The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. THE WEST INDIES, The Severn, with the West India mail, arrived, at Southampton on Thursday morning, with dates from Ja maica, Oct. 23. We regret to learn that the English vessel, Eliza, of Liverpool, Captain Smell, was wrecked on the 21st October on the Bahama Bank. No lives, we believe were lost. Sixteen of the crew were brought home in the Severn. The intelligence received from the various islands is much of the watt: character. Fever was prevalent among the troops, both at Havannah and at Barbadoes. Trade was very bad in Jamaica; several estates had changed bands, or had' been entirely abandoned. Sugar had fallen considerably. The weather had been healthy within the towns, but it was unusually hot for the season. The House of Assembly was summoned for the despatch of busirress on the 26th of October, the date of the advices being the 24th, and then it was expected some angry debates would ensue. CAPE OF 0 OOD HOPE Another arrival from the Cape of Good Hope puts us in possession of papers from that colony to the 28th Septem ber. The pacification of the Boers was completed, and the intercourse between them and the British Govern ment resumed. These facts were duly announced in a proclamati 3n, signed by Sir H. Smith, which bore the date of the 21st of September. Sir Harry had offered re wards, varying from £lOOO downwards, for the capture of Pretorius, and the other leaders in the rebellion of Bloem Fonteim. Sir Harry deemed it prudent to leave a large force of military in occupation at and around Bloem Fon teim, which territory Sir Harry had proclaimed and an nexed to the British settlements in her Majesty's name. FRANCE The debate in the National Assembly, on Saturday, terminated at half-oast eleven o'clock that night in a The House, on the motion of M. Dupont de l'Eure, resolved that the Assembly persisting in its decree of the 28th of June. de claring that General Cavaignac had deserved well of his country. nasses to the order of the day. This resolution was carried by a majority of 503 to 34. Paris was perfectly tranquil on Sunday. M. Lamartine arrived in Paris on Thur gress of journalists of the western dep' Rennes, have resol• support Prince Louis ved to oppose PORTUGAL ay. The con- .trdent,s, held in By the Madrid, arrived at Southampton, we have news from Lisbon of the 19th instant. There has been a minis terial crisis. In consequence of Saldanha and Fronteira's resigned. The Queen accepted the resignation of Sal danha, and, it is said, gave orders for his arrest, but countermanded them, for fear of a revolt : Saldanha then was requester to con guarantees were it to take r section worse than in 1846. The intrigue ag'inst Sal danha was supported by the Spanish minister, by order of Narvaez. It was rumoured that cholera had broken out, and that quarantine regulations would not be enforced. The Duke of Montpensier and his wife received great honours at Cadiz. The number of gipsies it and that of Jews to 475,000 The Paris thieves have lately begun to steal the gas lamps, and whole streets have been occasionally left in darkness in consequence of these depredations. The King of Wirtemburg has been compelled, by his Ministry, after an ineffectual struggle, to relinquish 300,000 florins per annum of his civil list. A letter from Rome. received in Paris, states that M. Rossi (Foreign Minister of the Pope) was stabbed in the breast as he was proceeding to the Chamber of Deputies. He has since died. The Thomas Darcy Magee, the runaway fellow who announced that it was part of the plan of the insurgents to set the principal towns and cities of Ireland on fire, has . 1 .1 V "..L. revived the IV anon in iNew i tint. An American paper says that Frederick Jerome, who rendered such services to the unfortunate passengers of the Ocean Monarch, has aban toned the calling of a seaman, • .• and is now canvassing in New York for su periodical, called " The World as it Moves Mr. Macready and Mr. George Vandenhoff are playing to crowded houses in the United States, and their efforts are spoken of in the highest terms. Mr. Vandenhoff on one occasion, received the high compliment of being called before the curtain at the close of the third act of ions to z Julius Caesar. General Sarazzin, who commanded under General Humbert in the expedition against Ireland, which ended in the capture of the entire French army by Lord Corn wallis, died a few years ago, at Brussels, in the 78th year of his age. General Sarazzin was convicted of bigamy during the empire. THE POPE. — The popularity of Pope Pius IX. is sadly on the wane, if, indeed, it be not already lost. The so lemn procession of his holiness to San Carlos on a recent occasion is described as resembling the movement of a funeral. The streets were deserted, and the Pontiff was only welcomed by the cries of a few noisy urchins attracted by curiosity to the spot. A new description of robbery, called chinage, and con sisting in the falsification of pawnbrokers' tickets, has come into vogue into Paris. A person was accosted in the Place du Chatelet by a woman pretending to be the wife of an insurgent of June, who implored him to buy the ticket of a gold watch, represented to be pledged for 60f. He gave 60f. for the ticket, but, on going to take the watch out of pawn, found that it had been pledged for 30f., and that its value did not exceed 35f. WOODEN GUNPOWDER.—From some recent experi mentS the fact is established that fine sawdust or rasped wood, steeped in a mixture of concentrated sulphuric and nitric acids, and afterwards washed and dried, will explode similar to common gunpowder, and if rightly managed, with much greater force.—American paper. SINGULAR ESCAPE The following is a narrative of an escape from peril and a rescue of five lives by individual gallantry, rarely equalled, and never exceeded, in the records of high and noble daring. It is from the pen of Captain Bryan Milman, of the sth Fusiliers, in a letter addressed to his father, Major-General Milman, late of the Coldstream Guards : " Mahehourg, Island of Mauritius, June 30,1848. "The following account of an almost miraculous escape that I and five other officers have had from drowning will interest you all, 1 have no doubt. The names of the others are Colquitt, Bellew, Fitzgerald, Home, (all of the sth Fusiliers), and Palmer, a commissariat officer, in whose boat we were at the time of the accident. Colquitt and Fitzgerald are in the first battallion, and had come down here to stay with me and Bellew. On the 25th we made a boating party for them to visit one of our detachments about 15 miles from hence, at Grand river, South-east. We left this about eleven a.m., and after reaching our destination all safe, left it about 3 p.m. for home, the weather then looking anything but promising ; when about four miles from home and from the shore, we were overset by a squall. It came upon us so suddenly that we had not time to do anything ; tor rents of rain fell at the same time, and there we were drifting along on the side of the boat, which luckily did not sink, without a chance of assistance, and the night setting in. This happened about half-past 5 o'clock, and it is dark at 6at this season. We drifted in this way for about two 'hours, and at last grounded in about seven feet water. It was almost perfectly dark, and all we could see were the tops of the mountains in the horizon. We supposed we were about two miles from shore. All of us but myself had stripped on being upset, as I knew if we came to a swim, that I could take my clothes off at any moment. As it turned out, I think I was lucky in this, as they, perhaps, though wet, kept me a little wa rmer than my companions. Nothing seemed to give us a chance of being saved, except holding on till daylight, and as it was terribly cold, this seemed next to impossible. At last it struck me I might be able to swim ashore to procure assistance, and I got permission of the others to do so. Our boatman, a Creole, who also said be would go, started with me to make the attempt. I left them with a hearty • God bless you !' from all. After smim ming some time I lost sight of the boatman, and was left to myself. I swam back a little, shouting as loud as I could ; but getting no answer, and feeling for my own sake that I must push on, I turned my head towards the mountain tops (my only guide) and struck out my best. I must have been swimming for rather more than an hour when I landed. I found myself a little tired, and very much benumbed, barefooted, en chemise, and not able to see ten yards before me, it was so dark. My first impulse was to fall on my knees and thank Providence, after which, curious to say, my military schooling came to my aid in the extension motions,' which brought some little feeling into my limbs, and enabled me to continue my work, After feeling my way for about half an hour along the shore, shouting all the time, I came to a cottage, where 1 was hospitably received. They told me they had heard my cries some time, but fancied I was some drunken man returning home, or else they would have come out to my assistance. The poor black gave me some dry clothes, and made me a cup of tea, and then conducted me to the proprietor of the estate, who lived close by, and had the nearest pirogue (a small boat like a canoe, dug out of a solid trunk of a large tree) in the neighbour hood. M. Chiron, the name of the proprietor, a man of colour, as soon as I explained my situation, and my want of a boat to go and assist the others, immediately offered to go himself, and his son also insisted on going with him. I jumped at the offer, of course, and we immediately walked down to where his pirogue was moored, and started, myself at the bottom to serve as a guide. By the blessing of Providence, after about an hour's search, we heard the cries from the wreck. I think I never felt so happy or so light-hearted in my life as I did at that moment, for there were so many chances against our finding it. We could not see many yards from our own boat. It was then about 11 o'clock, so that they had been exposed on the boat for upwards of five hours. Luckily, with great care, we got them safe into the pirogue without upsetting her; and by 12 o'clock we were safely housed under M. Chiron's hospitable roof, and he fed, clothed and lodged us for the night. In the morning the unfortunate Creole boatman was found dead from cold and cramp, about half a mile from the place he was sup. posed to have landed at. The kindness, hospitality, and truly courageous assistance afforded us by M. Chiron, at the risk of his life and that of his son, are deserving of all praise. It was a service of danger to go out even at all in a pirogue on such a rough night, much more to go and seek for five drowning men three miles at sea. He wished his son not to go, but the latter would not allow his father to go without him. Constantly during our long search, when the sou was getting tired of pulling the boat, the father would cry out and encourage him, say ing, • Courage, mon fils.' "BRYAN MILfAN, Captain sth Fusiliers." IRELAND. ItO 'present payments for the Irish Colleges condemned by the Pope amount to £11,700. There are fourteen military and naval officers of the rank of lieutenant-colonel, major, and captain, employed as poor-law inspectors in Ireland. The Cork Reporter asserts that it has been discovered that the fishing banks of Newfoundland extend across the Atlantic to within 100 miles of Ireland. _ . The library of the Repeal Association, at Conciliation Hall, which contained some valuable works on Irish his tory, realised £5OO. _ _ . Queen's College, under the Bishop's Palace, Cork, is nearly completed —a most superb bu►lding ; but if the dictum of the Pope is accepted it must be converted either into a workhouse or a military barrack. Smith O'Brien does not lose his seat for Limerick county in consequence of his conviction for high treason. He may resign, or be expelled by a vote of the House. He will probably choose the latter alternative. The Dublin Evening Mail says that the second lieu tenant-colonel of a regiment in India lately tendered £9,500 to a commanding officer of a Lancer regiment , on home service for exchange, but the offer was rejected. According to the same journal, an officer commanding a cavalry regiment seeks .C 20,000 for the sale of his com mission ; while the last sum given for similar promotion in that corps wad £14,000. Within the last four months six vessels, containing 00 emigrants, sailed from Dublin for the United The emigrants, with scarcely an exception, be- I to the class of comfortable farmers. Many of them )m the counties Limerick and Tipperary, and each nearly 121 States. family carried with them sums of money varying from £2O to £2OO. Every steamer that leaves the quay of Dublin for Liverpool is crowded with emigrants on their way to the United States. MR. O ' BRIEN ' S ERROR CASE.—On Tuesday the argu ment on the writ of error sued out by Mr. W. S. O'Brien was commenced in the Queen's Bench, in presence of the prisoner and a crowded court. Notwithstanding the weight of the argument pro and con., the public -Mani fested a desire to witness the proceedings, not surpassed at any period of the celebrated state trials of 1843-44. Mr. O'Brien was an object of general sympathy through out the day. lie looked, and we believe with too much reason, very ill and desponding. It is said that he is suffering from lumbago, and another affection consequent d. On Wed- upon c confinement and ann rd on tt rt of each pri iced that judg- ment would not be given until next term ; so Messrs. O'Brien and Co. will " spend their Christmas" where better men will spend it—in prison. How RENT IS PAID IN TIPPERARY..--On the night of the 9th instant, a party of men, consisting of about 20, some of whom were armed, assembled on the lands of Knockinglass, the property of Henry Cole Bowen, Esq., and held by Rody Slattery, and carried away 29 bags of hands and feet, put him into a bag, Carried him in that state to Slattery's dwelling-house, and threatened to knock his brains out should he stir or make any effort to escape, which, was he willing, he would be unable to effect. When the corn had been carried away, and the party dispersed, Kelly was set free.—Nenagh Guardian. WORKING OP RISK POOR-LAW support upon the rates of t nion of Ennis, w Len it is paupers, is now crammed to suffocation with double the number ' • and that even thus, unable to receive the mul titude of claimants, three large stores, a brewery, and a barrack, are also filled with human beings. The rate de clared on the 11th October last, for the relief of this mass of dependants on the public doll, amounts to £16,000: and should it be all collected, is calculated to meet the outgoings of the union until the Ist of January :—being at the rate of £48.000 until next harvest. The whole of the labouring population clamorously beset the doors of the workhouse for admission, as the test and qualification of out-door relief. The fact is, that occupiers of the land, unable to pay both wages and rates, are universally dis- charging their labourerS. The union is already in debt to the amount of £5,000. made a speech, in returning thanks for Lady Napier, whose health was proposed by the president, which will amuse our fair readers. Sir Charles said—" My Lords and Gentlemen,—l return you my very sincere thanks for drinking the health of my wife. (Hear, hear.) She is not an Irishwoman, but she is as good a wife as if she was one. C" 119- ' And - ke (utieers atm Aughter.) _ now, having thankea you for having drank my wife's health, allow me to make a little complaint. (Hear, hear.) I think this habit of drinking ladies'healths and making their husbands respond for them, has existed much too long, particularly when we recollect that the ladies are themselves such excellent applause.) And I really think that whenever the health of a lady is proposed, it should be the universal rule that she should answer for herself. (Laughter.) I do not wish to throw any burden upon the married ladies, but I am strongly of opinion that they ought to return thanks for themselves, because I believe they could do it much more eloquently and gracefully than we could. (Re newed laughter and cheers ) UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS, The Earl of Ellesmere has been unanimously re-elected Lord Rector of Aberdeen University. The Rev. Robert K. Sconce, 8.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, has conformed to the Church of Rome. A The office of Regius Professor of Greek in thefeublin University, has been conferred on the Rev. Thomas Luby. It is very generally reported that Oxford is about to fol low the example of Cambridge, and that its governing body has prepared a scheme of educational reform which will before long be submitted to convocation. The following is a comparative list of the number of residents in the University of Oxford, during the last and present years :-1847, in college, 1,184 ; in lodgings, 767 ; total resident, 1,951. 1848, in college, 1,181 ;in lodg ings, 761 ; total resident, 1,942. The Rev. J, C. Makinson, 8.A., late of St. John's College, Cambridge, has conformed to the Church of Rome. Mr. Makinson was formerly curate at Man chester for two years, and left this country in 1837 on an appointment in the diocese of Sydney, New South Wales, as a Government chaplain. CHURCH EXTENSION.—The Marquis of Westminster has granted the handsome sum of £5,000 toward the erec tion of the new church of St. Gabriel, Pimlico ; in addition to which, Mr. Cubitt, his Lordship's lessee, has given up his interest upon the land, valued, for building purposes, at upwards of £2,000. The Rev. I. B. Marsden is to be the first incumbent of the church. The Rev. Theyre Smith, M.A., who was for upwards of ten years assistant preacher at the Temple Church, has just been presented by the Lord Bishop of Ely to the valuable rectory of Wymondham, in Norfolk. The rev. gentleman's profound and eloquent discourses at the Temple Church, occasioned his being appointed Hulsean Lecturer. at Cambridge for two years consecutively, at a time when the present Bishop of Ely, (Dr. Turton), was one of the heads of Houses at Cambridge ; and we are enabled to say that the preferment of Mr. Smith was entirely unexpected and unsolicited, and confers equal honours upon him and the bishop. We fear there is no doubt of the fact, that that amiable and excellent person, the Hon. and Rev. Baptist W. Noel, has signified his intention of seceding from the Church. It is a subject of much greater regret than of surprise. Mr. Noel does not intend to join any other body of Christians, but gives as his reason the connection of the Church with the State, and her consequent `• bondage" to secular power. The rev. gentleman has long been known for his ardent advocacy of the Free Church of Scotland, a secession founded on similar views to his own, and it is this which has probably ripened his desire to imitate their system —the leading principle of which is to maintain the doctrines of the mother church, but to assume a position not merely independent of, but superior to, the State.—Record. _ _ -.--. ANOTHER SUGGESTION.—The Rev. C. Girdlestone, in a letter to the Primate, says,—" On reading the letter ad dressed to your grace by the Bishop of Gibraltar, recom mending the celebration of a Tercentenary next year, I could not but strongly feel, and now take the liberty of humbly suggesting, how highly desirable it would be, if anything be done, that it should be done primarily for the benefit of those thousands and millions in our own coun try who are strangers alike to the Prayer Book and the Bible; and whose worse than heathen ignorance and wickedness, made notorious as it is by the demeanour of such of them as go abroad, is the most glaring hindrance to the effectual propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts. Scripture readers have now been tried, and are generally approved. If they were called ' Catechists,' and empow ered to chatechise as well as read the Bible, these masses of the heathen at home might be largely wrought upon. And should a Tercentenary be commemorated by a collec tion of Church funds, I am persuaded that much more would be contributed, and much more good would be done by the contributions, if they were devoted to found ing and endowing an order of Catechists, than if devoted to foreign objects as proposed." PASTORAL LETTER.—The Bishop of Chester has ad dressed a letter to his clergy on the subject of the cholera. His Lordship says,—" Domiciliary visitation among the labouring classes is, no doubt, part of your ordinary habits. The present cause of apprehension may both give greater force to your persuasions in recommending increased cleanliness to the poor, and may also procure from the rich a more liberal contribution of pecuniary as sistance towards carrying those recommendations into effect. In that case, permanent good will have arisen out of apprehended evil. A hope may reasonably be enter tained that, under the Divine blessing, increased cleanli ness in the dwellings of the poor will diminish the fre quency, or mitigate the virulence, of disease in general. It may also tend to produce among the poor a higher sense of decency and propriety ; an improved tone of moral feeling ; a greater disposition to receive and to value, reli gious i ns t r uction. And there can scarcely fail to be some sentiment of gratitude excited in their minds when they thus find themselves objects of benevolent solicitude to their wealthier neighbours who send them needful help, and to their pastor, whose visits are always ministrations of kindness and comfort. I fully rely on your disposition to further generally, by your co-operation, the objects recommended by the Board i of Health. Your own dis cretion will be your guide n adopting such particular measures with this view as from local, or other, circum stances, you may deem most suitable." ANOTHER CHURCH COMMISSION.—Mr. Horsman's late motion for the better management of Church lease holds has " eventuated," as they say across the Atlantic, in—another Church Commission. The " composition i and management" of the present " Ecclesiastical Com -1 mission for England and Wales" was, in the eyes of that class of reformers which is represented by Mr. Horsman, the root of much, if not all, evil. Episcopal residences THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. were, with the Commissioners, objects of a rather too profuse appropriation of capital; and ecclesiastical leases, long and notoriously a source of great waste of the pro perty available for giving pastors to the people, were no whit better under the Commission than they had been under their more ancient and rightful owners. Such were the allegations; and hence it has been that the " compo sition and management" of " the Ecclesiastical Commis sion"—as the fops et orioo mali, has been brought under the scrutiny of a Select Committee of the House of Commons. The result is a recommendation that their lordships the Bishops, with the lay State functionaries who make up the present Church Commission, shall he left to consider " great principles and important questions affecting the Church," while the management of the funds shall be handed over to " three paid Commissioners, two to be nominated by the Crown and one by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the _payment to be made from the funds of the Commission." Thus we are to have not one Com mission, but two ; and while the spoils of the suppressed canonries and prebends are to be further diverted to the purpose of supporting three active barrister (or non-bar rister) cadets of the great Whig family now in power, the present machinery of commissionership is, neverthe less, to be retained, for the better and more conveniently disposing of those " great principles and important ques tions" which, among the many great innovations of the coming time, it is felt must inevitably be raised. And the Church lecse question is to be held in solution till Parliament, acting under the advice of the three new Commissioners, can put " the transactions between the Commission and the lessees" in the way of being " car ried generally to a satisfactory issue." The committee, under the head " Management of the Commission," cen sure the mismana e ,crement of the Episcopal Fund, showing that whilst since the formation of that fund up to the end of 1847, only £93,276 were paid for the more legitimate purpose of increasing the income of the poorer sees, a sum amounting in the aggregate to £27,276 was expended on the builning and repairs of episcopal residences, and paid out of the fund above mentioned A N EVERLASTING OFFERING.—Amongst the signifi cant tenures by which landed estates are often held when of ancient date, that of the Staffords of Eyam is not the least singular. It is that they shall keep a lamp perpetu ally burning on the altar of St. Helen's, at Eyam parish church. COURT AND FASHION. The Queen, with Prince Albert and the Royal children, left Windsor Castle, for Osborne, Isle of Wight, on 1 hursday A marriage will be solemnised in a few days, between the youthful Earl of Darnley and the Hon Miss Walde- Viscount Alford, son-in-law of the Marquis of North ampton, has been thrown from his horse, while hunting near Castle Ashby, and suffered fracture of the collar bone. The royal theatricals will begin at Windsor Castle on the 28th of December. The stage is in the Bubens' room. The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, The Stranger, Used Up, Box and Cox, Twice Killed, The Housekeeper, and Sweethearts and Wives, will be represented. Upon Mr. Charles Kean devolves the management of these per formances. This gentleman, in conjunction with his accomplished wife, will sustain the principal characters, supported by Messrs. Diddear, Vandenhoff, Wigan, rs, Webster, Leigh Murray, W. Farren, Creswick, Iton, Keeley, Meadows, Howe, and Boyce • Mrs. ter, Miss E. Montague, Mrs. Keeley, Miss P. Horton, P Vining, and Mrs. Buckingham. DEATH OF THE DUCHESS OF MANCHESTER.—The death of this illustrious lady took place without pain, at Kimbolton Castle, on Tuesday last. Her Grace was the only daughter of the late General Sir Robert Bernard Sparrow and of Lady Olivia B. Sparrow, of Brampton Park, and was married to the Duke of Manchester on the Bth of October, 1832. LAW INTELLIGENCE. On Wednesday, 128 gentlemen, were admitted attorneys of her majesty's common law courts. By the 9th and 10th Vic., Cap. 27, it is enacted that no person under the age of six years shall be allowed to be come a member of a friendly society, for money payable on death ; and that no insurance shall be effected on the life of any child under six years of age. LAW of MARRIAGE.—The recent enquiry instituted by parliament proves most clearly that the all but uni sal feeling of the country is against the relaxation of but with that admirable sang froid which dis- the laa tinguis our august senate in all cases where it is diffi cult to raise " a moral agitation" against any measure on which they are pleased to fix their desires, the legislature seem to extract from the different grounds on which re- pugnance is felt against their I gument in favour of their views .ures an ar- POLITICAL MISCELLANY. A stormy meeting was held at Exeter on Tuesday, at which Mr. Kekewich was introduced to the electors of South Devon, as the successor of Lord Courtenav, for the representation of that division of the county. Ile evaded some home questions that were put to hide about the en dowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood. Sir Ralph Lopes, also a Conservative, and who is exceedingly popu lar in West and South Devon, means, it is understood, to oppose Mr. Kekewich. A NEW. MINISTRY.—The Sun, of Friday, contained sundry speculations contingent on the anticipated retire ment of Lord John Russell, and gave the following sketch of the alteration in the holders of office, which a fusion of parties would involve, as one that would at once obtain the entire confidence of the country :—' Lord Clarendon--insteao of Lord John Russell. Sir J. Graham—Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Gladstone—Board of Trade. Lord Aberdeen—Privy Seal. Lord Lincoln—Board of Control, Lord Hardinge Mr. Cardwell— —Lord Lieutenant. Secretary for Ireland Lord Mahon and Lord Jocelyn—Secretaries to the Board of Control THE CANDIDATES FOR THE WEST RIDING.--Sir Cul ling Eardley says, " if government were to bring forward any scheme for the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy, he was prepared to move That there should be no establishnzent whatever in Ireland." Such is the man who wants to waive the very question to which, of all others, he stands deliberately and publicly pledged. We need not say' that in Mr. Beckett Denison, the Yorkshire electors will find no such Jesuitical " mental reserva tions." On the hustings at Wakefield, on the 7th ;of August last year, he unequivocally declared, " I voted against Sir R. Peel on the Maynooth Bill, and I will vote against any Minister who brings forward a proposition to endow the Roman Catholic priesthood. 1 will never con sent that such a religion should be supported out of funds raised by a Protestant community." WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.—Mr. Fitzwilliam com menced his canvass at Leeds on Tuesday, when he ad dressed the electors. In the course of his speech he made the following admission as to his intention of voting for the endowment of Popery in Ireland :—" The excited state of the country (Ireland) calls for some extraordinary remedy, and when we observe that two denominations of religion receive support from the State (' Only one') — two, I believe ; the Presbyterian Church and the Protes tant Church of England (applause)—l think that, perhaps, some means might be devised of rendering the state of Ireland better, by in some way paying the Roman Catholic clergy. Ido not wish to tax England for it, but some means might be devised to put that unhappy coun try in a more prosperous state." The unfavourable man ner in which he was received has induced the honourable candidate to resign. The delegates from various polling places in the county have met at Normanton, and agreed to support Sir Culling Eardley Eardley as a candidate. Sir Culling is a thorough liberal, favourable to free trade, to economical reform, to the extension of the suffrage, and opposed to any further endowment of religion by the state. We are glad to find however that at a meeting in Leeds, on Friday, it was determined to bring forward the former representative of the Riding, Mr. Beckett Deni son ; and as he will have the support of all the old Whigs, in addition to the Conservatives, there is no doubt of his triumphant return. CONDITION OF THIS COUNTRY AT OUR ENTRANCE UPON THE THIRD YEAR OF COMPLETE FREE TRADE. — The winter—and we fear a hard winter—is approaching. In the manufacturing districts the troubles of the Conti nent have seriously lessened demand, employment, wages, and the resources of our own skilled artisans. The recent Hilton controversy has afforded a terrible glimpse of the actual condition of our own rural poor. Thriftless, pots. toeless Ireland is drifting for a third year heavily, but surely; to leeward. All circumstances combine to inspire in us the apprehension, that during the coming winter we shall not merely have to contend with Penury, with all her ordinary and afflicting attributes, but to struggle for existence with the giant Despair. Not only is this true, but the fund of which the surplus in common times is devoted to the relief of our unfortunate countrymen, and to the alleviation of the misery of the English widow and the English orphan, has been deeply affected by the circumstances of the last 36 months. The cupidity and dishonest speculations of 1846 have borne bitter fruits. There is scarce a private family in the three kingdoms to which the list of the share market, daily published in the Times, does not serve as a memento of crippled means, and of savings vanished into air. They have now to ex piate their error—to call it by no graver name. And how must this expiation be performed ? The annual meeting of the family at Christmas must be given up. The go verness—and what is to be her fate ?—must be dismissed. " Little Johnny," whose reported mastery of compound proportion and the decimal system of arithmetic inspired his parents with the justest expectations that he would, in due course of time, become senior wrangler, tutor of a college, and finally bishop of an important diocese, must be withdrawn from school. Cambridge is out of the question. A stool in the office of a friendly attorney is now the widest limits of even his mother's ambition for her calculating boy. Turn again to West India families, who have been nurtured and brought up in affluence and comfort, and you will find them reduced to poverty, and, except in cases where some one member of the family is possessed of talent and opportunity, to absolute beggary. This much, however, is clear—that however the majority of English families may manage to struggle through the privations of the winter of 1848.49, many must debar themselves of the luxury of doing good, and of contri buting to the wants of those unfortunates whose lot it is to wander about the country of their birth houseless, foodless, and friendless,- and with no other trust or hope but in that good Providence which uares for the miserable and forlorn. Happy should we be could we indulge in the expectation that we had overstated the circumstances or over-coloured the necessities of the time. We fear that our words will find too sad a response in the hearts of all. — .Times. [The above will be recognised for truth ; but it is nothing more than the predictions of .a hundred writers.] IT DOES'NT RHYME, BUT 'ITS TRUE !-Why is.a wig like a Whig ? .Because it's a false .attachment .to tke gown. RAILWA y —4 E very exertion is 13'.;ing made to finish the stupendous tubular bridge over the Menai Straits by the middle of next summer. AFFAIRS. At the last Oxford shar. smial meeting of the Birmingham and elroklers, the directors were empowered to raise the s, am a £333,000, as authorized by their several acts. Cl/ESTEE. AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ending 18th November, 1848 :—Coaching tra ffi c, £786 13s. 3d. ; parcels, £4O s. sd. ; goods and cattle, £lBO 3s. sd. ; steam boats, £llB Bs.: Total, £1125 12s. ld. The Brighton Company have issued an advertisement pledging themselves that they will not do away with return tickets, and offering to grant annual tickets from London to Brighton, 60 miles, at £5O per annum. RAILWAY DEPRECIATION.-1n a recent circular, Messrs. Railton, sharebrokers, of Manchester, estimate the depreciation of railway stock, about the middle of last month, at " upwards of £120,000,000 ; that is, nearly one-sixth of the National Debt !" An inquiry into the value of the property required by the London and North-Western Railway Company at Birmingham, belonging to the governor of the Birming ham. Free Grammar School, resulted a few days ago in the jury finding a verdict for £39,603 10s., and £250 severage. The claim was £42,000. DUBLIN AND HOLYHEAD SUBMARINE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—Mr. Charles Blunt, C.E., has received from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the necessary authority to lay down his line of Submarine Electric Telegraph between Holyhead and Dublin, and for putting the wires in communication with the existing lines of railway now terminating at Holyhead on the En glish coast, and on the Irish coast at Dublin. The 117 arches of the Bury Railwey contain 26,187,000 bricks. The large arch over the tunnel and works of the North Western Railway, which is 99 feet span, and 64 on the skew, contain 2,281.000 bricks, 48,000 cubic feet of timber, and 23,140 superficial feEt of 3-inch planking. At these arches 34,000 casks of cement have been used. There is duty of 6s. 11d. on every thou sand bricks. Glancing over our traffic table of last week, says the Railway Chronicle, it appears that out of the thirty-nine companies enumerated in it, there are three whose re ceipts for the present half-year up to the 11th November, are already greater than their receipts for the half-year ending the 31st December, 1847 caster and Carlisle. the Manchester, Sheffield and Lin colnshire, and the South Devon. these being t From official returns it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on 4,205 miles of railway, was £187,686, thus accounted for:—£B4,l7o for the convey ance of passengers only, £55,312 for the carriage of goods. and a remainder of £48,204 for passengers and goods to gether, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £27,206 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was 3,317. The average earnings per mile were £45, whilst in 1847 they were £4B. In the Barnsley County Court, the Judge gave a plain tiff a verdict of £l3 10s. against the Midland Railway Company, for the loss of his trunk The p' trunk pa on the omnibus that was to convey the pas sengers to the Barnsley Railway Station, and also saw the truck take the luggage from the omnibus to the sta tion, and supposed his trunk was `amongst it, but found, on arriving at his destination, that the train had not con veyed his trunk. PREVENTION OF RAILWAY ACCIDENTS — THE ELEC TRIC TELEGRAPH.—In a lecalre delivered last week, at Manchester, by Mr. Cox, the superintendent of the Electric Telegraph Company's works there, a very good suggestion was thrown out by that gentleman—viz., that the guard of every train should be provided with a port. able telegraph, which, in case of any accident or emer gency, he could attach to any of the wires, and signal any station for assistance. PROPOSED BRITISH RAILWAY ASSOCTATION.—An association with this title is in course of formation, for the purpose of providing for the families of railway officers and servants • for the prevention of accidents on railways ; for indemnifying railway travellers more adequately ; and for mitigating the losses sustained by railway companies from railway accidents. The subscribed capital is £600,000, in 60,000 shares of £lO each. The objects of this association will be effected by raising and administering-Ist. A mutual benefit fund for railway officers and servants. 2d. A casualty compensation fund for railway travellers. 3d. An auxiliary indemnity fund for railway companies. 4th. A mutual insurance fund for railway companies. STEAM CARRIAGES ON COMMON ROADS.—Mr. Motley, the engineer, in a communication to the Mining Journal, gives the result of " a careful examination" made by him self, "in conjunction with a thoroughly practical engi neer," into the merits of Sir James Anderson's steam carriage for common roads. This result is, in Mr. Mot ley's words, that " the public will shortly have the op portunity of being conveyed, with great ease and perfect safety, at a speed of from ten to twelve miles per hour, at the average charge of not exceeding Id. per mile, and yet afford a large profit to the proprietors—thus doing away with the necessity of trunk railway companies making costly and profitless branches." _ _ _ . . EASTERN COUNTIES.—From the financial statement just issued by this company it appears that the total share and loan capital and liabilities amount to £10,851,593. and that there is a balance of liabilities beyond assets of £283,757. The total share capital carrying interest as di vidend is £9,717,220. The total receipts for the current half year are estimated at £400,000, and the income for the year commencing July, 1849, at £940.000. The di rectors calculate on effecting a deduction of £350,000 per annum in the working expenses. This will, even if no improvement should take place, fully maintain the amount of dividend that has been recently paid, and at present prices yield nearly seven per cent. on the capital invested. There are, however, many circumstances that will further improve the value of the stock, and thus add to the bene ficial character of the investment. The further capital required by both companies, (exclusive of £87,070 to be called up on certain Norfolk shares,) amounts only to £355,000, which may be reduced by receipts from surplus property. The total mileage will be 322 miles. The company has not subscribed to any other lines, but it will have the benefit of several valuable feeders, without any responsibility on account thereof. _ _ _ MIDLAND.—From the financial statement of this com pany, it appears that the total amount of the stock, share, and loan capital is £11,421,620, which includes a nominal addition of £627,463 for shares issued at a discount previ ous to the amalgamation of the three companies. The proportion of capital actually received is £8,191,541, leav ing £2,602,615 in arrear, including the Bristol and Birm ingham shares. The amount of debentures, loans, &c., is £3,766,419. The total cost of 2851 miles of railway producing revenue up to the 24th of October last was £11,364,414, leaving £414.245 still to pay, and making a total of £11,778,659. The expenditure on 27* miles in course of construction, not producing revenue, has been £391,796, and there is £321,000 still to pay. On 1854 miles guaranteed and leased, the expenditure has been £3,134,902 10s. On 921 miles, in which the company is interested by subscription to the amount of £435,750, the sum of £201,750 has been paid. The amount autho rised for other lines not commenced is £4,630,325, and for these nothing has been paid. The total amount ex pended up to October 24 has been £11,957,960 and there is £768,245 still to pay, making a total of £12,726,205. After payment of the balance, the directors calculated on having £2,194,650 towards the repayment of loans. The estimated average receipt per mile per annum required to pay £6 per cent. when the works under contract are com pleted and paid for, is about £2850, an increase of £230 per mile per annum on the average mileage of the year ending June 30, 1848. ... THE " ECONOMIST " AND THE RAILWAYS , (From the Manchester Courier.) It is an axiom constantly acted upon, that an annuity of 10 per cent., with money at its standard of five per cent., is double the value of such money. If a £l,OOO were paid for an annuity, which afterwards yielded in perpetuity £lOO per annum, it would be of equal value in the market to one yielding only £lOO per annum, for which £2,000 had been paid. And £2,000 of the circulating medium, whether constituted of gold or paper, which circulated at the interest of five per cent., or £lOO per annum, would be an equivalent in exchange for an annuity of £lOO, al though only £lOOO had been paid by a former purchaser. The same axiom alone determined the value of railway property, the price which it will command, and, conse quently, the quantity of capital it represents. Every £lOO of railway s':ock paying 10 per cent. is equivalent to £2OO of the circulating medium at 5 per cent. interest, and to only £lOO of money if interest were at 10 per cent. - Thus the X 198,000,000 already expended, according to the Economist, would be equivalent to and represent £392,000,000. had interest remained undisturbed at the rate of 3 per cent., at which money was available to al most any extent in 1845, instead of being now unattainable even at the rate of 6 and 7 per cent. The rise of interest from 3 to 6 per cent. itself intrinsically reduces the value of capital in railways to one-half of its value or quantity at the former rate. Just precisely as the annuity of the se cretary referred to, if made perpetual at £l5OO per annum, would produce on a sale just half the number of thousand pounds, were money permanently at 10 per cent., which it would with money with money at 5 per cent. To per sons conversant with such calculations, it will be perfectly intelligible that doubling the rate of interest for money reduces to one-half the amount which should be paid in money for the annuity. Consequently, were there no other cause for the depreciation of railway property, the change of the rate of interest from 3 to 6 per cent. on the renewal of railway loans for long periods, now expiring (not on discounts, which have no relation to this ques tion), would of itself be sufficient. We are not now, more than the Economist, attempting to justify any alleged impropriety in the management of railway property by directors. This is unnecessary. The point to which we address ourselves is the ability of the country in ordinary circumstances to pay the required fur ther sum of £130,000,006 of railway calls, and to the only conclusion to be drawn from the simple fact, that money for railway purposes being now unattainable at 6 and 7 per cent. involves the loss of capital to the owners of such property of one-half, compared to its value when money was plentiful for the same objects at 3 and 3/ per cent. ; a cause of depreciation arising out of the state of the money market alone. After abating everything from the case that can be urged on the score of profligate expenditure by:the railway boards, what, we ask, is it all, compared with the depre ciation and waste of capital, through the present high value of money on loans for long periods applicable to almost every description of fixed property ? Had money remained at. 3 per cent., as when the bulk of the lines in progress were ,projected, this fact is clear at least, that every railway, the cost of which is one million sterling with money obtained. at 3 per cent., the cost of the same railway must be doubled by raising the rate to 6 per cent. That if the profligacy of expenditure had been such, that by means of extravagant .contracts and gorgeous railway stations, the cost of the railways, with money at 3 per cent" had been Absolutely doubled, Vag effect upon the value of the stock would only have been the same as must arise had the whole works been more economically com pleted, but with money obtained at 6 per cent. interest. Because, at 3 per cent. the borrowers obtain exactly £2OOO at the same charge to the company which is made for every single £lOOO borrowed at 6 per cant. A double rate of interest doubles the cost of making fixed property of every kind. _ _ The just remedy for the railway crisis is therekte Some thing which shall restore the unnaturally depreciated fixed property of the country to its average value. And nothing whatever will contribute to that result so long as the stan dard of such property, the rate of interest, is liable to fluctuate, as it is under the present money laws, between 3 and 12 per cent. within the space of a few months. Will the Economist undertake to guarantee that the same fluctuations will not soon occur through similar causes to those which operated last year, or through the connection which the present laws enforce between every political rumour from the Continent, and the rate of interest in London ? Is not the scare of last year's panic too recent yet to obliterate from the minds of moneyed men the pos sibility of interest being soon again at 10 and 12 per cent. ? How, then, is it likely that capitalists in their senses will part with money for long periods, at any but the most ex tortionate and ruinous rates of interest ? That the once wealthy portion of the public, who assumed from the original subscribers to the present railways, the whole of their liabilities, at a time when the stocks of the several companies, under the advance of interest in Octo ber, 1845, and February, 1846, had fallen to what was fairly considered a safe and advantageous price for perma nent investment, should now find themselves like the commercial and industrial public at large, unable to meet liabilities which then appeared to be perfectly easy, can surprise none but writers like the Economist, who shut their eyes to one, and that the most important, side of this grave question. Upon what do men of property rely to meet their en gagements ? Upon the quantity of such property ? No. But upon its market and convertible value. To what class the Economist refer which has not sustained in extent of depreciation as great or greater than that which has be fallen the value of Railway Stocks,—Factories, Machinery, Warehouses, Dwelling-Houses, Ships, Produce, or In surance and Barking Companies' Stocks? There is no des,ription of property almost, which for conversion into money for any necessary purpose, will now command the loss of eral fairly equivalent before the April hundred millions sterling would not cove. capital the country has sustained through this depreciation of its industry and weal h. Here, then, is cause for the difficulty of meeting railway calls, altogether apart from, and much more palpable than, an organic and original impossibility of finding capital. And as to the £1,300,000 of r..llway calls, which the Economist thinl , will destroy the country, a restoration of one dm , property alone, CONSOLS, to its former value, supply a working capital equivalent to the whole sum required for such completion of the unfinished lines. The principle which regulates the value of railway propertyie being once understood, there would be no lac' would of efficient plans for meeting the case of the perplexed and almost bankrupt companies. If a fluctuation in the rate of interest have such power, as has just been shewn, to dissolve into nonentity, like snow before the sun, the immense capital of those companies, their first duty ob viously is to unite together for one specific object—viz., to deMand such an improvement in the present money laws as shall admit of a permanent standard of vat all such property in the shape of (what there is now no certainty of for a week together) an equable rate of in- - We know of no work where the whole subject of rail ways, from first to last, in connection with this point, is more clearly and practically handled than in the volume* to which we have already directed the attention of the editor of the Economist. With a Vindicati , and Co. Loridor CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS.-ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. We have to announce that, at the request of several parties, Mons. Dejean has determined to give three more morning _performances during the remaining time his arevious for London. The morning performances will take place on the Friday of each week. We have to again state our surprise at not seeing more of our fashionables attend at the amphitheatre to witness the truly grand and elegant equestrian performances of this troupe. The respected director merits the same, and even more, patronage than he received during the last season; for, in addition to all the favourites of last year. he has added numerous other artistes of the highest excellence. In addition to the usual attractions there have been introduced, during the week, several novelties. MM. Newsome and Chandler have acted a comic scene in the circle. The " Drunken Sol dier," by Newsome, affords to him a grand op portunity of showing his expertness on the saddle, and the droll effect of his combat with Chandler affords much laughter and amusement. Mdlle. Paul is pleasing and interesting, and possesses a neat figure, which shows to advantage in the costume of the modern Greek girl. Little A. Berg has appeared in the character of a young sailor, and she rides with uncommon spirit and daring. She will make a dashing rider as she advances in years. Mons. Bono, the dancer on the corde elastique, continues to be enthusias tically applauded. The feat of extending his person on the rope, both in the horizontal and perpendicular position, is his master-piece of equitation. Madame P appeared, and dances with him a pas de deux, with much grace and spirit. M. C. Siegrist is a surprising juggler. He performs some of his feats on the horse with the same ease which we have been accustomed only to see done on terra firma. The difficulties he has to encounter are so great that the wonder is how they can be done at all. Throwing the apples, and catching them on the point of a knife, is his masterpiece, if we except his remarkable performance with the three sticks. The "Academical Poses," by MM. Siegriest, Guillieme and Braquet, is a truly excellent display of the power of the human muscles. Nothing can exceed some of the feats achieved by these very clever artistes. M. Auriol has repeated his comic scene, "La Poussah." The " Four Globes," by MM. Leroy and Henri, is a proof of the extraordinary things which man may acquire by practice. They use their legs as if they were arms, and the various feats performed with the balls are surprising. Mdlle. Ducos has appeared, leaping the streamers with much spirit and effect ; she is a dishing rider. Young Loisset's act of horsemanship is remarkable for its boldness and daring, and his somersets on the saddle are wonderful. The " Hussars of France," a grand cavalry manoeuvre, affords Mdlle. Mathilde a good opportunity of displaying her skill as a leader, and the various evolutions are performed with great perfection. Our notice this week has extended too far to notice the remaining members of the troupe, further than they have each displayed their various exciting exercises to the de lighted audience, and received hearty applause. DEATH OF LORD MELBOURNE Intelligence reached London on Friday night of the death of Lord Melbourne. His lordship expired at ten minutes after six o'clock on Friday evening, at Brocket hall, Herts, and was conscious up to the last moment, the following relations being present at his dissolution : Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord and Lady Beauvale, the Hon. Mrs. George Lamb, and Miss Cuyler. The noble deceased had been attacked about three weeks or a month since, by what was considered a bilious com plaint, and was for some days attended by his ordinary medical adviser, Mr. Thomas, of Hatfield ; but symptoms having betrayed themselves of rather an alarming appear ance, Dr. Holland was sent for from London on the 10th instant : and after that eminent physician's making two or three professional visits to Brocket, he informed the mem bers of the noble viscount's family of his fears that his lordship's illness would prove fatal, although the noble patient might linger for some weeks. William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne, was descended from an old Hertfordshire family. which was raised to the order of nobility in the person of his father, Sir Peniston Lamb. William was born in March, 1779, and suc ceeded to the peerage in 1828. In 1805 he married Lady Caroline Ponsonby, daughter of the third Lord Besbo rough ; but in the course of a few years they were sepa rated. Lady Caroline Lamb, remembered for her accom plishments, her fascinations, and her admiration of Lord Byron, died in 1828 ; and was soon followed by her only eon.- - - After the separation Lord Melbourne led a bachelor kind of life, his free and easy demeanour probably occasioning exaggerated notions as to his personal conduct. In 1836 he was the defendant in an action brought against him by the husband of Mrs. Norton. The merits of the case were never thoroughly understood, and some of the strongest evidence against the defendant was of so base a character that it tended to create more iidignation than conviction, and the action failed. _ Lord Melbourne's public career has been too familiarly known to need further retrospect in this place than a brief memorandum of dates, for the convenience of the reader's memory. William Lamb was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; studied politics and jurisprudence under Pro.. fessor Miller, at Glasgow ; and was called to the bar as a member of Lincoln's-inn in 1804, but never attained dis tinction as a law-student. He was a staunch admirer of Fox : but the force of character consisted of . that stren g th which is shown in repose rather than action ; hence his moderation and inclination to the juste-milieu in politics. The deceased entered the House of Commons in 1805, and supported Fox, accepted office as chief secretary for Ireland under Canning, in 1827 ; left the Duke of Wel lington's administration on the East Retford question ; was home secretary under Lord Grey in 1830, (the period of the Calthorpe-st. riots and the Dorchester labourers :) became premier in 1834, when the Grey ministry was broken up by the Irish Church question ; returned to the premiership after Sir Robert Peel's brief attempt at admi nistration in April, 1835, and nominally held it till Sep tember, 1841. Since that time his health and political activity visibly declined, and for some years he had disap peared from public life. The Times concludes a long biography of his lordship as follows :—" He was indolent—he might have been cor rupt. He was a man of easy virtue—he might have been a reckless profligate. He co-operated with Mr. O'Con nell, but ho had grace enough left to b e as h ame d o f th e alliance. He was lavish of titles but he did not quite swamp the House of Lords." The late viscount is succeded by his brother, Lord Beau vale, the late ambassador at the Court of Vienna. Vis countess Palmerston was the only sister of the deceased. vv The families of the Earl and Countess Cowper, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord and Lady Ashley, the Earl of Besborough, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord de Manley, the Earl Fitzwilliam, the lion. Mrs. Lamb, &c., are placed in mourning by the demise of the noble viscount. Nov. 28, 184 L NOVEL AFFAIR OF HONOUR& (Prom the Cork Constitution.) St:Thae time since, a pigeon shooting match took:place at Blarney, between some civilians and a number of militia"! Tontlemen, which resulted in the success of the former. Subsequently, there was boasting on the part of the mili tary, in respect to their steadiness and readiness in deadly aim, and at a dinner party of civilians, which took place last Monday, it was suggested that a physician of our city, known to be a " crack " shot, should be backed to shoot pigeons against any officer in the barracks. The doctor was applied to, and he consented to meet a military'oP° ponent, and a challenge was conveyed and accepted.lol l its acceptance on Thursday, Dr. - called on his brother in-law, head of a large establishment, and said, " Captain - has accepted my challenge, and you'll see how I'll pop him. I merely called to tell you the news, but can't wait now, but will see you in the evening," and he left. A clerk in the establishment having overheard. the words became startled at the id ea th a t D r . - shoul d think for a moment of risking his life in a duel, or at tempting to take that of another human being, but he was more astounded to believe that his employer should be a party to such a transaction, and view so dreadful a matter with so much coolness. He counselled with him self as to what he was to do. At first he thought of re monstrating with his employer, but he feared he might be reprimanded for taking such a liberty, and he then re collected the anguish that would arise to Mr. -'s lad! and Dr. -'s sister, and eventually he determined 00 making known the secret to the authorities. Imme diately after the close of the establishment, be hied to the police-station in Tuckey-street, where he saw Sub-in' _ported to him what he had heard .'he Sub-inspector, looking on it as a serious case, and one in which time could not be lost, sent off for the nearest magistrate, Alderman Roche. On his arrival the overheard observations were repeated, and the justice told his informant it was his duty to depose to the facts, on which a warrant would issue against Dr. - end I ipe:tor Walker, and re another person then unknown, the informant having for gotten the name. The informant at first objected, bnt was persuaded to do so by being cautioned that if he did not then make the information, and that a life was lost► he would be responsible to God and man. The depo sition was made, and the warrant of arrest filled up ana judicially signed and sealed, and Head-constable Crowley, being a well-known efficient officer, was ordered to put on his detective clothing and immediately proceed in dis- in he called 3e, and hav ing anxiously inquired where the doctor might be found, th servant replied that the house of his friend, Mr. would be a likely place, and the head-constable proceeded thither. While going there the doctor returned home, and the servant told him that a gentleman, whose appear ance she described, had just called, and had exhibited deep anxiety to see him. " Oh," said the doctor, "'tis Mr. -, I would not have thought his wife could have been taken ill so soon," and off he ran at top speed. Going through Prince's-street, he was spied by the head constable, who, seeing the doctor running. immediately who was not at t conceived he was endeavouring to escape arrest, and The race continued into Patrick nstable overtook his object, and, )ped his hand on the doctor's darted off in full chase, street, where the head-, both short of breath, he cl shoulders and gasped out "you're my prisoner." The doctor looked astounded, and after a moment asked what he meant, to which the reply was, " I arrest you under a criminal warrant." The doctor demanded an explanation► which the constable said would be given by the magistrates and after some observations on both sides, the doctor was ushered into the station-house, and the magistrate was again sent for, when the explanation given was that the challenge was to shoot phreons, not men ! SPORTING INTELLIGENCE LIVERPOOL GRAND AUTUMN STEEPLE CHASE• On Wednesday, this great national event came off at Aintree under circumstances, so far as the weather is con cerned, by no means inviting for the lovers of out-door .ecreations We never, on any former occasion, witnessed so small an attendance. There were not half-a-dozen carriages in front of the Grand Stand, and we think we are over the mark in saying that there were only between 4000 and 5000 persons present. There were a great number of gen tlemen on the Grand Stand, but certainly not more than a dozen ladies, including Lady Sefton and a party fronl Croxteth-hall. The Earl of Sefton, who actel as steward of the course, drove up as usual, four in hand, about one o'clock, and was exceedingly active during the day in dis• cbaraing the duties of stewardship. Sir John Gerard also arrived early. The first race—A free handicap hurdle race of 10 soy& each, hf. ft. with 50 sous. added, two miles, over sis flights of hurdles, came off at two o'clock, and excited very great interest Eight horses started, and all, except two who baulked and threw their riders at the second last hurdle, took the leaps capitally. The principal betting was on Lord Strathmore's Chatham, and Captain Lane's Midnight , but the odds were in favour of the former. The race was remarkably well contested between both these horses, but the fotmer won, only however, by a very few yards. The result was Chatham, 5 yrs. Midnight, 4 yrs The next. Which Ras the grand race of the day, was for a handicap sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, half forfeit, with 100 sovs added; the distance twice round the course, and over six flights of hurdles and a brook of water, being about four miles. 'fen horses started. The favourite was Proceed The horses had an excellent start, but the moment they were off, The Doctor shot ahead, and kept it the entire way round, taking his leaps in gallant style, and clearing the brook in front of the Grand Stand with an agility and an ease which we should not have expected in so aged racer. The Doctor won by about a length and a half; and we congratulate our townsman, Mr. J. Henderson , of Clayton-square, who is his owner, upon the fortunate result. Venom was a good third, and the favourite, Pre: ceed, upon whose ill-success tho usan d s o f p oun d s will change hands, fell, and threw his rider, and was nowhere. We place them in the following order : _ Mr. J. Henderson's Doctor 1 Mr. Storey's Victim .. Mr. Harrison's Venom Mr. Verer's Velocity 4 The last race of the day was the Selling Stakes (over the flat) of 5 sovs each, with 50 added. Distance, one mile and three-quarters. This was also an excellent race. The horses came in the following order: — Mr. Smith's Master Downes Mr. Meiklam's Susannah 2 Mr. Kirby's Rosa' 3 THURSDAY SWEEPSTAKES, of 5 sovs. each d ten added. One mile-and-a-half. Four subs. Mr. Wilson's b. f. by St. Martin, dam by Liver pool, 4 yrs., Bst, 61b. ( Whitehouse) 1 Mr. Bretherton's Mignionette, 9st. 21b. (Stagg).. 2 Jenny Wren, Bst. 131 b., and Garendon, Bst. 131 b., also ran HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE STAKES, of 10 SOVS. each' p.p., and 50 added, the second to save his stake. Three miles. Six subs. Mr. Bretherton's Equinox. 9st. 101 b. (Stagg) 1 Captain Thompson's Abd-el-Kader, 6 yrs., list 81b. (Tabow) 2 _ _ _ Modesty, 6 yrs., lOst. 41b.. Tom Bowling, 4 yrs., 105 t. 41b., and Royston Gower, 5 yrs., lOst. 21b., also started. Won easily. The HELTER SKELTER HANDICAP, of 5 SOTS. each, 3 ft.r ald 30 added. One mile and-a-quarter over the flat. Nine subs. Mr. Wilson's Cybele, 3 vrs. (Arnold) Dr. Waring's Rosa, Bst. 101 b. (Kitton). 2 Jenny Wren, 7st, 51b., Premier, Bst. 61b., Dash, 6st• 61b., and Fanny, Bst. 21b., also started. Won easily. LYTHAM CHAMPION MEETING. GREAT CLIFTON CUP. Second Ties.—Spinner beat Syncope beat Dupe, Smut beat Slipper. Cicero beat Empress, Brilliant beat Likely, Mayflower beat May Queen, General Chasse beat Governess, British Lion beat Credit. Third Ties.—Spinner beat Syncope, Smut beat Ci" C ce h r a o s , s. M al Chasse. beat Brilliant, British Lion beat Gener THE TALBOT CUP Second Ties.—Superfine beat Spy, Credit beat Lime kiln Lad, Clarina beat Treasure, Fancy beat Tyrant, L R i e n d d m b a e n at beatßu Education,O A i l n o d g e , e Actress c b t e r a e t ss p b a el . t T o pp e r, Jenny Third Ties.—Superfine beat Credit, Clar i na beat Fan cy, Redman beat Actress, Reindeer beat Jenny Lind. THE LYTHAM CUP, Second Ties.—Smashem beat Tay, Sergeant at Arms beat Princess, Burscough beat Emperor, Libertine beat Young Waxy, St. Leger beat Gelert, Turpin beat Sharr er, Oliver beat Craft, Carlo beat Demagogue, Curry Pow' der beat Dart, Story Teller beat Wellington, Wilton beat Sybil, Snap beat Dacia. Third Ties.—Sergeant at Arms beat Smashem, tine beat Burscough, St. Leger beat Turpin, Oliver beat Carlo, Story Teller beat Curry Powder, Snap beat Wilton' Lord Stanley has purchased Sir Thomas, by Ithuria out of Poll Maggot, a yearling, for 200 sovs. Lord Clifton s Surplice has won the greatest amoull, of stakes during the season, including the " champion feat of winning the Derby and Ledger, viz., £10,47 51 which has not been surpassed since Cotherstone's yea* 1843, when he placed to his owner's credit £13,79 01 Tadmour beats the two years old with the rayther swee' sum of £4,586; Cymba, including the Oaks, £4,37 3 f Glendower, £4,375, Canezon, £5,555, Van Tromp £4,17 0 f Flatcatcher £4,120, The Flying Dutchman .£4,09 5 ' Chanticleer £3,435. EXTRAORDINARY TERMINATION OF A Fox-CHASE! On the 13th instant Mr. Lumley's celebrated Fmk of hounds met at Branby Moor, and a goodly field of awe' teurs were present. The party got to Bell Moor gorse , but did not at first find the fox. After a run of 5001 miles the fox was driven from his hiding-place, and foral into the open " field." He reached a small thicket, ATI lay down to foil his pursuers ; and when they had passe' him he got up and returned to cover. The dogs follows!" and had a great distance to run before they smelt ble / out. It was found that he had again exercised his cult ning by lying down in a hedge-row, which the hotiP°; passed by ; when, in a spirited manner ho got up SI) faced the gentlemen and horses, and returned to anothP ,' distant point, his pursuers in close chase. He got to Is stack-yard, and bounded doors, walls, and every obstacle' until he reached the fold-yard of a farm, when he sprten upon a lofty farm building, and thence bounded upoill cottage roof. He made to the chimney, and droPPe" himself down. It was supposed that he knew thile " locality." Poor Reynard was beset at the top, as wel l as the bottom of the chimney, and on descending -tg terra firma, it is stated that he was " destroyed." Thal certainly is a degree of cruelty in killing this " dog the woods," after his gallant defence. NON tinl, Leavel As n The st Thei And, Oi I thin] Lak The ni You For ye What n give it up iatable. In a ea! they you are playii tallions every sta ing; up , run and Without mercy ; one woul panderno sympath thing, of can't hel a little ci trusting! 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