The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN (5- COLONIAL' INTELLIGENC E WEST INDIES The royal mail steam-packet Teviot, Captain E. May, arrived at Southampton on Thursday, bringing the usual mails and thirty-nine passengers. The Teviot brings 407,650 dollars on merchants' ac counts, 'but none for dividends; - 7191 oz. of plata bruta; 81Ib of platina; 80 bales of tobacco ; 95 cases of cigars; 40 serons of cochineal; and 49 packages of sundries. She has encountered very severe weather since the 27th ult. We have received our usual files of papers by the Teviot, and learn from them that the Chamber of Commerce, Jamaica, had been organizing a combined movement in aid of the West India colonies, 'dated September 8, despatehed per Teviot to Barbadoes, Trinidad, Antigua, St. Vincent, and Demerara, and hy other means to other places, a meeting of two delegates from each West India Isle and British Guinea had been convened to take place at St. Thomas; then and there to consider the evils to which the British planter was -exposed by the effects of free trade on colonial production. The accounts from Jamaica and Trinidad, as to the state of the weather, were very encouraging. At both places heavy and much needed rain,had fallen. At the latter place a slight eartbquake was experienced which was also felt at Grenada. The drought continued at Barbadoes and Grenada. The ordinance whieh passed fixing ls. per gal lon on all rum made for local consumption was most un popular, and public meetings were being held to obtain a removal of the. restriction. - In the Jamaica markets the business of the past fort night has not been marked with any new feature; indeed, there has not been any change in the state of our market since the period of our last issue. Some trifling improve ment has occurred in tae price of a few articles, but it is to be attributed rather to their scarcity than to a revival of a speculative demand. Purchases continue to be made merely for immediate consumption, while the pressure on the money market has not been .relieved in the slightest degree. Louis Philippe completed his seventy-fourth year on Tuesday. The Bank of Belgium has just decided that it will not discount bills at more thau thirty days' date. _ _ _ A Te Deum was performed at Vienna, on the 12th ult., in thanksgiving to God for an abundant harvest, and yet, on the 16th, only four days afterwards, there was a rise in the price of bread in that city. Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, formerly an aspi rant to the hand of Queen Victoria, has been attacked by an alarming pthisis, brought on at the recent races, where he overheated himself. _ _ _ • - - Sir W. Colebrook is appointed Lieut.-Governor of Bri tish Guiana. Sir Edmund Head is to succeed Sir W. Colebrook in New Brunswick. Governor Light retires for the present, meriting alike repose and reward. The number of cases of cholera since its appearance in the southern governments of Russia towards the middle of July last, amounted, according to official reports, to 639, of which 401 terminated fatally. A distraint has been put into the palace of the Prince and Princess of Capua. The illustrious couple and their children were left with bare walls. The seizure was for debt. The prince is brother to the King of Naples : the princess was the celebrated Miss Penelope Smith. Accounts from the West Indies state that the mortality among the Coolies in Demerara had but slightly abated, and it appears very questionable if the constitution of the Asiatics is much better suited for sugar cultivation, under the influence of the malaria there prevalent, than the Eu ropean. The wife of the well-known ex-police agent, Vidooq, has just committed suicide at St. Mande, where her hus band had some years ago attempted to establish a paper manufactory. She had been for some time suffering from a tumour, which the faculty lately declared to be in curable. A letter from Vienna states that a crime, having great analogy to the murder of the Duchess de Praslin, has been committed in the environs of Agram. In an excess of rage, caused by the jealousy of .his wife, an Hungarian baron murdered, under circumstances of great atrocity, his wife and his young son, and then committed suicide. ANOTHER PRASLIN AFFAIR.—The Countess of Goer litz has been found burnt to death, at Darmstadt, in her own palace; and, though suicide was at first industriously attributed, suspicion, from various circumstances, has fallen on the husband. The matter, however, has been hushed up by the tribunals, no doubt, in consideration of the rank of the deceased party. The Prince of Canino (Lucien Buonaparte), who has lately been .playing some pranks in Rome, Florence, Venice, &c., by groaning at the Austrian representatives, and otherwise creating disturbances, has been arrested by order of the Pope. He has been commanded to confine himself to his palace, and if he disobeys this order he will be lodged in the Castle of St. Angelo. FERRARA AND NAPLES.—The eagle of Austria has shown the white feather and bent both her necks beneath the imperious honesty of Rome. Ferrara has been sur rendered to the Papal troops, and a just cause is trium phant. The triumph, it is true, has been effected by something of questionable means. Out of the antique armoury of the Vatican the Pope has brought out the wea pon of excommunication, and hence the result. Advices from Berne to the 3rd instant continue to re port the preparations for internal conflict in Switzerland. The half-canton of Exterior Appenzell has followed the example of Zurich and Schaffhausen, and has by a unani mous vote supported the decisions of the federal govern ment. There was little doubt, at the date of these letters, that all the cantons whose delegates voted with the ma jority would decide for enforcing the decrees of the Diet. RIVER PLATE.—Count Walewski has arrived in Paris, from his post as Plenipotentiary on the Rio de la Plata. This sudden removal is an evidence that the emissary from the cabinet of the Tuileries finds himself in a posi tion of such an extraordinary character as to require an immediate and personal communication with the govern ment. The adoption of some extreme course will be the inevitable consequence of the recent movements on the great South American estuary. BRAZILS.—The Columbus, Captain Green, arrived at Liverpool, on Friday, from Pernambuco, after a fine pas sage of thirty-one days, having sailed from that city on the 6th ult. The intelligence, with the commercial news, is, however, unimportant. Indeed, the only item of in terest is, that the reports of the elections having produced commotions in that intendency turn out to have been un true. Dates from Bahia to the 20th August had been re ceived in Pernambuco. Exchange was at 274-d. The Columbus has also brought advices from Maranham to the 21st August. Things in that town remain in almost atatu quo. JUGGERNAUT.— The contribution of 60,000 rupees, formerly paid by the East India Company to the temple of Juggernaut, is still to be continued. The subject was under discussion last court day, and this was the result. It is pitiful and humiliating to the last degree that the company should be under any pecuniary obligations to the priesthood of the Indian Moloch. It is painful, in deed, to reflect that money, disbursed in such a way by Christian men, should go to the support of brutal orgies, and to the exhibition of a monstrous piece of carved wood, under the wheels of whose car so many frantic devotees commit self-destruction. The advices from South Australia, to the sth of May last, give most 'cheering accounts of toe state and pros pects of that colony—agriculture was thriving, stocks in creasing, money plentiful, and trade and commerce flourishing; while the shipping in port were loading large quantities of copper and lead ores, the produce of the very prolific mines of that colony. A report of the second an nual general meeting of the South Australian Mining Company, held at Adelaide, in May last, exemplifies the extraordinary progress of mining in a high degree—a di vidend of 50 per cent on the capital being resolved on, and a still larger one being expected at the next meeting. The banks, also, have reaped some of the advantages, in consequence of the general prosperity produced by the success of the Purra Burra Mines, having received during the two years of its working, £2,600 for interest and dis count. The Australian Colonies jointly are likely to prove of the utmost value and importance as an adjunct to the British empire. Loss OF THE STEAMER CLEOPATRA, AND NEARLY 300 LIVES.—This vessel steamed from Bombay on the 14th of April last, with orders for Singapore, and had on board nearly 200 convicts. Her crew comprised 70 persons, the chief portion of whom were Europeans. There was also a detachment of Marines on board, who had the safe keep ing of the convicts. Amongst the officers in charge of the ship may be mentioned—Capt. J. A. Young, Commander; Lieut. Eden, Lieut. Ralph, Mr. F. W. Nott, Mr. T. G. Croad, acting-master, son of the venerable Bishop of Bombay, and Mr. J. Soady, son of Captain Soady, R.N. Four days after the departure from Bombay, a fearful hurricane came which continued with unabated violence for three days, the 17th, 18th, and 19th. Great havoc was occasioned in all directions among the shipping. It is very probable that the Cleopatra had, at the time of en countering the storm, reached the Malabar coast, off which, there is too much reason to believe. she foundered, with every human being on board. Although vessels had been sent out, not a vestige of her could be discovered. NARVAEZ, PRIME MINISTER OF SPAIN.—The French government received on Wednesday night, by a telegra phic despatch from Madrid, the news that her majesty Queen Isabella has appointed a new ministry, of which the following . is the composition :—President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs, General Narvaez ; Minister of the Interior, M. Sartorius ; Minister of Finance, M. Orlando ; Minister of Public Instruction, M. Ros de Olano ; Minister of War, M. Cordova. The ordinance which constitutes the new ministry was pub lished in the Gazette of the 4th. Madrid is perfectly tranquil. The great political fact commented on by the Paris papers is the sudden formation of this new ministry. The Union Manarehique, in an article on the subject, ex presses no faith in the stability of this Cabinet, as, it says, the versatility of the Queen is such that no act of her's can be depended on. " There is nothing stable in Madrid but instability, says our Paris contemporary, " and for that reason do we regard the sudden accession of Narvaez as one chapter more to add to the history of Folies d' Espagne." MEXICO.—The West Indian mail steamer has brought little further news from the seat of war. It appears that General Scott, with his army, left Puebla on their march for the city of Mexico on the 7th of August, and, by a circuitous route—a road thought to be almost impassable by the Mexicans—it reached San Augustin on the 17th. They then proceeded towards San Ange, where they fell in with General Valencia and 5,000 men and 20 guns. In the course of the night the Americans surrounded, and on the following morning completely routed him , taking the whole of his artillery. The general escaped. The army next attacked Churrobusco and San Antonio, where they met with great resistance from the enemy for a time. In the course of three hours, however, American discipline and tactics prevailed, and the enemy, notwithstanding their great superiority of numbers, were completely routed, losing a great many by death, as well as nearly 3,000 prisoners. The Americans were rapidly proceeding towards the city of Mexico, to put a finishing stroke upon the busine ss , A l m; §ftrata WU gent out a messenger to General Scott requesting him to propose terms of peace, whereupon General Scott halted, and an armistice has since been signed. 'Commissioners from the city have been appointed, who are to meet Mr. Trist, the American envoy, to endeavour to come to some terms, so that the city may be saved, and hostilities suspended, at least. The commissioners appointed are decidedly men of peace, and when the last advices left it was fully expected by men of all parties that the long pending war would, in the course of a very short time, be put an end to. Great sickness prevailed among the American troops. The cli mate was beginning to tell upon the constitntions of the Americans. No official account of the battle had arrived at Vera Cruz when the Teviot left. The account only reached Vera Cruz on the day previous to the sailing of the Teviot. Great rejoicings took place, and congratula tions were exchanged by the Americans. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Lord Bishop of Chester will consecrate the new church at Seacombe this (Tuesday) afternoon. His lordship will, we learn, preach on the occasion. The Rev. T. Teriison Cuffe, A.M., T.C.D., minister of Carlisle Chapel, Kennington, has been instituted to the vicarage of Colmey Heath, near St. Albans. The rule of the Bishop of London to exclude Irish cler gymen from his diocese, has, at the instance of the Lord Primate, been rescinded. The Rev. George Dugard, M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, has been presented to the perpetual curacy of Barnardcastle, in the parish of Gainford, vacated by the death of the Rev. John Davidson. Mr. Dugard has ar rived in Barnardcastle. The venerable Bishop of St. Andrew's is eighty-five years of age. When le,first entered on the sacred ministry he had no other place to celebrate the rites of religion ex capt the kitchen of a private house. The father of the Scottish prelacy, even now, only receives one hundred and ten pounds per annum, :from the Episcopal fund ! The Gazette of Tuesday contained the following an nouncement :—" The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend Charles Baring, M.A., to the district rec tory of All Souls, in the parish of Saint Marylebone, in the county of Middlesex and diocese of London, the same being void by the resignation of the Very Reverend Doc tor George Chandler, Dean of Chichester." Upon read ing the above, a waggish neighbour of ours exclaimed— " What ! another of the clique ! Well, now, indeed, the Whigs have got past BARING I" CHURCH EXTENSION IN THIS DIOCESE.—Few persons are aware of the vastness of the efforts which have been made during the last twenty years to supply the means of religious instruction to the great population of the diocese of Chester. From the time the diocese jvas constituted up to the time the present bishop was appointed, the number of churches built in the diocese was 166. Since he became bishop there have been 227 churches built and consecrated, averaging 13 each year. In 1828, there were 720 clergymen performing divine service in the diocese ; at present there are 1025 clergymen, and there are now 1140 schools, exclusive of Sunday schools. EXTENT OF THE MISSIONARY WORK.—At• a mission ary meeting, last week, the Rev. Charles Bridges said that " about one hundred missionary stations were scat tered throughout the world, to which were attached a great number of devout men, anxious for the missionary work. At the missionary stations in India, New Zealand, and other places, there was a full and faithful preaching of the word of God, which shed a blessing on all connected with them. The subject of native agency was of great moment ; for, to r dopt a simile very familiar, they could as soon take a flower and hold it up to the heated furnace, and expect it to retain its freshness, as to suppose that an Englishman could retain his wonted energy and spirit in the heated and pestilential portions of Africa. It was an utter impossibility. There were at the present time eleven or twelve native preachers in the Church ; one thousand three hundred as Scripture readers in the differ ent missionary stations. Another great portion of the missionary enterprise was the establishment of schools for the children, and in connection with the Church were between thirty thousand and forty thousand of them in the different missionary stations. IMPORTANT DIOCESAN MISSIONARY MEETING.—An important meeting of the clergy of the diocese of Ely, in aid of the Church Societies—for the Propagation of the Gospel, the Church Missionary, and for the Conversion of the Jews--was held at Ely last week. The Bishop of Ely presided, and there were also present the Bishop of Melbourne, Dr. Whewell, (Master of Trinity,) Lord Ar thur Hervey, the Rev. the Dean of Ely, Canon Selwyn, Professor Scholefield, the Revds. Grimshawe, Millers, Madison, Carus, Rooper, Clay, &c. The following were announced to be the objects of the meeting :-1. To bring together, from all parts of the diocese, those who desire to further the great work of preaching the Gospel of Christ to the world. 2. To offer up united prayers in the cathe dral church of the diocese for the Divine blessing on this holy work. 3. To receive reports of contributions to the four societies of the church, viz.—The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, the Church Missionary Society, and the Society for the Conversion of the Jews. 4. To take counsel for the more effectual support of these four institutions throughout the diocese. The meeting having been opened by the Right Rev. the Chairman, and its objects explained by the Rev. Canon Selwyn, the meeting was addressed by the Bishop of Melbourne, the Dean of Ely, and the Rev. Professor Scholefield. THE COLLECTIONS ON THE DAY OF THANKSGIVING.— lhe Rev. Sir George Robinson has addressed a letter to the Bishop of Peterborough, in which ( after alluding to the last Queen's letter for collections for the Scotch and Irish) he says—Another letter for the same object is now issued, and, after a very short interval, we are again re quired, by the Queen ( in other words, by the Queen's government ), to make collections in our several parishes, and remit the amount to "the Bank of England." The time allowed on this occasion is so short that I shall be unable to communicate with my clerical brethren around, but, as regards myself individually, T have no hesitation in declaring that my conscience and judgment both forbid my submission to so unreasonable a demand, unless the laws of the church compel me. If they do (and this is a question on which I respectfully ask your lordship's opinion), then we may expect that similar encroachments, on the part of the state upon the church will speedily fol low ; and we shall many of us be led to the opinion that the advantages of the connection between church and state are too dearly purchased, when it is seen that the officers of the former are degraded into tax-gatherers, at the whim and caprice of the latter. It seems generally allowed that no inconsiderable portion of the large funds collected in England last winter found their way, directly or indirectly, into the pockets of the Irish landlords and Roman Catholic priests—and, at all events, to call upon us again so soon, and at a moment when the barns and granaries of Ireland must be overflowing with the late abundant harvest, is more, I own, than my patience will readily listen to. I certainly do not mean to give a single sixpence myself ; and how, under such circumstances, the " excitement" which I am required to stir up from the pulpit will be either "effec tual "or consistent is not easy to say. Still, if it is your lordship's opinion that obedience is compulsory, I shall respectfully submit to your decision, and content myself, in that case, with the hope that my brother churchmen, lay as well as clerical, will forthwith join in memorializing the Queen and the archbishops and bishops on the sub ject, and strive, by all legitimate means, to get relief from such obligation for the future. DIOCESE OF CHESTER ORDINATION AT CHESTER The Lord Bishop of Chester held an ordination at the Cathedral Church of Chester, on Sunday last, the 10th instant, when the following gentlemen were ordained : Priests. Edmund Clay, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, William Bent Grenside, 8.A., ditto, William Laidlay, 8.A., St. John's College, ditto, Benjamin Jesse Wood, 8.A., ditto, Thomas Daniell Halsted, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, Richard Mitchell, 8.A., ditto, William White Talbot, B.A. ditto, William Avery, St. Bees College, William Robert Bridge Arthy, ditto, William Hodgson Coates, ditto, James Morrison Morgan, ditto, George Henry Preston, ditto, Alfred Wightwick, ditto, Thomas Wilson, ditto, David Jacobi Hirsch, Berlin. Deacons. John Cannon, M.A., Magdalen College, Oxford, Stanford Harris, 8.A., St. Edmund Hall, ditto, Thomas Croft, 8.A., Christ's College, Cambridge, John Owen Picton, 8.A., ditto, Lorenzo Smith, 8.A., Emmanuel College, ditto, Michael James Anderson, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, William Alfred Hamilton, 8.A., ditto, William Hume Mayston, B.A. ditto, Peter King Simmons, St. David's. By letters dimissory from Winchester. John Burleigh Colvill, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin. On Wednesday, the 6th instant, the worshipful Chan.. cellor Raikeo presided at the election of members for the convocation, when the following rev. gentlemen were duly elected : FOR THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH. The Rev. Canon Eaton, Vicar of Eastham, in the county of Chester. FOR THE DEANERY OF CHESTER The Rev. Charles Augustus Thurlow, Rector of the Higher Rectory of Malpas, in the county of Chester, and the Rev. Richard Greenall, Incumbent of Stretton, in the county of Chester. FOR THE DEANERY OF LIVERPOOL The Rev. Jonathan Brooks, Senior Rector of Liverpool, and the Hon. and Rev. Horace Powys, Rector of War- rington CONSECRATION OF CHRIST CHURCH, WHITEHAVEN VS • •-• On the 29th ult., a new church whiCh has been erected in one of the populous and poor districts within the town of Whitehaven, was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Chester, in the presence of a numerous concourse of per sons. The morning prayers having been read by the Rev. J. Rimmer, the incumbent of the District, the Bishop preached a sermon appropriate for the occasion. A portion of the town of Whitehaven, surrounding the church, will become a new parish, by the name of the parish of Mount pleasant, under the provisions of Sir Robert Peel's act. The Rev. Thomas Molineux has been presented by Lady Muncaster to the Rectory of Waberthwaite in the county of Cumberland, on the death of the Rev. Joseph Stanley. DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER. The new and elegant church of St. Paul, West Leigh, Lancashire, was consecrated on the 4th instant, by the Lord Bishop of Chester, by virtue of a commission from his grace the Lord Archbishop of York, in the presence of a very large assembly of the Clergy and concourse of per sons. After the reading of evening prayers by the James Irvine, vicar of the parish,.the.bishop delivered,au appropriate sermon. THE LIVERPOOL STANVARD. IRELAND. Lord Enniskillen has, within the last month, enabled 700 families on his Irish estate to emigrate. Potatoes are now selling in the market of Castlebar at from 4d. to 6d. per stone. q.'he Galway Vindicator announces that food riots have already broken out near that town. On Monday two carts of flour were plundered not far from Renmore, and all the food carried away. On Saturday night last, as some men were watching potatoes belonging to Michael Mulcahy, near Croom, two or three armed plunderers came to carry them off. On being resisted they fired at the men, and lodged two bullets in a tree close to where they were standing. John Lowe, Esq., of Spring House, county Tipperary, was shot dead on his own lawn on Monday. The deceased gentleman had police in his house to serve ejectments, and while they were at breakfast he walked out on his lawn and was shot dead. The assassin escaped without detection. IRISH IMPROVIDENCE.—A correspondent of the Dublin Mail writing from Mayo, says that living in the midst of bogs, and receiving their daily food from the hands of public officers, the inhabitants of Belmullet have yet neg lected, during a summer of such extraordinary dryness as that which has passed, to provide themselves with a stack of turf!" THE TENANT RIGHT MOVEMENT.—The Waterford Chronicle announces that a monster demonstration in favour of tenant right is to come off at Kilmathomas on Sunday, the 24th of October. The meeting is, it seems, to be attended by the Roman Catholic clergy of the diocese, under whose auspices the agitation of the question has been set in motion. The system of " potato pulling," and "corn pulling," or, in plain English, robbing, is much practised in Tippe rary. Parties proceed at night to the corn yards and po tato fields, and dragging the corn from the ricks, or the potatoes by the stalks out of the earth, carry them off. In one case, a party with horses and carts came at night to Sir Thomas Danar's rick yards, and were with diffi culty prevented from carrying off a large quantity. A dreadful murder was perpetrated at Tynagh, about nine miles from Ballinailoe, on Sunday week. An armed party attacked the house of a man named Kelly, a bailiff to Mr. Bernard O'Flaherty, the receiver ; the property belongs to Martins, minors - and after entering the house barbarously beat and mutilated every person in it ; Kelly was so dreadfully maltreated that his life is despaired of, and his wife is also very bad ; but the most dreadful attack was made on a man named Horan, who died on Tuesday from the effects of the beating. Intelligence reached Dublin, on Monday morning, of the assassination, on Saturday, of Mr. William Roe, of Rockwell, a landed proprietor in the South Riding of Tipperary. The murder of the ill-fated gentleman is attributed to the fact of his having served an ejectment on a tenant named Lonergan, residing at a place called Boytonrath, adjacent to the scene of the recent " tenant right" demonstration at Holy Cross. There is not a tenant on the estate where the murder occurred that does not owe two years rent. THE IRISH CHURCH—We have this day to announce —we will not say upon authority, but upon information upon which we have the fullest reason to rely--that a bill whose outline is to repeal alike the Irish Poor-Law and the tithe commutation statute, and to transfer from the land to a fund to be raised by an Irish property or income tax the entire charge of the church and the pauperism of Ireland, has been prepared. Upon this measure it is said the government is resolved, and that it will be one of the earliest submitted to the consideration of parliament in the ensuing session. We have not learned whether the contemplated fund is to be raised by an income or a property tax ; but it is stated that from £2OO a-year and upwards all incomes (or property) are to be subject to the tax, at a rate ranging from one and a half to three and a half per cent.—Dublin Herald. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—On Monday, the chair was taken by Mr. F. Scully, member for Tipperary. This gentleman descanted on the state ofthe country, and said he meant to follow in the footsteps of O'Connell, by acting on his maxims. He then let loose a variety of political. propositions ; amongst others was one to make a tax on absentees, which he said would bring in £6,000,000 per annum. Mr. J. O'Connell, having read an address from Nenagh, to him, "as leader, " enclosing £l5, and another from Paramatta, New South Wales, containing £lO, pro ceeded to refer to the late election for the county of Clare, and to attack his own relation, Mr. Charles O'Connell, for aiding in the return of Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart., an anti-Repealer, in opposition to Mr. C. O'Brien, a stanch Old Irelander. He said that Mr. Charles O'Connell had got time enough to repent of his conduct, and if he did not make atonement to the country by the following Monday, he would move his expulsion from the Associ ation. The rent was announced to be £7O. THE WAY PROTESTANTS ARE TREATED.—The Pro testant Association in Dublin have addressed a letter to Lord John Russell, enclosing a resolution passed by the society against a mission to Rome, in which they say : " We consider it a solemn mockery to call him (the Pope) as he has been sometimes called, ' the great champion in these days of constitutional liberty ;" and that regarding him, as we do, as the very Antichrist foretold in Scrip ture—however much we would desire that this great em pire should assist in maintaining him in the just posses sion of any just right, or interfering to prevent the perpe tration of injustice towards him—we would sincerely de precate any act of our government which would establish those diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and the Pope, which are expressly denounced by the Bill of Rights." In the letter accompanying the resolution the following paragraph appears :—" My Lord, —Every one of our national acts which has made concessions to Popery, or advances towards it, bas been attended with calamity ; and as a result of them all we now see Ireland reduced to a state of deplorable pauperism, after having been swept by famine and pestilence; yea, rather, the latter scourge is still laying our country desolate. In England unparalleeld commercial embarrassment seems to be tastening on a general bankruptcy, while at the same time popular discontent in both islands threatens the overthrow of our institutions and the dissolution of the empire. But, still worse than all this, may be pronounced that withdrawal of the grace of God, which is manifested by the prevalence of such crimes which make the degre dation of the present period even more afflicting than its abounding distress." Lord John Russell deigns merely to acknowledge the receipt both of epistle and resolution. THE PREMIER AND A REPEAL M.P.—On the 17th ult. Mr. Anstey, the member for Youghal, in inclosing to Lord John Russell " a resolution and address, emanating from a meeting of the owners and occupiers of land in East Skull," designated the documents as " simple and eloquent statements of Irish distress and ministerial cri minality ;" proceeded to talk of the mal-administration of the affairs of Ireland, as the " disgrace and crime of Downing-street ;" and concluded by expressing his own conviction, that " far from having a demand to make for repayment of the sums you have squandered, you owe to Ireland a heavy debt, in respect of her labour wasted, her hands thrown out of profitable employment, and her roads and public works made useless or destroyed." The reply of Lord John Russell is as follows : I have had the honour to receive your letter of the 17th. lam deeply concerned at the prospect of distress in East Skull, in the county of Cork. It appears to me that the owners of property in Ireland ought to feel the obligation of sup porting the poor who have been born on their own estates, and have hitherto contributed to their yearly incomes. It is not just to expect that the working classes of Great Britain should permanently support the burthen of Irish pauperism. I shall not take any notice of the numerous errors of fact and argument into which you have fallen in your letter accompanying the representation you have sent me." Mr Anstey, in his rejoinder, says :—"I immediately on the assembling of parliament, do my part as one of ' the members of parliament for the boroughs of Cork' towards giving the required explanation to the le gislature of ' the peculiarly grievous pressure of the fa mine, the impolicy and injustice' of your lordship's pro ceedings with respect to the visitation, and ' the impossi bility of effecting, by such means, the relief of the desti tute,' or, rather, of such of them as may be then no longer in the enjoyment of the existence which it now depends on you to save or extinguish." Orntral ,11t5rellaup. The farmers are about forming an assurance association against loss by diseases in cattle. Jenny Lind left London on Tuesday night, at twelve o'clock, by the steam-packet John Bull, for Hamburgh. On Friday the Lord Mayor of London publicly cau tioned people against embarking in the Austrian lottery speculations. A woman named Bell has been committed by the ma gistrates at Devonport for selling her husband's wooden ! leg PROFIT AND Loss.—The Maidstone Journal says that a labourer last week cut in one day five acres of oats, and drank 32 quarts of strong beer while doing it. The engineer of the Cricket steamer, against whom a verdict of manslaughter was returned at the coroner's inquest has surrendered, and put in bail to take his trial. COACH V. RAIL.—The Cambridge people announce, that their coach, in opposition to the Eastern Counties, will commence running on Monday next. Mr. J. J. Bond, coroner for Folkestone, has committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. He had been labouring under temporary fits of insanitypr some time. TALETED QUARTETT:-Mr. Webster's company at the Haymarket comprises four of the greatest female actors on our stage, Mrs. Charles Kean, Mrs. Nisbett, Miss Helen Faucit, and Mrs. Glover. On Tuesday, the Earl of Leicester and the Hon. E. K. Coke, M.P., bagged at Warham 461 partridges, from their own guns, in the day. We understand a great many birds were picked up the next day.—Bury Post. A labourer, whilst travelling by rail the other day to Bury, lost his hat, and not being quite sober at the time, jumped after it. He received a contusion of the head, but no fracture. . _ The Glasgow Water Company threaten to cut off the supplies of the pure element in those cases where land lords will not become bound for the payment of the water rate by their tenants. Last week, a quantity of carpeting, the property of a draperat Gainsboro', was sold by auction to pay the amount of income-tax which the tradesman alleges he had been overcharged, and refused to pay. Among quantity of property belonging- to the town of Congleton, brought under the hammer last week, was the old pillory. The lot was put up at sixpence, and after repeated bids, was knocked down at eighteen-pence 1 THREE NEW PEERS.—Sir Charles Coote, Bart., of Ballyfin, Mountrath, is to be raised to the British peerage, together with Lord Chief Justice Doherty, and Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bart.—Dublin Packet. [This is contra dicted.] Mr. John Carnally, of Barnsley, who had afforded facilities for the removal of a pauper from Barnsley to Huddersfield, to which place he had thus become charge able, has been fined 40s...and expenses, by thenu,ddersfield magistratA, MURDER BY SOLDIERS.—Six private soldiers have been committed to York Castle from Sheffield, for trial at the next assizes, on the charge of murdering one Thos. Morton in an affray which took place on the night of the 11th September. Thomas Leith was executed at Dundee, on Tuesday, for the •murder of his wife. Immediately before the clO.: sing scene a clergyman stepped up to the culprit, and asked him if he were guilty or not guilty. He placed his hand on his breast, and said—" I am not guilty." Serious riots took place last week at TWeedinouth and Berwick, in consequence of an attempt made by the sub contractor on the Berwick and Kelso Railway to with hold a portion of the wages of the " navvies." One man died of injuries received, and the military were called out. FALL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—On Thursday, a ge neral reduction in the price of the 4th loaf of wheaten bread took place in all parts of the metropolis, the charge now being 51d. and 6d. the quartern loaf. In some of the poorer districts a description of rye bread is retailed at 44d. THE COAL TRADE.—Newcastle has sent 576 cargoes of coals to the Baltic alone this year ; Sunderland, 179 ; Hartlepool, 134 ; Stockton, 94 ; Hull, 32 ; Liverpool, 8 ; London, 0. The total number from these and all other British ports has been 1,241. THE FACTORY SYSTEM AND BASTARDY.—No less than 62 orders in bastardy have been made by the Bradford magistrates during the past quarter. In the preceding quarter there were 34. The bulk of the applications are from factory girls. IMPROVEMENTS IN COPPER SMELTING. A patent has been obtained for a process of smelting ores, whether consisting of the oxides, sulphurets, or carbonates, on a principle entirely new, and by which pure merchantable copper can be produced at a price of £5 per ton. It is said that letters reaching the London Postoffice on Sunday from the country, are to be dispatched the same evening. At least one hundred clerks will be re quired for this purpose; at present only six clerks do Sunday work at the General Post-office. The colliers of Dudley recently dined together in large numbers at Birmingham, and desirous to mark the festival with peculiar iclat, offered Jenny Lind £3OO in order to induce her to sing before them. The fair Swede declined, in a courteous letter. DEATH FROM FIGHTING.-0/1 Monday, two miners, named Bee and Thompson, at Stanhope, Durham, having quarrelled, stripped for fighting. They had two rounds, when Bee struck Thompson upon the left side, and he fell to the ground and died instantly. A verdict of man slaughter has been returned against Bee. The Roman Catholics of Southwark and Lambeth met, on Monday, to form an association for the vindication of Catholic rights and the protection of Roman Catholic privileges, by increasing the number of Catholic electors, and organising the Roman Catholic residents of the metropolis. A farmer in the Isle of Man, who bad lost one or two cows by disease, burnt one of them in the high road, for the purpose of discovering the evil eye. The first man who came up was declared to be the wizard, and it is stated that if he had not saved himself by flight, he would have shared the fate of the cow. At the preliminary meeting of the ironmasters of South Staffordshire, held at Wolverhampton on Tuesday, it was determined to recommend that no alteration in the pre sent prices should be fixed at the ensuing quarterly meet ings. The trade was represented to be in a healthy state, with a steady demand. At the Clerkenwell police-office on Monday, William Joseph Clifton was remanded on a charge of murdering his wife, who died from the injuries received by the brute kicking her. The principal evidence was that of a young child, his daughter, who was in tears the whole time she was giving evidence. The Archbishop of York, who is 92 years old, and bis Chaplain, Mr. Dixon, were a few days since immersed up to their necks in an ornamental lake attached to the epis copal palace at Bishopsthorp, owing to a bridge on which they were crossing breaking down. Fortunately they sus tained nothing worse than a wetting. 33RISTOL DOCKS.—At length we have the gratification to announce that a special meeting of the Town Council will be held on Wednesday next, to take into considera tion a report from the committee appointed to confer with the Bristol Free-Port Association, in relation to the trans fer of the docks to the borough.—Bristol Mirror. ENORMOUS RETURN.—There is to be seen in the shop of Mr. James Clement, Crieff, the produce of a single seed of oats lately reaped, which counts the enormous number of 2062 grains, all fully ripe. It may be men tioned, that from the one seed there are twenty full grown stalks, besides two that had not ripened.—Perth Courier. The proprietors of the extensive spinning mills near the town of Barnard Castle have commenced working short time. The carpet manufacturers complain of the de pressed state of the trade. A great number of the work men are out of employment, and may be seen walking about the streets daily ; and others are only partially em ployed. MARY ANNE HUNT.—It now appears that this woman, under sentence of death in Newgate, has been examined by three medical men, and they are unanimously of opinion, that the verdict of the jury of matrons was wrong, and that the unfortunate woman is beyond doubt " quick with child." Of course the sentence will not yet be carried out. The Carlisle Journal reports that a coroner's jury have returned a verdict of wilful murder against Peter Hanlin, a travelling tinker, whose wife was found lying dead in a ditch near Greystone Cottage, on the Blackwall-road. Evidence was given that they were seen together on the same day both dreadfully intoxicated, and the man beat ing his wife. WEST INDIA YA.MS.—Some tons of this article have been consigned to Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, of London, and, from the present abundant crop of potatoes in this country, have been sold for the purpose of cattle feeding. A quantity has also been sent gratuitously to Ireland, to test their applicability to the feeding of pigs as a substi tute for the potatoe. THE APPLE CROP.—A contemporary states, as some thing extraordinary, that good Somersetshire cider is being sold at 355. per hogshead. It is not unlikely that an error of the press has substituted the figure 3 for 2, as as it is a fact, that 20s. per hogshead is the general price asked ; in some instances, cider of a superior flavour and qUality, is sold at 255. The banns were forbidden by a disappointed damsel in Chelmsford Church on Sunday week. A gay widower had wooed and won her; and then, with the hardness of a heart seared by some fifty years, had turned her care lessly away, and fallen into the meshes of a fair widow. It is to be feared that the objection of the injured one will not be deemed valid. A PREMIUM ON TEETOTALISM.—The Rev. Alfred Hewlett, of Astley, delivered an address to the members of his congregation on Monday evening, it being the " wakes " ; at the conclusion of which, he urged upon their notice the necessity of becoming teetotallers ; and, by way of inducement, he stated that he would marry teetotallers, christen their children, and inter their dead, free of charge. A MAN KILLED BY HIS BROTHER.-011 Monday last, at Leintwardine, Herefordshire, an inquest was held upon the body of James Beavan, who was killed by a blow from his brother. The evidence shewed that at a village wake, where everything had gone on pleasantly, the deceased and his brother struck each other, either in jest or pretended hostility, when suddenly one fell down dead. The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter." ADULTERATION OF OATMEAL.—At the Glasgow Court of Justiciary, on the 29th ult., Alexander Bannatyne, grain merchant, of that town, was found guilty of mixing thirds with oatmeal, but recommended to mercy, in con sequence of the practice having been adopted by other parties in the trade. He was sentenced to four months imprisonment, and to pay a fine of £3OO, or other four months imprisonment. Four children, of a man at Stroud, partook on Monday of a pudding, given to them by the friends of a deceased person. They were all soon after taken ill, and one, a little boy aged eleven, died on Thursday, and it is feared his sister will follow. The eldest son, nineteen years old, is in a dangerous state, and only the youngest child is expected to recover. The pudding was found to contain arsenic, but how it got there is not yet known. . . CURIOUS INCIDENT.—As two men were returning to Ilkeston from Nottingham Goose Fair, on Monday night, they quarrelled; a scuffle ensued, and both fell into the canal. One of the men was an excellent swimmer, and found no great difficulty in reaching the bank ; but his opponent, unfortunately, was not possessed of that tact, and must have sunk to rise no more, had not the other jumped in again and rescued him.—Nottingham Guard. SINGULAR TURN OUT.—The workmen employed by Messrs. F. Ball and Sons, lace-manufacturers, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, " turned out" on Tuesday, rather than sub mit to a further reduction in their wages. They after wards went to the cricket-ground, and agreed to a match to decide whether or not they should accept the offer made. The game was won by the party for the refusal, with upwards of 100 notches to spare. A correspondent of the Daily News affirms " that the wheat crop of this year is not by any means an average yield. I have my authority from the cultivators of the ground themselves ; and, although the markets of our provincial towns have been for the last three weeks some what crowded with sellers (from the necessity the small farmer is under of doing so to enable him to meet his Michaelmas rent), yet, from my own personal experience, I feel convinced that we shall, ere long, be undeceived as to the quantity of corn in the country." DISTURBANCE IN BANFFSHIRE.—A disturbance took place last week at Findochty, in Banffshire. An extensive fish curer having failed, the unfortunate fishermen at tempted to prevent the shipment of the herrings which they had sold to him and had not been paid for. The coast guard were called out and the riot act read ; but the attempts to load the vessel were ineffectual. Darkness terminated the struggle. In the course of the night some of the leading fishermen were convinced of the folly of their conduct ; and next morning the vessel was loaded and departed without material resistance. INNOCENT MEN TRANSPORTED.—In March, 1843, four men, named Cant, Debrey, Lonsdale, and Williams, were transported for having committed a burglary at Market Weighton, Yorkshire. Subsequently, however, this burglary proved to have been committed by four other men. A free pardon was accordingly sent to the innocent convicts. In August last they returned. Application having been made to the Secretary of State for some redress, he has granted to them the sum of £lO each. Cant alone has received the money, as the address of the others is not known. _ _ _ _ A most terrific boiler explosion, by which two persons have been killed and three other seriously injured, occur red about one o 'clock on Monday, at a foundry called the Round Foundry, in Water-lane, Leeds. One of the persons who has been killed is the engine-man, named Newton. The other is a girl named Harris, who was going up an entry adjoining the boiler-house when the explosion occurred. The three persons who have been injured, and whose injuries have not yet proved fatal, were taken to the Leeds General Infirmary, where they are now lying in a very precarious s tate. The cause of ,the melancholy occurrence is not positively known, AN IMITATOR OF THE DUKE OF ATHOL.—Mr. Trotter, of Martonhall, the proprietor of Blackford Hill, well known to the readers of Marmion, is attempting to ex clude the publi c f rom th e enjoyments of its beauties. Sir Walter Scott alludes to the spot as a favourite haunt in his youth ; and such it has continued to be. It is within walking distance of Edinburgh, and the Scotch bard has well said of it : "Still on the spot Lord Marmion stayed, For fairer scene he ne'er surveyed." M. Jullien, during his late tour, offered the celebrated vocalist Viardot Garcia the enormous terms of 100 guineas per night, to appear 40 nights at Drury-lane Theatre, the money to be deposited at Rothschild's bank. This offer, liberal as it was, was declined by Madame Viardot. Ne gotiations, however, are still pending. The renewal of Alboni's engagement bas been certified for the Royal Ita lian Opera next season, at extravagant terms—five times the amount of what she received for the season just ex pired.-11fusical World. MANSLAUGHTER BY A BOY.—On Wednesday evening an inquest on the body of a boy named Robert Bryer was held at Bath. It appeared from the evidence, that de ceased was talking to a boy named Francis Neil, when a quarrel arose, and the latter thrust a gouge into the sto mach of deceased. It was uncertain whether the prisoner intended to kill deceased, as the instrument was not used violently. The boy died a few days after the injury was inflicted. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Francis Neil. - SELLING A CHILD.—The Halifax Guardian tells the following somewhat improbable story :—" On Tuesday last, a calf-dealer, named Whitby, went from Nottingham to Derby where, not being able to purchase calves, he made a bargain with an unfortunate mother named Rad ford, and gave her three shillings for her child, eight months old, which he brought home to his wife, who re fused to take it in. He then went to different places in Nottingham, and offered the child to any one who would buy it for 3s. 6d., but was unable to find a purchaser. A GAMEKEEPER ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.—On Monday, while Captain J. Townshend, R.N., was shooting over the lands of Polwilly, and about to cross a ditch, slipt his foot into a " blind hole" of some depth. Having lost his balance, and being half twisted round, one of the bar rels of his fowling-piece unfortunately went off, and we deeply regret to add, the contents were lodged in the neck of James Wylie, gamekeeper at Camloden, who happened to be standing immediately behind the Captain. Wylie fell, uttered a short exclamation, and almost instantly expired.—Wigtown Press. LIBERAL REWARD.-A few evenings ago (or early in the morning), as a little girl who had been employed in hop-picking, at Mr. John Smith's, at Wick, was passing along Broad-street, she picked up a small canvas bag, and finding that there was money in it, took it to her mother, who immediately mentioned - the fact to the police, when it was found that the bag contained bank notes and other securities to the amount of £l,OOO. The crier was im mediately employed to announce the finding of the bag, and the owner was shortly afterwards discovered. We are pleased to add that he presentel the little girl with £lOO, and also gave the mother £s.—Worcester Journal. THE BANK CHARTER ACT.—It is the general opinion, in the best-informed circles in the city, that her majesty's government will make no concession by relaxing the strin gency of the Bank Charter Act, to relieve the commercial pressure. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has made no secret of his opinion upon this subject amongst his friends, his inference being, that no commercial houses will sus pend payment that have not extended their business unduly beyond the amount of their capital, and that re laxing the screw would give a fresh impetus to the extra vagant expenditure on railways. It is at the same time well known in the city circles, that both the governor and deputy-governor of the bank of England are friendly to the principle of the act of 1844.—Morning Herald. CO-OPERATIVE LEAGUE.—A tea party, principally of ladies, (charming!) connected with this Society, took place on Monday evening at the " Central Hall," Snow hill, Mr. William Howitt in the chair. The views of the league are, (we like the words) to " supersede selfishness by universality—undue restraint by full individual liberty =antagonismby peace—competition by brotherly love and thus a state Of existence may arise founded on the principles of wisdom and goodness, yielding its fruit in the happiness of every member of the human family." And in " brotherly love" were all the speeches made, Mr. Howitt's especially ; and in " sisterly love" did the adies applaud ; and the resolutions breathed much " love" to the American people, and the whole affair was the most " loveable" imaginable.—John Bull. LABOURERS' WAGES.—A great many poor labourers were summoned before the Shaftesbury Small Debts Court, a few days since, by Mr. Perham, for sums due for pigs. One defendant earned Bs. a week, and many gave their wages at 7s. The Judge, who seemed astonished at the smallness of the sum, questioned them particularly. Was that all ? Were they quite sure of it ? Only seven! Mr. Rutter asked one of them what parish he came from ? He replied Stour Provost. Mr. Rutter said it was so ; 7s. were the weekly wages down there. This man had a sick wife and nine children, and he was sued for £6 lls. His Honour made an order for Is. a week, observing that it would take a long time to pay it off at that rate, but it was useless ordering a higher sum to be paid.—Sherborne Journal. HAZEL AND BEECH NUTS AND ACORNS.—Many tons of hazel nuts nave been sent to London from Salisbury, by railway during the last three weeks. They were chiefly gathered by women and children in Hanley Hunt and Gravely Chase. There are carters ready to purchase the nuts for lid. to 2d. per gallon : these' people then bring them to Salisbury, when they are again purchased at 2id. per gallon, then packed in large hampers, and sent by rail to London, where they were at first sold at ss. per sack, and as they ripen more is given—the present price being 6s. 6d. to 7s. per sack, of about 18 gallons. The fruit of beech trees were seldom known so abundant. The acorn is equally plentiful, and thousands of swine are now being driven into the forests; the animals will feed upon acorns and beech nuts for some months to come. PROPOSED REVIVAL OF THE GLOVE TRADE.—The decay of the glove trade in these parts has for years been a subject of the deepest regret, inasmuch as this branch of industry formerly afforded remunerative employment to hundreds of families, but, the free-trade doctrines being so popular, and the French being, by consent, re cognised as glove-makers for England, no one ever thought of disputing what appeared to be our inevitable fate. The Chamber of Commerce at Worcester, however, have resolved to appoint a committee to co-operate with the committees of the Town Council and Board of Guardians at the Worcester Union in an inquiry as to what means can be taken to promote a return to prosperity of the once flourishing glove manufacture of that city.—Hereford Journal. _ _ VENEERING BUTTER.—At Barnard Castle market an old man bought 201 b of butter at the Market Cross, of a respectably-dressed woman, who let him have it " a bargain." Returning to his inn, he chuckled over his purchase, and, in the exhuberance of his joy, sold his landlady two or three pounds at cost price. Before his departure, she had occasion to cut into a pound, and sound it to consist of hog's lard coated with butter ! The whole stock was then examined, and it proved to be all alike. " Well," exclaimed the old dupe, " this beats fleein' ! Aw've seen mahogany and aw've seen yack veneering, but aw'll be shot if ivver aw see'd or hear'd tell o' veneering wi' butter before." On Wednesday he was again in the market, but we need hardly add the female artist was absent.— Gateshead Observer. THE APPROACHING COLLECTION FOR THE TRISH.— A collection, of course, there will be. The church will collect, and all the dissenters will collect. The Society of Friends will show their usual zeal and liberality. Ame rica, of course, will give again, as also the French, the Pope, the Sultan, and some dozen tribes of Red Indians. The rest will follow in due time. The programme is much as follows :—.Z200,000 or £300,000 collected in the middle of October ;—a yell of impatience for its arrival before the end of the month ;—a disgusting scramble for it in November ;—all spent in December ;—by Christmas furious tirades fron Drs. M'Hale and Higgins, and their transatlantic brother Dr. Hughes ;—meetings to abuse and menace the English the whole of next year, till, perhaps, September, when there may, perhaps, be a momentary pause in the abuse, for the purpose of begging another twelvemonth's supply.—Times. FREE-TRADERS' CONFESSIONS.—The proceedings at the great Birmingham Currency meeting, present two re markable features : first, the anti-protectionists acknow ledged at the meeting that much of the present monetary distress was owing to the abandonment of protection to native industry !—and secondly, that trade had declined, and would continue to decline, since that fatal step was resolved upon. The great Mr. Muntz himself uttered these portentous words to the acquiescent meeting— " Where I exported thousands of pounds' worth of cer tain goods, I do not now export so many pence ; and I am confident, if you attempt your free-trade principles as you are going on, there is not a trade in Birmingham, nay, hardly a trade in England, that will be worth carrying out !" And for such results Peel is apotheosised, and Cobden ranked among the Dii Majores, with an endow ment of a hundred thousand pounds. FOREIGN SINGERS.—The following observations from Fraser are not at all too severe respecting the enormous sums which the foreign singers require here, compared with their remuneration elsewhere :—" The Englishman meekly submits to be fleeced, and consents to pay guineas instead of shillings into the hands of the very same people he may hear sing in Italy for one quarter of the money. The fever for Jenny Lind has raised prices to a height that we shall take the liberty of calling scandalous. It is no good argument to state that English people can afford it, and therefore may do it. Money is money ' • £3O is £3O: and if one man thinks this is an inconsiderable sum for a single night's entertainment, we candidly confess we wish that some day he may want it. Such money is ill spent ; it goes after a certain point only to enrich one singer, who -- : a nnllrtf•nr pockets the cash. noes um sends it perhaps to some bank in a dirty little foreign town." A thief, named Joseph Boulton, a cordwainer, has met with his death in an awful manner while in the act of crime. His dead body was found by Mr. William Pet chell, the occupier of Bishop Olney mill, between nine and ten o'clock on Monday morning last, lying between the pitwheel of the mill and the bolster which supported it. His head was so firmly jammed between the wheel and the bolster that it required the united strength of six men to disengar it. The collar-bone and top part of the right arm had been frightfully fractured. He had apparently been dead some hours when discovered. His coat pockets were filled with wheat, and a basket, which lay near, had barley in the bottom, and some wheat tied up in a pinafore ; whilst some small pieces of wood lay at the top. It is presumed that this unfortunate man had entered the mill through a hole which had been made by workmen for the purpose of repairing the wheel; and that, after obtaining his booty, he was attempting to re turn the same way, when be lost his footing, owing pro bably to the circumstance of his having a " club-foot," and the force of his weight upon the wheel setting it in motion, he fell head foremost between the wheel and bolster, .whenhis headasould at once be dreadfully smashed and his death le instairtmeous. Oct. It 1841. ANNOUNCED CUSTOMS' CHANGES.We have been in formed it is in contemplation to abolish the Customs de partment, and levy import duties on six articles only tea, tobacco, wine, spirits, and, perhaps, coffee ; and tha t these duties would be levied under the excise, transferring such of the officers of Customs as might be required wider the new system to the former department. So extraor dinary a revolution in the fiscal affairs of the countrY ap pears almost incredible, and would be altogether so W el ' we not living so much in nubibus in all that relates to our commercial and fiscal system.—Shipping Gazette. FEMALE LYNCH LAW.—One day last week, a man from Woodchurch, Kent, engaged in hop-picking t Iden, Sussex, beat his wife in the way that some paren t. punish their children. A number of women (also frill ! Woodchurch) who were picking at another farm in parish, having heard of the treatment that one of the• own sex had been subjected to, determined upon inflicting summary punishment on the offender. They according l y provided themselves with bunches of stinging-nettl e and hop-bines, and prooceeded en masse to the garden s where the culprit was at work, pulling poles. Having u , a ruse dispossessed him of his bill (used in cutting o'l the bines), they at once commenced their work of cast' gation, by a process well known to schoolboys as " Ura l ' ing," and having at length satisfied their notions of justice' they released the culprit.—Sussex paper. FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.—On Tuesday, an inquest 0 5 , held at Birmingham, on the body of a young man name d Joseph Hollyoake, about 21 years old, who died in COT sequence of wounds received in a prize fight with Joseph Grennell, on the previous Saturday, at Nine Fields, In the parish of Aston. It appeared that a quarrel arose about some young woman, and that a fight for a .£1 a' side was agreed upon. Deceased's seconds made hi? po continue to fight long after he was too weak to bear ", and when even his opponent wished him to stop. All the proceedings were conducted in a most brutal manner, an d s even after the deceased was insensible, the seconds use d most horrible expedients to bring deceased to his sense} in order that the fight might continue. At the close n' the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of " Man slaughter " against Joseph Grennell, as principal ; a man who goes by the name of " Trotter," William Stevens, and Beasley, as abettors. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday a melancholy petted lostcthoirldechoayser. Thehis l m ife oth a e n r d o two others o c t h h i e l r d s re ar n e accident occurred at Elton, near Sandbach, by which out of the house on some errand, and locked them up- It appears that there were some apples in a closet cove with straw, and the eldest of the children, a boy,' lowin., they were there, went to see if he could get at them. la s e found the closet so dark that he could not find them, an; he returned for a box of lucifer matches which were stand' ing on the mantel-piece. The two other child h r a e nd n otg with him, and after going to the closet they struck alight'.had The straw immediately caught fire, and the smoke Jaa' such a suffocating effect, that on the mother's return' which was in a short time, she found her three chile quite senseless on the floor and the house in flames. The fire was with some difficulty extinguished, and assistanc e rendered to the children. One of them died on Wedues' day, and no hopes were entertained of the other two. ATTACK UPON A CHILD BY A LION.—A very distress' ing event occurred at Nottingham Goose Fair on Moil last. Between nine and ten o'clock at night, a vast emit. of persons had assembled in Mr. Hylton's menagerier view the collection of wild beasts, amongst which was t ae celebrated lion " Nero," when suddenly a tremendous scream was heard proceeding from the den of the anim al ; During the last nine months a young woman, of the na e ' of Caroline Pearson, has been in the habit of exhibiting her powers over the animal in its den. On this occasion she had in her arms her niece, Catherine Ellen Chittnt • a child three years old ; and while she was w alldug i fs ts on e t la l s th t e h li ro o u n g ' h s d a e n n. otpheenainnigmuanl underneath h y put the f i o ro r o th 7 0 "; and seized the head of the child, the back and•fr on t " bars , which it tore, with its forehead, nose, ears, arm, in a most frightful manner, and it was only by T l3al " rj force the poor sufferer was dragged away. The wounr are of a most dangerous character, and the child lies with out hope of recovery. SHOCKING DEATHS.—On Thursday night week, ,fit, James Armstrong, an active police-constable belongil to the Keswick (Westmorland) district, met with death in a most frightful and melancholy manner, White on his return home from Pooley Bridge, to which he had been sent on some business on the preceding ana and its right It appears that on his return home, the deceased his been crossing Wanford Fell, on the top of which there io a precipitous rock, upwards of one hundred yar d ba d height. At this place it is supposed that Armstrong 'be been overtaken by a fog, and that he had also been bi d nighted, but that being anxious to reach home he e nd wandered on, and having missed his way, had fallen 0 01 the stupendous precipice to which we have alluded o ' s dal by which he had been killed upon the spot.—On Tn osn ' lir a young lady named Welsh, a visitor of the neigh of hood, while viewing the river Avon from the lottiq ss ed the chain known as St. Vincent's rocks, Bristol, ° bo at her footing, and fell to the road below, a distance of a 300 feet. She was almost literally dashed to atom s j ia sits, On Monday night a meeting of the bankers, mer e held manufacturers, and tradesmen of Birmingham wa' ta te at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham, to consider the eer of the country, and the operation of Sir Robert were bills of 1819 and 1844. Not more than 200 p,r - so ns m.p, present, amongst whom were G. F. Muntz , -r-1, 1 ;, Esq., C. N. Newdegate, Esq., M.P., Richard SP°: Alderman M.P., and many members of the corporatio n '. h business t Weston occupied the chair, and i n opening e at of the meeting expressed th e op i n i o n that the prese f state of monetary affairs was caused b y the operation_ id ° Sir R. Peel's acts, and th a t th e presen t system "": altogether unsuited to the wants of the communitijecir Harlow moved the resolutions, which were seodn Th i ,nd Mr. T. C. Salt, who condemned the present system' iii contended that all the miseries which had taken pla t to to the country for the last forty years were attributaus the the present money laws. Petitioning from all parts 010,a, country was strongly recommended, both in the res tions and speeches. SMUGGLING BY A NOBLE.—The Daily News s the " that in consequence of information received 1)_.., Custom-house authorities at Southampton, Messrs. Ttorist lins and Burt, two surveying-officers belonging to t of port, went to Glass Hayes, near Lymington, the sea the Due de Stacpool, and, after a lengthened search , s led ceeded in finding, in the cellars, eight casks of spl it s, champagne brandy, and some jars containing other sP _ t hs the whole of which were seized, and secured in the Sou, ampton Custom-house. The officers afterwards Sas the ou k, tained that the spirits were brought from Guernsey in Due de Stacpool's yacht, the Gipsey Queen, then It' ~a at Cowes, to which spot they immediately repaired,.7o, found on board a considerable quantity of smuggled the reign goods, which were seized also, together With yacht. The greatest secrecy is at present o bserved s r: r o petting this seizure ; but it is rumoured that the ofn;_,ct have procured evidence to prove that this is not the fi time the Gipsey Queen has been engaged in the c0n.14.70 band trade. The whole of the goods, together witnl,e yacht, will doubtless he confiscated, and the owner 0,1 1 .0 latter mulcted in heavy penalties. The forfeited bondt the yacht alone is £1000." which ARTIFICIAL artificial S s t T o O n N e 8 0 . — f e A v e p r r process l i h t m b a e y e n bep .tentedproducr::_abol: from artificial granite to statuary marble. This i n ventw is, frdm its cheapness, a great advantage for all the 01 0 : poses of architectural decoration, and from its plas tic nature before it becomes hard, of great service to sculptor o in taking casts of statuettes, busts, &c., and even offir re i g g of the size of life. The cost in all cases where ear valg ia required in stone in which this compositio n i s substitu t . is less by nine-tenths. The in v e n ti on is founded on t_ej chymical analysis of the natural varieties of stone, o'4o the manufacture is capable of such modifications as 'lO requisite to produce all the varieties. The artificial stor:o is less absorbent than natural stone, and is superior .‘l,l compactness of texture, and will resist frost, damp, the chymical acids. It is made of flint and silicious Ki ds sand, &c., rendered fluid by heat, and poured into snoula as required till cool and hardened. Its strength solidity enable it to resist more blows than real stop., The specimens of the invention are exceedingly cur iou oi they consist of many varieties, some being plain piecesAy coping stone, stones for variegated pavements for Os"; and rooms, stone ornaments, such as moulding for frieZ'j finials, and some more elaborate, having flowers 0 ;: e devices apparently cut with the chisel. There are some grindstones, and hones used by agricultural labouo ers for sharpening scythes and tools. The invention 5, also applicable to the lining of cisterns and water PiP e o e its vitreous qualities insuring cleanliness. Its extre 4 o cheapness is also a matter of consideration to those " require ornamental additions to houses. A 6 SULPHURIC ETHER, IN CONNECTION WITH STEAK' d, A MOTIVE POWER.—A patent has been recently e nrolito by Mr. Newton, of Chancery-lane, :for the emplorn'ss of the elastic vapour of sulphuric ether as a motive poic.:'io not absolutely instead of steam, but in connection it ; the caloric from the steam, after it has done its tin o f being sufficient to vapourise the ether. The principle s , e d a ction are, the passing of the steam after it has exer t 31 its force upon the piston of a steam-engine of the 10 .41 construction, not into the condenser, as in condens l o engines, or into the atmosphere, as in high-presstefi engines, but into a certain apparatus which the invee is terms a "generator," or " vap our isor." The stew t , , immediately upon its introduction into the " g eneratT i o condensed, by contact with th e sur f ac es of the apparn.,o' while the heat absorbed from the steam during concleP t bei tion converts into vapour the su lphuric ether, or ()' t; highly volatile fluid, which may be used under this pawdi the quantity, and, consequently, the power obtai n ,,,s , being in proportion to the amount of caloric in the stf: t eS This vapour is then employed in the propulsion of a p l- 0 0 3 within a cylinder, similar to a common steam-engineLto o acting in unison with the steam cylinder—the Pl' si sr being connected by the usual method of piston-rod, the necting-rod, and crank to the same shaft to which si ,V steam piston is attached. The elastic vapour, after .04f; ing exerted its force upon the piston, is conveyed °col by proper pipes to a vapour condenser, where it is 41 16 densed into fluid by simple contact with cooled w e 'd' surfaces, which are constantly kept at a temperature - o , l ff ficiently low to effect the condensation of the vaPp l immediately on its coming in contact with them• condensor is kept cool by a stream of cold water, v fso 1. current of cold air. The condensed fluid, unconclel,, vapour, and what atmospheric air may have entereoo,l4 withdrawn out by air-pumps, in the usual m annerf,„el' deposited in a receiver, provided with a means of el'rosl; ling and discharging all vapours which may have a ce , 0, lated, and the lower part of which is connected vapourisor " by which it ma y be supplied with still', t 1 ether, or other volatile fluid. The water produced I.ss " vapourisor," from the condensation of the stor?; drawn off by a pump, and discharged into the, Ltigl3., boiler. The mode of making the stuffing-boxess for the etheric vapour is by means of water-Pr e a n exerting its force through the medium of leatherye: acting in opposition to the pressure of the vapour a° a nt venting its escape. The invention can be a pplied t"„ t ; description of engine—stationary, marine, or loc onw —Mining Journal. for Co str, a fi thl ten 81), tip WE tal N