The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-20 00:00:00

THE LAT The C on Mon jury to..c ration f At half minute were re- The Fo in the itiqi st ten beg t 6 accom [The Forman the verdict to t Coroner N THE SUTTON TUN JURY e room s Accidental Dea rvations lz a f oubli observations accompany- verdict any oth Although the The CORONER read the jury have not felt justified than that of accidental death, they feel bound to stat( their unanimous opinion that great 1 ' executive committee of the Birken l Cheshire Junction Railway C a wa, , Lancash nd that tt here was duct of the c the line from the melancho the death of the part 3pany, along 1. to Manc on the day when 'irrence took place, winch resultea as to which the jury have been to the locomotive power of the enquiring. NY luta company, it appears that no increase whatever was made for the greatly increased traffic along the line from Chester to Manchester, during the Chester race week, and that there was no authorised superintendent of the traffic de partment along that line appointed, and no precautionary arrangements adopted for the safety of the public in reference to the Sutton tunnel, where the collision took place, on the day above mentioned. "" during the day there w patch and arrival or ter; and the ads le jury find that _ larity in the des mcbester to Ches. ,e railway company •eturn from Chester, ) p.m., and continue , was in the highest ,s the greatest irri setnent issued to the effect th, after the races, running, so soc acncing at 5 filled, to 9 p.r acid calculat, rl to lead to confusion degree objectio and danger. The railway cor...pany's locomotive superin tendent himself hasstated in the course of his evidence that he does not consider the stock of engines belonging to the company sufficient for their ordinary traffic ; and yet, as the jury have already noticed, no increase was made for the greatly increased traffic during the Chester races ; and to this deficiency of locomotive power is to be mainly attributed the lamentable catastrophe which has happened. The jury are decidedly of opinion that the management of the railway in question, at the present time, is imperfect tyot the public. n order to guard _ against the recurrence of a similar accident, there should be an authorised servant of the Company stationed at each end of the Sutton tunnel, so as to signal to the trains, and thereby prevent two trains from being in the tunnel on the same line, at one time. They cons►der also that the carriages of the railway company, having to pass through a tunnel of such a length as the Sutton tunnel, should be furnished with lights ; and they desire also to call attention to the shortness of the interval allowed for trains following each other on the same line, from the terminus and intermediate stations, which appears to them to be attended with risk, and that the interval should therefore be increased." The Coroner having thanked the Jury for their care and attention during the inquiry, the proceedings, which had occupied seven days, were brought to a closs a few minutes before eleven o'clock. and inefficient, In conclusion, the jury recomr HOUSE OF LORDS.- MONDAY (CONTINUATION FROM FIRST EDITION OF TUESDAY LAST.) After some further conversation relative to the state and prospects of Ireland, in which Lord Malmsbury, Lord Hard wick, and other noble lords, urged the necessity of a return to protective duties, and the Marquis of Clanricarde defended the system of free trade, the petition was ordered to be laid on the table.—Earl GRANVILLE moved that the Church Build ings Amendment Bill be referred to a select committee.—Lord PORTMAN stated his objections to many Of the ciattseii which - - i)i•OpOted tO inane a tare teuuetioti in tile ntifiluer of tree seats, and noticed other alterations to the disadvantage of the poorer classes.—The Bishop of LONDON explained the bill as Intended to give every facility to persons desirous of erecting new churches, and defended the proposed reduction in the number of free seats.—Lord STANLEY objected to the post fact) character of the bill, which made alterations, applying not only to new churches, but also to those already in exist ence. He thought one of the clauses was calculated to excite dissension in the Church, by allowing one to erect a new church in the immediate neighbourhood, and merely in oppo sition, to another.—After some observations from the Bishop of Oxford and the Earl of Carlisle, the motion was agreed to. —Their Lordships adjourned at 20 minutes to S o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY, (CONTINUATION FROM FIRST EDITION OF TUESDAY LAST.) Mr. ROEBUCK supported the amendment, referring to the Emancipation Bill of 1829 as a parallel case.—Ttie SPEAKER was decidedly of opinion that the present bill came under that class of measures which did not require to be considered in committee before their introduction.—Mr. M. GIBSON moved that the point should he referred to a select committee to search for precedents.—Mr. GRATTAN seconded the motion.—Mr. REYNOLDS moved the adjournment of the debate.—The Sou- CITOR-GENERAL contended that the standing order in ques tion referred to matters of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and not to anything treated of in the present bill.—Mr. GLADSTONE said if Mr. M. Gibson's motion for the appointment of a select committee were allowed to be put to the vote, he should cer tainly vote for it, as it was evident that the precedents which bad been adduced were most unsatisfactory.—LordJ. RUSSELL saw no reason for referring the point to a select committee, as the house was already in possession of every necessary infor mation.—Mr. BRIGHT thought if any doubt existed upon this point, it was only fair to give the Roman Catholics the benefit of that doubt.—The house divided: for adjourning the debate, 53; against it, 179; majority against, 126.—Mr. LAWLESS moved the adjournment of the house, which was rejected by 145 to 36.—Mr. O'CONNEL and Mr. URQUHART opposed the bill.—Mr. KEOGH adduced eminent legal authority in proof that the first clause of the bill would include the second and third, and would interfere with the spiritual rights of the Catholics. He called upon Lord John Russell to give a plain answer to the question, whether he intended to put the provi sions of the act in force in Ireland or not, and warned him of the disastrous consequences which would inevitably ensue if he should attempt to do so.—Lord JOHN RUSSELL said be did not know what would be the consequence of passing the bill, but he should not wish to exchangethe liberty which would then be possessed by British subjects for that which was en joyed by the citizens of Rome. (Cheers.) He must still main tain that the present was a political measure, directed against a political encroachment, and lie would not suffer that the -name of religious liberty should be prostituted for the purpose of covering foreign aggression. A c he ers.)—Mr. " —RIGHT said that no one seemed to know what harm had been done by, or was to be apprehended from, the so-called aggres sion, or in what manner the evil might be remedied. He denied that the creation of a Catholic bishop would be an encroachment on the prerogative of the Queen ; and considered it to be per fectly ludicrous to talk of the independence of the kingdom being imperilled by the act of the Pope. Thepresent bill was an insult to the Catholics of this country, and he was fully satisfied, and earnestly recommended that it should be withdrawn.—Mr. SCULLY moved the adjournment of the debate.—Upon a di vision, the numbers were, for an adjournment 54, against it 265.—The motion being persisted in, Lord J. Russell withdrew his opposition, and the debate was adjourned until Thursday next. —The Property Tax Bill was read a third time.—The other orders of the day were disposed of, and the House ad journed at 2 o'clock. VARIETIES. QUAKERISM AND POPERY.—There is a great similarity between Quakerism and Popery. Both are the religion of the priests, and the people are compelled to an out ward conformity. The domineering influence of the Friends who take part in the discipline, over the body, is exactly a counterpart of that which the priests exercise over their flocks. The one requires obedience, because they are inspired, they tell us ; the others call themselves the Church, and demand it. The spirit is the same in both !—Quakerism, by a Lady forty years a " Friend." EFFECTS OF INDUSTRY.—AII the performances of hu tnaa art at which we look with praise or wonder, are in stances of the resistless force of perseverance. It is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man were to com pare the single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression with the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are le velled and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. VIL,rTNS LAY AND VILLEINS ECCLESIASTIC.."-Sir Thomas Smith, who was secretary to Edward VI., speak ing of the few pure villeins, or serfs, remaining in England In his time, says that such as were remaining were those who had belonged to the ecclesiastical corporations in the preceding times of Popery ; " for," he says, " the holy fathers, monks, and friars, had in their confessions, especi ally in their extreme and deadly sickness, convinced the laity how dangerous a practice it was, for one Christian man to hold another in bondage, so that temporal men by little and little, by reason of that terror in their consciences. were glad to manumit all their villeins. But the said holy fathers" (he duly adds) " with the abbots and priors, did netlike in sort by theirs; for they also hada scruple in con science to impoverish and dispoil the church so much as to manumit such as were bond to their churches, or to the manors which the churches had gotten ; and so kept their villeins still !'—Vide Blackstone's Commentaries. EMACIATION.—The emaciation of phthisis is so promi nent a part of the disorder that it is quite natural it should attract the principal attention of patients and of their friends, and that anything which gives it relief should be looked upon by medical men as a valuable instrument in their hands. And probably with much justice ; for though it is impossible to prove directly that life has been prolonged in phthisical cases where an arrest of wasting is produced, yet the universal alleviation of other symptoms which accompanies this arrest gives a rational hope that such is the result. Any means that can be employed to replace on the body the fat which it has lost certainly supplies it with a power of resistance to the deleterious influences which are destroying life, and prevents these influences from acting on matters mor e important than that fat. Physiol og y concurs with exp erienceinplac in g in in the fi rst rank of me ans f or restoring fat, anim a l oils, a nd especially those deri ve d f rom the livers of fish. We have here a substance which, as we saw before, nature finds the readiest material for the form a ti on of their pro per secretion in the odipose vesicles ; a n d we have it mixed with a small quantity of bile, which preserves it from being made rancid to the stomach, and probably makes it more easy to be taken off by the lacteals. The liver of the cod, being large and abundant, is no doubt the one most used for the purpose of making this oil, and has, therefore, given its name to the article ; but that of many other animals of the same &ass would be equally eff ics _ cious. Among the inhabitants of the sea, the dogfish, otherwise destructive and useless, is employed. Being a few weeks back at Filey, in Yorkshire, I found that the herring-fishers not only destroy this wolf of their scaly flocks, but keep his liver to make " cod-liver oil." And of fresh-water fish, the salmon. An old Scotch lady tells me that in her youth the Highland women used always to request that the oil which comes to the surface when the fish is boiled should be preserved for them, as a cure for chronic rheumatism and consumption, the two classes of cases in which the cod-liver oil of the present day is roost largely employed,—Dr, Chamberr on Corpulence. .CCIDENT VERDICT THE GREAT EXHIBITION. The receipts at ti 4 ay th: sum on T Crystal Palace amounted to a higher had then been received. So great 10 was taken in mo son tickets also rose so omission had during the Royal guests at the nesday morning as d for more 'har the objects on a British division, espe and mineral manulae- Court. of visitors t day an accession of at least The Queen, Prince Albert, e-park on I; They remaj v engaged in leather," " p s, and the Fin, Again during Wednesday a large accession was made to the funds of the Commission, amounting altogether to upwards of £2,500. On Friday the building remained open till 7 o'clock, and that arrangement will be conti nued, and probably extended if such be found desirable. On Thursday the receipts from visitors rose higher than ever. The ss. contributions amounted to £2,430, and . . swelled the total sum taken to £3,3G0. Even the Execu tive Committee are astonished with their own success, and it now seems difficult to say at what point their financial fortunes may stop. Professor Cowper gave his first lec ture to the students of King's College yesterday within the building. He explained to them the construction of \Vilkin's lighthouse, and then took them into the depart ment of machinery in motion, the principles of a variety of objects in which he illustrated by diagrams. The first experiment in turning the Exhibition to educational uses has been very successful, and the Executive Committee are determined to persevere in their efforts in that direction. They have received applications from the National Schools, and from other bodies, for facilities with a view to a prac tical course of instruction, but as yet have not decided what course they should pursue with regard to them. On Friday morning before the doors were opened to the public her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by their royal guests, again visited the Exhibition, several sections of which they examined minutely during their stay. The receipts from ss. admittances amounted during the day to £2,554, and from the sale of season tickets to £676 ; so that the total sum taken was £3,230. These increasing indications of popularity and success must fill the managers of the undertaking with much anxious con cern for the suitable accommodation of visitors when the present entrance fee falls, as it will do on the 26th, to is. The building it is calculated will hold 60,000 people—a large number certainly, but hardly sufficient if the hum bler classes show a curiosity about the contents of the Ex hibition at all proportionate to that displayed by their superiors. Not only are the masses of the metropolitan population waiting for low prices, but the summer excur sion trains will bring the artisans and mechanics of the north in upon London like an inundation, and, consider able as the importations have been from abroad, they form, we have every reason to believe, but a small van guard of the vast army of visitors that may shortly be ex pected. The question therefore arises how these immense bodies of spectators from town and country and from foreign parts are to be received should they present them selves in greater numbers than the Crystal Palace can hold. As the t difice cannot be expanded upon an emer gency of the kind, it seems inevitable that some limit should be fixed to the admissions. Suppose that that is fixed at 60,000, then other difficulties present themselves. There is a risk, for instance, that on such occasions as Whitsuntide the ingenious denizens of Cockaigne may flock to Hyde-park in such numbers as to exclude, in a great measure, country visitors who have come a long way from home, sacrificed time, paid railway fare, and encoun tered the formidable expenses of life in London for how ever short a period, in order to gratify their laudable de sire to see the Exhibition. Now, there is an evident hardship in this ; and when they take the subject into their consideration we trust that the commissioners will fully protect the interests of provincials and foreigners in this matter. The metropolitan population will have ample opportunities for seeing the wonders of the World's Fair v ri:L ou i; great sacrifice either of time or of money. They will, therefore, we are sure submit without repining to such arrangements as the necessities and justice of a case like that which we have imagined will impose. As to the nature of those arrangements no difficulty ought to be experienced in rendering them satisfactory. The coOpe ration of the railway companies will be required, and will, we have no doubt, be readily granted. They have it in their power to regulate, to a certain extent at least, the influx of visitors, and by this means, and by an issue of cards to passengers as. evidence that they have come up to town to see the Exhibition, the claims of our provincial population and of people from abroad might be amply provided for. No time should now be lost in the con sideration of this very important subject, for the 26th is close at hand, and it will never do to trust to chance in such a matter. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal party at the palace, visited the Exhibition on Saturday morning before the public were admitted, and were chiefly occupied in inspecting the departments of Spanish, Italian, and French contributors. After their departure the area of the build ing was thronged throughout the day, and no less a sum than £2,472 was taken in ss. at the doors. The sale of season tickets at length begins to show symptoms of a declining market, and the amount received thence on Saturday was only £557. The total receipts of the commission were, however, £3,029. Upwards of £25,000 has now been received at the doors of the Crystal Palace for admission, and we imagine that nearly twice that sum has been received for season tickets. Ar;ong the curiosities at the Great Exhibition, one of the strangest articles is a coat of Irish frieze, from the establishment of Messrs. Kearse and Co., Limerick, which may be altered into nine different and distinct shapes ! On Tuesday, it was discovered that a robbery had been committed under mysterious circumstances, in the Ame rican department of the Exhibition. The article, a rifle pistol, was all right on the day of the opening, but on Tuesday it was found to be missing. It is thus described— " A slight magogany case, containing a detached breecher rifle pistol, with stock to form a gun, with a trap at butts composed of German silver, and an ornament of the same metal on the opposite side; maker's name, D. W. Wisson, Hertford, Connecticut." On Friday a second robbery in the Exhibition building was reported. The article now stolen is a lady's dagger, of a very unique description. It is only six inches long, in the form of a cross, having steel blade, ivory handle, and silver cross ornamenting it, and enclosed in a purple case. The property was seen safe shortly before 10, and at a quarter past it was found missing. The loss was immediately made known at all the entrances, and extra constables stationed, in order to catch the guilty party ; they, however, got clear awa:-. DOM MIGUEL DE BRAGANZA.—On Friday, this Prince paid a visit to the Great Exhibition in Hyde-park. A remarkable incident occurred during the royal visit. A Portuguese nobleman had requested to be presented to the Prince ; and while he was offering his respectful homage, it was observed that a gentleman remained at a few paces from the illustrious visitor, apparently much engrossed with the scene. That individual was no other than Costa Cabral, Conde Thomar, who had only just arrived in London, a fugitive from popular indignation ! TIIE GREAT EXHIBITION AND TEL BIBLE.:—A writer in the Times, congratulating the country on the astonish ing magazine of human genius and skill shewn in the Bible deposited at the Great Exhibition, in no less than 130 different languages, justly complains of its treatment by the acting managers of the Exhibition. " When the agents of the Bible Society first applied for permission to exhibit their extraordinary work, they were met with a flat refusal. Subsequently, when it was found impossible altogether to reject so just a claim, a place was alloted for the work ; but the place was a bad one, and the space was not one-third part as large as was required. But, even this place was subsequently usurped for the purpose of occupying it with a staircase. Room was, however, af terwards given to the Bible ; but, by way of compensa tion, I suppose, it was thrust into a by-passage, w h ere one can hardly discover it. It is at the back of the room which contains the Prince of Wales's cradle. Finally, in order that there should be no mistake about the spirit in which the Bible was treated, the number in the crtalogu o which ought to have contained an account of this won derful national work (for it is a national work) was printed blank. I cannot help contrasting the very different treatment which Mr. Pugin and other exhibitors who profess the Roman Catholic faith have received. They have had their specimens of medimval art set off to the best advantage. I don't complain of this. I don't be grudge to any exhibitor, whatever his creed may be, the most advantageous room for his works. I ask for no fa vour. I ask only for justice and impartiality. I say it is a national disgrace—l had almost said a national sin—that the Bible should be so treated." WHERE IS SUNDERLAND ?—The editor of the Sunder land Herald was last week at the Exhibition. He sought everywhere for the collection of articles sent from that port, but they could not be found. How many miles of counter we surveyed (he says), how many courts we en tered and ransacked, how many inscriptions on flag and showboard we toilsomely deciphered, we will not stop to say,—but all in vain. There was no such place as Sun derland in the United Kingdom ! The third shipping port of the kingdom was suddenly blotted out of the map ! " Canny" Sunderland had ceased to be. It was very dis tressing. We applied to a policeman—to many police men—to sappers and miners. " They heard it—but they heeded not ; " or, if they directed us, it was to where we had gone al ready, and found nothing. At last, one blue coated superintendent, more knowing than his fellows, bade us look in the " United States." " But Sunderland is not in the United States," we ventured to suggest. " No, but you'll find it there, all the same," was the only reply vouchsafed us. So we went a weary journey all the way to the United States, and there. sure enough, some where between Michigan and Massachusetts, we found canny Sunderland—her models and her clock-work, her glass and her coal, figuring innocently amid murderous bowie-knives and many-barrelled revolvers—one of the most heart-rending cases of wholesale emigration of a flourishing port, with all its industry, to the New World, that every roused the wrath of a Richmond, or awakened . . g:1t1;orp. Oh ! Sunderland—oh ! our native tow , —that ever we should find thee in the United States ! And now, perhaps, somebody can tell us whose fault it is ? POPERY AT THE EXHIBITION. — Mr. Rochfort Clarke in a letter to the editor of the Record, complains of the indecent and superstitious imagery at the Great Exhibi tion, and Fays—" How long will the Church of God tamely submit to this thraldom ? The Church of Rome has tried to make a compromise with the world. It melted down 1 the head of Jupiter Capitolinus, and brought out another head and called it Peter; it melted down the hand that held the thunderbolt, and brought out another hand that held a key, and gave it to its Peter. It has cast a cloak over the naked Venus, and calls the image, in its new dress, Mary. For every god that Rowe pagan would furnish, Rome papal can supply a saint. What has been the result of this compromise ? The porpetuation of heathenism. If you would see Venus in perfection, go 1 to apostate Rome, that corruption of the universal Church, where the Priegts have such crooked idea: of chu 9 t it Y , that THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. they esteem fornication a less offence than marriage. Painting and sculpture may have their legitimate objects ; but indecency, blasphemy, and idolatry, are not to be endured, however exquisitely delineated in alabaster, or pourtrayed on canvass." Another correspondent, writing on the same topic, observes :—" On the right hand and on the left you meet with altars dressed up in all the gorgeous finery of that corrupt church, cardinals and archbishops of the apostate faith decked out in ' all their trumpery,' and arrayed in more than Great Lama magnificence. Madonnas of wax or stucco, dressed out in lace, copes of all sizes,Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, * * * reliques, beads. But, above all this, the image of that Holy One, ' for our sakes nailed t) the cursed tree,' exposed in all directions, and amid the most incongruous accompaniments, to the idle gaze ! Can we, as Protestants, without protesting, suffer these things ? Are we any longer, as a nation, to be permitted to hold up the word of light to a world for the greatest part hid in superstition or error ? If not— why, to be consistent, not let the other nations spread their superstitions before us? Let China, let far India, bring their idols, or their cars, triumphant in their shame; let Thibet display her more than rival claims to the me diaeval charms; let Africa bring her monsters, and the fair isles of the Pacific her feather-crowned gods, cast away. through the blessing of the Most High, on the scriptural efforts of Protestant missionaries—let these have their share of notice, or let Protestant England prove that she deserves that name." CONTROVERSY WITH BISHOP BROWN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD. SlR,—Bishop Brown, in his letter to you, dated May 12, says, " I never entertained the most remote idea of not carrying out fully the controversy with the Rev. Joseph Baylee, according to the conditions to which I had subscribed." well played on both sides, and if Hardman saves the Earl of Loftus (Wilmot's father) and the Duke of Middlesex from the consequences of being implicated in a Jacobite plot, Wilmot has been no less magnanimous, for he has purchased from Sir Robert Walpole a government office for Hardman, at the price of a hlurillo. Advantages be ing so great on either side, love alone can settle where the balance is to be placed, and Hardman, discovering that Wilmot is really the man after Lucy's heart, resigns his pretensions. This is the main story, in which Mr. Shadowly Softhead, a Cockney worshipper of fashion, who takes Wilmot for his model, and Mr. Easy, a res pectable city gentleman, who is, nevertheless, so proud of getting drunk with a lord, that his pride takes him to the watch-house, appear as secondary personages. In the delineation of his characters the author Las kept in view the title of his work, Not so Bad as we Seem, and it is the peculiar faculty of Hardman to discover the many sides of a man's nature. Thus, in accordance with the good-humoured moral of the play, the proud Duke's superciliousness is compensated by his high sense of ho nour ; Wilmot's rakish aberrations are excused by his excellent heart and head ; and David Fallen, though ap parently an abject hireling, is found to possess a strong sense of virtue—and so on, as far as one may be pleased to pursue the work of analysis. The amateurs performed admirably. Crum! Alfsreilanp, The weaving trade at Paisley is in a very gloomy state. The Royal Agricultural Society will meet at Lewes in 1852. The population of Bristol is 65,712, being an increase of 2,956 in the year. Wheat is about 18, flour 30 a t, and bread 491 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. Miss Salon, and the Sisters of Mercy, have left Ply mouth, and taken a house in Lower Green, Bristol. The Rev. J. H. Woodward, late incumbent of St. James's, Bristol, was received into the Church of Rome, at Lulworth, Dorset, on Sunday week. The foundation-stone of a new Dominican convent has lately been laid at Woodchester, by William Leigh, Esq., of Woodchester Park, near Stroud. A vessel arrived from Bombay has brought to London the unusually large quantity of 4,592 bales, and 103 half bales, of East India cotton. At the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, Frederick Judd, aged 18, was found guilty of the manslaughter of his father, and was sentenced to transportation for life. Mr. C. Foulkes, of Leicester, fell down dead in one of the streets of London, on Tuesday. He was a young man, and left a widow and one child. The bullion in the Bank of England has at last made a move in the right direction. The return for the week, ending the 10th instant, shows an increase of £lB,OOO. On Monday week, a cat belonging to a shopkeeper at Dodworth, Yorkshire, gave birth to a kitten having eight legs and two mouths. An Irishman named M'Grath was committed to prison for two months, at Bradford, on Monday week, for having bitten off the tip of the nose of a man named Brearley. A reward of £250 has been offered for the discovery of the persons who committed the late gold-dust robbery on the South-Western Railway. The Treasury have authorised the importation of to bacco direct from Egypt, in packages of 100 lbs. each, for the future. _ Messrs. Fry and Sons have brought an action against the editors of the Lancet, for asserting that their chicory, sold as genuine, contained roasted corn. The Elephant Inn, Kendal, was robbed on Monday of £lOO in cash and notes. Suspicion has fallen on a neigh bour, who has since absconded. Newark was all agog the other day, a lady's bustle hav ing been picked up in the streets, containing a handker chief, a pair of gloves, a cordial flask, and a night-cap ! The Earl of Eldon, at his recent rent-day for his ex tensive estates in the County of Durham, made, unsolici ted, the handsome return of 15 per cent. The Wakefield Journal says that the Rev. T. D. Par kinson, incumbent of St. Mary's, in that town, has resigned his office in consequence of " doubts." Lord Ashley presided at the meeting of the Jews Society last week. It was stated that Miss Cook, of Cheltenham, had contributed in all to the society £59,177. The Stamp-office authorities have intimated to the newspaper proprietors that if, in future, they mention the names of hotels with their list of arrivals, such paragraphs will be charged with advertisement duty. Owen Thomas, mate, was drowned at Bangor, last week, in saving a boy, which he succeeded in doing, but he himself sunk, it is supposed from cramp. A boat put off to their assistance. THE SHEFFIELD MURDER.—A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against William Battersby and Eliza Wilkinson, for the murder of John Wilkinson, husband of the latter. At the Central Criminal Court, Samuel Hill, one of the keepers of a lunatic asylum, recently convicted of causing the death of one of the patients by violence, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. On Thursday a man committed suicide by leaping from Blackfriars Bridge, London. A fireman heroically sprang into the water after the unfortunate victim, but his efforts to save him proved ineffectual. At the late sale of the furniture and the fittings of the Earl of Pembroke's mansion in London, a set of three Sevres vases fetched £698 55., and a set of five Sevres vases and covers fetched £1465. The total extent of coal area of the British islands amounts to 12,000 square miles, being about 1-10th of the entire area of the country ; their annual production beine 32,000,000 tons. Count de Thomar, the ex-Prime Minister of Portugal, arrived at Southampton on Thursday; by the Iberia steamer, from Vigo. He confined himself to his cabin during the whole voyage. An extraordinary scene was witnessed at Bradford, about twelve miles from Bristol, on Saturday last, when the village was visited by a heavy shower of snails. They might have been gathered up by bushels. A fine trout, taken in the Don, and weighing 511b5., when cleaned was found to contain in its stomach two young kittens—rather a strange kind of grub for the finny race. Nearly £20,000 worth of land has just been secured for the Birmingham Freehold Land Society. This will make nearly 800 freeholds in addition to the 945 previously made by this Society, or a total of more than 1,700. A pair of sparrows have built their nest, which now contains two eggs, in a gigantic cabbage plant, measuring sft. 6in. in height, that is now growing in a garden at Waltham, near Grimsby. At Marlborough police-office, on Monday, Frank Sim son, describing as a " Prussian officer," was fined for pa rading the streets in a female dress, with a female dressed up as a man, thus collecting a crowd of about five hun dred persons. On Wednesday week, a piece of coal fell from a corve at the top of the shaft of a coalpit in Garsdale, near Sed bergh, and struck a boy named Winn, who was standing at the bottom of the shaft, so severely on the head, that he died the same night. FOREIGN FRESH MEAT.—The steamer Cesarea, from Hamburgh, has brought several casks of fresh-killed butchers' meat as a portion of her cargo, consigned to order. This description of foreign provision is on impor tation free of duty. While a lad named Sharp was furling the topgallant sail of the brig 2Eolus, off Flamborough Head, on the Ist instant, his leg was struck by lightning, and was so se verely injured that it was necessary to land him at Brid lington Quay, in order that he might obtain medical assistance. Mazzini is said to have forwarded a long commu nication to the Central Committee of Resistance, in London, giving an account of the progress of democratic principles throughout continental Europe, which he deems highly satisfactory to the revolutionary cause.—[He has, however, denied that the address proceeds from him.] There is said to have been a contest between Moses and Nicholl for the 900 guinea advertisement on the last page of the exhibition catalogue. It is to be presumed neither of the combatants were disposed to concede the additional 100, as the place of honour is occupied by a watchmaker. Great excitement has been created in the town of Uttoxeter in consequence of the absconding of a master shoemaker, named John Weston, taking with him a sum of £250 belonging to the Widow and Orphans' Fund of the Odd Fellows. The offender was secretary to that branch of the Order. Four wheat stacks and a bean stack were destroyed by fire on Friday week, in the farm-yard of Mr. Skelton, near Worksop. The loss is estimated at £650, and Mr. Skelton is insured for £5OO. The fire was occasioned by an incendiary, as all the stacks had been fired from the bottom, and burst out in flames simultaneously. On Sunday week, at Inverness, a sparrow-hawk darted through the closed window of a house, at a canary bird, in a cage, but missed his first swoop. After hovering for a moment or two in the room, the hawk made a second swoop and struck the cage with such violence as to be thrown on his back, and was then easily captured by some children who were in the apartment at the time. A new two-act comedy, called "Kensington Gardens," written by Mr. R. B. Brough, was successfully produced at the Strand Theatre last week. The Times says " the dialogue is rendered with a great deal of English smart ness by Mr. Robert Brough." Miss E. Romer, sister to Miss Anne Romer, made her dibilt on the stage in the piece. _ At Guildhall, London, on Tuesday, two men were brought before Alderman Wilson, charged with painting in whitewash on Blackfriar's Bridge " Free Trade and Starvation." The men said they were paid ls. 6d. to 2s. a night for their work by a gentleman. The Alderman gave them the alternative of cleaning the bridge or going to prison. They chose the former. The body of a hawker, named Charles White, has been found in the river Tees, below Barnard Castle, under cir cumstances which have created strong suspicion that he came to his death by violence. The hands were tied to gether, and there were wounds on the face and forehead, which bled on the body being taken out of the water, and which were inflicted before the unfortunate man was drowned. The extent of the coal area in Northumberland and Durham is, in round numbers, 500,000,acres, and, conse quently, its total contents amount to not less than 10 ,000,000,000 tons of coal, of which 1,500,000,000 only have been worked. The present annual consumption is estimated at 10,000,000, including the waste; and it con sequently follows that, at this rate, it would take above eight centuries ro exhaust this single field ! PRINCESS'S THEATRE,—A farce, written by Mr. Wm. Brougb, was produced here on Wednesday night with complete success. The plot refers to the anticipated over-crowdi ng o f longing-houses during the World's Fair. " Th e p i ece ," sa y s the Times, " met with the greatest success which the author of an extra va g anza could desire. A continsed shout of laughter followed its marked 14 termination." progress from beginning t 9 end , and anar Of mime NEW TOWN HALL AT LEEDS.—A few days ago this subject was again under discussion by the town council of Leeds. A report of the committee was presented, and the council expressed a favourable opinion of the site recommended—namely, the ground offered by Dr. Hob son, in Park-lane. The matter was eventually referred back to the committee, with instructions to obtain plans, and an estimate of the cost of the proposed building. A copy of the first edition of Cocker's Arithmetic. " printed for Thos. Passenger, on London Bridge, 1678," was sold by auction at the rooms of Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, London, on Saturday week, for £8 10s. There is no copy in the British Museum, and the catalogue de scribed this as one of only two extant copies. Dr. Dibden has never seen any edition printed in the seventeenth century ; be mentions the thirty-second as the earliest he had met with. A man at Bristol is in custody on a charge of ill-using his daughter. Her step-mother is also implicated. She was kept confined in a small room for months, and had only pieces of dry bread given to her twice a day. The room was never cleaned except by herself, and the accu mulations of filth were thrown under the fire-grate. She was beaten on several occasions by both the prisoners, and she exhibited a shocking spectacle of emaciation, — her body being worn away to a skeleton, and being dis. coloured and ulcerated. FRENCH WHEAT AND FLOUR versus BRITISH LINEN YARN.—Just in the same proportion that we increase our imports of corn from France, so do we export less of linen yarn : IMPORT OF WHEAT AND FLOUR. Wheat. Flour. 1841 147,966 qrq 161,011 cwt 1850 595,355 qrs ..1,925,175 cwt , LINEN YARN EXPORTED 1841 20,882,875 lbs. l 1850 690,502 lbs. SINGULAR FAMILY.—In taking the census at Otley, one of the enumerators had to record perhaps one of the most singular families in the kingdom, comprised of six individuals—father, mother, and four children. Five of this number are deaf and dumb, and have been so from their birth—namely, the mother, three sons, and a daughter. In other respects few persons could be found to surpass them ; they are particularly lively, active, in dustrious, and most interesting to those who know them. —Wakefield Journal. DISCOVERY OF A GAMEKEEPER'S CORPSE IN A WOOD. —The body of a gamekeeper named Howe, who had been abQent from his home, at Finhaven, since the previous "Wednesday, was discovered in a wood near Forfar, on Sunday last. In their faithful attachment to their master his two dogs were found lying by his side, one of them having died by protracted abstinence. The result of medi cal inspection shows that poison had been the agent em ployed in occasioning How's death; but whether it had been administered by himself or not is unknown.—Dundee Advertiser. There appears now to be some probability of discover ing the Californian gold dust stolen from the South- Western Railway. Mr. Inspector Field has ascertained that two men left Southampton by the mail train on the night of the robbery with two weighty bags in their pos session ; and it is stated that there is good reason to be lieve they had the two boxes of gold dust in their posses. sion. On reaching the Waterloo station they got a cab, and drove to the terminus of the Eastern Counties Rail way at Shoreditch, where they alighted and went into a coffee-house ; after remaining a short time, they hired another cab and proceeded to the Minories. A DOG WITH AN UNFORTUNATE NAME.—A. few days ago, two or three young ladies of the highest respecta bility were taking their evening walk, when they saw approaching a countryman with a dog. The dog, in its playful mood, seized the dress of one of the your g ladies, the countryman bawling out as loudly as possible " Stop per, Stop-per !" At length the dog quitted his hold, and they were released from their apparent danger. On arriving at home they related their unfortunate adventure, and the countryman was sent for, when it was ascertained that he had named the dog " Stopper," and that when the young ladies deemed that he was bidding the dog to " stop her," he was making the best use of his lungs to call " Stopper" away.—Hereford Times. PROTECTION OF FEMALES.—The report of the pro ceedings of the fourth quarterly conference of the Nor thern Counties Societies for the protection of females and for the prevention of prostitution has just been published, and gives a highly satisfactory account of the exertions made by the several societies in carrying out the impor tant objects for which they were constituted. A commit. tee has been appointed to co-operate with the London Society for improving the dwellings of the labouring classes, and Lord Ashley has furnished several valuable papers on the subject, which have been of great service in prosecuting the necessary inquiries in this district. The next conference will be held on the third of June. A deficiency appearing in the finances of the society, an appeal is being made to the public for pecu niary aid, and from the good already effected by the so ciety, it may be anticipated that the appeal will be cordially responded to. SOYER'S BANQUET TO THE LITERATI OF ALL NATIONS. —On Thursday evening, the " Baronial Hall" of M. Soyer's Symposium, was the scene of a festive reunion of the " literati of all nations," on which interesting occa sion the metropolitan, provincial, and continental press was represented. Amongst the general company, which numbered upwards of 300 gentlemen, were several emi nent artists, whilst the portraits of the several celebrities in art and literature, local as well as foreign, occupied prominent positions in the decorations of the hall. Of the banquet in its various phases, it were needless to say more than that it fully sustained the reputation of M. Soyer, and afforded him the opportunity of adding to that reputation by the accomplishment of a feat hitherto deemed impracticable, even by those most skilled in the gastronomic art, namely, the roasting of a huge baron of beef in the open air, by gas. M. Soyer, as the presiding deity, occupied the chair on the occasion. AN INJURY NOT AN TNJURY.—The Morning He rald says :—" The only event of note in our advices from Madrid of the 7th instant is that Queen Isabella had had the misfortune to break her leg the previous evening, in descending from her carriage at Aranjuez. We are happy to say the injury was not of a very serious nature." Our contemporary sets down a broken leg as a trifle. He must be related to Horace Walpole's sullen friend, who never laughed but once, and that was when his best friend fractured his thigh. The associates of Tybalt saw that gentleman run through with a rapier, and " were happy to assure him that the injury was not of a very serious nature." It was certainly, as the sufferer remarked, " neither as deep as a well, nor as wide as a church door," but, as ho significantly added, "it will do." The Queen Dowager of Spain may say the same when she is told that a broken leg is a trifle. The matter, we suppose, would not come into the Heraldic category of " very serious" unless her Majesty had broken her neck. At all events, it is difficult to gather from the daily journals what is and what is not serious. The Morning Post of Friday speaks of a " serious accident" to the Marquis of Anglesey, by which his lordship " was not seriously injured." RIOT AT HOLYHEAD.-011T correspondent writes : The past week has been one of great excitement at Holy head, and a serious riot has taken place at the harbour works. For some time past the Welshmen engaged at the works have harboured very hostile feelings towards their fellow labourers, the Irish, on account of the prejudices they entertain towards the country of the latter. On Saturday evening last an Irishman stabbed a Welshman in a drunken brawl with a knife. The latter narrowly escaped with his life, having received a dangerous wound in the neck. On the circumstance becoming generally known on Monday morning, a party of Welsh, engaged on the mountain, made a furious attack on a number of the Irish, and with much cheering forced fifteen of the poor men on board the Irish Express packet, leaving their wives and children behind. On Tuesday the excitement became still greater, business was suspended, and the shops were closed. All public-houses were ordered to be shut up, and no liquor to be sold. A great number of workmen perambulated the streets all night. On Thursday, after much persuasion, the men resumed work, and it is hoped that the affray has ended. The late disturbances on the Bangor and Carnarvon Railway, which originated in the same feeling of prejudice against the Irish, have termi nated, and the line is rapidly progressing. THE EAGLE AND THE GRAVE-DIGGER.—On Monday, as the sexton of St, Nicholas's Church, Nottingham, was preparing agrave,he perceived a majesticeagle soaring in the air, being evidently about to alight in the churchyard. The bird-king took a gallant swoop, and then settled on a mound of green turf near the wonder-struck sexton, who, in a fit of desperate courage, resolved, if possible, to effect a capture of the noble bird. The feathered giant peered keenly at his civilized opponent, and drooped his wings like a game-cock preparing for " the tug of war." They advanced towards each other, closed, struggled, and the contest had commenced. Textile manufacture soon gave way before the rapid attacks made upon it by the eagle's hard beak and sharp talons, but the representative of the man tribe was determined to show that he was one of the " lords of creation," and resolved to conquer or perish in the attempt. His coat sleeve was reduced to a thing of shreds, but still the battle was vigorously maintained, now the bird and anon the man appearing to have the advan tage. At length however, by a coup de main, the sexton floored the monarch of the feathered tribe, and having rendered him powerless by pinioning his wings, he bore him away in triumph. This circumstance might astound the ornithological world, were it not stated that the eagle, though it certainly alarmed the sexton, was afterwards as certained to be " the living sign" of Mr. Raynor's, the Spread Eagle, Long-row, Nottingham. It had slipped its chain that afternoon, and escaped.—Notts Guardian. A CAPTAIN OF THE GUARDS COMMITTED TO PRISON 1 —At Marlborough-street Police-court, yesterday week, Capt. Henry Paulet Somerset, Coldstream Guards, was other constables to prebent all carriages from going into t b h r a o u d g i h a a t h u a p r g o e n a the i c a h d a u r g v e . ofGorbiffistnrupc t 69, wasa p ol placedce ma within t i h n the road leading to the Exhibition, and to send them by Rotten-row. The Captain, driving in a phaeton and pair, paid no heed to the gestures and wavings of the police man, v t e he t n he se p iz o e l d ice t m h e a n r e a i n d s , 0 z u e p n o I n a s w h h e i s c o h r t ra h e o I ts gallant a cross the face and head, till he let go.—The hsmCoiaaslpdntiw'eahrwinihgpcomplained that he was afraid the horses would kick, and, as the constable would not when told let them go, he lost his temper and struck him ; and he considered the policeman had not paid that respect due to a gentle man.—Mr. Hardwick expressed his surprise at an officer in her Majesty's service not setting a better example of obedience to those in authority. Constables must be protected in their duty, and he should send the Captain to the House of Correction for ten days.—Defendant : House of Correction ! Pray allow me to pay a fine. I trust you will consider your decision over again. Such a sentence will probably oblige me to leave my regiment. I will pay any fine you may inflict.—Mr. Hardwick : No ; I decline to make any alteration in the sentence. The law knows no distinction of persons, and there are no circumstances of mitigation in your case, as you, from your position, melt to have set an example of obedience to those in authority.—Capt. Somerset was then removed to the lock-up cells, evidently in a state) of moat uncom fortable bewilderment, May 20 1851. ... THE SOCIAL AND MORAL RESULTS OF TO GREAT EXHIBITION. (From the Bath Chronicle.) o w f e which v t e h d e t i o na h g e n i g i fi h c t e e n n e t e h o o f p s i e s t: 7: l all e t .c h tz , e i n c l i V d t s s t we must repudiate the pregnant social character which some writers extravagantly claim for it. When we are told that a building so imposing the world never saw ?,e.B fore, we point to the vat or s Colosseum of Rome ,the Pantheon, or the Pyramids, g r e a te r in their decay this brittle palace in its prime. When we are told the the assemblage which its openin g attracted is without Pa rallel, we recollect the hosts of Xerxes, the army of occa pation in Paris, and the million o f m en who stood face to face within this very year on the soil of Gertnall; While, however, we cannot unit e with those who wou exalt the occasion to the top pinn a cle of vain glory, we give all due praise to the Exhibition as a great and War . vellous show. We deny that the mere fact of the Duke of NVelling toa and Mr. Cobden shaking hands on the occasion is a fout• dation broad enough for the settlement of universal Pe ace ; A huge fair, in fact, has been opened, in which the war% of many lands, and the best of their kind, are exhibited, They are collected in one spot instead of being geatter. throughout the warehouses of a great city. The Exlin tion is a great gala sufficiently attractive to draw the 1 0 rious from long distances. Considering it in this „ cannot view it, as some have done, as a na tional dang e l as the probable herald of national cal am ity. But if it w ere really the commencement of a ne w era , th e f r aternised () of the world, and the social phene menon w hi c h it appe ar„ to be in the dazzled eyes of our c ommerc i a l philoscpbe r :: then are we thrown back upon the warnings of experien We cannot but remember that Providence has plan ,7 10 the spirit of separati on i n th e f am ily of nations, as i n th e family of individuals, fo r wise p ur p oses , an d that the r e,. l suit has been the growth of v a r i ous energ i es an d forms industry. We cannot but remember that as of Greece,su of Rome, when they had reached the highest pitch °f re s ; finement they fell, until they have become in our day the merest dust in the balance of nations. We c ar lo but remember that the growth of wealth and arts--er , 1 .„ ace a fitter word, of the luxury of which we ar e now beat ing—are as frequently the signs of decay as of progres" Coming down to later times, we cannot but remernbe! that the first French Revolution, which converted Earet into a volcano, was heralded by a gen tl e sp i r it i n the P"„" litical world, the patrona g e o f i n d us t ry an d art b y prince" the growth of commer c e, an d a sp i r i t o f lib er alist ) ! amounting to political indiffere nce . T o use t h e words oS Alison, " a sweeter blood seemed in all to circulate through every member of the political body. The lowe s o of the people under governments the most despotic a t longer held their countenances p rone t o th e ear th, a l e were taught to erect them with a b ecom i ng sense of the ft own nature; and the brow of authority, instead of al austere frown, wore a more inviting airof complaceneY amenity." Descending still lower i n th e course of dal we cannot but remember that only three years ago it ° I proclaimed that, politically speakin g , th e li on had Ir down with the lamb. " There will be no m ore:reveli tions," said the " apostle of free trad e; " an d then, 135 a in mockery, the tempest burst in an u nc l ou d e d sky, a"„ whilst sovereigns were shaken from th e i r th rones , the% terial interests of the greatest nati ons were shattered to atoms. We shall be laughed at, d ou btl ess , b y those 0 are now so loud in their praise of hu man perfectibilitY; _,"O reply that these are the dangers of the Exhibition, if it i," indeed, the mi g hty thi ng w hi c h they represent it to u e ' In the noble language of B ur k e , we declare that " longs to the infinite and unspeakable Power,—the Deity,it who, with His arm, hurl s a come t lik e a pro j ec tile O n of its course, and enables it to end ure th e sun ' s heat, a' the pitchy darkness of the chilly night, to aim at the 0 4; illation of infinite perfection ; to vs , p oor , wea k, incaPa e ,t mortals, there is no safe rule of conduct but experienc e A t But, as we do not re gar d th e E x hibiti on as a gr' industrial and social revolution, so we d o no t f ea r soa so il disturbances from it. It will have its benefits. stimulated a special industry, a n d it h as opene d a fie'"is, which practical skill and invention may reap their bargee jo It will please the eye, gratify the heart, and possibly , 0 some slight degree, lead to improvements in the 1 1 10 condition. It will enrich " m i ne h os t s " o f the Pu pil , inns, revive the drooping spirits of l o d g i ng h ous e-ke e l ). " and restore the palmy days of railway shareholders . ro , will create acquaintance beyond the sea; and, in all and bability, there will be much additional " marrying, 71 0 ... giving in marriage." There will be a grea t sale 0 c s, mestic calicoes and a great purchasin g o f foreign ,t,0 ) 0 But it cannot be honestly said that th e occa sion sc" an unmixed one. May we not expe c t, on the contrta; some of the demoralization inherent i n a great egg i n g Our neighbours may impart their Sabbath.brealill habits, if they do not infect us with their lax notionsge'r religion ; and probably they will not leave their gr °s vices at home. We look for a striking exemplificati alj er " the mingled yarn." Just, in truth, as a fair is P r s o nant with evil, as well as good for trade, to a district( J o will the Great Exhibition be to the whole company' t he in the one we see special constables sworn in, so in s i 0 other we have troops collected to keep the peace. Ap r , a town, too, all legitimate business is paralysed by a so is the business of our nation by the " World's Fa r itr i An inefficient ministry is kept in office, even agains t of own will, because of the Exhibition. A dissolution.oo Parliament, to which the nation is looking for a solat.l_ of its difficulties, is deferred, because of the Exhibitie(s'o Justice cannot be obtained by the agriculturists beeatif of the Exhibition. No wonder, then, that they seartol regard it with a favourable eye. Finally, London u„ ' benefit at the expense of the country. Already our s,. he r keepers have suffered from the hoarding for the ExhiTo tion ; and people will spend money in the metrof 1 g which the country tradesman will wish had been frAioll home. We heartily wish to believe th a t th e Exu" .3 a we will be productive of far more good than evil ; 2 111 w hicii sincerely say " Amen" to the beautiful prayer with T aoo it was opened. But we protest, in the name of ce ra w itll sense, against the arrogant if not irreverent boast ing _ , l o which the project and its consequences are spokenueirog, some quarters. We protest, on still higher g r° against the notion that this harvest will be free , 08 0 its full share of weeds. To conclude in the ad of the which common honesty has extorted from one t il er loudest of the panegyrists :—" We are alive to the u es teo o of magnifying that act. We kno w h o w often the g r tragedies have been ushered in by a morning of Pr its elf We know that works of art a re p er i s h a ble, that o ' o o will have an end, and that a w o rld's happiness f i ? t iot not in the multitude and splendour of its acnal et i We feel, too, that we tread on tender ground w congratulate our species on any other union than t" apd which the sanction and means are expressly Divin e, the duration eternity." The Bishop's memory must have singularly failed. Part of the original terms were : " 4. The Roman Catholic Bishop is to bind himself to defend all the doctrines and authorised practices of the Church of Rome." To which Bishop Brown replied : " 2. I engage to defend those doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome which have received her formal sanc tion." I shall be glad to see how the bishop will reconcile this with his letter to the editor of the Catholic Standard, dated April 10, 1851 : " He (Mr. Baylee) announces, it is true, that he would proceed to a third subject, affording free scope for his peculiar talents ; but this your subscribers need not fear ; it is a mere ruse to cover his disgrace. He knows well that the main condition of our agreement was the discus sion, on each side, of some vital doctrine —ONE, THERE FORE, AND NOT MORE ; and whatever additions or modifi cations were subsequently agreed to, they left that condi tion in its integrity." The case then stands thus : 1. Bishop Brown proposed the discussion of " some vital doctrine." 2. I required that all the doctrines of the Church of Rome should be open to controversy. 3. The bishop consented to this arrangement on the 2nd of December, 1850. 4. He refused to continue the Romish controversy on the 10th of April, 1851. 5. He alleged as one reason that the readers of the Ca tholic Standard feared the continuance of the discussion. Such, sir, is the warrant for saying that the bishop has sounded the note of retreat. The best proof of not re treating would be to continue the discussion according to his own original agreement. My answer to the charge of suppression is, that the bishop's third letter is already in the printer's hands. . . Illness alone, causing absence from home, prevented its earlier appearance. _ _ I remain Sir, yours faithfully, JOSEPH BAY LEE. _ _ St. Aidan's, Birkenhead, May 16, ANOTHER CONVENT CASE. On Monday night a curious debate took place in the House of Commons of surprising interest at this junc ture. Friday's " Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons contained" the following paragraph : " Public Petitions Committee.—Special report brought up, and read as follows :—` Resolved, that the petition of Pierce Connelly, clerk, complaining of the forcible detention of his wife in a convent, and praying the house to take into conside ration the whole subject of convents and nunneries in England, which was presented on the 29th day of April last, is a petition which ought to be printed for the use of members only, and that a special report he made to this effect.' Report to lie on the table.—Convents, &c.—Petition of the Rev. Pierce Connelly for inquiry, presented April 29, to be printed for the use of members only." It will be recollected that Mr. Connelly, a clergyman of the Church of England, and his wife, agreed to sepa rate and go over to the Church of Rome, Mrs. Connelly becoming the superior of some religious sisterhood, and Mr. Connelly a candidate for priests' orders in the Roman Church. Mr. Connelly afterwards repented, but his wife refused to abandon her new calling. Upon that Mr. Con nelly instituted legal proceedings to obtain a restitution of his conjugal rights. The courts decided in his favour, but the aegis of the " Holy Roman Church" is thrown around the rebellious wife. With the knowledge of these facts it is easy to conceive that the petition must be of an extraordinary character, and from what took place in the House on the subject on Monday night it is not difficult to divine that it contains some extraordinary charges. The discussion upon the subject arose from Lord Arundel and Surrey moving that the order for printing the petition be discharged. The propriety of printing the petition at all is said to have been repeatedly discussed by the committee upon public petitions and to have been carried only by the casting vote of the chairman, Mr. Thorneley. The idea of privacy with 658 copies printed for the use of the mem bers is rather absurd, and particularly now that public curiosity has been stimulated by the mysterious allusions which fell from hon. members in the secret, during the discussion raised by Lord Arundel's motion, allusions which ranged from "imputations" to "atrocious slan ders." The petition, however, is to be printed " for the use of members only," and Lord Arundel is not to be prevented by the understanding implied by that, from taking steps to ascertain from the parties charged what they have to say in reply. This, to say the least, is a con venient mode of insinuating that the whole thing is a slander, and it leaves Lord Arundel at liberty to shelter himself under the scandalous character of the allegations from taking further steps, should he find that the Rev. Pierce Connelly has good grounds for his charges. PRIVATE THEATRICALS AT DEVONSHIRE HOUSE On Friday the first performance for the benefit of the " Literary Guild" took place in one of the drawing-rooms of the Duke of Devonshire's residence, which was fitted up as a theatre for the occasion. The proscenium and arrangements for scenery were complete, a royal box was erected for her Majesty and party on one side of the room, and the rest of the company were seated on chairs and benches. Notwithstanding the high price of the tickets, the room was quite full, and perhaps so brilliant a thea trical audience was never assembled out of Windsor. The piece performed was a new comedy by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, entitled Not so Bad as we Seem ; or, Many Sides to a Character To sbew the quantity of artistic talent employed to give it effect, we reprint from the programme the cast and list of scenery : The Duke of Middlesex .. Mr. Frank Stone. The Earl of Loftus .. .. Mr. Dudley Costello. Lord Wilmot .. Mr. Charles Dickens. Mr. Shadowly Softhead .. Mr. Douglas Jerrold. Mr. Hardman .. Mr. John Forster. Sir Geoffrey Thornside .. Mr. Mark Lemon. Mr. Goodenough Easy .. Mr. F. W. Topham. Lord Le Trimmer .. Mr. Peter Cunningham, Sir Thomas Timid .. Mr. Westland Marston. Colonel Flint .. .. Mr. R. H. Horne. Mr. Jacob Tonson Mr. Charles Knight. Smart .. Mr. Wilkie Collins. Hodge .. .. Mr. John Tenniel. Paddy O'Sullivan.. .. Mr. Robert Bell. Mr. David Fallan .. Mr. Augustus Egg. Lord Strongbow, Sir John Bruin, Coffee-house Loungers, Drawers, Watchman, Newsman. Lucy .. Mrs. Henry Compton. Barbara .. Miss Ellen Chaplin. The Silent Lady of Dead- i Mrs. Cox. man's-lane .. SCENERY. Lord Wilmot's Lodgings Painted by Mr. Pitt, "The Murillo" Mr. Absolon. Sir Geoffrey Thornside's 1 .. Library .. .. .. I 21 Mr. Pitt. Wilt's Coffee-house .. 2 , Mr. Pitt. The Streets, and Dead- Mr. Thomas Grieve man's-lane .. If The Distressed Poet's Ga r- Jetqifter Hogarth) I Mr. Pitt. The Mall in the Park .. „ Mr. T e lbi n . An open apace near the River . I „ Mr. Stanfield, R.A. Tapestry Chamber in Deadman's-lane » Mr. Louis Haghe. The Act Drop .. .9 Mr. Roberts, R.A. The action of the drama takes place in the reign of George 1., and it is connected with history by a Jacobite plot and the introduction of Jacob Tonson, the bookseller. The plot, which is not of the clearest, is somewhat as follows : —Lord Henry de Mowbray, a celebrated lady-killer, who has died before the play begins, has left some posthu mous memoirs in the hands of Mr. David Fallen, a Grub street author. These memoirs contain facts likely to prove annoying to several persons in high society, and more especially to the brother of the deceased, the proud Duke of Middlesex. Lord Wilmot, a leader of fashion, who is idolised by the rakes of the day, but who conceals an excellent heart under a mask of profligacy, and Mr. Hardman, a plebeian member of Parliament, who strongly supports the Walpole Administration, are rival lovers of Lucy, the daughter of Sir Geoffrey Thornside, an honest gentleman, who in early life has suspected his wife of an intrigue with the deceased Lord Henry, and has led an unhappy existence ever since. David Fallen, though he is starving himself and has six starving children to feed, is too honourable to part with the scandalous bequest, either for the price offered by the renowned bookseller, Jacob Tonson, or for that offered by Lord Wilmot, who as sumes the name and appearance of the equally renowned bookseller, Edmund Curl'. But when Lord Wilmot, throwing off his disguise, addresses David as a friend of the Duke of Middlesex, the man of Grub-street, remember ing that he has been especially neglected by the aforesaid Duke, gives up the manuscript, by way of taking the no blest revenge on the hau g hty aristocrat. Now this manu script, though excessively stinging as far as the Duke is concerned, is accompanied by a letter which fully clears the fame of Lucy's mother:; and Hardman, aware of this fact, obtains the letter from the Duke by an appeal to his honour. On the other hand, Lord Wilmot has discovered that Sir Geoffrey's wife, reputed to be dead, is living in an obscure residence, and procures a meeting between the mother an 4 daughter, l'hua the game of geuerePitY POLITICAL MISCELLANY• A public dinner will be given to W. B. Ferran°, at Aylesbury, on the 21st instant. be raise The Speaker of the House of Commons is to - t. to the peerage at the close of the present Partial: o %o le ' Mr. Brown, M.P., Mr. W. Jones, and gr. - ,010 Cotesworth had an interview with Earl Grey ou at the Colonial Office. str ticir. On Saturday the Harwich Election Committee o,oo' off another vote from Mr. Princep, the late sitting ber, placing Mr. Crawford in a majority of one. CrYst,,, The Times declares that Parliament and th e n to t''; Palace cannot go on together. If members Piveasur house, he says it is only to sleep, and that 0° can now enlist public sympathy. f a cer The only Lancashire members who voted ini`joyab9l Mr. Lacey's " religious houses bill" were , J• vireP Col. Lindsay, J. Duncuft, and S. Blair. Sir 1.,'06 voted against it, and Mr. Cardw ell and Mr. W. 10' re' were absent. The electors of Kenda l on the liberal interest hec,seo solved to return Mr. Georg e Ca r r Glvn, their bo mem ber, free of all expense, if he will allow hirose l "; t lie again nominated on the dissolution of the present ment. At a very numerous meeting of the Conservativ e j oe' on Monday, two gentl emen , one o f them a li s ting u ; t ax: member of the bar, we re requeste d , b y an imrne ns ' a tb jority, taken by b a ll o t, t o ret i re from t h e c lub, e i thy purely political grounds that, in the estimation °coo' voters, the gentlemen refe rr ed t o h a d ceased to be lirlo servatives, as the term is understood by the el u , b " 1 10 1 1 heartily wish that the rules of the Carlton woulotersila; that club to follow this excellent example.--44% Herald.—[The distinguished member Of the barl A believe, Mr. Bethel', Q.C., member for AylesburY• iti v THE GRAHAM PARTY.—What do you thinic t , Girondists ? That is the new name we have got Id y O le ham and his party, and it seems to me a very baliPhood! Hitherto they have played remarkably well into ouAviar!r; but they are clearly not to be trusted. As Watt r` i cbec bt in his treatise on the steam-engine, there o,r e tten 3 i e h o within wheels ; and those gentlemen havebeen so " - sc itll r " g e, giratory in their motions, that it is imposEible, 0 0 ,4 least certainty to predicate the direction of the," ar -tPI One thing, however, seems to me perfectly ci e ' a egl ie f never can join the Protectionists. Two yea but to ff , should have hesitated to say this authoratively , t ect ) .4 have thrown away so many excellent chances o' coor 60° ciliation, and invariably manifested such ran„ n ot I bitterness towards their former allies, that I ' 1 "; egl i t' a how they can possibly return. There sno 11931 3 c1 eP',,,t , in intensity to that of a deserter. Awake or 9 ',.," c 0v,76t) ever has before him the awful apparition of til, c h r oU r o,, martial ; his back tingles with the imaginary 13 1;00 cat-of-nine-tails ; and if you watch him in his sh - le o f you will hear him moaning something about b o iti musketry and a coffin. It is something to be c , er is this. You see that th e par ty o f th e Girolr; small, and never can act effectively of itself. ',, t ,., l side f ,hBG useful as a make-weight, and as such We cu- iron Now, a glance at the late division lists will sbesc,folo`rot these men, whatever else they may do, are r s ,'"ltis `OO determined never to go into the same obbY for 0 , Protectionists. They have no abstract affectile tend Whigs—which is not wonderful, considering, t ug h rig city and strength of the family alliance ; and ti ( o,, be soilid may occasionally seem to help them, they %you.' w itb, to lose any chalice of giving him a sly d. l4 .j..inet!' i ;to stiletto. We are by far their most natural allies es 1 0 0 if they had any sense they would throw thems' t heY, 4 l‘ our arms at once. But, unfortunately for thco l ' ct to 'ye, tainted with the aristocratic leaven. They aii e th ey 14 :0 , down upon us, pure democrats, as though fil ter - 0 P something infinitely superior, and they will 1 101 ', 0 e$P4O with that cordiality which we are surely entitled en at l A O , You may rely upon it, this will not be forgot L el y proper time. Nothing is, to my mind, so P ur 1 , sive as the demeanour of an aristocratic: V b2 n r i a ce _ 4 ° oo look, his language, and the very tone of bis v c,ies ' " - t er' you that he considers his support of your erin g e i ,r o u ~of act of magnificent condescension ; and that, ). o go tamed a proper feeling of gratitude, you ouglit. cer ieg rico dtbo ' on your knees and thank him. Now, eons' raga one-half of the Peelites are little better than N' cis c A , o tt coxcombs, and the other half, with few exeoP t , l baoh : 1 09 erable serving men of the Taper and Tadp . ol l 3 disgjeff may easily conceive that these airs give us and that we are keeping an accurate account.l'e, to a future settlement,—B/aektrood'r