The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-09 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 9, 1852. THE WEE K . THE results of some of the municipal elections of yes- terday week have proved most conclusively two facts first, that our professedly pure Whig not above resorting -Radicals are to the most flagitious practices wished-for t umph ; and, secondly, that respectable (?) housekeepers may be induced to vote against the recorded convictions of their past lives, by champa, .gne suppers, beer, blarney, and bribes h quite as little difficulty as the much of old Freemen. The only difference of hard cash, wi reviled r, between the two classes is, that the latter are a little more aristocratic in their tastes, and are, therefore, more costly to the purchaser. The election for Saint Anne's Ward is an instance of the fact referred to Nothing in the past history of Liverpool ever equalled the gross and shameless doings of Whig-Radicalism in that ward. No drugged horse was ever backed more freely to lose by a set of blacklegs, than the enlightened electors of St. Anne's Ward were backed to win by the party who bad paid so heavily for besotting them. People are asking themselves seriously the question, — where is this to end ? Representative Municipal Councils must degenerate into a farce. In the instance of St. Anne's Ward, the same means used at the late election would just as readily have returned the well-known briber's groom, or the boots at the nearest hotel, had that gentleman added to his liberality by conferring upon either a quart& cation The interference of Parliament, by a measure rendering such elections void, and severel punishing those engaged either as ceivers of bribes, seems to be the only remedy bribers, or re- A singular rumour is current respecting a gentleman stepping into the shoes of his deceased all ward, as occupier of his business premis Gregson, Halhead Bennett, Tyrer, Godf Mr. Ald father in Vans such business being understood to have and the rent and rates paid, since the father's death, by the executors. It is said that been carried or this was done at the suggest of a certain gentleman connected with the ward, and that serious procec s had been contemplate mention no n ames ; but the gentlemen referred to will no doubt understand not be lion for them to learn that the affair quite a consol idely known. If it can be satisfacto 3, the better for a partie on-Ro 7. entlemer Comprising , mer following we 1 hough, Becks were preE Thomson Moss, Brancker Bigham, W Nicholson, Fleming, James Lawrence, er, Horsfal Hodgcnn ‘T Gard er, Wood Anderson, Toulmin, James buff, Wagstaff, Henderson, NPGuffie, Pictor estion h Jefferies, and Bennett was called to the rst mooted was that of the Mayoralty, and it was proposed HOLME should be that Mr. S elected for the coming year, and that the meeting should pledge them port Mr. J. B. LLOYD for next year s to sup- The latter part of the proposition was not carried, a portion of those present not being willing to pledge them• selves at that early juncture ; but the election of Mr. HOLME this day may be regarded as certain. Messrs. 'WOODRUFF, 1-IA.LitRA.D, BICCKWITH, and M`NrcoLL, were fixed upon to fill up the vacancies caused by the election in the Watch Committee; Mr. JOHN STEWART to fill that occurring in the Improvement Committee; and Messrs. ANDERSON, Moss, and JEFFERIES, those in the Education Committee. A long and warm debate took place with respect to the composition of the Health Com mittee, which resulted in nothing beyond a pretty general expression of opinion that the Committee required re-organising. Our worthy Stipendiary Magistrate appears, by his recent epistolary efforts, to have placed himself in the unfortunate predicament of pleasing nobody. His first letter, addressed to his friend, Mr. Wm. EARLE, was founded upon a misunderstanding of the facts of the question upon which he wrote. His second, addressed to the Vestry Clerk, is ra ther apologetic, but contains some sound remarks. We are afraid, however, that Mr. MANSFIELD has not, as yet, had experience enough to enable him to appreciate fully the difficulties with which the Vestry have to grapple, or the sort of characters with whom they have to deal. He is a little in error if he imagines that a week at stone breaking, or grinding corn, will prevent the incorrigible class of Irish mendicants from returning, by the very first opportunity they can find, to infest our streets. FOREIGN SUMMARY. OUR French neighbours, almost wearied with the lengthened preparations for converting the Republic into an Empire, have a new object of excitement in the presence of the Arab chief, ABD-EL-KADER, who is now the lion of Parisian society. The Empire movement is progressing, the Senate having met and referred the drawing up of the necessary document to a special committee. It is said that the formal announcement will take place on the 10th of December, and that in the meantime an appeal will be made to universal suffrage. The difficulties attending the formation of a Ministry in Belgium have been surmounted. After several attempts, M. DE BROUCKERE has been successful, and has addressed the Chamber in a very confident tone. Piedmont is labouring under a ministerial difficulty. The KING of NAPLES has taken a tour of mercy through his dominions, and released about fifteen hundred political prisoners.—There is some talk of the Portuguese Government requiring a loan, and their application to some English houses being re fused.—Fears are entertained for the life of the KING Of SWEDEN and NORWAY, and a regency has been appointed during his severe illness.—ln Austria the commercial conferences have been opened, but nothing is known of the subject of the deliberations. A Saxon paper says that the object is to provide against a dissolution of the Zollverein, so as to facilitate a re-union.—The SU LTAN has shown his adherence to the change of policy in Constantinople, by changing his am bassador at Paris. The most active exertions were being made to pay the first instalment of the re pudiated loan, and most of the PASHAS had made sacrifices to meet the unexpected demand. There has been a serious insurrec tion in S yria , the Turkish army having been attacked in camp Ly th e D ruses and Bedouins. An English ship, with missionaries, was arrested at Bussorab, hut, on the remonstrance of the English consul, they were given up. The principal item of intelligence from America is the death of the Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER. He was one of those few able statesmen whose influence and good sense kept young America from getting into mischief, though his recent intemperate con. duct about the fisheries question tended somewhat to weaken his reputation for prudence. It ap pears that the executive has disapproved of the pugnacity of Lieut. PORTER, and is not, therefore, anxious for a pretext to annex Cuba. It may be more prudent to wait a little longer. In Brazil trldg was quiet, but more activity was anticipated, FOREIGN NEWS. FRANCE. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Nov. 5, 1852. The interest attaching to the forthcoming declaration of the Empire seems almost to be superseded by the presence of the renowned Emir Abd-el.Kader, who is, without doubt, the lion of the day in Paris. Whenever he appears in public, and he is by no means chary of showing him self, there are crowds to greet him, and the curiosity of all classes has been maintained without intermission. On his first interview with the President, there were the most friendly greetings on both sides, as though each was desirous to do honour to the other. The President em braced the Emir with the greatest warmth; and the latter, in reply, expressed his gratitude for the liberty which others had promised and not performed, but which the President had not promised, and yet had granted. He made a solemn vow, which he repeated in writing, that he would never again set foot in Algeria. On Wednesday, there was a grand military review on the historical plains of Satory ; and where the Emir, in his picturesque Oriental costume, and mounted on a splendid white Arab charger, was the cynosure of all eyes. He was accompanied by General Magnan and General St. Arnaud, each followed by a brilliant staff. He afterwards visited the Palace of Versailles, and was shown through the whole of the mag nificent apartments. When the Emir visited the Church of the Madeleine, he inquired for his dear friend, as he termed him, Monseigneur Dupuch, the first Bishop of Algeria. Of their previous acquaintance, the following interesting story is told by Le Pays:— ""'" The year 1840 was a terrible epoch in the annals of kigeria, a dreadful war staining the fields with blood. It was for the pious bishop an endless source of affliction to hear of so many melancholy incidents. He was consider ing how it might be possible for him to lessen the horrors of the war, when a young woman, all in tears, with a little girl in her arms, called on him and implored him to ask the Emir to restore to her her husband, who bad been taken prisoner at the gates of Douera, in the Sahel of Algiers. The bishop wrote the same evening to the dis ciple of the Prophet :—' You do not know me ; my pro fession is to serve God and love all men as brethren. if I could at once mount on horseback, I would not fear the darkness or the storm to present myself at the entrance of your tent ; and I woull say to you in a voice which, if what I hear of you be true, you could not resist—" Give me back him who has just fallen into your hands.' But I cannot set out myself. However I send to you one of my servants, and supplicate you to grant my request. I have neither gold nor silver to give, but I offer you in re turn the prayers of a sincere heart, and the gratitude of the family in whose name I write these words—' Blessed are the merciful, for they shall find mercy.' Abd-el-Kader replied as follows—' I have received your letter and cora prehendedlit. It has not surprised me after what I have heard of your sacred character. But allow me to observe that you might in accordance with your mission of mercy have asked me for the liberty, not of one prisoner merely, but of all those now in our hands. And, in addition, would you not be doubly worthy of your mission if, not content with procuring such a benefit for 200 or 300 Christians, you attempted to extend the favour to a like number of Mussulmans who languish in your prisons ? Is it not written—' Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you It is sai d that the correspondence was of much benefit, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1852. it led to an immediate interchange of prisoners Yesterday, (Thursda al performance E the Etnir was specially invited the St. Cecille Concert to a mu? Rooms attracted an immense crowd of afterwards dined with the President at s presence of St. Cloud The Senate met yesterday, (Thursday), and a message from the President, in which he uses the fol- )wing words : ' The nation has just ope ly manifested its will to m adopt it, you will think, he emp me, that the constitution of 1852 ought to )e maintained, and then the modification considered as ndispensable will by no means alter the fundamental basis. 10 doubt, wit " In the re-establishment of the Empire the people finds a guarantee for its rights and a satisfaction to its just pride. "This re-establishment is a security for the future, closing, as it does, the era of revolutions, and consecrating again the conquests of 1789. " It satisfies its just pride, because, raising again freely and deliberately what all Europe thirty-seven years ago destroyed by force of arms amidst the disasters of the country, the people nobly revenges its reverses, without making any victims, without threatening any independ ence, and without disturbing the peace of the world." The senators began to arrive at the Luxembourg about noon, the Cardinals being the first to make their appear ance. They were attired in their robes, and the other senators wore their full dress, civil or military. The president of the senate, Prince Jerome Buonaparte, having taken his seat, ten of the members deposited on the table a proposal that a senatus consultum should be prepared, and that an appeal should be made to the nation to re-establish the Empire ; and the Minister of State, M. Fould, having declared that he did not oppose it, the proposal was referred to a special committee, who are expected to make their report to-morrow, and the senatus consulturn will be issued on Monday. The President has done an act of grace by issuing a decree authorising the payment of the debts of Monseig neur Dupuch, the first Bishop of Algeria, amounting to 220,000 francs, about £9,000. There is a story just now afloat in Paris which gives rise to ranch scandal against a high Romish ecclesiastic. It appears that the Countess de M , who was one of the most rigid and pious ladies of the Faubourg St. Germain, was left a widow about ten or twelve years ago, when, inconsolable for her loss, she announced her intention of retiring to the convent of the Presentation at Meaux. Here she was visited by the director of the convent, who undertook to argue ber into resignation, but after a while she left the convent and took lodgings in a neighbouring farm-house, where she was assiduously visited by the director daring the whole of that winter. In course of time she returned to her residence in Paris, and maintained a respectable appearance. About four years since the director died, and specially bequeathed to her care a little ragged boy, who bad been brought up by a family of woodmen in the forest of Meaux. The lady, much to the surprise and mortification of her relatives, adopted the little savage as her own, and had him placed under proper tutors, but surprisedegenerated into scandal when ill-natured friends remarked upon the strange likeness between the lady and her protege. Alldoubtswere however set at rest a short time ago, when on the lady's death it was found that she had bequeathed all her property to her " beloved son" (the child alluded to), leaving only a life annuity to her brother. The brother, the Baron de B—, attacks the will, for though the law in France is lenient to illegitimate children, the paternity of a priest cannot be recognised. It is said that overtures have been made to the baron to compromise the matter, in order to avoid the scandal against a dignitary of the church. There was a considerable decline yesterday in the value of the French funds, but they have slightly rallied this morning. The weather lately has been very fine, more like June than November. Business generally is active, and tradesmen are looking forward to still further improve ment under the empire. BELGIUM. The Belgian Cabinet has been reconstructed, with M. Henri de Brouckere as prime minister. The Chamber of Representatives re-assembled on Wednesday. After some preliminary business had been concluded. M. H de Brouckere explained the circumstances under which he had undertaken to form a ministry. He freely admitted that recent parliamentary elections, and the result of the votes in September last, for the post of President of the Chamber, had disturbed the whole Liberal majority, but he did not believe that that majority had been broken up. He was convinced that the Liberal party had still a majo rity in the Chamber, and he would adduce in proof the election of the present honourable President. The new ministry was one of moderation, and it would be as con ciliating as possible ; but no one should have just cause to accuse it of concealing or betraying the Liberal flag which he and his colleagues had so long upheld. He was happy to say that the Cabinet was a perfectly homogeneous one, no difference of opinion prevailing on any points of policy. After some further observations of a more general cha racter, the minister resumed his seat amid loud cheering. ITALY The Piedmontese Gazette of the Ist instant announces that the Earl and Countess Minto had arrived at Turin, and that, after resting a few days in that city, they would proceed to Genoa, where they are to spend the winter. The official journal does not yet publish the list of the new Ministers. It confines itself to stating that M. Azeglio and his colleagues had tendered their resignation to the King, by whom it had been accepted; that his Majesty was occupied with the construction of a new Cabinet, and had held conferences on the subject with several persons. The King of Naples, during his tour in the provinces, has liberated more than 1,500 political prisoners. In the pro vince of Catanzaro upwards of 1,000 constitutionalists have been sent to their homes. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. We have received intelligence from New York to the 26th ult., and from Boston to the 27th, by the Royal Mail steam-ship America,Capt. Shannon, which arrived in the Mersey on Sunday, at 7.53 a.m. She sailed from Boston at noon the on 24th ult., and arrived at Halifax at 12.20 a.m. on the 20th. After a detention of one hour to embark mails, &c., she again sailed and experienced va riable winds and weather during the passage. On the 29th, at 9 p.m., in lat 45 28 N., lon. 59 20 W., the Ame rica exchanged night signals with a 1 arge steamer, bound west, supposed to be one of the Collins' line. The Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara, Stone, commander, with the mails of the 16th, from this port, arrived at Ha lifax at 3 a.rn. on the 27th ult. DEATH OF MR. WEBSTER. On Sunday morning, the 24th October, at twenty-two minutes before three o'clock, the United States was de prived of another of her most able statesmen in the demise of Mr. Daniel Webster. It is but a few weeks ago that the death of Henry Clay spread gloom over American soc i e ty, and now another name is added to the category of those who, having obtained honour in the senate, and filled a large space in the eye of the nation. have at length been compelled to bow before a power which is no respecter of persons. The deceased statesman had been confined to his residence, Marshfield, for about a fortnight, from disease of the bowels, accompanied by dropsical affection of the etoulach. Up to the TqC§CIPY PrtYl4ll.l to hie solution, it was anticipated that he would soon be able to resume his official duties ; but his illness assumed a sudden and alarming phase, and he continued to gradually get worse until Thursday, when he was attacked with severe vomiting, which returned at intervals. On that day he was informed of the near approach of death. He received the intelligence with perfect composure ; and from that period, until a short perio efore his demise, his placidity and clearness of understalling never forsook him. On Friday, the 22d, he became much prostrated, and, be lieving that the hour of death had arrived, he took an affectionate leave of his wife and family and personal friends, after which, at his own desire, Mr. Peter Harvey went into his room. He said to him—" Harvey, lam not so sick but that I know you; I am well enough to know you. I am well enough to love you, and well enough to call down the richest of Heaven's bles sings upon you and yours. Harvey, don't leave me till I am dead ; don't leave 'Marshfield till I am a dead man." Then, as if speaking to himself, he said, "On the 24th of October, all that is mortal of Daniel Webster will be no more." He then prayed in his natural usual voice, strong, full, and clear, ending with " Heavenly Father, forgive my sins, and receive me to Thyself, through Christ Jesus." Shortly afterwards he conversed with Dr. Jeffries, who said he could do nothing more for him than to administer occasionally a sedative potion. " Then," said Mr. Webster, " I am to be here patiently till the end ; if it he so, may it come soon." Being anxious to know at what hour his dissolution would take place, he was told that it might occur in one, two, or three hours, but that the time could not be definitely calculated. " Then," said Mr. Webster, " I suppose I must lie here quietly till it comes." Dr. Jeffries offered to Mr. Webster something which he hoped might give him ease. The dying statesman remarked, " Something more, doctor, more. I want restoration." Between ten and eleven o'clock he repeated somewhat indistinctly the words, " Poet, poetry—Gray, Gray." Mr. Fletcher Webster repeated the first line of the elegy, " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day." " That's it, that's it," said Mr. Webster; and the book was brought, and some stanzas read to him, which seemed to give him pleasure. At about two o'clock he was overpowered with faintness, and expressions fell from him indicating the hope that his mind would remain to him completely until the last. He spoke of the difficulty of the process of dying, when Dr. Jeffries repeated the verse, " Though I walk through the valley of:the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me : Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me." Mr. Webster said immediately, "The fact, the fact ! That is what I want. Thy rod, Thy rod ! Thy staff, Thy staff!" He then sank rapidly, and died at twenty-two minutes before three o'clock on Sunday morning, the 24th October. All that was mortal of Daniel Webster was no more. The ancestors of the deceased statesman were of Scottish origin, and his descent is traced from Thomas Webster, who emigrated from Eng land, and settled at Hampton, on the coast of New Hampshire. The father of Daniel Webster, Ebenezer Webster, in early life served under the colonies, against the French, in the invr . sion of Canada ; was made a cap tain ; and at the end of the war settled on the Merrimack River. New Hampshire. By a second wife he had two sons, Ezekiel and Daniel, the latter being born on the 18th Jan., 1782. At the age of fifteen years Daniel Webster entered Darmouth College, at Hanover, New Hampshire, where he graduated in 1801. On leaving college, he commenced the study of the law, and in 1805 he was ad mitted to the bar in the Court of Common Pleas, Boston. In the first election after the declaration of war with England, in 1812, he was elected a member of Congress, and was immediately placed by Henry Clay, the speaker, upon the committee of Foreign Affairs. On the 10th June, 1813, Mr. Webster delivered his maiden speech in Congress, on a series of resolutions moved by himself, relative to the repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees of the French Emperor. No full report of this speech was preserved ; but it took the house by surprise, from the vast amount of historical knowledge and power of illus tration which was displayed. In 1814 he was re-elected in the fourteenth Congress ; in 1820 he was chosen one of the fifteen presidential electors for Massachusetts ; in 1822 he became a member of Congress for Boston ; in 1827 he was advanced to the senate ; in 1840 he was ap pointed to the office of Department of State. The part which he took in the great compromise question, in 1850, brought him prominently before the notice of the nation, and, in the same year, he was placed, by President Fill more, on the re-organization of the Executive, at the head of the administration. At this time he entertained a great desire for the honours of the presidency, and, it is said, he was greatly disappointed that he was not nominated by the Whig National Convention, in June last. His somewhat intemperate conduct with respect to the recent misunderstanding concerning the fisheries question tended considerably to diminish the respect of those of his friends and supporters who are anxious to maintain friendly relations with England. Mr. Webster was twice married ; first, in 1807, to Grace Fletcher, daughter of Rev. Mr. Fletcher, of Hopkington, ; second, about 1830, to Caroline Le Roy, daughter of the late Herman Le Roy. This lady survives him. By his first wife, Mr. Webster had four children, Grace, Fletcher, Julia, and Edward, of whom Fletcher alone survives. His congressional career embraced eight years in the House of Representatives, and about nineteen years in the Senate, in all about twenty-seven years. Mr. Webster was seventy-two years of age. The news of his death caused the greatest sympathy throughout the country. According to the Tribune, President Fillmore had written a letter calling upon his friends to rally to the support of General Scott. A letter from Boston states that the owners of the vessels sent out to gather guano at Lobos had forwarded imarortions to their captains not to attempt to load for cibly, but to seek freight elsewhere. According to late advises, Commodore M'Auley had not received the coun termand to the notification given him to defend American vessels in securing guano. New York papers state that Lieutenant Porter had had an interview with the Secretary of the Navy, and that the President and his Cabinet disapprove of the position Captain Porter assumed at Havana. Under these circum stances the captain is to return to the Georgia, from which steamer he was temporarily absent when he got into the difficulty with the Cuban Government, as commanding officer of the Crescent City. Yellow fever was still prevalent at Charleston. A cotton mill was destroyed by fire, at Providence, on the 25th. Her Majesty's steamer Devastation had detained in Port Hood, for some hours, upwards of forty or fifty fish ing vessels. Advices from Havana to the 18th ult. state that the passengers who left New York for Havana by the steam ship Crescent City, and who were eventually carried from New Orleans to their destination by the Black Warrior, had been arrested and examined with regard to their pro ceedings on board the former vessel. They were subse quently released. LIST OF PASSENGERS.—From Boston :—The Earl of Mount Charles, William Jackson, Esq., M.P.. Mr. Blake, lady, three children, and servant, Rev. William David, Mr. J. G. Smith, Mr. C. B. Hastings, Mr. E. D. Jordan, Mr. G. Pattison, Mr. R. Hardistz, Mr. J. Ardeva, Mr. J. Hartin, Mr. George Pemberton, Master Osborne, Mr. Ross, Mr. J. A. Maclagan, Mr. T. G. Appleton, Mr. E. Enser, Mr. D. Macfarlane, Mr. G. Dunderdale, Mr. S. G. Wragg, Mr. W. Brown, Mr. W. B. Abbot, Mr. W. Reed, Mrs. Rynes and two children, Mr. W. M. Barrett, Mr. Donegree, Mr. J. Collins, Mr. W. Johnson, Mr. J. Barrett, Mr. W. Heal, Mr. J. Jenkins, and Mr. Francis.—From Halifax : Hon. Joseph Howe, Capt. M`Caskill, Lieut. Bell, and Lieut. Ingram. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, OCT. 26. MONEY MARKET.—There is no new feature in the money market. The supply continues abundant, and call loans are easy at 5 to 7 per cent. The banks are discount ing freely. The general tone of the stock market is firm, with rather more business doing. North American has advanced 1. The demand for exchange on Europe was rather dull. London. 110 to 110 3 ; Paris, 5,131 to 5,15 ; Amsterdam, 41 to 41i ; Frankfort, 401 to 40E ; Bremen, 79i to 79/ ; Hamburg ;361 to 361. CorroN.—To-day cotton was cheaper, and the sales amounted to 1,500 bales. Upland middling sold at 10c. to 10Ic., and Orleans ditto at 104 c. to 10ac. The Courier and inquirer, of the 26th says : " Since our last review of the market per Asia, 20th instant, the sales have amounted to 5,000 bales. Prices under the influence of favourable crop advices have declined Bc. to lc., to which our quotations at foot are adjusted. The market closed yesterday without inquiry, and nearly all the small stock remaining offered. STRICT LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION. Atlantic Other Ports. Florida. Gulf Porta Inferior..... Low to good ord. .. to 94 84 to 94 81 to 91 Low to good mid.... 94 to 101 91 to 10/ 9-1 to 104 Mid. fair to fair .... 101 to 104 nominal. 104 to 111 Fully fair to good fair nominal. nominal, nominal. "It would be difficult at this early season to form any correct notions as to the aggregate crop of 1852-3 ; but it may be well to state that at the present moment the cal culations vary from 2,700,000 (the lowest estimate) to 2,900,000 and 3,000,000 bales. Assuming the yield at the latter quantity, and at the present increased value as com pared with last year, say 41 to 42 dollars per bale, against 35 dollars, the value of the export to Great Britain will alone reach nearly 75,000,000 dollars. _ _ (From Mr. W. P. Wright's Circular of October 26). — The southern markets are without material change In New Orleans, Mobile, and Charleston, a large business continues to be done on English account. THE CROP.—The more favourable advices as to the growing crop, induced by the continuance of fine weather throughout the entire cotton region, alluded to in my last circular, has been during the past week more fully con firmed by letters per mail, and by telegraphic information up to last evening ; estimates are being raised, and it is not now unusual to find parties who put the figures down at 3,000,000 bales. As yet, however, it is a matter of conjecture, nor will it be prudent to adopt any estimate until after the occurrence of a killing frost in the South. Of one fact there is no doubt, namely, the highly favour able state of the weather throughout the great bulk of the cotton district during the past four weeks ; which has not only aided the maturing of the cotton, but has enabled planters to gather abundantly of what was already ma tured. Georgia and South Carolina bid fair to make a crop beyond that of any previous season ; there is ex pected to be a slight falling off in the quantity received at Mane. owing to the injury received on the bottom lands; in Florida proper the crop will fall below that of last year, caused by storms, rains, &c. ; while in New Orleans, yesterday, it was the opinion of some parties that the re ceipts at that port would be nearly if not quite equal to those of last year. The following is a statement ofthe movements in cotton since the Ist of September last, as compared with the previous three years 1852 1851 1850 1849 Receipts into the ports 256,000 200,001 159,000 155,000 Exports to Great Britain 69,000 50,000 87,000 27,000 „ France „ other foreign ports 9,000 4,000 18,000 14,000 Total exports Stock on hand 192,000 172,000 137,000 178,030 BREA DSTUFFS.—The flour market continues to improve, under the influence of small receipts, and an increasing demand for home use and the Eastern States, which has nearly driven the English shippers out of the market. The advance since this day week is 121 cents per barrel, and CaIbIAGCI ducriptim au4 plaitticil NY 1V 1 1 §4 4d• vanced 2c. to 3c. per bushel, in consequence of which, together with the enhanced rates of freight, the demand for shipments has somewhat abated. Indian corn is in request ; white, 75c. to 76c. ; mixed, 75c. to 75ic. PROVISIONS.—Pork is dull, at Sl7 to gls for mess and prime. Beef, $9,50 to S'lo, and 55,25 for country mess and prime. Beef hams, $l6. Lard, 111 c. to 12c. for old and new. Butter and cheese are firm, at Satur day's quotations. FREIGHTS. — The continued strike among the stevedores prevents much activity, but shipowners are firm. To Liverpool :—Cotton, 7-32 d. to Id. per lb. ; flour and meal, is. 6d. per barrel ; heavy goods, 17s. 6d, per ton ; grain, 6d. to 7d. per bushel. WEST INDIES AND MEXICO The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Magdalena, Captain Vincent, with the West India mails and Mexican mails, arrived on Tuesday evening at Southampton. The cargo of the Magdalena comprised specie and bul lion on merchants' account, from Tampico, $56,358 ; ditto from Vera Cruz, $'137,600; specie and bullion on account of Mexican dividends, $28.676. Total amount of dollars from the Gulf of Mexico, $220,635 ; specie bul lion, and gold dust received across the Isthmus from the Pacific ports, £'301,977 ; specie and bullion from Cali fornia, $410,477 ; Carthagena, St. Martha, Chagres, and Greytown, $65,591 ; from Jamaica, $6962 ; from Havan nab, $16,805 ; from other parts of the West Indies, $20,949. Total value in dollars, 1,045,399, and a large general cargo. The House of Assembly at Jamaica was to meet for business on the 9th instant. The small-pox and measles had entirely disappeared from Kingston. Rain had fallen, and heavy falls had been experienced, which had done much damage. Porto Rico had been visited with a violent storm, by which more than 103 lives had been lost. Martinique and Guadaloupe had been visited with a ma lignant African fever, which had carried off the troops in large numbers. Whole families had been carried off by it. The yellow fever was raging at Barbadoes. Com missary -General Neil had been carried off by it, and, within four days, his wife and four children had shared a like fate. The islend of St. Thomas was very sickly. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. THE SMALL-Pox continues to rage at Corfu with great virulence, and is rather on the increase. From the 14th to the 20th ultimo, the number of new cases was 271, and of deaths 41. The disease has also made its appearance at Paxo and Cephalonia. AN EXPLOSION of fire-damp took place on Saturday night, in a coal mine in the commune of Dour (Belgium). About 30 men were at work in the pit at the time, of whom ten were brougbt up very much burned, leaving about 20 at the bottom. EAST INDIA MAPS.—The East India Company have ordered to be lithographed, with a view of assisting the Parliamentary inquiry into the operation of the Charter Act, outline maps, representing, by distinction of colours, the different native states, and specifying the superficial area of these states and their population." THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES.—By the last accounts from Australia the aborigines had become troublesome to the settlers in the interior, in consequence of the number of men who had gone to the gold diggings and left their wives and families in an unprotected state. The latter were falling back on the towns and villages for security. NEW ISLAND.—A continental journal says that an island 100 feet in length and seven feet in height was formed, a few days ago, in the Lake of Cleeveetz, near Eutin, in Northern Germany, by the effect of the recent hurricanes. In 1814 a similar phenomenon occurred ; but in a few months the isle suddenly disappeared, and there were twelve feet of water where it had been THE Journal de Liege states that the 7 man who lately swindled an English lady, the widow of a general, of a considerable sum of money, has been arrested in that town, in an apartment which he had taken under a false name. He did not deny that he was the person sought for, and declared himself to be Count J. B. Cheisa do Dandini, sub-lieutenant of Dragoons, a native of Cassina, in Italy, aged 25. A DREADFUL ACCIDENT occurred on Sunday after noon at the Arenes Nationales, Paris. A rope on which two rope dancers were performing at a height of 30 yards, suddeuly broke, and they were both precipitated to the ground. One was killed on the spot, and the other was so dreadfully injured that he died an hour after. Tee performances were stopped, and, the public, who seemed greatly moved, left the place. HIGH TREASON.—A court martial at Schlesv% found one of the Danish officers who entered the service of the provisional government in 1848, Captain von Was mer, guilty of high treason and rebellion. The accused is condemned to be degraded from his rank, to have his right hand cut off while living, to be then beheaded, the body to he quartered and exposed on the wheel ; the head and hand to be fixed on a pole near it. The King of Denmark has commuted the sentence into imprisonment for life. HORRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An American paper, speaking of an accident on the Georgia State railroad, by which two men were killed, gives the following parti culars :—" Among the horrible circumstances of this ac cident is the following as we are informed. One of the firemen was caught by the feet, between the locomotive and the tender, and held fast in this position, his head hanging downwards, and his feet dreadfully crushed. Neither the conductor, who was unhurt, nor the pas sengers, had the presence of mind to use proper exertions to vottooo hi—, and filo poor folloK, in oconp on+roatca them to saw his legs off. Finally this was actually done by some one, with a common hand-saw, and the man was allowed to drop to the ground, bleeding to death. No effort was made to stop the hemorrhage, and the poor victim of this more than savage stupidity and barbarism soon bled to death. After the fireman was thus relieved from his position, a bar of iron was obtained and the lo comotive and tender pushed apart, so that the feet were rescued and dropped out from between them. This could have been as well accomplished before as after sawing off the legs." THE CASE OF THE MADIAIS.—The Earl of Shaftes bury has received a letter from the Earl of Roden, the head of the deputation to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, from many of the Protestants of. England and the Conti nent, who have reached Florence to intercede for the Madiais. His lordship states that they were unable to see the Grand Duke ; they, therefore, stated the object of their visit to the Duke of Casigliano, the Minister of State for Foreien Affairs, who, in a courteous reply, informed them that the "Madiais had been condemned by the or dinary tribunals for the crime of propagating Protestantism, which is proscribed by the Tuscan laws as an attack upon the religion of the state." He also states that—" His Imperial and Royal Highness, in reserving to himself the exercise of his high prerogative in such cases and at such times as he may judge right, cannot permit any interposi tion in a case which concerns the administration of justice in his states and his acts towards his own subjects." Lord Roden, therefore, has hopes, for he says—" We feel that that the substance of this answer is such as to induce us to hope that, although our immediate request has been denied, yet that it is the intention of his Imperial and Royal Highness to extend his pardon to the Madiais at no distant period. THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD DIGGINGS. The following is an extract from the private letter of an Indian officer upon sick leave : " Melbourne, June 18 "We arrived here on the sth, after a very good and quick passage from Java Head. We found this place in a state of great excitement, as you may well imagine from the accounts you have received by this time in England. The bay is a most lovely one,'and the entrance is narrow and difficult of entrance. At William's Town, where the large ships lie, there are about 50 vessels lying unable to get away. Melbourne is a fine large town, the streets broad and regular, all running at right angles to each other. The houses, in size, are irregular, but none built of wood, the Government not permitting it. The excite ment and business going on is wonderful. But I was most struck, upon landing, by the number of idle-looking fellows wandering about. I asked what they were, and was told that they were gold-diggers, come down for a few weeks to spend their money. The hotels are nume rous, but bad, being filled with these people. We put up at one called ' The Passengers,' something better than the others, and not, considering the times, very dear. Gold is being found in greater quantities than ever. As the winter advances food and necessaries will increase in price. They are already very high, the roads are cut up, and the creeks and rivers swollen. It is supposed there are upwards of 40,000 people at the different diggings: The price of everything is exorbitant. Any man with some money might double it with the greatest ease and safety every month ; but as to men on incomes of £l5O to £2OO a-year, the commonest workmen are in a better position. A common carter makes £l2 a-week ; his expenses, per haps, are £4. A cab, or rather carriage driver, makes £3O to £4O a-week, or above £1,400 a-year. Masons and carpenters receive £1 a.day, but they won't work even for this. There is nothing of any kind going on. All houses or public buildings that were in progress are now at a standstill. No one can get servants. The chief-jus tice told me that his had left him months ago. His son opened the door to us, and I believe his wife (as many other ladies have had to do) washes her own clothes. The governor has no servants ; every man is so independent that they will not hire themselves to do anything unless they get what they ask. Going into a shop, if you ask them to abate in their exorbitant price, they quietly tell you to walk out, that they don't want to sell anything to you. A load of water is 18s. ; a load of wood £4 ; boots are £4 ; a pair of shoes £2 ; Jack-boots, which are much used at the diggings, £7. Pistols fetch any amount. An invoice, valued at £6O, arrived a short time since ; in a week they were all sold, having realised nearly £7OO. The way they generally go to the diggings is this :—They form themselves into parties of three or four, buy a cart and two or three horses, load it with everything that is neces sary for their living and working for two or three months, according to their own pleasure. Some men clear £3OO or £4OO a-month, some not so much ; some have done more. There is one just returned, and now in the hotel, who was away six weeks and cleared £3,600 ; but the real way to make money is buying gold, if you have any capital. At the diggings it sells for £2 15s. and £2l7s. an ounce ; in Melbourne, for £3 ss. per ounce. The gold is sent down by escort, and can be realised, and the sovereigns sent by the return escort ; therefore Ss. to 10s. may be made on every ounce twice a-month. This is the way the banks and all the houses are making immense sums. The escort arrives every week. They brought more gold last time than they ever have before, above 55,000 ounces. There is also a private escort which brings down large quantities ; private hands also bring a good deal." TERM commenced on Tuesday in the common law courts with the smallest list of arrears ever known. Al together there are but forty-seven, distributed thus :—ln the Queen's Bench, 24 • in the Court of Common Plea s, ; in th e C our t o f Exchequer, 17. Of those in the Queen's Bench 16 are special cases and demurrors, 4 are new trials, and 4 appeals from the County Courts. In the Court of Common Pleas there is one demurrer, 2 are enlarged rules, and 3 are new trials ; and in the Court of Exchequer the special paper has 5, the peremptory paper 3, and the new trial paper 29, including one that stands Prindsmcnt, IRELAND. A MOST WANTON OUTRAGE was committed on the Castletown Church, on Saturday night, by covering the doors, door-cases, and window-shutters with mud. PROSPERITY OF BELFAST.—There are, it is said, a greater number of vessels in Belfast Harbour and Lough at present than has been ever witnessed there at any pre vious period. iNr THE QUEEN'S BENCII, on Tuesday, the attorney general obtained an order to quash the proceedings under the coroner's verdict in the Six-mile-bridge affray. A. true bill was found against the Anglo Cell. THE REV. JOSEPH MAGENNIS, a Roman Catholic priest, at Castlebar, has been held to bail to keep the peace towards some scripture readers of the Irish Church Mission, against whom he had used some threatening language. INCENDIARISM.—About four o'clock on the morning of Monday the outhouse of a man named Smyly, of the townland of Corconnolly, parish of Kilievan, was set fire to by some incendiary, and was totally consumed, with four cows, his property. THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY.—On Thursday the annual show of farm produce was opened at the Royal Dublin Society. Among the prizes awarded was one to Mr. Wm. Darean, for a cheese, which was declared to be fully equal to the highest class Gloucester. REVERSE.—The Limerick Chronicle says :—" Five young ladies, the daughters of a gentleman whose pro perty is unfortunately involved in Chancery, are desirous to accept situations as ladies' attendants, assistants in shops, or preparatory governesses." MANUFACTURES IN GALWAY.—The Galway Packet states that measures have been taken to form a company (£25 shares) to promote the manufacture of woollen goods in Galway; in addition to which a northern firm is about to establish a branch of the linen manufacture in the town. ACCIDENT.—Mr. Kennedy, of the Bank of Ireland, at Baliinasloe, and son-in-law of Gerald Fitzgerald, Esq., R.M., met with a melancholy accident while shooting on Monday last. In the act of discharging his gun it burst, blowing off one of his fingers and wounding him in the shoulder and face. Owing to timely medical attention he is progressing favourably. DUBLIN STEAM-PACKET Co.—On Saturday week the half-yearly meeting of the City of Dublin Steam-packet Company was held, at their office, Eden-quay, Dublin; Sir J. K. James, Bart., in the chair. The reports of the directors and accounts were read and adopted unani mously, and the usual dividend of three per cent. declared out of the profits for the half-year, after making due pro vision for the contingency fund. STRANGE STATEMENT.—The magistrates at Gorey, in the county Wexford, have held an investigation of a re markable character indeed. A constab!e on the estate of Mr. Forster, an English merchant, charged Col. Owen, the agent to that gentleman, with offering him £5O to assas sinate the former agent. The colonel indignantly denied the execrable charge, and the constable is committed for perjury. He firmly adheres to his statement. ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE.—The following appears in the Dublin Saunders :—" Between six and seven o'clock on Monday night, a party, consisting of eight or ten men, all armed with heavy bludgeons, entered the dwelling-house of Thomas Day, at Lisheen, within one mile of Parsons town. On going in, one of the gang extinguished a can dle which was lighted. Day was on his knees in prayer, being about to retire to bed, when the ruffians rushed at him ; they dr,lgged him towards the kitchen door, where they fell upon him, and inflicted with their murderous weapons three severe wounds on his head, and bruised him greatly on the arms and body, from the effects of which h' now lies dangerously ill. Day's wife and family, when endeavouring to save him, were also grossly mal treated.- A SCENE.—The following occurred at the last meeting of the Waterford Board of Guardians :—A letter was read from Mr. Samuel Jones, tendering his resignation as collector for the Tramore division, which he desired to exchange with Mr. Gamble for the division which he col lected.—Mr. Cadogan thought partial resignation on the part of the poor-law officers illegal, and he moved that Mr. Jones be called upon to resign for the whole.—Mr. O'Reilly : The commissioners do not think so.—Mr. Cadogan : T think so. and I know it to be so.—Chairman (to Mr. Cadogan): Sit down, sir (coniusion).—Mr. Cado gan ; I will not sit down, sir.—Mr. O'Reilly : You must sit down, sir. You have been the cause of more mischief at this hoard than any man that ever came into it.—Mr. Cadogan : You dislike me, because I endeavour to put down jobbing.—Mr. : You job more yourself than any body ; you are an ill-mannered, impertinent Uproar.) DUBLIN CORPOR —This body had a meeting yesterday week, at which the Lord Mayor stated that, in pursuance of a resolution passed by that body, he had written to the Earl Marshal, requesting that arrangements might be made for the accommodation of the Corporation at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington. He had received a reply, to the effect that twenty-five seats in the cathedral would be reserved for them, and requested to be furnished with the names of those gentlemen who intended to be present on that occasion. Mr. Codd moved that the Lord Mayor should take down the names of the gentlemen disposed to attend, and if the number exceeded twenty-five, that the ballot be taken to determine the number. Alderman Reynolds did not think the meeting was properly convened at which the resolution alluded to had been carried. He was going to say that no one respected the Duke of Wellington more than he did, and toot he boliovcd, atoongat thocio who glorioil in fighting, he was pre-eminently entitled to every mark of respect ; but that, taking him as an Irishman, he was a bad one, and his strongest ground for the assertion was that the late hero had not visited Ireland for many years previous to his death. They were told that there was no place for them, but that twenty-five of them would be allowed up into the gallery of the cathedral—that they would be put up in a cock roost to look down upon the proceedings. (Cheers and laughter.) Mr. Codd's motion was adopted. STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE IST OF NOVEMBER, 1852. [Where two places are mentioned. the latter is the depilt.] Ist Life Guards, Hyde-park 40th, on passage to N.S.W. ; 2d Life Guards, Windsor Buttevant Royal Horse Guards, Re- 41st, Zante ; Boyle gent's-park 142 d, Stirling Ist Dragoon Guards, Dublinl43d, Cape of Good Hope ; 2d, Newbridge Templemore - 3d, Cahir 44th, Gibraltar ; Chatham 4th, Dublin 45th, C of G Hope; Chatham sth, Newbridge 46th, Belfast 6th, Canterbury 47th, Corfu; Limerick 7th, Ballincollig 48th, Newport, S W Ist Dragoons, Manchester 49th, Corfu ; Waterford 2d, Birmingham 50th, Preston 3d Light Dragoons, Bengal ; 51st, Burmah ; Chatham Maidstone 52d, Dublin 4th Light Dragoons, Ipswich 53d, Bengal ; Chatham 6th Light Dragoons, York 54th, Quebec ; Londonderry 7th Hussars, Piershill 55th, Gibraltar; Tralee Bth Hussars, Nottingham 56th, Bermuda ; Chatham 9th Lane., Bengal; Maidst. 57th, Cork 10th Hussars, Bombay ; 58th, New Zealand; Jersey Maidstone 59th, China; Charles Fort 11th Hussars, Dublin 60th, Ist bat,Bengal:; Chatm 12th Lancers, Cape of Good ~ 2d bat, Cape ; Birr Hope ; Maidstone 61st, Bengal ; Chatham 13th Lt Dragoons,Hounslow 62nd, Athlone 14th Lt Dragoons, Bengal ; 63d, Dublin Maidstone 64th, Bombay; Chatham 15th Hussars, Madras ; 65th, N. Zealand ; Portsmth Maidstone 66th, Quebec ; Guernsey 16th Lancers, Dundalk 67th, Barbadoes; Dover 17th Lancers, Brighton 68th, Malta; Nenagh Grenadier Guards- 69th, Antigua ; Chatham Ist bat, Wellingtonßarracks 70th, Bengal; Chatham 2d bat, St George's Barracks 71st, Ist bat, Kilkenny 3d bat, Windsor , 2d bat, Canada Coldstream Guards- 72d , New Brunswick; Clare Ist bat, Portman-stßarracksl Castle 2d bat, The Tower 173 d, Cape of G Hope; Bristol Scots Fusileer Guards- 74th, Cape of Good Hope ; Ist bat, St. John's Wood Fermoy 2d bat, Chichester 75th, Bengal ; Chatham Ist Foot, Ist bat, P'smouth 76th, Malta ; Chatham „ 2d bat, Cork 77th, Weedon 2d, C G Hope ; Kinsale 78th, Bombay ; Chatham 3d, Malta ; Castlebar 79th, Edinburgh 4th, Bury 80th, Burmah ; Chatham sth, Mauritius ; Chatham 181st, Dublin 6th, C G Hope ; Canterbury'B2d, Manchester 7th, Plymouth Rid. Bombay ; Chatham Bth, Bombay; Chatham 84th, Madras ; Chatham 9th, Galway 85th, Portsmouth 10th, Bengal ; Chatham 86th, Bombay ; Chatham 11th, N S Wales ; Hythe 87th, Bengal; Chatham 12th, Ist bat, Newry 88th, Isle of Wight ~ Res. bat, C G Hope 89th, Templemore 13th, Gibraltar; Jersey 90th, Dublin 14th, Limerick 91st, Ist bat, Enniskillen 15th, Ceylon ; Mullingar , 2d bat, Cape G. Hope 16th, Jamaica; Birr 92d, Corfu; Naas 17th, Dublin 93d, Portsmouth 18th, Burmah ; Chatham 94th, Madras; Chatham 19th, Winchester 95th, Chatham 20th, Canada ; Chatham ,96th, Bengal ; Chatham 21st, Hull 197th, St. John's, N.S. ; 22d, Bengal ; Chatham Chatham 23d, Ist bat, Chester 98th, Bengal ' • Chatham „ 2d bat, Canada 99th, V. D. Land; Chatham 24th, Bengal ; Chatham Rifle Brigade, Ist bat, Cape 25th, Madras; Chatham of Good Hope; Walmer 26th, Gib'ltar; Isle of Wight „ 2nd bat, Canterbury 27th, Dublin COLONIAL CORPS. 28th, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Ist West India Regiment, 29th, Bengal; Chatham Jamaica; Chatham 30th, Corfu ; Dover 2d, Demerara ; Chatham 31st, Fermoy 3d, Jamaica; Chatham 32d, Bengal; Chatham Ceylon Rifle Regt, Ceylon 33d, Glasgow Cape Mounted Rifles, C G H 34th, Barbadoes; Aberdeen Royal Canadian Rifle Regt, 35th, Devonport Canada 36th, Trinidad ; Pembroke St Helena Regt. St Helena 37th, Ceylon, Chatham Royal N'foundland Veteran 38th, Gosport Companies, N'foundland 39th, Clonmel RoyalMaltaFencibles,Malta ROBRE Ry.—Messrs. Whittaker and Sons, publishers in Ave Maria-lane, have been plundered of cashto theamount of nearly £l,OOO. Saturday week was what is known in the trade as magazine day, when the . firm would be in receipt of some large sums , and too late in the day to place it in the bank. The porter, who resides on the premises, is allowed to be absent all day on Sunday, and an entrance was effected, and the money abstracted, before his return, when, finding the premises in a disordered state, he gave the alarm. No clue to the robbery has yet been found. DREADFUL MURDER IN DEVON.—A dreadtul murder was perpetrated at the village of Milton, in Devonshire, on Friday night or Saturday morning week. The victim was a widow named Mary White, 60 years of aee, who kept a small huckster's shop, and who was found in bed on Saturday with her head nearly severed from her body. Some money, it is supposed, had been stolen from the house. A son of the deceased lived immediately opposite to her house, and frequent quarrels had taken place between them, but at present no clue seems to have been discovered to the perpetrator of the crime. ECCLESIASTICAL._ DIOCESE OF CHESTER. ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH, KENDAL.—The Bishop b il l licensed this church for the publication of banns acrd solemnization of marriages. VACANCIES.—The Perpetual Curacy of Woodhead, iz the county of Chester, by the resignation of the gel: Richard Blakehurst : patron, John Tollemache, E6q" value £B3, with a house.—The Perpetual Curacy of Ince' in the county of Chester, by the resignation of the W I : Evan Evans : patrons, trustees of the late E. Yates, Esq" value £154, with a house. Th C i s O ti c C SR.—Halton, 1 c h A , T I w 0 Nh H ich h a a l s ton b , ee i n n parish o s f ir ß it url i Z t i Brooke, Bart., at his own expense, is to be consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on Friday next. PREFERMENTS AND .APPOINTMEN TS. B c e eh v. v,. n J P e.a . Ar S ikr . col ds t l d l r e loe n, ntogn, B . . t A o h t e o c t h u e r a S e t y i p e o n f d T i a e r y in Couertaucln: t diocese of Cashel. Rev. J. Atkinson, to the Stipendiary Curacy o f tl° Parish Church of Rarnsbottom, near Bury. Rev. E. M. Barry, M.A., to the Vicarage of Scaller°' Lincolnshire. Rev. B.F. Carlyle, to the Vicarage of Cara, Giolice3" tershire. bourn e ' Rev. J. G. Collinson, 8.A., Vicar of Swan fop Bucks, to the Rectory of Compton Abbas, near Slia bury, Dorset. Rev. G. F. Daniell, to the Vicarage of AldingO ur Suße v. ssex. ( —Mester' J. P. De Pledge, to the Senior Curacy at le-street. Rev. R. Ellis, M.A. late Curate of Christ Chic ' I, baser Bradford, to be Chaplain to the Union Wor'"" Aylesbury. Rev. F. Fitch, M.A., Vicar of Cromer, to be a Stirr°' gate for the Archdeaconry of Norfolk. Rev. C. Forster, M.A., of University College, partial' to the Rectory of Broughton Astley, near Lutt erworw Leicestershire. Rev. C. R. Harrison, to the Rectory of Leigh, Es eic i ,,;. Rev. 0. A. Hodgson, M.A., Minor Canon of Wi ne "' ' ter Cathedral, to a Chaplaincy in St. Mary's college Winchester. Rev. J. Hymers, D.D., to the Rectory of Brow;le bt/r ‘ ton, Yorkshire. of Hon. and Rev. H. Kemble, 8.A., to the Recterl Kniptoft, Leicestershire. to Rev. W. J. H. Le Fann, Rector of St. Paul's/ Chaplain to the Dean of the Chapel Royal. go St. Rev. G. Madan, M.A., to the Vicarage of -. _ Redcliff, Bristol. " Rev. C. D. Marston, 8.A., to the Incumbency of the new Church of St. Stephen, Tunbridge. nea r Rev. C. Miller, M. a., Curate of Chiswarcline, Market Drayton. to the Rectory of Thorpe, near Pl" bourne, M D Mills. Wit h Withßev. . to the Vicarage of Thorpe Arnold , the Curacy of Brentingby, Leicestershire. 'rl l9 ° Rev. G. H. Nobbs, to the Chaplaincy of PRO Island. Rev. A. Orlebar, M.A., Curate of Hagley, shire, to the Rectory of Farndish, Bedfordshire. rfinp. Rev. R. C. Paley, M.A., of St. Peter's College, . es of bridge, to a Mission at Abbeokuta, under the a us P ic Worcester' the Church Missionary Society Rev. J. B. Riddell, to the . Vicarage of St. 11 103 Bedminster, Somerset. Rev. E. H. Robson, M.A., to the Curacy of the Dr Church at Prestwich Rev A. T. Russell, 8.C.L., Vicar of Caxton , Vicarage of Whaddon, Cambridgeshire. Rev. T. Scott, M.A., to the Rectory of Itching of Guitlo Sussex Rev. B. S. T. Smith, B.A Power, Gloucestershire. Rev. J. Taylor, LL.D., Perpetual Curate of Arifiri, the parish of Killeshandra, to the living of TemPkP ° i r pg• Rev. J. F. Tnrupp, M.A., to the Vicarage of no to• .ourt' to the Curac n. Cambridgeshire. Rev. G. C. Trimnell, to the Curacy of Dover Essex. Rev. R. Wilde, to the Curacy of Swords, ..9.rchdloce of Dublin. THE STEAM-SHIP MELBOURNE. The Australian Mail steamship the Melbourne rj, - 1 1 v constructed under the direction of the ;so miralty. In her earliest days she was known to fa' a " o the Greenock, but she possessed so many qualities ship should not possess, and so few that a qualities should..9l possess, as even to astonish the " highest anthort.llec:oe Under these circumstances, it was determined to thsl'o t o of her by private contract. In an ill-omened boort oil Australian Mail Steam Packet Company jumpe d :ode Admiralty bargain, and took the Greenock off the ~;red of the " highest authorities." Her name was a, ip ecl from the Greenock to the Melbourne, and it was "-fght that with her original name her original defects r° disappear. The result has somewhat disappointeu tige pectation, as will appear by the following brief Hare Ist of her progress from Gravesend to Lisbon, On " - foil! October, the Melbourne steamed merril 0a a Gravesend with a competent crew, 257 passen4 - . - 0 0 1 the mail bags aboard. While in smooth water Ot t - elan well etiv u g h but. car ccly has she iuuneee the t,".,,b her when her troubles began. For a week—during machinery and spars suffered disasters of all Ill_e ° . ri teue the commander fight his way through perils of the sorts until he succeeded in reaching Plymouth 13 " h oda Bth of October. The vessel was then placed in "-the' of the dockyard people that she might undergo . 0 t hio rough repair. Three or four days were occupied 1 % the process, and finally the steam was again got up, en Melbourne again endeavoured to get under illtbia, Hamoaze. Not a bit of it. The first performa nce ° A 10 0 eccentric vessel was to run between two hulks, an",,tote one of them. Jibboom and catheads and anchors,;efet carried away—chain cable was let out as chain cable"- d° 0 0 as was let out before, and in short so much damagehac ' for ° that it was necessary to hand the Melbourne .' l ,, Ott second overhaul before she could be trusted outsr Doe breakwater. Agsin all needful repairs were niec e '. bet again on the 15th of October did the Melbourne g c e ie 'd td steam up for the third time, and actually succi e r eat h ,. performing the astonishing feat of clearing Pitiposw Sound. For four days all things proceeded in ?„`iptell s a tisfactory manner. The passengers might aes'of sd have imagined that they were in the safe Elysi uoi aoe Irish cattle boat, so easy were the motions of the th e so perfect was the immunity from mishap. But ' .- e se°, night of the 19th the wind freshened somewhat 41 1 0 0 0 got up somewhat—the Melbourne began to rt...411° stagger somewhat. The wind freshened still 131°"4130 rolling of the Melbourne increased in i nte nsitY , fol' sna p—away went her three topmasts. The jibbooeloet lowed. Nothing was left standing but the thrceLelte masts and yards. For many hours—for well ni.,oo:oare, hours, as we should judge by the account—the IW`" ti pec` s t agg ered on slowly, rolling as she went. Tbehtly spars, which had been carried away, were held tlg t tbel; the ship by the rigging ; every effort was made to cu 013: away, but in vain. The ship naturally " listed' gif% side during this time in a manner that must be4-lerign very unpleasant thoughts to the passengers. It i• _de the last stroke with the axe was given, an- ~tor imagined that the ship would shoot clear of all b i ;". JO: Again the crew and passengers were fated to ofttbiej appointed in their expectations, and the situati9n,„ ship became critical indeed. The mass of riggin'' Oltto ; had been cut away got involved with the screw Pa ced Of course, a few revolutions of the screw su s ill ~w ; entangle it in a manner which could not very 9 l"; cured ; also, as of course, after a few revolot1";t ba f i screw was unable to revolve any more, as it ta u carried . round with it all the hamper at every turctositiolu engine stopped work. This was a very frightful Priggie!' but it was not all. The wreck of topmast ancL. octeZ which was so firmly attached to the ship by t. 7 o f te r kept beating against the rudder at the wild w!,. waves, so that to steer the ship became well nigu ' co t arj of impossibility. The commander saw the 1 33 ° W o r ; proaching when the rudder might be thrashed alc,i o colt how easy it was to fit on a substitute withll ipoed fusion astern we leave to the imagination s ogret e10P,50 shore-going of our readers. Twelve hours 101 ed, th before the screw could be raised and disentalt leati t t ship lying in the position we have described• se,goe the task was accomplished—the engines were 148ber motion, and again the Melbourne proceeded 00 to lithe to the Antipodes. A new misfortune now ear' 00 0 be —the ship had sprung a leak. The mail root° Go d 1 1 , 0 point in which the disaster had declared itselfritb mail bags were brought on deck well saturated rolotoint brine of the Bay of Biscay. Under these circu r Dis ° f , , it was very properly determined to lay a course to P e e t' —for surely it was a mere tempting of Provideicfter severe in such a voyage, in such a ship , and "digete9ted warnings. On the 24th of October the lealtY, s igb er Melbourne, then 24 days out from GravesenTo.sio p up the rock of Lisbon—and her passengers were, elided milted to believe in life as the shattered vessel e the Tagus.— Times. Able SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—On Wednesday c °, 11 .,719 g a rb' excitement was caused among the various ersPor 50. 5 , Waterloo. road terminus of the London la:i n g c4 e , western Railway in consequence of the fol'" - are j b th e e lo m og o . pen o e n d, op fo o r ni t o h g e s p o u m r e po o s f e th o o f a fi r n t d ic i l n e g s covery :—lt appears that a number of packageficitbiao quently left until called for, and if not claireeu to ba d certain time, it is the practice of the comPa nY bore Id o to w ito d e p e e o tbr ; terior was found to contain the body ,We bee they came to a hex which had to all apPea r ; v iag iv there from six to twelve months. Upon rein a t he 'a, lid a very unpleasant effluvium was emitted, ir% an ° be vanced state of decomposition. Who the person _veloPid conveyed the child to the terminus is at present .',, e boo; in obscurity ; and from the decomposed state of l' 0 1 it is almost impossible to detect the sex. ....... 4. sp e o co LONDON ANDNORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY; „ n clo o Op general meeting of the proprietors of the after -1-;"n50, North-western Railway was held on Wednes(lo) o bsi 1 0 ose ° f c • "' at the Euston-square --quare station, for the purP own gr. ing, and if approved of, authorising an anialgaPeabl:oo,, the Midland Company. The chair was occuil diree' n et Smith, the deputy-chairman of the board 0 iont io li _o who proposed the following resolution for the a u e , o o, a 4 o the meeting :—" That it is expedient to effect o ,r h ,o•es t 'oe union of interest between the London and s Nef i. ovate the and Midland Railway Companies, and to rna!g_Slia a t o od undertakings on the following terms, riameY e . rta ille de ci' relative value of the two undertakings be qc t the ir ti o; fixed by three referees of high standing; that Or sion be given after the passing of the act of ait',. f s ilgt..,jeg but, in case the first application to parliarrieuoa ees;, 0, ther application shall be made in the following ' cor aff ti ' e 0 session, and it shall be competent for eithe?' . ive oi cos e, once to call upon the referees to fix the reia` oai JO' the two undertakings • such values to be , s s bor,_oo fixed after the 31st December, 1852. - kf . ter .e oil j t e t3te cf cussion the resolution was carried by a ig ir OS 9 1 gel / only five hands being held ups gainst it. ~.,T . , jou_ r e' in the course of the proceeding that gr• " L Y, the D rs to, It ' Ca Vle I ' his proxy in favour of the proposition• _.., p 0 ,co.i solved to apply to parliament for the nece:a_Voliatik carry out the resolution, and the proCCCdin2a " of a child _01%4