The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. OVERLAND MAIL, The despatches in anticipation of the Overland Mail reached London on Saturday. The dates are from Bom bay to the 17th and Calcutta the 7th October. The position of affairs in Moultan and in the Panjaub has not materially changed since the departure of the last mail. There has been no more fighting of consequence, and scarcely any additional complication of relations. In Peshawur, notwithstanding the comparative help lessness in which Major Lawrence had been left, there had, up to the latest accounts, which extend up to the 26th of September, been no actual outbreak. When the news arrived of the defection of Shere Singh, and the conse quent raising of the siege of Moultan, Major Laurence, apprehpnsive of the effect which this disastrous intelli gence might produce, concealed the tidings fora whole day from the Sikh troops, and meanwhile made all neces sary preparations for the departure of Mrs, Laurence, who left with two children on the night of the 22d, with a strong Affghan escort, under the personal command of Sultan Mohomed Khan. It is stated, on native authority, that this lady reached Lahore in safety on the Ist of October. The Nonpore rebel, Ram Singh, has been totally de feated by a party of Ferris's bill rangers. He was se verely wounded. and traced by his blood for nearly a mile, but, nevertheless, managed to effect his escape. At Lahore all has remained quiet, and we have no inti mation of the discovery of any fresh evidence of treachery on the part.of the Durbar. CEYLON, Ceylon papers to the 16th October have arrived. At that period the island was quite tranquil; the rebellion had been completely suppressed, the pretended Kingcap tured, and several of the rebels bad been tried and exe cuted. Martial law ceased on the 10th October. The financial statement of the colony showed an excess of revenue over expenditure of £14,594 12s. 91d. There were great complaints for the want of labourers. FRANCE The French constitution—the last novelty of the season in that sort of French fabrics—was solemnly inaugurated last Sunday. The Archbishop of Paris was summoned to bestow his benediction on the new-born offspring of the collective wisdom of the nation. There were plenty of flags, garlands, evergreens, classically arranged drapery, and patziolie bpeeclie3, but pinuitilig cold and thickly fall ing snow chilled the enthusiasm of the spectators, and gave an ominously rueful air to the spectators. M. llarrast has been elected President of the Assembly for another month, by a majority of 378 to 174, the latter being the number of votes given for M. Leon de Malle ville, the candidate.put forward by the club of the Rue de Poitiers. This is another triumph for General Cavaignac. DESERTION OF THE PARIS THEATRES.—The prevail ing distress in Paris, or the pre-occupation of the public mind with matters of more importance and more imme diate interest_ hna mnat wnftilly thinno.l thn filiactvnu of that capital. The absence of foreigners from Paris, and the indisposition of the residents towards public amuse ments, having lowered the subscription of the Italian Opera to a point which renders the entrepreneur unable to keep it open, government, rather than have it closed, is about to apply to the assembly for a grant of 60,000 francs. THE PARIS CLUBS.—The Pattie gives an amusing account of the language of the club orators of Paris, One of these gentlemen named Gustave Debray told some very home truths to the meeting. " Citizens," he exclaimed, " be assured that even Raspail, Caussidiere, and Louis Blanc would become reactionary if they attained power. It is fatal. As soon as a man is niched' above, he be comes the victim of a fatal and irresistible influence. Democracy is exacting. Those who represent it would soon be obliged to resist it. We are far stronger with out than we should be within the pale of the Govern ment. Our part is to watch and stimulate those in power —to find fleas for them—not to lounge like Armand Marrast in his leathern presidential chair. This is why I would much rather have no President." M. Bonnard, a grocer, is equally opposed to the election of a President. He yesterday maintained this thesis, and attacked Cavaig nac with the peculiar Atticism which distinguishes his able speeches—" A President" he cried, "is a King. Now we will have no more Kings ! (Frantic cries of "Bravo'.") Those beggars of Kings decapitate their states and burn their capitals. The wretch Ferdinand of Naples has decimated two, and his brother Ferdinand of Vienna has burnt three—Milan, Prague, and Vienna. We want a Republic, but it must neither be white, blue, nor green. We will have a Red Republic ! (Convulsi , ie movements of enthusiasm, ana shouts of approbation.) Yes, a good red colour, of a generous blood !" Bonnard, after denouncing Cavaignac as an incapable " yellow canary," The speaker sat down saluted by cries of " Vive le Docteur (Bonnard is a medical man as well as a grocer.) " Vive l'Epicier I Vivent les Rouges ! A bas les turana et les aristocrates!" PRUSSIA An extraordinary edition of the Cologne Gazette informs us that at the adjourned afternoon sitting of the democra tic remnant of the National Assembly on the 11th, it was resolved-Ist, to draw up a memorial of the events of the last few days ; 2d, to impeach the Ministry ; and 3d, to refer the measure of the refusal of taxes (stener-verwei gerung) to a commission. It was said that the English and French Ambassadors had proceeded to Potsdam, and entreated the King to go no further. A 'royal decree was issued on the 12th, by which the King dissolves the Burgher Guard. This decree produced a general consternation throughout the city, and a com bat between the military and the Burgher Guard seemed inevitable. In the National Assembly, the decree created the utmost sensation, and it was at once determined to pass the following resolutions :—" 1. That the dissolution of the Burgher Guard is not to be considered a lawful measure. 2. That every civil or military officer who as sisted in carrying into effect that measure is guilty of treason to his country. 3. That Government shall be re quested forthwith to withdraw the order for dissolving the Burgher Guard."—A ministerial order decreeing the dis armament of the Burgher Guard was issued ' • but as the greater part of the Burgher Guard determined not to sur render their arms, great excitement prevailed throu g h Berlin, and in the afternoon the city was declared in a state of siege for two miles of its circumference. All clubs and political societies are dissolved. No person is allowed to carry arms except with the permission of the police. All public meetings are prohibited. On the 13th instant crowds of persons filled the streets erlin, but the only violence used was in the shape of words. The populace seem unwilling to be the aggressors in action, but many placards had been posted during the day, which were rapidly torn down by the soldiers. A proclamation was issued on the evening of the 13th by the commandant, stating that the troops had directions to fire on all persons who assembled in groups or crowds and re fused to disperse. All was quiet up to a late hour at night. The Frankfort Assembly has taken part against the King of Prussia. _ . . Silesia and Rhenish Prussia are in a ferment of dissa tisfaction. Open rebellion is said to have broken out at Breslau. The mission of the ex-President of the National Assem bly. M. Grabow, to the King, to ask the withdrawal of the decree removing the National Assembly from Berlin, had been unsuccessful. His Majesty referred him, as well as others who came to mediate, to his ministers. To M. Grabow his Majesty is said to have uttered the following words :—" I know that my crown is at stake, nevertheless, I am firmly resolved not to yield." Private letters from Berlin of the 14th of November, inform us that a special meeting of the deputies was beld that day at the Hotel de Russie, to consider the expedi ency of giving way. The general opinion of the members, however, was decidedly adverse to so " dishonourable" a measure. The city was tranquil, but it was feared that a formidable attack was being prepared on the part of the Parliamentary party. Up to the evening of the 15th inst. tranquillity had not been disturbed at Berlin. On the morning of that day the disarmament by force had at last been resorted to, after the prolongation of the term for delivering up wea pons had proved vain. The patrols who carried out the order for searching the houses for arms did not meet with any active resistance. The National Assembly met at 11 o'clock in the morning, in the " Köln Rath Haus." They were, however, expelled by the troops ere they had time to commence their deliberations. lUSTRIA Marshal De Walden is left in command of Vienna, with thirty-five thousand men. Courts-martial are busily at work with the antidote of "powder and lead," as the official announcement has it. Blum, one of the members of the Frankfort Assembly, has been shot. Many other executions have taken place, and several of the rebels have fallen by their own hands. Piince Windischgratz and Baron Jellachich have marched into Hungary with the main body of the army. Pressburg has capitulated; they are advancing upon Pesth. The accounts received from Vienna announce the arrival of the new Ministry from 011uditz, MM. Stadion, Prince Schwartzenburg, Bruck, Helfert, and Bach. They immediately proceeded to the head-quarters of Windis chgratz, at Hetzendorf, to urge him to take milder mea sures. Little change had taken place in the condition of the city. Advices from Cracow in the Kolnische Zeilung, dated the 13th instant, state that the Emperor of Russia had sent an energetic note to the Hungarian Ministry, calling upon them immediately to withdraw their troops from the Austrian frontier. in case of their non-compliance with this demand he would be obliged to march part of the army quartered at present in Moldavia and Walachia to the assistance of his neighbour, and thus to put a check to the daily increasing anarchy. _ THE REVOLUTION AND THE ROMISH HIERARCHY. — At a meeting of the Bishops of the Austrian dominions recently held at Salzburg, an address to the Diet at Vienna was agreed to, containing the following demands : --1. Freedom of the Church to organise herself; free communication on the part of the Bishops with Rome, among one another, with the inferior clergy, and with the people; freedom of ecclesiastical education ; the abolition of the placet. 2. Liberty for the Church to exercise her influence; that is, over the educational establishment, in the cure of souls, the collation of benefices, &c., &c. 3. Liberty to administer the property of the Church without the interference of the State. PIUS IX. AND THE GERMAN CATHOLICS.—A brief has been addressed by the Pope to the Archbishop of Vienna, exhorting hi'm to oppose the spread of German Catholic ism to the utmost of his power. RAVAGES CAUSED BY THE BOMBARDMENT OF VIENNA. —The foubourg of the Jagerzeil, the most beautiful in Vienna can no longer be recognised. Abode 200 houses have been totally destroyed by tho flames, others have been partially destroyed, and very many others have been pillaged. The same is the case in the other suburbs, es pecially those of Lichtenthal, Landstrasse, and Thends thum. The interior of the city has not suffered to the same extent. Two fires only were occasioned by the rockets thrown into the city on the 31st. The magnifi cent hall, however, in which the democrats and German Catholics generally held their sittings, has fallen a prey to the flames, and now presents nothing but a heap of ruins. It is said that 6,000 persons were killed during the late insurrection. The number of civil persons who fell at the attack of the lines is above 800, besides which a great many wounded died in the hospitals. To this must be added about 200 who fell on the fith ult. The loss of the military is yet more considerable, especially among the Croats, some hundreds of whom were destroyed during the storming of the Rurgthor, which was taken after three repeated attacks. ECCLESIASTIC CONFEDERATION IN GERMANY.—The assembly held at Wittemberg in the latter end of September has published the result of its deliberations, which is the proposal to found a federal Church Union, comprehending all the communions which retain the symbolical books of the Reformation—that is, the Lutherans, the Calvinists, the United Protestants, and the Moravians, with all their various modifications. There is to be no interference with the varying creeds of these different communions, or with their church discipline and their relations to the State ; the only object being to establish between them all, divers as they are, one federative bond of union. ITALY Advices from Rome, of the 6th instant, have brought the intelligence that the Pontifical troops, joining the gar iison of the Marches upon the Austrian frontier, had bro ken out in revolt, had menaced an attack on the fortress of Ferrara, still in possession of the Austrians, and had raised the cry of the republic. No official statement or report of the affair had appeared at Rome at the above date, but General Zucchi, the minister of war, had left for Bologna and Ferrara, and the ministry had resolved on prompt and extraordinary measures to raise immediate supplies, by anticipating, by means of mortgage bonds, the future gifts of the clergy. _ _ The Roman correspondent of the Daily News states that the Pope has given his sanction to the marriage of a " Roman spinster" with a Jew, and that the marriage has taken place in the Church of St. Paul. NEW ZEALAND—DESTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT HousE.—Advices had been received at Wellington, New Zealand, from Auckland, to the 13th July, stating that the Government-house, Auckland, had been totally de stroyed by fire, which originated in some wood work, it is said, attached to one of the chimneys. The property cost originally about £20,000. EMIGRATION.—The following table shows the number of immigrants arrived at New York, from foreign coun tries. during the month of October last : Germany . 4,146 Sweden .. 1re1and....... England . Scotland..... , ...... 612 South America 2 Wales . . . 147 Poland. France . . 239 Italy , 3 1 Portugal SWitzerland Holland ... 14,104 Total for the year ending Oct. 31, 1848 158,623 DOMESTIC TRAGEDY—Dr. Ingrabam arrived in the New York, •from Liverpool, died on Staten Island on Friday last. His lady died on the passage. They have left three children, the youngest fifteen months old. During the passage Mrs. Ingraham had been taken with premature confinement, lost her babe, it having lived but two days, but she was recovering, and doing well. One night a lady passenger screamed with a fearful cry, " Oh ! we are all going to the bottom," at the same moment the spray was heard dashing over the deck. The passengers sprung in consternation from their births. Mrs. Ingraham, sick as she was, rose in her bed. alarmed with the rest, but her husband came to her and told her not to be alarmed. After the alarm, Mr. I. lay down again in her birth, but soon rose up—a maniac—reason had forsaken its throne. " Get me my gaiters," said she to those around her, " I am going to see my sister; I will soon see my dear sister now." In two or three days she died. Dr. Ingraham afterwards became a maniac, was removed to the hospital, on the arrival of the vessel, and died there in the course of a few days. The three little girls were left al; the hos pital, without a relative near ; but at last a sister of the deceased lady found them a home. This is one of many like scenes attending passenger life.—New York Paper. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. During the past racing season, Nat (Flatman) rode 270 races, of which he won 99, and walked over for five. The late meeting at Newmarket was prolific of mush room speculators, some of whom did not take the trouble to put in an appearance on the settling day, while others, amongst them a Mr. Paul, got off by giving cheeks on banks at which they kept "no account," or had " no effects." Fortunately t left differences were small. THE CHASE The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet at Crewe Hall Church Minshull Arley SIR THOMAS G. HESKETH'S HOUNDS will meet on Friday, at Eccleston Rectory. LAW IN7'ELLIGEINTE. SECONDARIES' COURT (Before Mr. Secondary PorrE rt.) THE QUEEN V. SIR WILLIAM MASSEY STANLEY WEDNESDAY. This was a proceeding in the nature of a capias ultaga tum under a writ of outlawry at the instance of Mr. Lewis, to ascertai❑ what property the defendant, Sir William Massey Stanley, possessed within the city of London. with the view of making the same available for the benefit of the creditor named. A clerk from the office of Messrs. Gregory stated the nature of the inquiry. He said he could prove that the defendant bad deposited with the bankers, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., several chests of plate, which he should seek to make available for Mr. Lewis, who had proceeded and obtained a writ of outlawry. A clerk from the banking-hOuse of Smith, Payne, and Co., stated that several chests of plate had been deposited with them, but they had a lien on them for more than the plate was worth.—A sheriffs'-officer stated that he had an execution against the defendant, at the suit of a Mr. Gaskell, for £4,012, and that he had given notice to Smith and Co., not to part with the plate. The jury found that there was no property within the city of Lon don beyond the claim of Smith and Co. VICE CHANCELLORS COURT,—WEDNESDAY Er parte LEE, In re HIGGINSON. This was an application to re-open the biddings for sale of a West India estate which was put up to auction in Liverpool in April last. The commissioner, Mr. Serjeant Ludlow, was present, and declared that the biddings might be opened at any time before the month of Octo ber. The petitioner offered to enter a bidding for £l,OOO, an advance of £5OO on the highest amount offered in April. His Honour said that he should direct a re-sale, the petitioner undertaking to go in and bid £1,250, the respondent to be fully indemnified for the expenses which bad been thrown upon him. NORTH OF ENGLAND BANK.—The Court of Chancery, in the matter of the winding up of this Banking Com pany. made an order on the petition which we stated last week had been presented in compliance with the provisions of the Joint Stock Companies' Winding up Act, charging the Master in Chancery, James William Farrer, Esq., with the winding up of the company. The master has appointed Wednesday in next week for selecting an official manager ut official managers, and the petitioners intend to propose Mr. John Henderson, of Durham, Mr. John Hewson, of Carlisle, and Mr. James Ross, also of Car lisle, three of the present directors, as official managers. The official managers, when appointed, will proceed with the winding up, and the act of parliament empowers them to employ a solicitor, and such assistants as may be re quired to enable them to fulfil their duties. A MAN FOR IRISH MURDERERS, Mr. Armitage Moore, the agent to Lord Annesley, was lately travelling in the county of Cavan for the obnoxious purpose of collecting rent. When near Baker's-bridge, he was attacked by two ruffians, but providentially escaped with his life. Four days afterwards he called a meeting of the Drumlane tenantry at his office, in Cavan, at which two hundred of them presented themselves. He then addressed to them a speech which seems to have produced a vivid effect upon his audience. After detailing the cir cumstances of the attack, Mr. Moore proceeds thus : " These fellows were your emissaries, paid by you, and acting under your orders. You imagined that by murder ing me, and sending me into eternity with all my sins upon my head, you would not have to pay your rents. But you were mistaken. You did this after my living ten years with you, and spending upwards of £lO,OOO amongst you. i advanced you loans out of my own pocket of from £5 to £35 each—is not this true ? (Several voices— 'ltis ; it is.') Was it for this you sought to murder me ? Or was it for procuring an abatement of 50 per cent. upon your last two years' rent ? I went amongst you in your distress, more like a pedlar than anybody else, distributing blankets and giving clothes to your children—and was it for this you sought to murder me. I purchased meal in large quantities when it was dear and gave it out to you —the most of it for nothing—and some, to those whom I thought able to pay, at half-price, the greatest part of which money has never been repaid me—l ask you, was it for this you thought to murder me ? A great many voices cried out ' Shame ! shame !" It is every word true ;' You were always a kind landlord to us, &c. One voice louder than the rest exclaimed, By ' it is a shame ! and Mr. Moore tells nothing but the truth !' " After rebuking their ingratitude he appeals to their fears in the following terms :—" Now, I tell you, I will go down amongst you; but for the future I will go armed. yes, to the teeth, and compel you to pay your rent. And I tell you further, you shall never get one shilling allow ance until you drag that ruffian to justice. You have him secreted, and you know where he is. * * * * * That disgraceful and murderous act was concocted in your Rib bon Lodges at night, when honest men should be sleep ing in their beds. If you want to shoot me, give me a chance for my life and I will stand out before you. I will face the bullet of any man, only let him give me a man's chance. You had your men ready and you hired them. One of them you have at present covered : now, unless you bring forward this fellow and deliver him into the hands of the authorities, I will put every one of these de crees into force before twenty-four hours. I am now ready to receive rent from those amongst you who are ready to pay." Mr. Moore then retired into the office; some few fol lowed, apparently to settle their accounts, but the majority went away without paying. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. IRELAND. _.____ The effects of Conciliatio — n-hall were sold last week, and brought good prices. Twenty-six hunting establishments have been given up in the south of Ireland, owing to the poverty of the owners. It is said that Jenny Lind and her partners, Messrs. Lumley and Knowles, netted £lO,OOO in a fortnight, in poor distressed Ireland ! The Waterford Chronicle, a repeal paper, says that the bacon trade of that town, is ruined through free trade. O'Brien contradicts the statement that he has been preparing articles of impeachment against Ministers and Judges. Government in the last two months sent out from the unions in Ireland 925 young women, who sailed from Plymouth for Australia. It is said that there is a charge due to the family of the late Bishop of Down of ten thousand pounds, and that Dr. Sadlier has declined the appointment in consequence. The Globe states that by a humane Act of last session— (a Small Debts Bill for Ireland)—about two thousand poor debtors will be liberated in that country. On Friday, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles J. Napier, the hero of Scinde, was entertained at a magnificent din ner in Dublin :on Wednesday. The Duke of Leinster presided, and Prince George of Cambridge was present. SIR JAMES GRAHAM IN DUBLIN.—The arrival of the ex-Home-Secretary in Dublin, has, in the absence of any other excitable topic, led to some speculation among the quidnuncs. The right hon. baronet dined on Tuesday with the Chief Secretary. EMIGRATION.—The .. hundreds of country persons that weekly leave the port of Cork for Liverpool, intending to take passage from that for America, are incredible. Saturday week the deck of the Nimrod steamer, which left for Liverpool, was crowded with emigrants—all appa rently farmers or farm labourers. They were all ccmfor tably clad. An occurrence bas taken place of a very suspicious na ture, and which will have the effect, in all probability, of further postponing Mr. Duffy's trial. This is the abstrac tion of an entire barony from the county jury lists, which was placed in the hands of Mr. Shaw, the printer, on Bachelor's-walk. In the circumstances attending the procedure there is conclusive evidence of contrivance and design. DISTRESS.—A few days ago, public coemdsera tion was excited by the report (well-founded) of a gentle man of £2OOO a-year, in the county of Limerick, being, along with a large family, compelled to subsist for months on "yellow meal" and the garbage of his garden. But another and much more remarkable instance of the " beginning of the end " is foreshadowed in the acceptance by a baronet of the unassuming and not very lucrative office of collector of the poor-rates._ _ _ SHOCKING MunDEß.:—On Saturday night a man named John Twomy, a shoemaker, residing in Blarney-lane, left his house, with a young man named Cornelius Mahony, a paper stainer, in search of whiskey. Having been travelling from public-house to public-house until three o'clock on Sunday morning, they were met by four des perate characters. A brutal attack was made upon Twomy and Mahony, which resulted in the death of one of them and the mutilation of the other. In the last Irish Hue and Cry, James Wilkinson is de scribed as having stolen " £24 10s. and other articles of wearing apparel," a cow is represented as stolen, the co lour of, which is set down " as rising six years old." James Goodwin stabbed a man at Coolaskea, with " a knife 17 years of age, five feet three inches, with fresh complexion and curled hair." (Rather a formidable and remarkable knife that.) Two heifers found at the turn pike gate of Tonnish-bridge are described "about the size of Kerry." PAUPERISM.—On Monday last there were in the Cork Workhouse 4,281 paupers ; in the Midleton, 1,731 ; in the Kinsale, 1,090; Mallow, 1,037; Dunmanway, 746; in the Fermoy, 1,831 ; in the Macroom, 1,388; in the Skibbereen, 3,057 ; in the Bandon, 2,028 ; making in nine workhouses out of the eleven in this county, (we have no returns from Bantry or Kanturk) the number of paupers receiving in-door relief on that day, 17,189. The app'icants have been very numerous during the past fortnight.—Cork Constitution. DISTRESSING ACCIDENTS.—On Saturday week, Capt. Lyon, of the 92d Highlanders, and his officers were re turning from shooting near Limerick, and the former had the gun at his side, with the muzzle under his arm, when, in some way, the gun went off, and the contents shattered his arm, which had afterwards to be amputated to the shoulder.—On Wednesday last, Lieutenant Smith and some other officers were out shooting at Belturbet, near Dublin, when, after discharging one barrel at a bird, Smith proceeded to reload it, when the other barrel went off and tore his hand in a dreadful manner. A Row IN A WORKHOUSE.—On Tuesday as a poor law Inspector was passing through the workhouse at Cork, he observed on the filthy state in which the tables and seats were in, when the female paupers. about six hun dred in number, rose en masse and attacked the Inspec tor, having armed themselves with stones. tins, and bot tles, and he had to fly to protect his live : stones flew in all directions and the windows were smashed. The riot rose to such height that thirty police were sent for; but the women were drawn up, armed with stones, bottles, and tins, and it was therefore deemed prudent to call in the military, who took five of the ringleaders into custody. A similar row took plaCe in the Nenagh Workhouse a few days since. A "MODEL" MARRIAGE.—As "models" of things and people are now quite the rage, the following particu lars of a " model" marriage forwarded by a Montrath correspondent may not be uninteresting to single men and spinsters :—On this day, the 9th of November 1848, Margaret Down, of marriage notoriety, was led to the sth time to the hymeneal altar, by the chivalrous William Bergen, one of the gallant sons of Mars, who boasts of his long service, and of his having survived eight general engagements—yet he could not be happy without encoun tering a ninth. The gay old bridegroom is 85 years of age, which, when added to that of his fair partner, make 160 years. He had the misfortune of losing his right eye at the battle of Salamanca, and she lost her left eye at Vinegar Hill.—Cork Constitution. REMOVAL OF THE STATE PRISONERS.—The state pri soners, Messrs. O'Brien, M'Manus, O'Donohue, and Meagher, left Clonmel on Thursday morning last, at half plst six o'clock, for Thurles, on their way to Dublin. They left under a military escort in a coach drawn by four horses, on the top of which were several police-offi cers. The escort consisted of three car loads of soldiers. As they passed through the streets the crowds collected loudly cheered them. They reached Thurles at twelve o'clock, without molestation or disturbance. Thence they were conveyed by rail to Dublin, where they arrived at half-past three. They alighted at King's Bridge ter minus, where soldiers and police were stationed. They all looked remarkably well, particularly Mr. Meagher, who seemed even improved. A considerable number of very respectable persons, including several ladies, were present, and shook the prisoners most warmly by the hand. Thence they were taken in covered cars to Kil mainham Gael, and again banded over to Mr. Allison, the governor. It was stated that they would have the same apartments assigned to them that they occupied before. THE WRIT OF ERROR.—The Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, was on Friday morning crowded, it being gene rally known that the state prisoners from Clonmel would be brought up at the sitting of the judges on the writs of error. Counsel appeared for the crown, and others for the prisoners. At eleven o'clock the prisoners O'Brien, Meagher, M‘Manus, and O'Donohue appeared in court, and took seats at the side bars. The clerk of the crown having called on Mr. O'Brien to assign error in his case, Mr. Barton handed in the assignment, a very long docu ment assigning various errors in the proceedings against him. Similar documents were handed in behalf of the other prisoners. It was agreed by the court to give time to consider the assignments, the prisoners to be brought up next day. On the suggestion of Mr. White side, the court agreed that the prisoners should be trans ferred to Richmond Bridewell, instead of remaining in Kilmainham Gaol. They were accordingly so removed. On Saturday the prisoners were again brought up, and the argument was adjourned to Tuesday (this day.) CASE OF JOHN MARTIN. — The arguments in this writ of error were heard last week in the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, and continued for several days. Judgment was not given till Saturday, when Mr. Martin was brought forward. The Chief-Justice entered into the objections raised against the caption, the counts in the indictment, the challenge to the juror Duff, and to the terms of tae sentence, and concluded by stating that he and the other members of the bench overruled every one of the objections raised by the prisoner's counsel. Judge Crampton : " I fully concur in the opinion of the Chief-Justice, for the reasons stated." Justices Perrin and Moore made similar statements. The conviction of the prisoner thus, stands confirmed. Mr. Martin was then removed. SPREAD OF ROMANISM IN IRELAND.—It is as certain and unquestionable as any fact in history, that the re conversion of a great proportion of the people of Ireland to Romanism, was not a home or native work, but was begun and carried on for many years. by foreign agents, —missionaries from the Papal city. The Court of Rome at this period possessed, in the Order of Jesuits, the most accomplished political intriguants of the day. And it was from this fraternity that its agents were selected, for the work of checking the Reformation, both in En gland and Ireland. While Campion and Parsons were sent to the former, Saunders and Allen were sent to the latter. When they arrived in Ireland, they found the bishops, priests, and laity, all going on quietly in the services of the Reformed Liturgy. There was generally throughout the country, that external conformity, which we might expect from a rude and untutored people, who knew little about the forms of religion. They commen ced by acting on the ignorance, prejudices, and national antipathies of the people against everything English, as associated with religious debasement and national con quest,. They traversed the land, preaching that Elizabeth was excommunicated and deposed, and that all her ordi nances, civil or ecclesiastical, were invalid, as the acts of an heretical person. To the priests, and the discontented among the chiefs, they produced the Papal Bull for the Queen's deposition. His Holiness wrote to " all and singular" (A.D. 1575), "that discerning the seasonable ness of this opportunity, you will, each according to his power, aid the piety and valour of this noble general (Geraldine, the rebel leader), and fear not a woman, who, being bound by the chain of an anathema, bath departed from the Lord, and the Lord from her." " And that you may do this with the greater alacrity, we grant unto all and singular of you, who, being contrite and confessing, shall follow the said General or forward his purpose, a plenary indulgence of all their sins." Thus was the standard of Romanism once more raised in Ireland. It was raised in rebellion, and in rebellion, open or covert, it has ever existed.—Record. " A Practical Schoolmistress," says, in the Educational Times, " It would be impossible for me to state how often the question has been directly put to me by mothers, C ui you make a stylish yirl.l ' " UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. The Bishop of Manchester has entered on the occupa tion of the mansion at Sedgley. The Rev. W. Robert Bridge Arthy has been appointed to the perpetual curacy of Sutton, in the parish of Prest bury, Cheshire. THE VACANT BISHOPRIC.—We have heard that Dr. Mlsteile is very likely to be chosen for the vacant bishop ric of Down. This would be an excellent and praise worthy appointment.—Derry Sentinel. Miss Burdett's new church at Westminster is in a for ward state, and will be consecrated early next year. It will contain from 2000 to 3000 persons, and the majority of the seats are free. The election for Lord Rector of the University of Glas gow took place on Wednesday, when Mr. Macaulay was elected by a majority of 255 vo et. to 203 over Col. Mure. The former had a majority in all the four stations. ON DlT.—That the Bishop of Lincoln preached for the Church Missionary Society, on its Jubilee, in one of the country churches of his diocese—the Dean and Chapter having refused the cathedral for that purpose !—Can this be true ?—Church and State Gazette. THE BIBLE SOCIETY.—Two meetings of the friends of this society have been announced to be holden in Cam bridge this week. The Lord Bishop of Chester will pre side at the former meeting, and the Very Rev. the Dean of Bristol at the latter. Mr. Kennedy, the Secretary of the National Society, has been appointed to a Government Inspectorship, and Archdeacon Sinclair has been prevailed upon to take the Secretary's place, pro tempore, till a successor can be chosen. The Marquis of Exeter has presented the munificent sum of £5OO to the Additional Curates' Society, in con sequence of a statement to the effect that unless a great increase takes place in the Society's income before Easter, 1849, the terminable grants, forty-six in number, must all expire. PROPOSED ADDITION OF TEN BISHOPS AND ONE HUNDRED CLERGYMEN TO THE COLONIAL CHURCH.— The Right Rev. Dr. Tomlinson, Bishop of Gibraltar, who is at present in this country, has addressed a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, suggesting that the approach ing anniversary of the first era of the Prayer-book shall be made the occasion of a great and simultaneous effort on the part of the Church of England for the wider exten sion of its ministry and services abroad. He proposes, therefore, that on Whitsunday next a collection should be made in every church and 2hapel through the empire. THE BISHOP OF NORWICH ON CATHOLICITY.—In the course of a sermon preached by the Bishop of Norwich on the occasion of the Church Missionary Society's Ju bilee, his lordship is reported to have said :—" The text told them truly that the body was not one member, but many, that all Christians had Christ as their common head of the great universal Catholic Church, so that all who professed to be his followers ought to do all they could to carry out the principles of Christ's holy reli gion far and wide. This was the one great object for which they were then met together. True, indeed, they called it the Jubilee of the Church of England Missionary Society ; but what was the Church of England but an integral part of that universal Church composing the great congregation of faithful people, a wheel in that great machinery. whereby men might be directed for the salva tion of their souls to the merit of Jesus Christ." PASTORAL ADDRESS OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON. — The Bishop of London has issued a pastoral letter to the clergy of his diocese, calling upon them to do their ut most in their various localities, to remove the ascertained causes of the extension of the cholera. " A line of duty," he observes, " in which the clergy may render themselves eminently useful, and which is surely in close correspon dence with the nature of their office : for if to visit a sick parishioner and to minister to his recovery be one of their plainest duties, it is still a more blessed work of charity to rescue, under the blessing of God, whole masses of their poorer brethren, from the inroads of disease. In temperance and filthiness," says his lordship, " are too frequently the result of want, and unless something be done for the relief of extreme indigence, it will be an empty mockery to ell those who are borne down and crushed by its weight, that they would be less miserable if they were less filthy." His lordship, in conclusion, dwells emphatically on the necessity of combating the fallacy that cholera is contagious. " Let it, then, be one object of your pastoral visits to remind those members of your flock whom Providence has entrusted with the means of alleviating the misery of their fellow -creatures, that a portion of their charitable expenditure can hardly be more safely or properly directed than towards defraying the expense of cleansing and ventilating the miserable abodes of these by whose labour they are directly or incidentally benefitted." RAIL IVAY AFFAIRS. _ 4,___ The formal opening of the Liverpool and Bury railway took place on Friday. At Bolton a sumptuous collation was laid out, and several excellent speeches were made. CHESTER AND HOI.YHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ended 11th November, 1848 :—Coaching traffic, £927 9s. 9d. ; parcels, £47 2s. 3d. ; goods and cattle, £247 ls. ; boats, £ll7 lls. ; total, £1,339 4s. The London and North Western railway company have appointed a committee of engineers to discuss by what means the comparative deterioration of the permanent way, caused by heavy engines of different classes, may be ascertained. NORTH.WESTERN.—A further extension of two miles, running from Skipton, and uniting the Leeds and Brad ford with the Lancaster and Carlisle, has just been opened. The works on the branch to Poulton are proceeding actively. The part just opened gives access to large slate quarries. CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.—The directors have given notice to parliament for power to sell or lease to the London and North-Western, the Chester and Holy head, or the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Companies ; or to amalgamate therewith, and to enable the two latter companies to take shares. From official returns it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on 4,167 miles of railway, was £194,798, thus accounted for :—.£89,473 for the convey ance of passengers only, £55,903 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £49,422 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £24,710 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was 3,309. The average earnings per mile were £47, whilst in 1847 they were £5l. MANCHESTER, LIVERPOOL, AND NEWCASTLE-ON TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY.—The meetings of the share holders in this company were held on Wednesday, at London, Mr. Leeman in the chair, when the chairman recommended the passing of a resolution, empowering the directors to negociate with the landowners of the line for a final settlement of all the claims, and also empowering them to negociate respecting the engagements existing between the Manchester and Liverpool Company, and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, and the Northern Counties Union Company. After some discussion, a re solution to this effect was unanimously carried, and the balance-sheet and accounts presented at the last half yearly meeting was approved. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Friday evening the express train from London to Datchet was proceeding on its way, when a ballast-engine was recklessly moved from a siding, although the express train was five minutes over due, and the result was an immediate collision. A man named Creed or Perry, who was riding on the ballast engine, was so jammed up among the machinery that it was impossible to extricate him with life, and the guard and several passengers of the express train received very severe contusions, but so far as could be ascertained there were no broken limbs in the latter cases. Two of the directors of the line, Mr. Reid and Mr. Lacey, were in the train, but escaped unhurt. The driver and firemen of the ballast-engine have been taken into custody to await the inquiry which must necessarily ensue. GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. — From the financial statement of this company it appears that the total estimated cost of the line is £1.192,040. The parliamentary estimate, exclusive of plant or interest on capital, was £1,200,000. The amount expended on the works to the Ist of November is £557,586, total ex penditure to be provided for, £634,454. The Gretna junction to Dumfries, and distance of 24 miles, was opened on the 23rd of August last, and is worked by the Glasgow and Ayr Company. The other portion of the line from Dumfries to its junction with the Glasgow and Ayr line at Cumnock, is 41 miles in length, but there are only 14 miles of it between Sanquhar and Cumnock yet contrac ted for. This company is to be amalgamated with the Glasgow and Ayr company, and by the terms of amalga mation the stock of the original shareholders is restricted to £433,333, and the Glasgow and Ayr Company are authorised to create and subscribe new stock to the extent of £250,000 towards the undertaking. THE CONWAY TUBES.—The final operation of lowering the second tube bridge at Conway, for the return line to London on the Chester and Holyhead Railway, and the placing it on its permanent bed, was accomplished on Wednesday. The ponderous mass of 1300 tons was sus pended on chains, 2 feet above its permanent bed, for a period of ten days, during which the engineers and pilots were engaged in adjusting the bed-plates and rollers and masonry for its support. The tube was likewise length ened 12 feet, by the addition of six feet of similar tube to each end of the mass so raised : this additional length alone weighing upwards of 60 tons. Under the direction of Mr. R. Stephenson, Captain Claxton, and Mr. Clark, the whole bridge, with its permanent way for the passage of the trains, complete and ready for use, was then gra dually lowered by means of the hydraulic presses which raised it, on to a bed of red and white lead, spread over the creosoted timber, which equalized the weight on the cast-iron bedplates and rollers, to allow for the constantly varying length of the tube from changes of temperature. The tube is now in use for the transit of the trains. YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.—It appears from a financial statement of the affairs of this company, that the share capital on which dividend is payable out of the revenue, comprising the whole of the consolidated stock and the East and West Riding shares, on which the full amount is now called up, is £3,147,500. Of this amount, however, £250,000 will not be entitled to divi dend until next half-year. The amount of loan is at present £1,023,931. The amount expended on the lines which have been constructed or purchased up to the pre sent time is £4,290,415. The directors compute the amount required to complete the works (after deducting the value of surplus land) at £330,000, making the gross expenditure of the company at about £4,620,000. The whole, when complete, will give a total mileage of 211 miles (exclusive of the Hull and Selby lines) at an average cost of £20,000 per mile. The gross annual traffic to be derived from these lines is estimated to produce £520,000, and the working expenses will amount to £137,000. The interest on debentures will be £66,281 per annum, and the annual rent of the Hull and Selby and Bridlington lines, together with the interest on the debentures on these lines, is £76,572. After deducting these charges, a net income of upwards of £240,000 will remain applicable to dividends, being more than 71 per cent. upon share capital. The ,rate of interest at present paid on the de bentures of the company is at an average of nearly 5 per cent. YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY.—From the financial statement prepared by the directors of this company, it appears that the total amount expended on works to the first of November instant is £5,375,483, and the estimated gross sum which will be required for the completion of the works now in progress and of those pro posed to be executed is £1,869,228, making the gross amount to be ultimately raised £7,224.711, or, including contingencies, £7,300,000. This amount can be realised by calling up what remains unpaid on the extension shares Nos. 1 and 2, and by borrowing £1,500,000, including the existing mortgage debt of £722,073. When all the works have been completed, the aggregate length of the several lines will be 300 miles, and the directors calculate that the gross income will not be less than £1,040,000 per annum, or £20,000 per week ; the annual charges for working ex penses, £300,000; interest at four and a half per cent. on borrowed capital, £69,750 ; rent of Great North of Eng. land, and interest on their debentures, £151,400 ; rent of Hartlepool Dock and Railway, including interest on de bentures, £39,880: total, £561,030: showing; a clear an nual profit of £478,970, which, after yielding a dividend of seven per cent. per annum upon the share capital of 5,750,000, will leave a surplus income of £76,470. In es timating the prospective gross amount of the company at £1,040,000 per annum, the directors rely upon the follow ing considerations. The revenue now produced by the traffic upon the 270 miles of line at present in operation is after the rate of about £720,000 per annum, or £13,846 per week. COURT AND FASHION. On Wednesday, her Majesty and Prince Albert left Windsor Castle, to pass a few days with the Queen Dow ager, at Bentley Priory, near Stanmore. The Earl Howe and the Earl of Denbigh arrived at the Priory on Tuesday, and a select circle had the honour to receive invitations to meet the Queen and the Prince Consort. On Thursday, the Queen and Prince Albert, accom panied by the whole of the illustrious party then as sembled at the Priory, honoured Harrow School with a visit. The Queen and Prince Albert arrived at Windsor Castle on Friday, from the Queen Dowager's seat at the Priory, Stanmore. According to present arrangements the Court will leave Windsor for the Isle of Wight on Thursday, where it will remain - for about three weeks, returning to the Castle, for the winter, the third week in December. The Princess Royal is eight years old to-day. A PIANO IN Ivoay.—The Queen has purchased the splendid piano in ivory, manufactured by M. H. Pape, of Paris, which excited so much admiration at the exhi bition. When her Majesty was last in Scotland she inspected the process of distilling whiskey. On Friday, a huge pun cheon of this spirit was received by her Majesty, as a pre sent from the distillers, and is now in the vaults of Buckingham Prlace. SECULAR EDUCATION ALONE. TRIED AND FOUND WANTING, Some time ago, we published the plan of education suggested by the " Lancashire public school association." The scheme has been condemned by the greater portion of the " religious public;" and a Mr. Corns, in two re cent letters to the Manchester Guardian, has shown that the plan is virtually that which has been already tried in America, and. after two hundred years of experience, is found to work badly. In his last letter, Mr. Corns says : I stated that I would, in this letter, state some of the evils which have resulted from excluding religious teaching from the public schools in America. lam fully convinced, from all I saw and heard in America, that nearly all the crime which exists in that country is fairly attributable to that source. It is commonly supposed that there is much less crime in the United States than there is in this country. I believe there is a great mis take about this matter. There may be less crimes against property in the Uni ted States than in England, the reason probably being because the people can readily and easily supply their bodily wants, that there is scarcely any temptation to commit petty thefts, which form:the great mass of the crimes that figure upon the English criminal records, and not because they have more schools. Crimes against persons are much more numerous in America than in England. There must be some cause for this state of things. I believe it arises from the young not being trained " in the way they should go" during the time they are at school. Many American writers state that their public schools exert scarcely any moral influ ence on the community. One of them says :—" The present aspect of things in our country forces upon us one of two conclusions, either that there is something exceed ingly faulty about our plans of popular education ; or else that the hopes which we have entertained of the benefi cial influence of education on society are fallacies ; for it is certain that in no part of the United States has it had the effect contemplated, as necessary by the theory of our government." Another, and more recent American writer, and one, too, who is now, and has been far many years, a school master, says :—" Is there not a visible, confessed, and sad deterioration in the moral and manners of the young ? Is there not a woeful and wide-spread disregard of parental, and by consequence, of all other rightful authority ? The school-book itself is expurgated, not of licentiousness, but of religion—not of falsehood, but of historical fact. History, that tuns till, may not speak in some public schools; and morals rest not on the will of Cod, but on utility and honour. Herod and Pilate come together, shake hands, and embrace each other, even now. A narrow inspection of some public school libraries would discover licentiousness and infidelity." I believe that no mere secular education, such as the Lancashire Public School Association proposes to give will ever lessen the number of our criminals, or implant virtu ous principles in the minds and hearts of the yonng. The prevalent cause of crime in our country, as Baron Alder son said last year in his charge to the grand jury at the Liverpool assizes, " is not the want of information but the want of good principles. No doubt reading and writ ing are a good assistance; but they are not the whole nor a great part of the education of the people. The real education of the people consists in training them in the way they should go; in giving them principles of action which shall sustain them in temptation, and deliver them in time of trouble." I said in my last letter, that in many parts of America, " the people are taking the schools from under the control of the state." I made this statement on the authority of a document, entitled " Parochial Schools," printed in 1847, by W. S. Martien, Philadelphia. In this document there is the following paragraph : " The increasing abandonment of the state plan by va rious sects of Christians, affords a proper occasion for the presbyterian church to reconsider her position in regard to the work of education. The papists, with that church worldly wisdom which is so pre-eminently theirs, have adopted the plan of educating their own children—and ours, too, as far as they ean. Their institutions of learn ing have all the efficiency of an independent religious organization. Papal colleges, seminaries, and church schools, of every kind, are in active operation all over the country, and especially at the west. If we would save the lambs of our flock from the St. Mary Christianity of the Man of Sin, our schools must engage our efforts and our prayers. The episcopalians, with characteristic zeal, are also establishing large and small institutions, on a denominational basis. Many of their churches have pa rochial schools, while Presbyterians scarcely know the meaning of the word. The Methodists, in addition to several denominational colleges, have academies in all their conferences, and are in this respect setting an exam ple of well-manned popular church institutions. Whilst other denominations are more and more defining their position in favour of Christian education, under their own supervision, Presbyterians are reminded of their obliga tions to develop the resources of their own church in this great cause." . . . The Bishop of Pennsylvania, one of the most liberal and enlightened men of his day, in a conversation I had with him, in his own house in Philadelphia, confirmed the above statement, as far as it concerned the Episcopalian church. THE ENDOWMENT QUESTION VATIVE UNION AND CONSER- (From Blackwood's Magazine.) There is but one topic more to which we would fain al lude before concluding the present article. The late re bellious outbreaks in Ireland seem, in certain quarters, to have revived the notion of the expediency of a state en dowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood. We place very little faith in the sincerity of an announcement which some time ago was put forth, on hierarchical authority, in the public prints, to the effect that, even were such an en dowment to be offered, it would be peremptorily refused. But, sincere or not, that statement may serve as an an swer to the writer in the last number of the Quarterly Review, who supports the endowment scheme with an unction which we were certainly not prepared to expect. His argument, from first to last, implies the same un happy yielding to agitation and terrorism, which, when applied to civil matters, has ended in rebellion, and which, if applied to ecclesiastical affairs, would infallibly result in the total overthrow and annihilation of the Protestant Church in Ireland. Does he really believe that—to as sume no argument of a graver nature—the people of Great Britain will be ready, in the present desperate state of their finances, to submit to additional taxation for the purpose of establishing, in permanent comfort, the true instigators of the disturbances which have cost us so much anxiety and pain ? Why, if such endowment can be vindicated upon any intelligible principle, is it to be confined to the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland alone, and not extended to the dissenting denominations through out the width and breadth of the land ? On what plea could the Free and Episcopal churches in Scotland, or the Wesleyan Methodists of England, be excluded, if such a proposition were for a moment to be seriously maintained? The reviewer professes to reject, in tote, any idea of the confiscation of existing church property, and therefore he must fall back, as a sole resource, upon government en dowment, which means simply a new tax on the people of Great Britain, for the benefit of Ireland—a country which is already exempted from her share of our heaviest bur dens, and annually receiving eleemosynary aid to an amount which has grievously contributed to increase our late monetary pressure. It may be that some such pro ject is in contemplation, for we never have been able to comprehend, without some such motive as this, the extra ordinary anxiety exhibited by the present Whig govern ment in carrying through their bill for the establishment of diplomatic relations with Rome, at the very moment when the last fragment of temporal power was passing from the hands of the Pope. But whether this be so or not—whether this is a mere private crotchet, or a prepared scheme, to come forth in due season—we are perfectly sa tisfied that it will be met throughout the country with a righteous storm of indignation. The Protestantism of Britain has been its strength and its glory ; and it was only when called upon to choose between that sacred principle• and the hardly less revered one of loyalty, that Nov. 21, ISA our forefathers thought themselves justified in summon ing an alien to the British throne. What cost us then both tears and blood is an operating principle now ; and if, through the grace of God, we have seen order main tained, and rebellion crushed at home, at a period when half of Europe is plunged in the horrors of anarchy, we do not fear the charge of bigotry if we attribute our preserve tion as much to the religious establishments of the land as to the free institutions which Protestantism has ena bled us to maintain. Loyalty is not a thing to be bought: it is a spontaneous feeling, unpurchasable at any price ; and if the Irish Catholic clergy have it not now, the most liberal endowment will work no change in their political feelings. One of the arguments most commonly urged by those who advocate this system of endowment, is, we think, both erroneous in its assumption and weak in its applica tion. They maintain that the Catholic clergy, if in the pay of the state, would hive less power over the peasantry of Ireland than at present. Is that altogether a state of matters which it would be desirable to bring about ? Would it be well to sap the influence of this moralpolice? There is not a Roman Catholic priest in Ireland at this moment who does not know, that were he to give open countenance to rebellion, he would not only be amenable to the laws of his country, but, under a firm executive go vernment, would be selected as the earliest example. The situation of Ireland is such, that we can never calculate upon the loyalty of a large portion of its population.. Ce nturies have rolled by, and still the Celtic race persist in being aliens from our own. We cannot tame them, can not cultivate them, cannot win their hearts by any ima ginable sacrifice. They persist in their cry of Ireland for the Irish, and will not see that the thing is as impossible as the reestablishment of the Saxon heptarchy, and, were it possible, would be tantamount to delivering them over to the horrors of a barbarian war. It is no use disguising the fact—we must deal with men as they are; and who can doubt that there does exist a great amount of rooted dis affection among the people of Ireland ? And now it is seriously proposed to cure the disaffection, by taking means calculated to weaken the influence of the priest hood over the peasantry ! In other words, to give up the only hostages we hold, and leave the most turbulent and uneducated population of Europe, freed even from reli gious control, to be worked up to frenzy by the first lay demagogue who has the art to make them believe that treason is a synonymous term with patriotism. Even worldly wisdom would repudiate such a surrender, and the argument is so weak, that it bears with it its own re futation. We have gained nothing whatever by tampering with Roman Catholicism in Ireland. Neither the moral nor the social condition of the people has been improved thereby ; on the contrary, each successive step towards conciliation has been met by augmented turbulence. We cannot afford to push the experiment further ; and surely it would be a strange thing, if, while the Romish clergy themselves distinctly repudiate such an arrangement, and refuse to become the stipendiaries of the British govern— ment, any body of men who may be called to the respon sible situation of her Majesty's advisers, should persist in tendering the obnoxious and repugnant boon : least of all do we expect that any such proposal can emanate from the Conservatives. We know that upon this point various opinions have been expressed, and that Lord George Bentinck was at one time supposed to be not unfavoura ble to such a scheme. No man, we firmly believe, ever had the good of Ireland more thoroughly at heart ; and, had his plan for ameliorating the Irish distress been adopted last year, and the money which was uselessly squandered been applied to the construction of permanent works eminently calculated to open up and develop the resources of the country, we might ere this time have seen the foundation laid of a new era of social and industrial prosperity. But the Whig cabinet, perverse to the last, could not bring themselves to acknowledge that the poli tical sagacity of an opponent was greater than their own ; and, therefore, the money which we gave with so lavish a hand, has disappeared without leaving the smallest trace of its employment. But, in ecclesiastical matters, Lord George Bentinck professed a latitudinarianism which was not responded to by the great bulk of his party. They were not disposed to unchristiani a e the high assembly of Britain by the introduction of men who openly avowed their denial of the faith of the Saviour; nor would they consent to put forth their hands against the ark of the na tional churches. And there f ore it was said that, upon more than one occasion, the Protestant party, while cheerfully acknowledging the great public services of the late departed nobleman, did not attempt to conceal that, upon points so serious as these, there could be no sympa thy of opinion between him and them. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. The Plymouth freemen are approaching extinction un der the operation of the Reform Bill; on this year's list there are only fifty-four. It is understood that the long-contemplated union of the Excise and the Stamps and Taxes department willshortly be carried into effect, the preliminaries for that purpose having been arranged. WEST RIDING.—At a meeting of delegates held at Normanton, on Friday, to nominate a candidate for the West Riding, Sir Culling Eardley Smith, Mr. Joseph Sturge, and Mr. Thomas Godman, of Leeds, were each rejected, and the meeting adjourned. Mr. Urquhart has reminded Lord John Russell of his pledge in the House of Commons on Neapolitan affairs. His lordship replies that whenever he pledges his honour. it is only to his own intentions. The noble Premier is making tuud progress under his Jesuit tutors. THE BENTINCK TESTIMONIAL.—Mr. Alderman Solo mans has sent a check for five guineas to the secretary of the Bentinck Testimonial Fund. "Although I did - not partake of his political opinions," says Mr. Solomans, " I do not feel on that account debarred from joining in a testimonial to his zeal, vigour, and honesty ; nor ought I to omit the opportunity of recording my gratitude for his lordship's kind and noble conduct in relation to the Jewish Disabilities Bill." The subscriptions for the Nottingham monument to the memory of his lordship amount to up wards of £lOOO. THE COLONIES.—We read in the Glasgow Examiner Mr. Isaac Buchanan's explanations, intended to show that Sir R. Peel's currency measure of 1819, CANNOT POSSIBLY coexist with his free-trade, or anti-colonial, measures of 1846; seeing that the former requires the presence of gold in this country and the Colonies; while the latter (by increasing our imports beyond what we can n a o u f r o , r or us e o x r p a o n r t y s ooffoußritishr Colonies, goods)haveßENDEßS ay permanent, ipTm aYlfoPrOisnsll u well-grounded system of banking or monetary confidence, as depriving us of our stock of the precious metals. Mr. Buchanan contends in some very able argu ments for making the Colonies integral parts of Great Britain. How THE ROMISH PRIESTS ARE TO BE ENDOWED.-- We of course cannot tell what amount of belief is to be reposed in the following statement; but it is pretty gene rally circulated as the final determination of the govern ment with regard to their pet measure in the ensuing ses sion. The eight millions of good cash which were lent to Ireland in 1847 are, it is said, not to be repaid to the go vernment; but the interest of the money is to be set apart as a fund for the annual payment of the priests. Even one word of comment upon so flagrant an intention, if it really exist, would be superfluous. England lent the money to the Irish proprietors to get them out of difficul ties, not to involve Ireland still more deeply in trouble. This new way to pay old debts is inadmissible. Do go vernment suppose that the people of this country will be insensible to the &image done, provided no new assault is made upon their pocket ? We assure our Whig friends that the dodge will not answer. Let them try another tack !—John Bull. PROGRESS OF FREE-TRADE.—Ina masterly and enter taining paper in Blackwood, for the present month, en titled " A Glimpse at Germany and its Parliament," we have met the following striking passage :—" I strolled from shop to shop, gleaning everywhere, as I went, statis tics touching the manner in which our free-trade innova tions have affected the industry of Great Britain. For a year and a half the boot and shoe trade has been remark ably thriving; the London market being the most profit able in the world, and nothing but British gold exported in return. As to cotton manufactures, Belgium and Switzerland have the monopoly of Southern Germany. The trade in Bohemian glass is rapidly superseding at home the labour of the silversmith. A complete service, so beautiful that it might be laid out on the table of a prince, costs about thirty pounds; and the names of the British magnates, which the dealer pointed to with ineffa ble triumph as purchasers, were so numerous as to con vince me that the deteriorating influence of free-trade was rapidly rising upwards. The same may be said of the cut lery, which is now sent to undersell the produce of the British artizan in his own peculiar market. When we couple those facts, which may be learned in every conti nental town, and the state of our falling revenue, and the grievous direct burthen which is imposed upon us in the shape of property and income tax, it is difficult for any Briton to understand upon what grounds the financial re putation of Sir Robert Peel is based, or to comprehend the wisdom of adhering to a system which sacrifices every thing in favour of the foreigner, and brings us in return no earthly recompense or gain." REAL INDEPENDENCE.—A man of real independence —not the mere independence of fortune, but the far higher independence of personal character—has much to endure In our tangled and complex system of legislation. As for yourself, for instance, who can afford to despise patro nage, who have neither sons to advance in the navy, or nephews in the Foreign-office, who neither want the Bath or a Baronetcy—who would be as sick of the flatteries, as you would be with the servility of party—why you shonld submit to the :lust, and heat, the turmoil and fatigue of a session, I can't think. And how you would be bored — bored by the ceaseless reiterations night after night, the same arguments growing gradually weaker as the echo grew fainter ; bored by the bits of Horace got off by heart to wind up with ; bored by the bad jests of witty mem bers ; bored by Peel's candour, and Palmerston's petu lance ; by Cobden's unblushing effrontery, and Hume's tiresome platitude. You'd never know a happy day or joyous hour till you accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and cut them all.—Roland Cashel, No. 7. RUSSIAN PICKPOCKETS.—A gentleman buying a cape selected one of an unusual shape from the hatter's coun ter, and, after much haggling, purchased it ; although it had been made to older, and the party for whom it was intended was expected to fetch it momentarily. To secure it, the gentleman put it on his head, and departed. In the course of his walk he found in his pocket a snu box which did not belong to him, and which he knew wa not there a short time before; he could not account fo it; presently he drew forth a strange handkerchief, an shortly afterwards he found himself enriched with pockei-book. Suspicious of these additions to his pro perty, he determined to stroll leisurely about to watch the result ; and at length, from the quantity of things placed softly about his person, he became convinced that he was converted into an ambulatory receiver of stolen goods. of which the cap was the sign. lie at once mad* i the dis , 7,overy to the police, who were not long in turning the information to account.—Thompson's Life in Rte► Th And 1 -cons stror from of F imps rope and Cont proh that gat( t. o Z 1