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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. SPAIN. The deputation met at Madrid on the 30th ult., and proceeded with the discussion on the amendment of M. Isturitz. The discussion was adjourned till the following day. General Prim has been removed from the place in which he was first confined to the old barracks of the Garde du Corps. The court-martial had been organised, and was to assemble on the follawing day. The papers found on General Prim at the time he was arrested are said to have seriously compromised him as connected with the attempted assassination of General icarvaez, and the result of his preliminary examination is considered as far from satisfactory. A profound mystery hangs over the whole affair. Letters from Barcelona of the 30th state, that the tran quility of the city had not been further troubled. Several more arrests had, however, taken place. Four of the ringleaders are to be shot, and nine sent to the galleys. The Chamber of Deputies have rejected an amendment to Narvaez's proposition for the overthrow of the consti tution, by a majority of 124 to 26. Much ex‘litement pre vails. Most of the French opposition papers denounce Espartero, as the head and front of the movements in Madrid and Catalonia. DR. WOLFF. Captain Grover has received the following letter from the Rev. Dr. Wolff:— " Meshed, Alonth of Shaban, 23 " My dear Grover,—Not venturing when at Bokhara to keep a journal, I have forgotten the date of the Chris tian month. After the infamous Nayib Abdool Summut Kban had forced from me the promise to pay him 6,000 tolas, I should, after all, have been put to death, if Abbas Kuli Khan, the Persian Ambassador, had not saved me. I am now arrived in Persia, broken down in constitution, robbed of everything I had, and with a debt of 6,000 tolas (X 2,500), which I am to pay to the brother of the Nayib Abdool Summut Khan, who is to accompany me to Te heran. You thought that £4,000 might be collected for my mission ; if you can now assist me in paying the debt above-mentioned to the infamous Nayib, who forced the promise from me in his garden, surrounded by his guards, well—if not, I shall be obliged to go to prison in Persia. The King bas also sent with me an Ambassador who is to go to England, and the Nayib has forced me to pro mise to pay the expenses of that Ambassador out of the money he advanced me. That same Ambassador has ex cited the Turcomans of Mawr and Sarakhs against us— i.e., against Abbas Kuli Khan and myself, on our way to Meshed, and forced Abbas Kuli Khan to pay him and the other ambassadors appointed for Persia 150 tillas in the midst of the desert !—Yours affectionately, "JOSEPH WOLFF." " Meshed. " The above, though dated at Meshed, was written at Mostroon. lam now at Meshed, and two hours after me your gholam (special courier), Ali Ahmed Beyk, ar rived. He found me broken down in Mullah Mehdee's house. I will only add, that the Nayib wants only the interest of the above money to be paid to his son when of age. The Ambassador from Bokhara is also here ; he has letters and presents for the Schah, the Sultan. and Queen Victoria. The Nayib has settled with the King that I should bear the Ambassador's expenses from the money the Nayib expects to be paid back. lam not yet out of danger, but am too confused to explain all now. Mullah Mehder will do it fcg me. Lieutenant Wyburd has been murdered at Bokhara. " JOSEPH WOLFF." (NOTE BY CAPTAIN GROVER.) Lieutenant Wyburd, of the Indian army, is another diplomatic victim. This talented officer was sent on a secret diplomatic mission to Khiva in the year 1835, and has never since been heard of. This unfortunate man, it is right to state, was not altogether abandoned to his fate by the British Government, for, in a letter written to me by Lord Aberdeen's direction, I find it stated, that on Colonel Stoddart's being sent on his mission to Bokhara in the year 1838, he was instructed to inquire after Lieut. Wyburd. I have not, however, been able to learn that any effort has been made in his behalf since that time. I directed Dr. Wolff to obtain all the information he could concerning this wretched man, and to purchase his free dom should be be in slavery. The Doctor says, he has been murdered at Bokhara ; but it remains to be seen on what evidence that assertion is made. I am advised to state an interesting circumstance that occurred to me at St. Petersburgh, as it will show that the good Doctor's mission has not been entirely useless. Dr. Wolff was authorised to draw upon my private for tune for the ransom of any Christian prisoners he might find at Bokhara. In the first batch he purchased were ten Russians, and this circumstance was fortunately offi cially known in Russia before my arrival. A message was brought to me from the Emperor by the British Mi nister, expressing his Majesty's thanks and wish to re imburse me. My reply was,—" that I considered it a great honour to have been in any way instrumental in the release of his subjects, and that repayment was quite out of the question." I am glad to have this opportunity publicly to thank his Majesty for his gracious declaration communicated to me by the British Minister,—that his Majesty will do everything in his power for the relief of Dr. Wolff. JOHN GROVER, Captain Unattached. Army and Navy Club, Nov. 6. The Independent of Montpellier states, that in the late storm at Cette, 20 persons lost their lives, six vessels were sunk, an immense number of others received great da mage, and 200 houses were more or less injured. A sub scription has been opened at Cette for the relief of the most needy of the sufferers.—French paper. FATAL DUEL.—A fatal duel has just taken place in the environs of Versailles between-two pupils of the Polytech nic School. One of them was killed, and the other took flight, declaring his intention to surrender himself when the time came for him to take his trial. The seconds, and the surgeon who attended them to the ground, were arrested at Versailles, and brought to Paris on Friday.— Galignani. ISTHMUS or PANAMA.—The long-projected idea of carrying on the correspondence between Europe and Peru, across the Isthmus of Panama, is, it is said, about to be realised. It is proposed that three fast-sailing vessels, ably commanded, shall be appointed to convey the letters, passengers, and merchandise, between Callao and Panama, touching every voyage at Payta. By sending the des patches from Europe to Chagres, and thence across the isthmus, to be again embarked from the point at which the new packets arrive, it is expected that they will reach the city of Lima in sixty or seventy days from the time of their departure, whereas it requires double the time for them to arrive at their destination by the passage round Cape Horn. NAVIGATION OF THE NILE.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company have sent out a beautiful new iron steamer of seventy horses power, called the Delta, for the navigation of the Nile and the conveyance of passengers to and from Cairo. She arrived at Alexandria on the 20th ult., having performed the voyage from Dartmouth in twenty-eight days, and drawing only twenty-four inches water. This powerful steam company has already two small river-steamers on the Nile, the Cairo and the Lotus, for the same purpose, which the Egyptian govern ment, by especial privilege, allowed to be placed there at a time when the overland route to India required much assistance, and Egypt possessed few means of transport for passengers at her command. The case is now widely different, and the Nile will very soon be able to offer ho nourable rivalry to the Rhine or Rhone. It is said, how.. ever, that the Pacha persists in restricting the internal navigation of the Nile to boats of his own country, and that the Delta must therefore be sold or sent back to this country. IRE. LAND. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. — The rent for the week ending yesterday week, had tumbled down to £289. FIRE ON SHIP-BOARD.—On Monday, a fire was dis covered on board the barque Ninian, at Limerick. The masts, rigging, sails, captain's cabin, and a great part of the main hold were destroyed before the vessel could be scuttled. The Hon. George Hely Hutchinson, who has of late been so conspicuous in the Conciliation Hall, has gone to Italy, and left behind him an address to " Protestants," urging them to become Repealers. FRIGHTFUL MURDER.—On Monday night last as Ar thur Gloster, Esq., of Moylish, near Limerick, was re turning home in his gig he was shot dead by two armed ruffians. The deceased was a wealthy gentleman—of humane and unexceptionable character, and the outrage was committed in consequence of his having served noti ces of ejection on some of bis tenants for non-payment of rent. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. - It appears that the day of Mr. Gloster's murder (which sad event we record in another paragraph) was to have been signalised by ano ther assassination in the same district ; and that but for the courage and presence of mind of his servant, Robert Bunt, Esq., of the city of Limerick, would, in all proba bility, have fallen a victim to the agrarian Thugg of the borders of Limerick and Clare. Mr. Hunt was accom panied in his gig by his servant, when he was attacked, and providentially they were both armed with pistols, and thus able to defeat the murderous intent of their cruel and cowardly assailants. RIBBONISM.—On Friday week, some young men at tended a ribbon meeting near this town, and some dis pute arising, they attacked two men, brothers, named Foody, and beat them severely. Immediately after, another brother rushed into the party with a knife, and killed one of them on the spot, by stabbing him in the heart. He also wounded several others, who are so dangerously ill that their lives are despaired of. Sligo Journal.—[Unless our borough magistracy take some steps to prevent this diabolical confederacy spreading amongst us, we shall be having similar scenes enacted here.' FRAUDS ON THE B of the Dublin EIEVOLNT.—The commissioners metropolitan police, having received from various parts o f the United Kingdom counterfeited certi ficates, purportin g o t from magistrates at Galway, Sligo, or other ports, with fiFt!tious subscription lists ap pended, and sometim es municipal seals (found to be im pressions from casts of corporation t livery . buttons), in which papers, women representedordo be widows of c u e:: of her Majesty's ser geants or other non-commissioned forces, are recommended for alms. ; anadlYv under poalriicous pre tence of destitution from shipwreck fabri cators of such papers, apprehended by the having escaped punishment for want of legal proof of theactual receipt of money by means of the false pretences (the only offence cognizable in the present state of the ."j law), have issued a notice of t he frauds practised, toge therle with copies of some of the forg ed certificates, in order to prevent further imposition, and induce the transmis sion of charitable donations through responsible persons, when give n in compliance with the written solicitations of unknown applicants. DEATH OF THE DEAN OF LIMERICK.—This venerable and learned ecclesiastic who has been long in a declining state of health, died on Sunday week, in the 85th year of his age. The Very Rev. Arthur John Preston, when Dean of Kildare, was promoter' to the Deanery of Lime rick, and instituted 1809. The Deanery of Limerick is not valued at more than £l,OOO a year, but there are at tached to the office the patronage of Mungret and Bruree vicarages, the Perpetual Curacy of Cahirnarey, and six Minor Canons in the Cathedral. The above dignity is in the gift of the crown.—Limerick Chronicle. Mr. O'Connell has addressed a letter from Derrynane Abbey to the Acting Secretary of the Repeal Association, calling attention to " a most important article, which ap peared in a journal once devoted to Orangeism, and still highly Protestant, the Warder, of the 19th October." In several of the extracts from the Warder, the writer declares, that, " Irish parties were never so fusible as now" ; dwells upon the dangerous misery of Ireland as tending to revolution ; and says, that, " if Irish parties ale to unite, it ought to be in a spirit of equality, neither submitting to the other's power." Mr. O'Connell ex presses fervent approbation of this paper, and calls upon all Irishmen to unite. IRISH NATIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION. — The Rev. Dr. Martin, of Killeshandra, in a letter to the Dublin Evening Mail, of Wednesday, gives the following amongst other reasons for co-operating with the National Educa tion Board as now modified. " That by the last explana tion of the National Commissioners, the only condition for the acceptance of aid, which is seriously objectionable to the clergy, is, that no child whose parents or guardians object, can be compelled to read the Scriptures during the hours appointed for general or literary instruction : and that submission to that condition, in the cases supposed, is now lawful, and involves, not the sacrifice, but the maintenance, of principle ; or is not a sin, but a duty. That for three classes, namely, the church, the dissenting Protestant, and the non objecting Romanist children, the nation now offers to the clergy an education strictly on the principles of the Church Education Society; and for the fourth, or remaining classes, or objecting Romanists, a considerable portion (though not all they desire) of reli gion and moral, intermixed with literary instruction ; and, at the same time, threatens them, in case of non-compli ance, with, probably, the irreparable injury of all the four classes ; and after making the final choice, it refuses sub sequent repentance upon their part. That if irremedi able mischief be so done which might have been lawfully averted by the clergyman, such mischief being the result of his own voluntary act, is imputable to him, and he be comes morally responsible for it. That while the other alternative of closing their schools and of abandoning education to the priests in such districts, will save the clergy both labour and expense, and damage not them selves, but their poor parishioners, the other alternative of accepting aid will subject them to expense, and care, and labour, and benefit exclusively the poor people and child ren, of whom they are the natural guardians. That the districts where such submission may be advisable, are, for the most part, situated in the 861 benefices of Ire land, whicn contain an average of 1,000 church members, as well as the greater part of the Dissenting Protestants, and of the Romanists who are most willing to read the Scriptures; and that if by one course only the clergy can lawfully save thousands of such children from risk or ruin, it becomes not wrong in them, but right, to adopt it." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 5. BLUNDELL V. GLADSTONE. This was a petition of Lord Camoys, praying that an order made by the Vice-Chancellor of England might be discharged, and that he might be let into possession of a farm situated at Aughton, in the county of Lancaster. The facts of this case are short. The late Chas. Robt. Blundell, by his will made in 1834. devised all his estates to certain members of the Weld family, except as was thereinafter devised. The will then went on in these words :—" I give, devise, limit, and appoint my farm, with the appurtenances, in Aughton, in possession of Thomas Haskayne, and my farm, with the appurtenances, in Lydiate, called Shacklady's, and all estate and interest therein, to the Rev. 'Thomas Robinson his heirs and as signs for ever." Robinson died i❑ the lifetime of the testator, and the devise therefore lapsed. It turned out that the testator was possessed of two farms in Aughton, and both in the possession of Thomas Haskayne, one called Molyneux, and the other Shepherd's. The ques tions raised under the will were, which of the two farms at Aughton was devised to Robinson, or whether the de vise was void for uncertainty ? The Vice-Chancellor de cided that the devise was void for uncertainty, and that the farm in question passed under the general devise to the Weld family. It was against this decision that the present appeal was brought. The Lord Chancellor postponed his judgment. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 4. (Sittings in Banco.) MILNE V. THE CORPORATION OF MANCHESTER. In this case a mandamus had issued, commanding the defendants to give to Mr. Milne an adequate compensa tion, under the sth and Gth Victoria, ch. 111, for the loss of the office of clerk to the Justices of Petty Sessions at Manchester, from which he was removed upon the con struction of the corporation of that borough. The pro ceedings under the mandamus having come to issue, the case was tried at the last assizes for Lancaster, when a verdict was returned for the crown. Mr. Kelly now moved to set aside the verdict, and enter it for the defendants, upon the ground that the office of which the prosecutor had been deprived was not included within the terms of the statute under which compensation was claimed. The grounds of the motion were altogether of a technical character. The application was granted. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 8. GREGORY AND ANOTHER V. WILLIAMS. This was an action for libel, tried before Mr. Justice Cresswell, at the last assizes for Liverpool, when the jury found for the plaintiffs, with £lOO damages. Mr. Watson now moved to reduce the damages, on the ground that they were excessive, or for a new trial. The plaintiffs were slate merchants in Wales, and the libel was contained in a letter signed J. W. Roberts, but writ ten by the defendant, charging the plaintiffs with fraudu lent transactions in the course of their business. The learned counsel contended that as a fraud, if committed by the act of the partners as individuals, the action should have been brought by them in their individual capacity, and not as a co-partnership. The jury returned a ver dict for £150., but the damages laid in the declaration only amounted to £lOO. No injury appeared to have been done to the plaintiffs' business, and there was no ground, as it appeared, for such large damages. The Chief Baron.—The jury may have been indignant at the defendant's affixing a fictitious signature to the libellous letter. Baron Parke.—You had great luck not to be obliged to pay £l5O. Rule refused. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 5. (Sittings in Banco.) BENTLEY V. FLEMING. Sir T. Wilde moved to set aside the verdict which had been entered for the plaintiff in this case, with 40s. da mages, upon the ground that the verdict was against evi dence ; and, also, that there had been a miscarriage in returning and recording the verdict itself. The action, which was for the infringement of a patent, being an im provement upon Dyer's patent for introducing metal teeth into the backs of cards used for the purpose of combing wool, was tried before Mr. Justice Cresswell at the last Liverpool assizes. The Court granted a rule ARCHES COURT, Nov. 2. REFUSING TO BURY.-TITMARSH V. CHAPMAN. This was a criminal proceeding against the Rev. H. Chapman, vicar of Basingbourne, for having refused to bury the body of a child, a parishioner, baptised by an Independent minister, which baptism Mr. Chapman con sidered heretical. The only evidence as to Mr. Chapman having had notice of the intended burial was that the body was taken to the churchyard, and there left while the child's father ran to the vicar and requested him to come and read the service.—Sir H. J. Fust said the evi dence as to the notice was scanty, and postponed his judgment. NURSE V. HENSLOWE. A similar prosecution was also heard against the Rev. W. H. Henslowe, perpetual curate of Vormegay, Nor wich, for having refused on two occasions to bury a pa rishioner who had been baptised by a Primitive Metho dist preacher. The rev, defendant conducted his case in person.—Sir H. J. Fust suspended Mr. Henslowe from the ministry for three months, and condemned him in the costs. Mr. H. protested against the decision, and said he would appeal to the Queen in Council and to the Convocation. The Queen has appointed Thomas Horne, Esq., Attor ney-General, and Valentine Fleming, Esq., Solicitor- General for Van Dieman's Land. Mr. Justice Erskine has retired from the Bench of the Common Pleas, and Mr. Erie has been appointed his successor. ATTORNEYS.-194 gentlemen have given notice of their intention to apply to be admitted to practise during the present term, and there are 21 notices for re-admission. Mr. Hodgson, of the Chancery Bar; Mr. Whitehurst, of the Midland Circuit ; Mr. R. C. Hildyard, of the Northern Circuit; and Mr. James Parker, of the Chan cery Bar, have been severally created Queen's Counsel. Dr. Radcliff, Dr. Battershy, Dr. Gayer, Mr. Keller, Mr. Baker, Mr. George, Mr. H. G. Hughes, Dr. Butt, and - Air. Joseph Napier, have been created Queen's Coun sel at the Irish Bar. A NEW DECISION.—In the London Court of Bank ruptcy, on Thursday, Mr. Commissioner Fane decided that the bringing of an action without any reasonable prospect of being able to pay the costs, is a fraudulent contracting of a debt. MASSES FOR THE DEAD.—A cause now pending be fore the Master of the Rolls was argued in the Rolls Court, Dublin, last week, in which a point was raised whether or not a bequest in Ireland of money directed to be expended " in masses for the soul's sake ' be valid. Judgment was not pronounced. The bill alleges that such a bequest is for superstitious purposes, and there fore against the policy of the law. RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS.—John Greathead Harris, Esq., a Commissioner of the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, will hold his court, for the spring circuit of 1815, at Lancaster, on Tuesday, March 11 ' • in Liverpool on Monday, M arc h 17 ; i n Ch es ter on Wed nesday, M arc h 19 ; i n M o ld on S atur d ay, M arc h 22 ; i n R Marc uthi h n 28 on ; T i n u e c s d a a r y n , a r h v l o a n r c o h l:l 2 m' 5 n i n a ß y e , a :N u i m a r a c r h i s 3 o l n ; F in r i D d a o y h , gelly on W e d nesday, April 2; an d din Welsh-Pool on Friday, April 4. WINTER ASSIZES.-It having been finally decided to hold an additional gaol delivery at the following places, the judges met on Tuesday, arid made the following ar rangement :—Mr. Baron Alderson will preside at Win chester, Exeter, and Wells ; Mr. Justice Patteson, at Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, and Warwi,:k ; Mr. Baron Gurney, at Liverpool and Chester; Mr. Justice Wil liams, at Norwich, Bury, Chelmsford, and Maidstone ; Mr. Justice Coleridge, at York and Durham ; Mr. Justice Coltman, at Stafford, Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Gloucester. THE TRACY PEERAGE.—NOVEL. INQUIRY. — On Monday last an inquiry was held at Castlebrack church yard, before certain magistrates, relative to the genuine ness of the tombstone by which Mr. James Tracy proves his title to this long-disputed peerage, and which the House of Lords decided in his favour, subject to their proving this stone. A great number of respectable peo ple attended to give evidence. Mr. John Rafter, stone cutter and builder, proved that the four pieces of stone produced must hare originally been in one, they all cor responding with the grain, breaks, and letters, when laid together closely to form one stone ,• and it was his opinion that the said stone was the original one belonging to the family, placed there as a tombstone, in which other wit nesses also concurred, an d s i gne d declarations to that effect.—Leinster Express. THE LAW OF MORTMAIN.—The report of the commit tee of the House of Commons on the law of mortmain, has been issued, and the following is their opinion : " Although your committee do not feel authorised by the terms of reference to report in favour of any specific al terations of the laws of mortmain, they feel bound to state, from an attentive consideration of the evidence submitted to them by witnesses whose means of information and authority must be held to be great, that the operation of the law is most unsatisfactory, leads to doubt, expense, uncertainty, and litigation, and frequently defeats good and pious purposes, which the present aspect of the coun try would induce all men to wish fulfilled; while, from the existing facilities for evasion, they cannot be regarded as serving the main purpose for which they are supposed to be maintained, by securing the heir from the unexpected alienation of property to which he might reasonably have hoped to succeed." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. UNIVERSITY (5- CLERICAL NEWS. OXFORD.—On Monday, the 4th of November, the fol lowing gentlemen were elected Fellows of All Soul's Col lege, viz :—Arthur Fanshawe Stopford, 8.A., Balliol Col lege ; Fairfax Wm. Cartwright, 8.A., Christ Church ; the Hon. Frederick Byron, 8.A., Balliol College; and Henry Salisbury Milman, 8.A., Merton College. DURHAM UNIVERSITY.—The following persons were elected Fellows of the University on the ith of Novem ber :—Rev. James Skinner, M.A. ; Rev. Cyril Wood, B.A. ' • Arthur Beanlands, B.A. Th e f o ll ow i ng s t u d ents have been admitted to Scholarships in the Michaelmas Term : Van .111ildert Scholarship.—Hopkins Badnall. Foundation Scholarships. On the nomination of f‘ Archdeacon Thorp. Hon. IL Douglas. k Mr. Canon Edwards. T. Wilkinson. r „„„ On the nomination of the Exami ners E. S. Hayton. 2nd year 11st year.— Philip Hudd. Thorp Scholarship.—C T. Erskine. Pemberton Scholarship.—Robert Sorsbie. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.-At the entrance examination, held on the 4th and sth instant, the number of candidates being eighty-one, the first, second, and third places were of ti ned by pupils cf the Royal School of Enniskillen as follows :—Mr. Travers Adamson, first place; Mr. James Weir, second; Mr. Henry Mackesy, third. The sixth place was obtained by Mr. Charles Stringer, also a pupil of the same school. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Rev. F. Salt, A.M., to the new church of Southtown, Suffolk.—Rev. A. Coote, 8.A., to the rectory of Marsh Gibbon, Buck ingham, void by the resignation of the Hon. and Rev. J. Douglas.—Rev. P. Nind, M.A., to the vicarage of South stoke, with Woodcor chapel, Oxfordshire.—Rev. F. Baugh, M.A., to the preacbership of Charter-house, London.—Rev. S. Waldegrave, M.A., to the vicarage of Great Ilford, Essex.—Rev. W. F. Audland. M.A., to the curacy of St. Ebbe's, Oxford, vacant by the resigna tion of the Rev. S. Waldegrave.—Rev. R. Clutton, 8.D., to the vicarage of Saffron Walden, Essex.—Rev. H. Foulis, M.A., to the honorary prebend of Welton West hall, with Gorehall, in Lincoln cathedral.—Rev. F. A. Crow, M.A., to the rectory of Alcester.—Rev. F. Garden, M.A., incumbent of Trinity church, Greenwich, to the assistant ministry of St. Paul's church, York-place, Edinburgh, in the room of the Hon. and Rev. G. Yorke. —Rev. F. R. Inge, M.A., to the curacy and evening lectureship of All Saints, Hereford.—Rev. C. B. V. Johnstone, M.A., vicar of Feliskirk, to be a canon resi dentiary of York, vacant by the death of the Rev. H. S. Markham.—Rev. W. Laing, to be junior assistant curate at Oldbury, near Birmingham.—Rev. S. F. Page, per petual curate of Farnham, to be chaplain to the county gaol, Ipswich, in the room of the Rev. J. F. Tunney, re signed.—Rev. J. B. Reynardson, 8.A., to the living of Careby, with the chapelry of Holywell coca Aunby, near Stamford, vacated by the death of the late J. R. Deverell. —Rev. C. Collins M.A., to the rectory of Milton, near Canterbury.—Rev. J. B. Marsden, M.A., late rector of Tooting, Surrey to the vicarage of Missenden, Magna, Bulks.—Rev. P. P. Smith, 8.A., to the chaplaincy of H.M.S. Volcano.—Rev. J. Bickerdike, M.A., to the lectureship of the parish church of Bradford, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. T. Atkinson.—Rev. T. Lund, 8.D., rector of Morton, to be rural dean for the Alfreton district, in the place of the Rev. J. Wood, resigned. The Right Hon. the Earl of Eglinton and Winton has been proposed as Lord Rector for Glasgow university. Lord Francis Egerton was last week unanimously re elected, for the fifth time, Lord Rector of the University and King's College, Aberdeen. The Rev. R. Phelps, D.D., and Master of Sidney Sus sex College, has been elected Vice-Chancellor of Cam bridge for the ensuing year. NOBLE MUNIFICENCE.—On Friday last an unknown lady sent a donation of £lOOO to the Society for the En largement and Building of Churches and Chapels, and £5OO to the Society for Promoting the Employment of Curates in Populous Places. The Rev. Dr. Scoresby, who has recently returned from the United States of America, has lately commenced a series of lectures on that unhappy country, before the Church Institution of Bradford, of which he is the President. The Earl of Harrowby, Viscount Sandon, Lord Cal tborp, Lord Kinnaird, the Hon. F. and Lady Georgiana Ryder, the Hon. F. Calthorpe, and Sir Juckes Clifton, have recently contributed liberal donations to the fund for the restoration of the ancient and beautiful church of St. Marv, Nottingham. The subscription already ex ceeds £3,000. FREE SITTINGS IN CHURCHES.—By the church build ing acts, no new church can be consecrated unless one third at least of the sittings be set apart as free for the use of the poor. Nor can any church be consecrated unless it be first endowed with at least £l,OOO in the funds, or in land. Any individual who shall declare his intention of endowing a church with the sum required by the act, may become, on his performance of that intention, perpetual patron of the said church. There is always a check upon improper persons entering upon a benefice, in the person of the bishop, who will, upon just grounds, refuse to in stitute. THE COURT 4 FASHIONABLE WORLD. Her Majesty and Prince Albert will take their departure from Windsor Castle for Buckingham Palace this morn ing (Tuesday.) __ _ The Queen and Prince Albert, the Coutt, and the do. mestic household attended divine service on Sunday morn ing in the private chapel of the castle. Sir Robert Peel arrived in town on Saturday morning from a visit to Her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Sir James Graham and the Chancellor of the Exchequer had interviews with the right hon. baronet. In the afternoon Sir. R. Peel left his residence in Whitehall-gardens for Brighton. The Prince of Wales completed his third year on Sa turday last. Her Majesty and Royal Consort, when leaving their " Highland Home," left to the poor of the parish of Blair, £lOO. The Queen has appointed the Right Hon. Edward Earl of Ellenborough a Knight Grand Cross of the most ho nourable Order of the Bath. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. The West Yoikshire, Leeds and Thirsk, and Leeds and Dewsbury railway projects are about to be amalga mated. The proposed railway from Bolton Percy to Knaresborough and Harrogate is abandoned. SHIPLEY AND COLNE RAILWAY.—PubIic notice has been given of a meeting of the shareholders in the Leeds and Bradford Railway Company, to be held at Leeds on the 20th instant, to consider the propriety of applying for an act in the next session of parliament, to make a railway from the company's line at Shipley, near Bradford, to Colne ' in Lancashire, with a branch railway from Keigh ley to Haworth. _ The Great Western Company have launched a new pro ject. In consequence of the 11 ereford Company havingdeter mined to walk alone, the Great Western have given notice of their intention to apply to parliament for a line to Ross and Hereford, with a branch to Monmouth. This scheme has taken many people by surprise. Its construction would involve the necessity of making two bridgesover the Severn. THE QUEEN V. THE MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAY COMPANY.—This was an indictment against the defendants for a nuisance, for obstructing the public highway in New Bailey-street, Salford, by the erection in the carriage way of that street of four pillars, on which they had erected a bridge, over which they had carried a portion of their railway. The case was tried at Liver pool, before Mr. Justice Cresswell, and a verdict passed for the crown. The affair is to be turned into a special case, for the opinion of the court. THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER AND NORTH UNION RAILWAYS.—At a meeting, in Liverpool, on Monday, an amalgamation of these railways was agreed upon. The North Union £lOO stock to be equal to £75 of the Liverpool and Manchester. This amalgamation has caused the North Union shares to rise considerably. According to the new arrangement, when the dividend declared by the joint companies shall be 9 per cent., the original North Union shareholders will receive 7 per cent. on their paid-up capital, and the holders of Bolton stock 4 per cent. When the dividend shall be 10, 79 and 41. As one advantage of the amalgamation, we hear it stated, that the trains to Preston will, in a short time, be worked through, by which the delay which has hitherto frequently occurred at Parkside will be avoided. This will be a great convenience to passengers. An amalga mation with the Grand Junction Company is likely to take place shortly. RAILWAY TUNNELLING.—At a meeting of persons interested in the South Wales Railway at Cardiff, on Fri day week, Mr. Brunel stated that the Box Tunnel of the Great Western Railway cost £lOO per yard; the White Ball Tunnel on the Exeter Railway cost but £53 ; the Cheltenham Tunnel, in connection with the Great Wes tern Railway, was estimated at £136 per yard, and it cost but £34 per yard ; and to show the reduction in this de partment alone, he mentioned that within the last three weeks he had contracted for tunnelling at £2B per yard. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND.—At a special general meeting of proprietors held at Darlington, on Monday last, a resolution in favour of the formation of a branch from a point near Cooperhouse, Dalton, to Richmond, in addition to the Harrogate and Ripon Junction, determi ned upon the 15th ult., was unanimously agreed to. The chairman, J. H. Wilkinson, Esq., congratulated the shareholders on the condition of the undertaking, and said there was no foundation whatever for the rumour that it was intended to lease the line to the York and North Midland, or to any other company. HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY.—A meeting of this Com pany was held on Thursday week to consider the best means of raising the additional capital (£200,000) requi red for the construction of the intended railway from Hull to Beverley, Driffield, and Burlington Quay. The direc tors were authorized to raise the money by creating 8,000 shares of £25 each, one of which will be offered at par to the holder of each original £5O share in the company. As soon as the new line is completed, these new half shares become part of the capital stock of the company. The directors were also empowered to purchase additional land and buildings for the purpose of enlarging the com pany's terminus at Hull, which is found too small to ac commodate the increasing traffic. EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND GRANTON RAILWAY.— The directors of this greatly-needed railway have adver tised for tenders for the execution of the Edinburgh tun nel, which will be about 1,000 yards long, and extend from the Cannonmills Station on this line to the stations of the Edinburgh and Glasgow and North British Rail ways. This work is certainly most extensive, but the di rectors, in showing their intention to complete it, have only given another proof of the persevering enterprise which has characterized all their proceedings, and without which they could not have surmounted the difficulties by which they have been surrounded. The extension by junction of all the existing railways on both aides of the river Clyde with the Edinburgh and Glasgow, at Glas gow, by the completion of the tunnel at Edinburgh, be longing to the Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton line, will form a most important feature in support of this very gi gantic undertaking, and will enable Scotland to vie with England in the immensityand stability of the works ontheir lines of railway. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW EXTENSION RAILWAY, &c.—The operations on this important line are going on with a rapidity which is astonishing. One cannot view the works in the North-loch without being astonished at their daily progress. The first arch of the tunnel through the earthen mound has been this week built, and the embankment which the company are bound to form as the compensation for the removal of the little mound, which, commencing at the foot of Warriston's close, and joining near the gate into the nursery on the north side, is also coming fast into view. In fact the North-loch is a scene of the most exciting bustle. At other parts of the line, particularly towards the west end, the business also goes on with spirit, although chiefly under ground. On the east of the North-bridge, again, the workings for the Edinburgh terminus to the North British Railway are viewed with much excitinginterest, and the Granton branch of the Edinburgh and Leith Railway is making a progress beyond what any one can conceive, except those who are daily visitors to the works; and promises at an early pe riod to afford at least a communication between Granton Pier and the station at the foot of Granton-street; and of course in time to connect that pier with the aorta of ge neral railway communication in the centre of the city— that is to say, when the tunnel between Scotland -street and the North-loch is completed, and which is now pro gressing. Caledonian Mercury. LEASE OF THE SHEFFIELD RAILWAY.—The following are the terms on which this line has been leased to the Manchester and Birmingham and Midland Comnpanies. The lessees pay all interest on loans (not exceeding £700,000 in the whole), and all rents, rates, working ex. penses, and other charges to which this company is or may be liable ; that they adopt during the lease this com panies guarantees to the Barnsley, the Sheffield and Lin colnshire, and the Manchester South Junction and Al trincham Companies ; and that they pay to this company a valuable yearly rent, to be ascertained as follows, namely, —A rent after the rate of 71 per cent. per annum on £144,000, and 5 per cent. per annum on the residue for the time being of this company (share capital), so as such residue do not exceed £750,000 ; such rent to be payable for such time as the gross traffic of this company shall not fall below £2,500 per week, on an average of twelve months ; and when such gross traffic shall exceed £2,500 per week on such average, then the rent to increase accord ing to the following rates, viz. :-4 per cent. per annum on the whole of such share capital, not exceeding £900,000 in the whole, when the gross traffic of the line shall, on an average of twelve months, exceed £2,800, but not exceed £3,000; a further 2 per cent. per annum when such gross traffic shall, on such average, exceed £3,000 per week, and a further increase of 2 per cent. per annum for every £250 traffic per week, on such ave rage, beyond £3,000, until such rent shall amount to £lO per cent. per annum upon the whole of this company's share capital. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—On Thursday, a spe cial meeting of the proprietors of the South-Eastern and Dover Railway Company was held in the large room of the company at the London Bridge station. The late differences amongst the proprietors in this company, which have resulted in James MacGregor, Esq., of Li verpool, and Benjamin Harding, Esq., of Wadhurst Cas tle, being elected on the directorate, created an unusual interest in the proceedings, more especially as some great financial operations were to be submitted to the meeting, as also very important announcements made regarding the resolution of the directors considerably to shorten the main line, by constructing a direct line frotn the Bricklayer's Arms to Tunbridge and Paddock Wood, whereby the distance to Dover would be shortened twelve miles, and other questions of moment. The new mea sures were understood to he the result of the recent ac cessions to the board. Shortly before the hour an nounced for the meeting a large body of wealthy and in fluential proprietors were in attendance, and at one o'clock the directors, preceded by W. P. Richards, Esq„ the deputy chairman, entered the room, and opened the business. Mr. MacGregor gave a very lucid exposition of the state and prospects of the company, and the reso lutions were all carried unanimously. They authorised the creation of new shares, to capitalize the mortgage debt of the company, and to provide funds for the formation of the Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate line. For this purpose an additional capital of £1,400,000 is to be crea ted by the issue of 42,000 new shares of the annual value of £5O each, to persons who shall pay for the same £33 6s. Every registered proprietor of existing shares on the 7th of November shall have the option, in respect of every two such shares, of taking one new share, provi ded he shall declare such option in writing to the secretary on or before the 30th instant. CONVEYANCE OF FAT CATTLE BY RAILWAYS,—The practice of driving fat cattle over considerable distances was, doubtless, resorted to in the absence of any means of conveyance whose cost was tolerable ; but that it should be continued where railroad or steam-boat transit can be employed must be attributed to neglect of the plainest principles on which the profit of the parties concerned depends. It is stated that Mr. David Martin, of Wain fleet, sent five sheep to London to walk the whole dis tanoe on the road, and killed five others at home. The two lots were of exactly equal weight (8581b5.) when alive. 'I he carcases were weighed when dead, when it was found that the sheep which had walked to London weighed 4351b5., and their loose fat 601bs ; while the five killed at home reached 4891b5., their loose fat weighing 7411b5. Nor is this all. At the end of so long a journey the ani mal, unused to effort, is wearied and diseased, and its flesh is, to say the least, less wholesome. There can now be no excuse for the continuance of this practice. But why should not the advance make another step ? Why should these animals be killed in the crowded yards and cellars of the metropolis ? The reasonable plan is evi dently to send, not live cattle but dead meat to great towns and cities, and to locate in the country the pro cesses by which the various parts of the animal are ren dered serviceable to man.—Railway Bell. SHEFFIELD, ASHTON, AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. —On Monday last, a special general meeting of this com pany was held at Manchester for the purpose of consider ing the expediency of authorising a lease of the line to the Midland and the Manchester and Birmingham Rail way Companies. The chair was taken by John Parker, Esq., who moved a resolution for leasing the line " for a term of thirty years, to commence six months after the opening of the line throughout, and determinable by either party at the end of the first ten or twenty years, on three years' previous notice to that effect." The resolution also declared it to be expedient, that, under the lease, the traffic of the line should be managed by a committee to be appointed by the three companies, and to be adjusted to the satisfaction of the directors of the Sheffield and Manchester Company : and it deputed to the directors full power to carry into effect an arrangement founded on the preceding terms. A letter from Mr. Houldswor h, chairman of the Manchester and Leeds Company, was read. It was dated " November 4," and contained the following offer :—" The Manchester and Leeds Railway Company propose to lease the line and works of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway in perpetuity, upon the following basis :—The lessee to pay all interest to accrue on loans ; also the rents, rates, working expenses, and all other charges to which the company is liable ; and to pay to the shareholders six pounds per centum per annum upon a share capital of £756,000., and seven and a half per cent. upon a share capital of £144,000; when the traffic amounts to £2,800 per week, on the average of twelve months, the dividend to be increased one-half per cent. : when it amounts to £3,000 per week, one per cent. ; with an additional in crease of one-half per cent. for every £250 per week, until it reaches ten per cent. The share and loan capital not to exceed £1,600,000. The guarantees of the stocks of the Barnsley and Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railways to be adopted by the lessee. The traffic of the Sheffield Line to be managed by a committee to be appointed by the two companies; and the Sheffield Company to have the option„ at the end of three, five, or seven years, of associating themselves with the Manchester and Leeds Company, on tile same plan as that proposed with the Hull and Selby Railway Company. The line to betaken by the lessees six w ee k s a ft er th e s t a ti ons an d main line are completed, and so repotted by the government in spector" Mr. Roberts moved an adjournment of the the me Manchester eting,inor and Leeds dertogiv offer, give timefo for h the c consideration th nsid o e u r g at h i t on at o e f better of the two. A long discussion ensued, and ulti mately the original motion was carried by an overwhelm ing majority. GENERAL MISCELLANY. Sir William Nott is now much better. The Royal Exchange, London, will not be opened for public business until after Christmas. The imports of cattle into Hull last week were 69 beasts and 40 sheep. EXPORTS TO CHINA.—The demand for China (accord ing to letters from Manchester) is at the present moment prodigious for shirtings. The export in this article alone will, it is said, exceed that of last year by 1,500,000 pieces. Poon. LAW DIET.—A case is recorded from the London Hospital, where the callus uniting a fractured femur be came partially absorbed, in consequence of bad diet in an union workhouse. By the use of good food and tonics, the patient recovered.—Medical Times. BARNES, LATE CARPENTER'S MATE OF TIIE " RE SISTANCE."—The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have been pleased to commute the capital sentence on the above to two pears' imprisonment, and the culprit is to remain on board the San Josef until further orders. MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.—A dish of raspberries, red and white, was picked in the garden of Bathwick Priory, on Friday last. The fruit wes perfectly ripe and of good flavor, and is a second crop, the canes having borne well in the usual season.—Bath Chronicle. The decrease in the stock of bullion in the Bank of England since the first of the new returns on the 7th of September. is about £1,100,000 ; and since the 30th March, when the stock of bullion held by the Bank was at its highest point, the decrease is about £2,200,000. BIRTH IN A MAIL COACH.—On Saturday last a young woman was proceeding to her home as an inside passenger by the Oxford and Cheltenham mail-coach, and when about three miles from Burford she was suddenly seized with the pains of labour and safely delivered of a fine boy. On the arrival of the coach, with this singular addition to its load at Burford, the mother and child were kindly treated at the inn, and both are doing well. INDIA-RUBBER LIFE-BOAT.—A new material for the build of life-boats has been suggested, and the launch of one so formed took place at the square shot-tower, Wa terloo-bridge, London, on Thursday. The boat is made principally of cork and caoutchouc ; is thirty-four feet long, twelve feet wide, and four feet deep ; is fitted with air-boxes ; weighs two tons ; can contain fifty persons ; and drew fifteen inches of water with between thirty and forty people in it. It was christened " the Kamptulicon." PRESENCE OF MIND IN A LITTLE GlRL.—Last Sun day evening, two little girls were shut up in St. Michael's Church, Aberystwith, having fallen asleep near the com munion-table. Upon awaking, and finding themselves in the dark, the younger of the two began to cry, but the elder, aged nine, immediately after she had pacified her, succeeded in gaining the belfry, where she set to work ringing the bell with all her little strength, and she did not give over till the church door was opened for her re turn home.—Welshman. IRON COLLIER.—Some curiosity has been excited, says one of the London papers, by the arrival in the Thames of a Newcastle collier, a fine-looking vessel, built of iron, and fitted with a screw propeller, worked by an engine of 20-horse power. She is 130 feet long, 27 feet 6 inches wide, and, when loaded with 340 tons of coals, her draught is only 11 feet 9 inches aft, and 10 feet 3 inches forward. Her hold is divided into water-tight bulkheads, and each has an hermetically closed false floor, into which water can be admitted by large taps for ballast, and when not required is pumped out again by the engine. SINGULAR ROBBERY AND RESTITUTION.—On Friday the house of Mrs. Pepperell, a widow, residing in Ex mouth, was broken into, and 60 sovereigns and 6 guineas stolen. By this robbery she has been stripped of all the money she possessed exc?pting half-a-crown. On Satur day night a parcel containing 24 sovereigns, and on Mon day night a parcel of 12 sovereigns and guineas, were thrown over the wall at the back part of her house, with a request for her to pray for the thieves. One parcel of sovereigns they lost, but expressed a hope to be able to pay it in time with interest.—Devonport paper. MARCH OF CIVILIZATION.—Last week, at the How den Horse Fair, the greatest, perhaps, in England, among those present, strange as it may appear, there was a buyer from the Emperor of China, in the person of one of his subjects, attended by an interperter. Owing to the scarcity of animals of every kind in China, where the dense population exists altogether on vegetables and fish, a horse is a great curiosity. We have no doubt that both envoy and interpreter would be " done brown" by York shite kiddies at Howden ; but this is of no consequence, the " knowing in horseflesh" in the Celestial Empire being in a very small compass.—Tyne Mercury. THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER AS OBSERVED BY TRCTA.- RIANS.—In no place within the metropolis are the saints' days and festivals more strictly observed and kept than in Margaret-street Chapel, and people are often reminded by its bell of the return of one of these holidays. But those of the congregation of St. Margaret's, who thought to avail themselves of the privilege of joining in the prayers and thanksgivings particularly appointed by our Church for that day, had to regret that no bell sent forth its sum mons at eleven o'clock from Margaret-street Chapel ; its doors remained fast closed ; and, people were prevented from joining in the thanksgiving "for the deliverance of our Church from Popish tyranny and arbitrary power.' St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, was also closed on the same day. FIRE ON BOARD A STEAMER.—On Wednesday week, at two o'clock in the morning, a destructive fire broke out on board the steamer " Rapid," while lying at the steam wharf, at Berwick. It broke out in the engine-room, and the crews of two of her Majesty's vessels soon afterwards saw it, and hastened on board. They took with them one of Earle's Patent Fire Pumps, which greatly subdued the flames, but they could not extinguish them, and, as a last resource, the vessel was scuttled, and soon afterwards filled, and sank. The fire was confined to the engine room, and the beams and deck above. No clue had been found as to the origin of the fire. The damage is variously stated at from £5OO to £l,OOO. The vessel was - tot in sured, but, luckily, her valuable cargo had been landed the day before. AWFUL ACCIDENT: Six LIVES LOST.—A few weeks ago the town council of Derby agreed to arch over the Gitting mill-brook, in order to lay a large plot of land to the cattle-market. One portion of the arch was completed, all but removing the centres. About eight o'clock on Tuesday last the labourers commenced remo ving this frame work, and whilst taking away the last prop, the whole mass of material fell in, burying the unfortunate men in the ruins. There was no lack of hands to remove the material, but this was a work of time. The first body found was that of the contractor's son-in-law, dreadfully mangled. Flve other bodies were afterwards extracted, more or less mutilated, and it is supposed that these were all the sufferers. It is thought the centres were removed too early, the late rains having prevented the mortar from firmly setting. ATTEMPTED BURNING OF A CHURCH.—On Saturday week it was discovered that the east door of the venerable cathedral church of Haddington (Scotland) was burnt to a considerable extent,and had fallen from its lower hinges. A train of fire had been applied along the whole bottom, and had penetrated the wood. Stones were found in the passage within, which had been thrown through the panes of glass above the door. Some lucifer matches were also found about the foot of the door. These circumstances have excited strong suspicions of incendiarism, and the only other conjectures are that it possibly, though not probably, has been the work of a drunken man, or some wanton boys while at play. According to the last accounts suspicion could be attached to no pErticular party. As the wind was eastwardly, the whole building would have been destroyed had the fire not been opportunely discovered. ACCIDENTS FROM THE FALLING OF CHIMNEYS. — On Saturday week the chimney of the chemical works of Messrs. Tennants and Co., low at Ardwick-bridge, came down with a tremendous crash, breaking through several buildings, and crushing the arches over the river, which had been erected for the purposes of the works. The damage sustained was about £l,OOO. The chimney had for some time shown a leaning on one side, and the gale on Friday gave an extra warning to the people in the neighbourhood :—On Tuesday, as three men were engaged taking down the large chimney, 40 yards high, at the Churchgate factory, Stockport, which had shown symp toms of falling, the whole mass came down shortly after they had commenced the work, and two of the men were unfortunately killed. The third, finding the chimney going, leaped off, and was followed by the brickwork, which injured him so much, that he was inensible for a considerable time. DREADFUL FIRE.—On Friday week a fire broke out in the quiet little town of Strathaven, in Lanarkshire, by which upwards of forty houses, with a brewery and tan works, were burned down, nearly 100 poor familes thrown destitute, and the annihilation of the town seriously threatened. The fire began at the south end of the town, where the houses, chiefly inhabited by weavers, are nearly all thatched, and the wind being high, the flames spread rapidly on both sides of the street. Besides the houses, the brewery of Mr. Valance, and the large tan-work of Mr. Semple, were burnt down, the loss of which is esti mated at £2,000. A number:of the inhabitants, headed by the clergyman, Mr. M‘Lay, formed two chains, and thispassed be bucketsiog ineffectual, o f water for m they of the buildings in the line of street, which , happily , had the desired effect. The loss is great, and few of the suf ferers were insured. It is calculated that from 50 to 60 looms, with webs, principally belonging to Glasgow ma nufacturers, have been consumed. MINISTERIAL CHANGES IN PERSPECTIVE.—The most interesting topics of discussion in political circles are those which relate to probable vacancies and possible ap pointments before the meeting of parliament. A good o he b s e e avreerynosworefroeeflythsepookheanogoefs, w th h o ie ttgh wi n ll ob t o ak d e y prete many nds t t place. There appears to be more confidence as to those tlythbaenhetvheedrethiastasthtroeethoeffiireseus,ccaelslsohresid at is whovery will generally present by Peers —namely , the offices of the First L or d of the Admiralty, President of the Board of Control, an d Postmaster-General — will be vacated by their pres en t oc cupants before the meeting of parliament. The fi rs t o f e g n o e r o a u l these offices most people concur in thinking will be filled s e i elset vi nsta is Colonies iandsi to tsopn his ie s s e , d suc cessor, to . ce may by Lord Ellenborough. Lord Haddington's h ea lth an d conjectured he that succeeded Lord at the Stanley Bo a rd of t emperame nt are scarcely equal to the wor k which is now is ao s et r s oh o oe that t casebut R him,pom n a would , iot p is probably speak thought, hk e with positiveness to decidedlyNir. Gladstone, las d required from the First Lord of the Ad m i ra l ty. T he Enue lo e f d e con tinue in official life, owing to th e s t ate of his health. N somehave Trade by the present Vice-President , Lord Dalhousie. This noble lord has been giving his special attention of late to railway business, which, for the future, w ill form a very important bran c h o f t h e functions of the Board of Trade. Mr. Cardwell is spoken of for Vice-President. So much for the e. fisting talk, which we really believe has in it something more than mere talk.—Post. Nov. 12, iHUU• SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE OF MR. HURST, M•P•, Considerable excitement prevailad in this town (Hors ham,) on Tuesday week, on its being ascertained that R- H. Hurst, Esq., our member, had left with his family for France, having previously discharged all his servants. It has long been apparent to the tradesmen that the honourable gentleman's circumstances have been much embarrassed, but none were prepare 1 for his leaving the place on so short a notice. Mr. Hurst's liabilities exceed £150,000, and his son, Mr. R. H. Hurst, jun., has be come responsible for his father's de'ts to the extent of £BO,OOO. The estates acquired by purchase by the late Mr. Robert Hurst are strictly entailed.—Brigh lon Guardian. TREASON T AUGHT IN C HAPEL .—Th e Rev. Flug h Stowell, in the course of a speech delivered on Tuesday at the annual meeting of the London Protestant Association, related the following scene :—" Not long since announce ment was mad e i n M anc h ester t h at high mass would _be performed at o ne o f th e c h ape l s t h ere t h e following Sund a y to celebrate the release of Mr. O'Connell. About nu": men b, longing to one of the regi ments stationed there being Roman C a th o li cs were ac:.ustomed to attend the chapel, and one of the officers consulted the captain a,!,,.t0 the expediency of th e i r d o i ng so on t hi s occas i o n. lin captain said they were to go as usual, but, the officer iv?s to go with them, a n d if anything should be said they cuet not to hear, he was to march out with them. Accordingly the men went, and when mass was completed the priest ascended the steps of the altar and began to harangue 0,11, the wrongs and woes of Ireland ; and, as he was informed, even went so far as to say that O'Connell ought to be . r.u? King of Ireland. At that juncture up started the British officer, and called " Attention "—(cheers)—" Face about —(cheers and laughter)--" March"—(loud cheers) —s°d with slow and me asure d tread, which could have been . very melodious mu s i c t o the astonished priest or to t s e congregation, the soldi ers were f ort h w i t h marched back t° their barracks. Thi s was a specimen of what the Ro meo _ Catholics alre a dy ventured to do in England. Th ese were specimens of what Rome was beginning to do. e . THE PUBLIC H EALTH .—Th e quarterly returns obtained from 115 districts, 34 placed under the metropolis , $! 1 " the remaining 81 compr i s i ng, w i t h some agricultural dis tricts, the principal t owns an d c i t i es of England, the deaths registered in the last quarter, ending population having been 6,578,912 in 1811, show that the September, were 38,784, or 142 less th a n the deaths (38,922) in the June quarter, and 1.701 more than 37,un"r the average of five previous September quarters. ing for the increase of population, the mortality - wi ll be found to be about the average of the summer q uarter (July, August, and September) ; that quarter being 0° , 1 : .r , the least fatal in the year. The deaths in the metroPol' amounted to 11,825, which are 351 more than were regig" tered in the spring quarter, and 69-1 above the average (10- corrected for the inerease of population. The deaths from i n the small- pox in the first week of the quarter were 36, in the last 37; from scarlatina 58 in the first week, 85 last, and 99 in the tenth. Meazles was fatal but to $ for small extent; typhus showed a tendency to increase , the deaths from this disease, including what is sometime! called "common continued fever," and " fever,"amoun t . e° to 424; while the average is 352. In the country d': : 1 tricts the most remarkable increase of mortality occurr in Cornwall, and the Redruth and Penzance districts. the 30th of Small-pox has been epidemic in many districts all over the kingdom, and has proved fatal to great number?' whose vaccination had been neglected. The districts !8 which the mortality was greater than the mean mortality of the corresponding quarter in the same district 81 1 stated to have been the west, north and south districts ° the metropoli s , P or t sea I s l an d , St. Albon's, wycomber Bedford, Colchester, Plymouth, Redruth, Penzanc e ' Stroud, Hereford, Sh rews b ury, Kidd erminster, Wolver hampton, Birmingham, Aston, Coventry, Nottingha m ' Liverpool, West Derby, Blackburn, Chorlton, Bradford, Merthyr Tydfil ; while those in which the mortality , e s; e : less than the ave rage mor t a li ty o f the corr espotwin' quarter in the same di s t r i c t s are sa id to have b een th central districts of the metropolis, Norwich, Devi zes ' Exeter, Basford, Stockport, Macclesfield, Great Bough" ton, Bury, Pre sco t, S a lf or d , [Ashton,: Sheffield, H ull, Sunderland, Tynemouth, Newcastle-on-Tyne P° 11 " - pool, and Wrexham. INFANTICIDE.—A shocking case of the depravity of $ young woman, named Fanny Thorpe, came to light on Fridal week, at Kirton-Lindsey, near Hull. Suspicion ha.,1 6 arisen that she had b een d e li vere d o f a child, iur Aston, a sawyer, and a cons t a bl e , went to her hous e make inquiries. Th e y f oun d h er was hi ng. She a t firs" denied having bee n con fi ne d, or h av i ng a chil d i n the house. The surgeon, on examination, found that she h ad been delivered, and s h e th en confessed the fact, and w en, ," up stairs and brought d own a f u ll -grown fema l e c hild , quite dead. It appeared that she had been delivered i° an outhouse, and that two children who slept in the roora with her afte rwar d s h ear d a c hild cry, and on i nqu iring what the noise was, was told by her it was only " M ar i Maws tom-cat." The noise was not afterwards hear - The child had been borne alive, but had some discolours" tion on one side, which might have been caused by crush ing or suffocation between two soft bodies. Under the circumstances, the jury, at the inquest, returned a ver" diet—that the child was born alive, but how it came by its' death there was no eviden ce . Th e coroner, from inform!" tion received, had reason to suppose that in May, 1843 e the priscner had also been delivered of a child, and, op t taxing her with it, she confessed the f ac t, stating that was born before its time, and that she had buried it one' morning, early, in the churchyard. She also described the spot, where she said a person had been interred the day before. But it was found that that person had been buried in the previous year. The grave was, however,. opened, and about a foot deep the bones of a full-grown child were found. An inquest was held on these remains, and a verdict returned—that she was the mother, but how it came to its death there was no evidence. It was further proved, that about a year ago last May, one of the pri soner's neighbours saw her one morning trampling down the mould in a certain place in her garden. The s pot pointed out was searched, and about a foot below the sur face were found some bones and a mass of something that might be the decomposition of a child. The sur geon would not, however, swear positively to their being human bones, but considered the mass might be the de composed body of a child in the early months of pregnancy. Coupling this with the prisoner's statement, no doubt was entertained but that she had buried the child in the gar den. She has a child living, four years old ; and accord ing to the above account, has had one every year since May, 1841. She was committed for concealment of preg" nancv of two of them. WRECK OF THE RUSSIAN BRIG DIANA, NEAR HORN" SEA.—LOSS OF LIFE, AND SUFFERINGS OF THE SIT VIVORS.—This was one of the mos t di s t ress i ng s hip wree '!, that occurred during the gale of the 2d and 3d instant, an d was attended with melancholy and heart rending circa of stances. The vessel w as f rom M eme l, w i t h a c argo 0 1 pipe staves and other wood, bound to London. She b a ,,, been out fourteen days, and was driven by the easter" ( winds on the coa s t o f Y or k s hi re , near the sma ll village °f Atwick. At day bre a k on S un d ay morn i ng, t h e coa st wa g 1 ; discovered under her lee, and t o p reven t h er go ing ° ,4 shore, both masts were cut awa y, an d th e vesse l brottg b `: i ' i up with two anchors about a m il e f rom th e l an d. In t ri situation she was discovered about eight o'clock, and ve e shortly after the rocket a pp ara t us , i n c h arge o f Mr. Ga lt. was on the spot, together w ith th a t a t H ornsea , an d Cal? . .. Manby's mortar. From thi s ti me un til f our o ' c l oc k, p• w s the gallant vessel rode out th e ga l e mos t no bl y , an d it W e e hoped and expected by the numerous spec t ators that sii c i would be able to weather it. There were few who 0 ° 0 imagine the dreadful state of those on board. The el had got loose, and bre a ki ng th roug h th e bulk-head o f dashed the cabin furniture to pieces. The only place 19 refuge was the deck, and h ere th e cap t a i n , w h o bad oug been fourteen days married, s t rove t o pro t ec t his Yes: bride ; his efforts were, a l as ; f ru i t l ess ; a tremendous bet burst on the brig, and the ill-fated woman was, with tu i, husband, crushed betwe en some l oose ti m b er an d the all a ll warks, and received s u c h d rea df u l i n j ury as to preclua e h - s t hope of her surviving, an d s h e s h ort l y a f ter exp i re d in Poo husband's arms. Th e same sea prove d f ata l to the o r cabin boy, who was kill e d by it. Th e di stress an d ag ° bu e of the unhappy captain may perhaps be imagined. es s cannot be described. Wet and exposed to the mere l ba t tempest, he still did all he could to save his ship , 8 01. the receding tide brought th e b rea k ers roun d her, f or she began to pit c h i n a mos t f ear f u l manner. Ahontkoat, o'clock the me n were o b serve d b usy near t h e l o ng - ' OO O which still remained on deck, and it was evident 13 . 0 ;, decisive step was a b out to b e ta k en b efore the n i g ht se' N. , Manby's mortar, directed by Mr. 0. Reilly, I t ' as and Mr. Carte's rockets, under his own direction,were sisted by the coast-guard with life boys, belts, RC. , ess el now removed to the be ac h, an d s h or tl y a f ter the y bo at parted, and drove in shor e . B e f ore s h e s t r uck, the e in was launched with one man in her, but was st°Li o g launching. The poor fellow drove through the rag vi surf, the boat full of water, his head only occasiona,lrora sible, until he reached the shore, and was reseoru,, i o a his perilous situation by one of the coast guar.?. - B o w sailor from Burlington, who with ropes and LP?, o f all were its readiness to receive him. The attentin-nded was now turned to the unfortunate vessel. whi eb „narte 7B about 330 yards distant. Manby's m ortar , e "„ a red to they were reserved until the rising tide rockets were soon actively at work, but it t a i' o r e e ffect a the bystanders that she was still too distant remained, communication, and as only two rockets 11 ,1 b r i n g her nearer, which was anticipated would take place between 11 fire' show - i—sweeti 11 and 12 o'clock. The mortar still continued w hich and happily at 7 o'clock a shot struck the v gmate, en d had drifted in, and by the rope, the captain , t bruised and one seaman, were brought on shore in allows still re dreadfully exhausted state. Two were f _e red but w i t h ou t mained on board, and several shots e fi d it necessary to effect. The darkness of the night and th approached the foot of the cliff, rendere, b and all further remove all the apparatus to the bea d until the tide that ceded. were obliged to be postpone discovered that ceded. As soon as the moon rose it was ds of the cliffs the vessel had approached within 40 yarrded by Lieut• and at three o'clock A. at., she was boarded Mr. Cartes O'Reilly, the Rev. G. Brown, of At • inexpressible to their and two of the coast guard, who a live, but almost gratification found found the two seamen They were instantlY, sensible from cold and weaknees7 they Y every care an d removed to Hornsea, where ert t ascertained that in addition to the attention. It was now . a wife and cabin boy, a seaman ha d loss of the captain's. ``...) to leap into the boat—none °, tide which no perished in :tame Rev. J. Brown,and 1 ‘ 41. .: Lieut. O'Reilly, the their unremitting due to Atwick,and us all the gentlemen present for tecti found. The greatest pras e general of these. exertions. exertions . .„ e gentlemen were not unsuccessful, and all it was posswb Every attention that htr to save were rescued by them. inanity or science could suggest was devoted to recru it t ._ . ... whose Ga le,of bodies . y t e i t n the exhausted survivors. The agents of that exc Alen P .I• stitution, the Shipwrecked Mariner's Fund, the Rev; ,„, 55 Eyre, and J. Beadle, Esq., had hot baths in reneue_ith for the reception of the sufferers, who were provided,r4 • food and clothing, and their expenses paid to r l r ; There was only one Englishmen o n b oa rd, a passeng` the captain and crew were all Russians.