The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

IRELAND. Mr. C. G. Duffy has been declared a bankrupt. A number of converts renounced the errors of .Roraan ism in St. Thomas's Church, Dublin, onSunday. Mr. T. F. Meagher, who has lately undergone his trial and been sentenced to death for high treason, was edu cated at Stonyhurst College. Lord Roden took the chair at a very numerous Protes tant meeting in Belfast last week. Sir V. Verner, Col. Blacker, John M'Neile, Esq., a.c., were present. The belief that the writ of error raised by the Irish state convicts will be successful is gaining ground in Dublin. The spy, Dobbin, left Clonmel on Tuesday. He was accompanied about a mile outside town, on the Cashel road, by a brace of policemen. Immense numbers.of persons, principally belonging to the class of small farmers, are daily leaving Ireland for America. Late as the-season is, the tide of emigration is considerably greater than in the spring and summer. It is said that Smith O'Brien is filling up his leisure time ; by framing articles of impeachment against his pro secutors—ministerial and judicial—which he expects to submit to the assembled Coronons before the next session is many weeks old. Cork was never so crowded at any period with country beggars as at present. It is pitiable to see the groups in families that throng the streets, some selling matches, others singing Irish songs, and a third class clamouring for money. They are wretchedly clad, and very filthy. Conciliation Hall, Dublin, with the library, is advertised for sale, in the middle of November. The debts are about £l,OOO ; but the building may probably realise £7OO ; and it has been examined in order to see if it would answer as a Roman Catholic chapel. It is said to be a fact, though it did not transpire in evidence on the Irish state trials, that O'Gorman had on one night 15,000 men under his command, fully armed, together with about 2,000, who were but partially fur nished with the weapons of war ; but in the morning his force was diminished to about 300. On Thursday, as Major Phibbs was riding in a gig, near Roscrea, with his servant, they were stopped by six ruffians, who demanded their money. The servant hesi tating, was immediately shot. The major then delivered his cash-box, containing £lBO, to the miscreants, who decamped. Itatsa SANITY. — The .Cork Reparler states that " It is a curious fact, and most creditable to the officers of our lunatic asylum, that out of nearly four hundred patients there was, on Saturday last, not one person under re straint." From this it would appear that Paddy only ceases to require restraint when lie becomes lunatic. LIBERAL LANDLORDISM.—LOWI Rossmore has, in an address to his tenantry in the county Monaghan, stated that he had given instructions to his agent, not only to remit 15 per cent. on the rents now.in course of payment, but also to supply the tenantry with the best seed, for the next year's crop, at cast price. Mr. Thomas Darcy M'Gee, a leader of some notoriety in therecent rebel organisation, has.sueceeded in effecting his escape to the United States, where, it would appear, he discovered that the American sympathisers with Irish treason had formed a very contemptuous estimate of the capacity and courage of the doughty revolutionary heroes. A priest horsewhipped a comfortable.looking farmer in a town in this county on Thursday. All we can say is, that the farmer deserved it, as every one deserves it who is servile enough to submit to it. He muttered audibly, and twice or thrice turned threateningly round, while smarting under the blows ; but beyond that he dared not shew his discontent—Cork Constitution. INSOLVENCY AMONGST FARMERS. — The Dublin Ga zette of Wednesday contains the names .of 98 insolvents in the Queen's county, county of Clr re, county of Tippe rary, county of Limerick. county of Kerry, and county of Cork ; of this number, 68 are set down as " farmers and yeomen." On the previous Tuesday there were 132 insol vents, the majority of whom were farmers. MURDER OF ANOTHER BAILIFF. — Dennis Cosgrave, driver to Mr. Browne, agent and magistrate, of O'Brien's Bridge, Limerick, was found dead near a ditch convenient to his house, on Tuesday. His head was dreadfully shat tered. He was put into possession some time since of a farm, from which a man named Dennis O'Brien was evicted by Mr. Browne. Dennis O'Brien and his two sons were arrested on suspicion oy Constable Morgan. of the O'Brien's Bridge Station. A coroner's inquest has been held, and a verdict of " Wilful murder" returned. STATE PROVISION FOR THE ROMISH CLERGY.—A Ro man Catholic " Priest of the Archdiocese of Thane" fa vourable to the principle of a state provision for the clergy, eeals somewhat hardly, if not irreverently, with the resolutions relating to the question adopted by the prelates at their recent meeting in Dublin. The T-uam priest seems to think that the bishops have commenced at the wrong end ; that before they ventured ro speak for the clergy, who, he says, are at present suffering severe privations, they ought to have furnished to the world some proof of episcopal disinterestedness, and, as a rea sonable justification of this view of the matter, he lets the public into a secret or two of the prison-house. Mr. ODoherty was on Wednesday found guilty of treason. He had been tried twice before. On Fri day the prisoner was brought to the bar to re ceive sentence. Judge Crampton addressed the prisoner at some length, and concluded by saying, that the portion of the press with which the prisoner had connected him self was the chief instrument in the creation of the dan gerous agitation that had prevailed. " I must add," said his lordship, •• that t have never read soy publications more dangerously wicked, and clearly designed to excite rebellion and revolution than those publications which have emanated from you, and of which you have been as certained by the verdict of your jury to have been the guilty publisher. Under these circumstances, the court is called upon to pronounce upon you the sentence of trans port akin for ten years." TRIAL OF WILLIAMS. — Mr. Richard Dalton Williams, the partner of Mr. O'Doherty in the ownership of the Tribune, was brought to trial on Thursday. The case dif fered from that of O'Doherty in the point that no evidence whatever was offered that Mr. Williams had written either of the articles charged as treasonable. The Attorney- General contended that the guilt lay in the publication, and that it was immaterial who wrote or printed the arti cles. He threw the onus on the prisoner of proving that he was ignorant of the treasonable nature of what he lied published. The proofs were confined to the formal evi dences of ownership and publication. On Friday the Jury returned a verdict of " Not guilty," as, though they found that the prisoner was the publisher of the newspaper in question, they did not believe he entertained the inten tions alleged. After sentence had been passed on O'Do herty, Williams was liberated. THE WHIGS AND THE PRIESTS. — Monday night's Dublin Herald contains the following statement :—" A correspondent, the same whose accurate information ena bled us to anticipate Inspector Trant's disclosures respect ing priest Fitzgerald, has put us in possession of the following startling narrative :—He states that a head-con stable, in the neighbourhood of Clonmel, told two gentle men, one of them a Protestant clergyman, in the Clonmel court-house, on Thursday week last, ` that he had given most important information as bearing upon Mr. Meagher's case—namely, that he had seen him at the head of several thousand men in arms, and two of the Carrick-on-Suir priests with him, two days before the outbreak at Bailin garry.' This man happens to be a decided Protestant, and gave information of what lie had seen. He was taken up to Duldin, and when it was found that his informations could not be made available against Meagher, without im plicating equally two Romish priests, he was not ca'led upon to appear as a witness at all." ARCHBISHOP WHATELY.—EXTRAORDINARY FRACAS. —The Jubilee Meeting of the Church Missionary Society, held at the Rotunda, in Dublin, on Thursday last, was the occasion of a most extraordinary scene. The Arch bishop of Dublin was presiding over the meeting ; and on one of the speakers making a complimentary allusion to the " venerated Prelate" who occupied the chair, hssses and other marks of disapprobation proceeded from some of the parties present, alleged to have been members of the late Protestant Operative Association, and friends of the Rev. T. D. Gregg. Order having been restored, the business of the meeting proceeded, till the Archbishop, haVing business to attend to elsewhere, rose to vacate the chair, when he was assailed with fresh hisses, shouts of " Maynooth ! Maynooth !" and other exclamations. The Dean of St. Patrick's having been called to the chair in the place of the Archbishop, and a vote of thanks to his Grace having been proposed, the uproar was renewed. The vote of thanks was declared to be carried, amidst cries of " No, no !" and hisses. The chairman having dissolved the meeting; Mr. T. H. Thompson, of Leeson street, who had previously asked leave to address the meeting, but was refused, ascended the platform, and, in a speech of considerable violence, justified the opposition which had been manifested against the Archbishop. He was proceeding to read an extract from the Archbishop's " Christian Duty of Educating the Poor," when his voice was drowned in cries of " Shame, shame," from the friends of the Archbishop, he was knocked down from the plat form, and ultimately given in charge to the police. As it appeared, however, that he had not used or th reatened any violence, but that the whole fracas was a mere " matter of discussion," as the magistrates termed it, the complaint against him was dismissed, and he left the office, threat ening to bring an action for false arrest against the rev. gentleman, Dr. Fletcher, who had given him in charge. CHARACTER OF DR. WHALE.—Dr. M`Hale practises the profession (of beggary) on a much larger scale than is known in St. Giles, or Clerkenwell, or the Borough, for in fact he has a much larger field. Throughout his whole career he has been sedulously employed in binding the Celtic population of Ireland in the trammels of beggary, and burying it under the squalor of barbarism. He is always re-opening the sores of his country, administering fresh goads to its morbid sensitiveness, deluding it into a certain idea of the dignity of idleness, protracting its quarrel with civilization, and instilling that sentiment of class which produces honour among thieves, recognized walks among beggars, and many other corruptions of fraternity. Does heaven send a blight on the land and warn a wretched race against the habits of savages and the food of swine, Dr. M`Hale is ready to assure his poor dupes that the act of Omnipotence is the fruit of Saxon oppression. Does Government undertake the most im possible task of carrying seven millions of people through a winter of famine and lavish its treasures with an unheard of profusion, Dr. M`Hale is ready to arraign, to misre present, to vilify, to denounce, the whole agency and means necessary for that purpose. If half a day's work is required, he calls it cruelty ; if half an hour's walk to the meal-store, he calls it wilful murder. If clerks are employed to pay wages and surveyors to measure work, be calls it embezzlement and proclaims that all the money has been squandered in jobs. If the English public in a season of great straitness makes a voluntary subscription for the Irish, larger than any voluntary subscription for any purpose anywhere since the beginning of the world, Dr. M`Hale suppresses the fact altogether, or, when it is thrust on him, calls it an heretical device. If a perma nent system of public charity is founded on the principle of making property do its duty to the poor, Dr. M`Hale gives his prompt encouragement to the selfishness and perverseness of those who, possessing the land and re- ceiving its fruits, resist the payment of a moderate quota to the poor. His only pritrc•ple is to denounce with equal rage every work of a national, judicious, and effective character.—Times. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. v- INDIA. The arrival of the overland mail has brought most im portant and rather unsatisfactory intelligence. Since the time of the Cabool massacre, or of the Sikh invasion, news of deeper interest has seldom left Bombay. There can be no doubt that the Sikhs are in full rebellio n only at Moultan and in the Hazareh country, but also at Peshawur, Pathan, Rote, Nonpere, and other places, there have been risings or .plottings ; several of the Sikh Sirdars at Lahore have been arrested for holding treache rous correspondence with our enemies, while the fidelity of whole Durbar is something more than suspected ; and the clearest proof is said to exist of the complicity of Go laub Singh, the Maharajah of Cashmere, as well in the conspiracy which has led to the present outbreak, as in all the intrigues iu which our dear friends and allies have in dulged since Lord Hardinge placed little Dhuleep Singh on the throne, anti " settled" the country. To add to our mortification and to the inconveniences—not to say perils—of our position, Rajoh Shore Singh, when the Bri tish authorities were weak enough to look upon as an ally and supporter, has gone over to Dewan Moolraj, and we have been compelled, in conseqtfence, after seven days' operations before Moultan, to raise the siege of that for tress, and raise from its walls to a considerable distance — the last accounts say "eighteen miles in the direction of Bhawnlpore." During the siege many important advan• tages were gained, at a large sacrifice of life, both amongst officers and men ; but the defection of Shere Singh, who had five thousand Sikhs under his command, totally al tered the complexion of affairs, and on the assembly of a council of war it was decided that Moultan could not be taken without a large addition to the British force , and that the wisest course to pursue would be to withdraw the troops, and wait until reinforcements could be supplied. Accordingly, expresses were sent off to Lahore, Scind, and Bombay, and every exertion is now being uked to send an army promptly into the field. Twenly thousand men will, it is said, be supplied from the north, while a force of nine thousand, chiefly composed of Bombay troops, will move up through.Scinde. Many of the corps are already on their way to the scene of action. Subjoined is a list of the killed during the operations against Moultan : Lieutenant-Colonel R. T. R, Pattoun, and Quartermaster L. Taylor, her Majesty's 32d Foot; Major G. S. Monti zambert, 14th Foot; Ensign C. 0. Lloyd, Bth Native In fantry ; and Lieutenant T. Cubitt, 49th Native Infantry. Second only in importance to the rebellion at Mooltan is the rising which has taken place in the Hazareh districts : —" At the head of the insurrection there is Sirdar Chutter Singh, father of Shere Singh, the new ally of Dewan Moolraj. He is a chief of influence and eminence, and is one of those who signed the" Hardinge Treaty." Being at the head of a considerable force, he attacked our politi cal agents, Captain Abbott and Lieutenant Nicolson, who had only some 1,500 country people under them, and compelled them to tall back on Hussan Abdall. These officers were now in danger of being driven into the fort of Attock, and there besieged at great disadvantage; and troops for their aid were consequently called for from the Jullender, while Major Lawrence, at Peshawur, sent five hundred men to their assistance. AUSTRIA.-SIEGE OF VIENNA. The intelligence received on Saturday relative to the ' siege of Vienna comes down to the 29th ult., at three o'clock, p.m. The Preussische Staats-Anzeiger has the following accounts : On the 28th the fighting chiefly took place on the south and east of the city, whilst on the west the barricades were only heard by fits and starts. Towards evening the Ban's troops had completely taken the suburbs Landstrasse and Erdberg, and at that time occupied a position near the Frausensbriicke and Meiergasse. at the entrance of the Leopoldsstadt, which was commanded by the batteries. The Glogenittz railway terminus had been defended with great energy, but had been taken by the troops in the course of the 28th, as well as the outer lines of the south and east side, and of the faubonrg Wieden, which is stated to be one of the principal seats of the resistance. The Chasseurs were reported to hare taken in the Landstrasse thirty barricades within three hours; the regiment of Nas sau (some companies of which had shown mutinous dispo sitions on the 6th of October,) is said to have especially distinguished itself. In the suburbs, Landstrasse and Lerchenfeld, the troops were favourably received by the inhabitants, and flowers were thrown to them by the ladies. It was also stated that a great number of the National Guards had thrown away their arms, and that a large quantity of weapons was found in the canal. The operatives, on the other hand showed great prowess. No students were to be seen, and it was therefore supposed by some that they had laid aside the distinguishing parts of their dress in order that they might not be recognised. Only a very few shells had, according to all appearance, been thrown into the town. Some houses, however, es pecially in the suburb of Weiden, had been set on fire by rockets ; among others, a large manufactory near the Gloggnitzz railway station. In the night of the 29th, during which there was but little firing, the Belvedere, the Schwarzenbergische Garten, the whole of the Tager zeile, and the Leopold-Vorstadt were occupied by the troops, apparently without much resistance, so that the Vionnese were on the acme,: and east side atmo3t confined to the inner city. The officers declared in the suburbs that the Prirce had occupied them chiefly in order to spare them, in case a bombardment should become neces sary, and in order to be enabled to assign a place of refuge to those citizens who would not take part in the combat for the city itself. On the morning of the 29th a deputa tion had been seen coming from the city to head-quarters and it was asserted that they had continued their way in search of Prince Windischgr atz, who had set out on horse back to reconnoitre the Hungarians. Nothing yet was known as to the result. It was stated that General Bern and the students had declared they would resist to the last. The Hungarians continued perfectly quiet. During the engagement they had advanced nearer to the city, but again fell back upon Briick. They had certainly not made any attack, although a large column of smoke which rose in the city was considered to be a signal of distress. At half-past two o'clock, when the last intelligence was despatched, the report of cannon was again heard. The Turin parliament decided on the 24th inst. by a large majority, against a resumption of the war. The King of Denmark has just granted a liberal con stitution to his people. At the present time only seventeen prisoners for debt are confined in all the various prisons of Belgium. Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler has applied for a mainte nance out of her husband's estate which has been condi- tionally granted. In Hungary, all Bishops appointed by the Sovereign immediately perform every part of their functions which relates to jurisdiction, before they have been confirmed by the Pope. RESTORED CONFIDENCE.—The Earl of Pembroke, who had broken up his princely establishment in Paris on the breaking out of the revolution of February, has just re turned to the French capital. Prussia is suffering severely from the red republican propagandists, who are striving to abolish all the royalties of Gel many, and substitute one united republic in their stead. Advices from Constantinople of the 15th ultimo acquaint us with another terrific fire at Pera, which occurred on the 12th. The museum, mosque, hospital, medical academy, and a number of other public and private build ings tin all about 280) were utterly destroyed. The loss of property was immense. An idea may be formed of the ruin which has over whelmed the shopkeepers of Paris since the revolution of February, from the fact that there are at present twelve shops unoccupied in the Passage des Panoramas, in which one has never been known to be vacant since its foundation until the present year. M. Thalberg has arrived in London for the winter; he quitted Vienna just before the outbreak. A gentleman who has recently come from the " imperial city" states that it is impossible to describe the dreadful condition of the peaceable inhabitants ; and as regards music, not a note is heard, even at the public places. PREJUDICE AGAINST COLOUR.—The daughter of Fre derick Douglass, an amiable and gifted little girl of nine years of age, has been expelled from Seward Seminary, Rochester, State of New York, on account of her colour. Happily, in five hours' time the doors of another highly respectable school were opened to receive her. THE DEATH PENALTY BY WHOLESALE.—A negro man, named Sam Humphrey, the property of Miss Her berts, was tried before the County Court of Alexandria, on Tuesday, for burglary, and, being convicted, was sen tenced to be hung. There are only seventy offences for which the penalty is death, if committed by a slave in Virginia.—New York Post. Accounts from Spain speak of the taking of the village of Borja, in Bayonne, by a body of one hundred Carlists. The greater part of Aragon is up in arms, and the refu gees are all gone to the frontiers. A decisive movement is spoken of, an alliance having been entered into be tween the Carlists and the Progresistas, the basis of which is, that the Conde de Montemolin shall be King, giving the Progresistas a liberal constitution—an union much like that of Protectionists and Chartists would be in England, one of no inherent strength. NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE.—We have seen the first number of " The Anglo-Maori Warder," published at Auckland, on Tuesday, April 25, 1848. It contains lead ing articles, both in English and Maori, and has adopted for its editorial motto, " Right is better than might," which, in Maori, is "I.a to tika i toa ai." The Warder comments strongly on the disgrace which the colonial newspapers have brought on the press by their personali ties, and records with approbation a sentence of two months' imprisonment passed on the editor of the Albion, for a libel on one of the colonial magistrates. A VICTIM TO A THEO RY . — The Boston Transcript, in noticing the death of Lieutenant G. F. Ruxton, of the British army, recently deceased at St. Louis, says,—" A friend, who crossed the Atlantic with him in one of the late steamers, informs us that he was a most intelligent and agreeable companion, and that his object in revisiting America was to verify a theory which he had confidently formed, that the Moqui Indians of New Mexico are the descendants of Prince Madoc of Wales and his followers. While at Fort Leavenworth, Ruxton happened to enter the log hut of an old negro woman. He had on a Moqui blanket, and the old dame, atter examining it carefully, exclaimed, That's a Welsh blanket ; I know it by the wool.' She had lived with a Welsh family in her youth, and had been teught their mode of weaving. From this and other circumstances, Ruxton was possessed with the idea that the Moquis were genuine Welshmen, and he avowed his determination of investigating the question or perishing in the attempt. Our friend tells us that the gallant adventurer, at the same time, seemed to have a presentiment of an early death. He has fallen a victim to an epidemic which, both here and at the west, has been unusually virulent the present season." TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Aberdeen Amiens and Boulogne Belfast and Ballymena Birkenhead, Lan. and Cheshire. Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Cockermouth and Workington.. Dublin and Drogheda Dublin and Kingstown Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen East Anglian d'nburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh and Northern E. Counties, N. Eastern, and N. East Lancashire Eastern Union and Ipswich and Bury Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Ctbrg.. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Glasgow and Greenock Great Southern and Western Great Western Kendal and Windermere Lancashire and Yorkshire Lancaster and Carlisle Liverpool, Crosby, & Southport. Londonderry and Enniskillen London and North-Western London and Blackwall London & Brighton, South Coast, London and South-Western M'chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Midland, Bristol,' and Birming ham Midland Great Western (Ireland) Monklands Newcastle and Carlisle Norfolk North British Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre Scottish Central Shrewsbury and Chester South-Eastern and Branches . • South Devon Taff Vale Ulster Waterford and Limerick Whitehaven Junction York, Newcastle, and Berwick York and North Midland, &c s. d. 0 0 0 1274 0 0 414 0 0 709 0 0 5007 0 0 1765 0 0 173 0. 0 789 0 0 1123 0 0 903 0 0 706 0 0 3516 0 0 1929 0 0 15536 0 0 1572 0 0 1377 0 0 O 0 0 2660 0 0 1013 0 0 3827 0 0 19329 0 0 O 0 0 10582 0 0 2167 0 0 84 0 0 131 0 0 39827 0 0 636 0 0 9076 0 0 9813 0 0 2805 0 0 O 0 0 21446 0 0 1183 0 0 868 0 0 o o o O 0 0 2577 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 1046 0 0 1283 0 0 9222 0 0 1301 0 0 2149 0 0 864 0 0 304 0 0 174 0 0 lB7 13038 6 0 12279 7810 0 0 8540 - 28 - 29 - 28 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 28 - 29 - 28 -28 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. -4- The Cheshire hounds, Wednesday, Twemlow-hall ; Thursday, Tabley-park ; Saturday, Darnhall. Sir W. W. Wynn's hounds, Wednesday, Hamner ; Friday, Cuddington-green ; Saturday, Wem—at half-past ten. WORCESTER STEEPLE CHA SE.—On . Saturday the Handicap of 20 sovs. each, with 100 added, was run. The distance was four miles, and there were 43 subs. twenty of whom started. The race was run in 10 minutes and a half, and was won by Capt. Maddock's Proceed, with Lord Strathmore's Red Lancer second. DERBY " SwgErs." —On Saturday the appeal of William Willis, the proprietor of the King's Head public house, in Newgate-street, London, was heard against the conviction by Sir Peter Laurie and Alderman Wilson, of the 23d of June, for having unlaw . fully and knowingly suffered certain gaming to be carried on in his house, viz.,—a certain unlawful game, lottery, or sweepstake, called the " Derby Sweep." to be . played and drawn at by lot, against the tenor of the license granted to him under the 9th of George IV. The appellant had been fined £5 and costs. After a long discuss i ion, the Recorder of London gave his decision , an d said t was impossible not to see that the recital of t he ac t of William 111., which so expressly denounced lotteries as mischievous public nuisances, comprehended the present case. H e was bound to affirm the conviction. He approved of the conduct of the appellant in questio nin g the validity of the conviction, and in abandoning all idea of continuing the sweeps in his house upon finding that they were illegal. He supposed that after the prese nt decision the practice would cease everywhere. He certainly should not, as a magistrate, sign the license of any man who should henceforward permit sweeps to be drawn in his house. That determination, he must be understood, would not operate against any person who might have fallen into the general error, provided there were no repetition of the infringement of the act. TIDE TABLE. MORN. 'EVEN°. HOHT. HOLYDAYS, ETC DAYS. Nov.' It. m. h. m. Tuesday.... 7 , 735 8 7 Wcine,sday. 8 836 9.2 Thursday .. 9 '9 27 . 951 Friday ....10 10 14 10 38 Saturday .11 11 1 11 23 Sunday ....12 11 45 Monday.— 13 0 8 16 9 r . of Wales bornllBll 19 2 20 4 21 3 ;21st Sand. aft. Trinity 031 121 1 1 CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. An anonymous " friend'.' has contributed £l,OOO to wards rebuilding St. Peter's church, Cheltenham. The Archbishop of Canterbury has presented £2OO to the National Society, and has promised to become an an nual subscriber of £lO. The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Musgrave arrived, on a visit to the Dean of Durham, at Durham, on Wed nesday last, from Bishopthorpe, near York. The Bible Society have made an appeal to the public, in order to turn to good account the recent occurrences on the Continent. Lord Bexley heads the subscription list with a donation of £2OO. The Rev. J. P. Eden, son-in-law of Lord Brougham, is to have the vacant rectory of Bishopwearmouth, the gross value of which is £4,200 ;'but a great effort is making to have the living divided into five district rectories, and we hope it will succeed. The important case, Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter, is to come on in both the Ecclesiastical and a temporal Court immediately. In the Court of Arches a monition was granted on the 15th of June, calling on the Bishop to show •cause, within fifteen days, why he had refused to institute the Rev. G. C. Gorham, B.D. (on the presenta tion of the Queen, on the 2nd of November, 1847) to the vicarage of Bampford Speke, Devonshire. On Monday week, a commission, issued by the Bishop of Winchester under the Church Discipline Act, to inquire into the conduct of the Rev. Mr. Proby, was opened in the Cathedral. The charge against the rev. gentleman was, that he had submitted to receive baptism by immer sion, having been previously baptised ; and that he had received the sacrament in a Dissenting chapel, and accord ing to forms not recognised by the church, to which he pleaded guilty, and the commission adjourned. THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Her Majesty Queen Ade laide has, within the last few days, forwarded to the Rev. Thomas Dale, the vicar of St. Pancras, the munificent sum of £2OO in aid of the fund now raising by the rev. gentleman for the erection of ten new churches in that immense district. This truly royal contribution is en hanced in value by the fact that her Majesty had pre viously sent contributions for the separate funds of two or more of the churches now in course of erection. RANK OF THE COLONIAL BISHOPS.—A correspondent of the Colonial Church Chronicle observes that. Earl Grey's circular, giving rank to the Roman Catholic. Pre lates, analogous to, and next after, that of the Prelates of ' the Established Church, has the effect of giving prece ' deuce to the Roman Catholic Archbishop before the Pro testant Bishop ; that is to say, in Australia, in Hindostan, and in Canada, as also in Malta, the " Most Rev." Archbishops Polding, Carew, Signay, and Caruana (Arch bishops of Sydney, Edessa, Vicar-Apostolic of Bengal, Quebec, and Rhodes, Bishop of Malta), take rank before the acknowledged Bishops of Sydney, Calcutta, Montreal, and Gibraltar. THE CHOLERA AND THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury has issued the following letter to the clergy of his province : " Lambeth Palace, Nov. 3, 1848. " REVEREND SlR,—The appearance of the cholera in several parts of the kingdom, has excited a general appre hension lest this country, which has been mercifully excepted from the political and social evils prevailing elsewhere, should still suffer the Divine judgments in the form of pestilence. I write, therefore, to direct the use of the prayer appointed for such cases in the Liturgy, espe-* cially if the disease should appear in your own neighbour hood. It will also be proper in the way which may appear most suited to the circumstances of your parish, to exhort your people to repentance and humiliation, duties neces sary at all times, and for which there is too much reason both nationally and individually, and to which we are especially called by visitations such as famine and pesti lence, which baffle human skill and power, and can only be averted by the merciful providence of an Almighty Father. —I am, reverend sir, your faithful friend and brother, " J. B. CANTUAR." `• P.S. Since writing the above I have received a com munication from the Board of Health, desiring me to remind the parochial clergy of the important benefits which they may render to their people, by a regular visi tation of their respective districts, for the purpose of enforcing cleanliness, ventilation, and strict temperance. Public measures can only be applied externally, and will be of little avail if unwholesome or insufficient diet (which the wealthierclasses should be exhorted to provide against), or of close and over-crowded apartments, expose the inha bitants to the first attacks of epidemic disease." The following is the prayer alluded to by the Archbishop, and the use of which, by the clergy, his grace orders : - - " 0, Almighty God, who in thy wrath didst send a plague upon thine own people, in the wilderness, for their obstinate rebellion against Moses and Aaron ; and also, in the time of King David, didst slay with the plague of pestilence three score and ten thousand, and yet, remem bering thy mercy, didst save the rest, have pity upon us miserable sinners, who are now visited with great sickness and mortality, that like as thou didst then accept of an atonement, and didst command - the Destroying Angel to cease from punishing, so it may now please thee to with draw from us this plague and grieyous sickness, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Parliament has been further prorogued to the 19th Dec. A requisition is to be forwarded to the Hon. Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley's eldest son, who is in America, inviting him to consent to be put in nomination for Lynr. The states of the Zollverein are understood to have consented to the admission of British goods free from the addititional duties, provided they are accompanied by certificates of origin ; and, the Prussian government has intimated an intention of reimbursing the additional duties already paid on British merchandise imported with proper certificates, and of inviting the other states of the Zollverein to adopt the same course. LORD STANLEY'S OPINION OF LORD GEORGE BEN TINCK. — Lord Stanley in a letter, enclosing a subscription for some testimonial to the memory of Lord George Ben tinck, says :—I hope I am right in supposing that your subscription, though originating in, is not intended to be confined to the City of London or the mercantile interests. The farmers of. England will be anxious to testify their gratitude to the memory of their tried and constant friend; and men of all classes, even those who did not coincide in all his views, may well unite in doing honour to the memory of qualities, which, as long as honesty and integrity are valued, must command the respect of all. I knew Lord George Bentinck well. I was long honoured by his personal friendship, I shared his political opinions, and I was associated with him, though with far less exer tion on my part, in his public labours ; and I can safely say, that it never occurred to me to meet with a man of a warmer and more generous heart, of more boundless liberality, and, above all, of more sterling and single minded honesty of purpose. An innate love of truthful ness and honour, and an intense abhorrence of all that is false, trickery, and underhand, were among the leading features of his character ; and able as he was in argument, persevering in mastering the details of his subject, and bold and unflinching in the support of his views, that which gave him his power in Parliament, and won for him the respect of his opponents and the admiration of his countrymen, was the conviction felt by all that he was never acting a part—that which he truly felt he never feared to say—and that he carried practically into his public life the stern principles of integrity which dis tinguished his private character. These are qualities which will be appreciated by every Englishman, and many, like myself, will be glad to be assured that the subscrip tion which you have set on foot to do honour to them is intended to be open to all, though originating with the , mercantile body of the City of London. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. All the railway companies over which Mr. Hudson pre sides intend to issue full statements of their financial po sition, and toe Hull Packet says, the stock will gain con siderably th ?reby. A new eight-wheeled engine has been running on the London and North-western Railway, with 100 tons, at an average running speed of 51, and at a maximum running speed of 53, miles an hour. Mr. Hudson is carrying out a rigid system of economy on all his lines ; on some making dismissals, and on others carrying out reductions to the extent of 10 per cent. --- STOCK JOBBING.—The Standard of Monday says : As a specimen of the proportion of bona fide to the gambling business, it has been ascertained that for three weeks past there has not been a single transfer made in the stock of the North Western Railway Company. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ended 28th October, 1848 :—Coaching traffic, £1286 18s. 71d. ; parcels, £7l 13s. 3d. ; goods and cattle, £939 75. 4d. ; Steam-boats, £167 I3s. 6d. Total, £1765 12s. 84d. Of the importance, magnitude, and expense of railway bills our readers may form some slight idea from the fol lowing :—The Solicitor's bill of the South-Eastern Rail way contained 10,000 folios, occupied twelve months in taxation before the master, and amounted to £240,000. FORTHCOMING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.—The Great Western Railway authorities are preparing a voluminous statement, which is expected to be ready on Wednesday. Similar ones are in preparation from the London and South-Western, the Eastern Counties, the Lancashire and Yorkshire ; the York, Newcastle, and Berwick ; the Ycrk and North Midland, the South-Eastern, and the Scottish lines. THE RAILWAY COMPANIES.—We understand that the representatives of the three great lines of railway—the London and North-Western, the Great Western, and the South-Western—of which rumour has already in formed our readers—has resulted in an agreement by the three companies to apply to parliament for an act author ising their amalgamation. The ultimate event is of course still dependent upon several contingencies. From official returns it appears that the amount of traf fic for the last week, on 4,167 miles of railway, was £207,257, thus accounted f0r:—£99,590 for the convey ance of passengers only, £55,49) for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £51,877 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £23,089 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was 3,309. The average earnings per mile were £5ll, whilst in 1847 they were £55. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday a lamentable acci dent occurred to the Caledonian express train which left the Euston station that morning. The engine ran off the line at the curve about half a mite south of Weedon station, drawing four carriages along with it; two other carriages and the guards break remained on the rails. The driver and the fireman were severely scalded, but fortunately none of the passengers were hurt, except two, who were slightly scratched The carriages were very much damaged. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Sunday week some workmen were travelling in a special train on the York and Newcastle line, and stopped at Don to take in water, when the mail train from the south come up, and ran into it with such violence that the carriage and tender were completely smashed, and the engines much damaged. One man was killed on the spot, and two others died a few minutes afterwards. Another man is so severely injured that little hopes are entertained of his recovery, and an engineman had his leg broken. BELFAST AND BALLYMENA.—At a meeting of share holders, held in Liverpool, on Tuesday, Mr. Maunder in the chair, resolutions were passed to the effect, that the existing number of directors was too great, and should be reduced to fifteen. of whom five should consist of shareholders in Great Britain be recommended to attend at the meeting at Belfast, appointed for the 30th of No vember, or to send their proxies, stamped in due form, to Mr. Maunder, of this town, who will attend there per sonally, for the purpose of inquiring into the company's accounts, and, at the same time, to see that every facility be afforded for the increase of traffic, and also that the strictest economy be used. RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WINTER. Various important alterations and revisions in connection with the trains and other arrangements of the railways running out of London, and consequent on the confe rences that have recently taken place between the heads of the railway body, came into operation on Wednesday. The London and North-Western Railway Company, who have regularly run one-and-twenty trains a-day out of and into London, intimate that during the winter this number will be reduced to sixteen. A general reduction takes place in the trains both out and in, but as yet there is no announcement as to the fares, which is presumed will remain as before. Five 'of their down trains are to be discontinued, and a corresponding number up. THE FLOODS AND THE RAILWAYS.—On the branch lines of the Eastern Counties, from Ely to Peterborough and beyond, the arable and meadow lands are two and three feet under water for six and seven miles around, so that viewed from a train in transit, the country presents nothing but a vast sheet of water, from which neither the canals nor the rivers can be distinguished. The farmers alongside the railway are to be seen ferrying themselves in boats from field to field and farm to farm. Many acres of oats and barley, mowed and unmowed, are surrounded with water, and this in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire is expected to render the crops below the average. An ingenious method has been resorted to on the 'Eastern Counties to mitigate the effect of the mass of water, by placing little breakwaters of wood at the bottom of em bankments, but in spite of these precautions, the line be tween Swavesy and St. Ives has been overflowed and the traffic temporarily suspended. Although the Great North ern runs parallel with the Witham Navigation, and almost on a level, it has not suffered from the overflowing. The line affected most has been the Northampton and Peter borough branch of the London and North-Western, where a bridge or two has been washed down. RAILWAY RECEIPTS. The following are the receipts of railways for the past week ; that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made:— Week 1 1848. ending Amount. RAILWAYS. THE CHOLERA. The Royal College of Physicians of London, have, on the re-appearance of the epidemic cholera in England, issued an important circular of advice, with a view to pre vent the spread of the disease, and to mitigate its evils. They state, first, that cholera appears to have been very rarely communicated by personal intercourse, and that cordons or quarantine have failed to arrest its progress. They are therefore of opinion that an appreciable increase of danger is incurred by attending and ministering to per sons affected with it. A moderate use of well cooked green vegetables, and of ripe fruit is allowable, also of pork or bacon, or of salted, dried, or smoked meat or fish, which have not been proved to have any direct influence in causing this disease. They advise such a general diet as has hitherto been found to agree with respective parties. Sufficient nourishment in food is recommended. Secondly—They state that the disease has always been most destructive i n the dampest and filthiest parts of towns, and they urge the public authorities to improve the state of the sewers and drains, and remove all collec tions of decayed vegetable and and animal matter from the vicinity of dwellings. They also enjoin the well air ing of all rooms, or apartments, used in dwellings. Thirdly—Debility or exhaustion increase the liability to cholera. The usual food should be taken, and intem perance or the use of ardent spirits and other intoxicating drinks carefully avoided. The grand barriers to the dis ease are nourishing food, warm clothing, and a speedy change of damp clothing; the avoidance of excessive fatigue, of long fasting, and of exposure to wet and cold, particularly at night. Fourthly—Persons affected with disease of the bowels should immediately apply for medical assistance. Should looseness of the bowels, sense of exhaustion, and chilli ness come on, the parties should be placed in a warm bed until advice can be obtained. Fifthly—The authorities are recommended to establish dispensaries, in various parts of towns remote from medi cal institutions, and also to provide distinct cholera hos pitals, not on the idea that the disease is infectious, but with a view to better attendance on the patients. The existing hospitals could not furnish the requisite accom modation. Sixthly—ln conclusion, the committee would urge on the rich, who have comparatively little to fear for them selves, the great duty of generously and actively minister ing to the relief of the poor while the epidemic prevails; bearing in mind that fuel, and warm clothing, and suffi cient nourishment, are powerful safeguards against the disease. They deem it most desirable that the parish authorities should at once improve the diet, and increase the com forts, of the poor under their charge ; and that the wealthy should form societies for the supply of food, clothing, and fuel to those who, though not paupers, still need charitable assistance in the present emergency. Such measures, which it is the duty of those possessed of power and wealth to adopt, would the committee be lieve, if liberally carried out, deprive the cholera of half its victims. This important document is dated " College of Physi cians, Oct. 28th," and is signed by Jowl AYRTON Pants, President; and FRANCIS HAWKING, Registrar. - 28 - 28 - 28 - 29 - 28 - 27 - 29 - 28 - 29 - 29 - 28 KIRKDALE SESSIONS. At these Sessions, which concluded on Saturday last, there were 100 prisoners for trial, viz., 94 for felony, and 6 for misdemeanor, including 71 males, and 29 females, of which number 41 could neither read nor write, 23 could read, 35 could read and write imperfectly, and 1 could read and write well. The class of crimes in the calendar were of that description usually found at the Sessions, and contained nothing of any importance. Of the above number of prisoners 31 were under 21 years of age, 46 under 30, 12 under 40, 9 under 50, and 2 under 60. After the trials of the prisoners had been concluded the appeals, of which there were eight, were called on; and it was expected that the Sessions would not be closed until late, even if then, but to the surprise of the Court they went off in about half an hour. The following is the result. Spotland appellants, and Toxtelli-park respondents.— Order confirmed, subject to a case. Mold appellants, and West Derby respondents.—Order quashed. Costs £2O, to be repaid by respondents. Liverpool appellants, and West Derby respondents.— Martha Loveladv's settlement.—Order confirmed without costs : the appellants to have a case upon two points as to the removability of the pauper in the absence of her hus band, and also as to the residence for more than 5 years prior to the order of removal being granted. Liverpool v. West Derby, Dickson's case ; Ditto v. Ditto, Bradshaw's case ; Ditto v. Ditto, Johnson's case ; Ditto v. Ditto, Liewen's case ; Ditto v. Ditto, Ellison's case. In the above five cases the orders were all con firmed, with cots, Mr. Hart, the Vestry Clerk, having given a consent on the behalf of the Churchwardens and Overseers of Liverpool to that effect. From what tran spired in the Court, it appeared that the Overseers of Liverpool and the Overseers of West Derby, previous to the Sessions, he d had several meetings at the Parish office, in Lime-street, at which Mr. Cleaver attended, as the legal adviser, on behalf of the West Derby Overseers, but no solicitor appeared on behalf of the Parish of Liverpool ; why, or wherefore, did not appear. The result of these meetings was, that Mr. Cleaver out manoeuvered the Overseers of Liverpool, who seem to have acted as their own lawyers, and succeeded by the plausibility of his arguments, in overcoming all their ob jections. Three of the five cases given up were upon the very identical points which arose in the case of Lovelady ; but notwithstanding, these gentlemen, unlearned in the law, thought fit to accept of the paupers, and maintain them, and pay the costs, when by going to the Sessions they would at all events have got rid of the burden of maintaining them for the present, if not altogether, and what is more, would not have had to pay the respondents their costs, which in all probability will amount to little short of £lOO ; all of which might have been saved, if, instead of being their own lawyers, they had left the mat ter in the hands of the legal advisers, to whom they had in the first instance entrusted it, thus certifying, as was remarked by the counsel who was opposed to them, the old adage, that " the man who is his own lawyer, has , a fool for his client." CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS-ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. The truly grand and elegant equestrian performances of this unrivalled troop, under the directorship of Monsieur Dejean, continue to attract respectable audiences ; but we are a little surprised that there should not be more of the beau monde of our town and neighbourhood among the visitors of the Amphitheatre. We are the more surprised at this when we consider that the troop are on their way to London, to again open a season at Drury-lane Theatre, where, last season, without the considerable additions it has received since, it was visited by all the royalty, nobility, and fashionables of the metropolis, and terminated a most brilliant career. When we think of the enterprise of the proprietor, in bringing so extensive an establishment across the Channel (little less than an entire ship load) for our amusement and gratification, we should like to see his exertions receive that substantial mark of esteem which would ensure to us an annual visit to our town. The elegance and respectability of the entire establish ment, which pervades every minute detail, and the beauty of the costume, and the total absence of all that vulgarity which is associated in our minds with our Circus perfor mances, has raised the Cirque de Paris to the same rank which it holds in France. The performances, during the last week, have been pregnant with much novelty. Mons. Bons, a tight-rope dancer of the highest excellence, has made his appearance, and does some most surprising feats. That of extending his figure at full length upon the rope, and remaining in that position, is the most remarkable. Mons. Siegrist has succeeded Mons. Henri as a juggler cheval, and, in addition to his usual feats, he has added a few new and remarkable ones. Mdlle. Ducas is a very clever and expert rider. She dashes at her work with much spirit, and is fearless of danger. The truly elegant Emmeline Lambert has appeared in the highly classical "'Mantle Pose's," with its beautiful costume of a Grecian maiden. Nothing can exceed the studied grace and classic taste of this lady. Little Aug. Berg continues to astonish by her expert, easy, and graceful feats on her petit cheval. She is a remarkably clever child. Mdlle. Palmira Annato has repeated her elegant pas. Her performance is remark able for natural grace, modesty of manner, and a high finished style, peculiarly her own. As an expert eoues trian, she succeeded, on Friday night, in accomplishing no fewer than forty-five bounds over the scarfs and through the hoops_ She received most enthusiastic ap plause for this feat. Young Loisset is the most surprising young rider we ever saw ; there is a fearlessness and bold ness of style not to be exceeded. The stately and duchess like Caroline, on her famous horse " Jupiter,: in the high school of riding, is the most magnificent performance we ever saw, and exceeds anything of the kind we ever beheld. Mdlle. Mathilde is equally clever on her horse " Norfolk." Little Marie Annato appeared in the " Pas de Etrangers," with its four changes of costume. Her steps are exquisite, and of a high finished style, and her dark eyes sparkle with brilliancy as she receives the ap plause of the audience. The clowns, Auriol and L'Eclair, afford endless amusement whilst these entertainments are going on, by their jokes and tricks, which, together with the excellent music, from the able conductorship of Mons. Hamet. affords every gratification to be desired. Our parting words are, Allez les voir. COURT AND FASHION. The Court remains at Windsor Castle, and no variation of importance has taker place in the royal circle since our last. On Saturday her Majesty and Prince Albert, left Windsor Castle for Claremont, to visit the Count and Countess de Neuilly. Prince Albert is re-arranging the grand armoury at Windsor. Eitstritt 114115. The Bishop of Chester will hold an ordination at Chester, on the 24th December. The Preston Pilot of Saturday notices the receipt of some very beautiful ripe strawberries, gathered from plants in the open air, near that town. At the Lancaster sessions, Daniel Elletson, Esq., Parrox Hall, Fleetwood, qualified as a magistrate for this county. The two floors at Messrs. Rylands factory, at Wigan, fell on Wednesday, with the ponderous weight of ma chinery. Only one female was seriously hurt. On Sunday week, Mr. Henry Bell, of Preston, returned thanks in church for the restoration of his eye-sight. He had been operated upon for cataract by a surgeon in that town. The foundation stone of St. Paul's Church, Daneßridge, near Northwich, Cheshire, was laid on the 12th ultimo, by the Rev. Richard Greenall, M.A., incumbent of Stret ton and Rural Dean. The young people prepared by the Rev. C. F. Smith, Incumbent of Pendlebury, near Manchester, for the last confirmations on the 24th ult., held by the Bishop of Manchester, consisting principally of factory girls, and sons and daughters of colliers, have presented that rev. gentleman with a very handsome pair of silver candle sticks. A CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—On Saturday week, J. Smith, a mechanic, was travelling by the Man chester train, and on arriving at Pendleton, his arm, which was resting on the window of the carriage door, with the elbow projecting about three inches over the out side, was caught by the doors (which had been negligently left open) of an empty train, standing on the side rails, and broken in two places ; his hand and fingers were also severely lacerated by the plate glass. Smith has a wife and six children. A LANCASHIRE CANNIBAL. — Early on Sunday week. a police-officer observed a man, having the appearance of an excavator, busily engaged searching in a field, off Shore street, Manchester, for something which he appeared to have lost. The dicer went up to, and questioned the man, who at first seemed remarkably taciturn, and indis posed to answer questions; but at last he gathered that the fellow he was addressing had that morning been en gaged in an up-and-down fight, Lancashire fashion, and that he was looking for one of his ears—which his ant ago nist had bit off! Commiserating the poor wretch, the policeman assisted him to look for his ear, valich after awhile he found, when the officer strongly advised him to appear at the Borough Court next morning, to apply for a warrant against the brute who had so maimed him.— '" Noa, noa,' rejoined the fellow, coolly denositing his stray ear in his waistcoat pocket, " aw'st do now't at soart ; it war a fair gradeley stand-up battle, un aw wunt nother law nor warrant." MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—On Friday, a man and woman, named Thomas Cooke and Eliza Jones, were brought be before the magistrates at Manchester, on suspicion of murder. The prisoners reside in a court in Dole Field, in which, at the bottom of a fight of stone steps, a man was found during one night at the end of last week, with a feariul contused cut at the back of the head. He was carried in a state of insensibility to the infirmary, and died almost immediately. The evidence against the pri soners was that a woman living in the court heard a cry of " Watch I " on the night in question, which was sub sequently repeated, or repeated in part, the word being suppressed when half uttered, Two little girls were the next witnesses, and said that they saw the male prisoner drag a man who lay at the bottom of the steps into his house and bathe his bead with water. and afterwards take him back to the steps and leave him there. The pri soners denied all knowledge of the affair. A surgeon from the infirmary, who had examined the head of deceased, said the wound might have been caused by his falling backwards down the steps, or by a blow from behind. The evidence against the prisoners, or rather against the male prisoner (for there was nothing against the woman), was considered insufficient, and the case, after they had been put back in the dock several times, that fresh evi dence might be obtained if possible. was dismissed. 3602 670 13951 891 856 8247 8598 2248 556 9n63 753 1913 829 Nov. 7,1845. THE MAYORALTY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sir,—l perceive by the Journal of to-day that Mr. John Holmes is to be proposed as mayor, and that, if he finds the duties of the office too fatiguing, Mr. Procter. will have pleasure in favouring him with his valuable assistance. Would it not be a much more rational course at once to elect Mr. Procter instead of Mr. John Holmes ? • How was it that Mr. Holmes' own party did not elect him mayor when they bad an opportunity, instead of electing the gentleman who has been so unceremoniously ejected from Leicester on the ground of bribery and cor ruption ? Can a real Conservative consistently vote for Mr. Holmes, whose every vote in Council on the school question, and on all others connected with the main tenance of Conservative principles, has been opposed to those principles ? If Mr. Procter is qualified for the office, why not at once press his claims on the Council, rather than allow him to act the part of a sub to a gentleman whose princi ples he is known to condemn ? I am, Sir, Your most obedient servant, JOHN BULL. Liverpool, November 4th, 1848. THE MODEL PARISH.—It gives us much pleasure to notice the very favourable manner in which this project is being received in many different localities, and by very different classes of individuals. It is a plan which, on being carefully examined by the Christian philanthropist, cannot fail to ensure his most hearty approval, as a plan eminently calculated to destroy the drinking customs, which are so subversive of the best interests of society. The little pamphlet, entitled " The Model Parish," has rapidly gone through several editions; the eighth is now out, and in it we notice a new mode is now in operation for raising money to assist in the establishment of the scheme. A highly-respectable firm at Birmingham, con sisting of two brothers, members of the Society of Friends, and warm supporters of the temperance cause r has generously undertaken to manufacture a particular kind of cocoa, the profits on the sale of which are to go to the Model Parish. As cocoa is now coming into very general use, and as the profits on this go to so laudable an object, it is confidently expected that many will benevo lently give " The Model Parish Cocoa" a preference, and thus assist in promoting the nation's sobriety and eleva tion. In addition to this, its very superior quality is such as to recommend it, those who have tried it giving it ar most decided approval. It is to be had of tradesmen in this town and throughout the kingdom. We also see in the later editions of this pamphlet an account of a pro posed temperance village, originating with Bishop Chace, of Illinois, United States. It is likely that this proposi tion, coming from a bishop, of establishing a village on a similar principle to the Model Parish, (to which the bishop is a contributor,) may obtain for the latter project the approval and support of many who might otherwise not be inclined to assist it. During the last few weeks, the projector of the Model Parish, the Rev. William Wight, has been visiting many of the towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire, and has had numerous opportunities afforded him of bringing the subject before crowded audiences, both at public meetings and in the churches of various towns. The mayors of the respective localitieq presided at the meetings held in Doncaster, Wakefield, Warrington, Preston, and other places. The rev. gentleman, who is so unremittingly en gaged in this plan for crushing the drinking customs, was two years resident in Newcastle, and his exemplary life was such that his name is deeply engraven on the hearts of many a family in the parish in which be laboured with such truly apostolic zeal. He is possessed of independent means • and his self-denying patriotism in undergoing the care and anxiety inseparable from the prosecution of such a scheme calls for our most cordial sympathy, and it is hoped ere long he will be rewarded by the triumphant accomplishment of the noble object to which he is de voting his life and energy. CHLOROFORM AND DELIRIUM.—I bad occasion, in conjunction with a medical friend, to visit a man labour ing under furious delirium. He possessed great physical strength, and was exhausting his energies in maniacal struggles. We found him raving in his bed, with diffi culty held down by four men as powerful as himself; his mind distracted by the impression that he was suffering from hydrophobia, having, as we were informed, been bitten by a rabid cat some eleven years previously. The herculean frame of this unhappy man was labouring under the powerful impetus of his distracted mind, and in the hope of allaying his torments, we at once determined on trying the effects of chloroform. It was accordingly ad ministered, and in five or six minutes he was sleeping as peacefully as an infant. When he awoke from that sleep he was still undoubtedly a maniac, but he was tranquil, and his violence greatly subdued. He also for a few minutes recognised his wife, which proved how wonder fully the chloroform had restored the natural condition of his " perturbed spirit." Subsequently he required much less restraint, and the chloroform being repeated every night and morning, for a week or ten days, daily improvement was observable, and at the end of that time he went into the country with his reason completely re gained, and he continues up to this moment in the en joyment of perfect health, both of body and mind.— Bainbrigge's Remarks on Chlorqform. PERFECT INSECTS.—When the development of the perfect insect is complete, and all its parts and organs have attained the requisite firmness and solidity, it imme diate!), begins to exercise them in their intended functions. Previously to this launching into the wide world, or at least directly after, almost all insects discharge from , their intestines some drops of an excrementitious fluid, often transparent, and sometimes red. In some instances, where their numbers' have been considerable, this has produced the appearance of a shower of blood ; and by this natural fact, all those bloody showers recorded by historians as preternatural, and regarded where they happened, as fearful prognostics of impending evils, are stripped of their terrors, and reduced to the class of events that happen in the common course of nature. Some perfect insects live only a few hours; some never see the sun; others, as fleas, moths, and butterflies, and indeed the majority of insects, a few days or a week ; while a very few, such as large beetles, six, nine, twelve, or fifteen months. Some, however, enjoy long lives in captivity. Mr. Baker kept one of the darkling beetles alive under a glass upwards of three years. Roesel in forms us that he fed the rose-beetle with fruit and moist white bread for as long a period : and Esper kept our most common water-beetle in a large glass vessel for three years and a half.—Sharpe's London Magazine.] AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF LORD CASTLEREAGH. —Upon a certain occasion, as Lord Castlereagh was pass ing slowly and thoughtfully from an interview with his Majesty (George IV.) at Carlton House, to his own resi dence in St. James's-square, he was accosted by an Irish labourer, who, with his hod reversed, seemed as if pre pared to attend the funeral of his own hopes. " Long life to your honour !" said Pat, in a peculiarly melancholy tone. Lord C . raised his eye. Pat took off his apology for a hat, made his bow, and repeated " Musha. then, lone life to your honour's lordship !" There was something singular in the man's appearance and address, and Lord Castlereagh, half-hesitating, half-advancing, fixed his eyes upon him with a kindliness of look, which induced Pat to go on—" God be with the days, your honour, when you used to be fishing in the lough !" What lough, my good fellow ?" " Lough Foyle, to be sure, your honour." Why, were you ever there ?" " Maybe I wasn't, plase your honour, when I used to help to push your honour's boat off, and when, may God for ever bless you for it, wonst (once) when I tumbled in, neck and crop, you pulled me out by the nape of the neck. Och ! faith, I re member it," added the poor fellow, with a smile, " and if it hadn't been for your honour's lordship, I'd have been as dead as a herring, sure enough !" " Aye, well, what's your name ? " Bill Brady, to be sure." " Oh, I remein , her something about you, but what brought you here ?" " Och, like many others, I came to seek my fortune, but the devil a much luck I have had yet." "Are you in em ployment ?" " No. faith, lam not • but I'm promised a job next Monday, plase God." " Well, Bill, here's some thing to drink success to old times," handing poor Pat a couple of sovereigns. Lord Castlereagh then hastened on ; while Pat kept his hand open, alternately looking at the sovereigns and at the donor; the tear of gratitude at length trickled down his lime-coloured cheek, and, after a moment taken t o suppress the swelling of his surcharged heart, he shouldered his hod, and in a sort of ecstacy ex claimed, as he turned away, " Well, you're the ould thing after all !" Such was the man who has been by his ene mies accused of a cold, calculating heart, and want of sym pathy for the sufferings of his fellow. creatures t Many more incidents of a like character with the above might be recorded.—Memoirs and Correspondence of the late Viscount Castlereagh, by the Marquis of Londonderry. INTELLECTUALITY OF THE LOWER ANIMALS.—That the inferior animals, in many instances, possess the ordi nary passions, even more extensively than ourselves, will be readily admitted. How many, such as the whale, the stork, and the domestic hen, will die in defence of their offspring—thus affording the strongest proofs in existence of domestic affec'ion ! The case of the pelican is, we know, a story. The attachment of the cat to its own chimney corner, has been the theme of many a tale; and the well-known instance, in which one carried her kittens singly, and therefore by repeated efforts, from Glasgow to Edinburgh, is as extreme case. The affecting tale, related by Mr. Maxwell, in his Wild Sports of the West, of the blind seal, is another of the same. After all its removals from the house where it had been domesticated, it found its way back ; its eyes were torn from their sockets, and it was thrown into the Atlantic, yet still it returned ; and finally, having been carried out to sea so far that it was thought impossible for it to return, it made its way back in a violent storm, and, exhausted by hunger and fatigue, expired on the threshold of its in hospitable and savage master. Who does not know the fidelity of the dog ? How often will he pine over the grave of his master, sometimes refusing food even for weeks, till death at length puts an end to his sufferings! It would be a mere waste of time to mention anecdotes; but Spenser's ballad, entitled A Beth Gelert, and the story of the Chevalier Bayard, are cases in point. The camel, the monkey, the dog, the elephant, and indeed almost all with which we are acquainted, are more or less revengeful ; on the contrary, the bull, the lion, the wild hog, and as fables • say, even the mouse, are possessed of gratitude ; while love, fear, generosity, emulation, cour age, and perseverance are common qualities. Again. that hope, despair, melancholy, joy, and ecstacy, all find a place in the bosoms of the commonest creatures, cannot be doubted, unless we are prepared to doubt the evidence of our senses. Several of these feelings are forcibly illus trated in the fate of Mr. Charles Gough, of Manchester , who was killed in the hills of Cumberland in 1805. In passing froin Patterdale to Keswick, in an excursion which was more for the purpose of studying natural his tory than for pleasure, he was enveloped in a fog, and fell i over a cliff 600 feet high. His only companion, a lit terrier bitch, watched his remains most faithfully, tit" they were both found about' two months after.—Dr; Humes Paper, read at the Liverpool Literary ago I Philosophical ociely.