The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

IRELAND. ceiving its fruits, resist the payment of a moderate quota —4— to the poor. His only principle is to denounce with equal Mr. C. G. Duffy has been declared a bankrupt. ra g e ever y work of a national, judicious, and effective A number of converts renounced the errors of Roman- character. — Times. ism in St. Thomas's Church, Dublin, on Sunday. Mr. T. F. Meagher, who has lately undergone his trial and been sentenced to death for high treason, was edu cated at Stony burst College. Lord Roden took the chair taut meeting in Belfast last v The belief tt t a very numerous Protes pelc. Sir W. Verner. Col. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL INDIA. The arrival of the overland mail has brought most nrt ri ung.tisfactory intelligence. Since the Neile, Esq., &c., were present the writ of error time of the Cabool massacre, or of the Sikh invasion, ised by the 1 news of deeper interest has seldom left Bombay. There --- doubt that the Sikhs are in full rebellion. Not state convicts will be success gaining gronnd in JOWL I o The soy, Dobbin, left Clonmel on Tuesday. He was y _d about a mile outside town, on the Cashel t road, by a brace of policemen. Immense numbers of persons, princinfili— the class of small farmers. ' accompanit It is said t time by franc is many w Cork w; money Concili for sale, in the middle of £l,OO aciares! that he remit 1 his escape he discove it. on t Y leavir z and sv ing to nst his p: he exr y period with country 1 i ry with the to the United States, when -pal that the American syml ,nd, ful nt, not only to 3 had formed a very contemptuous estima capacity A pri lotorietl ;e of the doughty revolutionary 11 Wed a comfortable looking farn 7niy ... ;t • Rolltan and in the Hazard' country, but also at 'eshawur, Pathan, Kote, Nonpere, and other places, here have been risings or plottings • several of the Sikh 3irdars at Lahore have been arrested holding treache .ous correspondence with our enemies, while the fidelity f whol D a urbar is something more t „uteri our dear friends and allies have in utged since Lord Hardinge placed little Dhuleep Singh n - the throne, and ” settled" the country. To add to - - - Maharajah of Cashmere, as well in the h has led to the present outbreak, as in a lspiracy whi 3 intrigues ii been c Ltion and to the inconveniences—not to say r position, Rajnh Shore Singh, when the Bri ies were weak enough to look upon as an ally .fter seven days' from its walls to a considerable distance say "eighteen miles in the direction of During the siege many important advan• fmen but the defection of Shere Singh, who had five thousand Sikhs under his command, toiaffy al tered the complexion of affairs, and on the assembly of a council of war it was decided that Moultan could not be that the wisest course to pursue would be to withdraw the troops, and wait until reinforcements could be supplied. Accordingly, expresses were sent off to Lahore, Scind, and Bombay, and every exertion is now being used to send an army promptly into the field. Twenly :housand men will, it is said, be supplied from the north. while a force of nine thousand, chiefly composed of_ Bombay troops, will ye up througl of action. Subjoined is lajor G. S. Monti _ , C. 0. Lloyd, Bth Native In 'tenant T. Cubitt, 49th Native Infantry. mportance to the rebellion at Mooltan is ch has taken place in the Hazareh districts : of the insurrection there is Sirdar Chutter _ Shere Singh, the new ally of Dewan Moolraj. He is o chief of influence and eminence, and is one of those who signed the '• Hardinge Treaty." Being at the head of a considerable force, he attacked our politi cal agents, Captain Abbott and Lieutenant Nicolson, who had only some 1,500 country people under them, and compelled them to fall back on Hussan Abdall. These officers were now in danger of being driven into the fort of Attock, and there besieged at great disadvantage; and troops for their aid were consequently called for from the Jullender, while Major Lawrence, at Peshawur, sent five hundred men to their assistance. zambert, fantry ; a the risi At tag head h, father of a town iu this county on Thu Tvile eno to sut t to it. and twice or-thrice turned dm smarting under the blows ; but beyo . show his discontent—Cork Constitui INSOLVENCY AUSTRIA. -SIEGE OF VIENNA The intelligence received on Saturday relative to the ge of Vienna comes down to the 29th ult., at three lock, p.m. The Preussische Staats-Anzeiyer has the in the Que !ontains _ - rary, county of Limerick, c - )rk ; of Llis number, 66 On the previou of foi OL, LUC 4. Bth the lighting chiefly took place on the south the city, whilst on the west the barricades were y there were 1 yeomen only heard by fits and starts. Towards evening the Ban's troops had completely taken the suburbs Landstrasse and Erdberg, and at that time occupied a position near the Frausensbriicke and Meiergasse, at the entrance of the Leopoldsstadt, which was commanded by the batteries. The Gloggnittz railway terminus had been defended with great energy, but had been taken by the troops in the course of the 28th, as well as the outer lines of the south vents, the m ,rite of whor Tennis ( driver to Mr. Browne, Bridge, Limerick, was to his no,- of s dreadfully sh I Dennis O'Brien was n and 1 ny Constable Mor and east side, and of the faubonrg Wieden, which is stated to be one of the principal seats of the resistance. The Chasseurs were reported to have taken in the Landstrasse thirty barricade within three hours ; the regiment of Nas _au (some companies of which had shown mutinous dispo sitions on the 6th of October,) is said to have especially distinguished itself. In the suburbs, Landstrasse and Lerelrenfeld, the troops were favourably received by the inhabitants, and flowers were thrown to them by the ladies. It was also stated that a great number of the National Guards had thrown away their arms, and that a large quantity of weapons was found in the canal. The operatives, on the other band showed great prowess. No students were to be seen, and it was therefore supposed by some that they had laid aside the distinguishing parts of their dress in order that they might not be recognised. Only a very few shells had, according to all appearance, been thrown into the town. Some houses, however, es pecially in the suburb of Weiden, had been set on fire by rockets ; among others, a large manufactory near the Gloggnitzz railway station. In the night of the 29th, during which there was ,but little firing, the Belvedere, the Schwarzenbergische Garten, the whole of the Tager zeile, and the Leopold-Vorstadt were occupied by the troops, apparently without much resistance, so that the Viennese were on the south and east side almost confined to the inner city. The officers declared in the suburbs that the Prince had occupied them chiefly in order to spare them, in case a bombardment should become neces sary, and in order to be enabled to assign a place of refuge to those citizens who would not take part in the combat for the city itself. On the morning of the 29th a deputa tion had been seen coming from the city to head-quarters and it was asserted that they had continued their way in search of Prince Windischgratz, who had set out on horse back to reconnoitre the Hungarians. Nothing yet was known as to the result. It was stated that General Bern and the students had declared they would resist to the last. The Hungarians continued perfectly quiet. During the engagement they had advanced nearer to the city, but again fell back upon Briick. They had certainly not made any attack, although a large column of smoke which rose in the city was considered to be a signal of distress. At half-past two o'clock, when the last intelligence was despatched, the report of cannon was again heard. The Turin parliament decided on the 24th inst. by a large majority, against a resumption of the war. The King of Denmark has just granted a liberal con stitution to his people. At the present time only seventeen prisoners for debt are confined in all the various prisons of Belgium. Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler has applied for a mainte nance nut of her husband's estate which has been condi tionally granted. In Hungary, all Bishops appointed by the Sovereign immediately perform every part of their functions which relates to jurisdiction, before they have been confirmed by the Pope. RESTORED CONFIDENCE.—The Earl of Pembroke, who had broken up his princely establishment in Paris on the breaking out of the revolution of February, has just re turned to the French capital. Prussia is suffering severely from the red republican propagandists, who are striving to abolish all the royalties of Get many, and substitute one united republic in their stead. _ _ _ _ . . . Advices from Constantinople of the 15th ultimo acquaint us with another terrific fire at Pera, which occurred on the 12th. The museum, mosque, hospital, medical academy, and a number of other public and private build ings (in all about 280) were utterly destroyed. The loss of property was immense. An idea may be formed of the ruin which has over whelmed the shopkeepers of Paris since the revolution of February, from the fact -that there are at present twelve shops unoccupied in the Passage des Panoramas, in which one has never been known to be vacant since its foundation until the present year. M. Thalberg has arrived in London for the winter; be quitted Vienna just before the outbreak. A gentleman who has recently come from the " imperial city" states that it is impossible to describe the dreadful condition of the peaceable inhabitants ; and as regards music, not a note is heard, even at the public places. PREJUDICE AGAINST COLOUR.—The daughter of Fre derick Douglass, an amiable and gifted little girl of nine years of age, has been expelled from Seward Seminary, Rochester, State of New York, on account of her colour. Happily, in five hours' time the doors of another highly respectable school were opened to receive her. THE DEATH PENALTY BY WHOLESALE.—A negro man, named Sam Humphrey, the property of Miss Her berts, was tried before the County Court of Alexandria, on Tuesday, for burglary, and, being convicted, was sen tenced to be hung. There are only seventy offences for which the penalty is death, if committed by a slave in Virginia.—New York Post. Accounts from Spain speak of the taking of the village of Borja, in Bayonne, by a body of one hundred Carlists. The greater part of Aragon is up in arms, and the refu gees are all gone to the frontiers. A decisive movement is spoken of, an alliance having been entered into be tween the Carlists and the Progresistas, the basis of which is, that the Conde de Montemolin shall be King, giving the Progresistas a liberal constitution—an union much like that of Protectionists and Chartists would be in England, one of no inherent strength. NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.—We have seen the first number of " The Anglo-Maori Warder," published at Auckland, on Tuesday, April 25, 1848. It contains lead ing articles, both in English and Maori, and has adopted for its editorial motto, " Right is better than might," which, in Maori, is "ra to tika i toa ai." The Warder comments strongly on the disgrace which the colonial newspapers have brought on the press by their parsonali ties, and records with approbation a sentence of two months' imprisonment passed on the editor of the Albion, for a libel on one of the colonial magistrates. A VICTIM TO A THEORY.—The Boston Transcript, in noticing the death of Lieutenant G. F. Ruxton, of the British army, recently deceased at St. Louis, says,—"A friend, who crossed the Atlantic with him in one of the late steamers, informs us that he was a most intelligent and agreeable companion, and that his object in revisiting America was to verify a theory which he had confidently formed, that the Moqui Indians of New Mexico are the descendants of Prince Madoc of Wales and his followers. While at Fort Leavenworth, Ruxton happened to enter the log hut of an old negro woman. He had on a Moqui blanket, and the old dame, after examining it carefully, exclaimed, That's a Welsh blanket ; I know it by the wool.' She had lived with a Welsh family in her youth, and had been taught their mode of weaving. From this and other circumstances, Ruxton was possessed with the idea that the Moquis were genuine Welshmen, and he avowed his determination of investigating the question or _ . perishing in the attempt. Our fiiend tells us that the gallant adventurer, 3t the same time, seemed to have a presentiment of an early death. He has fallen a victim to an epidemic which, both here and at the west, has been unusually virulent the present season." iined in order to see if it we a Roman Catholic chapel It is said to bo a fact, evidence on the Irish sta hough it did not at O'C niched with t force was din On Thursday, as Major Phibbs Roscrea, with his servant, they wer ruffians, who demanded their money. TI tating, was immediately shot. The major then delivered rash-box. containing £lBo, to the miscreants, who weapons of war inished to al as riding in a g ipped by six servant hesi- on Tt tered. He was put into possc farm, from which a man m evicted by Mr. Browne. D the O'Brien's ____ o been held, and a Ver - dict of " Wilful murder " returned STATE PROVISION FOR THE ROMISH CLERGY.—A Ro man Catholic " Priest of the Archdiocese of Tuara," fa vourable to the principle of a state provision for the clergy, deals somewhat hardly, if not irreverently, with the resolutions relating to the question adopted by the prelates at their recent meeting in Dublin. The Tuam priest seems to think that the bishops have commenced at the wrong end ; that before they ventured to speak for the clergy, who, he says, are at present suffering severe privations, they ought to have furnished to the world some proof of episcopal disinterestedness, and, as a rea sonable justification of this view of the matter, he lets the public into a secret or two of the prison-house. Mr. ODoherty was on Wednesday found guilty of treason. He had • been tried twice before. On Fri day the prisoner was brought to the bar to re ceive sentence. Judge Crampton addressed the prisoner at some length, and concluded by saying, that the portion of the press with which the prisoner had connected him self was the chief instrument in the creation of the dan gerous agitation that had prevailed. " I must add," said his lordship, " that I have never read any publications more dangerously wicked, and clearly designed to excite rebellion and revolution than those publications which have emanated from you, and of which you have been as certained by the verdict of your jury to have been the guilty publisher. Under these circumstances, the court is called upon to pronounce upon you the sentence of trans port ition for ten years." TRIAL OF WILLIAMS.—Mr. Richard Dalton Williams, the partner of Mr. O'Doherty in the ownership of the Tribune, was brought to trial on Thursday. The case dif fered from that of O'Doherty in the point that no evidence whatever was offered that Mr. Williams had written either of the articles charged as treasonable. The Attorney- General contended that the guilt lay in the publication, and that it was immaterial who wrote or printed the arti cles. He threw the onus on the prisoner of proving that he was ignorant of the treasonable nature of what he hed published. The proofs were confined to the formal evi dences of ownership and publication. On Friday the Jury returned a verdict of " Not guilty," as, though they found that the prisoner was the publisher of the newspaper in question, they did not believe he entertained the inten tions alleged. After sentence had been passed on O'Do herty, Williams was liberated. THE WHIGS AND THE PRIESTS.—Monday night's Dublin Herald contains the following statement A. correspondent, the same whose accurate information ena bled us to anticipate Inspector Trant's disclosures respect ing priest Fitzgerald, has put us in possession of the following startling narrative :—He states that a head-con stable, in the neighbourhood of Clonmel, told two gentle men, one of them a Protestant clergyman, in the Clonmel court-house, on Thursday week last, ' that he had given most important information as bearin,g upon Mr. Meagher's case—namely, that he had seen him at the head of several thousand men in arms, and two of the Carrick-on-Suir priests with him, two days before the outbreak at Bailin gassy.' This man happens to be a decided Protestant, and gave information of what he had seen. He was taken up to Dublin, and when it was found that his informations could not be made available against Meagher, without im plicating equally two Romish priests, he was not called upon to appear as a witness at all." ARCHBISHOP WHATELY.—EXTRAORDINARY FRACAS. —The Jubilee Meeting of the Church Missionary Society, held at the Rotunda, in Dublin, on Thursday last, was the occasion of a most extraordinary scene. The Arch bishop of Dublin was presiding over the meeting ; and on one of the speakers making a complimentary allusion to the " venerated Prelate" who occupied the chair. hssses and other marks of disapprobation proceeded from some of the parties present, alleged to have been members of the late Protestant Operative Association, and friends of the Rev. T. D. Gregg. Order heving been restored, the business of tLe meeting proceeded, till the Archbishop, having business to attend to elsewhere, rose to vacate the chair, when he was assailed with fresh hisses, shouts of "Maynooth ! Maynooth !" and other exclamations. The Dean of St. Patrick's having been called to the chair in the place of the Archbishop, and a vote of thanks to his Grace having been proposed, the uproar was renewed. The vote of thanks was declared to be carried, amidst cries of " No, no !" and hisses. The chairman having dissolved the meeting; Mr. T. H. Thompson, of Leeson street, who had previously asked leave to address the meeting, but was refused, ascended the platform, and, in a speech of considerable violence, justified the opposition which had been manifested against the Archbishop. He was proceeding to read an extract from the Archbishop's " Christian Duty of Educating the Poor," when his voice was drowned in cries of " Shame, shame," from the friends of the Archbishou, he was knocked down from the plat form, and ultimately given in charge to the police. As it appeared, however, that he had not used or threatened any violence, but that the whole fracas was a mere " matter of discussion," as the magistrates termed it, the complaint against him was dismissed, and he left the office, threat ening to bring an action for false arrest against the rev. gentleman, Dr. Fletcher, who had given him in charge. CHARACTER OF DR. WHALE.—Dr. M'Hale practises the profession (of beggary) on a much larger scale than is known in St. Giles, or Clerkenwell, or the Borough, for in fact he has a much larger field. Throughout his whole career he has been sedulously employed in binding the Celtic population of Ireland in the trammels of beggary, and burying it under the squalor of barbarism. He is always re-opening the sores of his country, administering fresh goads to its morbid sensitiveness, deluding it into a certain idea of the dignity of idleness, protracting its quarrel with civilization, and instilling that sentiment of class which produces honour among thieves, recognized walks among beggars, and many other corruptions of fraternity. Does heaven send a blight on the land and warn a wretched race against the habits of savages and the food of swine, Dr. M`Hale is ready to assure his poor dupes that the act of Omnipotence is the fruit of Saxon oppression. Does Government undertake the most im possible task of carrying seven millions of people through a winter of famine and lavish its treasures with an unheard of profusion, Dr. M`Hale is ready to arraign, to misre present, to vilify, to denounce, the whole agency and means necessary for that purpose. If half a day's work is required, he calls it cruelty ; if half an hour's walk to the meal-store, he calls it wilful murder. If clerks are employed to pay wages and surveyors to measure work, he calls it embezzlement and proclaims that all the money • has been squandered in jobs. If the English public in a season of great straitness makes a voluntary subscription for the Irish, larger than any voluntary subscription for any purpose anywhere since the beginning of the world, Dr. M`Hale suppresses the fact altogether, or, when it is thrust on him, calls it an heretical device. If a perma nent system of public charity is founded on the principle of making property do its duty to the poor, Dr. M`Hale gives his prompt encouragement to the selfishness and perverseness of those who, possessing the land and re- sday. His head v THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ' "m~_'za"t:.X+e3'~?.zv~ `2*'i~"{~~`-G'R._ ~'~~~"1]n"~a+`t~Y~ .:.~-c'~P , -'~' —. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. -.--- All the railway companies over which Mr. Hudson pre sides intend to issue full statements of their financial po sition, and the Hull Packet says, the stock will gain con siderably th?reby. A new eight-wheeled engine has been running on the London and North-western Railway, with 100 tons, at an average running speed of 51, and at a maximum running speed of 53, miles an hour. Mr. Hudson is carrying out a rigid system of economy on all his lines ; on some making dismissals, and on others carrying out reductions to the extent of 10 per cent. STOCK JOBBING. — The Standard of Monday says : As a specimen of the proportion of bona fide to the gambling business, it has been ascertained that for three weeks past there has not been a single transfer made in the stock of the North Western Railway Company. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ended 28th October, 1848 :—Coaching traffic, £1286 18s. 7d. ; parcels, £7l 13s. 3d. ; goods and cattl £939 7s. 4d. ; Steam-boats, £167 13s. 6d £1765 12s. 84d Of the im . ,ortance, magnitude, and expense of rai bills our readers may form some slight idea from the fol lowing :—The Solicitor's bill of the South-Eastern Rail way contained 10,000 folios, occupied twelve months in taxation before the master, and amounted to £240,000. Western Railway authorities are preparing a voluminous statement, which is expected to be ready on Wednesday. Similar ones are in preparation from the London and South-Western, the Eastern Counties, the and Yorkshire ; the York, Newcastle, and I York and North Midland, the South-East( Scottish lines. ,ncasture ;nit +lin THE RAILWAY COMPANIES.—We understand that the representatives of the three great lines of railway—the London and North-Western, the Great Western, and the South-Western—of which rumour has already in- formed our readers—has resulted in an agreement three companies to apply to parliament for an act author ising their amalgamation. The ultimate event is of course ance at E the mileage was 3,309. The ave were £5O, whilst in 1847 they wer RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-013 dent occurred to the Cale,' age earnings per mile 1 -aonian exprE and the g on the rails still dependent upon several contingencies. From official returns it appears that the amount of traf fic for the last week, on 4,167 miles of railway, was £207,257, thus accounted for :—£99,890 for the convey assengers only, £55,499 for the carriage of goods, e- and a remainder of £51,877 for passengers and goods train which left the Euston station that morning: The engine ran off the line at the curve about half a mile south of Weedon station, be driver urgers were hurt, except two, who were CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. An anonymous " friend"'has contributed £l,OOO to wards rebuilding St. Peter's church, Cheltenham. - The Archbishop of Canterbury has presented £2OO to the National Society, and has promised to become au an nual subscriber of £lO. The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Musgrave arrived, on a visit to the Dean of Durham, at Durham, on Wed nesday last, from Bishopthorpe, near York. The Bible Society have made an appeal to the public, in order to turn to good account the recent occurrences on the Continent. Lord Bexley heads the subscription list with a donation of £2OO. _ The Rev. J. P. Eden, son-in-law of Lord Broug to have the vacant rectory of Bishopwearmouth, the gross value of which is £4,200 ; but a great effort is making to have the living divided into five district rectories, and we hope it will succeed. The important case, Gorham V. the Bishop of Exeter, is iam, is ical and a temporal )f Arches a monition was granted on the 15th of June, calling on the Bishop to show cause, within fifteen days, why he had refused to institute the Rev. G. C. Gorham, S.D. (on the presenta . •1.1 .1 ......._ , . tion of the Queen, on the 2nd of November, 1847) to the vicarage of Bampford Speke, Devonshire. On Monday week, a commission, issued by the Bishop of Winchester under the Church Discipline Act, to inquire nev. Mr. Proby, was opened in The charge against the rev. gentleman nad submitted to receive baptism by immer sion, having been previously baptised; and that he had received the sacrament in a Dissenting chapel, and accord ing to forms not recognised by the church, to which he pleaded guilty, and the commission adjourned. THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Her Majesty Queen Ade laide has, within the last few days, forwarded to the Rev. Thomas Dale, the vicar of St. Pancras, the munificent sum of £2OO in aid of the fund now raising by the rev. into the condu the Cathedral was, that he immense district. This truly royal contribution is en hanced in value by the fact that her Majesty had pre viously rent contributions for the separate funds of two or more of the churches now in course of erection. RANK OF THE COLONIAL BISHOPS.—A correspondent of the Colonial Church Chronicle observes that Earl Grey's circular. eivinz rank to the Roman Catholic Pre- analogous to, and next after, that of the Prelates of stablished Church, has the effect of giving p testant Bishop ; that is to say, in Australia, in ttindostan, and in Canada, as also in Malta, the " Most Rev." Archbishops Polding, Carew, Signay, and Caruana (Arch bishops of Sydney, Edessa, Vicar-Apostolic of Bengal, Quebec, and Rhodes, Bishop of Malta), take rank before the acknowledged Bishops of Sydney, Calcutta, Montreal, and Gibraltar. THE CHOLERA AND THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury l following letter to the clergy of his province " Lambeth Palace, Nov. 3, 1848 " REVEREND SlR, — The appearance of the cholera in several parts of the kingdom, has excited a general appre hension lest this country, which has been mercifully excepted from the political and social evils prevailing form of I write, therefore, to direct the use of the prayer appointed for such cases in the - Iturgy t espe entity Il LUC LIIZGO•Ol; 04UL114 apw. caa a" - hood. It will also be proper in the way which may appear most suited to the circumstances of your parish, to exhort your people to repentance and humiliation, mules neces sary at all times, and for which there is too much reason both nationally and individually, and to which we are especially called by visitations such as famine and pesti- lence, which baffle human skill and power averted by the merciful providence of an Almighty Father —I am, reverend sir, your faithful friend and brother, " J. B. CANTUAR." and can onl `' P.S. Since writing the above I have received a com munication from the Board of Health, desiring me to remind the parochial clergy of the important benefits which they may render to their people, by a regular visi tation of their respective districts, for the purpose of enforcing cleanliness, ventilation, and strict temperance. Public measures can only be applied externally, and will be of little avail if unwholesome or insufficient diet (which the wealthier classes should be exhorted to provide against), or of close and over-crowded apartments, expose the inha bitants to the first attacks of epidemic disease." The folio wing is the prayer alluded to by the Archbishop, and the use of which, by the clergy, his grace orders : " 0, Almighty God, who in thy wrath didst send a plague upon thine own people, in the wilderness, for their obstinate rebellion against Moses and Aaron ; and also, in the time of King David, didst slay with the plague of pestilence three score and ten thousand, and yet, remem bering thy mercy, didst save the rest, have pity upon us miserable sinners, who are now visited with great sickness and mortality, that like as thou didst then accept of an atonement, and didst command the Destroying Angel to cease from punishing, so it may now please thee to with draw from us this plague and grieyous sickness, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Parliament has liPpn fnrthpr rrnrogripil fn the 19th Dee. A requisition is to be forwarded Co the Hon. Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley's eldest son, who is in America, inviting him to consent to be put in nomination for Lynr. The states of the Zollverein are understood to have consented to the admission of British goods free from the addititional duties, provided they are accompanied by certificates of origin ; and. the Prussian government has intimated an intention of reimbursing the additional duties already paid on British merchandise imported with proper certificates, and of inviting the other states of the Zollverein to adopt the same course. LORD STANLEY'S OPINION OF LORD GEORGE BEN TINCR.—Lord Stanley in a letter, enclosing a subscription for some testimonial to the memory of Lord George Ben tinck, says :—I hope I am right in supposing that your subscription, though originating in, is not intended to be confined to le City of London or the mercantile interests. The farmers of England will be anxious to testify their gratitude' "to the memory of their tried and constant friend; and men of all classes, even those who did not coincide in all his views, may well unite in doing honour to the memory of qualities, which, as long as honesty and integrity are valued, must command the respect of all. I knew Lord George Bentinck well. I was long honoured by his personal friendship, I shared his political opinions, and I was associated with him, though with far less exer tion on my part, in his public labours ; and I can safely say, that it never occurred to me to meet with a man of a warmer and more generous heart, of more boundless liberality, and, above all, of more sterling and single minded honesty of purpose. An innate love of truthful ness and honour, and an intense abhorrence of all that is false, trickery, and underhand, were among the leading features of his character; and able as he was in argument, persevering in mastering the details of his subject, and bold and unflinching in the support of his views, that which gave him his power in Parliament, and won for him the respect of his opponents and the admiration of his countrymen, was the conviction felt by all that he was never acting a part—that which he truly felt he never feared to say—and that he carried practically into his public life the stern principles of integrity which dis tinguished his private character. These are qualities which will be appreciated by every Englishman, and many, like myself, will be glad to be assured that the subscrip tion which you have set on foot to do honour to them is intended to be open to all, though originating with the mercantile body of the City of London. THE CHOLERA, The Royal College of Physicians of London, have, on the re-appearance of the epidemic cholera in England, issued an important circular of advice, with a view to pre vent the spread of the disease, and to mitigate its evils. They state, first, that cholera appears to have been very rarely communicated by personal intercourse, and that cordons or quarantine have failed to arrest its progress. They are therefore of opinion that an appreciable increase of danger is incurred by attending and ministering to per sons affected with it. A moderate use of well cooked green vegetables, and of ripe fruit is allowable, also of pork or bacon, or of salted, dried, or smoked meat or fish, which have not been proved to have any direct influence in causing this disease. They advise such a general diet as has hitherto been found to agree with respective parties. Sufficient nourishment in food is recommended. ti ••••• Secondly—They state that the disease has always been most destructive i n the dampest and filthiest parts of towns, and they urge the public authorities to improve the state of the sewers and drains, and remove all collec tions of decayed vegetable and and animal matter from the vicinity of dwellings. They also enjoin the well air ing of all rooms, or apartments, used in dwellings. Thirdly—Debility or exhaustion increase the liability to cholera. The usual food should be taken, and intem perance or the use of ardent spirits and other intoxicating drinks carefully avoided. The grand barriers to the dis ease are nourishing food, warm clothing, and a speedy change of damp clothing ; the avoidance of excessive fatigue, of long fasting, and of exposure to wet and cold, particularly at night. Fourthly—Persons affected with disease of the bowels should immediately apply for medical assistance. Should looseness of the bowels, sense of exhaustion, and chilli ness come on, the parties should be placed in a warm bed until advice can be obtained. _ _ Fifthly—The authorities are recommended to establish dispensaries, in various parts of towns remote from medi cal institutions, and also to provide distinct cholera hos pitals, not on the idea that the disease is infectious, but with a view to better attendance on the patients. The existing hospitals could not furnish the requisite accom modation. _ Sixthly—ln conclusion, the committee would urge on the rich, who have comparatively little to fear for them selves, the greet duty of generously and actively minister ing to the relief of the poor while the epidemic prevails ; bearing in mind that fuel, and warm clothing, and suffi cient nourishment, are powerful safeguards against the disease. _ . . _ _ . They deem it most desirable that the parish authorities should at once improve the diet, and increase the com forts, of the poor under their charge; and that the wealthy should form societies for the supply of food, clothing, and fuel to those who, though not paupers, still need charitable assistance in the present emergency. Such measures, which it is the duty of those possessed of power and wealth to adopt, would the committee be lieve, if liberally carried out, deprive the cholera of half its victims. _ _ _ I This important document is dated " College of Physi cians, Oct. 28th," and is signed by JOHN AYRTON PARIS, President; and FRANCIS IlAwKiNs, Registrar. wards break re none of the pas! FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDEtiT. — On SUnday week some workmen were travelling in a special train on the York and Newcastle line, and stopped at Don to take in water, when the mail train from the south come up, and ran into it with such violence that the carriage and tender were minutes afterwards Another man is so severe y injurec !lopes are et 11 - nrl bin Ina ;ertaineci lis recovery, and BELFAST AND BALLYMENA.-At a meeting of share holders, held in Liverpool, on Tuesday, Mr. Maunder in ..... existing number of directors was too great, and should be reduced to fifteen, of whom five should consist of vember, or to send their proxies, stamped in due 'orm, to Mr. Maunder of this town, who will attend there per sonally, for the purpose of inquiring into the company's accounts, and, at the same time, to see that every facility be afforded for the increase of traffic, and also that the strictest economy be used. RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WINTER. Various important alterations and revisions in connection with the trains and other arrangements of the railways running out of London, and consequent on the confe rences that have recently taken place between the beads of the railway body, came into operation on Wednesday. The London and North-Western Railway Company, who have regularly run one-and-twenty trains a-day out of and into London, intimate that during the winter this number will be reduced to sixteen. A general reduction takes place in the trains both out and in, but as yet there is no announcement as to the fares, which is presumed will remain as before.- Five of their down trains are to be discontinued, and a corresponding number up. THE FLOODS AND THE RAILWAYS. — On the branch lines of the Eastern Counties, from Ely to Peterborough and beyond, the arable and meadow lands are two and three feet under water for six and seven miles around, so that viewed from a train in transit, the country presents nothing but a vast sheet of water, from which neither the canals nor the rivers can be distinguished. The farmers alongside the railway are to be seen ferrying themselves in boats from field to field and farm to farm. Many acres of oats and barley, mowed and unmowed, are surrounded with water, and this in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire is expected to render the crops below the average. An ingenious method has been resorted to on the Eastern Counties to mitigate the effect of the mass of water, by bankments, b but in spite of these precautions, the line be tween Swavesv and St. Ives has been overflowed and the traffic temporarily suspended. Although the Great North ern runs parallel with the Witham Navigation, and almost on a level, it has not suffered from the overflowing. The line affected most has been the Northampton and Peter borough branch of the London and North-Western, where a bridge or two has been washed down. RAILWAY RECEIPTS, The following are the receipts of railways for the past week ; that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made:— I Week 1848. RAILWAYS. ending Amount. Aberdeen Amiens and Boulogne Oct. e s. d. 0 0 0 29 1274 0 0 Belfast and Ballyniena Birkenhead, Lan. and Cheshire —29 709 0, 0 Caledonian 2B 5007 0 0 Chester and Holyhead —2B 1765 0 0 Cockermouth and Workington —2B 173 0 0 Dublin and Drogheda — 26 789 0 0 Dublin and Kingstown Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen East Anglian 29 706 0 0 Fd nburgh and Glasgow 2B 3516 0 0 Edinburgh and Northern 2B 1929 0 0 E. Counties, N. Eastern, and N. —29 15536 0 0 East Lancashire Eastern Union and Ipswich and Bury 2B 1377 0 0 Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Ctbrg — 0 0 0 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr. —2B 2660 0 0 Glasgow and Greenock Great Southern and Western Great Western .. •• —29 19329 0 0 Kendal and Windermere 0 0 . Lancashire and Yorkshire —2B 105 82 0 0 Lancaster and Carlisle Liverpool, Crosby, & Southport. —29 84 0 0 Londonderry and Enniskillen —2B 131 0 0 London and North-Western —29 39827 0 0 London and Blackwall London & Brighton, South Coast —2B 9076 0 0 London and South-Westeni —• 29 9813 0 0 M'cliester, Sheffield, and Lincoln —2B 2805 0 0 Maryport and Carlisle 0 0 0 Midland, Bristol, and Birming ham Midland Great Western (Ireland) Monklands . Newcastle and Carlisle Norfolk North British Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre.... Scottish Central Shrewsbury and Chester South-Eastern and Branches South Devon Taff Vale Ulster Waterford and Limerick Whitehaven Junction York, Newcastle, and Berwick York and North Midland, &c - 28 I 21446 0 0 - 29 1183 0 • -28 868 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 28 2577 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 - 28 1046 0 0 - 29 1283 0 0 - 28 9222 0 0 - 27 1301 0 0 - 28 2149 0 0 - 29 864 0 0 - 28 304 0 0 - 29 174 0 0 -28 13038 ft 0 - 28 7810 0 0 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, 3602 670 13951 891 119 39274 856 8247 8598 2248 -*- The Cheshire hounds, Wednesday, Twemlow-hall ; Thursday, Tabley-park ; Saturday, Darnhall. Sir W. W. Wynn's hounds. Wednesday, Hanmer ; Friday, Cuddington-green ; Saturday, Wem—at half-past ten. WORCESTER STEEPLE CHASE.- On Saturday the Handicap of 20 sovs. each, with 100 added, was run. The distance was four miles, and there were 43 subs. twenty of whom started. The race was run in 10 minutes and a half, and was won by Capt. Maddock's Proceed, with Lord Strathmore 's Red Lancer second. DERBY " SWEEPS." —On Saturday the appeal of William Willis, the proprietor of the King's Head public house, in Newgate-street, London, was heard against the game, tn lottery, be played o and d s w conviction by Sir Peter La urie and Al derman Wilson , of stake, the 23d of June, for havi n g unlawful ly and knowingly suffered certain gaming to b e carrie d on in his house , drawn eep at by lot, against the tenor o f the license g ran ted to him called t a he "Derby ce rtain. unlawful sweep under the 9th of George IV. The appellant had been fined £5 and costs. After a long discussion, the Recorder of London gave his decision, and said it was impossible not to see that the recital of the act of William 111., which so expressly denounced lotteries as mischievous public nuisances, comprehended the present case. He was bound to affirm the conviction. He approved of the conduct of the appellant in questioning the validity of the conviction, and in abandoning all idea of continuing the sweeps in his house upon finding that they were illegal. He supposed that after the present decision the practice would cease everywhere. He certainly should not, as a magistrate, sign the license of any man who should henceforward permit sweeps to be drawn in his house. That determination, be must be understood, would not operate against any person who might have fallen into the general error, provided there were no repetition of the infringement of the act. TIDE TABLE. MORN. IEVENO., HOI-IT.I HOLTDAYS, ETC. Wales bornllBll 21 3 21st Sun(' 21 1 i Tuesday Thursday d .. 9‘ 927 951 Friday —.lOl 10 14 10 38 Saturday —ll 11 1 11 23 121 11 45 I - 1110 uday.... 131 0 8 0 31 KIRKDALE SESSIONS, At these Sessions, which concluded on Saturday last, there were 100 prisoners for trial, viz., 94 for felony, and 6 for misdemeanor, including 71 males, and 29 females, of which number 41 could neither read nor write, 23 could read, 35 could read and write imperfectly, and 1 could read and write well. The class of crimes in the calendar were of that description usually found at the Sessions, and contained nothing of any importance. Of the above number of prisoners 31 were under 21 years of age, 46 under 30, 12 under 40, 9 under 50, and 2 under After the trials of the prisoners had been concluded the appeals, of which there were eight, were called on, and it was expected that the Sessions would not be closed until late, even if then, but to the surprise of the Court they went off in about half an hour. The following is the result. _ _ . Spotland appellants, and Toxteth-park respondents Order confirmed, subject to a case. Mold appellants, and West Derby respondent quashed. Costs £2O, to be repaid by respondents Liverpool appellants, and West Derby respondents Martha Lovelady's settlement. —Order confirmed without —Order per in the -abs band, and also as to the residence for more prior to the order of removal being granted Ditto v . Ditto, Liewen's case In the above five cases th Ditto v , with costs, spired in the Court Liverpool and the Overseers of West Derby, previous to the Sessions, hr.d had several meetings at the Parish office, in Lime-street, at which Mr. Cleaver attended, as the legal adviser, on behalf of the West Derby Overseers, but no solicitor appeared on behalf of the Parish of Liverpool ' • why, or wherefore, did not appear. The result of these meetings was, that Mr. Cleaver out manoeuvered the Overseers of Liverpool, who seem to have acted as their own lawyers, and succeeded by the plausibility of his arguments. in overcoming all their ob jections. Three of the five cases given up were upon the very identical points which arose in the case of Lovelady ; but notwithstanding, these gentlemen, unlearned in the t all events have id rid of the burden of maintaining them for the present, if not altogether, and of have had to pay the respondents mount to little they would their costs, v short-of £lOO ; all of which might have been saved, if, instead of being their own lawyers, they had left the mat ter in the hands of the legal advisers. to whom they had to them the old Sage, that " the man who is his - Own lawyer, has his client." CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS-ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE The truly grand and elegant equestrian performano his unrival ;roop, under the directorship of Monsieur e to attract respectable audiences ; but we •iced flint there should not he more of the beau monde of our town and neighbourhood among the visitors of the Amphitheatre. We are the more surprised at this when we consider that the troop are on their way to London, to again open a season at Drury-lane Theatre, ie considerable additions it has received since, it was visited by all the royalty, nobility, and fashionables of the metropolis, and terminated a most ast season, without across the Channel (little less than an entire ship load) for our amusement and gratification, we should like to see his exertions receive that substantial mark of esteem which would ensure to us an annual visit to our town. The elegance and respectability of the entire establish ment, which pervades every minute detail, and the beauty of the costume, and the total absence of all that vulgarity which is associated in our minds with our Circus perfor mances, has raised the Cirque de Paris to the same rank which it holds in France. The performances, during the last week, have been pregnant with much novelty. Mons. Bons, a tight-rope dancer of the highest excellence, has made his appearance, and does some most surprising feats. That of extending his figure at full length upon the rope, and remaining in that position, is the most remarkable. Mons. Siegrist has succeeded Mons. Henri as a juggler a cheval, and, in addition to his usual feats, - he has added a few new and remarkable ones. Mdlle. Ducas is a very clever and expert rider. She dashes at her work with much spirit, and is fearless of danger. The truly elegant Emmeline Lambert has appeared in the highly classical " Mantle Pose's.," with its beautiful costume of a Grecian maiden. Nothing can exceed the studied grace and classic taste of this lady. Little Aug. Berg continues to astonish by her expert, easy, and graceful feats on her petit cheval. She is a remarkably clever child. Mdlle. Palmira Annato has repeated her elegant pas. Her performance is remark able for natural grace, modesty of manner, and a high finished style, peculiarly her own. As an expert eques trian, she succeeded, on Friday night, in accomplishing no fewer than forty-five bounds over the scarfs and through the hoops. She received most enthusiastic ap plause for this feat. Young Loisset is the most surprising young rider we ever saw ; there is a fearlessness and bold ness of style not to be exceeded. The stately and duchess like Caroline, on her famous horse " Jupiter„' in the high school of riding, is the most magnificent performance we ever saw, and exceeds anything of the kind we ever beheld. Mdlle. Mathilde is equally clever on her horse " Norfolk." Little Marie Annato appeared in the " Pas de Etrangers," with its four changes of costume. Her steps are exquisite, and of a high finished style, and her dark eyes sparkle with brilliancy as she receives the ap plause of the audience. The clowns, Auriol and L'Eciair, afford endless amusement whilst these entertainments are going on, by their jokes and tricks, which, together with the excellent music, from the able conductorship of Mons. Hamet. affords every gratification to be desired. Our parting words are, Allez les voir. voting his life and energy. CHLOROFORM AND DELIRIUM.—I had occasion, i ll conjunction with a medical friend, to visit a man labour; ing under furious delirium. He possessed great physical strength, and was exhausting his energies in mania cal struggles. We found him raving in his bed, with diffi.: culty held down by four men as powerful as himself; h mind distracted by the impression that he was suffering from hydrophobia, having, as we were informed, Te e bitten by a rabid cat some eleven years previously. The herculean frame of this unhappy man was labouring under" the powerful impetus of his distracted mind, and in the hope of allaying his torments, we at once determined on trying the effects of chloroform. It was accordingly ad ministered, and in five or six minutes he was sleeping as peacefully as an infant. When he awoke from that sleet' he was still undoubtedly a maniac, but he was tranquil , and his violence greatly subdued. He also for a few minutes recognised his wife, which proved how wonder fully the chloroform had restored the natural condition of his " perturbed spirit." Subsequently he required much less restraint, and the chloroform being repeat en every night and morning, for a week or ten days, dailY improvement was observable, and at the end of that time he went into the country with his reason completely re gained, and he continues up to this moment in the en joyment of perfect health, both of body and m ind.- - Bainbrigge's Remarks on Chloroform. PERFECT INSECTS.—When the development of the perfect insect is complete, and all its parts and organs have attained the requisite firmne ss and solidity, it imme diately begins to exercise them in their intended functionS• Previously to this launching into the' wide world, or at least directly after, almost all insects discharge from their intestines some drops of an excrementitious fluid, often transparent, and sometimes red. In some instances , where their numbers have been considerable, this has produced the appearance of a shower of blood ; and bl this natural fact, all those bloody showers recorded hi historians as preternatural, and regarded where thel happened, as fearful prognostics of impending evils, are stripped of their terrors, and reduced to the class of events that happen in the common course of nature. Sooe perfect insects live only a few hours; some never see the sun; others, as fleas, moths, and butterflies, and indeed fifteen moAsNt e uo s m n t o mh n ao t thn INCIDENThs . he fed f eI Some,water-beetle tThHe E rose-beetle o i:F w Ea ev ol e aF r r , , enjoy gLewogi iahns the majority of insects, a few l days or a week ; while e captivity. Mr. Baker kept one of the darkling very few, such as large beetles, six, nine, twelve, 9 5 b ee tles alive under a glass upwards of three years. Roesel in formssfcr vuAeists longTseaLlnEf and to i lives moist white white bread for as long a period : and Esper kept oar years and a half.—Sharpe's London Magazine.' —Upon a certain occasion, as Lord Castlereagh was past ing slowly and thoughtfully from an interview with 11 " Majesty (George IV.) at Carlton House, to his own resi dence in St. James's-square, he was accosted by an Irish labourer, who, with his hod reversed, seemed as if pre' pared to attend the funeral of his own hopes. " Long life to your honour !" said Pat, in a peculiarly melancholy tone. Lord C . raised his eve. Pat took off his apology for a hat, made his bow, and repeated " Musha, then, lotlf ------ life to your honour's lordship !" There was somethini The Bishop of Chester will hold an ordination at singular in the man's appearance and address, and his Chester, on the 24th December. Castlereagh, half-hesitating, half-advancing, fixed 10,' eyes upon him with a kindliness of look, which indu _ ceu The Preston Pilot of Saturday notices the receipt of o u " e L y ci e r u some very beautiful ripe strawberries, gathered from Pat to go on—" God be with the days, your honour, whe l ; you used to be fishing in the lough !" " What lough, Op plants in the open air, near that town. g t h be F re oy ? l , e , , to ,, blefasyubree,ly wasp o , tn, ply, r -. At the Lancaster sessions, Daniel Elletson , Esq., Parrox Hall, Fleetwood, qualified as a magistrate for this your honour, when I used to help to push your honour ' county. g ,, o w od h f y e , ll w ow e ' r ? e " y boat off, and when, may God for ever bless you for its The two floors at Messrs. Rylands factory, at Wigan, „ 0 fell on Wednesday, with the ponderous weight of ma- wonst (once) when I tumbled in, neck and crop, Yu_ chinery. Only one female was seriously hurt. pulled me out by the nape of the neck. Och ! faith, Ire d i' On Sunday week, Mr. Henry Bell, of Preston, returned member it," added the poor fellow, with a smile, "an thanks in church for the restoration of his eye-sight. He it hadn't been for your honour's lordship, I'd have been af o up had been operated on for cataract by a surgeon in that dead as a herring, sure enough !" " Aye, well , what , town. your name ? " Bill Brady, to be sure." " Oh, I rem e ll , The foundation stone of St. Paul's Church,Daneßridge, ber something about you, but what brought you herb u t near Northwich, Cheshire, was laid on the 12 th ultimo, " Och, like many others, I came to seek A my fortune, by the Rev. Richard Greenall, M.A., incumbent of Stret- the devil a much luck I have had yet." Are you in ele: ton and Rural Dean. , ployment ?" " No. faith, lam not ; but I'm promised " The young people prepared by the Rev. C. F. Smith, j ob next Monda y , p lase God." " Well, Bill, here's softie; Incumbent of Pendlebury, near Manchester, for the last thin g to drink success to old times," handing poor Pat confirmations on the 24th ult., held by the Bishop' of cou p le of soverei g ns. Lord Castlerea g h then hastene' i Manchester, consisting principally of factory girls, and on ; while Pat ke p t his hand o p en, alternatel y looking et sons and daughters of colliers, have presented that rev, the sovereigns and at the donor; the tear of gra titude e r g& ,i gentleman with a very handsome pair of silver candle- len g th trickled down his lime-coloured cheek, and, afte sticks. a moment taken t o suppress the swelling of his surchar e%' A CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.-011 Saturday heart, he shouldered his hod, and in a sort of ecstacy _. , week, J. Smith, a mechanic, was travelling by the Man- claimed, as he turned away, " Well, you're the ould t e llin g ! . chester train, and on arriving at Pendleton, his arm, after all !" Such was the man who has been by 11 , o is2l„, which was resting on the window of the carriage door, mies accused of a cold, calculating heart, and wan! `:::,,, with the elbow projecting about three inches over the out- pithy for the sufferings of his fellow. creatures ae pi D' i l lt al4 side, was caught by the doors (which had been negligently r mar c i e n c e L idet v o w f i a rs lilc a e nedharactw Correspondence the of the g late left open) of an empty train, standing on the side rails, Viscount e r Castlereagh, by the Marquis of Londonderri/ t and broken in two places ; his hand and fingers were aIso INTELLECTUALIT Y OF THE LOWER ANIMALS. TO' LS., — severely lacerated by the plate glass. Smith has a wife inferiorin • the animals, many instances, possess the orit and six children. nary passions, even more extensively than ourselves, ic,_,, A LANCASHIRE CANNIBAL. — Early on Sunday week. be readily admitted. How many, such as the whale, tn" a police-officer observed a man, having the appearance of stork, and the domestic hen, will die in defence of then an excavator, busily engaged searching in a field, off Shore- offspring—thus affording the strongest proofs in existene street, Manchester, for something which he appeared to of domestic affection ! The case of thepelican is, an have lost. The officer went up to, and questioned the aitt know, a story. The attachment of the cat to its o - man, who at first seemed remarkably taciturn, and indis- .. any posed corner, has been the theme of many a tale; a' posed to answer questions . ; but at last he gathered that kitte n the well-known instance, in which one carried her kit the fellow he was addressing had that morning been en- . 1 sr' gaged in an up-and-down fight, Lancashire fashion, and singly, and therefore by repeated efforts, from G a to Edinburgh, is an extreme case. The affecting t', l , ' 4 that he was looking for one of his ears—which his ant ago- related by Mr. Maxwell, in his Wild Sports of the 0 i',.' 4 nist had bit off! Commiserating the poor wretch, the of the blind seal, is another of the same. After all ~,'" policeman assisted him to look for his ear, which after removals from the house where it had been domesticat e ' awhile he found, when the officer strongly advised him to it beic found its way back ; its eyes were torn from t 3 appear at the Borough Court next morning, to apply for sockets, and it was thrown into the Atlantic, yet still a warrant against the brute who had so maimed him.— 0 0 returned ; and finally, having been carried out to sea 3 " Noa, noa,' rejoined the fellow, coolly depositing his far that it was thought impossible for it to return,,,( stray ear in his waistcoat pocket, " aw'st do nowt at • made its way back in a violent storm, and, exhausted . I '_, soart ; it war a fair gradeley stand-up battle, un aw mount hunger and fatigue, expired on the threshold of its !', t nother law nor warrant." hospitable and savage master. Who does not know I `, ) , e MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—On Friday, a man and worn an, fid e lity of the dog ? How often will he pine over {of named Thomas Cooke and Eliza Jones, were brought be- grave of his master, sometimes refusing food even ' i before the magistrates at Manchester, on sus p icion of weeks , til l death at len g th p uts an end to his suffering; murder. The prisoners resi de in a court in D o le Field, It would be a mere waste of time to mention anecdote in which, at the bottom of a fight of stone steps, a man but Spenser's ballad, entitled A Beth Gelert, and „t4r,e was found during one night at the end of last week , w ith story of the Chevalier Bayard, are cases in point. 1 ,1 a fearful contused cut at the back of the head. He was camel, the monkey, the dog, the elephant, and inde c o carried in a state of insensibility to the infirmary, and almost all with which we are acquainted, are more or l e *i died almost immediately. The evidence against the pri- revengeful ; on the contrary, the bull, the lion, the ' lll O soners was that a woman living in the court heard a cry 1 hog, and as fables say, even the mouse, are possesse d , of " Watch ! " on the night in question, which was sub- gratitude •; while love, fear, generosity, emulation, cn• 'A OP -1- repeated, or repeated in plrt the word being _ . ...„ _ f age, and perseverance are common qualities. n•g, i #l • -- the I that hope, despair, melancholy, joy, and ecstacy, an P no t - --- -r+l-ia commonest c reatures, can ,_< <<.,, avid,' next witnesse s , r drag a man who lay at the bottom of the steps into his house and bathe his head with water. and afterwards take him back to the steps and leave him there. The..pri be doubted, unless we are prepared to doubt the evic e- 0 5 , of our senses. Several of these feelings are forcibly trated in the fate of Mr. Charles Gough, of Manches'ip who was killed in the hills of Cumberland in 1805• passing from Patterdale to Keswick, in an exeurtio , • -. . if , oners denied all knowledge of the affair. A surgeon from hp infirmary, who had examined the head of_ deceased, said the wound ungou down the st backwards ps, or by a blow from behind. prisoners, or rather against the which vas more for the purpose of studying naturlii - f e u tory than for pleasure, he was enveloped in a fog, aq t ee over a cliff 600 feet high. His only companion, a • nce against tt male prisoner (for there nothing against the woman). ;nd the case, after they had terrier bitch, watched his remains most lb they were both found about two months Thlmp'g Paner. read at the Liveepool Literary Tie"- Lay deuce might be obtained if possible. was dismissed Philosophical Society COURT AND FASHION. The Court remains at Windsor Castle, and no variation of importance has taker place in the royal circle since our last. _ _ _ _ On Saturday her Majesty and Prince Albert, left Windsor Castle for Claremont, to visit the Count and Countess de Neuilly. ~ Prince Albert is re-arranging the grand armoury at Windsor. 3 tSlrirtlus. , nee of her hus- than 5 years Ditto, Ellison's all con- wders wer eminently calculated to destroy t ;eared that the Overseers of The little pamphlet Nov. 7, 1848. THE MAYORALTY TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD' Sir,—l perceive by the Journal of to-day that At John Holmes is to be proposed as mayor, and that, if 11 ° finds the duties of the office too fatiguing, Mr. Prods? will have pleasure in favouring him with his valuable assistance. Would it not be a much more rational cowl at once to elect Mr. Procter instead of Mr. John Holmes. How was it that Mr. Holmes' own party did not ele ct him mayor when they had an opportunity, instead of electing the gentleman who has been so unceremonious l y ejected from Leicester on the ground of bribery and cot ruption ? Can a real Conservative consistently vote wrl Mr. Holmes, whose every vote in Council on the sclro question, and on all others connected with the main" tenance of Cons ervative principles, has been opposed to those principles ? If Mr. Procter is qualified for the office, why not st once press his claims on the Council, rather than him to act the part of a sub to a gentleman whose princ l " pies he is known to condemn ? I am, Sir, Your most obE lient servant, JOHN BULL 'Jiver poo, .—it gives us much pleasure to able manner in which this project THE MODEL PARISH is being received in many different localities, and by vet/ different classes of individuals. It is a plan which, ° ll being•carefully examined by the Christian philanthrop ist ' approval , drinking cc u a s s o s a t c o i P e m: dr s I. entitled " The Model Parish." be g rapidly gone through several editions; the eighth is noif out, and in it we notice a new mode is now in operatio n for raising money to assist in the establishment of the scheme. A highly-respectable firm at Birmingham, COn; sisting of two brothers, members of the Society of Friends, and warm supporters of the temperance cause , has generously undertaken to manufacture a particular kind of cocoa, the profits on the sale of which are to g o to the Model Parish. As cocoa is now coming into veil general use, and as the profits on this go to so laudable en object, it is confidently expected that many will benevo lently give " The Model Parish Cocoa" a preference, a nd thus assist in promoting the nation tion. In addition to this, its very s I sobriety and clays ?erior quality is such most decided approval. It is to be this town and throughout the kings the later editions of this pamphlet had of tradesmen in im. We also see in n account of a pro -. perance villa; Of Illinois, United States. It is likely that this proposi tion, coming from a bishop, of establishing a village on a similar principle to the Model Parish, (to which the bishop is a contributor,) may obtain for the latter project the approval and support of many who might otherwlse not be inclined to assist it. During the last few wef kg ' the projector of the Model Parish, the Rev. William! Wight, has been visiting many of the towns of Yorirspir., and Lancashire, and has had numerous opportuni ties afforded him of bringing the subject before crowde d audiences, both at public meetings and in th e churches of various towns. The mayors of th e respective localities presided at the meetings held in Doncaster, Wakefield, Warrington, Preston, and other places. The rev. gentleman, who is so unremittingly en: gaged in this plan for crushing the drinking customs, sc. r : two years resident in Newcastle, and his exemplary h i° was such that his name is deeply engraven on the hearts of many a family in the parish in which he laboured wi th such truly apostolic zeal. He is possessed of independent means ;.and his self-denying patriotism in undergoing t h care and anxiety inseparable from the prosecution of s!- I c." he a scheme calls for our most cordial sympathy, and it 1 5 1-- the triumpha nt which he is de' be rowardec t,fmn Belle] " Gc Stipp COME said to sl chil4 VerS God