The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-06 00:00:00

THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the LIVERPOOL ACADEMY of WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS IS NOW OPEN, in POSTOPV ICE- PLAC/1. , Open from Nine in the Morning until Dusk. Also, every Evening, brilliantly illuminated by GAS, from Seven till Ten o'Clock. Admittance, One Shilling; Season Ticket, - Five Shillings; Catalogue, One Shilling. SAML. EGLINGTON, Secretory to the Academy. Exhibition Rooms, Postlgice-placr, 1, th Sept., 1838 LIVERPOOL EXEIIBITION. fIIEIE Friends to the Fine Arts are requested to attend a MEETING, to be held at Messrs. WINSTANLEY and SONS' ROOMS, in Church-street, on SATUUDA Y next, the Wth November instant, at Ong• o'Clock precisely, for the purpose of considering of the best means of affording the merited support and patronage to those Artists who exhibit their Works in the present Liverpool Exhibition, and to take into consideration the intention of establishing a PERMA NENT GALLERY of MODERN ART in Liverpool. THOS. WINSTANLEY, Treasurer to the Fund. SOIREES. ROYAL INSTITUTION. THE Literary nod Scientific SOIREES, for the Season of 1838-9. will be held at the ROYAL INSTITUTION, On WEDNESDAY, the 14th November, 12th December, 16th January, 21st February next, at Seven o'Clock in the Evening. Tickets for admission to the Four Soirees. Gentlemen, 10s.; Ladies, ss. The Tickets will be issued to the Proprietors of the Royal Institution and Members of the Literary and Philosophical Society and their Families, on FRI nAY, the 9th, and SATUR DAY, the 10th November instant, and the remaining Tickets to such Ladies and Gentlemen who may he introduced by any such Proprietors or Members, or by any annual Subscriber of Three Pounds to the Institution, on MON DA y the 11th, and TUESDAY, the 12th instant, from Eleven o'Clock until Three. A limited number of Strangers' Tickets will also be issued for each Evening. By order of the Committee, THOS. WINSTAN LEY, Treasurer and Secretary. Royal Institution. Colquit-itreet. The Committee will feet grateful to the possessor of any curious Article of Natural History, Science, or Art, who mad• contribute it for the inspection and amusement of the Com pany. PRAYER BOOK AND HOMILY SOCIETY. 11 1 1 HE ANNUAL NIEETING of this SOCIETY be bold at the Music HALL, in Bold-street, on FRIDAY next, the 9th instar.t. The Chair will be taken at Half-past Six o'clock. This day is published, Second Edition, orice Sixpence, ALEITER TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. By A PRO PRIETOR. " Strike—but hear!" Simpkin and Marshall, London ; M. Bingham, Bristol ; G. Davies, Liverpool ; Drake, Birmingham ; Robinson, Manchester; and ail other Booksellers. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Rev. George John Dupuis, Lower Master of Eton. has been elected a Fellow of that College, in the room of the Rev. Jas. Camper Wright, deceased. The Rev. Richard Okes, Senior Assistant, has been ap pointed Lower Master of Etnn, in the room of the Rev. Geo. John Dupuis. The Rev. Wm. Bailey, A.B , Trinity College, Dublin, has been appointed Minister of the Queen-square Episcopal Chapel, Westminster, under the special jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The Rev. W. J. Bennett, late Lecturer of All Souls'. Marylebone, has been appointed Evening Lecturer of Han f over District Chapel, Regent-street, on the nomination o the Rev. G. Brett. The Rev. John Harding, M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, has been presented, by the Master and Fellows of that Society. to the Rectory of Walkerne, Hertfordshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Camper Wright. The Rev. Edward John Ash, M.A., Fellow and tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Brisley with the Vicarage of Gateley, Norfolk, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Maul. Patron, the Master and Fellows of Christ's College. The Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells has been pleased to appoint the Rev. henry Wood, M.A., to be Minister of the New District Church, at Burrow Bridge, in the county of Somerset. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester has ap pointed the Rev. T. Fulford, M.A., Rector of Trowbridge, Wilts, to be one of her Chaplains. The Rev. Thomas Saunders, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Moulton, Northamptonshire. The Rev. Edward llarston, M.A., to the Rectory of St. Stephen's, Ipswich, on the presentation of the Rev. William Burgess, of Thorpe, in Essex. The Rev. John Harrington, M.A., to the Rectory of Little Hinton, vacant by the death of the 11ev. Henry Purrier. Patron, the Lord Bishop of Winchester. The Rev. John Richard F. Billingsley, M.A., to the Rec tory of Wormington, in Inc county of Gloucester, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Attics. Patron, Samuel Gist Gist, of Wormington Grange, Esq. The Rev. John Carstake Duncan Yulf, to the Vicarage of Coleridge, Devon, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Cox. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The Rev. John Dutton, M.A.. to the Rectory of Ware horne, Kent. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The Rev. Wrn. Been, 8.D., to the united Rectories of Moylescar, Lynn and Carrick, i❑ the diocese of Meath. OBITUARY. Aged 78, the Rev. Thomas Blyth, of St. John's College, Perpetual Curate of Knowle, in Ilampt4in in Arden, for 53years; Perpetnal Curate of Packwood 52 years • In cumbent of Upper Whitacre 53 years; and Rector of Wbit church 37 years. These small livings are all in Warwick shire. At a very advanced age, the Rev. John Shaw, Vicar of Kirkleatham, in Cleveland. In Eccles-street, Dublin, the Rev. Chas. P. Code, Rector of Donn in the county of Limerick. Rev. Dr. Carstairs, Minister of West A nst rnther, Scotland, in the 59th year of his age. and 31th of his Ministry. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Nov. 3.—ln a convocation holden yesterda• the nomination of the Rev. H. Wall, M.A., Vice:Principal of St. Alban Hall, to be a Pubic Examiner in Literis Hu tnaniuribus ; and that of T. Taiss, 8.C.L.. and Fellow of University coll., to be a Public Examiner in Diaciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis, were unanimously approved. In a congregation holden at the same time, the following degrees were conferred:—Doctor in Civil Law : R. J. Phil lituore. Esq. Student of Christ Church.—Masters of Arts : Rev. J. H. Butterworth, Exeter coll., grand comp.; Rev. W. C. Edge'', St. John's; G. S. Law. Oriel.—Bachelors of Arts: E. Pritchard, Christ Church; J. J. Rogers, 'trinity ; J. G. Faithfull, Exeter; H. Ralston, Demy of Magdalen. CAMBRIDGE. Nov. 3.—At a congregation on Wednesday last, the following degrees were conferred :—Doctor in the Civil Law : A. F. Bangford, Trinity hall.—Master of Arts: S. E. Girdlestone, Trinity ; H. James, Corpus Christi. — Bachelor of Arts: R. H. Hehden. St. John's. At the same congregation, J. T. Bridges, M.A. of Wadham toll., Oxford, was admitted ad eundem of this University. The following scholars were elected at a niee!ing of the Master and Senior Fellows of Gonville anti Caius coll., in this University, on Wednesday last :—Vipan, Pearson, Har rison, Gooch, Nicholson, Yatman, Shaboe. Reid. Exhibitions were given to Woilehouse and Wright. At the same meeting the Rev. W. H. Stokes was elected a Senior of that society. UNIVIRSITY OF DURHAM. PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS. MICHAELMAS TERM. First and Second Examinations for the Degree, of B.A. CLASS PAPER. Class I.—W. Featherstonehaugh, J. Green, lion. W. G. Grey, T. C. Thompson. Class lI.—M. Brown, H. W. Hodgson, C. Robinson, J. Whitehead. Class 111.—H. B. Boothby, G. Dacre, W. Greenvrell, senior. Class IV.—J. F. Bigge, J. Brooksbank, W. Greenwell, junior, G. Guise, G. Hatton. Class V.—H. M. B. Beflcombe, R. Buckle, E. Davison, C. S. Jonas. Class Vl.—J. H. Richardson. Examiners:—H. Jenkyns, 'l'. W. Peile, E. Peacock. First Examination of Engineer Students. CI.AiS PAPER. Class I.—S. Browne, R. A. Thompson. Class 11.—A. Beanlands, 11. Mitchell, W. Taylor. Class 111.—C. B. Reed. Class V.-1-1. A. Thompson. Examiners:—T. Chevallier, W. L. Wharton, .1. V. W Johnston. ORDINATION. At a public Ordination held in the Cathedral of Exeter on Senday, the Lord Bishop of Exeter admitted the following candidates to the socred order of Deacons:—R. F. Wise, A.B. St. John's coll. Cambridge; J. H. Mules, A. 8., Trinity coll., Cambridge; J. Ellis, A. 8., Pembroke coll.. Cambridge; R. Sleeman, A. 13., Balliol coil., Oxford; J. H. Way, A. 8., St. Peter's coll., Cambridge; M. E. Hearn. A. 13., Trinity coll., Oxford ; G. Johnston, Christ coll. Cambridge ; C. C. Christie, A.M., Trinity coll., Cam bridge; J. Adams, A. 8., Trinity coll., Dublin; B. Ayres, A. 8.. Queen's coll., Cambridge : by letters dismissory from Wells. Priests—J. F. Todd, A.M., Trinity coll., Cambridge; W. 'rhornld, A.M., Worcester coll., Oxford; H. G. Adams, A. 8., Christ's coll., Oxford ; J. L. Fulford, A. 8., Trinity toll., Cambridge; S. U. B. Lee, A.M. , Oriel coil., Oxford; E. M. Hamilton, A. 8.. St. John's cull., Cambridge; J. L. May, A. 8., Queen's coll., Cambridge; J. D. Cork, A. 8., Exeter coll., Oxford; J. Senior, A. 8., Emmanuel coll., Cambridge, by letters dismissory front STATE OF TRADE. Lawns.—The demand for goods during the week has been more active than of late, and extensive sales of balk cloth were effected in the markets on Saturday and Tuesd a y , par ticularly pilots, beavers, and the finer qualities of winter cloth. Wool is higher in price, and the market very firm. BRADFORD.--"he demand for manufactured goods here on Thursday was rather flat, and there was not much animation in the yarn market, yet a fair business was done at former prices. In the wool market there has been numerous trans actions since our last, blanket wool being rather higher, and short very firm in price. Huddersfield market, on Tuesday, was very brisk for nearly all descriptions of winter goods, and there was a fair business done in wools at improving► prices. WAXIIFIIILD WOOL MARXRT, FRIDAY.—The firmness with which the growers in Lincolnshire hold for high prices keeps our market thinly supplied, and this circumstance and tits consumption being great, has enabled holders to obtain a further advance on all deep wools. The shorter and finer qualities of long wool, and most kinds of short wool are in better demand, and realise rather better prices. CfIISSTERFIELD WOOL FAIR, OCT. 31.—The trade in wool is still vary dull, and no demand is manifested ou the part of the buyers, except for fine bug, fur which rather better prices are obtained. NorritvGnsm.—The silk trade of Nottingham has for IMMO time been in a very deplorable state, and the workmen have had very little employment. The scale has again turned : there are some very extensive orders in town, and there is a better prospect for the *ilk hebiery than has been known for some months past.—Notts Review. LONG SHor.--A correspondent states, that on Saturday, the 20th ult., Mr. James Clark, land steward to Thomas Fortescue, Esq., of Raveusdale Park, Louth, fired at and killed, with a hall from a rifle, by shooting it through the forehead, a rabbit, at the extraordinary distance of 175 yards. Mr. Clark a few weeks since, killed, by shooting through the neck, with the same rifle, a buck, at 197 yards distance. The above are only two out of the many instances of astound ing hits made by Mr. Clark, with the same rifle, rarely to be equalled, except by sonic of the Yankee riflemen. -Newry Newry Toler milt. Tun New EUUCATION RETURNS.—Lord John Russell's new plan for making the guardians of the p00r.144 unions his factotums in the concoction of such education returns as may suit his peculiar views, is not likely to be altogether suc cessful. At a late meeting of the Honiton board, his lord ship's circula r requ i r i ng i nformation as to the state of educa tion throughout the onion wus taken into consideration, and it was decided that they , as a body had nothing to do with the returns called for, their office b e i ng t h e care an d re li e f o f the poor; and they, therefore, refused the application Its roto. ...Morning Herald. COURT CIRCULAR. Nnsoit.—Ttruasnay.—The Queen rode in tl.e park this afternoon, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, and attended by Lady Barham, Baroness Lehun, Lnrd Melbourne, Hon. Col. Cavendish, Lord Surrey, Lord A. Paget, and Mr. Rich. The Hon. Misses Cox and Cavendish succeeded the Hou. Miss Lister and Miss Paget in waiting as maids of honour. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. B. Paget, who arrived yesterday, took their departure this afternoon. Lady T. Digby succeeded Lady C. Copley iu waiting. BRIGHTON.—THURSDAY. —The Princess Augusta arrived this afternoon, precisely at four o'clock, from Windsor , accom panied by Lady Mary Pelham. Her royal highness's arrival was announced by a royal salute from the battery. The prin cess will remain here three months. The palace is prepared for her Majesty; but no definite in structions have been received as to the precise day of the re moval of the court from Windsor. The Princess Augusta, attended by Miss Wynyard, left her residence, Froginure Lodge, near Windsor, at ten o'clock on Thursday morning, for Brighton. The Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, came to town on Thursday. Her royal highness returned to Kew in the afternoon. WiNnsort.—Fiti DAY.—The Queen, attended by the follow ing party, took exercise on horseback this morning : Ladies Barham and Dishy; Baroness Lehzen ; Lords Surrey, By ron, and Melbourne; Mr. Digby, Mr. Bich, and Colonel Cavendish. DEATH OF LADY JOHN RUSSELL BelGicroN.—Fitionv.—lt is with the deepest regret that we have to announce the death of this lady, which event took place yesterday afternoon at Kemp Town. Her ladyship, from the time she began to decline, never rallied. The Duchess of Bedford passed the whole of Wednesday night at Kenip Town. Lord John Russell and the Bedford family are in the deepest grief at this melancholy event. Her lady '. ship was about 3-1 years of age. She was the eldest daughter of Thomas Lister, Esq., and was married to Lord Ribbles dale on the 9th February, 1826, and to Lord John Russell about two years ago. This was her sixth confinement. The Princess Augusta, accompanied by Miss \Vynyard, drove out on the King's-road this morning before luncheon. Her royal highness's equipage is distinguished by a single outrider. The following called to pay their respects to her roval high ness in the course of the day:—Colonel O'Reilly and the Du chess of Roxburghe, Lady Keats, Lady Hyde Parker, Lady and Miss Bustle, Lieutenant-Colonel and Lady Noah, and Lady Chambers. WIND:son, SUNDAY.—Yesterday the Queen rode in the park on horseback, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent drove to Kensington and back. This morning her Majesty attended Divine service at St. George's Chapel. The Rev. J. Gore read the service, and the Hnn. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Musgrave, officiated at the altar. The latter divine preached an admirable sermon from the 13th chap. Hebtews, part of the sth and 6th verse. The service was Traver's in F., the Sanctus and responses Jomelle, and the anthem " In the beginning," followed by "the Heaven's are telling," from Haydn's oratorio the Creation. The fol lowing attended her Majesty at the chapel:—Lord Surrey, Lord and Lady Howard de Walden. Viscount Palmerston, Lord Byron, Lads Mary Stopford, Baroness Lehzen. Lady Barham, Lady J. Dighy, Hon. Misses Cox and Caven dish, Mr. Rich and Mr. Digt,y. The Duke of Argyll, Lord and Lady Howard de Walden, and Viscount Palmerston arrived at the Castle yesterday af ternoon. To-morrow the Queen will hold a council at the castle. This afternoon the Queen honoured the company on the terrace with her presence. The military bands were in at tendance. FASIIIONS FOR NOVEMBER. (From the World of Fashion Monthly Magazine.) PELISSES will be fashionable in different materials, as silks, satins, and plain fine merinos. Some of the latter made with the corsages high, and close to the shape, and closed before by a single row of gilt buttons; the sleeves are full in the centre, but confined by a tight cuff fastened by buttons to correspond. Gilt and fancy buttons will be in request for dresses of this kind during the ensuing season. SPENCERS. — This fashion, so long laid upon the shelf, will be revived this winter, both fur carriage dress and fur the theatres; those adapted for the first will be velvet, made high and close, and trimmed either with expensive fur, or fancy silk trimmings. The others will be of light-coloured satins, opening in the shawl style, but trimmed, instead of a pelerine, with a bouillon of tulle, edged with a row of blond lace. Large sleeves trimmed at the top with bouillons of tulle. _ CLOAK 3.-1 here is a grand distinction made between those iutented for carriage or promenade dress, and those employed for the evening wraps; the majority of the first are confined at the waist with cords and tassels, in the pelisse style, and made as long and ample as usual. Short cloaks are most in favour for the latter. _ _ _ ATS AND BONNaTS.—A decided diminution has taken place in the size of both. Nothing is more elegant for half dress than a velvet bonnet of a small and rather close shape, something between a cotta;,;e and an open front : a bouquet of short shaded feathers is placed on one side, and a few small flowers, sometimes intermixed with blond lace, and some tunes not, decorate the interior of the brim. SHAWL MANTELETS.—The velvet and satin shawls so much in favour last year have been again revived with che nille fur, and black face trimming, but the novelly of the moment, the shawl par excellence, is the shawl mantle; it is of the usual form, but disposed in front on each side in folds in such a :nauner as to supply the place of sleeves. Forests or ROBES IN EVENING DRESS.—FIat corsages will be most in favour. Corsages draped en cceur will not, however, be laid aside; indeed, the fashion is too pretty and becoinming to he easily abandoned; but whatever form the upper part of the corsage may have, it must determine in a point. If the sleeve is long, the Victoria form will remain in favour; if short, it may be tight, with a trimming of the menchette kind, or else disposed in smallthouillons. The skirts ate decidedly wider than those of last year. Titimmixds Foe Ev ENING ROBES.— Feather fringe and flowers will be in equal favour ; embroidery is expected to lose nothing of its vogue, and flowers, though they have been so long in request, will continue as fashionable as ever. But the trimming expected to be most in request, is old fashioned point lace. EVENING HATS are now composed of either velvet or Terry velvet, shallow in front and wide at the sides ; they are always ornamented with ostrich feathers, either plain or shaded, but the latter are preferred. BONNETS a L'ECLAI te, leave the forehead exposed, allow ing the ringlets in which the hair is always dressed with this cap, to fall over the temples; but a rouleau of riband, edged with blond lace, forms a diadem over the forehead, and is placed very far back. STATIONS OF• TH ON THE IST 11M : (From the United B BRITISH ARMY NOVEM REIS, 1838. Service Journal.) Where two places are mentioned the depot of the regi L, the last named is that at which iment is stationed.] Ist Life Guards—Regent's Park _!d—Hyde Park Royal llorse Guards—Windsor la Drgn Gds—Canada; Covtry 2d—Newbridge 3,l—Manchester 4th—lpsnich hth—l ork 6th—Dorchester 7th —Edinburgh Ist Dragoons—Cork 2d—Duhlin 3,l—Bengal 4th—Bombay 6th—Cahir 7th llusanrs—Canada; Covtry. Bth—Dundalk 9th Lancers—Leeds 10th Hussars—Hounslow 11th Light Dragoons—Cantrbry. 12th Lancers—Brighton 13th Light Dragoons—Madras 14th-13irminghatn 15th Hussars—Glasgow 16th Lancers—Bengal Mb—Dublin Grenadier Guards (Ist bait.) St. 40th Foot—Bombay ; Chatham 41st—Madras ; Chatham 41d—Dublin 43d—Canada; Dover 44th—Bengal ; Chatham 45th—Canterbury 46th—Gibraltar; Devonport -17th—Malta; Jersey 48th—Gibraltar; Cork 49th—Bengal •, Chatham s , 3lt—N, S. Wales ; Chatham 51st—V. D. Land ; Chatham 52dt—W. Indies; Newcastle 53d—Ionian Isles ; Naas 59th—Madras; Chatham 55th—Madras; Chatham 56th—Jamaica ; Kinsale 57111—Madras; Chatham 58tIrr—Ceylon ; Fethard 59th—Malta ; Mullingar Grath (Ist battn.)—lonian Isles Dublin John's Wood (2d hatt. )—Canada (3d hatt.)—St. George's Bar. Coldstream Guards (Ist battln ) (2d hatt )—Canada Scotch Fusileer Guards (Ist hatt.} Windsor (2d batt.)—Wellington Bar. Ist Foot (Ist ham —l.ldinhurgh ' (2d batt. )—Canada ; Deronport 2d Foot—Bombay; Chatham 3d—Bengal; Chatham 4th—Madras; Chatham sth—lonian Isles ; Dublin rah—Bombay ; Chatham 7th—Dublin Ath—Jamaica; Guernsey 9th —Bengal ; Chatham 10th—Templemore 11th—America; Chatham Ilth —Mauritius • Tralee 13th—Bengal ; Chatham' 14th—West Indies ; Brecon 15th—Canada ; Plymouth 16th—Bengal; Chatham 17th—Bombay ; Chatham 18th—Ceylon ; Portsmouth • 19th—Kilkenny '2oth—Manchester 21st—V. Dieman's Ld; Chatham 22d—Belfast 23d— America ; A rmagh 24th—Canada; Gosport 25th—Dublin Mb—Bengal ; Chatham 27th—C. of G. Hope ; Dover 28th—N.S. Wales; Chatham 29th—Plymouth 30th—Bermuda; Sunderland 31st—Bengal ; Chatham 321—Canada ; Fermoy 33d—Gibraltar; Carlisle 34th—Canada ; Fermoy 35th—Mauritius; Stirling 36th—America ; Kinsale 37th—Jamaica ; Cork 380—Enniskillen 39th—Madras; Chatham • Order, (2d bat.)—lon. Isles ;Portsmth. 61st—Ceylon ; Clonmel 62d—Madras; Chatham 6:ld—Madras ; Chatham 64th—Jamaica ; Londonderry 9501—America 66th—Canada ; Youghal 67th—West Indies; Chatham 68th—Jamaica ; Waterford 69th—West Indies; Cork 70th—West Indies; Nenagh 7lst—Canadn ; Buttevant 72d—C. U. Hope ; Paisley 731—Canada; Clare Castle 7 Rh—West Indies; Aberdeen 75th—C. G. hope ; Boyle 76th—West Indies ; Drogheda 77th—Malta; Galway 78th—Glasgow 79th—Dublin 80th—N. S. Wales; Chatham SW—Gibraltar ; Chester Castle 82d—Gibraltar ; Sheerness 83d—Canada ; Hull filth—Portsmouth 85th—Canada ; Plymouth 86th—Stockport Rith —NI a untitts ; Castlebar 88th —Bolton 89th—West Indies ; Gosport 90th—Ceylon ; Portsmouth 9lst—St. Helena ; Dundee 92d—Malta ; Limerick 93d—America ; Buttevant • 94tha—Cork 95tha—Newry 96th—Dublin 97th—Birr 98th—Bolton 99th—Athlone Rifle Brigade ( let batty—+Tower (2d hatt.—Woolwich Royal Staff Corps—Hythe IstW. In Regt.—St. Lucia, Sze. '2d-N. Providence & Honduras ICeylon Rifle Regiment —Ceylon Cape Mounted Riflemen —Cape of Good Hope Royal Afri,:an Colonial Corpa— Sierra __ Leone Royal N.4flci:Vet;ian Compy, Newfoundand ' Royal Malta Fencibles—Malta !d home. THE LATE 1i I; RR ICA NE.—Early on Monday morning this part of the country (Taunton) was visited by a furious hur ricane; which did considerable damage in the town and neighbourhood. A great number of fine trees have been blown down in all directions; chimnies have fallen, and many roofs have been divested of their tiles and lead; but happily we have heard of no serious personal injury having been sustained. During the height of the gale, a stack of eliiinnies on the house of Mr. Clement Drake fell with a tre mendous crash, breaking through the roof into the bed•roona in which Mr. and Mrs. Drake were sleeping. From the great weight of the materials, the falling mass broke through the bed-room floor and through that of the room underneath, making its way to the ground floor. Fortunately no lives were lost.—Dorset Chronicle. DISGRACEFUL TRICK.—We have had lately and (we re gret to say, more than once) to notice the sending of letters through the Post-office under the seals of which Detonating Powders were concealed ; but the most heartless and atrocious instance of the kind that has come to our knowledge oc curred on Monday. On !hat day a letter was delivered at . the lodgings of a lady in this city. It was sealed with black wax, and, apprehensive that it contained unfavourable intel- Ilgence of a tittle son who was at school and in delicate health, she opened it hastily. On breaking the seal a deto nating powder exploded, lacerating three of her fingers, wounding her under one of the eyes, and terrifying her to a degree which might have thrown her (as the same cruel and cowardly experiment has thrown others) into hysterics. What could be the motive of the villain (if it was a man) by whom this nefarious deed was done, is not easy to conjec ture. There is not in the city, one would think, a person less likely to become an object of hostility than the lady in ques tion. She is a widow—left a widow at two-and-twenty—her husband snatched away by cholera one day—her mother taken by the same fatal malady the next! Surely if any thing could insure her protection, she ought to find it here. We hope the miscreant will be discovered, and if he be, it is the determination of the gentleman who shewed us the letter to punish him as far as the law provides a penalty. We have doubts, however, whether the offender be a man —if he be, it - is certainly only in form. The writing, though disguised, we suspect to be that of a female. There was nothing inside but the paper—part of an anti-slavery publication, and headed, we think, " Cruelties icflicted on Captain Goss and his wife"—in which the powder was made up. The wax was, as we have mentioned, black, and the seal was inscribed " Moria."d—Co7k Constitution. ATROCIOUS MURDER NEAR GLOSSOP. On Wednesday morning last, the inhabitants of Howard Town, near Glossop, were thrown into a state of great ex citement, by a report that a murder, of a most shocking character, had been committed at a place called Coal Har bour, about a mile and three quarters from Howard Town, and just at the commencement of the chain of hills over which the road to Sheffield passes. It appears that about half-past six o'clock on that morning, a man named Brooks, a labourer on the road, on proceeding to his work, and when Ire arrived at the last portion of enclosed laud, called the "last intake," found a man lying on his face amongst some stones, and a pair of shoes and a blue cloth cap lying close beside him. Upon examining the man, Brooks found a pool of blood under his face, anU then saw that his throat had been cut [ruin ear to ear, and that a large piece of grit-stone, about -11-lbs. weight, stained with blood, was lying against his head. Brooks, observing a fellow-labourer coming up, called to him for assistance, and sent for Mr. Shepherd, one of the constables of Howard Town, who speedily repaired to the spot, and examined the body. In addition to the gash in the throat, there were two deep cuts, apparently inflicted by some blunt, angular instrument—one over each eye: there was also a severe bruise on the left temple, and the'back of the head was beaten to a mummy, portions of the brain being, strewed about the ground. 'there were no traces of strug gling, and the impression upon Mr. Shepherd's mind was, that the unfortunate man was first stoned to death ; and that the murderer, i❑ order to make sure of his victim, afterwards inflicted the gash in the throat, which is upwards of seven • aches i❑ length. Upon the stone were found portions of brain, and a little hair; and it is quite evident that it was the instr.unent by which the wounds on the forehead u ere in- flirted. Shepherd caused the body to be removed to a cot tage near the house of Mr. Shepley, the Royal Oak public house, which is about a mile front the place where the body was found. The left-hand trowsers pocket was twit a little, and, with the others, was searched by the constable; but he could nut find any thing, except three bits of paper which fitted wgcther, and which may probably lead to the discovery of the name and connexions of the deceased. He appears to be about 26 years of age, about live feet high, and wore a round moleskin jacket, and trowsers of the same material; a drab worsted figured waistcoat, with glass buttons, coarse hire linen shirt, and blue worsted stockings. kits shoes lay on the ground close to the spot where the body was found ; and it is quite clear that they were taken from his feet after he was killed, as his stocking feet were quite free from soil. The paper found in his pocket had been written upon, and appears to have been a note made nut by a party of reapers employed by a Mr. Skill to get in his corn. The following is a copy : Mr. Skill, Dr. Edward Fegan and Co. 1838. Sept. 3. reaping Ga. Ir. 30p. of wheat, at I Is. per acre To half surveying • • • 3 1-1 71 U U 1U 3 13 91- Thomas Boot, jun. 2 3,1 On the other side of the paper were written, in a wretched hand, the words ; " Newark, Mansfield, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Chesterfield, Warrington;" most probably beim; a descrip tion of the route intended to be taken by the party on their way back to Ireland. No person could, for some time, be found, who appeared to have the slightest knowledge of the name or business of the deceased; but at length Mr:2John Robinson, one of the chief constables of Howard Town, stated, that he believed that the deceased was the man who had called upon him a day or two before, and represented himself as being a bricklayer who had been working at Staly bridge, and had been compelled to give up working because he had refused to join the bricklayers' union; and, in conse quence of the threats held out to bins, he dared not stay there any longer. He certainly bore the appearance of a brick layer more than of a reaper. Inquiries were made respecting persons who had been seen going to or from the moors, but to no purprise. Amongst the parties who carne to view the • body, before it was removed from the spot where it was ori ginally found, was a man named John Blocksage, who came down the Sheffield road about nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, and, after just looking at the body, walked off. Shepherd, the constable, noticing that this man had got black eves, and several other tokens of having been recently engaged in a fight, asked where he had been lighting. Block . sage replied, that he had stayed late at Sheffield the previous night, and had been beaten by some bricklayers because he would not join the union. Shepherd, suspecting that the man had not told the truth, asked where he had slept. The man replied, that he had slept at the Snake Inn, a public house about five miles from Cold Harbour. Thinking it strange that the man should be in such a condition, and thinking his account of himself suspicious, Shepherd ordered him to be detained. He was afterwards liberated, but was again taken into custody; and it was determined that a mes senger should be sent to Sheffield to inquire into the truth of his statements. Blocksage stated that he was not a member of a trades' union, but this is doubted. Gatley, the deputy constable of Stalybridge, went to view the body, on Thursday, and declared his conviction that he had seen the deceased at Stalybridge; and in this opinion he was confirmed by two othei persons from Stalybridge. In the deceased's cloth cap was found a red and white printed handkerchief, which looked as if he had been in the practice of tying it round his head • and under his shirt was found an old blue striped cot ton ;1611, which had been stained by the blood which had flowed from his neck. The shirt was patched at the shoul ders with white; but there are no initials marked upon it, or any thing at all calculated to lead to a discovery of the name of the murdered man. We understand that an inquest was held on the body yesterday, and adjourned to a future day fur further evidence.—Manchesier Gnardiun. SUPPOSED MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT BIRMINGIIAY A man named Abraham Holyoke, a file-cutter, in the em ploy of his father, in Meriden-street, Birmingham, about 20 years of age, is now in custody, on suspicion of the murder of a young woman of respectable character, named Anne Maria Evans, about 2:3 years of age, and who, up to the time of her unfortunate death, resided with her mother, in Milk street, in this town. The circumstances of the case, as far as we have been able to ascertain them, ore as follows :—Holy oake and the girl Evans, as we are informed, kept company " off and on," for the last two years; and for two months past, he is said to have been constant in his attentions. On Monday evening, they went in company to a dance, at the Malt Shovel, in Milk-street ; and it is said that, in consequence of Holyoake bestowing more notice upon some girl in the room than was pleasant to his intended, high words ensued, and the following day Evans forbade him visting her at the house of her mother. The quarrel, however, appears to have been but of a short duration; fur, in the afternoon of Tuesday, an apparent reconciliation took place, and they spent the greater part of the evening together. Holyoake remained at the house of Mrs. Evans until near one o'clock yesterday morning, when, in consequence of the remon strance of the mother, the daughter left the house with the intention, it is supposed, of seeing bins part of the way home. They were last seen together at the entry en I, in Milk-street. about two o'clock in the morning. A little before three, pro ceeding along Great Barr-street, he heard a cry for help, apparently proceeding from the banks of the Warwick Canal. The officer, in company with Wood, the watchman, imme diately hastened to the spot from whence time cry proceeded, when they found Holyoake standing on the bank of the canal, drenched with water, and apparently, from some cause or other, quite exhausted. When Jones inquired how, and under what circumstances he came there, and was found in such a condition, Holyoake, in the first instance, replied that he had been in company with a woman, but that she had gone home. The reply was, naturally enough, very unsatis factory to the cfficer ; and he determined, for the sake of having the matter cleared up, to take Holyoake to the resi deuce of the woman in whose company he stated he had been. Accordingly, Jones and Wood proceeded to accom pany Hoiyoake to the girl's home; when on the way, the prisoner, without promise, threat, or any inducement to make a confession, voluntarily stated that the woman was dead— that he had drowned her—and that her body was to he found on the Birmingham side of the bridge, over the Warwick Canal, in Great Barr-street, near the spot where he himself was found and apprehended. After ascertaining from the girl's friends that the parties left the house in Milk-street together, Jones, accompanied by the watchman and others, returned to the place where Holyoake directed them; and haying procured drags, the body of the unfortunate girl was, in the course of a few minutes, brought to the surface of the water, and shortly afterwards removed to the house of Mrs. Jackson, the Sailor's Return, in Great Barr -street, where it now lies, awaiting the result of a coroner's inquest. Upon his removal to prison, Holyoake, who had previously given various accounts of the circumstances under which the girl came by her death, stated that they had mutually deterinieed to drown themselves, and that, its furtherance of this purpose, she jumped off the bridge, and he afterwards followed her; and it appears that when Holyoake was first seen by Jones, there was abundant evidence that he had been over head in the water, and had lost his hat. We understand, however, that evidence will be brought forward at the inquest, which, from present appearances, will go far to implicate Holyoake in the charge of murder. A boatman employed upon the canal states, that for at least a quarter of an hour he heard a considerable bustle upon the banks of the canal near where the body of the girl was found ; and the very circumstance of Holyoake's giving various accounts of the circumstances, anti himself being saved from the death which lie says was mutually agreed upon, is at least sufficient to excite suspi cion, and to call for the most searching investigation.— Bir mingham .-Idrertiser. MISCELLANEOUS.' The Court is expected to remove from Windsor to Brighton on the 15th instant. COINCIDENCE.—It is remarkable, that the first burgess list published in this town is printed by A. Burgess, a burgess.— Manchester Paper. Lord Dinorben expects to have the honour of a visit from the Duke of Sussex, at Kinnell, on the 10th of December; and it is expected that the duke will eat his Christmas dinner at his lordship's house.—Chester Chronicle. SECOND CROP.—A correspondent informs us that a second crop of hay was got last week in a field belonging to Mr. Jona Margison, of Calverley, in excellent condition, equal if no superior to the first crop.—Leeds Intelliaencer. The Right Hon. Sir Hen ly Ellis, who is spoken of as likely to obtain the lucrative appointment of Governor of Bombay, is half-brother to the Earl of • Buckinghamshire, and was some time since sent on a special mission to the Schah of Persia.-11foraing Herald. We regret to learn . that Mr. Cutlar Fergusson, judge ad vocate-general and M.P. for Cuparshire, is dangerously ill at Paris. We trust that the reports which have reached us, as to his extreme danger, are exaggerated.—Globe. LARGE ON lON.—Mr. Wm. M' Lintock, of Barnsley, has in possession a large tripilo onion, which weighs 18 ounces, and measures 131 inches round.—Leeds Intelligencer. FAT SHEEP.—Mr. Matthew Veal, butcher, Richmond; ex posed for sale in that market, on Saturday last, a fat sheep, which weighed 461 b. per quarter, and the shoulders weighed 241 b. each.—lbid. PROFITABLE GRUNTER.--A sow belonging to Mr. W Mitchinson, of Armathwaite, produced 86 pigs iu six litters viz.—the three first twelve each, one of fourteen, another of sixteen, and the last of twenty pigs.—Carlisle Wooncociss.—On Wednesday last Mr. Harrison, head game-keeper to the Earl of Lonsdale, shot three woodcocks in his lordships's grounds near Melkinthorpe. What does the early appearance of this bird of passage denote, as regards the weather ?—Carlisle Patriot Shares -in the Penrith and Carlisle Railway, to between twenty and thirty thousand pounds , have been takenl at Pen rith and its vicinity, within the last few days. The Earl of Lonsdale has subscribed fur 100 shares. MUNIFICUNT GlFT.—James Watt, Esq., at the last Rad nor Sessions, offered to contribute £6OO towards erecting a stone bridge of a single arch over the river Ithoin, and mak ing the prhper appioaches to it, on the line of road through the beautiful vale between Builth and Rhayader. The offer was graejeusly received, and a vote of thanks passed. THE STABBING CASE IN Hui.Ntu.—Philip Tone, who was charged at the New Bailey on Monday with stabbing Thus. Eddlestone on, Sunday morning last, was brought up again on Wednesday, when Eddlestone appeared and deposed to the facts stated in our last, and the prisoner was committed to take his trial at the assizes.—Manchester Paper. EXPORTATION OF POTATOES FOR NEW YORK.—Yesterday morning the American line of packet-ship 41:ontreat, Captain Griffin, sailed from St. Katherine's Dock for New York. In consequence of the failure of the potato crop in America, speculators are sending out great quantities from this country. The Montrealcarries out nearly fifty tons. The American ship K utu srjr is at present at the port of Jersey, loading a cargo of potatoes for New York.—London Paper. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—On Sunday night, as Mrs, Smithies, the wife of Mr. John Smithies, of the Woodman. in Wood-street, Middleton, was conversing with some cus tomers respecting a neighbour's illness, she suddenly placed ber hand on her bosom, and said, "Nobody knows how ill I am just now," and instantly sunk back and expired. The deceased was a remarkably strong and good-looking woman, and had no previous indisposition.—Manchester Paper. LATE STABBING AT ROCHDALE.—On Tuesday, Edmund Lord, Thomas Mills, Thomas Taylor, and Thomas Kenwor ths, the prisoners implicated in the stabbin g of James Dear den, were committed to Kirkdale by Messrs.Royds and Chad wick, charged with cutting and-maiming Deardeu with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. The wounded man still lin gers ; and there is just the slightest possibility that he may ultimately recover from his desperate Wounds.—Manchester Paper. The admirers of Shakspear will regret to learn that " Herne the Hunter's Oak," in the Little-park, Windsor, was blown down in the hurricane on Sunday night,—Globe. [This ap pears to be a mistake. It is_stated in the Quarterly Review of the present month, on the authority of Mr. Loudon, that Herne the Hunter's Oak was cut down many years ago by the orders of George 111., who gave the order when in a state of extraordinary excitement.—Morning Chronicle. SUNDAY TRADING AT GREENWICH.—In conseouence of the late convictions, few shops were opened at Greenwich on Sunday last. Of those who did violate the law, five were summoned before the magistrates on Tuesday, when four pleaded guilty, and, promising not to offend again, had the charge dismissed, while the filth, who said he was obliged to keep open his shop, as he had to supply the hospital with meat, was fined ss. and Its. costs. At the same sitting, the landlord of a public-house was fined £5. for suffering drunk enness in his house during the hours of Divine service. LONDON WATER —The new filtering reservoirs of the Chelsea Company occupy a space of 48,000 square yards of superfices. The - filtering bottoms consist of 12,000 cubic yards of pebble, silicious gravel, and /Melly sand, and they have been constructed at an expence of £57,000. The pipes are laid eight feet below the surface of this bottom, through which the water is filtered and cleansed before it passes into the wells from which the mains are supplied. STANDING ORDER OF THE HOUSE.OF LORDS, 1838.—The House of Lords, in their standing orders just published, have adopted the rules established by the standing orders com mittee of the House of Commons in 1837, and, in like man ner, ordered that the railway sections and plans should be laid clown in juxta-position, after the manner invent( d and recommended by Mr. Macneill, C.E., and now appearing in a place, attached to the standing orders of either House of Parliament. -- • • - -- - SOCIAL. OoAToRY.—A strenuous advocate of the Social or Owenite principles, had returned front his mission as dele gate of the Salford district, at the late congress held at Bir mingham, and desirous that his friends and healers at home should be acquainted with the works of the party, and its consumtnation of the name of its character, delivered himself of this gent of a climax, and very natur al supposition of divine favour to unscriptural believeisl H ere it is:—" lithe arch angels of heaven had been there, they mould have said, ' ye are Christians indeed! and charitable, ay, even to the back bone!' "—Manchester Courier. llonnteLe OCCUIIRENCE.—On Thursday morning last, a 'young woman, named Falcon, a maniac, who was for some time to an asylum, but latterly in the workhouse of Ellenbo rough, near Maryport, went to the house of au aged woman, bordering on 90, of the name of Rosy , and alter pronouncing a horrid threat, pulled out a large kni fe, and a pp l ying it to the throat of the latter, literally severed the head front the body. The infuriated wretch was immediately apprehended and taken before the magistrates, her hapless victim having died instantly.—Carlisle Patriot. RADICAL DEMONSTRATION AT BOLTON--011 Wednesday evening last, the town was visited by Messrs. O'Connor, young Cobhett, and parson Stephens, the agitators of the five points of Radicalism. It was announced that they would enter the town by torch-light, at six o'clock, hut it was nearly seven when they arrived. They could not make any great muster of the working classes of Bolton. The principal at tendants were a number of young women, and a number of Irishmen, from New Town. As soon as the orators arrived, a procession was formed , an d walked throu gh the principal streets. The parties passed by St. George's Church, where the Rev. Hugh M'Neile was preach in g , and gave a voiles of groans and hisses. The authorities, as well as the military, were on the alert, in case any mischief had occurred, but every thing went off peaceably. Mr. Wood, late tea-dealer, was appointed a delegate to attend the national convention. —Manchester Courier. IN mu v. STEAm.—On Monday morning much excitement was created 'along the line of the Great Western Railway, between Maidenhead and London, by the followitus occur rence :—On Sunday night, after the departure of the last train front Maidenhead, eight carriages were placed on the south line, opposite the station offices, preparatory to their being despatched by the early train (half-past seven) to town. They consisted of two open carriages, one of the second class, and the remainder of the first-class. On Men day morning, on the servants of the company coining to their duties at day-light, four of the first-class carriages only were found at•the station. At a later period of the morning it was, however, found that the storm of Sunday night had forced the first four carriages along the rails towards Lon don. Men were instantly despatched down the li ne to see that no accident occurred. On their arrival at Slough, the first and second carriages were found to have stopped, and were quickly removed from the rails: the other two carriages were found at Wormwood Scrubbs, near twenty miles from Maidenhead. PENRITII AND CARLISLE RAILWAY---The popularity of this project is daily increasing. At a mee t ing of the provin cial committee, held on Tuesday last, at Penrith, shares, in addition to the sum which we mentioned last week, were taken to a very great amount; and if we may judge front the zeal already displayed by the influential landowners and gen tletnen in that district, there is ntidoubt of their wishes being speedily realized. The undertaking is, we observe, noticed by our London, Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle con temporaries; and when we hear of capitalists from thence making numerous applications for shares, w.s. are fully justi fied in expecting that they will soon be at a premium.—Car tide Patriot.. " SPLIT" IN THE CABINET.—We are enabled to inform our readers, on authority which cannot he doubted, that the rumours circulated during the week of the resignation of Lord Gleoelg, are strictly true. The noble lord did resign; and his resignation was accepted. Application was made to Lord Spencer to take his place, who was invited to Windsor Castle; but his lordship positively declined it, in spite of the most pressing solicitations from a very high personage; The Duke of Richmond was next applied to; but his grace also refused office. We are not able to say whether the difficulty has been patched up by Lord Glenvlg consenting to re-as sume his ministerial night-cap; but - there *cannot be the slightest doubt of the cabinet being in a tottering condition, and unable to hold together much longer.— lrestern Lumi nary. FORTUNATE DISCOVERY OF THIEVES.—On Monday even ing week, Mr. Thomason, of York -street, Cheethaw, tra veller, was riding in his gig in the streets of Wigan, when the gig was upset, and he was thrown out, and carried in a state of insensibility to the NV hitesmith's Arms, and put -to bed. In about an hour he recovered; and on looking to see if his money was correct, he found it was, and he put it under his pillow. I'he amount was about £B3, and amongst it was a Bank of England note for £2O, cut in two, and the two pieces fastened by a pin. When he awoke in the morning, the mo ney was gone, but no one knew where or how. Informa tion was given to the police offices; and on Thursday fore noon, Mr. Diggles, the deputy-constable of Salford, being at the Bolton railway station, saw two men whom from their appearance he suspected, and watched into the Unicorn Inn, in Chapel-street, and afterwards into the Rose and Crown, where he ascertained they had gone to get a note changed. He was then joined by Nortnansell and Kenyon, also of the Salford police, who followed the men to the old bridge, when the men seeing themselves followed ran; the officers pursued and caught them in Cateaton-street, and took them into a public-house' where they sea rc h e d t h em , and on - Massey found a £2O Bank of England note, like that lost by Mr. Thomason, and £4. ss. in silver ; they then conveyed the men to the lock-ups, searched them again, and found on them £4l. 15s. more, in notes anti sovereigns ; the notes answering the description of those lost by Mr. Thomason. The prisoners were brought up at the New Bailey yesterdan when the above facts were stated, and the prisoners in their defence said, they had found the money. They were com mitted for - ttlatanchesrer Guardian. STEAMERS FROM BRISTOL TO THE EAST INDIES.—The directors of the Great Western Steam-Ship Company having been requested by a large portion of their subscribers, have it now under consideration to put a line of large steam-ves sels between Bristol and Alexandria, which, with the arrange ments already entered into and in progress, will complete the chain of communication between England and India. The East India Company have found that the steam-vessels they have already sent to India, to ply between Bombay and Suez, are insufficient in size and power, and are consequently now constructing larger and more powerful ones for that purpose; and have expressed their entire confidence in thus being able to overcome the difficulties of the navigation in that quarter. A contract has been entered into (and is at this moment in operation) between the Bombay steam coin mittee and Messrs. Hill and Co., of Cairo; the latter under taking to build an hotel at Suez, and to form a coaching establishment, with suitable station-houses, between Suez and Cairo; and they undertake that the journey shall be accomplished in less than 24 hours. The Paella of Egypt has already one, and is now about to put additional steam boats on 'the Nile, and the canal between Cairo and Alexan dria. —Bristol Journal. FAILURE OF VACCINATION. This very serious subject has for some time seriously occu pied the attention of the medical profession, and attracted the notice of the public very extensively. An essay or in qeiry into the causes of this reputed failure has just now been published by Charles Severn, Esq., M.D., with suggestions relative to the means of ensuring its lull protective influence. In this essay the author admits the occurrence extensively of small-pox after vaccination, and also the prevalence of that virulent disease for some time past in this metropolis, both of which circumstances have fed many persons to doubt the protective influence of the cow pox altogether; but Mr. Severn combats the latter idea, and maintains that the effi cacy of the latter has been amply realised, although its de teriorioration through the bodies of human beings, to which it was not natural, ought to be expected ; but that, he main tains, is no argument against the security afforded by the per fect original virus. The author in admitting that the human constitution is not in every instance permanently defended against the loathsome disease, yet that the vaccine infection will, even under the present imperfect mode of generating the lymph, prevent the recurrence of small-pox in by far the greater majority of constitutions, though not in all; and of the latter, the greater part have the old disorder in a very mild form. The author quotes from the statistical tables to show the great decrease that has taken place in the mortality occa sioned by this pestilent disease at various periods, which proves a very great decrease indeed. For instance, the num ber of patients admitted into the Small-pox Hospital front 1775 to 1800 was 7,017, the deaths were 2,277; and from the year 1800 to 1825 (subsequent to vaccination) the number admitted was 3,713, the deaths 1,118, not halt the num b e r, although the population of London has nearly doubled within that period ; a clear proof that the danger and fatality of the small-pox have great ty diminished. The probable proportion of failures iu protecting the human constitution does not, says Mr. Severn, amount to more than six in 3,000, and that it possesses an advantage of ten to one over the inoculated small-pox, and he justly cen sures those practitioners who, for a paltry fee, still continue to spread the small-pox pestilence by inoculating for it. The author then properly expresses himself—" Should his patient die, he is undoubtedly guilty, if not in a criminal court, yet in fore conscientice of the crime of murder." Besides the danger of life, small-pox rouses up scrofula in all its de structive varieties. The author with great propriety sup poses the transmission of lymph through thousands of human bodies must weaken its original power of repelling disease; he, therefore, most properly recommends recurrence to the cow frequently, to keep up its original vigour. A. sanguinary duel was fought with broad swords between two members of the New Orleans bar, at Bayou St. Louis, on the 25th ult. The combat was dreadful. One of the par ties died of his wounds on the following day, and the survivor had one arm severed from his body. The Right Hon. C. Ponlett Thomson, who is now on a visit at ChiHingham Castle, accompanied by the park-keeper, went out on Monday, fur the purpose of shooting one of lb. wild oxen of the breed peculiar to Chillingham Park. This is an undertaking of danger and difficulty, on account of the extreme wildness of the cattle not permitting an approach. To avoid agitating the cattle, the ox was cautiously detached from the herd, when the hon. gentleman, by a well-directed aim, despatched the animal by a single shot from a rifle.— Newcaistie. Journal. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Second Night of the THREE NEW DRAMAS, whicA were received last Evening with the most enthusiastic applause. Mr. HILL, the celebrated Comedian and representativeof AMERICAN RUSTIC CHARACTERS, from the Theatres-royal, Drury-lane, and Haymarket, and Royal Olympic Theatre, London, and the principal Theatres in the United States, is engaged for FIVE NIGHTS, and will make his second appearance in Liverpool, this Evening. Last Week of Mr. RANGER, the highly suessful repre sentative of French Characters, at th4 ic ,Theatre-Royal, Haymarket. rums present TUESDAY, Nov. 6, will be performed, IL for the second time here, a new Drama, written by Mr. Ranger, called THE ROMANTIC WIDOW. Marquis St. Croix Mr. Ranger, As performed by him upwards of 100 Nights last season at the Theatre-royal, Haymarket. A fter which, second time here, a new Characteristic Sketch, written expressly for Mr. Hill, by W. B. Bernard, Esq., author of the " Nervous Man," &c., and performed, last season, at the Theatre-royal, Haymarket, with the greatest success, called the YANKEE PEDLAR. Hiram Hodge Mr. Hill, To be followed by a new Drama, second time here, also written expressly for Mr. Hill, by W. B. Bernard, Esq., and performed in London with enthusiastic applause, called NEW NOTIONS ON THE GO-A-HEAD PRINCIPLE. To conclude with the Farce of FORTUNE'S FROLIC; OR, T,HE PLOUGHBY TURNED LORD. TO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) for the BENEFIT of Mr. RANGER, the New Drama of the ROMANTIC WIDOW. Marquis de St. Croix, Mr. Ranger. After which, the Comedy of WHO WANTS A GUINEA? (compressed into three acts.) Solomon Swap, Mr, Hill. To conclude with (hv desire) the Farce of MONSIEUR TONSON, Monsieur Morbleu, Mr. Ranger. LIVERPOOL GIL SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS 1838-1839. A S the Subscription List must necessarily be CLOSED at the number that can be accommo4tited in the Boxes and Circle of the Amphitheatre, early application is requisite. Mr. WEISS, Church-street, continues to receive Names. See Prospectus iriMe itiberpool TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 6, 1838. The Publication of the STANDARD commenced ibis morning at 5 o'clock. UNITED STATES.—By the Royal William, which arrived here yesterday, after a passage of 151 days, we have received New York papers to the 20th ultimo in• elusive. They are exceedingly barren of intelligence, being chiefly occupied with extended remarks on the progress of the elections. From the statements of the Evening Post it would appear that the democratic, or Van Buren party, were triumphant in most of the dis tricts from which the returns had been obtained. From Canada we have no news of the slightest im• portance; at least we can glean none ft urn the Even ing Post, which is the only file that has reached us. The New Orleans papers complain that the extreme owness of water in the rivers will defer the business The New Orleans Bulletin of October Bth season. says,— . - The Ohio is so low. as to put a stop to navigation, emelt in skiffs and dug out s . Thus the channel of our earliest trifffe is entirely blocked up. - A multitude of travellers who de scend the Ohio every fall, are detained. The harvestof corn and wheat, finds no vent. The various productions of Ken tucky, Ohio, and Indiana, are kept hack, and in consequence, much of the hurry and bustle, of the fall season is not wit- nesscd in our streets. The same cause has shut us out, in a great measure, from the Missouri and Illinois trade. A ma jority of the steamboats, we are informed, that navigate be tween our place and St. Louis, are either run aground or laid up, on account or the shallowness of the water. Even the flat boats meet with difficulty in descending the stream, For though the channel may be deep enough to float them, yet they are liable to run ashore on innumerable bars, formed by subsiding currents. In this situation, numbers of broad horns may be seen strung along the. whale length of the river, many of them resting high and dry on the ridge of a sand bar, awaiting the rise of the river. Under such untoward circumstances, it would not he surprising, if the commence ment of a brisk business %%ere postponed a fortnight later than usual. The complaints of the drought do not, however, ap pear to be general, as will appear by the following ex tract from the Evening Post of the 17th ult.:— Gal.:Ai. FLoon.—A - paper printed in Wilmington, North Carolina, says that the late heavy rains have occasioned a greater rise of the streams in the upper country of the state than had been known fur many years—carrying away bridges, and preventing the regUlarity of the Mails. The Tarborough Press says that immense damage has been sustained in the low grounds by the destructiOn of. crops, stock, fences. &c., and on the streams by the breaking of bridges, mills, &c. The Indian hostilities .seem to have recommenced, as will appear from the following : INDIAN HOSTILITIES ON THE S.' \V. FRONTIER.—Gen• Arbuckle, in a letter to the Governor or Arkansas, dated FOIL Gibson, arim. says - .--`• Intelligence weis received last night from Fort Jesup, which proves beyond a doubt that war has certainly commenced." A letter from a Mr. Green, dated about the 21stof August, at Lima, 25 miles eastof the Tausse Washita, says : —We have direct information that Captain Farmer and 30 of his men have been killed on the Sabine, by the Indians, within the last three days. Blun dess', Lewis', and several other plantations have been sacked, and their places surrounded since • Saturday, by hostile In dians. The road is completely lined with waggons for the lower prairies." Fires and steam-boat explosion's continue to be "the order of the day" in the United States. We take the following from the same journal : FIRE AT NEW ORLEANS.—On Sunday morning, the ith instant, a fire broke out in the engine acid car house at Car - - rolton, - on the Carrolton railroad, which, in half an hour, completely destroyed the building, together with fifteen cars and one locomotive. It is conjectured to have resulted from the communication of the fire left in one of the engines. The amount of property consumed Is -stated to be not less than 200,000 dollars, of which about 150,000 dollars were insured. The loss will therefore fall heavily upon the insurance com panies. The Carrolton railroad company will also suffer much from the delay and loss of time, before other cars .can be obtained. STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT. -- -The steam-boat Governor Dodge was snagged in the Mississippi on the 29th ult., with her cargo of cotton. STEAm-noA'r LOST.—The steamboat Rolla, on her passage from New Orleans to this port, struck a snag about on hun dred miles below the mouth of the Ohit4 on Sunday the 2.3 d ult. at 2 p.m., and souk immediately in about thirty feet of water. The passengers and crew saved themselves. by swimming ashore, and clinging to the hurricane deck, part of which was above water. One deck hand was lost. She was insured in this city for 12,000 doll.—three-fourths of her Value—in three different offices. The Rienzi brought the passengers and crew to this city yesterday.—St. Louis Bulletin. (Signed) ilespecting'the Mexican blockade we have the fo lowing - information :—• • (From tlte, Eecnina Post of October 16th.) The Chamber of commerce, in this city, have addressed a .letter to Mr. Forsyth, in relation to the blockade of Mexico, complaining, that it ,has • been rigorously enforced against American vessels, which left the ports of this country pievi ous to notice of it being received here, and which had there fore been obliged to return. The letter also expresses an apprehension that the blockade has been extended to the ports of the Pacific, in which several valuable cargoes, which left this city previous to any suggestion of the blockade, will be placed in jeopardy, and the voyages ruined. The follow ing is the reply to this letter: — Department " Messrs. Robert Lenox, President, and Edward A. B. Graves, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of New York. " Gentlemen,—Your letter of the sth ult., though in due time received at this department, has thus long remained un answered, owing to the absence of the President, to whom it had been referred - for his consideration. I am now instructed to.state to you, that aware of the great inconvenience which the.restrictite measures adopted by the French Government in the Gulf of Mexico and in the River Plate, would occa sion to our' Commerce, the President had immediately ordered the•adoptiem of all measures which circumstances admitted for the protection of the interests of our citizens; and that everfexeition has hitherto been, and still continues to be madh;'which may contribute fir diminish the evils arising from the riiisting state of things. No information has been received of the. blockade having been extended to the Mexican pints of the Pacific Ocean; and it is taken for granted that, in the event of such a measure being resorted to, previous notice of the - intention will be given to this go vernment. The 'department is equally unapprised of the probable duration of the existing blockade; but from the sensation which its operation appears to have excited through out the commercial world, and the efforts understood to be mode towards an adjustment of the dispute which gave rise to it, the hope is entertained that it cannot be much longer protracted. " I have the honour, Gentlemen, " To be, with great respect, " Your obedient servant, " A. VAIL, " Acting Secretary of State." (From the Evening Post of October (Bth.) MEXICO.—We have a Tampico paper of the Ist September, and Mexican journals of the 16th and 17th August. There is little of. interest to be found in them. The Tampico Tele graph states that the Naticioso of Chihuahua is tilled with accounts of robberies, murders. fires, and a thousand excesses committed by the savages in Rosarion and Covachic, on the neighbouring farms and dwelling-houses. The journal adds that that portion of the country is in the greatest state of destitution, and deprived of any source of protection from the incursions of the Indians. Improvements in paving are going on in Tampico, which, says the Telegraph, will render the city passable in every quarter. A band of sixty robbers, well mounted and armed, assaulted a caravan of mutes on the 17th of August, between Vert eyes and Tepevallualao, despoiling the conductors of a large quantity of silver, which they had concealed in their flour sacks. These marauders are supposed to form part of the league of robbers, the constitution of which we published some weeks since. The government of this city, says the Tampico Telegraph, is execrable, the administration of justice intolerable, and its politics incomprehensible.—" Matter s. of opinion merely, we presume.—Eveving Post.] The Diann of Mexico contains several long communica tions on the subject of the culture of the silk-worm—the climate of Mexico, the fertility of the soil, the vast quantities of ground open to the experiments of the industrious, and the ease with which the mulberry tree is cultivated, confer on Mexico peculiar advantages for this pursuit. We doubt, however, whether the peoplci have energy and perseverance enough to make the manufacture of silk a branch of produc tive industry.—New Orleans Bee of the 6th instant. From the following article in the Globe it appears that the question of annexieg Texas to this country is for the present, at leas!, disposed of " We understand that the Texiau minister, en the occasion of exchanging the ratifications of the boundary convention lately published, delivered to the Acting Secretary of State a note, in which, after stating in friendly terms that although, since the note of Mr. Forsyth, declining the proposition sub- Mitted by Texas for her admission into the Union, the ques tion of annexation had been considered by the United States government as finally disposed of ; yet, inasmuch as the impression appeared still to remain upon the public mind in both countries that the proposition was still pendinir, he had been instructed by his government to communicate to that of the United States its formal and absolute withdrawal of that proposition." The Quebec Gazette Extraordinary contains Lord Durham's proclamation, announcing his intention of resigning. He defends his general government at great length, dwelling particularly on the disposal of the political prisoners. This lie justifies on the ground that he wished to avoid irritation, which would have been the consequence of bringing them to trial. He claims.credit for allaying the hostile feelings of the Americans, and seeking their sympathies wi h the disaffected. On his return to England, he adds— " I shall also be prepared, at the proper period, to suggest the constitution of a form of government for her Majesty's dominions on this continent, which may restore to the people of Lower Canada, all the advantages of a representative sys tem, unaccompanied by the evils that have hitherto proceeded from the unnatural conilicts of parties; which may safely sup ply any defitieney existing in the government of the other colonies; and which may produce throughout British Ame rica, a state of contented allegiance, founded, as colonial allegiance ever must be, on a sense of obligation to the parent state." He concludes by assuring them he will use his best exertions as a peer in parliament for their service. CANADA.—The following is from the Montreal Courier : W e really find ourselves compelled, both by our feelings and reason, to declare, that the less the subject of the late general amnesty and of the previous treatment of the politi cal prisoners, is agitated, the better. It has been a bungled business from beginning to end. When Lord Durham ar rived i❑ the country it was altogether too late to repair the mismanagement of old-womanish imbecility, and all that could then be done was to finish off the drama by an act more chivalrously magnanimous than strictly just. It is needless now to disguise the' fact, that the entire policy that has been pursued, has utterly failed to secure the results con templated. It has spoken a language which the mass of the Canadians have not in any degree understood, which has been interpreted to them by crafty men to mean the very reverse of what it was intended to convey. and which has de gmaded in their e 3, es the Government it ought to have made them love and revere. Were we to detail all that we know upon good authority, of the lamentably perverted notions the habitans entertain of the generosity which !Ms been shown by the Executive towards the rebel leaders, we should be looked upuu by those who have not similar opportunities of judging, as credulous fools. It is our sincere conviction, that the high-minded policy pursued has not been mercy to the h«bi tans, it will, we fear, prove a snare, entailing miseries upon them and their fellow-subjects more severe than those yet experienced. As for the banished individuals, who have been the cause of so much fuss, both here and in Britain, we will not waste any more ink upon them. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND—ITS FRIENDS AND ITS ENEMIES.—We have long had it in contemplation to introduce a series of articles upon the present aspect of the Eslablished Church of England, in reference to its friends and its enemies. But before we proceed to 'ay before our readers our views on this.all-importan subject, we beg distinctly to intimate that we hold ourselves personally responsible for every observation which may appear in our columns under the head which we have prefixed to the present article. We have repeatedly observed that our radical contempo raries are extremely anxious to fix the authorship of every thing relating to the Church which appears in this and other conservative papers, on the clergy of the town. To obviate any such imputation we have thought it necessary to make the above declaration. As a great deal of confusion has arisen from the very ambiguous manner in which the Church is spoken of by its opponents, it is necessary that we should de fine the meaning of the term. By the Church of England we understand " that branch of Christ's holy Catholic Church legislatively established in England." From this expression it will be perceived that the Church of England may be spoken of in two distincl senses—as a part of the universal church, distinct from the state—or as an established church, in alliance with the state. It is of the greatest importance that this distinction should be kept in view : and, in order to render it still more intelligible, we shall further explain our meaning in the language of the Christian Observer. That able advocate of the Church of Eng land remarks—" Me❑ may approve of the doctrines and rites of the Church of England, and yet object to its being established, as do many of our episcopalian brethren in the United States ; or they may approve of an establishment, and yet object to some things in the doctrines or discipline of the Anglican Church, as do the members of the Church of Scotland, and as did th. early nonconformists in England, notwithstanding they considered it the duty of Christian legislatures, to entwine Christianity like a golden thread, with civil institutions. Modern Dissenters, for the most petrt embrituo both objections." And again, in refer• ence to the same distinction—" It (the Church of Eng. land) might be a true branch of Christ's Churci without being nationally established; or be nationally established without being a true branch of Christ's Church. We cordially approve of it as a church, and we also cordially approve of its being established; but it would be preposterous to blend the two; and it would be most injurious also to the cause which we espouse to do so, as we should thereby lose the advan tage of the two concentric circunivallations of argu ment by which the Church of England is defended; and should be advocating our faith as if it were only in the books and parchments of Parliament, and not of holy scripture." The advantage of this twofold distinction will ap pear most conspicuously when we shall have to en• counter the arguments of the Papists and the Dissenters. In reply to the former we can prove that the Churcl of England is not merely " an act of Parliament Church," as was alleged by Father Maguire, in the discussion with Mr. Gregg; but that it is a true branch of the holy Catholic Church, and would be as much so if it were to-morrow separated from the state. In reply to the Dissenter we can also prove that the Church of England is a true church; ttrat its doctrines, as expressed its formularies, articles, and homilies, are in accordance with holy scripture; that its discipline is pure and exemplary ; that it is not right to dissent from it ; awl that its alliance with the state is justifi able on scriptural grounds,and is a source of reciproca] benefit to the church as well as the state; and, conse quently, that it is a blessing to the community. In the progress of our observations it will be our painful but imperative duty to point out the dangers to which the Church of England is exposed from ene mies to its spiritual welfare which are to be found nestling in its own bosom, particularly from those who, carried away by the spurious liberalism of the day, have imbibed foolish and extravagant notions respecting " Church Reform ;" and from those rash speculators who would wish to assimilate the Church of England the apostate and fore-doomed Church of Rome. I n handling these matters we feel that much delicacy and circumspection are necessary : we shall, therefore, en deavour to express ourselves as dispassionately as possible, and to give utterance to nothing but what springs from a patient and candid investigation. Before proceeding any further it may be as well to state that, besides the Papists and the orthodox Dis senters, there are several other _classes • of formidable enemies to the church—formidable, not so touch on ac count of their numbers, as on account of their unremit tingzeal and persevering exertions. Among these the most conspicuous are the Infidels and the Unitarians. The Infidel class comprises the blasphemous Atheist, he licentious Owenite, the sneering geologist, and the practical unbeliever. These men hate the church with immitigable hatred, and seek to compass its destruc tion with the most pertinacious zeal, because it inter noses a bar to the spread of their abominable doctrines, or imposes a restraint upon the gratification of their unlawful passions. They hate the church because they hate Christianity ; and their hatred to it is exactly proportionate to the scriptural purity and integrity of its doctrines, and the efficacy with which it aids in the promulgation of those doctrines. Tire Infidel enemies of the Church will not rest satisfied with the separa tion of the Church from the State : they will seek to accomplish its demolition as a spiritual corporation. This class of enemies embraces many of the most dis tinguished philosophers and the most profound sego tars of the day ; and their activity in disseminating their baneful principles is unceasing. There is little, however, to fear from the more open and avowed In fidels of the day. Their attacks upon the sublime verities of our holy religion, through the medium of the Established Church, are, happily, too offensive to the wholesome religious prejudices of the people of England, to inflict any extensive mischief. The insi dious assaults of the sceptical geologists, materialists, and neologists, are far more dangerous in their cha., racter ; and it is, therefore, incumbent upon the clergy of the Established Church to warn their flocks with all diligence against these advocates of " philosophy falsely so called." It may also be necessary that the discipline of the Church should be scion exercised upon certain Professors of Infidel science, who are now pursuing their unhallowed speculations by means of the very leisure and pecuniary advantages which they derive from revenues which belong to the Church, and which were originally designed to promote the cause of Scriptural truth. Closely allied to the Infidel enemies of the Church we find the Unitarian. Indeed, Unitarianism has teen defined as a sort of " incipient infidelity; " for ‘ve find that most of those individuals who have flocked to the standard of open unbelief, have passed over the inter mediate and proximate ground of Socinianism. The Unitarians are subtle and dangerous enemies of the Church. They make up for the paucity of their num bers by their station in society, and by their restless energy in seeking to instil their dangerous dogmas into the minds of the superficial and half-educated among the people. It is, perhaps, not generally known that the great majority of the popular school books of the day have been written by Unitarians, and that no opportunity which presents itself for introducing into NI MO • .7.1‘,111 these elementary works their insidious tenets is omitted. We can state this as a positive fact from our own expe rience; and any teacher of yonth may satisfy himself of the truth of our assertion, if he will only make the necessary examination. We would, therefore, caution those who are entrusted with the responsibility of in structing the young—a responsibility secondary only 'ji. '~ - to that of the ministerial office—to exercise a sound diseretion in the selection of school books, lest they should be accessory to the ruin of those who are placed under their care. This is mote pat ticularly necessary in the case of female teachers, as the proportion of books written by Unitarians for the education of females is much greater titan those which are designed for the tuition of boys. The poison is chiefly to be found where its presence would he least suspected. • ~(1 ;32 bf ,/d Isti /I ' I - :24111 1;~ , f It should also be borne in mind that the Unitarians have been the most active instigators of the recent. movements against tithes, church rates, and that. the various bodies of orthodox dissenters have been almost literally the tools of this wealthy and influential class. In order that our readers may be in possession. of, the principal grounds of objection, urged by the Dis., senters generally, against the existence of a Church Establishment, we shall quote the language of one'of their principal writers, Mr. Binney. He says "Truth cannot be injured by fair and full discussion, and , by open and uncompromising statements. 1 have no hesi tation about saying, that 1 am an enemy to the Establish ment; and I do noi, see that a Churchman need hesitate to say that he is an enemy to Dissent. Neither of us would mean the persons of Churchmen or Dissenters, nor the epis copal or other portion's of the universal Church ; but the principal of the national religious establishment, which we, should respectively regard as deserving, universally, oppo , sition or support. It is with we, I confess, a matter of deep,' serious, religious conviction, that the Established Church- is great national evil; that it is an obstacle to the progress .of. truth and godliness iu the land; that it destroys more souls than it saves; and that, therefore, its end is most devoutly to be wished by every lover of God and man. Eight or wrong, this is my belief; and I should feel not the slightest offence if a Churchman were to express himself to we in Pre- • cisely the same words with respect to Dissent." In addition to this explicit declaration. of hostility, we subjoin an extract from a tract published by the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, in which the objections of Dissenters ate very faithfully repre sented. The following is quoted from " Six Dialogues.;: • •.., on a Church Establishment—" " " My brother-in-law was a Dissenter, and Mr. Dickson; ! the Independent minister, whose preaching he attended, "and:1!).0 a': 1 ) 9 1% 0 whom he has joined win; myself in the executorship,.carna."ltl back with the mourners after the solemn service. do nota,,,it,,i mu ill like that Church service at all, Mr. Dickson,' said a. fprward. young man who happened to be preseut ; `it is very popish.., 'And why, Mr. Timkins?' replied Mi. Dickson Ido floe.' '1":". s 011 myself, as you know, approve of some expressions'in it; but ;" 4 “ 1 ;' on the present occasion 1 found it peculiarly soktinn and el" 4 pressive; it was uttered from the heart, a•ad it went. to the„ mi , „1 - heart; we ought, Mr. Timkins, to be candid; my own ss Al ron ;swim" jections in these matters lie much deeper than the wording at of a service.' Ay, Mr. Dickson,' rejoined Timkins, ` know- ••' : '- 1 . what you mean : you object to all set forms.' ' Why, not 7 ' exactly so, Mr. Thukins : there is nothing wrong in forms. as such, whether forms of ritual, or forms of prayer, rind., il l 0" praise; and the forms of the Church of England are in gene• 7,. ral excellent, many of them eminently beautiful • and the . , " sit pious members of the Church profit in the use of t hem, and doubtless find conscientious reasons for approving even of those which to you and the seem objectionable." V'.. returned Timkins, • I see where you aro: 101 l du no. li a men•made-parsons; there is no warrant for 13 shops its t: e , word of God." lam sorry, Mr. Ti nkins,' replied M,. IS-ct..- ti 4 . ( 1 son, 'to oppose you, as if for the sake, of quibbing; b t the '• ( We question of episcopacy is one which ) 013 have not stmi I have; and though I ens not myself an episcopalian, 1 c o in , readily admit that a pious and honest episcopaliau may feel as conscientiously convinced on his side as I nu mine; and I should certainly not think this alone a reason for dissenting from the Church; 1 should he very sorry to call such a ser-• vant of Christ as the excellent rector of this parish a man:. •• Made-minister. 1 could not in conscience frequent his church ' but I cannot doubt that he is truly called by the Llolv Ghost to the office of the Christian ministry, and that, his labours have been eminently 'blessed of God to the'spi ritual welfare of his flock.' 0 then,' rejoined Timkins, ' I conclude you do not like the rags of popery— fonts, and sat- • plices, and steeples, and so forth.' No reasonable man, Mr. Timkins,' continued Mr. Dickson, Christian of an enlightened mind in the present day would rend the Church of Chi ist for scruples like this. I presume the rector attributes no more holiness to his surplice than I to my gown. There used to he vehement disputes about the lawfulness of appoint. ' ing ceremonies, not sinful in themselves, and intended edification, but not prescribed by the word of God;' but on. Dissenter in the nineteenth century dwells upon points like • these. When the basis of a church is solid there is room. .for amendmeut in the details : my chief objection to the Church of England is, that it is established by law; I' shook' equally' - object to any other national Church Establishment, even were all the doctrines sound, and all the -rites scriptural.- I lay it down as a fundamental principle, that it is the. duty of every true disciple of Christ to withdraw himself from us- Tonal Church, and to bear his testimony against all' act-or-'' w!i i =S{' ,j o s ,r f t ~i parliament religion.'" P't' These extracts furnish us with something tatigibfi —something to grapple with in the shape of argument. In our next we shall endeavour to prove the fallacy of. these notions, and thereby show how utterly ground-.,.0 less are the pleas set up by Dissenters. as" reastinS leaving the Church of England, and seckin,4 its 7 :vi struction. 11If - MORAL EFFECTS OF WHIG LEGISLATION.—The fol lowing case, which will be found detailed in another column, affords a melancholy instance of the moral effects of the new marriage act. A man of the name of William Paine, residing in. Clapthorne, Northamptonshire, married a young girl-, in the same parish, about seventeen years of age, and, after living with hei three years, died six weeks ago. A fortnight since the Rev. Mr. M'Donald, minister of that and adjoining parish, was requested to publish , the banns of marriage between this girl and a •youth of the name of Taylor. Struck with the indelicaci•Of the proceeding—her husband having been dead only a month, the reverend gentleman was induced to make further inquiry, when, to his astonishment and .disgust, he discovered that the youth Taylor was the mate child of Benjamin Paine, a son of the aforenier- tioned William Paine—that he was a 7117 . 7101 . —had been affiliated —and that, in reality, had he complied. with their wishes, he would have been assisting. a marriage between a young man and his own sirandlather' who is likewise under age! Considering that it would be a wicked and incestu ous marriage, the Rev. Mr. M•Dunald, who is an ho nourable and intelligent member of the church, re- fused to publish their banns; and the varties betaking., themselves to the registrar of the districi, tiley..ha . ye: been asked before the Board of Guardians Oundle, and will be married according to the rules of the new marriage act. A more monstrous proof of the disgraceful effects of this blot upon our statute book can scarcely be im' agined. It is a fact which must be known in the coun try in order to open the eyes of its deluded inhabi tants, and point out to them the mischievous and in~- mm•al consequences of the so much lan;led marriage act. SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.—We have much pleasure in calling the attention of our readers . to the announcement of Sermons to he preached to . Christ Church on Sunday next, in aid of the Sunday School Society for Ireland, which will be found in .our advertising columns of this date. In .orderito rec Our-, mend this excellent Institution to the support of tho , • friends of scriptural education, we cannot do better than give the following extract from the evidence of • the Right Honourable Frederick Shaw - , M. f , r. the. University of Dublin, On the subject of the Irish Sow, , • day School Society, taken before the Select Corninbto. • ' of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the progress and operations of the "new iilan Of e4l'" cation in Ireland" taken from the. Repo,:t. of. 6 a- id Committee, ordered by the Hone of Conntioriq'to lje printed, July, 1837 :—" MY own opinion. is, that ;HQ- Sunday School Society for Ireland is the most useful Society in that country connected with t h.edocation'• • of the humbler classes of the people. • In 'fbrnrinethis opinion, I refer particularly to. the simplicity OiL,the principles and the operations of that Society ;'it,exerci..:, ses no control over the internal regelationS • School in connexion with it; it uses no inteffer,ding :ence•,--‘ beyond that of friendly advice; it g ives nu' r• book of any kind except the pure, Scriptures,;:- anti • Ca while it gives to none who do not ask it assiStariCe,, when it give:, it gives freely and without annexing any condition to the grant. I likewise greallY.ad!!6l.-b• the high religious tone of the education which. the Sunday Scheol Society imparts; and I r ipl - ,, , ard:4 .( ? l 'e of its most important and striking characteristics, 'the, relatio:n which this institution establkhes; hr' n icans of , its Gratuitous Teachers, bntvreeri the Titft ~ ;h~~ ~~~ ~a ~_'' E rrt ~.