The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

Blacku :able biog the Mid& affair recollect s Diary ral other e Walt events, ( out. T: s . upon ti veral art et . ... 4 am 81ie Inhabitant: carts 2.an_d offensive of our 1 usual, very Cleve vations Douglas style of 111, pan," Is a p sine. It i %able i " St. Gi somett " Like a wounded sna The public will have f chapters, and 1, hi the narrati their voyage tc volunteer in th Symtnond's Colonial May id valu take an opi .our next The Pariah C haunt of tleath, with able direetia iansic. London its conter and Chill Ruth, incumbent ( London : B. Wer rerunol A, Newl it periodical Pa an mm truth, fur i " Seed of J )ers beton )phecv. ta b,.ing liven plan, which we " It will cont intended to Cbistianity, pray, that th preserve us will also c, dually del tes, until the Christiai t the Scribes and the of none effect through t Scriptural interpr Church, E. The error ae birt Jerome put I pointed out. tare, of whit movements described, ,11 places c Such a worli e Society for promoti. and every one who f remarkable and interestir will do all in his power t 4 with gr raise it spirit of inquiry an Israel, at tl " build up the Ch. of the flebriv it will be adm Jews were admitted into t 1 cred ordi Berlin, 5 at Cra m of baptise Breslau, 3, a at Frankfort , 1, Konigsl lem s 1, Kalish, 41, Nottingha: vhwe, 1, Silesia And ihese cor med at a reco " out of the o Berlin tiniver: The Greatest Plague of Ly Lady in Search if a good Ser 3ogue, SO, Fleet- We hivt re and truth conta cation, of which the first part i two of subject is an ex, 'well provided i ing way not only the vk great amus iom The work is illus Cruickshank, who will find in t 1 his ini his sketching shalt e are unavoidably compelled 'eta Quarterly Review, Ro' _Dublin University Magazin, were received late in the week VARIETI sent down to -Es .nd carried him horn, in his arms seized with the eramv. "OLe CLomEs.' —The " Old enerated into " Ogh Clo,"_a cry fora tim and oc( said Coleru other day by a JeW. He r Clothes, in the most nasal and ex At last I was so I ray, why can't you sa3 , The Jew toppd me, said in a clear • old clot ten times Ogh Clo a minute, for an hour" t I do now ;" he followed and gave him a et —" Old London Cries," Fraa The avert hich leads up from I ith the pine -like cas mind about an acre in extent, la the tea-plants gr eft OD earn SI( of g this avenu from Chiriis by the grandfather of the present emperor. It was thought that the climate and soil of Brazil would be suitable for its cultivation ; but the success of the ex periment has not equalled the expectations which were formed of it, notwithstanding that the growth of the plants and the preparation of the leaves were managed by natives of China accustomed to such occupations. In the province of San Paulo a few large plantations of tea have been established • that belonging to the ex-regent Feijo con taining upwards of twenty thousand trees. The pro duce is sold in the shops of Rio, and in appearance is scar cely to be distinguished from that of Chinese manu • 3 flavour is inferior, being more of a herby )1d at about the same price ; but it is now ascertained that it cannot be produced so as to give a suf ficient recompense to the grower, the price of labour being much greater in Brazil than in China; to remunerate, it said that tight to bring five shillings per is into the Interior of Brazil. —Gardner's T 1 L. "'T' ON AT THE PRESENT SEASON wears its dirtiest, dreariest, and 'most disconsolate garb. The streets are slippery with black mud or blacker ice, a yellow halo sur rounds the gas lamps, even the bude lights look quenched and uncomfortable. Cabmen, peevish at the palm ity of tares, curse with triple itensity the wood pavement. and the luckless garroiis that slide and stumble over it ; the blue and benumbed fingers of Italian grinders can scarcely turn the organ handles ; tattered children and halt starved women, pale, shivering, and tearful, pester the pedestrian with offers of knitted wares, and of winter nosegays meagre as miserable as themselves. The popu lar cheerfulness and merry-making of Christmas-time are over. and have not yet been succeeded by the bustle and gaiety of the fashionable world. London is abandoned to its million of nobodies ; the few thousands whose pre sense gives it life, still on the list of absentees BlacPecod's Maar THF, s. CHAMBERS. - -These two gentlemen ar le world as the able editors and proprietor of the Journal which bears tbeirname. For that iniblicatior Mr. Robert. Chambers _ wrote a number of interesting Essays, which have just been re-published in a separate volume. Those essays no doubt contributed greatly to the popularity of the former successful work, and the , - to be followed by other writings from thy, , n of that gentleman. In the preface to - the essays says of his early youth,—" My earliest aspirations were towards literature. Books, not playthings, tilled my hands in childhood. At twelve, I was deep not only in poetry and fiction, but in histories and encyclbpredias. By day and night I read, and duties required by parents were grudged if they separated me from study. Even niy choice of an occupation for needful bread was determined Nlr: Chambers by this passion, for I broke from hoMe control at sixteen, preferring the poorest life amongst books to all ordinary courses of industry. It was but a proper sequel ,to such a beginning, that I should have scarcely reached man hood, when I had become an author.' To THE WORKING CLASSES.— - are always more unhealthy than the country. In the country parts of England and Wales one person out of every 55 people dies every year ; and*.in the towns, taken one with another, -Towris People ev . . compare these numbers together, you will See the truth of what we have said. All towns are not equally unhealthy. One out of every 37 people dies every year in London ; but in Liverpool one, person out of every 28 people dies every year. London is not a very healthy town, but if Liverpool were as healthy as London there would be 18C0 funerals less every year in Liverpool than there are. if Liverpool were as healthy as some other parts of Lanca shire, there would be 31;00 lives saved every year. The very burying of these poor people costs £lB,OOO a year to their relatives, besides all the trouble and sorrow and loss caused by their deaths. It is no wonder that there at many burial clubs in Liverpool to help the poor to hear the expense. There is also a great deal of sickness more than there ought to be. It is not so bad for the working men who live a good deal in the open air, but their wives and children, who live at home, suffer prodigiously. It has been calculated that there are no fewer than 100,000 cases of illness every year in Liverpool more than there ought to be. You will now be able to understand why there are so many benefit societies and sick clubs ; and you know best how much of your earnings goes to pay the ex penses of illness, and the doctor's bill. Some of you are not even able to pay that. You are obliged to go to , the dispensaries, for there are above 5000 sick relieved by them every year. Do you know that work-people die at a much earlier age in Liverpool than they do elsewhere ? One-half of all the children born in Liverpool die before they reach eight years of age ; but in London, which is a healthier town, one-half the children born live to be 40 years old. Every your z- person who lives to be 20 years befo - rehis time, on account Of the bad state of this town. Now, nearly all these calamities fall on you, the work ing classes. People that live in the better, parts of the town are far more healthy and longer lived than you are. In proportion to the population, nearly twice as in: ny people die every year in Vauxhall Ward, as die in Rodney street and Abercromby Wards ; and in Vauxhall Ward, people, taking young and old together, have the chance of living eight years less than they have in Rodney-street and Abercromby Wards. Of course all this sickness and Address of the death costs a' great deal of money Liverpool Health Association. FATIGUES AND FORTUNE OF BALLET PERFORMERS. —Few of the amateurs, who, armed with double-barrelled telescopes, contemplate from box or stall the agile bounds and graceful evolutions of the houris of the ballet, have any conception of the amount of labour and torture gone through, before even an approach to perfection in the Terpsichorean art is accomplished. Alberic Second, the very witty author of a very amusing book (albeit in thorough French taste) " Les Petits Mysteres de l'Opera," to whose pages Mr. Hervey confesses himself largely in debted, gives many curious details on this subject. An immense amount of courage, patience, resignation, and toil, is necessary, to become even a middling dancer. The poor children—for dancing, above all things, must be learnt young—commence with the stocks, heel to heel and knees outwards. Half an hour of this, and another species of martyrdom begins. One foot is placed upon a bar which is grasped by the contrary hand. This is called se casser, to break one's self. After this agreeable 3S. essential to an greeable elements of the art of dancing suppose that these rude fatigues are of short duration. They are perpetual, and on that condition are the only dues a dancer retain week's idl(n;_‘ss must be at, consi sever tales, knee The S Zarraturr. ICES vD SE e life of a RIALS. 119 opens with an admi- Villiam Smith, Esq., of his i laic friend and recals forcibly to rienced in the perusal contains longst the best of Playhouses," and a review e the Second. " Mildred, ;ht to a conclusion. At all v of the heroine is worked 1 approach iö direct of principles of rer is a good one A month contains se r, from some st these Colony, by the author Hand House and its and largely the Wilds of Mexico of Forfarshire." A review of nts of the British Poets," in- a upon one of the most 'political article is, as stains many sound ob- In many of wever, we cannot conkcide the month contains which pervades this please us; whilst the ith conceits, and stu ish Commerce in Ja to Jerrold's Maga- La contains some \la lion of the editor's tpoted. This tale is Lexandrine, which low length along fore they If and Forrester— road, the latter as a Lrc7 is colonel nore than usually full is month. We shall two of the articles in is Book. London pry excellent Grego ms," harmonised by nging of this kind of Wok and Magazine No. 1. sufficiently. explain r we have foL ntwater, Viestmore leoln Cathedral, Lin- and a Margoli Nos. 1 and 2 Curry and Co. Li- s well-timed and im 3wn to our readers as fender of Christian ion specially of the 7 the flesh. In .the critical expositions order of the bible, 1 Hebrew 11 possession of the flowing outline of his hecy, and at :eted. It is 3al objections against -e trust, and earnestly y keep and a right spirit within ntious one. It ,acred time when the ,mmentator, who gra- I . at various n our' Lord declared Lade the word of God s. The many changes rgone in the Jewish will also be noticed. the Seventy and St. ill now and then be its of Jewish litera- valuable, will be no n articles on the Old now observed by the beir present state and y, will also be i valuable auxiliary to ty amongst the Jews, the welfare of that and who does not — its circulation. The 'bristian temper and alculated to hers of the House of are also adapted to holy faith." When this empire upwards usand lay members, a cause and doing. We are before us, that during Itality of the society idred and sixty-four of Christ by the sa- Amsterdam, 12, at 1, at Copenhagen, 1, imburg, 2, at Jerusa ,iverpool, 8, London, issia, 17, Rhine Pro- d at Warsaw, 34 .nd ignorant C. Golds- ffidour, said ) professors in toe ed tainly conver r the Adventures of a ant. London : David ghing at the odd mis led in this little publi just published. The authoress is evidently hits off in her banter habits of servants, but uses as well. We anti- further adventures litable way by George ct rare scope for to postpone notices of dand Bradshaw, the 1 some others, which ri town, Ned a farmer' in due time, made a his attitude, took him believing he had been Doublets" has dege hich teased Coleridge roes incident. " The I what you call floored imes crying out for old tone I ever in a plain way, as king very gravely at I can sa td to say s t if yot gether, you would say Le marched off. Coler tstice of the retort that g—the only one he had. Magazine. he Botanical Gar le entrance, is planted arina ; it is on a piece on the left-band side of nv which were imported has and f Christ their ( st form with ( ,n one I Cheater 4, at H her activi iai;u;. - iceOpe;;:dancer. realises the fable of Sisyphus and his rock. She resembles the horse, who pays with his repose, his flesh and his liberty, the rapid victories of the race-course. I have seen Mademoiselle Taglioni, after receiving a two hours' lesson from her father, fall helpless upon the floor, and allow herself to be undressed, spunged, and again attired, without the least conscious ness of what passed. The agility and wonderful bound with which she, that evening, delighted the public, were purchased at this price." fie'sideithese terrible fatigues, dancers often run serious personal risks. So, at least, says the author of the " Petits Mysteries" who, •as a journalist and frequenter of the coulisses, is excellent au thority. He cannot resist a joke, but it is easy to sift the facts from their admixture of burlesque exaggerations. " By dint of incurring simulated dangers, the dancer ac customs herself to real peril, as a soldier in war time be comes habituated to murder and pillage. She suspends herself from wires, sits upon pasteboard clouds, disap •, , • the first act of the Peri Grisi risks her - life every time she takes it. Let M. Petipa be once awkward, or even absent, and Carlotta will break her head upon the boards. I know an Englishman who attends every performance of this ballet. He is per suaded that it will be fatal to Carlotta, and would not for the world miss the catastrophe. It is the same man who, for +lima ve,u.s followed Carter and Van Amburgh, always hoping that a day would come when the animals would sup with their masters, and upon their masters."— Blackwood. Tnm CAMPFIINE LAMP,—AS soon as mother had gone, Edward retired to bed, and left me sitting up to finish my dress, and new cover my whitikeatin shoes, which had got dreadfully soiled with the mud in going to and from the my white kid gloves, and to let them hang up all night so as to get the filthy smell of the turpentine out of them before the morning. It was long past midnight before I had finished the hater part of what I wante as I could hear Mary (Who had been waiting up to clean the room overnight so that she might have nothing to do in the morning to prevent her being ready dressed long before the visitors came) knocking the things about below in a dreadful ill-humou; at being lept up so late; and as it wasn't worth while having a fresh candle put up just to do the few little odd jobs that remained, I rang the bell for Mary ; and lighting nomma's darling little pet of a lighting got to my room lung my beau' white trousers ready for him in the nun scarcely keep my eyes open while - Mary and was so glad to get into bed, that I s undoir just as I was dozing off, I remembered it, and told Mary, eve of a great and glo . rious a.... __ who was banging up my things, to be sure and turn it Report of Henry Aust i n, Esq., C.L. down before she left the room; instead of which, the THRESHING CORN IN SPAIN.—.AII classes here gain minx, (who I'm sure was half fuddled at the time,) went their - bread by making i t, and the water -mills and mule and turned the thing the wrong way, like a stupid; so mills are never still ; women and children are busy nice that there were both dear Edward and myself sleeping in ing out earthy particles from the grain, which get r. a state of blessed innocence, while the filthy thing was from the common mode of threshing on a floor in the opet smoking away as hard as it could go all night, just for all air, which is at once Biblical and Homeric. At the out the world like the funnel of a steam-boat, and sending side of the villages, in corn-growing districts, a smooth out soot-enough to have smothered a whole regiment. open " threshing-floor" is prepared, with a hard surface, As I had got all the next day upon my mind, luckily I like a fives court : it is called the era, and is the precise awoke as soon as it was light in the morning ; and when I Roman area. The sheaves of corn art) spread out on it, turned round and saw my dear Edward's face an inch and four horses yoked most classically to a low crate or thick of black, I really thought at first that I was in bed barrow, composed of planks armed with flints, &c., which with a filthy negro. So I gave him a good shaking, and I i called a trillo : on this side the driver is seated, who and no sooner had he ruv 'd his - ey , , es the beasts round and round over the_erushed hes- woke him directly open and looked at me, than the brute burst out laughing and declared that I looked just like a chimney sweep. gave a scream and jumped out of the bed just like light ning—if I may be allowed so strong an expression— and there was the whole of the place one mass of smuss : and the beautiful clean dimity curtains, that had not been up a week—and the white counterpane—and the toilet covers and the window blinds—and the towels—and my face — and my night-cap—looking just as if they had been all washed in Indian ink ; and, what nearly drove me right out of my senses—my beautiful white satin bridal robes were actually the same as if some evil-minded person had been dragging them—just for the pleasure of the thing— up and down the chimney, and positively would have in duced one, at first sight, to believe that a body had been led to the altar in bornbazeen. I declare the beastly sooty stuff was everywhere,—there was a shovelful, at least, in my white satin shoes—and my white gloves were like black Thus the grain is shaken out of the ears and the straw tn.- I turated ; the latter becomes food for horses, as the former does for men. When the heap is sufficiently bruised, it is removed and winnowed by being thrown up in the air ; the light winds carry off the chaff, while the heavy corn falls to the ground. The whole operation is truly pictu resque and singular. The scene is a crowded one, as many cultivators contribute to the mass and share in the labour ; their wives and children cluster around, clad in They are sometimes e goo of t►re under boughs, reeds, and kid both inside and out—andit had even got right up my nostrils—and I do verily believe that a quantity had gone down my throat, for I'generally sleep with my mouth open. But what annoyed me so that I could hardly bear myself, was that Edward kept chuckling at all my distress, Oust like a man—for of course he knew he wouldn't have the cleaning of it.) But when I showed him the grubby state that his ducks were in, I was glad to see how angry it made him. And then of course it was all his mother- penny lamps ; anu t really tnougnt t snoula nave obliged to go into hysterics when I heard him say that the next time he caught my dear, respected mamma in his house,.he'd pack her off with a flea in her ear ! And a pretty situation I was in, to be sure. I daren't for thc life of me open my mouth, for fear that the hussy should leave me at a moment's notice, at such a time when, bad as she was, it was impossible to do without her ; and there didn't know how on earth I was ever to receive my friends as I really hadn't a single thing to pat on.—From " Thi Greatest Plague in Life." drawing-roon Ito dl vatingnionster !) AN INCON S ISTENCY it may re our own case ; yE mouth again, exclaiming—" Oh that shameful minx of a VC _1 Mary ! - I know it's her !—the drunken hussy ! If she hasn't been and drunk all the brandy, and filled the bottle up again with what I'd swear was nasty filthy cold tea arid unripe cherries." No sooner had she made the discovery, ing wretch, Edward, rushed out of the room, and I could actuall; hear the brute bursting with laughter on the land- nig-place. All the dears agreed with poor mamma—who was boil ing over, (if I might be allowed the expression;) that it was very shameful cDnduct on the part of the maid, and hoped that mamma would not let it take any effect ,upon {.ow nn tbni, arrriwnt ac rpnliv them didn't mind about it. 111,1 VII 1.1.1,11. O.Z •.+V, And then taking a glass of sherry wine a-piece, just to take the taste out of their dear mouths, they all hurried away, and in less than ten minutes we were left alone in the other bottlefulz m the same manner,) and directly after she had eaten it all up, to give her warning, as it would be the best way of punishing her for her wicked goings-on. So down stairs we went, and having got the bottle out of the store room closet, we made the wretch devour the whole of it on the spot—though - from the ready way in which the minx resiffned herself to her fate, and from the effect it had upon her shortly afterwards, (for it only made her more tipsy than before,) to our horror we found out that she had never touched that bottle at all—and, indeed, she told us as much when she drunk up every drop, and had the impudence to say she should like to be punished again. So we immediately gave her warning, and told her not to think of sending to us for a character, indeed. But in ter so dreadfully * bad, that we had to carry her nd put her to bed ngain. All of which was a mere _ Edward into ; who kept telling us, with a nasty vulgar giggle, that we ought to be ashamed of ourselves for driv ing the poor girl into another fit ; and he said he hoped that dear mamma would take care that the next servant she engaged for him wasn't subject to epile .sy, (an aggra- ' The horror which is especially which at any moment may seize upon the strongest of us ; - •., varrirri nr a thought n scan:cu.:. ily, however, we are now on the THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE SERVANT THAT WAS " SUCH A TREA SURE," AND IHE CHERRY BRANDY. (From ' The Greatest Plague of Life,! or, the 4dren- tures of a Lady in Search of (loud Servant.") I don't suppose I could have finished a quarter of an hour before the first double-knock came at the door, and that slut Mary not down stairs to answer it. So I rushed up to her room and bundled her down as quick as I could ; though she had been at her old tricks again, I could see, and wasn't really in a fit state to be trusted to go to the door; but what could Ido ? They had knocked again, and I had only just time to sit myself down, and take up one of the books off the drawing-room table, when the street door was opened. And then, to my great horror, I heard Mary talking, at the top of her voice, to the visisors in the passage ; and demanding to shake hands with them, and calling them a set of stuck-up things, because they wouldn't. So I ran down as fast as my legs would carry me, and looking at her as if I could have eaten her, told her to go doWn stairs directly, and remember who she was, and what she was, and where she came from. I found it was poor Mrs. B—yl—s and her lovely girls that Mary had been insulting in this dreadful manner, and who were quite flurried at her strange goings-on. Luckily, Edward was up-stairs dressing, or there's no knowing what he wouldn't have done. And I declare, there was not a single person that came into the house that day that she didn't insult, in some way or other; and twice I had to go down to her ; for she would go, singing and dancing about, like A downright maniac, and.it was only by pro mising her some warm spirits and water in the evening, that I could in any way get her to keep her tongue to herself. I was so upset, that instead of• my friends congratulat ing me on my improved appearance, they did nothing but tell me that they could perceive Mary was worrying me dreadfully, and that they had never seen me look so bad before. And they kindly advised me to get•the jade out of the house as soon as possible, saying, that if she were a servant of theirs, they should expect to be burned alivein their beds, for that drunken people were alway s so care less with their candles. While dear mamma (who is na turally, a long-headed woman,) said, that every morning she confidently expected to find the place destroyed by .na that. 11Pr dear children had perished in the flames. iirc t iIIIU itanu lava UGC,a k which took such a hold on my mind, that I couldn't get a wink of sleep for a week afterwards, and was always fancying I could hear the boards crackling, and kept get ting up and going over the house, shivering, in my night dress, to satisfy myself that all was•safe. W% were, at one time, as many as fourteen in the draw ing-room, and all of them highly-desirable acquaintances, being people very well to do in the world : when mamma, who is so proud of her cherry brandy, would persuade our friends to take some—if it was only a glassful. So (bother take it !) I had `° stupid cherry t my k€ and trot downstairs for her want of, forlithert y of red and whi I enough for any _one any day 1 should thin], my mind upon keeping the cherry brandy quietly to myself, .as there were only; two bottles of it, and Edward had just laid in several dortn of port and sherry. However, Ireturned with one of the bottles and an agreeable smile on my countenance to the .drawing-room, little thinking that I was about to present some of my best friends with a glass of that horrible wash that that tipsy, thieving Mary had filled up the bottle with. Then giving it to mamma, I told her pleasantly that she should fin the classes. and have all the credit of Iservcd to Sirs. L—ck---y, best client, and of highly should like her to try that ; Ind handing them mu the Wife c genteel that si for she flattered herself that she would find it very fine and not to be got everywhere, as she had made it herself 'After her own peculiar way • and that she felt convinced any pastry cook would gl for the receipt any ram and that she always made a point of using none but the very best coq could be got for money, together with the finest cherries that were to lie picked up in Covent-g ket. When they had all got their glasses, d that lorella ing for the approbation and eulogiums which she confi dently expected they would overwhelm her with. As soon as Mrs. L—ckl—y had taken one cherry and a spoonful of the wasl 1 the it .d her example ar man- observing that well the poor 1 y made a very face after it as " I'm afraid the brandy I hurt you, I can but you needn't e you, Now, really, I shall begin to t, if you don't finish it. On which is an extremely well-bred woman) ery good—it's very nice, I'm sure." ing put another spoonful of the filthy hereupon poor, dear mamma (who Lot to be baulked of the compliments. was entitled to) tried io prevail on e other poor things (who really, considering all, it like martyrs) to go on with theirs. But Mrs. lately excused herself by saying she thought quite so rich as some Of mother's that she had deitsure of tasting before, and that sweet woman, -rt—r, said that she was afraid the brandy had little, (and so it had, with a vengeance.) On d (lawyer like), fancying something w :h Edv wrong, and thinking it a good opportunity for teasing his nnnr dont. innneent mntliPr-in-laW. took a glass himself, iu, ante d geuuirmau, Ltc .-nya. LUC VII declaring he had never in all his life tasted such beastly trash. Whereupon dear mamma, who believed that he only said as much to annoy her, took a glassfull likewise ; range dresses of varied colour eltered from it for the painter, and falling of them ito pictures, as the lower classes of Spaniards and do. They are either eating and drinking, -.6 or dancing, for a guitar is never w antin g . Mean thite the fierce horses dash over the prostrate sheaves, and realise the splendid simile of Homer, who likens them to the fiery steeds of Achilles when driven over the Tro _. ont-of-door threshings take place of ;q dry, and generally under a • • • 1 . ~ run up 3urse when the weather he wort During is ellen the day the half-clad dusky fall by torch-ngut.. _ reapers defy the sun and his rage, rejoicing rather in the heat like salamanders ; it is true that their devotions to the porous water jar are unremitting, nor is a swill at a good passenger's bola ever rejected ; all is life and action ; busy hands and feet, flashitg eyes, and eager screams ; the light yellow chaff, which in the suns rays glitters like SW.I. \MO., Gll V U.WIJUO .14111 partially revealed by the fires and mingled with torch glare, is almost supernatural, as the phantom figures, now dark in shadows, now crimsoned by the fire flash, flit to and fro in the vapourous mist. The scene never fails to rivet and enchant the stranger, who, coming from the pale north and the commonplace in-door flail, seizes at once all the novelty of such doings. Eye and ear, open and I [ awake, become inlets of flew sensations of attention and to heart and mind the.poetry, admiration, and con local colour, movement, grog Ford's Gatherings irons Spain on, and attitude that he sholild ex countri! St. Helie TOE TORY PARTY AND SIR ROBERT FEEL.—And now one word in reference to the position of the gent.emen who occupy what is called the oppaltion side of the house, and who, in point of numbers, as far exceed the strength of the ministerial party as, through their own misfortune or the faults of their leaders, they come short of it in moral power. Is the breach which has severed Lord George Bentinck from Sir Robert Peel quite irreconcilable ? We verily believe that it is. We do not think that any con tingency can occur, that any pressure from without, any movement from within; can arise which shall be of suffi cient force to bring these gentlemen cordially together. The Protectionists will never forgive the man who has twice betrayed them. Sir Robert Peel can neither forgive norforget the many personal attacks to which he has, by the Protectionists, been subjected. Benjamin Disraeli is a thorn in his side. It would be very ridiculous to affect ignorance of these truths, and worse than absurd to un derrate their importance. They have broken the Tory party to pieces,—at least for the present. They have cru elly, wantonly, and most wickedly dissolved a political alliance, more influential than any which has existed in this country since the era of the Revolution. Moreover, look at the thing as we may, we can discover no adequate reason for it. The country was at peace, the revenue was flourishing, trade was brisk. public feeling was quiescent, when all at once, without any previous warning given, Sir Robert Peel thought fit to declare himself friendly to the abolition of the corn-laws. He pleaded, as an excuse for so complete a change of opinion, his fear of a coming fa mine. His predictions were ridiculed, his statements dis puted and denied ; yet let us not forget, that the very men who thus scouted the minister's reasoning went far before him in the measure which they proposed as the best wherewith to combat an impending calamity. It was the Protectionists who first suggested the propriety of suspending the operation of the corn-laws ; it was Sir Robert Peel, the newly converted enemy to their existence, who rejected the proposal, and for the time actually ren dered them more stringent. Neither party can forget this. The Protectionists have some right to affirm that other motives than those which he avowed must have swayed their then leader in his decisions. Sir Robert must feel that by resisting their .proposal he has made himself, in some sort, the cause of .the distress which is desolating Ireland at this moment. And what is the con sequence ? At regards Peel, beyond. all question that he has lost his stutus, in the political.worid. He may affect, for a while, to play the part of Mentor, and advise both 'ales as calm'- - - took 1 ' , it- A in tl• , sia. y as if he _ no personal interes, _weir discussions. But the leader of a great political party he can never again be, inasmuch as the Whigs themselves would distrust, were he openly to join them. Neither is it of the smallest use to speculate on the healing effect of time in such a case. There are wounds which time can not heal, and this is one of them. Had Peel acted with a little wore of courtesy and candour ; had he reasoned with the members of the Conservative party in private ; had he given to their chiefs his confidence, and made out something like a case, we venture to say that there is r ily any measure towards the accomplishment of which he would have failed to command their cooperation ; none, at least, short of that which drove him out of office ; aid which, seeing the results to which it would surely lead, he ought, at all hazards, to have abandoned. For it is a grievous error to suppose that the accomplishment of any particular purpose, however important in itself, can make amends for the dislocation of a loyal and high- cannot fall wit the doors of office and influence to men of a far laxer code of political morals. And we shall be exceedingly glad to find that the Whigs of 1847 do not make use of the op portunity, which seems to have been created to their hands, for Ole purpose of inserting the small end of the wedge, during the driving home of which, changes more sort, be tendered inevitable. In such circumstances, and amid such an acerbation of feeling, it must be apparent to himself, and to the most devoted of his followers, that Sir Robot Peel's continued presence in the lions Cominciv , can accomplish little good to any on( scarcely expect to he received by his la( party as He can s their • chief any more. It is impossible that he should be con tent to play a s?cendary part under the new leaders, who ever tln y n ay be, to whom the Tories (for we have ., no Neither is it in the r ura of things that he shoul pass over to the ranks of the Whigs ; Or that, passing over, he should be by them received in a manner worthy of his acknowledged talents and undoubted habits of bu siness. The IN hgs are not in want of leaders. They have Lord John himself a host ; and, failing him, many more aspiring youths than can be boasted of by the op posite party.. And happy as they will always be to take advantage of Peel's assistance, and to profit by his speeches and his votes, when he shall be pleased to speak and vote BArour, they v own set to make way for him, or admit him, to the end of his days, into their confidence. What, then, can he do in the House of Commons ? Sit apart, and watch for his country's welfare, like some oracle, created to advise, but having no power to compel the adoption of his recom mendations ? Surely such a position will prove very irk some to himself—undoubtedly it will be the source o much inconvenience to others. For influence he will have none, except with some dozen or two of ancient colleagues ; who, being moved by memories of a happier sort, may shrink from deserting him in his downfall. The rest of ley may, wi speech must tell in any popular assembly, his intimate acquaintance with parliamentary law and usage will give him a thousand opportunities of damaging, if he cannot ,_• ~_ _ ~ ;an nits , ose himself to the almost irresistible ,et him retire into temptation of causing this damage. private me, or accepu vitt: pcu..,. ready to confer upon him. It will be the noblest act which he has ever performed since he' first crossed the threshold of the House of Commons ; for between the stion on both - sides could not speedily end.—Fraser @tntral tsrellani2. The King of Prussia has forwarded the Prussian Order of Merit to Sir David Brewster, K.H.K.B. Mr. James Toole, the celebrated toast-master, died on Monday, much regretted. Easton Lodge, Essex, the seat of Viscount Maynard was almost wholly destroyed by fire on Sunday week. On Tuesday, the price of the 41b loaf was lowered Id in London. A wren's nest with eleven eggs was discovered a fey The Fire King steamer has been purchased by a Spa nish company, and is being overhauled prior to leaving the Clyde for the Mediterranean. The quantity of barley made into malt for brewing purposes last year, in Great Britain and Ireland, was 5,247,375 quarters. Bread made with four parts of parsnip to five of wheat flour, the parsnips being boiled and mashed before mixing, is said to be very light, pleasant, and nutritious. A donkey, belonging to Mr. Gaudey, 68, Upper Bed ford-street, Brighton, died on Monday week, at the ad vanced age of 100 years ! The Colonelcy of the 47th Foot, vacant by the demise of the late Sir William Anson, has been conferred on Moinr cipnemi Sir Harry Smith. Bart.. the hero of Lord Shrewsbury (the premier Earl of England) is iting to Popish priests in Ireland, assuring them that the English Government are doing nothing for that IRISH SUPPLIES.—Five vessels arrived in the River Thames on Monday from the Irish ports, laden with provisions, which fact will appear singular at the present time. A new steam-tug boat has been plying on the Birming ham canal during the past week, and toe to the • . ;‘, . t h 1 be completely Led by a very simple contrivance. total amount contributed in Sunderland to the Irish notch Relief Fund to the present time is nearly ), being the largest sum ever raised in that town for On Monday, so many spra . Billingsgate, that the forme] • were retailed in London at Mb for one, penny, anc Messrs. Darby and Sim, of Colebrookdale, who recently launched a vessel which they christened Richard Cobden, have another iron ship on the stocks, which they intend to call John Bright. Sir John Ross has proposed to the Admiralty and to the Royal Astronomical Society a plan by which he ex pects, with sledges drawn by Swedish horses, to be ena bled to reach the North Pole. . A - meeting has been held at Calcutta in honour of the memory of the late Dvvarkanauth Tagore ; and it has been resolved to raise a fund, to be called the " Dwarlianauth Endowment Fund," for enabling the Hindoo youths to complete their education at the University College, London. The fifth subscription list for tho relief Af Ireland and Scotland amounts to £115,000. The additional sums ap pended to this list make the actual total above £120,000. Independently of this amount, the subscriptions through the National Club are nearly £12,000. An accident of a most lamentable nature, and attended with the loss of six lives,' occurred on Friday week, at one of the Dailey Main Coal Company's pits, at Worsbrough Dale, about four miles from the town of Barnsley, and ten from Sheffield. _ _ The key. Dr. Wolff has addressed a letter to the free. masons, which body he has just joined, offering to deliver lectures in the different towns of England, for the benefi of the poor in the United Kingdom. The reverend gen tleman wishes for no return except his expenses for ti yelling in third-class carriages. SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.—Sir Peter. Laurie state that, during the last ten years, forty lunatics have beer sent from the Penitentiary to Bethlehem, while in thi preceding ten years only fourteen were sent. Sir Pete attributes the increase to the adoption of the separat, system. _ _ _ W, claims s the merit of having first adop-te the plan of producing unconsciousness by the inhalaio] of stimulating and narcotic vapours, and of having per formed many surgical operations without giNing pain t patients in that state. VALUE OF THE REFUSE OF TOWNS.-" Taking a ge Tal view of the subject, we may assume a clear revenu, all to. habitant, either in a direct money return, or partly to th inhabitants in a reduced price, from the increased abund ance of produce."—Evidence of J. Smith, Esq., q Deanstoi. IN RE DONALD MACLEAN, M. P. —ln the London Court - of Bankruptcy of the 27th of January, a further ad journment for the surrender of this bankrupt was grante , cm. fblona months_ on the frrnunfl of enotinuptl ill healt] .._. _.....__ of the bankrupt , who is stilt in Italy. It was stated in the course of the case that the funds in hand were only £lOO and that the debts proved were £70,000. labour -On Friday night, George Hampson and Su-an Morton, who ILA betrothed for about three years, tied them selves together with four handkerchiefs, threw themselves into the Barnsley Canal, near Wakefield, and were drowned. No reason is alleged for the wicked act, which has thrown two respectable families into a state of the deepest distress. Dr. Charles Henry Lovell and Mrs. Hope Betts, were tried on the coroner's inquisition, (the grand jury having ignored the bill preferred aga i ns t them,) at the Central Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice Cresswell, for the manslaughter of Martha Hobbs by the hydropathic sys tem. The evidence was very weak against the prisoners, and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The Duke of Cleveland is making extensive improve ments in the gardens at Raby Castle, Durham, and under the direction of Mr. Roberts, his grace's head gardener, a very spacious range of vineries have been erected, the bor... ders of which embrace five thousand feet, and which have been planted with the choicest grape vines, to be culti vated on the system so successfully practised by Mr. Roberts. On Wednesday, a remarkable accident occurred at the Tunbridge station of the South-eastern Railway. The Maidstone noon up-train had just arrived at the station, and the engine went forward to rake in a supply of fuel and water ; while the engine was passing over the turn table, the table split, and a large piece separated, throw ing the engine off the rails, and stopping all traffic for a time, but happily causing no personal injury. ELOPEMENT TO GREiNA GREEN.—On the 23rd ult., Mr. William Hope, son of Lomax Hope, Esq., of Boluilme Cannoby, was married, at the above place, to Miss Jane Donaldson, daughter of the Rev. James Donaldson, of Cannoby Manse. The fair lady, it would appear, had been narrowly watched, or rather confined to her room, for some weeks, but " love laughs at locksmiths," and she effected her escape.—Carlisle Patriot. A curious hoax was played on a farmer near Bridgnorth last week, by some neighbours spreading a report that he had given leave to the poor of the town to gather turnips from one of his fields. The consequence was, hat a fine field of Swede . turnips was densely thronged by parties availing themselves of the opportunity ; and it•was full two acres had been cleared of the crop, that the owner was apprised of what was going on, and enabled to stop the appropriation of his roots. IMPROVED SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—At the weekly meeting of the board of guardians for the Nottingham Union, on Tuesday last, the returns showed a decrease of 70 inmates of the workhouse within the previous seven days, and the number of applications for relief was very much fewer than on the preceding Tuesday. Corn had dropped 4s. per qr. The people had become more gene rally employed, and signs of improvement were becoming decidedly manifest. THE LATE .SEVERE WEATHER.—A correspondent at Harewood, in this county, informs us, that in carelessly looking at an old wall, at Harewood, he saw therein a small hole and drew from thence four tom-tits, one hedge sparrow, one robin, and one wren, which birds be sup posed were driven into companionship by the severity of the weather; and had perished from the cold. The circumstance is the more remarkable, as the pugnacious ;position of the robin towards other birds is Weir known Hereford Times. An inquest was held last week in Middlesex, upon a lady named Potts, whose delight was not only to take all the medicines she could obtain, but to compel others to do the - same. When she visited a sick friend she would empty the physic bottles and pill boxes. Aloes constituted her favourite physic, and a physician stated tha he had pre- . . pared in twelve months as much aloes for her as would have supplied the town of Uxbridge. Amongst those whom she induced to take medicine was a boy, to whom she paid a shilling to allow her to salivate him. A more novel, but equally successful application of the inhalation of ether is recorded in the Edinburgh Journal. Professor Simpson had administered it in a case of difficult The patient was deformed, and on a former oc- asion had suffered dreadfully in labour during three or Air days : on the present occasion the patient was deli- id in as many minutes. - A remarkable circumstance r►ted out in the case by Dr. Simpson was, that, whilst athing the ether, the labour-throes continued, and yet At an inquest held on Saturday, in St.. Giles' Wakley told the jury that he had discovered a manufac tory of oranges, at which bad oranges could be made into apparently good ones. The process pursued was the sub mitting of unripe and inferior oranges to the action of steam, or parboiling them. This made them swell, tilled out their rinds, and made them thin, the usual external sign that the fruit was good. To give them the last po lish, and heighten the outward attraction, they were rubbed , with agreasy piece of flannel, or with something On Tuesday last a most difficult case of aneurism of he femoral artery was performed by Mr. Lightfoot, sur zeon, of Newcastle, in the presence of Mr. Frost and Mr. Annandale, whilst the patient was under the influence 3f ether. The incision was nearly two inches deep and Rye inches long, and during the wh o l e o f th e o p era ti on the patient did not evince the slightest sensation of pain - )r feeling, and h :s since declared th It he was quite unco fallen asleep, a led into a field ous of any such operation having taken place ; the ly thought he had was that he had been attending a Arewcastle Courant, IRELAND) urn of the aggregate Ireland into England Feb. 9, 1F47. PIANTING POTATOES IN THE AUTUMN.—Mr. Jones,. (At plat.i.d some potatoes in tb, autumn, called " Summer Manly," they have been in th• ground, four inches beneath the surface, c'ttring the lats, severe frosts, and are perfectly sound. aho_ F e planted deeper are in good condition, but those nearerthe surfact were injured, and those just covered with soil were eliv tirely destroyed. We are informed that it is bestto sod potatoes in November or December, nine inches deep , with a little dry straw placed over them, and then tho earth to follow. Before planting, (lust the seed with slack lime, finely powdered. SUBSTANTIAL SOUP AND PORRIDGE FROM Flsx.l A gentleman writing to the Cork Constitution says, thai as beef and veal may become scarce, an excellent substi tute, one which would give vast employment and reirl• nerative wages to thousands, may be found in the articlo of fish ! Some years since past, he says, being wind bound in my yacht in the Clyde, I became the guest of Scotch gentleman, who gave me every day for dinner capital soup M different kinds, in which a particle of meat was never used. It was made of all kinds of fish as the/ came to hand. The fish being washed, and the entrail s removed, was cut into junks and boiled in a digester until the boneswere dissolved. The skin and oil being skimmed off, salt, pepper, onions, peas, meal, Scotch Barley , bruised carrots, or wh a t ever pleased were added. And excellent soup of different kinds was the 'result. Fish boiled into mummy in a - digester affords rich gelatine , which added to " beans' meal, bruised peas, rice, and 3 small portion of commissariat biscuit," accordin g to Mr , Barry's receipt, would make nu Live soup A POET IN DISTRESS.—On Saturday, a boot-closer, 70 years of age, preferred a complaint at the Mansion house, London, against a relieving officer. The applicant said his name was Thomas Mills, his age upwards of 70, and his professio n , p oe t r y. H e h a d wr itt en a grea t d e al of verse upon subjects moral, rural, and lyrical, and he had received the highest praise for his compositions, which were in every respect calculated to serve as we ll a s to amuse society. In consequence of some particular cir cumstances, which it was unnecessary to detail, but which arose from his ottachment to the muse,. he had been obliged to leave, temporarily, in the possession of a sta tioner, at Bethnal-green, 1000 copies of verse.* which lit felt assured wottld make him independent. He applied to a relieving officer to advance him £2 to release them, but the applicant was met by an exclamation of " such nonsense," and the offer of the Shoreditch Workhouse. Mills expressed to the lord mayor a strong conviction that if his verses were released, and he had a fair chance of writing, he could in future make £l5OO a-y ear . On° of his pieces was on the uses and beauty of the gr a , ite stone, and others are on the uses of steam and gas. The lord mayor, after a conversatio n w hi c h on l y the more ex hibited the• disorder of the applicant's mind, intimated that he could not interfere. HIGHLAND DESTITUTION.—From a report just issued by the committee in Scotland for the relief of the desti tute in that country, we make the following extract " It will be fotsid, from the above statement of facts, aria while some of the most distressed districts are not in' eluded, such as both the Uists, Harris and Barra; not to speak of the whole of Orkney and Shetland, that a popu lation of 145,331 are involved in the destit u ti on ; and 0 1 all of these, by far the greater number--=indeed the whole, with but few exceptions—must now be suffering under the calamity. The number of cottar families in the stone districts fall to be considered as already entirely destitute? being in number about 7000, and representing a popula; tion of nearly 35,000 souls. It must also be considered that in many of the returns the number of 'these is nos specifically given, and accordingly not included in the above summation of the cottar class. The number of families reported as actually destitute of food, at the date 9 of the several returns, was nearly 3000; and takin g the omissions made.-in this department also in many o f the returns, and where, at the same time, in accompanyia communications they are represented as numerous, the extreme pressure of destitution and actual famine mui i be considered as now really endured by upwards o f s isti thousand souls, in these districts of the Highlands a nd Islands. And it cannot fail to be observed, how mar the full pressure of destitution, in most of the distria3, apprehended to be." A COACHMAN IN TROUBLI Hastings, on Wednesday weel gentleman from his lordship's r es id ence at stable - to _the railway terminus at Norwi was direct e m d an to o d f ri L ve o l Feb. 9 • TtJtSDK The schoone got aground or apparent dania Earl of Lek, 15th January. Breeze, Pu'l Janulr "N' Eii;.a: * Stut/ "sails, spars, 'Sir John Ili nous. Circassian, ( toss of butwarl John Knox, ti ainbcrom, sai ,as fallen in =ed, and the oft the Men ,„ ‘,-. O vE Jan.: ` , premast, be ,211 urow N. .1 for Li; tear this place I:niz Jan 1°" this Port, ; -urinz a beav came wreck!' Q WEDN n avannah—D Y or k —Albert, Antwern—Bre vnB, from Ma at St. Hetet 'Defence, lir( Auzn.t, Kit Industrie, Z Ilieodosi a . I !One, Willis bulwaylo 17 nTooreknI Medernsch, I %ails, spars, rit- Mat m o s sailed i,t . Dee 0 the 11th Dee • On the Mace Edwari plied her with LoNno N DE! pent ashore ot On the 18th, ay . _Of Whitehrtve, DisAsTErtB eo:,1-!aden, fri struck or tordav CA on Cranstrf she becalm lost.—The u d kin , :Lilo Jar, A nn s, }fah 0., and . .la, the I zaterf or d, tea', re Unfrorn 1 r.rtha,liar le state/ I J ohn anti Mar lois of schoonei Put in 1 Preston ttaYsail ,delvi, receiving a j Pa'ro n ballast: put ?he wind bl t h ' gn ' the 79th or v ll‘; : ‘ n c t a i u 'e se f dl i : Til e u r a , t l , v 7, with _ 3 8110.1 ;Z e l . at the ti . avv sea Ti left a \v i t . ' 1%111'0\1(1°4,k, :elton . ahniit 2v Le, a village about no one to dris° stay UP' and young family living at LenV way from Melton to Norwich. Ravi' back, he dAermiuei to go to his wife's cott there, putting up his horses at I fortunately he did not keep E from Norfok Hotel, in a som about eleven at night. ( fiber iri Norwiei nd the horses turned into a bye-lane, whic . Here they seem to have wandered aka!! with Hay lett sleeping on the box, the track of the wheel 9 the next morning showing that the . ca rr ia g e, on one o cca' sion, passed within a few inches of the edge of a deep' marl-pit. However, they' found their way out of the field again, attempted to ford a wide stream, and were carried away by it. At this time Haylett appears to have been . asleep upon the box, and when he awoke, about four the morning, he found himself in the midst of the watert T oln both the horses being drowned, ant the carriage severed , 411,1 the"fore from the hind wheels. His screams brought as , ' sistance, and the horses and carriage were got out. HO' V 4 7., at rnul r - .-a Ov left was in the greatest distress, awl.' would probably bay' done himself some mischief but for the police, who strictlf guarded him. The horses were very valuable, his lord' ship having a few days before been offered £l5O for one rid , %tars-074nm %‘ - alle 14( n. ock4 POOD PROSPECTS.=-Corn has evidently seen its tuP price. The opening of the ports produced the first effect' But the reduction was slight. A falling market, howes" o is always best suppli e d. And the quantities brought f 0 ward at most markets during the week, seem to show 0 3 " there has been an universal holding b ack for some Owe; Should this be the case, prices will tall yet lower. And it ndTorc{,~ 12', 1 4,1*Y Hart bOttiNSailec 141{ern,7, for Ntan Slukkaestre. lord r,:troli Lord George. Bentinck could desire. We have noticed , for two weeks past, the large quantity of wheat held ba o. in Wakefield. Accounts from most of the principal con' markets concur in stating the same fact. On Fri week a granary in Glasgow fell down with the enormo us , weight of its contents. Persons whose business has cap , them to visit or, pass through the agricultural districts' also describe the corn stacks as being more abundant tbS O usual at this time of the year. The farmers have 1 3 01 holding back, it is said, even in some cases the wheat of 1845. And it will be seen by our market reports, that in many cases they left large stocks on hand in last Satut ; day's country markets rather than submit to the she" fall which then occurred. The subsequent fall in Mark' lane of ss. on Monday, and another shilling on Wedne, dai, may be expected to change their tone. At Colchest o wheat has undergone a depression of 7s. a quarter ; and?„ Suffolk and Essex a fall of Bs. on barley is noticed. The prospect of supplies from abroad is also much brighter.: The relaxation of the navigation laws will open to ow temporary use the Dutch ships in the ports of Amsterduo i r and Rotterdam. Th ree h ave b een a l rea dy c h ar t e red fu j America, where they can wry Java coffee free the Bankers' Circular states, that in the most prolit4 corn yielding district of Holland the farmers have s% scarcely any of their last crops. The arrivals of grain e Liverpool are already enormously great, exceeding in 9 5 two past weeks 580,000 barrels of flour ; 200.000 bil b oo o and 10,000 quarters of wheat ; 390,000 bushels, 43, sacks, and 12,000 quarters of Indian corn ; and 45,' , "" barrels of Indian corn meal. CARRYING BUSINESS—MEETING IN BIRMINGU A numerous and influential meeting of the merchant!: traders, and manufacturers of Birmingham was held or„ Tuesday, at the public office in that town, for the purpof; of considering whether any, and what, measures should L; taken for averting the monopoly in the carr i age of golf by railway companies, and for preserving and improo' the means of canal communicatiop.-111r. J. Browne sided. In stating the objects for which the meeting 11,0 Margaret, - ifei Courser, - Ir. A.bsoinm,•iSt! Princess VI 'lan. 10. F. Al_ '4ll ll blarney (s), 'waste, K rannia, Ke 'clitNierOnM • fore Cuba Bell,- - tnainyan t,a d , w 'Yolt Ay, k"reSs."Pe' sArrr, AltBHo ivmD.- B P Y, Beim ‘ ,9 N e Y---Ok] ai pktraiso-1( oeth, front St. Joht' Jane % on . Falcon PI. foretoon,,..' Ckt'o'l Z : , h a ' n °l (l ' 13 Act on 11a. t h Jariu j •WERT POKI I & e v . er Pool, wi SUND pgßuivEn. Oldleton, fn "Merick, Be SAILEn.—E for nn, for ""..orstoge,Livin been convened, he commenced by observing, that public grounds, whilst they were desirous of doing o: fl it with railway conveyance, they wished that every tacill" t should be given to the conveyance of goods by canal n otherwise. At present, he believed, great injustice 10; 1 bendo to say, til netothe s car:i t e ra rs d , bodyeasmen n , aofdmmenertcohwanhtos of m,it o si o: needless mingham were particularly indebted for the great cov , :a deration they had ever given to their wants, wishes, al con venience. It was then moved and carried unanimol " That a monopoly in the carri age o f goo d s b y ra ilo companies ought to be averted."-LMr. W. it. 1:0 d , said he well knew how the interests of the merchati4 earl l)alhfll - boats, buts' Hibernia ‘ l. 9 ll ,,riti tl 11, k' ui °o, Ga Notbe r . P Yo R tiff . for °li lt Imo] AION T h s kttk DA' el t . h 1 de Rust, r it o ,Jead p,,, 441 41; 4,11 G 41 ra lonPlv 17 th Aai dri a 4 1r t l e gI6T traders, and manufacturers of Birmingham were invoN in the question,—partiei of greater influence than him s 5 —but he might b e a ll owe d to say t h at freightage Ws,' • very important arti c l e i n -his trade. Havire , seen the 1 ." - 0 1 portance of railways in extending th e t ra de and traffic ii o Birmingham, he was extremely anxious that they ell°,..tr be continued% but he was at the same time an a dvov'j for competition. He need not remind any gentlelay present that many trades . were fostered, if not abs0 1 1 1 !";i , created, in Birmingham, lay the low price of freightf:d Already, the cost of carrying some descriptions of 25, goods to the, coast was greater than tha....t of c•g e across the Atlantic. The speaker proce e d e d to a ll i w the amicable arrangement likely to take place between bi London and North-Western Railway companies , de . which he contended that, having " laid th e i r h ea ds l i r ther," they would be enabled to divide the plunder.o t we cn them, to the great injury o f th e carry i ng, tra4 l , l , and manufacturing interests. Whe n suc h a inonoP",o' this existed, or in all probability would exist,—a 01 °,0 poly which over-rode Queen, Lords, and Commons' di , wa s then time that the public should interfere. Afte„ r t l a ting on the injustice to th e p u bli c o f a ll railway nwift, polies, he proposed the folloWing resolution, which oe car ried unanimously, " Th a t th e ser i ous attention ofor Government should be directed t o th e f ac t o f the c''," naous amalgamations of railway companies with e other, which are, in the opinion of this meeting, 1318 " 0 1P of grave importance, not only to merchants, traders' A si manufacturers; but to the public at large, inasinu.,!'" o lP such amalgamations te n d t o create an absolute moiniit by placing under the a b so l ute control o f t h e f ew in duals composing the direction of a railway compaillof. only existing means of support, both of passenger% i i. goods, and - without the possibility of compe_til lo cifl After a few words from Mr. Blewes and Mr. WW ; it was resolved, " That such being the opinion ( 0 ,04`; meeting, it - is expedient that strenuous exertions be P",,eo" to maintain the canals of the kingdom, and to P re ie:i canal companies, amalgamating with railway , coine i p . in all cases where the canal forms a link in a chain 01.%)0r' communication." The fourth, fifth, and sixth resolatipe' all of which were carried nem. dis., condemned quality of tolls carried by canal companies, as being 4 . t e" rious to their interests, and recommended that the tr„ 0 0,; thin of- canal proprietors should be directed to the t c r ", deration of the best means by which the traffic and, cti tC on their lines might be improved ; and after deprJ v tr: the loss and inconvenience incurred by the public, y,0,0., unsafe and irregular manner in which goods wer',.. e V, 1 4 veyed on railways, pledged themselves to encni,rillter' every means in their ,power.the employment Of 0 ' preference to railway carriage for such purposes. Au Nc i i tt rali a , A Y C rea • • •hi cott a Ch • dop e jtrlestcri be l :, r l l4 : • • . i lay .elar a Jaaia!la ,• • T im " PACKI TH -4MisbonAl ir"th t 4 t ze i ,a e ri v ki 1 (14 Brit. Col It c ePt II( orolocli ) w ill it (2) al i. e: , ‘a) Oe tA t t it i " u l (i :41 -13: I . 1 : ° A nkto p d‘ 'lit. •A lecture in the last three years, ending January, 1847, snows tnau the quantity of corn (of Irish growth) so imported, amounted, in 1844, to 2,801,206 _quarters ; in 1845, to 3,251,901 quarters •, and in 1846, to 1,825,394 quarters. The quantity of wheat, flour, and oatmeal amounted re spectively, in 1844, to 839,567 cwt., and 1,150,976 cwt. ; in 1845, to 1,422,379 cwt., and 1,150,976 cwt. - ; and in 1846, to 723,562 cwt. ' and 553,148 cwt. The numbe r o f cattle, in the year 1846, was as' follows :-186,483, oxen, ; 6,363 calves; 259,257 sheep and lambs ; 486,8275winc. SUDDEN ACQUIMTION OF £3o,ooo.—An extraordinary curred town elderly female, named M'Cormack, who has for some time resided in Coppice-row, London, a few doors from Clerkenwell Workhouse, where she has con trived to maintain a decent maintenance by vending in her small shop various articles of confectionary. The old lady, who is upwards of sixty, on Saturday deceived a let ter from a solicitor, announcing to her the death of an noed relative_ who had resided near Aberdeen (of which place Mrs . M'Cormack is a native), ana aiso.tnat sue 111.1 been bequeathed property to the amount of no less a sum than £30,000. SUPPLY OF HOME-GROWN WHEAT.—The following are given as the quantities of home-grown wheat which have 1845. January to Jnne Weekly aver 120,833 3,141,6j"2 July to December 130,727 1846. January to June 2,694,479.... 103,633 July to December ..., 3,234,482.... 124,403 1847. January, four weeks 546,690.. 136,672 The town of Yarmouth is bound by ancient charter to send to the sheriffs of Norwich a hundred herrings, which are to be baked in twenty-four pies, or pasties, and then delivered to the lord of the manor of East Carlton, who is to convey them to the Queen. AN ENCYCLOP/EDIAN NEWSPAPER. --A project has been started by Mr. Luke Hansard, (a gentleman who has proposed many very benevolent schemes, but which have never been carried out, we apprehend, to the extent of his wishes,) .to bring out a news p a p er, whi ch is very properly to be c alled The Spirit of the Times, for its con_ tents are to e mbrace no less than sixteen distinct heads of information, to each of which a whole page is to be devoted. The publication, it seems, is first to appear in two sheets equal to the Times, and next in a separate form, in octavo. The price for both forms is extremely moderate ; and if the projector may only be enabled to realise his vast con ceptions of the moral uses to , which_ a _newspaper may be made to subserve, there can be no doubt that a new era in journalism will take its date from the appearance of his SCOTLAND.—The north of Scotland is nearly in a state• of insurrection. At Burghend, two vessels laden with meal for export were deprived of their -argoes. . At Lossiemouth and Findhorn several carts were sized, and the captured victuals lodged in storehouse , he other r l --- ' 'hood aces in the neighbour. - oerng in a similar state of excitement, forty soldiers from Fort George have in I and a company' from A of Keith, an inland town, are said to be pouring in large numbers. Passing over intermediate districts, the food riot folly has also reached the south. In Stranraer, dis turbance was raised because two meal-dealers would not sell their meal at 2s. 6d. per stone. Carrots and loaves were also stolen, but the promptitude of the authorities prevented them reaching any great height. The Edinburgh Deputation Fund amounts to-day to £24,000 6s. 2d. The Scotsman's " commissioner" to the Highlands appears to think that the Highlanders are by far too indolent, and that the distress, although severe, has in some instances been exaggerated. -- DUE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.—A numerous meeting to promote this important object was held at Bir- minglianciin Tuesday. The eviU resulting from the beer house system from Sunday traffic on canals, railroads, &c were a!aly pointed out by the various speakers, and ttlsO i theinjurious consequences to the working classes pro duced by late payments on Saturday evenings. A memo rial was read to the meeting, signed by 1,298 tradesmen of the town of Birmingham, (who had long opened their shops on Sundays,) expressive of their desire that an end should be put to all trading on that sacred day ; they asked protection, declaring " that they would gladly leave off trading on the Sabbath, and enjoy its rest, did they not fear being ruined by loss of custom, if others were al lowed to carry it on." This is, no doubt a very prevalent feeling in all towns throughout the kingdom, and calls for attention from the legislature, as well as the public in ge neral. We understand that some tradesmen in a small way of business in this city incur loss rather than wound their consciences by keeping their shops open on tbe Sun day ; such persons claim protection.—Worcester Journal. MURDER AT DERBY.—On Tuesday evening last, a horrid and brutal Murder was committed by a person named James Cross, a gardener, living up in a court t in t St. Peter's-street, Derby, upon his wife. It appears ti ha t Cross and his 'wife were in the house alone, and ia , from some unexplained cause, probably the result of _a quarrel, he attacked the woman in a furious . manner, al . - pinrgeiniths.eescow.net tmioonstolif t t e h ra e ll u y n tiu or t t t u in n g at o e ff c h re e a r tu h r e e ac w l entered. We deeply regret to state that the diabolical ; he ti n ja t t h b e e conduct of the man Cross was not confined to the murder of his wife. It appears that Mrs. Osborne, baker and flour dealer, in Peter's - st ree t , who resides very near to Cross, hearing screaming, ran into the house, and that, on seeing her, Cross plunged a knife into her throat, and stabbed her in three different places. She now lies in an exceedingly dangerous state, with, we fear, but a slight chance of her recovery. Mr. Osborne, who was at home, i m mediately followed his wife, and was horror-stricken at the sight. The murderer, on an alarm being given, wiped his bloody knife and endeavoured to escape, 1)14 was taken into custody.