The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

FORE;GIv AND COLONIAL. 4 AMERICA. The North American royal mail steam-ship Acadia, Capt. Walter Douglas, came up the river on Tuesday at half past one, p.m. She left Boston on the 4th instant, and Halifax on the 6th • and has made the passage from the former port in rather more than twelve days, including the detention at Halifax. The America had not arrived out. Exchange on Lon don rated from 9 to 9, 91 per cent. premium. Grain and cotton markets were dull, but on the whole steady. The corn crop on the Upper Mississipi was expected to be abundant ; the cotton crop of Georgia would, it was thought, be only an average one. BOSTON, OCT. 3.—Flour: We continue to quote yesterday's rates—Genesee, $5 87c @ $6; Michigan, .35 81c .35 S7c ?p , bbl. The weather has been such as to check out-door opera tions.—Grain : For Corn prices are unaltered ; white 64 @ 65c, yellow flat 70 @ 71c is. bush. Oats—old 41c, and new 40c 14 , do. ALBANY, Oct. 2, P.M.—Flour. The storm to-day almost sus pended out-door operations, sales about 10 0 brls. at 35 50 for Ohio and 85 621 for Genessee. Received by canal since Sa turday, 22,378 brls. Grain.—Mixed Genesee Wheat sold at 124 c. Nothing done in corn ; mixed western is held at 66c. FRANCE On Tuesday the National Assembly agreed to clauses from 85 to 90 of the Constitution, without amendment, and almost without discussion. M. Marrast, the President of the Assembly, and M. Dufaure, the Ministerial leader, have agreed that it is desirable that the remaining articles of the Constitution should be passed with as little delay as possible ; and, therefore, there is every probability that the whole of the Constitution will be voted in the course of the present week. A " democratic and social" banquet, at one franc per bead, took place on Tuesday, at the Barriere Poisson niere. More than 2000 persons attended it ; and as there was no place large enough to contain all, they divided into two parties, one presided over by M. Pierre Leroux, and the other and smaller one by M. d'Alton Shee. It had been announced that 200, or at least 150, representa tives of the people would be present, and that M. Lamen nais would be president, and M. Ledru Rollin vice-presi dent. Only three representatives, however, attended— M. Pierre Leroux, M. Proudhon, and Greppo. The de fection of the others caused considerable sensation. tnerous toasts were drunk, and the following were loudly applauded :—" To the Revolution," by M. Proudhon ; ' To the old Montagne," by M. Pierre Leroux ; " To the Revolution of Vienna," by M. Madier de Monjau, advocate ; " To the Union of Democrats," by M. Cabet ; " To the Democratic and Social Republic," by M. d'Alton Shee. At about seven o'clock the principal banquet was brought to a close by the singing of patriotic songs. Numerous groups of workmen assembled on the exterior boulevard, and at the entrance to the Rue des Poisson niercs, but tranquillity was not disturbed. The authori ties had taken measures for the preservation of order. The committee on the state of siege have determined to recommend to the Assembly that the state of siege should be immediately raised. It is - expected that the chamber will be prorogued in about ten days, until after the election of the President of the Republic; and that all the deputies of the majority will then set themselves seriously to work to prevent such a calamity and national disgrace as the election of Louis Napoleon. Should they tail, nothing more must be said in favour of universal suffrage. The general opinion is that Louis Napoleon will be elected, and that the event will lead to a convulsion, in which the Red Republicans will have a chance of temporary success, but that the friends of order will then rise and re-establish a monarchy. There may be sad scenes to pass through, however, be fore that is done. DEATH OF M. LOUIS BLANC'S FATHER.--The Cor saire announces, on good authority, that the father of MM. Louis and Charles Blanc, lately at the head of the Office of the Fine Arts in the Ministry of the Interior, died at the Hotel Dieu about a week ago, in a state of ut ter destitution. _ _ _ Louis Blanc denies in strong terms that his father died in Paris, recently, in a state of great destitution. He died six years ago, tenderly cared for by his sons. PARISIAN THIEVES.—The Parisian police have disco vered and apprehended a band of robbers, whose leader kept a regular set of books, in which esch thief was cre dited with the amount produced by the articles which he bad stolen, and was debited with his receipts and his share of the joint expenses ; while an engagement book con tained a list of the theatres, churches, and other places, which were to be visited on certain days by particular members of the gang. HORRID MURDERS IN FRANCE.—A man named Fauche was executed at Villeneuve-sur-Lot, on the 9th instant, for having, about fifteen months past, murdered and hor ribly mutilated his father-in-law, his mother-in-law, and his sister-in-law, in order to obtain 1200 francs, which he supposed had been brought in the course of the day to his father-in-law's house. The unfortunate man, who had exhibited the utmost effrontery during the trial, was much cast down when in presence of the instrument of death. He slowly ascended the steps of the guillotine, and after having delayed as much as he could, at last delivered him self over to the executioner, and in a moment ceased to exist. About thirty-five houses have been destroyed by fire at Cronstadt. Major Edwardes, the rising military genius of our Eas tern empire, has lost the use of his right hand by the ex plosion of a pistol. It is rumoured that Lieutenant Wyburd, one of the " Bokhara victims," is still living and residing at Kok ban, a voluntary exile, having turned Mahomedan. A fire in Prince's umbrella manufactory, in Philadel phia, has been pretty satisfactorily ascertained to have ori rated in the ignition of a box of lucifer matches from the gnawing of a mouse ! On the 12th inst., the extensive ship-manufactory of Messrs. A. H. Silleman and Co., in the Grasbrook, Ham burgh, was burnt to the ground. The buildings are in sured in foreign and home insurance companies for 279,000 marks banco. _ _ A petition to Sir Harry Smith, from the Mahomedan inhabitants of Cape Town, concludes—" And your me morialists further pray that your Excellency may see the present earthly blindness of your ways, and become a candidate for admission into the bosom of the sublime Mahomedan Church." _ The American correspondent of the Morning Herald states that a member of congress, named Stephens, has been dreadfully stabbed and lacerated with a bowie knife, by a judge, named Cone, who endeavours to palliate his crime by asserting that the wounded man had threatened to slap his jaws, and had struck him a contemptuous blow on the face with his walking stick. THE JEWS IN Romz.—On the first of this month the decree for the complete emancipation of the Jews of the Roman States came into force. They are thereby declared fit for the exercise of all civil rights. The year 1848 is an amazing one. The changes of the forms of government are, however, less surprising than the abandonment of the Ghetto by the Jews of Rome.—Jewish Chronicle. DREADFUL Loss OF SHEEP IN AUSTRALIA.—The ef fect of the catarrh in the Sheep at Port Philip has been dreadful in the extreme, One gentleman has lost as many as 19,000—another 20,000 !—some 10,000 up to 15,000; inflictin; :lin upon their owners. An entire flock died in the course of a night from the cowplaint. The writer of a letter states that he was at the time surrounded by 36,000 dead sheep, and in momentary dread of the infec tion (catarrh) spreading to his own flock. HUNGARY.—RESOLUTIONS OF THE NATIONAL As- SEMBLY. — Letters from Pesth state that Kossuth had been nominated by the National Assembly president of the committee for the defence of the country, with dicta torial powers. The following resolutions had been passed in the National Assembly :-1. All Hungarian troops, who are beyond the Hungarian frontiers, are recalled into their country. 2. Archduke Stephen, who perfidiously abandoned the command over the Hungarian army, and himself left the country, is deposed from all his dignities. 3. It is the duty of every Hungarian to sacrifice lite and property in defence of his country. All Hungarians, therefore, who live in the Austrian provinces, must return within a fortnight. The rump of the Diet has sent an inflated ultimatum to the Ban Jellachich, based on a threatened onslaught from the Hungarians. " The Hungarian Diet has given com mand to its army to follow your Excellency about wher ever you go, and not to rest till you are disarmed." It is asserted that the Ban has broken up his army into five divisions, and means to cross the Austrian frontier ; but the whole statement obviously rests on the authority of some democratic partisan at Vienna. FRATERNISATION EXTRAORDINARY.—A deputation of riotous Silesian peasants came in April to the seat of a nobleman, making unheard-of demands, and threatening to kill, burn, and destroy, if those demands were not complied with. They were shown into the baron's study, who immediately locked the door, throwing the key out of the window, and told the astonished mob that, unless they immediately asked his pardon on their knees, he would cause the cigar be was smoking to fraternise with a barrel of gunpowder which stood on a sofa by his side. The effect was magical. The knees of the peasants fra ternised with the carpet ; they craved in humble tone his forgiveness, and were at length allowed to make their exit through the window, for the baron lamented that he, alas ! had lost his key. GOD'S GRACE DENIED.—The National Assembly has at last commenced to fulfil the duties for which it was spe cially convoked some five month's past. The first chapter of " the Constitution, " consisting of two articles, to gether with the short preamble containing the King's titles, was laid before the house for discussion. The de bate, however, did not advance beyond the first ten words, out of which the following, " By the grace of God," were erased by a majority of 83-217 having voted for the era sure and 133 against it. When we see a man like Held, who openly declares that there is no God, serenaded — elected as Major of National Guards—and worshipped by a large body of the people, without other apparent merit than his Atheism, we cannot be surprised that 217 Prus sian representatives, without denying God's existence, should deny the connection between God and the first link of the great constitutional and social chain. FEARFUL Loss.—The steam propeller Goliah, plying on Lake Huron, has been lost, with all on board, com prising 25 passengers. About 80 kegs of powder were put on board the Goliah at Buffalo, and 125 at Detroit, which were stowed carefully in the extreme bow of the vessel, the farthest from the fire, and covered with merchandise. There were 60,000 shingles, 30,000 feet of lumber, and about 40 tons of pressed bay stowed away between decks and on the promenade deck—forming altogether a highly combustible cargo. The supposition is that the vessel took fire, and the quantity of gunpowder on board ex ploded, and thus the steamer was lost. The Detroit Free Press mentions a report that the cook had come ashore in a small boat near Lexington. He saw the fire making its way towards the powder, wh en h e l owere d th e small boat and made his escape. When a short distance from the vessel it blew up with a tremendous explosion, and he was the only one left to tell the sad tale. AN AMERICAN MARVEL.—A dead alligator, as news paper readers may remember, which was lately found floating in the bay of New York, awakened muob specu lation among naturalists ; the recent discovery of the skeleton of another, almost as far north, in New Jersey, is therefore not a novelty of wonder in these regions, except from the immense size of the latter, and from a matter of most curious antiquarian interest connected with its exhumation. This last alligator or crocodile, measuring 30 feet in length, was found at Eatontown, New Jersey, about ten miles from Long Branch, while digging for marl. The skeleton lay about 6 feet beneath the surface in a stratum of green sand; and underneath this skeleton, as if it had dropped from the mouldering stomach of the monster, was found an ancient coin ! This coin is described to us by an intelligent correspon dent, who has handled it, as about the size of a dollar; its composition, in which there is a large share of silver, being probably Corinthian brass. On the face of it is the figure of a lion, with the date " 6-48 " in Arabic numerals ; on the reverse, amid several illegible letters, the fragmentary words " Arg. Procon. Latin Mo." may be deciphered, surrounding two larger letters, in the cen tre one of which is the Greek " II " with an " R" inter woven with it. We understand that the whole of this curious matter is to be brought before some antiquarian society in the regular mode, with all the necessary testi many as to facts particular of the discovery. But while those learned gentlemen are puzzling themselves as to the pro-consulship in which this coin was cast, and call ing in the aid of the geologist to account for its locality, our quick-minded readers will instantly jump to the ho nest conclusion that this crocodile, who found his burial amid the sands of New Jersey, had, 2,000 years ago, half digested some Roman soldier in the rivers of Africa, ere he floated westward for a new meal, with the poor fellow's last coin still preserved in his maw.—New York Literary World. IRELAND. THE STATE TRIALS VERDICT AGAINST O'DONOHUE On Saturday week, the jury, having retired at half past seven o'clock, applied several times to the Court for assistance before bringing in their verdict. At length, atten minutes past eleven p.m., an intimation was conveyed to their lordships that the jury had agreed to their verdict ; and the whispered conversation which had been carried on in the court instantly subsided into a profound and an xious silence. The jury were then directed to come into court, and having taken their seats in the box, the foreman handed the issue paper to the clerk of the Crown, who having called over the names of the jurors, to which they respec tively answered, said— itlemen of the jury, have you agreed to your ver- Foreman—We have Clerk of the Crown— In the case of Patrick O'Dono hue, how say you, gentlemen, is the prisoner guilty or not guilty? Foreman (in a low but firm tone)—GUILTY. This announcement, owing to the previous statement of the foreman, that the jury were not likely to agree, evidently came by surprise on the greater portion of those present, and produced considerable sensation and excite ment in court. The prisoner alone seemed unmoved at this result, so unfavourable to his hopes. After a short pause, JUDGE MOORE perused the issue paper, and then handed it to the Clerk of :be Crown, and directed him to read it. It was to the following effect: — "We find ' guilty' on the first five counts, and 'not guilty' on the 6th. We unanimously recommend the pri soner to mercy in the strongest manner, in consequence of his having withdrawn, and having disconnected him self from his associates previous to the attack at Farrin rory." The Chief Justice then directed the court to be ad journed to ten o'clock on Monday, immediately upon which the judges retired. A rush was instantly made to the dock by several friends of Mr. O'Donohue, including Mr. Maher, his junior counsel, and his solicitor, Mr. Laffan, who were anxious to take their leave of him before he was conveyed back to prison. He shook hands cordially with them, and sustained a brief conversation with a cheerfulness and composure truly astounding, considering the painful posi tion in which he stood—a position which might well shake the fortitude of the most courageous man. As he was leaving the court a person in the crowd leant over the dock, and, stretching out his hand to Mr. O'Donohue, addressing some words to him, the purport of which did not reach us. Mr. O'Donohue, however, turned round and addressed this individual in the following indignant terms : " Sir, I do not kno w who you are ; but the observa tions you have just made, induce me to think that you are little better than the witnesses who have sworn away my life. I think you are one of the Dublin detectives ; and I will not pollute my hand by touching yours." Mr. O'Donohue then retired to the department underneath, from whence he was shortly afterwards conveyed .to the prison van, guarded by a strong force of police. Mr. Meagher's trial was opened on Monday. After being arraigned, and pleading, Not Guilty, he denounced the constitution of the panel, though he expressed his in difference as to what sort of a jury he was to be tried by. The Attorney-General opened the case in a speech re viewing the prisoner's career, his violent conduct, and his seditious speeches. The learned gentleman stated that it was not indispensable to prove the prisoner's presence in the field ; if the latter could be shown to have encouraged overthrowing the Queen's Government by his writings and speeches, he would be guilty of the crime laid to his charge. Mr. Hodges (reporter) then proved several of the seditious speeches uttered at various meetings. On Tuesday, Dobbin, the informer, deposed to having seen Mr.Meagher at the Curran Club at Dublin, in June, for the presentation of colours to the club. It was a tri-coloured flag. Mr. Meagher spoke of them standing to their co lours to establish the independence of their country. Mr. Meagher was in the room when Mr. Dillon was moved to the chair. It was stated in the room that the meeting was for the election of an executive council. Mr. Dillon announced it from the chair. It was stated that a council of twenty-one members was too numerous, as their trans actions would ooze out through so many hands, and that there would be more secrecy in a smaller number. Mr. Dillon mentioned certain names out of a letter brought to him by Mr. Lalor from Mr. Duffy, who was in prison : they were the names of persons whom Mr. Duffy wished to be on the executive council : the names of three cler gymen were read out—those of Mr. Hughes, Mr. O'Mal ley, and Mr. Kenyon ; the name of Mr. Lalor was also mentioned ; some of the members said that, as it was to be a war council, it was not fit for priests to be on it. The pe►sons announced to be elected were Mr. Dillon, Mr. Meagher, Mr. O'Gorman, jun., Mr. M`Gee, and Mr. Devin Reilly. Mr. Lalor and Mr. M`Dermott wanted those present to give a pledge that they would expedite the insurrection of the Bth of August. Mr. Meagher ob jected to give any pledge of that sort, that he would have it on the Bth, but he said he would do all in his power to expedite it even before the Bth. After a lengthened cross-examination, Dobbin was dis missed ; and a police-officer was 'examined, who proved the finding a treasonable letter to Mr. Smith by Mr. Meagher, read in court. In Mr. Smith's house were also found many other letters in Mr. Meagher's hand writing. Voting and other papers taken from Mr. Lalor were then put in evidence and identified. Constable Dunlevie deposed that he was stationed at Enniscorthy in July last, and that on the morning of Sunday the 23rd he saw Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Meagher, and Mr. Dillon come into the town on a car t they addressed the people in the market-place. Mr. Meagher said he always was and ever would remain the unrelenting enemy of the British Go verbenent ; that he had the honour a short time ago to address fifty thousand Tipperary men—that they were prepared to do their duty. Mr. Dillon said that the Wexford men were brave and determined—that they all had a gun in a corner, and kept their powder dry, and were always sure to hit their mark. After a great deal of evidence and cross-examination, during which it was con tended that it was impossible to connect Mr. O'Brien's and Mr. Meagher's purpose together, the court adjourned till the next day. On Wednesday the trial was resumed, and the examina tion of witnesses occupied the court during the day. On the direct examination of Dobbin and the police, the evidence was similar to that given on the former trials. Mr. Meagher exhibited great composure, and sometimes laughed heartily at bearing the policemen read their re ports of his speeches. He also occasionally amused him self by writing autographs for the ladies in the galleries. On Thursday a number of witnesses were brought for ward on behalf of the crown, amongst them the old woman who nursed Mr. Meagher at Waterford. She stated that she bad been bribed by the crown, but her evidence was very unsatisfactory in a legal sense against the prisoner. Mr. Whiteside commenced his address to the jury on behalf of the prisoner. The address was extremely bril liant. It brought down frequent bursts of applause from his auditory, which for the most part was comprised of ladies. The most amusing incident in the address was his reading the speeches of Mr. Meagher in respect to place-hunting, which he palpably directed against the Attorney-General, and the Solicitor-General, and even judges on the bench. They all appeared to bear the insi nuations patiently, with the exception of Mr. Attorney, who wriggled on the seat, frequently pulled his wig and scratched his poll, but eventually felt himself so uncom fortable that he sprang from his place and quitted the court. On Friday Mr. Whiteside continued his address, and Mr. Butt opened his speech, during which the court ad journed. On the sitting of the court on Saturday, Mr. Butt con tinued his address to the jury for Mr. T. F. Meagher, and concluded an able, impassioned, but rather diffuse, address about twelve o'clock. Mr. Meagher was informed by the court that, if he wished, he might address the jury, but he declined doing 50... The solicitor-General replied on behalf of the crown, and, in a short but forcible speech to evidence, tattered to pieces the ingenious fabric which had been reared up by the ingenuity of the opposite counsel. He relied on the absence of evidence on the part of the prisoner to satisfy the jury where he was on the days when the trea sonable proceedings took place, and on the treasonable intent set forth in the speeches of the prisoner. The Lord Chief Justice Blackburne proceeded to charge the jury, and his address bore strongly against the pri soner. The jury retired at seven o'clock, and remained in consultation until a quarter past eight, when they returned into court with a verdict of " Guilty !" with a recom mendation to mercy. The prisoner was calm and collected. The commission of Oyer and Terminer opened in Dub lin on Saturday. Mr. Duffy, it is expected, will be tried during the present week. Lord Farnham has signed the address to the Lord Lieutenant, praying that Smith O'Brien's life may be spared. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ended October 14 :—Coaching traffic, £1427 6s. 6d.; parcels, £63 ss. 4d. ; goods and cattle, £lB6 Os. 9d. ; steam vessels, £202 13s. ;—total, £1879 ss. 7d. The London and North-We f stern Railway Company have resolved on erecting a marble statue from the chisel of Mr. Gibson, to George Stephenson, the late eminent civil engineer. The Directors of the London and North-Western Rail way Company have presented their medical officer for Manchester, Dr. John Gregson Harrison, with a very handsome testimonial, consisting of a set of richly cut glass:castors, in a very elegant silver stand. By the opening of the great bridges over the Tyne and Tweed on the North British Railway, passengers are now enabled to travel by the east route to Edinburgh and Glasgow without change of carriage. The train leaving Edinburgh at 9.30 a.m., reaches York at half-past three, and London soon after ten. The number of passengers who travelled by rail during the last half-year, 26,330,492, comprehends a railway ride for every man, woman. and child in England, Scotland, and Ireland. It is calculated that within the next five years there will be upwards of 10,000 miles of railway open in Great Britain. An instance of the danger of depending on claims for compensation for railway encroachment occurred last r week in Glasgow. Mr. Dixon claimed £10,466 10s. fo a crossing made by the Pollok and Govan Company. The sheriff's jury found that the complainant was entitled to nothing. OPENING OF THE GREAT NORTHERN.—The line ex tending from Peterborough to Lincoln, and thus forming a communication between London and the whole of Lin colnshire, was opened on Tuesday last with great eckit. Trains left Peterborough at six and nine a.m., and arrived at Lincoln soon after three, having been hailed on the road with every demonstration peculiar to such ceremo nies. Mr. Hudson has declined to lease the North British line. The terms perhaps were ( just now) too high. The report relating to the late negotiation, together with the last half-yearly report, were received at the adjourned meeting of the North British proprietors. Assent was given to the proposal to hold preference stock in the Aberdeen line, on condition that the sum of £276,000 be sufficient to complete the works of that line. AN UGLY BORE !—ln a railway tunnel in the course of construction near Huddersfield, which had been bored at each end, thinking that the excavators would meet in the centre, it has been discovered that through defective en gineering the two sets of workmen were passing each other, having got six yards asunder, instead of meeting face to face. The tunnel will be about seven-eighths of a mile in length, and, while it should have consisted of a gentle curve,, it now takes the shape of a dog's hind leg ! A WARNING ACCIDENT.—A portion of the Great Northern line having to pass across the River Brayford at Lincoln, an iron bridge of modern construction has been made to allow of vessels passing through to the wharfs. On Friday, as a vessel, laden with stone, neared the bridge, it was opened to allow it to pass. This was not at first noticed by a navvy employed with a tram-train, and he only discovered it just in time to loosen his horse and thereby save its life. The waggons having no breaks, hurried on and toppled over the bridge into the river, some of them falling on the boat underneath and swamp ing it. Providentially, no one was hurt, and but compa ratively little damage was done. FALL OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE.—An accident occurred on Friday morning, about one o'clock, to the luggage and fish train on the South-Eastern line, which leaves Margate shortly before midnight. It appeared that everything proceeded in the usual manner until the train reached the bridge which crosses the river Stour, in the hamlet of Chartham, about three miles from Canterbury, upon ap proaching which the engine appeared to oscilate consider ably. The next moment the bridge gave way, most part of it falling as the engine and trucks were about to pass. The crash is said to have been tremendous, and the con sequences may be faintly imagined from the fact that the whole train, engine, tender, and trucks fell into the stream and the vale beneath, completely destroying that portion of the line, and scattering the various articles consigned for conveyance to the metropolis. THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND AND SUNDAY RAIL WAY TRAVELLING.—The secretary of the Scottish Cen tral Railway, says, with reference to a paragraph in our last, " I was not communicated with, and consequently could send no answer; nor did I hear anything whatever on the Sunday of the occurrence referred to, till several hours after the departure, both of the train and of her grace in different directions, when, for the first time, I also learned the very pressing nature of her grace's journey, not having received intimation till then that there was the slightest speciality in the case. On the morning of Satur day, between nine and ten o'clock, when accidentally at the station, I was informed, through a second hand, that her grace had sent to inquire if she could be carried for ward by the mail train on the following day. To the question I replied that, being precluded by a vote of the shareholders from carrying passengers on the Sunday, it would be impossible to comply with her grace's wishes, the inquiring party answering that the Duchess would in that case proceed by the Edinburgh and Northern train, advertised to carry passengers on Sundays, and which starts 40 minutes before the Central mail train, or perhaps wait till the following day. The messenger did not call upon me. I received no letter upon the subject." The duchess could not have reached her father to have seen him alive, as his lordship was dead when her grace applied for the special train. A NEW MODE OF TRAVELLING BY RAILWAY.—The servants at the general station at Dundee have much difficulty in getting the cattle put into trucks, particularly highland stock which have never been under cover. In loading one of these, last week, a fine Argyleshire stot, after having his fore legs in, was startled by an engine whistle at his ear, and, making a desperate leap, cleared the truck, and dashed up the line to the general station. His first mark was a pointsman, stooping, with his back towards the animal, which pitched him forwards, but fortunately he was untouched by his horns.. He then tore onwards towards the station, where his approach caused great sensation, and speedily every guard, driver, and porter, were on the roof of every available carriage. The agility displayed on this occasion was much to the satisfaction of the superintendent, who proposes an occa sional visit of the same kind, with a view of practising the servants in celerity of movement ; and, judging from the first lessor,, he thinks that, like a new handwriting, it might be proficiently acquired in three lessons. Onward, however, the animal went, passed on to the Scottish Mid land line, which be left about a mile to the north, and was last seen making for his native hills, with foaming mouth and streaming tail, forming no unapt representa tion of " Taurus," as depicted on the celestial globes. — Dundee Courier. LAW INTELLIGENCE. 200 persons have given notice of being admitted as attorneys next term, making during the present year an increase of 700 attorneys. IRISH MISCELLANY, The Cork Examiner relates that a clergyman, who lately visited Clonmel gaol, saw two of the state prisoners, Messrs. M`Manus and Leyne, amusing themselves by playing at marbles in the prison yard. _ _ _ On Tuesday the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and the Countess of Clarendon received a numerous party at din ner at the Vice-Regal Lodge, Dublin, when Madlle. Jenny Lind had the honour of being of the party. Upwards of 400 men were disemployed on public works in Galway on Saturday last—some 300 had been em ployed about the new barracks, and the remainder on the Lough Corrib drainage. On Monday two carts laden wiih oatmeal and corn were plundered at the market in that town—rather an awkward commencement of the winter quarter. _ _ _ His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Clarendon, accompanied by the Hon. Mr. Villiers, the Hon. Capt. Ponsonby, and Mr. Corry Connellan, sailed from Dublin on Friday for England. In the afternoon a Privy Council assembled at the Castle, when Lords Jus tices were sworn in, to administer the affairs of the coun try in the absence of the Lord Lieutenant. The Freeman's Journal of Monday says, " The, pre liminaries for the issue of the writ of error have been perfected by Mr. O'Brien's legal advisers, and the ne cessary documents have been lodged in the proper quar ter for some days; but it is said the Irish law officers are unwilling to let the writ issue. They have been silent all through the pest week. There was a sort of tacit under standing that on Saturday the course of the Crown would be determined. We waited for Saturday and still nothing has been done." Lord Clarendon has replied to a deputation, that no definite answer can be given to any inquiry about Mr. O'Brien's ultimate destiny until the termination of the State Trials, but tlrit the merciful recommendation of the jury will be taken into consideration. Mr. Sergeant Howley has !peen sitting at Clonmel. and has tried several prisoners for minor crimes connected with the state prisoners. The two men who attacked Mr. Bradshaw, the juryman. were sentenced to two months imprisonment. Four men, for having ;pikes:in their pos session, were sentenced to the full punishment of the law, two years imprisonment and hard labour. When the sentence was pronounced the wives and families of the prisoners screamed loudly. A woman was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment for assaulting the nurse of Mr. T. F. Meagher, who gave evidence against him ; and another woman was sentenced to six months imprisonment for assaulting another woman, a witness. A GALLANT CLERGYMAN.—The Lord Lieutenant, through his secretary, Mr. Redington, has addressed a letter to the Rev. Wm. Hill, Mothill Globe, Waterford, complimenting him on the gallant defence made by him and his family against a numerous band of armed rebels, on the evening of the 13th of September last, and their discomfiture. The Rev. Gentleman, in his letter acknow leging the compliment says,—" I feel confident our de fence on that night has produced a salutary effect in this neighbourhood. The rebels must have suffered much, as we discharged between thirty and forty shots. each cartridge containing nine heavy swan drops, blood being seen in the vicinity of the house, and it being reported in the neighbourhood that many were wounded." LETTERS FROM Mr. DOHENY.-Mr. Doheny, writing from Paris, to the editor of the Tipperary Vindicator, says—" After the affair at Ballingarry, I remained for five or six days on Slievenamon Mountain, determined, at all events, not to be arrested alive. My adventures even then, though personally interesting, shall not here be alluded to. James Stevens, who was said to be dead and buried, shared my risks, and now, thank God, shares with me the hospitality of the French republic. May I take this opportunity of offering public thanks to those generous, devoted, and honest men who assisted me. Any day for six weeks I could have been sold dearly by hundreds of men on the very brink of st'irvation. Mr.y God bless and save them." ATTEMPT OF MR. C. G. DUFFY TO ESCAPE FROM NEWGATE.—On Monday a discovery of a plan for the escape of Mr. Charles Gavin Duffy from Newgate was made by the authorities. He meditated an immediate es cape by cutting through the bars of his window, and by means o: a rope laddea with which he had been provided, descending to the street. There were found, ingeniously concealed in his room and on his person, files, a glaziers's diamond, a compact and most complete rope ladder, and other appliances for effecting his object. The informa tion was communicated by a supposed friend of his own, one of the tribe of informers who have been elbowing each other in Colonel Browne's office from the beginning of the late treasonable conspiracy. Mr. Duffy was in the afternoon removed to another part of the gaol. FAILURE OF A MEETING IN FAVOR OF SMITH O'BRIEN. —The Mayor of Cork convened a meeting on Thursday, in pursuance of a requisition signed by about 40 inhabit ants, to adopt a memorial to the government, praying that the fatal sentence on Mr. Smith O'Brien might not be carried out. At the appointed hour no one appeared at the intended place of meeting—the Theatre ; and for an hour after ten persons did not show themselves—in fact there appeared to pervade all classes of inhabitants the greatest carelessness on the subject. After a consider able delay it was evident the meeting would not increase in number, and, fearing the smallness of the gathering would have a worse effect than if no meeting had at all been called, the Mayor took the chair, and on the motion of the Rev. Dr. Burke, a Roman Catholic priest of the town, the meeting was adjourned. THE REBELS' ENJOYMENT.—A young man, whose name. is said to be Kelly, a buyer In one of our large wholesale establishments, is after returning from England, where he had been actively engaged collecting subscrip tions for the defence of M'Manus. It is confidently stated that Kelly was so successful as to receive as high a figure as £5OO ! On his return from England last week he visited the prisoner in Clonmel jail, when the sum thus collected not only paid all expenses of his protracted and expensive trial, but left him nearly £2OO for any purpose to which he might deem it necessary to apply it. It is also stated that Kelly, on his return to this city from Clonmel, two or three days since, boasted that he had the pleasure of dining in the jail with M'Manus, O'Donohue, and some others of the rebels, where, though convicted, they were in. the enjoyment of every luxury as regards eating and drinking.— Cork paper. CAUSE OF IRELAND'S DEGRADATION.—It has become too much a habit of late years to cry down the connection of Ireland's misery with her fearful superstition as the mere dream of a set of ultra Irish Protestants. We there fore feel inclined to re-print an extract from a sermon by probably the most eminent English Divine now living —the Rev. Henry Melville on this very subject. He says, " Ireland is still but a degraded and half-civilised territory, and there is no bringing out a development of her inter nal resources, and violence is the atmosphere in which her children live, and human life too often nothing but their plaything. God forbid I should hesitate to state that I believe the prevalence of the Roman Catholic reli gion lies at the root of all this wretchedness. There is nothing of bigotry in affirming that it is the very genius of this religion to keep a rude population stilt rude, just because it keeps them still ignorant—and whilst the Irish population continues unhumanised it must continue until a moral influence has been introduced amongst its tribes, the landlord will have his excuse for absenteeism, that curse and drain of the land; and the capitalist will have his excuse for not embarking his property in schemes for the improvement of the country •, and ihus the springs of national prosperity will remain choked and dried up ; and all for want of that moral influence amongst the people, which can only be produced by diffusing the knowledge of the true religion of Jesus. It is because Ireland is morally benighted, that she is physically degraded and the engines which must be turned on her to raise her to her due rank in the scale of nations are religious rather than political." TRANSATLANTIC PACKET STATION.—TiIe Mayor of Cork, Mr. Fagan, M.P., Mr. Verling, of Cove, and Mr. Fitzgibbon, of the city of Cork, waited on the Lord-Lieu tenant, last week, to present an address which had been adopted at a public meeting in that city, on the subject of a transatlantic packet station. The Mayor read the ad dress. His Excellency said that it was a subject to which he had given a good deal of attention, but he feared that it would take some time to carry the project out. There were several considerations involved in the matter. There was first the matter of public finance, and then came the consideration whether the contractor of packets would consent to take in his passengers at Cove instead of at Liverpool, and whether, after all the trouble, women would come to embark and disembark and travel through Ireland rather than at once take passage at Liverpool. The saving of the sea voyage from Liverpool to Cork could scarcely be thought a matter of much consideration. The Mayor said that in that respect the saving of fuel alone would enable the contractor to make such reduction in the tonnage money as would be sufficient inducement, in connection with a shorter sea voyage, to recommend to those parties Cove as a station. Mr. Fagan said that it was calculated that the money saving of fuel on the dou ble voyage to America and back would be £lOO sterling between the consumption of Liverpool as a station and Cove as a station, and supposing Cove being selected, made a difference of three days in the double passage, that would cause a diminution of nine guineas in the passage money, while, from Liverpool, through Dublin to Cork, the traveller could come and go back for less than £4, being a saving of over £5 in the double voyage across the Atlantic. His Excellency, after some further discussion, said that he was going to London, and he would not fail to bring before Lord Auckland, and the rest of the Ad miralty, the views of the memorialists. MR. O'BRIEN'S REBELLIOUS TOUR. Some very amusing incidents are current in respe c t t o th e proceed ings of Mr. Smith O'Brien during his rebel tour. Throughout the memorable four days, his vanity was most conspicuous in his anxiety to be surrounded by a body guard, and have armed sentinels about him. At Mullina hone he employed Orchard, who is now a State prisoner awaiting his trial on a charge of high treason, to parade up and down the house in which Mr. O'Brien lodged during the night. Orchard having got a half-crown from Mr. O'Brien, and the use of a gun for the time, played the soldier as well as awkwardness of gait and raggedness of clothes„w?uld permit, occasionally forsaking his post to avail a. neighbouring public-house to swig off rapidly a glass of whiskey, by which he succeeded in expending his pay before ho performed his duty. But another guard was kept up within the house, and Patrick O'Donohue was ordered by the rebel leader to pace the hall of the house while he slept. O'Donohue however tired on his post and skulked off to bed. His absence being discovered by Mr. O'Brien, who taxed him with dereliction of duty, told him unless he carried out his orders with the strict ness of a military commander success could not follow, and that if he had so neglected his duty in the army he would be instantly shot. " Oh," replied O'Donohue, shrugging his shoulders with a significant smile, " 'twould be as well for me to be shot as stop up all night without a few glasses of grog." A gentleman who visited Mr. O'Brien within a few days was told by him that he might expect to see him next March in his place in the House of Commons, as he had no doubt of the result of the Writ of Error. Some persons here allege that many of the first lawyers in England have given it as their opinions that the House of Lords will, upon appeal, decide against the Crown.—Cork Constitution. COURT AND FASHION. The Court is at Windsor Castle, where the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Parma have arrived on a visit to her Majesty. The Dukes of Wellington and Norfolk have also had the honour of being the Queen's guests during the past week. On Thursday the Queen Dowager arrived on a visit to her Majesty. The dinner party in the evening included the Queen Dowager and the Duchess of Kent. Sir Robert and Lady Peel are surrounded by a select circle at Drayton Manor. Commander William Peel has joined the family circle from town, after a lengthened absence in command on a foreign station. The Christian name of the deceased Earl of Carlisle was George, the Countess of Carlisle's is Georgiana, and " George" formed one of the Christian names of each of their six sons, and " Georgiana" of those of each of their six daughters. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. The lion. C. W. Fitzwilliam, second son of Earl Fitz william, is to be the Liberal candidate for the West Riding. The Times of Tuesday has a feeble article, excusing Mr. Secretary Young's letter; the Globe makes the affair a mountain in labour; and the Examiner says the Whigs only sought to " keep the political unions within due bounds !" " SPLITTING."—The Morning Chronicle having turned Conservative, is telling tales. It states that Lord Tor rington, having impoverished himself by "fancy farming," —(growing turnips at pine-apple price, and breeding beef at the cost of venison)—was assisted with £7,000 a year n the shape of a governorship:in Ceylon. CONSERVATISM TRIUMPHANT. -- The Dartmouth county and borough revision took place at the Guildhall, attorneys and their on Thursday last, and although the Conservative cases werecarpenter and a re tiredto find at the conclusion, clerks,o silversmith,n t l h y ey defended hadt ha eg basiyantsai against journeymanffaocutrioßadicaln that orty Radicals were struck off the list to fourteen Conservatives. ' WHIG TREASON IN 1832.—A correspondent of the Standard, who signs himself an " 'Unionist of 1832," makes the following statement : " There are still in Newcastle or the neighbourhood, three gentlemen, who, if compelled, could, I am sure. divulge something on the subject of the plots of May, 1832. They are gentlemen formerly secretaries to the Northern Political Union. I have good reason to suspect that, if made to speak out, their testimony would prove a direct proposal for an in surrection in that month of May (18321, ma d e b y an agent of the then Government to themselves. But then they must be compelled to do this, as I fear Whig influ ence is strong enough to procure their silence, unless si lence be made impossible. MR. YOUNG'S LEI-mg.—lt' is the misfortune of this defence, that it by no means satisfactorily accounts for the confidential terms of intimacy, which seem to have pre vailed between the confidential employgs of the govern ment, and the promulgators of the revolutionary designs of the Radicals. " Are you aware," says a private secre tary of the head of the Home-office, " Are you aware that, in the event of a fight, you were to be invited to take the command at Birmingham ?" Perhaps this is an innocent piece of gossip and no more. But what follows : •` Parkes got a frank from me for you with that view, but had no occasion to send it." So then, a man like Mr. Joseph Parkes contemplating "alight," and being privy to the fact that Sir William Napier was to be invited to command the Birmingham Unionists, asks Lord ,Mel bourne's private secretary for a frank for the letter, written " with this view." And so closely was Mr. Young in communication with Mr. Parkes, that he knows be " had no occasion to send it."—Record. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE, • Dr. Mill has been elected to the vacant Professorship of Hebrew at Cambridge. The Queen Dowager has forwarded to the Rev. Robert Joynes, rector of Gravesend, the sum of £2O towards the erection of a new church in the parish of Gravesend. We have again to record the munificen7e of the Rev. Dr. Warneford towards the Queen's College, Birming ham. He has signified, through the Dean of the Faculty, his intention to present the noble sum of £2,000 for the foundation of a professorship in " Pastoral Theology" in the newly-created Department of Arts. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury is labouring with his usual energy in his new diocese. On Sunday week he preached twice (both morning and evening) at the parish church of Ashford, for the national schools, when £74 was collected. . On Tuesday last his Grace took the chair at the Canterbury Diocesan Education Society, having first preached in the cathedral the annual sermon. And on Wednesday he presided at the annual meeting of the East Kent Church Missionary Association. The Shrewsbury Journal, in speaking of the death of the Rev. Richard Scott, 8.D., of that town, announced in our obituary of last week, says, that during the last fifteen years of his life he expended upwards of £13,000 in public improvements alone. Of this sum, at least £lO,OOO was bestowed in adorning seven of the churches in Shrewsbury, by the introduction of many costly and beautiful windows of stained glass, by a timely repair, and securing from the ravages of time to restoration such decayed portions of edifices as were required. DR. WNEILE AND THE MAIL (From the Lancaster Gazette.) A paragraph appeared in the Liverpool Mail a short time since, which was a specimen of " the lie circumstan tial ;" for it not only Stated that Dr. M`Neile had " had the candour" to admit a change in his opinions relative to the proposed state provision for the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland, but also stated that he had been in correspon dence with Sir R. 11. Inglis on the subject, and that the worthy baronet was also disposed to modify his opinions. Now, if there is any one man in the country, who is unlikely to " modify" his opinions, it is Sir Robert Inglis. No man more despises the cant of expediency than he. So the Mail, with a candour worthy of a Benjamin Back bite, added, " We should not give it unless we had received it from a trustworthy quarter, not likely to communicate it to us unless it hadsome foundation." - This paragraph of the Mail's we have no doubt has been copied into every paper in the kingdom, for so high is the standing of both the rev. gentleman, and the sturdy baronet, that their " modification" of opinion, it was well known, would influence many others ; that it did so influence many estimable persons we happen to know, and we only hope that the Rev. Dr. M`Neile's indignant disclaimers may obtain as universal a circulation. Those will read the letter in our columns will experience no little astonish ment at learning that the Mail chose to accept it as a confirmation of its statement ! [Our contemporary here quotes the paragraph we gave last week.] Let the reader compare this paragraph with the rev, gentleman's letter, and say whether any man, of even the most moderate capacity, could really have so misunderstood its language. But no one accuses the editor of that journal of want of intellect, we must therefore suppose that his misrepresen tation arose from a less excusable cause, and that having set out with calumniating two of the most straightforward men of the age, he backs up one falsehood by another, in the trust that, though the poison is widely disseminated, the antidote may not be as generally supplied. What. let us ask our readers, can be the real merits of a cause that requires such bolstering, that accepts such scandalous advocacy. But Dr. M`Neile was not to be treated in this off-hand style with impunity, and on Monday night he took the opportunity afforded by being present at a meet ing of a religious society, to repudiate the construction put upon his words. He has also since addressed a letter to the Mail on the subject, but we will conclude by quo ting a passage or two from his speech, for which we are indebted to our staunch cotemporary the Liverpool Stan dard. AN INNOCENT IRISHMAN. There was a gentleman named William M`Carthy, who appeared on the trial of M`Manus, at Clonmel, as a wit ness, in which capacity he established an indubitable claim to the appellation in question. Mr. M`Carthy was examin ed by the Solicitor-General. " Did you see any men about the door with a pike ? A pike ! What's that? I would not know a pike. (A laugh.) _ _ No doubt he would not if he could help it. " Would you not know one if you saw it ?—I never saw one, to know it, in my life." , J Mr. M`Carthy does not see pikes for the purpose of knowing them, or remembering anything about them. Probably be is subject to a fit of hard winking when he looks at pikes. " Would you know a carving -fork ?—Oh! indeed I might." It will be observed that Mr. M`Carthy speaks in the potential mood. He might know a carving -fork—but that would depend upon circumstances. " Did you see anything in the hands of the people about ?—I saw sticks with them. " Anything else ?—I did. _ _ " What ?-:Things I heard the people say were pikes. (A laugh.) But I did not know them at all." (A laugh.) The plainness which is proverbially ascribed to a pike staff by no means appears to extend to a pike, in the eyes of Mr. M`Carthy. His ignorance on the subject of weapons in general is equally gross—indeed he appears to be an infant in arms. " Would you know the look of a gun ?—Oh ! think I would." This is not to be mistaken for " I should think so ; " for mark : " Had any of the men you saw guns in their hands ? One had something with the appearance of a gun in his hand." FLAGRANT ATTEMPTS AT IMPOSITION, On Saturday week, a man named William Geo. Flynn was brought before the Lord Mayor of London to answer the charge of two brothers—George and James Cargyll. Such of our readers as are in the habit of studying the advertisements must frequently have seen announcements headed— " THE SEA, THE SEA ;" _ _ " MIDSHIPMEN WANTED ; 9 ' " To Parents and Guardians," &c., intimating " that vessels of the larger class, commanded by captains who would attend to the moral and nautical education of the parties intrusted to their care, were in want of appren tices." The manner in which this system is worked, after the dupes have swallowed the bait, was thus ex plained to the Lord Mayor : " Mr. Pelham, who appeared gratuitously for the protection of the boys, stated, that for some time the newspapers con tained advertisements under the above heads, and that nume rous impositions had been practised by persons who pretended to be authorized to engage apprentices to be bound under the Merchant Seamen's Act. Inquiries were to be made of certain parties, who, it was found, employed a number of crimps to board vessels in the docks and river, and ascertain whether any and what ships required apprentices, in accordance with the number required by the 37th clause of the 7th and Bth Victoria, chap. 112. which regulated the number according to the ton nage. The next thing to be ascertc.ined was the amount of premium. That appeared to be from .t'2 to £2O, and when the premium was obtained from the friends of the poor lads who applied, the outfit was demanded, and, after that demand w as answered, the business was so manoeuvred that the applicants were left without ship and without redress of any kind." _ _ The present appeared to be an ordinary instance of the manner in which this system is carried out. The two boys had been abandoned on the town to rob or to starve after having satisfied the requisitions of the advertiser. They were the sons of a poor widow at Leeds, who had seen the advertisement in the Leeds paper, in which great inducements were held out to apprentices, and reference was given to Flynn, The sum of six guineas was paid to this person to procure the proposed situations, necessa ries were supplied to the boys, and they were sent up to London. Here they remained e length of time. Nothing was done for them, and finally they were thrown upon the town in a state of extreme destitution, as we have just mentioned. Flynn, when called upon for his defence, stated that he had obtained situations for the lads, but they were unable to profit by them on account of the want of outfits. He hoped the Lord Mayor would take his ignorance of the law into consideration, and not pro ceed to extremities with him. The Lord Mayor com mentedin terms of deserved severity upon Flynn's conduct, but, with the consent of Mr. Pelham, an offer from him of complete restitution was accepted, and he was dismis sed from the Court with an intimation that for the future he would remain under the surveillance of the police. So much for " The Sea, the Sea !" The next case is, if possible, still worse. On Tuesday Lieutenant Lean, R.N., the London agent of Govern ment Emigration, appeared at the Justice-room at the Mansion-house. on the part of the authorities of the Colonial Land and Emigration Office, to represent the following facts. A person, whose name was not men tioned, had attempted to entrap three poor men who wished to emigrate to Australia into the payment of a sum of money, on the pretence that the company he represented—but which it is believed has no existence— were Government emigration agents. The points to which we chiefly wish to draw the attention of the public, and more especially of the poorer emigrating public, will best appear from the following short statement of Lieut. Lean, and from the order made by the Commissioners when the subject was bronght under their notice. Lieut. Lean stated : _ _ "The pretence that the self-constituted emigration agent set up was the more deeply mischievous, as he required payment under the plea of procuring for his victims that which, if ap plied for at the Government Colonial and Emigration office, in Park-street, Westminster, would have been given without any charge at all. The three poor men who accompanied him to the Mansion-house had, upon the representations of the person complained of, sold off all their goods and prepared themselves to emigrate to Australia. They had, however, fortunately called upon him and mentioned the extent of the transaction which had taken place, and he could arrive at no other conclu sion than that a most nefarious fraud was meditated against them." These poor men had sold off their furniture and what little property they possessed in order to Garry out their laudable scheme of emigration. One of them was to have paid the sum of £5 ; another the sum of £slps. ; and the third the sum of £ll, and he was placed under a strict injunction of secrecy to the self-constituted agent, in order that he might not be charged XI more. When the matter was brought under the notice of the Emigration Commissioners they made the following order, to which we hope to give additional publicity by our present notice : " As it is stated that no money has yet been rcc2ived by -, the Commissioners are of opinion that it would not be possible to take any legal proceedings against them. Nevertheless, as the practice which they have adopted might lead to fraud, and might expose poor emigrants to imposition, the Commissioners think it would be advisable that the utmost publicity should be given to the fact that there is no agent in London authorised to distribute forms or receive money, or act in any other way on behalf of the Commissioners, but that all information, and the necessary forms, may be forwarded gratis on application at this office, and that nothing will be gained by proceeding in any other way, either in increasing the emigrant's chance of ac ceptance or otherwise." Oct. 24, 1848, ii: omtstir. DEATH FROM GRIEF. -A groom, named Bewsher, was last week killed at Westminster, by a kick from a horse. His wife suffered so much fr om grief at his death, that she expired herself in two days afterwards. RARE INSTANCE OF LONGEVITY IN A BIRD.—A gen tleman residing at Twyning, near T ew k es b ury , k ep t a jay, which had been presented to him upwards of twenty two years ago, until the 27th ult., when it died literally of old age. This bird, which would talk as well or better than most parrots, sometimes exhibited strong symptoms of sulkiness when its master went from home, and would welcome his return with evident pleasure. A LABOUR TEST.-Mr. Sheriff Alison having ordered interim relief to an able-bodied unemployed labourer, eight parties subsequently came forward to the parochial board and applied for similar assistance. The board in stituted a labour test by offering the applicants employ ment as scavengers and lamp-lighters, which vocations were declined by four of these needy men, who of course were refused all other modes of relief. FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE WESLEYAN MIS SIONARY SOCIETY.—The treasurers of this society have just published a most "urgent and important" appeal for immediate assistance, stating that they are under accept ences to the amount of about ten thousand pounds, large portion of which becomes due within ihe next ten days, whilst the funds at their disposal are entirely ex hausted ; so that they have not the means of meeting their immediate responsibilities ; and, further, that they anticipate that their entire payments, from the present date, to the 31st of December, will amount to thirty thousand pounds. RELIEF TO THE HOMEWARD-BOUND.—OUT merchants and shipowners will be gratified to find that the Lords of the Admiralty have given orders for her Majesty's steam sloop Driver, Commander Johnson, to proceed from Portsmouth immediately to the chops of the Channel with water and provisions for the relief of the homeward-bound merchant ships prevented from making their respective ports by the prevalence of north easterly winds, and that the steamer left Portsmouth on Friday afternoon at three o'clock. Their lordships have also ordered an available steam vessel—the Trident, Lieut. Commander Risk—to be dispatched from Cork to the entrance of the Channel for a similar humane purpose. DECREASE OF DISSENT.—At the autumnal meeting of the Congregational Union held this Reek at Leicester, a prominent topic with the different speakers was the " decrease" complained of in " nearly all the denomina tions." It was stated that "the present custom of taking children to the ordinary Sabbath services has the effect of disgusting them with religion." Various ob servations were made on the inefficiency of Sunday schools, from which, it was observed, there were rarely any " additions to the Churches." Strictures fell, like wise, from some of the speakers, on the competition be tween ministers and Sunday school teachers. Among the remedies suggested were `• children's chapels," with regu lar services exclusively for the young. PAPAL BULLS AND INDULGENCES.—The vicar apos tolic of the district, or, as the Tablet calls it, the "diocese" of York, has given notice that upon his petition the Pope has granted to the district of York a plena/ indulgence (applicable to the souls in purgatory) on the following festivals, viz.: the 10th of October, the festival of St. Paulinus, first Archbishop of York ; on the 12th of October, the festival of St. Wilfred, Bishop of York ; on the 15th of October, the festival of St. John of Beverly. Archbishop of York : on the 2nd of March, the festival of St. Chad, Bishop of York ; and, on the Bth of June, the festival of St. William, Archbishop of York. The condi tion for gaining these indulgences, besides the usual o ne of previous confession and communion, is, that the faith ful during any time of each of these indulgences, should visit some church, or public chapel, in Yorkshire, between the first vespers and sunset, and offer up prayers for the peace and welfare of God's Church. The Watchman publishes a correspondence between Mr. Kay Shuttleworth and the Wesleyan Committee of Education, which forms a singular contrast with that re cently published by the National Society. A number of demands, in the form of " Inquiries" were addressed to the Secretary of the Council Board by the Wesleyan Committee, to all of which the most gracious answers are returned, accommodating the rules of Council to the re quirements of the Wesleyan body, or, where that is ma nifestly impossible, considerately " contemplating that occasional exceptions may be justified." The only point on which the LordiPresident and the Secretary have had the heart to reply by a refusal, was the cool proposal that the Committee of Council should make grants for the liquidation of the existing debts of Wesleyan schools. The Watchman congratulates the " Connexion" on their success in " securing by every provision human wisdom could suggest, the full integrity of Wesleyan doctrine and discipline in schools which might accept assistance from the Parliamentary grant. FROLICS OF FASHION.—When the Queen was on the Clyde last year, finding her face visited too roughly by the air of the Scottish hills, she tied her veil under her chin. The action was natural, and the effect, no doubt, under the circumstances, becoming. The royal cheeks, warm with health, flushed with womanly and queen'y feeling, and fanned by the welcoming breezes of the north, looked almost as beautiful, we dare say, as a moss rose. However that may be, before the day was out, there were hundreds of other cheeks in the same predica ment. The rage of imitation spread. In the shadiest walks—in the closest streets of the town—in the cal. - welt and hottest days of the season—the veil was fashionably tied under the chin. The fashion, however, was, in reality, made a fashion only through misapprehension, for the Queen had merely adopted a temporary expedient to serve a temporary end ; and when the emergency was over, she no doubt unloosed the knot, and gave her veil to the winds as usual. Her imitators were as unregardful of circumstances as the very sagacious monkey which gulped a package of medicine because he saw his master swalloy , a quantity of the same material previously.—Scotch Paper. NARROW ESCAPE OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—Accord ing to the Scotsman of Wednesday, Lord John Russell had an exceedingly narrow escape at the Perth railway station on the 6th instant. The up trains, or those going south, travel upon the line furthest from the station house, and as his lordship had arrived just at the time ad vertised, he lifted his youngest child, and proceeded in 5 thoughtful mood to cross to the side for the up train pas' approach. e pi n pn g ru e ot r saecs.h. beforeßh a u d t i iu t t ss tsor time,e hacpaepndednt hiseh de intervening tr a i t i.vs the heinp train arrived o i st n poabces rvbei nine between e t: the lines when the engine was not above its own length from him, moving at a quicker rate than usual when at a station, in consequence of the extreme wetness of the day, which prevented the breaks from catching. Mr. Cuck.' son, the superintendent, with admirable self-possession, instantly darted from the platform, and, seizing his lord' ship, drew him back, just as the ponderous engine passed, and thus prevented an accident which, in all probability, would have been fatal. SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.—The following precious moreeau will give some idea of the advancement of erudition among the commonalty of Wales. It is an infallible cure for the toothache. To be written on paper, thrice sealed, and worn next the heart. Here is the text as used in the parish of Hope ; but I on told there is a different reading in the parish of Mold " As Jesus walked thrawgh the gist of Jerusalem he saw peter weeping and said into him why weepest thou peter said because i have got the toothache then Jesus tucked his tooth, and said have feath and thy tooth shall ake na more glory be to the father And to the Sun and to the holy gost amen W* * *m P* * *l." The name is that of the patient, which it appears necessary to write in this form, and also according to the use of Mold. The charm, which I send you, was written in 1843, and had been worn ever since, up to last week, when it accidentally came into of hands, on its transit from the original patient to another , a friend of his, grievously afflicted with the said malady , and who (being a woman) opened it, and showed it me' With respect to the learned author, I should add that be is well known to me, and is a man of great skill in the Scriptures, and can tell you what are the reforms wanted in the State, and what the Church regimen ought to be.' Correspondent of the Chester Courant. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.—On Sunday night "W ig a man named Dunn, who is a native of Ormskirk, and a l shoemaker, and has resided in Newcastle-on-Tyne for about eighteen months, made a desperate attempt to mom' der a young woman in the latter town. She had made 9 1 appointment with Dunn on the Sunday evening, but did not meet him according to promise, having been walk ing with another n in e man, On reaching the second landing of the stairs she was about w suddenly accosted by Dunn, who said, " Ann, I wans to speak to you." She then attempted to avoid hirer. but he seized her, at the same time drawing a r azor o ut 01 o'clock,wi with w a h n o d m pa sh rt e ed ret f u ro returned d m home his pocket, when, catching a glance of it by the light of the moon through the casement of the window, she in' stantly grasped it with her right hand, while he was raish 3 % it up, by which it severely cut her thumb. She then shouted, Mother, mother," but Dunn replied, '` It i° of no use, your mother is not in ; " upon which, by ( 1 ; desperate effort, she released hersef from his grasp, ran down stairs, Dunn pursuing her. She bad not, 1 10 °,1 ever, got further than the first landing, when h e whet; her down on her face, and kneeling on her body, raise; her bead by holding her chin, and made a d es p era te ge s _i across the right side of her neck, after which he juinen up, dropped the razor, and made his escape. The age 0 ' the female is seventeen years, that of Dunn twenty-o°' Dunn has since been captured. SEDUCTION AND CRIME.—A young female, not nil than 16 years of age, named Stevenson, was c h ar ged the Southwark office on Wednesday with shoplifting, 6 , 0 having committed two offences at different shops, Southwark and the Westminster-road ; in one instals' she succeeded in getting clear off with 16 yards of which was afterwards found at a pawnbroker's, who ide2; fled the prisoner as the party who had pl e d g ed it. TT, most painful part of the case was in the disclosures 0 01 10 by a professional gentleman who appeared on the prisorle,r if behalf. He said the accused was the dau g h t e r o f higi', l o respectable parents in the country, and a short time si 6 , o she had been seduced by a gentleman and absco n ded frq t b her friends. That she had been living at Brighton vi l d her seducer up to a few months ago, when, in coming . t h to town by the train she had the misfortune to meet one of those wretches of women, who prevailed on to accompany her to her house, which was one of an l ir l famous description. Here it was that the unfortunate ta was made a victim, and the woman instilled into 0- 0 mind, amongst other vicious lessons, that of becomingas shoplifter, and had actually taken her to the warehqi o f and instructed her in the way she was to possess hersel f to property. When, however, the accused wa s taken like custody her vile companions escaped.—A ver y ladY.: te r, woman, who described herself to be the prisoner's sl - rcho came forward, and verified the facts just detailed. k i n' Magistrate said it was very evident the p r i s o n er had the victim not only of seduction, but of the arts of ‘ t' , t to famous woman. He had no alternative, however, _u,riest commit her, hinting that the statement which ha - 00 been made to him might be mentioned to the Judge 3 trial. ' oci p....... Since dares tl Platir tities in the Ise! The e our offic river. Mr. cholera is fatal 1 An ec vonterni that it t The 4 passes 1 -merits. sea to ti Franc the soil the mor viz., £5 SINK the Tha gerous die." 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