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FOREIGN 4- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE The Bey of Algiers has promised to do every thing in his power to ameliorate the condition of the Israelites in his kingdom, who form about one-twentieth part of the population of Tunis, and whose condition is wretched in the extreme. _ _ . FRANCE.—The Echo Agricole publishes the following latter, dated Metz, the 10th instant, conveying some un favourable intelligence with respect to the potato crop : " The potato disease has decidedly reappeared. It has spread considerably during the last ten days, and particu larly in the rich lands. The loss is estimated by good judges at fifty per cent of the crop." Mr. COBDEN.—This gentleman was at Moscow on the 2nd instant, but proposed to leave in a day or two for St. Petersburgh, where he would remain only a few days, and would then set out on his return to England, but most probably by way of Lubec and Hamburgh. At the -latter city great preparations have been made for a grand ban quet in honour of his visit. The Augsburg Gazette of the 11th instant, states that all cardinals present at Rome having assembled at the Quirinal, to take part in the diplomatic deliberations rela tive to the occupation of Ferrara, came to a unanimous resolution to call on the Emperor of Austria to cause his troops to evacuate the city, before entering on any nego tiation with respect to the citadel. On the 7th instant St. Petersburgh was the scene of the most terrific storm of wind and rain ever experienced within the memory of the oldest inhabitants. It rained incessantly for 48 hours, whilst the wind blew with intense violence. The result of this visitation wasthe destruction of above 400 houses. At one period fears were entertained for the safety of the entire city, and some timid and su perstitious persons apprehended that the end of the world was at hand COMPLETION OF THE SPANISH MINISTRY Presse of Thursday comains the following:- -The Pari received letters fro'm Madrid by extraordinary express. It appears that M. Costazar has accepted the portfolio of foreign affairs ; and that the presidency . of the council has devolved on M. Garcia Goyena, minister of justice. These arrangements would be owing to the influence of General Narvaez, who had in this circumstance gained a triumph over Mr. Bulwer." THE PRASLIN MURDER.—Marshal Sebastiani still re mains at his hotel in the Rue du Fauburg St- Honore, and is as well in health as his great age and the late dis tressing events in his family will permit. The Conseil de Famile has, it is said, nominated him guardian of the children of his late daughter, the Duchess de Praslin. After visiting the apartment in which she was murdered, and windosis uld be walled up THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—Her Majesty's 16-gun sloop Pilot, arrived at Plymouth on the 13th inst. She left Simon's Bay on the 20th of July ; touched at St. He lena on the 3rd of August, and at Ascension on the 7th. At the Cape of Good Hope nothing of importance had I sub , t rPnulse of the English forces zranspirec. ..ise+quen. o t cp..— by the Caffres, on the 15th of June, when Lieut. Russell, of the 45th, was killed. The Governor, Sir Henry Pot finger, was on the frontier. It was reported that the Boors near Port Natal were preparing to rise against the Colonial Government. _ _ _ _ A report issued by the Montreal Board of Health, a Ipy of which has been forwarded to us, gives a fearful country, up to August 12th. iiuring tne preueunig month, in only ten vessels which had arrived from this country, there had been 804 deaths on the passage, and 847 sick on the arrival. The report speaks in the strong est terms of the want of accommodation on board the emigrant ships, of the inefficient quarantine arrangements in Canada, and of the want of proper means of forward ing the emigrants from Montreal to their destinations up the country, and the extent of fever arising from their herding together in that city. Up to the 4th of August, 70,000 immigrants from this country had reached Canada. Between the sth of June and the 7th of August, 2,316 deaths of emigrants had occurred in Montreal, more than five times the total mortality of the city during the same time in 1846. YELLOW FEVER IN AMERICA.-At New Orleans, on the 13th inst., there were 53 deaths, of which 28 were from yellow fever. The Delta in reference to this epi demic says :—" How distressing a contrast it makes to compare our city at the present time with what it is in the winter season. One may look upon the broad, populous streets, that during other seasons are crowded with the brave, the beautiful, and the fashionable. Cast your gaze from St. Peter up Chartres-street; instead of finding the street filled with all that is redolent of life in New Or leans, you find a blank. Here you see a solitary citizen; who, through his business, is obliged to remain tugging at the desk ; and another, who, from some cause or other, pulls his occupation after him, in the same manner that a dray-horse pulls his load. The levee is deserted, and the forest of masts that skirted it have dwindled down to almost nothing. The streets that in the winter time were filled with all sorts of happy, joyous persons, are now almost desolate ; and in fact the whole appearance of our city is sadly against the prevalence of health. It is use to conceal the fact—we are are now in the very centre of an epidemic."—American paper. AUSTRIA AND THE POPE.—The Austrian Ambassador has delivered to the Pope a note from his Government, intimating the utmost desire to preserve peace with- the Holy Father. The representative of the Austrian Govern ment, in his note, assures his Holiness that the occupation of Ferrara was a measure undertaken solely with a view to the protection of his states ; and that so long as circum stances shall render the same necessary, Ferrara shall con tinue to be occupied. It appears that the Pope was not at all satisfied with this communication. Everywhere the national guard is being organized, and the Roman princes have offered money to increase the power of the artillery. The Augsburg Gazette states that the Pope has addressed a note to all the sovereigns of Europe, relative to the occupation of Ferrara. A secret consistory would be held about the middle of September. The same paper contains a statement to the effect that the French Government had offered 12,000 muskets to the Pope, to whom several Frenchmen, Poles, and other foreigners bad tendered their services. Letters from Turin of the 9th instant an nounce the arrival there of Monsignor Corbolli Bussi, who had been sent by the Pope to negotiate an offensive and defensive alliance between Piedmont and Rome. Tuscany was believed to have already adhered to the alliance. FREE TRADE CONGRESS AT BRUSSELS.—The exposi tion of Belgian manufactures, in connection with the Free Trade Congress, which was to assemble on the 16th inst., is now going on at Brussels, and is being attended by many of the most eminent men and commercial authori ties of England and France. Free trade and postal re forms are the principal subjects for discussion ; and, be fore they separate, the congress is to decide upon the place and time for a similar meeting next year. Among the Englishmen who had arrived at Brussels on Wednes day last, were Colonel Thompson, M.P., Mr. Daniell, M.P., Dr. Bowring., M.P., Mr. Brown, M.P., Mr. M'Adam, Secretary of the Irish Flax Improvement So ciety. M. De Lamartine has accepted an invitation. The first sitting of the Congress took place on Thursday, when, in addition to the gentlemen mentioned, and others, Mr. W. Ewart was present. The president was M. Ch. de Brouchere (late Minister of War and Finance). Col. Thompson was appointed one of the vice-presidents. The President, in his opening address, alluded to the im portance of their meeting, and said that they were only putting in practice the divine precept of the gospel, " Love one another." Several lengthy addresses were delivered by distinguished foreigners, and during the day Dr. Bow ring, Col. Thompson, ane Mr. Ewart expressed their sentiments. After 1.);. Peostring's address, M. Duchateau (de Valenciennes), secretary of a committee for the pro tection of native industry, followed in a protectionist ad dress, in -which he impugned Dr. Bowring's reading of history when he praised the moderation of England. The greatest respect is paid to the English legislators who are present. Tne sittings of the Congress are held in the hall of the Hotel-de-Ville. It is a long and lofty chamber, with a dais at the upper end. Here was placed the table of the president and vice-presidents. On the level of the floor, at the side of the hall, and to the right of the presi dent, was the tribune for the speakers, a simple semicir cular pulpit, decorated with a slight drapery of blue stuff. The tables for the journalists were ranged along the side of the hall under the windows. The wall behind the pre sident's table was decorated with the flags of the different nations represented in Congress. A space was railed off at the lower end of the chamber, and thrown open to the general public. PICTURE OF A SICK SIIIP.—The following letter is from an intelligent officer on board of the United States steamer Mississipi, of the Hospisal, Pensacola, Aug. 15, 1847, addressed to his friend in Washington:—" Since I wrote by the Potomac, a cloud of continued misfortune has been around us. Sickness, death, and suffering have become too familiar, and the heart almost hardens at the constant scenes of suffering around one, which it has been my lot to witness. After the fire, which, though a great calamity, proved a proud triumph in shewing the steady nerve and cool _determination of all on board, death has walked abroad amongst us, and disease has been our con stant companion. The ship has been sometimes almost deserted, and at others, loaded with poor fellows brought to a state of helplessness by the sad inroads of disease. It is a painful sight to see the poor fellows, whose stout arms and manly voices have given us confidence in the fight, fall helpless before us, victims to the pestilence that creepeth noiselessly amongst us: and, amongst the very many trying parts of an officer's duty, none is more so than the maintenance of a cheering mein, and a firm adherence to duty, where hundreds lie sick around him ; but, thank God, the few of us who have been left on board, through all our difficulties, have been able to do so well as to re ceive the welcome commendations of onr gallant old Com modore. We all left our station before the enemy with great reluctance ; but the unqualified decision of the sur geons compelled us to seek some place where our poor fellows could be properly attended to. It was, indeed, bard though when we arrived here yesterday morning, and sent our letters on shore, to have them returned to us by the commandant of the yard, with a message that they could not be sent until the authorities of Pensacola decided what was done with the ship. In the ports of the Medi terranean, where the absurd strictness of the quarantine laws is carried out without mitigation, it is always allowed to send letters ; and even though a ship comes from those places where the plague sometimes prevails, one can, by sending a mail through the quarantine office, let one's friend's know that he is alive. Here, in our own country, where a daily mail is coming from New Orleans and Mo bile, both the seat of the severest form of the disease which prevails on board this ship —we, coming from the seat of war, surrounded with every circumstance to keep the feel ings of our friends most anxiously excited, are absurdly debarred the privilege of letting our wives and families know that we have been mercifully spared from the mis fortunes of war and pestilence. Who will relieve the an xious hours of those who know those they love best ought to be on board ; but see by the papers that the ship has anchored at Pensacola, and receive no tidings to rclicl - c their two well-founded apprehensione." ?THEMORRORS OF THE EIATGRANT FEVER.--LBy the end•of the season there is little doubt that the immigra tion into Canada alone will have amounted to' 100,000 ; nearly all from Ireland. We know the condition in.which these poor creatures embarked on their perilous adven ture. They were only flying from one form Of death. On the authority of the Montreal Board of Health, we are-enabled to state that they 'were allowed to ship in numbers two or three times greater than the same-vessels would have presumed to carry to a United States port. The 'worst horrors of that slave trade which it is the boast or the ambition of this empire to suppress, at any cost, have been re-enacted in the tight of British subjects from their native shores. In only ten of the vessels that arrived at Montreal in July, four from Cork and six from Liverpool, out of 4,427 passengers, 'BO4 had died on the passage, and 847 were sick on their arrival; that is, 847 were visibly diseased, for the result proves that a far larger number had in them the seeds of disease. " The Larch," says the Board of Health on August 12, " re ported this morning from Sligo, sailed with 440:passen gers, of whom 108 died on the passage, and 150 were sick. The Virginius sailed with 486-158 died on the passage, 186 were sick, and the remainder landed feeble and tot tering ; the captain, mates, and crew were all via. The Black Hole of Calcutta was -a -mercy compared to the holds of these vessels. Yet simultaneously, as if in re proof of those on whom the blame of all this-wretched ness must fall, foreigners, Germans from Hamburgh and Bremen, are daily arriving, all healthy, robust, and cheerful." This vast unmanageable tide of population thus thrown upon Montreal, like the fugitives from some bloody defeat, or devastated country, has been -greatly augmented by the prudent, and, we must add, most necessary, precautions adopted in time by the ' , United States, where more stringent sanitary regulations,, en forced by severer penalties, have been adopted to save the ports of the Union from those very horrors which a pa ternal GOvernment has suffered to fall upon 'Montreal. Many of these pest ships have been obliged to alter their destination, even while at sea, for the St. Lawrence. At 'Montreal a large proportion of these outcasts have lin. •gered from sheer inability to proceed. The inhabitants of course have been infected. Frcm the official returns of burials at Montreal, for the nine weeks ending August 7, it appears that in the city three died during that period '924 residents and 806 emigrants, making a total of 1,730 deaths. Besides these, 1,510 emigrants died at the sheds, making a grand total of 3,240 in the city of Montreal and its et. tempore lazaretto, against only 488, including,resi dents and emigrants, for the corresponding weeks last year. A. still more horrible sequel is to vivors have to wander forth and find bon trewed on the snow when a Canadian winter on, IRELAND. The su . Who ca ENORMOUS POTATO PRODUCE.-Mr. Byrne, gardener toW illiam Furlong, Fsq., of Brooklawn, Blackrock, county instant: found uncle; one stalk fifty sound potatoes varying in size, and which weighed altogether one stone three pounds. This enormous produce is from one potato, planted whole. We believe they are called " lumpers." THE MONSTER MEETING AT HOLYCROSS.—Prepara tions on a gigantic scale, it is boasted, are making for the contemplated gathering at Holycross in ostensible con nexion with the tenant league movement, in pursuance of of over three hundred of the tenant-farmers of the barony of Eliogarty was held at Thurles on Sunday week, when a series of resolutions were adopted. The Ballinasloe Star states that four men had been arrested on suspicion of murdering Patrick Costelloe, a driver, who was found lying dead in the road to Mount Bellew, on Tuesday week. The murder seems to have been perpetrated by striking their wretched victim with stones. His chin was broken, his teetlrknocked out, and literally scattered on the road, and his ear cut in two ; his nose was also broken, and his head dreadfully fractured. RENEWAL OF THE O'CONNELL TRIBUTE. — A letter, signed " Amiens Patrice," appears in the Freeman of Saturday morning, suggesting that as O'Connell left Ins sons too slender a patrimony to support them in the patriotic career which he and their own choice have marked out for them through life," a fund of £lOO,OOO should be raised to " secure to them a suitable independence, to enable them to devote exclusively to our rights and our liberties their talents and services." THE IRISH CONFEDERATION.—This body—an off-shoot from the repealers—seems to be composed of more warlike members than the original association. At the last meet ing the Rev. Mr. Meahan urged the necessity of a move ment for the assistance of the Pope. He did not believe in the coward doctrine. that the sword and the cross were incompatible. The priests and the friars of Ireland were ready to march to battle side by side with laymen. He read a passage from an Italian work, to show that a former Pope sent assistance to Ireland when she wanted it, in the form of muskets, pikes, pistols, bayonets, powder, shot, &c. (Cheers). A MOST EXTRAORDINARY DECISION. —The Dublin Journal of Friday records a most extraordinary and unac countable decision made by the Lord Mayor on Thursday. The case involved a claim made upon Mr. Grogan, M.P., for £5 10s. on account of expense, incurred by William White, of Eyrecourt, in coming to Dublin to vote at the late election, for Mr. Grogan. The payment, by a member of Parliament, or his accredited agents, of any such de mand, would constitute certain grounds for a petition to unseat him. It would, in fact, be bribery. Nevertheless, the Lord Mayor made an order against Mr. Grogan for the amount claimed. This decision seems to us so strange that we cannot but believe there has been some misappre hension on the part of the reporters. The Cork Examiner gives the following description of the mode of living adopted by a crowc ejected from some land near Dungarvan of poor wretches At one quarter, where a band of stones run along a high road, they have formed in it cells of a few feet wide. Here whole families have been thrown promiscuously, whose condition is an offence to the feeling of the .community. Pent up in such dens, fever preys incessantly upon the bodies of those miserable creatures. It appears that the magistrates, conscious of the disgrace. of suffering the neighbourhood to be barbarised by such spectacles, tried to repress them by the powers of the new vagrant law; but from the numbers to be dealt with, after the first dis play of legal severity, the attempt had to be abandoned as absurd and inhuman. REPEAL. —At the meeting on Monday, Mr. John O'Connell adverted at some length to the affairs of Italy, and expressed his regret that Ireland had not a domestic legislature which would not hesitate for a moment in es pousing the cause of the Pope. The Rev. Mr. Coghlan expressed his opinion that Ireland should demand from Government permission to make a demonstration in fa vour of his Holiness. If permitted, he had no doubt but an army of 50,000 men could at once be raised to fight under the standard of independence in Italy, and protect the sovereign Pontiff in his glorious career against oppres sion and tyranny. Mr. P. S. Butler, M.P., said that, notwithstanding the abundant harvest, the labouring po pulation would be in a worse position during the ensuing winter than they were at the same period last year. The rent was £67. THE LATE MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE AT CASHEL.— Mr. Francis O'Ryan, jun., has addressed a letter to the Tipperary Vindicator, in the course of which he denies in the most positive terms the horrid charge preferred against him by his father as being totally at variance with the real facts of the case. He says that on the night in question he retired to bed early, suffering from toothache and swelled face, that his mother-in-law, hearing his groans as she passed his room, entered it, and that his father, with whom he had been on bad terms for some time, rushed into the room violently accusing both. on which the lady retired, and Mr. O'Ryan, sen., locked his son's door, taking the key with him. The latter called to him for the key—their bed-rooms adjoining each other— , and was answered by a pistol-shot. The lady has been married 9 years and has had two children by her husband. STATE OF SKIBBEREEN.—This ill-fated district seems destined to preserve a melancholy notoriety. The North ern Whig publishes the following extract of a letter, dated Sep. 7, addressed to a gentleman in Belfast by a friend who lately visited Skibbereen :—" I have been for a week past staying here, in the neighbourhood of Skib bereen, of famine notoriety. It is impossible to convey to a stranger any adequate idea of the state of things in the parishes about this quarter. It is, perhaps, a low estimate, to say that one-fourth of the population have perished. You may see house after house shut up, all their former inmates being•dead ; and there is scarcely a farmer's family that has not been more or less thinned. The mortality among 'children was terrific ; infants died in hundreds, their mother's breasts yielding them no nourishment. The misfortune is, that whole districts are lying waste and uncultivated, save only where the scat tered gentry, having got up some farms, have, by dint of exertion, succeeded in getting them cropped. The pros pect is most alarming. What the famine and pestilence did before, the present dread of ruinous taxation is now doing. People are getting more and more indifferent about agriculture, thinking they will only expend money in raising harvests which the tax-collector will reap. There is a complete reign of terror about here." LAW INTELLIGENCE. BuNN v. JENNY LIND.—On Wednesday, in pursuance of an order made by Mr. Justice Williams, at Chambers, a commission was issued from the Queen's Bench Office, to examine witnesses viva voce at Berlin, or any two other places in Prussia, as to the alleged breach of contract for which the action is brought. The celebrated composer Meyerbeer is expected to be one of the witnesses examined under the commission. It would seem that the cause is to progress as rapidly as the forms of the court will per mit, the commission being made returnable on the 2nd of November, the commencement of the Michaelmas Term, and it is, therefore, expected that the action will be tried the first possible opportunity. VALE OF GRESFORD.—Having seen by advertisement, that Messrs. Churton are about to hold a sale by auction, on the 24th inst., of upwards of twenty lots of freehold property, in and about the lovely Vale of Gresford, we cannot permit it to pass over without a few remarks. The opportunities afforded to lovers of rich and beautiful scenery to purchase in this locality, such as the present sale seems to present, are very rare indeed, and we do earnestly invite our friends to judge for themselves by an inspection. The trip may be accomplished by very little loss of time, and will amply pay, as the trains from thence to Wrexham are running constantly. We perceive that nearly all th e l o t s are w i th i n ten m i nutes ' wa lk f rom either the Gresford or the Rossett Stations, and b such communication are b roug ht w i t hi n h a lf an h our s jour ney from Chester, and ab ou t one h our on l y from Liver pool, which tends considerably to enhance their value, and we understand the terms upon which passenger con tracts are made on this line a re very reasona bl e . Th e . ne i g hbourhood remarkably healthy, and there is an abundance of spring water , which is a great desid4ratum. These lots will also confer votes for Denbighshire. THE 141/IE . RPOOI STANDARD. CLERICALSINTELLIGENCE. The Rev. Canon Eaton, Vicar of Eastkant, has been appointed Rural Dean of 'Wirral. VALUE OF PRESENTATIONS.—At a sale by Mr. T. M. Fisher, at Manchester t .on 'Thursday, the next presenta tion to the rectory of • Middleton was sold for five thousand pounds. The living ,is> -worth upwards of nine hundred pounds per annum after all charges are paid. LIBERALITY.—The 'Marquis of Bute has given two acres of valuable land, 'near the town of Cardiff, fora burial-ground for the; parishes of St. John and St. Mary, and has also undertaken, at his sole expense, to drain and enclose it, and to build . a Burial Chapel, which, altoge ther, will cost the noble'marquis at least £l5OO. THE MERCHANT PRINCES.—The richest see . in the kingdom is that of the Diocese of Manchester,—with its bishop without a cathedral, and likely to remain without one ;—the only capital of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction which performs its high offices in the vestry of the parish_! Look at the liberally: of Liverpool ! St. Luke's cost £44,110 ; St. Michael's, X 45,000 ; total, £89,000. Now, mark what is to come from the mammon millionaires ! Shrewsbury Journal. THE BISHOP OF RIPON. — The Right Rev. the Bishop of Ripon is now on a triennial visitation of his diocese.— His lordship observed, that he was aware that many pious young men of the middle classes, who had not the means or opportunity of studying for the ministry, were, for want of a proper sphere of action in the church, driven to join the Dissenters. He therefore:recommended every incum bent to look round in his own neighbourhood among such pious young men, and to propose to him the one who ap peared the best qualified for the work. He (the Bishop) would then examine him, and, if approved of, would appoint him a scripture reader. The duty of such parties would be to visit from house to house, hold meetings, read the Bible to the people, and also the Common Prayers ; but they would be required to abstain from preaching. After two years of a zealous and efficient discharge of these duties, they would enjoy the privilege of being admitted to ordination as deacons, after a second examination by himself. REv. DR. WARREN.—A very crowded congregation as sembled on Sunday afternoon at the Temple Church, in consequence of an announcement that the doctor would occupy the pulpit. Dr. Warren's action is chaste and simple, his elocution remarkably distinct and emphatic, but a little too slow. Some portions of the sermon were of a high order of eloquence ; and we allude to one in particular, which consisted of a very solemn and feeling appeal to the stated members of the congregation at the Temple Church, against suffering themselves to be so im- .ering prizes of ambition, as to turn the Creator's choicest gifts into a means of forgetting their Giver, and His object in bestow towing them. Dr. Warren was for many years, it may be recollected, a leading minister of the Wesleyans, from whom he separated about ten years ago. For the last six years he has been the incumbent of All Saints, Man chester. On Monday, kmeeting of the clergy of the Archdea conry of Middlesex was held at the vestry of St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, in pursuance of citations issued by the apparitor of his Grace the Archbishop of Canter bury, to nominate two of their body as procurators to re present the archdeaconry in convocation. The Venerable John Sinclair, Archdeacon of Middlesex, presided, and, lings, remarked that although for ng of convocation had been some years little morethan a mere form, the clergy must see that it was more than probable a very long period could not pass by without some of its original importance being attached to that solemn assembling of themselves together, as pro vided for by the ancient canons of the church. The ques tion of the revival of that ancient usage had been agitated amongst persons whose opinions on such a matter were entitled to the highest respect and consideration, and there could be little doubt that the results of that investi gation would be productive of the greatest benefit, both to the church and the nation. The Bishops of Exeter, Norwich, Oxford, Ely, and se veral other right rev. prelates, have intimated their in tention of adopting a plan for extending the ministrations of the church, by the revival of the deaconate, and recie ving candidates for holy orders on the qualifications set forth in the 34th canon, which does not require a knovv ledge of Greek, and on the authority of an act passed, 13th Eliz., cap. 13, which declares that the bishops should or-' dain any person to the deaconate " who has a special gift or ability to be a preacher." At the convention of the American episcopate, in 1844, the deaconate was re-stored by repealing all canons which required an educational qualification for the office, similar to that demanded for the presbyterate, which has enabled persons to enter the ministry of the Church whose talents do not fit them for a higher field of activity than that of the deaconate, and who, had it not been restored, would have been altogether evcluded from the ministry. Some such regulations it is intended to recommend in the Church of England. As a general rule, persons so ordained will now be admitted into the priesthood, although where extraordinary aptitude for ministerial duties is exhibited, the door will not be closed against them. EPISCOPAL FREE CHURCH.—The Rev. Thomas Scott, who has officiated as curate at St. Audoen's Church, Dublin, for fourteen years, and has worked efficiently, having received into the church a very great number of Roman Catholic converts, is removed from that post ; and his parishioners, as a mark of their esteem, have deter mined to erect and endow a capacious church, in a suitable district in Dublin, as a tribute for his services, and they appeal to all the Protestants in the United Kingdom to aid them in the good work. Several meetings have already been held, at which Edmund Grogan, Esq., M.P., was one of the speakers. The Earl of Roden is appointed one of the trustees, and the Archdeacon of Dublin another. Mr. Scott was the originator and the indefatigable agent of some of the most valuable of the Protestai in Dublin ; and when we know his eminent services, his sacrifices, his charities, and his labours, we hope the object will abundantly succeed. Some suitable testimo. nial of Protestant appreciation is 'certainly due to him, and this seems to be in every way appropriate. It has been suggested that those who are disposed to give thanks offerings to Almighty God for an abundant harvest could not set them apart more properly and suitably for that sacred purpose than by sending them to the committee who have undertaken the erection of the New Free Church MORE TRACTARIAN DOINGS.—The Church and State Gazette publishes a letter from W. R. Harris, Esq., brother of the authoress of a work which has caused a good deal of sensation, entitled " From Oxford to Rome." We make the following extract from the letter. The letter ' from the Rev. F. Oakeley to the authoress of " From Ox ford to Rome," published by you last week, was not the only communication that gentleman had with the authoress of the recantation. Mr. Oakeley went to Wallingford— there sought and obtained an interview with my sister, who told me, not long after the conversation had termin ated, that the object of Mr. Oakeley's visit was to induce her to retract or recant the opinions and statements she had made in the book " From Oxford to Rome." I con fess my spirit was deeply stirred at such a demand, and I could only reply, " Will you do so ?" To which, with some emotion, and strong emphasis, she answered " SUPPOSE I MUST !" I leave these facts for you and your readers to ponder over and pronounce upon : I will only add that I believe " From Oxford to Rome " contained my sisters real opinions respecting Roman Catholicism, and Mat the recantation has been extorted by mental torture ! In proof of this I could assign other reasons, and thereby unfold some of the modern Jesuitism of the men who boast that their Church is " unchanged ;" and truly, some of their doings might excite a smile of satis faction on the face of Loyola himself, could he witness the natural or (if they please) " non-natural" dealing with truth practised by his recent converts. Fellow countrymen !—the enemy is not merely at the gates but in the citadel. Awake to Christian union and co-opera tion against the powers of darkness ! Arm.! but only with the " sword of the spirit, which is the word of God." Educate ! educate ! educate !—and with a Bible-reading population, seeking direction from the Holy Spirit, our beloved country will continue to be the " light of all -na tions." . THE BISHOPS AND TRACTARIANISM.—The Rev. W. Carus Wilson has addressed a letter to the Bishop of London, on what he had seen and heard at Margaret street Chapel. The rev. gentleman alludes to a former letter which he addressed to his lordship, and for which his lordship " rebuked his meddling." In this second letter he earnestly calls on his lordship to put a veto on, the proceedings in, the church alluded to, and asks his lordship,—" Could you not have gone yourself to the chapel, and seen the huge cross on the table which I saw, and .many of the early worshippers before the service commenced evidently aiding their private devotions by occasionally lifting up their eyes to, and. gazing upon it ; and might not your lordship have' seen, as I saw, . the clergy reverently . making pbeisance as they passed the chancel, and the. reader turning from the people during the prayers ; and, moreover, .the Popish book of devo tions, entitled `. The Garden of 'the Soul,' lying on the shelves of the pews ? and could you not have heard, as I did, the heterodoxy of the pulpit ; the merit ascribed to penance, &c. ? and was there nothing tangible for a bishop in all this ? Who can doubt but that a timely and ener getic interference might have prevented in that instance much of the fearful evil that cannot but endanger the eternal interests of immortal beings, while it has torn up by the roots the union and happiness of many respectable families, •and made the. enemies of. our Church to tri umph ?" Mr. Wilson then refers to the pastors of Mar garet-street Chapel having gone over to Rome, and adds, —" But there is Mr. Dodsworth still unworthily and dishonourably continuing within the pale of a Church that he is Undermining ; but his curates are already gone over to Rome, and his congregation fast following. And_ yet, my lord, you do nothing to arrest the mischief. Appeal cannot be made to public charges ; documents like these, which blow hot and cold in the same breath, are utterly unimpressible for good—and If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare for the bat tle ?' I never conversed with any one on the subject, who did not express the conviction that favour for the Tractarians was more. prominent in y9ur lordship than displeasure ; and that when displeasure is expressed it is fearfully neutralised by, sentiments of a contrary descrip tion. Your lordship must excuse me if I write strongly, for I write with stricken and wounded feelings,, h av i ng just learnt that a dear cousin of my own, and for many years a constant and devoted member of Mr. Dodsworth's congregation, has followed the example of the curates of that church. Ah ! what would her sainted mother have said, if she had lived to witness such an event! My lord, the mischief is fearful enough when remote in its opera tions ; but when it comes into one's domestic circle, and takes away captive those whom we have fondly loved from childhood, and snaps in sunder for ever the long-cemented ties of an endeared relationship, then it is that one's spirit is stirred within us, almost beyond endurance, and that we cast around to see who are most to blame in such a catastrophe." Mr. Wilson then solemnly charges the Bishop with incurring largely the responsibility of this wide-spreading fGy 1101, L 4, ""i) tanalliOZ to put a stop by these Popish practical. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. - The Trent Valley Railway was opened on Wednesday. A portion of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway -from Burntisland to Cupar and Lindores—was opened on .Friday. The South Staffordshire report progress, and announce that the portion of the line between Walsall and Bir mingham will be opened very shortly. LIVERPOOL, ORMSKIRK AND PRESTON.—The works of this line are being pushed forward with vigour. It is said that the East Lancashire. the lessees of the line, in tend applying next session for a bill to construct an inde pendent station at Preston. The dividend of the Liverpool and Glasgow is at the rate of six per cent. per annum on all the stocks, clear of income-tax. The meeting was made special to authorize the conversion of shares into stock, and the amalgama tions with the Edinburgh and Bathgate and Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness ' all which were agreed to. A man, named Richard Lamburn, was killed on the line of the London and North-western Railway, on Saturday. He had been employed in fixing the wires of the electric telegraph near the Ponsby station, and, crossing the line, he was knocked down by an engine, and died almost im mediately from the injuries he received. The far-famed Furness Abbey, once a, retired place, has, since the opening of the Furness Railway, become one of great bustle and animation. The house formerly occupied by the farmer has been converted into a magni ficent hotel, and the railway which passes its noble front brings pleasure-seekers, health-seekers, and antiquarians from all parts of the country. YORK AND NEWC ASTLE RAILWAY.—On Monday week, a woman of the name of Peel, aged 78 years, lost her life on a public crossing of this railway. Having waited till a train of coal wagons had passed, the deceased attempted to cross the rails, and not perceiving a passenger train Proceeding in the contrary direction, she was struck down by it and killed. MANCHESTER AND SOUTHPORT RAILWAY.—The works on this line are in full play. That portion of it which will bring the Liverpool and Bury line through Wigan is in the contractor's hands, and is to be opened simulta neously with the Liverpool and Bury. The portion be tween Wigan and Southport is expected to be opened in twelve months, the remainder, from Wigan to Manches ter, when the tunnel is completed. COMMUNICATION BETW E EN THE ELECTRIC TELE GRAPH AND LOCOMOTIVES.—An electric telegraph is in active preparation along the railway from Vienna to Prague. When completed, every locomotive is to be fur nished with a small electric apparatus, by the aid of which telegraph, and thus announce to every station the events necessary to be known. From official returns it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3,152 miles of railway, was £210,147, thus accounted for :—£117,846 for the con veyance of passengers only, £46,358 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £45,943 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £25,860 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was about 2,525. THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—The portion of this railway which continues the great north line from Carlisle on to Beattock Bridge, in Scotland, was opened on Friday. A large party started from Carlisle, in the morning, and on arrival at Beattock were entertained at a very handsome lunch, Mr. Hope Johnstone, the chairman of the line, pre siding. There were also present Major Hasell, Colonel Lowther, and other distinguished persons. The opening was without ostentation, but highly satisfactory. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, a great number of persons were waiting at the new station at Hadleigh, on the Eastern Union Railway, for the departure of an ex cursion train to visit the Ipswich regatta. The wind was blowing furiously, and threw down in one mass about thirty feet of wing wall, under which upwards of 150 persons were assembled to shelter themselves from the gale. The scene was dreadful, and, to increase the deso lation, the platform gave way beneath the accumulated weight. The consequences were disastrous ; more than sixty persons are now under medical care. One old wo man had both legs fractured and severe wounds on the head, and there is little hope of her surviving ; another person fractured his collar-bone, and, in addition to several whose legs were broken and ribs fractured, many received serious wounds of the head, body, and limbs. EDINBURGHWEEKLYREPORT.—TheCommittees of the Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow and North British Railways held a meeting yesterday, which passed off most satisfactorily ; we have every reason to say, that, within a fortnight,.preliminaries for an union of the two under takings will be arranged. This will in all probability be followed up by other amalgamations, all tending to unite Scottish interests. This is as it should be. The Edin burgh and Northern Railway is to be opened to-day by the members of the Exchange having been invited by the directois to be present. There will be no meeting of Exchange to-day. To-morrow, Saturday, will also be kept a holiday.' The directors of the Edinburgh and Northern gave a splendid dinner at Cupar, to upwards of 600 noblemen and gentlemen of the first influence, and returned to Burntisland,. 244 miles, in one hour and a half, by six o'clock in the evening.—Scottish Railway Gazette. IMPORTANT.—We have heard that a circular, which a few days ago, was signed by about 150 of the largest railway holders, was being sent round in Manchester and the neighbourhood, to obtain more signatures for the purpose of resisting the further payment of calls. With this circular, we are informed, was joined a list of chairmen, and other directors, who were then in arrear with their calls, with the amount of the several defalcations. One, we are told, was to the tune of £25,000. We have not seen this circular ; but if it be true, the effect will be very serious; inasmuch as it was admitted a few years back, both by counsel and judge, that if any director sitting at sl a y 11 was ooard was in arrear with his calls, at the time a ca made, the call itself was illegal, and the payment of it could not be enforced. The case was the present West London Railway against Holford. Upon this ground the defendant made a stand ; but it was proved by the secre tary that no director present at the time of making the call was in arrear, and therefore he lost his defence.— Herapath's Journal. DOVER RAILWAY.—At the half-yearly meeting held on Thursday, the dividend was 21s. on the old shares, 13s. ld. on the No. 1 shares, and Bs. on the No. 2 shares, being at the rate of about 6l per cent. per annum. Not expecting such a dividend, the shareholders were in high spirits, and everything passed off well. Some references were made to an amalgamation with the Brighton line by one or more of the shareholders, at which the chairman took an opportunity to observe, that he thought amalga mations had been carried too far ; he was very glad no amalgamation had been come to with the Brighton ; and he preferred the Dover being in an independent state. Some questions were put by the Messrs. Beardshaw, of Leeds, with regard to the cost, and time of completion of the branch lines, to which the chairman would not venture to give a definite answer, though very much pressed to do so. He was averse to precipitation ; and said that large sums would be saved by delay and the amendments of the line. The whole arrears of the No. 4 shares, in respect of calls on the Ist of July, were said to be £35,196, and the present arrears on No. 4 only amounted to £47,758. The payments of the arrears were said to be coming in daily. EXTENSION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The ar rangements of the Electric Telegraph Company for the transmission of ship news and commercial communication between the principal seaports, the manufacturing and commercial towns, and the metropolis, are in a state of great forwardness. The system of telegraphic signals to be used will be ouite distinct from that at present in oper ation, and the company intend having a room fitted up at each telegraph station for the accommodation of sub scribers, and in which commercial news and intelligence of public interest will be received and simultaneously ex hibited. Independent of the subscribers' rooms, offices will be provided at the various stations for the transmission and report of despatches, messages, &c., as at present. The following is a list of the towns and seaports to which it is expected the system will be extended early in the ensuing year, viz. :—Barnsley, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Bridlington, Berwick, - Cambridge, Canterbury, Cheltenham, Chester, Chesterfield, Chelmsford, Col -1 chester, Coventry, Deal, Dover, Derby, Darlington, Dor chester, Edinburgh, Folkestone, Gosport, Gloucester, Glasgow, Halifax, Hertford, Hull, Huntingdon, Leeds, Liverpool, Leicester, Lincoln, Lowestoft, Manchester, Maidstone, Northampton, Nottingham, Norwich, Peter borough, Ramsgate, Rotherham, Rochdale, Stafford, St. Ives, Southampton, Sheffield, Scarborough, Stamford, and Tunbridge. BOULOGNE AND AMIENS RAILWAY. — A special meet ing of this company was held on Tuesday last, at the. Clarendon-rooms, Mr. D. Neilson in the chair. The meeting was called to consider the present position of the company, and the cause of the repeated delays in opening the line. A resolution having been moved by Mr. Davis, to the effect that the delay in opening the line was most unsatisfactory, and that a committee of inquiry be ap pointed, Mr. Beloe remarked that no railway needed a re formation in its statistics so much as the Boulogne and Amiens line ; £400,000 was the amount in the hands of the directors ; 4,000,000 francs had been invested in the French funds, and 450,000 francs in exchequer bills. The interest in the first year was five per cent., or £5,000, and the second year £lO,OOO was raised on the paid-up ca pital. No other moneys had been accounted for ; and the sum now in the hands of the directors was very large.— In answer to a question, Mr. Beloe stated that the chief engineer had expressed his opinion that the portion of the line as far as Nesle would be completed about the 15th of October, and that the tunnel near Boulogne would be fi nished about spring, thus completing the entire line. The resolution was then agreed, to, and Messrs. Mozley, Devaux, Armstrong, and Neilson were nominated as the committee of inquiry, and empowered to act with the committee that may be formed in London and France. After some further conversation, expressive of dissatisfac tion at the conduct' of the French directors; the meeting terminated. FATAL ACCIDENT, ON THE LANCASHIRE AND YORK SHIRE RAILWAY.—An accident, attended With the loss of two lives, occurred on the line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire, late the Manchester and Leeds Company, on Thursday last. It appears that the one o'clock ex press train started about the 'usual time from Man chester for Leeds. The last carriage in the gain was what is called a coupe, having two first class compart ments, and a second•class compartment in the centre. The train, it would appear arrived at the Sowerby Bridge Station, about two miles this side of the North Dean Station, about two o'clock. The express train does not usually stop at Sowerby Bridge, but it would seem that at that station the accident was discovered, and the train was immediately pulled up. From the most authentic accounts it appears that at a distance of about two miles from Sowerby Bridge the line of rails was broken, as is sup posed by the express train in question. The result was that the hind carriage was dragged off the line. This was not ascertained until the train had got through the tunnel at Sowerby Bridge. Immediately the accident was dis covered, the guards applied the breaks, and the engine driver reversed his engine. The carriage which ran off the 'hne struck the station platform on the down side of the line, then, after forcing the platform, the wheels of the hind carriage got into the ash-pit, and it is supposed that the collision was so great as to cause some of the wheels to be partially detached from the carriage. In the hind compartment of the last carriage it was ascertained that there were two passengers, and in the front compartment three. It is believed that in the centre or second class compartment there was one person, who providentially escaped without sustaining injury. The two gentlemen in the hind compartment of the carriage, Captain Ellis and his secretary, fortunately met with no material injury in consequence of the carriage running off the rails. The names of the three gentlemen who occupied the front of the carriage were, Mr. Weston, (surveyor of customs), Mr. Moon, (secretary of Mr. Weston), and Mr. Gillard, (of the Electric Telegraph Company). At the distance of about one hundred yards from the Sowerby Bridge Sta tion the three gentlemen who travelled in the first com partment of the hind carriage, Messrs. Weston, Moon, and Gillard, were found lying together between the rails. Mr. Moon was slightly injured ; Air. Weston sustained very severe injuries, in consequence of which he died the next morning, at eight o'clock. Mr. Gillard was heard, after being found; to breathe only once, when he died. One of the feet of Mr. Weston was completely severed, and one of the. feet of Mr. Gillard was found fast in one of the " points" of the line. It is supposed that it was knocked off in his endeavour to extricate himself from the carriage. The rails of the line had been examined on the morning of the day upon which the accident happened, and were not thought to be in a state requiring repair. It is supposed that the rails were broken at the point in question by the express train passing over it. After the bodies were found the train was again put in motion, and some of the passengers went on to Edinburgh. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Anticipating that Mr. Cobden will elect to sit for the West. Riding of Yorkshire, the electors of Stockport have presented a requisition to Mr. Alderman Kershaw. COST OF A NOMINEE.—Lord Fitzhardinge spent twenty five thousand pounds at the late election of West Glou cestershire. Mr. Cowan can now take his seat for Edinburgh, the Lords of the Treasury having cancelled that part of the contract with the Messrs. Cowan in which the new mem ber for Edinburgh is concerned. CURIOUS DEMONSTRATION.—It will be recollected that at the recent election for Shrewsbury, Mr. Slaney, the Whig candidate, was returned by a majority of three only over Mr, Tomline, the former Conservative mem ber, one of the 112 who, without any appeal to the con stituency, went over with Sir Robert Peel. This triumph of Mr. Slaney was celebrated at Shrewsbury, on Thurs day week, and a most splendid demonstration it was. The flags and banners were new, and presented on the occasion, and about 7,000 persons took part in the pro ceedings, Mr. Slaney being accompanied by the Hon. T. Kenyon, (son of Lord Kenyon,) T. C. Eyton, Esq., and numerous other gentlemen. The demonstration con cluded with a magnificent banquet, at which Mr. Kenyon was in the chair). Now comes the " remarkable" part of the affair. It appears that among the leading persons were a great many Conservatives, and the ground upon which they justify such a course is, that it is infinitely more desirable to have Mr. Slaney for a representative than Mr. Tomline, who has deserted his colours, and upon whom no dependence can be placed when the battle of the constitution is again to be fought.' Our contempo rary, the Shropshire Conservative, who has always avowed old Tory principles, puts the matter thus in the strongest light, and goes so far as to gay that Mr. Slaney is a a Protectionist, an enemy to any endowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood—in a word a staunch Pro testant, and a Conservative. With our contemporary, however, we have read Mr. S.'s speech at the dinner, and confess that we cannot arrive at the same conclusion. The hon. member " burkes" the question of Whig and Conservative altogether, as indeed was to. be expected looking at his new allies, and the only point on which he expressed concurrence was the improvement of the dwellings and condition of the poor, respectirig which he paid a deserved compliment to the Earl of Lincoln and Lord Ashley, as well as Lord Morpeth. It is all very well, then, to describe Mr. Slaney as a Conservative, but will he own the " soft impeachment ?" Votes in Parlia ment will be the best test. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER RACES.—The St. Leger Stakes of Fifty Sovereigns each, h ft ; for three-year-olds ; colts, 8s 71b ; and fillies, Bst 21b ; the second to receive 300, and the third 100 sovs. St. Leger course. One hundred and forty six subs : Lord Eglintoun's Van Tromp (J. Marson) 1 9 Mr. Pedley's Cossack Lord Eglintoun's Eryx The following also started, but were not placed—Planet, Philosopher, Foreclosure, and Jovial. Betting.-5 to 4on Cossack (t), 4 to 1 agst Van Tromp, 11 to 2 agst Fore closure, 7 to 1 agst Planet, (taken freely), 12 to 1 agst Eryx, and 25 to 1 agst Philosopher. Cossack took a clear lead at starting, with Van Tromp and Eryx second and third, and Jovial fourth. In this position they made running at a good pace right into the distance, when Van Tromp went up, caught and headed Cossack at the stand ; a severe.struggle ensued, but Van Tromp won easily at last by twol, engths ; Eryx a bad thir•3. SETTLING FOR THE LEGER.—Thursday ' s racing was appointed to commence at three o'clock, in order to give sufficient time for settling on the St. Leger, which, as usual, took place this morning. With the exception of one or two absentees, who had large investments, all Passed off very satisfactorily. We heard of no great Iv' inners. Lora Eglintoun, and his friends, no doubt net a small stake, and Mr. Pedley and his friends cannot be great losers ; but the probability is they must have a con siderable amount to their credit, when it is considered the large odds they must have obtained about Foreclosure, and with the opportunity of edging on such easy terms as 4 to 1 and 5 to I.—.Doncaster Gazette. COURT AND FASHION. ROYAL ISIT TO CLUNY CASTLE.-011 Monday last, the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal children, drove out to Cluny Castle, on a visit to Cluny Macpherson. The Royal family rode in a phEeton, drawn by four beau tiful grey Arabian ponies, and were accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, and Gen. Wemyss, and attended by two outriders. The weather had become much milder about mid-day, and the afternoon, though rather cold, was calm and clear. Cluny Castle is distant about twelve miles from the lodge. Cluny Castle is a massive and substantial residence, built of the granite of the neighbouring hills. Cluny and his lady had only re ceived notice of her Majesty's intention to honour them with a visit about an hour before the arrival of the Royal cortege. Little time was allowed therefore for any formal preparations ; but by the time her Majesty had reached the gateway, thirty men in Highland garb, with a piper at their head, were drawn up in front of the castle. Cluny himself, in his usual costume of kilt and philabeg, and Mrs. Macpherson, were also in waiting for the arrival of their Royal visitors. The Dake of Norfolk banded the Queen from the phaeton, and her Majesty, the Prince, and the rest of the Royal party were ushered into the castle. About a quarter of an hour was spent inspecting the various antiquities which have remained in the cus tody of the Macphersons since the rebellions, after which the Royal party went out into the grounds, and visited the garden and other places of interest in the vicinity. Cluny Castle is surrounded with thriving and well-kept plantations. The garden and orchard are of considerable size, and the latter is loaded with fruit. The avenues, porter-lodges, office-houses, enclosures, and shrubbery are all exceedingly neat, and reflect great credit on the taste and spirit of the proprietor. There is a small cir cular burying-ground in the policies, which contains the remains of several of the chiefs of the Macphersons. Spending some time in the grounds, the Royal party then returned to the castle, and after partaking of a cold col lation, took leave of their delighted guests. Her Majesty, in returning, wore a grey-hooded cloak to protect her from the cold air. On Tuesday, Prince Albert wore the kilt for the first time, and though the air on the hills was cold, he as cended to the top of Corarder. THE QUEEN'S TREAT TO THE DOMESTICS.-021 Tues day evening her Majesty gave a ball to the domestics of her noble host in Scotland, intended, also, as a sort of farewell treat to the cottars in the neighbourhood, and their wives and sweethearts. The ball took place in a large wooden house attached to the lodge. At nine o'clock, her Majesty and the Prince, with the royal family, entered the room, when the dancing immediately commenced, the royal piper, Mr. Mackay, playing a few reels. The Prince wore the Highland dress—and the philabeg and plaid of the Stuart tartan ; and, by her Ma jesty's command, all the Scotsmen among the domestics appeared similarly attired, a command which was evi dently performed with no good will by many. The high land costume set off Prince Albert's figure much better than the Saxon dress. Her Majesty, the Prince, Lord Palmerston, and the Duchess of Bedford retired at eleven o'clock. The rest of the royal party remained until two o'clock, when the ball broke up, after dancing reels, jigs, &c., with the greatest familiarity. he Lord Mayor of York, George Hudson, Esq., M.P, and Mrs. Hudson, were last week on a visit to the Earl of Lonsdale, at Whitehaven Castle, where a large_ and dis tinguished party has been assembled. A Scottish paper relates that, a few days since, the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal sallied forth toge ther to fish in a rivulet whioh flows into Loch Laggan, at Ardverikie, and each hoped to catch the first fish ; but the Princess was more skilful or more fortunate, as she caught a trout before her brother had obtained a bite. Among the obtruders who have sought to obtain an interview with the Queen, during her stay at Ardverikie, was a man who asserted that he strongly resembled Prince Albert, and who expected that, on account of the " very great resemblance" which he bore to the Prince, a pension of £5OO a year would be conferred on him, and " a maid of honour would be given him for a wife." A LUCKY ROYAL VISITER.—Among the itinerant mer chants who found means to penetrate to the lodge was an Inverness licensed traveller, Duncan G. Welsh, who has a good assortment of jewellery, &c. Duncan was at first ordered off by the police ; but he happened to meet the Marquis of Abercorn and Lady Jocelyn, and got an invi tation to the lodge, where he u n f o ld e d hi s wares and made , several sales. I had the honour," said Duncan, "to sell our Queen five silver brooches, and to put her Ma jesty's name in a receipt !" The Duchess of Norfolk, Lady Jocelyn, and the Marquis of Abercorn were also among his customers. Duncan was ordered his dinner, and as much as he could drink," but " God be praised," he added, " I kept the pledge, for all that." He departed, overflowing with gratitude to the Queen and the Marquis of Abercorn, and determined to get the royal arms painted on his box I Sept. 21, 1547. ANOTHER ALARMING FAILURE ( From the Times of Saturday.) The daily anxiety regarding failures has been fulfilled this morning to a more distressing extent than we ha ve yet had to record. The house of Reid, Irving, and Cu; has suspended, and the liabilities are estimated a' £1,500,000, the amount of acceptances alone being un wards of £900,000. The failure, moreover, irrespective its amount, derives importance from the circumstance of the head of the firm being one of the senior directors of the Bank of England. The cause of the stoppage is to be found in the way in which the firm had extended the, operations, not only without a correspondi ng e x tension 0 " capital, but in the face of an annual di m i nu ti on of then means consequent upon the gradually increasing weigh t of inconvertible investments. A sum of not less thal £600,000 is understood to be locked u p i n rea l es t a te, an other property, in the Mauritius and the West Indies. Apart irom the want of prudent calculation thus sboS' the present case, it is believed, may be described as an °P• dinary mercantile failure. In former days the house Po( sessed a capital far beyond most others, and there" 4 , reason to believe that th e diffi cu lti es w hi c h h ave b ro ught about the present result have been of that gradual chi' ratter which often escape recognition until a fall in Pr °• duce or a permanent rise in the discount market brim' them to a fatal conclusion. The balance-sheet of W e house, as now made up, shows, it is said, a nominal su r : plus of about £330,000 ; but this, it can h ar dly u` doubted, arises from valuations of the Mauritius estate!, d which will prove entirely del us i ve . Alth oug h it is sai that an aggregate of more th an £200,000 h as a t va rioa s periods been written off from the total at which they we re originally valued, the prob a bility i s , th a t if b roug ht ~, sale, these estates would still be found to have been enor mously over-estimated. The firm, it may be added, were the agents of the Bps' nish and also of the Venezuelan governments. Sir JO Reid was . deputy-governor of the Bank in 1837, and g°' vernor in 1839 In connexion with this and each of the other disaster: which have recently fallen, it must be pointed out that far as the real stability of commer c ial cre dit i s co ncerne d ' / nothing has yet occurred to beget te rror u po n the pares those houses who may thus far have conducted their 13% ness upon sound and recognized principles. All the e which have yet taken place have ( with some small eXceP:, tions) either had thei r or i g i n i n d irect speculation or been the natural climax of a long continued state of weakscn which, to those acquainted with it, could have W,, nothing but the actual date at which s us p ens i onww o ld occur a matter of much uncertainty. Painful as all vidual cases of distress must be (and few will be regard', with more regret than that which has to-day occurred]; it should still be a matter of th an kf u l ness ra ther than 0 ` alarm to the solid trader, that however a course of spec!: lation or of incautious extension may seem for a time 1 " yield results with which his own unobt rus i ve p r ogress caTj present but a slight comparison, periodical storms certainly arrive when the difference between real and sq; rious credit will be tested, and whe n commerc e Will restored ( at least until the lesson sh a ll h ave b een forgs h t e ten) to its sound and legitimate ch anne l s . E ve n if t t surrounding evils were ten times worse th an they stem this moment, we do not believe th a t an y h ouse Wh • could clearly show that it had pursued a course of . but", ness steadily confined within th e f a i r li m it s o f it s m esa would experience any difficulty in obt a i n i ng ever y aid t',,br would be essential to avert the consequences of any meter, accidental pressure. For the true and rational tritu come what may, we have therefore n o f ear . Our on ly apprehension for the future is, that the number of thus; especially among the community at large, who have beer. tempted to depart from the straight road, is far grea' than has yet in any quarter been anticipated. The M leagueOßE MISERIES bu F te ßO th M e tu Fß au E u E fae T tu ßit rie r em . t E r i rassments to the high price of the raw cotton ; but 0 ,," ' can this be when the wareho uses are f u ll o f goo ds "; which there is no market ? But it is not al one in th cotton trade that England is suffering. In almost eve" branch of business which she has opened to foreign cog,: petition there are complaints of depression and distre, The Morning Chronicle, a leading organ of the free-traa ers, says : is " The production of coal and iron on the Continent rapidly increasing. In France, Belgium, Germany , America, every year sees new mines opened and new I '7 o naces built. We are not merely losing our inarliet.s_eo those countries for many articles, but find ourselves dri:,l4 by them out of neutral markets, and are even under-yo, at the doors of our own workshops, knives, scissors , g i f o r lets, screws, and other articles of hardware, in whi c l i to rs, a long time England was able to outstrip all comp.eti have been and are imported from Belgium into 81 011 st ham, and sold there, both to home and foreign buyers,i a much cheaper rate than they can now be produc e " the surrounding district. tur er " Some facts stated by Mr. S. Thornton, manufae and merchant at Birmingham, as to the comparative Poe of English and foreign hardware, are really startling. says : ia " There are half a dozen large screw manufactu re s ro e and about Birmingham. My inquiries among them le,s_ if o f to conclude that three or four years ago nearly one 2 7; et the quantity produced went to the American mar' e t here• present, not more than five per cent. finds its W a Y n forro s It m ha ig t h i t f the price b c °lfi A. neighbour of mine, an extensive screw maker , ~I , e v alue me that his returns alone to that market were of t' to n ot of £20,000 per annum. They are now reclue'-, anal and i more were thanoo. moderately pete with America, notwithstanding their duty of 30 V cent.esh °l le ' t -° c; " The following are the prices at which some articles o f common use, and of qualities about equal to those of End lish manufacture, of which the prices are also annexe': are importe many and sold at Birmingham 8. d. No. 625 Knife manufactured at Solingen, (DP Rhenish Prussia . 691 Do. manufactured at Sheffield 9 2 1516 Scissors manufactured in Prussia 7 1 2335 Do. manufactured in Sheffield, inferior to 1516. . 1 Common gimblets,manufactured at Hamburg, price at Birming- „ r og ham, including duty & carriage 5 6perrb' 2 Ditto manufactured at Birming ham 7 6 tor " An ornamental cast in iron of the statue of a 6a., burgh made at Hamburg, price in Birmingham, 9s. , would cost to make at Birmingham, 255." es All this the Chronicle attributes to the high Pri c t'or s coal and iron in England -in consequence of the nr, o o refusing to work more than nine hours a day ; but not account for the difference between the price c" 4 (1 English and the price at which, after paying the dutt; i o carriage, the foreign article can be sold in Birn3in% e ell and Sheffield. The fact is, our manufactures have. i d sacrificed. Our markets have been thrown open vat' e r due consideration of the vast differences between the l os cumstances of England and the condition of the Bloc workman and the circumstances and the condition 0 ete , workman of the countries unwisely invited to co S W The consequence is, the gradual transference of the tle, to other lands, and the consequence of th a t aga i n will 05 either its eventual loss, or such a re d uct i on of Nvagc'ae will enable the Engish article to regain its place, and n' t i l e the unfortunate operative regret that he ever joined iII clamour against the Corn Law. THE " TIMES" AND THE PAUPERS.—In one of IbC l3 ,' ' t extreme articles of this slashin g journalist, the wri t j i y makes it out that we are ultimately to be swallowed ul? th , pauperism, in a general scramble for property ; b f u t : c h a out any reference to the fact that the menace °' i r n ev t o h l e ut s i p o a n w , n if e t f he th re e b m e a a n n u y fe hti et n u g rin in g s it y , st h e as m, i vi ts h paupers ad libitum, without providing for their su ste Tthe when unemployed. In the rural districts, on e edges of the free-trade sword cuts in the same dir ec tiia and tends to disable the depressed farmer from avai,,ted himself of the necessary extent of decently remun er '4 labour,—the nation expending its natural resour ces so' ieh foun dation cre_ar te: foreigners ing, tbe DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS.--OD Monday mort- , 9th ultimo., at one o'clock, in the latitude 44 25, 11 0 0 30, the weather being foggy, the ship Shanunga, , u pze Liverpool, came in contact with the Swedish bark j d an d from Hamburgb: for New York, with two hundreel, f six persons on board. The Iduna-sank in about b 3 ',A'e hour. Immediately after the collision the Shall"7itie boats were put out, and with one boat from the ote picked up thirty-four persons only. One hundre d fr; seventy-two persons, including the master, CaptaleDee nest Andreas Moberg, were lost. The survivors rea':,,ere, Boston in a state of great destitution. The men '-et clothed in such clothes as the generous captain and tar,,ei the Shanunga could muster. The women who esce,k with their night-dresses, were clad with such rude P ee l' ments as could be made out of bunting and whatever could be found on board.—On the 17th August, the; o rro Naiad, Captain Brightman, encountered a fearful e g 'asP on her way from New Bedford for Africa. On Tile s o' the 19th, at midnight, she was struck by a very hol t ,' po i ', which threw the vessel upon her beame n d s , i n whiel'o l ' sition she lay about twenty minut es , w h en the te ar" came off, and both masts came out from the ing up the deck and hatch combining, when everY „„` e„' was washed out of the cabin, besides most of the , i '''"•it" with all the provisions and water. She then righter, or nothing above water, except the starboard bow relP,' re' on which the crew lashed themselves, where the , t bee' mained until Saturday morning without hats o r clo Atti e 4 b and the sea breaking over them continually. Three,r t Captain B. was washed from the wreck, COgPtbef , one of the crew. Saturday, the sea becoming min', got boxes from the hold, from which they made bal e r baf, and commenced baling, but soon gave up exhauste ing had nothing to eat or drink for four days, e 5 o lej little vinegar. Sunday morning, seeing a sail to the. 00, ward steering towards them, renewed their hope7 ls l they commenced baling again, but soon gave up exP o irig 4 the'vessel *out three miles from them, and ,e e ci til e ; nofto notice them, but after all hopes having lie i o ll",1 were taken off by the barque Swan, of Cork, CaP,t 5 0 . 5 ,0 0 ,, bertson, more dead than alive, with their heads, Theri'd, feet badly swollen and blistered.—The ship, city o , for London from Quebec, was wrecked of Bicquet I :,fte o `i on a reef of rocks on the 11th August. She 6 ° °l r el e went to pieces. Her cargo consisted of 2,120 Ittufo;l flour, and a quantity of deals and staves. -011 of ° no week, the schooner Vine of Pwllheli, with a ca rg° ,ary'g to Bangor, in attempting to cross the boar from C or .,E, 4 1 , 0 Bay to the Menai Straits, struck on the north 11:5t bast supposed from the darkness of the night, and board, immediately capsized and sunk with all on ir t. r e daybreak the life-boat was put off, when the t' e f found on her beam ends, with her masts embeda'n,orig., sand. In the cabin the dead body of a female P;',s was found, and on the banks the body of a man_ o rir e ° o , covered, and both were immediately ta k e n to Car f a there being signs of life in the men. Fourothl e ~ oa f the remainder of the crew perished, but their Do" not yet been found, Si lent Reek, insPeci been s from On; fell dc Tuesd z The seated Edwar This Carde r da r i ng A. b ( sittinßirkg boilin g Not Thursi - stone a merous preside