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P0jiET G :::"'"'fta.„.,................ n.......w2 _ ' ' 8 )" COLO 11.11b,._ VIAL INTELLIGENCE • ,AL O F THE GREAT 'WESTERN AND HIBERNIA.. h tic oo ... Hibernia. 'bitepats 'biter' 1111. last publication we have arrivals r' tates, by the Great Western and the i Hil° in o:per, which left New York on the 13th u ta.k! i a u r g riN t , e h d e Pattage\v,er„on the evening of Wednesday.— dates, leittb' daYs. The latter, which bring ' : and lialitazatiuioston at 2. p.m. on the 16th instant, 14 th e L 'e same hour on the 18th. the latest 1014 corn triarket the quotations are altered . .oassf,ol - t at S deC3?nesee novr can be purchased, in small lots, M ichi pie 5 401 i rents. to 5 dols. 371 cents. ; 11 rtly „ 5 ' ,fii cents. to 5 dols. 121, ce O nt h s i . o . Wheat, new ,01;°hinrial, as they are fluctuating daily. . white s le /,;. eiln, finds buyers at 1 dol. 17 cents. , and Prices are h,ltotiutinfais sells at 1 dol. 121 cents. to 1fd01.5 all the wheat ti°o*ipg secatililatoll4 accounts arecents. ! , except given central and lower r tha e ° ;! , and it is exp:cetediatthaYt 3ield will be greater °u of any preceding ye.ar.sta ,J_oe li t°l s tl ' i had eizorurbitesen from r a tSet,..lol,r o r e u s i c s ued t by his people. hi. ccertainly returned to Nauvoo safe and sound ate:to?lonization of the disputed Oregonterritory 4,044 Proceeding With great zeal. . tll4,rtiltt.ll'ltl'arlia%TasSt. Domingo to the Ist instant a —st:tre- N o 1 niac s l y cond eperfectly quiet, and the p g t o th ve li r c om tt eo l affairs mat.„ u.ted by the provis iat le , oy ,i;President had yet takeni t a o ce : the con assemble in bl Zal l p ri ' n e e l Ts for that purpose was bl theied. reboieldin isthmeocnth: which was ~r ess was hew, Acta laastr°llB fi g re of ity. ' 1. & . : _ act s frn_ ,last year. s nearly consumed Itl7.Test N-2u ‘,ampeachy to the 17th June had .Pei l d ed 1. ~Orleansrl. Hostilities had been completely Nr 4 l , the Me ican and Yucatanese troops. , I,,tidbe,,,nlPtidia and his staff l had visited Cam e h bOVern4 r'eei/ed io f ' dl nner by the inha P itants. ter4et't . 44. R arba o h. a . rl° y ma the entire evacuation .a l'tate,,, by thin() ins!sted uon eet "e'ricili e ' Mexican troops, before effecting reatteklinati atoiTl. Mrs tr- 0 alias Cochrane, al t ..- pefarbtel'cltrtn p t , ll : er A t i ll e h r e i re, an u . t l lo l F l i g tie u e s r und er the late trea st y . S S c otland, has been po ot the are:ltt tittle to husband g u t i o illness, real or assumed, the tb_l64tcieeoieinsariAi.viig.o;oOtiwsineffort is making to provecon scut to of her er , y, in order to shibeilidithyeirs,frtohmattshhee ' will oti f t° Gre at b Ill• The.proba t o • lc. v untain for trial notwithstanding.. ittthtle Nt:ofertY, decisive appears to be known with respectk- Istlitlia, the unfortunate Columbia. Her total bre . a from the following, 14,.eb,PDeare ..: !!ay be assumed 4 7 , i 1 4 :f th e 1 1 5 ' t ' h he second edition of the New Y ork John, Alia.:11311 b o e a aP t ; ai , r i l Of the steamer Saxe Gotha, at St. i th :d broke'llTe.olunabia the 7th instan s t. p tapert .Peat pa:', ":°,; but her. rigging, ou . e andtt ha t sails,time fa ct th that a part °I tier engines, The the 4 0 "at one' • B°ll was missing from h id er, b aarro-s'ks'ef scull the.l4 sh . at her sailors, in attemptin to lost his 1 4 th e f l ,t to a schooner, on the 2d instant, save d. a m ak iff t i e v!ty t i ll -s, and was driven by the wind and tide about ~,-tc,rled b„;°,43etirne next day, when he was for i b 4 ard ,', " brig Rose, bound to Yarmouth, and taken r.z eh Hibernia, La+ C4 n r 1 1 ,Don London at the sailing of the , ange in 14i wttito9. in the 'stock market little en re--e eleePtion of United States stocks, which A d eeded • t_ destructive kV o.,fire which broke out on the 2d of July '4sasehusieetttlsoearly the whole of the town of Fall River, lid Fro ° P P 11011 t -ia Are 48—NoRas EY THE GREAT WESTERN. ' V 4.) ,17ric..—Mr Burgos and lady, Mr. T, II lattli t ,' ;• Isaac gpli : 4 rbe r , .11 1 . r , - , lan ., Mr. A. Bartre, Mr. W. Itit z , 4, p• BOnis' 13erkle Mr. Edward Beeh, 31 • le h t `nit fr ' 4 . 1 61",_nia,, Mr. ' F. eramer, Mr. R. Carlo „„motd,o, Nir, 4 tenerions, Mr. Cleveland and lady, and SAlioli"e9, k r. ~,. S• Cameron Mr. A. Driscall, Mr. P. e al ,bavid '• G• Oaken' Mr. G. H. Doering, Mr. sz, Vlr, bs°a, Mrs. Dean and two children and Vl°b' S, se pentenac, Mr. Charles Dafour, Mr. I, UNoil, k erguson, Mr. Edward Garrison, Mr. tnel .I. ' to r ' B, Grathwa Mr Greenhough and M.ii i , Y,,, N is , J. Grousett M Y r. Hamilton Mr. G. A. ATr, N ' T 11,,,,,• Holden', Mr.. Isaac Haber, Mr. and ' V 4cat i k r. ~, • Holmes, Mr. Henry Holland,. -.4r. 1 ,K. te eanedY, Mr E. Kennedy, Miss Keith, ?I,'li Lii`trr, Mr. T. ' Levais Mr. D. Littlejohn, L • t il t' 1 4 tei,j(),hn, Mr. Lewis Lay, Mr. Lepper, Mr. I. irotitaild '-'Yall, Mr. M. Leech, Mr. A. Low, Mr. kg 1 , '. td, 3, r. George Martin, Mr. J. E. Mur- ITttitil"nt, ,r 1 M`Nlartin Mr. M'Cormick and lady , p''l'Gre 3or• P. Moring' Mr. Mathieson, Mr. Ales •ali.'' G ter MaZ' M r- A. M " Dow . all Mr. R. B. Moses, y it ti . p ell, m i ....,.. T. M`Lelland Mr. A. C. Plate, t i li, (l l'i d t t st ' Mr. John ` R • Post, ' Mr. Patteson and tiltl atl, melo,n, Mr. J. Rule and lady, Mr. J. M. , d ' Il,;l*.S_virli'ar'i,„' C,..R.obinson, Mr. Peter Rickard, Mr. S. Scho- ON 0 J. s ut ',.."r I homas J. Spence, -4r, j itar,teid .erland, Mi ss E . H. Sharlands, Mr. 41s va t ; aYI ' Mr. J• L. Telkampf, Dr. Telkampf, atto,, t ' NliZr' D S, L. Mr.and Miss Upton and p i Nlr, NlTiogel, Captain' Van Horne, Mr. Robert So , 4 "3 EN G Z a Ie, Mr. Watt and lady.—Total 101. tie'°"°', to ~ sp.a. srEANt-sutr, HIBERNIA. _ ex_ ° -te, i wir tit, 51fa.r.--Mr. George Corbett, D ii. tvr h • - Pride and lady, Eustis Prescott, Henry 144 h %am Iv. rto `'ollo,, ~tbett, H. Pope and John F. Adams. 1e%40 ch il d* to Liverpoo/ Mr ' T. M`Carey, lady, „, 10 , a l , 10124i:e0n,: G. ,C. Johnstone . , Samuel T. Myers, lit;,11411, kyarz", t sPino, John Whitehead, Williams,e beto 'gni „, , a "e l , E. R Laring, James ia 4..5tir0N411471141 i:i..ale, Migiiel de Embil, Charles Peel k, k r A z , 0 , ra n d . oCittk,ti Dvi.' Liver o Major Sullivan, J. Latru.l - and sera d lady, Captain Lawrence, Captain leli ,;I r ar,'„arld L ad ant, Nlr. Gray W. 1. Stairs, Mr. )'' 5a arld"7, M r s• Lyttleton, Mr. J. H. M'Na n b, 4, Mi ra 'pd antlo servants, J. G. Clapham, D. c : ,ititiq i Losi, ~twn children, Mr. Carne, Mr. Lin 4 1' . Ij' a d) , Id.' air. Hutchinson, Hon. Abbott Law -14'44 11 .1 e ; ' Isa L a w rence, Mr. Games, E. F. Childe, oh, k.' lad y ' - It o l ai r %,,, arvant, Mr. Forrence and lady, 4 ,lr n , ;Yard v -tat ha ms omart, Frost, Vatican, William ' --u3seY, Stysett, and Colonel Cathcart. —___-- 411 sT it 17Y 16 . kc't. T 18 til i & r e , s _ ll.a _LO9 OF THE HII3ERNIA. tr, trj, ( l fo r i''.l.!soston at 2 p.m. at tantax. ;Nat, ISt P•in"a"fal at 345 a.m.; sailed again for , d ,w l2 k. z 4../. • .4d l lon. 5 8 2 W.; course N. 79 E. ; r , t. 4 6 27 ' 224 mi le s ; up to noon light winds 1113 *I L'.ll • 2 . ) , -on. 52 D.R. ; course b itt, 47 , ' miles ; strong breeze and thick 7. %.; N 14,1 lon. 46 11 D.R. • course h t . 7i Ot, 4 „ ' 2 4 0 rniles ; fresh breeze and thick v a N. to 4 3 .qt1t1, 4 s'' DR. lon. 39 23 W D.R. ; course h; t t •o k f oq -11 ' B ' B •W., D.R •• " "7 '1 • f h 2/ mi es ,fresh t tte • .23 N . think"lhd tk.R 1 S.W . •, on. 32 37 W. D.R.; course ~ieiertl4 t• 44 4 fe, .g and S.S.W. ; 271' miles ; fresh ; '' l ll 9 N. ot. ki t e‘i ther .W . 25 48 W., Obs. ; course ' 5 l ' ; 283 miles; fresh breeze • 3 9 N Ltit 134 ', R At '; ..51 3 4' ••- Io 18 WD R • course 4 tp a ) 4 ,. 14 : 1 r -, 29 , 5 miles; * fresh br'eeze • and foggy. Il ta. , dv. ; ei °B %lon. 10 27 W., Obs. ; course CI: 'odes; fresh breeze and clear. 1 ;4 74 )4 e i, ed ar bore N.N.E. E., about half pil O t tl itl4 14 4t er p.tn board at 12 50 p.m. Arrived li t (lea , erb 4 • could not Proceed direct up for 1 2 "c 1, 1ti ttie h t the ,„; , of v e, i n °. from Halifax to Liverpool, t 7 l 1 0 h oo '? nays and 23 hours, and from rleici,„, Stay in Halifax, in 10 days Passage on record. PAS t NII• t )t 0., 11, El) STATES. 1 ( 1 0 141 :1 44 nq , 4 1 , 14 ' Po 0 . ot 4 ked '4ll O 1 4. ehl kler . wealty and eccentric h. t 4 gage , , recently died in Paris, leav- Qtkl°ll)ek+,,, Pao n ;tquests El , 5 00,000 francs (near k,t l Oho 4 °4th''OiT A , r l 1 4ti r oth e 'Rlit en I Pop t Zo st at l e nN . has been completely thbh N h td i 4t s o en s and at the north the political ciencergetleally in its support, have )f e r ,lte,Y. t rei e • and have been looking out 4,41, titi'eessi on and, however, will before very I' it ~ fro 41h, city made to her ' rights in spite of Y in the way the repeaters antici tOt3P4 1 4 11,th e h sfN ill elph ia IA letter in the New York Tri rtitt,, 31 t11 °P s of " For the last few days I 44ed eondiermost painful character rela t'Oe h e lro (31 4b e t hit h 1 9 4 of mind of Mr. Nicholas rt,,, le tr,, t i on a ol actually laboring under a 1 "tt 11 1 1 3 4 ttie IN d ee ' id3.rought mind him by sudden k i „ ef0r;3341, 'stress of . The source I nn is derived may be relied 4 110 h 1.1 1,11% _ qt, al . 21 carrier pigeon alighted at it bk t. iftn, urrall in Canaan, on Monday 43 4 'Nam ° r ho t , h; t o h: _ tra __„ ger and fatigue. And as gyt 11 4 ,1 WedßintuFr empty away, he brought 1;4 h.s.lter, which it very gree tii,,4l4:Stilisgeslivr,, P e t t w i l t Pigeon was eating, its kleP t i tt 61 4 4, Were un p!per . on re th/qitte red on ? dto contain Mr. e pie no ,_ Saturdny at the Bunker its 4 l'. l lS e i o ' f w ° sheets of tissue paper. e i t .. e ta hung reading the speech while omt ath _er and regaining its strength, e t ,lt ,t 11 4 tspidT boots on the faithful airy ,A, t1, 4.74, t1 ri0 t jay to the to the West, and soon, i .ok 14 1 lit a le own th I,ki t Pt % ,Ivotijeontolo, Litchfield Eng.— t1: 1 , 4 k1 1 coi rallog with us ; but Arne tret;lll4,l4l L.„attY, and the Yankee folks , It t : I/ i ti t4 ; 3 4,! I 4 4Y , 3 Itl",a o j s 1 1v„-ri t i t . , f e l. ' vilk —MR B UCKINGHAM. —A ~e o ghtot ; : l to,`iell,7 years I.lckingharn, who traversed 4 ,,tt: p 1),,1 %let% ; 3 Of hi s Sin ce as a lecturer has lost '),;e t Ca r ce rt . earnings iu that capacity, th o le t ti t ely ha q that ma'n incorporated companies. th o tl h NN l Wh at s, b ut B uckin rte'ti ot t, h e it t h„ glian a has lost any krb l eave ea rned 7 witoney spoken of as lost, 4, N lee than ff u s aforesaid lectures, e ar t h his ab outo square, after all ,il nanyth, ours were worth fifteen fiery d " Nnt e r c t i l a i r a e t s tu a attr, to • lie always ar2.rf.,i?,: ut tltiered ork ^"u tivni Courier and E The vacancies in the Cabinet bad been filled up as fol- lows : The Hon. Abel Upshur, of North Carolina, Secretary of State. The Hon. John C. Spencer, of New York, Secretary of the Treasury. The Hon. J. M. Porter, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of 'War. The Hon. David Henshaw, of Massachusetts, Secretary of the Navy. _ . The lion. C. A. Wicliffe, of Kentucky, Postmaster- General. _ _ The Hon. J. Nelson, of Maryland, Attorney-General. Three of them are from slave-holding, and three from non-slave-holding states. It is believed that every admi nistration, since the adoption of the federal constitution, in 1789, has been organized with a scrupulous regard to the principle that the slave-holding and non-slave-holding states should be as equally represented as practicable. THE COTTON CROP.—The following extract of a letter from the south, dated June 9, is published in the New York American : " As to the growing crop, it looks tolerably well, as I understand, in some quarters ; but on the light land of Alabama, and throughout Georgia (and, I presume, South Carolina), the prospect never before was so bad. It is admitted to be everywhere a very backward crop ; and while in some parts of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and the Atlantic States, they are suffering for the want of rain, on the Red River, and some other parts of Louisiana and Mississippi, they are having too much rain, and a good deal of damage is done by innundation. I append some interesting data, to wit : Cotton in Bloom. Killing Frost 1836, June 4 1837, May 28 Crop. 1,423,000 1,800,000 1838, Jun - e 14 Oct. 7 1,360,000 1839, May 34 1840, June 6 1841, June 10 1842, May 20 Nov. 7 Oct. 17 Oct. 20 Oct. 27 _probably 2,330,000 These were taken in latitude 32. Now, neither in that or any other latitude is there any appearance of bloom, and I do not think the majority of the cotton that I saw will be in bloom before the Ist of July. If the season con tinue dry, the sandy lands, as in 1838, will make very little cotton ; but I rather look for a wet summer and fall, an early frost, and a very moderate crop. You will see by the above. that a late spring is invariably followed by an early fall." PUSEYISM IN THE UNITED STATES.—The recent de velopments of the rapid progress of the " Tractarian" doc trines in this country, continue to excite the greatest inte rest amongst the religious circles. Great anxiety is felt respecting the promised expose by Drs. Anson and Smith. We wish to defer till after the appearance of this pamph let, some lengthened remarks which we have to make on this subject. We have been furnished with a considerable quantity of interesting materials, and will be enabled to exhibit a tolerably full and accurate statement relative to the spread of Puseyism in the American Episcopal Church. —New York Morning Herald.—[The expose in question has, we presume, to do with the scene described in the following paragraph.] EXCITING ORDINATION SCENE IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH.—EIeven young men were, on Sunday, or dained at St. Stephen's Church, by the Rev. Bishop Onderdonk. The service was read by the Rev. Dr. Berrien, and the sermon was preached by the bishop. After he had concluded, the eleven candidates stood around the altar, when he announced, as is customary, that he was about to ordain them. and requested that if there was any person or persons who had any objections to make, or knew aught against them, they would now announce the same. A moment of silence ensued, when the Rev. Hugh Smith, of St. Peter's, rose in the middle aisle, and stated that he had by letter yesterday informed the bishop that he should protest against the ordination of one of the candidates, Mr. Carey, in consequence of his holding opinions favourable to Romanism ; and he did now accordingly protest. When he sat down, the Rev. Mr. Anthon, of St. Mark's Church. in this city, who had been sitting in the same pew wtih Mr. Smith, also rose, and in like manner protested against the ordi nation of Mr. Carey. for the same reason. Bishop On derdonk stated that he had received the objections of the rev. gentlemen, and had in consequence appointed six competent and worthy persons to examine into the charge which had been made against Mr. Carey, and that they had unanimously reported to him that it was unfounded ; and that also was his own conviction, and that he should proceed to ordain all the candidates. He then com menced reading the prayer, and during the ceremony Messrs. Smith and Anthon both rose, and left the church. It is supposed that the objections to the ordi nation of Mr. Carey, arose from the idea that he held an opinion similar to those promulgated in the celebrated Oxford tracts, and for which Dr. Pusey has bet•n re cently suspended in England. It is, indeed, a continu ation of the same controversy which has divided the episcopal church on the other side of the Atlantic.—New York Express. AMERICAN SYMPATHY WITH THE REPEAL AGITA TION.—The " Genevese Traveller" of the Times, in a letter dated from New York on the 13th ult. informs us that the Repeal Associations and meetings are daily and hourly diminishing in numbers and in influence. The agitators are distracted and divided. The O'Connell party are without respectability. They are the mere tools of a few demagogues, who seek political consequence at the sacrifice of every principle that is held sacred among honourable men. The O'Connell party, in this state, consists of the same men that encouraged and supported (as far as it could be done without personal danger) the Canada revolt. They are the same men that " pledged their lives and sacred honour," to spill their blood in defence of the Rhode Island traitors, and then, when the hour of danger approached, shamelessly abandoned their dupes. With very few exceptions, they are Irish Catho lics, without character, and incomparably more ignorant and uninformed than the South Carolina slaves. The in telligent native Americans, so far as I am informed, de nounce O'Connell and his abolition doctrines, Even those in the northern states, who claim to be Abolitionists, but have regard for their own character, dare not avow their support of him. In Charleston, South Carolina, a Repeal Association was formed, and a considerable sum of money collected for the use of the Irish agitators. As soon as O'Connell's speech, made at the Corn Exchange, Dublin, on the 10th of May last, was received and pub lished, the Charleston Association was convened, and di vided their funds between two charitable institutions of that city, and then, by resolution, dissolved the associa tion. The Charirari announces that MM. Larnennais and Lamartine were each preparing an appeal to France in favour of Ireland. Accounts have been received from the governor of Se negal to the 2d ult. They announce the almost total failure this year of the gum trade. The chief topic in the Paris papers of Thursday is Ire land. The subscription set on foot there amounted to only about 610 francs (about £24), a sum not sufficient to pay the expenses of M. Ledru Rollin's trip to Ireland. SALT MINES IN FRANCE.—II is reported that a Com pany is about to be formed, for the purpose of working some salt mines in the neighbourhood of Pails, the pro perty of Queen Christina of Spain. The house of J. J. Meyer and Co., of Mulhausen, has suspended its payments. It was engaged in the construc tion of locomotive and other steam-engines. Their debts are said to be 1,200,000 francs, one-half of which is due to a banking house at Mulhausen. THE POPULATION OF FRANCE.—The Courrier Francais of the 20th of July has the following :-301,474 young men, of twenty years of age, born in 1822, drew lots this year to furnish the usual complement of 80,000 men. In this complement the portion of the department of the Seine is 1,767 men. Beaumont Smith, whose name obtained such publicity in connection with the exchequer-bill fraud, is employed as a kind of clerk to the superintendent of the Cascade Station, about fifty miles up the country from Hobart Town. The convict Smith seems resigned to his fate, and enjoys a moderate degree of health. The republic of Texas is beginning to find that the foul blot of slavery must be washed away, before it can realize any degree of national prosperity. We learn from the Texian and New Orleans papers, that " amongst other schemes for the amelioration of the country, that of con verting it into a free state is openly advocated." A letter from Copenhagen, dated June 30, states that the Princess of Hesse Cassel, sister of the Queen Dowa ger of Denmark, and Abbess of the Convent of Noble Ladies at Itzeba (Holstein), whilst on a visit to her bro ther, the Landgrave of Hesse, in the domain of Plarike, was thrown from her horse, and had her right leg broken. It was feared that ampntation would become necessary. In consequence of the dearth with which the Prussian Rhenish provinces are afflicted, the King of Prussia has ordered barges laden with corn and flour to be sent from Treves up the Rhine, the Moselle, and the Sarre, and to deliver supplies at every village. The inhabitants having a ticket from the magistrates are allowed to take as much as they want, on engaging to return the same quantity after the harvest. The Palais Royal, so famous for years back, is now every day losing favour with the public, and the numerous passages in the neighbourhood threaten it with complete decay ; 18 or 20 arcades are now to be let. 22 others are occupied by the vendors of ready-made clothes; and some of the principal cafes and restaurants, the goodwill of which used to be worth 300,000 f., have been closed, be cause they did not clear their expenses.—Galignarda Messenger. PARIS AND RODEN RAILWAY.—The report of the directors of this company, to be submitted to an adjourned general meeting of the proprietors on the Bth instant, states, that the expenditure to the 30th of June last amounted to 44,000,000 francs, and that there remained to be provided for, the interest of capital at 4 per cent. to the 9th of May last, the accounts of the contractors for the completion of the stati nis, workshops, &c., the estab lishment of the depOt for merchandise at the Batignolles, the purchase of ground and material, and the reserve on a portion of the contracts. To meet these demands the directors had in the hands of their bankers 759,252 francs, residue of loan granted by the state 6,000,000 francs, and the remainder of the guarantee fund 720.000 francs, making a total of 7,479,252 francs. The directors had the. fullest confidence that these resource would suffice, in which they were borne out by the opinion of the engineer-in -chief, Mr. Locke. The traflic of the line. which commenced on the 9th of May, has given a result up to the 30th of June of 89.794 passengers, and a receipt of 616,374 francs. This return must be considered as on the lowest scale, since. properly speaking, they had as yet done nothing but convey passengers, the carriage of parcels having d, and that of rnerchuildise not !Join THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. GENERAL MISCELLANY Lord Polwarth was elected the new Scotch representa tive peer on Wednesday. There was no other candidate. At Hutingdonshire Assizes there were only four prison ers for trial, and not a single law cause. It is now generally stated, says The Globe, echoed by The Times, that the Houses of Parliament will not be prorogued until the last week in August. On Thursday last, a poor woman was safely delivered of a stillborn child whilst passing along Chiswell-street, London. The sect called Latter Day Saints or Mormonites, of Stockport, have taken the chapel in High street, recently occupied by the Unitarians. It is stated that at the close of the poll at Durham, several carrier pigeons were let loose, two of which were to convey the news to Rochdale and Manchester. A piece of solid gold was found a few days since by some labourers upon Little Baddow Hall Fara), Essex, weigh ing nearly an ounce. On Sunday week, Thomas Hart, beerseller, Halliwell, had his 29th child christened at Bolton parish church ; and what is quite as singular, 25 of them are alive. In the year 1815 no less than 166 persons lost their lives by coal-pit explosions, within a circuit of four miles, in the counties of Durham and Northumberland. The capabilities of a new iron steamer on the Thames, called " The Prince of Wales," are said to be seventeen miles an hour. It is said that Mr. Bunn, backed by two enterprising capitalists, is to resume the management of Drury-lane Theatre.—Brighton Gazette. THE INFLUENZA.—This epidemic, which visited our cities so severely, has now generally disappeared. It is now prevailing all over Canada. DEPUTY LIEUTENANCY.—The lord lieutenant of this county has been pleased to appoint Henry Hawarden Fa zakerly, of Gillib rand-hall, Esq., deputy lieutenant. THE LATE DUEL.—The Times says, " We understand there is very little doubt that Lieutenant Munro, with Lieutenants Cuddy and Grant, will surrender to take their trials with Mr. Gulliver." The special train on Thursday evening, with the party of his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg, per formed the journey, 77 miles, in one hour and thirty-nine minutes, from Southampton to Vauxhall. A diver of the name of John Clegg, stated by the Carlisle Journal to belong to this town, unfortuna'ely perished last week, whilst engaged with the wreck of the Hibernia, wrecked off Whitehaven harbour. RARE OCCURRENCE.—There is at present in the green house of Mrs. Lawrence of Studley Park, the holy palm (Cycus revolula), above 100 years old, now in flower. This beautiful plant only flowers once in a century. At the Hertford Assizes, a servant girl, who had put a quantity of oxalic acid in her mistress's teapot, was found " guilty of administering the poison, but NOT with intent to murder!" Two prisoners escaped yesterday se'nnight from the new house of correction at Usk ; built npon an improved model for security, invented in the good days of Whig Administration. Mr. Wilson, the celebrated singer, has been compelled, by a severe domestic calamity—the death of his youngest son, a fine boy, eight years of age—to postpone for a time his musical entertainments. On the 12th nit. two churches, a convent of nuns, com posed of seventeen different buildings, and thirty-seven private houses, were destroyed at Orzel, in Russia, by a conflagration. Lady Byron, widow of the poet, has recently taken up her residence at Market Bosworth for a short time. We regret to hear that her lddyship has been labouring under indisposition for some time past. The standard height of the recruits for the Royal Marines has been altered by direction of the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty. It is to be five feet seven inches, until further orders.—United Service Gazette. In the Sheriff's Court a verdict [for the Crown, for £3,954 Is. 2d., was obtained against Messrs. Candy and Dean, silk importers, for duties unpaid. The affair is one of the Custom•house frauds. A considerable quantity of fresh butter was seized in Cardiff market on Saturday week for deficiency in weight, and confiscated. It was distributed, by order of the mayor, to several poor persons. The captain, mate and crew of the Drusillar. from Bos ton to St. Domingo, which was destroyed by fire on the 6th July, arrived at this port in the Sheffield, by which they had been taken from the Cape whale-ship Harry. THE EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE CAMPERDOWN.— We stated in our last that one of the sufferers by this me lancholy occurrence had expired. Since then the gun ner's mate, James Duke, Miss Barton, and Miss Yarker have also been released from their sufferings by death. Early on Thursday morning the steam-packet Bataviar, Captain Dunlop, arrived off St. Katharine's Steam-packet wharf, from Rotterdam. Part of her cargo consisted of 450 baskets of potatoes and 500 baskets of currants, which were consigned to two salesmen in Spitalfields-market. We are glad to hear that Mr. Robert :Story, author of "The Isles are Awake," any many other loyal and pa triotic lyrics, most of which have appeared in our columns, has received an appointment under government, and is now a resident in town.—Standard. Lain company established to carry out Mr. Ingold's in vention for the manufacture of wheels and pinions of clocks and watches intend to proceed, with a capital of £250,000 in shares of £25 each, under an exclusive license from the trustees. An insurance was effected at Lloyd's, last week, by Mefsrs. Cavan, Brothers, on behalf of the colony of Demerara, on 24,783 dollars, being the savings during five years of 230 Hill Coolies, who are on their return from Guiana to Calcutta. Damage, to the extent of several hundred pounds, was sustained on Monday afternoon week, by the two o'clock mixed train of carriages, on the Dundee and Arbroath railway line taking fire. The fire originated in some of the ashes from the engine being blown among a quantity of flax and miscellaneous goods immediately behind the engine. On Sunday last, the Rev. J. Moore, catholic priest read to his congregation, in the Mass-house, in Bath street, Birmingham, the sermon, for preaching which Dr. Pusey has been suspended; and, commenting on the said sermon, described it as a pure exposition of catholic doctrine. The fishermen employed at the fishery called Tweed mouth Steil, a little above the Carr Rock, near Berwick, last week caught in their salmon net a sturgeon which measured seven feet five incbes in extreme length, by two feet eleven in circumference, and weighed ten stone four pounds. Ma. ConnEN.—Tbis gentleman's father was a farmer, and, after a whole life of industry and self-denial, left his children £4,500. His children, in ten years' manufac turing, raise it to £400,000 ; and yet complain of undue advantages given to the farmer! Was ever anything more preposterous! The Birmingham Journal announces, on behalf of Thomas Attwoud, a new scheme of agitation, which is to combine " all the various classes of men, who are now seeking different objects by different means, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, in one greatlegal confeder ation," against Peel's currency bill. BILLS or EXCHANGE EXEMPTION BILL.—The act for exempting certain bills of exchange and promissory notes from the operation of the laws relating to usury, which would otherwise expire on the Ist of January next, is to be continued in force, by a bill just introduced for that purpose, until the Ist of January, 1846. The unlicensed pilots of the port of Sunderland have held sundry meetings during the past week, and have ul timately resolved to form themselves into a society for protection against the prosecutions of the Trinity House, Newcastle, and to use means to effect a discontinuance of that corporation's interference with them. About two hundred unemployed working men of South Shields have thrown themselves on the parish, and are now employed in breaking stones, and covering the church yard with gravel, at one shilling per day, whilst others have gone into the workhouse, where they receive the food of the house and lodgings. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager is expected to arrive at Whitley Court, at the close of this week, from Bushy Park, for the autumn. Earl Howe and his family will re main at Gopsall-hall, with occasional visits to Whitley, during her Majesty's sojourn in Worcestershire. EXPENSE OP THE EXPEDITION TO CHINA.—A par liamentary return, just published, shows that the sums paid, or to be paid on account of the war with China amount to £2,872,873, of which sum £804,964 are re quired to be voted, in 1834-44, as balance due to the East India Company. On the landing of the 92d Highlanders at Trinidad, in May last, the negroes, who had never seen the Highland costume before, did not know what to make of it. The washerwomen were outrageous, exclaiming, " Dem High landmen no good, dem too poor, dem hab no money to buy trousers. Gnonsx SHOOTING. - Active preparations for the moors have already commenced, and the attendance of sportsmen on the heather-clad hills of Caledonia, on the morning of the 12th of August, is expected to be this year greater than usual. The steam ships which sailed on Saturday for Scotland were crowded with passengers, many of them for their shooting quarters in the High lands. A large number of dogs accompanied their owners. The sport promises to be excellent. CHINA OPIUM.—A return, published on Wednesday, states tbdt £1,281,211 13s. sd. will be required to make good to certain holders of opium surrendered in China in March, 1839, the amount of compensation due to them under Art. 3of the treaty of peace. The above amount, however, includes a sum of £29,289 lls. 9d., as a claim by the Parsee firms of Heerjeebhoy liustomjee and A. and D. Furdonjee, the settlement of which depends on further explanation. VALUE OF AGRICULTURE OVER MAFUFACTURES.•— At the first meeting of the Broomsgrove Farmers' Club, an introductory lecture was delivered by Mr. H. F. Far don, " On the advantages of associations for the improve ment of agriculture." In proof of the national impor tance of agriculture, the lecturer stated, on the authority of Spackman's Statistics of the British Empire, that in 1831 there were 5,812,276 males above the age cf 20 year s i n th e United Kingdom, and that of these 2,170,111 were employed in agriculture. It was further stated, on the authority of the s. , me work, that the entire popula tion of the United Kingdom may he thus divided_— Dependent on Agriculture.. Manufactures 5,971,146 QUAKER M.P.'s.—There are only two instances'', of quakers having been returned to parliament; and it is re markable that one was fur the county and the other the city of Durham. Joseph Pease, of Darlington, repre sented the southern division of the county after the pas sing of the Reform Bill; and John Bright, of Rochdale has now been returned for the city. LERWICK (ZETLAND), JULY 17.—CAPTURE OF FOUR I HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE WHALES.—Duting the past week, the coast has presented a somewhat novel and certainly unusual appearance. Two shoals of young whales have been driven on shore, viz., one consisting of 280, at Hillswick ; and the second, consisting of 163, at Stand. They were all captured and killed. THEATRICALS.—The benefit of Mr. Benedict, the com poser, on Monday night, at Covent-garden Theatre, produced near £4OO. The St. James's Theatre closed last ni ht for the regular season. Three thousand pounds and upwards were received at the Italian Opera on Thurs day night, on the occasion of her Majesty's first state visit to that theatre.—Britannia. JOINT STOCK BANKING,—Of nine joint stock banks, established in Manchester within a space of about 14 years, only three survive in a flourishing condition, viz. the " District," the " Union," and the " Manchester and Salford " Banks; of those in process of winding up, two only are at all likely to realise any approach to the capital originally subscribed by the shareholders. DISSENTING FALSEHOOD,--The Leeds Mercury in some tabular statements as to the schools belonging to the church in the various towns of Lancastlire, states that there are in Preston 265 teachers and 3,126 scholars. Some trouble has been taken to ascertain how far this is correct, and it turns out that there are 313 teachers and 4,642 pupils in schools in connection with the church.— Preston Pilot. FOUNDI,RING OF A VESSEL WITH ALL HANDS.— Within the last three or four days, the melancholy intel ligence of the total shipwreck of the brig Falcon, of Lon don, with the loss of all her orew, excepting one seaman, has been received. She is stated to have been a fine vessel, of about 150 tons burthen, and the number who have so unfortunately perished amount to fourteen, in cluding the master, Captain Cairns. TIIE LEAGUE PETITION FORGERIES.—At the close of the proceedings in the House of Commons, on Friday night, Mr. Christopher brought forward the subject of the petition from Epworth, which a committee had de clared to be forg-d, and moved that " Samuel Potts be taken into the custody of the sergeant-at-arms*" Orders were forthwith given by the Speaker that a warrant should be issued for his apprehension. STRANGE AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—John Ralph, shoe maker. Nairn, 26 years of age, while working at his busi ness, about a fortnight ago, touched the point of one of his fingers with the shoe-rasp which he was handling, and ruffled the skin a little. He took no further notice of the circumstance for some days, but the pain increased to an intolerable degree, and his arm swelled and became in flamed. It immediately affected his body, and ended in mortification and death. THE ARCHIMEDEAN SCREW.—On Thursday the Vice- Chancellor granted an injunction, on behalf of the Ship Propeller Company, to restrain the Messrs. Rennie, the well known engineers, from infringing a patent obtained by Mr. F. P. Smith for the application of the screw pro peller, commonly called the Archimedean Screw, as a means of propelling vessels. The patent had been as signed by Mr. Smith to the Propeller Company. THE LATEST SECESSION.—For some years past the spinning mill at the Horse Cross has been terribly in fested with rats. About five days ago the workers were surprised to find that these troublesome neighbours had entirely disappeared. On making a little enquiry, it was discovered that, to a rat, the whole had gone out and located themselves about the foundations of the Rev. Mr. Gray's Free Kirk—all as merry and frisky as it is natural for non-intrusion rats to be.—Perth Constitutional. TIDAL PHENOMENA. — A very strange phenomenon has occurred along the coast this week ; the sea one night having leaped forward twenty feet or so, and then imme diately retiring.—Tyne Mercury.—The same phenome non was observed on Friday week, at Leith. At the time of low water the tide suddenly rose about six inches, rushing into the harbour, and in a few minutes it again receded with equal velocity. Similar phenomena occurred in various parts of this country during the great earth quake at Lisbon. A WONDERFUL SHOWER.—We have read of showers of fish, showers of eels, and showers of codfish, and in fact of almost every extraordinary nature; but Charleston, S. C., has been visited by one certainly unparalleled in the records of showers. During a tremendous thunder storm on the 2d ult., an alligator, about two feet long, fell at the corner of Wentworth and Anson streets. The Charleston Mercury, in recording the phenomenon, says : —" the beast had a look of wonder and bewilderment about him, that showed plainly enough, he must have gone through a remarkable experience." MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—FOUR LIVES LOST.--011 Sunday last, about half-past eleven o'clock, a party of four persons entered a pleasure boat, lying at Inverness, and proceeded down the Firth as far as Kilmuir. When returning, and within about two hundred yards of the Longman Point, a sudden squall caught them before they had time to shorten sail, and the boat filling, instantly swamped. The accident was seen at Kilmuir, and boats put out to render assistance, but before they could reach the spot, the whole had disappeared amidst the stormy currents that prevail in this part of the Firth.—Edinburgh Paper. THE WRESTLINGWORTH MURDER.—At the Bedford Assizes, on Saturday week, Sarah Darley, aged 22, was indicted for the murder of her husband by poisoning him. The jury found her guilty, and Baron Alderson passed the last sentence of the law upon her, leaving her no hope of mercy. It may perhaps be remembered, that this woman had also been found guilty, by the coroner's jury, of mur dering her infant child, which, by the coroner's warrant, had been disinterred: and the body of a former husband was also taken up, but in the latter case the body was too much decomposed to say by what means he died.—[This creature almost equals in atrocity Betty Eccles, recently executed at Kirkdale.] ARRIVAL OF ONE OF THE PRISONERS FROM CABOOL. —Amongst the passengers landed from the ship Windsor, which arrived on the 22nd instant from Calcutta, with a detachment of the 49th regt., is the lady of Lieut. Eyre, Bengal artillery, and late commissary of ordnance at Cabool, whose able narrative of the events that occurred there, and of the aisasters which befel our ill-fated army has made so much noise in the world. This is the first arrival in England of those ladies who displayed such heroic conduct under the unprecedented hardships, priva tions, and terrific scenes which they witnessed during a siege and captivity which lasted for eleven months. JOHN BRIGHT'S ELECTION EIPENSES.—At adinner given in Manchester, on Friday last, to celebrate the triumph of this eminent leaguer, one of the speakers—a Mr. Hibbert—remarked that he was at Rochdale on Monday, and in Rochdale and Manchester be succeeded in obtaining £3so—not to bribe, but to pay the necessary expenses at Durham; for at Durham, as at Nottingham, they were just emerging from the meshes of corruption to the purity of election. Three hundred and fifty pounds for the " necessary expenses ;" pray what are necessary expenses? Three hundred and fifty pounds is rather a large sum for a pure election to cost amongst a limited constituency such as that of Durham. Loss OF £5OO, AND REMARKABLE RESTORATION.— On Tuesday, the 11th instant, a gentleman who had come that morning from York, having with him the sum of £5OO, principally in cash, which be carried in a silk pocket handkerchief, on arriving at the Loughborough Station, with singular absence of mind got out of the carriage and went towards the town, leaving the money on the seat! He soon discovered the loss, went to Leicester by the next train, gave information there, and went to Rugby, where the property was delivered to him by the station master, Mr. Pigon, in whose hands it had been placed, that it might be restored to its owner, by a lady fellow passenger, who was going on to London! This noble conduct commands admiration, and the agreeable surprise of the gentleman, on the restoration of his property, may be easily imagined.—Derby Reporter. THE LATE DURHAM ELECTION.—Lord Dungannon thus explains his share in the " head-money" business : " Previous to the election I did put the sum mentioned into the hands of Mr. Wilkinson. It was a bill received just before from Ireland. 1 requested Mr. Wilkinson to defray every legitimate expense, to do in proper time what was just and liberal regarding the service of every individual, and then to deliver to mea debtor and creditor account. I, at the same time, strictly charged him to be most cautious in avoiding any act whatever, direct or indirect, that could by possibility be construed into such a meaning as that of treating or bribery. I called his attention to the Nottingham and other cases, and adding how much a candidate must rely on the discretion of his agents, again strongly urged him to be most careful against offending on that score, according to any act previously existing or passed since 1841, when I ceased to be a member of the house." Two Lions.—We understand that the Hon. and Rev. George Spencer, the brother of Earl Spencer, who is, as most of our readers are aware, a catholic priest, being in Manchester for a few days, called, on Wednesday evening last, at the house of the Rev. Hugh Stowell, who, how ever, was not at home at the time. The rev. gentleman saw Mrs. Stowell, to whom he announced himself, and expressed a desire to see the rev. incumbent of Christ Church. The lady said that the best time to see her hus band was about breakfast time, and she invited the hon. and rev. gentleman to breakfast the following morning. Accordingly, on Thnrsday morning, Mr. Spencer pre sented himself at the residence of Mr. Stowell, who re ceived him with due politeness, and over breakfast, we believe, the two gentlemen discussed various matters con nected with the great controversy between their respective creeds and churches.—Manchester Guardian.—[M r. Spencer preached two sermons at Bury on Sunday, and on the following day paid a visit to the vicar.] WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.—On Wednesday last the sittings of the Wesleyan Methodist Society commenced at Carver-street chapel, Sheffield. The first business was the election of a President. There were four candidates, and upon the votes being taken the numbers stood as follow : Scott, 150; Stanley, 16; S. Jackson, 15 ; R. Wood, 7. The Rev. John Scott was therefore declared to be duly elected. The Rev. R. Newton was again elec ted Secretary ; the votes for this important office were — Newton, 158 ; S. Jackson, 15 ; J. Farrar. 5 ; A. E. Far rar, 4. On Tuesday, at a Special Missionary Committee Meeting, it was stated that there had been a falling off in the receipts during the last six months, as compared with the corresponding six months in 1842, of about £2OOO. At the meeting of the General Committee of Education a highly interesting report was read, in which the Committee epress their conviction that the time is now come when the Wesleyan Methodists ought to have a comprehensive and vended system of Infant and week day, as well as Sunday Schools. In the Court of Bankruptcy, on Saturday, in the matter of Wr4, , ht and Biddulph's bankruptcy, an application was made by a gentleman on the part of the governor and state of Illinois, North America, to parcipitate in the dividend now in the course 9f payment out of the estate in the sum of £19,756 5s Bd, on account of bonds which the bankrupts held'at the time of their failure. This was opposed by the assignees on the ground that some part of the debt was bad, the bonds having been at the time they obtained them in a state of insolvency, and on Able to pay its own divi dend. The application was granted. ARRIA.GE LICENCES. - It is important to parties re• quiring these documents to know, that they are not, as heretofore, obtained immediately on application to the Surrogates. In accordance with the interpretation put upon the Marriage Act by some of the ablest civilians, the surrogates are now required, previously to delivering licences to the parties, to ascertain from the Registrar that no caveat has been entered with him, A necessary delay, therefore, of some days occurs between the period of application to the surrogate and the receipt of the 1 licence. MANCHESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL IN SEPTEMBER.— We understand the arrangements for this great musical treat are now nearly completed ; the tickets will com mence issuing on Saturday next, and for the purpose of preventing confusion in the sale, an office has been taken for the purpose in Ducie-place. The number issued will be confined to the number of seats, by which means the building will not be unpleasantly crowded ; we should advise our friends therefore to ma►te early application, for certainly so great a musical treat has not been offered to the people of Manchester since the festival of 1836, and question if, at so reasonable a price, it can ever be afforded again. With the talent of Miss Clara Novello, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. Alfred Shaw, Mr. Braham, Mr. James Bennett, and Mr. H. Phillips, we feel satisfied the Mes siah will be given in a style not to be surpassed, indeed they are the elite - of our English vocalists. The miscella neous night is crowded with gems such as we might ex pect from the taste and judgment of the highly gifted con ductor, Sir Henry Bishop. SUICIDE BY HANGING.—On Thursd, y an inquest was held before Mr. Chapman, coroner for the Borough of Manchester, on view of the body of Joseph Beeston, joiner, of Bank-street, Hulme, 40 years of age. It ap peared that the deceased had been addicted to intoxica tion, and was sometimes drunk for days together. He came home to his lodgings very drunk about three o'clock on Tuesday morning; he lay in bed all that day, and part of the next, and on Wednesday afternoon was found in a kneeling posture, suspended by a rope from one of the bed-posts. It was stated by his sister-in-law, with whom he lodged, that when he was in liquor he appeared wild, and as though he was insane. His wife had left him about thirteen months ago on account of his habits, and this was supposed to have preyed upon his mind. On the board, at the head of the bed, he had writted the follow ing with chalk ; " Farewell my wife and daughter dear My brother and sister toow You will find me drowned I mile from here In the Duke's canal within." The cord with which he had hung himself he had taken from a clock which was placed in his bed-room.—Verdict' " Insanity, brought on by intoxication." THE DURHAM ELECTION.—The cathedral city of Durham has been disgraced by returning to parliament, as its representative, an obscure blaspheming Quaker— hight John Bright, of Rochdale, notorious in his birth place as the " raw head and bloody bones" of anti-church rate martyrs and corn-law repeaters, but principally in our remembrance, and in the re-called disgust of every decent person in this neighbourhood, as the mountebank post-prandial retailer of blasphemous rhymes. It is al most too much for one's patience to find one of the strongholds of English Christianity rejecting an advocate of sound church and constitutional principles, for a person who, ir. characterizing those who happened to differ from him in opinion, must take a figure from an impious scrib bler of " butter woman's " couplets on corn—one Ebe nezer Elliot—and describe them as acting as though they were to " Shake their clench'd lists in the Almighty's face, And cry—Thou fool ! " The retailer of soul-destroying and perilous stuff such as this has been returned to represent the cathedral town of Durham in parliament! Faugh! And yet we are told that the place owes this foul blot upon its character to the caprice and jealousy of a conservative nobleman ! It is said that Mr. Purvis has lost the race because he did not touch his cap to the Marquis of Londonderry and ride in his colours. The marquis, it seems, could, byla word, have influenced at least eighty of the electors. That word he withheld because Mr. Purvis presumed to take the field without consulting him, and the conse quence has been that Mr. Purvis has polled nearly one hundred votes less than the conservative candidate at the last election, whilst Bright has polled 83 more than he did on the last occasion. How thy- Marquis of Londonderry will be able to atone to his party for this shameful aban donment of it, we are totally at a loss to conceive. He has brought disgrace upon Durham, but double disgrace upon himself.—Blanchester Courier. THE LATE MR. EDWARD WILLIAM ELTON.—This admirable actor, whose melancholy and most unexpected death is recorded as having happened through the wreck of the Pegasus steamer, was born in the year 1794, and educated with a view to follow the profession of a solicitor, and for considerable time he was in the office of Mr. Springhall, of Verulam-buildings ; but having imbibed a passion for theatrical representations, he became a mem ber of the well-known private theatre in Wilson-street, Gray's-inn-lane, conducted by Mr. Pym, a place cele brated for having given the first rudiments of the art to several eminent actors, among them the late John Reeve. In 1823, after having tried for a short time some of the small provincial towns, he obtained an engagement at the Olympic Theatre, where the late Tyrone Power was then engaged. Mr. Elton remained only a short time, and at the Christmas of that year he engaged himself at the Li verpool Amphitheatre; and, not being satisfied with his situation there, be joined the company of Mr. Bunn, then manager of the Birmingham Theatre. On the following Christmas, his services were retained by the Liverpool manager to personate the character of Napoleon in the " Battle of Waterloo," which spectacle was acted for three months in succession. Shortly after the manager of the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, proposed an engagement ; and Mr. Elton, already very popular in the town, pre sented himself on the boards of the legitimate arena as Cominius, in " Coriolanus ." here he became most popular; but Mr. Vandenhoff being so long established as the lead ing actor, Mr. Elton could only obtain a first part oc casionally. From Liverpool he went to Chester Shrews bury, Worcester. and M anc h ester , w h ere he attracted the notice of Mr. Charles Young, then playing for a few nights there. That gentleman expressed himself highly in favour of Mr. Elton's talent, and predicted his speedy removal to the metropolis. He afterwards acted for a season at Norwich and Cambridge, and in the year 1831 made his bow to the Garrick audience in Whitechapel as Richard the Third. His success was prodigious; the Eastenders hailed him as a modern Garrick; the managers, Conquest and Wyman, liberally advanced his salary, and their treasury was greatly benefited. The Surrey was his next remove, where, after a few months' sojourn. the late David Morris engaged him for the Haymarket Theatre, where he appeared in 1833. He remained one season ; and after various engagements at the London minors, he appeared at Covent Garden, under the management of Mr. Osbaldiston, in the season 1837, January 19, as Waller Tyrrell, in the drama of that name. His claim to the rank of an admirable actor was at once recognised. From that period till his lamented death, he continued a member of the theatres royal. MODERN Rossissi MI RACLES.—The Univers publishes the following extraordinary relation on the authority of a letter from Rome, and states that the same information has reached it from various sources :—" For the last week nothing has been talked of at Rome but miracles. On St. Peter's-day, a journeyman mason, whose legs had been broken in several places by a fall from a scaffold, and who for some time past had dragged himself from Madonna to Madonna on his crutches, to implore a cure, stopped be. fore the image of the Virgin, which is placed under a sort of shed serving as a passage, not far from the Jews' quar ter. He prayed before it with his usual fervour. At length, rising, he said, ' This is enough. Madonna, I have been addressing to you on all sides my prayers long enough ; take my crutches, I will have no more of them ; I leave them to you ; you cannot be hard-hearted enough to aban don me in the middle of my road ; you are too good not to assist me and furnish me with strength to return home.' Hardly had he thrown his crutches at the feet of the Vir gin, when he felt a commotion in all his limbs, and was in an instant cured, as well and as sound as before his acci dent. He began immediately to shout Miracle!' and the people who were acquainted with his previous infirmity and his daily prayers, carried him to his house in triumph. The news of this prodigy spread rapidly, and all the lame, blind, and infirm rushed to the compassionating Madonna. In a few moments the adjoining streets were thronged, and it was who should pray most fervently. In order to thank the good Madonna, and conciliate her, the more carpets and hangings were brought, and an altar was set up with wax candles, magnificent decorations, and splendid transparencies, with the cypher of Mary. It is said that new miracles were operated on the following days. On Tuesday there were so many wax candles burning at the foot of the Madonna that the drapery of the altar was set on fire. The consternation was now general. The people, dreading, lest the Madonna should be burnt, put up prayers for her safety in accents of despair. Happily they suc. ceeded in extinguishing the fire. To prevent new accidents. and the tumult which the collection of such crowds would occasion, orders were given to remove the venerated image to the neighbouring church. A priest was charged with this task, and although the removal took place at two in the morning, escorted by a detachment of dragoons, it was effected with great difficulty, the people being opposed to the removal. Since Wednesday the image is in the church of Santa-Maria-del- Pianto. Tie crowd remains the same but order has been established, and troops are stationed in the neighbourhood. The infirm, large and small, are ranged in front of the sanctuary before the crowd, which only gives way to allow the sick, who are brought from time t o ti me , to pass. " A not h er l etter o f the 3d, in the same journal, says :—" I write to you under the impression of an event sufficiently striking for me to communicate. Yesterday evening I was with Monseigneur and Mademoiselle, when Dorothea entered . in great agi tation, exclaiming, ' A great miracle has just been per formed by the Madonna, who, four days ago, cured the lame mason ; the little girl of a washerwoman, who lives below, has walked.' You must have remarked this child always before the palace, resting on two crutches; she was born without the use of her feet, the bones of which like those of the legs were as soft as a rag, and would not support her ; whilst sitting on the staircase the servant said to her, ' Go and bray to the Madonna who cured the mason.' She went slowly on her crutches, and arriving before the Madonna, begun to ilray. liardly had she finished, when a voice said to her, `Leave your crutches end go home ;' she then walked for the first time. This she has herself related to us." BRAZIL On the 17th of May, a decree was issued by the Empe ror of Brazil, as hostile in spirit towards English com merce as it is favourable towards that of France. It sets out with stating that the executive government is autho rised by the law of the 30th November, 1841, to fix the customs' duties at from 2 to'3o per cent ; it then proceeds to declare that the time for the law to come into opera tion has arrived, and the first article appoints a com mission. The decree then proceeds as follows : Art. 2d. The commission is ordered to prepare a Panta (or tariff) of duties on imports to be collected in the custom-houses of the empire ; and, if possible, to conclude its work by the end of June. In this labour, it shall be regulated by the following bases . Art. 3d. The commission shall ascertain what articles are requisite for the defence of the state, and of these such as are actually produced in the country, and such as easily can be; and shall impose 60 per cent duty on similar articles imported from abroad. Art. 4th. It shall proceed to the necessary investiga tions to ascertain what articles are of first necessity, or which are considered such on account of their general consumption imported from abroad, which it shall rate in the panta at 20 per cent duty ; excepting, however, those which, without serious injury to the poorer classes, and without risk of smuggling, will bear a heavier duty : from these there shall be formed a separate class of articles, subject to 24 per cent duty, notwithstanding their being articles of first necessity. Art. sth. It shall paint out which are the articles and merchandise, which, containing great value in small bulk, offer a profit upon smuggling. Upon these articles it shall impose duties of from 2 to 10 per cent, according to the risk of contraband. Art. 6th. It is required also to determine what foreign productions are required similar to those produced in the country, and which, by competition, damage the latter, and it shall impose duties of from 50 to 60 per cent on them ; taking into consideration the quality of the arti cles produced in the empire, the capital employed in their production, and the perfection of which they are suscep tible. Art. 7th. With like duties, the commission shall charge articles that are beginning to be produced in the empire, or of which the production shall be naturalized from pos sessing the raw materials requisite; graduating the duties according to the perfection that may be expected to be attained in the home-made articles. Art. Bth. Coarse cotton goods shall be charged with a duty of 60 per cent.; fine ones, from 40 to 50 per cent. Art. 9th. Looms and all other machinery used in spin ning or weaving shall be free of:duty. Art. 10th. India goods, with the exception of articles comprehended under Art. sth, shall pay 60 per cent., if imported in foreign bottoms; if in Brazilian bottoms, on account of foreigners, 40 per cent.; and if in Brazilian bottoms, and on account of subjects of the empire, 20 per cent. Articles under the head of Art. sth, if im ported in Brazilian bottoms, shall be subject to half duty only. Art. 11th. Wines and spirits shall pay 50 per cent., and all articles not specially enumerated in this decree shall pay 30 to 40 per cent. Art. 12th. The commission shall inquire what measures besides those mentioned in this decree it may be advisable to adopt, in order to favour the national commercial marine, whether a reduction in duties on all articles im ported in the national bottoms, and upon anchorage dues now payable, and how much. Art. 13th provides that the duties may be levied either ad valorem, or per panta valuation. Art. 14th. The panta that the commission may draw up shall be accompanied by such observations as may be thought necessary, not only as regards the motives that may have operated in fixing the rates of duties in such cases as are left to the option of the commission, but also as to any difficulties that may be supposed likely to ac crue from the measures proposed ; and finally what ought to be done at the period when the treaty with Great Britain expires ; submitting the whole to me through my minister of finance. From the terms of our existing treaty with Brazil, how ever, the above duties cannot come into operation until is expiry in 1844. BETWEEN TWO RAILS.—The following accident hap pened two days ago on the Corbeil railroad. A young man walking along its side, stepped between the rails to pick up a burning coal for the purpose of lighting his pipe. Whilst thus occupied, he heard the whistle of the train coining from Paris. lie immediately went over to the other line of rails. At the same moment the train from Orleans came in the opposite direction ; but the noise of the first train prevented the man from hearing the ap proach of the other until it was too late for him to do more than place himself between the two lines. The space, however, was so narrow that the first wheels of one of the trains went over his feet, cut them both off, caused him to fall inward towards the train, the whole of which went over him, and crushed off the front part of his head, scattering his brains to a distance of 20 paces.— Galignani's Messenger. AMERICANISMS A new paper is to be started in New York, to be con ducted entirely by ladies. We have not heard what name is to be given to it. [Nothing new in this. We have newspapers conducted by old women in this country.— En. L. S.] QUIET MURDER.—The New Mirror gives a receipt for killing a woman quietly. Take a young lady, and tell her that she has a very pretty foot. She will then wear small, thin shoes—go out in the wet—catch a cold—the cold will become a fever—and she will die in a anth.— American paper. The Van Buren (Ark.) Intellioeneer, says there is " a busy fellow" in Newton county, who keeps a distillery which manufactures a hundred barrels of whisky per week ; an extensive flouring mill ; grows ten thousand bushels of corn each year ; raises Berkshire pigs and Durham cattle ; is building a new barn ; swaps horses when good bargains offer; is winding up an old mercantile concern—besides taking care of a wife and six responsibilities. He does not do all the manual labour himself, but the way he keeps strikers in a stir is worth looking at. RUMORED BATTLE WITH A PlRATE.—Accounts from Nassua, N. P. to the 17th instant, received at New York, mention a report that a British man of war brig of eighteen guns had an engagement with a piratical barque, during which the brig was sunk and all hands lost. This engage ment, it is stated, was seen by several of the crews of small drogers who were passing at the time. The New York American doubts the correctness of the report, but sup poses that there may be some fire where there is so much smoke. This is the third or fourth report of pirates which has reached us from that quarter. FIRE CAUSED BY A BULL'S EYE.—We learn from the Atlas, that a store on Central-street was set on fire yes terday, by the focus formed by the rays of the sun, con centrated, during the intense heat of yesterday forenoon, through a bull's eye in a window in the roof. A gentle man, sitting in another store in the neighbourhood, dis covered smoke issuing from the roof—and, upon giving the alarm, the upper loft was examined, and the pine frame work was found in a blaze of fire, at just the place where the focus produced by the glass fell upon ft.—Ame rican paper. Joe SMITH IN TROUBLE AGAIN.—News was brought to St. Louis. on the 29th ult., by the steamer Osprey, that Joe Smith, the Mormon Prophet, had been arrested and placed in jail at Ottawa, and further, that when the intel ligence reached Nauvoo, two hundred horsemen of the Legion started immediately for Ottawa, with the inten• tion of liberating him. The steam boat lowa had also been chartered at Nauvoo by the Mormons, and is at present ascending the Illinois river with one hundred and fifty armed men, to second the attack of the horsemen on Ottawa. Ottawa is situated up the the Illinois, and is distant about three hundred miles from this city. We believe the Prophet has been travelling in the northern part of the state, for the purpose of keeping from the arrest made under the requisition of the Governor of Missouri, which accounts for his being lodged in jail at Ottawa. SINGULAR PHENOMENON.—A singular phenomenon has lately been frequently observed at our harbour. When the tide is making, the water will come rushing two or three feet abreast into the harbour, at the rate of four miles an hour, for ten minutes or so, and all at once turn and rush out again as fast, and again turn and pour into the harbour with its former violence, and continue to ad vahce and recede times without number, when apparently without any cause it will resume its former quiet manner of fulfilling its destinies. We have observed somewhat similar phenomenon have taken place at Perth Leith, and at Valetta in Malta, which have been ascribed to earth quakes, but we cannot see how this can be the true solu tion, when this has been observed in our harbour frequent ly, and only when the tide is flowing. We shall he glad to hear from any of our scientific friends if they can solve the difficulty.—Montrose Standard. LONDON TRADES.—From the population returns for 1831, we learn that in London there are—tailors, 14,552 ; carpenters, &c. 21,967; shoemakers, 16,565 ; smiths, bra ziers, tinmen, 8,582; goldsmiths, silversmiths, jewellers, &c., 3,349; printers, 3,628, bookbinders, 1,569, type founders, 128, total 5,323: copper-plate printers, en gravers, &c., 1,091 ; dyers, 1,381. Taking the population of 1831, the proportion of the great trades to the mass of the population would be, in round numbers, as follows, allowing only one•fifth for boys and apprentices, the popu lation 1,471,941 being taken as 1,500,000 :-18,000 tailors, 1 in 83 or 1.2 of 100; 28,000 carpenters, 1 in 54 or 1.8 of 100; 24,000 workers in leather, 1 in 62 or 1.4 of 100; 18,000 workers in metal, 1 in 83 or 1.2 of 100; 7,000 printers, &c. 1 in 217 or .4 of 100. These facts abund antly show the great extent to which trade is carried in London, where armies or nations of tailors, of shoema kers, or of carpenters are engaged in the prosecution of their respective arts.—lllustrated Polytechnic Review. BATRING PREDICAMENT EXTRAORDINART.—Yester day morning week, a gentleman and his lady, on a visit to the far-famed bathing town of ltedcar, not satisfied with the restriction and forms attendant on bathing from a machine, started early in the morning in their phaeton to a favourable spot two miles up the sands; the hdy providing herself with a bathing dress ; the gentleman, as gentlemen generally do when bathing, declining such in cumbrance. After undressing on the sand, and placing their clothing in the carriage, they took to the water, hut had scarcely recovered from their first " dip," when to their dismay they observed the horse start away at a smart trot with the carriage, dresses, and all,—leaving them in the primitive state of our first parents. After some time it was arranged for the lady to proceed to Marske, where she arrived barefoot and barehead, and after relating the unfortunate but laughable account of the horse, succeeded in borrowing a dress for herself and husband, which was forwarded in all speed to him ; and he was soon recogni-od by the messenger, patiently en during his woeful plight, though up to the chin in water.