The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-12 00:00:00

1446 4 the 1414cipla of Datil corntiawa, by the crotchetty member for Wolverhampton, we are quite content to leave it where it has been left by the unanswerable speech of the Vice-President of the hoard of Trade. For the present, therefore, we wash our hands of the subject, predicting only for the mo tion the Caine Y fate w hi c h b cfel its predecessor of last ear, with perhaps an O'Cobdenite outbreak, by way Of episode, to enliven the tedium of its last moments. e inserted in the STANDARD of Tuesday a letter f ront a correspondent who wished to ascertain if the London offices had refused to insure the proposed Albert Dock Warehouses, if built on the verge o f th e dock, We have made some enqu i r i es on the subject,n4 find that a d eputation was sent from this town to Londo a fete d ays since to confer with the metropoli tan otli n ces on the subject of the high differential rates , t 4 Premiu m on warehouses in " B" district, and we °.efieve the following determination, which was a por tl°n of the information obtained by the deputation, will be a sufficient reply to our correspondent's questio n T he London offices do n o t o bj ect to ware h ouses on theofnse dock q u ay's, but on l y to warehouses on the verge , "" quays ; as, for instance, those of the St. " and s Do c k , as distinguished from the London est India D oc k warehouses : the latter risks _ l eY take freely, w hil st they will not now take any re of Q.. n: A 'Katharine's; and for these reasons, " that alo " tl e night," they say, "the whole may be destroyed, th ereby with the s hi m r,bY. an There and the offices totally ruined tio is, it is as ser t e d, no p oss ibility o f cum3Part, if once f a i rly on fire, from the cir is to -alle e Y of the re b e i ng no means of access, as there warel i 4'"e lef t to place a fire-engine, between the At :44 n) and th e d oc k s. " d eenutati on eetin g of the London offices, to receive the You r doc i - c ' the 'chai rman sa id , dist i nct l y, that "i f rifle's, w arehou ses are erected, as the St. Katlia teia,to," 14 e urge of th e d oc k , t h e London offices 14e urge at isk any price whatever." LOCAL NEW S before th • the - applies tee. 41 P TO LO NDON.—Although it is nearly a month ti , e time for the abo ve trip, we understand . In. eentisse'orirticikets are very great, and it is expected that an i treat to nu m ber s or our townsmen will avail themselves of a n the Great un ,Metropolis. Petitia ° • n uaY night Sir Howard Douglas presented proposed li'l " us t 1 the li Commons against the t for th e ouse of two theatrical repeal of the act 10th of George II relating o °as _erformances. These petitions have been errone t—' represented tithe London papers as being against the °nand Corn Bill. Ass Afj lityr,L2s.—;.A.t the Police-court yesterday ;„ Thomas wlt.:..easy.zi,iisr-oeetfie,as nned 45 for an assault upon Ann i., rnev, in "ednesday ; and Michael Ketterick, u a carter,_ ames e ri x .._ l , a b a r? ii etl i d tr ln it a similar sum for an assault on J Ilting a distresso f ee arm was broken in the affray, whilst or rent. CH IJR ,, vice s, :ill MIBAIONARY SOCIETY.—The anniversary ser atr"Poitded tolveenrpitool, of the Sunday week . • and we hope tha!, -e aaure - 'of s eBtlMable institution . will derive an increased ar e co . Public support. The objects which it . has in view atiordettillPrehended in its nameopportunity is thus Eli I of doing good which no member of the Church a o r f i , t and is justified in passing over . i'he strangers who and eloql°llLitineeeed.to preach and speak are distinguished for piety th e i r 6 , conequently we anticipate much edification from , oPPort lat he great cause of church missions. un ia , ~" 8 ADAII AND EVE.—The charming pictures, 1 to be i,eillovee, now exhibiting at Postoffice- place, are shdor by who hay, baying been vi s it e d by many thotian Portions .11 expressed their delight on inspecting them.pers o n l s n , eolouri _ ot these pictures, for beauty of handling, delicacy of with the be st w 49 and spirit of execution, they may rank „standing their beau-'l B , by the hest masters. They are, notwithstanding 11161.4,,1Y; faulty, but those very faults . enhance .. their by d„,; butls'oe tation." is the most fa light. ' -7 lt Tie P Expulsion" is really wonderful by gas scinating picture , Pgn so , oUte s of t kt. ERAUTY ! — Amongst the most valuable attri- PuritY lod e " , whether regarded as conducive to manly rtsoeautifol o f aspect, or as auxiliary to feminine loveli 'Fine erfl b t elemeset of Teeth mustbeau ever .r rankto . loveli- The ,mbelle.l,enlents of a favourable personal appearance. pibtflay.. t,lisetrefloZve st, and enrt of regardedenednese at with p tl e i c e n T li e a e r t i h nt a e ri r d e Gu m bl e u o n t l' r othe Mass of preparations suggested for thesendoessira -01 To, or p e ,2 l ,sp, we would particularize ROWLAND'S . 11.14, iii. - jie)cettisi e i.s tL i kr n riee,ea(i: unrivalled Preserving these important and attrac Tap, c " half,o, (14:1'.0n the 4th of March, in the evening,. about we W ere r n 4-- all : c oming on deck from - tea, (at which time I ' s aw toerlY becalruecl,) the sky being quite clear of clouds, I took tl:e,7estward dscending directly after the sun . , wh a a t th eatwer l'e at light to e be a white cloud ; but on lookin Pa nne ss 4 1`,, 1 s aw a star (comet.) I captaincalled . the .eto s g e a e n i d t that nroit' but t hey did not get upon deck in . time Plain to -tit O n Sunday evening, the sth instant, it was degrees, cometnilo E rvin t„ seen !measured the distance with m th e end of the tail,—as near as quadrant i y ioss d ib t l o e 3 b o e ,a A b li o g li s t v p,l 9 r c l e ' g S r vu ees til , ii tt e n s d ,_ th e breadth of which appeare i„ . „t the ( Ld tA) t. be Bth instant,i:menselY (One of the lady assengers,) felt the heat fr e bright, so much so, _t o h m at frota aner arrival here (Jaen U otil o a tilaebnt did not ) ear .. about the earthquake p r pssed the islands Goutialoup „,u 1 tter dated anythingKingstoanicalluarri Litaerkt °ENIN G e t h he 3 l o 4 th th , i 1 i 8 is 4 t 3 a . ut.—Extra d .., POOl 1 0 , ioTite e.co lette r -'-''''°ffice, attached-° n to the department of t ti i i e e 1 "•— ' ,1 h Leeming, a clerk in the i 1 4 4 _ urt office, was placed before the magistrates, at_ on Tuesday charged with having stolen severl l e o „_ b. It appeared from ' the g *dence of Ramsay Lord, that theTequenee of numerous robberies having taken place PerpojerPool Post -office , he was sent down here kr . the ls ha v i e of ivestigating:the matter . ' Certain suspicions hrs og fallen up° d and at the ' ll ' e of th n the prisoner. search was rna-e, neeki ao _ . _e latter, a letter was found which contained a oPeo e ., 7 In the lining of the prisoner's drawers 897 : irttersn letter was found, which contained sixpence. These c our se 4,iost have come into the prisoner ' s hands in the lett ers , ° t his duty as clerk at the Yost-office. The prisoner whieVuanded for - exlats against JCR* D , in order to mature further evidence r oUel i bt;'oNos, Weroarlseety EVENING.—There was not iand a1t 0c ,.,,_ siness transacted in the public stocks to-f-aY, at e i ther th.. I 3 Market wore a heavy aspect. From opening eli o , ( 1 - t o a, Conisols, both for money and the account, de co°ff 180° 96 tt to 4, their final uotations. Bank Stock let bili s, „f to 1814 ; India Stock g 2654 to 2664 ; Exchequer -63:1d. issue, 635. to 65s ' remium ; the 2d. issue, 61s. .„Three; Plennum ; Three per P Cents. Reduced, shree.au'4-a-Half per Cents . Reduced. 1011 to I ; I ‘' e '. 4. 954 to , g , ties 127'd -a -Half per Cents -102 i to k; and Long Annul- S . ,Pee l 4l In foreign stocks " there was no peculiar feature. Llealer,-`l°° aPPears for the moment to have ceased, the tliaut,. no doubt waiting for a more favourable opportunity toilful" Present to push bara.ains of this description. Spam? 1 2 14 t 4, dull at 31k to 32 'f the Three per Cents., and at b ef ° 2 l for the Actives ; • I , ,_ o e .. rr e d 8 ,_. ,„. 40 to I ; Dutch If:, ried„ ci ;u a ,,,# , Vortugues,c. Converted , 01 . to 4 . l it lt, Per Cents., a d k to i ; .the Five per Cents., a , e leiti n I,', ,-,Janish, 85 to 86 ; Colombian,23 ~.: ' l3 741. ' I ‘ )2 t to 104 Brazilian is rather depressed at i 4 1 ij O'4l3' ft .lllig 0,,,,0 CHARGE,-- Maria Sutton, a respectable ° . 4‘ ue W.--.4 "' W as placed at the bar of the Police -court, ho p o;daY, charged With havin obtained goods from the tonthat 0„1%,11'. Bogerson, of Chu g rch-street. It was stated, , " oaturdav last, the" Prisoner went to the shop in nues" goods 'lid Putch.ased .goodtothe amount of £l5, which alionidae ordered should be a sent home as directed, and they stied Mr' Sutto n fo. When the goods were taken home, she j'iilld anal utt em was out, and she would be glad if the party (50 Mouday • n took the goods away v6i h I ,lin i : „„, teturne 1 • a bill: ""'-' carried iit on Monday.. She t k the parcel from o to him with the iii t a °, , l told hi ro ill' stairs. She returned of Mr. Sutton, (not Iv o hlenang2.Bt,to take it to the office t iler 55 e n o ;eet. as stated in the Courier, and perhaps 1 , e, ~,h_ occasion to say where). The bill taken was ~',l i ne o, ~en the clerk said it was for one of the ,young.gen :! e t0„,7°,1 he did not believe Mr. Sutton would pay it. ;I'eindow." Ile to Mrs. Sutton, whom he saw at the ~ Pe inquired kr her at the door, but she asa Wont ed `liv with 't Said tl tll i - oiler' is married, but does (l eht e I ,ia le nr . ittiii.,ier husband. This being a simple case of ar eri ,, iist the latter, the prisoner was discharged. [lt is ittltN ,i'bn_evcessary for us to remark, that the party alluded t to i Uri Isti'..e police report is not in any way connected Fire ti l e:, t :11.01 Widovv Sutton and Sons, of Pile nix from ro e ' ' o.se-streee East, as might be supposed 411. ma i d, in the report of the Courier.] . 1 4 1 : 41) E,y r ti'' 1. 4's—On Wednesday an inquest was held before ai d iry, on v . A iwi' r fUllt iew of the body of Mary A. M. Clarke, a 24th of i o , th„, , Years of age. It appeared that,. on the . . ‘,,,lialos:leceased WaS in the act of getting into a shandry , o.4nr Zestreet, when a lorry passing up came in contact iti • her 1f h d w her down and forced the oft-a hee o s an in .tie s , cutti n h . ' di ed , es whi .I. g cr arm to the hone, and causi other the re st erd• it' 1 when she , s he Angered until the 9th instant . ~ L e h I.eL•—•" Accidental death."—Same day, toucho?i., to "ie-strat jan e Lewis aged 22. She was a servant in hi uo weli. eet, an . don Monday last complained that she was c o t u loro• aa I. ° be unable to do her work. On the follow li I .lla he N she became much woNe and, before medical aid ati on • PONEed 81 red O ' p ost mortern exami cs„ it was , , le exp. na p q s e urtleatl loond that ulceration of the stomach was the I, - toe d a ,'• Verdict accordingly—" From natural causes." ... ki.te toe e ) t on .the body of Elizabeth Jameson, aged 2) : k"etitzt, i'llatilleresided in F inch•street. On the 24th of Apr i l e ha4eol,itta.hy fell dot tvof going up the kitchen stairs, when the t i N h i: he be ad ti, and .received a severe wound . on e l ie sd j ~ together with concussion of the brain. Sh ...,.Buledof therel from that time to the 9th instant, when ead at t'e day, oneuamion. Verdict—" Accidentally killed." W s , day , '''n the body of Jane Weedar, aged five years, vel a slog Grosvenor -street. On the 3d instant, she Alia el aild, 'g LaPtist-lane, when a dray belonging to Mr. 4, 0, her clotfewer,.going in the same direction, overtook her, sev,tl,,•itind tit h,eing caught in the offwheel she was thrown itijo,N. she ,'Peel passed over her right thigh, crushing i •les. Verdict euligered until the 9th, when she died of the ---" Accidental death." 654i.otellardin, t--T------,...__..-------.________ lad ,et ? ofV a Sir Charles Shaw, there were in 1840, in the ty I bakrliPci,he'ter, 1267 public-houses and beer shops, 4t riv i'l4 Y tan • 811°P8 * % sl ed dire rni g, two tuff t s Lit ,et f rona , , g steamers, Victoria and Albert, ° W th e ate 'iverpool, and after taking a supply . of 47d0 5 ,. e Wil,, a.to:hoat quay, left for Tarbert this her tied „,.,,14‘?1 Castle, ludiaman, ,019 ;:1,11.,e, t_Teurit . 111 ,t 5,000, as we stated, having been across to Liverpool, n x i . , ek 0, ILI claims of the Kilbaha pilots to salvage. 1 .I k , 13 ronacte, lllt° thet,lNrl,----Pronl inquire trade in Duke-street, we ek t w e4 tio /01•,-,tonel is not only g less debilitated, N 1114,11 , 1. ite first time Th 'h unable ! 41 trl4l fo ..e i s ~,, faryesterday, hal, in a t , _od i n „._ recovered as to be able to indulge n all 'iir:l°,festrietstrae.e f liquid diet, to which he has b% but that leN t r l Te h as bee _ it is hoped that now that the orifice ma} at at a , , b e di slbd 1 enlarged that the half sovereign in j.glafir,he Likt, ged by coughing.—Standard. tir, - ' O P of L,-,,,.. con -1 tile -n of t. ~,,...,100, on therespect the Bth of May, after t l 'tte d jeatlinit °f th e gave strict in unctions B _, di _ e 0 1 • 'at toeth ~. (0e Prayer for the church militant, . v n e " out e tls‘ Nn, 4r, and not the clerk, should gl en ?til l ; i ,:% he did e"4g. The surplice question is still ry ti ol? Le 44, t ` ct the cle rgy insist on the surplice being used this 14! are at liberty to act as they please in lu'° MitftlfiNti OP 'MU DOCK COMMITItiii; The following members were present at the meeting of the Dock Committee yesterday :—Messrs. Sands, (Chairman,) Holt, Holmes, Smith, Bulky, Evans, Boyden, Bold, Shand, Moore, Martin, and Tobin. On the recommendation of the sub-committee for the de partment of the Harbour Master, the tender of Mr. Hart well to supply twelve cast-iron buoy sinkers, of 16 cwt. each, was accepted. _ _ The same sub-committee also recommended that a capstan, to lift four tons, be placed on the quay of the King's Dock Basin, for the purpose of placing anchors, &c.—Couiirmed. The CHAIRMAN called the attention of the Harbour Mas ter's sub-committee to the flags placed at the entrances to the several docks; they were kept flying night and day at consi derable expense, in order to signalize vessels not to come in, and he suggested that arms of wood might be advantageously adopted. Mr. SHAND doubted whether arms would be seen in all states of the weather. Mr. ROYDEN said the flags were of no use except for about three hours before high water, and he suggested that at high water they should he hauled down. The CH AIRMAN had mentioned the subject, because it oc curred to him that the flags were more expensive, and not so useful as they might be. Mr. HOLT, on the part of the Harbour Master's sub-com mittee, said the matter should be inquired into, and a report made. The CHAIRMAN said the sub-committee on Warehouses had nothing to report; and Mr. HOLT stated the mode in which the offices therein had been for the present appropri ated, from which it appeared there was still one office to spare.—The CHAIRMAN observed that there was not suffi cient employment for the persons who had been appointed to the warehouses. Mr. EVANS said the committee should then endeavour to find them some employment. The CHAIRMAN stated that he had had a great many ap plications for situations in these new sheds; and he men tioned this matter to say that there was not sufficient em ployment for the three persons who had been appointed. . . . . Mr. HOLT said the sub-committee would make the best arrangements in their power. The subject then dropped. ..... ~. The CHAIRMAN then said be had mentioned to the com mittee, last week, that several protests, respectably signed, had been received. He thought lie might now venture to say, that those who bad signed those protests were in entire ignorance upon the subject, and that the committee would hear no more of them. Another protest had just been re ceived from an American house. Mr. EvAlls observed that the protests were all the same, and not one of the parties appeared to have really inquired into the matter. The CHAIRMAN added, that a great deal had been said out of doors, unnecessarily, about the unfairness of the Dock Committee. A good deal bad also been said upon an al leged want of courtesy upon the part of the committee, in not communicating with the American Consul. He (the chair man) should be sorry if the committee suffered in any respect through any inadvertency or omission of his, because, in this case, the fault would be his, if such were the fact ; but he had, in several notes which passed between them, told the American Consul that the Dock Committee had decided upon going to parliament, and verbally what they were going for. lie had told the American Consul the Dock Committee were going to parliament, that he (the chairman) was going to London upon the subject, and that if he (the American Consul) thought it necessary, he would state the object of the bill to Mr. Everett, the American Minister, to whom he requested the American Consul would give him a note of introduction.l2The American Consul said he was not suffi ciently intimate with the Minister to do that, and there (as we understood) the matter rested. He (the chairman) there fore thought that all had been done which it was necessary to do; perhaps it would have been better if he had written to the Consul, instead of speaking to him verbally, but there had been no intentional want of courtesy. He hoped the Dock Bill, notwithstanding all this, would go on satisfac torily. The conversation on this subject then dropped. An application from Mr. J. S. Jackson, on the part of the Woodside Ferry Committee, for the use of the George's parade basin by two boats of twenty tons each, to be used in conveying furniture, &c._, was read. . _ The SECRETARY read a clause from one of the acts of parliament, from which it appeared that the committee had no power to allow the basin to be used as a carrying basin. The CHAIRMAN stated, that some clauses had been se cured in the Peel Harbour Bill ; and although they were not to the extent which might be wished, still they were satis factory. The:SECRETARY read an abstract of the bill ; from which it appeared, that if vessels do not ❑se the pier they will not pay anything. Some discussion ensued on the vague terms of this clause ; and Mr. EVANS suggested that the mode of using the pier should be specified, but the committee did not arrive at any definite resolution upon the subject. The committee then proceeded to some financial business, after which they separated. At the Central Criminal Court, London, J. W. White, the captain, and Joseph Younghusband, the mate, of the brig Native, pleaded guilty to the charge of sinking that vessel in February last. Sentence was deferred. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, May s.—lmporters having freely supplied the offices with samples from the late arrivals, and the trade having shown a desire to purchase, a fair amount of business has been done since our last report. The sales consist of about 900 hogsheads and tierces of West India, and 300 mats Mauritius, at steady prices. No sales are reported in Bengals, the cargo per Argyle not having as yet been brought to market. Rums are more enquired for, but the supply is very indifferent.—Average price of sugar week ending May 2, is 345. 94-d. per cwt. THE CABUL DISASTER.—The committee appointed to collect subscriptions for relieving the surviving sufferers of those who were slaughtered in Affghanistan is now disolved and the following is a statement of the fund subscribed : Amount of subscriptions advertised and received, £4,832105. 3d. Disposed of as follows :—Amount paid into the Hon. Company's treasury and remitted to India, £4,124 6s. 4d.; amount paid Mr. Kershaw, as per instruction from Kurnaul committee, £lOO ; cost of advertisements, £415 ; clerks, £6O ; stationery, servants, messengers, postage, &c. £lO3 3s. 11d. ANTI-DUELLING ASSOCIATION.—An association has been just formed for the suppression of duelling. It consists of 320 members, including 21 noblemen, 13 sons of noblemen, 16 members of Parliament, 15 baronets, 30 admirals and ge nerate, 14 captains, R.N., 23 col/male and lieutenani-colo nels, 17 majors, 2G captains in the army, 20 lieutenants, R.N., and 24 barristers. They denounce duelling as sinful, irrational, and contrary to the laws of God and man. They also pledge themselves to discountenance, by influence and example, a practice which so greatly dishonours God. Cap tain Hope, R.N., and Mr. W. Dunmore, have become hon. secretaries to the association.—Standard. DECLINE OF SOCIALISM.—Robert Owen, and a number of itinerant Social lecturers, have just returned to London from a tour through the provinces, where they have bee❑ endeavouring to disseminate their pestiferous doctrines. Their mission has proved a signal failure, as they themselves confess that they were unable to enlist a single recruit for Harmony Hall. Failing in their provincial tour, they have turned their attention to the metropolis, where they are holding meetings under the pretence of discussing whether home colonization or emigration is likely to ameliorate the condition of the working classes, while they seize the oppor tunity of ridiculing religion, morality, and the social ties. But here, as in the provinces, all the exertions of Owen and his satellites are likely to prove labour in vain, as they can with difficulty secure an auditory, and when they do so, the greatest part content themselves with laughing at the rhap sody in which the orators indulge. CHANNEL HARROUIL OF REFUGE.—We rejoice to see that the subject of a refuge harbour in the Channel has been again revived. This is a project of Mr. Pitt, which, but for the demands of the war of 1793, would have been realised almost half a century ago ; and it is a project, the importance of which it is impossible to over-rate. A refuge harbour in a prominent position in a frequented part of the Channel, and in deep water, would obviate nine-tenths of the wrecks that annually occasion so much sorrow and such great losses. To such a harbour all vessels would, in threatening weather, boldly direct their course, without looking to the doubtful security of bad ports, that prove so often treacherous and fatal. The value of such a harbour is, therefore, not to be measured by the losses that have occurred in its immediate neighbourhood ; it would be the means of safety to the whole channel navigation. Dover is the site which we have heard preferred by most naval men, and a refuge harbour at Dover would at once render hartnless the Goodwin Sands, except in cases of gross mismanagement or indiscretion. We prefer to dwell upon the pacific advantages of such a harbour, but its uses in time of war could he so great that it were in justice to the subject to omit them. A dozen line-of-battle ships, and a dozen first-class war steamers, with transports, &c., riding in deep water at Dover, with the facilities of rapid approach now about to be secured by railroads, would leave the whole west coast of Europe, from the Baltic to the Tagus, absolutely at the mercy of Great Britain. Had we possessed these advantages at any time in the twenty years from 1793 to 1813,h0w promptly could we have terminated the war that so long tormented Europe, and cost this country £2,000,000,000. Such an easy outlet to the incalculable power of England presents a prospect which it would be the extreme of rashness even to sketch in outline.—Slaudard. DESPERATE ATTEMPTS AT MURDER.—On the morning of the ht of May, at Oxfold, within one mile of Kiltemaugh, a deabolical fellow named Canavan attempted to murder the servant girl of Martin M'Donagh, who, with his wife and family, happened to be at the fair of Balla. The fellow en tered M'Donagh's house with a view of committing robbery, but, finding the servant unexpectedly present, he set about murdering her in the most brutal manner. On her neck he inflicted with a sharp knife no less than 18 wounds, and cut off one of her fingers. He then jumped on her body re peatedly, having first struck her head three or four blows with a heavy iron spado. Conceiving that he had deprived his victim of life, Canavan walked up to M'Donagh's bed room, intending to plunder every thing lie could lay his bands on. The girl crawled out on the road, gave the alarm, and through the exertions of that active magistrate, Mr. Deane, and constable M'Guinness, succeeded after a short time in having her ruffian assailant arrested. lie is now in gaol. On the night of Thursday last as a servant boy named Mulli gan, in the service of Mr. P. Boyd, of Mount-Gordon, was returning home from this town with some commands for his master, he was met at or near the Pigeonhole, on the West port road, by a boy named AndrewDuett, who accosted him saying, " Why did you laugh at me as I passed you on the road ? ' Mulligan denied having done so, when Duett re plied, " You lie, you did, and I will put you from hum bugging me," at the same time making a thrust at his breast with a knife. Mulligan warded off the deadly blow by throw ing up his arm across his body, when he received a desperate and dangerous wound on the under part of his arm above the elbow, cutting in two the artery. The poor boy was con veyed to the County Infirmary, where he now lies without a hope of recovery.— Castlebar Telegraph. A plan of considerable magnitude has been set on foot, and will soon be carried out, on the Birmingham Railway, for the improvement of the men employed upon it. A library is being formed, consisting of works of a moral, historical, and religious nature, for the use of the porters, policemen, &c., upon that extensive line. There are about twenty-two stations, and forty volumes will be assigned to each station, to be changed as soon as they have been read through. The plan has been made, and is being carried into execution, by the company's chaplain at Wolverton, the central station of the line, where a great number of workmen are congregated, and where considerable improvement hasalready been effected. This is the more interesting as it will probably be followed by other railway companies and public bodies employing many labourers. The directors of the Grand Junction Rail way have already appointed a chaplain at their station at Crewe, and may be induced, in this respect, to follow so good an example. We hear, too, that a library has been established in the workhouse of St. Matthew, Bethnell Grecn. The re lieving officer, from a desire to afford instruction as well as amusement to the inmates, has succeeeed in inducing the Board of Guardians to allow a small circulating library to be placed in the institution, consisting of such books as are ap proved of by the Guardians. There are at present 500 vo lumes, consisting of books upon religious subjects, history, &c., the reading of which by the aged and infirm has afforded to them great relief during their abode in the workhouse. We announced, some time since, that libraries had been es tablished at the several London police stations; the works either to be read at the station-houses, or taken home under res t r ictions ; also amo ng th e servants at the Athenaeum Club. o T f h t e h c e h on u s mle id b era r cl tea a t s t s e e n s t:o w n h t i o ch th h e as am m u a s rk em ed e n th t e an la d st il ; e s 7 tru y c ea i r o s n , has already borne its good fruits, and will become y more manifest. rig POLYTFC:I - IKIC fiOCIETY The timnthly meeting of this society took place on Tuesday evening iast, at the Royal Institution, and the proceedings were of a highly interesting nature to the scientific comnio nity. The chair was occupied by .lour GRANTHAM, Esq., the president, who culled on Mr. Adie for his promised paper ON M ETA T,S Mr. Ante read "Aa account of experiments on the changes in density and crystalline arrangement of metals when cast or drawn through a steel plate or roller, and after • wards annealed, under various circumstances." In stating the object he had first i❑ view at the commencement of his inquiry, he showed a thermo-electrical arrangement of four bars of bismuth c•ooihined alternately with four bars of anti mony, capable, wh,in heated at one extremity, of developing chemical action, which electralized copper i❑ sulphate of copper solution of 201) of Fahrenheit, at the rate of 22 grains per day, thus producing the total weight of the bars in 164 days, or 174 if the equivalents of the metals engaged be taken into consideration, while the battery, to all external appear ance, had undergone little or no change. To produce this chemical effect it was necessary that the bars be equally heated, so that one end had a temperature of 250 degrees greater than the other. It was to ascertain if any change in density or mechanical arrangement of the particles of antimony and bismuth could be shown as an equivalent for the power which transfers oxicidizable metals from pole to pole that the experiments commenced. To enter into details of their connection with thermo-electrical currents would be foreign to the present ob ject, and he would confine himself to what he had found to be the invariable accompaniment of a long continued unequal heating of the bars. When a bar of bismuth was soldered to another of anti mony, with pure bismuth for the solder, and the two were heated for a length of time, in rending the joint asunder, a minute disintegratio❑ of the bismuth or soft metal at its sur face of contact with the antimony was observable. The al teration was so slow that it required 40 days' constant une qual heating, the joint being always near the melting heat of bismuth before the change was distinctly visible. With 150 days' action he found the joint to separate with a slight touch, and a very small quantity of the bismuth was removed in a pulverent form by gentle rubbing. While this fraction of a grain of metal was disintegrating at the heated surface of contact of the two bars, a force had been developed sufficient to destroy 7 oz. of copper. As the generating battery weighed 8 oz., it was evident, from the rate given, that it was capable of depositing twice its own weight in a year, under a conti nued current of heat. He had employed three methods for examining the change of metals :—first, by the fractured surfaces ; second, by their specific gravitits taken with a delicate balance,—suspending them by a horse hair, and weighing them in air and distilled water at a uniform temperature; and third, by the galva nometer. As the application of the third mode of measuring changes in metals might be unknown to some of the members, he might state it had been shown that, if we hammer a piece of platina wire, connect it to the extremities of the galvano meter wires, and then apply heat near the hardened part. a thermo-electric current was indicated by the instrument. The deflection of the needle in this case was small ; but if a slip of soft watch sprinc , with a hardened portion in its centre be substituted for the platina wire, a far more energetic cur rent was developed. The effect was only observed during the period of change in the temper of the steel, and this change in that metal was invariably accompanied by an alte ration in specific gravity. (The lecturer here sheaved the experiment with the galvanometer, the needle within which was suspended by a delicate hair : the effect stated was quite obvious—in the magnetic deflection on a brief application of flame to the hardened part of the watch spring. The same experiment was more fully shown at the conclusion of the lecture, and excited much attention.) The experiment ap peared to him to be of much importance in connecting changes of density in metals with the generation on it of thermo-electrical currents. With a number of similar expe riments on other metals (which he afterwards gave) depended the application of the galvanometer as a delicate test to indi cate that a change in density was going on in a slip of metal. He then gave the, examinations he had made of each of the metals separately. How far the results were new he was not sufficiently acquainted with the labours of others in the same field to decide ; but, if any of them should serve as guides in the practical uses to which metals were so extensively ap plied, his object would be fully attained. " Antimony, bismuth, and zinc are (he continued) distin guished among metals for their highly crystalline or lamellated texture. With them we can readily develope what is techni cally termed large and small grains in their most varied forms, and consequently any source of minute change in texture. Bars of antimony cast in a cold mould present a very short steel-like grain at the low end of the mould, which gradually increases in size toward the top. The obvious cause of this is the difference between the rates of cooling of the fluid metal at the two extremities. The top of the mould is always heated before the antimony fills it from the stream of metal passing down to form the bottom of the bar. The density at the top of the bar is „ at the bottom Here the metal of small grain is 1.47 th, or fully 2 per cent. specifically lighter than the large; but loss of density is not a necessary consequence of the small grain ; for several pieces were melted and slowly cooled with a large grain, and their density taken, and again remitted and poured on a surface of dry ice, where they rapidly sink themselves; but the upper surface continues dry until the whole solidifies. Such pieces possess a very fine grain, but what is remarkable their den sity is exactly the same under both methods of cooling, and the result differs entirely from what we find in the mould." He took great pains to verify by repeated experiments the loss of density in this metal at the lower part of the cast bars in the cold mould, and invariably found the relative specific gravities already given. They could not be - .ccounted for by a greater liability to porosity in one part than in another, for on breaking up some of the light specimens not a single pore could be discovered. The chief difference between the two cases was that in the mould the metal was confined on all sides, while the pieces poured on ice had a large open sur face to flow upon. The sudden cooling of the whole bounding surfaces of the bar, while the metal in the centre was yet fluid, in all probability occasioned the loss of density, for light specimens gained density by annealing. If this were done in a sandbath, at a uniform temperature, with pieces of different specific gravities, the rate of gain was invariably greatest in those that were furthest from the natural density of the metal ; so that the state of a light bar of antimony was very analagous to hard steel : both having their four bounding surfaces quickly cooled, they lost density, which was regained by annealing. In endeavouring to ascertain if long continued heating would change the grain of this metal, he expected that light bars, with their density and grain in a strained and unnatural form, would be best adapted for the purpose, as they had been found readiest to change in specific gravity ; but before he could rely on any inferences drawn from apparent varieties of fracture, he found it necessary to examine bars cast with metal at different temperatures, in hot and cold moulds. From the appearance of these at various points the operator might predict the nature of the fracture. Four bars were now placed side by side in a de-oxidizing flame, and allowed to remain 120 days. The part enveloped in the flame was raised to the faintest degree of redness per ceptible in the dark, so that the small grained portion must have approached nearly to the melting heat of the antimony for three months, yet after this action not the slightest alte ration in the size of the grain could be discovered. An at tempt to change the texture of the bar succeeded by another mode, but it amounted to a violent disruption of the parts, which were heated to near the melting point and quickly cooled in water. At each succeeding process they lost spe cific gravity. One specimen, three times heated and cooled, lost 1.2-Ith part of its density. This great change annealing could only in part restore, for the fracture of the bar showed the lamina: to have been shattered in every direction, with an unsound appearance in the centre. Bismuth in some respects resembled antimony. IN'hen slowly or quickly cooled with a free open surface, there was no change in its density—a property which distinguished bis muth and antimony from other metals. But when bismuth was poured into a cold mould, the lower extremity of the bar was found to be light. The mould could be readily raised to the low heat required to fuse the metal, when the difference between the top and bottom of the bar was reversed, the lower half becoming denser. In one respect these metals differed. Antimony generally gained by annealing; bismuth always lost. He found these results by similar trials of both me tals. Bars of bismuth heated several times and plunged in water lost 2 per cent. of its gravity. This, as in antimony, was, due to fissures, produced during the violent dislocation of the parts. The rate of annealing of bismuth was greatest with those cast in a cold mould ; in these cast in an open surface no change arose by long annealing. These variations were confirmed by the galvanometer. A bar of bismuth cast in a cold mould is broken in two, and one half annealed and the other not ; when the necessary connexions are made with the galvanometer, and the two broken surfaces joined to gether, on heating the joint the deflection of the needle in dicates the passage of a powerful current from the soft part to the hard ; but had the mould been heated, the same de flection could not be attained—thus confirming the results given by the balance. Operating with antimony in a similar manner, energetic currents were developed, but not constant in their direction—for if the upper half of the bar is soft ened, the needle shews that the current passes in the oppo site direction from what is given when the lower half of a si milar bar is annealed. Antimony and bismuth did not possess malleability, by which their crystals could be broken ; but cast in a cold mould was an approximation to this, increasing their strength even when they lost density. Zinc, in additioa to a highly lainellated structure, possessed malleability, and as in a practical application of metals it was sought to retain the grain when the crystals were destroyed by rolling, hammering, or drawing, on account of superior strength, an examination of the changes in this metal was more likely to be useful than the other two. He had tried to alter the small grain of a suddenly-cooled bar of zinc into a large grain by long annealing, but, as in the two other cases, without success, until the temperature was sufficiently high to pro duce partial fluidity. With the drawn or rolled metal a dif ferent result was obtained. Zinc was always densest at the lower part of the casting : the density rose with the rate of cooling. This effect was opposite in antimony and bismuth, which might be accounted for by their expanding when they passed from the fluid to the solid state, while zinc contracted. Other metals that also contracted in like manner lost den sity by sudden cooling, and therein corresponded with anti mony and bismuth. Specific gravity. Zinc poured on an open surface and slowly cooled 6.924 „ on dry ice .. „ in a cold mould Poured with a large unconfined surface, the gain is 2 per cent., or 4 per cent. when we compare a slowly-cooled piece with one cast in a cool mould. By rolling or drawing zinc at a temperature of 300 degrees, the density is increased — the grain much resembling steel in its fracture. If it be in this drawn state annealed for two or three days at a tempe rature of 200, it will become much more brittle, and the grain coarser. If a hard-drawn wire of zinc be cut in two, one-half of it annealed and joined to the other, and both connected with the galvanometer, a powerful galvanic effect is produced, and the direction of the current is from the hard wire to the soft, as in steel, but different from all the other metals except antimony, in which the development of the current is influenced by the conditions attending the casting of the metal. (The lecturer exhibited a variety of pieces of small bars of the several metals on cards, which illustrated his opinions in a pleasing manner.) (To be concluded in our next,) CUSTOM HOUSE FRAUDS.—In a former number we gave a statement, showing the manner in which frauds had been committed on the revenue. Within the last few days fur ther light has broken in upon the Board of Customs, tend ing to implicate several of their officers, and the consequence has been that three landing-waiters have been suspended ; and it is rumoured that others have been found to be con nected with parties already notorious for their evasion of the Customs' regulations. It is understood that many important revelations have been made, tending to inculpate parties moving hitherto in respectable walks of commerce.—limes. FATAL ACCIDENT WHILST SHOOTING. ---All inquest was held on Wednesday last, in the township of Leyland, before R. Palmer, Esq., coroner, on view of the body of Willi am Tomlinson, who met with his death under the following cir cumstances ;—The deceased, who was about thirty years of age, and by trade a joiner, was in the habit of going out to shoot birds. lie had left home on the Monday; and on Tuesday he was found quite dead, with his gun by him, and a gun-shot wound in his right side. It is supposed that he had passed his gun through the hedge with the intention of following; and that, the gun being cocked, the trigger was caught by a twig, and the contents must have P i erced his side. 6HUAT PhOTEMV4I, I WeitTINO On Wednesday the annual meeting of the Protestant AS sociation was held in the great room in Exeter-hall, wuich was well filled, hut, as usual, by far the greater number of those present were of the gentler sex Mr. J. P. PLUMPTRE, M.P., took the chair at 12 o'clock ; and after the niceitrig had been constituted by a prayer from the Rev. Dr. Holloway, lie congratulated the meeting upon its ',umbers, because it proved that they were not yet all un pretestantized. (Cheers.) He called attention to the num ber of Catholic chapels which were in course of erection, but inure especially to the popery which had sprung up within the establishment itself, and contended that these were circum stances which not only fully justified the association in the course it teok, but urgently called upon them to extend their efforts. In relation to the latter circumstance, he said lie was sorry that the episcopal trumpet. of the whole bench had given so uncertain a sound against the doctrines sent forth from a place in which th e y h a d a right to expect other things. (Cheers.) The SECRETARY then read the report, which. was a very voluminous document. The committee lamented the success which the Catholic church had met with since the revival of the order of Jesuits. It was evident to them that the church of Rome was determined to spare no effort or expense for the purpose of extending her influence in this country, by which Means she hoped to extend it through the world. They in stanced as one of the signs of the unblushing effrontery of Romanism, that a Catholic member had placed on the books of the House of Commons a notice of motion to abolish the oaths of supremacy and abjuration. The receipts during the year were £1528; the expenditure £1399. After paying off £lOO, the debt remaining was about £BOO. They called for the continued and increased exertions of the friends of Pro testantism, which was now threatened with great danger. Major BROCK moved that the report be adopted, printed, and circulated, under the superintendence of a committee. The Rev. E. BICKERSTETH seconded the motion. After reading a charge given by the Archbishop of Lyons, which had been published under the sanction of the present Pope, Gregory XVI., in which the Virgin Mary was set at the right hand of God, he said that proved that the Pope was the Anti-Christ—the man of sin—the very Babylon of the Reve lations. (Cheers.) As to tractarianism, be deeply lamented that it had shown itself within the establishment — he disliked the name they had assumed—Anglo-Catholic ; it looked so like Roman Catholic—(cheers)—they were too much like twin sisters. The present Pope had most accurately described the Tractarians, when he said " they wanted Popery without the Pope." (Cheers.) They wanted to make the church the Pope. Let all his reverend brethren preach Jesus ex alted, and Popery, and Tractarianism, and all bitterness to wards Christian Dissenters would fall to the ground, and they prepared for their heavenly home. The motion was passed unanimously. The Rev. R. J. M‘GHEE was then called upon, and said, that after a period of severe sickness, in which he had calmly and deliberately reviewed all his conduct in connexion with the association, he was prepared to say, that he could not re tract one single expression which he had ever used against the Papal apostacy. or against any individual lie had felt it his solemn duty to impugn, from the first time he had stood on that platform till that moment. (Cheers.) On the contrary, the more calmly he considered, the more accurately he hives tigated the principles of the Church of Rome. and watched the conduct of those in her hierarchy, and her demagogy ues who were carrying out those principles, the more he was persuaded of the truth of the awful inscription which the finger of God had placed upon her forehead, " On her fore head was a name written—Mystery." (Cheers.) The rev. gentleman then went into a history of his exertions, and those of the association, against Romanism up to the pre sent time, a full record of which, with full proofs of his charges, lie had lodged in each of the universities, and he challenged any Roman Catholic, clerical or lay, to go to either of them, and deny the truth of one of them. Dens' Theology was a decent hook in comparison with many which had been published under the sanction of the Pope and his bishops in Ireland. He then quoted largely from a book written some years ago by the present Pope, iu order to prove that he claimed the powers which the Pope claimed in the days of Hildebrand,—he claimed that the government of the Pope was the government of God; that, as Christ's vicegerent on earth, his government and power were equal to those of the Son of God ; that he was infallible, and therefore he was entitled to art absolute submission, which was to be enforced by excommunication, which was an awful power, when act ing upon the mind of a benighted though sincere believer in the doctrines of the church of Rome. The next document he used was the pastoral letter issued by the Pope upon his accession to the popedom in 1832, wherein he enjoined the clergy of his church to adhere strictly to the directory for priests, in which it was asserted that the Pope had power over all princes ; that no heretic prince could rule over the faithful (Roman Catholics); and that the Pope had power to excommunicate princes, and absolve those owing their alle giance from all oaths, until they (the princes) had made their peace with the church. Also the bull in which it was de clared that it was necessary that the Pope should have both temporal and spiritual power; that he should wield both swords for the salvation of souls. Bellarmine was an old writer; undoubtedly he was; but a reprint of his book was now issuing from the press in Rome, under the sanction of the Pope himself; yet, in that very work 18 reasons were put into the mouth of a heretic why he should not he put to death ; the whole 18 were overruled, and it was decided that all heretics should be put to death wherever the Pope had power. (" Shame.") In the same book, now being pub lished by the Pope, it was laid down, that the Pope could not err in morals (a laugh); ay, even if the Pope should say that crime was no crime, every Catholic must believe it—he was bound to do so under pain of spiritual censure. Had the Pope, in those days, acted upon the claim he made to tempo ral power? in 1841 lie issued an allocution on the subject of the affairs of the church in Spain ; arid in 1812 he com manded a jubilee in Ireland in favour of that church, which jubilee the hierarcy in Ireland were obliged to order. On that occasion the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ossory issued a pastoral letter, wherein he called the attention of every Ca tholic within his diocese to the seizure of the funds of the church in Spain; and told them, that the aristocracy of Ire land now enjoyed the property which had been wrested from and of right belonged to the Catholic church. The allocu tion to which he had referred denounced the government of Spain and threatened all with spiritual censure who obeyed them. 'l'he Pope had also grossly interfered with the govern ment of her Majesty in a recent instance in Gibraltar. There was a Catholic church there, which hitherto had been ma naged by laymen. A priest from Maynooth had been sent out, and lie claimed to have the whole management centered in himself; he was resisted, and the laymen appealed for protection to the magistrates of her Majesty, who decided in their favour. An appeal was had to her 'Majesty's Privy Council, who also decided in favour of the laymen. The priest then appealed to the Pope, and he showered his censures upon his opponents, and denounced both the magistrates and her Majesty's Privy Council as heretics. He had before proved that hulls which he had brought to light,and which were denied by the Irish Roman Catholic bishops, were now in force in Ire land. He would ask were the Roman Catholic statesmen of Europe less ignorant of the nature of those bulls than were English statesmen? Yet the Roman Catholic statesmen had refused toallow them to be published in their various countries; it was only in Ireland they were received, where they worked for the overthrow of the Queen's throne and the subjugation of the liberties of her subjects. God forbid that he should say a word against the poor Irish Roman catholic ; no, it was for him lie was pleading, against the villany of the Ca tholic hierarchy. The question must now engage the atten tion of Parliament; it had become a question of strength between the Government of the Queen and the Government of her Majesty in her own dominions. Tbe system of agi tation which was now going on in Ireland was no more of a political movement on the part of Mr. O'Connell than it was of his (Mr. M`Ghee's.) (Cheers.) It was only one part of a widely spread organization for aggrandizement ordered by the Pope. The rev. gentleman concluded by moving, "That, from the statements laid before the meeting, and the satis factory manner in which they had been proved, it appeared that the daring assumption of the Pope, and the advance made by the Papist apostacy to obtain spiritual influence and temporal power in this country, it was the duty of all who were faithful to the cause of Christ's true religion, who were loyal subjects, and who were anxious to maintain civil and religious liberty, to do all in their power to rescue our fellow countrymen of the Roman Catholic faith from their anti- Christian yoke, and to maintain that civil and religious liberty which was established at the time when the Protestant Sovereign was placed on the throne." was Colonel pu t an A d r f a ; a g r x e s e d r t to unanimously., M.P., seconded the resolution , which The Rev. H. STOWELL moved,—" That at the present juncture of ecclesiastical affairs the laity are specially called upon to ascertain their spiritual rights and maintain their spi ritual liberties, since they are as deeply interested in the great struggle which is now going on within and without the church of England as the clergy themselves." He had not then to deal with political Popery ; he felt with his brother M'Gh3e that that part of the subect was now taken out of Lucie nands, and must very soon pass into those of the Go vernment and the Legislature. It was his duty to call their attention, not to what was transacting out of the church, but to what unfortunately was taking place within her own bosom. Were they living in the 19th century, in the 4th of our blessed reformation, and yet, in the words of his motion, was it to be asked whether the laity formed part of the church or not ? (Cheers.) Were the laity going to stand by, and supinely allow the faithful of the clergy to fight the battle of civil and religious liberty, and the principles of the blessed refoomation, without their support ? Were the clergy to be placed in the fore front of the battle, to put down the mummeries of the " modern Jesuits in disguise," unshielded by their powerful support? (Cries of " No," and cheers.) The clergy were made for the laity, and not the laity for the clergy, as the Tractarians now taught ; which the rev. gentleman proved by reference to several of the Epistles to the Apostles. The laity must hold by the right of private judgment. If they once gave that up to the Oxford divines and their followers, they put out their own eyes, and the clergy would have them as fast bound in chains as ever the Philistine had the man of strength. Those divines were carrying their followers so far on their way, that they found it impossible to stop short of that goal to which their teachers, had they been honest, ought to have preceded them—the bosom of the church of Rome. The Rev. CARUS WILSON seconded the motion, which, like the otherc, W pa..sPd 1111.1iiinouuly. A vote of thanks to the chairman, for his kindness in pre. siding over the meeting and for his able and zealous exer. tions in the cause of Protestant truth, was moved, seconded, and passed with acclamation. Mr. PLUASTRR briefly returned thanks, and the meeting separated. Amongst those present were--Mr. J. 'lardy, M.P., Mr. Round, M.P. ; Captain Harcourt, R.N. ; the Rev. Mr. Thelwall ; the Rev. Hobart Seymour, Mr. J. Lord, &c. We have heard it confidently stated, previous to the late examination for fellowships at Oriel College, that the candi dates were required to give a distinct disclaimer of the prin ciples of interpretation advocated by the notorious Tract 90. If this should be the case, it would seem to imply a declen sion of a certain influence, latterly supposed to be paramount in that society.—Oxford Chronicle. We are informed that, in the year 1841, Mr. Burn, of Helsington Laithes, an extensive farmer in the immediate neighbourhood of Kendal, on purchasing a flock of half-bred Leicester sheep, at Penrith , gave for th em t h e average pr i ce of 335. per head. In 18 42, the flock bought by the same gentleman, of similar age and quality, cost but 275. per head ; and, on Monday last, he purchased a stock of th e same ki n d, from the same person, and at the same place, in all respects equal to that of 1841, for 17s. a hea d--Kendal Mercury. A rumour prevails that government contemplates effecting a considerable saving by reducing the price of " savings" of provisions in her Majesty's ships, particularly in the article of biscuit. For every pound of biscuit which seamen do not take up as their allowance they are paid the sum of 21d., which is equivalent to Is. Bd. the gallon of bread of 8 lb. It is expected that henceforth the pursers will be ordered to pay the sum of lid. per lb. only, which will then make the 8 lb. of bread Is. ; and as the price varies from 10d. to 11d., the men will still be able to purchase white bread if they pre fer it.—United Service Gazette. THE MISSING PRESIDENT. — Perhaps no event connected with the sea excited such intense i nterest and anxiety as the e my s t er i ous disappearance of the President, and the conjec tures that her supposed fat e has calle d forth, are innumerable. If fiction,the m n o e s v t er amplewas a timon for fancy aff or d t h e fairest field for more amply su it e d t o tne pen o f room the romance writer. We have been gi ven to un d erstan d i n literary circles, that the well -know n author of " Cavendish" has availed himself of this powerful incident as the chief sub ject of his new naval romance called " The Lost Ship" — a circumstance that will, no doubt , create the greatest interest i towards this new production of his Popular pen. • Chi - JR(Ai PASTiiitiki.4i iOCIFiTY, The annual meeting of this society was hell on Tuesday, at Exeter Hall. Lord Ashley presided, and among those pre sent were, the Bishop of Chester, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Llandaff, and a large number of the clergymen of the Church of England. The Noble Cu AIRMAN said, it is not my intention to in terpose at any length bt•tween the meeting and the business of the day, but I cannot restrain myself from saying a few words in congratulation that this society continues to flourish, and to enjoy the countenance and support of the ' country—(cheers). I do not believe that at any one anni versary have we met under circumstances of so great neces sity as at the present day— (hear, hear). Ido not believe the country has at any one period more required the co operation of such an association as at the present hour, for we are beset between two assailants, and if we have to fear the progress of false doctrine with the one, we have likewise to fear what may be called the progress of no-doctrines from the other—(hear, hear). We are betwten the two seas of heresy and infidelity—(cheers, and cries of "hear, hear "). But 1 do rejoice that it has pleased Gon to call me to the honour of presiding over such a society as this, which, both in its constitution and in its conduct, appears to me to be the only actually protesting body now existing in the Church of England. lam very glad that we rejoice in the name, and still more glad that we rejoice in such an operation ; but now let me call your attention to the present state of things. You must have seen that the Government of this country have lately propounded a system of education with a view of bring ing within the pale of christianity—for such it is —thousands, nay, hundreds of thousands, and almost millions of children and young persons who now live in a state of more than practical heathenism—(hear). Whether that system is the best in itself it is not necessary here to enter, but the educa tion propounded I am sure is the best that the Government, under the circumstances of the Church and nation, could pro pose. There are many points which may require considera tion, but the system as propounded to you is worthy of accep tance—(cheers). Whether it will be accepted or not by the country I do not know, but this I do know, that if it be ac cepted it will be your duty to co-operate in forwarding the projects of the Government ; and if it be not accepted, it will be your duty to double and quintuple your efforts to do that which they have been unable to effect, and to endeavour to bring within the sound of the Gospel those many millions of whom I have now spoken unto you, and who, if they are not brought within the pale of Christianity, will soon drive this country and this empire itself beyond the pale and even the name of Christianity—(hear). Late events have proved the truth of what I say. Two parties were visible in the late events of the past autumn. There was the active and the inactive party. Of whom did the active party consist ?—(hear, hear). Did it not consist of all those who at no period of their lives had ever received at the lips of GOD'S ministers the truths and precepts of the gos pel ? And who were the passive party, who, be it observed, had just as much reason to complain as those whe were most active? They were those men who, as my rev. friend on my left, the rector of Salford, has said, have been, by the assi duity of the ministers of the church, brought within the sound of the gospel—children who have been trained from their earliest years to fear the Gon who created them and the SAVIOUR who redeemed them. Therefore you have before you a good prospect of success if you will but perse vere. But let me tell you that your perseverance must be of no ordinary kind; it requires an amount of self-denial, a self-denial in time, a self-denial in trouble, and self-denial in what lam sorry to see is a strong test of sincerity—a self denial in money. Therefore, let me exhort you not to rest content with what you have done, but look on it as a mere drop of water in the bucket, and pour forth your means, and even beyond your means, for the opportunity now offered may never return, and be assured that every year now is a century as compared with the times that are past. (Cheers.) I do not wish to hold out any flattering prospects of the state of the country. I have seen enough in my commerce with the mighty provinces in the north to know that the country is resting on a dormant volcano. It may please GOD, and we all pray that it may please Him, to save the country from the danger that threatens it; but if the country is to be saved, recollect it is not to be saved by the ordinary opera tions of statesmanship. It must be done by some greater exercise of public and private virtue ; by a large and imme diate diffusion of the Gospel among all classes. (Cheers.) It must rise upwards among the rich, and go downwards among the poor, and you must contribute every encourage ment you can morally and physically for this great purpose ; and rely on it unless you do so you will not celebrate in this hall many more anniversaries. You may meet, but if you do it will be to mourn over the fate of these kingdoms and of that church which, if you had listened in time, if you had listened to the many Jonahs that now speak to you from the pulpit, you might, like Nineveh, have turned to the LORD in sackcloth and ashes, and might have sprung on in a new course of greatness and power—not the greatness of conquest, not the power of mere imperial dominion, but the greatness and power of being a mighty instrument in the hands of Gon for the advancement of his glory and for the temporal and eternal welfare of the whole human race. I have spoken to you what I feel. I most solemnly feel what I have said, and I do declare my firm belief that unless some great effort is made by the nation at large to avert the mischiefs which threaten us, not many years will have elapsed before we shall have ceased to be a nation, or if we shall not have ceased to be a nation, we shall have assuredly ceased to have an inde pendent church and an imperial parliament. (Cheers.) The report was then read. The committee were happy in being able to state that during the past year they had ex tended the society's aid to 29 incumbents, in addition to those already on their list. They had thus afforded the means of supporting 26 additional curates, and one lay as sistant; besides which they have made also one grant to wards the completion of a building for a school-room, to be licensed for Divine service, in an important manufacturing district; and a grant of £2O to enable an incumbent to occupy a chapel, and conduct regular service on the Lord's day, in a hamlet of 500 persons, situated four miles from the parish church. The average rate of the incomes of these in cumbents was £l9O, while twenty of the number had no par sonage-house. Of these 29 grants, three were to aid incum bents in charge of 5,000 souls; two of 7,000; four of 8,000; two of 9,000 ; two of 10.000 ; one of 14,000 ; one of 15,000; one of 17,000; one of 23,000; and one of 24,000. These grants, with some small additions to others previously made, amounted to £2,010 per annum. The existing grants of the society were to aid 235 incumbents, in charge of an aggregate population of 1,801,452, or to each on an average 7,660 souls ; while the average rate of their incomes was only £163, and 128 have no parsonage-house. These grants provided stipends for 233 clergymen and 31 lay assistants, at an annual charge upon the society's funds, when all the appointments should be made by the incumbents, of £'20,350. And as the in cumbents aided provided either from their own or local resources the further sum of £3,138 per annum, to make up the amounts required for the several stipends, the society was thus made the honoured instrument of bringing into the service of our national church, when all the grants were oc cupied, the annual sum of £23,488. At the present time 200 clergymen and 31 lay assistants were supported in their labours by the society, at the charge of £17,735 a year. The grants provided for the addition of 338 full services on the Lord's day, 124 on week days, 284 cottage lectures, and in creased pastoral visitation in all the districts aided. The in come for the year ending the 31st of March, so far from being raised to the amount which the present scale of the grants requires,had only reached the sum of £17,562195. 11d.. whereas in the previous year it amounted to £18,880158. 2d. Of this deficiency, however, of £1,317 15s. 3d., only £428 17s. Ild. might be considered as the falling-off from the ordinary sources of its income ;the remai n der was oc casioned by a smaller amount having been received from legacies and special donations. The expenditure of the so ciety for the past year had amounted to £20,209 is. 10d., or £2,646 7s. 11d. more than its income, which sum had been defrayed by a further draft on the balance which had ac cumulated during the early years of the society's operations. This balance was now reduced to £3,756 17., which sum was full £3,000 short of the amount absolutely necessary to pro vide for the regular quarterly payments of the grants in the three first quarters of the year, during which period the sums usually received were little more than one half the amount regularly paid; so that unless the funds of the so ciety received a considerable increase, an immediate reduc tion of grants to the amount of above £2,500 must be ef fected, in order to bring the expenditure within the income. The Bishops of Chester and Norwich, and Archdeacon Shirley subsequently addressed the meeting. We believe we may now safely congratulate the friends of the Established Church, on the certainty that the Very Re verend Principal Macfarlan will be elected Moderator of the ensuing General Assembly, by a considerable majority. Wha has been called the " middle" party in the Church, will, we understand, almost unanimously record their votes in his fa vour, and will cordially join in every measure necessary to frustrate any attempt which may be made by the " Convoca tiouists" to dis-establish the Church, or make a schism and division in her body.—Glasgow Constitutional. REv. D. BAGOT.—We are happy to learn that the Rev. Daniel Bagot, minister of St. James's Chapel in this city, has just been appointed Vicar of Newry and Vicar-General of the Exempt Jurisdiction of Newry and Morne. This, we understand, is a situation of great consequence in the Esta blished Church of Ireland, as the vicar discharges all the civil functions which devolve upon a bishop. Mr. Begot was minister of the Chapel of Ease in the parish of Newry for seven years before he came to Edinburgh ; and is now ap pointed to the highest ecclesiastical office connected with the Exempt Jurisdiction—after an absence of upwards of seven years—a gratifying proof that he has not been forgotten after so long an absence.—Edinburgh paper. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.— At the monthly meeting (May) of this society, the sum of £l,OOO was placed at the disposal of the Bishop of Antigua, towards the restoration of the churches, chapels, and school houses of his diocese, which had been destroyed or injured by the late earthquake. The secretary laid before the meet ing the audit account for 1843. The amounts received were as follow :—Subscriptions, £15,779 Bs. 2d. ; benefactions, £3,714 10s. ld. ; legacies, £2,074. The total expenditure was £84,110 10s. 9d. A grant of £l5O was made to the Rev. John Endell Tyler, 8.D., rector of St. Giles's, to be ap plied for the relief of the spiritual necessities of his parish ; 29 grants of books were made. Donations to the amount of £327 14s. were announced, and 50 new members were ad mitted. The following gentlemen were elected the tract committee for the year ensuing :—Venerable Archdeacon Lonsdale, Rev. R. G. Faber, Rev. C. B. Dalton, Rev. Dr. Dealtry, Rev. John Sinclair, Rev. J. E. Tyler, Rev. J. G. \'s The Rev. Dr. Russell, rector of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, occupied the chair. DESTRUCTION OF EXTON CHURCH, IN RUTLAND.-011 the 25th ult., about two, one of the most terrific hail storms, accompanied with thunder and lightning, the most vivid and tremendous that can be remembered here, came on. The electric fluid has struck our handsome old church, and de. stroyed the spire for several yards downwards. The shock was awful at the moment the church was struck, and large volumes of smoke were issuing from various parts of the fabric. I have just been to see the work of destruction, and broken fragments and stones have been forced through the roof, and demolished the leads ; the spectacle is awful, and it is almost dangerous to go into the church, as large portions from different parts of the roof are yet falling in. Large stones have been carried from the church a considerable dis tance ; and it was fortunate it did not occur during divine service, as many lives would have been lost. The roof is completely open to the sky, the windows are most of them shattered to pieces, and the spectacle is heartrending to wit ness. It will be long before the church can be in a state fit for divine service to be performed in it. People are flocking from all parts to see the work of destruction. The organ loft and the pews underneath have suffered severely from the melted lead running down. Mr. Richardson, the architect, from Stamford, has been sent for, and is now examining the ruins. Large portions of the roofing, with lead, broken beams, rafters, &c., are dangerous to look at ; several grave stones are broken and smashed, and the church-yard, as well as the church itself, presents a very mutilated appearance. FAILURE OF MESSRS. ACEERMANN AND Co.—The well known firm of Ackermann and Co., printsellers and engra vers in the Strand, suspended payment on Friday afternoon. Their transactions with some of the large houses in Europe and America have been very numerous. On Saturday it was reported that their debts amounted to no less a sum than £200,000; but we have this morning been assured by Mr. Ackermann that the joint and personal liabilities will not exceed £35,000, and they entertain every confidence that the estate will ultimately realise a handsome dividend. The failure is attributed to the large amount of stock, togethe with the liabilities w hi c h the present firm took upon them r selves when they succeeded to their predecessor about eleven years since, and a considerable proportion of which stock has since laid a dead weight in their warehouses. CONAVVPONDRNCV THE SHIPWRIGHTS, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sirt,-I perceive from the radical papers of Saturday last the Anti-Monopoly Deputation have had another meeting in the Bond-street Rooms, and the principal performers were a Mr. Boult and the shipwrights' old friend Wm. Rathbone, Esq. Mr. Roult came forward first, and commenced by some allusions to a letter which appeared in the STANDARD of the previous Tuesday, and written by me; the object I had in addressing you was to contradict a false report, (and what I thought a libel on myself and fellow-workmen, the shipwrights of Liverpool,) that a resolution had been sent from a meeting of shipwrights, requesting our excellent re presentatives, Lord Sandon and Sir Howard Douglas, to support a total repeal of the corn-laws. As I told you be fore, and Mr. Boult could not refute what I said, there were not more than six shipwrights in the room ; had there been more the resolution would not have passed. and the meeting would not have been so satisfactory to the performers, nor would it have encouraged Mr. Rathbone to have attended the secend meeting. The resolution was proposed by one of the deputation, and sceonded by a radical Papist shipwright, who has been always one of the party, and carried by a rabble who always attend radical meetings. Tice other statement I made respecting cheap bread and low wages was fully supported by a fellow-workman in the room, had he been allowed to speak, and express his senti ments ; but, like myself, Sir, not having the advantage of a liberal education, and not accustomed to public speaking, his statements were not heard. Perhaps if, like Mr. Boult, we had had those advantages, we should be better able to express ourselves ; but we labour for our daily bread, and are not paid for going about the town sowing the seeds of disloyalty and dissatisfaction. Mr. Boult told the meeting, if we had cheap timber we could build cheap ships here, as in foreign countries. Here we have a gentleman coming forward, as a friend of the labouring man, wanting to reduce us to the level of foreigners : if we have cheap ships built, we must have low wages. Another statement of Mr. Boult's was, that a Frenchman could bring gloves to this country for 2s. per pair, while gloves made here cost 3s. per pair. Mr. Boult says, let us have free trade and Frenchmen will bring us gloves and take oar hardware : so Mr. Boult would benefit one class of our manufactures by ruining another. It may do for Mr. Boult to talk in this manner, but put his ideas into practice, and nothing but ruin to one half of our country would be the result. In 1837 I was one of a depu tation appointed to wait upon the master shipwrights to ask them for an advance of wages, provisions then being very dear, they very kindly heard us, and advanced us 6d. per day : since then our trade has been very bad, and during the last winter hundreds of us have been out of employment, yet they have not reduced us, and for which I beg respectfully to thank them. Depression in trade does not always produce low wages. Why don't these anti-monopoly and anti-corn law men show that they are the real friends of the labouring man, by doing away with the greatest evil that ever visited a country, and the greatest curse to a country—l mean em ploying children instead of adults in the manufacturing dis tricts? Let them give every man proper wages for their labour, and reduce their enormous profits made out of the blood and sinews of the poor, the working man will then be able to pay for educating his children, and live comfortably with his family; and when they do this, we shall believe that they are really the poor man's friends. Mr. Rathbone calls himself the shipwright's friend; but is it not well known that a great majority of the shipwrights are freemen, and is it not equally notorious that Mr. Rath bone has taken every opportunity in his power to rob us of our birthrights as freemen of Liverpool ; and when he had the power in the Corporation schools, he, along with his fra ternity, deprived our children of their Bible and a sound Scriptural education. We must have more practical proofs of friendship before we listen to the opinions, or be guided by the advice of such men as these. I fear not, Sir, the shipwrights forsaking their principles ; they will always be found supporting those gentlemen by their votes who will support our glorious constitution in church and state ; their rallying cry will always be, the Protestant Religion and the Liberties of England. I am, Sir, Your's respectfully, JOHN LONGWORTIL Toxteth Park, May 10th, 1813, [We are glad to receive and give publicity to the commu nication of our intelligent correspondent; though an opera tive he is able to understand the practical connexion between the employer and the artizan, and to detect the sophistries of those who labour so strenuously to make himself and fel low workmen discontented. May he and they go on and prosper.] THE SCREW PROPELLER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—In your paper of Friday last there is a statement respecting the performance of an iron screw vessel, built by Messrs. Mather and Co. As your informant seems inti mately acquainted with the vessel and machinery, the writer of this, as well as the public, will feel indebted to him for some further particulars, viz: :—length, beam, and depth of boat-load; displacement with engines, water, and coals on board ; draft of water so loaded ; diameter of cylinder; length of stroke ; number of strokes per minute made by en gines ; PRESSURE of steam in boiler. By inserting this letter I hope the above information may be obtained from your for mer, or some other, scientific contributor to your useful paper. A SHIPOWNER. ----0- PHRENO-MAGNETISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, the interest in phreno-magnetism is continually increasing, and consequently the danger arising from cross influences and unskilful manipulating increasing too, I feel it as a duty to caution all who are unacquainted with phre nology against making experiments. Phrenologists ought to bear in mind, that exhibitions got up for the purpose of convincing sceptics afford a strong temptation to the operator to excite those organs which are " well developed" in the patient's head, and to neglect such as will make no show. This is the very reverse to what ought to be done for the patient's good ; and experiments of this kind, frequently repeated, may produce a morbid ex citability in those organs whose tendency to action is already too strong. Clairvoyant patients ought on no account to be brought into a public room. In some cases a third party could not approach within six yards of the patient's person without producing convulsive tremblings. To mesmerise without injuring a patient, the operator must be free from disease; his mind must be calm and se rene ; he must feel a tender solicitude about the welfare and safety of a human being whose whole nature is perfectly under his control, and obedient to his will. • Let those who venture on clairvoyant experiments take care to give no orders but what may with propriety and ease be obeyed. The patient cannot disobey. He may be made happy or miserable as the operator wills ; and no limit can be assigned to the duration of the effect. Recent experi ments go far to prove that a permanent change may be wrought upon characters—that the most virtuous person alive may be forced to commit crime, and the most vicious directed to virtue by a mere command. This is an awful power to be entrusted to man, and must be used, if at all, with the greatest care. Let all who submit to be mesmerised, particularly females, think of what they are doing, who is the operator, and what is his object. N. THE WESLEYANS. The following letter, which we copy from the Albion of Monday last, is particularly well-timed, and may lead Wes leyan, who desire to be guided by the opinions and example of their venerated founder to see more clearly what is their line of duty at the present juncture : TO THE EDITOR OF THE ALBION. Sir,—Several articles have appeared in recent numbers of Liberal papers, one of which is the Albion, having a ten dency, and, professedly, having a design, to urge on the Wesleyans in opposition to the Established Church. The name of Wesley and extracts from his writings have been given to show the consistency of the body with the principles of their founder. Now, sir, I am one of these who think that the Wesleyans cannot, consistently with the principles of the Rev. John Wesley, join themselves in active opposi tion to the Established Church, and this opinion I ground on the following extracts from his writings. It has been urged, that Mr. Wesley changed his opinions on Church Establishments and Episcopacy through reading a book on that subject published by Lord King. For this reason I shall state the length of time that elapsed after read ing Lord King's work and the date at which Wesley wrote, at least in those extracts with which the work has any con nexion. Extract of a letter to Mr. Church, dated June, 1746 : I dare not renounce connexion with the Church of Eng land. As a minister, I teach her doctrines, I use her offices, I conform to her rubrics, I suffer reproach for my attach ment to her ; as a private member, I hear her doctrines, I join in her offices, in prayer, in hearing, and communicating. —Works, 1812, vol. xvi. Letter to the Bishop of London, June 11, 1747 : We earnestly exhort all who attend our preaching to attend the offices of the Church, and they do pay a more regular at tendance than ever they did before. All who hear us attend the services of the church, at least as much as they did before, and for this very thing we are represented as bigots to the church by those of most other denominations.—Works, 1812, vol. xii, p. 414-420. Journal, 1756 : At eleve'n I went to church, to the surprise of many, and heard a lively, useful sermon. After dinner, one of our bre thren asked "If I was ready to go to the meeting ? " I told him, " I never go to a meeting." He seemed as much astonished as the old Scot at Newcastle, who left us" because we were merely Church of England men." We are so. August 28.—My brother and I closed the conference by a solemn declaration of our purpose, never to separate from the church, and all our brethren concurred therein. This declaration was made two years after reading Lord King's account of the Primitive Church. Of the last conference he ever attended in England, he says, Journal, July 28 :-- The conference began, about a hundred preachers were present, and never was our master more eminently present with us. The case of separation from the church was largely considered, and we were all unanimous against it. In a letter to the Dublin Chronicle, June 10, 1789 : Unless I see more reason for it than I ever yet did, I will not leave the Church of England as by law established, while the breath of God is within my nostrils. Whether Wesley ever swerved from this resolution will be seen from Coke and Moore's Life of Wesley : The last prayer he was heard to mutter was, " Bless the church and king, and grant us truth and peace, through Jesus Christ our Lord, for ever and ever." I never had any design of separating from the church, I have no such design now. Ido not believe the Methodists, in general, design it when lam no more seen. I do, and will do, all that is in my power to prevent such an event. Nevertheless, in spite of all that I can do, many of them will separate from it, (although I am apt to think not one-half, perhaps not a third of them,) they will be so bold and inju dicious as to form a separate party. In flat opposition to these, I declare, once more, that I live and die a member of the Church of England, and that none who regard my judg ment or advice will ever separate from it. London, December 11, 1789. JOHN WESLEY. —Works, 1813, vol. 15, p. 24. This was written not quite fifteen months before Wesley died. Lastly, Journal, Angust 4, 1766: I see clearer and clearer none will keep to us unless they keep to the Church. Whoever separates from the church will separate from the Methodists. It is worthy of notice, that this was wrote above twenty years after reading Lord King's book. I furnish the fore going selections from Wesley's writings to show that opposi. tion to the established church is not consistent with the principles and practices of the Rev. John Wesley. I doubt not but you will give them insertion. They are given in the hest spirit, and the writer hopes they will be received in the same. Your obedient servant, Leith, April 29, 1843. CoNszsrimr. A man named Burns, residin at Marsden, has, within the last 31 years, crosse d Standedgeg , the backbone of Eng land, 45,288 times, a n d i n d oing this has travelle d 181,152 wiles. He is a messen ger f rom one end of the H u dd ers fi e ld canal tunnel to the other. The distance over the bill is four miles, and through the tunnel 3} miles. PM:NAV 41111811014 On Wednesday, at twelve o'clock, the di scuss i on on vita above subject, adjourned from the previ o u s d ay , was resumed at the British Hotel , Cockspur - street, London. Th e at tendance of millowners was very numerous, and nearly th e whole of the members of parliament who were present on Tuesday took part in the proceedings. After a lengthened discussion, in which Mr. Ellis, Mr. Brocklehuret, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Hindley, M r . Milne, Mr. Mr. Brookes, Mr. Rand , Mr. Kay, Mr. Walke r , M r ,Ch eet: ham, Mr. J. Fietden, Mr. Stansfield, Mr. M. Fielden, M r . Pym, Mr. Morris, General Johnson, and others, took p ar t, the following resolutions were come to.— " That the Factory Bill now before the House of Com mons proposes for all children, from 8 to 13 years of age, enactments which have a direct tendency to prevent their obtaining employment. " That no valuable moral results can be obtained or do mestic duties property performed where the labour in facto ries is 12 hours daily, exclusive of meals. "That the labour in factories be uniform, and reduced to within reasonable limits, so as to accompl i sh this desirabl• object." A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chainasan, after which the meeting separated. THE COMET. TO THE EDITOR OY Tll TIMIS. - - --- Sir,—At 17 hours 21 minutes, siderial time, of May, 10, I got a glimpse of the telescopic Comet : its right ascention was about 22 hours 2 minutes and 29 seconds, and its North declination about 29 degrees 15 minutes 13 seconds ; but it was seen with so much difficulty with my five-feet equatorial, that the observations must be regarded with suspicion. J. SOUTU. Observatory, Kensington, Thursday, May 11, 3 a.m. PROGRESS OF CRUSE IN IRELAND.—It would appear from a return of the Irish constabulary, that crime has been steadily on the increase in that country since 1839. In 1840 there were 4,626 outrages ; in 1841, 5,360 ; in 1842, 6,535 ; and the first three months of the present year, 1,653. Txx CROWS.—This season the rookeries in Cumberland and Westmorland contain more nests than was ever remem bered, and the young ones were scarcely ever known to be so strong and early on the wing. There will be fine sport among these " black game" in the course of a week or ten days.— Preston Pilot. • • - LONDON CITY CHAIIRERLAIN.—The nomination of can didates for this lucrative office took place on Tuesday, after which the livery proceeded to vote ; and, at the close of the poll on that day, Sir J. Pixie was 120 a head of his opponent : but on Wednesday the friends of Sir W. Heygate exhibited their strength by placing him at the head of the poll—the numbers being—for Ileygate 1343, for Pixie 1291. Tus Brass OF IGNORANCE.—Roman cement is but a re cant substitute for lime at Mary-port, and its first introduc tion is somewhat curious. A gentleman, only a few years ago, determining to avail himself of the virtues ascribed to it, ordered a few barrels from Liverpool, then the nearest mar ket, and, lest the ignorant worhman should bungle it in ma king up at home, requested that it might be sent ready mixed for use! It is needless to add, that it remained "ready atilt" in the barrels ever since.—Mantiporf Locomotive. t e o n E A : e a r s ' e h a mg i elephant le — ft .2 ; I lest onday DAJOIITERs. ,, Van Ambur tornev e ° t n Is i ' n u e n g itslast,cir 0 u M" te llt. V turpike the gatekeeper closed On arriving at Missen rY d on and refused to let it pass, in gate against the elephant, sa con fusing to pay more toll for the elephantsience of the keeper for a horse. The keeper then Left and than was demanded alone, but had not gone far when proceeded on ki astonishment of the turnpike-keeper, t the elephant, to th: hinges, and quickly followed its keeper.ore S the gate from the THE BRITISH LEGION.—It is satisfa ctory ucks Gazette. poor fellows who composed this ill requited, to find that th body of men, are at length to have justice though brav e e Spanish Goverment have been for uie done them. The negotiating with the banking-house of ! : ; : t o tit month active! with reference to the arrears of pay, and Shea, of Madrid ' of satisfying the claims of the disbanded army.c safest method o nly to are nearly completed, and the All the ar only to be paid up in full, but the Governmen c t sims are that high opinion of the bravery of the men, are t ,to mar k their man's share a liberal gratuity.—Standard. o add to each WEST INDIA STAAMERS.--WA learn from rood . 1 . that the directors of the Royal Mail Steam.pa-ek a u t h ority have decided that in future every officer appoi r Company steam-ships , in addition to producing proper testimonials, to their heretofore, shall be subject to a strict examina t t e io °nisis j al competent persons, to ascertain their qualifications, n bezel.* as relates to general navigation, but to an adequate ' not °nl knowledge 7 of the British Channel, and the ports in the West est I n d. together with such acquaintance with the theory a le ge tice of steam - engines as may be required in their prae.. capacities. With this view an investigation is proceedi n g several to all the officers now in England, which will be extended as,,, all others as they return to this country, or as fresh ynaf„*,- ments take aWe believe this is the first instance a- 7; which o ffi cers place . svessels have been required to underg o -- examination, except as relates to those in the government service, but after the losses the company in question has tained, a better measure than that now in progress sea_ not have been adopted. GOLD WEIGHTS.—In consequence of irregularities uha • e been discovered in the sovereign and half-sovereign weight; now in use und er the authority of statute Geo. 111, e 92 the Gazette of F riday contains the following notice. vizi :-P " That the Master of the Mint has been authorised to can new weights to be prepared, having a new impression 1 stamp as described below, and that it is intended that su ch new weights shall be exchanged at the Mint, after the 29th day of May, 1843, for the old weights, free o f any charge t the parties, provided the weights brought to the Mint fo o exchange are identified by the stamp, and are not reduced by wear below the weight at which they were originally issued. Description Qt• the ire i g hts,—The sovereign weight bears on the obverse the portrait of her Majesty, with t i le words Royal Mint,' and the date of the year, in indented letters neon a raised border. On the reverse are stamped the figure; 5 dwts. 2i grs., surrounded by the words ' Curt. Weight Sovereign,' in indented letters. The half-sovereign weight bears the same impression on the obverse as the sovereign. weight, and has on the reverse the figures 2 dwts. 131 gra with the words ' Curt. Weight Half -Sovereign,' in ladentei letters." RAce Hoasss.—The list of proprietors of race home amounts to 697, and contains the DamOS Of many Of the ace . distinguished membe of the British aristocrac. s ew . •ral Of them support ver y extensive establishments, se for in. stance, Lord George Bentinek, who ran 21 horses hut ye ar . Lord Chesterfield, 16 Lord Eglintan, 14 ; Lord Exeter. 17 I : Col. Peel, 12 (three in conjunction with General Yates) - Duke of Richmond, ; Mr. Thornhill, 9 ; Lord Weatmi,„: stet, 11 ; and so forth. That an idea may be formed by thea novice in racing of the effects of such establishmenta. it may be necessary give a sketch of the engagements kr whiab some o f the horses included in those t o are named : Farintogh, a three-vear old, belonging to Lord G. Bendock. is engaged in 26 stakes for the present year; Gaper, t h e pro_ perty of the same nobleman, in 19 ; Aristides, another three year.old, in 17 ; Napier, ditto, in 14; and many others t o nearly a s great an extent. Thegross.nnumber of race horses actually namedifor stakes and plates id England,4o for 1843, is anti 300 anyearlin gs is 1184--exclusive of bet .• entered for stakes, for wdich the nominations are made at that age . • AL l'ottvsstat4.—Where is there, or where A CONTINENT ..., . at to the said Duke of Bo ur bo n will there be found, an eqn . ? will Ay, and in what This for I challenge all Europe, to y, 1 This insatiable sportsman either hunted or produce him • shot every day in the ye ar, Sundays excepted, four h not allowance . -ours' repose at night being hisinicc!ulhounds Then the distance he would go to meet his _almost staggers b e _ lief. Thirty miles were considered a moderate one ; and, b e ,_ jug said this, it is not to be wondered at that he should b ays worn out six persons who bad to take their turns—two at a him. His royal highness, however. - time in attendance upon d died very reached his seventieth year, an . . thegenerally lamented. I had an opportunity of exsieng by yearly the __e.ceounts, very I kept of the game killed different accurate y , picks of ortsman. In hounds of this most illustrino.us.sp ... 0 some of th e years his success was asto ish o i n tt n . f 1 12 i r u a n mple : in 829. only two wild boars were los t dout of 83 hunted ; ted a i inln n 11 7 s only six wild T hestacape mber of f*l a nd " two out of 92. greatest gut Chevreuil hounds, by reason of htt ....e short_ running of this game rendering the hunting of them so don ult—Apperley's Ni,,.. rod Abroad. AN Aw tw• Shortly AnD ACCIDENT. y before the meeting the Envoy took place at I. k between his Majesty an d -tic now coned, which plac e d a most frightful accident oc cu rred, the lives oi inent eril. I two ladies in the most inintver a drain, ti r: e cro n saing a most rotten bridge that : Phasta;stboeir elephant's off Torndwlnk la" way under the weigh t e ' le g , which a l almost h* h i i on is ea , and th brought the poor anima l rew the clay were all but precipitated ladies so forward that t . , , , over the front of the howdah. In this position, the earth under one of the elephants hind legs gave way, when the jerk, of course threw them back, and every one thought e the elephant must fall over on his side. By dio ut of t. r mendous struggling th e animal extricated himself; b .he rolling of the howdah, and the consequent knocktinng about received by the ladies, was perfectly fearful to wi h ess, f . had they been thro s o w at might have out it is impossible to .. were, been the come " d a pence, surrounded as th on all sides, by a crowd of some 40 or 50 elephants, onan dense crowd of men on h back, besides the mass f oot. The space that orse bo t fo ur gave wa under the elephant was i ll a bout and feet in length. one i n y breadth, and two i n depth ; .. it was quite a miracle that the animal got out of iti,s well he did, without doing more than frightening the ladies , and . slightly bruising them ; but was the admtration of th their conduct The abov is em all—no foolish screaming or fainting. e but a but for want of Poor description of the spectacle. a better I must send • it to you.--Beneal Ilurkaru. LADY SALA ['ASCRIPTION or Pirate .-- You cannot (says the The Examiner) picture her to your mind's ey e but wish feet planted "in a small crack in the rampart U . near a a bastion," watching some storming party ascend a breach under heavy firecommendable steadiness and great alacrity"; or with heart sinking and swelling, as, from the " top of her house," she views with painful interest settle neighbouring exploit of cowardice or courage. Here she i s : —" I had taken mY post of observation, as usual, of the house, whence I had a fine view of the fie ld ee the top and where, by keeping behind the chimneys, of action, bullets that continually whizzed past ey,s,, I T escaped the first attempt on Beymaroo :—" The me. his was the Affghan cavalry charged furiously down the hill upon our troops The 37th No. 1. were leading the 4 h in close column. 4t in the centre, and the Shah's 6th in the rear. No s q uare or balls were formed to receive them. All was a regular rights if leapt to my tth confusion; my very beast ee when I saw the Affghans ride rig clean through them. The onset WAS fearful. They like a re at a cluster of bees, but we beat them and drove them up again." This, the second, when our men ran like sheep before the fanatic Gbazees :—" When they fairly appeared above-ground, it was it was very evident that our men were not inclined to meet them. Every field -glass was was now pointed to the hill with intense anxiety by us ip can tonments, and we saw the officers urging their men r ad vsnee on the enemy. Most conspicuous were. Mackin"' /16 mg. Troup, Mackenzie, and Layton ; who , t° enc.".arr mb9, pelted the Ghazes with stones, as theyeclicaoe th e t !it, and to do the fanatics ,justice, they return d the /Luau with our wen would not the same weapons. Nothing would do; , . advance, though this party did not a ppear to be 1.) 1 1 in num ber. At length, one of the Ghazeeas rushed forward, wa ving his sword over his head : a Sipahee of the 37th darted forth and met him with hie bayonet ; but instead of a straight charge, he gave him a kind of side stoke, and they both fell, and both rose again. Both were killed eventually ; the Ghazee was shot by another. man. It was very like the scenes depicted in the battles of the Crusaders. Th e enemy rushed on : drove our men before them very like a flock of sheep with a wolf at their heels. They captured our gee. The artillerymen fought like heroes ; two were killed a t t h e gun; Serjeant Mulhall received three wounds ; poor Laing W2l. shot whilst waving his sword over and the made oarh gun aud cheerieart, ng t h e men. It was an anxious sight b e at : it laste d but for a few minutes." The Augsburg Gazetteof the sth inst. states, that the da for the election of a Prince of Servia bad n . ot yet been head y and a R u ssia had declared that there existed no objection of Belgrade. ' against the person of Prince Alexsoder, but that she merely insisted that the electoral f o rmalities prescribed by th e or. genie statutes of the year 1839 should be observed, the Porte was taking measures to procure the re-election of Prince Alexander. The Russian Ambiunador proposed that Pasha, of Nail', s hould be appo inted pasha