The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

Oct. 29, 1844. SAILORS' HOME, REGISTRY, AND SAVINGS' BANK. .A public meeting, for the purpose of promoting the establishment, in this port, of a Sailors' Home, Registry, and Savings' Bank for seamen, was held in the Sessions bouse, at one o'clock on Friday. There was a very nu merous attendance, among whom were a considerable body of the leading merchants and shipowners. The meeting was convened by the Mayor, upon a requisition. The MAYOR, in opening the proceedings. expressed the great pleasure he felt in having assembled the meeting, and his conviction that, if th e objects in view were carried out, they would he materially advantageous to the class whose interests they all deeired to promote. He had that morning received a note from Sir Howard Douglas, highly approving of the purpose for which the meeting was being held ; and he was sure that if Lord Sandon had been aware ,of what was taking place, he also would have expres-ed his approbation of the subject. His Lordship had, in deed, a!ready done so upon a previous occasion, as was well known to the members of the provisiunial committee. Mr. ADAM HODGSON moved the first resolution, which, with the others, will be found in our advertising columns. The meeting related to the social and moral condition of a class of the community whose claims to earnest coil sideratiou and deep sympathy no man would dare to deny, and no man be inciined to dispute. To their valour and intrepidity, to their energy and enterprise, we owed much ; but what had been the return made to them ? What was their social and moral condition in this extensive country, and in this our native town ? They had a home, to be sure, but it was " upon the deep ;" and how few of them were there who knew anything of the comfort, the cordi ality, the security, or the sanctity of .1 home on shore. (Cheers.) They returned from time trotime from foreign lands into the bosom of their own country, but they re turned to be pillaged, and plundered, and ensnared, and entrapped by harpies who were ever watching to get them into their power, and then they were robbed of all they had laboriously earned. Besides this, they were exposed to moral temptations. to which, from their peculiar cir cumstarces, they were most be a prey ; and he wou'd ask what was the resson these evils had been so long permitted to exist in this town ? It was because the public had not been sufficiently alive to their magnitude, and because of the shipowners not daring to encounter them without the support of the subiic. They must not conceal from themselves that the public had a right to ahere in the responstbility of the neglect with which the sailors bad been treated ; for they were our fellow-men, and they were our .fellow-country men, altaough they had little to do with any of our national privileges. Some thing, however, had been done with regard to making pro vision for their religious worship; for between 25 and 30 years ago a fleeting chapel was established by the Dis senters. The Mariner's Church had since been opened for those of a different communion. and he rejoiced to think that inestimable blessings had flowed from those institutions to the sailors of the port. To make these 'benefits still more we:ful. there wanted a borne for ssamen when they returned from a voyage ; and, after supporting the claims of such an institution by a saristy of considera tions, Mr. Hodgson concluded by 'noting the resolution. Mr. Re SIITON seconded the prapositicn, and congratu lated the therchaets of Liver's( of that the day bad at length arrived when this important subject was about to meet due consideration. Mr. Ile dgson had alluded to the painful det dls of the routine duty which daily en gaged his (Mr. Rushton's) attention, in which the claims of the rights arid wrongs of sailsrs formed a very large - proportion. A sailor, as had been truly observed. had few of the endearments of home, and when he arrived from FDA in a port like Liverpool, the dock quays were crowded with boarding-house keepers, and elepsellers, waiting for his landing. The moment he put his foot ashore he was in their arms. Being destitute of ready money, a loan ass procured from the tailor on the secu rity of the boarding-house keeper, who mortgaged his salary the first quarter of an hour after he went to his 'habitation. lie was charged extravagantly for his fond, every temptation that could be found was placed within his grasp. and, when the period had arrived at which he received his wages. all was gone. The boarding-house keeper went with him to the coupting. house to receive his -wages, which were sh fired with the slotistller, and thus the pour sailor was deprived of all. And this was hot all : a further advance was made to the sailor; he was again encouraged to go on in his reckless and dissipated career, and, in the course of a week or ten days, he found he bad no.alternative presented to him by the boarding master but that of turning, out in the street without his clothes, which were held as security for the new debt. He was then turned naked into the street to vet on board any vesselkains ta sea—any ve,sel where the largest advance could oc obtained, and two month's labour was thus - mortgaged to be given to those people ;Tani. (Hear.) Mien 'he property of sailors was frequently lost to their .families by false and fraudulent wills being produced. On all these grounds he strongly recommended the este blistae nt of an it steution like the our proposed, where the sailor would b, pre sled for anti have his interests properly watched over —The resolution was carried. Mr. Aims proposed tee next resolution. entering, in the course of a long address, into a great number of de tails connected with the intended in-titutiun, and ex • posing, in a powerful manner, the ftighttul treatment to whrch a seaman, unknown and without (fleet's, was ne 'ceesarily liable in a port like Liverpool, where no institution existed. lie congra'ulated the rneetiog upon •the immediate prospect of its operation. Toe Corpora tion hart given the land, and before he entered the meet ing he found that twenty gentlemen had put down their names for :E:100 each, ser e ai for ,t 750, on of whim signed $3 C, others fie. smaller amounts. rle tied no doubt at all that, havi•ig the aporobatinn of the ( . ;trporation and the Dock Committee, and the support of the public, tlis undertaking would rie rapidly, and be a most valueble addition to our pui.l c hest tutions. Mr. WILLIAM POTTER, in seconding the resolution, mentioned that the most painful circumstance that ever -occurred to him in the conduct of mercantile affairs, was when the pay-day came of a ship returning from a distant voyage, which ought to be a day of joy and gratification. The knowledge that as the men received their money, the pleee was surrounded by people lurking about for the sake of miaisterieg to their extraieuence—if not for actual plunder. Arid after his receipts had been complstely ex hausted, he w;ts obliged to pledge his clothes, for the means of ente,big upon a new voyage. Whatever retrain straaces and counsel he (Mr. P.) had occasionally given .to the men, they hod always fallen short for the wait of ability to show them a remedy and a better example, but this institution, he hoped, would prove both one and the other. Until it had been tried he was sure they had no rielit to give up the case as a hopeless one. (Hear, hear. Mr. Potter then directed attention to a bill introduced :into parliament last session, which proposed that the ma rine funds at the dfferent ports should be consolidated. This meaeuie, he said, would be ui-just to the Liverpool Society, which now kept about 1500 people fern the parish, and had a fund of £50,000. Other ports in vari ous parts of England, with a proportionate number of .aelmen, had not N twentieth part of that amount, there fore it would be a manifest injusice to throw the funds altogether. The resolution was carried. The Rev Huai' Nl'lelaree, on rising, was received with tremendous applause. Alter a few opening remarks in which he p rid a deserved compliment to Mr. James Aikin, the rev. gentletratt read a long list of particulars, from which it appeared that the first and immed ate ob jects of the Intoitwion would be to provide for seamen boird, letigieg, arid medical attendance. at a modcra e -charge. He then continued as follows :—lt will not be expected—it would, indeed, not be tolerated, and I am happy to think it is not at ell necessary that I should en large upon all these points, I will confine myself to sonic .general observation; on particular arid important points. We are, of course, unwilling to excite any needless hos tility in any class, and therefore I think it desirable, in the first instance, to call attention to the matter of board and lodging, which fo m a specific part of our plan. however cspacious the intended•plan.may be, arid I hope to see it contain several hundreds, yet still the number of seamen who cat be received as inmates, compared with the number frequenting tee port. must, at the largest, be a very small proportion ; and we have no wish to with draw from respectable and properly-kept lot big-houses tbco , e seamen who have elreedy made acqeaiotance with such. (firer, hear.) It is no part of the P h i , that the advahteges to be derived from the savings batik and re gister of &erecter should be confined to the ilium, e s o f the house. This will be open to all ; and, there-fen', I think, sir. we have good reason to expect that, really re spectable lodging-house keepers—mess who wish to com bine the true benefit of the seaman with their own fair and legitimate protits—wid hail es as elites—(mar, hear,) —and cd-operete wlth us, instead of harbouring suspi cions, and endeavouring to thwart our benevolent designs. 1 It will be their interest so to do. There is, indeed, a class from whona we must calculate upon hostility, 'reuse, sir, iu point of fact, it is impossible to take any efficient step towards the improvement of the character or condition of the seamen without placing ourselves in direct antagonism to the evil and mischief of the men I now allude to. I allude to those designing mere aided by abandoned women, who lie in wait to ensnare the returning s• anon, to entice him by the cravings of his animal passions to plunge into th: paroxysms of licentiotomess arid the brutalities of •drunkenttese, until be is either rubbed of his wages, or in duced to spend it in a manner akin ta robbery ; and, when he is fl eece d, and his clothes and watch, have found their wiy to the pawnbroker for the sats'action < f tie lodgine homekecper, then to cast him out upon the streets to the tender mercies of solie shipping master, who exacts on t e mo•tgege of Jack's next voyaze before he will pass , hint to a shiprr and get hitn once more afloat. (Hear, and cheers.) I said abandoned w:onsn ; arid when I used that word, I meant the expression as descriptive rather of their deplorable condition than as reproach'ul of their character. Poor, unhaepy creatures! they too have b een rifled of a treasure more precious than gold or silver, a n d then abandoned by their heartless, mean, detestable SP ducers. (Load cheers.) Sir, it is the seducer. especielly the gentleman—falsely so called—(hear, hear)—he who can and does pay high for his loathsome indulgence. and then turns away in 'reelect and dstrast from his helpless victim—he it is who is the manufacturer of hat lots—(hear, hear)—be it is who degrades to the condition of a harpy in our streets the creature who, but fur him. might have been an ornament and blessing to society as the head of a respectable fancily—(great epplause)—he it is who thus prepares pit-falls. " deep ditches, says the Scriptures, worse than rocks and reefs, for the shipwreck of our ma riners. Yes! and when the gallant tar, who has SUCCeSS pity braved the dangers of the deep, the toils of pro 'traded storms, and the vicissitudes of Antipodean climes, has returned, he exhibits in his history a melancholy illustration of one of the most instructive passages of an cient history. Hanibal, with his sable host, were safe in all the ruggedness of their Alpine passage. Hardships were wholesome to them. Precipices to be plunged l down—mountains to be scaled—ravines to be crossed — these cultivated their energies and nerved them for vic tory. But Capue was their ruin ' • the soft syren lap of sensual indulgence relaxed their discipline, and made them an easy prey to their watching, calculating foes.— (Hear, hear.) Sir. we indeed desire earnestly to pro tect our seamen from imposition and extortion, and to encourage them to husband their hard-earned wages ; and in order that they may have within themselves the elements of such protection, we desire to promote their moral, intellectual, and professional improvement, and afford them an opportunity of receiving religious instruc tion. For their intellectual improvement it is proposed that a library and reading-room should be established, and that both of these be made as attractive to them as it is possible to do. For their moral improvement it is pro posed that there should be a savings' bank and registry of character; and for their religious improvement it is proposed that there should be a clergyman and visiting chaplain to the institution. (Hear, hear.) These are, fruitful topics ; but I must be brief. We have lately had opportunity, more or less, of witnessing the gratifying, and almost miraculous effects produced by savings' banks. I fully agree in the observations made by Air. Aiken OH this point. Get a labouring man. whether seaman or landsman, to make use of a savings' bank, and you have a hold of that roan. (Hear, hear.) lie has something to keep, and, c hat is still more elevating to his charact r, he has something to give away. (Laughter and cheers.) And this is not chimerical. I hold in ray hand the last report of. the institution in London, similar to that we now desire to establish here. And I learn one most gra tifying instance recorded in this report:—" It is a cir cumstance most gratifying to the directors !o be enabled again to state that of the £20,000 of sailors' money which passed through our hands, .E. 1.800 was money sent by the officers of the institution, to sailors at their own homes. or to their relations in various parts of the country." (Applause ) Here is the prospect which Mr. Aiken pre sented in theory realised in practice. (Hear, hear.) I do hope that the savings' hank part of the plan will be most diligently and skilfully carried out. (Hear, hear.) Then as moral improvement advances, a register of character carefully kept will give the seaman the ani mating encouragement that his moral character is not lost si,ht of, and will secure his reward, by securing more readily advantageous engagements as he goes on. And knoaing, sir, that all such engagements must speedily tertninate, and recollecting that the seaman. after all, has an eternity to spend, it is an integral and important part of our plan to give him the opportunity at least to learn the redeeming love of " Him who died and rose again for us men and for our salvation,—thst so, our sea-faring brother may, by the grace of God, working in due season, find a return of that practical grateful love for that pardoning love which he has mercifully experi enced,- and thus find, within his own• bosom, the germ of e ternal love in conformity to the character of God, for " God is love." These are the chief features of the plan. The rev. gentleman then appealed to the liberality of our merchant princes for contributions for the effectual carrying out of the project, and afterwards proceeded as follows :--Simply on commercial grounds the matter might be argued. You have heard this already. The im proved character of the seamen—the improved intelligence of the most subordinate members of the crew, and the consequent increased safety of the vessel in the case of accident or illness of the master or mate :—these, and kindred consequences ought to speak with a loud voice to owners, and undewriters, and insatance companies.— (Loud applause.) On Christian prineqles the matter may be urged. This, also, has been alluded to ; and surely, sir, it ought to be an object with British Christians that the men who carry throughout the world the match. less specimens of England's handicraft it, manufactures ought themselves to be specimens of the Christianity of England- 7 (continued applause)—instead of being, as too many of our neglected seamen, alas, now are—profane, dissolute, and drunken stumbling-blocks in the way of the heathen where they visit. And the decks and wooden walls of Old England—her best defence in the day of danger—manned by her indomitable tars, whe never struck her flag—(cheers)—these might he pleaded— hese might also be stirringly addressed, and especially at this moment, when this feeling has been made to thrill through the nation. For it was only on Monday last, the anniver sary of the battle of Trafarlger, the Victory was decorated as usual, that our Sovereign, Queen Victoria—whom God preserve!—(applause) —went on board that vessel. She ascended the quarter-deck—came where it is inscribed, -" Here Nelson fell." She paused—read the inscription thoughtfully, and then she plucked a leaf of the wreath of laurel that encircled the spot and clasped it to her royal—her right. English heart. (Vehement applause). And her attention was eared to the Admiral's signal or, that remarkable day, when she read, with a full, emphnt7c voice—" England experts every man to do his duty." Here, sir, a thousand recollections and associations start to he mind—all welt ca calated to give cur seamen their proper place in our consideration. and every plan for their welfare, and to furnish claims on our substantial gratitude. For though our seamen are not now called to the dis charge of such dreadful duties—and we trust, in the over ruling providence of the most High, for a continuance of peace—yet, deeds of days gone by—deeds. productive of peace. because decisive in war, ought not to be forgotten ; and if it wits the sailor's duty then to fight, to do his part to preserve to our use the happy homes of old England, it is equally the duty of every Briton in our day to supply a home for Britain's seamen. (Great cheers.) But, sir, I urge a softer theme. 1 observe in one of the resolutions an allusion to the children, especially of the orphan child ren, of war seamen ; and, whit I read this, try attention reverted from it naturally enough, to the parents of our seamen. I consider the multitude of youths that I Pt' amongst the seamen in the town, and I picture to myself the anxious fathers and aff(ctiootte mothers of those young men following theist with their prayers and tears to your port. (Hear.) Sir, ihe poor have tender feelings a , well as pressing wants. It b- ,t nys a grieveus ignorance of them to assert that their natural .ffections are less ten- der than our own. (Hear, bear.) Who amongst us that is not a parent—l believe I ought to say, who, that is not a mo her, can adequately enter into the feelings of a mother for her sailor boy. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) She dreads the sea, 'tis true ; but she Brea is the shore still more. She fancies her dear child taking Iris turn of duty on the deck or in the rigging, and then turning into his hammock, and, through all this, her heart can liriaer with him, and she can surround him with the shelter of her prayers. But when he comes in shore, and she attempts to trace his steps—alas ! her heart sinks at the too probable a, peet, her prayer falters, and she would fain dismiss. if possible, the thought of him alto gether, than endure the revolting association. (Hear.) Oh ! behold, th in, sir, what boon von confer on such a mother by the estableihrreot of a Sailors' hone. (Cheers ) Titers, her heart may linger about her darling child ! there she may imagine him still returning to h s hed of soberness and chastity ! there, she may Unger with her supplications to the God of all mercy for a blessing upon her son, and a blessing upon his friend s and benefactors. or ; . ). who supplied him n with a refuge! (Continued Oh ! sir, this one feeling alone—and with this I mils , . for m rm t e h e t p h a re n s ernetcos recompense fo anti re,every conclude—this c h r o i s n t e i a n fe - ling should r t. every Christian sacrifice that we c:m make or ih 7 s behalf. For, sir, if there be on earth a spot of Paradise unsta , ned by the fall of Adam—a lovely. lingering trace of God's own imace upon our nature !—if there be a shame into which selfi•hriess has never entered, but where disinte rest •d affection sits enthroned !—if there be it string on relaxed by the damp vapours of our fallen atmosphere, and still vibrating true to the harmony of Heaven, it is the tender love of a mother's heart to an absent, en dangered son ! The Rev. Gentleman hers resumed his seat, amid loud demonstrations of applaus The Rev. J. TODD BROWN seconded the motion ; and it was supported by the Rev. !lector CAMPBELL, who said the snbject was one in which, as a clPrgynyin of the Church of England, and as one of ti e rectors of Liver pool, he took the deepest interest and concern. He ccnfesscd he had more pleasure in supporting this cause because be c , .uld'not discover in it any elements of po litical or religious controversy, and that in the present day was really a very great satisf tetion. It was an ob ject in which all cla,ses could join with the most cordial unanimity—in which all could co overatt, without the possibility of having their motives misconstrned. it was one, therefore, which he bad the greatest pos,ib!e saris f4etion in aiding by every means in his power. (Cheers.) The resolution was carriel unahitnnuslr. Mr. GEORGE GRANT moved the appointment of a committee; and, after expressing his approbation of the object for which they h,d met, lie suggested that in the building ilself means should he taken to secure rioonal amu ements and recreations fir the inmates, intsmuch as they wouli not be unsuitable or injor , mu‘ to burn. Mr. WM. RATnnosn seconded the moti o n. and en large., woo the suggestion thrown out by Mr. Grant, of which he exuressed his warm athn:ration. Th, resolution was ad ved.• Ut COTESWORTII moved, and Mr. T. B ORSFALL seconded the next resolutinn ; upon which thekl AVOR announced that he had received a cheque for £lOO hom Mr. J. A. Thine. who was unable to attend the meet ng, to be applied in aid of the funds. Mr. Duncan Gihb. Mr. Win. Watson, Mr. Sandbarh. Mr. Wtn. Brown, and • Mr. George Kendall afterwards addressed the meeting, and the proceedings terminated about half -cast three COIMESPONDENCE. SHIP-BUILDING. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Ste,—ln giving stfri ( your m a few lures on practical shiubuild log, for the information 0 once of this end it will not be readers, for the further and resistance out of place to introduce a few remarks on the nat , re of displacement , of fluids. Displacement is a column of water through the al ill hydrostatics, ef fected by the removal of a immersion of any solid hodytlie the greatest accuracy he placed. wher , by the • weight of such bodies may with composing li g htfr materials obtained. All vessels or solids a ship, or any other than w a ter, suc h a s logs of mooed,boating "ating substance, displace by amly as mu c h wa t er as their spec'.ficgravity , for example: tieir immersed part i e suppose a ship with all her materials a weighs 400 tons, column of water equal a fl oat h er i mmerse d part rem oves . equal to 14,000 cubic feet, a cube foot of salt water being equal to 64 lbs. weight, cr 35 cubit to the ton ; divi(e 14,000 by 35, the produce will he 400 tons, the weight of the ship. Again, 8 lbs. to take a log of fir timber mfasurirg 30 cubic feet, the specific gravity Of which b.. , ine 4 _ , the cube foot, the weight of this log ben g 1440 lbs. ..; thi ( a ,.. , this log a c. in salt water, it will be seen that it displaces Runt! thereof equal to 224 cubic feet, which multiply by 64, the produce will be 1440165, the weight of the log. thus showing that the average we ht of fir timber is one quarter light -r than salt watfi% from the log float ng 71 cube feet above the surface. Furthermore, take a pig of cast.iron one font euhe, the specific gravity of which is 464 lbs., sink it in sat water, and weigh it therein , its weight wil be fou n d no more than .400 tbs., having lost 64 lbs. by its displacing one cubic foot of water thereby becoming that much more buoyant. These examples, as, illustrations, are suffi c i ent to show the specific gravity:pm displacement of all solids at rest ; but as it respects the stability of vessels of passage and burthen, with them everything depends, as to their safety, on the correctness of their fora), thereby producing regularity of displace ment, which alone can constitute a safe sea-going 314. -It is, therefore, of the first moment that all vessels of pas sage and burthee, should be so constructed, that every section, fore and aft, as far as the cargo extends, should be fully borne up and supported by the fluid in which site is to pass, otherwise she will soon promote her own de struction. Should a ship be flat in midships, and ex tremely sharp forward and abaft, with a cargo extending fore and aft, she has then a ruinous up-pressure s•rain in midst.ip that will soon di-joint her, from its forming two levers whose length extends beyond the half-length 01 the vessel; the like evil will attend vessels built, either full forward or abaft, w ,, ereby the centre of displacement is removed from its natural position, and the lever lat comes more extended : in the former there are two levers con sternly in action, in the latter but one, yet the lever of the one, from its length, will prove equally destructive. I have known ships built in our naval yard, which were supposed when in proper trim to swim on an even keel, draw when launched nearly twice as much water abaft as forward ; to bring those ships on au even keel, a very con siderable portion ortheir weight must be placed to the foreside of their half length ; bow ruinous, then, must be the effect produced from such a principle ! From this it may be seen hew great is the responsibility of -ship builders, and with what caution they should act, lest by introducing novelties they might not only prove useless but dangerous innovations. It is therefore obvious that such care should always be taken in the construction and formation of vessels. that the centre of displacement should judiciously take the place of the centre of gravity, which cannot be effected unless it eta near tile half length of the vessel, by which means the fore and eter bo dies may be so regeWed and equalised, that no section should be under the necessity of requiring suaport from its neighbour section. The resistance of fluids in reference to shipbuilding is that obstruction which all floating bodies have to encoun ter in proportion to their velocity in passing through- the water. Wise men, in all ages, from Plato to Newton, and from him to the present day, have written volumes with the view of giving a demonstrative proof, which solid pre— sents the least res i stance; unfortunately for the maritime world, the figures given are like the alehyrnists' transmu tation, absorbed in theory. Many excellent writers on shipbuilding, on every colter subject have in clear and dis tinct terms explaMed their theorems, excepting that of, resistance, and with it the principles of velocity. On these stthjects they are completely at a stand. Many clever men have attempt, d to eseiblish a thPorv, will models in water, drawn along by pulleys and weigh:., in which they are all at variance; and why, because all experiments, with motiels by water, as procfs of the stability or velocity of a ship under canvass, are like the search, s atter perpe tual motion, ineffectual in producing a principle. As well may the strengths of a ship's main-mast be decided from the strength of its model on ag , e- ter scale. Therefore every attemet of the kind has, and ever will prove abor tive; observation and experience alone must determine on the very essential question. Having thus far entered on this important subject, shall resume it again next week.—l am, sir, &c. Pembroke Dock, 22d Oct. 1814. JOHN COCK. O'CONNELL AND THE WHIGS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Site,—Did you ever happen to observe two boys at tempting to mount a wall ? They both puff and blow. and tug, but find that singly it is useless, till at last the Nigger of the two ho'sts the otter on his shoulders, who, when he arrives at the top, gives his fellow a hand, and thus they both succeed. This, sir, is the exact position of the WI:1;v at tte present day ; they find it utterly impos sible, as hom should it he poss!ble, to walk into office, and at last have recourse to that " Jack of trades," Daniel O'Connell, to assist them to mount the wall. Daniel O'Connell and the Whi l es! b-autiful coalition! admirable compact ! This secatid edition of the Lichfield House affair is to hear down ell opposition. and overcome every obstacle. The armies are uniting. the generals are laying their wise heads totes her, it not single-handed, at least with accumulated farces, they intend to force the citadel of the constitution, they purpose to raze all monu ments of toryisin, leaving nought hut i's ashes to testify its ruin. O'Connell and the Whigs! wondrous ass.i. ciAion I behold the parted enemirs are become united friends once more! the " base." the " bLudy." and the brutal." are reconciled to their vilifier! arid the exqui sie patriot the distiuterested patriot, who puts himself to the trouble of robbing the pockets of the poor of £28,000 a-sear ! the persecuted martyr, who has hecotte fat under government pay ! going to travel the wishe.- for road to place. in conjunclort with thc sa, crouch ing animal,: of the other side of the water ! where each will bear each other's burden, a' d both will stand up IT each other where mutual obligation is absolutely neces sary. flow naked must Wh'ggery have become to need the Irish ragamuffin c,4tt of O'Connell to hide their na kedness to what a depth of lown-ss must they have sunk when Daniel O'Connell is gratefully aect•pted to lift !hem from the -ontempt of their mean arid disgracelul situation! They are fawned upon and beslavered by tilvir former vilifli r, for it suits his purpose; the flatttry has its effect, and they fawn and beslaver in return. Dow beau tiful to look unon is their gentleness! how . a Im:rable is their meekness! the worm turns not sgain:t the butt of former abuse, and ridicule kisses the cheek of its reviler ! What a despicable little playthina it is in the hattds pf the cunning o‘d fox ! what a puny, p tltry t.y, tossed and befingered by the sly old artitic-r. Oh! take care of it, when thou bast it. Dan ! llold it fast in thy retentive claw, keep it in thy tri ocherous trap ; don't let it gowhen its feet are so conveniently embedded in the mire ; if it could, like a ser t .tent, it would sting thee, and scruple not to tread over thy carcat,e into emolum en t= and offices It is, indeed, viewed abstractedly. a lamentable thing to behold Whigeery 11 , tundering and kicking in the hole, ar.d calling upon Daniel O'Connell to lend a hand and help it in the midst of the roaring waters of destruction, and cry ingout ! It is indeed lamentable to b e h old that g reat Ceeear to the Irish Cas‘ius, " llel me, or I sink ! 'it is, in deed, lamentable xn behold sim great talents prostituted to see such astonishing and place—to see all that wa s ltevottiadtehmanolipicowaerltsa,,roo!df rfeopregatl,lldeton once gay and flourishing all that %via once powerful— that was unce rearing its head proudly above the billows of political condemnation—that. once firmly and nob 4 stuck in its place, notwir , standing public clamour for re• signation ! to see all this b'ibed into silence, fr;ghted into non-entity. beaten into ign , anitty! Alas, poor Whi p .,, ry, l et the lament thy fate ! let me mown the disgrace of thy ignominious end ! There thou layest ! Where ? I can not tell ; but we hear a faint noise, we hear a dying gasp; there is something said about a renewal of lite by a dis graceful coalition: but thou art so little the world can't see thee; the remnant of thy mortality is coffined in ob scurity ! The. last convulsive struggle before total annihilation is just taking place in the political atmosdhere. They have vied in the registration courts; they have tried on the I datiorm of every theatre, great and srmili, in the king dont ; they have tried every stay, ant by every me ans , h ut ,II has been of no avail—all their tfforts have been use less; and this, this is their list refuge—this is their only remaining chance—this is th.-ir dying drat. O'Connell is arch enough to make a prntession of amity to the Whigs, the Whigs are reduced low enough to accept the offers of O'Connell. Well, let them combine ; le , them have their tall tme out ; they ho'h wig be involved in one common rum—they both shall fall into the pit toge ther.—l am, slr, DELTA. UNIVERSITY CLE RICAL NEWS. A PPOINTMENTS. — Rev. Philip 11s11 Palmer, Jesus College. to the rectoty of Woolsthorpe, Lincoln shire. Value, £l9l.—The Rev. Philip Vyvyan Robinson, 13 A., of Christ's College. to the rectory of Landevved nack, Cornwall. Valne, £2s3.—The Rev. Henry Apreece Coles, M.A.. of St. John's Co lege, to the vicarage of Martiham, Nottingliamsuire. Value, £2oB.—The Rev. Conrad Makings Winiberley. M.A.. to the vicarage of Kedthngton, Lincolnshire. Value, £77.—The Rev. Wen. Doug as Lit lejohn, M.A., of Corpus Chri , ti College, to the vicarage or Thome with Syilenhant, ual curacy, Oxfortishirt.. Value, £2oo.—The Rev. Flew). erton Ma,s:e. ILA,. Queen's College, to tile pop.t.tai curacy of Sliocklach, Cheshire. Value. £l97.—The Rev, liens y Vttlentitte Pickering, 8.A., of renthroke College, to the curacy of Kenton, Suffolk.—The Rev. George William Manning, or Emanuel College, to the perpetu I ttuney of St. Juliet's, Cornwall. Value, £G'.l.—The Rev. Hall AndreAs, 11. A., of St 'John's College. to the curacy of Revel-took, Devon.—The Hon. and Rey. Grantham Munton York, to be one of the domestic chaplains to toe Lord Bishop of Worcester, Examtsmts.— OxFottio.—ln a ConvocaVon held on Thursday, in Liter llinnanioribus, the Rev. John Mat thias Wilson, M.A., Fellow of Corpus, end the Re.y. Arthur West Haddon, M.A , Fellow of Triple—ln nithemat;cis to Physics. Rev. Nicholas Pocock, M.A., Michel Fellow of Queen's. DEGREES.—At Oxford. on Thursday, the following degrees were conferred :—llloxiers rf Arts.—The lion, henry Pitt Chohhondley,How of All Souls—Rev. Nathaniel Midwinter, Maedalen Hall—Melville Portal, Christ Church— Cornwal Simeon. Christ Church.— t . n7y Pritchard, Scholar of Corpus—Rev. Henry James Mar shall, Corpus—Rev. Jan 'William Kirkham, Jesus Col lege—Henry Ellison, Fellow of University—Jos. ph Cox Algar, Fellow of University—Rev. Jame,. &Wine), Wad hum—Fredcrie John Vipan, Wadharn—Rev. John Wil lis Grane, Exeter—John Ilungerford Pollen, Fellow Merton—Arthur Ilo.Aouse. Chirles Cuth bert Soulhey, Queen's—Rev. William Clal ton, Queen's. Bachelors of Arts.—William Brookes, Licc:ll. Grind Coapounder —George Henry Vansittait, 13aaiol, Grind Corr pounder—John Leslie, Christ Chnrch—Philip Con. stable Ellis, Jesus—Henry Jackson Rhodes, Scholar of Corpus—Henry Robert Smith. Scholar of Beviseiose• Henry Newby, Worcester—George Drinkwater Bourne, Oriel. The vicarage of St. Stephen, London, hac been pre sented to the Rev. Josiah Pratt, son of the la'e lamented vicar. ItACTARIAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.—?A commit tee has been crpnised to proniote the objects of the Tractarian party, and to take ininiediate advantage of every opportunity of forwarding their des•gr:s. It was a prelate of the Church. the venerable Bishop of Bath and Wells, who first adopted the plan of alloting small portions of land to lab , uren, which system has gradually spread to almost every quarter of the empii e. It is considered probable that Sir R. Peel will select for the Deanery of Cacliste some clergyman of distin guished character, res;d'•nt in one of the Northern Dio ceses, and the names of the Rev. IL Buddicombe, Prin cipal of St. Bees CoTege, and the Rev. G. 'Townsend, Canon of Durham, are mentioned as likely to receive the appointment. The future income of the office will be £lOOO a year. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. FOREIGN AAD COLONIAL. The Berlin journals announce a great rise in the price of cotton goods in Prussia. and that the ri.anufactures in that country are in the most prosperous state. SICKNESS IN THE FRENCH ARMY IN ALGIERS.— The number of sick in the milit iry hospitals of Algiers is at this moment 2,400. Diarhoea and dysentery are the prevailing maladies. It is stated in the Bible Society's Monthly Extracts that the conversion of the entire Commune of Villefi v.ird, in the department of the Haute Vienne, in France, consisting of 600 Roman Catholics, has been effected by the simple reading of the Scriptures, circulated by the agents of the London Bible Society. HonIIBLE EVENT.—The Prase states, that at Urdos, in Spain, two lions and a tier escaped from a menagerie. One of the lions devoured a child, and wounded the mayor of the town. On the departure of the courier the animals had not been retaken, and the population re mained under the impression of the most profound terror. NEW SOUTH WALES.—GREAT SALE OF SHEEP.-At Mr. Samuel Lyons's sale of sheep on Monday, the follow ing prices were realised :—Four thousand five hundred and seventy-five head, warranted sound, were sold at 25: lid.; and eight thousand six hundred and twenty three head, very fine sheep, at 4s. 3d.—Sidney Colonial Observer, May 23. TO PARTS IN A DAY.--By means of the railway from Amiens t , ) Boulogne, the two metropoli , es of the civilised world will have only the distance of twelve hours between them. In the course of three years, accordmg to all probability, the journey and voyage from Paris to Lon don will, during the greater part of the year, be accom plished between the rising and setting of the sun. The trial of the Duke de Montmorency for the dis tribution of seditious medals took place on Monday, be fore the Paris Court of Assize. The Duke (or the Prince de Rohm]) was defended by M. Btrrver, and was ac companied ti court by the Duke of FitzjilDeS, the Mar quis de la Roche Jaquelin, and several other distinguished members of the legitimatist party. M. Berryer asserted that there was nothing political in the affair, and the jury coincided in his view, for, after consulting five minutes, they returned a verdict of " not guilty." A WRETCH.—The Montreal papers contain accounts of a horrible .Irime committed by Captain Walne,, of the ship Jane Brown, at that port from Gla,gow. A young lady of IG, who was put under his charge by her friends in Glasgow, was seduced and dishonoured by the captain during the passage, and when the sh p reached Montreal the poor girl was an iii and the crew state that the captain used to beat her with a rope's end, the marks of which were deep and frequent on her shoulders! The wretch was committed. EFFECTS OF RAILROADS ON POSTING IN FRANCE.— The Paris papers of Wednesday state, that on Tuesday last M. Dailly, the prt-sident of the committee appointed by the postmasters of France, together wi!h M. Joulan , l, their delegate, waited on the Minister of Finance to ex plain to him the st to of their e , tatilishinente, becoming every day more deplorable. Seme of them were totally ruined by the establishment of railroads, awl others were unable to maintain tae number of h.rrs.f's necessai y for the public service, and consequently the communication be tween several principal points was in d ,ng-r of being in errupted. The Minister repPed, that l e was determined to bring the subject under the considerationtof the Cham bers in the ersuing session. OUTRAGE IN MADEIRA.—The Sierra San Antonio. a mountain district of Madeira, has recently been given to pillage, under the following circumstances :—On the even ing of the 16th of September, fourteen policemen, some armed, and others intoxicated, attempt .d to Seize Nicola() Vieira, a Portuguese, who, about tiglreen mouths ago, had jeined the Scottish communion. Their only autho rity was a warrant, not signed as required by law. Under these circumstances, Nicola() refused to follow them until it should be light. His ne:ghbouis rallied round him; and, atter some altercation, but without a blow being struck by either side, the p relied. On the 23d of Septembee, fitty soldiers. commanded try Capt. Oli,eira, proceeded, under pretence of seizing the offenders, to pil lage the district. Some of the houses were gutted, others stewed of their valuables, the live stock was killed, and the inhabitants either taken prisoners, or obliged to fly. The houses of two English merchants, Messrs. Burnett and Ellicort, were fill d with women flying from the vio lence of the soldiery. It was not till the pillage had con tinued three days that these gentlemen obtained, by their urgent remonstrance, an order to restrain the soldiers. Twenty-two prisoners were brought round in a frigate and lodged in Funchal gaol. THE FRENCH PRESS. The irritation of the greater number of the French journals at the recepti,m of King Louis-Philip in En. gland is truly ridiculous. All hopes of war, and of the probable consequencts of war in favouring revolutionary movements seemed to be tor the present dashtd. En g:and has given to the French mmaich a hearty cordial reeet ti ,n, and his Majesty has declared his sense of the importance of peace to the interests of both nations. This is too much to btar. The war party, that is, the par y of revolutionists, whether Le, - ;itami,ts or Democrats, tiw party ci those who are out of place and office. or who are bloken i r fortune, and therefore eeger for change;— this motley Env too numerous party knows not which way to turn at toe present moment, and the various grinv. , ,ces by which they express their vtxation are truly ludicrous. ti'e are not often in the habit of quoting Punch, but has parody on the Trading aNieies of the French journals is scarcely a parody, end therefore we publish it . " BEAUTIES OF THE FRENCH PRESS.-PERFIDIOUS ALBION " [From the National ] —France is outraged—insulted ! Per fidious Albion has achieved her crowning insult Yes—will :t be liedeved—can Jenne Frolics for one moment imagine such an atrocity —the Doke of Wellingt n, who, with his Erigl-sh gold. bought the bottle of Waterloo. he who brought hack the Bourbons over the slaughtered bodies of Fienchmeo—he, above all other men, was despatched by Queen Victoria to wel come to Portsmouth the King of the French t And Loui•- Plinip shook him by the bards—yes, one hand was not enough —hut hear it France, and let the ashes of Napo eon stir with indignation—he shook him by both hands! [t••rom the Siicle.]—k% hat! was it necessary for the full ac complishment of our degradation that the King of the Fri nch should be feasted in the Halt of waterloo in Windsor Castle—a hall, decorated with the portraits of men who have outraged France—who have s lit the i-loud of her children ? Had not M:Guizot sufficiently i.egraded the utif 'titillate country which mourns his administratiou, but that with a smile upon his cheek—yes. a smile traitorous to ourselves and our i stitn tions—he must walk in Windsor Park with the man Peel ? had the • man of Ghent' forgotten the insolence of tie En giish M ulster when he denounced the doings of onr invincible Mira% the Minion it hero who has bayoneted the Ta l i isms, and all but kidnapped Queen Pomare t Guizot walks, and talks, and smiles with Peel in the dome Park ! Wby does not all France, leaping from its lethargy, chant the Mal seiliaise, and grasp the. sword ? [F mu the Globe ] —The least that France could expect of the Duke of Wellington, during the visit of Louis-Philip to WI d sor, was dec. nt behaviour. Hitch, from the character of t - e man, could net be expected. No : the man who had been lase enough to corrupt the traitors who sold their luiplesi country— the man who with accurse4 g' bought the halt eof Water loo, was not likely to make any large siicrifiee to decency. Nevertheless, the least to be expected of him w •s, that during Louis-Philip's visit he would remain within his own doors Certainly, it was not to be expected that he would have the audacity to approach the King of the French ! 'lad he pos sessed the true delcacy of a hero, lie would on the sudden have fallen very ill, arid kept his bed until the King had deported. such sensibility. however, does not dignify a Wellington. Ni) : on the contrary, even before the French King had touched the listen soil of Albion. Wellington was on board the Goalcr ; and what is more—as the Engdsh prints aud:letoti ly declare it • looking in exceiient health and spirits !' But France—while the man of Ghent reigns —is doom,d to be insulted." IIiBbAND. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—This body met, PS uFual, yester,lay week. The attendance was even smaller thin the previous meeting. Among the &nations were £l2 from Manchester and £l3 Bs. front this town. The rent was £391. John Walsh, n Dublin harri,t, , r, v-as drowned, aceidentol4, in the canal at Fir.gllsr, on Saturday week. The cdebrated Father Mathew was arrested while in Dublin a few days ago, for the balance of a debt incurred for temperance medals. PGES ENT TO Mat. O'CoNNELL—The Rldetth Ob server states that the inhabitants of Cob!cog and the neighbouring towns had opened a subscrirton 11 the pureha , te of a care° of Rhenish wine of the first quality, as a present to Daniel O'Connell. R. S. Maxwell, Esq.. High Sheriff of Cavan. has de clined to call a poblc mettle.' to forward the interests of Cie proposed Dubbit and Cavan Railway, arid has given the following untiseal , but conscientious reason tor his refusal. Ile says, "My objection is entirely of a religious nature, and amounts, in a word, to this, that a vast in crease in the desecration of the Lord's Pay roust neces sarily result from the estallishment cf the Dublin and Cavan Railway, unless it he intended (and I take it for granted it is not) to conduct it on a wholly different princi ple from that which regulates every other railway. By g i v i ne e tn y name, or contributing my aid in any way to the object in question, I co rceive that I should be taking a part in the promotion of an esil which I, as a ebtistian man, consider cannot be too strongly deprecated, or too streetieu,ly resisted. A LAUGH ABLE OCCURRENCE.--,Tbe neighbourhood of Northumb,rl nd-avenue, Kingstown, wasoti Ft iday thrown into a state of the utmost excitement, it having trues pired that a lady had made an as-ignment with ag ' ent lc man who had advertised for a wife. Accordingly at the hour mentioned (three o'clock) the expectant inhsbitants of the avenue were highly amuses beholding, as Burns wou ld wry, "a tine fat fagel weght" make his appearance, wiping his fat face with a white handkerchief, the lady having requestA that he would oera•i:mally olace a white handkerchief to his face, as the means of recognition, and (water stating that she would drive up in a pony One ton in a grew skiwer of rain, with the servant on the rumble' prceectitig her with an umbrella. On seeing her the 'un fortunate man fancie:l Cott the object of his search was at length before him; and, after a few convulsive applica tions of t h e handkerchief. started forwar.l, and with a spring, remarkable for a mart of his size, fairly jumped into tee phaeton : and before the astonished lady could recover from the fright his sudden appearauce occasioned, g p er a wi p r e c i l l e a d tio h n e his; and it;s m arms, Nvt calling rtu her by every en tail the lady had uttered scream after scream, and hi s s h ou ld ers were we ll belaboured wi t h the umbrella b y the servant , that be ap peared to think he kid got into the wro ng b ox ; so , mak ing his escape as e x p editiousl y as possible, he hastened off to the train without staying to make further inquiries en dearing had rir i for his t namorata; and it is earnestly hoped the lesson he has received will perform a radical cure for his love. — D u bli n paper.—[Tnis is in all probabiiity the same Dublin gent. wbo advertised in our own columns on Tues day last ] THE COURT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived at 'Windsor at seven o'clock on Monday, from Osborne House, Isle of Wi4ht, which place the royal party left at twenty minutes baf,re two o'clock. The Post gays that it is the intention of her Majesty to honour Marqnis and Marchioness of Exeter with a visit at their princely residence, Burleigh House, near Stamford, ht as ehrly a period as possible subsequent to the opening of the new Royal Exchange. It is prob.ble the court will leave Windsor for Lincolnshire about the commencement of the ensuing mluth. A SABBATH MORNING'S WALK.—Sunday morning weak the serenity which pervades most country villages on the Sabbath Day was experienced in the greatest degree at East Cowes. Her Majesty rose at eight o'clock, and having breakfasted, accompanied by Prince Albert, pro ceeded to take her accustomed etercise. Leaving the domain of Osborne 1 - lcu,e at the southern gate, the Queen and Prince proceeded on the tut apike-road towards Whip pingham, about a mile and a half distant. Tha royal pair arm-in•arm, were recognised at the hotel which fronts the gate, and by the woman at the turnpike, without the in dulgence of any impertinent curiosity; and as the Queen and Princa proceedei on their v. - ilk, many pedestrians become acquainted with the fact that it was tier Majesty and the Prince. UNFREPARF.D FOR A SUDDEN STORM.—Before they had rea, het) Whippingham a sudden storm came on, for which the Queen and Prince were unprepared, her Ma jesty having only her usual attire. and a mall parasol. The Queen and Prince Albert, notwithstanding, proceeded on their course towards the Barton, then about a mile and a half from Osborne House, although they passed several cottages. • A FORTUNATE POSTMAN.—The postman, however, at Whippinghatn had observed the royal pedestrians, and with the best umbrella his humble means allowed him, ran atter her Majesty, and offered it for the service of the Queen. The Prince very graciously accepted the offer, and his Royal Highness and her 1 1 \1:jesty pursued their way by the Barton to Osborne, over the fields, bidding the man to follow. On their .'rival at the house, with many expressions of thanks, the postman was most agree ably surprised with the return of his umbrella, and a present of £5. The man departed in no very unpleasant as may be supposed, and was not at all scrupulous in proclaiming to his acquaintances, as he met them, that "it was a good day's work for him." As soon as the rain threatened, one or two of the attendants were des patched wth umbrellas and cloaks, to see her Majesty and his Royal llighness, but did not fall irs with her Majesty. PRINCE ALBERT'S ANNUAL SALE OF LIVE STOCK.— The sale of his itoyal Highness's live stock, at Windsor, took place on Friday, and attracted a great number of salesmen and butcher. front London and the adjacent towns. The sheep realized the following prices :-230 s.,utittlnwn ewes averaged from 255. Gd. to 33a. ; 160 sou'lnlown ' 2 tooth wethers, from 225. to 21s. The cat tle sold as fold ,w. :-20 Scotch pole 4-year old bullocks, I fit for slaughter, averaged from £l2 to £l7 each ; 29 highly-bred Welch bullocks, from £ll 15s. to £l3 ss. ; Hui 13 short-horned barren cows, from £lO to .1.:17 each. 1 S , veral Hertford oxen, Aldernry cows, cart-horses, &c., real vd very excellent prices. The proceeds of the sale amounted to upwar's of £1,400. PROGRESS OF TRACTARIANISM. (From the English Churchman.) i b ic : si v t t e yi n r ie,i'll'riii:gailli: w.' hate ki n g 8 ca In our remarks upon the Queen's conformity to Pres we simply tpplied the same rule to her Ma_ uniformly applied to her subjects, ot make schism Catholicism ! awl we are really nut acquainted w:th any patent right which a Sovereign possesses to conlnit schism. The If it he wrong in p bishops, w i th t hnsew priests, h () rejectorit and the scuff laity, a tv, t o join pis! c in l the Carl :olio Church, su re l y i t i s wrong also in the Queen. " But , " the writer i n th e B r i t i s h Maga zine will say, " we did not e n t er i nto the merits of the edbe ; we only said that it was dkrespectful to the Save. reign to say what %nu did." Weil. and we s a y th at i t i s very mean and cowardly to try to injure us for telli ng a o i Z b y lie and' worship truth which you Lad not the courage to tell, dime. you know it was the truth. . . That we hare not overstated the error which her Ma j?sty made in worshipping with the enemies of Episco pacy, we request our readers' aqention to the following su;gesiir•na irom a correspondent, who is about as sound a specimen of an English Churchman as can well be ima gined : " According to the Act of Parliament of William M., the Sore reien of England must he in communion will the Church of Eng land, or the people are released from their allegiance " Might not the Bishops excommun. , c ite the Queen for attend ing a Preslvterian place of worship, if the discipline of the church is we - nth anything? " If they did so, Who would be then Sovereign. of England 7 No (lOWA this Act was intended to secure ti; from a Popish So• ereign, tut Rill it not equally support us from a Presbyterian one ? " This is a very serious, and, it may be, an errontons view r,f the care; but, whether rue or false, we r.hall• cloral,tles7, have t,ic old cry raised against us for even pub. hsir log it; tut as cur ohject is to act fairly and honestly toaards every member of the Church, from the highest to the lowest, we care %ery little fur mere cries, so long a, we conscienticusly feel that we have done r , e't her more cot- 1e..0 than .our ,Itty. We tai4e onr s'a ti upon the t 4r.ory, not up .n the procure, of cur Church; and we rr, convicted of advocating any practice or doctrine for which we have no witr.ant, eipher in the authoritative stand ards, or eminent Doctors of our Church, we will Imo( amp!e confession of our error, or for our title as ENGLISH CHURCHMEN!!! RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE. On Wednesday a tram on the NeweaFtle and Carlisle Railway ran though a drove of cattle that had strayed upon the line, and killed three of them. The engine was thrown off, hut no personal damage was sustained. PROJECTED I? A ILW AY S.—A correspondent of the Morning H'red gives a list of no less than 99 railways at present projected, for the formation of which, accord log to the printed prospectuses, no less than seventy mil lions sterling will be required. EXCURSION-TRAINS.—The Board of Trade have issued a circular to railway companies, condemning the practice of txcursion-trains with several ergines as dangerous; and rccoul mending that the trains should be divided into se pions, to each of which no more than two engines should be attached. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-011 Wednesday last, while the Birmingle , m and Liverpool train was proceeding i . lfing the line t the litter place, it came incontac with thesixo'c';:ck passenger train from Alanches•er, when, owing to the dense fog, a severe shock was the result. Several pas sengers were bruised, and one woman seriously hurt. The truck belonging to the train was broken. STEAM reraue TIME.—A gentleman left London last Friday morning weA by the ten o'clock train for Fleet wood, where he joined the [loyal Consort steam-ship. Laving that place at half-past eight o'cock in the even ing, he arrived next morning at Ardrosan at half-past eight o'clock (twelve hours), where he tuft per special train, and was in Glasgow by ten o'clock a.m., thus accomplishing the distance of 400 miles in 21 hours. PRESTON AND LONORIDGE RAILWAY. —The half ' yearly general meetqlg of proprietors was held on Mor,dar last. The report stated that the receipts during the last half year had considerably increased, and the directors nd had thereby been enabled to pay arrears of . interest and debts owing by the company to different p arti es to n olf the con siderable amount. F a vourableaccount t s i cv; t r i e ,,r g i i d y g e e r and, taking the present demand o f stone a t qua rry belonging to the company t this ' season as a criterion, they expected, in the course of the rust year, to be enabled to discharge the wit le. or the greater part, of the fl ,sting debts and teu.porary loans, &c:, owing by the compAsy. . - PRESTON AND WYRE RAILWAY.—A half-yearly meet ing of this company wa, held at Fleetwood on Fti:lay The Dir. ctors reported a r onstdereble im t rovement in the traffic returns, without any material increase in the working expenses. Since 3lst At , gust to the 19th instant the returns of railway have averaged t:527 per week against £4lB tor thet.rev . ors half-year. \\lab, the last month the important object of a sit atri communication berm Glrs gow, rid Ar,:rosmin, and Fleetwo,d. has been opened; by the running or the new ships. tii e tines a wet k ; and it is expected that, a fair proportitm of the Scotch traffic will pass over the line. The 13!ackpool ilailway is to he pro ceeded with so as to be ready by May next. The Direc tors expressed a hope that circumstances might be such as to lead to an early commencement of the new docks. PROPOSED RAILWAYS TO HARROGATE, &C.—The pro moter-. of the railway front Harrowgate and Knaresbrongh to 11. , 1t0n Percy do not intend to renew theiriapplication to P..rintinent in the next session. the scheme bring aban doned. This will enable the influence of this district to he thrown entirely in ftvour of the int-nded Leeds and Thirsk line. The York and North Midiard Railway Company are surveyiog a line of railway from Milford or Sht-rburn, on that line, to near ilarrowgate, by way of Thorp Arch, Wetherby, and Spcfforth, in order to afford a more ready communication to the south and south-c , st titan will be givewbv the I.:eds. and Thirsk proposed rail war. The Great North of England Railway Company have given powers to the directuta to make application to Parlhtnent, in the next session, for a branch from tin it line by Pill-Mcor, Borobridge, Stsveley, and Knares brough, to tear Ilarrogate, with a branch from near 13nrohridge to Ripon, and for a branch from Carlton station to Riettmnd. T,e former branch may have traffic in coal, but little can be obtained in passengers or mer chandise. GENERAL MISCELLANY. The Glasgow cotton spinners have agreed to raise the wages of their workmen ten per cent. A butcher was killed on Monday in the New Cut, Len d,)„, by his knle slipping out of his mouth and sticking in his abdomen. A f,rry.boat was run down off Woolwich, by the Wa terman steamer, on Friday, when two men were unfortu nately drowned, and two others seriously injured. The Marquis of Londonderry hAs been defeated in an attempt to , n creaf e the police of the county of Durham. Ttie magistrates were against it. At the uresent period there are only three prisons in the metropolis for debtors, and the whole number does not exceed 300 persons. The river Ay lc, at Westport, rose last week above eighty feet beyond its usual level, and the current became so strong as to sweep away hay, turf, oats, and even cabins. At Hereford, 413 beads of families have signed a de claration to countenance those shops which close at early hours, and discountenance the others. Richard Leach, a sawyer. has kern committed for trial charged with attemptint; to dertroy the timber yard, &c. of Mr. Graham, a builler, a , lton, on the lithinstant. The theatre at Beccies, built, a few years since, at an expen.e of £2,000, is about to be converted into a cora exchanze. About 5,000 acres of Dartmoor have been purchased by a company, who have &ready fenced and drained part of it. and calculAe. on 1 , tring the whoie at lA. per acre. Hitherto the lAnd has been waste. -On Tuesday two Mfgn were killed, and another seriously injured by the fa!lin't of an inttnene rnass of rock and earth, upwards of 1000 tons weight, at a quarry near As ton-under-Lyne. On Thursday evening week, Mr. Richard Cobuss, of Cobb-street, Ash, in Kent, Was Want dead by a conc , mted assassin, supposed to hive hevn h s own son, George, a youth of nineteen, stho is in custody. Lord Eldon has s , nt a donation of re2oo to the corn mittee for providing bobs and wa-1,-lniuses for the work ing classes, and sever 4 of the London hankers have an nounced their intention of giving lirge donations, WINTER ASSIZES —lt im now definitiv ly fixed that a winter gaol delivery shall take place in many parts of the kinedoni, but it is believed ti a' the subs'diary arrange tnents will not be made till the beginning of term. THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE.—Just forty years ago, Mr. TrevetLick, a mining engineer, cont.tructed the first loco motive engine at hlrrliv r Tydvil, and applied it tuccess fully to the traction of cc& and coke.—ambrian. At the Central Criminal Court nn Wedne , day. the W. [toss Touchet was tri,d for tiring at the proprietor of a Shooting Gallery in Holborn, and acquitted on the plea of insanity. The Northern Stir newspaper hithertn published in Leeds, is about to be removed to London, to he issued there. ; but whether under the same title, which will then be a misnomer, or under acme new name, we have not heard. The greatest activity almost ever known now exikts is the coal trade, no less than 290 ships' cargo hasing been purchased at last Tuesday's coal market in Lora n. The average number of ships' cargoes sold rreviously bting only from thirty to fifty.—Netreastle Journal. Mr. Sergeant Bampas, d;eal stlden!v a short time since, left a widow and a large family in somewhat in cUfferent circumstances; but Ilia professional brethren es teerred him so highly that a subscript on was entered into for the ben: fit of his family, to a Lich Sir Thomas Wilde contributed the princely sum of 1.000 guineas. CIDER AND PERRY. -- TrieseNrinrs will be very cheap, this year, in Herefordshire, and on the banks •of the Severn, from Worces•er to Che t stow. The crops of apples and pears are much !Filler than la , t year : Is. to Is. 6d. per bushel is now the price for good apples at Hereford and Ledburv. Washing-tub exentsiont appear to be increasing in fa vour amongst the JPck-pudcitz fraternity. The Dumf. je t Courier states, that, on Friday week, the clown of Ccok's Circus took a voyage down the Kith in a vessel of the above description, drawn by four geese, in the presence of a large concourse of people. A lIORSE BUYER FROM THE "CELESTIAL EMPIRE!" —Las , week, at the Bowden horse fair, the greatest per haps in Eng'and, among.thtse present, strang , n may appear, there was a outer from the Emperor of Chinn, in the person of one of his subjects, aq,nded by an inter preter. LOVE AND SUICIDE.—On Tuesday night week, a young woman named Hester Tilly, the daughter of a fanner living at Ashley hill, Stapleton, destroyed herself by jumping into a pool of water in her father's orchard. The unhappy girl had been forbidden her father's house in consequence of her keening company with a young man, whom her parent did not approve. Mr. Clark, manager of the extensive works of Messrs. Monteith and Co., of Brurowfield, Glasgow, Ins n.a.e a discovery in the art of calico printing, which is likely to produce most important results in !hit trade, hlrnost in the same ratio as the invention of hot blast produced in the iron trade. Mr. Clark t:as secured a patent for the invention. EFFECTS OF GAMBLING.—A gentleman's scrvan•. in London, cut of a situation, uho had been out on Ai nn :t ay evening with some friends, and having entered two play at cards, had lost between £4 and .Z. 5, returned to his lodgings between one and two o'clock on Thursday morn ing much int,xicroed, and cut his throat. He was removed to the hospital without hopes of rec 'very. CALAMITOUS EXPLOSION.—On Saturday last a mest calamitous explosion of fire-damp took place In a coal. pit belonging to Mr. Darby, at the Five Ways, 'Hov e y Regis. The number of persons at work in the pit at the tini is nod rstood to have been seventek , n or eighteen, and of these no less than deven have fallen victims to this lamentable occurrence. THE LEIGH PEERAGE.—A man named John Leigh, claimant .o the estates of !In-! Lord Leigh at Stowleign, Warwickshire, and count thirty of his followers have been held to hail by the Magi?,ratts of Leaming!on for a riot an,l aisault, inhacing broken in the panels of a door, anti taken fureiLle poseision of Stoneleigh Abbey on Monday morning Monday bein.4 the thirty-ninth anniversary of the memorable battle of 'frata!gar, a number of naval uffi eats. who hail been in the engagement dir.ed together, at the Naval Club House, St. Ji:mes's-sqoare, London. in comrremoration of the day. At Greenwiih tiosrital the tar. reviled vinti an ex, enent dinner. ei pint of porter, ara a stitlllng to cull men. A VETERAN ConoNErt.—At an inquest at 'Yeovil. en S.iturday, Mr. R. P. C iiiits rerun, ked that in the course of his coronership he hid held no less than 3800 inquests. He had been a coroner nearly 28 years, and during the la-t seven years alone he had travelled 36,766 miles, giving an average of 5252 miles per year. He had paid in turnpikes during thss even years a sum very little short of .f;9O. INCONSOLABLE. - -It is stated, that the Quoen has ordered a pension of X3O to be granted to 11,e widow of Walker, the artilleryman. who was killed by the discharge of a cannon on the King's Bastion, at Portsmouth; and Louis Phillinpe has also expressed an intention of pro viding fer the woman. It is feared, however, that she may not survive to enjoy the pension ; she remained in sensible from the Monday until Saturday week. Tin?, BELGIUM TARIFF.—A very serious increase has been made by the Belgian government, in the duties upon silk an cotton manufactures, rind also upoumactiines im ported into that country. The afect will probably be, to drive the manufactures of Manchester out of the Belgian markets, and t' have theni replaced by the manufactures of Rouen and Mull ausen. The whole measure is one of the utmost hosti.ty to England. PASSING HALF-NOTES.-At the London Mansion- Lons.., on Friday, thrte cutlers appeared b4 , re Sir Peter Laurie and exposed an ingenious system by which they irtd been swiril , d out of portions of their property. Par ties from Southampton had, it appet-re 1, sent ilvm let ' ttrs, enclosing the halves of stolen Batik of England notes • end °reefing goods to the full amount of the enclosure, and, w:ten the goods were forwarded, the ren,aining halves never remitted. EXPORTATION OF METALS.—The offi !id returns of our txportations during the la , t two years exhibit a great ircreat.e in the last over thr present one. In the article Of metals. embracing iron and steel, copper, brass, and tin, we exported in the e.. 3 - ending sth September, -1843. to th, nn:onnt of £3.405,568. and in the same period em'et: sth Scpten , ter, 1814, £4,13G,984, showing an in creas, in the present year of upwards of set en hundred and thirty thousand pounds. COLLIERS' STRIKE.—A very general strike has taken place amoligg the coIIR IS at Oibury, for a raise of 6d. per day. (hi Monday last, at a very early hour, they congrf gAetl in erhwds of about 151) persons, and went to tl.e (htlerent pits tai prevent those willing to work fr to going down. In this way they succeeded in keeping most t l.e men at play. On Tuesday mornifsg their intentions were fi ustrated by the very active measures resorted to. —Wulei-rhanip!on Chronicle. NEW POOR-LAW CRUELTY.—Mr. Bowen, an old cor resondent of the Times, has established the revolting fact, that in ,ne of the new workhouses erected in this Chi is :ian count ry. (in the Br idgewuter Union,) females— one of them with an infant at 11. r breast—have been set to break stones as a Ltboer suited to their age and sex, and have been afterw; rds sentenced to three weeks' hard la bour in the House of Correction, in consequence of slitir n.fusal to submit to such clue: arid degtading bisk-csork. BEVISING - BARRISTERs.—The duties of the revising barristers for the revisicn of the lists of voters fur the present year tire draviing to a , elnse, The first revision, in the year 1833, cost upwards of £30,000 in payments to the harri,ters arid fur their expenses ; but under the Regritration of Voters' Act their charges were limited to 200 pintas each. It appears that the payment to the barristers, including their expenses, now an - .runts to the fixed yearly sum of X 14,700. More appeals are expected to the Court of Common Pleas in the present than occurred in the pi cceding retisiun. on earp t tine, ePrffenwore, glass, raper, and ready-made The New Brazilian T ar iff l ev i es d ut i es o f 40 per cent. clothing ; 25 rcr cent. en brass, copper, iron, lead, tin, steel and ltather ; 20 per cent. to handkerchiefs of linen, camoric, or cotton lace, thread, or silk; and 30 per cent. on all articles not enumerated, which of course include thediti o pro n a I laceditties of on the Brazil to a higher duty than simil a r pro d uce of other countries. nearly all kinds of cotton, woollen, linen, and silk manu factures.ctures, and it , s said that those good; are to b e taken at their es;imatrd value and 10 per cent. a ddi t i onal.. The goods o fs Government any n is a authorised tiou w hwh i ch SUICIDE. OF AN OLD SPORTSMAN.—On Monday night an inquest was held at Lewisham, Kent, upon the body of Charles Morton, aged 76, who was found dead, hanging from a rafter in a barn belonging to a gentleman named Russell, residing at Lee. It appears that the deceased was formerly huntsman to the Earl of Derby, and that subsequently he kept the Derby Arms Inn, Croydon, the Magpie.lnn, on Hounslow Death, and latterly was land lord cf the Leaping Bar, Blackfriars.road, where he was robbed by his housck, epee of a considerable sum of money, since which he had involved himself in a lawsuit, which ended in his ruin. Of late be had become very eccentric and strange in his manner. DREADFUL DESTITUTION.—Mr. I,Vakley on Friday held had d a i r e i d ii i iq n ue i‘ s i t ar o l n ie t b he onc b . ody of a His swi m do an w namedsuited, d, tha f tervu having pawned every article they possessed, she was com pelled, he being too ill to work, to triply for parochial relief, but it was refused her, and he died from actual want (it appeared) in a ftw days afterwards. The coroner declared he could a e the o woman herself was literally starving at that very moment. She said her children (four in number) were in a similar state. Some medicine had been given to her husband, but they were told that if they applied again for relief they would be " passed" to their pariah, which they did not desire, as their only chance of employment was where they were.