The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-28 00:00:00

FOREIGN 4. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. I WEST INDIES The Royal West India mail packet Tweed arrived at Southampton on Tuesday having left St. Thomas on the Ist instant. . . - . . - The files of West India journals give very few interest ing facts. However, it would appear that better health is prevailing in all the colonies, and that little or no sickness has been experienced in the leading islands. The weather, in an agricultural point of view, was certainly more fa vourable ; and though in isolated cases it is stated (as in reference to St. Mary's parish, Jamaica,) that the drought was still severely felt, there is every reason to believe that, generally speaking, the late rains have proved amply suf ficient for invigorating the plantations. An estimate of the loss of property by the fire in Kingston is published in the Jamaica Times, and the amount is represented at £93,925. About 350 houses were either totally burnt or partially destroyed. The House of Assembly was on the eve of opening, but nothing appeared to be known of the topics which it was likely the Governor's speech would embrace. Before the next mail leaves for England, the House will have been in debate a fortnight, so that then we shall be enabled to gather something of the prospects of the Jamaica Parliament. At Barbados and Trinidad political and commercial affairs are discussed in a peaceable manner. The appear ance of the crops in both islands, under the beneficial influence of the change in the weather, is spoken of as highly encouraging. At Trinidad complaints are made of taxes under the new road ordinance pressing with double severity on the cocoa planter, as compared with the sugar planter. The summary of the Demerara news is, that the arrivals had not of late been numerous ; all the vessels from Europe have had long passages, while there were many then overdue. The markets were, however, abundantly supplied for present demand with all articles of provisions, except Carolina rice. Exports were abundant, with few speculators in the market. Exchange had slightly ad vanced, private bills selling at 465 dol. to 467 dol. On the general prospects of the colony the Guiana Herald has the following : . " By the mail immediately preceding the present one, private advices to ourselves and others in this community were received, stating that considerable reaction had taken place in England in favour of the West Indies, and that the satisfactory state of the money market in Great Bri tain would operate favourably towards us. It was also communicated, that Lord Stanley, distinctly refusing consent to Coolie immigration, had, at the same time, expressed his intention to favour the emigration of Chi nese labourers to the West Indies from our ports in the East, under indentures of five years. A confirmation of these very cheering tidings is now anxiously looked for. It was scarcely expected by the present mail, as it was known that Lord Stanley was the only minister remaining in London, but is somewhat confidently expected by our next advices from Great Britain." AMERICA The packet-ship Patrick Henry, Captain Delano, which left Nev. York on the Bth instant, arrived in the Mersey about noon on Sunday last. . The packet-ship Liverpool, Captain Eldridge, arrived at New York on the 3rd, and the steamship Britannia, Captain Hewitt, reached Boston on the afternoon of the 4th instant. The principal subject of discussion in the New York papers was the election in that city, which took place on the 7th. The result was not certainly known when the Patrick Henry sailed, but the general impression was, that the entire Whig nominations for the city, and also for the State Senatorship, had been successful. A general improvement was visible in stocks, and the sales on the 7th were to a large amount at advanced prices. But little was doing in Exchanges. Bills on London were held at 138 to 108. Money continued abundant in all the chief cities. The news by the steamer had induced holders of cotton to ask higher prices, but no transactions of moment had taken place. Nothing further had transpired regarding the state of the crop. Flour was quoted at 4.75 for Ge nessve and 4.681 for Michigan. The market was looking up. It has already been mentioned that resolutions' have been laid before the Canadian Parliament, on the subject of the location to be adopted for the seat of government, in substance recommending the selection of Montreal, and that, in the legislative council, the government were placed in a minority. A meeting was subsequently held at Montreal, at which resolutions in favour of the re moval to that city were adopted, and the assembly called upon their representatives to support the government on flis question. The advices from Mexico offer evidence that Santa Anna was perversely embroiling himself on every side. Troubles are growing up all around him. The British minister had informed his countrymen, that all corres pondence with Mexico was broken off till he beard from England. One writer says, "we may expect a British fleet here soon," and another observes, "at present the affair looks as if Santa Anna would soon have the English thundering about his ears." Santa Anna seemed to be of a similar opinion ; for it was said that he was about to depart for Vera Cruz, "to put his fortifications there in a fit state of defence against the attacks of the English." The commissioners from Campeachy arrived at the capi tal on the 3d ult. ; but no arrangements were made with them, and they were ordered to quit Mexico within forty eight hours. It was also rumoured that an angry corres pondence had taken place between the Mexican govern ment and the United States minister on the subject of the annexation of Texas to the union. A. new tariff was about to be issued, augmenting the duties to the extent of 60' per cent. It was believed that a decree was forthcoming which would prohibit foreigners from penetrating into the aterior of the country. The advices from Galveston are to - the 14th ult. vertised to take place on the 14th in , tant, had excited al most universal discontent and reprobation. There had been a total failure of the cotton crop on the Brazos, Henry, and Colorado rivers, caused by a succes sion of heavy rains in the lower country. The planters in the urper country were more fortunate. _ The pecan-nut crop (no inconsiderable source of re venue in Western Texas) will not amount to one-tenth of that of last year. Corn was abundant everywhere; and the little experimental crops of sugar, wheat, oats, and tobacco had turned out well. The passengers by the Madrid mail to Paris were at tacked and robbed by banditti on the 18th inst. Mr. Macready is said to have netted 8,000 dollars by his engagement at the Park Theatre, New York, and had proceeded to Philadelphia. The consecration of the cathedral of Versailles took place on Sunday week. The building was commenced one hundred years ago. Bisnor's COLLEGE, CALCUTTA.—The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel having requested its president, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to nominate a professor of Bishop's College in the place of Mr. Walter Kyte Coles, deceased, his Grace has been pleased to appoint Mr. George, Weideman, fellow of Catherine-hall, Cambridge. "''''BRAZIL.—The following, from the agent at Falmouth, was posted in the Exchange Newsroom on Sunday : "The Brazilian minister at Monte Video had directed the imperial naval commander to withhold the recognition of the blockade of that port till the arrival of fresh instruc tions from the court at Rio. The French Consul-General at Monte Video had posted in his office an official notice, by order of his government, to the effect that the French government required that Frenchmen should preserve the same neutrality of attitude and conduct which France herself wishes to maintain, and that the protection of the national flag will be withheld from those who oppose." THE Loss OF THE MEMNON.—We have much plea sure in announcing, that Lieutenant Edward Walter Agar and Miss Dalzell (passengers), with the remainder of the crew of the ill-fated Memnon, arrived safely at Aden on the 9th of September. A letter received by the last mail from Lieutenant Agar, dated " Aden, Sept. 13," after describing their dreadful sufferings from thirst and the heat of the sun, &c., confirmatory of the accounts already published, goes on to state, that on the 2d, at noon, the Hon. Company's brig of war Tigris (to all of them a truly welcome sight) was seen rounding the Hulloola point, with the preconcerted signal flying. About sunset she anchored ; the unfortunate sufferers were speedily on board, and in a few days happily landed at Aden. " PROPERTY " IN AMERICA.—On Tuesday, at one o'clock, an estate in Maryland, United States of America, comprising about 12,470 acres, was put up for sale at the Auction Mart. It was described to be rich in timber and mineral rosources, and it was stated that a similar pro perty in England would be worth some hundred thou sands of pounds. It is bounded on the south by the Chesopeake and Ohio canal, the Baltimore and Ohio railway, and the river Potomac, and on the north by the Great Western turnpike road from Baltimore and Wash ington to the Western States, and is only 17 days' jour ney from England. Some of the oak trees growing upon it were 100 feet high and 60 feet from the lower limb, and and the pines were 120 feet high. Not a single bidding was offered, though the property had been most extensive ly advertised. To be sure not. Every man of sense and honesty " repudiated" all idea of any such purchase. —Morning paper. IRON SHIP-BUILDING IN AMERICA. —Much aS we have gone on increasing in the number of vessels built of iron during the past twenty• five years, America seems to be keeping up with us in the use of that material for ship building. Besides the number of steam-vessels now em ployed in that country, the Government fleet, which al ready embraces several iron ships of large tonnage, is now shortly to be augmented by many additional large-size vessels, and six iron revenue cutters—four to be fitted with Hunter's submerged wheel, and two with Erickson's propellers ; four of these vessels are for the Atlantic, one for Lake Erie, and one for Ontario ; they are all 140 feet long, 23 feet beam, and 10 feet deep in hold, will have three masts, and be schooner rigged. The Government are also building one iron vessel for the use of the topo graphical engineers, 96 feet long, 18 feet 6 inches beam, and hold 8 feet, propelled by two of Hunter's submerged wheels, 8 feet in diameter by 22 inches wide, and the pad dles 10 inches deep ; and at Erie an iron steam frigate is being built of 700 tons burthen, and will be in operation next season ; she will .be propelled by the common pad dle-wheel, with two inclined low-pressure engines. These are all we are at present aware of as being in the course of completion, which, however, taken into consideration with the numerous iron ships which have been built in this country (Mr. John Laird, of Birkenhead, alone has erected forty-five), and some on the continent, • r at succes s w hi c h uniformly attends them as fast th. t is more than problematical that an era has arrived in the history of navigation, and that gradually, the ancient material used i n t h e construction ' of ships give way to that universally distributed and most usefu. element, iron, as insuring greater economy, speed, and safety. with t at slowl DR. WOLFF'S MISSION TO BORIIARA.-Dr. Wolff reached Constantinople on the 3rd instant, on his way to Bokhara, to ascertain the fate of Lieut.-Colonel Stoddart and Capt. Connolly. The object of his mission meets with general sympathy in Constantinople. Accounts have been received at Lloyds', from the Cape of Good Hope, containing intelligence of a dreadful storm on the night of the 26th of August, in and off the coast of Algoa Bay, by which four valuable ships, valued at between £300,000 and £400,000, were lost, as also seve ral lives. The first vessel lost was the Elizabeth Rowell, of 320 tons. She weathered the storm for several hours, but was at length driven a-shore, and shortly afterwards went to pieces, her commander, Captain Wake, and his crew, having saved themselves by taking to the long boat. She had a miscellaneous cargo of considerable value.— About midnight, during the raging of the storm, the bar que Seagull, 239, was seen to make for the bay, which she ultimately reached, but suddenly foundered. and every soul on board, fifteen in number, including the Captain, Mr. Murray, perished. By this catastrophe, 10 widows and 25 children were left destitute.—Another vessel, the Laura, was also lost, with all hands, in Algoa Bay, dur ing the storm, the sea at the time running completely over her, and dashing her with violence on the beach, where in a few hours she went to pieces. This vessel belonged to her ill-fated commander, Mr. Crockley, and was from the port of Chester.—The Delhi, Mr. Byron commander and owner, built at Shoreham, in 1833, was also lost within a few miles of the spot where the Eiiza beth Rowell was wrecked, but the crew were saved. It is feared, from the violence of the hurricane, that many other vessels were lost. The Elizabeth Rowell was built in 1839, at Sunderland, and the Seagull was launched at Montrose, 1841. ROMAN CATHOLICS IN CHlNA.—Extract of a letter from Hong Kong, July 24 :—" There is a splendid Ca tholic Church here, with seven or eight Jesuits—ltalian, French, Spanish, and Chinese! About seven or eight masses every day, commencing at half-past five, the last being about nine. It is a glorious sight on a morning. at a place two years ago entirely uninhabited—now streets rising and great edifices forming—to see a Catholic church completed, and the religion of the state, the Anglicans left to pray, as they best may in a mat hut. It is not the last that I exult at, but it is odd, and it argues little life for so potent a body to be so badly off. But to see in the Catholic church realised the very dream of Tom Moore, as related in his ' Travels of an Irish gentleman' —to see kneeling on its peerless areas a representative of every nation under Heaven—English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Irish, Lascars, and various nations of India, in their picturesque costumes, Chinese, &c., whites, blacks, tawny, copper, and all colours under which the form of man has ever appeared, soldiers and civilians, excites a feeling more than I can express. To behold the altar successively occupied by men of different nations and languages, and to behold all equally inter ested—equally attentive—equally collected, and busied about the same thing, displays an unity which those who differ from us have no idea of. It shows the wisdom of the church in adhering to an ancient tongue in her liturgy ; for what language would you make use of here, where not two of the congregation can convesse with one another ?"—Tablet—(a Roman Catholic Paper.) Loss OF THE STEAMER SARAH BARNES, AND OF SIXTEEN LIVE s.—On the 24th ult. at noon, she crossed the Galveston bar for this port. On the next morning, the 25th, a considerable leak was discovered in her hold. All the pumps were set, but they were able to keep her free but for a short time only. At nine o'clock a.m., when about seventy-five miles from Galveston, it having been found that the water was gaining on the pumps, and that both wind and sea were increasing, the Captain deter mined to run her into the Sabine river ; but, believing the accomplishment of even this doubtful, from the rapid manner in which the leak increased, he concluded to run on the nearest shore. He directed her course accordingly, the whole crew and passengers being in the meantime en gaged in baling her out. At half-past two o'clock, p.m. the water, notwithstanding their exertions, had ascended to the fires and the engine. Further efforts to counteract the leak were therefore unavailing, and to save their lives became the concern of all on board. They then set about making rafts of the cotton bales, four bales to a raft, and lashed together some spars for other rafts. She was now sinking rapidly; the lead was heaved, and there were found six fathoms of water. There was no confusion or complaining; all seemed to be impressed with their peril ous position, and to save their lives was the object that engrossed their attention. Orders were given to cast off the boat's painter, and while doing this she sunk, it being then forty-five minutes past four o'clock in the afternoon. There were on board alto ether thirty souls ; of these eighteen went on the rafts and twelve took the boat. Of the former about five were saved, after drifting about three days and three nights. Two of them landed on Galveston Island and the other three on Bolivar point. Of the lat ter but three perished, who were passengers, two males and a female, and they were lost in the breakers in landing from the boat on the 26th.—New York Sun.. COLONEL STODDART AND CAPT. CONOLLY The following letter has appeared in the columns of a contemporary : " TO THE REV. JOSEPH WOLFF " Meerut, Sept. 18, 1843 . • " REVEREND AND DEAR SIR,—I have just perused your letter of the 2d of July last, in which you so notlly offer to proceed to Bokhara, for the purpose of procuring the release of those enterprising officers, Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, both of whom I had once the plea sure to know personally, and with the latter of whom I was on the most friendly and intimate terms. Had it been my good fortune to be present in England when your let ter first appeared, I should not have hesitated for an in stant to accept the invitation which you gave to any Bri tish officer to accompany you ; and I feel assured we could ave manag• d between us to raise sufficient money for thL Even now, if I am not unhappily too late, I offer myself as your companion ; and I have just despatched a letter to the secretary of the relief committee, urging that a sufficient sum may be placed at your disposal to use in any'case of necessity ; and I am not without hope that my suggestion may be attended to. " Though not enjoying the pleasure of your personal acquaintance, I am sufficiently acquainted with your cha racter to feel confident that you are of all men the most likely to succeed in the object you at present have in view. I heard much of you when you were in India from our mutual friends Darcy Todd and poor Arthur Conolly him self. My own name may be not quite unknown to you, as one of those British officers who fell into the hands of Akbar Khan in the retreat from Cabul, in January, 1842, and who, after a captivity of more than eight months, experienced so wonderful and unlooked-for a deliverance when on the point of being carried into Turkistan with their wives and families. The remembrance of my own most providential liberation arms me with all the neces sary confidence and resolution for joining in this effort in behalf of my less fortunate countrymen, who are still, perhaps, languishing in a miserable imprisonment at Bok hara. To be in the most remote degree instrumental in their deliverance I should esteem the greatest happiness that could befal me, and, if when this letter shall reach your hands, no more suitable companion should have offered himself, we might perhaps manage to meet each other at Bombay or some other place, thence to proceed by whatever route shall seem to you most feasible. I should not despair of reaching Bokhara in safety by the route of Cabul, because I know that both Dost Mahomed Khan, and his son, Mahomed Akbar, are interested in the fate of Stoddart, with whom they were once shut up in the same prison at Bokhara, and formed a personal friendship in consequence. They would therefore be likely to afford every facility to such a journey as you contem plate, and they might even feel some gratification in seeing one who had been so recently a prisoner in their hands appearing with so much confidence amongst them again, and trusting to their feelings of humanity. The Khiva route, however, which you propose, seems the most free from risk, and easiest of accomplishment to one starting direct from England. " I will now tell you all I have been able to learn about our two captive countrymen. " The last authentic intelligence was contained in two letters from Arthur Conolly himself to his brother John, then a hostage at Cabal, in the summer of 1842, in which he drew a melancholy picture of their situation in a pri son at Bokhara. For four months they had no change of raiment, their dungeon was in a most filthy and unwhole some state, and teemed with vermin to a degree that ren dered life a burden. Stoddart was reduced to a skeleton, and his body was covered with putrid sores. They had with great difficulty prevailed on one of their keepers to represent their wretched condition to the King, and were then awaiting his reply, having committed themselves to God, in the full assurance that unless soon released, death must shortly terminate their sufferings. The King was always described to us by the Affghans as a horrid and merciless tyrant, being subject to fits of insanity, during the continuance of which all around him trembled for their lives. This picture of him may be overcharged, but if true it is almost destructive of hope. " You have, of course, heard the story derived through Colonel Sheil, from a Persian who professed to have ac tually seen the graves in which Stoddart and Conolly had been buried. This story has, however, been contradicted by two highly respectable Jews, both of whom I know intimately, and whom I believe to be honest, upright men. They have received letters from friends at Bokhara mentioning both officers as still alive ; and information has been received from other quarters that the two graves were those of two servants who had offended the King. There was a popular belief at the time of their execution that they were British officers, and this may have been what misled Colonel Sheil's informant. " Since writing the foregoing, I have received a reply to my application from the Cabul Relief Committee, who regret that they are debarred by the rules of the fund from placing any money at your disposal, but expressing their readiness to assist your undertaking to the utmost of their power. " Should my public duty in this country interfere with the private wishes I have here expressed, you will still believe I take the greatest interest in your proceedings, and shall rejoice with all my heart to hear of your suc cess. God be with you, my dear Sir. " Believe me yours, very faithfully, " VINCENT EYRE, " Lieutenant of the Horse Artillery." purpose A very successful herring fishing has sprung up in Loch fine this week, and the produce has been transshipped from this port, per steamers, to Liverpool, Manchester, The fishermen were taken quite by THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD IRE 14A AND. THE STATE TRIALS. FURTHER ATTEMPT AT POSTPONEMENT. OnMonday afternoon rejoinders in demurrer were handed into the Court of Queen's Bench on behalf of Daniel O'Connell and the other traversers. The Attorney-General moved that the demurrer be ar gued the following day. Mr. FORDE (attorney for Mr. O'Connell) said he thought he should not be called upon to act upon the re joinder till next term. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said his object was not to annoy any person, but he renewed his application. Mr. FORDE.—That motion came quite by surprise on them, but still he would suggest to their lordships that there were positive rules of the court which would entitle them to oppose it. The standing rule of the court was, that the demurrer was not to be argued in the same term in which it was taken. The Attorney-General had, be sides, omitted to give notice ; and, secondly, the paper books by which they were bound had not been made up or given to them. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL insisted on his right to have the demurrer argued to-morrow. As to the paper books alluded to by Mr. Forde, they would be ready in an hour. He trusted, therefore, that the Court would be no party to delaying those proceedings further. At all events, he (the Attorney-General) would be no party to the delay, and he once more urged the court, as a matter of right, to fix the argument for the next morning. Mr. Justice PERRIN inquired of the Clerk of the Crown, what the rule of the court was ? The CLERK of the CROWN said, that when the paper books were made up at the expense of one party, he had a right to demand that the demurrer should be proceeded with; but it was otherwise when parties joined in the expense. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that in this case the books had been made up at the expense of the Crown ex pressly to avoid giving a pretext for delay. He had no objection, however, to furnish one copy of the books to any attorney for the traversers who might be fixed on, in order to enable them to make a comparison. Mr. Justice CRAMPTON said that he certainly always understood that where a party pleaded in abatement he was bound to sustain his plea when it was handed in. Mr. WHITESIDE said that the Court had decided the contrary, and that the traversers were entitled to a four day rule, and now, in accordance with the rule of court, they claimed that a demurrer set down in this Term should not he argued until the next. The ATTORYET.GENERAL said, that although they got that four day rule, in his opinion they were not entitled to it. They were bound by the statement of the officer on that occasion ; and when the officer now stated that they were not entitled to what they claimed according to the rule of the court, they should likewise submit to that statement, although it happened to be against them. The CHIEF Jcr ricE would take it for granted that the parties would be ready in the morning. Mr. WHITESIDE.—My lord, we have got no briefs yet. Mr. FORDE said they could not possibly prepare them that night. They would have to sit up all night to do so. (Laughter.) There was not a single brief made out. The CHIEF JUSTICE.—That may be, but it is altoge ther your own fault. You got four days' notice, and it is perfectly idle to say you are not now prepared to go on. Mr. FORDE.—Perhaps your lordship would allow the argument to stand for Wednesday? The CHIEF JUSTICE.—We _will call on the case to morrow. The Court was then adjourned Lt a quarter-past five o'clock until the following day. The full court sat on Tuesday, for the purpose of hear ing the augument on the demurrer. Lord Ingestrie was present. The several traversers, with the exception of Mr. O'Connell, who was not in court at the opening, handed in their joinders to the demurrer. The argument was then proceeded with, the point raised by the plea of the traversers being this, that the statute of 1 and 2 Vic toria, chap. 37, did not extend to the Court of Queen's Bench, and that the witnesses to support the indictment should be sworn according to the provisions of 56 George 111., namely, in open court, The Attorney-General, in showing that the former statute did extend to the Court of Queen's Bench, said he was seeking to support the construction of the act which it had received from all the Judges of Ireland from the period when it passed the leg islature; and he quoted the opinions of the Judges, and also referrrd to several English authorities on the point. Sir Colman O'Loghlen and Mr. Moore, Q.C. followed; after which the Sclicitor-General wound up the argument by the admission that the plea involved one of the most important questions ever raised before the court. The Chief-Justice intimated that their Lordships would give judgement on the following morning. The argument oc cupied five hours and a half. One of the points relied on by the counsel for the Crown was, that the traversers in their plea had not made known the names of the witnesses, who, they alleged, had not been sworn in open court. On Wednesday the Lord Chief Justice proceeded to deliver the judgment of the court. He said the principal question turned upon the true construction of the Act 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 37; and, after anxious and due delibe ration, the decision his mind came to, without much doubt, was this,—that the construction of the act given by the law officers of the crown was the right and true one. (Sensation.) The object of the 56th George 111. was to provide against an evil prevailing in all the courts through out Ireland; that of the Ist and 2d of Victoria to provide against an inconvenience arising from the former act ; and it was not passed for any particular part of Ireland, but for all parts of Ireland—for one part as much as another. There was no reason whatever to curtail the formal mean ing of the words in it, because the mischief which it was intended to remove prevailed in one part as much as in another, and the remedy should be necessarily equally extensive. It was clear that the legislature contemplated the remedy of an evil which existed as much in the Queen's Bench in Dublin, and in the commission courts of Oyer and Terminer, as in the assize courts of the country. As plain as words could make the statement, the grievance was said to be universal, and the legislature undertook to reform the evil. His lordship concluded by expressing his opinion that the plea was insufficient, and the demurrer good.—Judge Crampton entirely concurred with the Chief Justice.—Mr. Justice Perrin also concur red with the court, and stated at length his reasons.—Mr. Justice Burton concurred, without offering any remarks. The Attorney-General applied that the traversers be required to plead instanter. Messrs. Hatchell and Whiteside contended that the traversers were entitled to a four days' rule to plead over again after judgment had been given. Mr. Brewster replied, and contended they had no grounds for looking to the court for four days to plead ; and called bn the court to make the traversers plead in stanter, and to fix a day for trial. The Chief Justice, after consulting with his brethren, said, it appeared to him that it was competent for the party seeking delay to make statement of the grounds on which they sought delay. But no such statement was made. Mr. O'Connell had been furnished with a copy of the indictment and the matter it contained, and had pleaded not guilty. He had made no case to the court, and the court assumed he had none, and was therefore of opinion the justice of the country should not be delayed, and that Mr. O'Connell should plead instanter. The Attorney-General applied to the court to have the traversers called.—The cler . k of the court ordered the crier to call Daniel O'Connell, John O'Connell, C. G. Duffy, T. M. Ray, Thomas Steele, Rev. Mr. Tyrrell, Rev. Mr. Tierney, and John Gray. They were called, and all ap peared except Mr. O'Connell and his son, who soon after entered the court, and were given seats at,the side of the inner bar—both wore repeal buttons. Pleas were then handed in of NOT GUILTY for all the traversers. On Friday the traversers applied once more for a long day; and, as well upon the alleged state of the jury list, as upon the affidavits of the solicitors for the defence, moved the court to postpone the trials until the Ist of February. The Attorney-General resisted this motion in , its full extent, but consented to have the day fixed so far off as the 15th of January. So far as substantial justice is concerned, we presume there will be very little differ ence in the complaints of the repeal press, whatever differ ence there may be in the well-groundedness of such com plaints. A few days ago the crown was taunted with " retrograde progression," and proclaimed through the country as "defeated," by the very prints which, since Tuesday, have been accusing government of " galloping justice,' haste, and precipitancy. Whether they will now complain of not having got time enough, or boast of hav ing defeated the Attorney General's attempt to obtain gal loping justice, time must show. Perhaps they may inge niously contrive to combine the contradictory argument*, and vaunt that they have obtained their ends, while, at the same time, they complain of being unduly hurried at the Attorney-General's will. The solicitors for the defence swore strongly as to the impossibility of preparing th e i r case by the time first named by the Attorney-General. They also swore that the present application was not made for the purpose of delay. The conclusion of the whole is, that the day for these important trials is now settled to be Monday, the 15th of January, which, assuredly. ought to give the traversers, counsel, and attorneys abundant time to prepare, and will also take away all grounds of cavil concerning the jury list. The Attorney-General gave the following as his reason for granting this concession :—" Although (said the right hon. gentleman) he felt that it was his imperative duty to resist to the utmost of his power any technical obje c tio ns to the progress of this momentous case —although he had forced—for no other phrase would properly describe the course which he had been compelled to adopt—although he had forced the traversers to plead, and driven the m out of every pretext for delay, still another duty imposed itself on him, for he had duties to discharge not only t o the crown, but to the public, and he agreed with his learned friend that it would not be desirable that the trial should take place so rapidly, or under such circumstances as would enable any person with justice to say that it had been hurried forward unfairly. Although he should resist a postponement of the trial till February, yet a fter the statements in the affidavits' which he admitted to be of importance, after as anxious a consideration of the whole o cnotpoe f onurntd t tnis h t odi o e de; a e c yobtr a boauo s j ttfe e ti cohh a ntene s e t xoows vacationthf a ttoha s euer e sl mdu v p ebijostaetnobfcptyt postponement inraoheent he had crbree p iont u du.t b nc l oH i tof c , emt consentr a h w e the nos Monday, trial d p t iheen perfectly to the fft t aeo c o cc o tt n i t ;t h c ysi the naubawaresec. that - f the public inconvenience that must arise from the trial , although mischief to s, subject to the rule that of a prosecution by the crown in the first criminal court in the land• sion of time he should put an end to to the present jury panel, on the ground that they could not have a fair trial by it. That objection must now fall to the ground, for before the pe riod which he had named, the revised list would be com pleted, and they could select a jury from it." On Saturday, being the last day of term, to the great surprise of every one, including many of the infirna re cessus of political life, a motion was made for the court to direct the Clerk of the Crown to submit to the traversers a list of the witnesses appearing on the record of the indictments. . The application was pressed upon the court more in the shape of a claim upon their discretionary power, being founded upon the affidavits of Mr. Duffy's attorney, who swore that a knowledge of the names of the witnesses was essential to his defence. The traversers' motion also rested upon the affidavit of Mr. Coppock, an English attorney, who swore that he was in practice in the courts of England, and declared that, to the best of his belief, in the Court of Queen's Bench in that country it was the invariable practice to grant the copies of captions and names of witnesses to all traversers. .. Mr. O'Hagan and Mr. Whiteside pressed the applica tion on the court, and were resisted by the Attorney- General and Solicitor-General. After a consultation for some time, _ _ _ . . The Lord Chief Justice declared that the majority of the court were of opinion that the application could not be granted. The learned judge explained the reasons which led him to that conclusion very fully, and spoke for upwards of three quarters of an hour. He decided that the deponents had not sustained their application by show ing that it was necessary to their defence or explaining how it could benefit them on their trial. Neither had they sworn that they did not know the names of the wit nesses in any of the affidavits they had filed, which merely, in general terms, stated the names were material to the traversers' defence. The learned judge also refused it because the practice of the court was not for it, and be cause it was not the custom in Ireland, nor sustained by authority there ; and denied the analogy argued to exist between cases of treason and misdemeanours, which would go to prove that traversers in the latter case, not affected with any danger to life, would be entitled to all the privi leges given to the accused in the higher order of crime in favorem vilce. He also refused it on the grounds of the general danger of making any such innovation, more espe cially in Ireland, where, by the murder, maiming, intimi dation, and bribery of witnesses, justice had been, as the Attorney-General said, frustrated and defeated. Mr. Justice Burton' and Mr. Justice Crampton coin cided with the Lord Chief Justice. _ _ Mr. Justice Perrin then declared the grounds on which he had been led to differ from the rest of his learned bre thren. _ Mr. Whiteside expressed his willingness to wait till the sth January, ten days before the trial, for the list, but was refused it, under any circumstances, by the Attorney- General. _ Mr. Smyly, for the crown, then moved the court to order the proper officer to strike a special jury in the case of the Queen v. O'Connell and others, to be taken next term from the revised list ; and so ended the last manoeu vre of this great forensic battle which can take place du ring the present term. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The usual weekly meeting of this body was held on Monday, when speeches were deli vered by Mr. O'Connell, Dr. Gray, Mr. Steele, and others. The repeal rent amounted to £932 13s. 6d. THE O'CONNELL TRIBUTE.—NO exertion was spared on Sunday to swell this amount. In some instances, double the sum collected last year was received. In Dublin and the suburbs alone, upwards of £4,000 was gathered ; and the total amount is expected to be little, if at all, under £30,000. ATTEMPT TO BURN BOYLE BARRACKS.—OR Friday night last an attempt was made to burn the barrack of Boyle, and several panes of glass in the windows were broken with stones. The parties are known ; three of them have been fully committed to Bridewell. The con sequences of this outrage must have been terrific had the sentry not observed it in proper time, as the magazine is within ten yards of the gate, to which fire was applied.— Belfast News Letter. DEATH OF SIR F. W. MACNAGHTEN.—We regret to announce the demise of Sir F. W. Macnaghten. which took place at Bushmills-house, on Tuesday. Sir Francis was in his eighty-second year, twenty-one of which he served in India. His health had been gradually declin ing since the intelligence reached this country of the death of his son at Cabool, whose melancholy fate is fresh in the minds of us all. No hopes were entertained of the life of the venerable baronet for the last ten days.—Bel fast Whig. SERIOUS INJURY TO THE LOUGH• SWILLY AND LOUGH FOYLE EMBANKMENTS. —We understand that a breach of very great extent was made in the Lough Swilly embankment on Wednesday morning. The tide filled the bay from shore to shore, being higher than any that has occurred for the last thirty-six years, and de stroyed the labours of three years, besides doing consider able damage to other property in the neighbourhood. Some injury was done to the Ballykelly embankment, in the Foyle, on the same morning.—Derry paper. MAIL TO FLEETWOOD.—The North Lancashire Steam Navigation Company's beautiful new iron steamer the Princess Alice, of 200 horse power, sailed from Belfast on Friday last, with the first mail for Port Fleetwood. It is intended, we believe, to have a regular mail from England by that route three days, or at least two days in the week, there being now two splendid steamers on the sta tion. The trade between this town and Fleetwood may be regarded as permanently established, the quantity of merchandise and number of passengers conveyed by the vessels increasing week by week.—Banner of Ulster. SEIZURE AND RESCUE OF A POTTEEN STILL.—AS the supervisor of the excise for the Foxford Collection, Mr. Greaves, was returning from Ballina to Castlebar, some few days since, he observed four persons carrying a still, head, and worm, and leaving it at some distance from the road. Mr. Greaves, though alone, proceeded to the place, took the still, put it in= his gig, and drove to wards town. The owners haviag witnessed the seizure. and not wishing to give up their property without a struggle, followed the excise officer, and forced him to de liver up the still four miles from where he seized it. Mr. Greaves made a desperate exertion to retain his capture, but he was overpowered by the rather incautious illicit distillers. THE LATE OUTRAGE IN TIPPERARY.—MISS Vereker, who was so seriously injured during the outrage at Finnoe house, near Borrisokane, on the evening of Sunday se'nnight, died on Tuesday morning last. An inquest was held the same day, at which were several magistrates and gentlemen connected with the family. The verdict was, " Died in consequence of wounds inflicted by some person or persons unknown." Mr. Waller continued, when the last accounts were sent off, in a very precarious state. Mrs. Waller was nearly convalescent. The aged butler, William Largin, was still confined to bed and suf fering severe pain from his wounds. A meeting of magis trates was held, on Tuesday, in the Grand Jury-room of the Court-house, Nenagh, for the purpose of taking the subject into considetation. There were twenty-four ma gistrates present. A resolution was passed that a reward be offered for the apprehension of the parties concerned. SUICIDES IN DUBLIN.—There were no fewer than four suicides committed in Dublin on Monday. The first of these shocking cases took place at 32, Old Dominick street, and was attended with very painful circumstances. The unfortunate deceased was Mr. James Dillon, a sur geon, residing at the above house, and who was, as stated, possessed of independent property, and most respectably connected. It would appear that the gentleman laboured under aberration of mind some time back, and that he was formerly in an asylum, which he left about a year ago. He was about 45 years of age, and without any family. The deceased retired to bed about nine o'clock on Sunday night, and slept in a room three stories high from the basement floor. Nothing transpired with regard to his movements after the hour mentioned, until he was found lying in the area after twelve o'clock covered with blood, and in a dying state, he having leaped or thrown himself down from the bed-room window on the flags of the area. —ln the second, Hugh M'Coughrey, formerly a clerk in Busby's distillery, took a dose of laudanum ; in the third, Charles Thornton, a servant, hanged himself ; and in the fourth, a soldier of the34th regiment, named Springthorp. shot himself through the head at the Royal Barracks. Tom STEELE.—We have often wondered that this blundering simpleton should ever have been allowed to take part in O'Connell's schemes. He is a laughing, roystering, merry blade more adapted for tavern brawls than for enterprises of " great pit and women ; " the ac tors in which must know how to speak without letting others know their thoughts. We can fancy " honest Tom Steele," as O'Connell sometimes calls him (for we never had the felicity of seeing him), such a man as Caesar pre ferred : " Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights ; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much, such men are dangrous.'. And when Antony bids him fear not, for Cassius " is a noble Roman and well given," imperial Cesar replies, he fears him not, but—" but would he were fatter I ' he ex claims. Some of our readers will remind us, no doubt, that O'Connell is fat. So he is ; but every rule has its objection. Nobody ever saw a fat man hung. It is al ways your lean rascal that comes to the gallows. Com fort for Daniel, it will be said. Not so. He is already an exception to one rule. There is nothing to prevent him being so to another. He may lie in prison long enough to get thin.—John Bull. ATTACKING A HOUSE AND MURDER OF THE OWNER. —John Byrne, Esq., one of the coroners for the county Louth, held an inquest, at Toorus, on the Carrickmacross road, which was adjourned to Tuesday, lith instant, to be held in the town of Louth, upon the body of Nicholas Byrne. Mr. O'Reilly, magistrate, and Mr. Littl7., chief constable, were present at the investigation. After a res pectable jury had been sworn, several witnesses were ex amined, when it appeared in evidence that the house of the deceased was attacked by a body of men on the night of the Ist of November last, when the family were in bed (having previously broken the windows of several houses in the neighbourhood.) The deceased and his son got up to defend their house, when he was knocked down by a blow of a stick, which fractured his skull, of which he, lingered until the 11th instant, when he died—after hav ing the blow of the stick, another person made a stab of a knife at him, which, however, he escaped, the knife having only struck the door. Dr. Garlant, and other medical gentlemen, who had previously attended the de ceased, deposed that the fracture was the cause of death. The jury, after deliberation, returned a verdict of " wil ful murder" against Thomas Hinchy and two other per sons, whose names i t would not be prudent to mention at present. liinchy was committed by the coroner. We are informed that two of the persons engaged in the mur der were arrested and bailed, and of course bat —Drogheda Conservative UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. OXFORD, Nov. 23. In a convocation held this day, it was unanimously re solved to give £25 from the University chest towards the erection of a school-room at Kirkdale, Yorkshire. In the same convocation a letter was read from the B'shop of Calcutta, returning thanks to the University for the grant of 300 volumes, printed at the University Press, intended for the new Cathedral in Calcutta, which is expected to be ready for consecration in May next. In a congregation held at the same time, the following degrees were conferred : Doctors in Divinity.—Charles Henry Hutton, Fellow of Magdalene; Robert Meadows White, Fellow of Mag dalene. Masters of Arts.—William Godfrey Whatman, Christ Church, Grand Compounder; Rev. Henry Smith, Stu dent of Christ Church ; Rev. Frederick H. Bennett, of Christ Church ; Rev. Robert Drummond B. Rawnsley, Magdalene ; Rev. William Darnell, Corpus Christi ; Rev. Thomas Palling Little. Trinity. Bachelors of Arts.—William Smith, Lincoln ; Thos. Green, New Inn Hall; Francis Grant Hartwell, New Inn Hall ; Leonard Francis Burrows, Scholar of W ad ham ; Charles Henry Mainwaring, Oriel ; John Gibson Cazenove, Scholar of Brazenose ; William Charles Bache, Brasenose; Charles Walter Eddy, Brasenose; William A. B. Cator, Postmaster of Merton ; William H. Lucas, Merton; William Coke, Merton ; Richard Bethell, Exeter; Henry. F. Mallett, Balliol ; Anthony William Loveband, Worcester ; Edward North Maddock, Wor cester ; Frederick Bussell, Worcester ; William D. Scoones, Trinity. PROMOTIONS Bateson, Rev. William Henry, M.A., fellow of John's College, Cambridge, to the vicarage of Madingly, Cam bridge, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. S. W. Waud. Patron, the Bishop of Ely. Brooks, Rev. Joshua W., vicar of Clarcorough, Notts, to the vicarage of St. Mary's, Nottingham. Patron, Earl Manvers. Collett, Rev. Woodthorpe, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the rectory of Normanton, Lincolnshire. Patron, the Marquis of Bristol. Coulcher, Rev. George, M.A., of Corpus Christi Col lege, perpetual curate of St. Benedict, Cambridge, has been appointed chaplain to the Mayor of Cambridge, Rowland Morris Fawcett, Esq. Hope, Rev. Thomas, M.A., to the perpetual curacy of Hatton, Warwickshire. __ . Hosken, Rev. Charles Henry, 8.A., of Queen's Col lege, Cambridge, to the assistant curacy of Wellington, Somzrsetshire. Jackson, Rev. Edward Dudley, 8.C.L., formerly of Trinity Hall. Cambridge, perpetual curate of St. Mi chael's, to the perpetual curacy of Heaton Norris, Man chester, vacant by the death of the Rev. C. P. Myddleton. King, Rev. Watson, M.A., formerly of St. John's Col lege, Cambridge, curate of Trinity Church, Leicester, and late of Maidstone, to the perpetual curacy of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Batley Carr, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Patron, the Rev. Thomas Allbutt, the vicar. Kingsford, Rev. Godfrey, formerly of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to be assistant chaplain to the Mill bank Penitentiary, Westminster. _ _ Thompson, Rev. George, M.A., late master of the Grammar School at Wisbeach, has been elected to the head mastership of the Free Grammar School at North Walsham, Norfolk. OXFORD, Nov. 10.—The report of Mr. Gladstone's being about to offer himself to fill a vacancy in the rep resentation of the University is utterly destitute of truth. There is no prospect of Mr. Estcourt resigning. We understand that the new Bishop of Lichfield, Dr. Lonsdale, has resigned the preachership which he held of Lincoln's-inn. There are several candidates for the va cant preferment, and among the number is the eloquent and respected Rev. J. S. M. Anderson, of St. George's Chapel, Brighton.—Brighton Gazelle. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT A CHURCH IN HULL. — During the gale of Wednesday forenoon about 29 feet of the graceful spire of St. Stephen's Church was blown down. The spire, which is about 90 feet in height, was completed, with the exception of fixing a cross on the top, and the scaffolding, which had not been taken down, was borne by the wind against the newly laid stonework, which was seen to resist the pressure for some time, and which gave the workmen an opportunity of getting out of the way. At length it fell with a terrible crash through the roof. No person was hurt. This unfortunate cir cumstance will delay the opening of the edifice.—Hull Packet. THE REV. W. SIBTHORP.—At the late anniversary meeting of the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, held at Bristol, the Rev. E. Bickersteth read the following extract of a letter which he had received from the Rev. Mr. Sibthorp, dated October 5 :—" My dear Bickersteth, I deem it my duty to inform you, that I last Sunday received the sacrament at St. Helen's, as declaratory of my separation from the Roman, and my return to the Anglican Church. I am, therefore, no longer a member of the Church of Rome. I have come to the conclusion, after much deliberat on, and the con viction I have is this—that the Church of Rome is the great harlot—the mother of abominations—an adulteress ; and her worship is idolatory, chiefly Maryolatry. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CLERGYMAN.—The Rev. J. M. Crockett, incumbent of Tatenhill, near Burton-on- Trent, met with his death, on the 14th instant, in the following melancholy manner :—He was returning home. and whe❑ passing the house of a widow of the name of Hassell, he heard a confused noise of voices, as though in high altercation. On pausing a little, he could hear dis tinctly a man's voice, threatening Mrs. Hassell with vio lence. Mr. Crockett, who was ever ready to succour the oppressed,especially the widow and fatherless, immediately stepped through the wicket, intending to enter the house and prevent ill-usage, when, awful to relate, as he passed by the end of the house, the covering of an old well which was under the pavement gave way, and Mr. Crockett was precipitated to the bottom, a large quantity of soil and stones falling upon him. The alarm was immediately given, and the reverend gentleman was taken out in such a bruised state that he died in about two hours. CFIURCFI EXTENSION.—A meeting of the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels was held, at their chambers, in St. Martin's-place, yesterday week, the Lord Bishop of London in the chair. The meeting voted grants of money towards building additional churches or chapels at Alltygryg, in the parish of Llangerick, Glamor ganshire ; at Kensal-green, in the parish of Chelsea, Middlesex; at Wood-green, in the parish of Tottenham, Middlesex ; at the district parish of St. George, Leeds ; at Cowhill, in the parish of Oldham, Lancashire ; at Ply mouth ; and at Trawden, in the parochial chapelry of Colne, Lancashire ; also towards enlarging by rebuilding the church at Bovingdon, Hertfordshire ; enlarging the church at Owston, Lincolnshire ; reseating or otherwise increasing the accommodation in the churches at Bat combe, Somerset ; Burton, Westmoreland ; Stoke Gold ing, Leicestershire; Tavistock, Devonshire; and Wan borough, Wiltshire. The population of these 15 parishes is 213,614 persons, and the accommodation provided for them in 37 churches and chapels is 29,411 seats, being less than one-seventh of the whole number; while the free sittings are only 9672, or one free seat for 22 persons ; to this insufficient provision of church room 5753 seats will be added whe❑ the works above referred to (which include the erection of eight additional churches) have been com pleted, and 3788 of those sittings will be free and unap propriated for ever. s of ------ D ueb b 9° ...s.ske a nd „ lit a t _ s orer Lady Rolle, after visiting the n ta tilaa`p, Che Cleveland, at Raby Castle, and LadYavves fla mei' Hall, Yorkshire, has arrived at Lea,,s u t. s ..- La on a visit to Sir Edward and LaclY ci L i r u j s o hn S ,i be a ll i c a l f, o o po t v;: THE DUKE DE BORDEACM.--"'"The OCC"'P o r 0 c e lc, sion in Belgrave-square (lately hl ~, take 's r esid P thr e " Duke of Marlborough) has been la ri te i LY hn ess uen for oat de Bordeaux during his Ro ig Y h a n i e r ' ss: g r :e n e c o l t i a s.tae h o a c T e b di : : ha bliall eti ted ti ll 6 ta is ap e 001 4 4 11 . : m LO o D n d th O s n. cer T ta h i e n. hou p s a e r , t it o fistreide,s possession, and his Royal H the 28th instant. M. de Chateatru h i s resi .5 bac_ at , petted in London, and will take 1. 1 ,P .. ., sn siorL ee . D .0 iii house of the Prince. Several nobl o e, T he Prr sc jo a a r ver very kindly put at the disposition r , is s o n t_ s r l . 0 6 has preferred hiring a house duringi atc hio e' oe ,lP`Tb s to e , r at the metropolis. The ris arr for Fate on o el toret left London on Sunday we e '. for 13 ° s hoo' n g l, o g ild° ll I 0 0- 0 ( m the a y rq w u e is re p t u o rp e o m s b e a s rk to in re t t Mic iu 0 06 01 weeks. ..., --It is c° d, 10 V 0 ROYAL VISITS TO ENGLA, ; i iied ~.°ginlienial ails°,o that three Princes have just v.a pus , _ o oe. r taw _l , the Emperor Nicholas scrupu... e onserl ° ..,,, cool,' 940 whomßfavouros sia c oi o sf u ß l d displeasedu s ssi a ak t t h o awt t i h tthn e Berlin. Indeed, it is p artl a c e " o f Bord 4; Gese; p l ,o fi r ttars av erse 0 00 w itb l it r esi tt 0 ld no co . be 0 ° oft l' Michael, therefore, cou onn i a Co heti t he aux foyers du peuple ldho s the i'l f said Grand Duke Michael urs , a IeSS t 0 p Duke of Ne o fficer, un r, o ut jou k " A KIPPER !"—At one of the Free Church breakfasts terms with the _ t the vor sod, Russian above the rank d a li t h e 1 . 8 1 fe in Glasgow, Dr. Chalmers asked a French gentleman, w freteunurs an d 8 d t° o „ 0 0 whether he wished " to be helped to some kippered sal- e o t t ph h e e r ioig ,: us , b ie e y.o a f l ai v... 13 . ' eo-cirr Joieearouo le % ee , t; i . a t g oo 1:,, , , Tuileries. As t mon ?" The Frenchman inquired the meaning of " kip- •sufficiently men . n etL .o 0!_,,, t _ pered," and being told that it signified " preserved," neither of them are _ na h „ e a talk I he Vu o d er t bo their political rivalry, u h i s f at uity , Ad a ro tti_ h r he was helped to a portion, and seemed to relish it much. Yet it is known that, of all + hi e s for the ' tiles hie' On retiring from the hall, and taking leave, be was heard of th e tral Pe 1 4 :i wishing the Doctor that he might be long kippered to theßourbons , w"" -- e° l3 " buernevtoeulLu branch of the said to tai lir. Free Church!" A BURGLAR SHOT.—On Monday morning last, the mraocuterrs. _ d h i p Ea slimammaotisinoctshd.yeurotpi sympathies na s , k., a .a , ~0 nif h e resew mixture of timidity and pride o il ed is out Jo ~,, daY a rana g r ‘ C° ll' house of Mr. John Vickerman, farmer, of Thwing, near -OnTu es that t ...g‘Q Ai p' was broken into by thieves. The robbery was MELANCOLYAFAInIi, an d the w" bes ieg 111 o fi ' discovered in the following manner :—The female servant m ade an o :, n ne°4 o a tbe having risen at 2 o'clock to wash, thought she heard a Hume, M.P., had oplating binisc if fr w_ . .es dal 00 noise in the house, and alarmed her fellow servants. - On mit suicide, by preci Maryleboue . tt eraPf pr„ tbe proceeding to the top of the house they descried through the crevices two men in a long garret running the whole the latter part of that extensive circulation tuber was literallY,_ionds•lol4o.4o length of the house, who were rummaging about with a house of the hon. e ll a s personal friend If oe os, light. The foreman then called for his gun to be fetched, calls of his political as we himsel, P ru e gos% boo ii ) o f and finding it unloaded he deliberately charged it. The mour, as regards Mr. Hume lace of alj tiero" e r of ail foreman, with their own servants, having taken their stand but an occurrence had takei? P , no. ger! broth goli ri p at a window, so soon as the burglars emerged from the doors of his residence. Br and afflicting character to the whon is tin_ . On _, 0 A stable door by which they had entered, they were called law, Mr. Charles Gubbins, __. , von b aces niS ?`. t f; upon stop, but refusing to do so the foreman levelled his Grace the present Duchess ot ,n b_t oo t. ,- , the Gan' T . .„d i ii A r gun and fired at them. The charge entered the legs of morning, shortly before five o n l d iirlis fall ;a . t a 7 5 0; one of the burglars, who, finding himself, disabled, -s Gubbins awoke Mr- 11 ..,ur ne a t g entle t he tb ir to of' rendered, and turned out to be a, notorious thief, knownur discovered that the unrortuna,.en ,_,,,, on eyed woo 4 by the name of William Fisher, alias Bendigo, and who himself from his bed-room INI u° ; (.• been c°n ri l tt, Of /3 ,e0P,, ° 14 stan ar c d o , o p f ol h ic is e was only discharged in April last from the House of Cor on to the pavement. Hav' n . pr. :mine Arr'"nt .%,,01tia rection at Beverley, where he had been confined for ass- - house in an insensible state, . 0 ,., e r an . .4 0 p; 0 stealing, and along with another man for stealing square, Mr. Liston, and several r ot for, e a u b r ) i io 10 tity of sheen-netting. The captive - i , ay t hat M r ' hig l36 Of was so much injured ° • d it P was discovered t one °f his t • • a' i ', from the effects of the char arrive , when ge that he was at first consid- d fracture of o Alt: ; Os t o_ ered in a dangerous snstained a c ompound leg was broke t Ttiv. 4 o o t Mr. W state , ; he is now in the custody of places, and that his other times throughou ~e s P o t 1. 0 at Kilham liewould doubt-faint 1 1 9' e ve pli less ro the. was visited two or three .t but very have been more severely wouncled.bu - l o ia ffi v e h e ig r on a thick great-coat, which it c w u a m s . discovered he had on the same niillit tstoflenm froetilr:le- his medical attendants, and ) , The sad t he f the medical rofession,Ywariesrte°n-rsqulreu°f fruea be rt' tertained of his u flume a nd his • ltimate recor!, ... Grace ......_- .1.- ~a, a :tit.. Jflietien. premises of Mr. Thomas Vick the same village.—Hull Packet WALES COMMITTAL OF TWENTY-SIX REBECCAITES.—After an examination last week, twenty-six persons have been committed for trial, charged with pulling down the toll houses at Parkamorfa and Fishguard, on the 11th Septem be!. last. The excitement in the latter town where the prisoners were examined was very great, particularly as regarded the informants, Thomas Williams and his wife, who were obliged to be guarded day and night from the barracks to the Commercial Inn, where the magis trates sat. The prisoners were confined in the Market house, surrounded by a treble guard of marines. The Commercial Inn was also strongly guarded during the time the magistrates were sitting. BEAUMARIS PIER.—The new pier at Beaumaris is to be carried out a distance of 563 feet from the termination of the old town wall, at the corner of the Bulkeley Arms Hotel Terrace-garden, in a direct line with Church-street. It will consist of solid masonry, filled up with rubble, &c., and be about six-and-twenty feet high at its extreme end, having a roadway of twenty-three feet wrde the whole length. It is calculated that the larger class of steamers will be able to land passengers, &c., on the slip (which will extend at a right angle from the extreme end) almost at any time of the tide, there being fifteen feet of water at that distance from the extremity of the slip at thelowest spring tide.—North Wales Chronicle. Nov. 28, 1543, THE COURT. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO SIR R. PEEL► T a O m n w T o r u t e h s d w a a y s f o h r e e l n d o a o tn the, h a e m T e o e w t i o n - g h a o l f l the t i n h h e a p b o i t r ;0 0 7; 0 1 considering and arranging plans for the reception 0% to Queen and Prince Albert on their anticipated visit T. Drayton Manor, the seat of Sir R. Peel, Bart. -u r l i t ie o ß o r a a o m iro all o , o t s h i e n M oo a n y o o o r r , tio p g re m sid eo e s d o , raensdtotghiev:uabioliycabl w odelic.t% to their august Soverei g n a n d her illustrious Con n& the occasion of the approaching Royal visit to the bourhood. • (From the Derby Mercury.) k Thert (havingW e vithatsit visited s r i rMRa.j Peel esty at t n D d ra l;r t i: n e e r for o /f 3 are Fri Friday, Dec. t e l . t l o , arrive about two o t he o'clock, Railw Station , a o y utbair wil y to n ei o worth, and that the special train which will convey t . p g, loyalty o h y e a a l tryr requisitei ; v abalucotcfoitin the iis, we will proceed on to Chesterfield station without Wis hed excepting to change the engine. It was earnestly w.r oall that the public might be admitted to the statioo W i tte' time deter' the and it was at one ; A c t!!! mined to allow admittance by ticket, and to Pr° ° •.y o ula o w 4 d e at b io e n liev fo e r h t e . h r o: l e as p e avail themselves of the opportunity of expressing too such display shall take place, and that her passing through the station shall be as strictly private asp ossible. 'no, regulation, we understand, is in unison with the ac i nt her meets at the terminus of the Great Western, and - railways, on which her M • travels. ..p, Majesty occasionally 0 p 6 ," On reaching Chesterfield the Royal and illustriaa, yeo. will be escorted to Chatsworth by the three troops ( nu ke o manry Cavalry connected with that district. The ; ic e. f Devonshire has given instructions for the cotnt o t bi. tnent of preparations at Chatsworth, and there cs,n; us al a doubt but that princely mansion will be the ' ° " to be magnificent hospitality. The stud at that seat is tow n ' considerably increased by all the Duke's horses in b oa and the splendid equipages belonging to his Gra ce t hiall been ordered to be partially re-embellished, so that visit of may be wanting to contribute to the eclat of the Royalty. Cbs tP e st r y so , n s s who ..their serve—mostli land o t d l i e c ou afternoon,nti Counties iklieulay when andeitht either r e t ß o o Ny proceedaol at p tai a nf r ga t On Monday (December 4) her Majesty willdleessivree t . l3 , Bugil worth, and, again taking the railway at Chesterfiel°,cioalt arrive at the Derb station probably about three t. sld systa. yr ha wa m siltl the Duke of Rutland's, at Belvoir Castle. A 0 t he On her Majesty's return from Chatsworth. an On arrival of the illustrious personages at our railwaYcisdresses the corporation of Derby intend to present loyals 1 00 4 to her Majesty and to his Royal Highness Friar t o ad' on the occasion of their visit to this county. i'Llforci' shiredresses ao from oLine Leicestershire, borough ter ab ire, ofwi will also w o b i: h , andfror '''- g th e presented du° Royal route. , w itb On Monday evening, two splendid state cartiagl;staa' wa a ra n ci u dv m eedd be ftr i o • o o mc f h h Le o sot r ue s rd e fi s oeu f l r da or toou t b l r i e e rra D eial u wd k ya e yt o oa f t: D otin e ov v ue o ,y n a s i7l h d e ir rv e ; s r: je fa s t r ; and her illustrious party to Chatsworth hoterakreair::;,:io.l THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO NOTTI NG " - g' 1 NOTTIN GHAM. the Nottingham Journal of Fridt**lntocilr At the adjourned quarterly meeting of the tovca : ois tig h et ft h :hi e oco l n d sct tl y Geh e rer s ka t L e co r io. fodr Gracious s y hLesi official eop a uv n eteaerenecia)gnnwt toa hfs et madehcc Queen, communication untuonntaitycicetaoinr omoSpafsoyn(roewir;l3'accaet illustrious consort Prince Albert, will arrive at t - b b u e t 00-f way Station, at Nottingham, on Monday the sth of December. In addition to the particulars relating to the vi r Vlt a rb i l g m r o e r s n s, in w g e o a f re iv e i n o a n b d l a ed to state that her Mai" ' in her tmi oinn u d at e et p s departure e pst t half-past snfrt,oaemni Monday, Chesterfield ewcni Chatsworth at nine o f ; e e Ir01:c4:1; s : t rft ; will not make an entry n.lhlteoaslyrtterhierevfieetbolaellineatvhteebteufith,a:iitlibinepgrroivnefetioejude.::i once to Belvoir Castle, the seat of His Grace the " ff Rutland. ElVellinv a. We understand that his Grace the Duke 0 1 t he "- accompanies her Majesty on this tour of visits Wooed° bility in the midland districts, and will likewise fain ifb,c —s en an his n ; Go b ur a u rc t se we second n h ll da honour v o e n n l yot to Nottingham to n f a ß b able to witi yt a b s i e tbs e ie r l ; . ; reg of °- a blet° hod/ It will be seen by the short report we are a , t hat the Council proceedings, that Committee of that 111 8 :1 "ge f ° ; , to ta l ` has been appointed to prepare addresses to r the . c and Prince Albert, and to make arrangeoe nt observance of the Royal visit. A public dinner " place at the Exchange Rooms. s pa THE DUKE AND DU CHESS DE f NEr- 11 " S :b et Nov. 16.—1 have been informed, rom d e " s that the king and queen have both expressed 111)11101 at the accounts of the reception of the Duke ° the ir Oe n . de Nemours, by Queen Victoria : and that fessiii,elo, highnesses are charged to make a formal a n d Pear' - vitation to the queen to visit St. Cloud ne%t to thiso , pie about court say that there is little duubt a i a d frau' t he vitation being accepted ; but that, if it s ,,,b c t ic isor cessity be declined, the king will visit Y" ..- very next summer, if his health, which is 11 , 0 7 7; d iabe' c$ should permit.—Paris correspondent of "*" HAM , t Oh, " DOMESTIC LIBRARIES" AT BUCKII"'"itt t p , av t 0 0 , 1! AND WINDSOR CASTLE.—Her Majesty, ' iv ' 0 004 le re and which she has ever manifested for ibetiei, intellectual enjoyment of the royal dorne!„-viortb,9 caused to be carried into effect a most P r .g 'else sign, emanating entirely from herse:f and lo a c ness Prince Albert, for the establishrneta (3 , 1 0t b at P;ore libraries" in the respective servants' halls, r the coo' ingham Palace and Windsor Castle,. In or u .. e o hjee„,o l , effectually to carry into effect the excellem drael, has bee7 o brov..e. templated by the Queen, her A/Nasty pleased to make a donation of £lOO for the libe clicoc • books to commence with. and has also veil', an d O s te r : sented a great variety of works, of a iise l ! both i 0 t° Da tive character, to the " domestic libraries,. and at Windsor. His Royal Highness 'l 3 ' ot h h' iO teo: also presented £5O for the same purpose. a cioa s trar ie° jesty s a o i f i d giving the P f r u i n r tcheehr additionalaveexpressedsupport tlie r g t r o the 11 te• sts upon future occasions. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO SIR R• PEE ais is the ments respecting her Majesty's proposed We . re with a visit at his residence at D f t o h r a d t s i h t i i r s e haenrdmDaieershtyys,shiirneteanrteionnottocorreel'r sir Ppes' day, the 28th instant. Her Majesty by ta l pece ai ; Windsor Castle to Watford, and thence Ist , of ace th Drayton Manor, to remain till FridaY , th e his 6r e rub er .i vis it to of Der s oo t, ber, when her Majesty will go on a ray tlolooniapl:;coeloweiacroro the Queen will honour the Duke of Duke of Devonshire. On Monday , th e 4t iand joo the gut cas ue is itop ti at Belvoir Castle, and return to Wi°°d bye Sajej,er 7th. Her Majesty will be acconiParitetbat breel on Highness Prince Albert ; and we W i g Ref ri r ltfo r fi s r du• the Queen Dowager has signified to,.''Prar;e - the intention to join the royal party ha, h so ca: 1 06; the 29th inst. ; so that the Premier gill - fl e d h e ' AO guished honour of receiving in h's ll ,., °- ",ort , a - s uite° his Sovereign and her illustrious 0'11" p est jesty the Queen Dowager, with their res attendants.-:-Standard th e I t l 'he e th: tal i 'vl ti to e "et 414 to