The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

__ Nay 9, 11848, ~:~~- THIRD EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m. ,ys that of per )f them Wales, orning. mated, 50,000 ; and ►n were cRATUM. The sale of 689 ti erces, 34 bar rels , an d 413 kegs American Lard, &C., (ex Yorkshire, Tuscarora, Memnon, and Charlotte,) by Messrs. Stitt, Day, and Co., announced in our fourth page for sale this day (the 9th), should have been announced for sale on Tuesday next (the 16th). :LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—TH is D AY. We have had a very lively morning at our Stock Exchange. All stocks are in great demand at higher prices, and many orders to buy were not executed from the scarcity of stock. The following is the list of business done :—Cheshire Junction, 6 i d; Erewash Valley, 7 d; Dover No. 4,2 d d; West Riding, d; London Stock, 132 i 133 ; Thirsk, 101 d ; Manchester and Birmingham, 4-shares, 2p; Sheffield, No. 1, new 2, York Midland Stock, 1041.--new, 41 541 d ; Mineral,, d ; and Newcastle, 33—ditto, late Berwick, 30. North Midland, Preference, 31 p ; Old Dovers, 241 ; North Staffords, 2# ; Gas and Coke, i-shares, 38*. with 20 hied to 5 only, es. 3 ) 1 2 Won or the 11 03 02 neck, LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE—THIS DAY. Upon a change of wind, a very large number of vessels have arrived here from various parts of the world since Friday, which came chiefly from America; but, as not many of them are laden With grain produce, the imports of such from abroad are only Moderate in amount, except Indian Corn, which exceeds 19,000 quarters; and whilst the supplies from Ireland are tolerable, we have very few coastwise. Under the influence of splendid weather, the Wheat trade In the leading markets of this country continues on the wane ; yet, in most of th e sh i pp i ng ports of Ireland, the suppl i es from the growers are reported to be small, and higher prices steadily re q uired : during the summer, however, the value of most kinds or grain must, as in ordinary seasons, depend mainly on the pVearance of the crops on the ground, and extent of imports ions from abroad ; as in the former case the result cannot be prejud ge d , and the latter, in the present critical state of the continent of Europe, is extremely uncertain. The best opi nions can s carcely be relied upon for the moment. tioNNo'e have had a li m it e d reta il t ra d e for Wheat of all descrip not s at this da's market ; the prices being again lower, we clesecrt'he decline on the week 3d. to 4d. per 7 01 bs. upon most iptiona of this Grain 4illsrtir:s,also taken off . sparingly,.at a decline of Is. ger sack Of Male" €d. per barrel on American. but fi : l3a rieY, there was scarcely any left in the market, Ss last Used samples are in moderate request, at the same price a gr lt in.4: • Be a" and Pe'ia meeting a dull sale were rather depressed in value. of O ats, being taken o ff more freely to-day, resumed the prices Tuesday last; and Oatmeal, though difficult of sale, was Unaltered in value. 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POETRY. lot , THE OLD CHURCH. • . 41 stood w ithi n th ose anc i en t wa ll s : ti me ' s ru thless sway I felt : 81 e Curtained niche was still unchanged wherein my childhood 45 .„,; knelt ; I 7 n ere Firihood's thoughts of vanity roamed from the sacred ;60 ~, shrine;- 85 , un, memories—how full and deep !—throng this changed heart at mine! • 01 • Before that solemn altar my young sister knelt a bride ; 9ft b , l!_!ewed the bridal comp an y w ith c hildi s h g l ee an d pride; 07 . ruh wreaths of fairy roses, and tears so strangely springing, 71 4 sported down the sombre aisles while marriage peals were 03 ringing. 66 ' 4 / 4 1 again at that old altar, in the sp r i ng ti me o f my yout h - - Robed 15 , Mid bands of young companions, and hand in hand with one ;14 , Whose sweetness even then was doomed —whose death-call forth had gone I ith girlahmoo,idia'sr Within these saed walls I knelt, a newly-wedded wife smiles faces, life;yet lingering, and hope still charming The old f • • May never gaze on my changed brow, nor I on theirs again. Father .• within this nobl pile, once, that looked good-bye with pain, at And rim.- • • ! 'tis thou 1 e - th e pangs thy creatures feel a one canst know once again I kneel — Fond memories are clinging fast; dark shadows claim their ~, _ sway ; ''''ung years have passed —one vivid dream—since childhood's careless day. A.ll are unchanged within these walls—all as in days of yore; lit ; Will plaints !twill be in future years, when I shall be no more; da• ht; W z ill iv i t r ;, a o u o n t d a SS mournful as my own, from living lips that come, ope t omb , old Church, along thy aisles, like voices from the Pool, 181 May, 1848 VARIETIES. fa , -' ia eg know- "i i VALUABLE LESSON TO STUDENTS.—What you do i After lt f o ts. (l4 n K now thoroughly. There are few instances i, times of a rise equal to that of Sir Edward Sag d p. °Tie of the Weymouth elections I was shut up with W I C a carriage for 24 hours. I ventured to ask him les_ at was the secret of his success ; his answer was, " I t?olved, when beginning to read law, to make everything equired perfectly my own, and n ever to go to a second Z°lg till I had entirely accomplished the first. Man of -7 competitors read as much in l a day as I read in a week; ut, at the end of twelve months, my knowledge was as % fres h as the day it was acquired, while theirs had glided 7,voy from their recollection."—Memoirs of Sir T. F. Jukrt on. L ENGLANDTAICEWARNING ?—Thatbarrierbehind -"°se protection the bonds of society have been hitherto Preserved, and a check maintained upon the violence of the h uman heart, and the ragings of the impetuosity of - " e naman character,—that salutary check which fallen t nen stand so desperately in need of,—now broken down, And s ucceeded by wide-spread anarchy and desolation : hi" 4 no mountai ns cas t i n t o th e d ep th s o f th e sea, "— t h e 1, g•-• places of authority merged into the chaos of the People, —revolutionary madness, democratic fury, distress ef nations, perplexity, consternation, and alarm,—these I t te the last signs ; we have already seen an earnest of ,„: 4 1 11 a neighbouring country, and something like the ej"ering of the storm in our own. France has had an ,ltful w arning,—aforetade of the still wider desolation i nat shall be hereafter. Their authority, as such, was deposed ; the chu rc h was t urne d i n t o a scene o f mur d erous e„ reitY thtY ; the ministers were driven from then' charges, by w ide -swelling waves of democratic vinlence,—all life ngs sacred were laid prostrate,—thndecenges of social e no longer sheltered the weak and helplesS,---the sand of domestic privacy were rifled, and all Were mad th, contusion, and blood. God has spared for a season, at . r einstated, as another opportunity to hear and repent, tI guilty nation: and He has warned us? Will En and take warning ?—Extract from a Sermon preached knthe Rev. Hugh itrNeile, Nov. 30, 1834. 4ARRIAGE BY TELEGRAPH.—The American journals fielhort a story, which, if true, throws into the shade all Zl;ae feats which have been performed by our British tele- Ph- It appears that a daughter of one of the wealthiest haerehants in Boston had formed an attachment for a c o irld s°me young man, who was a clerk in her father's thnting house; and she determined to marry him, al- Zat._ ugh her father had previously promised her in marriage nother suitor. The father having heard of the attach to Pt, fe4ned ignorance of it, but determined to cause it Inane broken off. For this purpose he directed the young a t o n l° Proceed to England, by steamer, upon business ; x. t e lover accordingly arrived, en route, in New York. 12,1ue mean time, the young lady had gained some know trge of her father's intentions, and sent a message to effect to her lover in New York by the following ex tento.o :_-she took her place in the telegraphic office in offi ce P i; _iind he did the same, with a magistrate, in the give n New York ; and the exchange of consent being ula r _ o 3: the electric flash, they were thus married by he r t,9 ll .! Shortly after, the lady's father insisted upon 44d Talriage with the gentleman he had selected for her ; alr e :_, n uge of his amazement when she told him she was ada;_ujath e xife of Mr. B. then on his way to England ; 4415 n pination of the novel way in which the cere test was performed. The merchant threatened to pro hi. _,ganst the validity of the marriage, but did not carry threat : etv rop4, alto execution. —Anecdotes of the Electric across the Atlantic, the United States and Canada are the countries to which the great mass of our emigrants proceed. But confining ourselves to British colonies, some idea of the emigration question will be conveyed by the startling fact, that the number of emigrants to Canada which in 1846, a year of larger emigration than any pre ceding one, was 32,242, amoounted in 1847 to nearly 90,000. Such vast numbers, chiefly composed, too, of the most. destitute Irish, going to sea under the distressing circumstances which marked their case, must necessarily have baulked all ordinary calculations. But it is inapos sible to read the accounts of the crowded decka, the imperfect ventilation, the want of medical attendance, and the consequent disease and death to a most alarming amount, without a regret that more care had not been exercised, or without the expression of an earnest hope that for the future some adequate measures may be devised both for the physical and moral well-being of the emi grants during their passage out. Some important amend ments, indeed, have already been effected by a bill which has lately received the sanction of Parliament. This measure secures the advantage of a medical officer for each ship ; and we would fain see every body of emigrants provided with their spiritual instructor. Of this, how ever, considering that probably not fewer than 300 would have been required for the Canada settlers alone, we must confess that we see no immediate prospect. Although, therefore, it would be chimerical to propose that a chap lain should sail in every emigrant ship, yet much good might be effected by employing a few zealous clergymen at the several ports of embarkation, for the special service of the emigrants. It would, of course, be the duty of such men to visit the ships as often as possible, to advise the emigrants as to their conduct during the voyage, and on their arrival in the new country, to bring them together into classes for mutual instruction and improvement, to supply them with Bibles and books of devotion, and to furnish them with letters commendatory to the clergyman in whose district they were about to settle. If it be said that the time is too short to allow of a clergyman making any impression upon emigrants while they remain in port, it may be answered, that though very limited, the time is peculiarly favourable to those who can turn it to account. He who speaks to persons about to leave their friends and country for ever, is sure to have serious hearers ; and-the impression which he may be enabled, by God's grace, to make upon their hearts is likely to be lasting. At all events it seems but fitting that the Church, if she can do no more, should at least speak words of warning and ex hortation to the children who are about to leave her, and commend them with prayer to the protection of their Almighty-Father. Such solemn words, dictated by sym pathetic and affectionate hearts, accompanied, too, where it may be required, with a parting gift of the Book of God, and the Common Prayer of the Church, would, it is conceived, do something to strengthen the religious im pressions of the emigrants, and secure their attachment to the " Old Country." That such good offices would be cordially welcomed by the emigrants, there can be no doubt. The experiment has been tried, and it has suc ceeded.—The Colonial Church Chronicle and Missionary Journal for the present Month (May.) THE REPEALER'S WISH GRANTED.=-AN IRISH TALE.-IN ONE SHORT CHAPTER. Nobody doubts that there was hot blood—misunder standing—difficulty—at the beginning. It is clear enough, also, that many arrangements which followed were not of a soothing kind. Nor can it well be denied; but stop a little ! The other side of the question seems to be per petually consigned to oblivion. Numbers of people are in ecstasies' with the year 1782. The wildest democrats of the present day revert with pride to the glimpse of na tionality exhibited by Ireland immediately before the Union. The grand choral of repealers is for a parliament once more in Dublin. Oh, melancholy, deplorable, al most ludicrous inconsistency ! The year 1782 and repeal ! The independence of Ireland after 1782 and repeal ! The old Irish parliament and repeal ! Plunket—a son of Ire land—talked of history being an old almanac. Memorable indeed was the year 1782. But its trophies were the han diwork of the Saxon. Bright may have been the gleam of independence which succeeded that year. The whole movement owed character and solidity to great Saxon leaders. Conspicuous is the fame of those men who pro tested with fiery eloquence against the treaty of the union ; and these were all Saxons. It is very strange, but very true, that the sinews and loins of the agitation now a-days are all begotten of Saxon spirit and Saxon freedom. There is not a letter in the alphabet of self-government—there is not a syllable in the code of municipal law—there is not a sentence in the charter of political liberty—of Ire land, which is not the lesson, the example, or the boon of the Saxon. Every thing now that Ireland demands 'is an imitation of a Saxon institution.. And Ireland only de mands these things, because for ages Saxon institutions have pervaded her soil, and imbued her people. Grattan and Charlemont are Saxon names. In all the principles for which these remarkable men contended, no vestige of a Celtic idea can be traced. Until the Saxon—conqueror as he was—touched the Irish soil, there did not grow, blossom, or bear fruit any intelligible notion of social order, or public liberty. But the gratitude of nations is not different from the gratitude of individuals. Away with the Saxon ! Can nothing cure the madness ? Large practical wis-. dom in legislation, exuberant boundless prodigality of munificence, are equally unavailing. Away with the Saxon ! But disgust may at length do what force never could have done. Honest, sober, orderly folks in Britain begin to cherish strange thoughts. And the wings of thoughts are words outspoken. Are ye ready, 0 Milesians ! for such a dawn when it breaks ? . There was nothing either very bright or very dull about the morning. Yet not a single human being you met was inclined even to whistle merrily or recklessly. And was there, then, silence, over the whole land ? Very far from it, I assure you. At the harbour of every sea-port, where a vessel of any size could come there was a most unmis takeable noise. Heavily, steadily, dreadfully, came down along the rugged stones of each quay the continual tread and tramp of armed men, who, cold and speechlessly as statues, marched towards the ships. But there was no other noise. The officers gave no word of command ; nor was any command needed. Unbroken as the stream of the river, hundreds after hundreds, without any clash, or din, or tumult, passed from the solid land on board of the floating bulwarks of old England, and without a shout or a sigh—without a murmur of adieu--without the momen tary radiance of of a smile on a solitary face—departed from Ireland. The Saxons were going. The quick strokes of the paddle-wheels whitened the waters ;—the sail bellied bigly to the wind. From Erin the Green, the Saxons were gone. Then rose from earth to sky—what ? For many a day thousands of eyes had been gazing at the bustling scene. At first, the spectacle of such crowds of all sorts of people going leisurely away with all their kith and kin, with all their bag and baggage, brought with it no distinct idea. The first loaded ship which left the harbour with such a freight took its departure beneath a shower of triumphantly derisive shouts. And so did many a vessel afterwards. But people become tired of shouting at the same thing. Likewise, a constant repetition of the same thing, which in certain circumstances will destroy wonder, does in other circumstances beget and spread wonder. The sameness of the business began to be pain ful. Countless throngs of lookers on still choked the quay : but the gibe was rarely heard ; tie cheer had quite died away. It was incredible how time lagged in its flight. Suddenly, once more, a stir ran through these gazing tens of thousands. A feeble cry—more like a cry of pain than of joy —rang from the discord of the innumerable lips. Every body was gone, except the soldiers. Of the hated Saxons, all who lived by the arts or occupations of peace, all were at length away—men, women, and children. The soldiers remained till all their peaceful brethren were on the bosom of the . treacherous sea—safer than the bosom of ungrateful Ireland. The soldiers now went themselves. It was not an hour or a day, in which that embarkation could be completed. On it went without interruption. And the people stood by, and saw it going on. Why was there not the continuous roar of exultation from moment to moment, as file after file, regiment after regiment, mass after mass of the bloody servants of the Saxon sullenly and silently retreated ? Strange, surely, that it was not so ! Strange, surely, that there was no whisper all this time from the bystanders ! Strange, surely, that the by standers, as the ships, ship after ship, sailed away with those very Saxon soldiers, began to turn their regards off altogether from the ships, and to fling unquiet doubtful glances one on the other ! The detested foreigner was gone ;—and was there, therefore, more neighbourly love among those that remained ? What ! Erin Mavourneen, is not your emancipation come ? Why is there no shout ? The Saxons are going. The quick strokes of the paddle-wheels whiten the waters. Where is the man of the ransomed and redeemed ? The sail bellies bigly to the wind. From Erin the Green, the Saxons are gone. Then rose from earth to sky—what ? Ireland is left to itself—wholly, entirely, absolutely to itself. The repealer has his wish. The sea runs between Ireland and England—and all that is Irish and all that is English. The cable is cut. The Emerald Isle is adrift. No Saxon soldier pollutes her soil ; but not a Saxon shil ling glistens in her purse. The British viceroy is no more; neither is the British Chancellor of the Exchequer any more—there. Ireland has got its own parliament. Also Ireland hasgot its own poor. Not a stiver of English mil lions now crosses St. George's channel. Not for one death by starvation now is England or the Saxon answer able. Ireland has her own exuberant exchequer. Ireland pours abundance into the myriad mouths of her famine stricken people. Shout, then, 0 Ireland ! shout ! The sail bellies bigly to the wind. From Erin the Green the Saxons are gone. The sun of repeal is at its noon. Then rose from earth to sky—what ? And they looked into the faces of each other with a dull, blank look—and from earth to sky arose the yell of wild despair, of irretrievable confusion, and of maddening perdition. The repealer had his wish. The cable was cut. Ireland was adrift—and left to itself. Order, law, justice, peace, trade, industry, money, prosperity, and—oh terrible truth ! Independence were gone away—quite away with the Saxon. And the Milesian republic endured—we blush to num ber the hours of its ephemeral and horrible existence. Everywhere the fair face of the beautiful isle was hideously seamed with scars of civil war. Everywhere mounted up wards the smoke of roof-trees destroyed, and hearthstones desolated. Everywhere over the surface of the great sur rounding ocean boomed the discordant wail of the land torn by the vultures of anarchy. Again ! at the harbours of sea-ports there was an un mistakeable noise. Over the rugged stones went the con tinual tramp and tread of armed men, who, with bursts of brutal insolence, marched from the ships. The clang of foreign arms again sounded in the cities, along the plains, and across the hills of Erin. Ireland had become the province of a foreign power which did not speak the Eng lish tongue. Ireland was that day trampled on by the iron heel of a new master, Albion, from its - white cliffs, saw the scene. But the ties had been long broken.. - THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR& THE SIBTHORP ALMSHOUSES.—The range of Bede houses erected at the expense of the Reverend Richard Waldo Sibthorp, near Lincoln, is now completed, and ready for the reception of 14 inmates, who, it is stated, will have £2 each given them on entrance, and afterwards ss. per week, with two tons of coal and a new cloak every year. T- Si EGG: TRADE. —Consid, :hl tore thal _'HE LiCOTCII . - terahly 3,500 dozen, or 42,000 , egg5. were shipped here on Tues day per steamer. It is now an undoubted fact that more money is at present annually brought into this country by the exportation of eggs than the entire rental of the coun try amounted to considerably less than 100 years ago.— John 0' Groat's Journal. Trade in Barnard Castle is deplorable, and there is no sign of improvement. To meet the emergency the Poor law Commissioners have granted the guardians of the Teesdale Union an out-door labour order. Already up wards of seventy able-bodied men, many of them with large families, have applied for employment under the order, and several have been set to work. On Saturday :the roof of a thrashing mill on the farm of Rodenlaw, near Edinburgh. was discovered to be on fire, and before the flames could be extinguished a considerable portion of the farm buildings was destroyed. The confla gration is thought to have been caused by a spark from a locomotive engine on the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, being carried by the wind to the roof, which was thatched with straw. A dreadful accident has lately occurred at Hever, Kent. A person of the name of Dawes, who was in a barn with a gun, where a person was thrashing, was told to shoot at a rat ; and it appears, that in pulling the gun over the back, or rack, by the muzzle, the piece :1 y some means went off, and the whole contents of the charge were lodged in his body. The poor sufferer expired in about an hour after the accident. On Monday week, an unfortunate man, who was well known to the metropolitan police as an amateur thief taker, was brought up before Mr. Hall for assaulting his wife, and fined 405., or in default committed for a month. The unfortunate man, who had only a few days before been sworn in a special constable, committed suicide in his cell by fastening his handkerchief through the air en trance over the door. He was, after a very short time, discovered by Mr. Tyrrell, the gaoler, quite dead. Some London thieves have lately profitably practised a novel fraud, by dressing themselves in leathern aprons, calling at the houses of gentlemen whom they have seen leave home, and saying that they have been ordered to fetch a pair'of boots to be stretched. The unsuspecting servants choose the newest boots, as the most likely to need stretching; and the masters find, on their return home that during their absence their best boots have vanished for ever. _ _ ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—A young man, 20 years of age, attempted to destroy himself by firing a loaded pistol at his breast, in the Portugal Hotel Tap, Fleet-street, Lon- don. He had had a quarrel with his brother, who had requested an officer to take him into custody, for using threats towards him. The moment he observed the officers he discharged a pistol at his left side, but the bullet had passed throught his waistcoat and shirt, and only grazed his skin. He was taken before a magistrate and com mitted to prison. A gentleman, from Sunderland, on a piscatory visit to the Coquet, commenced fishing, a few days ago. a little below the Thrum Mill, Rothbury, and, in one hour and forty-one minutes, killed, with fly, twelve dozen and seven trouts, and three salmon trouts, averaging in weight one pound eleven ounces each, and twelve of the trouts weighed twenty-one pounds three ounces. Angling in the northern streams has been excellent during the whole of the past month, large quantities of fish, in most ex cellent condition, having been taken daily. £6,000 BANK ROBBERY AT BRlGG.—lnformation has been received of the absconding of Mr. Thomas Silvester, the manager of the Brigg Branch of the Lincoln and Lind sey Bank, taking with him upwards of £6,000 in gold, Bank of England notes, and country bank notes payable in London. On leaving Brigg be stated that he was go ing to see a friend in a neighboaring village of Thoresway, but he is suspected to have gone direct to one of the principal shipping ports, and to have left the country. The bank holds security for the greater part of the mount abstracted.—Hull Herald. SHOWING TEMPER TOO SOON.—A couple who intended to be married went to a church not a hundred miles from Spalding, and the clergyman not arriving quite so early as they expected, the intended bride asked her loving spouse " what o'clock it was ?" when he roughly and loudly an swered, " What is that to you ?" "Oh ! indeed, sir !" said she, " is it so ? what will it be by-and-by ?" and im mediately left him. At the door she met the clergyman, and told him "he need not give himself any further trouble, for she would not be married."—Cheltenham Chronicle. A HINT FOR THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—The British Banner, a " most respectable " organ of Dissent, lately established, in commenting on the recent refusal of the Vestry of St. Luke's parish to continue the payment of the organist and other " Church allowances," thus ex presses the " fraternal " feelings of Dissenters towards the Church :—" There is something in the system of Church manship that blinds the mind and sears the conscience, rendering its subjects alike indifferent to justice, and in sensible to shame ! Happy they who have not partaken of its sins and are not stricken with its plagues ! " LIVE AND LET LlVE."—Last week, a lady in Hull, not a mile from Christ Church, sent for a painter to paint the inside of her room window. In doing this he con trived to break the window cord. A joiner was then sent for to replace it, but the said joiner, during the operation, broke two squares of glass. The glazier was then sent for, and while he was putting in the squares actually broke the window frame.' 'Orcourse the joiner's services were again required, who then made a finish of the JOB. Now, although this may appear at first sight like a string of coincidences, still, when we call to mind the events of the late French revolution, it strikes us forcibly that the work men in England, as well as in France, must be imbibing the principles of fraternity.—. Hull Packet. SINGULAR CASE OF SWALLOWING A NEEDLE.—SOMO time in September last, Mr, James Harker, of Kendal, upon a visit to London, while partaking of some boiled chicken at dinner, felt a pricking sensation in his throat, which he could only account for by supposing that he had just swallowed a small bone of some kind, or a fragment of one. The obstruction appeared at first to remain where it had fixed, and for some time Mr. Harker felt inconve nienced by it, but at length the matter was forgotten. About a week or two ago, however, the circumstance was recalled in a very singular manner, by a needle, nearly two inches long, making its way out of the flesh of his thigh, whither it had worked itself during the eight months that had elapsed since the accident above related, when, of course, the dangerous little implement had been uncon sciously swallowed by Mr. Harker.—Westmoreland Gaz. THE " PIKE" TRADE IN BRADFORD.—The pike trade is brisker than the worsted trade with us in Bradford. A. specimen of what Mr. Mitchell calls the " queen of wea pons " was brought to our office the other day, the work manship of one Isaac Jevison, of Adelaide-street, Man chester-road, who. it seems, drives a roaring trade in this line at present. Jevison at first took to the trade stealth ily, as if he had been engaged in some contraband trade, but now he is less guarded, and has two men constantly employed in the manufacture. He suits all sorts of cus tomers,—he has pikes for the lower, middle, and upper classes of pike-fanciers, serving them out respectively at 6d., 12d., and 18d. each, according to quality. Pretty ex tensive consignments have been made from his armoury within the last few weeks, to various parts of the town and neighbourhood. So it would appear that the demand for this offensive weapon is pretty extensive, among cer tain portions of the working classes.—Bradford Observer. THE TRIAL OF THE GLASGOW RIOTERS.-011 Wednes day the exculpatory proofs were proceeded with, after which Lord Medwyn summed up the evidence at great length. The jury then retired, and after an absence of about three quarters of an hour returned a verdict finding all the panels guilty of mobbing and rioting as libelled. Lord Medwyn intimated that the Court would delay sentence until a later period of the assizes. On Thursday the Court resumed its sittings, when James Campbell, John Gallater, John Lafferty, David Dears Muir, and John Docherty were brought up on a similar charge as in the preceding case. They pleaded " Not Guilty." The evi dence against the accused was of the stone character as in the former indictment; the exculpatory evidence was to the generally good character of the accused. Lord Mac kenzie summed up at great length ; and the jury, after having retired for an hour and a half, returned a unanim ous verdict, finding Campbell, Gallater, and Rafferty guilty of mobbing and rioting ; Muir and Docherty guilty in terms of their own confession, but recommending Muir to the mercy of the court. Sentence was delayed. Dur ing the sitting of the Court on Friday, the rioters received their sentences—one to 18 years' transportation, 3 to ten years, and 5 to two years' imprisonment. GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—The fifth anniversary festival was held on Wednesday evening at the London Tavern. The society had been founded in 1843. Its objects are to provide temporary assistance to governesses in distress; to afford annuities to aged go vernesses, by election, out of a fund provided. for that purpose; the establishment of a provident fund, for the purchase of annuities upon government security ; the pro vision of a home for governesses in the intervals between their engagements; the establishment of a system of re gistration free of expense, and of a college for governesses with classes and certificates of qualification ; and lastly. to afford them the benefits of the asylum. It was stated that the ladies' committee had during the past year inves tigated 1,719 applications for temporary relief, and had made grants to the amount of £2,245. The amount of stock invested for the purchase of election annuities was upwards of £14.000, securing annuities for ever for twenty governesses. Nearly four hundred ladies had contracted for provident annuities, and had thus been enabled to in vest safely upwards of £33,000. A house had been pur chased and furnished in Harley-street, where in the last two years 200 go ernesses had found a temporary home. About 2,500 governesses bad been registered there since the branch had been commenced in 1845, and 1,250 pro vided with situations without any charge. The asylum was to be erected immediately. The college bore Her Majesty's name, and enrolled amongst its professors some of the most distinguished men in the literary world. Many certificates had already been given after examina tion, and classes would shortly be commenced on all the subjects of female education. It was announced that a fancy fair would be held on the 6th and 7th of June next, on behalf of the building and endowment fund of the aged asylum, in the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. A SEVERE ATTACK OF RHEUMATISM CURED BY HOL LOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.—MrS. Baillie, a vinter, at Oban, had suffered during the last two years with fre quent attacks of rheumatism, which left her in a state of great debility ; in April last the pains were nlost excruciat ing, neither medicine or medical aid afforded any relief until she used Holloway's Pills and Ointment, when these valuable remedies in a short time restored her to perfect health and strength. Holloway's Ointment and Pills are efficacious in cases of goat, contracted or stiffjoints,glan dular swellings, tumours and unnatural enlargements ; they by perseverance may be always used with the most complete success.. PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO JOHN PEILE, ESQ.—The subscription lately entered into in Whitehaven by the friends of John Peile, Esq., for the purpose of presenting that highly respectable gentleman with a piece of plate, as a testimony of respect and esteem, on his retiring from the important office of chief colliery agent to the Earl of Lonsdale, was closed some time ago, since which the amount has been expended by the committee, agreeably to the original intention of the promoters of the measure, in the purchase of a splendid service of plate. Upon the occasion of presenting this testimonial of respect, a few days ago, Mr. Peile was invited to meet the subscribers at dinner, at the Black Lion Hotel, Whitehaven. The company assembled was very numerous and respectable ; the Rev. John Jenkins acting as chairman on the occa sion, and Richard Armitstead, Esq., officiating as vice. The Rev. Chairman, at the close of an excellent address, presented the plate (value £350) to Mr. Pale, a compli ment which that gentleman acknowledged in appropriate terms. The Rev. Dr. Peile, master of Repton School (and formerly of the Royal Institution, in this town), the highly accomplished son of Mr. Peile, and other gentle men, addressed the company in the course of the after dinner proceedings, which were agreeably prolonged until a somewhat late hour. FEARGUS O'CONNOR AND THE CHARTIST LEADERS. — We perceive by a report of the proceedings of the National Convention that some of the delegates are falling foul of Mr. O'Connor. The latter had, however, first fallen very foul of some of them. In the Northern Star of the 22nd ult., he warned the Chartists that their National Assembly was illegal, adding,—" I bore, and without a murmur, the indiscretion and the folly of some members of the late convention, and my reward was the payment of £l5O towards the payment of their expenses. Will you just imagine men getting up at public meetings in London, and announcing that they were prepared for battle ! You remember how Parson Stevens was pre pared ; how Peter Bussey was prepared; and you know what has become of these valiant heroes."—ln the Star of the 29th ult. Mr. O'Connor defended the use of this language, declaring,—" I hold the man in utter contempt who was capable of holding one language in the convec tion, and another language out of the convention ; and what will you say to a delegate of that convention, after having elicited the boundless cheers of an excited audi ence by an exciting speech, saying to another delegate of that convention, on their way home,—` DID YOU HEAR THE D—D FOOLS HOW THEY CHEERED ME ?' " The capitals are Mr. O'Connor's. We place these extracts before our readers as explanatory of the cause for which, as one of the speakers at the convention said, Mr. O'Con nor is to be " hurled to death, so that he should never be able to show his face among the people again." The quarrel is " a very pretty quarrel " as it stands. BILL SWINDLING.—An application was made at Lam beth, on Wednesday, by the Superintendent of the Camberwell division of police. to Mr. Ellis, for his advice as to the best means of bringing to justice a set of bill swindlers residing in Villa-street, Albany-road, in his district. The first application made to the Superintend ent was by a tradesman in Greenock, who was in want of £2OO, and to whom the sharpers under the name of " J. H. Taylor and C 0.," had, after the receipt of a post office order for £lO commission, sent two bills of ex change, the one for £l2l 165., and the other for £B3'4s. Both bills purported to be drawn by J. H. Keith, Brigh ton, and accepted by Thomas Butcher, commission-agent, Camberwell New-road, and made payable at the Com mercial Bank of London. The bills were discounted by the Western Banking Company, and some days before they became due, the tradesman at Greenock forwarded to the firm four notes for £5O each, and one for £5. A receipt for the money came to hand, but. a post or two after brought another letter from Messrs. J. and H. Tay lor expressing their regret, owing to a gross mistake by one of their clerks, his money had been taken for another person's bill, but declaring that as soon as they were in funds they should release his bills, which at that time remained protested in the hands of the banker. The Western Banking Company became urgent for the payment of the bills, and the Greenock tradesman was compelled to settle with the firm. The next communica tion which the Superintendent mentioned was from a tradesman in Newry, who, being more cautious, escaped unhurt. The inspector produced a lithographic circular from the parties, signed J. C. Hall and Co., offering to remit for a commission of 5 per cent. bills to the amount of £5OO and upwards, drawn and endorsed by one or two respectable parties, and to take saleable goods at a fair market price for a commission when bills to the amount of £5OO were requested. Several most respectable bills, in amount from £5O to £550, at three, four, and six months' date, accepted by merchants and endorsed by several parties, were stated to be on hand ready for. nego elation. The Superintendent had found out a house in Villa-street, Albany-road, Camberwell, to which a num ber of letters were directed through the Post-office, to Taylor and Co. Anderson and Co., Hill and Co., Mackay and Co., and D. D. and Co., and taken in there. The door was always attended by a female, who said they resided there, but were from home at the time ; and to a person calling fifty times a day she gave the same answer. He had also ascertained that latterly the letters addressed to this house were taken to No. 3, Wilmot-place, Old Kent-road, which was occupied by a Capt. Rutledge, who was well known in the neighbourhood as a bill discounter. Mr. Elliott directed the officer not to lose sight of the matter, but to follow up his inquiries ; and in the mean time, the publicity which the disclosure now made would obtain, would have the good effect of placing the public upon their guard. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Mr. Sharman Crawford has announced his adhesion to the repeal cause " to the extent of a local parliament." Rear-Admiral Dundas and Mr. Ward arrived at the Admiralty on Monday night, from their official tour to Birkenhead, Dublin, Waterford, Cork, and Holyhead. MR. SANDARS A ROYAL FORESTER.—On Saturday, Mr. Sandars, the member for Wakefield, was initiated into the mysteries of Royal Foresterism, at the Forester's lodge-room, at Wakefield. It is stated that the whole of the names of the inhabi tants of Newport, were appended to the Charter-petition from that town. They were copied indiscriminately from one of Kelly's Directories.—The same course, adds the Cardiff Advertiser, was adopted in that town. POLITICAL CHANGES.—The Earl of Shannon, whose family for many years were identified with the Whig party, has joined the CaHton Club. Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart., brother to Mr. Smith O'Brien, has also become a member of the same club. Sir Lucius entered parliament as a supposed n epealer at the East Clare election. • THE MINISTRY.—There is, just now, a remarkable unanimity of opinion as to the position and prospects of her Majesty's Ministers. Times, Herald, Chronicle, and Post all join in the cry that Lord John Russell and his colleagues are, literally speaking, doing nothing—that they are permitting the country to govern itself. THE DANISH DUCHIES.—In the House of Commons on Thursday, in reply to a question by Mr. Urquhart, Lord Palmerston said her Majesty's government were in negociation with the contending parties, and it was to be hoped that an amicable arrangement would be effected. The papers relating to the subject were now in pre paration, and would shortly be laid before the house. INSOLVENT MEMBERS.—A bill brought in by Messrs. Moffat and Brotherton proposes to enact that no person shall be qualified to serve as a member of the House of Commons if he shall be proved to have suffered any judgment for the payment of money, to remain unsatis fied, or not sufficiently secured, for the space of six months, unless such judgment shall affect him solely as a trustee. JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL.—In the majority for the third reading of this bill in the Commons, on Thursday, we find the names of Sir T. B. Birch, E. C ar d we ll, J . Heywood, W. Brown, A. Henry, R. Cobden, W. Jack son, Sir J. Walmsley, T. Thornley, and B. Disraeli. In the minority are Lord H. Bentinck, Sir P. Egerton, W. T. Egerton. J. W. Patten, J. Tollemache, Col. Peel, Sir F. Thesiger, and Sir R. H. Inglis. WHERE IS THE BUDGET ?—What has become of the budget ? Everybody knows that in the " Merry Wives of Windsor," Master Slender arranges his assignation with " sweet Ann Page" by a very simple contrivance—" When I cry mum, she is to answer budget !" Sir Charles Wood and his colleagues reverse this arrangement; for when the country cries out budget. they answer mum—preserving a most mysterious silence in regard to the nature and extent of their financial plans.—John Bull. INTERVENTION IN SPAIN.—One reason fdr the "no House," on Tuesday, is said to have been the desire of ministers to escape a debate on the recent " intervention" of Lord Palmerston in Spain. However, persevering Mr. Urquhart renewed the subject on Thursday night ; and the adroit Foreign Secretary not being in his " place," Lord John Russell answered the interrogator. But the Prime Minister dropt one or two significant expressions, implying that Lord Palmerston had been somewhat rather free in his mode of dictation to the ministers of an independent government. May the lesson be a profitable one ! M. Guizot was in the House of Lords on Friday even ing during the debate upon Lord Stanley's motion relating to the correspondence between Lord Palmerston, Mr. Bulwer, and the Duke de Sotomayor. The ex-minister stood the entire time by the great candelabrum adjoining the bishops' bench, between it and the Prince of Wales's chair, and seemed deeply interested in the debate. Many noble lords from time to time went up, shook hands, and conversed with him. The Earl of Aberdeen held a long, and apparently earnest, conversation with him towards the close of the proceedings. CONFLICT OF PARTIES AT CHELTENHAM.—A public meeting was held at Cheltenham, on Saturday week, for the purpose of adopting a loyal address to Her Majesty. The provisional committee had selected as chairman the High Bailiff of the manor, a bookseller, and a Roman Catholic. The Rev. F. Close moved an amendment to the address, first, because there was no sufficiently distinct recognition of the hand of God; and, secondly, because the political dogma, Progressive Reform, was introduced. The original address was supported by Mr. Browne, an Independent minister. Upon a division, the chairman declared his inability to decide, and ultimately dissolved the meeting amidst much confusion. It was announced that two addresses would go up —one, that originally proposed, and the other with Mr. Close's amendment. APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. Arthur Buller is to have the vacant judgeship in India. Mr. Henry Southern, Secre tary of Legation to the British Embassy, is appointed her Majesty's Minister to the Government of Buenos Ayres. Sir Dennis Le Marchant, the under Homo Secretary, succeeds Mr. J. S. Lefevre as principal Secretary to the Board , of Trade. and the worthy baronet is succeeded in the former office by Mr. G. C. Lewis, M.P., now one of the secretaries of the Board of Control, which place will in future be filled by Mr. J. Wilson. M.P. for Westbury. It is said that the Right Hon. E. J. Stanley, M.P. for Cheshire, will be called to the upper house in the lifetime of his father, Lord Stanley, of Alderley. The Earl of Granville has been appointed Paymaster-General, the sa lary of which office will be reduced to £2OOO per annum. Lord Granville will fulfil at the same time the duties of Vice - President of the Board of Trade, without salary. FALLACY OF GOVERNMENT RETURNS EXPOSED.—In a letter to the Standard, Mr. George Frederick Young exposes the fallacious nature of monthly returns laid be fore Parliament, of "Accounts relating to Trade and Na vigation." In the return for the month ending February sth, 1848, signed "A. W. Fonblanque, Statistical De partment of the Board of Trade," there is a long list of articles imported, from the most important to the least— from corn and cotton to divi-divi and oysters : it totally omits cotton, woollen. and linen manufactures, as if none had been imported. From the Custom-house returns for the same month, Mr. Young quotes a long list of articles actually imported, but omitted from the Whitehall return, including cotton and woollen manufactures in considerable quantifies. • On Monday night, Sir W. Somerville, the Irish Secre tary, introduced one of the " remedial measures" for Ireland so often talked about. It is a bill to settle the qualification of an elector by official valuation, instead of, as at present, by rival swearing, and so far may be good in principle. It also extends the county franchise to tenant-at-will. In England the amount of qualifica tion for a tenant-at-will is £5O; in Ireland it is proposed to make it £8 ! Our Whig ministers, that is, think an Irish £8 farmer equal in intelligence and fitness to select members of the legislature with an English £5O farmer. A proposition like this may be acceptable to the mere hack politicians of Ireland, as "a bold approach," in the words of a Radical journal of yesterday, "to general suffrage, and likely to satisfy the democratic exigencies." SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT.—The scheme of the new move ment for extending the suffrage as at present contempla ted, is something in this nature,—that there shall be six hundred electoral districts, each containing 50,000 people, and returning one member ; that all occupiers of houses of £6 per annum, charged to the poor's rates to that amount, and all 40s. freeholders shall constitute the elec toral body, and that parliaments shall be triennial. This outline has not yet been definitely propounded as the ba sis of the forthcoming agitation ; but it certainly embra ces the views of several members who will take a promi nent part in the discussion on Mr. Hume's motion. Mr. Gibson's resignation was sent in, it is said, from conside rations exclusively connected with this question ; and he has since been in constant communication with the parties most forward in the movement. —Manchester Guardian. GOOD ADVICE.—The Manchester Guardian whig paper in noticing the formation of the new reform party makes the following reflections, after pointing out the commer cial crisis through which we are passing, " Now what is the obvious remedy for these disastrous affairs? Obviously, we should say, a restoration of commercial confidence, by means of a re-establishment of political tranquillity. Every thing should be done to inspire amongst bankers, and merchants, and manufacturers, a full confidence in the preservation of order, and the stability of the govern ment. But other parties, it seems, contemplate a remedy of a very different kind. They say, ' Let us have MORE AGITATION;—Iet us attack the government, and work upon the legislature, by extensively-organised political societies. There is one political agicatiou in the country, which is doing mischief. Let us set up another, better organised, and more formidable, and try what that will accomplish '—We must confess we do not see the force of the reasoning by which this new scheme is supported. Certain gentlemen, it seems, do not find themselves quite so well received, or as favourably listened to, in the house of Commons as they expected or wished to be. Accord ing to one of these parties, they are laughed at,—a fate which we fear, generally attends those who say and do foolish things, or even pertinaciously urge measures, good in themselves, but proposed at unseasonable periods. But how can their ill reception in the house justify an agitation which must tend to prevent the restoration of mercantile confidence and the revival of trade ? Surely, there is no urgent and immediate necessity for a violent agitation, at a time when the profits of the merchant, the manufacturer, and the shopkeeper, as well as the wages of the labourer, depend entirely on political tranquillity." AN ADVENTURE WITH CAPTAIN ROCK. (From the Dublin University Magazine.) Lord Bantry returned from a fruitless search after Rockite brigands, through the villages alonc , the lake of Ichageela. He found every house deserted,' and water thrown on every hearth, and it was high time to, turn homewards, disappointed and weary. with horses blown and jaded, and many lame from want of shoes. They entered slowly in long and loose array, the eastern [north ern ?] opening of the defile. Captain Rock, with head and neck protruded from behind the shelter of a cliff, and still protected from observation by an old yew, that waved its palmated foliage around him, hung in deep suspense, watching the entrance of the last Bantry man into the pass. He seemed to fear lest he should lose one of them ; he counted them as a rat-catcher would count the vermin that he was enticing into his cage ; and now he crossed himself; he heard the beatings of his own heart like the tick of a death-watch, as fie counted the seconds, expecting every moment to hear Starlight's horn announc ing that the rock was uprooted. The Bantry men had about a mile to pass on before they came to the point over which the loosening rock im pended. At the rate they were proceeding about ten mi nutes would have brought them to it. Rock's hopes, or dashed or realised, hung in suspense these ten minutes ; and still onward the horsemen wound their toilsome march through the silence of the defile. At this instant an old man of the Mahoneys looked down from his covert, and saw Lord Bantry and his brother just passing under him. The poor fellow had once two sons, the pride of his name and the consolation of his descending years—active, hon est, industrious ; but, alas ! seduced into the Rock system, their house near Gougane Barra was searched under the provisions of the Insurrection Act, and arms and ammu nition being found concealed, they were tried at Bantry, and sentenced to be transported, which sentence was in stantly put into execution, and their aged parents were left desolate and destitute ; the mother wept her life away, and her grey heirs descended in sorrow to the grave; and the old man joined the rising, and cared not how he died. This bereaved old man saw now, as he thought, the very man in his power who robbed him of all the props of his existence, and in an agony of passion that brooked no re straint, he started upon the grey rock that hitherto con cealed him, and holding high in his withered arms a pon drous stone, His loose coat floated on the wind; His hoary hair Streamed like a meteor in the troubled air ;' and muttering the curse of him that was made childless, he cast the stone with wonderful energy down 'on Lord Bantry. The stone missed his lordship, but wounded se,. verely his horse, and immediately Captain White drew forth his pistol, and with accurate aim, fired at the old assailant, who stood overhead, still foaming forth wrath and curses. The bullet, true to its mark, passed through the streaming hair of the poor impassioned wretch, and clesed for ever his sorrows and sufferings. Down he came, tumbling from rock to rock, until he lay along tne road a mortal ruin, gray, and blasted, and bloody. Th e sight was too much f o r 'lrishmen to bear; all the pruden tial commands of Captain Rock were forgotten; and set ting up one universal yell, each man started from behind his rock, and the whole glen bristled with pikes and mus kets. " Move—march—away," cried Captain White ; "a gallop or a grave, Lord Bantry, keep a-head ; I will bring up the rear. Spur, spur for your lives ; keep moving, and they cannot mark us." Never was advice better given, or more carefully taken. Lame and jaded, the spur's rowel and the sword's point goad the horses on, and forward the whole party rushed ; and just as Lieutenant Starlight had loosened his rock—just as it was tottering to its fall—just as the horn sounded, the last loyalist parsed beneath it and turned the point ; and then down it came, a smoking ruin, closing up the pass effectually, too late to bar retreat, but just in time to preclude the enemy's pursuit. Thus, the whole well-contrived military speculation of young Rock was defeated. The destinies of Providence dashed his enterprise, and dissolved it like a mist upon the mountain. The Bantry men soon got through the defile; they joined a detachment of the King's troops at the glen's mouth, and they all retreated unmolested to Bantry. Some time after a large hody of troops surrounded and scoured the mountains, but no Captain Rock ; he had re treated in hopelessness into the fastnesses of Slievelogher ; and it cost the sappers and miners of the King's army many a blast, and many a pound of powder, before they broke up the rock with which Lieutenant Starlight, a minute too late, closed up the pass of Cooleagh. enteral Altar'lam). The number of barrels of beer exported in 1847 amounted to 132,357, against 137,270 in 1846, and 165,152 in 1845. Four thousand juvenile paupers from the different unions in Ireland, and ten thousand from England, are to be sent to Australia this year. One of the new German papers gravely states, that the original object of the Alien Bill was to deport Lord Brougham on his becoming a citizen of France. General Cooke, second in command of the United States army in the recent Mexican war, arrived at Cheltenham last week. The gallant general is a native of Gloucester. A vessel which has arrived in London from Singapore, has brought 4,966 blocks, and 415 packages of gotta percha. A SIGN OF DEPRESSION.—The Bristol Mirror of Saturday says, " A birds nest was this week fou'nd snugly built in one of the cranes on our quays!" The paper mills at Ipswich, employing two bundred hands, have been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at £20,000. In a London establishmentemplaying a lundred men, the annual loss from their wasting Monday in drinking is no less than £1,820. HoNouß FOR BATH !—A Bath paner " understands" that " Lola Mentes" received her education at the school of the late Miss Aldridge, in that city. At Hull, last week, a child three years old, having a piece of burning wood in her hand, set fire to the frock of a little girl who was employed cleaning a grate. The latter was so severely burned that she died in a few hours. " The Queen's drive," at Edinburgh, has at length been completed. It measures nearly three miles and a half, and encircles the romantic and beautiful localities of Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Craigs. Lady Mary Murray, wife of Sir James Murray, has be queathed to Middlesex Hospital the sum of £lO,OOO for the purpose of building and endowing a new ward in the hospital, to be called the " Murray Ward." On Friday, a pipe from a boiler on the premises of Messrs. Dakin and Co., tea-dealers, St. Paul's Church yard, London, exploded, and Mr. Dakin was struck vio lently on the forehead and immediately killed. It may be mentioned as a fact worthy record, that from £12,000 to £13,000 in gold are transmitted weekly to Hol land, Frizeland chiefly, in payment for cattle, butter, and other provisions. EMIGRATION.—The numbers who embarked in Eu rope in 1847 for Canada was 98,006—viz., from England, 32,228; from Ireland, 54,329 ; from Scotland, 3752 ; and from Germany, 7697. Of the whole number, 91,882 were steerage passengers. The clerical committee appointed to adopt measures res pecting burials in cities and towns, has nominated twenty clergymen and twenty laymen from among whom Lord Morpeth is to appoint a committee for the purpose of finally suppressing burials in cities and towns. CURIOUS BUT TRUE.—Near the brick kilns, called Peniston's, on the Salisbury and Bishopstoke line, a lark is now sitting very composedly on three eggs, exactly under one of the metals over which a train passes every hour. The Highland Destitution Board have forwarded to the poorer districts of the Highlands, for cultivation, cabbage plants, 445,000; green plants, 445,000 ! early turnip seed, 4,400 ounces; late turnip seed, 8,800 ounces; Swedish turnip seed, 8,800 ounces; carrot seed, 4,400 ounces. LAMENTABLE IGNORANCE.--A young farmer at Hin don, a few days since lent a female fortune-teller £B, to rule the planets in order to tell his fortune. The woman has never been seen since, and the farmer " curses his stars" daily. The Lancaster Guardian says that the Lords of the Ad miralty have given their consent to the construction of an embankment from the Cartmel side of the Ulverston Sands to the Back Scarrs, a distance of about three quarters of a mile. Mr. Feargus O'Connor, in a speech at Nottingham, on Easter Monday, said, " lie had created the mind—he had ordered the mind—and to him must be left, in a great measure, the future direction o f the mind—of the working classes." The Gateshead Observer says that a young gentleman residing in London travels to Newcastle every Saturday, in order to visit the fair one whose bewitching charms have enslaved his heart, and returns to London in time for business on Monday. The widow of Shirley, the murdered gamekeeper at Raby Castle, has lately given birth to a posthumous son, at Raby, and the Duke of Cleveland has conferred upon her an ample annuity, and undertaken to attend •to the interests of her three children. A treasury warrant, published in the Gazette modifies the regulations respecting books and pamphlets sent by post, in so far that henceforth the senders are allowed to write nn any leaf of any hook, or on the binding thereof, provided that all the writing be on the same page of the book, or corresponding portion of the binding. The Times, in recommending emigration under govern ment auspices, says, " Six weeks and as many pounds suffice to plant the poor peasant where neither title-deeds, nor mortgages, nor judgment-bonds, nor county cess, nor standing water, shall interfere with his axe or his spade." As the Rev. E. D. Tinling, inspector of schools for the western countries, was driving a small four-wheel carriage containing his wife and a servant through the streets of Exeter, the horse became restive and upset the vehicle, when the whole party were thrown out, and Mrs. Tinling was so much injured that her life is in great danger. At the Llanerchymedd p e tty sessions, last week, bef ore the Hon. W. C. Stanley, - Agnes Williams, an old woman aged S 4, preferred a charge of assault against two persons. She was attended by her father, a man of 106 years of age, who called the old dame his " girl," and said she should not be put upon. There are now in England alone 260 mechanics' insti tutions in active operation, besides about 400 which were in abeyance on account of the state of trade in some dis tricts . In these 260 institutions the average number of members is 222, and the total number of persons recei ving education from them being 58,109. There are also about fifty smaller institutions, furnishing lectures and libraries, averaging 150 members each ; the total number altogether being 65,609. DECAY OF DISSENTING COLLEGES. — A plan is in agi tation for consolidating Com:2.d, Homerton, Cheshunt, and Highbury Colleges. The proposal reveals various facts connected with these institutions, to wit, that the in struction imparted in them is found inefficient ; that it is too expensive, amounting to £lOO per annum for each student ; that the number of students in all the four col leges together does not much exceed sixty; and-that they w* four in debt, while the subscriptions for their sup p falling off. EFFECTS OF THE FREE TRADE SYSTEM. An excellent letter has been published in the London and several of the provincial papers, dated 22nd ultimo, from the pen of " A London Merchant," and addressed to " the operatives of Manchester." He begins by stating that the system called free trade is not so in reality. He than proceeds to argue the question, and the following is the substance of his remarks. Previous to 1846, - many changes were made in the customs duties, the wisdom of which was much doubted, but be this as it may, Sir Robert Peel in that year pro posed further extegsive changes, and he himself admitted that the change in the Corn-laws was a great experiment, in other words, that it might be beneficial to the country or the reverse. Nearly all the Manchester operatives were led to believe that the repeal of the Corn-laws (ad mitting corn at a nominal or very small duty) would give them cheap bread, and an increase of foreign trade, while they would continue to receive the same wages. He did not think this, for how could they expect good wages when they were called for an importation of foreign labour into our home markets—already overstocked with nativq labour. Foreign corn requires foreign labour to produce it, and to introduce this foreign labour free of duty, would ine vitably reduce the price of labour here. They were, therefore, parting with a certainty for an uncertainty, and pushed their representatives in parliament to this course. In an evil hour Sir Robert Peel granted their desire, and, in addition, permitted the importation, free of duty, of foreign manufactures of cotton, linen, and wool. This was another importation of foreign labour duty free into their market, seriously reducing their wages, unless an ef. l ual amount of home labour could be found as an eqiuvalent. They were, however, promised more than an equivalent in the continuation of the stunq,. wages, with a reduced price of bread. The country has not got the equivalent, and will not get it, so that the operatives in forcing the change, have in= jured themselves and the prosperity of the country at the same time. The free-traders told them they must encourage foreign imports, but the writer insists upon knowing if the system will give profitable employment to our own labourers. By taking the duty off foreign corn we encourage the foreign farmer and his labourers. The foreigner did not encourage our farmers by taking the duy off English corn as an equivalent. We encouraged the cotton manufacturer of Germany, Belgium, and France, but they gave us no equivalent. In addition, we are more heavily taxed than other nations, and must despair of wages being restored to what they were before 1846. The free-traders promised us an increase of prosperity, by our paying for foreign imports in British goods, or gold which we got for goods. But when large imports are made, how are the exports brought about ? By a reduc tion in the value, more or less, of every species of property in the kingdom, and a reduction of the wages of labour, as well as a reduction in the demand for, or amount of, la bour wanted. It might be said, indeed, that tlu y had cheaper bread ; but they had less means to buy it. Free-trade in reality, or concessions to foreign countries for equivalent concessions to us, would certainly benefit England, notwithstanding our taxation, but a contrary system could not be beneficial. It was vain to say that the consumer is bencfitted by lower prices. The consum ers were not a separate class, but were the landlord, the farmer, the agricultural labourer, and, in fine, all the producing classes. Now if all these suffered in their pro perty, trade, and calling, their powers of consuming were injured, and they were less able to buy cheap imports ? In fact, the foreigner is now getting our former profits, and we are getting their former comparative poverty. The writer states that in his next letter he will prove that while we were promised greater prosperity, we have got less, and will point out where the operatives may find a remedy, adding, in conclusion,—" 11Iay God grant you patient endurance while you work for the remedy, for I cannot say that it is near at hand." PAPAL CONFORMITY. (Prom the Dublin Evening Mail.) The P9pe has intimated, by Envoy, to the Swiss Con federation, that he is ready to go as far as the continental movement will carry him in the progress of democracy. " The Church," says M. Lucquctt, speaking by the in spiration of his Holiness, " always consistent with itself in that which is essential to her—the church will accept The social transformation of the age. I will say more—it will not only accept it, but, faithful to its mission to pro mote progress in the life of nations, it will second and as sist that transformation." Bravo ! Since transformation is in vogue, " motley's your only wear." That's th e way . Go with the tide always, and you will seem to lead to it. In more than one sense, the Romish system is one of accommodation. We all see, in the course of our obser vations of its effects in private life, how it can " second and assist," while it pretends to control the human pas sions. Its great moral force consists in the indulgence which it extends to vice, at the same time that it promises indemnity from its penal consequences. As long as flesh is flesh, and men love to pass through life " upon the primrose path," undisturbed by uneasy qualms and gloomy prospects, the dominion of Rome will last; for, until the nations become atheist, thyre will always be a majority to wish that her reign may endure ; and to will in such a case is to do. She may be shifted, indeed, from her seat on the Seven Hills • but her empire is too firmly rooted in the fears and the corruption of human nature, to be overthrown by any other force than the universal triumph and:ascendency of truth. In the meantime, therefore, Rome will hold her own ; and of her suppleness and good will to conform to any circumstances,in order to retain it, the communication of the Holy Father, to the Swiss Cantons, affords almost a ludicrous illustration : "Be assured (continues M. Lncquett) that the church, cer tain of the perpetuity of its destiny, fixes not its hopes exclu sively on any human institution. It has long accepted with gratitude the favours of the powers of the earth; it does so still, where that temporary support is afforded to it. Nor will it refuse, when the moment shall arrive, to acknowledge the great principle of a complete separation between it end the State." What a Peel of a Pope we have here ! " Si fractus illabatur orbis Impaviaum ferient Nothing shall disturb his equanimity while he remains " certain of the perpetuity of his destiny." The whole world may go to pieces ; kings, queens, and states may shift for themselves ; tyrants may lord it over the free spirits of mankind, or the rabble, may trample upon all law and order—'tis all the same. Tne church has a right hand of fellowship and a blessing for them all. "It has long since done so (says the lucky oracle) in young Ame rica, and will do it again, perhaps to-morrow, inone orother of those countries, where the people so gloriously strug gle to conquer their independence." Shoals of Jesuits have cleared out, it seems, for Hong- Kong and Cochin China, where, if they undergo a " social tranformation" into Bonzes, in the cause of the apireh, they will be only moving along with " th e p rog ress," and fulfilling their mission.