The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

.~ FoREIUN A ND COLONIAL. UNITED STATES. The, Hibernia, Capta;rl Ryrie, arrived on Thursday night - ,tt ten o'clock, bringing New York intelligence one week later than that supplied by the Great Western. Ni tiiiog has occurred to change the character of the presidential election. Mr. Polk is the man who is to suc ceed to tl:e presidential chair. Tne elections have un doubtedly gone most decidedly in his favour, and in the returns n: w received, in continuation of former advices, we fiod a very nearly proportionate majority maintained ty Pont. it Is perrectiy neeutrraetr:.4.4: into P.,,y analy, s , s of the returns from individual karill, such inatieig being of t . - . 0 inteleA on this side. The America n pape rs bre enjapng a fine scoahhte in debating which party has bribed, robbed, and swindled to the gre test extent, but as may be expected there is great . difficulty in settling these points. Etch party admis a fair amount of delinquency, and as to the personating of voters and fraud- in the elec tion returns, these are op: ale allowed to be perfectly fair ground for the exercise of electioneering ingenuity, and therefore in no way to be cplestioned. It seems that Mr. Polk is name %ledged by all parties as the new president, and we find the papers filed w:th a • great dint of staff and nonsense in the shape of specu'a tions as to his policy, and who will be the members of the new administration. Some papers go at length into the question of the tariff, the Oregon territory, and the Texan annexation; and the New York Ile , aid, according to its usual custom, hatches a war with England on each and all these points; however, as a war is always announced in that panel- on the day previous to the steamer's departure, its readers pretty well understand that it is rally a war of the kind so inimitably described by Mr. Dickens, in his account of New York ed torials. Our Canadian news is most satisfactory and cheering. The conservatives have achie , ed a great victory. All the elections had terminated, and with a tritimphAnt majority for the Governor General. The radical papers try to make it nut that he ha 6 not a working majority, but this is only the dying kick of a defeated faction endeavouring to soPea down the nature of their overthrow. The American commercial intelligence is of no especial moment. Nearly all the Ovate stocks bad fallen in price. The cotton market was also very dull. At New York the prices were for Upland and Florida, ordinary to middling at 5 a 51 cts., middling fair to fair 6k a GA, fully fair to good fair Gi a 7 ; and 1500 Mobile and New Orleans. or dinary to middling 5 a 6. middling. fair to fair 61 a 71,,, and fully fair to good fair 71 a 71. together 5000 bales. The lat. st money article says— The b:inks are ennbled to get a little higher rate of in terest, most of them get six per cent. for the ordinary run of paper, although some of the derosit banks discount sho t loans at five per cent. The closing of the year is approaching, when the banks have to make up their annual accounts. The result of the election has caused a little feeling. in the market ; but it is believed it will have no immediate influence on the market. Stocks generally have receded, and the indication is that trade will be less active, and consequently that there will be less demand for money. " Exult ANGE — FOREIGN.—ThebiI market has under gone no change in the rate. The steamer of to-morrow will not take a large amount ; but on the contrary the re. raqtatice will he light. Sterling hill , are held very firmly at 110 to 1101. and Paris rates at 5 21 ; but at these rates the transactions have been small. The exports to Europe at th, present time are very small, and no hills will he drawn against produce slipped for some weeks to come. Bills on London, GO ds slip.. 110 to 110 i per cent. prem. Bills on Paris " FREI G FITS. —Tlwre is bur little c‘ tton going forward : indeed the stocks here are reduced very low. The Liver pool and Havre packets get full, but at very reduced rates. Many of cur freighting ships are up for the south, but they get scarcely freight enough for ballast." THE LEVANT MAIL. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 7.—The principal event of last week has bet n the removal from office of Ri'sat Pas' , a, Minister of Foreign Affai , s, and the appointment in his place of Shekio Effendi, formerly Amb -s , ador at the Court of St. James's. Besides his mission to London, he was en.eaged as a diplomatist in the xi, getiations upon the ,ettlement of the Greek question, and afterwards at the conference of Adrianovle. On the 31st of October Sir Stratford Canning was admitted to an audience wish the Sultan, when he pres_ented a letter announcing the birth of Prince Alfred. The tecepti , n was in the usual form. His Highness has himself had art accession to his family in the birth of another son, being his third male child. Illuminations and rtj , iicings are to continue for a week. Dr. Wolff is still at Me- hod, from which place he was unwilling to proceed till he had received an escort from Colonel Sheil at Teheran. It is singular that, after crossing the desert of Mero and escaping from the Turco man hordes, he should shrink from encountering dangers and difficulties comp,ratively trifling.—Leiters from Tre bizende describe a very curious. occurrence which took plane there last month. A Mussulioan Cadi having been murdered while on a journey, the as-a,sitis were seized by the Pasha. and, instead of being punished according to the usual forms of justice, were delivered to the kindred 01 man, by one of whom their throats were deliberately cut in the market-place. Such things were unheard of during the administration of Redschid Pasha. ALLXANDRIA, Nov. 6.—Things continue quiet in Egypt. Many surrpi-es are made as to what s.eds will be taken by the Peninsular a d °dental Cotnp ith re gard to the refusal of Mehemet Ali to allow earners to ply any longer on the Nile. The genera inion is, that they will have to remove their steamers and It ave the transit threueh Egypt entirely in the hands of the Pasha. —Mr. Bourne has done wining as yet with regard to the arrangements with Mehemet Ali for the transit of the India mails through Egypt, and it is not unlikely that this gentleman will have to return to En_ ind without effecting anything.—Prayers have been offered to Allah at the principal mosques at Cairo, by command of Mehemet Ali, to stop the too sudden decrease of the Nile ; but, as this is the sees- n for the water to run off the land, this pro ceeding is by the initiated supposed to be only a manoeuvre on the pat t of the Pasha to induce the merchants to offer him higher prices for his proiuce.—The works of the new fortification.; of Alexandria, under the directien of the French Colonel of Engineers, Galilee Bey, are progressing very steadily. The stone employed for this purpose is brought from some catacombs, situate about a mile and a half from the Rosetta-bate. Intelligence has been received from Syria up to the 27th of October. That country still remains in a very unsatis factory state, occasioned by the weakness of the Turkish governm nt, which is de-pised and set at defiance by the various sheiks. Troops were arriving every week from Turk whose object. it appears, is to disarm the popula tion, and enforce the conscription. The Sheik Aboo Ghosh bad entered the towns of Jaffa and Saida, and mas sacred the Governor of each place. The crop of ayes will be immense this year ; but little or no advantage can be looked for to the country, whilst the whole benefit is absorbed by the temporary Governors of the several provinces. It is said that A 13,1 El Kader has dismissed the few sol diers who stili followed him, and that he hatiemoved into the interior of Morocco. he Universal German Gazelle states that the Russian Goveinn3ept has issued an ordonnunee forbidding ail the inhabitants of Poland, without distinction, to marry be fore the age of thirty. THE WILL FORGERS.—The Agincourt, with Barber and Fletcher on board, was at Sinion's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on thellith of September. There have been no deaths on board except a soldier and child. • TR MUTE TO MOROCCO.—The tribute has hitherto been regularly p,id by Sweden. amounting to 29 000 dollars. The amount annually paid by Denmark has been 25.000 doihrs, but these couryries are firmly resolved to pay no more tribute, even shoild the consequences force them to establish cruisers off the coast of Morocco for the pro tection of their commerce. POPERY AT WORK.—We learn from Havre that six Domm can friars had taken their passage in the last parker, :or the United States, and two others for Marti nique. Eight other German missionaries, and 17 Ger man nuns. bad also arrived at Havre, aho were proceed ing to the same destination. The latter intended to found a hospital in the United States, and were accompa nied by three lay brntheis. TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES IN POLAND.—POLISH FRON TIERS, NOV. 11.—The cause of the temperance societies has received a severe blow in the kingdom of Poland. They had been particularly successful in those parts of the kingdom which border on the republic of Cracow and in Upper Silesia, where the country people, following the exhortation of the clergy, renounced in a body the use of brandy. But the Government has lately interfered to check the temperance societies, and has published a cir cular prohibiting them, and forbidding the clergy to pro mote by addresses from the pulpit an object which was so beneficial to the country-people.—Hamburgh papers. BLASPHEMY OF THE BISHOP OF TREVES.—Several of the German journals publish a letter from a priest, named John Rouge, to the Bishop of Treves, on his having made a public exhibition in that city of a robe which he de clared to have been that which was worn by Jesus Christ. M.,Rnuge comments with great severity on the conduct of the bishop, and brings forward several arguments to show that the delusion was a wilful one, as far as the bishop was concerned. In oue part of his letter, the priest says, " Do not deceive yourself as to the affluence of this multitude, and be persuaded th,t, if some hun dreds of thousunds persons performed a pilgrimage to Treves, millions are iunba k ed like me with profound hor ror and grief at the siert of your disgusting comedy." A Berlin journal states that the letter of M. Rouge has produced a powerful sensation throughout Saxony arid Silesia, where it has been reprinted and circulated to an enormous extent. IRELAND. Only five Protestants of Limerick attended the repeal banquet to Mr. O'Connell, in a company of about seven hundred! The Irish Prelates in the next session of Parliament will be. the Archbishop of Dublin, and the Bishops of Meath, Kildare, and Cashel. The stipendiary magistrates of Ireland; are 60 in num ber, of whom 17 have been promoted from being sub-. inspectors or county inspecto rs f constabulary. The Carlow Sentinel of Saturday says that not one far thing was collected for the O'Connell tribute on Sunday week throughout that enti e county. INSPECTORS OF THE NATIONAL BOARD. —We under stand that two Vacant inspectorshiPs in the Board have been filled up this week—one by a Paiist. and "one by a Sock4aq. We are informed that of the 32 insnecturshipi now extant, 17 are Papists, two Sucinians, three Presby terians, and .10 Protestants of the Church of Ireland. Sic ilut ad psem—Dublin Paper. Coot..—The house of Hugh Kennedy, Esq., of Gor rane. a resp , ctable Roman Catholic gentleman, was en tered on Sunday last, whilst the family were at prayers, by a party of nine men, who, atter having secured a very fine double-barrelled gun, a blunderbuss, and a rase of pivols, made the servaos put on tie kettle and make tea fm them. After partaking of this refreshment, they took themselves away, the fire-arms, and the silver spoons which were cm the table.—A'entrqh Guardian. DUBLIN TOWN COUNCIi4. — The Repealers have now extinguished all the lights of Conservatism in the Dublin town council. Excepting in two wards, every Than re 'turned ills Waged t 9 ' itepell," They bad a ch." Vain of t. 66 on Monday ; first in putting in a hepeater for Meirion ward, Mr. Pearson, in opposition to Mr. Boltnn ; and in the Post-office ward in removing Alderman Purcell, and rutting Mr. Staunton in his room: two of the newspaper martyrs, Dr. Gray and Mr. Duffy, are for the first time introduced to the council. DARING OUTRAGE IN TAKING OF ARMS..- - On Mon day evening, so early as six o'clock, four men knocked at the hell door of Mr. John Watson, in the centre of the village of Castleconnell, county Limerick, which having been oper.ed, they rushed up the stairs, demanding fire. arms, and threatening to shoot any of the inmates that wculd attempt to look at then'. They succeeded in carry ing off two guns, a blunderbuss, and a pistol. CaAle connell is a police station, and the residence of a police magistrate. IMPORT DUTIES —There are commercial letters in town from highly respectable houses, stating. that the belief is strongly entertained in London, that Sir Robert Peel, in the ensuing session. con4emplates making exten ive alterations in the citifies on the impoitation to the United Kingdom of he principal articles of consumption. It is confidently assprted that a further reduction of the sugar duties will take pLice—that 50 per cent., that is lOs„ p.r cwt., will be taken off foreign butter, and that se laxations in the corn duties will be made - in favour of th•Ae corn-growing countries who will reciprocally reduce their import duties on British manufactured roods.—Cork Reporter. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.—We have reason to believe that an active correspondence between the Home-office and the Castle of Dublin, touching the projected re-construction of the Irish University, is daily surrounding Lord Heytes buiv embarrassments than he was aware would fall to his lot on accepting the Lord Lieutenancy of Ire land. Maynooth, wt understand, and its claims to in corporation in whAever university- system is to be adopted, constitute the perplexing difficul - y. The ri.ost mysterious silence is observed in the diplimattc circle—a circumstance which augurs badly for the justice and honesty of the design—and great doubts are said to be entertained of the willingness of the Irish Executive either to recommend or adopt the proposed innovation. The Earl de Grey re fused to be a party to it—and it is by no means likely that a project which requires for id perfection so much secrecy, as to preclude any intimation of its provisions to the heals of Trinity College, will meet the concurrence of that learned body. Hitherto no official communication bus been made to the board. All is mystery, all is menace ; and the sense of impending danger unrevealed may be purposely kept up to paraly s e exertion. We cannot tell where the blow will be struck ; but for that reason we recommend the greater vigilance, in watching the move ment of the enemy ; and the greater determination to defeat his machinations. Krewarned is forearmed,— Dublin Mail. REPEAL ASSOC' ATION. —The weekly meeting was held last week. Me. O'Connell attended, and denounced Sir R. Peel as a consummate liar, arid Louis Pnilippe as the prince of swindlers. With referr.nce to the threatened im peachment. of the judges, the Liberator was compelled to withdraw his previous threats and to sing very sand. He szed—" 1 saw in a speech of a right reverend friend of mine (quoth the dutiful disciple) the Catholic Bishop of Dromore, that he had a decided preference to an inquiry before impeachment. He is right —we may get an inquiry —we cannot get an impeachment except as the result of the inquiry. 1 therefore adopt the suggestion, and will more that it be referred to the committee to report on the best means of getting an inquiry into the proc.-edings of, and coesequent up n the trial." This withdrawal of the impeachment is followed up by another postponement of justice for Ireland on motives equally cogent. The" Pre servative Assembly" (such is the new name) is to be held in abeyance until such time as a successful evasion of the law can he devised. " I wish to s'at • (quoth Mr. O'Con nell) that [Am obliged to postpone still further my motion for the appointment of the council of 300, or the Preser vative Assembly. I stn obliged to do so, as 1 find enure legal difficulties in the way than I was at first aware of; and I will not bring it forward until I can produce it in such a shape that it can be laid before two or three of the crown counsel for their opinion as to its legality." And so ends that farce for the seas..n. After denouncing Fe. • deral.sai, a,t a thing uninteillible, and a name to he bated, the orator announced the ten propositions with which he is to " bother" the English till they have them by rote as glibly ai the Irish have them ourselves. It is well to break new ground with exhausted matter. LAW INTIeLi IGENCE. The well-known Overbury case Las been settled by Mr. Thos. Harris, the old parish clerk, withdrawing . all furthtr proceedings. The Court of Cessation at Paris decided on Tuesday, that Catholic clergymen could not legally adopt a chid. In the Exchequer Court, on Thursday, verdicts for the Crown w' re returned in sevt ral cases of Custom-hou,e frauds ; the total amount bring for the single value of the goods ; and if the Crown enforces treble penalty, the sum to he paid will be £27.450. PARISH ORGI , .NISTS.—In the Bail Court of the Queen's Bench. on Monday last. Mr. Ju. , tice Patteson, after hav ing t-iken time to consider, rt . tu,ed an application made b, Mr. Pashley on a former day, for a mandamus calling upon the parishioners of St... Stephen's, Coleman -street, in the city of London, pr , c-ed to the election of an organiA. His lordship rt-fused the rule principally on the ground that the parishioners were not compelled to taise a rate for the payment of an organist. and might, conse quently dispense with an organist altogether, if they pleased. In the Court of Common Pleas on Monday, in the case of " Grinnell v. Wells," an action for the seduction of the plaintiff's daughter, which has been twice tried, and in each case a verdict given for the plaintiff, a rule nisi. to art est the judgment, was made absMure. At the time the cause of action arose the plaiotff's daughter was living in the service of the defendant ; and the court was of Opinion that as the plaintiff's declaration alleged no Lois of service. the allegati n ghat certain expenses bad been incurred by the plaintiff, in consequence of the defend. ant's conduct, was not in itself sufficient to maintain the action. RAILWAY INTALLIGEACE. The Porthcawl and Dvffryn Llynfi Company have de clared a dividend of 34 per cent., and the progress of affairs is said to be highly satisfactory. On Wednesday another fatal accident took pl;ice on the Midland Counties Railway. A guard, named Woodford, was killed by his head c.,tning in contact with a bridge whilst he was engaged with some luggage on the top of the carriage. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—At a special general meeting in London on Wedesday last, a resolu tion was propose.i in favour of forming a railway from Maxworth, Bucks, t o W ore ssr cr , w ith lines to Rugby and Oxford, and alto from Worcester to Dudley and Wolverhampton. The Chairman (Mr. R. C. Glyn) esti mated the expense at £2,500,000, and the nett revenue at £147,250. Several sharchold-rs opposed the project as an infraction of the agreement with ihe Grand Junction, but their objections were over-ruled, and the resolution carried. NEWCASTLE AND EDINBURGH LI NE.—A special meeting of the proprietors of the Newcastle-upon Tyne and North Shields Railway was held in Newcastle, en Tuesday last, to assent to or dissent from the following proposalA, namely—the extension of Newcastle-upon- Tyne and North Shields hallway from North Shields to the village of Tynemouth ; the making of a railway, or a communication by tunnel, or othetwi,e, frow the Conduit Head-lane Bridge, near the t,rminus of the railway at Newcastle to and with the Q arty, at or near the FAly Wharf; the union and consolidation of the Newcastle and North Shields Railway Company with the Newcastle and Berwick Railway Company, about to he ineffporated by an act, to he applied tor in the ilex , sesit.n of parlia ment. The (+jeer of the prop , s d union being to take in a portion of the Newcastle and Shields line, in the route from Newcastle to Berwick-upon-Tweed. and thence to Edinburgh. The iesolutitms were carried unanimously. The Leeds and Selby Company have wound tip their affairs by declaring a dividend of £2 Is. 3d. per share for the period from the 30th of June last to the present time. The company hereafter will be inc , rporatecrwith the York and North Midland Railway.—'l`h- last-named company is to pay £210,000 for the 2,100 original shares of £lOO each ; and, with this sum, the Leeds anti Selby Company have at their disposal; from bonus arising from sale of moveable stock, for mortgages, for rent due, by savings effected in interest on mortgage, &c., the sum of £232,799 14s. 4d. The disposable funds of the com pany are to be appropriated as fllows :—From the principal money, amounting to £225,000, the sum o f £lO5 18s. 9d. per sharewill be paid to the shareholders, being equal to £222,468 15s. from the 2100 shares, of which the original capital stock of the cotnpany consists ; leaving in the hands of the directors £5,661 16 s. 9d. f or the discharge of the existing ascertained chbts of the com pany, and the balance of £332 3s. 7d. to cover a ny re maining nnascertained liabilities which may hereafter ap pear, and subject to such liabilities to be disposed of by the directors at their own discretion. DURHAM AND SUNDERLAND RAILWAY.—On Mon day a special general meeting of the shareholders was held in Sunderland, for the purpose of authorising the direc tors to make application to parliament in the next ses sion. for power to mike an extension to the main line of their railway from the present terminus near the river Wear, in the township of Elect Barony, to the town of Bishop Auckland ; to construct a new branch line of rail way from a point in the main line at Shincliffe to the head o Old Elvet, in the city of thulium ; to construct ano ther new branch line.of railway from a point iii the main dine near to Brooniside Colliery. in the t ,, w nship of Pat tington Hallgarth, to join the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway at tile Sherbern station ; ano to con struct a new branch line of railway to Seaham harbour; to make a more eligible junction of their Haswell branch railway ; to construct and make certain deviations in the main line, in order that these branches and the main line may be worked by locomotive power, instead of as at pre sent. by siationary engines ; to mike acidic on , il quays, wharfs, &c., at Sunderland harbour; and lastly, to ob tain compulsory powers to purchase the fee simple of all tho lands over which the railway passed. The resolutions were passed unanimously. UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL 1NE147. OXFORD, Nor. 28.—1 n .a congregation held this day, the following degrees were conferred :—Bache'or in Civil Law.—Thomas Henry Haodan, M.A., l.te Fellow of Exeter, senior scholar on the Vinerian Foundation.— Alasters of Arts.—Rev. Frederic Edwin Lott. St. Alban Hall ; Rev. Fulwar Craven Fowle, Merton.—Bachelors of - Arts.—George Butterworth, Balliol, Grand Com pounder; William Frederick John Kaye, Balliol; John William Slegg, New Inn Hall; Rev. Cullen Forth Words worth, Magdalen Hall ' Thornas Harris, Magdalen Hall ; ' I ai Richard Ca Thorpe Whitmore Ryd er , SclIol;„ • Dam; „ 7 , - „;;*, f);g„e. WailharniTh-os.Balls‘tnn. Brasnicse ; Arthur Hayne Hamilton, St. John's; Janies Banks, Scholar of Lincoln • William Barrett, L , Crew's Exhibiti oner o f Lincoln ; Edward Tindal Turner, Scholar of Trinity ; Frederick Metcalfe, Fellow of Lin coln (incorporated from St. John's College, Cambridge.) CAMBRIDGE. —The following degrees were conferred last week : — B.A.--John eaddell Breretoti, Trinity Col lege. H. Dtcomb, St. Peter's College; Leigh Spencer, Christ's Bollege; Charles Smart Caffin, Caius College ; B a ld wyn Wake, St. John's College. B.A.— El. B. Greenwood, Catherine Hall; G. M. Hawkins, Magdalene College. PREFERMENTS AND AFPOINTMENTS.—Rev. F Black ley, late of All Saints. Birmingham, to the curacy of North Harhorne, Staffordshire.—Rey. C. T. Price, M.A., to be domestic chaplain to Lord Howden.—Rey. G. Wylie, M. k., to the rectory of Newnham, with the chapfl of Mapeldurwell, Hants, vacant by the death of Rev. U. Hunter.—{-100. and Rev. H. W. Bettie. 8.C.L., to the vicarage of Great Ilford, Essex.—Rev. J. J. Prickett, to the incumbency of Markington. Ripon.—Rev. F. Goold, late curate of Bradfield. St. Clare, Suffolk, to 'he per retina curacy of Newhall, DerbYshirr.—Rev. J B. Rey nardson, to the living of Carehy. with the chapelry of Holywell-cum Autiby, vacated by the death of the let!. J. R. Deverell.—Rev. H. T. C. Hine. M.A., reader of St. Jam s's. Bury, St. Edmund's, to the rectory of Quar ringron, Lincolnshire. The Chester Courant states that Lord Powys will re new his app ication next session for the repeal of the St. Asaph and Bangor Union Bill. Mat OAKELEY's APOLOGY FOR REMAINING IN THE Cnu ttOH.—Mr. Oakelev, of Balliol College, and of Mar garet.street Chapel. London. has been the most overt of the Romanising faction. He has adopted both the doe trines and the modes of worship of Rome, so far as possi ble. He has just published an apology for remaining in the Church of England, in the form of a letter " to a Ro man Catholic friend." He says the pope has not formally pronounced upon the question at issue, and writes thus : —" Let the Holy See apply itself with its wonted vigour and profound spiritual sagacity to the wonderful and.un precedented fact which Europe has exhibited since the ' sixteenth century, of whole nations professing Christianity, yet apart from the chair of St. Peter: let it investigate es pecially the case t , f the Church of England, and receive and sift the evidence producible in favour of the Christian, nay, even of the saintly graces which ha 'e thri , en, and are actually thriving within it; and a decision which should he founded on an inquiry so conducted, a mild undoubtedly be entitled to the gravest consideration on the part of all those who bear in mind with what breathless expectation the formal acts of the Roman see have ever been awaited, and wi , h what dutitul attention received by the Church at large." THE OFFERTORY AT tl URST.—On Friday an influen tial meeting of the inhibitants of Hurst, Berkshire, was held at the church-house in that parish, to take into con sideration the innovations which have been recently intro duced into the church service by the perpetual corite, the Rev. Mr. Cameron. A long discussion ensued, during which several of the parishioners present condemned the changes lately made, and intimated an earnest desire that they should not be persisted in ; and they trusted that Mr. Cameron would yield to the wishes of the parishioners upon this subject. Mr. Cameron, who was present, hav ing heard the var'ous statements made by the parishioners, observed, that he felt bound to follow the injunctions of the Rubric, by which be was ordered to read the sentences in the Offertory, and the prayer for the Church Mili ant. With respect to the weekly collection, he intimated an in clination to yield upon that point ; though he refused to give a positive pledge that the discontinuance of the col -1 ction should actually begin nest Sunday. Another strong appeal was then made to him to yield als , upon the re maining points, as by insisting on them he would seriously diminish the usefulness of his ministration, several farmet s present having declared their intention not to at tend the church while the innovations continued. Mr. Cameron promised to confer with the Bishop, and to inform the Chairman of his decision within a fortnight. SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION-NATIONAL BOA RD. We gave in our last a portion of a letter from the Rev. 11. J. M 'Ghee :o the Rev. Dr. Martin. The reply of the latter reverend gentleman was chiefly occupied with sta tistical details and computations, to prove that the Pro testant people of Ireland have not contributed, and there fore are nor likely to contribute, anything approximating to the needful sems requisite to carry out the scriptural system of education in competition with the National Board. Prior to the receipt of this Mr. M`Gbee bad ad dressed a second letter to the Dr., and from that we quote the following heart-stirring and ardent appeal. " I believe in my soul, it ever God put a test upon a na tion—if ever God put a test upon a church, to try if they would be-faithful to their trust, to their principles, to their religion, and their God—or whether they were ripe to rottenness for destruction— Ile puts the national Board of Education as a test upon the Prote,tatits and church of It eland. It is not whether they will be sound and faithful in one principle, or one truth. or one doctrine but whether they will be faithful to the standard of all principle, all truth, till d...ctritie ' all religion—th e very Word itself of the God whom they profess to worship. If they are sound, and faithful, and true, then there is brighter day in store for the church of Ireland. Then God is on our side ; and God and the weakest church are stronger than the Devil and ti e Papacy, and all the poli ticians that can aid their cause. This is not a time, then, my brother, for a standard-bearer to faint. If ever there was a moment in our country's history when " ON WARD" was the word for the cause of truth, that mo merit is now. Our warfare is not a war of hatred, but of love to our countrymen. "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty, through God, to the polling down of trongholds." The eyes of Europe are on Ire land at this rocnneot—on the Church of Ireland, and on the Church of Rome. The powers of darkness and of light are arrayed against each other in the field of Ire land. Our Roman Catholic countrymen have their eyes fixed or us ; the. are ignorant it is true, but they are keen-sighted—they are clever—and above all, they are sincerely denoted to what they believe to be the true re ligion. They will not be slow to see—yea, they are see ing daily more and more, and growing disgusted at the sight—that their warm hearts, and generous hands— generous even in th it poverty —are only made the sport and spoil of knaves, who live upon deceiving them. They see the difference between zeal for politics and love for souls, and they know as well as we do that Repeal is not Salvatiou. Let them but s:e us firm and faithful to God, to truth, to the Bble, and to them, and even our firm fidelity shall preach to them throughout the land. But when we see and know the work that is going on, the spirit of inquiry, the love of the Bible, of Scriptural edu cation and of truth, that is pervading rind leavening the hearts of our Roman Catholic countrymen in many dis tricts of Ireland—Oh, what a blot upon the cheek of fair, and true religion, if they should see the men who have appropriated to themselves the name of ministers of Christ shrinking, and tailing, and t tickling to the mean and cowardly policy that bargains with their tyrants, not only for the liberties, but for the souls of the people. How must they think, that, after all, they made the Bible but a too! or politics, and never had a heart sincere and upr glit before God ? 1 know nut how you might feel, my rev. brother ; but for my part, I could not dare to meet the Homan Catho lics of Ireland, putting every other consideration out of the question, if I were now to juin the National Board of Education. I can look them in the face this rumpent, and when I bear my testimony against the crud system that blinds and enslaves them, I can lay my hand upon my heart and call God to witness that I long for their souls in love, and that " my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is, that they might be saved." But, if I were to join that ungodly anti-Christian system, which supports the very foundation of all their errors—rejection of the Bible- I should fear to show my face upon a public platform to speak to them ; 1 should be afraid lest some honest human Catholic would stand up and add►ess me thus : " Alta ! a short time ago you taunted us with s avery to our priests ! you upbraided us with the tyranny of our church, and branded it as a mark of.false hood on her forehead, t she would not allow her Children to be edu cate.: i , t the Scriptures. You objected this not only against us, but against the National Board of Education, because it provided for th , . maintenance of this principle of our church. You raised a mighty clamour in Lord Grey's administration, and in Lord Melbourne's adminis tration. . Then Scriptural education,' the Bible,' and ' conscience' were mighty weapons in your hands. But were they, indeed, but levers to raise your party into power ?--a trumpet for politics—a standard for'stateamen to rally knaves and hypocrites around them. Where are they now ? H as Sir Robert Peel locked them up securely in his cabinet, and does he open these sacred treasures with a golden key, to disFense them to thuse humble ex pectants, who will use them conveniently at his own dis cretion. Away from the face of honest men ! Prate to us no more of your principles and your religion. For twelve long years have you pretended to hold up tie Bible as the only st-ndard of education, and now, at the beck of a prime minister, you surrender what you have called a fundamental principle of your own religion, and consent to carry into effect what you have denounced as the fun damental error of the church of Rome ! !" If 1 were to join the National Board—if my motives for joining it were as pure as those of an angel-1 dare not incur such an " appearance" of evil in the eyes of my Roman Catholic countrymen-1 dare not encounter such, at the eery best, apparently de,terved reproach. Were I to 13,t so addressed by one of them, I dare not look him in the face—l should feel I must shrink abashed from his presence. And now, if after twelve years of faithful opposition, the t letgy were to j , tin this system, each wan, of course, must tAte his motives to his Goo ; but they need never mention wore their church, their religion, nor their Bible to the Roman Catholics —nor, indeed, to the hone,t Protestints of I reland. May I not now believe with confidence I have said enough to lead one whom I have ever thought my upright, single-hearted friend, to feel that expediency as well as urinciple—patriotism as well as truth—character as well as virtu..!—c Itsistency as well as religien—the cause of union, of efficiency, among our brethren—of fidelity to our own church and nur ot, n flocks, as well us to the souls of our Roman Catholic countrymen, forbid such a fatal THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. stet) as a faithful minister joining the National Board of Education. I feel with you most cordially the dangers a d evils that encompass us. Ido not wonder you feel almost in despair wrien you see with what a niggardly hand and miserly heirt the cause of Scriptural education is sup. ported, or rather deserted, by die Protestants 9f Ireland. While the poor Roman Catholics, and the poorest amongsi them too, out of their poverty, send forth their contribu tions to swell the coffers of those who seek to revolution. ize, to overthrow the Prot-stant Church and Protestant government in Ireland—the landlords of Ireland whose nronerties. you know as wen - -- as t cht, are at stake in the ClUstioti, with Very to,,t acertions, close their hearts and their purses against the cause of God and of their church in the country t that is, they close them against this only possible means, under the Divine blessing, of saving thecus,lves and their children from being turned out of their inheritances. 1 write it with as certain confidence as I believe I exist vibtet I write, that if by God's mercy, Popery is not crusted in Ireland, not by laws nor by military force-, but by the only lawful or possible means —that is, God's truth enlightening the reople—if the bishops, the clergy, the laity, by the faithful discharge of their Cluistian duties, in preaching, in Scriptural edu cation, in'tißnest fidelity to the souls of men, and in giv ing liberally and largely of their means, according to their means, according to their respective stations and purses, to promote these objects—if they do not at this eleventh hour act thus, for the deliverance of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, I believe that by the righteous judg ment of God, seeing that to many warnings are thrown away on them, the church, the university. the Protestant institutions in this country will be overthrown, and handed over to the Papacy. I believe the landlords will be turned out of their properties, and that the laws of Rome, now in operation for these purposes, will be effectually carried out to the total subjugation, if not extermination, of the Protestarls of Ir land. I repeat again, that I believe God puts the cause of his own Word as the last test upon the church, arid I believe in my wad the existence of all they hold dear depends at this time on their fidelity to God." The next letter from Dr. Martin, which will probably close the correspondence, will enter into the principles of this all important question, and we shall probably give this in our next. At the close of Mr. M`Ghee's letter, from which the preceding exti act is taken, there is a pro posal to Dr. Martin to come to Dublin and drvi-e means for raising by a voluntary tax on the Protestant gentry a sufficient sum to extend the blessings of scriptural edu cation. THE COURT et FASHIONABLE WORLD. It is rumoured that her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, will proceed to the Pavilion at Brighton, pre viously to the departure for tie Continent of her Majesty's illustrious relatives. Thursday was the birthday of the Prince=s Mary. The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha and the Duke Ernest of Wirtemberg, are likely to prolong their visit to her Majesty until the 16th instant: Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda expired at her rf sideuce on Blackheath on Friday morning after a short illness. She had been unwell at intervals fr, some time past. The lamented lady was in the 72d year of her age, having been born on the 23d May, 1773, and was sister to the late Duke of Gloucester. She had resided many years in t he parish of Greenwich, and was the R , ,nger of Greenwich Park. The Earl of Ellenborough and Sir Arthur Aston last week had the honour of knighthood of the order of the Bath conferred upon them. The Queen has presented T. T. Grant, Esq., of Gos port, (at whose house her M Kjesty, the King of the French, and Prince Albert, took refuge from a storm, when about to embark at Gosport,) with an elegant vase or tam, mounted on a high stem and foot, enriched with musk,: and open scull work, portions of which are in silver, the rest in gold, perhaps beat known by the term of parcel gilding. THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—On Sunday, her Majesty and his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Phillips thal, attended diviiie service at Whitley Church, the Earl and Countess of 13rownlow and Ladies ( n-t, &c., being present. On Monday, Captain ( handler's bounds met at Wit ley Court, when there was a numerous field, perhaps the largest ever mustered in that part of the country. The Queen Dowager graced the meet with her presence, the weather having been remarkably fine. Prince Ernest of Hesse Phillipathal was among the equestrians. Mer Majesty's income is 34d. per second more than the income of his Royal H'ghness Prince Albert. Her Ma jesty's income produces 31el. for every second of time, and that of his Royal Highness only id. So much difference is there b-tween the income of £500,000 a-year, and £30,000 a-year. FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER. (From the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine cf Fashion.") Much simplicity is observable in the make of dresses; the ornaments, however, are various in gimp, passem,n brie, byrinihs ; but the most elegant is the d ntelle de velours, which possesses the fidvantage of matching the colour of the dress. Embroidery is also used on silk, cloth, cashernire, and the finer merinos, and .flen inter- It_wiled with velvet. Bl ac k l ace . t h oug h no l onger a no- Ity, is as much in fashion as ever for every variety of toilette. There is some diminution in the width of dresses, and for walking they are also made shorter ; but for dress, on the contrary. they are still longer, approach ing almost to a train. Berthes continue to be worn either the same as the dress or of lace, and the short sleeves are with trimmings extending below them. Spen cers of black velvet are very fashionable, with jackets, to be worn with skirts of satin, trimmed with bands of vel vet. Cloth is much used for walking-dresses of the demi-Amozone form ; they are embroidered or richly or namented with gimp. The manteaus under the various names of pelisse, pardessus, paletots, camails, crespin. are now seen in all variety : the materials are equally va rious, from velvet, satin, silk, to the plaids in flanne! ; they are all with sleeves, very few are full at the top, but very wide at the h , ttom ; the pelisses of black satin are firtriently embroidered in soutache, braid, or silk ; and more simple ones are with numerous rows of narrow vel vet. •The pelerines Busses are the great novelty of this season ; they are very deep behind, and form scarfs in front, and are either of ermine lined with blue, or marten with violet or crimson. Feathers are very generally used for velvet capoleg soules marabouts, in blending shades, from pink to et., ise, deep blue sky, orange to citron, &c.; the flat feathers are either spiral or placed flat 'in the capotes of velvet, matching either the velvet or ribbon that forms the trim ming. The horizontal culture, forming the intermediate between the high and low, is the stile now preferred ; the little cAps,fancho , s of lace and muslin caps, should all be adapted to the coiffure. A style of coiffure, suitable to young lad:es, is composed of several rows of very nar row velvet, which unite round the plat, and terminate with a nceud of broader velvet, with ends. The Druid wreaths or oiBk 'leaves, and leaves of gold, encircling the head twice, will be worn this winter. S.PO lITING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. FRIDAY EVENING.—The business transacted during the week has been of a lukewarm character. A few bets were made on the Derby upon Thursday last, correspond ing ii, a great degree with the London figures of the pre vious aft-rtioon. THE CHESTER CUP prices on the field, Foig-a-Ballagh having the ca I. THE DEARY.-10 to 1 offered agst Alarm, 20 to 1 agst Kedger, (t.) 25 to 1 agst Idas. TATTERSALL'S.—THURSDAY. DERBY. 12 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm (t. to £100.) 18 1 Colonel Pe. l's Cobweb colt (20 to 1 t.) 20 I . Lord Che.terfield's Pam (take 21 to 1.) 22 1 Lot d Strildbroke's Ides (take 25 to 1.) 25 1 —Mr. Coleman's Young Ec'ipse (1000 to 35 taken twice.) 30— 1— Mr. Jaques's Anti-Repealer (t.) 35 1— Mr. Gully's Old England. 2000-30—L. Lord Ev.lintonn' Lycurgus (t.) 2500-50—Mr. Lintott's Cabin Boy (taken and after- wards offered.) _ 1000-10—Mr. Wortley's John Davis (t.) The above list contains all the bets that were laid, and renders comment superfluous. CHESTER CUP.—(Enter or not.) 400 to 10 each agst the following horses in one bet : Ratan, Alice Hawthorn, Mocpetb, Croton Oil, Fuig-a- Ballagh, and colt by Gladiator dam by Capsicum. Liverpool Grand National Steeple Chase is fixed for Wednesday, the sth of March ; there will also be a race on the flat the same day, as a key to the Chester Cup and other forthcoming events. THE ASCOT CIIPS.—The Emperor of Russia having expressed a desire that a piece of plate given by him to be run for at Ascot should be a weight for age race, for the best horses, it has been determined that this prize shall take the place of the old Ascot Cup, which will be discon tinued, and the money hitherto added to it from the fund will he appropriated to other races. Her Majesty's Vase will be run for on the first day, and the Eropgror of Rus sia's Cup on the third. PERKIN WARBECK (LATE BLOODSTONE. -- The stewards of the Jockey Club have decided that this horse can run in 18-I5 as'a maiden four-year old. DONCASTER RACES, 1845.—Since the last Doncaster meeting the corporation of that town have requested the members of the racing club to adopt the alteration first proposed, viz.: that the races should commence on Tues day, and finish on Friday. It is presumed that the plan now proposed will be generally acceptable, and the stakes are thereftpe advertised, with the sanction of the stewards, for a meeting of four days. The cup and usual public money, amounting in all to £l,OOO or upwards, will be given. COURSING AT SOUTIi PORT, Nov. 27 AND 28. SOUTH LANCASHIRE CLUB. THE SeARISBRICK CUP —(All aged dogs.) Mr. Prtnjean's Chairman (late Birdcateher) beat Bird lime, belonging to the s-ome gentleman. and won. THE, C IJRC HTOWN STAKES. Mr. Bake's Director beat Mr. Robiuson's Empress, and won. THE FLEETWOOD CUP.—(For puppies.) Mr. Reade's liogue-me-no-wore beat Mr. Rubinson's Stella, and eon. THE BLOWICK STAKES. Mr. Bake's Butterfly beat Mr. Peacock's Alarm, and won. THE PORT STAKES Were won by Mr, eater's Serutator ; Mr. Coupe's Young Mat run up. • THE CHASE. The CHESHIRE HOUNDt meet on Wednesday, Dec. 4, at Withington Thursday, 5, at ......(,:t e l even ) Saturday, 7, at . . Monday. 9, at..... . .. .. „ „ Norton Priory Wednesday, 11, at.. 0. i Thursday, 12. at Stamford Bridge ..aturday, 14, at Wrrminhatu Mill Each day at half past ten o'clock. Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 4, at .. . Friday, 5, at Saturday, 7, at . Each day at half-past ten. OXFORD UNIVERSITY BOAT RACES.—The annual four-oared races on the Isis, for a Siver Cup and Medals, given by the University Boat Club, was decided on Wed nesday. The trial beets came off on the two days pre vious, when St. John's heat Exeter, Baliol beat Trinity, St. John's beat Baliol, and University beat St. John's. The final heat between the University crew and the Oriel crew, the holders of the cup and medals, caused consider. able interest. The University crew were the favourites, although the Oriel had procured a fine new boat to row in, differently constructed from the Oxford boats, being made after the ta.hion of the Newcastle boats. The dis tance was from Miley to Oxford. rather more than a mile. The University crew went off at a sla-hing pace, and although much pressed by the Oriel crew, who were close upon their stern, maintained the lead throughout, and won gallantly by two boats' lenghtlis. This is the third time within four years that the cup has been won by the University crew. The crew on the present occasion con sisted of Messrs. A . K. Dawson (bow); Folk', 2; A. Gray, 3; F. C. Walsh (stroke) ; C. H. Shebbeare (cox swain. GENERAL MISCELLANY. Mrs. Holland, the authoress, died the week before last.. Henceforth E ng li s h l et t ers to B elg i um will only be charged eightpenc e , an d newspapers are to go free. The gallant Sir R aiert Sale, G.C. B. th e h ero o f Jella lahad, has left t , ,wn to resume his milit ar y d ut i es i n I ndia. The Duke of Devonshire h as con t r ib ute d £ lOO to the Father Mathew fund. The Socirty of Innkeepers, Lo n d on , re f use d, l ast wee k , to drink the health o f th e presen t l or d mayor. JERSEY.—Mr. Caru s W i l son h as re j ected the offer of the Royal Court to liber a t e hi m on hi s own b a i l. PARLIAMENT.—At a privy council mee ti ng on Thurs day, parliament wa s f urt h er prorogue d to the 4th of Feb. Sir Henry Pottinger. Bart., wa s, l as t wee k , b y command of the Queen, sworn of h er M a j esty ' s M ost H on. Privy Council, and took his pl a c e at t h e B oar d . The sub.,cripti , •n to the Ro w l an d Hill testimonial dosed on Saturday. The am ount co ll ec t e d cons id era bl y ex ceeds .£lO.OOO. One hundred and two fat cattle were, last week, im ported into Hull by the steamers from Hamburg.. The Emerald Isle, from Rotterdam, also brought 62 sheep. Five thousand eight hundred and ninety-four p-cks of onions were, list week, brought into Hull, from Rot terdam. The mayoralty of Tiverton, Devonshire, was this year was offrred to a man who can neither read nor write. He had, however, the good sen-e to decline the honour. A yi.ung lady named Gulliver, daughter of Thomas Gulliver, Esq., of Bloxliam, committed suicide last week, by drowning herself in a mill-dam near Banbury. The Bank of England have given notice that they will l e nd mo ne y on approve d Bill s o f E xc h ange at 21 per cent. The vestry of Leeds have given £l.OOO, realized by selling land to a railway company, to purchase garden al lotments for the poor. On Saturday week. John Hobert, coachman to the Earl of Haddington, was found, with his skull fractured, lying in the park. A young man named Hannah is pected. - Sir James Williams, of Edwinsford, has set the liberal example in this county, of giving hid ten n's permission to kill game on their lands, or of inviting any qualified person they think proper to do so.—Welshman. DANGEROUS EMPLOYMENT.—The history of Eyam records the number and mines of forty-one persons, who have been killed in the mines of that village in little more than a century. The d.-epest lead mine in Derbyshire is in Eyam Edge—the " New Engine," nearly 160 fathoms. " LIVES OP THE ENGLISH SAINTS."—The series of little works continues in much the same spirit as it com menced ; the writers, if there is any d•ffrrence, seeming to get rather more Popish as they get older.—Tablet, a Ro man Catholic paper. AN ATTORNEY TRANSPORTED.—On Thursday, at the Central Criminal Court, London, Mr. Bleadon, the at torney, was sentenced to sev:n years' transportation, for having obtained half-a-crown and a pint of wine under false pretences. The convict was excessively astonished. A GAMEKEEPER SHOT.—On Saturday night last. Mr. Green, gamekeeper to J. S. Leacher, Esq., of South Weald, was wounded by a gun shot. in an attempt to apprehend a poacher, who escaned_ Mr. Green lies in a dangerous state.—Essex HYDROPHOBIA.—A man. who was bitten by a dog, supposed to be mad, in September last, died last week, in the d spensary at Wrexham, under all the symptoms of hydrophobia. Two other men and a girl were bitten by the same dog. They are under medical treatment. Mr. Bro sn. a partner of the well known medical prac titioner, Mr. Tupper, is about to be united to Miss Me redith, who for many years has resided with Miss Burdett Coutts. This intended alliance has given rise to a report of the wealthy heiress being about to be married. Mrs. B 1 mother of the Bishop of Londo died on Tuesday, at Bury St. Edmunds. His lordship was exuected in his native town to officiate at the re-opening of St. Mary's Chur c h. St range an d melancholy to say, his arrival took place at the moment of dissoludon. ' A man named Cogger pleaded guilty at the Maidstone Assizes, on Wednesday, of havi. g practised as an attor ney at the Maidstone Qqatter Sessions without being duly qmdified or adm tted to practice in that capacity. Judg ment was postponed. FREE•CHURCH COLLEGE.—Dr. Welch, in a letter, has announced that he has rbtained £19,000 for this ob ject from nintlf en subscribers of £l,OOO each. £20.000 was the sum required, and there is no doubt it wi I he immediately raised. The College is to be in Edinburgh. Mr. Parsons, the popular dissenting minister of B Ilan chapel, Vl le-end.road, unfortunately met with his death on Friday by fslling down the stairs of his house, when his bead came in contact with some flower-pots and was so severely cut as to render medical aid unavailing. He was only 47 years old. On Thursday Miss Ellen Richardson, the daughter of a physician at Brentwood, was held to bail on the charge of stealing two long hs of a piece of Bros de Naples, the property of a linen draper at Brentwood, part of some goods which bad been sent to her lather's house for in spection. On Tuesday I , st an inquest was held at Stockport, on the body of Eliza Jones, who had beet, killed by her husband on the previous day.l She was in a delicate state of health, was the mother of six children (two of whom only are living), and was far advanced in pregnancy. She was 34 years of age. The husband has been committed on a charge of manslaughter. STRIKE OF THE FISHERMEN.—No fewer than sixty fishing smacks, belonging to Barking, in Essex, are, at this moment, lying in the river. a little below Woolwich, their crews having brought them home from sea, and struck work. The demands of the men are fnr increased wages and shorter voynrs. Their present rate of wages is, men 14s. a week, and mates 16s. They want this to be advanced 2s. in each case, and the time of 'absence to be limited to one month. A Pam? FOR rbdeee T r at at g m adet H oc l ui s ih r i ( of _A s hi ve . ic — zr.e, A t s er m ev pe o or s as t li interestingtcotrsotsfft full iel ( E li q7e v s;r r i Y an ha O s of documents, which have not been examined for these 39 years. Among them are original doeumentsconcerning the revolutions of 1719, 1772, and 1789. Most of the documents are written, and some elegantly b fund, and several have silver clasps. Geyer's third volume of the papers of Gustavus causes some sensation. " BETTER TO BE BORN FORTUNATE THAN IiTCH. " It is currently reported at Sleaford. and we believe cos• rectly so, that a well known millwright (a working man) of that place, by a recent decision in the High Court of Chancery, immediately comes into the possession of a large e►tate near London, of the annual value of £13,000, as well as arreaas of rent for the same for the last twenty years. amounting, of course, to the sum of £260,000.= Lincolnshire Chronicle. THE CASE OF INFANTICIDE ATWOLVERHAMPTON. — On Friday, Mr. John Sheriff, Mr. Hildretb, Mrs. Hild reth, and Miss Jane Railton, were again brought up ; and after a few preliminary proceedings, Miss Railton was fully committed to take her trial for concealing the birth as principal, and Mrs. Hildretb, Mr. Hildreth, and Mr. Sheriff, as accessaries. Thee were admitted to bail. A second clay ge was preferred against Mr. Sherriff, tor feloniously administering drugs for the purpose of bring ing about abortion. Miss Railton was admitted as evi dence against him ; and be was committed also on this charge to take his trial at the assizes. Bail was accepted. FATHER M ATH EW.—We are told that Father Mathew is in difficulties. And not one word more can we obtain. How he fell into difficulties; for what cause, or to what extent, we are never told. He may be in debt for £5OO, or for £20,000. He mar have merely become security for some friend in a bond for £lOOO, or he may have undertaken to build a new Popish crithedral to the tune of £50,000. Never before, PO far as we can recollect, were the public called upon to subscribe to an object without having she sliehtest information furnished them, even as to the sum rt gourd ! and on Monday ‘2, ships were EXTRAORDINARY ARRIVAL OF SHIPPING AT LON DON.—On :Pa n t the Custom-house. They were from China, , America, Archangel, France, St. Petersburgh, Hamburgh, dtNen;ey Dantsic, indeed nearly all parts of the world. produce has caused a Last we:k the average arrivals were about 30 a day. Tie eimmpojeolyismeennut.tribAer l o a f rg m e e fl n ee h t av o e f vbeesesnelasblheatioaolbso geffreeactt a o c f t s iv u i c t h y a at vast tbe in t P u 7 to ta ln ti h n oU f se, and at the vaii , us outwards. dock, b titin iie u a n li n t,red Dee. 3. 1841 DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.-011 sday night, shortly a ter twelve o'clock, the warehouse of Messrs. Wits :nand Co., of Arundel-law, Sheffield, o anufacturers, was discovered to be on fire. The fire was discovered about a quarter; past tw e l ve o'clock at night. With all the exr.i,ins of the police and firemen, under the direction of Mr. RaYn° r, it was nearly six o'clock in the wornitig bef o re the re mainder of the property could be considered in a state of safety., The whole of the extensive warehouse, to vi bieli d p e o e r t t r in e o ye o d f h , the te outer wa ll s, h s, e tvifir e tij the e s s c t rer n i fi e n ti e t d e re is e a ,en, ti t t; v e l l; standint. instead of wanting work, have now more than they ate in' dined to execute. This and s;milar cases are the result er THE IRON TRADE .—The men in Stourbridge diatri.cnt, of the improved condition ot • the iron trade. activitybranch of prevailsw hi h which, t u h p t i h o e y ty ex e c n e t p exception. r F . ,olefnziul the : n r g i l r e t n e s . t e_ e_ r s e t getting better wages, and, consequently, many of theta are disposed to do less work. We believe there is not of iron work in this di s t r i ct now stan di ng , an d the price iron, iron, of almo s t every deectiptien, has advanced since /17 last quarter-day, an d h as s till a ten d ency upwar ds.-oer tester paper, ,• THE COAL-MINERS —Various circumsteneeg 160, have recently come to our k now l e d ge, iee indicate d rt. to indica intention on the part of the -L anca -hi re C o lli ers ' Volute to cause a general strike ere l ong ; an d we propose to notice a few facts connected with that agitation which l , now so industriously fomented amongst th e body ofe'no d ing colliers, with the vie w o f ma ki ng the publicacco)3intLie feature of thi s ag i tat i on i s the proposal by the with the object 01 this int en d e d stri k e. Th e ren arksui f coats, miners by y o theircont contracting employers and to diminishing force a rigethiel s t u h p e p ily)rice eve ° tot h e public, and then to allow the coal-miners to shave t them the profite which would re ult from this artifice! scarcity and consequent de .roe-s of an article w hich, s' this season of the year, may be termed a prime necessl of life. It m a y b e sa id t h at we are not fairly repre 'en`: ing the views and obj ects o f t h e coal-miners ; and 01 they have no int en ti on e i t h er to i nduce, or, by a r"T i n strike, to coerce the masters into a genera l com binatlett for the avowed object of making and keeping coals dee r. Manchester Guardian. THE LIFE OF AN OUTCAST.—A boy, named Vi r s tl e g ; who draws crowds to get h er it. the streets of Lon em, l standing owhis head on the -pike cf an iron railmg, tce a on Saturday, at Marlborough -street, charged with slo' ing on his head on th e ra ili ng . o f St. James's Chute He expressed a great dread of the workhouse, and said h e preferred a pris on ; an d on b e i ng a -k ed b y the Magistrates how many times be h o d b een i n pr i son, be hue replied:"... "Ted yer worship the whole lot. First of all Ig it s ett days in Coldbath fields for begging. Ven I come out gave up that dodge, and stole a penny loaf, and got a fort' night at the mill. Next, me and my partner stole snte a horranges, and the beak gray a month apiece at Tothill fields. Arter that got seven days fir jumping Jim Crow' Arter that two months, cos a pleasmaa cotched me by this scruff of my neck, and I hey a stone. at him, not mi-se e , him and hit a boy behi n d a s l ap on t h e nose. Next s o' three veeks at Horsernonger, for notink as I know Arter that 305., or three veeks at the New Prison, f' r breaking 'cinders, cos they ch uc k e d water over me; sad that's all, except this here. which is either Brixton or the verkhus, vot yer vership pleases."—This history of con victions was given witho u t th e s li g h test h es i ta i on, a n as a matter of course. M r . H ar d w i ck gave the boy the cl option of making his election between a prison warn e' Marylebong workhouse, as he appeared to have.a settle ment in that parish. The boy, after a short pause, de cided on giving the prison another trial. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.— During Sunday week a robber 9 took place at the bank of Messrs Rogers. Oldine. an d Co., St. Clement's-lane, and notes and gold to the awe"' Of £40,000 were stolen. It appears that the money " 9 deposited in the iron safe; and, as usual, a clerk was ap pointed to witch over its safety during the day, and an°' 'her clerk to perform the like duty during the n i g ht.. One of the partners remaining at home on Sunday, the day clerk asked permission to go out for a few hours, va le! wa. , granted. At the accustomed hour in the evening th e other clerk came, and rema i ne d d ur i ng the night; ho t when business wes resumed on Mrneae, and the iron paie opened with the ordin try key, it was fueled entirely emetY; and yet no force whatever had been used to rid the che , c of its valuable contents. Of course, all is coejeciure upon the subject. Notes to the amount of £35.000 have been stopped at the Bank. It is a remarkable circumstanc e connected w th this robbery, that on the morning ot M 0"; day, when it was fi rs t di scovere d , there was no exteinl appearances from which su s pi c i on cou ld b e enterta ine d upon entering the office that any robbery had been perpe trated, or atremi tat robbery had been made. Every thing was in its accustomed order; the iron safe in which th e cash arid securities wet , • regularly deposited was locked , arid the iron chest in white it was usual to deposit the master-key of the safe, to which there were two locks' was also secure. A large handbill was issued on Monday: containing, the particulars of the stolen Bat k of England notes, which amount altogether to' £40,710. Of ttifse hank notes there ate 168 for £5, 40 for £lO, 37 for .E2 O, 10 for £3O, 12 for £49. 9 1 r £53, 10 for £100,5 for £2O O, 1 for £5OO, and 35 'or £lOOO. The handbill states that further particulars of the bills of exchanee will be etli Hatred, and that whoever g i ve su information as Wu .. lead to the apprehensi. n of the guilty p at ty o r parties, °:, either of them, and recovery o f t h e property, or an y or: thereof, shall receive £3,000 reward, or a part therrart proportionate to the sum which shall be recovered. f THE CORN TRADE.—The arrivals in the Thameseut wheat since the last market-d a y h ave b een aga i n l e rge, as the principal quantity of them is from Spalding, B us ' ton, and otner places of shipment in Cambridgeshire and Linc , loshire, the Mark-lame enrn-fectora have recsiv , d but little, if any, benefit from this circumstance. These wheats have been purchased under the new Sir Robert Peel principle of commerce at the ports of shipment, as being the cheapest markets, at prices below mediocrity, by the London town millets, and therefore commissions of mid dlemen have Bien saved on there transactions. These gentlemen, following out this modern system of com merce, as FOOll as they have converted into town-made fleur there wheats of north country growth, will most iv': tut-filly send their manufacture for sale into the dearest market, which is always found by them in the Britiaii me tropolis, because there, and nowhere else, are the Pri c es , of fancy of household bread r eg ul a t e d and fixed by the millers themselves. Whilst, therefore, the farmers of Lin colnshire and of' Cambridgeshire are rec e iving for thei r wheats prices scarcely equal to the expenses of the pr () duction, even on new and on alluvial soila, the inhabitants of this populous metropolis receive not the slightest fit from the depressed prices ut which British wheats are now selling everywhere throughout the united kingdom. From all quarters the intelligence received in Loodoil within these last few days, is far from being favourable to the British agricultural interest. From many of the coon' try markets inferior qualities of the last wheat crop sou ruinously haw prices are universal subjects of corny's° whilst from abroad, purchases ot uncommonly fine foreign wheats are weekly now announced for shipment to this country, as soon as the navigation becomes practicable' As scarcely any old wheat of British growth remains, is this country, if the corn trade was now in a wholesom e and in a natural state, a prospect at all events of b e tter times, after the conclusion of this most unfortunate year' would at present cheer the spirits ot our wheat farmers; but with little short of half a million of quarters of foreig° wheat already bonded in this country. arid with the cer tainty of large importations from the Baltic, from the Me diterranean, from the Canada., and from the. United States of teorth America. as soon as shipments can be made Wit h safety to the cargoes, little chance indeed exist of more prosperous times. It is perfectly unnecessary her.• for us even to ailude to the condition of the great mass of the agricultural labourers, for it will be difficult indeed, under further depression in the core trade, to render it wors e than it now is.—Me. rainy Post. e:attt d2l, DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. — Perhaps one of the most aft fecting suicidal tragedies that has happened in the metro polis for many years occurred on Monday at, a v er y earl,' hour. hari e a s dwelling s D o r u ) k a e n t d t E a n u a z, c ,b e e o t u h n t i a v n i ; No. 9, Raven-row, Mile end, viz., the se lf d est , uet ion hams, aged 22, love r s, f rom the eff - cis of prussic ar ia' Charles Du t f a Mr . It appears that for upwards of n;ne years the unit), taw° young pereotis who have fallen a sacrifice by their own hands were closely attached to each other, and were nol known to have quarrelled. On Sundae attern , on they ba tea at Mr. Dackett's house, and took their departure at about halt-past five o'clock, at the same time st a ting 00,1 they were going to church; at which period they seeme, in excelle n t sp i r i ts .- The evening wore on, and OW' o'clock having arrived, the usual time for their rea' having passed, the family became somewhat alarme d ' Soon afterwards two brothers of th e ill-f ate d g i r l v isited Mr. Duckett, and inqu'red if his son or their si-ter been seen, ate having rot made h e r a pp earance , an d th: lateness of the hour induced them to think that they ha met with some accident. Unpleasant feelings of alai were then felt by all. Messengers were de s patched round the vicinity in search of them, but without avail At last, b-tween one and two o'clock, whilst Mr. Duric e ' tl was searching about the house, i n th e h ope o f Midis! , some letter which would mention where they were r a i , e ; be discovered that la's son's bed-r o o m was f as t ene d on t" inside, the key being in th e d oor , I t b e i ng surm i se d tbs he bad returned unk nown to t h e family, and retired to rest, the door wee b ro k en open, an d t h ere, perhaps , ono o of the most s a dde n i ng scenes t h at cou ld b e i mag i ne d w o presented to a parent. The bodies of the young couP were stretched on th e b e d, lif e h av i ng b een extinct sPeri rently for some time, with their arms round each' otheY b neck. Cups were found on each of their sides, will, smelt of r nissic acid, as also two bottl es o n th e rotl, piece, which had contained that deadly poison. nt Dacre, a surgeon of Mile-end-toad, was promptly qo for, who pronounced them to h ave exp i re d f r om " 1 4 effective poison. As the bodies lay, it appears they rale have sat on the end of the bed wh e n th e y comm itted !",., act, and fallen back. The poor girl's fe a tures were prepossessing. "It is our last wish that this letter o w i delivered into the hands of the above lady. Such is F ,/ final request, and whosoever may find this, we or , lY t oe may give the same to her."—E. W., C. U. D. cb handwriting is that of the young man, and displays 10, 11 4 1 firmness, being clear in the extreme. The borders , ; 95 apparently been inked by one of them ; the letter sealed with black was, with the following motto;ea Absence pains but cannot altar." No idea can be form 0 , by the families of the deceased of the cause of the 'idle rable occurrence.' Their parents move in the 11 ,1 ,, 5i s ranks of society. The letter addressed to Miss Char,7er. was found to contain two ep , st les both addres-ed tt One was a piece of poetry in twenty•fonr verses. , t i te n title is, "The Last Lay of Two Broken Heath-; wr, l bi t t and composed by C. U. D." The letter states, , d be ere she (Miss C.) had received that epistle they w 01,1!,,, in the sweet sleep of death. Fate had marred his 1 0'", o r this world. He was prepared to leave it, and sh e t al ' whom he had lived had told him, ' If you die with", of you will be my murderer,' and to use the words of ' o J3tie Grey, ' Death had no he rors. ' B ot h product had deep black borders round them.