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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL, FRANCE. disposition., that am About to speak. Some five-and twenty years since he had a,quarrel with another (Polish) artillery officer, whom he challenged to fight with pistols. They met. On the ground they tossed for the first shot, and Bern lost. His adversary took aim, fired, and Hem , fell. Th e officer, believing him d ea d, p repare d t o , qu it the field, but Bern, who had received the ball in his right hip, turned over on his left side, raised himself on his el bow and said, " Stop, comrade; it is my turn now. Take your place." The - officer did so, and in a moment fell, shot through the heart. gem lingered long under - the wound. The ball could not be extracted. During twenty years he suffered excruciating torments from its presence, and at last resolved on proceeding to London to consult the faculty there. He was told that the operation, -to be successful, must be a •very painful one. He at once said that he would submit to it. He was accordingly thrown by ether into a state of stupor, and the operation com menced. The circular saw had indented the bone round the bullet, when the intense agony roused the patient. The operator became Alarmed, but Bern reassured him, 11 A f• • • . tion prevail most among the parishioners. A new church, faiainferior in architectural beauty, has been erected much nearer the clergyman's residence, half a mile from the old church. The Rectory of Bishopwearmouth has been conferred the Rev. John Patrick Eden, M.A., perpetual curate of St. Andrew Auckland, and son-in-law of Lord Brougham. In connexion with this appointment a re-distribution of the revenues has been made, but it has been confined to the parish of Bishopwearmouth. The distribution may be summoned up in a few words. £2OOO is to constitute the income of the Rector. St. Thomas' Church, Bishop wearmouth, is to have £200; St. Andrew's, Depford, £150; St. Mary's, Hylton, £100; Trinity Church, Ry hope, £lOO. The surplus (£1,450) is to be funded, and disposed of hereafter, according as the experience of the working of the above arrangement during the next three years may point out to be most necessary. EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SCOTLAND.—DIOCESE OF GLASGOW AND GALLOWAY.—CONFIRMATION.—On Sa turday, the 11th ult. the Bishop of the Diocese held his first confirmation in Glasgow, within the temporary cha ugees. 1 1 •... acp ua pel in Cathe r i ne - s t ree t, k n d erston. The Incumbent read , 4.a .. ... ....... .--'. r........ I anynnlete success. The ball was extracted, and Bens per- 1 the usual prayers ; and the Bishop having delivered a most impressive address, proceeded to administer the solemn rite to fifteen candidates. After service a meeting of the clergy and churchwardens was held in the vestry, the Bishop in the chair, at which it was agreed that as the subscription now amounted to nearly £l2OO, immediate steps should be taken for the erection of the new church ; and that in the meantime, till the completion of the struc ture, a resident curate should be engaged, whose whole time should be devoted to the poor of the district, nearly 2,000 of whom are living estranged from the Church in which they were baptised. ,His Lordship was pleased to sanction these arrangements, subscribing £5O to the building fund, and £lO to the curate's stipend for one year, when, the church being built, it is believed there will be ample resources from the increased congregation for the due support of a clergyman, without extraneous aid. HORFIELD CASE.—Tt has been known that there is evidence that Lord Melbourne entered into an under standing with Bishop Allen, that the valuable leases should be allowed to run out and go to augment the re. venues of the Church ; that the estimated value of the Horfield tithes and estates are £3,000 a-year ; but that the incumbent has only £BO a year, besides £6O allowed by Government for doing duty at the barracks near Bristol; that, consequently, the incumbent and his curate have, on the average, between them, about £l4O a year; and that the bishop has neither continued his prede cessors' customary annual payment of £5, nor done any i thing for the schools of the parish ; that his lordship has , an income which averages £6,400 on the last septennial calculation, and will, on an average, amount to at least oe poor wretch lay asleep attacked him, cleaving his head £5,700 a year in future, besides his palace and several in pieces. valuable commendams, the amount of which is not REVERSE OF FORTUNE. —WO happen to know that a stated, but which would probably be underrated at£2,ooo clergyman at Leitrim who has been receiving out-door a year besides. It is under these circumstances that the relief; two other gentlemen, one a captain of militia, the bishop proposes to renew the lives, instead of allowing enthusiasm, other having had a p roperty o f £6 OO or £7OO per annum, th e l ease to depend on one, which is expected to drop Tha Fren c h g o v e rnmen t h a d d eterm i ned u are now redu c ed t o pauper i sm i n an adjoining county, the f rom month to month. To prevent this catastrophe, the in pon despatch- latter having b een f or years defraudel by his tena n t r y. commissioners have agre e d t o pay th e bi s h op £11 , 500 , g 3500 tro o ps in six steamers to the assistance of the Another sad instance of reverse of fortune and station is which might otherwise have been employed for the Pope, for his personal safety. This has been asserted, by that of a lady candidate as inmate of the workhouse ; this general good of the church.—Record. the ReArrne, an oppositi on j ourna l , to b e only a stroke of melancholy victim of fortune's frowns is the sister of a ORIGIN OF THE GRIEVANCES IN THE TEMPORALITIES policy, on the part of General Cavaignac. for eainina nn_ -,, of property amounting OF THE IRISH CHURCH.—A century since, if a peer or a bishop had a son or a nephew needing a " good living," • - and none offered at the moment, how obvious the tempta tion to make a rich benefice, by uniting several small ones ! In such a s t a t e o f t hi ngs, an d among such persons, • --- -- a---_- --•----- •-a-----, a. waa, iliamuniy, and he w as d esperate l y b eaten be- to its ostensible purpose. cause he would not easily surrender it. The perpetrators can it be doubted that arrangements of this sort were In the mean time there is good reason to hope that of this, however, have been taken and lodged in gaol. often made ? The principal law authorizing such other means of succour to the Pontiff have already anti- One man is threatened with death if he acts as herdsman, unions," and making them legal and permanent, was cipated the French governmen t . Th e news f rom Naples it is presumed on pastures whence tenants have been passed in the 2d of G eorge I. A n d Bi shop Mant tells us, states that the misfortunes of the Pope have been expected evicted ; and another if h e t a k es a f arm. Tenants are th a t b etween 1721 and 1799, he finds mention of sixty there for s ome t i me . an d t h at Ad m i ra l P ar k er had a fort- sworn not to pay more than one half-year's rent, and one such unions having been formed, embracing, some night before despatched her Majesty's steam-sloop Bull- landlords are warned not to receive more ; while to can two, some three, some four, and some even five and six dog, Commander A. C. Key, to Civita Vecchia, to assist the whole, the excise collector is warned that in a , certain parishes. But either this is an imperfect statement, or the retreat of the Pope, and to receive him on board for district named they will pay neither license nor paper duty, the practice of forming unions must have continued in conveyance to any place he might select for an asylum. and he must not seek either there.—Limreick ?Japer. full activity after the Union. For the Commissioners of Looking at the horrid state in which Rome is now placed, DREADFUL DESTITUTION. —1 he provincial papers re- Inquiry, in their Report of 1835, state, that they found in all the v i o l ence o f anarc h y , an d am id st a h ost of assas- ceived from the South and West are teeming with reports 907 benefices consisting of a single parish ; and 478 unions, sins who rule ever y thi ng by th e i r bl oo d y v i olence, we of cases of the most frightful destitution, disease, and of two or more. Now, if these unions consisted entirely shall certainly hear with satisfaction that the Pope has death. The potatoes have nearly disappeared from these of two parishes only, it is clear that there would be 956 found his way in safety to Malta or some other place of doomed regions —the harvest earnings are spent in pur- parishes, or more than half of the whole, held in union. refuge. chasing food down to a recent period—the poorhouses ar e Supposing, however, the average of th un of two, Letters from Rome of th e 21 s t u lt. announce t h at a crowded to overflowing, and notwithstanding the extent three, four, five, and six parishes to be ese three, ions sho uld resolution had been proposed i n th e Ch am b er o f D eput i es to which outdoor relief is administ ere d the poor in ft,. then find 1,434 p ar i s h es held in uni on , w hil e on l y 907 on that day to vote an a dd ress t o th e P ope t o d ec l are the r,,,,,,,,...:—.......,., , '' . • had a pastor to themselves. Some other lamentable facts appear in this same Report of 1835, which may as well be given in this place. The Commissioners report, that they ,o the , found 210 p ar i s h es w ith out any church. And this was the settled state of things, to amend which scarcely any A strange report appears in the Monaghan paper of effort was making ! Of a piece with this was the further Saturday—namely, that Lord Blayney, one of our most fact, that in 157 parishes there was no resident clergyman, constantly resident noblemen, and not an embarrassed and no service of any kind ! And this was the•state of one, had parted with his residence and estates at Castle- things in 1835, after a great revival of religion had long blayney, county Monaghan, and was about to reside in been going on, and when, beyond all doubt, there must England. This would be a most unexpected removal, have been far more vigour and strength in the Church and one which probably would have a considerable effect than at any former period. What, then, must have been on the local politics of Cavan, Monaghan, and Fermanagh, the state of things a century back ? Is it not wonderful, in each of which counties this nobleman and his ancestors that even a million of Protestants should have been found have always exe rc i se d great i nfluence. Lord Blayney was in existence, afte r suc h a sys t em o f neg l ect and corruption an ultra-Conservative of the Roden and Enniskillen had existed for more than a century ?—Record. school. An English capitalist, it is said, has been the NEW CHURCHES AND D ISTRICTS .—A very i mpor t ant purchaser. meeting of the incumbents of new churches and districts TENANT RIGHT. —L as t wee k a tenant in this county, was held at the N a ti ona l S c h oo l , E trur i a, S taffordshire, who owed a yea r - an d-h a lf' s rent, called upon his land- on Tuesday, f or th e p urpose o f cons id er i ng the present lord, and ex p ress i ng his anxiety to lay down two fields position of district churches, especially as to the inade with wheat, requeste d to be lent a pair of horses to plough quacy of "the vol un t ar y system in supplying funds f or the ground. Th e request was granted, and after four the maintenance of di v i ne wors hi p and the repair of the days the ho rses were returned. The landlord being fabric, and t o a d op t memor i als to his Grace the Archbi desirous to se e h ow th e wor k had been executed, visited shop of Canterb ur y, th e L or d Bi s h op of Lichfield, and the farm the d a y a ft er t h e h orses came home, and found the first Mi n i s t er o f th e C rown, humbly praying that that the field s were unp l oughed, upon which he went to means may be devis e d t o f orm a ll Chapelries and Distri c t s his tenant's h ouse , b ut he was not a:, home, and the into separatt P ar i s h es , an d lik ew i se to nominate a depu tation to pres en t suc h memor i a l . T he Rev. H. Wynter, house was occupi e d by an apparent pauper. On further o inquiry it appe are d th e h orses were used to remove all of Etruria, presided ; an d on th e mot i on o f the Rev. F. the crops and fu rn it ure , w hi c h were sold, and the occupier Wade, a memori a l t o th e di gn i tar i es mentioned, was refused possession, unless he got £2O, asserting that he agreed to, praying for the entire separation of all districts gave £lO for the tenant-right.—Cork Constitution. and chapelries, as regards all rates, fees, and appoint- WHAT AN I RISH LANDLORD MAY DO.—The following ments of church offi cers . Th e l atter gentleman, in the is from the j u d ges ' report of the late " show " on Lord course of his speech, a ll u d e d t o a case " ex hibi ting the h George Hill's prop er t y a t G weedore, in the county of hardships to whi c h c h urc h es erecte d under Sir Robert Donegal, a plac e w hi c h owes entirely its present coma- Peel's Act we re expose d. Th e case was that of a church rative pro s p er it y to hi s lordshi s excellent mans emepnt with which h e was we ll acqua i nted : i t was erected prin and the inst ruc ti on h e has afforded ' to his peasantry: , cipally throu g h th e mun ifi cence o f a b enevolent indi " Taking i n t o cons id erat i on the many difficulties the peo- vidual : a dist r i c t was ass i gne d , b ut b y b eing taken out ple of Gweedore h a d t o con t en d w i th during the last two of a district parish, th e i n h a bi tants h a d two rates to pay years, in consequ ence o f th e f a il ure of the potato crop, without partakin g o f any b ene fi t f rom them. The sti we were not prepa r ed t o see so many competitors for the Pend of the cler g y man was lit t l e more than £lOO, of premiums given th roug h your l or d sh i p to the Trish Pea. which sum £5O was a gran t f rom t h e Additional Curates santry Society. The ind us t r y o f women is perceptible, Society; ; for rep a i r s an d a ll o th er expenses, about £9 per from the qu an tity an d qua li ty o f the flannels, bed-ticking, annum had been raised, £6 o f w hi c h was d er i ved from an annual collection. W as it, h e wou ld as k , reasonable or blankets, andadoth shown this d a y : the neatness of th e just that Cher parent churches should be freed from the several parcels would reflect credit upon any manufaetory; charge of upards 2,000 souls, and yet enjoy all the rates the bed-ticking in particular is excellent. The butter is of the district, in addition to making a claim on all the superior to any exhibited in former years, and quite equal fees which were collected in the poorer church ? Or was to any we have seen in the neighbouring market towns. It is, indeed, m os t gra tif y i ng to perceive such an inc r e ase it to be expected th a t th e ill -requ i ted clergyman was and improvement in thi s p art i cu l ar b ranch of trade, which continually to have his mi n d h arasse d as to h ow h e was must in a few ye ar s b ecome very remunerative in this to provide for the s u pp or t o f hi s c h urc h ? He honestly mountain district, wh ere , a t a very moderate expense, believed that, a t thi s moment, t h ere were many clergy deep bog can be ma d e t o pro d uce from eight to ten tons men who contribut e d l arge l y out of' their inadequate sti per acre of that most nu t r iti ous o f grasses—fiorin. " pends to carry on the serv i ces o f th e i r c h urc h es. " PROGRESS OF DE STITUTION, D EMORALISATION, AND THE ' HON. BAPTIST N OEL .— O n S un d ay wee k , S t. RUIN.—For some weeks p as t we h ave b een forced to re- Johns Chapel, Bedf or d- row , L on d on, was at an early cord the progress o f I re l an d a l ong the " road to ruin." hour crowded t o so grea t an excess t h at i t was barely pos- The work grows up on us , an d we see no prospect of a Bible to obtai n even s t an di ng room. A large number of cessation or diminutio n o f our most unpleasing task. A persons were evidently a tt rac t e d t o th e c h ape l b y curios i ty t reference to anoth er par t o f t hi s paper, exhibits a most to ascertain the " reasons " ass i gne d b y Mr. Noel for his deplorable state of thin gs : agrar i an outrages, attempts at proximate secession from th e E s t a bli s h e d Ch urc h . Th ey assassination, atta c k s on persons and habitations by armed were, however, "s en t emp t y sway, " f or the rev. gentle men, burglaries, and ro bb er i es. I n addition to all these man, in the course of hi s l ong an d a bl e discourse did reve did not , make the most remo t e a ll us i on to t h e subject. T the country is r if e w ith pre di al disorganisation, dishonesty, rend gentleman's reti r e men t i s , h owever, placed b eyon d destitution, and retrogad e mora l s : tenants flying from their farms, w hi c h th ey l eave uncultivated—defrauding doubt, as he h as hi mse lf announced i t. On Wednesday evenine, at the usual wee kly serv i ce at S t. J o h n ' s Chapel, the landlords of ye ars o f rent, and sweeping away every - where 'Mr. Noel h a s officiated for the last 26 y ears , th e thing which is ca p a bl e o f b e i ng removed—others holding r their ground, but resi s ti ng t o t a ll y t h e payment of rent ; ev. gentleman se l ec t e d f or hi s text, Rev. i. 5,6, " Unto ejectment s , numerous an d wholesale, following as a na- Him that lov e d us an d was h e d us f rom our sins in His own tural and una vo id a bl e resu lt ; res i stance to taxes and poor blood, and bath ma d e us ki ngs an d pr i ests unto God and rates, the latte r o f w hi c h are levied `•at the point o f th e His Father, to Hi m b e g l ory an d d om i n i on for ever and —" bayonet ;"and, to crown all, hund re d s o f t h e i dle and the ever, Amen ;"—and th en procee d e d as f o ll ows : My discontented b es i eg i ng t h e poor houses in crowds, and dear Christian b re th ren , many o f you h ave h ear d that, as t clamouring for indoor re li e f an d out d oor relief—for that the result of opinions d e lib era t e ly f orme d, w hi c h I k now bread which they have been taught to look for as the pri- no t alter,howtoto e resist, i st, I h e forceave beenof obliged conviction u o t - h o i n c i h m I o n a r e man's brow."—D u bli n Mail. vilege of idle ness , an d not the earnings of " the sweat ofnot permitted my intention of l eav i ng thi s congr e ga ti on , w h ere I h ave ministered for so long a period with comfort and satisfac tion to myself, if not with profit to others. Since I ad dressed you last I have seen my diocesan, and he considers it to be his duty—an opinion from which I do not dissent —to determine that I shall not remain with you beyond next Sabbath. This, therefore, is the last Wednesday evening on which I shall have the privilege of addressing you. But let us not think of little matters ; let us indulge in meditations on the best of all subjects ; and I have chosen the words of my text because they speak of our best friend, and are calculated very much to console and animate us." The rev. gentleman then proceeded with his address, but in no degree further alluded to the pain ful subject of quitting his flock.—The chapel of St. John's is held under a lease from the trustees of Rugby School, and the term of years, which formerly belonged to the Bishop of Calcutta, is now vested in his son, the Rev. Daniel Wilson. The Globe says that it was not Mr. Noel's intention to leave the church until Midsum mer next, in order that due time might have been allowed his people to choose a successor and make the necessary arrangements for carrying on the schools and the various religious and charitable institutions maintained by his congregation ; but on Tuesday the Bishop of London sent for the rev. gentleman, and, after ascertaining from him that the reports of his intention to secede from the church were true, at once intimated to him that he would be pro hibited from preaching again in any church or chapel within the diocese of London. Mr. Noel, on receiving this intimation, said, in the most respectful manner, that he could not consent to act in accordance with the prohi bition, as he had not yet spoken to his congregation in their collective capacity on the subject of his intended secession. The Bishop said lie was determined to enforce the prohibition. It was eventually agreed that Mr. Noel should be permitted to preach on Sunday in his chapel, on the understanding that that is to be the last time on which he is to officiate as a minister of the Church of England. His " Reasons for Seceding from the Church of England" have been put into the hands of the printer. On Tuesday the leading members of his congregation met, when they unanimously resolved to present a me morial to the rev. gentleman, entreating him to reconsider his resolution to leave the church, and expressing an ardent hope that the result of such reconsideration would be his still remaining with them. It was then agreed to nomi nate a deputation to wait upon him with the memorial, and to receive his answer; but it was found that those who were nominated could not be prevailed upon to un dertake the mission, owing to its very delicate nature. The Red Republicans are outrageous against General Cavaianac for having dispatched an expedition to Civita Vecchia to rescue Pio Nono, in case his personal safety should be endangered. The Era Nouvelle says:—" The silence observed on SaturOay in the National Assembly by M.-de Lamartine and M. Francois Arago is significative. -It-was attempted to induce M. de Lamartine to speak. M. , Garnier Pages said to him—' I shall put i n t erpo ll at i ons to you, and you must speak. M. de Lamartine will not do so, for neither myself nor the Executive Committee is in volved in the affair; get out of it as well as you can.' M. de Lamartine also declared that he was far from enter taining towards the Chief of the Executive Government any feeling of hostility or ill-will." In the sitting of the National Assembly on Wednesday, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and - the Minister for the Interior. gave certain explanations as to the alleged mea sures of severity which had recently been a d o pt e d i n th e t - . . - went of patitsh re. it was reported on the 13Ourse that in consequem of the recent arrivals from Rome the expedition to Civita Vecchia would be stopped. On Tuesday, upwards of 1200 Nationat Guards, with the colonel at their head, had an audience of General Ca vaignac in his garden, congratulating him upon his de fence on Saturday last, and expressing the confidence they entertained of his character and conduct. Gen. Cavaignac replied in a few words of gratitude for the sentiments pro claimed, and the parties sers.r,t.,l while the operation was resumed, and was crowned with complete success. The ball was extracted, and Bern per fectly recovered.—Paris letter. The Paris journal, the Rcforme, hints rather signifi cantly. that the order given by Gen..Cavaignac, to for ward 3500 troops to the assistance of the Pope, was merely an electioneering manoeuvre, to forward his ambi tion in obtaining the presidency. The number of burials in Paris, which amounted to 21,505 in 1845, rose in 1846 to 23,822, and to 24,187 in 1847. ITALY. • THE INSURRECTION AT ROME. In the STANDARD of last week we gave the particulars of the insurrectionary proceedings of the populace of Rome, to obtain from the Pope a democratic ministry. This the Pope yielded, but since then, it has been ru moured, flat his holiness, after being kept prisoner in his own palace, had succeeded in effecting his escape. Accounts from Rome of the 23d state that the report of the Pope's flight was premature, his holiness not having quitted the city up to that date : but whether he was a willing occupant of his palace, or detained there by a con tinual watch upon his movements, does not appear. Certain it is, that every arrangement was made to aid the escape of the Sovereign Pontiff. should his anxious to avail himself of the opportunity for so doing. The new ministry had issued their political programme, which declared their adhesion to the principles contained in the resolutions of June s—resolutions that had been received by the .deliberative assembly with so much .". ru- gentleman who was once possessed pularity with a vi ew t o t h e P res i dential election; but the to £9,000 a year. Sligo Journal fact that such a demonstration is looked upon as likely to DISORGANISATION OF SOCIETY , gain popularity proves that the assistance thlict A viole he part o France, will be pushed forw poor man who was taking home a bag ouenty of the Chamber to his Holiness. The resolution was rejected. The Abbe de Rosmini had quitted Rome for Paris, charged with a secret mission. waLrieLs are suttermg all the hor rors of famine. Starvation rages in the counties of Mayo, Cork. Sligo, Kerry, Clare, and Galway, to a fearful extent, and more or 'egg an,—.l graph, dated Paris, Friday evening, states that official intelligence had arrived from Civita Vecchia to the 26th ultimo. The Pope had left Rome on the 24th in dis guise, and had arrived at Gaeta, to which place the steamer Lenare had gone to meet him, and convey him to France. Rome remained tranquil, and seemed in different as to the Pope's departure. The Chamber had passed a vote of confidence in the Ministry. The son of Rossi, standing over the dead body of his father, vowed awful vengeance on the murderer, whom he says he will devote "c. to d' "" Duchess de Ri gnana h a d writtend iscover a letter to the late mi nister. cautioning him not to attend on the opening day. The document was found on his person. AUSTRIA. The Austrian diet was opened on the 22d ult., at Kremeier. Two more military executions under the orders of General Windischgratz are reported • that of Dr. Beck er , sa id t o b e an E ngl i shman, and Dr.'Jellench, editors of the Radical. A grand funeral ceremony with a huge catafalque, in the presence of 15,000 troops, with General Windischgratz, had been performed in the neigh bourhood of Vienna, in honour of the murdered Count Latour. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. Mr. M. H. Irving, of King's College School, has ob tained the first scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford. The Dublin Mail says that there are twenty-two Colo nial Bishops, and amongst them not one single Irishman. The total amount raised by the Church Missionary Society since its commencement, in 1799, exceeds two millions five hundred thousand pounds. A Protestant Association is about to be formed at Don caster, and preparatory to it the Rev. Hugh Stowell will deliver a lecture there this evening (Tuesday.) The nave of Hereford Cathedral, it is stated, is forth with to be fitted up for the daily celebration of divine worship. The Rev. A. Thomas, M.A., has been presented to the vicarage of Rottingdean, Sussex. Patron, Earl of Aber gavenny. On Wednesday the living of Prescot, in Lancashire, was presented to the Rev. Charles Chapman, by the Pro vost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge, vacant by the death of the Rev. C. George Driffield. The Bishop of Llandaff has received the thanks of the diocese for his endeavour to protect it from the intrusion of Clergymen not conversant with the language of the Welsh people. The Rev. T. C. Makinson, B.A. late of St. John's College. Camb r id ge , h as conformed' to the Church of Rome. Mr. Makinson was formerly curate at Manches ter for two years, and left this country in 1837, on an appointment in the diocese of Sydney, New South Wales, as a Government chaplain. A COINCIDENCE.—St. Augustine's College, Canter bury, opened (partially) on Friday. Among the students there was one who gave in the following name—" John Bird Sumner Austin"—the combined names of the first and last Archbishop of Canterbury ! We hope this is a favourable omen for both college and collegian. GRATIFYING CIRCUMSTANCE.—The parishioners of Jarrow, Northumberland, on recently learning of the in tended removal from the perpetual curacy of the incum bent, memorialised the patron in favour of the curate, the Rev. J. M. Mason. In reply, the patron stated that it was his intention prior to the receipt of the memorial, to present the living to Mr. Mason, and that he was much deceived if he (Mr. Mason) did not value the compliment paid him by the memorialists more highly than the pre sentation of the living itself. A DESTRUCTIVE. The interesting old church at Buckenhall, six miles from Taunton, is undergoing entire demolition, the tine old gothic w i n d ows b e i ng b ro k en up to mend a wall. A cross and other parts were taken to Taunton, to be kept as a memento of what appears a very strange proceeding. A faculty for taking the build ing down was obtained of the by the Rev. E. Portman. It is difficult to say whether grief or indigna- THE CHASE. The CHESHIRE HO UNDS meet to-morrow (Wednesday) at Warmington ; on Thursday, at Appleton Hall ; and on Saturday, at Saighton—at 11. Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS meet to-morrow (Wed. nesdav) at Little Ness; on Thursday, at Iscoyd ; and on Saturday, at Halsten Gate—at half-past 10. Dec. 5, 1848. GREAT BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE. —The works st rongest assurances of support. As an instance of the of this great s t ruc t ure, w hi c h are of twice the stupendous division in th e Whig-Radical ranks, we may observe that character of those over the river Conway, have been put the Manchester Guardian (whig paper), supports Mr. in full operation this week, and are already in an advan- Denison, the Yorkshireman (radical paper), supports Mr. ced state. The platform for this purpose across the Roebuck, the Leeds Mercury (another radical paper), Menai Straits alone is half a mile long, and four large supports Sir Culling Eardley , and the Liverpool Mercury tubes, each weighing 1,700 tons, are now nearly comple- recommends " the liberal party to stand aloof and take ted. Each tube is 472 feet long, and will have to be no part in the struggle." This is evidence of a worse floated half a mile along the straits, and then raised 106 split than that which has taken place among the Conser feet home. The end tubes are also much advanced. The vatives. scaffold or platform on which they are being put together POPERY AND MORALITY. —The Pope is practically de is 100 feet high, 230 feet long, and 60 feet broad, capable throned. His Prime Minister having fallen under the of sustaining a weight of 1,500 tons on the top. The poignard of the assassin, and his Secretary by a ball of cast-iron work of the bridge wei g h s up war d s o f 2,000 tons, the rebels, he, by the last accounts, was a prison= rin hie and the chains used for raising it will alone weigh 100 palace • anxious to escape, but watched by his dntiful tons. It will be floated on eight p on t oons. T wo o f them subjects. An expediti on has sailed from France for Civita are of iron, of 100 feet long, 28 feet broad, 10 feet deep, 1 Vecchia, composed of six war-steamers and a division of and capable of carrying 400 tons each. The middle pier, ~ 3,500 men, with a view of affording security to the Pope. rising out of the water from the Britannia rock, after It is surmised that our noble fleet in the Bay of Naples, which the bridge is named, is to be 230 feet high. There which, we believe, has on board an unusually large corn are two other piers of the same elevation, and the entire I plement of marines, will probably move in the same di length of the tube-bridge across the straits will be 1,420 rection. We only hope they will not bring the Pope here. feet, or one-third nearly of a mile. What are the ripe virtues of this spiritual mother. under RAILWAY MANAG EMENT. —C aptain Huish, the general the immediate eye, and enjoyi ng the fulness of the reli manager of the London and Nerth Western Railways has gious influence, of the assumed spiritual father of the published a letter on railway management, in reply to a faithful ? Virtues ! religious and spiritual virtues ! Let letter recently written by Mr. Whitehead, late Secretary the Times journal of last Monday reply. It says, in one of the South Eastern Railway Company,—whos e object of its able leading articles :—" It is a mockery to talk of was to show that the present rates for the carriage of 1 national independence and constitutional government hi . goods by railways is too low, and entail loss on the corn- , a country where the ordinary duties of police are not per panies--sinking a considerable portion of the profit derived I formed, where law has no authority, and religion no power from passengers ; and he contends that the North Western , but to absolve from crime." Well may a correspondent Day, Company a re l os i ng muc h b y t h e goods traffic, and that I re f err i ng to this judgment of the religion of Rome, either the rates are too low. or the passenger fares too by a journal which, under evil influences, is doing. much , to strength en it,—" Surely the most u lt ra P rotestan t high. Capt a i n H u i s h exam i nes Mr. Whitehead's data and assertions, and supplies some statistic a l facts. He never expressed a severer opinion of Popery, and surely states that the total receipts from for the year ending if this witness of the Times be true, as I assuredly believe 30th June last, were £2,140,035 ; namely, passengers 1 it to be, what g r e a t er s i n an d f olly can this Protestant and mails, £1,417,659 ; goo d s and coals, £722,376. The j nation commit, than to f os t er i n h er b osom a system total cost of wor ki ng t h e ra il way i n every department was I which turns the religion of the Redeemer, designed to be only £751,172. It thus appears that the merclzandize 1 man's greatest blessing, into a means of his degradation, receipts about covered the entire expenses of the line, ! misery, and increased depravity ?" leaving the passenger traffic net ! " The goods train earns / ROMISH ENDOWMENT.—There is, after all, no way of as much per mile run as its vaunted competitor the pas- dealing honestly with the question of Romish endowment, senger train. The total weight of passenger travelling for save that adopted by the Rev. Dr. M`Neile in his address, the year was 399,956 tons, about eq ua l t o the merchan- a few evenings since, to the three thousand listeners in dise conveyed in eleven weeks; so that a run of 238,732 ' Exeter Hall, to e a ts portrayed by the eloquent speaker miles was su ffi cient to convey a weight of goods which it " the distinctive features of Protestantism and Popery." required 4.220,078 miles to transmit when converted into If there be truth at all in revelation ; if that which we call passengers." Holy Writ be not a fable ; if our churches are not the LIGHT LOCOMOTIVE,—Messrs. England's new engine, scenes of abject mummeries, and our preachers the most the " Little Wonder," has had several trials. Her di- contemptible buffoons that ever lent themselves to the mensions are as follow :—Cylinders, 7 inches ; stroke, 12 , perpetuation of a huge hypocrisy, there can be no subject inches; driving wheels, 4 feet 6 inches, with four other so dear to the people of England, and to the people of carrying wheels 3 feet diameter ; fire box, 3 feet diameter ; every country on the globe, as that which involves the boiler, 2 feet diameter, with sixty tubes 11 feet 4 inches consideration ofimmortality, and the hopes and prospects long, 11 inches diameter. The tender is placed upon the of a future state. Party questions sink into insignificance same frame; the extreme length of which is about 20 feet, at the side of this. To be a Whig or Tory, Conserve and the weight, we are informed, is about 9 tons. The tive or Radical, may be to assume a badge indifferent whole of the working parts are is sight, and within the I to one whose political views are subservient to the immediate control of the driver while at work. From nu- duties claimed by the HIGHEST. It can never be a merous trials, during which a distance of nearly 1,000 matter of indifference to the conscientious, let him miles has been performed, we have ascertained, that for belong to , what party he may, whether he holds the truth express purposes, with one or two carriages, a speed of 60 or not with reference to the faith upon which results the miles per hour is well maintained ; and that a train of five most tremendous hang. Commence the work of retro carriages, with pa s s engers equa l to 20 tons, is run at 40 gression, and wh ere s h a ll you stop in the backward move miles per hour. With this load she ascended the heavy ment ? Confound the minds of the unreflecting with the incline at New Cross-1 in 100 for three miles—at the public declaration that the state is bound deliberately to rate of 20 mles per hour; and upon the level line, one propagate that which the state acknowledges to be false mile was passed in 80 seconds, being at the rate of 45 hood, degrading to man, and blasphemy to God, and upon miles per hour, with a load of 20 tons—the consumption what other points will you have courage to enlighten them? of coke not exceeding 6 lbs. pe r m il e . This performance, Can it be an act of intelligence or liberality to foster we believe, is unparalleled in the history of the locomotive and encourage openly and unreservedly the errors for en engine. The fact that a load of 20 tons was propelled at tertaining which the recognized teachers of our church the rate of 45 miles per hour, with 6 lbs, of coke per mile, declare eternal punishment awaits us ? Is it left for the while the quantity required for any of the heavy engines most advanced age of the world to make known aloud to perform the same work, would not be less than 25 lbs, and unblushingly, that it matters little what you do, pro per mile, shows, we think, the mistake of making loco- vided only that you preach ? Is it to be the crowning motive engines of enormous weight—engines which spend work of our " expedient" legislation to lift a veil from the two-thirds of their immense power in propelling their own rising generation, and to make them mock the creed their weight. During the experiments, we were highly pleased fathers worshipped ? We cannot drag ourselves away with the very safe and steady working of the engine. from an open s onfession of our faith. We make it in the NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.—On Saturday night week, an church ;ifit is worth a straw we carry it with us into our experiment was made on the Great Western Railway, to daily occupations ;if it influences our private prayers, it test the power of a new species of light produced by elec. follows us into our public acts. Truth may be disliked, but it cannot be avoided. We may plant error by its tricity, particularly with the view to its being used b y railway trains. The light is produced by an apparatus side, but it must wither as a thing that takes no root. invented by M. Le Mott, a French gentleman, who has There cannot be two religious truths for one nation. The been t ed several years employed in electrical experiments Bible cannot be true and waferorship right. We can in Russia, and whose discoveries in that department are not abide by the book and encourage the worship.— well known to the scientific world. At half-past six Morning Herald. o'clock a truck, containing a wooden square box, about REWARDS OF INDUSTRY.—At a meeting last week, in the size of a sentry-box, and having a galvanic battery of Leeds, Mr. Beckett Denison, in a speech t the electors, some sixty or seventy small jars deposited around it, was said, " there is hardly a man in the possession of a large attached to the last carriage of the train then about to landed property in the West Riding of Yorkshire, or even proceed from Paddington. The light was produced inside in the whole county of York, whose father or grandfather the box, and the rays, condensed and heightened by a was not connected with trade. and whose descendants powerful reflector, were emitted by an aperture contrived now possess £6OOO, or £BOOO, or £lO,OOO, or even m ot e for the purpose. The light was produced before the train •A year. (A voice—" No : Earl Fitzwilliam did not.") left Paddington, when a dazzling blaze filled the whole of And that is the reason, I suppose, why you did not like the spacious station, casting the numerous gas-lamps his son. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) My own grand there completely into the shade. As the train proceeded father was as humble a man as any one I see before me on its way, the reflector left a long train of clear bright this day. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) His son obtained a light for the distance of a mile and more behind it, in good education, and worked his way up to a somewhat such a manner as to render it utterly impossible that any distinguished position ; and I hope I do not occupy a train coming up behind should run into it, except as the despicable position. (Hear, hear, and applause.) I say, effect of deliberate intention. The reflector, as seen from then, it is your own faults if you do not get yourselves and the carriage, was very beautiful, the prismatic colours your children well educated • and, when th e y are well being distinctly and v i v idl y d e li neated along the outer educated, it is in their power t o rise to the most educated edge of the circle of radiation ;_ and as these f e ll u p on th e and prominent situations that there are in the State. dense column of smo k e ascending from the engine, the And it occurs only at this moment to my mind that the but effect clear, was singular ar favourable dank , ex p eriment objects, such as a bridge, were rendered distinctly visible bear, who was a charity boy in a blueoat school in this at the distance of two miles. The experiment was made town. (Hear, hear, and a cry of "Y o uo have done away as far as Slough, on arriving at which station the truck with that now.'') Judge Denison was a working man was detached from the train, and continued there for from Leeds. He walked to London because he had not about half an hour, till the up-train arrived, with which money to carry him, and h e b ecame t h ere one of the it returned to town. While at Slough th e light was jdges u of the land. (Hear, hear, and app l ause. ) "G o turned in the direction o f Wi n d sor C astle, as it was the t u hod do likewise." expectation of M. Le Mott, w h o accompanied the expe- an riment, that it would be seen from thence. While there, COURT AND FASHION. a gentleman stationed himself at the distance of 200 yards The Court still remains in the Isle of Wight. or so from the apparatus, and read a newspaper by the Louis Philippe and suite were not last week on a visit to light produced, which he found he could do with perfect Sir Robert Peel at Drayton Manor, as stated. case. The apparatus 'then returned to town in the same The Duke of Wellington and Lord Palmerston visited manner, the light being continuously intense du r i ng th e the Prince of Parma on Thursday, at Mivart's Hotel. whole of the journey and return ; and it was stated by the M. Gnizot arrived in town on Monday from visiting Sir ingenious inventor that there could be no difficulty i n Robert and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor, and has since keeping it up for the whole night. The experiment af- gone to visit Prince Lieven, at Brighton. forded great satisfaction to all who witnessed it, the only PRINCE ALBERT A HIGHLAND LAIRD. —On Wednesday drawback being that the apparatus, having been in the week the estate of Birk Hall, adjoining Balmoral, was ex first instance adapted for stationary experiments, suffered posed for sale in Edinburgh, and taken out at the upset considerably from the jolting inseparable from railway price, £14,900, for Prince Albert. At the same time the motion, a defect which the inventor considered might be life rent of the entailed estate of Abergeldie, another ad with ease overcome in any future experiment. This is joining property, was put up for sale, and taken for the the first time that light produc e d by electricity has been heir of entail, Mr. Gordon, of Abergeldie. It is under applied to railway purposes • and if its us e s h ou ld b e stoo d t h at negotiations are in progress, whereby his found practicable, there c an 'be no doubt that it will add Royal Highness will become lessee of Abergeldie. From greatly to the safety of night travelling by railway• these circumstances, it is but reasonable to conclud e , that Balmoral will henceforth take its pl ace i n t h e same cate gory with Osborne House, and the other royal residences, where her Majesty regularly spends a portion of each The nomination for the West Riding will take place on season he must be we l come d i n hi s new character of a and F r i - day following. Highland Laird. year. When his r o y a l hi g h ness arr i ves on D ees id e next Monday next, an d th e po lli ng on the Thursday -....-=-.. - - HONORS OF WHIG R EFORMS. —C apta i n Kenderdine, ......STATE OF TRADE. of Stafford, has been fined one hundred pounds for re- MANCHESTER.—The market has exhibited somewhat less fusing the honor of the mayoralty of that bornugh ! buoyancy throughout the week, and this feature has been commenced be accounted e for d b e y me t e hl ie e g xtr f eze re fi e r e mn a es e s e o u f rs s e pi w n= t tn ey d. his DENISON'S canvassing CA N a-s S t S o i u N r G a t T TOUR. — s N o l n r . T D u e e n sd is a o y n , servable more generally during the last two days, which may where his reception was most flattering. O nn Wednesday a m r a e n j a ustin t ed in pursuing, by the orders the majority have on the ere gentleman visited Barnsley ; on Trsday, Brad- nd under such circumstances, it cannot be a matter of ford; Friday, Wakefield ; and on Saturday he addressed surp ris e that they should decline to put themselves under ex them at Halifax. tended contracts, at anything below the highest rates current, MR. DENISON'S OPINIONS.—Mr. Denison declares but at such rates contracts forfur i Ldeliver t y ec r t i o ll r b t t generally Himself himself opposed to Romish endowment, but favourable to weekstaken. ha T s h l e ut br h is o l h d s eg n a d whichnnersand manufacturers exls in possession ssessi e o w n Church extension, scriptural education, and the further of such o r ders as will see the major part of them fully through appointment of bishops for the colonies. He declines to the year to execute. Buyers seem rather more unwilling to give any opinion on the navigation laws, and is an advo- give the highest prices generally current, most probably in con cate of every possible retrenchment and economy. sequence of some appearance of weakness in the For market e THE RIVAL CANDIDATES.—On Wednesday Sir Culling since Wednestwhichapsrrettsimtheenlotose wait h — e in cour e s a e prices seae Eardley and Mr. Denison met at the Doncaster Station, of press i ng . o rders—for when a gentleman, who accompanied Sir Culling to Don_ are the week, caster, introduced' him to Mr. Denison, and a cordial there has not been so animated a demand as lately for several has likely been a to go ta o k a e. gen U e n ra d l er b t u h s e in se es c s ir d c o u n m e stances, although there shake of the hands took place. The three gentlemen weeks we have had to report. have had g then entered the same first-class carriage for Wakefield, to report for and left. some time past. For the period of the year, an average amount Who out of Bedlam would have dreamed that the mur- i D i e S s . -, j m h eu much woollen o t l h l : n same trade s ot stale t e t h a i s s w t e ownand nei hbourliood of business has been doing. Prices are firm, although stocks der of Rossi, the besieging of the Pope in his Palace, and are rather on the increase. continues perhaps his expulsion from his capital, were all the work BRADFORD. — WOOIS: There has been more wool changing of England? Yet that is the explanation which the hands during the past week, and the spinners generally have (Romish) Dublin Freeman offers to its readers. If the not large stocks. The supply in this market is now barely an Khan of Tartary had to fly, England would by the same average for this time of the year. Neils an d s h orts are not profound philosophe r s b e p ronounce d the cause. altered either in de man d or prices. Yarn s : Th e contracts for , bobbins for the month about commencing have not been done Sworn DEVON ELECTION. —Mr. Kekewich has resignea on such advantageous terms for the manufacturers as for the all pretensions to represent South Devon at the coming month now closing. For all kinds, both low, middle, and fine election, for the seat expected to be vacated by Lord Courtenay. In a printed circular, he states,—" I find numbers, there is no disposition to take orders ex e cest at higher r prices. Pieces ' cl the Ther e sto Xs i n n o the l slackening tinls of loth i n imi e r c e h in a n a t n s d a t n o d that in consequence of the opinion which I entertain with pla i n 5 insnuiacturers are unprecedentedly low, and the prospects for regard to some provision for the Roman Catholic clergy th e wi n t er are more favourable, so far as orders go, than we in Ireland, the number of requisitionists is not su ffi cient have had for some time past.. Fancy goods are n f ot active, nor to induce me to disturb the peace of the county, and I any new styles introduced which are safe to order or the spring therefore shall not offer myself as a candidate." Sir In worsted goods and yarns, we have no altera- Ralph Lopez (conservative) has been brought forward. lion to report since our last. wool remains firm, at the late He was formerly member for Westbury, and is a sound advance, and the growers, anticipating a further improvement, Protestant. e holding their stocks for still higher rates ; but the prospects A BOON TO THE EXCHEQUER.—The expiring Corn of tr a de do not seem to warrant any such expectation. for H t A h L e i l F io A m x e .- t_rade. Laws are pouring into the exhausted treasury supplies ~eHe7.DltreadSeFmlEanl.h—alte.hf,ise-eennt limitedla te muche immediate m a e( ir i a a r te k market vents that are no doubt very welcome to Sir C. Wood. In the month ending Octob er 5, th e d ut i es pa i d on corn amounted of o the parties concer ne d . There is no alteration in prices worth to about £234,569, and that endi ng N ovem b er 5, to about nticing.nocuDALE FLANNEL lIARKET.—The flannel market c0nti £165,492. These payments are after the rate of nearly noes to be well attended, and middling qualities of flannels are two-and-a-half millions per annum ; and would relieve in goodhdemand. Strong Yorkshire goods and dyed flannels the tax-payers of the country to that extent without in- o a fl e i e m r tit. descriptionsaaht i i• s ea r d e i m ly ai a n t previous uluc ra e rates. same All flirting injury upon any one. When the duties cease, we our last, both in demand a nd prices. The wool market has been moderately brisk, and prices firm. The hands employed repeat, the foreign grower or the speculating importe , r will pocket almost the entire amount, leaving the d efie s- in the flannel trade have full work, and those employed on the ency of the revenue to be provided by some other tax. band looms have not had so much work as at present for the THE LATE CHARLES BULLER AND TILE DUKE or last twelve months. The hands in the cotton mills have nearly all of them f u ll work, but wages are low. Sussex. —The grea t f au l t o f t h e late Mr. Buller was the affectation of a careless indifference,—a sort of insouciant spirit, as if the world and all its concerns, parties, politics, - and principles, were matters of the supremest indifference to him. Thus, for instance, when he was but a young man, and whe n it was i mportant that he should appear S ' _ HAMPTON S TATION ! with his b es t a i rs and behaviour, he was at a dinner party .. given by th e l ate D uke of Sussex. When the dessert bad M ad eira come in, he looked around him, and, fancying 1 7th, 17th, ihmiter ....! Next Mad every month' ; 1 nobody but pompous full-dressed noodles on each side, be Gibraltar _ . threw himself back in his chair, and fell fast asleep ! 11 alta&lonian [ stands 3n o l f a e n v d er 2Oth Indus 1 Next Meid he saw Spain :h mou th. y ' Nov. 20 i due Dec. Is This was an act of rudeness of which Charles Buller would Greece •- and Eg yp t ntta,ueylon,& ma I not have been guiity at a very much humbler table. -. I The free-traders of the West Riding are divided in opi- (l ) x li c r e it i C i a l l.iiANY. Int i 2nd andinli ) Trent,... , neon as to the fitness of Sir Culling Eardley to represent B e erM l lll ) (ifi ; M FO l r i . raf &l. them. Mr. Baines attended at Manchester last week to w . i n ai es, ex cept 'of every ' Nov. 17 ,- month. advocate Sir Culling's claims, but met with a cold recep- 1 Havana, Venezuela, tion. A meeting was held at Leeds on Thursday, at 1 and Madeira which a resolution was carried, with only a few dissenti. 1 ents, in favour of Mr. Roebuck, and a deputation was ap. (2) 111exico& Havana . 1 2nd of every iTeviot .... Next Mtn pointed to wa it on S ir Culling ' s committee, to induce (3) Bermuda St. Juan y.' month onl Nov. 2;due Dec. 22 ' them, if pos s ibl e, to w i thdraw their candidate, but this , d e Nicaragua, and 17th of every Trent 1 Next Mail they are not lik e l y to do from fear of Mr. Roebnek's New Grenada FALMOUTH STATION. 1 claims, though we should not be surprised to hear of his 1 Madeira, Brazil, and } F.vng. of 4th;ii M Ptterel,HM 13 Crane Buenos Ayres being withdrawn in consequence of the enthusiasm dis , LIVERPOOL ..STA . TION.I every month Nov. 6' Dee. 24 played in favour of Mr. Denison. All the old Whig fami- I lies have declared their intention to support Mr. Denison, m u i lt d . a .ei , a A n t c r i le: l ic, Her- } I E% err Fri- Niaga ra. aid his strnightforward speeches have won for him th e , :Mates it ay. , Dec POLITICAL MISCELLANY LIST GENERAL POST-OFFICE, DEC. 2 Destination Mails desp'diLast Packetj Next Packet from London sailed. due. Next Mail A oerica PRUSSIA The Prussian Assembly met at Brandenberg on the 27th ult., but there was nit a sufficient number of mem bers present to constitute a house; in consequence of which Count Brandenberg refused to bring the Royal Message forward, and the Chamber was adjourned to the day following. This failure of a house is not a favourable incident, and bespeaks a rreater sympathy than was rep. resented, with the recusant part of the Assembly, who attempted to persist in their sittings at Berlin, in defiance of the Royal authority. Erfurth has been declared in a state of siege, after a fight between the people and the soldiery, in which the latter had the advantage, the National Guard having refused to support the authorities, and even threatened to join the side of the populace. The quarrel arose from the popular opposition to the distribution of uniforms to the Landwehr. THE BRAZILS. News from Rio de Janeiro, of the 15th October, ac quaints us that another ministry had been formed on the 29th of September, of which Viscount de Olinda was the Premier. The new cabinet is Conservative ; that gone out was Liberal. Trade at Rio was exceedingly dull, with the exception of coffee, which was in great demand at improved prices. As it regards piece goods, there had been such a glut of imports, that it was impossible to get rid of the articles, even at a ruinous depreciation of their value. Exchange on London 2nd. to 24d. Certain information has arrived in Paris to the effect that Ibrahim Pacha died on the 10th ult., and had been succeeded by Abbas Pacha. The Count de Grammont was married on Monday last to Mademoiselle de Praslin. The happy couple are to be established in the apartment of the late Duchess de Pras lin, the boy's mother, which had been newly cleaned and decorated for the occasion. Letters have been received from the Cape of Good Hope by the last arrival from Sir H. Smith, which de scribe his complete success over the Boers, and the pacifi cation of the extensive district which threatened so lately to be the scene of a protracted war. Sir H. Smith had imposed a contribution upon the Buers which would de fray the commissariat expenses of the troops employed, and would leave a small garrison in a fortified post at Blom Fontein to maintain order. At the last dates Sir H. Smith and the forces employed, with the exception of those appointed to defend the post, were on their return to head quarters. HEROIC CONDUCT—ALEXANDRIA, Nov. B.—A vessel bound for Aden, with coals, having lost the master by death when about twelve days' sail from her destination, the crew conspired to take possession and dispose of her on the coast of Arabia. However, the captain's daughter, Miss Arnold, a young woman of the age of twenty, was on board, and she, having received some intimation of the piratical intentions of the men, armed herself with a pair of pistols, secured all the fire arms, and getting the mate and another man to join her, bravely forced the mutineers to work the ship to Aden, where they are now in confine ment. REVOLTING SPECTACLE.—One of those wretched spec tacles which are seen wherever the system of African slavery is tolerated, was presented in the streets of our city on Sunday morning last. A gang of negroes, con sisting of both males and females, accompanied by a white man, on their way to a southern market, passed along Chesnut-street, as the bells of the various churches were calling on Christians to assemble at their respective places of worship. In front of the procession was a large waggon, in which were thickly stowed several women and children. This was followed by forty-three men and boys walking, several of them chained together, the whole under the charge of a man on horseback. This miserable spectacle excited the honest indignation of our citizens, who regarded, it as a direct insult offered to them, and the day, aad the hour.—Louisville .Examiner. VIRGIN SILVER.—From the Swedish official paper, of the 27th of October last, we learn that on the 14th of September, the workmen employed in the King's mine, which is one of the Kongsberg silver mines in Norway, found a lump of pure native silver, weighing 208 lbs. ; and on the 6th of October another lump of virgin silver, equally pure in quality, of no less weight than 436 lbs., was dug out of the same mine. It is a fact worthy of being recorded, that about twenty years ago this mine was offered for sale in London for the sum of £10,000; but the capitalists of that day had not sufficient confidence in the treasures it was represented to possess, to advance this comparatively small price. Subsequently the Norwegian Government was strongly urged by the scientific of that country to work the mines at the expense and for the benefit of that state. The operations were commenced, and prosecuted with vigour ; and fora considerable num ber of years this mine has annually yielded to the Govern ment of Norway a much larger revenue than the price which could not previously be obtained for the mine , itself. GENERAL i1e 1 4.--it is generally believed that General 136 m has escaped the search made for him by the Austrian authorities. If he be captured, he will be shot without mercy—a fate for which he is prepared by the most daring spirit and the most extraordinary intrepidity. General IMm is the son of a Gorman, but was born in Poland. His reputation as an artillerist statids high ; it is, however, of his wallinehing courage, and perhaps of his relentless IRELAND Mr. T. B. M'Manus was la3t week very ill of a severe bilious attack. The attack was at first thought to be cholera 'hursday wee dustrious mar k at'Kirk patric ned James HE k, in Tipperary, an in- soon after daybreak about land. The Protestants of Derry are about to erect a testimo nial to the late Professor Butler. At a meeting for the purpose in the Cathedral, on Wednesday, the Bishop presided. .0 The crime had its origin in disputes The Waterford Acwsstates that Matthew King, one of the state prisoners recently liberated from the county gaol, finding himself worse off than when a prisoner, actually applied next day for re-admittance. The Clare Journal describes some dreadful cases of starvation, near Ennis. Four persons under one roof have been famished to death, two of them, according to the coroner's jury, through the neglect of the officer of the poor-law union. MURDER FROM JEALOUSY.—A man named Long, a farmer, of Limerick, has murdered his farm servant. The act seems to have been suggested by jealousy. Long had, on Monday night last, returned from the fair of Rothkeale to his own abode at Cappanihane, near Croom. He found his servant in bed, and the double demon of intoxication and jealousy prompting him, he seized a spade, and THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LAW INTELLIGENCE. Is RE GOULDING.—This bankrupt, late a builder in this town, applied for a certificate. He was opposed on the ground of reckless trading, and that he had erected and obtained mortgages on worthless property. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow said this appeared to be the case of a party who, having no capital, or, at all events, a very small capital, made a number of contracts for land which he did not pay for; after putting together a few stones and other materials on that land, obtained a mortage upon it, in consequence of the increased value which he appeared to have given it by so doing. He thought that was a mode of dealing of which the public had a right to complain. The result of such a system was the incessant demand for interest on mortgages, the payment of stamps, and other liabilities, under which it was impossible almost for a party to bear up. He could not, therefore, make his judgment absolute, but must suspend the bankrupt's certificate for twelve months from the date of his last exa mination. Mr. Bather, the solicitor, who, a few years since, was sentenced to transportation, with Fletcher and others, for alleged forgery of testamentary documents, and whose sentence has been recently reversed, and free pardon granted him, appeared on Saturday in the precincts of the Court of Common Pleas, Westminster, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins having been charged by him to make an applica tion to the Court to have Mr. Barber replaced on the rolls. The novelty of hearing such an application or motion made attracted a considerable crowd to the Court. In the course of the day the Attornev-General entered, and had some conversation with Mr. Wilkins, after which the lat ter gentleman withdrew, and it was understood that, on consulting with Mr. Barber. he agreed to the postpone ment of the application until next term, or at least for the present. The proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas on Fri day, the 24th ult., afford some evidence of the correctness of the opinions we have expressed with reference to the Acts of Parliament lately passed applying to Joint-Stock Companies. It appears that certain pi oceedings had been taken against a shareholder in the Universal Gas-Light Company, and the rule for issuing execution discharged with costs, in consequence of 10 days' notice, as required by the Act, sec. 67, not having been given —the lawyers appearing not to have carefully read, or understood, the clauses of the Act; but, with the view of remedying the defect, counsel for the plaintiff subsequently obtained a rule against the defendant, railing upon him to show cause why execution should not issue, under the 66th sec tion of the Joint-Stock Companies Act, 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110. Mr. Serjeant Talfourd now contended that such rule must be set aside, inasmuch that the former application to the Court, on which the plaintiff was defeated, was against the defendant as a " former shareholder," while the present was as a shareholder "for the time being " After argument on the part of counsel in support of the application, the Court granted a rule absolute for the is suing of execution against the defendant, on the ground that having been a shareholder once, and signed the deed, by the 3rd and 12th sections of the Joint-Stock Compa nies' Act he continued a shareholder until be had di vested himself of that character by the transfer of his shares. RAMTVA ir A FF/1111S -4-- The Oswestry extension of the Shrewsbury and Chester railway has been opened. The Ardwick extension of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, uniting the latter line with the Sheffield and the London and North-Western lines, has just been opened. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ended 26th Nov.: Coaching, £705 15s. 7d. ; par cels, £BO lls. 50. ; goods at cattle, £257 3s. 2d. ; steam boats, £lO3 135.: total, £1147 3s. 2d. In the recent fatal collision case on the Richmond and Datchet line, the coroner's jury have returned a verdict of manslaughter against the driver and theman of the Vul ture engine. The London and North-Western Company and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company have entered into mutual traffic arrangements, the effect of which will be to immediately transfer all the traffic of the latter to the Leeds and Dewsbury line. A remarkable tunnel on the Waterford and Dublin Railway, at Bray, has advanced so far towards completion that there is a communication throughout. The work runs through Kilkenny Point, and for its whole distance it passes through the hardest granite. It is said that this is the first tunnel in the United Kingdom entirely through such difficult material. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The Irish Ad vocate gives the average speed of the Dublin and Holy head packets. The power of the vessels is 350 horse each, and the distance 64 miles. The " Banshee" ap pears from the statement to be the fastest, having accom plished the passage in 3 hours 44 minutes. The average time taken by the four vessels on the station is about 4 hours 20 minutes. The gigantic scheme of railway amalgamation has proved abortive, at least for the present. The question on which the three great companies have split is that of representa tion at the Board of Directors, the North-Western claim ing that, as its stake in the concern is nearly, if not quite, equal to the other two combined, it shall have a propor tionate representation at the board ; while, ...)37 the articles agreed upon, an equality of representation was the prin ciple laid down. From official returns it appears that the amount of rail way traffic for the last week, on 4,205 miles of railway, was £183,068, thus accounted for :—£81,166 for the con veyance of passengers only, £55,351 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £46,551 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £23,122 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was £8,317. The average earn ings per mile were £43, whilst in 1847 they were £4B. WONDERS OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. --The New York correspondent of the Morning He, aid, in his letter received by the last mail, mentions some facts, showing the wonders of the telegraph. It appears that the returns of a particular district, in the presidential election, were received in New York in a few hours, after passing a dis tance nearly equal to a voyage across the Atlantic to Li verpool—and this too with, of course, sundry breaks and numberless interruptions. The electric telegraph, he adds, may in truth be termed " The nerves of the Ameri can republic." DESTRUCTION OF LARKS BY THE ELECTRIC TELE GRAM WIRE.—One frosty morning last week, the plate layers upon the Whitehaven Junction Railway found no less than seven.y larks lying dead beneath the telegraph wires between Workington and Maryport. The same day Mr. Foster, inspector of the line, found seventeen larks between Harrington and Workington. The heads of many of the birds were cut off, and their bodies other wise mangled. Seabirds and different kinds of game have also occasionally been found dead, having probably come in contact with the invisible wires at night when in full flight.—Carlisle Journal. THE EUSTON STATION. The station at London, which has been recently completed, at a cost of about £150,000, is situated between Seymour-street and Whittlthury-street, and comprises an area of about 2,100 feet in length by 500 feet in breadth. On either side is a platform : the one on the east side, or the arrival platform, is 1100 feet in length and about 40 feet in width; and the departure platform is about 800 feet in length. In this space on the various lines there are 60 turn tables, and over this are about 700 feet by 350 feet of glass roofing. There are also 16,000 feet of drains and sewerage. On the west side, adjoining Codrington-street, a number of coach factories have been erected, the area occupied by these being 300 feet by 400 feet. A smithy, with every convenience for the manufacturing of vehicles, is attached. In the course of the past week the waste materials which were not required by the contractors were sold, and rea lised nearly £l,OOO. LIABILITY OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE-MEN, --Mr. Blandy, the soli c it or t o a d e f unct scheme, called the "Oxford, Theme, High Wickham, and Uxbridge Railway Company," had brought an action against Mr. De Burgh, the chairman of the provisional committee, for work and labour done. A verdict had been found for the plaintiff; but a point was raised under what is called the Attornies' Act, which requires, in order to give an opportunity for axation, a solicitor's bill to be delivered a month before action to the party to be charged therewith, or left at his counting-house, office of business, dwelling-house, or last known place of abode. It was not denied that the bill had been so left at the company's offices in Moorgate street, but it was urged that the "company" was then defunct, although a plate bearing the name of the com pany on it was still affixed to the door. The rule nisi was argued on Saturday last, when the court differing in opinion, it fell to the ground, and the verdict accordingly stands. DICPOSIT or PLANS.—Thursday was the last day for the reception of plans and sections for new lines, &c. The number of plans and sections lodged in connection with railways up to the close of the offices was twenty-nine, two only being for new lines, namely, the Brentwood, Southall, and Pinner Railway, and the Faversham to Chilham Railway, and twenty-seven for branches, exten sions, or deviations. Besides these, but not requiring the deposit of either plans or sections, there are applications for upwards of twenty amalgamations in England, and eight in Scotland; six cases of relinquishment or aban donment of portions of lines; five for extensions of time for making railway or purchases of land, and a great many for amendments of acts. The chief feature in all the ap plications is that of future economy in constructive works, and for internal mutual arrangement. Including all classes of app li cat i ons, t h ere are about 110 appl ications for railway purposes this year, as set against 140 in the last session of parliament. A WATER RAILWAY.—The Glasgow Citizen describes an invention, which is now in progress of accomplishment, for conveying the trains across the tidal estuary at Broughty Ferry, on the route of railway to Scotland. The distance across is about a mile and a-half. Our contem porary says, " Mr. Robert Napier is at present building in his yard, at Govan, a floating railway, for the Edinburgh and Northern Railway Company. It is being built of iron, 180 feet in length, and 35 feet in breadth. It is to have three lines of rails on deck, so as to enable it to take on a railway train of 500 feet in length, and is to be pro pelled by engines of ISO horse-power. As the main line of railway on each side of the 'fay is considerably above the level of the sea, stationary engines on either side of the Frith are to he employed to draw up or lower the trains. This railroad steamboat is expected to be launched in a few weeks." It will be seen that this is very much on alie same principle as the floating bridges at Gosport and Southampton, although, of course, ova awl" larger scale, IN R J. R. Pim.—This bankrupt again appeared before Mr. Serjeant Ludlow on Friday. Mr. Rowe, solicitor, stated that the accounts were still unsatisfactory. There were £26,000 in bills not explained. The bankrupt stated that £17,000 of them were for bills payable, but they did not seem to have any connexion with the estate. The official assignee said he never saw such unsatisfactory ac counts. The case was adjourned sine die, with protection fora month. the ui . 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