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March 7, 1848. Kittraturt. POETRY THE PICTURE-BIBLE. (From Boyd's Book of German Ballads.) Hail to thee! time-worn teacher, Friend of my childhooi's days; ' How oft, by dear hands op !n'd, Thy page has met my gaze— When from his pastime turning, The boy, in glad surprise, has seen before him burning, The blaze of Eastern skies! Wide hast thou flung the portals Of many a clime, I ween, And on thy picture-pages Are dreams of beauty seen. Thanks that a new world greeteth, Through thee, my wondering eye The palm-tree and the desert, And camels gliding by 'Tis thou hast brought them near me, Sages and seers of old, Whose lives inspired prophets In burning words have told. And I see young, graceful maidens, Of face and form divine, Like dreams of rarest beauty, Upon thy pages shine: Then come the patriarch sages, Men of the hoary head: And as they pass, bright angels Keep watch upon their tread. Their flocks—l saw them drinking • From the river's crystal flood, As, wrapt in noon-day musing, Before thy page I stood. E'en at this hour I see thee, Though years have passed since then, With thy pages open lying On the old arm-chair again, With beauty, fresh and changeless, Thy pictures still are bright As when 1 Arst bent o'er them, With all a child's delight. Once more I am beholding Those forms grotesque and strange, Their colour bath not faded, Their beauty cannot change; For every well-known picture, By the artist's cunning wrought, And every bud and blossum ,gain t stanu•entreanng, Beside my mother's knee And she tells once more t Of each quaint mystery; And my grey-haired father near me, As I bend my eager brow— Methinks, still getity smiling, le meaning Oh, times! old times! for ever Pass'd like a vision by, The Picture-Bible gleaming,— Those hear Old parents bending O'er the boy so young aid gay; The true and trusting childhood, VARI THE TONGUE.—By examining the tongue of tient, physicians discover the diseases of the b Philosophers, the diseases of the mind. The Peace Society has issued a circular which termi nates thus :—"Arbitration is friendly, wise, easy, and cheap. War is fiendish, foolish, difficult and dear." To deny the Jew political blessings were to arrogate and exercise the judgment of God ; but to invest him with legislative functions is to deny and condemn that judgm ent. PEITT SQUABBLES.—" G. is so very close fit was ob served) ;he will squabble about a farthing.' " Well, remarked W.) I have always thought that the less one squabbles about the better." „,It is cur i ous that Shakspere, though giving us Greeks, stomans, Indians, Moors, Egyptians, Germans, French men, Italians, English, Welsh, and Scotchmen, in no Instance throughout his plays introduces an Irishman. lay TEST OF CHARACTER.—Whoever he be, clergy or , v r n s ari, that can receive good counsel, and bp, prudent and - u°len eine reproofs, is as wise and great a titan as he l'Hat gives them. E,jEte,DRFICIENCY SOMEWHERE.—The Chancellor of the depu tations deals in so nn about not being able to take off any taxes, that be is known amongst by the name of " He Wood, if he could."—Punch. the4,_At`t EASY TRANSITION.—Mr. Emerson, speaking of fac with which the New Englanders pass from one to another, said that a man might one day Professiona tavern-keeper and the next a judge !" A very natu ral transition , " whispered a wag—" from the Bar to the Ben c h !" I L THR LORDS OF THE CREATION.—Dr. Johnson and ',rs.• Macaulay h a d l ong b e en di s puti ng a b ou t t h e supe iiinPtY of the male sex, for which the doctor had conten ea with his usual vigour. Shortly afterwards the lady's s wan chair was announced; upon which she requested th e doctor to " beg the two lords of the creation" to wait, Li she was not yet ready. CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENT.—The following odd an nouncement appeared in the Times of Monday :—" A he competent to make tea, scold the servants, and mu cer herself agreeable and useful sometimes, wishes a situa tion. She could contribute to the comforts of an clderly the Y " d gentleman, or may be found an acquisition in tio bc'n t ravel. an old gentleman or nobleman. No objec n to Terms, 100 guineas per annum." A A CHEAP CURRENCY.—A Chambridge scholar wanted PI entertain economically ; .so he went to the spirit dealer . I ,TI the t own, an d said, " Can you let me have some cheap bra n d y ?it 6, 0 yes, sir ; can let you have some very good ,t 18s. a gallon.' "Can you let me have none cheaper ? yes, sir; can make it as cheap as you like, with the v ti rP in the yard." So it is with currency. All cheap ening of money is to be with the pump in the yard.— Colonel Thompson's Catechism of the Currency. Where a government is based on the recognition of a God, those only who confess a God can govern ; where it tests on the confession of the true God, those cnly who confess Him may rule; where it is based on Christ the and God revea l e d , none b ut Ch r i st i ans can exerc i se it; 'Lid where it assumes Christian doctrines and rights as exclusively true, those only who hold by them can exer tee it. All this may be very beni g hted poli c y ; b u t, g i ven e o facts, the inference is unavoidable. USE OF THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.--The .„ -- `,,en,_th d. The Philip and of Guizot erished a Tahiti madrid. The men who wielded the power of t France th e Qr „,nsh a missionary station at the bidding of Rome, and to who bartered character, and truth, and honour, bo. P 6 l.°ll de a Bourbon dynasty in Spain, had put aside the p r ;," Panoply of human power. The King lost nerve and a n l e t tice of mind when these were most indispensable, ti; b nis defences became unavailing. The Tuilleries and the 'alais Royal were stormed and sacked, and instead of 4 tricoloured cockade, with which on one of the last tt c ,Y B of July, 1830, Louis Philip rode into the court of - de Ville, be was doomed to see the red flag of re public floating from the towers of Notre Dame, as he 47" aff, once more a private citizen, to seek a temporary rat Neuilly, on his journey to the coast. barri e HAT IS A BARRICADE ?—Before all traces of the v e "es, those popular checks on miscalculating go otrninents disappear, I will endeavour to give an idea of a P., , ?Y an illust ra ti on th a t w ill b e f u ll y compre h en d e d b y In one Suppose the commissioners of pavements, Fleet -street of their perpetua l di gg i ngs up, p il e d t h e stones o f across the way instead of along it, inserting a t ' a n ii P t front or two on the top, with a few lengths of iron w ow l t and half a dozen trees from Temple-garden, that p ari u s e. barricade like scores which have been raised tlertYtele in the last movement. They are rude enough to are placea ut. most formidable in their effect. Troops can eninst them ; cavalry are quite useless, as they ever way a t all the intersections of the streets; which tenscaues.a battalion turned, it would fin rapidity truly mar- Tare I nave examined a hundred of th em w ith muc h mar more interest than I s h ou ld f ee l i n t h e Pyram i ds. — Cor- Te Pondent of the • o a f bF uni°BLT Y OVERCOMING Tnnes FEAR.—One very remark tehceirwcuorostance that I have noticed, is the fearlessness men —who crowd into the thick of the tumult, Yelling and tos.in • numbers of the' g have T.ms, and often remain when men g:ven ground. The Boulevards swarm with lo re t tes, elegantly dressed, who watch the movements of the troops, and mix in the groups, inquir ing and repeating the news with the utmost curiosity and interest. A gentleman to whom I remarked this, told tne be had been s t ruc k w ith th e same fact. He said that he and a friend were watching the conflict at a barricade in the Rue St. Martin, and they were su rroun d e d by about twenty work girls, probably sempstresses. Sud denly a discharge of muskets tnnlr !Anna their pa rody ; ;inc V 1 muzzucta Low, lace, ana me nails new whistling past, and rattled againspt the wall over their heads. They all fled, and took refuge under a neighbour ing archway ; but the firing having ceased, the girls peeped out cautiously, and went forth one by one, till at last he and his fri en d were l e f t a l one. " We thought " he added, la ughing, " that as all the women had gone, we might venture forth again, and accordingly we did."—Paris Correspondent. Lx VIATIIAIs7.—In Job we are presented with a truly niaBnificent description of Leviathan. It is most inte fitnit to mark this delighted contemplation by God of 0/Vn works—thus stamping a warrant of sacredness on •4. tasteful admiration of them—as of the parts, and the qer. and the comely proportion of this noble creature. Int o t .ettu approach or come so near as to put the bridle op t ~ ,. ? The " face of his garment" may just be the 4 ` rsurface of his skin, which is his clothing. The % 1 1 11 ° ,, t s of his face" is a highly-poetical expression; and Bbs ey - ,,1:e beautifully so is the comparison of his ey es t o reN,;.,lds of the morning. And what an impression of s ettl e :'n is given by the impenetrable closeness of his Pok e und flakes of flesh—as well as of his marvellous eleef„,% — in the light given forth by his neesings, and the c fire that he casts about him by his . breathing !Ind Joy , TPus in the water. The -" sorrow being turned into not very clear : it may be that the sorrow of others I>lAae makes his prey is his joy. The strength of hi s bo t i;% Part is most forcibly depicted. His excellency by might and gracefulness is all the more enhanced . br eak helplessness of them who are opposed to him. His be tL i ng Is obscure and variously interpreted. It may ti at when he throws the sea into breakers by his mo th" ineY repent of their sins as if on the eve of perishing. superiority to fear and danger is finely described. I, at ato poetics in the trait of his laughing at the shak tt : f d a a s s pear ! So impenetrable is the lining of his body h e can lie with ease on the sharp stones that are under or as if in the ostentation of his hardiness, is repre spreadiog them beneath him upon the mire. tr4l.tid the effect of his movement in the waters is riven with e at strength of imagery and expression—raising such a ruin otion there as to ma k e the sea like a boiling pot. ial!.le electric luminousness that is excited by these agita tns is adverted would there is-immense power in the vigUre that " one think the deep to be hoary." 1848. :iir PTCY. aUs, solicitor , the restore' ad been seized Court. M r. r, represente d under whose )een effected: the bankrupt the name el :.:85 bad been Ten children , nary preps's' nd under tbi Id watch and )mmendatorl the messen silver watch, ons. By the entary to his and he ires Under these any money be considered meaning ,of I stated that other in hie exception of cher, on the money and ipt, and the News Roos e not coming late Act for irsday next, sizes will be 3aron Rolfe. I a considers- Monday, the Mill-street, ing made the satisfactory Inesday, Mr. a. sued Mr. Bs., for li f the Times. 1 were not CHANCERY: lay, Samuel butler, was m the ma lady lie had ;e) is a ward year. n v. the s an action astained bY ilway. Tha le jury were ndants con- ie Court of ught by the sation from Cam pbell'i of August called the he London me up the the North to avoid e doing this roadside of the North workman , ed a verdict £lOO, and OF a case was to re( elf ldependePt ►r a breads . ie lady Wo g ce, and the 000, is the The os gust of 111 r a week )e wrote 10 0 were copl ughter-In- igs foolish , ire stop ,!° ie plainto .ivy cot 0- aueen. 011 obsercetl by L°r" a diamond approba' Windsor has also lomew, in tragedies• ri di ng be r lease of xnds, and ther with perty, for t less than • is u nder; lueen wipe hlands of )m Aber' 11 land to me off L ot to of tu e in on for- •ne, Es , the day ti a SweeP- risk pace: d the rest intil the 9, 'ront, and ft., with Owner) 1 Oliver) ? :ontestea• Sailor, in hind Jai k sort 01* eepstake 6 added.. ...... mice, 0' A ,sitions ; ire. The ,well wa° 7Cti 2. o. Gore . kLurne ' ` 31e's 'row round, l' t; inley aad t a dozeo lazardev: head, and ,Meg a- first rac 0 ft, Wit, h , . tovvara° plugh ickley Bevil! Lynne ti There' . Ther e Le Shaver 10 added; night 3 lifers ; As `°S° the leq: ou p ea LAT b gh 9 sp Ink, at e " for se Bls° Dr t. by stra nips , ping 1 1 ° e `° oth er : in favLtifr. is made white and foamy, like curled and white hair, by the number of bells which ascend trom his path, and by which, though himself unseen, one might trace his progress through the deep. Altogether he is unrivalled, and stands in fear of nothing—the proudest of the proud, or one so superior in strength and greatness to the proud ones of the earth that they might well be humbled in the contemplation of him. There are various conjectures re specting leviathan, whether he be whale or crocodile. It is truly a gorgeous representation that is here given of him ; nor is the last trait the least impressive, where he is represented as looking down upon all things, and as king over all the children of pride.—Dr. Chalmers' Daily Scripture Readings. THE WEALTH AND AVARICE OF THE EX-KING OF THE FRENCH.—Louis-Philip falls, and falls, like all selfish men, unpitied. Napoleon was pre-eminently selfish, and yet for a long time h managed to conceal his real base ness beneath a blaze of false glory. His selfishness led him to - covet th. extension of his territories and the gran trary, disclosed the narrowness of his aims, by his intense desire to enrich himself and his family. The private pro perty of the Dukes of Orleans had remained untouched during the Revolution and the Empire. The Palais Royal, with its streets of shops, and their enormous ren tal, together with other estates of great value, returned to him, improved rather than injured, at the first restoration. The death of the last of the Condes brought the princely domains of Chantilly into the hands of one of his sons ; whilst other events, down to the r..cent death of his sister, rolled millions aster millions into the coffers of the rest. Prince Joinville had acquired a rich dowry from the Bra zils with his wife; and, more recently, the Duc de Mont pensier had succeeded to the enormous wealth of the In fante of Spain. But time after time Louis-Philip had in volved himseif in disputes with his own nation, and finally with England, about flotations for his children, in which he displayed the absttce of all that was noble, generous, and lofty. The late affair of the Spanish marriages was an inglorious intrigue for the purpose of enriching and ag grandizing his house. But a tew hours have sufficed to lay the whole of his costly fabric in ruins ; and such has been the awful suddenness of the catastrophe, that it has come upon him like an earthquake, and the child of one revolution, the hero of a second, and the victim of a third, stands, like the skeleton of the inhabitant of Pompeii, suddenly overwhelmed with the fiery torrent, which found him in the very act of clutching his money-bags.—Record. INEQUALITIES OF THE INCOME-TAX.-Why should who subsist by our own industry, and y our own share of the national ex- who are ready t le quota o lc-Ts-difference- in position beiwcUll 'the — man who dears £l.lO a-year by his trade, and another whose gross profits amount to £155, than between the latter and the posses sor of a revenue of a 10,0b0 uer annum Aml ‘,.,r +h. heir incomes, r, who S the reuse to moderate his in to escape scot-tree ! Another and upon those whose incomes fiction is made by the act of 1842, Irvin realised property, and those here is a vasi no landed property, tion than the di- the military officer, That most ity of laying by some pro be one cane already tul ; and yet no distinction two. Tile professional man 3 lay aside a large portion of uring, by insurance or other e for his family in the case of be able to spend one-half 1 yet no deduction is allowed pay for burdens not his own, which he was no participator, .3.. vied from the iund tne full knowledge that, ed with him, whilst that le and available by inhe upon which we decidedly augmentation of the in- ch is I. Iwhilst the o dustry, is to be eta lare precarious. No I between profits aceru whatever is r wise, th and for ministerial folly object to the contin come-tax.— NATURAI Blackwood SCIENCE OF THE BIBLE.—As a specimen of lanship in zoology, the unicorn is mentioned God's workry in Job—eons id beyond the management of human strength or skill. The questions regarding him, when thus brought forward in detail, serve to impress us with a sense of our helplessness when we attempt to con trol those forces which God bath instituted, and which He alone can control. And there is after this a sanction for our admiration—not of the strength only, but of the beauty which pervades the whole of animated nature. In the tribute given to the goodliness of the peacock's wings, we are strongly reminded of our Saviour's testimony to the flowers in the field, surpassing in glory all the array of Solomon. And then what a further sanction to the na tural science, which tells of the specialities in the habit and condition of animals; and there are none more fitted to excite our wonder and interest than those of the os trich, no less signalized by speed and strength than she is by the want of foresight and understanding. There is an obscurity in the clause of " her labour being in vain with out fear." Her labour in producing seems not in keep ing with her carelessness and fearlessness as to the pro ' ness due to the want of wisdom, but which ned and regulates the y which the heat of the weather is made up for by Him v suffices for the deposited in the telling of the young, after the eggs are mud. From the scorn which is felt by thLostrich tar the se, transition is made to the horse have one of the sublinicst passages in the Bible. In the clothing of his neck with thunder, the very indefiniteness of the image adds to the immense power; nor can we figure a more gorg sive picture than is given of st be left to speak for itself a to other exemplification the air, and c' he descr closes with the c here stand associated so many lofty and which it builds it dwells and rears up its young, the pride of its riority over all other tenants of the air, whom it holds in perpetual subjection and terror, and seizes upon for its prey. The force of her far-seeing eye, and the ravenous appetite both of herself and her yo ung ones f or bl oo d, are est, the r iticn of those rocks wEere 11 serving to enhanCe our view man in comparison with the God who ains all.—Dr. C'halmers' Daily Scrip- ully depicter of the littlen lure Readings EXECUTIONS IN CHINA ted that when Keying demanded the execution of four persons for the murder of the six Englishmen near Canton. that the men who were executed offered to suffer, provided certain honours were conferred on their families. In Europe this may appear incredible, but in China, where life is held cheap and the laws are loose, substitutes are found. It was but lately that on sentence of death being passed on a murderer in Hong Kong, he inquired whether he would be allowed to pro vide a substitute. The following account of :he execution is given by one who was present : It is confidently si The first, .....nnals who was brought out seemed to be about 25 years of are, decently dressed, tall for a Chinaman, and strongly made. He had good fea tures, but, was ghastly pale, he was gagged, and had his hands tied together behind his back, and his feet were fettered in the Chinese manner. He had a piece of wood, about two feet in length, with a slip of paper at the head of it, sticking down between his clothes and back. This piece of wood is called Cha-peaou, and the criminal's name, with a description of his crime, &c., is written on the paper attached to it. He passed from the boat to the shore along some planking, over which he was supported ioliceman behind him pushing him roughly forwards. The eyes of this criminal were rolling about in a fearful manner, as he turned them from the foreign soldiers to the seamen between whom he passed from the boat to the field. He was run out about twenty yards from the river, into the square, till about ten yards from the spot where I was standing, with a clear space between, so that I was able to see vtry plainly the whole of the proceedings. When the policemen had led him to that distance, they threw him down on the ground, and in consequence of his hinds being secured behind his back he fell quite for ward on his face. The executioner, who, on his being hrowsht oub, caw,. s....ixas I.coarn whom the Intsizaas ;Us were stationed, with his naked sword in his hand and his sleeves tucked up to his elbows, was by this time at him. v u.L.re. tie then to o k h o ld of Philip Cody. was standing in front of the drop, when all the criminal's tail, wlii li had been previously rolled up of a sudden Henry Cody, although pinioned, made a rush into r knot, with the 1 hand, and by the help of this at the hangman, caught him, and actually had him half, hold by pressing the right foot on the criminal's hands, or way over the railing, when the Rev. Mr. Power caught on the small of his back, brought his head and neck into Cody, and prevented him throwing him down, otherwise the requisite position, sticking almost strai g ht out and the finisher of the law would have been killed. Philip norizuwu' 111)111 LUG LI Ulla, uui sogntiv oent down. He then, retaining his hold of the tail with his left hand brought his sword down in the right hand, so as almost to touch the criminal's neck, which I suppose he did in order, as it were, to mark the exact place at which to strike, and then raised the sword quickly up, and at one blow severed the head from the body, only leaving it attached by a small piece of skin, which he afterwards separated by a tug. The policeman now took the trunk and put it into a Chinese coffin, which some of the other policemen had brought forward while the beheading was going on. " The second and third criminals who were brought out close behind the first man seemed to be about fifty years of " am - Cody,.who, as before stated, had the rope adjusted and the cap over his face, on hearing the noise tore the cap off his face and actually got the rope off his neck, and was going to help his brother- On the hangman coming out again, Henry Cody made two desperate kicks at him, and hurt him much. Father Power got them at length into a quieter state, and in a short time they ceased to live. Loss OF THE CALYPSO.—The splendid iron vessel, the Calypso, Capt. Savery, was driven on shore near Arklow, in the storm on Saturday night. She left Dublin on Saturday night, bound for Rio de Janeiro, with a large and valuable cargo, wind from the N, but had not pro ceeded farther than the coast of Wicklow, when the wind suddenly shifted to S.E., S. and S.W., blowing a most terrific gale that carried away her topmast. Becoming, in a degree, encumbered, and the sea breaking fearfully over the bulwarks, fore and aft, she was driven on shore. The crew, about 16 in number, we are happy to state. agt. meagre -looking people. They were gagged and fastened in every way like the first man, and were as roughly handled. The executioners, however, cut their heads completely off at one blow. They were then put into the coffins, first the trunks and afterwards the I- - ' fourth was f-- " boat .aeao s. _ carried out from the . were all saved. The captain (J. Savery) writes as follows into the square, by means of a piece of matting slung —" The rollers making a breach fore and aft, washing between two poles. He sat huddl e d to ge th er , with his everything before them, bulwarks, stanchions, spars, head resting on his breast; and being tumbled out of the boats, and all on deck, we drove on shore at 3 p.m., an d conveyance in such a manner that when the execu- in this miserable condition we remained till 9 a.m., cling tioner raised him up the man's back was turned towards ing to the mizen rigging, the sea breaking over us enough me. I did not see his face, so as to judge of his age. I to smother the men, till Lieut. Lyons, and some of his remarked, however, that he was dressed in very ragged men, accompanied by some of the humane inhabitants of clothes. The executioner had a good deal of trouble to Mizen Head, rendered us every assistance in' rescuing us get this man's head in the proper position, and seemed, from our awful situation, by hauling each of us from the in consequence of having to handle him so much, to be ship to the shore with a hauling line. During my nay rather unnerved, for in taking his aim with the sword, in on the wreck, endeavouring to see my crew safe on shore, the manner described above, I saw that his hand trembled I could not but admire the daring and intrepid courage of very much; notwithstanding this, however, he severed one of Lieut.' Lyon's men, James Dillon, often nearly the bead from the body at one blow. forfeiting his own life to rescue others. As for my se lf, " The circumstance of the executioner being punishable should, I think, have died with the cold, only for his hu if he strike more than one blow may account in part for manity in sharing with me part of his own clothes. I his anxiety and nervousness. When all the four criminals have not saved a single article. The vessel's bottom keeps were beheaded, and the trunks and heads put into the well together, and if the weather moderates, I should coffins, the Chinese policemen carried them Auto a small hope- some-of-the -cargo - might' be tiVed.” We under - boat, stand the vessel is insured.—Cork Examiner. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. POLITICAL VARIETIES. The committee on the Bolton election have declared W. Bolling, Esq., duly elected. Lord John Russell is indisposed, and it is said that he intends to resign office. Lord Robert Pelham Clinton, son of the Duke of New. castle, is a candidate for the representation of Kinsale. Mr. Benjamin Hawes a sub-secretary in the Colonial Office, and the defeated of Lambeth, is the Whig candi date. The polling is expected to take place on Saturday. Mr. Gregson, the Radical member for Lancaster, has been unseated and convicted of bribery ; and the election has been declared void. At the beginning of the business in the Commons, on Monday, Mr. Hume asked Lord John if the ministry in tended to interfere in the affairs of the French govern ment. Lord John replied in the negative. A deputation, consisting of Lord Robert Grosvenor, Rev. George Everard, Mr. Field, &c. &c.,• had an inter view with Lord John Russell on Thursday, to present to his lordship a petition to the House of Commons for the repeal of the legacy duty on charitable bequests. The parties to the petition against the return of Fear gus O'Connor for Nottingham, have, for some cause'not explained, signified their intention not to proceed with it before the election committee, and as a matter of course he has been declared duly elected. The Chancellor of the Exchequer in the course of the debate on Monday in the House of Commons stated,, that he had the authority of Government to announce that it it was not their intention to press the increase of the In come Tax, but to continue it as at present for the ensuing three years. For Lyme Regis, the case for bribery against the sit ting member has failed, and the tables are now turned against the petitioner, Sir Fitzroy Kelly. But, to judge by the disclosures gorng on, if ever there was a " rotten" borough under the old system, the reformed cons,ituency of Lyme is deserving of the title. A new writ has been ordered for Kinsale, in the room of Mr. Guiness, un s e a t e d. Wh en th e news o f Mr. Gui ness's defeat reached Kinsale, most disgraceful riotings took place among the radicals. Lighted tar barrels were carried through the town, and the houses of several of. Mr. Guiness's supporters were attacked, and the windows broken. WATERFORD.—The nomination took place on Saturday week. The poll was appointed for Tuesday, and at the close the numbers were—for Sir H. W. Barron (Liberal), 319 ; Mr. Costello (Old Ireland), 301; Mr. Meagher, 154. The last named was the Young Ireland candidate, but he polled all his friends by elevetto — Clock, at which hour ho retired. RESIGNATION OF THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR IN ENG LAND.—The Frerich charge d'affaires, the Comte de Jar con, received, on Tuesday, a communication from M. de Lamartine, announcing that he had become minister of foreign affairs in France, and tendering him, in very flat tering terms, the office of representing the French repub lic at this court. The count, in reply, regretted his in ability to accept the mission in the spirit in which it was offered by M. de Lamartine, and requested that he might be superseded as early as possible. REL A N D ireat numbers 01 persons are still doing at Mayo from stavation About twenty men charged with Ribbonism have, with all their papers, been lodged in Lifford gaol. Henry A. Herbert, M.P., pays the entire poor -rate for his numerous tenantry in Kerry, and all he demands in return is a diligent cultivation of their farms. An English gentleman, resident at Kinsale, is now ma nufacturing oil from sprats very profitably. During the past season he has caught forty-four :,oat loads, and from these he procured fourteen puncheons of oil, which he sold during last week in Cork at ls. 2d. per gallon. In the Roman Catholic diocese of Ossory, which in cludes the county of Kilkenny, the priests have been enj)ined by their aiocesan, Dr. Walsh, to abstain from all political allusions whatever, and even to desist from subscribing to the " Conciliation Hall" rent. At a meeting of the Young Ireland party in Dublin, on Thursday, Lord Wallscourt was in the chair. One of the speakers recolamended the formation of a national guard " to defend the country." The meeting ended with cheers for a " young republic." Mr. C. Cahill has retired from the Repeal Association, because " it does not appear that there is any honest or bona fide intention evinced by their acts to carry out their professed object ; and besides, if a man followed a lion, it is not a necessary consequence that he is to be led by a mouse." AWFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Friday, Mrs. Armstrong, of Ballincar (a lady most respectably connected), in a fit of temporary insanity drowned herself and her three young children. She tied two of them on her back, took the third in her arms, and deliberately walked into the sea. They all perished.—Sligo Champion. There are not less than 27,000 persons on the out-door relief in the union of Ballinrobe, Mayo. The cost of out door rations is about £BOO per week, and, with the ex pense of the workhouse, would amount to £50,000 per annum. The whole valuation of the union amounts to £BO,OOO per annum only. A COMPLIMENT.—The Dublin Post of Thursday, al luding to the affairs in France, the finance difficulties in England, and the clamour raised against the measures proposed for the national defences, concludes by saying : —" We declare solemnly, we regard the crisis which is approaching as the most terrible. England has seen since the battle of Hastings. And it is the more terrible, be cause of the stupid sleep, or nightmare rather, in which the whole community is so swinishly buried." The great rock of Cashel has fallen. In connexion with this ancient monument exists one of th ose prophe- cies which abound so much in the traditional hi'stor r y of Ireland—namely, that the year which witnessed the fall of the rock would also see a great revolution in England. Not a peasant in Munster who does not believe this. A funeral procession reached the spot a few minutes after the fall. Had it reached before, the loss of life might have been most fearful. FEARFUL MURDER.—On Friday night week, a young woman named Mary Herlihy was found on the Monerea Marsh, Cork, bleeeding profusely from a stab in the neck. The stab was inflicted with a knife which was found on tue spot the 'mowing morning. The caroted artery and jugular vein were completely cut across. The moans of the woman first attracted observation, but she died almost immediately after being discovered. The deceased was pregnant at the time she was murdered. - Tom FOOLERY.—On Wednesday, the members of th e P " Young I ' Jesmond Confederation, _ reland Club, Castle street, Cork, had an immense piece of tri-coloured bunt ing floating in the breeze from their building, with the view of fraternising with their mercurial brethren in France, now luxuriating in the excess of revolution and anarchy.—ln the evening the windows were illumiated, and a large placard, conspicuously placed, bore the words ' France is Free ! an example to the WORL D !" A POSER.—The Rev. J. W. Franklin, rector of Clon mulsk, Ireland, says, " I would rest the question with the advocates of the National Board on the following fact : That, supposing a school in which fifty children were reading the Scriptures, if any one individual of them, through the interference of their parents or their priest, were to complain of offence being given to their religious feelings by the rule of the National Board, the remaining forty-nine—yes, though thirty of them were Protestants —would be compelled to give up their Bibles during school-hours. I challenge the great doctors on the side of the board to deny the fact ; and if they admit it, to show the Scriptures are honoured under such a me ho system CONVICTION'S. Roscommon assizes a man named Donoughoue was put upon his trial for mur der. From the evidence adduced there was not a shadow of doubt as to the guilt of the prisoner, who called no witnesses for the defence ; and the jury, without hesita tion, brought in a verdict of "guilty." The prisoner did not seem much moved. He was sentenced to be executed on the .22nd. inst. Patrick Flynn, who had been tried and found guilty of the murder of Michael Duignan, was At the then put forward. Baron Lefroy, addressing the prisone, aaid, you went with a party who traversed the country taking up arms. I don't know that when you went you intended to commit the murder which you afterwards perpetrated ; but as you proceeded from house to honse, at last you came to the house of deceased—you presented a pistol at the wife of the deceased, and her husband then came in, and you turned your hand from her and fired at nd laid him dead at her feet. SCENE.—Wednesday was the day fixed for the execution of John Lonergon, and of Henry and Philip Cody, at Clonmel. The culprits were attended by the Rev. Mr. Power, Roman Catholic curate, and, after a few minutes spent nu - prayer, Jolla Lonergan came out on the drop. Philip Cody then walked out with a firm step, and "in AWFUI ian, of ANOTHER SAMPLE OF A ROMISH PRIEST.—At the Waterford election, last week, Mr. Costello was proposed by a Roman Catholic priest, of the name of Cuddihy, and throughout the entire of his speech the audience manifested the most unequivocal impatience, disgust, and contempt of the speaker. Groans, hooting, and cries of " you lie"—" down with him"—" out with him," &c., greeted him throughout the entire performance ; and one of the crowd went the length of asking, when he com plained of such language being held to a priest, " And what business has a priest in such a place ? "—an interro gatory with which the rev. spouter did not attempt to deal. His language in addressing his flock is a perfect anthology. "Oh you ungrateful wretches," he exclaims —" oh you dastardly crew"—" oh you mad individuals." This complimentory effusion was followed by " cheers, groans, and tremendous confusion." Then came an eminently decent and humane allusion to the late Thos. Davis. " Davis, the coward. who ran away from the monster meetings." Loud cries of shame compelled the reverend gentleman to direct his Billingsgate elsewhere, and he turned upon the Young Ireland party, collectively, as " cut-throat felons," and a " foul and filthy gang." Mr. Cuddihy is particularly happy in repartee. Here is a sample : Mr. Doheny is to be proposed as a candidate to make a speech; but I can tell you he was not let open his mouth in his own county at a meeting lately. (Cheers, and cries of " Mr. Dobeny—l was not there at all. (Cheers.) The Rev. Mr. Cuddihy—You had the audacity to call the Li berator a liar : do you dare call me a liar ? (Cheers and groans.) Mr. Doheny—l repeat, I was not at the meeting tit all. (Great applause.) The Rev. Mr. Cuddihy—l saw you there, and how dare you tell me a lie to my face? (Cheers, and cries of " You are a liar.") Take also the following : The Rev. Mr. Cuddihy—" Hang the calfskin on those recre ant limbs." (Yells , and cries of Kick him out.") There is none of you axle to do it; but for this (pointing to his coat) I'd beat the best half dozen amongst you. (Cheers and hisses.) What can be more polished than his sarcasm, too ? Take an example:- - Imag . ine Mr. Meagher and the paltry Nation gang going to war with Queen Victoria. Oh, Beelzebub! (Groans and laughter.) _ _ _ The nice propriety which regulates the Rev. Mr. Cud dilly's oratory is pre-eminently observable in the passage in which he arraigns Mr. Meagher of irreligion : He (Mr. Cuddihy) arraigned Mr. Meagher for— A voice—The colleges. The Rev. Mr. Cuddihy—Damn the colleges ! I would not give a damn for them. (Cheers, and cries of " Shame.") The rev. gentleman then went on to say he arraigned Mr. Meagher for infidelity. etntrai The Welsh hills are now covered with snow. Numbers of Irish paupers are now being passed from Hull to Ireland. Nine ilex houses are about to be commenced upon the Castle Lawn, Douglas, Isle of Man. The slate trade in North Wales is in a depressed state owing to free trade. The export of iron ore has alto gether ceased. Prince Louis Napoleon has retired from Paris, and ar rived in London. The French provisional government did not wish him to remain in that country. The importations of cheese from foreign parts into this country for the year 1847, were 355,253 cwt., for 1846 they were 341,682 cwt. House bread is now selling in London at 42d. the four pound loaf—the lowest price at which bread has ever been sold in the metropolis. . _ _ _ The French residing in London have resolved to pro ceed in a body to the French Embassy to deposit the manifesto of their adhesion to the Provisional Government. Mr. Sampson, a young farmer at Hillsley, near Wotton under-Edge, a few days since, quarrelled with his family about a very trivial matter, and in consequence of the dis agreement left the house, wished the family " good bye," and shot himself. At Winchester, last week, Mr. Bishop, the manager of a branch bank at Christchurch, was convicted of embez zlement. The deficiencies are stated to be .0,000. There was also an indictment for forging an I 0 U for £8,470. He had been engaged extensively in railway speculations. An affray between five poachers and three keepers took place at Cadland, near Southampton, on Sunday morning week. One of the keepers, named Payne, had his skull fractured by a blow from one of the poachers with the butt end of the gun, and he expired on Thursday. CHLOROFORM.-Dr. Simpson has computed that of 300 operations performed with ether and chloroform, fewer proved fatal than is usual in the same cases without these agents. Of 1,088 cases of amputation of the thigh, with out an anaesthetic agent, 44 in 100 died ; out of 135 ca es with ether or chloroform, 33 only died—or 24 in 100. On Wednesday week, Frederick Douglas, aged 26, a coalheaver, at Richmond, whilst attempting, for a wager of half a gallon of beer, to carry a red-hot poker between his teeth round the room, slipped, and drove the poker into his throat. The poor wretch died next day in excru ciating agonies. _ _ , CHEAP GAS A PAYING CONCERN. — Notwithstanding the Whitehaven Gas-light Company thought fit to lower (some two or three years ago, at the positive request of the consumers) the price of gas in that town, from Bs. to 4s. per 1000 cubic feet, the directors, at their last half yearly meeting. held on the 18th ult., made a favourable report. THE ROBBERY OF DR. BOWRING.—At Swansea, on Tuesday, John Lloyd and Richard Mahony pleaded guilty of the robbery of Dr. Bowring ; and Evan Evans, weaver, and Richard Thomas were convicted of feloniously receiving a portion of the property. Lloyd and Mahony were transported for life ; Evans was sentenced to 18 montns' imprisonment. The friends of Mr. Buckingham are raising a testimo nial fund for the purpose of building a public room in London for the advocacy of temperance, &c. It is a very appropriate and delicate way of testifying to Mr. B.'s labours. Amongst the subscribers are Prince Albert, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Cleveland, and the Earl of Devon. CAMBRIDGE.—A tradesman of the town, a hairdresser, perfumer, and printseller, has just been discommuned for a month by the Vice-Chancellor and Heads of Houses, for takin g legal proceedines for the recovery of a debt against abachelor of arts of two years' standing, of Trinity College, without first giving notice to Mr. Thompson, the Tutor of the College. SHOCKING BRUTALITY :—KIRKALDY.—A train of cir cumstances has led to the discovery of one of the most horrible instances of the depravity of human nature with which we have met. A boy of the name of Fife, of weak intellect, has been found living in an old press, lying amongst rotten straw in a state of filth almost indescrib able. The inhuman parents have been apprehended. A SIMPLE PROCESS OF FILTERING RIVER WATER.— A process is described by Mr. John Aird, of Greenwich, in the Builder, as in use on the Thames. It consists merely of a cylinder or well, without bottom, but with a close covered top, sunk into clean sand and gravel, within about twenty-five feet of low-water mark, and containing the end of a suction-pipe leading ashore to an engine, through which an almost continual or inexhaus le sup- ply of clear filtered water is said to be got The Leeds Intelligencer mentions that, on Wednesday week, a man who was drinking in an alehouse at Nether Thong, near Holmfirth, quarrelled with another man, and swore that he would place him on the fire, which was blazing on the hearth. He rose to fulfil his threat, seized the other man, and after swearing a disgusting oath, was in the act of lifting him from his seat, when his hold sud denly relaxed, and he fell dead on the ground. Between Saturday evening and Monday morning week, the premises of the Worthing branch of the Joint-Stock Company's Bank were entered by thieves, who carried off £6OO or £7OO in notes and gold. Several trifling articles were also taken, and a ledger weighing about 251bs. It seems probable that this was taken on the supposition that it contained the numbers of the notes. and that all clue to them would be thus removed. The number, how ever, of every note has already been made public. _ _ ABERDEEN.—More than ordinary interest was excited at the election of Lord Rector for Marischal College this year on account of the students having nominated two gentlemen of high literary ;pretensions, Lord Robertson of the Court of Session, and Mr. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P. The election took place on Wednesday, when Lord Ro bertson had a majority in all the nations." Lord Robertson has promised to deliver his inaugural address to the students at his installation at the end of this month. FOREIGN GRAIN.—On Monday and Tuesday last up wards of 14,500 bags of wheat alone were exported, chiefly from Hamburg into Hull, besides sundry parcels of pease, beans and barley. The amount of duty saved by the importers, in consequence of those cargoes being entered previous to the Ist of March, would exceed £2250. The duty was levied on Wednesday, the Ist March, was for wheat 65., and barley, oats, rye; beans and peas, 2s. 6d. per quarter. I Y A 'd of six -- m per cent. was declared at the annual meeting of the London and Westminster Bank, held on Wednesday last ; and the report stated, that with the exception of the outstanding instalments, amounting to £3273, the paid-up capital of the bank is now £1,000,000. It was explained that the reason of the bank's profits not being sufficient to pay a bonus, besides the usual rate of dividend, arose from a loss, to the extent of £20,000, occasioned by a sale of Government Securities during the " week of terror" during the autumn of l as t year. MARK OF RESPECT TO A CLERGYMAN.—A public meeting was held lately in the Savings' 'Bank News room, Poulton-le-fylde, by the friends and admirers of the Rev. Mr. Bateson, curate, (who for some unknown reason has been unexpectedly dismissed from his curacy), for the purpose of showing their respect for him, and their esteem of the zealous performance of his ministerial duties. The meeting was attended by the resident gentleman ; and a handsome subscription was commenced, which will be followed up by an active canvass, in order to present to Mr. Bateson a suitable testimonial, on his removal- to another sphere of usefulness. DESECRATION OF THE SABBATH IN LONDON.—It iS reported that there are in London twenty thousand tradesmen, &c., who pollute the Lord's-day by following their worldly occupation. There are about 1200 shops open every Sabbath at Westminster, and thousands of public-houses likewise I We feel disposed to ask the Commissioners of Edtwation what reason they would as sign for this ? Is it because the " people are ignorant of the English language ?" [Yet those who want to have the day a little better observed, and so to give numbers of persona the rest of which they are now robbed, are termed " Sabbath-howlers," " Mawworms," " fanatics," and " hypocrites !"] • THE ' ISLE OF MAN COMMERCIAL BANKING COM PANY" suspended payment on Wednesday ; their issue of local notes are known to be large, and their other liabilities are also, it is feared, very considerable ; while nothing satisfactory has transpired as to their assets. This is the second and sole remaining Joint Stock Bank in that island which has e x pl o d e d. srs. Henry 3 Holmes, Sons and Co., are no w th e on ly aukers in the island, and they are said to have declined receiving new accounts. Hence every way the private .as..well as the trading and lnining operations of that island are reduced to a deplorable condition. A HEAVY ASSIZE !—Looking at the amount of crime in other counties of England, we were rather struck with the following intimation in a country paper respecting the Westmorland Assizes :—" The criminal business is unu sually heavy, eight prisoners committed for trial." TRIAL OF ANNETTE MEYERS FOR THE MURDER OF HENRY DUCKER.—On Friday at the Old Bailey, Annette Meyers was put on her trial for the murder of Henry Ducker, a soldier in the Coldstream Guards. She ap peared but little agitated when she took her place in the dock, but became more affected as the trial proceeded. It is unnecessary to re-state the evidence. She was found guilty. The jury strongly recommended her to mercy, on account of the extraordinary provocation she received. The judges then put on their black cap:, and the Chief Baron passed sentence of death in the u•ual form. The .prisoner was then removed from the dock without uttering a word. She looked very pale, and was seated during the trial, and kept her handkerchief to her face nearly the whole time, and appeared to be crying. A HEALTHY DISTRICT.—The parish of Romaldkirk, North Yorkshire. is the largest in extent in the kingdom, with the exception of one other. It contains a population of 2379 persons, and within its wide circuit are the town ships of Cotherstone (from which Mr. Bowes' celebrated race horse received its name) and Mickleton, which has likewise given a name to that gentleman's racer, the Mickleton Maid. For the last six months only sixteen, deaths have taken place, and not a single case of influ enza or fever has occurred. Amongst the deaths were very old people :—one died at the age of 101, another 94, another 92, another 84, and two 79. Although sanatory regulations are required in many parts of the country, our friends in the district we have named appear free from all disease, and to die only of sheer old age. WILL OF THE LATE EARL OF HARROWDY.—Probate of the will of the late Right Honourable Dudley Earl of Harrowbv. of Sandon-hall. Stafford, and Grosvenor. square, London, was granted on the Ist instant, to his son, the present Earl of Harowby, (heretofore Viscount Sandon,) the acting executor, a power being reserved to his son, the Honourable Granville Dudley Ryder, to prove the same hereafter, being also an executor named in the will, which bears date the 10th of July, 1843. The per sonal property was estimated for duty at £60,000. The manor and lordship of Harrowby. in Lincolnshire, and all his messuages, tenements, and hereditaments, with the lands and woods in Harrowby, Somershy, Grantham, and Ropsley, all in Lincolnshire, his lordship has devised and bequeathed to his son the Earl of Harrowby, subject to two contingent annuities of £2OO each to two of hi danzhters. TH E APPROACHING COMET.—The following particulars respecting the portentous visitant of the solar sr were delivered by Mr. 11. Althans, before the Haat._ Literary and Scientific Institution, at the Mermaid . Assembly ooms. Thp - - stranger took place on the stliof Mareh, 1556. From I the left wing of the sign Virgo, it passed by the constel lation Bootes, and ascended to the northern pole of ecliptic ; thence, by Andromeda, it came to the Fish, where it was lost. In its middle sour , - - swift. running through fifteen degrees dai' motion was retrograde—at last direct. sented the appearance of a bright glob( to a half-moon, but the rays ani colt The tail was rare and thin, casting f than ruddy light, narrower near the westward. At its former appearac three months. M U- first its I -..LEETING OF THE iNEMPLOYED.--i ing of the unemployed working , held on the Green, in pursuance to int ~. bill. The number present might he about The speeches and resolutions bore refe, part. to complaints against the Relief C account of the rates of wages allowed for thi had been tendered. In the course of the proce M`Douall, from London, delivered a low); Ci. rangue. After the meeting, from 1,500 to 2,000 in procession through the streets to the office Treasurer, when a deputation was appointed to with that gentleman as to what was to be done in to the urgent necessities of the unemployed. We ui stand that at the moment he was engaged in is, circulars for a meeting of committee (all the rnagistm being members of the same) with a view of consulting to the state of matters. This seemed to be satisfactory 1 the deputation. who announced the same to the assem blage, and advised them to depart quietly, which they did.—Glasgow Paper. APPREHENSION BY A FEMALE.—On Tuesday a fellow was seen near this town to go up to the cottage of a poor woman, and soon after a shirt was missed. Sus picion falling upon the stranger, a woman named Martha Bartup, living next door, immediately started in pursuit of him, and after a two-mile chase came up with him. Sh 'tared ' She then .natelv on ,ne immediately coi, mm, and having unbuttor coat, found the shirt concealed on his person. led her prisoner back to Takely, but unfc arriving there found that. the constable was at attending the sessions. Determined not to giv, captive until she had safely handed him over to the law, she started with him for Dunmore police-station, a dis tance of four miles, and had marched him a great part of the way, still holding him by the collar, when a waggon came up, and the driver put the fellow into it. The wo man, with meritorious perseverance, walked behind to prevent him from escaping ; but before they reached Dunmow, a police-officer drove up, and the thief being given up to him, was safely lodged at the police-station. I On Friday he was committed for trial — A MAN MURDERED BY HIS SISTL__ week a man named Harris, along with a r named Mary Hoom‘r, went to Honiton-n cartload of hay to sell. This . they effected, and then went to a public-house, where they partook of some refresh ment. and deceased became inebriated. Instead of tak ing the cart home themselves, they sent it home by another person, the deceased imagining that the walk would enable him to get the better of the drink he had taken. The moment after _he commenced walking, however, he stumbled and fell down in ihe-road. sister came to him and persuaded him to get up, but he was unable to do so. She then flew into a violent passion, struck him several times with her fists without being able to rouse him, when at length she kicked him in brutal manner over the head and face. I )es havii caked m and the head terribly mangled ; so much so, that death ensued. A neighbouring farmer found the unfortunate man deluged with blood, and scarcely able to articulate. Mary Hooper was committed to the Devon county gaol on the capital charge. An extraordinary degree of excitement has been pro duced at Aberdare by a report of the state of society in that parish, written by the Rev. J. Griffith, the Vicar, and printed in one of the Blue-books of the Commis sioners on Education. The report states that drunken- ness is very prevalent at Aberdare, that the men are des titute of decency before women, and, vice versa', the women of feminine modesty before men, morality being at a low ebb with both; that workmen in many instances live in dwellings too expensive for their station in life, On Wednesday night a crowded meeting was held in Siloa Chapel, Aberdare, when, although it was admitted that there was drunkenness and immorality in the parish, it was contended that the general body of the inhabitants had made as much progress in improvement as those of other places. The statement about the luxurious dwell ings was also denied ; it was complained that Mr. Griffith had made his report within one short month of his com ing to reside in the parish. Resolutions to this effect were agreed to ; the objectors, however, disclaiming any personal towards the Vicar, or hostility towards the Established Church. MISTAKEN USE OF CHLOROFORM.—A few days since a female of Hereford being in a delicate state oThealib intended to take a composing draught., but by mistake a bottle of chloroform was given to her, of which she swal lowed only a tablesnoonfol as it stooped bor 1-wpnth T n a few minutes she be on to feel greit attack) the gruel she had recently taken, smelli__,, of chloroform. After this the prostration became extrem( so that scarce any pulse could be felt by those about her , and she then fell into a tranquil sleep. As soon as she felt herself ill, the bottle was examined and the medical attendant sent for; but before his arrival she began to mend, though still sleeping: her pulse had become stronger and beat about 80 in the minute ; and she could be roused to make brief replies, by dashing cold water on her head trongly and face. A mild emetic w —which acted immediately : some cordials were now cautiously administered and she gradually went on impro ving, so that, in about four hours, she was pretty nearly " herself again." It is remarkable that she had no pain in the head in the attack or-afterwards—the pupils well neither dilated nor contracted—she experienced no tiff. cult} in breathing—and but little dislike of h GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP COMPAZ neral annual meeting of this Company t Thursday last, at thei; offices in BrTstol j . Henr r y — Bush, Esq., having been called to the chair, the report of the directors was read and adopted. It stated that the Great Western steam-ship had been sold since the last meeting for the sum of £25,000, as she came from sea, subject to a deduction of £250, for removing her to Kingroad, and replacing her paddle-wheels. The fortunate recovery of the Great Britain from Dundrum Bay was next adverted to; the expenses attending the operation for protection and removal, after deducting the proceeds of materials, amounted to £12,670 14s. Id. On this ship's arrival at Liverpool she was surveyed by Mr. Patterson and Mr. Field, of London, on behalf of the Company, and by Mr. Grantham and Mr. Cassidy, on the part of the un derwriters. The estimates_ for restoring her to the con- ig were, cables, hull, masts, sails, cabins, boats, ancho__, £15,886 ss. Od.; machinery £5,808, making t £21,694 ss. The directors then state that an a ing but slightly from the original claim, and that they had reason to believe the underwriters at Glasgow would be induced to settle on the like terms. After this had been effected, negotiations for her sale would have the best attention of the directors. SHIPWRECKS AND Loss OF LIFE AT DOUGLAS.—On Sunday we were visited with one of the most violent storms that was ever remembered in this Island. It blew a perfect hurricane from the S. accompanied by torrents of rain. While the storm was raging with its utmost fury, several vessels attempted to make the harbour, in _ - _ whit' a some succeeded, but unfortunately three others were driven, or compelled to run ashore, upon the sands. One of these vessels—the brig Delight—first struck S: Mary's Rock, and sprung a leak, when the crew took to the boat'and came safely to land. Five of our veteran pilots,—Edmund Craine, John Younghusband, Jos : Hogg, Jas. Stewart, and Paul Kelly, put off to render assistance, and could not get back to the h a rbour. They were driv en to the sands, and w h en c l os e to the windward of one of the stranded vessels, the boat upset. Three of the men reached the, shore speedily, but the other two—Craine and Younghusband, were still struggling for their lives. Craine was at length rescued in a most exhausted condi Lion ; but larnentableto st a t e , p oor Y oung h us b an d perished in the breakers. Had he at first made for the land, he would in all probability have reached it in safety, but he clung to the boat with an astonishing tenacity, till he was utterly exhausted. So dreadful was the raging of the water. that for any person to attempt to reach him would have involved the inevitable destruction of both. The stranded vessels are the Delight, brig, Wilson master, from Maryport to Dublin with coals ; she is a total wreck. The Mills, flat. Abraham master, of Liverpool, from Douglas to Bangor, in ballast. The Anne, brigantine, of and for Newry, from Whitehaven with coals—total wreck. Besides the above there is a schooner, Mary Ann, of Liverpool, from Glasgow to Preston, cargo pig iron, sprung a leak, and hoisted a flag of distress and came into the harbour on Monday, and had six feet water in the hold. —Muni Paper. STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, ON THR IST MARCH, 1841 (From Colburnia United Service Magazine.) [Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which the depOt o f the regiment is stationed.) Ist Life Guards—Regent's Prk 36th—(1st ban.) Corfu. 2d I;itto—Hyde Park (2d batt.) Cephalonia Royal H. Guards—Windsor 1 3 7th—Ceylon, Chatham tat Drag.Guards—Birmingham 36tli—Jamaica, Boyle 2d—Newbridge 3 9th—Gosport. 3d—Piershill 40 th—Galway 4th—Nottingliam 41st—Clare Castle sth—York 42d—Bermuda, Isle of Wight ; 6th—Dundalk Reserve batt., Bermuda. 7th—C. Good Hops, Maidstone 43d—Newport Ist Dragoons—Cahir 44th—Cork 2d—Athlone 45th—CapeG.Hope, I.of Wight; 3d—Bengal, Maidstone R es. batt., Cape G. Hope 4th — Dublin 46th—Halifax, Guernsey sth 47th—Clonmel 6th—Newbridge 4 Sth — Enniskillen 7th Hussars—Dublin 4 9th—Dublin sth—Baliincollig 5 0th—Bengal, Chatham 9th Lancers—Bengal, Maidstn. 51 6t—Madras, Chatham 10th Hussars—Bombay, Maid- 52d—Portsmouth stone 53 d—Bengal, Chatham 54th—Barl,adoes, Exeter 11th Hussars—Coventry 12th Lancers—Hounslow 5 5th—Templeioore 13th Lt. Dragoons—Longford 56th—(Ist batt.) Gibraltar 14th—Bengal, Maidstone (2d batt.) Isle Wight 15th Hussars—Madras, Maid- 57th—Hull stone kith—N. S. Wales, Chatham 16th Lancers—Brighton 59th—Templemore ... .. ... Guards 60th—(1st lit.) Bombay (2d ht.) Bury Ist Batt.) Wellington Bar. 61st—Bengal, Chatham (2tl batt.) Chichester 62d—Winchester (3d batt.) St. John's Wood 63d—Chatham u;dstreani Guards— 64th—Limerick (Ist batt.) The Tower 65th—N. S. Wales, Chatham (2d batt.) Windsor 66th—Barbadoes, Kinsale ;cotch Fusileer Guards— 67th—Gibraitar—lsle of Wight (Ist butt.) St. George's Bar. 68th—Mullingar (3d halt.) Portman-st, Bar. 69th—Malta (Ist butt.) Antigua, Glasgow 71st — (2d Batt.)—Newry ..-. Madras, Chatham Mauritius Cape G. Hope Edinburgh Reserve - batt., Canada —Gibraltar, Hamilton 73d—Cape G. Hope, Birr 74th—Dublin 75th—Dublin 78th—Corfu—Isle of Wight 7 7th—Canada—Nenagt 78th—Bombay, Chatham 79th—Gibraltar, Mullingar 80th—Bengal, Chatham Chatham 81st—Devonport ius, Isle of Wight; 82d—Halifax, N. S., Brecon e batt., Mauritius 83d—Kilkenny Chathatn Ceylon, Chester Corfu, Youghal Madras, Chatham 86th—Bombay, Chatham 1 87th—Weedon 1 88th—Barbadoes—Tralae Chatham 89th—A shton-under-Ly ne ent, Castlebar 90th—Cape G. Hope, Sheerness i—Canada, Isle of Wight; 91st—Cape of Good Hope, Gos- Reserve bait., Canada port :—Madras, Chatham Reserve batt., Cape of G. —Bombay, Chatham Hope —Halifax, Isle of Wight ; 92d—Limerick Reserve batt., Canada 93d—Canada, Aberdeen i—Bengal, Chatham 94th—Madras, Chatham i—M adras, Chatham 95th—China, Naas i—Buttevant 96th—N. S. Wales, Chatham ,—Cape G. Hope, Fort G. 97th—Malta, Isle of Wight ,—Bombay, Chatham Reserve batt, W. Indies I —Bengal, Chatham 98th—Bengal, Chatham i—Newcastle-on-Tyne 99th—N. S. Wales, Chatham —Manchester Rifle Brigade -Bengal, Chatham (Ist batt.) Cape of G. Hope, —N. Brunswick, Stirling C. Bristol 34th—Corfu, Waterford (2d batt.) Canada, Isle of 35th—Mauritius, J ersey Wight Reserve batt., Quebec. COLONIAL CORPS Ist West India Regiment—Jamaica NVindward and Leeward Islands Demerara, Sierra Leone, &c. n Rifle Regiment—Ceylon and China Ditto. P.6yal Canadian Rifle Regithent—Canada Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape of Good Hope Royal Newfoundland Veteran Company — Newfoundland Royal Malta Fencibles—Malta St. Helena Regiment—St. Helena MANCHESTE STATE OF TRADE, There has been very little change in the the market for goods and yarn since Tuesday last. on the whole, the more peaceable character of the re- , . ccounts from France, has tended to remove some portion extreme distrust which prevailed a week ago ; and more ies have been made for yarn suitable for India, though believe, without producing much actual business. aitherto, the decline in the Liverpobl cotton market, there is not so'great a change in prices here as might, perhaps, have been exnected. Whilst stocks and railway shares have fallen decidedly lower than at any former period during the last twelve months, goods and yarn have not sunk to the extreme rates whieh prevailed a fern , weeks ago ; and a return of confidence in the pre,:eryation of peace, would probably lead to a speedy improvement. We understand that some exception has been taken to the correct. ness of our statement as to the rate of insurance demanded and paid on shipments to the Mediterranean, because insurances were effected at much lower rates by London underwriters. We have consequently made some further inquiries, and are enabled to repeat, that although policies were underwritten in London at four guineas to .e 4 10s. per cent.,—from 10 to 12 guineas was the • rate demanded and paid in Liverpool. We understand that the reduction in the hours of labour is still extending on all sides ROCIT DA LI We have had a very still market, and the busi ness transacted has been more limiter than that of last week. In wool there has been very little doing, and prices are merely nnminnl. LEEDS There is no change of importance to note in the woollen trade this week. A moderate amount of business con- BRADFORD.—WooI : Notwithstanding all the accounts of disturbance in France, and the general limited use of Cobourg wools, still there is no disposition to press sales. The supply of skin wools, which is now becoming good, and combing length, does not affect the price. The stock in the market con tinues only bare, and contrary to former years, country supplies are not sent forward, which is accounted for by their being in the hands of the growers, who are firm holders for prices far . _ too high V' ' e to ket. Y- .ils mar.._ .arns : There is decidedly more more inquiry for yarns suitable for the shippers ; and contrary to their expectations the stocks ready spun are reduced to a lower point than for many years. The mouseline.de-laine trade is now active, and large quantities are in regular consumption. The buyers for home use are also more free to buy for delivery, feeling confident that as soon as the spring trade opens more demand will operate and b." wing an increase in prices.—Pieces. We cannot heir anything particularly different in the demand, which is not very animated, but quite equal to the quantity making. • HALIFAX.—Even if there had been any tendency towards a better state of trade, the convulsions in the political world would have checked it. There were scarcely any merchants hi our Piece Hall on SAtirday, and the French revolution was the only topic of conversation. There is a slight improvement in the demand for Yarn, owing to the shippers coming into the market, and the spinners are firm-in demanding old rates. Se veral mills have resumed full time. The stock of deep grown wools is short, and some sorts inquired for, though the con sumption still falls below an average. Prices without varia tion. NOTTINGHAM.—Lace: We are happy to announce tt foreign trade is very brisk. The home trade, we regret I Hosiery ticed from onr last, we fear it is for the worse; as most br of the trade have experienced another shock of great may be partly accounted for front the:t; ing to increase the want of that dence which is now so much needed to give an imProve , in the commercial world. LEICESTER.—The worsted hosiery trade still continue very depressed state, and the manufacturers make wi treme caution. There is no pushing of goods into the m as they are aware, to make sales, it would be at a ruinous fice. The cotton branch is more brisk, and one or two sales have been effected; still, the spring demand has r taken place, nor are there any shipping orders at present lieve the market. Worsted yarns are dull of sale, alt strife a RAILWAY RECEIPTS The following are the receipts of railways for the past that is to say, ttp to the date to which the respective r s. d. 0 0 0 Aberdeen Birkenhead, Lan. and Cheshire Caledonian - Cockermouth and Workington Chester and Holyhead Dublin and Drogheda Dublin and Kingstown Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen East Anglian Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh and Northern Eastern Counties and N. Eastern East Lancashire Eastern Union and Ipswich and Bury Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Ctbrg Glasgow; Kilmarnoci Glasgow and Greenock Great Southern and Western 1 Great Western and Ayr Leeds and Thirsk Londonderry and Enniskillen London and North-Western London and Blackwall London & Brighton, South Coast London and South-Western M'chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln Midland, t Bristol,andC arl a i n sl d e ..................... Birming ham ............. Midland Great Western (Ireland Newmarket ........ . ........ Newcastle and Carlisle 1T .. -e- I r_ North British.. ** * Paris and Ro uen • Rotten and Havre Scottish Central.. Shrewsbury and Chester South-Eastern and Branches South Devon Taft' Vale Ulster Whitehaven Junction Wishaw and Colinen York, Newcastle, and Benvick York and North Midland, &c.. ]920 0 905 0 0 IRI4 0 0 15986 0 0 0 0 C 520 0 C 5819 0 C 644 0 0 337 0 0 585 0 0 166 0 0 785 . 0 C 9689 C 0 5599 0 0 m in a MI ex iarket, saeri heavy lot yet 1 8199 5372