The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-19 00:00:00

FOREIGN (5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE, AMERICA. The royal mail steam-ship Britannia, Captain Harrison, arrived in the Mersey at two o'clock on Saturday morn ing. The Britannia having received the required repairs, left New York on the 28th ult., and made the run to Boston, whence she sailed as usual on the Ist, in thirty :seven hours. She brought seventy-six passengers; and throughout the passage encountered strong easterly winds. The steam-ship Hibernia, hence, was spoken on the 2d instant, between Halifax and Boston. The French steam-ship Union left New York for Cher bourg on the 20th ult., with but few passengers. The Sarah Sands screw line-of-packet-ship would leave New York for this port early this month. Her comman der, Captain Thompson, had been entertained in public by his passengers on the outward run. The contents of our letters by this arrival add little to our previous information in regard to the Mexican War, and the prospect of peace. The official despatches of the commander-in-chief had not been received, though it was understood that a special steamer waited at Vera Cruz their arrival. No later accounts of any description had been received from the interior ; and beyond the some what improved aspect of opinion with regard to the pro bable speedy termination of the war, we on this occasion can report alone rumours upon which no reliance can be placed ; to the effect, on the one hand, that Paredes had entered the capital and deposed and arrested Santa Anna, and, on the other, that Valencia, one of the chiefs of the war party and friend to Paredes, had surrendered. Monterey letters announce, that active operations had been opened against the guerillas on the American line of communication with Camargo. In Chihuahua affairs were progressing amicably between the Mexicans and the American traders. The commercial accounts will be found in our usual article. Domestic affairs were somewhat more interesting. The prohibition of slavery in airy new territory to'be acquired by the Union had been resolved upon by the state convention of Vermont. Several additional meetings in support of General Taylor's claims to the Presidency had been held. The epidemic in N criV Orleans was considerably abated. A lamentable shipwreck occurred at Long Reach, Barne gat Island, on the 25th ultimo, in one of the equinoctial ales of the season. The New Orleans ship Auburn was driven on shore and totally lost, with her captain, mate, and sixteen of the crew and passengers. SWITZERLAND. The accounts from Switzerland published in some of the Paris papers are of much gravity ; a civil war appears to be ituminent in that country. The canton of Berne has adopted military measures on a grand scale. The Excecutive Council issued, on the 7th, a decree summon ing to arms all men between the ages of 20 to 40. Argan was also organizing its contingents, and even the land sturm, On the other hand, the brave cantons of the Sonderhund were actively preparing for the struggle, and the Helvetie professes to be acquainted with their plan of operations. According to that print, they will not await a declaration of hostilities, or even the arrival of the fe deral commissioners; their troops will assume the offensive, and march into the enemy's territory the moment the twelve Radical cantons shall have voted the measures of execution. The movements of the Sonderbund's forces are to be supported by insurrections, which are ready to break out in the districts of Porrentruy, Soleurer St. Gall, Tessino, the Grisons, End probably, also, Neuchatel. Queen Isabella of Spain completed her 17th year on Wednesday. It is said that Narvaez accomplished his ends in obtain ing the office of prime minister of Spain by asserting that the Progresistas were plotting against the throne, and by promising her Majesty a divorce. EMIGRATION TO AMERICA. —The emigration to New York has increased much this year ; in the month of July alone, 20,000 persons entered that port, and since the Ist of April more than 84,000 passengers have passed through the Custom-house. Matters in Naples have assumed a most satisfactory as pect. The King intended granting an amnesty, and other concessions. The Neapolitan funds had in consequence risen to 104. The French fleet had left the Bay of Naples. The Madrid journals of the 9th, state the current ru mour that Gonzales Bravo would be taken into the Cabinet; and that Narvaez, in order to make room for him, would excnange the portfolio of Foreign Affairs for that of War. The West India colonies are about to send delegates to meet at St. Thomas's, with the view of drawing up a statement of their distressed condition, for the considera tion of the Home Government. The notion they appear to entertain, that the restoration of the old differential du ties can be obtained, is, of course, utterly chimerical. But the planters have just cause of complaint, and a united remonstrance of this kind .must be listened to. MURDER OF THE COUNTESS OF GOERLITZ.—The Count de Goerlitz, who was accused by the German Spectator and the Memhe.im Evening Gazette with the commission of a terrible crime, has written a letter to the Frankfort Journal, and several other papers, saying that in order to reply to this horrible imputation, he has accused these two journals of calumny before the tribunal at Darmstadt. HO-RSE-FLESH BANQUET. — About 160 persons sat down yesterday to a horse-flesh dinner, in the Adler Hotel, at Bornheim. The dinner was ordered by the Frankfort "Society for the Protection of Animals" (Rum SchtsCre de Thiere). We are enabled to state that horse flesh affords a very palatable dish. The dinner was enlivened by many toasts and songs.—Frankfurter Jour nal, Oct. 9. MADEMOISELLE ALBost.—The Parisian critics are in raptures with Alboni and her " elegance, purity, and flexibility of style," and literally astounded at the extra ordinary compass of her vocal scale, from F in the bass cleff to C sharp above the lines in the treble. After her Hungarian campaign, Mademoiselle Alboni will return to Paris in January, and there remain till March. In the winter of 1848 she will spend six months in the French ca pital. The directors already talk of having parts " created" for her by the composers. SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIVES.—The Commercial Gazette states that on Sunday night last, about 10 o'clock, a Russian barque named the Iris of Biornhergh, 400 tons burthen, bound to Falmouth for orders, and laden with Indian corn, with a crew of twelve men, was wrecked near Gunwalloe. She was from Volo, a port in Turkey, near Salonica. Three men were thrown upon the rock near Gunwalloe Church, and three swam to the shore, but we regret to state that six of the crew were drowned. The vessel went to pieces and is a total wreck. The last accounts from Paris state that Christina, the Queen Mother, accompanied by her husband, M. Munoz, had departed, artfully concealing her flight, from the French capital, and carrying passports authorising the bearers to travel under any name. By this time, it is belicvel, she is at Madrid, where the field has been left open t her by Serrano, who had absconded after accept ing hii large bribe. The Queen Mother was summoned by Narvaez to establish the work which he had begun, and to which, it is believed, the King of the French was accessory. The arrival in Paris of the ex-King of Westphalia (Jerome Bonaparte) and his son has occasioned much spe culation. The matter is explained in this way :—The ex- King solicits a pension in place of the dotation settled on him by his brother the Emperor Napoleon. This has been promised by King Louis Philippe, who is no doubt re joiced at an opportunity of disposing in this way of any pretensions of another character that Jerome might have raised, and which will be thus set at rest. His son, Prince Jerome, begged to be allowed to enter the French army, but this was of course refused by King Louis Philippe. A bill granting the pension solicited will, however, be laid before the Chamber of Deputies immediately after it shall have sat for the transaction of business. ENGLISH BUILDINGS IN CHINA.—A location on the Canton river for warehouses. &c., and a site for a church, have been at length obtained, and at Shangae our people have got about 100 acres for building, with roads, drain age, &c., all their own. At Hong . Kong every public work and building is now either finished or in progress. except a government-house, for which a site and estimates have been got. The Chinese people, however, at Canton, Shinganese, &c., still look upon the English "barbarian" as if he were "a bull in a china-shop," and threaten that stone-cutters will be cut all into small pieces, bricklayers "broken into a tile," and all and sundry "looked upon as beasts," who dare to lift a little finger either in " sup plying with tiles, wood, granite, or other building mate rials," or in building for, or otherwise aiding and abetting this " detested brood" in their design upon the c ountr y ." —The Builder. FRENCH MORALITY. The Paris papers of last week bring us the report of the trial and the sentence of the now notorious Beauvallon. We need not remind our readers that this man escaped a capital conviction on the charge of murder, and that on the recent trial of his accomplice for the perjury by which such impunity had been secured, he rendered himself again amenable to the law by returning with abundant interest the false swearing which had been so serviceable to himself. Nearly two months have elapsed since this occurrence, and it having been ascertained in the interval, by the preliminary inquiry which in France supersedes the forms of our grand juries, that a sufficient case existed for the prosecution, the prisoner on Friday was brought to the bar of the Court of Assize to plead to the charge against him. We cannot avoid observing the methods by which, in France, a person moving in distinguished literary society, and professing to correct and inform pub lic opinion, endeavours to exempt himself from an incul pation alleging that he had been swearing and suborning false oaths in order to shield himself from the penalties of murder. e against Beauvall on was to t h e e ff ect The original charg that he had laid a plot for involving a troublesome rival in a duel, that he bad taken a treacherous and deliberate advantage of his inexperienced adversary in every parti_ cular, and that he had at last coolly and circumspectly shot him through the brain with a pistol of which h e knew the exact capabilities, and whichhe hadibrought hot to the field from that very morning's practce. On this charge he was acquitted by th e evidence of his se cond, D'Ecquevilley, who swore that Beauvallon , had never seen the pistols before. For this evidence D Ec quevilley was tried as a perjurer in August last, and after endeavouring to clear himself by challenging the witnesses against him, and asserting that his family was ranked among the noblesse of Franche Comtil in the 17th cen tury, was righteously consigned to infamy for the remain der pf his life. This judgment, therefore, decided that the guilty foreknowledge of the weapons had been duly proved. But, as Beauvallon on this occasion swore to the contrary on behalf of Ids friend, even as his friend on the former o ccas i on had so sworn on behalf of him, he himself now became liable to a similar charge, and the some evidence which convicted the second is consequently b Sought forward t o conv i c t hi s pr i nc i pa l u p on th e s e l §.iine count, Ip dile niccestion i therefore, the eeveral witnesses appeared to prove that Beauvallon had 'rises early in the morning to practise at the target, that helad called to inform persons of his intentions, that he had deliberately gone through the exercise in the garden of his second while his doomed victim was shivering in the snow, and that the instrument was actually found black and smoking from the discharge by the surgeon in attend ance. To all this Beauvallon replies simply by a contra diction, which carries, of course, the usual weight of such affirmations from the mouth of such culprits. His grand defence rests upon the demolition of the evidence ten dered by M. Meynard, which was mainly instrumental in bringing the affair again before the public, and which originatd these two trials of the second and his principal. The attack which is to destroy M. Meynard's credit and restore Beauvallon's character is conducted as follows : Beauvallon alleges that Meynard's entire testimony is the invention of falsehood and the suggestion of spite, arising from the fact that the latter had been defeated by him-self in a competition for the good graces of a certain lady. In corroboration of this assertion, and as witnesses to his own character, he adduces the only matter which, beyond his own reiterations, he has hitherto employed in the shape of proof throughout the trial. He produces in court, with apparent reluctance, the private letters said to be addressed by this very lady to himself, immediately after that flight to Spain by which he had eluded the fine imposed on him by law for the support of his victim's widow. So singularly do they insinuate facts in favour of Beauvallon—his compulsory participation in the duel — his distraction even after so blameless and inevitable a homicide—and, as if by prophecy, the persecution to which malice and envy would subsequently expose him, — that a suspicion as to the pen from which they really pro ceeded could not possibly be repressed. " Was not this letter written for your awn defence ?" asked the Presi dent of the delinquent, observing that it had neither postmark nor other proof of authenticity. , The prisoner's advocate adroitly demurred to such a question, which the reader will perhaps answer for himself after perusing half a-dozen lines. " Believe me," says the writer, "it is not necessary to have done people harm to be detested by them ; it is sufficient to be superior to them in every re spect. Do you believe, for example, that you will ever be forgiven your success in the world, your position at the head of a widely-circulated journal, your book so much applauded, and those honourable decorations which you have obtained at the age of twenty-four ? Listen tell you, that in less than three months you will pass— you, so good, so upright—you, softness incarnate—for a bully, with a hard heart and a pitiless hand." But, the true force of the whole allegation will not be felt till the reader arrives at the intimation that this lady, who admi nisters consolation, who deprecates treachery, who cheers the spirit and confirms the piety of the exile, who so re joices at the intelligence that he is improving his " fine qualities" by the example of a Spanish Ministry, and his mind by the libraries of the Escurial, whose confidential devotion is exposed, and whose secondhand praises are repeated in order that the latent virtue of her beloved correspondent may be made known to the world--is the wife of another man ! That high sense of honour which murderers and adul terers never lose in France precludes, of course, the dis closure of the lady's name, and M. Beauvallon throws himself with confidence on the delicacy of his countrymen in relying upon the unattested letters of an anonymous adultress for establishing his unsullied innocence and clearing his clouded fame. We hope so bright an appre ciation of himself, and so just a calculation of his audi ence, as is shown by his selection of such a mouthpiece to proclaim his merits, will not be lost in this country. That they were not made without a little encouragement may be gathered from the following fact. M. Granier de Cassagnac, whose name figures with most equivocal credit in this nefarious murder, who is the brother-in-law of the assassin, and the owner of the famous pistols which were lent for the deed,—who, at the late trial, endeavoured to intimidate the witnesses by challenging a dangerous de ponent in the witness-room, and whose conduct was re buked in open court by the President, has so far retained the favour and confidence of his former gossips in high office that he has recently been despatched on a Govern ment mission to Rome, there to represent in some sort the French nation, and advance French interests at that pivot of Christian politics. With such countenance to his friends and party, how hard it was of the Court of Assize to sentence M. Beauvallon to eight years' imprisonment COURT AND FASHION. It would appear, by a letter from the Home-office that her Majesty has declined to receive any presents for the future. A box, containing a gold bird, sent to the Queen as a present for the Prince of Wales, has been returned to the donor. ACCIDENT TO THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE PRIN CESS ALI CE.—A Lilliputian Java pony, not more than 27 inches in height, generally accompanies the royal family during their rides in the Home-park. On Monday while the Prince and Princess were taking their exercise, at tended by the grooms and one of their governesses, the Java pony having displayed some curious antics, the Shet land ponies ridden by the prince and princess, started off at full speed before the grooms had power to secure them, each bolting across the park in a different direction. The Prince of Wales fortunately retained his seat, showing great skill in the management of his steed. The Princess Royal, however, not having the same command over hers was thrown from her seat, providentally alighting upon the turf without sustaining the least injury. The Duchess of Kent had a narrow escape on Monday evening, her carriage being run into by a runaway horse in a spring -cart, as it was turning into the Waterloo-gate entrance to the Home-park, Windsor. The carriage was so much injured that her Royal Highness was obliged to proceed to the Castle in the brougham of Sir George Cowper, who fortunately was passing at the time. The cart belonged to Hamilton Parkes, Esq., of Woodside, whose butler and wife, and the cook, were in it at the time. They were thrown out into the road. The butler was rendered insensible for two hours from the effects of a severe wound on the side of his head. His wife, who remains in a dangerous state, had the skin from the whole of the left side of her face entirely torn off. The cook who (was covered with blood when picked up, escaped without much serious injury. LAW INTELLIGENCE. At the Farnham County Court, on Tuesday, a case pre senting some very unusual features was heard. It was Stephens v. Heathcote. The plaintiff, the incumbent of Frensham, summoned the defendant, the son of a clergy man, for XI, alleged to be the fee due to the plaintiff for marrying the defendant in April last. Judgment for 10s. 6d. was given in favour of the plaintiff. At the Westminster County Court, on Monday, in the case of "Thompson v, Austin," the judge (D. C. Moylan, Esq.) held that the plaintiff could not recover a week's rent of the defendant, who had left her lodgings in conse quence of the beds and furniture being infested with ver min, which did not allow her "quiet" possession. The servant spoke to having taken numbers of noxious insects from Miss Austin's clothes when she entered the break fast-room ; and the plaintiff replied, that the Lord-Lieu tenant of Ireland had slept in the bed without complain ing; but the judge did not consider that a sufficient answer, and dismissed the case. IRELAND. The ladies of Ulster are about to present the Deaf and and Dumb Institution there with £l,OOO, as a thank offering. Corporal Bradshaw, of the thirty-eighth regiment, has been accidentally killed while a party of recruits were practising with ball at Westmeath. The unintentional homicide was one of the reeruits, named Lawden. The Roscommon Journal states, that a naggin of water cannot be bad within a mile of Roscommon, and that hundreds of people in fever there are twenty-four hours without as much water as would wet their lips. Some members of the Society of Friends are now ne i gociating for the purchase, at a cost of £40,000, of a tract of waste land on the coast of Donegal, in order to esta blish a lobster fishery, which will give a good deal of em ployment. At the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. Scully, M:P. for Tipperary, spoke in terms of high praise of Mr. Roe, who was murdered in that county a few days ago, and feelingly declared that "no man had a less right to be murdered !" On Monday evening, as Peter Nash, a bailiff near Li merick, was returning home with his two sons, he was fired at from behind a ditch by some vile miscreant. The shot was fatal, no less than eleven slugs having entered the unfortunate man, who immediately fell, to the horror of his children. IRISH STATISTICS.—At a meeting of the parishes of Kilmeena and Kilmaclasser, County Mayo, last week, a resolution was passed stating that they contained . a popu lation of 11,800, notwithstanding the vast numbers car ried off by famine. Now it so happens that, according to the census report of 1841, the population of these pa rishes altogether was only 11,444. This is " reproductive employment" with a vengeance ! FIRE-ARMS AND POWDER.—The Limerick Examiner says that " a countryman, who did not appear to possess a shilling, purchased a six barrel pistol, at Mr. M'Auliff's auction, last week, for £3 10s." Concurrently with this, we find the following in the Limerick Chronicle: — "There was imported into Limerick, last week, a whole magazine of gunpowder for private venders, being not less than 150 casks. This must be welcome news to the agra rian legislators, who will, no doubt, supply themselves with ammunition for the winter campaign." FRIGHTFUL ASSASSINATION. -0 1 1 Thursday week, Timothy Hanley, employed by the Hon. Mrs. Otway Cave, as woodranfer, at Castle Otway, Tipperary, was shot dead while sitting in a small apartment which he occupied adjoining the castle. The only motive for the murder that can be possibly imagined is that the deceased was a daring strong man, and always carried fire-arms ; and so resolute did the neighbours think him to be, that none of them dared touch any of the property over which he was set. The murder was committed on the very day that the magistrates were assembled to consider what steps should be taken in consequence of the midday mur der of Mr. Roe. On Tuesday week Lissamore Castle, near Ballymoney, was blown up by an explosion of gunpowder. It is sup- Mrs. Macartney, go i ng posed to have or i g i nate d b y t h e l a d y o f th e p ro p r i e t or , with a lighted candle, into a dark and narrow passage, leading from one wing to the other, which one dwfhroicint had neetao laid thiroteuet to drynbarrels inofgun pconse- qu ence of having become damp. Wh e th er M r s. Macart tey knew that the destruct ow de gun powder, o destructive material was in the state d e scribed, no person can tell ; b n t s h e h a d scarce l y been a minute in the place when an explosion took place, the roar of which was heard like a burst of thunder, and in an instant, with the exception of the opposite wing from the spot, the castle was a mass of ruins, the unfor- Amate lady being blown to atorns! THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE bum DreraEss.—The astonishment that has been generally expressed at the proposed subscription on behalf of the Irish , on the day of thanksgiving has called forth a semi-official explanation on the part of Mr. C. E. Trevelyan, and General Burgoyne, one of the relief com missioners, in letters addressed to the editor of the Times. Mr. Trevelyan asserts, that " the unhappy people in the western districts of 'lreland will again perish by thousands this year, if they are not relieved ;" and bears testimony to three main points in the letter of Sir John Burgoyne. The letter of Sir John Burgoyne states the case for the Irish as strongly, we suspect, as the matter admits of ; resting it chiefly on the imminent danger, nay, certainty, of great scarcity during the approaching winter, many of the small holders having been unable to cultivate their lands, and a very small proportion of potatoes havingbeen laid down. _ _ The Repeal rent acknowledged at the meeting on Mon day was but £4B 2s. 94d. for the week. Of this sum no less than £l2 was subscribed by the " grocers' assistants," so that the funds are not very flourishing. On the £l2 being handed in by Mr. Ray, Mr. O Connell called for a cheer for the Grocers' Assistants—(cheers)—and a second cheer— Not because the foolish fellows had contri buted a fourth part of the week's receipts :—no ! gratitude with the O'Connell's is " a lively sense of favours to come." Not, then, because of what they had did they receive the " cheers" and " second cheers" of the persons they were feeding, but— Because the amount was only an instalment of future contributions. (Re newed cheers.) He is his father's son, and is following in his father's footsteps, though he has not yet acquired his father's knack of coaxing contributions. THE REPEAL RENT.—Considerable agitation is now going on as to the way in which this fund has been spent. lf, it is said, £65 suffice for the working of the Associa tion ',and latterly the receipts have been seldom more) what became of the £60,000 or £70,000 which used to be collected every year ? How was it disposed of ? Into whose pocket did it go—fo what purpose was it applied ? Will no honest Repealer ask for some account of it ? There were audits, we know, and every shilling, we were told, was expended ; but how How. if £6O or £65 a week suffice now, could occasion have been found for £l5OO or £l6OO then ? But even this enormous sum was not enough, for that honest and fast-fingered gentleman, Mr. Daniel O'Connell, at the very last audit before his death, brought in the Association his debtor to the tune of £7OO odd ! Now is there not a mystery in all this that requires to be cleared up ? Can the most besotted con tributor close his eyes to the conclusion ? Can he per suade himself that his money was needed, and was honestly applied ? Where £65 answers now, what could have been heretofore wanted with £1,500 ? THE ODDS.—A gentleman whO wishes to be employed in the collection of rents, and advertises his terms in some of the Dublin papers, has proposed a scale of remuneration, which well illustrates the moral condition of Ireland. He sets forth three rates of payment, according to the quar ters of our land in which his services may be required, regulated after the manner of the Fire Insurance offices, under the heads of " Common Risk," " Hazardous," and " Doubly Hazardous." Under the first denomina tion, he comprehends Ulster, of course—and which is very liberal of him—the whole of Leinster, not excepting Kilkenny. In both those provinces he will work for six pence in the pound. Across the Shannon the services becomes Hazardous, and must be paid double. To Con naught he will go (Grceculus esuriens—see Samuel John son), but must get a shilling in the pound. But, as for Munster, that is Doubly Hazardous. It demands an ad ditional pound per centum, to cover the expense of making an agent's will before he sets out to intermeddle with the " tenant-right" in that rich vein of country. He must have six per cent. in Munster. This appears to us the most reasonable calculation of all.—Dublin Mail. LIVE STOCK FROM IRELAND.—We learn from official returns, that in the year 1845-6, 78,224 pigs, 6,050 horned cattle, and 20,750 sheep, were sent to England from Cork; in 1846-7, 19,510 pigs, 17,532 horned cattle, and 88,010 sheep, were exported. Thus we find that the deficiency in the number of pigs exported in the last year, owing to the loss of the potato crop, was 58,714, which, taken at their average value in the previous year, would give a loss, in that item, of £176,142. We find, however, against this loss, an increase of exports, within the last year, of 11,482 horned cattle and 67,260 sheep—or about four times the number of each within the past year, com pared with the previous one, and with an increase in amount at the same rate, of £68,892 in the value of horned cattle, and £84,075 in that of sheep. The money value of the stock of 1845-6 was £296,909 ; in 1846-7 it was £294,243, showing a decrease of only £2,666, a smaller difference than any one would have supposed. While the loss of the potato crop causes a deficiency in the returns from the sale of pigs for one year of £176,142, the extended cultivation of green crops and feeding of cattle produce an increase, within the same period, of £172,967; thus nearly making up the loss. These facts must command attention, illustrating, as they do, the immense value of the green-crop system. IRISH LANDLORDS.—The Lord Lieutenant has replied to the memorial of the Tipperary magistrates, setting forth the causes of Mr. Roe's murder, the high qualities of the murdered man as a landlord, the existence of a conspiracy among some of his tenants to deprive him of his rents, the general danger which arises to the community from the indiscriminate possession of fire-arms by the poorer classes, and the necessity of some vigorous measure for the re pression of the evil. His Lordship very properly com mends them for the willingness they express, to repay to the best of their ability, the advances made for the relief 'of the poor, and passes a high encomium on the great majority of them for the admirable energy, the humane and indefatigable zeal displayed by them during the lath disaster_ Guul indeed. will English men be to find that Irish landlords are beginning to be aroused to a manly sense of the difficulties and peril of their position, and to display the courage and resolution that will overcome them. Lord Clarendon holds up the memorialists of Tipperary as an example to their class, as well for the honourable fidelity with which they cleave to their engagements, as for the humane spirit they have evinced in ministering to the sufferings of their tenantry. He rebukes, with proper severity, that mischievous oppo sition to the payment of rent, which has led to the mur der of Mr. Roe ; and declares his fixed resolution to call all the energies of the law to his assistance for the repres sion and punishment of any outrage it may produce. STATE OF CLARE.—The Clare Journal contains the following list of outrages, chiefly upon persons who had ventured to bring their corn to market :—On Friday week, Patrick Frawley, who, as reported in our last post, was waylaid and cruelly beaten by a gang of assassins on his return from this town, died from the wounds he had re ceived. On the morning of this cruel murder, deceased was engaged in serving ejectment processes on the part of Mr. Guinnees, land agent, Dublin, and to his faithful dis charge of this duty is his assassination attributed. The deceased has lest a helpless family of nine children.—On the 9th instant, about six o'clock, as Thomas Morony was returning from Ennis market, on a car, after having sold corn, he was pelted with stones from behind a wall on the road side at Ruan, by two men unknown. He was struck by two of the stones, and injured so as to con fine him to his bed.—On the same night, about seven o'clock, as John Hehir, of Caherkine, was returning from Ennis market, seated on a car, a shot was fired at either him or his horse, by a man unknown, on the road at Coolshamrogue, but the shot did not take effect. It is supposed that Hehir was mistaken for some person who had sold corn in the market, as he had not done so, and there is no other reason to assign. —On the same night, about eight o'clock, as John Butler, of Derryhulla, was returning from Ennis market, where he had sold corn, he was met on the road at Mohery, by two men linknown, one of whom fired at and shot his horse, which died soon after.—On the night of the 4th inst., the greenhouse at Moyreisk, the property of Lord Fitzgerald, was broken into by some persons unknown, who destroyed the grapes and injured the vines, broke eleven panes of glass, and posted a threatening notice on the door, warning the steward, John Frost, to leave his employment, or he would be shot.—On Wednesday, the pound of Clondigad was broken open, and a cow, distrained for rent, taken away. On the same night, a quantity of corn and hay, under seizure, belonging to the same person who owned the cow, was forcibly taken away from the man who had charge of them. „_ IN HAT IS THE TRUE POLICY TOWARDS THE IRISH.-- Mr. T. C. Foster, the " Times Commissioner," has just addressed a letter to that journal, in reply to Sir J. Bur goyne's further appeal for more assistance from England. Mr. Foster says,—" What does all this painfully faithful description of Sir John Burgoyne indicate, but the uni versal prevalence of contented laziness and apathy, and want of enterprise amongst the Irish people? A ' few days' labour, without a sixpence expense,' procures the Irish cottier his cabin ; ` a very little labour supplies him with a sufficiency of potatoes for food,' with which he is perfectly content,' end ` occasional labour' pays his rent and buys his clothes ! What ! and is the Dorsetsbire peasant and the Suffolk labourer, to whom twelve hours of daily labour the year round scarcely affords sufficient bread, and who has more than once within recent recol lection been rendered desperate by the insufficiency of the pittance of 7s. a-week, the price of his labour, to pay £2 or £3 rent for his cottage and to provide bread for his family, to be asked by his clergyman to contribute his mite for the " poor and starving Irish," who live habitually contented with the cottages and food with which a very little occasional labour' supplies them? But the response is, they are starving. They c a nnot now starve by law; there is, therefore, an end to that plea. But it is said they are wretchedly poor and distressed. Our answer is, let them work as we do, and their poverty Will become wealth, and their distress will be changed into abundance. But it is replied, Give them time, and they will work better presently.' Give time to a people to voluntarily increase the amount of their labour who for ages have been con tent 'to live on potatoes ? The proposition carries on the face of it a contradiction. Potatoes were got with a very little labour ;' a little more labour, voluntarily given, would have procured them a better food, and would have made the slovenly farms' yield a better return—would in fact have been the first voluntary step out of poverty and wretchedness towards comfort and independence. But that voluntary step has never been taken. Why? Be cause the Irish people preferred poverty and wretchedness and dependence, with a very little labour,' to comfort, and independence, and wealth, with hard work. And it is expected that they will take that voluntarY step now, if we only subscribe alms enough to provide them with a sufficiency of food ! Oh, admirabl e insight into human nature !—Oh, perfect conception of the Irish character ! It did require, in past times, ` a very little labour' to pro cure them a most wretched subsistence, wherewith they were content ;' give them that subsistence without any labour at all, and think you not that still therewith they will be ' content ?' It is apparent that if ' a little labour' would procure subsistence to in Irishman, hard work (to which Englishmen are accustomed, and to which, for the sake of the benefits which accr u e to them from it, they voluntarily yield themselves) would have procured some thing beyond mere subsistence ; the continually accumu lating value of which surplus production over consumption would loug - since have changed the poverty of Ireland into wealth." CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Rev. Dr. Symons has - been elected Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University for the fourth time. It is a fact that in one of the principal dioceses, where confirmations are now administered annually, the numbers are greater on each occasion than they used to be when they were only triennial. On Wednesday, the parishioners of Battersea presented their late vicar (now the Bishop of Sodor and Man) with a magnificent dinner service, numbering twenty-seven pieces, the cost of which was 550 guineas. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts has, through its secretary, the Rev. Ernest Hawkin's, 8.D., intimated its desire to receive applications from can didates for missionary employment in the North American dioceses. The Church Extension Fund Committee, of which Lord Ashley is chairman, have made a special appeal for £9,000, in order to erect three new churches in St. Mary's parish, in Nottingham, of which the Rev. J. W. Brooks is the vicar. The population of the parish is 45,000, of which 27,000 is still left to the mother church. A meeting of the inhabitants in the diocese of Wor cester was held a few days since to establish a training school. The bishop took the chair, and among the other speakers were Lord Lvttleton, Lord Lifford, Archdeacon Spooner, &c. Upwards of £l,lOO have been subscribed and Mr. Adderley, M.P., has given two acres of land for the site. AN ECONOMIST.—The late Rev. Joseph Higgins, rector of Eastnor for 52 years, and also 39 years rector of Pix ley, the joint value of these livings, by the last returns, not exceeding £l4O, has died possessed of personal pro perty alone amounting to £30,000, besides real estates, from which he has provided for his widow £2OO a-year, and divided his estates, including the Unicorn Inn, in Ledbury, among his children, having directed £5 to be distributed among the poor of Pixley on the Sunday fol lowing his funeral, and has left a legacy of £lOO for the school at Berrow, in Worcestershire, in connexion with the established church, and liberal legacies to his servants. FREE SEATS AND PEWS.—The Bishop of Chester gives it as the result of his experience in a diocese mainly com posed of manufacturers and colliers, that sittings let at small rents are liked better than " free seats." Well and good. Free seats were made for man, not man for free seats. Let the lesser yield to the greater—the wooden bench to the heir of immortality. One thing, however, we may reasonably ask, and that is, that when an existing arrangement is found to suit the case of the working classes, it is better not to disturb it. When, as invariably is the case ip rural parishes, a good supply of open seats within easy hearing of the pulpit proves an infallible re ceipt for a good congregation of labourers and their wives, unless the other circumstances of the case happen to be exceedingly favourable, leave well alone, and don't break the charm.— Times. DIOCESAN Com:.Ts.—By an Act of Parliament passed in July (10th and 11th Vict., cap. 98), the several Dio cesan Courts in England will be opened for the transac tion of business from and after the first day of next month. Much inconvenience, it is declared by the preamble, en sues from the continued suspension of the jurisdiction of the several Diocesan Courts in England, and it is then enacted, " That the Bishop of every Diocese in England shall, by himself or his officers, exercise throughout the whole of his Diocese, as it now is or hereafter may be limited or constituted, save only in causes and matters testamentary, or relating to the administration of the per sonal estates of intestates, the same jurisdiction and au thority which, before the passing of this Act, he or any Bishop lawfully could or might exercise, by himself or his officers, within any part of such Diocese." The officers of the Court are to pay over the net amount of fees to the treasurer of the governors of the bounty of Queen Anne, to be carried to a separate account, " and retained until Parliament shall provide for the appropriation thereof." POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Parliament was on Tuesday further prorogued until Thursday, the 11th of November. The Globe states pretty confidently that Parliament will assemble next month. Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., arrived in London on Monday, by the steam-ship Countess of Lonsdale, which vessel left Hamburgh on Saturday. Mr. Cobden reached Manchester on Tuesday. We believe he has not yet sig nified his will with respect to the representation of the West Riding. The Stockport Advertiser positively as serts that Mr. Cobden will not resign his seat for that borough, and that consequently we shall have a new elec tion for a member for the West Riding in conjunction with Lord Morpeth. THE CABINET COUNCIL.—Two Cabinet Councils have been held this week, one on Tuesday and the other on Thursday. The latter sat three hours. Nothing has transpired as to the subject of their deliberations ' • but it may safely be assumed that the unprecedented money crisis through which the country is passing, the omincr:s aspect of Ireland, and the unsatisfactory state of our foreign relations as regards Spain, were among the pro minent questions which engaged the anxious consideration of ministers. These questions are severally of so grave a character, that it was rumoured the determination had been come to of calling parliament together next month ; but we attach no credit to this rumour, because neither of them, serious and embarrassing as each may be, calls for any immediate legislative interference.—John STRENGTH OF POLITICAL PARTIES,—In the Quarterly Review just published, there is a remarkable artic'e on the subject of the state of parties in the House of Commons. The writer estimates the probable conduct of these par ties, but says that " the real key of the Conservative po sition is the strength and ductility of that party which Sir Robert Peel so sedulously cultivates, and so solemnly disclaims." The reviewer, however, holds to the opinion that "not one half of the estimated number of Peelites will follow Sir Robert Peel in support of any revoluti onary measure to which he may be led or driven " (by a Peel competition for Radical support). The reviewer as sumes that the first trial question of the session will be the attempt to force the Jew, illegally elected for the city of London, into the House of Commons, by a vote of the house, in derogation of the authority of the statute, and severely, but not more severely than justly, rebukes Lord John Russell for the account he has throughout given to this scandalous violation of the law. The following ap peal puts the case admirably, even in the low secular view : —" The very gentleman who stands prominent in the present question, and in whose person the trial is to be made, announces himself as the Baron Lionel de Roths child. Baron of what ?—of what nation ? He is no baron of England. We hear that he is a baron in Austria ! What does an Austrian baron do here ? and how does Mr. Macaulay's declamation apply to a person of foreign name and blood ? But lie is not merely a baron ; he is the Baron Lionel de Rothschild, which means that he is one of three or four brothers or cousins, of whom Solomon is a German, and Jacob is a Frenchman, and Charles a Neapolitan, and Lionel an Englishman—but ALL ARE JEWS." There is no part of the review with which we are more gratified than the compliments, more than once repeated, to unquestionably the most remarkable man of our time—Lord George Bentinck. " Confidence," says Lord Chatham, " is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom ;" and though genius and conscious worth would exclude mean jealousies and frivolous resentments from the breast of such a man as the reviewer, as they were ex cluded from Lord Chatham's breast, yet the confession of t i t n h e t h a a g t e d s o p i l a . t riot Wh s h e n o w w s h efi o n w d hardly r e a o n n s fi t d a e th n s c m e atna,kes the r ooas sociate in office of the great men of the last forty years, who held Conservative principles, and himself not inferior to the greatest of them in genius and in fidelity to his principles,—when we find such a man bearing testimony to Lord George Bentinck's unrivalled ability—unrivalled by men of our day—we are delighted to find our own judgment confirmed by such high authority. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. —#— CALEDONIAN.—There is now every reason to expect that the line will be opened to Edinburgh in the begin ning of December. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—A private in spection, by the Directors, which may be called an open ing of 45 miles of this line,—from Chester to Conway,— was to take place, and, we believe, did, on the 14th inst. A PRODIGY.—We understand that a new company for carrying out a railway line between Lincoln and Grantham has been started, and that a survey has been effected during the last fortnight.—Stamford paßer. OLDHAM EXTENSION RAILWAY.—The new line of railway from the present Oldham station to the new sta tion at Mumps, Greenacres Moor, is to be opened in the course of a few days for passenger traffic. During the present money pressure, would it be too much to ask of the different railway companies to issue quarterly dividends? It would let a deal of money loose, and be of great service, at the present moment, to a hard up public. - - A lady suggests, through the Railway Chronicle, that railway carriages should be fitted with tin tubes, so con structed as to be joined together by flexible india-rubber tubes, and to open upon the seat occupied by the guard, who could thus be communicated with by every passenger in the train, and the precise ground of alarm or cause of danger stated. From official returns it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3,152 miles of railway, was £207,905 ; thus accounted for :—£109,232 for the conveyance of passengers only ; X 52,506 for the carriage of goods ; and a remainder, of £46,167, for pas sengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned; being an increase of £32,792 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was about 2,525. CURIOUS WAY OF INCREASING TRAFFIC.—We heard the other day of an instance of traffic increased, we might almost say created, by increased facilities, which bears strongly on the dicious extension of the railway system. The celebrated Bianconi, of Ireland, put one car on a cer tain road, and it failed to pay. It was. of course, thought, after a sufficient trial, that he would take it off. Not so, however; he put on two, and still success was wanting. He then put on four, wh erei neither one nor two would pay, and, behold, they filled and paid ! and, if we remem ber the information rightly, the same road has now twenty cars driving a profitable business.—Railway Magazine. CONTINENTAL RAILWAY LAW—A SEVERE SEN TENCE.—A rich farmer of Valdbye (Denmark), named Steernerson, has just been tried at Copenhagen, for having attempted, by displaying a red pocket-handker chief at the end of a stick, to stop a train running on the railway from Copenhagen to Rothsthield. He acknow ledged that he had displayed the signal as stated, but affirmed that he did so in consequence of a wager en tered into by him, after a copious breakfast, well sea soned with wine, that he should succeed in stopping the first train that appeared. Knowing that to display a red flag signified danger, he had displayed his handkerchief, as mentioned in the indictment. The court, finding him guilty, sentenced him to 10 years' hard labour in a house of correction, being the penalty laid down in the Danish -law against any attempt to stop a railway train, or impede its passage. Steernerfon has appealed against this severe sentence. SUSPENSION or RAILWAY WORKS.—Tbe directors of the North Staffordshire Railway Company have given orders to their agents in Staffordshire not to pay any pur chase money for land, &c. until they are absolutely obliged to do so. The Brighton company have given direction to their parliamentary solicitors to suspend for the present all operations which may involve expense. FATALITY.—Thomas Seed, a labourer, in the employ of the Electric Telegraph Company, met with his death on Monday, whilst at work on the Liverpool and Manchester Section of the London and North Western Railway, a short distance from the Barton. Moss Station. The de ceased was appointed to paint the posts which support the wires of the electric telegraph on this line, and while pass ing from one post to another, carrying his ladder and paint can, he stopped to look at the special train which passed him at the time, about 300 yards from the Barton Station. He was off the line, and as he supposed out of danger, but the passenger train which arrives at Manchester about half-past ten, just then came up on the other line unob served by the deceased, and at that moment when it reached the spot, he stepped on to the line in front of it. So suddenly did the train come upon him, that he was knocked down instantaneously by the engine, and being thus thrown forward in front of the tr a i n , the whole of the carriages passed over him, killing him instantaneously. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A serious casualty occurred on Monday, about mid-day, on the Lancaster and Carlisle line, close to the Milnthorp station, about seven miles from Kendal. A luggage train from the south was stand ing at the station on the down line, when a train laden with cattle, drawn by two engines, came up at a rapid rate, and before warning could be given, ran into the lug gage train, throwing over and smashing the engine, and forcing it some yards off the line. One of the engines of the cattle train was also very much damaged, and the stoker so seriously injured that he died shortly after. Three other men connected with the trains were severely, but it is thought not fatally, hurt ! 14 of the bullocks were killed upon the spot, and lay among the ruins of the trucks in a dreadfully mangled condition. The line presented a sad spectacle, and was completely obstructed for some hours. It is said that this luggage train was not in its proper place at the time of the collision, but ought to have been "shunted" so that the line would have been clear. The passenger train from the south came up to the spot imme diately after the accident. Had it arrived a very short time before, the most serious consequences might have en sued. It was said that this affair would cost the company at least £2,000. A deputation from the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Company, con sisting of Thomas Row,Wilson France, W. A. S. Westoby, Thomas Broadbent, Francis Billam, and Alexander G. Gray, directors, with Mr. Wilson the secretary, and Messrs. Edward Bennett and Parson, solicitors to the company, had an interview with the commissioners of railways at Whitehall, on Wednesday. The deputation stated that they had either to make calls, or suffer their Act to expire. The latter alternative would not only in volve the loss of all the money that had been expended in obtaining the Act, and in making the necessary sur veys, &c. ; but in all probability, the loss of the whole of what remains of the deposits, inasmuch as there were en gagements which the Directors could and would be com pelled to complete, whether they went on or not. The deputation, to meet the difficulties with which Companies in their situation were beset, suggested, that Government, early in the next Session of Parliament, should introduce some general Bill, entitling Companies who are desirous of awaiting a more favourable period for the prosecution of their works, to an extension of time for the purchase of land and the completion of the lines ; they suggested that the general Act might contain powers to extend this time for a period not greater than five years ; and provide that the Company should be obliged to give notice to the landowners of their intention of applying for such exten sion of time. DEPRESSION IN RAILWAY SHARES.—Of the few rail ways that did last year fall off in dividend, we believe it was from dividing upon a larger capital than had been brought into play, through some crotchet of shareholders at former meetings. It was rarely, if ever, on diminished receipts on the trunk lines per se. Take a few examples of the present prices of shares, compared with what they were. The London and North Western, at about £145, which were currently sold at £252, in 1845 ; the South Western, at £53, which, after a very great fall, were thought cheap at £75, having been at £B4 ; the Brighton, at £3B, which have been at £BO ; the Dover, which have been at £49 or £5O, selling at £29 ; the Eastern Counties, at £24, now fetching £l6. With the exception of the North-Western, which, like the Liverpool and Manchester of old, has, for a while, sunk from 10 to 9 per cent. dividend, all those lines are paying higher dividends ; and some of them, as the Dover, much higher. What reason, then, can there be, in these excessive differences of price? if the prices of '45 were too high, every one must admit that the prices of '47 are much too low. We are among those who think that railways ought, generally, to pay 5 to 6 per cent. •, though the stability and prospects of some would justify 4to 5 as sufficient. Be, however, the par what it may, no one can say that the North-Western, paying above 6 per cent., is not a much better investment than the Consols, paying under 3 1 . What is there to justify such a difference ? The one is a solid, substantial freehold ; the other a mere phantom. It is true we are all linked together to pay the interest of the Consols, but it is paying the interest for a shadow, the substance of which has disappeared in smoke, and leaden and iron balls. Though we may be considered all mutually pledged to pay the interest on Consols, it depends for accomplish ment nearly as much on the trade of the country as the dividends of railways do. Were our trade and resources seriously to diminish, the Government would be under the necessity of applying the sponge, not, indeed, to the substance, for that could not be found, but to the figures representing it, or else borrow more to pay the interest of the present.--Railu•ay Magazine. RAILWAYS AND DUST CONTRACTORS.—The recent contracts entered into by the various metropolitan parishes, for the sale of dust and refuse, disclose a state of affairs in the building trades which will be found strangely at variance with the ideas usually entertained of the unnatural activity induced by railway works. Towards the autumn of last year such was the competition amongst the con tractors for dust, that the offers were in many instances tripled in amount; and, even with this enormous increase in the cost of a portion of the material, the consumption of bricks went on so rapidly, that at the close of the win ter it appeared 150,000,000 had been entered for duty within the Excise district of London alone. Dust or " breeze" went up to 14s. per chaldron, and with the prospect of an increasing demand for several years to come. The stoppage, however, of so many railway acts in their passage through Parliament, together with the present financial difficulties, has caused such a stagnation in trade, that at this moment dust is unsaleable at 3s. 6d. per chal dron, and there is hardly a contractor or brickmaker who has not lost heavily by his recent engagements. The con tracts made for the present year with the various district boards offer a sad contrast with those which have just ex pired. The trustees of the Lambeth Improvement Act have sold the refuse of that extensive parish, which last year brought £1,112 10s., for £3l 10s., and have remitted the contractor 25 per cent., or £278, on the last contract. In the eastern division of Southwark, the local trust, which last year received £3lO, is now compelled to pay the contractor £3OO for the removal of the dust, making a difference of £6lO to the inhabitants. The south mid dle district of the city pays £lOO instead of receiving as before £950, a difference of £1,050 to the ratepayers. St. Luke's, Old-street, is in precisely the same condition, and the contractor has applied for an allowance upon the amount of the last bond. The parish of St. Giles, Blooms bury, has suffered most severely, the difference between the contract of 1846-7 and that just entered into being no less than £1,820. The inhabitants of the united pa rishes of St. Margaret and St. John lose £670., as com pared with their last contract, and remit £5O of the amount due upon it ; and, of course, as in all instances, the sums so received by the various boards are applied in mitigation of the parish burdens, it follows that in the six cases enumerated an addition of £6,000 will be made to the local taxation. At this moment the market for ashes is wholly at a stand-still ; and so much does the supply already exceed the demand, that it is computed that at the close of the present season there will be enough on hand to make 300,000,000 of bricks, sufficient to meet the ordinary wants of builders for years to come.—Sun day paper. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET RACES. The CESAREWITCH STAKES (Free Handicap) of 25 soya. each, 15 ft. with 300 added, &c. Cesarewitch Course. — (68 subs., 30 of whom declared.) Mr. Dinsey's Cawroush, 4 yrs, 7st (G. A:Wale) 1 Mr. T. Parr's Giselle 4 yrs, 6st 121 b (W. Butler 2 Mr. Greville's Geraldine, 4 yrs, sst 121 b (carried 6st) .. 3 27 more started, including Wolfdog, War Eagle, Cos sack, St. Lawrence. Inheritress, &c., not one of which was placed. The victor is a half-bred Irish horse, whose recent performance at Manchester was anything but indi cative of the qualities that carried him through success fully. Betting-5 to 1 agst Geraldine, sto 1 agst War Eagle— taken, 6 to 1 agst Remeniscence, 8 to 1 agst Rob Roy, 12 to 1 agst Ulysses, 16 to 1 agst Miss Whip filly, 20 to 1 agst Pillage, 20 to 1 agst Bingham, 25 to 1 agst Cossack. 30 to 1 agst Cawroush, 30 to 1 agst Inheritress, 30 to 1 agst St. Demetri, and 50 to 1 agst Giselle. A few mi nutes after the time appointed, the horses were brought in order to the post, and got off well at the first signal, the dropping of the flag in advance being answered by the new starting telegraph, which was placed conspicu ously in the ditch for the purpose of announcing the start to the spectators. Cawroush jumped off with the lead, followed by Ulysses, next to whom were Geraldine, Gi selle, Rob Rob, and several other light weights, the heavy weight and Vanity lying in the rear. They came in this order through the ditch, Ulysses keeping his place until nearly a quarter of a mile on the flat ; he then fell back, and Giselle became second, Geraldine following her. The race continued in this order to the end, Cawroush, e x beaten ca without ever being caught , winning cleverly by a length, ifaxovtrhethe been :Text t to this i third place. more • f loor P thanm e h Giselle beating Geraldine by nearly two lengths. Cos sack laid off to the new ground , where he quitted his horses and took his place next Geraldine, making so good a w a a fi l s f a n fi is f h t n h e that do 1 1 14. 1 ehaadclyof a u N l % d rw n di ag o ittrh sixth. St. Demetri and Wolf-dog, and then a ruck of at least a dozen. Rob Roy, War Eagle, Reminiscence, and the Goodwood horses were a beaten long way. RiM in 4 min. 2 sec. Value of the stakes, £1,620. It is said that the owner of Cawroush and his friends win £30,000 ! Nearly the whole of the " ring" and most of the losers. THE CLEARWELL STAKES, of 30 soya each, 20 ft. For two-yr-olds : colts,Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. 33 subs. Mr. Payne's Glendower, 3st 131 b (Nat) 1 Mr J. Moore's Blaze, Sat 131 b ........ (Butler) 2 Betting :-5 to 2 and 3 to 1 on Blaze, who made run ning at the great pace to the cords, where Glendower caught, headed him, went on with the running, and won cleverly by half a length. Time, 1 min. 15 sec. Oct. 19, 1847. The ROYAL STAKES, of 200 says each, 120 ft, for three year-old colts, Bst 71b; fillies Bst 71b. A.F. (10 subs.) Duke of Richmond's Red Hart.... (Nat) Walked over. Shortly before the race for the Cesarewitch came off, 9 covey of partridges made their appearance in the centre of the course, and the whole of them (at least a dozen) were fairly run down and killed. The two-mile foot race for £lOO, between Sherdon, of Sheffield, and Conway, of Preston, came off on Tuesday last, at the St. Leger Course, Doncaster, and was won by the Sheffield pet. GOOD DOG !—A MATTER OF FACT.—A sportsman ou the Ellesmere road was bragging of his dog to his shoot— ing companion, when soon afterwards the dog stood at couple of bricks near a bridge. He was whipt away " from the rats," when his master, on reflection, said the dog, no doubt, pointed them because they were a brace. Re, turning soon after on the same ground the dog made his point a second time; they kicked up the bricks, which covered a small hole, which, on being explored, contained four brace of birds, the store-room or larder of soma neighbouring poacher. The dog received due praise, and his master said he would back him to point a. poacher-- Shrewsbury Journal. THE CURRENCY QUESTION. A meeting of the Anti-Gold Law i;agu; Was held at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-street, on Wednesday evening, which was attended by about 200 persons. Mr. Bennock, the President of the League, in taking the chair, after alluding to the numerous failures, when. orders were large, labour abundant, and food cheap, asked why should we place all our commerce upon gold. We should have no circulating medium which had a tendency to became secrets! or hoarded. What would be the effect of such a system upon the body physical ? The pre, sent distress did not arise from the want of property, but from the want of circulation. It was not over-production, for many were but half fed and half clad. The apathy of the mercantile body on the subject of the currency was most deplorable. It was not want of sympathy on the part of the mercantile body, but an apprehension that if they stirred just now, they might be supposed to be. in embarrassed circumstances. According to the calm" lation in Allison's History of Europe, our circulation waS now £20,000,0000 under what our population required. Mr. J. Duncan denied that increasing the currency would depreciate the value of the legal tender. The pro perty classes in whose behalf the national debt had bee* so swelled up, instead of paying their quota to the redo, , tion, repealed the property-tax enacted for that purpose, on the ground that it was a war tax, whilst the war debt still remained. The consequence was a great derangement in monetary matters, and as it would take ten per cent in property to pay the war tax which had been contracted, those who purchased £lOO in the funds were only pro prietors to the amount of £9O. The speaker then went into numerous calculations to show that Huskisson and other economists were all at fault in thinking that the bank had over-traded, and urged that the Government was unwise in stopping the railway works, and throwing, 2,400,000 people on the poor-rates, by refusing to free the circulation from its present restrictions. People seemed ID think we could do nothing without gold. Why, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen were built with paper ; the Clyde was rendered navigable by paper. (Laughter and tchheetmersei.n)paG League he Ireland the same oppo r t un ity by a proper only yey purcha s es y s t e ee m rw , porof would dred w o uld four-fifths jfia,hufvteasehnt s price of labour to a remunerstbl point, and give hveias dividendsstimulus to industry, and Paddy would prove quite equal to John B u ll. (H ear .) Th e p ro posal of sovereign, h l dt y ooi tax ifpfnaotyn hg o ld ab s e nteeism eeino q u an t i t y htihs wou ld esshape p 00; have fu f t n o hg r deos. he would x who uih now drew all take ld in owed to the pe o pl e o f this country, and that wo u ld be sede just depreciation. Free trade, with a fixed Mint price for gold, must be destructive to native industry. All the nations of antiquity were destroyed through their money laws, and the same fate awaited us, unless Sir. R. Peel 5. system were abolished ; but under the plan proposed the country could be raised to a pitch of unspeakable power . and grandeur and happiness. (Cheers.) Mr. J. Bull argued, that if the principle of restriction were carried out to the full extent, and gold were held to be the only capital, all the gold in Great Britain would , only suffice for the payment of the taxes, and the business of the community would be brought to a stand still. Thy proposal of the League would not rob the creditor; but creditors must bear their fair share of national taxatioa• Why should not labour be entitled to become dearer, re' latively to gold, in virtue of the pressure of taxation. Mr. J. Wood, of Cuckfield, addressed a few words w the meeting, on the necessity of adopting some such p 1 as the one proposed, to prevent the land going out of ee l ' tivation, in consequence of the admission of foreign oft The meeting was then declared dissolved ; but Mr. 0 ""; bert Owen stood forward, and pressed for leave to . The chairman and committee rather hastily quitted 1 " room ; but Mr. Owen persevered, and Mr. L. Jones betel voted into the chair, a handful o f p ersons remained, t,...eu" listened for a few minutes to a brief address from " founder of the Social system," to the usual purport. THE MONEY MARKET. The English funds underwent a most severe depressiol on Wednesday. Consols opened at the closing puce the the preceding day, namely 83 to 4, but, fluctuations, caused by the operations in connex h i f ir e were after considerable the settlement, they reached 821, at while F ail how quoted at the close of a regular business. and ever, did not end there, but continued after the close; the final price was 81f, being nearly f o ur per cent. be low the lowest price to which the y receded during the panic_ in April last. The future prospects of the revenrC failures reported, and a very st rong expec t a ti on t t* Bank of England would openly ra i se th e i r rate o f discoon on the following day, were alleged as the causes of al° llll. Bank Stock left off 180 to 182 ex. div. ; Reduced Tnr, per cents. 811; Three.and-a-Qu ar t er p er c ents. 821 to t ; Long Annuities, 83-16 to 4; India Stock, 221 to 2244; India Bonds, 30s. to 20s. discount ; South Sea Annuities, 801 ; and Exchequer Bills, 20s. to 15s. discount. Th e attendance of the public foraNte receipt of dividends Now said to be unusually great. The pressure at the Discount' office was also continuous. The foreign securities were further affected by the general state of business at the Stock Exchange. Although very few bargains were con " i eluded in this department, prices in all cases were quote * . at a fall. The latest operations were Brazilian at 751% the new bonds at 731 ; Mexican for the Account at 17 ; Spanish Three per cents. at 263: Belgian Four-and -a' Half per cents. at 881 ; Dutch Two-and-a-llalf per centa' at 531; and the Four per cent. Certificates at 821. The Stock Exchange panic continued on Thursday withi increased force. Cols o l s f or money opene d a t 814, arm' under the pressure of constant sales, rapidly declined tc,t, 801—a quotation nearly 2 per ce n t. un d er the last olfiel o4 . price of the preceding day. From this point, owing to the Bank Court having broken up without the publi,,c,t: nouncement of any change in the minimum rate ollt count, an advance took place to 814,l but the react2.ov. was not maintained, and they left off at 801 to 811, ened the account on the 26th of November, the marketeB2l in a most unsettled state, and the first quotation ¶° a s in to 1. Subsequently they went to 811, then back ag ° The 824 buyers, and they finally closed at 814 to 82a' •1, whole of these movements occurred in connexion the settlement which took place, and as the range of flue' tuation during the account has amounted to between 7 and 8 per cent., the differences to be arranged on V; day would prove of extraordinary magnitude, Te '— course of the day the quotations of Reduced Three per Cents. presented a most noticeable future, that stock having declined from its opening price of 801 to 794; a fter which a purchase of £15,000 was made by the Governineel broker on account of th e E as t I n di a G uaran t ee F un d, an it closed 794 to 80. Bank Stock left off 171 to 181; India Stock, 220 to 224 ; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. 81 t° 1 ' Long Annuities, 8 to + ; and India Bonds, 355. to 2 69 • 'dis. Exchequer Bills were quoted in the morning, 33 9 ' to 20s. dis. and they closed at 30s. to 255. In the midst of all this excitement in the stock market , observes the Times, there has been no fresh mischief out of doors. The causes of the existing state of things would therefore, seem to have had their origin, to a very g reat degree, in the circumstances connected with the termina tion of the present account. The way in which specula' tors extended their operations on the reduction of the Bank rate of interest in September has evidently neces 9l ' tated at this moment a simultaneous rush upon the mar" ket for which the public were not prepared, and which hag consequently enabled the dealers to make their own terms- To look to any other circumstances for a full explanation would be useless, and it is desirable to notice the fact, i° order that the present panic may not be mistaken for one having its entire or chief origin in commercial distrust", Although we are evidently only appro ac hing the now state of pressure by which the mania that now jeopardize, the whole nation is to be subdued, it is quite clear that the movements of the past week have not occurred in•con sequence of any more deliberate view taken by the public, to that effect, while at the same time it is to be observed that as far as the position of commercial affairs is con cerned, nothing has happened to create any particular ap prehension beyond such as have now prevailed for a con siderable period. In the early part of Friday the Stock Exchange col!: tinned comparatively tranquil, the jobbers and broker' being assiduously engaged in completing the payments oe the settlement. Some parcels of money stock were brought upon the market a t an ear l y hour, an d repea te_ at various intervals during th e d ay , w h enever oppor t u nitr served, by a partial advance in the quotations. The ely treme prices for money were 804 and 804, and for the account 811 to 24. At the termination of the regular hours of business the quotation for money was 804 2, thy° keeping up the enormous rate of continuation of 1 Pe r cent. The Three per Cents. Reduced were done from 791 to 80 ; the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. from OtT to 14 ; Bank Stock from 178 to 82 ; and India 222. De, pressure for money, however, will be more accurateP estimated from the fact that Exchequer Bills were age done as high as 28, and towards the close of the dal India Bonds at 40 dis. For some time the tone of the : market seemed rather tending towards improvement, ha after the usual hour of business, Consols again graduall receded to 811 for the account, at which they left o finally. The stock market was firmer on Saturday morning' The first price of Consols for Money was 81, and aft°. some fluctuation the price is now 811 ; for Account th 2: opening price was 814, and the present quotation is 814 Exchequer Bills are 20s. and 235. discount. No busine' , , has as yet occurred in Bank or India Stock. The Foreig n Bonds ,are generally as on Friday. The transactions 1 , Railway Shares are few, and the market is still depress e d' Later on in the day the embarrassment of a house in t a", iron trade was spoken of, and the Stock market was agaly rather depressed. Consols realize 801 to 804 for Mon e y' and 811 to 81g for Account. Exchequer Bills 15s. to 21 dis. Bank Stock is 179 to 182. The Foreign Bonds du!: also. Spanish Five per Cents. realize 164, the Three Cedts. 264, and Portuguese Four per Cents. 20 to Mexican Stock has been marked 174 to 18, and 8ra.0 1 4 76. A few of the smaller class of Railway Shares exi nv i, a slight degree of buoyancy, but the heavy lives are , Kale We', again loweg.