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house, SS TO THE TENANT tesatan.) ❑ animated debate which The question was, an address to Earl .td that not one sentenc .o the end at which a ss could tal •erogative in harmony I to t xpression, which Theld, was corporation as the recog- lye; of the metropolis of Ireland?' adicted, was proposed by Mr )I)servatlons, seconded by Lord Mayor of the was upon his legs to give utte nough when we pronounce of some of the coarsest of Lys. Of Mr. Butt's speech lers the injustice to furnish aunt. Elsewhere his observations will Mr. Butt achieved the difficult task of and spirited retort upon the radical pally vindicated the conservatives as it ats in the wrong, without uttering a ulated to awaken irritation or any un- we say, was a task requiring no so direct and decided ; nor can Icpressing our warmest approval ling which, under his guidance, the con- Town-council have adopted, as well as remarkable tact and practical ability ore brilliant qualities, he has individu s, of course, unnecessary to state what ,ontrovexsy. The motion was rejected )ur against eleven, and thus com oyal corporation of Dublin with the DENT ON THE LIVERPOOL AND ANCHESTER RAILWAY. army.—lt is with deep re .gret that I particulars of another railway ac ,.cknowledged evil, the per 'lfares long ago dedicated ..idation of the public. The es its name from the junction d Junction and the Liverpool 'redly one of the most dan- ;0 cross thdrougt with railway traffic in the kingdom. curved lines branchhig from Liverpool Grand Junction line there is the main Liverpool and Manchester, another line Messrs. Turner and Evans's colliery at line leading to the chymical works of ad Co., as also innumerable branches together, and effecting a union between The Grand Junctiohm.and the Liver- Railway Companies use every effort for afety to the public. A large number of ien are on duty day and night ; bells, means of giving notice of the approach n adopted ; but, notwithstanding these general Sigilance displayed by the Lich I have had frequent opportunities its are a matter of much too frequent arisen from the cir- 1g the railway within a dis one leading from the Vulcan srs. Muspratt and Co's from Ile employing a vast number of la: )f Newton. Shortly after 5 o'clock is Taylor, a fine lad between twelve he son of the lockkeeper at War. ey.canal, was sent for some milk to a the Newton side of the rail- iother lad of about his own the line leading from Messrs. Mus e Liverpool and Manchester Railway. peeing on to the railway a very long ter to Liverpool was passing along I on which they were standing. Last waggon had passed them, ,enger-train from Manchester shed across the line, thinking bility of au accident. At this xi, a pointman, stationed on the side of ay were running, saw the Liverpool and passenger-train approaching at its usual lewhere about 30 miles an hour, and he Drapany's servants called to the lads, but e them fully acquainted with their clan ing across the line almost ia front of the air-breadth escape," avoided the threat ames Taylor, the deceased, who was not iehind his companion, jumped right in It struck him with dreadful and death on as the train had passed, his body was if the rails at a distance, as afterwards til the 1, Is from the spot at which he received the 3 were cut off by the wheels, and his head its body were dreadfully mutilated. He lin a pool of blood. No assistance, of tdered to him, and he was carried a life home which he had left not more than t in all the pride of youth and perfect RDINARY COURAGE occurred near Calais on Monday, the st. The account of it was furnished to unaux by a correspondent at Boulogne. Boulanger, aged 75, and an (ancienne inhabitant of a lonely and isolated hamlet called the Beau-Marais, belong- Saint-Pierre-les-Calais, the said house :er only possesses, as regards fixed pro purchased by her about two years ago, ,'which she cultivated herself ; she also . Being excessively avaricious, she is those in the neighbourhood to have e house, and having entered and the fire, entered into conversation gain her confidence s (which was not the I soon return; and the visiters, o n h ear i ng kt eleven o'clock the same night she- was d from sleep by a noise caused by heavy ,ok the house. On going down she perceived its were hacking the door with a knife, and their voices as those of the two smugglers her house the same evening. She immedi arations for defence, and armed herself with . The robbers now redoubled their efforts ; stones against the door, took a two-pronged ..v's stable, and with it endeavoured to break kt length two panels in the lower part of the Ind an opening was made sufficiently wide to push his head through first, and to squeeze •wards. But the intrepid woman, stationing door, with the block of wood in her hand, eak the head of the first man who should through. The robbers did not dare make ley thrust the fork through the hole in the str►ke the widow with it. She, however, fork, succeeded in wresting it from them, another weapon of defence against the g the impossibility of effecting an entrance the robbers endeavoured to beat down the ' The widow Boulanger barri upported by the block of 1 table rst made use int this new obstacle, the assailants I broke the panes of glass ; but they on bars, which they in vain robbers uttered the most defended by it All this time t ions and menaces of death against the no who in vain called for assistance, for God ter voice in the midst of the storm, and He !r, but inspired her with all the energy of I need in order to escape from her perilous ssassins showed her their knives, and cried mild cut her throat in the middle of the they would leave nothing but the four walls Being stopped by the iron bars of the win to tile garden and commenced an attack on tchen, which communicated therewith, but attempts even more than the other door. the outside shutters of a window close by, Ines of glass, but again discovered an in ' in the shape of iron bars. The rob cow's stable, and began to break which separated the stable from the led without much difficulty, but their I by a portion of the woodwork of the 'hoard built against it, they returned upon the bakehouse, and thence upon where they mounted the chimney, and er of stones, which they threw down lat they might fall upon the poor old suc h a vigorous resistance; they object. Not daring to go down the ide, they tore off the th a t c h i n order ugh the roof, but, fearing lest they ietrate that way, they finally rede- only irritated the robbers; they )me instrument wherewith to break • the object of their first attack, e a thick block of wood, they g-ram against the door, wh'cfi t this new missile. Certain !rs uttered exclamations of joylibeit: thought) soon be in their power as well the possessed ! The unfortunate woman d saw that her last hour was fast ap !c hours during which this horrible 1, had exhausted her strength and over- I can fight no longer (said she to her le in my own house. I must save le then, after having endeavoured to rength, quickly drew the bolt of the towards the farm of Davielly, which her lonely dwelling. But, in order , Ito make a long deto u r, and to vo ditches in which the water !elt. In spite of these obstacles, how farm, but almost dead with exhaustion, utter the most feeble cry She was h two servants, armed mnpanied by an enormous dog, pro the robbers had abandoned it, the ing put them to fight. They had after the departure of the widow, ieient time to plunder the closets, some bread, butter, and a few other o fugitives proceeded to the Belgian acaptured. was rather struck with the Chinese, as showing a greater among them than 1 expected. ard, a piece of red paper, with taster of the house were in, or to the door and took the visitor tea was immediately served. le host generally accompanies j ug to his rank ; if a superior, rior, not so far. At the same ibat de politesse about 0 laid down, and they r of bows the superior Imprisonme nt7 c - o - t's _Recent in i it tile r erred cor, 'he late learned Dr. 13., professor ed all the passages preserved in an ie medicinal application of music, pears from this work that it was ncient Egy ,tians, Hebrews, Ito ly in acute but in chronical disor- yes several (8503 within his own per hich music has been efficacious ; but well as the honour of these, more pro- Lodern than to ancient music. A person ddenly seized with a violent sickness, on of physicians, he immediately sent as, and the violins had so powerful an hat his bowels became completely sub me be was restored. LAMENTABLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT' ON TEIE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. )ST AND NEARLY TWENTY PASSENGERS )lI.EA DFULLY INJURED, READING, FRIDAY NIGHT.—One of the most fatal and dreadful accidents it has ever been our lot to record occurred this morning between six and seven o'clock to the luggage train, on the Great Western Railway, which left London at half-past four o'clock. The train consisted of fourteen wag han the mere willing- ! Sons, two true and the engine and te n de r , w ith thirty seven passengers, the whole of whom were more or less in jured, and eight killed on the spot. The train passed on through Slough and Twyford, where it arrived shortly after six o'clock, and when about half way between that station and Reading a slip of earth took place to a very conside rable extent just at the moment the engine and tender were passing. This threw the carriages off the rails, the engine running into the side of the cutting. In one mo ment the carriages containing the passengers were over whelmed by the heavy luggage waggons behind, and the most lamentable and fatal results ensued. The trucks containing the passsngers were crushed between the luggage waggons and the tender, and scarcely one of the unfortunate travellers escaped without the most serious and dangerous injuries. Some of the carriages were upset, and others jammed between the hindermost waggons and the en gine and tender. The cries of the maimed and wounded, and the shrieks of the dying, at this moment, it were impossible to describe. It was, at once, a scene of destruction and horror of the most lamentable and heart-rending character. Despatches were instantly sent to Reading for medical aid, and several profes sional gentlemen were shortly on the spot. It may be con sidered most extraordinary that neither the engineer nor the stoker received the least injury. Considerable time elapsed before the unfortunate creatures could be extricated from the fragments of the broken carriages. Eight were found dead, and - the whole of the remainder more or less injured. An inquest upon the bodies was held this evening, before Mr. May, one of the coroners for Berks, and adjourned till the afternoon of Monday next. At present nothing has been adduced in evidence in any way to attach blame to the rail way company. Sixteen persons, consisting of eleven men and five women, were conveyed to the county hospital at Reading, in various vehicles, which were despatched to the scene of the fearful calamity, where they were most humanely attended by Mr. F. A. Bulley, Mr. May, and Mr. Morris, surgeons to that institution. The following is a description of the injuries they have sus tained : 1. A man, with his skull dreadfully fractured, upon whom the operation of trepanning was immediately performed. 2. Shoulder joint dislocated. 3. Foot dreadfully crushed. A portion of the bones were removed. 4. A man and woman with their arms broken 5. Three cases of concussion of the spine. 6. Head severely injured. 7. Two men with broken ribs. The wounds of five others, which were not of so serious a nature, were dressed at the - hospital, and the parties sent on by the next train, in first-class carriages, by the Great Western Railway Company. The sufferers are chiefly composed of working men, prin cipally stone-masons, who were proceeding to Cheltenham, Gloucester, and Bridgewater. It is not expected that any will be able to leave the hospital for a month or six weeks. From a quarterly ticket found upon the person of one who is dead, be is supposed to be a dissenting preacher named Jabez Cler. The body of a respectably-dressed mechanic, which was crushed between one of the carriages and the tender, was nearly severed. It appears that the engineer, (who, along with his assist ant, jumped off the engine the moment the catastrophe oc curred,) had the precaution to shut off the steam, thus preventing the explosion of the boiler, which, under the circumstances, must otherwise have inevitably taken place. FURTHER PARTICULARS READING, SATURDAY EVENlNG.—Subjoined is a list of the sufferers admitted into the county hospital, all of whom, with one exception; are going on very favourably. John Sainsbury, 30 years of age, a navigator, residing at Lambeth—several contusions on various parts of the body. Thomas Wheeler, 30 years of age, newspaper reporter, re siding in Mill's-buildings, Knightsbridge —contusions on the face ; will be able to leave the hospital this evening, having friends residing in the neighbourhood. Anne Wheeler, 31 years of age, wife of the above—a broken arm, with contusions of the head and back. Thomas Hughes, 15 years of age, apprentice to a painter, and living at Hammersmith —concussion of the brain, con tusions of the face, and injury to the abdomen. Richard Woolley (supposed to be, from a letter found on him,) address not known, being still insensible—compound fracture of the skull ; recovery very doubtful. Thomas Hawkins, 24 years of age, stonemason, residing at the Fish Ponds, near Bristol—dislocation of the great toe, &c. Anthony Batten, 43 years of age, saddler, residing in Man chester-mews, Manchester-street, Marylebone—contusions on various parts of the body. James Stapelton, 31 years of age, stonemason, living at Cheltenham—dislocation of the shoulder. William Baldwin, 52 years of age, stonemason, living at Cheltenham—a fracture of the ribs on the right side. Eliza Barnes, 20 years of age, servant, living in Addle- street, city—laceration of the scalp, and contusions on the back. Elizabeth Carpenter, 29 years of age, a servant, living Charles-street, Blackfriars—contusions on the legs. Hannah Cooper, 40 years of age, servant, living Thomas-street, Kennington-common—fracture, and dis cation of the bones of the right foot. From inquiries I am led to believe that the Sunning-I cutting, where the accident took place has been in an impe fect condition for some time past, and has attracted consider able attention from the engineers. The inquest was corn. menced yesterday afternoon, before Mr. May, coroner. The first witness examined was the surgeon, who deposed to the injuries which the respective deceased had sustained. George Hudson, sworn.—l live at No. 11, Church-street, Paddington, and was guard of the train to which the accident occurred at the Sunning cutting this morning. The train consisted of an engine and tender, two passenger trucks, a truck for passengers' luggage, and 16 luggage-waggons, 3 of which were empty. The passengers' trucks were fixed next to the tender. The train stopped at the Twyford station about three minutes, and then proceeded towards Reading. When we arrived at the Sunning-hill cutting, about 20 mi nutes before 7 o'clock, the train was stopped by slips of earth, which had Mien from the south side of the bank—the side of the line upon which the train was travelling. The engine ran off the rails, the tender followed, and the carri ages, by the sudden stoppage, came upon each other with such a concussion that the passengers were thrown out in all directions among the carriages. Several were killed upon the spot, and others were seriously injured. Before the ac cident happened I saw the policeman at Land's-end, who produced the usual signal light that all was right. lam in the habit of travelling with luggage trains, and I have often seen a watchman placed at night at this part of the line : I have, however, missed him for the last week. The engine was at the time travelling at the usual speed of about 16 miles an hour, and the engine -driver was perfectly sober. It was so dark at the time of the accident, that it was im possible to see anything upon the line. From the quantity of earth which, after the accident, lay upon the waggons which were behind the engine, I have every reason to believe that the earth fell at the time the train was passing. Some of the earth fell upon me, and I was nearly smothered with it. I was upon the truck with the passengers which was next the tender. The engine and tender had passed beyond the slip before the stoppage took place. The remainder of the witnesses stated that the slip which occasioned the accident was a new one, and though near to the previous slips had not been discovered. The inquest was then adjourned until Monday. The following is a list of the, parties who have been killed : No. 1. John Pook, of Stoke Canon, near Exeter, aged 30, was identified by a letter which was found in his pocket, and subsequently was recognised by his father. No. 2. Charles Williams, aged 32, a stone-mason, re siding in Cheltenham, but in the employ of Messrs. Grissell and Peto, upon the new Houses of Parliament. This corpse was identified by Mr. Allen, the foreman of Messrs. Grissell and Peto. No. 3. C. Sweetland, of Gloucester, stone-mason, aged 30, identified by his father, but not kuown to Allen. No. 4. - Mabbott, also of Glocester, stone-mason, aged 31, also in the employ of Messrs. Grissell and Peto, and identified by Allen. No. 5. Richard Ralph, of Harwell, near Steventon, Berks, aged 25, recognised and identified by his father. No. 6. The remains of a labouring man apparentiy, and dressed like a waggoner. Not yet identified. No. 7. Joseph Hands, of Clarence-gardens, Regent's-park, aged 26. The name of this unfortunate young man was first ascertained by a quarterly ticket, dated December, 1841, of the Wesleyan Methodist Society, being found in his posses sion. His mutilated remains have since been recognised by his father, who also identified those of his companion and friend, No. 8, Jabez Cleave (erroneously supposed to have been a preacher), on whose person a similar ticket of the name and date was found, but who was identified as a stone mason by Mr. Allen, the foreman at the Houses of Parlia ment for Messrs. Grissell and Peto. The following isthe graphic description of this fatal calamity given by one of the first visitors to the melancholy scene : " The scene which presented itself never can be effaced from my memory—l never can forget it. The stoutest hearts among the labouring excavator s—men who during the pro gress of the work had witnessed accidents of appalling cha racters—turned from the horrors which lay before them and were incapable for a time of rendering any assistance." But to the narative, so far as emotion and the best feelings of humanity checked by the vivid recollection of the picture, enabled Mr. Gosling to give it :—" I," said he, " was almost amongst the first to descend the cutting after the alarm that an accident had occured had been given. On arriving at the slip from which the earth had fallen, my attention was drawn by the groans, shrieks, and yells of the sufferers, to the shattered remains of the trucks upon which they had been travelling. The trucks were split into ribands, and the scattered timbers rested upon, and were mixed with, the dead and the dying. The first thing I particularly noticed was two men (supposed to be Joseph Hands and Jabez Cleave) crushed or jammed together between two trucks—their heads reclined in contrary directions, but both dead. I next ob served, on the south side of the line, three other persons lying under the remains of the forward truck, which was bro ken to pieces. The appearence of their remains, mutilated as they were, I never can forget, but I cannot describe. My attention was next drawn by her shrieks to a woman, whom I found in a kneeling posture, entreating to be extricated. It appeared to me that the main beam of the truck had fal len upon her legs. Owing to the danger of removing the wheels of the carriage, under which she was fixed, until the earth was properly shored up, nearly an hour and a half elap sed before the unfortunate woman was relieved from a posi tion of extreme suffering. Immediately on my approach the railway people ran very properly in the direction of Reading one way arid Twyford the other, to intercept any trains com ing down upon down upon that which had been so fearfully stopped. Two other men I saw dead near the three I have last described, and the eighth lying upon the bank." Mr. Gosling then described his sending for his horse and cart with straw for the conveyance of those who were still alive, and setting his men to work in the construction of shells for the reception of the remains of those to whose sufferings death had put an end. It would be an omission not to mention, that though Mr. May was the only medical gentleman examined at the inquest as yet, Mr. Arnold, the surgeon of Sonning, was, with Mr. Gosling, the first on the spot, and was indefatigable in his exertions and efforts to those in whom it was manifest life still remained. Strange as it may appear, still the fact is, that though Mr. Arnold was in attendance in the coroner's court during the whole of Saturday, he was not called as a witness. It is confidently said hereto-night that his examination before the jury to morrow will be insisted upon, as well as that of Mr. Gos ling. From furtlifl. inquiries I have learned that the slip of earth from whence the fall took place has been noticed for some days, at least a fortnight back, by no less than five wit nesses, who may, anti probably will, be called to-morrow ; at all event s this is certain, that Mr. Gosling, jun., while riding in casually across t h e woo d en b r i dge from Woodley to Sonn,,, not only noticed, but called the attention of the Policeman in the service of the company to it so recently as Thursday last, bet ween twelve and one o ' clock. The same observations had been made by Plant, the gamekeeper of Mr. R. Palmer, M.P. MI these facts have gone forth, and ne cessarily added to the anxiety and excitement to which the calamity itself was b Gut too well ca l cu l ate d to g i ve rise. 0 n quiryat the h os pit a l thi s even ing, learn f‘ I'E t h v a E t N Richard Woolley e , whose recovery is alone stated to be very doubtful, has rallied, though he is still un le to speak. THE PRINCE 01? WALES-HIS NAME AND ARMS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT Sir,—The Welsh inhabitants of Liverpool, amounting to upwards of 50,000 souls, have looked forward with deep in terest and anxiety to the birth of a prince who should derive his most distinguished title from their native country, intend= ing to avail themselves of that auspicious event to lay their national petition at the foot of the throne. It is now my pleasing duty to enclose a printed copy of that petition. As it contains a special reference to your royal highness, as well as to the infant prince your son, it is our wish to place it in your royal highness's hands previously to its being presented to her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. It would be in vain to attempt adequately to convey to your royal highness the enthusiastic affection and chivalrous attachment which her Majesty's Welsh subjects cLerish for their own prince —an attachment which, whilst it increases their loyalty to the Sovereign, renders your royal highness also an object of peculiar solicitude and regard. The Welsh inhabitants of Liverpool, therefore, pray for a new order of knighthood, of Cambrian designation, to com memorate the 'birth of their beloved prince, and for two Welsh and Celtic professorships at the English universities, as appropriate memorials of his august and virtuous parents. And if, in addition to these privileges, it should graciously please her Majesty to dive to the Prince of Wales, at his baptism, one British name, such as Arthur, Cadwalader, or Llewelyn—names illustrious in British history, and cause the royal arms of Wales as worn by the seventh Henry, and sub sequently by Queen Elizabeth—namely, "A dragon passant, wings elevated, pules upon amount vert," to be placed in the fourth quarter of the royal escutcheon, which is now vacant hi the withdrawal from the British Crown of the armorial bearing of Hanover, it would be hailed by the brave and patriotic Welsh as a proof that her Majesty duly appreciates their loyalty, and desires to secure its continuance in support of her illustrious offspring. Such concessions and arrangements would also contribute to render the present Prince of Wales the most popular and the most renowned of all that have borne the name since the fall of Llewelyn. The Welsh bards, who sing as no other bards do, and who never sing so well as when they have kings and queens, or princes of the royal blood, for their subject, would immortalise his memory. His British name, his armorial bearing of the "red dragon," with its associations of valerous deeds and imperishable glory; his descent from Cadwalader, the last King of the Britons. through the illustrious line of Tudor; the unbroken chain of his brave and royal ancestry, tracing its course through the Welsh pedigrees to a higher point of antiquity than belongs to any imperial or regnant family in Europe ; and, above all, his birth, identified in the annals of our country with the oriein of a new order of merit, sparkling with brilliant stars and f res h h onours , f or suc h o f Cambria, s sons as shall be brave in arms, or distinguished in the arts; and venerated as the event which unsealed the fountain of royal bounty that streams of literary blessings might conti nually issue forth to enrich the mental soil of his hereditary princedom ;—these, in conjunction with the personal virtues of the prince himself, would supply rich materials for song. The bards, inspired by these considerations would take a loftier flight on the wings of the heaven-born Awen, and the minstrels of the mountain land would teach the thrilling notes of the harp to echo to their strains, that the fame of their prince may live, whilst lives the noble race of Shenkin.—l remain, with the greatest respect, sir. your royal highness's most dutiful and most obedient humble servant, Kirkdale, Liverpool. Dec. IN . DAVID JAMES MEETING IN MONMOUTHSHIRE On the 20th instant, a meeting of the inhabitants of Mon mouth was held to address the Queen on the birth of the Prince of Wales, and probably the following speech of Sir Benjamin Hall on that occasion will be interesting to our Welsh readers : Sir BENJAMIN HALL, M.P., was well aware that there had been a difficulty on some occasions in obtaining large county meetings—but if any person had for one moment doubted the sincerity of the attachment of this county to her Majesty's person, and their loyal desire of making known their feelings of dutiful affection, they had only to inspect the numerous signatures to the requisition, and to behold the attendance at this meeting, when all doubts must immedi ately vanish from their minds. (Hear, hear.) But if there was one spot in Great Britain which more especially might be expected to rise simultaneously for the purpose of carry ing into effect the objects for which they were assembled it was the county of Monmouth. (Hear, hear, and cheers,) They then stood upon ground associated with some of the most ancient and interesting records of England and Wales. He would not occupy their time by mentioning many well known facts, though he might remind them that in the town of Usk, in which they were assembled, was born Roger Mor timer, Earl of March, great nephew of the celebrated Black Prince (to whom his hon. friend had already alluded), and with whose memory so many chivalrous associations were connected. In the town of Monmouth was born the valiant King Henry the Fifth, whose life was preserved on the field of Agincourt by two individuals (who were natives of this district), at the sacrifice of their own—(cheers)—and it may not be generally remembered that the Princess Morfydd, the Royal Heiress of the last King of Gwent, was the immediate ancestress of Rhys ap Tudor, Prince of South Wales, th e de scendant of Cadwalader, and from whom Henry the Seventh, and consequently her Majesty and the Infant Prince, de rive their Cambro-British origin. (Hear. hear, hear.) It is a curious fact, well known to those who bad searched into the ancient records of the Principality, and had given their attention to the literature of Wales, that twelve hun dred years ago there was a Welsh prediction—that the de scendants of Cadwalader, the last King of, Britain, should cease to sway the sceptre of that kingdom, hut that, after the lapse of centuries, it should again return to them. This prophecy was fulfilled about 450 years afterwards in the per son of King Henry the Seventh, and thus it appears that our present Prince of Wales has an undisputed right to that title, not merely by patent but by lineage—(cheers)—they might say as Fluellyn did to Henry V.—" Not all the waters of Wye could wash the Welsh blood out of your Majesty's body"—neither can all the waters of Usk obliterate the proud remembrance that in the veins of the present Queen of Great Britain flows the blood of the Royal Heiress of Gwent. (Applause.) As regarded the immediate object of their meeting—if the birth of an heir apparent, and the happy recovery of the mother, wag in private life a subject for contratulation and rejoicing —of how much more interest must be an event like the present, in which not only a few individuals but the whole community were so deeply con cerned. He hailed the birth of the Prince of Wales as a good omen for the country, and as a guarantee that the constitution under which they lived might be continued to Them ; and he prayed that her Majesty might long be spared to rule over them, and to guide and direct her Royal Son with that wisdom and virtue for which she herself was so emi nently distinguished. He trusted that as his Royal Highness advanced in years so might his attachment strengthen for his Principality, and that he might ever be disposed to lend his powerful aid in promoting the best interests of its inha bitants. If they might credit the words of Shakspeare, they must believe that his illustrious predecessor, King Henry V., was proud of his Welsh birth. May his Royal Highness be equally proud of his Welsh descent; and if, hereafter, any honest Welshman should venture to address him in the man ner Fluellyn is reported to have spoken to his sovereign, and say—" I do believe your majesty do not s corn t o wear your leek upon St. David's Day," that he will be disposed to an swer (if not in the words, at least in the spirit, of King Henry)—" I wear it for a memorable honour—for I am Welsh, you know, good countryman" (Great cheering.) Sir B. Hall concluded by seconding the address, which was carried unanimously. THE DUKE OF BUCKINGTIANI AND THE CORN LAWS. (From the New Farmer's Journal.) It is really amusing, and somewhat curious, to notice the many ridiculous and absurd statements which have gone the rounds of the London and provincial press, regarding his Grace the Duke of Buckingham's views on that all-absorbing topic, the corn laws. It has been most gravely asserted that his grace's opinions are not in accordance with those of Sir Robert Peel, or, indeed, with those of any other member of the Cabinet ; that his grace has declared himself wholly opposed to any change whatever in those laws ; and that a dissolution of the ministry—par consequence—is inevita ble!! Premising that the Duke of Buckingham is not of that class of politicians who would resist all those measures of a wholsome nature, which may be devised on this ques tion, we should like to know where our sapient contempo raries have obtained their authority for the silly nonsense they have ventured to palm upon their readers. Like every other real friend to the British farmer, the Duke of Buck ingham is, we feel assured, in favour of the sliding scale of duties ; consequently, opposed to those of a fixed nature; and if any improvements can be suggested by which the averages can be more fairly and honestly taken than they are at the present moment ; and by which the whole system of vamping up those averages can be put a stop to, sure we are there is not a statesman living who would more readily give his acquiescence to those views than his grace. Although we do not put ourselves forth as being in the possession of such great cabinet secrets as many of the Anti-Corn-Law League would have us believe they hold, yet, from the knowledge we have of those in whose hands the destinies of this mighty empire are now placed, we would gladly leave our cause in their hands, under the well-grounded hope and conviction, that rather than receive deterioration, it will gain strength and stability under their auspices. STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER.—The near approach of Christmas and the end of the year, to which we regret to add the failure of an East India house in which Manchester houses are deeply interested, and which has caused the stoppage of Messrs. James Hobday and Co., of this town, have operated to make things worse than they w e re l as t wee k , an d , consequently, very little business can he noted. We are not aware that prices have receded, and the working of short time is becom ing more general; we therefore expect that, at the opening of the new year, prices will rather advance than otherwise. We know several manufacturers that have written to their agents to say they must not sell a piece at the current rates, but wait until next month, as they feel certain that better prices must be obtained. The manufacturers are in a dread ful state, as all the staple articles made in this district (if we except fustians) cannot be sold in any quantity, unless at a loss, and for some sorts the loss must be serious indeed. The Gazelle every week proclaims, in language the most vivid, the way in which spinners and manufacturers are, for scarcely a week passes but we are pained by seeing the names of seve ral in the Gazelle. The lane is a long one, but surely we shall find a turn, and we trust we are near the end. Power loots printers may be quoted, 26-inch 6G's, 4s Mid to 53 4d, and 72's, 5s 3d to 5s lOid ; 40-inch shirtings 6G's, 81b 12oz to 91b, 9s 6d to lOs 3d. — Advertiser, of Friday. LEEDS.—The reports of the woollen markets at this season of the year are generally considered nominal. With the two fold object of avoiding the necessity of a large " stock-taking" at the end of the year. and consequent heavy Payments to the clothiers on the first Tuesday of the new year, before their books are balanced, it is customary for the merchants to ab stain from purchasing anything but indispensable articles ; so that the transactions in the markets at this period afford no positive criterion of the actual state of the woollen trade. Though from these causes there is less doing than there was some time ago, the general opinion is, that the purchases are more extensive than they have been in the month of De cember for two or three years past.—lntelligeneer. BRADFORD, THURSDAY.—The business done this week in pieces has been limited, and the remark applies to all kinds of goods. There is no change whatever in prices. As short time is still the order of the clay, the demand for yarns is not brisk ; stocks are kept low, and steady prices are the conse quence. In wool there is less doing, but for most kinds prices remain unchanged. NGII AM.—The torrent of bankruptcy and distress in this locality rolls on with accumulated force. Another of the largest lace houses in the town has been uprooted by the storm, and will necessarily bring down a number of smaller establishments along with it, throwing the workpeople out of employ, and fearfully increasing the general distrust and anxiety which pervades every branch of trade and co mmerce. Bankruptcies, insolvencies, and compositions with creditors are constantly occurring, and confidence and credit have re ceived a blow which has made them stagger and reel, so as to add to the general stagnation of business on every band. —Nottingham paper. Rumoun OF THE DAY.--We understand that the editor of a fashionable Sunday paper has engaged the boy Jones to give full particulars of the royal christening. ATROCIOUS MURDER NEAR WEM, SHROP SHIRE. (From the Shrewsbury News.) ' Another murder has been perpetrated in this country du ' ring the present week under circumstances of greater atro city even than the one at Bronygarth, near Oswestry. A wife, with the assistance of her husband, has administered poison to both her parents, and the mother has fallen a vie - tim to the dfabolical deed, the father escaping by a miracle ; and an innocent person (according to the last report) has since died in extreme agony from the effect of the deadly food of which he had been a partaker. The name of the old man is Arthur Williams, who resides at Whixall, within three miles of Wern, in this county, and the perpetrators of the horrid crime, Thomas Harries and his wife Mary, lived in the same cottage with the father and his deceased wife Eliza Williams. The prisoner, Thomas har ries, had been previously married, his former wife having died four years ago, leaving two children, who resided in the same cottage with the prisoners. It appeared that the de ceased victim had been in the habit of correcting these chil dren, and Hairies had said that he would remember her for it ; and this is the only motive that can at present be as signed for the deed, which has caused such general horror in the neighbourhood. On Monday last the deceased partook of an apple-dump ling at dinner, and was instantly taken ill, the symptoms in creasing in virulence so rapidly, that by nine o'clock the same evening she was a corpse. Her husband did not eat any of the dumpling, being too ill, from having taken a small portion of the poisonous mineral on the previous night ; and the third party was the son of a neighbour, to whom the fe male prisoner had given the rem a i n d er of the poisoned food. An inquest was held on the body of the deceased Eliza Williams on Friday last, before Mr. Joseph Dickens, coro ner, when the following evidence was adduced :-- Arthur Williams, husband of the dcceased.—Lives in a cottage at Whixall, and the prisoners Thomas and Mary Harries, with two children of the former, resided with him. On Saturday last, witness had a pig's fry for his supper, which was cooked by the accused, who took some flour from a bag hanging in the kitchen, to thicken the gravy. Witness ate heartily, and felt very sick afterwards, going to bed ill, and remaining so all night. He got up the next morning very unwell, and sat in the house till 11 o'clock, when he went out, leaving the deceased, the prisoners, the children, and a neighbour named John Edwards there. Witness returned to dinner, but was too unwell to eat. The first dish was an ap ple dumpling, of which the deceased ate heartily, but witness was too poorly to taste it. Within five minutes after eating the dumpling the deceased ran towards the door, and throw ing it open, said, " Oh, dear, how ill I am !" and retched violently. The deceased then went into the garden, sup portedby the female prisoner, and, being a long time away, witness went out, and finding her too ill to walk, carried her into the house, and placed her in a chair. She continued getting worse, till 5 o'clock, when witness carried her up to bed, and went to bed himself, feeling very unwell. He got up about 9 o'clock. as his wife became much worse, and she died shortly after. Witness had occasion to go into the garden afterwards, leaving the prisoners in the kitchen, and on return ing, heard Harries say to his wife, "There's something in that flour." The two prisioners lived in the same house with the wit ness, but eat at a saparate table, and found their own victuals. They had their dinner at the same time as the deceased, but not at the same table. The female prisoner assisted deceased to bed, but neither of the prisoners made any remark upon her sudden death ko witness. Mary Jones, a neighbour, was in the room at the time deceased expired. The female prisoner made a dumpling at the same time as the deceased, but did not take the flour from the same bag. The deceased did not eat all the dumpling, and on the following morning witness said to the female prisoner, " There's some dumpling ; give it to the children;" and she answered " No, I may not do that." He again requested her to give it them, and she replied, " No, no, I munna give it them." A neighbour named Betty Minshall, had been washing at the house on Monday morning, and went on an errand the same day. On Wednesday, witness asked the female prisoner where the re mainder of the dumpling was, and she replied, " I have given it the children, and they have eaten it." The male prisoner had frequently words about the children with the deceased, but nothing of any consequence. When the female prisoner was taken into custody she said, " I am innocent, and I be lieve I can swear for him." Witness knew there was poison kept in the house, having some sugar of lead in a paper, which he used for dressing cows, but it was not kept near the bag which contained the flour. The male prisoner had some powdered arsenic in a bottle, which he used for poisoning rats, and kept it in the pantry. The flour was bought from Mr. Povey, of Whixall, is a large bag, and a small quantity was put in another bag, and hung up in the kitchen ready to use for trifling purposes; but the bread was always made from the large bag. After deceased was dead, witness saw the male prisoner go into the pantry, and while be was there his wife said, " What are you plundering there at : is there anything I can reach you?" to which he answered, " No ; you know nothing about it." Two surgeons - deposed that arsenic was the poison whic caused the deceased's death. The male prisoner asked the coroner if the examination would conclude that evening, and being answered in the affirmative, said he might as well tell all. He then made a statement to the effect that he had told his wife on Saturday night that something wis the matter with the meat to make the old man so ill. He said he had purchased the poison some months ago from Mr. Gough, chemist, of Wem, for the purpose of destroying rats, and hinted that his wife must have administered the arsenic if the deceased really was poisoned. The female prisoner said, if any one knew about it it was her husband. The jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased's death was occasioned by pison administered by Thomas Harries and that he was assisted by his wife ;" and they were both fully committed for the next assizes. The male prisoner is a brick maker by trade, and has borne but an indifferent character. The female is very far advanced in pregnancy, and on Thursday feigned that she was in labour; but upon examination by a surgeon, the attempt to postpone the investigation failed. John Haycock was taken into Cheshire by the boat, and a report has reached town that he has expired—making the second victim of this unparalleled atrocity. STATISTICS OF THE GREAT POPISH CHURCH IN BRITAIN. (From the Catholic ENGLAND Churches anC Directory for 1842.) AND WALES. d Chapels,—in ' Northumberland Oxfordshire Shropshire Somersetshire Staffordshire ...., Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwickshire Westmoreland Wiltshire . • Worcestershire Yorkshire Isle of Man Guernsey Jersey Bedfordshire Berkshire 5 Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland 8 Derbyshire Devonshire Dorsetshire Durham Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Heretordshire Hertfordshire Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire.. SOUTH WALES. Brecknockshire Glamorganshire Middlesex. Monmouthshire Norfolk Northamptonshire 5 Nottinghamshire. , 3 Total of Chapels in En SCOTI Churches and _ _ NORTH WALES. Caernarvonshire 1 Denbighshire Flintshire 'gland and Wales, 487. AND. Chapels, —in Aberdeenshire Argyleshire Ayrshire .... Banffshire.... Caithness-shire Dumbartonshire Dumfriesshire 2 Edinburghshire Forfarshire Inverness-shire Kincardineshire Total of Chapels in Scotland, G 9; besides 24 stations where Divine service is performed. Grand Total of Catholic Churches and Chapels in Great Britain, 556. Kirkcudbright.. i 3 Lanarkshire. . 4 Linlithgowshire ....... 1 Morayshire Peebleshire Perthshire Renfrewshire Ross -shire Stirlingshire 1 Wigtonshire 1 In St. Edmund Eand there are ei Catholic Ciz., ngl 's, Hertfordshire ght Stonyhurst, olleges—v Lancashire St. Peter's St. Mary's, Staffordshire St. Paul's Soroersetsb. Ushaw College, Durham St. Gregory's J St. Lawrence's, Yorkshire In Scotland one —viz., St. Mary's, Blairs, Kincardineshire. Monasteries. 1 Yorkshire District 6 Northern 5 Scotland 1 Central District London District Central Western Lancashire AIISSIONAUY PRIESTS IN GREAT BRITAIN. ENGLAND. London District ll7 Lancashire District .... 155 Central ll7 Yorkshire 6l Eastern 31 Northern 57 Western Total in England, 624, including priests without any fixed mission SCOTLAND. Eastern District Western District 3G Northern District Total in Scotland, BG.—Grand total, as per alphabetical hit, 711. THE CORN-LAWS, For the purpose of enabling our readers to compare the working of Mr. Christopher's plan with that of the present law, we shall compare the rates of duty payable under the two scales, at average prices varying from 735. to 50s. Average price per quarter. Existing duty. Proposed duty. 735. 725. 71s. 70s 695. 68s. 675. 665. 655. 64s 635. 625. 61s. 60s. 595. 58s. 575. 565. 555. 51s. 535. 52s 51s. 50s. WEST INDIA MAlLS.—There are now upon the stocks in our own port two of the finest vessels of this superb line of packets, both ready for launching in the early months of the next year.—Bristol Journal. BARBAROUS MURDER IN HANTS.—SOUTHAMPTON DEC. 23.—Intelligence has just been received here of a most bar barous murder, committed on a servant girl, by a party of three excavators, on t he road between Winchester and South ampton. It appeared that the young woman was walking towards Southampton, rather late last evening, having been engaged as a servant in the neighbourhood. She was ac companied for some distance on the road by her father, and when he separated from her she gave him a shilling to go into a public-house on the roadside to refresh himself. While he was sitting there three excavators walked in one carrying a bundle, which the father knew to belong to his daughter. He, of course, took immediate steps to have them taken into custody. Several persons went immediately in search of the young woman, and found h er mur d ere d , wh i ch atroc i ous act was committed (there is not the shadow of a doubt of the fact) by the three ruffians who had just been secured. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL, UNPARALLELED SUCCESS OF THE GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH AND THE CONCERTS D'HIVER. MOST EXTRAORDINARY ATTRACTION DURING THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. /TR. J. H. ANDERSON, (Great WIZARD OF THE NORTH,) begs to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and Public, that he will open the Theatre-Royal for Ten Nights during this season of festivity, for the purpose of giving a Series of CONCERTS D'HIVER, on the same scale of magnificence and low prices as those given at the London Theatres, Drury-lane and the English Opera-House. In addition to the Concert, he . (the GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH) will, for the last time, give an extraordinary display of his pectiliar powers in the .A.MBIDEXTEROLO GICAL SCIENCE. THIS DAY, (TUESDAY.,) the 28th instant, The Entertainments of the Eveidng (which will be without parallel in Liverpool) will commkince with the First Part of the CONCERT D'H INTER, on which occasion the Bandwill consist of FIFTY PERFORMERS CLARIONETS. Messrs. Leonard FAGOTTI. Messrs. Jones Smith. CORNS. Messrs. Edwards Thompson. CORNET A PISTON. Messrs. J. Fisher - Harrison. TRUMPET. VIOLINS. Messrs. Aldridge, jun. D. Stubbs Mons. Simon Messrs. H. Tivendell Hammond Johnson Mackenzie. VIOLAS. Messrs. Wilberforce Hilton. VIOLONCELLOS. Messrs. J. Tivendell Cooke Batty DOUBLE BASSES Messrs. Tayleure Hornby Mr. Hanson TROMBONES Messrs. Druce Brindley, jun, DOUBLE DRUMS Green Mr. Fileen. GRAND CASA, TRIANGLE'S, FLUTE Mr. Fisher CYMBALS, ETC Mr. Fileen, jun Mr. Scruton PROGRAMM E.-PART FIRST, Overture—" Locadie" Waltzes—" Rosenden". Quadrille—" Krakoviak" Musard. ad o Solo, Clario ne t—M r nar d Willialil. Gallop—" On sub' rom Meyerbeer's Oper a o f L es Huguenots" ,- ;.-3-. tN INTERVAL OF FIFTEEN MINUTES After which, he (THE GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH) will open his MODERN LABORATORY of CABALISTIC PHENOMENA, and perform with his GORGEOUS and SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS more Wonders, a la Magique, than were ever accomplished by man ; proving himself to be the GREAT WIZARD and MYSTERIACHIST OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY! During this part of the Entertainment, Miss LAIDLATV will preside at the Piano-Forte. The whole will conclude with the Second Part of the Concert PROGRAMME.-PART SECOND. Overture—" Der Fricschuti" Waltzes—" Ciicilien" His latest composition. for the first time in Liverpool. Solo, Horn—Mr. Edwards Quadrille—" Le Rendezvous de Chasse" Musard. " La Gitana Galoppe" Lanner. Finale—" God save the Queen." Leader and Conductor.. Mr. H. F. ALDRIDGE. Jux. Boxes (Dress Circle), 2s. Gd. ; Juveniles with Parties, Is. 6d. Upper Boxes, is. Gd. ; Juveniles with Parties, Is. Pit, is. Gallery, Gd. Doors open at Half-past Six ; the Performance to com mence at Seven, and terminate at Eleven precisely. The Box-office will be open from Ten till Four, where places may be secured for the Dress Circle. ROYAL LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. RE-DZCORATED AND ORNAMENTED, TIIIS EVENING, (Tuesday, the '2Bth,) second time, written by Mr. Higgie, for this Theatre, BARNABY RUDGE ; OR, THE MURDER OF THE.WARREN. Barnaby Rudge Mrs. Waylett. Mr. Chester.. Gabriel Varden . Mr. Tilbury. Dolly Varden After which, the laughable Interlude called the DANCING BARBER. Fitzfrizzle.. Mr. J. S. Balls I Twaddle.. Mr. Tilbury. To be followed by a New Comic Drama, called COUSIN PETER. Cecile Mrs. Waylett. To conclude with the langhable Farce of FAITH AND FALSEHOOD; OR, HONEST THIEVES. (with a song) Mr. R. M. Raymond. Ruth Boxes. 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. (to which the number will be limited.) Second Price—Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. Doors to be open at Half-past Six ; performance to begin at Seven. Second Price at Half-past Eight. Private Boxes may be had nightly. Teague. TO CORRESPONDENTS The lines by " A. S." require more correction than we have time to bestow upon them. We have not a single copy of the STANDARD containing the report of the Operative Protestant Meeting, and, therefore, forward to-day's publication to our correspondent in Belfast. EAR Ethrrpool gptanbatt. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 184 The monomaniasts of free trade have no taste, no ear, no perceptivity for an enlarged scheme of emigra tion ; but they are sadly at a loss for some plausible objections wherewith to resist its consideration. One admitted source of their aversion is the tendency which the entertaining of such a plan would have to divert public attention from their own favourite nos trum, on which they have by this time expended no small amount of capital in the way of puffing, agency, and the other usual means of getting an article into vogue. Their own remedy is the only one which they will admit to be effectual ; as such they have adver tised it, and as such, every other that may be named, they are bound in duty to depreciate and vilify. True, say they, by emigration the immediate pressure might be relieved; but, in that event, the landed aristocracy might enjoy a renewed lease of the bread-tax, with only a colourable alteration of the sliding scale. Again, by emigration, they argue, the minister of the day might send from the distressed districts a considerable num ber of labourers, and, by easing the local rates and be nevolent funds, obtain credit with the -unthinking for having alleviated, if not relieved the distress. The weight of these objections will not be consi dered as very serious, when, on a moment's investiga tion, we find that they just amount to this --namely, first, that the people might be relieved; and, secondly, that a Tory minister might gain the credit of achieving so good a work ! There is another argument made use of, but it is adduced not so much for the purpose of decrying the plan, as with a view to deter a Con servative Cabinet from adopting it. As it shows the excited state of mind of the parties on the question, we shall give it in their own words. " But, suppos ing," say they, " an immediate alleviation to be effected by sending out a few thousands of emigrants by means of a parliamentary grant, can Peel and his aristocratic cabinet believe the people of this kingdom are so be sotted as to accept such incomplete and temporary re lief, with the necessary condition of increased taxa tion, whilst the landlord's tax and all other monopolies remain as permanent burdens upon the nation ?" On the whole, it is evident that the great cause of alarm in the mind of the confederates is, that the emigration plan may do some damage to the repute and sale of that commodity in which they deal themselves, and which they have been so long holding forth as the na tion's infallible and only restorative. But all the world is, fortunately, not quite so intensely occupied with the charms, or persuaded of the virtues of this wonderful elixir, drug, bolus, or call it what you will, and does not, perhaps, see by what necessity it is that they must interfere with each other. Free trade or cheap corn may be an excellent thing ; but it does not follow from that, that emigration might not be a very excellent thing also in its way. The two appliances are quite compatible ; the emigrationist does not necessarily de ny the virtues of free trade, whatever they may be ; it is the free-trader who falls into this error of exclusiv ism, and will bear no rival near his throne; it is not necessary that we should postpone our scheme of emi gration till we have adjusted our differences on the subject of import duties; let it stand upon its own pe destal, and, whatever be the objections, let them be ad vanced as objections to emigration, and not as objec tions important only because they stand in the way of something else. Whatever difficulties there may be in fixing upon any determinate mode of carrying out the object, to the theory of emigration we have heard of no objec tions that may not be very easily overturned. Let us consider any one or more of them, and we shall find it an easy matter to convince ourselves of their futile character. It is admitted that emigration would be a relief to some extent; but it is said you have no right to trans port the people from the land in which they were born, until all methods of providing for them within it have failed; the people are not too many for the soil ; it i s only partial, unjust, and restrictive laws which make them so. Now, in the first place, with regard to what is called the "transportation" of the people, this, we may ob- serve, is an objection purely of the sentimental kind— fanciful rather than solid, and easily dissipated by a little courage iu the investigation of sober realities. A suffering population would feel little obliged to that misjudging and most mistaken sentamentalist who would prevent them bettering their condition from such fantastical antipathy to the process, or rather the name of the process, by which a consummation so de sirable ought to be effected. He calls it transporta tion ; they, perhaps, would deem it an agreeable change of scene—an excellent transition. A thriving population, he alleges, is the true wealth of any state, and their number ought not to be reduced with a view to the upholding of unjust preferences arid monopo lies. Granted. This is sound doctrine ; but it is not applicable to our case. We are no MalthuSians ; we advocate no unnatural checks upon popular increase ; we shall ever rejoice in seeing a British Sovereign ru ling over a numerous as well as happy people; but the wealth of the state doeS not consist in having a merely numerous population; it consists in having it both numerous and thriving. This is the correct enunciation of the doctrine ; and it goes some way to reconcile those extremes which have at different times been put forward on the subject. The Malthusian holding with the founder of his sect, that " the popu lation of a country doubles itself in twenty-five years," and "increases in a geometrical ratio, whilst the supply of food augments only in an arithmetical," dreads nothing so much as the multiplication of and commits the restraint upon numbers, to either what he calls the positive check, that is, the diminution of the species by actual starvation, or the preventive, which means the non-intercourse of the sexes. He lives in actual fear of the species increasing too fast ; he apprehends that the world may be over stocked ; he proscribes marriage, and deems numbers not the wealth, but the weakness of the sovereign power. By a doctrine so monstrous and impious, and so easily and satisfactorily disproved, many have been beguiled, and it has, in its time, done no small amount of mischief; but it does not argue a man to be the dupe of that exploded fallacy, to contend that, under a certain condition of things, people may have multiplied too fast in particular districts, and that, in such cases, the emigrative, or diffusive process, may be brought into operation with the happiest effect. By this process, if the migration takes place within the dominions of the state, there is no loss of subjects to the sovereign : the transportation is only a move from one part to another; and if it be a move of people from a place where they are over-crowded, and only in each other's way, to one in which inhabitants are scanty and wanting, it is a change at once healthful and useful, and highly beneficial, not only to the individuals re moved, but to the state itself. The anti-corn-duty party have nothing to say against this theory in the abstract, and their answer is to the effect that the ex pense of this transportation may be avoided by using their remedy, and letting food into the country free of import charges. Do away with protective duties, say they, on provisions —let trade in the necessaries of life be unfettered —and there will be no need to remove any portion of the people. These anti-protective con federates are as obstinately bent on " not letting the people go" as the wicked Pharoah, king of Egypt, and to all applications and arguments on this subject they only repeat this, their favourite dogma. A full answer to this position would involve a dis cussion of the whole question of the corn and other protective duties, which we do not mean at present to inflict upon our readers : we shall merely remark, that this " not letting the people go," in the way of emi gration to Canada or some other of our colonial pos sessions, implies provision for them at home, and pro vision by means that may he either questionable or objectionable in the highest degree. It is questionable that withdrawing protection from home -raised articles of food would make the means of living more easily obtainable by the classes at present distressed ; but that they should be maintained at the expense, and by the spoliation of other classes, is the doctrine simply of anarchists, revolutionists, and scoundrels. The pro vision which emigration offers to the suffering or uu employed portion of the community is certain, and un objectionable in every point of view : that which is con tended for by the anti-protectionist, or Pharaoh party, is neither the one nor the other. You may make pro visions cheap, but unless you, at the same time, pro vide employment for the unemployed, or if, at the same time, you reduce the wages of those who are partially employed, or fully employed and yet ill paid under ex isting circumstances, you will not thereby improve in the least the condition of the poor man, and you keep him at home - only to starve and persecute him, or for some selfish purposes of your own, in which he is sa crificed, in order that these may stand a better chance of being accomplished. The anti-protectionists are no friends to any comprehensive scheme of emigration. No; of course they are not: it would remove a mate rial element of their agitation. It is not for the distress of operatives they care; it is not to improve their con dition they itinerate from place to place; a mass of distress would rather subserve their ende. The an protectionist is wise in his generation ; he is judicious in his use of means. We will not allow, however, that he is truly wise ; we do not admit that he is wise in the choice of his object; we are persuaded that if he were to obtain the object he seeks, he would be most griev ously disappointed, and therefore, for his own sake, as well as for that of the community at large, we feel bound to oppose his proceedings. 'e leave some interesting points, connected with this subject, untouched, but shall take another oppor tunity of adverting to them. The advocates of the cosmopolitan system in o corporation schools are qnite aware that judgment, though not pronounced, is ready to be given, and will certainly he delivered against them. The fore-know ledge of this event, however, produces no effect in re straining the exercise of their great argumentative powers; on the contrary, it seems rather to increase their desire to display them, and to convince the world that, though might prevails, and conquers them, they are not yet silenced. For our part, we shall feel happy to see these gentlemen easing their minds, and have no wish that the controversy should be discontinued, even after the schools have been remodified. There are a great many analogies connected with the school question, and if this one complication be well under stood, and rightly solved, other questions of conside rable moment, which concur with it in all essential particulars, will be more easily comprehended, and solved at the same time. We are pleased, therefore, to see our Liberal contemporaries pursuing the specu lation with so much ardour, and turning the screw with such force upon their ingenuity; we conclude that the people will be well instructed on this point, and that whatever other subjects they may be ignorant of, it will be next to impossible that they should be un informed upon this. The newest thing that we have seen in the process ratiocinative, was put forward by our contemporary the Journal, in his number of Satur- day. It appears in the shape of a compound proposi tion, which, however, may be easily divided into two simple syllogisms, and is contained in one short sen tence. We submit it, and beg that the Gentlemen of the Council will examine it with all due attention : "A parent," says our contemporary, "who accepts or his child a religious education which he believes to be false as the price of a secular advantage, is guilty of of a great crime, no matter whether the religion he ac cepts for his child be true or false; and whoever tempts him to do so, by the offer of a temporary reward, is a suborner of apostacy." This, it will be observed, is a very nice, and deli cately constructed piece of sophistication, and intended for two classes of persons, namely, Romanist parents, and Members of the Council. To the former, it says, send not your children to the reformed schools on any account; you will be guilty of a "great crime" if you do, because you will do so against your conscience, and for the sake of a bribe, namely, secular education gra ' tuitously bestowed. This is a species of reasoning much in vogue with the priests in Ireland, and has served on many occasions to bother poor Patlanders, who, owing to the excessive liberality of the legislature, have the misfortune to be freeholders. If you vote with your landlord, argued his reverence—(probably front the altar)—if you vote with your landlord, you vote against your religion, and consequently against your conscience—and moreover, you are a bribed wretch, and the interest you have in the land you hold is the bribe you take; you will be guilty therefore of mortal sin, and if you die unabsolvecl, you will certainly he damned for ever. Now, precisely similar to this is the logic employed by our Liverpool contemporary. To the scrupulous parent lie conjures up the idea of "bribery," and would persuade him that it is only for the sake of filthy lucre—for a " secular advantage" —that he would send his child to the reformed corpo ration school, and consequently, that in so doing. he would be guilty of a "great crime." The argument is enbtile, and truly Popish. It is manifest that it denies to the parent all right of judging for himself—that it permits him to have no conscience but what the priest allows him, and that it is devised solely with a view t° .propping up the tyranny of priestcraft. The existing system of the schools was an emanation from the same power, and we do profoundly offer our homage to the new for this, amongst other reasons, that it has a ten dency to work in opposition to that usurped authority. The Journal assumes that the Romanist parent who sends his child to the new schools, must act against his conscience. But, why so ? Might he not approve of his child being taught to pray once, or twice, in the day, and enjoined to read a portion of holy scripture , without note or comment, in the authorised version ? Might not his conscience concur with his judgment on this point, and in that case would not the charge, or even suspicion of a latent corruption, fall to the ground ? We know how the Journal, if it acted as the organ of Popery, wo u ld answer; i t wou ld sa y, that the man had no ri g ht t o j u d ge f or himself —that the " church" t oo k t h at d uty upon i tse l f, an d wa s alto gether the k ee p er o f hi s conscience. The new system will help to l oosen t h e j o i nts an d b olts o f t hi s horrible oppression, and i s on thi s groun d a l one wor thy of our best support. But the second point is more immediately for the Council; and, Oh, ye timorous and over-scrupul ous members, we beg of you to pause, and observe w hat a tremendous weapon is ready to be flung at your heads. in case ye rally your wandering spirits sufficiently to vote in contr aven ti on o f t h e l aws of pr i estcra ft, and liberal journalis m ! M ar k this dogma — fresh , we scau`id think, from Clongowes or Stonyhurst—" i l y wa ver tempts the Roman Catholic parent to send his child t ° a school constituted according to the new mode!, by offering him gratuitous education for his child, is a suborner of apostacy! Think of that oye coun cillors ! Ye will be " suborners of apostacy," if y e open your schools to Roman Catholics, and other sects' gratuitously ! According to this principle, it must be rather a ticklish affair to open a free school on Church , or Protestant principles, at all; or, to please our con temporary, Romanists should be expressly, and by name, prohibited from sharing in its advantages ; and the objection to the new plan in the municipal schools is, not that Roman Catholics as well as Protestants are freely admissible therein, but that they are not distinctly prohibited and excluded therefrom ! Such is the precious nonsense to which men who have enlisted themselves in a bad cause are driven ill their efforts to maintain it. We will not pay the intel lect of any member of the council so bad a compliment as to insinuate that they need the least assistance for destroying so miserable a web of sophistry as this. They are not, like Romish priests, the keepers of other men's consciences; what Romanist parents may, or may not do, is no affair of conscience with them ; their proper and only business is, to provide that which they conscientiously believe to be the purest, safest, and best system of education for all classes of the com munity. Less they cannot do with a clear conscience, and when they have done so much, they have fulfilled their office. We can venture to assure them with some confidence, that all the other bugbears of the liberal press are not a whit more intrinsically formidable than this most ludicrous and laughable one to which we have just drawn their attention. They are no more than air -drawn daggers, and vanish at once when with a small effort of courage one endeavours to clutch them. laws may no matter how dissimilar the subject of the " Repealers " have a natural affinity for each other , be which they severally desire to have repealed. They have a common sympathy in " undoing " ; and though the one should seek merely to abrogate a Custom duty, and the other should hope to dissever a kingdom , nevertheless they shake hands, and recognise each other as brethren; they are both " repealers." was on this principle, that we accounted for the dial reception which two gentlemen from this country —Mr. Bright of Rochdale, and the celebrated George Thompson —met with last week in D ublin from the repeal ers o f t h at metropolis. Mr. Bright and his c ompan i on (the Anti-Slavery man) ar e out on a tour of fraternisation ; and in what quarter should they be likely to receive the hug fra ternal with warmth and affection, if not in I r eland? So to it th e y went — a d eputation from the great Anti- Corn-Law League —with instructions to extend the combination, to establish branches thereof, and to get up in Ireland meetings, petitions, and all other usual and necessary accompaniments of agitation—all f or the repeal, not o f t h e Union, but of the corn -duties. It would seem surprising that the Irish, who are ex clusively agriculturists, and who have so obvious an, interest in keeping the English market to themselves, should be at all disposed to join in a clamour to open the same market to foreigners, and to raise up a com petition which would be of decided injury to them selves. This would certainly seem extraordinary; bu t then there h a pp en to b e two distinct classes of Irish men : there are the Queen's, or the Lord Lieutenant's Irishmen, and there are the Lord Mayor's Irishmen"' orders, or races, as different as Indian castes, and as unlike to each other in their mental phenomena, as if they were of a totally different organisation and co lour; and we must be careful not to confound them. The mission of the gentleman from Rochdale and his anti-slavery friend is, we are persuaded, to the Lord Mayor's Irishry only, amongst whom we shall not wonder if they meet with great success. For, in the first place, this wonderful Lord Mayor has himself given them the " hundred thousand welcomes " of the country, presided at a meeting to do them honour, and stamped his warmest approbation on their pious labours; and with this passport, or finnan, they will pass through the country, and be everywhere re ceived with acclamation by his people. And in the second place----but why should we • go fur ther ? Our first head contains within it the con creti and essence of all other reasons ; the auto crat of a servile herd gives law to all who ac knowledge his supremacy, and since the " Lord Mayor" is gained over, the deputation will at once command all the objects who wait upon his nod. Within his own august bosom are locked up the reasons of state which have induced him to take this high re solve. Perhaps " a thousand pounds —say a thousand" —may have had some little share in prevailing with him; the league is rich, and the Lord Mayor is noto riously soft on this side ; the thing is not unlikely, but it is wrapped in mystery for the present. Perhaps his lordship, who, though his nose be cocked and vulgar in shape, is famous for a goad smell, has been able to scent the battle afar off, and in supporting these leaguers, conceives that he is affording hit contribu tion to the promotion of sedition, anarchy, and embar rassment in the land of the Saxons, whom he hates with all the bitterness of his soul. For our part we close in with this conjecture. Our notion of the entire baseness of the man is fixed, and it jumps with all our other convictions concerning him, that this is, perhaps, the most influential reason of all for the patronage which be gives to the ambassadors and missionaries of the Manchester league. He scolds them because he spies mischief to England in their operations ; he helps them, not because he likes, but because he hates them ; he would concede to them the repeal they want, in the hope that it would conduce to that repeal which he wants himself; and upon this basis he will readily enter into an alliance with them. And the Saxon leaguers are content with such a bargain ! Out upon them—confederates of the arch-traitor—the Popish demagogue —the wooer of American sympathy—the fleecer of the starving Itish—the . — Oh, it is foul. If men are to be known by the. company they keep, we own we are now better instructed upon the cha racter of these league gentry than we have been before, and we rejoice that they begin to show themselves in their true colours. Let it not be forgotten that they have now entered into a league with the Irish traitor party, and that hereafter they must ever show them selves tainted by such a compact. , great power, erected in Dr. Raffles' new cha pel opened " yesterday week ; on which occasion rig p vlp a iri r o t of 0 0, f,ia7's , Popish M ass , i n L a ti n . (A g nus Dei,) was performed. En e take the above paragraph from the Bristol Journal of last Saturday, and the mere mention of the cir cumstance is sufficiently indicative.]