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'arish ( 1E VES sheet of pure N. SINGULAR ilk . shop me of totall ridenly drew out tl is extra pared, the 1 he emplo Robe te nece 114-awde making I [t is one of tt It explains every 'thing ! is crowned with Over the in spring, cow, ,ngbau, - a. pretty bi Vheii I first -Fortun Granger, re- Skew window and her e Hon. Mrs. Skewton's )ping the whole of le in and out Withers, the wan ately under the ne dairy, where i. ;onnected with .en donkey cart, rew there, and was OF COMMONS ;aid at the time, oc- lbled in his bosom, anc threw it on the floor ral disposition to by which most men would haie been disconcerted and by a few brilliant sof the house. Let us,' les from our heads and e all ou he hopes of eternity.'" who had trampled it in sneered at .as a stage I been 'rance to a Birming- I received it only on that inaes Bland Burgess only that there could have tion for public exhibition a a time when all was emo- Lord Sidinouth Life and Ti The 4rattan's narrative, whilst re- as a first-rate battle regiment, was, when and serious events of that busy time left a t for trif Phis is not wond rnore Riberniec 1811, t amusement to the Many of A Anglicised Irishmen, tamed b , ut raw, roaring Pat- sand. rogue, their bulls, and an exhaustless stock of gaiety. he amount of fun and blunders furnished by such a But if in quarters they iervice ( was justly appreciated led a larger_ proportior good-humoured quizzing', i iii—m—a. taken si aphorical phra which t vice was to b, .ofane authorities, atement, that the to the view will do ANCIENT NE:cI led by Mr. Orattan. uld walk into r a pleasant one " the ho ly termed themselves steers. The eontempi of it, r e unsuccessful siege of under Lieut. Grattan's lot - gave the lie to his prediction by up a shout of triumph at their sue- ituries, we cease to have e DivinE caravan to sixty for they ffuiding light of the Scriptures respec ry supply any ; bu ley on ti supposition gives incre only an extent equal to passage through the city from one ( er, or to the compass of its walls; 1 its circuit is no doubt meant prophet " began to cut ," and delivered his m The into the sage, has thmightan objection to this idea, for it has been lerstood to signify that it took him that time to reach articular site in the capital, after he had passed the ly broUght under t' it the extra ,ppropriate for the g this, the site in 'O4 of the imperial re- er of the city was speed s notice, may have been lity opposite to that at which lie entered, so d through it from end to end in the period It is true 'd f it had been buil sly informed the city was oblong in I.lel to the Tigris being nearly nth of the two othi s, we - may clearly con- 'scribe the length, and e three days' Journey the circuit. The walls of Nine 11 circumscribed an area equal to that of Babylon iodorus Siculus Ol states its dimensi ons at 150 stadia long. Al • • —.tee. Assuming, as is . stitch to be meant, or the distance ,o ends 43 'e foot-race at Olympia, the ek measure, t} circuit of the city would Ifty-I Now, Xenophon, in Thousand, twice states the Greeks rasangs in a march of four days, arasang is equal to 30 stadia, ^d to 150 stadia. Herodotus, —4 from Sardis to Susa, This is the length e two ends of tti to about fifty-five miles journ€ Measuring the royal roa 150 stadia for a e s journey Lnce compassed, according Tiber, c trequer tudent wa Jed to Nineveh, .the d ~., a city of three days' journey in circuit, and its assigned circumference to 480 stadia, are closely coincident, especially when we remember that the Greeks, in estimating distances, allowed a certain number of stadia t 6 every day, independent of the casual hin drances or facilities that might arise to progress. In the , regions of civilizaiion, no parallel case exists, or what may be deemed an approximation to it, of a city occupying .such an extent of ground.—Lowe'B Edinburgh Mag. i the day's journey of Jonah ; and the ;entation of it SKETCH OF THE REV Our Portrai ne contains sting a t no over to 31. His ,le, COW A.ccordi I himself to I terms there t visits to I as heir presum .t the The young man what was to be don Eittrature. NOTICE on Friday, at the Blue Coat Hospital 1ONOURAB: TE COMMONS 0: INGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRI tion of the un e Parish and -Chi, your pet )nal education, whict e formal re Id rule the insp, ltellectual ,ional education, of that most it lustrial with ing one of th 1 teachin an element into national edu struction ions of thi inutility-1 ition which labour, now constantly in- .ety highly ar ss remunerativ s also view with approbation the tnnspd tt ificial, are nuated school- and 'they trust that the wise liberality of the notlert Lovet ;eyed the vestr prescribed uccess of N$ lay the only hope of hi the advice wa: result, under God, issued in the eile's valuable life. A few years leluded his sermon, in the is, Lord accompanied by Lord Brough- n illustration bor- INl`Neile to mor rious tt favourat portunit fection, for master ,rth to ins of intelligence and 6ppily, at present, too often the refuge of the incom- Your y your petitioners do, the opinion that it is ,utyof the state to provide that its subjects uties, as it is its proven o pinish than its coercion by punishthent have witnessed with much surprise -ehement opposition which has been given to the plan of national education, developed in the recent minutes of the committee of her Majesty's Privy Council on Education ; and they would deplore, as a great national calamity, the relinquishment of this plan by her Majesty's Ministers ; knowing that the question is no longer between the scheme now before the country, and 'mile other to certain classes apparently less objectionable; ..2sent plan, and the total abondonment of the duty of promoting education, which s been held by the best and wisest as one of , en the pr Inctions of government. s, therefore, humbly pray that your will sanction the plan which has been .ecent minutes of the committee of her ivy Council on Education. 3etitionE Ind your petitioners will ever pray THE LAKES AND CANALS OF AMERICA. NORTH (From Simmonds's Colonial Magazine.) 'he justne geographical of these praise, •gely towards dividing the territory of " Un from the domains of Queen Victoria are If degrees of longitude, they seem, regarding them map, to rest like a crown of waters upon the he union, their centre of gravity ; the island of Macinac, balancing upon the meridian - which separates Indiana and Ohio, equi-divides Kentucky and Tenetsee, and passes between Georgia and Alabama, and East and West Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico. The difference in the latitude of the northern and southern extreme points estimated area of country draining into theni is 400,000 square miles; the extent covered by the waters of the whole is 93,000 square miles, divided as follows :—Onta- rio, • 6 000 7 • Erie, 77 9 600. St. 1 'Cllir 1 060 Michigan, including the bay, 24,400 ; Pk —4:—. nf T.nlma " ( ; Huron, 20,400 ; Superior, 32,000. feet above the level of the sea ; which elevation is attained by unequal gradations, each lake rising above the previ ous one from Ontario to Superior. The surface of the waters from Ontario is 232 feet above the tide-water of the St, Lawrence—Erie rises 333 feet above Ontario—St. Clair, 6 feet above Erie—Huron and Michigan are 13 feet higher than St. Clair—and Superior rises 44 feet above The St. Clair is by far the shallowest of any of the Lakes, the average depth being about 20 feet ; Erie aver ages in depth about 85 feet—Ontario 500—Superior 900 — Huron and Michigan, 1,000, as nearly as can be arrived at. The deepest soundings are found in Lake Huron : off Saginaw Bay, we are told, leads have sunk 1,800 feet, or 1,200 feet below the level of the Atlantic Ocean, with out reaching the bottom. t difference is 0 vable in the transparency and several lakes. Those of Onta- purity of the waters of the southern parts of Michigan have no pe• .ce—while those of the northern part of Lake rio, Erie, and tl culiar excel your any waters of which we have ever drunt though a still greater purity and a higher relish by those Ice, to d Superior So completely transparent are the wate s of Huron through the cloudless atmosphere, without meeting with solid Matter in suspension to elicit their heat. Thiis Dr. Drake accounts for the fact, whicn he himself ascertained by experiment, that the water on the surface, and that 220 feet below the same spot, had precisely the same tempera ment, fifty-six degrees. lakes is Uninterrupted for the distance of 84 east to west : the distance north and south is, various, ranging from 347 miles as the extreme distance The country to which these waters are the great I of transport has often been the theme of high-s loaium. for the variety and rid )f course )ug - ht ei- extent of its resource, well as the extent to which fertility has been subjected to the hand of culture, and the rapidity with which these re sources are being developed, under the life-bringing touch of the enterprise which peculiarly characterises its inhabi tants, is gathered from the bare glance at the fact that the commerce of the four great lakes, including all capital afloat, during the year 1843, was estimated by the Topo graphical Bureau at 65,000;000 dollars. The total United States on these Lakes for the improvement ne cessary to protect and convpnience this commerce is stated by Mr. Whittlesey, of Ohio, at 2,100,000 dirs. When the projected ship canal around the Falls of St. Marie shall be completed, the wide expanse of Lake Su- perior will be added to the present extent of the lake naviga tion, allowing the adventurous commercialist to crowd some 175 miles still farther north, and several hundreds the whole expense of improvement is estimated, if we rightly remember, at 230,000, dollars. _ By this compara- y small outlay, access is at once obtamect to me wnoie country tributary to Lake Superior—a tract so rich in tim ber and mineral wealth, that it has not been unaptly America ,ally marking the disinterestedness and singleness of _ mind with which, from the very outset, he devoted him self to his holy calling, characteristics, for which every HOW NORAH, OUR IRISH SERVANT, DID step of his course had been as remarkable up to the From " The Greatest Plague of LY'e, or (resent hour. His resolution being once determined, a Lady in search of a good Servant." Tr. M'Neile's course of life and study was influenced But though Norah Connor went on very well just at orlingly. Even then he appears to have commenced first, still, after a time, she got so frightfully famili ar a nd ing the poor in their cottages, reading to them, and presuming, that really the woman used to speak to me as 'sting them in matters of the deepest moment. In if I was her equal ; norcould I for the life of me get her 'lv part of the year 1820, Mr. M'Neile was ap to pay me the respect that I felt was due to me. Now, ` ,, e curacy of Stranorlar, a village about seven for instance, I remember, one morning, about two months before little Annie was born, I rang the parlour bell, and the woman came into the room I said in a quiet " I want a glass of water to drink, Norah." " You want to drink a glass of wather ?" she replied. ,ne career of the reverend gentleman since his entry " Well, I've no objection. Drink away, darlin' !!" into the church is familiar to most of our readers. Those " Then," I continued, blandly. " I should feel obliged to whoin it is not so well known we must refer to the if you would be so good as to let me have one directly." pages of the Dublin University Magazine. " Let you have one_?" she exclaimed. " Faith, an' ldventures of miles from the episcopal town of Raphoe, - on the banks of the river Finn. Here, amid a numerous and intelli gent ProtPQ+--' ' ceene of his first .t poyulation, was ti voice didn't I give you EeTmis§ion just now . . . ANECDOTES OF FERGUSON OF PITFOUR.—There are This was past all bearing ; but I restrained myself, and some men, whom no position can render ridiculous, and merely said, with becoming dignity, " I didn't have you there are some quite the reverse : of the latter class was up stairs, Norah, to know whether you would permit me Ferguson of Pitfour. Ferguson's notion of the essential to drink a glass of water in my own house, or not." quality of a Lord Advocate was tallness. "We Scotch To which she replied, as familiarly as if she were speak members," said he, " always vote with the Lord Advo- inn- to the servant next door, " Well, by my cowl, when cate, and we therefore require to see him in a division. I 'heard you ask me if I'd let you have that same, I Now I can see Mr. Pitt, and I can see Mr. Addington, thought you mighty stupid at the time. An' what is it but I cannot see the Lord Advocate." His lordship ev i- you do want, then, mavourneen ?" dently not rising to Ferguson's regulation size of a states- 4 Why," I returned, in measured terms, rer man. One evening, as Ferguson was taking his dinner my station, " I want what I told you before, as -room, some one ran in, to say, that " Pitt a Person could speak—a glass of water." " Every one rose to leave the room, ex- ` Why, then," she cried, "by the powers !if I wen pt rerguson. " What !" said they, " won't you go to You, I'd get it ! Isn't there plenty down stairs , honey ?" sear Mr. Pitt ?" " No," he replied,. " Why should I ? " But, I continued, calmly, ` perhaps you will be do you think Mr. Pitt would go to hear me ?" . kind enough, Norah, to bring me a glass up here. REPEAL AND FAMINE. — The famine has taught the " Och !' she exclaimed, "so an' it's only a glas you're empire an important lesson as to Irish repeal. For many wantin me to fetch you, afther all ! A glass wid nothin' years past that country has been convulsed and the empire in it, is it you mane ?" harassed by the loud and threatening demand for the re- " No, I replied, almost losing my temper, " A glass peal of the union, and the incessant outcry that the Irish of water, woman, and not a glass without anything in it ! people are perfectly equal to the duties of self-govern- Do you understand me now ?" ment, and that all their distresses have been owing to the " Out an' out," she cried, with a nasty, low wink. oppression of the Saxon. The wind of adversity has <<You'd be havin' a glass of wather wid somethin' in it ! blown, and where are these menaces now ? Had Provi- Oh, , go along wid you—wanting a drop on the sly, now ! dente punished them by granting their prayer—had En- You re takin' to the bottle, though, betimes this mornin', Astrwri (..+ +ha v.-trio ac Mr I:MA.(4r cairl (mil la thorn art_ I'm thinkin'." . rthering plainly as n the mile: vas on his 1 6.4.1 U tAll, LUG 1 lq/C9 0, 1.111 • .11.1.,G1J1L,n Calla, ILII.I 1,1.. 111 C 111 SW, where would Ireland have been at this moment ? Drift- I'm sure my fair readers can easily imagine that this ing away on the ocean of starvation. Let this teach them threw me into such a passion that it quite made my blood their dependence upon their neighbours, and let another boil. I told the fury to hold her tongue, and never dare fact open their eyes to what those neighbours are. En- to open her mouth about such things again. But the im glllaTl has replied to this senseless clamour, this disgrace f I ingratitude, by voting £10,000.000 sterling in a single rdent hussey only made me worse, for she kept declaring mum was the word with Norah," and saving, " that I to re' '1- '- '""'t go a • ' '-t her findin'9ut my sly year, _ _—.ve the distresses which the heedlessness and needn , nurryin' mysilf abou. ---- indolence of the I r i s h h a d b rought upon themselves. We th r icks,'' and t e lli ng me t o b e " asy, for that the masthe r say advisedly, brought upon th emse l ves . F or mar k- should never hear of it from hersilf.” worthy circumstance ! the destruction of the potato crop So that at last, I declare I was positively obliged to run has been just as complete, anti the food of the people has been just as entirely swept away i n th e 'W est Highlands lup stairs into my own bed-room, in order to get rid of th e of Scotland as in Ireland, but the re kis been no grant of , creature. There I threw myself on the sofa, in the most dreadful state of mind, I think, I ever was m all my life ; public money to Scotland. The cruel Anglo-Saxons have ( and, torn with all kinds of horrid ideas, I said to myself, given it all to the discontented untaxed Gael in E mera ld ! " Norah washes very well, it is true—but alas ! what Isle.—Blackwood's Magazine, 1 washing - can compensate me for this !" Chapel o. {UGH APNEIL: s month's Dublin Un )f the career of from which v speedily to E Henry, nc brought t his safet a too late fly referring to X.ntrim sly ill : his canwhile ti .t this juncture some con . v . ersation with ight, especially at the accuracy c -owed from naturally philosophy, The circumstances which 1 and to the adoption of the church as a ision we also give entire The late Lord Byron occupied, at that time, his site side of the Lake of Geneva, and h in the same circle in which tly to be met y, in I few young and else - w - here, I to have turnec opportunity of seeing tontine der circumstances more better purpose In left on his mind was inasmuch as, even then, a wholesome dread of the fascinations, than an ardent attraction (as might have been apprehended) towards the elegancies with which it abounded. His first insight into fashionable life may be said to have been at this time, and under tne auspices just mentioned ; and his mind, happily recoiling from t frivolous amusements and worse morality of con tinental life, seems, for the first time, to have discovered to itself the latent seeds of that principle and piety which have since been so signally developed, as well as the de • ith, of which ever since h( to which we would wish to se experiment was er Phe r, t three years were passed principally at Bath the •»se of which, the good principle see , - - teen si, _; at work within him. Still, he mixed ety as before, and was much courted and admired Meanwhile, the study of the law was becoming more and more irksome ; and theology gradually took firm hold of his attention. Justinian was succeeded by the Bible, and the reasoning of Butler, or the eloquence of mpion. ,It is not the ordeal e young men generally ex- nently successful leslgne g the ccu Barrow forth a than the learned lore of Blackstone or Coke. And thus matters went on till the year 1819, when his uncle was astounded by the first intimation from his nephew, that he was contemplating to renounce the law, and embrace t + once a death blom mablv cherished Church as a profession. This was t to all General 111'Neile's fondly and re hopes and plans for his nephew's advancernent. His avowed object all along had been, that Mr. M'Neile should make the bar a stepping-stone into parliament, ith and influence would easily have procured t, and where his own talent and assiduity must as certainly have ensured his success. Such being his hi tentions, he naturally discountenanced, in every way, Mr. M'Neile's entrance into the Church. But the young man had . already counted the cost; he clearly foresaw the pro- but poiverfully, assuming form and reality within him his high resolve had not been rashly adopted, nor was it lightly to be. abandoned, and at last he firmly, but re- fully communicated ue that profession, of which only, in his approved. Without going so far as to I, that for this Mr. M'Neile sunk in his uncle's af hich he must have risen in his esteem, since we are borne out in sta. for this he lost the bulk of his uncle's fortune, which otherwise, in all human probability, had been his. Of is moreover, 3e could not unaware, since many friends reasoned with him, he had ample time to reflect, and the door of return was open to g daily ,eotch settl 17957 and was chie ie University of D Lrked out .1 had: s chief part of his time D BROUGHAM attach Ln. M D that the young law- ND ME to have been ependently of 11 this THE LIVERPOOL gTANDAIID. GOVERNMENT EDUCATION The following petition was agreed to at the meeting of THE UNITED AND, IN PAR- save been ocial position 'erence of t pools v Catholic c he had a voic jury) a su UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS Rev. John 'Hamilton Forsyth, M.A. of Trinity College, 'Cambridge, has been appointed domestic chap lain to the Marquess of Thomond. The clergy of St. Asaph are about to present Lord Puwis with some substantial mark of their gratitude. A bill is now in the House of Commons, for dividing the Rectory of Doddington w. March, in the Isle of Ely, n,n of returned at £7,306 per annum. rectorial rights of St. Stephen Coleman, Fer;clinrch-street (now vacant), in behalf of the district Chu The value of the I 3111 £l5OO to 1 The installatio: ivingi it is said, Albert, as Chance rsity of Cambrid unless a general el e, will take place some !ction should interfere to The venerable lanrea Wm. Ivor .e, ECEDER THROUGH TRACTARIANISM TO s rumoured that an Irish gentleman, son- -law of a noble earl, and who made him's'elf niish Church. His shown itself by the agents, pro hall 3 be into the I princip his advocacy of reprodurtive labour, is Lame to the list of perverts to the Ro- ne time Roman didate for liny office in tlie - disposal of which ce—no matter how well qualified the Protes itor. Having lately (as foreman of the grand of money for distribution to charitable socie gave it all to the Romish charities of the assize h there are several most meritorious Protes- To crown all, he appeared in the bias towards Popery has fc invariably given tat ant charities in it, in his hat .eets on the Monday before Easter with palm a melancholy exhibition truly.—Church and State Gazette IRELAND n with arge cargoes of grain arrived at Cork on Wednesday in a short time after purchased a gun f or one poun d. , He was afterwards discovered begging. The young Earl of Belfast has given £BO, resulting , from the sale of his own musical compositions, to the Bel fast relief fund. The Rev '3 Pounden.rector of Westßort, died on nan, convicted of the wilful murder of Robert Frisb was sentenced to be hanged on the 10th of May. Twenty-one vessels are to sail with'emigrants from Cork to the United States and British Colonies within a few weeks On Friday and Saturday, four vessels sailed from Lime rick with 1000 passengers, including many independent farmers—nearly all for British America. There are 15 other vessels to sail in a few days from the same port. The southern landlords also contribute to the emigration. The Cork Constitution gives a list of articles required weekly for the workhouse in that union. Among the articles are 5,396 gallons of boiling milk, 239 gallons of new milk, 1000 lbs of salt, 560 lbs. o f mu tt on c h op, 2 chests of tea, 345 chickens, 100 sacks of flour, &c. The brigantine Coquette has arrived in Dublin, with a full cargo of corn, meal, biscuit, &c., shipped at Balti more, U.S., for Demerara, and thence forwarded to Dublin. This is the first importation of bread-stuffs into the United Kingdom from the West Indies that has been ever known. A "monster" trial has just terminated in Cork, after ix days of hard labour. It was an action brought by a Ur. Oliver against the Cork Steam-ship Company, cover damages for the loss of eight very valuable horses, which were shipped on board the Jupiter_for Bristol. The izes, Catherine Coglan was convicted of Margaret Foran, a woman upwards of ninety years of age, on the 22nd of February. The un fortunate woman was sentenced to be executed on the 23rd of April, at Athy. The cause of the murder was to obtain the cabin in which the deceased lived, and three- quarters of an acre of land attached to it. About an hour after the sentence the culprit announced that sh e was enciente The progress of cultivation in Ireland, under present is exceedingly consoling. In one large circumstances aistriet in Vv . spring business wilt completed by Saturday next. In Carlow there never was so large a breadth of land in cultivation ; and even Galway have been such is the progress made, that the Galway Vindicator states the cultivation of the land is much farther advanced in the country than near the towns. SLAUGHTER OF SHEEP. — About 1500 pauper labourers entered the town of Gort, County Galway, on Monday, and paraded the streets, exclaiming, occasionally, they should have " blood or bread," to flue great terror . of the inhabitants. They eventually retired without any outrage on person or property ; but their threa were not meant, for during the night 154 sheep, the property Of William Lahiff, Esq., of Gort, at pasture, near the lands of Bunnahow, were killed, and carried away. Seven of the suspected principals, in this daring onslaught, have been arrested. POISONING OF DR. GRATTAN'S FAMILY.-At the Wicklow assizes, on Thursday week, three servants. for merly in the service of Dr. Grattan, were indicted for an attempt to poison the family of that gentleman, by mix ing arsenic in the stirabout prepared for their use. Mr. Richard Grattan died from the effects of poison mixed in some flummery made by one of the prisoners. The de fence set up was that the arsenic fell by accident into both the stirabout and the flummery, although made on differ. Verdict—" Not guilty." REPEAL ASSOCIATION. ent da e wee&iy meeting of this The afendance was ,ssociation was held on Monday •va.a.cui-"6ucatiLuLv Vl nuvunance. Mr. John O'Connell addressed the meeting at consider able length, and repeated the overtures to " Young Ireland," which he enunciated on the last Monday for a reconciliation. To effect that object, he would not hesi tate to resort to any alternative, even to his retirement from the association, if he were personally considered offensive. At the conclusion of the proceedings the rent was announced to be £24. The Conciliation Hall madness is becoming rapidly more and more extinct ;—and little as we sympathise with • • • . new corn gentry against the re- lief of their own poor, which calls itself "the rish party," we yet cannot but feel that the exchange of the Repeal "patriots" for this motley extract of all parties is at least no loss. This last union of men of all parties, by the has propounded a scheme for Irish emigration,- -th and ' '-tail - 4-1 v .ated. at great leng _ in much de and apparent considered with some care. It is signed by the Arch bishop of Dublin, Lords Ormonde, Ely, Devon, Desart, Farnham, and Jocelyn, Sir A. J. Foster, Bart., about thirty Irish members of the lower House of Parliament, and J. R. Godley, Esq. IRISH FALSE STATEMENTS.—There has been much systematic misrepresentation, in the Irish writers, about the landowners in. England having Irish estates, in order to excite compassion for one party, and prejudice against another. A writer in the Morning Post, of Friday - week, having addressed something to the editor, to the effect that Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P. for the northern division of Shropshire, had received £BOOO for a certain section of his estate in 'one barony, the honourable member, in con tradiction, has asserted, in the same paper, that he re ceived £lOOO for half a year's rent at tiae end of 1845, for the land in question, in the county of Sligo, and that at the end of the year 1846, "he received nothing, and that . , nothing had been demanded." POTATOES. — One of the most extraordinary features of the recent markets in Ireland is the resurrection (if it may be so called) of the destroyed potato crop. Here and there the native Patlanders are peeping out of cover, and, daily acquiring more of their Hibernian confidence, threaten in a short time to crowd the fairs and markets. At Limerick, Galway, Sligo, Newry, Nenagh, &c., pota toes are reported to be coining forward in quantities. The report for the latter town says—" Our markets are well supplied with oats and potatoes. Indeed, we have not seen a greater quantity of both articles for sale in Nenagh, even when scarcity did not exist." And ; to crown all, potatoes are actually being exported from Ire land to Scotland, two vessels within the last few days having arrived at Glasgow from Londonderry with an aggregate quantity of 150 sacks of excellent quality. DREADFUL MURDERS—A HOUSE BURNED.—On Sa turday night, two murders were perpetrated at Kiltankin, Tipperary, within eleven miles of Caher at the Mitchels town side. The facts are these—a man named Michael Brien went to Clogheen to sell oats, and having disposed of them, he returned home in the evening. Two ac quaintances of his, named William and Lawrence Cull came to his house, and after remaining some time they his ten daughters a w g went r e t m o a n e e d d , andds i e t i ti a na r t gn e o d at . ht e tr ß hde r i a e ,fi.i n grhe a i o n n a b e s 00 0 l f t e time after, the Cull's re entered the house, and took their seats by the fire. The d a ughter who had gone to bed, meanwhile fell asleep, but was soon aroused by the crackling of fire. She immedi • ately got up, and found her sister burned to death. She then called her father, but he made no reply, and being almost suffocated with the smoke, she left the house. In a short time it was ascertained that the father was also dead. The money of the oats was taken off. Both the Cull's have been committed. FEVER SIGHTS. —The Rev. W. B. Townsend, in com pany with Sir Arnold Knight, of this town, has recently gone through the workhouse' at Skibbereen, and gives the following as specimens of what he saw :—" On entering the boys' school-room were presented to us the emaciated forms of about 40 or 50 children, the very pictures of starvation, seated on two forms placed at length on both sides of the grate, perishing with cold near the embers of an expiring apology for fire ! a cold north breeze was blowing in upon them to help their . speedy departure to another sphere! I give them a great respite in bespeaking a week for. their departuro from their present state of wretchedness!—We found the sick of fever and diarrlima brought down into the house with the healthy to the number of (deducting 225, the number in the Hospitals, from those reported diseased altogether, about 600!) 375! —We went from this to'the Hospital and Infirmary, and in a bed, 'some at the head and some at the foot, the lat ter without bolsters, or straw to make them, or anything to lift the hanging heads of the wretched patients ! From this we went to the dead house, and such a sight I never saw before !-18 or 20—(the latter the porter said)—naked, emaciated skeletons of men women, and children—the skin as if drawn tight over the empty exhausted frames ! All lying about three days in a confused mass, thrown together without any ceremony just as they died, eyes, mouths and limbs ! saving one little ewe lamb, upon whom some affectionate hand had bestowed as much care as circumstances would allow—dressed in its infant clothing —a little cap and so forth, smiling in death and upon a short plank! The very contrast made the sight more piteous ! Yes I remember where one old female frame had a piece of an old quilt thrown over hcr abdomen," 1 SERMONS IN BEHALF OF THE ST. DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS, JVDE'S The Annual Sermons in support of the Charity Schools in corn 7tion with St. Jude's Church were preached, on Sunday last, by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, incum bent of the church an eloquent and impressive discourse, in illus. tration of the following text 'or we are his wol in Chri Jesus unto good works, which God bath before ordained that we should walk in them."—St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesiantr, chap. ii., 10th verse. N elle proceeded to point out the st. of Spi- ritual death in n'hich the world was at 1 Redeemer, and how the sacrifice of hi: il love for mankind g of the reat and unme detailed, in language the most clear a ler in which the saving truths of the Sc pel, when properly received into t ermon he proved distinctly, not only fron he only hone o but from % that t us others the sinner was to be found that it was but the presumption of vain the . Sacrifice of Christ tion to place any reliance on our own acts, as being calcu lated to win for us an inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven. He contended that man—fallen man—must first be quickened to spiritual life and grace by the Spirit of God, and then that, in the words of the text, he would be " created in Christ unto good works,"—which good works would be the effect of Christ's regeneration of the man, and not the presumptuous efforts of his own weak mind. The reverend by making a fervei entleman concluded his excellent discours, sympathy and liberality The evening service was extremely well attended, con sidering the unfavourable state of the weather, and the many charitable appeals which have recently been made to the benevolence of his congregation. Amongst those present, we were happy to observe George Hall Law rence, Esq., our worthy mayor, and family. At the conclusion of the prayers for the evening, the Rev. Mr. M`Neile ascended the pulpit, and preached from the 78th psalm, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th verses :—" I will open my mouth in a parable ; I will utter dark sayings of old ; .e will not hide thein from their child LORD, and h: m to come the praises trength and his hath done." The reYereßd gentl My dear Brethren : Once more otu with you, through me, on behalf of Lenpro the high and gratifying part of practical Christianity, that they who are strong, are called upon to help the infir mities of the weak; and with reference to the edu- cation of children, our poor neighbours are weak in deed. They cannot spare sufficient time to even at tempt the instruction of their own children in imme diate compliance with the divine command ; and if they had time, they do not possess sufficient information to communicate instruction to their little offspring. Whilst they are thus doubly incapacitated from the want of time, and from the _ want of information, they are at the same time deficient of the ne ce ss ar y means of enabling them to give them anything like either a scrip tural or a secular education ; so that it may truly be said theirs is a state of great weakness. They have befor rece - ed, and I am confident they will again receive, help from your comparative strength. You have not time to teach those children yourselves ; and secondly, even if you had time, many of you have not sufficient information to enable you to do so ; but, then, in the third place, most of you have the means whereby qualified persons may be paid whilst they perform the office of instructors of a large body of the children of your poor neighbours. This is the precise position in which our charity schools stand : we support qualified persons, who impart to the children that instruction which it is the duty of every Christian father and mother to provide for their offspring ; and it is part of our Christian duty to do so—part of that Christian duty which is inculcated in the psalm which I have just read for you. The first portion of that psalm says— " Give ear, 0 my people, to my law;. incline your ears to the word of my mouth." But the second verse creates an expectation in the mind of the reader which the psalm does not fulfil. It says, "I will open my mouth to you in a parable; I will utter dark sayings." These words would lead you to suppose that a " parable," or " dark saying," would be found in the remaining portion of the psalm ; but such is not the case. The psalm consists of a series of historical refer ences, and there are neither parables nor dark sayings in it. The historical events referred to in the psalm are the same as those selected by Saint Paul, where he refers to the Jewish history. and says that the events nf. thnt tory were written as types of the events which were to oc cur in the Christian era, as well as records of the trans actions of that people. If, then, the events of the Jewish history were not merely events complete in themselves, but also types of the Christian dispensation, then indeed the psalmist was right—he opened his moutli in a parable In all parables there is the outward letter. or narrative, as well as the inward moral to be derived fiom it ; and if the Jewish history was intended by God to convey instruc tion, like the parables of our Saviour ; and if they had, as well as the outward letter of historical truth, the inward spirit of instruction, then indeed the words of the text are correct as regards the parable which it contains. The things contained in this parable were heard by the peo ple from their fathers, and they promised that they should not hide them from their' children. They promised that they would chew s rom generation to generation the praise his strength and his wonderful wo-1 now ple t and his wonderful what had the Lord then done for the peo hould make known his praises, his strength, -Is, from generation to generation ? He had established a law in Israel whichhe had commanded the fathers to make known to their children ; and if we refer to the books of Exodus, we will find that the tables containing this law were called the testimony, which were the commandments of God ; and we will also find that these commandments were shut up in an ark, which was called the ark of the testimony. So then the command ments were called the testimony ; and he established this testimony in Israel ; for even that chosen people had seri ously forgotten the coi - Egyptian idolatry they Orgotten their Go( duties towards liis Heavenly Government. It was quite evident that the Lord had established the testimony, which was the ten commandments, and that he had, also, commanded that the fathers of the people of Israel should teach their children to know and to observe that testi mony. This, in point of fact,, is the only system of Na tional Education established by God himself. He then took the nation under his especial charge, and amongst those things which he did for the nation was the estab lishment of a National Education, part of which was to teach the children the ten commandments and the testi mony, as revealed to the people of Israel. But these were not the only laws in force among the Jews ; there were the ceremonial laws of the old dispensation to be observed also, and these were observed by the people. Here the learned preacher entered into a lengthened detail of the nature of those ceremonial laws, and their effect upon, the morals of society, and proceeded to state, that they were told by the Psalmist, that God enjoined them to observe both these laws, and to teach them to their children from generation to generation ; and here the word " children " was to be understood literally, and not to be understood as the nation's children. history were regarded by St. Paul as types for the insti tution of the Christian church—that the moral law .of God (the testimony) " remains the same yesterday, to day, and for ever"—and . that the ceremon i a l l aw had ful filled its office, and merged into the Christian dispensa tion—they would say that the passage applied to them as distinctly as it applied to the Jews, and that it was fully incumbent upon them to have the instructions contained thein . moral law of G o d i ncu l cate d on the minds of the youths of their own day. The objects for which the chil dren were taught these things they would find stated in the next portion of the psalm :—it was in order that the children who learned them might set their hopes on God, and not forget his greatness and his glory, but, remem bering his mercy, keep his commands, that they might not be as other stubborn and rebellious generations had been. This, he contended, was the only true basis on which the education of youth could be founded, and it was to him, as it must be to that congregation, a source of great gratification to learn that the instruction im parted in their schools was strictly in accordance with the commands of God upon the subject. The rev, gentleman then related, at considerable length, the nature cif the instruction which the children received, and concluded by institutions. The a powerful appeal on behalf of the The two collections amounted to £7B lls. COMM lICIAI AND FINANCIAL SUMMARY rapid extraction of Bullion from the country createa oy toe excess of our imports of grain and other commodities over the exports of manufactured goods, and the decline in the stock of specie in their own cpffers, as compared with the circulation which it represents, have at length impelled the Directors of the Bank of England to resort to measures of self-protection. Accordingly on Thursday morning the following notice was posted in the Discount office of the Bank of England "NOTICT The minimum rate of interest on bills discounted at the Bank of England not having more than 95 days to run is £5 per cent. April 8, 1847." As such a step had been very generally anticipated, the effect upon the market for public securities was not at first materially felts At a subsequent period of the day, however, prices began to decline; and on Friday a very severe depreciation occurred, consols at the close of the market hiving been done as low as Bf. The demand for railway and other securities continues to decline day by day ; and holders for speculation see little short of ruin before them, all chance of escape being cut off by theim possibility to realize in the present state of the money markets. It seems to be generally admitted that a severe crisis is approaching. Our market for Cotton continues firm, being influenced by the accounts brought by the last arrival from the United States ; and in some cases an advance of d. per lb. has been obtained. Speculation however is checked by the pressure for money; and the diminished consump tion contributes to forward this very d es i ra bl e end. There seems at present little likethood of any great increase in the present demand. Some fabrics it is true are begin ning to be moved off by the manufacturers at prices more nearly approaching the rates paid for the raw material than were obtainable a few weeks ago - . But buyers. ope rate very sparingly and with great caution. The working of short time is still adhered to ; and the sufferings of the operative classes are daily becomi ng more severe. By the arrival in our port on Thursday of the new ship Seraphme, from Paraiba ' after a passagp of thirty-one April 13, N 47. Mhi l6 %K.. , N , i o SC , ..•l9kl.kl...a.l..x4llWZA=7—;.MOM=L[a days, we inife dates from Pernambuco of the 4th ult. The Swordfish had arrived out after an extraordinary short run of twenty days ;: and had proceeded to Bahia. Ex- change at Pernambuco' was firm at 30d. Freights to the United Kingdom 755. to From Rio the dates were to Feb. 20. The following is the report from the. circular of Messrs. T. Le Breton and Co., of that date : " Produce.—Supplies of coffee ha transactions therefore limited, and QOO reis to 3 milrf been scanty and decline of No reis tto, hea Pn.ri Stock,.abotr " term load at I Januar vessels of this 60s. to 62 per Bahia tannet it, Feb. 20 4,1 Hides, R 200 reis to Six per cent glish vessel low be given; to proceed to Bahia foi Merca of to-day being reis to 2,800 reis, good first nary first ; 2,400 reis to 2,500 reis, orc same month of 1846, whites, and 1,900 refs to 2 milreis fo bucci whites had been s( Hides.—Stock still he though large lots have latel ling at Grande cannot be obtained under) Plate hides have been sold at 150 3 salted exports wer hides. Ex( 50 dry te, 281 d, to 29d Prices of e 28s: hi. t( ar, white O 0 reis ; dollars, 1,830 reis to 1,840 re 31 to 82 per cent Lst rates for E' 2,500 refs to 2,00 refs . . L, 610 per mark banco ; Spanish doubloons )30 milreis each ; Patriot doubloo have been give BAHIA, to Feb. 28 of Feb. 27.)—Jobnston, Napier Whately and Co. Sugar.—E appeared anxious to realize at our last quotations of 1700 to 1800 for Muscovado, and 2300 to 2400 whites, equal to 16s. 7d. to 16s. 6d., and " and Le Breton, e week holders d. pe - r cwt. on board, ex freight ; exchange of ti he arrival Swordfisl ferioi d :ed after Cottor 1200 per arroba fo: -—l but there are hardly an —Vessels being exceedingly scarce, afurther taken and 67, 'hen 75s per ton to tl rding to destina- arils must arise from th nearly its lowest le Wedne .eneral fall in ii;.;;It1;;;iii: k of Er hannel and Great g• to the depres! the elements of firmness. and old established lines ha greater fall than £2 per share, whilst within its favourit not more than from lOs and the low priced securities only about principal effect of the altered tone of t shares has been the rapid decre In the London money market, Saturn, most gloomy day which has occurred durir pressure—a circumstance amply to I by the Gazette returns of the -" Ise of business 11" the wee to o k ending the 3rd instant declined to 85 to ices. The difference ne are market having found vl, and having at the same time s of the )t suffered a ,he Funds on was the present accounted' for for From this a reaC- tion took place up to 851, but the improvement was only temporary, and at the clos e . o f b us i ness th ey h a d again fallen to 851 to 8 for money, and 851 to 86 for the May account. .After the ordinary hours of business the decline still continued, and the money quotation was as low as 85k to R. No transactions occurred in Scrip, but the price was about 31- to 3 dis. Bank Stock left off 191 t 0196; Reduced Three per Cents., 841 to t ; Three-and a- Quarter per Cents.. 86 to k ; Long Annuities, 81 to 9 ; India Bonds ss. to is. dis.; South Sea Stock, 951; and Exchequer Bills, ss. dis. to par. During the day, as was to , have been expected, a number of vague rumouir lation, but with the exception of one relating cation in the north, which it was apprehended may confirmation, but little importance was attached to them LIW INTELL IGENCE were in circu- vceive BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY.— Ele Chancery suit, Mozlev v. Alston, was part heard on lay and The e& ftursday last, at t Chancellor's led Court. came on upon demurrer to a bill _ by four persons, who alleged that they were shareholders in the Birmingham and Oxford Junetir.-- - • lion to restrain the defendan hey mig hst twelve The bill prayed an injun deliver over the common sea The case papers, documents, funds, and property in their posses sion into the control of the lawful directors. stands adjourned for further argument on the 13th instant' the first day of the next sitting. -By th JURORS 1N TOE NEW COUNTY COURTS.- - County Courts Act the law as to the attendance of in actions not e2eeeding-X2O is - altered, i n eguww,..sheret the amount exceeds £5 a plaintiff or a defendant may re quire a jury, but in actions under that amount the judge County ( It has been enstomar in every cause to swear the jury, but by a provision in the new law they are not required to be sworn in each trial. The expense on the part of the plaintiff or defendant re quiring a jury will be 55., which sum must be deposited with the clerk of the Court, and be considered as costs in the cause, unless otherwise ordered by the judge. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE: TOWNSEND V. SYMES.—Thin trial took place at Gloucester on Friday last. The plaintiff was a young woman about twenty one years old, the daughter of a cattle dealer, at Elton, in Gloucestershire. The defendant was about twenty- seven years old. He was living on a freehold property in the neighbourhood. He had known the plaintiff about five years, and, in 1844, she had a child by him, shortly after which he promised, in the presence of witnesses, to marry her, and even went so far as to give her father £5 to buy a wedding-ring, and, on being told that he must himself procure the license, he declared his intentions of doing so immediately. At this time his parents inter fered, and he was unable to fulfil his engagements, but promised to do so on their death. This took nlooo not long after, but, in 1846, 'he married a certain Miss Lane, and this action was commenced. It seemed, however, that the defendant was a weak, foolish, young man, who had been inveigled into the promise by the plaintiff and her parents. The jury returned a verdict for the plain tiff, damages on e shilli ng . • A. CL LINS.- AU:WS M ATTER OF L OVE .—CRESWBEL V. COL -This was an action tried at the Hereford Assizes, on Thursday, for a malicious prosecution. The plaintiff is a young man, about 28, a veterinary surgeon at Leo minster ; the defendant is a Miss Fanny Collins, the daughter of a deceased surgeon, who is very well con nected, and resides with her mother at Buckfield House. On the the 15th of October, plaintiff went to the house of a want's mother while the family defenu. --.y were at churcu, walked into the drawing-room, looked at a number of books, took one, and put it in his pocket, and then went into the defendant's dressing-room ' and took up a rug belonging to her, and p u t it a l so in his pocket and went away. He was on that evening arrested on the charge of having stolen these articles, locked up, and brought before the magistrates the next day, when he stated that at the time he was taking the articles he told the servant maid who let him in that he would bring them back in the evening —that he had frequently spoken to the maid and her mistress before—and that he was entirely innocent of any felonious intention in taking them.. The defendant swore that she had never spoken to the plaintiff,.or held any communication with him. The case was sent to the ses sions, where the bill was ignored. Jane Hutchins was a servant of defendant's mother in 1843. Got a letter from the plaintiff and gave it to the defendant, who opened it and read it to me. It was a love letter. Miss Collins said that she hoped I would: say nothing about it to any one. She was then twenty. She told me she had often smiled on him, and on one occasion kissed hands to him. I got a second letter from the plaintiff, and took it to the defendant. In that he said he was afraid, from her si lence, she was offended. . She told me to tell him to come to the back door of the yard in the evening, and to listen she would come and speak to him, and show _ .aat he was not indifferent to her. He came in the evening, and she and I talked, and he listened outside the wall. She spoke very favourably of him, and said she liked him very much. He came in a week again, and sass sr at her bed-room windnw- He sere, am him ti ~poke to her. She threw up the window, and heard what he had to say. She did not speak to him, She went an a visit for some time. On her return he came again, • and saw her at the window, and spoke to lwr. She did not speak to him, but a Miss Beale, who was with her, did. The next, night he came again, and then Miss Collins spoke to him, That night he climbed up on the wall and stood close to the window. The window opened from the top, and he pUt his bead half way in. •He came often afterwards, and used to stop talking from ten o'clock at night till two in the morning. There was always another person present, generally Miss Beak. She told him she would go away with him, but she was afraid of her brother and friends. Charlotte Watts—l went to live with Mrs. Collins in May, 1844. 1 often saw the plaintiff talking to the defendant. He used to write to her under enclosures to me. Anne Edwards, a nursemaid in a neighbouring family, proved that she once saw the plaintiff and defend ant walking together near Buckland HauSe. John Fos ter, a brickmaker, residing at Leominster; swore that he saw the plaintiff and defendant walking together, las t spring, along a pathway near his brickfield, and that the plaintiff assisted her over a stile. Mr. Serjeant Talfourd addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant. He said the plaintiff had been for a long time pestering the de fendant, who had applied to her uncle for a policeman to protect her from the plaintiff. That on her going on a visit he followed her, and that she complained to the gen tleman at Those. house she was staying of the annoyance.: and he spoke to the plaintiff, and made hi m desist and leave the neighbourhood. He was taken by surprise alto ,-; gether by the reference to Miss Beale, and therefore cont' not call her to-day. He would prove that on the ell, ing after the bill was ignored the pl a i n tiff,. in a lniul_ t room of Op Royal Oak, at Leo m i ns t er , s p o k e in the mos r dishonouring terms of the defend an t. Th a t her brothe on hearing of it went to hi m , d are d hi m to repea t the lan guage before the same company ; that he did not dare. do so.; and that the b r othe r th en h or sewhipped fio l u li n " d Evidence to this effe c t was th en . g i ven . The iurY I for. the plaitltiff.—Damage, for t Ge Sp Dia Whi i t Ott Oath ?Meta Lgtro b nare orts n , 111a, 1 4r°4l at c ove 14 0n1 -"EA] Ind nig w as she "°wns, SA' ARRI - -Wan ( hleinP,