The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

SEC( zrgh Maga, street. We aagazine, itant and f carried tin et a Loz ir. 04 ucted ZIALS - aye availed our read with ii ner to those who on of ou We are 1 details, a .uitory d Ibled t 6 st pen of the writer in 1, will sliortl, Is usual excellent. T ,reclusion of Carleton Rev. Hugh 111`Neile, it Irishmen, from th m have borrowed free zine. Edink!rgh : This is the f it deserves reserved for early notice :--! nen, by Dr. Wm. Henry Ro, Cambridge Review ; Nation, Letter on' the eubjec !Ives of .esting. which Iterest, would lescrip eficien- ate that Frazer, appear le most l's Tale, in the 4e latter ely. J. W. have received the first six fich is very promising. The re church. "The Progress nigh the first volume, show n in families by the employees ;ively read. 'st num- Cr: Pall Mall, No. 16 great judgement. Treatise )bertson, ?al Edu. I of the ; The Church Warder; The Settle -Irf the Poor considered ; The neces ' statistics of food considered; lifaudes- —After making herself k up a book which Lady Constance t was at hand, and said, Do you know this ?' And Tan (Ted, opening a volume which he had never seen, and then turning to its titlepage, found it was The Revelations of Chaos,' a Startling work iust published, and of which a rumour hail ' No." -‘lied, ' I 1- reached him. , ne reps. _ save not seen it.' I will lend it you, if you like ;it is one of those books one must read. It explains everything, and is writ ten in a very agreeable style.' It explains everything !' MONUMENTAL FLOWERS.—The flowers which the Chinese plant on or among their tombs are simple and beautiful in their kind. No expensive camellians, mou tans, or other of the finer ornaments of the garden, are chosen for this purpose. Sometimes the conical mound of earth—When the grave is of this kind—is crowned with a large plant of fine, tall, waving grass ; at Ning-po wild roses are planted, which soon spread themselves over the grave, and, when their flowers expand in spring, cover it with a sheet of pure white. At Shangliae, a pretty bul bdus plant, a species of Lycoris, covers the graves in au tumn with masses of brilliant purple. When I first dis covered the Anemone Japonica, it was in full flower amongst the graves of the natives, which are around the ramparts of Shanghae : it blooms in November, when nament to the last restin, Wanderings in China. -places of the deid -Fortunes IMMENSE EXTENT OF ANCIENT NINEVETI.—For the space of thirteen or fourteen centuries, we cease to have the guiding light of the Scriptures respecting the locality, nor does profane history supply any; but in the time of the prophet Jonah, about 800 8.C., Nineveh had reached her high and palmy state, and become the seat of regal power. - emphatic indication o, its general pre-enainence in the narrative of the Divine " exceeding great city of That great c messenger'l three days particularly define ey on foot to be intended, or a caravan its extent will range from forty-fly( ted whether ) Sixty .e to apply this dis ! city from one ex- tremity to the °flier, or to the compass of its walls ; but sta the former supposition gives incredible dimensions, and the latter only an extent equal to that assigned by profane authorities, its circuit is no doubt meant. The statement, that the prophet " began to enter into the .city a day's journey," and delivered his message, has been thought an objection to this idea, for it has been understood to signify that it took him that time to reach le place of public resort, appropriate for the discharge of his mission. But granting this, the site in question, perhaps the neighbourhood of the imperial re sidence, for the proclaimed danger of the city was speed ily brought under the monarch's notice, may have been at the extremity opposite to that at which he entered, so that he paSsed through it from end to end in the period seeeified. It is true that if it had been built as a square like Babylon, then, taking its length at one day's journey, its compass would have been equal to a journey of four; but, as we are expressly informed the city was oblong in shape, the two sides parallel to the Tigris being nearly twice the length of the two others, we may clearly con sider the one day's journey to describe the length, and the three days' journey the circuit. The walls of Nine veh circumscribed an area equal to that of Babylon. Diodorus Siculus states its dimensions at 150 stadia long, 90 broad, and 480 in circumference. Assuming, as is b ro b a ble, Olympic stadia to b e meant , or the distance etween the two ends of the foot-race at Olympia, the principal Greek measure, the circuit of the city would amount to about fifty-five miles. Now, Xenophon, in the retreat of the Ten Thousand, twice states the Greeks to have made twenty parasangs in a march of four days, or five daily . ; and as a parasang is equal to 30 stadia, their day's journey amounted to 150 stadia. Herodotus, also, in measuring the royal road from Sardis to Susa, allows 150 stadia for a day's journey. This is the length ascribed to Nineveh, the distance compassed, according to the view given, in the day's journey of Jonah ; and the representation of it, as a city of three days' journey in circuit, and its assigned circumference to 480 stadia, are closely coincident, especially when we remember that the Greeks, in estimating distances, allowed a certain number of stadia to every day, independent of the casual hin drances or facilities that might arise to progress. In the regions of civilizaiion, no parallel case exists, or what may bo deemed an approximation to it, of a city occupying such an extent of ground.—Lowe'a Edinburgh May. in produen ries of.sket ar columm he Dublin a short m, ;ry of port Of which ii w Lowe's Edi Lowe, 58,- Loi numbers of tk polities are r of Error " a of pgpery.-(:!u Sharpe, Skinn6 ber of what pro e wish it t The Pari The followi on Diet and liegi M.D. ; Oxford an cation, by - Thomas King Navigation Laws menland Re Nity of a syst ley's - Confrove E VESTIGES OF aereeabl \rn EDITION. lard-rdice, Two o'clock )RN M -THIS DAY is port dur t of Eu urn. Ind NOTI month mot ers, "A T 6 ULM visit, whit SKETCH OF THE REV. HUGH WNEILE " Our Portrait Gallery" in this month's Dublin Uni versity Magazine contains a sketch of the career of the reverend incumbent of St. Jude's, from which we take the rig a few portio .y life, whic escended from the Scotch settlers of over to Ireland with Lord Antrim in His father, Alexander M'Neile, the name, who ca e, county Antrim, where he .ty anti became high sheriff. H y of Dublin in 33 he', then a junior invents, Mr 33. •At John ly be consi of the wr 3n, were y, in 1814, he 11 but com- that his visits to I Coneral had, since his re y at Bath, and always de- ,ciety of his young and promising was generally 1 11,1111 TIM lava_ ❑t, and upon nolnsutficient to his uncle's affluent for- part. of his time during the was spent with his uncle, in the society of Bath. -where they principally res . l4 London, Harrowgate, and INGULAR MEETING OF LORD BROUGHAM AND MR " The entire of the year 1816 appears to have been spent by them on the continent, where, independently of tiler consic are to mee eratioris, the name - of with, ( ish general w ially at that time, a more than ordinary degree of respect . an, most favourable to his iou ter how to avail themselves of o attache, and few knew IA 3rtunities for obsery -1,,-;,,,, +lto ctimmor that year, when General M'Neile and his nephew staying at Secheron, a small village on the Geneva, between the city of that name and Lausanne, that the incident took-place, whereby Henry, now Lord Brougham, and Mr. M'Neile were brought together. The young man was taken suddenly and seriously ill : his Lake of They were far from any assistance, >entry, at a village inn. Meanwhile the ;inking few minutE r refreshment or. what was to be done in a strang, streng change of hor but hearing, from ' mine host,' of the ni in which two of his countrymen were placed, tho kintiAct 1.;0 As? et AT, rum 110012 fiber d the patient ; and presel:ibed for him so desperate remedy, in the success of which, ssured the anxious uncle, lay the only hope of his There was no alternative ; the advice was recovery eagerly tollowed ; and the result, under Uod, issued in the preservation of Mr. M'Neile's valuable life. A few years ago, after Mr. M'Neile had concluded his sermon, in the Rev. Robert Lovet's Chapel of Mar beeuf, Paris, Lord Roden entered the vestry, accompanied by Lord Brough am, who, after some conversation with Mr. M'Neile upon the subject of the sermon, and after expressing his de light, especially at the accuracy of an illustration bor rowed from naturally philosophy, adverted to the scene the Air The circumstances which led Mr. M`Neile to more se rious thoughts, and to the adoption of the church as a profession we also give entire : "The late Lord Byron occupied, at that time, his own villa, at the opposite side of the Lake of Geneva, and Was frequently to be met with in the same circle in which Mr. M'Neile and his uncle moved. In short, few young men ever enjoyed the opportunity of seeing continental society, in Paris and else Where, under circumstances more favourable, and few can be said to have turned their op portunities to better purpose ; inasmuch as, even then, the impression left on his mind was rather a wholesome dread of the fascinations, than an ardent attraction (as might have been apprehended) towards the elegancies with which it abounded. His first insight into fashionable life may be said to have been at this time, and under tne auspices just mentioned ; and his mind, happily recoiling from the frivolous amusements and worse morality of con tinental life, seems, for the first time, to have discovered to itself the latent seeds of that principle and piety which have since been so signally developed, as well as the de • sire after that truth, of which ever since he has been such to which we would wish to see young men generally ex posed ; but in the case of Mr. M'Neile the undesigned experiment was eminently successful "The next three years were passed principally at Bath, during the course of which, the good principle seems to have been silently at work within him. Still, he mixed in society as before, and was much courted and admired in it. Meanwhile, the study of the law was becoming more and more irksome ; and theology gradually took firm hold of his attention. Justinian was succeeded by the Bible, and the reasoning of Butler, or the eloquence of Barrow, drew forth a more cordial response from his soul than the learned lore of Blackstone or Coke. And thus matters went on till the year 1819, when his uncle was astounded by the first intimation from his nephew, that he to all General M'Neile's fondly and reasonably cherished hopes and plans for his nephew's advancement. His avowed object all along had been, that Mr. M'Neile should make the bar a stepping-stone into parliament, when his wealth and influence would easily have procured him a seat, and where his own talent and assiduity must as certainly have ensured his success. Such being his in tentions, he naturally discountenanced, in every way, Mr. M'Neile's entrance into the Church. But the young man had already counted the cost; he clearly foresaw the pro bable consequences of the resolution that was gradually, but powerfully, assuming form and reality within him ; his high resolve had not been rashly adopted, nor was it lightly to be abandoned, and at last he firmly, but re spectfully communicated to his uncle his fixed determi nation to pursue that profession, of which only, in his conscience, he approved. Without going so far as to affirm, that for this Mr. M'Neile sunk in his uncle's af fection, for which he must have risen in his esteem, since the cordial intimacy between them never suffered a moment's interruption, we are borne out in stating, that for this he lost the bulk of his uncle's fortune, which otherwise, in all human probability, had been his. Of the likelihood of this moreover, he could not have been unaware, since many friends reasoned with him, he had - IQ time to reflect, and the door of return was open to him to the last ; nevertheless he persevered, thereliy sig nally marking - the disinterestedness and singleness of mind with which, from the very outset, he devoted him self to his holy calling, characteristics, for which every step of his course had been as remarkable up to the present hour. His resolution being once determined, Mr. M'Neile's course of life and study was influenccd 1, accordingly. Even then he appears to have commenced f visiting the poor in their cottages, reading to them. instructing them in matters of the deepest moment. In the early part of the year 1.820, Mr. M'Neile was ap pointed to the curacy of Stranorlar, a village about seven miles from the episcopal town of Raphoe, on the banks gent Protestant population, was the scene of his first labours as &parochial minister." The career of the reverend gentleman since his entry into the church is familiar to most of our readers. Those to whom it is not so well known we must refer to the pages of the Dublin University Magazine. ANECDOTES OF FERGUSON OF PITFOUR.—There are some men, whom no position can render ridiculous, and Ferguson of Piffour. Ferguson's notion of the essential quality of a Lord Advocate was tallness. "We Scotch members," said he, " always vote with the Lord Advo cate, and we therefore require to. see him in a division. Now I can see Mr. Pitt, and I can see Mr. Addington, but I cannot see the Lord Advocate." His lordship evi dently not rising to Ferguson's regulation size of a states man. One evening, as Ferguson was taking his dinner in the coffee-room, some one ran in, to say, that " Pitt was on his legs." Every one rose to leave the room, ex cept Ferguson. " What !" said they, " won't you go to hear Mr. Pitt ?" " No," he replied, " Why should I ? do you think Mr. Pitt would go to hear me ?" REPEAL AND FAMINE.—The famine has taught the empire an important lesson as to Irish repeal. For many years past that country has been convulsed and the empire harassed by the loud and threatening demand for the re peal of the union, and the incessant outcry that the Irish and ttat all their: distresses have been owing to the oppression of the Saxon. The wind of adversity has blown, and where are these menaces now ? Had Provi dence punished them by granting their prayer—had En gland cut the rope, as Mr. Roebuck said, and let them go, where would Ireland have been at this moment ? Drift ing away on the ocean of starvation. Let this teach them their dependence upon their neighbours, and let another fact open their eyes to what those neighbours are. En gland has replied to this senseless clamour, this disgrace ful ingratitude, by voting £10,000.000 sterling in a single year, to relieve the distresses which the heedlessness and indolence of the Irish had brought upon themselves. We say advisedly, brought upon themselves. For mark worthy circumstance ! the destruction of the potato crop has been just as complete, and the food of the people has been just as entirely swept away in the West Highlands of Scotland as in Ireland, but there has been no grant of public money to Scotland. The cruel Anglo-Saxons have given it all to the discontented untaxed G ae l i n E mera ld Isle.—Blackwood's Magazine. himself he mu uncle, ( ). It w THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. GOVERNMENT EDUCATION UNIVERSITY AND CLERIC-4L NEWS. The Rev. John Hamilton Forsyth, M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been appointed domestic chap lain to th'e Marquess of Thomond The clergy of The following petition was agreed to at the meeting of the clergy, on Friday, at the Blue Coat Hospital. St. Asaph are about to present Lord Powis with seine substantial mark of their gratitude. A bill is now in the House of Commons, for dividing the Rectory of Doddington w. March, in the Isle of Ely, returned at £7,306 per annum. The Bishop of London intends alienating part of the rectorial rights of St. Stephen Coleman, Fenchurch-street (now vacant), in behalf of the district Churches in Beth nal-green. The value of the living, it is said, will be re duced from £l5OO to £BOO per annum. Ir"-- installation of Prince Albert, as Chancellor of the MN AND IRELAND, IN PAR- LIAMENT ASSEMBLED. The Humble Petition of the undersigned Clergymen of the Parishes of Liverpool, Walton-on-the-Hill, and Childwall, Sheweth,—That your petitioners have viewed, with feelings of great satisfaction, the measures that have been lately proposed by her Majesty's Government for the pro- scion, which, although not sc nt demands of the social position extensive as the urg of this country require, are yet entitled to our approba tion, as containing the formal recognition of those great principles, which should rule the interference of the state in matters of education. July; unless a general election should interfere to prevent this arrangement. The venerable laureate, Wm. Words worth, is to write the installation ode, which will be set to musib by T. A. Walmesley, of Jesus, M. 8., Professor of Music in the University. Thus, while the government, through its agents, pro poses to examine and inspect those schools which shall receive the public aid, their internal management is to be committed, in a great measure, to the local authorities ; and while religious and secular teaching are to be inse parably united, intellectual developinent is to be based on iNOTHER SECEDER THROUGH TRACTARIANISM TO POPERY in-law of a noble earl, and who made him - self very conspi cuous last year by l eis advocacy of reproductive labour, is about to add his name to the list of perverts to the Ro mish Church. His bias towards Popery has for some time shown itself by the support invariably given to the Roman Catholic candidate for any office in the disposal of which he had a voice—no matter how well qualified the Protes tant competitor. Having lately (as foreman of.the grand Your petitioners also hail, with feelings of unfeigned satisfaction, the introduction, for the first time, into the system of national education, of that most invaluable, — and we regret being compelled to add, — novel principle, . _ not only removing one of the chief objections of the poor to mere school teaching—its apparent inutility—but in troducing an element into national education which, more than any other, would tend to reduce the amount of that enormous mass of unskilled labour, now constantly in creasing, and which the discoveries of science, their appli cations to art, and a state of society highly artificial, are rendering daily less remunerative. Your petitioners also view with approbation the provi sion which it is proposed to make for superannuated school masters ; and they trust that the wise liberality of the jury) a sum of money for distribution to charitable socie ties, he gave it all to the Romish charities of the assize town, though there are several most meritorious Protes tant charities in it. To crown all, he appeared in the crowded streets on the Monday before Easter with palm in his hat—a melancholy exhibition truly.—Church and State Gazette. IREL A N D ve vessels laden with large cargoes of grain arrived 1, :e, may have .ofession in a short time Wafter fellow came into Clonmel, and ,sed a gun for one pound. He Unhappily, at present, too often the refuge of the incom- petent was afterwards discovered begging. The young Earl of Belfast has given £BO, resulting from the sale of his own musical compositions, to the Bel fast relief fund. Holding, as your petitioners do, the opinion that it is as much the duty of the state to provide that its subjects are instructed in their duties, as it is its province to punish the violation of those duties; it is to them a. source of much gratification, that the sanctions of reward are to be at length appealed to, and that the prevention of crime by moral means, no less than its coercion by punishment, The Rev. P. Pounden, rector of Westport, died on Saturday seek of fever, caught in the discharge of his sacred duties. At the Cork assizes, on Monday, Private James Bucha nan, convicted of the wilful murder of Robert Frisby, is to be provided f Your petitioners have witnessed with much surprise and sorrow, the vehement opposition which has been given to the plan of national education, developed in the recent minutes of the committee of her Majesty's Privy was sentenced to be hanged on the 10th of May. Twenty-one vessels are advertised to sail with emigrants from Cork to the United States and British Colonies within a few weeks. On Friday and Saturday, four vessels sailed from Lime rick with 1000 passengers, including many independent farmers—nearly all for British America. There are 15 other vessels to sail in a few days from the same port. The southern landlords also contribute to the emigration. The Cork Constitution gives a list of articles required weekly for the workhouse in that union. Among the articles are 5,396 gallons of boiling milk, 239 gallons of new milk, 1000 lbs of salt, 560 lbs. of mutton chop, 2 chests of tea, 345 chickens, 100 sacks of flour, &c. The brigantine Coquette has arrived in Dublin, with a full cargo of corn, meal, biscuit, &c., shipped at Balti more, U.S., for Demerara, and thence forwarded to Dublin. This is the first importation of bread-stuffs into the United Kingdom from the West Indies that has been ever known A Council on Education ; and they would deplore, its a great national calamity, the relinquishment of this plan by her Majesty's Ministers ; knowing that the question is no longer between the scheme now before the country, and some other to certain classes apparently less objectionable; but between the present plan, and the total abondonment by the state, of the duty of promoting education, which in all ages has been held by the best and wisest as one of theyrimest functions of government. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your honourable house will sanction the plan which has been proposed in the recent minutes of the committee of her Majesty's Privy Council on Education. And your petitioners will ever pray. THE LAKES AND CANALS OF NORTH `monster" trial has just terminated in Cork, after ix days of hard labour. It was an action brought by a Mr. Oliver against the Cork Steam-ship Company, to re cover damages for the loss of eight very valuable horses, which were shipped on board the Jupiter for Bristol. The vessel ran aground in the Avon, and the horses were lost. Verdict for the plaintiff, £l5OO. At the Kildare assizes, Catherine Coglan was convicted of the wilful murder of Margaret Foran, a woman upwards of ninety years of age, on the 22nd of February. The un fortunate woman was sentenced to be executed on the 23rd of April, at Athy. The cause of the murder was to obtain the cabin in which the deceased lived, and three quarters of an acre of land attached to it. About an hour after the sentence the culprit announced that she was AMERICA (From Simnionds's Colonial Magazine.) The chain of " Fresh-water Mediterraneans " that go so largely towards dividing the territory of " Uncle Sam " from the domains of Queen Victoria are a geographical wonder. Extending from east to west over nearly fifteen and a half degrees of longitude, they seem, regarding them upon the map, to rest like a crown of waters upon the head of the union, their centre of gravity ; the island of Macinac, balancing upon the meiidian . which separates Indiana and Ohio, eqm-divides Kentucky and Tenetsee, and passes between Georgia and Alabama, and East and West Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico. The difference in the latitude of the northern and southern extreme points of the lakes is not far from eight and a half degrees. The estimated area of country draining into them is 400,000 square miles ; the extent covered by the waters of the whole is 93,000 square miles, divided as follows :—Onta rio, 6,000 ; Erie, 9,600 ; St. Clair, 1,060; Huron, 20,400 ; Michigan, including the bay, 24400 ; Superior, 32,000. The waters of the " Father of Lakes " (Superior) are 568 feet above the level of the sea ; which elevation is attained by unequal gradations ' each lake rising above the previ ous one from Ontario to Superior. The surface of the waters from Ontario is 232 feet above the tide-water of the St, Lawrence—Erie rises 333 feet above Ontario—St. Clair, 6 feet above Erie—Huron and Michigan are 13 feet higher than St. Clair—and Superior rises 44 feet above those. The St. Clair is by far the shallowest of any of the Lakes, the average depth being about 20 feet ; Erie aver ages in depth about 85 feet—Ontario 500—Superior 900 — Huron and Michigan, 1,000, as nearly as can be arrived at. The deepest soundings are found in Lake Huron : off Saginaw Bay, we are told, leads have sunk 1,800 feet, or 1,200 feet below the level of the Atlantic Ocean, with out reaching the bottom. Great difference is observable in the transparency and purity of the waters of the several lakes. Those of Onta rio, Erie, and the southern parts of Michigan have no pe culiar excellence—while those of the northern part of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron surpass in clearness and fla vour any waters of which we have ever drunk, though a still greater purity and a higher relish is said, by those who have visited that lake, to distinguish the waters of Superior. enciente. The progress of cultivation in Ireland, under present circumstances, is exceedingly consoling. In one large district in Wexford the Spring business will have been completed by Saturday next. In Carlow there never was so large a breadth of land in cultivation ; and even Galway such is the progress made, that the Galway Vindicat or states the cultivation of the land is much farther advanced in the country than near the towns. SLAUGHTER OF SHEEP.—About 1500 pauper labourers entered the town of Gort, County Galway, . on Monday, and paraded the streets, exclaiming, occasionally, they should have " blood or bread," to the great terror of the inhabitants. They eventually retired without any outrage on person or property ; but their threats were not idly meant, for during the night 154 sheep, the property of William Lahiff, Esq., of Gort, at pasture, near the lands of Bunnahow, were killed, and carried away. Seven of the suspected principals, in this daring onslaught, have been arrested. POISONING OF DR. GRATTAN'S FAMILY.—At the Wicklow assizes, on Thursday week, three servants, for merly in the service of Dr. Grattan, were indicted for an attempt to poison the family of that gentleman, by mix ing arsenic in the stirabout prepared for their use. Mr. Richard Grattan died from the effects of poison mixed in some flummery made by one of the prisoners. The de fence set up was that the arsenic fell by accident into both the stirabout and the flummery, although made on differ ent days. Verdict—" Not guilty." REPEAL .ASSOCIATION.—The weekly meeting of this association was held on Monday. The attendance was miserable, and the proceedings destitute of importance. Mr. John O'Connell addressed the meeting at consider able length, and repeated the overtures to " Young Ireland," which he enunciated on the last Monday for a reconciliation. To effect that object, he would not hesi tate to resort to any alternative, even to his retirement from the association, if he were personally considered offensive. At the conclusion of the proceedings the rent was announced to be £24. The Conciliation Hall madness is becoming rapidly more and more extinct ;—and little as we sympathise with that new combination of the Irish gentry against the re lief of their own poor, which calls itself "the Irish party," we yet cannot but feel that the exchange of the Repeal "patriots" for this motley extract of all parties is at least no loss. This last union of men of all parties, by the way, has propounded a scheme for Irish emigration,— stated at great length and in much detail, and apparently considered with some care. It is signed by the Arch bishop of Dublin, Lords Ormonde, Ely, Devon, Desart, Farnham, and Jocelyn, Sir A. J. Foster, Bart., about thirty Irish members of the lower House of Parliament, and J. R. Godley, Esq. IRISH FALSE STATEMENTS.—There has been much systematic misrepresentation, in the Irish writers, about the landowners in England having Irish estates, in order to excite compassion for one party, and prejudice against another. A writer in the Morning Post, of Friday week, having addressed something to the editor, to the effect that Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P. for the northern division of Shropshire, had received £BOOO for a certain section of his estate in one barony, the honourable member, in con tradiction, has asserted, in the same paper, that he re ceived £lOOO for half a year's rent at the end of 1845, for the land in question, in the county of Sligo, and that at the end of the year 1846, "he received nothing, and that nothing had been demanded." POTATOES.—One of the most extraordinary features of the recent markets in Ireland is the resurrection (if it may be so called) of the destroyed potato crop. Here and there the native Patlanders are peeping out of cover, and, daily acquiring more of their Hibernian confidence, threaten in a short time to crowd the fairs and markets. At Limerick, Galway, Sligo, Newry, Nenagh, &c., pota toes are reported to be coming forward in quantities. HOW NORAH, OUR IRISH SERVANT, DID. The report for the latter town says—" Our markets are well supplied with oats and potatoes. Indeed, we have From " The Greatest Plague of Life, or Adventures of no t seen a greater quantity of both articles for sale in a Lady in search of a good Servant." Nenagh, even when scarcity did not exist." And, to But though Norah Connor went on very well just at crown all, potatoes are actually being exported from Ire first, still, after a time, she got so frightfully familiar and land tq Scotland, two vessels within the last few days presuming, that really the woman used to speak to me as having arrived at Glasgow from Londonderry with an if I was her equal ; nor could I for the life of me get her aggregate quantity of 150 sacks of excellent quality. to pay me the respect that I felt was due to me. Now, DREADFUL MURDERS—A HOUSE BURNED.—On Sa for instance, I remember, one morning, about two months turday night, two murders were perpetrated at Kiltankin, before little Annie was horn, I rang the parlour bell, and Tipperary, within eleven miles of Cater at the Mitchels when the woman came into the room, I said in a quiet town side. The facts are these— a man name d Mi c h ae l voice, " I want a glass of water to drink, Norah." Brien went to Clogheen to sell oats, and having disposed. " You want to drink a glass of wather ?" she replied. of theme he returned home in the evening. Two ac " Well, I've no objection. Drink away, darlin' !!' quaintances of his, named William and Lawrence Cull " Then," I continued, blandly, " I should feel obliged came to his house, and after remaining some time they if you would be so good as to let me have one directly." departed. Brien and one of his daughters went to bed, Let you have one ?" she exclaimed. " Faith, an' and another daughter, about ten years of age remained didn't I give you permission just now ?" sitting at the fire. In some time after, the Cull's re- This was past all bearing ; but I restrained myself, and entered the house, and took their seats by the fire. The merely said, with becoming dignity, " I didn't have you I daughter who had gone to bed, meanwhile fell asleep, but up stairs, Norah, to know whether you would permit me was soon aroused by the crackling of fire. She immedi • to drink a glass of water in my own house, or not." I a tely got up, and found her sister burned to death. She To which she replied, as familiarly as if she were speak- then called her father, but he made no reply, and being ing to the servant next door, " Well, by my sowl, when I almost suffocated with the smoke, she left the house. In I heard you ask me if I'd let you have that same, I a short time it was pscertained that the father was also thought you mighty stupid at the time. An' what is it dead. The money of the oats was taken off. Both the you do want, then, mavourneen ?" Cull's have been committed. " Why," I returned, in measured terms, remembering FEVER SIGHTS.—The Rev. W. B. Townsend, in coin my station, " I want what I told you before, as plainly as pany with Sir Arnold Knight, of this town, has recently a person could speak—a glass of water." gone through the workhouse at Skibbereen, and gives " Why, then," she cried, "by the powers ! ! if I were the following as specimens of what he saw :—" On entering you, I'd get it Isn't there plenty down stairs , h one y ?" the boys' school-room were presented to us the emaciated " But," I continued, calmly, perhaps you will be forms of about 40 or 50 children, the very pictures of kind enough, Norah, to bring me a lassg up here. starvation, seated on two forms placed at l eng th on b o th " Och !" she exclaimed, "so an' it's only a glass you're sides of the grate, perishing with cold near the embers of wantin' me to fetch you, afther all ! A glass wid nothin an expiring apology for fire ! a cold north breeze was in it, is it you mane ? ' blowing in upon them to help their speedy departure to " No," I replied, almost losing my temper, " A glass another sphere! I give them a great respite in bespeaking of water, woman, and not a glass without anything in it ! a week for their departure from their present state of Do you understand me now ?" wretchedness!—We found the sick of fever and diarrhrea " Out an' out," she cried, with a nasty, low wink. brought d own i nto t h e h ouse w i t h t h e h ea l t h y to t h e " You'd be havin' a glass of wather wid somethin' in it ! number of (deducting 225, the number in the Hospitals, Oh, go along wid you—wanting a drop on the sly, now! from those reported diseased altogether, about 600!) 375! You're takin' to the bottle, though, betimes this mornin', —We went from this to the Hospital and Infirmary, and I'm thinkin'." there we found great cleanliness indeed, but two and three I'm sure my fair readers can easily imagine that this in a bed, some at the head and some at the toot, the lat threw me into such a passion that it quite made my blood ter without bolsters, or straw to make them, or anything boil. I told the fury to hold her tongue, and never dare to lift the hanging heads of the wretched patients ! From to open her mouth about such things again. But the im- this we went to the dead house, and such a sight I never pudent hussey only made me worse, for she kept declaring saw before !-18 or 20—(the latter the porter said)—naked, " mum was the word with Norah," and saying, " that I emaciated skeletons of men women, and children—the needn't go flurryin' mysilf about her findin' out my sly skin as if drawn tight over the empty exhausted frames ! thricks," and telling me to be " asy, for that the masther All lying about three days in a confused mass, thrown should never hear bf it from hersilf." together without any ceremony just as they died, eyes, So that at last, I d ec l are I was pos i t i ve ly o bliged to run mouths and limbs ! saving one little ewe lamb, upon whom up stairs into my own bed-room, in order to get rid of the some affectionate hand had bestowed .as much care as creature. There I threw myself on the sofa, in the most circumstances would allow—dressed in its infant clothing dreadful state of mind, I think, I ever was in all my life; —a little cap and so forth, smiling in death and upon a and, torn with a ll ki n d s o f h orr id id ea s, I said to myself, short plank! The very contrast made the sight more " Norah washes very well, it is true—but alas ! what piteous ! Yes I remember where one old female frame washing can compensate me for this !" had a piece of an old quilt thrown over her abdomen." So completely transparent are the waters of Huron, that the rays of the sun are said to pass through them as through the cloudless atmosphere, without meeting with solid matter in suspension to elicit their heat. Thus Dr. Drake accounts for the fact, whicn he himself ascertained by experiment, that the water on the surface, and that 220 feet beloW the same spot, had precisely the same tempera ment, fifty-six degrees. Through the Welland Canal, the navigation of the lakes is uninterrupted for the distance of 844 miles from east to west : the distance north and south is, of course, various, ranging from 347 miles as the extreme distance. The, country to which these waters are the great highway of transport has often been the theme of high-wrought eu logium, for the variety and richness of its soil, and the extent of its resources. The justness of these praises, as well as the extent to which fertility has been subjected to the hand of culture, and the rapidity with which these re sources are being developed, under the life-bringing touch of the enterprise which peculiarly characterises its inhabi tants, is gathered from the bare glance at the fact that the commerce of the four great lakes, including all capital afloat, during the year 1843, was estimated by the Topo graphical Bureau at 65,000,000 dollars. The total amount expended by the general government of the United States on these Lakes for the improvement ne cessary to protect and convenience this commerce is stated by Mr. Whittlesey, of Ohio, at 2,100,000 dlrs. When the projected ship canal around the Falls of St. Marie shall be completed, the wide expanse of Lake Su perior will be added to the present extent of the lake naviga tion, allowing the adventurous commercialist to crowd some 175 miles still farther north, and several hundreds farther west. The length of the road proposed to be cut by this canal is said to be but three fourths of a mile, and the whole expense of improvement is estimated, if we rightly remember, at 230,000 dollars. By this compara tively small outlay, access is at once obtained to the whole country tributary to Lake Superior—a tract so rich in tim ber and mineral wealth, that it has not been unaptly termed " the Denmark of America." April 13,184'. SERMONS IN BEHALF OF IHE ST. JUDE'S 1 days, we have dates from Pernambuco of the 4th ult• DAY AND SUNDAY SCHCPLS. lThe Swordfish had arrived out after an extraordinary short run of twenty Clay;; and had proceeded to Bahia. Ex change at Pernambuco was iron at 30d. Freights to the United Kingdom 755. to 80s. From Rio the dates were to Feb. 20. The following is the report from the circular of Messrs. T. Le Breton and Co., of that date : " Produce.—Supplies of coffee have been scanty and transactions therefore limited, and a decline of 100 -reis per arroba on previous quotations has taken place—those of to-day being 2,900 reis to 3 milreis, superior ; 2,700 reis to 2,800 reis, good first ; 2,500 reis to 2,600 reis, ordi. The Annual Sermons in support of the Chatity ge . h001.2 in connection with St. Jude's Church were preacbeal, on Sunday last, by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, M.A., lumina bent of the church. At the morning service the Rey, gentleman delivered an eloquent and impressive discours in illustration of the rounwing text :--- Ivor we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."— St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, chap. ii., 10th verse. Mr. M'lsTeile proceeded to point out the state of Spi ritual death in which the world was at the coming of fir Redeemer, and how V -- 'fir "'-is life, -€F,I) ' —le sacrifice of his if, ,nrou i -,_ great and unmeasured love for mankind, effected their re demption ; and detailed, in language the most clear and nary first ; 2,406 refs to 2,500 reis, ordinary. Stock, about 45,000 bags. The clearances of January amounted to 129,135 bag's 239 barrels, against 142,316 packages in the same month of 1846. ` Sugar reis per arroba was paid for first quality whites:and 1,900 reis to 2 milreis for Muscovanos. Per, nambuco whites had been selling at 2,850 reis to 2,900 reis. " Hides.—Stock stilt heavy, say, about 80,000 pieces, though large lots have lately changed hands. Prime Rio exports were 2,450 dry, 5,576 , 5a1ted, and 150 half-tanned. hides. Exchange, 281 d, to 29d., and money scarce. " Prices of exports, free on board, ex freight, Feb. 20, 1847 :—Coffee, sup., per cwt., 295. 10d. to 30s. 9d. ; good Ist, 28s. ld. to 28s. Ild.; regular, 265. 4d. to 275. 2d. Sugar, white, 265. 11d. ; brown, fBs. sd. Hides, Rio Grande, light per lb., 4.83 ; ditto, heavy, 4.98. " Exchange on London, 281 d. ; Paris ; 330 perf.; Ham burgh, 610 per mark banco ; Spanish doubloons, 29,500 reis to 30 milreis each ; Patriot doubloons, 29,200 reis to 29,400 reis; dollars, 1,830 reis to 1,840 reis ; Six per cent. Stock, 81 to 82 per cent." The demand for imports was satisfactory. " Freights looking up ; last rates for Englislivessels to load at Rio Grande, 70s. to 725. 6d. per for:; ; 50s. Aus e I trians, for Mediterranean ports ut there being - no more vessels of this flag in port, higher rates must now be given; 60s. to 625. 6d. have been given to proceed to Bahia for sugar. BAHIA, to Feb. 28 (as per Bahia Mercantile Review of Feb. 27.)—Johnston, Napier and Co., and Le Breton, Whately and Co. Sugar.—Early in the week holders appeared anxious to realize at our last quotations of 1700 to 1800 for Muscovado, and 2300 to 2400 whites, equal to. 16s. 7d. to 16s. 6d., and 225. 4d. to 235. 3d. per cwt. ore board, ex freight ; exchange 29d. ; but since the arrival of the Swordfish sundry lots have been withdrawn from the market. Inferior descriptions have been looked after and bought at comparatively liberal rates " Cotton.-6200 per arroba for hardly any for sale. " Freights.—Vessels being exceedingly scarce, a further advance in the rates has taken place ; the last charter is at 725. 6d., 675. 6d., and 625. 6d., according to destina tion, since when 755. per ton to the Channel and Great Britain for a. British vessel has been offered and refused." There has been a general fall in the value of Railway Shares this week, owing to the depression in the Funds, but the decline has not been so great as we might have an ticipated, under the circumstances. The difference ne- Maceio, but there are cesiarily must arise from the Share market having found nearly its lowest level, and having at the same time within itself the elements' of firmness. The prices of the favourite and old established lines have not suffered a greater fall than £2 per share, whilst those of inferior character not more than from 10s. to 20s. per share, -ly about " The anc ~ne low priced securities on, ss. to Ws. _ principal effect of the altered tone of the Funds on shares has been the rapid decrease of business. In the London money market, Saturday last was the most gloomy day which has occurred during the present pressure—a circumstance amply to be accounted for by the Gazette returns of the Bank of England for the week ending the 3rd instant. Consols opened at 851 to and declined to 851 to I. Front • this a reac tion took place up to 854, but the improvement was only temporary, and at the close of business they had fallen t , t- aga. .43 .4 for money, ftnd 85E to 86 fOr the May account. After the ordinary hours of business the decline still continued, and the money quotation was as low as 851 to a. No transactions occurred in Scrip, but the price was about 3+ to &dia. Bank Stock left off' 194 t 0196; Reduced Three per Cents., 841 to ; Three-and a- Quarter per Cents.. 86 to 4- ; Long Annuities, 81 to 9. ;.India Bonds ss. to ls. dis. ; South Sea Stock, 951;. and Exchequer Bills, ss. dis. to par. During the day, as was to, have been expected, a number of vague rumours were in circu lation, but with the exception of one relating. to a defal cation in the north, which it was apprehended may receive confirmation, but little importance was attached to them. LAW INTELLIGENCE, BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY The Chancery suit, Mozley v. Alston, was part heard Wednesday and Thursday last, at the Vice-Chancellor's Court. The case came on upon demurrerto a bill filed by four persons, who alleged that they were shareholders. in the Birmingham and. Oxford Junction, against twelve persons acting as directors. The bill prayed an iniunc tion to restrain the defendants from voting or acting as. directors of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction, and' that they might deliver over the common seal and all - the• papers, documents, funds, and property in their posses sion into the control of the lawful directors. The case. stands adjourned for further argument on the 13th instanti. the first day of the next sitting. JURORS IN THE NEW COUNTY COURTS.—By the New County Courts Act the law as to the attendance of jurors in acti ons no t excee di ng £2O i s a l tere d, Incases whe- , the amount exceedsS a plaintiff or a defendant may re quire a Jury, but in actions under that amount the judge of the Court has a discretionary power. The jury in.tha new County Courts is to consist of five persons, and they must give an unanimous verdict. It has been customary. in every cause to swear the jury, but by a provision in the new law they are not required to be sworn in each trial. The expense on the part of the plaintiff or defendant re quiring a jury will be 55., which sum must be deposited with the clerk of the Court, and be considered as costs in the cause, unless otherwise ordered by the judge. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE TOWNSENA V.. SYMES.—This trial took place at Gloucester on Friday last. The plaintiff was a young woman about twenty one years old, the daughter of a cattle dealer, at Elton,. in Gloucestershire. The defendant was about twenty seven years old. He was living on a freehold property in, the neighbourhood. He had known the plaintiff about five years, and, in 1844, she had a child by him, shortly after which he promised, in the presence of witnesses, to' marry her, and even went so far as to give her father £5 to buy a wedding-ring, and, on being told that he must' himself procure the license, he declared his intentions of doing so immediately. At this time his parents inter fered, and he was unable to fulfil his engagements, but promised to do so on their death. This took place not long after, but, in. 1846, he married a certain Miss Lane, and this action was commenced. It seemed, however, that the defendant was a weak, foolish, young man, who-. had been inveigled into the promise by the plaintiff and, her parents. The jury returned a verdict for the plain tiff, damages one shilling. A. CURIOUS MATTER OF LOVE.—CRESWELL V. COL LINS.—This was an. action tried at the Hereford Assizes. on Thursday, for a ma li c i ous p rosecu ti on . Th e pl a i n ta is a young man, about 28, a veterinary surgeon at Leo minster ; the defendant is a Miss Fanny Collins, the daughter of a• deceased surgeon, who is very well con nected, and residos.with her mother at Buckfield House. On the the 15th of. October, plaintiff went to the house of defendant's mother while the family were at church, walked into the. drawing-room, looked at a number of books, took one, and put it in his pocket, and then went. into the defendant's dressing-room, and took up a rug ; belonging to her, and put it also in his pocket and went away. He was on that evening arrested on the charge of having stolen these articles, locked up, and brought before the magistrates the next day, when he stated that at the time he was taking the articles he told the servant maid who let him in that he would bring them back in the evening. —that he had frequently spoken to the maid and her mistress before—and that he was entirely innocent of any felonious intention in taking them. The defendant swore that she had never spoken to the plaintiff, or held any communication with him. The_case was sent to the ses- sions, where the bill was ignored. Jane Hutchins was a servant oil defendant's mother in 1843. Got a letter from the plaintiff and gave it to the defendant, who opened it and read it to me. It was a love letter. Miss Collins said that she hoped I would say nothing about it to any one. She was then twenty. She told me she had often smiled on him, and on one occasion kissed hands to him. I got a second letter from the plaintiff, and took it to, the defendant. In that he said he was afraid, from her si lence, she was offended. She told me to tell hintto come to the back door of the yard in the evening, and to listen there, and she would come and speak to him, and show him that he was not indifferent-to her. He came in the evening, and she and I talked, and he listened outside the wall. She spoke very favourably of him, and said she liked him very much. He came in a week again, and saw her at her bed-room window, at six in the evening. He spoke to her. She threw up the window, and heard what he had to say. She did not speak to him, She went on a visit for some time. On her return he came again, and saw her at the window, and spoke to lwr. She did not speak to him, but a Miss Beale, who was with her, did. The next night he came again, and the n Mi s s Collins spoke to him, That night he climbed up on the wall and stood close to the window. The window opened from the top, and he put his head half way in. He came often afterwards, and used to stop talking from ten o'clock at night till two in the morning. There was always another person presen3, generally Miss Beale. She told him she would go away with him, but she was afraid of her brother and friends. Charlotte Watts—l went to live with Mrs. Collins in May, 1844. I often saw the plaintiff talking to the defendant. He used to write to her under enclosures to me. Anne Edwards, a nursemaid in a neighbouring family, proved that she once saw the plaintiff and defend ant walking together near Buckland House. John Fos ter, a brickmaker, residing at Leominster, swore that he saw the plaintiff and defendant walking together, last spring, along a pathway near his brick6eld, and that the• plaintiff assisted her over a stile. Mr. Serjeant Talfour4 addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant. He said, the plaintiff had been for a long time pestering the de fendant, who had applied to her uncle for a policeman, to, protect her from the plaintiff. That on her going on a visit he followed her, and that she complained to the gen tleman at whose house she was staying of the annoyance, and he spoke to the plaintiff, and made him desist and leave the neighbourhood. He was taken by surprise alto gether by the reference to Miss Beale, and therefore could not call her to-day. He would prove that on the even ing after the bill was ignored the plaintiff, in a public room of the Royal Oak, at Leominster, spoke in the most dishonouring terms of the defendant. That her brother, on hearing of it went to him, dared him to repeat the lan guage before the same company ; that he did not dare ta do so ; and that the brother then horsewhipped him; Evidence to this effect was then given. The jury RAW' for the plaintiff.—lktuum .00, when pro; ,erly receives k out the salvation of his immortal soul. In the course of his sermon he proved distinctly, not only from the text, but from various others, that the only hope of the sinner was to be found in the Sacrifice of Christ ; and that it was but the presumption of vain-glory and ambi tion to place any reliance on our own acts, as being calcu lated to win for us an inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven. He contended that man—fallen man—must first be Quickened to spiritual life and y the Spirit of God, and then that, in the words of the text, he would be " created in Christ unto good works,"—which good works would be the effect of Christ's regeneration of the man, and not the presumptuous efforts of his own weak mind. The reverend gentleman concluded his excellent discourse by making a fervent appeal for the sympathy and liberality off onn aparrn 1- inn nn hahul f of 11 preached. - The evening service was extremely well attended, con sidering the unfavourable state of the weather, an& the many charitable appeals which have recently been made to the benevolence of his congregation. Amongst those present, we were happy to observe George Hall Law- rence, Esq., our worthy mayor, and family. At the conclusion of the prayers for the evening, the Rev. Mr. M`Neile ascended th e p u lpit, an d p reac h e d from the 78th psalm, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th verses :—" I will open my mouth in a parable ; I will utter dark sayings of old ; which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done." The reverend gentleman then proceeded— My dear Brethren :,Once more our poor neighbours plead with you, through me, on behalf of their children. It is the high and gratifying part of practical Christianity, that they who are strong, are called upon to help the infir mities of the weak ; and with reference to the edu cation of children, our poor neighbours are weak in deed. They cannot spare sufficient time to even at- diate compliance with the divine command ; and if they had time, they do not possess sufficient information to communicate instruction to their little offspring. Whilst they are thus doubly incapacitated from the want of time, and from the want of information, they are at the same time deficient of the necessary means of enabling them to give them anything like either a scrip tural or a secular education ; so that it may truly be said theirs is a state of great weakness. They have before received, and I am confident they will again receive, help from your comparative strength. You have not time to teach those children yourselves ; and secondly, even if you had time, many of you have not sufficient information to enable you to do so ; but, then, in the third place, most of you have the means whereby qualified persons may be paid whilst they perform the office of instructors of a large body of the children of your poor neighbours. This is t _le precise position in which our charity schools stand impart : we support qualified persons, who to the children that instruction which it is the duty of every Christian father and mother to provide for their offspring ; and it is part of our Christian duty to do so—part of that Christian duty which is inculcated in the psalm which I have just read for you. The first portion of that psalm says— " Give ear, 0 my people, to my law; incline your ears to the word of my mouth." But the second vers( -,tpq an . - d of tb'S creates an expectation in the mint. .ne reader which the psalm does not fulfil. It says, " I will open my mouth to you in a parable; I will utter dark sayings." These words would lead you to suppose that a " parable," or " dark saying," would be found in the remaining portion of the psalm ; but such is not the case. The psalm consists of a series of historical refer ences, and there are neither parables nor dark sayings in it. The historical events referred to in the psalm are the same as those selected _by Saint Paul, where he refers to the Jewish history, and says that the events of that his tory were written as types of the events which were to oc cur in the Christian era, as well as records of the trans actions of that people. If, then, the events of the Jewish history were not merely events complete in themselves, but also types of the Christian dispensation, then indeed the psalmist was right—he opened his mouth in a parable. In all parables there is the outward letter, or narrative, as well as the inward moral, to be derived from it; and if the Jewish history was intended by God to convey instruc tion, like the parables of our Saviour ; and if they had, as well as the outward letter of historical truth, the inward spirit of instruction, then indeed the words of the text are correct as regards the parable which it contains. The things contained in this parable were heard by the peo ple from their fathers, and they promised that they should not hide them from their children. They promised that they would shew from generation to generation. the praises of the Lord,—his strength and his wonderful works. And now, I will ask, what had the Lord then done for the peo ple that they should make known his praises, his strength, and his wonderful works, from generation to generation ?- He had established a law in Israel whichhe had commanded the fathers to make known to their children ; and if we refer to the books of Exodus, we will find that the tables containing this law were called the testimony, which were the commandments of God ; and we will also find that these commandments were shut up in an ark, which was called the ark of the testimony. So then the command ments were called the testimony •, and he established this testimony in Israel ; for even that chosen people had seri ously forgotten the commandments of God. During their Egyptian idolatry they had forgotten their God and their duties towards his Heavenly Government. It was quite• evident that the Lord had established the testimony, which was the ten commandments, and that he had, also, commanded that the fathers of the people of Israel should teach their children to know and to observe that testi-- mony. This, in point of fact, is the only system of Na tional Education established by God himself. He then took the nation under his especial charge, and amongst those things which he did for the nation was the estab lishment of a National Education, part of which was to teach the children the ten commandments and the testi-. mony, as revealed to the people of Israel. But these were not the only laws in force among the Jews ; there were the ceremonial laws of the old dispensation to be observed also, and these were observed by the people. Here the learned preacher entered into a lengthened detail of the nature of those ceremonial laws, and their effect upon the morals of society, and proceeded to state, that they, were told by the Psalmist,. that God enjoined them to observe both these laws, and to teach them to their children from generation to generation ; and here the word " children " was to be understood literally, and not to be understood as the , nation's children. When they recollected that these parts of the Jewish history were regarded by St. Paul as types for the insti tution of the Christian church—that the moral law of God (the testimony) " remains the same yesterday, to day, and for ever"—and that the ceremonial law had ful filled its office, and merged into the Christian dispensa tion—they would say that the passage applied to them as distinctly as it applied to the Jews, and that it was fully incumbent upon them to have the instruction& contained in the moral law of Gad inculcated on the minds of the youths of their own day. The objects for which the chil dren were taught these things they would find stated in the next portion of the psalm :—lt was. in order that the children who learned them might set their hopes on God, and not forget his greatness and his glory, but, remem- „ bering his mercy, keep his commands, that they might not be as other stubborn and rebellious generations had been. This, he contended, was the only true basis on which the education of youth could be founded, and it was to him, as it must be to that congregation, a source of great gratification to learn that the instruction im parted in their schools was strictly in accordance with the commands of God upOn the subject. The rev. gentleman then related, at considerable length, the nature of the instruction which the children received, and concluded by making a powerful appeal on behalf of the institutions. The two collections amounted to £7B lls. COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL SUMMARY, The rapid extraction of Bullion from the country, created by the excess of our imports of grain and other commodities over the exports of manufactured goods, and the decline in the stock of specie in their own coffers, as compared with the circulation which it represents, have at length impelled the Directors of the Bank of England to resort to measures of self-protection. Accordingly on Thursday morning the following notice was posted in the Discount office of the Bank of England : "NOTICE The minimum rate of interest on bills discounted at the Bank of England not having more than 95 days to run is £5 per cent. • - • April 8, 1847." As such a step had been very generally anticipated, the effect upon the market for public securities was not at first materially felt. At a subsequent period of the day, however, prices began to decline; and on Friday a very severe depreciation occurred, consols at the close of the market having been done as low as 86. The demand for railway and other securities continues to decline day by day ; and holders for speculation see little short of ruin before them, all chance of escape being cut off by the im possibility to realize in the present state of the money markets. • It seems to be generally admitted that a severe crisis is approaching. Our market for Cotton continues firm, being influenced by the accounts brought by the last arrival from the United States ; and in some cases an advance of id. per lb. has been obtained. Speculation however is checked by the pressure for money; and the diminished consump tion contributes to forward this very desirable end. There seems at present little likelihood of any great increase in the present demand. Some fabrics it is true are begin ning to be moved off by the manufacturers at prices more nearly approaching the rates paid for the raw material than were obtainable a few weeks ago. But buyers ope rate very sparingly and with great caution. The working of short time is still adhered to ; and the sufferings of the operative classes are daily becoming more severe. By the arrival in our port on Thursday of the new ship Seraphim, from Paraiba, after a passage of thirty-one I and w as boy By the as c turr tion cies