The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-11 00:00:00

FOREFGN er COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. BARIA..-13y 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 British manufactures, while that for sugar was increasing, good quality-of new Muscovado finding ready purchasers at 1,800 rein, and whites, at 2,400 reis per arroba, or I6s. 6d. to 21s. 12d. per cwt., on board. The stock in the Trapixes are equal to about 5,000 cases. Freights were looking up, and exchange was firm at 27d. BUENOS AYRES AND MONTE VIDEO.— , On Saturday, we were put 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 ing place in the transhipment of goods to Buenos Ayres, Rosas having issued an edict, closing that port against vessels from Mondeo, on and after the Ist of December, and only admitting foreign vessels direct from their port of loading, but the ingress of these latter vessels would be refused by the French blockading squadron. UNITED STATES.—The New York papers to the 19th tilt. have been received by the packet-ship Zurich, which arrived at Havre on Tuesday at noon. The commercial news is not of much importance ; no fresh failures had oc curred, and business generally was dull and stagnant. In the money market no great disposition to operate was ;tested, news 6- - tti Liverpool stew-- =am llibernia, dm .rom England by ..at, Boston on the 16th, being looked for with She had not arrived at Boston on the 16th -past 8, p.m. United States treasury 091. some anxiety of December, at half notes were dull essed, on the last Sab- bath-day, the secession from the Church of Rome of titty eight intelligent Roman Catholics. The third Presby terian Church (Dr. Brinsmade's), Newark, NJ., was crowded to its utmost capacity by a vast congregation as- well calculated to make a de Observer. A ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP PREACHING BEFORE Till AMERICAN CONGRESS !—The Washington papers, ,re• p impression.—Ae .nber, the Right Rev. Dr. Hughes, tin man Catholic bishop of ew York, preached before both Houses of the American Congress, by special invitation. The subject of his discourse was Christianity, as the true regenerator of man, in his moral, political, and social capacity. The discourse itself was delivered in the Hall of the House of Rearesentatives, and was pronounced by what Jonathan would call a the 12th of Di kL.-Ti of the cortes was opened on LI speech. This document con- the 2nd inst . tains little es the insig lificant phrases which form the main staple of speecnes worn tne Lnrun. luding to the convention signed with the English, Spanish, and French governments, for the purpose of terminating the civil law, the queen announces that a proper account of the extraordinary measures adopted by tl ministries will be laid before the cortes ; them on the termination of the late disorc , y expressing the hope that peace, ord congratulates the Portuguese, Utrecht was destroyed by fire on .ess Ad elaid ster to the nated at 6,000,000 francs Lon of the New Year, ppointed in 1 - • • many persons reward for services rendered during - the cholera in Bel gium. On the arrival of More O'Ferrall at Malta, he (a Cant Queen,) t. John, wher cession, bearin A sentences a munication has just been publishes tkuban against the Abbe Bruitte Protest, who, ht to the bos, Yesterday was th of the cou A, do not hasten tc Catholic Church.—Galignani their f VD FASHION ,d fixed upon for the d( Castle to Claiemont of Cambridg Prince George accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, and attended by the Lady in Waiting of the Duchess of Cambridge, and Mr. Edmund Mildmay, have been on a visit to 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 son 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 ,owbricb AN AN lordshi has extensive estates cess Helena was born, it is said t on hearing tha t she was nov hat the a another " Oh. how delighted I am ! do let me go and fell mamma !" THE QUEEN BITTEN BY A DOG.—Some 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 nri,7.l.- i..ennei at - tv:uo,,ior, it bit her in the right arm, causing the blood to flow. Since then, toe animal, which has always evinced a ferociois disposition, has been kept in confinement at the Zoological uarciens. 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-up at home." The 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 requiting 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 :—.1.:93,095 for the conveyance of passengers onl , £44,604 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £41,213 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- of the day, sits in his cottage, surrounded by his family, ing circumstances, it is difficult to make a just or perfectly and at his own hearth—his nephew, a boy, seated at one satisfactory comparison between the traffic of the years side of him—his niece, a girl of early age, at the other—his 1846 and 1847. The mere comparison of the totals is fal- children in the room—his wife, their mother, occupied in lacious. The mileage has increased 25 per cent., the re- a little office of motherly attention, washing the feet of ceipt only 16 on the whole of the railways. It is not to one of those infants preparatory to putting the children be expected that many miles which were opened towards to bed. That man is sitting in his chair in that scene of the very end of the year should instantly be very pro- bliss, when you enter the dwelling-house with a blunder ductive. Still the prospect appears satisfactory, and par- buss charged with eleven balls—you approach him—you ticularly so in those cases where a true parallel can be place it within a few inches of his back, and, in the pre made. We will not pretend to estimate what precise sence of his wife and children, you shoot him dead ! You effect the times may have had, although it is obviously a saw before you, for he saw you, the boy, who looked up, most influential circumstance — more or less affecting all saw you, and identified you ; that boy was in the direction lines. To be able to form a perfectly just estimate, it is where you were firing ; and you incurred the risk, of a obvious that the amount of mileage ought to be the same double mu r d er , an d nea rly perpetrated the two, for some in both years. But this happens to be the case in only of the balls that perforated the body of your victim, one or two instances of the more important railways : reached the boy and inflicted wounds upon him. Is it in the Dublin and Kingstown, in the Lancashire and possible to conceive an assemblage of circumstances unit- Yorkshire, and . the Man c h es t er , Sh e ffi e ld, and Lincoln- ing in themsel ves so muc h t h e c h arac t er o f th a t h orror shire, On the first-named line, the in c rease is 6 per cent. ; i which belongs to the crime of murder, as those ?" on the second, 2 per cent. ; whilst on the Manchester, A WELL-TIMED REPROOF.—The Earl of Shrewsbury, a Sheffield, and Lincolnshire it is as much as 17 per cent. ; Roman Catholic peer, has addressed a letter to Dr. a fact of peculiar congratulation to the shareholders. M`liale on the recent Irish outrages. Lord Shrewsbury Next in the category of good results stands the Newcastle insists on reminding the archbishop of his duty, and urges and Carlisle : the mileage increase has been 8 per cent., for a satisfactory explanation of his conduct, because "it traffic 13 per cent. In the So u th - Eastern the mileage is currently reported , and readily believed, that in what has increased 13, the receipts 17 ; Midland, mileage in- concerns religion, your grace's diocese is in a state of pe crease 16, traffic 15 ; Eastern Counties, mileage 25, traffic culiar destitution ; that you have ever debarred your poor 29 ; Glasgow. Paisley, and Ayr, mileage 21, traffic 16 ; f rom t h e b ene fit s o f e ducation under the national system, Norfolk, mileage 38, traffic 33 ; Dublin and Drogheda, without any efficient substitute of your own—that you mileage 9, traffic 6 ; York and Newcastle, mileage 60, ha ve never a d m i tte d F a ther Mathew withip your limits— traffic 40; York and North Midland, mileage 42, traffic and that too many of your parishes are without a school, 24; London and North-Western, mileage 13, traffic 7; and some of them without a chapel, though the repeal London and South Coast. mileage 36, traffic 16 ; London i rent is regularly levied, and ungrudgingly paid." With and South-Western, mileae 75, traffic 20; Great Wes- regard to Dr. M'llale's assertions that there have been no tern, mileage 12, traffic 3; 'Edinburgh and Glasgow, mile- t crimes, but deeds of retaliation ; no murders, no assassin pge 15, traffic 3.—Railicay Chronicle, ations, no robbery, do pillage, no injustice, no cruelty, no will henceforth new year - s ev The fortune of the la Al the royal lev CO UII7 on the oec wore. the medals IRELAND, A farmer at Omagh and his sister have been committed for trial for manufacturing threatening letters. FALL OF BUILDING PROPERTY.—We know a concern in this city that paid £3,000 a year, which is now rented without a fine ar.£lso.—Limerick Chronicle_ At the Limerick Special Commission, on Thursday, a man, named Frewen, was sentenced to transportation for life for concealing the man Ryan, who, as will be seen, has been convicted of murder. . Sir George Grey has issued a circular to all the magis tracy of Ireland, directing their attention to the propriety of arresting and strictly examining all vagrants and sus picious-looking strangers. Some of the lieutenants of counties have anticipated the wishes of the-government. The diminished . planting of potatoes has caused a serious depreciation of manure in some localities. , In Limerick the authorities heretofore received a handsome sum for the sweepings of the streets, but now they have to pay for their removal. . The Roman Catholic inhabitants of Strokestown have signed a document 'declaring that they have been in the habit of attending the Chapel there every Sunday and holVay, and that they never heard Major Mahon de nounced by the Rev. MT. M`Dermott. A farmer, named -Brown, was brutally murdered at Ballymore, county Tipperary, on Wednesday morning. - . . . .. . The causes assigned are, that some few months ago Brown 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 the Tractarians, them good Roman Catholics. If Rome would take the trouble to reform Ireland :on Romish principles, a great good would be achieved." Will any one deny after this and Popery. FEARFUL .ATTEMPT.—A •diabolical attempt was made to inveigle John Congreve, Esq. of Mount Congreve, county Waterford, into a well-laid snare, for the purpose of miirdprimy him_ We nre in nossession of the facts, but inquiry is being made by the local authorities —Dublin The Tyrone Constitution reports the arrest of Mr. John Buchanan, of Straghroy, and his sister, for manu facturing threatening letters. The investigation which took place but - too clearly proved the charge. John Mar shall, Mr. Buchanan's servant, has been held to bail, rged v The name of a respect THE VOLUNTARY (?) SYSTEM able Roman Catholic inhabitant of Nenagh was on Sun day nosted on the Nenagh Conciliation-hall, and directly opposite the chapel gate, in , quenee of the sma o#' his donation On gUnday last to the P.P. of the town. The sum given was attached to the foot of this species of altar denunciation by shoemaker's wax.-2Venagh Guar- The Newry Examiner mentions that on Friday week schooner Hetty Clifton, lying in that harbour. was ated for the purpose of destroying vermin, and were provided ashore for the crew. Two of the _amen, however, got drunk, forgot that they were not to sleep on board, and went to pass the night in the fore- Castle. where they were found suffbcated on the following 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 custodv'of James Malone, 49, one of the Detective Force, charged with having an intention of committing a breach 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. AV Hale, with horn must now Slattery, the Roman Catholi 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 _ 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. MELANCUOLY 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— . there is nothing but badness going in these bear it, for it is sure c 3e man that pays ais rent is an innemy to the country here is nothing of the youngsters, besides every kind of divilment, with 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. shockinelv Rap i m arave. ments. Its no less than what business has the blackgard to be quicking ditches, and making dranes." TERRIBLE RETRIBUTION.—The affairs of I "land -rem nave 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, th er efore, in Ireland the great 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 ccmmission for the county of Limerick was opened at Limerick, on Tuesday, when Chief Justice Blackburne 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 . . 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 devoted to `the state' of your-unhappy country, without one of them being able to claim the extenuating excuse ofheing stimu lated by the cruel process of eviction. No ! they are all —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, Ribbonism, and so forth — all members of one great conspiracy against property — 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, while. 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 heen called " the oppressors of the poor," and 6' 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 sons interested in the repression of crime, and the-pre servation of the social system against that destruction 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 scandal to religion, as well as ruin to the state." 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. 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 of the Training College at Chester, and of another for fe males at Warrington. _ _ . THE SEE OFMEREFORD.—The confirmation of the Rev. Dr. Hampden, as Bishop of Hereford, will take place at Bow Church, Cheapside, this day (Tuesday). The annua ue of t Le see is £4,200 per annum, wit the patronage of the arc eaconries, treasurers aips, non- resident canonries, ark )enefices. The Cambridge Advertiser' , which has hitherto strongly opposed the appointment of Dr. Hampden, says,—" We are 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.—There 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.—On the last day of the The service began at 'salm was then sung, ministered to more ien preached by the twelve o'clocek at night. The 100th than 21 persons sermon was t ksoti, on the duties of the new year. The service was not over till two o'clock in the morning. The congregation was of the working classes, many of them had been Methodists. The per mission of the ordinary for this new exhibition had been obtained. Incum Thivtn 4 ‘a . -r t.--- 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." _ _ that I shall have the help and comfort of your prayers in my behalf. For these, especially, 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 <eeed 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 fold of one great Shepherd, Jesus Christ. our Lord." R.= . (Enteral AraOttllanp. The Peterborough theatre is about to be converted into a commodious market for merchants, millers, &c. The name of Lord 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 roof and the tower have been destroyed. WHAT IsTsxr !—The Exeter Gazette states that on Thursday a " soiree de,Feargus O'Connor" was given at the 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 continu•• ing them for the future. _ The Exeter Gazette excuses itself from ; publishing Gen. Poik'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 gans 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 duction in 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 _ eating drink !—ten times the usual amount of the English poor-rates !—more, by £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 'WilKinion affair. THE EPIDEMIC.—Our obituary again comprises nume rous aged persons, viz.-3 between 90 and 100 years of age ; Zbetween 80 and 90 ; 6 between 70 and SO; 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. V ''.bratee it. - fisl-* -r. Wesley, the ceie,,_ organist, was dung the week before last at the preserves of Lord Feversham, at Hemsley, when ;he 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 maptLentirerlv bv_the.working men of Birmingham, have pr e sentea tne magnincent sum of .ZU24 Ins. ua. as a ileW year's offering towards the funcis of the Queen's Hospital in that town. The medical and surgical officers have also paid over the sum of £2.12, 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 at £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 lie 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 he 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. 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 preemunire. 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. English chapel in Perth, served by a clergyman in Eng lish 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 proscribed, 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 endeavoured, 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 saying doctrines of the Gospel —if this alone shall be chicly 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, thongh absent in person, I shall not cease to be with you in spirit. Often shall I be 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 I be praying for you. Nor cau I doubt 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 ether lots of flour. 'By this accident three families were poisoned, 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 with this event. His son (an officer of the 59th). who was 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, charged with his bayonet, in flicting a serious wound on Mr. Peebles' neck. Too TRUE A THoucirr.—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 4 ` thought" struck 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 bis farm, however, he found that his house had been entered, and stripped of a variety of articles, including the new trousers. _ _ _ _ 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 back 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 loss to the shipping interest in the declining freights. FREE TRAnE.- 7 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 teas there ever SO GREAT an amount of domestic calamity pervading ALL classes o/ men," THE DOUBLE SUICIDE IN MARYLEBONE.—Mr. Wak ley, on Monday, held an inquest at the Fitzrny Arms, Clipston-street, on the bodies of Alexander Thomas Wil .. Susanna proprie 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 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 pronSised his kind monitor never to be again so late in returning home from Kirton as had been his practice. That promise lie faithfully kept le met until the day when the dream was fulfilled, am 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 pipular 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 fast, 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 disappointment, " I say, Roger, why, dang me, if it ar'nt all over. They've broke up the ring, and there arn'nt going to be no fight arter all." tad.n " iiiree i rtt ' ANt t 6a i lag h . f " . Tte - OV; l allont aIV 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 " vegetited" 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 grarnnivorous 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, ho was about to having obtained a brief leave wentu up Mediterranean, to London in one of the steamers w hich ply to and fro, for the purpose of transacting some private business. 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 sail of for absence, the 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, " Whv, messmate, I have heard and know that name well." Aintual explanations took place, when it turned out that the boatswain was the very missing uncle, and will now inherit the property, , worth in all about £5OOO. Notwithstanding this unex- I petted acquisition to his fortune, the son of Neptune, ‘ 1 tar-like," seems inclined to stick to the ship of which . . _ . - --- . Mills held an inquest at Marylebone on Louis aiittridge, he is now the boatswain, observing that " shiver his tim aged 79, and Louisa, his wife, aged 78. The deceased bers" if he cares about the money, he'd just as soon sail were paupers, in the receipt of ss. a week from the parish. round the world with his new master. The wife died suddenly, and her death so afflicted her JESUITISM AND THE CONFESSIONAL.—It has some husband, to whom she had been fifty years married, that times been urged he declared he could not survive her. As he was not seen in favour of auricular confession that it tends to keep people honest, and in numerous cases has to leave the room, the neighbours became alarmed for his I secured the return of stolen property. That there are so safety, and entered his apartment, when they beheld him many persons of predatory habits belonging to that system, suspended by the neck from the post of the bed upon rather tends to cast discredit on the general view of the which the body of his ancient partner lay. case, and we much fe ar th a t only a part of what is pilfere d Three men and a boy have perished at the mouth of by Romanists is returned under ghostly auspices. We the Tay, through being too much alarmed for their safety. had some few years back a good deal to say on this point, They formed the crew of the bark favourite, which had and do nothere enter into the argument. But Popery, fruit left Dundee a few days before ; as they lay at anchor , the ful in devices, has turned to good account its reputation breakers set strongly against the vessel ; the crew took for causing robbers to disgorge their prey. Some curious fright an d got i nto a b oat ; the mas t er o f the vessel, Court, disclosures of this kind are to be found in a work entitled said he would not leave her. In a few moments he saw " Auricular Confession," &c., by William Hoggan, author all his crew perish, by the capsizing of the boat, while he of " Popery as it was, and as it is," formerly a Rom an could'render no assistance. When the tide set in, Court, Catholic priest. Mr. Hoggan states that some Jesuits, single-handed, manage d t o g et the vessel into the river, after ascertaining the circumstance of Protestant families, and eventually obtained assistance to take her to Dumdee. call upon the head of the family, and hand either the lady GAOL FEVER.—It is impossible now to ascertain the or gentleman some money, giving no further explanation extent to which the gaol. distemper prevailed among u s at the time. It is further made to appear that the party d th u a ri t n , g ev t e h n e i l n as h t ea ce l n th tu y ry y . ear 1- 5 1 , owara's estimate of as many was robbed of this money , and that it was restored by deaths as happe ne d u nder the noose of the executioner is, means of the confessional. The ei-derant Jesuit then doubtless, mu c h b e l o w the mark ; but it is well for us describes as the result of this artifice, that " the husband 16,000 lives are sacrificed to tells his wife to throw no obstacles in the way of her do typhus fever in England and Wales alone, in addition to mestics going to confession. . . . . . He calls upon some 200,000 or so prostrated on loathsome beds of sick- the Jesuit priest; touches his hat for him should he meet ness ; it is well for us that the reports of the poor-law him in the street ; tells him he would be happy to see commission have revealed the orphanage and widowhood hirmastsh, doeshouse;isareverend an d thus, Jesuit by thispriest pteeislt gain histhoughious, d., e n sure , it occasions, and the intolerable fever-tax that it leviesl process, upon us ; it is well for us, that what cannot be brought With Mr. Hoggan such plots were not matter of testimony about by an appeal to feelings or conscience, may yet oe but of personal experience, and he very candidly con accomplished by arguments addressed to our selfishness. fesses, 66 OFTEN DAVE I DONE THIS WHILE A ROMAN " The feve r -t ax i s th e heaviest of our burdens," is our PRIEST." At the present time when the emissaries of appeal to the rate-Payer. "Typhus-fever is the Most Popery are so active and indefatigable, a trick like that atrocious of our manifold cruelties," is ou r ar gument with deserves exposure. The craft of the Romanists is all but the philanth ro pi s t. '! Health ig the poor man's pro perty," infinite, and it ought to be carefully guarded against, is our remonst ran ce with the government. " Prevention es p eciall y by th o se w eak in f aith—waverin g in mind—or is the spirit o f a l msg iving," is our humble suggestion to lill informed as to the nature of the religion of which they the clergy.—Frafer's Mapa:ine. . are nominally professors. DECAY OF LITERATURE.—Among other causes of regret at the condition of our native country is the decaY of those commercially-engaged in the pursuits of respect able literature. In the list of bankrupts from November 6, 1846, to Nov. 2, 1847, there were 17 booksellers ; . r.T bookbinders ; 3 newspaper proprietors ; 2 newsvenders 7 pap Pr-makers ; 5 print and music sellers ; 15 printers and publishers ; and 10 stationers. To these we may add' 2 booksellers in the last Gazette, and the highly respect able house of Curry and üblin, which has had $ docket struck against it. Co., Why do we, enter into this enumeration ? Not with any feeling of satisfaction as suredly, but to show how, with the betrayal of good prin ciples, the nation has retrograded in all respects, for it is a fact that with the decline of useful literature has in creased the circulation of cheap pernicious and infidel publicationsiamong the masses of the people.—Hereford Journal. AGGRAVATED CASE OF ROBBERY.—In a lane leading from Wisbeach to Peterborough, near to Thorney toll bar, in Wisbeach Fen, there is situated a retail beer-house, the sign of Speed the Plough, occupied by William Foster and his aged partner, and this house was early on the morning of Sunday last the scene of a daring robber/. About two o'clock on that morning, the inmates were aroused by a loud knocking at the door. Thinking it was a neighbour, the old man descended by the l a dd er f rom s trap-door in the floor of the bed-chamber, and on his opening the door, three excavators rushed in,• and im mediately commenced an attack on Foster, forcing hint up into the chamber. where they secured the aged couple by tying them to the bedstead with ropes. After securing the trap-door above alluded to, the thieves ransacked the premises, taking possession of £7, a silver watch, and s large hoard of farthings. The villains then regaled them selves with the viands in the house, and then decamped. Leeds Mercury. Mr. SAMUEL WARREN AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT:" We learn from a letter addressed to the 'editor of the Times, inserted on Monday last, that the distinguished author and barrister, Mr. Samuel Warren, is opposed to the abolition of capital punishment. He says—“ Th e re is no stronger opponent in the kingdom than I am of Of abolition of capital punishment in cases of murder; and while endeavouring in the work referred to (but only as a minor object) to illustrate the glorious contrast between our criminal law of now and then, I endeavoured studi ously to guard myself against being misunderstood upon topic of such gravity as that which has called forth this letter. I have long doubted, indeed, whether the aboli tion of capital punishment has not been already carried to a great extent. I concur, in short, in the opinions upon this subject which have been from time to time so power fully urged in the Times, and should deeply regret being suspected of countenancing, for one moment, notions based upon unsound principles of legislation and spurious philanthropy." - APPLICATION OF CHLOROFORM IN TETANUS.-A man servant in the household of Lady Dorothy Elizabeth Palk, the rectory. Enfield, cut off the tip of his thumb. In 10 days trismus (locked jaw) came on, attended with diffi culty of swallowing, resembling hydrophobia; in three days more tetanus set in, affecting all the muscles of the body with painful spasmodic cortractions and extreme rigidity, the head, neck, and lower extremities being bent backwards. in this case Mr. Asbury, her ladyship's me dical attendant, saw that death must take place in a fey( hours, unless some powerful remedy were applied w ith success. Mr. Asbury determined on chloroform, with purgatives. The first application was on the second dal of tetanus, when sleep was procured for 18 minutes ; the third day it was applied twice, mid procured sleep for 20 minutes each time. The chloroform vapour was a lso applied to the wound, when, in two minutes, the thumb (being stiff and extended) dropped into the palm of the hand, The vapour was also applied to blistered surfaces' on the hack with equal success. Loss OF HER IVIAJESTY'S STEAM -FRIGATE AVENGER. —This first-class war steamer, built at Devonport in 1845, of 1.440 tons and 600 horse power, has been totallf wrecked. She left Gibraltar for Malta on the 19th Dec., and it is supposed must have fallen in with a strong cur rent (spoken to by other vessels) and gone full speed on to the Sorelle rocks, near Gallia Island, off the regenci of Tunis, and become a total wreck. It is said that the loss of life consists of 270 persons, but this number, it is hoped, is exaggerated, as it seems inconsistent with the complement generally on board a ship of similar si z e to the Avenger. The only survivors (eight in number), con sisting of three of the officers and five seamen, reached Tunis in a boat in a state of great destitution. Two" steamers proceeded to the rocks to see if any assistance could be rendered, but no traces of the wreck were there discoverable though the shore was strewe d w i t h frag ments of the vessel. Among the officers, were Captain C. E. Napier, Lieutenants Kinsman, Marryatt, and Fran cis Rooke ; Master W. Archer, Second Master W. B e tts. [Subsequent accounts state that the boat upset, and that only one officer and three seamen reached the shore.] WHAT ONE MAN MAY DO.—The Fife Herald contains an interesting narrative of the reformation effected in St. Andrew's, within the last three or four years, by Major Playfair, the provost of the city. He was elected to the office of chief magistrate in 1842, and instantly took ie hand the work of improvement. He has amended the pavement—enlarged and reformed the churchyard—re modelled the wells—induced landlords to rebuild ticket,' houses—provided public rooms, reading rooms, and schools—corrected the morals of the vicious and the temperate—and, in short, revolutionised St. Andrew's. When he first took office he found every one of his owe opinion that improvement was needed, but all said it was hopeless to try, for the town had no funds. " But the n a u bi .f t n a:t . f ,,, l e l . a v ti r S u fl i. l .‘t ri n d r s ; : xp sa p id lie t!i .. e h n im iatr ii. ise A tt u i d ng h t e t: mte set r t e, O c example. By his energy and perseverance lie infected all classes with public spirit and liberality—funds were never wanting—and, notwithstanding he had acts of parliament to back him, he overcame all obstacles. His dictionary , like Napoleon's, contained not the word " impossible." THE MONEY MAnKET.--Consols have risen 1 per cent. this week, but the greatestadvance was observable a s o s a ; as it was ascertained that the revenuereturnsdi g d r not hibit the enormous deficiency cal cu l a t e d upon. At onci prices went up per cent., h av i ng previously du e 1l improved on small and continuous purchases, and on Fri day the advance was well sustained, considering that after all is said and done the Whig tables of finance make b u t S sorry figure in these times of national distress. The highest quotation attained on Thursday was 861 to I for consols for the account; on Friday they closed about 861; on Saturday they were again 861 to s , Since cash accom modation has become so easy at the Stock Exchange, ex chequer bank k billsacquired retur h e a s ve ferthek we eaprem ending h premium tofe first l7s. January establish T:y establish a favourable compariSon with those previously published. The great feature of their contents is the steady improvement in the stock of bullion, which not stands at £ 1 2.404,250, or £167,724 in excess of what it what it last was. There has also been an increase ie notes issued of £121,745; an increase in the rest of £21,214; while there has been a decrease in public de posits of £224,410 ; a decrease in seven days' and o ther bills of £1,834, and a small decrease in Government securities. • GIGANTIC RAILWAY GIRDERS.-Within the last fe( days some interest has been excited at Witham by the arrival of some extraordinary-sized cast-iron girders, for two of the bridges on the line. These girders, cast at Derby, are the largest single girders which have ever been cast, with one exception; they are 53 feet 44 inches in length, and weigh about 13. tons each. On the 25th,ult., the first of the girders was moved from the WithaM sta tion on two very strongly built stone-trucks, drawn by 19 powerful horses. It was generally thought that the girder which was intended for one of the Langford bridges would turn the corner in the centre of the town, and proceed along the Maiden-road; but, owing to the inconvenience of turning anything of so great a length in such a narrol, part of the street, and the apprehensions which some of the engineers appeared to entertain as to the strength of the iron bridge in the Maiden-road, it proceeded straight down the town, and reached its place of destination safe , On Tuesday another of the girders was removed from the station, and the engineer determined to try the Maiden road in preference to the circuitous route before traversed , and he succeeded in turning the corner, and passing over the iron bridge above referred to, amidst the gaze of 0 large concourse of persons who assembled to witness it , and who added their further testimony to the well-know o skill of Mr. Jackson, the contractor, and his staff of ell:, gin eers.--Essex Standard. • COLDS; COUGHS, AND ASTHMAS EASILY CURED el f HOLLOWAY'S Pmts.—Let no person suffering frott; asthma consider himself as past all cure, .Jj so bad as to be unable to lie down in be out trying the effect of these celebrated pills, a few doses will sow; carry off the phlegm and o ssion from he chest, ono produce a healthy actio - lie lungs. A - proper course yield to the like treatment. of this famed med . ' e will ensure a cure. mode a giving Inveterate colds and cough i I soon The testimo of the Rev. David Williams, Wesleyan minister eaumaris, is to this effect most astonishing' a keen lasting (edge —to that most wefts' See Advertisement. HYDE'S RAZOR Rrnoio.—For years gone by the rtieot tion of multitudes of talent has been directed to the bet, instrument razor. We have had a thousand and oie. prescr iptions, and about an equal num b er o f f a il ures , atle though some have aimed at and assisted in attaining elv cellence, few have yet attained the object. Amongst tbe, b es t we have seen is a qua d rang l e razor sharpener, called the XL, which certainly excels anything we have previ: ously tried On one side is a hone, the next is coated with a coarse paste, a third with a finer, and the last witb a piece of fine l ea th er; th e consecu ti ve us i ng o f which' produces the aimed at perfection. It is a neat and port' able affair, and worthy the attention of those who suffer from strong beards, or ill-set implements for theft removal. CULTIVATION OF THE BEAUTIFUL.—It has been Os fashion with prudes and pedants, time immemorial, to rufr down the advantages of external appearance—thus the, phrases " Outside show," and " Skin-deep beauty," ha ' obtained a sort of currency which gave them, and °the!' of similar import, an appearance of grave authority. TV present age is bold enough to quit this dictu ud eve"' to go as far as to extol the study of e a s as a duty to society, which should have prese to it agreeable ob' jects, and now contends that t . cultivation of the beau' ifful holds a place second i. portance only to the pro' motion of the good. T.'. it is which holds out encow ragement to those w s.. abour to put the public in pos' session of means t. its end. Oldridge's Balm of CO', lumbia, as the m• . effective preservative or renov a t or o f that most bea 1 ornament the Human Hair, takes firf rank, and a- . ng as its valuable properties continue to V known an. appreciated, must take the precedence of evert produc • .n intended for exterior improvement in this di^ rection. C. and A. OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF CO: LUMBIA causes the Hair to curl beautifully, frees iti from scurf, and stops it from falling off, and a few bottles ton-street, Perfumers,Strand, London. anti genera lly restore it again; it al so preven ts greyness.--"3s. Gd., Gs., and lls. per bottle. No other prices are genuine. Ask for OLDRIDGE'S BALM, 1, W e lling; thld by all respeetabi Chemists, Stationers, The S on Satin The s demned muted tc Mr. G tracted c and has Co u coin are which ar unless b' On Si yard of Glasgom the City Since omnibus outskirts become The 1 York on in sovel Zurich A cha entered candles Sharp, of harm Short) verpool secretly conceaie sage, at Gino yielding the ten :prices a reach of LAur the buil schoone Dawson from tt barges, On S to St. S sented t token o dress, e uniform THE the fift! was givo ladies a the first M.P., Esq., Ad . ROYA Mr. Col audien. since Cl enthusil characti Astley': spared, ensure S CARE steam-t merehai Mounts William taineer, Liverpc speedy the trac long sei turd] Hodder tistics ( amount (1857) during States, colonieE Austral increas( DitE the four a young at wort the sha the unf ling spE the leg Some t sive he Nortiie THE day the took p 1 longing the for Seacon part of curred which her sta the afb Enu ing wa pose of of Mar ply to has lat tendar length of the the MI langua and fn Ho` four Tuesdl old, t found arising overlai old, lat left i❑ caught suited one of which LAt Saturd launch Birker went, and H launch Carnbi in lens 15 feet same 1 specie on a vi vessel only a with c( the sal the shi Green port, liabilit upon 1,5501 force Liam 11 of it. half_ p ; of Mr. neares openir. diatel3 Water- West grouni the ro The t raisin! lessly Were I fully i: thfi k N, Fire A Offi ce; total .1 X 4,001 article numb exists consid hinr, ness 3 uPpe] three 'Undo ful let for fo benefi deartil can al and sc shall ( large y When Will IN We lee a large humid only p to wat not, a fIY THE LITKIPOOL STANDAAD. Jan. 11,1848. Jai