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

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',287,236. w Agnew ins, by a ick Rail along the ;h Level habitants appear the tem- traffic for iusive of !ompanYr isle Rail nfries to eting the e applied but Lord ite of the ,ment for [led from line ( 71 eluding $ ?en miles aore than E Juxc of this ce occu re of the hat they had been ded with• ssing the ived the mduct of rious U' Van ad- of June letion of ie report► o be eon° LE J I J I4 • C ' r A. 13 0 ' it'. gers, s, director, se frotO 3 • of 6 lying f and o - ..0 direct° . crest dug 10s• and es t; .0 a n be 1 , '" 0 bare ° s x t, ber n e f Le 30th °a v ed, divide?' ideratioll r nov s i a tterg th° he could t COO' Sept. 5,1848, SECOND EDITION. .r_4mrsiori Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m LIVE --..--- RPOOL SHARE MARKET.— 'We have had a Share Market gloomy as the morning, with ' e rY little bihiness, and prices lower. The following are the quot ations up to one o'clock :—London Stock, 114 ; Quarter hares, 16/ pm . . Midland Stock, 88 ; Half Shares, 54 6/3 dis. ; Nanchester and Birmingham Preference, 23/3 pm. ; Leeds i F 25/8 13 / 9 3 / 4 dis. ; Thirsk s , o ld, 25 ; L ee d s P re f erence , wick 4 Pm. ; D over, No. 4, 74 ; N ewcas tl e P re f erence, 4 pm . ; Ber , No. 4, pin. ; Caledonian Preference, 1/3 pm. --.160.- LIVERPOOL CORN rOr English, Irish, and Foreign rt since Tuesday last are altog nldian Corn, the supply of whicl the exports during the same time The dssion in the country r (aordinary decline in London yes able effect upon the trade here thi have, therefore, comparec ,^seek, e to note a decline on Old W ',tended Bd. to 9d. per 701bs Flour is Is. per barrel ar Indian Oats 2d. per 451b5., and • Beans in sl ow d emand, t , Corn in modera 4rida Y; and Corn Meal cc MARKET -THIS DAY -THIS DAY produce the arrivals into this ;ether extremely light, except h amounts to 16,410 quarters ; being only moderate. markets last week, and the ex. .sterday, have had a consider- nd 2s. pi Oatmea at Frith tte demi with the prices of this heat of 6d. on New Bd, er sack cheaper. d Is. per load lower ay's rates. aiid, recovering the decline s to rules as then stated. ..=-.. - c , ,; : AO I --. 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'::“. : : •••• CO •• C 4 : -1 - :: 5 CO ' g ::a . • 1:1 . ...1 t,7 • • CA CO. , CA • • • eaco•co tt,....._ 1 5° tittraturr. POETRY. THE " IRISH PATRIOT'S" DREAM. HENR Y E. GREEN, A PRIVATE IN THE 17TH LANCERS. AIG--" I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls." N ,1 4 1, Int that I dwelt on "Tara " bill, A, T ', l lll thousands of friends at my side, 'W, „gazed on the glittering pikes and guns ha?,it Munster monarch's pride. .3reagher," and "Lane," and " O'Donhogue," who K thousand chiefs untold, nelt at my feet and tendered me crown of glittering gold. M eth ought I advanced on England's hosts, S And her legions quaked to see nc h gallant f oes , and fled before Our u montin chivalry with " O' a Brien" at their head, The feeble could not fail. Vioke, and oh I my bursting heart, Royal "n Kilmainham gaol. ar racks, Dublin, August I7th, 1848. VARIETIES p, ci d° , anything f or a qu i e t life," yt hi X ng b a quiet p is the Englishman's thei e s n hm i a s n; CHINESEan MAIM ut .—The tongue of wot Lir °Word, and they never suffer it to prow rusty. ECCLESIASTICALhN DROVER.—" We hear, on very h as auth ority ," says the Tablet, " th a t D r . Ull at h orne "Il A s iv GR arrived A in London with the bulls from Rome !" s.—Revolution—To love ruin. Universal 'ltifroge—Guess a fearful ruin. Radical Reform—Rare mad frolic. Annual Parliament—l am an unreal plant. 7 etegraphs—Great helps. Old England—Golden land. GOPD REMARK.—The Boston Courier says, " Aaron Burr died a Christian. accordi ng t o the Netv York Times. °(:) much the better for himself. If he had lived a Chris tian, how much better it would have been for the world !" , There is this diff erence b etween happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so ; b ut he that thinks himself the wisest is generally just the ,'eberse. t j aE CIRCLE OF H UMANITY.—FeneIon was accustomed suY,my family better than lf; my coun- I'Y better th an my family ; and mankindmyse better than my inllatrY : for I am more a Frenchman than a Fenelon ; more a man than a Frenchman." der:(ViT`rOSTICATION AT FAULT.—It iS generally isconsi asfaihled i rt a l:a ce tt a h iti the appearance of the oak in leaf before the sign of a dry summer. This has signally ash, y e t 18 48 ; the oak leafed nearly six weeks before the 1. the summer has been a remarkable wet one. riausihitb AIORPETH IN A NEW CHARACTER.—By an 21- tati.g tYPographical blunder, occasioned by the disar '.thlitie.tit of two lines, the Leeds Mercury represented tor 'light Hon. Lord Morpeth, M.P.," to be Sub-Edi -I,clate principal reporter) of the Leeds Mercury." rlMsatlantic editors are often amusingly personal— j,,,,ll,slngly to those whom it concerns not. We quote the lot M ille Journal, e. g. :—" Chapman, of the Indiana of zd'.oentinei, says that Mr. Van Buren has ' the mark go o d" upon his brow.' Chapman has the mark of a .„ tn anY canes upon his 114 1 .0 1 00 s IF TRUE.—It is a curious fact that nearly thibirths in the animal world (at least in England) 11 11 0 3 , Q : e ar, are of the male gender. The registrar's return at a ,i'l a majority of men-children, in most districts ; and . little the cattle, sheep, &c., the farmers say there is k else but male produce. vthi l l e ralsr DRAMA.—The chu rc h b oo k s o f T ew k es b ury, hib i e ,u have been preserved for a considerable period, ex ill,Z,,the followin entry :—"A. D. 1571: Paid, for the Atiir s gear, six sheep skins for Christe's garment." ar e +l i l a an inventory forming part of the same collection ll e ,' a words—" Order eight heads of hair for the.apos eV ten beards and a face (or visor) for the devil." ' a nunt.Esom CONGREGATION.—One Sunday, when Npo Nia ister of Udny entered the kirk, he was no less lat., l lsed th an i n di gnant to fi n d t h at " d a f t Jamie Flem aka;.ad tak en possess i on o f t h e pu l p i t. " Come doon, `liti a n'' said his reverence. " Come ye up, sir (answered an , it they're a stiff-neckit and rebellious generation, A will tack us baith to manage them." li tteer,, W ANSEA OPINION.—Two old ladies meeting in the !aci a i; at Swansea, during the meeting of the British As- Yit,, -43 ,a there one asked the other the meaning of all the 'to an 'ia L l stir, and who were the parties that made „ tr ,eaC r ,'clw," was the reply, " but I amt old there are a `lair e ; l an,Y professors among them." " Professors !" ex -8 Atez e , t he other ; " I do hate professing !" IMPORTATION INTO HULL.—AirlIt 1595, we lid in the household book of the Cliffords, a sum Zaligh, e a shillings ,They f six cabbages and some Flanders, roots " at H 1111." were imported from Virace t even Queen Catherine, in the reign of Henry t e ,aeraVati her salads. Potatoes and turnips were not s4liz ak Y known, even to the gardener, until the reign of n tr) IcITLE A TEST OF TRUTH ?—it is a much-dis ti leestion whether or not ridicule be a test of truth. th e s th e tv,_ question appears rnswered by saying, that if i i nar a s,`"a be developed ab intra from the argument—not • t 'e i nt it tab extra—it is a test. If a wit descries the 414,i'le1411rdity grinning under a moral mask, and exposes bas tnak A t onfuted the argument ; and if he himself grins 's faces at the mask, he may excite laughter, but g 11 rtied confutation.—Athenmum. I . :LA'' , HONOUR !—Our amusing contemporary, tivgattoe, talking of the " Manchester and Salford *P . With says, " The Earl of Ellesmere honoured the Bo n der if his presence on board the steamer, &c. We t4ally it hase river was sensible of the honoui ! They 'thia,,,grown so proud since, that it will not bear to oa l lader a Duke now. A party of merchants yen. t,t by there Saturday, and were only saved from drown- L'ere being the son of a baronet in the boat.- 13 4 4 " 4u 1) v OF THE HOUSE.—Th e E ng li s h t erm "h us - W as 'which , ano 8 deri lid from the Anglo-Saxon words hus an d !Pet an cient' signify the " bond of th e h ouse ," an d l 14 thus Y spelt " hous e b on d," an d continue d to b e hoLroduetio'n so me editions o f th e E ng li s h Bibl e, after the famd~thVA Printing. A husband, then, is a house tli.; thud of a house—that which engirdles the P ete and ~ne union of oneness of love. Wife and chil li° 8 and t h eir!'tvanger within the gates,"—all their inte nd' • A a a PPiness are encircled in the " house pictuu ‘tice, the objects of his especial care. What Le 4.L • cge! 4 ' , us of a husband's duty, and a family's ICE IN THE HOT ASHES OF MOUNT ETNA.—The main crater is about five hundred feet deep at this time (so say the guides); but I think this must be measured down the slope of the funnel. I could not, however, see to the bottom, owing to volleys of sulphureous smoke, whirling up ever and anon, accompanied by a rumbling noise, and occasionally by a slight vibration of the ground underfoot. Here I found, amid warm ashes, on the slope of the cra ter within, heavy crystals of ice set all at one angle, and curved like sharks' teeth. I picked up one bit as big as a walnut, and asked the guide if he could account for its presence. Far be it from him to give a " rationale" of anything of the sort; it would derogate from the dignity of Etna. It reminded me of a chemical experiment played off by a French savant at one of the late " Seien ziati" meetings. He made water freeze in a red hot cup. The silver of platina being brought to a red heat, a few drops of water are thrown in, which do not evaporate, but jump about. Sulphuric acid is now poured in, which in the act of boiling produces so intense a cold by the dis engagement of its latent heat, that the drop of water at once turns to ice. I opine the chemical process here to be the same, only on Nature's grand scale. The morning mists supply the moisture, and within the crater there is no lack of sulphureous mixture boiling as in a retort ; hence as hot fumes ascend, the crystals of ice are precipi tated. If any one rejects this solution of mine, let them find a better, remembering that they are to accoun t f or pieces of ice forming on a bed of warm ashes. This princi ple of " disengagement of latent heat'T may also help to account for the severity of the cold felt on Etna, which is far greater than is due to its elevation.—Francis's Notes on Italy and Sicily. THE REGIUM DONUM. A very amusing scene was exhibited in the House of Commons on Wednesday week, on the occasion of the grant of £1695, to be applied as the Regium Donum to Dissenting Ministers, of different denominations in Ire land. Tis true that this grant is not " old as the hills ;" it has, however, no claim to be regarded of recent estab lishment ; and although there has never failed in each succeeding year of its apportionment, to be held up "pious hands" in horror of its defilement, (because it is such an irrefutable condemnation of the cant urged in support of what is called the " voluntary principle,") there has also never failed to be found more than enow of candidates to participate in sharing in the " unclean thing." For the grant in 1847, we find it stated that 166 Presbyterian Ministers, 443 Independent Ministers, and 461 Baptist Ministers, were content to submit to the re proach which is well due to those who preach one system of morals and practise another; and yet we have no doubt that the recipients of last year, will be as eager to secure their quotas from the present year's distribution. The amount that each receives, cannot possibly be large, and if it could be taken thankfully, and not allowed after wards to be made a subject for hypocritical reviling, (as everything opposed to voluntaryism is wont to be, by the very classes who profit by its violation,) no one would greatly begrudge the grant, but it is " too bad" for per sons to act as curs in snarling and biting at the heels of benefactors, and as spaniels to lick the hands which dis tribute the favours of those same benefactors. On Wed nesday night Mr. Charles Lushington was made the mouthpiece of the voluntaries to implore the Chancellor to omit the Reqium Donum grant from the estimate in which it was intended to be voted; and Mr. Kershaw made himself a very knight errant in voluntary chivalry, by undertaking that the sum should be made up from another source. Lord John Russell, however, (and he has had tolerable practice for gaining experience in test ing the sincerity of the professors of the voluntary princi ple) most uncivilly declined to allow an opportunity for such a display of high-minded indifference to a govern ment grant; and what must have been more annoying, he added to his offence, by observing, "if he could see any security that these sums to poor ministers would be made up by the Dissenting body, he would give up the grant from the government." There's an estimate of the value in which the Dissenters' own champion holds their abhorrence of government grants, and their real readiness to provide for their discontinuance. But there was yet one other way left to the voluntaries, in which they might have made their consistency appear less inconsistent — they might have mustered strong on the division ; instead of which, they only reckoned 28 votes, the number oppo sed to them being 60, thus making the majority in favour of the pretendedly not wanted grant 32. SCOTLAND AND IRELAND (From the Times.) There is a country far poorer than Ireland in native gifts—with bleaker mountains—a more sterile soil—a ruder clime, and one half of its inhabitants born of the same stock and inheriting the same traits as the Celtic peasantry of Ireland. This once, like Ireland, enjoyed a separate and distinct independence under the British Crown. Like Ireland, it was united to England against the prejudices and predilections of a m a jo r ity o f itsinha bitants. Like Ireland, its patriots mourned the day of its union as a day of funeral and fatal calamity. Like Ireland, it augured from connexion with England degradation, poverty, and abject slavery. Like Ireland it rebelled ; like Ireland, it was put down again. Like Ireland, it waned and declined in prosperity for the first 30 years after the Union. Like Ireland, it believed its happiness and weal to be implicated and wrapped up in the posses sion of its native Senate and the tinsel mockeries of a mimic Court. But, unlike Ireland—when petition was rejected—when force was beaten down—when insurrection was quelled—when treason was punished—when the feuds and conspiracies of five-and-forty years lay mouldering under the gory turf of Culloden or under the scaffolds of Kennington and Carliae—then, when treason was a losing throw and sedition an unmeaning sound, Scotland braced her heart and energies to grapple with England in other fields and another contest of a peaceful emulation and civic competition. They won from England and English men the rewards and prizes which England and English men had proposed to the common ambition of the united countries. They won places of high trust and high com mand in the furthest East and the remotest West. Each new accession of dominion, and each new field of com merce, and each new gate of honour, saw the Scotchman side by side with his English contemporary, striving and struggling, and often winning in the great race of life. The Senate saw a Bum and a MELVILLE wielding the patronage of the Treasury and the Marine—the people saw a MURRAY and an ERSKINE and a WEDDERBURN administering justice in Westminster Hall— an OCHTER LONY, an ABERCROMBY, and a GRAHAME, leading British troops to glory and conquest—and every department of our public service in Europe and Asia filled with the sturdy sons of that race-whom connexion with England was to have doomed to servility, penury, and despair. Nor were the signs of this prosperity unfelt in the father land of her most prosperous and adventurous sons. Glas gow and Greenock and Paisley sprung up in rivalry of Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds. Edinburgh expanded into the magnificence of a goodly capital, which Rome might admire and London would do well to copy. The fat fields of the Lothians became, under the genius of enterprise and the irrigation of capital, svnonomous for good husbandry and teeming produce. Within one hun dred years from her last rebellion Scotland has gained more real power, more solid importance, and greater wealth than she could singly have achieved in 1000 years under the most fortunate dynasty or the most national Legislature. FREE TRADE OPPOSED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING CLASSES (From . Blackwood's Magazine.) A very pregnant instance of the sympathy which is felt by the free-traders and political economists for the suffer ing of the lower orders, occurred during a debate towards the beginning of May last. We specially notice the fact, because it proves that, however two successive ministers may have forgot their duty to the people, there exists, in a higher quarter still, the deepest commiseration for their distress, and an earnest desire to alleviate it in every pos sible manner. It appears from official documents that, during the first three months of the present year, there were entered for home consumption, at the port of Lon don alone, foreign silk goods worth £400,000, equal to the employment of 31,000 weavers ; lace and needle work worth £40,000, or sufficient to displace the produce of 4000 workwowen and sempstresses ; and 7000 dozen of boot and shoe fronts, enough to keep 1200 cordwainers in fell employment. So near as we can calculate, the duty payable upon these articles, under the tariff of 1845, would have amounted to £88,150 ; at present it is not more than £65,575, thus entailing a primary loss of £22,575 to the revenue. Such an influx of goods, at a peculiarly unprofitable season, was tantamount to dis placing the labour of 36,200 persons, who were to be thrown upon the public charity, without any other resource. A short time after these facts became known, an order was issued from the Lord Chamberlain's office, contain ing her Majesty's command to the ladies of England, that in attending court they should appear attired in dresses exclusively the production of native industry. Yes ! our gracious Queen, whose heart is unchilled by the cold dog mas of political economy, felt like a woman and a sove reign, and resolved, on her part at least, to rescue from famine and misery so many thousands of her poorer sub jects. It is most gratifying to know that this exercise of the royal care and benevolence has met with its best reward, for in the midst of all the distress which has unfortunately prevailed, the class for whose benefit those timely orders were issued have been kept in employment and food : the example set from the throne has been widely and generously followed. But will it be believed, that this act of mercy gave huge umbrage to the free traders, and was fiercely commented on in their journals as a gross infringement of the principles of enlightened government ? Therefore, in the eyes of the Leaguers, it seems a crime to interfere for the support of the British workman,—and unjustifiable interference with Providence to give work to the labouring poor ! But this is not all. Lord John Russell, on being asked in the House of Commons whether he had any share in this philantrophic action, or whether the sole credit of it appertained to his royal mistress, was not slow in uttering his disclaimer. "He had not advised the crown in the matter,—he could only say that the order had issued from the Chamberlain's office." After a vain attempt to show that no extra quantity of goods had been imported, hut that the apparent increase arose solely from the cessation of smuggling, he proceeded to remark :—" But if more goods are now entered, and thereby a particular class do suffer inconvenience or distress, yet these entries must stimulate the production and exportation of the classes of goods for which the imports are exchanged." There spoke the convert to the League—the truckler to Cobden and Co. ! There, from the lips of a British minister, fell the most un-British, the most unpatriotic doctrine that ever yet was enunciated ! Said we not truly that the whole object of free trade is to put down and exterminate the non-exporting trades, for the exclusive benefit of the few monster monopolies ? The Premier concluded an, ungracious, halting, and discreditable spee c h w ith . tie 1 . 111 LIVERPOOL STANDAR& somewhat unnecessary- announcement that, under all cir cumstances, he thought he should be the last - person to advise her Majesty to matte an alteration in the commer cial policy which of late years had been pursued. We need hardly remark that, in the' present instance, the importation of these foreign goods could in no way "stimulate the production or exportation?' of any kind of British manufacture whatever. The articles in ques tion were sent from France, at a time when everything was unsaleable, and were sold in London fore hard cash, at a heavy discount. Even Cobden need not have grudged this little encouragement to Spitalfields acd Bethnal Green. He did not sell a yard of calico the less. Gold, and not shirting,, was what the French wanted, what they bargained for, and what they received. But let us see a little more of the sympathy of the Leaguers for the poor, and respect for the sovereign, who surely might be left, in matters of this kind, to exercise some discretion of her own. Colonel Thompson, representing an exporting C0i3... blittienCy, was furious at the alleged interference. "He would ask whether there was any charity, any humanity, any policy, any common sense in representing hostility to one portion of the manufacturing classes of the country, to come from a quarter of which he was sure no one in that House wished to speak otherwise than with feelings of the utmost affection and reverence ?" We are not sure that we quite understand this outburst of the gallant Colonel, which we copy verbatim from the columns of the Spectator, but, as he talks about charity and humanity with reference to his waistcoat and pantaloon exuorting constituency of Bradford, we take him to mean that that favoured place should flourish, and Spitalfields utterly disappear. This is pure Leaguer's doctrine, distinctly redolent of the Bastile Mr. John Bright was also true to his order. The par tisan of peace opined that " there was no difference be tween driving out workmen, and keeping out their work ; though no order had been issued to exclude foreign work, yet the effect of the order really given is, that French silks, which have have been consumed, will not be used, and English taken instead. It should be known, that from the late convulsions, the contingent depression of trade, and the low price of French silks in France, very large quantities of them have been purchased and brought to this country. The announcement in question might there entail great loss on large capitalists, and ruin on many of smaller means. The kindness to the Spital fields weavers would then be dune only at a cost of loss and injury to other classes." Quite right, Friend Bright ! the first persons to be guarded are your speculators and your capitalists. The poor operative, who is not in your line, may starve for any thing you care. There is a pro tective spirit about this, which absolutely charms us. We wonder that Mr. Bright did not on a former occasion foresee that the repeal of the corn-laws might entail great loss on large proprietors, and ruin on many of smaller means ! EXTRACTS FROM MR. D'ISRAELI'S SPEECH, ON WEDNESDAY, IN THE HOUSE OF COM MONS. TFIE FOUR BUDGETS Well, Sir, we bad at last the fourth budget. (Laugh ter.) We had, some time ago, the Government of all the talents •, this is the Government of all the budgets. (Re r ewed laughter.) Alas for this fourth budget ! it came late, and at a moment when we wanted glad tidings ; but, unfortunately, it was not characterized by the sunny as pect which was desired by its proposers. I shall never forget the scene. It was a very dreary moment. There was a very thin house—the thinnest, I suppose, that ever attended a ceremony so interesting to every country, and especially to a commercial and financial country like England. I never saw a budget brought before an at tendance so gloomy and so small. I was irresistibly re minded of a celebrated character who, like the Chancellor of the Exchequer, had four trials in his time, and his last was his most unsuccessful. I mean the great her of Cervantes (laughter) when he returned from his fourth and final expedition. The great spirit of Quixote had subsided (a laugh) ; all that sally of financial chivalry which cut us down at the beginning of the session, and which trampled and cantered over us in the middle, was gone. (Renewed laughter.) Hon. gentlemen will re member the chapter to which I refer, which describes the period when the knight's delusions on the subject of chi valry were being dispelled. The villagers, like the Oppo sitiqn (a laugh), were drawn out to receive him ; and Cervantes tells us, that although they were aware of his weakness, they treated him with respect. (Great laugh ter.) His immediate friends, the barber, the curate, and the bachelor Sampson Carrasco—whose places might be supplied in this house by the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and the Presi dent of the Board of Trade (laughter)—were assembled, and with demure reverence and feigned sympathy they greeted him, broken in spirit, and about for ever to re nounce those delightful illusions under which he had sal lied forth so triumphantly ; but, just at that moment, when everything was in the best taste, Sancho's wife rushes forward and exclaims, " Never mind your kicks and cuffs, so you've brought home some money." (Loud laughter.) But that is just the thing that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has not brought. (Cheers.) Such was the end of the fourth and final expedition, and such is the result of the fourth and final budget. (Laughter.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer, during the whole session, has been bringing home barbers' basins instead of knightly helms ; and, at the last moment, true to his nature, to his vocation, and to his career, he finds instead of surplus a deficiency, and, instead of reducing taxation, he com memorates his second year of finance by a second loan. INCOMPETENCY OF MINISTERS. Having endeavoured to persuade the house that the alleged causes of the present uncatiqf.rtory state of effuiro are not the real causes, it will be my business to ascertain what are the true causes. In my opinion it is not difficult to discover those causes. They are not remote ; they are not hard to find ; nor are they difficult to exhibit. lam willing to admit that gentlemen opposite, as far as per sonal qualities are concerned, need not, upon the whole, shrink from competition with any body of men in this house who may reasonably be called upon to administer the government of the country ; but I must say that, if I be asked the cause of the great evil at issue—this avowal of political incompetency in the institutions of the coun try—l find the cause there. [The hon. member here pointed to the Treasury bench amidst the loudest cheers.] I see there a body of men who acceded to power without a parliamentary majority. I think that they were justified by the exigency of the case in acceding to power ; nay, that their conduct was in accordance with the practice and the genius of the constitution ; but though they were in the first instance justified in taking office without a parliamentary majority, they are not justifiable in retain ing it under such circumstances, and their having done so has occasioned two results, both of a very serious de scription. In the first place, we have a Cabinet which cannot propose their measures with a conviction that they will be carried. (Hear.) After all their deliberations-- after all their foresight—after all their observation of the times—after all their study of the public interest, when their measures are launched from the cabinet into this house, they are not received here by a confiding majority —confiding I mean in their belief in the statesmanlike qualifications of their authors, and in their sympathy with the great political principles professed by the members of the administration. (Hear, hear.) On the contrary, the success of their measures in this house depends on a vari ety of small parties who in their aggregate exceed in number and influence the party of the ministers. The temper of one leader has to be watched—indication of the opinion of another has to be observed—the disposition of a third has to be suited; so that a measure is altered, re modelled, patched, cobbled, painted, veneered, and var nished, until, at last, no trace is left of its original scope and scheme ; or it is withdrawn in disgust by its origina tors after having been subjected to prolonged and elabo rate discussions in this house. (Cheers.) This is one of the great causes of that waste of public time which, in these days, is as valuable as public treasure. THE "BILLS 01:' MORTALITY." There had been this session 45 public committees of 15 members each, 28 election committees of five members each, 14 groups on railway bills of five members, 17 groups on private bills, and 111 committees on private bills of five members each. The committee on commer cial distress sat 39 days; that on sugar and coffee, 39 days; that on navy, army, and ordnance expenditure, 40 days ; and that on miscellaneous expenditure, 37 days. There had, too, been presented 18,500 petitions. Such were the statistics. Parliament had been summoned at a time of a great commercial crisis, when famine was upon the land —when trade was dead—and when the great commercial dynasties of England were hurled from their high posi tions—and Parliament was especially summoned to inquire into the causes of that distress ; but with the exception of a desultory debate on the address, and one on the motion forced upon Mr. Herries by the conduct of the government in authorising the infringement of the Bank Charter Act, the discussions on commercial distress occu pied no portion of the house, and could therefore not be accused of having wasted time. PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS The House of Commons as it is now conducted, is a great committee, sitting on public affairs, i n w hi c h every man speaks with the same right, and most of us with the same weight. No more the disciplined array of tradi tionary influences and hereditary opinions —the realised experience of an ancient society and of a race that for generations has lived and flourished in the practice of a noble system of self-government. Nothing now of this, and we are to be compensated for the future by other qualities—the conceits of the illiterate—the crochets of the whimsical—the violent course of a vulgar ambition that acknowledges no gratitude :to antiquity, and to posterity no duty—until at last this free and famous par liament of England is to subside to the low-water mark of those national assemblies and those provisional con ventions that are at the same time the terror and ridicule of the world. Sir, I trace all these evils to the disorgani sation of party. The system which is now pursued is a system opposed to those party and traditionary influences which hitherto have been the life-blood and spirit of the House of Commons. lam not charging the gentlemen opposite with a departure from that spirit, but I charge them with adopting a system of which they may be the unwilling administrators, but they are no less responsible for its consequences. If you persist in this system, the consequences will be, that you will realise events such as no revolution ever succeeded in accomplishing—such as no conspirator in any of those midnight conclaves wh:rli you have of late disturbed ever had the audacity to devise. Iknow of no political combination that can long withstand these deleterious And sapping influences, and it appears to me that those public men who have hitherto administered the fortunes of the country will be swept from the public scene. For my part, I protest against this system. I denounce it even at the eleventh hour. I call upon the country to brand it with its indignant reprobation. But whatever may be its consequences, I have had the s a il s , faction of attempting to place in a clear aspect before you the causes of this great national evil. I have more--4 have had the consolation of justifying this great assembly, wherein it is my highest honour to hold a seat, and vin dicating in the face of England the characf.er and conduct of the lic - ase of Coninions.—(Loud cherss.) erne 'AI •••- Mr. Justice Colerid g e h a s described the new Court at Bristol as " the perfection of inconvenience." Among the members initiated into the Orange orclez. at Bradford was Lord Melgund, an officer of the army. A new Roman Catholic Chapel at Thurnham, near Kirkham, was opened on Tuesday. The quantity of malt charged with duty in the twelve years ending 1845, was 306,105;7'58 bushels. Mr. Easam, of Sutton-upon-Trent, has found that mustard sown amongst wheat is an effectual cure for the wire worm. The number of lives lost by the wreck of fishing boats during the late gale on the eastern coast of Scotland was upwards of a hundred. On Friday night and Saturday, morning there were no fewer than eleven fires in London within six hours ; but fortunately no persons sustained'any bodily injury. The Sicilian Government has forwarded orders to Eng land for several hundred large rockets, on the plan of Mr. Hale, by which they are fired without a staff. The Pariiamemtajry Committee of the Council on Edu cation have resolved to devote £30,000 for workhouse schools. A man has been fined forty shillings at Marlborough street police-court for pulling down some voting papers from the door of St. James's Church, Piccadilly. After an exciting and extremely well-played game, the Salop Cricket Club beat the Liverpool Club on Tuesday, on the Shrewsbury race-course, byl& runs. The execution of the convict Kelly, who shot a woman in the barrack-yard, Newport, took place yesterday week, at Monmouth gaol. Dr. Ullathorne was, on Thursday, enthroned bishop. of the new Roman Catholic diocese of Birmingham, in terms of the rescript received from the Pope. At the petty sessions lately held at Swindon, a distress warrant was ordered to issue against the Great Western Railway Company, for.the non-payment of poor-rate, in the parish of Highworth, amounting to £9O. Mr. Maurice Bright, a member of the Sheffield Town Council, committed suicide on Tuesday, by; cutting his throat. The death of a son, the illness of his wife, and the depression of trade had unsettled his mind. Some Bokhara clover, nine feet in height, is now grow ing in a garden in the nighbourhoodof London, and some Surrey farmers propose to attempt its cultivation ou a con siderable scale. LIEUTENANT MUNRO.—It is said that this officer will very slaortlyr be restored to the rank which he formerly held in the army, but with the understanding" that he forthwith dispose of his commission. Last week, Mr. Hafflade, a farmer, of Hathfield, Sus sex, went into his garden and ate a ripe plum, in which was, what afterwards proved to be, a wasp, which stung him in the throat. He died in three quarters of an hour. On Friday week, the wife of Mr. John Ford, master cooper, of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, destroyed herself and her infant child, by first cutting its throat and her own, with a razor. The great heraldic lantern in the north hall at Stowe, which was sold on Wednesday for 32 guineas to a hotel keeper at Tunbridge Wells, cost the Duke of Buckingham one thousand pounds! The Ebber§ton estate, consisting of a residence, small park, farms, woods, and a large tract of waste moor-land, the whole 12,600 acres. between York and Scarborough, has been sold to W. W. Caley, Esq., for £190,000. Mr. William John Hancock, for a considerable time an assistant poor law commissioner and inspector, died on Wednesday last, at Sutton, near Howth, of typhus fever, caught in the discharge of his duties. Two swallows have'built their nests under one of the paddle-boxes of a steamer which plies between Yarmouth harbour and Yarmouth roads, and the hen has already laid three eggs in this singular place. In the course of a single day, at the beginning of last week, there arrived in London no fewer than 89 vessels xholly or partly laden with foreign corn ; and the total quantity of grain imported on that day is estimated to have exceeded 50,000 quarters. COMPETITION !-At a meeting of the Monmouth Town Council, held on Wednesday last, tenders were received for a trifling job of plastering and repairing some houses in St. Mary-street, the highest of which was £l4 17s. 6d. and the successful one £4 15s.' A fearful thunder storm passed over the metropolis on Thursday night, which drove some of the inhabitants of Kingsland out of their houses in terrible alarm. The rain fell in torrents, and the roads werein many places rendered impassable, except for carriages. Some few days since, a youth, working at the Pentwyn Works, Pontypool, after completing his daily toil, amused himself by flying a paper kite, and while walking back wards, viewing his aerial machine, he fell into a coal pit, and was killed. Fifty-eight Chartists, who have been in custody some time, were, on Tuesday, committed for trial by the Bow street magistrates. First and foremost was the valiant Cuffey, who was so prominent a member of the National Assembly ; he laughed during the whole of the time he was in court, and treated the Matter with the utmost indif ference. Four Chartists, James Bezer, Snell, Crowe, and Bryson, tried at the Central Criminal Court, London, for sedition, were on Monday sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for two years, to pay a fine of £lO each to the Queen, and at the expiration of their imprisonment to enter into their own recognisance in £lOO, with two sure ties in £5O each, to keep the peace for five years. The Wheat Harvest is over around this neighbourhood. A large portion of it has been damaged by long exposure to the weather; but in some situations, where the opera tions of the reaping -hook did not commence until lately, the labours or the field have been lighter than elsewhere, and the produce less affected by the untoward season. The Turnip and Mangold Wurzet crop is everywhere very bountiful, and the pasture lands are full of grass.—Taun ton Courier. RATHER PREMATURE.---011 the morning which had been fixed upon for the execution of Burton, at Hunt ingdon, a packet of tolerable size arrived at the station in that town, directed to some one unknown : as it was not called for, at the end of ten days it was opened, and found to contain a large quantity of the "last dying speech and confession of Charles Burton," ready for im mediate circulation, but which the respite which he had received rendered of no service. An " Irish Row" occurred at Leicester on Sunday night. It arose out of a quarrel between an Irish reaper and a shoemaker. It is estimated that nearly 100 Irish men took part in the fray. A strong body of police were despatched to the scene of the fight in Abbey-street, and 37 men and two women were taken into custody. A ser geant of police was severely wounded in the thigh by a sickle, and another was struck on the face with a brick. Various weapons were taken from the prisoners, or picked up after the fray. DREADFUL MURDER OF A LITTLE GIRL BY HER BROTHER.- Lucy Game, four years and a-half old, daughter of Wm. Game. servant to Mr. Greg, of Coles park, West-mill, Herts, has been most cruelly murdered by her brother, William Game, nine years old. The lat ter was left in the house to take care of the deceased and two younger sisters, whilst their mother and an elder sis ter were gleaning; and because deceased would not stay in the house whilst he went to look for his mother, the boy William got a loaded gun, shot his sister, then struck her body several times with a stick, and afterwards muti lated it with a bill-hook. At Guildford Assizes, William Harris, aged 27, was tried for the murder of his mother, by beating her and casting her on the ground. Mother and son were a dis solute pair ; in March last. they left a public-house in Guildford, at night, intoxicated ; next morning the wo man's body was found in a shed near a limekiln, bruised and covered with blood. From the evidence of men who slept that night in the limekiln, it appeared that Harris had been beating his mother, and had repeatedly thrown her on the ground. The Counsel for the prisoner urged that he had assailed his parent in a moment of excite ment, and that his offence did not amount to murder. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter only. At the Central Criminal Court, Thomas William Snape was indicted, by direction of the Lords of the Treasury, for having unlawfully induced William Jacobs to promise him £2OO for the use of his influence in obtaining a Government appointment. Mr. Jacobs advertised, offering £6OO for a post under government. Snape was a junior clerk in the office of the Queen's Remernbrancer ; he answered the advertisement, and required that £2OO should be paid down for " preliminary expenses ;" but this was not done. Snape had no influence, apparently, by which he could have obtained a situation for Mr. Jacobs. The prisoner pleaded guilty. In consideration of his being discharged from his post for this misconduct, he was sentenced to be imprisoned for one month only, and no fine was imposed. The Montrose Standard publishes a statement to show that the forgeries with which Lord Arbuthnott is charged were the work of an insane man. The grand jury at Stonehaven, who returned a true bill for forgery, made a representation to the Lord-Advocate of their belief that the offender was insane : they had wished formally to inquire into the point in their capacity as jurymen, but the clerk of arraigns told them that they could only con sider the matter of fact, and on that they found a true bill. It has been the conviction of his intimates that insanity had been making advances on Lord Arbuthnott for many years. It is traced to an accident in 1829, when he was thrown from his gig, and his skull fractured, so that pieces of the frontal bone had to be removed ; a surgeon then foretold the ruin of the mind. AUTOGRAPH MSS. OF LORD BYRON.—A few interest ing autographs of Lord Byron occurred in a sale which took place on Saturday at the rooms of Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, the auctioneers, of Piccadilly. We extract from the catalogue the following lots :-863, " The Curse of Minerva," 13 pages 4to, entirely autograph, sold for £4 4s. 865, The poem, " Waterloo," from the French, 4 pages 4to entirely autograph, sold for £4 15s. 866, Lines written on a cup formed of a skull, 2 pages 4t0., entirely autograph, sold for £7. 867, Lines on the Elgin marbles, 2 pages folio, sold for £3. 809, Three leaves, being the opening lines of " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," sold for £5. Amongst the other MSS. in the sale were some illuminated missals. Of these the most worthy of notice was :-855, An illuminated missal exhibiting a combination of French and Flemish art, which sold for 80 guineas. CONSIDERATION FOR A BANKRUPT.—In the case of Stephen Davies, a collector of taxes at Southwark, it was urged to Mr. Commissioner Fane that the bankrupt's certificate ought to be suspended, as he had been a bank rupt before, and consequently ought to have been more cautious in his trading transactions, whereupon the learned commissioner made the following observations It is not because a man has been a bankrupt twice that I should punish him. I shall do no such thing, for surely it is much more difficult for a man who has been a bankrupt to struggle through the world than one who has never failed, and therefore can more easily obtain credit. I think a trader once having become a bankrupt is the more likely tolail again. I am not to be told that a man because he has been a bankrupt is not to try to obtain his livelihood, and that he is to lie down on his back, open his mouth, • wad shut his eyes, and see what God wilt send him.". THE POTATO CROP IN SCOTLAND.—A gentleman has just travelled upwards of 400 miles through the Highlands of Scotland without seeing or hearing anything of the potato disease, the crop being large and flourishing. In the Lowlands the disease has manifested itself to some ex tent, but it is by no means general. SWARM OF BEES IN A DRUGGIST'S SHOP.-011 Mon day last, a large swarm of bees entered the shop of Messrs. Walker, druggists, High-street, in this town, and took entire possession of the window. An attempt was made to hive them, but as the queen-bee was not with the swarm, that object could not be accomplished. It wa ultimately found necessary to destroy the whole swarm.—Doncaster Gazette. Mr. Adams, late banker at Shrewsbury, came before Mr. Commissioner Daniell, at Birmingham, yesterday week, for certificate under his bankruptcy. His honour refused the application, observing that the bankrupt had lived in wilful extravagance, spending for years .C4OOO per annum of the money of those persons who deposited with him for safety, and no consideration of family or station in life ought to have induced him to have so spent the money. SHOEING lionsEs.—At a meeting of the Royal Agri cultural Society, Professor Sewell remarked that he had found old horses shod with a layer of leather, forming an artificial sole, between the shoe and the hoof, recover from the severe affections causing injury to the hoof—such as contractions, brittleness, sand-cracks, or disease of the foot itself—as thrushes, canker, corns, &c., and perfectly regain it original el as ti c ity an d firmness. The mode in question had been practised' by Professor Sewell for the last thirty years. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE . OF POISONING. At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, two respectable women, mother and daughter, both married, were tried, on the Coroner's inquisition,. for the wilful murder of the child of the younger prisoner, whose death, as it trans pired on the trial, was occasioned by the mistake of a surgeon's apprentice, who compounded arsenic for calo mel, as was evident enough from the testimony of two chemists, who in the post mortem examination found the poison in the stomach, but not the calomel as prescribed. Mr. Baron Platt said it was useless to proceed any further with the case. They were not sitting there to justify medical men, but to justify the poor women at the bar. His lordship then, with considerable warmth, said th ere did not appear to be the slightest ground for the charge, and it only showed what might be done by a coroner's jury. A verdict of Not Guilty was at once returned, and the learned judge ordered the prisoners to be immediately discharged. SCOTCHMEN V. IRISHMEN.—The following letter, bearing the signature of "An Indigent Highlander," appeared in The Times of Tuesday :—ln your paper of the 18th current a comparison is made between the re bellion in Scotland of 1745 and that of Ireland at the present time. In the latter case 5000 are said to have run away from 50 policemen ; in the former case 2,500 not only gave battle to a regular army of more than their own numbers, but totally defeated them with the loss of their artillery. An attempt is also made to show that the two people (Celts), are in other respects the same. Most unfounded notion. Look to the potato famine, it was nearly alike in both countries; many millions were spent in Ireland to feed an ungrateful people ; in Scotland scarcely any claim was made on government, and of the charitable subscriptions not one-half (apportioned to Scotland), was called for; in fact, the great mass of Scotchmen still retain a portion of that laudable pride which makes a man feel that he would rather " die at a dyke side than be dependent on charity." THE POTATOES.—In the House of Commons, last week, Lord John Russell said " with regard to the potato crop in Ireland and the crops generally, the Government had received reports, both through the Poor-law Com missioners and the constabulary. * * In some instances, where it was supposed the potato crop was gone, it had returned, and he believed he might say that a very con siderable part of the crop appeared to be good. That ex pectation, however, might be disappointed, and therefore they must just wait the course of events. Still he be lieved he was entitled to say that the state of the crop ap peared to be more favourable now than it was a short time ago." 1 his is highly satisfactory. And so is another fact, elicited by Sir C. Burrell, who asked whether the amount of land planted with potatoes this year in Ireland was eight times greater than the year preceding. Lord John Russell did not own to quite so large an increase in in the space under cultivation, but he nevertheless " be lieved the increase to be in the proportion of eight to three!" OUR FOOD PROSPECTS.—Thanks to the undeserved bounty of Providence, an agreeable change has taken place in the weathar. Sunshine, accompanied with a brisk drying wind, has been the characteristic of almost every day last week. The effect upon the crops, the harvest re ports, and the markets has been mostscheering. The corn, (the greater part of which had been cut,) has been very largely stacked. The upward tendency of prices has been checked. And the farmers report both wheat and potato crops more favourably than the apprehension and gloom of the past month had allowed. In Mark-lane, on Monday, a rise of only 3s. a quarter was established ; and on Wed nesday prices were the turn downwards. At Liverpool, Leeds, and Hull, on Tuesday, a check was given to higher prices. At Boston, on Wednesday, prices fell from Is. to 2s. for old, and 3s. for new, which is described as being "in fair condition." At Birmingham, on Thursday, a similar fall is recorded. And at Wakefield, on Friday, a fall of is. was realised. The newspaper reports of the weather and crops published during the past week are si milarly gratifying. Even in Ireland, favourable accounts are now riven of the crops ; and it is even anticipated that there will be a sufficiency o f food for the people throughout - the approaching winter and spring. _ MODE OF EXTINGUISHING FIRES AT SEA.—Dr. Reid, of London, in a letter to a metropolitan contemporary, has made some suggestions for the extinguishing of fires at sea, which would seem to be worthy of attention. Dr. Reid says,—" Flame or combustion cannot go on where there is carbonic acid gas. This is one of the elementary principles of chemistry. The production of carbonic acid gas is completely at our command, for on adding dilute sulphuric acid to chalk, we can set at liberty, in the space of two or three minutes, enormous volumes of the so-called fixed air. The cost of material for a ship of 1,000 tons would not exceed, at the utmost £l5 or £2O sterling. By means of tubes proceeding from the upper deck in con nexion with a cistern containing the dilute sulphuric acid, to the quarters below where there is most likelihood of danger from fire; or moveable hose (made of gutta percha), which can be introduced into any part of the vessel—the oil of vitriol, previously diluted with water, can be at once poured over the chalk (which is thrown down in the place where the fire rages), and immediately, the carbonic acid being set at liberty, the fire is extinguished ; for combus tion cannot go on in an atmosphere of carbonic acid gas. I have been much occupied experimenting on this subject, and find that from five tons of chalk as much carbonic acid may be obtained as will be sufficient to completely fill a vessel of 1,000 tons burden. The expense of laying the tubes will not exceed thirty or forty pounds, and once laid, there is no further trouble or expense. Lightning conductors are provided for ships —surgeons, also, to trice care of the health of the crew—assuredly no expense (and it is but a trifle) would be grudged to secure a ship and its passengers from the contingency of such a melancholy mishap as that of fire." THE POISONING AT Wrx.—The inquiry into the crimes with which Mary May, who was hanged last week, was supposed to be connected, has not been permitted to die with her. On Wednesday, the body of Thomas Ham, a native of Wix, who died about seventeen months ago under suspicious circumstances, and was buried at Tender ing, was exhumed by order of the coroner, who proceeded to hold an inquest for the purpose of ascertaining whether death was caused by poison. The grounds for this pro ceeding, as far as we can learn, are these. May was very intimate with the deceased's wife ; in fact their maiden names bad been the same. Mrs. Ham, it is stated coha bited with a man named Southgate before her husband's death. The two women being thus intimate, and Ham, who was known to have money, dying suddenly, and his widow immediately marrying Southgate, when the crime for which May was executed came to light, suspicion was awakened by the former case. This was caused from the manner of Ham's death, which exhibited symptoms of his having taken mineral poison, and from the close friend ship that was known to exist between the woman who has suffered for her crime and Mrs. Ham (now Mrs. Southgate.) The body Ham, as before stated, was ex humed on Wednesday, and identified, and the usual mea sures taken for testing by careful analysation the presence of poison. The inquest was then opened at Tendring, when the servant-maid and other witnesses were examined, whose evidence tended to implicate Mrs. Southgate. The inquest was adjourned for the purpose of allowing time for an analysis of the stomach. This has been made by Pro fessor Taylor, and sufficient poison has, it is said, been found to account for Ham's death. It is stated that the body of another man will be exhumed, May being in that case also intimate with the wife, and the husband having died under like circumstances of suspicion. MORE ABOUT SHIRT MAKING. —At the Worship street, (London) Police-court, on Friday, Sarah Ladd, a middle-aged seamstress, was charged with unlawfully dis posing of six calico shirts. A married woman, named Sarah Lyons, whose appearance was scarcely less wretched than that of the prisoner herself, stated, that having re ceived the materials for making up a number of calico shirts from a person in the employment of Messrs. Moses, the outfitters on Tower-hill, she was induced from mo tives of charity to engage the prisoner to assist her at the work, and the latter undertook to finish and return six of the shirts on Monday last. She, however, did not do so, and acknowledged, when vit less sought her out at her lodgings, where she was lying on the bed, that she had pledged them. Witness had herself a large family de pendent upon her, and as she would be comp e ll e d t o ma k e good the loss of the shirts by the perso n w h o emp l oye d her, she was obliged to give the prisoner into custody as the only chance of procuring their restoration. In an swer to a question from the magistrate, the witness stated that the price paid by the warehouse for making the shirts was only ls. 6d. per dozen, and that she herself was paid at the rate of is. Bd. per dozen ; but, although, out of that she had to provide the needles and thread for the work, she allowed the prisoner the same amount as she received. The constable who captured the prisoner said that upon going to the h ou s e w h ere s h e l o d ge d, h e f oun d her in a miserable attic. entirely destitute of either furni ture or food, and still stretched upon her bed, which con sisted of a heap of rags in one of the corners of the room. She was evidently very wretched and in the last stage of destitution, and handed him a duplicate for the articles, which she said she had pledged to save herself from star vation. When asked if she wished to say anything, the prisoner who was very much agitated, assured the magi strate that what she had stated to the officer was the fact. With even incessant application, she could not make more than three shirts per day, which only produced her 34d., and as she found it impossible to exist upon that, she was obliged to pledge the work, upon which she obtained 3s. 6d. Mr. Arnold said it was certainly a very distres sing case, but as the charge was pressed against the pri soner he had no alternative than to remand her upon it, and she must be brought up again next week. OMINOUS.—ne malpractices of the Radicals of Leices ' ter having been exposed, we are not surprised to find the Reform Office shut up. On going up Town-hall-lane the passer-by will perceive the words" Reform Office" white washed over on a well-known building. How glad would the Whigs be if they could as easily efface from memory the acts performed in this bank of 17s. 6d. issue !—Leices ter Journal. THE ORLEANS PA AIILY.—The Count de Neuilly paid a visit to Her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Monday . , at Bushey House, Bushey Park. The ex-King was un accompanied by an members of his family. He arrived from Claremont in an open landau, and on passing through Hampton Court was saluted with every mark of respect by the numerous visitors and residents of the place. His ex-Majesty appeared in the enjoyment of good health. A WISEACRE to send four pointers an five miles off, to Lei sold by auction —On Saturday last, a man was ordered a spaniel from a village about ster, in order that they might be reputed to have some experience in the management of dogs, it seems almost incredible that he should have packed them up in a box and sent them by cart. Such, however, is the fact _; and on reach ing Leicester, the poor pointers were found dead, and the spaniel died shortly afterwards, of course from suffocation. FREE TRADE.-Mr. W. Walker, an eminent manufac turer of Bradford, thus concludes a very able letter to the Leeds Mercury, on the connection between free trade and the present distressed condition of that district :- -. " The restoration of tranquillity on the Continent of Europe will only, in a still greater degree, increase foreign. competition • and then, I predict, your boated f ree t ra d e principles will, from many other quarters, be condemned as based upon a theory which will not stand the test or experience." On Wednesday, George Lee, labourer, of Drag, and hit wife, on the approach of a thunder storm, took shelter irk a shed, situate in a field near Drag; he was struck by a flash of lightning and instantly killed. His wife was also struck by the electric fluid, and her limbs partially paral ysed, but she was able to crawl out of the shed. The lightning ignited the shed, which was nearly consumed. and the body 'if the unfortunate young man almost burnt to ashes. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—A correspondent of the British Banner complains that at a recent meeting of the Evangelical Alliance held at Stepney, the secretary read " the Alliance creed," which recognises as Christians, "Advowson dealers and Arch robbers," while it " pro nounced the Mrs. Frys and J. J. Gurneys of the empire to be castaways." The complainant having risen to ask if such were not the fact, was shouted and hissed down .. " in a manner," he says, •` that would have disgraced play-house," and by which he felt the more aggrieved, because this uproar followed "after a descant upon love and union, for three hours, by various ministers. " COMMITTAL FOR MURDER.-MrS. Mary Lightfoot, wife of Henry Lightfoot, of Quarry-bank, Dudley, has just been committed on a charge of administering arsenic to her husband, which caused his death. It was proved on the inquest that the prisoner had been seen in familiar intercourse with a man not her husband, and that she had obtained medicine for her husband during his illness. Arsenic was found in the body of the deceased on a post mortem examination being made, and altogether the cir cumstances were of so suspicious a character that, after an adjournment, the coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the wife. On Lightfoot's death. his wife obtained a sum of £4 for his burial from an Odd_ fellows' club, of which her husband was a member. DERBY SWEEPS.—In the House of Commons, on Fri day, in reply to a question from Mr. Anstey, the Attor ney-General said that no notice had been Riven of the il legality of inserting advertisements of Derby sweeps, no steps had been taken by the government against the offending newspapers, but he wished then to give notice, that parties henceforth offending would become amenable to the law.—Lord G. Bentinck hoped there would not be one law for the rich and another for the poor. If these sweeps were to be put down, they should also put down every description of lottery amongst the higher classes. —The Attorney-General said, that the question to which he had replied referred only to the insertion of advertise. ments of Derby sweeps. DISCOVERY OF A ROMAN VILLA.—The HOn. R. C. Neville, with his usual zeal in his researches of Ro man remains, has been enabled lately, through the kind permission of Mr. Samuel Jonas, of Ickleton, to have a field in his possession explored. It is situated within sight of the Roman encampment and Templi Um bra (as called by Stukeley), and about a quarter of a mile from the Chesterfield station, by the road side leading to Ickleton. The men in the employ commenced their la bours about ten days since, and have succeeded in disco vering the remains or walls of a large Roman building-, supposed a villa, having already exposed to view five rooms or compartments. Hopes are entertained that it will lead to some further interesting discovery. Amongst the numerous fragments, &c., found, were the skeletons of two infants. A BLACK PRINCE.—At Guildhall pol;ce-court, on Fri day, a black man, who described himself as Prince Henry Chri3tophe, of Hayti, was charged with having swindled the landlord of the Whittington dining-rooms, Newgate street, London, of refreshment to th e amoun t o f 19 s . 6d. The prisoner ordered an expensive dinner for himself and friend, representing that he was Prince Henry Christophey of Hayti, and that he should want b e d s f or himself and, friend that night, and that it was his intention to bring his wife and family to permanently occupy the rooms while he remained in this country. He and his friend. were supplied with whatever they wished for, and in a few hours they ran 111p~ a bill of 19s. 6d. His friend left, and no money being forthcoming, the prisoner was given in custody.—Mr. Needham, of the Saracen's Head, Snow hill, deposed to the prisoner having swindled him out of more than £3 in the same manner.—The prisoner was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. A NEW " DODGE" AT BRECHIN.—We had last week a visit paid us by an elderly individual, in a sort of a half clerical garb, who attempted to do—what does an inno cent public think ?—why, palm himself off upon us as the Marquis of Breadalbsne ! We humoured this personage, when he told us a very lengthy, but very Improbable story, the gist of which was, that he was the veritable marquis ; that he had made a wager with another aristo crat, that he (the marquis) would travel for an entire year as a beggar, confining his perambulations to that extensive district of country between Taymouth and John O'Groat's House : and that, though his rental amounted to £90,000 per annum, he was, by his agreement, not to touch a stiver of it until the time of his mendicancy was expired. He added that, in the meantime, people would find that he was not insensible to any kindness or hospitality shown to him ; and that he was in the habit of registering the names of such Samaritans in his note book, promising to do the genteel thing by them when he again came to his estate. This impostor, we doubt not, has deluded not a few of the green ones, but we are inclined to think that he found the Brechin folks by no means easy of belief, and that the vagrant's campaign in the city did not turn out so profitably as he anticipated. We believe the pretended marquis has left the place.—Dundee Courier. A CLERGYMAN DROWNED.—On Wednesday, the Rev. John Lloyd Crawley, of Arlingham-on-Severn, rode out to visit some friends on the other side of the river, telling his servant that he should be back at night, and if too late for the ferry, he should swim his mare across the river. Arriving at the other side of the river, he told one of the ferrymen he should be crossing to Arliugham at night, and desired that he would wait up at the ferry-house to put him across, which the ferryman promised to do. Just as the tide began to ebb, the unfortunate gentleman arrived at the ferry-house, and waited there some time for the ferryman. At length neither ferrymen arriving, he rode his mare into the river in the direction of Arling.. ham. Man and horse appeared to advance steadily until they arrived at a part of the river where the eddy is very . strong : then a plunging was heard, and, shortly after wards, the noise of the mare blowing some way further down the river, after which a dark object was seen to mount the opposite bank. Fearing some accident had oc curred, the persons on the shore gave the alarm. The river was shortly covered with boats, but no signs were discovered of the unfortunate deceased, whose mare was found at his door with the saddle empty, and one stirrup gone. The probability is that when the plunging was heard man and horse were overwhelmed by the eddy ; that the rider was struck when under the water, or dragged by the stirrup in such a manner that he could not swim ; that after the stirrup gave way the mare was relieved of the burden, and she reached the shore. The deceased's body has not yet been found, though every search has been made for it. The deceased had frequently ridden across the river in safety before, and was an expert swim mer. He has left a widow and four children. M. Guzzu-r AT YARMOUTH.—At the public entertain.. ment given last week at Great Yarmouth, after the re opening of St. Nicholas' Church, M. Guizot, who is stop ping at Lowestoffe, was present, and, on his health being drunk by the chairman, spoke as follows :—" I give you my most heartfelt thanks for the honour you have done me, the kindness you have shown me, and, above all, for the interesting—the most interesting and awful ceremony, of which by your kind invitation I have this day the hap piness to be witness. And I would pay you my thanks, not only in my own name, but in the name of the many honourable and distinguished visitors who have assem bled to-day in your town. How can I discharge well such a duty—l who am a foreigner, with my imperfect and so bad English ? But if there be a want of correct ness in my speaking, be assured there is no want of sin cerity in feeling. I have come but twice during my life to England. The first time I came as the ambassador of a powerful King ; the second time I came as an exile from my native land. When I came the first time to your country, Europe was in a state of perfect tranquillity and prosperity—there was peace present, and confidence in the future. The second time, some months ago, when I came, my own country—Europe generally—was involved in much sadness and fears for the future; but I found England perfectly quiet, enjoying in the deepest tranquil lity her liberty, her constitution, her moral, intellectual, and material prosperity ; and I was received as an exile as I had been when an ambassador, with the same kind ness, the same sympathy, and, I dare say, with the same friendship. How should I not but have been struck with such a spectacle of noble national wisdom ? How should I not but have deeply felt such a mark of respect ? For these motives I am here to-day. I have hitherto refused myself to every invitation —declined every invitation to feasts and to great meetings. Far from my dear country, and deeply sad, it is my inclination as well as my duty to live in retirement; and this lam doing. But this occa sion is one of a very different kind. The restoration of a church of God, the piety of an immense people, the de-. quence of two worthy bishops—these were the motives that attracted me to your town after I had refused every other invitation. I regret it not. lam happy, deeply happy to have seen what I have seen—to have heard what I have heard—to have felt what I feel just at this moment. Only one word more. Allow me to say, keep your faith— keep your laws—be faithful to the examples, to the tradi. tion 'of your ancestors, and I trust God will continue to pour on you and your country His best, His met ablao.. dant, His most fertile bleesiogs.".