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I ways 1 the co f .Firiso e prisons which were 3eculiar force to those in the 11 individual Fraser' s nough to stand -up! and lifted eye- folks of )f the winged wickedness 7 wrong. - And the magpie Ltion, and even from the 3 rejoice in it evil name. When he was Coura- • tone, as he rolled blue at the oath, and For the DI as of ancient -footed, aquatic. trace a progenitor to Babel ; of a hod-man ; a bird that, h his master's confounded ton children of Erin , at that early f ivory, and carrying walking walas Jerrold's' Twiddlethumb ne wet Ties of papers, ion in the Ifanchester I statement —The pain in 1837, after fighting th 6 with no other reward in hi then for r, on which to commence a Legion in Spain lothes i ,s robbe lade . to appear in on landing in of clothes and every farthing board the ship. I might have got assistance in Glasgow. I gimentals I was clothed in, go fore known me. The person to ratuity for en anti ink to begin to write would give nothing for the me - a present of several ked out Of Glasgow, three into a field of beans nearly addle of the field, lay there afterwa riting the first chapters of my he beans. I sent the farmer a .ds as payment for what I had ) learn that the work thus corn and produced to the author a —How long the lamp of 1 between two persons only, llowing passage from Count mprisonment :—" I am an s my soul is younger than fisted (for I did not live—it n as gay and bustli ng as whan we formed a portion of mankind. The fifth, we were silent. The sixth, he was taken away, I never knew where, to execution or to liberty ; but I was glad when he was gone ; even solitude was better than the dim vision of that pale, vacant face. After that I was alone ; only one event broke in upon my nine years' vacancy. One day (it must have been a year or two after my companion left me) the dungeon door was opened. and a voice—whence pro ceeding I know not—uttered these words—' by order of His Imperial Majesty, I intimate to you that your wife died a year ago.' Then the door was shut; I heard no more ; they had but flung this great agony in upon me, and left me alone with it again." 10 feet square! ing nine I was rhrlytatinguiSllthe face of him in the eternal twilight of our cell. incessantly, together ; we related T ever gone, over and over again. iicated to each other our thoughts The third year we bad no idea eginning to lose the power of the interval of a month or so, k each other if it were indeed that the world aunt and wishing I De Bobs stly for a suit of c land ; but w before I rrative :Mess certific f writir ays and n e, and of the work L." It is pie red sold exte profit of £l , isos COMPS d man now ; y y body ! Fifte ioelife) in the x years I had a one ! I never could rig' ho shared my captivity i .r we .talkea e commur itrraturr. NOTICE FOR THE CANALS Ist been published, " ery priso .1,„.n0 12711 the noble ad the narr ,w Ifooe for the means for e alwa I to helf right tc ham add Tionsness to air exposed joist, .eadv inti- 'ere most some of the worst f the Dean Arundel, the - Marquis of lire, the. Duke of Norfolk, of Durham, Lord Derby, one who will take the will be convinced ation of canal property basis of upon its p Iperity, by T work of inte not only mace, and author, who ; with the pen ialgamation to orders and re- He shows that mrsued, create )f all competition positions Carrying ed wheel, of - which .eady been proved. ary of the , ed, up to six strong rea- —the general object of fierce of the kingdom that id for its co iical facilities of trans- n in rec mercantile and manu propositions which, if ,n, and by railivay proprie- tably be detrimental to ETIES sor Castle s valued at Poston Mail American 1, last market morning, chaps that he had chick- ie time s not far distant m more than his is one who don't nt of rain 1& inches for dished in last Entity than cement of the )w was one day igate, when the —ln the y Smith to of re- went in the anaged when !" said Sydney, " I it ; it prejudices a OUR NATIONAL DEFENCES A writer in Fraser's Magazine for the present month discusses this highly-important subject. In the course of his remarks he points out the following geographical rela tion of France and the British Isles, with a view to the " From the relative geography of Great Britain and France, which from Margate to the Land's End, and from Dunkirk to Brest, are parallel to each other, and at no great distance, it is obvious that the maritime coasts of Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Hampshire, Sussex, Kent, and Essex, would be the points of attack. The three latter, from their propinquity to London, would in all probability be made the theatre of French operations. From Dover and Calais the shores of France and England mutually recede, both to the north and south. From Cherbourg to the Isle of Wight, the distance is sixty three miles ; from Boulogne to Rye, forty ; from Calais to Dover, twenty-five ; from Dunkirk to the IV ore, forty- five ; and from the same point to the Humber, two hun dred and seventy. From Brest to the south coast of Ire land, the distance is about three hundred. The maritime frontier of Kent and Sussex may be divided into three sections-Ist, from Portsmouth to Dover; 2d, from Dover to Margate ; and 3d, from the latter point to Sheerness. The distance from these lines to the metropolis varies from fifty-six to seventy miles ; and to Chatham, from thirty to forty. Between Portsmouth and Sheerness there are five great headlands, and between them nine bays, exclusive of smaller inlets. One half of this line of frontier is composed of high cliffs, forming an imposing barrier; the other is flat, and unprotected by natural ob stacles. A few miles in the rear of this shore a chain of downs extends from Beechey Head to Portsmouth. Be hind Pevensey and Roinsey the ground rises gradually until it reaches Hythe, in the rear of which place and , Folkestone the hills form a chain of natural bastions. The centre of Kent, from Dover to Chatham, is one continued chain of hills. Dover and Deal are the two keys of our base of an equilateral triangle, of about forty miles each way, of which the Nore forms the acute angle—Kent and Essex the two land sides. The interval of this great triangle, and the Straits of Dover, are the two great con tiguous channels through which nearly one-half of the commerce of England circulates, and are in immediate contact with the centre of government. Deal, by its geo graphical position, commands the whole maritime face on Kent, Essex, the mouth of the Thames, and the Medway. " From Deal to Folkstone, there are about eight miles of bold and insurmountable cliffs ; thence a flat shore of thirty miles extent, to Winchelsea ; and from that point to Hastings, seven miles of steep rock ; to which succeeds another limb of about two miles to Eastbourne. From Beechy Head a line of tremendous cliffs extends to Sea ford. Between this town and Newhaven there is a small bay and flat of five miles, formerly the estuary of the Ouse ; from thence a range of cliffs is pro miles to the west of Brighton, where the shore becomes flat, and continues so to Portsmouth. to nine ` I The south segment of Ireland, Munster and Con naught, between Galway and Waterford, abounds with excellent harbours. Within a sea line of three hundred miles there are Waterford, Cork, Kinsale, Bantry, Crook- haven, Kenmare, Shannon, Galway, Sligo, Donegal, Lough Swilly, and Foyle. But along this extended line of coast, both in England and Ireland, until very recently, there were only two fortified posts of any importance— Plymouth and Portsmouth. The recent creation of guard-ships, the defences making along the coast, and the ion of the dockyard battalions, indicate but too organ's, clearly that our g rernment is preparing for coming To effectually defend, however, with batteries and fortifications, our extensive line of coast, would be impos sible ; in fact, from the immense dissemination of force it would require, such a system of defence would present all the defects inherent to the cordon. The essential would be to cover the most vulnerable points of the coasts, and •eat naval and military acting c force we hand on a central posi- tion, ready D m overnpidly on the point of Ai to what )me to meet the alle The increase of ti ation of an rmy of reserve is t measure, and the f once a tem col , nt must are not vm the of a powerf this measure must, of I the es sh like a object of to run' to: leave absolved to a British that no one would covet ation of the invadir rison with will hesi- I anni- and fertility of the Country, the wealth and luxury of our towns and cities, and the matchless loveliness of our wo men, presents a-splendid aggregate of all that can inflame the imagination of t id compensate him for fact, to troops accus- the dar mi . vations of Africa very poetry of war campaign in ment and execution of a well organised of national defence is a measur 'mit that it will not only entail on the nation sacrifices of a pecuniary nature, but likewise others of a personal character, which our money-making habits may be unwilling to subinit to. Should we, however, neglect the only means of placing on a secure and firm basis the national honour and indepen dence ; if, forgetful of the warlike traditions of our ance tors, we concentrate all our energies on one object lone— nation of -spinners and stockjobbers, a gloomy will sooner or later dawn upon our horizon, and when too late, the absolute mockery of mere ROYA AMPHITHEATRE In our last we offered some introductory remarks on the splendid equestrian troop of M. Dejean. W e w ill now notice the various members forming the company, and the great feats achieved ; and in speaking of them we shall proceed in the order in which we have ma ie our observa- tions rather than with any preference. Gallantry would lead us to give the ladies precedence ; and although it is with some degree of anxiety we witness their more deli cate and tender forms undergo these violent tests, consi dering the muscular and compact form of man more ledge that the females acqu'dthemselves with all becoming elegance, and show great skill in their art, and a consider able charm would be wanting in the performances without their aid and presence. M. FELtx is a perfect living antique statue of a young Hercules, as he appears in the dress he wears on the In dian ball. The simple Peruvian costume shows off to ad vantage his finely moulded form. His thigh, leg, and foot are perfect symmetry. The " bull neck," which the poets have given to Hercules, is perfect in him—it rises from his shoulders like a column. This performance is truly wonderful. A more difficult position to maintain we cannot conceive. The ball is at his command by the most exquisite skill of equitation. He rolls it up the inclined plane, and when at the apex adds to the difficulty by some feats of jugglery—throwing up three small balls. He then poises his body on one leg, and when in this posi tion, but wants the cap, Caduceus, and wings of " Mer cury," to be the personification of the celebrated statue of John of Bologna. His descent backwards down the in clined plan: we are inclined to think the ne plus ultra of his feats. M. Felix is also a clever equestrian, and per forms some very astonishing acts riding backwards. We gure by the chi 'e he makes in his dress when ric the Indian dress is the one to show his form to perfection. This is well worth considering. Dark sandats or boots do not accord with a flesh-coloured dress. MADLLE. EMMELINE LAMBERT evinces much taste and feeling in her personifications. She has a pleasing expression of countenance, and possesses an elegant figure. Grace is in all her movements. The " Mantle is highly classical, and her finest performance. e wears the beautiful costume of the Grecian maiden : • • - metal hand enrirelpc her waist, and confines the loosely-folded tunic and dress, also edged with gold—hanging sleeves—and .an ethereal-blue mantle, edged in the same exquisite style. Nothing can exceed the grace, ease, and variety of her attitudes, as she arranges this garment round her person, I truly br -1 4 ' 1 performance, and cannot be 4- are remarkable for the 4—Qteful change of A is a truly beautifu_ often repeated. The " Seasons same excellence, with the variety of costume ' and characteristic accompaniments . To these may be added her " Scarf Act," another elegant idea. She is the most graceful female equestrian we ever saw, or expect to see—a perfect Thalia, the first of the graces.. We have little to suggest to her, except that the hair tied into two tails, in the last act, is not in fine taste. MADLLE. PALMYRA ANATO is another graceful crea ture. To considerable beauty of person she unites much elegance, and a modesty of demeanour which is very pleasing. With a refined expression of countenance, she combines that happy medium of fulness of form without being too stout. Her surprising feats of agility place her at the head of the school of female equestrians. The perfect ease and precision with which she accomplishes her leaps, bounding like an antelope, over endless streamers and through hoops (no less than thrice round the arena), show the perfection she has acquired as an expert equestrian. Her manner of dressing her person, little in need of ornament, is in the most chaste order of fine taste, and embraces a pleasing variety—from the pute white, or the delicate pink, to the more dashing crimson ribbons and bodice—a crimson rose, or an elegant gold netting to tie up her hair in the Grecian style. She is a great favourite of ours, and to our idea nothing becomes her more than the simple white dress, and the wreath of white roses round her dark hair ; next to this is the deli cate pink mixed ; and as she thus appears, she is a perfect Euphrosyne. There is the same good taste displayed in the trappings of the handsome dun-coloured steed, with his fine dark main, tail, and legs :—a delicate rose-co loured velvet saddle-cloth, bordered with white and edged with yellow silk—all perfect in its way. The perform ances of these ladies are accompanied with well-selected music, of a soft and appropriate harmony. 11. M. enntralllanp, Taf At the mc was read descrir ;very I jug artif THE LIVERPOO The Town Council of Sheffield have agreed to petition the. Legislature for an alteration in the tea duties. The officers and crew of the steam frigate Birkenhead, which has been in commission only fourteen months, have been paid off. On Tuesday a mob of persons tried to prevent the ex portation of potatoes from Ramsey. They did not resort to extremities, but determined to petition the governor. A Mr. Symonds has been condemned at Aylesbury to a week's imprisonment (in addition to a month already endured) for refusing to pay church-rates. The last number of the Quarterly advocates the pay ment of the Romish priesthood by the Protestant British State—which does not pay its own clergy. A reduction of 25 per cent. has been effected in the wages of many of the operatives employed at Pontypool Iron Works. The unavoidable proceeding is borne with much patience. At the Marlborough police-office, on Friday, Mr. Henry Neville, a gentleman of fortune, about to fight a duel with a Mr. Jessop, was bound over to keep the peace for three months. WESTMINSTER-HALL.--This ancient hall is itself again, the internal erection for the purpose of exhibiting the cartoons and other works of art for the decoration of the new Houses of Parliament being entirely removed. The Operative Spinners' Association, of Mossley, have taken several acres of ground, for the term of six years, for the purpose of employing the unemployed members thereon. The late Mr. Robert Suple, of Bristol, has bequeathed benefactions to the charitable institutions of that city to the extent of £BBOO. The Orphan Girls' Asylum receives £4OOO of this sum. SHETLS AND BALLS.-A vessel arrived in the London docks from Odessa, with 1,700 quarters of wheat and other merchandise, had on board 4,935 old iron shells and balls consigned to order. A gentle - man of property, named Buchanan, was con victed, at Bath, on Monday, of having stolen a purse and a scent-box, and sentenced to three months' imprison- DEATHS FROM INFLUENZA IN LONDON.—We see by the official return, that 102 deaths from influenza were registered in London in the week ending the Bth instant. Of these, 42 were under 15 years of age, 34 between 15 and 60, and 20 were upwards of 60 years of age. STRANGE ACCIDENT.—J. Coles, Esq., of Taunton, while in the act of drawing on a pair of boots, on Satur- day. strained the lid of his eyes so much as to break a small blood-vessel, which has caused the loss of sight of one eye, and much injured the other.—Bristol Mirror. The new Guildhall, at Bristol, was discovered to be on fire last week, and the origin of it was found to be that some coke, recently deposited in the cellar, had reignited. This accident shows that coke should always be tho roughly cooled before being stowed away. SCOTLAND. — The Highland destitution board is again in deep water. At a meeting of the Glasgow section held lately, all the reports yet come to hand from their six in spectors, represented that the destitution was already tear ful, and that immediate relief was necessary. George Thurtell, son of the late Alderman Thurtell of Norfolk, and whose brother John was hanged at Hertford, for the murder of Mr. Weare, some years ago, has just been convicted of felony, at the Norwich Sessions, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour. _ _ _ The Secretary of State has confirmed an agreement entered into between the Magistrates of Glamorganshire, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, and Cardiganshire, for the erection of a central lunatic asylum, to be erected in the western part of Glamorganshire. It is to contain three hundred patients. ANOTHER SUICIDE AT ST. VINCENT'S ROCKS. - Mr. Daniel Thompson, a lodging-house keeper, at Clifton, during a paroxysm of temporary insanity on Sunday night last, arose from his bed, proceeded to the Down, and threw himself from St. Vincent's rocks, and was killed on the spot. PRESERVATION OF MEAT.—On the Ist of January, 1847, a pergoli buried a joint of meat at Blackheath, near Holme Moss, where it was allowed to remain until Saturday, the Ist of January, 1848. When taken up, it appeared to be as sweet and fresh as when first placed luties received at the Port of Gloucester, ended the sth instant, amounted to _ _ £93,220. If the Tariff had not been altered, and the corn duties suspended. the amount would, we understand, nearly £200,000, more than double, a heavy .t a port of the class of Gloucester. g of the Institution of Civ;l Engineers, John Rennie in the chair, a paper process for mak- r. Ronsome stage of its formation this ;ed into moulds of any shape, ificial stone could be pz I thus would prove a great aid to decorative art Excise usages are becoming ludicrously strict. Not only is ginger wine charged with duty when sent from Scotland to England, but, the essence of coffee is also also threatened with duty, because, in order to preserve the freshness of the beverage that, " cheers, but not inebriates," a homoeopathic quantity of alcoholi is dropped into each bottle of the mocha fluid. Scotland, so far, does not appear to have suffered much from the panic. The National Bank of Scotland has in creased its dividend from 6 to 6i per cent., the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank is expected to make a similar advance, and the customs revenue of Greenock, for the years end ,z January 5, 1846-7, and 8, have, respectively, been £324,477, and £407,083. 1. at Douglas, Isle of Man, is said to have con cl, on his death-bed, a few days since, to a murder £228,415 A inas( which - he committed eleven years igo, on a man named Robert Cannon, who was found dead, in Douglas harbour, with his scull fractured, and which, at the time, was sup posed to have been occasioned by a blow against a vessel, in his fall. THE LAND SCHEME.—Mr. Fergus O'Connor has pur chased the Great Dafford estate, in the parish of Broms grove, containing 280 acres. The subject has created a great sensation amongst the farmers, lest O'Connor's four-acre allotments should bring more poor into the parish, with which it is already so heavily burthened.— Worcester Journal. REDUCTION IN GAS.—The agitation for reduction in the price of gas, aided as it has been by the spirited con duct of the Marylebone vestry, in calling in the aid of a new company, has had its effect. On Saturday the Im perial Gaslight Company gave notice that the price of their gas will be reduced to 6s. per 1000 cubic feet from the 31st of March next. The Ipswich Express tells a curious story of a blunder ing wedding lately performed in Suffolk. Instead of the bride and bridegroom being joined in holy wedlock, that ceremony was performed between the bridesmaid and the " daddy," (father in church.) The mistake was discovered when the parties retired to the vestry, and was easily rectified, as the daddy had a wife living, A curious fact is mentioned of the extraordinary num ber of 28,071 mice having been taken or caught from September to January in the Dean Forest, Gloucester shire, over an area only of 1,993 acres. The successful method adopted there was boring holes in the ground 20 inches deep, wider at the bottom than the top, which pre vented them getting out when once in, and into which holes were dropped some favourite food THE ( ;OLDEN-LANE MURDER.—Harriet Parker, who stands charged with the wilful murder of Robert Henry Blake, and Armenia Blake, the two children of Robert H. Blake, with whom she had been two years previously cohabiting, has been committed to Newgate for trial. Previous to her departure she said to the gaoler, she wished to be hanged, and hoped she would not be trans ported. Her firmness astonished every one in court. We noticed last week the murder of a man named Wall, near Bristol, by a youth of the name of Manfield. It appears that Manfield was, a few weeks previously, de tected stealing pears, but the magistrate, the Rev. Frank Hewson, who convicted him, knowing how much is said by the press against clerical magistrates, who even appa rently act with undue severity, and unwilling to incur the censure of the world, let him off without any punish ment ! What a want of moral courage. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—Another extensive robbery has been committed, under circumstances of a peculiarly mysterious nature, from the Great Western Railway Company. A box of sovereigns—it said amounting to several thousand pounds—was booked on Monday, at the Paddington station, for Bristol, and thence to Taunton, to a banking house in which town it was consigned. On the arrival of the carriages at Bristol, it was found that the treasure had been abstracted A poor woman, named Elizabeth Hopkins, residing within the Croyden Union, having died from exhaustion in protracted labour, in tlie,middle of which she was left by the surgeon, an investigation took place on Tuesday, before the coroner for Surrey, when a verdict was re turned to that effect •, `• and that Mr. Berncastle has shown the greatest inhumanity towards the deceased in leaving her when in labour, and that we, the jury, con sider him a very unfit person to act as a parochial medical officer." The workpeople in the employ of Messrs. Hudson and Bottom, lace-dressers, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, on Monday presented to Mr. J. T. Bottom a splendid piece of plate as a testimonial of their esteem. The plate consisted of a candelabrum, standing 22 inches high, in the centre of which was an elegant cut. glass basin, 11 inches in diameter; over which a silver wire grating was placed for the reception of flowers. About 10 inches from the base of the pedestal projected three arms, which also have glasses for flowers. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Sunday morning last a man named Frederick Weston was found in Mr. Beard's farm-yard, at Ovingdean, weltering in his own blood, having dreadfully mutilated himself in a manner to which we cannot more particularly allude. He was conveyed to the County Hospital, where he now lies in a precarious state. He comes from Dover, and is about thirty years of age. He is a religious fanatic belonging to a sect called " the Latter-day Saints," and he says he committed the act "to do God justice."—Brighton Guardian. FATAL COACH ACCIDENT.—As the Manchester and Derby mail was proceeding on its journey to the latter named place, on Saturday evening, when near the terminus of the Cromford and High Peak railway, and proceeding at a steady pace, it was overturned. There were about ten passengers in and upon the coach, none of whom were seriously injured, except a gentleman named Greensmith, of the Darley paper-mills, who received a severe bruise on one shoulder. The coachman received such injuries that he expired the same evening. THE CORN TRADE.—However ill many corn speculators may have fared during the last year, one gentleman, who can scarcely be called either an agriculturist or a factor, seems to have profited by the corns of the public. A Mr. Eisenberg, with wliose name the public is sufficiently familiar through our advertising columns, has, it is said, reaped such a harvest, and carried his knowledge of corns to so good a market, that he has become proprietor of one of the finest mansions at Richmond, in addition to a handsome house in town, and all the other adjuncts of a man of fortune. We fear that dealing in corns is better than dealing in corn.—Country paper. [A STANDARD. At the recent rent audit of the Marquis of Downshire, at Great Shefford, the Marquis expressed his anxious wish to assist his tenants by every means in his power • and offered to provide at his own expense any new kind of im plement that they might select, for the use of the tenants generally ; or, if they thought it would improve the breed of their horses, he would send a Suffolk horse for their use. The Marquis also gave permission to all his tenants " to shoot or sport" over their farms ; and directed that all ash and elm trees which were damaging their farms should be cut down; empowering them also to grub up any hedge-rows which might be inconvenient. NATIONAL SOCIETY.—The monthly report of the pro ceedings of the National Society for promoting the education of the poor in the principles of the Church of England mentions, as one of the subjects particularly under consideration by the committee at present, the low state of the funds, inducing the fear that many schemes for building schools will fall through in consequence of the promoters failing to obtain grants. We hope this will lead to steps that may speedily re invigorate the financial capacity of this invaluable society. Certificates of the completion of various schools having been received, authority has been given to the treasurer to pay the several grants, amounting to £2,295. At the Guildhall, Bridgewater, on the 22d ult., Mrs. Harriet Barber, the lady of Captain Barber, and her four children, Robert, Tunis, Henry, and Clara, were charged with violently assaulting Miss Sarah Hurman, lady's maid in the service of Mrs. Barber. Captain and Mrs. Barber had gone to a party on the 14th December, and during their absence the children behaved in a very unruly man ner towards the complainant. She informed the captain of the circumstances on the following day, and he chas tised the children for their impertinence. Shortly after, the children told their mamma of the matter, and she, with them, immediately fell upon the complainant, and beat her. The chief defendant was fined £5, and Robert and Tunis £1 each and costs. The other defendants were discharged. HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE.-011 Tuesday the utmost excitement was created in the immediate vicinity of Lon don-bridge by smoke pouring forth from the entrance to one of the vaults used for burying the dead at St. Saviour's Church. The moment the door of the vault was opened, the effluvium that arose nearly knocked the firemen down. After considerable trouble the flames were extinguished, when a scene presented itself of a most horrible nature. A number of coffins were found to be so extensively burned that the dead bodies had fallen out and were ex posed to view ; some had their heads burned off, others had their entrails completely destroyed, whilst others were so charred that it would be impossible to identify them. Respecting the origin of the disaster nothing is precisely known. The Queen and Prince Albert have been graciously pleased to acknowledge the receipt of the balance-sheet of the Birmingham " Artisans' Movement," through G. E. Anson, Esq., in very flattering terms. Its receipt by the Hospital's great benefactor, Dr. Warneford, has also in like mariner been acknowledged :—"I this day received the balance sheet of the Artisans' Movement' in behalf of the Queen's Hospital ; and in justice to the artisans of Birmingham, I must state, that in the course of a long life this is the most noble subscription of the kind which has ever come before me, and is the most convincing proof of the high estimation in which the Hospital is held ; and may the Almighty continue to bless your ' labour of love' for the relief of the afflicted, and more especially of the grateful artisans of Birmingham and its neighboiirhood." At the late York assizes, Mr. Justice Coleridge said, in passing one of the sentences, " I think if the jury had considered the mischief and crime that results in this county, as well as in every other part of England from the use of liquor in excess, they would hardly have considered that that is any extenuation of your offence. It seems to me that, but for the cases where offences are brought on by the excessive use of intoxicating liquors, the courts of justice might be nearly shut up. lam sure that a great deal more than half the time of criminal courts is taken up in consequence of offences which have something to do with liquor. The old law said that if a man killed another when drunk he should be hung when sober. It must not like an excuse for crime WHAT NEXT —A clever, bu mblic throughc scandalous attempt to t the principal towns of the Messrs. Howell, James and Co., of Regent-street, whose names have been most unwarrantably made use of for the furtherance of the imposition. A body of indivi duals have removed from place to place a large quantity of worthless property, chiefly thin, highly-gummed, and catchpenny silks, and advertised them as a part of the rich stock of their house- in T and which, it was " had been forfr —n-payment of has so far not only The conspiracy, London, I for ti °wow been broken up, but in every case w] made, heavy fines hr- been sought .nst the whole of the dictraei [ere the attempt was and carried out n course of process receipts of the (Chartist) '` National Land Corn ' for the week ending December 20, 1847, are £2,010 16s. 7d. From more than a column of cheap books advertised in last week's Northern Star for the use of " the people," we select the following :—" Works by Holyoake the Deist on Theology, Morals, Politics, and Communism ;' Carlisle's Manual of Freemasonry ;' works by the Reverend Robert Taylor, familiarly called the Devil's Chaplain ; Tom Paine's ' Theological Works ;' Mirabeau's " System, of Nature ;" The Infidel's Text Book,' being the substance of thirteen lectures on the Marriage.' lobert Cooper Christianit on A Religion ;' Robert Ov;en's ' Lectures on -, II Considerable excitement prevails amongst the Wesleyan Methodists in the West of England, in consequence of a report that has been extensively circulated, that one or more of the Wesleyan ministers in the neighbourhood of Bridgewater have become Puseyites ; it is no unusual oc currence to see them wending their way to -church during the time of Divine service in the Wesleyan chapel, dressed in the long Roman coat adopted by the Oxford Tractari ans, with a huge prayer book under the arm, looking as demure as any son of Loyola ; any opposition from the officers of the society is visited with immediate dismissal. A few weeks since, a respectable tradesman in Bridge water, who held the office of circuit steward, was summa rily dismissed without any reference to the laws or usages of the society. It is supposed by some that a mar ble altar is in preparation for the chapel.—Bath Journal. REMARKABLE ACCIDENT.—The schooner-brig Hazard, Captain J. C. Pallot, left Pernambuco with a cargo for London. About the 24th of September last, whilst at sea, it was discovered that she leaked, and had fully four feet of water in her hold. After the pumps had been worked for five days the leak, wherever it was, only be came worse, and she was compelled to run into the nearest Irish harbour, Sneen, in the Kenmare river. There she discharged her cargo, was hauled down, and strange to tell it was then discovered that an iron chisel, 10 inches long and 11 wide, attached to a wooden stick of the length of about three feet, had by some means, how or when can never be known, got into one of the pumps, and that the consequence was, the more the pump was worked, the larger grew the hole cut by the chisel in the vessel's bot tom. The damage done to the Hazard and her cargo is estimated at between £B9O and £l,OOO. ..... , AN OVERDRAWN ACCOUNT.—A joint-stock bank hav ing suspended payment, notices were served upon parties whose accounts were overdrawn, stating the sums due from them to the proprietors, and calling for payment. Among other tradesmen who received a notice was a fruiterer. He was solemnly apprised that his balance stood on the wrong side, and that he must place himself in a state of perfect equilibrium by the payment of—ONE PENNY ! In due time the punctual debtor presented himself at the counter—deposited thereon a £5 note of the company's own paper—and received in exchange £4 19s. 11d. ! He retired from the bank chuckling over his luck ' • for while his neighbours were parting with the notes of the bank at 5 per cent discount, he had secured to himself 20s. in the pound. "Ah " said a poor share holder, to whom the story was told, " if they had always taken as good care of our pence, we should have had a better account of our pounds."—Gateshead Observer. IRONMASTERS ' QUARTERLY MEETING.—The great quarterly meeting of ironmasters was held at Birmingham. The attendance of ironmasters was very large, the prin cipal firms in Wales. South Staffordshire, and London being represented. Little business, however, was done, and most of the works having suspended operations alto gether, and the few that are employed working short time, irksensequcnce of the general strike throutmt,the., district, little inclination was evinced to take orders. In these circumstances, it was found almost impossible to fix prices. So far, however, as the leading firms can deter mine them, they remain as they were fixed at the preli minary meeting at Dudley, namely, a reduction of £2 from last quarter's quotations. The prices will, there fore, he for bars and roads, from £8 to £8 10s. ; hoops, £8 10s. to £9 ; sheets, £ll 10s. ; and pigs, varying in quality, from £3 10s. to £4 ss. The stock of all de scriptions, in the hands both of the manufacturers and consumers, is very limited ; and from the smallness of the make, there is every reason to anticipate that an aug mentation of price will speedily take place. It is grati fying to state in the present gloomy condition of the trade, that at this, as well as at the preliminary meetings, the settlements were generally made in a satisfactory manner. With regard to the workmen, the strike has become universal, and thousands of them are roaming through the district. Lord Arundel and Surrey has just published a pamphlet on the " Social and Political Condition of the British Ca tholics," meaning by the latter term British Romanists. His lordship is an amiable man, and as tolerant as his system will allow him. He desires to look lovingly on his Protestant countrymen, but, like his pope, he can scarcely concede to them a possibility—indeed the pope does not concede so much— a possibility of salvation. It is fortu nate for us that the matter is not in human hands, and that should we, of the goodness and mercy that were manifested through our Saviour Christ, attain to that "better resurrection" which was the object of apostolic aspiration, we shall be indebted neither to Surrey nor Pius. His lordship's feelings to his countrymen are thus expressed .—" To many members of the Established Church of this country I am bound by the closest ties of affection and intimacy. My heart is innocent of any other feeling than love for all, and where 1 am constrained, by the very nature of the subjects to insist upon the necessity of communion with the Catholic Church as a means of salvation, it must never be forgotten that, in cases of ' invincible ignorance,' the Church pronounces no positive opinion as to the limits of God's mercy." To this we have nothing to object. His lordship holds the opinion, as every genuine Papist must hold it, and he is right to avow it frankly. We abominate that hypocritical Ro manism which salutes you as " a fellow-Christian" with its lip, while in its heart it devotes you to destruction. Rome does not, and cannot admit the salvation of any one V not within her pale, A violent and unseemly altercation took place last week at the Sessions Court, Hull, between Mr. Dearsley, coun sellor, and the recorder, T. C. Granger, Esq. Mr. Dears ley was interrupted by the recorder, in his address for a prisoner, and afterwards indulged in very intemperate language against the recorder. An address has been pre sented to Mr. Granger, from the mayor and magistrates present on the bench during the sessions, who express their regret that " Mr. Dearsley should, without the slightest cause, have insulted him ;" their admiration of the " mild and gentlemanly manner " in which he rebuked Mr. Dearsley for his " wanton and unprovoked attack ;" and their satisfaction with the manner in which he has conducted the business at -the quarter sessions. A num ber of solicitors have also forwarded to Mr. Granger an address expressive of their sympathy towards him in re ference to the " painful and trying situation in which he w as placed," during the sessions, and of their approvol of " his temperate and forbearing conduct.,' THE BITER BIT.—As Mr. J. Melourn, of Upwell, was returning home alone late on Christmas night from Wisbech, when near Mr. Bird's barn on the Emneth road, he perceived two men walking in the middle of the road, who parted as he drove up just as he was passing them, and both snatched at the reins, which they missed, the driver pulling the reins up suddenly ; both men were knocked down, and the wheel passed over one. When Mr. Melbouru had passed, he turned round and saw the other man helping up the injured one, who called out lustily. A whistle was now heard, and a large bulldog sprang from the hedgeside and ran after his gig for some distance. On the same evening a man servant of Mr. Edwards, of Bardolph Fen, was stopped at Langhorn's lane, Oatwell, by a footpad, who demanded his money, and struck him a violent blow on the head with a stick ; but the servant being a little elevated by drink, turned upon the robber, and soon became the possessor of the cudgel, and ran off with it. It is a prickly holly, var nished and shod, and is now in the hands of his master. —Cambridge Advertiser. SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST THE RELATIONS OF A BANKRUPT.—SamueI Smith, formerly with his brother, carrying on an extensive business as worsted spinner, at Luddenfoot, near Halifax, is now in York Castle under a bankruptcy commissioner's warrant for not accounting for £l,OOO. The bankrupts failed in the latter end of May last ; and between the 31st May and the Bth of June they contrived to obtain payment of almost every debt 'due to them, and also to dispose of for cash or bills all their available stock in hand, for the purpose of defrauding Their creditors. The bankrupts employed several hundred combers, who resided at various places within a range of about ten miles from their mill; and at the time of their bankruptcy they were possessed of about 3,000 pairs of combs. The comb ledger in which these were entered was destroyed or withheld ; and David Smith, a younger bro ther of the bankrupts, was tried last week at the Wake field sessions, for having gone round, collected these combs, with sheets and pad, and disposed of them. He was convicted ; but judgment deferred, as he had pro mised to assist the assignees to recover the property. MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECKS.—A letter, dated Lerwick, Shetland, of the Bth instant, gives a deplorable account of shipwrecks among the islands during the last few weeks. Tne following is an extract :—" About three weeks ago, the Humber, of Hull, trading between that port and Hamburgh, came on shore near Neep, and went imme diately to pieces : crew saved. The Oscar, of Hull, be longing to the same owners, struck on the east part of Whalesay, and went to pieces, and all on board perished. The Amelia, of Kirkaldy, (flax laden,) is on shore on the north part of Nesting ; she still holds together, but is not expected to be got off: crew saved. The Claren don of Leith, (timber laden,) from America, struck on the island of Fetlar, and went to pieces : crew saved. The Harmony, of Bergen, 300 tons, laden with stock fish, is a wreck on the island of Unst : crew saved. About a fortnight ago, another large vessel, a Russian, named the Fortuna, was wrecked on the island of Whalesay, and out of a crew of nineteen, nine were drowned. On the 13th December a small sloop, the Isa bella, of Berwick, left Aberdeen for thai port, and has not been heard of." . . HE A RTLESS FRAUD.—A poor journeyman painter and glazier, named Fallowes, living with a wife and five child ran. in a ffarret in Short-street, Tabernacle-squar- 1 . _ bury, whose family were in extreme distress from his inability to procure employment for many weeks past, was walking near the Royal Exchange on the evening of Mon- who engaged him in conversation, and having aster the nature of his calling and the poverty he was enduring, affected to commiserate his unfortunate situation, and offered to procure him permanent work if he would ac company him to Gravesend, where the fellow stated that he was employed himself, and had the power, as foreman, of engaging others. The painter gladly accepted the offer, and took the man home to his lodgings to announce the gratifying fact to his family, which the fellow did, and arranged to call on him at 8 o'clock the next morning, to accompany him on board the steam-boat. Punctual to the moment, the man was at Fallowes's house, and the painter having rai - by pledging some trifling articles of wearing apparel, set off with his companion for London-bridge ; but on reach ing there the latter made the excuse of fetching a coat from his lodgings, and having desired the painter to a few sh wait until he- - returned, hurried off to the painter's wife, in breathless exhaustion that her husband had had the misfortune to loose all the money he had with him, and that the employment he had just obtained must inevitably be lost unless she immediately gave him all the money she could muster to pay his passage. The poor woman had but 4s. 2.d. to provide food for, herself and children for the ensuing week, and, retaining the odd pence, handed the man the balance of 45., with which he as hastily quitted s I the house. In the mean time the painter watched the saw nothing of his " friend," and after waiting fruitlessly for his return until nearly twelve o'clock, went home to his family, and then discovered that the whole was an artfully concocted scheme to extort money. The painter and his family, it appears, are well spoken of in the neighbourhood. CORRESPONDENCE, THE JEWS IN PARLIAMENT, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—As a resident in the country, I am not well aware of what may be transpiring in Liverpool ; but I am afraid nothing has yet been effected in the way of petitioning on any worthy scale against the commission of what I con ceive to be the climax of our national transgression, viz., the proposed measure for the admission of Jews into par liament. _ I well know that it is the opinion among the reflecting portion of the Christian community that it is almost hoping against hope to expect any change in the infatuated policy of rulers, or to arrest the downward progress of the nation ; but still, surely it is our bounden duty not to relax in our exertions, nor calmly to await the issue, without remonstrance. Do, Mr. Editor, use your influence to arouse the spirit of your Christian townsmen to a vigorous opposition to the measure. _ . Already, the Times is exulting over the indifference of the country, and construing our apathy into a tacit appro val of the measure.—Yours, &c CHRISTIANOS, [We have several times called the serious attention of our readers to this subject, but have not yet heard of any combined movement worthy of so important an object.] DIVINE WORSHIP IN CHURCHES TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—Permit me to address you on the subject of con ducting Divine worship in our churches. I have consi dered that to do so after the manner of " The Thinking Man" will not be inappropriate. I think that the Scripture exhortation, " Let all things be done decently and in order," will be a very good motto to bear in mind during this address. _ _ I think some orgaiiists suppose that good music and devotion consist in loud playing : this is a great mistake. I think sextons or pew-openers don't know their office when they place a stranger during service to the far end of a long gallery. I think quietness is very desirable in divine worship— all acknowledge it to be a great comfort ; therefore the practice of the sexton opening the seat doors for the con gregation is not very desirable. I think, for the same reason, there is too much attend ance upon the clergyman—to the reading desk—to the communion-table—to the vestry—to the pulpit : quietness Isttrereby TOst - slgtir 01. I think the communication from the vestry to the belfry should be cut off ; the ringing of the bell distracts the at tention of the congregation by causing them almost invo luntarily to look to the vestry to see what clergyman is coming : the bell-ringer should find out some other way when to cease his monotonous toil. I think the word " Amen," at the end of the Gloria Patri, ought not to be taken into either the tune or time in chanting. It mars the meaning. I think few clergymen in reading the collects observe that before the concluding words, " through Jesus Christ our Lord," the stop is a semicolon ; they generally make none, and so spoil the sense. I think a little time is required for the congregation to change their position from sitting to standing, standing to kneeling, &c., particularly in large congregations : it is painful and distracting, when you have knelt down, and quietness restored, to find that the clergyman has pro ceeded some way in the prayers. I think, in reading the Scriptures, it is erroneous to lay so much emphasis on the word " not," as if not had no meaning unless it be accented : a negative needs no em phasis unless it statids in opposition to a positive. I think the prayer before the sermon should be very so lemn, and yet not so solemn as that any part of it should be inaudible. I think Watson ' in his catechism on the Prayer-book, is correct, when he says (in regard to the time of kneel ing after the belief) " The Rubric is not clear;" and also when he adds (in answer to the question, " What, then, shall the people do ?"), " They (the people) will see what is the custom of the church they are in, by the time the minister waits before he pronounces, ' The Lord be with you,' and they will do as others do." I think I am led to this remark because I have observed that some persons always stand until the minister invites them to kneel by the solemn invitation, " Let us pray." They may be right, but they are singular, and do not act up to Watson's advice. And I think he is right ; I mean, his mode is the correct one ; for when the other mode is adopted, the impressive words, " The Lord be with you," " And with thy spirit," are lost in the bustle of kneeling ; and when silence is re gained, the minister is found at the second or third sen tence of the Lord's Prayer. I think the coughing, &c., is very distracting; a little reflection on the part of the congregation I am persuaded would prevent this, Let them but be in earnest in their Jan. 18,1848. errand to church, and they will greatly restrain all unne cessary disturbance, which will be to their own comfort/ as well as that of their fellow-worshippers. To prove that it may be done, I refer to the silence and attention always to be found at an interesting lecture at the Col legiate. I think if that beautiful prayer, beginning " 0 God, whose nature and property," is always omitted, our con gregations will forget it. I v think these few remarks are not inapropos at the commencement of a new year.—Yours, &c., Liverpool, Jan. 1, 1848. EXPERIENCE. THE DANGER OF INVASION Under the above head a letter appeared in the London Times of Wednesday, under the signature of " A Queen's Officer," which contains some statements calculated ma terially to diminish the fears excited by the recent letters of the Duke of Wellington and others, as to the capabi lity of the country to repel a French invasion. We shall endeavour to give briefly the substance of the communi cation. The writer commences by supposing the worst circum stances to exist, under which an invasion could tako place ; that a war had broken out between the two coun tries with little previous warning ; and that, whereas Great Britain had not a single steam-ship of war to the east of Portsmouth, France had ready collected at Boulogne 40 large steamers, each capable of conveying 1000 men, with ten more for the conveyance of the necessary materiel, ammunition, &c. ; and that each ship was provided be sides with four flat boats, for the purpose of enabling the troops (50 at a time) to obtain a landing. A calm and beautiful morning is selected, with the tide to answer at 6 a.m. As the ships, however, would draw at least 14 feet of water, and the harbour at Boulogne does not carry that depth for more than four hours each tide, the writer assumes that it would require five hours at least to get the fleet, boats, &c., to sea, allowing five minutes for each ; and that consequently a portion of the number must wait the next tide. But allowing for the most'fa= vourable state of things for the enemy, the writer says,— " I will suppose the whole fleet out, and that by noon, or a little after, they are formed, arranged, and ready to proceed, we will say, to the shore nearly opposite, some where to the westward of Folkestone, distance above 30 miles. Now, Sir, these vessels having each.four indis pensable flat boats to tow for the purpose of disembarca tion, it will be totally impossible with due regard to their safety, for these vessels to proceed at a greater speed than six knots an hour • consequently it must be - five in the afternoon before they can reach their anchorage. Having done so, the next operation is to hoist out their own boats, the larger for troops, the smaller for directing-officers, advice-boats, Scc.,• as well as to place in each of the flat boats 40 men, among the ship's boats 40 men more , making the whole force to be landed 8,000. To place these men in their boats, to organize and arrange the mass for the purpose of the general onset, one hour and a half will be a very creditably short time, so that the whole force of the first division is prepared to push to the shore by half-past six of this fine summer evening. I may be told that they would commence coming out in the night, and thus save time ; but it can be clearly shown that such a manoeuvre would not befriend them with regard to taking us by surprise." Taking, at the same time, the worst state of things for ourselves—that all our ships of war and steamers are ab sent—at all events he conceives that we must have had at least 14 days' notice of our danger, and that govern ment will have taken care to concentrate the pittance of 5000 men in London or its vicinity. In the absence of larger vessels, we should be most likely to have had a lit— tle advice steamer plying in the channel ; and as this steamer, although not able to see the troops in Boulogne, would assuredly not be blind to the assembling of 50 large war-steamers, with their funnels, smoke, &c., outside of such assembling, and return to watch their sailing and destination. The writer.proceeds to describe her course of operation " On the day of leaving the harbour, at 6 a.m., she sees the first steamer, then the second come out, and she immediately steers towards Folkestone; in 50 minutes she is within pre-concerted distant signal distance, by a little after 7 a.m. it is made out there, and the electric telegraph has conveyed it to the Horse-Guards by half past 7; while the men are being placed in the train car riages a second or third message indicates what part of the shore the enemy are proceeding to. Now, Sir, I have placed the enemy in the boats, ready to land at half-past 6 p.m. Here are eleven hours in which to bring down the 5,000 men to the coast. Will these men not be down and have taken their position long before the enemy could land ? Why, Sir, with the most ordinary diligence they will have done so ; and now let the 8,000 men make for the shore, when they please. If the force I have given, or even 4,000, supported by flying artillery, and the exist ing martello towers manned by the coast-guard (without counting the country people.) do not preyell evert - Sold from landing except for the purpose of being immediat ely made prisoners, then, sir, we shall deserve to be classed with those unhappy Mexicans who now, as in the days of ;ezuma, know nothing of war but running away " It is no joke in the face of an enemy to attempt to land, even when well organised and practised. The greatest feat we ever performed of that description was the bril liant landing on the shores of Egypt, where we bad nearly 200 sail, and a week to prenarq; yet we could not manage to throw on shore more than the reserve under Sir John Moore of 5,000 men at the first landing, and the second division were not disembarked for four hours after ; and, although there were but 1400 or 1500 opposed to us, the French believing that the real landing was to be elsewhere, it was no child's play gaining their position. And here I must further impress on you and the public, that this landing never could have been accomplished with the ce lerity and order in which it was performed, had there not been previous drilling, sham landing, &c., in Marmorice Bay, which, under the hypothesis we have established, would be denied the French. " Now, sir, supposing the enemy repulsed—there is an end of the affair ; the 32,000 remaining on board are worse than useless, all becomes disorder and confusion, and the only thing left is to make the best of their way to their own port." He proceeds next to point out the extreme exaggeration of the case which he has put. In the first place the enemy have not fifty war steamers ; and, in the next, they could not concentrate them in any given port without our knowledge. We could not have so short a no tice as 14 days ; and it is not probable that we should be without 15 or 20 war-steamers available to resist their progress ; and no fleet, so encumbered with troops, flat boats and materiel as described, could put to sea in the face of 15 to 20 war-steamers, without the certain pros pect of being cut up in detail, and of utter failure in their object. It has been lost sight of too that nearly every port in the Channel coast of Franee is a bar harbour, and dry at low water. The writer admits,:however, that a predatory war could be carried on along our shores by fleets of small steamers, by which our southern coast towns might be seriously da maged ; and hence insists upon the importance of erect ing defensive forts in such situations and of such a de scription as the first military science would advise. By a little timely attention to such precautionary measures, he conceives that France herself, on maturely weighing the probabilities in her favour, would readily see that the chance of any attack upon us, with a view to land an army, is almost hopeless. RESULTS OF THE-IRISH CONCILIATION POLICY (From Blackwood's Magazine.) The Catholic disabilities, which we had been tom for thirty years were the main cause of its distressed condition, were repealed irrlt329: - .19. - large measure of parliamentary reform—larger than the most vehement Irish patriots ventured to dream of—was conceded in 1832. Corporate reform succeeded in 1834; the Protestant corporations were dispossessed of power; the entire management of all the boroughs of the kingdom was put into the hands of the Romish multitude ; and a large portion of the county magistracy were, by the appointment of successive liberal Lord Chancellors, drawn from the better part of those of the same religious persuasion. The Protestant clergy were deprived of a fourth of their incomes to appease the Romish Cerberus ; and, to avoid the vexation of collect ing tithes from persons of a different religious belief, they were laid directly as a burden on the land ; Maynooth was supported by annual grants from government; the system of national education was modified so as to please the Ro man Catholic clergy. Monster meetings, where sedition was always, treason often, spoken, headed by O'Connell, were allowed to go on, without the slightest opposition, for two years ; and when at length the evil had arisen to such a height that it could no longer be endured, the lead ing agitator, after being convicted in Ireland, was liberated, in opposition to the opinion of a great majority of the twelve judges, by the casting vote in the House of Peers of a Whig Jaw-Lord. What have been the results ? Has crime decreased and industry improved, and civilization advanced under the liberal system ? Has attachment to the British govern ment become universal, and hatred of the stranger worn out, in consequence of the leniency with which they have been treated, and the unparalleled generosity with which their wants have been supplied ? The facts are notori ously and painfully the reverse. Hatred of the Saxon was never so general or so vehement ; idleness and recklessness were never so widespread ; destitution was never so uni versal ; life and property was never so insecure, as after this long system of concession and these unparalleled acts of private and public generosity. The Irish Repeaters declare that, though Ireland, like England, has been blessed with an uncommonly fine harvest, there are four millions of persons in that country in a state of hopeless misery ; and supposing, as is probably the case, that this statement is exaggerated, the authentic reports to parlia ment on the state of the poor prove that there are above two millions of paupers, or a full fourth of the population' Au a state verging on starvation. A new so-called i coercion bill has been brought into parliament in consequence of the great increase of crimes of violence, and, akave a ll,, of cold-bl9eded murders, Jel Ba lar Od Poi fro Loi Pri lon Chi De/ Ha , Jan La Tu( We Tht P„ril ,za.