at length received the person writing in the name of Gardi ner informed him as follows :—" You agreed to my pro position of jointly borrowing £l5O, to be divided between us. I am endeavouring to obtain this loan, and shall certainly not relinquish the project until I fail, unless very handsomely paid for it." Between the date of this reply, viz., October sth, and the 14th of December. a variety of letters were interchanged, and on the latter 1 .0 -T _ ,ne effect that he had procured ,ch lie had applied as his own share of .oan to pay another bill; he added that the " scoun drel" who advanced that money demanded it back again the day after it was received, with an additional £5; that being himself only able to raise £25, he must look to Mr. Wilkins for £5O. In another letter he stated that the money must be forthcoming on the 29th, when the —,,euuct was more excuse- bill became due, or writs would be out against all parties. Subsequently he forwarded a worthless promissory note this feature in Margaret's character will strike the reader of his own for £5O, to be negotiated by Mr. Wilkins, 'rem its similarity to that of her brother Henry VIII., and the proceeds applied for the purpose above alleged. dthouzli her mode of getting rid of the objects of her By the payment of a small sum it was pretended that the hanged affections was not quite so summary as his. action on the bill was deferred; but at length, on the We must, however, conclude our notice of this biogra- 9th of February, he intimated. that the " fix must come," by (premising that we shall on another occasion recur to and on the 14th he wrote to say that the writs were out, le two others contained in the volume) with the follow- and recommended that Mr. William Smith, of 16, summing-un by the writer mingto• shoW " It is certain that, if Queen Margaret could have proved the charge of previous marriage or pr e -contr ac t aga i ns t her hos bawl, she would not have had recourse to a pretext futile as that which, after great re earch. Dr. Magnus discovered w. her plea for divorce at Rome. 'The Queen's Gracc," continueth still at Stirling, and sueth fast for a divorce from 'tf Angus, submitting her cause to be, that when sly married to the said earl, the late King of Scots, her wrote 1 Earl of A band, was alive; and that the said King was lion, three years after the field of Flodden or Brankston.' Notwithstanding this discovery, made by Queen Margaret, of the existence of the first husband, for the purpose of getting rid of the second, Dr. Manus remained earnestly of opinion that the rights of the Earl of Angus should be recognised by his pervi-rse help mate. The character, indeed, that the learned doctor is pleased to give the Queen's repudiated husband for gentleness and sub. mission, makes it doubtful matter if she could ever have changed for the better." Whilst prosecuting this divorce, which was subsequently granted, we are told that, Albany having been forgotten, " it was generally whispered ' that the Queen was forced to retire awhile, on account of the birth of her first child by Harry Stuart, with whom she had maf.. riage." ; Subsequently the biographer informs t a secret mar- "There is little ' , lief from the selfishness of Marg usual conduct, to find the maternal feelings t breaking forth through the crust of diplo s ardently 211 en Mar Led, was struck with such ,d, where she ni advantage of I £7O on the bill, %I. the I for the purpose of beinz r Archibald. Earl of Angus, thl she speaks angrily in another epistl 'Mel' spot uch_a thing of he id be appointed to accept service for Mr. Wilkins and prevent the opposing attorney sending into the country. The writ of summons was issued on the 15th, in the name of Samuel Sibury, by Thomas Pittman, attorney, of No. 18, Charlotte-street, Portland_ place, no application having been made to Mr. Wilkins for payment of his acceptance, either by Pittman or any other solicitor. Smith had been empowered by the de fendant to act on his behalf, as Gardiner suggested, and he conducted the case. On the 6th of April a letter from )ossible, may be attributed to the fact a trance that occurs, since Christianity regnant power bend; confided to the hands of a wo• to reign as femme seule. She had no °nu WP`' was establ avn w!lo was exr guided ent a elevated characte able to her tunes attril .onduct, lescend;.nts we rise to most terrible c which caused long y litigation concerning the birthrights of their des . The fearful feud between the houses of Arran and Stuart was of this kind, which deeply involved the ty of her granddaughter, Mary, Queen of Scots. And int hapless Princess was likewise marked as a victim by the Ad and crafty Rutbven, on account of his family interests eing affected by Queen Margaret's marriages and di vot % successiowcf tragedies, for -th him was received by Mr. Wilkins, informing him that an arrangement had been effected, by which he (Mr. Wil kins) should pay a moiety of the plaintiff's costs, amount ing to £6, and also the sum of £75 by monthly instal ments. A judge's order to this effect had been procured from Mr. Justice Coleridge. It is with respect to this order, by which proceedings were stayed, that the rule nisi was moved for on Tuesday, the defendant having become convinced that Gardiner, Pittman, and Sibury had been acting in concert with a view to defraud him of his acceptance. From the affidavits put in it appeared that these persons had been carrying on a number of si milar transactions ; that there were at least eight in the gang, and that they had succeeded in victimizing clergy men and gentlemen to an incredible amount. They had in the summer of 1849 addressed circulars to various re sidents in the country, and also published advertisements in the Times and in some country papers, in which they offered to advance money by way of loan ; the addresses given being in one case that of Thos. Pittman, in another that of James Gardiner, and in another that of Samuel Sibury. Nine gentlemen, of whom seven w , was the con ilargaret Tudor's indulgence of her selfish pas Nor are the woes attendant on contempt of the divine limited to the great ones of the earth though shrouded in t'*- nstitution of marri Jany a domestic tr .he obscurity of _ry-day life, may be traced to the same cause. s orrow en t ers ith sin it desolates the peace of home; and unoffending uhlren suffer for the evil of their parents, whenever persons -e found to break, either by Wilful passiOns or litigious con !st, the earliest law given by the Almighty." The work displays great research and historical know ledge ; and we anticipate much pleasure and information from the series. In particular, we look with great inte rest to Miss Strickland's biography of Mary Stuart, re specting whose unfortunate career we are assured that she is in possession of many documents which have not -t be.- entered into communication with the reputed lenders, and gave promissory notes in blank for various sums to one or other of these parties —one giving five such accept ances, each for £l,OOO. Of the nine two received some very trifling advances, and the remaining seven got no value or consideration whatever. Five of the number had writs issued against them, of their acceptance, be coming due, at the snit either of the three above men tioned, or of one of their confederates. We have also one of three cases given at length. in which Richard Augustus Long Phillips, late of Christ's College, Cam bridge, figures as the victim. This gentleman had the misfortune, not uncommon with University men, to leave behind him at the seat of learning some outstanding claims. in order to liquidate these he proposed to him self to raise a sum of money on some reversionary pro perty, and put himself in communication with Pittman. Having waited some time in vain for a loan on the secu rities offered, he took a journey to London to accelerate the movements of his agent. Pittman then persuaded him to accept a bill drawn by himself for £225, and intro duced to him a person named William Morton as pre pared to discount it. Morton said he could not do it at the time. as he had already discounted that morning a bill for £5OO, but that he would get a friend to do it. Hereupon Pittman made over the acceptance to Morton, which, however, was- never dis coun t e d, an d w hi c h M r. , Phillips had great difficulty in recovering. Pittman now The British Tariff for 1850-1, with the Waterside Proc. Lice of the Customs, 8(c. 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EccLE 3ishop ASTICAL INTELLIGENC --It is reported that who has late]. een di ill lienCefortl !some the title of "His Oiliness Punch offered again to get it discounted at 15 per cent., provi ded a picture of Domenichino's was taken as equivalent to £6O. Having refused this offer, Mr. Phillips was next induced, by Morton to accept bills for £4 for ha Crflf 1111 I,n, STF.RIES OF LIFT —if we ask the philosopher le beautiful iris beneath our will want fbr its completion that one ciz all these would be unable to produce . "Analyze the seed with the finest solar microscope come in aid of your 0, found its way into the pos- Langdon, a saddler in Duke-street, Manchester-square, to whose house Morton had removed. Mr. Phillips paid this man £7O on account of the note in question ; and, having been sued, at the instance of Thomas Foulkes, on another £lOO note, he compromised that action by paying £5O through Pittman, of which Pittman himself kept half. He paid- to Pittman for his services—of:which the chief was procuring a loan of £7OO from an insurance society—£lo2; and, being told that the charge might have been much higher, further pre sented him with a ring. Heals° discounted, at Pittman's request, a bill of exchange, produced by Gardiner, and accepted by another of the nine, a clergyman near Lewes ; as no consideration had been given for the bill it was practically valueless to him. Among the other links in this case by which the con nexion of the various parties was proved, one was fur. nished by the affidavit of an attorney employed by S. Sibury en occasion of his bankruptcy, who deposed that the letters signed " J. Gardiner," and addressed to Mr. Wilkins, were in the handwriting of Sibury. A second was furnished by the Tittles. The acceptor of the five promissory notes for £5,000 advertised in that newspaper to caution any person against dealing in those securities, fraudulently obtained by J. Gardiner. At a later date an advertisement was inserted, disclaiming all connexion with the case in question, by a person signing himself .• was an acceptance for £2 session of NI e) do you find "J. Gardiner, Ballymena, County Antrim." Subse quently a letter was addressed to the Times, requesting a second insertion of this advertisement, which on the ground of its fraudulent character was refused. The manuscript of the advertisement so rejected proves to he in the handwriting of a law-writer named Willis, who had been employed by Fagg, the clerk of Pittman, to write it. It also appears that Pittman and Morton were in the habit of meeting at the house of Langton, in whose name one of the suits was brouelit; and that Lewis, in whose name another was entered., was a connexion of and resident with Smith, being like him an attorney. We are happy to say that the rule nisi has been granted in two cases arising out of these transactions, and hope to see the whole matter probed to the bottom. The facts, as we have cursorily given them, should teach all persons who feel inclined to raise money by discount or loan, that security is much better that secrecy, and that they bad much better rely on agents whose character they know than on the ambiguous services proffered by such persons as the present trial has introduced to our readers @rural ff,llsrellaliv. ~--- An importation_ef a quantity of game has taken place by a vessel arrived from Dunkirk, consigned to order. Carpenters' wages in Wilitebaven are 19s. per week for new work, and 21s. for old. The clergy of the Isle of Man are about to address her Majesty on the Papal question. A shark, which measured nine feet in length, and , weighed 3001 b., was caught last week, by some Dorset-- shire fishermen, off the Isle of Portland. Mr. Harris, connected with the General Post-office, who was supposed to be murdered, has turned up in, Scotland. The letter which we extracted last week from the Times, and purporting to have been written by the Duke of Atholl turns out to be a forgery. An anonymous friend s only known as T.E,E.. has given the munificent sum of £5BO in aid of the funds. of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. The ladies of Tynemouth have purchased a magnificent gold chain, value a hundred guineas, and intend presenting it to the first Mayor of that Borough. Two thatched houses were burnt down at Wakefield on Tuesday, the thatch having been ignited by a spark from some fireworks. A thin gold coin, about the size of a fourpenny piece, was lately found in the gizzard of a duck, at Driffield, Yorkshire. The treasurer of the United Presbyterian Church Mis sions has received from "Two Friends of Missions," per secretary, the munificent donation of £l,OOO. The post-master has ordered the discontinuance of a postal delivery in several rural districts where it was re quested. A sermon was recently preached in the Wesleyan meet ing house at Lidney, Monmouthshire, by a local preacher named Greening, now in his 95th year. An importation of 12 boxes of cherries has just taken place from Palermo. This is a very remarkable importa tion at this late season of the year. The Chinese government do not intend to send any specimens of tea to the 1851 exhibition, and a committee has therefore been appointed to send in samples. Some workmen who were digging at the North British Railway Station, Berwick, last week, turned up four or five large stone cannon balls, some silver and copper coins, and some human bones. The monument erected to the memory of Sir Sidney Smith, in the Cemeterie of Pere la Chaise, is tottering to its fall. A few admirers of the renowned Admiral are raising a fund to restore the monument. It is said that several of the lay R oman Catholics con template having a grand dinner at the Freemasons' Hall, in honour of the restoration of their hierarchy : his grace the Duke of Norfolk in the chair. Several of the London police magistrates have resolved not to give one farthing of money, sent to them by cha ritable persons, for explicit purposes. They will receive whatever is sent to be used at their discretion, Several gigantic crystals have been found in Cairngorm by the " diggers" engaged in the pursuit : two especially, weighing 231bs and 551bs. Her Majesty has granted a pension of £lOO a 'year to Mr. John Payne Collier, editor of Shakspeare, and author of the History of the English Stage. On Thursday the spinning-wheel of Messrs. Cooper, at Carlton, near Glasgow, was destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £40,000, which is not quite cover ed by the insurance. On Wednesday a sergeant in the Royal Artillery en tered a cab, at London-bridge, and, on the cabman open ing the door where he was directed to stop, he found the unfortunate inmate a corpse. On Tuesday, at Southampton, the crew of the steam ship Sultan h - ung up effigies of the Pope and Cardinal Wiseman from the yard-arm of the ship amid hearty de monstrations of joy. A STRAN GE Flsn.—An enormous fish. weighing up wards of 1001bs, called the maigre (sciceuaquila), was caught during the last week off Brixham.roads, and sent to Billingsgate-market. It was between five and six feet in length. The Carnarvon Herald says, " There is a sloop, a vessel of and belonging to the port of Aberystwith, about 140 years old. She has made several voyages this year to the West of England. The old vessel still looks well, and is considered seaworthy." CHINESE PRODUCE —The importations of fancy articles from China are much more various and extensive than used formerly to be the case. A vessel which has just arrived from Canton has brought no less than 376 packages of china and lackered ware. William Chambers, Esq., of Glenormiston, has offered a prize to the dixectors of the Scottish Institution, Moray place, to be given to the young lady who, at the close of this session, shall best sing two Scottish songs with piano forte accompaniment. The Mayor of Boston has written to Lord J. Russell, suggesting that the Alien Act should be brought into force against Cardinal Wiseman, as a Spaniard, and that he be ordered to quit the British shores within twenty-four hours of his landing ! The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng land . has increased from £15,973,669 to £16,025,215, being a difference of £51,546. The paper in actual circu lation has decreased from £21,215,706 to £21,161,602, being a difference of £114,104. A little boy, two years and a half old, the son of a widow living at Cockroyds, near Bradford, wandered into the fields on Thursday week, lost his way, lay down in a corner, where he died from exposure to the cold, and was found on the following Saturday. The Stamford Mercury says that in a hurricane on Monday, the post-mill top of Mr. Oxley, of Upton, was completely blown off, and the sails broken to pieces. Near Clifton, a mill was also blown down ; but two youths, who were in the mill at the time, escaped injury. A SQUEEZE FOR IT.—The hole in the iron door, through which a prisoner got out of his cell at. the Barnsley Lock-up, last week, but who was re-captured, is ten inches by six inches. The hole by which prisoners have their victuals given to them. On Monday Mr. - Charles Locke Eastlake was elected President of the Royal Academy, in the room of the late Sir Martin Shee, by the all but unanimous assent of his fellow-Academicians. On the same day Mr. J. C. Rook was elected an Associate. At the Westminster Nisi Prius Court, on Monday, Mr. Foster, a brichmaker, employed on the Great Northern Railway, at West Barnet, recovered £2OO damages from a brother in trade, named Howard, and a married man, with five children, for the seduction of his daughter, a girl seventeen years of are. In a shop at Ediziburgh, there is now exhibited a por tion of the trunk of a Canadian beech, in which the horn of a red deer, with all its antlers complete, is seen com pletely embedded in the hard and solid wood, which it had evidently transfixed when the tree was young, and in a comparatively soft condition. The presidency of the East India Company's educa tional establishment at Addiscombe, now vacant, and with £1,500 a year, exclusive of a residence, and other pecuniary advantages, will, it is reported, be given by the court of directors to one of the last chosen members of their own body, namely,—Colonel PROGRESS OF POPERY 11 , 1 THE DIOCEST: OF EXETER.— An application was lately made to the Bishop of Exeter to permit the Romanist practice of mingling water with the wine, to be introduced it► his diocese.. His lordship declined to grant the boon, but it does not appear that any censure was pronounced on the treachery which sug gests such applications. On Tuesda'y last a fire broke out on the farm of Mr. Gibbins, at Housham, Lincolnshire, by which no less than seven stacks were entirely consumed. It appears that some men had been thrashing during the day with a steam thrashing machine, and it is supposed that the sparks had communicated with some straw and set the whole place in a blaze. THE LATE Stu R. PEEL.—It appears from the last vo tume of Southey's Memoirs, that, in 1835, Sir Robert reel wrote an official letter to Southey, offering him a ba ronetcy, but by the same post sent him a private note, soliciting to know what he could'do for him : the poet de clined the baronetcy, but accepted an allowance of £3OO a year. Webeg to draw attention to the approaching division of the profits of the Standard Life Assurance Company for the five years about to be closed.. This Company, we perceive, has had additions t o ite num b ers w i t hi n six years of 3,801} persons, and although only established in 1825 its income is £165,000 per annum. It is one of the oldest and apparently most prosperous of the Scotch offices.. A singular instance of resuscitation occurred lately at the Siitish Museum, which, however strange it may appcar, actually took place. A certain snail, a native of Egypt, which had been glued down to a card during the last four years, and confined in a close glass case, acttrally came to life the other day. and' was found by the astonished "custos" promenading about in his narrow domain. EXTWAORDINARY ManamoEs..—The following extra ordinary occurrence took place in London. A gentleman, a widower, left with three sons, became acquainted with a widow lady who had three daughters: The lady and gentle man married, and with the children of the two families lived together for ten years. During the last six weeks the sons-and daughters were married to each other, and what is more singular, the eldest son married the eldest daughter, the others in the same manner. MYSTERPOOS ACCIDENT.—An extraordinary accident took place on Thursday, at the junction of the Derby and North-Western station, at Birmingham. Between three. and four o'clock in the morning,_ just after a train had. passed over the Lewley-street viaddat, a frightful expid sicn took place under one of the arches, blowing up the parapet wall and masses of buckwood in every direction. No one connected with the train,.with the exception of the stoker, was injured. The cause- of the explosion is under investigation. The North of Scotland Bank azd the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank have both recently- reported the state of their affairs to their shareholders, consequent upon the railway and other disasters of 1841: The North of Scot land Dank shows a loss of - two-thirds of their capital, and their shares are consequently to be reduced to one half, and to represent for the future a capital of only , .£190,000.- The Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank state that, in addition to their reserved fund, .they have lost £1.10,000 of their capital. Ann Cutler, aged seventy-three, an eccentric maiden ] lady of miserly habits, was found. dead, with an old. quilt around: her, in her apartments in Clerkenvvell, London, last week. The room was in a most filthy condition, and had more the appearance of a m ar i ne s t ore dealer's an a human habitation. Although always under apprehension that she would die poor, she '_eft four legacies of Xleo each to religious societies. In her will she directed that' her body should be enclosed in a coffin having a. spring lid, as she always had a dread of being buried alive. LAWENTABLE Loss OF LWE.—A dreadful accident occurred on Wednesday in the.Frongoeh lead mines, near Aberystwith, the property of the Earl of Lisburne. One of the miners placed a lighted pipe near some- powder which they were about to UM This ignited three, half cwt. barrels close by, and an explosion heard for miles distant followed, the place being instantly enveloped in flames. One poor man was killed on the spat; •two others were so severely injured that they suraived but a few hours, and the remaining four are still in,a dreadful state. MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—On Thursday evening, on the return of a young man at East Peckham from his work, he discovered the body of his grandmother, Sarah Bates, a small shopkeeper, weltering in her blood, with her throat cut nearly to the extent of severing her head from her body. The deed, apparently, had been inflicted with a large description of butcher's knife, which was found near the body, covered with blood. The deceased had several cuts on her hands, and both her eyes were blackened. At present the affair remains envelopedin, the greatest mystery. The following anecdote is making the round of the papers, with what authority we know not " Not many summers. since the Bishop of London and Mrs. Blomfield, having been at Matlock, went to see Alton 'Powers, the fine seat of Lord Shrewsbury. It becoming known to Lord and Lady Shrewsbury that the Bishop and his lady were in the grounds, they invited them to be their guests, and there they met Dr. Wiseman. Whether this was in good taste on the part of the earl is nothing to the purpose: 'it might be an oversight; but tha- intention was to be hospitable and kind. What occurred as worthy of notice is.this—Dr. Wiseman took pains upon that ceeasion to address The Bishop of London and to speak of him to others by the style of Dr. Blomfield. The Bishop had too much good sense and right feeling to notice it ; but Lord Shrewsbury was greatly annoyed." A STRANGE STEED.—When Professor Owen was sum moned to Buckingham Palace to see the great tortoise (Testudo eZephantopus), presented by the Queen to the Zoological Society of London, before its removal to the garden in the Regent's Park,, he, by the gracious direc tion of her Majesty, and, in the presence of Prince Albert, proceeded to takothe dimensions of the girth of the animal. To do this more effectually he bestrode the reposing mass. While thus employed, the tortoise walked off with the professor, to. the great amusement of the prince, while the philesoper, as he rode along, calmly continued his measuremont, which gave twelve feet as the circumference of this fine old Galapagosian.—Fruser'e Magazine. MRS. FANNY WEMBLE AND THE POPE.—The Chelten ham Journal, alluding to the recent proceedings of the Pope, says, "The Protestant feeling of the country will soon be roused, and we had a striking proof in our town on Tuesday night, that it is by no means dormant at pre.. sent. Mr 3. Fanny Kemble was reading the fine histori. cal play of King John, and when she came to the reply of the monarch to the Romig!' cardinal— " Thou can'st not, Cardinal, devise a name So slight, unworthy, and ridiculous, To charge me to an answer, as the Pope. Tell him this tale, and from the mouth of England And this much more—That no Italian priest Shall tythe or toll in my dominions." The last lines drew forth a long and spontaneous eheer, which amply proved two things—that the language of Shakspeare is fitted for all ages, and that resistance to the tyranny of Rome exists, as an innate principle, in the minds of Englishmen. R. Cassels.) to expound the histor cause without w the meanest weed tools, and let the es, what (asks Coleri instruments ; a wondrous fairy-tale of nature ; magazines of food ; stores of various sorts ; pipes, spiracles, defen. ie of many nd the owner and inhabi. tant invisible!" Yes! God's own immediate share in the production of yonder flour is utterly beyond the re searches of the philosopher ! His eyes, ears, touch, taste, smell, intuitions, are as useless for this kind of knowledge as if his body and mind were devoid of them There are, then, facts in the world around us whose mys terious origin is beyond the comprehension of the being who can, nevertheless, derive a thou their use id advantages f, indeed, we wait, before we eat the bread es life, until we have traced its ultimate origin, we shall die; and why should we be staggered if that is denied to us concerning, the bread of life, which is denied to us of the bread that perisheth ?. If there are that nourist mysteries in the world of matter, it might be reasonably expected, that there would he mysteries in the world of spirits.—Church of England Quarterly Review. ORIGIN OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—Saint Paul preached the Gospel of Christ in Britain about the 14th year of the Emperor Nero, and A.D. 63. He there ap pointed Aristnbultm rnentinnpa in An F-i 4,4- 4-- 4t.,. yval..,cu 41. AOLWVIA•UO, /11C111,11-MVU 111 Loe .upistie to toe Romans, as the first bishop, and established a cemplete Episcopal form of church government. The church of Britain thus established was senior to that of Rome ; Linus, the first bishop of the latter place, being appointed by joint authority of Peter and Paul, in the year of their martyrdom, after Paul's return from Britain. The Church in Britain continued to be governed by its own bishops for 600 years, independent of any foreign church, and was found in that state by Austin, the Pope's first missionary, at which time they had schools and churches, and a learned clergy ; and were in a flourishing state, and refused subjection to the Pope or his emissaries. The British Church was the first Protestant Church in the world, having so early as the 7th century, and 900 years before Luther, strongly protested against the errors of the Church of Rome, and refused to hold communion with that church. Their simplicity and purity of worship was such that they would not sit even at the same table, nor lodge under the same roof with the followers of Aus tin, on account of their superstitious and idolatrous cere monies. These facts are commended to the special notice of those who talk of the Church of England as beginning a " dubious existence in the reign of Henry VIII." MISS CATHERINE HAYES AND THE BISHOP OF LIME RICK.—An incident somewhat romantic in its character, formed the first introduction of Catherine Hayes to the late Hon. and Right Rev. Edmund Knox. Near to the See House then situated in Henry-street, is the town mansion of the Earl of Limerick, in whose family an aged female relative of Miss Hayes resided. The gar Jens attached to these houses stretch in parallel lines to the banks of the Shannon, and were remarkable for their picturesque be--` - -hour near the _.,“ery. A w, covered river's brink was a favourite resort of Catherine Hayes, then a young and delicate child—timid, gentle, and reserved, shrinking from the sportive companionship of her playmates ; her chief apparent source of pleasure being to sit alone, half-hidden among the leaves, and warble Irish ballad after ballad, the airs and words of which she appeared to have caught up and retained with a species of intuitive facility. One evening, while thus delightfully occupied "herself forgetting," and never dreaming but that she was " by the world forgot," some pleasure parties on the river were attracted by the clear silvery tones of her voice, and the correct taste she even then displayed. Boat after boat silently dropt down the stream, pausing in the shadow of the trees, whence, as from the cage of a singing bird, came the warblings that attracted them. Not a whisper announced to the unconscious child the audience she was delighting, till, at the conclusion of the last air, "The Lass of Gowrie," the unseen vocalist finished the ballad, dwelling on the passage "And now she's Lady Gowrie," with that prolonged and thrilling shake which owes nothing at all to the after-cultivation her voice received, and which, in years to come, was to cause the critical and fastidious pit occupants of the Grand Opera to " rise at her," and to forget, in the passionate fervour of their enthusiasm, the cold formalities of eti quette. Then from her unseen auditory arose a rapturous shout of applause, the first intimation the blushing and half-frightened vocalist received that her "native wood notes wild," had attracted a numerous and admiring audience. The Right Rev. Edmund Knox was one of those unseen listeners, and his correct taste and refined discrimination at once discerned the germ of that talent, the matured growth of which has so happily proved the soundness of his judgm en t. Th a t even i ng t h e open-a i r practice terminated, and the timid girl, who knew not the glorious natural gift she possessed, found herself sud denly a musical wonder, and heard with a kind of incre dulous.delight, confident anticipations of her future cele brity pronounced. She was immediately invited to the See House, where the kindest encouragement overcame her timidity, and she soon became the " star" of a series of musical re-unions, given for *instruction by her kind patron. These concerts were under the direction of the .Messrs. Rogers, musicians of great promise, one of whom is now organist to the cathedral at Limerick. Singing to their accompaniment, amid a circle, predisposed to receive her with favour, Catherine Hayes ".came out," bar "rapid onward progress being sort rasaufees eo tills p. 0244 64 University Magazine. SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF DRUNKENNESS.—This association has circulated a letter among the clergy of Scotland, entreating co-operation in the work of reforming Scotland "from its present degraded position as the most drunken country in Europe." The committee suggest to:every clergyman the preaching of a sermon against drunkenness on the last Sunday of the present year, at which a collection shall be made in aid of their funds. The Rev. W. N. Darnell, Rector of Stanhope, as with drawn his name from the subscription to the Penitentiary of Durham, in consequence of the third resolution entered into at the late meeting of subscribers: and Archdeacon Thorp has, through the secretaries, communicated to the committee his refusal to co-operate with them, or to further their views, until some guarantee is afforded that the religious superintendence of the institution shall be fundamentally supplied by the Church, and carried out in accordance with her principles. LUCRATIVE SITUATIONS IN SUSSEX.—The guardians of the Steyning Union have advertised for a porter at the Shoreham workhouse. He is to be able-bodied and single, and his salary (beyond lodgings and rations in the work house) is to be £lO per annum. Out of this remunera tion lie is to find his own clothes. The Uckfield guard ians have advertised for a nurse, who is to devote her whole time to her duties, and such other duties as may be required by the master or matron, and the remunera tion is to ne board and lodging, and £7 a-;ear The exploits of Guy Fawkes in London have pro bably created more sensation in Paris than they have in London. Some of the Paris papers look upon "these public manifestations" as something that may lead to a revolution in England. The Debats reminds the English people that the cry of " Vive la Reforme" ended in the revolution of 1848, and hints that the exhibition in Lon don of Cardinal Wiseman on the back of a donkey may leab to the pillaging of the Bank of England and the burning down of Pimlico. The foreign correspondent of the Morning Chronicle. states that in some parts of the corn-growing country of France a curious sort of tenant-right prevails. At the expiration of a lease, the farmer may offer to renew it again at a higher rate than before. If the landlord refuse he is bound to pay his tenant down, in ready money, three times the amount of the proposed yearly increase. " Thus, suppose I rented a farm at 80 francs the hectare —not an uncommon rate—and offered, at the expiration of my lease, to renew the obligation at the rate of 85 francs, the landlord, if he refuse, is bound to pay down 15 francs per hectare as an allowance for the improve ment which I have made, and the capital I have ex pended upon the land.,' DUTY OF CHRISTIAN DISSENTERS TO THE PROTES TANT CHURCH.—This importation he solemnly believed would do much to unite all Protestants. He told the churchmen in that room they could not afford to do with out the dissenters, and he told the dissenters that they could not afford to do without the church. (Cheers.) They might depend upon it that a crisis was coming that would demand the combined faithfulness and efforts of all. He believed that all the sects of the Protestant church differed only in ceremonial details, and that they agreed in all that was vital, permanent, and precious. He believed that all our churches were but trees planted of the Lord—each grew best in its native soil, but all their branches waved in the unsectarian air, all their fruits ripened in the same catholic soil, and the roots blended with each other in the ground beneath, invisible to us, and all cohered with the roots of the tree of life that was in the midst of the Para dise of our God. (Prolonged cheering.)—Rev. Dr. Cum ming on the present Crisis. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.-011 Tuesday evening the service appointed for the anniversary of the gunpowder plot was performed at St. Saviour's, Southwark, when every part of that spacious edifice was most densely crowded. The sermon was preached by the Rev. W. Curling, one of the chaplains, from the 3d epistle of St. john, v. 9; N. When the congregation arose to leave the church at the close of the service, the organ began to play the air of the national anthem, upon which the whole congregation suddenly commenced the words, and sung two verses with great enthusiasm: Mr.. Curling then succeeded in procuring a pause, and - remarked that as some expressions in the remaining verses were not quite befitting the sanctity of the edifice, they had better substitute the Doxology. The organ began to play the " Old Hundredth,-" and the people sang " Praise God from whom all' blessings flow," with a fervour and uni versality that evinced their cordial concurrence in the suggestion of their pastor. The immense concourse then separated.— London paper. THE IRON. TRADE.—The beginning of the end appears to be already in advent. It is useless any longer to con ceal the fact—the iron trade is in a most deplorable state —the work of ruin has been going on for months to an extent not hitherto dreamt of. The Welsh masters will go on producing until a sterner power:compel them to hold their hand. 'the mischief already done in Scotland is so great that the Anal catastrophe cannot be far distant ;.such is the desperate condition of the iron trade that it is scarcely possible to predict what disasters are at hand. Thus it ' ever is ; the Stafordshire masters would have the Welsh and the Scotch to- give up the ruinous contesto lately. the Welsh wished the Staffordshire to do so. Every one looks to his neighbours as the cause of all the mischief. But it is a fact, that an increase of activity is being displayed in South Wales ; works closed for four years are being re opened; increased numbers of men have already been employed, surveys undertaken, tramways formed, flesh levels opened, pits aimed and ventilated. As for the last of these operations, there need be no hurry ; there will be plenty of time to ventilate.—Carmartherz Journal. PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF BALLOONING.—Great attention has been excited in the scientific world by an experiment made on Wednesday, in the Hippadrome, to effect the steerage of balloons in any given direction. The trial is looked tapes by eminent men to-have been remarkably successful. The model balloon which was used to make the experiment measures five yards in length, and contained 1,200 litres of gas; it weighs 1,200 arammes, and is completely of the form of a fish, with fins-and tail. The tail is composed of two small rudders, one of which causes the balloon to ascendewhilst the other turns it either to the right or lefts The fins are represented by two moveable oars, short-and wide, which are moved by a very simple piece of mechanism. The whole apparatus is covered with a network, -and with bands of whalebone. This model, which is rather diminutive, labours under very serious disadvantages:- The necessity of making the mechanism for moving the wings very light only allows it to act for a very short time; nevertheless, the balloon went for a certain space insa . direct line, and evendescribed a circle, though with some difficulty. In order to be able to carry three men, the balloon should b e a t l eas t seven t y yards long, and the fins worked in the car. below by means of a handle turned by two men, or by means of a wheel similar to that of the treadmill. PROTESTANTISM ANa , ORDER—POPERY AND DIS ORDER.—In the year 18 , 18 a great convulsion shook almost the whole globe, certainly Europe, to its very centre. It would be found, on examination, that in Rome there was an ecclesiastic, of some sort or another, to every 30 persons, and that there was a priest for every 60 or 70. He argued, therefore, that if the doctrine of the Church of Rome was so precious it had a most splendid oppor tunity of bearing its fruits in what was called the capital of the Christian world ;. so, if Popery had fared in Rome, it had not been from want of hands to work it or priests to represent it, but from some inherent faults within it. On the other hand, locking at London, there was not a minister of any denomination for every 10;000 of the population, and it miglst, therefore, be justly argued, that if Protestantism had failed in London, that it was from the simple fact that it was not adequately represented and efficiently carried out. But what were the facts ? When that revolution shook Europe in 1848 the subjects of the Pope, in that model city of the world, whose people being at head quarters might be:presumed to he the holiest in the world, whose contiguity to the papal chair should have made them, par -excellence, the most spiritual, holy, devout, loyal. and perfect persons, rose en masse—his beloved subjects, his- own dear metropolitan people, his own pet representatives of what Papery made people, murdered his Prime Minister before hie face, dismissed himself in a footman's livery upon a coachman's box, and judging by the facts that since transpired, were the last people to wish him back again. (Cheers and laughter.) The same wave that swept over Europa swept the metro polis of Old England. A few of tha Cardinal's pioneers• began to disturb us with th e i r cro t c h e t s t o agitate. And what was the result.? Why, England rose in one body, lined every street e put down the crotchets of the trouble some, and rallied round their hearths and homes, ready to live for their Queen and to die for their religion. (Cheers.) If Protestantism made us so loyal it was worth keeping, and if the Cardinal's crotchet failed to make his own pet people loyal, it could be hardly worth preserving. —Rev. Dr. Czomming on the present Crisis. "TOWN AND. GOWN" A.T. CAMBRIDGE.—It is well known that the sth of November in Cambridge is often a signal for the revival of thisuntagonistic cry ; and,, what is worse, a number of encounters generally take place, in which the weapons used are not confined to fists. About ten . o'clocka•disorderly gang of the most disgraceful cha racters in the town adjsurned from Parker's-piece, and commenced parading the streets, and hooting and yelling at every university man they met. It was impossible for the police to disperse this body, which had complete con trol of the streets all the evening, and at last a collision took place in Green-street ; here several university men hadjoined for mutual protection, and the cap of- one of them was knocked ofr from behind by one of the mole, who immediately measured his length beside it on the ground. A general tight ensued, in which the gownsmen had for a short time the best of it ; but five or six to 300, is long odds ; and thinking that discretion is the better part of valour,, those of the toga retreated into a house, so, soon as the tide begun to turn, and bolted the door on the other side, leaving several of their foes prostrate on the ground. The activity with which this manoeuvre was executed wasadmirable, and the exasperated mob, baulked of their prey,. vented their rage upon two university con stables, who had arrived on the spot. Beset on all hands, one of these men, a servan t o f Trinity Hall, used his sta ff, and that not very li g htly, u p on th e h ea d of one of t he ringleaders named Dun n , a F a lc on -yard hero, andßr o w blood ; the mob immediat e ly c l os ed in, and the constables had to take to their heels. They took refuge in the yar d leading to the new rooms of the Union Society, and here were run down, and much maltreated. Their staves were secured by the mob, and the assailant of Dunn was most severely beaten. A sally then took place from the rooms night w before,, turned out well armed. These, h owever, were hemmed in in Green-street by th e au th or i t i es and disper sed as di d of a body their off fe gownsme n, lowa o ftl parading the town. On Wednesday night the townspeople arm,of h e s Union o ou S cleared oci e t t b y, n e , s a tr d e etth of f t be gownsmen, mob; w l h i n o k ed set am i n a r bo ut smarting again attempted un d ert the riot,e treatment ' • but sundr y skirmishes t oo k p l ace notwithstanding. On Thursday night, during a rehearsal of the Choral Society, one poor solitary gownsman was set upon by a low mob outside the Town-hall ; his cap and gown were destroyed ; be was trampled on by the mob, and it was With :01110 difficulty that he was reload by the police. Nov. 12 ' 18511 THE ROUTE FROM CHAGRES TO PAN° - . -- L (From the Panama Star.) 11 00 1 The Chagres river frcm its mout h up to - 61 00 point of debarkation, is navigable on l y in caul; 00 are forced along by the natives with oars and Po eL o or rate of about ten miles per day. For the first iiToje twenty miles the river is deep and crooked, with sod it rate current, afterwards becoming m ore shallow _qv phi. Several branches and creeks empty into it os' b ' ot o quite as pleasant and palatable as any side. The water presents a muddy appearanae!srti,eri o f e urp.. l)o l rivers. In fact there is no very striking peculiarliiriot it, with the exception of its rapid current, trbi eu , o f tV , the ascent, that is calculated to excite the interesboxis weary traveller. Along the banks, hosvever , nisY rf liets all manner of trees and shrubbery, unknown in n e tra o latitudes, so thickly set as to be absolutely imPerle.nsch. Add to this, the immense number of alligators, rree. ot b av a te c er l: e at el nh l de i z c a er r ma d wb s 1 , 0 aw s n n ed a r snakes, and b a tt n iii sdehmpe themselves s ltv o he n as o t u s i l oa vi nn o g r t l b s , e a t 9s t: oi oleo j e t o !, to s r and one can readily imagine that his only' alp h e rle e. security is to stick to his craft. There are, ner ,i e l l ore eitli a number of places at which one may go a. tbs tal safety. After arriving at Cruces, then comes w its u an nc d ea t s h i i n s g p of war." You can either get a mule by paYint , ~o f ty; dollars, or go on foot, as New Grenada is a free ccR: 5 ov er but whichever you do, rely upon it, you have to P a',,„ 0 0 the roughest and most abominable part of the earth. ere of tb e These gorges Upwards of two hundred years since, the own% „_es country paved a road most of the way betwee„st;ro's ha s l . oi tea to away , leaving great gorges in the mountains t t si eve n thirty feet deep, and varying from one foot o I _ s . l s a a c w e. s, fithinecemtoluianttatiinmetotrhreenrrso,ad.bYbk:on rt.t inches at the bottom, through which all have to P a sf„or• ante—just such as would reasonably be p ro ye ar s' same kind of precpipriecese,nfitrast crooked leaning which the water passes. Sometimes rush of mountain waters for a number of ie,o_r s , us t ia bottoms of these places are regular or irregaiaar.ii orb proportion to the solidity or softness of the e_r, I ti p s o means of support but the boles formed , his foot to sustain himself. Arriving at yo u titre' h no other ascent at an angle of about 45 degrees, wi t ~t Or COOLP st p isce gorge, equally as bad,and vel, in the solid rock, into - which man or mule ti' ll ice 60 ,1 the descent still more difficult and dangcrotts—"_d fhea must drag through this, in order to the right anbss, of to the left ; no better footing • found until th e . 5 lost , the hill is reached is . foot.hold I , 00 ; when the ordinary .te O a no other water, varying in depth from one to three feet l a 9 _4her . honours alt e alternative uh t i f meese i lsf fk with b u t a t° p asilatignegteli:ll:6:il :ooe vas e Sueh is perhaps w has to 0 . the road over which every wan ' cruces 6 whofrom • we Panama. At least good a descrip i obso , feel able such is as laity' an de itve , to give; for its roughness, irrega co s of - ser`i danger in passing, at once travelledail pose wootaln, deer ption. It is only fit to be _ I:,_" our kirs et t l i, ledge oth goat, as these are the only animal' in ; nce ° 1 ' 5Bl to that can pass over it with any assura ~.... sa fetY c i We frankly acknowledge our indebtedness , : . 1 .4 . 5 t0r c . : the as _scientific leaps of our mule, for Poor ariallor (at!: leap he was, he seemed to understand precisel_oo sta l ris n order firmly to plant his hoof. What !"; rice Os?: prises sd us is, that Americans bare not long is P O ; kind the route for in addition to the roo f r ,, Wo o mo of accommodations extended , eit her ten ti rlies sf ney" by the natives. One has tot PO' w bide t e value for a cup of coffee; and occasionally a ra be found to.sleep upon at night. —.... _... 1 otorseggainn the ;out. 1 SPORTING INTELLIG-D`l --- •• • ' Cre ° ' irleP Wednesday, NOvember 13th, at ..... • ..• ..• Thursday November 14th, at ....... • The camsH T IR H E E H C o II uN A D S s E Saturday, Novemberveb /6th, at ........ oti ne yat half-past ten 0; oe et Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS 'c lk Wednesday, November 13th, at .. •• • ' •: e hilr e ll pra; .. Friday, Novemb er 15th, a t .. Gree Saturday, November 16th, at ........ • Each day at half-past ten 0 .6111 4°. c 4., LIVERPOOL AUTUMN I‘.. nlace o ti p tare. t 9 The usual autumnal sports at Aintree spar •01^ 1 . 1 l ops. to-morrow, with every prospect of first-ra te , r oll o 0 sc i 5 On the first day we have for decision the mile' t 1 ,; o 0 die Race of 10 sovs each, with 40 added, t t ' ea ch, l be OP" we 10 subs. The Sefton Handicap of 15 sors• ces . 'r oe 1 0 0 only if declared, with 60 a dd e d . accePt"dded• t he see b Selling Stakes of 5 BOYS^ each, with 30 : tie d. On cl orli ot b Pokee Handicap of 4 sovs each, with 2 0 au - so's e ' o sr ll ,.. , ‘tree day we shall have the Scrarnyle Stakes of d f j osol he add, d. The Grand Autumn Steeple Chas e ° n oes. escD' The 103 added, about three miles. 14 accePt3, 5 s ovs 0 5 Plate of 30 sovs added to , a Sweepstakes _T ri m. A.,d, •t 01 Scurry Handirap of 3 sovs•eacb, with 9) no' in "Pring,„, ) ' the, The course is said to be in first-rate Or ,fe'rtlY, s e dfrO' s never known to be in a be tterstate, being T e cffec' o polli eg dry. The start for the Steeple-chase is to,, er 6 13 , c „ised % s elf; enclosure, which has long been known u t .i s gsos",, e srs . ,o, Heacher's Field," the gal Lint captain:ba t ' r ine ' o f plete summerset" there some -eight o r ,, line Ite lie n ; There will be a little ploughed land in the woe,t butit is horsesno means heavy. _fun' c o ra , Silt/ The arrived or expected here cot. n ure , re ak, Subduer, Fanny Ellsler, Thbrgarton, Th e n . s p, e 'zeds' ba g Dutchman. The General, Lucv Neal, Rat - ra yeleY: w eple• c oef Kendall, Tally-ho, Miss , Cjllingwood , it o ,- tbe J spoi 3 O ..et, Qtmen of the Vale, and the Little Queen.; nioac 3 „l f er and hurdle-race ; an d t h e C oc kt a il, .-oft, Justice, Baeton, Ca n dl ew i c k, P or ti a , l., 4 lsPi i- . Abtesa of Jervaux, &c. for the fiat races. t4 THe Norman E to P n S° Sae ß s dcl:C't7ni. subs:—Mr. Carew's (Edipus-1 ;, Mr. Sadd's soy's Tile Beddington Handicap Stakes of I. ; h , on ‘Y , ,,, v eil ' until n d e 1: 1 1 i ' e ' l l, d. h t b '' - iff ( , 2 : B ratyi s t uh ub ,p s 3t .. h ) - - eT S di i iis r et atiroa G. ce .. r H i, ._ inu th stai c lne o t efi es idy , : i , Dark Susan, 1 ; Mr. Hetcher's' a b f St. liii,(l,arn-,:i;4.l,oPColailtraruillse:?gelf:ti:ibtfi others- immedi starteda t e immediately ga , v i e n precedence c iild illg - r ß e r d it li n y r s ia , by half a length. ch. ' X 'l,-01 0 The Epsom Autumn Handicap 0f.15 sovs. e i l l r pri% ii .• Cf. added.. (56 subs., 25 of whom declared.)-3t-iie, '2 l„ 1 ,0 0 Sauter- la Coupe, 1 ,• Mr. Williams' Chief Jus __ 3. --p lr O. Hiathcote's be cby Sir Hercules out of Dark Susrod I . t iel3' , Rushout's Glen Saddel. Mr: Docli'F t°°:k the le , n - ,k,ae11a P .,`,0% followed by Chief Justice, Glen,Saddel, Cossack, u' i i iy , 01'0d Sautar la Coupe lying oft; and Cora, wll-0 Vt °ff ha _,, un ti .. , 3v e up the rear. No change took in the front raX' ss ack 6,611 reached- the' three-quarteo.of-a-mile pest, where DocilitVere way, and Chantrey took the second place,.,,,, a nce," the leading. They went on without order to the a t 7 n ded l e d% Chief Justice tonic up the-running, closely • at -_ .l sau_ or Dark Susan colt, Chan treys Brington, 'Valentine, and Cossac!„ , . t s a . . re p stand Chantrey and Brington gave way, an oz en stria e it the race being left entirely. to this I ?t, - 4 - ii ,Ve r r i.l a , ei froll challenging Chief Justice; headed him-half a dozetisin co tor os beaten by • a neck for the second place, and Wa S by Valentine. home, .and won by a short length ; the Park - clos ell'. t 0 --- . ~ toe!fr. The South Lancashire steeple-cbascs will "`a,iiip t" illff°ll Newton, on the 27th instant, under the stewar Legh and J. White, Esqrs. ii cow oe' The Crewe grand annual steeple chases wi ,„. i„I Thursday and Friday next, being on the two - ''', o ve l e " diatelysucceeding the Liverpool meeting , wi l ` P - .4' attractive which had just arrived at FerryhilL per ra il ' SATING FOR A SHORT CROP.--011 Thursday o f cot t 0 THE COON Monv,o%%;niffea curious sound was heard issuing from a h ale Gla 6o li frolr ater vrill e One of the railway company's men opened tnn v end le was found to contain a live cat, of small size , , _..,,,r .. that, as the reduced by hunger. The animal was ernbecldearoptil centre of the bale, but had managed w Pr es u e a / t „ 0 to 0311 w tair e cotton immediataly,around its body of nest, in whichlt had %ter et It led noirJ, it must have bean put in, possibly by some w 3 gg' s r a merica.:4oo, when the bale was originally packed in A was taken home and cared by of the comp _e! ~e# one package was r e o n o ti m re t a o nd m u o n ; .—Aberdeen Iltrald. , f re sb 1 ,-- 4 At the Mansion-house, on Tuesday, severs, qv itl), - were gone into against Mr. Sirrell, the silver-_',, ; movee. bragagi Barbican. Mr. Godden, a brewer, of Maidslni; thrf tt tified, amongst the property seized by then ° l l he ' l li ten pepper castors, stolen from his house o oiled of the 26th September, after it had been, G oef 0 into. Another gentleman identified a 1 " e n t b arse , osli' watch, stolen from him at the Epsom race co 4 1 a jeweller, o be , bii i o , evening oh the Derby. Mr. Balerna, fax, identified a pair of gold spectacles, " c ' fora 13 0 occasionally, worn himself, as one of five stnlen s browoo shop on the night of the 13th of July, wh en ' t; l ' " bec e i rlf into rind much jewellery carried off, including a A Ja t gold and silver watches, and 400 finger ri n g s• froin b e. identified a mourning ring as having been thestolen.o„tosf sister, Mrs. Freeman, of Grove-terrace, ICentio.l,_eo 1 Another investigation took place on Thursday, ~n , , °P i a magistrate discharged Sirrell, observing, that the be lii changes brought against him upon which evidS ie 0 0 0 ( been given were such as might have occurred in " 0 pri 9 ,, mode of transacting business; that thew was ° rt icle4 that he was at all aware of the purchase of 0 01 '1 9 0 ' I oud -4 , applause- followed the decision. of the nag ~,, and the prisoner was immediately se& at libertY.L4 11 0 '4 EXTENSIVS RounEßlES.—Much excitement a'', 4 tfr,,f occasioned at Leeds and Bradford by the discove4erly,i several merchants and manufacturers have beetil,, e c M e letters addressed to them by p arties with wh0m„.0,10'11,5 business tin' sactions, some of the letters contairjette e remittances of money. It is supposed that tl e W i e r have been obtained at the Postoffice by parties c v i r eo,,e represented themselves as the servants of the l' he il P ii , persons to whom they were addressed, but w ho ses 9 authority for what they did.. A f 3 11% ha y f flew days ago , , t 0 , the chief constable of Leeds, received informa,t' c 'so i ir letter, containing a bill or draught for th e b 9 bi,,,' . £744 15s, had been sent through the Poston''„ 0 1 P; ;o ef' John Atkinson, of Bradford, to Messrs. Holt,!'f 9`„` - f i ll ; ' chents, Leeds, and that it hadnotreached its ''' -11.1 1e - ti i ~ e et) Inquiries were made,, and suspicion fell W" five ; le r man named John Warren, who, some four or o il- t y ago was in the employ of Messrs Holt as an erroe set On Th d urs ay morning Mr. Read. )1 e r n, V.ll appre en (S 1 0 0 pected person hi s b r other 0 00 Warren), his father (Peter W * ) - ,1 °ling cis Warren), an d a Y ~, oe „ e ri who gave her name Hannah Leonard, and sa,l'Asto'od from Hull. Peter Warren, a weaver of PO," ;to ° l ', says that the female prisoner, and he had ordered a ba r ' - 10 0- 0 1/ and of l quantity of meat and provisions for the eet0014,0,4 that event. It appeared that the prisonete rec c er bill for £744 15s to the Bradford bank, w here ;pa t o,' the fall amount in bank notes and sovereign.i s *„„olb P e prehended he was seated at b rea kf as t with r 1 7,0et," p V i' nard, and had four £lOO notes in. his trousers Pfelia! £9 or £lO. On opening his box there car e d ti 5 1, 41 5 1; Bank of England notes for £lO, 22 note s , ~; ife r "o l , s c ci " bank for £5 each, and £l3O in gold.. Ti ts l e ,bo% . „ , JO, d i'" £l5 in gold in a purse at the bottom of t'w k orio: le d v" Peter Warren claimed as his own. The pr',; n oo," Warren and Hannah Leonard, were then I: ~ - goo Alowlay next, the other prim b • de w QX3, aLn No v far 11tne' I, 4 tteq th e the i tt n 4 er , v i rt N.On 1 1; 141 e d Itid'q 1 0 I I e Ce ''" t tn . n -kh f i n 4 t 1.1? Itc. I kt tl Y k, 4f Z 1 li114d„!'YO t tbr the 2 o 1.)A• 30 04 41 cer •e 5 th e 4 %r!VRD( , Di t ii4e 441 4,!.1t4eS bPC i t 4 t4 al); e I.,eat,ed ,thSent It;; I 1 ts k 7 rei, t k t 'd 2: 1 4i 1 , 1v , 4le Qt ow'. Nif I?vitril i th I ‘lr he • tttßole v "~lp r ~ i f~~ 'al 4 1 1' 1 1 ti N i Ch t r il 1 1 t:t v qk t :B' l l,j N t 4 , 1 111 i lte 4to4 ° l. 4 ,1 4 4 i • IV Y $414 tt;) t kIY,