The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

ISl l _ , ' • —On Setif: Rushton, 0, a couple al The case of the nab nce, state; i Shaw a n " test that hei e contend !s, had c h e w an took l ow for 1 1 he disni_iisw v can It - man's cow nee, au th d °. and iod u " ibed hours,: n the si re ' d the cas e ' , ans to had stinioo9 i Oct. 20, 1814. SAILORS' HOME, REGISTRY, AND SAVINGS' BANK. A public meeting, for the purpose of promoting the establishment, in this port, of a Sailors' Home, Registry, and Savings' Bank for se am e n , wa s held in the Sessions -house, at one o'clock on Friday. There was a very nu merous attendance, among wilt= were a considerable body of the leading merchants and shipowners. The Meeting was convened by the Mayor, upon a requisition. The MAYOR, in opening the proceedings, expressed the Treat pleasure he felt in having assembled the meeting, and his conviction that, if the objects in view were carried °IA, they would be materially advantageous to the class Whose interests they all desired to promote. He had that morning received a note from Sir Howard Douglas, highly aPProving of the purpose for which the meeting was being held ; and he was sure that if Lord Sandon had been aware ,of what was taking place, he also would have expressed approbation of the subject. His Lordship had, in deed, already done so upon a previous occasion, as was well known to the members of the provisionial committee. • Mr. A DAM H ODGSON moved the first resolution, w hi c h , .. With . the o th ers, will be found in our advertising co l umns . The meetin g related to the so c i a l and moral condition of aclass of the community whose claims to earnest con sideration and deep sympathy no man would dare to deny, lind no man be inciined to dispute. To their valour and Intrepidity, to their energy and enterprise, we owed much ; but what had been the. return made to them ? What was their social and moral condition in this extensive country, and in this our native town ? They had a home, to be as 2 re, but it was " upon the deep ;" and how few of them were there who knew anything of the comfort, the cordi ality,the security, or the sanctity of a home on shore. Cheers.) They returned from time to time from foreign nds into the bosom of their own country, but they re turned to be pillaged, and plundered, and ensnared, and entrapped by harpies who were ever watching to get them into thei r power, and then they were robbe d o f a ll t h ey hadto laboriously earned. Besides this, they were exposed Moral temptations, to which, from their peculiar cir rut/stances, they were most likely to be a prey ; and he • long ask what was the reason these evils had been so iPermitted to exist in this town 3 e It was because the and l e a had not been sufficiently alive to their magnitude, the m use of the shipowners not daring to encounter or:thout the support of the public. They must not conceal from themselves that the public had a right to share • In the respocsibility of the neglect with which the sailors had been treated ; for they were our fellow-men, Idle t they Were our fellow-countrymen, although they had ~ to do with any of our national privileges. Some trong, however had been done with regard to making pro- Vision for their religious worship; for between 25 and 30 Y e ars ago a floating chapel was established by the Dis- Sewers. The Mariner's Church had since been opened for those of a different communion, and he rejoiced to t hink that inestimable blessings had flowed from those i nstitutions to the sailors of the port. To make these benefits still more useful, there wanted a home for seamen When they returned from a voyage ; and, after supporting the claims of such an institution by a variety of considera tions, Mr. Hodgson concluded by moving the resolution. Mr. RUSHTON seconded the proposition, and congratu lated the merchants of Liverpool that the day bad at length arrived when this important subject was about to Meet due consideration. Mr. Hodgson had alluded to t he Painful details of the routine duty which daily en gaged his (Mr. Rushton's) attention, in which the claims of the rights and wrongs of sailors formed a very large P r oportion. A sailor, as had been truly observed, had few of the endearments of borne, and when he arrived from sea in a port like Liverpool, the dock quays were crowded with boarding-house keepers, and slopsellers, W aiting for his landing. The moment he put his foot ashore he was in their arms. Being destitute of ready salary the m oney. a lo an was procure d f rom th e t a il or o n the secu rityof the b oar di ng -h ouse k eeper , w h o mortgaged his la ry first quarter of an hour after he went to his ha bi tation. H e was charged extravagantly for his food, ri er9 tempttin that cold be found was placed within re s Rr asP, and , u , when theperiod had arrived at e t he e cei eed pe rived wages, all was gone. The boarding-house We e e Per went with him to the counting. house to receive his th - a• e s , which were shared with the slopseller, and thus e Poor sailor was deprived of all. And this was not all : .a further advance was made to the sailor; he was again encouraged to go on in his reckless and dissipated career, e nd , in the course of a week or ten days, he found he had Po alternative presented to him by the boarding master o ut that of turning out in the street without his clothes, Which were held as security fur the new debt. He was then turned naked into the street to get on board any le aselkoing to SCA—any ve,sel where the largest advance could be obtained, and two month's labour was thus mortgag e d i to be given to these people again. (Heir. Then he property of sailors was frequently lost to their) familie s by false and fraudulent wills being produced. i 3 -' l 9 all thes e groun d s h e stronelv recommended the este. 'shoe nt of an irstitution like 'the one proposed, where • the sailor would be provided for and have his interests properly watched over.—The resolution was carried. • taiMr. Amite proposed the next resolution, entering, in course of a lon g a ddress, into a great number of de s connected with the intended institution, and ex- Pcssing, in a powerful manner, the frightful treatment ' 4 ' which a seaman, unknown and without friends, was ne- Fessarily liable in a port like Liverpool, where no public I nstitution existed. He congratulated the meeting upon d t : h ,e immediate prospect of its operation. The Corpora- Z l ° l l had given the land, and before he entered the meet ing he found that twenty gentlemen had put down their le n arnes for £lOO each, se‘eral for £5O, one of whom signed "C, and others for smaller amounts. He had no doubt at all that, having the a pprob a ti o n of the Corporation and th e Dock Committee, and the support of the pieblie, - this undertaking would rise rapidly, and be a toosewaseilesable addition to our public institutions. Mr. WILLIAM POTTER, in seconding the resolution, mentioned that the most painful circumstance that ever occurred to hi m i n the conduct of mercantile affairs, was when the p a y - day came of a ship returning from a distant voyage, whi c h ought to be a day of joy and gratification. The knowledg e th at as the men received their money, the o_placewas surround e d b y peop l e l ur ki ng a b out f or t h e sa k e Pfluma!,eiristering to their extravagance—if not for actual o eos u te d , h A_nd after his receipts had been completely ex- Means a e e ,':,WOs obliged to pledge his clothes, for the str aeces an "Sermg upon a new voyage. Whatever rernon to the men e c e ounsel he (Mr. P.) had occasionally given ability t o s i lo rY had al wa y s f a ll en s h or t f o r the want of this instituti o n em a remedy and a better example, but other. Until it rieht to give up had hoped, would prove both one and the Mr. Potter thenbeen tried he was sure they had ho into parliament last case as a hopeless one. (Hear, hear. ma rine funds at the different directed attention to a bill introduced session, which proposed that the ma- This measure, h Society, which now ports should be consolidated. So • e said, would be unjust to the Liverpool parish an kept a b ou t 1500 peo pl e f rom the ous , d had a f un d of £50,000. Other ports in vari• parts of En g l an d , with a proportionate number of !eamen, had n o t a twentieth part of that amount, there fore it wo u ld b e a manifest injustice to throw the funds altogether. The resolution was carried. The Rev Huou M'lsleree., on rising, was received With tremendous applause. After a few opening remarks io Which he paid a deserved compliment to Mr. James •` 1 iliin, the rev. gentleman read a long list of particulars, from which it appeared that the first and homed ate ob eieects of the Institution would be to provide for seamen oetard, lod g ing, and medical attendance, at a modera'e c harge. He then continued as follows :—lt will not be ex pected —it would, indeed, not be tolerated, and I ant happy to think it is not at all necessary that I should en large upon all these points, I will confine myself to some g e neral observations o n p ar ticul ar a n d i m p or tant points. We are, of course, unwilling to excite any needless hos tility in any class, and therefore I think it desirable, in thefirst instance, to call attention to the matter of board ° lodging, which form a specific part of our plan. However capacious the intended plan may be, and I hope to see it contain several hundreds, yet still the number of se amen w h o can be received as inmates, compared with the number frequenting the port, must, at the largest, be very sraall proportion ; and we hve no wi to with turaw from respectable and properly- a kept lod i sh ug-houses 420 seamen who have already made acquaintance with ... %e h• 5C (Hear, hear.) It is no part of the plan that the advantages to be derived from the savings' bank and re ttii,ster of character should be confined to the inmates of e house. This will be open to all ; and, therefore, I ink sir, we have good reason to expect that really re- ZOeetable lodging -house keepers—men who wish to corn 'no the true benefit of the seaman with their own fair an d legitimate profits—will hail us as allies—(hear, hear,) ;:-and co-operate with us, instead of harbouring suspi "s• and endeavouring to thwart our benevolent designs. Will be their interest so to do. There is, indeed, a class tl e ° ,, e e ',Whom we must calculate upon hostility, because, sir, o Point of fact, it is impossible to take any efficient step toetowards the improvement of the character or condition of seamen without placing ourselves in direct antagonism 'Abl, "le evil and mischief of the men I now allude to. I ode to those designing men, aided by abandoned women, h i t° lie in wait to ensnare the returning seaman, to entice thf by the cravings of his animal passions to plunge into ee` Paroxysms of licentiousness and the brutalities of `truunkenness, until be is either robbed of his wages, or in se f e t e d to spend it in amanner akin to robbery ; and, when he t eeeed, and his clothes and watch have found their way 1- 1 ° ii t hZ Pawnbroker for the satisFaction of the lodging te°e-d'e"cleer, then to cast him out upon the streets to the e,„ er mercies of some shipping master, who exacts on hie Mortgage of Jack's next voyage before he will pass an d cheers.) a shipper and get him once more afloat. (Hear, that Word, I said abandoned women; and when I used th e i "°rd, I meant the expression as descriptive rather of e e e _r deplorable condition than as reproachful of their rifled of Poor, unhappy creatures! they too have been te e _ f a treasure more precious than gold or silver, and du u abandoned by their heartless, mean, detestable se teeeers• (Loud cheers.) Sir, it is the seducer. especially ca;l gent leman—falsely so called—(hear, hear)—he who thetienesnd does ay high for his loathsoe indulgece, and vi `urns away in neglect and distrust from his n helpless b ear 'r - --he it is who is the manufacturer of harlots—(hear, I rr 0 ;" -h e it is who degrades to the condition of a harpy heeou streets the creature who, but for him, might have rein an ornament and blessing to society as the head of a e:_Pectable family --(great applause)—he it is who thus ;'_erPaares pit-falls, " deep ditches," says the Scriptures, ei ° fler e s than rocks and reefs, for the shipwreck of our me • Yes and when the gallant tar, who has success fully braved the dangers of the deep, the toils of pro tracted li ng storms, and the vicissitudes of Antipodean climes, l ' ; st r r e e t t u jo r o ne o d f , o h n e e of exhibitsthe most in instructive shistory a melancholy . tient history. passages of an ell the Hanibal, with his sable host, were safe in ruggedness of their Alpine passage. Hardships etv_eree wholesome to them. Precipices to be plunged th ese aurnitiovuantetadintshetior b e e ne s r ea . led—ravines to be crossed— senysu, Capue was theirg But te s ruina n the n e r v s e o f t syren d them for vic them a indulgence relaxed their ' discipline, and made lap of (Hear. n easy prey to their watching, calculating foes.— hear.) Si r, we indeed desire earnestly to pro- tect our seamen from imposition and extortion, and to encourage them to husband their hard-earned wages ; and in order that they may have within themselves the elements of such protection, we desire to promote their moral, intellectual, and professional improvement, and afford them an opportunity of receiving religious instruc tion. For their intellectual improvement it is proposed that a library and reading-room should be established, and that both of these be made as attractive to them as it is possible to do. For their moral improvement it is pro posed that there should be a savings' bank and registry of character; and for their religious improvement it is proposed that there should be a clergyman and visiting chaplain to the institution. (Hear, hear.) These are fruitful topics ; but I must be brief. We have lately had opportunity, more or less, of witnessing the gratifying, and almost miraculous effects produced by savings' banks. I fulls- agree in the observations made by Mr. Aiken on this poitt. Get a labouring man, whether seaman or landsman, to make use of a savings' bank, and you have a hold of that man. (Hear, bear.) He has something to keep, and, what is still more elevating to his character, he has something to give away. (Laughter and cheers.) And this is not chimerical. I bold in my hand the last report of the institution in London, similar to that we now desire to establish here. And I learn one most gra tifying instance recorded in this report :—" It is a cir cumstance most gratifying to the directors to be enabled again to state that of the £20,000 of sailors' money which passed through our hands, £4,800 was money sent by the officers of the institution, to sailors at their own homes, or to their relations in various parts of the country." (Applause) Here is the prospect which Mr. Aiken pre sented in theory realised in practice. (Hear, hear.) I do hope that the savings' bank part of the plan will be most diligently and skilfully carried out. (Hear, hear.) Then as moral improvement advances, a register of character carefully kept will give the seaman the ani mating encouragement that his moral character is not lost sieht of, and will secure his reward, by securing more readily advantageous engagements as he goes on. And knowing, sir, that all such engagements must speedily terminate, and recollecting that the seaman, after all, has an eternity to spend, it is an integral and important part of our plan to give him the opportunity at least to learn the redeeming love of " Him who died and rose again for us men and for our salvation,—that so, our sea-faring brother may, by the grace of God, working in due season, find a return pi that practical grateful love for that pardoning lore which he has mercifully experi enced, and thus find, within his own-.bosom. the germ of eernal love in conformity to the character of God, for " God is love." These are the chief features of the plan. The rev. gentleman then appealed to the liberality of our merchant princes for contributions for the effectual carrying out of the project, and afterwards proceeded as follows :--Simply on commercial grounds the matter might be argued. You have heard this already. The im proved character of the seamen—the im proved intelligence of the most subordinate members of the crew, and the consequent increased safety of the vessel in the case of accident or illness of the master or mate :—these, and kindred consequences ought to speak with a loud voice to owners, and undewriters, and insurance companies.— (Loud applause.) On Christian principles the matter may be urged. This, also, has been alluded to; and surely, sir, it ought to be an object with British Christians that the men who carry throughout the world the match. less specimens of England's handicraft in manufactures ought themselves to be specimens of the Christianity of England—(continued applause)—instead of being, as too many of our neglected seamen, alas, now are—profane, dissolute, and drunken stumbling-blocks in the way of the heathen where they visit. And the decks and wooden walls of Old England—her best defence in the day of danger—manned by her indomitable tars, who never struck her flag—(cheers)—these might be pleaded—these might also be stirringly addressed, and especially at this moment, when this feeling has been made to thrill through the nation. For it was only on Monday last, the anniver sary of the battle of Trafalgar, the Victory was decorated as usual, that our Sovereign, Queen Victoria—whom God preserve !—(applause)—went on board that vessel. She ascended the quarter-deck—came where it is inscribed ; " Here Nelson fell." She paused—read the inscription thoughtfully, and then she plucked a leaf of the wreath of laurel that encircled the spot and clasped it to her royal—her right- English heart. (Vehement applause). And her attention was called to the Admiral's signal on that remarkable day, when she read, with a full, emphatic voice—" England expects every man to do his duty." Here, sir, a thousand recollections and associations start to the mind—all well ca'culated to give our seamen their proper place in our consideration, and every plan for their welfare, and to furnish claims on our substantial gratitude. For though our seamen are not now called to the dis charge of such dreadful duties—and we trust, in the over ruling providence of the most High, for a continuance of peace—yet, deeds of days gone by—deeds, productive of peace. because decisive in war, ought not to be forgotten; and if it was the sailor's duty then to fight, to do his part to preserve to out use the happy homes of old England, it is equally the duty of every Briton in our day to supply a home for Britain's seamen. (Great cheers.) But, sir, I urge a softer theme. 1 observe in one of the resolutions an allusion to the children, especially of the orphan child ren, of oar seamen ; and, when I read this, my attention reverted from it naturally enough, to the parents of our seamen. I consider the multitude of youths that I see amongst the seamen in the town, and I picture to myself the anxious fathers and affectionate mothers of those young men following them with their prayers and tears to your port. (Hear.) Sir, the poor have tender feelings as well as pressing wants. It bet ays a grievous ignorance of them to assert that their natural affections are less ten der than bur - own. (Hear, hear,) Who amongst us that is not a parent—l believe I ought to say, who, that is not a mother, can adequately enter into the feelings - of a mother for her sailor boy. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) She dreads the sea, 'tis true ; but she dreads the shore still more. She fancies her dear child taking his turn of duty on the deck or in the rigging, and then turning into his hammock, and, through all this, her heart can linger with him, and she can surround him with the shelter of her prayers. But when lie comes on shore, and she attempts to trace his steps—alas ! her heart sinks at the too probable apect, her prayer falters, and she would fain dismiss, if possible, the thought of him alto gether, than endure the revolting association. (Hear.) Oh ! behold, then, sir, what boon you confer on such a mother by the establishment of a Sailors' Home. (Cheers.) There, her heart may linger about her darling child ! there she may imagine him still returning to It's bed of soberness and chastity ! there, she may linger with her supplications to the God of all mercy for a blessing upon her son, and a blessing upon his friends and benefactors, who supplied him with such a refuge! (Continued cheers.) Oh ! sir, this one feeling alone—and with this I must, for the present at least, conclude—this one feeling should more than recompense for every Christian effort, and every Christian sacrifice that we can make on this behalf. For, sir, if there be on earth a spot of Paradise unstained o b w y n t h e i m f a l e l of u p o A n d am — r a nature l e l i i f n ge t h e r i r n e g b t e r a a c e sh o r f i n G e God's d into which selfishness has never entered, but where disinte restsd affection sits enthroned !—if there be a string un relaxed by the damp vapours of our fallen atmosphere, and still vibrating true to the harmony of Heaven, it is the tender love of a mother's heart to an absent, en dangered son ! The Rev. Gentleman hers resumed his seat, amid loud demonstrations of applause. The Rev. J. TODD BROWN seconded the motion; and it was supported by the Rev. Rector CAMPBELL, who said the subject was one in which, as a clergyman of the Church of England, and as one of the rectors of Liver pool, he took the deepest interest and concern. He confessed he had more pleasure in supporting this cause because he could not discover in it any elements of po litical or religious controversy, and that in the present day was really a very great satisfaction. It was an ob ject in which all classes could join with the most cordial unanimity—in which all could co operate without the possibility of having their motives misconstrued. It was one, therefore, which he had the greatest possible satis faction in aiding by every means in his power. (Cheers.) The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. GEORGE GRANT moved the appointment of a committee; and, after expressing his approbation of the object for which they had met, he suggested that in the building itself means should be taken to secure rational amusements and recreations for the inmates, inasmuch as they would not be unsuitable or injurious to them. Mr. WM. RATHBONE seconded the motion, and en larged upon the suggestion thrown out by Mr. Grant, of which he expressed his warm admiration. The resolution was adopted. Mr. COTESWORTH moved, and Mr. T. B• HORSFALL seconded the next resolution ; upon which the MAYOR announced that he had received a cheque for £lOO from Mr. J. A. Tinne, who was unable to attend the meeting, to be applied in aid of the funds. Mr. Duncan Gibb, Mr. Wm.-Watson, Mr, Sandbach, Mr. Wm. Brown, and M. George Kendall afterwards addressed the meeting, and the proceedings terminated about h alf-past three o'clock. CORRESPONDENCE. SHIP-BUILDING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—In giving a few strictures on practical shipbuild ing, for the information of your readers, for the further ance of this end it will not be out of place to introduce a few remarks on the nature of displacement, and resistance of fluids. Displacement is a term in hydrostatics, ef fected by the removal of a column of water through the immersion of any solid body therein placed, whereby the weight of such bodies may with the greatest accuracy be obtained. All vessels or solids composing lighter materials than water, such as logs of wood, a ship, or any other floating substance, displace by their immersed part ex actly as much water as their specific gravity, for example : suppose a ship with all her materials weighs 400 tons, when afloat her immersed part removes a column of water equal to 14,000 cubic feet, a cube foot of salt water being equal to 64 lbs. weight, or 35 cubit to the ton ; divide 14,000 by 35, the produce will be 400 tons, the weight of the ship. Again, take a log of fir timber measuring 30 cubic feet, the specific gravity of which being 48 lbs. to the cube foot, the weight of this log being 1440 lbs. ; float this log in salt water, it will be seen that it displaces a co lumn thereof equal to 22& cubic feet, which multiply by 64, the produce will be 1440 lbs, the weight of the log, thus showing that the average weight of fir timber is one quarter lighter than salt water, from the log floating cube feet above the surface. Furthermore, take a pig of cast-iron one foot cube, the specific gravity of which is 464 lbs., sink it in salt water, and weigh it therein, its weight will be found no more than 400 lbs., having lost 64 lbs. by its displacing one cubic lost of water thereby becoming that much more buoyant. These examples, as illustrations, are sufficient to show the specific gravity sad displacement of all solids at rest ; but as it respects the stability of vessels of passage and burthen, with them everything depends, as to their safety, on the correctness of their form, thereby producing regularity of displace- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ment, which alone can constitute a safe sea-going ship. It is, therefore, of the first moment that all vessels of pas sage and burthen, should be so constructed, that every section, fore and aft, as far as the cargo extends, should be fully borne up and supported by the fluid in which she is to pass, otherwise she will soon promote her own de struction. Should a ship be flat in midships, and ex tremely sharp forward and abaft, with a cargo extending fore and aft, she has then a ruinous up-pressure s'rain in midsitip that will soon di-joint her, from its forming two levers whose length extends beyond the half-length of the vessel ; the like evil will attend vessels built, either full forward or abaft, whereby the centre of displacement is removed from its natural position, and the lever becomes more extended : in the former there are two levers con stantly in action, in the latter but one, yet the lever of the one, from its length, will prove equally destructive. I have known ships built in our naval yard, which were supposed when in proper trim to swim on an even keel, draw when launched nearly twice as much water abaft as forward ; to bring those ships on an even keel, a very con siderable portion of their weight must be placed to the foreside of their half length ; how ruinous, then, must be the effect produced from such a principle ! From this it may be seen how great is the responsibility of ship. builders, and with what caution they should act, lest by introducing novelties they might not only prove useless but dangerous innovations. It is therefore obvious that such care should always be taken in the construction and formation of vessels, that the centre of displacement should judiciously take the place of the centre of gravity, which cannot be effected unless it uttets near the half length of the vessel, by which means the fore and after bo dies may be so regula!ed and equalised, that no section should be under the necessity of requiring support from its neighbour section. The resistance of fluids in reference to shipbuilding is that obstruction which all floating bodies have to encoun ter in proportion to their ♦elocity in passing through the water. Wise men, in all ages, from Plato to Newton, and from him to the present day, have written volumes with the view of giving a demonstrative proof, which solid pre sents the least resistance; unfortunately for the maritime world, the figures given are like the alchymists' transmu tation, absorbed in theory. Many excellent writers on shipbuilding, on every other subject have in clear and dis tinct terms explained their theorems, excepting that of resistance, and with it the principles of velocity. On these subjects they are completely at a stand. Many clever men have attempted to establish a theory, with models in water, drawn along by pulleys and weights, in which they are all at variance; and why, because all experiments, with models by water, as proofs of the stability or velocity of a ship under canvass, are like the searches after perpe tual motion, ineffectual in producing a principle. As well may the strength of a ship's main-mast be decided from the strength of its model on a greater scale. Therefore every attempt of the kind has, and ever will prove abor. tive ; observation and experience alone must determine on the very essential question. Having thus far entered on this important subject, shall resume it again next week.—l am, sir, &c. JOHN COCK. Pembroke Dock, 22d Oct. 1814. O'CONNELL AND THE WHIGS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. you ever happen to observe two boys at tempting to mount a wall ? They both puff and blow. and tug, but find that singly it is useless, till at last the bigger of the two hoists the other on his shoulders, who, when he arrives at the top, gives his fellow a band, and thus they both succeed. This, sir, is the exact position of the Whigs at the present day ; they find it utterly impos sible, as bow should it be possible, to walk into office, and at last have recourse to that " Jack of trades," Daniel O'Connell, to assist them to mount the wall. Daniel O'Connell and the Whigs! beautiful coalition ! admirable compact ! This second edition of the Lichfield House affair is to bear down all opposition, and overcome every obstacle. The armies are uniting. the generals are laying their wise heads together, if not single-handed, at least with accumulated forces, they intend to force the citadel of the constitution, they purpose to rase all monu ments of toryism, leaving nought but its ashes to testify its ruin. O'Connell and the Whigs ! wondrous asso ciation ! behold the parted enemies are become united friends once more! the " base," the " bloody," and the " brutal," are reconciled to their vilifier! and the exqui site patriot ! the distinterested patriot, who puts himself to the trouble of robbing the pockets of the poor of £28,000 a-year ! the persecuted martyr, who has become fat under government pay ! is going to travel the wished for road to place, in conjunction with the placeless, crouch ing animals of the other side of the water ! where each will bear each other's burden, and both will stand up for each other where mutual obligation is absolutely neces sary. How naked must Wh;ggery have become to need the Irish ragamuffin coat of O'Connell to hide their na kedness ! to what a depth of lowness must they have sunk when Daniel O'Connell is gratefully accepted to lift them from the contempt of their mean and disgraceful situation! They are fawned upon and beslavered by their former vilifier, for it suits his purpose; the flattery has its effect, and they fawn and beslaver in return. How beau tiful to look upon is their gentleness! how admirable is their meekness ! the worm turns not against the butt of former abuse, and ridicule kisses the cheek of its reviler ! What a despicable little plaything it is in the hands Of the cunning old fox ! what a puny, piltry toy, tossed and befingered by the sly old artificer. Oh! take care of it, when thou hast it, Dan ! Hold it fast in thy retentive claw, keep it in thy treacherous trap ; don't let it gowhen its feet are so conveniently embedded in the mire ; if it could, like a serpent, it would sting thee, and scruple not to tread over thy carcase into emoluments and office. ' It is, indeed, viewed abstractedly, a lamentable thing behold Whiggery floundering and kicking in the hole, and calling upon Daniel O'Connell to lend a hand and help it out ! It is indeed lamentable to behold that great Cesar in the midst of the roaring waters of destruction, and cry ing to the Irish Cassius, " Help me, or I sink !" it is, in deed, lamentable to behold so great talents Prostituted to the demoniac altar of repeal ! to see such astonishing and leviathan powers sold for golden place—to see all that was once gay and flourishing! all that was once pou;erfut— that was once rearing its head proudly above the billows of political condemnation—that once firmly and nobly stuck in its place, notwithstanding public clamour for re signation ! to see all this bribed into silence, (righted into non-entity, beaten into ignominy! Alas, poor Whiggery, let me lament thy fate ! let me mourn the disgrace of thy ignominious end ! There thou layest ! Where ? I can not tell ; but we hear a faint noise, we hear a dying gasp • there is something said about a renewal of life by a dis graceful coalition: but thou art so little the world can't see thee; the remnant of thy mortality is coffined in ob scurity! The last convulsive struggle before total annihilation is just taking place in the politic a l a t mosp h ere. They have tr ied in the registration courts; they have tried on the p latform of every theatre, great and small, in the king dom they have tried every w a y, an d b y every means, but a ll h as been of no avail—all their efforts have been use less; and this, this is their last refuge--this is their only rema ining chance—this is their dying effort. O'Connell is arch enough to make a profession of amity to the Whigs, the Whigs are reduced low enough to accept the offers of O'Connell. Well, let them combine ; let them have their full time out ; they both will be involved in one common ruin—they both shall fall into the pit toga ther.-1 am, sir, &c. DELTA. UNIVERSITY 4• CLERICAL NEWS. APPOINTMENTS. — Rev. Philip Hall Palmer, M.A., Jesus College, to the rectory of Woolsthorpe, Lincoln shire. Value, £l9l.—The Rev. Philip Vyvyan Robinson, 8.A., of Christ's College, to the rectory of Landewed nack, Cornwall. Value, £2s3.—The Rev. Henry Apreece Coles, M.A.. of St. John's College, to the vicarage of Marnbam, Nottinghamshire. Value, £2oB. — The Rev, Conrad Makings Wimberley, M.A., to the vicarage of Keddington, Lincolnshire. Value, £77.—The Rev. Wm. Douglas Littlejohn, of Corpus Christi College, to the vicarage of Thome with Sydenham, perpetual curacy, Oxfordshire. Value, £2oo.—The Rev. Henry Egerton Massie, B.A„ Queen's College, to the perpetual curacy of Shocklacb, Cheshire. Value, £l97.—The Rev. Henry Valentine Pickering, 8.A., of Pembroke College, to the curacy of Kenton, Suffolk.—The Rev. George William Manning, of Emanuel College, to the perpetual curacy of St. Juliet's, Cornwall. Value, £6o.—The Rev. William Hall Andrews, 8.A., of St. John's College, to the curacy of Revelstock, Devon,—The Hon. and Rev. Grantham Munton York, to be one of the domestic chaplains to the Lord Bishop of Worcester. EXAMINERS.—OXFORD.—In a Convocation held on Thursday, in Liter Humanioribus, the Rev. John Mat thias Wilson, M.A., Fellow of Corpus, and the Rev. Arthur West Haddan, M.A., Fellow of Trinity—ln Dis ciplinis Mathematicis et Physics, Rev. Nicholas Pocock, M.A., Michel Fellow of Queen's. DEGREES.—At Oxford, on Thursday, the following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts.—The Hon. Henry Pitt Cholmondley, Fellow of All Souls—Rev. Nathaniel Midwinter, Magdalen Hall—Melville Portal, Christ Church—Cornwall Simeon, Christ Church—Henry Pritchard, Scholar of Corpus—Rev. Henry James Mar shall, Corpus—Rev. John 'William Kirkham, Jesus Col lege—Henry Ellison, Fellow of University—Joseph Cox Algar, Fellow of University—Rev. James Badinel, Wad ham—Frederic John Vipan, Wadham—Rev. John Wit lis Grane, Exeter—John Hungerford Pollen, Fellow of Merton—Arthur Hobhouse, Balliol— Rev. Charles Cuth bert Southey, Queen's—Rev. William Clayt on , Q ueen ' s. Bachelors of Arts.—William Brookes, Lincoln, Grand Compounder—George Henry Vansittart, Balliol, Grand Coro pounder—John Leslie, Christ Church—Philip Con stable Ellis, Jesus—Henry Jackson Rhodes, Scholar of Corpus—Henry Robert Smith, Scholar of Brasenose— Henry Newby, Worcester—George Drinkwater Bourne, Oriel. The vicarage of St. Stephen, London, has been pre sented to the Rev. Josiah Pratt, son of the late lamented vicar. TRACTARIAN EXECUTIVE COMM ITTEE.—A commit tee has been organised to promote the objects of - the Tractarian party, and to take immediate advantage of every opportunity of forwarding their designs. It was a prelate of the Church, the venerable Bishop of Bath and Wells, who first adopted the plan of alloting small portions of land to labourers, which system has gradually spread to almost every quarter of the emp i re . _ _ . -- It is considered probable that Sir R. Peel will select for the Deanery of Carlisle some clergyman of distin guished charaeter, resident in one of the Northern Dio ceses, and the names of the Rev. R. Buddicombe, Prin cipal of St. Bees College, and the Rev. G. Townsend, Canon of Durham, are mentioned as likely to receive the appointment. The future income of the office will be £lOOO a year. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. The Berlin journals announce a great rise in the price of cotton goods in Prussia, and that the manufactures in that country are in the most prosperous state. SICKNESS IN THE FRENCH ARNIY IN ALGIERS. — The number of sick in the military hospitals of Algiers is at this moment 2,400. Diarhoea and dysentery are the prevailing maladies. It is stated in the Bible Society's Monthly Extracts that the conversion of the entire Commune of Villefa card, in the department of the Haute Vienne, in France, consisting of 600 Roman Catholics, has been effected by the simple reading of the Scriptures, circulated by the agents of the London Bible Society. HORAIDLE EVENT.—The Presse states, that at Urdos, in Spain, nvo lions and a tiger escaped front a menagerie. One of the lions devoured a child, and wounded the mayor of the town. On the departure of the courier the animals had not been retaken, and the population re mained under the impression of the most profound terror. NEW SOUTH WALES.—GREAT SALE OF SHEEP.---At Mr. Samuel Lyons's sale of sheep on Monday, the follow ing prices were realised :—Four thousand five hundred and seventy-five head, warranted sound, were sold at 2s. ild.; and eight thousand six hundred and twenty three head, very fine sheep, at 4s. 3d.—Sidney Colonial Observer, May 23. To PARTS IN A DAY.—By means of the railway from Amiens to Boulogne, the two metropolises of the civilised world will have only the distance of twelve hours between them. In the course of three years, according to all probability, the journey and voyage from Paris to Lon don will, during the greater part of the year, be accom plished between the rising and setting of the sun. The trial of the Duke de Montmorency for the dis tribution of seditious medals took place on Monday, be fore the Paris Court of Assize. The Duke (or the Prince de Robecq) was defended by M. Berryer, and was ac companied to court by the Duke of Fitzjames, the Mar quis de la Roche Jaquelin, and several other distinguished members of the legitimatist party. M. Berryer asserted that there was nothing political in the affair, and the jury coincided in his view, for, after consulting five minutes, they returned a verdict of " not guilty." A WRETCH.—The Montreal papers contain accounts of a horrible crime committed by Captain Wallace, of the ship Jane Brown, at that port from Glasgow. A young lady of 16, who was put under his charge by her friendslin Glasgow, was seduced and dishonoured by the captain during the passage, and when the ship reached Montreal the poor girl was an idiot, and the crew state that the captain' used to beat her with a rope's end, the marks of which were deep and frequent on her shoulders! The wretch was committed. EFFECTS OF RAILROADS ON POSTING IN PRANCE.-- The Paris papers of Wednesday state, that on Tuesday last M. Dailly, the president of the committee appointed by the postmasters of France, together with M. Jouland, their delegate, waited on the Minister of Finance to ex plain to him the st.te of their establishments, becoming every day more deplorable. Some of them were totally ruined by the establishment of railroads, and others were unable to maintain the number of horses necessary for the public service, and consequently the communication be. tween several principal points was in ttinger of being in terrupted. The Minister replied, that he was determined to bring the subject under the considerationlof the Cham bers in the ensuing session. OUTRAGE IN MADEIRA.—The Sierra San Antonio, a mountain district of Madeira, has recently been given to pillage, under the following circumstances :—On the even ing of the 16th of September, fourteen policemen, some armed, and others intoxicated, attempted to seize Nicolao Vieira, a Portuguese, who, about eighteen months ago, had joined the Scottish communion. Their only autho rity was a warrant, not signed as required by law. Under these circumstances, Nicolao refused to follow them until it should be light. His neighbours rallied round him ; and, after some altercation, but without a blow being struck by either side, the police retired. On the 23d of September, fifty soldiers, commanded by Capt. Oliveira, proceeded, under pretence of seizing the offenders, to pil lage the district. Some of the houses were gutted, others stripped of their valuables, the live stock was killed, and the inhabitants either taken prisoners, or obliged to fly. The houses of two English merchants, Messrs. Burnett and Ellicott, were filled with women flying from the vio lence of the soldiery. It was not till the pillage had con tinued three days that these gentlemen obtained, by their urgent remonstrance, an order to restrain the soldiers. Twenty-two prisoners were brought round in a frigate and lodged in Funchal gaol. THE FRENCH PRESS. The irritation of the greater number of the French journals at the reception of King Louis-Philip in En gland is truly ridiculous. All hopes of war, and of the probable consequences of war in favouring revolutionary movements seemed to be for the present dashed. En gland has given to the French monarch a hearty cordial reception, and his Majesty has declared his sense of the importance of peace to the interests of both nations. This is too much to bear. The war party, that is, the party of revolutionists, whether Legitarnists or Democrats, the party of those who are out of place and office, or who are broken in fortune, and therefore eager for change;— this motley but too numerous party knows not which way to turn at the present moment, and the various grimaces by which they express their vexation are truly ludicrous. We are not often in the habit of quoting Punch, but his parody on the leading articles of the French journals is scarcely a parody, and therefore we publish it "BEAUTIES OF THE FRENCH PRESS.-PERFIDIOUS I THE COE'RT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived at Windsor at seven o'clock on Monday, from Osborne House, Isle of Wight, which place the royal party left at twenty minutes bafjre two o'clock. The Post says that it is the intention of her Majesty to honour the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter with a visit at their princely residence, Burleigh House, near Stamford, at as early a period as possible subsequent to the opening of the new Royal Exchange. It is probable the court will leave Windsor for Lincolnshire about the commencefrient of the ensuing month. A SABBATH MORNING'SWALK.--Sunday morning week the serenity which pervades most country villages on the Sabbath Day was experienced in the greatest degree at East Cowes. Her Majesty rose at eight o'clock, and having breakfasted, accompanied by Prince Albert, pro ceeded to take her accustomed exercise. Leaving the domain of Osborne House at the southern gate, the Queen and Prince proceeded on the turnpike-road towards Whip. pingham, about a mile and a half distant. The royal pair arm-in -arm, were recognised at the hotel which fronts the gate, and by the woman at the turnpike, without the in dulgence of any impertinent curiosity; and as the Queen and Prince proceeded on their walk, many pedestrians became acquainted with the fact that it was Her Majesty and the Prince. UN PREPARED FOR A SUDDEN STORM.—Before they had reached Whippingham a sudden storm came on, for which the Queen and Prince were unprepared, her Ma jesty having only her usual attire. and a small parasol. The Queen and Prince Albert, notwithstanding, proceeded on their course towards the Barton, then about a mile and a half from Osborne House, although they passed several cottages. A FORTUNATE POSTMAN.—The postman, however, at Whippingbam had observed the royal pedestrians, and with the best umbrella his humble means allowed him, ran atter her Majesty, and offered it for the service of the Queen. The Prince very graciously accepted the offer, and his Royal Highness and her Majesty pursued their way by the Barton to Osborne, over the fields, bidding the man to follow. On their arrival at the house, with many expressions of thanks, the postman was most agree ably surprised with the return of his umbrella, and a present of £5. The man departed in no very unpleasant mood, as may be supposed, and was not at all scrupulous in proclaiming to his acquaintances, as he met them, that "it was a good day's work for him." As soon as the rain threatened, one or two of the attendants were des patched with umbrellas and cloaks, to see her Majesty and his Royal Highness, but did not fall in with her Majesty. PRINCE ALBERT'S ANNUAL SALE OF LIVE STOCK.— The sale of his Hoyal Highness's live stock, at Windsor, took place on Friday, and attracted a great number of salesmen and butchers from London and the adjacent towns. The sheep realized the following prices :-230 southdown ewes averaged from 255. 6d. to 33a. ; 160 southdown ' 2 tooth wethers, from 225. to 21s. The cat tle sold as follows :-20 Scotch pole 4-year-old bullocks, fit for slaughter, averaged from £l2 to £l7 each ; 29 highly-bred Welch bullocks, from £ll 15s. to £l3 ss. ; and 13 short-horned barren cows, from £lO to £l7 each. Several Hereford oxen, Alderney cows, cart-horses, Ike., realized very excellent prices. The proceeds of the sale mounted to upwards of £1,400. PROGRESS OF TRACTARIANISM. (From the English Churchman.) In our remarks upon the Queen's conformity to Pres byterianism, we simply applied the same rule to her Ma jesty which we have uniformly applied to her subjects, and we are really not acquainted with any patent right which a Sovereign possesses to commit schism. The Divine right of kings cannot make schism Catholicism ! If it be wrong in bishops, priests, or in the laity, to join in public worship with those who reject and scoff at Epis copacy and the Catholic Church, surely it is wrong also in the Queen. " But," the writer in the Brilish Maga zine will say, " we did not enter into the merits of the case ; we only said that it was disrespectful to the Sove reign to say what you did." Well, and we say that it is very mean and cowardly to try to injure us for telling a truth which you had not the courage to tell, although you knew it was the truth. That we have not overstated the error which her Ma jesty made in worshipping with the enemies of Episco pacy, we request our readers' attention to the following suggestions from a correspondent, who is about as sound a specimen of an English Churchman as can well be ima gined : " According to the Act of Parliament of William 111., the Sove reign of England must be in communion with the Church of Eng land, or the people are released from their allegiance " Might not the Bishops excommuniclte the Queen for attend ing a Presbyterian place of worship, if the discipline ofthe church is worth anything? " If they did so, Who would be then Sovereign of England? " No doubt this Act was intended to secure us from a Popish Sovereign, but will it not equally support us from a Presbyterian one?" This is a very serious, and, it may be, an erroneous view of the case; but, whether 'rue or false, we shall doubtless have the old cry raised against us for even pub lishing it ; but as our object is to act fairly and honestly towards every member of the Church, from the highest to the lowest, we care very little for mere cries, so long as we conscientiously feel that we have done neither more nor less than our duty. We take our stand upon the theory, not upon the practice, of our Church; and when we are convicted of advocating any practice or doctrine for which we have no warrant, either in the authoritative standards, or eminent Doctors of our Church, we will make ample confession of our error, or forfeit our title as ENGLISH CHURCHMEN!!! ALBION. " [From the National.] —France is outraged—insulted ! Per fidious Albion has achieved her crowning insult ! Yes—will it be believed—can Jenne France for one moment imagine such an atrocity—the Duke of Wellingt n, who, with his English gold, bought the battle of Waterloo, he who brought back the Bourbons over the slaughtered bodies of Frenchmen—he, above all other men, was despatched by Queen Victoria to wel come to Portsmouth the King of the French t And Louis- Philip shook him by the hands—yes, one hand was not enough —but, hear it France, and let the ashes of Napo'eon stir with indignation—he shook him by both luindsl [From the Sir , ele.]—Wliat! was i t necessary for the full ac complishment of our degradation that the King of the French should be feasted in the Hall of Waterloo in Windsor Castle—a hall, decorated with the portraits of men who have outraged i F ran ce—who have s; lt the blood of her children ? Had not M. Guizot sufficiently degraded the unfortunate country which mourns his administration, but that with a smile u pon his c h e ek—yes, a smile traitorous to ourselves a n d our ii in stitu tions—he must walk Windsor Park with the man Peel? Had the • man of Ghent' forgotten the insolence of the En glish M sister when he denounced the doings of our invincible Bruat, the immortal hero who has bayonetted the Tahitians, arid all but kidnapped Queen Pomare t Guizot walks, and talks, and smiles with Peel in the Home Park ! Why does not all France, leaping from its lethargy, chant the Marseillaise, and grasp the sword ? [Flom the Globe ]—The least that France could expect of the Duke of Wellington, during the visit of Louis-Philip to Wi::d sor, was decant behaviour. Much, from the character of the man, could not be expected. No : the man who had been base enough to corrupt the traitors who sold their hapless country— the man who with accursed gold bought the Batt eof Water loo, was not likely to make any large sacrifice.to decency. Nevertheless, the least to be expected of him w ,s, that during Louis-Philip's visit he would remain within his own doors. Certainly, it was not to be expected that he would have the audacity to approach the King of the French ! Had he pos sessed the true delicacy of a hero, he would on the sudden have fallen very ill, and kept his bed until the King had departed. Such sensibility, however, does not dignify a Wellington. No : on the contrary, even before the French King had touched the hated soil of Albion, Wellington was on board the Gomer ; and what is more—as the English prints audaciou- ly declare it— ' looking in excellent health and spirits I' But France—while the man of Ghent reigns —is doomed to be insulted." IRELAND. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—This body met, 83 usual, yesterday week. The attendance was even smaller than the previous meeting. Among the donations were £l2 from Manchester and £l3 Bs. from this town. The rent was £391. John Walsh, Esq., a Dublin barrister, was drowned, accidentally, in the canal at Firiglass, on Saturday week. The celebrated Father Mathew was arrested while in Dublin a few days ago, for the balance of a debt incurred for temperance medals. PRESENT TO MR. O'CONNELL.—The Rhenish Ob server states that the inhabitants of Coblcntz and the neighbouring towns had opened a subscription for the purchase of a cargo of Rhenish wine of the first quality, as a present to Daniel O'Connell. R S. Maxwell, Esq., High Sheriff of Cavan, has de clined to call a public meeting to forward the interests of 'the proposed Dublin and Cavan Railway, arid has given the following unusual but conscientious reason for his refusal. He says, "My objection is entirely of a religious .nature, and amounts, in a word, to this, that a vast in crease in the desecration of the Lord's Day must neces sarily result from the establishment of the Dublin and Cavan Railway, unless it be intended (and I take it for granted it is not) to conduct it on a wholly different princi ple from that which regulates every other railway. By giving my name, or contributing my aid in any way to the object in question, I conceive that I should be taking a pin in the promotion of an evil which I, as a christian man, consider cannot be too strongly deprecated, or too strenuously resisted. A LAUGHABLE OCCURRENCE.—The neighbourhood of No rthumberl<md -avenue, Kingstown, was on Friday thrown into a state of the utmost excitement, it having trans pired that a lady bad made an assignment with a gentle man who had advertised for a wife. Accordingly, at the hour mentioned (three o'clock) the expectant inhabitants of the avenue were highly amused on beholding, as Burns would say, " a fine fat fagel wight" make his appearance, wiping his fat face with a white handkerchief, the lady having requested that he would occasionally nlace a white handkerchief to his face, as the means of recognition, and further stating that she would drive up in a pony phaeton in a great shower of rain, with the servant on the rumble protecting her with an umbrella. On seeing her the un fortunate man fancied that the object of his search was at length before him ; and, after a few convulsive applica tions of the handkerchief, started forward, and with a spring, remarkable for a man of his size, fairly jumped into the phaeton : and before the astonished lady could recover from the fright his sudden appearance occasioned, he had encircled her his arms, calling her by ever y en dearing appellation; and it was not until the lady had • uttered scream after scream, and his shoulders were well belaboured with the umbrella by the servant, that he ap peared to th ink he had got into the wrong box ; so, mak ing his escape as expeditiously as possible, he hastened off to the train without staying to m a k e f urt h er i nqu i r i es for his inamorata; and it is earnestly hoped the lesson he has received will pperforma radical cu re f or hi s l ove .— Dublin paper.—[This in all probabitity th e sa me i Dublin gent. who advertised a our own columns on Tues day last.] RAILWAY INT' LLIGEA CE. On Wednesday a train on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway ran through a drove of cattle that had strayed upon the line, and killed three of them. The engine was thrown off, but no personal damage was sustained. PROJECTED It AILWAYS.—A correspondent of the Morning Htrald gives a list of no less than 99 railways at present projected, for the formation of which, accord ing to the printed prospectuses ; no less than seventy mil lions sterling will be required. ExcunstoN-TRAINS.--The Board of Trade have issued a circular to railway companies, condemning the practice of excursion-trains with several engines as dangerous; and recommending that the trains should be divided into sections, to each of which no more than two engines should be attached. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last, while the Birmingham and Liverpool train was proceeding along the line to the Litter place, i t came incontac' with the six o'clock passenger train from Manchester, when, owing to the dense fog, a severe shock was the result. Several pas sengers were bruised, and one woman seriously hurt. The truck belonging to the train was broken. STEAM versus TIME.—A. gentleman left London last Friday morning week by the ten o'clock train for Fleet wood, where he joined the Royal Consort steam-ship. Leaving that place at half-past eight o'cock in the even ing, he arrived next morning at Ardrossan at half-past eight o'clock (twelve hours), where he left per special train, and was in Glasgow by ten o'clock a.m., thus accomplishing the distance of 400 miles in 21 hours. PRESTON AND LON GRIDGE RAILWAY. - The half yearly general meeting of proprietors was held on Monday last. The report stated that the receipts during the last half year had considerably increased, and the directors had thereby been enabled to pay arrears of interest and debts owing by the company to different parties to a con siderable amount. Favourable accounts were given of the quarry belonging to the company at Longridge ; and, taking the present demand of stone at this season as a criterion, they expected, in the course of the next year, to be enabled to discharge the whole, or the greater part, of the floating debts and temporary loans, &c., owing by the company. PRESTON AND WYRE RAILWAY.—A half-yearly meet ing of this company was held at Fleetwood on Friday last. The Directors reported a considerable improvement in the traffic returns, without any material increase in the working expenses. Since 31st August to the 19th instant the returns of railway have averaged £527 per week against £4lB for the previous half-year. Within the last month the important object of a steam communication between Gies gow, viii Ardrosean, and Fleetwood, has been opened, by the running of the new ships, five times a week; and it is expected that, a fair proportion of the Scotch traffic will pass over the line. The Blackpool liailway is to be pro ceeded with so as to be ready by May next. The Direc tors expressed a hope that circumstances might be such as to lead to an early commencement of the new docks. PROPOSED RAILWAYS TO HARROGATE, &C.—The pro moters of the railway from Harrowgateand Knaresbrough to Bolton Percy do not intend to renew their application to Parliament in the next session, the scheme being aban doned. This will enable the influence of this district to be thrown entirely in favour of the intended Leeds and Thirsk line. The York and North Midland Railway Company are surveying a line of railway from Milford or Sherburn, on that line, to near Harrowgate, by way of Thorp Arch, Wetherby, and Spofforth, in order to afford a more ready communication to the south and south-east than will be given by the Leeds and Thirsk proposed rail way. The Great North of England Railway Company have given powers to the directors to make application to Parliament, in the next session, for a branch from their line by Pill-Moor, Borobridge, Staveley, and Knares brough, to near Harrogate, with a branch from near Borobridge to Ripon, and for a branch from Carlton: station to Richmond. The former branch may have traffic in coal, but little can be obtained in passengers or mer chandise. GENERAL MISCELLAN Y. The Glasgow cotton spinners have agreed to raise the wages of their workmen ten per cent. A butcher was killed on Monday in the New Cut, Lon don, by his knife slipping out of his mouth and sticking in his abdomen. A ferry-boat was run down off Woolwich, by the Wa terman steamer, on Friday, when two men were unfortu nately drowned, and two others seriously injured. The Marquis of Londonderry has been defeated in an attempt to in crease the police of the county of Durham. The magistrates were against it. At the present period there are only three prisons in the metropolis for debtors, and the whole number does not exceed 300 persons. The river Ayle, at Westport, rose last week above eighty feet be} and its usual level, and the current became so strong as to sweep away hay, turf, oats, and even cabins. At Hereford, 413 heads of families have signed a de claration to countenance those shops which close at early hours, and discountenance the others. Richard Leach, a sawyer, has been committed for trial chargrd with attempting to destroy the timber yard, &c. of Mr. Graham, a builder, at Bolton, on the llth instant. The theatre at Beccles, built, a few years since, at an expense of £2,000, is about to be converted into a corn exchange. About 5,000 acres of Dartmoor have been purchased by a company, who have already fenced and drained patt of it. and calculate on letting the whole at 10s. per acre. Hitherto the land has been waste. On Tuesday !ant, two men were killed, and another seriously injured by the falling of an itunvlnse mass of rock and earth, upwards of 1000 tons weight, at a quarry near As'.ton.under-Lyne. On Thursday evening week, Mr. Richard Cobuss, of Cobb-street, Ash, in Kent, was shot dead by a concealed assassin, supposed to have been his own son, George, a youth of nineteen, who is in cu-tody. Lord Eldon has sent a donation of £2OO to the com mittee for providing baths and wash-houses for the work ing classes, and several of the London bankers have an nounced their intention of giving large donations, WINTER ASSIZES.—iI is now definitiv, ly fixed that a winter gaol delivery shall take place in many parts of the kincdom, but it is believed that the subsidiary arrange ments will not be made till the beginning of term. THE. FIRST LOCOMOTIVE.—Just forty years ago, Mr. Trevethick. a mining engineer, constructed the first loco motive engine at Merthyr Tydvil, and applied it success fully to the traction of ecal and coke.—Cambrian. At the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, the Hon. W. Ross Touchet was tried for firing at the proprietor of a Shooting Gallery in Holborn, and acquitted ou the plea of insanity. The Northern Star newspaper hitherto published in Leeds, is about to be removed to London, to be issued there ; but whether under the same title, which will then be a misnomer, or under scme new name, we have not heard. The greatest activity almost ever known now exists in the coal trade, no less than 290 ships' cargo hating been purchased at lost Tuesday's coal market in London. The average number of ships' cargoes sold previously being only from thirty to fifty.—Newcastle Journal. Mr. Sergeant Bompas, who died suddenly a short time since, left a widow and a large family in somewhat in different circumstances ; but his professional brethren es teemed him so highly that a subscription was entered into for the benefit of his family, to which Sir Thomas Wilde contributed the princely sum of 1,000 guineas. CID RR AND PERRY.—These I , quors will be very cheap, this year, in Herefordshire, and on the banks of the Severn, from Worcester to Chepstow. The crops of apples and pears are much larger than last year: Is. to Is. 6d. per bushel is now the price for good apples at Hereford and Ledbury. Washing-tub excursions appear to be increasing in fa vour amongst the J ack-pudding fraternity. The Dumfries Courier states, that, on Friday week, the clown of Cook's Circus took a voyage down the Nith in a vessel of the above description, drawn by four geese, in the presence of a large concourse of people. A HORSE BUYER FROM THE "CELESTIAL EMPIRE!" —Last week, at the Howden horse fair, the greatest per baps in England, among these present, strange as it may appear, there was a buyer from the Emperor of China, in the person of one of his subjects, attended by an inter preter. LOVE AND SUICIDE.—On Tuesday night week, a young woman named Hester Tilly, the daughter of a farmer living at Ashley-hill, Stapleton, dearoyed herself by jumping into a pool of water in her father's orchard. The unhappy girl had been forbidden her father's house in consequence of her keeping company with a young man, whom.her parent did not approve. Mr. Clark, manager of the extensive works of Messrs. Monteith and Co., of Barrowfield, Glasgow, has made a discovery is the art of calico printing, which is likely to produce most important results in that trade, almost in the same ratio as the invention of hot blast produced in the iron trade. Mr. Clark has secured a patent for the invention. EFFECTS OF GAMBLING.—A gentleman's servant, in London, out of a situation, who had been out on Monday evening with some friends, and having entered into play at cards, bad lost between £4 and £5, returned to his lodgings between one and two o'clock on Thursday morn ing much intoxicated, and cut his throat. He was removed to the hospital without hopes of recovery. CALAMITOUS EXPLOSION.—On Saturday last a 'pest calamitous explosion of fire-damp took place In a coal pit belonging to Mr. Darby, at the Five Ways, Rowley Regis. The number of persons at work in the pit at the time is and rstood to have been seventeen or eighteen, and of these no less than eleven have fallen victims to this lamentable occurrence. Tun LEIGH PEERAGE.--A ma❑ named John Leigh, claimant to the estates of the Lord Leigh at Stoneleign, Warwickshire, and about thirty of his followers have been held to bail by the Magistrates of Leamington for a riot and assault, in having broken in the panels of a door, and taken forcible possession of Stoneleigh Abbey on Monday morning last. Monday being the thirty-ninth anniversary of the memorable battle of Trafalgar, a number of naval offi cers, who had been in the engagement dined together, at the Naval Club House, St. James's-square, London, in commemoration of the day. At Greenwich Hospital the tars engaged were regaled with an excellent dinner. a pint of porter, and a shilling to each man. A VETERAN CORONER.—At an inquest at Yeovil, on Saturday, Mr. lt. P. Caines remarked that in the course of his coronership he hid held no less thau 3800 inquests. He had been a coroner nearly 28 years, and during the last seven years alone he had travelled 36765 giving an average of 5252 miles per year. He had raid in turnpikes during thes even years a sum very Huh: short of £9O. INCONSOLABLE."—It is stated, that the Quoen has ordered a pension of X3O to be granted to the widow of Walker, the artilleryman, who was killed by the discharge of a cannon on the King's Bastion, at Portsmouth; and Louis Phiilippe has also expressed an intention of pro viding for the woman. It is feared, however, that she may not survive to enjoy the pension ; she remained in sensible from the Monday until Saturday week. THE BELGIUM TARIFF.—A very serious increase has been made by the Belgian government, in the duties upon, silk and cotton manufactures, and also upon machines im ported into that country. The effect will probably be, to drive the manufactures of Manchester out of the Belgian markets, and to have them replaced by the manufactures of Rouen and MulLausen. The whole measure is one of the utmost hostility to England. PASSING IIALF-NOTES.—At the London Mansion house, on Friday, three cutlers appeared before Sir Peter Laurie and exposed an ingenious system by which they had been swindled out of portions of their property. Par ties from Southampton had, it appet re 1, sent them let ters, enclosing the halves of stolen Batik of England notes and ordering goods to the full amount of the enclosure, ! and, when the goods were forwarded, the remaining halves were never remitted. EXPORTATION or METALS.—The official returns of our exportations during the last two years exhibit a great increase in the last over the present one. In the article of metals, embracinc , iron and steel, copper, brass, and tin, we exported in the year ending sth September, 1813, to the amount of £3,405,568, and in the same period ended sth September, 1844, £4,136,984, showing an in crease in the present year of upwards of seven hundred and thirty thousand pounds. COLLIERS' STRIKE.—A very general strike has taken place amongst the colliers at Olbury, for a raise of 6d. per day.On Monday last, at a very early hour, they congregated in crowds of about 150 persons, and went to F the different pits to prevent those willing to work from going down. In this way they succeeded in keeping most of the men at play. On Tuesday morning their intentions were frustrated by the very active measures resorted to. —Wolverhampton Chronicle. New POOR-LAW CRUELTY.—Mr. Bowen, an old cor respondent of the Ti mes , h as established the ' revolting fact, that in one of the new workhouses erected in this Christian country, (in the Bridgewater Union,) females— one of them with an infant at her breast—have been set to break stones as a labour suited to their age and sex, and have been afterwards sentenced to three weeks' hard Ja i bour in the House of Correction, in consequence of their refusal to submit to such cruel and degrading task-work. REVISING-BARRISTERS.—The duties of the revising barristers for the revision of the lists of voters for the present year are drawing to a close. The first revision, in the year 1833, cost upwards of £30,000 in payments to the barristers and for their expenses ; but under the Registration of Voters' Act their charges were limited to 200 guineas each. It appears that the payment to the barristers, including their expenses, now amounts to the fixed yearly sum of £14,700. More appeals are expected, to the Court of Common Pleas in the present than. occurred in the preceding revision. The New Brazilian Tariff levies duties of 40 per cent. on carpeting, earthenware, glass, paper, and ready-made clothing ; 25 per cent. on brass, copper, iron, lead, tin, steel and leather ; 20 per cent. cn handkerchiefs of linen, cambric, or cotton lace, thread, or silk ; and 30 per cant. on all articles not enumerated, which of course innde nearly all kinds of cotton. woollen, linen, and silk manu factures, and iris said that those goods are to be taken at their estimated value and 10 per cent. additional. The Government is authorised to lay additional duties on the goods of any nations which subject the produce a' Brazil to a higher duty than similar produce of other countries. SUICIDE OF AN OLD SPORTSMAN.--011 Mmislay night an inquest was held at Lewisham, Kent, upon ';',Le body of Charles Morton, aged 76, who was found d- o ad, hanging from a rafter in a barn belonging to a gentltrnan named Russell, residing at Lee. It appears that the deceased was formerly huntsman to the Earl of Derby, and that subsequently he kept tie Derby Arms Inn, Croydon, the Magpie Inn, on Hounslow Heath, and latterly was land. lord of the Leaping Bar, Blackfriars-road, where he was robbed by his housekeeper of a considerable sum of money, since which he had involved himself in . a lawsuit, which ended in his ruin. Of late he had baeome very eccentric and strange in his manner. DREADFUL DESTITUTION.—MA. Wakley on )Friday held an inquest on the body of a.man named Hall, who had died in Marylebone. His widow stated, that after having paw ne d every art i c l e t h ey possesse d, she was com pelled, he being too ill to work, to apply fox parochial relief, but it was refused her, and he died from actual want (it appeared) in a few days afterwards,. The coroner declared he could s:-e the ion. wo man herself was . starving at that very moment. She said. . (four in number) were.in a similar state. .ve , tome had been given to Lee husband, but they we t.) A at lif they applied again : for relief they !would be A tattf,e4" - .'7io their parish, which they did not desire, al tittte,.44 chance of euiplpyrne4t wai whew they were. ! ..7 i.„l 1.2.../ ._ ~ .~ ~, .~ ,` • A r