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FOREIGN .5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. INDIA. The Overland Mail arrived in London on Thursday, with dates from Bombay to the 30th, Madras to . the 29th and Calcutta to the 16th of September. The utmost tranquility prevailed throughout India. - - Mr. Pringle, of the civil service, has replaced Sir Chas. Napier in Scinde with the rank of Commissioner. Bri gadier Dundas had command of the troops. The Governor-General was to leave the hills early in October, intending, it was said, to proceed, in the first instance, to Cawnpoor, where he would have an interview with the King of Oude, who would pass to the left bank of the Ganges for that purpose; and it was believed that Lord Hardinge intended on that occasion to come to an arrangement with the King to induce him to make over his regal authority, in order that efficient steps might be taken to arrest the increasing disorganization and suffering in those territories. The measures said to be contemplated by the Governor- General to induce his Majesty of Lucknow to make this concession, were the offer of a handsome pension, secured on a portion of the revenue of Oude upon condition that he should cede all political authority into our hands, or the alternative, on our part, of the withdrawal by pro clamation, of the support we had hitherto afforded him, thus leaving his fate to be decided by his subjects. No doubt whatever was entertained es to the sufficiency of this -latter measure, should it be resorted to. But no such contingency was expected. It was not doubted but that the king would accept the liberal terms of regal wealth and pageantry which would be offered, since, ad dicted to luxury, he ill supports the cares of a distracted and impoverished state, where the revenue has to be col lected by 50,000 bayonets. It is affirmed also that arrangements are likewise in contemplation with respect to the government of the Nizam. It is, however, considered probable that the measures likely to be enforced by Hyderabad would not be of so decided a nature as in the case of Oude, from the somewhat better character of the prince; and it was thought That he would be permitted to retain his authority upon certain liberal concessions to be made to his sub jects. But we are also told that no doubt our interven tion would leave the prince with a still more circumscribed territory, the cession of a further portion of which might ba.expected in liquidation of a debt to our government of thirty lacs, and which it appears is likely to be consider ably increased before a settlement by payments of arrears to his Arab mercinaries, whose disorderly proceedings have compelled him twice during the last few months to solicit our interference. The news from the Punjaub continues, as before, to be most satisfactory. Besides the imprisonment of the dis solute Ranoe, or Queen-mother, the instigator of the late war, and who was still, it is said, engaged in every species of intrigue against our authority, the Durbar have re cently issued two proclamations, one abolishing infanti cide and suttee, and the other announcing the suppression of forced labour. The imprisonment of the Queen, who formerly went by the title of " The Sikh Mother," had not produced the slightest,popular commotion. The eldest son of the Maharajah of Cashmere was on leis Way to visit the Governor-General of Simla, to take leave of his lordship in his father's name, preparatory to Lord Hardinge's departure from India. The Dacoit chief, Doongur Singh, had been captured in Rajpootana, but not until a force of 6,000 men had taken the field in various directions against him. Trade had somewhat improved, both at Calcutta and Boinbay. Lord Minto left Florence for Rome on the 29th ult. The typhus fever has appeared in the English fleet in the Tagus, and several men have already died. The King of Sweden has ordered all Russian and Irish ships to be examined on their arrival, lest they should have cholera or fever patients on board. Jenny Lind has sung thrice at the Berlin Opera, where she- made her reputation. The King sent for her to his box, and made her a very handsome present. Tyssowski, the ex-dictator of Cracow, is now giving lessons at New York in the German, French, Italian, and Latin tongues. By an Imperial ordonnance recently issued, the use of the Polish language is suppressed at the University of ' Cracow, where henceforth German only is to be used. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.—Private letters have been received from Fort York, Hudson's Bay, an nouncing the safe arrival of the detachment of the Royal Sappers and Miners, who left England on the Ist ot June last, to be engaged as a boat party in search of Sir John Franklin and his gallant company. The party will winter near Fort York, and in the spring of the year pursue their search after the missing voyagers, should no intelligence of the Erebus and Terror reach any of the settlements of the Company before that time. THE AFFAIRS OF SWITZERLAND.—The Journal des .Daats, in its leading article, states that, although war has not yet broken out in Switzerland, it must not be 'concluded that events are favourable peace. " Such a hope," says the De'bats, "is not permitted to us. The letters we have received this morning from Berne would have destroyed our last illusions, had we preserved any. The resolutions adopted by the Diet in the sitting of the 24th, the placing 50,000 troops under arms, the terms of the mis sion given to Gen. Dufour,—all these facts amount to a real declaration of war, and in the present excitement of the public mind a war declared is equivalent to a war commenced. That military operations have not already commenced, is the result of a prepared plan. The radical army is not ready to enter the field ; and, if it were, it would not commence, as its interest demands a delay of a few days. IMPORTANT. FROM SWITZERLAND.—The deputies of the Sonderbund have quitted the Diet and Berne. This event bvs now become notoriously public. Thus the last thread which held back a catastrophe long foreseen, and ready to burst forth at any moment, is broken, and, pro bably, blood has already been shed. The circumstances which immediately preceded the last attempts made by the deputies of the Sonderbond to avert this disaster and save Switzerland from its effects, show their endeavours to bring about a reconciliation consistent with honour and security, the disdain with which the Radicals re ceived these advances, their manifest witfulness to decide by force of arms a quarrel which themselves have pro voked. It was understood that General Defour had fixed the'4th of November for the commencement of hostili ties. 'lt was apprehended that a collision between the Vaudois and Valaisians was imminent, as the parties were merely divided by a bridge. The Austrians still occupy Ferrara, and show no disposition to leave it. An armed interference in the affairs of Switzerland by Austria and France is looked upon as being now inevitable by most of the journals. • THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND THE REPUDIATING STATES.—It has been repeatedly urged that the Govern ment of America representing the Union is not the Go. vernment representing the indebted parties, and that, consequently, any applications on this subject to the Cabinet of Washington must assume the aspect of im pertinent demands upon a party whose own integrity should have raised it above all liability to such annoyances. The Federal. Government, which alone enters into any relations with foreign states, has, it is said, always dis charged its obligations with fidelity and punctuality, and thus preserved what alone can be termed the national credit of the country. Now. this is not the case. The very. debt which the United States of America in their confederate or corporate capacity should have paid with the;inost religious care still remains undischarged. There is lying before us at this moment a dollar note, issued ac cording to a resolution of Congress, and bearing date the 14th of January, 1779 !—a period when Cornwallis was still supposed invincible by Washington himself, and when that great commander was writing to Congress that a handful of British in York town were still "an over match for the main army of these States," and that " under the existing circumstances it would be vain to expect from the troops another campaign !" The money whibh was raised upon these promissory notes, super scribed as those of the `• United States of orth America," which kept toether the famishing and half-clad voltt:- teers of Washington, and enabled America to secure its independence, by outliving the desire of England to pro lorig the war, has never been repaid. Many thousands of these notes are still in English hands, as valueless as the scrip of a Mississippi railroad. The question has been repeatedly brought before Congress, and as repeatedly eluded by some delicate adroitness, implying very clearly that, in the opinion of the audience, too little could not be,said upon the subject.— Times. SOUTH . SEA ISLANDERS AS FREE LABOURERS IN AUSTRALIA.—The last papers from New South Wales give the details of an attempt to procure immigrants from the South-sea Islands for the supply of labour in that colony, by Mr. Boyd, a Sydney. The experiment is an interesting one, and appears to have been successful, so far- as it was tried. Mr. Boyd despatched a vessel to the South Sea, with instructions to the captain to call at as many islands as possible, so that he might satisfy hiniself not only as to the people most fitted for the wants of the colonists,but also as to the number likely to be procured. In due time the vessel returned with 65 of the natives of the New Hebrides group (distant about three weeks' sail from Sidney), of various ages, from 14 to '25, while the general accounts given of the cruise were such as to warrant an expectation of satisfactory and ex tensive results. Mr. Boyd's wish was, that in the first instance only 50 should be engaged, but so eager were these people to be taken on board, that it was only through the authority of their Chiefs that their number could he limited, the explanation of this desire for removal being that the inhabitants of the Coral Islands are in a condition during upwards of eight months of the year, little short of starvation. With respect to the habits of the people, and their fitness for the occupations of civilized life, it is stated, that although cannibalism and infanticide prevail amongst th em to a fearful extent, they manifest in their intercouse with stranffers a very great degree o f tractability and intelligence ;'and hence it is considered that their vices may he attributed rather to the influence of the sufferings to which they are periodically exposed than Loin an them is y inerfid about £8 ble peculiarity. The expense of introducgper man, and Mr. Boyd's intention is to employ them as sheph er d s . A t the same time, from the description given of them, it would seem that they might easily be instructel for other services. IRELAND. The simultaneous collection for the national tribute to the memory of O'Connell will be made in all the parishes of Ireland on Sunday-next, the 14th instant. 'On Saturday, a man of the name of William Flinn was slain by a dagger wound inflicted in a faction fight at Newtownhamilton. Mr. John Mason, who lately held a situation of ac countant at the Board of Works, in Ireland, at a salary of £3OO per annum, has been brought up at the Dublin Police-office, charged with embezzling £B,OOO. The Skibbereen workhouse, built for 800, is shut — holding 1,340 paupers within its walls, and incapable of holding any more. The beggary of that vast and deplo rable district must look elsewhere. It will increase four fold in a few months. TAPPING A STATUE.—The statue of George 11., at Cork, was tapped last week, the leaden horse having become completely full of water, and top-heavy. We have not heard the result of the operation. Mr. Michael Walsh, steward to Mr. C. O'Callaghan, of Ballynahinch, county Clare, was shot *lead by an assas sin from behind a wall, on Saturday week; in broad day light, in the high road, leading from Scariff to Tulla. The library of the Dublin University contains a rare and valuable manuscript, the gospels of St. Patrick, in the old Irish tongue, which was presented to the university by the late Professor M'Cullagh, who- purchased it for 300 gui neas, and thus forestalled the British Museum, for which it was intended. On Tuesday, an alarming assemblage of 2,000 men be sieged the workhouse of the Kanturk union, and would have forced the gates but for the intervention of a mili tary force. The Cork Examiner notices a strange fact in connection with the not, that " more powder was pur chased by those out-door relief folk on that day than was sold in the previous year in the town of Kanturk. - DISTRESS IN IRELAND.—In reply to an address of the Roman Catholic bishops, to Lord Clarendon, his Excel lency thus concedes a proposition which has excited a good deal of argument pro and con :—" I am painfully alive to the fact, that in many districts there exists dreadful misery, which no amount of local taxation can relieve; and there the sacred and paramount duty of government —the preservation of human life—will be performed." An Irish jury, in the Queen's County, a few days since, acquitted a man tried for robbing his employer of £l2 in the face of the most conclusive evidence, and notwith standing that the prisoner made no defence. It has transpired that one of the jury considered that as the prosecutor was reputed to be a wealthy man, he could well afford to lose a few pounds ! Such is the security of property in 'this unhappy country. At the meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday, Captain Greene, M.P. for Kilkenny, was in the chair. The principal topic of discussion was the landlord and tenant law, to which were attributed the outrages and bloodshed which disgrace and distract the country. A touching letter was read from a Roman Catholic chaplain of the gaol of Tipperary, detailing the statements of an unhappy convict on this subject. The rent of the week was £37. DREADFUL CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.-11l the neigh bourhood of Omagh, a melancholy case of hydrophobia occurred last week. About six weeks ago, a man named Gormley was bitten by a rabid cat; but he paid no attention to the matter, and pursued his business as usual until Tuesday week, when the dreadful malady appeared, and , progressed to Friday, on which day he died in a raging paroxysm of madness.—Armagh Guardian. Faction fighting has set in. There was a furious battle at Bannagher, in which the opponents were King's County and Connaught men. They fought with desperation, and among the wounded was one whose right hand, from the wrist downwards, was cut off with a sword blow. The women, as usual on such occasions, appeared in large numbers, armed with the usual weapon,—a stocking with a lump of brown stone in the heel. The military appeared, and dispersed the rioters. CONVERTS FROM POPERY.—A very interesting cere mony took place on Sunday last in the parish church of Castlewellan. Two persons made a solemn renunciation of the errors of Popery before the Rev. Mr. Thomas, and in the presence of the entire congregation. Their decla rations were in the usual form. Our correspondent states that there are others who will soon take the same way of declaring the errors of the church in which they have been educated.—Newry paper. The name of Major Mahon, who was shot dead last week, was put at the top of a list of absentees, in the Dublin Freeman's Journal, as an absentee landlord, four days before the unfortunate gentleman was shot. The second day after his murder the following palliation —as false as it is cruel—of the diabolical deed was offered by the same paper :—" The people were said to he dis pleased with him for two reasons. The first was his re fusal to continue the conacre system, acid the second was the clearing away what he deemed the surplus population." ANOTHER MURDER IN TIPPERARY.—The widow Der mody has been brutally murdered by some person or per sons unknown. She had a small farm of a few acres on the property of Mr. Fogarty, near Borrisolegh, county of Tipperary, on the Ballinlouty road, which enabled her to live comfortably. She had been married twice, and had emigrated to America with her second husband; but not succeeding there, had returned and occupied the farm till his death. Since then she has lived quietly and respecta bly, but she was about getting married a third time : and it is supposed that she had been murdered in order to pre vent the farm, and whatever other property she enjoyed, going to a stranger.—Dublin paper. A special meeting of the Repeal Association was held on Thursday, "to address his Holiness the Pope." The marrow of the address consists in an appeal to the Pope in his " capacity as spiritual father of the faithful in every clime," to interfere in " the temporal a nd p o liti ca l sub ject" (we copy the words of the address) of the repeal of the union. Just so ; the greater includes the lesser ; spi ritual supremacy consequently is held by Romanists to include temporal supremacy also, and therefore his holi ness's " faithful spiritual subjects of Ireland" implore him to step in and settle the " temporal and political" question of the legislative union. Whether his holiness will exert his authority in this matter remains to be seen. IRISH STATISTICS.—In the parish of Aughrim, says Mr. King, a Roman Catholic clergyman, there perished, from want and disease, 610 persons, and 107 emigrated ; yet there remains a population of 2,500, out of a sum of 2,127, which the census- of 1841 shows to be the gross total of the inhabitants of that classic locality. In Augh rim, famine and pestilence were remarkably reproductive in their character, under the management of Father King. In Athleague, however, matters took a different turn, ac cording to the report of. the Rev. B. Hestor, P.P. There, out of a population, per census, of 5,017, " there died (says Mr. Hester) about 200, and there remain only 3,000." Captain Pobadil could not have more effectually "killed by computation " than does the parish priest of Ath league.—.Dublin Mail. EARL FITZWILLIAM AND THE CONDITION OF IRE LAND.—The Noble Lord of Wentworth has made the occasion of writing to the Rev. John Sargeant, Rector of Stanwick, the pretext for emitting a long letter to the public, in justification of his remarks made in Sheffield, about two months ago. His lordship, it will be recol lected, surprised his fellow-guests at the Cutlers'-hall, ,nota little, by the broad assertion that after all that had been done, England was greatly the debtor of Ireland, and that much more money ought to be spent out of the Imperial Treasury for the benefit of the Sister Kingdom. In the letter before us be thus puts the case :--z" England is the landlord of Ireland, the Irish are the tenants. When Stanwick field was enclosed, who made the outlay ? The landlords, or the tenants ? The landlords to be sure ; and if not, Stanwick and Higham would be still open fields. So it is here, and so it will be with Ireland ; if our states men expect that Ireland can be improved by Irish means alone, they will be grievously disappointed." This is a most Irish illustration--all on one side. Earl Fitzwilliam appears to lay all the responsibility upon the laridlords. We wish he had told ns what would have been the condi tion of things at Stanwick and Higham, if Irish cupidity on the one hand, had taken almost every potato for the rent, and Irish indolence and improvidence on the other, had never chine more than just meet the current demands of the landlord, the district alluded to might not have "still been open fields," but it might have been some thing worse—the grave of hopeless labour.—Sheifield Mercury. IRISH COUNCIL.—The Irish Council met on Thursday. The members of the National Council were nearly all pre sent, and, in addition to them, Lord Cloncurry, Lord Milton, Sir Lucius O'Brien, and a few others. Sir Col man O'Brien read the report of the Irish Council to the peers, &c. It recommends that, in addition to a poor rate, there should be, for the same purpose, an income and a property-tax. A sub-report was also read relative to the tenant right. Major Blackhull moved a resolution to the effect, that they were perfectly justified in calling on government for further assistance. The Irish mem bers had been accused of not acting in concert ; that they were disunited ; and that, in fact, whatever other parties might exist, there was no such thing as an Irish party -(cheering.) They would see if the ministry would bring forward measures for the relief of Ireland ; and if they (the ministry) would not, the Irish members would take the business out of their hands, and propose such mea sures themselves as might be deemed advisable (cheering). —Mr. Fagan seconded the motion.—Mr. Smith proposed the second resolution, and, in doing so, dwelt on the in justice of throwing the entire burden of supporting the poor on the agricultural interest. It was impossible, he contended, to carry on the system of out-door relief under the existing law.—Mr. John O'Connell seconded the reso lution.—An animated discussion then took place as to whether it would be advisable to adopt the latter portion of the second resolution, wnich recommended the imposi tion of an income-tax. Several amendments were pro posed, but eventually, on a division, the original motion was carried. DREADFUL MURDER.—On Monday, as Major Mahon, the proprietor of large property in Roscommon was re, turning home, he was shot dead in his carriage by an assassin. He had lately s ucceeded to a property so over peopled, that, if left unaided, the population must have starved. He, therefore, laid out £6,000 last year in assisting a large number to emigrate ; many more inclined to be so favoured, but in one year nothing more could be done. On Tuesday, he had driven into Strokestown, and called at his agent's office, to lay out plans for the employment of men upon - a large scale. He proceeded to Roscommon, where, for want of funds, the poorhouse was in danger of being closed, and his wish was to keep open every thing that could benefit the poor. Returning from this charitable duty, he was marked by two assassins, who fired at him at a little after six o'clock in the evening, at about four miles from Strokestown. One piece missed fire, but the other took effect, lodging a heavily loaded discharge in the breast ; the victim exclaimed—' 0 God,' and spoke no more. The unfortunate gentleman was of high family, and connected by intermarriages with the Duke of Wellington ; he succeeded about three years ago to an estate of £lO,OOO or £12,000 a year, which had belonged to Lord Hartland, a lunatic. As the property was under the tender care of the Irish Court of Chancery, it had been very badly managed, with an immense pauper population, and it is said £30,000 arrear of rent. The manager had for some time been threatened. The tenants refused either to pay the rent, to till the land, or to give it up. It was the plain duty of a proprietor to check a state of things fraught with misery and death to the still increasing, still impoverished mass. DREADFUL, ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—On Thursday Mr. D. Fitzpatrick, tailor, proceeded to the house of Dr. Baldwin, whose son was indebted to him for clothes. Repeated application had been made for the amount, and at length legal proceedings were taken ; and, on the above day, the writ was attempted to be served. On reaching the house, Mr. Fitzpatrick was told that the young gen tleman could not be seen —he was shooting. The writ, however, was served on one of the-servants, and Mr. F. left and was returning to Macroom. In a few minutes after he had left the residence, a shot was tired from it. He had not proceeded much further on the outside car, on which he was returning, when three men overtook him : one had a flail, the second a loaded whip, and the third a heavy stick, and they quickly evinced their object by a combined and furious attack on Mr. Fitzpatrick, characterised by that murderous and unrelenting cruelty , which too often distinguishes the peasantry of this coun try. The car was stopped, Mr. Fitzpatrick was forcibly dragged off, and beaten to that degree that he was left for dead on the road. The driver of the car had made off. Having wreaked their vengeance on Mr. Fitzpatrick, they left him lying on the road in a pool of blood ; but one of the miscreants, imagining that he had not been suffi ciently punished, returned and beat him over the body with the flail. Having remained motionless for some time on the road, his senses returned, and with difficulty he was able to crawl to the car, the horse of which fortu nately remained on the spot, and thus got into Macroom, where Dr. M'Sweenv's assistant kindly proceeded to dress the wound. While thus endeavouring to reach Macroom on the car, a fourth man struck him on the back with a heavy stone. Mr. Fitzpatrick was subsequently brought to his father's residence in this city, where he now lies in a perilous condition.—Cork Constitution. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Rev. Dr. Phelps, Master of Sydney Sussex College, has been elected Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University. The Bishop of Exeter has admonished the Rev. Mr; Rawlings and condemned him to pay the costs of the pro ceedings for refusing to bury a corpse without the certi ficate of the registrar. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel employs in North America 249 missionaries, in the West Indies 40, and in India, Australia, New Zealand, &c., 92. Of those in North America, 66 are paid by government. The Archbishop of Canterbury has peremptorily re quested the trustees of all churches and chapels to imme diately give notice to all persons renting vaults under such churches and chapels, to discontinue the sale of wines and spirits in such places. In a letter to the Times, the Rev. Ernest Hawkins states that five of the Colonial Clergy have died from fever, during their ministrations among the emigrants from Ireland; and he suggests that their widows and or phans have strong claim on public sympathy, in this country, in consequence of the reckless way in which large numbers of diseased and starving persons have been cast upon the Colonial shores. The Consistory Court of Dublin has decided against the Rev. T. D. Gregg in the suit instituted against him by the Archbishop of Dublin to prevent his preaching in the church of St, Nicholas Within. The rev. gentleman is therefore prohibited from preaching anywhere in the dio cese of Dublin and is moreover to pay the costs of the suit which we fear will be considerable. The chief cause of offence is Mr. Gregg's unswerving protestantism, and we are fallen on sad times when a preacher's mouth is stopped on that account. The committee of the Protestant Association have de termined to hold a public meeting on the subject of the renewed diplomatic relations with Rome. One of-the re solutions passed by the committee with reference to the intended meeting is the following :—" That it now appears from the declarations of Roman Catholics both in and l out of Parliament, especially from the rescript of the Pope of Rome and the' resolutions of the Romish arch bishops and bishops in Dublin, that the object now sought after by the Papacy is nothing less than unlimited control over the affairs of the country." A paragraph has been going the round of the papers, stating that " on Thursday last the Rev. Mr. Chirol, cu rate of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, together with his wife and mother, were received into the Church of Rome, at St. Mary's, Chelsea." Similar occurrences having hap pened with some of the curates of Christ Church, St. Pancras, it may not perhaps be unfair or premature to ask the Bishop of London how long he intends to allow . the Romish Church to be supplied with recruits from St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, and Christ Church, Saint Pancras, and the' incumbents to continue basking in the sunshine of his lordship's favour ?—Times. REV. DR. Hoox.—On Saturday .week, the above di vine arrived on a visit at Haigh-hall, the seat of the Earl of Balcarres. On Sunday week he preached at Haigh Church. In the afternoon, immediately after the second lesson, the Holy Sacrament of Baptism was administered by the incumbent, the Rev. John Thomas Browne, to a large number of children,—among others, to the infant son of the Hon. Colin and Lady Francis Lindsay, to whom Miss Humphries, Dr. Hook, and the Rev. Henry J. Gun ning, of Wigan, stood as sponsors. On Monday, Dr. Hook left Haigh for Worsley-hall, the seat of the Earl of Ellesmere. The Bishop of Ripon has appointed Archdeacon Head lam, chancellor of his diocese, and the ecclesiastical busi ness of the diocese will be transacted at Richmond, who e there is an established Consistory Court in existence. One of the new rules of the court is that in future blank marriage licences are not as heretofore to be placed in the hands of the surrogates of the diocese; but the party applying for a license is to make affidavit before the surrogate, which will be transmitted to the registry and a license will be sent by return of post. This will occasion a delay of a day or two, but it will have a tendency to stop clandestine marriages, and parties applying for a license must not put it off till the last moment. The practice adopted has long been in use in the diocese of Chester. STRANGE DOINGS IN CHURCHES.—A writer in the Oxford and Cambridge Review for the present month, states that at thelChurch of St. Mary, Aldermanbury, London, the collection on the late thanksgiving day, " was attempted immediately after the sermon, though nothing was given, the churchwarden having purposely held the plate behind his back." In another church in London, he says " the prescribed forms of the Prayer Book and the State Forms were both read, though at separate places, both morning and evening." At one church in the city it occurred that " an officiating minis ter (who is very old) got so completely confused, that he used the whole State Form, (without once turning to the Book of Common Prayer), morning and evening service rolled into one !" Among other peculiarities of the col lection, he mentions " the use of two plates in some in stances, one labelled ' For the English,' the other For the Irish.' This was the case at Bow church, London, where a minature blunderbuss was actually put in the plate For the Irish.'" An influential meeting was held on Wednesday, at Bir mingham to consider the propriety of presenting the Rev. James Prince Lee, Bishop elect of Manchester, with some testimonial of public respect. The. Mayor presided, and upwards of £3OO was subscribed in the room. The Bishop of Worcester spoke very strongly in favour of the appointment, and on the subject of the meeting. The Birmingham Herald says :—""As a gathering of gentle men of influence and station in the town, it far surpassed any meeting which has been held here for a long time past. All parties in politics, and all sects in religion, united on that occasion to pay a debt of gratitude . to the distinguished, gentleman, who has so long and so brilliantly conducted the Free Grammar School of this torough. Although the subscription so spiritedly opened on that occasion is confined to sums of £5 each as the maximum, it is open to the reception of any sums beneath that amount. The services of Mr. Lee, as Head Master of King Edward's School, great as they have been, have been by no means the whole which he has rendered this town : the district schools in connection with that institu tion have been largely benefited by his care, and he has laboured with his characteristic zeal and earnestness to extend its usefulness in every possible way. Nothing but a testimonial which shall represent the feeling of the great numbers who have been benefited by Mr. Lee's labours will at all meet the justice of his claims on the town, or form a fitting token of gratitude for the zeal and ability which he has displayed in its service." THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION AND THE BISHOPS. It was decided to equalize episcopal revenues, and the holders of the wealthier sees were required by act of par liament to surrender a portion of their property. It was natural that men who wholly oppose this surrender on principle, and did not allow the authority enacting it, would not feel very scrupulous about making the best bargain they could with the hostile power attacking them. The commissioners concluded agreements with' certain prelates to receive a fixed portion of their income, such as was thought likely to leave them in possession of the average sums assigned to their sees. It has turned out that in almost every instance that portion has been fixed too low. The Bishop of Durham, in particular, is under stood to have received double the amount intended. Now this is a very lamentable scandal. It brings the chief pastors of the church before their enemies in the light, of scheming speculators, appropriating by jobbing, revenues' to which they are not entitled.—Oxford and Cambridge Review. [We believe that the following was something like the arrangement made with the present Bishop of Durhain. The average income of his predecessor was £l7OOO, and Dr. Maltby, the present bishop, was offered either £BOOO (at which the future income was fixed), or permissions to pay into the hands of the ecclesiastical commissioners the difference between those two sums, and aPpropriate to himself the balance (whatever it might be) of the revenues of the see.. The bishop, after con sulting with his agent, accepted the latter arrangement, and so enormously have the revenues increased from the dropping out of colliery leases, &c., that we believe we are not far wrong in saying that the present bishop, after paying to the ecclesiastical commissioners £9OOO per an num, is yet in receipt of an average income not much be low that of his predecessor.] DEATH OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.—The venerable Archbishop of York, has passed from time to eternity. The mournful event took place a little before one o'clock on Friday, at the Palace, Bishopthorpe, near York. His Grace's death was both sudden and unexpected, having been in York Minster on Tuesday, apparently in his usual state of health. On Wednesday, he was found laid on his bed in a state of exhaustion, having had a slight fit. Dr. Ferguson, his London physician, was immediately sent for, but only arrived at the Palace on Friday morning when his services were of no avail. The Great Bell of York Minster was tolled on the malancholy occasion. The Right Honourable and Most Reverend Edward Har court, D.D., D.U.L. P.C. was private and metropolitan of England, and eighty-third archbishop of the diocese. His Grace was born in 1757, consequently was• in his 91st year, and we believe the 41st of his translation. The deceased was son of the first Lord Vernon, by his third wife, third daughter of the Honourable Simon Har court. He was educated at Westminster School, and afterwards removed to Christ's Church, Oxford. He was a Fellow of All Soul's College, and Prebendary of Glou cester. He married hi 1784 the third daughter of the first Marquis of Stafford (she died in 1832) and assumed the surname of Harcourt on inherit.. ing the estates of that family. He was Lord High Al moner to the Queen, Visitor of Queen's College, Oxford, was appointed a Canon of Christ's Church in 1785, and was Governor of the Charter House, and the King's Col lege, London ; he was consecrated Bishop of Carlisle in 1794—was translated to York in 1801, and was a patron bof,sixttwo livings. The deceased was highly respected bran acts and parties. As a religious teacher his pre cepts were _clear and forcible, and they were fully sup ported by a practice highly. consistent.. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The Preston and Longridge declare a dividend of 12s. 3d. per share. The progress of the alterations was reported as satisfactory. A new fog signal was tried at the railway station, Rom sey. on Wednesday night. The light was distinctly visible at a distance of seven miles. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—The portion of line at Wal sall, effecting the junction with the London and North-wes tern, was opened on Monday. The length is about 2 miles. A mill-owner near the Ouse obtained £l,OOO from the company for "loss of wind " by the erection of the em bankment for the bridge, by the Lynn and Ely Railway, the opening of which line we noticed last week. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.—On Wednesday, the remaining portion of the Oldham Extension line, extend ing between the western and eastern parts of the town, was open fol_passenger traffic. GREAT WESTERN SHARES.—In August, 1845, the Great Western shares, with .£Bo'paid, were done at £235 or 200 per cent. premium. In August, 1846, with £B5 paid, at £155. In October, 1847, at par, and now a few pounds premium ! On Thursday week, as a luggage train was proceeding from Sheffield to Manchester, an iron pipe fell from one of the trucks upon the rails, whilst the train was passing under the great tunnel, and threw off and smashed seven of the carriages behind. There being only one line of rails, communication was effectually stopped for two or three days, whilst the passengers went over the hill, known as the " backbone of England." ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—On Thurs day morning, a fatal accident occurred near the Woodles ford station, about six miles from Leeds, on the Midland line of railway. The Manchester train which leaves Leeds at half-past 7 a.m. came in contact with a truck which was being removed from the main line on to a siding. The engine struck the truck before it had cleared the main line, and a porter named Henry Doncaster was thereby killed on the spot. AMBERGATE, NOTTINGHAM, BOSTON, AND EASTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY.—A special meeting of this Com pany was held at Nottingham on Friday, to consider the proposed amalgam'ation with the Great Northern Com pany. On a division, there appeared against the amalga mation 34,903 proxies —or 11,934 votes ; for the amalga mation 11,375 proxies, or 3619 votes. There were also present in the room the representatives of 10,000 shares against the amalgamation, and 40 for it. LANCASTER AND PRESTON JUNCTION RAILWAY.— On Thursday a special meeting of the shareholders in this line was held at Lancaster, Joseph Bushell, Esq., chair man of the board of directors, presiding, when it was re solved, with but few dissentients, that the resolution passed in June, 1843, empowering the directors to com plete a lease of the line to the canal company, should be rescinded. The meeting was adjourned to the 25th inst., when the propriety of serving an ejectment on the com pany will be considered. - THE TELEGRAPH versus VENUS.—A young lady left Cambridge last week by the Defiance, for the Ware rail way terminus, en route to meet her lover in London. The father missed his daughter soon after she left, and the telegraph having been set in motion, two lettered and labelled gents, dressed in blue, made themselves known to the fair runaway at the Ware station, and by their soft insinuations induced her to accompany them back to Cambridge, where she had to endure parental frowns instead of being received in the open arms of her lover at the Shoreditch station. BANKING UTILITY OF RAILWAYS AND TELEGRAPHS. —ln the late run on the Newcastle banks, a curious in stance of the value of the railway and telegraph system was made known. The Branch Bank of England at that place having necessity for a further supply of gold, sent by telegraph to the sister establishment at Leeds to ob tain the required amount. The transmission of the mes sage was of course immediate, and the arrival of gold al most as rapid, a little more than an hour being consumed by the special train, which brought £40,000 to the assist ance of the bank which was in want. STOPPAGE OF RAILWAY WORKS.—The contractors for the London and North-Western Railway have already discharged 2,500 men, and are about to discharge a still larger number. On Saturday last one contractor on the Great Western line gave notice to 1400 men. In Lanca shire the works in hand are almost wholly stopped, and above 10,000 men are already dismissed. On the whole, up to Saturday last, at least 30,000 navigators had been discharged ; and it is estimated that before the end of the present month that number will be doubled. Besides these there will be 10,000 mechanics thrown out of em ployment, most of whom have families dependent on them. Taking the whole into the account, we may reckon on having to support, this winter, about 150,000 persons of the railway class, either by poor-rates or by rapine. RAILWAY SAFETY BREAK.—At a meeting of the Me chanics' Institute, Glasgow, Robert Montgomery, Esq., read a lecture on a plan invented by him for the protection of life in railway travelling. Mr. Montgomery exhibited a variety of experiments with his carriages, placed on a model railway 15 feet long. His two carriages weighed about 50 lbs. each. He put one of his models in motion, and when he took off its momentum by a contrivance he had for that purpose, the carriage was immediately stop ped by the break, wrought into self-action. He again put two model carriages in motion, attached to each other, and when he stopped the momentum of the first, the last carriage stopped, without coming into contact with the buffer of the first : the last carriage was in this instance also stopped by the action of the self-acting break. He exhibited another important experiment on the incline, to show that if railway carriages were supplied with his self acting breaks, no such accident as that which lately occur red in Glasgow, on the incline there, could have happened. CONWAY BRIDGE.—The tube for a single line of railway over the C6nway is now on the eve of completion, and the chains and presses for raising it to its seat on the piers, will be sent off from London this week, by the London and North Western Railway, to the Birkenhead Docks, thence to be shipped to. Conway. There is no doubt that by the end of the month we shall he able to record that the tube is spanning the Conway. We believe that at the beginning of this week the tube will be tested, which will be completed by the time the raising apparatus reaches Conway. The pumps are placed on the same axis as the steam cylinder, which, being in a horizontal posi tion, and with one pump at each end of the cylinder, having a double piston rod, to work both pumps simultaneously, produces one regular stream into the hydraulic presses. The stroke of the cylinder is 16 inches; the pump bore 11 inch ; the number of strokes per minute will be about 45, sothatthetubemay beexpected toberaised, (allowing for . the delays of shifting the chain, &c.,) about 2 feet per min. COMMUNICATION WITH LONDON via THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.—The official time-bill forthe northern mail trains, via the Trent Valley Railway has been pub lished. The mails are to be transferred to the Trent Valley line on the Ist of next month. The journey be tween Liverpool and London will be made in 5 hours, and between London and Manchester in about 4 hours 40 minutes. The early morning, or " newspaper" train, which now leaves London at 6.15, and arrives in Liver pool at 3.15, and Manchester at 2.40, will depart from Easton-square at the same time, and reach Liverpool at 2.12, and Manchester at 1.50. The ten o'clock morning mail, now due at Liverpool at 5.10, will arrive at that place at 4;45. The same " through" train reaches Man chester at five o'clock ;• it will reach that city at 4.19. The five o'clock afternoon express, now arriving at Liver pool at 11.10, and Manchester at 10.40, will arrive respec tively at 10 o'clock and 9.40. The 8.45 night mail from London l now lt arrives reaeiles Liverpoola i t ianche that city at 4.11. The 6 o'clock a.m. post-office express ill from Liverpool will leave at 6 . 45, and arrive in London at ster at at 4 5 .. 4 2 5 5 ; itt willw arrivereaeh at 4.4 its present time, viz. 1 o'clock. The same through" train leaves , Manchester at 6.15 ; will leave at 6.45. The 9.15 a.m. from Liverpool will leave at 10 o'clock, and instead of arriving at London at .6 o'clock, will be at Euston-square at 5.30. The same "through" train leaves Manchester at 9.40; it will leave 20 minutes later. The present 4.30 afternoon express from Liverpool will leave at 5, and arrive at 10.30—viz. half an hour earlier than it does at present. The 8.15 mail train from Liverpool will leave at 8.30, and reach London 33 minutes before its present time, or at 4.45, instead of 5.18. The same "through" train will leave Manchester 10 minutes later than at present. SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.—SORIC Of the most absurdly ridiculous rumours have lately referred to the South Eastern Company, which we, should in no way have alluded to but that several contemporaries had noticed them. The officers in London, and every station on that extensive line, have actually been besieged by anxious enquirers, who expected that the engines, carriages, rails, and all the stock of the company were about to be sold, and the concern wound up. " The Duke" himself ap plied to the superintendent, Mr. Walter, to know whether, if he went down to Walmer, he would be able to_ return by railway. We are able to assure those persons who have been weak enough to believe that Rothschild was in possession, and had a person at every station to collect the money, that the company is not- indebted -to him a single sixpence, and that any money the company borrows must be borrowed in no other way than the one prescribed by Act of Parliament, and repaid under the same re strictions. We have reason to believe that the company was never in so favourable a position as it is at present. The directors have adopted recently a very extensive plan of retrenchment, and several useless and extravagant officers have been discharged. The greater part of their new works have been suspended where practi. cable during the extraordinary pressure in the money market, which must be much more agreeable to the share holders than if they had to respond to calls at such a time. The report has doubtless arisen from • this circumstance, and while we deplore the necessity for discharging, at this season of the year, a large number of workmen, who will find it next to impossible to obtain other employment, we think the directors have exercised a very laudable degree of prudence, and attention to the interests of the share holders, in thestep they have taken. We believe it may be confidently stated that arrangements are in progress, which will effect eat changes in the rapidity of continen tal intercourse. Baron Rothschild, far from being inimi cal to the interests of the South Eastern Company, has, accompanied by the engineer and principal officers of the Great Northern Railway of France, recently had several interviews with Mr. M`Gregor (the chairman) and the directors of the South Eastern Railway, with a view to some important movement and united action on the part of the two companies. It is stated that the railway speed on the other side of the water is to be increased, and other changes in the right way are to be brought about. Ano ther subject of discussion at these meetings of the French and South Eastern Boards, has been the perfecting ar rangements for making one payment through from Paris to London for passengers, parcels, and merchandise trans mitted by the Great Northern of France, the South East ern Railway, and the South Eastern and Continental Stearn-ship Companies. We understand that the greatest desire has been shewn on both sides to carry out this ob ject speedily and efficiently, and we are satisfied that the extended traffic that will he then created, will tend very Beneficially to the interests of the South Eastern. Com . pany.—Coere.spontlent. • POLITICAL MISCELLANY. The Queen's speech on the opening of Parliament will be delivered on the 23d instant. On Thursday, Mr. Roebuck was presented with a tes timonial of £5OO by his late constituents at Bath. The corporation of London have resolved to petition parliament to abolish the privilege from arrest enjoyed by members of the House of Commons. Viscount Enfield (better known as the Hon. G. S. Byng) has retired from the secretaryship of the Board of Control, and is succeeded by George Cornwall Lewis, M.P. for Herefordshire. Mr. James Stephen has retired from the Assistant Under-Secretaryship of the Colories, and has been ap pointed a member of Privy Council. Mr - . Merivale, author of Lectures on Colonisation, has been appointed to Mr. Stephen's vacant situation. The Manchester Courier, affected by a peculiar form of the prevailing , panic, asks, " What has beco m e of th e Cobden fund ? ' The " managing committee," it is in sinuated, have " managed" to make away with it, and " doubts and apprehensions", in consequence " beset the free-trade public. ' The Times says that parliament is not convened for a loan to Ireland, and that no loan will be demanded, the funds and stores in the hands of government being happily sufficient for the present need. Indemnity for the " sus pension" of the bank charter, it adds, is the sole object of the November session. AN ENGLISH FREE TRADER'S ENCOURAGEMENT OF FOREIGN MANUFACTURES !—Mr. Lefevre, brother to the Speaker of the House of Commons, and the brother to a gentleman holding a high office in the Board of Trade, has invested £60,000 in a spinning factory at St. Petcrsburgh. Is this a proof of the blessings of free trade ? INTERVIEW OF THE BIRMINGHAM DEPUTATION WITH LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—On Thursday, the deputation appointed at the meting recently held in Birmingham, in reference to the financial and commercial condition of the country, had an interview with Lord John Russell. Mr. G. F. Siuntz, Mr. R. Spooner, Mr. §cholfield, Mr. Ma son, Mr. Harlow, and Mr. Salt were the principal speakers, and they walked into the government pretty handsomely. Mr. Salt at the close of a powerful speech that must tell greatly with the country, and which from its open, candid character, was wortn all the orations we ever heard in Parliament, required that a large measure of relief should be immediately given, that money should be freely ad vanced at moderate rates on all good securities—and that meanwhile a full inquiry should be instituted, with a view to permanent legislation ; and he thought it his duty to warn his lordship that if the ministers would not give re lief he should feel it his duty to apply to her Majesty for the immediate dismissal of ministers. The minister would promise nothing. FREE TRADE AND THE:CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY. —We should be sorry to affront our readers by offering any comment up on the following paragraph, which we find in the Times of Thursday. All that we shall presume to do is to hint, civilly, that free trade is in a hobble. like a detected impostor; and that our contemporary is per forming the friendly office of a Confederate, by trying to persuade its enraged dupes that they are sadly mistaken in supposing they have been cheated :—" Perhaps the very worst argument of all the bad arguments ever used in this world is that which is brought against good principles from any accident or exception that may delay, or impair, or conceal their effects. Every sot has his catalogue of temperate men whom he has survived, and every shifty vagabond can tell you of honest and hard working plodders who attained not to riches or honour. The grandest policies have been thwarthed for a time, and the divinest surmises of human sagacity have suffered their periods of contempt. The chapter of accidents is the Bible of the fool. It supplies him with a text against everything good, or great, or wise. At any vicious and casual impulse he can trump up a petty induction to es tablish some rule of selfishness or extravagance. He can demonstrate the dangers of heroism, the cost of liberality, the fallibility of prudence, or the tter precariousness of all results wlfatever. Hence when the question of free trade came fairly before the legislative sense of the nation, we deprecated any predictions of early and unqualified benefit. We said the question required a long run to prove it. It was not in the power of 'man to command success." This very edifying homily is followed by at tacks upon Mr. Bankes, the Earl of Winchilsea, and Mr. Blackstone, who, with many others, have had the audacity to declare that we may read the history of free-trade, as far as it is yet written, in the present deplorable condi tion of the country. " Fine words butter no parsnips." THE LATE UNDER-SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES.— The Morning Chronicle of Monday contained a laudatory notice of the late Mr. James Stephen, on his retirement from the Colonial-office. Next day the following rather more correct sketch appeared in the same paper:—'` We have no desire to do injustice to the right lion. gentleman. Mr. Stephen is undoubtedly a man of very great intellectual power; his mind has been highly cultivated ; his views are frequently original and always worthy of consideration ; his information is varied and extensive ; andhis style of literary composition is rhetorical and glittering. He fai led in the Co lonial- office, and injured both this'country and its colonies, not from want of ability, and not from absence of op portnnity to serve them, but because he had been & heated in ahollow, insincere, presumptuous, selfish, and intolerant school, and became master of that school. Craft, policy, intrigue, jea lousy, and chicanery were the characteristics of the Colonial Office during Mr. Stephen's long direction of it. No one connected with it bad, till lately, confidence in its justice, its honour, its integrity, or its generosity : the Colonies feared it ; the colonists hated it ; merchants connected with the colonies despised it ; and every one who knew aught of its mechanism attributed its defects, its faults, its crimes to Mr. James Stephen. Some of the ablest statesmen of the day were its chiefs whilst Mr. Stephen was Under Secretary—Lord Ripon, Lord Stanley, Lord John Russell, Mr. Gladstone, for example ; but all failed ; signally and disastrously failed therein. These statesmen failed, because success under our present colonial system is not within the range of possibilities or of human ability, for it is a system that teases, irritates, worries, and overgoverns the colonies; and of that system Mr. Stephens was the life, whence it moved, breathed, and had its being. No one in our time had such ample opportunities of seeing and feeling its evil consequences : he saw and felt them in rebellions in Canada, in Cafl're wars at the Cape, in war and insolvency in New Zealand, in crimes abhorent to human nature in Van Dieman's Land, in ruin and devas tation in New South Wales, in the gradual extinction of capital in the West Indies, in dissatisfaction and animosity in every colony and in every colonist. But experience taught him nothing ; he persisted in the system which a stroke of his pen, or one generous thought, might have altered ; and he leaves the system rampant in mischief." CHEAP SUGAR. (To the Editor of the Times.) SlR,—Your talented correspondent, Jacob Omnium, has described what he saw in Cuba, at the commence ment of this year. As I was at that time in Jamaica, will you allow me to state, as a contrast, what I saw there, though my powers of description are so spiritless when compared with his, as the proceedings under free labour are when compared with those under the slave driver, armed with whip, sword, and bloodhounds. Five weeks after Christmas, I was in the parish of St. Mary's, which once produced more sugar than any other in the island, on my way to visit a gentleman cultivating his own estate. I mention what I found the state of affairs there, not as being i vr m ee impression required Christmas,ss peculiar, e oae u nt i oist a l hne r oro , nmubwgwueeehtha weeding eihehtncehgatewuhoestereiarmmteaheshae. making idw s no t gba r stranger i n efinn g mtn e onye r os t roaduhawngeaoydrr made 1w a l dp d ttoah e hns oe a seue c g s:ai r ndn e s eceea since misaoyent.,sanolrodßvi,dearsnsseo, overseer rbseeweeriomanteinimsq.aunfii inquired d t a w wb o ho r te k tt , lhe b: ra t nt l dh met ely some ne groes galloping down to the bay, probably to drink Hodg had occasionally begun work in other parishes, and speculated on the possibility of his own people turning out next Monday, (that was, if they had spent all their money). I found that the gen tleman I had come to visit was, if possible, worse off than his neighbours, as he had more canes that required cut ting. My host was a gentleman who, after some years in the army, had undertaken the management of his own estate, and had resided on it, constantly working harder, as I have been told and believe, than any agriculturist in. England-ever works ; yet he was utterly unable to carry it on in a profitable manner from want of labour. He told me that if he had forty Africans he could do well ; as it was he feared he should soon be obliged to give it up.' On the best situated estates in this parish the rate of wages is Is. lid. a-day : the labourers will only work five days in the week, and take a month's holiday at Christ mas, and a fortnight after the Ist of August to com memorate emancipation. They are of course quite re gardless as to whether the canes are ripe or not at these seasons. Imagine an English farmer, with fine crops on the ground, yet unable to reap them from the want of la bourers; then, tell this man that he has to compete with what he delights to call the "serfs" on the continent, and forbid him to import any of these serfs to work for him ; you will have then a faint notion of the hardships of the Jamaica planter, now that he is made to compete with the cuba slave-holder. His only hope lies in procuring a supply of African immigrants. The British government will not allow him to send a ship to procure them for him self, and has as yet done nothing to assist him. It ap pears that one vessel, the Growler, is taking labourers to Guiana and Trinidad. Unfortunately, at the time of her equipment, we had no governor in Jamaica to represent our claims. On my arrival in England, having left every planter in Jamaica crying out for more immigrants, I was told by Mr. Hawes that it appeared we did not want more labourers in Jamaica. True we had declined to pay for any more expensive and often useless Coolies, but on the subject of African immigration I never heard but one opi nion. In fact the experiment has been tried in the parish of St. Thomas-in-the-East, where nearly all the Africans that have arrived are settled, and this is the only really thriving parish in the island. Mr. M'Cornock, the Custos of the parish, says that their prosperity is entirely owing to this cause. Perhaps, as a proprietor, I take a preju diced view in thinking that we are hardly treated with fairness by government ; it seems to me that it would be even cheaper in the end to put us in a position to compete with other sugar growers, than to ruin us and then as in the case of the Mauritius planters, pension us off with £150,000 a-year, for what is done this year for that island will require to be done again ; and if ruin is to constitute this claim I am much mistaken if Jamaica will not soon have an equal right. I think, with the following small concessions, we might, in the hope of a rebellion in Cuba, struggle on for some years. If we do not obtain them. the sooner we abandon the unequal struggle with slave grown sugar the better. . A large supply of African labourers. 2. A reduction of the duty on rum. 3. A moderate protection on sugar, to diminish gradu ally for ten years. Your obedient servant, A PLANTER Nov. 9, 1847. COURT AND FASHION. . Her Majesty and the Court are gone into mourning for Count Hugo Mensdorff, eldest son of Count Mensdorff Pouilly. He died at Godfeaberg in the 42d year of his age. He commanded a regiment of Cuirassiers in the Austrian service. His mother was the eldest sister of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and of the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary of Cambridge, and the Prince of Hesse landed at Dover on Wednesday. An interesting event occurred last week at Cbarlecote Park, near Stratford-on-Avon, (immortalized by Shak sperian recollections,) in the marriage of a female descen dant of the house of Lucy to Thomas Lloyd Fitzhugh, Esq., of Plas Power, Wales. The tenantry of the lady's brother presented her with a diamond bracelet, value 100 guineas, and a magnificent jewelled bracelet was also pre sented to her by Sir Watkyn Williams Wynn, Bart. FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER.. (From the "London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.' 9' For promenade and carriage dresses, the handsomest materials are used either plain or broche ; in shapes of the same colour the mixture of tints is only adopted in full dress. For redingotes, the tints of scabious, olive green, violet, aile de mouche will be very fashionable. Sevillien fringes rival those a la guimpe in trimming as flounces, which are frequently in four, eve, and six rows from the top of the skirt to the bottom ; they are also placed en tablier or double echelle on each side the skirt, a very thick round braid of soft silk is also much used, forming patterns in the soutache style on redingotes of cachemire, or pekins. Another new trimming is formed of velvet and gimp. Black lace trimming will be as fash ionable as ever, and galons polonais and epingle for dresses and manteaux. Deep blue and ecru are the fa vourite colours for cachemire dresses, ornamented with velvet or gimp ; the corsages en blouse very high, the sleeves wide at the top and narrow at the wrist, the skirts very full, some have mantelets wadded to match. Great simplicity is observed in all toilettes that are not decidedly full dress. A warm and comfortable addition to the winter dress are the little circassienne vestes ; the corsage formed so as not to increase the size of the waist, and left open or crossed at pleasure ; the sleeves wide, reac hi ng to the elbow ; th e y f as t en i n f ront b y means of branden bourgs or nce u d s o f r ibb on ; t h ey are made of ve l v et, trimmed with black lace of rich gimp, for evening w ed' of pink or bl ue sat i n, with fringes:or _ h more en neglige of molleton cach em i reg Linea w ith pink or cerise silk. M an t eaux are made of velvet, sati n, or cachemire, embroid ere d or tr i mmed with fringe, deep blue violet ramona, and bl ac k ; o f t h e l atter t h e m ajority are made; they are lon ger th an th ose o f l ast w i nter , par ticularly those intended f or wa lki ng or neg li g e ; t h e form is pretty and comfortable ; one of the prettiest trimmings for pardessus and mantel e t s cons i s t s o f app li ca ti on o f vet vet on satin de chine. The form of bonnets differs but little from those worn during the summer, the fronts a little less open, the crowns round and low, and the havo lets not separate from the bonnet. Coloured blonds are much used to ornament them, and orange is a favourite colour, and velvet flowers for satin or velvet bonnets ; also foliage of various vegetables, carrot leaves, &c., and taffetas pinked and made to imitate flowers. Capotes either resemble bonnets, except in having coulisses, or they are of the form styled bonne femme, with the crowns demi bombes, and are pretty, covered with a fauchon of lace. LAW INTELLIGENCE. The Court of Exchequer has ordered the proceedings taken by the Birmingham and Oxford Railway Company against the shareholders to be stayed in all cases except one which is to decide the rest. ATTORNEYS. —One hundred and sixty-eight gentlemen have given the regular notice of their intention to apply this term to be admitt e d a t torneys to practice in the Court of Queen's Bench. There are also sixteen notices for re admission to practice. MR. DYCE SOMBRE.—The Lord Chancellor, without superseding the commission of lunacy, has allowed Mr. Sombre to have the free use of all his large income, after deducting the £4,000 a-year to be paid to his wife under her marriage settlement, and making provision for the discharge of incumbrances. Mr. Sombre may reside where he pleases. The Gazette of Tuesday announces that, after the expi ration of one calendar month from the date of the publi cation of this notice, her Majesty, with the advice of her Privy Council, will take into consideration the propriety of making an order for paying the judges, clerks, bailiffst and officers of the county courts by salaries instead of fees. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. H A aT L nhd T ei C eca A pu ß ppe_r COUßSlNG MEETING.—THURSD AY Cup—Lord vr A idd N se D de f t ot F hn ß e, s l p D sr ze A ae Y ßwr eitehz LAST. oeliatn d running r de cidingothrnab shT Tb awhe e ,s c S s e ra fi xe o lt n leitteh St r a sa k nt e a s ku — eps. L — ld r. Se j f o to n n e ' s % course. Mr. Swan's Savona ran up. wo T n h , e Lo W rd es s t e D fto er n b ,s y s S a t i a lo k r e r s— an M up r.. Swan's Sparks-of-Fire The Altcar Hall Stakes—Mr. Swan's Sunshine won, Mr. Hornby's Hong Kong ran up. s k e Stakes—Mr. o F twan ir e e sd i r s a c u :sr u os p rim . The Acker's Holt Stakes.—Mr. Weld Illun et d u e wg l.l 4o ' in s e: B AD e i n iiri - ., d g TT o hhe won, Hp h i h r .o . iun S s w es a st n at ka ' Swan's Scorpion ran up. won, Mr. E. G. Hornby's Heresy ran up. S'enniasttelesvdoomn BOAT RACE ON TOE TYNE. — The skiff-match between Clasper and Maddison for £lOO aside, was fixed to come off on Monday last, the distance being from the High Level Bridge at Newcastle to Icotswood Bridge. Tir parties started themselves, and pulled nearly together opposite the Shot-tower, about a mile from the starting point, where the boats fouled, Clasper leading by about half a length. A wrangle ensued, botb parties claiming the prize; but the referees decided that the match should be rowed over again, which was done accordingly on Tues day, when Maddison was the victor by 100 yards. I 7HE CHASE. SIR W. M. STANLEY'S HOUNDS will meet to-day, at Bidston ; and Saturday, at Puddington Village, each day at eleven. The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, at Mere-hall; and Friday, at Appleton, each day at half-past ten. SIR W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet on WednesdaYr at Nescliffe ; and Friday, at Cockshut, each day at eleven; Saturday, at Cuddington-green, at half-past ten. The NOR.TEI STAFFORDSHIRE HOUNDS will meet to day, at Woore ; and Friday, at Stoke Heath, each day at half-past ten. STATIONS OF TH: ON THE IST NI E BRITISH ARMY, 'OVEMBER, 1847. !ed Service Magazine.) >ned, the last-named is that at regiment is stationed.] 36th—(1st batt.) Corfu. 37th -Cey lon, C batt.) hat p ham Cehalonia 38 th — Jamaica, Mulling" 3 9th — Canterbury. 40th—Galway 41st-LLimerick 426—Bermuda, Isle of Wight ; Reserve batt., Bermuda. 436—Newport 44th—Newry 45th—Cape G.Hope,l.of Wight; Res. batt., Cape G. Hope 46th—Canada, Guernsey 47th—Cork 48th—Enniskillen 49th—Galway 50th—Bengal, Chatham 51st—Madras, Chatham 526—Portsmouth 53d—Bengal, Chatham 54th—Malta, Kinsale 55th—Templemore 56th—(1st batt.) Gibraltar (2d batt.) Isle Wight 57th—Hull 58th—N. S. Wales, Chatham 59th—Templemore 60th—(1st ht.) Bombay, Chatin• (2d bt.) Gosport 61st—Bengal, Chatham 62d—Winchester 63d—Plymouth 64th—Limerick 65th—N. S. Wales, Chatham 66th—Gibraltar, Cork 67th—Cork 68th—Mullingar 69th—Manchester 70th—Fermor 71st—Glasgow Reserve batt., Canada 726—Gibraltar, Charles Fort 73d—Cape G. Hope, Birr 74th—Belfast • 75th—Dublin 76th —Edinburgh 77th—Canada—Nenap;h 78th—Bombay, Chatham 79th—Gibraltar, Boyle 80th—Bengal, Chatham 81st— Devonport 82d—Halifax, N. S., Brecon 836—Kilkenny 84th—Madras, Chatham 85th—Dublin 86th—Bombay, Chatham 87th—Weedon 88th—Barbadoes—Tralee 89th—Dover • 90th—Cape G. Hope, Sheerness 91st—Cape of Good Hope, Isle . of Wight Reserve batt., Cape of G. Hope 926—Dublin 93d—Canada, Glasgow . 94th=Madras, Chatham 95th—China Clonmel 96th—N. S.*ales, Chatham 97th—Malta, Isle of Wight Reserve batt, Malta. 98th—Bengal, Chatham 99th—N. S. Wales, Chatham Rifle Brigade— • (Ist batt.) Cape of G. Hope, Bristol (2d batt.) Canada, Isle of Wight Reserve batt., Quebec. (From Colburn'a Bait( [Where two places are mentio which the depot of the Ist Life Guards—Regent's Prle 2,1 Ditto—Hyde Park Royal H. Guards—Windsor Ist Drag.Guards—Birmingham 2d—Newbridge 3d—Piershill 4th—Nottingham sth—York 6th—Dundalk 7th—C. Good Hope, Maidstone Ist Dragoons—Cahir 2d—Athlone 3d—Bengal, Maidstone 4th—Dublin . ewbridge 7th Hussars—briblin Bth—Baliincollig • 9th Lancers—Bengal, Maidstn. 10th Hussars—Bombay, Maid-I stone _ 11th Hussars—Coventry 12th Lancers—Hounslow 13th Lt. Dragoons=Longford 14th—Bengal, Maidstone 15th Hussars—Madras, Maid- stone 16th Lancers—Brighton 17th—Dublin Grenadier Guards — (Ist batt.) Windsor (2d batt.) St. George's Bar (3(1 batt.) Portman-st. Bar Coldstream Guards— (lst batt.) Chichester (2d batt.) Wellington Bar. Scotch Fusileer Guards— (lst batt.) The Tower (2d batt.) St. John's Wood Ist Foot — (l at bate.)—Antigua, Paisley (2d batt.)—Bury 2d—Athlone 3d—Naas • 4th—Madras, Chatham sth—Mauritius 6th—Cape G. Hope 7th—Barbadoes, Dublin Bth—Bombay, Chatham 9th—Winchester lOtti—Bengal, Chatham 11th—N. S. Wales, Chatham 12th—Mauritius, Isle of Wight; Reserve batt., Mauritius 13th—Birr 14th—Plyinouth 1 18 5 C C h e n l 15th—Ceylon, Chester Chatham 16th—Corfu, ' Youghal 17th—Canterbury 19th—St. Vincent, Castlebar 20th—Canada, Isle of Wight ; Reserve batt., Canada 21st—Madros, Chatham 22d—Bombay, Chatham 23d—Halifax, Isle of ; Reserve batt., Canada 24th—Bengal, Chatham 25th—Madras, Chatham 26th—Buttevant 27th—Cape G. Hope, Fort G. 28th—Bombay, Chatham 29th—Bengal, Chatham 30th—Newcastle-on-Tyne 31st—Walmer 32d—Bengal, Chatham 33d—N. Brunswick, Stirling C. 34th—Corfu, Waterford 35th,-Mauritius, Jersey COLONIAL CORPS. Ist West India Regiment—Jamaica 2d Ditto—Nassau ad-Ditto—Demerara, Sierra Leone, &c. 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