The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-28 00:00:00

FOICEIGN AND COLONIAL. WEST INDIES. The steam-ship Teviot arrived at Southampton on Monday, with dates from Jamaica to Sept. 23d, and De merara to Sept. 22d. The weather in Jamaica has been extremely dry, and in most of the lowland parishes the drought was so severe as to threaten serious injury to the ensuing crop, unless the early setting in of the October seasons should happily res cue it from peril. The House of Assembly had been con vened for the 21st of October, and one of the principal measures that would come before it for legislation would he the question of immigration. A vacancy had occurred in the representation of Kingston, by the death of George Orre't, Esq , one of the late members, shortly after his disembarkation from the steamer Forth, from England, on the sth instant. St. Lucia, like many of the sister colonies, was again beginning to feel the effects of the unusually dry weather for the season, and some uneasiness was felt by the plan ters as to the effect it was likely to produce, as without a speedy change, it was expected to cause a serious diminu tion in the quantity of produce calculated on for the next crop. In Dominica the weather had been very propitious—al ternate rain and ahinc ;" and, according to the accounts from all quarter s, the t,rowth of the young canes progressed rapidly, giving promise of a fine crop next year. The crop for the present year had closed; the exports from the Ist of January to the Bth of September, having been,—sugar, 3189 hhd., 738 tierces, and 2628 brls. ; molasses, 1055 puns, and S bbd•. rum, 268 puns, 13 and 7 quarter casks; coffee, 75,427 lbs. ; cocoa, 17,8161b5. The mar kets, in a general point of view, had not materially changed ; and the only transactions of any consideration had been effected in the articles of flour, rice, and cod-fish. A general improvement in the state of trade, however, was reported. The Jamaica railway was rapidly approaching that state of forwardness which would enable the line to be opened for general traffic. Strenuous efforts were being made to be in readiness for the event on the lst of October. INDIA AND CHINA. The first of the regular mid-monthly mails, with advices from Bombay to the 15th ult., arrived on Friday, and brings intelligence from Lahore, where the government of the queen-mother, and her brother, the Wuzeer, is in a precarious state. Peshora Singh continues master at Attock, on the Indus, and bas beaten some troops sent against him. He has been joined by Tej Sing, the well known successor of General Avitabile as governor of Pes hawur, who is disgusted with the treatment which he and his relatives and friends have received from the govern ment at Lahore. The wily old chief, Gle,olab Sing, has contrived to get away, on leave, from Lahore, and has retreated to Jamoo, where he is watching the course of events, and regulating the r;eb of his intrigues for his fu ture advancement. The Sickh soldiers are dissatisfied, and anxious to move towards the banks of the Sutlej, as it to come to a conflict with the British. The Governor-General, Sir Henry llardinge, was to quit Calcutta on the 23d of September. He embarks at Barrackpoare, and will receive the last salute which Se rampore can give as a Danish settlement, for it is about to be ceded immediately to the British authorities. The results of his presence in the north-west provinces cannot be fore'old ; some anticipate a settlement of the Lahore question after the fashion of the Nizam's country or of Oude ; but it is not possible to make such arrangements, for the Sickh soldiers, an unruly race, will not yield unless defeated in battle. From Scinde little is known ; tranquillity prevails in its districts. The small expelition to Kinmore, on the banks of the Indus above Sukhur, has returned to Hydrabld. Sir Charles Napier was at Kurrachee, whether the 2d Regiment of Bengal Europeans was marching from Upper Scinde, in order to secure its health on the subsiding of the Indus. There has been much talk respecting the letter written by Lieutenant-Colonel Outran] to General W. Napier, in which strong charges are brought against Sir Charles Napier. Indignant at them, Sir C. Napier had asked for a court-martin, either on himself or Colonel Outran], which were both declined by the Governor-General, on the ground that sue!) an investigation was not requisite, and would lead to the production of evidence which the nature of the service did not require to be made public. The news from Afflhanistan is conflicting ; some repre senting Dhost Mahommed as embarrassed in his finances, and unwilling to make war, while others contend that the notorious Ackbar Khan, his son, and Wuzeer, was pre paring to move towards the Indus, and to seize Peshawur. In the interior of India tranquillity prevails; the state of the Nizam's dominions and also of Oude is described as bordering on anarchy from the disorder of the finances. Further details of the horrible crimes of the Ameers of Scinde have come to light, greatly to the disgust of those who upheld them as " innocent and injured princes." The news from China comes down to the 10th of July, and does not contain any remarkable fact. Trade was dull at Canton and in the other four ports. The ship CC, of London, was burned in the Chinese seas on the 21st ; crew saved by the Judith, of Liverpool. The cholera, after having ravaged many places, was de creasing. The rains in some places overflowing, in others particularly at Bombay, rather scant; the quantity fallen in the last-named place was little more than 53 inches. THE NEW GERMAN REFORMATION. MANIIELNI, OCT. 13.—1 t has been communicated to Ronge that he would nor be permitted ti perform divine service to the German Catholic congregation here, nor even to make any longer stay in our town. M. Ronge left us. accompanied by the deputy M. Wassermand and Dr. Hammar, and amidst the cries of " Farewell" raised by his very numerous adherents. FREISBERG, OCT. 14.—Rouge arrived here to day, and, after a short stay, he set out again for Constance, where he intends remaining for some days. FRANKFORT ON THE MAINE, Oct. 14.—The report lately spread here th.lt the authorities of Nassau had in dicated to Rouge, that, on his arrival at Weishillen, he should not be permitted to officiate at the German Catholic divine service is not credited. On the 10th, M. Rouge, assisted by Daw•int and Keilinan, performed divine service at Weisbaden to about seven thousand persons. W hether he will solemnise his anniversary (which falls on the IS , h of this mouth) here or at Offenbach is still uncertain; but at all events the German Catholic congregation intends presenting him on that day with a crown of laurels made of silver. Yesterday a grand serenade was given to the two burgomasters, in consequence of their refusal to accede to the wishes of several powers to repress the religious move ment in the city. BERLIN, OCT. 14 —The Catholic Church Reform, for September, contains the address presented by the leaders of the French Protestants to those of the German Catholics, and in which the former congratulate the latter on the principles adopted by their Government regarding them, lamenting at the same time the restricted state of the Pro testant Church in France. According to this publication, the Lumber of the German Catholic congregation amounts now to two hundred and ninety-one. Dr. Theiner con secrated on the 6th the cloister called " Junkfernklauster," and which has been used till now as a coach-house; hence forth it will be a German Catholic church. The saloon at Lahu, %Illicit has been ustd as a prayer-room by Pro testants, has been consecrated for a Getman Catholic church by Al. Foster. On the 12th, for the second time, was solemnised here a marriage between an evangelical bridegroom and a German Catholic bride, by a German Catholic minister, no Protestant minister being present on the occasion. TABITI.—A rumour was circulated last week on the authority of a private letter, that an Engiisli steamer had been sunk at Tatrici by a French frigate, but there ap pears to have been no foundation for it. The Belgian Government have taken the duty off the following articles of consumption until the Ist of June, 1846, namely, wheat, rye, barley, buckwheat, beans, peas, oats, oatmeal, potatoes, and rice. Within the last few days the Seine has risen to a great height. At Rouen the water has flowed over the quays. The Rhine has also become so swollen that at Lyons several pointy would be inundated but for the embankments re cently executed there. THE BRAZILIAN SLAVER Edw.—This vessel, on board which the murderous conflict took place with the crew of the Felicidade, is now in Ilfracombe harbour. She was sold at Sierra Leone, atter condemnation as a prize, and now sails under the Br itish flag ; she is named the " Elizabeth" in her new register. The son of Senor Fonteneila, a rich banker of Barce lona, has been kidnapped by some miscreants, and carried off to the mountains. They have written to the miserable father, assuring him that if two millions of reels, about X 20,060, are not immediately paid down. the prisoner will be killed. It is not yet known what steps the unfortu nate youth's family have taken. FAVOURITES AT ROME.—A curious report is said to have reached the Rhenish provinces, that in a fringe maker's shop in Rome three costly roses now attract at tention. They are whispered to be commanded by the papal high treasurer, and destined (after consecration) as gifts to three German s overeigns, who have merited spe cial favour from the Roma n Pontiff by their opposition to the reform movement. Two Protestant potentates are even named as intended recipients of this distinction. A VETERAN.—A Spanish journal notices the existence of a veteran of the army of Spain, who was born in 1731, and consequently is now 114 years of age. He remained in the army till he was promoted to the rank of sergeant, and afterwards received his discharge. In 1815, when 84 years of age, he married a young woman of 21, by whom he has one child, aged 21. He is said to he still so strong and active that no one would think him to be more than 70. His only infirmity is total deafness. THE RIVER PLATE.—We have received advices from Buenos Ayres so late as the 21st of August. Ou the 18th, 200 English marines landed at Monte Video, and several English and French vessels had gone up the Ura guay to reconnoitre. It is considered that the war will be tor some time prolonged. At Buenos Ayres the Sala (House of R e presentatives) had been sittin g for several days for the purpo se of considering the manifestos of the English and French ministers ; and it was believed that the treaty with England would be declared void on the assumed ground of violation. It is said that the French and ErigLsh forces intend taking immediate possession of Colonia, and placing a garrison there. In consequence of the blockade of Busco by the French and English, ships, Oribe has declared a free port on the Lagoa Mirram, front whence he will draw his supplies. A protest from th British subjects in Monte Video h ad been presented to Mr. Tu rner , her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, com plaining of certain oppressive decrees of the government, and requestin g that such decrees should be instantly for warded totter Majesty's government, for its early con sideration and dtcision. Mr. Turner immediately trims nutted the documents to her Majesty Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, THE YELLOW FEVER AT MALTA.—The Mongibello steamer, for Malta, arrived on the 15th inst. at Marseilles. She reports that the fever had broken out on board a merchant ship, and that two cases had declared them selves, one of which terminated fatally. The quarantine laws are put in force. A correspondent states that while he was at Malta very considerable alarm prevailed re specting a fever which raged in the 42nd Foot, in garrison there. The interesting ceremony of the admission of a Jew into the Christian Church was witnessed by the English congregation at Bourdeaux, on Sunday afternoon, October 5. The candidate was the son of a Jewish Rabbi, named Dittener, who resides in Poland, and received at his baptism the name of Jacob Nathaniel. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. St. John Quin, minister of the church. His godmother was a lady who is justly regarded as the fostering mother of the church here ; and his godfathers were the trustee and the assistant minister thereof. PRICE OF IRON IN FRANCE.—The following is the price of iron at St. Dizier per 100 kils. (2 cwts.) ; rock iron, made by wood, £l7 ss. ; wrought-iron, made by coal, £l7 to £18; other sorts from £7 to £l6. '[he price of iron in the Dordogene has experienced a trifling rise, which is looked upon by the ironmasters as the forerunner for large contracts, as there are some very extensive demands made for tier. railways now construct ing, which not only gives plenty of work, but they choose a better description of ore in the making of iron than formerly, so as to keep the foreign out of the market, if possible. THE INDIA MAIL.—ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 9.—Lieut. Waghorn's experimental trip with despatches from Bom bay to London, via Trieste, will take place this month, and he is very sanguine of success in anticipating the Indian mail, which will go by the regular way of France. The Austrian government seems anxious to second Mr. Waghorn's views by every means, and yesterday an Austrian steamer arrived from Trieste in five days and a half, and put herself entirely under the orders of Mr. Wagborn, who went on board to-day in order to com mence his term of quarantine; and as the Bombay mail of the Ist instant cannot be down here before the 20th, he will thus be enabled to land on his arrival at Trieste, where he will find everything in readiness for him to pro ceed.—Times. THE PROTESTANT CHURCH IN PRUSSIA. The Prussian paper of the 14th ult. published the authentic reply of his Majesty to the address of the municipality of Berlin. The address, after stating that when the popu lation of the city was not more than from 50,000 to 70,000, the number of pastors was not only propor tionately but numerically more considerable than now, when the city contains 400,000 inhabitants, concludes as follows :—" The last point to which I come in your address is one most painful to me. The regency desig nates the orthodox believers of the Protestant Church by the name of a party. That expression, gentlemen, has caused me great displeasure. But the regency goes still further. It accuses my government, not indeed ex plicitly, but nevertheless clearly of favouring that party. This latter point, a sense of what is due to my own dignity, and that of the authorities representing me, compels me to pass over in silence. But on the other point I must make a few remarks. The regency, in its zeal, has forgotten itself so far as to name an individual — Professor Hengstenberg, the leader of the Pietist party, and principal editor of the Ecclesiastical Evangelical Gazette—as the representative of a party whom every impartial observer, and all of you, gentlemen, I feel con vinced, as well as myself, will not reproach with any more serious error than too great zeal in the discharge of their duties and confining those duties within a limited circle. Here, gentlemen, I entirely concur in your epinion. But you denounce these persons before me at a time when our church is insulted and harassed by men who have taken the same oaths as the former on the symbol of our faith, and that voluntarily, and without being required to do so, at the altar of God ; and yet, with the responsibility of those oaths on their consciences, they preach apostasy, using for that purpose illegal means, exciting the people, and convening popular assemblies. You do not cite the names of any of those men in your address ; it does not contain a word of indignation at their reprehensible pro ceedings. The eyes of all F. 'ope are fixed on us and on the movement which has manifested itself in our church. What can be thought of its condition, by the most im partial men of our confession, when they see you de nounce so harshly to your sovereign those Iwho are too faithful, whilst you utter not a word of csrn y 'aint a g ainst others w' o give evidence of all that constitutes a party, and a very dangerous party ? All this deeply distresses me. I deplore it as a misfortune, and I must declare to you, gentlemen, that I disapprove of it from the bottom of my heart." IRELAND. The Tipperary Poor-law Guardians have made their board-room a political debating room, and resolved to petition in favour of repeal. Mr. Lloyd, the late convert to repeal, has been super seded from the deputy lieutenancy of the county of Limerick. FORTUNATE SPECULATION.—On the 7th inst. a peroon bought 40 tons of oatmeal for 433 per ton in the Armagh market. Next week he sold the same in Portadown for .£l9 per ton. At a meeting of the Cork Poor Law Union the master said that the quantity of farina made from 7 lbs. of pota toes would be sufficient for ten people, though the same quantity of potatoes was allowed for two females. Mr. Denis Ezan, of Strokestown, county Roscommon, was fired at on Friday while proceeding home from the sessions, where he had been for the purpose of prosecut ing some civil bills that were entered for trial. Several slugs entered the hip of the mare which Mr. Egan was driving. In 1830 there was not a flax spinning mill in operation in Ireland. At present there are in Ulster fifty-one in full work—some of them amongst the largest.in the united kingdom. They employ about 18,000 persons: there is a million and a quarter of money sunk in the buildings and machinery, and they require a floating capital of £600,000. The week before last the neighbourhood of Castlebar was visited by a terrific flood. Wheat, oats, barley, &c., were swept away in enormous quantities. For a dis'rici over two miles the country has been entirely inundated, and nothing remains to the poor people hut mountains of mud and rocks covering their potato fields. WHICH IS MORE LIKE CHRISTIANITY ?—On Sunday week Mrs. Gayer, the wife of the respected Protestant Clergyman at Dingle, was hooted and hissed by a mob on her return from church. Several parties, through a la mentable perversion of mind, have recently left the Church of England for Rome, but Protestants do not maltreat or persecute them. They only pity and pray for them. REPRESENTATION OF CORK.— Serjeant Murphy's seat is already disposed of. Alderman Lyons was the first in the market, and was actually declared the successful bid der ; the worthy alderman, however, subsequently, " for reasons of a private nature," backed out of his bargain, and now another " back-bone repealer," Mr. Alexander M'Carthy, conies forward under the patronage and with the full approval of the seat-broker general for Ireland. THE IRISH POTATO CROP.—We are happy to observe from the Irish journals. that the extensive panic on this subject is subsiding. The reports have become less dis heartening, and the hope is now indulged that the malady h s been checked in various localities. The late drying weather appears to have stopped the progress of the dis ease, and the exposure of the potato to the air has been tried in a multitude of instances with complete success. The fact that potatoes of the best kind arc selling in the neighbourhood of Tipperary at from Id. to ld. a stone less than last year, is encouraging, and so also is the high price maintained for pigs. The effect of any scarcity in potatoes uniformly is to diminish the price of pigs, in an ticipation of a scarcity of food for those animals. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the meeting of this body last week, Mr. O'Connell made three reports from the counties of Limerick, Sligo, and Waterford, in which some interesting disclosures were afforded as to the happy unanimity which exists amongst the Repealers of those counties. No rent has been received from Limerick, .in consequence of the disputes of the wardens; a portion of the Sligo patriots have coalesced with the Conservatives and ousted the "real I?epealers" from the enjoyment of municipal honours and offices ; and the " men of Water ford" arc in a condition of such a delightful dkunion as to need a personal visit from the great conciliator to re store harmony. THE POTATO, THE FAMINE, AND THE RENT.—A correspondent of the Dublin Mail, calculating that one third of the potato crop has been destroyed—that six millions of the Irish population are dependent for their existence on this esculent—that the smallest average quantity of oatmeal, the next cheapest food, that can be allowed to sustain human life for a day, is one pound avoirdupois,—comes to the legitimate conclusion that, supposing oatmeal now selling from 16s. to 17s. 6d. per cwt. should, during the dearth, rise no higher than 205., it would take no less a sum than £17,940 a day, or £3,255,000 for the half year, to sustain the lives of two millions (one-third of the six millions) of the Irish peo ple. As our contemporary well observes, this is a fright ful estimate , and the great agitator has turned the matter in his capacious mind, and has just issued bis appeal for —what does the reader think ?—why, for nothing less than the if annual O'Connell tribute. This would be in credible told in i! romance, but simple truth beats the most elaborate fiction. The " faithful" are to contribute on Sunday, Nov. 16th. POTATOE FLOUR.—At the County Cork Agricultural Society's meeting, last week, Mr. J. Dillon Croker brought forward some important statistics on this subject. He said. that four days before he despaired of doing any thing to keep off famine and starvation, but he was then happy to tell them that there was abundance of food in the country. He had found by bis experiments that one score weight of sound potatoes produced 31b. 9oz. of farina or flour, dry and fit for use ; one ditto of unsound and diseased parts cut off, 31b. loz. ; whilst the unsound with none cut off produced 31b. 6ox. Diseased potatoes, use less, quite soft and rotten, will make as good starch as the soundest and need not have the bad parts cut off. Mr. Croker produced several loaves of different qualities, which were pronounced excellent. He advised all to get at once a good grater or two and set to work, on the unsound potatoes, keep in g their families employed in picking out the diseased ones, t h us securing an ample supply of the best food from this description when the starch was sufficiently washed. Potato flour was imperish able. A lady had a small cas k of it, from which a cake was made en her birth-day and on her wedding-day, and it was still as sound as ever. Neither rats nor mice would eat or touch it. Let Ireland from henceforth be a con sumer of good wholesome bread food instead of potatoes, often bad and always so at the end of the season. and thus what was considered the greatest calamity that could befal them might prove a rich blessing, namely, the change of diet from potatoes to bread. THE NEW COLLEGES—THE CATHOLIC CLERGY. — The following declaration has been signed by 115 of the clergy of Cashel and Emly : " We the undersigned Roman Catholic priests of the united archdiocese of Cashel and diocese of Emly, beg leave to express our entire and co, dial concurrence with the archbishops and bishops in their declaration relative to the recent act of acade mic education, being convinced that the measure, in its altered. as well as its original form, is, 'pregnant with danger to faith and morals.' A similar declaration has been signed by 124 of the clergy of the diocese of Waterford and Lismore. IRISH TASTE.—At the repeal meeting on Monday Mr. O'Connell, alluding to the decisions of the Committee of the Fine Arts on the statues for the new Houses of Par liament, uttered, amidst the increasing merriment of his auditors, the following wicked expressions, " They had left out one of the very greatest men that England had ever produced—Thomas it Becket—the defender of her liberties (cheers); at whose shrine 100,000 Englishmen, when England was Catholic, had assembled in homage, because they knew him to be the advocate of their liber ties. (Cheers.) They omitted that really great and magnificent man, who died a martyr as he bad lived a saint ; the defeater of Henry and his tyranny ; and whom her (Mr. O'Connell) would sooner have for an Irishman than almost any other that had ever lived. [The learned gentleman having described the death scene of it Becket, proceeded],—Well, they left him out; but to whom did they give a statue? 'Why, to Oliver Cromwell! (Cheers, groans, and laughter.) They had also given one to Monk, than whom a meaner or more despicable traitor—however useful his treason—never existed. (Cheers.) Why, they might as well have put up a statue of Judas Iscariot. (Loud cheers and laughter.) Indeed, they only wanted a third to make up a trio complete—they should have added the statue of the Devil. (Tremendous cheers and laugh ter again and again.) The group would then have been completed by the presence of their master." (Renewed merriment.) THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. no objection to try this question in a court of law, were the occasion afforded me. An opportunity for doing this once occurred, but it was frustrated by a third party. I was invited to preach a charity sermon in Stillorgan church. shortly after my election ; I replied that there was nothing to hinder it, and that I should comply. His grace uttered a similar inhibition. 1 would, however, in this instance have stood upon my right, and preached, notwithstanding the inhibition, had the rector allowed. He, however, did not wish to litigate the matter with his grace, and so the question has not been brought to an issue. Thus, then, the matter stands at present." RAILWAY INTALLIGEACE. It is said that Mr. Hudson confidently expects to make the Eastern Counties line shortly pay 6 or 7 per cent. The first sod of the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway was cut a few days since by the Earl of Roden. A treaty for Northumberland House is going on be tween its ducal proprietor and the South-Western Rail way Company. HANOVER RAILWAY.—The railway from Lehrte was opened with great solemnity on the Bth inst. The King and Duke of Brunswick attended the ceremony. The town of Celle was brilliantly illuminated in the evening. Sir Erederick Smith and Professors Barlow and Airey, are busily engeged in receiving evidence on the great question of the gauges. It is reported that the evidence on the narrow gauge is completed. At a meeting of Bristol and Exeter shareholders at Bristol, on Tuesday, convened by circular, resolutions were passed condemnatory of the terms of the provisional agreement entered into, by the Directors, with the Great Western Company. MACCLESFIELD CANAL.—We understand that an ar rangement has been made with the Manchester and Shef field Railway Company, by which it is proposed that that company shall take a lease of the Macclesfield Canal in perpetuity, at £2 10s. per share.— Stockport Advertiser. The Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monkland Railway, have purchased the buildings and grounds of Glasgow Uni versity fur a great railway station. An estate called Woodlands, consisting of about 22 acres, has been se cured for the new college, which is to cost from £70,000 to £lOO,OOO. On Sunday night week, a man was killed on the Shef field and Rotherham Railway. He had hooked on one of the carriages so incautiously, that, when the engine was set in motion, the chain was drawn tight across his breast, and thus he was dragged along till the stoppage of the engine released him, when he fell and expired. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE.—The important works on this line of railway are fast completing. The length ened embankment near Carlisle is formed, and a loco motive is employed on it, Eamont-bridge and Lowther bridge are finished, and they have a noble appearance. Respecting the viaduct at Docker Gatthie, and an em bankment at Clifton, its progress is most favourable. REDUCTION OF RAILWAY FARES. —Following the ex ample of the London and Brighton Railway Company, the Manchester and Birmingham Company have reduced their first and second-class fares, the latter from ss. 6d. to 4s. 4d., and the former from 7s. 6d. to ss. Gd. ; and a first-class passe ig,er now trave:s between Birmingham and Liverpool for 17s. RAILWAY COMPENSATION.—Last week a jury in the Queen's Coe:sty awarded Lord Portarlington 1,684 19s 6d., for land re:sr:tired by the Great Southern and Western Railway Co epany, and for damage by severance. The Company ! al offered just 16s 6d. less than the award, his lordship' , ~ e mand being upwards of £3,000 ! The costs amount to £1,263, which the Company of course will have to pay. The negociations which have been pending for some days past between the Brighton and Croydon Companies have at length been brought to a satisfactory conclusion. The directors of the two lines, after long and anxious de liberation, have finally agreed on an amalgamation, the shares to be consolidated into stock, and to rank therein, Brighton at £5O, and Croydon at £lB 10s. This arrange ment is of course subject to the approval of the respective proprietors. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, a man named Law was killed on the Manchester and Birming ham Railway. Having a quantity of luggage on the top of a carriage of a perishable character, his anxiety for its safety had induced him, while the train was proceeding at its usual rate, to get on the top to see if it were safe, and while there the current of air blew his hat off. In endea vouring to recover it, his head came in contact with a bridge, about two miles from Nautwich, which proved instantly fatal. RAILWAY ADVERTISING.—MF. F. D. Lewis ' of the firm of Lewis and Lowe, advertisement agents , 3, Castle court, Corn-hill, London, lately applied to the magistrates at the Guild-hall, for advice, he sot having been paid by the Oxford, Whitney, Cheltenham, and Gloucester Inde pendent Railway Company, for advertising in the London and provincial papers, to a large amount. The applica tion led to a curious expose of the conduct of some of the parties. There appeared, however, no ground of apprehension of ultimate lots of the account, and no thing had occurred to warrant the interference of the magistrates. A LUCKY CLERICAL ERROR. (?)—A certain gentleman of large property, who had figured, if he does not uow figure, as a railway director, applied for shares in a cer tain projected railway. 50, it seems, were allotted to him. Whether that was the number he applied for or not, de ponent saith not; but by some means nothing got added to the 50 and made it 500. The deposit for the said 500 was paid into the bankers', the scrip obtain , d, and before the mistake could be detected end corrected—for no doubt it was only a mistake, or at most a lapsus pennce— the shares were sold, and some £2,000 profit by this very fortunate accident found its way into the pocket of the gentleman.—Herapath's Journal. RAILWAY JOBBERS.—On Tuesday, at the London Mansion House, two officers of the Stock-Exchange applied to the Lord Mayor for information as to the manner in which they should proceed to clear away the enormous crowds of jobbers and " stags" who thronged the interior of the Auction-mart. It was, they said, quite useless for any of the servants of the concern to address them. They only gave the names of their at torneys or treated the requests to leave the place with contempt. The Lord Mayor said that he could not in terfere, as the pereons spoken of did not commit ob structions in the streets or thoroughfares. The officers departed evidently diseppointed. Am ALGAMATIONs.—The London and Birmingham and the Grand Junction Railway Companieshave finally settled their differences, and the directors of both companies take their seats at a joint board. By arrangements in progress the consolidated company will proceed to establish what has long been considered a desideratum, a complete system of trunk lines from London to Glasgow (via the Carlisle and the Caledonian) ; and from London to Holyhead ; and across Ireland; and they have decided to encourage in every way the formation, into such trunk lines, of the most direct lines subserving the trade of the country. The York and North Midland and the Manchester and Leeds Railway Companies have also come to arrangement. The Manchester and Leeds will withdraw its support from the London and York, and the East Riding projects and the Leeds and York Direct are given up. RAILWAYS.—An important parliamentary document was printed on Saturday in respect to railways under the Joint Stock Companies Act, whence it appears that, from the Ist November to the 7th June last, 355 joint-stock companies w2se2reweprreovriasiiolwnialyllyaorziasnteireead; an ,of d w in hi a c n h a n p o f . pendix it is stated that between the 9th and 30th June, as many as 57 railways were provisionally registered, on all of which registrations a sum of I:5 was paid. In the month of May last about 80 railways were registered, and 17 from the Ist to the 7th of the following month. One railway completely registered, and four of the same class have notified their intention to abandon their plans. It seems that of companies that had existed, out of 965, only 105 were railways ; and, as already mentioned, of provi sionally registered companies, out of 355 there were 252 railways. The fees received, from November to June, amounted to £2164, in England. In two months after the operation of the act the registration fees were £590 ; in the next three months £3lO ; and in the following two months and seven days as much as £785; making a total for registration of £1691, MR. GEORGEHUDSON.—It is surprising with what little pretensions to information some of the new railway Papers write of this gentleman. In No. 1 of the Roil way Kinq, we find the following brief outline of his carper : t. Born of humble parentage, ne at an early age became errand boy in a draper's shop at York. After several years had passed, some money was unexpectedly left him, and with this capital he set up bus ness as a draper on his own account. Things prospered ; his pre-eminence in the trade attracted at tention, and his shop was always full. A considerable oeriod elapsed, and he found he had money ; he embarked it in rail ways, and seeing sooner than most men the great field that was being opened up, he studied the subject, and became master of it. His speculations. at first small, became large, and the York and North Midland having been started, he transferred his stock and attention to that. His subsequent history is familiar to every one." Scarcely a single sentence of this paragraph is correct. Mr. Hudson was not born of humble parentage, his father being a respectable yeoman in the neighbourhood of York ; and so far from being an errand boy in a draper's shop, he was placed as an apprentice in one of the first establishments in York, in which he was offered a partnership as soon as be was out of his appienticeship —an offer, which the capital his friends were competent to advance him enabled him to accept. After being in busi ness many years, the sum of between £60,000 and £70,000 was left him by a distant relation, which enabled him to retire from business, and instead of becoming a speculator in the York and North Midland after it started, he was one of the original promoters of the scheme.—Hull Packet. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Monday morning week, between four and five o'clock, the mail train from London to Leeds, on the Midland railway, was proceeding near the Barnsley station at a very slow pace, in consequence of an accident to the engine, when an engine in pursuit came up, and ran with great force into the train. The concussion was tremendous. The last carriage, which was a second-class one, was forced up from the rails, and the buffers were driven completely through the first com partment of the next carriage, which was one of the first class. In this compartment were Mr. Fuller Boteler, one of the commissioners of the Leeds Bankruptcy Court, and Inspector Child and Sergeant Stubbs, of the Leeds detective police force, two of whom sustained in juries, the issue of which it is impossible to anticipate. Mr. Bottler, who is a gentleman of between 60 and 70 years of age, bad one of his thighs fractured, and his other leg severely bruised. Mr. Stubbs sustained a compound fracture of his left leg, and other serious injuries. All the passengers were more or less injured. We regret to state that Mr. Boteler died on Thursday, after having had one of his legs amputated. Ile was in his 68th year. The driver of the pilot engine was brought before the magis trates on Tuesday, charged with negligence in driving the engine into the train as described above. Among the witnesses was the guard of the train, who said, they had UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. OXFORD.—On Thursday the following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts—Rev. C. F. S. Weidemann, Rev. S. B. Windsor, Rev. E. B. Heawood, Christ Church; Rev. R. H. Taylor, Trinity College; C. Browne, Wor cester. Bachelors of Arts—F. Newington, Ee.q., St. John's College; G. J. Banner, Brazer.ose. College; H. Hougton, Scholar, Pembroke College; H. B. Milner, H. S. Dyson ' Merton College ; H. V. Gu;se, B. L. S. Stanhope, Baliol College ; C. J. Newdigate, Christ Church. CAMBRIDGE. — On Thursday the following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arta—Z Nash, Catharine Hall; W. L. Pownall, St. John's College ; M. A. Smelt, Caius College ; H. Jones, Catharine Hail ; G. Phillips, Queen's College—Bachelors gfArts—J. G. Child, Magdalene Col lege ; W. Johnson, King's College—Bachelor' of Medicine —E. L. Ormerod, Caius ('ollege. Dr. Wilberforce has been appointed Bishop of Oxford The foundation stone of a new church was laid in Pres ton-street, Whitehaven, on Thursday se'nnight. The sum of £5OO has been present , d anonymously to the Incorpora'ed Society for Building Churches. Her Majesty has granted a pension of £2OO a year, from the civil list, to Mr. Forbes, professor of natural philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. One of the gentlemen who received ordination, Mr. Walsh, who was ordained by the Bishop of Derry on Sun day week, was formerly a military officer, and lost a leg at Waterloo. The effects of the meeting of the Reformation Society at Bridgewater are daily becoming more apparent. More than one person who had joined the Roman Catholics have returned to the Church, and another meeting is loudly called for. NEW UNIVERSITY MOVEMENT.—We hear that an in fluential body of noblemen and gentlemen, among whom are Lords Ashley, Sandon, and R. Grosvenor; Sir T. D. Acland, Bart. ; Messrs. Gladstone, Glynne, Vernon Smith, M.P., and others, are about to memorialise the authorities of Oxford and Cambridge, suggesting additional depart ments to the existing colleges, or the foundation of new collegiate bodies, to provide increased facilities of Uni versity education on a more economical scale than has hitherto prevailed.—Church and State Gazette. OXFORD AND DR. PUSEY.—Dr. Posey will pro bably preach in Oxford University pulpit, in a fortnight, if means are not taken to prevent him. We are assured there never was a more critical time for Oxford Univer sity. At Trinity, Exeter, Lincoln, Magdalen Oriel, Christ Church, Queen's, Balliol, and several other colleges, there are strong partisan tutors who will remain, unless steps are adopted to compel them to go. An address of the laity now, to the Heads of Houses or Bishops, would not be out of place.—lbid. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.—The thirty-first annual meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary of this Society, wss held on Wednesday. The committee lamented the low state of the funds. A. number of the tracts had been given to the agents of the Town Mission, for distribution at races, &c., some to a pious lady at Tranmere, and others for Lisvard, Parkgate, and various places in Che shire ' • a portion had been sent to Ash'on-in - Mackerfield , Orrell, near Wigan, &c. ; and at no period was scripture truth more needed than at the present time. The com mittee of the London Society had again cheerfully com bined for supplying emigrants to distant lands, and during the past year thirty-five vessels, having on board 7,665 emigrants had been supplied with 15,520 tracts, and it was hoped no vessel had sailed without them, according to the number of passengers on board. The great body of the emigrants bad gone to New York, Quebec, Boston, Philadelphia, Port Phillip, &c. The treasurer's account showed a balance in favour of the society to the amount of £2B Bs. 3d. Mr. Griffiths read some interesting ex tracts, relative to the distribution of tracts, from the records of the Town Mission, showing that out of 32,000 families in this town, only 14,000 had been supplied, thus leaving 18,000 unprovided for. PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—An eminent prelate, to mark his sense of the benefits conferred by this society, has increased his subscription from £lO to £25 per ann. In their last occasional paper the committee state, as a brief summary of the society's operations, that since its formation in 1836, no fewer than 581 grants for the sup port of clergymen and lay assistants have been made for populous and widely-extended parislses. Within this period it has been instrumental in erecting, opening, or keeping open, 100 churches and chapels, and 128 school rooms, now used under episcopal sanction as places of divine worship. The society at present renders assistance to 253 incumbents, having under their pa-toral charge nearly two millions of souls, being one-eighth part of the entire population of England and Wales, the averace in come of those incumbents being not more than £199 p. r annum. Stipends are thus provided for 241 addi:ional clergymen and 46 lay assistants, and the amount for which the society is thereby pledged exceeds £22,200. To co operate with the Bishop of Winchester in alleviating the spiritual destitution of Southwark, the committee have pledged themselves to make grants to the amount of £500; and they have now applications from 31 other in cumbents, who have under their care 136,739 souls. To effect this object, with other exigencies, would require a total income of more than £24,000, while that of last year amounted only to £20,426; not to mention that fresh cases of painful interest are, by almost every post, being brought before their notice, to which, had they the means, they would most gladly extend the aid implored. ROME VIA OXFORD.—The Church and State Gazette gives the following list of Oxford men who have already apostatised, within the last few years, and many of them within the last few weeks : Exeter College: ..J. D: Dalgairns, Esq., M.A. J. King, Esq. Rev. F. S. Bowles, M.A. W. Lockhart, Esq. Rev. E. Estcourt, M.A. Balliol C011ege........... Rev. G. Talbot, M.A. Rev. J. M. Capes, M.A. Rev. W. G. Ward, M.A. G. Tickell, Esq M.A. Christ Church College.... Scott Murray, Esq., M,F. Rev. G. Penny, M.A. J. Douglas, Esq. Rev. A. St. John, M.A. Oriel College.. Rev. B. Bridges, M.A. Rev. J. H. Newman, B.D. Albany Christie, M.A. Magdalen College ....... Rev. It. W. Sibthorp, B:D. Rev. B. Smith, M.A. lirazenose College ....... Rev. W. H. Stanton, M.A. Rev. J. Walker, M.A. Worcester College Pembroke College . P. Renouf, Esq. St. John's College . Johnson Grant, Esq. This list, it is added, "does not include some twenty or thirty clerical and lay members of the church who have apostatised elsewhere." Also, " two lay members of Oriel college, and some reported names in other colleges, are omitted as uncertain." As reports, the names of a Mr. Woodman and family, at Littlernore, the Rev. J. Reeves, Aston Keynes, Cirencester, of a Mr. Sydenham, and of the Rev. Frederick Neave, M.A., of Oriel college, have been given. TUE REV. T. D. GREGG.—AS a very wrong impression has been created in reference to the connection of this reverend gentleman with the Established Church, it may be well to describe his precise position, which we take from the first number of a very excellent periodical writ ten by himself, and entitled " Free Thoughts on Pro testant Matters." Mr. Gregg, after detailing the circum stances which led to his resignation of the Free Church, Swift's Alley, Dublin, in consequence of an inhibition from the Archbishop declaring it irregular, says :—" I subsequently was elected to the benefice which I now bold, the chaplaincy of St. Nicholas Within. When elected by the patrons of the living, " the churchwardens and honest parishioners,' I immediately applied to the archbishop for a license. Pending, however, the receipt of his grace's answer, I instituted an investigation, as to the character of the incumbency, and I ascertained that it was a ' donative, with exempt jurisdiction and without cure of souls,' the duties being simply, the performance of divine service once a week. I ascertained that the in cumbent was warranted by law, free from archiepiscopal control ; and that very serious detriment to the living might be involved, if the chaplain accepted the license of his grace. Acccordingly, when 1 had ascertained these facts, I begged leave, respectfully, to withdraw the ap plication, which I bad in the first instsnce made. The chaplains of Saint Nicholas Within are, through royal charter, by the very fact of their election, licensed to fulfil their duties without the intervention of any episco pal sanction. That charter makes their ordinary to he, not the diocesan, but the churchwardens and parishioners. Under existing circumstances, then, while altogether in dependent of the archbishop, I am a beneficed clergy man, duly licensed to perform the functions of my office. My impression is, that every beneficed clergyman is en titled to preach in any pulpit into which he may be in vited. 1 believe that the archbishop thinks differently ; that his grace supposes, that though a clergyman be bene fict d, still, that his, the archbishop's, sanction, is et ces sary to entitle him to preach as of right. 1 should have three red lights, all burning and in good condition ; could ' see the side lamps, but the tail lamp was underneath ; were going slowly, and afterwards about ten miles an hour, perhaps from six to ten altogether ; he kept a look-out for the pilot engine, and saw its light from the before box; when he first saw it he took his light out, and placed it by his side, and turned the green light to the pilot engine—green is the signal to go slowly ; the pilot engine still approached them, and when it was thirty or furty yards off, he heard the steam beating against the chimney, showing that the steam was still on ; he then jumped on the top of the carriage, holding on with one hand, and holding out the green light with the other. The pilot was half a mile off when he first saw it ; its speed did not diminish, and witness saw no person on the pilot engine ; when the concussion took place it bounced witness into the air, and he fell on the carriage again ; on getting down, the first thing he saw was Wheatley, the prisoner, on the line, stunned ; wit ness picked him up, and he said, " for goodness sake, bow came you to run into 113 in this way ?" Did you not see the lamp !" He said " no—l did not see anything, neither train nor lamps." The stoker of the pilot engine said, they only saw a white light previous to the collision. At the close of the examination, the defendant was ad mitted to bail, himself in £5O, and two securities in £3O each, to answer the charge when called upon." CROP DE` ATMOSJ!U ERIC RAILWAY. A series of three exhibitions of the working of this line took place last week. The atmospheric line appears to the eye to differ from what must now be content to be termed the old line merely in the circumstance that there lies along the entire road, midway between the rails, so as to be under the carriages, a cast-iron pipe 15 inches in diameter, made in lengths of 10 feet each, which are carefully joined toge ther to make a continuous tube. It is emptied of air by an engine at the nearest station in advance of the train which is to travel. Beneath the first carriage of the train is suspended a strong arm, or arm-plate, in a slanting direction, which grasps a piston or cylinder made to fit the pipe upon the road, and meant to run through it, the arm being admitted into the pipe by a longitudinal valve three or four inches wide, extending along the top of the pipe ; the valve is made of leather covered with iron plates, the leather being kept flexible and air-proof by saturating it with a composition of beeswax and tallow. ,The piston enters the pipe very easily through a conical enlargement, and, as the air has been exhausted, it is of course sucked up the pipe, or rather the pressure of the air behind forces it through the vacuum in front: as it proceeds along, the arm by which the first carriage grasps it lifts the longi tudinal continuous valve, and the whole train thus glides along; whilst as fast as the arm or connecting-rod passes on the valve falls down again behind it firmly, and is shut still more securely by a wheel which is made to press upon it, a beater also following to affect the greasy composition, and the better to secure the pipe being left air-proof, ready to be again exhausted for the next train. The first thing that strikes the traveller is the absence of the engine and its tender; and, as most persons look on it pretty much as on a tiger in his cage, ready to do them a mischief, this seems little recom mendatim. This gain, however, is anything but a mere matter of fancy; for nearly one-third of the railway mishaps have been ac cidents to engines. Nearly another third have been collisions on the road ; and on an atmospheric railway it is physically impossi ble for two trains to be moving in the same section of pipe at the same time ; one must leave the section (which will be from three to five miles long) to let it be again exhausted of its air, before there is any motive power to propel another train through it. All the passing, and on single lines the meeting, must take place at the stations by means of sidings which, we may observe, are to be about 1000 feet long. Thereis also some additional security gained the directing influence exerted on the train by the piston inside the tube ; and in consequence of the carriages not being so much dependent on the bite or hold taken of the rails by the wheels, there is less danger from sharp curves, and want of control over the line in greasy weather, steep inclines also presenting no serious • difficulty. Less time is wasted in stopping, because there is not the immense engine and tender to be stopped and put in motion. Even the superior chance which the weight of these give, that cattle or other impediments may be flung oft the rails, will perhaps be met by constructing the piston carriage with a special view to throwing any obstruction on one side. The chief difficulty has been expected to arise from loss of power by leakage of air in the exhausted tube; but Mr Samuda states that this does not, in fact, occasion aloss of more than 1 to la-horse power per mile, causing an expense of not above Id per train for 20 miles. The experiments of this week have been successful, and encourage the hope that the advantages to which we have referred are within reach. The motion was more equable and smooth than usual ; the noise was much the same as with a locomotive engine, but there was, of course, no coke dust for the eyes. The trains certainly attained full speed in less time than usual after starting. On one part of the journey we went a mile in 62 seconds, in an open car riage. without feeling any inconvenience; on Friday a speed of 75 miles an hour was attained. The Brighton Railway is crossed by a viaduct, the ascent being with a gradient of 1 in 50, and in the middle of a curve of half-a-mile radius ; up this incline (pro bably inaccessible to a locomotive engine from want of bite upon the rails) the trains went at full speed, the length of it being too short to affect the rate very sensibly, or make it necessary to apply extra power by a larger tube there, with an expansive piston. There is a curve•also of only a quarter of a mile radius, which was passed at full speed. The barometer ranged 26 to 27 inches, but the vacuum required for the ordinary working of the trains will not exceed 16 to 18. On descending the viaduct towirds Croydon, it appeared that the train would not be stopped in time by the mere application of breaks, and a valve in the piston was opened, which, allowing the air behind to rush into the vacuum in front, reduced the mercury in a moment from 27 inches to 12, and soon moderated the speed. The trains were 50 ton trains; when stopped at a sta tion, two pairs of breaks were applied for about five-eighth's of a mile, and rather more than two minutes were lost by every stop page, the train being at rest for a quarter of a minute. At each station, Forest-hill, and Norwood, and Croyden, there are a pair of 50. horse power engines to exhaust the air, but at present it is not found necessary to work an engine at the middle station. An at mospheric line requires a station at every third or fifth mile to work the apparatus, but a single line of rails suffices for a moderate traffic, the cost is less than on a double locomotive line, FICTITIOUS TITLES ON PROVISIONAL CONI MITTEES. A few weeks ago an advertisement appeared in the London Times, which we dare say was generally received as a hoax, purporting to come from a gentleman seeking the honour of appearing in some of the provisional com mittees (lolly paraded before the public. The writer stated that he could attach the letters of F.R.S., F.A.S., and A .S.S. (no doubt the last with perfect propriety !) to his name ; and in exchange for the patronage of so dis tinguished an individual, he modestly imposed the condi ton that he should be secured " a certain number of dis posable shares. at a premium of not less than five per cent, without any risk to himself." lie could, in addition, re commend a re;ative to fill the situation of solicitor or se ctetarv, and had a friend who—kind soul!—would " ac cept the office of engmeer." Macy of us, by the bye, have such relatives and friends. The advertisement in question, and the frequency of the appearance of gentlemen with some of these three magical initials after their names, has prompted a mem ber of the Royal Society to institute an inquiry into their genuineness ; and the following is its result, communicat ed in a letter to the Marquis of Northampton, president of that society. In the advertisements contained in ele ven numbers of the London Times, he finds twenty-eight names with F.R.S. appended to them, of which nine were not members of the society at the dates of the ad ver tiseinents styling them so. There are 13 only in the list who have confined themselves to one line. The remain der possess increased ambition and übiquity ; and one is announced as director of thirteen, managing committee man of two, acting committee-man of one, provisional committee-man of 30—total only 46.—ONLY 46! We should not wonder if a similar enquiry would not discover, in the same capacity, colonels who never figured in the army list, generals not to be found, and captains and lieutenants in the R.N. without count. What won der, when such is the constitution of the heads of some of our new projections, if the body should not be found a little unsound If the master of an establishment aspires to rank and title, the office-boy, the 'prentice, or the cook, may, with perfect consistency, figure in Parliamentary deeds. THE LONDON TIMES AND THE RAILWAYS. Leading journals, as well as individuals, sometimes let their zeal outrun both their discretion and common sense. An exemplification of this is to be found in the course pursued within the past week by the London Times, in his denouncement of the railway mania. Not content with adopting the calculation of last month's Bankers' Circular,—perbaps a fair one enough,—that the large sum of £38,000,000 will be required during the next three years for the completion of railways, already in proeress, or for which acts have been obtained, in Great Britain and Ireland, with nearly £14,000,000 addi tional as the amount which they are empowered to raise under their borrowing clauses, he gravely adopts, as a bugbear to frighten the community, the calculation con tained in the last number of the same paper, that the capital intended to be raised for the r lilways up to this time projected, amounts to £400,000,000. The very pro jectors themselves never dream that parliament will sanc tion a fourth of the schemes involving this amount. The Times, however, or an admiring correspondent and, fellow-alarmist, is not content with flying at the mush rooms springing up on every side, to be crushed by the feet of the legislature—if half of them ever get so far above ground as to tempt such a fate,—hut must have a fling at the completed and paying companies. With a despera tion unworthy of so:powerful an organ, he flies even at the vast property under the control of the railway king itself. After describing the mode in which that enterprising gen tleman has built up his empire, by the purchase of tribu tary or connecting lines at prices which he thinks exorbi tant, but which Mr. Hudson's foresight told him would prove remunerative to the purchaser, he sums up, for the purposes of his argument, the present premiums upon the capital of the lines themselves, which we give, as they may be interesting to some of our readers : The York and North Midland— Original shares .£5O at 64 to 67 pm. Ditto, halves 25 at 30 to 33 Ditto, Scarborough 25 at 19 to 21 Selby ••••••• 20 at 43 to 45 Ditto, extension —ll paid at 2.5 to 27 Midland Counties 100 at 72 to 75 Ditto, new, paid 6 at 19 to 20 Newcastle and Darlington 25 at 41 to 43 New Brandling 15 at 41 to 43 Newcastle and Berwick 5 at 15 pm. Great North of England 100 at 120 pm." Upon the above statement, the letter-writer of the Times remarks : " I ask, after making these wretched sacrifices of money in such purchases as the above, can it be possible that these railways are intrinsically worth these enormous premiums? They were only worth the low values in their original names—uothing has occurred to make them more valuable, but amalgamation with good names has created a fictitious value, which will find its level When the railway fever abates, and investers begin to inquire, not what new shares a e to be issued worth a high premium. but what interest are they to receive for their money, and where is the interest to come from to compensate for the enormous premiums paid on shares. Then will come the crash, and on whom will it fall ? " To all this flippant stuff the only answer which needs to be given is, that the lines completed already pay, in the shape of dividends, interest upon their present prices fully equal to the current interest to oe haul from other investments ; and that these incomplete are guaranteed an interest, corresponding to their price, es soon as they are opened and become links in the chain and feeders of the oriOnal line. :Such puerilities, as this attack upon the Stability of a property of undoubted Nalue , go far to render the best-intentioned warnings given to the public, by the organ in which they appear, valueless, because disregarded. Oct. 2S, A NOTE OF WARNING• From the Record. of the present generation, are those of 18247," eat. The pan;cs, as they are called, m ost in the remenettned those of 1834 and 37. The latter wa s in the, e i, le o l the whence it arose considerably diff eren t front tß a ' ,irots• former, but both issued in widely-spread pecuoiarY, t he tation and ruin. The objects which have called 0 ' ith present preternatural ebullitions of cupidity, are, elf a io this difference, multitudes find a security very different from those of the former periods, a%po proaching calamity, similar in intensity to those B u t, wound up the history of those former evil (1 11 . 0 ' m oo/ probably, this difference is deceptive, for tbe I ) , ll : r ,f h - soch which it is used. The grand distinction on sq u 'i the persons rest their confidence is this ; that forme: liso schemes which led to pecuniary distress and coor, s ts were chiefly foreign. wiiile those of the presen t ull ' en tlf frego u tio nearly exclusively domestic. This, though stated as a fact, is no fact. The fact is this , the t ,!,:b tbe the extreme as the pecuniary obligations under I'M" . 5 01 en trPr i rece , multitude here come in relation to domestic the enterprise as a whole is of such giant and l o ot dented dimensions, that the amount of t e „oe, schemes entertained in this country at the prese'„ i it exceed, by about ten millions sterling, the sa l° ; t het! foreign_ schemes in 1824-25 and in 1834-37 Pu t , We shall proceed to prove what we have sato. or , The following table we believe to be substantiO sA rect, and it will shew the relative extent of the Peclote enterprises entered upon in the three periods pert mentioned : agaisst awnbich Tot al 0 4 * Home Foreign An ioo Schemes. Schemes . i 1 6 10 e .e 4.9 0 ,00 I n 1824-25 there were .. 156 778,630 .. 48,187,000 • • -,,, , 149./ , 1834-33 „ .. 139.073,701 .. 21,175,000 •• 1 e ",,514.L ° 6 18 ' 44-45 •, .. 61:1,262,200 .. 79,250,000 • • ',, 5 014, 17 1 0 In Ist period deposits were paid up to the amount Of.• ' '616, 0 ' 0, 2d •• ,• •• 49 40 3d „ there are, or are represented to be, • 79, 4, , fie deposits to the extent of .. .. 4T .. ti , 85 Such a table as the above, supposing it to 'il l , Pre . believe it does, a reasonable approximation to On k iwi. sents to our minds a picture of a most alartniBgA 1 01 l The subsisting schemes are ridiculous in extent a i t i T o litifr absurd as it respects their impracticability. 168-,,efi 5 8e; to sanity in the public mind—will d ing, as we do, that the first serious reverse —we - a Yeti turn large proportion of them as snow melts before the nt, g 0 issiPa te st or mer's sun, still there will remain, in our judg! l ' e ,,,, r iseh, amount of obligations, ou home and foreign en' e '; A pilP fully entered into by responsible persons which the pressure of a disastrous ch:tracter. of the country will not be competent to meet Ic i ' e sof Nv e t heroor 4. go W ° again to our readers personally interested, T! IN -e G. the 1388/‘ The following table of the stock of bullion in o , be of England at the different periods in question 83 n 4 11 most interesting and instructive : , i ,347 , ,,,p la Feb., 1824 ' 4 :1 1 3 , 8 14 1 2,0 " .0 ° In Feb., 1834 In Jan., 1845 .414,801,521 In Feb., Feb. 11862367.............;11221'" In June „ In The fact of the harvest 4614,8 . ,5,0 turnin out considera bly fed , A , woro e g than was anticipated, and proving, ' as w e believ e ; c ols' considerably under an average crop, united to !li c i to $ mitous disease in the potato, will necessarily le%tatics large importation of furz-ign corn, which circutn'peca• again is likely to exercise a hurtful influence on th e niary circumstances of the country. LAW INTELLIGENCE. 179 persons have given notice of intending to aP PI" term for admission as attorneys. l o st se ° ,, LUNATIC ASYLUMS.—By the Lunacy Act , of ' t or t" sion, the several counties in England are to ere c ri ' o tic s l join other counties in erecting, asy l um s for fns ver's' which asylums are to be visited by the magistracy toss times in a year. In the event of non -complia ne oolr erection, government will order the buildings to be menced. , O W/ JUDGES' SALARIES.—It appears by a Parlallirchsa' paper that the salaries of the judges of the Court E w ell eery amount to £33,000, of those of the Court of „f tb s Bench to £28,000, and a similar sum for the judges:f tb whilst Pleas, hilst the salaries of the Barons of Exchequer are £27,000. The highest salary is tbtati-ost„ice Lord Chancellor, who has £lO,OOO. The Chief ssOuw of the Queen's Bench has the next in amount, fonoa which is the amount paid to the Chief Justice of C° oo o° ' Pleas, and the Chief Baron of the Exchequer be e tog e. The salaries of the judges of the four courts am ount ther to £123,577. SPOR TING IN TELLIGENCE. CHESTER AUTUMN DACES.—TuE sill ' l. The Mostvn Stakes of 15 soya. each, was vW OOh A. W. Hill's Burlesque, beating three others , , The Chester Handicap Stakes of 15 sous. ea b 9 is with 50 sous. added by the citizens, was vino t beol' Worthington's Lancashire Witch, beating seven . as w os The Helter Skelter Handicap' of 5 sous. each, w o tbeT by Mr. J. Thompson's Lord Saltoun, beating three . c ideo A Hurdle Race, of 5 soya. each, with 20 sovs,;,,the' was won by Mr. Heap's Chintz Print, beating C'e Kitchen and Morpeth. SOUTHPORT COURSING MEETING' lo t , This meeting came off on Wednesday and Thursdlio'o The Annual Dinner Stakes were won by Mr' ' L ee S t ' Birdlime, Mr. Robinson's Phoebe running UP Mr. t-00' Leger Stakes by Mr. Bake's Princess Alice, 1°, 1. * 00 mas's Rapid running up ; the Produce Stakes 14 , the Woolf's Nimble, Mr. Deakin's Distiller running,uP"Far Churchtown Stakes, by Mr. Deakin's Driver Nir:ps.bf mot's Smoker running up ; the Scarisbrick 'Sten-n/03g Mr. Deakin's Young Lill, Mr. Coupe's Nimrod 113- gr . up ; the Crossens Stakes by Mr. Coupe's Cl,a ra iles Chew's Chancellor running up; the Southport ° tB . 01 7 ' Mr. King's The Baron, Mr. Slater's Sentry runnlll° sprnpaflaaoNoaloregi respondent u:ym T slegtaodlti be permitted to come to the post fit to rum 1 , 1 0 01 ; e case, my meaning has been more than usually f t T e fe r :, must show whether more true. If well and m eant ..' unconditionallysissuisxtnnestniLoetegedEsadrhrrsroetr amongst t. C rhtl:ibslorh,in A b:i ns e ieds m rtantgah eistoolnnso, and my etfpwde. du ß li , amhl field, four—namely, the j bdEoa h e p i, yosuot:ltvlbhnvratefEoießekharupssrketcartiponeflea,tan. roinahl elchi such, Herald nmoße, emeaotlanddEdoertfll: ysar_tyl i beye S vmesi ( favourite B:viau A nanrulre K rdintitt Ebt think determined ei ne:psro—rktyoecran) rs T hc: mheea h T, :naiettthcf E oi hteSeieeensdypr 13:00tnerfhasetxtiretrx.ui itropon, 0 poi.o g ot iptcrei 0,, esliff6:sol:,:ooi :it :I:pag,fo, laev, oi ‘ ky l ki upon ei ' d e pnu e 4 t ta o ipmr P oo. n e l en l t d a: y m aht E s:o e ) seurvalbgr.hi very right ijo li e l l i i co , fr o fe t bre; men's b00k5.".., if .V e nus 0 The race between Red Robin and Pocket „ g ee j two fastest Galloways in England—for £2O O, c „ - n cli f " over the last mile of Epsom course on Tuesday' ' co ir decided in favour of the former. Lord Newport was robbed of his pock et-boob' , 01 taming £2OO in notes, at Newmarket races. ~,r a en' or THE CHAMPIONSHIP.—SO much disagree ot - 0 arisen in consequence of the late fight between "i i : tO t t ef Bendigo, after which the latter claimed the h e ,:i' it °. challenge has been made and accepted to `"" f iti again for 1000 sovereigns. . 0 11- I ‘fel . FREEMAN, THE AMERICAN GIANT.—TI ,...; .8 e Ao r - e h i , pugilist expired in Winchester Hospital on Sato strop tl is complaint was consumption—we might SO" He was wasted to2.c2fnteje skeleton. ................... 00 fo g A. very splendid Elizabethan cornice, c arved fi g ,gorr a l ' e ll gilt, has just been completed by Messrs. JeffreYt o ly " and nd is now on view. It is exceeditl° Of worthy Co.,A inspection. es tej , PIANO-FORTES.—We had the gratification i. ) :, }31 0 " t o of inspecting a new and splendid piano-forte, 'flbea,uboi wood, in fine old English oak case, of surpas si lyab, P a L lf' it is constructed as a Boudoir cottage, in the 1- ', 4 tb' "or style, and magnificent in tone. This is the tbifLia cotl Edgar has had of this manufacture, and icerb . e - o°. noisieurs to lose no time in seeing it, as it vo" , c ot in the course of a few days. se 0 1 ,, tO GUNPOWDER PLOT.—We beg to refer th? ce rso r 'or', readers who intend celebrating the above a° 9 ' 0 , ot oln w le , an advertisement which appears in another e , he sa b oo flouncing that a depot has been opened for ' ro te fire works, manufactured by the eminent, Pliot ;00' artist to the Zoological Gardens, whose nr'',, r nai ° ductions during the last season gave such unit' n o' faction.—See advt. The th e ~...., 00 THEATRE-ROYAL, WILLIAMSON-SQUAIt;::4 tie' sto' velty deblit at this this ss town n at o re f dNuiirsisugsttohnertp,adsatuweek 0-, - gr• , •ett art. formerly of this town, and now of the °11:111:05glibt°'1 who himself appeared for one night (Thursdolicifee,'tia6 his daughter's Desdemona, and wa s warrolY °e ve l i t boo ; the numerous friends be has left behind bin' feo o3 /0 0e of Miss Stuart is at ple'sent far from being fr ee . is 00, O 0..p0t faults which beset young aspirants to Pis .•,.,ac ,er With careful training, however, it is not too ' - ' oo r P' f that she will become a welcome addition t° ofj meagre stock of good tragedy actresses. . 0 0ieoe CANDIDATES FOR M ATRIMON Y.—The lat he ri pe Hallow-eye at length arrives, and with it e to 0 141 exertions of FEENY BROTHERS to COUllibilitiAtyo? piness of the million. TWENTY THOUSANIL..4O CAKES, WITH A CHARMED RING IN KART" for Friday, the 31st October instant! ' Whoe'er finds the ring to the Hallow-eve cake tig i Are sure to get marred , . 0 re Cti re e Without any mistake. Coll _et A A supply of cake ,will lie at the Dublin De rtt i olr Establisbments,l26, St. James's-street, 2 °,'.0 poi' , i ,‘ V' and 76, Souttreastle-street, where a billed '' ~- Ro e may be hadAy calling or sending. el'OS Sf lt 1 , hOYAL LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH— st w ee co pt or performances at this theatre during th e P a r iptio gl 'n b ff• been of the usual lively and excellent deg nu e oP o r /4' o f prising " Powder and Ball," a kind of bilfil i tia t ne, f , Majesty's recent Bal Poudre, in which the f c osto 1i , e,.., .. m rs. HammondGratt Grattan d ex t o h i t e e naiveted universal r a , i i t t e i :: ~ th e _ b ! 0 4 - . 3 10 : saga 0 D u i ii tr o t vous Man,"_ that character excellently Fitzroy, Mr. Lester playing Maeshane ; ttati °6 b s e oe° e rg caniii,' in which the singing of Mrs • Gil.. t he ml O o f could be desired. On Friday evening, it" w as a l' in sO j, Mr. Hammond , which we are glad to say „, en tle_ t ite i f a new drama was introduced, written bY ' i lly, e U e ot ° e ,l Ver, . ~ ,c e this town, and member of Oxford fi t" vi bie" OP ,iO 4 " Loyalty, or a Legend of Speke Hai e O 9 ~0 0 i , 5 well, partly ,we suspect, because the audieni. jt_ t i , . ba: , , 4 to b e good humoured rather than ' cri'i • c t a ite r" 'K .' little of either plot or character to gi . ve 1 o tert r '' v efil l artistically put together. The remaining Ho T 0 ., ' Otbe t were, " Powder and Ball," and 4 lati6 b both of which were rewarded with roars e Oct. c th 4.25 ° h e ezertic The t hertised A PII Satz On We Z t h _ing sta - "cd for 1:4 :i t te for of Loi tl On Sati iwo l ' it liont a t o o n Sat, r violen Pris on. Tue ~Got••4 run ° Aless qreet froi And that Pr hie of The Ri " ezi 4 ed for h lt hand S, '"Y Been IThe b, t l iesday rll ,,nswic Oighte - .loath es bkards () n Tu !gre et , w p epped %Id was The k ackb 144 day *er e thr A g t Torrd str frott a c tert.;. bre:" st 60 . for irn DoPtq c The white I ,?tt. n R eef i kt and It c ,,, ti 3 v . e ,