The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-02 00:00:00

TUE " BAnoo."—The Baboo, upset in the Canning Graving Dock, on Monday, has since been floated out, hav ing received no injury. ROCK HARMONICON, MUSIC HALL.—This delightfully toned instrument is heard with great effect in the Music ball, by those who have listened to its " silver sound ;" and we are glad to see that the proprietor has been induced to permit another performance at the Music-hall, on Thursday next. THE LATE FATAL COLLISION.-Our circumstantial ac count of this melancholy occurrence has afforded much in formation for the columns of our contemporaries ; and though we are not surprised at this, and make no objection to their making free use of our intelligence, and without acknow ledgement if they prefer it, we think we have a right to com plain of the correspondents of the metropolitan ;tress sending to their employers the lengthened details we were at the trouble of collecting, and palming them off as their own pro ductions. A more candid and straightforward course would not only be more decent, but, we hope, more profitable. LORD STANLEY'S BlLL.—After all the ingenious strata gems resorted to by the enemies of freedom of election, the Liverpool petition against the registration bill of Lord Stanley only received 22,000 signatures. After the nume rous fictitious names attached to this document, it may be pronounced a perfect failure. This must be the opinion of our radical contemporaries, for we have not seen the subject alluded to by any of them, and our information is gathered from the first, and in all probability the last number of an in significant publication called the Agitator, which was issued from the press on Saturday last. IRELAND V. ENGLAND.—O'ConneII talks of the danger that would ensue to England if Ireland were to call in the aid of France against her—an insinuation which seems to imply that she is in no danger while merely assailed by Ire land single-handed. This is really a deep finesse, a capital stroke of the old fox Daniel. Poor Mr. Bull is exactly in the condition of a man who is ruled by his wife, but whom the lady deems it prudent to keep in ignorance on the sub ject. Ireland call in the aid of France, indeed! For what ? She can beat England without her assistance, and that soundly—wherefore, then, call in any help ? Alas ! John Bull has become a poor hen-pecked creature, lost to all sense of independence, and angry only with any body that tells him of his true condition. But Ireland rules him—that's the fact. WATERLOO COURSING MEETING.—A very fine painting by Mr. Ansdell is now exhibiting at the Lyceum-room, Bold street, representing the meeting at Altcar. It contains up wards of seventy pictures, includino. the Earl of Sefton, the Countess of Sefton, Lord Talbot, Lord Stradbroke, the E of Eglintoun, James Aspinall, Esq., James Ball, E Swan of Chorlton, Wm. Blundell, Esq., Miss Reddish, Mr. Lloyd,, Mr. Lynn, Mr. Alexander Graham, Mr. James Bourne, Benjamin Jones, Esq.; Daniel Neilson. Esq., James Rigby, Esq., and Sir Hesketh Fleetwood.—Of the dogs there are portraits of Earwig, Empress, Rocket, Exciseman, Gilbertileld, Sirius, Toss, Queen, Tabinet, Sul tan, Brender; Busy, &c., &c. INQUEST.--Yesterday, an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Mary Sheridan, a female, who resided in a cellar in Charter-street, and who died in child bed. The case excited much interest in the court, but :s it involves a suspicion of mismanagement or incompetency, on the part of a professional gentleman, and stands adjourned until to-morrow, for the purpose of obtaining an examination of the body of the infant, which was extracted by instru ments, and which was to be exhumed,' we refrain from en tering into details, until the evidence is fully heard, and the jury have returned their verdict SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION—We understand that the committee of this excellent institution—which we beg again to recommend to public support—have opened books for the registration of such seamen as they can recommend to owners for good conduct and capability. A master mariner has been appointed to examine the applicants for registration, who will sign certificates those men whose claims he has investi gated. This addition to the objects of the Shipmasters' As sociation will be found highly valuable in the selection of good crews, and on that account we beg to call attention to it. We learn from the Manx Liberal that a company is about to be immediately formed, having for its object a means of speedier transit to the shores of England, though we never heard the slightest complaint about the present swift and seaworthy boats. It is stated that the projected vessel is to he built of iron, upon the model of the Ballinasloe pilot boats, to be propelled by the newly-invented Disk engine and the Archimedes screw, and is to be 150 tons burthen. It is intended that the vessel shall leave Douglas each morn ing at six o'clock, and Liverpool at four, making the passage each way in four hours. NEW CHURCHES IN MANCHESTER.—It must he a source of peculiar gratification to the subscribers to the fund for erecting ten new churches in Manchester and Salford to find that already the donations amount to nearly £20,000. After the unexpected and uncalled for opposition which this society has met with, the sum speaks volumes for the liberality of our Manchester friends. We are glad to see that they are not deterred from prosecuting their praiseworthy objects, but that the censures of those (who are only on the alert when they can prevent the good intentions of others) have only stimulated the church-loving public to renewed exertion. SUDDEN DEATH.—An inquest was held yesterday, before P. F. Curry, Esq., on view of the body of William Sixsmith, a man of 60 yeari of age The deceased lived in Critchley court, Head-street. On Friday night last, when he went home, he complained of being ill. He was quite sober. Soon after he went to bed his wife - heard him snare very loud, and on asking him what was the matter received no reply. She procured a light, and finding his eyes closed, and his coun tenance changing, she called in a neighbour, and afterwards a surgeon. He did not, however, recover, and died about six o'clock on the following morning. On a post-mortem examination it was found that there was a considerable effu sion of blood on the surface of the brain, and a large clot in each of the ventricles, and also at the base of the brain, which in the opinion of the surgeon had produced death from na tural causes. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. THE LATE CHAPLAIN OF THE BOROUGH GAOL.-Our readers, and more particularly those who can sympathize with the persecuted, will not, perhaps, be surprised to learn that the Rev. Dr. Buck has been for the last three weeks on ii bed of sickness Overcome by mental anxiety, his nervous system has received a severe shock, which tune alone can rest wi act be fou recover He intended to leave Liverpool with his fainily on Monday the Bth ult but was suddenly attaeked ou that day with inflamiiiation o the lungs, fibm which he partially re covered, and was thentseized with pleurisy. The medical gentlemen have been constant and unremitting in their at tendance, and it is only within the last few days that the slightest hopes of recovery have been entertained. The needful expences incurred (the DoCtor being in lodgings, and requiring the greatest possible care and nourishment,) are such as his own very scanty means will not enable him to bear. How far the provision made for him by the Town Council will meet these extra demands, we leave our towns men to decide. But we do hope that Dr. Buck will not be allowed to have poverty added to his numerous trials in this time of most severe suffering. We shall be happy to lend our aid to any pl an th a t may b e sugges t e d by Christian friends to defray th e expences o f t hi s protrac t e d illness, for we fear it will be a considerable time before his health can be re stored. PROTESTANT AND REFORMATION ASSOCIATION.—The members of the Manchester and Salford Protestant and Reformation Association held their fifth annual meeting on Tuesday evening, at the Corn Exchange. The room was filled almost to suffocation, and a vast number were refused admission for want of accommodation. A very spacious plat form, erected for the occasion, was mostly covered with cler gymen of the Established Church. At half-past six o'clock the Rev. Hugh Stowell took the chair, and addressed the meeting at considerable length, and with his usual spirit stirring eloquence. The meeting was afterwards addressed by the Rev. Thos. Nolan, of Stockport; the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, of Liverpool; and the Rev. Mr. Dixon, &c. Se veral resolutions, pledging the meeting to renewed and stre nuous efforts for the deliverance of their Roman Cathlic fel low-countrymen from their present state of spiritual thraldom and degradation, were carried unanimously, and a petition to the House of Commons for an inquiry into the course of in struction adopted in the Papist College at Maynooth, was also adopted. NATIONAL EDUCATION. — It will in all probability be in the recollection of our readers, that about twelve months since the Synod of Ulster gave in their adhesion to the na tional system of education, and have since suffered their schools to be endowed by the national board. In July last Dr. Cooke, whilst delivering a speech in defence of the con duct of the Synod, laid down the following proposition, which he stated he would maintain against all who dared to gainsay it :—" That the system of education established by the Synod of Ulster, and endowed by the national hoard, provides a full and scriptural Protestant education; and neither teaches nor sanctions, nor will provide for the teaching of Popery or any other heresy, whilst the two favourite societies of our accusers provided no Protestant education whatsoever, and ipso facto taught Popery, and provided by their laws for its teaching and perpetuation." The Rev. T. D. Gregg, during the past week, has been staying in Belfast, and has written to the doctor accepting the challenge, of which the latter ap proves, and proposes to-day for the discussion, but we have not yet seen Mr. Gregg's reply. We may probably furnish an analysis of the arguments after the meeting has taken place. THE LALE MELANCHOLY COLLISION. — On Wednesday last the mate of the Governor Fenner had an interview with the mayor for the purpose of makint , a declaration of all the facts connected with the ship up to the time she came in con tact with the Nottingham. The declaration describes, with great minuteness, every occurrence from the time of leaving the river to a few moments before the collision, and the cir cumstances of this interval we give in the mate's own w ords— " At about two o'clock Captain Andrews told me he was going below to shift his clothes, and that I was to keep a good look-out, and not trust in the least to sailors looking out, At about five minutes past two o'clock I saw a steamer's light on the larboard - bow. -• I instantly reported the satne to Captain Andrews, who was then putting on his jacket. I did not leave the deck, but called upon him from the com panion-way. He immediately came on deck, and ordered the helm to be put hard a-port, and went close up to the man at the wheel and called for a light. We had two signal lanterns lightectin the cabin, ready to show in case of neces sity. The boy on deck immediately went for a light, but before he could get on deck again we came in collision. Captain Andr ews had not been in bed since we left Liverpool, but had been on deck all night. This is the first statement I have made, and all other reports now in circulation con trary to this, said to have come from me, I pronounce fake. CURIOUS CASE—A WICKED SoN.— John Evans, a sharp looking youth, aged 17, was placed before the magistrates, on Saturday, charged by his father with having entertained design of shooting his mother. Mr. Evans, who is a re spectable joiner, residing , in Plumpto n - street, E verton, stated, that about twelve o'clock on the preceding day, his daughter came running to him at his workshop, in Liver pool, and requested him to go home immediately, as " John (the prisoner) was kicking up a row, and threatening to blow out his mother's brains. He (Mr. Evans) hastened home, but the prisoner had departed. Mrs. Evans was, however, in great trepidation lest he should return and commit some violence, as he had more than once threatened that he would have her life. About seven o'clock, on the preceding even ing, they heard the cover of the coal-vault moved, and Mrs. Evans became so alarmed that she declared she would not go to bed, lest the prisoner should enter the house and do her som e mischief. Mr. Evans went to the coal-vault, and saw that the shutter had been removed, and that the prisoner had entered and partially concealed himself. He ran up' stairs to his wife and daughter and locked them in the par lour, after which he proceeded to the next door to obtain the assistance of a neighbour. On his return, lie saw the pri soner concealed beneath the stairs, but he could not get him out, as he was armed with a pistol. He went and obtained the assistance of police-officer 111, who took the prisoner from his hiding-place. His i3istol was taken fr om him, and he was conveye d to t h e Rose-hill Bridewell. Here the pistol was examined. The lock was broken, but the barrel W as heavily charged with owder and shot, and the prisoner hadon and a a _quantity of Congreve matches on his pers • , large brown paper parcel of powder and shot. F iom his Pocket w as taken a twelve ounce bottle, about half filled with tstroef hemixture of laudanum and ale, which, it was stated, _a ai ier intended to take, had he shot his mother. Mr. Evans lif e, an s, (!, the prisoner had more than once threatened his k new w r iat he to vvas of such a curious temper that he did not was sanedo with him. He did not know whether he Mr. Rushton ordered that the youth should be or a cr t ied by a medical man, in order to discover whether he in a few hours, the or not. This was complied with, arid, doctor having e:dprisoner was again put at the bar, the he (the prisoner) decided that he was sane. Mr. Rushton said, He was ordered to to be taken care of for some time. would keep the peace find two sureties in £2O each that he months, : in def au lt, t o b e com mitted for three LICENSED VICTUALLERS' BALL.--This excellent inatitu- Con, we trust, will be well supported on Tuesday next. The purposes of it are admirable. NORTH AMERICAN STEAM-SHIPS.—We are authorised to contradict the paragraph which appeared in the Albion of yesterday, stating that these vessels had changed the times of their sailings—no alteration has been made whatever. A PAIR OF SNEAKS.-It was announced in town yester day, that Lords Palmerston and John Russell paid a visit to Liverpool, on Saturday last, for the purpose of holding an interview with the American consul, but with what immediate object we have not been able to ascertain. It is understood. however, that the noble personages left in high dudgeon after the information they obtained, but we may, probably, hear something further, when our readers shall be put in posses sion of it. SAVAGE INFLICTION.—John Baker, aged 40, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on Saturday, charged with having stab bed George Goff. The complainant and prisoner are both sailmakers in the employ of Messrs. Pierson and Crellin. It appears that, on Wednesday forenoon last, Baker and Goff were joking together in their work-room, till some not-over friendly language rose between them. Baker, it seems, said to Goff—" I've more wit in my little toe than thou hast in thy blubber head." Goff, in his reply, applied to his com panion a very coarse epithet. Baker, who was cutting a rope, asked him if he knew what the word meant. The reply was a repetition of the epithet, upon which Baker struck him violently on the head with the rope. Goff caught the rope and endeavoured to take it from him, upon which he raised the knife and thrust into Goff's right eye, which he has en tirely destroyed. The prisoner was committed for trial. THE LATE FATAL COLLISION.—Captain Andrews, late commander of the ill-fated emigrant ship. Governor Fenner, sailed from Liverpool for New York, in the Americanpacket ship, Stephen Whitney, yesterday afternoon, and will be the first to convey the melancholy intelligence to the owners and underwriters in America. Captain Andrews, with a com mendable desire to have the whole affair fully afd fairly dis cussed, and to accelerate by every means in his power the progress of inquiry, applied to the Mayor of Liverpool to in stitute an investigation, but his application proved fruitless, Mr. Bolton representing that he had " no more poiver to in stitute an inquiry than the Mayor of London." Had the bodies found in the rigging of the Governor Fenner been brought to Liverpool by Captain Church, of the Birmingham steamer, an investigation would have taken place, and facts might have been elicited; but, as it is, there is no other tri bunal to take cognizance of it but a court of law, and it must the owners of the vessels to submit or not to investi ,ation IN such process. CURIOUS CASE.-COMPLAINT OF BREACH OF CONTRACT BY SIX NEGRO SAILORS. At the Police-court, on Friday, a complaint was preferred by six blacks, from Africa, against the owners of the ship Warwick, for whom the captain, who had commanded the vessel thither, appeared by summons. Mr. Wardle (who appeared gratuitously for the complain ants) gave a brief outline of the case, and read the following letter or agreement : " Mr. - Joseph Dawson.—Dear Sir,—The arrangement made.with the coloured sailors on board the Warwick is, that they are to have three pounds per month home, and if they come out as sailors in the vessel again, they are to have Li verpool wages; and if they do not come out as sailors, there is a passage to be found them. " G. S. KIELD. " 14th October, 1840. " Addressed to Joseph Dawson, Esq., Revenue., Chambers, Canning-place, Liverpool." The ship belonged to Messrs. Joseph Dawson and Co. He called John Bull, one of the blacks, a tall, good-looking, but poorly-clad African. Witness said, in effect, he had signed an agreement in substance agreeing with the letter read. The other complainants, his shipmates, were Jacob Barb er , J o h n Goree, Cargoo, John Robin, and John Lewis. The War wick sailed from Sierra Leone, and arrived at this port two weeks before Christmas. They.had remained here from that time until a short time ago, when, as the ship was not to re turn to Africa, he put them on board another vessel bound to the coast. They went on board, thinking they would have a passage home to Sierra Leone; but after the vessel had rounded the Rock, they found that she was hound to Bonny, where (as witness expressed it) " them make us slaves di rectly ;" and they accordingly got into the steam-boat that towed out the ship, and returned to the town. They had of fered to take £5 each, and to find their own passage home ; but this was not agreed to, and they had since been reduced to great want •, had pawned all their clothes but what they had on, for subsistence ; and had had to apply to be received into the Night Asylum. They wanted to be sent direct home according to agreement. Mr. Davenport, who was for the defence, said, that the complainants had shipped as sailors, and had received £3. in in advance. They had been supported for a long time in Liverpool, and were put on board of a ship that was to touch at Cape Masada (as we understood) on his way to Bonny, from which former place they might readily reach Sierra Leone. He added, that £3O. had been paid for their passage in the ship they had left after her sailing. The Captain gave evidence to this effect, and said, an offer had also been made, as there was no ship at present bound to Sierra Leone, to send them to Gambia, whence also they might fight find their way home.—John Bull objected to going to' Gambia, almost as much as to Bonny. What they wanted was to go home. . _ Mr. Rushton, after a patient hearing of the case, said, in effect, that the contract, which was not denied, had evidently not been fulfilled ; and steps had been taken to get rid of the complainants which would scarcely have been attempted with English seamen, who had a better knowledge of their rights, and who might have formed a parallel engagement. If the services of the men had not been required for the good of the ship, they would not have been hired, and if the owners sustained great expense, they must place it to profit and loss. They had pawned their clothes, and being reduced to desti tution, must, if not supported, apply to the parish, in which case he should probably be consulted and would know what to advise. The parties did not, he trusted, wish to court an on at law. They must be supported until a passage could I them to Sierra Leone, I;Ut they must work On board if required. He advised them to attend to it, and directed Mr. Wardle to look after the case. Mr. Davenport.—Would you be satisfied, Sir, if the £5. to each of them were now paid to find themselves a passage. Mr. Rushton.—No. - They are now in great want ; there was no certainty when a vessel might be going to Sierra Leone ; and it was easy to see that if left to themselves the money stated would very soon be absorbed, and they would again be left in this country a burthen to others.—The par ties then left the Court. SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION, A very interesting, and to shipmasters and owners most important, lecture was given at this excellent institution on Friday evening, by Captain Hunt. The subject was, " The principles of maritime law, and the liabilities of shipowners and shipmasters ;" questions involved in difficulties and dan gers to those concerned, and which need to be examined into far more than is generally the case among shipmasters. At seven o'clock, the rooms being well tilled, Mr. Rowett, the indefatigable chairman of the committee, was unanimously called upon to preside. That gentleman, on taking the chair, congratulated the members present upon the commencement, on that evening, of one of the main objects of the association, viz., the occasional delivery of lectures on subjects of mari time interest, and had great pleasure in introducing to them a gentleman who had most handsomely come forward to make the first effort towards the establishment of such branch of the institution. Captain H unt then commenced his address by some appro priate remarks upon the position he occupied as lecturer, and the good that must result to the association by their meeting thus together and communicating to each other the result of their experience, research, and observation. Nothing, he thought, could more tend to elevate the shipmaster in the scale of society than such intercourse; and he trusted the time was not far distant when the too prevalent roughness of manner in the seaman would give place to the polish of civi lization, and when the gentleman and the sailor would be found blended together in one individual. Captain Hunt next drew a comparison between her Majesty's and the mer chant service, and showed clearly that the latter is the most onerous of the two. A naval officer is fenced round and sustained by severe and stringent laws, while the master of a merchant ship has little more than the moral weight of his character wherewith to govern his crew. He then drew a short sketch of the rise of maritime law and usage, tracing all our present code up to the Rhodians, who appear to have been the first people that established any regular system of protection to commerce. Their laws were subsequently adopted by the Romans, and in due course were handed down to ourselves, receiving in their descent such modifications and additions as the spirit of the times suggested. The lec turer next proceeded to touch upon the responsibility of a shipmaster, which appears to be much greater than is gene rally supposed ; his own property being, in some situations, actually liable for the engagements of his owner . , if the latter be insolvent ; although the remuneration he receives is often times most inconsistent with such a positive liability. With common (the crew) sailors the case was different ; their re sponsibility extended no farther than wages due to them. The important and intricate subject of bottomry formed the next point of Captain Hunt's lecture, and he showed that it behoves every master to act with great circumspection, when unfortunately placed in a situation to render it necessary for him to resort to this expedient, otherwise confusion and un looked for loss must inevitably follow ; that care should be taken not to make, if possible, any other than the port of ownership or destination the place of settlement, for two bottomry bills upon the same vessel, one to pay for the other, cannot legally be given. He recommended also that masters should hypothecate both ship and cargo, as facilitating greatly the raising of money, and the repayment of the same. When ever, however, it happens that money must be raised upon a vessel more than once, between departure and arrival at destination; it should be borne in wind that the last lender takes precedence of the first; because the laws assume, that but for the last succour the whole might have been lost. This is the reverse of the method of land mortgages, for bottomry is maritime mortgage ; but the cases are no farther parallel than the simple act of borrowing and lending. Captain H. entered also, at considerable length, into the power of a mas ter to resort to bottomry, showing that although he has the ship and cargo under his control, and that he may even sell a portion of his cargo, he cannot avail himself of such expe dient to raise money to discharge any private debt, but purely for the repairing of his vessel or disbursement. An owner may moreover object to, or call in question any act of bot tomry entered into by his shipmaster, while underwriters are not responsible in all oases of partial loss, however reasonable it may appear that they should be, hence partial losses are often more disastrous to shipowners than total ones, in which latter case alone are the liabilities of undersVriters simple and easily understood. Captain Hunt now wound up his very important address by giving the details of a very interesting dilemma of his own at the Cape of Good Hope, the ruinous effects of which proved the truth of his remarks and the value of his caution. In fact, nothing could more forcibly have shown the strong necessity for a thorough examination, on the part of ship masters, into the bottomry laws, than the remarkable case which it has been Captain Hunt's misfortune to fall into ; and the effect of his observations and information evidently made a great impression upon his assembled brethren. After the lecturer had concluded, a very interesting and useful discussion upon the subject-matter of the lecture took place, in which Mr. Eshelby, Mr. Rowett, Mr. Causzer, Mr. Jaques, and several other gentlemen, took part. The question of general, as distinguished from particular, average was more particularly mooted, and received some very able and pertinent remarks. Mr. Rowett, in commenting upon the particular position in which Capt, Hunt had been placed in the case above mentioned, made some serviceable obser vations upon the best ports at which to make bottomry bills payable, and pointed out the advantages of a homeward bound over an outward-bound voyage in such extremities. The thanks of the meetin were finally voted to the able lecturer fo r hi s ki ndness in coming forward in such a hand some manner, coupled with a request that he would renew the subject for their instruction as soon as convenient, and also that the present lecture should be printed. Capt. Hunt briefly replied, that he should be always happy to devote his humble abilities to the service of his fellow shipmasters, whose interests, advancement, and prosperity he had ever at heart ; and he would name to the master of the rooms an early evening for again addressing them, when he would make general average and salvage the subject of his lecture. He trusted, moreover, that others would be induced to give the association the benefit of their experience and knowledge, and raise, upon the trifling beginning which he had had the honour of making in those rooms, a super structure of great mutual benefit and gratification, which he felt convinced might be done independently of professional assistance, and which would therefore be the more honour able and praiseworthy to them all. SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT.--No. 2. (For the Liverpool Standard.) DEBATE ON LORD MORPETH'S IRISH REGIS TRATION BILL—THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25th. The adjourned debate on Wednesday and Thursday even inp excited fully a; much interest as the debate on Monday, of which I gave you a sketch in my last ; yet I feel that I shall best perform my duty to your readers by proceeding to offer a brieftleseription of the concluding debate on Thursday night. In taking this course, I would not, however, be un derstood as wishing to depreciate the talent displayed by the several speakers on the intermediate days. On the contrary, I am ready to admit that some of the most successful efforts, both on the ministerial and on the opposition side of the house, were made on Tuesday and Wednesday ; and upon an impartial review of the whole debate, I believe it will be found that some of the most striking facts connected with the measure were elicited upon those two days. My motive, then, for passing them over, and confining my present sketch to the debate of Thursday night is, because I conceive that the interest of your readers will very naturally be fixed—as that of the public has been—upon that night's proceedings in particular, as affording an opportunity of hearing the argu ments of Mr. O'Connell and Lord John Russell in support of the measure, and of Sir Robert Peel in opposition to it. A very justifiable curiosity was excited—in which, I doubt not, your readers will have participated—to learn how his lordship could vindicate the present alteration of the Irish franchise, and maintain, at the same time, his formeropinions as to the finality of the reform bill ; and with what feelings the Right Hon. Baronet views this direct violation of the "great constitutional settlement" (!) of 1829, to effect which he was induced to make so heavy and, in the opinion of his best friends, so unfortunate a sacrifice of principle, and almost of personal honour, upon the shrine of fancied To ;., - ratify this curiosity, therefore, will be the expedienc, leading object of my present remarks. The attendance on Thursday, from the commencement of the debate was, especially upon the ministerial benches, more numerous than upon any of the preceding days. It Jaadbeen priviously understood, as an agreed point, that a division was to take place this evening; and at an early hour various of the " small unknown" might have been observed passing and repassing in the lobby of the house, each duly, primed and loaded with a speech, which was to be let off on the first opportunity of his being able to " catch the speaker's eye." The number who succeeded in this object of ambition, in pro portion to the number of aspirants, was not great; and yet no explosion took place ! The mighty stream of eloquence, " cabined, cribbed, confined," found some air vent through which to emerge, other than the atmosphere of the House of Commons—some terrestrial scene, through which to meander, other thati the pages of Hansard, or the no less important columns of the " mudfog Chronicle," or such similar record as the various independent boroughs represented by the gen tlemen in question may happen to possess. It is well known that throughout the whole of the week the ministerial whip was in incessant activity, and the threat of a dissolution, as the consequence of ministerial defeat. was unsparingly used. The anxiety, therefore, of the butterfly tribe, who at present flutter their brief hour in the parliamentary atmosphere, to have one " blaze" before their extinction by the rude hands of their constituencies may easily be conceived; and it is heartrending to reflect how great must be the anguish caused by their lamentable disappointment. The debate was opened by a very sensible speech from Mr. Gaskill, which was repeatedly cheered by both sides of the house. The allusion of the hon. member to the charge brought against government, and so indelibly fixed upon them by Sir James Graham, of having encouraged the repeal agitation, by patronising the leaders of that agitation, was particularly happy. " Whom "—asked the hon. member— " had government selected to repel the charge ? It was the right hon. and learned gentleman (Mr. Shiel)—himself a minister of the crown—and who had in his place in parlia ment, voted for the dismemberment of the empire!" Mr. Villiers Stuart, Colonel Conolly, Mr. Howard—a new member—and Mr. Lascelles, next addressed the house, and were followed by Mr. Gisborne, M. P. for Carlow, who, very unaccountably, broke down without concluding his speech, which possibly might have been his last, upon that arena, Mr. Gisborne has the reputation—similar to that of Lord Brougham—of being eloquent in proportion to the depth of his potations, and displaying the most acute legislative per ception, when his external senses are most disarranged. I will not say what was the occasion of his failure on this occa sion, although the smothered merriment of the house when the honourable member, having lost for a moment the thread of his discursive speech, was unable to find it again, would lead to the conclusion that, having meditated a very high flight, he had added to his pinions until they were cum bersome to him. Mr. Gisborne was succeeded by Mr. Cholmondeley and Mr. O'Connell, neither of whom added much to the information, or the arguments already before the public. I must not, however, pass over so briefly the clear and lucid statements of facts which Mr. Emerson Tennant brought to bear upon the subject, one or two of which were of so startling a nature, that I must be pardoned if I depart for a moment from my duty as a sketcher, in order to lay them before your readers. The honourable member, after calling the attention of those members who were favourable to the second reading, (upon the understanding that the qualification clause could be altered in committee), to the fact that the details of the bill are framed to suit that description of franchise and that alone—that denuded of the qualification clause the whole measure would become inoperative, and must be forthwith abandoned—proceeded to prove, that under the bill in its present shape, the whole power of determining the right of voting in Ireland would be substantially vested in the poor law guardians. And to show what would inevitably be the working of the system in such hands, the hon. member in formed the house that " in one parish the clerk to the guardians had act , tally made out, in anticipation of this bill becoming law, a Est of those who would be qualified to vote under the pre,en t rating, distinguishing the liberals from the tories in pPplrate columns !" I need scarcely ask your readers to how eminently useful such a functionary would be to reverences the priesthood of Ireland at future election.: ; or to inquire whether it is not equally pos sible to " disLin ; mish the liberals from the tories in separate columns," whilst making the valuation itself, which is to confer the franchise. Michael Cassidy, with " Roman Ca tholic and repealer," written over his name, would stand a fair chance of having his cabin and potatoe ground rated at £5, whilst his neighbour, with a better qualification, because classed as a " protestant and conservative" might be very leniently rated at £4 lOs ! But it may be argued—" no man in his senses would seek an increase of taxation or rating for the sake of being able to give a vote ;" and this argument also Mr. Tennant effectually demolished. The amount of the poor-rate throughout Ire land, according to the statement of the hon. member, is about 10d. in the pound, which would make upon a £5 rating 4s. 11. Of this amount the owner of the land pays half; and the cost of a vote is therefore 2s. ld. ! " Five hundred voters," concluded Mr. Tennant, " could thus be had for an expenditure of £5O a-year" ! Nor is this the whole of the case—although bad enough it is. The actual payment of the rate by the voter is not necessary to constitute his claim to be upon the register ; yet lest any of the Cassidy family should be perturbed by a demand being made for payment of the rate, we are now for the first time informed by the member for Belfast, that " a provision has been smuggled into the tenth clause of the bill, rendering legal the payment of rates on behalf of the voter (.9, thus introducing into the system of registration in Ireland a principle which was lately attempted to he put in practice in the borough of Liverpool, but which attempt was very properly defeated." Has this beautiful little specimen of Whig trickery sprung from the corre spondence of your late chief magistrate with the home office ? Mr. Tennant was succeeded in the debate by Mr. Wm. Roche, the member for Limerick, who, amongst other re- markable discoveries, informed the house that " it is not from their own choice, but from necessity, that the Roman catholic clergy interfere with elections !"—an assertion which It would be difficult, I imagine, for the honourable member to prove satisfactorily, unless the destruction of the Protestant church in Ireland, the repeal of the legislative union, and other similar objects, constitute the necessity in question. The speaker who succeeded Mr. Roche was Mr. Shaw, the recorder of Dublin, and with this gentleman commenced in earnest the business of the evening. Upon every Irish ques tion, Mr. Shaw is a very effective speaker; and on the pre sent occasion, the manner and the matter of his address were equally worthy of the applause which they elicited from the house. The rebuke which he administered to Mr. C. Buller and to a few other gentlemen who, " like the honourable member for Liskeard, talk of matters relating of Ireland of which they are profoundly ignorant," was well timed and cutting; but it was when boldly confronting the great auto crat of Ireland himself, or " crunching the bones" of such a patriot morsel as Mr. Richard Shiel, that Mr. Shaw appeared to be in his native element. There are few who, when in clined, can deal out a severer measure of chastisement than the learned recorder; and his blows on this occasion wanted nothing of forcc on the score of the goodwill with which they were administered. His picture of the small president of the board of trade—the hero of Penenden Heath—as formerly " A patriot bursting with heroic rage :" but now " A placeman all tranquillity and smiles"— was given with the most happy effect ; but when he dragged that placeman—that man whom the Queen has delighted to honour—back to the deathbed of an illustrious prince, the uncle of the Sovereign, whose dying agonies he had made the subject of his vulgar ribaldry, I should not have envied the feelings of the patriot himself, or of his colleagues, if such men can be said to possess anything worthy of the name. The biting taunts of Mr. Shaw effectually " started from his lair" the honourable and learned (!) member for Dublin, who, contrary to his habits, appeared rather difficult to draw out upon the present occasion. It may be that the effect of increased years has impaired somewhat the bodily powers of the agitator; it may be that, notwithstanding the aid which an unprincipled government is ready at all times to afford him, his acute and cunning eye can perceive the rapid ap proach of a period when that aid will no longer avail to pre serve his declining influence ; it may be that (as he himself has declared to his Corn Exchange followers) he is not sincere in the opposition which he is compelled to offer to Lord Stanley's bill : but true it is, that the manner of the burly mendicant appears to have undergone a great and striking change within the last few years. A sullen and a dogged determination still clings to his features amidst the most severe attacks of his enemies. The glow of shame, which the countenance of one less practised to conceal the workings of the heart beneath must reflect, when the catalogue of his reckless mendacities and manifold impostures is . unfolded before him, is unmarked upon his imperturable front; yet we no longer see the same alacrity to cross blades with his antagonist which used to mark the parliamentary career of the member for Dublin. He is no longer the war horse which " smells the battle afar off," and rushes to the encounter, but a far less noble animal, which is only goaded to the dis play of open hostility, although ready and alert to cast the venom of his nature upon the unresisting or the absent. A consciousness of the contempt with which his character and position is regarded, alike by his friends and by his oppo nents, hangs round him, and despite or his superhuman powers of assurance and bravado, bows him to the earth. As a whole, the speech of the " stipendiary of the people of Ireland," as he termed himself, was very unequal to some of his previous efforts in the house, and immeasurably be neath the bulk of his harangues out of doors. The old to pics of " seven centuries of oppression" were repeated and dwelt upon ad nauseam ; the old comparison was instituted with respect to the proportion of members to population in the two countries ; and the present state of our relations with other nations was pointed to as an unanswerable argu ment in favour of conceding the demands of his disaffected countrymen. From these hackneyed topics the learned gentleman rushed at once into the subject of repeal ; and, by a singular fatality, every argument which he brought for ward—every sentiment which he uttered—was calculated to cut the ground from beneath the feet of his ministerial friends, and to convince the world how unsound is the po licy which concedes the possession of a vantage-ground to one who is prepared to use it for the purpose of exacting further concessions. Can any man, I ask, believe that the passing of the present ministerial bill, which is in effect the subversion of the entire measure of reform, in favour of de mocracy —or, more properly perhaps, priestly influence—in Ireland, can have the effect of even checking the treasonable agitation which is at present distracting that unhappy land ? Let such a One, then, calmly examine the bearing of the following language, uttered by Mr. O'Connell on Thursday night, and—l blush to record the fact—responded to with cheers from the benches occupied by her Majesty's minis ters ! " Could the people of Ireland be contented," de manded the member for Dublin, " when one-eighth of the population had a rich church establishment at the cost of the whole? They had lately obtained a reduction of one fourth"—by the tithe settlement ; " but they were not con tented, and he told them that they never would le contented whilst any part of the imposition lasted" ! Let any man, I repeat, reflect upon the language thus insultingly levelled against the Protestantism of the empire, by one who has solemnly sworn, as the condition of being permitted to exer cise the privilege of sitting in the House of Commons, to uphold the integrity of the Protestant established church in Great Britain and Ireland ; and then say whether it is at the demand of such a man that we are to break down the last remnant of at best a feeble bulwark, by which the hand of spoliation is held back from her venerated walls. But I must pass from a consideration of the ruffianly ravings of this worthless impostor; yet I cannot refrain from noticing one or two further passages, more frantio than or dinary ; and the more especially, as one of them furnished the occasion of drawing from Sir Robert Peel a noble vindi cation of the loyalty of the Irish people. " It was one of the splendid errors of Napoleon," remarked the speaker, " that he overlooked the condition of Ireland. It was the infidelity of France"—and no feeling of patriotism—" which secured to Great Britain the Catholic priesthood of Ireland!" Hear this, ye Clayton-square giants—hear this unblushing avowal from the brazen god of your worship ! " True, he agreed with the member for Limerick, that if there was an invasion to-morrow the priesthood of Ireland would be the foremost in sending their flocks to resist the invaders ; but—let them be ;old that they were surpliced ruffians—that they were a demon priesthood"—(the mendicant had by this time worked himself up into a state of fury, which would have been very uncomfortable in the dog-days, and the sentence, or one name in it which followed, was uttered with a horrible con tortion of visage)—" let them see THE INPNEILES AND JEZTBELS of Liverpool sending petitions with 27,000 sig natures so denouncing them—(bravo !)—let them see the House of Commons yielding to such petitions"—and then— and then—What? I know not. The ministerial cheers were intentionally, I suppose—so loud as to drown the utterance of the treasonable threat which followed, or the fury of the orator boiled over entirely, and the world is therefore left in the dark unfortunately as to what their reverences would do, if that lash of theirs Mr. M`Neile and the Protestants of Liverpool should chance to move their saintly tempers. I will not go through the argumentative and able speech of the right honourable baronet, convinced as I am that I have already far exceeded my limits. It will be satisfactory, how ever, to your Protestant readers to observe, that even on the admission of Sir Robert Peel—its author—the compact which n and of was entered into between the people of Great popish Ireland, will be torn asunder by this iniquitous mea sure. The course to be pursued by Protestantism I leave to other and abler hands to point out. For the same reason— want of space—l must omit a description of the speech of Lord John Russell, in favour of the measure, which was as unsatisfactory and as truckling to the superior power by which he is coerced on this question as it well could be. The result of the division you will already have. The parliament of England for the present have declared, by a majority of five, in favour of the cause of Popery against Protestantism —for that is the only true view of the question; but for the rest—WE SHALL SEE I " There's a b rave time coming"— a time of reckoning, which not a few gentlemen of the honourable house will have some difficulty in getting through. London, Saturday, Feb. 27th. POST-OFFICE GALLERY The following pictures have been added to this very splen did collection since our last. If the proprietor continues to send so many pictures down, and of such a high class, we shall be almost able to boast of a gallery equal to any in the kingdom 24. " Christ in the Garden"— Ludovico Caracci. A beautiful little cabinet picture, copied by this eminent master from Corregio, whose works he greatly admired and ardently studied. The original is in the possession of the Duke of Wellington. The copy is so cleveul y imitated that it is hardly possible to tell one from the other. The face of our Saviour is replete with expression : his under garment is a pure and dazzling white, upon which the light is beautifully thrown ; the outer garment is deep blue. This picture is almost equal to the original. 23. " St. Jerome in his Cave"—Ribera. A remarkably fine picture, representing the saint in his cave, attended by his favourite lion. The figure is in a kneeling posture, and the face is marked with an expression of great veneration : the light catches the head and limbs, which are finely coloured. The drapery is of a deep reddish cast. On the left of the picture are the emblem s of mortality. This tine picture was brought from Lucien Buonaparte's gallery, and was much valued by him.—Ribera was a Spanish artist, and is familiarly known as Spagnolletto. 25. " Road-side I nn" —George Morland. It is impos sible to look at this picture without at once recognising it as the production of an English artist, and as representing an English scene. Morland was a fine painter—he was the Wilkie of his day. He brought things before us which pleased us from their familiarity. Like Ostade, his pictures were all drawn in low life—in the country—amidst farmers and agricultural scenes. We cannot stroll into the country but such a scene as that before us may be witnessed. Here we have a low roofed, humble public-house, with a bench and skittle ground under the " wide -spreading beech "—the " tegmine f a gs" of the poet of old. In the doorway of the cottage stands a little lad with his hands in his pockets, and a girl is playing with her doll. In the adjoining penthouse, upon a bench, are ranged pitchers and earthen dishes ; on, the corner of it hangs a striped shirt ; while outside recline a shrimping net, an eel-prong, an d a mop. Enjoying the doice fa niente is a sow with two grunters, her ears shading her eyes. Approaching a pool is another porker, around the neck of which is a yoke, clearly i n di cating the rambling propensities of the wearer. Beneath the broken window is a pitcher and a shutter ; while at the further end of the cot tage a scarlet runner climbs in all its luxuriance. Beneath the deep foliage which occupies the top of the picture, peeps out the roof of a barn or adjoining building. The figures consist of a jolly, farmer-looking man, mounted on an old white mare, the trusty servant of many a year. Accompa nying him is a gamekeeper, with a spaniel, setter, and pointer. The terrier is smelling at a skittle on the ground. Beside the large tree sits a sportsman with his gun, enjoying his " brown jug" an d pipe. A w oman appears taking mo ney from the farmer in p a y me nt for th e contents of the jug she holds in her left hand. A rosy child, with a little cart, hangs at her skirt, a pparently half frightened at the dogs before him. This picture will bear " a l ong, l ong gaze. " It is like "an old familiar face." It is admirably drawn, and charmingly painted. In the background is a view of the distant sea. We recommend all our readers to visit this most interesting and valuable collection. DEATHS FROM FIRE IN 1840.—__B_ y _ the returns f rom th e city and liberty of Westminster, and the coroners of the city and eastern division of Middlesex, it appears that during the last twelve months no less than 245 child ren h ave b een b urnt to death in those districts, chiefly owing to their parents leaving them alone in a room with a fire in it. Of these four fifths were girls, and the remainde r b oys. This arises from the difference of the clot hin g between b oys and g i rls. The greater number were the offspring of th e working and poorer classes of society, w hose business t a k es them from their homes. UNPLEASANT INTRUSION.----On Monday morning, the 15th instant, as one of the privates of the 7th dragoon guards was going through the cerem o ny of bein g un i ted to a young lady of Nottingham, at the office of th e superintendent regis trar of the Radford Union, the proceedings were suddenly interrupted by the entrance of a military authority, who im mediately marched off the bridegroom as a prisoner to the barracks, leaving the disappointed fair one in an agony of excitement, and the attendants confounded at this strange adventure. The soldier was absent, it Seems, without leave, and was contracting marriage without the necessary permis sion : hence this untimely intrusion, and his disagreeable transfer from the nuptial festivities to the solitary meditations of the guard-room.--Stasford MercUry. ST. DAVID'S DAY. .Yesterday being the anniversary of St. David, the patron saint of the loyal inhabitants of the Principality, the usual procession of the several Welsh Societies, and of the Chil dren of the Welsh Charity Schools, accompanied by the di rectors and friends of those institutions, took place through the several principal streets in the town, and attended divine service at St. David's Church. The morning was by no means propitious, much rain having fallen till towards ten o clock, when it gradually brightened up, and a fine afternoon followed. The streets were, however, very wet and uncom fortable, but the ardour of tjie parties forming the procession was by no means damped, and all appeared to enter heartily into the spirit of the proceedings. The Benefit Societies were met at the Exchange, about eleven o'clock, by the Children and their friends and conductors. They thence pro ceeded along Castle-street, Lord -street, &c., to St. David's Church, bearing many handsome flags and banners, and ac companied by three bands of music. They looked remark ably well. Prayers were read in the Ancient British language by the Rev. Robert Davies, M.A., after which an excellent sermon was preached by the Rev. T. Pugh, of Tremerchion. THE SCHOOL CHILDREN From the church the procession moved tip Brownlow-hill, and along Russell-street, to the Welsh School, near which vast numbers had assembled to see them. The annual exami nation of the children then took, place in the smaller school room. Two daises, one of boys and the other of girls, were examined before a number of ladies and gentlemen, Edmund Molyneux, Esq., in the chair. The result was highly satis factory to all who were present. One of the boys, Hugh Parry, repeated from memory the whole of the 12th chapter of Ecclesiastes. A little girl repeated a whole chapter from the Bible. Both classes afterwards read in the same sacred volume, and replied promptly to a number of interrogatories by their respective teachers, which showed that they under stood and remembered what they bad read. After the examination, the whole of the children belonging to the schools, some hundreds in number, sat down each to a plate of excellent cold beef, with bread and new milk, in the large school-room. Their appearance was exceedingly interesting, and their happy countenances and cheerful re marks shewed their extreme gratification and delight. The respective societies (the Cambrian, the Ancient Bri tons, and the St. David's), after leaving the children at the school, proceeded southward, along Russel-street, Clarence street, Rodney-street, and other streets, and afterwards dined at their respective club-rooms, in various parts of the town. DINNER AT THE CLAYTON Shortly after six o'clock, upwards of seventy gentlemen, natives and friends of the principality, sat down to a plentiful dinner, in the large room of the Clayton Arms Hotel, pre ,pared by Mrs. Phillips. The viands and wine were ofthe best description, whilst the civility and attention of the waiters were most conspicuous. Amongst the gentlemen present we noticed—Mr. James Butler Clough, Sir Joshua Walmsley, Mr. H. R. Sandbach, Rev. J. Pughe, Rev. 11. Jones, Rev. R. Davies, Messrs. Cyrus Morral, Thomas Barber, William Smith, jun., Robert Jones, jnn., &c. Mr. J. B. CLOUGH filled the presidential chair, and the duties of vice .chairmen were ably discharged by Mr. Richard Griffith and Mr. R. Sandbach. The pleasure and harmony of the evening were much en hanced by the performances of a Welch harper, and by a variety of singing by a party of amateur glee singers, consist ing of Messrs. W. C. Davies, H. Ingleby, L. Foulkes, and R. Case. The PRESIDENT, in proposing the first toast, said it was a well-known fact, that there were no more loyal subjects in her Majesty's dominions than the Welsh. (Hear, hear.) He, therefore, need say nothing further in introducing the health of her most gracious Majesty the Queen, to induce them to drink it with all their hearts. (Three tes three.) National Anthem,—" God, save the Queen." The next toast was " The health of her Majesty the Queen Dowager," who, the PREsIDENT:said, had, by her uniform conduct, gained the respect and admiration of the country at large. ARMS HOTEL Glee,—" Fair Flora." The PRESIDENT then proposed "The health of the Princess Royal, the Prince Albert, and the rest of the royal family," and expressed a hope that, by the next anniversary of St. David's day, the hopes of the country would be realized in the birth of a Prince of Wales. , (Cheers.) Glee,—" Hail ! smiling morn." The PRESIDENT said. that recent occurrences had brought our noble defenders so prominently before their country, and under the circumstances which had terminated so favourably, that they could not do less than drink to " The Army and the Navy." (Great applause.) Glee,—" To all you ladies" Lieut. SMITH, R.N., returned thanks on behalf the two serviees, in a few appropriate remarks. The PRESIDENT next proposed " the pious and immortal memory of St. David the Saint of Wales." (Cheers.) Glee—" Forgive blest shade." Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY was then called upon by the PRESIDENT to propose the next toast. He said that if any thing had inspired him, it would be the manner in which they had been pleased to receive him. Called upon by the chairman to give the next toast, he must say he felt it a dis tinguished privilege to be called upon in such an assembly, to give a toast in Welsh. He felt the honour greater, in consequence of being called upon on this day, sacred to them as the day of the patron saint of their country. He felt he could but imperfectly give the words, but he would give them as well as he could, and they must receive the will for the deed. Any shortcomings on his part, he was sure would be made up by their enthusiasm. The toast he had to propose was—" Oes y byd i'r iaith Gymraeg." (Loud cheers.) The Rev. J. PUGHE addressed the assembly in an eloquent speech in the Welsh language, which elicited great applause. Song (Mr. Moss),—" 0 let the kind minstrel." The PRESIDENT said, the next toast comprised so many venerable characters, that it would be presumptuous in him to attempt to embellish it. He would therefore give, without observation, " The health of the bishop and clergy of the diocese." Glee—" 'With a jolly full bottle." In proposing the next toast, the PRESIDENT said the Welsh formed a large portion of the population of Liverpool, and that they had received a great deal of kindness and con sideration from the corporation. Witness their church and schools, and various other matters for which the Welch were indebted to the corporation. (Loud cheers.) He begged to propose the healths of the Mayor and Corporation. (Re newed cheers.) _ _ Sir Josuua WALMSLEY returned thanks. He was i❑ formed by their worthy president that he was the senior member of the corporation present ; but he himself thought it would have been the duty of a junior member to return thanks. He was sorry, too, that tile duty had fallen to his lot, inasmuch as it would have been much more ably fulfilled by either of his friends, Mr. Saudbach or Mr. Jones. On behalf of the mayor and corporation, he begged to thank them for the honour of the toast, and to assure them that they received the compliment with great gratitude. He need scarcely inform them that it was the study of the Mayor and Corporation to forward the interests of the inhabitants generally. Differing as they might in political opinion and in religion, as men in society must, they had no object in view ut the happiness, prosperity, and welfare of the com lunity ; and if anything could induce them to act more rmly than they had hitherto done in the promotion of that bject, it would be the good feeling and affection shown hem, not only that evening, but generally by their towns nen. In conclusion, he begged to propose the health of the iresident—(three times three.) Glee—" Life's a Bumper." The PRESIDENT returned thanks to Sir Joshua Walmsley or the manner in which he had proposed, and to his friends 'or the manner in which they had received the toast of his lealth. Considering how many years had passed since they iad met together, the compliment paid to him was almost , verpowering. On former occasions the natives of the prin ipality had 'met in numbers exceeding the present ; but he rusted they would not allow the celebration of Saint )avid's day to be discontinued. To him it was a mourn- ful thing to see its decay. Even when Sir Richard ►3ulkeley was their president, but a score or so of Welshman assem bled to meet him ; and how grateful must it be to his feelings tthe President) to see this anniversary celebrated by hun dreds. The President concluded by an exhortation to his countrymen to unite in keeping this day, and in supporting the Welsh Charity Schools. Mr. CYRUS MoRRAL, after expressing a similar hope, proposed the healths of the Vice-presidents. Mr. H. R. SANDBACII replied, and expressed the great . . interest which he took in the prosperity of the principality. He concluded by proposing the health of the president, the ex• president, and the directors of the Welsh Charity Schools. Mr- BARBER returned thanks in an eloquent address. The PRESIDENT proposed the health of the Rev. Robert Davies, the able and zealous advocate of the national faith in the national language, and the clergy who had advocated the cause of the Charity Schools. The Rev. Mr. DAVIEs, the Rev. Mr. JONES (rector of Northop), and the Rev. Mr. PUGITE, severally returned thanks in able speeches, for which the necessity of our going to press in time for the post prevents us making room. Sir JOSHUA WALNISLEY next returned thanks to the toast of " Our English friends who have honoured us with their presence. Glee— ." Glorious Apollo." The next toast was—" Sir W. W. Wynn, and may he prove as great a friend to the agricultural interest of his country and be as highly respected as his ancestors have been for ages past." (Cheers.) " The fair Daughters of Cambria" was then proposed by the Rev. Mr. JONES, and responded to by the Rev. Mr: PUGHE, in the Welsh language. The remaining toasts were the Right Hon. Lord Kenyon, Mr. Llewllyn Lloyd, the Stewards and S ecre t ary , which - having been suitably responded to, the principal guests de parted. The conviviality of the meeting, however, was maintained for some time longer. THE CAMBRIAN SOCIETY The members of this society (51 in number) sat down in the evening to a sumptuous dinner prepared at the York Hotel—R. E. Jones, Esq., occupied the chair, and E. 0. Jones was the vice-chairman. The Rev. D. James, Dr. Hughes, and several other gentlemen were present, but as no ticket of admission to the dinner was forwarded to our office, of course we cannot give any detailed report of the speeches delivered. CORRESPONDENCE. SIR JOSHUA WALAISLEY AND THE WELSH DINNER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I feel extremely reluctant to express the decided dissatisfaction I feel at the manner in which Sir Joshua Walmsley's name is always paraded, in preference to many other friends as well as native patrons of our ancient customs. I see paragraphs in the local papers, that inform the public that Sir Joshua is expected to attend the dinner in honour of our patron saint ; and I cannot tell why he should be so pompously announced when others, who have greater claims by blood and equal respect for our nation, are passed over. If the committee have to do with this inflated effusion, they are much to blame. If not, pray who has ? Can Sir Joshua tell, I wonder. The fact is, that some poor Welshmen imagine, with me, that the new-born love of bur country, evinced by Sir Jo shua, has more than meets the eye in ; and some of us fancy that our new acquaintance may possibly be able to flat ter us even in Welsh next general election. Now this is bad taste; and if Sir Joshua is always to be named in front as attending here and I here, when others, of equal respecta bility, are not deemed worthy of notice, we can only believe a political manoeuvre is resorted to, to puff that gentleman into notice. I can only say that this complexion is given to the case, and that to express a feeling against such clap-trap, a number of our countrymen will be found wanting at the approach ing dinner, as well as o Liverpol, March let, 1841. CYMRO. [The infeience of our correspondent has long been antici pated by the public ; but we insert his letter as a protest against Sir Joshua's foolish hunt after popularity.] DEAFNESS CURED TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Srn,—l take the liberty of addressing you, to recommend to notice Mr. Baxter, oculist, from whom I have received the greatest blessing—sight. Before I became acquainted with that gentleman, I was blind for three years, and during that period I tried every means to obtain it, but to no ser vice. After being under his care for three months, I was restored to sight, and can now attend to my business again. I shall be glad to give any information, and answer all in quiries on the subject.—l am, sir, &c. JOSEPH MACDONALD Blake-street, Copperas-hill, Liverpool. INVITATION TO PRAYER (From a Correspondent) The inhabitants of Manchester have very recently pub lished and extensively circulated "an invitation to the inha bitants of Liverpool, to unite with the inhabitants of Man chester, in a concert for private and family prayer." This praiseworthy proposal has, we understand, originated with members of the Church of England, and appears to have been suggested by similar concerts for prayer previously formed between the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, be tween Perth and Dundee, &c. The Scotch Presbyterians in this town have heartily responded to the call. On Sabbath last the excellent minister of St. Andrew's, Rodney-street, commended the scheme to the adoption of his people, and preached an appropriate sermon from the memorable words of Samuel,—" God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you." Copies of the adress have been distributed in the pews of that and other churches. We give the document at length, and will be glad to find our contem poraries promoting the hallowed project by reprinting it. " It being predicted that a time shall come when ' the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord ;' when ' all Israel shall be saved;' and when `from the rising of the sun, even unto the going down of the same, the Lord's name shall be great among the Gentiles' (Isaiah xi. 9 ; Hab. ii. 14 •, Rom. xi. 26 ; Mat. i. 11)—it being an appointed mean of obtaining these promises that prayer shall be made by the people of God for their fulfilment (Psalm ii. 8 ; Esek. xxxvi. 37)—it being also specially promised, that if two of God's people shall agree together respecting anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them (Mat. xviii. 19)—and it being pre dicted that ' the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of Hosts : I will go also' (Zech. viii. 21) — there being, moreover, in the present times, many circum stances affording special encouragement to prayer for the bringing in of the Jews with ' the fulness of the Gentiles' — the Spirit of God having of late been more copiously be stowed than formerly upon the Churches—and it being be lieved that it is the duty of ' the inhabitants of one city' to invite those of another' to join with them in prayer for the revival of the Lord's work at home, through the Divine power accompanying His ordinances, and for the spreading of His Wad abroad for the conversion of Jews and Gentiles ; a duty to which the attention of other cities has already been drawn—the inhabitants of Liverpool are hereby earnestly re quested to unite with the inhabitants of Manchester in seek ing the Lord by special prayer for these desirable oblects ; as also for the prosperity of the, Churches in and around these two populous and important towns. It is further sug gested, that, with such ends in view, they devote to secret and family prayer, the hour from eight to nine o'clock, or as near'that hour as may be, every Sabbath morning. May the Lord put it into the hearts of His people to agree ' speedily' to this proposal, on which many are already act ing ; and may He abundantly pour out upon them the Spirit of grace and supplications, until in every place the savour of His knowledge shall be made manifest • and the wilder ness and the solitary place shall be made glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.' " We have heard from good authority, that Miss Grace Dar ling has been invited and is expected to visit Hull during the time of the bazaar in aid of the Port of Hull Society.—York ;hire Gazette. Advertising is to trade what steam is to machinery, the grand propelling power : and yet there are some persons so blind to their interests as to ponder over an expenditure which yields them f►om a hundred to a thousand per cent CALCUTTA CATHEDRA' —A site for the above object has overnment, and towards the erection and endowment, in addition to Bishop Wilson's munificent con tribution of £20,000, the East India - Company has granted `.£15,000 and two additional chaplains ; the British residents at Calcutta upwards of £6OOO ; the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge £5OOO ; and private subscriptions of £3,259 ; thus making a total already subscribed of £49,259. The whole cost was estimated at £60,000. ' It appears from the statement of the Franconian Courier that the affair of the Archbishop of Cologne has been arranged on the following terms :—The archbishop is to return quite free and unshackled to the diocese, to appoint a coadjutor, and then retire to Rome—where the dignity of a cardinal is in waiting for him, to support which the King of Prussia has offered him a pension of 20,000 dollars. The friends of the Archbishop believe that he will decline the pension, and con tent himself with the revenues of the diocese of Cologne, of .which he is to remain in the enjoyment for the rest of his been granted by g ATTEMPT TO POISON A FAMILY.—A reward of £lOO has been offered for the discovery of the person or persons who " attempted to poison the ,family (nine in number) of the Rev. Joseph Webster, of Merriman.s hill, near Worcester, by introducing a quantity of arsenic into soup, of which the family partook, and which nearly caused the death of the whole, and several members of it are still in a dangerous state." A correspondent from 'Belfast informs the Londonderry Standard that upwards of £3OOO have already been collected in Belfast towards the well-merited testimonial to Dr. Cook, for routing Mr. O'Connell out of the north, and also that the Marquis of Downshire intends contributing £lOOO for the same purpose. DUBLIN, FEB. 25.—A case of some interest was tried be- i fore Judge Perrin, in Wicklow, yesterday. A young man, I named William Massey, who is entitled to a property of about , £3OO a-year, and is of respectable family, was charged with having stolen two heifers and a bullock, from a Mr. Ireland. The prisoner was found guilty, but reconi mended to mercy. BREAKING-UP OF A SOCIALIST COLONY.—The disrup tion of the colony of Socialists established in Manea-Fen, under the superintendence of Mr. Hodson, will not occasion so much surprise as gratification. We rejoice that the at- ' tempt has failed to introduce doctrines so pernicious and de moralizing, for the sake of those who have been led astray by the seductions of this miserable delusion. We apprehend Mr. Hodson and his associates found few new converts in the district where he sought to establish his community. While the scheme languished, we did not attempt to force it from its obscurity by frequent allusion or an exposure of its errors. We felt convinced it could not stand the test of time, and we are completely of opinion, that the better course in such mat ters is to leave them to the operation of reason and common sense. The attempt to put them aside by argument, much less to crush them by violence, would tend only to increase their strength. The result has confirmed our expectations. Socialism is banished from the Fens.—Cambridge Advertiser. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—On the evening of Monday se'ennight, about seven o 'clock, as Dr. Laing, of Ferry-Port-on-Craig, was proceeding from that village to the westward, along the bye-road to New port, passing by the farm of Scotscraig, he met with a serious accident, by which his horse was killed, and his own life put in imminent peril. The night was extremely dark, and in consequence, horse and rider went to one side of the road. Within about sixty yards of Ferry-Port-on-Craig there is a deep quarry of nearly a quarter of an acre in extent, the brink of which is within a few feet of the road, and totally Unpro tected by any fence whatever. Dr. Laing's horse unfortu nately went too much to the right, and slipped its foot over the quarry. Finding the absence of terra firma, the animal endeavoured to recover itself, but finally leaped forward into the quarry, a height of at least nineteen feet perpendicular. Dr. Laing firmly kept his saddle until he reached the bottom, and the preservation of his life is solely to be attributed to that cause. He escaped with scarcely a single bruise. The horse was dreadfully injured, and died on the spot. GLOUCESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—The pro ceedings of the half-yearly meeting of this company, on Tuesday, were highly satisfactory, as evincing full confidence in the judicious management of the directory. The comple tion of their line should urge on the railway from Bristol to Gloucester, as the connecting link between Devonshire and , ----- HOURS OF BUSINESS.—W e p erce i ve th a t th e A ssoc i a ti on the extreme north of England and Scotland. The traffic of Assistant Tradesmen of Liverpool have prepared a requi- upon this extended line, when opened throughout, mnst be sition to the mayor, (now lying for signature at the news- immense, and will be participated in by all the companies paper offices and other places,) requesting him to call a having an interest in it. public meeting of ALL CLASSES of the inhabitants of the MAYNOOTII.—We have intimated our conviction that the town, for the purpose of inquiring into the complaints of Romanist aggressive system is part of every popular move the assistants—arising from the long hours they are confined ment in Ireland. The workshop of that system is at May to business. All persons will now have an opportunity of I nooth, and we trust that the conservative party will be so far expressing their opinion upon the justice of their complaints; true to their professions on the hustings, as well as to their and should they be found reasonable, as we believe they will practical professions in parliament, as to assist in the hives be, we hope the public, as well as the employers, will co- tigation of the affairs and conduct of the Maynooth establish operate with the association, and we doubt not the causes of ment, which murt arise upon Mr. Colquhoun's motion of the complaint will then speedily be removed. We are told Tuesday next (this day). For ourselves, we look upon this that the Rev. Fielding Ould, on Sunday evening last, gave a investigation as nothing inferiur, eitner in interest or impor most impressive sermon in behalf of the assistants. tance, to the debate of the present week, and members of the DEATH FROM FRIGHT IN A GAOL.—Considerable ex- conservative party in the House of Commons can approach citement prevailed at Monmouth, on Friday, in consequence the question with this advantage, that the result of the May of a report that a prisoner (John Taylor) had died suddenly nooth debate, be it what it may, holds out no prospect of in Monmouth Gaol, having been sentenced to three months' place to any one. As we have before said, there would be a i manifest inconsist ency i n t h ose w h o h av e so honourably re imprisonment, th e l as t wee k t o b e so lit ar y. "The last fea i sisted the effe ct o f t h e M aynoot h system s h unn ing an inquiry ther breaks the back," an d th us it was with poor Taylor. On Thursday evening, when he was about to be put into the into the cause of that effect—an inconsistency to be explained condemned cell, for the last week of his imprisonment, he told only upon the degrading hypothesis, that the first service of the cook of the prison that he should never live the week out fers a clue of place—the other does not. Ministers, we have —that there was " something walked there," and he should heard, boast that there shall be no house on Tuesday, or that never come out alive. At supper-time Taylor asked the cook they will early count it out. The conservatives will be dis to give him another can of gruel, which the latter refused , g race d , and will deserve to be disgrac ed, should the b oast be saying he should b e l oc k e d n p if he did. During the night realised. —Standard. some of the prisoners heard him cry out, as if in fright ; and COLD-BLOODED MURDER.—A man named Evan Evans, on the following morning the turnkey found him dead. The gamekeep e r t o Mr. E. Lloyd, of Rhaggat, North Wales, wa s jury returned a verdict of died from apoplexy, produced by lately missing ; and from the discovery of his clothes, bloods', the effect of superstitious dread of solitary confinement. The in the house of Mr. Chubb, a tailor, that person was appre place in which th e d ecease d was put i s t h e con demned cell in hended. It now appears that the wife of the prisoner has which Frost was confined, and is called the Round Tower. stated, that on his return home on the evening of the keep- The late fire at Wynyard, the seat of the Marquis of Lon. er's disappearance, he told her that he had " settled Evans," donderry, was distinctly visible from the turrets of Hylton i that he had called him out on the Saturday night, and had Castle, near Monkwearmouth, a distance of nearly 20 miles. led him about two miles from his house, pretending to show him some snares that had been set • that during the walk he his pistol had missed fire ; and that the game on OF IRELAND —EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR. —w e . tried to shoot him from behind no less than three times , but hear that an investigation is going on in the Bank of Ireland on a most extraordinary circumstance which was yesterday , keeper, being deaf, did not hear the noise, and mistook the morning discovered to have occurred. It would appear that, I flashing in the pan for a gleam of lightning that that each time failed these attempts he led i • ;ha v ing on closing the cash-room after business on Wednesday, s ome person or persons contrived to have secreted themselves f um to the bank of a certain lte quarry, which he described, and having told him look . _ . there, and had succeeded in breaking open the door of the aboutslate for the wires, struck safe, in expectation of a good booty, but found themselves ' and thrust him A O ,a v t e e r r , intoan thedthat attheer pool a and dwasther six e wasyar yards fall die p o . l impeded by a second door, which resisted every effort to force 1 2hyard i s n to tle it open. The whole affair is involved in the greatest mystery, Th e b o d y h as b een f ound in the place described, and a ver . and, of course. has produced great excitement. — Evening diet of wilful murder agai ns t Chubb has been returned by the paper. coroner's jury. —Carmarthen Journal. Mrs. Whately, the lady of hii grace the Archbishop of Dublin, while walking on the Donnybrook-road on Saturday broke one of her legs. We are glad to hear she is in a fair way of recovery ouse of The radicals, fir to th CANTERBURY ELECTION were no grounds for the petition presente Commons against the return of the Hon. G. P. S. So have very prudently declined to proceed further w petition, and the hon. gentleman's seat will not there disturbed. THE MERCERS' LECTURESHIP. — On Tuesday morni the Rev. Mr. Dale preached the first sermon aft pointment to the lectureship, at the church of St. N Lothbury. The service commenced as and the rev. gentleman chose for his t usual a t 1 Cor audience was quite as nun in the time o predecessor, the venerable Rev. Mr. MELANCHOLY INTELLIGENCE.—A country correspond ent writes as follows, under date Feb. 9, 1841 :—" 1 am sorry to say that I have no particular news to send, as no person has been murdered or accidentally killed here of late ; so we are very dull at present."—Sunderland Herald. s I'HEATR OUTRAGE AT THE BIE.MINGHAN, nesday evening, the audience of the Birmingham Theatre suddenly became much alarmed in consequence of three large tissue paper bags of flour being simultaneously thrown from different parts of the gallery into the pit. The conster nation this diabolical act mated in all parts of the house — but particularly in the pit—cannot be described. The per sons in the pit all hastened in a state of great terror to the doors, believing the roof of the theatre was falling in. The cries of the females were most distressing. One of the bags of flour fell upon the bead of a gentleman in the orchestra a second in the centre, and the third at about the fourt' bench from the centre box in the fit—the whole of NO was speedily enveloped in a cloud of dust. For , - there was but one person injured in the terrific rush to escape from the house, a female, who was knocked down when struggling at the door. In consequence of the general alarm in the gallery, the scoundrels who committed this wanton outrage were not secured, but in consequence of information that was conveyed to the police-officer on duty, a fellow named Thomas Jackson, was taken into custody during the night. He was brought before the magistrate on Thursday morning, at the public-office, and it was proved that he threw one of the bags of flour. The magistrates ordered him to enter into recognizances to appear at the sessions at Warwick to take his trial for the offence, and not being pre pared to do so, he was committed. CHILD MURDER.—One of the most atrocious cases of child murder that has ever come to our knowledge, was discovered on Wednesday last, through the activity of Mr. M`Dougal, our superintendent of police. It appears that, about thirteen weeks ago, a young woman, residing with her mother and sister in a house in the Craigs of Stirling, was delivered of an illegitimate female child, but it had scarcely drawn the breath of life ere it was doomed to meet with a cruel death from the hands of the unnatural grandmother and aunt.—No sooner had the child begun to cry, than the grandmother said " she would soon stop its squalling," and after procuring a piece of cloth, which she saturated with oil, and wrapping the infant within it, she placed the whole upon the fire, having first stirred it up, in order to insure a speedy dissolution. These are the facts of the case, so far as they have reached us, and we understand that the grandmother, mother, and aunt of the deceased child have been apprehended by Mr. M`Dougal, and after being examined by Sir John Hay, they were committed for further examination.—Stirling Journal. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—We are exceed ingly happy to state that there is no foundation whatever for the paragraph which has appeared in several of the daily papers, stating that her Majesty Queen Adelaide was suffer ing from a severe cold. On inquiring at Marlborough House this morning, we were informed that the Queen Dowager was in the full enjoyment of her usual good state of health, and that her Majesty had not been suffering any indisposi tion, or in any manner prevented from taking her usual daily exercises. The band of the Fusileer Guards did not play in St. James's Park either yesterday morning or this morning, but we are happy to state that the health of the Queen Dowager was not the cause.—Standard, Thursday. The Carlow Sentinel states that last Sunday, after the ce lebration of mass in the chapel of Mayo, in the Queen's County, the doors were closed, and the congregation obliged to sign two petitions, one in favour of Lord Morpeth's bill, the other against Lord Stanley's. The respectable farmers who were confined for a considerable period were very in dignant at the course pursued, and on the following day upwards of 200 Roman Catholics, residing in the district, signed a petition in favour of Lord Stanley's bill. This journal further states, that " there is a general feeling favour able to Lord Stanley's bill amongst all those who comprehend its object, and the salutary effects that would follow its enact ment." On Sunday last, the officer in command of some Roman Catholic soldiers belonging to the 47th depot, removed them from Longford chapel, in consequence of the officiating priest using violent and exciting language in his sermon in opposition to Lord Stanley's bill.—Morning Herald. UPSETTING OF A CONVICT HULK . — On Monday, the Thames frigate, which has been lately converted into a con vict bulk, and fitted up at Deptford, was being hauled out of dock towards her berth off the victualling yard, when she got aground on the " slip" close to the wharf, and was laid on her beam ends, in which position she continued until Tuesday morning at three o'clock, when she was hauled to her berth intended for her, where she is destined to remain. The old convict ship, which has for so many years lain in the same place, has been lately broken up, and the Thames sub stituted in her place. There are 300 convicts on board, and they were somewhat alarmed when the ship went aground, but none of them received any hurt. ATTEMPTED MunnEß.—draig, the unfortunate man who was so desperately injured in the Sussex County Hospital, by a fellow-patient named Clark, is going on much better than could have been expected. It has been satisfactorily ascer tained that Clark was suddenly attacked by a paroxysm of in sanity, and it has been requisite to keep him under the re straint of a strait waistcoat. A considerable degree of sensation was occasioned on Monday, in the neighbourhood of the Old Market, Bristol, from the fact of a funeral having been stopped by the police on its way to the churchyard. Rumours had been flying about for some days that the deceased, who was a married woman of the name of Caroline Frost, had been brutally beaten by her husband, and that she died in consequence. A coroner's inquest has been held, and it appeared that, al though Frost had wounded the deceased some time ago by throwing a key at her, which struck her on the eye and de stroyed the sight, that was not the cause of death; according to the testimony of the medical gentlemen who had examined the body, death was caused by an internal tumour in the head, verdict to that effect was returned. CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—This wonderful struc ture is now rapidly progressing, and great interest is felt by scientific men in this city, as well as many from a distance, in the important operation of fixing the chains, which we hear will shortly be done. The masonry has elicited the un qualified approbation of all who have inspected the works. — Bristol paper. AMERICAN TROTTERS. —The Americans, who derive their best breed from us, have hitherto been able to produce horses greatly superior to ours in trotting, and the only possible reason for this must be, that they early habituate those horses that appear likely to shine at this pace to stick to it and no other, which they certainly would never think of doing were their trotting powers likely to be ierounerated by no more substantial benefit to their owners than mere fame. The trotting stakes on the other side of the Atlantic, however, are sufficiently large to induce the Americans to turn their attention to improving a pace which, when rendered first rate, is sure to be rewarded by ample pecuniary gains ; and there can be not doubt that were similar prizes instituted in this country, we should very shortly be able to compete with brother Jonathan in a pace which he has so studiously culti vated as to be able at the present moment to send horses to this 'country which throw down the gauntlet to our best trotters.—Old Sporting Mayazinefor February. SUICIDE.—On Friday week, as a boy was proceeding through Hornsey-wood, near London, he was exceedingly terrified at beholding the body of 'a respectable-looking young man suspended from a tree. He instantly ran oft; and gave information to a policeman, who proceeded to the spot and cut the body down, and carried it to the station house, where it was 'found to be quite dead. Every inquiry was made for the purpose of tracing his friends, there being nothing on his person to lead to the discovery of who or what he was. His remains were subsequently recognised, when it appeared that be was clerk in the service of Mr. Castles, wine -merchant, of Aldersgate-street, City, and his name Alfred Croley. He did not attend, as was his usual custom, at his employer's house on Friday week, but in the morning of that day he left his wife and four children, in a dejected state of mind bidding them " adieu." On the same day he sent a letter, addressing it' to' Mr. Castles, stating that he had committed himself, and defalcations would be traced in his accounts, and he could never face him again ; and by the time he (Mr. Castles) would receive that letter he should be no more, as he intended to' put an end to his existence, and if they thought proper they would find his corpse in Hornsek-wood. On examining his accounts con siderable defalcations were traced. He has left his wife and family in very indigent crcumstances. A letter from Berlin of the 18th ult. announces that the nuptials of the King of Holland with the Countess of Oul tremont were celebrated on that day according to the rites of the catholic religion, in the palace of the Princess Albert, his daughter. The witnesses of the ceremony were the Prince and Princess Albert, Count de Perponcher, minister of the Low Countries, in Berlin, and M. de Brauchitsch. a general in the Prussian service. The countess arrived in Berlin on the 14th, accompanied by her brother. She alighted first at the St. Petersburgh Hotel, and afterwards removed to a private dwelling. Our private letters state that the newly married couple were about to proceed to the Hague, to the chagrin of the reigning sovereign. The last case offatal duel which came before the House of Lords was in 1776 or 1777, in the case of Lord Byron, who was tried in Westminster Hall, for the murder of Mr. Wm. Chaworth. Lord Byron had a dispute with Mr. Chaworth about the best method of preserving game. The conversation occurred at a dinner patty at the Star and Garter Tavern in Palace-yard ; and his lordship, two hours after the dispute was erided, and while the company were leaving the house, beckoned Mr. Chaworth into an empty room, and then shut ting the door, bade him draw his sword. After one thrust and parry the parties closed, and Lord Byron, shortening his sword, ran it quite through his antagonist's body. This is a case of duelling, and a very bad case of duelling, for the en counter took place without witnesses, yet of all the peers of parliament assembled upo❑ this trial, not one pronounced Lord Byron guilty. Four pronounced him not guilty, gene rally, and the rest, not guilty of murder, but guilty of man slaughter. REMARKABLE WILL.—One of the masters of the Court of Chancery has this week, in ascertaining who are the next of kin of Thomas Spooner, Esq., late of George's-yard, in Lombard-street, London, deceased, decided in favour of a poor old woman residing in Salford, (a client of Mr. W. Banks, solicitor, in this town,) by which a surplus fund of personal estate undisposed of by the will of the deceased, amounting to £15,000 and upwards, will now become distri butable equally between her, another, and the widow of the deceased. The proof adduced by Mr. Banks in establishing his clients claim as one of the next of kin, and upon which the master in chancery has decided, will also hereafter, if the legal necessary steps be taken to perpetuate that testimony, establish the claim of the " heirs at law" to the testator's real estates in Middlesex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, all of which are devised to the widow for life, (who is still living,) and upon whose decease, real estates to the amount of £70,000 will descend to the testator's heirs at law, who at present are two poor labouring Men, one residing in Westmorland, the other in Lancashire. Most strange to relate, the testator by his will, after b equea thi ng pecun i ary l egac i es t o his friends a and relations, amou n ti ng t o £25,000, ou t o f his personal av e tate, proceeds as follow s :—" l a t present (1837) the ee residue my f real estate after th e d ecease o f m y my personal estate undisposed of." kin and heirs at law to make out their Twhifues,kilea andv odred in the besting his next of way they could ; he himself having 63 years ago o left 21, and annad ti v e place in West m orland for London, whenears al) never afterwards recognising any single relative of his either in Westmorland or Yorkshire. The inquiry has produced an innumerable number of relatives e in . the p family, who neith er knew nor before heard of each oth r res t on paper. DEATH OF THE EARL or ROSSE. — We regret to announ ce the death of the Earl so floßrdossshiep,,swrheiscihdetnoceok, Brightonpl_acelast. Wed nesday The evening , a deceased was in his . 83d year, having be en born May 21, 1758. He succeede d his uncle in 1807. B y h is wife, Alice, dilighter . of Mr. John Lloyd, he has left four children, the eldest of whom, Lord Oxmantown, who formerly represented King's county in parliament, is in his 41st year, and married, in 1836, Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. John Wilson Field, by whom he has several children. The late peer was one of the representatives of the Irish peerage sitting in the imperial parliament ; his death consequently craw a vacancy in the nmaber of that body,