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COLONIAL INTELLIGENC AMERICA. hirAton half days upply of coals for pea wheel-hou January 1 oat ear ;. Louis .st,and THE STEAM-SHIP WASHINGTON (From the Halifax Morning Post.) Our commercial circles were startled yesterday morn ing by the report of a large steamer, bearing American colours, being off the harbour. She came .to Cunard's Wharf at half-past nine o'clock, and proved to be the United States' steamer, Washington. _ _ [eft_ Southathiton the.. Caledonia, (which vessel arrived here on Mor.aay morn ing week, in fifteen-and-a-half days. and sailed at eight o'clock the same morning for Boston.) The Vtrashlngton encountered a series of very heavy gale, dislocated some of her machinery, stove her.v!hea-house, and thus She put tx t t ,nd starts, this eN refit and take afilA , ning or to-morrov STRACT FROM THE LOG Sunday, Dec. 12th : left Southampton this afternoon and ran down Channel ; set in. rain and gale from the south. Monday, 20th : Heavy gales from south. At ten, p.m., the Start Point bore north at twelve miles dis tance. Tuesday, 21st Blowing a heavy gale and head h heavy gale from N.W., and heavy head sea. Christmas Day : Fresh breeze from W.S.V Sunday, 26th : Fresh bree ze an d h eav y wea th er . vy head sea. Monday, 27th : Bl ow i ng ver y f res h Tuesday, 28th : Wind in- Satur- froin heavy head Wednesday Gale continues, with heavy sea ; ship labouring very much ; heavy hail storm from N.W. Thursday, 30th, Continued gale from N.W., with heavy head se ; stove and sashe way. New Year's Day : fresh, with heavy sea from north. Lizen topmast to brace the cylinders. Sunday, Wind increases to a gale from N.W., with heavy Is. From eight, p.m., to midnight, wind light ieavv sea rolling from N.W. Monday 3d.: com es light airs and rain. At half-an-hour past noon ed engine, the blower engine pipe having burst. IStarted engine again at 3h. 45m. p.m., and the day ends with a heavy gale from W.S.W. Tuesday 4th : Heavy gale continues from W.S.W., with fog. At half-past two reaks in Pipes, and after ten sin at 1 a.m. Wodnesday sth : At six, p.m., cut off half speed, on account of sea. Ship labouring hard. Thursday, 6th: Heavy gale from W.S.W., and very heavy head sea; at one, p.m., passed an English brig bound eastward. Friday, 7th : Continued fresh breezes from S.S.E., from four to 6, p.m., when the wind increased to a heavy gale ; tremendous sea ; Stopped at half-past ten, p.m., to braces of engine - gain at one, a.m. Saturday Bth : Stiff breeze W. Sunday 9th : Commences calm and clear. Found FOREIGN 5- The Caledonia steam-ship, which arrived here on Sa turday, bringi advices from New York to the 14th ult., Boston to the 15th, and Halifax to the 17th ult., and has brought £37,000 on freight. felligence from file various States is unimr From Mexico we learn that I at no election should be held hi any part of the repul .esident ed".by the United Stateg New Orleans Picayune ating in that . city to 11 by Ariay - 1, -- bad actually arrived then the report to I Sant - a Ann of Alexi to . Washingto. country. It is fttither stated t .ent Anaya, were in t United Stai red afraid to authoriz Mexican government are demanded to support the United Aumn to Quer, governr aid to ha' pushed for at of the Mexican A. rumour, not confirmed, however, was current, to th wand of the The troops ral Scott had at Santa ire steam- :es troops in Mexico, and to S •eport that nt. The pt forty miles from the scene Of accid happily es , .aped. The boilers of another vessel out of seventy passengers, twenty to thirty perished The weather•is even colder in Paris and in the South eastern partS of France than it is in England. Some French engineers have been engaged to construct Posen r e over the Rhine at Cloin f the Stub v fire. TI 4y was totally des Dittee of the Prussian United Diet, now sittinl revise the penal code, has just decided for th 4 of the punishment of death by a majority o ,ellent coal has been discovered at Vancouver's 1. It runs in extensive fields, and in clumpy ds, and will, we hope ere long, be brought within .ach of the fast increasing numb( of our steamers on the west coast of America and the Pacific The foundation stone of the monumental church of St John, at Colaba, Bombay, was, laid by the Governor, of the 4th of December, assisted by the Bishop and clergy. i compass The whole of the European society of Bombay :was present on the occasion, and an immense crowd of natives aters of t re at presen foundations of the piers of the great image wmcn tne Emperor Constantine had built over this river in the yeas 308 are visible. , Active search is at present being made to discover some remains of the bridge thrown over the Rhine by Julius Caesar, but hitherto without result. DEATH OF THE KING OF DENMARK.—Christian the Eighth, King of Denmark, and Duke of Schleswig, Hol stein, and Lanenburg, died on the 19th ult., at Copen hagen He was born on the 18th September, 178 - 6,:ind succeeded to the throne December 3, 1839. The Crown Prince, Fred. Charles Christian, was born on the 6th of October, 1808. Miss Frederica Herschell, sister of the crest astrono- mer, has just died suddenly at Hanover, aged 98. This lady had-acted for many years as secretary to her brother, and possessed great astronomical knowledge. She pub lished several important works, and to her is due a selenic globe in relief, long celebrated, and which is now at Greenwich The de - ceased was e (gaged in astronomical observations th, Kht befoi 30th December. His lordship, on New Year's Day, held a confirmation in the English Church, in the presence of her Majesty Queen Adelaide; and in the evening the Bishop and Mrs. Gray had the honour to dine with her Majesty. On the 4th January, on leaving the island, among those who accompanied - the Bishop to the beach, were the suite of the Queen Dowager. At least one hun- his lords ITALY p giving the benediction. —A letter from Genoa, of the 14th, says that a sudden and marked change is visible in the behaviour of the people since the return of the deputations of Genoese nobles to Turin, A stillness pervades the town like the dead calm at sea before a storm. It will be remembered that a deputation, headed by some of the leading men of the Genoese nobility, the Dorias, Balbi, &c., proceeded to Turin to petition . for certain reforms. The King of Sardinia refused to receive them ; a refusal to grant their demands would have been less felt by the deputation. The King is reported to have said, " Vada alla messa e poi a cassa" (let them go and say their prayers, and then go home). Instead of the re riformatore, the King is now ...miens. immense .isions are bought in the town, as if a siege was expected. WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAIL.—The Teviot the West Tndia and the Mexican mails, was agrour , Saturday, by Calshot Castle, a few miles down the Southampton Water. A small steamer was despatched far her mails. The Teviot left Demerara 19th December; Bermuda, 10th ; New Orleans, 20th December. She brings 135,000 dollars, 120 serons of cochineal, 15 serons of jalap, 2 bales of tobacco, 32 es-ses of cigars, 27 bales of plantain fibres. Purchasers for cotton at New Orleans have been for France, the continent of Europe, and the north. -English buyers operate very sparingly. T rived. Paredes was lying ill at Talaneigo, and Santa Anna in retirement at Tehuacan. The Mexican army was nearly extinguished. i.egotiations with Trist had nearly been renewed, with prospects of peace. INSURRECTION IN SICILY.—A letter from Civita Necchia, of January 16. says ; " The inhabitants of Pa lermo in the outbreak of the 12th, fought from four o'clock to eleven, and proved victorious • several soldiers were killed, and the arrival of the inhabitants of the surrouud ing country decided the troops to retire and shut them selves up in the forts ; and a provisional government was appointed. The English minister at Naples sent his yacht to Wagllari, where the Engliish squadron is now lying, with orders to send two frigates to Palermo, and two to Naples, to protect the English residents. A revolutionary proclamation has been circulated at Rome. but it pro duced no effect. It was considered as an act on the part of the enemies of the present progress. It is confidently asserted that the Council of Ministers has approved of the regulations of the Consulta, relative to the publicity of voting, and to the publication of the proceedings at the sitting. The Consults is at present busy in preparing an address to the Roman people for the arming of the State." CALCUTTA CATHEDRAL.—The following letter was read at the last meeting of the Christian Knowledge Society, from the Bishop of Calcutta :—" The anxious labours and cares of many years (he says) were amply rewarded on the day of consecration, October Bth last. Such a sight had never been seen in Calcutta as on that day. An uninterrupted success had attended the progress of the works. The deviation from the regular gothic, imposed by the, climate, had long been acknowledged to be wise and proper. Expectation was all awake. The magnifi cence of the scene, both within and without the sacred edifice' ' must have been witnessed i n or d er t o b e f u lly credited.... When I entered the great western door (ob serves his lordship) the whole length of the sacred edifice opened before me-248 feet, including the walls •, a sea of heads on all hands ; the beautiful picture of the Cruci fixion, rising above them in the great eastern window ; the holy table, with her Majesty's superb service of com munion plate ; the stalls for the clergy on the south and north sides of the choir, &c. In a moment the organ burst forth, and the procession began. Forty clergy were present, and twenty divinity students.... At the Offertory, nearly 2,000 rupees were collected for the Calcutta Addi tional Clergy Society. The Holy Communion then com menced. The clergy kneeling round the sacred table, all in their surplices, as in cathedrals at home, was a touch ing scene. Between 140 and 150 communicants partook of the blessed Sacrament of the Body and Blood of the Lord. The entire service lasted about five hours. The impression of the whole scene on the native crowds was extraordinary, and scarcely less on the East Indian popu lation. Daily service has been celebrated since, and two full services on the Lord's day, with every prospect of steady congregations. About 400 on Sunday mornings, and from 30 to 50 on week days.... I trust.... that the edifying usages and rites of our Protestant Episcopal Church, as settled by Cranmer, Ridley, Jewel, and Hooker, may be most carefully and strictly observed." HORRIBLE MASSACRE BY THE KAFFIRS.—The intel ligence from the Cape of Good Hope is of the most pain ful interest. Five British officers, who fell into the hands of the Kaffirs, have b een most cruelly butchered and mutilated. From the few particulars which have come to hand, we learn that these unfortunate gentlemen left the camp at head-quarters on the Koinga, (we must say im prudently, having no attendants, and merely carrying with them p 4414e-barrelled gun each,) in order to gra tify their curiosity with a rnagninceni view of the 'Air rounding country, which was to be Obtained fi•Ono aloft) , rock or mountain, some miles distant. Night approached, and this little band bad not returned to the camp. Doubt and anxiety immediately arose in the minds of their bro ther officers, and several of them went in search of their missing comrades, when at break of day they discovered their bodies, most horribly hacked and disfigured. Mr. Burnop bad three balls in his head ; Captain Baker was stabbed and mutilated in several places poor Dr. Camp bell must have sufferod greatly, the flesh being actually from his body ; the naked body of Lieut. Faunt ad been apparently flogged with chains—their eyes had been scooped out—their teeth extracted—aud the head of Assistant-Surgeon Loch had been severed from the body and carried away. The latter, it is supposed, was dragged to some little distance from his companions, to a smooth flat stone, and there beheaded. All were stripped, and their remains left on the spots where they fell. Two Kaffirs lay dead a short distance from them. The strug gle had, no doubt, been severe; but overwhelming num bers, it was believed, had alone completed the frightful tragedy. Detachments were instantly ordered out to scour the country around the scene of the massacre. A body of many hundreds of cattle and Kaffils were speedily come upon, who badiaken up a most advantageous posi tion in a large bend of a river, forming a peninsula, and where they appeared determined to make a stand. Two companies were ordered to charge them, and although the Kaffirs spewed great determination, they could not resist the impetuosity of our troops, who completely routed them, killing 23 and wounding twice the number, as well as capturing 300 head of cattle and several guns ty the Kadin, )al short, an snaped our course for Halifax. At two, a.m., made Sambro light, bearing N.W. by W. by Laid ship off and on. Wind hauled to S.E., with rain and thick weather. At daylight steered in for r_ Iharbour ; fog increasing hauled off; Sambro beari- W.S.W. six miles. Dav .E., with rain, ship heading off land with full steam. n six and eight, p.m., began to moderate. At ten, teered north. Monday, 10th : At one, p.m., made ), bearing north twelve miles distant. At half-past made fast to Cunard's Wharf, Halifax. The Halifax Morning Post, of the 17th instant, says, the French steamer Missouri again put into this port, apply of coal. She left Havre for New and experienced moderate weather She brought twenty-nine cabin pas re in the steerage." York on-the LOSS OF THE SCREW-STEAMER ARAM On Sunday, by the arrival at this port of the packet ip Susquehanna, Captain Dunlevy, from Philadelphia. intelligence was received of a serious collision between .t ship and the auxiliary-screw steamer Aran maged that she sunk, and six of her crew were drowned. The disaster occurred on Sunday evening week, at seven o'clock, off the southeast coast of Ireland, about forty miles below Tuskar. The ship, which for some days pre ' ly had been , contending with strong east wi n d s , was t at the time of the collision standing to the northw . -ard, close-hauled, with the wind about E.N.E., and the wea ther being very cloudy nreventpd t 1 Qtp,m. . from ..a.nrr occu uua va.acy VI G (JUJU an contact. atter the vessels got clear of each other, Captain. Easterby, of the Aram, find ing his vessel in a very dangerous state, ordered the boats to be got out, when seventeen persons, including himself and the first and second mates, got into them, and were shortly afterwards taken on board the Susquehanna. It was Lien found that six of the crew were missing. Every effort was made by Captain Dunlevy in searching for them, ,0 near morning, no trace of the vessel or the poOr - fellows, who might have floated on spars, being visible, the ship bore away for this port. The Aram left the Mersey on Saturday week, bound for Malta and Constantinople, to which ports she was a regular trader.. She was a superior vessel, rigged as a tag., whca4 olacAaanaccsa woooiving Tao-, taacolai;;;;iVe " : ' The following is the copy of a note from Captain Dun- " On Sunday evening, January 23, in lat. 51 44, lon. 7 10, Hook Light bearing N. E. 2 E, by compass, distant eight leagues by dead reckoning, was run into by steamer Aram, Captain A. Easterby, from Liverpool, bound to Constantinople. Hove the ship to, and found part of the stem and cutwater carried away. Shortly after saw signals listress from the steamer, and ran down towards her, '^ked up two boats' crews, consisting of the captain, and second officers, and sev Finding six men missing, ran to the steamer's light, when it suddenly disappeared, and have no doubt they perished with her. Hove the ship to near the place where the steamer sunk, in hopes of saving more of the crew ; at midnight saw a gang cask alongside ; at eight, a. m., saw the cask again. Feeling assured the men had perished, made sail, and proceeded on our passage towards Liver pool." - A letter from Captain Easterby, addressed to Mr. Mon gredien, the owner of the Aran, and dated Jan. 25, after describing the collision, states that he (the captain) did not leave the Aram until he thought that all on board were in the boats, but that as he sprang from the starboard quarter into the life-boat, three persons rushed on deck, one of whom he thinks was Mr. Livingston, the chief engineer. They were called to and beckoned to follow, but they appeared paralyzed. Every endeavour was made to regain the ship, but it was found impossible. owing to the cross sea, and the boat being so heavy. Capt. Easter by speaks very highly of Captain Dunlevy's kindness, and of his humane and seamanlike conduct ; and whilst he regrets the unfortunate accident, he considers that the collision was purely accidental, owing to the darkness of the night. The following is a list of the persons who were lost :—Mr. Livingstone, chief engineer; Mr. Hardy, second engineer ; Robert Logan, fireman ; J. Selsby, seaman ; Lewis, ditto ; and I. Quin, engineer's boy. THE CHASE The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday at Wilkesley Village; Thursday, at Oulton Park ; Saturday, at Hoo Green —at half-past ten. Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, at Bangor ; Thursday, at Oteley Park ; Saturday, at Car den—at half-past ten. POLITICAL VARIETIES, The deputation appointed at the late tea meeting are to have a meeting with Lord John Russell to-day. It is said that Lord Morpeth will shortly be summoned to the Upper House, a a colleague with Earl Grey. A vacancy is caused for West Cornwall, by the death of Mr. E. W. Pendarves. The Right Hon. F. Shaw has intimated his intention of retiring from the representation of Dublin University, on the re-assembling of parliament. Mr. Shaw assigns ill health as the cause of his retirement. Mr. Napier, who was defeated at the late election, will probably be the new representative. The London Standard reports a speech alleged to have been delivered by Sir Robert Peel at a private meeting of Mends, in which Sir Robert Peel is declared to have said, that, on her Majesty asking him to make one request on his late retirement from office, he desired that " he should never be again commanded to accept office as a minister of the crown. On Thursday last a deputation of the West India Asso ciation, Brook-street, consisting of the following gentle men, were introduced to Earl Grey, by Mr. Pattison, the member for the City of London :—Dr. Hodgkin, chair man • Dr. Norton Shaw, hon. secretary ; M r . Man, Mr. Geddes, Mr. Land, Mr. Cargil, Dr. Fergusson, and Mr. H. H. Cohen, of Jamaica ; Colonel Warren, of Deme rara ; Captain Sughrue, of Trinidad ; Mr. John Hodgkin, Mr. Cornelius Hanbury, Mr. Robert Alsop. Mr. Pattison, in introducing the deputation, stated that among those in trodue:d to his lordship were seyeTal detMnined free traders. • N._MATION LAWS.—MOVEMENT AMONGST THE SEAMEN.—In calling attention, on Monday last, to the spirited movement made by the masters, mates, seamen, and shipwrights, of shields, to resist the threatened alte ration or repeal of our navigation laws, we said that we had no doubt th ey wou ld b e j o i ne d b y the seamen and shipwrights of the Thames in their praiseworthy determi nation to lay bef ore h er M ajesty a memorial, setting forth the serious consequences of such a step. We have now the pleasure to state that active measures are being taken to carry out the object. Upwards of ten thousand seamen from the Tyne are now in the port of London, who are prepared to act upon the resolution passed at the meeting which they held previous to their leaving the Tyne.— Shipping Gazette. THE GREAT FACTS ON TILE TEA QUESTION. ---The great fact for the advocates of the reduction to keep before the public is the population of the country, which we treat in such a conciliatory way. They are at least 250,000,000 some say nearer to 350,000,000. If every individual of the smaller number consumed but to the value of one shilling per annum of our goods, the amount would be X 1 2,500,000. Our exports to China at present are about a fifth of that amount. On the other hand, we consume about 45,000,0001b 5 . o f t ea i n a year . Whereas, if each individual in the United Kingdom, taking our present population at 28,000,000, consumed the moderate average of two ounces per weep, our annual consumption would amount to 1 82,000,0001b5. ; and the duty on that con sumption at Bd. a pound—and we could not venture to anticipate so large a consumption at a higher duty—would amount to X 5,600,000, or considerably more than the revenue which is produced by the present duty of 2s. 20. THE LIVERPOOL STANDiIdi. IRELA N 11 uooas, maim tney may legally ancl.eneetually prosecute. Bishop O'Higgins has written a letter to Mr. J. O'Con nell, in which he calls Englishmen " pagans," and deals in Two brothers, named Nester, were amusing themselves near Mayo, firing at a mark, when one playfully presented uistol at his brother, which u '-nately went off, the ball entering the forehead A coroner's inquest was held in Kells, county of Meath, last week, on the bodies of two women, named Elizabeth and C4therine Doggett, mother and daughter, who, ac cording to the verdict of the jury, " came to their deaths from cold and privation and actual want of the'common The allegations respecting the mysterious deaths of the Rev. Mr. Maguire and his brother and sister-in-law have all been denied. The first, it is affirmed, died of gout in the stomach, and the two latter " suddenly" of fever. Nevertheless, the report is still current that the stomach of the brother of the rev. gentleman was forwarded to Dublin for analysation, and that poison had been disco vered sufficient to cause death. LARGE SURRENDER OF FIRE-ARMS, & stable Hayes, on Thursday, deposited at tl —Head con- military large quantity of pikes, bayonets, and ammunition, sur rendered under the Lord Lieutenant's proclamation. The same head-constable, on Saturday, took up in the town and vicinity of Nenagh, between 20 and 30 stand of arms, all of which were urregistered.—Nenagh Guardian. LORD STANLEY versus THE CONFESSIONAL.—The Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry (Dr. Maginn) is palpa bly emulous of the fame achieved by the western metro p‘ollotann;, the renowned snpo r w o n to ed ty p J e oh;l s o a f TnTourritd. ambitionTh e t northern on s h into print ; and the speech of Lord Stanley, in the late lsession, in which his lordship attributes much of the pre valence of Irish crime to the practice of auricular confes aplain to the High Sheriff, Sir T. G. Hesketh, Bart. The Bishop of Taswania has left England for his far lurk has accepted the office of patron and president of the York Auxiliary to the Church Missionary Association. The Bishop of Manchester will hold his first ordination on the 19th March at Manchester. Candidates are to send in the requisite papers before the 19th February. - Mr. C. H. Frewen, M.P. for East'Sussex, in a letter to P"-- ne ffeeora, says, " There are strong reasons for believin g , that if it had not been for the interference of one or two of the bishops, Mr. Montagu Villiers would have now been upon the bench." The Bishop of Exeter is causing great excitement ferred by the noble lord. The last of the series spreads over five columns of Thursday's Freeman, and for scurri lity and virulence this letter altogether eclipses any pro duction that has yet emanated from the classic shades of St. rarlath's. JOHN OF TUAM A POOR-RATE DEFAULTER.—From a among the clergy . in ins diocese, by a new rule, of subject ing to a re-examination every clergyman who may apply to be instituted to a benefice, or licensed to a curacy, how ever long he nay have been in holy orders. It has - been remarked, that in the case of Dr. Hampden, the supporters of ecclesiastical jurisdiction appear in the Court of Queen's Bench in the name of the Crown, while the assertors of the power of the Crown defend it on be half of the Archbishop. The Derby Mercury states, that the Bishop of Lincoln 'has 'given it as his opinion that no consecration is neces sary when the whole or any part of a church is rebuilt. It appears that it is- sufficient for a building to stand'upon consecrated ground, and that it thereby partakes of the privileges of the sanctuary, without being formally sepa rated from common uses, further than by its locality. letter addressed from the Poor-law Commission-office, Dublin, to the secretary of the Board of Guardians of the Tuam Union, it appears that several " persons of rank THE LABOURER NOT PAID.-A correspondent of a daily paper writes :—" It is a fact that the perpetual cu rate of the united parishes of Wetheral and Warwick, in the county of Cumberland, with an area of twelve miles in length, with a population of £4OOO souls, and with two churches, two miles apart, which he has to serve every Sunday, -has assigned to him by the dean and chapter of Carlisle the miserable pittance of £52 per annum out of the tithes and other hereditaments, which amount to nearly £2OOO a-year. The tithes are leased out to a Ro man Catholic 1" and consideration, some of whom are guardians," are still in arrear for their poor rates—that some of them have paid no part of either the present or the previous rate—and that amongst the number who have thus set the 'v for than PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE VICAR OF HAREWOOD.— For some time it has been known that proceedings have been commenced in the Ecclesiastical Court, against the Rev. Mr. Hale, vicar of Harewood, for a series of perso nal attacks which the rev. gentleman is alleged to have made from the pulpit on certain of his parishioners who have frequented his church. We may safely add that Mr. Hale's character, as a gentleman and divine, is n o t in the least impli c ated in these proceedings. We un derstand that the Rev. Mr. Hale is 74 years of age, and that he has been minister of the parish for 47 years.— Leeds Intelligencer. Mr. Gorham, the clergyman whom the Bishop of Exeter refuses to institute to the living of Bramford Speke, on the presentation of the Crown (and whom he has harrassed by an examination of s Dr.M`Hale, Archbishop of Tuam. This "Lion of the Fold of Judah" accuses the English government of whole sale murder for not feeding the Irish people, and refuses to pay his own poor rates. The guardians are told that of the rates they will be superseded by paid officers. DEATH OF THE REV. CHARLES GAYER.—On Thursday death folded the Rev. C. Gayer in his relentless embrace, in the midst of a life of usefulness and in the prime of life. The Church of God has received a heavy blow in Dingle by his death ; to his young and numerous family the loss will be irreparable ; and the poor of his neighbourhood win not again 100 K upon suen a mend—to them his use fulness during the worst pressure of the past year cannot be told. The Rev. Mr. Gayer was in the 42d year of his age when he fell, after a few days' illness, a victill to ty phus fever, brought on after influenza, at his residence, His remains are interred in Dingle ie Church he occupied the position of chap-_ Ventry, rector of Dunurlin veral days, one day continuing it eleven hours and a-half), is a clergyman of thirty-seven years' standing in the ministry, and graduated with high honours at Cambridge. He obtained all the prizes in his college whilst an undergraduate. He was the only competitor with Professor Sedgwick for the geo logical chair. His literary, and theological attainments induced the late Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst to give him the valuable living of St. Just, in Cornwall, worth more than £5OO a year; but the situation in some respects not being congenial, Mr. Gorham gladly accepted on the presentation of the Crown, the living of Bramford Speke, although the income is nearly £3OO per annum less. RESTORATION OF TITHES TO THE CHURCH.—A Com mittee consisting of Lord John Manners, Lord Robert Grosvenor, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart., the Dean of Chichester, the Rev. Robert Spranger, D.C.L., the Rev. R. Chandos, Pole, &c., has been formed, for the purpose of restoning the tithes now held by lay impropriators to the exclusive use of the Church. The patronage of the Church is as follows: Clerical Patrons, 2353 ! Collegiate (Clerical and Lay), 805 ! ! Lay, 7553 !! ! Thus nearly two-thirds of the patronage of benefices in England and Wales is in the hands of laymen, and not of the Church itself ! The Rev. J. D. Schomberg, a learned and able writer on Ecclesias tical matters states :—`• By the particular constitution of England. every acre of land in the country is titheable, unless an exemption can be shewn ; and the reason that every acre of land is titheable, is not by prescription, as Sir R. Peel and others have alleged, (which is no title) but because the parochial clergy were endowed with this tithe by the thanes or lords of the respective manors, who made the payment of it a charge upon their estates, and a t u t inst their descendants for ever. * * * Now, this being the case, it may be a matter of surprise to many, houi the tithe came ever to slip away from the parish priests : in other words, how this endowment, having been, as it were, clenched by the law of the land, so many parishes came to be deprived of ' their own' maintenance for their own parish priest." The learned divine then goes on to state, that in the time of Henry VIII., the monasteries were dissolved, and the then existing revenues of these bodies were transferred chiefly into the hands of rapacious laymen ;—and he then gives a table of what the Russells and Howards derived from such transfer, naming the Abbeys, &c., apportioned to each, and by which table we see the Duke of Bedford gained £150,000 per annum, and the Duke of Norfolk £25,000 per annum! That many lay impropriators are now deriving large incomes from Church revenues there can be no doubt. We hope for the sake of the country, success may attend the exer tions of the Committee we have named, and that proper regard will be shewn to the wants of the really pious working clergy. theCosmpepeaieraltciveemtmrainssqiuerMsglected in the bishopric of Team, what is the answer to by an application to that Court for a mandamus. H that grave charge ? Simply, that the neglect is altogether third objection was, that if opposition had been made to Lamb, the first of th.- p, e n e Trv en ad e e i s tt t i h eg e . count , ios in which to be attributed to the obstinacy of the government in re- the proceedings of the Court at the confirmation, and if town meat mar,- ' fusing to place the entire control of the national schools, it was to he COPtded that the Court had not competent year, was exhibited at the New- property and all, in the hand's of the priests ! "Is your jurisdiction to refuse to hear the opposers, remedy might .--c.c, Limerick, onFriday, •lordship aware," be asks, "that it was the instruction of have been obtained under the provisions of the Church The P -ev, 3. Moore, incumbent of Mulaghfad, near his Holiness that the property of the national schools, re- Discipline Act. Certainly the Court of Queen's Bench —olskillen, committed suicide on Friday week, by cutting sorted to chiefly by Catholics, should be vested in the had no more right or authority to inquire into and try his throat. He was one of the most benevolent men living. Catholic pastors ?" The instruction, however, not hay- this case than it had to try offences which clearly came It is said that the Government have two cases of altar in g been complied with, though proceeding from what is under the decision of the Ecclesiastical Courts. And denunciation, by Roman Catholic clergymen, on their audaciously called the sup reme au th or ity o f th e P ope "— hi s f our th an d l as t o bj ect i on was, t h at un d er t h e w h o t t supreme in Ireland !—Dr. M` Hale would have no connec- of the circumstances of the present case - there was no tion whatever with the national system, and accordingly ground whatever to justify that Court in granting a lost no time in establishing seminaries of his own. mandamus. The Solicitor-General followed on the same side, as CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. did also Mr. M. D. Hill ; the latter quoted the opinion of li— Blackstone, that the statute of Henry the Eighth vested nfortunitelv went ~a' +l,. The Church and State G aze tt e st a t es th a t th e A rc h- the eleetion of a bishop in the Crown. bishop of Canterbury is in a p recar i ous s t a t e . On Tuesday, Mr. M. D. Hill, Dr. Bayford, and Mr. ,-' The Rev. S. B. Sellers, of Rufford, has been appointed Waddington, were heard against the rule and in support - - - of the argument that the Court of Queen's Bench had no jurisdiction in the matter. Dr. Addams spoke at great length in support of the rule, contending that the Dean and Chapter were not bound to elect the person named in the letters missive, under the penalty of prtemunire, the only penalty attaching to the act of the Dean and Chap ter in the election of any other person being that of the appointment by the crown, by letters patent, of such person as they might name. If the Dean and Chapter had elected some other person instead of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford, could it be maintained that they would be liable to prtemunire ? Would not the person so elected have been bishop to all intents and purposes ? The learned doctor then proceeded to read, at considerable length, several authorities, for the purpose of showing mar the aurnoriry or the sovereign, m ___ bishop or archbishop was not so extensive as was con tended for by the counsel about making the rule absolute. The learned counsel had not concluded the citing of these authorities when the court rose at half-past four o'clock. On Wednesday, Mr. Addams resumed his argument. and in answer to the argument on the other side, that the proceedings of the election, confirmation, &c., were all " a show and a shadow," the appointment actually vesting in the Crown, suggested that the Solicitor-General should bring in a bill to abolish such useless ceremonies ; or, if they were to be continued, that he would bring in a bill fixing future confirmations for the first of April, so that the old story of making April fools might be carried out to the letter.—Mr. H. S. Stephens, Mr. Peacock, and Mr. Baddely followed on the same side, and the further consideration of the case . was adjourned to Thursday. On Thursday, Mr. Baddely again appeared in support of the rule for a mandamus. Sir F. Kelly then followed on the same side; after which the Attorney-General re plied at some length to the arguments of the counsel in support of the rule, and concluded by imploring their lord ships, as early as was consistent with the importance of the ouestion, to intimate the opinion of the court upon it. On Friday Lord Denman said that the judgment of the court will be delivered on Tuesday (this day). LAW INTELLIGENCE. The trial of Mr, Gutteridge, for libelling the Bishop of Manchester, will take place at Warwick, in March. A rule nisi fora criminal information has been granted by the Queen's Bench, Dublin, against the proprietor of the Dublin Pilot, for charging Lord Clanricarde, through his " cruel, unrelenting, and ironhearted agent," with exterminating his starving tenantry. In the Vice-Chancellor's Court on Tuesday, his Honour refused to dissolve the injunction against publishing the Bishop of Hereford's Life of Thomas Aquinas in a sepa rate form. Dr. Hampden wrote it for the Encyclopedia Metropolitana, and declined to allow it to be published as a distinct work. THE ASSIZES.—The following days have been arranged with regard to the Northern Circuit :—Before Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Baron Rolfe :—Lancaster.—Saturday, February 19 ; Appleby.—Wednesday, February 23 ; Car lisle.—Friday, February 25 ; Newcastle.—Tuesday, Feb. 29 ; Durham.—Saturday, March 4 ; York.—Thursday, March 9; Liverpool.—Monday, March 20. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—In the Court of Exchequer on Thursday, a young lady, named Caster, the daughter of a retired victualler, obtained a verdict, £lOO damages, against her false swain, Charles Clare, a grocer in the Kingsland-road, near London.—ln the Sheriff' Court, on the same day. a Miss Rogers brought an action against a railway clerk, named Batchelor, for breach of promise. Judgment -had gone by default, and the jury awarded the fair spinster £64 for the loss of her Batchelor. NEWSPAPERS CANNOT BE LEGALLY LENT ON HIRE, —At the Bloomsbury County Court, on Wednesday, a news -vendor, named Miller, sought to recover from a Mr. Champion, a retired tradesman, the sum of 6s. for news papers lent to him to read. The plaintiff having proved his case, the defendant admitted the debt, but,doubted whether he could be compelled to pay. The judge ob served that such a remark from him he considered dis graceful ; but still he could not entertain the claim, as the law now stood the same as years ago, when it had been 'decided that persons lending newspapers to read could.not_ recover, but were liable for so doing to a penalty of .A.;50, it being considered by such trafficking in stamp§ to be de frauding the revenue, as it prevented the sale of papers. He therefore must dismiss the plaint.—Judiment for de fendant. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.—In the Court. of Arches, on Saturday week, Dr. Addams finished his reply in the case of GO v. Geils, which has been so long before.the Court, by tgupting that the Court would speedily deliver its sen tence,* order that if any one point were decides' adverse to Mrs. Geils the case might be taken to the Privy Coun cil. There was, however, he said, another tribun a l to which the cause must b e taken—the bar of publicopiniop —and he was satisfied that in that case they would neither affirm the sentence nor remit the cause. Dr. Curteis rose to fellow Dr. Addams, but the learned Judge said, I will hear no more t o -d a y :fter what I have heard. It is dis graceful to the Court, disgraceful to the public, and dis graceful to the profession. The way in which the cause has been argued has been most disgraceful. The learned Judge then rose t o l eave th e c h a i r , an d as h e was d o i ng so, Dr. Addams, with great warmth, said, I protest against your observations, sir, and I treat them with conte m pt #rid disgust, COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-- - goNDAT I (Sittings in Banco.) THE QUEEN E. THE ARCHBISHQP QF CM4ITERBURV.- HAMPDEN'S . - MANDAMUS. Shortly after te n o'clock, CASE Lord Chief Justice Denman, Mr. Justice' P a tt eson , M r . J ust i ce C o l er id ge , an d Mr. Justice Erle, took their seats, when the case of the Queen v. the Archbishop of Canterbury was called on. The Attorney -General the n said ho was instructed by her Majesty's government, with the full sanction of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, to oppose the rule obtained by his learned friend Sir F. Kelly, for a manda mus in this case ; and the objections which it would be his duty to urge were so numerous that he hardly knew where to begin, and what course he ought to adopt. He then proceeded to state the following as the order of his principal objections, and cited a vast mass of antique laws in support of them. He said that at the confirmation of bishops it was usual to make proclamation requiring op posers to cone forward, but he should be able to prove that at alltimes that part of the ceremony had been treated as a form, and throughout the ceremony of confirmation the Archbishop o r hi s Vi car -G e ne ra l on l y acte d minis terially not judicially ; that was his first objection to the rule. He should secondly contend, however, that whe !her the-act of the archbishop was ministerial or judicial, if wrong was done the remedy was got by appeal, bud not Orntral The Queen Dowager has sent £lOO for the relief of the Spitalfields weavers. _ The other night a fisherman off Maryport caught no fewer than 6700 herrings. A steam-ship arrived last week from Boulogne has brought a cage of live foxes, consigned to order. An anniversary festival is about to be held at Dundee in honour of James Watt. Lord Kinnaird will preside. It is said that the Postmaster-General intends to close the Post-office on a Sunday, in such towns as a majority of the inhabitants shall declare a wish to that effect. In the London Gazette on Tuesday last, no less than thirty-six bankruptcies were named ; and in the Friday's, twenty-six more ; making sixty-two in one week. A few days since, a iningber of boys were skating on a mill dam near Halifax, when the ice gave way, and f our of them were drowned. It is stated that the celebrated Whitfield was born in the house, the Bell Inn, at Gloucester, in which the pre sent Bishop of Exeter first saw the light. On Saturday week, a man and two boys were descend ing a colliery, in Parr, when the rope broke and the three fell to the bottom of the shaft, and were instantly killed. Mr. Nunn, who was prosecuted by the Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, for riding his horse, for a wager, from Leamington to London, gave £5O to the Society, after deducting the fine. Singe . the general flak promotion in November, 1846, no fewer than twenty admirals have died, and three retired rear-admirals. Nine admirals on the active list have died within the last three weeks. MURDER.—A small farmer, named William Howell, living at Llanellen, has died from arsenic being adminis tered, and a verdict of wilful murder has been returned against his wife, and against James Price as an accomplice. A very numerous meeting was held in Newcastle-on- Tyne, on Wednesday, with a view to prevent that port being deprived of Custom-house facilities, and brought within the range of North Shields. SOAP TRADE.—In the Excise Court, on Thursday, John Renton, of Walworth, was convicted of fraud in his business as a soap manufacturer, was fined £lOOO, and all his stock was condemned.—Sophia Bartram, convicted of making soap without a license, was fined £4OO. ORANGE PEEL.—FATAL ACCIDENT.—On the 9th inst., a female named Sophia Martin, slipped at Clifton through treading on some orange peel, and sustained a compound dislocation of the thumb. Lock iaw set and_she soon died. Last week, some vagabonds at South Shields made a poor idiot lad, known as " Billy Cowans," drunk, and filled his pockets with squibs. They went off and set him on fire, burning him in a severe manner. The offenders have not been found out. On Saturday, the directors of the new South-Western Steam Navigation Company made a trial of their ship the Dispatch, to the Nore and back. The engines made forty revolutions per minute, attaining a speed of eighteen statute miles per hour. On Friday week a servant girl employed by a family residing at Birmingham, was suffocated by a piece of tripe, an inch and three-quarters square, which she had endeavoured to swallow while she was carrying down stairs the remains of a lodger's supper. An animated discussion took place at a recent meeting of the governors of Heriot's Hospital, in Edinburgh, as to whether it was desirable to substitute steel pens for quills in the hospital and out-door schools ; but, in con sideration of the "importance" of the subject, it was resolved to defer it till the next meeting. - So many infants have lately died at Loughborough, from the effects of laudanum administered to them by their mothers or nurses, that the coroner has intimated his intention of recommending the jury to return a ver dict of manslaughter if another case of the kind should occur. Mrs. Hannah Thomas, aged 45, a lady respectably con nected, who was committed from Bow-street, on Satur day, for giving a false character to a servant, died on Monday in Tothill-Fields prison. The deceased, when taken into custody, said it " would be the death of her " if she were sent to prison. A few days since, a lady residing near Shields, inhaled chloroform while a dentist was drawing an u nsound tooth, and felt no pain during the operation : but when she re covered from her insensibility, she discovered to her hor ror that the dentist had made a mistake, and had drawn her soundest tooth instead of the decayed one. A LONG TIME C OMIN G.—A f ew days since, says th e Hants Independe n t, a gen tl eman a t Romsey received a letter containing a cheque, which was posted at Tewkes bury in 1846: from a misreading of the address it found its way to Rome ! where it has been lying till the present time. FATAL ASSAULT ON A Boy.—A man, named Jenkins, has been committed for trial at the Hereford Assizes, charged with beating a boy, named Maib, to death. Both parties were in the employ of a butcher at Hay, and on the 29th December, Jenkins beat the boy so severely with a stick that one of the blood-vessels of his head was broken, and he died a few days afterwards. CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.—The Times has recently been rich in these eccentricities. Take the following notice as an example :—Rodolph B. acknowledges the receipt of a slice of plum pudding, sent him by post to day. The whole party enjoyed it uncommonly at luncheon, it being as rich as the idea.—Belgravia, New Year's Day, 1841. THE PENNYi;OSTAGE.—In 1839, Mr, Rowland Hill expressed a confident anticipation that the effect of his penny postage would be to increase the number of letters transmitted by post five-fold within a very few years. Thl prophecy le already all but verified_ The number of chargeable letters transmitted by post in 1839 was 76 millions, in 1847 it amounted to 322 millions. There was a desperate affray between a party of poachers, upwards of twenty in number, and the keepers and watchers at Chillingham Castle, a few days ago. One of the keepers was dangerously wounded and is not expected to live. Both parties fired at each other, and it is stated that the poachers were seen carrying off one of the wounded of their party. There is now on view at the Atheneum, Temple-row, Birmingham, a large painting, entitled The Ship builder," which is intended to f orm one o f the principal prizes of the Liverpool and Lancashire Art-Union for 1848. The picture is said to be the work of Rembrandt, and will no doubt, therefore, attract the attention both of the dil ietanti and of the general public of this town. AN UNREASONABLE WANT.—A person advertises for a regular supply of a daily threepenny London newspaper at half-price !—that is, at barely the cost of the stamp and white paper, leaving labour, talent, wa ges , ren t, t axes , wear and tear of materials, rent, anxiety o f m i n d, r i s k o f r capital, as o o n f a b i ‘1 l e e cl; p s 8: r o ac• P t etiS' c., out of the quest i on, Truly the ven dors r meet with a so rr y re t urn f or g i v i ng up SurvEf n i A cAX, — (3 O 7I Wednesday, a respectable party were invited to gupper in a large oak cask, made by Mr. Isaac Aulton, of Dudley, at the house of Mr. John Hughes, Five Ways Inn, Tipton. After the cloth was drawn, the usual loyal toasts were drank, and several excellent songs were introduced on the occasion. Many persons attended out of courtesy to witness the novel scene. SALE OF THREE OP E. L.kNDSEER's PICTURES.— Three early pictures by Edwin Landseer, were sold on Wednesday week. The first was a small picture repre senting " A thorough-bred Scotch terrier with a dead rat in its mouth." It fetched 68 guineas. The next was called " Waiting for orders," and was a portrait of a coachman • 32 guineas was given for it. The last was called " ihe Paddock," and representing an old Chesnut horse and a white Scotch terrier. Sold for 100 guineas. A few days since a tradesmen residing near Stratford le -Bow, Essex, who had suffered several heavy losses, resolved to sell some freehold property which he inherited from his father. He consequently went to fetch the title deeds from an iron safe, into which he had thrust them soon after his father's death, fourteen or fifteen years before, and which had never since been opened, when he discovered a sum of £4OO in Bank of England notes, which are supposed to have been placed there by his father. intaggart lain to I and curate of Dingle, where he has been the chief instrument under God in fostering the work of reformation going on there so successfully for some years past.—Kerry Post. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.-At the meeting on Monday, the Lord Mayor, who had been so well abused during ie week by his friends, the Repealers, took the chair. A letter was read from his " lordship" explaining his con duct with regard to the omission of O'Connell's name from the list of toasts at the recent banquet—the letter also contained his subscription of XI. A communication from Dr. O'Higgins was also read, inclosing subscriptions to the amount of £4l. The assembly was addressed by Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Timothy O'Brien, and Mr. Ford on the subject of the Dublin Improvement Bill. A Mr. Burke, of Tintrim, spoke at considerable length on various subjects, and concluded with an attack on Mr. Shiel. Alderman Hyland, of Kilkenny, next presented himself, and in moving the adoption of a petition to the. House of Commons from the Roman Catholic clergy of his locality, stated that there was not a more peaceable county in Ireland than that of Kilkenny, though there had been between eighty or ninety ejectments issued at the last quarter sessions; a large number of which were against the tenantry of_ a judge of the land—Judge Crampton—who, ne supposea, snouia any outrage occur in consequence, would be sent down to try the offenders. Mr. Hyland spoke with great energy, striking Ins knuckles against the table with considerable force at the close of every sen- The rent was said to be £lO7. CATASTROPHE IN ROSCOMMON.—On the 26th of last month (Wednesday last), a melancholy event took place at Ashford, in Roscommon, which threw the neighbour hood into an unwonted state of excitement. The facts ' are briefly these, as stated in the Dublin papers :—The bailiff of the district, Mr. Peyton, proceeded to execute a law process issued at the suit of Mr. George Church, of ick-on-Shannon, against Hubert R. Waldron, Esq., , of Ashford, near Drumsna, the object being to dis 1. The bailiff took with him a number of the police force; but, on reaching the entrance gate to the country house, was met by Mr. Waldron, who, with his son and other persons, stood inside armed, and in an attitude of defence. The gate was closed, and the bailiff demanded admission, which was peremptorily refused by Mr. Waldron, he stating that he was an old man, and had but one life to lose which he did not much value. The bailiff explained that he must do his duty. Soon after, the bailiff's men endeavoured to force the gates with crowbars. It appeared that just before this a gun in the hand of one of the police had exploded, which, it was explained to Mr. Waldron, was b y s h eer acc id ent. H e, however, still resisted the legal entrance of the officers. It is stated that Mr. Waldron then fired from within the bars, and wounded one of the officers. The police im mediately fired (whether by order of the bailiff or not does not appear), when the affray became general, and twelve to fifteen shots were exchanged through the bars. Mr. Waldron was shot dead on the spot. He was fifty five years of age. One bailiff's officer was severely wounded, as was a police-officer. The officers afterwards discovered a quantity of fire-arms in the house, and several armed men. The son of Mr. Waldron, aged fifteen, was taken " prisoner" to the county gaol. Some of the pro perty sought to be seized was left on the premises, there being no sufficient force to protect it. An inquest will be held by the magistrates—and, no doubt, some official enquiry will be made as to the real facts. THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.—The special commission for the county of Tipperary was opened on Monday, at Clonmel, whither the judges had proceeded on that day from Limerick. The Lord Chief Justice delivered an able address to the grand jury, in which he enlarged on the necessity of repressing the disposition to crime and out rage which has spread terror through Tipperary and the neighbouring counties. On Tuesday, a man named John Lonergan was indicted for having murdered Mr. Roe, at Boytonrath, by firing a gun at him. Several witnesses were examined, and their evidence showed that the pri soner, who had been ejected by Mr. Roe from some land, because he had not paid his rent, and who had used threat ening language respecting the deceased, was going towards the spot where the murder was committed, in company with another man, a short time before the fatal shot was fired. One witness, a girl about fifteen, and a niece of the prisoner, who had gone out of her house when the report of the gun was heard, admitted that she had seen the smoke, but refused to answer the question whether she had seen any one she knew. After shedding a torrent of tears, she said that she had not seen any one in the grove whence the shot was fired ; but when further pressed and'' questioned wl3Pthor teen any one in the field, she wept bitterly, and refused to answer. The Chief Justice then ordered her to be committed ; but she was again brought up, and owned that she saw the prisoner in the field next the grove, that he was .coming from the ditch, and that she saw the smoke on the road. Some other evidence was heard, and the jury, after half an hour's con sultation, returned a verdict of guilty. Denis Brien, Pa trick Ellard, Patrick Mullanphy, Patrick Hickey, end George Hewitt, all young men under thirty years of age, were then convicted of assalting Edward Mullanphy, and his wife and family, at Knockadreen. and injuring his pro perty. The Chief Justice sentenced them to be transported for seven years. This case was the first since the opening of the special commission in Limerick, upon the 4th of January, which seemed to excite feelings of sympathy upon the part of the audience in favour of the prisoners. Two or three women in the gallery began to weep the moment the sentence was pronounced, and had to be removed from WHALE'S REPLY TO LORD SHREWSBURY.--ThO Freeman's Journal devotes nearly seven columns to the long-threatened reply of Dr, M'nEtie to Lord Shrews bury. A 5 to " points," you might as well look for &,;;,-- neri on a balloon; indeed, this pamphlet is just as flatu lent as the " great Na§sau." The letter is prefaced with an appropriate quotation from the Council of Trent, inti mating that " in former times" ce r t a i n pre l a t es had de meaned themselves too submissively towards ministers of state and other exalted individuals. The English earl, it will be recollected, confined himself p r i nc i pa ll y to an ex pression of his surprise and regret at the apparent sanc tion given by the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Ireland, to the vile and deadly calumnies uttered by their clerical subordinates against the upper classes. It was, indeed, a species of gentle remonstrance ; no more. But how does Dr. M`Hale treat it ? He commences by sneeringly ask ing the noble lord where he had " taken out his commis sion to e ncroac h on th e Di v i ne aut h or i ty of bishops ?' To interfere in the matter at all lie pronounces to be " a foul conspiracy against the lives of the Catholic people, and the character of the Catholic hierarchy." The lay peer had the courageous boldness to affirm that Popery, as it exists in this portion of the United Kingdom a conniver at injustice, an accessory to crime, a pestilent sore on the commonwealth." But the spiritual lord meets the allegation by ridiculing the letters as "erratic," and assuring its author that his astonishment and the sur- . prise of Engli s h men i n genera l w i ll only have the e ff ec t of strengthening the accused parties, himself among the number, in their " determination" to persevere. Then as to the assertion that education had been scandaloasly ne- Feb. 1, 1848. DENSE FOG AT: GLASGOW. — During the early part of last week Glasgow was visited with a fog so dense thiii no object could be seen at the distance of more than a few feet. The inhabitants do not recollect its equal for twenty years past. On Monday and Tuesday so dark was the at mosphere that no steamers ventured up or down the Clyde. The frost OM at the same time excessively keen, the thermometer being below zero. On Wednesday, the air was Vain clear. Qin,JOHN FRANKLIN.—The public will learn with great satisfaction that the admiralty have lost no time in meeting the wishes of the government and the public, generally, by providing superior ships, and selecting an efficient officer to command the perilous enterprise of searching for this gallant officer—the distinguished Capt.. Sir James Clark Ross, who returned about four years since upon a polar voyage—and who is the nephew of that other celebrated arctic voyager, Captain Sir John Ross,- C. 8., in whom the most unanimous confidence will be reposed as a most experienced navigator. GOVERNESSES.—At the last selection of annuitants by the Governesses Institution, in London, there were 84 candidates for three annuities of £l5 each-84 ladies, many reared in affluence, and all accustomed to the com forts and luxuries of at least our middle ranks, all seeking , an annuity of £l5 ! Of these, 70 were unmarried, and: of this number 7 had incomes above £2O, two derived from public institutions ; 16 had incomes varying from 365. to £l4 ; and 47 had absolutely nothing ! It will be recollected (say the committee) that all these ladies are above 50 years of age ; and of the utterly destitute 18 were above 60. AWFUL EVENT AND Loss OF LIFE.—On Saturday, at Stirchley, a company of men and boys were being let down into one of the pits, when one of those destructive and awful misfortunes took place called a " whirl," or by some a " runner"—that is, the chain flew off the barrel, and , precipitated them all to the bottom ; by which dreadful occurrence three poor boys have been killed in a moment. There were about sixteen men and boys in the chains, and several of them have been more or less injured. The three boys were in the centre of the group upon whom the chains fell, and they were killed almost instataneously.— Shrewsbury Journal. PRICE OF WHEAT.—It was precisely at this time last year that wheat made a sudden jump of 12s. on the qr. The price of wheat is at present less by 20s. than' it was in the corresponding week of 1847. The Cambridge returns for Saturday last gave it at 495. per quarter ; for the same week in 1847 it was 725. ; having in the previ ous week of that year, been only 60s. Even then the foundations were being laid of the recent tumble down panic. The bubble was already swelling out into those overstrained proportions which eventually yielded to the first breath of disappointment, and burst with a loud ex plosion.—Cambridge paper. FATAL EXCURSION.—A very sudden event occurred on the Humber on Monday. The deceased are two young men, both clerks in the o ffi c e o f M r . G eorge C ammell, of Hull, merchant and shipping agent. One of them is - named William Gray, aged 18, son of Mr. Gray, late Leedf, corn merchant, and now of Hamburg ; and his com panion was Mr. Otby Hollingsworth, of Myrton-place, aged 26, who has left a widow and two children. The two deceased young men went in a boat upon the Hum ber to shoot wild ducks ; and through want of manage ment they ran foul of a schooner off the Citadel, their boat filled with water, and sunk with them in it. They never - rose to the surface. WALES.—By the great outcry in letters and leaders, in the liberal press of the Principality, we assume that the Dissenters begin to have some fear of losing their hold of this paradise of sectarian doctrines. The London Examiner has called it the British Bceotia, though it has never produced a Pindar or a Plutarch. The only excuse for this nickname is the silly replies of scholars and school masters to the questions of the Education Commissioners; but let them put the same questions to the schoolmasters of the rural districts and villages of Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire, and a dozen other counties, and they will find the same abundance of wiseacres. The Whigs have been the chief aids of the Dissenters, in extending their influence in Wales; and now they complain of the igno rance they helped to propogate and extend. BURGLARIES AND MURDEROUS ATTACK.—Recently, the rectory of Lea was broken into, and plate, amounting to upwards of £3O in value, taken therefrom. The par sonage houses of Laughton and Blyton have, also, been plundered ; and the vicarage of South Leverton has been ransacked, and the whole of the plate packed up, but for tunately the burglars were disturbed before they had an opportunity of taking it away. We have now to record another attempt on the rectory of Saundby,which had partly succeeded ; but through the determined spirit of Mr. Hud son, and his capital defence of his house and person, the burglars have not been successful, but on the contrary, one of the guilty party, at least, was captured. He turns out to be a returned convict, named Joseph Palmer, alias " Duddy Palmer," a native of Clarborough, with whom, from all we can learn, were three other guilty associates, who are still at large. Palmer was brought up on Wed nesday week at Redford, when, after a long examination, he was remanded. Mr. Hudson, whose face Was covered with blood, was well enough to give evidence before his brother magistrates. The shirt he had on whilst engaged in the affray was exhibited, and presented one mass of blood. A gun, the stock of which had been broken into three pieces ; a life-preserver, heavily.charged with lead ; and a bludgeon, partially covered with blood, which the burglars had left on the premises, were also produced.— Hull Packet. EAST INDIA SHirrucer-- d Tht East Tpulia• an d 'Chi na Association have publishe t eir annual comparative statement of the number of British ships, with their tonnage, which have entered inwards and cleared out wards from and to places within the limits of the East India Company's Charter in the years 1846 and 1847. The return of shipping entered inwards shows a total increase, in favour of 1847, of 150 vessels, with 66,543 tonnage, the respective numbers being 852 vessels, with 360,039 tonnage, in 1846, against 1,002 vessels, with 426,582 tonnage, in 1847. Of this increase the port of tonnage ; e and most Bristoln umerous London received 107 vessel s , w ith 47,830tonnge and Hull, ,• Li verp oo 9 l, v 3 e 2 ss v eis, vessels, with 3, with 3.7 l 3 6 t ,s o 2 n 3 na t g o e n . n aarivals this year have been from Madras, Bombay, Singapore, and Penang, the Mauritius and the South Seas. The ref urn of shipping cleared outwards shows a total decrease of 16 vessels in the year 1847 compared with the p rece di n g twelve month s , t h oug h w i t h respect to the gross amount of tonnage a n i ncrease o f 17 , 7 82, i n measurement, is establish e d f or t h e same period. These results are thus arrived at :—ln 1846 the clearances in cluded 979 vessels, with 413,849 tonnage, while in 1847 they 'included 963 vessels, with 431,631 tonnage. The port Of London in this respect was in decrease 1 vessel, but the tonnage showed an increase of 8,207 in measure ment ; Liverpool was in decrease to the extent of 22 vessels, with 2,492 tonnage increase, while Bristol, and Hull, and the Clyde, and other ports contributed, on the other hand, an increase—in the former case to the extent of 2 vessels, with 829 tonnage, and in the latter cas e 5 vessels, with 6,254 tonna ge . The chief clearances with tonnage have been for Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Sin gapore, and New South Wales. A MELANCHOLY STORY.--A singular instance of ma ternal affection, and melancholy misery, occurred in this city a few days since. A widow, who, unfortunately for them, was the mother of six children, found . refuge in a dilapidated dwelling in one of the lanes. The youngest of her children fell ill, and died. The whole family were in a state of the utmost destitution, and the disease rapidly mastered the young orphan's energies. A coffin was beg ged. Coffin and corpse would have been borne, perhaps, without the mother's assistance, to some graveyard near. But she had lived at a distance of many miles from this city, and in the burial ground of her native place her friends were interred. The distance was far, and as few would consent to carry a coffin, containing a stranger, so far unnecessarily, the poor mother resolved to bear it her self. She actually did so. She had it placed on her back, and slowly and wearily she bore it away, reached the graves of her kindred, scratched a trench, we have heard, with her hands, and thus consigned to the earth where she wished they should rest the remains of her offspring. She returned to the orphans. A second took sick, died quickly, like the other; -like the other, was placed in a charity coffin, and conveyed in the same way, by the un fortunate mother ' to the same place of b ur i a l, and b ur i ed in like manner by her own hands. She returned again. A third child took sick, died speedily also, was stretched. in a coffin procured from the charitable, borne away as before by the sorrowing mother; and interred near to the other two by the hapless poor creature's almost excoriated hands. She returned a third time. A fourth child was ill ; fell a victim as quickly as each of the others, was cof fined by charity, and carried off and laid by the mother beside her three children. She came back to her wretched' apartment. ona llt hp events, e A or c u aren fifth dd: aoa ch i ld ofififfntthghebr was wearisomeotdoy s f e ec i eo z ln e seized shi jgeobnuyi ehged t yeos madeotfh malady, eddisease, eat s e: tobfifth rtt the mot h e r, wasting progress of unalleviated hunger.— Limerick Examiner. OUR DEFENCES.—The Globe of Monday came forth a very good article, in th e wa y o f r idi cu l e, aga i nst the Cornish Olympus, under the auspices of the pacific Sir W. Molesworth, and the Birmingham Peace Club, of Cobden and Sturge's fraternization. The subject does not admit of argument. There is now another chance for Sir R. Peel to follow the guide of the " unadorned elo quence" of the designer of print patterns, and his serfs starving on his piece prices. Cobden argues that there there are no longer any national antipathies in France towards England; and beyond the clubs, &c., none in England towards France. The Globe instances the fol lowing effects of disarming :—We saw this reduction, which had been devised by a Tory, carried into effect by a Whig Ministry according to the usual influence on each others' measures of British parties. And we saw the consequences, in the state of the British Mediterranean• squadron in 1839 and early in 1840, and in the effect which that comparative condition to the improvements the French had been making produced on French opinion, and indeed on European opinion gene ra lly.—C ap t a i n Plunkett :—"et observes, ln (past and F u t ure o f the British 1839, and early in 1840, our ships in the Mediterranean wer e, generally speaking, small, and un d er . manned, and with very indifferent crews ; our flag ship, although a three-decker, was smaller, and of les force i n men an d guns, than the French two-decked ships. Our squadrOn was also numerically weaker ; and thought a subsequent increase of complement, by means of drafts f rom England, inspired confidence and improved the morale of our fleet, there certainly was a time when its situation was very precarious."--Incidentally, in his famous " Note," the Prince de Joinville remarks on the same point—" We had at that moment the advantage over the British squadron in organisation and in numbers. Our sailors, commanded by an able and active chief, were well exercised, and all promised a victory. Ido not here rely on my own recollection, but upon that of one of the most skilful officers of the British navy."—To the ques tion why we have wanted increased armaments since 1840. we should have thought it enough to answer—because our force was then dangerously low ; and because nothing but a " happy accident," and a " petty fortress," toyed our lame in she Okla of &mime.