The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-02 00:00:00

INDOLENCE Indolent! indolent!—yes, I am indolent: So is the grass growing tenderly, slowly,— So is the violet fragrant and lowly, Drinking in quietness, peace, and content, — So is the bird on the light branches swinging, Idly his carol of gratitude singing, Only on iving and loving intent. Indolent ! indolent!—yes, I am indolent : So is the cloud overhanging the mountain, — So is the tremulous wave of a fountain, Uttering softly its elocuent psalm,— Nerve and sensation in quiet reposing, Silent as blossoms the night dew is closing, But the full heart beating strongly and calm. Indolent! indolent!—yes, I am indolent, If it he idle to gather my pleasure Out of creation's uncaveted treasure, and morningi,—by forest and sea,— Wild with the tempet's sublime exultation, Lonely in autumn's forlorn lamentation, Hopeful and happy with spring and the be( are ye not ind ges weary,— Thralls of the earth Toiling like Toiling, and sinning, Stifling the heavenwai Its t nomes "diem the darkness is dreary to heap up your gold,— reath of devotion.— Crushing the freshness of every emotion, — Hearts like the dead, that are pulseless and c Indolent ! indolent! rtthou not indolent, Thou who art hvin;; unto' and lonely all that will cover thee only Shrouded in selfishness, piteous ghost? Sad eyes behold thee, and angels are weeping O'er thy forsaken and desolate sleeping ' • Art thou not indol en t?—A rt thou not lost? LITERATURE IND THE FINE A. W. H ARTS. The Dwellings of the Poor, and the Means of Improving them. By Montague Gore. With a Sermon, by the Rev. 'F. Bearnes. London: James Ridgway. We are glad to see that Mr. Gore has vigorously taken np tl on the classes for whose comfort he is such a sincere friend We hope every philanthropist and Christian will read his work, and that before much time elapses one great so he has conferred a boon source of poverty, miser), and vice existing among the poor will be extinguished Notes. to accompany Mr. Wyld's Model of the Earth, Leicester-square This is a unique guide to Mr. Wylcr's wonderful and interesting performance. It is in itself a geographical treatise, and commences with a description of the Earth as part of the solar system, treats on its structure and phenomena, and gives an intelligible yet elaborate de scription of all the countries, oceans, and seas, and abounds with useful instruction. We should think that an inspection of Mr. Wyld's globe for a few hours, as- aisted by the " Notes," would do more to verse a man in geographical knowledge than months of dry and labo rious study. The delightful impressions which must be made on the mind would afford scope for high and instructive thought. ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES.—We have received from Col. Rawlinson an important communication relative to a dis covery made by him—in an inscription upon an Assyrian bull—of an account of the campaign between Sennacherib and Iltzekiali. It is a most satisfactory step to have es tablished the identity of the king who built the great Palace of Koyunjik with the Sennacherib of Scripture. We have now a tangible starting place for historical re search, and shall (Colonel Rawlinson asserts) make rapid progress in fixing the Assyrian chronology.—Alkencettm. HOW TO CUICE LYING'IN A FCHOOL. I II is said of the late Dr. Arnold, by his biographer, that it was his wish that as much as possible should be done by the boys, and nothing for them ; hence arose his practice, in which his own delicacy of feeling and uprightness of purpose power fully assisted him, of treating the boys as gentlemen and reasonable beings; of making them respect themselves by the mere respect he showed them ; of showing that he ap pealed and trusted to their own common sense and con acience. L••ing to the masters, for example, he made a great and moral offence, placing implicit confidence in a hov's assertion ; and then, if a falsehood was discovered, punishing it severely, and in the upper part of the school, when persisted in, with expulsio9. Even in the lower forms, any attempt at further proof of an assertion was immediately checked, by " If you say so, that is quite enough—ot course, I believe your word." There grew up in consequence, a general feeling that it was a shame to tell Arnold a lie ; he always believes one. MARRIED LlFE. — Deceive not one another in small things nor in great. One single little lie has, before now, disturbed a whole married life—a small cause has often great consequences. Fold not arms together and sit idle, "Laziness is the devil's cushion." Do not run much from hcme. One's own hearth is worth more than gold. Many a marriage, my friends, begins like a rosy morning, and then falls away like a snow wreath. And why, my friends ? Because the married pair neglect to be as well pleasing to each oilier after marriage as before. Endeavour always, my children, to please one another ; but at the same time keep God in your thoughts. Lavish not all your love on to-day, for remember that marriage has its to-morrow likewise, and its day after to-morrow. Spare, as one may say, fuel for winter. Consider, my daughters, what the word wife expresses. The married woman is the husband's domestic faith ; in her hand he must be able to entrust to her the key of his heart, as well as the key of his eating-room. His honour and his home are under her keeping—his well-being in her hand. Think of this : and you sons, be faithful husbands,and good fathers of families. Act so that your wives shall esteem and love you.—Fre derika Bremer. RESCUE FROM THIRST BY A PIGEON.—It is impossible for fireside travellers to more than guess at the joy of ex pected rescue from death which the movements of an Australian pigeon can inspire. Captain Sturt's narrative of such an event is touching and unaffected. " None (he says) of the horses could eat except Traveller. The others collected around me, as I sat under a tree, with their heads over mine, and my own horse pulled my hat off my head to engage my attention. Poor brute! I would have given much to relieve him, but I could not. We were all in the same distress, and if we had not ultimately found water must have perished together. Finding that they would not eat, we proceeded onwards. At the head of the valley Traveller fell dead. We made for the spot where we had expected to relieve ourselves and our horses, but the water was gone. Mr. Sturt poked his finger into the mud and moistened his lips in the water that filled the holes that he had made, but that was all. Our fate seemed inevitable, when suddenly a pigeon topped the sand.hill— being the first bird we had seen—a solitary bird. Passing us like lightning, it pitched for a moment, and for a mo ment only, on the plain a quarter of a mile from us, and then flew away. It could only have wetted its bill, but Mr. Sturt marked the spot, and there was water ! We were saved ! !"— The Dovecot and the Aviary. WOMAN.—We do not agree in considering woman al together an angel ' • because, to verify the resemblance, woman should b e faultless, and we have never yet met with one who had not some fascinating little sin left to show that she was not too good for this world. Our no tion of woman, in the best sense of the word, is a being fitted to be a help meet for man. She should have a faithful, loving heart, that when, foiled in his worldly career, his spirit is dark within him, and, in the bitterness of his soul, he confesses that the " good that he would he does not, but the evil he would not, that he does," her affection may prove to him, that in her love he has one inestimable blessing yet remaining of which death alone can deprive him, and then only for a season ; for, availing herself of the fitting moment with the delicate tact which is one of the brielitest instincts of a loving woman's heart, she can offer him the only true consolation, by urging him to renew his Christian warfare in the hope that toge ther they may attain the reward of their high calling, a reward so glorious that the mind of man is impotent to conceive its nature. But to be able to do this, she must herself have realised by the power of faith the blessedness of things unseen, and with this requisite, without which all other excellencies are valueless, we conclude our defi nition of " woman as she should be." Such a one was Rose Arundel, and countless others are there who, if not sinless as the radiant messengers of heaven, are yet doing angels' work by many a fire-side which their presence cheers and blesses. Happy is the man who possesses in a wife or sister such a hoesehold fairy ; and it some there be who bear alone the burden of life, whose joys are few, —for we rejoice not in solitude,—let those whose lot is brighter forgive the clouded brow, or the cynical word, that at times attests the weariness of a soul on which the sunlight of affection seldom beams.—Lewis Arundel. ROMAN GA oi.s.—They are divided into cells of between 7 and 8 feet square, or, as it may be desirable to state the exact proportions, of 8 ft. llin. in length, ift. iin. in breadth, and ift. 10in. in height. In each of these are shut two prisoners, who are thus placed on an allowance of air little greater than that required for the consumption of one. But this separate incarceration is a privilege to be earned only by formidable guilt or purchased by con siderable bribes. For the common class of prisoners there is one common room, where they lie day and night, like negroes in a slave ship, on straw too foul for a stable. On provocation given or assumed the gaoler has the power of inflictin g severe flogging, or of attaching to the legs of his victims a weight of iron so great as almost to incapacitate them from moving. Besides these apart ments there are others designed to hold ten prisoners each, but for which twenty is now considered a fitter complement, and in these the single window is so high from the ground that the inmates can only obtain a breath of air by mounting upon each others shoulders in turn. Once a month only is any visit allowed from friends or relatives, and then in the presence of the gaolers and with a double iron grating intervening. We have confined ourselves to a simple statement of facts without any comment, but the reader will probably be not surprised when we add, that within the space of a few days, as credibly reported, six prisoners had died of starvation, two had been put in irons for attempting suicide, and two had been carried raving to a madhouse. Even this, however, is but an imperfect sketch of the horrors prevailing. So frightful are the practices of these rooms, where the very vilest of desperadoes are herded together without any effectual supervision, that the politi cal prisoners are glad to provoke solitary confinement by any breach of discipline as an escape from inexpressible pollution. Thosn who remember the stories of convict life which almost terrified our government from the sys tem of transportation, will be able to imagine the enor mities of these infamous abodes. and to conclude how completely even all that we have described is outdone by that which is indescribable....-- Tito Timer., FOREIGN AND COLON - IAL. ♦ FRANCE. The shopl(eepers of Paris admit that this is the best season they have experienced for some years. The manu facturers continue to receive orders from abroad, and all articles of luxury are in good demand; but the difficulty of converting commercial bills into cash tends to restrict the amount of their operations. The accounts from the agricultural districts state that the harvest is almost en tirely concluded. The wheat crop is excellent throughout the southern and western departments, and in the Bour bonnais. It is expected to produce a fair average in the departmenis of the centre, notwithstanding the storms and inundations which have prevailed there and in some places have produced considerable injury, but the produce bas not been so abundant in the neighbourhood of Paris, La Beauce, La Brie, , Picardy, Champagne, Lorraine, Alsace, and the Ardennes. Notwithstanding the latter drawback to the general prosperity, the millers show no inclination to purchase, being persuaded that wheat must MI still lower when the new grain appears in large quantities in the markets. Five more general councils have adopted resolutions in favour of revision of the constitution. Several of the .Orleanists who went to London for the funeral service to the memory of Louis Philippe have returned to Paris. It is stated on the authority of one of the most prominent among them that the Prinoe de Join vine is decidedly disposed to accept the candidateship for the Presidency of the Republic if, to use his own words, it should gagner din terrain in France ; but the ex-Queen is as decidedly opposed to it. In this case the candidate ship would probably be abandoned by nearly all the respectable men of the party. The funeral service for the repose of the soul of the late King Louis Philippe took place on Tuesday in the Royal Chapel at Dreux. It was attended by M. Desmous seaux (de Givrt,), representative of the people. M. Charles, ex-deputy, M. Marechal, ex-sub-prefect of Dreux, a num ber of officers and soldiers, and of the most respectable inhabitants of the town. After the ceremony the vaults were thrown open, and a great number of persons visited them to pray by the tombs of the royal family. There is a balloon mania in Paris; nearly every one is gazing skywards at the monsters that float through the air: Each child in Paris has a balloon of his own, or cries till he gets one ; and this, or a parachute, he is perpetually throwing out of his nursery window, to his own imminent danger, or dragging through the streets, to the annoyance of the passers-buy. The new name for parachute is " la distraction des enfans," and the distraction sellers attract your attention at the corner of every street. The Poitevins now daily atta'n the greatest height of absurdity. Monsieur and Madame ascend each on a horse attached to a balloon, with agroom on another horse,atarespectful distance below. Amongst the suicides are some remarkable ones. The body of an officer was found in le his de Vincennes, sup posed to have been shot in a duel. A late governor of Martinique, who decended from a cabriolet in le Rue des Noyers, at the Hotel des Arts, ordered a room and a cold chicken with a bottle of wine. Shortly afterwards a report was heard, and on forcing the door lie was found with his brains blown out, and a pistol loaded on the table. An other is more extraordinary. Beranger, a fisherman at Quillebceuf, opened the veins of his arm, his neighbours came in and prevented his bleeding to death, and got him home. There, with a rope he had nailed on the wall, he got on a chair, and threw himself off; twice the nail and chair gave way, but the third time he succeeded. A neigh bour forced open the door and cut him down, when Ber anger squeezed his hand and died. It is astonishing the propensity there appears to be to commit suicide. The Bordeaux journals state that, for some time back, the dealers in leeches in that city had a quantity offered to them for sale. The price was so low that suspicions were excited that these persons must have become illegally possessed of them. One night a watch was kept by five gendarmes, and at last it was found that not less than seven men, naked to the waist, entered the marshes of Bruges, and there letting the leeches bite their legs, picked them off and threw them into a vessel prepared to receive them. When the gendarmes saw the men well engaged in their work, they cried out to them, in the name of the law, to deliver themselves up. Far from doing so, the whole seven took to flight in different direc tions. The gendarmes then called upon them to stop, or they would Are. The runaways, however, not paying any attention to this threat, the carbines were discharged and two of them wounded ; four others were overtaken and made prisoners, whilst the seventh escaped. The two wounded men were taken to the hospital, and the four arrested lodged in prison. THE MONSTER TRIAL AT LYONS.—On the conclusion of the sitting of the court-martial on Monday, some hun dreds of persons followed the advocates for the Prisoners, and intended to accompany t hem to the Hotel de l'Europe, but when the procession reached the bridge, a platoon of cavalry cut through the cortege in such a way as to sepa rate the advocates from the crowd, and the latter were preVented from going further, while the former proceeded quietly to their hotel. No opposition whatever was made to the soldiers. The same thing had occurred several times in the course of the trial. A grave incident occurred in the proceedings on Tuesday. Soon after the meeting of the court the President announced that the counsel for the prisoners had written to him to state that they with drew from the defence. This affair engrossed public at tention at Paris on Thursday. The withdrawal of the counsel for the defence is regarded by many as an indica tion of an organised scheme on the part of the Mountain and what is called the Jeune Montagne, who it is known have had a reconciliation, and it is feared that the condem nation of the prisoners under such circurnstanees may prove the signal for an outbreak in the southern and some of the western departments. Others consider these appre hensions wholly unfounded. EXPEDITION TO JAPAN.—A report is current that an expedition is about to be sent from France into the sea of Japan. is is said that it will consist of a frigate, a cor vette, and a steamer, under the orders of a rear-admiral. This expedition will be at once military, commercial, and scientific; and has for its object to open to European commerce States which have been closed against it since the 16th century. REPUBLICAN FRATERNIZATION IN LONDON.—"About thirty representatives belonging to the Mountain," says the 2lfessager, " are in a few days to take their departure for London. A banquet is to be given to them by the French and Italian refugees there. The principal object of their journey is to come to some understanding as to the candidate whom they ought to support for the office of the President of the Republic." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1851. PRUSSIA Intelligence from Hitchingen announces the arrival there oldie King of Prussia, and details the festivities at tendant on his Majesty's entrance into the hereditary castle of his ancestors. A number of Prussian military were assembled, and the ceremony of taking the oath of allegiance, on the 23rd, proceeded with great pomp and festivity. The King proceeded from Hohenzollern direct to Ischl to join the Queen, where her sister, the Arch duchess Sophia of Austria, was already, and where several crowned heads are shortly expected. AUSTRIA Telegraphic intelligence received at Paris announces that the Emperor of Austria had resolved to appoint a commission of inquiry into the practicability of establish ing a constitutional system in harmony with the rights of Monarchy. SPAIN A dreadful murder has been committed at St. Sebastian. The victim is a young lady named Brunet, daughter of the British consul there (a Spanish gentleman). The mur derer is an officer in the army, named Vito, who had pro fessed an attachment for her, but her parents were opposed to his paying his addresses to her. She was dancing at a ball held at the theatre a few nights ago with a son of the Marquis of Gaviria, when the officer, who had come from Onate to the ball, on her passing before him, suddenly drew forth a dagger, and gave her two stabs, which laid her dead on the spot. Ile was seized, and will be judged by court-martial, and doubtless shot. Senor Brunet, father of the unfortunate lady, is at present in England. A letter from Tudela states, that of seven persons who were bitten by a raging wolf, a short time before, nearly the whole had died :—" Three of them were taken to the shrine of San Pedro de Calanda, but one was obliged to be left afterwards at the hospital at Saragossa, and died of hydrophobia three days afterwards. The other two arrived at Tudela on the Bth ; the same symptoms imme diately presented themselves in one of them, and he died two days after; and the other, a man named Pedro Reza, alias Rosito, who had courageously fought with and killed the wolf, was also seized with the same symptoms, and has succumbed to that dire disease." ITALY A RENEGADE ARCHBISHOP.—The Archbishop of Mi lan, Romilli, who, during the triumph of the Milanese re volution, blessed the Italian flags, and preached a crusade against Austria—this same archbishop, in one of his cir culars addressed to all the clergy of his diocess, forbids them to give absolution to Catholics who come to confess, if they refuse to denounce to the police the enemies of the government who come to confess.—Daily News. THE BIBLE IN ITALY.—An English gentleman has been committed to prison in Florence for reading the Bible in his own house on Sunday. We annex an extract from the Univers, which is the recognised organ of the Gallican Church, as the Tablet is of its corresponding sister in Ireland. It is thus, according to the editor of that journal, they would " manage matters in France" if the Holy Office had its own again : " A heretic examined and convicted by the Church used to be delivered over to the secular power and punished with death. Nothing has ever appeared to us m )re natural or more neces sary. More than one hundred thousand persons perished in consequence of the heresy of Wicliff; a still greater number by that of John Huss ; it would not be possible to calculate the bloodshed caused by the heresy of Luther, and it is not yet over. After three centuries we are at the eve of a recommence ment. The prompt repression of the disciples of Luther, and a crusade against Protestantism, would have spared Europe three centuries of discord and of catastrophes in which France and civilization may perish. It was iinder the influence of such reflections that I wrote the phrase which has so excited the vir tuous indignation of the Red journals. Here it is :--` For my part, I avow frankly my regret is not only that they did not sooner burn John Huss, but that they did not equally burn Luther ; and I regret further that there had not been at the time some prince sufficiently pious and politic to have made a crusade against the Protestants.' Well, this paragraph might have been better penned • but, as I have the happiness to belong to those who care little about mere forms of expression, I will not revoke 'it. I accept it as it is, and with a certain satisfaction at finding myself faithful to my opinions. That which I wrote in 1838 I still believe. Let the Red philanthro pists print their declaration in any sort of type they please, and as often as they please. Let them add their commentaries, and place all to my a c count. The day that I cancel it the N% ill be Justified In holding th e op i n i on of ma a which I hold of them. 4Sigued) •' Lorts V{3111.1.07." EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTHERN ITALY. A - dreadful disaster occurred on the 14th ultimo, in the province of Basilicara, in this kingdom, and about 100 miles from Naples. A list of more than SO villages is given in which greater or less damage was done, in more than one place the principal buildings having been de stroyed, and in all several lives having been lost amidst the ruins of fallen houses. The greatest sufferer, how ever, was the town of Melfi, a place containing ten thousand inhabitants ; three-quarters of the city are a mass of ruins—the archbishop's palace, the college, the municipality, the barracks, and the police station . having been all levelled to the ground. The known deaths amount already to 700, besides 200 wounded, among _whom the principal families count victims. A rich and populous district has been completely destroyed, and the loss of life has been immense. It does not ap pear that the around opened, but all the injury was done by the houses falling from the repeated shocks of the earth quake, the rapidity of which was such that the persons in the houses and passing in the streets had not time to escape. The King on receiving this dreadful news imme diately ordered a sum of 4,000 ducats to be sent from his private purse, to which the Queen added 2,000, in addition to the sum of 5,000 ducats contributed by the Treasury. Temporary hospitals have been erected, and detachments of sappers and miners have been sent to the different places to assist in clearing away the ruins and disinterring the unfortunate victims. Private subscriptions have been opened in the towns near to the place where the catas trophe has occurred. and no doubt the active charity of the city of Naples will not be deficient. AMERICA By the arrival of the steam-ship Europa we have received advices from New York to the 21st ult. This noble steamer left Boston soon after noon on the 20th ult., and Halifax at nine o the morning of the 22!1d. She encountered strong easterly gales, and arrived here, after an excellent passage, on Sunday morning, at 3.30. She brought 44 passengers and 50,000 dollars. A fugitive slave case had occasioned much excitement at Buffalo. The man in question was second cook on board a steamer, and on his apprehension was struck senseless by a billet of wood. This caused great excitement, and large crowds of people accompanied the parties to the court-house, where the negro did not deny being a slave, and an order was then made for his removal to Kentucky. His assailant was bound over for bail for the assault. The intell;gence from Havana is most contradictory, and scarcely any reliance can be placed upon the statements in the newspapers. From Torcnto we learn that the Legislative Assembly had adopted the government resolutions for appropriating sixteen millions of dollars towards building the Grand Trunk Railroad through Canada and New Brunswick to Halifax, Nova Scstia. The decided action of that pro vince and the known favour with which this long-talked of and great national enterprise was regarded in the lower provinces leaves little room for doubt but that it will now be prosecuted to a successful issue. A passenger train had been here for the first time over the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad. which completes the railway com munication between Montreal and Boston. From Mexico we have intelligence to the 18th Ju►y. The Chamber of Deputies was in session. Gen. Aristo had lost his popularity, and required a r. gular guard of soldiers. Beyond these meagre items we have no news. The vessel which brought these advices to New York bad 60,000 dollars in specie on freight. LATEST BY TELEGRAGH NEW YORK, 21st August. Steady business in cotton, at former prices. More doing in flour, at previous quotations. Indian corn better. Government securities fair. Fancy stocks dull. U.S. Loan Six per Cent 1856, 1041; 62's, 110. Steamer Union, four days out from San Francisco, wrecked in Bay of St. Quentin ; gold, 1,500,000 dollars ; 219,000 saved ; crew saved. Report, by steamer Winfield Scott, that Lopez landed 450 men at Cubanos, forty miles from Hadana : very doubtful. INDIA We have intelligence by Overland Mail from Bombay, July 26, and from Calcutta July 15. Earl Dalhousie's term of service, as Governor General, expires in October, 1852; but opposite reports were in circulation at Calcutta —one that his lordship would retire before that period; the other that his administration had given such satisfac tion that he would hold office beyond that time. It appears quite certain that a portion of the Nizam's dominions will be seized for the debt due to the English government. The Nepalese have introduced into their country the punishment of transportation, and Allahabad has been selected as their first convict station. It is a singular fact that the King's brother and General Jung Behadur's bro ther and cousin are the three first prisoners doomed to pay that penalty for five years, for being the principal instigators in the late attempted rebellion at Katmandoo. Several villages in the neighbourhood of the Runn of Cutch had been washed away by inundation, and many lives were lost. One of the persons in prison for setting the clipper Ariel on fire has made confession that he and others were employed by a Calcutta merchant to perform that incendiary act. The Mofussilite of the Ist of July, circulated a report that Goolab Sing had been murdered by his nephew, and that several British officers had also been killed. The Lahore Chronicle declares the state ment to be a vile fabrication. A plot for the release of Dewan Moolraj from Fort William, it is said, had been discovered and defeated. Commercial affairs at Calcutta had undergone little change since the departure of the previous mail. At Bombay imports were in good demand, but exports were inactive. Money was plentiful. AUSTRALASIA An industrial exhibition is to be held in the Government Domain, Sydney, in October. It is to include products from Australia, the neighbouring countries, and the islands of the Pacific. No further intelligence has been received of the missing State prisoner, Mr. M`Manus, and Sir William Denison is said to be half frantic at his escape.—Melbourne Herald. TURKEY. An imperial ordonnance has been communicated to the Divan, requesting all the civil officers of the empire to send their decorations to the mint without delay. The amount of jewels collected amounts to upwards of £300,000 and will be lodged at the Yetim-office, for the purpose of obtaining ready cash to pay the contingent expenses of dispatching the fleet. We have received the intelligence from Sulemanieh of Aziz Bey's flight to the interior of Persian Kurdistan. Accompanied by eight or ten horsemen he proceeded to Senna, and from thence, although not very probable, it was reported he had the intention of seeking protection at the court of Teheran. The province of Sulemanieh, since Aziz Bey's departure, has been in a state of tranquillity. . . A most destructive and dreadful fire broke out at Scutari a little after twelve at night. At about two in the morning it had consumed all the bazaar, and had taken five different courses, and was burning most splendidly. At half-past two the fire was communicated to the lofty minarets of the mosque of Scutari, which burned like tapers in candle sticks. All efforts to extinguish the fire were fruitless, and the people in despair were everywhere seen invoking the clemency of the Almighty. At about half-past four, the wind abating permitted the efforts of the firemen to have effect ; and finally, at about five, a heavy shower was the cause of its being mastered. The loss is calculated by eye-witnesses at from 1200 to 1500 houses and shops, ex clusive of public establishments. The barque Linda, from Canton, reports, in lat. 29 42 N., lon. 140 31 E., discovered an island having the ap pearance of a ship in the distance. It is not laid down on the chart. The Queen of Holland gave birth to a Prince at four o'clock on the morning of the 24th ult., at the Hague. The First Chamber has presented a congratulatory address to the King on the occasion of the happy accouchement of the Queen. The state of her Majesty is far from satis• factory ; she suffers much from fever. The state of the royal patient, however, does not present any dangerous symptoms at present, The young prince is to receive the names of William Alexander Charles Henry Frederick. AN ESCAPE.—M. Tardini, the Swedish aeronaut, had a narrow escape the other day. He ascended at Stockholm, and, when at an immense height, a fissure somehow or other took place in the balloon, the gas began to escape, and the aeronaut begant to descend with fearful rapidity. Fortunately a light north-wenter had blown the machine over the sea, and just as M. Tardini was precipitated into the water, the mail steamer iEgir was passing, and the captain picked up the aeronaut and his balloon, and con veyed them to Stockholm. _ _ _ _ PLAYING A T WAR.—" Little children and great fools," says the old proverb, " should not play with edged tools." Its wisdom is apparent to all but continental governments, who play at soldiering regardless of the danger of placing sharp swords and deadly weapons of all kinds in the hands of ignorant men. The Bavarian papers contain accour.ts of an accident at Munich, which ought to be a lesson to them all. At a grand review and sham battle on the 14th ult., two squadron of cavalry, one attacking and the other defending a battery of artillery, got actually engaged; they rushed against one another with more than the usual fear lessness displayed in a field of battle ; a hand to hand con flict ensued, and some forty men were more or less seriously wounded. The causeof the encounter is involved in mystery. THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA. — Lieut. M. C. Watk ins, of the American Navy, has laid a plan for the exploration of Africa before the Secretary of the American Navy. His scheme is to cost the Government nothing. He simply asks leave of absence, on present pay, for himself, one midshipman, one engineer, and six mechanics, now belonging to the naval service and under pay, and doing little or nothing. He also asks for the use of a small iron steamer, to be built under his direction, which steamer he will take out to Africa in one of the government storeships. The boat will be made in two pieces, and will be so light that she can easily be carried around the falls and other obstructions that may be met with in the rivers. Mr. Watkins does not even ask for rations for his party, as he expects to procure supplies very cheaply by traffic with the natives. 10,000 dollars will cover all the expenses of the expedition, which the Overnment is called upon to pay. With a staff of scientiffic men, including a . physician, he will take six or eight coloured natives of Liberia who are accustomed to the people, and have accompanied former exploring parties. Mr. Watkins will first explore the St. Paul—a very interesting river—and trace it to its source. Ile will next trace the Niger and the Congo, and other important rivers, from their mouths to their sources,and proceed to explore the vast and now unknown regions of the interior. Lieutenant Watkins says, "If we do not come back, our journals will, and there will be many officers ready to take up ;our work where we leave it. His offer is now under consideration, and it is supposed dirt if the President makee no objection, it willbeaOcepted. IRELAND. BARBAROUS MURDER IN QUEEN'S COUNTY Mr. Edward White, a gentleman of property, residing near Abbeyleix, in the Queen's County, has been barba rously murdered. It appears that the deceased, who was nearly 70 years of age, having by his own industry amassed a considerable property in ready money, pur chased a short time since a portion of the Portarlington estate in the neighbourhood of Abbeyleix. A dispute arose with some persons in the neighbourhood about a turbary, and some summonses to petty sessions had been issued on both sides. Some litigation was thus going for ward, but there was no uncommon feature in the transac tion, and anything like serious ill-feeling towards him was not apprehended by Mr. White. However, on Mon day morning, while driving to his land, he was met on the road by a man who stopped the gig, deliberately shot Mr. White through the heart, and then, having thrown the pistol into the vehicle, coolly walked away. when the pony proceeded on its journey and conveyed the inanimate corpse of its master to the farm. THE MURDER WAS C , %II.MITTED WITHIN SIGHT OF HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE R , :kPING IN THE SURROUNDING FIELDS, BUT NOT THE SLIGHTEST ATTEMPT WAS MADE EITHER TO RENDER ASSISTANCE TO THE GENTLEMAN ATTACKED OR TO AP PREHEND THE ASSASSIN. In commenting upon this atrocious deed, the Dublin Evening Mail says, " the murder of Mr. 'White is the most remarkable proof which recent years have produced of the utter worthlessness of ponular esteem and favour as a shield against the assas sin's blow, or a motive to pursue and give him up to jus tice. Of his class there was not, perhaps, in Ireland a man more generally known, or for whom the lower classes of the people professed and, we really believe, entertained a more undivided sentiment of regard. He had for many years carried on a thriving trade in goods adapted almost exclusively for their use; and his dealings were felt and acknowledged by them to be conducted with the strictest probity, and in a most kindly and considerate spirit. Ile was courteous and obliging—never gave offence to any man—never spoke slightingly or rashly of any man's opinions or politics ; and lived on terms of perfect peace with all his neighbours. If the Roman Catholic priests were the efficient conser. raters of order and teachers of morality which they pre tend to be, could a murder, under such circumstances, have been perpetrated ? In the open day an assassin places himself kr ambush, his purpose palpable, and the murderous instrument in his hand ; the wheels of the victim are heard, louder and louder, as they approach, and perhaps, in the dreadful hush of expectation, the very click of the gun, as it is brought to a full cock, might be distinguished. But nobody runs to meet and urge him to turn back. Not a voice is raised to warn him of the deadly adder that lies coiled in his path : he is suffered to come on to the place marked out for the tragedy, and when all is over, the chief actor, his heart slaked with blood, as Sylla is described on his abdication, " departs in savage grandeur home." The witnesses of this deed were, all of them, doubtless, among the devout congregation at mass last Sunday, and their places will not miss them on the Sabbath which is approaching. Possibly the murderer himself, too, may be in the midst of them, perfectly conscious that his secret is safe. We ask, of what use is the church of Rome, which professes to probe the inmost thoughts of all its children, and to rule them through that inquisition, when deeds like this are not only contrived, and achieved with the full knowledge of its flock, but screened by the ministrations of its priesthood ? In such a system the Influence of a pastor may be great to cloak and conceal a criminal ; but he is bound up and restrained by the strongest obligations —were he ever so well disposed—to prevent a crime or expose its perpetrator. ATTEMPT TO MURDER A PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN. We regret to announce that on Sunday last two shots were fired at the Rev. Hamilton Townsend, of Port Royal, Ballinrobc, while the rev. gentleman was in his bedroom. Happily, the shots did not take effect. The Rev. Mr. Townsend is a resolute and faithful champion of the Christian faith, and has fearlessly exposed the priests of Rome on all occasions. This was his crime. THE CROPS.—The provincial journals still continue to speak hopefully of the potato crop. Some uneasiness is felt about the weather at this precarious crisis, but hither to, notwithstanding its roughness in the beginging of the week, no material injury has been sustained by the grain crops. The harvest operations have been going actively forward in various parts of the country, and the crops are described as being at least an average. THE IRISH EXILES. —A "public national soirei" is to be given at the Rotunda on this day, Tuesday, to com memorate the escape of Terence Bellew M'Manus, one of the heroes of the great rebellion of 1848. The proceedings, says the advertisement, " will wind up with a ball," and "intoxicating drinks are to be excluded from the refresh ments." Among otherdistinguished " friendsof humanity" who have been invited to attend, M. Ledru Rollin stands foremost. ASSAULT ON THE MAYOR. OF Kt LKENNY.—On Tuesday the Mayor of Kilkenny having directed a prisoner named Kelly, who was under examination, and who had previously been remanded, to be remanded again, the fellow ex claimed, "You will send me back again, will you ? Take that !" and producing a heavy paving stone from beneath his coat, he flung it at the Mayor's head with fearful force. Luckily it only struck the Mayor's hat, which it knocked off. The villain was to remain in prison until he was tried for this murderous attack. MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE.—The family of Henry Grattan Curran, Esq., Stipendiary Magistrate at Strokes town, have just been plunged into deep affliction by the accidental death of his only son. The unfortunate youth having gone to dine with some other lads at the house of Mr. Mahon, while they were preparing for dinner in a bed room one of them having been tampering with a pistol which he found on the chimney-piece, and supposing it to unloaded, raised it in the direction of young Curran, when it exploded, and the lad fell dead on the spot, the ball having penetrated his brain. BIRTH ON BOARD A STEAMER.—On Saturday, about twenty minutes after the Garryowen steamer left the quay of Limerick for Kilrush, with a great number of passen eers, a sudden cry was raised on deck for an accoucheur. This unexpected demand caused much surprise • but the fact was, a married woman had been taken andi did re quire immediate aid. The ladies in the steerage were in a state of consternation, and the gentleman knew not what to do ; but Captain Bingham promptly directed a few of her own sex to convey the woman to the female cabin, where, in a few minutes, she was safely delivered of a fine son, much to the gratification of all the passengers. Captain Bingham directed every attention to be paid the female, and permitted her to remain on board until next evening, when she was conveyed to Kilkee, with an agree able present to her husband. — Limerick Chronicle. ARMY AND NAVY. OFFICE OF OF ORDNANCE, Aug. 27.—Royal Regt. of Artillery. —Second Lieut. William Wilberforce Hagan to be First Lieut., vice Piers, resigned. ADMIRALTY, Aug. 27.—The following promotions have this day taken place consequent on the death, on the 2Gth inst., of Rear-Admiral of the Blue Lord John Hay, C.B.:—Constantine Richard Nloorsom, Esq. ; Right Hon. George James, Earl of Egmont; and Sir George Augustus Westphal, to be Rear- Admirals on the Reserved Half-pay List. Provo Wm. Parry Wallis, Esq., to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. The following Captains on the Retired List have been pro moted to be Retired Rear-Admirals, on the terms proposed in the London Gazette of the Ist Sept., 1846, but without increase of pay :—Hon. John Gordon, William Popham, Esq., James Hay, Esq., Sir Charles Thos. Jones, Robt. Riddell Carre, Esq. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, --- LATEST BETTING The betting upon all fotqhcoanle;ents to-day was nearly at a stand, still the only apparent alteration in the odds since the beginning of the week being in respect of Herbert for the LO'amington Stakes, about whom 9 to 2 was several times accepted, 7 to I being offered freely against Goldfinder, and 10 to I laid against The Castle. It will be sufficient to add, the remaing business on the different events named was limited to offers, viz. :— Leamington Stakes.-4 to 1 agst Herbert (9 to 2 tk); 7 to I agst Goldfinder (offered); 100 to 10 agst The Castle (tk); 10 to 1 agst Fugleman (tk 12 to 1); 12 to 1 agat Doubt (offered); 12 to I agst Leap-Year (offered); 100 to 7 agst Windhound (offered). Great Yorkshire Handicap.-5 to I agst Nancy (offered) ; 7 to I agst Cossack (offered); 100 to S agst Niss Ann (tk, aft off); 14 to 1 agat Knock Knoll (offered); 100 to 7 agst Vatica❑ (tk, aft off); 10 to 1 agst Nancy winning this and the Cup (tk 11 to 1). The St. Leger.-5 to 2 agst Hernandez (tk 3to 1); 3to 1 agst The Ban (tk 4 to 1); 5 to 1 agst John Day's lot (tk 6 to 1); 12 to 1 agst Hothorpe (offered); 12 to I agst Aphrodite (tk 100 to 7); 100 to 3 agst Calculator (offered); 100 to 3 agst Exeter (offered). Cambridgeshire Slakes.-15 to 1 agst Nancy (tk 20 to 1); 500 to 12 agst Bordeaux (tk); 1000 to 15 ugst Eliza Middleton (offers to take). THE PEDESTRIAN FEAT AT SHEFFIELD.—TENTH WEEK.— Richard Manks is still proceeding favourably with his great teat, although for some days during the last week the weather has been exceedingly unfavourable. On Sunday and Monday, heavy showers, with boisterous winds, impeded his progress, causing him at times to carry an umbrella, and to change his clothes for warmer and thicker apparel. During some miles he took at least three minutes more than if he had been clad in his regular walking dress; his left heel also has pained him more than usual, blisters having formed into sores difficult to heal. Still his germ rat health remains excellent, so much so that his weight is daily increasing; the decrease of the first four weeks being considerably lessened. At the present time he weighs lest. 61b., having added during the last three weeks more than 141 b. to his weight. As the time of completion draws nearer, his good spirits and resolution increase. indeed. nobody now doubts that he will be enabled to perform the whole 1,750 miles truly and honourably, which will leave immeasurably in the distance all other walking feats ever attempted by man. The average time taken during the twelve hours of each (lay for the week has been 12 minutes per mile ; and, during the night, about 16 minutes. At ten o'clock on Friday night, he would commence his £6oth mile, leaving him but 140 more to complete the whole number of 1,759. Next week, it is expected, will bring a vast concourse of spectators from different parts, to witness the completion of this extraor dinary undertaking. Several special trains are alreidy engaged to convey passengers from Birmingham, Manchester, and Leeds. The non-commissioned officers and privates of the 11th Hussars, now quartered at Sheffield barracks, have agreed to subscribe the amount of one day's pay, wherewith to pur chase a silver snuff-box to be presented to Manks. The offi cers have also signified it as their intention to present the pedestrian champion with a piece of plate, so fully convinced are they that he is going through the whole of his feat man fully and truly. . Warwick Wilmslow Lincoln Rochester Airdrie Radcliffe Lichfield Cheable Yarmouth Leicester Weymouth Morpeth Bridgewater, &s RACING FIXTURES. , Sept. %Liverpool Hunt (Hoylake) ..10 %Tunbridge Wells lO 4,U ttoxet , r 4;l)over 4,l)oncaider s,'Fenby 8 Sherburne 8 Upton-on-Severn .. B!Bedford 9 Eglinton-park 10 Manchester Autumn 10:Newmarket F. 0 10iSandbach 23 24 23 or 24 25 30 30 ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Bain, Rev. William Richard, M.A., to the Rectory of Flempton, with Hengrave, Suffolk ; Davis, Rev. C. H., to be Chaplain pro tern to theStroud Union ; Eden, Rev. A., to the Vicarage of Ticehurst, Sussex ; Fagan, Rev. G. H., Rector of Kingsweston, to be Honorary Secretary to the Bath and Wells Diocesan Societies, vice the Rev. Prebendary Gunning; Findlay, Rev. W., to the Rectory of Dronfield, Derbyshire ; Fisher, Rev. G. 1., .to the Vicarage of Abbots Kerswell, Devon ; Guest, Rev. 8., to the RectoPy of Pilton, Northamptonshire:Gunning, Rev. William, 8.C.L., Prebendary of Wells, and Vicar of Buckland Newton, to he a Rural Dean in the Deanery of Whitechurch, diocese of Salisbury ; Herbert, the Hon. and Rev. G., to the Rectory of Shrawardine and Vicarage of Mont ford, Salop ; Hoole, the Rev. W. S., to the Incumbency of St. James's Church, Briercliffe, near Burnley ; Marling, Rev. T. H., to the Perpetual Curacy of Clayton, Bradford, Yorkshire ; Onslow, Rev. P., to the Curacy of Doddington. Cambridge ; Pedder. Rev. J., to be Principal of Bishop Cosin's Hall, Dur ham ; Rowell, Rev. F. T., to the Perpetual Curacy of Burman tons, Leeds ; Sandes, Rev. H. L., 8.A., to the Rectory of Bal. lycuslane, diocese of Ardfert ; Stallard, Rev. J. 0., M.A., Curate of •St. Lawrence, Evesham, to the Perpetual Curacy of Brockhampton, near Ross ; Waring, Rev. W., Rector of Shob don, Herefordshire, to the Archdeaconry of Salop, founded in the Cathedral Church of Hereford ; Weston, Rev. Thomas Woods, to the Perpetual Curacy of Preston-on-Stour, Glouces tershire.. BENEFICES AND APPOINTMENTS VACANT. DEANERY.—Armagh, RECTORlES.—Llariiliewy-Skirrid, Monmouthshire ' • diocese of Llandaff, value .k 1137 ; patrons, Representatives of the late Rector.—ttadwell, Herts ; diocese of Rochester; value '226, with residence ; patron, Francis Pym, Esq.—Wilsford ; diocese of Lincoln ; value .e5OO ; patron, Rev. C. Brackenbury. PERPETUAL. CURAClES.—Liverpool, St. John ; diocese of Chester • value £270 ; patrons, Rey. Dr. M`Neile and others Oaks, Charnwood-Forest, Leicestershire ; diocese of Peter borough ; value .480 ; patrons, Lords of Six Manors on the Forest.—Whitwick, St. George, Leicester; diocese of Peter borough ; value £l2O, with residence ; patron, Vicar of Whit wick. VICARAGES.—Aveburv, with Winkerhourne, Wilts ; diocese of Salisbury ; value .E17:8, with residence ; patron, Lord Chan cellor.—Stranton ; diocese of Durham ; value -t'2Bo, with resi dence ; patron, Sir M. W. Ridley. MASTERSH i rs.—Leamington College ; Classical Mastership. —Wimborne School, Dorset ; Head Mastership. OxFotto.—lt is rumoured that Lord John is anxious to get the Report of the Oxford University Commission, with a view to have some measures founded on it, prepared during the recess. It is stated at the same time that the Commission is desirous of " reporting in as friendly a spirit as possible towards the University." OBITUARY August 22. of consumption, at Over Worton, Oxfordshire, the Rev. Wm. Davis Wilson, Vicar of Faringdon, Berhs, aged 33. August 16, in his 95th year, the Rev. William Field, of Learn, Warwick, author of " The Life of 1)r. Parr," &c. August IS, in his 66th year, the Rev. James Mayo, Vicar of Avebury, Wilts, and for many years Head Master of the Free Grammar School at Wimborne. August 13, at the Ankerbill, near Monmouth, of apoplexy, aged 53, the Rev. Mathew Henry Jones, Rector of Llanthewy- Skirrid, Monmouthshire. August 15, at Hull, aged 82, the Rev. George Bugg, Rector of Wilsford, Lincolnshire. _ _ August 25, aged 81, the Rev. Robert Crosse, of Long Langton, near Blandford, who for several years has been confined to his dwelling-house and bed from weakness and infirmity. June 24, in Texas, of cholera, the Rev. Richard Pidcocke, Incumbent of warslow, Sraffordshire ; and on the following day, of the same disease, Harriet Millicent, his wife. The Earl of Chichester has given an acre of land on the north-west part of Lindfield common as the site for a school and school-house in connexion with the Estab lished Church. The Sherborne Journal states that the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells has been obliged to have three of his fingers amputated; mortification ensuing in these parts, the painful operation became necessary to save his lord ship's life. A beautiful Episcopal chapel, dedicated to St. Paul, was, on the 15th ultimo, consecrated by the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, at Dolfor, in the parish of Kerry, in the county of Montgomery. It contains a hundred and fifty sittings, all of which are free. _ _ _ Lady Emily Foley, and her sister-in-law, Lady Lam bert, have jointly sent to the committee for building and endowing Trinity Church, North Malvern, the munificent sum of £lOOO towards the endowment. The edifice is nearly completed, and will probably be ready for conse cration by the middle of next month. On the suggestion of the Rev. R. Burgess, of Chelsea, the inhabitants of St. Luke's, in that parish, are attempt ing to raise £B,OOO or £lO,OOO to purchase the advowson of the rectory put up to auction this week by the Earl of Cadogan. On the proposition of the same gentleman, it was agreed that the presentation when purchased should be vested in a committee, who should be instructed to pre sent "an Evangelical clergyman" to the rectory. The churchwardens of Wimborne, in their official capacity, and acting under the sanction of the Bishop of the diocese, on Friday last forcibly removed the locks from off the doors of the choir in the minster, which had in the preceding week been fixed there, at the instance, it is understood, of the corporate body, between whom and the churchwardens there is some cause of disagreement.— Poole Herald. THE CONVOCATION.—On Thursday morning, the pro rogation of the convocation of the province of Canterbury took place at the Jerusalem Chamber. No member of the upper house was present, except his grace the president, but a few members of the lower house were in attendance. No prayers were read, nor was any business transacted, but the Archbishop of Canterbury called at once upon Mr. F. H. Dyke, the principal registrar of the province, to read the writ of prorogation. The proceedings then terminated. THE NEW CHURCH-BUILDING ACT.—On the 7th inst. the Act to amend the Church-building Acts received the Royal assent. This act was passed to amend 18 church building acts, from the reign of George 111. to the present time. There are 30 clauses in the act. Among other things it is declared that where a permanent provision, satisfactory to the Church building Commissioners, is secured in lieu of pew rents, the commissioners, with the consent of the bishop, may direct the pew rents to cease. With regard to select vestries it is enacted, " From and after the passing of this act no select vestry shall be formed under the provisions of the church-building acts, and every such select vestry already formed under such provisions shall be and is hereby declared to be abolished ; and all the powers and provisions therein enacted relative to such select ye:Ali( s shall henceforth cease and determine, pro vided that all matters and things done by any such select vestry, in pursuance of any powers given them by such acts, or any of them, shall be and remain as valid as if such select vestry had not been abolished." The act has clauses in reference to church patronage, to fees and new regulations for district chapelries. PROPOSED NEW BISHOPRICS.—A proposal has been made, which will be embodied in the form of a bill and introduced into Parliament in the next session, for a large extension of the episcopate of the Church of England. It is proposed that the following shall be the bishoprics of England and Wales, under the new system, with the, income attached to each see, and the districts comprised in each :—Canterbury, (Archbishopric,) £lO,OOO, East Kent and Lambeth ; Rochester, £3,500, West Kent ; London, £5,000, city of London and East Middlesex ; Winchester, £4,000, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight ; Southwark. £3,600, Surrey, (Lambeth excepted ;) Chi chester, £3,500, Sussex ; Oxford, £3,500, Oxfordshire and half of Buckinghamshire; Windsor, £3,500, Berkshire and the other half of Buckinghamshire; Ely, £3,500, Cambridgeshire and Huntingtonshire; St. Albans, £3,500, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire ; Norwich, £3,000, Nor folk ; Ipswich, £3,000, Suffolk; St. Edmundsbury, £3,000, portions of Norfolk and Suffolk ; Chelmsford, £3,000, Essex ; Exeter, £3,000, North Devon and part of Somer setshire ; Plymouth, £3,000, South Devon ; Bodinin, £3,000, Cornwall and Scilly Isles; Bath and Wells, £3,500, Somersetshire; Gloucester, £3,000, East Gloucestershire; Bristol, £3,000, city of Bristol and West Gloucestershire; Salisbury, £3,000, Wiltshire ; Sherborne, £3,000, Dor setshire ; Worcester, £3,000, Worcestershire ; Coventry, (or Birmingham,) £3,000, Warwickshire ; Hereford, £3,000, Herefordshire and part of Monmouthshire ; Shrewsbury, £3,000, Shropshire ; Lichfield, £3,500, Staf fordshire ; Derby, £3,000, Derbyshire ; Peterborough, £3,000, Northamptonshire and Rutland; Leicester, £3,000, Leicestershire ; Lincoln, £3,500, North Lincolnshire; Boston, £3,000, South Lincolnshire; Southwell, £3,000, Nottingham ; York, !Archbishop,) £7,000, North Riding of York ; Beverley, £3,000, East Riding ; Ripon, £3,000, I part of West Riding ; Chester, £3,000, Cheshire ; Man chester, £4,000, East Lancashire ; Liverpool, £3,500, West Lancashire : Lancaster, £3,000, North Lancashire ; Durham, £4,000, Durham ; Hexham, £3,000, Northum berland ; Carlisle, £3,000, Cumberland ; Kendal, £3,000, Westmoreland ; Bangor, £3,000, Anglesea and Carnar vonshire; St. Asaph, £3,000, Denbighshire and Flintshire; Bala, £3,000, Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire ; St. David's, £3,500, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, and Cardiganshire ; Llandaff, £3,500, Glamorganshire and part of Monmouthshire ; Brecon, £3,500. Brecknockshire and Radnorshire; Sodor and Man, £2,000, Isle of Man; St. Helier's, £1,500, Channel Islands. This would give a total of 54 bishops, with an annual aggregate income of about £lB5 000. THE ROMANISERS AT ST. SAVIOUR'S, LEEDS, AND THE BISHOP OF RIPON.—It will be recollected that in April last all the officiating clergy of St. Saviour's, Leeds, except one, joined the Church of Rome, taking several of their congregation with them. Such a wholesale seces sion, combined with the fact that the founder and con ductor of that establishment was no other than Dr. Pusey, attracted at once the public notice. It was then learnt that circumstances which had escaped general observation had not passed the surveillance of the Bishop of Ripon, who had been for some time investigating matters of which the world was only imperfectly cognisant. The result of the right rev. prelate's indefatigable inquiry is now before the public in the shape of a pastoral letter, to which are appended copious explanatory documents. The evidence adduced by the Bishop completes the case against the parties implicated, who indeed, long ago, , were viewed by the public as having been traitors to the Church whose ministry they had undertaken with solemn sacra mental vows. His lordship says:— " In the course of my investigation 4, I hart the most convincing proof that the system of confession, as practised at St. Saviour's. was the part of a general system there carried out, which, if allowed to proceed unchecked, would override the Reformation of the s;xteenth century. and turn the articles e do d d octrines dead tri nes ie which . I * n o * w ascert a in e i rt i a re i n fo t ol fo l lowing b i e s e i n t preache d an d taught at St. Saviour's within the last few months, and of which I have written evidence under the hands of the preachers : ° summary ihe C Chur ch " 1. That it is the duty of each rne n m ts b ( c ) r f t o h f e t ( l 7h ie u c r o c n h g . regation • f ch th i, to go to a priest for confession and absolution before he •~ 2 . receives Th at theret he aholy sevencom communion. e . "3. That the communion table is the throne of God, and the Lord's supper is the sacrifice of the altar. " 4. That no one can be considered a faithful minister, or member of the church, who does not preach or practise the duty of praying for the souls of individuals departed, that Jesus may have mercy on them. "it. That tire great misery of the sinner is losing the inter cession of the {BIAS, ansi the aid of the sacrifice of the the o al n t e a r m ( e n d o i a m t o e r n b t i e o t n w e being o m d a a d n e d o m h n f a t e ) intercessio n f o act f " 6. That penance is the means of forgiveness ()- deadly sins. " 7. That deadly sin, after baptism, must end in 01 ri°l ‘_...ns death, unless penance be resorted to, an d unless perr,b • • • -, by confess their gins to one of Christ's physicians, is meant a priest. _ the is no longer bread, the wine no longer wine, 1)1.t the " 8. That, after the consecration of the elements, body and blood of Christ. (A statement made e vo ke d, Rev. G. L. Crawley, for which his licence was W u and he did not appeal.) e gt the clergy of St. Saviour's, practically carrylaot this teaching, did last year celebrate, with extraordin rl lemnity, the Romish festival of Corpus Christi." 110 0 l One of the witnesses, a married woman, deposed as le yeast " We have resided in the parish of St. Saviour's fire Y o st the e next February. 1 was a candidate for confirmation in ' 1849. Mr. Rooke and Mr. Beckett instructed me beforef4, confirmation. After I had been under Mr. Rooke's "'" tO he directed me to go to Mr. Bezkett that I might confe ss ssice d Mr. Beckett. I went to Mr. Beckett accordingly. He u s t I me my commandments. He asked me to think overtfi'io had done—what sins I had committed—and he asked tr:e bee s. had been disobedient to my parents, and if 1 had eve r OO running out at nights, and caused my parents uneasiness that account." (Of Here follow some statements too gross and indelicate female ears. The witness then continues : " I made a confession to him of such sins as I could re .„ ( f tier to have committed. He then replied lie was sorrY,f„l4 would pray for me. He told me to kneel down and he %I'd, absolve me. I knelt down, when Mr. Beckett held his b i ti l o t over my head, and in doing so he touched me, which ale on it me, and I jumped up. He said, Don't be alarmed , 'Les the bread hurt you.' I knelt down, and he then said he would girP blessing. I thought I heard him saying something to 1 10 but I could not distinguish any words. When I rose up tie my knees, Mr. Beckett shook hands with me, and I le f ( t o. room. It was in the middle room, c a ll e d M r . 11Ii n ster's r no t Before this happened Mr. Rooke had t o ld m e that be wa s a priest, and that I was to go to Mr. Beckett to absolv' felt that was the reason of my going to him at that time• et t : , very much ashamed of the questio ns p ut t o me by Mr• nee tblfi and was greatly distressed. I never t o ld m y h u sband g 0 8, day whit were the questions which M r . B ec k e tt had ask I * * * * I never went to confession after the first Outer•of never came to Holy Communion ex ce pt i mme di a tely al o a confirmation. The reason why I did no t d o so wa s that . ., os s understood from Mr. Hooke that th e y did no t a dmit Pe''' e d s to Holy Communion, except th e y h a d prev i ous ly confess ,s day or two before. At the tim e I t o ld m y h us b an d I had sr• to confession, he was displeased, and I mentioned it to f Rooke ;he replied I had n o r i g ht to tell any body 01 I had .` O , to confession. I told hi m I th oug h t we ought to te ll our P o bands everything. He said, True, they should not , b l e ss , ceived ; but confession was a thing we ought not to tell the it concerned our souls and not our bodies.' I told Mr e 'T h ad disty, either the same night or the next morning after ' t to confessed to Mr. Beckett, th e quest i ons t h at ha d been Pi' a big me. 1 was much distre sse d. * * * I was very fn i/er f bit when I came away. * * * I was un h appy on acco unt 0 Questions which had been put to toe." THE GREAT EXHIBITION. TUESDAY.—The visitors numbered 51,311, and the te a .. n ts ceipts, including £5 10 s . f or season ti c k ets , a mou to £2,499. WEDNESDAY. The a tt en d ance was ra ther 0 11 4 amounting to not more than 38,228. The recelP amounted to £1,901 Ils. the THURSDAI.—The number of visitors was 43,2 44; „ n amount received, inclusi ve o f £6 f or th e sa l e of sea tickets, was £2,173 lls. t° FRIDAY.—The receipts f r o m h a lf- crowns amounted £1,559 17s. 6d., the number of visitors being 15, 590 ' re. SATURDAY.—Number o f v i s it ors , 13,(,52 ; amount Or ceived, £1,096 2s. 6d. ; season ti c k ets , £7 ; to t a l receiP £1,103 2s. 6d. - PROPOSED COLLEGE.—At a mee ti ng on Thurs day r the municipal body of Birmingham, Mr. Lucy (the Nibs of the town) brought before the notice of the irembel the propriety of establishi ng , w ith th e a id o f a por tion r o ceo , surplus funds in the hands of th e C omm i ss i one rs, d. tral College, or est a bli s h men t, f or th e purpose of • r ing industrial education to all classes, on the plan 0 ",°„ 1 1 of in France. Th e p ro p osa l me t w ith t h e warm aPyrf",ers, all present, and a memor i a l t o th e R oya l C ommi ss'°- embodying their views, was unanimously agreed ueonifo. A number of lar g e p ac k ages f rom C a l cutta h av e P s de rived at the East India Docks, destined for the InaiaL partment ; their conte n t s are no t, h owever, ye t kn°"" . tk. THE COURT, AND FASHION. On Tuesday his Royal Highness Prince Albert er o i pleted his 32nd year, having been born on the 26t the August, 1819. The Royal standard was floating e ri various public buildiug durings the whole of the day' ° h p. at one o'clock the P ar k an d T ower guns were fired logy nour of the event. In th e even i ng th e f ron t s of her ther jesty's Theatre, St. James's Theatre, and several 0. h. public buildings, as well as the shops of his Royal r-rg ness's tradespeople, were brilliantly illuminated. of Her Royal Highness the Duchese of Cambridg e n tls the Princess M "ary, who have been passi ng the last alc h is at the baths of Ischl, are expect e d to return to country late in the autumn. atria ot Lord Stanley and family (Ald er l e y) h a ve arrl n tri their town mansion, G ro s venor -pl ace , f rom their co u d. , seat, Alderley Park, Cheshire, t o b e p resen t at the riil p riage of the Earl of Ai r lie, w hi c h w ill b e so l em nized to e or, James's Church, Piccadilly, in the beginning of the! i ng si Lord Robert Grosve n o r , M.P., w h o h as b e en stay the baths at Toplitz, in Bohe m i a , s i nce th e middle of month, for the benefit of hi s h ea lth, re t urns t o this 100 try the week after next. L a dy R o b er t an d fanallY left twn for Tunbride-wells. We o understand that the Hon. A. Gordon (secee, to r of the Earl of Aberdeen) will s h or tly l ea d t o the u/y e el , neal altar the lovely and accomplished Lady Eliza fort. second daughter of the late Ri g ht [lon. Sir R. Pee, i ' t hst S The Era gives the following :—" We u n derstand breach of promise of marriage is to be brought fora, against the Duke of Wellington ! ! !" Accounts have been received of the death of Du Duch dinand of Saxe Coburg Kohary, b ro th er o f the Due' Kent, and uncle of Prince Albert. FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER• (From Le Follet.) 06 . lette ifi bree The peignoirs fontanges are worn for morning toi t country. They are composed of a skirt trimmed irate deep flounces, with a loosely fitting cameo, of the sarn e eolg e ,;, For walking, a coarse strew bonnet, trimmed with fiel d ,, s rohl, s , is added. White peignoirs are still worn, either or v iel',. B muslin, or white marcella trimmed with a niche a Ri ses Some are covered with small coloured flowers, and / led t capuchon and pelerine trimmed round with a fluted fr i i p same. There has never been seen so great a variety i n baffl es 0 0 the present year. Some have bands of different the waist to the bottom of the skirt, imitating tue'''',l o te. o , have flounces, the edges of which are scolloped, and P4/01 0 0 0 bright colours; whilst many are studded with hea u "isl)°, i „te quets of flowers. The bodies are generally made,t a cte XV., with narrow ribbons to match, quilled, and • r tir bows without ends. ed sic o i it a White canezou s are very much worn, with colou r s lio and may be made as simple as possible, in jaconet O u r 10 ' scolloped frills or English embroidery, or more eleg a° „ i to embroidered muslin. The canezou is full dress if the body is entirely en ve s r d eti tl[r s ° 4 embroidery • and the trills round the waist, sleeves' t o re 1 01 are composed of valenciennes. It should always.,l w hic r ik sleeves, and the basques are now replaced by the fr",:dsee° fastened to the band, and is more or less richly triln o3 " ing to the style of the body. • o le,s C ' v d O e ' The morning dress may be either recherche or torn - the - - f er/ ing to taste. The form of the peignoirs is always a re vi pi whether in printed or embroidered muslin. Il eY o st, tO e pretty, made with the front breadth entire to theta - 0 001e a rich embroidery down each edge, and fastened , s so „ s e waist with a broad sash, tied in front ; nor are the) , !e7.. s t, 6" or composed of plain muslin over a richly-worked pettieudso ing in front, or jaconet scolloped in deep festoorl, b , fronts and round the bottom, with a casaque to mat's tr As to robes, they are always of astonishing richrlSericor,„ri" gance ; although the make of the body is nearlY l T o tea l itt r season, they allow of some modifications according ' r ice 1 7 ,4 ip Lure, or, perhaps, more properly speaking, the capr ice wearer. Thus the greater number have basques es t 010 o '. front, which display the fichu, an accessory of gr„ bor,o o ance at present. The body is fastened with thrloeo' ribbon, silver or steel buckles, or pins to match the" jot.' toile ta ;o, c A young married lady wore a pale and white g d io sa ble p 011 i/ robe, the body open to the waist, trimmed with a s bu es e. loune between two rows of drawn ribbon ; open lvfith og bq lish lace, under sleeves to match. The cap forme„ir, square of the same lace, having the appearance of s ide„ placed over the back hair, and fastened on the riP sa cl " a light spray of fuschsias and lilies of the valley' 4 10r;i. left by a single rose. •th v stfe7 Another dress was a very light chene silk, rte erit oa.otl flounces; body with basques opening over a. " esr— id waistcoat, embroidered with lilac silk. A s boa .00 5 dr' deeply festooned flounces—body drawn on the 8 0 .0 0,0 at the waist, opening over a fichu, composed of r",;th r oet ts valenciennes lace. A grenadine of rose colour ;00 1 4 Ir.:j bouquets, trimmed with five graduated flounces's/ of ribbon to match the bouquets. A redingo..ee fr o nt° taffetas with a chicoiee trimming t D match dow" t o bg" round the sleeves. With thi, peignoir was wor n tis oa'a i s fit en fichu in very small tucks. is gs P r e be c° o o Ribbons rank of great importance as trim hs!„fer:ide, and they are to wide and rich in design that tdsith and 0 eo .' indispensable for full dress. They are mix ide, a n isos h , or! the outside of bonnets ; the strings are very 1,, s car 8 00 e d for sashes that they have acquired the n ame o,,, n ess, tr ier? , Under sleeves preserve their vogue and rich ore .. e a c d' employed in the most elegant toilettes; thelsd woo r sro with expensive lace or splendid e mbroidery' with ,1 sions so becoming that they are indispensablemore a 0 kl; fiches which the make of the robes rende rs 0 0 , 111 recherché. a il l &P i 0° The " waistcoat" has nearly made the to u r pot • p ort a / and not only completes the neglige costunliy WI tO e applicable for visiting toilette. It is essentit;eh of account of its ornaments, the good taste of NTthicb t `pr. s jos . instance, with a white embroidered s st a i r n y ct a io c n co . m T pa h n e im bo et ly t, wisithnobtaosrs! a.„sie co , to ot t l, n it e s ce d s i watii7t b cP° ro s e t ir etel ; e vvh Aite and skirt should be of coloured moire sk i r t of 0 111 0 0 1 ' o marcella waistcoat with a basquine and sc olloPe th e ,fhi C t pink fancy silk . , with trimmings of double nov elti e l Sil e not Ye, Another revival which has become a. ...00r io - The form of mantelets tended to recal this. • it ~.„r t has at last re-appeared, and been well rece n nT e " ea t favY o 7o o 4ol proclaimed, for this summer mantelet , t ot e e tt o , f . t .s - s 0 "cela viendra." The white mantele 24 . d 't6l/1 elegant. It is trimmed with deep frV e tas.l lll r eplopip toilette is made of white embroider ed brY of 0 11 with fringes. For half toilette the em let is g ra e dge to 0 , the head and throat quite free. It isworn . i t ' ea a r lif s tio_r,'l' es shouldeis, falling over the arm, aUn e i . oo t 11) half way down the back. The ends I t, nae ore w ri it h narrow galons. The form of the mantelet _ the_ ere d t _ 0. 0 concealing the trimming of the skirt a 'botn. cY la taffeta, trimmed round with velvet / r ill of bls fingers, and the edge of the mantelet s _ a 0 v o a n ca W nc e y dn ea e u sd se a d y, in at t ß he ev r e e r p l r e e y s , e g t n o ta t t a i k o e n ............ .-A S 0 Kg REPRESENTATION' OF Tit& EAST t r idlPP' meeting of the Conservative entry of thecas.,,eotioo the death of H. Broadley, Esq , after a short &ar. w o r t y Saltmarshe, Esq., of Saltniarshe, near lO w c ol Or b/ posed as a candidate, and unanimously aPPr° ionrt lie:1(11.91:10'o,11;r0" meeting.—Doneaster Gazette,