The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN 4- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE PORTUGAL. Intelligence from Lisbon to the 31st March, states that Saldanha still remained in his old position, retained there from the want of funds to proceed, all attempts on the part of the Queen's government to raise a loan having en tirely failed. The Queen's troops are deserting daily while the troops of the Junta are in high spirits well supplied with money and with provisions is the Junta that it has assumed the off€ So strong e. So da Bandeira sailed with an expedition of _n in the Mindella, Porto, and the Vessuvio steamers, and, having forced the blockade of the Douro, proceeded to the south ward.. The expedition is most probably destined for the Algarves, although it was reported in Lisbon that it had landed in Peniche. 'There is no truth in 'WEST INDIES.—The steam-snip Avon arrived at South limpton, on Wednesday, from the West Indies. Th, general accounts from the West Indies are favourable The prospects of the crops encouraging in the extreme, umour of Louis Philip's ill sugar w proceeding news of consequence from t Assembly at Barbadoes 1 titute Scotch and Irish t ollecte through pr, continue to be des( most of the Is Thepacket S Falmouth on Tuesday eening last Brazils the 14t1 nd La 'ebruary are to the 31st of Jit tance from Braz 1 has bi There is ums have for the 111, which •. NO pont i broug' from Monte Video cal news of impor by this vessel. From Buenos Ayre :counts of the defeat of Rivierad: confirme loss on both sides was estimated a 'the men killed and wounded. General Oribe had succesE fallen in with the divisions of Flores and Medina, Entirely cut them to pieces, these leaders escaping only three or four men each 11AHIA AND PELINAMDUCO.—The new ship Seraphina, Captain Taylor, arrived at this port on Thursday morn ing, from Paraiba, in thirty-one days and some hours, and brings the latest accounts yet received from Bahia and Pernambuco, being from the former port to the 27th February, and from the latter to the 4th March. Consi derable purchases had been made of sugars at high prices, and the rate of exchange at Pernambuco had advanced to previous to t A POPISH h heavy weat left Paraiba two days f the Seraphin. marvellous tale i told in the Paris religious periodicals, how a French cler gyman lost his voice from too much preaching, how fox months he could not utter a single word—how he was de prived of all his strength—how he became more helpless than a child—and how he was instantaneously cured b) throwing himself before a stone statue of the Virgin, ir This sour] of idolatry is vouched for by the Rev. Mr Clifford, and other one of the cony( le of theeeffects Newman, Lord An ide however ts itself to us, how, if as helpless as a child, and " deprived of all his strength," the priest had power to throw himself be- fore the statue OF CAPTAIN GIBSON MR. CHETWY event, which reached town last S confirmed DR. HOWELL, AND -A rumour of thi comers, and unacquainted with the Kaffir character and tactics. Captain Gibson and Dr. Howell had the charge of 70 men, and the sick, on the banks of the Kei. Be: — short of rations, they went with a party to tak - - cattle for use. They fell in with a herd, ap „ paren guarded (placed in all probability as a decoy) and panied by four llottentots, detached the They were waylaid by about men to drive them awa 150 Kaffirs, and the officers, with two of tl killed, before the soldiers, alarmed by the two miles dis nt from them ' - illed at Howell's horse w old reach the spot. first fire, and his f him. an aband( sacrificed their own lives rather t fired away all their ammunition, and their dead bod were found lying beside seven or eight of the enemy whom they had shot. The bodies bad been mutilated in a shocking manner by the beastly savages. Captain Gib married : his wife and family are in Europe. He was about to retire from the service, ara indeed t but d given up his papers, and might I lined to do so n . 1,. - • his corps (the rifles) was in the field. The Hon. Mr.Thetwynd was not more'than 25 years old, and Dr. Howell was about the same age. FAMINE IN MADEIRA.—From accounts up to the 20th alto, this beautiful and interesting island is in a deplorable 43tate from want of food. All the vessels had left the bay, and with a population of 112,000, there were not supplies for more than twelve, or fifteen day's consumption. Ame rican flour had advanced from 12 to 30 dollars (.C6 55.) and ever article of food in proportion SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AN NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. — On Wednesday . night, hh 'ac c ide n t occurred on the above railway, near Winsford The express train left London for Liverpool at five o'Clf:/ok eh 'Wednes day afternoon, and passed Crewe at 'nine. When near Winsford, from some cause unknown, theengine,whichwas going at full speed, got off the rails, anetturned completely over, dragging with it three carriages and a van, which were attached. The carriages were thrown on their side. at a short distance from the 4ine; but, so far as we have been able to ascertain, r per barrel lad taken place from starvation, and the mother country, being involved in civil war, and nearly equally taken place ad called a meeting of e subscribed to sent merchants, and 30,000 dollars were food of any kind, to be retailec out at cost price, the The miserable condition of the their advance of money island has been brought about by the state of the corn markets in England—as Madeira produces only about three months' consumption of grain in the year. The rest has always been supplied, by Greek and Sardinian vessels, from the Mediterranean, but now that England has become the great market, not one of these had made her appearance at the island, and it was feared that before food could be brought from England, a total famine will have taken place. Mr. Driver of this town, who brings 'the dire intelligence, says :—" Ireland certainly has greater claims upon us for succour than Madeira, but I agree with the Lisbon correspondent of the London Times, that a subscription for the famishing people in Madeira ought to be forthwith commenced in England. There are thou sands of persons in this country whose lives have been saved or prolonged by the salubrious climate of Madeira, and who ought willingly to aid in giving relief to the des titute peasantry of that island." A➢IERICA. - liy the packet ship Fidelia, we have advices from New York to the 16th ult. There had been rumours of another battle between General Taylor and Santa Anna, in which the former it was said had been wounded. The report was not credited. Exchange on England and Fr.nce has touched a very low point. Four per cent. premium is all that the best bills would command, and large sales are made at 1031 for sterling, and 5 45 on Paris. A large amount of paper, good mercantile notes, silty and ninety days to run, were negotiated to-day at 7 per cent. _ The, following is from a correspondent of the New York Courier and Enquirer :—"At Syracuse the teams have been turned away from the depOt by, hun dreds, because there was no longer room for the reception of the grain, the provisions, the endless variety of the productions of a western land, that hears of famine and knows only of abundance. The quantity, large at Buffalo, increases rapidly as the line comes eastward, so that the amount awaiting transportation at Utica is of a magnitude that defies the forwarder. The markets at New York and at Boston are sought for by thousands, who before the completion of this iron link never dreamed of attempting to reach them. The present condition of Western New York affords the most impressive call for railroad facilities that ever has been made. I believe now, what once I doubted very much, that the Hudson River road will be thronged with business. The grain trade of this city since the last fall of snow has been enormous. It is a positive fact that, in a city of 45,000 inhabitants, such has been the quantity of farmers arriving with the products of their farms that no stabling could be had for the horses. Every tavern and inn was more than overflowing, and it became necessary to go for miles out of town to find the necessary conveniences for the teams." RAILWAY AFFAIRS The railway calls for April will amount to between three and four millions sterling. A guard on the Great Western Railway has written a tragedy, called " Athelstan," which has been published by subscription. The foundation stone of the Edinburgh station for the Caledonian Railway, was laid on Friday, amidst great rejoicings, by , the Duke of Athol. Brassey and Co. have commenced operations connect.ion , with the Cheshire . Junctiona -- NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK.—The traffic to Morpeth is satisfactory, upwards of 2,000 persons having travelled on the line during the first week of opening. Another portion of the line—that from Berwick to Chathill—w ill be opened within a month, and whole line early in May. CHEAP TRAVELLING.--On Thursday the Eastern. Counties Railway started a fourth class train of open car riages, for the purpose of conveying passengers to the different stations along the line at the cheap rate of one halfpenny per mile. A negotiation is said to be in progress between the Northern Counties Union and the GlasgomDumfries and, Carlisle for the purchase of the former by Me latter ; the object being to have an independent connexion with the east coast of England. At the Surrey Assizes, on Monday, Mr. William Chad wick (Chairman of the Richmond Railway Company) got a verdict, with £5O damages, against Mr. Herapath, pro prietor of Herapath's Railway Journal, for a libel that had appeared in the columns of that journal, imputing to Mr. Chadwick a misapplication of the company's funds. FORGED SCRIP.—The directors of the South-Western Company announced on Friday a discovery, made only on the previous day, of certain forged scrip of the issue of November last. These scrip purport to be under the hands of two of the directors, and the treasurer of the Company; and, as far as the directors are at present aware, the forged scrip are confined to certificates of one share each. SUNDAY TRAINS.—From the Railway Chron' z cle of the 3rd instant, it appears that th e rece i pts of the Edin burgh and Glasgow line, from the beginning of the pre sent year to the 27th of March, wer e £42 ,280, whilst during the same period last year they were only £34,941, the number of miles open (namely, forty-six) being the same both years. This will be found a very interesting fact, if compared with the receipts of other companies for the same periods. The apprehended loss, by honouring God, turns out to be even a pecuniary gain. At the meeting of the London and North Western Rail way Company, on Friday, for the purpose of sanctioning the bills at present before Parliament, Mr. Glyn, the chairman said that he believed the pressure on the money market would be really of a very temporary character. This opinion, coming with the weight of authority which belongs to everything connected with mercantile matters to which the sanction of Mr. Glvn may be given, found a ready echo within the walls of the meeting-room, and will, no doubt, carry consolation and confidence far 1 3 eyond its precincts. e of the passengers were engine-man'and fireman are much hurt ; he engine was limas: but the carriages sustain ed little iniu. delay a train, with the passengers, &c. line, and arrived here at two o'clock the following mornin g SPEED ON THE NARROW GAUGE.—The special train employed to carry down the visitors invited to " open ' the docks, &c., at Birkenhead, left Ev and after soin occ., was got upon the ;ton-squre at six, on Monday train consisted offive pa lv of the ocoinothie and r. The engine, cylinders, long Stephens -wheels of seven feet diameter, p, 0 miles as nearly as from whic must be deducted, in stoppages, of about 30 in all, at various stations, a 'fa to more a hour, caused by the working )f the journey, which rendered it necessary reported to hay :en place from unning various parts of the line ; from Wolverhampton to the journey's end it had to fight with a violent wind, for which an allowance of 2 to 5 miles per hour, if not more, should be made for the performance from that point. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN (LIVERPOOL TERMI NUS b antic alterations at this ent in 1846, are making rapid prog s of the Edgehill tunnel have been taken away to enlarge the station, and the rock which was I perforated by the tunnel is being excavated for a consi derable distance on either side. Hotham-street, which passed over that portion of the tunnel now taken away, is to be carried over the station yard on an iron viaduct of enormous dimensions, the girders and columns of which L3O tons. The tunnel is now reduced in length le mile, on an incline of 1 in 98. Althot .t is no lono ation, sanctioned About by Par 200 yard 'able, 1: in 75 bein by ordinary locomotives, at a speed of on the Shan incline of 8 miles, on the L North-Western trc are taken means of the expensive mode of working there is, unfortunately, no remedy, for no outlet has been provided in the tunnel for the escape of the steam froth the engines, which conse quently falls upon the rails, rendering them too wet and slippery for the engine wheels to bite. At the top of the tensive preparations are also in progress for the !ommodation of the daily increasing traffic. The being widened for several miles, to admit of a third incline e line of rails, which must, sooner or later, be carried on the whole way to Birmingham and London. Several handsome new stations are also building on this part of the line. These works, will, no doubt, cost a large sum of money, several hundred thousand pounds probably, but they are absolutely required by the circumstances of this railway and indeed, they have been too long delayed • he pu I gainers Safety 3N , incr punctuality and Railway ChronicleP COURT AND FASHION. Maiest .nrl Pr ly and the Court, remain at Windsor Castle Her Majesty will hold Drawing Rooms, at St. James's dace, on Thursday the 15th April, and Thursday the th of May, to celebrate her Majesty's birth-day. On Thursday Lord John Russell arrived on a visit to T Majest RIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of Lord Alfred Paget, fourth surviving son of the Marquis of An slesey, to'Miss Cecilia Wyndham, second daughter of the Countess of Listowel, was solemnized at St. James's Church, London, on Thursday last. After the ceremony the Countess of Listowel gave a superb dejeuner at King ston House, in celebration of the happy event. The bride's jointure is said to amount to nearly £lOO,OOO. The illness of the Duke of Portland, father of Lord Bettinck, is believed to be a fatal one—no very le surprise, seeing that his Grace is in his 79th year. His death would make no change in the political position or title of the protectionist leader, the heir to the Dukedom being the Marquis of Titchfield, now forty seven years old, but quite unknown to fame as a party man. Gossip assigns Lord George the inheritance of most of the unentailed Ayrshire property of his father consequent on his relinquishment of the turf and his de votion to politics. @matt illiOrellanv. goyernment education scheme - At Gateshead on Tuesday, Mr. Hutt, M.P. the general election in July as fixed and certain The decline in the wheat markets of the French de partments still continues. DEATH FROM ANGER.—Two. little children, las in Merthyr, quarrelling for an orange, one, a girl, became so excited, that she fell into a fit and shortly expired. As Mr. Frewen has made known his intention to reti , spoke of from Sussex, I ie representation of East iounced his intention of comi the y noT formers in an Oriental spect Theatre, are sixty horses being represented at Drury-lam twelve camels, and several elephant The Admiralty have afforded G. F. 3ifuntz, Esq., M.P., an opportunity of testing his patent metal I man-of war with it sheathing a An Edinbugh bookseller announces that D'Aubigne is :bout to publish a volume on Cromwell. It is entitled " The Protector ; a defence from the latest documents." A few days since a postoffice order for one penny was issued at Brighton, and the applicant having paid three pence for it, posted it to Chester. _ _ Six hundred poor persons last week received Queen Anne's Easter bounty. The amount given to each reci- pient was ss. in new half-crowns -Insurances on sovereigns, about to be sent to New York, have been effected to the amount of £1,000,000, for the month of May.—Morning Post. Last week a field of dry grass, near Derby, was set, on fire by a spark from a passing train, and entirely con sumed. Major Beniowoski was on Friday tried and found guilty of assaulting Mr. Urquhart, (the latter having called him a Russian spy,) at a meeting lately held at the Free mason's Tavern, on the subject of Cracow. The Mining Journal has published its usual quarterly statement of the sales of copper ores in Cornwall, which compared with the previous return establishes an improve ment of £33,192, on a diminished quantity bf 1887 tons. The Tweed increases the catalogue of losses sustained by the West Indian royal mail steam ship company to five, including the Isis, the Medina, and the Solway, all large vessels, and the Actreon L a small vessel. POTATOES A HALFPENNY EACH !—On Monday four per quartern was asked for potatoes exposed for Hereford. This is about a halfpenny for each sale at A numerous meeting of the Birmingham Unitarian Brotherly Society was held on Sunday week, when it was unanimously agreed to petition both Houses of Parlia ment in favour of the Government plan of education. A BLOW TO WHITEWASHING.—It has been decided by Mr. Commissioner Balguy, that an insolvent who a second time presents his petition for protection is bound to give notice to all his creditors under his previous insolvency. MUNIFICENT GIFT.—A gentleman called last week at Messrs. Herries and Co., in St. James's-street, and left, under the initials Z.Z.Z., £5OO in aid of*the funds of the Royal Free Hospital, in Gray's-inn-road. A full bench of magistrates, at Norwich, have decided that all Wesleyan ministers, whose names are upon the circuit plan, are exempt from toll, when going to their own Sabbath appointinents It app s now that the Wesleyan body have withdrawn their objections against the education plan, in consequence - The Edinburgh Witness, and the Scottish Guardian — the free church organs—are divided in their opinions as to the government education scheme. The former is in favour of it, and the latter against. The impression that parliament will be prorogued some time in June gains ground, and it is confidently said that the dissolution will immediately follow. Are the Conser vatives of Liverpool ready for a general election ? ETHER SUPERSEDED.—The German newspapers state that Professor Schonbein, the inventor of gun-cotton, has discovered a new composition, which produces the same effects as the inhalation of ether, without causing any danger. The nature of the new invention is not described. ICODMIN ELECTION.-Mr. Wyld, the map-seller, at Charing-cross, is canvassing the electors of Bodmin, in anticipation of a speedy dissolution of Parliament. Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Butt, both of the Western Circuit, are also spoken of as candidates. FREAK OF NATURE.-At the Lion Inn, Quatford, near Bridgnorth, is to be seen an egg with two distinct shells with a space between each of about half an inch, such space being filled with what is commonly called the white. JENNY LIND.—A letter dated the 31st of March an nounces the arrival of Mr. Lumley the previous day at Munich. The opera chosen by Mademoiselle Lind for her abed has been put in rehearsal, in order that she may appear as early as possible after her arrival in London. FAMILY DISCORD.—At the Sussex assizes, last week, there were no less than four actions springing out of family feuds, viz., one by a father against his son, one by a son against his father, one by a son against his mother, and one by one brother against another. It is said the Committee of Privileges of the Wesleyan body have been in communication with the Committee of Council on Education, and the explanations and assu rances they have received have, it is believed, secured their c o r di a l accep t ance o f th e overnment plan. On Monday evening last, a soldier, of the Coldstream Guards, fell from one of the Greenwich boats into the Thames, and was drowned, together with his comrade, who leaped overboard and perished in trying to save him. The former had been married that morning, and the bride was on board. A gentleman, of the name of " William Chadwick, Esq., of Ardsey, near Doncaster," has actually published a pamphlet. with the title " The whole retail trade of the United Kingdom is endangered by the proposed govern ment measure of EDUCATION." surely the force of folly can no farther go. said, ar riot expected to A trotting-match, for one thousand guineas cided. on Friday near Maidenhead. A Manchester had set the time for ten miles at thirty-five minutes four seconds. A mare, called The Wonder, performed the distance in thirty-four minutes ten second was de- ,econds Liam Wordsw e 3lancheBter time by fifty-fiv( The Poet L aureate . short visit to Bristol and Batl :five localities the poet also inspected t Mr. Jefferies " Cannynge's chapel," on the premises c Redcliff-street. A man has been killed, in a strange manner, at Cheri Lm, in Lincolnshire !h a boy was drivi cart, whi had placed a loaded gun, the muzzle pointing 1 ehicle tne man irds 1 in the man's hoc ast tried on nits for tl murder of their infant ch one was declared guilty. Perhaps there never wa riod when, owing to accidents by fire and the caret or something worse, of mother so much destruction of infant life took place as at pr€ The opponents of the Government edtu at Bristol held a large meeting in the (latE Hall, Broadmead, on Thursday evening. They are in a the radical Bristol Mercury, n scheme Socialist for their or )iinpletely doiertedthem on this in its un - qualiiiedl . dhesion to the Cabine At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesd Cronin was acquitted of the charge of mansla having caused the death of a female by administering a certain noxious compound. The defendant is a physician Dennis ter, in in good practice in London, and his trial caused much excitement among the faculty. AMERICAN FLOUR.—Thc vessel Lady Hilda, arrived in the London docks from Barbadoes, brought, in addi tion to a cargo of West India sugar, 100 barrels of Ameri can flour. This is the first occasion, to our knoll the arrival of Americari flour from one of the We Islands.—London Times. uth Northumberland ensuing f understoc ieral election, as has been rur however, that the step was cont is not to be carried t in consequence. we are glad to state of the honourable member's ,e improved REFUSAL TO WORK.-At the Newport (Monmouth shire) police-office, two Irishmen, John Murphy and J. Barry, one of them from Skibbereen, who had been granted an_ asylum in the workhouse, were last week - convicted of cursing and swearing, and They were sentenced to imprisonment refusing to work. and hard labour in Usk gaol THE - IRISH IN SOUTH WALES.—Swansea, Cardiff, Newport, and other places on the line of the South - Wales fever in the run 'hey generally trave troops of ten or twelve, and few of * the women appear to have bonnets ; many are barefootpd-__ _ _ _ , The mortality amongst lambs in Herefordshire during the present season, has been of serious consequence. One farmer has lost as many as 300, and another 00. It fordshire, in the southern counties of England the lamb ing season has been particularly favourable, healthy, and prolific. VERY LITTLE CHANGE.—It is announced that the Theatre at Abervstwith, has been purchased_ and con- vetted into a Popish Chapel The Change yc scarcely be perceptible in the performances now to take place, and those formerly under theatrical management, only the mummery and tinsel will be more showy and melodra matic in the hands of the Priests. _ _ Sir George Grey, the Home Secretary, has addressed a letter to the visiting magistrates of the various gaols, in the country, acquainting them that, "in consequence of the suspension of the transportation of male convicts to Van Dieman's Land, it will be requisite to make immediate provision for the confinement and employment, in this country, of a great number of such offenders. PARENTAL AFFLICTION.—The following appeared as an advertisement in the second column of the first page of the Times of Wednesday last :—" R. P. B.—My dear child, write to me without delay, as your father is very ill on account of your absence, and I am almost distracted. If you wish to live from home I will send you your clothes and money fa ,c 1 to me you will break my heart.--M. B." TAME BIRDS.-At the Rectory, Llanfoist, the Rev. James Jenkins has a lawn adjoining his garden, where maybe seen several robins and chaffinches, the worthy has so successfully trained them, that the moment he enters the lawn, they will immediately come to his call, and fly, each in its turn, to the number of six or eight, into the hand to be fed. AWFUL VISITATION ON A WEDDING-DAY. - -Lucy Loomes, aged 22, died at No. 14, Baltic-street, Old.: I street, London, where she was about to spend the _ week, moon. - ---:" T It appeared that she was married on .uesday, to a young man of respectable connections, at Spa-fields Chapel ; afterwards they walked about the streets, when, in the course of the afternoon, she complained of being ill. On rea was sent for .hing home she became so bad that a surgeon however, soon became extinct. In a minute of the Privy Council recently issued it is said, alluding to th ,osed measure of g verment edu- themselves precluded from making - provision for Roman Catholic children by new measures, if they shall deem it advisable. This reservation only tells us what we knew before—that the present government, like the last, is dis posed to make grants or otherwise give aid to Romanists whenever they can find an opportunity. Our present bu siness,.however, is with the present measure. hursday last perket hurricane on the west coast of Scotland, which was particularly felt in the Firth of Forth. We are in formed that the powerful steamers on the Burntisland ferry made the whole of the usual passages to Granton Pier, &c., taking a little longer time, with the exception „ of the six o'clock boat, the runnel of which was blown down, and in consequence of the accident the steamer put into Kirkcaldy, and lay there all night. We understand that no passage was made during the day at the Queen's ferry.—Edinburgh Gazette. Sir Robert Peel, in his speech against the factory bill, said he knew ten persons at least who were now worth £300,000 each, who at one time had only 20s. to 30s a week. [The right hon. baronet's own father's case pre sented quite as strong an instance as those alluded to, of the acquisition of great wealth by individuals who were at one time in comparatively straitened pecuniary circum stances • his predecessor, who became the great builder up of the family, having actually worked over-time, at the cutting department of a calico printer, to provide himself with funds to procure the first watch he had ever the pride or privilege to wear.] PROHIBITION OF EXPORT OE GRAIN FROM TURKEY. —Official intelligence has reached this country stating that in six weeks from the March, owing to information received by the Ottoman government that the interior of the country will have to suffer from the scarcity of grain, the exportation of grain from the ports of Adrianople, Tilistria, Nidisi, Canini, Avlonio, Delvino, Sirhala, Ro dosto, Salonica, Pachalic of Broussa, Sarouhan, Corria, Trebivonde, Castamoum, Nicomedia, and Smyrna, will be prohibited—the delay of six weeks being fixed in order that parties who were under contract to receive freights at any of these ports may be enabled to execute them. _ _ _ _ . EMu fluential peers —A memorial, numerot Ind gentlemen, was signed by in- lresented to Lord Nednesday week it consider themselves pledged, are, first, the necessity of systematic colonization, on a very large scale, from Ire land to Canada, and of the assistance of the state to pro mote, it ; secondly, the necessity of making religious pro vision for the emigrants; thirdly, the advantage of enlist ing private enterprise, in the form of agency, to carry out the-plan; and, fourthfy, a willingness to accept an income and property tax for the purpose of defraying the cost of the emigration. AEROSTATION.—On Monday week Mr.Gypson ascended from London in his new improved balloon, accompanied by Mr. Coxwell. The flight was continued for sixty miles to Sandhurst, in Kent, where a safe descent was effected, near the residence of Sir John Herschel, the illustrious astronomer. The aeronauts intended to cross the Channel, but a shift of the wind suggested the pru dence of altering their original determination. Lady Hers chel and some of her family having witnessed the deseent, Mr. Gypson and Mr. Coxwell were induced to pay their respects to the distinguished observers of the aerial cha riot, and the gentlemen from the clouds having been hos pitably received, the merits and probable utility of aeros tation were cliocussed with enthusiasm and with conside rable compeancy and knowledge of the science on the part of Sir John Herschel. The aerial voyagers at one period of their lengthy journey attained an elevstion of three miles, and some ingenious machinery, invented by Mr. Gypson, to raise and depress the balloon without loss of gas or ballast, was worked with advantage. 'TRIUMPH OF THE CHURCH AT LEEDS.—A corres pondent of the Daily News says :—" A change seems to have come over the spirit of the dream of the people of Leeds. Wednesday was the day appointed for the annual election of churchwardens for the parish of Leeds, and although, for the last fifteen or eighteen years, the church wardens of the parish have been either Dissenters, COM morily so called, or persons more decidedly opposed to the interests of the church as an institution connected with the state, the parishioners have at length elected by an overwhelming majority the entire body of the church wardens from the decided friends of the church. Before the votes were taken, one of the inhabitants urged very strongly upon the parishioners assembled the propriety of electing as churchwardens persons who would be opposed to levying a church-rate, as, according to the late decision of Lord Denman, a majority of the churchwardens, and a minority of the vestry, could lay a church-rate, as if it were required, in opposition to the wishes of a majority of the parishioners. To this it was replied that there would be no more necessity to lay a church-rate now than there had been for the last dozen years, as the expenses of the church not defrayed by the congregation, and which the churchwardens were legally bound to provide for by a rate or otherwise, scarcely exceed £2O. The proposer of the opposition list demanded a poll, which the Vicar said he would grant if he should receive a satisfactory guarantee for the expenses before four o'clock in the afternoon. the upper side of London-bridge, and immediately in front of the new and extensive range of warehouses erected a few years back by Alderman Humphery, M.P. It was principally used as . a receiving house by the vessels en gaged in the coasting trade of Kent and Essex, and as a depot for the produce of those counties intended for the London market. The wharf was the property and in the it blew a I occupation of _Alderman Humphery. The whole of the buildings and their contents were destroyed to. the amount, 'it is supposed, of £15,000. They were only partially insured. The fire is supposed to have originated f r om spontaneous combustion Anglesea and Field Marslial Grosvenor, when the Duke of Wellington, attended by the Head Quarter Staff, pre sented to those two veteran officers the batons so de servedly bestowed upon them by their Sovereign in the last Brevet. Only one feeling of regret is associated with this gratifying event—the absence of Field Marshal Sir George Nugent, whose advanced age and indisposition prevented his attendance to receive a similar reward for his past meritorious services. We sincerely trust, how ever, that he will soon be sufficiently recovered to come to town for that purpose; and we are certain that the Commander-in-Chief participates in our wish.—United Service Gazette. COST 011FH E GENERAL SURVEYS liamentary returns lately issued wa one containing an item of most startling magnitude. It is entitled, " Abstract of the aggregate amount paid in each year on account of the survey of counties and the trigonometrical surveys ; distinguishing the amount for England, Ireland and Scotland, since the commencement in 1791, up to January 1847, and the total amount for each kingdom and for the United Kingdom." And under the head of Ireland we find the prodigious iim'of £Bl7, 512. 14s. 64d. as the cost of t ae engra Tag lIVERPOOL STANDARD. It is said that the Bank of France has already male arrangements for the repayment to Messrs. Baring and Co. of the loan of £BOO,OOO, due at the end of the present month, by credits upon St.. Petersburg, and it is antici pated in some quarters that some bf the gold then may find its way back to England through that operation. It is stated that the ministers were to assemble in town, yesterday, for the purpose of considering the proposition made by the Irish landlords, for an extensive scheme of emigration. Some of the ministers, favourably disposed towards it; but it be adopted 1., has , d the most at- Letters from Scotland advise of a most extraordinary event. The lord-lieutenant of a Scottish county, and a member of the Scotch peerage, has suddenly absconded, leaving behind - him a mass of bills and securities bearing the forged names of his own son and other relatives. The signatures have been repudiated by the respective parties. It is reported that large amounts of charity funds are in volved in the wreck of the party in question.—DailyNews ... • At Fareham; on Tuesday - , Charles Wolfe, a footinan in the service of Mr. W. Thresher, was committed for trial for attempting to murder his fellow-servant, a young wo man named Elizabeth Ayling. The prisoner made no de fence. It appeared from the evidence that he followed the prosecutrix into her room, there struck her on the head, and then attempted to kill her with a razor. The prisoner afterwards attempted to cut his own throat. From one portion of the evidence it would appear he was ncited by jealousy. REDUCTION IN THE DUTIES OF FOREIGN TIMBER, &c.—From Thursday last the duties on foreign timber and deals undergo the following reduction :—Timber from £1 ss. to £1 the load of 50 cubic feet ; deals from £1 12s. to £1 ditto ; staves from £1 Bs. to £1 3s. the great hun dred of 120 pieces • handspikes over 7 feet from £2 to £1 12s. ditto ; handspikes under 7 feet from £1 to 16s. ditto ; lathwood from £1 to 16s. the fathom ; and deals of fall lengths, thickness, and breadth 20 per cent. on the indred of 120 pieces of the number of ships, laden with foreign corn, entered inwards in the year ended sth January, 184 we learn ays the Standard) that the grain and flour imported ir 1710 British ships was — Grain, quarters ...... 1,348,529 Grain and flour imported in 2927 Foreign ship Flour and meal, cwts Grain, quarters . . 1,744;506 1,938,948 ORKSHIRE BARRISTERS.—A barrister of the Northern Circuit had, occasion to attend the Reading Assizes, the other day, _in the capacity of a witness in a horse case. The learned judge (Maule) suggested that barristers gene rally were not supposed to know much of the 'Merits of horses. The witness thereupon replied—" But _ your lordship plus this ti. it recollect that I am a Yorkshireman Counsel engaged in the cause added, " Yes, my lord, the Yorkshire barristers know a great deal more about horsgs than they do about law." Ma. JUSTICE MAUER'S I for the judges at the Readir Mr. Justice Maule r The accommodation issizes is extremely meagre. inded the authorities of this the other day, in rather a humorous manner. Coming into court in the morning, with the little three-cornered hat ship, turning round to the under-sheriff, addressed him in alOud tone On Sunday se'nnight, during the morning service at Powick Church, a young lady was observed to be in a fainting condition, and the same symptoms also imme diately afterwards affected others of the congregation, to the number of about twenty. They were conveyed into the open air and to the adjoining houses, And after some time and trouble, they all recovered, having apparently suffered severely from incipient suffocation. It was found on investigation, that the alarming occurrence was caused by the sulphureous vapour evolved in the process of e..--. 44.- 41-10 vvrov,,,,,c. _ THE NEW COMET.—This object, discovered on Feb. 6, has, during the last 20 days, been visible to the naked eye in the constellation Andromeda, shining as a star of the fourth magnitude, with a tail extending, on March 2U, about four degrees from the nucleus. On the 30th of March, at noon, it was calculated that the comet was dis- took place ,bout 6 o'clock in the evening. tin nebulosity is about 65.0410 The diamete of the more condensed central part 8000 ; the tail extend! THE In TRADE es from to maintain the pre ent prices of iron during the ensuing quarter. At Dud ley, on Tuesday, it was resolved to resist any further attempts on the part of the men to exact an advance in the existing rate of wages, the present rates bearing a ratio to the price of iron very much in favour of the , een resolveC ie iron- he Birmr workmen. k Wolverhampton, on Wednesday, the meeting was well attended. It was reported that iron is at present in great demand, and many good orders on hand. There was consequently no attempt to reduce the prizes, which stand ag follow :—Pig iron, £5 to £5 10s. ; railway iron, £lO 10s. ; and bar, £lO. TIIE FACTORY BILL.—Lord Ashley has addressed a letter to the short-time committees of the counties of Lancaster, Chester, and York, in which he says—" It is impossible that I should omit to congratulate you on the glorious victory obtained by your friends, yesterday, in the division on the Factory Bill, when a majority of 78 66 members only having been found to vote against It: We cannot be sufficiently thankful to Almighty God for this important progress towards the full attainment of a welfare of 3:ourselves and yoir children." SINGULAR ACCIDENT TO A SNIPE.—A dead snipe was found lately in one of the Castle meads by Mr. W. C. Tisoe. It had evidently been starved to death with food in its beak. The upper part of its long bill was jammed into a piece of hollow reed about an inch long, and in the lower part of the bill towards the point was en closed - .mall t --"- ' ' I had doubt been a Jeetle. The biro, ooring into the reed for the beetle and the stump of a hrnt-on Ipavincr a nnrfirm fiffino- en Ha, upper part c effork fr. Knight with the beetle within, and the reed around its bill, as a curiosity.—Hertford Mercury. The Kent and Essex wharf was burnt to the ground on thus beati le survey, and and printing, though t till the year 1825 ! Out of this there has no account of maps and surveys sold to the public, nearl £25,500, better than one-third of the latter amount bein derivable from the railway mania of 1844-5. expence . was nc n receive AN UNITARIAN SAG] an Unitarian minister at the national fast iecause se this country at a time when such loss can least lie spared ; and because the day will be spent by thousands in feasting and idle dissipation, rather than in fasting and humilia tion." This serio-comic person ends his protest with the following counsel :—" If the day must be set apart from the ordinary duties of life, I should advise my friends to observe it in mental improvement, social enjoyment, and healthful and refreshing exercises for the body." Accord ing to this pseudo shepherd of the people, it is useless to order a fast, because thousands will spend the clay so recommended in feasting, &c. ; and lest they should not be so minded, he tells them it will be best observed by indulging in social enjoyment, and other com fortable matters genial to Socinianism ! MIGRATION. — In the course of his speech on the Fac tories bill, Sir R. Peel observed that the noble lord, the member for Lynn, was'now a great advocate for the con struction.of railways—that system of locomotion which was extending. itself both in England and on the Conti nent. The greater that extension, the more would the means be facilitated of free egress for the skilled manu facturers and artizans of this country to the receipt of higher wages abroad. The prejudices of the English arti zan to removal from his home, were fast declining from' the English character. He read of higher wages abroad — he read, further, that the ancient hostility to an English man was no more felt or encouraged—he found he could reach Rouen, or any other place in France, in twelve or fourteen hours, and these facts, together with a feeling partly of curiosity and partly a hope of gain, ought all to operate upon the House of Commons as reasons why it could not continue to control English labour as formerly when locomotion was difficult, and when prejudices ex isted and prevailed. DISCOVERY OF A SUPPOSED MYSTERIOUS MURDER COMMITTED ELEVEN YEARS SlNCE.—Saturday week's Go vernment Police Gazette contains the particulars of a supposed murder, under most mysterious circumstances, committed eleven years since. In the month of August, 1836, a mare was found tied in a coppice at Sedgberrow, Worcestershire. She was of the following description, viz., dark brown with switch tail, star in the forehead, long in the back, about fifteen hands high, three or four years old, and a fast trotter. She had on a bridle and saddle, the latter a good one, with two new stirrup leathers and girths attached, maker's name on the saddle, " C. Reeve, Malmsbury." In consequence of human bones having been recently discovered near to where the mare was found,' it is thought that the owner of the mare was murdei.ed,' and that he was a dealer. A person suspected of the.murder has given away an antique double-linked silver watch chain, and affixed to the chain is a watchkey, in the body of which 'is curiously worked in silver the figure of a man,' seated on a barrel, smoking a pipe. It is believed that. the . chain .and key belonged to the de ceased, and every endeavour is being made to ascertain who that individual was. April 13, 1847. Sir John Ross has written to the Royal Astronomiea THE INCENDIARY FIRES AT SOHAM.—Mrs. Munson , Society, stating that he had made proposals to the Admi- who was remanded some time back for setting fire to some f ralty to attempt to reach the North Pole, in order to premises at Soham, Cambridgeshire, in the occupation A measure an ace of the meridian. He proposes to winter Mr. Cooper, of that place, was on Saturday last commit.te" at Spitzbergen, employing his officers and crew under the for trial at the next assizes. During the examinatigr direction of the talented son of the celebrated Professor which was holden at Soham, her son Josiah was ansiousik Schumacher. At the proper season, it is Sir John's in- waiting outside the room to hear the result. It was We tention to attempt to reach the North Pole on sledges necessary, however, to send for a witness from MiMenhall, drawn by Swedish horses, being a modification of the plan in the interim, the Magistrates sent for Josiah, who cattle proposed first by Dr. Scoresby, and of which that highly boldly into the room, wondering, apparently, what they talented individual has given his most unqualified appro- wanted him for ; and his surprise and mortification may bation. v be imagined when Mr. Wilkm, solicitor, said that he or THE MISFORTUNE OF. RICHES.—On Monday a man peered to prefer a charge against him for having set fire to named John Parfleet, living at 74, Lucretia-street, New- a stack of straw, on November 1, 1846, the property of cut, Lambeth, while - in a state of intoxication, reeled Mr. T. Peck, of Soham, whereby several outbuildings were down a cellar keep, in Kent-street, Southwark, sustaining destroyed ; upon which charge the prisoner stood remand several severe injuries. On hearing that he was about to ed until Saturday, when he was heard at the Crown Inn, be conveyed to the hospital he positively refused, saying Soham, and was fully committed. he was a gentleman, and could afford to pay for his own FORTUNATE ESCAPE.—THE QUEEN'S HOUNDS. doctoring. He was accordingly carried on men's shoulders Last Wednesday was a private meeting for the Queen's to his own dwelling. It is said that on the 28th ultimo hounds, at -Salt Hill ; the throng of amateurs was ye he received a legacy of £ll9, and since then he has been considerable. Among the recreationists from scholast continually inebriated, and fined twice, to the amount of toils and plagues was Master Woolls, of Uxbridge, wt £6, for assaults, and had £5 to pay for damages corn- being mounted upon an old hunter, was much dispose( mitted whilst in tha' " '' The new Italian Opera Company, at Covent Garden, commenced their campaign on Tuesday evening, with Rossini's grand opera "Semiramide,' before a house crowded in every part. The refitting and alterations of the hc.use would appear to have been effected in the most judicious and elegant manner. Mr. Costa, the conductor, Madame Grisi, Signor Tamburini, (who, after a four was not t 6 take the lead, but was to fall back in the ruck; this created restiveness, and, at last, he bolted with his young rider, making straight running for the Great Wes tern Railway, then some two or three fields in the front- - the two first fences were . cleared in racing pace, but the' now advancing upon the line, and that Ling, threw himself out of . The horse, however, was of his rider, but pursued NIGHT years' absence, re-assumed his favour and Lacy with his accustomed finish,) were each enthu- role of of the night was the deblt of Simiora Albo - ni as Arsdee, whom the critic of the Daily News (the highest authority) pronounces to be the finest contralto singer ever heard in England YOUATT, AUTHOR OF " THE HORSE." uthor had been long collecting materials fOr a complete history of the pig (a subject hitherto much undervalued and hardly written upon), and a few weeks before his lamented death he placed the manuscript in the printer's hands, and it is now published. We find in it the same research and agreeable style of composition that please so much in his account of the horse, and his other works on domestic animals. The work is handsomely got -up, with excellent engravings from Harvey's drawings, and as it is certainly as useful, it bids fair to be as popu lar as any of those celebrated productions of his pen. A few months ago the same useful writer gave to the public anew edition of his " Complete Grazier," a most valua- This talented ant to the occupiers of land vrr rival (.11 . 1h1.1, 411 V ,AllllllPf and it may be said body of hubandry I he requ on Monday night are again favourable. In every partment except the Stamps and Crown Lands—in t Customs, the Excise, the Taxes, the Property-tax, a the Post-office--there is an increased return, the total i crease upon the year being £1,538,168, and upon the quarter £403,632. Under the head of Property-tax, tr increase upon the year is £379,840—a most satin:.._ amount. The Post-office revenue shows an advance of £lOOO a week during the last year ; and that compre hensive term, " Miscellaneous ," shows an increase of £129,173. _ The first feeling in the mind on reading these gratifying details, is the pleasing anticipation of a7reduc tion of taxes, and especially must it be satisfactory to the t which th : by a la, so thoniughly disapproved, the income-t however, which affects all mundane affairs, the cup of hope is only raised to the lips to be dashed to the ground. The interest of the eight millions added to the public debt will absorb the increase, and hence we are in a posi tion contrasting strongly with that of a year or two ago— expenditure Jr UNION-HALL, BAILNARDCASTI (From the Daily News.)—" ally erecte gone as many metamorphoses sook me ; and from a temperance hall I was transmogri fied into a theatre. One season settled the business of the unhappy manager : he did not venture on a second. Mr. J. Barker's followers, liowever, had the courage to take me in hand ; but they, too, very soon gave me up. Thorne took me; and I never was so well attended be fore. He made a pretty penny by me, if one-half that I have heard be true. After his departure, I under went a series of rapid changes. I was a concert-room—a lecture-room—a bazaar. I was distracted by trombones and bored to death by twaddle ; and every now and then I was puzzled by ejaculations of ' going ! going ! gone ' fe" Iby the tap of aI) -- At -Jammer .ast, however, have the prospect of peace. The [Roman] Catholics havE taken a lease of me ; I have been converted into a chapel ; and a bishop has preached within my walls." yesterday week, a question was tried s to the vc of a will. On the thirtieth of December, 1844, there died in that town, at a very advanced age, without wife or child, a Mr. William Brayne, who many years ago com menced business as a brazier and tin-plate worker, and by industry, economy, and luck, had amassed, at the period Of his death, a fortune of £30,000 or £40,000. His nearest relatives were two nieces and a nephew. In Sept., 1844, he made a will, bequeathing the bulk of his fortune to the grandchildren of a Mr. Bather, his uncle, who had lent' him X5OO at the commencement of his career. In his lasr illness, he sent for oneof his nieces to attend on him. On his death, the niece prc before his death, and signe duced a will, made four days this will the nephew and two nieces claimed which he lived, and to test the validity of will, the per fami possession. In this they failed ; however, after E investigation, the jury found for the defendants. A DANGEROUS LUNATIC.—On Wednesday night week an Irishman of the name of Barney Fitzpatrick, who had formerly been confined in Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, rushed into the streets of New Brunswick in a very ex cited state , and created a great disturbance. Sergeant Gibson, T 27, knowing his dangerous character, endea voured to appease him and persuade him to go home quietly, but without avail. Mr. Millard, the landlord of the Catherine Wheel public-house, who knew him well, then went up to him for the same purpose the sergeant had tried in vain, when Fitzpl - I . I him and assaulted him very threatening his life ; and there is no doubt that he would have carried out his threats to the fullest extent had not Sergeant Gibson ably assisted Mr. Millard in defending men had been abtained that FitzpatrickwasovWpoVered and conveyed to the station-house. On Thursday he was taken before the Brentford magistrates. The Beuch were at first disposed to commit bim for trial for the attempt at murder, but it was eventually considered that the best course would be to send him again to Hanwell lodged with Bolland's parents, and Bollancl paying his addresses to her. She had been employed 'a a factory, but left these works before the occurrence, an, had not procured work elsewhere. Late on WednesdaY, night last, Bolland's jacket and the girl's slip were foun t by the side of the river Alive, at Lower Fold, and De" morning their dead bodies were discovered in the rive r ' They were locked in each others arms, and tied together with a handkerchief, which the young woman had we, round her head on the pre v io us d ay , th e k no t b e i ng °e hind Bolland's back. At the inquest a sister of the de' , ceased female said that both of them called on the Pr e ' d upon vious morning at I 'her's house, and ler fat 1 ham washed the _ b .', home print for an apron tb r herself, and said she would give it to witness to make b e il baby a slip, as it would be the last time she (deceasel would see the baby. She told witness she would rift again see her alive, and that -nine- on tramp. b° would not tell witness where she intended to go to. 13 ° D land said he thought about going to Harrogate. 1 3 °'b seemed low spirited. Maria said she would do away vig, herself if neither she nor Bollar d could get any work. . 1 ' then told her to hold her foolish talk. Witness also PO' suaded her against anything rash. Bolland said he e!,i pected work in the morning. When Maria left she kiss eu witness's baby,and repeated it would be the last time the child would see her alive. Both she and Bolland cried. Maria had been in low spirits since she was out of woric• ilv way. From thei evidence iCap - p lj e lj a;d t rh tire '- ienale d j ece - a'sed had Sar that they were go i ng to b e marr i e d on 'Monday, and B° .l. land said he tho ug h t t h ey woul d . Sh e a l so sa id t o an other person that a man had offered to take her to France ( t work) and that she thought of going. It was stated th, 6 ., he too had said he was enn-agpd to to France- Wednesday night ti Drisifaie both left two acquaintances, a 133 , 9i1 f he bottom of Dyer-street, and ai c t e t ' ye," went in the direction of _PA Lunatic Asylum The Bishop of Exeter has discountenanced, and preached and published a sermon in opposition to "a grand Easter p.m', -a. al -:4-- of inrrPStCintY the Irish and ie dearth and famine as a signal visitation of the Almighty at d time of our grea test national prosperity, his lordship objects to such an attempt at the reparation of the sad consequences of our sins as arises from ball-room selfishness, frivolity, mockery, and dissipation. The Bishop, in a communica tion to the Mayor of Exeter, stated that he felt it his duty to animadvert upon the st _ claimed personal imputations on any OT [ect, but wholly dis- His w9-rship, uded to am in consequence of the discos to give, not the profits m( .4y, - but the whole prOceeds of he sermon, whicliis sold at one shilling each, giving more for the sake of the distressed, if for the EDUCATION.—It is astonishing to observe the extent to which this subject is dividing the press, as well as parties. The Dissenters are told that they are afraid of their con gregations being churchified,—as one of the resulzs of the extension of knowledge : this they deny ; contending that inspectors, being paid by the State, will give a State in fluence to the machinery. It is said that ministers have given way to a certain point on this question, and that some sects will be at liberty to choose their own in.. cnprtors : thus lobbing away the public money in holes and corners. the Wesleyans are rather split on the sub ject ; the Unitarians and Scotch Free Church going with the Gov ernment measure. There is something question able in the whole proceeding ; parliament not having a due control over the details. We do not exactly know where this greatly improved class of new schoolmasters are to he found,—where and when they are made, or where educated. At present they can only be considered as the pupils of the very demagogues denounced as in competent. Officering a new corps of recruits out of the ranks, is appealing from the greater knowledge to the less ; but the nation is to be made, one way or another, more gramatically, geographically, and astronomically virtuous. We rather doubt the fruits than grudge the means. DIFFERENT FATES OF MR. COBDEN AND MS POR TRAIT.—WhiIe 1-Ir. Cobden, M.P., the great apostle of free trade, is in Rome, endeavouring, it may be, to per suade his holiness the Pope to drain and cultivate the pestilential marshes of the Tiber — "Where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies," the league portrait of Mr. Cobden is destined to play a part in adventures in fields and courts nearer home. About 2 o'clock on Monday week, one of the Leeds police men, while on duty in Pottery Field, Hunslet, found a man lying prostrate on the ground, fast asleep, with the portrait of Mr. Cobden, framed and glazed, under his arm. With some difficulty the sleeper was awakened, but as he was evidently not a commodity which the guardian of the night could with propriety pass duty free, he placed both him and the portrait in bond until eleven o'clock the same morning. At that hour he was brought before the magistrates at the court-house, when he said his name was George Fowler, and that he was a glass blower. He also stated that he had been at York on Sunday, and ac counted for his being found as described by saying that he had got too much liquor. On being asked where he had got the portrait, he said he had swopped something else for it at the Mulberry Tree, Hunslet-lane. The police man informed the bench that the prisoner had given three different accounts of the portrait. Mr. Markland ob served that he had perhaps such a great partiality for Mr. Cobden that he had taken it without permission. A mes senger was then sent to make inquiry, and it was found that the statement as to the swop was correct. The pri soner was therefore set •at liberty, and the portrait was given up to him. parting, bouana aissea tne girl, anu notn ne ana LUG , A male deceased said it would_ be the last time sho2s The jury . were of see their acquaintances they had drowned themselves opinion wiiilF . in a perfect state and re FREE TRADE.-it has been well observed by Morning Herald of Friday that " the first free trade yej o , establishes the important fact that vast importations f not by any means ensure to the imposting people [ n ( ' England] corresponding exportations ;"—that " it is I w o fair to assert that the famine in Ireland prevents for t o present all rational conclusions as to the effects of t o free trade policy." Th e wr it er th en procee d s t o tltt? 9 Blackwood of the month, setting forth that the fame li fo r has accelerated the effects of such policy, rather tl'; retarded - or impeded them. We make the folloulf e s extract :—" What has the famine done ? It has caw`{ fifteen millions worth of domestic agricultural produce, be exchanged for fifteen millions worth of foreign agri i , tural produce. The potato crop which has perished.A Ireland is estimated at fifteen millions worth. But fore ~ a i, agricultural produce, to an equal or greater amount, 0 1 Leon imported; six millions of quarters, between grait i ,, all sorts and flour, have been entered for home consto o : / `/, tion, in seven months preceding sth February, 0 ;0 Taking these quarters on an average as worth 50s. to L e consumer, we shall then have six millions of quart e .o, worth fifteen millions sterling. The distress that preca l o therefore, is not owing to any deficiency of food, for 0 4 a , or animals, in the U n it e d Ki ng d om , f or a s much:. come in of foreign prod uce as h as di sa pp eare d of domel i d We have been always t o ld th a t a ll a pp re h en sio n a bout P imports being paid in gold, and not in manufacturey chimerical ; that the sooner the inferior lands in 40 5 British islands go out of c ulti va ti on th e b e tter ; ample food for the inhabitapts will be obtained Po; foreign states; and that the agriculturists thrown 0 , 11 0 0 , employment by the change will b e rap idl y a b sor bed more profitably employed in sustaining our exteuto manufactures. Well, the thing has been done, a nd or desired consummation has taken place, from an e• t o ti. neous cause, even more rapidly than was anticiP a e igo The free traders contemplate the substitution of for., of for British ag r i cu lt ura l p ro d uce t o th e ex tent of fifte7 o l9 twenty millions as a most desirable result ; but theY f o ol lamented it could not be looked for for three or . 01) years. It would take that time to beat down the 13 1 tlic farmer, to convince the cultivators of inferior lands folly of attempting a competition with the great N e iog districts of the Continent. Providence has done th e at once. We have got, and at a railway speed toad 00, t. blessings of the new system. Free trade was to of the much desired substitution of 6,000,000 quatt e ive`,; home for 6,000,000 quarters of foreign grain in. ire' Th e 11' tyew. But the potato rot has done it in one. A rade rot could not have done it nearly so expeoll_ tofri but it would have done it as effectually. It is mistake, therefore, to represent the famine in Ireland the west of Scotland as an external calamity, sv , ; 3 l. "' s oar,/ concealed the natural effects of free trade. It gera 0 1 brought them to light at once.' "--If, as the , e te A suggests, we had been further advanced in the er';,,itte" free trade, anti had neglected agriculture, an d d rieletoPliete; inferior land to go out of cultivation, what had ? our fate and position in a period like the present a question worthy of all remembrance. boy see train fast approm his saddle without much injur not to be daunted by the loss Lere was Ins straight-a-head career, charged the railway fence, being a stiff quick hedge, and post and rail, and cleared over the line just in time as the train came up; one instant and the animal must have been struck down by engine. idress was given, in the Christ Church Sunday-school rooms, Bradford, on Monday eve ning week, by the Rev. W. Morgan, Incumbent of Christs Church, to the parents of the children who attend the Sune EDUCATION y and week-day Natiorial School, and to others, who were freely admitted without any restriction. The room was quite filled, and all present paid the greatest attention to an historical detail of the progress of education since the formation of the Society for Promoting Christian- Knowledge in 1698, to the rise of Sunday-schools in 1781. and there increase, and also to the National School So ciety, instituted in 1811, and incorporated in 1817• Various documents were quoted and referred to in illus tration of these and other means employed both by Churchmen and Dissenters to instruct the children of the was made of ti e enons, a statemen. the inefficient know- :of our population, which occas exhortation to study it without prejudice, and in itselt without the garbled accounts of party writers and an onymous hand bills. In conclusion, the clergymen left nan's conscience what steps to take respect oon as he had finished this address, which took up more than an hour, one of the Sunday-school teachers, without any previous arrangement, proposed that a petition in favour of the Government plan should it to eve ment. This was seconded and put to the vote, and it was unanimously carried. We leave our readers to judge from this fact what the judgment of the common people would be on the subject of the Government plan if theY were not misled by the garblec , its statements and mispepre alsehood to truth. ientations of thcise who pref MYSTERIOUS POISONINI The investigation ATTLEBURGH TUESDAY vened by Mr. Pilgrim, the 1 - 1 ult.,, respecting the deaths Norfolk ten O'clock, at the Greyhoundinn,iii;TieriTam, a village about eight miles distant. James Warren, an intelligent lad, aged 18, servant to Mr. Joseph Pearson, was the first of the police.—Eliza Sap t on the day in questum the kettle for breakfast.—Coroner : If poison been found in the tea kettle, can you form any opinion as to how it got there ?—Witness : I cannot, sir • she cos a good mistress to me, and I am very sorry if dud is the case. The water that remained in the tea kettle on Sue: clay morning tile aoctor LOOK away. 1 'mesa a nottie the water from the kettle on the same morning to warp my mistress's feet. I put the kettle in the copper hole 10 the back house on Saturday night. I placed it on the fire on Sunday morning before I went milking. On ti?° Thursday before her death, my mistress took me up in her room and showed me some mice holes in a closet ; sn e hole, it was mixed up in some' - 1 sr- - 'eV put some son in the thing in a basin. I swept out the closet, an ,ome of the poison were amongst the dust which she threw on the tire, and there was no vessel on the fire when sh e the kettle was not near it. On the Sun- it there called at the house and directed •me to fetch another tea' kettle for tea, as she was afraid to drink out of the one that had previously been in use : she was afraid to 11 0 : e tea made in it. The medical gentlemen had the kettle which boiled the water on Sunday morning. A wrong one was given them at first, but the mistake was rect ifi t and the right one entrusted to them. Mr. G. W. surgeon, of Norwich, deposed that on the 31st of i u n rate he made a po s t mor t em exam i na ti on o f th e bOdi e n s ,..4nic. deceased ; he had no doubt they had died fO ul He also exami ne d some tea-leaves +o,.kettle, an d arsenic in all. Th e • --- a t h e n o pt oceectings- were F SELF-DES' self de' o Leeds, by two young Wilson. 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