The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-02 00:00:00

FuIiEIGN AND COLONIAL, UNITED STATES, By the Cambria steamer, which arrived.at Liverpool r— Thursday, (having made the voyage from Halifax in iae and a half days,) among other intelligence we have the:very gratifying fact of the safe arrival of the Great Britain steamer at New York, which place she reached on Sunday the 10th ultimo, at noon, -thus having per formed her first outward passage in leas than fifteen days. We need scarcely say that the leviathan vessel became an object of curiosity to the good people of New York, rnalgre their own conceited prepossessions that nothing very astonishing could be exhibited to them in the shape of a " Britisher." The following is a comprehensive summary of the intelligence brought by the Cambria : The news from America is of the regular snail dates, the 15th from New York, and the 16th from Boston. There is somewhat important news from Mexico, but there is no actual declaration of war, even though certain parties in Liverpool were hoaxed to forward one to London some weeks since. The advices from Mexico are dated Vera Cruz, July 21st ; and the New Orleans papers of August 7th inform us that the Mexican Consul at that port had received offi cial instructions from the Mexican Secretary of State, in forming him that the relations between that government and the United States had reached such a point as required the immediate cessation of all official intercourse; that their friendly relations were at an end, and that all Mexi cans were to be directed to take such measures for the security of their persons and property as they might deem expedient. This intelligence, however, comes merely in the shape of a private communication ; and as no such intimation had been received by the Mexican Consul at New York, these reports are to be received with extreme caution: The government organ at Washington, in referring to certain various and contradictory rumours relative to the disposition of United States troops sent to the Texan fron tier, declares in positive terms that these troops are not to be withdrawn, and that it is expected to hear by the next arrival, that General Taylor had advanced with the infan try under his command, as far as Corpus Christi, and perhaps penetrated the country farther from the Gulf east. Col. Twiggs, in command of the dragoons, had advanced through Austin farther west, to the vicinity, perhaps, of the Alamo. The Canada papers contain nothing of much interest, although there are some matters discussed by the public journals of that province, of no slight importance to them- railroad mania se ms to have er ended to re, and bad the Canadians but th behind in such spec Due re of such great _ tween the carriers via the St. Lawrence, and those on the American side to secure it. There is a project talked of at present, of connecting Lake Champlain and Lake On tario by railroad. The weather has been very warm at Quebfc, the thermometer ranging from 90 to 95 there. As the latest American commercial news, (Aug. 15th,) it is stated that since the sailing of the last steamer, there has been an increased interest in our Mexican affairs. The news from that country is of a hostile character, and the American government have sent military forces into Texas ; the indications are that the government of Mexico will declare war against America. This news has had some influence to depress stocks, but in trade, generally, they have had no effect on the market. Bard is paid to the western tr a d e , w hi c h has beccme importance, that a strong rivalry exists be- The affairs of individuals were gradually recovering from the effects of the fire. Most of the insurance offices are paying up promptly, and mechanics are actively en gaged in re-building. In six months from this time, it is believed that most of the stores in the burnt district will not only be re-built, but will be put up in a much more Although the amount of sterling bills timer will nct be large, yet the rates costly manner remitted by this are very firm, at an advance on those by the previous packet. Bills on London have sold at 110 and 110 ' -4. and on Paris at 5.2 5 . As our crop of cotton h as mos tly been shipped, and as there wi.l be no export of the new for two or three months to come, it may be reasonably expected that there will be no decline. As the fall season at proaches, "' the trade of our city begins to revive ; already s from the South and West appear here, to lay Money continues abundant, I) merch quite as much so as it has been. Good pap,_ freely at six, and in soma cases at five, per cent. high rate of exchange, together with the news from Texas, has some influence to induce capitalists to be a little cau tious.. lhe prevailing impression is, that the cotton crop will be a good one • the picking has alre a dy commenced, but so much depends on the weather and the absence of frost, that it is impossible to predict the re su lt. wheat crop is ad s taktn milted to be full an average one. In some country there has been a deficiency, but in sections of t others it has be it more than mai up. The grass and oat crop is deficient, and it is feared the potato will be short of an average. The payment of interest by the State of Pennsylvania has had a happy influence on the credit of that great and powerful state, and it is believed that here- after there will be no failu to meet punctt rest. Other stocks are slightly depressed THE CATASTROPHE AT ROUEN. The consequences of this disaster are truly lamentable. The whirlwind arose in the valley beyond Deville, com mencing at Houtme. It first carried away a part of the roof of the factory of M. Rouff, then gaining force as it proceeded, it overthrew several small buildings, broke down trees and hedges, and dtstroyed crops. Further off, buildings were unroofed, and others were literally crushed in. The scourge, moving with the speed of lightning, carried to a distance some parts of the ruing, then uprooted the highest end largest trees, and at last struck three of the principal factories of the valley. The destruction is so complete that the imagination cannot conceive it and no d escr i p ti on cou ld g i ve an idea of it. They have been literally reduced to crumbs. To crown the fatality, the event took place at an hour when the .. _ •• •• • greates . activity is going on, and the hands are most numerous. Of the three establishments which have been destroyed, one •is in the commune of Malaunay—viz., that of M. Bailleul, and which was carried on by M. Neveu ; the two others were situated near Monville—viz., those of Mr. Picquot and M. Mare. At M. Neveu's 120 persons were at work, the roof fell in, and the walls gave way before any person could escape. At M. Mare's, the number of ham's at work was 70. At M. Picquot's not less than 180. The roof being first carried away, all those within rushed to the doors, and they became so crowded that only a few comparatively could get out. The chimney, which was 150 feet high, was thrown across the river. The third floor was also carried into the water. The two other stories next gave way, and at last the ground floor was so completely demolished that scarcely two bricks remained in their places. All this was accomplished in less than two minutes : people from all ports hurried to render assistance; all the manufacto ries and workshops in the neighbourhood sent out their men, and at once began to clear the ruins to save those under them who might yet be alive. Machinery-looms, bars of iron were fractured, and enormous pieces of tim ber were broken as if they were straws, and all lying together in one confused mass. Torn fragments of clothing were seen among flocks of cotton wool, with arms and legs protruding from the heap; pieces of flesh were adhering to the irons, and many parts we re dy e d with blood. Now and then deep groans were heard; some men and children, preserved as if it were miracu lously, by an overhanging beam, were taken out unin- ured, bul me so mutilated that death WOuldhave been preferable to the torture it endured. On the road nothing was to be seen but litters or carts, carrying away the dead or wounded. Temporary hospitals were promptly established. Men, women, and children, were weeping over their relations, many of whom were expiring in the most cruel agonies. At the guard house at Monville were placed all the bodies taken out of the factory of M. Picquot. We have seen 17. Two were those of young girls, one that of a wo man, and the rest of men and boys. Among these last . • several flan been taken out of the river, into which they had been precipitated from the third floor. Some were entirely crushed, others had their heads and chests driven flat, and some had their heads s 'ered from the trunl Whew we ten at rew from the_seat of the catastrophe at gilt, we found uot's 11005 more than 50 wounded, part of ;thorn could not be ex pected to live throughout the night. It was believed that there were ten victims still under the ruins. Out of three foremen, one was killed, the two others saved alive, but severely injured. The loss in money is estimated at n wounded , but how many remained under the ruins was not known. His loss is estimated at 120,000 f. In all, 40 dead and 100 wounded, many of these mortally. The aggregate loss is computed to amount to 620,000 f., for these three establishments only. The effects of the hurricane extended upwards of a league and a half in lee gth. Roads are rendered impassable by trees. Carts, waggons, and other carriages have been blown over, and many persons carried far away out of their paths. M. Picquot was on his way to his factory when the storm came on and stopped, and before he could recover his road the ruins of the factory alone were to be discerned. The mutilated remains of two young girls had just been taken from the ruins at M. Mare's, when a woman, who was watching what was going on, recognised them as her daughters. She immediately gave way to the wildest grief, and rushing to the river threw herself in, and was drowned.—Rouen paper. The Rev. Doctor Joseph Wolff has taken up his resi dence at Malines, and has accepted the chaplaincy of the English Protestant Chapel there, where he will perform Divine service every Sunday.—Bruisels Gazette. SOMEWHAT NOVEL.—A gallant officer of the 42d Royal Highlanders at Malta is about retiring from military life, and seeking retirement in the cloister as a barefooted Car melite. CONFLAGRATION AT BORDEAUX.—A telegraphic de spatch was received at Paris on Saturday, announcing a dreadful fire at Bordeaux, which destroyed property to the amount of three millions of francs. The fire broke out in the house of M. Taslet. The wall of one of the houses burnt fell upon the commandant, the adjutant, a lieutenant, and three pompiers, who were killed on the spot. Three other persons were severely wounded. INDIA AND CHINA.—By the overland mail advices have been received from Calcutta to the Ste of July. A correspondent at Ferozepore states, that, at Lahore, JOwahir Singh, having attempted to seize Gbolab Singh, had been defeated after a sanguinary battle, in which t,e lost 3,000 men. The cholera continued to rage , particu larly in Sc ude. The mortality at Sukkur was so great that the bizaars were deserted. From Affghanistan we have no news of interest. The notorious Mohammed Akhbar Khan had expressed his intention of performing a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Prophet at Mecca. Private letters froo Mauritius, of 28th May, state, that, in consequence of the scarcity of rice at Bourbon, the government had off e red a p r e m ium on the importation of that article. By the China mail, of the 15th May, it appears that Keying, who had been degraded last yerr, bad received a seat in the Cabinet as Assistant-Minister, an honour which his predecessor Keshen bad, EMEUTE IN MAIDRID.—The Minister of Finance hav ing recently refused to accede to the wishes of the mer chants of Madrid, who had demanded soave modification in the new tributary system, great agitation ensued. The troops were called out. Several charges of cavalry, and a discharge of musketry had been necessary to disperse the crowd. Several have been killed and wounded. The Madrid papers give various accounts of it, either more or less exaggerated. On the evening of the 20th inst., however, they agree in stating, the evening passed of tran quilly. One man was killed in the Calle Toledo. The shop doors were forced open with muskets and axes in the Calle Toledo. It is rumoured that Burgos, Saragossa, Toledo, and Seville have also resisted in the same man- ner as Madrid. Considerable severities appear to have ken used by the authorities to compel the shopkeepers to open their shops. A court martial was held on the per sons arrested on the 19th, but only one, who had killed an officer, was condemned to death. The Clamour Pub lico and Eepectador newspapers of the 20th were seized at the Post-office. THE NEW REFORMATION.—The Elberlield Gazette states that the conversion of Roman Catholic priests to the German Catholic church is increasing daily. At Sarbruck a converted priest has been installed pastor. From Manheim, we learn that the German Catholics had invited the celebrated preacher Loose to preach to them ; the authorities interfered, but as the law was agai3st them, the congregation assembled to the number of nearly 300. The censor prohibited the local journal to put in even an advertisement of the arrival of Mr. Loose. The Frankfort Journal notices the arrival of Mr. Loose in that town. He had hardly commenced his address to a large congregation, to which he was presented by Dr. Hammer, when a police agent interfered, and ordered the assembly to disperse; the order was at once obeyed, but when a gendarme laid his hands on Mr. Loose, the people interfered and secured him. Mr. Loose then presented himself to the chief magistrate of that town. The Catho lics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse are about to address to the reigning Prince a petition to allow them to hold public worship in the evangelical churches offered to them by their Protestant brethren. THE COURT FASHIONABLE WORLD , THE QUEEN IN GERMANY On the 21st, her Majesty held a levee at the Royal Palace, or residence in Coburg. There were presented to her Majesty the Grand Duke of Baden and his son, the Dowager Ducbess of Coburg, the Princess Reuss, Count Mensdorf and his three sons, Prince Ferdinand and Prince Leopold of Coburg. Her Majesty returned to Rosenau in good time in the evening. On Friday the Queen and Prince Albert attended a spe cies of juvenile festival,—a procession of the children at tending the different schools in Coburg, which annually takes place upon the twenty-second of August, and which went off with great eclat. The royal party lingered long upon the ground. and when they departed for the " resi dence," the children song the national anthem, with gond effect. In the evening a ball was given in the principal ball of the palace. On Saturday night her Majesty again visited the thea tre, which, in form and size, somewhat resembles the Haymarket ' • but it is much better furnished with scenery, &c. The play selected was Schiller's Bride of Messina. It was a singular circumstance, perhaps it is a point of etiquette, that none but reigning Princes and Princesses sat in the frorit seats of the royal box. Even Prince Al bert sat in the ordinary dress circle with the Duchess of Kent. The Queens of England and of Belgium sat in the centre, and on their right and left the King of the Belgians and the Grand Duke of Baden. Coffee and ices were brought into the box in profusion, and eaten with the most perfect ease and nonchalance before the audience. There is the same absence of ceremony and exclusiveness in the theatre here, that has been stated to exist in the palaces. Every thing seems open to the public eye : even the private houses and villas on the road-side have no fences or railings round them. On Sunday morning the royal party attended divine _ service — at the Churcii of St. Maurice, in Coburg —a structure of unpretending character, whitewashed in the interior, and presenting a very bare and common-place, but no doubt a very good Protestant, contrast to the gor geous splendour of the churches and cathedrals in RE:latish countries. The church is of very plain construction, without transepts, and the only appearance of ornament about it consists in a stupendous monument to three de ceased Dukes of Saxe Coburg. Her Majesty and the Prince, the Coburg Princes, the King and Queen of the Belgians, and the suite, arrived at the church a little be fore eleven. They were received by the clergymen in their robes, and conducted over a carpeted way to the royal pew. The service then commenced, the church being crowded with people. The service began with the chanting of a few verses by the clergymen standing at the Communion-table, to which there were responses from the choir. Then the congregation generally joined in a hymn ; then portions of Scripture were read, then another hymn and a short prayer, and then followed the sermon; after which there was a blessing from the Communion table, as in a Roman Catholic church. A military brass band was stationed in the theatre, and accompanied with their music the chanting of a Te Deum—not the Te Deum of our churches, but a sort of hymn in rhyme. This was sung by the choir alone. The effect of this hymn, and of the fine volume of sound rolling through the church, was magnificently grand. In certain parts of the service the congregaticn also sung, and in a manner which evidenced sound musical training, producing an ef fect very different from that of our English psalmody. The service lasted till 12 o'clock, and the royal party left the church to return to Rosenau. From the foregoing sketch it will be seen that there was much in this per formance of divine worship quite different from our English custom. Still more strange was it to see a great part of the congregation adjourn to the outskirts of the town, where, in the course of half an hour, many were riding on hobby-horses, or witnessing the exploits of con jurors, while the little boys and girls were waltzing away in happy ignorance that there could be any impropriety in that sort of enjoyment. On Tuesday last, being Prince Albert's birth-day, a rustic festival was held which is not uncommon in Ger many. On an extensive lawn in front of the royal palace a gay troop of villagers, all in their best bolliday dresses, appeared. Each man led a peasant girl, and, at a signal from the Duke of Coburg, the whole of the gay party were whirling round the lawn in the gayest possible waltz. Every one enjoyed it •, not the people only, but also a long list of Queens, Kings, Dukes, Duchesses, &c., of whom our own Queen was most delighted of all. The highest and the lowest mingled trustfully in one mutual enjoyment, and groups of people were to be seen at dif ferent angles of the lawn not twenty yards from the Queen, or under the windows of the palace. In the evening a grand ball took place. The royal party left Coburg on Wednesday morning, and reached Reinartsbrunn the same evening, and re mained there all night, and were to start for Gotha on Thursday. INTERESTING SPECTACLE.—On the 22d ultimo, her Majesty and Prince Albert were present, at Coburg, at the annual festival of the " Feast of Gregorius," which has lasted for several hundred years. In a spacious meadow in one of the suburbs of Coburg, pavilions were erected, and a portion of the ground opposite these pavi lions was fenced in with festoons and garlands. In the pavilions tables were laid for dinner, of which the royal visitors were to be the partakers. Besides the pavilions there were also many other booths, a travelling theatre, and a most grotesque roundabout, with hobby horses and sledges, mounted on which were musicians playing a most musical polka, and the girls and boys in fantastic dresses. This was the preparation on the ground. The festival was of a different kind. All the children of the town schools, girls and boys. formed, according to custom, in proces sion, to the number of 600 or 700. The girls were all dressed in white, their heads adorned with ivy wreaths, and their dresses festooned in like manner. Some wore fancy costumes—the Highland dress, the Greek dress ant there were flocks of the prettiest little shepherdesses le world. The greater number of the boys also wore fancy costumes. On the arrival of the distinguished visi tors the children set up several sharp shrill cheers, and waved their handkerchiefs and caps. The whole royal party sat down to dinner in the pavilion, which lasted up- . wards of an hour. In the meanwhile the children were allowed to drink beer at a neighbouring gasthaus, and af ter dinner there was a dance, the Quren and the rest of the royal party looking on. The charm of the whole af fair was the utter absence of all ceremony. The same scene takes place every vear, so that what appears so strange and striking to an English eye is here looked on as a matter of course. The Queen took a most lively in terest in the festival, particularly in the dancing of the children and their merry games at romp and play. The whole wound up with " God save the Queen," sung ad mirably by the children ; and after a final cheer the Royal party left. . - The civic procession at Bonn, to receive Queen Victo ria, was headed by the chief magistrate, arrayed in his robes of office, and smoking his pipe ! FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER. (From the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.") Coutil is much used for dresses intended for country wear; those with green or blue stripes on an ecru ground are embroidered with very narrow braid, and are often made with corsages a basques, with pockets. Robes peignoirs, in Miles de Chine, Bros de Naples striped lengthways, or foulards in horizontal stripes, are also fashionable. Narrow fringes are in great request, and made in every variety, as is also the dentelle de Grenade, which forms a pretty contrast on satins and watered silks; gimps ajours are much used on shot silks. Some autumnal dresses are trimmed with four rows of fringe of gradual widths. Toilettes entirely of black have been fashionable last month in Paris for visiting dresses ; they are much re lieved by the quantity of lace used on them, such as four rows of narrow lace en tablier ; large lace sleeves, and lace scarf, and black lace bonnet ornamented with a co loured flower, also five and six flounces of black lace and cannezous, with sleeves of black lace, are worn ; some redingotes are made this season with the pointed backs ala grand' mere. The prettiest form of corsage for tar latanne, and materials of clear transparent texture, is that a la vierge ; the fullness confined round the top in a band, with square shoulder-strap ; this style revives the narrow ceinture. with small buckle. Slight taffetas, in all light colours, are worn for evening dress, with trimmings of flounces, cut in deep festons, and edged with narrow fringe, or a narrow blonde neige; the corsage pointed with berthe of the same ; sometimes on these large berthes narrow lace is laid, but they are usually plain. Pretty travelling cloaks are made of grey levantine, lined with flannel or merino, checked in dark blue, green, or red. Scarfs with hoods are also worn. Bonnets a la Suisse, chevriere, or glaneuse, accompany all toilettes de campagne, ornamented with field flowers ; they are sometimes lined with coloured silk, and trimmed with black velvet. For pailles de riz, Legliorns, &c., plumes of small feathers are very fashionable. Saules marabouts, pink and black, are used on black lace bon nets. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. IRELAND. The government have finally determined upon establish ing one of the provincial colleges at Cork. Operations will commence immediately. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—This body met on Monday in Conciliation-hall. The attendance, both in quality and quantity was wretched in the extreme; and the proceed ings of far more than average dulness. An address to the Protestants of Ulster, inviting them to join the repeal movement, was also read and unanimously adopted. The rent for the week was announced to be £207 13s. 7d. Father Mathew says there are sixty thousand persons in Cork who have never taken the total abstinence pledge, and he declared last week that there were more base pledge breakers in Cork than in all Ireland ! A GLurroN's END.—A man named Boland, from Miltown, near Kilmacow, died on Tuesday, in this city from the effects of eating too much. It appears that before he left his own house he consumed something about three pounds of meat, together with a large quan tity of buttermilk, after which, on his arrival in town, he eat four pounds more!—also porter, beer, spirits, ale, cordial, &c., &c. Verdict accordingly. He was upwards of 6u years of age !—Waterford Chronicle. OILANGEISIA IN IRELAND.—On Wednesday last a most important meeting was held at Enniskillen, at which were present the Earl of Enniskillen (in the chair), Sir A. Brooke, M.P., Col. Verner, M.P., the Hon. Somerset Maxwell, and a large number of the aristocracy and clergy. After considerable discussion it was resolved that a new association should be formed, based on the same princi ples as the Orange institution, but modified in such wise as to be in strict accordance with the letter and spirit of the existing laws of the country. DREADFUL MURDER.-At a holy well at Bantry, two factions, the Flynns and Murphys, had a battle. One of the Murphys, a teetotaller, was knocked down, and while down a fiend in woman's form took a large stone, and coming over the prostrate man let it fall with violence on his chest. Instant death was the result. Some of the parties engaged in the affray have been arrested by the police, but the immediate murderers have as yet escaped their vigilance. There are over thirty on the run from justice. A gentleman named Howard, residing at Rathmines, near Dublin, committed suicide last week, while in a state of insanity. The body presented an awful appearance; the head was almost literally blown off the shoulders, and the gun was certainly placed in a curious position under the sideboard. The circumstance caused some difficulty to the jury, as they could not well account for the position of the gun. It appeared that the deceased pushed the trigger with the ramrod, and so violent was the shock, that the stock was torn from the piece, and a quantity of shot (with which the gun was loaded) entered the ceiling. FRUITS OF THE PEEL POLICY.—Tbe Conservative electors of Dublin appear to labour under the foolish de lusion tLat the best way to thwart Sir Robert's govern ment is to abet O'Connell's project of returning 70 repeal members, and accordingly they are using little effort at the registration courts, and the consequence will proba bly be that the city will be banded over at the next elec tio❑ to the Liberator. But the Premier's losses at the next general election will not, unfortunately, be confined to Dublin city. The state of the county registration renders it almost impossible for any candidate, not a member of the repeal confederacy, to face the hustings with the most remote chance of success. This reaction is solely to be attributed to the unceasing diligence of the Roman Catholic priesthood, who, to say the truth, have been labouring in their vocation like men who felt them selves bound by every tie of gratitude to spare no exer tions which may tend to strengthen the hands of a Minister, who has just conceded enough to satisfy the most sceptical that much more will be yielded hereafter. MAYNOOTH CONSISTENCY.—In the Quarterly Re view, vol. 67, p, 150, we find the following sentence on Maynooth :—MAYNooTH THE CURSE OF IRELAND— and when will Englishmen learn that nothing but a curse can spring from an abandonment of principle ?) This college, which is allowed on all hands to be the seat and fountain head of the mischief, was founded in 1795, under "An act for the better education of persons pro fessing the Papist or Roman Catholic religion." Its real object was to take Romish priests out of the hands of foreign influence. Its profession was to give them a bet ter education, as if it were possible for any religion, least of all for Popery, to allow of so called heretical interfe rence with the education of its priesthood." It is a hu miliating symptom of this moral degradation which Po pery and Peelism are producing around us to find this same Tory organ, which thus had declared Maynooth to be the curse of Ireland, and a departure from principle to be the necessary cause of that curse, now wheeling round, and, in its last number, applauding the government for having "done their duty" in the endowment of that very ell - se of Ireland ; and not only so, but asserting that the state provision for the Roman Catholic clergy is " the only measure that offers a reasonable prospect of tran quillizing Ireland, and cementing and venting the in tegrity of the empire. —Dublin Warder. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. The Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company have it in contemplation to construct a branch railway from their main line, through Knutsford, to the salt works of Cheshire. The Board of Trade have issued circulars to the London and Croydon, and Eastern Counties Companies, rzcommending the abolition of assistant engines behind a train. A labourer was killed on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway on Tuesday night. He was walking on the line in the dark, and did not observe the train ap proaching until too late. NEW RAILWAY STATION AT MANCHESTER.—A new station for the Manchester and Bolton Railway is pro jected. The plan is to extend the line from the present inconvenient terminus in New Bailey -street in a direction nearly due east, across the streets of cottage property between that street, Chapel-street, and the river, and across the Irwell by a skew bridge to the westerly side of the Parsonage, where ample space would be obtained for an excellent station. RAILWAY ACTS.—During the Session of Parliament that has just closed, bills have passed for the construction : —lst, of 18951 miles of additional railways in England and Wales, at an estimated expense of £28,312,047, being an average cost of £14,951 per mile ;-2nd, of 41181 miles of additional railways in Scotland, at an estimated expense of £6,549,500, being an average cost of £14,913 per mile ;- 3rd, of 6441 miles of additional railways in Ireland, at an estimated expense of £7,598,035, being an average cost of £11,790 per mile. RAILWAY WITHOUT STEAM OR FIRE.—The proposed railway from Callao to Lima, in Peru, will neither re quire the agency of steam nor the aid of fire. The ground has a gradual and unbroken rise the whole way. Above Lima flows the river Rimac, which passes through a part of the city in its way to the sea near Callao. This river, though not navigable, affords at all seasons of the year a hundred times the water-power necessary to work any traffic that can possibly come upon the rail. The saving of the usual expense of fuel is thus effected ; and the cost of the ste am - eng i nes , an d, w h at i s no smal item in railway expenditure, the charges for their after manage. ment, are entirely avoided. RAILWAYS.--On Friday a parliamentary return was printed of all bills of the late sessions for railways. It appears that the estimated expense of 52 railways set forth in the return is £43,339,325. The capital stock is stated at £44.741,200, and the money authorized to be borrowed £14,872,326. Another return gives the number of acts which have passed in the session ; the length of each line; the number of cach shares, and the amount of capi tal subscribed for each ; the number of new shares that each line is empowered to create ; and the sum of money each line is empowered to borrow. The lengths of the lines are 2,746 m. 6f. and 4c. The number of shares subscibed for is 723,819 ; the amount of capital subscibed £31,890,474; the number of shares empowered to be created, 927,697 ; and the money empowered to be bor rowed £13,678,038. . BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—The eighteenth half-yearly meeting was held at Bristol, on Thursday. The report stated that the amount of rent, and share of toll, announced by the Great Western Company to be due to this company, for the half-year ended on the 13th of June last, was as follows :—Fixed rent of the line from Bristol to Exeter, from 14th December, 1844, to the 13th of June, 1845, at £71,957 a-year, £35978 10s.; share of toll on 203,2101 passengers conveyed 6,616,798 miles, at Id. per mile, £6892 10s. ; on merchandise. 50,024 tons 7 cwts. 221b5., equal to one ton conveyed 1,997,618 miles, at Id. per mile, £2OBO 17s.—total £44,951 17s. ; con sidering that this is far the least productive half-year, the receipts are very satisfactory. The report enters fully into the arrangements that the company are making with the North and South Devon, and the Great Western Railways, so as to extend a communication with Corn wall, and strongly approves of the atmospheric system being established on the new lines forming in the West of England. GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH.—The fifteenth half yearly meeting of the proprietors was held at Glasgow, on Tuesday last; John Learmouth, Esq., in the chair. The receipts for the half-year were £66,288 7s. 2d. ; the expenses, including interest on loans, taxes, &c., £31,246 14s. 3d. ; leaving, with a balance of £1,848 13s. 11d. in hand, the sum of £36,890 6s. 10d., out of which the directors recommended a dividend of 30s. per share on the original £5O stock,—of 7s. 6d. on the old quarter shares,—and .of Is. 6d. on the sum of £2 10s. per share on the new quarters, being the amount paid up at 31st July,—or at the rate of six per cent. per annum on the whole stock, payable on Monday, 15th September next; and that the balance of £1,452 16s. 10d. be carried to the credit of next account. The report was adopted. For the completion of the new lines or branches, the direc tors recommended the raising of £703,125, of an issue of new £25 shares, allowing one share for every £5O of stock, which were also adopted, the period for the first call of £5 being fixed for April next. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—A stormy meeting of this company was held on Thursday, at the London Ta vern ; Mr. Henry Bosanquet in the chair. A dividend of 3s. per share on £25 paid was declared. The report was read amid mingled cheers and hisses. Mr. Scott, the holder of 1000 shares, made a severe attack on the inefficiency of the directors, and moved that Mr. Hudson br invited to join in the management. A good deal of discussion followed, the directors and their friends resist ing the motion as one of censure. Mr. D. W. Harvey supported Mr. Scott, and moved an amendment of a somewhat less obnoxious character, " that a committee be appointed to confer with the directors on the financial condition of the company." A division took place on this amendment, which was carried on a show of hands by 97 to 82. A poll was demanded, and when it closed the numbers were—for the amendment, 1,391, representing £69,720 ; against it, 2,015, representing £93,498 ; giving a majority in favour of the directors of 621. The scruti neet.s also reported that only three directors had voted, representing 155 votes, or £7,754. The report was adopted, and the meeting separated. MR. HUDSON'S LINE FROM THE HUMBER TO THE MERSEY.—An important arrangement has been concluded between Mr. George Hudson and the provisional com mittee of the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Com pany, by means of which Mr. G. Hudson will attain his long-coveted object of an independent access, under his own control, from the Humber to the Mersey. For this he has been long working, and measures, which to some seemed objectless, and to form only the instances of a not faultless judgment, are now found to have been coolly and deliberately calculated. He obtained an extension of the Leeds and Bradford line from Shipley as far as Colne, a small town in the north-eastern part of Lancashire ; and there were few who could understand the views he entertained in projecting that extension. It is now, however, set at rest, by the arrangement effected between him and the provisional committee of the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Company, together with the Blackburn and Preston Company. He thus secures his own lines between Liverpool and Hull, and is independent of the existing route, which is split up into so many hands. The capital for the formation of the line is to be provided equally by him and the two companies named. GREAT NORTH AND SOUTH WALES AND WORCES TER RAILWAY. —While in England the greater number of lines run North and South, the Principality is accom modated only by lines embracing, as it were, three sides of its frontier, but effecting no penetration into the heart of the country. Taking Birmingham as the centre of England, and of its railway system, we find that \Vales is accommodated by the Grand Junction Company's line to Crewe, whence the Crewe and Chester line carries us to Chester. Practically, this city must be considered as the north-eastern extremity of the Principality, and we wish our readers to bear in mind the fact. Now if from this north-eastern boundary th ere were lines diverging in various directions into the hart of the country, Wales would not have much to complain. The fact is, however, otherwise. Wales is embraced by an enormous pair of iron arms—the Chester and Holyhead, and the lines in the south, with one exception, avoiding the interior—but there are no great arteries—no divergent lines to accom modate the vast traffic and rapidly increasing population of one of the most flourishing portions of the empire.— This state of things could not be expec'ed to remain in statu quo, and accordingly a splendid line of railway is projected from Worcester to Caernarvon, through the very heart of the country. This railway will be no doubt of the greatest service to the principality, bringing the middle of the country into direct communication with England ; but of itself it is incomplete. There still remains the necessity of a communication between North and South Wales, arid this is proposed to be accomplished by a line commencing at a point on the last-mentioned line, in the valley of the Dovey, and proceeding through Machynlleth to the important town of Aberystwith. Even so far a most important district is opened to the coast.. Proceeding onwards, Tregaron is next accommo dated, then Lampeter, Newcastle-Emlyn to Cardigan. This line is only eighty miles long. Let our readers examine the map, and they will perceive that from the peculiar nature of the country, the interior is brought into connection with the coast in five different places. —lron Times. CLERICAL NEWS PREFERMENTS AND APFOINTMENTS.—Tbe Rev. J. Kelly, M.A., late of Stillorgan, Dublin, to the rdnistry of Charlotte Chapel, Pimlico —Rev. 'l'. L. Cloughton, vicar of Kidderminster, and the Rev. R. B. Hone, vicar of Hales o weu, to be honorary canons in Worcester Ca thedral.—Rev. G. W. Murray, M.A., to the vicarag3 of Cleobury Mortimer, Salop.—Rev. J. H. Ward, to the rectory of Poughill, Devon.--Rev. C. Nichol to the per petual curacy of St. John's Stratford, Rev. B. Marsh, to the perpetual curacy of St. Mary's, Plaistow.—Rev. H. J. Drury, to the vicarage of West Down, Devon.—Rev. 'l'. Mills, M.A., rector of Northborough, Northampton shire, to an honorary canonry in Peterborough cathedral. —Rev. R. W. Evans, B D., vicar of Heversham to be assistant commissary and vice-rural dean of the deanery of Kendal.—Rev. W. Sandys, vicar of Carrick-on—`:itcr, to the rectory of Ballybrood.—Rev. Mr. Madden, curate of Listnore, to the vicarage of Carrick-on.Suir.—Rev. W. C. Bidwell, 8.A., to the vicarage of Potion, Beds. — Rev. W. Mockler to the rectory of Little Bealiogs, Suffolk.—Rev. J. E. Daniel, A M., to the perpetual curacy of Wingfield, Suffolk.—Rev. T. L. French, to the rectory of 'l'hrandestone, Suffolk.—Rev. W. Wells, A.M., to t le vicarage of Carbrook, Norfolk.—The lion. and Rev. W. W. C. Talbot, M.A., vicar of Ombersley, to the rectory of Grafton Flyford, Worcestershire•—Rev. W. A. Edwards, curate of Delgany, to be residentiary preacher at the cathedral of Limerick, in room of the Rev. C. Monsell, resigned.—Rev. J. H. Broome, to the vicarage of Houghton, near Elarpley, Norfolk.—Rev. P. S. Bagge, M.A., to the vicarage of Stradset, Norfolk. — Rev. D. Frase, M.A., curate of Springfield, to the per petual curacy of the Holy Trinity, Halstead, upon the resignation of the Rev. C. Burney, M.A.—Rev. G. Dowty, curate of Tedmorden, Lancashire, to the perpetual curacy of Walsden. The Bishop of Chester intends very shortly to maim the appointment of an archdeacon of Lancaster, to promote the greater efficiency of the Established Church. On Sunday week, the old Baptist chapel, Maestegotear Bristol, was opened under license from the bishop, by a minister of the Established Church. A correspondent of the Record mentions that the Rev. Mr. Ward and his wife attended the Roman Catholic chapel in Oxford, on the 17th inst., as members. On Friday week, the Rev. H. Gubbins expired sud denly in the streets of Limerick, when returning from divine service at the Cathedral, at which he was a vicar choral. He had been 35 years curate of St. Mary's, and was highly respected. ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH. ST. HELENS.—WC under stand that this incumbency is likely to be soon vacant. The church, schools, and parsonage are most complete; and we trust that a truly evangelical minister will bos again found to occupy this important cure. THE CLERGY AND WESLEYAN MEETTNGS.—The Rev. J, Jordan, of Enstone, in Oxford, having been rebuked by his ordinary for attending a meeting of Wesleyans, he submitted a case to Sir John Dodson, and that learned civilian has given the following opinion : " I think that the mere circumstance of attending and presiding at a meeting of persons friendly to the Wesleyan Missionary Society would not of itself render a beneficed clergyman subject to ecclesiastical censure ; but I cannot undertake to say that J. J. may not, upon the occasion in question, have made himself amenable to such censure, unless 1 am informed what was the exact purport and objects of the meeting over which he presided, and whe ther any and what resolutions were proposed and adopted, and also generally a hat passed at the meeting. If J. J, made himself a party to any measures which could justly be considered repugnant either to the doctrine or disci pline of the Church of England, I apprehend that he would be liable to censure, and more especially if he acted in defiance of a monition or injunction from his ordinary." SEES OF ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR.—A bill has been prepared by Lord Monteagle, to be submitted to parlia ment, the effects of which will be, if the bill should be carried, to augment the poorer vicarages by the impropri ation of the sees. By the order in council passed in 1838 for the purpose of uniting the sees of St. Asaph and Ban gor, it was enacted that each succeeding bishop of the united sees should lodge in the Bank of England, to the credit of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, an annual payment of £4,750; it was further provided that a sum of £4,500 should be appropriated out of the first-men tioned sum to the endowment of the intended bishopric of Manchester. Lord Monteagle's new bill states that " it has been ascertained that the funds now provided for the endowment off' such intended bishopric of Manchester, and the increased endowment of the other bishoprics of England contemplated in the said recited act, and the several orders in council framed thereon, are adequate for such purposes as aforesaid, without the appropriationn of such contributio n o f £4,750 as a f oresa id ; and pro vides that the said annual sum of £4,750 should be ap propriated and applied solely for the augmentation of poor and populous vicarages in the said united diocese in North Wales. LAW INTELLIGENCE By an act of last session, persons charged with, felony or misdemeanor, against whom no bill shall be found, or who shall be acquitted, are in no case to be charged with any fees. To CONSTITUTE AN AUCTION.--II is, we believe, ge nerally supposed that three bidding are necessary to make an auction. Some would contend for it that two only are necessary. Mr. Freeman, in the course of his address in the case of Notter v. Marmion in the Record Court, on Saturday, said that it was a vulgar error to suppose that either three or two are required, and that one bidding was enough to constitute a legal auction. This is not generally known.—Cork Reporter. GENERAL MISCELLANY. On Wednesday, the town of Framlingham, in Suffolk, was visited with a snow storm which lasted ten minutes. Wheat fell from ls. to 2s. per quarter at Wakefield on Friday. The parish clerk of Tattenhall was accidentally killed last week by the discharge of his own gun while shooting. Samples of new wheat, in fine condition, were shown in Barnsley market on Wednesday se'nnight. A porter was accidentally killed on Sunday at the ter minus of the Brighton Railway, by getting his foot en tangled in a rope while an engine was in motion. Mr. Darby, recently appointed an enclosure commis sioner, has announced his intention of retiring from the representation of East Sussex. At Gloucester assizes, Sophia White. aged twenty-two, was convicted of highway robbery, and sentenced to ten years' transportation. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against a man named Pope, who killed a man named Pennington, in a fight at Bickerstaffe yesterday week. The crown of England has been replaced in the jewel house with all the diamonds, &c., firmly reset in their original position. MAr.T•—By a parliamentary return it appears that 3 7,836331 bushels of malt charged with duty were made from the sth of July, 1814, to the sth of July last. Col. Lasedles, of the Grenadier Guards, on Monday, was thrown from his horse, in Bath-street, Grosvenor_ squire, London, and his left eye wa forced from the socket, by his head coming in contact with the curb stone. On Thursday, a respectable female was suddenly taken with the pains of labour whilst riding in a cab in London, and was safely delivered of a fine boy before she could reach home. Native silver ore of a rich quality, has recently been discovered in the East Coombe Silver and Lead Mine, in the parish of Stembridge; and the prospects, generally, are very flattering. At the Queen-square police-court, London, on Thurs day, Vincent Jaspereni, an Italian, was charged with disturbing a sick lady, by playing an organ near her resi dence in Chester-square, and was fined the penalty of 40s or 14 days' imprisonment. On Tuesday last an inquest was held in London on John Jones, aged 48, a porter, who, ,whilst exclaiming, in rebutting a charge, " May God strike me dead," was seized with paralysis, and then taken to Charing Cross Hospital, where he died a few hours afterwards. FATAL COLLISION.—A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against a pilot who had charge of a Portu guese barque when she, a few days since, came in collision with a fishing smack, off the Nore, and the master and a lad in the latter were killed by the force of the shock. A miserly female was found dead the other day, in Lon don, aged 70, in whose room was found a receipt for Bank stock to a large amount, together with a Bank of England note for £3OO. The property was concealed in a box with a false bottom. The editor of the Watchman (Wesleyan newspaper), after canvassing the merits of the three candidates now seeking the honour of representing the borough of South wark in Parliament, says—" If we had a vote in South wark, it should be given to Mr..Pilcher," the Conserva tive. The Times states that since the recent advices from Mexico the underwriters demand a higher rate of pre mium from this country to America unless the clause is inserted declaring the insurance free of capture and seizure, as it is apprehended a war between the two American republics will lead to a system of privateering on the western coast of the Atlantic. EXTRAORDINARY GUNPOWDER BLAST.—On Tues day, in a granite quarry, near Penryn, a fine mass of granite, which adaieasures about 14,000 cubic feet, its weight above 1,000 tons, was detached from the surround ing rock, by means of a charge of 251 b of gunpowder. In the explosion, the entire mass was distinctly seen to leap from its natural bed.—Falmouth Packet. A HUSBAND SCOLDED TO DEATH.—At Wandsworth police-court, on Monday, an old woman named Downer, who vends firewood about .Battersea, was charged with scolding her husband most dreadfully as he was lying in bed in a dying state. Her conduct was so outrageous that the police were called on to interfere, and took her into custody. Her husband died shortly after. She was fined 20s. ; and in default committed for 14 days. THE NEW MOVE IN CHARTISM.—On Friday, at Rochdale, Fergus O'Connor delivered a lecture on the new movement of agitation for the Charter. He assured the audience that if one-half of the working class would deposit .E 2 12s. 6d. each to purchase land, the Charter would be the law of the land in two years. At the con clusion seven persons who may fairly be supposed to have had more money than wit, had their names entered as subscribers. FOREIGN FRUIT.—On Monday one vessel brought to London from Rotterdam, no less than 2,123 baskets of greengages, pears, and plums, besides sundry other des criptions of more valuable fruit. The Soho, from Ant werp, brought 150 baskets of plums, greengages, &c. ; the John Bull, from Hamburgh, 47 selves and six baskets of plums, and the James Watt, which arrived later in the day from Havre, brought upwards of 1,000 packages of pears, plums, greengages, apricots, &c. FOREIGN FRUlT.—Another full cargo of fruit, consist ing of upwards of 2,200 baskets apples, pears, and plums, was received at Hull a few days since, from Rotterdam. The Hamburg and Transit, from Hamburg, have also delivered 197 baskets and casks of plums, with a few casks of cranberries, and 42 baskets of cucumbers. About 300 baskets fruit have also this week been landed at Hull from Hamburg, from which port the imports are increas ing. PEDESTRIANISM.—On Thursday a match, for £5, to pick up one hundred stones from the ground, each being placed in a straight line, at a yard apart from each other, and deposited in a basket at the end, was performed by Jackson. The match came off in Clapham New Park, one stone to be removed at a time, and the whole number cleared within forty-five minutes. The pedestrian laboured hard at his task for forty minutes, winning the match by five minutes. The distance of ground actually travelled over by the pedestrian during the performance of the feat is five mites, five furlongs, and two hundred yards. THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHlP.—Many bets re main undecided relative to the length of the voyage of the Great Britain to New York, in consequence of the difference of longitude between that port and Liverpool. Those, for instance, who wagered that she would arrive out in less than fifteen days contend that they have won, inasmuch as, according to the ordinary mode of reckon ing, she made the passage in fourteen days twenty-one hours. Others contend that the difference of longitude ought not to be overlooked, and that four hours and thirty-two minutes ought to be added to the time at which she at - lived, thus making the passage occupy fifteen days three hours and thirty-two minutes. CHARTIST WAYS AND MEANS.—A delegate meeting of the \Vest-Riding of the county of York was held on Sunday ! the 10th of August, at the Working Man's Hall, in Halifax, when, according to the Northern Star, the following sums of money were contributed by the places under-mentioned, for the executive government of this body :—From Bradford,.ts. ; Dewsbury, 35. 4d. ; Lower Marley. Is ; Halifax, ls. 7d. ; Littletown, 3s. ; Sowerby Helm, 3s. Old. ; total, 17s. llid. A conversational meet ing was held on Sunday last, for wl , at purrose does not exactly appear, but it was probably to devise the best means for expending the above amount in land, in further ance of what is called the land scheme, promulgated by Mr. Feargus O'Connor ! THE EXPLOSION AT JARROW. —The bodies of thirty of the sufferers by this calamity were, on Sunday week, consigned to the grave in Jarrow churchyard, the funeral being witnessed by upwards of 3,000 spectators, many of whom had come from a considerable distance. The Old Hundreth Psalm was sung on the way to the burial ground. The scene was exceedingly solemn. There have been thirty-eight lives lost by this explosion, thirty-four in the Low main, and four in the Bensham seam, inclu d,ng Defty the overman. William Cranston, the only survivor of thop at work in the Low main, and who mi raculously escaped after being upwards of thirty-six hours in the fetid atmosphere, still remains in a very pre carious state. A coroner's jury sat on the bodies, and re turned a verdict of "Accidental death." CAPTAINS AND MATES.—The Gazette of Tuesday se'nnight contains a notification from the Privy Council Committee of Trade, announcing that from and after the Ist of November next, certain specified arrangements for examining masters and mates in the merchant service, voluntarily offering themselves, will take effect,—the rules and regulations laid down being subject to revision by the Committee of Council. The following boards have voluntarily undertaken to conduct the examination, viz., the Corporations of Trinity-house at Deptford, Stroud, Kingston-upon-Hull, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Leith,—the Commissioners of Pilotage at Liverpool,— the Sub-commissioners of Pilotage at Beaumaris, Glou cester, Milford, Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Great Yar mouth,—the Board of Licensing Pilots at Glasgow, --and the Ballast Board of Dublin. Other ports are to to added when there are authorities competent to undertake the duty. The examiners are to grant certificates of the first, second, and third class, to masters, according to qualifications, and the like to mates. ARRIVAL OF A PIGEON FROM ICHABOE.—A some what novel incident occurred very recently a* the termi nus of the Southwestern Railway, at Vauxhall. A car rier pigeon was seen, in an exhausted state: it was caught by hand, but died shortly afterwards. A label was appended to one of its legs, addressed to his grace the Duke of Wellington, which stated, that three pigeons were thrown up at the island of Iclriboe, and bore date July, 1845. The distance is computed to be between two and three thousand miles from the place where the pi geon appears to have been liberated to its destination in London. The bird, with its appendage, was immediately forwarded to Apsley-house, and th e duke, by an autograph note, the next day courteously acknowledged the receipt to the party who sent the bird. It has been stuffed, and, in the process, it has been discovered that the bird was shot, otherwise there can he no doubt it would have reached home, and it is supposed not to have had strength to cross the Thames.—Morning Post. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, LONDON.—At this court last week, Henry Ross, captain of the Prince of Wales, Margate steamer, was tried for the manslaughter of David Davis, mate of the Culloden, a small vessel, whose boat was run down by the steamer, in the Thames, on the 22nd of July, and the deceased and two other persons were drowned. The prisoner was acquitted.—Two girls —lsabella Ipin, aged twelve, and Anne. Gardner, aged eleven—were convicted of a highway robbery on James Ford, a child three years of age, in stripping him of his clothes and leaving him naked at a place to which they had decoyed him.—John Taylor, a cabinet-maker, was convicted of stealing various articles from Buckingham Palace, the property of the Queen.—William Strickland, Edward Lewis, William Bonham, and Henry Osborne, charged with stealing some watches from a case at the Custom-house, were acquitted.—Charles Peder, aged 30, was convicted of an unnatural assault on Charles Clift, aged nine years, and sentenced to death.—Henry Win zenberg, a foreigner, convicted of rape upon a girl under ten years of age, was sentenced to transportation for life. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—A MAN LITERALLY DIS SOLVED.—A young man named Brammey, employed at the Dinting Vale print works, Glossop, Derbyshire, was on Saturday the 9th inst., found in a pan containing 300 gallons of caustic lie, which was at boiling heat. How he came in it is not known ; but it is supposed that he went to the top of the pan to see if the lie was boiling, and must have fallen into the horrible grave. Deceased had not been seen about the premises after twenty minutes past 10 o'clock. At a quarter past one, Robert Stubes went to stir up the liquor in the pan, when to his great alarm he discovered some of the deceased's clothes, the body being quite eaten away by the liquor. The liquor in the pan was thrown away ; and at the bottom of the pan nothing but a few bones could be found; and these looking as if they had been in the ground a hundred years. The leather and soles of his clogs were eaten away ; a por tion of his clothes that was made of cotton had sustained little injury ; and the irons and nails that had been in his clog. were found. The deceased's teeth were discovered all separate. Strange to say the deceased's heart was found by itself quite sound. All that was collected of the body did not weigh 'Ms., and if thee parts had remained in the liquor three hours longer not a particle would have becu left. The deceased was about seventeen years of age. Sept. 2, 180. 41,0 1% ANOTHER IRON SCREW-PROPELLED STEAM-- ws, he i —A. new steam-yacht, built of iron, with S m ith:9 s S Cre 1 propeller, by Napier, has arrived in the Mena" g olf the property of Mr. J. A. Smith, M.P., and is nearly a the same size as the Roy a l t en d e r yacht Fairy , she foot less beam, and rather less draught of water. has beam engines of 40 horse-power each, the two cte'rg ders standing on one side and the cog-wheel on the o n t e ine , acting makes d fi i f r t e y c s t t u ro p k o e n s t p h e e r shaft minute, of which will T he e 2OO volutions of the screw, and the tbe ties miles. sel is said to be under favourable circumstances DI per hour ; against wind and tide her rate was 12 tiler IMPORTATION OF WHEAT, &C.—OR Friday, a.„ l/C 2 ian cl ' return respecting the importation of wheat from was issued. The imports into Great Britain from in 195 quarter 9 land, of wheat, were respectively-112, is 1842, 192,477 quarters in 1843, and 200,276 quarterthe 1844, and 149,603 quarters in the half-year ended on sth ult. The barley in 1842 was 50,287 ; in 1843,,,,,,". 0 in 1844, 90,656 ; and in the half-year, 26,23 2 . 11 ,71,9 8 91 in 18-12 were as much as 1,274,326 quarters, I,''" the quarters in 1843, 1,509,870 quarters in 1844, and in fiout half-year mentioned, 976,644. Of wheat meal 01 : A7 in 314,311 Quarters in 1842, 773,463 in 1843, 83,9Cuat in 1844, and in the half-year, 816,462 quarters. I ng43, meal was 1,551,172 quarters in 1842, 1,706,6 28 1,150,976 in 1844, and 607,041 qrs. in the last half•Ye'" speed attained l in pr e o d duc e the COCOnq POWER OF THE CORONER. —Mr. Payne, • sod of London, has instituted an inquiry into the origin I x doe' circumstances of the late fire in AidermanburY , u a though no life was lo s t, an d th e s t ep , though v e r y it common, is not without precedent. In modern tun 0 . has been usual for corone rs to s it on ly when death basasued, hut in la w th e i r j ur i s di c ti on i s much more e n x Acie sive. The encient statute of King Edward 1., -De 'Acre Coronatoris, requires coroners to "Go to the places any be slai n , or su dd en l y d ea d, or woun ded, or /11 , 1 Further, housesare broken,ifany be appealed or whe of p where treasure ra i e s ,h saide m to abset o fri b e : d u i t. f tw t aa wounds tnehddes, parties an t rd h t i e es su a e p ahp p k l a el b e, de especiallysfhreasl l h c " U t o .ed n dsi bt P ee P l e y f - o o a r it i it be for a m a i m , th e par ti es s h a l i two pledges shall suffice. Also all wounds ough t weaponsviewed, Th e e 1 e w n o g a t n h d , bi is e g a i d , a sc n e d . I , d be pledges; if it s h a ll b e f or a sma ll woun d w i t hout math be th tale f aleklfi t pe h inwin e dehs w ii..smcm o , huoamP and weapons the wound is given, &c., all which things to at with i be enrolled in the ro ll o f th e coroners . Conc e , rn t: l d wreck of the sea, & c . I n lik e manner h ue s hall be 01 2,.,1 for all murthers, b urg l ar i es , an d f or men s l a i n or in P`" - to be slain. RICHARD OASTLER.—We have heard, from autharig on which we have pretty g o o d reason t o re ly, that Ri c 7 x .. Oastler has made £30,000 u p on th e L ee ds Stock change, by legitimate bu s i ness as a sharebroker rt,,at, t - y , having in every i ns t ance ex hibit e d t h e str i c t e st integ r ' u f and on repeated occasions displayed an unusual iline t i r o a honour, in handing over to hi s employers profits tha t s r , generally been retained by the broker, but to whic h his Oastler did not consider himself honestly entitled, nd f h a is me ha sp si r t e le a s d s a i s n a ere fa as it e h d fu a l ee te r a ( l i e ja r g a l n y d . ann co u n p ee lght man' s i t i r he saved to a speculator three or four thousand we a P r n ent ; d t ° o' which, by the custom of the trade, might have gone l e o , the broker's pocket. N o won d er Ri c h ar d Oastler Pr e o pered. And he deserved to do so, for many well' it" rt; reasons. He is a man who se we lf are i s o f public iroP e and whether his honest gains be above or below riiS i su re . stated, there are thousand s i n thi s coun t r y who vh.,-,,,,a -joice as heartily at hi s success as th ey s i nce rely s> 'o thised with :Win at the time of his misfortunes. , pit crown all, we are assured that M r . O as tl er conteroP is i o , entering parliament, choosing from amon g the n'in e l to terests that now have a voice i n th e na ti ona l asseatiNY.'_u represent the interests of humanity on the Short Tl. Lung Question. He could not h ave se l ecte d a more fi t c t ct , task ; and we hope thi s su pp os i t i on may b e come ' a w l A stout heart and an u n fli nc hi ng perseveranc e are wa n d ; in the House of Commons to press this matter forwar, and we know of no one possessing these qualificati ons a higher degree than the subject of this brief n otice. It z ri , then what a contrast will be offered to the admiring g t - tie of weary poverty, or virtuous ambition sinking 14 ,4. way, between Richard Oastler, confined in the Flee t f son for debt. and Richard Oastler, " Esquire," a nis-ro wealth, and an able and influential member of Per ja er ment !—Blackburn Standard. [The Leeds Intelltge"c denies that Mr. Oastler contemplates entering parliattlen and states that the gains of th e f ac t ory king are n" siderably overrated.] GALLANT CAPTURE OF A SLAVER- enlen t On the west coast of Africa a most g allant engag•estol has occurred between the boats of one of her Alikl ships and a large pirate slaver. The boats belonged to the Pantaloon, 10, sloop' el o f [pander Wilson. The prize i s a remar k a bly fine ve°eQh-e -about 450 tons, polaore rigged, with immense s ails. ; 2 , is of great celebrity on th e coas t, i s arme d with fou r ' o f pounders, and had a mixed crew, composed chid i lf o r Spaniards, amounting to about 50; an d was equipp ed any villainous service, whether slave-dealing or piraeY . l3 „ The Pantaloon had been baffled in her chase of this 'ld sel, supposed to be a slaver, for t wo o r th r ee days; 1 ; 0 .. the pirate, after leading the Pantaloon away to St. nuts's, and out-sailing her, doubled on the cruiser, o f , then ran to Lagos ; but Captain Wilson was too old ee of ficer on the coast to be so taken in, and on the raorninglit the e a2c6itili other o M about u t t h t e wo sloop miles and distant, the off Lagos, stranger c h a V ii i g e of The pirate hoisted no co l ours , an d t h e captain of th e F:t taloon, desirous of re new i ng hi s attentions, sent the fi r s t ter and two whale bo a t s un d er t h e comman d o f the 1., lieutenant, Mr. L ew i s d e T. P revost, w i t h the m eat Mr. J. T. Croute, and the boatswain, Mr. Pasco , to marines and seamen, amounting t o about 30 altogethewri ..t make a more intimate acqua i n t ance w ith the stranf°ge'rs taking especial care, h owever , t o b e f u lly prepared warm reception. t the/ The pirate gave the boats an inti m ation of y were to expect, as they neared, by o p en i ng on them L.' - it l e d fire of round shot, grape and can i s t er , i n such a W ir. of style, that, after returning the compliment by a vollated musketry, the boats prepared f or h ar d wor k. A rlinla the by the show of resistance, each boat now emu lated are other in reaching the enemy, th e pi ra t e con tinuin . g,! s u b s i n g fire as they steadily advanced, th e mar i nes as briskly f the their muskets. In half an h our f rom th e discharge ° f re first gun from the pir a te th e b oa t s o f th e Pantaloon w ere first gun from the pirate the boats of the Pant oofl 09 r d r alongside, Lieut. Pre vos t an d M r . P asco on the starbq a ,.. ti ail te and Mr. Crout in the c u tt er , on th e p or t s ide. Thal' . crew continued to fire the guns, l oa di n g them wi li s t sorts of missiles—bullets, nails, lead, &c., and 9133 ' on shower of these our brave sail ors and marines da shed boLiear. t d ut. Prevost and his party in th e t w o boats, q t fwi tbe standing their hot reception, were soon on the deo‘,°,, v ite prize. The master boarded on the port bow, and on e of the formidable resistance and danger, followe d "',.t as ' of his boat's crew, actually attempted to enter tile P o tting they were firing the gun from it. He succeeded in g k e , the through, but his seconder wes knocked overboard ' - ' n ' t ed, discharge; the gallant fellow, however, nothing da ; ",h -- the was in an instant up the side again, taking part' x" master, who was engaged in a single encounter with ° to ' os t two of the rascals. Having gained the deck after 3 ,. 1 . 0 tes determined resistance they now encountered the P t :. re hand to hand, when the cutlass and bayonet di d.tu ' et ied mainder of the work. Lieut. Prevost finally su eee te lft in capturing the vessel, but the pirat e s fought dest r „ a „ the and it was not until seven of their nu m ber lay dea d dear deck, and seven or eight more were severely woe% to that they ran below or yielded. Our loss amou nte two killed and seven wounded. DREADFUL. STORM AND LOSS OF LIFE I t i s this (F vv r eek n our r e p .T u o i / u nt ru o l ' d G u r t o y a t t o 's r .T ec o o u r r d na a l. f ) eair,evetv f rt. u a roo t gu i ms o u, n utari o n, of oPnmaiotorastvnipilydieeoonacfsectteeh, proceeded p bhd o oi et r a i oht so raised as s . ce h i: o l eTa r d e hi s ltee . hafie svi i ii ) la r :r i n: T g:oe u it7l e r s iani i i tlf .p fi s ' ,.ra l eo l : ; : p i t s i) :: . i bit; on the morning of Wednesday a strong gale br f o p ke b or s i w buwnt,o l g i ma i ut l hol e sdisg a tt sLi c ii)di o wesie u ffiasd s ; c i iet d luury e .la r tmt a ye b Ao,d l db e bweou n eritair u tet m oegut, number tedr r ra-i ssec o i,hda f oyittniloleme.trobsiiisdooetemaoltlefiototwt)fieoleeturitetiche.rlireytwii toe.: f l ggt t aah h orc e er and sea, however, increased, and the perilous Po t. s it t i rrt' the unforunate fishermen became the object of "1 n a tb A e rtiohahefanneitdilitr:sientsi:siwotri e a liai n , tda x twel i iaam e dis t l pydbtoowtrfoaeypaewo. attemptinga thousands, ytotot hi me w i h t o at had southwards,a e c o e n x g a r rob e : p a t: t : e ise,hi n o : t . brs, titeerr::, shores of both sides of the river. Several boats a t ' e l ,ret to state that, as one crew belonging to Assynt, example the'" shore, at observing fiv u e r neighbours, a heavy sea upset her not far front t' - ', - e re,' bour, and her hapless crew were thrown upon til e ,,,,"" ff on While, lank hile , , wave succeeded wave, man after man sunk, till fq r h o ar' buried in the waters. One poor fellow clung w i A t , to 9 prising tenacity to the mast of the boat, afterwarun-neds l u i n o t w il ev a er, ship's boat, and at the imminent risk of their ow" er e. t rTa fellow-creatures h y e c dreadful a n adequately s f ei is ficuereib, we . ytwbeia: f , e w t h ehyu were ee returning individuals with l d t il l y e :if; saved that of the remaining one of the haplessn diet had saved, a tremendous sea broke right over th i e ."Xdual° threw the whole into the sea. A number of in ui 'd iot ° immediately jumped over the quay, dashed forwor bo re. the waves, and assisted them in bringing the nlan, a , s ,bo o While this mournful spectacle was being exhibiten.be r est was observed in danger, with one man on board , L nie 00: of the crew having gone ashore before the gale f a , t b on Single-handed he weighed the anchor, and rowe d 'll boa,' in the face of the mountainous billows, till a snl a .,,aq' was humanely sent from an Ostend vessel in the i ne rd• the brave fellow was rescued from his situation c,r_ sad By three o'clock the sea had risen to a fearful beig"4,:tri' one by one the boats that were riding at anchor vitetsvotft yen from their moorings and upset. Out of abou ;v ed $ that were riding at three o'clock only three rero B. o t ta' seven. The scene at this period was truly dreds of people were standing on the beach, rnanYwrec i ‘ seeing their property added to the general wreclr•__lznastol of boats were floating over the bay in all directions statio; spars, sails, oars, buoys, and nets. Every nsb i ", or le s i , along this coast, as far as Dunbeath, has been be wree. visited, and at almost every few yards pieces ot T io - o e, 0 are to be seen. Two lives were sacrificed at \V" farive,,, miles to the southward of Wick. Seven boats wSrl be isle to pieces, and the sloop Regina, Maevalliani, ' o w _ t wirl of Whitehorn, with seventy barrels of herrings, 2.,,bofff lost at the same place. At Forse, out of thirtY;l:LithtlP. twenty-nine or thirty have been totally wreckeo.,.7s Plan whole of the fishing materials. The scene a t t, t_t e ' r i p tio"_., was truly awful, and baffles all idea, far less - 7, 0 be'_' . Ay Clyth a number of boats and two lives have 001 i ter ther e lost ; one of the bodies was got this (ThursclaYtt" It is that of a men named Sinclair; and at q ever al'r e _; r has also been greet destruction of proper ' with the' boats , sels are much injured, and one or two materials, have been totally lost. affecting°. f toil