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FOREIGN (5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCI BA HrA.-By the arrival of the Chapmans at this port on Wednesday, we have advices from Bahia to the 17th No vember, which represent the demand as very slack . for iritish manu good finality of mad° finding - ready purchasers id 1.800 6d. to 2 ad whi equal to a 3out 5 irapixes looking up, and exchange was firm at 2714:1 BUENOS AYRES AND MONTE VIDEO. — On Saturday we were rut in possession of letters from Monte Video to the 10th November, by the P. Dean, direct from that port. At the time of her leaving. considerable activity was tak- into place in the transhipment of goods to Buenos Ayres Rosas having issued an edict, closing that port against vessels from Monde°, on and after the Ist of December of lo;,but the ingress of these latter NI refused by the French blockading squadror s woula have been received by the pack arrived at Havre on Tues at n news is not of much importance ; no f-esli failures curred, and business generally was dull and stage. the money market no great disposition to operate was manifested, news from England by the Liverpool steamer Hibernia, due at Boston on the 16th, being looked for with She had not arrived at Boston on the 16th some anxiety of December at half-past p.m. United States treasu notes were dull at 991. With high satisfaction we witnessed, on the last Sab bath-day, the secession from the Church of Rome of fifty eight intelligent Roman Catholics. The third Presby terian Church (Dr. Brinsmade's), Newark, N.J., was crowded to its utmost capacity by a vast congregation as sembled to behold the solemn scene, and the services were well calculated to make a deep impression.—New York Observer. A ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP PREACHING BEFORE THE AMERICAN CONGRESS !—The Washington papers, re ceived by the last mail from Boston, state that on Sunday, Right Rev. Dr. Hughes, Ro ew York, preached before both man Catholic Bishop of ;hrikianity s the tru rator of man, in his moral, political, and social The discourse itself was delivered in the Hall tatives, and was pronounced by at Jonathan would call a Capacity PORTUGAL.—The session of the cortex was opened on the 2nd instant, by a royal speech. This document con- ses which form staple of speeches from the throne. After al lading to the convention signed with the English, Spanish the malt the civil law, the queen announces that a proper account of the extraordinary measures adopted by the successive 1 on the termination of the late disorder les by exp: :ssing the hope that peace, order, anc +b. Pnrtii O.IIPI The fine church at Utrecht was destroyed by fire on new year's eve The fortune of the late Princess Adelaide, sister to the King of the French, is estimated at 6,000,000 francs, about £2,500,000 sterling. At the royal levee on the occasion of the New Year, many persons wore the medals appointed in 1832 as a reward for services rendered during the cholera in Bel gium. On the arrival of Mr. More O'Ferrall at Malta, he (a representative of a Protestant Queen,) with his family, attended the church of St. John, where high mass was celebrated—his excellency assisting in the usual pro cession, bearing a lighted taper I h- b n published sentence of excommuni c ation As just oee, by the Bishop of Montauban against the Abbe Bruitte Cure of the parish of Lachapelle, for having embraced Protestantism, and against all the individuals of the parish who, having changed their faith, do not hasten to return to the bosom of the Catholic Church Galignani COURT AND FASHION. Yesterday was the period fixed upon for the departure of the court from the Castle to Claremont. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess IN accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, and atended by the Lady in Waiting of the Duchess of Cambridge, and Mr. Edmund Mildmay, have been on a visit to Her Majesty. The whole of the servants left the Pavilion, at Brigh ton, on Monday. and everything has been removed from the interior, but the outside has been painted and re paired, as if it were not intended to destroy the building. The . Earl of Carlisle was seized with a fit on Wednesday, and is dangerously ill. The noble earl is in his 75th year. His eldest sou is Lord Morpeth. The celebration of the majority of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington took place on Friday. Great rejoicings were visible at Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, and at Stowbridge, where his lordship has extensive estates, _ AN ANECDOTE OF WINDSOR C A STLE.—Wheli the Prin cess Helena was born, it is said that the Princess Royal on hearing that she was now blessed with another little sister, exclaimed with the most charming simplicity, " Oh, how delighted lam! do let me go and tell rn E. I " Tim QIT ENISILTIIC24 D, n Doo. - Somo time ago a fine dog of the Mount St. Bernard breed was presented to her Majesty by the King of the French, and whilst fondling it in the private kennel at Windsor, it bit her in the right arm, causing the blood to flow. Since then, the animal, which has always evinced a ferocious disposition, has been kept in confinement at the Zoological Gardens. BRILLIANT DRESS FOR LADIES.—A new invention, presented to a Paris institution last Saturday week, has made some noise. It is the solution of the great difficulty of gilding silken stuffs without deteriorating the material. Specimens, both plain and figured, were handed round ; so we may expect the utmost splendour in the costume of our ladies this winter. It is impossible to imagine the dazzling effect of the gilding upon satin. Two entirely new, and somewhat novel, departments have just been added to the household establishment of the Sovereign. One is called " The Millinery and Dress making," and the other the " Artificial Florist Depart ment." Two female Parisian artistes have been im ported to superintend the former, so that the dresses, &c., of her Majesty may be " made- u p a t h ome ." Th e arti ficial flower-making has been in great request during the festive season at Windsor Castle, in making bouquets for her,Majesty and the infant Princesses, and ornamented nosegays for the royal table. It is considered that, by these new arrangements, a great saving will be effected in the expenditure of the Queen. LAW INTELLIGENCE, CALLS TO THE BAR.—During the year 1847, there were no less than 191 persons called to the bar by the societies of the Middle Temple, Inner Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn. THE CHASE. The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday (to morrow) at Duddon Heath, on Friday at Tabley, each day at half-past ten o'clock. Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday (to-morrow) at Hawkstone, on Friday at Sundome, on Saturday at Fitz Bridge, each day at half-past ten o'clock. RAILWAY AFFAIRS, The Caledonian- railway will be opened for traffic the beginning of next month. One hundred and twenty-nine railway bills have been deposited for parliamentary examination. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—About two o'clock on Thursday, while Mr. Payne, shoemaker, of Bitteswell, was waiting at Rugby for the fourth class train, he carelessly crossed the line of railway at the time the train was pass ing, and was struck by the engine and killed on the spot. A portion of a screen of double columns, now con structing at the Euston Station, fell on Thursday, when about 25 men were engaged at work, and twelve of them were sadly injured, one so seriously that he is not expected to recover. The London and North-Western Railway Company have adopted the practice of requiring all passengers pro ceeding from the Euston Square terminus, in London, to show their tickets immediately before the starting of the trains, and the first six trains so examined are stated to have yielded £6O from passengers who had seated them selves without tickets. From official returns it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3,403 miles of rail way, was £178,912, thus accounted for :—.£93,095 for the conveyance of passengers onl £44,604 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of - i41,213 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £30,926 over the corresponding week of the former year, when the mileage was 2,645. The average earnings per mile for last week were £52, whilst in 1846 they were £56. TRAFFIC RESULTS OF 1847.—Owing to various disturb ing circumstances, it is difficult to make a just or perfectly satisfactory comparison between the traffic of the years 1846 and 1847. The mere comparison of the totals is fal lacious. The mileage has increased 25 per cent., the re ceipt only 16 on the whole of the railways. It is not to be expected that many miles which were opened towards the very end of the year should instantly be very pro ductive. Still the prospect appears satisfactory, and par ticularly so in those cases where a true parallel can be made. We will not pretend to estimate what precise effect the times may have had, although it is obviously a moat influential circumstance—more or less affecting all lines. To be able to form a perfectly just estimate, it is obvious that the amount of mileage ought to be the same in both years. But this happens to be the case in only one or two instances of the more important railways : in the Dublin and Kingstown, in the Lancashire and Yorkshire, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire, On the first-named line, the increase is 6 per cent. ; on the second, 2 per cent. ; whilst on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire it is as much as 17 per cent. ; a fact of peculiar congratulation to the shareholders. Next in the category of good results stands the Newcastle and Carlisle : the mileage increase has been 8 per cent., traffic 13 per cent. In the South-Eastern the mileage has increased 13, the receipts 17 ; Midland, mileage in crease 16, traffic 15 ; Eastern Counties, mile!ige 25, traffic 29 ; Glasgow. Paisley, and Ayr, mile;„ Norfolk, mileage 38, traffic 33 ; Dublin at mileage 9, traffic 6 ; York and Newm-'' 21, traf Drogheda e, mileage 60 traffio4o ; York and North Midland, mileage 42, tra ffi c 24 ; London and North-Western, mileage 13, traffic 7; London and South Coast, mileage 36, traffic 16; London and South-Western, mileage 75, traffic 20; Great V tern, mileage 12, traffic 3 ; Edinburgh and ( age 15, traffic 3.—Railway Chronicle asgow, mile I IiELAND A farmer at 0 nagh and his sister have been committed for trial for manufacturing threatening letters.. FALL OF BUILDING PROPERTY.—We know a concern without afine at £lso.—Limerick Chronicle. At the Limerick Special Commission, on Thursday, a been convicted of murd Sir George Grey has issued a circular to all the magis- of arresting and strictly e Some of t lieutenants of mit now they h: ay for their removal. he Roman Catholic inhabitants of Stroll by the Rev. Mr. M`Dermott A farmer, named Brown, was br Ballymore, county Tipperary, on lay morning. w months ago Brown The causes assigned are, that son got married, to the discomfiture of some rivals, and with his wife obtained a sum of money and a few acres of land. Suspicion has fallen on some of the rejected lovers. The Morning Post, the chief organ of tl►e Tractarians, says, "The first thing to be done with Ireland is to make them good Roman Catholics. If Rome would take the trouble to reform Ireland on Romish principles, a gfeat good would be achieved." Will any one deny after this that there is an intimate connexion between Tractarianism . FEARFUL ArrEMpT.—A diabolical attempt was made to inveigle JohoCongreve, Esq. of Mount Congreve, county Waterford, into a well-laid snare, for the purpose of murdering him. We are in possession of the facts, but le by t authorities The Tyrone Constitution reports the arrest of M took place but too clearly proved the charge shall, Mr. Buchanan's servant, has beer John Mar or having a guit know ledge of the letters THE VOLUNTARY (?) SYSTEM.— able Roman Catholic inhabitant of The name of a respect Npnagil was day posted on the Nenagh Conciliation-hall, and directly opposite the chapel gate, in consequence of the smallness of his donation on Sunday last to the P.P. of the town. iven was attached e foot of this species of Nenagh Guar- tion by shoemaker's wax The 2VeicrY Ex ainer mentions that on Friday week fumigated for the . purpose 6f destroying vermin, _ and ngs were Idea ashore for the crew. Two of the got drunk, forgot that they were not There are reports of three deaths from extreme destitu tion, within the past week, in the barony of Erris, county of Mayo. Two deaths in the county of Kerry, and two in the county of Galway, from the same dreadful cause. In the mountains and boggy districts of the West extreme destitution has set in, owing to the consumption of the small crops of potatoes, and the expenditure of the money savings from the late harvest. AFFAIR OF HONOR.—On Tuesday, Mr. John Francis Blake was brought up at the Head Police-office, in the custody of James Malone, 49, one of the Detective Force, charged with having an intention of committing a breach of the peace by fighting a duel. Mr. Blake is brother of the present Sir Thomas Blake, and son of the late Sir Valentine Blake, of Galway. The gentleman who was to have encountered him "on the daisy" is Mr. Edward J. Irwin, the owner of Faughaballagh, and an eminent sporting character. The cause of quarrel involved in the case remains a mystery Dr. M`Hale, with whom must now be associated Dr: Slattery, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel, has identified himself—for it really comes to that—with that section of the Irish Roman Catholic priesthood which considers that the true remedy for the present social con dition of Ireland lies in denouncing the best landlords and most active magistrates from the altar. The channels which have been chosen for effecting this authoritative re cognition of the practice in question have been two letters, addressed by these Prelates respectively to Lords John Russell and Clarendon, and a series of resolutions adopted at a meeting of the priests, presided over by Dr. MELANCHOLY CONDITION.—A Roman Catholic farmer of Ireland, writing to his landlord in Dublin, says : " Sir, I have but one large pistol, and if the . country who are all in one combine, find I will have to send it into the police, the villians will murder and rob me that night.— They don't know but I have more fire-arms than that. Sir, there is nothing but badness going in these parts. They take your property amost before your face, and you have to bear it, for it is sure deth to peach. The man that pays his rent is an innemy to the country. There is nothing but card-playing, and thy-drinking, and plotting in the heads .f scamperers going here and there, night and day, snatching at all they can reach. They say the countrys their own now to do as they plase without the Repeal or a haporth. I am shockingly envied on account of my little improve ments. Its no less than what business has the blackgard to be quicking ditches, and making dranes." TERRIBLE RETRIBI7TION.-Thj affairs of Ireland have assumed a new aspect. The murders by which the land has been stained have awakened a terrible re-action among surviving Protestants. In some parishes they have declared that for every Protestant murdered they will require the life of the Romish priest, a resolution induced by the intemperate language (to say the least) of some of the ministers of that persuasion from the very altar of peace. The Rev. Henry Brennan, of Kilglass, and his curate, have received a notice adorned with a coffin and entreating them to " Beware !" This is not to be justified, but ought not some allowance to be made for persons virtually deserted by the Government, and hourly in peril of their lives ? At all events, the rejoinder of Mr. Brennan, who has applied to the Lord Lieutenant for protection, is not likely to conciliate matters. He intimates that the letter was " fabricated by a junta of rabid parsons for the purpose of reviving religious bigotry and sectarian animosities." EFFECTS OF POPERY IN IRELAND.—The Prussian State Gazette, in an article on the. Irish Coercion Bill, says—" It is impossible for any one who is acquainted with the condition of the people of Ireland, their absolute dependence on the priesthood, the access of the Popish priest to the conscience of each individual by means of the confessional, and the whole tendency of this infernal war—it is impossible, we say, for such an one to doubt that the priests are informed of each individual assassina tion. The Romish church, with its agitating and ab solving priests, is, therefore, in Ireland th e grea t confede rate in crimes, which, in their cruelty and bloodthirstiness, are not exceeded by the accumulated horrors of the night of St. Bartholomew in France. Let the public imagine what the moral condition of such a people must be when their very religion is blood-stained. Well may the Journal Des Debats call Ireland the red stain on the map of Europe ;' but it is not red from the blood effused by an oppressive government, but from the sanguinary contests and the secret wickedness of its own sons." REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the last meeting a number of subscriptions were handed in, and a letter read from " the Lion of the Fold of Judah," enclosing £39 from the deanery of Tuam. A young priest, named Mulligan, addressed the meeting at considerable length, and charged the landlords, as a class, with the worst possible disposi tion and feelings—they were, he said, oppressors, and without bowels of compassion of any sort. His attack was of the most sweeping and calumnious description, and was rapturously applauded. The speaker also denounced Messrs. Grattan and Browne.—Mr. John O'Connell then came forward and spoke on a variety of subjects at con siderable length. He alluded to the dinner given to him at Limerick last week, and to the friendly disposition which was manifested by the Young Irelanders who at tended. He also referred to an article in the Edinburgh Review, and stated that it might be taken as a programme of the intentions of government with regard to Ireland, and that it was written by Mr. Trevelyan.—Rent for the week, £l5l. THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.—The special commission for the county of Limerick was opened at Limerick. ,r 1 Tuesday, when Chief Justice Blackburn delivered an elaborate charge to the grand jury, describing the condi tion of the district, which had rendered this commission necessary, for the prompt administration of justice, and the vindication of the law. On the following day the bu siness began, and a man named Ryan was convicted of the murder of John Kelly, at Knocksantry, by shooting him with a blunderbuss. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentence of death was passed without the slightest hope of mercy. The Lord Chief Baron gave the following harrowing summary of the prisoner's crime :—" A man of your own class of life—a farmer resting from the labours of the day, sits in his cottage, surrounded by his family, and at his own hearth—his nephew, a boy, seated at one side of him—his niece, a girl of early age, at the other—his children in the room—his wife, their mother, occupied in a little office of motherly attention, washing the feet of one of those infants preparatory to putting the children to bed. That man is sitting in his chair in that scene of bliss, when you enter the dwelling-house with a blunder , buss charged with eleven balls—you approach him—you place it within a few inches of his back, and, in the pre sence of his wife and children, you shoot him dead ! You saw before you, for he saw you, the boy, who looked up, saw you, and identified you ; that boy was in the direction where you were firing; and you incurred the risk of a double murder, and nearly perpetrated the two, for some of the balls that perforated the body of your victim, reached the boy and inflicted wounds upon him. Is it possible to conceive an assemblage of circumstances unit ing in themselves so much , the character of that horror which belongs to the crime of murder, as those;" A WELL-TIMED REPROOF.—The Earl of Shrewsbury, a Roman Catholic peer, has addressed a letter to Dr. NV Hale on the recent. Trish outrages. Lord Shrew s b ury insists on reminding the archbishop of his duty, and urges for a satisfactory explanation of his conduct, because " it is currently reported, and readily believed, that in what concerns religion, your grace's diocese is in a state of pe culiar destitution ; that you have ever debarred your poor from the benefits of education under the national system, without any efficient substitute of your own—that you have never admitted Father Mathew within your limits— and that too many of your parishes are without a school, and some of them without a chapel, though the repeal rent is regularly levied, and ungrudgingly paid." With regard to Dr. M'llale's assertions that there have been no crimes, but deeds of retaliation ; no murders, no assassin. ations, no robbery, no pillage, no injustice, no cruelty, no for tt THE NV FRPOOL STANDARD. foul atrocities to disgrace Ireland, but those stimulated by cruel and heart-rending evictions of the poor, the Earl replies—" How is the fact ? Why, my lord, in the very same journal in which I find your grace's letter, no less than twelve foul, unnatural murders, or attempts to mur der, are narrated with all their hideous details, from the Irish papers, in the daily sanguinary column devotec y country, without one of them g able to - claim the 3 extenuating excuse of being stimu- 'the state' of your unhai are -411 —one and all—so many dramas in that demon-tragedy now performing with such appalling atrocity in the dis- turbed districts in Ireland, under the multifarious and mystic characters of. Molly Maguireism, Terry Altism, Whitefeetism, Whiteboyism, Ribbanisin, and so forth— members o one gre conspiracy agai . that they who occupy - the land of others shall henceforth hold it for themselves." 'This excellent letter next points to the sympathy shown for criminals, whila it is denied to their victims, by whole masses of the Irish population, and to the absence of clerical exhortations against the spirit which is abroad. It proceeds to speak with honest indignation of those denouncers of what have been called " the oppressors of the poor," and " exterminating land lords," as men who have stimulated turbulence, and in vented apologies for the perpetration of cold-blooded, hireling murders; and deplores the reproach which such proceedings have brought upon the whole Catholic. com munity. And alluding to the church to which he belongs, the Earl emphatically says—" The public voice in Eng land now pronounces her to be a conniver at injustice, an accessory to crime, a pestilent sore in the commonwealth ; and so long will she be so proclaimed till we are shown some better reason than has yet been given us why Arch deacon Laffan should still remain unreprimanded, and why Father McDermott should still be permitted to exer cise his ministry." "My lord, (says the Earl,) the public at large look to the prelates of the disturbed districts to inform them whether in their dioceses these duties have been punctually and properly performed, and Englishmen must be excused in doubting it amidst scenes which'stand forth so prominently to contradict it. My lord, it is not only incumbent on you to satisfy the inquiries of all per - d the pre estruction le social system against t that I shall have the•help and comfort of your prayers in my behalf. For these, especially, I would most earnestly desire ever to live in your affectionate remembrance. — May, then, the gracious Lord, of his infinite mercy, bring to perfection the good - seed sown in your hearts by his Spirit, and so effectually keep us all in his faith and love, that we may meet hereafter in his more immediate pre sence, never more to be separated, as one flock in the told of one great Shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord." &Huai 111011'11mm. The Peterborough theatre is about to be converted into 'a commodious market for merchants, millers, &c. The name of Lard William Paget is omitted from the official list of captains in the navy. On. Christmas Day a fire broke out in the rural church at Croft Castle, near Leominster_ The greater part of the tower have been destroyed. -The Exeter Gazette states that on soiree de Fearyus O'Connor" was given at servation of t which now threatens it within your own people, but also to answer the earnest appeal of those who have a two-fold reason to deplore the evil—that it is a qrandal to religion, CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE, The personal estate of the late Archbishop of York is sworn under £BO,OOO. The address of the clergy and laity to Dr. Hampden has now upwards of 1500 signatures. The English Church at Jerusalem is expected to be consecrated at Easter. A new house is building for the bishop. By the death of Dr. Crotch, the Professorship of Music at Oxford is vacant. The appointment belongs to the two proctors Congratulatory addresses from the clergy are now pour ing in from every direction, upon the bishop elect of Hereford ! The Dean of Carlisle has written to Dr. Hampden, to say that he will ever consider the vote he gave against him (Dr. H.), in 1836, as the most unsatisfactory vote he ever recorded as a member of tthe Hebdomadal Board. The consecration of Dr. Prince Lee to the Bishopric of Manchester is only delayed in consequence of the appoint ment of the Archbishopric of York not having been quite complete. Thirty-three clergymen of the Archdeaconry of Ely met on Wednesday, to thank their bishop for remonstrating against the appointment of Dr. Hampden ; they also agreed on a petition against removing the disabilities of the Jews. The Bishop has issued a circular to the clergy of the Diocese, requesting them to invite their congregations to contribute to the funds of the Chester Diocesan Board of Education, which are chiefly devoted to the maintenance of the Training College at Chester, and of another for fe-, males at Warrington. . _ _ THE SEE OF HEREFORD. —The confirmation of the Rev. Dr. Hampden, as Bishop of Hereford, will take place at Bow Church, Cheapside, this day (Tuesday). The annual value of the see is £4,200 per annum, with the patronage of the archdeaconries, treasurerships, non resident canonries, and thirty benefices. The Cambridge Advertiser, which has hitherto strongly opposed the appointment of Dr. Hampden, says,—" We axe not ashamed to own, that in common with a large number of her Majesty's subjects—in common with the Bishops of Oxford and Salisbury—we have very consider. ably modified our opinion on the subject of Dr. Hamp den's orthodoxy." __ . THE DEAN OF HEREFORD.—Thete is one act in Dr. Merewether's very amusing farce of "a Dean begging for a Bishopric," which has not yet come before the public. Before the Bishopric was vacant, the Dean's own curate went round his parish to procure signatures to an address to Lord John Russell, humbly imploring his Lordship to appoint the Dean.—Morning Chronicle. ST. JAMES'S CHAPEL, LEEDS.—OH the last day of the year Dr. Hook preached a sermon. The service began at twelve o'clocck at night. The 100th Psalm was then sung, after which the communion was administered to more than 200 persons. A sermon was then preached by the Incumbent, the Rev. E. Jackson, on the duties of the new year. The service was not over till two o'clock in classes, many of them had been Methodists. The per mission of the ordinary for this new exhibition had been obtained. Thirty-two of the clergy of Rochdale have signed an address to the Bishop of Chester, on being withdrawn from his lordship's pastoral care to the see of Manchester; to which his lordship has feelingly replied, thanking them for their cordiality, and advising them that—" The times on which we have fallen make it more than ever necessary for each and all of us, in our separate departments, to take heed to ourselves and to the doctrine ;' to watch in all things ;' to do the work of Evangelists ;' to ` make full proof of our ministry.' Nothing short of the most determined zeal and the most abundant labours can over take the spiritual destitution of the population with which you are chiefly conversant; and, if my attempts to bring their increasing numbers within reach of the institutions of the church have been in any degree successful, it must be greatly ascribed to the co-operation of the clergy them selves, by whom the burthen and heat of the day is borne.' TRACTARIANISM v. POPERY.—The Rev. A. Percival, one of the Queen's chaplains, has published a letter to the prelates of the Church of England, calling their attention to the arrival of Mr. Newman with a mission from the Pope. He then says—" It has seemed good to me, a Presbyter of the Catholic Church in Britain, of the pro vince of Canterbury, of twenty-four years standing in the Presbytery ; and also one of the chaplains in Ordinary of three successive Sovereigns of Britain, since the year 1826, to declare my readiness, before any tribunal of Britain, of Europe, of Christendom, or of the world, to prove beyond denial the unscriptural and uncanonical position occupied by all persons exercising the functions of the Episcopate, Presbytery, or Diaconate, under obedience to the Bishop of Rome, or any other foreign Bishop whatsoever, within the British provinces, except under license first had and obtained of the Canonical Bishops of the Catholic Church in Britain." CONFIRMATION OF THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER. The ceremony of confirming the Rev. James Prince Lee, as Bishop of Manchester, took place on Saturday, at St. James', London. The proceedings excited great interest, in consequence of the charges brought against Mr. Lee, by Mr. Gutteridge. The ceremony was conducted by Sir John Dobson, Queen's Advocate in the Ecclesiastical Court. The Dean of Manchester was , present, and after the citatory letter had been read, the bishop elect took the usual oaths. On the opposers being called, Mr. Gutteridge rose and said, I am an opposer, and object to these proceedings, on the ground that it is unlawful to confirm the bishop anywhere but in the province of York. Sir John Dobson.—We cannot entertain that. Mr. Gutteridge.—And on account of his immoral conduct. Sir John Dobson.—Any one so opposing, risks the penalty of prcemunire. We therefore refuse to hear you in this case. Mr. Gutteridge solemnly protested against the appointment, and handed in certain papers, but they were refused. The confirmation was therefore allowed. TRACTARIAN INTOLERANCE.—The Warden of the Puseyite Trinity College near Perth, the Rev. C. Words worth, who left Winchester College, where he was second master, some time since, under an imputation of having enforced confession and absolution on some of the boys there, has recently excommunicated a gentleman of for tune resident in his neighbourhood, and a member of the English Episcopal Church, because he had attended an P-glish chapel in Perth, served by a clergyman in Eng hsh orders ! This act of priestly tyranny was accom panied by an intimation, that the gentleman in question was an evil liver, in the eyes of the Church, openly and notoriously so. It should be mentioned that the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Perth, and many of the most distinguished families, are members of the Church which is thus unceremoniously progcribed, by a person whose conscience enables him thus to harmonise his subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles with the duty of a teacher in the Scotch Episcopal Church. The excommunicated gentleman is a person of unblemished character, and a brother of a distinguished dignitary of our Church, the head of an important collegiate institution:—Standard. DR. HAMPDEN'S ORTHODOXY.—The Bishop (elect) of Hereford has published a reply to an address from his late parishioners at Ewelme, which breathes throughout a truly Christian spirit. He says :—" I bless God, my dear friends, that you join with this memorial of your affection a remembrance of the lessons of Gospel truth, which I have sedulously endeavoyed, through God's grace, to inculcate on you. Unspeakable, indeed, will be the blessings both to you and to me, if I shall have left fully and deeply im pressed on your hearts the saving doctrines of the Gospel —if this alone sllll be chiefly recollected by each of you, that I ' determined,' with the Apostle Paul, ' not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified.' I led you to him, your great God and Saviour--the Lord your Righteousness—for pardon and justification, and for the sanctifying grace of his holy Spirit, to enable you to walk worthily in your holy calling, and to bring you finally to everlasting life. The Lord, the divine head of the church, is about to send me, my dear brethren, from you to labour elsewhere in a wider field of ministerial duty.— But, never can I expect happier days than those I have spent among you. Greatly, indeed, have I been indebted for any success that may have attended my ministry in the parish, to yourselves, and to that kindness and respect— that support and encouragement,, which I have received from you all—and in particular from the good example of those possessing influence among you. You have rendered my ministry truly a labour of love by your kindness and confidence. But, though absent in person, I shall not cease to be with you in spirit. Often shall Ibe thinking of you, especially at the stated times of public prayer, when you will be assembled in your beautiful church. Then shall I be lifting up my heart with you often in your prayers and hymns of praise, though I hear them not, as I have ever delighted to do when present in times past. Often, too, shall Ibe praying for you. Nor can I doubt ie roof ant WHAT NEXT ! Thursday a thy Barnstaple Theatre. The veteran Earl of Dundonald has accepted the naval command of the North American and West Indian Stations, at the solicitation of the admiralty. On Tuesday, Mrs. Hannah Halsman, the postmistress of Belper. lost her life through endeavouring to cross the railway, when a train came up and ran over her. The aggregate import of grain from June, 1846, to No vember, 1847, was 13,945,760 quarters. The quantity entered for home consumption was 16,341,282 quarters. A FACT FOR FORESTERS.—It is said that Mr. Christo pher Macrae, manager of the Applecross woods and forests, planted 140,000 trees at a cost to his constituent of only £5B. A few years ago, a painting, by Rubens, " The Wise Men of 'the East," was sold at a sale at Ilford, in Essex, for £2 ; but subsequently it was sold for £5,000, and is now at Arundel Castle. The Globe states that the London police have received orders to call upon all the publicans at whose houses Derby Clubs are held, and caution them against confirm ing them for the future. The Exeter Gazette excuses itself from publishing Gen. Pork's Message, on the ground that "it measures fifteen feet three inches in length of an ordinary newspaper column." The mortality in the metropolis increased last week. The total deaths were 1,522, or 553 above the usual aver age: 497 have died of disease of the lungs and other or- gins of respiration. The Orkney Islands have again been the scene of some disastrous shipwrecks. Amongst other vessels a French brig was lost ; and the inhabitants of South Ronaldshay inhumanly plundered right and left, in the very face of a justice and other respectable persons. . MEETING OF IRONMASTERS.-A large meeting of iron masters took place at Dudley on Wednesday, when a re ductionin the various prices of iron was agreed to. The manufacturing operations have been all behind, and the workmen must now submit to a reduction of their wages. It is calculated that more than £65,000,000 sterling are annually expended in the United Kingdom in intoxi cating drink !—ten times the usual amount of the English poor-rates !—more, bj £3,000,000, that the declared value of our exports ! THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE. - It is now rumoured in Cheltenham that the Evangelical Alliance has passed a vote of 'censure upon a talented Dissenting minister, who took an active part in the recent agitation of the George Dawson and Wilainson affair. THE EPIDEMIC.-Our obituary again comprises nume rous aged persons, viz.-3 between 90 and 100 years of age ; 4 between 80 and 90 ; 6 between 70 and 80 ; and 2 aged respectively 67 and 69. Many of these deaths may be traced to the prevailing epidemic.—Hereford Journal. A few days since a young woman living at Dovesland, near Paisley, was sent by her mother to purchase some refreshment for her lover, who was to accompany her to a party. In going along the canal she missed her way, on account of the darkness, fell in and was drowned. Dr. Weiley, the celebrated organist, was fishing the week before last at the preserves of Lord Feversham, at. Hemsley, when the fell down an embankment and frac tured his leg. As Dr. Wesley was alone, and the place solitary, he lay in a helpless state for several hours. As the fracture is a compound one, his recovery will be slow. At Chelmsford. on Thursday. a lady of respectable family was sentenced to six months imprisonment for fraudulently obtaining silk from a shop. Her friends showed that she occasionally laboured under aberration of mind, but the court did not consider the proof as suffi cient. An inquest was held on Wednesday, in East Smithfield. on a thief, killed while committing a robbery. He was a labourer, about 30. He had got upon a new building on Friday night to steal lead,—had fallen through a skylight aperture down a well staircase,—and was found with his neck and legs broken. ANOTHER OF THEM !—Doctor Hale, Archdeacon of London, has received a gracious permission from St. Jar lath's College, Tuam, to assume the prefix of " Mac" to his patronymic surname ; in token that he is henceforth worthy to be regarded as a true " Son" of the Mother Church. THE MURDER OF MR. BELLCHAMBERS.—A respite has been forwarded by the Secretary of State for M'Coy, one of the parties under sentence of death for the murder of Mr. Bellchambers. With respect to Sale, the law will take its course. The execution was fixed for Monday (yesterday.) LIBERALITY OF WORKING MEN.—The committee of the " Artisans' Penny Subscription Movement" origi nated entirely by the working men of Birmingham, have presented the magnificent sum of £924 18s. 9d.:as a new year's offering towards the funds of the Queen's Hospital in that town. The medical and surgical officers have also paid over the sum of £242, fees from pupils. The Rev. Dr. Newman and the Rev. F. Oakeley, having arrived in town from Rome, have each publicly celebrated mass in the Romish chapels of the metropolis. The former gentleman performed that ceremony according to the rites of the Romish faith a few days since at the chapel in Ca dogan-terrace, Chelsea, and the latter at the chapel in Somers Town. FLIGHT FOR LIFE.—A few days ago, as a flock of geese were being driven down the High-street Edinburgh, about 40 of them suddenly soared in the air, and pursued their course, at various altitudes, towards the Canongate. Many of them, from their great weight, were soon com pelled to descend, and were secured, but a few of the more active birds were speedily lost in the distance. Captain Hambly, R.N., has been killed, in the avenue of his own residence, at Elfordtown, by the running away of a horse with a phaeton containing Captain Hambly and his wife. The phaeton came in collision with a cart, and the lady and gentleman were pitched out. Captain Ham bly was killed on the spot, but Mrs. Hambly escaped with a few bruises. The extensive premises of Messrs. A. Fullerton and Co., Leith Walk, Edinburgh, were partially destroyed by fire, early on Saturday morning week. The damage is estimated at several thousand pounds, but it is covered by insurance,—On the same morning, the premises of Messrs. Hay and Addis, plumbers, &c., in Hill-street lane were burnt to the ground. _ _ A Nottingham paper states that, on Friday week, a young man residing in that town had the misfortune to make a slight puncture in his thumb by picking a small piece of skin from the side of the nail. This trifling wound caused his hand and arm to swell, and it became so inflamed, that mortification ensued, and occasioned his death on Wednesday last. In Glasgow, the number of bankrupts during 1847, ex ceeded 100. In the Grain Trade, the liabilities were reckoned at £400,000; in Manufactures at £1,328,000; in East Indian Shipping and Colonial Interests a t £1,20 8,000; which , with the Ayrshire Iron ComaanY, made a total of £3,156,000. Numerically, the whole bankruptcies in Scotland, in 1847, were 523 ; and in Eng land, 1,626. RESULTS OF INDUSTRY.—Died, at his residence, Waterinbury, Kent, on Sunday, of the prevailing epi demic, after a very short illness, Alderman Lucas, M.P., in the eighty-eighth year of his age. The deceased was a native of London, and served his time to his father as a lighterman, and for a number of years toiled as hard as any member of the class to which he belonged. Through his industrial habits and success in business he realized an immense fortune. It is stated that he has left landed and funded property to the amount of between £300,000 and £400,000. On Wednesday, a butler appeared at the Marlborough street police office. London, for the purpose of complain ing of the gross ill treatment which lie had experienced from his master, who had pushed him out of the drawing room because he had refused to squeeze some lemons, on the ground that such drudgery ought to be performed by some of the inferior servants, and who had dismissed him on the following morning, without allowing a footman to carry away his luggage, so that the insulted butler was unworthily compelled to carry his own portmanteau and carpet bag more than a mile. FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH.—On Friday se'nnight, Mr. Mills held an inquest at Marylebone on Louis Guttridge, aged 79, and Louisa, his wife, aged 78. The deceased were paupers, in the receipt of ss. a week from the parish. The wife died suddenly, and her death so afflicted her husband, to whom she had been fifty years married, that he declared he could not survive her. As he was not seen to leave the room, the neighbours became alarmed for his safety, and entered his apartment, when they beheld him suspended by the neck from the post of the bed upon which the body of his ancient partner lay. Three men and a boy have perished at the mouth of the Tay, through being too much alarmed for their safety. They • formed the crew of the bark favourite, which had left Dundee a few days before ; as they lay at anchor, the breakers set strongly against the vessel ; the crew took fright and got into a boat ; the master of the vessel, Court, said he would not leave her. In a few moments he saw all his crew perish, by the capsizing °t i the boat, while he could render no assistance. When the tide set in, Court, single-banded, managed to get the vessel into the river, and eventually obtained assistance to take her to Dumdee. GAOL FEVER:—It is impossible now to ascertain the extent to which the gaol distemper prevailed among us during the last century. Howard's estimate of as many deaths as happened under the noose of the executioner is, doubtless, much below the mark ; but it is well for us that, even in healthy years, 16,000 lives are sacrificed to typhus fever in England and. Wales alone, in addition to some 200,000 or so prostrated on loathsome beds of sick ness ; it is well for us that the reports of the poor-law commission have revealed the orphanage and widowhood it occasions, and the intolerable fever-tax that it levies upon us ; it is well for us, that what cannot be brought about by an appeal to feelings or conscience, may yet oe accomplished by ar guments. addressed to our selfishness. " The fever-tax is the heavie , St of our b ur d ens ," i s o ur appeal to the rate-payer. •Typhus-fever is the most atrocious of our manifold cruelties," is our argument with the philanthropist. " Health is the poor man's property," is our remonstrance with the government. " Prevention is the spirit of almsgiving ," is our humbl e suggestion to the clergy.—Fraser s Magazine, ACCIDENTAL POISONING.—A farmer's wife, at Felt well, the other day, sent to the mill a sack of wheat, in which was a quantity of corn which had been prepared with arsenic for seed. A quantity of arsenic was left in the stones of the mill, which poisoned two other lots of flour. By this accident three families were poisonfd, but only cne member, a young woman, died. Fortunately, the means whereby the poison had been administered were discovered, or the loss of life might have been frightful. Col. Peebles, who lately succeeded as second in com mand of the marines at Woolwich, died very suddenly on Monday. A lamentable accident occurred in connexion visiting his parents ran out in great excitement, for me- dical assistance, rushing past the sentry at the gate, with out answering his challenge. The sentinel, imagining it was some run-away soldier, charred with his bayonet, in flicting a serious wound on Mr. Peebles' neck. TOO TRUE A THOUGHT.—Mr. Ralph Smith, of Foun tain's Head, between Bowes and Cotherston, was return ing home on Christmas day from the Catholic chapel at Darlington, and met two men on the road with bundles. The " thought" struck him that one of the men had his (Mr. Smith's) " new trousers " on • but he dismissed it from his mind as an idle fancy. On reaching his farm, however, he found that his house had been entered, and shinned of a variety of articles. including the new Jan. 11. 14448. DECAY OF LITERATURE.—Among other causes o f regret at the condition of our native country is the deg of those, commercially-enraged in the pursuits of respect' ah'e tare.. In the list of bankrupts from Noveiab, 6, 1846, to Nov. 2, 1847, there were 17 books e llers; 4 bOOkbinee9 ; 3 newspaper proprietors; 2 newsvender t ; 7 paper-makers; 5 print and music sellers; 15 printer! and publishers ; and IQ stationers. To th e s e we ma y au' 2 booksellers in the last Gazette. and the hiAlv respect' able house of Curry and üblin, which ha s had docket struck azsinst it. Co., Why do we enter into tbl enumeration ? Not with any feeling of satisfaction eiples;the nation has ret graded in all r'espee for it it 7 • , • a fact that with the decline of useful literature has In creased the circulation of cheap pernicious and infide l / publications among the masses of the people.- 2 —Herefor;! Journal. AGGRAVATED CASE OF ROBBERY.—In a lane leaail from Wisheach to Peterborough, near to Thorne} the sign of Speed the Plough, occupied by William Post and his aged partner, and this house was early on th . morning of Sunday last the scene of a daring robbed' About two o'clock on that morning, the inmates We! aroused by a loud knocking at the door. Thinking it so' a neighbour. the old man descended hv the fpniTl trap - d oc n the floor of the bed-chamber, and on 111° opening the door, three excavators rushed in, and mediately commenced an attack on Foster, forcing lor, up into the chamber, where they se cure d th e age d co uP" by tying them to the bedstead with ropes. After securing the trap-door above alluded to, the thieves ransacked th o premises, taking possession of £7, a silver watch, a nd 0 large hoard of farthings. The villains then regaled they' selves with the viands in the house, and then decamptU' Leeds Mercury. _ Mr. SAMUEL WARREN AND CAPITAL PUNISRAIENT/ We learn from a letter addressed to the editor of tba 4 iserted on Monday last, that the distin g uisho' .uthor and barrister, Mr. Samuel Warren, is opposed the abolition of capital punishment. He says—" There, l : no stronger opponent in the kingdo m th an I am o f t' d abolition of capital punishment in cases of murder; a n while endeavouring in the work referred to (but o nly Il i a minor object) to illustrate the glorious contrast betwee! our criminal law of now and then, I endeavoured stucw ously to guard myself against being misunderstood Lil on! topic of such gravity as that which has called forth toil letter. I have long doubted, indeed, whether the a bory tion of capital punishment has not been already carried to a great extent. I concur, in short, in the opinions 110 3 " this subject which have been from time to time so fully urged in the Times, and should deeply regret u bel 4 suspected of countenancing, for one moment, n otiog i based upon unsound principles of legislation and s purio o philanthropy." APPLICATION OF CHLOROFORM IN TETANUS.--A rse servant in the household of Lady Dorothy Elizabeth Pal the rectory, Enfield, cut off the tip of his thumb. In,' days trismus (locked jaw) came on, attended with d 0; culty of swallowing, resembling hydrophobia ; i n Ore s days more tetanus set in, affecting all th e musc l es o f body with painful ,spasmodic contractions and eel rigidity, the head, neck, an d l ower ex t rem i t i es b eing b backwards. In this case Mr. Asbury, her ladyship's l e ' dical attendant. saw that death must take place in a I ,l i hours, unless some powerful reme d y were applied sili success. Mr. Asbury d e t erm i ne d , on chloroform " e t purgatives. The first application was , on, thesecon' or d of tetanus, when sleep was procured for 18 minutes ; 7 4 third day it was applied twice, an d procure d sleep ''' 20 minutes each time. The chl oro f orm vapour was al applied to the wound, when, in t wo minutes,,the thu,sio (being stilt and extended) dropped i n t o th e pa l m o f tf 4 hand. The vapour was also applied t o bli s t ere d sur fs' on the back with equal success. Loss OF HER MAJESTY'S STEAM-FRIGATE AVENG ER' —This first-class war steam er , b u il t at D evonport in 17; of 1,440 tons and 600 ho rse power , h as b een t o wrecked. She left Gibraltar for Malta on the•leth De," and it is supposed must h ave f a ll en i n w ith a strong °"', rent (spoken to by other vessels) and gone full s peed 0 4 to the Sorelle rocks, near Galita Island, off th e regen e s of Tunis, and become a total wreck. It is said that tb i , loss of life consists of 270 persons, but this n um b e r, it, hoped, is exaggerated, as it seems inconsistent with tb complement generally on board a ship of similar Sii e , the Avenger. The only survivors (eight in numbers, et e l sisting of three of the officers and five seame n , reach Tunis in a boat in a state of great destit u ti on . I " c a steamers proceeded to the rocks to see if any assistan co uld be rendered, but no t races o f t h e wrec k were t,liet., discoverable, though th e s h ore was s t rewe d with n!1/40 ments of the vessel. Among the officers, were CaP', e C. E. Napier, Lieute na nts Kinsman, M arr y a tt, an d Fr e .7:, w cis Rooke ; Master W. Archer, Second M as t er W. Be t h; [Subsequent accounts state that the boat upset, and only one officer and three seamen reached the shore.) , • WHAT ONE MAN MAY no.—The Fife Herald contsi t , an interesting narrative of the reformation effectedin, ;o r Andrew's, within the last three or four yea rs , by 3 0 ,10 Playfair, the provost of the city. He was elected to office of chief magistrate in 1842, and instantly tool‘ hand the work of impr ovemen t. H e h as - amen ded t' e , pavement—enlarged and reformed the churchyard" -- „ l t y modelled the wells—induced landl or ds t o re b u ild_ rick houses—provided public rooms, readin g rooms, 1 0 , schools—corrected the morals of the vicious and the 'l O , temperate—and, in short, revolutionised St. Andrei ' linen he first took office he found every one of his o ' , , , o n ;heeded;*biat-sla ea rn it hopeless to try, for the town had n o f un d s. " But P o inhabitants have funds," said the majo r . A n d h e - set :"! work to raise voluntary supplies, himself setting a Jib e d example. By his energy and perseverance he infected e t classes with public spirit and liberality—funds were ne c o wanting—and, notwithstanding he had acts of parliatn e 4 , to back him, he overcame all obstacles. His dictioq;' like Napoleon's, contained not the word "impossible. I, THE MONEY MARKE T .—C onso l s have risen 1 per fin, this week, but the great es t a d vanc e was observable so s°' as it was ascertained th a t th e revenue returns did note A t e; hibit the enormous deficiency calculated upon. At 011 4 prices went up per cent., having previ ous ly gr achLP i , improved on small and continuous purchases, and 0 0 P ef day the advance was well sustained, consideri ng that 0 „ 1, all is said and done the Whig tables of finance ma ke bIA, sorry figure in these times of national distress. „ 10 ' hi g h es t q uotation attained on Th urs d ay was 861 to t 11; oconnssaVdoarythteheayccwoeurnet a; g o a n in F B ri ci da t y o tli . ey about,scilonsceedcash ac co co I modation has become so easy at the Stock Exchangel `',>l c hequer bills have acquired a premium of 17s. to 2 0 _ 1 : r al The bank returns for the week ending the first Janni establish a f avoura bl e compar i son w i th those previonfal published. The great feature of their contents is steady improvement in the stock of bullion, which 11 , 0 01 stands at £12.404,250, or £167,724 in excess of what what it last was. There has also been an increase o f notes issued of £121,745; an increase in the rest ir £21,214 ; while there has been a decrease in pnblie:o posits of £224,410; a decrease in seven days' and 0 "" o f bills of £1,83 4 , and a small decrease in Governal e securities. GIGANTIC RAILWAY GIR D E RS .—Withi n the last f lt . days some interest has been excited at Witham by t i - o f arrival of some extraordinary-sized cast-iron girders, d i 'two of the - bridges on the line. These girders, cast 0 Derby, are the largest single girders whi c h h av e ever beei, cast, with one exception ; they are 53 feet 4i- inches q ,, length, and weigh about 13 tons each. On the 25th w e the first of the gi r de r s was moved from th e With a m s ` e ii tion on two very strongly built stone-trucks, drawn bY, i e powerful horses. It was generally thought that the gir"o which was intended for one of the Langford bridges w°`l 4 l turn the corner in the centre of the town, and proe l , 4 along the Maiden-road ; but, owing to the inconvenie n of turning anything of so great a length in such a n arr9 part of the street, and the apprehensions which som e of the engineers appeared to entertain as to the strengt! l bt the iron bridge in the Maiden -road, it proceeded straigi o , down the town, and reached its place of destination 5 / 13 , On Tuesday another of the girders was removed f r ont o , s t a tion, and the engi neer d e t erm i ne d t o t ry the Mai'oe, road in preference t o th e c i rcu it ous rou t e b e f ore taavers,Bl and he succeeded in turning the corner, and passing ° I the iron bridge above referred to, amidst the gaze ° large concourse of persons who assembled to witness vi a and who added their further testimony to the well-ko ° skill of Mr. Jackson, the contractor, and his staff of e giaeers.—Essex Standard. „ z 9 1 COLDS, COUGHS, AND ASTHMAS EASl d L o Y ses Cu w it iu l t: : e nsure a cure. Invet eri' a t , HOLLOWAY'S PuLs.—Let no person suffering boil r c ai andntee d will as to be unable' to lie down in bed, without laying d asthma consider himself as past all • c f Ur freow e m , e t v h e e n d i l f e s s : fa t fees famed cme Iphlegmmedicine ec p fra r r o er d cyt uce a healthy action of poipi Iptsieesassilungs.oppression A proper cou'o of thi o s offf 'colds and coughs will soon yield to the like treatrag The testimony of the ReV• David Williams, Weslelo minister, at Beaum ar i s , is to this effe c t most astonish i See Advertisement. HYDE'S RAZOR STROP.—For years gone by the a- he st tion of multitud es of talen t has been directed to the " D O mode of giving a keen la sting !edge —to that most I' o ol instrument ---a razor. We h ave h a d a t h ousan d and 4 prescr iptions, and about a n equa l num b er of failures , e a , though some have aimed at and assisted in attaining 'llO cellence, few have yet attained - the - object. Amongetoei best we have seen is a qua d rang l e razor s h arpener , e ,fa the XL, which certainly excels anything we have P r 'ol ously tried On one side is a hone, the next i s eott i o with a coarse paste, a third with a finer, and the last sc , Qy a piece of fi ne l eat h er ; t h e consecu ti ve us i ng of 0,4,1 produces the a i me d a t perfection. It i s a nea t an d 110 able affair, and worthy the attention of those who eJi from strong beards, or ill-set implements for tb removal. , CULTIVATION OF THE BEAUTIFUL.—It nas been . 01 fashion with prudes and pedants, time immemorial, to t y down the advantages of external appearance—thug phrases " Outside show," and " Skin-deep beauty, , e tS obtained a sort of currency which gave them, and ot*Di of similar import, an appearance of grave authority. ce v present age is bold enough to quit this dictum, and e to to go as far as to extol the study of externals as a clau o ir society, which should have presented to it agreeable 0.1 jects, and now contends that the cultivation of the bed' tiful holds a place second in importance only to the p o i' motion of the good. This it is which holds out e nc ,,e ragement to those who labour to put the public inrcr, session of means to this end. Oldrid ge ' s B a l m ° f 1 .0 lumbia, as the most effective preservative or renoast ° 4o that most beautiful ornament the Human Hair, take be rank, and as long as its valuable properties continue t ° ,ol known and appreciated, must take the precedence of production intended for exterior improvement in o'V' rection. C. and A. OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF 0 LUMBIA causes the Hair to curl beautifully. flea from scurf, and stops it from falling off, and a few 10 4 /1 generally restore it again ; it also prevents greyne:lo 4 l 3s. -6d., 65., and 11s. per bottle. No othe r priee, h a'• genuine. Ask for OLDRIDGE'S BALM, 1, M i en - ble ton-street, Strand, London. Sold by all resew' Chemists, Perfumers, and Stationers. trouser• The Plymouth Journal relates a fact of a Mrs. North way, of the Queen's Head Inn, Tavistock, being awakened on the morning of Christmas-day by a dream that the house was on fire. After some persuasion her husband got up. and proceeding down stairs discovered a ser vant's bed on fire, which had caught from a candle, in a hark room ; a man was asleep in it. The timely presence of Mr. Northway prevented the fire getting the mastery, and, perhaps, the whole premises were thus saved. All the man's clothes were burnt. _ The subject of the duties on foreign copper and ore is likely to be again before the Legislature early in the ses- sion: The smelters are beginning to see that it is for the general interest that foreign copper as well as the ore should be admitted free of duty. All parties are much discouraged by the effect of this impolitic imposition ; and the Birmingham manufacturers should bestir themselves to get rid of a tax which, while it encourages foreign ma nufactures, directly hinder the export of our own, besides the Inca to the shipping interest in the declining freights. FREE TRADE.—Free trade was always paraded before the country as a great blessing, and we were told that when we got it bread was to be cheap, employment abun dant, trade brisk, commerce prosperous, and the only difficulty apprehended was that men would not know how to employ their spare cash. This was the promise—this was the bait held out to catch the gudgeons. The reali zation of the promise is written in two lines in the journal (the Times) which was foremost of all in the crusade against the industrial interests of England :—" Probably in no one year was there ever so GREAT an amount of domestic calamity pervading ALL classes of men:" THE DOUBLE SUICIDE IN MARYLEBONE.-Mr. WOE on Monday, held an inquest at the Fitzrny Arms, Clip=ton-street, on the bodies of Alexander Thomas Wil liams and Susanna his wife, the late proprietors of the Star Coffee-house, in Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-square. The facts of the case oppeared in our last publication, and after evidence had been taken, the jury found that "Alex ander Williams died by suicide, but that there was no evidence to show the state of his mind at the time—but that the wife in committing the act was in a state of de lirium, occasioned by the shock of seeing her husband hanging. The Lincolnshire Chronicle relate a curious dream con nected with the Kirton murder reported in our last. A person named Whelpton twice dreamt that Copeman (the murdered man) was killed in the place where he was attacked and murdered. On telling Copeman of it the first time he laughed at it. The second time the repe tition of the dream evidently affected the unfortunate gentleman, and he solemnly promised his kind monitor never to be again so late in returning home from Kirton as had been his practice. That promise he faithfully kept until the day when the dream was fulfilled, and he met with the awful fate with which the country is familiar. Among the usual Christmas pieces at the various places of amusement in London, the " Golden Branch " at the Lyceum bears the palm. It is put on the stage with all that resplendant scenery of fairy land, which has obtained for Madame Vestris so great a name as manager; and is worthy of the elegant house that is so tastefully decorated as to eclipse in splendour all its competitors, and make the Lyceum the drawing-room of theatres. The parodies on the popular airs of the day are admirably given—se veral of them by a debutante Miss Fitzwilliam—the fresh ness of whose voice and manner of singing is quite charm ing. The introduction of the favourite old air of " Cherry ripe," by Madame herself, is a resuscitation in admirable taste, and its nightly encore proclaims its popularity to be undiminished. A SEVERE DISAPPOINTMENT. — At the meeting of the British Association at Oxford, the geological section made an excursion. The natives of the explored region were very much at a loss to conjecture what it all meant. The vehicles, the number and sturdy appearance of some of the excursionists, and, so far as they could see, the absence of all motive for the gathering, puzzled the country people exceedingly. At last, when a party, who had formed a circle round Dr. Buckland to hear his ex planation of the conformation of the surrounding country, had broken up, and was leaving the ground, one wonder ing native was heard to remark to another, in a tone of severe illo.,knAtatsocutj ..T •ml.y , ;f it ar'nt all over. They've broke up the ring, and there arn'nt going to be no fight arter all." A "navvie " riot, of rather formidable character, has taken place at West Calder. The operations of the Cale donian Railway, in that neighbourhood, having been com pleted, an extensive discharge of workmen took place, but, before leaving, the Irish portion resolved on inflicting punishment on the English and Scotch labourers in the village. Accordingly the belligerents, to the number of between 300 and 400, entered West Calder and attacked the inhabitants indiscriminately, but the latter, accus tomed of late to guerilla warfare, confronted the invaders, and although with the aid of friendly " navvies," the de fensive was only half of the opposing force, the assailants were repelled, and retired with a view of returning to the charge at night, with a reinforcement of the undischarged, who would then be off work. But in the interim a de tachment of cavalry was procured from Edinburgh, and peace restored. ANTI-BEEF EATING —Among the follies which came in with 1847, and will we suspect, go out before the year 1848:is much older, was the establishment of a " Vegetarian Society ;" that is, an Association of persons determined to live upon vegetables ! Franklin tried this plan, but the smell of some delicious fish put to flight his resolve and showed him the absurdity of the plan. At the head of this strange movement is Mr. Brotherton, the member of Parliament, who has " vegetated" for eighteen years, and the poorness of whose diet may account for the meagreness and mistaken nature of his political ideas. If that gentleman had been acquainted with physiology he would have known that man was intended by his Maker for a carnivorous as well as gramnivorous animal. The construction of his teeth shows this, and if he had been adapted to live upon vegetables, he would, like the ruminating animals, have been supplied with three stomachs instead of one. Not, however, to proceed on this point, we would ask Mr. Brotherton how, the roast beef of England being banished, he can expect a cabbage fed population to stand against the French who are com ing over in such numbers to attack us ? ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.---One of those extraordi nary events which now and then occur, as if to exemplify the adage of truth being stronger than fiction, has this week taken place at Gravesend, the facts, as communi cated to us by a private correspondent, being as follows. On Monday, an old " man-of-wars' man," the boatswain of a yacht belonging to a gentleman, who was about to sail for the Mediterranean, having obtained a brief leave of absence, went up to London in one of the steamers which ply la and fro, for the purpose of transacting some private bu-Wess. In the boat he met with a young man, a servant to one of the officers at Tilbury fort, whom he had never seen before, but he did not then take much notice of his fellow-passenger. Upon returning the next day, however, he found the same man on board, and " Jack," having scraped acquaintance, they entered into conversation. The officer's servant soon became exceed ingly communicative, observing, amongst other matters, that he was to start for China in ten days, and that he had been to town to see a lawyer respecting some leases of property to which he believed he was heir • but, upon referring to the will, it had been discovered that he was only to inherit the property in the event of an uncle, sup posed to be drowned some years since, not coming for ward to claim it. The name of Lord Glanville being mentioned, the sailor observed, " Why, messmate, I have heard and know that name well." Mutual explanations took place, when it turned out that the bo a t swa in was the very missing uncle, and will now inherit the property, worth in all about £5OOO. Notwithstanding this unex pected acquisition to his fortune, the son of Neptune, ' tar-like, seems inclined to stick to the ship of which he is now the boatswain, observing that " shiver his tim bers" if he cares about the money, he'd just as soon sail round the world with his new master. JESUITISM AND THE CONFESSIONAL. —It has some times been urged in favour of auricular confession that it tends to keep people honest, and in numerous cases has secured the return of stolen property. That there are so many persons of predatory habits belonging to that system, rather tends to cast discredit on the general view of the case, and we much fear that only a part of what is pilfered by Romanists is returned under ghostly auspices. We had some few years back a good deal to say on this point, and do nothere enter into • of " Popery as it was, and as' it is , " ful in devices, has account its reputation the argument. But Popery, turned to good for causing robbers to disgorge their prey. Some curious fruit disclosures of this kind are to be found in a work entitled no further explanation " Auricular Confession," tke , by William Hoggan, author aofrtereformerly a Ro man Catholic priest. Mr. Hoggan states that some Jesuits, call upon the head of the family, and hand either the lady gentleman scertain s i o n : some eocnirecy7gisvtainngce of Protestant families, at the time. It is further made to appear that the party was robbed of this money. and that it was restored by means of the confessional. The ci-devant Jesuit then describes as the result of this artifice, that " the husband tells his wife to throw no obstacles in the way of her do mestics going to confession. . . . . . He calls upon the Jesuit priest ; touches his hat for him should he meet him in the street ; tells him he would be happy to see him at his house; and thus, by this tedious, though sure process, ith l‘ does a revere n d J esu i t pr i est ga i n hi s en d." With r. Hoggan such plots were not matter of testimony b u t o f personal exp er i ence, an d h e very can didl y con fesses, ." At the pres en t time when the emissaries of are so acti ve an d i n d e f a ti ga bl e , a t r i c k like that deservesPPoltplEers `OFTEN HAVE I DONE THIS WHILE A R OMAN PRIEST. exposure. The cret of the Romanists is all but infinite, and it ought to be carefully guarded against, especially by those weak in faith—wavering in mind—or ill informed as to the nature of the religion of which they are nominally professors. pau1t...... I The F. 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