The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL, the alarm of fire about half-past 7 o'clock, and on looking 1 towards the house of Hanlin, saw a man in front of it piling up straw and wood, which were in flames; he ran ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA. towards the spot, and there saw a manoeuvre that he could The royal mail steam-ship Acadia, which left Boston on not understand, and just before he reached the spot the came up the river on Tuesday morning at four man went into the adjoining house, and a person named ()ringing advices from New York to the 31st ult. Lee came up, accompanied by others, and smashed in the window. The boy Lawrence sprang out, and gasped Ist ins . ._. . The Courier says, on the authority of a letter from • forth that his mother and her child were dead inside. Mexico, that a special envoy had arrived there from Some of the party went to the back of the shanty, and France, charged with a demand of reparation for the nu- with an axe burst it in, an 4 brculzht out the inanimate therous outrages committed upon French citizens by the bodies of the mother and child, who soon after breathed Mexican government. The same paper says that the again. The other party burst into the adjoining house, Mexican Congress have removed Santa Anna from and there captured Klein. In one corner of the room the command of the army and given it to General ithey found an instrument with which he must have stab- Basadore Recent , bed - Mrs. Hardin. It consisted of a large file or rasp, ......,,,s tram Peru state that Gen. Vivanco,tne about a foot long, which had been ground down to a point _k:'or of Peru, after marching to meet Gen. Castilla, T h i s was stuc k i n a p o le or sti c k a b ou t f our feet long, and suddenly fled and took refuge at Arequipa, closely pur - must have been used as a pike, and made expressly for Castilia, who had taken up arms against his go- the purpose to which it was applied. Mrs. Hanlin and ,nt. This unexpected retreat so exasperated the her child were conveyed to the city hospital, and Klem to inhabitants that the prefect of Lima declared against Vi- the upper police. He was perfectly sober. He is an vanco, proposing to suspend hostilities until Congress Irishman, and is represented as the most stolid, brutal should decide the t'ate of the country. In the meantime looking person ever seen there. Apparently he is about Gen. Echenique threatened to enter the city, but was re- 40 years of age. The unfortunate woman is burned con pulsed, and had to repass the Andes with great loss. The 1 siderably in her face and right arm, and the stab in her city was quiet at the last adyices. thigh is of a serious character, and may produce death. In sued by The Courier and Enquirer thinks that the joint resolu- all human probability the child will die. The punishment Lions of Mr. Douglas, declaring the annexation of Texas, I for arson in the first degree, which consists in setting fire will receive the affirmative action of the house. Mr. Cal- to an inhabited dwelling, is death. Justice Taylor, of the boon pd other friends of annexation are making every upper police, took the examination of Mrs. Ilanlin at the exertion to ensure success to that measure, and the feud hospital, and committed Klein to a cell at the upper po between the Calhoun and Beiiton factions is likely to be lice, to await the examination.—New York Herald. pushed, and that soon, to a violent outbreak. Several anti-rent riots have taken place in Columbia county, and the papers of the process servers were pub licly burnt, and a determination was expressed to prevent the collection of rent, if necessary to the destruction of life. Papers from Galv.iston to the 7th ultimo have come to hand. General Houston had delivered his annual mes sage, in which he states that the relations of Texas with the continent of Europe have been extended during the past year by treaties of amity, navigation, and commerce, with some of the German states. He says that there is no ground to suspect that the late agitation of inter national questions between that republic and the United States has in any degree abated the desire of Great Bri tain and France to maintain towards them friendship. He says that the relations with the United States remain in the same condition as for the last two years, and he is unable to determine whether any future effort will meet with any better success. Tne message says that in all but the name Texas is at peace with Mexico. The Indians still continue their depredations on the frontier. A collision between two steam-boats took place on the 14th ultimo, twenty-five miles below Arkansas, by which the Belle of Clarksville steamer, insured for 31,000 dollars, was lost, together with thirty-one of the passen- gers and crew The New York Cotton Market was steady at the last advice,=, ar,d the demand moderate. T“e exchange on England was at 110 to 1101, and on France at 5. 214. Money was in better demand. At Philadelphia, cotton spinners were well supplied, and the market was without animation. NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 18.—CoTToN.—On Monday the business did not exceed 2,600, and yesterday it reached 2,900, making a total for the past three days of 9,000 bales. Prices have in all instances been maintained. The receipts since the 13th instant are 24,014 bales, and the exports 13,157 bales ; to Liverpool, 7,999 ; Glas g ow, 2,311; Boston, 1,13 1 ; New York , 840 ; Havana, 700 ; Baltimore, 173 bales—leaving on hand, including all on shipboard, not cleared yesterday, of 138,041 bales. LIST OF PASSENGERS eford ; —Mr. Lark m Boston Mr. W. Wi d Lady; Mr. Fowler and , Mr. Le Mesuires and Lady ; Mr. Andrew Eastern ; Hon. J. Masson ; Mr. Andrew Muir; Mr. Thomas Wallace; Mr. W. Blake; Mr. W. Whurst ; Mr. H. J. Noad ; Mr. Charles D. Roy; Mr. A. Levesque; Mr. Robert Smith; Mr. A. M'Farlane; Mr. Thomas Kerr; Mr. D. Gillmour ; M. William Colquhoun ; Mr. James Miller : Mr. P. Beaudry ; Mr. Feln; Mr. Holland; Mr. Provest; Mr. Chamberlaine; Mr. J. F. H. Mussay ; Mr. J. Ewart, Jun.; Mr. J. H. Birss ; Lieut. Fortiscue ; Mr. G. Ushorue; Mr. Glover ; Mr. W. J. Willson ; Mr. C. F. Hamel ; Mr. L. E. Do rion ; Mr. Lewis Mawson ; Mr. W. Darling; M r.A. Air ; Mr. James Tobin ; Mr. R. Hickson ; Mr. W. Muir ; Mr. W. M'Lirnont ; Mr. J. Sinclair, and Son ; Mr. R. Campbell; Mr. John Fisken; Mr. M. A. King : Mr. Bell; Mr. John Kay; Mr. W. Patton; Mr. H. M. Mead ; Mr. J. B. Young, and Lady ; Mr. C. Patterson ; Mr. C. M. Curvillier-56. From Halifax.—Hon. Jas. H. Peters and Lady ; Mr. E. Cunard, jun. ; Miss Cunard ; Mr. J. D. Spurr ; Mr. J. Doherty ; Mr. Piles; Mr. M'Tarvick ; Lieut. Hard ing, R.N. ; Mr. M`Lean; Capt. Knight and Lady ; Mr. Rhodes-15. HORRIBLE PROFANENESS (From a Brussels Paper.) Many of our readers may have seen advertisements in the papers, and bills in the streets of Brussels, giving a " programme" of a daily exhibition at the Theatre des Varietes, Rue Fosses-aux-Loups, and of a similar exhi bition in another part of the capital. We have been to the first mentioned, and will endeavour to give a descrip tion of the spectacle. On entering the" Salle," we found a juggler engaged in sleight-of-hand feats, with balls, Begs, bottles, &c., which he performed much to the satisfaction of the audience ; and had the performance been confined to this, we should have given our unqualified praise of it. But a " bill of the play" was offered to us, and we annex a copy of it, to give an idea of these extraordinary spec tacles, which are performed in the capital of a civilized country. The bill announced a " Grand Representation" composed of " Mosaic Rings," " The Two Gladiators," " Grand Dance Oriehalsienne," " The Carnival i,f Ve nice," superior feats of strength, &c., representations of the " Combat of the Amazons," " Massacre of the In nocents," to conclude with " The Passion of our Lord Jesus Ch ,- ist." Can our readers conceive anything more calculated to excite horror and disgust in the mind of a Christian, then the perusal of this bill ? and will it be credited in Chris tendom, that these monstrous spectacles are exhibited in a religious country like Belgium ! Shocked as we were, we determined to witness the whole, in enter to give an authentic report of it. When the different preparatory performances had been brought to a close, a short time was solicited to prepare for the exhibition of " The Pas sion" ; and a voice from behind the curtain announced, in Walloon-French, that the first scene would represent " Christ condemned to Death." The music struck up, the curtain rose, and the audience saw men, habited in white tights, representing the judge, surrounded by his attendants, passing sentence of death on the " Saviour" in the midst of them. The persons forming this group were all placed in statue-like postures, to represent the scene after some painting, on a platform which revolved on a pivot, so that the spectators might see the whole in detail ; the music played whilst the platform revolved, and the curtain dropped. The voice again stated that the next scene would re present "Jesus being scourged." The orchestra again played, the curtain rose, and we beheld the scene an nounced ; the platform made the revolution, and the scene closed as the first. Thus were exhibited the differ ent stages in " The Passion" : " Christ bearing the Cross," " Fainting under the Cross," " Stripped of his Garments," " Nailed on the Cross," " Crucified," "The Crucifixion after Van Dyck," " The Descent from the Cross," after the painting by Rubens, in the Cathedral of Antwerp. All represented with the same accompani ments, excepting an additional observation from the prompter behind the drop scene, stating how long such a scene had been studied, how much it had been admired in different towns, &c. The whole concluded with the representation of " The Body of the Saviour lying at the foot of the Cross, " surrounded by the " Virgin," &c. &c. Up to this period, horror and disgust had given place to involuntary awe, and we looked on more in sorrow than in anger ; but how shall we describe the shock to our feelings, on seeing these figures, that had profanely per sonated the sacred characters, start from their postures THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH. at the foot of the Cross, and, in burlesque attitudes, the The triennial convention was recently held in Philadel- principal taking off the crown of thorns, bow to the audi ence ! 'We feel ashamed to proceed, and will not attempt phia. It consisted of two " houses , " viz. , the house o f bishops and the house of lay and clerical delegates ; the to describe our feelings ; they will be understood by our latter being elected by the local conventions of the twenty- readers, in whatever country these lines may be read ; four dioceses into which the United States are divided, they will conceive the impression on our mind ; they will each diocese sending eight representatives ; and the bi- imagine our grie - and indignation ; they will picture to shops severally deriving their authority from the lay and themselves the effect of this spectacl on the mind of the clerical delegates of the different diocesan conventions. " Flemish boors," the ribaldry expressed, and the bias- The powers of the general convention are :—To revise otd phemy displayed ; and we helieVe they will second the or make new canons ; to regulate the episcopal theologi- appeal we now make to the Christian world, saved by the cal seminaries or colleges •, to revise or amend the liturgy, Redeemer, whether the spectacle we have described be or practices, or worship of the church; to try bishops on not a sacrilege, and a disgrace to the country; the any charge made against them ; to receive and examine prompter having stated that he had exhibited " The Pas testimonials from diocesan conventions, recommending slon at Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Verviers, besides other new bishops ; to decide on the efficiency, and accept or !owls, and even at Malines, within a short distance of reject such candidates for the mitre, and sign their certi - the residence of the Cardinal himself. Since this spec ficates, without which they cannot be consecrated; to re- I tacle has been performed in Brussels, a similar exhibition gulate episcopal missionary societies; to hear complaints, of " The Passion" has been got up, in opposition, with appeals, ,nd try clergy : to inquire into and decide upon additional scenes ; yet no voice has been raised in con all abuses of worship and doctrine; and, in fine, being en- j demnation of this sacrilegious profanity, which takes dowed with plenary power, to do everything requisite and place in the vicinity of the cathedral of St. Gudule. necessary for the complete government of the episcopal church of the United States. The convention recently FRANCE.—The discussion in the Chamber of Peers on held in Philadelphia occupied three weeks. A prominent the address commenced on Tuesday. Count Mole at topic of discussion in the lower house was Tractarianism.tacked the ministry in strong terms, and intimated that Several moti ns were proposed for adoption ; and, ulti- he could no longer continue to give them that support enately, the following (moved by Judge Chambers) was which, not to divide the conservative party, he had pre carried by a large majority : viously afforded. He condemned the protectorate of Ta " That the house of clerical and lay deputies consider hiti, as most people will, we imagine, now that it has turned out ao unfortunately for France. M. Guizot re exponents of her sense of the essential doctri n e s of Hol y the articles, liturgy, and offices of the church, sufficient Plied ; and took an opportunity of stating that commis sioners were to be aupointed to consider whether some pie means of discipline and correction fo r all who de p art Scripture ; and that the canons of the church affor d am means of putting down the slave-trade might not be de vised equally efficacious with the right of search. The vention is not a suitable tribunal for the tri al and censure from her standards. And , further , that the gen eral con debate had continued for two days, but, with the excep of such ; and that the church is not responsible for the tion of Count Mole's speech and M. Guizot's reply, the errors of individuals, whether they are members of the speeches possessed very little interest. The conduct of church or otherwise." • M. Mole has revived the rumours as to a probable change The house of bishops, in their " pastoral letter," took of ministry. cognizance of the same subject, censuring the doctrines of The discussion was brought to a close on Saturday, the puseyites. An important canon was passed with re- when the address was carried by a majority of 75. spect to the consecration of bishops for foreign countries, SPAIN.—M. Mon has at length produced his budget. It is as satisfactory as could be expected. He repeals some taxes and substitutes for them others. These are property and other direct taxes and duties on various articles of internal consumpt on. His proposals were received in silence. The bill for the more effectual sup pression of the slave-trade has passed the senate. The nomination of General Schelly to the Captain-Generalship of Catalonia has been cancelled, and the post bestowed on General Concha, who has heretofore refused employ ment from the present government. The marriage of the Queen was beginning again to be talked of in political circles. Her Majesty was said to have an insurmountable aversion to the son of the Infante Don Francisco de Paula, and the Trapani connexion was no longer spoken of. The most perfect tranquillity pre vailed throughout the country. " Bishops for foreign countries, on due application therefrom, may be consecrated with the approbation of the bishops of this church, or a majority of them, signified to the presiding bishop. He, therefore, upon taking order for the same, and they being satisfied that the per son designated for the office has been duly chosen, and is properly qualified. The order of consecration to be con formed, as nearly as may be, in the judgment of tbe bi shops, to the one used in this church. Such bishops, so consecrated, shall not be eligible to the office of diocesan or assistant bishop in any diocese in the United States, nor be entitled to a seat in the house of bishops, nor ex ercise any episcopal authority in the United States." A candidate for the bishopric of Mississippi, who had been objected to on the ground of certain pecuniary spe culations alleged to affect his moral character, was ac quitted of wrong intentions, and his claims referred back to his diocesan convention. The testimonials of three bi shops were approved, and their certificates signed. [The new prelates were subsequently consecrated in Christ's Church ; and three missionary bishops, for Turkey, Ar kansas, and Texas, and Amoy and China, were consecri ted in St. Peter's.] Sentence of suseensnn (amounting to excommunication) was passed on Bishop Onderdonk, who had resigned his Pennsylvanian episcopate, in conse quence of an accusation of intemperance. A canon was adopted with a view to tint appointment of lay or primi tive deacons, to read prayers, exhort, &c., in places unoc cupied by regular clergymen. [A similar reform, it will be remembered, has been recommended by the Duke of Sutherland, Lord Morpeth, Lord Ashley, and a large number of other laymen, to the consideration of the Arch bishop of Canterbury.] The whole of the proceedings of the convention sere conducted " decently and in order." On the 28th of December last Mr. D'Arrest, at Berlin, discovered a comet near the star 15 Cygni. Two c!!ess players, one in Baltimore mad the other in Washington, plated a game the other week by the electric telegraph of the railway ! In the last thirteen years the population of Lower Ca nada has increased 33 per cent. In 1831 it was 511,919, this s ear 678,590. At Boton, on the 20th ultimo, three brick houses were removed, on a temporary railway, fifteen feet backward, for the purpose of widening a street. The buildings were not in the slightest degree shaken or damaged. Shakspeare is decidedly in the ascendant at Paris. Mr. trlacready has set all Paris studying the immortal English dramatist. The English theatrical company performed, by command, at the Tuilleries, on Thursday. It is said that the manufacture of cigars in Hamburgh has been carried to so great an extent as to have reached the annual total of 150,000,000 of clears, and that this single branch of business furnishes occupation for 100,000 work people. A gang of turkers have recently been tried and con •icted at Paris for murdering persons in order to sell the bodies. One of the ruffians, though under the sentence of death, plays at draughts daily with the person ap pointed to guard him. The King of Sweden, although strongly desirous of effacing capital punishment from the penal code of that country, has consented to its being retained, a large ma jority of the Conned of State having decided for the maintenance of it. ParminaLtititia, Dec. 31.—The Rev. Mr. C. T. Tor rey has, for aiding slaves to escape, been sentenced to six years' imprisonment in Baltimore; and for a similar act, Miss Webster has been sentenced to two years' imprison ment at Lexington. Kentucky. Mr. Walker, Missouri, and Mr. Kelly, in Virginia, have had the like sentences passed upon them. St a Cu ARMES M ETTA LFE.—The Globe gives an extract from the letter of a gentleman. who holds an official ap pointment at Montreal, dated 21st ult., which says—" It is feared, owing to the virulent nature of the cancer in the governor's face, which has alredy deprived him of the sight of cne eye, this excellent ruler, and generous and noble-hearted man, cannot long remain with us." It is stated that within forty years the United States have extinguished the Indian title to -130,000,000 acres of land for 82,000,000 of dollars. At this rate they paid the Indians an average of less than 20 cents per acre. Now, if the United States disposed of those lands to their citi zens at the present low government price of one dollar and 25 cents., they have recei , ed into their treasury the sum of 455,500,000 dollars above the original cost. Letters from Italy state, that another sentence of the Military Commission sittiniz at Bologna was published in that city on the 2311 ult. Nineteen persons, among whom were several physicians, lawyers, or proprietors, implicated in the conspiracy of 1813 were brought to trial before that tribunal in the beginning of November. Five were ac quitted. and the fourteen others condemned to from five to fifteen years' imittistinnient. M. Violi, a proprietor, who was visited with the highest penalty, lied been de livered into the hands of the Papal police by that Tuscan authorities. THE Boy JONES. — Extract of a letter from an officer with aTe Deum upon the anticipated repeal of the Cha on board her Majesty's ship Warspite, Smyrna, Dec. 23, ritable Bequests Bill. Such is the fruit of allowing Chris -1844 :—" The boy Jones, who belongs to this ship, dis- thin people to make their wills without benefit of clergy. appeared one night at Athens, and every one said he was Such is one of the first practical illustrations of Peel's gone to call on King Otho. I believe that was his inten- penal law. The result would have been very different, tion, as he was found near the palace, and brought back i had it continued legal to defer the operation until the tes very much disappointed, to think he could not pay his in- tatrix was in extremis, and a confessor stood by her bed tended visit. He is a strange-looking fellow, appears half I side, with the key of paradise in his hand, urging her to asleep, and seldom speaks to any one. It is the custom pay the uttermost farthing. to punish when a man deserts, but Jones is put on the But to proceed with our most true history :—The pious black list, and his grog stopped as long as he remains in horror and dismay of the reverend will-openers may be the ship." imagined. For some minutes TILE BRIDB OF STRONGWIND, THE OJIBBEWAY. — '" The convocation gap'd, but could not speak." An erroneous report recently prevailed in America, as When they did recover the use of their jaws, however, well as in England, that the bride of Stiongwind had re- they unpacked their hearts after Hamlet's fashion, and turned home. The Detroit Advertiser, in alluding to n ost charitably consigned the soul of their departed sister , that report, says—" We recently saw this Indian, with as another Sapphire, who had " lied unto God," to that his fashionable wife, at our stores, buying articles for place from which even masses, ad infinitum, have no housekeeping. She is a very pretty, stylish, petite Eng- charm to recal it. Yes, in the bitterness of their anguish, lishwoman. He is a coarse, awkward, and stupid booby- they cursed her, " quenched the candles" upon the ema looking Indian. She seemed to treat her spouse in rather elated remains, suspended all rites and obsequious re a schoolmis'-ress style, and was vastly amused at his igno- sped, as wholly unavailable in so desperate a case, and rance of the use of the most necessary household articles. ordered that the corpse should be committed to the earth, He put in objections to the purchase of anything that did like that of an excommunicated felon, in the dead of night, not meet his savage notions, and seemed to doubt the ne- and cessity of having earthen plates. She managed the savage pretty well; but, while he was enforcing his Indian eco nomy in very harsh tones and unintelligible English, we could not help asking ourselves if that was the mighty Indian magic that won the second Desdemora. We ima gine that one winter in the rude houses of the Ojibbeways will take off something of the poetry of savage life " Without the bringing home of bell or burial." Nor was their rage levelled only against the dead ; her kinsman, the merchant above alluded to, was denounced in the most unmeasured terms of sacred ribaldry, as an accomplice in a fraud upon the church. No portion of the good old lady's property has been devised him. He (lid not want it ; but because be knew of the manner in which she had disposed of her inheritance, and did not at once violate all principle of honour, and betray the secret to these holy men, he too, forsooth, is worse than an infi del. The disgust of all classes at the audacity with which this gentleman's pure and unblemished character has been assailed, has alarmed even his maligners, and they are making some awkward attempts to back out of it ; but their conduct has united the opinions of the better class of Ro man Catholics as to the latest subject of agitation. They all now thank God that they have a Charitable Bequests Bill. _ _ _ SHOOTING IN THE STREETS.—A dreadful occurrence took place in New York a day or two before the last mail left, the parties being Mr. Eugene Grousset, a French importer, and Mr. J. Emeric, of the house of Renard and Co., bankers. It appears that these gentlemen bad an al tercation some time since, and Mr. Grousset at that time threatened to spit in Mr. Emeric's face the next time he met him, when Mr. Emeric promised if he did so insult him, he would shoot him down. The parties met in Broadway, near Bine-street, and after a few words of al tercation, Mr. Grousset spit in the face of Mr. Emeric, whereupon that gentleman instantly drew a pistol and fired it at Mr. Grousset. The first fire did not take effect, and as Mr. Grousset advanced in a threatening attitude. the second barrel was discharged, which struck Mr. Grousset in the left side, glancing along one of the ribs and entering in the lower part of the body, inflicting a se rious wound. [The New York journals, commenting on this pretty business, speak of it coolly as " a most un pleasant affair."] The sequel of the story may b despatched in a few words. By the firmness of the gentleman raided to, these meek ecclesiastics were compelled to change their order of midnight interment. The body was buried at a proper hour in the morning, but not a single priest, in that most priest-infested town of Galway, attended at the grave. Such a circumstance as the burial of a professed nun without the attendance of a numerous train of ecclesias tics, is totally unprecedented. Yet this woman died, as she had lived, in their communion, an unshaken votaress of Rome, and a simple, sincere, pious, though deluded be liever in all its fictions and traditions. Her one fault— that of not robbing her lawful and natural heirs, to enrich them—cancelled all her virtues, obliterated the sanctity of a life-prolonged far beyond the usual allotted term of mor tals; and, at the age of ninety-four—think of that, hu man reader !! ch. think of that—this poor old lady was committed to all but a dishonoured grave, with every indignity that disappointed hopes could cast upon her me mory. We understand that an authorised exposure of these transactions will be laid before the public by him who is best qualified to detail all the circumstances, and whose duty it is, even in self-justification, to vindicate the cha racter of his departed friend. We shall await the appear ance of such a report with an anxiety commensurate to its importance ; and, in the meantime, leave the above un exaggerated statement to speak for itself. UNIVERSITY er CLERICAL NEWS. 1 OXFORD, Jan. I4.—The following degrees were this day conferred :—D. D., J. J. Emerton, Magdalen Hall ; M.A., Rev. W. Grey, Magdalen Hall ; Wm. H. Scott, Fellow of Brasenose ; A. H. Ashworth, Oriel ; Rev. H. D. Heatley, St. John's.—B.A., R. Stockdale, Alban Hall; F. G. White, Lincoln; J. S. Wasey, Trinity. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. — Rev. S. J. Goodenough, canon, and vice-dean of Carlisle cathedral, to the living of Aikton, Lancashire.—Rev. T. Rogers, late curate of Stainland, Halifax, to the chaplaincy of Nor. folk Island, in the diocese of Tasmania, Australia.—Rey. L. Woollcombe, M.A., to the rectory of Petrockstow, Devon, void by the death of the Rev. J. Knight.—Rev. J. C. Kempe, 8.A., to the rectory of Huish, Devon, void by the death of the Rev. J. Knight.—Rev. D. S. Hodgson, 8.A., to the head mastership of the grammar school, Bolton, Lancashire.—Rev. T. Taylor, M.A., to the mastership of the grammar school at Colwall, near Malvern.—Rev. H. G. N. Bishop, 8.A., to the vicarage of Great Clacton, with the donative of Little Holland, Essex.—Rev. H. J. Hoskins, M.A.. to the rectory of Bixby, Leicestershire.—Rey.H. Sweeting, M.A., to the rectory of Botus Fleming, Cornwall.—Rev. R. Hum phreys, 8.A., to the curacy of Newborough, Anglesey.— Rev. W. Morgan, 8.A., to the curacy of the cathedral church of Bangor. Mr. G. H. Billington, of Chester, has been elected to a sizarship at Cambridge. He is the King'sscholar to whom was re, ently voted the exhibition of the Town-Council of Chester. A building recently erected near the railway station on Primrose-hill, Wakefield, and which was intended to be used as a billiard-room, has been licensed by the Lord Bishop of Ripon for the celebration of divine service. THE CHURCH SERVICE.—The noblemen and gentle men whose meeting at Lord Howard's was noticed on a former occasion have continued their deliberations from time to time upon the church question, and were prepa ring resolutions and a memorial to the Queen against the recent changes in the form of conducting public worship, and attempts to subvert the principles of the reformation, to be submitted to a more extended meeting intended to have been held last week, but under existing circumstan ces it has been deemed expedient to suspend their pro ceedings until after the meeting of parliament. MOBBING A CLERGYMAN. — The Rev. Mr. Courtenay, the curate of St. Sidwells, in Exeter, was nearly deserted by his congregation on Sunday, when he went into the pulpit in his surplice. On retiring from the church, both after the morning and afternoon service, he was sun rounded and hooted at by a considerable number of per sons whoa' our correspondent describes as of the middle classes. It is amongst them, be says, that the greatest animosity prevails towards the Puseyite clergy, as they regard them as intent on using the wealth of the church to carry the people back to Rome. The Society for promoting the enlargement &c. of churches has put forth a statement calling loudly on churchmen for their contributions. It appears that since the formation of this society, in the year 1818, it has assisted 2,258 parishes to obtain an increase of church accommodation, by the erection of 565 new churches, and the enlargement, &c., of 1,693 existing churches, by grants to the amount of £361,805. Through these means 626,000 additional sittings have been obtained, 460,000 of which are free. But the funds at its disposal are now nearly exhausted, while the demands upon them are greatly increased. The Vicar of Harewood, the Rev. Lichard Hale, has thought it his duty to address a public admonition to the Countess of Harewood, in the form of a small pamphlet, on the subject of her ladyship's attempts to introduce tractarian doctrines into the village of Harewood. The overt acts vs hich have brought down upon the amiable Countess this unusual clerical rebuke are, as alleged in the pamphlet, the circulation of tracts, the britiginc , of Dr. Hook's lecturer to examine the children in her ladyship's' school, and the invitation of many of the parishioners to attend on the ministry of the earl's chaplain at Harewood H ouse. provided were manufactured expressly for the occasion, and were of silver, the handles being covered with crimson velvet. Her Majesty, after throwing a few spadefnls of earth against the trees, delivered the spade to the Duke of Buckingham, but continued holding them while his grace completed the ceremony. Immediately his Royal Highness Prince Albert had planted the last tree the Duke of Buckingham, waving his hat, cried aloud, " God bless her Majesty the Queen," and immediately the " welkin rung" with the shouts of the spectators, great numbers of wham had come from littelcingham to witness this interesting ceremony. The royal party then re turned to the mansion, and in the evening a grand banquet took place, at which covers were laid for thirty-six. On Saturday the Royal party left Stowe, amidst a: salute from the artillery, and reached! Euston-square about twenty minutes past one, and in a few minutes left for Windsor. Her Majesty was to leave Windsor yesterday for Strath. fieldsaye, at half-past two, to honour the Duke of Wel lington with a visit. Sir Robert and Lady Peel, who came to town on Satur day fro Stowe, would yesterday morning go to Strath fieldsafe, on a visit to the Duke of Wellington, and re main there until Thursday, on which day the Queen and Prince Albert will close their visit at the ducal seat. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have left Stafford House, St. James's, for Hatchford, near Cobham, on a visit to Lord a Id Lady Francis Egerton, who are sur rounded by a distinguished circle at that country seat. Count Montalivet has sent to cur Queen's Purveyor a snuff-box with a miniature of of Louis-Philip, in return for the baron of beef which furnished forth the New Year's banquet at the Tuileries. Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Mecklen burgh Strelitz (daughter of his Royal Highness-the Duke of Cambridge) was safely delivered of a Prince on Monday morning, which only lived a few minutes. A ROYAL PRESENT.—A few days since a mechanic of the name of Wood presented to her Majesty a shell of the nautilus, on which he had engraved with a penknife the Great Britain and the Great Western steam-ships, the Royal arms, with other devices. and about 1,500 words. Previously to Wood's leaving the Castle, a sum of money was placed into his bands with an intimation that it was for the purpose of defraying his expenses back to town ; and 1-e left highly delighted with the reflection that he had accomplished a work that was considered worthy of so high a destination. A large packing case was brought to his humble abode, i❑ Harp-court, Farringdon-street, which contained a proof print of Hayter's picture of the Coronation in a beautiful frame ornamented with the rose, shamrock, and thistle in dead and burnished gold, which proved to he a present from her gracious Majesty. UNHEARD-OF BAHBARITY One of the most deliberate and barbarous outrages ever perpetrated in a civilised community was committed yes terdey morning in the upper part of the city, by a wretch who claims to be of the human species. Of all the ter rible crimes that were ever attempted in this city, this one is the most shocking, and one can scarcely think of it without shuddering. On Sunday morning a woman named Catherine, wife of Edward Hanlin, who lives in a little shanty on the north side of Fifteenth-street, was standing at her door, when a man named Andrew Klein, who occu pies a shanty adjoining, threw several stones at her, which struck her side, and bruised her considerably. She could only attribute his conduct to a trifling squabble they had a few days previous. On Monday morning, about half-past 7 o'clock, a short time after her husband bad left the house to go to his work, Mrs. Hanlin, who was lying asleep in her bed with her infant child and a boy named Lawrence, was awakened by a hammering at the door, and on lookine up, heard the blows of an axe, and soon saw a portion of the door burst in, and fire and smoke pour through the aperture. Dreadfully alarmed, she sprang from the bed, with the child in her arms, and rushed to the door, which was the only means of exit from the house, except the window. In her terror she saw Klein in front of the door, piling up burning straw, wood, and shavings against the door, and on attempting to go out, he took a long pole, which he held, and thtust it at her with both hands. She immediately felt a sharp instrument pierce her thigh. Seeing that Klein was sober, she became suddenly convinced that his intention was to burn her and her children to death, and in this awful situation. with the prospect of a terrible death before her, she frantically screamed " Murder I" and, rushing to the window, endeavoured to escape there. Klein, however, perceived her intention, and, jumping upon a barrel that was in front of the wiedow, with a large piece of board in his hand, brandished it in such a manner that she dared not attempt to get out. The smoke by this time had filled the room, so that she could scarcely breathe, and the child was screaming in agony and gasping as if in the last strug gle. With the strong feeling of a mother for Ler offspring, and as a last hope of saving its life, she covered it up in a feather-bed, anti immediately after fell down insensi b le. Thus much of this tale of horror she relates herself. The residue of the frightful narrative is told by other persons. Mr. Archibald Brown, of Sixteenth-street, heard THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. IRELAND. Six men were arrested on Wednesday week, charged with the murder of the late Arthur Gloster, Esq. One of the soldiers in Dublin having drank out of a bucket used by horses, got the " farcy," and died in a few days. The Dublin Evening Post publishes a letter from Dr. Murray. the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, enclosing one from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Heytes bury, in which the latter assures the Archbishop that there has never existed on the part of the government the slight est intention of entering into any negotiation with the Papal See upon the subject of a concordat. A NEW REPEAL CLUB.—It is reported that a club is about to be established in Dublin to aid the repeal move ment : it is to be called " the 'B2 club ?" its members will wear the green uniform of " the Volunteers of '45 ;" its standard toast, "legislative independence," will exclude federalists; Mr. O'Connell is to be its " president;" Lord Ffrench and others will compose its "directory." These new devices indicate mistrust of the ordinary repeal si im ulants. THE AGITATOR AT FAULT.—Mr. O'Connell cries roccavi in a letter published in the Evening Post of Thursday, for having asserted, untruly, that the papal rescript to Dr. Crolly was an uncanonical document. He confesses his offence, but attempts to explain it away in a piece of the most flimsy sophistry, while he fawns on Dr. Crolly and all the members of the popish hierarchy in a style of slavish sycophancy, in order, if possible, to win them back into good humour with himself and his schemes. SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.—On the 11th inst., at four o'clock in the morning, a vessel was driven cn shore by a southerly gale, at the Barrow, in Trumote Bay. The alarm was given, and a number of brave fel lows went down to the beach to' endeavour to save the crew, whose cries were distinctly heard. They formed a chain, several of them plunging far into the surge, and succeeded in saving one man. Two of them, Kenny and Sinnot, afterwards, by great and perilous exertion, board ed the hulk, and succeeded in getting on shore three others, including Travers the captain. A cabin boy, however, perished from exhaustion before he could be brought on shore. The vessel was the Elizabeth of Bristol, 150 tons burthen, from Newport with coal for Kins ile. Soon after the crew were taken off, she became a complete wreck. lIEPEAL ASSOCIATION. — The usual meeting was held yesterday week. A letter was read from Mr. 0 Connell, announcing his intention to be in Dublin on the 19th iust. He saya in the course of his communication—" How lu dicrous is the state of ignorance of the public writers in England, respecting the tone and temper of the Irish mind I Tio- y will now have it that the fervent anxiety of the Irish for the Repeal has cooled down, and been suc ceeded by some indifference. What folly I There never were so persevering a people as the Irish; and the Eng lish scoffers may rest assured, that there will he no-relax ation of every means provided by the constitution for agi tating for the Repeal, until our parliament i 3 in College. green." A letter was also read from Mr. Steele, the Head Pacificator, which concluded with the following reference to the Charitable Bequests Bill :—" As a matter of delicacy, being a Protestant, I never once made a speech, put pen to paper, or attended any public meeting on the subject of the Charitable Bequests Bill ; I only mourned in silence over that triumph of the Machiavelian enemies of Ireland—division among the sanctified Catho lic hierarchy of Ireland. Over this I mourn, but still mourn in silence. I venerate his Holiness the Pope as the spiritual head, the sanclissirnus Pontiff of the religion of my Catholic Christian brethren over the globe of the earth; but I say to his Holiness, in his character of a temporal Prince of a state in Italy, that no power on earth except the Queen, the Lords, and the Commons, has a right to make laws for Ireland—temporal laws for the direction of Ireland, or for any portion of her people." The rent was £230. DR. CANTWELL AND THE POPE.—The letter of Mr. O'Connell to Dr. Cantwell has produced a reply from that reverend doctor. Mr. O'Connell had told him the Pope's letter was uncanonical and undeserving of obedi ence, because it constituted an usurpation of temporal power by the Pope. To this Dr. Cantwell replies, and without saying that the letter is not an usurpation, that it is deserving of obedience or that it is canonical, he at once proceeds to panegytise his slanderous correspo .dent, who had corresponded with him merely that lie might vilify the Pope, and calumniate the Pope's Irish bishops, who, with Cantwell himself, had promised to yield to the Pope's command the obedience which, in their ordination, they had vowed. He addresses Mr. O'Connell as " Illustrious and Beloved." He says his letter was powerful and un answerable, and that it cannot fail to accomplish many blessings ; and in the course of the letter, he declares that Mr. O'Connell himself is the Irish nation's best religious benefactor. Having thus characterised the calumniator of the Pope, the Pope's bishop proceeds to prove that the letter can receive no obedience, because it asks none. The Pope's commands, he says, are hypothetical and con ditional, founded on information he had received, which the Pope himself supposed might have been erroneous. But Dr. Cantwell and Mr. O'Connell know that the Pope's information was all erroneous, for each knows the other respectively to be the most prudent and moderate of prelates—the most peaceable and dutiful of subjects. The Pope had heard of meetings in chapels, in fields, in taverns, in ruins, in halls, and at dinners. He condemned these, and, possibly, with perfect propriety ; but of these neither Dr. Cantwell nor Mr. O'Connell knew anything ; therefore, it was quite proper in itself, and quite in the spirit of the letter of the Pope, for Dr. Cantwell to take part in banquets to Mr. O'Connell—" banquets intended to mark the nation's gratitude to her best religious and civil benefactor." Such, literally, is the reasoning of Dr. Cantwell. UNCHARITABLE BEQUESTS. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) Amongst the inmates of a convent in Galway was a very old lady, who had become possessed of some freehold pro • perty, which she held in her own right, independent of the mother church ; and it was supposed that she retained the ownership merely to secure greater respect and atten tion to be paid to her where she lived, but without the slightest suspicion that any portion or remainder of it would ever be permitted to revert to sinful wordlings without the walls. The supposed whim of the old lady was humoured by the sleek, affable gentlemen who bad her conscience in charge, in perfect confidence that she could not live always, and that her good acres would, after her decease, be secured in perpeluum to those pe culiar charitable uses in which, according to their code, the whole duty of man, and of woman, too. consists. In short, they reckoned upon sharing the spoil among them selves, in the shape of masses and endowments, for the good of their pious sister and of the church. But when the Charitable Bequests Bill became the law, it was no longer convenient that so valuable a waif should float about, in dependence upon the breath of a Nonage narian ; and she was accordingly importuned most vehe mently to dispose of her estate. Transfer it she would not ; but she consented at length to make a testamentary disposition of it ; and being a self-willed person in all things, and resolved upon having her own way, even in that, she sent for a relation of her own, a Roman Catho lic merchant, who, by her directions, brought in a notary, also a Roman Catholic, and in the presence of these two persons, she did make a will. It would bare been much more selon les re' Iles, if the instrument had been prepared by one of the learned bre• thren, who assist Doctor Mac Hale in guiding the hearts and judgments of frail sinners in the straight and upright course through the snares of this selfish woad. But the old woman could do as she wished with her own, and those patient Christians kindly acquiesced, still persuaded in their minds that, in the point, they would find all that _ . was right. To make a long story short, the good old sister, full of years and of sanctity, was gathered to her fathers ; and be!ore she was cold in her bed, the will vea► opened. " 0, tell it not in Gath"—she had eluded their gr asp. and left every sod of ground to lay persons of her own naa,c and kindred. Not as much as a shovelful of bless-d clay did she bequeath to convent or friar; not a maravedi to Bi shop or Priest, to Deacon, or Subdeacon—no ; nor one farthing to his Grace, the Lord John, for the completion of the fretwork of his cathedral; or to help the price of that beautiful new organ, which he intends to inaugurate THE PRIEST AND THE PARISHIONER Much tumult and disorder was caused in the chapel at Fires,co.Cork, Sunday, Dec.ls, by a man named Cornelius Harringtnn, of Fires, interrupting the Rev. Mr. Healy, parish priest, while addressing his congregation, in the course of which Mr. Healy made allusion to the riotous and disorderly conduct of Harrington's son Jeremiah, on the previous Sunday, at Fires, at which Harrington took offence, and used several exciting expressions to Mr. Healy, the consequence of which was that Mr. Healy cursed him at the time from the altar._ On Sunday, the 22d, the Rev. Mr. Healy took occasion to make some observations on what occurred in the chapel on the preceding Sunday, when a person named Mark O'Sullivan, of Ardaclogher, nephew to Harrington, inter rupted him, by standing up and calling on the people if he should speak ; and several voices answering that he should do so, he told Mr. Healy that he was a priest of the devil, and used several other exciting and threatening expressions, the consequence of which was that Mr. Healy also cursed him, which caused O'Sullivan to rush towards him, and O'Sullivan was scarcely restrained from assaulting him, and as the only alternative, for order's sake, Mr. Healy dismissed the congregation, and on the following day made an information, and O'Sulli van was bound to answer for his conduct at the Petty Sessions. On the following Sunday, the same Mark O'Sullivan took nu his position by the altar of the chapel for the pur pose of hearing the prayers, but his presence there being offensive to Mr. Healy, when commencing the celebratio❑ of divine service, he desired that O'Sullivan should ledve the place, and go to some other part of the chapel, which O'Sullivan refused to do, and was caught hold of by Mr. Healy and the Rev. Mr. Roche, curate, and a scuffle en sued, and it was only by the unanimous call of the con. gregation for Mr. Healy and Mr. Roche to desist, and give them prayers, that they relinquished their hold. The entire of the circumstances were reported to the Right Rev. Dr. Egan, Bishop of the diocese, by Mr. Healy and the Rev. James Fitzgerald, of Castletown, and the bishop's answer directed the latter clergyman, being vicar, to ex communicate the parties. He proceeded accordingly to Fires for that purpose on the sth of January, and, on his approaching the chapel, the congregation formed them selves into a t.ocly to prevent him from getting up to the chapel, and on his attempting to force a passage, sticks were raised and a shout given that he should not pass, and Mark O'Sullivan cried out to the people to be firm, and added,—" No priest !" "No dues !" and the people who were in the chapel at the time were called out, and some of the doors were locked. In the mean time Mr. Fitzgerald was severely crushed and pushed about, and forced to a great distance from the chapel, and had ulti mately to return altogether and celebrate divine service in the yard adjoining Mr. Healy's house, distant half a mile from the chapel. Summonses have been ordered for several who appeared to be leaders in the disturbance, and it is feared that it the ceremony of excommunication be enforced, the op position will be continued. -.4._ THE POPE'S LETTER The Papal rescript has, as was to be expected, further exasperated the Locofocos of the Roman Catholic laity of Ireland against the heads of their church ; and from the aspect which matters have already assumed, it will not cause much astonishment if his Holiness the Pope b;c0;;;;;;; unpopular personage among !he Irish papists. Smaller by degrees and more beautifully less is the attendance each Sunday at the two leading chapels in _ . Dublin. Marlborough-street chapel, on Sunday week, could:not boast one-fourth of its usual congregation ; and the same remark applies to 'Westland-row chapel; the parishioners of the latter having nearly en masse migrated to the Carmelite Friary, in Clarendon-street, which has been latterly thronged to suffocation. The " proscribed" clergy, as the " regulars" are styled, are likely to reap the substantial fruits of the prevailing schism. With respect to Archbishop Murray, against whom all this malevolence is chiefly levelled, the Tipperary Free Press declares that there is no doubt about the fact that his Grace is scarcely less unpopular now than Lord Stanley in that county ; and that this ill-feeling will manifest itself in a tangible shape throughout the diocese of Dublin, when the occa sion offers, the hints thrown out in the speeches of sundry parish orators show is not a subject of mere speculation. The Drogheda Conservative thus reports the state of affairs in the Roman Catholic primacy : " We have been informed that a few of the shopkeepers and their tools, the lower classes of Roman Catholics, in Arm , gh, have during the last fortnight threatened to close the chapel against Dr. Crolly. But, as yet, they have not done so, and it seems to be only one of those idle threats so often resorted to by the agitators in older to frighten their opponents. The respectable and educated Roman Catholics of the diocese, as well as the secular clergy, are decidedly in favour of the bill, and if they abstain from declaring themselves so openly, it is merely to prevent a collision between themselves and their flocks, as they feel confident that the present unjust clamour will shortly subside." The Pi!ot, speaking of the rescript, observes : " The object of the English government, by this in trigue, is evidently part of the plan included in the Be quests Bill, to seprrate the Irish hierarchy and clergy from the people, or, at least, to sow disunion among them. Don't let the bishops be politicians, say English infrigu ants—don't let them `connive' at the projects of wicked conspirators! But who are the wicked conspirators ? Are they not the misrulers of England ? Who are the political bishops ? They who aid the English politicians in misgovernment, or they who seek to redress the ad mitted wrongs inflicted on the Catholic people by those politicians? We put aside in our argument the relative merits or demerits of the parts which, for instance, Arch bishop M'Hale on the one band, and Archbishop Murray on the other, may have thought it their duty, respectively, to take on particular questions ; but, is not Dr. Murray as political a bishop as Dr. M'Hale ? What act can bear a mote decided political complexion than helping at this juncture the Political English Premier of the Tory fac tion out of his political difficulty—lreland,—and enabling him to meet the approaching session with political delusion instead of justice ? The rescript we deem a nullity—virtually a nullity—as regards the objects for which it was obtained by England. The spiritual princi ples it inculcates are no nullity—for those it addresses have uniformly cherished among the people the ' quiet, tranquility, and peace, the bond of Christianity.' which that rescript piously enjoins. Nay more—if the clergy as a body had not joined the people in their strogoe, these precepts would be set at nought. For Irish agitation is the offspring of the grievances of the Irish people. Irish tranquility is alone preserved by their clergy sympathising with those grievances. Faithfully have the members of our venerated hierarchy interpreted the rescript, and the precepts it enjoins. For it was well observed by the Freeman of this morning that five days after that rescript saw the light—it was so truly, so faithful l y , and in such conformity with th ese our views, interpreted by Arch bishop M'llale, and the Right, Rev. Dr. Browne, that they proceeded to Limerick, and there by their speeches. their influence, their talents, they contributed to promote among the people that ` quiet, tranquility, and peace, the bond of Christianity,' which the rescript inculcates, and which the whole lives of these pious and exalted men have been a perpetual pilgrimage to enforce." -- - A PRETTY TH GU GFt T.-A coquette is a rose from which every lover plucks a leaf—the thorns are reserved for her future husband. Jan. 21, 1845 RAILWAY IIsITELLIGE CE, The Aylesbury Railway Company have resolved to op pose the Tring and Worcester Railway. The Ormskirk and Preston line will, it is said, be op posed by Lords Derby and Sefton, Mr. J. S. Leigh, Sir T. Trafford, and other landowners. The first permanent rail on the Lancaster division of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, was laid a few days ago by J. B Worthington, 11.5 q., the resident Engineer of that portion of the line. It is stated upon authority that the Cheshire and Shrop shire Junction Railway is withdrawn, and that the Shrews bury. Oswestry, and Chester Junction Railway will go into Parliament without opposition. At a meeting of the West London Railway Company on Monday, it was determined to lease the 'r line to the London and Birmingham Company in order to escape from their embarrassments. On Tuesday a man named Moss was killed at Patri croft by a train on the Liverpool and Manchester railway passing over him. It is not known how he fell under the train. The surveyors and engineers are busily engaged in marking out the line of road to be taken by the Runcorn and Manchester railway, for which Lord Francis Egerton and others have applied to Parliament. The shares of the Great North of England Railway Company (Darlington and York,) which, less than two years ago, were scarcely saleable at a discount of nearly a hundred per cent. are now quoted in the London Stock Lists at fifty pounds premium per share. CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.—A special meeting of this company was held at the Clarendon rooms, on Tuesday last, at which they authorised the di rectorsarpapillwyaytostpaatrialinaminenGt Grange -lane. a a railway, la t t o o e r tunnel, from the new docks at Wallasey Pool the t o numerous attendance. The chairman, Mr. W. Jackson, stated that the directors had perceived certain measures taking place in Birkenhead and other districts, likely to bring a great deal of traffic on their line, but those mea sures would not be perfect unless the proposed tunnel be came part of the line. The Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, at their Meeting on Thursday last, resolved to apply to Par liament for powers to make branches from Durston, between Bridgewater and Taunton, to Yeovil ; from the Clevedon-road station to Clevedon ; and for making an improved junction with the Great Western Com pany at the Bristol terminus. They have also de termined upon taking 1500 shares in the Cornwall Railway. For these purposes the shareholders have au thorised the directors to raise an additional capital of £500,000 by the issue of 15,000 third shares at £33 Gs. Bd. per share, to be distributed in the proportion of one new third to each old share, on notifying the acceptance. and paying the deposit of £2 before the 31st instant. Four per cent interest is to be snowed on all calls. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—On Wed nesday the half-yearly meeting took place at Lancaster. It was stated that the works from Lancaster to Carlisle had been let to contractors, and had since progressed satisfactorily. At the Lancaster end of the line the works had not yet commenced, as some alterations are in contemplation. Another deviation was proposed to be made at Kendal. The directors now propose to lay down a double instead of a single line, and within the authorised capital. To complete the great chain of railway commu nication between England and Scotland, they have re solved on supporting the proposed Caledonian line. The directors bad also entered into a conditional contract with the Lancaster and Preston Company to lease their line of twenty miles in length. The accounts showed that the receipts had amounted to £174,625 ' leaving, after dis bursements, a balance of £85,829. The chairman con gratulated the meeting on the state of the company's affairs. The report was received, and the agreement with the Lancaster and Preston ratified; Mr. Hall, of Liverpool, in his circular, takes a compa rison of 30 of the oldest and most important railways, and his statement gives an increase of value of stock during the last year of £28,695,479 over the amount of capital laid out, the former being £85,554,081, and the latter £56,858,602. It appears also, from the same docu ment, that the only railways which have fallen in price are the London and Birmingham,and the Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock. The Birmingham and Gloucester; Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr; Great North of England ; Newcastle and Darlington ; Sheffield and Manchester ; and York and North Midland have risen above 50 per cent. in their value during the same period. The highest prices of Birmingham shares were those current in the month of January, when quotations ranged from 237 to 243 ; and the lowest those current in the niontls of Oc- Her Majesty and Prince Albert , with the royal suite, tober last. when the differences between the Birmingham left Windsor Castle on Wednesday, a little before eleven, and Grand Junction Companies seemed likely to produce in three carriages and four, for the Slough station of the I strong opposition on certain branch lines brought before Great Western Railway. After paying a visit to the Duke the public. In that month they fluctuated between 216 of Cambridge, the royal party started from Euston .square and 212. station precisely at twenty-four minutes past twelve, and RAILWAY PROPERTY. — It now appears that the traf proceeded direct to their destination a' the Wolverton fie of the last six months of 1814, on the 38 principal station, which they reached at a quarter to two. On railways in Great Britain, amounts to three millions and leaving the station, the royal cortege proceeded across a quarter or more—exactly £3,264,45 0 . This tra ffi c has the railway bridge , in the d ir e ctio n of Ston y Stratford, been carried on upon 1,522 miles of ra'lway, and 234 en route for Buckingham and Stowe. miles of branch lines, making in all 1,756 miles. This At Page-hill, where the Duke of Buckingham's domain revenue is £450,000 more than the corresponding half of commences, a very handsome arch was thrown across the last year. It is chiefly owing to the improvement in the road, and here a momentary del a y took p lace, while the horses attached to her Maje-ty s carriage were changed— trade of country, the and only slightly to the increase in a relay from the noble Duke's own stud being in readiness the extent of lines opened to the public. It repre sents an improvement of nearly ten millions in the to convey her Majesty onward to Stowe. value of the railways of Great Britain since the corn - The members of the Buckingham Corporation ass fie of 1844. This revenue amounts to about bled at the Town-hall at twelve o'clock , and shortly after £4,000 per mile per annum, of which let us take one formed in procession, and proceeded to the northern £l6OO for working expenses, and we have £2400 per mile boundary of the town, to await the arrival of the royal per annum for dividend, indicating a mar k e t value of visitors, when the Mayor, advancing to the window of the £48,000 per mile, at 20 years' purchase. The total sum royal carriage, presented the borough mace to the Queen. available this half-year for interest and dividends will be This ceremony completed, the royal party moved rapidly about £2,000,000, giving, for the value of all the impor towards the mansion of Stowe, on the road to which 500 taut lines of the country, at 20 years' purchase, a sum of of the tenantry, on horseback, wearing scarlet rosettes, £80,000,000. But, as many of the lines are worth more received her Majesty with tremendous cheering. On alighting at Stowe, her Majesty was received by than 20 years' purchase, and as many small lines are not the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, who had awaited included in this estimate, while some are in course of the arrival of their royal guest at the foot of the grand construction and not open for traffic, it may be near the portico. The Queen greeted the Duke in the most affec- truth to say that at the commencement of 1845 we start linnets manner, and having cordially shook hands with with a national property in railways worth not less than the Duchess, took the arm of her noble host, and entered £100,000,000. —Railway Chronicle. the mansion amid the deafening shouts of the tenantry RAILWAYS. — The Board of Trade have issued a notice and labourers assembled, the yeomanry band playing the that they have decided on reporting to parliament in favor national anthem. Prince Albert followed, with the of the following railways :---Guildford, Chichester, Duchess of Buckingham on his arm. Her Majesty was Portsmouth, and Fareham Branch, Metropolitan Exten conducted by the Duke through the north hall to the eion of the London and South-Western, Richmond and grand sal-on, where the gues.s already arrived at the West-end Junction, and Staines and Richmond. And mansion were assembled to receive the royal visitors. they report against the following:—Brighton and Chi- The Queen soon after retired to her private apartments. chillier—Portsmouth Extension, Direct London and The dinner party in the evening was on the most splen- Portsmouth, London and Portsmouth, with branches to did scale, and amongst those present, besides the royal Shoreham Bridge, Fareham, and Reigate ; Grosvenor party and their iiosprteble friends, were Sir Robert and Railway, Great Western--Uxbridge and Staines June- Lady Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir James Graham, &c. tion, London and Brighton—Wandsworth Branch, Lon- The table was covered with gold and silver plate. Her don and South-Western—Epsom Branch, Metropolitan Majesty, after dinner, was shown the pictures and other Central Junction, arid South London and Windsor. And interesting objects in the mansion. they recommended the postponement until a future period On Thursday the Queen and the Prince rose at half- of the Epsom and Dorking, London and.Croydon—Dor past seven, and, after breakfasting alone, attended divine king Branch, London and Brighton—Dorking Brauch, service at nine. About half-past ten the Prince, accom- South-Eastern Branch—Reigate to Dorking. panied by several of the guests, repaired to a &Wu- Another notice appears in the Gazelle of Friday stating amongst the preserves, which had been rigidly ke p t in that the Board of Trade have decided on reporting to anticipation of his royal highness's visit. The game was parliament in favour of the South Eastern—Maidstone of course abundant, and the number shot by the party arid Rochester; South Eastern—Branches to Deal and was 200 hares, 100 pheasants, and one snipe, of which the Weimer, and extension and deviation at Margate; South Prince shot 114 hares, 29 pheasants, and the only snipe Eastern—Ashford to Hastings ; South Eastern--Hunger killed. The Queen walked out several times amongst I ford Bridge to Tunbridge and Paddock Wood and Bran the private grounds, and afterwards took a drive about i ches ' • South Eastern—North Kent, Hungerford Bridg e the park in the direction of the shoot in g , and returned to C hilham, with branch to Sheerness, subject to any with the company to luncheon. The dinner party in the modifications which may appear to be desirable for the evening comprised nearly the same parties as that on the naval and military establishments of the country; and night before. reserving consideration of the branch to connect Green- Prince Albert was out again on Friday amongst the eich and Woolwich. And against the Central Kent ; preserves, and was nearly as euc essiul as on the pre- London and Croyden—Orpington Branch; London and vicars day. On the return of the party, and soon atter Maidstone; London and Ashford ; London, Chatham,• luncheon, her Majesty and Prince A lbert p roceeded to and Gravesend ; London , Chatham, and North Kent; the " Temple of Concord," on the north-west sideof ' Rye, Tenterden, and Headcorn • South Eastern—Tun the mansion, to plant some trees in commemoration of bridge to Hastings , Rye , and St. Leonard's (with the ex their visit to Stowe. The trees selected were oaks and ception of so much of the line as lies between Tunbridge ceilars, and one of each was planted by her Majesty and end Tunbridge Wells) : South Eastern—Headcorn to Prince Albert on each side of the temple. The spades Rye. FRUITS OF TRACTARIANISM.—The Rev. Walter Blunt still persists in the obnoxious changes at his church, in Hesston; and as the parish has become somewhat noto rious in consequence of the celebrated judgment of the Bishop of Exeter, we may detail what has taken place within it, as proving that Tractarianism drives people from the church and fills the chapels of dissent and po pery. In 1837 it was found expedient. in consequence of the attachment of the people to the established form of worship to enlarge the church ; every seat was filled ; ad ditional services were provided by the liberality of the congregation ; they paid the organist; they paid the choir; they lighted the church with gas; they altered and beautified the building at considerable expense. This was under the " old regime," when clergy and congregation worked unanimously together, and fulfilled the duties of their sphere and calling. But there is a time for all things. The system under which the parish enjoyed so much ecclesiastical prosperity had done enough. It suc ceeded admirably, but its day was gene,—" nous arsons change tout cela." Young men were brought into the place, who brought new ways and new manners with them. The " natives" were first astonished, as well they might be ; then rather staggered; afterwards annoyed and disgusted ; and now, there is little more than the bare walls to witness the formalities with which the wiser cler gymen have invested a worship formerly so attractive to such numbers! One of the reporters for the London 2'inies says that he attended service at Helston on Sunday week, and the following is his graphic description of the present state of things:—" With accommodation in the church for nea ly 1,000 people, I counted heads, and there were only 65 persons, nearly all women, in the church. The new gallery, recently erected, had its dreary vacancy interrupted by two young men who alone occupied it. There were not a dozen poor persons in the free seats. There were a few ladies and female servants here and there in the appropriated seats. The heads of respectable families, I am informed, drive to country churches in the neighbourhood, leaving occasionally some of the ladies of their families, to whom it would be inconvenient to go three or four miles to church, who formed almost the sole congregation. The corporation seat was entirely empty. The great bulk of the middle classes and the poor, who cannot drive four or five miles nut of town, have left the church, and now attend the Wesleyan or Independent chapels. Instead of the church being prosperous, it is now bankrupt. There are no funds to pay a lecturer, so his services are dispensed with. There is no singing, be cause there is no money to pay the choir. The organ has been stopped, and there is no music whatever during the service ; there is no money to pay an organist. Tallow candles have been stuck into the gas burners ; there is no money to pay for gas, and the candles even are paid for by Mr. Blunt out of the offertory money collected during the communion service—the alms for the poor. This has excited considerable indignation ; and the churchwarden has remonstrated and applied to the bishop." Facts of this nature, unquestionable facts, speak tar more to the purpose than all the arguments of the keenest wits ; and if the rulers of the church will not accept their testimony, and act with proportionate energy in arres;ing innovation, they must expect the same results for every church where it prevails, as at Holston, where the meeting-houses are thronged by those who are driven from the place of their former devotions. THE COURT 6- FASHIONABLE WORLD. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO STOWE