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etterature. Peet Thought. , on Protebtont Mailers, in one volume, by the Rev. T. G Gregg, M.A., Chaplain of St Nicholas' : Within, Dublin. William Currie, Junior, and Co., Dublin ; Groombridge and Son.,. Loudon. The work b very .fai tt nation to a Protestant IS IS s. For i a most timely publication, at a s past, a noble phalanx hone the author of Thoughts a us by tb visited w COmmun nance and aid body of t appeals cling to those in whos cmnmon Our Prote, has nrst been tne li organisation in c of 1829 men who, in t itutions and ,f Popery, let a portion of t r own. t were in ,, ulted and tran- were the most zna and affection f ,, r the P try and of abhorence of the oa have been met in their aim extending their orginisatio 11./ 17”.1 .1 , from tl hen they I are etnh irr; •ferring boons upon commerc Radicalism is overthrown, i longer called for. We have tive goverutten•. li is only an old bugbear nuw—a poor effete thing, which we can keep quiet with a sop now and a sop then ; a college or two, a bit of patronage to O'Connell, an eudowatent for its priesthood and the recognition of the tiles of its hierarchy. Be quiet we Neither Church nor State is in going on very well danger The o' - jPet of Mr rev?: is to waken the great body of the nation from this delu to she w that our legislation lain a wrong direction— to hold up b real, the unchanged, and unchangea ire its eyes the treating as if it 4 fAngs were harmlitis and imbecile: awn, and it had become These "tree thoughts, " which are only called such. we presume, because, the rev. gentleman Las thrown aside the trammels of regular Thesis, and grappled with his important snhjeet in whatever form, and with whatever weapon, he has ju:lged it, at the moment. . . assailable, it' attentively pondered upon and carried out to their conclu4ionl by the intelligent reader. are calculated both to warn and instruct. They recapitulate the evidence against Popery afforded by the history of its past malver sations—they shew, as well. that the intolerant spirit, which prompted its past inroads upon the liberties of man kind—is not dead—is not quenched—but has only changed its modes of working out it , t oijects— has only laid aside the savage fury of the tiger to assume, for awhile, the subtlety of the serpent. . . . Mr. Gregg complains that the English mind is misled with respect to the position and the influence of papacy in Ireland ; that we regard its existence and the virtual su premacy of its power there as an evil, against which there is Most firmly we bvlieve. with the rev. b'e mistake, based noon no contending • Wilful blindness with respect to f ices and experience. Nay, it is a blaspheo.ous error to 'suppose that the power of Go in spreading his truth should he re,trieted to any land or to any portion of the globe. We admit that the supersti tions of Popery—its shows, hs gaudy trappings, its pre tended miracles —have a peculiar hold upon the minds of an imaginative people like the Irish. We know that its ecclesiastical thunders and menaces have also a strong hold upon the fears of such a people, exposed as they are and debarred of adequate protection from the arm of the law aeainst outrage and persecution. The Word of Gud, and his blessin:z with it, have, however, prevailed against stronger barriers than these ; and they will prevail, when ever the effort is made in a right spirit, and with ade quate energy and assistance. of Mr. Gregg's views upon this portion of it, or upon the important subject of his " thoughts" generally. The volume should be perused by Protestants, and weighed especially by Protestant statesmen. In all probability, we are about to legislate upon the delusive idea that to overthrow the fabric of popery in Ireland, or, in fact, to do anything except to aggrandise and recognise it as a national institution, is hopeless. Surely, we should pause before doing this; we should listen to a man intimately acquainted with the working of popery in Ireland—who has proved the innate weakness (4 the system—who knows the hopes, the aspirations, the fears of its clergy and its laity ; and above all, is prepared with a correct estimate of the amount of aid at our di4posal in the effort to settle the distractions of Ireland, without forfeiting for England the character of a Protestant nation, by recofftii4F.g and endowing falsehood. We shall return to the " subjtet at some future time, when we hope to do more justice to Mr. Gregg's work, and to allow him to give expression to a few of his own views. The Layman's Prayer Book. London : F. Baisler, 121 Oxford -s!reet The author of the work before us is impressed with a feeling of serious objection to many portions of the Li turgy of the Church of England, vt! , ich, he considers, offer wumbling-b ks to many pious and intelligent ne from its pale into the proper remedy for this 'rider the above title, a Cbrit.tianq, bud tend to turn arms of d'ssent AR a qter alleged evil, hi new version, in which such pointy ef doctrine or of prac tice, upon which doubts may be raised, are withdrawn from observation, by the expurgation of the passages which suggest them, or expressed in language which it is assumed will be mere intelligible to the mass of lay readers which the fore, howev.r, exatrin;ne the manner in bor_has performed his task, we shall qnote rn of his views. given in a little tent s Voice,"* prefixed to the book sed to the laity of England. his own entitleo " The Layma and in the preface, addre The author says : '• The Oxford Tracts have led persons to examine their prin ciples and scrutinise their Prayer-Look, which I find, with grief of heart, to have many defects. " The oftener I e pear ; the more I mid ,t amine them the more dangerous they tm k to think them right. the more I think 1 Service will hardly bear the u hove listened to do not prove its Aanations of it only puzzle you the " Do you think the Baptis! light. that the h, and that learned e " Do you feel that you we in sem' ar affairs. to need long expl words from be. skilful arg.iments to tltements from being lies are your It is false, yot so with me. brother : is it so with you?" lie proceeds to give his objections to the service of Baptisrn, and then continues:— but only to remind you, that as these defects are being noticed by pitdis young men preparing for the ministry, they are abso. lutely prevented from declaring (as they must do if they would be ordained) that the Prayer-book containeth nothing contrary to the Word of God. Such young men feel that they could not say over the grave of a m ,n, whose Ito had been ne of forget fulness of God. ' It bath pleased Almighty God, of his great mercy, to take unto himself the soul of our dear bro hei': they dare not affirm what they do not know to be true—dare I My brother layman, dare you ? " What the❑ wit! Income of us when all these young men shall ha , e b en excluded from our pulpits? hen we CA!I no longer tied a genuine Protestant divine to lead our ctevot.otts. and to instruct us ant our tsmilies ? To whom :hall we then confide those under our care?" With respect to the work itself, he says in the preface : volume xeselsted to Prayer• which deff authority a well have _ on, not as a perfect work nor as the Kest which can he wilt t differing so little from that by riot to be d yet olterec ndered unfit for ordinary use in so as to avoid every trlssage which t error. More alterations might was judged trexpediert to derange leas, appear uncalled fur found to exist !fly in those of the work, ho'ever, Will shell• that the author has not only retno considet e found to tend to a more Lies of Popery screscences in it d what may by some be Liturgy, but hay cut away, as to pervert, vital principles, which arc re as such by all sound theologians. For the die he baptismal and funeral services, the visitation or altered s ration of -of the sick, the form of absolution, unnecessary as these alterations appear to u., the expediency of satisf)ing weak consciences may be pleaded ; but It cannot ne an with respect. for instance, to the omission in the creed of 'the words, with respect to our Saviour, " he descended into hell." The taking away of one shred from the truth of the great scheme of man's redemption is not to be' permitted, for the satisfaction of those who hesitate at the threshold of the church to make a conditional bargain for their entrance. We should not have objected so much here to a change a the mere words, originally i, most probably, with thst due regard for brevity hole of the eont,xt ; but the se words were intended to rise in which they are inter are sure our author wou4l t not to be withdrawn from the scriptural truth, wl preted by be the las DS, Be view of e to the s omissions We hay of this ne beauty at id alreac same remark applies the Context, in we are not s they do. for t iau Creed, Lir that we cannot see the necessity v of such acknowledged Tipture as our own to " mark, doctri❑ WIIICII app Fated to be acrep' The 1 • This lit EXPOSURE TO T 1 em lens aenerally than the fact, that exposure to the sun, without exercise sufficient to create free perspiration, will produce ; and that the (same) exposure to the sun, with sufficient exercipe, will not produce illne.s. Let any man sleep in the su', he will awake perspi.ing and very ill—perhaps he will die. Let the tame man dig in the sun for the same length of time, and he will perspire ten times as much, and be quite well. The fact is, that not only the direct rays of the sun, but the beat of the atmosphere produce abundance of bite, and powersul exercise alone will carry off that bile.—Popular Errors Explained. ORIGIN OF THE WORD " Quiz."—Very few words ever took s :h a run, or were saddled with so many mean- lugs, as this mono;yllable; and, however s' range the word, it is still more strange that not one of cur leak° grapbers, from Bayley to J hnso n , ever attempted an ex planation, or aide a derivation of it. The re 3 is very verything that is n it scrq pons asinorum, is Euclid. to any s Prayer 13.'04 also separately, VARIETIES. every credit to the author for th motives rto have prompted his labours. .neY a' but we cannot think that they are caleu great body of churchmen. we may add for the credit cry neatly got up and cheap. 11,ey are N.—There are few points which stood, or more dearly proved, are which, taken apart from rficial or timid minds. But passages, involving as per understanding, the patient eza ;htlui Christian, are not more ad- f true religion. as leading men rdly digest"' the meaning and An a version which avoids y of coirprehension round, ins ead of over, the y to get very well through idea prostration= apfm 1) rampant I their r , fessions of reveren Ant institutions of their coon The member Is for aid in the working of I a a Conservvice ministry, which is con- I dopower of Whig- agitation which is no gto fear from Popery, strings by a Conserya- ) )vious—it is becau e it has no meaning, nor is it derive( xe in the world ever known, from th( from any langu y to this day Saturday in company with many of a When R. chard Daly t he would have spoken all a word having no tnea Daly repaired to the theatr servants and .supernomerarie their d:fferent by a certain and briug ery door and shop y repeated it ; patched all I word " inflow in the town of worst' that " h the principal streets of D ybody going to and comin word, and ever cumstance of so strange a word brink on every door and window caused much surprise; and ever since, should a strange story forth the expressio London Magazine ttemoted to pass curreut, it draws —" You're qutzzing me —Sharpe's reelt as a ser e vant in the tiouse of Mr. Goldsmith, an Israelite mer chant, residing in Cheap,ide, London ; and, ai she was mild, complaisant, and desirous of pleasing, she obtained the good feeling f all the family. Mr. Goldsmith bad always forbade his children being harsh to servants. ,evi engaged " That which we have a right to expect from our ser vants," he observed ; " is that they fulfil their duties with regularity. tiumahity then exacts that, far trom aggra vating their position, we should, by treating them kindly, lessen their sense of servitude." This principle was faithfully observed, and, at the end of some years, Esther was considered as one of the family. Misfortunes accu- multvect on the houso of lioNsrnith. Two of the children died; war with France interte►ed with the ct)mmerca of Fngland, and ruined Mr. Goldsmith, who died of grief, after a lingering illness, which exhausted his last resourct s. was maddened by despair, and her health became seriously affected be continued watchings and grief. One morn ing, the affected widow called her servant, and with tears in her eyes said, " My good Esther, we mast separate. Your devotion merits a rich reward ; but, alas ! I am ru ined. and it is with diffienity I ran nay the waees I owe you. • Take this money, the last I have left, and accept as a token of my friendship this ring, the only one of my jewels I have not parted with." " What are you pro posing to me ?" rejoined Esther. sobbing ; "would you send me away ? Can 1 quit you, when you so much need my services? Have I asked for my wages? When you were rich, you tru,ted me• as your child ; and now you are aged, poor, and sick, I will regard you as my mother. You cannot work ; but. never mind. I am young and strong, and can strive for us both." For ten years Es ther tulfilled her generous terms. Six supported Mrs. Goldsmith by the work of ber hands, and with so much cheerfulness, that she.always appeared the obliged party, and exercised so much delicacy, that no person sm.p-cted her heroic devotedness. At length, in 1815, peace was proclaimed between France and England, arid Mrs. Gold smith collected some heavy debts due to her late hu,band. he passed the latter years of her life in calm and easy circumstances, which she doubly enjoyed in sharing them with her faithful dourest c. in whose f - avour her will ran " I give and bequeath all I possess to my well be -I..tir. she may here. lowed dau after bear the name of Goldsmith, to preserve the re membrance of her exalted conduct, in what corcerns a family who will never cease to nray to the Eternal that she be rewarded as she merits."—Ta les for the Young of the Hebrew Faith. THE DESPOTISM OF DEMOCRACY.—In America (the United States?) the people constitute the sovereign, and the rule to which they are subject is the popular will. Nor is this tyranny less stern or iess exacting because thus diffused and diluted. In the slave states, more than three not as men, but as things; and any atti pt to enlighten tbe minds of the negroes, or to awaken in them any aspi rations for advancement in the social scale, would be re. sented by the slaveholders as an atrocity by which the rights of property were invaded; and summary vengeance would be visted upon the phihinthropist who was even suspected of being so regardless of republican rights as to contemplate in thougbt their emancipation. Between these and the anti slavery states the union must be pre carious; while, in the slave population, they are feeding in their own bosom a volcano, which, sooner or later, must burst forth for their destruction. Nor are the rights of nations held more sacred than the principles which would guarantee to their fel'ow man, of whatever colour, an equality of civil or social advantages. Witness the an nexation of Texas, and the cool assumption of an exclu sive right to the whole of the Oragon territory (in mani fest contempt of the repeatedly admitted claim of Great Britain to a portion of that countr%), by which they would seem wantonly to provoke an appeal to the sword. Here we have the imperious will overruling the suggestions of reason and prudence, and clearly imicatinz such an utter disregard of the rights and interests of other states, as no single despot dare venture upon, without perilling his sceptre in a general war. We venture to say, that if Russia or Austria dared thus to appropriate any, of the rightful possessions of the British Crown, an instantane ous declaration of hostilities would be the consequence on our part, which would be prosecuted with so much vigour that the foul wrong and the fouler 'contumely must be speedily avenged. But the Autocrat of ali the Russias is a modest and a moderate personage, compared to the Pre sident of the model Republic, who overtops him, as the giant does the dwarf, in the magnitude and extravagance of his insol'nt pretensions. Only let us suppose Nicholas claiming the territory from latitude 53 to 49, as President Polk does from 49 to 53, and we will have a ease in point. Imagine that by his ambassador he informs Great Britain, that he asserts his undoubted right to that portion of the American continent—a right which he will not consent to submit to any arbitration—and how long should we re main at peace with him? Not an hour. His imperial character, the absolute power centered in his single per son, would give an immense 'significancy to his usurpa tion, which would enkindle a general indignation; while 'he *- ft" A -- the repu►. can plainness o, ,oe rimerican President, and the delegated nature of the authority which he exercises, blind the lovers of constitutional liberty to the astounding audacity of his pretensions. It is, however, quite impos sible that this, or any similar acts of aggressirn, against the rights of unoffending nations, should be endured by any who possess the power and the spirit to re►ist them. And we al ude to the subject only for the purpose of show ing how tie despotism of democracy sometimes exceeds the despotism of a single ruler : and that what the latter never contemplate, being restrained, if not by a 'ense of justice or of shame, at least by a precnt regard for his own interest, the former would rush upon, from a blind impulse of national vanity or national cupidity, which will see nothing but confirmations of its claims, in the very statements and reasonirols by which they may be roost effe,tually disproved.—Dub in University. THE MANUFACTURE OF SAINTS.—To give the reader an idea of the signs Lrmetly considered decisive of saint- t fey; instances frorn . the antiquarians or the three la.t cen turies. The learned Ben. dic.ine, Mabi:lion, while en gaKed in turning over tie papers in the Da , berini library, supposed to have been discovered in Spain. Some well meaning persons had there mer with an ancient stone, inscribed with the b-tters " S. VIAII. " and concluded it to be the epitaph of a Saint Viar. Nothing daunted by the singularity of ihe name, or the total want of evidence in suppuit of his sagacity, they boldly established his conferred the honours of t.aintship, wiis unahl,- to secure bis immortality; for, in their application to Urbanus for indulgences, the Roman antiquarians requind some proof of his existence. The stone was therefore forwarded to Rome. where it was immediately seen to be the fragment of an inscription to a PrlefActuS. VIA Rum, or Curator of the Ways. We are apt to pity the condition of those who wasted their prayers arid praises on the imaginary Viar, but in wiiat respect were they worse off than the suppli cants at the altar even of St. Peter arid St. Paul. The romance of the eleven thousand virgins is said to owe its existence to the inscription, which was read, " Ur.ula and eleven thousand virgins ;" instead of " eleven virgin martyrs." '1 he history of St. Veronica exceeds all other legends of pseudo-saints in the pertinacity with which i , has been supported by the Roman Church, in opposition to the learned of their own communion, and in the entire absence of traditional evi dence. Its origin and progress haTe been brought to light by the res.arches of Romanist antiquarians. About the (I,akest time of the middle ages arose the custom of paint. ing the countenance of our Saviour upon pieces of cloth ; the accuracy of the supposed likeness, or icon as it was called, was attested by inscribing beneath it the words Vera icon," gradually corrupted into Veronica. Many writers mention these veronicte ; as observed by Mabillon, who has c,ttd passers from Romanus, Pett US Casinensis, and Augustinus Patricius. Niabillion also Mentions the petition of a certain (istercion abbess, dated 1249, to Ja cobus de Trecis, the Pope's chaplain, that he would send her a copy of the picture contained in St. Peter's. He complied with her request, and•br.gged her to receive the copy as " a holy Veronica, Christ's true image or like ness." The next stage in the growth of the legend (for it does not seem to be of later date) was •ihe discovery that the original Veronica was an actual. impression of our Saviours features, miraculously taken at some time or other, according to Mabillion, during the agony in the garden ; to Duncange on the way to Calvary ; and by an• other class of persons. as noticed by Baronrus, supposed to have been lett upon the head-dress in the se; ulchre. But the .story wanted something, and Veronica was at length found to be the name of a holy woman who fol lowed our Lord to Calvary; and who, while piou•ly wip ing the Redeemer 's brow with a cloth, received as a re ward the miraculous impression of His countenance. Of this woman, whom Baronius calls Berenice, th ere i s a colossal statue in St. Peter's at Rome; and a hat is worse, her image occupies a prominent place in the hearts of an ignorant people. The handkerchief of St. Veronica is publicly worshipped in Romepnstated oecdsions, and the ceremony id performed with .most spiendour ; perhaps there is no part of the Runtish ritual more cal culated to strike the imagination The prostrate multi tude, the dome of St. Peter's dimly lighted by the torches in tile, nno._ find thp.hadnwv haldacchino, hanging to all appearance in the air, form a spectacle not easly for goften.--Dr. Mai , tarat's Church in the Catacombs. - A gentleman of PIN mouth lately sent, through. the post, to a friend in Scotland, a p►esent of strawberrhes, packed in pill-boxes 1 THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. EFFECTS OF CORN•LAW REPEAL, [The following extract we take from an excellent pam phlet just published by John Gladstone, Esq., whose opinion on the subject of the commercial reforms now before parliament is beyond all value. As has been well remarked, " When we see such men as Mr. Gladstone and Lord Ashburton, whose opinions have been matured in the great commercial schools of Liverpool snd London, who speak, not of things they expect, but of those which they know—who point to the experience of the past, and the realities of the present, not to the dreams and sha dows of a future which rest upon presumptOous theories and sordid self-interests—when, we say, the opinions of and the Thothpsons mty prevail; or turely weighed, opinions of converted Cabinet Ministers, and subservient apostates, we seem to behold the ominous beginning of a clringe whose end will be the downfall of lorions harvest of plenty from tree trade, but . _ let us hear the sentiments of a gentleman " cradled in " and connected intimately with its interests commerce, during a long life. Here they are :—] " It was wise and expedient to admit cotton and other articles of raw material, necessarily required for the sup. dependent either on foreign growers, or those of our co lonies and possessions, as our climate does not admit of their cultivation ; but surely these circumstances can have no bearing on the faces, that we possess the power of producing, within our own resources, all the food necessary to supply the consumption of the people, which is the only safe a' d certain source of safety on which dependence can be placed, and, therefore, in the experi ence of wise and prudent precaution, requiring special protection, there are very few things we do possess that might nor, under c'rcumstanees of pressing necessity, be dispensed with, but to which food is on exception, and therefore the duty of every good and efficient government has ever been considered to be to secure, as far as they possess the power. a safe and certain supply; but whilst keeping that in view it certainly ought not to be made subject to taxation fcr objects of revenue alone, whilst necessary to besso for the purpose of protection to home grown corn, on which the supply of food mit mainly, and, • while susceptible Of it, wholly depend. In this country our great resources for raising revenue from taxes are unavoidably on articles of consumption, in con tributing t which more or less a power of cboice is given to the consumers, who, at the same time, contribute to uphold the foreign trade, commerce, arid navigation' of the country, which could neither be derived from, nor supported by, direct taxation alone, which many advo cate ; and then fore by much the greater part of our 're venue is derived from duties on general consumption, but from which, for most obvious reasons, corn requires to be exempted where revenue alone would be the object. For is it not clear that the more the pressure of direct taxation is increased on the possessors of real property, the more their means and resources for consumption will be diminished?—since they are the great consumers of foreign productions, which generally form the luxur es of life, and producing a large amount of revenue to the State, such as tea, wines, sugar. &c., &e. " If, then, without any regular market elsewhere, hut dependent on such as was afforded in this country, in had seasons and unproductive hara eats, of which the foreign growers more or less availed themselves, they still raised surplus crops, which we must conclude, from their per severance, remunerated them for their cost and labour, and thus, without stimu'us or outward encouragemen's, whilst paid only very low prices for the supply of their home trinkets, they have not only persevered under every pnssih'e etsradvan•age, but so late as the years 1838 39-40 and 41 they shipped and sent to the markets of the United Kingdom about ten millions of quarters of wheat and flour, which was, in consequence of home deficiency, admitted at very moderate rates of duty, and for which we paid above twenty millions, chiefly in gold. With these facts before us, and in the face of disadvantages, where such results have arisen, may it not be fairly expected, not withstanding the improvements made in cultivation here, the greater acreable production of our crops, and the evident disadvantages to which the labour of the foreigner is at present subject, that when we have opened and se cured to him the supply of such an immense market as that which the United Kingdem'affords, he will study to avail himself of it to the utmost, while we have means left to remunerate in money for that bread for which we are about to place ourselves in a state of dependence upon him, possessing, as he does, soils at least equally productive, in many cases superior, great variety of cli mate, for the most part better and fitter f:.l- corn cult;va lion than our , , earlier harvests, with abundance of labour at very low rates, in moat cases not amounting to one half of those paid here, without tenantry to support, without heavy taxation to bear, without being accustomed to provide for those comforts so well knoorn and pos sessed here, then will he not seek in addition and adopt all our improvements in thorough drainage, in subsoil ploughing, and in the nee of improved manures where requ'red, when we are to a f ford him the most ample in ducfments to do so ? He must be devoid of the ordinary sagae , ty and foresielit that belongs to human nature, if he does not avail Iliu‘selt of ° the advantages we are about to relinquish, and thus to make a voluntary transfer of them to him I •• A great and hazardous experiment is about to be made, novel in its character, and without the support c , f experi ence to guide or direct it, embracing and extending over unbounded interests, and pregnant with results that may prove fatal in their consequences, and that in the judg ment of many are considered to have been uncalled for, in so far tiat it could rot be acted upon in time to make any provision against the deficiency of the potato crap, to meet which the only means we possessed were, in the admit.sion of Indian corn, duty free, as a suitable substi tute for potatoes. which has been resorted to with good effect without disturbing the ordinary operation of the existing laws. "The progress the Bill has made in the Lords, and the support it has received there, leads to the conclusion that it must be considered as having virtually passed, leaving no choice but to wait patiently for the resu'ts, whatever they may be; but it is to be hoped, also, with the deter mination to retrace our steps, should it hereafter appear to have become necessary to do so." LORD G. BENTINCK'S CIIARGE AGAINST SIR ROBERT PEEL. (From Mr. D'ltraeli's Speech.) The noble lord (G. Bentinck) stated, that in the year 1829 the right hon. gentleman had admitted, or rather he announced, thet in the year 1825 he had informed Lord Liverpool, that what was called the Cathac question must be settled; that it was no longer po.sible to resist those claims, and that if they could be settled by his leav ing office, he was prepared to make the sacrifice. The noble lord. remembering the rtlit hon. gentleman's con duct in 1827 to Mr. Canning—r, membering the effect which that conduct had on the career. probably on the life, of Mr. Canning—the noble lord taking the position laid down by the right hon. gentleman himself, that it was base in a minister to conceal a change of opinion. asked him how it was that when, in 1825, he changed his opinion on the Catholic question, in the year 1827 he rose in that house and made an explanatim, with respect to the causes of his severance from Mr. Canning, which he never would forget. The right hon. gentleman made an answer which 1 need not recapitulate. but which I recapitulate only from a desire not to be unfair towards the right hon. gentleman. because it will be fre.ll in the recollection of every one who listened to it. The right hon. gentleman said that in the year 1829 —not, of Course. denying toe communication with Lord L'vercool—when he aunouoced that communication to the House of Commons, he an nounced nothing more than he had explaiped in 1827 in the presence of Mr. Canning himself. Now, it is a re tnarkable circumstance that the right hon. gentleman did not read this speech. He read the speech which be had I made in 1827, in presence of Mr. Canning; but the house will recollect that he never read the speech which the noble lord alleged contained the great admission, and which was the only questi 'n before the house. (Cheers.) He referred to that speech, but never read it. I thought it due, however, to the right hon. gentl,-man to read it, and the following• is a passage from that spi ech, as I find it reported in .Hansard :—" So far as my own course in this question is concerned, it is the same as that which suggested itself to my mind in 1825, when I was his Ma jesty's principal minister for the Home Department, and found myself in a anin , rity of this house tit on this ques tion. When I then saw the numbers arrayed against me, I felt hat my position as a minister was untenable. The moment, sir, that I. the minister responsible for the go vernment of Ireland. found that I was in a minority on the question which was of paramount inters st and impor tance to that country, that moment I sou - itit to be re lieved from the duties and responsibilities of office. stated to the Earl of Liverpool, who was thenat the head of the Administration, that in consequence of the deci sion given against me in this house, it was my a n xious wish to be relieved from office. Now, si r , l am per f ect l y ready to admit that that perfectly bears out wh a t th e r i g ht hon. gentleman said the other night ; and he did no t sav anything, Bearding to this report (cries of" h ear , h ear ") which he did not say in 1827 in the presence of Mr. Can ning, but that certainly contradict. , all that many gentle men who were connected with Mr. Canning, an d w h o were members of this house at the time, believe. That speech was made in 1829, remember of it. (Cheers.) Now, sir, I make no charge against the right hon. gent!e man (hear, hear), but I say that the speech I have read from is a garbled, a mutilated, or, to adopt the language of this house, a corrected (cheers and laughter) report of the right hon. gentleman's speech : and that it omits and entirely or .5 s that imnort.int statement which is the great y _ question to night. (Loud cheers.) That I will proceed to prove. It so happens that in those da y s there were two reports of a bat was said in this house; fur there was then not merely Hansard, the speeches of which are ge_ berally corrected by hon. gentlemen themselves, but there was also the Mirror of Parliament, the speeches of which were taken in short hand, verbatim, by the most able short-hand writers, most of them btieg men of education and intellizence, and at thit time the speeches were pUb. lished every three days. Now, sir, I call the attention of the house to what it appears from the Mir+ or of Parlia ment, the right. hon. gentleman really said in that famous speech of 1829. (Loud cheers.) •' Su tar as lam per sonally concerned, I beg to say, my own course is the same as that which suggested itself to my mind in 1825, when I was his Majesty's principal Minister for the Home Department, and round myself in a minority on that question. I felt that it was no longer ativit.itOle tnat 1 should continue to he charged with the responsibility of Irish affairs. I stated to the Earl of Liverpool, who was then at the bead of the administration, that in conse quence of the decision against me by the voices of the re• present .tives of the country, the time was come when something respelting the Catholics ought, in my opinion. to be done, or that I should be relieved from the duties of the office I held, as it was my anxious w'sh to be." The words left out of the report in Hansard are these :—" I stated to the Earl of Liverpool that in consequence of the decision against me by the voices of the reprtsentatives of Ireland, something re-pecting the Catholics tight, in my opinion to be done." But this, sir, is Milk the com mencement of the proof. Hon. gentlemen may under stand that though you may alter your own speech for Hansard (laughter), you cannot alter the answer to it.— (Ronewed laughter.) There may he two versions of a speech—the speech for the house, and the speech for pos terity. (Cheers.) An hon, gentleman, who was then at the head of a party who had also been betrayed (loud cries of " bear. hear"), the head of the Protestant warty in this house, and who had since been a member of Her Majesty's Government, in answer to the speech of the right hon. gentleman, as anneared in the Mirror rf Par liament, though not in Hausard (hear), used this lan " If at that period the policy of conceding the stion was clear to the right hon. gentleman, I say that in justice to himself, in juoice to his friends. in justice to the country, in justice to Mr. Canning himself, who has always been the able, powerful, and consistent it. (Loud cheers.) If, as he now sum he had discovered in 1825 the necessity of passing this question, I ask why he did not say so in 1827, and give his support to Mr. 3anning then, when the supposed difference between him and Mr Canning obtained for him the support of many hon. gentlemen who differed wi , h him only on that, which fins cheering.) Sir, that was a memorable speech. It was the speech in which Sir E. Knatchbull used the phrase nu , quam luta fides. (Loud cheers.) It appealed to the feelings of the house, who were almost carried away by the feelings of the speaker. The right hon. gentleman was obliged to get up and notice it; but he should not notice that pas saee (loud cheers); he never denied that he had proposed to Lord Liverpool, in 1825, that something should be done respecting the Catholics, thoulh Sir E. Knatchbull had repeated that statement. No, sir, the right hon. gentle man admitted his guilt, if guilt it were, and it is only in 1816 that he vindicates himself by referring to a different speech, and nnotes a report which I hive proved is not a correct one. (Continued cheering.) Now, sir, 1 have a right to speak of that report of the speech I have read from in Hansard, as being corrected by authotity (cheers), for I find a note—and every one knows how seldom one finds notes in Hansard—on the sth of March, 1829, ap pended to the beginning of the right hon. gentleman's speech, in these words, " Inserted with the permission and approbation of Mr. Secretary Peel." (Vociferous cheers.) Now, I have inquired, and been informed that the report I have quoted from the Mirror of Par'iament was made by Mr. 13 , ,rr0w, one of the finest short-hand writers in the country, and a man of ability and intelli gence. But, after all, it is Sir E. Knatchbull's speech that proves the truth of the matter, and would prevent any imputation being substantiated against Mr. Barrow's accuracy, if there was any made. But not satisfied even with this, 1 thought it discreet to refer to the report of the most eminent newspaper of the time—The Times of the 6th March, 1829, and there the right hon. gentleman was reported thus :—" He stated to Lord Liverpool, then -at the head of His Majesty's Government, that in his opinion the time had come when something respecting the Catholics ought to be done, and that be must be relieved from the duties of his office" (Much cheering ) There fore, sir, it appears also oy this report that, in 1825, in the opinion of the right bon. gentleman the time had come when something respecting the Catholics Might to be done. After this, I think it is unnecessary to off,r any more evidence : 1 have accomplished the vindication of my noble friend, who had not the power of speaking again in this debate. :he case w A KEEN ENCOUNTER OF WITS : STANLEY AND BROUGHAM. (Flom Tuesday's debate in the Lords.) Lord Brougham bad been I , stening to some able speeches upon most things except the question before the home—upon the bill in general, but not upon a fixed duty—and speeches by supporters of the bill against the government and against the bill. (A laugh.) They had been making speeches precisely like the protection speeches on the second reading, attuned on the same gamut. (A laugh.) He was forcibly reminded of those choral sym phonies which had sounded in their lordships' ears for three long nights, with a loudness he never remembered to have heard equalled (he-..r, hear). and producing, es. pec , ally in one n.,1 now in the prime of life (a laugh), much tne same sensation of fatigue as most persons ex perience late in the evening at a public dinner, after being made to bear the cheers of thoss at table (a laugh), and the music in the background. (Laughter.) Lord Stanley.—My noble and learned friend, I think, commenced bis speech with this observation—that for two hours (" hear, hear," and laughter) he had been lis tening to a discussion, of which not the whole, no—nor the major part (a laugh), no—nor a lane portion, no— nor any portion whatever (renewed laugher), had been directed to the suhject matter of the amendment now be fore us. After that preface, my lords, I naturally con cluded that my noble and learned friend was about to di rect his attention and that of your lordships' strictly and exclusively to the speech of my noble friend behind me, who proposed the amendment. (A laugh.) But no, my I have listened with the deepest attention—and with the most amused attention (a laugh) —not for two hours, but certainly for one hour, to the speech of my no ble and learned ;riend ; and I may venture to repeat his own words, that not the whole, no, nor the major part, no nor a considerable part (laughter)—l may almost say, no, nor any part at all (loud laughter) was directed to the subject matter now under your lordships' consideration. (Laughter.) y noble and learned friend has done great injustice to his own individual pet son. He began by re gretting the fatigue which, in common with your lord, ships, he experienced, and a hich, as the noble and learned lord said, was s-verely felt by one who, like himself, was not in the prime of life and beauty. (Roars of laughter.) Now, my noble and learned friend did himself injustice. (A laugh.) lam sure when your lordships look at my noble and learned friend you will be reminded, as I was mysflf, of these lines of Milton : " And nrAv a stripling cherub he appears Coud laughter), " Not of the prime (renewci laughter), yet such as in his face "Youth smil'd celestial (laughteri, and to every limb " Suitable grace diffused." (Great laughter.) Lord Brougham.—With respect to the remarks of his noble friend (Lord Stanley) applying to himself, he must say that a less fair or more extraordinary course—he would say, with all kindness to his noble friend, a more unscrupulous course, than his noble friend had taken be never wiw in any place ; for his noble friend, in order to introduce his quotation—a very excellent joke, he ad. mitted (great laughter)—bad put in a word which he ',Lord Brougham) had uever used (loud laughter), which he never had an idea of using (continued laughter), and which his noble friend could not have imagined that he used. He never dreamt of using that wore—a word which he, at his time of life. as wt 11 as his noble friend at his less udvanced time of life, had both of them the great est possible interest in rasing out of their vocabularies. (Great laughter.) THE CHURCH OF THE CATACOMBS WAS ESSENTIALLY PROTESTANT.—The merely classical student, unless in search of the vernacular language of ancient Rome, will find little in these inscriptions to repay the trouble of perusing them. A few obsolete and barbarous expres sions. the gradual origin of the cursive character, and the uncertain pronut,ciation of some consonan's. indicated by Ike varied modes of writing the same word, are not the most interesting point of investigation suggested by these monuments. B tter purposes are served by their ex amination, inasmuch as they express the feelings of a body of Christians, whose leaders alone are known to us in history. The fathers of the church live in their volumi nous works; the lower orders are only represented by these simple records, from which, with scarcely an ex ception. sorrow and complaint are banished ; the boast of suffering, or an appeal to the revengeful passions, is no where to be found. One expresses faith, another hope, a third charity. The genius of primitive Christianity, "To believe, to love, and to suffer, has never been better illustrated. These "sermons in stones"-are addressed to the heart, and not to the head—to the feelings rather than to the taste ; and possess additional value from being the work of the purest and most it,ll , ,ential portion of the " Catholic and Apostolic Church" then in existence. The student of Christian archmilogy must nev r lose sight of the disitiction between the actual relics of a persecuted church and the subsequent labours of a superstitious age. When Christianity, on the cessation of its troubles, emer ged from those recesses, and walked boldly on the soil bt neath which it had been glad to seek concealment, the bumble cradle of its infancy became a principal object of veneration, almost of worship. To decorate the chapels. adorn by monuments the labyrinths of sepulchres, and pay an excessive tegard to all that bel , nged to martyrs and mattrydom, was the constant labour of succeeding centurieg. Hence arises a chronological confusion. which calls for caution in deciding upon the value of any infer ence that may be drawn from these sources, respect rig points of doctrine. Yet it may not be amiss to pretn , se generally, that in the inscriptions contained in the Lapi darian Gallery, selected and arranged under Papal super intendence, there are no prayers for the dead (unless the forms, " May you live," " May God refresh you," be so construed); no addresses to the Virgin Mary, nor to the Apostles or earlier Saints; and, with the exception of "eternal sleep," "eternal home," &c., no expressions contrary to the plain sense of Scripture. And if the bones of the martyrs were more honoured, and the privilege of being interred near them mere valued, than the simplicity of our religion would warrant, there is, in this outbreak of enthusiastic feeling towards the heroic defenders of the faith, no precedent for the adoration paid to them by a corrupt age. Perhaps it may safely he asserted, that the somewhat more favourable light than in the writings of the fathers and historians. It may be that the sepulchral tablet is more congenial to the display of pious feeling than the controversial epistle, or even the much-needed episcopal rebuke. Besides the gentle and amiable spirit every where breathed, the distinctive character of these remains is essentially Christian : the name of Chest i-i repeated in an endless variety of forms, and the actions of His life are figured in every degree of rudeness of execu tion. The second person of the Trinity is neither viewed in the Jewish light of a temporal Messiah, nor desraded to the Socinian estimate of a mere example, but is inves• ted with all the honouts of a Redeemer. On this subject there is no reserve, no heathenish suppression of the dis tinguishing feature of our religion : on stories innumer able appedrs the Good Shepherd, bearing on his shoulders lie recovered :heel), by which many an illiterate believer ed his se nee of personal salvation. One, according - • epitaph, " sleeps in Christ ;" another is buried with a prayer that " she may live in the Lord Jesus." But most of ill, the cross in its simplest form is employed exures.e t•) his to testify the faith of the deceased : and whatever igne ranc may have prevailed regarding the letter of Holy ‘.l rit, or the more mysterious doctrines contained in it, there seems to have been no want of apprehension of that sacrifice, "whereby alone we obtain remission of our sins, and are made partakers of the kingdom of Heaven."—Dr Mail land's Church in the Catacombs. GENERAL MISCELLANY. Several fields of wheat and barley, in the county of Durham, ate already shot into ear. The cost of stationery end printine for the two hcenses of pArliament amounts to nearly £250.000 a year. _ _ William Henry Norman, the eelf-aecusJ . cl thief, has been sentenced to seven yea-s' transportion. Saturday was the ninth anniversary of her Majesty's accesskn to the throne. In London, on Tuesday, inquests were held on five persons drowned while bathing. A man has been killed at Bakewell, by shelterir.g under a tree during a thunder-storm. There is no truth in the report of the cholera having visits d Thursday last was the anniversary of the victory of Waterloo. On Tuesday, a child, four years old, residing with its parents at Clapham. was killed by a sun-stroke. Mr. Acker~, M.P., has announced to the ...lectors of Ludlow that it is no; his intention again to offer himself as a candidate for their suffrages at the nest election The total amount of money run for in Great Britain and Ireland, over 152 different racecourses, in the year 1839, exceeded in value the enormous sum of £143,204. The total number of bathers during the last werk in the Serpentine alone were nearly 45,000, out of whom one lost his life. At Southampton, on Friday week, a prig:. fight for 30s. came off between two " navvies," one of whom died on Saturday from the injuries he received. In a garden at Worksop there is a pear-tree which a few weeks ago was laden %id) fruit; the peats have all fal!en off and the tree is now again covered with blossom. On Trinity Sunday Mr. Newman was ordained deacon by Dr. Wiseman. Mr. Newman's wise, it is said, will enter a convent. Lemons rose in Mauchester tosixpence each, on Whit sun week, in consequence of the extraordinary demand for Lemonade. A true bill has been found against Mr. Dunn for per jury. committed by swearing in the Court of Bankruptcy that Miss Burdeit Coutts owed him £100,000! No less than three separate fires took place in London between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock on Wednes day night. Duriog the year 1845, the number of pictures imported into the United Kingdom. according to the return of the customs, amounted to '4 90] ! On Saturday week, in explosion of gss took place in New -street, Dunfermline, by which two houses were blown up and several persons severely injured. Tne premises of Messrs. Bayley and Son, sailmakers, Bermondsey-wall, London, were, on Tuesday, com pletely gutted by fire. and the stock consumed. The romantic Miss Smith. whose interesting letters to Earl Ferrers cr,nited such sensation a short time ago, has had to pay the sum of £1563 6s. as law expenses. At the Marylebone 'Wary, on Saturday, a vote of thanks was passed to Sir Robett Peel fur his zeal arid in dustry in carrying the Corn Bill. The Marquess of Normanby left town on Wednesday for Florence—not a proof that, in his opinion, there is much prospect of the Whigs regaining office. Messrs. Dryden, the great printing machine makers of London, have set up a machine at the Times office, which prints the enormous number of 5,670 sheets per hour ! A motion is to be brought forward in the House of Commons, to-day, by Mr. Spooner, for leave to bring in a bill for the more effectual suppression of trading in seduc ion and prostitution. Two young men were drowned in the river at Wor cester last week whilst bathing. One got out of his depth, and the other, in attempting to rescue him, was drowned also. SABBATH OBRERVANCE.—The subscribers of the Clif ton Zoological Gardens, at a meeting last week, decided by a majority of 71 votes to 37, that the gardens should not be opened to the public on the Sabbath. FATAL FIGHT.—A pugilistic set to at Buzslem, between John Voolams and John Simpson, was brought to a sud den termination on Saturday, when the former received a knock-down blow, and instantly expired. AN EFFECTUAL CURE. —By Ihe ancient laws of Hun gary, a man convicted of bigamy was condemned to live with both wives in the same house. The crime was, in consequence, extremely rare. At Lla.igollen, on Sunday, during a thunder storm, the electric fluid fell in a plantation, which ignited—but for tunately there were parties present who commenced dig ging round it, and thereby prevented much damage. A fire originated list week in a shop in London through a number of patent wax lights, exposed for show in the front window, becoming ignited from the intense beat of the sun. In the Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, a verdict of guilty was recorded against a person named Dew, f, r cor ruptly bargaining for an office in the service of the Hon. East India Co. Two others pleaded guilty. Joseph Carter, shoemaker, who lately stabbed John Oddy in the stomach with a knife, was tried on Wednes day at the Central Criminal Court, and beug found guilty of manslaughter, was transported for life. A boy named Benwell, aged 16, drowned himself last week, in a pond at Dulwich. after having tied his hands. and fastened an iron weight, a quarter of a cwt., round his neck. Two men have died at Leicester, after suffering most excruciating agonies. from having been affected with the glanders, obtained in their coming in contact with a dis eased horse. In the year 1735, a case was decided in the court of session, from whin it appears that the city of Giasgow, the seat of a university, was considered too narrow a field for more than one bookseller. On Monday, a tradesman in Old-street, London, found his shop boy (whom he had di,charged), on the roof of his house, with a large quantity of arsenic on his person, with ah•ch be doubtless intended to poison the cistern. He was taken into custody. SHEEP KILI ED BY LIGIITNING.—On Tuesday week, two sheep were killed by lightning in a field upon the farm of Little Swinton, and it is also stated that a sheep was killed by lightning the same afternoon upon the farm at Swinton Quarter.—Newcastle .Advertiser. Two MEN DROWNED.—Some time during the fore noon of Sunday week a number of labouring men were bathing in the Keer on the Warton side, when, for want of a proper knowledge of the locality, two of the parry got into deep water and were drowned.—Lancaster paper. LOCALITIES FOR BIRD'S NESTS.—A correspondent of a Manchester paper notices the fact of a bird's nest hav ing been built in a load of coals, and another in the mouth of the lion forming the dexter supporter of the royal arms over Kens'ngton barracks. Voters in counties trmst send in their claims on or be fore the 20th of July ; and voters for cities and boroughs must pay, on or before the 20th of July. all poor-rates Ind assessed taxes due for the last twelvemonths next be fore the 6th of April last pest. Farmers are this year obliged to make a considerable advance in the tate per acre paid for mowing, owing to the difficulty of obtaining mowers. We hear that in some parts of Middlesex 7s. per acre is being paid for cutting mesdow grass, which is 2s. 6d. above the average rate paid last year. Gum•STOCKS.—The large number of 13,600 gun-stocks and 120 stocks for pistols were brought over from Ant werp a day or two since by the vessel Tyne, which arrived off the Tower of London. These stocks are manufac tured from the wood of the walnut tree, with which Belgium abounds. THE CHOLERA..—It is confidently rumoured in the best informed medical circles. that the labours of the Commission of Sanatory Inquiry will be rendered perma nent, by the appointment of a Board of Health, to sug gest and enforce precautionary measures against the visi tation of the Asiatic cholera.—Globe. DEATH FROM DRINKING COLD WATER.—OD Wed nesday, a labouring man. named Thomas Pearson, who was at work in a hay-field, near Edlington, drank some cold water, and almost immediately kfterwai ds was vb. served to reel and - fall down upon the ground. He died about tel rn nu'es af•erwards.—Doncaster Gazelle. Owing to a piece of impertinence to the Earl of Stam ford the other day, in Dunham Park, the privilege of re sort to the park for the public has been already very much circumscribed, and there is some reason to fear that, ere lonz, the park will be wholly closed, and the public ex cluded. A gentleman of Yarmouth, who had a pint-and-half bottle of castor oil, asked his servant to bring it to him, when he told him it had been used at table for salads, he having from time to time filled the dinner castors with it, believing it, from the label, to be intended for that pur- pose. IRON SHlPS.—During the last three weeks three iron vessels were launch , d from the building yard of Mr. Coutts, at Walker—a large brig and two schooners. Mt Cowl's has also a number of other vessels nearly ready for launching on their destined element.—Gateshead Ob- server. DREADFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—As five colliers were descending in a core to their work in a pit near Cheadle, Stsffordshite, on Monday week, the rope broke and they were precipitated to the bottom. They .tell up wards of 100 feet; three were killed, and the other two were seriously injured. The steamers bring, every voyage, considerable quan tities of vegetables and fruits from France, Belgium, and Holland, particularly from the latter country, wh ence cherries, melons, potatoes, and other fruits and vegetables now form a principal part cif the cargoes of the numerous steam vessels which pass between Rotterdam, Ostend, the French ports, and London. A SENSIBLE EXPLANATION.—Lord Mount Edg cumbe has thought proper to imitate the example of the Earl of Essex, by the publication of "an apology for ratting." The noble earl begins by confessing, though in soft terms. that the measure which he supports is a bad measure, and ends by acknowledging that the minister for whose sake he supports it is a bad minister. John Graham (aged 16), was tried at the Central Cri minal Court Sessions, on Thursday, before Mr. Baron Rolfe, for killing and slaying Thomas Ble%eitt, in Drury lane, in London. by shooting him with a pistol, on the 25th of April. - The jury, alter rearing for more than five hours to consider their verdict, found the prisoner " not guilty." ALLEGED ASSASSINATION.—A man of the name of Hannan, the father of the child who nas been for some time playing as General Tom Thumb, at the Adelphi Theatre, is now in custody, charged w i t h a ttem pting to murder his wife, in Drury-lane, London, on Thursday night last. The woman had a large cut in her neck, and she declares her husband stabbed her. BOILER EXPLOSION. —THREE LIVES LOST.—On Thursday week, a boiler suddenly exploded in the Tow Law Iron Works, near Wolsingham, Durham, by which two men and a boy were killed, and several others more or less injured. Ile shock of the explosion was felt to a considerable distance, and thQ, houses around shook. One half of the boiler was carried several hundred yards from 1 'he place, a , ,tl the end • - .)1 it was blown over a house top. Tne accident was mused by a deficiency of waver, as part of the boiler wag, red hot. The damage is estimated at .000. William Farr, one of the most suree;stal of the Garratt clan of depredators, has pleaded guilty to four indictments of railway robberies on the South-Eastern and Birming ham lines, prosecuted by Mr. Nash for tae company. The female Newland, who is included in the same indict ments, is to be tried neat sessio n s. At t hei Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, Florence Leary, aged 44, a t. Dor, was found guilty of pouring boil ing water on the stomach of a person named Tuthill, by which he was severely scalded, and confined seven weeks to the hospital. lie was sentenced to two months' im prisonment, having already been several months in pri- SUMMARY JtYSTICE.—The penalty of rolling the walks in the gardens of Hampton Court Palact, for any delin• quency in plucking the flowers, has been twice enforced within the last ten days. This regulation, optional to those wbo wish to avoid legal punishment, has t ad a very salutary effect in diminishing the offence of purloining the flowers. —Morning Post. THE IRON WORKS AND THE HEAT.—Most of the iron works in the manufacturing disticts have been standing during the list few days, the beat being so intense that the puddlers, in particular, cannot work. Several in stances have occurred of men being carried our of the works, having fainted from excessive heat and exhaustion. —Birmingham Advertiser. MR. SMITH O'BRten.•—lt is stated by the Morning Advertiser, that Mr. Smith O'Brien has resolved on dis puting the authority of the House of Commons to com mit its members for contempt. The form in which the question is to be tried is, by an action of trespass and false imprisonment against the public officers of the' house—the Speaker and Sergeant.at-Arms. The members of the An►i-Coin Law League will as semble in a day or two after the corn bit has received the royal assent, and will declare that the obj<•ct for which they united has been accomplished. They will then, it is said, announce that no further subscriptions aro required, and will adjourn the sittings of the league sine die. Sad news this for the paid agents and sponters up and down the country. CHARMS OF MURDER.—A lainful case has occurred at Sheffield. Some lightermen quarrelled at the White Horse Inn, at Biggleswade, and a fight between two of them afterwards was the result. Atter the fight, a young man of the name of Gray, one of the combatants, was leaving, when his adversary gave him a brutal kick in the abdomen, and caused instant death. His bladder was burst. After killing:him, the brute was about to throw the body in the locks, but was prevented. A CURIOUS MEETING. —When Ibrahim Pacha visited the Socitty of Arts, on Friday, by one of those singular accidents a hich now and then occur, who should fate pre sent as chairman hut Sir Edward Codrington, the man who knocked the Turk's fleet about their ears at Navarino. It is possible that Ibrahim may have secretly vented a " Barikallah," on the occasion, but his natural savoir faire piloted him very safely through the misadventure, notwithstanding an unlucky allusion which the gallant admiral stumbled upon in the first renconfre. SINGULAR PHENOMENON —OD Tuesday, about half past 2 in the after noon. a sudden whirlwind carried away sevr rat waggon-loads of hay from a field belonging to Miss Clay, on the t)smaston•road, Dr•rby. The hay was held suspended in the air for nearly half an hour, and gra dually fell, spreading over the neighbouring field: and gardens. With the exception of this particular locality, not a breath of air was stirring.—Notts Mercury.—The Manchester Guardian notices a somewhat similar pheno menon in that town. SUDDEN DEATH BY DRINKING WHILE HEAVED.—• We last week reported a death caused by drinking too much water, and we are sorry to record a similar occur rence. On Saturday week an Irish labourer, residing in Love-street, while engaged in hoeing potatoes near Roslin, on the Greenock road, bad been so thirsty, owing to the great heat, that he went into a public-house, arid got a bot.le of porter, but not feeling his thirst quenched, he next drank half a Scotch pint of bu termilk, which caused almost instant death.—Renfrete•ahiee Reformer. IPswicti.—Mr. Rigby Was.-n, who some time since retired (torn the representation in consequence of engage ments entered into by him with the government relative t., improvements in Westminster, has again addressed the electors, soliciting their votes at the ensuing election. Vincent, the Chartist, has also expressed his determina tion of contesting the representation of the borough. A meeting of liberal electors was held a few evenings since, when it was resolved that they could not consistently sup port Mr. Vince,t in the forthcoming struggle. MRS. FRY'S TESTIMONIAL—On Wednesday, a meet ing was held in the Egyptian-hall, for the purpose of securing a testimonial to the memory of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Fry. The Bishop of Norwich moved :—" That this meeting, in common with Mrs. Fry and her fellow labourers, the visitors of prisons, have long had to deplore the want of places of refuge, where penitent prisoners, on their discharge, may be sheltered from the temptations to the re-commission of crime, by which, in the shape of cold, hunger. and evil associations, they are too often suc cessfully assailed." The testimonial will, consequently, consist of the refuge above-named. NOVEL IMPORTATION FROM HOLLAND. All along the coast, during the last few days, there has prevailed a sm,ll of turf smoke ; s circumstance which occasioned considerable surprise, because the neighbourhood a roun d us produces but a comparatively small (timothy, and cer tainly not enough to produce such an effz-ct. For some days the phenomenon was regarded as unaccoutrable, until it was suggested that it came over. from Holland; the wind lying in the right direction, and the state of the atmosphere being peculiarly favourable to the floating of the smoky vapour across the German Ocean.—Yarmouth Adrertiser. ON Dirs.—lt is conficl , ntly stated in well.informed circles, that Her At jest) , has expressed her desire that Sir Robert Peel should not abandon his post. We reso hear that this has been accompanied with an intimation, that in any cane, before the resignation of her ministers will be accepted, there must be an appeal to the country. We thii:k there is great probability of the truth of these rumours; and for the last few days the impression has become prevalent, that after all there will be no immed'ate change. It is also rumoured, that Her Majesty has ex pressed great dissatisfaction, with the manner in which Lord John Russell failed in the task assigned to him last December, and there is a strong reluctance to allow of another attempt to constitute a Whig Cabinet. INFIDEL ORATORT.—Last week, Lord Brougham, in rap ying to Lord Stanley, and alluding to Earl Grey, found occasion to let off the following comparison. " Here comes a noble lord, after the Whitson holidays have been a lowed to intervene—after the time of Pente.. c at was fully come—(a laugh) naturally bringing with him the gift of tongues." (Laughter, and a cry of " Oh.") Laughter ! Let us hope, for the sake of decency, that no one on the bishop's bench joined in the acclamation produced by Lord Brougham's comparison of the ver bosity of a conceited Whig, to the descent of the 801 l Ghost ! At any rate, no one of the prelates got nr. to rebuke the disgusting profanity of the ex-Chancellor; their right rev. lordships have something better, wrh!il , s , to think of. MEAT AND FRUIT.—On Thursday the warero omg Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, London cont a ined an /of e m s e t i a n t g s e n x d h f i r b u i l o s bin broughto f no o l v e s e s r t t ; b o a m n (2 1 0 0 2 r s n o u r s t s. h ] pa n meats also comprised nearly every variety of poultry preserved in its natural state, and in the made dishes of the country, with several kinds of vegetables, prepared in the most ap eporouveec,ttioSnoawnai a s h that fashion. co s s t n A g n interes ti n g f f r ui t . t , ahn e et g r :_t ri nposa t tt u aan m dc, s e , oof a f t d he cherries, deficiency increasing lb ex'ti e h h e conditi on,acs t our rcpply itcn o ie m otuhsp m i teasrr e ael r wvy e e i Ab a ri l s:rt' s rae p ianre e oes c s n u l speculation, n a . 8 on acco u nt enincgouatP o ßi f enrw i ti hingsn'odiuinonrf sou r ce gh t3 :6 ning tion of the duties, there was also exhibited a large nor!' ment of orchidaceous plants, consigned for sale trow Rl ° Janeiro. IBRAHIM PACHA AND HIS DOCTOR'S BILL. -- It i 5 generally known that Ibrahim Pacha spent a few month!' in the south of France, for the benefit of his health, a n a that an eminent medical man, Dr. Lallemant. left lilg practice for a considerable time to attend on the son °I Mehemet Ali. Nothing was srran.ted as to the fres of the salary of the M.D. until two or three days hef° re lbrabitn Pacha was to leave Paris, and th en h e sent 50,nv`: francs (1:2000) to Dr. Lallemant. This sum was to' considered sa.irfactory by Dr. Lallemant, who had bee n building castles with the munificent sum he expected from the Pacha, and he therefore respectfully submitte d that he considered his fees should be estimated at 200,0 00 ,. francs (X 8000). It was a source of great vexation tv Ibrahim to have undervalued the services of Dr. Lan e ; mant, but yet he did not make up the donation named' hut sent £4IOO more to the lbarned physic , an, who 'hen / declared himself satis fi ed with the total received, videlic eo £6,000. DR'ADFUL SHIPWRECK IN THE WEST INDIES." - ° l4 / HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN LIVES LOST.—intelligenc e 4 a distressing nature has conic to hand, announcing t appalling shipwreck of th e K ar l scrone , a Swedish Int' li a ; man, in a dread'ul storm off the coast of Matanzas. appears to have been one of the largest class in the S ''oo dish mercantile service. I, all, theie were 132 persons co board, including crew and passengers. The last Otte touched at was Havannali, where she shipped a val usu a, cargo, and on her departure the intenti.n of her Wildl y % der was to proceed direct to Sweden. On the ronl Ao . of the Ist, when the ship was abreast of the coast of ": e g taraas, she enc• mitered one of the fiercest hurrioct*is ever known in that quarter, during the height W it h P ber she was capsized, and instantly sank, carrying % of 115 persons. every soul of whom perished. Seven te t ‘ te rse the crew managed to lay nold of one of the ship's cui ee lt. which, as the vessel went down, floated over the ci. They endured the greatest privation. being without P' d u p slops and water for several days. They were eic i f e t. 2s, on the sixth day after the deplorable occurence err P I e & shore long. on ßo the 80. During andth the many storm storm, or as it has been ter n 0 0 tornado, no fewer than thirteen vessels were drivee wrecked were the P r incess Alice Maude, lost. Among L on o g nd tb di l l s .,l the St. Martin, from Liverpool. Both were insured " large amount. 111 a6 EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON. Admiral bir . tbe Parker has it is said been a martyr to the gout durertb,,„e* whole crui,e, and confined to his cabin for half th:oe;o6 and compelled to carry on his observations under stiff deg ; but, had be known of Blair's Gout a nd =-• matic Pills, so serious a calamity nierice to the public service would have found og speedy antidote. xx scezlN 6- 0 COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMAS, AND - T B - ho THE CHEST CURkto BY HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS• co _ by and other medicine will afford the least relief in nI6 e ffect 5 colds, Holloway's Pills will almost immediately ;6 ni l cure in every case however desperate ; and. seve rs extraordinary, Astlimas and Whet zings,evc:, ü b u y ` to il o vr: years' standing, may be completely got rid a this box ing the directions which accompany each . v at d ea th be lebrated medicine. M my who werebenesarl.aring to door, not being able to lie in their eir d n %te eans, aStll,O% cooked with phlegm. have had , by a that not the 15" tic complaints so effectually eradicate symptoms remained. to himself sndain,dcoattatiej tune 23, 1R46.