The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. WEST INDIES. The ad vices from the West Indies generally state that the weather was favourable for the progress of the crops, which in most of the islands promised abundance. The Jamaica papers allude to rains having fallen in Kingston, Montego Bay, and Falmouth. In the latter district ma laria was prevalent, and had occasioned much sickness. From Barbadoes and Trinidad there is little news of in terest. From St. Vincent's, St. Christopher's, and Grenada, the accounts speak of plenteous showers occurring at an opportune period for strengthening the canes. The wea ther previously had been extremely dry and sultry, and appearances at one time indicated a hurricane. Attempts at incendiarism in Antigua bad been discovered, and it was feared, unless vigorous measures were resorted to, the example would be followed in the more secluded country districts. The weather in this island was, with little exception, satisfactory, and the parishes that wanted rain had not as yet suffered severely. The letters from Margarita received at Trinidad con firm the intelligence of the defeat of Paez and his fleet off that coast. The capture of two of his vessels is also stated to have been effected by the Government forces, who, besides taking the chief officers prisoners, also se cured a considerable booty in money. AUSTRIA. Letters received in Paris state that it was on the 31st the Imperial troops penetrated into the interior of Vienna, after having gained possession of all the fauoourgs. White flags had been hoisted on the bastions, and the troops advanced, but they were received with a discharge of grape shot. The bombardment was then recom menced, and it is said that the Imperial library and a por tion of the palace were set on fire. Other reports state that those buildings were burnt by the populace. After the bombardment the city surrendered on the 31st, and the troops occupied the Palace, the Kartner Strasse, and the square of St. Stephen. The troops forced the gates of the Burgthor and the Kartnerthor, and carried the Pa lace by assault. It is said that the only portion of the Palace which suffered is the Gallery of Natural History. On the let instant the fire in the Imperial Library wat extinguished, and it was expected to save the manuscripts and the valuable books. The students defended them selves to the last in the neighbourhood of the University. On the Ist instant they were still in possession of the Salz grier barracks. The University was occupied by the Im perial troops • and it is added that the barrack was carried by assault, and that a great number of prisoners were cap tured with arms in their hands. It was stated that Gen. Bern had fled, carrying with him a large sum abstracted from the Treasury. The Breslau Gazette of the 14th instant, states that perfect tranquillity had been restored at Vienna in cense que-fce—of the excellent discipline established by Prince Windischgratz, who had ordered that some soldiers should be shot for having pillaged the inhabitants. It was re ported that the prince had been fired at. It was likewise said that a portion of the national guards had refused to surrender their arms. Prince Windischgratz and Baron Jellachich had established their quarters in the Imperial Palace. The leader of the Academic Legion had been arrested, together with an aid-de. camp of General Mes senbauser. General Cordon had been appointed governor of the city. Letters from Linz of the 2nd, published in the Augsburg Gazette of the 4th instant, confirm the news of the defeat of the Hungarian army, which con sisted of 15,000 men, for the most part irregular troops. The route was complete. The Hungarians were scattered, and compelled to cross the frontier in the greatest confu sion. A traveller from Hetzendorf, who arrived at Linz on the let at noonday, heard on the road a loud cannon ade, so that the engagement had evidently terminated. The spirits of the Viennese, of all parties, are quite cast down. The state of siege will not be so lenient as at Frankfort or Cologne. The soldiers occupy all the streets and public places. The Croats have pillaged the fau bourgs. It is not true, as asserted, that the people set fire to the Imperial Castle (Burg), and Windischgratz was wrong in saying so in his dispatch. It was merely a pre text to make arrests. Lists of proscription are being cir culated, in which appear some Radical jcurnalists and officers of the Academic Legion. Several, it is said, are already arrested, and others have killed themselves in despair. The system of espionage is extensively carried on. No one can leave the town, the deputies even being refused passports. On the 2nd inst. Jellachich made a triumphant proces sion through the city at the head of his " Red Mantles." The appearance of these soldiers in their chequered uni form caused a very disagreeable impression. PRUSSIA. APPREHENDED DISTURBANCES The King of Prussia has removed the seat of the Assem bly Cram Berlin to Brandenburg, as his Majesty considers that the members cannot meet at the former town without being intimidated as to their duty. the deliberations of the assembly were also ordered to be discontinued until the 27th at Brandenburg. The sensation created by this message was the deepest possible, and the minister and a part of the members on the right left the assembly. The question of the debate being closed was then negatived, and resolutions were passed declaring that the assembly would continue its sittings—that it could not be pro rogued, removed, or dissolved by the King, and that it held. those officers who had advised the King to issue this message to be unfit to administer the government, and guilty of a violation of their duties towards the King, the people, and the assembly. The National Assembly then declared itself permanent, and a committee of ten has been appointed. to -remain in- permanent eating.- The excitement caused by this event is intense thoughout the city, and the most serious apprehensions are entertained that disturbances will take place shortly. Letters from Berlin, not authenticated, however, state that after an attempt to raise barricades the populace had been dispersed by the troops, who remained masters of the city. SWITZERLAND. The accounts from Geneva report the dissatisfaction of the Conservative party at the annulling of the late elec tions to the National Council. they having turned out un favourable to the Government. The new elections, on the 28th ult., in which few of the Conservatives and Inde pendents took part, resulted- in the return of the Govern ment candidates by large majorities. M. Castold received 5.007 ; M. Girard, 4,697; and M. Alm6ras, 4,552 votes; h?reas General Dufour, who on the 22d was returned by 4,145 votes, was on this occasion left in a minority of 1,969, and the Syndic Cramer, who was returned on the 22d by 3,675 votes, in a minority of 576. FRANCE. Paris letters, dated half-past 10 in the forenoon of Sun day, state that up to that moment the fete of the consti tution was. proceeding without any indication that disorder or disturbance would take place. The weather was exceedingly cold, and the snow was ng heavily. A despatch from Tunis announced that there was the occurrence of a serious misunderstanding between the Bey and the Minister of the French Republic. Pauperism has succeeded the state of siege in the French capital. The number of persons fed at the public expense is at this moment 260,000 ; it will be 300,000 before the winter is over. Fifty per cent. has been added to the municipal taxe3. The French bishops have placed the presidential election under the special patronage of the Virgin. It will not be surprising if the president proves a doll. A fine instance of magnanimity hasrecently been given by the French republican government. From the statue of Joan of Arc, in the palace of Versailles, the name of the sculptor has been erased, because the artist happened to he Marie, a princess of the fallen house of Orleans. WOULD-BE PRESIDENTS.—There are at this moment only . four candidates in the field—General Cavaignac, Louis Napoleon, Lamartine, and Ledru-Rolli n ; an d the whole question of interest will turn upon whether Louis Napoleon shall or shall not have the absolute majority of two millions. A French journal states that while Viscount Oliver d'Archide, son-in-law of Marshal Gerard, who was shoot ing near Beaune, was giving some broth to his dogs, one of them, in struggling to seize a morsel, touched the trigger of his fowling-piece, which immediately exploded, lodged a charge of shot in the viscount's head, and killed him on the spot. BLASPHEMY OF REPUBLICANISM.—At a Sunday ban quet in Paris of 800 persons, entitled "The Federation of the People of Europe," a M. St. Just gave a very long toast, which was frequently interrupted by loud applause. and, at the end, was even encored. A portion only of the toast we translate :—To all those whom history calls he roes To Brutus, to Catalina, to Jesus Christ, to Julian. the Apostate, to Attila ; * * to Jean Jacques Rous seau, to his pupil, Maximilian Robespierre ; to the demo cratic republicans of the present day, Louis Blanc, Ras pail, and Barbes ; to Ledru-Rollin, Proudhon, and Thore ; to every Brutus of royalty, to every Gracchus of property; to .general association, to the universal federation of all nations. ABD-EL-KADER. The arrival of Abd-el-Kader at Bordeaux created a lively sensation in that city. He alighted at the Hotel des Princes. The ex-Emir had assigned to him the apartments on the first floor, which were occupied by the son of the Viceroy of Egypt when at Mordeaux. The females were lodged on the second floor. They were soon after followed by their suite, amounting to 47 persons. On Friday the Mayor and municipal Council visited the prisoner, being introduced to him by Capt. Fournier, of the staff, who is appointed by the Government to attend him during the whole of his journey from Pau to Amboise. On Saturday evening Abd-el-Kader was prevailed upon to go to the theatre, and entered at nine o'clock, attended by Major-General Ponsignon, the Prefect, and the Mayor, going first into the Prefect's box, and afterwards into that of the Mayor. He was received by the audience with every mark of re spect, which, in spite of his Oriental gravity, he evidently showed afforded him great satisfaction. He did not re tire until the whole of the performances were finished. In New South Wales, there are now 53 tallow-boiling houses, which last year produced 72,168 cwt. of tallow. The first railway in Spain, from Barcelona to Mattara, I?cs been opened. It is five leagues long. IMMENSE CORN FlELD.—Twenty-two miles below Cincinnati there is a field of corn covering six thousand acres, the crop of which is valued at £lOO,OOO, the field producing 75,000 quarters ! FALL OF AN AVALANCHE.—News from Lucerne an nounces the destruction of the diligence of Mont St. Gothard by an avalanche. One of the passengers lost his life. Sir Robert Gardiner has been appointed governor of Gibraltar, in the place of Sir Robert Wilson, whose period of service has expired. The new governor is an artillery officer, who served with much distinction throughout the Peninsular war. and at Waterloo. JOHN MITCHELL AT BERMUDA .—This convict, owing to his very delicate health and physical incapacity for hard ; • ‘• work, is exempted from heavy bodily labour, but he is unceasingly engaged at menial occupations, which, he says, are so repugnant to his feelings, that, if he were able, he would prefer stone-breaking, or other equally hard and monotonous labour. He is in wretchedly low spirits, never sees a newspaper, or has an opportunity of speaking to any one who can inform him of the events in Ireland or the other portions of Europe since the day he received sentence of transportation. His family being aware of the restrictions imposed upon the corsespondence with the convicts by the governor of Bermuda, very pro perly confine themselves to private subjects when they write to unhappy Mitchel. The unfortunate fellow is rarely ever permitted to leave the hulk, to which, it should be understood, he is strictly confined. IRELAND. ANOTHER INSURRECTIONARY MOVEMENT. CLONMEL, Nov. 9.—Last night, at about nine o'clock, the greatest alarm was created by the collecting together of the constabulary, many of whom are in lodgings; they hurried through the streets to the police-barracks, followed by crowds of people, anxious to learn the particulars and the cause of this new move. The police, numbering over 100, were soon under arms inside the barracks, and it was rumoured that they were going to escort Mr. O'Brien and his fellow-convicts to Waterford, but the true cause soon got wind, that a body of countrymen were marching on the town. A patrol of about 20 men were seen to issue from the barracks under a head-constable and proceed up the town. The force in the barracks still remained under arms; and at about twelve o'clock, the entire constabu lary force turned out, the 64th Regiment and the Dragoons with them, and marched off under the direction of Mr.W. Ryan, R.M., and Col. Stretton, of the 64th ; the consta bulary under the command of Capt. Colclough, County Inspector, and Sub-Inspectors Fosberry and Gernon. They proceeded to a place called the Mile Tree, and thence to the Wilderness, a sort of wood, about a mile and a half from Clonmel, where they came in view of a body of men numbering from 1,500 to 2,000, nearly all of whom were armed with guns, pikes, pitchforks, &c. They were drill ing in a large field, divided into bodies, each under a sepa rate commander. When they saw the military and police, they all separated and ran. The constabulary pursued and arrested 17 men, some of whom were armed. They are not of the very lowest :•lass, but convinced tradesmen, many from this town. The entire body, it is said, was under the leadership of a student named O'Leary, pre paring for the bar. A man named Milea, and another named Wales, of this town, are amongst those arrested. They were brought into gaol by the constabulary at about three o'clock this morning. In the pursuit, one of the fellows in trying to escape jumped off a high projecting rock in the Wilderness, and was nearly killed. The mili tary and police are all on the alert here now, as it is clear that another season of insurrection and robbery is again about to set in. There is nothing more mad than for these rebels to think of succeeding in rescuing the con victed felons.—The 17 prisoners have undergone an exa mination and been fully committed. They represent se veral of the trades of the town, and the supposition is, that those persons were delegated as a council from the main body of the people, who are stated to have been in the distance. The man who leaped from the projecting rock is very seriously hurt; his name is England, a stone mason by trade, belonging to this town. From the na ture of the several reports which have reached town during this day, it is very certain that a well-organised and ex tensive plan exists in this neighbourhood and the adjacent localities, having for its object the rescue of Mr. O'Brien and his co-traitors, either from the gaol, or else during his journey from here to the railway station at Thurles, on his way to. Dublin. The route to Thurles would be through the heart of those districts which were the scenes of the former attempt at rebellion—the distance about 23 miles. By advices from Clonmel, dated Saturday. it appears that the third " rebellion," of 1848 has evaporated in a bottle of smoke ; the " rebel" army has been broken up, and the capital of Tipperary is still in the possession of her Majesty's forces. The object of the late insurgent gathering is not very clear, and whether it was with the insane view of effecting the rescue of Mr. Smith O'Brien, or, what is more probable, of overawing the authorities engaged in the collection of the poor rates by a demon stration of physical force, it is tolerably plain that, to whatever influence we are indebted for it, the "rising" is postponed, for the present year at all events. In the county of Cavan an attempt was made to shoot W. A. Moore, Esq. of Druz:llealis, as he was proceeding to receive rents due from Lady Annesley's tenants. M. Lamartine positively contradicts the statement that Mr. Smith O'Brien had ever demanded assistance from him for Ireland. _ _ _ A London weekly journal of radical principles argues at great length the question, " Who rules Ireland, Queen Victoria or the Pope ?" and resolves it by deciding that it is his Holiness who does so. CELT v. SAXON.—The Irish Hue and Cry maintains its character. Mr. Creig has lost a horse with a white star on his forehead, which is very badly shod." Patrick Quinn " has brown eyes which lost the toes off the right foot ;" and John White has " grey eyes which wore a fustian jacket." THE GOVERNMENT COLLEGES.—The president and vice-presidents of the new colleges - in course of erection are at present in Dublin, conferring together as to the regulations for their guidance and the curriculum of in struction to be adopted. It is said these gentlemen are acting as if the Pope had not interfered pro or con. on the subject. If the Roman Catholics will not send their children to these colleges, why, they need not, and that is all the COnccrn their eciletive to Ettrurc ought to give those who really support these edifices. EMlGRATlON.—Notwithstanding the winter being al ready commenced, the tide of emigration is rather in creased about this neighbourhood than has been for the last spring and summer, as every morning a great number of persons are found on their route for a distant land, and the Irish cry kept up on parting with their families and friends. Every family who has the means ofleaving this country are rapidly emigrating, and leaving all the noc turnal idle vagabonds here, who have not the means to do so.--King's County Chronicle.—The most respectable class of agricultural farmers that for the season emigrated from this district, with their families, left yesterday by the eleven o'clock train for Liverpool, from whence they sail for North America.—Limerick Chronicle.—Every American passenger vessel intending to leave Galway for a month hence, is certain of being thronged with passen gers from every direction and district of the country. Vessels are now taking passengers there for New York, Baltimore, and New Orleans. ROBBERY OF £460 BY A SERVANT.—On the 2nd instant, a servant girl, named Dorah Condall, who resided with a lady named Mrs. Gore, of 15, Stephen's-green, Dublin, ran away from her mistress, taking with her a sum of £460 in bank notes. The girl went to the shop of a chandler in Moore-street, where she was acquainted with a porter named Brennan, :and said to him—" I have plenty of money now ; I am going to America, and if you come I will take you—if you refuse, I will take the first man I meet in the street." Brennan went with her, and both parties sailed that evening for Liverpool. The police were not informed of the facts until Saturday evening, when Craven, of the detective force, was put on the scent. He, however, came too late, as it was dis covered that the fugitives had sailed on Saturday morning from Liverpool, by the royal mail steamer, for Halifax, in America, having previously paid £4O a piece for their passage, so that at present they are out of reach of the officers of justice. LAW AND PHYSlC.—During the summing up of Mr. Justice Torrens, on the trial of Mr. Dalton Williams, at Dublin, his lordship was suddenly interrupted by one of the jurors (Mr. Robertson), who expressed a wish to re tire to the jury-room for a while, as he felt unwell. — Judge Torrens : Would you wish to have a glass of port. I'll turn physician for the present instead of judge. Would you like a little good port ?—The Juror : I would, my lord.—Judge Torrens : Mr. High Sheriff, some of your best old port, if you please. (Laughter.)—The wine was accordingly sent.—Judge Torrens : Is your stomach af fected ?—The Juror : It is, my lord.—Another Juror (Mr. Malone) : My lord, I'll prescribe for him also, if you al low me.—Judge Torrens : Certainly.—All the jurors then withdrew to their room, and remained absent some time. On their return, Judge Torrens, addressing Mr. Robert son, said, " I hope you feel better now."—The Juror : I am, my lord, thank you. Mr. Malone was somewhat si milarly affected when leaving home, and he had a bottle of something in his pocket that did me good.—Judge Torrens : I think a small infusion of laudanum in a glass of port would be useful in such a case.—Mr. Malone : That's just what I had, my lord.—Judge Torrens : Ah ! Mr. Malone, you see that you and I agree in our notions of physic ; whether we ehall also agree in our notions of law remains to be seen (laughter). His lordship then re sumed the delivery of his charge. CONFISCATION IN IRELANIL—We assure the reader that the following is no imaginary case :—ln a certain poor law union, overrun by heavy rates, a nobleman re sides, surrounded by his tenants. He is a man of talent and intelligence, well versed in country business, and de votes his time to those pursuits which become his station, and tend to the advantage and the contentment of society. He is a just and vigilant magistrate, a considerate land lord, an affable and hospitable neighbour, a liberal em ployer, a skilful agriculturist, and a judicious improver. The education of the people, and the relief of the sick and needy, are objects of his peculiar care. His children have been brought up in the same tastes and dispositions--and are examples, to all the country round, of active benevo lence and of every virtue. His maner of life is plain to frugality, but most hospitable : he has always lived within his means, whilt the frank and unaffected character of his intercourse with the gentry has promoted good fellowship and confirmed their attachment to their Irish homes. But the protracted visitation which has fallen upon the country presses with extreme severity upon the district where this nobleman's estates are situated. His tenants are no longer able to pay rents ; and, although he and th e y might still hope to subsist upon the curtailed fruits of their industry, until the scourge be overpast, they can not support the overwhelming burden which the law com pels them to endure that the destitution of other estates may be relieved. Rates of so enormous an amount have been imposed that their stock and grain have been swept away from their doors, and no provision is left for their own maintenance.—Dublin Mail. THE ORANGE PRESS AND THE IRISH TRIALS. — We are not ashamed to take our station in the ranks of the Orange press—the press maintaining the principles of that glorious revolution of which the Prince of Orange was, under the Divine Providence, the great instrument; of these principles we trust never to lose sight. The charge against the Orange press is that it " desires im munity for rebels, and encouragement to rebellion." It surely requires some effrontery to make this charge against the Orange press, which has been for years de claiming against the immunity extended to rebels—the true rebels of the Repeal Association, and against the encouragement given to - rebellion by the patronage be stowed upon the firebrands of rebellion in both countries. Even now our complaint is not that some rebels are THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. • brought to justice, but that all rebels are not brought to I justice ; that the worst class of -rebels are spared at the expense of sacrificing those who are not the worst. If such gross partiality be chargeable upon the Whig Go- I vernment, they, not we, are the parties open to the suspi cion of " desiring immunity to rebels, and encouragement to rebellion." But is not this partiality chargeable upon the Government that prosecuted Mr. Meagher, and let priest Fitzgerald and priest Mackey go free ; that is now seeking to prosecute Mr. Duffy, for a letter far less atro ciously criminal than that which it has overlooked when published by priest Hughes or priest Kenyon ? Surely we may condemn partiality in the punishment of crimi nals without being exposed to the suspicion of " desiring immunity to crime," and " encouragement" to it. " En couragement" ! Why, notoriously the highest encou ragement to crime is such partiality. How often has it been said that the certainty, not the severity, of punish ment is the great sanction of penal law. What, then, is the worth of penal laws when whole classes are exempted from their operatien ? Are not they who make the ex emption the persons really guilty of the encouragement to violate them ?—London Standard. ENDOWMENT OF THE ROMISH PRIESTHOOD. — The following, from a dissenting publication, is tolerably strong :—" We think we know the British character and the strength of the British conscience on the subject, perhaps as well as does Lord John Russell. And we frankly tell him that if our estimate approach the truth, there is no form or degree of constitutional hostility that would not be brought to bear against such a measure. He was given to understand that opposition from that quarter is not to be trifled with, by, what he saw of it when the augmentation of the Maynooth endowment was under discussion. But he may rest assured that what had then to be resisted was feeble compared with what he would have to encounter in proposing to establish' the Roman Catholic Church. All persons, in whatever sect, who are opposed to establishments' in general, would of course be opposed to him ; and it would con found us if there were one true-hearted Protestant in the empire who would not join in the antagonism. Come when or from what quarter it might, and terminate as it might, either in securing or withholding the endowment, one effect of the struggle would be to forward, in a de gree hardly conceivable, the ' voluntary principle,' and thereby to shake the foundation on which the English `establishment' now rests complacent, because secure. And if our rulers think that by the scheme alluded to they could quiet Ireland, let them know that it would produce a movement throughout Great Britain, by out raging the sacred convictions and moral feelings of her sons, which—though it assumed no form that would re quire troops to suppress, or allow of being disposed of by a special commission'—they would find as much more serious to deal with than what has disturbed them there, as are the unbroken heavings of the Atlantic or the Pa cific compared with the rippling of an inland lake."— British Quarterly Review. COURT AND FASHION. Thursday being the birthday of the Prince of Wales, there was a grand dinner at Windsor Castle to celebrate the occasion. The Queen Dowager took leave of the Queen and Prince Albert, on Friday, and left the Castle on her return to the Priory, Stanmore. The Earl Grosvenor has arrived at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, from Melcombe House, Dorset. THE ORLEANS FAMILY.—The Count and Countess of Neuilly and their family have within these few days re moved from Claremont, and have taken up their residence at the Star and Garter at Richmond. THE CHASE. The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet at Hankslow Cholmondeley Ravensmoor Windmill .... High Legh .. Crewe Hall Church Minshull November 16 November 18 November 20 November 22 November 23 Arley Each day at half-past ten. Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet at Styche Hawkstone Nescliffe.. Boreattan November 18 Each day at half-past ten. Sir THOMAS G. HESICETH'S bounds will meet at Parbold Hill Top POLITICAL MISCELLANY. The Earl of Clarendon had an interview with Lord John Russell, on Friday. Viscount Palmerston and several other Cabinet Ministers had also interviews with his lord ship. Baron de Goldsmidt has subscribed £lO 10s. to the testimonial for Lord George Bentinck " as a mark of regard for his lordship's advocacy of the principles of civil and religious liberty." . . . . BOUGHT LOYALTY WORTHLESS.—An article in this month's number of Blackwood's Magazine, the organ of sincere Conservatives, denounces the project for endowing the Roman Catholic priests of Ireland, wliich it says must and will fail. " Loyalty" (says the writer) "is not a thing to be bought; it is a spontaneous feeling, unpur chaseable at any price ; and if the Irish Catholic clergy hay. ;t nab now, tha most liberal endowinent will work no change in their political feelings." This is a view of the subject of the day worth being reflected on. The following remarks on Free Trade occur in an arti cle in Tait's Magazine this month. Tait has always been an earnest advocate for this theory, but he now evidently sees the fatal results of the headlong adoption of it :—" Liberal commercial policy ought to be arranged with other nations ; that, however, can only he accomplished by mu tual consent ; until then, the entire industry of this coun try should not be jeopardised, even upon a good theory. Our commercial policy ought to possess that elasticity which would render it self-regulating, ALWAYS HELPING native industry in troublesome times, and in new and un foreseen circumstances." THE SUCCESSOR TO LORD GEORGE BENTINCR. —A large number of the electors of the borough of King's Lynn have invited the Hon. H. E. Stanley, son of Lord Stanley, and grandson of the Earl of Derby, to be a can didate for the representation of the borough in Parlia ment. The hon. gentleman, it appears, is absent in North America, and his father has replied to the requisition with that grace, feeling, and elegance which distinguish all his compositions. His lordship expresses his great satisfac tion that the requisition to his son is signed indiscrimi nately by electors of all shades of opinion in that Conser vative party which recent events unfortunately divided, but whose harmony and combined action--as far as may be found practicable—appear to his lordship to be all im portant to the best interests of the country. MR. FITZWILLIAM'S ADDRESS.—Mr. Fitzwilliam has issued a new address. Still. cruelly abstemious from any direct reference to the ill-starred requisition, he makes a declaration of his views on the points contained in it. He professes himself an advocate of the general principles of free trade as might certainly be conjectured. He will support all rational measures of fiscal economy, which like every other man in the kingdem, we presume, he be lieves to be indispensable. With respect to the Exten sion of Church Endowment he declares he will go unfet tered into Parliament on that point, though he distinctly declares he will not consent to any endowment of the Romanist clergy out of English funds. It will be seen there is small comfort in this to the nonconformist sec tion of the Normanton requisitionists, and to those wor shipful delegates without a delegation that appeared at Wakefield. As respects extension of suffrage, Mr. Fitz william declares himself opposed to violent organic changes. WEST RIDING ELECTION.—In accordance with the resolution come to at the meeting of the liberal electors on Monday week, a county meeting was held at Wake field on Friday, the Mayor of Leeds in the chair, when reports were presented to the effect that Mr. Fitzwilliam was not a fit and proper person to represent the electors, from the following districts :—Barnsley, Gomersall, Heck mondwike, Bramley, Bradford, Doncaster, Halifax, Heb den Bridge, Huddersfield, Keigh)ey, New Delph, Wake field, Dewsbury, Sheffield, Harrogate, and Leeds. Holm firth was the only place in his favour. Some of the re ports considered the conduct of Mr. Fitzwilliam insulting and presumptuous, inasmuch as he treated the Norman ton meeting with silent contempt. Resolutions to that effect were passed, as well as the following :—" That the delegates now present declare it to be the indispensable condition of their support of any candidate, that he be favourable to the principles of free trade, to economical reform of the national expenditure, to a gradual and safe extension of the suffrage, and opposed to any further ex tension of the endowment of religion by the state." No other candidate was named. The Leeds Mercury an nounces that the election of a member for the West Rid ing of Yorkshire, in the room of Lord Morpeth, is likely to take place almost immediately. TRUISMS. (From a letter by fir. W. Rand, of Bradford, lately a Free Trader.) 1. " Cheapness" is a very dear " god." 2. The immigration of labour from the agricultural dis tricts was a great mistake, fraught with terrific conse quences to those who proposed and promoted it—the manufacturers and shopkeepers. 3. Our agricultural productions are not equal to the demand. Our manufacturers have, for years, exceeded the demand. 4. Real prosperity consists in all being profitably em ployed, and in selling the products of industry for more than they cost. 5. It is injurious to advance the interests of mere wealth at the expense of industry. 6. Our agricultural produce might be drubled with ad vantage, and full profitable employment might be found for every idle labourer in the country. 7. Our present social system is one of extermination — offering a bounty to a man who drives his fellow.being from his home and his hearth, and imposing a burden on the place that shelters him. 8. Non-employment begets disaffection to the laws and the government. 9. The removal of the wretchedness and destitution of the people ought not merely to occupy, but to engross the atention of every thinking man. 10. Causes which put society in peril ARE within the reach of legislation. 11. The poverty, destitution, and crime complained of are produced by the operation of bad acts of parliament. It is well to register such admission from an authority of so much weight. They will serve very materially to make way fora truthful settlement of the most important question now before the world—THE PROFITABLE EM PLOYMENT OF ALL THE PEOPLE. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. a. The Bishop of Chester will, hold an Ordination on December 17th, and not on December 24. At the Church Missionary Jubilee, held in Bristol, more than £lOOO was raised. The Rev. Dr. Cookson, Master of St. Peter's College, has been elected Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge for the Academical year of 1848-9. The Very Rev. William H. Tighe, Dean of the Chapel Royal, and the Rev. Francis Sadleir, Provost of Trinity College, have both been spoken of as likely to succeed to the vacent see of Down. The Bishop of Oxford (Samuel Wilberforce, D.D.) said at the jubilee meeting of the Church Missionary Society, held in Exeter Hall, London, last week, that the said society was founded at a time when the church was in a frightful state of apathy, and when it showed its semi-vitality, by the casting out of the great and good man, John Wesley." • UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM.—Several scholarships in this university have just been filled up after a keenly con- I tested examination. The following are the successful candidates :—The Open Scholarship, Mr. C. B. Hasle wood, commoner of Bishop Hatfield's Hall ; Dr. Eller ton's Scholarship, Mr. 0. Sumner, of Bishop Hatfield's Hall; the First and Second Year Scholarships, Mr. F. Long and Mr. A. Dixon, of Bishop Hatfield's Hall. These scholarships are tenable for three years. THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.—King Edward VI., in the year 1548, issued a commission, consisting of thir teen English divines, with Archbishop Cranmer at fueir head, for the purpose of preparing a Book of Common Prayer. The commission met at Windsor in 1548, and drew up a Book of Common Prayer, which was approved by Convocation, and finally ratified by an act of parliament in the January following. This book, which is substan tially the same as our present Commoh Prayer Book, was enjoined to be used for all Divine offices from the Feast of Whitsunday, 1549. The Bishop of Gibraltar has pro posed, in a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, that this 300th anniversary should be specially observed as a day of thanksgiving and jubilee in our churches through out the whole extent of the British empire, on Whitsun day, 1849.—The Churchman's Almanack. THE SURPLICE RIOT AT EXETER.—After an inquiry before the Bishop into the late disgraceful proceedings at the church of St. Sidwall's, it appears that the bishop was satisfied with the statement of the Rev. Mr. Ingle, that he had intimated some time previously, that, if he preached in the church, he should wear the surplice. His Lordship also referred to the behaviour of the laity on the occasion alluded to, and said they had evinced that tremendous spirit of Puritanism which, two centu ries ago, had levelled the church and the throne with the dust, and to that feeling he would by no means advise his clergymen to succumb, The Rev. Francis Courtenay, the incumbent of the parish, intimated his intention to close the church on a Sunday evening. As a reason for so doing, he proceeded to describe a state of dissoluteness and disorder, as the usual state of things at this church, on a Sunday evening, which is hardly credible. At the conclusion of the inquiry, the impression on the laymen who were present appeared to be, that the bishop had acquitted Mr. Ingle, and tried the Mayor, who quelled the disturbance, in his place. JOHN WESLEY AND THE CHURCH.—Few, if any of our readers, will grudge the space which we devote to a report of the Jubilee Meeting of the Church Missionary Society, held at Exeter Hall on Thursday. We insert it not merely as a token of the sympathy with all the Pro testant Missionary Institutions which we expressed last week, but through an appreciation of the interesting and Catholic character of the speeches. As Wesleyans, we cannot but be gratified to find the Bishop of Oxford doing so much justice to the venerable founder of our denomi nation, as he has now done. It will be seen that he bears full testimony to the (spiritually) neglected and destitute state of the country at the commencement of Mr. Wes ley's evangelistic labours, and to what he candidly and truly describes as the utter coldness, darkness, and apathy of the Church of England. That church, he frankly declares, " allowed her influance at home to wither and decay in her hand, leaving our increasing population to grow up in Heathenism, and only showed her semi-vita lity, or anti-vitality, by casting out from her bosom that great and good man—that saint of God—John Wesley." Mr. Bickersteth, with his usual readiness and cordiality in every word and work of Christian love, caught up the acknowledgment, and spoke of it as " an expression of repentance, by the Church of England, for the injustice she did to John Wesley." These seem to us weighty sayings, which suggest thoughts, on which, in the crowded state of our columns to day, we cannot just now enlarge.— The Watchman. THE EDUCATION QUESTION AND THE CHURCH. — Since our last notice of the differences between the Com mittee of Privy Council and the National Society, meet ings of the diocesan societies have been held at Canterbury and Wells, at which the subject was prominently brought under discussion. ' At the Canterbury meeting, over which the Archbishop presided, it was resolved-Ist, On the motion of the Archdeacon of Maidstone, seconded by Sir Brook Bridges, " That the board be empowered, if they think fit, to make arrangements with the National Society. or with any diocesan board, for the training of schoolmasters and mistresses, and to apply such funds as they may think necessary towards the promotion of the general designs of the National Society." 2d. On the motion of the Earl of Romney, seconded by the Hon. and. F ev. F. J. Noel, " That the board be requested to com municate again with the National Society, with reference to the relations.existing between the National Society and the diocesan boards." The Archbishop reminded his cle rical brethren ' that, after all, they had an advantage which nothing in the woi Id could takr - from them. They were the ministers of their respective parishes—they had a congregation Of people in their own parishes, they might enter the schools when they pleased, and all religious instruction was committed to them alone. Nothing else could give them equal advantages, and they were advan tages which nobody could take from them. Convinced that the clergyman really took an interest in his school, no other management would have effect—he must be the superintendent—he must be as it were the mainspring by which all the works would operate. Formerly their diffi culty consisted in so much requiring to be done that they could hardly find adequate means—now there was so little that some persons thought it hardly worth their energies. Enjoining the endeavours of all to aid in the appointment of =stets and mistresses for schools in small parishes, his Grace concluded with a declaration of his determina tion to render all the co-operation he could to carry out the noble work in which they were engaged, and sat down amid loud applause. SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY FOR CHURCH ESTABLISH MENTS.—Abraham, one of the highest examples in Holy Writ, who was himself a " mighty prince " among the shepherd tribes, established the worship of God among his people. Melchisedec his contemporary, was both a prince and a priest, exhibiting in the fullest degree that union of church and state which has been so severely censured. Nor was he, any more than Abraham, con nected with the now abolished Levitical dispensation, but was of that " order " to which Christ himself was declared by St. Paul to belong. Following the history of God's chosen people, we find that every one of their rulers, whose conduct met with the approval of God, employed his influence and authority in establishing Di vine worship. Moses and Joshua, David and Solomon, Jehoshaphat, ITezekiah, and Josiah, are all thus described in the Word of God. And it is difficult to conceive how the Scriptures are to be used to any profitable purpose, if we are to conclude that with all these examples we have either nothing to do, or that the use we ought to make of them is to shun and not to follow their footsteps. It is recorded, for instance, of Jeboshaphat (2 Chro. xvii. 7) that " in the third year of his reign, he sent his princes to teach in the cities of Judah ; and with them he sent Levites and priests. And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the Lord with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught the people." And (observe!) a proof of the Divine approba tion is immediately added—for it is said, " the fear of the Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the land that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat." Now, here is no mere Levitical rite or observance, but a plain acting out of the broad moral principle of the responsibility of a ruler towards God and towards his people. And, in like manner, when even a heathen king, Artaxerxes, issues a decree for the rebuild ing of the temple from the public funds, and the re establishment of the worship of God—the exclamation of Ezra (that inspired servant of the Lord) is thus recorded —".Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who hath out such a thing as this into the king's heart, beautify the house of the Lord !"—Rev. C. A?ford's Sermon. IMPORTANT CHANGE AT CAMBRIDGE.—A change was made last week in the curriculum of Cambridge educa tion which seems to hare taken every body by surprise, and which will revolutionize the system adopted in that University. A congregation was holden for the purpose of presenting for acceptance by the Senate graces confir matory of the adoption of the report of the Syndicate appointed to consider of the best means of affording en couragement to those studies for the pursuit of which professorships have been founded in the university. The report in question commenced thus :—" The Syndicate, admitting the superiority of the study of mathematics and classics over all others, as the basis of general educa tion, and acknowledging therefore the wisdom of adhering to our present system in its main features, are neverthe less of opinion that much good would result from afford ing greater encouragement to the pursuit of various other branches of science and learning which are daily acquir ing more importance and a higher estimation in the world, and for the teaching of which the university already possesses the necessary means In accordance with this the Syndicate made five recommendations, which occupy too much space to be given at length in a weekly paper at a period like the present. They recommend, 1, " That, at the beginning of each academical year, the Vice -Chan cellor shall issue a programme of the subjects, places, and times of the several professors' lectures for the year then to ensue."-2. " That a new honour tripos be established, to be called the Moral Sciences Tripos, the places in which shall be determined by an examination in the fol lowing subjelts :—Moral Philosophy, Political Economy, Modern History, General Jurisprudence, the Laws of England. That all students who shall have passed the examinations and kept the exercises required for the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Law, or Bachelor of Physic, or who shall have passed the examinations entitling to admission ad respondendum questioni, may be candidates for honours in the Moral Sciences Tripos next succeeding such examinations."-3. "That a New Honour Tripos be established, to be called the Natural Sciences Tripos, the places in which shall be determined by an examina tion in the following subjects :—Anatomy, Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry, Botany, Geology." This Tripos is on the same footing as the Moral Science Tripos.—The 4th recommendation has been framed " with a view to encourage attendance at lectures of the mathe matical examinations of the university."-5. " The Syn dicate, having respect to the great importance of the study of theology, and with the view of giving increased efficiciency to the regulations already established for the promotion of it, further recommend—' That all persons who present themselves for examination at the theological examination, established by. grace of the Senate, May 11, 1842, be required to produce a certificate of having at tended the lectures delivered during one term at least by two of the three theological professors—viz., the Regius Professor of Divinity, the Margaret Professor of Divinity, and the Norrisian Professor of Divinity. That the re gulation now proposed shall first come into operation at the theological examination in the Michaelmas term of the year 1850.' " LAW INTELLIGENCE. In the Vice-Chancellor's Court on Wednesday, it was decided that on the death of a partner, a joint debt may be treated as a separate one. In the London Bankruptcy Court, last week, in the matter of Allan Gilmore, described as a Calcutta mer chant, a claim was made on his estate on behalf of the Union Bank of Calcutta for the sum of £242,000. Tie consideration of the claim was adjourned to the certificate meeting. UNCERTAINTY. OF THE LAW.—At the recent Here fordshire Quarter Sessions a man was acquitted upon a charge of felony, because he was indicted for stealing " bank notes," instead of naming the bank to which they belonged, as the term " bank notes" only applies to Bank of England notes. In the Bail Court, on Tuesday, the Attorney-General obtained a rule to file a criminal information against Mr. J. J. Hadley, the proprietor and publisher of the Chel tenham Journal, a Conservative payer, for a libel upon the magistrates of Cheltenham. The alleged libel was contained in a report of a speech delivered by Mr. Ling wo od, an attorney of that borough. In the Court of Exchequer, on Monday, a case of family squabbling was brought before the public relating to the piece of plate, a valuable cup and salver, presented to Holmes, the driver of the (Oxford) Blenheim coach for twenty years without an accident. It appears that in a fit of generosity Mr. Holmes had presented the plate as a wedding present to his son, a surgeon at Kidlington, Oxon, but which gift he now repented of, and wished to obtain back. He therefore brought an action to recover it, asserting that it had only been given into the safe cus tody of the defendant for want of a place to keep it him self. Witness, however, proved they were present when he gave the plate to his son as a wedding present, and the bride acknowledged the present by giving her father-in law a kiss. This evidence was considered conclusive by the jury, and they gave a verdict for the defendant. PRINCE ALBERT IN CHANCERY.—We gave our readers, a week or two ago, an account of an injunction obtained by Prince Albert in Chancery, forbidding Mr. William Strange to publish some etchings done by the Queen and the Prince, and supposed to have been surreptitiously abstracted from the private apartments at Windsor. We see by the London papers, that on Monday, before the Vice-Chancellor, application was made by the Soliciter- General to have this injunction extended to two other persons, called Judge (father and son), who appear to have got possession of the drawings, and to have com piled a descriptive catalogue for him to publish. The affidavit of the Prince 'on the former occasion, to the effect that her Majesty and himself never authorised the publication of the etchings, was read.—Mr. J. B. Brown, the copperplate printer employed by the Prince to take impressions of the plates etched by him and the Queen, deposed to his having entrusted them to his servant to work them off. About a week ago, he heard that the man had been in the habit of taking copies for himself.— Another witness, also a printer, stated that he knew the pressman employed by Mr. Brown, and that ho had often shown him copies of these drawings, taken by him for his own use, on card or common paper. The deponent had himself thirteen of them now.—This cleared up the mys tery hanging over the affair.—The Vice-Chancellor ex tended the injunction to the two defendants. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. It is said that the portion of the Liverpool and Bury railway between the former town and Wigan, will be opened on the 20th instant. It is said that Mr. Hudson has bought equal to one thousand Midland shares in stock and the half shares during the present account, and that Mr. Glyn has also invested a considerable sum in the se►ne line. Owing to the declaration of the London and North- Western that it is their intention to enter upon no new works, the intended new line between Bangor and Car narvon, from the Bangor station of the Chester and Holy head, has been abandoned. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY COMPANY.— Traffic for the week ending November 4, 1848:—Coaching traffic, £961 ss. 3d. ; parcels, £59 ls. 10d. ; goods and cattle, £2BB 12s. Id. ; steam-boats, £l5B 18s. 6d.: total, £1,467 17s. Bd. The proprietors of the Colchester and Stour Valley have specially approved of the lease of their line to the Eastern Union, at a rate of 5 per cent. from the comple tion of the line between Hythe and Sudbury, to increase with the Eastern Union dividend to 6 per cent. The shareholders of the Caledonian have authorised the directors to admit the Edinburgh and Glasgow to a par ticipation in the agreement for the leases of the Scottish Central, the Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction, and to join the first-named company in an agreement for leas ing the Scottish Midland Junction. Froin official returns it appears that the amount of traf fic for the last week, on 4,167 mites of railway, was £199,440, thus accounted for :—£93,456 for the convey ance of passengers only, £55,406 for the carriage of goods, aLd a remainder of _450,423_f0r nasQPrigers and good,' to g,lher, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £21,580 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was 3,309. The average earnings per mile were £4B, whilst in 1847 they were £53. LIVERPOOL, ORMSRIRR, AND PRESTON RAILWAY. — The works on this line of railway have been very much retarded, during the last few days, owing to the frequent slipping of the embankment, at Rufford. One part of the embankment has slipped three or four times at the same place, as often as it has been filled up again. Only one side has given way, which appears to be owing to the soil having been moved from that side to form the embank. ment. An engine has been for some time engaged in conveying ballast from the cutting at Aughton Moss, and was making very rapid progress previous to the slipping of the embankment. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The official state ment of the finances of this concern seems much more fa vourable than had been expected. They at once abandon works to the amount of £2,680,000. Their borrowed ca pital amounts only to £4,486,827, in place of £6,000,000, ' as has been usually represented ; while the actual paid-up capital amounts to £6,970,450, in place of £5,500,000, as has been stated. The statement appears very full and clear, and gives great satisfaction. The result is, that they anticipate the payment of a dividend of 61 per cent. on the present amount of traffic, and liabilities. The whole ca pital raised by loans and calls amounts to £11,457,277. This year's November has not received many notices of intended application to Parliament on the part of railway companies, as compared with the past session, when there were 140 new bills before Parliament. The only one of the great companies that has yet given notification of an intention to proceed to Parliament, is the Lancashire and Yorkshire, who will apply under the enlarged title of the " Lancashire and Yorkshire and London and North- Western," for a transfer of interest in the Preston and Wyre Harbour and Dock Company, and for regulating the management of the undertaking. Another company, the Lancaster and Carlisle, a subsidiary line to the London and North-Western, and in which the latter are interested by subscription to the amount of £487,874, apply for a railway from their own at Lancaster to Preston, and to use a portion of the existing Lancaster and Preston which it is said nobody owns. The financial statement issued by the Directors of the South Western Railway is, in some important respects, less full and explicit than the statements issued by the directors of the other two great companies. They only inform the proprietors parenthetically that the lines from Basingstoke to Salisbury, from Salisbury to Exeter, and from Farnham to Alton, together w ith th e wor k s between Waterloo and London Bridges, are to be suspended. They do not state the amounts authorised to be raised by the issue of shares, or by loans for these undertakings, o r the sums that have been already expended on them. They indicate in a similar allusive manner that they hold lands, houses, &c., to the value of £250,000, and " sur plus rails," worth £50,000; "all of which," they add, " may be realised as proper opportunities offer, and the proceeds made available for the reduction of the bonded debt." They also allude, in passing, to " rents hereafter derivable from the 264 arches of the viaduct from Nine Elms to the Waterloo-road." EXTENSION OF TIME FOR MAKING RAILWAYS.—The Gazette of Tuesday, contains the formal certificate of the Railway Commissioners in favour of the Cornwall Rail way, and of the Delabole and York Railways, for an ex tention of time in carrying out their works. By an Act passed last session, entitled " An Act to give further time for making certain railways," this important power is conferred on the Commissioners, and the specifiic object of the Act is to relieve the pressure on the money-market occasioned by calls on railway shares, and likewise to put the railway companies in possession of more expedi tious and less expensive mode of proceeding than is in volved in an application to Parliament. A large number of railway companies have availed themselves of this relief : 125 applications have been received and considered ; of these, 121 have been entertained, and in most of the applications the extension of time asked for has been for the full additional term of two years allowed by the act. The greater number include the whole of the railway, and also of the lands to be taken. Four applications were refused, on the ground that there were special provisions in the act making the completion of the railway compul sory. THE THREE GREAT RAILWAY COMPANIES.—The pro posed amalgamation of the London and North-Western, Great Western, and South-Western Railways will, if ef fected, create the most powerful combination ever known in this country, and bring to one undertaking an amount of capital larger than any of our great national undertak ings. The total amount of the capital of the amalgamated company will be £42,371,239, divided as under :—London and North-Western capital, raised by shares, £14,044,573 ; by loans, £9,186,672 ; total, £23,231,245. The capital of the Great Western is £11,457,277 ; £6,478,221 being raised by shares, and £4,979,056 by loan. The South- Western Company has raised from shares, £6,075,387, and by loans, £1,609,350; or a total of £7,684,737. The amalgamated companies will, by their present powers, be entitled to call up, within the time allowed by the act for doing so, the sum of £8,812,201 6s. 8d• The entire weekly receipt of the three companies, should they not exceed their present average, will be £70,000 per week, or £3,640,000 per annum. The number of miles of railway over which the company would have control will be nearly 2,000, upwards of 1,000 of which they will have in their absolute possession. The great company will, by means of their own and other lines, in which they are beneficially interested, have the entire traffic from Plymouth to Perth. Nor. 14, 1848. WHAT THE IRISH REBELS HAD INTENDED TO DO. For the last few days, the inhabitants of Dublin have been entertained with a plan, on paper, of the way in which the revolution of Ireland was to have been achieved, beginning with Dublin. The mode of operation has been revealed through the American press, by a Mr. Darcy Magee, one of the confederates, who escaped to the land of liberty. The modue operandi was to be introduced also into the towns of Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Kil kenny, Galway, &c., and the insnrrection effected accord ing to the following arrangement :—About the first week in September, if all had been allowed to go on smoothly, a particular evening at about nine o'clock, was to be fixed for the insurrection. It was to be managed by the clubs. The city was then (early in July) marked out in sections or military divisions, on maps supplied by a gentleman connected with the üblin corporation. To each of these sections there was a club attached. For instance, the " Dr. Doyle" was to head the rising from its own quarters in Dolier-street, down Townsend-street, Great Bruns wick-street, and the Coal Quays, to the Grand Canal. Beyond that boundary the " Henry Jackson" and the " St. Ruth" Clubs were to barricade and burn—to shoot, pike, and plunder, all Her Majesty's soldiery and loyal subjeets. Great things were expected from the " Grattan" Club at the opposite side of the Liffey, while the Moly neux" (Brennan's), the " Merchant's Club" (Darcy Ma gee's own), and "The Oliver Bond," under Richard , O'Gorman, jun., were to do the real Parisian " three glorious days." The hour of 'nine or ten o'clock being fixed, the clubs were to issue forth simultaneously, and set fire to houses here and there—by way of signals to their friends—to call out the people, and to distract the authorities. The work of barricading was then to commence ; and as the streets of Dublin are, generally speaking, fully double the width of those of Paris, and instead of the broad stone pavement of the French capital, are smooth as M•Adam's shingles can make them, the paved crossings would contribute but little towards the desired object ; particular attention was then directed to the area railings and to the lamp-posts. These failing to raise proper barriers, the grocers' shops were accurately noted down for the information of the patriots, as places where counters, casks, tea-chests, and other bulky articles could be obtained. The barricade made, the adjoining houses which commanded it where to be taken possession of, for and in the name of the Irish Republic. Communications were to he broken into the adjoining houses—the doors and windows barricaded with mattresses, beds, furniture, and anything that could ob struct the entrance of a soldier. When all the barricades were formed, then the gas pipes were to be cut, and the city reduced .to utter darkness. Public buildings were to be burned ; and, in short, the city also, if deemed neces sary for the safety of the rebels. Gavan Duffy, John Martin, Keven O'Doherty, and Dalton Williams, were to be released from Newgate, and that odious building burned to the ground—of course the robbers therein confined being first enlarged and enrolled in the patriotic ranks. The council of five—that is, or was—Messrs. Meagher, Devin Reilly, Dillon, Magee, and another, were to be a provisional government until order was restored in Dublin. O'Gorman was to be one of the military leaders, and a variety of other situations were equally well provided for. Such is an outline of the plan actually adopted at one of the clubs, and recommended to the chief club—the " Dr. Doyle," of which Mr. Charles Gavan Duffy was president. COMMITTAL OF A BARONESS FOR FELONY• At the Worship-street (London) Police-office on Friday the Portuguese baroness, Maria Calota Al ves C a b ra l, an d her servant Maria Rosa, were placed at the bar for final examination before Mr. Arnold, charged with having stolen a silver brooch, a quantity of linen, wearing apparel, and other articles, the property of her landlady Mrs. Esther Pitman, the proprietress of a boarding establishment for distinguished foreigners in Finsbury-square. Since the former examination, which appeared in our last paper, the police have been engaged in unremitting efforts to trace the missing portion of the property, com prising a gold watch and various other valuables, which the prosecutrix had lost since the prisoners had resided in her house ; but it was intimated that the only article re covered was a diamond ring, which was accidentally found, since the prisoners had been liberated upon bail, secreted beneath some papers at the bottom of a drawer in the butler's pantry. Mr. France, a solicitor, addressed the magistrate upon behalf of the prisoners, and said that he wished to offer a - few explanatory observations respecting the property found in the possession of the accused lady at the time of her apprehension. The magistrate would recollect that the articles in question consisted of a silver brooch, be longing to Mrs. Pitman, which had been taken from the hand of the baroness, and two towels and some pieces of soap, which were found concealed beneath the upper part of her dress. With regard to the brooch, it was positively asserted by the lady that she had received it from her ser vant Rosa, who alleged that she had picked it up in the passage, and was now ready to testify to that fact ; and he was instructed to assure the magistrate that she had been furnished with the soap and towels, according to the cus tom of the establishment, for her personal use. Although it might appear somewhat remarkable for a lady to deposit such things in her bosom, the suspicion naturally attach ing to such an act would be at once obliterated when he mentioned that she was a person of most singular and ec centric habits, and was suffering from mental weakness approaching to imbecility. The prosecutrix was here recalled by the magistrate, and stated, iu answer to his questions, that sho had never observed any marked peculiarity in the habits of the elder prisoner, nor anything in her conduct and manner to indi cate that she was labouring under mental aberration. Serjeant Brannan also reminded the magistrate that, in addition to the two towels discovered upon the lady's person. he found another in the room, which was the one left for her use, and a fourth concealed in her wardrobe. The prisoner's solicitor, in continuation, said that although the unhappy condition of the baaoness might not have attracted the notice of her landlady it was, never theless, the fact, in confirmation of which he might men tion that a letter had been placed in his hands from 3 gentleman at St. Michael's, in the Azores, where she formerly resided, intimating that the subject had been formally brought under the notice of the judicial authori ties there, who were so satisfied of her mental incapacity that they had appointed trustees for the management of her extensive estates in that island. Mr. Arnold said that the observations of the learned gentlemen were strictly for the consideration of a jury; and, although there appeared some circumstances in the case of the elder prisoner which might tell in her favour , he felt it his duty to commit them both for trial. li e had no objection, however, to allow the bail which bad already been put in to be extended for her appearance at the sessions. The Solicitor, however, intimated that the Consul- General of Portugal, le Commandeer Vanzeller, who had before been bail for the baroness, was not now in at tendance, and as he understood that he declined, in con sequence of his official capacity, interfering any further in the matter, the unfortunate lady had no hope of ob taining any other sureties, as she had no personal friends in this country. The depositions of the witnesses were then read over by Mr. Hurlstone, the clerk, and explained, through ibe medium of an interpreter, to the prisoners, who were re moved 1-) the cells in an evident state of extreme dejection andby onlyt h m eb e n eh t eu a ns l b s ra u en i l c ed e n r o i t n fl y g, t hme w a h enl ih dcieerd)wasprisonerw h a e ls n o ac utely h u st tewl wifeyh o m wma a s n i e f t e a s kh t manifested away in the van. FIRE.—DEATH BY SUFFOCATION.-0/1 Wednesdal night a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Charles Beasley, linen-draper, Redcliff-pit, Bristol. The men and engines of the various fire-offices were speedily on the spot, and having a good supply of water, from the plugs of the Water Works Company, they were enabled to prevent the flames extending beyond the shop, to which the damage, as regards the stock, was entirely confined. We are sorry to add, however, that a female servant in the employ of M r . Beasley, met with her death in consequence of the fire ; her name is Phoebe Carter, aged 22 years. PRINCE ALBERT AND THE CORNISH MINES.—LadY Basset's court for her tenantry of the Barron of Penwerrist was held at Selley's hotel, Falmouth, this week, on which occasion Mr. Marriot, her Ladyship's steward, announced that Prince Albert, at his own risk, had set to work a mine in St. Ann's parish. Though these operations were istated understoodt o b e are to a tht b e e persona lcarried roisnkboyf the e e Prince, over which his Royal Highness presides as guardian Duchy, of the Duke of Cornwall. The employment thus given tO the mines promises to make the Prince very popular amongst them. BENEFITS OF EARLY CLOSING.—The Young Men's Christian Association, which has for its object the im provement of the moral and spiritual condition of cow; mercial young men, recently announced their proposea course of twelve lectures, to be delivered during the en suing season in the great room, Exeter-hall. Before the notice had been issued three weeks, three thousand tickets for the course were sold—the vast majority of them te, young men, who thus manifestly refut e th e c h arge that "if time be given it will be abused." Many bitter regret°, are often expressed by young men who are anx io us to ays;', themselves of such opportunities of improvement, hab who are utterly prevented by the unreasonable and anti- Christian late-hour-system, which still so widely prevails' EXTRACT FROM ADMIRAL BARRINGTON'S WILL .1 " Many testimonials of my friendship and regard I meant to leave, would time admit of it ; but the enemy is in sight, and I trust, with the assistance of my gracious teal, good God, to make a gallant defence and to save or/a" with my country." .TEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL. IDirect.l Indirect.' Direct. l Indirect. Australia Bahia Barbadoes Bombay B. Ayres Calcutta C. G. Hope Charleston China Demerara Havana Jamaica La Guavra July l 31Lima I Sept. 1° Sept. 26 Maranham Sept.l2 1 Oct. 1 Mauritius . ' .. Aug. 7 .4 Oct. " 3 Mobile , SO Aug. 26 Monte Vides . • Aug. 2 $ Sept. 21 New Orleans .. Oct. n ., New York 1 .. . • '''' Oct . 21 Pernambuco. Sept. 30 , .. na Aug. 30 Rio Janeiro .. Sept. f a Oct. 5 Savannah 1 .. Oct. 1 ; .. 1 St. Helena . ' .. Sept. 4 .. 7 Valparaiso .. ,Aug. .. 7 era Cruz .. Pct. ", TIDE TABLE. MORN. lEVENO.I HOHT. h. m. 0 54 1 42 2 32 3 25 4 27 5 40 6 57 HOLYDAYS, ETC. h. m. I ft. in. 1 17 20 2 2 8 18 6 2 58 16 7 354 I 14 8 6 5 13 3 3 19 12 9 22d Sund aft.Trini t i • 632 12 7 DAYS. Nov. Tuesday.... 14 Wednesday .15 Thursday .. 16 Friday ....17 Saturday ..IS Sunday .. .. 19 Monday.... 20 No vgim, Base Thei And Mur In sl And Add] Fort The Awa Ting Wro of n Disd —Pa And As fi Witt 'it is r Inersed i for abou baked br SMOKI meeting ging a vil ally a sin of Engla: A TED enemy in from the fished ou round th by retort Mouth. 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