The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-10 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION. Standard-ojice, Nine o'clock. [BY EXPRESS.] IUELAND. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—Yesterday. The usual weekly meeting was held yesterday, at which the recent state prisoners attended. The Lord Mayor took the chair. Mr. Pierce S. Butler,' M.P. for Kil kenny, was admitted a member of the association ; and the next business, the admission of the Hon. G. H. Hutchinson, brother of Lord Donoughmore, was received with tremendous enthusiasm. Mr. O'Connell shortly afterwards addressed the meet ing, but his speech was mainly occupied with-congratu lations on his release, and abuse of those who have endeavoured to stay his seditious career. He said his sentence was an unjust and illegal one, and that he bad as good a right to send the judges to gaol as they had to send him. Having dwelt upon the topic, and spoken of Lord Brougham as an " indescribable wretch," lauded the Whigs for having appointed to the bench such men as Lords Denman, Cottingham, and Campbell ; and ob served that if they had remained in power the Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer (Brady) would be Chief Justice; Mr. Pigot would be Chief Baron ; Mr. Moore, Mr. Monahan, and Mr. Harebell would be on the bench and the prosecution would never have been heard of. He alluded to the tranquillity of Ireland, and then an. flounced h's intended future operations as follows: — First, as to the Clontarf meeting (loud cheers)—that meeting which was to have been collected together legally, and was illegally prevented from assembling. We are bound to adhere to principle. Our principle was right, and we are to consider whether it has been sufficiently vindicated by the verdict of the House of Lords, or whe ther we are called upon in its support to hold that memo rable meeting: For some time 1 thought that it would be necessary to call my fellow-countrymen again together upon the shore of Clontarf, to vindicate our conduct; but considering that the reversing of the judgment by the House of Lords has fully done so already, I almost think it unnecessary. When we have such men as Lords Cot tenham, Denman, and Campbell deciding that we were right—considering that decision, I doubt whether it is necessary to hold the meeting, and if it is unnecessary, it should not be held, as we ought not to be insolent because triumphant. Therefore, upon this day week I will propose that it be referred to a committee to Consider the subject. My own opinion, however, is against it. The next matter to which I intend to refer is the plan I brought forward last year for the establishment of a Preservative Assembly in Ireland. This is a subject surrounded by legal difficulties which we must approach by degrees, and which we were prevented considering last autumn by the iniquitous prosecution. My plan you are aware was this—that three hundred gentlemen should meet in Dublin in a body, and that the title of each gen. tleman to form part of that assembly should be his hand. ing in £lOO. They were to appoint their own treasurer, and be the guardians of their own money. I would pro pose that they should unite together for the purpose of correcting and controlling everything done by the associa tion, the members of which should take no step without their full sanction and unqualified approval. A body of that kind would be a drag on the wheel, which would prevent any danger of revolutionary violence, and would have the greatest influence over the association to preserve it from all danger, and to remove its pro ceedings from all suspicion. They would act between the government and the association, and enter into ar rangements with the minister which could not be other wise effected, and obtain ultimately a parliament for Ire land—should it only be a federal parliament in the first instance. I do not myself approve of a federal parlia ment, or think it the best ; but, still, I would not object to their getting the best they could from the government, which could not attempt to disturb such an influential body of men, and which, if properly addressed, could not refuse them what they asked legally and determinedly, therefore, upon the next day of meeting I will move for a committee to form such an assembly, or rules for their guidance. I will now detail to you my third and last plan. He proceeded to say that his next plan was one to which he was greatly attached, and one which he was -firmly resolved to carry out, namely, the impeachment of the Irish judges and the Attwney-General. He com menced by referring to the monster indictment. which he said was honestly declared by Mr. Richard O'Gorman to be incomprehensHe to the grand jury, in which he was fully borne out by the opinion of Lord Denman, who said that it was a document of such a nature, it was almost impossible for any man to come to a conclusion upon its contents, so voluminous and intrica' e were its complies lions. The honourable gentleman after referring at length to the trial, and announcing his intention of visiting the people of England six weeks before the meeting of Parlia ment, for the purpose of ascertaining whether they coin cided with the feelings of the English minister upon Irish questions, and particularly with reference to the late pro secution, concluded to call on the meeting, in the usual terms, to continue to preserve the peace inviolate, which had placed them in their high position, and was certain of accomplishing their most ardent wishes. The Dublin Evening Mail, in reference to the conduct of the late prisoners. says—" The affair passed off with perfect peace and quiet, except a scene of terrific shout ing, groaning, and hissing' opposite the house of Mr. Hamilton, the foreman of the jury who tried the prison ers. Mr. O'Connell's speech from the balcony of his house was also ' not for war.' Indeed it was distinguished by a much greater freedom from virulence and vitupera tion than usually characterises the declamation of the hon. gentleman. Why should we be angry ?' he truly and relevantly asked. When we were losing we kept our tem pers; should we not do the same now native are winning?' So say we all : no man has less right to be out of humour than Mr. O'Connell; his star is now in the ascendant. The government have played his game : their discourage. went of the friends of British connexion, and their ob vious determination to loosen the few bonds that now remain to connect Irish Protestants with the people of England more closely than with their Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen, are already producing their results. Protestant gentlemen,' said Mr. O'Connell, on Satur day, ' of rank and fortune are crowding around us, and another joins us on Monday.' The Repeal conver sion here alluded to is, we understand, that of the Honourable Mr. Hutchinson, a bother of the Earl of Donoughmore. Within the last few days Mr. J. G. V. Porter, High Sheriff and deputy Lieutenant of Ferma nagh, and son of the Rev. Grey Porter, a clergyman of large property, and long distinguished as possessing the strongest possible feelings, has published a pamphlet, strongly and ably advocating the cause of repeal. These occurrences cannot be denied to be the signs of the times. What does Sir Robert Peel think of them ?' COLLISION hi the OUTWARD CHANNEL, and LAMENTABLE LOSS of LIFE. We deeply regret to state that this morning shortly after two o'clock, the Dublin mail Iron steam-ship " Iron Duke" (600 tons burthen,) came into collision with the brig " Parana," (200 tons,) outward bound from this port for Montreal, about three leagues to the eastward of Point Lynas Light, by which the latter vessel was nearly cut in two, and so sudden was the accident that six of her crew, including her commander, (out of eleven on board in all,) were thrown into the water, and perished ! The brig, it appears, had a light on her poop, and her mate also elevated the binnacle light in his hand, and shouted towards the steamer when he saw her coming rapidly into dangerous proximity ; but, as he conjectures, he was not heard, owing probably to the noise of the en gines, and the steamer, before the brig could effectually alter her course, ran into her abreast of the fore hatch. The night was thick, or what seamen term " dirty," and it were improper to attribute blame to either party, from the information we have yet received, though it is derived from both parties. The following is a copy of a report from Lieut. Parsons, R.N., with which we have been kindly favoured : "At 2 15 p.m. on the 10th Sept., struck the Parana, a brig of about 250 tons, with general cargo, from Liver pool to Montreal, out one day. Her captain and five of her people went down, three jumped on board the Iron Duke, and two were saved by the boats which were launched for that purpose. Capt. Wilson, who perished, is stated 10 be the principal owner, and has left a wife and family. Lynas Light bearing W. 3 leagues when the collision took place. GEORGE PARSONS." Another report states, in addition to the above, that the night was dark, and that the engines of the Duke were stopped at the time of the accident. We accompanied the mate, au exceedingly intelligent seaman, and three of the crew, to their residences, and from them we learn the following particulars :—The brig Parana, Captain Wilson, a vessel of 200 tons burthen, sailed from Liverpool yesterday, with a general cargo, for Montreal. About two o'clock this morning, when about six miles to the eastward of Point Lynas Light, made a vessel that proved to be the Dublin mail steam-ship the Iron Duke. Saw her bearing down upon them, but was no way alarmed. The brig had no light forward, but had a poop or high quarter deck, and no bulwarks on the quarter, (merely a rail,) and a towering skylight about three feet above the deck, in which a light was fixed. As the steamer neared the mate hailed her, (but the noise of a t s engines was so great that he conjectures he was heard,) and immediately took the light from the binacle and held it up, but without effect. The brig was on s tthem st eamer tack, steering about S.W. W. when the y e_r a s n lrk her a little abaft the fore rigging, between the fore rigging and the fore topmast-backsta went:through the starboard coom jugs of the fore hatch, and reached the larboard ones, thus nearly cutting her in too. In this situation four of the cre w managed to get on boardthe ro D uke, by the bow sprit ; and the mate , who ran aft callcaptain, who was lying on the lockers , got entangled with e some of the wreck, and was severely , though not dangerous ly , hurt. hut lie was eventually save d b y the b oats of the steamer; how he has not the le ast recollection. Th e mate, aswell as all the seamen we have seen, positively state that the engines were not stopped until after the collision took place—but that the night was exceedingly" nasty." The names of those saved from the brig were—William nichell, mate, (badly hurt); William Coser, and John Martin, seamen; John Craig, cook and steward. Ano ther man, whose name we could not learn, was also saved. Those drowned were— Wilson, the captain ; Alexander Stewart, second mate ; George Coates, sea man ; also the carpenter and an ordinary seaman. The captain was, it is stated, a married man, and has left his wife and five children in this town to deplore his loss. A subscription was immediately entered into on board the steamer, on behalf of the survivors, and, we learn, very soon amount d to about X-10. The only damage sustained by the Iron Duke was the carrying away of her bowsprit, and a slight but not dan gerous leak. ----- OVERLAND MAIL. INDIA AND CHINA. By Extraordinary Express from Paris we have just re ceived the following TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCEI : THF. CONSUL OF FRANCE AT MALTA TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS._ MALTA. Sept. 4. The Indian mail, which has been expected here for eight days past, has arrived this morning, having left Bombay on the 19th of July. It contains only the news of a mutiny in a Bengal regiment, and of the loss of about SO reapers (or harvest men) anti irregular horse, surprised by the enemy near Shickarpore, and the ex pectation of a plentiful harvest in consequence of the abundance of the monsoon rains. _ Lord Ellenborough was waiting at Calcutta the arrival of his successor. On the 20th of May last, which is the latest date from China, Sir Henry Poitinger was on the eve of his depar ture for Bombay.—Times. Etteraturt. POETRY. THE DYING GIRL. And thou art dying, beautiful and young When smiles et* joy should on thy lips he playing, And thou shouldst bound with sportive glee along. Where merry maids are in the meadows maying. The spring sun shined' through thy window pane, The pleasant breeze with balmy breath is sighing, And thou canst hear the feathered minstrel's strain, In that still room where thou art pale and dying. Why is thy spirit summoned to the skies. Untried by years, unvisited by sorrow ? Why art thou called, ere yet thy gentle eyes Have feared to look upon the coining morrow? Thy cheek hath never paled with anxious care, Thy heart bath never throbbed with guilty sadness; Even as thyself thy course was pure and fair, Hallowed by love, and cheered with looks of gladness Why didst thou leave thine own immortal heaven, For earthly guests to cherish and caress thee 7 Why unto us wert thou, sweet girl, given, And called away when we had learned to bless thee ? Why wert thou fashioned lovely to the sight? Why were thine eyes with tender radiance streaming ? Why didst thou come, young being of delight, To fade like mirage on the pilgrim gleaming? Selfish and weak !—why should we wish thee here? Pass to thy home, unspotted, happy spirit; II asteii on blissful wing to that glad sphere, Where thou wilt glory evermcre inherit. Mingle and dwell among the angel-band; But, oh! while stars beneath thy path are burning, Think thou at times upon our sinful land, And plead for those whose gaze is upwards turtling. —From The Wandering Angel, and other Poems,' by John Bol ton Rogerson, 18-11. NOTICES. A Voice from North Africa. By Nathan Davis. Ritchie : Edinburgh. This little work, possessing claims of peculiar interest at the present moment when the eyes of Europe are di rected to that portion of the globe of which it treats, con tains a vast deal of information respecting the religious rites, the customs and manners of the inhabitants of North Africa. Though the lamp of Christian truth shone brightly at one period of the world's history, Mahomedanism now reigns there ; Christendom forgets, and for centuries has neglected this benighted country ; and the primary object of the writer—a missionary of the Church of Scotland—is to awaken a livelier interest for its social improvement and spiritual advancement. The introductory chapter contains a brief history of the successive dynasties of the country from the victory of the Mahomedan chief Abdal lah, in 647, to the reign of the present Bey of Tunis, who succeeded to the government in 1837. The principal fea tures of the inhabitants are presented in a very interesting and authentic detail of the adventures of a deserter from the Prussian army, who, after enduring the severest priva tions from his intercourse with the Arabs, amongst the various tribes of whom he spent a considerable time, em braces Mahomedanism' and is at present in the service of his highness, the Bey of Tunis. The remainder of the work is occupied with a melancholy description of the moral and intellectual condition of the people—the present state of education—the relative position of the various sects into which the inhabitants are divided, and also af fords a mass of invaluable statistical matter, most import ant in every point of view at the present period. Mr. Davis is evidently a gentleman of considerable research, and could not have presented his work at a more accepta ble time. We give several extracts from it in other columns, which we shall continue at intervals for the in struction of our readers. Lacey's Pictorial Handbook of Liverpool The pressure upon our space, usual during the sitting of our Assize Courts, has prevented us from bestowing upon this excellent little Work anything like the notice which it merits. We now purpose endeavouring to do it and the public justice, by explaining fully its objects, and the extent to which its spirited publisher, Mr. Lacey, has succeeded in carrying them out. From the bare an nouncement in an advertisement, the reader would ex pect to find in the publication a mere Guide book, perhaps !uperior to any previous one, but still partaking of the meagre character of such works. Such however would be a very erroneous idea to be conveyed of the Work bafore us. Conveying every necessary detail for the information and guidance of strangers, and illustra ted with a number of beautifully executed engravings and maps, the literary matter embraces a much wider scope than that of the generality of works of this des cription and may be perused with interest long after the original purpose of a guidebook has been fulfilled—pe rused too by inhabitants as well as strangers in our town. Upwards of one hundred pages are occupied with a history of Liverpool, in which its early origin is traced and its growth from a fishing hamlet to its present im portant position is described, evidently with faithfulness and at the cost of no trifling amount of research on the part of the author. Many of the det. ils of this history are highly interesting and some of them we shall pro bably take opportunities of quoting, as new to the great majority of our readers, as they are certainly to oursel ves. In addition to this general history we have also an account of the origin, nomenclature, &c., of the princi pal streets, which embraces a number of very curious and interesting particulars and must have cost great trouble and pains in collecting. Along with these we have, under the head of " A week in Liverpool" a copious and well written description of the objects most worthy the notice of the stranger in our town—our Docks, Churches, Public Buildings, and other interesting localities--in which a vast amount of statistical matter and interesting information is conveyed in a ple-tsing form, accompanied with a large number of excellent illustrations. In ad dition to this, which may be called the leading portion of the Work, we have a quantity of useful matter, not only to the stranger but to the resident as well, which renders the work one which ought to be in the library, of every professional person and uvon the desk of every merchant. We wish it a wide circulation which it eminently de serves. SELECTIONS. INDIAN RUBBER LIFE-BOAT.—A life-boat iS now being constructed on the company's premises (thirty-four feet length of keel, and twelve breadth of beam), which, with the exception of the keel and some iron braces, will be entirely formed of India-rubber and cork planking. She will weigh but oue ton and a half, an ordinary life boat weighing three tons ; and it is the opinion of all naval men and engineers who have seen her, that it will be al most impossible to sink her under ordinary circumstances, and that, when driven on a rock by the action of the waves, she will rebound like a ball, without fracture. It is also proposed to use the caoutchouc preparation for an inner lining between the guns in war vessels, to prevent the effects of splinters ; for hammock nettings and bul warks, to save the crew from canister, grape, &c. ; and for other useful though less obvious purposes.—Railway Gaz. GAS STOVES.—The application of a method of burning carburetted hydrogen or coal gas, for the production of artificial heat for warming buildings, is an invention of rather recent date. The apparatus in which this is ef fected is very simple. A metallic ring, pierced on its up per side with a great number of holes of very small size, is connected with a pipe communicating with the gas main, and is placed within a double drum or cylinder of iron, raised an inch or two from the floor on small legs : this double drum is so made, that there is a space between the inner and outer cylinder of about two inches—and in this space, near to the bottom, the ring pierced with holes is fixed. A stop-cock in the pipe connecting the pierced ring with the gas main shuts off the supply of gas when the stove is not in use; on opening this cock, and apply , ing a light to the pierced ring, a brilliant ring of flame is immediately produced, which soon warms both the inner and the outer case of the stove by the heat generated dur ing the combustion of the carburetted hydrogen gas. The top of the drum is covered with a large open ventilator, by which the heated air that passes through the inner cylin der is allowed to escape into the room ; but the products of the combustion, having no means of escape, pass down wards from the bottom of the stove into the room. This having been found exceedingly unwholesome, a plan has been contrived by which a considerable portion of the pro ducts of the combustion are carried off by a pipe inserted between the two cylinders, which conveys away the gase ous products into the open air. A moderate-sized stove of this description burns from twelve to fifteen cubic feet of carburetted hydrogen gas per hour ; and this is con verted into two new compounds—water and carbonic acid gas. The quantity of water formed will be 2 6 culiic inches for each cubic foot of carburetted hydrogen, or about a pint to a pint and a quarter of water per hour; and from twelve to fifteen cubic feet of carbonic acid gas, and eight times that quantity of nitrogen, will be the con stant products of the combustion. and produce the most serious deterioration in the quality of the air ; but when these gaseous products are carried off by a chimney, the loss sustained will be very nearly one-half the total heat which is produced by the burning of the gas. —Mining Journal, PONVER OF THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS. — When the New Poor Law Bill was discussed in 1834, Lord Granville i Somerset uttered these remarkable words re specting t. " After the passing of this Bill, I think it will be impossible for any man to say what is and what is not the law for the re li e f o f t h e poor ." H i s lordship said this, we conceive, in reference to those enormous powers of making " Rules, Orders, and Regulations," for every union and for every union workhouse in the kingdom, which the Bill then in progress was about to confer on the three Commissioners. lied a board or commission been constituted, as in Belgium, for the purpose of taking care that the rules laid down by the legislature should be strictly enforced, the case would have been widely differ ent, and his lordship would not have so expressed him self. Lord Abinger (then Sir James Scarlett,) in the de bates on the New Poor Law Bill, used similar language to that employed by Lord G. Somerset. " I must own" said he, "that the clause by which the affairs of the poor are placed in the hands of delegates or commissioners who are to exist as a sort of central board, appears to . me to establish such an impe r i um in imperio, that I think the people of England never will consent to it." Mr. Ed ward Buller thus adverted to the extraordinary powers the New Poor Law Bill was calculated to confer. " I cannot disguise from myself that we are about to esta blish something approaching to absolute dominion—an unlimited monarchy where everything will depend upon the personal character of the parties." It were easy to multiply quotations of this kind ; but our object in refer ring back to the debates of 1834, in reference to this ab solute and irresponsible power—power exercised by three commissioners, but neither exercised nor possessed by the three estates of the realm—is sufficiently answered. The act of the present session can scarcely be said to diminish those powers ; in several respects, which if it were worth while, we could point out, it has actually increased them. —Churchman's Monthly Review. BARGEMEN AND BOATMEN. —We have been requested by a correspondent to insert the following remarks, to which we readily accede, feeling commiseration towards a class of men generally considered the most demoralized in the whole kingdom. " Flaying noticed that you, as well as other editors of influential newspapers, have occa sionally in strong language referred to the crimes commit ted by watermen. I have no doubt you will kindly admit the following extract from the last report of the Sabbath Society, which may tend to benefit a body of men whose moral and religious improvement has been so long and so lamentably disregarded. The above report says—' There is one point to which we must especially direct our atten tion ; it is this : that the poor bargemen and watermen are excluded as it were from the beneficial operations of Sir Robert Peel's bill; for if it can be proved . that 2,000 stationary population exist in any spot, in a neglected condition as to moral and religious culture, the Ecclesi astical Commissioners may afford pecuniary assistance towards providing a clergyman to instruct them ; but if it were proved that double that number of that demoralized migratory class, the watermen, usually on their voyages frequented any spot, no assistance of any kind is allowed towards supplying them with a pastor. Surely this is not right in a country like our own, which owes so much to commerce. It ought to be noticed in a proper quarter as an act of injustice towards a useful but neglected body of British subjects.' "—We shall only remark, that the case does appear hard, and no doubt the mistake in overlooking altogether such a demoralised class will in due time be rectified, by their claims to religious instruction being ef ficiently met as well as acknowledged. The Church of England ought to forget no class of the community ; and we may rest assured that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, when they have it in their power, will not be unmindful of the spiritual wants of the most disregarded of all classes. Great Britain has derived many millions from her internal commerce, but how few hundred pounds have been ex pended on the instruction of the poor men who toil to promote its extension, and who are, as a body, little better than the heathen. The great increase of the population of this country, as well as the migratory habits of the boatmen, prevent the parochial clergy in general paying attention to this subject, which renders it more necessary that pastoral superintendence should be expressly pro vided for the men employed in our inland navigations.— TV° rcester Journal. NELSON'S MEMORABLE SIGNAL, AND HIS LIEU TENANTS.-It may not be generally known to the younger branches of the naval service, that the responsible and arduous duties of first lieutenants of our ships, which at present are invariably performed by the seniors, were, during the last war, confided to any of these officers at the discretion of the captains of their respective ships; and the immortal Nelson himself, on the morning of the 21st of October, 1805, presented a striking instance of this discretion The Victory, within a very short time previously, had two first lieutenants, who were actually the respective seniors at the time, promoted to the rank of captain ; and the repeated changes in the person of the executive officer proving somewhat injurious to that state of discipline in which the admiral was pleased to have his ship, his lordship was determined that this duty should devolve on the junior lieutenant, because his turn for promotion would be more remote, as his lordship still intended, after his usual practice, to bestow promotion according to seniority. On the morning of the 21st, previous to leading into action, Sir ThomaS Hardy re quested Lord Nelson to appoint his two senior lieutenants as captains of the line-of-battle ships, the commands of which were vacated by the departure of captains who held them to attend as witnesses at Sir Robert Calder's court martial ; but the reply of the hero was worthy of his hopes—that he considered the officers of those ships were fully adequate to fight them, and he would not imply such a want of confidence in them at such a moment; and, as to any disappointment of his own lieutenants, he trusted their anxiety would be allayed when he assured them it was his intention to make them all post-captains when the day was done. Shortly after he commanded his memorable signal to be made to the fleet, which, we are assured by the narrator of the above, was in these words :—" England confides that every man this day will do his duty." This, however, offering some difficulty in communicating, from having to spell separately the word " confides," his lordship's flag lieutenant, then the senior of the Victory, suggested that the word "expects" should be substituted, when it was acceded to, and the signal was promptly executed. It is needless to remark, that the termination of the day prevented the illustrious hero from performing his promise with respect to his lieutenants ; and the prediction was only fulfilled to the junior, who was doing the duty of first under the above circum cumstances, by the admiralty making him a post-cap tain. The three seniors were only made lieutenant captains (or masters and commanders), according jct. the rank of that day. The officer, who was the senior and flag lieutenant of this immortal chief, was made, some six years subsequent, and, though fearfully wounded in the action by a grape-shot, is now on the navy list, and was, we believe, the recipient of one of the first good service pensions the present admiralty had the opportunity to bestow. Had Nelsrm survived, Captain John Pasco would now have been a flag officer.—Standard. THE PROCESSION AT THE BURNS' FESTIVAL.—The effect of the procession as seen from the platform almost baffles the power of description. The wailing of the bag pipes and the crash of the bands were heard from the bo om of the deep wood-thicket behind, long before the ranks became visible. At length, among the trees that skirted the opposite banks, there was a glittering of lances, and a lifting of banners, and a dark-growing line of men, in closest order, marching as if to battle. Gra dually it flowed on, in continuous stream, file succeeding to file without gap or intermission, until the head of the column appeared recrossing by the Old Bridge, and wind ing up the road towards the platform ; and still new ban ners rose up behind, and fresh strains of music burst forth amidst the leafy screen. And now they reached the platform : lance and flag were lowered in honour of those who stood bareheaded above, and deafening were the cheers that ushered in the arrival of the national pageant. The spectacle was most imposing, and must have con veyed to the minds of the strangers present a vivid im pression of the energy and enthusiasm so deeply implanted in the Scottish character, and always so irresistibly mani fested at the touching of a national chord. The most in teresting part of the procession by far was the array of farmers and shepherds, the flower of the west-country yeomanry, attired in the graceful plaid. Of that same breed of men, of tall and compact mould and hardy sinew, was Robert Burns; nor is it possible to imagine anything more animated than the appearance of those stalwart sons of the soil, as they lingered for a moment before the plat form, and looked with wistful eyes at the sons of the Poet, if haply they might trace in their lineaments some resem blance to the features of him whom , from their infancy, they had learned to love. Then came the Freemasons, and King Crispin with his train, and the Archers, and much more of old Scottish device, until there seemed no end to the flowing tide of population, all keen, and joyful, and exult int. But the full burst of enthusiasm was re served for the close. In the rear of all appeared an enor mous thistle borne shoulder high ; and no sooner was the national emblem in sight, than a universal and long con tinued cheer burst forth from the many thousands who were now congregated in the plain beyond. Alas, for that thistle ! Though Burns, as the insciiption bore, " Had turn'd his weeder-clips aside, And spared the symbol dear," such was not the fate of the offspring plant. Scarcely had it reached the platform, when Christopher North •vio lently possessed himself of one branch, the Lord Jus tice-General seized upon another, and in the twinkling of an eye it was torn into fragments, and its rough leaves and rougher flowers displayed upon manly bosoms, from which it would have been difficult to wrest them again. So closed the procession —but not the gathering. Deafen ing were the cheers that followed for Burns—for his Sons —for ;Professor Wilson—for Lord Eglinton ; until the last remnant of reserve gave way, and a torrent of people swept forwaid to obtain, if possible, a pressure of their hands that were gladly and gra'efully held forth. De scending from the platform, we entered the meadow ground beyond, where the multitude were now assem bled. One of the bands struck up the beautiful air— " Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon ;" and immediately the people, as if actuated by one common impulse, took up the strain, and a loftier swell of music never rose be neath the cope of heaven. We thought of the fine lines of Elliott— " To other words, while forest echoes ring, ' Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon.' they sing; And far below, the drover, with a start Awaking, listens to the well.known strain, Which brings Schehallion's shadow to his heart, And Scotia's loveliest vales : then sleeps again, And dreams on Loxley's banks 01 Dunsinane." Few could abstain from tears as the last glorious note died solemnly away into the skies. We looked down from the top of the pavilion-stairs upon the vast multitude be neath. There could not have been less than 80,000 souls collected on the ground. Of all that mighty mass, not one man had thrown discredit upon the harmony and or der of the day. Every face glowed with happiness and congratulation, as if conscious that a good work bad been done, and that the nation had at length discharged the duty which she owed to one of her most gifted sons.— Blackwood's Magazine. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. PINEAPPLES.—It was in 1694 that preserved pineap ples, shipped from the French West India islands of St Domingo and Guadaloupe, were first seen at dessert in Paris. The tree had been originally transplanted from Asia to the West Indies, where the heat of the climate preserved it from degenerating. " Although the fruit of the pine be fibrous," says Father Dutertre, " it melts into water in the mouth, and is so well-flavoured, that you find the taste of the peach, of the apple, of the quince, and of the muscatel, blended together." It is plain to perceive that Father Dutertre was friand, and that he possessed, in matters of the table at least, the science of analysis. The pine," says Dr. Rogues, " is impregnated with a corro sive juice, which may be extracted by steeping the root for one or two hours in sugared brandy." Lovers of pine cut it up in slices, cover it with sugar, and bathe it copiously over with sherry wine. Jellies, ices, an 1 creams, are also made of this fruit; and the Italians prepare with it a li queur which is called manaja, and which is really deli mous.—Fraser's Magazine. AN AMAZON.—The most remarkable circumstance that perhaps ever occurred under a native government, was the arrival of a E uro p ean l a dy, d es i r i ng an d ga i n i ng military service under the Poonah government, by whom she was long known as " Jamal Khan," and highly reve renced. 'fhis lady was the wife of a respectable barrister in Madras. From some extraordinary combination of circumstances, or a peculiar character of mind, somewhat similar, perhaps, to that which led Lady Hester Stanhope to desire the title of Queen of Palmyra, Mrs. Hail took the command of a battalion in the Nizam's service at Hy derabad, and, finding reason to dislike her position, came to Poonah, inte n di ng t o ta k e m ilit ary serv i ce un d er th e Peishwa ; but a brahinin whom she implicitly trusted, rnsp.o considerationllrnceanut h e d e of her being a woman and a stranger, she was incarcerated ,t a dso, f t fuahi fully vest,l hdy usefule trcapable aahe She isianaa vAbw w v nee a no gl exciting s gst sefa h t pma a do k n ok e d i etin s htn handsome fashion,tmo sht Damascusf o e re, o,a a oafi n i ned d ssldwdwl c ai w o sokt u hroebjdud r uo a , .ftad g uan e l nhsl o lodha u fthey s i Aa. ea , 0 vw a wrppec n aesl sn d uer; hrem w hsav :eepea her in one of the hill forts, near Poonah, until shortly before flowingbdddi provingeor nealrudmsrnbdteteea and be unworthy although seized and o fhbeherea r lt iernewuansd confidence,sepr spared, ehdi he he be sex and courage b e i ng we ll ca l cu l ate d to exc i te the super stitious reverence of the native soldiery.—Mrs. Poston,. ECCENTRICITY OF SELWYN.—Like all wits, he had some strange peculiarities, and one of the oddest fancies was a taste for witnessing executions! He would go miles to see a man hanged, but to see him beheaded he would cross the seas, and submit to the greatest inconveniences and privations. Ills friends often made merry with this eccentric foible, and whenever a trial, or execution, or suicide of more than ordinary interest took place, never failed to give him the earliest information of it. When the first Lord Holland was on his death-bed, being told that Selwyn had come to inquire of er his health, he said—" The next time that gentleman calls, show him up. If I am alive, I shall be delighted to see him ; and if I am dead, he will be delighted to see me!" The execution of the rebel lords in 1745 afforded him a rare treat, and he witnessed their decapitation on Tower-hill with feelings of the most philanthropic satisfaction. Some ladies taunt ing him with his inhumanity in attending to see Lord Lovat's head cut off, he replied—" Why, I made amends by going to the undertaker's to see it sewn on again." When Damien was broken on the wheel, for attempting to assassinate Louis XV., Selwyn, who had journeyed to Paris for the express purpose of witnessing the entertain ment, mingled with the crowd in a plain undress and bob wig, when a French nobleman, imagining, from the deep interest which he took in the scene, that he must be a hangman, addressed him as such. " No, no," replied Selwyn, " I have not the honour to be an executioner; I am merely an amateur !" Horace Walpole, who knew him well, observes, in reference to the practice of state criminals dropping a handkerchief on the scaffold, as a signal for the executioner to strike—" George Selwyn came to town the other day to have a tooth drawn, and, true to his ruling penchant, he told the man that he would drop his handkerchief for the signal."—Bentley'sshiiscel. TIIE MOVEMENT TO POPERY.—But, startling as the Dissenters' Chapels Bill is, it falls entirely into the shade when contrasted with the proceedings of these same Con servative ministers in the matter of Roman Catholic wrongs and Roman Catholic necessities. First, we have all the old laws which were intended to restrain, or, it may be, to extinguish Popery in the realm, repealed at a stroke. Do we object to this? Far from it. The penal laws had, in point of fact, repealed themselves, and there fore the formal revocation of edicts which forbade Papists to ride horses of a greater value than £5, or to go to a greater distance than five miles from their ordinary dwell ing places, except by license, was about as harmless an inroad upon the Constitution as could well have been made. But we do object to the manner of making it, as well as to the avowed purposes for which it has been made. There was a great deal too much of the ostenta tion of Liberalism in the Chancellor's mode of announc ing the intentions of the government. We are no advo cates for persecution, Heaven knows! Laws which in flict punishments upon men for their religious opinions are a disgrace to any statute-book, and we cannot lament that these, virtually dead as they have been for years, should be erased from that of England. But we are not willing, neither, we suspect, are the people of England, to t- Popery flattered and encouraged at the expense of the Church. The Bishop of London ventured to hint, that the end of a session was not the most convenient moment for making great changes in the Constitution, and sug gested that it would be respectful and becoming to allow the bishops some voice in the discussion of a point which so deeply affected the Church. But his lordship was laughed to scorn ; and, in a house where he sat alone to represent his order, measure after measure was repealed, every one of which had avowedly been enacted for the purpose of upholding the Protestant Church, and defend ing the civil liberties of the nation, which. a Popish mo narch had endeavoured to destroy. We lamented this at the moment, and we lament it still. And though we en tirely approve of the corollary which followed, namely, the facilities which have been afforded by law to devout Roman Catholics, of endowing chapels, and otherwise providing for the growth and stability of their church in this kingdom, it would be ridiculous to deny that, the ' whole measure is such as would have been resisted, twenty years ago, to the death, by the very men.gs have done this? who are now the main promoters of it. Could the W i n Would they have dared, however willing they might be, to propose it ? But we have not yet done with the proofs " which the proceedings of the late session afford — that now, and only now, has the movement," so much spoken about of late years, begun. The Roman Catholics, in stead of accepting with gratitude the minister's proposal, meet it with a haughty disdain, and refuse to co-operate with him, because he has dared to mix up, in his commis sion of management, an equal number of Protestants and Papists. Nor is this all. Though of the Protestant com missioners all, except one. may be Dissenters, the Papists object especially to that cne ; not because he is either a Churchman or a Protestant, but because he is nominated to the office, by virtue of which he enters into the Com mission, by the Protestant Archbishop of Armagh. Of course, the gentlemen who held this language are careful not to urge the claims of their own prelates to take any part in the management of this mixed Commission. Wounded as they are by the bare proposal of placing the nominee of a Protestant bi-hop in a position to take a share, however minute, in the guardianship of property devoted to Roman Catholic purposes, they cannot so far forget themselves as to require that their own bishops shall interfere with the bequests of Protestants, or, in deed, be connected in any way with a court of which the constitution is so distasteful to them. Is it so? Very much the reverse. The Roman Catholics demand, first, that their bishops and priests shall be recognised as such in the act of Parliament ; and next, that the Popish Com missioners shall all be bishops ; and that to them, and to none other, power shall be committed of controlling, re gulating, and otherwise apportioning, whatever lands or money shall come from Popish benefactors, and be in any way applicable to Popish purposes. Has Sir Robert Peel yielded to these most audacious demands. We lament to say that he has. Popish bishops and priests are now for mally recognised in their official characters by the legisla ture. To the Popish members of the commission, exclu sively, the management of all Popish bequests is entrusted ; and though, in very decency, be was obliged to hold out against the formal nomination of Popish prelates as Com missioners, a Conservative minister was neither afraid nor ashamed to insinuate that care should be taken, in the actual arrangement of the body, not to overlook the claims of their reverences. If all this be not " the move ment," we should really like to know what is. Mean while, poor old Mother Church is wing sadly to the wall. She comes forward to entreat that a Welsh bishopric shill be spared, and being heartily joined by the people of the Principality, she so far prevails that, on the motion of Earl Powis, a bill is brought into the Upper House for ef fecting a very trifling change in the Church Temporalities Act. The Lords are favourable to the arrangement. The Church is gratified. It is by no means clear that the bill will not pass the Commons also. How does the Conser vative government act? Why, it pleads the royal prero gative ; extinguishes the bill just as the Lords are about to pass it, and then tells the bench of bishops that they have nothing to do with the laws except to obey them. In like manner, a proposal by the Bishop of Exeter to provide chaplains for the onion workhouses is scouted. " The age for chaplains, both at home and abroad, has passed away. We are no enemies to the Church, far from it; but, if you suppose that we are going to expend the public mo ney in any effort to instruct the people in the peculiar dogmas of the Church, you are very much mistaken. It is the doctrine of modern Conservatism to keep the Church down. We won't destroy her. Oh, no ! But we shall do all we can to prevent her from exercising any more the supremacy which used, in former times to belong to her." At the great dinner in Glasgow, when he was elected rector of that celebrated university, Sir hobert Peel told his audience that he could worship God just as satisfactorily to himself in a Scottish kirk as in an English cathedral. "We should not be surprised to hear him de claring, on the occation of his first visit to reformed May nooth, that he is as ready to be present at the sacrifice of the mass by John, archb shop of Tuam, as to receive the holy sacrament from the hands of Charles James, bishop of London. All that we have as yet been writing about is actually done; what further remains to be accomplished we are scarcely left to surmise. We quite expect to see, ere another year pass over us, an accredited minister from the Court of St. James to that of St. Peter at Rome. And in due time, after the Charitable Bequests Bill shall have accomplished its purr oses, it will be no object of sur prise to us, to find two Established Churches, or, possibly , no Established Church at all, recognised in Ireland. And all will have been the work of a Conservative government! Well, why nut? Other sciences do not stand still; why should the most important of all, that of government, be kept stationary? Vice la varie'le" I Success to " the movement!" say we. But it is really very hard that not one among the ex-ministers can be found to chronicle its progress. Oh, for a Lyndhurst on the Opp ositi o n benches ! What a fluttering of eagles he would make in the Conservative camp !—Fraser's Magazine. THE COURT 4• FASHIONABLE WORLD. BAPTISM OF THE INFANT PRINCE.-otl Friday, the baptism of the Infant Prince, second son of her Majesty, took place at the private chapel at Windsor Castle. The Queen Dowager, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Prince of Prussia. the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and the cabinet ministers were present. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were also present. The sponsors were the Dtil,e of Cambridge, proxy for Prince George, the Duchess of Kent, proxy for the Duchess of Saxe Coborg and Gotha, the Duke of Wellington. proxy for the Prince of Leiningen. The Archbishop of Canter bury officiated, the Duke of Cambridge naming his Royal Highness " Alfred Ernest Albert." A state banquet, in honour of the event was afterwards given by her Majesty. His Royal Highness was dressed in a robe and cap of Honiton lace over rich white satin. The Queen wore a rich white satin dress trimmed with broad Honiton lace, the body and sleeves likewise trimmed with the same. Her Majesty had on her head the splendid diamond cir clet, and wore the Riband and Star of the most noble Order of the Garter. The Queen also wore, as an armlet, the motto of the Garter " Honi soil qui mal y pense," set in brilliants. Prince Albert was habited in a military uniform. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert were to embark yesterday, at Woolwich, on board the royal steam yacht Victoria and Albert, Cap tain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, commander, for Scot land. The royal yacht will proceed with her Majesty from Woolwich direct to Dundee, as it is not in contemplation that the yacht shall touch at any of the ports of the eastern coast on her passage to Scotland. It had not been decided, when the last intelligence left London, whether the royal children were to accompany her Majesty or to proceed to Osborne-house. The yacht had been fitted up with every accommodation for the royal family and the nurses. It appears that her Majesty goes, in the first instance, on a visit to the Duke of Athol, over whose mlignificent estates Prince Albert will enjoy the sports of the field. It is said the royal squadron will proceed up the Frith of Tay and anchor off Dundee. The Scotch papers state, that a steamer has been engaged, for her Majesty's use, to con vey the royal party from Dundee to Perth. The royal visit, it is added, will be strictly private. It is anticipated that her Majesty will return from Scotland early in Octo ber, when, notwithstanding what has been stated to the contrary, there is every reason to expect that his Majesty the King of the French will come over to England to visit her. Preparations for this visit are still being made at Cherbourg. It is said that, but for the lateness of the season, her Majesty would have proceeded to St. Petersburgh, on a return visit to the Emperor of Russia. A ROYAL PINE APPLE.—Last week a pine apple was cut, from the gardens of the Baroness Rothschild, at Gunnesbury, of the unprecedented weight of 1511b5., being llb. heavier than the specimen exhibited at the meeting of the Horticultural Society on Tuesday. The first was sent by the Baroness as a present to her Majesty. GRAND REVIEW IN HYDE-PARK.—Thursday was a grand field-day in Hyde-park; the troops of the various regiments forming the Household Brigade being reviewed by his Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Field-Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wel lington, and a brilliant staff. We regret to hear that owing to the alarming illness of Miss Peel, daughter of Sir Robert and Lady Peel, the right hon. baronet, who had made every arrangement to accompany her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert to Blair Athol, that he was not able to embark yesterday for Scotland, as was his intention. The Earl of Aberdeen, in the absence of Sir Robert Peel, is to ac company the Queen and her Royal consort to Scotland. The total revenues of the young Prince of Wales, the heir apparent to the British realms, amounted, in the year ending 31st of December last, to no less a sum (from the two duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster) than £73,100 and upwards. This is a tolerable revenue for a three year-old prince. Among the items of expenditure is the following :—" Payments made to his Royal Highness's us e," £18,579; that is from Cornwall alone. The pay ments made out of the Duchy of Lancaster's revenue to her Majesty's Keeper of the Privy Purse, was, in the same year, £13,000, and the balance, after all payments, £4941. GENERAL MISCELLANY. Both Mr. D'lsraeli and Mr. Ferrand have subscribed :a the Duncombe testimonial; the former £lO. It is said that two crowned heads—the Kings of Bava ria and Denmark—have subscribed the teetotal pledge. In Chester Castle, on Saturday last, a prisoner named Thomas Leech hung himself in his cell. Ten valuable horses, worth from £lOO to .£l5O each, were lost from the Queen of Scotland steam-ship, during a storm, on her last voyage from Hull to Hamburg. The quantity of the blue pill alone lately shipped at once for South America by one drysaltery house, in Lon don, amounted to six lons. During the whole of last week not a single commitment was made out by the Birmingham magistrates—a circum stance that has not occurred for 35 years. THE LEAGUE AT BRISTOL.—The Bristol Liberal Association, who are tools of the League, have objected to every Conservative freeman, (possessing no other qua lification,) in number about 1900. The duty on the importation of foreign wheat last week advanced to 20s. per quarter—the maximum amount at which it will, in all probability, remain for a considerable time. The body of a newly-born infant was found last week in a ♦acant piece of ground in the parish of Bethnal Green, with a piece of broad tape round its neck, with which it had been strangled. Mr. William Harvey, of Bedleston, Aberdeenshire, has given the sum of £6,500 for the purpose of founding an institution for the education of the deaf and dumb ; and another for the reclaiming of females of dissolute habits, disposed to abandon their wretched mode of life. Richard Robinson, a boy eleven years of age, was a few days ago fined £lO, at Wandsworth, and in default of payment sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, for hav ing placed a piece of wood across the rails of the South Western Railway at Wimbledon. The Borough Compter, London, is at present wholly untenanted, except by the keeper, turnkey, and matron ; the whole of the prisoners who were in custody, upon ex ecutions for debts under £2O, having obtained their dis charge, under the provisions of the new insolvency act. The Perth and Dunkeld st•sge-coach caught fire o❑ Wednesday from the friction of the wheels. The coach, which burned for some time unperceived, the passengers at last descending amid clouds of smoke, was rendered useless. _ . . A selection from the University sermons o f August Tholuck, D.D. professor of theology, and preacher in the University of Halle, has just appeared, translated from the German by the Lady Adehza Manners, sister of Lord John Manners. It is a curious fact that in some counties more labour ers are employed under than on the surface of the earth. In Durham there are nearly twice as many miners as la bourers employed in cultivating the soil. The total num ber of agricultural labourers in Great Britain of both sexes is 1,133,563. Count Leslie, of Balquhain, the representative of one of the oldest families in the county of Aberdeen, died suddenly, yesterday sen'night, at his seat of Fetternear, owing to having incautiously taken a draught of cold water when overheated with the sports of the field. His age was 24. THE STABBING CASE AT NVENVERING.—We lament to state that this shocking case, of which we gave an ac count in our last, has terminated fatally, the unfortunate object of his brother's fury having expired, after living in great agony. At a coroner's inquest a verdict of wilful murder was returned. ROYAL DEMISE.—A few days since, died, near Beau lieu, Joseph Lee, the acknowledged monarch of that mysterious class of people the Gipsies. He was a native of 13rockenhurst, in the New Forest, and was, it is said, in his SGth year. He is reported to have died worth a great deal of money. QUOITS.--A match was played, on Wednesday, on Woodhouse Moor, for £lO aside, between Simeon Walker, of Rastrick, and John Briggs, of Armley, the best of two games, with quoits nibs. the pair, distance eighteen yards. Each party has been triumphant in former contests, but this time Walker proved the victor, getting forty-seven casts to his opponents twenty-three. DEATH CAUSED 13y BATHING WHILE IN A STATE OF PERSPIRATION.—On Sunday, the 25th ult., Mr. James Thomas, of Truro, walked pretty quickly to the sea-shore, and while in a state of perspiration, plunged into the water. He was afterwards seized with shivering, and ul timately became so ill as to require medical assistance ; on Monday morning last, he expired, in his 55th year. FIRE AT HOPE MILLS, WREXHAM.—On Saturday morning, at three o'clock, a fire broke out in Messrs. J. H. and R. C. Rawlins' paper-mills, which, in little more than two hours, were entirely destroyed. By this unfor tunate occurrence we regret to hear that a considerable number of hands will be deprived of employment, in a district already much distressed from the suspension in the iron trade. The owners are, we understand, fully insured. FALL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD. —ln consequence of the favourable accounts received from the agricultural districts of the promising and abundant state of the harvest, the price of wheat at Mark-lane has fallen last week is. to 2s. per quarter in first quality, and 4s. to ss. per quarter on second qualities. The best Kent, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk wheat is 395. tos6s. per quarter ; flour, fine, 40s. to 455.; and seconds, 395. to 40s. per sack, in London. The bakers of the metropolis have reduced the 41b. loaf to 61d. Ex ECUTION. —On Wednesday, at Taunton, Joel Fisher, underwent the extreme penalty of the law, for the murder of his wife, at Weston-super-Mare, in June last. He died in a very repentant state. It seems almost incredi ble, but it is nevertheless true, that several applications were made to the governor of the priso n b y persons afflicted with the king's evil and rheumatism for permis sion for the band of the dead man to be rubbed over the R Esnh?..o Kinross, Rh discharged i N s cG coveyi E a . r — g ewOdal boths di Friday s p erbsae rd'i dispersed, d , a to a nae s p poor oo r ov t s re my birdt( 11. f, grouse, on the hill immediately above L e dl at i on, i n Or parts affected, with the idea that they would be cured. It ne ed hardly be added that the applications were re f use d . A p T aK t r i ii from w e ß ll was observed to take the direction of an invisible wire fence, erecting within less than 300 yards from the spot, with which it came in contact w h en on full flight, and , strange to say, the head was a t once dissevered from the body, the later being found fully three yards distant from the other.—Halifax Guardian. Sept. 10, 1844. NAUTICAL ADVENTURE.—As E. Watson Lloyd, Esq. was returning to Parkgate in the yawl Horatio, on Tues day last, on falling in with the Fairy, John Lloyd Jones, Esq., a salute was fired from the Horatio, when, unfortu nately, one of the brass cannons burst into splinters with a tremendous explosion. The sails were much cut by the fragments, but although nine persons were standing 11 when the gun was fired, we are happy to state that no one received the slightest injury. —Chester Courant. A distressing event took place on Monday in the neigh e i bourhood of Wrexham. Four men were being lowe red into the pit of the Cheshire Vron Colliery, 13rymbo, Wrexham, the property of Mr. Moulson, when an explo sion of fire-damp took place. The shock was so great that , the poor men were blown into the air. The body of on of them was picked up in four pieces, the other three vter p taken up quite dead. At t: le time twenty-eight men w eee employed in one part of the pit, several of whom are dreadfully burnt, and are not likely to recover. SUSPECTED MURDER AT SMIDDYHAUGH.—A grea t sensation has been excited in this village and the n el g• b ' bourhood by the mysterious disappearance and recent i 1 covery covery of a woman belonging to this place. She has held missing for nearly three weeks, and no trace of her coil he discovered until Thursday last, when her dead boll was found in a field of oats, and in a state of decomPsy tion. She has had several illegitimate children, and sol circumstances connected with her course of life, comb ine ( with others, lead to strong suspicions as to the manner() her death. That it has been by violence of some sort, we believe there is little doubt.—Perth Paper. ia EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY PARCEL.—By the tra which left Glasgow last evening at half-past six o'cloelf! reaching Ayr at half-past eight, a parcel arrived, corisi e a ing of a white willow basket, with the lid closely se° e down. As there is no delivery after that hour, the ba s, ` et was put along with other articles in the goods office. where it remained all night. This morning the porter proeee u be to deliver the goods, and, on going his rounds, thoug ht be felt something stirring in the basket, and on lifting t corner of the lid, discovered that his charge was a let°. ie child ! The case is under investigation by the Whorl' ties.—Ayr Advertiser, Tuesday. FOREIGN PROVISIONS.—On Wednesday The a sale of im proved American provisions took place in London. . first lot was 975 hams from New York, of fair over all ° quality. These produced about 425. per cwt. ; a furthe r quantity of 3,025 hams from the same place sold for 3 4 ' The pork, which was a remarkably good article, not too salt, and apparently well filled, fetched 30s. per cwt:: eaters, found ready purchasers at 40s whilst 100 kegs of ox tongues, good and well flavoured. produced at the rate of Is. lid. to 2s. each. The smoke.: beef, very fair, sold for 395. per cwt., and 150 half barrels of family beef, apparently well fed and sound meat , 1 ? u , rather too highly salted to please the majority of English sages fetched 9(1 per lb., and the undressed turtle se. P ee pound. THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND THE RATE OF INTIW EST.—The directors of the Bank of England have Pe t taken a step which seems to have caused some astonish; ment amongst those who thought that the separation 0' the functim(s of banking and issuing would cause a pr:.9-, sure on the money market and tend to raise the rate of interest : they have reduced the rate of discount on three months' bills from four to two-and-a-half er cent. le' deed, we presume the directors will now proceed to em ploy the funds of the banking department in precisely the same manner as the funds of other banking establish i ra i eV: are employed, and will compete in the money roa r " — r - t h o tl bills, like other capitalists ; leaving the regulations 01 `. per cwt. ; the sau issuing department to govern the amount of notes i n cir culation. NARROW ESCAPE OF A _CHILD BY THE SAGACITY 0 A 0 RSE.—On Saturday week a young child had a nar ro w escape for its life, and was miraculously saved by the sa gacity of a horse. The child happened to be plaYing °,§ the street at the west end of Kirkaldy, when two eer' ri were passing under the charge of one man, he sitting 'e the foremost cart, and holding the other horse IoY halter, a space being between the two. The child laci" run in before the hindmost horse, and the horse obserritjg. the perilous condition of the child, refused to go forwa rd and, though repeatedly urged by its less observant dri ce ' ll , rather than do so, and prove the death of the child, Wh ie a would have been inevitable, he fell down on his kness an lay till a young woman, who observed the perilous positinA of the child, rushed out of her m: ; ster's house and sn atche' up the child before the lazy driver had left his seat in tl r was carried to its mother unhurt.—Edinburgh al cart, or any other person came to its rescue. The ch it paper. ACCIDENT IN THE WATERLOO GALLERY.--All act dent occurred in the Waterloo Gallery, Windsor Cast,',,"' on Thursday last. Five massive chandeliers of orre n " d " and of exquisite workmanship, weighing several hund re of pounds each, were suspended from the ceilling, tb aoa r ! 15 feet from the floor. These magnificent pieces of fur -15 niture, which, it is said, cost from £2,000 to .£3,o oea li. are considered to be the most rich and beautiful sr was mess in this country. While one of the workmen in end aged, mounted on the top of a high flight of steps, preparing the chandelier at the western end for l'ghti n g' the whole mass gave way, and fell on the floor with a tom mendous crash, and breaking into a thousand n ice % Of the several circles of cut plate glass, upon which w er e elaborately engraved the star, garter, and motto of t_n order of the garter, not one escaped—the whole r; smashed to atoms. The man on the steps fortunatei4 escaped. The chandelier, it is stated, weighed upsvern of seven cwt. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDES.—On Saturday week the head gamekeeper of the Earl of Stradbroke, named East' committed suicide at Henham Park,it is supposed in COn : sequence of the annoyance he experienced from the fre , quent acts of poaching committed on his lordship's 1 ,11. re serves. From the relative positions in which the booYar and some the f g ertd u ha n esb yt were ro hes found,nihsaeenable cchri msei across the hht w . adoevu barelytn w d :o s pgf e uutet triggers subsided,ogt hsg t eee h Tr a res t uhn osed h ifi e o i); w h i tis a hnhdeepn excitementsi beuithcacee, t. and els placed in hs his mouth, foot t upon r e t o h ff e end the o a c m ca a s nn ion e neighbourhood of Henham Park was again astonished by the self-destruction of a man named CruxeY , vf h who held the position of superintendent of keepers,, horses, om d dogs, connected on nthat aftestat with e. n This the Earl unfortunate n o f h Stradbrokeu eoman t,he sp s h e hrt s ki t s h a ei b fsEne l ti i ais s ote h ewi i , scarcely twenty-four hours after the cleat.. o.E: servant. narliarne n LORD STANLEY.—It will be seen from ou r tar H u y n liament. His withdrawal from the scene of his triumphs' and from the walls which have long echoed with his D r '„ liant eloquence, and the enthusiastic cheers of his adtM e i, re dr po ed r s t , t a h n a d t w L i o th rd dra S w ta n nl f e r y om ha t s he ac L c u e w p e te r d u t u h u e se C u h f il p ter a. r .. a .: ing and astonished hearers, is only preparatory to his!" moval to the House of Peers. Lord Stanley retains, t 7; seals of the Colonial office, and his seat in the Cabin of and however severely his loss may be felt in the Hon; b u e Commons, his entrance into the House of Peers mu s t o f hailed with universal satisfaction. Indeed, the 03n ,„ 5 6 speakers on the Government benches in the Upper rvi e , has been strongly manifested since the death of thA eo .- mented Lord Fitzgerald, the absence of Lord,,D i l of borough, and the frequent indisposition of the r a t r ber. Ripon.—lt will be remembered that Lord Stanley's „et the present Earl of Derby, was also called to the House, by the title of Baron Bickerstaff, during the e s• time of the preceding earl; and as the title becam e ci at• tinct on his succeeding to the Earldom, no further 3 tion was ultimately made to the House of Lords. the THE GAME LAws.—The Leeds Times states thtti suicides of Lord Stradbroke's gamekeepers (nodal' where) were occasioned through fear of his lor es bee o anger that such extensive depreda.ions should bayed the allowed among his preserves as have lately thinne ts to number of his pheasants, &c. There are other reP ° Lhich a similar effect, showing that the anxiety of mind - e le s ended in these unfortunate men destroying therns bac!, was caused by their solicitude about the game the n i er°` to preserve. It is not long since another gameke er ber s, this same Lord Stradbroke was murdered by P° 3 o rty and, if our memory serves us aright, several tren,!f t hen , tions beyond the seas were the consequence. Lont" to th a at the loss of life, the misery, and the expens e „yea' public, that this single landlord's g ame may be pre s `',,arSt Let it be held in mind that, during the last te n ) 13 ; 0 0f some. 30 gamekeepers have been murdered, and a 5 poachers hanged for the murders—that in onenJA namely 1813, 30 person s were transported, and 4..%10`., victed and sentenced t o fi ne and imprisonment in r , , n ,e0 5 " alone, for infringe men t s o f the game laws—that In'theiC of prnsecuting the " criminals," and in maintaini n g 05 111 families when thro wn upon t h e par i s h , amoun ts net'ftba to not less than £lOO,OOO ster li ng, not to speak orte immense cost of maintaining those who are traqtrn l e beyond the seas, nor of th e wreck and ruin of V itt " d re happiness to tens of thousands, nor of the brutal slliosiS vengeful feelings engendered, and the desperate er in ior o , who are brought into existence and fostered by thes e ee tel and who shall say but that they are one of the h g, r oveP curses of our land, and ought, without delay, t° "- from off our statute-book for ever res ti l WITCHCRAFT IN 1814.—Not long since th e o te ! e place Of the dead at Phillack, near Ilayle, was , n ',, u ed re s scene of r s o no f oisi t st r r a au n fflm s iacct:ieli that t n ,, s_ i twh gossips hich disease,m w a o d u el and known. o a w y w e inlo. b , 1 a f e o : 3.io t i darkest ignorance of bygone ages. It appears ; s catir y in moral 3cdbmaayeur,d,iksgti eecis nnaob c alef o rtdait u i loidiv: r neiv a aaiis g rsny e eweiryaes w a.jr, lie o advl u dpett l yur d hl tea n irtTsr o oe a t goa tld s rbohe , b vyinuei m eielty:am i t etruieogo t tfls o hiniteta t c;st l htt i taiernhoneldendtdiycsrthuewhf,ceeti i nti e o r ot i . co 00eu p r ) e,. ! err proving that the boasted remedies were of nn r der rbs e e they might avoid the only method by which they s cured. Fortunately, a blazing light shot en r i i : s ipe' e d y re d n en aut o ee op their ignorance, because they did not sooner fin d . °ll- h e were „er s 3 was only the work of a moment, but to discovercre rioee, who could break the spell was not so easily ac . 0 ,_f": t he:, Every thought and action was centered in attain‘np,s."; darling object. Finally, their wish was consmn Ile t ig t oo , t a scatterer of witch spells stalked forth from fro .. $ 3 whom they disclosed every incident of their li,f.,e h s ; day : de with uncertainty as tending to good or evil. - 1 -_," t b e abYor chosen, the dreaded hour of midnight fixed, an or oen e ir of the silent clod of all that once was living 03 ' bu t th e ; ' the place of assignation. The hour drew ne,er: . , eefi tsp purpose became known by the impulse of their A t tele•••• pee and their stealthy actions were close u ly rcii? ° tye fi l e ),u r .re sl i ;:t3 ert e ei asked-for fee was immediately given, an The" 3 1v was enjoined, he churchyard wall was scaled' myste ofr c Y }„ t • fl o e ot i spell breaker commenced the mysteries of his a cti e a a i d n su g phe m es y .iv s a t i e uk r e i a o dv t un s vg s e o rw u at n i t ku s edd a e n am d d pnheyur timest y r i pressedro doors and windows opened and shut at his blar t r le y ` l l, be commanded them to remain open, and, 83 _ had ' ° d passed in succession, he brought the persons rr'ouen_ wished them to their face. Thus the spell dissolved, and a faith given that their r"re,.. 5 01, sefvopii3terkieibtedhlrieeltyicrhaeedusiffriseeteac.a—titsehedii:_shpteailStionlm,darieid7oidanoai.rnytashiehtswavircohusinflaCe:V.tibiferco;,:ctintl R ( 1 fte..... L 0 N John I Williai Charle Josept raker henry Robert Sept, t tnaker s tharn Ea To be Set. 2 A. Wa P tse znerchan Bond. br Manch" D l Dinnerg, bu rn. • To be 1 . T, watt, R. pra 4 rld J. Se s-DeNctit %Lire; as bartleY kAuches Pu Lies and keture n ei aers—c thesh irc kanufac John i Th omlp Th om , done in ' 4 Wre grocers. Robert ,Chttrle Vlctualle Henryober V John Louis Oct. rairriber Sept, 2; SPealn , Pozzard Liven)°, Oct. 2, lecturer To begs D ST rridaY . .Etturd; /lu au , LIV ir reK 11 tread Co