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'THE LIVERPOOL Si 6 , .. A Voice from Italy ; or, the Conscientious St a tement of TIIIRD EDITION• and soot ry. e .it erasure. a Concerted Roman Catholic. By Chevali e r Rivarolo. • count _____......_____ Reading: Th omas . POETRY. This little work, according to the author's own an- Standard-office, Ralf-past Eleven o'clo , k. them on nouncement, is intended " to destroy the poisonous seeds blood P" of superstition —to s ho w the usur p a ti on of the Roman ere REFLECTIONS OF IRELAND. The : I have ventured, (For the Liverpool Standard.) and to prove the evils originated by the doctrines of a misguided Popish priesthood." The author writes tern- rounding Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, " perately but nervously, and combats in an unanswerable VERY LATEST INT ELLIGENCE portions These many summers in a sea of glory— manner several of the leading doctrines of the Church of and the But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride Rome, and corroborates his .positions by numerous twee- FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. furnishes At length broke under me, and now has left me dot es , t o th e t ru th o f w hi c h we presume th e Ch eva l ier h as " a dery transpire Weary a• d old, to the mercy been a witness. The opening c.hapter we consider the DUBLIN, Monday Eveninv Of a rude world which must for ever hide me." best written in the book, and shows the author to be as 15 , pears. Wolsey, ix Henry VIII. Half-fast Eight o'Clock. eye souls well acquainted with the genuine doctrines of Christianity alarm to as with the Romish perversions of those doctrines. He As I had anticipated, the proceedings at the " Concilia- It is past t 'Twas a dream in the darkness of night : has collected a number of facts of the most extraordinary was extr tion Hall" extended to an unusually late hour. The erwas a mist of the morn in the fountain of light : nature, to prove the impositions practised by the Popes regarded I kid pictured s sceptre, a court, and a throne, and hierarchy of Rome to perpetuate the lying devices by most important feature-of the day was the adhesion of etate of The ruin of others, and woke to my own. which the deceived children of that apostate system are Mr. Smith O'Brien, M.P., for Limerick. to the Repeal ferred tr But one step. and I triumphed ! l‘ly priesthood was there, enslaved and ruined. We take the following as a specimen To hallow the treason with incense and prayer; Association . in . unqualified terms. The meeting at past counties My law courts were open, my code was prepared ; of the author's style, and as a graphic portraiture of the six o clock adjourned unt'l one o'clock to-morrow, the ------.---"--• aeeOnimodating character of Popery : I had thought of my palace, and chosen my guard; My children would rise as the base of my court ; " The Romish religion calls itself one, but it has a sin- rent for the week wa s announce d t o b e , as f ar as cou ld b e M: The fa The heart-throb of thonsands my strength and my sport : gular variety of forms and aspects- For the lover of forms But one step ! ascertained up to six o'clock, £2284; numerous communi --'twas untrod : for the blast of a breath and outward religion, it has a gorgeou s r it ua l. To -the cations containing remittances had arrived, the amount ae au ag i Struck Fancy's fond lie with the chillness of death, mere man of the world it shows a pope on the throne, And crumbled my sceptre to dust. and my throne ; And the thousands have vanished, and I—am alone. cardinals and bishops in palaces, and all th e s pl en dour of of which had no t b een ascerta i ne d at t h e h our o f a dj ourn- with pier earthly dominion. At the same time, for the self-deny- ment, and which will therefore be carried to next week's Pennsyls has hrom Alone ! with my heart !—ah ! how wintry the scene I ing, ascetic, mystical and fanatical, it has all the forms of account. A government reporter was in attendance. How changed from the sunshine that once might have been I - ! himself " Mr. monastic life. To him who would scourge into I look back on my boyhood, when bright was mine eye, When pure was my heart, and its p u l ses h ea t hi g h ; go dli ness, i t o ff ers a w hi p. F or hi m who who wou ld and char; OPENING OF THE CONCILIATION HALL. b d Of the pastime I think—of th e s p ort — yea , t h e prayer; starve into spirituality, it provides the mendicant con i ong, . Of the father that played with the locks of my hair, vents of St. Francis. For the anchorite, it prepares the The Repeal Association held its usual weekly meet- have all I Of the mother heat) el sped to her bosom her boy, death-like silence of La Trappe. To the passionate ing yesterday, for the first time, in the newly-erected human di And called me ife, and her pride, and her joy, And bade me exultingly stand by the sde young woman, it presents the raptures of St. Theresa, and building on Bergh -quay, called the Conciliation Hall. And lar the marriage of St. Catherine with the Saviour. For him This new place of meeting is a quadrilateral structure, stigmatic Of my country, and be both its champion and pride. I compare that bright hour with the hour that is now, who would not wish to leave the world, its luxuries, en- capable of containing from three to four thousand per- great un And I shrink—for the brand is red hot on my brow ! joyments, and pleasures, it offers the house of the wealthy sons. A spacious gallery runs round the entire build- on those They are gone ! It is well ; for my manhood of life Jesuits. For the restless pilgrim, whose piety needs ing, and at the end, fronting the entrance door, a plat of utility Had its pride in rebellion—the champion of strife. greater variety than the cell of the monk, it offers shrines, form has been erected for the accomodation of the chair-- Yet—a traitor ! Great God !do I dream ? Can it be the circus tombs, relics, and other holy places in christian lands, man, the principal speakers, and the gentlemen of the That men may dare fasten such title on NE ? case may and above all, the holy sepulchre near Calvary. To the press. The place is in every unfinished state, and pre- Ah, yes! out of evil can never spring good: generous, sympathising enthusiast, it opens some frater- sents . a rough and cheerless appearance. It was densely engagerre The shout for revolt is the shout but for blood. nity or sisterhood of charity. To him who is inclined to crowded in every part long before the hour for which the West But a traitor! What ! was not my country enslaved? take heaven by violence, it gives as much penance as he the meeting had been called; but none of the corpora- which ha Was it not for her freedom this senten e I braved? can desire ; and to the mass of men, who wish to recon- tion as was announced, attended in their robes. M'r. O ' CONNELL entered the meeting shortly before judgment Surely not for myself her resources I drained ; vile the two worlds, it promises a purgatory, so far Surely not for myself my integrity stained ; softened down by the masses of the priest and the prayer Pent' Pent, one o'clock, and was received with tremendous . cheers, taking he I loved her green vales—l her altars adored — Her golden-haired daughters, her sons of the sword, of the faithful, that its fires can be anticipated without After a vain attempt for several minutes to address the ties into ( And I c,dled her, what always she kill he to me, overwhelming dread." " First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea." meeting, in consese quence o f t h e great inconvenience earth, ex arising from the pressure of the crowd in the body of of Penns AIL delusions avannt l Now alone with my heart, , the hall, he said that he had the high honour of mov- Sewer %) Every mist is removed and I'm acting no part; SECOND EDI'l'I() ', • ing that the chair should be taken by John Augustus her debt.' '-‘ 1 • O'Neill, Esq., of Bunnowen Castle—(loud cheers.) Bursts the truth from each pore to my agoniz'd eyes: of a state I have err'd—l am silenc'd—'tis writ in the skies. The CHAIRMAN rose amid s t l ou d c h eers. Th e cabi . Yes. the truth it co mes h ome —l am l one ly an d o ld, to pay it— The fire in my chambers of life growing cold ; Standard-office, Half-past Nine o'clock. net could not exp ec t I r i s h men to agree with them • be- The voices which urged me are s il en t an d st ill, cause the _____....— from her y were diametrically opposed, and had ' been land's deb Acquaintance unfriendly, and frie n dship i s c hill ; so for 50 years. In 1819 Wellington held the opinion With terror I muse on that swift.coming time, BY EXPRESS. that if Catholic emancipation was granted, the next down to tl At the bar of my c untry to answer my crime ; step would be to demand the forfeited lands. Now if and Engli The trial—the witness —accuser and spy • that were the case, be (the chairman) would be enti- of Penns) The friends that are absent, the foes that are by— (FROM' OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) tied to upwards of £lOO,OOO a year, banded down from state in t And, worse than the sc 'Mild. the scorn that betrays The hate of the tongue that once trembled with praise. generations through father to son. (Cheers.) Its 1827, parison. Robert Peel and Mr. Goulburn spoke against Ca- avoid, as Dark spirit of Popery ! thine be the blame : DUBLIN Monday 234 Oct. 1843. Sir , , s e tholic emancipation, and the present chief justice of insolvent ' Thy cree I brought the tempest which darkens my name ; Thy essence of works, which first bade me depend MORE WARLIKE PREPARATIONS. England opposed them, and in the following year they it what otl came down and adopted his speech. (Cheers.) if they ca On all means or any to work out thine end ; were called cowards for doing so, but no feeling of T t h h e a Y t Thy prompt absolution. thy sinner enticed At a late hour last night, two companies of artillery, kind instigated them ; for he was sure they had acted (Applause On himself to rely, and rely not on Christ.— upon conscientious conviction. (Cheers.) It was quite (setts; ; but Ensnarer of millions, whose blood thou hast spilt, under the command of Majors Wood and Rawnsley, ar -oh, thine be the scandal—on thee be the guilt. work thes( PHILO. rived at the quays, and marched immediately into bar- a for fiction of 'mig the law to say th a t ki ngs could do no wrong ; I'd drive i t d racks. The Ist Dragoons are expected to-morrow. Li o n ht o wrong, and h a d o f ten pa i d very heavy the state t THE DAWN. P doing s o . (cl ear.) One set of statesmen told the ki ng t h at i t would be perjury to debts. (I Half-past Four o'clock. s h i i g m n ttohesuChastehriohleic teomiat.ncircathieoenrsb.)ill, wHheile(tohetheerhsaifrour,caend) us act up. 'Tis sweet when the twilight descends like a maiden. hoped that there was a government reporter in the hall. (Deafeninj with star-sandal)'d feet an ; cloud-mantle of grey ; When the skies seem with grandeur and mystery laden, The:Conciliation Hall was opened to-day : the crowd us sacrific Mr. O'CoNarßeL.—Yes; there is one from Gurney's mortgage But there's nothing so sweet as the dawn of the day, was immense. I proud yo u r e e p a u p t i The amount of the rent has not yet been announced, office. The CHAIRMAN continued to say—that he personally 0, if there's an hour to man's spirit appealing, knew that there were letters in Dublin from the Duke us say to t An hour that can all his devotion repay, hut will be little short, if not over, three thousand 'Tis when harmony, beauty, and grace are revealing , of Kent (the Queen's father), in his own writing, t o th e u tt Their charms at the dawn, the bright dawn of the day I pounds. breathing the greatest and purest affection for Ireland, of what w ___.--40.---- For it heam'd on the birth of Eve's fairest of daughters, and expressing a wish to be appointed Lord Lieutenant can't grow It woke the first breath of the lark's matin.lay ; TIIE OVERLAND MAIL 'When the spirit of r od moved the face of the waters, plause.) _es_ at a certain critical period. People talked of a federal Parliament —but what was the meaning of the word ? All Eden lay blest in the dawn of the day. We last night received, through Messrs. Willmer and I The dawn of the day, when the old man is waking, (for for t t h h e e sa sa c her pay it. World-weary and languid, bereft of each stay ; Smith, conveyed to Liverpool by express, exclusively If gentlemen did not understand it, they should not express opinions which would give triumph to their foes and fear to their friends. (Hear.) It meant nothing don't let it When he turns to a dawn, yet immortally breaking, • from their London Agent, Mr. W. H. Smith, of 192, The God praised dawn of a heavenly day. Strand, London, the Bombay Monthly Times, of the 26th more than a treaty—or, in his opinion, as used by their I leader, a treaty between England and Ireland. (Hear.) I don't let it 0, if harmony, beauty, and freshness are blending. of August. order federalder of, a n treaty h was the authority l that the e sshallsenate." a t b e e . , , done o ü b d y I of G 0 d Europe d Their charms for the dawn of our care- compass'd way, What bliss must be theirs, who, through Jesus ascending, The dates brought 'by this mail; are—Calcutta, 10th, B m y an t n he er in in . , co p n r t o i d n n u e e e d y Behold with archangels the dawn of His day ! Scinde, 19th, and Bombay, 26th of August. From China cheers.) Mr. ABlerigiaOn'Nreevilollunteioxnt wdeasscreiffbeeedtedth.e es- terference of France she became a diademed kingdom, interest. . 26th of June only. . N OTICES. The news from India is not of a remarkable' kind. and the only part England took in the proceeding was, f ( 0 Hear,rei foreign n ii i treat.) tery t o e e s d e e n d d n e e c k i (i nl e t t there. ally b entio w w i e li a , re ,„ not • Tranquillity prevailed in the interior. An army of ob plause.) l n Belgium.-- bu t h Irelandad sus_ Claims of the Church to the Lore of her Children ; a servation was it is said, to be formed on the Sutiedge , ._, c would depend upon I y rishmen, on God, and on Ireland. i ,., 1'4 3- i •I Sermon, preached in St. James's Church, Latchford, an d ano th er i n the neighbourhood of Gualior ; both were If it should be the pleasure of a rash minister forgetful ' ' by the Rev. James Wright, incumbent. Warrington ; to be ready in the month of October. The new Corn of the law of God and man—and such a forgetfulness he ;IF Booths. mender-in-Chief, Sir Hugh Gough, would, it was stated ,: cheers.) 2 This temperate discourse will commend itself to all en- take the command of the former, and General Sir V lightened members of our national church, us affording a Nott of the latter. by no means attributed to the Duke of Wellington, who cannot fee always during his I want to be clear but scriptural statement of the claims which that Lord Ellenborough,*, whose presence in Calcutta had caumagins was most careful of human I church pos sesses on th e sympat hi es an d support o f a l l produced the best results there, was, it is reported, to life; but if, f or a moment, he should think of steeping, owe them her faithful adherents. The words on which the sermon come himself to the n e i g hb our h oo d o f A gra or All a h a b a d in the blood of I r i s h men , t h e laurels which Ireland's sons 1 professiona is founded are, "My house is the house of p ra y er ;'' and in October, in order to direct the settlement of the Gua- had placed on his brow, their still remained for them an I wanted—if from these words Mr. Wright enlarges on the antiquity of lior Government. interposing power between him and the nation—they I life for mys the church, her apostolical character, and her protest Scinde was tranquil and likely to continue so, unless it could look to the Queen. He had shown that they had 1 far as lam against Rome; the character of her services, the conduct be disturbed by any measures ordered from London in a right to look for hereditare love to Ireland in her Ma- ' come and t jestY. Should the Duke resolve to act as he had de- 1 which becomes her members, and on several objections consequence of the misrepresentations which some blind wh i ch against her. As respects one feature in the cha- partisans sent to En g land from Bombay. Sir Charles scribed. of which from his (Mr. O'Neill's) soul he ac- ! quitted:his Grace, one might imagine the Queen, in the to take, an 1 the east an racter of her services, we may make the following extract Napier had thus fat regulated that conquest. The troops from the ft "Is there a time when the doors of the church are were healthy. words of Shakspeare—" Beware, take heed, how you , ' runs a dree thrown open for public worship, that the word of God is Shere Mahommed had fled to the Beloochee mountains, awake the slumbering sword of war ;" I charge you in ; not read to the people ? May nor time poor and the un- from whence it was said he was contemplating an 'attack the name of God to take heed ! He would respectfully : part i cle, of learned hear, in her services, what God has to say to them ? on some of the posts of the British troops. Ali Mahout- offer his opinion, that if repeal were forced in the hour t that i f we May not the word read tell with saving effect upon their med, a young man of talent, and a relative of the ex- of England's weakness, it would be the ruin of Ireland. I cheers.) I hearts ? And may We not hope of many such worshipp ers Ameers, made an attempt to maintain his own territory R epeal held back too long would create national bank- man. A c who frequent her courts, ' that their faith standeth not in against the usurpation of his uncle, Mourad Ali, who has ruptcy. Repeal at once conceded would be productive i abhor the it the wisdom of men, but in the power of God ?' In the contrived by various crooked arts to obtain the favour of sry the chat of peace, prosperity, arid indissoluble connexion with I by the cons place—ifE n gl England—(hear, d— the( li e a A r 1 , m h i g e ahrt.y) in ßu b t is if an a ge c r ol w lis it i i o ni n re s w hou b l i d s p ta r k o e . pitht ne vere roodc ou o country o r e s o - Psalms, in the Lessons, in the Epistle and Gospel, those the British and to aggrandize himself at the expense of all who assemble in the house of God, hear him teaching in the other Ameers; but Ali Mahommed has been routed tection from the empire, the same Gazette which pro his Holy Word. And ' for this honour done unto God in by his uncle Nlourad Ali, and he has also fled to the 1 in the glorit his Word,' saith an eminent prelate of our church, 'which mountains, where he has joined the partisans of Shere claimed the victory of England over her twin sister, doubtless has brought down, and will continue to bring Mahommed. It is said that after the rainy season the ( t he se a n r, te h n e e a e r.l I would announce that one nation was depopulated, and , u nited `tat themor.thoer,ctooNttNerEitLigt, roonsethanedbsrainidk,......ofTriueitfii down, a blessing upon her from Him who has declared, various bill tribes borderingeon the plains, now subject to " Them that honour me I will honour;" for this honour the British and to Mourad Ali, will be induced to make ruin—(hear, to God's Word, and for the provision made thereby to inroads, and to try to plunder the settlers, but it does not wish to utter in the Conciliation Hall is this truth, that j —the exam teach the people infallibly out of it the whole counsel of seem expected that they will risk any battles for the ex- there is only one way of obtaining a repeal of the union, cannot or w God, independently of the defects, and errors, and re- pulsion of the British. General Simpson was coming and that is, by using none but peaceable and legal means. ----- serves which are incident to the human teaching that they I round to Bombay in the Queen steamer in order to (Hear, hear.) My second sentence is. that the repeal is receive, we ought, lam sure, to be thankful, if we had i become second in command, and, perhaps,;:successor to certain. (Loud and long-continued cheering, waving of FOT nothing else in her public services to rejoice in or to be I Sir Charles Napier, whose health, it is said, requires hats and handkerchiefs, &c.) Yes, repeal is certain, pro- In thankful for.' " removal to the sea coast. vided you use ndother than peaceable and legal means. I In reply to an objection frequently raised against the A most extraordinary discovery was effected in July - 1......a____ I church, the following is worthy' of nhcp,,,tin. • . . • church, the following is worthy of observation : " It is objected that doctrines similar to the worst doc trines of Rome have been lately taught by some of the clergy of the church. It is with unfeigned sorrow we ad mit the truth of this objection. Such doctrines have been broached, and though but partially, still to the perversion of a few enthusiastic spirits, to their wilful excision from the church, and to their union with Rome. Admitting the full force of the objection, it is yet but just towards the church, to ask, if it be fair or reasonable to judge the church by the unsound and authoritatively-condemned statements of a mere fractional part of her ministers ? ' They went out from us, but they were not of us.' Are we not to judge of the church, by her Articles, her Ho milies, her Formularies ? And if these, with one consent, condemn those dangerous opinions, then does the church condemn them. We never take the opinions of a few discontented and noisy individuals for the voice of the nation, neither should we take the condemned opinions of a few erratic divines for the voice of the church. The church has not changed, though a score or two of clergy men, out of a body of sixteen thousand, have changed. Their present continuance among us, to our impatient minds, seems long; but what will be the brief period of this agitation, when looked back on at the distance of fifty years, and through the records of ecclesiastical history ? 'A. dream, when one awaketh.' The church is still, as she has been, thank God, from the beginning, ' The pillar and the ground of the truth.' " last, at Bombay, of a confederacy for plundering boats, robbing ships, and smuggling goods. Thi s gang h a d existed for at least a quarter of a century in the most po pulous part of that town. They are also supposed to be connected with the pirates and murderers who even now so frequently commit the greatest atrocities within almost the hail of the police and other authorities of that impor tant naval station. No discovery was ever made of the gang until one of the accomplices gave a clue which led to the seizure of their books, and to the development of the whole system, which was organized in the most perfect manner . The police were on the traces of the malefactors, but it was feared that no conviction would take place, as most of the police agents had been bribed by the gang, and they were throwing every obstacle in the way of hav ing any of their accomplices punished. An extraordinary court martial had been held at Poonah. Two officers, a colonel and a major, had a dispute; the colonel soon afterwards offered to make up the quarrel, but was told the whole affair lad been sent up n a complaint to the Government. The complaint was referred to a court of inquiry, which decided after having heard evidence that there were faults on both sides. The Colonel then sent in a demand for a court-martial on the Major, on the ground of his having wilfully made a false and unfounded statement. The Commander-in-Chief refused the demand and censured the application as out of place, as the decision of the court of inquiry was then under his consideration. The Colonel reiterated the demand but no notice was taken of it. Two months afterwards the colonel had the proceed ings, with his own, charges and letters, privately printed, and sent to his friends. The pamphlet was shown to the Major, who demanded a court martial, by which, after the examination of the same witnesses, he was declared honourably acquitted. This verdict, which was supposed to be contrary to the evidence, has been much canvassed. The House of God : its beauty and its claims. A. sermon by the Rev. R. P. Buddicom. Liverpool. Newling. Little need be said in a town which has profited so long and so greatly as this by Mr. Buddicom's faithful minis trations in proof of the Scriptural positions maintained in this sermon, which was preached in the parish church of St. Bees, in behalf of the incorporated society for en larging, building, and repairing churches and chapels. The national sanctuary is here shown to be " goodly ' as the house of prayer—as the house of praise—as conse crated for preaching the unsearchnble riches of Christ — and as the house of sacraments. The concluding portion of the sermon is occupied with an earnest appeal to those who tread the courts of our favoured Zion to multiply her tents and tabernacles in consequence of the lamentable condition of the people, socially, civilly, and religiously. Is there not sound truth and practical wisdom in such an argument as this? THE DUCHESS OF BERRY.—The marriage of the niece of the Duchess of Orleans with the Duke of Berry was an event of great importance in the history of the former family. Lively, gay, witty, generous, and open hearted, the Duchess of Berry captivated all parties, and even gained the affection of the Republicans themselves. Few women have ever lived whose passions have betrayed them into more acts of indiscretion and impropriety than this unfortunate lady ; and yet, few have ever possessed such admiring and devoted followers. She had the art of making herself loved to a greater degree than almost any other woman of her time ; and to this day the name of the Duchess of Merry carries a talismanic influence with it, even in the liberal circles and saloons of Paris. That marriage then introduced more frequently the Duke of Orleans to the court, but the priest party was always op posed to him; caused him invariably to be distrusted ; and induced Louis XVIII., and subsequently Charles X., to believe that, in him, the eldest branch had a dangerous and decided foe. It was, therefore, that the former prince refused to confer on him the title of " Royal H ighnes."— Pewter's Magazine. " It seems as if pressure and resistance, instead of the law of love, in the sweet influences of its operation upon all ranks of the community, were to be the only elements employed for keeping the social organization from falling to pieces—a state of things unnatural in itself, and there. fore incapable of permanent continuance. Every day finds the machine loaded with heavier weight, jarred by a ruder hand. Thus, continually becoming looser and less secure in every joint and rivet, it gives day by day more painful evidence that the beneficial effects which its move ments were intended to promote, under the hallowing influences of religion, must in the end, and that not re motely, be arrested and destroyed. We may be thus keeping together (if I may change the figure) imterials of the most combustible kind, which any firebrand, rashly thrown among them, rtaav,—and at no very distant period must enkindle ; and of which the explosion would spread public and private misery widely around. " What then shall we do in this mournful state of things? Shall we deem it helpless and hopeless ; and sit down to await the event in apathy, without taking any measures to avoid, or at least to mitigate what our tears may deem inevitable. GOD forbid. Much of the evil would be re medied if we could arrest and correct the general spirit of self interest, which has wedded itself not only to the ost ordinary plans and pursuits of life, but to the high t aspirations of science, and the mightiest discoveries of human intellect. And how shall this great purpose be advanced! How shall every man be taught not to look elusively upon `his own things, but every man also, hi r n raual degree, u p on th e thi ngs of others ? ' Surely, by aeavonnug to brine. the beams of the Sun of Righteous ness into Contact witlithe opposing mass of woridiness that would make ever bi e own pursuits y man .the centre and circumstance of y h !t , orking thus to thaw the cold and frozen irreligion of 4 .; althier exercise the iiture, and to call forth into I g sad condition of the poor; kindly to sympathies exiii of the rich with envour to reliev e th em that fellow feel ;„ in zealous end and to excite — he gratitude of the poor toward s ; who long and tlabour to befriend them" THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANIMAL AND VEGETA BLE Lzr•E.—That animal life is a distinct substance, and not an accident or quality of the body to which it is at tached, an argument may be drawn from a comparison of it with vegetable life, in the manner is which both cease to exist. If a tree or plant be drawn out of the earth, or cut from its roots, it does not immediately !thew any signs of decay. Its branches retain their elasticity, its leaves their verdure, and its circulation proceeds unchecked for some time aftt•r the mortal shock is given. As its juices are exhaled, its parts wither and gradually decay, till its vital powers are totally extinguished, not by any determi nate crisis, but by the continued process of death (if I may so express myself) attending them. The dissolution of animal life is sudden. Its powers often continue to the last; and the instant of its departure is generally marked by a violent and convulsive effort, not unlike the last parting flame of a taper, to which it is often compared. This effect is sometimes produced when the body has re mained for a time in a torpid state, and apparently life less. It then revises for a moment, struggles, as if to reak or he eye o nstaut forcit ly wrenched and disunited r 211agazino and soon after scores of fires were seen flaming round the country. Are there," our contemporary remark., " any ill-advisers egging on the unfortunate people—urging them on to deeds which they will by-and-by bewail in blood P" The Limerick Chronicle thus confirms the above state ments "On Thursday night the whole country sur- rounding Limerick for an area of many miles, including portions of the counties Limerick, Clare, and Tipperary, and the banks of the Shannon, at either side of the river, furnished almost simultaneously glowing indications of "a demonstration," the real meaning of which did not transpire, but that it was a political ruse little doubt ap pears. Fires were blazing in al! directions, as far as the eye could reach, and the illumination was general. The alarm to many families residing in and beyond the suburbs was extremely painful, and such fearful indications are regarded with anything but pleasure in the present state of the country. The formidable signal fires re ferred to, we since learn, were seen to spread into the counties of Cork and Kerry, with almost tragic rapidity." 1137"8 1451 I 7750 I "2.4 f. S irs• ; Oats, MR. I ATEBSTER ON REPUDIATION The following extract from a speech of Mr. Webster, at. an agricultural meeting in New York, will be read with pleasure by those who are interested in the debt of Pennsylvania, to many of whom that unhquidated debt has brought beggary and ruin : " Mr. President and gentlemen,—What is the credit and character of this glorious country, to which we all belong, abroad ? We are rich ; are powerful ;we have all the means of accomplishing whatever virtuous human desire can embrace. But what is our credit ? And I am not one of those disposed to complain of or to stigmatise in any way the efforts of the states of this great union who have sought for funds abroad to carry on those enterprises and improvements which their sense of utility has projected ; on the contrary, I think that the circumstances of the times and the necessities of the case may justify, at least to a considerable extent, the engagements into which some of the states, especially the Western states, have entered abroad. Among those which have thus justifiably become involved is the state of Pennsylvania, the richest state in the union, in my judgment—perhaps I ought to except New York—but, taking her mineral, commercial, and agricultural facili ties into consideration, I don't know on the face of the earth, excepting England, a richer state than the state of Pennsylvania. (' Take off her debt,' said Governor Sewarrl.) My friend Governor Seward says, Take off her debt.' Her debt—her debt ! What can be the debt of a state like Pery.:sylvania, that she should not be able to pay it—that she cannot pay it, if she will but take from her pocket the money that she has in it? Eng- The Repeal Association held its usual weekly meet ing yesterday, for the first time, in the newly-erected building on Burgh_quay, called the Conciliation Hall. This new place of meeting is a quadrilateral structure, capable of containing from three to four thousand per sons. A spacious gallery runs round the entire build ing, and at the end, fronting the entrance door, a plat form has been erected for the accomodation of the chair man, the principal speakers, and the gentlemen of the press. The place is in a very unfinished state, and pre- , sents' a rough and cheerless appearance. It was densely crowded in every part long before the hour for which the meeting had been called; but none of the corpora tion, as was announc e d, a tt en d e d i n their robes. qr. O'CONNELL entered the meeting shortly before one o'clock, and was received with tremendous cheers. After a vain attempt for several minutes to address the meeting, in consesequence of the great inconvenience arising from the pressure of the crowd in the body of the hall, he said that he had the high honour of mov ing that the chair should be taken by John Augustus O'Neill, Esq., of Bunnowen Castle—(loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN rose amidst loud cheers. The cabi net could not expect Irishmen to agree with them - be cause they were di ametr i ca ll y opposed, and had 'been and's debt is in rafted upon her very soil ; she is bound so for 50 years. In 1819 Wellington held the opinion that if Catholic emancipation was granted, the next debt and Englishmen to the 50th generation. But the step would be to demand theforfeitedlands.Now 1 •f down ' to the very g earth by P ; and it will afect England o that were the case, b e ( t h e c h a i rman) would be enti- of Pennsylvania—the debt of Illinois—th e d e bt o f an y tled to upwards of £lOO,OOO a year, handed down from state in this union—amounts not to a sixpence in corn generations through father to son. (Cheers.) In 1827, parison. (Cheers.) Let us be Americans; but let us Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Goulburn spoke against Ca- avoid, as we despise, the character of an acknowledged tholic emancipation, and the present chief justice of insolvent community. (Cheers.) What importance is England opposed them, and in the following year they it what other nations say of us, or what they think of us, came down and adopted his speech, (Cheers.) They if they can nevertheless say, you don't pay your debts ? were called cowards for doi ng so , b u t no fe e li ng of that (Applause.) Now, gentlemen, I belong to Massachu kind instigated them ; for he was sure they bad acted setts ; but if I belonged to a deeply indebted state, I'd upon conscientious conviction. (Cheers.) It was quite work these ten fingers to their stumps--I'd hold plough, a fiction of the law to say that kings could do no wrong ; for they 'might d o wrong , an d h ad often paid very heavy I'd drive plough, I'd do both, before it should b e sa id o f the state to which I belonged, that she did rot pay her penalties—(hear) —fo r d o i ng so. (dear. ) One set of statesmen told the ki ng t h at i t would be perjury to debts. (Loud ch eers .) That's the true principle ; let sign the Catholic emancipation bill, while others forced us act upon it (cheers) ; let us 'go it' to its full extent. him to subscribe to it. (Cheers.) He (the chairman) (Deafening applause.) If it costs us our comforts, let hoped that there was a government reporter in the hall. us sacrifice our comforts ; if it costs us our farms, let us Mr. O'CONNELL.—Yes; there is one from Gurney's . mortgage our farms. B u t d on 't l e t it b e sa id b y t h e office. proud capitalists of England. ' You don't pay your debts. The CHAIRMAN continued to say—that he personally You republican governments don't pay your debts.' Let knew that there were letters in Dublin from the Duke us say to them, 'We will pay them ; we will pay them of Kent (the Queen's father), in his own writing, to the uttermost farthing.' fhat's my firm conviction breathing the greatest and purest affection for Ireland, of what we ought to do. That's my opinion, and water and expressing a wish to be appointed Lord Lieutenant at a certain cr iti ca l per i o d . P eople talked of a federal can't d rown , fi re can 't b urn , i t out o f me. ( L ou d ap lause ) If America owes a debt, let h er p a y it—l e t parliament but what was th e mean i ng of the word If gentlemen did no t un d erstand it, they should not Fi . er pay it. (Deafening cheers.) What I have is ready express opinions whi c h wou ld g i ve tr i umph to their foes for the sacrifice. Wh a t y ou h ave I k now wou ld b e rea d y and fear to their friends. (Hear.) It meant nothing for the sacr ifi ce . At any rate, an d at any sacrifice, more than a treaty— or , i n hi s opinion, as used by their don't let it b e sa id on t h e E xc h anges o f L on d on or Paris, leader, a treaty between England and Ireland. (Hear.) don't let it be said in any one of the proud monarchies A federal treaty was—" that which shall be done by of Europe—' America owes, and can't or won't pay.' order of, and with the authority of, the senate." (Loud God forbid ! (Cheers.) Let us pay—let us pay. (Long cheers.) Mr. O'Neill next described the manner in continued and loud applause.) Let us say to them, which the Belgian revolution was effected. By the in- ' Produce your bond, and take your money, principal and terference of France she became a diademed kingdom, interest. Add it all up, and take your money.' (Ap to send a king there. (Hear, hear.) Belgium bad and the only part England took in the proceeding was, pl u-e ) Let us say to them, 'We are not your slaves ; suc ceeded accidentally by foreign ietervention—but Ireland would depend upon Irishmen, on God, and on Ireland. bond—here is y our money—take will pay ; produce your money —take w - e a are ''. not paupers; we will not be your debtors ; we If it should be the pleasure of a rash minister, forgetful it: of the law of God and man—and such a forgetfulness he cheers.) And until that is done, friends, (This was followed by repeated and y d o e u af a e n n d ing l by no means attributed to the Duke of Wellington, who cannot feel as if we could draw a free breath. I don't always during his caumagins was most careful of human want to be indebted to the capitalists of Europe ; if we life; but if, for a moment, he should think of steeping, I owe them anything, let them produce their bill. if my in the blood of Irishmen, the laurels which Irel an d' s sons i professional earnings are of any worth--if they are had placed on his brow, their still remained for them an i wanted—if my farm is wanted—if the conveniences of interposing power between him and the nation—they life for myself, for my wife and children, are wanted, so could look to the Queen. He had shown that they had far as lam concerned, so far as America is concerned, a right to look for hereditary love to Ireland i n her Ma- come and take them. (Cheers.) That's the light ground jesty. Should the Duke resolve to act as he had de- to take, td lPt us take it. In the north and south, in scribed, of which from his (Mr. O'Neill's) soul he ac quitted:his Grace, one might imagine the Queen, in the , ;the east and west, if there live any who are descended from the fathers of the revolution —any in whose veins words of Shakspeare—" Beware take heed, how you _ - awake the slumbering sword of war;" -.- _ the name of God to take heed ! He would respectfully offer his opinion, that if repeal were forced in the hour particle of their proud spirit—let them rise up and say, that if we owe Europe, Europe shall be paid. (Loud cheers.) I wish to breathe the breath of an independent man. A citizen of a proud and honoured country, I abhor the idea that my daily happiness is to be marred by the consciousness that anything disgraceful hangs on t' country or any n,rt o it. Let o , be oe the rn of Iland. ..i.epeal held back too l ong wou ld create n ui ational re bank ruptcy. Repeal at once conceded would be productive of peace, prosperity, and indissoluble connexion with England—(hear, hear.) But if a collision should take place—if the Almighty in his anger withdrew his pro tection from the empire, the same Gazelle which pro claimed the victory of England over her twin sister, would announce that one nation was depopulated, and the other tottering on the brink of ruin —(hear, hear.) w Ihat( certain.aindi Ie: eel shr l daet r a rht.ynionsoodht only e' utterna C s( ual,Lr o ynsibo: s O'CONNELL kn N nndweloxel E r:tosaic e ioivi: ynhe r . tseyr.ee hg andkerchiefs, sofet Conciliationnnhs ,c a doa Ic n nbb spd)tuearpnts long-continuedeartmpl, peaceable peaceable ease , Hgc — ecaednabr T al lei cheering,ti rebspi ei eie e epastaemani,altdaial ilhdstfirstltstclefe legal sentence rtgerta:aito,et nmu enati union, nos I t: butchers, d f l i v l mni waving repeal means. g n r pro vided s 4 they gave me the largest sum, that I would hand in their money first. I, therefore, beg leave to hand from them £l6O. (Hear, hear.) I am now about to make a motion of the utmost importance to the liberty of Ire land. I shall not say one word in support of it. It is that W. S. O'Brien, Esq., M.P. for the county of Lime rick, be admitted a member of the association. (Enthu siastic cheering.) Mr. O'CONNELL said that Mr. O'Brien had been an anti-repealer, but events had shown him that there was nothing but repeal for Ireland. He was honest as an anti-repealer—oh! he was honest and brave, now that he was a repealer. (Cheers.) The hon. gentlemen then entered on the subject of a federal parliament, which had been alluded to by the the chairman. It was for an ,independent parliament he was looking. He was firmly attached to the connexion with England; but he insisted that Ireland had a right to the revival of her le gislature. (Heir, and cheers.) He would reject no man's assistance who went any part of the way with him. Any man who wished for a repeal of the act of union might join him until some parliament would be obtained, and he (Mr. O'Connell) would obtain the best parliament he could with their assistance. There never would again be an attack on the part of the people, and if the government chose to continue the pre sent contest, there was determination enough amongst the people to continue it too, rather than resort to violence. The hon. gentleman next alluded to the letters of " Phi lalethes," in the Morning Chronicle, (the substance of which will be found in our columns.) The name of the writer of these letters was a Mr. Trevelyan, a secretary of the treasury, who was brought into office by the Whigs, and had been some time in the Indies, where he was laughed at by the people, as he was now by the inhabitants of this country, for his absurd statements. Mr. O'Connell proceeded to censure the letters, and declared them to be full of misstatements. He gave notice that he would make two motions to-morrow— one for a committee to procure petitions in detail from every parish in Ireland ; the other for a conciliatory ad dress to their fellow-subjects in Ireland. They were working as for all classes—for Presbyterian e o would and n t Protestant oeoept on any o Roman benefit for the Roman Catholics exclusively. He would not take the Repeal, if he got a Catholic ascendancy with it. ( Hear, hear.) He declared this most solemnly, and he thought he would be able to convince his Protes_ taut fellow-countrymen of this truth. (Loud cheers.) He concluded by proposing two resolutions—the first relating to the preparation of petitions from every parish in the kingdom, and the other proposing that a con. cilatory address to their Protestant and Presbyterian fellow-countrymen be forthwith prepared and issued. For his own part he solemnly assured them that he would not take repeal if it gave Catholic ascendancy— (Hear, hear.) ; Malt,- o q a r t s nie ; al o , a i t o s, loa e d ag s These resolutions having been adopted, the secretary Ex PORTs. _ continued to announce the sums contributed since last qr. ,Indian l.° Vg: brls.--Ireland. Wheat, 112 qrs. •, Beans, . q q rF r l' meeeting. The amount of the rent for the week was decl are d t o Corn, qrs. ; Flour, sacks, bits.—Coastwise. be—T,oo Thousand Two Hundred and Eighly-four 133 qrs. ; Harley, qrs. ; Malt, 11 qrs.; Oats, Pounds. Beans, 0 qrs. ; Pease, 0 qr. ; Indian Corn, 0 qrs At six o'clo c k the mee ti n g adj ourne d till one o ' c l oc k 0 loads; Flour, 315 sa c k s 301 brN. to-morrow. Avera.Re prices of Grain, for the week ending Oct. 14, 1913. Wheat 50S. ad. ; Barley 3os. ltl. ; Oats 17s. ld. Rye 30s .Od ULTANEOUS SIGNAL FIRES--MOVE. Be ans.. 30s. 4d. Peasethe.. 32sixi. e Id. - MENT .AMONGST THE PEASANTRY. averagea 7 g d a r e ß g ar at l e cy%. 10 Oats d 7f weekWYe Wheat 30s P The Tipperary Constitution states th a t " o n Th urs d ay Beans.. 30 s . gd. I ease.. 325. 1, night between the hours of seven and eight o'clock the whea..4.soalluty on Foreig n G ra i n , tte . this week. entire country was literall covered with fires. From Barley Fs Oft Usti .to 01 Ry e .. as lid Wiwi.. los t lnd.Corn Os Oil I Flour its old hout y every eminence throug the counties of Limerick, Ditto British Colonies out of Europe. Clare, and Tipperary, a tire blazed, and all shot into light Wheat.. is. Od. fr om ßarley - - Os. 6d. I Oats .. 2s. ad. Rye.. 2. lid almost simultaneously. Fires blazed on the public roads Beaus 2s. Oil 1 Pease Is. I Ind. Corn Os. od. Flour Os, ed and torch e s were seen to be borne along by th e Countr y people in every direction. It was really wonderful to LORD STANLEY'S ELOQUENCE. — Perhaps no quality witness the exactness with which each fire, for miles i stn ts tvelie L t o a r r d )i Stanley's eloquence is more deserving of notice than its natural and spontaneous character. No parlia round, blazed into light, almost at the same moment, an g d n u ( g ,e l s is t h ci o nt ra ra to c r ,e w ri h so. o o r r:itT. e7er :s ex o t l i m ib o i s te t d h his il Sa i rn simplicity of the organisation displayed by the incendiaries in lighting is not clas . ica t l ar i i ri es ii i is ,p ill io u i s t t y r t l i s ti e t o i t i o i e s r s a:n ro d language. This speeches, r i a le cy s, si cOris r icl . ered as literary come these signal fires was almost incredible. The meaning of those fires we cannot ascertain, but of this we are cer- thiOcrnoef-bhriesd - at r . us, gentlemen, proud of our country ; but let us preserve for that coon lry the character of a just and debt-paying nation. Let it never be said among the nations of Europe that the United States of America—the nation that had its birth in the glorious scenes of 76—the country of Washington -the example and great type of all modern republics— cannot or will not pay its debts ! " FOURTH EDITION. Standard-office, Three o'clock LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, Tuts DAY (From Messrs. R. Makin &• Son? Circular.) Our supplies are considerably increased since the close of the week, chiefly of Wheat, Oats, Flour, m nl Oatmeal from Ireland ; we have also to report several cargoes of Foreign Wheat Roundland, and 2,356 barrels Flour from Canada. The enhancement in the country districts during the past week, with diminishing supplies from the growers, has effected some amendment in Mark-lane, which, though barely equalling the advance lately established here, ap peared to confirm the improved tone of the trade in the early part of our market this morning ; but the millers acting very much on the reserve, in the face of a good sup ply of Wheats offering, the transactions in this article proved very limited in amount, and before the close new Irish parcels were saleable at only about the increased rates of Friday, except for very superior qualities, which reached a trifle more. Foreign Wheats were also dull, and made no more than on this day week.—Flour was held for Gd. to Is. advance, but sold with difficulty. .English M a lti ng B ar l ey var i es i n qual i ty from 325. to 36 5. per quarter. Beans more saleable, and Is. per qr. dearer. Pease in moderate request at the quotations. Prime M ea li ng O ats b rought 2s. sd. to 2s. 5 per 4 01 b., though in limited quantity only. Oatmeal was in better demand, at an increase in value of Gd. per sack on both old and new. Since the sale of 1.009 barrels at the close of the week at 21s. 9d., nothing has been done in Bonded Flour. ARRIVALS OF CORN. Fro►n the 17th to the 23rd Oct., 1843, inclusie COAST --- CANADA ir". WISE. , REIGN - - Wheat .. Ors. 11497 I 2331 Barley Qrs. 621 831 Malt Qrs. 182 I 812 Oats Qrs. : 11482 225 Rye Qrs. Beans Qrs. 268 12 Pease Qrs. ShelledDarleyQrs. Indian Corn. Qrs.. Rapeseed Qrs. Oatmeal .. Loads 7 511 i 26 9 Flour, Sacks 7467 i 41 Ditto Brls. • - Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise, Wheat, -- 1517 qrs. ; Oatme .1, :665 loads ; Flour, sacks. . ; Pe ;se, lour, 1021 s ; Indian Wheat, 25 qrs. ; Oatmeal, ! aye 30i , 4d [or no good n iosition divines form bis favouritellcv His were diction, even if the fact were not ,retalitiaitnSgi.i_nl!peieka,rityainidatihie, limore the hills were all "ablaze" nu Thum g. The lighting commenced about te❑ o'clock, Ra t n? thee 18,9_ THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LOSS OF THE AMPHITRITE By the arrival of her Majesty's sloop Fantome at Ports mouth on Monday last, information has been received of total loss of the British brig Amphitrite, Commander Mr. H. Wills, on the 21st of July, off the island of Lobasbere, near Monte Video. About noon on the 20th July she was close into Cape St. Mary's on the look out for a pilot, but none appearing, and there being a light easterly wind, she continued her course, and at midday on the 21st she was off the above island. The wind afterwards increased with great violence, and a heavy shower of hail and rain began to fall, and there being no pilot to be seen on the station, all her sails were shortened, and she hove to about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, with her head to the southward, the weather at that time being very thick, and several high breakers near her. She, however, still made way, although very little, going at the early part of the evening not more than two knots an hour. At 8 o'clock the weather had become exceedingly misty, so much so that the ship's length could scarcely be discerned, and every precaution was adopted in order to prevent ac cident, a man being constantly at her mast head, and the lead kept going. The captain, fearing from the violence of the gale that if he anchored on the spot she would be blown away from her moorings and every soul perish, de termined on keeping her under canvas, as from her posi tion he supposed she would make the Mount by the fol lowing morning. She kept going on very steadily till about midnight, when the captain went down below for a short time, the mate being at the mast-head, when he no sooner did so than he heard a distant shock from her striking forward, though in six fathoms, aft and hind. The captain instantly rushed on deck and put the helm a-port, which she answered, and the sails were set. The heavy serf, however, that was running kept constantly beating her on the shoal, and the crew expected every moment that she would be beaten to atoms, and they all meet with a watery grave. She soon got clear, and the captain decided on running for Monte Video, although the w,:ather was exceedingly dark. Accordingly the pumps were kept going, and the carpenters set to work to repair the ship. Unfortunately, however, she had received too great an injury, as the sea was fast flowing into the hold. Notwithstanding this the captain still kept her on the tack, and it was only at 3 o'clock on the following morn ing when the water was level with the cabin decks, that th' captain and crew, 13 in number, left the ill-fated ves sel in her boats. She soon went down in deep water, and the crew then steered for the above port, in doing which they encountered most tempestuous weather, the boat at one time being almost full of water and amidst breakers. At length, after the lapse of six hours, they succeeded in reaching Monte Video, greatly fatigued from excessive exertion and exposure to cold. At this port it appears the poor fellows were nut treated by the Consul in that kind manner which their destitute case deserved. They have, however, safely arrived in England. OBSERVATIONS IN RESPECT OF THE ISLANDS OF RASAY AND RONA, IN SCOTLAND. " The islands of Rasay and Rona form part of the Wes. tern Hebrides, situated in the county of Inverness, lyinz between the island of Skye and the mainland. Rona lies directly north of Rasay. RASAY " Rasay measures 12 miles. The breadth is 3 miles. The island measures 15.126 acres. At the north end is the island Tigb, separated only from Rasay at flood tide. .At the west side is the island of Fladda ; it measures 1 mile and 2 furlongs. Rasay, including Tigh and Fladda, amounts to 15,598 acres 2 roods and 31 poles. The island is divided or let into 22 farms. Total arable in the island, at present under cultivation, 1,266 acres. The island, or a considerable portion, may almost be said to be now in its naturally wild state. The inhabitants having no lease, have had no inducement to improve their land, but there are great quantities of land of good soil capable of being easily improved, and lots of respectable yeomen ready to occupy it on lease. Many of the glens present as beau tiful and as fine a surface as can possibly be seen. The mansion-house is situated at the south end of the island; it is of modern date, and is large and commodious. A sketch is shown upon the plan. The front is all of dressed ashler, from the freestone rock on the estate at Hallaig. It is erected on the Doric order of architecture, in a chaste and beautiful style, embellished with a magnificent stone portico, opening to a spacious noble hall. A fine spring passes through the estate. In fact, the islands are cele brated for the delicious springs which abound there in all parts. The garden is a large square area of some acres in extent. Near the house, on the beach, is one of the cele brated romantic caves in which Prince Charles was con cealed. Behind the house, and extending in a northerly direction to near Osgaiq, is a very fine plantation of elm and larch, extending to 15 acres. About the church there is a plantation of Scotch fir, beech, larch, and ash, ex tending to 26 acres. At Claim and Castle, the natural plantation extends to 310 acres. Between Balchurn and Hallaig are several very fine lochs, abounding in black trout, and the whole island abounds largely in grouse and blackcock. There is plenty of fine blue limestone ; and no doubt, if search was made, COAL WOULD ALSO CF: FOUND. Duncan, the highest hill in Rasay, presents from the summit one of the grandest panoramic views of Highland scenery in Scotland. On the east side the rocks are of freestone, towering above each other, rising in ma jestic height upwards of 3,000 feet above the sea, and in parts quite inaccessible, except to the wild gnats which abound on the rock, and which is known as the " Goat Rock," and from which issues a gushing stream of the purest water, providing a refreshment of the most delight ful descriptio❑ to the eager sportsman. In the island of Fladda there is abundance of slate. There can be no doubt that this only requires an enterprising tenant to se- cure an enormous inc, " Rona lies nearly directly north of Rasa, _ is four miles in length, and one mile in breadth. There is in several parts a large quantity of flow moss, that, with very little expense, could 13~ drained and hronqta nnilnr The. ishni cultivation. There is also in the Big Harbour plenty of shell sand, nearly equal to good lime, which migi,t be used to great advantage upon the ground—almost none is at present used. The island measures 2,414 acres, of which there is at present 156 acres under cultivation. The Bi , Harbour is a very safe and deep harbour. The island abounds in grouse and game of all sorts." AWFUL. VISITATION.—One, of those alarming and dreadful acts of God's providence—the fall of a thunder bolt—attended with fatal effec t s, happened at Cooper's row, Runcorn, on Thursday night week, about ten o'clock. The row consists of fourteen cottages, standing in a field near to the entrance of the town, and the electric fluid struck one near to the centre, entering the chimney, and coming out above the mantelpiece, passed through the room-floor about a foot from the grate, and descended to the house-floor hearth, around which were sitting the unfortunate occupier's wile and two children, another being in the cradle. The tenant, Thomas Moores, who is a atone-mason, with a family of six children, had re-, tired to bed a few minutes previously, and three of the children were also in bed in an adjoining room ; but the wife, who bad all her life been greatly afraid of thunder, was sitting up till the storm was over; and, dreadful to state, the electric fluid struck her, and instantly rendered her a frightfully mangled blazing corpse, dashing the chil dren against the opposite walls, and tearing up the flags of the floor in its downward progress. Poor Moores states that he was knocked out of bed down stairs, and r a r s h w e e n l l e a i gabseveral fetched e i c d l es a o s t f u c g l e o o t n h n b g u n t e ; t i near e t b l e w on coming to his se nses f oun d hi s wife ' s clothes on fire, m a c e e n . fi or re ‘ - v P o l was dead ; the two children and the infant in the cradle The house is literally a heap of blackened recovered SLAVERS AND PRIZE MoNEr.—The "Acorn," 16, sloop, Captain Adams, lately arrived at Devonport. Du ring the time she has been on the coast of Africa she has made no less than nineteen captures of slave-vessels, and that in the short space of two years and a half. On her going out to the coast in the year 1811 she made a good beginning, by capturing the noted slave brigantine " Ga briel," on board of which vessel they found 530 slaves. They fell in with her between Rio Janeiro and St. He lena. The Anna was the next slaver she seized, in which they found 500 slaves, in the most miserable condition. They were huddled together so close as scarcely to leave breathing room, and the miasmatic and unwholesome va pours that rose from the dens were almost overpowering. In a place called a cabin in the after part of this vessel, measuring 16 feet by 9, were no less than 219 females packed. An officer of the Acorn at first supposed it in credible that so many human beings could be squeezed into so small a space; and it was by formally counting the number that he satisfied himself of the fact. He said it put him in mind of the celebrated black-hole of Cal cutta. In the fore part of this vessel, reaching from the mainmast to the forecastle, 300 males were confined. This part was called the gaol, and was 50 feet long by 27 broad, the height being about 3 feet 3 inches. They were in a most impure and filthy state, and were forced from the lowness of the deck to keep in a sitting position, not hav ing room to lay themselves at length. Some of the other captures of the Acorn were eqnally important, and made with no less skill and resolution. The following revolting account of this demoniacal traffic in human flesh has been recommended to the attention of General Cass anti the American slavery defenders :—" The Portuguese schooner of 44 tons, the Esperanza, has been condemned by the Mixed Commission Court, and broken up for sale, agree ably to our treaty with Portugal. Her instructions con tain a tale of horror, requiring no varnishing to render it a romance. She was commissioned for the coast of Africa, for the Mozambique, and with a crew of ten men, and provisions for fifteen days (!) was to take in 220 slaves, or if small bales, so the slaves are termed, 250 ! and easily packed in a space of (what? gracious God!) the hold of a vessel of 44 tons, with a height of 32 inches—ay, inches ! between the slave, or under, and upper deck. Manacles and chains were on board to the number of 900 for another cargo; and with provisions for fifteen days was this fright ful freight—this cargo of human misery —to cross the wide a ft: n h from vesselgh ough dareto sleep she Atlantic, to traver s e, a t a bi r d' s flight, neatly 4,000 miles. Suppose calms, or ad verse w i n d s, or storms occurred— suppose the voya ge was delayel for twenty d a y s , to no slave to -ship space run ce ; o seek for assistan ce ; 250 human beings, without f oo d or wpoartter da crammed when lying down in one position for 20 days • and nights, in a hOld fetid with their own filth, without t'l • with a p u t r id an d foul atmosphere, ventilation, with on a deck 32 inches from the ceiling. Can any fiction, any romance, portray what might have been the bitter agony, the tortures of these Africans? A slave can be baft, or 10 pie ces o f bl ue cloth, say 205., and will f e t c h a t Brszd 480 doll ars , or often £l2O. The immense profit renders the slave traders regardless of human life • one slave in eve r y 10 , if b rought to Cuba or Brazils, yields' an ample retur:, ; and anxious as our cruizers are to check tins wretcliel traffic, the western coast of Africa is too vast and ext:nsive for the fleet employed to watch it." Oct. 24, 1843. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE CHESTER OCTOBER MEETING, --- STEWARDS. Hon. E. M. L. M OS TYN and J. JERvis, ESq. T im b r e x i: o s 1 • m ei cio Mr F R Price's ch f y ▪ •••‘"h n y Jo n es'sNTsbHTrAUacKdßßEd added. THURSDAY, sf A sh_l Y Hs, T2 , asaio o_ frv.,ras c s2. T ern o ya. re n .i :27 0 M- M • - - - dam by ▪ Son , /101 l Ar Mostyn's b f by Agreeable, - (1"-ri 3 vrs ............. Cop Sir W Stanley's ch fby Pantaloon, 2 yrs • ‘ i - A splendid race, and non by a be au ' .0; if' T 7 h l e 2 A r D CHESTER a,i e s H , s A : I :: C r A r r: n c S e T B A s K o E f s w o a r l e l: 8 ::: (0 ( e p i r 4 10 0 1 1 with 40 sous added. One mile-and-s - q ualle o r ri dlO °P '../ 512 Mr Speed's gr c Everton, 3 yrs ...... ;‘," Issu..A 8 6 Mr Thompson's b g Hudibras, 5 yrs ••ttleite SP" AGlirDpTsayvhiclodiuePerneteanlssoionst,aErtremde,ngAardgios;Alrorancle,,llaegA Woo. neck. v O A The SELLING STAKES Of 5 soya each, with 30 so- 0 . M f r o wr rd ,a , Mr Cooke's ch g Bedalian, 6 yrs .. (VVJ °l ' 1 / NN: ‘. N A, I:lrrrrr Birch Sutton's srt i ct i . e 3 loßi r i s e l n, Mr F Dycke's b f Venture, by g e LOrd Staf - tArt „...? 2 v .., a,nyrsps,r,rgsssbrsb ll ,oybsi bnF e gsgrg, a sTr t sgbp s bgui , gasr:s o stfapie. n lai niecv .cubnrcaeyi Slashing n r li,stie;H O oini ll onaert n diri. ndr:lyale..:a:.ena6.,.gd..4.y(e....awdryi y.s.. d (rr..s.s. j i . 5 .... i t(...( p a l::: I, n wiriari e ssarros o • ll:Lootgoe.obendr,r,),:it:l32o o ,4oo4 l lo 0, ;is. ; g aze d . . ... .. .. ... (CoPe lBll 4 0 0 A HURDLE RACE of 5 soya each, with 25 so° 9 0 1 . 0 u Heats, the Grosvenor Course. die ) 0 Mr 'Welch's br g Kirby L age d .. 4. . ; (w :e- d) 0• a Mr‘l s A i t l i e r p i n h s e o r n d :s s b br m g. Lady itu..dia o r f i t : h .s e .y L .r a .s k . . e, ov. cow 0) cidt 1 0 0° les) "0 0 5 yrs .. „ ..„ . . .... (Sb alP ell) ° f Mr Dawbcr names b g Ewbank, 5 q s •;,Cfr a ll o 3 ;o' Mr Gallimore's gr m by Japhet, 4 yrs (uam'-- LATEST BETTING AT MANCHOSIIII' gro.lied Last week's racing at Ne wmarket well our round betters. A fe . frida tin ge '0 metropolis, to wind up thellr'ac* g seaso n 3 o ll the several " departures" will take placein to-10°'— fiuensegissiitketatfroleluojil ; bet a hem. br i s k oo e On Monday and Tuesday we had some h I lac e ; eP t ‘ the events close at hand. These We s " 3 . B -1 03 P 0 6t ir e o c ag' side, and at once give the latest bettings,* 4 00 able on the eve of such a week as " the n° u ° A good room, and th us run the odds, S'e* THE CLEARWELL STA KES' 0003 fOop ' Even on Rattan (tak en ) b u t no mooeY c u 2 sgstr r if; he got on witho u t 6 t o 5 on the crack. s l ° 04 664) Day (offered, 4 to 1 wan t e d) ; 10 to 1 offereu a ° 40 to 2 was yesterday laid agst Ugly Buck' THE CAMBEIDGESHa tE• Blackdrop, Evenus, the Knight, and S e ?' 10 t° ofir force. 41 to 1 agst Heseltine (offere ) °l ) g oing s Dawson (offered) ; an d 100 t o 10 bar one 1 tern (offered). tak en) 7to 1 agst Blackdrop ( o ffered, 71 ken) 11 to 1 - Kni g ht o f th e Whistle (t a 11 to 1 - Evenus (taken) 750 to 50 - Coranna (taken) 300 to 21 - Coranna (taken) 100 to 7 Serniseria (taken four times) 100 to 5 - Nat (taken) 100 to 6 - Sister to Jessv (offered fr ee° 100 to 5 - Our Nell (taken) 100 to 4 - St. Lawrence (offered) 100 to 4 - Lady Sale (offered) 11 100 to 3 - Wh a t (t a k en , then offereui DERBY. 9 to 1 agst Ugly Buck (offered) 20 to 1 Voltri (offred, take 25), 20 to 1 Seahorse (offered, take 30) 40 to 1 Leander (offered) ( t to i li CHESTER TRADES' cu r ' s terA i te 100 to 3 offered on the field. Offers Yeb„; 0 25 to 1 agst Rattan f or C r it e rion and per ,110 01 1 Jelly was then back e d f ree ly a t 100's to 6, L B ! ` nrst s agst Drop; 11 to 10 on ly as k e d between tu cond choice. A thet„f departed this Yli life TrnHaEre El o belonging rt s E . to a e itra , View Park, Btl o iwell-her principal Cl'ial a the go notice being the fact that she had comPle ta i n to M r ;(1 d ie dinary age of full forty years. She Cam e a ttac h bertson's possession in 1818, having ° ea wh a le a° comparatively advanced age of fifteen Yesr s ' s 0 sa A s o rilif pletes the sum total we have stated• i° 'cl, S ri ' e )fr ' named, belonged to the hardy Highland bree bee str ir io the period of twenty-five years. sinc e , ab i l e is fs ail deg e fl Robertson's property , served him ari°,, w ith ° A i goi, plough, saddle, or gig, at kirk and (D arkelpt o. 'oo P . of faithfulness which made her known in o f eg f u l ii , bs i the surrounding parishes as the very typ e post h 'i e Ch b f k i delity arid perfection. Fo I tir n ' . 1 'g" - 61 : a long . a a r. aro° • nee P . bf been looked upon with interest, as a- , , st- ea longed to a race of horses that has 'et' r kiam - c oot"' away, and every one was anxious to show for ber 01 treating her to a " hained hip r fileb iag n id J a l 6l :6lcf ali butions from the corn kist. Inch is waY - n i e d, o 'ost!,,.: became hone-backed ; but remained "d aP L s t - b l- t glazie," to the very last, and in :,ppeara,•ol,ears! 90. A t o fel:7 r.d g3109b0e70-ri tilo'oii, a living contradiction to the great nualher three yesllrega: had passed over her head. For two or 0814 she had been rather a kindly-used pensienerf e sse ,6 , 11 $3 lir labourer, but notwithstanding this age c :ras g aill P iec o always put to any little tid of work tha t , lea tli• 0 ,; was in harness the very week before her ‘ ‘ - ', lit for sa posi, old Jess might have lived much longer, u 00 o in • lucky accident which hastened her deroi .se ' r eti u bia b 3 ing he b 0 a i week the vene • hl ia-e animal was eitlfn - t hroug, J t ol l_' paddock adjoining View Park Hous e ' ta rah` h e mirS., t e• burn meanders on its way, and having s f o r L., - ., orL i o she was unable to recover herself, and lay o istsT i ell4, fore her situation was discovered " d 8 eat Il I 'd She apparently recovered under the treat ta w - e st ta o tsi s D, applied, but was found dead in the s tab le __ b ad 6 ,0 0 0 . , caused no doubt, either by the injuries _ h ol ~,o r oc, in the pool, or by the strains to which alio f; 10 01 , v t ot s i is jected when drawn out of it. The old 11 , 4 00 00r a e t. lot buried in View Park garden with all the a firer fe .o 4! 0, in her own skin, and with her shoes oa ; I v be, ° o ol o o, have rarely heard of an instance of lotige!,;; sag 50 5 ,. 0 1, of this animal ;_ and her case may raise ii 0 1 . 0,i' he 0b0 that were this faithful assistant treated !'),_'' co iga , o , IV . ,: e p deration and kindliness the average of ing ar ie 0 0 a git s l ity lengthened. In fact, this supposition is ha ba l ti yer s o al. opinion of Mr. Youatt, and all others : i v it is n e oOrfoli on the natural history of the horse; a n a yea t be v 10 assumed by them that we should fora , , f r o° , c ecl• f 6 I v a. t rol 6 o _i estimate of the natural age of the an' d de s ne sir de e. period at which he is now worn out a r t l l l a ia qbe O. E d 0 recording instances of longevity, Mr. died at r ecel,;hisl; gentleman who had three horses that 1 .1" ell 30, 37, and 39. Mr. Cully mentions o i ,_, 171 J, pestc„o/1 ball in his neck at the battle of Prestottiold M• 000 was extracted at his death, in 1 758 i t died ;Bea fro°, gives an account of a barge horse tle oua tt,, t hat n 0 0 0 year. " There cannot," says M. i i , a thi s ' s t tg fr iatt% severe satire on the English patio n t ),.. hors es 0 ,y0... e d, the absurd practice of running our ra.cv iar ioti s ,i e fel a .b - elf three years old, and working o thers iti_ ea gth " 00 r1 ' i ot before their limbs are knit or their s'; for beY of t he 00 1, and cruelly exacting from them servic e h nart 0 teaist a sixt o f the R 0 0 powers, their ages do not average dor° s ert- e mentioned horse." The scientific aa• afe ly as tea / t ot Kingdom" declares that " it may b e c a l i n eterY t itue s ote r more horses are consumed in Englan.d in teti o is fs o , of than in any other country in the sv°l.n` warred s o c' a qeriod, excepting those that peris h i c onsi de ch eaP tu reli has, with the English, been long thou ght r ola 10 0% mere profit and loss, and it has heeil,,_ a nd P fo r I TO bring the young horse early into .u' l l a bit° us e or w rite( s t us 10 exhaust his strength, than tom a i gn o 41 re period, and at a considerableexpFnse'and WO itv matter requires much consideration' 11 4 101 1 foll°` 4 oa l 1, lion too."-Scofch paper. ~.--The , t he P r i 10 4 POPULATION OF GREAT 130.11Aliatiaa (Poo teresting table, exhibiting the P°P"..., the c e -.:--- cities and towns of Great Britain _d retail. , fl s . is compiled from the recentlY P ~."1 rer'''6o Eng. 1 "" a ; Vera' 544 bite. q. gl 00 .• stat. ga le ' 27 9 7 Acres. H,.. , ..f5 . 26699 3 53 5 ~n 6 370 ,' " 3507 7 ....../ igay o3o 8289 ................ _2v ii P'' ...,_....--• , 1 -,6 6 3 6666 City of London 600 16080 13 71_ 11 ,-...; 105 481 352 9tfu :',l Westminster, city 1, 2500 23 , " , 6 50 1 0, and liberty .. •• 1 4 5 47 7 ' , (1 1 9 ',/ Southwark borough 590 13S •• 9 967 - Av A O Adding other parishes • • .„," 0 8 1376 95 " ..---10, fir t go o Total. Metropolis 44850 ------,,-, 127 1 ,,s wv,•• ---- -----;; 11 58.4 j 27W , " - iio Manchester, borough 6070 429, 4 260 4 ...„, ~ <1 . 6 0/! , ,,, Salford, borough .. 1220 O L T._ --- --- r/ 16 1° 5 ' osi gi -----: e3 14 18., ......../ g Total. Manchester 7290 52ut ! .. ... ..------- 4 0 0 n ajio ------: ---'-- , q 7759 1 , 9 4 Ipl4 l Liverpool, bor. the 1 5 300 429 29 '''' go 61, 6 1 0 -•••• Park, &c. ...... 1 ' - 57" ofr 0777 , . 3 09 .--00 i Glasgow, city...... • • - i •- • ' --46 296 61 .._.../ 4.1 v "..a4.•% Do., suburbs .. • • • • ______- ,•8 1 ~./ i p --- . 4 ,11 13 041 ••••_:150 ' , 4 64 5i ..........--- 9*.- op r ~,a 36121 5 " _. 630- Birmingham , bor .. 18780 eba 11 165 5 4 13 1 311 0 Leeds borough and 1 91450 3162 v A . „ A yj ~,,' Town .. . ...... -98 24 '6 - 4) 'i '3O • • 8d 367 --- a I ....., E•' • • dinaugh, city •• • • •. 1430 0 - / ,CBs , ' ~, I A Do., suburbs ____. _ - - t i i 3 O ...! .. „,.. , 64 03 % 0 p . 220 08 __..---: sg?, l l ---. -----":; 2947 F, glw . 1840 9 q l " 259 11 ~•-•< 12!,, , 96 31 8030 ......------ 66W 1 ... ----- -- 7" s 539 2 ..---"" 1 09 n 189 07 a ~.----• --- 7 11 Total. Bristol .. 98 7 w ___.- -- 5 60 d ,O ----- -- 540 - iti "00 11 Sheffield, borough 1 22 830 22270 to oos 100 , 0 t . Clo or ce ding f or , and parish The above are the only ninlec.velie :F mtioa. :_ n ise t ,_ Britain having a population.resie j e l f: e p pp o l the p o i n c e k i ; by the census of 1841. I T l e 9 i 1 a° tbre than le Pff Britain in 1841 was 18,5 i ,!,eral'Av r oo_ f tv . w .. enumerated comprised conswi_fifthp° ' although somewhat less than o. !idiot/ of the island. City or Town. London, within walls Do., without walls Total. Glasgow . Total. Editaburgh Bristol, city.... Do., suburbs