The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. AMERICA. The Cambria arrived on Thursday evening from New York. She left on the 30th ult., and brought 73 passen gers and £3OOO in specie. The Britannia arrived at Boston on the 26th ult. - s nothing new from Mexico; everything remains government is daily gaining strength. continues in an undisttirlied state. - Britannia has had the effect of opening •i the United States to the folly of the eyes of the 16 t n contributing their earnings to th ye them The excitemer money-marke t 109 to 1091. is more easy It of the grain market i 5. ?an demand wou k upon the government of the republic, and for inciting to civil M. de Lamartir le is unfortunate His book s dropped almost still-born. It is forgotten in a week. He made an efforton Thursday in the Assembly, which has been followed by a check which fief months since would have been thought an impossibility Montt he amendments which conveyed his ideas on the mo tritons question of incorporating in the constitution the inciple of the English poor laws as they existed before 1, was rejected by an enormous majority, 1 parties in the chamber, except the so- _ rs of Sunday state that the stormy sitting l Assembly, on Saturday, had been termi ated by a resolution to leave to the Executive Govern ment the responsibility of sending special commissioners into the provinces. The Pa of the Na Warlike prep, Turin. The ITALY Lrations continue to be made with activity Austrians were said to be equally on the The expec FALL OF MESSINA departure of which from Na gin on the 31st cornmenc it one o'clock in les and children, fore ,ers and the taken refuge on board the French and British -ds. All the property and valuable furniture e nouses and palaces had been previously removed ie interior, and literally nothing was left in thr !s uuc rnairasses to place against the windows so as Ike loopholes. Barricades and entrenchments were din all the principal thoroughfares. Persons of all s and conditions, including even priests, monks, and children, bad laboured incessantly night and day in unpaving the streets and forming barricades. During the night between the 2nd and 3rd, a constant shower of shells was interchanged between the citadel and the town ; those thrown from the citadel were fatally destruc tive, those thrown from the town are reported to be ill aimed, and to have mostly exploded in the air. At eight in the morning the troops landed east and west of the city, when, after a fierce bombardment, Messina was taken by the Neapolitan troops. Later intelligence states that Messina, having been set on fire by the Neapolitans, was abandoned by the inha bitants, who, however, had mined it, and, after retiring from the city, sprung the mines, and blew the Neapolitans into the air. The National Bank at Athens has been authorised by the legislature to suspend specie payments till April 1849. The Empress of Brazil was safely - delivered of a son and heir to .the throne on the 19th of July last. A manufactory of woollen cloth has been established in South Australia. On account of the numerous conflagrations which have occurred at Constantinople, the Sultan has ordered tim ber to be exempted from all duties until the year 1853. The number of bakers in Paris is 604, who are divided into four classes, according to the amount of business. The first class consists of such as bake upwards of four sacks of flour a-day, and the fourth such as bake less than two. OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH IN FRANCE.—M. Bonte Potter, mayor of Lille, has, at the request of the Municipal Council, called a meeting of the government contractors, and requested them in future to suspend all works on Sundays and holidays. The Philadelphia American mentions that the Siamese twins, After being in private life for ten Years, will start this autumn on a tour of exhibition, as they each have a wife and three children, and find it necessary to provide for their increasing families. MAJOR (LATE LIEUTENANT) EDWARDES.—This offi cer has been promoted to the local rank of major in the Lahore district, in partial reward for his distinguished services against the Moultan rajah. It is expected that he will also receive an honorary distinction at the hands of her Majesty. SHAMEFUL INTOLERANCE.-The Governor of Malta has withdrawn the annual grant of £lOO hitherto voted to the Infant School at that place, and the Roman Catholic Inshup , a being termed a ' Protestant School," prohibited the pa rents of his flock from sending their children to it. One little girl, who was receiving 16s. Bd. per month by way of encouragement as a monitress, has in consequence been compelled to retire! FIGHT BETWEEN AN ELEPHANT AND A RHINO CEROS.—A few weeks since, at Albany, while a menagerie was at . Galway, an elephant broke off some of the fasten ings to the cage of the rhinoceros, thus letting him loose. A fight immediately took place between the two animals, in which the rhinoceros was thrown to the ground. Upon rising the rhinoceros gave the elephant several upward thrusts with his prodigious horn, wounding him severely. The rhinoceros then escaped to the woods. THE DEAD SEA.—Some months ago a party was sent out by the United States Government to explore the Dead Sea. It appears that they have most satisfactorily com pleted their task, having been upon the sea in their boats, or encamped on its borders, for some two months, and their researches and estimates have been of the most tho rough and interesting character. They have sounded the sea in all its parts, to the depth of 600 fathoms, and found the bottom crystallised salt. The pestilential effects at tributed to the waters turn out to be fabulous. Ducks were seen skimming over the surface, and partridges abounded along the shore. The party are at present vi siting the most interesting places in the Holy Land. AN INDIAN EXECUTION.—The New Orleans Crescent of the Bth of August says,—" On last Saturday night, at Mandeville on the other side of the Lake Pontchartrain, an Indian murdered an Indian, by stabbing him with a large knife. A son of the murdered man immediately gave information to two of the tribe, and they took the of fender into custody. On Sunday morning a court, com posed bf 10 Indians, was formed to hear the case and pass sentence. The proofs were most conclusive, and the pri soner was at once condemned to death. Whereupon he was measured, his grave marked out, and he himself set to work digging it. When the grave was finished a rifle was placed in the hands of the murdered Indian's son for the purpose of doing the execution. At the first shot death was not produced; the second shot also took effect, but did not kill, and the stoical violator of innocent life fell into his grave, and was there finally killed, and covered with earth as he lay. CURIOUS STATISTICS OF THE LATE INSURRECTION AT PARIS.--Amongst the insurgents tried and transported to Algeria for the part they took in the insurrection in Paris,, we find professional men, artisans, workmen, arti ficers, and every variety of trade and calling. It is some mhiOratuarkable that the number of cabinet-makers far exceeds any of the others, though strange to say they were " cabinet"-breakers — that is, they attempted to break up the ministerial cabinet of the period. Of these there are 213, of labourers 161, of mechanics and black smiths 107, of locksmiths 80, of masons 79, of clerks 59, of poets and literary gentlemen 4, of writers of novels 2, of knife-makers 1, and so on down along list of other vocations. Amongst them are 7 architects and only 1 gunsmith. The total is 1830, so that 18 more would have given one for each year of the world since the Christian era. Three of the convicts are but 13 years of age, and six of 14. The others range from 15 to 70, and one is aged 76. _ _ . - ZOOLOGICAL CIIIIIOSITY.—The Paria Prase gives the following account of a young ourang-outang, which has just arrived in France, and been added to the collection in the Jardin des Plantes. The animal is only six months old, but presents in appearance the aspect of a serious and meditative child of three years of age. lie makes none of those jerking movements, or contortions of countenance, which are so characteri stic of the " ape" species ; nor Is that absence of sustained attention, so common to mon keys in general, in any way remarka ble. He is calm--nay Almost affectionate, and gives the keepers that pass by his cage the most hearty shakes of the hand, with the same air of semi-solemnity that would be assumed by an old Arab. His diet is very recherche, consisting of chocolate, roast meat, wine, and even liqueurs. As he comes from a very hot climate, the greatest precautions are adopted for the exclusion of cold, and the little creature is accordingly put to bed between a large cat and a very shaggy dog, all three animals being covered up with a thick mantle of wool. During the day the ourang-outang is clothed in a red blouse, after the fashion of the " Greek" design of the curtains of the empire, and white pantaloons. IRELAND. Lord John Russell has been subpoenaed as a Witness by Smith O'Brien. Ten sovereigns were, it is said, handed with the subpoena, which, however, Lord John declined to receive. A letter has been received from Rome, according to which Dr. M`Hale has succeeded in inducing the Pope to issue another rescript condemnatory of the Irish Colleges. the polite solicitations of the Earl of Clarendon notwith standing. The Dublin Herald declares that the correspondence found in Smith O'Brien's portmanteau implicates four Roman Catholic prelates, one of them an Archbishop, and declares that Lord John Russell's visit to Irish shores was itn consequence of a disagreement between him and the Lord Lieutenant ; Lord Clarendon desiring that equal justice should be meted out to all traitors, while the Pre mier insists on the expediency of an amnesty to the cleri cal rebels. X declaration has been presented to the Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland, by a deputation of the nobility, clergy, gentry, &c., in favor pf the union between Great Britain and Ireland, signed by 80,000 persons. The following is an analysis of the signatures :—Peers, 110 ; eldest sons, 10 ; bishops, 12 ; baronets, 68 ; deputy Lieutenants, 330 ; never- left by the poi Sir Thoma to take the Casa le the begin the is a striking similarity 1 IM.P.'s 44 ; fellows of Trinity College, 30 ; justices of ' black with the assembled multitudes, which continue to peace 1010 ; deans, 19; arehdeacons,l9 ; beneficed clergy, pour in from all quarters. Our informant most positively 568 ; barristers, 270 ; solicitors, 200 ; physicians and sur- asserts that there cannot have been less than from 20,000 geons, 260 ; merchants, 104. to 30,000 men, partially accoutred and generally well THE WIDOW CORMACK.—This person, whose name has , armed. Last night, fires blazed on every hill in the counties been spread far and wide by chattering fame, continues to of Wexford, Tipperary, Kilkenny, and Waterford." hold daily levees at Farrinroy. Crowds of people from all At Carrick-on-Suir, on Friday, the soldiers succeeded quarters have paid their respects to her, and been received in capturing nine of the rebels, and twelve more with in the kindest manner, She takes great interest in show- Pikes were taken by as many of the constabulary a day or ne her visitors all the localities rendered famous by the two before. battle; her house still remains in the same dilapidated The Cork Constitution, of Saturday, the must honest as it was left by the police on the memorable day of Paper published in the south of Ireland, contains the fol gement, the port holes they made in the back wall lowing account of what has been done by these misguided many other mementos of men :---" On Monday morning, large masses of armed Lsion. All the barricades men were to be seen moving from all directions towards in the same state as they Clonmel, and who were to have been encamped on the hill. Here they were to have remained until the military Id police appeared, who if overpowering in number the , and to keep up a retreat harassini to the soldiery ice, and if by this movement the army and consta were detached the rebels should take circuitous routes, so as to concentrate at an appointed position, _and telling those who offered an excuse that their - houses and property would be burned that night, and they and their families would be piked. The chapel bells were also rung during the day, which was a signal to move to the rebel camp, and that night, as well as the previous, the hills were lit up with signal fires. Monday night large parties left Clonmel, Kilkenny, and t- sions they ae villages, armed and provisioned, to join the insurgents on Carrick mountain. The rebels, had to pass through Portlaw, and endeavoured to induce the police in the sta. ther having been complied with, a skirmish took place, the police discharging their carbines effectively from the house. while the result of the rebel volleys was merely smoke and noise. Here the insurgents must have suffered severely, for they retired in the greatest confusion. This proceed ing having been reported, the police, in conformity with previous orders, prepared to leave the out-stations and concentrate. Shortly after a rebel band was decried moving towards the polim-cation at Glenbower. This is at the toot of Shevenamon. wita.A4 about eight miles Prom Clonnael, where the Kilkenny mail coach and Blanconi's car change horses. At this moment the police of that, station were packing their luggage on a car to abandon the pony to the Nine-mile-house station men, who were re ported to be on march to join them. This was in con formity with a regulation, that when the coustabulary move on towards or wait the arrival of the men of other stations, so that they might form a body less likely to be ineffective. Perceiving the rebels coming, in the direction of the station, the Glenbower- police removed from the car their ammunition chest and arms, 4 retreated •into nouse, which ..ney proceeded to fortify as well as time and material would permit to defend their position and their lives. The banditti, which numbered about two hundred men, having arrived in front of the station, all apparently armed, a number of them set to work examining the contents of the car. While this was going on, a man, who appeared to coni= mand, and who was of a superior class to his followers, walked up to the station and got into conversation with one of the inmates. The policeman determined to post pone the affray as long as possible, expecting every mo ment to be reinforced by the men from Nile-mile-house, had recourse to the stratagem of appearing to fraternise' and induce his associates to do the same, A colloquy ensued, and Ireland's rights and Smith O'Brien's peril wsre freely discussed until a shout was heard outside, and the rebel party rushed in the direction of the road the Nine-mile-house men were expected to travel. In a moment after shots were fired, and the Glenbewer men, fearing their comrades were in danger, opened the door and came out, and immediately they perceived seven policemen retreating to the station-house. There they received their comrades in arms, and the reinforced body, now numbering 15, retired into the building, deter mined to expend their ammunition and sacrifice their lives, or be victorious. They had scarcely taken up their positions, when the rebels rushed towards the house, but were met with a volley from within. This threw them back for the moment, until their leader leaped over the small road wall in front of the building, when his fol lowers rushed towards it, but stopped short, perceiving that he fell from a shot from the police. Another, how ever, followed the daring example, and the result to him was the same, while every fellow outside on the road, who came within carbine range, was popped at by the police. The fire having been kept up at both sides for about twenty minutes, there was a cessation on the part of the assailants, who retreated, taking with them a number of men dead or wounded, but leaving after them the bodies of the two shot within the wall, and which none would dare to remove. This transaction having been reported at Callan, a distance of twelve miles, a party of the 75th Regiment, and the head quarters of the 83rd, proceeded to Glenbower, and returned at five o'clock the follo w i rg morning with the fifteen policemen, the two bodies of the rebels, and the baggage. An inquest was held yesterday on the bodies. During this time several other police station houses were attacked by the advancing rebels, but being found unoccupied were sacked, and some of them burnt. The slate quarries station, near Aheny, was amongst the latter. The same day a party of the rebels, on a mission for arms, men, and commissariat, visited the hop,q. -r le farmer, named _ woom they required wall his tviv _ them bringing with them their fire-arms and whaeprovi sions were in the house. Hahessy replied that he sup nnsed they would take th. .rm. •• mould not join them, and he hoped his so n s would . follow his example. This they were not satisfied with, and though they excused his presence they insisted on that of his sons. After some threatening, the sons proceeded with them, and the father followed, imploring them to return. He was warned by the commandant of the party to retrace his steps, but continuing to follow and beseech, one of the ruffians turned round, and, levelling his rifle at the unfortunate man, shot him dead, and then proceeded on their route. Another party visited the house of a blacksmith, nicknamed Gowbeg, who lives on the moun tain, where they met a young man the son of Dr. Coch ran, of Clonmel. This gentleman had gone there for a few days to fish in the lakes at Comfee, carrying also with him a gun. Having taken his gun, one of the rebels said, " He would spy," and he was ordered on his knees to be shot. The young man fell upon his knees, imploring of them not to take his life, which they disregarded, until Gowbeg's wife threw herself upon him to protect him, and then they declared it would be a waste of ammunition to shoot him. They next directed Gowbeg to make pikes of what iron he had, for which they would call the next night, and if they were not ready both he and his wife would be piked. They then, about a hundred in number, proceeded on " their mission." Two of the fellows who left Clonmel to join the rebels were fallen in with by the police and arrested. Each was armed with a pike and car ried provisions on his back. The name of one of them is Quirke, a cutler by trade, and the other named Murphy, a ladies' boot and shoemaker. On Wednesday night the residence of the Rev. Mr. Hill, at Moate-hill, within about two miles of Carrick, was attacked by a party from the adjacent mountain, and his arms demanded. These were refused, and the rev. gentleman and his son fired a few shots through their windows to announce that they were prepared. These were answered by shots from with out, but the party kept out of range and in a short time retired with a fiendish yell, when it was discovered that his out-offices and haggart were on fire, all of which were destroyed. The same night, about ten o'clock, over 500 armed men passed along the Stieragh mountain, opposite the town of Clonmel, in the direction of Carrick. 'Nothing can exceed the spirit of disaffection that exists among the labouring population throughout the three counties, and which there is no hope of suppressing, un less an engagement should take place between them and the military. SENTENCE ON A SOLDIER.—The sentence on the soldier of the Athlone garrison found guilty of having cursed the Queen and cheered for repeal, is seven years' transporta tion—a warning to red-coated sympathisers. The military are in active movement, and we may now hope that an end will be put to these insurrectionary disorders. ;IrtiE LIVERPOOL STANDAIth. It is mentioned in the AI .11 Buxton :—" The plan w 00 men each to enter Dublin— another the barracks and rnterri.l. ~.,-,...... 1 the other the evenin- They were opposed by 17 yeomen ; and these brave rebels, who were ready to sacrifice their lives for their liberty, af ter four rounds ran away from this small body. FAMILY FIGHT k sanguinary conflict took place at es, on Monday, under very strange circum- It appears that some time ago a neighbouring farmer married the daughter of a man named Cleary, with whom he was promised " a fortune." Owing to some cause, the fortune was not forthcoming in due time, and 7 process of lairh laidher. Accordingly, on Monday, =pitied by an armed band of " friends" and ser- vants, who were plentifully supplied with pitchforks, reap ing hooks, scythes, &c., he went to the house of his father-in-law, an old man of the name of Cleary, to dis train for the amount of his fortune. Cleary and his sons, with their servants, met him near their residence ; when, after the interchange of hot words on both sides, the con flict commenced, and raged fiercely for some Lim.. until blood flowed abundantly on both sides, old Cleary having received three desperate cuts of a scythe on the head, from Is of which his life is despaired of.—Tipperary maleator. rOAIENON.—Utt aturdav morn en in a boat fishing, off Quig n of a very strange de- ved a phenom, lurid aspect, so much so t 'ere apprehensive t there would be a heavy fall hen almost instantaneously the clouds to the I parted, and an opening, as it were, of a reddish me visible, to which their attention was directed. ere appeared in the heavens a regiment of men in uniform ; and so minute was the representation that Then t the dresses of the officers could be easily distinguished from those of the men. This passed away in a panora mic manner, and was quickly succeeded by the view of two large three-masted vessels of war under full sail, which traversed the same space as their predecessors on the scene, and at length they faded from the sight. The mysterious vision was not, however, yet completed : for their wondering eyes now beheld the appearance of two human forms, male and female standing with their faces towards each other; as if engaged in conversation ; and so vivid was the outline of these figures that they distin guished the male from the female, the former being appa rently clothed in a frock coat. This aerial personation of humanity occupied about the same space of time as the two first mentioned. This most bewildering scene was closed by the forms of a swan and a peahen moving across and disappearing; after which the sky assumed the som bre hue which it wore previous to this strange illusion. Our informant stated that one of the men who witnessed this scene was filled with the greatest terror during its con ti nuan ce.—. Derry Sentinel. ANOTHER ATTEMPTED INSURRECTION IN IRELAND. The Dublin papers of Wednesday give the first details of new outbreaks of the populace in the southern districts of Ireland, and we give a synopsis, which we shall follow up by any further particulars that' may transpire, pre mising, however, that the state of affairs is not nearly so alarming as some of the newspaper placards would lead one to suppose. There ivas a partial outbreak in Waterford on Tuesday. The first outrage was the stopping of the mail from Dub lin, at the bridge of Granney, on the Suir, about a mile and a half from Waterford. The passengers were de tained for some time, but nothing being found upon them to denote their being " detectives," they were liberated without personal injury. The parapets of the bridge were thrown down, and the stones laid across the road-way. An attempt was afterwards made to blow up the bridge with gunpowder, so as to prevent any communication or despatches from the seat of government r e ac hi ng Water ford, but this was frustrated by the arrival of a body of police, who took possession of the pass. In consequence of information that the police barracks at Portlaw had been attacked, a police force was sent out in that direc tion, and the rebels were purstied and dispersed. On the same day, several carmen proceeding from Clonmel to the railway at Thurles, met crowds of armed parties, who were all enquiring what occurred at Clonmel, and seemed to expect some great event to have taken place. Water . P7essreache - tViraTaord,fiaa Curraghmore, inforrnincr ' the authorities there that large parties o f arme d i nsurgen t s were passing through the demesne on their road to Car— rick. A large body of troops, consisting of soldiers, ma rines, and police, were forthwith ordered to march to Curraghmore. Each man was served with 120 rounds of ball cartridge. Sir. C. O'Donnell was the general in command of the forces at Waterford. On Tuesday after noon, the road and country between Carrick-on-Suir and Clonmel presented the most deserted appearance. Few persons were to be seen, and the labourers had deserted their occupation. One correspondent, dating Tuesday afternoon, says,—"At Kilshelan a few clusters of persons, chiefly women, were to be seen. A little further on I was informed by a gentleman that Mr. O'Mahony had a re view of a large body of armed men, estimated at nearly 1000, last night, on a road leading from Slievenamon to Carrick, which they lined at either side for a considerable distance, and who are supposed to have gone on towards Curraghmore." At Newtown Hill the insurgents had formed an encampment, and the military were encamped at a short distance. On the previous night Curraghmore was attacked by the insurgents, who, it was said, had suc ceeded in carrying off three small pieces of cannon, but this wants confirmation, though it was generally believed. At Carrick-on-Suir alarming rumours prevailed on Tues day. One account states,—" Seven confederate leaders are said to have imitated the tactics of the military, by getting up a 'flying column,' whose 'quick and sudden movements are the subject of general surprise • one time, at the hill of Carrickbeg, another at Lowry's:bridge ; in the evening encamped at Curragbrnore wood, and away at Kilmacthonias in the morning. Informers themselves are puzzled in giving secret information to the authorities as to the whereabouts of the rebels, their movements are so daring and uncertain." Dobeny had taken command of the Waterford rebel division ; that of Tipperary was under O'Mahony. The Marquis of Waterford's house is strongly fortified : it has a guard of twenty-one men, who do duty in turn, night and day. There are eight pieces of cannon mounted. and always ready ; two of them are swivels, capable of being moved from room to room, for which there are portable machicolations, so as to enable them to be used for any window, as occasion may require. One correspondent, writing of Doheny, says—His manner of life his hair-breadth 'scapes , by flood and field—an inhabitant of mountain caves and wild forests— now surrounded by a band of armed desperadoes, and anon a fugitive flying before his eager pursuers—his history of late has been full of the wildest adventure. It is most extraordinary th a t h e h as escape d arres t so l ong , not withstanding the large reward offered by government, and the unremitting vigilance of the police. We have been assured by a gentleman that within the past' week he has been repeatedly seen in the neighbourhood of Slievena mon ; a countrywoman told him that on one day he passed and repassed four times within view of a police barrack in that quarter, in company with Ur. 01.1ahony, who is said to be his constant companion ; it is also said that both of them were present at Coughlan's farm, when 1500 men collected, professedly for the purpose of reaping his corn. Rumours from Kilkenny, which are not yet authenti cated, assert_that a the took place on Tuesday, at Portlaw, between the police and insurgents, in 'omen some were killed on both sides, Another report asserts that the same morning eight hundred men armed with pikes marched through Coolnamuck wood, from the county of Waterford, to join the insurgents at Aheny-hill. The Kilkenny Moderator publishes a letter, in which we find the following passage :—A gentleman from Kil maganny assures us that he had conversed with a person who had obtained a very near view of the rebel camp upon Aheny hill, and saw a large force being drilled to the exercise of the pike, whilst others were engaged in slaughtering cattle and cooking at an immense fire lighted on the centre of ththill. Ile likewise states that there were three pieCes - of cannon on the hill, which the rebels had obtained by a successful attagk on Curraghmore House. The same papery of Wednesday, says, that on the previou4 night fires were blazing on all the surround ing hills. Two of the insurgents, having pikes upon them, and a supply of food, were captured on their way to Slievenarnon mountain. The Kilkenny Moderator of Wednesday says :—" The main body of the rebels, said to be 4000 strong, is en camped on Aheny.hill, in the county of Tipperary, but immediately adjoining the slate quorries in this county. The position is an extremely strong one, and :every pos sible measure appears to have been taken to add to its security. There is no doubt that leaders of some military experience are in the camp, and the peasantry are being regularly drilled. They are chiefly armed with pikes, but many have rifles. We are given to understand Richard O'Gorman is said to be the chief in command, and Do hen', is also said to be amongst them. The commissariat is regularly supplied by the neighbouring farmers, who voluntarily send in cattle and other provisions, knowing that otherwise they would have to surrender them by compulsion." In a collision which took place at the Glenbower station, the Dublin Herald says that two policemen have been wounded, one dangerously, by the insurgents, who, on their side, had an equal number killed. Amongst the rebels who were repulsed in the attack on the police station, four or five persons, wearing the uniform of the 'B2 Club were observed. The same paper seems to con firm the previous account, that the rebels had captured three pieces of cannon in a successful attack on Curragh more House, the seat of the Marquis of Waterford. The Waterford Chronicle, under date Tuesday night, says— " The high grounds which surround Carrick are literally agiarmsz d ,V4t3t2,-:;:z...z.k•..• . . - • MORE GEMS FROM THE ' HUE AND CRY.' From the above publication of Thursday, we take the following, under the head of Cork County : Description of two cows, the property of Michael Hur ley, &c. Ist. " Three vears old ; head and neck white ; short horns in calf" (P) 2nd. " A few white spots on the back, and long horns in calf" ! (Valuable horns I.llv-nr. 1.7 DesCription of a mare stolen from Daniel Kenneally— " A red mare has a bed mouth about 14 hands high" ! (This mare must lave ruined any man—a mouth 14 hands high would be capable of drawing in a small cock of hay at spun.). The following is given in full ; it is under the head of the County of Dublin ; the property is described as be longing to R. G. Talbot, Esq., parish of Monkstown : " One silver inkstand, with a niece for two bottles, one being oval glass in the centre, two grooves for pens which stood on four ,feet marked with a cockatrice's crest " ! " A gentleman ' s gold ring, with a light lavender stone, with a man's head engraved on a lady's small workbox" ! (It will prove rather a tough job to unravel the above paragraph.) From Kildare there is a description of a mare stolen from a Mr. Andrews, the tail of the animal being valued at £lB ! (Quere—What is the value of the mare when the tail is worth the above sum ?) It appears that heifers attain'an age in Londonderry County never heard of in other parts, for we have the description of " A heifer, 12 years old," which was stolen from Mr. S. Church, of that county. (C ows i n Con naught, we are told, have long horns; well, here 's a match for them—heifers in Londonderry twelve years old !) From Meath, amongst other things, there is a descrip tion of a "vagabond " " named John L ee , conta i n i ng the following paragraph — brown eyes which appears as if he had shaved off his whiskers !" Mr. Pat. Naughten, of Mayo, lost a heifer, described as " all white, except a little, and one of her horns." The following is a Monaghan bull : — Description of two yearling calves—lst, a bull; 2d, a heifer calf; all red or yellow! John M`Namara, of Farnans, Queen's County, lost a mare, which is described as " bettreena pony a n d a h orse, with a long tail, about 14 hands high' , ! (This tail is just the size of the mare's mouth, No. 1.) Thomas Wright, one of the Ballingarry rebels, is de. scribed as " very talkative, and thinks himself a great politician. Supposed to be at present in the city or Cove of Cork, as he sailed for America from Liverpool on the 13th August " ! ! ! _ In Tuesday's publication of the "Hue and Cry," our ld friend Head Constable Taylor (who described the pis al found by him, and which he stated bad several inthi. amsmai:itd ble marks) has impi4oveti Oh the pistol—the round barrel UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. is now described as a square barrel." John Sexton, one of the " rebels," who was described Dr. Lee has resigned the professorship of Hebrew at in a former number of the " Hue and Cry" as having I Cambridge University. " two blue eyes, and blind of one of them," is set out in The Rev. Dr. Hinds, rector of Castleknock and first Tuesday's publication as" with one blue eye," and "blind chaplain to the Earl of Clarendon, is to be elevated to the Qf one eye.' vacant Deanery of Carlisle. The rev. gentleman is an Such are the gems of the two last numbers. Englishman, a Master of Arts in Oxford University, and a protegd of Archbishop Whateley. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY,. JUIIILEE YEAR.— The annual meeting of the Church Missionary Society, held at Exeter-hall on the 2d of May last, having deter mined to commemorate the entrance upon the fiftieth year of the society's existence, the Ist of November has been selected as a suitable day for a Jubilee Commemoration, and all the friends of the society are invited to observe that day, or, if local circumstances render that day inex pedient, some other day as new as possible to the Ist of RAILWAY AFFAIRS, The traffic on the Chester and Holyhead Railway for the week ending 9th September, was,—Coaching traffic, £l7OB 13s. Bd.; steam-boats, £199 14s. ; parcels, £72 45.; goods and cattle, £126 7s. 7d. Total, £2106 19s. 3d. It is understood that the secretaryship of - the North- Western Railway has been given to Mr. Stewart, a gen tleman who took an active part on the side of the dissen- Cents in the late Birmingham and Oxford dispute. lowing such officers, he will be tried by a severe test. THE LATE ACCIDENTS ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—The expenses caused by the late accidents, including all claims, will amount to about £2,600. The relatives of the late Colonel 13' h.-- November, as a season'of praise and thanksgiving for the success which has attended the society's efforts, and for humiliation and prayer in respect of the neglected duty of diffusing the Gospel throughout the world. On that day a sermon will be preached by the Archbishop of Canter bury, the Vice-Patron of the society, before the commit tee and friends, in St. Anne's Church, Blackfriars, at which church the first seventeen anniversary sermons were preached. On the 31st of October, a sermon will be preached in the same Church, by the Rev. Edward Bick ersteth, Rector of Watton ; and on the 2d of November, a public meeting will be held in the Great Room, Exeter hall, at eleven o'clock, to receive a statement from the committee of the results of the labours of the society dur ing the last fifty years, and for commemorating the epoch. A Special Fund has also been opened as a thank-offering, and for the extension of missions. —aird have, in intention not to be company FURTHER OPENING OF THE LEEDS AND THIRSIC RAILWAY.—On Friday week, Captain Wynne, R.E., in spected that portion of the Leeds and Thirsk raliway lying between Weeton Lane, near the river Warfe, and the city of Ripon, an extent of 18 miles ; and on Thursday it was opened for traffic between Weeton and Ripon ; making a total of about 28 miles of this line which is now available for the public uses. THE NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.—MI.. Hudson, who has . lately become the purchaser of the Newcastle and Carlisle, and Yfaryport and Carlisle Railways, is likely to become the possessor also of the North British. At the half-yearly meeti ig of the shareholders of this line, held on the 13th instant, a committee was appointed to nego tiate with Mr. Hudson. It is said the terms will be six per cent. for three years, and seven per cent. in perpe tuity afterwards. From official returns it appears that the amount of traf fic for the last week, on 4,060 miles of railway, was £221,867, thus accounted f0r:—£119,126 for the convey ance of passengers only, £47,805 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £54,936 fo r passengers and goads to gether, not respectively apportioned ; ',ping an increase of £14,280 over the corresponding week of last year, when the-mileage was 3,188._ The average earnings per mile were £54, whilst in 1847 they were .£65. SPEED AND POWER ON THE NARROW GAUGE.—An eight-wheeled engine of Stephenson's, on the long-boiler and outside-cylinder principle, has recently been put upon the London and North-Western Railway, for the purpose of taking the heavy passenger-trains between London and Birmingham. The engine has a 7-feet driving-wheel, an 18-inch cylinder, and, we believe, about 1200 feet of heating surface. We took a trip with her a few days since, and found her to be equal to a speed of 52 miles per hour, with 110 tons, down an , incline of 16 feet per mile. We think that when the driver—Matthew Hall, a very careful, experienced, and intelligent man—has got the engine into thorough working order, he will be able to take a train of 100 tons at a speed of about 56 miles per hour down an incline of 16 feet per mile. Our own opinion is, thet the "average consumption of coke by this engine will not ex ceed 401bs. per mild with the heavy trains upon the Lon don and North-Western. The engine weighs between 32 and 33 tons, in working order.—Railway Record. WROUGHT IRON BOWSTRING GIRDERS FOR BRIDGES. —The Mining Journal has published a diagram represent ing a wrought iron rib or girder, now being employed in the construction of bridges, of 120 feet and 130 feet span, at Messrs. Fox, Henderson and Co.'s establishment, the London Works, near Birmingham, under the superin tendence of Mr. Joseph Locke, C.E. M.P. On Wednes day se'nnight, one of these girders was publicly tested at the works, in the presence of C a pt a i ns Si mmons an d Wynne, R.E., the government inspectors of railways, and upwards of a hundred other scientific gentlemen and en gineers. The bridge-rib had been erected, ready for proof, in an open space in front of the London Works, and pre sented a clear span of 120 feet between the bearings. It is constructed entirely of wrought Iron, and consits of an arch of boiler plates and angle iron, tied across at the ends . by horizontal bars ; and the tie bars are so connected with the arch by vertical standards, and by a double system of diagonals. which have the effect of distributing over the whole curve of the arch the action of weights placed on, or passing over any point of the bridge. The proof was applied by subjecting the beam to a load of 240 tons, being double the weight of a continuous train of locomotive en gines, which was placed upon it in successive portions, commencing at one end, so as to imitate, as nearly as pos sible, the effect of the passage of a train over it. The ut most deflection, under the extreme load of 240 tons, was 34 inches. FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE ON THE RAILWAY.—A terrible accident happened on the railway between this city and Cheltenham, on Friday. Six navigators in the employ of Mr. Blinkhorn, the contractor, were working on the line about a mile on i ,this side of the Midland sta. tion, when their atteution—was - .engaged by an unusually long luggage train which approached o n the down line. The unfortunate men *desisted from their labour, congre gated on the up line; arid gazed intently on te train, to count, we are told, the 'numbe r o f 't ruc k s of w h ich it was composed. They knew not that they were numbering the few remaining seconds of their existence, which was passing away as swift as the train ' . for suddenly they were cut down by a Great Western train from Gloucester, which sprung upon them unawares. Three of the unfor iiii-17fuily wi:;;;;SeißklUeir Meitii - einliniiirigiagirgel° The sixth man mirac'ulausly:eScaped unhurt. The train was stopped as soon as possible; and' backed to the spot. The scene was frightful; .five fellow creatures who, a few moments before were. blessed with strength and health, lay extended, on the. ground dead or wounded ; one of them was dismembered,, his arms and legs having been cut completely off, and they were strewed along the line ; and the rest were more or less mutilated and bloody. The unfortunate men were immediately conveyed to Chelten ham, and the two who still breathed were received at the Hospital. One of the three killed has left a very large family, and all of them we believe are married men. -We understand that the driver of the Great Western blew the whistle to warn the men of their danger, but either they did not hear it, or else they were so paralysed by their danger as to be unable to escape.— Gloucester Chronicle. COURT AND FASHION. THE• QUEEN'S VISIT, Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Countess of Gainsborough, Viscountess Canning, and the rest of the Royal suite, attended divine service on Sunday week at the Established. Church of Scotland, at Cratchie. The service was performed by the Rev. Mr. Anderson. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort make daily pedes trian excursions into the neighbourhood of the royal resi dence, and by their condescension and affability win more and more the affections of all classes. On Saturday week a crowd of reapers were sent home happy by a visit of her Majesty to the scene of their labours. The interest which the Queen has alw4s manifested in the prosperity and honest employment' of her humblest subjects led her to the harvest field, where she spent some time in witnessing the occupations of the reapers. The great Highland gathering took place on Thursday, at Invercauld, and was honoured with the presence of the Queen and Prince Albert. After . the arrival of the illus trious party, the national sports of " throwing the ham mer," running, dancing, &c., were proceeded with, and appeared to afford great pleasure to the august visitors. After witnessing the games, her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured Mr. Farquharson, of Invercauld, with a visit, and partook of refreshments: The Queen, the Prince, and royal children, and the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, afterwards returned to Balmoral. A HIGHLAND BALL.—On Thursday, after the High land games performed at Braemar before the Queen, a great number of chosen gentlemen (including the Duke of Athol, the Duke and Duchess of Leeds, Earl of Aboyne, Countess of Gainsborough, &c.) were honoured to dance before her Majesty a variety of Highland reels and strathspeys. The ball-room was fitted up in a marquee capable of holding about eight hundred persons. It was divided into two compartments, the one being appro priated for the ball in the evening, and the other for the use of the chieftians with their clans. The ball-room was superbly decorated. The flooring was of the smoothest deal, about a foot from the turf. Along the sides of the marquee there were two tiers of raised seats, dressed with heather and wild flowers ; the west end was arranged into five sides of an octagon, with an elevated platform and rich crimson -ouchionad couch es. A splendidly covered sofa in Anis, .1....ax.n01c swum cot for hoz Maiostv and. Prince Albert, and placed on a carpeting of clan-tartan. The marquee was supported in the centre by five pillars, dressed with flowers and *evergreens, topped with deer's heads and antlers. • The eastern division was formed of wicker-work and evergreens, interspersed with variegated lamps, and ornamented with deer's heads and antlers. About a thousand variegated lamps were hung in rustic chandeliers, and disposed like fringed drapery at intervals from the wings of the roof, and altogether the effect was such as to excite the most agreeable surprise. The dancers were all in the Highland garb, and went through the dance with great spirit. The sword dance, which is performed in the angles of crossed swords, was a great feat. When the exercises were over, the dancers selected each the best in his clan, and her Majesty presented the prizes to the men in the most condescending manner. Her Majesty will leave Balmoral on the 23rd for traddo House, the seat of the Earl of Abeideen, and embark at Aberdeen on the 25th or 26th instant. With one consent the London papers, having seen her Majesty'safe in her Highland retreat, have left her there to enjoy herself free from the inroads of impertinent curi osity. The bare announcements of the Court Journal will therefore be nearly all that the public will know of the doings of the Royal fugitivei to Balmoral. The forest of Balmoral, which is about fifty-four miles from Aberdeen, affords a rare combination of mountain, wood, field, and flood. The deer forests extend to the summit of the far-famed poetical Loch-na-ghar. The mosses of this district abound with grouse, and the beau tiful mountain itself is the resort of abundance of ptarmi gan and the white hare. The whole forest includes an area of from fifteen to twenty miles. The castle, which has been recently built, is most felicitously situated'on a rich platform, on a winding of the river Dee, possessing in its immediate neighbourhood a niost charming contrast to the noble and -rugged • scenery with which the forest abounds. The Duke of Wellington has left town for Chatsworth, on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Henrietta Somerset leave immediately, to join the distinguished circle assembled at Chatsworth. Miss Hudson, daughter of G. Hudson, Esq., ALP., is about to be united to Mr. Dundas, eldest son of Dun das, Eq., of Dundas. The moulage is expected to take Place before Christmas. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. LORD GEORGE BENTINCE.—In a letter dated the 6th instant, this nobleman states that the report respecting his alleged intention to visit Ireland is purely imaginary. In it he says, " I am not a Repealer,, though I probably may entertain a very different opinion from you which country would be the gainer, and which the loser by a repeal of the union. It was not so much through the hos tility of the English members, as through the desertion and hostility of the Irish members (many of them Re peelers), that in February, 1847, Ireland lost the oppor tunity of obtaining a loan of sixteen millions of English gold, at £3 7s. 6d. per cent., to stimulate the construction of private enterprise,. of railways in your country. Una nimous in Palace-yard, on one Tuesday, in favour of the proposition I then brought forward, on the Thursday se'n night the same sixty gentlemen, having seen the Prime Minister at the Foreign-office in the interval, voted two to one against giving railways to Ireland. Out of 105 re presentatives which Ireland possesses, 28 only, if my me mory serves me correctly, would vote for that loan to Ire land. Two-thirds of the Irish representatives present declined this measure—the rest took care to be non est in yentas at the division, which was the hour of Ireland's need. Read the division list, and you will find there many more true friends of Ireland on that occasion among the supporters of the Union than among the Repealers." WANT OF A PROTESTANT PARTY.—There never was a moment more favourable than the present for the forma tion of an efficient Protestant party. But the men are wanting. By some singular delusion, many men who ought to have been foremost in such a work, did not see it to be their duty, in July, 1847, to enter Parliament. Sir Culling Eardley preferred to devote himself to the Evangelical Alliance, and now he will have to oppose the endowment of Popery as a petitioner, when he might have opposed it with greater power as a legislator. Mr. Butt. the friend of M`Ghee and M'Neile, thought it his duty to follow his profession, and declined a seat. Mr. Finch, tired of the disheartening work of Parliament, quietly withdrew. Sir Digby Mackworth was started for the only place where his success was likely to be doubtful. The presence of these four men, with the addition of two or three more that might be named, would wonderfully change the complexion of the House of Commons. It is not many days since a very distinguished member of that House (not Lord Geo. Bentinck) was discussing with a friend the state of parties, and used the following language :—" You talk of the Protestant feeling of the country, but I want to know where lam to find it ? The Protestant gentry of England, where are they ? If you would only give me two men, resolved and able to fight that battle, to stand by my, side, something might be done. But for these two men I look in vain." Such is the fact. And the consequence naturally follows. Sir Robert Peel de serts, Lord Stanley hesitates, because the people do not themselves make a stand for Protestantism. And that the people are backward, is too often to be attributed to the backwardness of those who ought to take the lead. It is time for this Protestant nation to awake; for further and enlarged mischief to the Protestant cause is deter mined on.—Record. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER RACES WEDNESDAY The Sr. LEGER STARES of 25 soya. each, h. ft., for three year olds, the second to receive £3OO, and the • third £lOO. St. Leger course. 132 subs. Lord Clifden's Surplice .. Nat 1 Lord Stanley's Canezou F. Butler 2 Mr. B. Green's Flatcatcher Robinson 3 Mr. Humphrey's Escape Holmes' 0 1 NEkrattig0,9119.412.144-ivelan,: i Q. Mr. B. Green's Msault. t. Wintringham 0 Mr. Parr's Sponge Whitehouse 0 Mr. R. Stephenson's Cannibal Betting-7 to 4 agst. Canezou (taken), 9to 4 agst. Surplice, 7 to 2 agst. Flatcatcher, and 9 to 2 agst. Justice to Ireland. After one false start they got off in pretty good order, Assault and Flatcatcher being first off, fol lowed by the Justice, Surplice, and Canezou. This lot ran in company to the hill, where Assault declined, and Flatcatcher went on with a great lead, which, with Justice to Ireland second, he held to the Red House, where the Irish nag was beaten, and the two favourites went on in waiting on Flatcatcher to the distance, where they closed up with and defeated him, and ran in almost head and head to the end ; Surplice winning in the last two or three strides by a neck, Flatcatcher a bad third, Escape fourth, and Besborough fifth. THURSDAY The GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and only 5 if declared, 200 added ; the second to receive £lOO, and the third to save his stake. St. Leger course. 71 subs.. 40 of whom declared. Lord Glasgow's Miss Sarah, 6 year old Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair, 6 year old 2 Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor, 4 year old 3 FRIDAY. _ _ The CuP of 300 sovs. was won by Mr. Merry's Chanticleer, beating Ellerdale and Van Tromp. 7 to 4 on Van Tromp, 3 to 4 agst. Chanticleer, and 6 to 1 agst Ellerdale. Won easy by a length and a half. Run in 4m. 50s. SPECIMEN OF THE POPE'S LIBERALITY On the occasion of the canonisation, a few days since, of a Peter Claver, in the first place, Pius IX.. proclaimed, ex cathedra, the validity of two miracles necessary to qualify a new saint about to be canonised for his place in the calendar. The sifting and public approval of miracles which have happened a sufficient time back to prevent the inconvenience of living witnesses is so common an occur rence at Rome that this circumstance would have excited little attention, but for the fact that the proposed saint, Peter Claver, was a member of the Jesuit order. What the particular miracles were with which the memory of the holy man has been illustrated is not mentioned in our account of the transaction; our readers may, however, rest satisfied that his life was sufficiently miraculous, for he laboured so successfully as a missionary amongst the negr')es that, as the legend assures us, he baptised, during the forty years which he spent in his mission, upwards of three hundred thousand blacks, that is, seven thousand five hundred per annum, or at the rate of more than a score a day. The fact of the saint elect being a Jesuit, and the cause of his sanctity being advocated by a Jesuit, was sufficiently significant at a time when the order of Jesuits has ceased to have any publicly recognised exis tence at Rome. But, significant as this circumstance was, Pius IX. gave additional zest to the proceedings of the day by delivering himself of the following tirade against Protestantism. After paying a compliment to the order founded by St. Joseph Calasanzio, and acknowledging o the encouragement tnrres rr ar the zeal of the fathers, his Holiness went on to say that " he prized this consolation - all the more highly, as he had lived to be afflicted by the temerity of those who had ventured to in troduce into Italy, all Catholic as it was—yea, into the very centre of Christendom—Protestantism, by means of one of a thousand, yea, of ten thousand accomplices." The reader will note the "reciprocity" of the expression. At Rome, according to the "•Sovereign Pontiff," to hold Protestant opinions is sufficient of itself to make a man a criminal ; the mere profession of Protestantism, and the endeavour to propagate it—common to all religions sin cerely held and exeecised—is adverted to in terms gene rally employed in referring to criminal machinations. But let us hear more. " They (the ten thousand accomplices) expresi the most ardent wishes for Italian nationality"—good citizens, therefore, so far, according to the definition of the Pope himself, who took the lead, it will be remembered, in the crusade for Italian nationality—" and in order to serve th a t cause they make use of abominable means, directly calculated to destroy it." He ar it, most P res b yter i an Lord John, the propagation of Protestant opinions is pro nounced an abomination by that Roman Pontiff with whom you were so anxious to open relations of amity, for whom your Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has so pro found a veneration ! Listen, we entreat you, to the Pontifical Throne, which desires free liberty for Roman ists in England, and by way of " reciprocity" would gag good Protestants in Rome ! "At the moment," proceeds the Holy Father, when Germany, animated by the same spirit (of nationality) acknowledges the diversity of religion to be the greatest obstacle to the end proposed, so much that the Protes tants form projects of union, men are to be found in Italy who, without dreading to cause an immense religious scandal as well is an immense political danger, attempt to introduce the pestilential seed of separation from the unity of the faith, on pretence of bringing about the unity of the nation. This is what the blindness of passion leads to. Let us pray God that he may scatter these deeds of darkness; and relying on the Divine promise, let us re member that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church." Such are a few of the evidences of amity and good fel lowship which Rome desires to set on foot in her nego ciations with Protestant England, and in demanding reci procal concessions from her Protestant Government. Sept. 19, Is4B. POPERY THE " MYSTERY OF INIQUITY." FEARFUL DISCLOSURES, (Prom the Morning Herald.) It will be retnembered that about a year and half ago considerable alarm and indignation were excited by the discovery that a young Cambridge student, named Morrigo had been offered a dispensation by the Romish clergY, permitting him to remain in Cambridge, to continue his studies, to feign himself still a Protestant, deceiving both his parent and his tutors,—he having been, in fact, ad mitted into the Romish church. Dr. Wareing, the Romish Bishop of Northampton, in dignantly denied the charge; but it was clearly proved that the young man himself had, in the simplicity of his heart, spoken of the offer ; and no reasonable doubt could remain that such a proposition, immoral as it was, had actually been made to him. On that occasion, however, the wickedness was onlr contemplated. We had a glimpse, it was true, of the morality of the Romish Church, but it was only a glimpse. The last few days has brought to light another case, in which this same atrocity has been absolutely per petrated, and that for a series of months ! The Rev. Dr. Hook, the Vicar of Leeds, has just pub lished a sermon, preached and published " with reference to a late act of apostacy." Of that act of apostacy he thus speaks, in a preliminary address : " I preached this sermon on love to the Church of England, and, at your request, I publish it, because, as you are aware, 11 clergyman has apostatised to the Church of Rome, who, a few months ago, was officiating as a curate in this parish. I wag desirous of laying before my congregation, in one short dis course, the important subjects upon which I am accustomed to enlarge. Mr. Jephson was recommended to me as a curate, by a clergyman holding a high position in the Irish Church; who informed me that Mr. Jephson had at one time been unsettled in his principles, but assured me that he was now devoted to the interests of the Church of England. He showed me a letter from Mr. Jephson, in which he expressed himself to the same effect. Mr. Jephson, who had been curate of Wilby, in Nor folk, produced the necessary testimonials, signed by three beneficed clergymen, and countersigned by the Lord Bishop Of Norwich. To me he was a perfect stranger, but he declared himself to be a decided Anglican.' His license bears date the Bth of January, 1847." The date is important. In January, 1847, we beg our readers to observe, Mr. Jephson became curate of Leeds, and he continued to hold that curacy until Mid summer of the present year 1848. He remained in Leeds until August, the month which has just passed away , mingling with the clergy and laity, as a clergyma n o f the Church of England, and never uttering a word a nnv preference for Popery. In August he left Leeds, profes sedly to seek the restoration of his health, and avowed - 11 purposing then to take another curacy. But then, adds Dr: Hook : "A few days after they had left Leeds. and two months after he had resigned the curacy on account of ill health, Mr. Jephson sent to the senior curate of the parish church an insulting letter, in which he announced the fact that he, together with his wife, had been received at Birmingham into the Church of Rome." This might be considered somewhat strange, but what will our readers say to the following ? "Judge, ge• tlemen, of the surprise which, under these cir cumstances, I experienced when I received information, last week, that Mr. and Mrs. Jephson had been received into the Church of Rome, not on their quitting Leeds in August, 1848, but in the year 1846, before his coining to Leeds ; that, even, then, while professing himself to be ' a decided Anglican,' he was actually a member of the apostate Church of Rome. Of this fact you may receive the proof by referring to The (Roman) Catholic Directory Almanac and Ec:lesiastical Regis ter,' for 1847, of which a copy will be left at the publisher's. This work, which was published in January, 1847, is of indis putable authority, being the annual register of the Romanists, which is issued permissu Superiorum. At page 186 y ou will find the following passage : " CONVERSIONS.--111 the directory of last year we chronicled a few of the leading conversions to our holy faith, most of which were then recent. We now give the names of other converts, who made profession of the (Roman) Catholic faith after the direptor) went to press, and also the names of others who have since been admitted into the church. The list, though select, is by no means complete, for we have reason to know that other distinguished names could be given. Were an enumeration made of all the converts since our last publication its vastness would excite surprise. The names of the new converts we now give as follows.'—Then follow the names of 14 clerical apos tates, the fifth name in the list being that of the Rev. J. M. Jephson, curate of Wilby.' At page 187 a list is given of other converts,' and in that list occurs the name of Mrs. Jephson, who is described as Mrs. Jephson, wife of the Anglican minis ter, who also became a (Roman) Catholic.' " Thus it appears quite clear, and beyond the possibility of doubt, that Mr. Jephson was received into the Church of Rome in the autumn of 1846, and being so received , his next step, taken, doubtless, with the approbation of his new spiritual guides, was to offer himself to Dr' Hook, as curate of the parish church of Leeds ! That this implied no sudden revulsion,—that he did not fly from Protestantism to Popery, and then back to „,Pr ° i testantism again, is clear from this circumstance : there were several Romish priests at Leeds, w h o were ful ly apprised by this same Catholic Directory of hi i : ni version. And had:they believed him to be a recr eant their body, resentment would have led them to dea ° , — i a him. But beyond question they we re ma d e acqual ll 4 3,e with the part he was acting, and quietly followed t instructions they received. Here, then, is the appalling FACT; long able but now established in the most positive and irrefrag as manner, that a man has been publicly ministering, a f the most clergyman of the Church of England, in c) one the while, important churches in all England, he being, all - of neces sity', publicly-professed Romanist, and therefore, Church of sity, a hater and detester of the Protestant England, and a contemner of her rites and her belief. The fact, it is clear, shakes the very ground under our rw 41. nr;t_ nnhtliavp, we bit an apostate clergyman, willing to deceive—to act a part: : to assume a false character ; but we have also the Rornisn, authorities in this country, ready to give, in this, and doubtless in other cases, what they offered to poot . MORRIS, DISPENSATION to converts, to appear and profess themselves whatever may tend to advance "the interests of the Church." And this readiness neces sarily spreads a wide distrust. How many men have we in the Church of England, who have long pro fessed Romish doctrines, and whose apostacy has been expected for years past, as a natural and proper act on their part ? But they do not apostatize, or rather,- they do not openly apostatize. What is the inference suspected, which must be silently drawn by many minds ? Dispen sations are ready —are promptly offered, by the Romig) authorities, to persons in these circumstances. Who , then, can tell, whether the Puseys. Dodsworths, Bennetts, are, or are not, actually Romish Priests at this moment. They may be such, and yet be still ministering among Or that fact Dr. Hook has now established. they act as such persons would act, that is open to all men's view; Who can help wishing that such a " my s t er y o f i n i q uity as this miscalled " Church of Rome" were thoroughly understood and appreciated among us, alike by our bishops, our legislators, and our rulers both in c h urc h and' state ? This poor man must, we apprehend, when licensed /a the first time in the diocese of Ripon, have anew subscribea the Articles of the Church of England,—those Articles which, in the plainest terms, and under a variety of header condemn the doctrines of the Church of Rome ! Yet he had just before submitted himself to that Romish systems and had avouched his belief in those very doctrines which,. at Leeds, be disclaimed ! What a religion i s that o f Rome ; or rather, how truly does Scripture term it—the mystery of iniquity ! VICISSITUDES OF TRADE (From the Times) The problem is to distinguish between real and fictitious prosperity, between an increase in permanent trade, and that which is merely the result of a transitory crisis. Bx traordinary prosperity in our manufacturing districts fiS invariably followed by a reflux. The Registrar in his 1 report instances the case of Birmingham, and discusses ft length the fluctuations in its trade. Increased demandg, that town, realising to the masters increased profits, to th e men increased wages, to the boys rapid promotion, is a' eertained now to have but a limited term. For five YeTi it lasts—the sixth is the year of reckoning. The vi,,,er ; at h an a nd s nti ha occasion -emle nt ad but asnp o Archipelago. for oibpremal brass rods, tdheszaoent and lamps. occasionlam p dolls, s. fi f r o e ri Chinar o s o ns t n , e I :I:k g and no more. Now, it is found that in five years' tit% the Birmingham men, w h en th ey se t th emse l ves to wel l , with a hearty g oo d w ill, can supp l y th e h uman race„ ll 7. more of these arti c le s th an th e y can can consum e. ing this heyday time, " youths have married, the expen ture of families has been increased, e m ployers have en ture larged their establishments, and young men have open e d new factories—fo r th e p ros p er ity a t th e ti me appe ar s _ perpetual." What really dues happen during suc" e ir f l u tonic jubilees is merely an anticipation of the wages , e `„„d ture years. The tide ebbs more rapidly than it flowed' '- an increased population, habituated to an increased ex penditure, is thrown out of employment. The Registrar' General, finding the " tendency to marriage" beginno.3g: to operate again on th e p opu l at i on o f B i rm i ng h a m at tno . beginning of this yea r , o ff ers th em t h e f o ll ow i ng v ery sen sible advice : " Without discussing the great question of the currenal! appears anything but unsound advice to recommend the P; - ,,, v e ple of Birmingham, in the periods of prosperity to rae,f (which I hope are not far distant, for they began tom ;ia again in the spring of 1848), t o d epos it a par t o f th e ir incre. d profits and wages in security for at least six years, .at the " Or o which time it is probable they will find it a co nv enient reeotes, to fall back upon until prosperity returns ; and should th,e,,nanti value-one-pound,' ever supersede the sovereign, or t u ' o ilor 4 gusted I promise to pay,' it would still be prudent to P es ts the same course, until they find by experience that the tep_% o f s of the trading atmosphere are for ever stilled by the flight s talismanic paper." The case of Birmingham is of course given but ea,„"eidico gratiii ;—Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, are exPn. s ele. precisely the same vicissitudes and fluctuations °' nd nus- More than this, the interests of the agriculturoV' r crocen nufacturing districts are now so inextricably inv oei ning that the loss of the one has ceased to be even the ers sPe gain of the other. We shall hear no more of farr a d -• • distress' misting upon high prices in years of commerels , E ss ex, Huddersfield and Lincolnshire, the Potteries an number of 572,625. At the present moment, must stand and fall together. ' Mea • nwhile we have to consider the number of e b,ir t t u h : young, men, women, and children, there are registered in England alone in the year 1840 reach S a nd ol ba , i , Pro ~ '2, about 29,000,000 of us struggling for life and food 'Vol; year 1846 the emigrants from the United Kin the narrow compass of these little islands ; and yet, In 14 King of "'.. not reach the number of 130,000. This is a sta , te l o s t . s_l',. ciety which has not yet been known in the world'h: t 07 0 Did we not feel convinced that remedies shouldatten we bhe evils, and are 'suggested by their very nature, . be disposed to regard with alarm even any increas I! the the development of our commercial resources, vvinis. see its inevitable consequence in the returns of the.,73Bre trar-General. But we cannot recede or stand sti t u. ;01 .. possible. are now fairly embarked in a career where r etreat 15 '