The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

Nov. 23, 1847. total 49.035. Richard Leyland, Esq., has presented £2OO to the Dis pensaries, through G. G: Hornby, Esq., the treasurer. The Britannia steam ship sailed on Friday without any specie. The Reformers of Everton gave a dinner on Wednesday 'to Mr. Walthew, to celebrate that gentleman's return to the Council. On Thursday; a man named Dawson Carmont, whilst intoxicated, was run over by a lorry, in Chapel-street, and died soon after. On Thursday a child named Helen Hartley was found in flames in the cabin of her father's flat, and died in about four hours. She had been striking some lucifer matches Great numbers of steerage passengers are returning Trom America. From fifty to a hundred are common numbers, and there were about eighty lost in the Stephen Whitney. The Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, son of the late vicar of Kirk Braddon, Isle of Man, has been elected minister of Myrtle-street Baptist Chapel. The stipend is fixed at £250. The Rev. J. Lister has resigned. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—On Tuesday night, the shop of Mr. Dodd, tailor and draper, Lord-street, was broken open at the back of the premises, and wearing apparel to the amount of £BO stolen. A high treat may be expected from Mr. Goodall's ap proaching ball. That gentleman is a first-rate violinist, and the performances of his band will, if we mistake not, surprise the public. A handsome ship, to be commanded by , Capt. Marden, will be launched from Messrs. Chaloner s building-yard to-day, at eleven o'clock. She is intended for the Per nambuco trade ' and has been built for Messrs. Cotesworth, Wynne, and Lyne. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, whilst Mr. John 'Turner, cart-owner, Lionel-street, was assisting to get a horse up which had fallen in Strand-street, with a cart loaded with casks of hardware, one of the casks rolled off upon the unfortunate man and killed him on the spot. LIVERPOOL GAS-LIGHT COMPANY.—On Wednesday, 500 new shares of £25 each in this comp any were sold at the Clarendon-rooms , by Messrs. Thos. Winstanley and Sons, in lots of four shares each. The average price for the four shares, of £lOO in the aggregate, was £157, and this was considered their fair value. NORTH AND SOUTH WALES BANK.—Meetings of the depositors and others interested in this bank have been held during the week at Newtown and Carnarvon, and resolutions were passed expressive of confidence in the bank, and of acquiescence in the terms proposed by the N- - "T were unanimously passed. SINGULAR ANNOUNCEMEN T !—ILL the Chester Courant of Tuesday last, is an advertisement of an estate to be sold by auction, to which is appended a notice that a purchaser may pay for the same in North and South Wales Bank notes ; or a check from a depositor in that bank will be taken in payment. This must give confi dence to the holders of property in this bank. A HUGE MANGEL.—There was pulled last week , in a field at Zigzag Farm, Liscard, belonging to William Mann, Esq., of this town, and farmed by that gentleman, a man gel wurzel of the scarlet kind, the length of which, from the top of the bulb to its extremity was two feet ten inches. Including the green top, or leaves, the whole plant was about four feet long, and being well formed, the weight was extraordinary. DEATH FROM SCALDING.—About a fortnight ago. a married female named M'Quade, residing in Porter's Court, Vauxhall-road, left her little boy, aged 4 years, in the house (she having occasion to g o out,) with a g irl of 6 years of age. A pan of hot water was at the time at the bottom of the stairs. On the mother's return she found the boy in the water, and took him out. He was so much scalded that he died on Friday. The congregation at Newington (Independent) chapel, Renshaw-street, have invited the Rev. R. A. Vaughan, the highly-talented son of Dr. Vaughan, the celebrated author of the " Age of Great Cities," to supply their pulpit for the next two Sabbaths, vacant by their late minister the Rev. William Bevan, having accepted the office of secretary to the Evangelical Alliance, in London ; and we understand he has consented to preach for them. SHIPWRECK IN THE BRISTOL CHANNEL.—On Monday night last, the barque Henry, of Liverpool, Potts, master, was totally wrecked on the rocks called the Shear Weathers, near Portcawl. The vessel was about 1200 tons burthen, was in ballast, and bound from Liverpool to Cardiff. She soon became a complete wreck. The crew, with the exception of an apprentice, were all saved -and taken to Swansea. It is feared not a vestige of the vessel will be secured. STREET ACCIDENT.—On the 19th ult., William Prit chard, aged 21, was driving his cart along Strand-street, where he was met by another cart. He was knocked down by one of the shafts of one or other of the carts, and a wheel of one of them passed over the lower part of his body. - He was taken to the Northern Hospital, and it was found had sustained a compound fracture of the right thigh, a fracture of the leg, and other injuries, of which he died on Friday night. No blame was attribut able to the driver of the other cart. ACCIDENT AT THE NEW NORTH DOCKS.-011 the 2nd i vnap a lfa n oil t , e a d l a a t b t o h u e rer named Walter Byrne, and others, were North Docks in getting out what is called • • of ea r th v, ralnin g i t firs an operation which is done by under forced down I t ) , and if it do not fall through this, it is mining some bermseYa;tvid While employed in thus previous indication, , ss came down without giving leg and right thigh w a e n r d fell upon the deceased. His left e broken, and he was taken to the Northern Hospital, where he died from the injuries on Friday. OUTRAGEOUS STREET ROBBERIES. —OR Saturday Might, a seaman named Hamilton, lodging in Denison street, was knocked down by some thieves in Vauxhall road, and robbed of £l3 in g . e n ight, Mr. Id —Sam ight„ E. Shaw, of Great — street, -tatreet, o was stopped by three m en in Basnett-street, who demanded his money ; two of them seized him and attempted to rifle his pockets, but assist ance coming to his cries, the thieves ran off and escaped. —On Monday night, James Burgess, who resides in Bur lington-street, was stopped in Leeds-street by three men; one of them drew a knife and demanded his money. On his crying for assistance, the villains ran off and escaped. THE NEW RAILWAY TUNNEL.—It is said that the new tunnel of the London and North-western Railway, from Edge-hill to the new north docks, is likely to prove more expensive than was at first anticipated. The cuttings have been so difficult, that some of the dwellings over head have been rent, and to live in them as they now are would be dangerous. It is believed that the houses in the whole distance from Fontenoy-street to Crompton street, comprising Bispham-street, Henry Edward-street, Marybone, Midghall-street, Banastre-street,Freemason's - row, Vauxhall-road, Gascoyne-street, and Eaton-street, -will have to be pulled down. HALIFAX AND BOSTON STEAMERS.—It has been deter mined that there shall be a steamer every fortnight, in stead of every month, during the present winter. The days fixed for the sailing of the next three steamers are the 4th and 18th of December, and the Ist of January, 1848. A steamer will be despatched for America every fortnight up to the 25th of March, after which date the departures be come weekly from England to America, and from America to England. For the execution of this gigantic contract, the Royal North American Mail Company have nearly completed four new ships, of greater tonnage and steam power than their present steamers, which will make a • fleet of nine vessels, viz. the Britannia, Acadia, Caledonia, Hibernia, Cambria, America, Canada, Niagara, and Eu ropa, the fastest and finest steam-ships in the world. THE WEATHER.—We do not remember having wit nessed a finer back-end than the present for field opera tion.- We had some frost on Wednesday night, but the day that n,nowed was glorious and sunny. On Thursday night the frost relaxed, with a westerly wind, and Friday was as mild as a spring day. The farmers in these dis tricts have nearly concluded getting in their turnips and mange's, and have already sown the greater part of their wheat, the land being in prime order for seeding. When this is completed their attention will be chiefly directed in open weather to manuring, and preparing the ground for spring grain, &c. It is now ascertained that in this county, and more especially inCheshire, the potatoe crops have been scanty. Field turnips are selling at from 16s. to 20s. according to quality. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION.—The inundating our streets and highways with gaudy placards, announcing that the Liverpool Mercury of Tuesday or Friday will contain a full report of the case of A v. B, (no matter what is the subject, or who are the parties, provided, like Finder's razors, the thing will sell,) is a mere ruse, and a very disgraceful one too in any journal pretending to re spectability. The deplorable fact is, and our sensitive contemporary knows it right well, that the Mercury is but rarely visible above the Manx horizon, and even then —to the credit of our citizens be it spoken—is treated as a planet of very so so reputation. The Liverpool Con servative papers have an extensive circulation in this island, and even the Whig and Radical journals there pub lished—the Mercury alone excepted—have a fair share of the insular public patronage. Hine illce lachryinw.— Manx Sun. PUBLIC BATHS.—It is pleasant to refer once more to the baths and wash-houses in Paul-street. The first annual account will shortly be laid before the Council. We believe it will show the following gratifying results : The cold baths at one penny were used by 3,082 males and 1,316 females, and the influence of price is particu larly discernable ; at threepence no more than 318 persons bathed ; and at sixpence, only 69. In the warm baths at threepence, no fewer than 30,293 males and 1,188 females bathed ; at sixpence, 5,508 males and 456 females, and at a shilling, 1,348 males and 154 females. The total num ber using the baths was 44,404, for which they paid £644 3s. 4d. The number of children permitted to bathe gratis was 59,064. The result in the washing de partment is not less gratifying. The number of tubs paid for is 34,450, and the clothes washed and dried are 64,900 -dozen, and of infected clothes, 2,125 dozen. The sum paid for washing is £135 4s. 2d.,—the whole income more than meeting the outlay. We observe by advertisement, that Mr. Thompson, of Clayton-square, continues to give his excellent lessons in that most useful of all arts, the art of writing. As no person should write an indifferent hand, we would advise .all who do so to take a course of lessons from Mr. Thomp son. THE TOlLET.—Although experience has taught us to deprecate the use of cosmetics obnoxious to the delicate organisation of the hair—which, in place of promoting its growth, generally tend to denude the person of one of its finest ornaments—we can recommend with, we believe, perfect safety, the restorative balsam prepared by Mr. Coupland, chemist, Parker-street. It is certainly an elegant addition to the toilet.—See advt. THE BOSJESMANS.—These extraordinary specimens of the intermediate link between the human and the brute creations, have attracted numerous attendances at the Portico, Newington. During the past week the place has been visited by many of the first families of the neigh bourhood, as well as the pupils of several of the most re spectable schools. Our friends cannot do better than em brace an opportunity which may, perhaps, never again be afforded to them of seeing these interesting people. BRUTAL ASSAULT.—A MAN KILLED.—An inquest was held on Friday before the Deputy Coroner, on the body of a young man named Thomas Taylor, who lived with his parents, working people, in Lower Harrington-street, Toxteth-park. His mother deposed to leaving him sitting before the fire when she went to bed on Saturday night. A little after twelve o'clock on the same night, another witness saw him in Bell-street, near his own house; five or six men were following him ; one of them struck him on the side of the face, and he fell, when the others kicked him about the body. Subsequently he was taken into a neighbour's house, bleeding from a wound under the ear. During Sunday he complained of a pain in his left ear, and on the following morning he became delirious, and on the same morning he was taken to the- Southern Hos pital. The evidence of Mr. Morris, who made a post mortem examination, went to show that on removing the scalp a thickning of the pericranium from effusion of lymph was apparent. On opening the head effusion of matter on the surface of several parts of the brain was - observed. This was considered to be the cause of death. The appearances observed in the pericranium, were the results of external violence. A verdict of "wilful mur der" against some person or persons unknown, was re turned. THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.—The late elections, on Wednesday last, occasioned by the elevation to the alder manship of John Holmes, Esq., John Cooper, Esq., J. N. Wood, Esq., and James rocter, Esq., passed off with perfect quitness. Two radicals were returned, with two liberals, leaving matters, in a political sense, in statu quo. In Castle-street there was no contest, and G. Holt (Reformer) was returned.—ln Abercrombie Ward, Mr. Mr. Robertson Gladstone opposed Mr. Gardner, and the latter was the winner by only a majority of 6, the num bers being 189 to 183. In Rodney-street Ward, Mr. G. Bookei (whom we noticed as a highly fit and proper Con scrvative representative) was opposed most ungraciously by Mr. Lewin, who, however, notwithstanding all his friend's exertions, suffered a mortifying defeat, the votes at the close being, at the close, for Booker 267, and for Lewin only 140—majority for the former 127 !—Great George-street Ward was warmly contested, Mr. Dover being proposed by the Conservatives in opposition to Mr. Rogers. From the early part of the day neither candi date exceeded the other in votes above ten, until about three o'clock, when Mr. Rogers was 16 a-head. By the hour of closing he had gained 5 additional votes, giving him a majority of 21. The successful candidate briefly addressed the electors after the numbers were declared. The Council now consists of seventeen liberals and forty seven conservatives. THE DUKEDOM OF DEVONSHIRE.—We learn from good authority that Mr. George Hudson, now of this town, who has for some years been claimant to the Dukedom of Devonshire, will, in a few days, be in a position to for ward a petition to her Majesty the Queen, setting forth the grounds upon which he considers himself entitled to an investigation of his case before the House of Lords. We have perused several of the documents and evidences which he purposes to bring forward, outlines of which have already been published by some of the London and provincial journals. The facts therein developed touching the descent of the claimant in a distinct line from the Howards and Cavendishes, and the extraordinary manner in which, it is asserted, his title has so long been held in abeyance, and the property alienated, are curious in them selves, and derive additional interest from the very large amount of landed and other property involved—situate in various counties in England. It would be improper for us to offer a decided opinion upon the matter in the present stage of the proceedings, and in the absence of replication on the part of the present possessors ; but from the appa rently authentic and corroborative statements and docu ments of the claimant, we have no reason to doubt but that he will succeed in obtaining the fair and full inquiry which he desires. The case is of importance in a national point of view, inasmuch as it involves the vindication of the inalienable integrity and rightful possession of herit able property, and its titles and immunities. The inves tigation will, we presume, devolve upop a committee of privileges. IRISH IMMIGRATION.—From Tuesday last the accounts of the arrivals from Ireland have been kept in an improved form, and present the following results up to Friday : Men. Women. Children. Total. 103 .. 42 .. 16 .. 161 Cabin passengers Emignlnts to the United States or the Canadas 413 .. 281 .. 169 .. 863 Mendicant paupers .... 99 .. 69 .. 47 .. 215 Jobbers 159 .. —.. 159 For the temporary accommodation of the class represented by the above 863 emigrants, who are compelled to come to this port for a passage to America, it would be worthy of the philantrophy of Liverpool to provide suitable lodg ings and board at a cheap rate, either by public subscrip tion, or at the expense of the borough or government, or all three conjointly. Such an institution might be made wholly or in part self-supporting, and by the superior comfort, economy, facility, and security it might afford to emigrants, would materially mitigate the evils of the present no-system upon which emigration is conducted, and render it really an advantage to the port and the in habitants. As respects the mendicant class, of whom in four days 215 have been added to the thousands who already infest and afflict the country, it is surely con sistent with the highest humanity, that some competent authority should prevent their embarkation, as a waste of national resources : or, if that is impracticable, the law should authorise their removal, on landing, either to work houses or industrial schools, where they might at least support themselves, and be prevented from spreading disease and crime over the country. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN LIVERPOOL. — The wires have now been carried under the streets from the railway station, Lime-street, to the new office of the Commercial Electric Telegraph Company, Exchange buildings, nearly opposite the Exchange Newsroom. There are nine copper wires, all inclosed in one small iron tube, about the thickness of a finger, and yet the whole had been so carefully preserved from co ntact with each other throughout the whole distance, about a mile, that when tested there was not the slightest deflection of the needles, which would have been the case had any two of the wires touched each other at any point along the whole line. At the corner of Water-street, a diverging group of nine wires, inclosed in an iron pipe, is carried along that street towards the docks and the river, to the present marine telegraph office, and it is not unlikely that this is to form the commencement of a line of elec. tro-telegraphic communication, terminating at Holyhead. For some months of every winter, and very frequently in the other parts of the year, the present line of telegraphs are rendered useless for a time, by dense fogs obstructing the vision of the officers at the different stations, who have to keep a look-out. This has been a great drawback to the utility of the present range of telegraphs ; and it would be a great boon to the mercantile community, if communication with Holyhead could be rendered inde pendent of fog or darkness, and be made at any hour of the day and night,—especially with the immense addi tional advantage of possessing the means of asking ques tions and receiving answers, as to the vessels in sight, &c. Amongst other uses, important news brought by a mail steamship from the United States might be telegraphed direct to Liverpool, Manchester, and London, twelve hours before the steamer could reach Liverpool to land her passengers and mail bags. Another advantage would be, that the owners of an outward-bound vessel might transmit a message to the captain, twelve hours or more after his vessel had left the port. We hope, in the course of next year, to see this line of telegraph in active opera tion. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. NUISANCES.-At the Police-court, on Friday, a whole host of persons appeared before Mr. Rushton, and were fined for offences against the Sanatory Bill. pictures O n Tuesday e fi t e ft h y e d f l o i e u s r s personspoverty,, w a h n o d prpresented r e fe fear fined twenty shillings and costs for either occupying or letting off cellars. On Saturday, Mr. Chilcott, cigar-dealer, &c., in Bas nett-street, was called to answer a charge of assault on a young girl named Sarah Graham. Mr. Jameson, the magistrates' clerk, stated, that he believed the case had been settled in court ; that he himself had seen Mr. Chili. cott's attorney pay over money to the complainant. Mr. Rushton, with a view of reprobating the practice, asked for the parties, but was informed that they had left the court, and the matter dropped. IwchAoNT preferreds.—On s F te ri a d li a n y g , about CobigmeamndigiTorteAonL anything Ir O i F s h o I f R I in t t h h or their own country, were brought up before Mr . Rush ton,siehExaeNpse of work, either in this at the Police-court, upon the charge of mendicancy. Mr. Rushton gave them the option of going across the water to Ireland, if they thought proper. This, however, they declined, and were sent to gaol for various periods. One rascal had a dozen soup tickets in his possession. Mr. Rushton expressed a determination to put an end to the nuisance of street begging as far as possible. SEAMEN'S CASES.— On Tuesday, two cases relating to seamen were brought before Mr. Rushton. The first was a claim for wages by James Cummins against the Captain of the ship Barber. The skipper denied the right of the claim on the ground that the plaintiff had de serted the vessel at Cork. The fact was corroborated by several witnesses, and the case was dismissed.—The second case was a charge preferred by Captain Giffrey, of the Agenora, against a coloured man named Seldon, who had shipped as Cook at London, for Quebec, and back to Li verpool, but who had deserted at Quebec, whereby the captain had incurred an expense of £7 ls. 4d., through being obliged to hire another man. Mr. Rushton, after a severe censure, ordered Seldon to pay the above amount, or be committed for two months. The money not being forthcoming, he was sent to gaol.—On Saturday, Henry Pettigrove, seaman, summoned the owners of the ship Glover for discharging him without payment of a balance of wages, which he alleged to be due. He had, he stated, signed articles, in St. John's, Newfoundland, for a voyage to this country. and back again to some port in America, at £4 10s. a month, hut was told here that his services were no longer required. It was stated, in reply, that the complainant, with several other seamen who had been engaged, had been sent down by a sailing sloop to the vessel lying at Eastport, but, by threatening the life of the cap tain of the sloop, forced him to return. They were brought before the magistrates, sent by another vessel to join the ship, and the instructions to the owners here from the agent there were to stop the wages of the men to the amount of expense incurred. Mr. Rushton told the applicant to go about his business, and said he hoped that none of the parties who had acted in that manner would be paid one farthing. --John Lateman, late chief-officer of the Maid of Athens, summoned Mr. John Broadfellow, captain of that vessel, for arrears of £8 15s. alleged to be due. The captain, it appeared, had disrated the mate, on the 3d of September, d ur i ng t h e voyage from Constan tinople to this port, on the ground that he had been ne gligent in the discharge of his duties and insolent to him. The case was sifted at great length, the negligence not proved, and the chief " insolence," it appeared, consisted in addressing him as a man, and not by the title of cap tain. Mr. Rushton ordered the wages to be paid. THE LFYERPOOL STANDARD. LOCAL MEETINGS. WEST DERBY GDARDIANS.—At the meeting on Wed nesday Mr. Smith, in accordance with his notice of last week, moved that a memorial be presented to the poor law commissioners, praying that a separation might be made between Toxteth-park and the rest of the union. Mr. Lloyd seconded the motion, which was negatived. Mr. Appleby gave notice that he would, on Wednesday next, move that an application be made to the poor-law commissioners, for the purpose of erecting a workhouse, fever hospital, &c., in the township of Toxteth-park. The Rev. Mr. Badnall gave notice that he would move, at the next meeting, that a committee be appointed to consider the propriety of purchasing land at the back of the workhouse, for the purpose of erecting an hospital. BIRKENHAD DOCK COMMISSIONERS.—A special meet ing was held on Thursday morning, for the purpose of hearing the result of the interview with the dock bond holders upon the subject of the proposed transfer of the trust to the crown. W. Potter, Esq., was called to the chair. The bondholders (Baron Goldsmidt, Mr. Garnett, and Mr. Bailey,) stated that they considered the arrange ment to be a desirable one with some few modifications. They could not, however, give a decided answer at present, until the question had been submitted to a general meet ing of their body on the 23d instant. They also desired to have the power of nominating six of the new commis sioners, and they have applied to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests on the subject. Upon the motion of Mr. W. Laird, seconded by the chairman, the report was received, and the bondholders were requested to take all necessary steps for forwarding the arrangements. BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—On Tuesday evening an adjourned meeting was held. The object of the meet ing was to consider the following questions :—" Ist. Are the Commissioners, as a body, favourable to the principle of a tax upon property in Birkenhead, Claughton-cum- Grange, and part of Oxton, for the payment of the interest on the bonded debt ?" " 2d. Will they prosecute the measure, if indemnified the expense, in the event of the act not being obtained ?" A proposition was made by Mr. Hicklin, seconded by Mr. Nicholls, to the effect that the first question be answered in the affirmative, on which a long discussion arose, and it was ultimately resolved, that before any answer be returned to the committee of the rate-payers, the Law-clerk be requested to see Messrs. North and Potts, as agents for a large number of the bondholders, and ascertain their sentiments on the sub ject, reporting to this Board at an adjourned meeting, to be held that day week. A general statement of the affairs of the township was presented by the chairman. It Wad been prepared by the treasurer, and examined by the Finance Committee. Some objections were taken by Mr. Thompson, but it was ultimately agreed that an abstract of the same be prepared by the treasurer and submitted to the Finance Committee at their next meet ing, and on their approval that it be furnished to the com mittee appointed at the public meeting of the Bth inst. THE MAGISTRATES AND THE SELECT VESTRY.—On Thursday a meeting of the magistrates was held at the Sessions House, to receive a deputation from the Select Vestry, and to confer relative to the best mode of re lieving the town from the immense influx of Irish mendi cants—the Mayor in the Chair. The deputation con sisted of the Rev. Rector Campbell, Mr. Ferguson, (churchwarden) Mr. Riding, Mr. Steins, Mr. Poole, Mr. Watson, and the 1 , estry Clerk. Mr. Poole represented the difficulty of removing the Irish paupers, notwith standing the Poor Removals Act of last Session. There was a large class of Irish poor over whom they had no control, for they did not apply for relief, and could not therefore be sent back to their own country. They con sequently; infested the lodging-houses and subsisted by, begging,—engendering disease. It was under the im pression that the magistrates and the Health Committee would adopt stringent measures, that the present inter view was sought. As but two instances of the facts, it was stated that 49 persons occupied one house in Frederick-st., and 461 in another in Breck-street.—The Mayor alluded to some observations made by Mr. Poole, as reported in the Mercury, to the effect that the magistrates had not afforded the necessary relief. Mr. Poole said he had so expressed himself. but his remarks had a retrospective effect. He had said that the Vagrant Act had not been put in force when the Irish influx was at its height.—Mr. Rushton explained why the law was not put in force at the time. There were 11,000 persons on the list of the Select Vestry : the streets were filled with paupers ; and 278,000 persons had come over from Ireland from Jan. to November ; and it was utterly impossible to deal with an evil of such magnitude. The magistrates, however, had dealt with it in the most energetic manner : the vagrant laws were enforced with severity at present ; and there were more persons in the gaol of Liverpool now than ever were in it before within his remembrance. The evil was a national one ; it would have to be met in the best man ner possible : and so tar as lodging-houses were concerned, they must be dealt with by the Council. The magis trates had, invariably, co-operated heartily with the Vestry in seeking to devise remedies.—ln consequence of this explanation, Mr. Poole withdrew any offensive ex pressions he might have used. Mr. Ferguson recom mended a separate temporary prison for vagrants.—Mr. Rushton explained the difficulties in the way, and said that the police now took all vagrants to Bridewell, so that mendicancy was much reduced. He promised, on the part of the magistrateQ, to re-issue strict orders to the police to take up all vagrants.—Rector Campbell said the Vestry were anxious to co-operate with the magistracy and the Council in every possible way. He spoke highly of Mr. Rushton's exertions during the past year, and the . , town was much indebted to the laie Mayor--Mr. G. H. Lawrence, to rid the town of the evils that surrounded it, arising from the influx of Irish paupers.—The Mayor assured the deputation that the magistrates would afford every assistance in their power (as they had hitherto done) to the Select Vestry. The deputation then with drew, gratified by the result of the interview. THE LATE ABERCROMBY WARD -ELECTION. TO WILLIAM EARLE, ESU. North John-street, 20th Nov., 1837. SlR, — Had any one but yourself originated the factious and fruitless opposition to Mr. R. C. Gardner in Aber cromby Ward, it would have been considered as a most extraordinary proceeding ; but you, Sir, are a most ex. traordinary character, and any act of yours, however excen tric or absurd it may be, will never excite the smallest particle of astonishment in any one. The two letters E. X. seem to be peculiarly your own ; you are, (as I have just observed), a most extraordinary character, you are also an ex-Alderman, and will be on the Ist of November, an ex-town councillor; on that day you will be fully entitled to the appellation of " Treble X Earle," a soubriquet which will stick to you whilst you remain on this side the grave, and possibly not be removed when you " sleep in dull cold marble." I feel much pleasure on being able to inform you that I had some small share in defeating you on Wednesday, I call it your defeat, because you evidently were the Radical :champion upon that occasion ; the name of your respectable candidate being used only upon the prin ciple of " divide et impera " but this machiavelian policy proved wholly unsu ccess f u l ; the ruse was too apparent, and its planner received from the " good and true" men of Aber cromby Ward a most severe and richly deserved castigation. - I will now, Sir, conclude with a piece of advice ; forego in future such crooked and tortuous policy, if you wish to gain a point, attempt it in an open, manly, and straight forward manner ; you will then rise, not only in the esti mation of your own partisans, but also of your political opponents ; such an alteration for the better would give pleasure to all, and to none more than to AN ELECTOR OF EVERTON WARD. ADDRESS ON BEHALF OF THE INSTITUTION FOR IDIOT CHILDREN, OR THOSE OF WEAK INTELLECT, BATH. It may not be generally known that establishments for the care and instruction of that class of children usually called idiots, have for some time existed in Switzerland. Dr. Guggenbuhl was the first who successfully drew the attention of the public to the state of those imbeciles re siding in the valleys of the Alps, and known by the name of Cretins. Equally afflicted both in body and mind, many of these unfortunate beings have, by God's bless ing on the skill and perseverance of their benefactor, been restored to the enjoyment of health and understand ing. It would occupy too much space here to do more than advert to the numerous cases mentioned in the Report of the Society of Abendberg, but so satisfactory were they known to be, that the King of Prussia, th e municipal authorities of the Canton of Berne, and many well known men, both in Germany and England, came forward with contributions. The work at Abendberg was necessarily a slow one : many of the inmates beng ex tremely unhealthy in body, and giving no signs of intelli gence for many months after their admission. Some failures of course occurred, but the general results were of so encouraging a nature. that some benevolent indi viduals established an Asylum in another part of Switzer land, for the reception of idiots, whether Cretins or otherwise. A Society in Paris, convinced by these vic tories over the double infirmity of mind and body, that the education of children of weak intellect was not im possible, has within the last year opened an institution for the instruction of so-called idiots. _ _ Under the impression that what has been done else where might be tried in England, and fully alive to the melancholy state of those children whose claims they now advocate, a committee of ladies was formed in Bath, at the commencement of the present year, to endeavour to carry into effect some plan for ameliorating the condi tion of these children. In April last, a matron was en gaged, and four children placed under her charge. The utter helplessness of these afflicted creatures prohibited a large number being received at once. Two of the girls were nearly fourteen years of age, yet they could not on entering the institution even feed themselves, far less employ themselves in any way. It is satisfactory to be able to state that, owing to the unwearying care and at tention of the matron, this apparent incapacity for exer tion has been in a great degree overcome. The number of inmates might now well be increased, and many pa rents, too poor to pay for their children themselves, are anxiously waiting the time when the funds of the institu tion will allow of their being received gratuitously. The time of trial has been almost too short to admit of de cided mental improvement, yet the efforts of the teachers have not been wholly unfruitful. At the last committee meeting the children were examined by some of the friends present, who knew their state on first entering the institution, and who afterwards declared that the pro gress made was beyond their expectation. Having then some solid prospect of success, the committee are embol dened to lay the case before the public, in the hope that assistance will be given for the support and increase of this establishment. The helpless and destitute condition of these children proves, more powerfully than words can do, the necessity of the present undertaking. An addi tional motive is to be found in the fact of English children having been sent to Abendberg, in default of any institu tion of the kind in this country. The institution is open to visitors at stated periods. [A meeting was recently held to establish a similar in stitution in London. We are glad to hear that the suc cess of the Bath establishment has given satisfaction to the benevolent promoters.—En.l BlOtritt Rttvg. On Wednesday the Conservatives of Lancaster presented to E. D. Salisbury, Esq., the late candidate for the borough, with a superb silver epergne. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. --On Wednesday / the silk mill of Messrs.. Hobson and Taylor at Eccles was destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £3,000. The conservatives of Stockport have determined to bring forward Major Marsland for that town, if Mr. Cob den retires. MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.—There is now growing in the grounds of Hugh Hornby, Esq., Ribby, near Kirk ham, an ornamental hawthorn in flower, although for saken by most of the leaves. .. rare circumstance, for a deciduous plant like the hawthorn to bloom in the "gloomy month of November." PARADING THE STREETS.—On Wednesday the un employed and " short time'? operatives, males and females, to the number of several hundreds, paraded the streets of Blackburn, dragging some hand-carts as they went, to excite compassion, and to contain the bread, Bz - c., which might be given them. The appearance of the males was much the worst, the females, for the most part, looking more comfortably, or at least more decently, clad. The " demonstration" appeared, to a certain extent, to have its effect ;, and the hand-carts were, we believe, well filled before the tour of the town had been made. At Darwen a similar demonstration took place. The parties forming this hungry procession in Blackburn, behaved with strict propriety - . THE CHARITY OF CHURCHMEN.—The Pl-eston Pilot of Saturday says, referring to the establishment of soup dispensaries in that town :—The sum already subscribed exceeds £5OO, which must be allowed to be an excellent beginning, and we take very great pride in observing that every donor to the fund is a member of the Church of England. Now we do not desire to hint' an invidious insinuation against the followers of other faiths, but we do wish the lower classes to be enabled rightly to distinguish on whom they have to rely in times of need, and to place them on their guard against listening to or being governed by those individuals who always parade, themselves on those occasions when ignorance may be abused, as the friends of the working classes par excellence. We had ' some precious specimens of the lip philanthropy humbug at the late borough election ; let the same parties then now give some equally capital displays of breeches pocket elo- ' quence. An excellent opportunity is offered, and it really should not be allowed to pass by unimproved. THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.—At Manchester the aggregate of mills working full time, has been increased by nine since the 9th instant, the whole number being now 90, of which 63 are working with the full complement of hands, and 27 with a portion only. The same number of mills, namely, 60, are working short time; and the number of those which had altogether stopped has been reduced from 34 to 23. With regard to the work-people, the present and past returns differ in the numbers, possibly from the cause already suggested ; for in the last they were stated at 41,055, whereas in the present they are put down at 40,955. The difference is only sixty, an amount which may also be ascribed to the fluctuations always going on in a large operative population. Nearly 4,000 persons appear to have been added to those previously in full employment; those working only short time, have been diminished by 2,000, within a fraction ; and there are about 1,000 fewer persons who are destitute of employment. On the whole, the present return is the most favourable that has been published for many weeks ; and in its improved form it will afford an accurate index to the social comfort of the principal trades which make up the vast hive of industry. There has not been as yet any resumption of work atAshton under-Lyne ; but we learn that numerous applications have been made by the workpeople to be permitted to resume their employment on the masters' terms. A meeting of the masters' association was held on Friday evening, when we believe it was resolved that the mills should be opened for work on Monday (yesterday) morning ; and we trust the strike, which has now lasted a month, will then ter minate.—As respects Blackburn, we learn that, out of 35 concerns, employing 14,826 hands, only two, employing 570 hands, are in full work ; that 14, heretofore employing 3,726 hands, are entirely closed ; and that the remaining 19, employing 10,530 hands, are working short time to a greater or smaller extent, averaging rather more than three days per week. MR. EMERSON AND THE BIBLE.—The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Manchester and Salford Auxiliary Bible Society was held in the Free-trade Hall on Tuesday night, and was attended by between 3,000 and 4,000 per sons. Mr. Samuel Fletcher occupied the chair, and the Rev. Hugh Stowell, in the course of his address, referred to the Guardian's report of Mr. Emerson's lecture on Swedenborg, wherein the lecturer said, " Man, wheresoe'er thou seest him, in brothels, gaols, or gibbets, is upon his way upward to all that is good and true." He trembled, he said, to read, these words. Were our young men to go to brothels to learn morals ? It was as unphilosophical as it was unscriptural to talk of a man soaring by sinking, or of going up to heaven by going down to hell. What did the lecturer mean by such a monstrous paradox, such utter absurdity ? Was it the ravings of an idiot, or the sober language of a philosopher, or -a man of sound judgment. He did not object to literary institutions engaging whoever they thought proper to lecture to them ; but he protested against the violation of that neutrality on religious subjects which they professed to owe to their subscribers. Let them leave Christianity alone, and Christians would leave them alone; but so long as they attacked Christianity under the neutrality and the guise of science, there were men in Manchester who would rather go to the flames than hold their peace. The clergy and ministers of Manchester would warn their Sunday school teachers and all Christian parents against the subtle and disguised iniquity of such sentiments ; they would lift up their voices against the poison being cir culated under the veil of literature. He did not find fault with the lecturer for giving to his lectures the garb of science and art; but he did for interlarding them with sneers at religion, and disparaging remarks upon the Word of God. He rejoiced to see himself surrounded by such a multitude of young men ; and he asked them if they were prepared to say it was atheism to believe there was a devil, or go to a brothel as the high road to heaven (loud cheers, and cries of "No"). Their common sense revolted at the idea ; and he recommended them, the next time they heard any lecturer, upon what ought to be a neutral platform, give utterance to such sentiments, to cry out in a body, " Question, question, question," until they silenced him. They would be violating no rule of courtesy,—breaking no canon of the institution ; but they would be acquitting their own conscience ; —be doing justice to their country, their parents, their cnurch, their Bible, and their God. Let them not allow insidious attacks, from a neutral platform, against religion, to drive them from the field of controversy ; but let them look infidelity in the face, and it would be defeated. The auditory greatly cheered this part of Mr. Stowell's speech. A SALUTARY ADMONITION. (From Blackwood's Magazine) The characteristics of our times are wholly unshared with the past. In calling up the recollections of the great ages of English change, we can discover but slight evi dence of their connexion with our own. To the stately, but religious, aspect of the Republic of 1641, we find no resemblance in the general features of our religious tolerance. To the ardent zeal for liberty which marked the Revolution of 1688, we can find no counterpart in the constitutional quietude of the present day. The fiery ferocity of Continental Revolution has certainly furnished no model to the professors of national regeneration, since the reform of 1830. And yet, a determination, a power and a progress of public change, is now the acknowledged principle of the most active, indefatigable, and unscrupu lous portion of the mind of England. And among the most remarkable and most menacing adjuncts of the crisis, is the singular sense of inadequacy to resist its career which seems to paralyse the habitual defenders of the right cause.—The consecrated guardians of the church seem only to wait the final blow. The great landowners in the peerage are contented with mak ing protests. The agricultural interest, the boast of England, and the vital interest of the empire, has aban doned a resistance, too feeble to deserve the praise of fortitude, and too irregular to deserve the fruits of victory. The moneyed interest sees its gigantic opulence threatened by a hundred-handed grasp ; but makes no defence, or makes that most dangerous of all defences, which calls in the invader as the auxiliary, bribes him with a portion of the spoils, and only provokes his appetite for the posses sion of the whole. This condition of things cannot last. A few years, perhaps a few. months, will ripen the bitter fruit, which the meekness of undecided' governments has suffered to grow before their eyes. The Ballot, which offers a sub_ terfuge for every fraud ; Extended Suffrage, which offers a force for every aggression ; the overthrow of all religious endowments, which offers a bribe to every desire of avarice—above all that turning of religion into a political tool, that indifference to the true, and that welcoming of the false, in whatever shape it may approach, however fierce and foul ; however coldly contemptuous, or furiously fanatical, however grim or grotesque, whose first act must be to trample all principle under foot, and place on its altar the worship of the passions ;—those are the demands which are already made, and those will be the trophies which the hands of political zealotry and personal rapine, in the first hour of their triumph, will raise on the grave where lies buried the Constitution. Yet nothing is done by the natural defenders of the rights of Englishmen. No leader comes forward ;no new followers are to be found ; no new banner is raised as the rallying point for the fugitives, already broken. We see the approach of the evil, as the men of the old world might have seen the approach of the deluge ; await ing with folded hands, and feet rooted to the ground, the surges which nothing could resist ; looking with an indo lent despair at the mighty inundation, before which the plain and the mountain alike began to disappear ; and sullenly submitting to an extinction, of which they had been long offered the means of escape, and perishing, with the pledge of security floating before their eyes. We are by no means desirous of being prophets of public misfortune ; but, with the tenets publicly avowed, in the elections which have just closed, with the strong popularity attached to the most daring opinions, with thirty pledged Repealers from Ireland, with the wildest doctrines of trade advocated by the popular representa tives in England, with sixty subjects of the Pope sitting in a Protestant legislature, and with the evident determi nation to bring into that legislature individuals (and who shall limit their numbers, when its doors are once thrown open to their wealth ?) who pronounce Christianity itself to be an imposture—we can conjecture no consequences, however hazardous, which ought not to present them selves to the soberest friend of his country. That the worst consequences may not be inevitable, is only to hope in a higher protection ; that even out of the evil good may come, is not unconformable to the ways of Provi dence ; but that times are at hand in which the noblest energy of English statesmanship will be required to meet the conflict, we have no more doubt, than that the pilot who, in a storm, uses neither compass nor sail, must run his ship on shore ; or that the man who walks about in clothes dipped in pestilence, will leave his corpse as a testimony to the fact of the contagion, THE MANCHESTER ATHENEUM SOIREE. This great meeting ofliterati, which had long previously been announced, took place on Thursday evening, at the Free Trade Hall. Mr. Alison, the president, occupied the chair, and amongst those present, were Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright, Mr. Cruikshank, Lord Brackley, Mr. R. W. Emerson, Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, Dr. Bowring, &c., &c., also a deputation from the Liverpool Roscoe Club. The CHAIRMAN, addressing the meeting, adverted to his inability to do justice to the position in which he was placed, and paid high compliments to the distinguished literary gentlemen who had before so eloquently spoken from that , platform, and to their works which were so widely known. He alluded to Dickens, D'lsraeli, Serjeant Talfourd, Lord Murpeth, and others. Literature had been his own delight, but he had pursued it only during hours of leisure from, more laborious duties. He would thus say from experience, that it was possible to unite business and literature, and he had found literature a solace to a life of labour, With allusion to the honour conferred upon him; peculiarly grateful to his feelings, he said he had lived long in Scotland, but was a native of England, and when their kindness re-called him, it. was to the land of his birth. There was a natural con nection which has made itself manifest in every age be tween commerce and intellectual eminence, and the greatest steps in human improvement, the greatest marvels of human exertions have arisen from their combination. It was to the commercial city of Tyre that we owe the invention of letters—that wonderful and almost super human discovery, which first gave permanence to the creation of thought, and sends forth the " winged words" of genius to make the circuit of the globe, and charm while it endures. He next adverted to ancient literature, science, and the arts, and- their powerful effects in the south of Europe. It was, however, in the north that the chief triumphs of the alliance between commerce and intellect are to be found. To one commercial city of Ger many we owe the art of printing—to another, the Refor mation. £lie first has ,rendered certain the diffusion of knowledge, the last impossible the slavery of thought. In Antwerp, the immortal genius of Vandyke and Rubens brought painting to its highest perfection. Commerce in Holland achieved a glorious victory alike over the storms of nature and the oppressions of man. But why should we travel to other times and distant lands for a confirma- tion of the same eternal truth ? In this age, in this country, in this city, its highest glories have been found. Here it was, and here alone, that a successful stand was at last made against the aggressions of revolutionary France ; it was the discoveries of Watt, of Arkwright, and of Crompton, which arrayed the forces which the arms of Napoleon were unable to subdue. It was a com pany of British merchants which subjected the vast realms of Hindostan to the sceptre of Queen Victoria, and exhi bited the prodigy of a single Delhi Gazette announcing in one day the capture of Cabool, in the heart of Asia, and the submission of the Celestial Empire under the walls of Nankin. It is the energy of British commerce which has peopled the western hemisphere with our descendants, and is spreading through the eastern Archipelago the wonders of European art, and the blessings of Christian civilization. After a series of eloquent remarks on the humanizing influence of education, and literary and scien tific pursuits, and the necessity of pursuing them, as well as the study of languages, for the improvement of our selves and the world, he thus concluded :—" I see with pleasure around me not merely an assembly of men, but a large proportion of the other sex. To the latter 1 would in an especial manner address myself, ere we part, and that not in a spirit of chivalrous gallantry, but of serious moral duty. I will do so in the words of a man second to none that ever existed in intellectual power, and least of all liable to be swayed in matters of thought by the attractions of your society. "Itis my decided opinion," r said Napoleon, " that everything in the future man de pends upon his mother." If anything was requisite to support so great an authority, I would add that as far as my own observation has gone,(l have never either heard or read of a remarkable man who had not a remarkable mother. If, then, study is requisite for the men who are to rule the world, what must it be for you, who are to form the men ? whose blessed province it is to implant those early lessons of virtue, and inculcate those early feelings of religion and habits of perseverance, on which the whole future fate of life depends, and which, by the blessing of God, when once received, will never be forgot ten ? Thus it is that you will duly discharge your inesti mable mission ; thus it is that you will contribute your part to the great work of human advancement ; and thus it is that you will regain in home the lost Paradise of Eden, and be enabled to say of it, in your last hours, " This it is which has softened the trials of Time ; this has, indeed, been the gate of heaven." Mr. COBDEN was received with deafening applause. He rejoiced to meet his fellow-citizens in the Athenaeum, after an absence of twelve months. Though the institu tion suffered, in common with others, from the depres sion of the times, he feared not but it would, after the storm had passed, continue to flourish in spite of all adverse circumstances that might befall it. He then gave an interesting account of its origin in 1835. The first idea arose with the late Mr. Walker, surgeon, and one of its earliest and best friends was the late Sir Thos. Potter, who had himself given £5OO towards the building, and had procured many other donations from liberal and ta lented men, merchants and manufacturers. In about three weeks £lO,OOO was raised in Manchester. This ought to operate as an encouragement and a stimulus. The members had now a splendid building for their meetings. The Athenaeum was intended not as a learned society, but to furnish the opportunity for the men en gaged in active business in Manchester to follow, during the intervals of hard labour, intellectual pursuits and intellectual relaxations. They did profess to hold out the opportunity and the means, for those who had a taste for the severer studies, to cultivate that taste ; but they did not disguise from themselves, that the great scope and object of the Athenaeum must be to furnish agreeable relaxation, and promote useful and amiable tastes among the members. He then entered into a highly interesting account of his recent travels on the Continent, especially in France and Italy, and the pleasure he had enjoyed amongst the literary men whom he had met with. Hi therto the select few only travelled on the Continent, but he expected to see the time when the operatives from this part of the world would go in their cheap trains to Paris. Within twelve months from this time the railway com munication from Boulogne to Paris would be completed, and they might then go regularly from the capital of England to the capital of France in ten hours. He thus concluded amidst much applause " I exhort you to maintain this and kindred institutions in every garb, pub lic or private. I have had many changes, and have seen many phases of society, probably as many as most. Ido not speak egotistically, because I am now merely going to elucidate an idea. But I have seen many phases of society. I have had many exciting means of occupation, and of gratification ; and I tell you, honestly and consci entiously, that if I want to look back to that which has given me the purest satisfaction of mind, it is to those pursuits which are accessible to every member of this Athenaeum. I have not found the greatest enjoyment in the exciting plaudits of public meetings ; I have not found the greatest pleasure or interest in the intercourse some times with men of an elevated sphere abroad, while others probably would feel it a privilege to meet such men ; and I come back to you, conscientiously to declare, that the greatest pleasures I have known are those acces sible to all of you, found in the calm intercourse with -intelligent minds, and in communion with the departed, in our books, by our own fire-sides." Mr. R. W. EMERSON, of Massachusetts, spoke at con siderable length in favour of such institutions as the pre sent, in fostering amongst the great family of mankind a taste for literature and art, and cultivating a brotherly and kindly feeling. He then proceeded to predict more pros perous days for the commerce of this country. England had seen many dark days before, but had got clear of them. And when he saw that in her old age England was not dispirited, but was still growing, still believing in her powers of advance and expansion, then he said he hailed the mother of nations, and the mother of heroes. If hope and the elasticity of mankind existed not in this country, they must be in the ranges of the Allihegany if they existed any where. (Cheers.) Dr. BOWRING, M.P., next addressed the meeting. " Sir, (said he) the Athenaeum—what does it present ? To my mind at least it presents one of the developments of the great discovery of modern times—the power of in tellectual association. (Hear, hear.) It shows what man can do when united with man ; the isolated man being as but a shadow pursuing shades ; but, connected, associated, co-operating with others, he stretches out his hand through the present to the past and future, and creates the power which, I believe, never will be disorganised hereafter. (Hear.) Sir, it does also appear to me that one of the greatest blessings we receive from the Creator is, that his gifts are of common heritage—(hear, hear)—of the greatest things that surround us, there can be no monopoly, and every one of us is able to say—' Creation, air, the world is mine !' (Loud cheers.) The heavens belong to us all. The sea cannot be any inheritance of individuals. The mountains are of universal possession. And so it is in the possession of the mind. All that is great in the past —all that is wise or aspiring in the present—all that is hopeful in the future, belong now to the community at large. Knowledge is universally accessible, and by its universal accessibleness will, I doubt not, ere long become universally expanded." He concluded by expressing 148 earnest desire that this great institution would accomplish all the objects which its friends anticipated from its activity and usefulness. (Cheers.) Mr. GEORGE CRUICKSHANK was then introduced, and was heartily welcomed. His address was pointed and faretious throughout. He said, amongst other facetix,— " This is not my first appearance in public in Manchester, but it is my first appearance in this place. Before I came to Manchester, I was given to understand that it was always raining here, and that it was filled with most miser able-looking people, wretched, miserable folks. Well, I thought it would be rather an unpleasant place to go to, on account of tho distressed appearance of the people ; so accordingly, I provided myself with an umbrella ; and, as T don't wear spectacles, 1 came of course with hat and gloves, to look for the pi - eturesque and horrible people. But I have not been able to find them ; I have not seen them. There are some stout, hale labourers in your streets, but, as to the wretched ragged people, the vic tims of oppression in Manchester, luckily I have not been so fortunate as to see them anywhere. And then, as to the other classes of society, upon my word and h onour I don't know where, in the course of my travels,—certainly they have not been so extensive as those of Mr. Cobden. but I have travelled all over England, and I don't think I could find a better sample, not only of ladies, but of gen tlemen, too—they are a very good-looking sample." Mr. Alison having vacated the chair, which was taken by the Mayor, Mr. CROSSLEY next spoke with much eloquence, and proposed, with a high encomium, a vote of thanks to the president. Lord Viscount BRACKLEY next addressed the meeting, seconding the resolution. The PRESIDENT ably and feelingly replied. A splendid ball afterwards took place in the large ball, and dancing continued with great spirit until three o'clock, who the delighted party broke up. THE NEW BISHOPS. (From the Church and State Gazette.) Opinions seem much divided on the subject of these appointments. It is to us satisfactory that to the Trac tarian party alone are they matter of positive discontent. We should say that, as regards the archbishopric, it might have been better and it might have been worse. We certainly do not, with our contemporary, the Morn ing Post; consider that the humble origin of the nevr archbishop is anything to his disparagement, but the con trary ; and we shrewdly suspect that what is disgraceful in an Anti-Tractarian bishop, as Archbishop Musgrave undoubtedly is, would be pleaded by our contemporary as enhancing merit, were the equally-humbly born Bishop of Exeter; for example, the prelate selected. With respect to the second appointment—that of the Regius Proissor of Divinity at Oxford to the see of Here ford—we think the government, whose measures we are so often forced to censure, have exercised a sound discre tion, and performed an act of tardy justice. We shall not be expected to review the painful history of the Oxford controversy,. or to say how far some may have been led by any imperfection of expression, unattended to by an author full of his subject, and guileless and unsuspicious as re garded his theological associates, to misconstrue, for a time, a man who has b een t r ied i n the fire, and now comes forth without a hair of his head singed. The " higher mind," as the Times has it, of his most formidable anta gonist has shown what was its true bias, and what was the mainspring of the movement against the professor. All parties in the church, or rather all in the church who are not partizans, are satisfied on this point—all, except the " beaten and discountenanced" party,. who, Jesuit-like, took advantage of a period of grave political suspicions to depress an opponent too honest to be won over, and too talented to be despised. On the merits of the Bampton Lectures of 1833, no less an authority than the accomplished Hallam has pronounced_ (in opposition to the Times scribe} that their author has alone, of our countrymen, penetrated to the depths of the scholastic philosophy ; and we have also perused an earlier work of Bishop Hampden, on the " Philosophical Evidence of Christianity," than which Bishop Butler himself cannot boast of one more closely and clearly reasoned. We should, of course, bow with profound deference to the Times writer but that we are—if we are not mistaken—borne out in our judgment by the early friend of the author, the late Canon Davison. What, then, has been the subsequent offence which has provoked our contemporary to bespatter the new bishop with his mud and slang ? For a series of yeaA, amidst discouragement and lukewarmness, Dr. Hampden has de voted his splendid talents and unrivalled metaphysical powers to unravelling the sophistries of the Roroanizers of the University—has foiled the " well-tempered steel of a higher mind," that of the author of Tract 90—and drivea him into the more respectable position which he occupies at present than when, with the theologians of the Times, he eat the bread of one communion and held the faith of another ! The noble stand made by Dr. Hampden, against the now avowed apostate, Mr. Mac Mullen (webelieve, at a considerable pecuniary sacrifice,) is, we can assure our contemporary, duly appreciated by true Churchmen, who, we would fain believe, still constitute a majority of our clergy; and in this belief w e w ill c h ar it a bly conc l u d e , that the discountenanced" party, who have failed to place a Hook and a Manning, a Dodsworth and a Bennett, on the bench, may learn to bear what they may not dis turb, and prove themselves undeserving of the Times' character of them, by not " turning sulky, and making a merit of idleness"—not representing themselves as " per secuted, insulted, or betrayed"—keepi ng th e i r " temper, time, and patience ;" and avoiding their threatened me tamorphosis into " reckless and needy pamphleteers" or angry politicians, which the Times writer pays them the compliment of telling them is so very " silly , " and yet so very likely. We can only express a hope that future whig appointments may be, in all respects, as unobjectionable as this last. According to a lAte account received from Oxford, Dr. Hampden's appointment is viewed with satisfaction by the principal members of the University. One or two meetings had been held of the Tractarian clique, but they had not succeeded in creating the desired impression, and the alarm at the nomination is strictly confined to them selves. THE LOSS OF THE STEPHEN WHITNEY. The Cork Constitution supplies the following additional particulars connected with the loss of this ill-fated ves sel : " On the 10th instant, being the twenty-fourth day at sea, the ship was hove to about 2 o'clock, p.m., when soundings were taken. By this it appeared they were in 50 fathoms water, and they believed they were then in the English channel. When the cabin passengers and officers of the ship sat down to dinner, they congratulated each other on the voyage they had made; and the captain promised that if the wind continued blowing from the point it then was in for the next twenty-four hours, they would be all safe in Liverpool within that time. It soon came on to blow hard, the fog still continuing ; the ship was then going swiftly under double-reefed topsails before a S.W. wind, and about 6 o'clock p.m. the gale increas ing, the sails were close-reefed. At 8 o'clock p.m. Mr. Allen came on deck for his watch, and he immediately perceived the reflection of a light on the larboard bow. He instantly called out that there was a light on the lar board, but he was answered that it was the reflection of the signal-lamp of the ship. To this he replied, that if it were the signal-lamp the reflection ought to be on both sides. He then looked over the sides of the ship, and being enabled to see the white foam on one side and not on the other. it confirmed him in his impression that there was a light on the larboard whose reflection was diffused by the fog. Before he had power to remark on this discovery, there was a cry of ' Breakers ahead and he clearly perceived the land, to which they had run so close that the receding surge from the rocks broke over the larboard bow of the ship. It will be necessary, for the proper understanding of what subsequently occurred, to describe the locality in which the vessel then was, but which, until after the wreck, none of the crew or passen gers had any knowledge of. The vessel had passed the Mizen-head, and instead of bearing up Channel had rounded Brow-head, passed the Crookhaven light, and run close to the Alderman's rock, a small craggy island at the entrance of Crookhaven. Brow-head and Balti more, two extreme points or arms of the main land, em brace a wide expanse of sea, which forms a large sea entrance common to several harbours, comprising Crook haven, Toormore bay, Skull harbour, Roaring Water bay, Ilen river, and Baltimore harbour. At the Baltimore side of the entrance, the Sherkin Islands and Clearlsland stretch away far into the sea. About midway between Clear Island and Skull there are three smaller islands, called Calf Island West, Calf Island Middle, and Calf Island East, about five miles from Skull. When the hapless officers perceived the vessel so close to the rock (` The Alderman'), orders were given to put the ship about, which were immediately obeyed. She swung round without touching, ' clawed off the land, mid, after running about half a mile, the light on Crookhaven was opened to the view of those on board. A question arose as to what light it was ; they looked all round, but were unable to discern Cape Clear light, which was then close on the starboard bow, but invisible from the fog. The captain gave it as his opinion that it was the light on the Old Head of Kinsale. In this he was supported by the opinions of all on board, and orders were given to put the ship to sea, taking the heading. S.E. by S. At 9 p.m. it was considered that they had taken sufficient offing, and they steered the channel course E. by S., supposing they were going round Cork harbour, but, unfortunately, she again ran through the sea entrances above described, inside C'ear Island, and, at the moment when safety ap peared all but certain, she struck with a tremendous crash, at a quarter to 10 o'clock p.m., upon the west side of Calf Island West, the cliff at this side being perpendi cular for some forty or fifty feet above water, and some twenty fathoms below, on which a tremendous sea beats at all seasons of the year. Having recoiled a short dis tance from the concussion, she was again dashed broad side against the rock, with a violence that clearly told she could not hold together more than a few minutes. All those on deck were in the utmost dismay, and the captain, mate, second mate, third mate, cre or, and such psasengers as had got on deck, immediately removed their clothes, expecting to have to swim for life. On the vessel striking a third time, the immense mass of strong timber quivered, and shook like a reed, and gave evident signs of an imme diate breaking up. The captain, mates, and some of the sailors got over the lee-side, and hung by the chains for about a minute, when the captain said he would drop into the water and endeavour to swim to the rock, and before the mate had time to prevent him, he jumped into the sea, but was almost immediately killed by a stroke of a sea dashing him against the rock. When he had dis appeared the mate perceived that the bottom of the noble vessel was gone, as he felt the deck sinking down, and at the same time conceived he saw a ship's boat lying bot tom up, and forming a bridge between the deck and the rock. On scrambling towards it, he found it was a pro truding piece of cliff, which was driven some feet into the side of the vessel, and by which he clambered on to a place of safety. Here he turned to look on the scene of destruction and death beneath, and he discovered he was followed in the course he had taken by a few of his com panions in misery, while beneath them he saw, by the light of Crookbaven tower, a vast number in the water crushed to death by the timbers of the ship, as they fell in quick succession from her sides. This dreadful scene lasted about three minutes, and from the time the ship first struck until every timber of her had been broken into small pieces, not more than twelve minutes elapsed. The mate then proceeded to collect those who had escaped, and seeing there were no others to whom he could give assistance, they proceeded to clamber to the summit of the cliff. There was amongst those preserved an inte resting boy named Patrick Peterson, a native of Roscrea, in the county of Tipperary, whom it was somewhat diffi cult to prevent throwing himself down the cliff into the surf, and who upbraided himself very bitterly for his want of courage in not leaping into the sea when lie perceived his father drowning, as, his remaining parent being thus removed, he had no human protector or means of sup port. When they arrived at the top of the cliff, they descried a light on the island. and having proceeded in d astonishment b y nag e d t m h a e n d n ir a e m ctn e io d D o r f is i c t o , ll fo a u n n a ca d d hisf b a i m n il i y o . hab H ite is at seeing people on the island at that hour was extreme, and when he had heard their tale of woe he set about making them as comfortable as his But he hadrietched noturf to abode and m i sera ble store would permit. Bu make a fire, and they were almost frozen with cold and denuded of clothing. Driscoll, however, was determined to do all that in him lay to relieve their sufferings, and he ran off to where he was told the wreck took place, and in a short time returned loaded with fragments of the noble vessel in which an hour before they had all the comforts of life, and, piling them in the chimney corner, his wife endeavoured to fire them to warm her visitors, while Driscoll again travelled the rugged island and again returned, bringing with him two goats, whose milk was distributed amongst the shipwrecked crew. Thus the night passed over, and the next morning a fleet of boats was seen all round the island, picking up portions of the cargo that floated about or were T . 04110 asIVWE RE; - , •••%._ * . - .. .e. ~9r. -. , *, -, ' . 3:-• 4t, ------. ' - - z!" '3 it'," :C.,& '7l ' 4i4th 1 .I A . - -r • ~.—._ , ',,,:.