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Eiteraturr. POETRY HE STRII BY T. WESTWOOD eepin3, ;wands of village wassail :'vassal groans of ire and anguish Vows of Yf Throuxt r iO languish bers rung. .1 strife of battle, m's rattle, with weeping, 1 sleeping And that daTa K While a ty _ With ail smote the nation Indeed, Beauty c Morning dawn To glad ..,out le glory darken'd 1 for weeping, hild lay sleeping, he sun. w if agaz ES OF A ITAI it is a: eyes, watc noise, disc neath fragm—ents myrtles, boa_ Italy; the cypress t lernitity of the landsca no where on earth can three thousand years it the AND THE REPOSE. o dungeon wended, and plunder'd, in smiles and harken'd ZIP TO THE CONTINENT, ;YPT. KEET, ESQ. ,o. VI. Written for the Liverpool Standard.) .ind among the ruins that 4-, to see the little timid va ich their brilliant, serpent-like ,ad at the slightest approach and into invisible little crevices, under of marble, or among the evergreen ws, and shrubs, that never seem to die in s add to the sombre hue and so ; and if you wish to see, what ~ en so well, the lapse of nearly --ks of ever-busy, restless vast and wondrous dome— was a cell! oove his martyr's tomb mankind, you mint v Gaze - on the dc To which Dia' Christ's might Well is it said oeS _ Ad, or altars new, tandest alone , with nothing like to thee, Vorthiest of God. the holy and the true. Majesty, power, glory, , w4th, and beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark o )rship undefiled, And to compare the ancient temple of Janus, the Co losseum, the palace of the CEesars, and the Pantheon, " so simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime," shrine of all saints, and temple of all gods from Jove to Jesus, with St. Peter's, St. Paul's, St. John's, and Santa Maria Maggiore's elegant edifices, so lavishly decorated, is a speak ing, eloquent lesson ; and that mind must indeed be insen sible that is not imbued with the " pale cast of thought," upon reflecting how mutable are all earthly things. Here were the early Christians hunted by dogs, torn to pieces by wild beasts ; here, by all sorts of deaths, were the tyrant emperors assassinated, dragged through the streets, thrown into the Tyber, strangled by their wrestlers and athletfe, pi&ced by daggers; cast from the Tarpian rock. And new, how still, how silent, how like a city mourning its departed greatness and renown, never, never, to retu rn ; here and there the sable-cl a d priests ' with their large cocked hats, so often politely , moved from their heads to each other, and any layman they may know and meet. And this quiet scene succeeds to the triumph of Cwsar ! to the forty days festival in celebration of his victories in Egypt and Africa, seventy-two lictors attend his triumph, four white horses draw him to the capitol, in a chariot like that of Jupiter and the Sun ; by torchlight forty ele phants, richly caparisoned, attend him ; the Sister of Cleopatra walks in chains, and the African king Juba ap pears as an abject captive ; golden statues represent the Rhine, Rhone, and ocean, that were the scenes of his ex ploits here were then dazzling spectacles gladiatorial combats, athletic games, players i n every language ; and the children of Asiatic princes dancing the Pyrrhic dances. In the Circus Maximus (the ruins of which you may still see) assemoled two hundred and sixty thousand people, noble youths of Rome, drove their chariots, with four horses, yoked and unyoked ; for three days wrestlers, boxers, and racers contested for prizes cn the field of Mars ; on a lake formed near the Tiber sea-fights with Trim and Egyptian ships astonished the spectators, and such immense crowds thronged to the festival, that they were obliged to sleep under tents. Two consuls and many of the crowd were trampled to death. A statue was erected to him, placed opposite to that of Jupiter, in the Capitol: standing in a chariot, with a globe under his feet, inscribed to Ciosar— demi-god ! Divine honours were decreed to him—sacri fices, incense, altars, temples, libations,_priests, festivals. He was styled Julius the Liberator ! They dedicated to him the temple of Liberty ! His image was erected in all their cities and temples, the statue adorned with a civic crown, with another obsidional one, were both placed in the Tribunal, where the orators delivered their harangues. In the Temple of Romuius his statue was inscribed as the " Invincible God." And this extraordinary-man, of whom Cicero says, "he maintained an elegant, brilliant, grand, and generous style of speaking ; who more keen and rapid in his thoughts ? Then, as a soldier, who so brave, pass whether on foot or horseback, his soldiers ; in sun shine or rain his Lead uncovered ; travelling a hundred miles a day; swimming rivers; exploring harbours : his caution only equalled by his daring ; if his soldiers were flying from the enemy, he laid hold of them by the throats and turned them round to face the enemy. In preventing a standurd bearer flying, he left his eagle in the hands of Caesar. A statue of his favourite horse was erected in the front of the Temple he dedicated to Venus. And this man, notwithstanding, falls assassinated at the foot of Pompey's Pillar, by his once loving friends, headed by Brutus. Thus, alas, passes away the glory of the world ! The drop of morning dew ; the bubble on the stream ; the shadow of the aspen leaf ;—such is man. Caesar, Napo. loon Wellington, ye are but eagles soaring to the sun ! an d ye feel the shaft of time amid your carnage as well as meaner hinds ! The glories of our mortal state." " Are shadows not substantial things? There is no armour against fate. Death lays his icy hands on kin , — Sceptre and crown ,----- 1m b,e-down, lust and spadt Aa I have before observed, their holinesses and cardi nals of Rome invariably adapt, use, and blend, as much as possible, the Pagan temples with the following more novel and inferior Christian architecture of churches. For instance, among a vast number that might be named, there is the Church of St. Prisca, built upon the scite of the temple of Isis, whose ancient pillars support th e more modern roof. An; early picture of Guido's is here. The Church also of St. Sabina has twenty-four fluted ancient columns, besides eiglit more at the portico. This church was founded by an'lllyrian priest, A.D. 425. The two - - - .-bones of St. Sabina were in silver cases, and the _ _ sexton assured me they w toe veritable relics. - poring over the silver and plate-glass-covered bones of St. Sabina, I was next shown a large round black stone, about eight or ten pounds, placed on a small This was said to have been thrown by the Devil at some good saint : certes, none but the paw of a demon could have grasped it. What a melancholy circumstance it seems, that all these legends, however ridiculous, are firmly believed in by the credulous multitude there ! Under the altars of many of the churches, when the veil is withdrawn, you are permitted, as a great favour, 1 - behold the incorrupt bodies in the monks' garb, as they lived—the beard, the skin of the face and hands, well p r eserved ; but the careful observer, and the ladies of the party accompanying Dr. 8., went pryingly d-- weighing column A NEW ZEALAND DAINTY.—The concluding dish at supper would appear less inviting to a European appetite, for it consisted of a quantity of fine plump grubs, nicely browned before the fire ; and repulsive, as such an article of food might at first appear, they are not only agreeable in flavour, but resemble in taste the most delicious cream. Taonui's daughter had procured them from the decayed timber of the rimu pine in the adjoining forest.—Augaa's Savage Life. PREPARING AN AssASSIN.—We take the following from one of the striking letters just republished by the Rev. H. 111`Neile, in his pamphlet entitled "The State in Danger:" —" But as perhaps you have not seen or heard the cere mony which is observed in preparing an assassin for his business among the Papists, when he is sent to perform the holy action of expelling heretics, I shall - 3 1 the Nv- SUGAR PLANTERS SHOULD NOT BE SUGAR BOILERS. —There is no doubt that at the present moment the largest portion of expense of a sugar estate is incurred after the canes are cut and at the mill door. The pro duction of no one estate is anything like sufficient to main tain the machinery of a boiling-house in constant opera tion. It is this sugar making on an inadequate and de fective plan which keeps the planter ever in debt and dif ficulty. If he could sell his canes by the acre, as fields of standing corn are sold at home, or cut it and cart it by the railroad to a market, as the former disQoses of his oats and barley, the soil would make him an ample return for the capital and labour expended upon it. At present he manufactures, and he loses money. He combines two processes, neither of which is properly done, and both of which are expensively performed by the restricted and in efficient means applied to each. He turns out a rough product, upon which the merchant and the broker and the refiner of the mother-country have each their profit, but he has none ; while, if he confined himself to his cul tivation, he would make money. With a constant, a cer tain, and an immediate market for the raw material, his risk and his expenses would alike cease, when his canes were upon the railway truck.—Simmonds's Colonial Ma gazine. Avn on their lee and hands, found and bones of MACADAM'S INTRODUCTION TO THE STAGE. — WnI. Charles Macready was born in London, in the parish of St. Pancras, March 3, 1793. His father was the maiwer of a provincial company, and lessee of several theatres ; but, with a feeling not unusual, desired a different pro fession for his son ; whose wishes, as time developed them, he found perfectly in accordance with his own. The sub ject of this notice was sent to school at a very early pe riod ; and at ten years of age entered at Rugby, where he soon acquired considerable reputation by his classical attainments, and was regarded as giving high promise of future celebrity at the bar or in the church. To an actor's life lie felt no vocation ; perhaps it is not too much to say that he had a strong repugnance. In his seven teenth year, while looking forward to speedy matriculation at Oxford, his father's affairs became deeply embarrassed. This fact was not necessarily fatal to his prospects, had those prospects alone 'been consulted. Assistance was not wanting, by which he might have been extricated from the household wreck; enabled to win the academical ho nours already bending to his grasp ; and set forward on his prosperous career. With severe self-conquest, and with prompt devotedness, he took the nobler course, and applied himself to the task of retrieving the fallen fortunes of his father. In June, 1810, the juvenile manager made his first appearance on the boards in the character of Ro meo, at the Birmingham theatre. Under his direction, the disorganised company was rendered efficient. He was at once recognised as a provincial " Star." Success at tended his exertions. His father was saved from ruin, and his own destiny was fixed. It was an appropriate intro duction to some passages of his subsequent history, that moral feeling and high principle should first have given the young Macready to the stage.—People's Journal. MONUMENTAL DECORATIONS IN- OUR CEMETERIES.— Returning to our subject of rural cemeteries, we marvel to find so little that is new in monumental decorations ; old heathen symbols meet the eye in almost every direc tion. In the catacombs the Egyptian style of sepulchral architecture, may be considered in keeping, as it fills .he imagination with solemn associations, and recalls those ancient and " silent cities of the dead "; carrying the mind back to the captivity of Israel--to the wondrous achievements of Moses—and all those stirring incidents which once shook the oldest kingdom of the world Surely the path which Christianity has hewn tl - " -- - the venerated friars. Upon one of the party saying., " Ah, poor Dominick, he looks very dry," the sacristan replied, " Ah, yes; but he was nearly as dry before he didd." Next to the gorgeous gilding of the roofs, the rich altars, the poetical paintings, and the grand statues of the churches, the immense candles, from 12 to 15 feet in height, some painted curiously upon the wax, surprise the stranger. VARIETIES CHILBLAIN The application not only cu GUANO STREAM constituents of the As or feet in hot water p them in cold water. into the Thames from tge Mi ls £23,360 ; and of ti London, on the mg is of equal strengtl prevents chilblains aial value of the chief which at present passes Scholars' Pond 'Sewer, 's from all the sewers of he fluid they discharge Evidence of Professor WESTMINSTER BAIL Dr. Ryan, Professor of Chemi at the Polytechnic Institution, mond and several of the meml taral Society, in illustration o of chemistry, Stated that from twenty-four to forty magnesia, from which Bpa plication of sulphuric acid built of that rock, were ( acid, it would be cony _Jusand dangers, and which, thoiigh so full of peril, her martyrs fearlessly trod on their way to eternal life, is not so barren but that it might furnish something better than those emblems of the old idolaters. How few, saving the learned, understand the meaning of those mysterious hieroglyphics : even the tear vessels, quenched torches, winged hour glasses, and circled serpents, are beyond the comprehension of thousands ! They would, better under stand the descending dove, the full-cheeked angel sound ing the last trumpet, the sacred cross, the arched rain bow, the ark, the stone rolled from the mouth of the se pulchre, and a hundred other old and holy emblems which abound in our ancient church yards. There seems to be a want of invention amongst our modern sculptors, not so much in 0 TOWN OF LIVERPOOL. MEN AND BRETHREN,—DO not accuse me of unwar rantable intrusion—do not stand upon the ordinary usages and etiquettes of society, well housed, well clothed, well fed. I value those usages as highly as any of you can do, and respect them as scrupulously under all ordinary cir cumstances. But human life is paramount, and the daily bread, absolutely necessary for the sustenance of our fellow-men, may not (pray excuse my urgency when I add must not) wait f or th e et i quettes of society. On every side I heard the inquiry, what is to be done ? In every circle I witnessed a willingness to give, and a wish for some general appeal, some satisfactory channel through which to contribute. To my own congregation, as a body, I proposed a meeting upon the subject. For the result so far I humbly and heartily thank God, and my dear kind friends. I expected other similar move ments in the town. Hearing of none as yet, and hearing daily of deaths from hunger, I am constrained to the boldness of this address. Let me entreat you to excuse me, and prove-that you do so, by granting my petition. It is food for the hungry • it is clothing, however sca n ty and however coarse, fo r the naked ; and I must now add, medicine for the sick. Read the following extracts from a letter this day re ceived from an old friend of mine, now rector of a parish in the south of Ireland • Very grateful do I feel for your kind remembrance of us in deep distress. Much required is, not only the sym pathy, but the active benevolence of our friends. If they aid me not, I must soon close my hands and bar my doors. Our existence is one continuous, unbroken scene of misery. A bright and peaceful moment has long been a stranger to me and mine. Yea ! and verily the mirth of the land is gone. No laugh is ever heard—no smile ever seen. In the beautiful worcts of the author of " The Sabbath," though introduced on a far different occasion, " Mute is the plough-boy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song." All is deep settled gloom and despondency. The haggard eye, and sunk cheek, and ghastly hue, meet you in every passer by, indicating but too mournfully the fearful advances of famine. " I was on horseback this morning, lung before day, with medicines in my pocket to arrest, if possible, the fright- ful ailments induced by starvationandunwholesome fc7od : and when it was known that I had my box of pills and my phial of laudanum with me, many were the hands stretched out, and my remedies were swallowed by some greedily on the instant, while by others they were carried home to a sick husband, wife, or child, perhaps in the last agonies of dissolution. Upwards of fifty persons have died around us from absolute starvation (for to all it is utterly beyond our power to administer relief); and our medical man states that there are hundreds, if not thou sands, so reduced, that neither food nor medicine can restore them. " I have a population of 18,000 in my parish, and when I inform you that of those 5,000 are utterly bereft of sus- ucuanuv, knave wuai use nano of charity supplies, whilst almost all besides are totally dependant on casual em ployment,) you may form some idea of our boundless and indescribable wretchedness. Could you have seen the pale, emaciated crowds that gathered round me this morning, leaning on their spades ere they commenced their work, to which I will venture to say, not a man among them could give half his former strength, it would have wrung you to the heart. Nor did I forget to seize the occasion to speak to them of their endangered souls ; and with deep attention did they listen to the words of life. I preached various sermons to various groups. Oh ! that the seed may have fallen on ground prepared by the Redeemer's hand, for how gladly would I be to them the minister of peace, and whisper comfort to their dying OF EPSOM SALTS.— ', in a lecture delivered fore the Duke of Rich s of the Royal Agricul e elementary principles ,ia lime-stone contains ,‘,r cent. of carbonate of ;s were procured by ap if Westminster Bridge, ith water and sulphuric ed into Epsom salts. • -- of the late Sir Charles tending a Parliamentary i election, as counsel for k to a fact which his ,ne mere outline of monuments, (their corms are numerous enough), but a want of something that would at once speak to the imagination. It is yet left for some man of mind to illustrate death from the history of our holy religion—to sculpture that sleep after life's long storm, and call from the marble such forms as we believe we shall meet with in heaven.—Pictures of a Country Life, by Thos. Miller. A GLANCE AT THE FUTURE.—As we write, the tolling changes into the chiming bell, and the old steeple of Time rings out its joyous welcome to 1847. The threatre of the world is stilled with expectation : and the boldest heart might flutter at the rising of the curtain. What pageants of literature and art, what revelations of science, what ap- i paratus of civilization, what swelling grandeur of corn- souls. merce, what splendour of r e li g i ous hoiness, lie behind it ! ~ I was out for about six hours, and returned home Mysterious masses awaiting the life-giving finger of Him, jaded in body and oressed in mind. M dear by whom the s o l emn d rama o f. h uman hi story i s being begs her kindest remembrance to you—her y father in artner the conducted to its tremendous catastrophe. Perhaps, in the hope of the gospel. Hours daily does she spend upon coming year the keel of enterprise will cut its way along her feet ministering to the famishing crowds around her, the quiet of' strange waters, and the wonderful economy with her own h an d s di s t r ib ut i ng soup, meal, flour, rice, of Japan be unfold e d t o th e l ong i ng gaze o f the philoso- t bread, biscuit, medicine, and money, as severally re pher. And may we not hope, that the darkest of all dark quired, inasmuch that' I sometimes fear she will be places on the earth will likewise be lighted up by a purer seriously injured by her exertions. For the two last days flame than Mammon kindles ? Before the thoughtful eye, . she has been in her bed. We dreaded lest our door -the star rises over Africa. There is a touching promise in I should have given way with the pressure, and we are .the Evangelical narrative, that the Cross of the Sufferer now about to get a half-door made, which we can protect was carried by a native of Cyrene. The organ-note is by a strong bar, for verily the crowds are frightful. rolling over the metropolis of India.—Truth already pre-• " Such, my ear sir, is a brief narrative of our situation. valls. Each step increases the momentum of its spring, Details might be m u ltipli e d w ith ou t en d ; b ut my h eart It will go on with bolder strides ; not indeed a l wa y s tri umphant, or always seen, but ever reappearing with a sickens among them, and lam glad to bring my descrip brighter countenance. Railroads to Benares and the tion of our miseries to a close. A n y a id you can afford ' electric telegraph i n th e d esert, are prophecies of the us will be gratefully re c e i ve d, an d shall b anefadsit, if I had them,hfully applied; ea ! and not hundreds only, but th ous future ; England, a t once the centre of light and he a t to could I easily dispense." the nations, seems to occupy the site of the ancient Roman empire ; a mighty tree, flourishing in the m id s t o f the Read the followi ng s t a t ement t hi s d ay rece i ve d f rom the Dean of Cork : " Skibbereen Poor-home. field, not yet beginning to decline • her great boughs, blown in many a hurricane, but unshattered, her leaves " 'Visited on Wednesday, the 30th December, 1846, by unfaded, and her trunk more pleasing to the eye, from the ' the Dean of Cork, and Rev. Messrs. R. B. Townsend and ! e. moss and ivy that grow a b out i t. May centuries pass by Caulfi 136 " In ld fever before her root is shaken, or the rabble of barbarous na- tions rush into the field an d cu t h er d own ! A story of " " Ditto, convalescent Fuller, the witty and th e goo d, supp li es an appropriate Infirmary cases, chiefly dysente r y an d swell ed limbs conclusion to our m e dit a ti ons . L earne d M aster Camden, " Other individuals 671 he informs us, treatin g i n an as t ro l og i ca l way , b eneat h what planet Britain is fixed, mentions only one author who places our island under Saturn, while three assign it a position under the moon. Should our changefulness and inconstancy seem to lend a support to the majority, it is a patriotic consolation to remember, with our English Worthy, that if we be under the moon, the moon is under God, and that nothing can happen to us as a pebple or individuals, but what shall be for His glory and our good. The finger of the Past and the Present writes this assurance upon the portal of the Coming.—Frazer. YIELD Olr THE SUGAR CANE.—In Barbadoes, British Guiana, and other of our colonies, the average yield of sugar from the cane is but five per cent.—certainly six per cent: may be set down as the maximum ; two-thirds therefore of the saccharine matter is lost in the process of extraction. And how can this be wondered at when we remember that the process of sugar-making in the British West India Colonies has undergone but little change for two centuries or more, except in the improvement of the machinery for crushing the ripe canes and extracting the juice ? The tempering with lime, clarifying by heat, and quick evaporation in a series of open pans, still remain. The poverty of the proprietors, we must admit, has hi therto been a serious bar to the introduction of many ac knowledged improvements.—,S'immonds's Colonial Ma gazine. .nole form. The person designed for this WorlCis ,c.retly introduced into the Mediotry or Oratory, where a knife wrapped up in linen is taken out of an ivory case, marked all round with diverse and various characters, to gether with an Agnus Dei. After this they draw it out of the sheath, and sprinkle holy water upon' it, and hang consecrated beads upon the haft, granting an indulgence of delivering, as many souls out of purgatory as be shall give wounds to the prince or person who is appointed for destruction.' Then they put the knife into the hand of the murdeiyr, with this recommendation Elect Son of God, take this sword of Jepthah, the sword of Sampson, the sword of David with which he cut off Goliah's head, the sword of Gideon, the sword of Judah, the sword of the Pope, by which he has delivered himself from the hands of princes, having spilt very much blood in their dominions. Go, and be prudently courageous ; may God strengthen thy arm.' When this is done, they all fall down upon their knees, and the chief pronounces the ex orcism : ' Be present ye Cherubim, be present ye Sera phim, ye thrones, ye powers, be present ye holy angels, and fill this blessed vessel with perpetual glory ;' and they even offer him the crown of the blessed Virgin Mary, of the holy patriarchs and martyrs : he is no longer a mem ber of our communion, but of yours ; and thou, 0 God, who art terrible and invincible, and who, in the mediotry, has put into his heart to destroy a tyrant and a heretic, and confer his crown on a Catholic king, strengthen, we beseech e - hand ' his and increase his courage, that he may accomplish his will. Give him an omnipotent mail, whereby he may escape the hands of those who would ap prehend him; give him wings by which his holy members may escape the endeavours of barbarous betrayers ; pour into his soul thy cheering rays, by which his body, with out fear in the midst of dangers and terrors, may be ani mated with joy and exultation.' After this exorcism is finished, the parricide is brought before the altar, over which is painted the history of Jaques Clement, a Domi nican monk, with the image of angels protecting him and carrying him to heaven. When this is shown him, they present him with a crown, and repeat these words : Re gard, 0 Lord, this thine arm, and the executor of thy justice ; let all the saints arise and give place to him.' When these ceremonies are ended, some priests are ap pointed to converse with him, alone, in private, who per suade him that there appears a divine brightness in him, by the radiancy of which they are moved to kiss his hands and his feet ; and that he no longei seems to be a man, but a heavenly saint. They also pretend to envy the great glory and blessedness to which he is advanced, sigh ing and saying— Would to God I had been chosen in thy room ; that, being delivered from the punishment of purgatory, I might have gone directly to paradise.' This all will appear to you, perhaps, exceedingly strange, but it is all very true, and confirmed by Papist writers." " Total " Deaths in Noiember and December, 1845, only t, 19 1846 . 218 Many of the above came from Skull, Crookhaven, Agha down, Tullagh, Cahara, as a ll th ese par i s h es are i n t h e Skibbereen Workhouse union. " On Taursday, the 31st, I attended a meeting of clergy men at Ballydehob village, in the parish of Skull. Mr. Triphook, perpetual curate of Ballydehob, said he had visited thirteen Protestant families in dysentery. In one house (where there was a large family) not one was able to get out of bed to open the door. Dr. Trail said that the deaths had so much increased, they were obliged to take an additional half acre of ground to add to Skull churchyard, and to keep two men at work to make graves: also, that the greater number was buried without coffins, to save expense. _ _ " Major Parlor and Captain Reid (on the part of govern ment) spent the greater part of last Wednesday examining the houses of the destitute and sick, near Skull village, and they declared to Dr. Trail they had before heard of the great misery in that di s t r i c t, b u t now th ey saw it w i th their eyes, and believed it : and they added, the people must be fed, and in most instances (from the spread of dysentery and sickness) gratuitously; also, that seed must be supplied to sow in their land. " Indian meal can now be had on the spot for about £lB or £2O per ton. " Bread stuff can be supplied on the spot." These are not. exceptions, I grieve to say, b u t ra th er specimens, of w h a t it has pleased God, in his mysterious vi.o.ation to mmct upon our unhappy co un t r y. B e no t impatient under the distressing reiteration of Ireland's miseries. Do not look upon her as a stranger,—yet even as a stranger, a troublesome stranger if you will,—you cannot as Christians listen to the history of her wretched ness with unmoved apathy ; but rather receive her as a _ _ sympathies of her brethren, and whose wants should ani mate their self-denying efforts to procure for her without delay the needful measure of relief. Say not the government st'lciuld'do sorriethitig 'Mote: - I know it, but men are starring to death ! Say not the landlords should interfere, each for his own tenants. I know it, but many, very many of them have not the means, and in the meantime men are starving to death ! Say not the clergy should do it. They are doing to their power; yea, and above their power—still, men are starving to death! Say not you are feeding the poor Irish in your own streets, and must pay the enormously increased poor-rates incurred thereby. I know it; but men, women, and chil dren,are starving to death ! This is a fact before which an army of excuses must take to flight. They are perishing of hunger; and you have enough, and to spare. Look around your tables; see your precious little ones in all the rosy brilliancy of health and strength ; hear them asking papa for more bread; take up lo a f u p on loaf. n..ll_l_ duo neip them with a ready nature is fully satisfied ;• and when y ou l a y d own your hand and happy heart. Help yours e lf a l so , till crav i ng knife and fork, remember men, women, and children are starving to death ! Men and brethren ! meet together and form a committee of competent men of business, to send food or money, or both ; or, if you deem one committee in the town suffi cient, send your contributions, promptly and liberally to our treasurer, Mr. H. J. W ebster On inquiry, we find i n many districts local agencies at work, such as that described in the above-cited letter. Our plan is to enable such men to continue and increase their supplies ; to keep their barrel of meal from wasting, and their cruse of oil from being empty, till the season of famine shall be mercifully overpast. I need not add, that all our friends so occupied on the spot, and so aided by us, feed men, as men, without refer ence to creed or party. There is a time for everything; a time for fair and earnest agumentation between truth and falsehood, when men are all well fed ; and a time for feeding without any argument when men areiri want. Again entretiting you t o a ll ow t h e di re neces sities of the case to excuse the unprecedented boldness of my intrusion upon you, I have the honour to be, men and brethren, your faithful servant in the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, HUGH WNEILE. iligburth, January 5, 1847. A LONG SPEECH.—It Wetherell that when he IN committee on a contested ( the sitting memb( a witnc client's safety, required to be proved was called for by the ehalrina ii n but in vain. Sir Charles, in a whisper with the 6° " c itor, ascertained that the witness was at home, and that it 'would take three days to send for him and bring him up to town. " Then send off a post-chaise and four at once, and I will argue the oint whether he is a neces sary witness or not in the meantime." The argument was far from concluded, when, towards the close of the third day the witness' arrived ; and it is said that the learned counsel was annoyed at being interrupted so ab ruptly.—Times. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. s• _ THE STARVING IRISH. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. us the most inconsistent nation under heaven • for while, APPEAL FROM THE REV. HUGH M`NEILE. on the one hand, we made our monarch declaL Rome to We gave in our last several extracts from the circulars be an idolatrous church, on the other we caused her to f some of our leadi ng b ro k ers , an d we have now the sign an act of parliament to endow the idolatrous church YWe noticed la s t wee k th e no bl e e ff ort ma d e b ° satisfaction of giving the following valuable remarks and the forsworn. He trusted that when the day of trial the Rev, Canon M'Neile and his congregation to from the excellent annual circular of Messrs. Littledale did come th a t th e sp i r it o f the seven bishops would re relieve the destit u ti on ex i s ti ng in Inland and and Co. : animate the bench of bishops of Ireland and her clergy, that notice, the s ame rev , gent l eman h as a dd e d to amongst the Hi g hl an d s o f S co tl an d ; an d s i nce " At th e c l ose o f t h e commercial year it is usual to take and they would repudiate the idea ofconnection state as one a short retrospect of the pri nc ip a l i nc id ents w hi c h h ave pensioners with the church o f Rome. There was his claims upon th e marked its course ,• and it is well we d o so , t h at we may po i nt o f the parallel, he confessed with sorrow, would not gratitude of his poor fellow- see how evils which threatened r its commencement have hold good, and that was th e d e t erm i ned Protestant spirit countrymen, by the p u bli ca ti on of a letter, ad- been dispelled, and how anticipations of good have exhibited ; but this he hoped would be exhibited when dressed to " the merchants, bankers, gentry, and proved correct or fallacious, and thus be enabled to arrive requisite. trading classes of th e t own o f Li verpoo l , " revea li ng at more just esti ma t es f or t h e f uture. Few years have further evidence of the necessity of exertion by the exhibited greater changes than the one just past ; and enttral illitutilanp. hilst 't cement presents a lesson on the effects • benevolent, to preserve a people from starvation, whilst its commencement presents a lesson on the' effects ' flttrtll 11fIieiIanp. - benevolent, to preserve a people from starvation, of over i - s cam l m9l sf n e s c p u i ti eo on n n fi e d v e e n r ee tl n be forgotten, its close should ---;-- and Lord Carew, it is stated, will second the Address in the and appealing, in a strain of fervent eloquence, certainly the energy and resources of for increased exertion. ' ['his admirable letter this great commercial nation. The amount required for He Aappeared child, eleven e hearty,vencyears)m having aa a nl n i d no:loda has ndrt, ht aruo a tanekeEie. son aat bes B :o o u t othyoeie "Thereida years e s fEp a o so f sri est pint xtn• that age. o d a o tt i House of Lords. Above £9OO has been raised in Halifax for the relief of we give below ; and we wish sincerely that it were railway deposits by a fixed day in February was so gigantic as to be s uppl y. hbed the limits of the circulating the Irish. ~ The l Earl of Jersey is alarmingly ill, at Frankfort-on in our power to say anything calculated to add medium to ul All parties dreaded the storm, but to the effect which it ought to produce upon every the-Maine. tr e liristol Council-house, an old man, who gave none could devise the means to escape. to T a li ff e feeling heart. We can only urge upon the apa- pressed, and unable, however willing, obradnrkesliewfetroe his age as 111 years, was last week complainant in a case. thetic in this good work the duty which they owe their constituents ; the bill discounters, seeing the pressure as Christians, grateful for the good things with coming on the market, scarce knew what rates to ask, f e died gin which Providence has blessed them, to be prompt and the Bank of England herself, compelled to act on the fyow days since —to come forward with the open hand, and to defensive, was most chary of her funds, so that for a time fo s und. reflect that, to use the stirring language of Mr. every channel of accommodation appeared closed ; trade I and commerce sepmed paralysed ; produce was depressed ; r L m ad a Duff Gordonn t lia ye st ca f m o u a nd a ati ß on for any assertion of the kind." M'Neile, whilst they are hesitating and counting many bankruptcies occurred, and still more were antici- shliagdhtbe the cost, men, women, and children, are starving to gated, till the stoutest heart began to tremble for the death : issue. Yet, after about • th r ee mon th s o f diffi cu lti es , ' The amazing average number of 28,840 s h eep and 3550 TO THE MERCHANTS BANKERS, confidence began gradually to revive • money became cattle are driven to Smithfield m ar k e t every M onday GENTRY, AND TRADING CLASSES OF TH E more plentiful, transactions increased, and the dread storm morning. A poor woman, at Gloucester, died last wee k o f s t ar - TOWN OF LIVERPOOL. which for a time th rea t ene d d es t ruc ti on spee dil y passe d away. And why so ? The mone y p an i c was - rat h er a vation. Her husband Was in work, but spe n t hi s wages rantable intrusion—do not stand up on th e or di nar y usages MEN AND BRETHREN,—Do no t accuse me o f unwar in drink, and his poor wife could get no fo o d. • derangement than an abstraction ; it rema i ne d a t h ome , and etiquettes of society, we ll h ouse d, we ll c l o th e d, we ll The address in reply to her Majesty's s p eec h w ill b e and soon returned to c o mmerc i a l c h anne l s ; pro d uce o f all fed. I value tho se usages as hi g hl y as any o f you can do, moved in the House of Commons by M r . Ch ar l es How and respect them as s cru p u l ous l y un d er a ll or di nary c i r- kinds was low in pri ce , an d a l arge consumpt i on secured aid, and seconded by M r . Ri car d o . by the general a c ti v ity o f every b ranc h o f domest i c Mr. John Harker, b rewer an d ma lt s t er , o f B arnard cumstances. But human lif e i s p aramount, an d t h e d a i ly industry, But no t on ly h a d b us i ness to contend for some months with a money p r ess ure ;it su ff ere d , i n t h e pro- Castle, committed suicide o n Th urs d ay , b y ta ki ng arsen i c. bread, absolutely necessary f or the sustenance of our His affairs were embarra s s e d. fellow-men, m a y no t ( pray excuse my urgency when I duce markets especially, a l mos t as severe l y f rom l eg i s l at i ve add must not) wait f or th e et i quettes of society. ' c h anges . A commercial b udget, the most important ever An Irish gentleman, in a l e tt er t o th e A gr i cu l tura l S o- On every side I he ar d th e i nqu i ry, what is to be done ? s ub m itt e d t o the •British nation, was b roug ht f orwar d' i n ciety, recommends the us e o f mange l- wurze l as an i ngre- In every circle I wit nesse d a w illi ngness to give, and a January , and not passed until June—six months of per- dient in bread. He say s h e h as t r i e d it w i t h great success. wish for some gen era l appea l , some satisfactory hannel plexity and suspens e succee d e d a c h ange o f m i n i sters, and Joseph John Gur ne y, th e ce l e b rate d philanthropist, still further ch ange i n d u ti es. died at Norwich on Mo n d ay l as t, age d 59 . H i s death was through which to cont r ib u t e . T o my own congregation, occasioned by injuries re ce i ve d f rom the falling of his . " After such an accumul a ti on o f hindrances it might as a body, I proposed a mee ti ng upon t h e su bj ect. For pony during the late f r ost. the result so far I hu m bly an d h eart il y t h an k G od, and naturally be thou g ht th a t th e consumpt i on, as well as the imports of produce, must h ave ma t er i a ll y su ffe re d ; b ut In the present ye ar th ere w ill b e t hi rteen full moons— ments d my dear kind friends. I ex p ec t e d ot h er s i m il ar move two in January, n o t one i n F e b ruary — two in March, and suchoes not appear to have bee n th e case , b ot h h av i ng in the town. Hea r i ng o f none as yet, an d heari n gone nd in will succeeding month—a phenomenon of this increased in a satisfactory ratio. The imports of produce daily of deaths from hunger, I am constrained to the winot occur again for many years. generally have greatly exceeded former years, yet the la On cildness of this address. Let me entreat you to excuse Wednesday, London was darkened by a dense fog, deliveries in all the leading articles of consumption show . tie, and prove that you do so, by granting my petition. which made gas-lights necessary in all the shops and other [t is food for the hungry • it is clothing, however scanty a corresponding increase, and the stocks in many instances thearc higher yearh atvhea ruled n a t t the moderate eo and n l d B4 p s r e . t t y Pricesr regular l a t r h r e o o u r g n h a o n u d t mud however coarse, for the naked ; and I must now add, places of business. The navigation of the river was alto gether suspended. cottonw We have medicine for the sick, to notice the most impOrtan ' t c h ange Mr. Plummer, a distinguished sportsman, and known Read the following extracts from a letter this day re xived from an old friend of mine, now rector of a parish h orses,aT h s A th nd e ee b ncd r et e ilaee et mel e das r tnw o t7 f , niseAa4ml6i Parkes, ceed yea r sT Hawthorn oni oild ine ar n aen,ydheaur a skn n m; n d aoadn o r rteoedvr. Sunday which has occurred in this eventful year —one which will in the south of Ireland : er to Eton I ' give notoriety to its commercial annals, and exercise the " Very grateful do I feel for your kind remembrance of greatest influence on the future interests of this country College, in trust, the yearly interest of £l,OOO stock, to as in deep distress. Much required is, not only the sym the passire? of the new corn-law—the crowning measure Dathy, but the active benevolence of our friends. If they be given annually to the most proficient amongst the of free-trade'legislation. Years must pass before a cor mid me not, I must soon close my hands and bar my rect opinion can be formed of its re a l mer it s ; b u t one scholars of the mathemati ca l mas t er . loors. Our e x i s t ence i s one cont i nuous, unbroken scen e if misery. A b r i g ht an d peaceful moment has long been poi n t i s c l ear l y es t a bli s h e d b y i t, wh i ch i s, that free-trade Barber and Raine must in future be the rulin g p r i nc i p l e o f our commerc i a l murders at Barnard Castle, have been re acquitted of the who, at the last York assi ze s, were stranger to me and mi ne . Y ea ! an d ver il y t h e m i rth apprehended, and committed on a ch arge o f h av i ng ro bb e d of the land is gone . No laugh is ever he ar d— no sm il e policy, and any high restrictive or protective duti es must we n ,ies mus speedy vanish. In this rests our strong claim for the admission of sugar and molasses for breweries and for dis tillation, and for the prompt reduction of the monster tea duty. INTERESTING TO THE LOVERS OF FINE ARTS. The Art Union Journal for this month contains the following important announcement : "A remarkable invention for the formation of large figures has been made by . Messrs Mceser and Krie g h (t wo P russ i an Artists), thematersal being nothing snore than the scrapings of the public roads, which is cast and consolidated into a material like sandstone, but is•said to be superior. This invention is in operation at an establishment at Charlottenburg." What a serious dilemma this gets us out of! We have long wanted to immortalize some of our great men, and many of our public buildings have as long wanted decorations, and we have only been deterred by the cost The Custom House, which ha: - o st- ks sulk- Has n, looK„Ky at the Town Hall which has. St. George's Hall has been promised a pediment, and ought to have a st a t ue . Y e t we have plenty of " scrapings" to accommodate both the new and the old buildings at a very cheap rate. We could find enough street and other dirt in the neighbour hood of St. George's Hall to make a colossal figure of Mr. William Earle, who we presume:vvill aspire to any honour connected with it ; and if his claim to immortality is not fully made out on this ground, he deserves it as the au thor of the celebrated assertion that for a man "to die of starvation in Liverpool is impossible." Some of the late Highway Board might possibly claim to have their likenesses perpetrated in their own materials. A single " corporation bed" would make two moderately large sized statues. In some of the new streets, which are unpaved, mud enough could be scraped up for an orna mented figure of every owner. In fact—thanks to Prus .;.,-. —....uvennveness—we may now say to any aspiring indi vidual, in whatever street we may meet him, " Si !noun mentum quceris, circuznspice !" If you want to be a " large figure" in the eyes of posterity look in the gut ters. By the bye, the gentlemen composing the water companies possess a powerful claim to be remembered in this way. THE REV. HUGH STOWELL ON THE ACQUIT TAL OF THE SEVEN BISHOPS: A lecture has recently been delivered to the Members and friends of the Christ Church Literary and Scientific Institution, Salford, by the Rev. Hugh Stowell, M.A. Hon. Canon of Chester, the subject being a splendid painting by Mr. Herbert, R.A., of the Acquittal of the Seven Bishops, in 1688, which was kindly permitted by Mr. Agnew, of the. Repository of Arts, Exchange-street, whose property it is, and for whom it is being engraved, to be exhibited in the room during the lecture. Nearly a thousand persons were present. The rev. lecturer commenced by directing attention to the interesting character of the painting, and its merit as a work of art. He then proceeded to trace the progress of the Reformation from the time of Henry VIII, through the succeeding reigns of Edward VI, Queen Mary, Eliza beth, James I, Charles I and 11, to .that of James 11, whose insidious and tyrannical attempts to bring this realm under the domination of Popery excited the resist ance of the seven bishops, whose acquittal from the charge of contumacy brought against them forms the subject of this picture. The circumstances under which such charge arose may be briefly stated. _ With the view of • -- • sui g tor roery greater pin the constitution, James , affected great favour toward ower s Non conformists ; and having first afforded them, by his pre rogative, an extension of privileges in Scotland, by which extension Roman Catholics were mainly sought to be ag grandized, issued a declaration of a similar measure for England. This declaration he required the bishops and clergy to have read twice in their churches ; but, out of the twenty-four bishops eighteen remained true to Pro testant principles, and a mere fraction of the clergy sub mitted to read it, most of them authorising their congre gations to leave the church, whilst it was read to bare walls. Seven out of the bishops, headed by Sancroft, 4.rchb:-' ----, took 0- servation of life from Shipwreck." A strong remonstrance having been presented to the Bishop of London, against the impropriety of storing malt and spirituous liquors in vaults under churches, that prelate has intimated his intention to take steps to pre vent these vaults from being used for such purposes. Owing to the high price charged for spirits by the prin cipal distillers, the licensed victuallers of London have given notice, that, within a short time, they will be com pelled to advance the price of gin, whisky, and rum, to tl —t of r' -t 3d. - one of the deceased parties The Bishop of Bristol has written to the Mayor, sug gesting the propriety of calling a public meeting to raise subscriptions for the assistance of the . Irish now suffering from famine. Eggs have been so scarce at all the markets in Durham for the last three weeks, that they have sold at half-a crown a dozen, and in some cases a shilliqg has been de manded and paid for three. CHEAP NEWSPAPERS.—The experiment of reducing the price of some of our best provincial papers has turned to good account. The Liverpool Standard has, since the alteration in its price, considerably more than doubled its circulation.—Shropshire Conservative. Sir William Hillary Bart., died at his residence in the Isle of Man, on Tuesday, in his 77th year. He was formerly equerry to the Duke of Sussex, and was the _.isnop o, ,anterbury, took the bold step of protest ing against the Declaration • and for this offe nce , by th e advice of Father Peter, the king's Jesuit confessor, they were committed to the Tower, and, amidst an almost uni ae extent o. .00u, a pint. - The number'of deaths in London during the week end ing the 2nd inst., amounted to the extraordinary number of 1,510. This is the largest number registered in any one week for the last seven years, and exceeds the average of the last five winters by 442. During the late frosts, a considerable quantity o f game has been picked up de a d in the south.-- t' he pheasant preserves, where the birds are fed, pheasants have done well ; but partridges have been starved out. Rabbits have been found frozen in great numbers, and many hares have been found dead. The colliers in the neighbourhood of Dudley have ceased their work, as their masters have refused to lessen the hours of daily labour. The pitmen proposed to begin working at seven in the morning, and to leave off at five afternoon ; but the coal-owners declined to grant the de mand. .. Loss OF £2229.—0n Tuesday information was received by the police that two letters containing notes and bills of Exchange amounting to £2229 18s, 6d„ had been ab stracted whilst in transit through the Post-office, from the firm of W, S. Cheetham, of Nottingham, to the Com mercial Bank of Scotland, Edingburgh. A subscription has been commenced at Leeds for the Irish, headed by Messrs. Marshall, £200; Messrs. B. Gott and Sons, £200; Messrs. Beckett and Co., £lOO ; the Mayor, £5O; Messrs. Stansfeld and Brown £5O ; Mr. John Heato n , £5O ; M essrs . W m. Gatliff, Son, and Co. £2l, and a truss of blankets. These were followed by other subscriptions of various amounts. IRoNmAsTERs' MEETING.—At the usual preliminary meeting before the quarterly meetings, which take place in the ensuing week, held at Wolverhampton, on Tuesday, it was unanimously resolved that no advance should be made for the ensuing quarter. The state of the trade was described as healthy but it was thought, without an excep-, tion, that any advance would be highly injurious. A young lady in the neighbourhood of Harrogate, for the sake of curiosity, planted a potato in the corner of her - father's garden, at th e l a tt er en d o f O c t o b er l as t, to 1 ana, _ aer astonishment, when she looked at it on New Year's day, found at the root seven large potatoes, which were used the same day for dinner and were found quite palatable. GOVERNOR-GENERALSHIP OF INDIA. —lt is confi dently stated in military circles and at the East India House—and we believe there is little, if indeed any, doubt of the truth of the report—that Lord Hardinge has been recalled from India, and that he is to be suc ceeded in the Governor-Generalship by the Marquis of Clanricai de.—United Stry.ce Gazette. At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, Mary Anne King, 25,_ married woman, was charged with tin wilful murder of her son, by biting him upon the face, and thereby giving him divers mortal injuries, of which he died about ten days after his birth. It appeared that she was in a state of insanity at the time, and was on that e , ground_ acquitted. versa' excitement of tne rrotestant body of the peopi were ultimately brought to trial. Notwithstanding the partizanship of some of the judges, and the efforts of the king's brewer, who was on the jury, to bring about a con viction, the result of the trial was a verdict of acquittal. The scene in court, and that which followed the giving of this verdict, is thus described by the reverend lecturer : "The court assembled at ten o'clock, the crowd thronged every corner of the beautiful building so correctly repre sented in the picture, where the painter had most happily caught all the features of the ancient edifice, and given a living representation to the scene that took place on that memorable morning. The whole of the avenues and streets approaching to the hall were one living mass of commanded anxious and thrilling hearts. The cryer " silence " in the court ; the foreman of the i jury present e d himself, and was a s k e d, " A re you agreed ? ' Yes, my lord," he replied. A universal hush per v ad e d the whole of the thrilling multitude. " You say that the are guilty or no". foreman,jtuhsetice aannoyed yed and and it is said that the chief ~ Nut guilty;" - ,-. ‘...4 I.IIIU ,my ion', KIM cha g rined appeared not clearly hear and asked again, ay you, not guilty ?' guilty," again said the oreman, with increased emphasis. The words caught like wildfire, and a shout went round the hall, that, as Lord Clarendon said, " you would have t - , kht the wall had srilcked." Such was the outburst _ _ - As Mr. Williams and his daughters were walking up staggered. - ste r against e t Pontypool them , a , naddrun kenknocked ruff ian down namedthe dDavies.A man having remonstrated with the ruffian fer such con duct was also knocked down by him. While Mr. Wil liamski DWilliams'sE AwT DEATH Williams's u i t s l i l lg aEt.L t d h lr m lse. a d n Lhui u zen3 p , 0 , Davies Luedpgti3anhgligene, ,fnsusapeliaodlefractured lady tehoynuetw tdohhrc_oacswuto Mr. enceegutd-: apßi fit,e de Regent-square, a na p nt a -d r s tciwmuaaeirnest: severely in eni t dy h ob e nu hnotu. whilese TsNthaoins. room stove, fell suddenly into the fire, in consequence of several r 1 ITC no's . of triumph. It passed through the windows to the mul titude ,paanssdedcarrthireoduigthfrtohme shock, and co mmun i cated dstneseet , multitudeoaunt a sid f e ro , ml who ikaell t ae o ny o k et loe u e ta p lrlie t cy he ; itself to the outskirts, and was caught up by the distant multitude. It reached the encampment on Hounslow Heath, and the soldiers answered to the civilians, and "not guilty" echoed from mm .„,i -4. 41— .._ „. thc other; it might be said to have spread like wild fire in the stubble field, till it reached the very extremities of the kingdom." he city After commenting further upon the excellent manner in which the painter had treated the subject, Mr: Stowell deduced from it the following valuable lessons :--- " Some modern liberals had thought that Rome was changed, and the conduct of thP nrespnt nnibn 115.1 hppn urged in proof, because he had been liberal in his conduct to his states which required his patchwork, or they ap peared likely to fall to pieces, but he was the same as his predecessors, and showed himself as much the bigot in his late encyclical letter as his predecessor. Another lesson was, that the Church of England had been, and is the advocate and defender of -civil liberty, while the Church of Rome was its grand enemy, and that was a lesson he wished all liberal statesmen and liberal members 0 - _•••• out, LLl.lll , 4lsi care was of course ...- stowed upon the unfortunate sufferer ; unhappily, how ever, without success. She expired on the 6 f t e h et in l s o t n . g, at The magnificent portrait gallery,ri has not its equal Drayton Marlin., is now completed, the building of in this country. Sir R. Peel had, prior to E ; st w i o with a the ia e r g exception b e r o htahne any Royal otb ee t e pri vatel°n'gentleman. There are upwards of fifty portraits ex hibited in the gallery, the majority of which, particularly those only recently finished, have never been seen beyond the private circle of the right hon. baronet. Th. +.4-1 _ _ vate iie dw w e l l a ii i n n g u s, m t r a r t were of o e rk nt s i t y s, d w e a s r t e m h y ou ed ses b , y an fi d re pri in - London during the last year was 258 the total number of similar buildings that were slightly damaged by fire, wa ter, was 576, making a total of 834. The number of chimney alarms was 69, and false alarms 119, making in l t a he rge w r whole b l e B r B t , w han hich h has s ev o er w t s a aken gr p a l n ace d total sinc of 1022—a etheforma. `ion of 0 It l the the police establishment. Jut o. .ne above then were fifteen outbreaks which were attended with loss of life, and - the total number of lives lost was 23. FEARFUL DEATH OF A BRIDE.—On Saturday week, as Mr. aneMrs. Jacques, of Jarrow, who had been married only five.days, were proceeding along a coal railway, near to Neyycastle, they came to an inclined plane, up which Mr. Jacques proposed they should ride upon the waggons. 7i_•_ • n ..,,c. UPI sentea, anu ou at tempting CO get into the wag gons she fell, and seven of them passed over her. She was immediately taken up and conveyed to the Newcastle Infirmary, where she died shortly after. Mr. Jacques bad conducted a school in Jarrow, and he and his wife were on the eve of going to a more extensive field of la bour when this fearful accident happened. At a recent dinner given by the Mayor of Newark, Lord John Manners bid farewell to the constituency of Newark (it has been well known for some time that he will ~amen, to learn, and he was sure .we would no t s it f or Sta m f or d i n t h e next Par l iament), and stated that ~e grants to M a y noo th, o r propositions to endow the J. H. Manners Sutton, Esq., of Kelham Hall, would, in priests of Ireland. But there was also to be learnt from all probability, become a candidate for the suffrages of this the value of dependance upon god, who sustained the electors, and that Lord Stanley had taken the lead of these holy men under their difficulties. There was no what once was the Tory, then the Conservative, and now small res em bl ance b e t ween the circumstances of the land is styled the Country Party, and that the noble lord had when thi s grea t even t t oo k place, and the circumstances well matured his measures for the coming session. Mr. of the l an d a t th e present moment. He believed our Stuart also spoke, but avoided all party politics, observing blessed ref orma ti on an d constitution was sadly mutilated, only that he should again become a candidate for Newark. our safegu ar d f or c i v il and religious liberty had been SPLENDID SUBSCRIPTIONS.—We rejoice to see that in broken i n u p on b y th e comprom i s i ng l egislation of later L on d on a su b scription on behaf of the destitute in be times, and i n consequence he believed Rome had liberty land and Scotland, has been commenced under the most and po wer e xcee di ng ly impairing our liberty and freedom promising auspices. The following subscriptions have of conscience, and that Jesuits were about acti n g beneath been received :—The Queen, £2000; Prince Albert, £5OO. the su r f ace , Th ere was t oo muc h resemblance in the fact. the Duchess of Gloucester, £200; the D u k e o f Devon : that some of the clergy were too much attached to Rome, shire, .ZlOOO ; Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., £lOOO • though the great mass of th e c l ergy were soun d at th e M essrs . J ones , Ll o yd an d C o ., £lOO O ; Messrs. Overend , core. He feared we were not far from an attempt which Gurney and Co., £1000; Messrs. Rothschild and Co., would bring the parallel still nearer. He should look on £lOOO ; Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths £ICOO ; the attempt to en d ow th e Ch urc h o f R ome as the last f ata l M essrs . T ruman, H an b ury, and Buxton, £1000; Lord suicidal act which would identify us with Rome, and make John Russell, £3OO ; Sir Robert Peel, £2OO. Jan. 12, 1847. On Thursday, Sir George Larpent, as chairman of the East India and China Association, with the deputy chair man, had an interview with Lord John Russell, to advo- Yate a reduction in the duty of tea. Lord John Russell thanked the deputation for the trouble they had taken, and assured them that the subject upon which they ap peared to be so much interested would receive the fullest and most patient consideration of her Majesty's govern ment. POTATOES.—The price of potatoes is rapidly advancing in Durham, and at Sunderland 16d. to 18d. a peck is now charged, according to quality, which is about double the price usually paid at this time of the year. The tubers are not found to keep so well as was expected, and on the average about one-third are unfit for use, even among those got from the dealers at the high prices before named. The stock in the district is being rapidly ex hausted, and other vegetable produce is extravagantly dear. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME.—A correspen dent of the Daily News says, that negotiations have been entered into on the subject of an interchange of diplomatic representatives between the English and the Papal courts. It is said, however, that the English Government insists on a stipulation that the Roman envoy in London shall always be a layman—a demand which stops the progress of the negotiations. [The visit of the Duke of Devon shire to Rome may possibly be connected with the pro posed arrangement.] THE FEVER TAX.—A FACT FOR RATEPAYERS.—The Bethnal Green and Whitechapel Unions incurred an extra expense for the fever cases for the quarter ending Lady day, 1838, the one of £216 195., the other of £4OO, snak ing a total of £616. 19s. ; and being at the rate of £2467 16s. a-year. And of the total number who re ceived parochial relief in most of the districts, a - very large proportion received it i n consequence of their being ill with fever; but in one district, namely, St. G eorge ' s, Southwark, out of 1467 persons w h o rece i ved parochial relief, 1276—that is, the whole number, with the excep tion of 191—are reported to have been ill with fever.— Dr. Southwood Smith's Evidence before the Health of Towns Commission. DR. DODDRIDGE'S CORRESPONDENCE.—DUFhIg the last week, at a sale at Pentonville, of the property of the late Dr. Doddridge, two lots, described as waste p a p er , were brought forward, and th e first, put up at 2s. 6d., was knocked down to a Mr. Hamilton, of Islington (who is curious in autographical matters), at the sum of £2 145., and the second lot produced only £1 Ils., and was secured by the same party. Upon examination, they proved to be an invaluable series of original correspondence ; several thousand letters to and from this eminent divine with his own family ; some of the clergy in America, and most of the dissenting clergy in England of the period, Orton, Watts, Hervey, Warburton, Clark, T. Scott, Newton, Neal, Colonel Gardiner and his lady, Mrs. Ann Dutton, and many others, mostly during his ministry at Northamp ton, including the diploma for his doctor's degree. Mr. Alfred Smee of London, in a l e tt er t o t h e Ti mes, recommends the following treatment for the potato crop during the present year :-1. Cultivate all crops to • the usual extent. 2. With regard to potatoes use sets from ". former healthy plants. 3. Select early varieties. 4. Plant early. 5. Use but little or no manure. 6. Choose sandy or peaty soil. 7. Destroy the plants the Aphis vastator is now living on, which are the shepherd's purse, mallow, and turnip ; on these accounts the husbandman. should destroy these plants as well as possible before spring advances to furnish it with abundance of food. The Vastator causes the first damage to vegetables it attacks, and is thus the cause of the disease from which all subse quent changes take place as a consequence. Every farmer should know the form and habits of the creature, and every one should assist him to kill this destroyer of hu man food. DESTITUTION IN SCOTLAND.—The accounts from the highlands and islands of Scotland are truly awful. The labouring population of Sutherlandshire, Inverness-shire, Ross-shire, Argyle§hire, and of the llebrides and Zetland Islands, are at this moment threatened with starvation in. consequence of the total fail ure o f th e potato crop. Al ready have many of these poor people perished from cold. and hunger, and, horrible as are the sufferings of the destitute Irish, we believe that they are quite equalled by those of the poor inhabitants of the highlands and islands of . 4. at , uu coroner s inquests in Scotland, and but few local newspapers, deaths from star vation take place, and the pubic are uninformed of the occurrence. Under these circumstances, the Edinburgh Committee for the Relief of Destitution in the Highlands have determined to appoint a deputation to proceed to London for the purpose of laying the claims of the suf fering population before the people of England. NEW BRANCH OF INDUSTRY. Anne Wood, an expert artist in simulating fits, who has succeeded in deceiving experienced medical practitioners, was charged at the Mansion-house, London, on Saturday, with practising her imposture in Petticoat-lane. Mr. Jacobs, a surgeon, found her lying in a fit. By the application of strong sti mulants he revived her, but she immediately relapsed. She was taken to the police-station, where even the in spector was moved to pity by her appearance, and sug gested her instant removal to the workhouse. Mr. Jacob handed 11,_ shilling to pay for a cab to convey her thither. She recovered, however, very suddenly, and, on opening her eyes, asked, " Who's to have the shilling, the officer or me ?" At th e M ans i on- h ouse she was recognised as an old offender. In her defence she said she was the wi dow of a policeman who died five years ago, and that since his death she had been obliged "to support her family by hysterical and other fits." The Lord Mayor committed her for three months. • f,,,,in, : e ß ot E u, A c iF ek l th O ne. C . CVßßENCE.—A most awful catastrophe occurred at Neath Abbey, on Sunday morning. At about r erY to of n-i e " N' B r i ath e Adrobb7yilgolin"pawna;'s}!eaborici ler-building establishment. On inquiry it was ascertaixoft that Francis George, 14 years of age, went on the ice - on the canal to ascertain its strength, when it gave way, and he -David ieeeadel 15 o was ercivin precipitatedetog his th friend's danger,ebottom. - years of age, p the spot, and stretched himself on th e i ce i n or d er t o render assistan ce ; b u t no sooner was h e w i t hi n reac h than Geor ge se i ze d hi m b y hi s neckerchief, and drew him into the water al s o. By thi s t i me there was a general alarm throughout th e ne i g hb ourhood, and George's' fa ther being dire c t e d t o th e spot, i mmediately plunged into r the water, where he remained about twenty minutes in a very excited state. Not being able to save his son, his shrieks were most heart-rending. Boat-hooks, irons, &c., were resorted to in the hope of recovering the bodies, but this being found impracticable, a boat belonging to a ves sel was soon on the spot, and launched into the canal. In the course of aefew minutes the two bodies were brought to the surface, but, from the time they remained in the water (half an hour) life was extinct.—Caledonia. THE REVENUE,—The national income has been so stea dily increasing during the last four or five years, that we now look for a surplus as a matter of course. The reve nue table for the year and quarter ending the sth of Janu ary, 1847, does not disappoint the expectation. Com pared with similar periods calculated to the sth of Janu ary, 1846, it shows an increase of £19,873 on the quarter, and £13,032 on the year. These figures, however, do not present the most favourable view of the matter, in asmuch as they give only the net total, after deducting a decrease of £1,016,225, consisting chiefly of repayments of advances, and of a falling off in the Chinese tribute, which are not included in the general estimates. The statement of the ordinary revenue is very much more brilliant, and shows an increase of £454,662 on the quar ter, and £1,028,257 on the year. In fact, there is an ad vance on the year in every item, except stamps, - and - on withetheptqsru. e a quarter te in thd ea one l r en e e a x soe c ef under stamps aes i a hl y n e a d adese o m i i su s n ( n .e t eo l l td a n l ta,o e rr o g u be s ,y atrzede diminution of railway enterprise. The' principal increase is in the Customs, Excise, and Property-tax-, In the first, £2(5,650 and £159,932 for the year and quarter respect ively ; in the second £344,138 and £269,318 s and in the third, £868,821 and £63,234. In the Post-office also there is an advance of £85,000 on the year, and £14,000 on the qnarter. THE MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY BY A YOUNG FRENCH. WOMAN.—On Wednesday, at Winchester Sessions, Mal vina Florentina de Saumarez, 19 years of age, was tried for baying stolen, at Fareharn, on the 28th ofj)ctober reigns, a;d1.30 1.11 Z. 47•1 23 iialf:sovereigns, a guinea, and other articles, the pro perty of Thomas Purkis. The extraordinary nature of this robbery, and the somewhat romantic circumstances attending it, of which a full notice appeared in this jour nal about two months since, created an intense interest in _ TI -L iiaccipsnire, and long before the case was called on every available seat was occupied. The fact of the prisonenbe ing a Frenchwoman had created considerable sympathy on her behalf, so much so as to induce several benevolent individuals to furnish the means of providing her with counsel. The prisoner, who was led into the dock, ap peared to have suffered much during her lengthened im prisonment. She was respectably dressed, and wore a black veil, apparently to conceal her-feature:4 from-the public. The facts stated in evidence were to the same effect as those deposed to by the witnesses during the ,examination before the magistrates. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The prosecutor recommended the pri soner to mercy. The chairman then said, notwithstand ing the recommendation to mercy, he could not discover any extenuating circumstances in the case. He had seldom seen cases where the a d van t ages of education had been applied to such deep laid schemes of vice. The sentence of the court was—ten years' transportation. 'I he decision appeared to create extreme surprise, and the prisoner fainted. THE SECOND ELOPEMENT !—Again we are enabled to furnish the lovers of gossip in Taunton with a little more food of a rich kind. It will no doubt be in the recollee teieorny,oefnodudr daughter - thatn-la w a y f o C u n a t a l a i o d M_ a ,wealrodp eloped f C o h r a t hne purpose of being united in wedlock with a Captain but her plans were frustrated, and Miss B— once more returned to her residence. We understand that :-.he hag not since shown any signs of contrition for the offence of which she bad been guilty, but; on the contrary, has con tinually notified her determination to hay , captain "for better for worse." According to concoct her Plans, but how far the? ,w___ ill suoreed.re mains to be seen. It appears that a female res:ding some where in the neighbourhood of Silyer-street has been her confidant, and for some time past notes had been sent to her by Miss B— i n a --(do not blush ladies)—skcking On Thursday evening she pleaded indispesition, wag nnable to eat any dinner, and retired to her Led-room. After dinner a servant was sent up to her to kr ow whether she would like to take a little dessert, but. alas, the ser vant came to her mistress with the intelligence that Misg 13— was no where to be found. The inmates of the house were in consternation, and Captain M— imme diately started for Bristol, to ascertain whether the fu gitive had taken that road. Mrs. M. received information .that the lady near Silver -street had been engaged in the matter, but she, poor innocent creatre disclaimed all par ticipation in the affair, but it is generally tdersteod that Miss B— fled from that house incog, hsvi g procured widow's cap and bonnet for the purpose. We have not yet heard whether the gallant captain has traced the whereabouts of his dutiful daueatornin-law , or, leer g".v lothario..—Somerset paper. the sporting ly she began was run, tire, and fond 31i rai A lexa from Siva Bosc( —Joh Cove. Barl4] sey, he mAt Triesti mag e , whilst passed New Iti the Vig hence f Jones, IV-111i: Oneco, Bender Citero, Lisbon While Michael at it!exa Willis ht Dec( Broth, Emmi Decemb Tointi tar, !eat Tyro, Oportl Ocean Burlin yen, wit] overboai Boa r from Alf Cove. Chapn A sell( Point 14 but caul PENZi for Syra, • Lady 1 3, long. in lat. 31 —Hope, Prompt, long. 23 deira—R A RRTV Leonidas SAILE New Orl, Golder bowsprit in conta Point Ly Josept Radimit Emilia Eliza Fa) _ Ocean I Deceitll;e King Oporto A Patruu Nov. Resour this port, landed at Alysorc Pr'ovid( port 21st ends. LLOYD' lost on h len Stews Shanghae ARRI E New York lor ; and 1 St. John, Alexandri SAILED Lima—Ex Michael's- Observe RPFP , Old Eng buco—Opt Brock. fro Luncash from New Ariadne, Pantaloi aving bet `John He Param at sailed for Panama, 3d Not•. • Superior Australit 25th Octob Anne ME Grace, B Chinchas 3 Arequipf andEtt,frc Highlan Antonia, fi Coaxer,] paraiso Centaur, Flora, he Reis F. Tyrian, „ JaCkbOti, 31 Senhora, Oscar, fr Clyde at N, DON EGA With salt, expected tC VA LPAR4 a reef near „ SAI Anntviin St. Helena aailed from Maraoliam• Baxter, froi Pu'ford, e -tuhir e fro i V, n ry SA I LE Grande—lli M'oodsto, Etherley, Jane Bax ter, hence a Mary, Br, Bowfin.' Port ItthTV, Cuba, sail Cuidad de and Maria. ?quiche t 8 Yrom Patagc Dempsey, 1) Webster, ft.( FliVo - 1/;ii, .7va 4 _stru - cfc'i ends for six Hermes, 1 Pertena, pyi ST. HELP to Lave verpoc Grn for Li Wm Farr Nia l Will Que