The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

FOREIGN 4- • CODONIAL INTELLIGENCE- 'The Based of Health at Naples has thought ifitto place all vessels from the United Kingdom of England, Sc ot- AMERICA. land, anddreland in quarantine, in consequence of -a re- The British and North American Royal Mail Corn- port that; two cases of Asiatic cholera bad occurred in pany'ssteam-ship Hibernia, Captain Ryrie, arrived in the London in - the month of November last. It is intimated Mersey on Sunday, at.noon, with advices from New York that all vessels which may have cleared from the port o f to the 2nd, and from Halifax to the sth instant. Her London since the 3d of December will be refused ad wimi appointed day for leaving New York was the Ist, but tce altogether into the port of Naples, and that vesse ls owing to a dense fog. which prevailed, she did not sail till from any other port of the f Unite 4 d K i ngdom 2 will h e e sub the following day. The passage from New York, includ- jetted to a quarantine of 71 t o 1 . d a ys. trust ins-the detention at:Halifax, has been made in fourteen th at . the Foreign Secretary 711 lose n . o trine . -in protesting days, and from llalifax in little more than ten-and-a-half with suitable alacrity and vigour against this absurd mea days. The run. from New York to Halifax occupied 72 sure, so extremely injurious to the mercantile interests of hours, being the quickest on record. She brings £90,000 i this country, and so utterly unwarranted by the facts of in gold on freight. I the case. The steam-ship Caledonia. Captain Lott, hence, arrived ENGLISTI MUSIC IN SPAIN.—The Lancashire bell at Halifax on .the 3rd, ,and proceeded to Boston. The ringers, who, when in Paris, about two mouths ago, had West India mail steam-ship Teviot had arrived at New the honour of performing before the King and Royal fa- Orleans. mily at St. Cloud, made their appearance 4ast week at the 4 highly respectable meeting of merchants had taken Grand :Theatre of Barcelona, and were received hy place at New York, convened for the purpose of expressing crowded audience with a warmth even excee di ng t h a t their gratification at the establishment of a direct steam which they experienced at the Havannah. Th e S pan i ar d s communication between Liverpool and New York. An appear to be delighted with this kind of mus i c , but they address on the subject had been presented to Captain were near being disappointed by a curious c i rcums t ance. Rorie. When the bell-ringers reached the Spani s h f ron ti er f rom Paris, on their way to Barcelon a , a ll their bells were 'Great damage and loss of life has been occasioned by the,nyeificeving of the Ohio. seized, on the ground that th e i m p or t a ti on o f sells is in Spain. In va i n did th ey o b serve t h at t h ese The accounts from Mexico are so conflicting that it is prohibited were their musical instrume n t s , an d no t bells introduced difficult to understand the-real state of affairs. One account states that the governors of all the states for sale ;-and it was not until the British C onsu l a t Bar have assembled at Queretaro, and, with one exception, eelona h a d sent an express to Gerona, with a strong re were inclined to peace. monstrance against the rigid interpretation of the law by Another account states that no propositions of peace had the Spanish functionaries th a t th e b e ll s were re l ease d . been made by the Mexican Government. Another that, EMANCIPATION V . S LAVERY .—At a recen t mee ti ng a t by aslecis'ae -vote, they had rejected propositions, and de- Brownsville, Jamai ca , a ser i es o f reso l ut i ons were passe d dared against allnegotiations with the United States while declaratory of the a c t ua l an d an ti c i pa t e d ev il s resu lti ng her armies and fleets occupied their country. President from the application of fre e t ra d e p r i nc ipl es t o th e eulti- Anaya had issued an inaugural address. It is stated that vation of sugar. And by w h om were th ese reso l u ti ons many members of the Congress, displeased with his elec- Passed ? Not by planters. b u t by emanc ip a t e d l a b ourers. tion, had givenup their seats, and retired in disgust from Nor is this .all. At the meeting which a dopt e d th em , the city of Queretaro. There ;remained, however, more several of the speakers were emancip a ted l a b ourers . Th e than the fixed number which is required to form a language in which they expressed th e i r sen ti men t s was no t t:oomin, perhaps as classical as the orations o f Ci cero , b u t th e res- Some three or four of the northern states, including tuning it clothed was sound and cle ar . I n d e p en d en tl y o f Sea Louis Potosi and Tamaulipas, ase stated to hold out their novelty, as emanating from such a body, th ese reso strongly in favour of a continuance of the war. lotions are deserving of consideration, as o ur rea d ers , we General Scott, United States 'General in Mexico, had are sure, will admit after perusing them. Petitions, it trrested two of his generals, Worth and Pillow. will be seen, 'founded upon them, are to be prese n t e d t o the Queen •. room, next wee k , we w ill ouses extract from the Jamaica ficafions and mounting cannon on the castle and other of Parliament. If we ca l l Mexican accounts from Santa Fe state that a body of 3,000 and both Mahan troops were busy at Chihuahua in erecting forti- rind Dispatch, in which there is a report of the mee ti ng , a defensive works. specimen or two of negro oratory. The occupation of Mazatlan and Guaymas by the United EXTRAORDINALY SCENE.—In the Spanish Ch am b er o f States naval forces is mentioned. Deputies, the impeachment of Salam anca f or p ecu l a ti on Lord Palmerston had -protested against the forcible and other financial delinquencies, was brought forward on levying of taxes upon English residents in Mexico, to sup- the 6th instant, when Senor Be nav id es warm l y d e f en d e d port the war with the United States. These levies were the conduct of his late collea g ue, th e ex-minister. The made some six months since, when the English residents debate was brought to a close f or th e d a y by a very ani petitioned against it. mated scene. In the course of the discussio n , Pid a l d e - The financial condition of the states of Pennsylvania and dared that Salamanca. ould not be considered free f rom Maryland was extremely satisfactory, rendering easy the suspicion until he should have undergone a solemn trial. punctual payment of their dividends. This called up Salamatlea, who declared the statement to be a calumny, and added, " I demand a solemn j u d gmen t, There bad been another dreadful steam-boat accident. The steamer A. U. Johnson blew up with a tremendous in order that I may go to the gallows if I mer it i t, or t h at explosion near Magsville, Kentucky, from some defect in Senor Pidal may be declared a calumniator !" On this a her machinery. Between sixty and seventy persons were scene oft indescrib able and gesticu lating escribable confusion ensued, numbers of de killed on the spot, and a large number frightfully injured. puties shouting Order . order ! " Senor Salamanca was pro- Rumour is again rife that Mr. R o b er t Dillon Browne is ceeding, when he sullenly .exclaimed, " I cannot conti about to receive a colonial appointment. nue, gentlemen !" and fell back on his seat. (He has for The Berlin journals announce that Prince Albert of some time back, it should be observed, been labouring Prussia is about to imitate his cousin, Prince Waldemar, under severe indisposition.) Senor Salanianca was borne by visiting the East Indies and other parts of Asia. from the chamber in the arms of his friends, all of whom The Hon. T. J. Bernard, member of her Majesty's appeared greatly agitated, and many of whom cried, "It Council in Jamaica, bas been admitted into the Romish is an infamy ! It is a calumny !" The chamber deter church there. mined that the debate should be adjourned. The Queen of Spain's illness does not create so much Rome.—Letters from Rome of the 2nd instant mention alarm now as it did at first. It is attributed to the means the failure of a new conspiracy against the people of that adopted by the medical men to cure a cutaneous complaint capital. The Retrograde party had circulated a report to which her majesty is subject. that the Pope had declared that he would not receive the A bible, brought to America in the ship which conveyed felicitations of the Romans on the occasion of the new the puritan settlers, is still preserved, and was lately year. The Ist of January accordingly passed off without exhibited at New York. at a meeting held to commemo- any demonstration. A deputation of the inhabitants, rate, the anniversary of their landing. however, having waited on Prince Corsini, the senator, The French government has decided that a small pyra- to inquire into the truth of the report, the latter repaired mid shall he erected on the spot where the interview to the Quirinal to ascertain if such was the determination between Abd-el-Kader and the Duke d'Aumale took of his Holiness. After some difficulty he was admitted place, to perpetuate the memory of that event. into the presence of the Pope, who said to him, " What ! From the Ist of January, 1847, to the Ist o f O c t o b er t h e peop l e h ave re f use d to present me their wishes ? After last, 233,798 European emigrants arrived at Boston, New giving the Romans so many proofs of my affection, I York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Baltimore, while could not expect that they would treat me with that in for the preceding year the number was only 151,662. difference and coolness." " But," replied the senator, A ROYAL ACT.—The Hague journals announce that the " you forbade them to come to the Quirinal, and the King of Holland has gives the sum of 10,000 florins from people, supposing that you were suffering or ill, have sent his privy purse, for the construction of a house of refuge me to express their grief, and the wishes they form for for old men of the reformed evangelical communion at the your Holiness." The Pope assured the Prince that he Hague. was not ill , and that he had given no such orders, and The fortune left by Madame Adelaide amounts to con- added, " since the people have been prevented from con siderably more than 100,000,000.0 f francs. The Dukes ing to me, to-morrow I will myself visit the people." On of Nemours and Montpensier and the Prince de Joinville the following day, accordingly, the Pope traversed the are each to have 30,000,000 francs. The Queen of the city, amidst universal acclamations, stopping at all the Belgians gets a legacy of four millio n s. pos t s o f th e c i v i c guar d s, saluting and blessing the multi- Three Royal marriages are reported on the Continent, as tude." settled or probable : the King of Sardinia's youngest son AMERICA.—The packet-ship Liverpool arrived on Tues is to be united with a daughter of the Hereditary Prince day, in the Mersey, with dates from New York to the 23rd of Saxony ; the Prince Royal of Sweden, with the Prin. ult. The Liverpool brings £lO,OOO in specie. The news cess Louisa of Prussia; Prince Francis Oscar of Sweden from Mexico is of great interest. Santa Anna having , as with a daughter of the Prince of W asa . was before stated, is sue d a p ronunc i amen t o against the A FEMALE RENEGADE.—A French woman, named provisional government at Queretaro, calling upon them Juliette, was found, says the Toulonnais, in the deira of to organise a force of 50,000 men, for the purpose of re the Emir. She has arrived at Toulon, but had become so newing the war, a pronunciamento in his favour had been perfectly habituated to the manners and customs of the made by the military at Queretaro. He had left Tehuacan Arabs, that she earnestly entreated that she might not be on the -2nd or November. and had assumed the command separated from the man to whose fate she had united her- of the army at °aka. He says that he was deprived of the self.— Galignani. command of the army at Oaica by Pena y Pena, in order that The King of the French has received an autograph the latter might find no obstacle in making peace with the letter of condolence from the Queen of Great Britain on Americans. He avows his determination to oppose any the occasion of the death of Madame Adelaide. The negotiation for peace with the American forces occupying letter is written in very affectionate terms, and expresses any portion of the Mexican territory. He was said to be great sympathy for the King and Royal Family in their at the head of a force of 16,000 men of all arms, and was grief, Her Majesty has also written a letter of condo- threatening Congress in session, at Queretaro, most of lence to the King and Queen of the Belgians. whose members were inclined to peace. So great were The French government has broken faith with Abd-el- the fears entertained at Mexico by the Americans of Santa Kader. It has announced to him that it cannot con- Anna's succeeding in breaking up Congress ala Cromwell, sent to his going to St. Jean d'Acre on any terms, and that General Scott had ordered thither a strong force to that' with regard to Egypt it must first see whether the protect their deliberations. Gen. Filizola was at Quretaro, Pasha will agree to receive him.—lt has since been deter- with a force of 2,000 men. The General-in Chief, Basta mined that Abd-el-Kader shall be imprisoned in a fortress mente, had yet his head-quarters at Guanajuato with an at Lamalgue, which is being fitted up for his - reception. army of 9,000. General Espartero arrived early in Madrid on the 7th, I RIOT AT MILAN.—The burlesque and the bloody have and thus avoided the demonstration prep :red to greet his been strangely mingled in Milan. The cigar, like many return. The people, however, on hearing of his arrival, other trivialities in their time,—has become a political repaired to his residence, and rent the air with deaf e ni ng badge, and a man ran k s as an Austrian or an Italian, and cries. " Three times, says a letter from Madrid, " the may be cut down either by the soldiers or the people, as multitude have already burst into the house, determined he chooses to make an open manifestation of his respect to see their idol. They rushed to his presence, they or disdain for tobacco. It had already been announced lifte I him from the ground, fell at his feet, and hundreds that the people of Milan, to embarrass the government, of these wild-looking fellows wept and sobbed like child- had resolved to discontinue the use of tobacco, from the ren. Espartero cried like a woman." tax on which a very large revenue bad been derived. The A New York paper, after urging various reasons why pledge seems to have been universally kept without any the capital of the United States should be removed from other demonstration of feeling on either side until the 2nd Washington to New York, reserves, for its climax, the fol- instant, when the appearance of two persons on the Corso, lowing conclusive argument :—" In less than a year we an Austrian officer, and an American, became the occa shall communicate (by means of railroads and the electric lion of an unfortunate excitement,—the officer received a telegraph) with the remotest points of the Republic—with blow on the cheek, and the American's cigar was knocked New Orleans on one side, Chicago on the other, and out of his mouth. A wise policy would have overlooked Boston on the north. New York will then be just such a the affair; or at most have mildly dealt with it, as an or place as the government of this great country ought to be dinary police affair. The military authorities, however, in—the great central city of the country and the great judging otherwise, hit upon the most senseless and dis centre of its decency, its dirt, and its fashions." graceful course which it was possible to pursue. Cigars NEW ZEALAND.---An unpleasant state of things exists were distributed among the troops during the night with i n New Zealand, where the natives claim the sole right to orders to smoke them on the morrow in the town. This the " wilderness" or waste lands, and are aided in their could be neither more nor less than a provocation to efforts to obtain them by the new Bishop, w h o has ex. bloodshed. From 100 to 200 men of the garrison, it is pressed nis determination to assist in the maintenance of said, flushed with wine, smoking their cigars, swaggered their rights as British subjects by peaceful remonstrance through the town jeering at the people. This stupid in and petition to the Imperial Legislature. On the other suit was borne patiently for some time, but at length the hand it is contended that the ownership of such lands rests people began to hiss ; the soldiers then fell upon the peo with those who reclaim and cultivate them. Early in pie; a sort of fight was then kept up from six o'clo c k to July a collision took place at Wangnini, between the na- midnight, the people showing great firmness, and leaving Lives and the British troops, about 400 on each side, in no means untried to repel their ageressors. Several which the loss was considerable. Of the British, 3 were parties were killed and others i"..,tied. Two days after kilted and 11 wounded. war ds the American -Municipali , apparently displeased with this Aceording to the Last papers, it appears that military outrage, issued a proclamation couched in kind a mail service for Oregon, by means of steamers on the language, exhorting the people to be tranquil. The Vice- Pacific, will soon be established. " Two splendid roy, who was absent at the time, pursued a similar course. steamers," it is said, " have been contracted for, to run Meanwhile, the people call upon each other not to be on the coast of Peru, the starting point from Panama, or provoked into unseasonable violence; though they openly rather Callao, to extend as far as the mouth of the Ore- cry for vengeance, and are supplying themselves with gon River, touching at the various places between these arms. Another step in the policy of passive resistance has two points. They are to carry the United States and been resolved on ; the lottery is virtually put an end to ; Oregon mail, in connexion with Mr. Law's steamers, every man in a dependant position who takes shares in it which are to ply on the Atlantic side, having Chagres as to be dismissed; every independent man to be held up to the terminus, or depot. Two of the latter aie now in public contempt. All this is serio us . It i s ano th er in- gant build and finish. CROSSING THE DESERT.—A new common road locomo tive carriage, on a large scale and of a novel principle, has been invented by an intelligent engineer, named Maxton, for the conveyance of passengers and baggage on the de sert between Suez and Cairo. The Pacha has required a committee of scientific men to report upon the adaptation of the machine for the purpose contemplated ; and as that report has been favourable, instructions have been given for theconstruction ofan experimental one of 200 horse-power. on three wheels of thirty feet in diameter, and possessing a saloon for passengers, capable of accommodating one hundred persons. Its speed is calculated at 20 miles per hour, and is expected to be in operation in six or eight months. gredient of mischief that the introduction of Austrian trobps int644odemt•and'theDitchrof Partmr has greatly exasperated the Italians. The various Cabinets' of Europe cannot look without anxiety on the actual aspect of the affairs of Italy. THE CHASE The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, (To-morroNi,) at Hankelow ; on Thursday, at Cholmon deley ; on Saturday, at Wrenbury Village. Sir W. W. WYNN'S Hounds will meet on Tuesday, (this day;) at Bangor; on Thursday, at Oteley Park ; on Friday, at Carden. Each day at half -past ten o'clock. THE MONKS OF Sr. BERNARD.—The Augustines of the Great St. Bernard have received rather severe treat ment from the new-fledged authorities of th a t canton. Not content with demanding from them a fine of some x5,c00, these persons, headed by the notorious M. Druey, have taken actual pos s ession of the monastery. At two o'clock in the morning they broke open the doors with pick-axes, seized the keys, and rifled the house from top to bottom. The baggage of casual inmates was rudely searched. Soldiers are planted at the doors and windows, with orders to , shoot any person seen to carry away the most trifling article of furniture. In short, every wooden platter in the monastery has become the absolute property of the cant on o f V a l a i s . At Martigny, the infirmary house, to which the octogenarians of the hospice retire for a somewhat milder air, and the enjoyment of such ease as ague and rheumatism will allow, the was repeated same scene LOLA MONTES.—A letter from Munich says—" It ap pears that Lola Montes is increasing in favour at the Court of Bavaria. The Queen has conferred on her the order of St. Theresa, calls her ' My dear Countess,' and admits her into her intimacy. The ladies of the Court, of course, feel it their duty to caress the fr0...4., fact, she has all the world at her feet. The styleOflei u rp in which she lives passes all bounds , nothing equal to it • ---- k--n seen at Munich, even in th e R oyal pa e o" " • COURT AND .FASHION The Court has removed for a short time to Claremont, where her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the junior mem bers of the royal family, have been taking their habitual out-door exercise since our last. The Earl .of. Powis, who was accidentally shot by his son, the Hon Robert Herbert, while shooting in the pre serves at Powis Castle, on Friday week, is going on well. Raby. Castle, Durham, has been the gay scene of those festivities usual at this season, and the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland have entertained their guests in a style of magnificence worthy of that truly princely residence. Lady Zetland has recovered from the effect of her fright on the railway, her maid is also in a fair way of recovery, and instead of her hands having been cut off by the en gine, she has only lost two fingers, that were amputated. It is now fully admitted that had her ladyship and her at tendant remained in the carriage, no accident would have occurred. During the festivities at Woburn Abbey, private the atricals were indulged in. According to the bill of the amusements, the performances were " in honour and under the patronage f Chevalier Bunsen, the Mi T 7 • n Virgin Q or, Too Much Supper, the dramatis Queen Elizabeth, theDucheAs " Rutland. Lady Rn.h.i persona Dowaze Sally Siva!lot Lady Rachel Rus Is Stafford, M.P. It was an- itness the performances, The performances corn. We un- ee will allow." ed much merriment by h he enacted the humorous pat:i in. Lady Rachel Russell, as I A F 7 lanes as Sir Walter .Raleigh, IRELAND. Owing to the flooding of the pits at Clonbrock, &c., in the Queen's Cou n ty, a th ousan d co lli ers have' been thr own • out of employment for several weeks. A - fire broke out on Wednesday, in the house of 7ilr. Lanauze, No. 33, North Frederick-street, Dublin, by -which an elderly lady, aged 80, met her death. A renewed attempt at reconciliation has been made by the " Old Ireland' party ; but Mr. O'Brien has rejected the overture, and the co-operation of the parties seems now as far off as ever. The extensive corn mill and stores of Mr. Corban, at .Kilworth, Cork, were burnt down on Wednesday. 6000 barrels of wheat were destroyed, and the premises which were worth nearly £6OOO. One of the leading conspirators in the murder of the .Rev. Mr. Lloyd has died in prison. It has clearly tran spired that he held Mr. Lloyd's horse and gig, while the other assassin was engaged in the bloody transaction. At the late Tuam Sessions, the assistant-barrister ,eiid, that thefts of sheep and cattle had lately been so corn .rion in the western district of Galway, that every peasant's cabin might be said to have been turned i n t o a f e l o n's shambles. At the Cork City Sessions Mr. Robert Hardy was found • guilty of assaulting and beating Captain Bunbury, but the jury added that " though in the eye of the law he was guilty, he was fully justified in every other mspect," the •complainant having broken his promise to marry the de fendant's sister. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin is pleased to style the indignation which has been excited in every honest and manly mind at the denunciations by priests 'from the altar "as the calumny of intemperate bigots against the ministers of our holy religion;' anti this is believed in Ireland. At whose door lies the fault if the xeport has gathered strength ? THE PRICE OF THE LIFE OF A PROTESTANT.—A re spectable man in Wakefield has received a letter from a near relative of his residing in Limerick, whichh - states among other alarming intelligence, that for ls. 6d., the Terry Alts would engage to take the life of any Protestant, whowas a working man. For destroying the life of a Pro testant person of higher station, a larger sum was fixed ! A - Goon EXAMPLE.—Th e Rev. Dr. M'Ennery, of Tralee, delivered an address to his coOgregation the other day, earnestly deprecating crime and outrages of every species ; inculcating the obligation or industry and mutual charity ; and exhorting all clages, landlords, tenants, and peasantry—to the christian-like disettarge of their mutual duties. On Friday, Andrew Dea, a youth of seventeen years of age, was found guilty, at the Limerick Special Commis sion, of the murder of Edmund Murphy, by shooting him with a pistol. The reason alleged for the act was some quarrel with deceased about land rented under him. Sentence of death was passed upon him. The 7th of February was fixed upon as the day of execution. A split has taken place a mong th e " I r i s h Confedera tion,' or Smith O'Brien's party : Mr. Duffy, the pro prietor of the Nation, preferring to fight theoretically in his newspaper, whilst Mr. Mitchell, an eloquent, though very indiscreet, speaker at the public meetings of the body, wishes to throw off all flimsy disguise, and, repu diating all attempt to conciliate the gentry, at once to declare war and abide the issue. The Cork papers report two awful murders at Castle townroche, those of a widow and her niece, who were found strangled in bed on the 6th instant. Round the old woman's neck was a cord by which she was choked, and the young woman, who slept with her, had marks of vio lence on her neck, the print of the thumbs of those who took her life. Both were in bed when they were mur dered, and the young woman evidently had struggled hard with her assassins. It appeared that plunder had been the object of the murderers, who are supposed to be two men who lodged in the old woman's house. On the very day when the notorious convict Ryan was sentenced for murder at the special commission in Lime rick, a farmer named Martin M•Mahon, residing at a place called Cratloe, in the County Clare, had his habi tation broken into at midnight, by a party of eight men, armed, and with their faces blackened. On making a search for arms, resistance was offered to them ; and, after a conflict, desperate though unequal, M`Mahon was shot dead, he having previously smashed with a shovel a gun of one of the party which had been presented at him. Six of the party were almost immediately arrested. ORANGEISM.—The fearful outrages committed for so long a period in many districts of Ireland appear to af ford a feasible apology for the reorganisation of the orange confederacy ; and much good will doubtless result from men selected from the middle and lower classes banding themselves together for the purpose of self-protection and resistance to the aggressions of the lawless and dis affected. A meeting of the orangemen of the Dartree (Monaghan) district was held in the town of Newbliss on the 11th of January instant, the Right Worshipful the District Master in the chair, when resolutions were passed regretting the dreadful occurrences which are taking place, and fully organising the institution. SIGNIFICANT DOCUMENT.—On the 24th December a riot occurred in Ballymena. Some of the parties engaged in the melee stripped off their upper clothing ; and subse quently a vest, owner unknown, fell into the hands of a re spectable inhabitant, who found the document, of which the following is a true copy, in one of the pockets :—" Obliges tion.—l solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, to be revenged on all heretics, and all manner of them dis senting from the Holy Catholic Church ; and that I will, at all times, as far as in my power, do everything that may disadvantage all Protestants, by night and by day, and in all places ; and that I will aid and assist all Catholks, in all quarrels, and that I will do all in my power in this Kingdom of Ireland. So help me God, and keep me sted fast in this my Greenman's obligation. P.S.—This shall not be taken out of your lodge-room, on any account, only by the secretary." This document speaks volumes. SKET CH OF AN IRISH LANDLORD (BY ONE OF THEM SELVES).—At a dinner given to Mr. Howe, one of the agents of the Dufferin estates, Lerd Dufferin said :—" An Irish landlord is unlike any other landlord under the sun. (Laughter.) He lives in a peculiar atmosphere of his own. (Renewed laughter.) The daily conditions of his life and the occasional conditions of his death are totally dissimilar from those of other men. He is a complete ge nius of himself—an erratic body in the social system. (A laugh.) He may be described as an individual who does not get rent ; as a well-dressed gentleman who may be shot with impunity, the legitimate cockshay of the im mediate neighbourhood ; a superficial index, by which to mark the geographical direction of the undercurrent of assassination ; a cause of bewilderment to coroners, and of vague verdicts to distracted juries ; a subject for news paper paragraphs, and a startling text for leading articles." (Loud laughter.) AN ARCHBISHOP POlSONED.—Alarming reports are current through town about the state of John of Tuam's health. A Shrewsbury Cake, sent as a New Year's gift, by an officious friend, hasp disordered his powers of di gestion, that he cannot away with it ; and he is "in his retirement marvellously distempered." It is supposed that nothing short of a visit to Rome, and asourse of the famous Vatican antibilious powders can restore his system to its wonted tone and action. The Town Commissioners of Tuam, to mark their sympathy with the illustrious suf ferer, have forbidden pastry cooks and others, under heavy penalties, to deal in the like unchristian dainties in future. Any person seen in possession of Shrewsbury confectionery, after this notice, shall be put to his purgation after a me thod of treatment still less endurable than that of the Vatican Doctors. We have just learned that the hon. and learned member for Limerick is suffering most pitifully from the same cause.—Dublin Mail. REPEAL ASSOCIATION, MONDAY.—Mr. J. O'Connell read a letter from Dr. Cantwell, relative to what he called " the presumptuous letter" of the Earl of Shrews_ bury. Mr. T. O'Brien, M.P., next addressed the assem bly on the subject of the Dublin Improvement Bill. Mr. Reynolds spoke at considerable length on various topics, and concluded by reading a petition to the House of Commons for the repeal of the Jewish disabilities, and moving its adoption by the association. Mr. J. O'Con nell read a letter from the Count de Montalembert, a peer of France, inviting him (Mr. O'C.) and the other members of the family " to be present at the Cathedral of Notre Dame on Thursday, the 17th February, when the funeral oration of their immortal father will be deli vered in the presence of the Archbishop, by the first ora tor of France and perhaps of the Church, Father Lacor daire. The memory of the great O'Connell will then be celebrated by honours which until now have not been rendered save to kings and the inheritors of the throne.' ie letter goes on to invite the O'Connells to a banquet to take place on. Sunday the 13th, or Monday; the 14th February. Mr. O'Connell then said that "he would willingly take two or three days off his exile in England, and give them to the good friends of liberty in France." The rent was £69. STARVATION.—The Tralee Chronicle reports tlie death of four children from starvation, on being turned'out of the Kenmare (Kerry) union workhouse by the master, in obedience to an order he received from the board of guardians to get rid of all widows having two children.- The following is the poor mother's evidence :—" Cathe rine Connolly sworn.—The poor woman wept most bit terly, and after some time told the following melancholy tale :—She and her children, the eldeSt of whom was 14 years of age, were in the Kenmare poorhouse. , Was put out. Was put out a good while after breakfast, and got no relief since. Asked the relieving officer for relief, and he answered her that her name was not on his books, but to come to him the following Monday at Lauragh and that she would get it. Asked the - master of the work house for a ticket, and he said there was no occasion, as her name was on the book of the relieving officer. Parted with the children for the purpose of getting her name on the book, thinking they would be able to make out their .home by themselves. Is sure they would have lived, had they got anything to eat. They had nothing to eat from the time they left the workhouse but one plate of gruel between the five of them ; they got it at the house of John Harrington ; and has no doubt on her mind but they died of hunger." The jury returned a verdict that they came by their death through the neglect of the board of guardians._ ►SPECIAL COMMISSION AT ENNIS.—On Friday, the Chief Baron and the Court were occupied the whole of the day with the trial of the two men, Patrick Ryan and James Hayes, for the murder of Mr. Watson ; and from the notoriety of the case, and the peculiar nature of some • - - nounced a verdict of " guilty" — against both the pri- Hayes betrayed considerable emotion at the .ed to treat Boners be grew been found by the grand jury were brought up to be arraigned. Amongst them were Thomas Milnernherny and five others, for the murder of a man named M`Mah,n, on the 3d instant, and M'lnernherny, on the Clerk of the Crown asking him whether he was guilty or not guilty, immediately answered, " I am guilty, my lord, but these five others are not." Mr. O'Hea said it must be some .misapprehension. The Lord Chief Justice pointed ont-torthe prisoner that, if he persisted in his *ilea of guilty, he must most assuredly be hanged. The' Prisoner : I am guilty, my fiord, and there were five others with me: but not these men Li the dock.—The Lord Chief Justice then directed an attorney to explain to the prisoner the position in which he was placing him self; and, after a few minutes' conversation between the prisoner and the attorney, the question was again put, and they all then pleaded " Not guilty." having ier sleeping-chamber, even the Qls and ceiling, is hung with guipure, lined with rose-coloured satin. The mantelpiece is of Sevres porcelain, painted by the first artists. The furniture is of the time of Louis XV., enriched with gold and silver. A description of her din ing-room would exceed those in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, and we shall content ourselves with stat _ ,Id, bearing the arms and of the ( To this is joined a revenu TII LIVIIRPIOI,tRTANDAIIII. - DENUNCIATIONS FROM THE ALTAR, The Dublin Mail of the 12th has a most extraordinary account of the boldness of a gentleman named Holmes, who, at the chapel of Ballaghaderreen, county Mayo, de nounced to his face the parish priest, a Mr. Tighe, for having used inflammatory language towards his brother, a resident proprietor. Mr. Holmes had travelled from England for the purpose of addressinc , this priest's con gregation, and on Thursday, the 6th instant, he was accommodated by Mr. Tighe with a place at the altar, and after pointing out in plain but forcible language the kindness and sacrifices of his brother to benefit the people, he thus continued And what is the return he has met with ? Do you require to be told ) Why, when he left home, a month ago, it is notorious that the assassins who were to murder him had arrived in the parish, and were harboured amongst you! There are those amongst you that know it. I can account for the presence of those miscreants. They were attracted hither by the inflammatory harangues of your priest here (pointing to Mr. T ghe). I tell him so to his face. (Tremendous uproar in the chapel. Cries of "Turn him out," " he is a liar," and a scene of great confusion, during which the curate in vain attempted to address and appease the people, followed). At length Mr. Tighe suc ceeded, after many ineffectual efforts, in obtaining a hearing. Mr. Tighe—lt is false that I made any attacks on Mr. Holmes ; there have been houses levelled in this parish, and poor wretches turned out, but I never attacked Mr. Holmes: Mr. Holmes—l know that you did, and I tell you at this altar, to your face, and in the presence of the congre gation, that your attacks on my brothe r f rom thi s s p o t have, brought these - murderers to this parish. Here the uproar re-commenced, and some of the more violent of the'congregation appeared to pass over the rails to the altar, the priests endeavouring to restrain them. Mr. Holmes (advancing in front)—l am not afraid of you. I came here to tell you these truths alone, and I am not to be deterred by five hundred of you. Mr. Tighe—My friends, this is the house of acid. Let us have no more of this. Mr. Holmes bas charged me with attacks on his brother, which I deny. If he has anything more to say, let him address you outside the chapel. Mr. Holmes, having declined any further address to the people, left the chapel surrounded by the mob, who refrained from any act of personal violence, but saluted him with groans and execrations on his driving away. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Wm. Henry Foy, of St. Bees' College, has been appointed to the lucrative office of British chaplain to a district in the north of India, by the Bishop of Calcutta. MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL.—A lady lips lately for warded to the Dean of Manchester the sum of £5O, for the erection in the cathedral of any article of furniture or ornament which might he thought advisable. The dean has decided upon appropriating the money to the erection of a font. The Rev. J. Garbett, Rural Dean of Birmingham, has been appointed examining chaplain to the Right Rev. James Prince Lee, Bishop of Manchester, and is ap pointed to preach the consecration sermon at Whitehall Chapel, on Sunday. The Oxford Magazine for this month says, " We know that the foreseen reaction has come. Puseyism has natu rally ' developed ' into Infidelity in some of the acutest minds among the younger members of the Convocation. They have not seceded to Rome : they remain where they were born and nurtured. Many of them retain nothing of their early Puseyism, but its hatred of evangelical and scriptural truth. This is a most melancholy fact." The articles presented by Mr. Gutteridge against the Bishop of Manchester repeat the charges as to divers al leged acts of intoxication at the Blue Coat School and Bishop Ryder's Church, as also at his lordship's own pri vate residence, the latter being alleged to be notorious to the members of the household, and amongst others to Mr. Abbott, one of the under masters of the school. Mr. Abbott, since the publication of the statement, has denied in tato the truth of this allegation, to which he gives the most unqualified and emphatic denial. In the Arches Court, on Tuesday, Sir H. J. Fust sen tenced the Rev. J. Mayor, Perpetual Curate of Forest hill, to be deprived of that benefice, to which he had been nominated in 1823, because in 1825 he procured himself to be inducted to the living of Hadleigh without procuring a legal dispensation. The Bishop of Oxford, through his secretary, instituted the suit, relying upon a decree of the Council of Lateran, binding upon the clergy of this country, and which declares that whosoever shall take a second benefice of souls without license shall forfeit the first. The new archbishop of York was enthroned on Thurs day with the usual ceremony. The lord archbishop was conducted to the Chapter House, where he made his pe tition to be invested in all the rights of the archiepiscopal dignity. A procession was then formed to the altar in the choir, where the lord archbishop petitioned as before, and he then took the usual oath. administered by the re gistrar. His grace was then conducted to a chair, near the altar, and the president placing his hand on the head of the archbishop, invested him with the pastoral and archiepiscopal dignity. DR. HAMPDEN.— mong the signatures of the clergy to the addresi of confidence in Dr. Hampden, we find the following of reverend gentlemen connected with this town and neighbourhood :—Revds. Drummond Anderson, Dr. Booth, J. P. Boutflower, G. H. Bowers, Dean of Manchester, Dr. Byrth, J. C ordeaux, H. Cowan, J. H. Crowder, John Crump, George Cuthbert, Robert Davies, George Dover, W. W. Ewbank, A. Hamilton, W. F. Ancock, W. Hughes, Dr. Hume. Andrew Knox, A. M'Conkey, W. Maynard, J. W. Milner, T. Nolan, A. E. Obins, T. Radford, W. Rawson, E. R o berts , R. Wall, R. C. Welsh, R. Wilde, J. E. Bates, and J. E. Gladstone. The clergy of the A rchdeaconry of Gloucester held a meeting in the Cathedral of that city, on Tuesday, for the purpose of presenting an address of sympathy to the Lord Bishop of the Diocese on the rejection of the remonstrance against Dr. Hampden's appointment to the Bishopric of Hereford, transmitted by the Bishops to the Premiei: The Rev. Mr. Kennaway, of Cam pden, moved the address, which was seconded by the Rev. Mr. Estcourt. The Rev. Dr. Jenne, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and Canon of Gloucester, moved, as an amendment, that it was inexpedient to address, and this was 'seconded by the Rev. Mr. Close, of Cheltenham. Long speeches were' made by the gentlemen named, and, after a warm discus sion, the meeting divided, when the address was carried by 71 to 28 votes. THE RIGHTS OF THE CROWN.—In the course of the proceedings relative to the confirmation of Dr. Hampden's appointment, Dr. Lushington touched the point of the case, when he said—" No doubt there !nay be inconsis tency in these modes of proceeding; indeed I think it would be in vain to deny that such is the ease: But really, what are the facts ? The times when this statute was passed were times when we were emerging from the power of the Papacy into the freedom of the Reformation, and when practices—and, I am sorry to say, principles too—vacillated ; and is there any wonder that a Sove reign upon his throne in those times was anxious to re tain the ancient form, though at the same time anxious to engross into his own hands the real power ?"—namely, the power of the nomination of bishops, from regularly ordained and qualified persons, instead of that power being exercised by the Pope. The Bishop of Exeter has put forward an appeal to the Christian charity of England for aid in relieving the spi ritual destitution, " almost unequalled in intensity," f r om which Devonport suffers. For 26,000 inhabitants there is no parochial church or Chapel. There are two conse crated chapels, but they have no proper free seats. I n three districts, containing a population of 18,000, and separated from the town under 6 and 7 Victoria, c, 37, there is no church or even chapel whatever. There is another district similarly unprovided. In no part of Devonport is gratuitous accommodation afforded even by Dissenting meethm-houses. The absence of free schools is equally to be deplored. There is only One "ragged school," recently established, and a day ,school for the sons of seamen, &c. Applications have been made to the Government ; but they have " no funds applicable to such a purpose." Four large churches are required for the four districts ; and to build and endow them a large sum is needed. It is to meet " such an accumulation of spi ritual wants" that the Bishop makes this appeal. EXTRACT FROM ARCHDEACON HARE'S PAMPHLET ON THE BAMPTON LECTURES.—The author, having shown in detail the unfairness of the quotations made from the Bampton Lectures by the Corpus Committee, he thus continues :—" Here at length we may pass out of this valley of death. There are still three or four propositions that I have not noticed ; but they seem to be merely stuck in to swell out the list, and, after what has already been said, need no examination. Such a collectiOn of fraudu lent misrepresentations has hardly ever come under my notice, though I have had much experience in this way ; and it has been a painful task to oppose them. But, as I have had to say, on a former occasion, a lying spirit is stalking through our Church, and even taking possession of some minds that would otherwise be among its pillars and noblest ornaments : and this spirit we must endeavour to cast out, at whatsoever cost. Who the collector of this series of propositions may be, I know not. Most probably he will be found among those whose love of truth has sought a congenial resting-place in the Romish schism ; and his natural end seems to be, unless some higher spirit arrest him, to become a familiar of the inquisition." CONFIRMATION OF OF THE ELECTION OF THE BISHOP OF HEREFORD The confirmation of the Rev. Renn Dickson Hampden, p.D., to the Bishopric of Hereford, tookpllice on Tiles- The proceedings excited intense interest. At 11 o'clock the commissioners of his Grace the Arch bishop of Canterbury, viz., Dr. Burnaby, Vicar General of Cante r b ur y, Sir John odson, Master of the Faculties, and Dr. Lushington, took their seats at the table in the " ,f• Junta aisle ok ,ne cnurcn. Proclamation having been made, calling on opposers , Mr: Townsend (Proctor) said he had a ,protest to pre sent against the proceedings of that day, which was.signed by Dr. Walbroke Hendley, All Saints, Oxforti •' John febb, T r i n i t y C o ll eg e, Dublin ; and F. W. Powell, Cam. The 'Comlnis§ion'ers .. decidQ that the pr be received; tit , here assembled under aamissiov, f,st signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, to proceed with. the confirmation of . Dr. Hampden, Bishop Elect of the see of Hereford, and if they neglected to do so they were liable, under the statute of Henry VIII, to heavy pains an d penalties. Tlie BishoP Elect was here introduced, and took his seat at the table where the Commissioners were assemb led, and on proclamation being made a second time for the op posers to come forward, Mr. Townsend said, as the Court had refused to hear the protest, he begged permission to hand in the copy of a libel which the objectors wished to have argued in the ecclesiastical courts. Dr. Burnaby said it could not be received. The Com missioners were sitting that day under provisions of the the statute of Henry VIII., and they were bound to pro ceed with the confirmation. The opposers had no legal right to be heard, but the Court would not object. Dr. Adams then, in a long speech, addressed the Com missioners. The learned advocate contended that the protest against Dr. Hampden's election to the see of Hereford ought to be fully considered in the Arches Court, and he trusted no impediment would be thrown in the way. He considered that the statute of Henry VIII. had no bearing in the present case, and therefore he should be indeed surprised if the Court refused to enter tain the protest. If an individual had been unduly elected to the office of Bishop, surely, on sufficient grounds being shown, the Court would not proceed with the confirmation. Now the opposers stated that Dr. Hampden had not been duly and according to law, elected Bishop of Hereford, as the election by the Dean and Chapter was not unanimous. He would not speculate on what other objections might be argued, if the Com missioners allowed the confirmation to be stayed until the case could be heard in the Ecclesiastical Courts. If the party elected was a Jew, Turk, or heretic, or infidel, would not the Court, in such a case, interfere ? Parties oppos ing the election were called upon to appear, and state their objections, or otherwise they would be held contu macious ; and when they did so, was it not a farce, a mockery of justice, to be told that the objections could not be entertained ? At the conclusion of a long argument, Dr. Burnaby said he was decidedly of opinion that the Commissioners had no power or authority to entertain th e objections against Dr. Hampden's election. Dr. Lushiagton and Sir John Dodson were of the same opinion. The confirmation was then proceeded with, and at its conclusion the Bishops and Commissioners left the church. THE BISHOPS OF HEREFORD AND OXFORD The subjoined letter has been addressed by the Bishop of Hereford (elect) to the Rev. R. R. Faulkner. of Haver ing-atte-Bower, Essex : " Christ Church, Oxford, Jan. 7, 1848. " DEAR Sitt,—Your warm congratulation on my pro motion to the see of Hereford demands my sincere thanks. The sympathy of one who has himself stood his ground so firmly against a violent Tractarian assault is most wel come to me. You did essential service by your resistance to that outrageous attempt of the Camden Society to in trude on your rights in your parish, and overbear your Christian conscientiousness. lam much obliged to you for the report you have sent me of the proceedings in that case. I shall have much satisfaction in going through it when I have leisure from the engagements which press heavy on me at this moment. " 1 have had abundant matter of vexatious doings the last few weeks. But I feel more than compensated for any personal annoyance by the good which I am sure will eventually come out of the present disturbance. The strength and designs of the Tractarian party (the real movers throughout, whatever may be said to the con trary) will have been disclosed, and the necessity of rally ing the true Protestant spirit of our Church will have been demonstrated. I am deeply thankful to a good Providence for the course which events ha ye taken. " I am, dear sir, your's faithfully " R. D. HEREFORD (Elect). " P. S.—The Bishop of Oxford would insinuate, in his letter to the Times, that I have made concessions to him. I shall be obliged to you most positively to contra dict any such statement, should you hear it alleged—it is not true. " The Rev. R. R. Faulkner." DR. HAMPDEN AND DR. WHATELEY , The Archbishop of Dublin has published his " thoughts" on the proceedings against the Bishop of Hereford. It occupies nearly a page in the London Times of Saturday. We can quote but one passage to-day, and that we cite the rather that it suits our space than that it has, of all other passages in the book, the most excited our admira tion. The Archbishop, after imagining a churchman who has for years resided far away from the possibility of being ac quainted with the passing state of things in reference to the church, and who suddenly returns at the present crisis, points out several things that would raise his wonder, and thus proceeds : " And, to crown all, he would find the remonstrants urging Ministers, en the very grounds of Dr. Hampden's theological unsoundness, to leave him in the office of Re gius Professor of Theology. For if they had thought it possible, and desirable, to remove him from that office, by bringing him t• a regular trial for heresy, and obtaining a sentence against him, of course they would have done so many years ago. " And yet. one wunla think, nourparmas -in religiouS opinions must be, at least, not leas requisite—perhaps even more so—in a professor, who is necessarily occupied in training for the ministry successive generations of divinity students (who W are required, generally, by the bishops, to attend his lectures), than in a bishop, who may, and sometimes does, take no part, personally, in the instruc tion and examination of candidates for holy orders—hand ing them over altogether to his chaplains. " From this most important and responsible office, held by Dr. Hampden for so many years, no attempt was made to remove him. The celebrated vote of Convocation only deprived him of a seat at the board which appoints the select preachers before the University, which was a post of comparatively small importance ; because, in the event of any question arising as to a person's fitness to be select preacher, the professor has only one vote among several. But when it was proposed to remove Dr. Hampden from the professorship, by raising him to the bench, then the remonstrants loudly called for an enquiry into his doc trines ; not on the ground of any conviction that they were heterodox, but avowedly on the ground of the cla mour that had been raised against. him. ' And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air, the chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging, that he might know wherefore they cried so against him" (Acts xxii. 23, 24). " A stranger, then, such as I have been supposing, would be struck with this as one of the most extraordi nary features of this strange transaction—that men pro fessing great zeal for purity of doctrine should be found imploring ministers to ' ma k e c h o i ce o fsorne other pers on ' for a bishopric, and to leave Dr. Hampden in an office especially calling for sound theological views, BECAUSE his views are UNSOUND 1 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-FRIDAY. THE QUEEN V. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY MANDAMUS.—DR. HAMPDEN AND TILE SEE OF HERE FORD.—Sir Fitzroy Kelly moved for a rule, calling upon his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue, directing him to declare the proceedings of confirming Dr. Hampden, Bishop of Hereford, at Bow Church, on Tuesday last, illegal, and therefore set aside. The learned counsel said, he had a petition and affidavits signed by the Rev. Huntley, clerk, and two other clergymen of the Church of England, stating they attended by counsel and proctors to oppose the confirmation ; but on presenting themselves the commissioners stated that they could not be heard, although in a due and formal manner they had been called upon to state their objections. They now, therefore, prayed this court to interpose its authority in a case which involved a question of the highest possible importance to the church.—Rule nisi for a mandamus granted. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT IN RE W. F. FARLEY.—RAISING MONEY UNDER POST-OFFICE STAMPS.—This insolvent was opposed by Mr. Cooke for Messrs. Evans and Payne. The trade debts amounted to £1,700. It appeared that the insolvent had kept a toy-shop, and was appointed letter-receiver by the posttoffice authorities; for which he was paid £56 a-year. On the postoffice being removed from his house, he was found " wanting " in the sum of £331 17s.'4d.— Mr. Cooke put several questions to the insolvent, and from his replies, it transpired that he had been in the habit of pawning postage stamps, and that he had disposed of as many as twenty-five to thirty pounds' worth at a time in this way.. Altogether he had raised about £3OO upon his " government security." The rate at which the money was lent him was 10 per cent., receiving from the pawn broker £lB for every £2O worth of stamps,—Mr. Cooke submitted that the pawnbroker who had sanctioned this dishonest traffic must be entered as a creditor, and must also be examined.—The Commissioner said there was no doubt whatever that the insolvent had wilfully left all mention of these transactions out of his schedule, for the purpose of screening himself and the pawnbroker. A traffic in government stamps—which the insolvent had re ceived from the crown to sell in his official capacity— would never be sanctioned. The matter must he sifted to the bottom, and the whole particulars set forth. The ease would therefore stand adjourned for a week.—Ad journed accordingly. MR. SEYMOUR'S DEFENCE OF REID.—Mr. Seymour, like Mr. C. Phillips, whose example he has followed, is an Irishman. It is important to the English bar that it should be asserted, that the principles enunciated by Mr. Seymour are, as it would appear, merely importations from the other side of the channel, and are not born and bred, and domiciled on our own soil. Mr. Seymour as serts that counsel is bound to preserve the secret reposed in him in professional confidence, So far he is right. Counsel is not bound to read his brief to the jury. He is also, says Mr. Seymour, equally bound "to frame the best defence in his power from the evidence given at his trial." Here lurks the fallacy. This is the truth, but not the whole truth. He should have added, "provided that in doing so he violates no moral obligation ; ' and a fore most duty is, that we shall inflict no wrong upon others even for our advantage. The definition of the duty of counsel we take to be this. He is to say for the prisoner what he might say for himself had he the ability. His business is to show to the court, not so much that the prisoner is or is not guilty of the crime char is not legelly proved to be guilty ; and thi even with a full knowledge , of guilt in fact slightest violation of the strictest morality. this, religion and morality 'forbid the resort_ thout tt so monstri Law Times. Jae. IS, 1848. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The differences of the Lancaster and Preston and ill Canal Company are not yet healed. At the spell: meeting the conferences between the boards of the ttrt corporations were stated to have terminated without sal result—except an intimation from the Canal Company seeking legal assistance. Four men were buried alive by the falling of a bri dt. on the branch ra il wa y f rom R awensta ll to Bacup, al fell upon them while they were repairing some damage . : had sustained by the floods. After several hours t w o we" got out alive, but in a dangerous state. The otbe' named Bently and Halstead, were both dead. From our official returns it a pp ears t h at the amoun t traffic, for the last week, on upwards of 3,423 miles ° 1 railway was £160,026, thus accounted for :—£81,077 the conveyance of nassengers only, £39,720 for the ear' riage of goods, and a remainder of £39,229 for passeng" and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; bei an increase of £21,726 over the corresponding week the former year, when the mileage was 2,660. Ye, average earnings per mile for l as t wee k were £47, wilno in 1847 they were £52. ATTEMPT TO DESTROY A PASSENGER TRAIN.—At quarter sessions held at Cardiff on the 9th of this mon/Dv William Scott was convicted and sentenced to , sever years' transportation, for wilfully attempting- to ore' „ turn a passenger train on th e T a ff V a l e Railway, Dr removing the rails. The train proceeded at its usual rat!: and with apparent security, until it had arrived 18 meet from Cardiff. when the engine, tender, and three of the , carriages went off the li ne . F ortunately for the lives el , the passengers, the engine went off on the side ofttir mountain. On inspe c ti ng th e li ne, i t was diseovered e two of the rails had been taken up. Had the tails lees displaced only a few yards further on, the train must WI gone into the river. AMBERGATE, NOTTINGHAM, AND BOSTON RAILWA I. € —W. F. Norton, Esq. (the chairman) and the whole e' the directors of this company, met at Bottesford, 014 Tuesday, for the purpose of looking over the line froffi that place to Grantham, a distance of aboUt seven and ' a-half miles—which they found in a very forward s tate" four and a-half miles of the permanent way having be laid, and the remainder nearly ready to receive the per' manent way. The bridges, culverts, and enibankments , are all nearly finished. They then viewed the Gonesti, tunnel, near Grantham, which is upwards of .fire huudree yards long, nearly halt of 'Which iS completed'. 'atithifter" wards walked through the cutting at tbe , east' ,end' o f the tunnel, and examined th e s t a ti on ground at'Giantham and also the branch line to the wharf. The directors es. pressed themselves highly satisfied with the program made. FATAL RAILWAY RIOTS.—On the sth inst. a numb of navvies engaged on th e Ab er d een ra il way were paid their wages, after whi c h th e y b egan at m i dnight to 010c'' insults to some of the village r s a t Stonehaven, who Wei'_ ,, then engaged in celebrating Christmas in the old style' Towards morning a good many houses were forcibly es' tered, and soon after it became evident that a premedi' tated attack was about to be made. The constabulte force were able to hold in check the earlier disturbances . ; but the Hi g hl an d men , b e i ng armed with bludgeons, 101" perfectly ferocious, ever y a t tempt to resist their barbara', onslaught was futile, and the police had to abandon tb' ground. Houses were now broken into, bakers' and but' chers' shops ransacked, spirit cellars in some cases eirr tied, and one young man was so severely bruised by ti' s blows of a ruffian that he died on Wednesday night; others were more or less bruised, and some of them u° /r lie in a very hopeless condition. ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND SOUTII-WESTER RAILWAY.—On Friday, the six o'clock p.m: up-tram from Southampto n had proceed e d as f ar as a place calk' Frimley, about a mile and a half on the Southampto n side of Woking, when, owing to some di sarrangemen t!' the machinery of the engine, it was brought to a stalor A still. The engine-driver in charge of th e tra i n, DOI' Martland, immediately proceeded to repair the defect , and, in order to prevent the possibility of accident, t,. 11 ! second guard was sent back with a re d li g ht to stay t'w progress of the usual night luggage-train from Southamr ton. This officer had been gone twenty minutes "sch, e _.,, ° the expected train was heard approa c hi ng , an d , i n orelei to insure safety, another person was sent back w ith 0 red lamp. This person had scarcely cleared the W A ; senger-train, when the luggage-train ran into it with terrific force, carrying destru c ti on on every side. Mai' land, the engine-driver, wh o was j ust putting tut finishing stroke to the repairs of his engine—the his 1 guard holding his l am p t o hi m at t h e time—was crushe", to death beneath it, an d th e b rea k sman an d t h e sto k e r 0: the luggage-train were very seriously injured, the forte' more especially. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE GREAT CRICKETING MATCHES IN THE NORTH' One of the first of these exciting eve n t s t o b e play e r during the approaching season will be between eleven 0, 1 England and twenty two of Birmingham, which is 63n to come off at the latter town, on Thursday the 4th 0 May. EXTRAORDINARY MATCH.—Mr. Nunn, a gentlenl well known on the tu r f, h av i ng un d er t a k en f or a larg e wager to ride a steeple-chase mare from Leamington t r Long's Hotel, Bond-street, London, (nearly 100 mile in 12 hours, started at 12 o'clock on Sunday night weeq and reached his destination about a quarter before J . . silelonk on. MondaYjnorp_ing....winninz..4.4 quartp . r offf hour. The rider, we believe, is very tittle worse - for w" . journey ; but his gallant, ill-used mare is not expected to survive. POLITICAL VARIETIES. The Morning Chronicle emphatically points to the sig: nificant fact that the French papers do not made the mos' diitant allusion to the Duke of Wellington's letter on 01 national defences, or to the exc it em ent prevailing amo ngs us on that subject. In 1846, we had a revenue exceeding the expenditure 1 7, £1,781,659 2s. ld. In 1847 an expenditur e excee ding ‘"" income by£326,608 Bs. The retrograde movement, there' fore, is to the extent of more than two millions per annum'h ' But the worst point is, that the decle ns i on f ro m bad 1 " worse is still rapidly going on. • ti In 1841, the late Lord Sydenham, in writing to a *len at home, used these memorable words have sent .1 , 0 the Colonial O ffi ce a long report on emigration, wh it : s ome of you won't like, b ecause i t d ec l ares t h at to t hro" starving and diseased paupers under the rock at Quo' ought to be punishable as murder." Two Cabinet Councils have been held last week i s is , Downing-stre e t, an d i t i s un d erstoo d t h at Her Ma j es tri Ministers are anxiously engaged in the preparation_ measures to submit to Parliament on its re-asserobl early next month. An awfully-deficient revenue roof; prepare the people of England for additional taxation In the thirty-third year of peace and the sixteenth of reforgia The Whigs were always wretched bands at finance, 013 _ they appear determined to maintain their u nenv i a ble ' putation. tiled CONSERVATISM AT BIRMINGHAM.—We are iden_ with Protestant Toryism, and to the extent of our hurou'd ability, we have never shrunk from maintaining Right Truth, because for a season they may have chanced to unpopular; but we own with re l uc t ance th at w hile tr circulation of the Advertise r h as more th an t r i p l e d witb io the last nine months, the. Conservatives of Birmingh o 7. as a body, have manifested but little interest in the cess of our enterprise. That we have studied to deg:l;i support we can conscientiously declare; and the grrio reason we have not accomplished more rill be found ai the depressing influence which the scarcity of friends f l .l of necessity occasion. We have in several cases metti,'; noble arid most disinterested supporters. To them we 7, to award our sincere and ardent thanks ; but there j 9.4 FA CT which we will not seek to disgui se ; th a t on sever occas ions, when, to serve th e C onserva ti ve i nteres t, have incurred great expenses, we have met with a veil . ; adequate return from those connected w ith th e T or y pa t while our political opponents have testified by their el e , purchase of our journal, that the matter was at least serving of attention.—Birmingham' AdUertiser. PEACE WITH Roms.—The Times hints that one oc i t b o first measures of the government, after th e recess , the introduction of a bill into parliament calculated 0 move the legal doubts which exist as to our diploola te y relations with the Papal See. There a r e t wo statr t which prevent it. By. the sth of Elizabeth, cap. 1, enacted, that " any person who shall advisedly and 7,0 tingly attribute, by any speech, open deed, or.oct' the manner of jurisdiction, authority, or pre-eminence _.. p Bishop, or See of. Rome, within this rea l m , shall inc% o prcemunire." The next statute is that of the Ist Will 111., cap. 2, which enac t s the exclusion from the co 11 and Government of this realm. of " any person who s> of be reconciled to, shall hold communion with the Sebs Rome, or shall profess the Popish religion." Some d° ° 6 , has been attached, by great legal subtlety, to the exP re o f sions " reconciled to and hold communion with the m'ill Rome ;" but the next clause, " or shall profess the Pilo religion," is evidently explanatory of these terms. object of the act was to exclude from the throne of a e land a Prince who, like James 11., would have e mbrryl the Romish faith , and the wor d s , " rec o nc il e d t o and tv communion with, clearly re l a t e en ti r ely t o th e pert.e , religious faith of the Sovereign. Whatever these arror' o o men ts be. says the:Ti mes , th e y mus t o f course rest";oo a footing of complete equality, if En g land recogi'ty the Sovereign of the Papal States and the Pontiff of o f Roman See, Pi us IX., recogn i zes th e Protestant QueeLP these realms, an d th e l ega l b ea d of th e R e f orme d Cl"' of England. LIBERAL MISRULE.----" Experience," says Dr . Jot" son is the great test of truth, and is perpetually coo w dieting the theories of men." "If an empire,' said co d poleon, " were made of granite, it would soon be real!, s to powder by political economists.,' Never was the r ',4l period when the truths stated by these master minds ° ct so clearly and strikingly illustrated as the present; 13 ; 0 11f was there an epoch when the necessity was so fear' io ef evinced of casting off the sp ecu l a ti v e d ogmas of &foci' times, and shaping our course by th e b roa d light be experience has thrown on human transactions. If tbly,i l done, it wisdom is learnt by experience, and error exP e i ,d by suffering, it is y e t p oss ibl e t o reme dy th e ev il s ; th°;o' not before a frightful and yet unfelt amount of miserY o 4: been encountered by the people. For the last thirty If re e the liberal party have had the almost uncontrolled 6 V tion of the affairs of the nation. One by one they tfif beat down all the ancient safeguards of British inelujijsi and given effect to the whole theoretical doctrines 0 !„,,o' political economists. So complete has been their asnW ancy in the national councils—so entire in geners4 o o! acquiescence of the nation in their direction, that one single exception ALL their doctrines have been c a 001 0 01 and the year 1847 exhibits a fair, and 4, :e result of thg_liberal system wo,` o o l r, n. The result is so curious, itse, n ste, truction, its warning of coming 01 50, gladly avail ourselves of the 01 ;., year, to portray them in a few paragraphs Blackwood. be presumed av Toot and that you Tetu "Wei Th Ki eh( foi he fin Di eei of ni( ro se, en da