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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. FYLDE CUP.-Mr. Suttcliffe's Scut heat Mr. Clarke's Derbyshire ; Mr. Robinson's Rockett beat Mr. Bake's Hightlyer ; Mr. Coupe's Mat beat Mr. Peacock's Alice; Mr. Ardern's Monsoon beat Mr Thomas's Tip.—Second Ties: Rocket beat Scut, Monsoon beat Alice.—Upping : Monsoon beat Rockett. WESTBY HALL STAKES.-Mr. Branwood's Rowena beat Mr. Deakin's Misdemeanour; Mr. King's Silk beat Mr. Brooke's Linnet. —Upping: Silk beat Rowena. TRIAL STAKES, FOR SAPLINGS.-Mr. Clark's Shrop shire beat Mr. Coupe's Clara. HOPEFUL STAKES, FOR SAPLINGS.-Mr. Dickinson's Fylde beat Mr. Noblett's Wasp. 1 UNIVERSITY 6- CLERICAL IvEIV:i There is not nearly a fourth of the population that can read now, and that is the effect of this wonderful board. These, my lord, are the facts, so far as the census is ac- The PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—The Rev. R. curate that I have seen in this almanac—l _tell you my Pulleine, M.A., curate of Spennithorne, to the rectory of packet-ship George Washington, Captain Fletcher, authority—these are the facts, that while £70,000 a year Kirby Wisk, Yorkshire; Rev. J. Hudson, M.A , curate arrived in the Mersey on Wednesday, after a boisterous of Chatton, to the per etual curacy of Ile h . Nor is now given to this, I say unprincipled, because unscrip though to id passage from New York of eighteen days i i thumberland; Rev. H. B. Wright, 8.A., to the apmer'petual tural system, instead of increasing the intellectual light and a half, with American papers to the 6th instant. of the country, it has been doing what I am sure many of curacy of St. Mary, Quarry-hill, Leeds ; Rey. R. D. The most important news by this arrival consists of the , Kennicott, incumbent of Horton, near Blyth, to Trinity those that are joined in it delight in, bringing darkness formation of the new cabinet, and the delivery of the in. I Church, Stockton ; Rev. C. D. Rees, of Park, Carmarl over darkened man, and creating a greater state of igno augural address by the new President, James K. Polk , ! thenshire, to the vicarage of Llanworthol, Brecon; Rev. ranee than that which had previously existed." who took the oath of office. at Washington, on the 4th !J. C. Cradles, M.A •to the incumbency of Oakworth, I Hear his lordship's testimony as to the much vaunted astant, in the presence of congregated thousands. , united education "attained by the board. " I,Ve have Yorkshire; Rev. B. Wake, M.A , late curate of Stokes- The President commences his address, which occupies evidence that the National Board has perfectly and entirely ley, and son of Dr. Wake of Warwick, to the vicarage of _ New York papers, with Ketton with Tixover curacy, Rutland ; Rev. li. Haw- I failed in united education. There is no such thing as ...e for having been chosen to his . thorii, M.A. to the vicarage of Stapleford, Cambridge- united education under that board—(hear, hear, hear). _._... Lie then enumerates the principles by which 1 shire ; Rev. W. Whitter, M.A., to the rectory of Brid- On an examination that was made of all the National his administrative policy is to be glided. The constitu- , ford, Devon ; Rev. W. Holmes, 8.A., to the rectory of 'schools that are in the diocese of Meath, it was found that lion, he says, Witt be the chart by which he shall be di- I Osmondiston, alius Scole ; Hey. J. M. Hawker, B A I there were not above five or six National schools that had rected. He enlarges upon the blessings secured to the I to the incumbency of the district church of St. John th . e , I more than six or eight Protestants in them, and in that United States by the federal union, and declares that it I Apostle and Evangelist, at Tipton, in the parish of Ottery ! large district of country, which has been carefully inves is a sacred duty to perpetuate that union, believing that St. Mary ; Rev. R. E. Kerrich, M.A., to the vicarage of I tigated, united education is not be found in the schools of any attempt to disturb or destroy the terms of the exist-the National board—(hear, hear). And now, perhaps, it Pampisford, Cambridge; hey ' . Dr. Goodenough to the ing compact would lead to none other than the most ruin -may be answered that this arises from the hostility and rectory of Broughton, Oxfordshire; Rev. W. Layney, ous and disastrous consequences. He promises to re- opposition given to the National Board by the clergy of M.A., late curate of Scrubby, Lincolnshire, to the curacy commend to Congress, and, as far as his executive is the establishment • but that is a false answer. They have of Overstone, Northamptonshire ; Rev. C. M. Lair, concerned, to enforce by all the means within his power, I 8.A., to the rectors , of Charlton Musgrove; Rev. C. T. tried the National ' education where the clergy of the Es the strictest economy in the expenditure of the public I tablished Church had not influence—they have tried it in Penrose, M.A , to the office of head master of Sherburne money, which may be compatible with the public inte- I School, vacant ' by the retirement of the R ev . D r . L yon ; the north, amongst the Presbyterians, and there, I say, rest. He anticipate s th e ti me w h en t h e d e b t, wh i ch has I Rev. W. Y. Smythies, to the vicarage of Shilbottle, Nor- ' there is abundant evidence to show that the National grown out of the circumstances of the last few years, may I thumberland, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Cook • Board has not produced united education—(hear, hear). be speedily paid off; and he congratulates his fellow-citi- Amongst the Presbyterian schools and the Catholic Rev. B. Gilpin, to the vicarage of Stanwick St. John, government on the entire restoration of the credit of the generalschools in the north there is a distinct education. I was near Darlington ; Rev. J. Bateson, B.A , late curate of government of the Union, and that of many of the States. Parish church, Oldham, ' to the incumbency ' of Laithkirk. anxious to be able to give some evidence on this subject, " Happy," lie adds, " would it be for indebted States, if 'and I thought it likely the hs in e north, under they were freed from their li a biliti es , many o f w hi ch were Dr. T ur t on , D ean o f W estm i nster, has been appointed the pat s of the Presbyterian secretary ool th of the National incautiously contracted. Although the government of to the vacant Bishopric of Ely. , board, would the Union is neither in a l ega l nor a mora l sense bound T he requisition to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford in exhibit in its , peraps, be than an othr to best features a more sch likely ool under the y National for the debt of the States, and it would be a violatio n condemnation of Tract 90 has received nearly 700 signa- Board---(hear, hear). I requested that that school and of our compact of union to assume them, yet we -cannot , tures. the school under the board in Armagh should he visited, but feel a deep interest in seeing all the States meet their THE REV. ROBERT MONTGOMERY.—The congregation and I can state this as the result. When the Rev. Robt. public liabilities, a n d p a y o ff th e i r j us t d e bt s , a t the earliest of Percy Chapel have recently presented to their pastor, Hay, the curate of Armagh, visited the school in that practical period." With reference to taxation, he ob. Mr. Montgomery, a purse of £2OO. town, under the patronage of Archbishop Crolly, a few serves that " Justice an d soun d po li cy f or bid the federal months ago, there was not one Protestant (Episcopalian ETON COLLEGE —Tt i • venerable seat of learning never government to foster one branch of industry to the detri- was in ' such a highly ' flourishing'.,f ,youths s state no w as within a t its p r e w s a e l n l t 1 or Presbyterian) in it. So far there is not united educa rnent of another, or to cherish the interests of one pot- lion under it—(hear, hear)—and when he last visited the moment. The number lion to the injury of another portion of our common National school, under the patronage of Dr. Henry, there amount to 736, showing 3- increase, during the past ten s ' country. 1 have heretofore declared to my fellow citizens beingrs, of nearly 300 pupils, the number in college in 1835 I that, in 'my judgment, it is the duty of the governmentwas not a Roman Catholic in it. That is the state of the 1 school under Dr. Henry, one of the Commissioners of only 446. to extend, as far as it may be practicable to do so, by its , 1 Education—l believe the Presbyterian secretary of the revenue laws, and all other means within its power, fair INNOVATIONS ATHILLSBOROUGH.—Archdeacon Merit National Board, or, at least, he is one of the Presbyterian and just protection to all the great interests of the Union, l having expressed his determination to continue the sur- commissioners—there was not a Roman Catholic in it. I PROJECTED RA ILW AYS.—The Board of Trade have embracing agriculture, manufactures, the mechanic arts, i Marquis of Da r y ns hi ra h as remove d hi s pew furniture puce practice in the ch urc h serv i ce a t Hill s b oroug h , the commerce and navigation.' I h ave a l so d ec l are d my , i There was not one Ro ma n C a th o li c i n t h e N at i ona l B oar d !notified their intention of reporting to parliament in fa , school, under one of their own commissiones, and not o n e ! your o f t h e E astern C ount i es —B randon and Peterbo opinion to be 'in favour of a t ar iff f or revenue, ' and that and on S un d ay wee k att 'tided Divine worship in the I Protestant in the Roman Catholic school under Arch- 1 rough Deviation ; West London—Thames Extension ; 'in adjusting the details of such a tariff, I have sanctioned parish church of Lisburn. bishop Crolly—(hear, hear). There is a specimen of the 1 Newcastle and Darlington—and Brandling Junction Ex such moderate discriminating duties as would produce the On the 14th ult., the Rev. J. H. Macguire, minister of united education that has been displayed before us by the tensions ; Ashton, Stalybridge, and Liverpool Junction— amount of revenue needed, and, at the same time, afford St. Luke's, Claorlton-upon-Medlock, had made to him, National Board. I ask, then, why did not Dr. Henry Ardwick Extension; Manchester South Junction and reasonable incidental protection to our home industry,' by his congregation, a, tokens of affection, the following work out the system of united education, and give us a Altrincham ; Manchester and Birmingham—Macclesfield and, that I was ' opposed to a tariff for protection merely, interesting presentations :—First, a splendid set of books, good National school, with fair united education ? Be- Extension and Junction Line with the Sheffield and Man and not revenue.' He contends that all home interests consisting of Bible and Common Prayer for the reading cause, under the circumstances, it is impossible—it is as chester ; Midland Railway—Darfield to Worsborough ; should, as far as practicable, be equally protected, and that ; desk ; two books for the communion table, and Common complete an ignis faiutes as any man can run after, and 1 Midland Railway—Darfield to El secar ; Midl an d R a il way I to tax one branch of this home i n d ustry f or t h e b enefit of 1 Prayer for the clerk's desk. The books are of the most there cannot be a greater piece of deception than this —Chevit to Horbury ; Midland Railway—Okenshaw to another would be unjust. He thinks that in exercising a beautiful description. attempt at united educ a tio n ." I Wakefield ; Midland Railway—Ambergate to Crich ; LORD IIEYTESBUR sound discretion in l ev yi ng di scr i m i nat i ng duties within Y'S CHURCH APPOI NTMENTS .— We are glad to say th a t a lth oug h th e £9OOO , on the London and Brighton—Horsham Branch ; Harwich the a l ma nneimit prescribo ,care should belthy take few. n th at the e at it be do nnsee The Rev. Henry Griffin, who is represe n t e d t o b e a collection of which, withi n the ye a r, th e D ean o f L e i g h - Railway and Pier ; Richmond (Yorkshire) Railway ; inr not t benefit the weaxpe staunch liberal in politics, and a decided supporter of the lin promised a donation of £lOOO, had not quite been Hull and Bridlington Branch : Middlesborough and Red of the toiling millions, by taxing lowest the luxuries of national system of education, has been appointed one of raised, the worthy dean sent a check for the amount of ' car;—and against the Dartford and Rumford ; Eastern life, or articles of superior quality and high price, which the chaplains of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Takin g . his munificent contributio n . Counties—Cambridge and Bury St. Edmund ' s Exten can only be consumed by the wealthy; and highest the this appointment in conjunctien with the recent promo- I stun ; West London—Knightsbridge Extension ; Ashton, necessaries of life, or articles of coarse quality and low tion to a similar dignity of the Rev. Daniel Bagot, vicar I Stalybridge, and Liverpool Junction—Guidebridge Ex price, which the poor and the great mass of the people of Newry, it is now 'manifest that the friends qmte of . THE COURT 4 , - FASHIONABLE WORLD. tension ; Kentish Coast Railway ; Huddersfield and must consume. He expresses himself favourable to the I scriptural education need expect but little encouragement ' Manchester ; Harwich Railway ; Harwich and Colches annexation of Texas. He says " the Republic of Texas , from Lord Heytesbury. The Queen and Prince Albert remained at Windsor ter; Ipswich and Harwich ;—and recommending the has made known her desire to come into our Union, to 1 until Saturday, when they left for Osborne House, Isle I postponement until a future period of the Colchester form a part of our confederacy, and enjoy with us the bless- a of Wight, where the royal party will stay until to-day. Junction, Harrogate and Ripon Junction, Leeds and ings of liberty, secured and guaranteed by our constitution. 1 IRE LAN D. On Tuesday, her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Thirsk, York and North Midland and Harrogate. In Texas was once apart of our country —was unwisely ceded I away to a foreign po wer —i t i s now i ndependent, and pos- Stephanie of Baden, the B aroness d e S turm f e d er, an d Friday's Gazette appears a further notification intention from the Roth de Schreck to report to Parliament in favour of the I3irken enstein, arrived at Windsor Board of Trade, in which they announce their seises an undoubted r i g h t to di spose of a part or the Y ester d ay wee k , s i x men were drowned in Lough the Baron whole of her te rr it ory , an d to merge her sovereignty, as a I Erne, Ulster, by the upsetting o f a b oat . Th ey were Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. separate and indepe n d en t sta t e , i n ours. I congratulate head, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, Chest er an d It is confidently rumoured in th e cour t c i rc l es t h at h er j crossing the lough to an illicit still. Majesty contemplates giving a magnificent fete at Buck- • Birkenhead Extension, Blackburn and Freston—Alters- United States, the assent of this Government has been Monday at that port. She sank on being burnt to the Nuneaton, Eastern Comities—Finsbury Extension, Hud equal in splendour the gorgeous bat masoue". given to the re-union ; and it only remains for the two 1 waters edge. dersfield and Sheffield Junction, Lancaster and Carlisle— countries to agree upon the terms, to consummate an ob- I ALLEG E D MURDER.—JOhn M'Carthy, alias Cornelius THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO I RE L AND .—It i s st a ted that Deviation in parish of Kendal, Lancaster and Carlisle— ject so important to both." He regards the question of i Riordan, who was arrested in Liverpool in September the day for the departure of the Queen from England for Branch to Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Lancaster and annexation as belonging exclusively to the United States 1 last for a homicide committed in Cork, has been tried at the sister country at present stand s fix e d f o r the 28th of Carlisle—Scotforth to Slyne, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and and Texas, and says that "foreign powers should look on I the Cork assizes and acquitted. May. It is not yet, however, decided whether the royal North Shields —Tynemouth Extension and New-quay the annexation of Texas to the United States, not as the Party will sail from Holyhead or the Thames. If the Branch, North Union Extension to the ricer Ribble, At Kilkenny assizes, last week, Patrick Larkin was of a nation seeking to extend her dominions by . •latter, the landing will be probably be made at Cork. If Sheffield and Rotherham—Branch to the Sheffield and victed of putting oil of vitriol into flour made at a mill in arms and violence, but as the peaceful acquisition of a . the former port be selected, of course the direct line to Manchester Railway, Norwich and Brandon—Extension territory once her own, by adding another member to ou r ! which he was employed. plan of injuring him and his: he had a spite against the head Kingstown will be adopted. into Norwich, York and North Midland—Bridlington confederation, with the consent of that member—therebymiller, and adopted this master. Heyear'sThe Queen of Sp a i n h as sen t t o thi s coun t ry , as a B ranc h ; aga i ns t th e Li verpoo l an d Manchester—Rain diminishing th e c h ances o f war, and opening to them new was sentenced to one imprisonm en t. and ever-in creas i ng mar k ets f or their products. To Texas , The annual procession of teetotallers took place in present to our Sovereign, a beautif u l A n d a lu s i an h ors e. forth a nd Li v erpool B ranc h, Ch es t er an d P reston B rook, the re-union is important; b ecause t h e strong protecting I Dublin on Monday. There was the usua l di sp l ay o f Sir Robert Peel _Manor. wick, Great North of England—Cla renc e an d H ar tl epoo l arrived at his residence in Whitehall- Eastern Counties—Thames J unc ti on an d N or th Wool arm& of our gove rnmen t wou ld b e extended over her, and I bands, banners, flags, wands, c., but the n um b er o f gardens on Friday, from Drayton Junction—Extension and Branches, Grand Junction— and the vast resources of her fertile soil and genial climate adults taking part in the proceeding showed a considera- The Earl of Derby, who is in greatly improved health, would be speedily developed ; while the safety of New ble decrease. The majority consisted of little boys, a has arrived in Grosvenor-square from Knowsley Park. ' Friar's Park to Dudley Branch, London and Gravesend, via North Woolwich ; and they recommend the postpone- Orleans, and of our whole south-western frontier, against large portion of them without shoes or stockings. The The Queen Dowager is expected to arrive at Marlbo- went until a future period of the Liverpool, Ormskirk, hostile aggression, as well as the interests of the whole streets were crowded by holiday folk in the route of the rough House to-morrow, from Willey Court, for the i and Preston, Southport and Euston, Preston Brook and Union, would be promoted by it. None can fail to see procession. season. I Runcorn Junction, Epping, Grand Junction—Potteries the danger to our safety and future peace, if Texas re- PRESBYTERIANS V. MAyNoortn—The Presbyterians The Marquis of Salisbury left Hatfield House, Herts, Branch. mains an independent State, or becomes an ally or aspen- ,of Ulster are at length taking the field against May nooth. i n th e early part of last week to visit the Duke of Rutland, Shortly a train will be started which will run the whole dency of some foreign nation more powerful than herself. I The following resolution has been adopted by the presby- at Belvoir Castle. distance, 1121 miles, between London and Birmingham Perceiving no valid objection to the measure, and many tery of Coleraine :—" That this presbytery, sensible of reasons for its adoption, vitally affecting the peace, the the danger to which the interests of Scripture truth, and The Marquis of Westminster returned to Grosvenor-tin three hours. This company seems determined not to square on . Friday from Holcombe House, near Shaftee- i be outdone in affording accommodation to the public. safety, and the prosperity of both countries, I shall, on of civil and religious liberty, are exposed in this and other b usual 1- ury, where his lordship has been staying a few days. I The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway pays its d• the bread principle which formed the basis and produced countries by the rapid advancement of Popery, and alarm. bury, of 5 per cent per annum. The revenue of the the adoption of our constitution, and not in any narrow ed by the recent announcement of the intention of her The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Grand spirit of sectional policy, endeavour, by all constitutional, Majesty's ministers, in relation to the College of May- Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz are about to company i has considerably .. improved during the last 12 honourable, and appropriate means, to consummate the nooth, and other measures calculated to give increased honour the Duke of Rutland with a visit to Belvoir Castle. months, s showing an n in , cr i ea 2 se ,s o , f l upwards of £10,900, a goods £52 745. pas will of the people and government of the United States, power and influence to the church of Rome, do immedi- PRINCE ALBERT AND THE DUKE OF ROTHESAY.—It , s d engers havingfares re h t a u s r d ,d 8 t and by the re•annexation of Texas to our Union at the earliest ately petition both houses of parliament on the subject." may not be generally known that his Royal HighnesS the I and d aon in the interest ares muchaccotionnteti,e osecure this better ' traffic, company has been reduced period. Nor will it become in a less degree my duty to THE KILKENNY BANQUET.—On Tuesday Mr. O'Con- Prince. of Wales is Duke of Rothesay, as well as Duke of assert and maintain, by constitutional means, the right of Cornwall, and which it would appear, from the following by renewing old obligations at more advantageous rates. nail entered Kilkenny in triumph, and was entertained at the United States to that portion of our territory whichincident which has recently occurred, was either unknown According to the report laid before the shareholders of dinner "within the walls," says a contemporary, " of a lies beyond the rocky mountains." lie goes on to say temple dedicated and consecrated to the service of the to or forgotten by his royal father. One morning a card the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, the works of the that the title of the states to the country of the Oregon is li •was presented at Buckingham Palace to his Royal High- God." We must observe, that • ma clear and unquestionable, and that every obligation im- Th e I considering the late severity of the weather. It is ap v pea ' rs to have had some effect upon the Titulars; as not ness Prince Albert,. upon which was engraved " . ex posed by treaty or conventional stipulations should be Duke of Rothesay,'' and an audience solicited. His Pettedthe ofwillopened. one of their Eminences, their Graces, their Lordships, or pecte that whole the line be in May, sacredly respected. In the management of foreign rela tions, royal highness seemed puzzled, and repeated the name s ventured to sanction the unholy proceedings with hisbut the question of amalgamation with the Midland and e Companies remains for tions, his aim will be to obs e rve a careful respect for the s sence ; and the Lamb of Longford, the Dove of El- several times, saying he did not recollect ever having 1 rights of other nations, while the rights of the States will presence; and the Lion of the Fold of Judah, were too busily beard of such a nobleman, but he consented to give the the Manchester and Birmingham 1 settlement by the decision of parliament. As far as traffic be the subject of his constant watchfulness. He declares l) 'engaged with their spiritual duties to share in the s iritul required audience, and ordered the Duke of Rothesay to . has been yet developed, the results are held to be satis that no opportunity will be lost of cultivating a favourable ous devotions of the evening. The elite of the companyP be shown in, when he was agreeably surprised by the en- 1 factory. The receipts for the half-year ending December understanding with foreign governments ; and, he con -trance of the heir apparent, attired in full highland cos- ! last were £18,503 1-Is. 100., and the expenses of working, were strangers and foreigners to Kilkenny, comprising eludes by supplicating the Divine Being to continue to the standard agitators of the Corn Exchange, aid the ' fume, attended by her Majesty's piper. The above amu- : £9,340 15s. 31-d., leaving a balance of £9,162 19s• ad• in bless the people and the land. dis-interested proprietors of the repeal press. sing incident was productive of considerable entertainment I favour of the company. The gross amount of expen- The following is a list of Mr. Polk's new cabinet. It to the royal circle. I dilute on the works of the line has been £1,139,709, and AWFUL DEPRAVITY.—On the 21st ult. an inquest was seems to have displeased the friends of Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Calhoun :—Jame s B uc h anan , Secretary of St a t e; held at Bandon (County C or k), on t h e b o d y o f a woman the balance at the bankers' is now £32,215. Th e pro , William who was burnt to d ea th w hil st i n a state of i ntoxication. Robert J. Walke r , S ecre t ar y o f the Treasury posed extensions are to be prosecuted b e f ore th e Legis • L. Marcy, Secretary of War; George Bancroft, Secr - e - - A man named Kelly, who li ve d w ith t h e d eceased as her SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. lature with all due vigour, an d th e di rectors appear to show a very friendly feeling to all neighb our i ng i nterests. tart' of the Navy; Cave Johnson, Postmaster Ge nera l ; husband, and who inform e d o f h er death, was asked by MANCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING. CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.—On Satur- Mr. Saunders, Attorney General. the coroner what he had to say for himself. He said that his name was William Kelly ; that he was a pen- A very thin attendance, and, except- one or two unim- day the adjourned general meeting of this company was An attempt was made to assassinate Sergeant Hallen ortant bets upon the Chester Cup, there was no business , held at the Clarendon•rooms. Ira the absence of Mr. W. beck, of the district police, in the streets of New York. stoner, and received a pension of Is. 4d. per day; that I ) • be ' Jackson (who has to Italy for couple ofmonths, flirted received two powerfully dealt blows on the back, in- he was discharged from the 59th Regiment, in August, transacted ; consequently no correct quotations can ' gone a packet-ship sailed. s i ster; that she was a married woman; that her husband flicted by a slung shot, b u t was recover i ng when the fourteen years ago; th a t th e d ecease d woman was his given. f or t h e b ene fi t o f hi s h ea l t h) , M r. C . Bentham, as senior BETTING AT director, took the chair. After a fe w wor d s f rom t h e I was alive ; that she b a d severa l c hild ren b her husband TATTERSALL'S—THURSDAY. i chairman, and the reading of the m i nu t es o f t h e l ast that she was separated from h er husband y for the last ; I 2,000 GUINEAS STAKES . meeting, Mr. Cochrane handed in the f o llo w i ng repor t seven years; that for that period s h e li ve d w i t h hi m ( t h e ; sto 2 ags t L or d S tra db roke ' s Idas (taken) from the committee appointed to nego t i a t e w i t h t h e prisoner) as his wife ; that they li ve d t oge th er as man an d 3 1 C o l one l Anson's Kedger (taken) j Chester and Holyhead Company t—" Your comm itt ee , wife; knows that it was because aand would not live with of the life that h e an d I before entering into any negcciation with th e Ch ester an d the deceased led, that he r I Holyhead Railway Company, earefully i nves ti ga t e d a ll t h e hus' facts bearing upon the measure proposed to b e carr i e d her. Deceased was o ver 60 y ears o f age. S uc h revolting I ' into effect by the bill of the Cheste r an d Holyhead Ra , i d l- , depravity produced th e mos t mar k e d sensat i on of disgust 1 vei and abhorrence in all pr esen t ; an d the coroner expressed way Company s u b m itt e d t o th e meet i ng , an d they arrived, without hesitation, at the conclu s io n th a t no equ it a bl e or his regret that he had it not i n hi s power to i n fli ct upon legal obligation existed on the one com p an y t o se ll, or on the prisoner such punishme n t as hi s a l most un h eard-of depravity deserved. The man h a d b ecn ta k en up on sus- j the other to purchase, the Chest er an d Bi r k en h ea d Rail !way ; and that, if this co m p an y o p pose d t h e bill , i t wou ld picion, but there was no r ea s o n t o suspec t h e h a d i n j ured the woman. , not be passed into a law. The co mm itt ee , h owever , were desirous of avoiding all unnecessary conflict with the Chester and Holyhead Company, and made such an offer to that company (without prejudice to any questions pending if it were not accepted) as the committee thought was likely to meet with your approval. It was based, not upon what the railway might be worth to the Chester and Holyhead Company, but upon what it was worth, on a moderate computation, to you. The offer was rejected by the Chester and Holyhead Railway Directors, and it now remains for the committee to recommend you to strenuously resist the proposed bill, and immediately to petition parliament, under the seal of the company, against it. The directors may be respectfully requested to take such steps for carrying into effect the views of the proprietors as expressed in this report, if you should ap- This meeting took place over the extensive grounds of prove of the recommendation contained in it."—Mr. I Thomas Clifton, Esq., Lytham-hall, on Wednesday and Cochrane, after a few remarks, moved a resolution embo- Thursday last. The hares did not run so well as usual, dying the substance of the report, which was seconded by but owing to the lateness of the season, there was a greater I Mr. Paxton.—Sir Joshua • Walmsley said, that after what difficulty in getting near them ; for th ey o f ten starte d off had been done by the directors, he did not see how the when the coursers were two or three fields' breadth from I meeting could now ask the directors to oppose an amal them. Several young hares were se e n d ur i ng th e sport. gamation to which they were parties. Their prospects On Wednesday, thirty-two hares were killed, and on were excellent, and he considered every share worth Thursday thirty fell a prey to the dogs. J. Emmott, B. double £33 6s. Bd. He could not remain a director to Robinson, J. King, J. Atkinson, J. Sutcliffe, W. Peacock, carry out the proposition suggested in the report.—Mr. and R. Dickson, Esqrs., officiated as stewards, and Mr. Potter said he did not ask the meeting to exempt him Watson as judge. The following are the returns : I from opposing the bill, for he would not oppose it, but THE GREAT CLIFTON Cue: £5 10s. EACH.—Mr. I would do all he could to forward the amalgamation. Arden's Matchless beat Mr. Robinson's Tyrant; Mr: I (Hear, hear.) And he would tell them why. He was Lamb's Lecture beat Mr. Coupe's - Major ; Mr. Clark's present when the proposal was first made for an amalga- Cumberland beat Mr. Bake's Highflyer ; Mr. Thomas's mation, or, rather, a sale of this company. The proposal Tip beat Mr. Emmott's Orlando; Mr. Peacock's Hum- was made, not by the Holyhead Company, but by parties phrey's Clock beat Mr. Atkinson's Sultan ; Mr. Rodgett's on behalf of the Chester and Birkenhead Company, and a Whiskey beat Mr. Sutcliffe's Scut ; Mr. Clark's Young price was named. If the price had been payable in Lill beat Mr. Bake's Kotzebue • Mr. Deakin's Derwent Cheste r an d H o l y h ea d stoc k , w hi c h b ecame changed i n beat Mr. Robinson's Rockett.—Second Ties : Matchless consequence of subsequent occurrences, it would be quite beat Lecture, Cumberland beat Tip. Whiskey beat Hum- reasonable to say " this ought to be a matter of fresh phrey's Clock, Young Lill beat Derwent.—Third Ties: bargain," but a fixed price was made, £33 6s. Bd., which Matchless beat Cumberland, Young Lill beat Whiskey. was at the time 10 per cent. above the market value of — Upping: Young Lill beat Matchless. the stock. (" No, no.") This arrangement was sub- THE LYTHAM Puppy Cop : £3 lOs. NACII.—Mr. mitted to a meeting of shareholders, and confirmed. He Unsworth's Unus beat Mr. Duckworth's Smoker; Mr. believed all these facts would come out before Parlia- Sutcliffe's Whiskey beat Mr. Thomas's Linnet •. Mr. ment ; but, at all events, aware as he was of all the cir- Brook's Bonnet beat Mr. Cl ar k' s L ancas hi r e; Mr. Bake's cumstances, he could not be a consenting party to the Bolivar beat Mr. Deakin's Priam Junior; Mr. H. Horn- abrogation of the bargain. He did not refer to the law by's Haphazard beat Mr. Cl ar k' s Young Lottery; Mr. of the case. All he said was that the bargain was such a Bake's Butterfly beat Mr. Sutcliffe's Barmaid ; Mr. bargain as, haying been for some considerable number of Simpson's Gin beat Mr. Robi nson ' s Phoebe; Mr. King's years acquainted with mercantile affairs, he should feel Blossom beat Mr. Morning's Duchess.—Second Ties: bound to fulfil, and that he should not venture to show Unus beat Whiskey, Bonnet beat B o livar, Haphazard his face on the Exchange of Liverpool if he refused to do beat Butterfly, Gin beat Blossom.—Third Ties : Bonnet so. (" Hear !" and cheers.) He concluded by pro beat Unus, Gin beat Haphazard.—Upping : Gin beat posing the following amendment :—" That a petition be Bonnet. presented to the House of Commons in favour of the THE TALBOT STAKES.—Mr. Clark's Derbyshire beat Chester and Holyhead bill, as it now stands for the alnal- Mr. Coupe's Mat; Mr. Bake's Zurich beat Mr. Era- gamation, or sale, and that the seal of the company be rnott's Ariel • Mr. Branwood's Blair Athol beat Mr. affixed to it."—Mr. J. Laird seconded the amendment. — King's Blackberry ; Mr. Ardern's Brenda beat Mr. Pea- Mr. Swinton Boult said, that the report of the committee ; cock's Alice Mr. Ardern's Monsoon beat Mr. King's w as very unsatisfactory, because it gave no reasons why Alfred; Mr. Bake's Brunette beat Mr. Atkinson's Dart ; so unfavourable an, opinion was entertained of the amal- Mr. Dorning's Douro beat Mr. Brooke's Dusty ; Mr. gamation. He conceived that the company were honora- Clark's Lune be a t Mr. Emmott's Stella; Mr. Thomas's bly bound to fulfil the contract which had been entered Topper beat M r . Noblett's Headstrong; Mr. Rodgett's into with the Holyhead Company, because at several Madeira beat Mr. Sutcliffe's Sweep.—Second Ties : Zu- , meetings of the Chester and Birkenhead proprietary, :the rich beat Derbyshire, Blair Athol beat Brenda, Brunette ' latter had not questioned their obligation to fulfil the con. beat Monsoon, Lune ran a bye ; Topper beat Madeira.-- tract.—Mr. Tornkinson, as one of the committee, s , id Third lies: Zurich beat Blair Athol, Lune beat Brunette, they had investigated the whole business, and though it Topper ran a bye.—Upping: Lune beat Topper. would be impolitic to enter into details, he assured the RIBBLE PUPPY Cup.—Mr. Lamb's Lecture beat Mr. shareholders that the Birkenhead line was fully and com- Suteliffe's Whiskey ; Mr. Ki ng ' s Blackberry beat Mr. p l etely their own. There was no contract to repudiate, Emmott's Orlando ; M r . D uc k wor th' s Smoker beat Mr. and if the bill now present was not approved of there was King's Alfred; Mr. Robinson's Phoebe beat Dr. Dorn- an end of the matter. In reply to a question from a pro ing's Duchy.--Second Ties: Lecture beat Blackberry, prietor, whether the 6,000 shares (which it was said the Pheoebe beat Smoker.—Upping : Phoebe beat Lecture. shareholders were to have the option of taking in the f two columns of the an expression of gratitud new office MESSAGE KENDAL STEEPLE CHASE. This chase, which was intended as an indemnity to the Westmorland sporting community for the disappointment recently sustained at an intended stag bunt, the particu lars of which we gave at the time, came off on Tuesday last, on admirably-selected ground, about two miles south-east of the town of Kendal. The stake was twenty sovereigns, the winner to pay all incidental expenses. Seven horses were entered, and started. The first four came in as follows : Mr. G. Gelderd's grey gelding, Charles 1 Mr. R. Remington's brown colt, Jonathan...... 2 Mr. James Holme's Engineer .. . Mr. Logan's brown mare...... The other three acquitted themselves but; indifferently. The race was well contested. GRAND MILITARY STEEPLE-CHASES AT NORTHAMPTON.—THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 15 sous each, h ft, 12st 71b each. 3 miles. Mr. Barnett's Boxkeeper .. (Captain Coles) 1 Captain Powell', Regalia Sir G. Harripson's I'll-see-you-through-it (owner) 3 Captain Hamilton's Catterpillar . Seventeen other horses started. Regalia was winning in a canter, but fell at a brook near the finish. Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, list 7lb each. 3 miles. Captain Powell's Cinderella (owner) 1 Mr. Benson nd Pickwick (Mr. Little) 2 Lord W. Paulett's The Pony (Captain Kennedy) 3 Eight other horses started. A ROYAL PRIVATE SOLDIER.—The King of Sweden has issued an order of the day to his army, announcing that his youngest son, Nicholas Augustus, has entered the service as a private soldier in the Norwegian Chasseurs. ICHABOE.—The " deposits" are exhausted, the " bank" is broken, and " no effects" is the answer returned to every ship which now visits the island. We saw a letter yester day, written from Ichaboe, on the Ist ult., by a ship captain. He had not been able, he said, to raise a single ounce of guano.— Gateshead Observer. CHESTER. CUP. 8 to 1 agst the Irish lot. 12 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Obscurity (taken) 16 1 Mr. W. H. Johnstone's The Era 25 1 Mr. Bell's Winesour (taken) 25 1 Duke of Richmond's Strahsphey (taken) 28 1 Mr. Stebbings's Celeste (taken) 33 1 Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland 40 1 Mr. Irwin's Pride of Kildare (taken) 45 1 Mr. Irwin's Patriot (taken) 1000 1 Mr. Irwin's Faugh-a-Ballagh (taken) 4000 —BO lioe's lot—Cabin Boy, Young England, Peter the Hermit, and Gorhambury (tk) Offers to take 11 to 1 about Semiseria ; with the excep tion of that agst Roe's lot, the bets quoted as taken were in small sums. The Mercure of Orthez (Basses Pyrenees) states that on the 17th inst., as the ferry-boat was crossing the river Gave, at Athos, with eight persons and a number of cattle, going to the market at Labastide, it was upset from being overloaded, and of the passengers were drowned. One of the two who were saved owed his life to holding by the horns of one of the oxen. IRISH CHURCH EDUCATION SOCIETY On Thursday, the annual meeting of this admirable society was held in Dublin, when most excellent addresses were delivered by the Bishops of Kildare and Cashel, Lord Bernard, Sir F. Shaw, the Hon. S. Maxwell, &c., &e. The report of the speeches occupies nearly eleven columns in the Dublin Mail; but we are compelled to limit our notice of the meeting to a very brief space. We are happy to congratulate the society itself on the success which has attended its labours, and the country at large on the existence of a society whose system of education is really effective of united education, on a plan which, sustaining the rights and utility of the Established Church, embraces all other religious denominations in its universal beneficence. WOLVES IN FRANCE.—One day in the last month two men and two women went from the hamlet of Genestouse to the church of St. Haon (Haute Loire) with a new born child to be christened. The ceremony performed, they all set out on their return home, but stopped on the r way at a public-house to take some refreshment. The women afterwards, as the night was coming on, and the ground covered with snow, walked on, leaving the men to follow them, which they promised to do as soon as they had finished their bottle. Thit was soon done, and the men started, but instead of overtaking the women, mak ing the best of their way home, they found their bodies, and that of the infant, all dead, and horribly torn and mangled by a flock of wolves that had come down upon them.—Galignani's Messenger. The Derby betting was too insignificant to admit of a quot ation. M r. Scott, to whose accident we advert( d a few days since, has had a relapse ; and, although not in actual danger, is unable to leave his room, or attend to business. THE FINISH LYTHAM COURSING MEETING. The return of schools and the rolls of the pupils exhibit the gradual and steady progress of the system from 1839 when the society numbered 43,627 children, taught in 825 schools—to 1814, when the schools have increased to 1820, and the number of pupils to 103,883. Of this vast number, one-seventh appear to be Protestant Dissenters, and one-third Roman Catholics ; the former amounting to 13,510—the latter to 32,963. Meanwhile this society receives not one farthing of the public money from a government professing itself favourable to united educa tion ; whilst £75,000 per annum is lavished on a system almost exclusively Roman Catholic. In the course of the Bishop of Cashel's speech, he said, adverting to the amount of education afforded by the National Board, " I dare say there are a great num her of gentlemen here who conceive that, whether it is good or evil, the National Board of Education has greatly increased the quantity of education in Ireland within the three years that it has been in operation ; whereas, if we can trust to returns that have been made to parliament on the subject, the National Board of Education has been the means of destroying education in Ireland—of what- ever kind it is to an immens • extent. (Hear, hear.) I will just now show what I make that statement from. In an almanack published by the Queen's printers, there is a great deal of very useful information, furnished to the government. In the year 1750, there were 63 out of every hundred of the male population who could neither read nor write. In 1790, those that could neither read nor write had come down to 48. In 1830, they had come down to 35. (Hear, hear.) You all know that down to 1830, and about that time, there was the Kildare-place Society, and the London Hibernian Society, and schools under the association. There were also a great host of hedge-schools, very bad schools, where the scholars were taught to read Freney, the robber, and other very bad books ; but at that time the number of those that could not read or write were about thirty-five out of a hundred of the males—that is, more than one-half of the males could read and write. (Hear, hear.) Well, the National Board was set up in 1831, arid in 1835, under its opera tion, the numbers that could neither read nor write came up to -12 out of the hundred—(hear, hear)—and by the last census, in 1841, under the fostering care of the National Board, and with all their thousands to carry out education, the number that could neither read nor write had ',mounted to i 6 out of the hundred. (Hear, hear,) So that, in short, this redoubtable board, putting down, as it has done, the Kildare-place Society, the Lon don Hibernian Society, the Association Schools, and the whole host of hedge schools, has, at an immense expen diture, increased the ignorance of the country in an im mense degree. According to that statement, out of above eight millions there are now only of males and fe males, 1,411,371 that can read and write. ( Hear. ) PERILS OF THE GUANO TRADE.—The South African Advertiser, of December IS, contains details of the cap ture and destruction by the Moors of a portion of the crews of the ships Margaret and Courier, of London, while in search of guano at the island of Arguin, on the coast of Africa. Captain Northwood, of the Margaret, and Captain Wishart, of the Jane, who had fallen in with each other at the island, went on shore, at Arguin, in boats, but found no guano. They were chased by the Moors in two boats. As they rounded the island they saw a town and a battery. Another larger boat put off and joined the chase. In a sudden squall Capt. Northwood's boat was upset and sunk, and the pirates picked up him and his crew, almost tearing him to pieces in their eager ness to possess themselves of his watch and apparel. They endeavoured to negociate for a ransom for Captain North wood, but the two ships suddenly departed, leaving him and his crew to their fate. Shortly afterwards the Courier hove in sight, when Captain Northwood found means to let her commander, Captain Wilson, know their situation. Captai❑ Wilson sent a quantity of tobacco and goods as ransom, but the treacherous Moors, watching for an un guarded moment, seized the goods and murdered the chief mate, Mr. Wilson, William Penny, George Jones, and the carpenter, and badly wounded William Hanney. The Advertiser does not give the sequel of the affair. RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE. LAW INTELLIGENCE. Tug REV. MR. MONCIETON.—The proceedings in the Court of Commission against this gentleman were re sumed on Thursday. T wo o f h is servants were ex amined, and denied the m a tt ers alleged by his accusers. Lady Galway, his mother, deposed to the morality of her son. She had never perceived any impropriety of con duct towards the servants. Several other witnesses gave similar testimony. After Mr. Doane's reply, the com missioners retired, and, having returned in about a quar ter of an hour, Dr. Lushington said th e comm i ss i oners must take time to consider their judgment ; but, as this was a subject of great importance, be would state gene rally the result of the opinion of the commissioners. They had decided upon acquitting Mr. Monckton of for nication and drunkenness ; but they had unanimously re solved to report that the rev gentleman had be en gu ilt y o f indiscretion, su c h as to bring discredit on th e c h urc h, especially as regar d e d S ara h Huggins, and as regar d e d hi s keepin g th ree young g i r l s i n hi s establishment. The bishop might take what ultimate measures he was advised on the report that would be made. FoREIGN AND COLONIAL UNITED STATES.-PRESIDENT'S Holyhead Company) formed any part of the bargain with the Holyhead Company, Mr. Mallaby said, that he, as law-clerk, felt in pretty much the predicament in which the committee felt themselves. Any general exposition of what bad taken place, or any disclosing of the case which induced the committee to come to their opinion, would be exceedingly impolitic. If they were to fight, they should not present their weapons in the first instance to their ad versary. (Applause.) If fighting was to be the course, then, even in so email a fact as that presented for his so lution, he would not enter into details. (Hear!) He be lieved that the reports and documents made at the time would be sufficient to show that the question about the £300,000 was di tinct from the question of the line, and that it formed, distinctively and substantively, no part of the bargain,—(applause) —though, as the whole matter had been brought before the proprietors at the same time, and might be considered to be concluded, the two nues tions, in that sense, might be said to have had a connexion. This would appear from the resolutions and report of the meeting. After a reply from Mr. Cochrane, who con tended that there was no contract in honour, law, or equity, the chairman put the amendment, when only ten hands were held up in favour of it.—Mr. Potter demanded a poll, which was accordingly taken, when there appeared—for the original motion (from which the recommendation to the directors to support the peti tion was expunged). 2,807; for the amendment, 257. — Mr. Potter, Sir J. Walmsley, Mr. John Laird, and Mr. W. Laird, then tendered their resignation as directors; but the Chairman said he did not feel called upon to fol low their example, as he considered himself a servant of the proprietors, and bound to execute their wishes.—The meeting soon after adjourned. GENERAL MISCELLANY. At Carmarthen assizes, on Tuesday, Thomas Thomas was found guilty of the wilful murder of David Lewis, and sentenced to death. The Times state that another Niger expedition has been organised, and is by this time far on the way to its desti nation. The Great Western sailed, on Saturday last, with a large number of passengers and a heavy mail, for New York. On Thursday a packet ship from America arrived at Portsmouth with another party of North American Indians, of the Ojibbeway and Odeanwan tribes. The Whitehaven Gas Company have resolved to reduce the price of gas from eight shillings to four shillings per thousand feet. Boz, it is said, has quarrelled with his publi-hers, Messrs. Chapman and Hall, and intends to start a maga zine of his own. A continental meteorologist has predicted an unusually warm summer for 1845, because the spots on the sun are diminishing in size! From the extreme backwardness of the spring, old ex perienced hands predict immense crops of apples, peas, and plums ; and, indeed, of fruit of every description. At Greystoke, Cumberland, the other day, a young man, named Thomas Greenhow, frightened by an affilia tion order in bastardy, hung himself to the branch of a tree, and was found quite dead. It is said the Duke of Wellington is about to retire from office, and that Lord Stanley is to suceed him as leader in the lords. The infirmities of age are increasing on the noble duke. A heavy failure occurred, on Monday morning last, in Mark-lane, said to be for £40,000 to £50,000. Opera tions two or three years since were said to be the cause of the event. At York Assizes, Henry Bourne, a surgeon, was con victed of an unnatural crime, and sentence of death was recorded against him, the judge intimating that he would be transported br life. On Wednesday, Joseph Hawksley, a farmer, near Chesterfield, who had been arrested on a charge of hav ing murdered his mother-in-law, hung himself, by tying his neckcloth to the hinges of his cell-door. At the Maidstone assizes, the Hon. Capt. Stuart took his trial on a charge of extensive swindling, practised on the tradesmen of Tunbridge Wells. He was found guilty, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. The first cargo of Java sugar, with a certificate of ori gin, has arrived in London from Batavia. Under the new act this will be admitted at a duty of 235. 4d. per cwt., instead of 355. 9d., as regulated last year. The fountains in Trafalgar-square were tried on Wed nesday. The water will ascend forty feet high, but the jets were only suffered to play to a height of six or eight feet. The effect was very pleasing. The fountains will shortly be put into permanent operation. A fire broke out on Tuesday last, at Messrs. Steiner's works, Church, near Blackburn, which has completely destroyed the building in which it originated ; and unfor tunately one young man, of the name of Riding, was burnt to death before he could escape from the place. A WARNING TO HIGHWAYMEN.—During the last week, at York assizes, Mr. Justice Wightman sentenced fifteen persons, who had been convicted of street or high way robberies, attended with violence, to transportation for fifteen years Mr. Solomon, a merchant of St. Helena, brought an action on Thursday, at the Kingston Assizes, against the Times newspaper, for inserting two letters which stated that he had put unwholesome water on board a vessel cal led the Moffatt. The case lasted eight hours, when ver dict was returned for the plaintiff—damages £5OO. CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS .— Captain and Brevet Major, W. R. Ord, to be Lieut. Colonel, vice Thompson, retired on half-pay ; Second Captain, W. B. Marlow, to be Captain, vice Ord ; First Lieut., S. Freetb, to be Second Captain vice Marlow; Second Lieut, J. M. Grant, to be first Lieutenant, vice Freeth. At Edinburgh assizes, John Johnson, a farm servant, was convicted of shooting (with intent to kill) at John Cockburn, a fellow-servant, and a successful rival in the affections of their mistress, a widow, to whom Cockbur❑ has since been married. He was severely wounded, and it was thought at first that he could not recover. The prisoner was sentenced to transportation for life. TESTIMONIAL TO SIR JOHN BARROW, BART.—The officers employed on the various polar expeditions have just presented to Sir John Barrow, Bart., on his retire ment from office as Secretary of the Admiralty, a hand some candelabrum, with a suitable inscription, &c., to testify their private esteem, and to record their sense of the very prominent part he has taken for many years past in the promotion of Arctic discovery. On Wednesday, at Coventry assizes, Susannah Jervis, aged 13, was tried for the murder of an infant which was placed in her charge to nurse. The child was found murdered in the cradle, and the prisoner alleged that a man had rushed into the house and killed the baby with a carving-knife, which was found lying near the cradle. As a man had been seen about the time on the premises, the prisoner was acquitted. At Huntingdon assizes, Thomas Bull was convicted of setting fire to a haulm-stack, and sentenced to twenty years' transportation. The prisoner had threatened be forehand to fire some premises, in order that be might be sent out of the country, as transports lived better than he did, and he also stated that he should stop till a little while before the assizes, as then he should not have to be long in prison. An extraordinary apple tree is to be seen at East Mark, near Taunton. The girth near its branches is twelve feet, the branches five feet four inches, and its height is about fifty feet ; the branches extend over the surface twenty yards across, and sixty-two yards i❑ circumference ; and it is a well-known fact, that it has often produced apples enough in one year to make six or seven hogsheads of cider. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—On Easter Tuesday, the whole of the scholars belonging to this hospital, 800 in number, according to annual custom proceeded in procession to the Mansion House, where they were each regaled with two buns and a glass of wine ; the Grecians were pre sented by the Lord Mayor with a guinea, 10s., and ss. each, according to their seniority ; the monitors with 2s. 6d. each, and the scholars generally with Is. each. A FACT.—A requisition is actually determined on, to invite three eminent renting farmers to stand as candi dates for the next parliamentary election. The farmers of Devon are determined to have men who pay rent to look after their interest i❑ the House of Commons. We do ❑ot anticipate much immediate success from such a step; but it will teach the aristocracy a lesson.—Exeter Times. Tanned leather, the only manufactured article which, under Sir R. Peel's proposed regulations, was to be ad mitted free of duty, has been withdrawn for the present from the schedule of the Customs' Bill, and reserved for future consideration. This step has, we unuerstand, arisen from a representation made by the leather manu facturers that if protecting duties were extended to other manufactured articles, they ought to be extended to lea ther. At Derby, an astrologer, named Coulson, brought an action against two magistrates, for having sent him to prison for two months as a rogue and a vagabond. The action was brought by a society, calling itself the Astro logical Cerebral Mesmeric Society of London. The plaintiff was nonsuited. How comes it that these learned pundits did not ascertain, either by astrology, or some other ology or ism, that such would be the event of the action before they went into court ? THE GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTY.--At the Central Cri minal Court, last week, a lad, named Singleton, was indicted for stealing a loaf, value 5d., the property of his master. The prosecutor stated the fact of the theft, and said the loaf bad been hidden behind some sacks of pota toes. The common sergeant interposed, and observed that the indictment would n t do. It stated that " a loaf" had been stolen, without setting forth whether it was a loaf of bread or a loaf of sugar. The prisoner must be acquitted. Verdict—not guilty. EXECUTION IN LONDON.—On Monday week, James Tapping, aged 22, was executed at Newgate for shooting a young woman named Emma Whiter, to whom he was paying his addresses. The culprit was very resigned, but not communicative. Just previous to his leaving the gaol for the scaffold, breakfast was served to him, consisting of coffee and roll, which be appeared to partake of with a good appetite. The usual preparations within the walls of the prison having been gone through, a few m i nutes after ei g ht o ' c l oc k th e me l a ncholy procession appeared on the platform. Tapping seemed very firm and collected, and it was his intention to address th- crowd, but in con sequence of considerable noise he refrained, and merely bowed to the immense crowd which had assembled. After he had been placed on the scaffold, he retired back some steps, and kissed the hands of the sheriffs. He said to Mr. Sheriff Sidney, " It is a Just sentence, and I forgive all, as I trust to be forgiven ;" but we have not heard that he made any further confession. The body, after hanging the usual time, was cut down. April 1, 181 At Carmarthen assizes, a boy named Lloyd, age' years, was indicted for killing another boy by thro stone at him. He confessed to the policeman that done it; but as the policeman had first told him would be better for him to confess, the evidence vy admitted, and the prisoner was acquitted. DR. BEIMINGTON AGAIN.—It appears that Dr. rington has induced some tradesmen of this town t( ply him with large quantities of plate, hardwart other goods ; hut the tradesmen having heard of th tor's " doings " in other places, became alarmed procured the assist ance o f t h e po li ce, who went dn . the stately domicile of the rev. doctor. "Is Dr' rington at home?" was the first question. A repi given by a female attendant in the affirmative ; but counter-signal from the interior of the house induce domestic to contradict her first answer ; a confused was heard, as of some one trying to effect an escape the hack part of the house ; the police immediate) tered, and reached the back just in time to see Dr. rington scampering along :the garden, minus his Fl hat, which he left b e hi n d in the' house. The P°lic g lowed in hot p ursu it t o W ymondley, where the fu outstripped them. In the meantime the various tt men made an atta c k upon t h e h ouse, each taking, the commodities he h a d hi mse lf prov id ed, or at l e as portion which remained. O n T ues d ay, the rev. ,' and a boy who officiated as his page, were found at with a quantity of plate and hardware in their pos e belonging to tradesmen in llertford. The rev. Se man voluntarily appeared before the chief constabl whose cust o d y h e l e f t t h ese articles. He was tat tained, as it wa s j u d ge d t h at the case, though evideo fraud, could not be dealt with, as there was reason tt lieve the doctor had not assumed a false name. however fortunate that the intended fraud was disc° in time ; for had the month when payment was Pr° l passed by, the doctor would, no doubt, have disaPP e from Graveley with the property, as he had don e other towns.—Hertford Reformer. THE ROI AL MERSEY YACHT CLUB' We are gratified to announce that the members of society have taken premises, which comprise a verY sP did club-room, and offices for the committees and 'e l tary, and which, as the yachting season is fast apPr°, B ing, will, we h ave HO doubt, be found highly advan , ous for the ge nera l interests of the club. The larger roi for the general meetings, is one of the finest in Liveri/ and is now in progress of being suitably fitted up• suite of rooms rented i s k nown as " The Union Gager, —over the Union News-room,--5 handsome stone bq, ing, in Duke- s tr ee t. M any donations of pictures, Pr, ,; l , books, charts, maps , an d a number of very beautifin valuable models of yachts and other vessels, marine e ; osities, &c. are, we l earn, a l ready offered by various me hers to be deposited in the room, and will form th e clews of a nautic a l museum. T he situation is at on ce spectable, central, an d qu i et, b e i ng apart from t he eh mercial bustle of the town, and at the same thee oil few minutes' wa lk f rom t h e Custom-house, and re.,, a accessible to all de s i ra bl e t o o b ta i n information relative yachting, and th e genera l progress and improverne"`, building, sailing, and even steaming. The club-room e e be open every day for the accommodation of the °j i be hers; a Y ac ht S o i ree will be occasionally held for _a amusement and edification ; and ultimately, (as the el of Commons a d m it s of yacht clubs,) the establish 11 may become beneficial in a national point of present " Experi men t a l Squadron" (of the Royal 9 v e is the result o f yac ht c l u b s. Yachts have beaten esi men-of-war ; and now, therefore, yacht-builders Br e j , t , lowed by government to contend against the rnowil i r the surveyor o f th e navy,—and the event will, in all P bability, by eliciting new improvements in the con s dt tion and management of vessels, give a wider cottn s „ o o the world of mind over the world of matter, and render entire shipping, mere intile and naval, more powerft) more safe, thus conducing to our national wealth 11 9 dti curity. From what we have learned, and are ena l t e t oi observe, no body of men are so scientific, when P" te ta their metal, as a society of yachtmen. The an', 9 bet " blue-jackets" muster strong. They, in fact, n u ,"" ro o• thousands ; and those thousands are headed and Pt ised by her Majesty and the first officers of her ga l l o p! fleet. The club-room is cheerfully lighted by a sPA c il ke central dome, an d a l so b y three large windows in -ge,l street. Variou s p i ctures, models, &c. will be arr ae a d round the wall s ; a lib rary (chiefly nautical) will be ftifrodo chiefly of donati ons o f b oo k s ; and portfolios and 6‘15 will be provid e d f or pr i nts, &a. The committee-I'o,re' to be neatly fitted up, and communications for the s e A tary will henceforth be received at his office there. is gilded " Royal Arms" will be placed over the entrall A Slater-street, inscribed " Royal Mersey Yacht Club:ogs "news-book" w ill b e k ept, in which arrivals and sa sh of yachts, w ith t h e i r tonnage, the winners, yachts sP°kea, 1 &c. will be d a ily l ogge d . An " Aquatic Album" riao be in the roo m , f or t h e purpose of recording, by Sc oe' from newspapers, individual information, &c., every Ofi currence relating to yachting, or novelties in nactg affording agreeable re a di 9g to the members. S e vern newspapers, nautical periodicals, &c. will also be p r eps ded, so that the rooms may become a place of resort hip . attraction to all i n t eres t e d i n the no b le sciences Of 81' building and ship-sailing, with all their irriportin ) ," r eei, juncts. W e h ave b ut to add that The Royal yids pt Yacht Club purpose to receive all visiting inetnh e or other yacht c l u b s t h roug h out the kingdom with tna t dial welcome and hospitality which Sir W. Scott so 10 ,_ e .oy tifully e x p resses as i nd i cat i ve of the friendship of the P o t be landers to tho se w h o may so j ourn amongst them, cubes states, that with those sons of the mountain ---" Stranger is a holy name." H OM CEOPATH IC PRACTICE TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE MORNING POST. t i "Nec protinus crimen arts esse, si quod professoris Celsus Lib. IL, c. 6. • ov e "' SIR,—We the undersigned homoeopathic feel ourselves imperatively called upon to repudiate big tain dietetic doctrines put forward by Dr. Curie I ,, tl i n d letter, in your columns, of the 17th inst. These doo r are not only at variance with the practice followeci d . c o4 in the treatment of our patient, but in direct contra t ier 0' to the rules inculcated by Hahnemann, the Foot, pot Homoeopathy, as well as to those promulgated 1; par leading disciples of his school. It is neither our is'i° a ct' our intention here to enter into any controversy r e .'r e l ° ing the merits, or demerits of the system of mediet r u s yril think it our duty to pursue, as opposed to any ot he tr el tern ; nor is it our province to animadvert on the ment of the late Mr. Cordwell, by Dr. Curie, t r i denced at the inquest, and as subsequently defend p ores him in his letter. Had the matter remained where 3 .. e ner's inquest left it, or had Dr. Curie, in his pu b ' i o ec e ter, confined his observations to the defence of the i r. de' liar mode of diet prescribed by him in the case ell: tr ceased patient, we (being totally unacquainted Wt io ti l e j particulars of that case further than as it appear e " public journals) should not have felt ourselves cong o ios;, to come forward thus publicly. But, as an imPf e- co n (possibly an unintentional one) has been estensive.);l 0; 1 veyed to the public by Dr. Curie's letter, that , lue o'ol suing the course which he appears to have done,,eipl acting in strict conformity with homoeopathic Pr IP , O fee, dote' ' e°' and practice, we feel it to be our imperative 0 cue the memory of Hahnemann, and the system 05 , t ire tine he has bequeathed to us, from the unmerited ' of til eo Practttl cer, which must be entailed upon both, in the eyes s yst public, by a tacit admission on our parts, that a c ,rie4 of rigid abstinence, such as that avowed by Dr • is his treatment of Mr. Cordwell, and other patie nt : s 'le , essentially identifi e d w i t h the homoeopathic prina i 5 15dt The system of r i g id a b st i nence above alluded t 011," only not auth or i se d b y Hahnemann, but strong 1 sured by him. a t 4 Hahneman n , i n hi s work upon the "Treat- reedl, Chronic Dis eases, " i n recommending caution wittabidt;es' to dimini s hi ng t h e quantity of nourishment and CoP stimulants, and in mentioning when brandy, win.,.. e ' i .ites &c., may, an d w h en they may not be given, " follows : r 9 ( id " The physician must not, by misplaced ne"„, p tb f diet) trifle with the advantages which the herf",, ° ,,d9 treatment has over other systems, in all diseases, o r titularly in chronic complaints, that of be g spreser y jo t forces of the patient, so that his strength maY ue ported whilst the disease is diminishing under t' icfr ment." 14 9 c ° We may also quote the work of an English P il o , , Dr. Simpson, who, in his " Practical View of , e ol pathy," published i n 1836 , says : rieiP j ll l° " Far, howeve r , f rom starvat i on b e i ng t h e Prl in 0 1 homoeopathic diet, the very reverse is the cos: 1 090 concession of really nutritive substances, it g'r es se , h ie oi beyond the old sc h oo l. I n th e t reatment of Ow o "er' of an acute, b u t s till more o f a c h ron i c natu re, et itio i e never to be lost sight of, by the homoeopathic P r libe,lo) is the due supp or t o f th e ma t er i a l f a b ric, by 3,60 lowarire of pure .ive food, th e on l y su bsta o e for vital re-action Twithoutwhich the h omo eoPatb ic s lat can do but ' sit 0° Were it requisite, we could quote nn iverou! t ior.. r e",: proofs from the works of many con ti n ental to `0 Homoeopathy, but we d eem i t unnecessary fli rt dere' 0 0 ,, (11 pass on your c our t esy, an d that of your ro t obi c ov i trust that we have sufficiently relieved Houice° l3 d , i l , l O , r e : the stigma of being a system of starvation ; B P vo o 6 ',s/ 1 : elusion, we again, most distinctly, and uneg ut t o o'4 pudiate all connection between HomceopatbY 8 bee B ,Y tern of Dietetics , which would appear to have d, b , sued, and which ' has been subsequently defend' to Curie. Nothing but a s e nse o f th e i n j ury lik e ly t° froo3o 0 0 1 system of medicine, of w hi c h we are followe n r, s „ g eei scientious feeli ngs , an d un d er many di sa dva induce us to acquiesce in the very general call us to put forward the present declaration. ( T rin joa' FREDERIC FOSTE R QUlN, Signed) -1.- M.D. .. • • " PO . JOSEPH GILIOLI, M.D. WILLIAM H. MAYNE. M.D.. Lon n u ot p HUGH CAM ERON , M.R.O S L on- HARRIS DUNSFORD, M.D. Lon do n. 14°Il WILLIAM HERING, L.A.C. t ioa' S. T. PARTRIDGE, M.D. JOHN D. CHARLES, S L °° d oo . ig aov . VICTOR MASSOL, M.D. j/ THOMAS ENGALL, M.R.C.S. ALFRED DAY, M... , 0- WILLIAM WARDROP D. ER, M. L R.C•S• • • —o oo o o 'l, WILLIAM HAMILTON KITTOE, , J. CHAPMAN, M.A. Cantab., M.D• L . v erP ° g te C J. DRYSDALE, M.D. . beo ter' o l' ROBERT WALKER, M•D. .......... pe :LVO EDWARD PHILLIPS, M.R.C.S.E r. .• •• • Dir alli oa . BERRY KING, M.A. Oxon., M , • • • B r ig. v oa A , HENRY R. MADDEN, M.D. ....... • z be lte CLAUDIUS B. KER, M.D. nir le a JOHN NORTON, M.D. ,ba JAMES GOODSHAW, M.D .......... .16120(0" GEORGE NEWMAN, M.R.C.S• ...... March 25, 1845.