The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

imptriat *3ariiament. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY The Earl of RIPON made a ver his conduct, with respect to the of Nocton, and declared that he had been most unjustly aspersed by the imputations cast o n hi m . The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the , the House should go into Committee on the bill for frcilitating the employment of the poor in Ireland; and a disc ,scion en. sued, in which Lord Monteagle recapitulated the misery of Irelane, and confessed his inability to see his way out y vehement defence of ntation to the livi present crisis After some further debate, the bill passed through FOREIGN AND COLONIAL AMERICA The steamer Hibernia arrived at Liverpool on Friday, with date; from the United States to the 15th instant. The war with 'Mexico still continued, and still without eor important results. The president, with mediat the approval of the Senate, has offered nr gotiationr, with the Mexiran goverment for the restoration of peace, and the adjustment of all questions at issue between the two countries. Public confidence is not so strong that this attempt at pacification will prove successful. The presidentsolicited of cone a=s an appropriation of 2,000,000 dollars, to be used at his discretion in aiding the negocia lion. The application failed. The use which he intended to make of it can, of•course, only be matter of conjecture. No further progress has been made in the active pro gress of war. Toe American army on the Rio Grande numbers above 15,000 men, and is steadily, but very slowly, making its way into the interior. Catnargo is still the farthest point reached by any considerable portion of the forces, though preparations continue for a march• to Monterey. So far cs any enthusiastic intelligence has reached, no organised opposition is to be expected. , Pa redes still remains at Mexico. The enthusiasm of the people in favour of the war, seems from the latest ac count: to have flagged, and the hope is entertained that the President's mission may find them dispos..d to open negociations which shall end in peace. It is suppoz,ed that a large indemnity will.be demanded for the expense of the war ;—and that the American executive will offer to purchase California. The yellow fever prevails at Vera Cruz, and has in flicted great mortality on the American troops. _ Congress adjourned on the 10th. The Sub-Treasury Bill.haa passed, to take effect on the Ist of January. The new Tariff Law goes into operation on the Ist of Decem ber. The Warehousing Bill has became a law, and the bill has been passed with regard to the transit trade into Canada. The potatoe disease threatens to prove disAstrous to the crop. It is yet too early in the season to judge of its ra vages, but they are known to be extensive and severe. In a review of the session of the Congress, the Neto York Courier and Inquirer has the following respectirr , the Tarn Bill.—Of the success which will attend this ef fort, conjectures can only be formed. The hill was passed in the Senate by the casting vote of the Vice-President, Mr, Haywood of N.C., an administration Senator, hay irg resigned his seat and not so voting. An election in hi, state has since been held, and has resulted in the com plete triumph of the Whigs. A Whig Senator will there fore take his place at the next session. The vote of the Vice-President, moreover, has given great offence to the people of his own state, Pennsylvania, who are almost unanimous in favour of protection. Elections are also soon to be held in several of the States for members of Congress; and although the new members thus elected will not take their s ats until a year from next December, any marked expression of the popular will upon this sub ject, would produce a decided effect in the action of the coming session. The Tariff question will be made a pro minent point atissue in the elections ; and the general be lief is. that the .principle of protection will derive a consi derable augmentation of popular strength. The new Ta riff, therefore, cannot safely be regarded. In passing the bill.to give the President two millions of dollars to negotiate. ith Mexico, the House of Represen tatives adopted a clause, by an overwhelming majority, excluding slavery from California and all other territories that might be ceded to the Union. Congress has also prohibited slavery in Oregop for ever, and the prospects are. that no slave state will hereafter be admitted into the Union. The whole of the correspondence relative to the Oregon treaty, between Messrs. Buchanan and M`Lane, and the debate thereon during the secr,t se s , ion of the senate, has been published in the New York Herald. The govern ments of the two countries are directly at issue in inter preting the clause regulating the navigation of the Colum bia, the American wishing the right limited to seventeen years, and ours that it should he perpetual. Mr. Bucha nan's last letter to Mr. M'Llne directs him to inform Lord Aberdeen that the trea'y was ratified according to the American construction of that clause; and he in reply stated, that as the British understand it, the right is per petual. The Herald sugge•ts that the best plan of settling the dispute is to "people the country, drive off the Hud son Bay Company, and then insist upon our own con struction." In Canada, there still prevails considerable agitation on topics which have been forced into notice by the recent commercial changes in British policy, as well as by the warehousing and tariff bills of Congress.—A large public meeting was held at Montreal on the 10th instant, to adopt measures for carrying on the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad. It was numerously attended, and committees were appointed to solicit subscriptions tocarry on the work. A Quebec letter, dated August sth, states that the ship Elizabeth and Sarah, bad arrived off the city from It llala, after having lost no less than 44 of her passengers, with the captain; the ship, according to the statement, having bee❑ supplied with putrid water. The steam-ship Caledonia, arrived out at Halifax in eleven days. The steam-ship Great Western arrived out at New York in fifteen days, on the 10th instant. She may be expected on her return in a few days. The steamer Cambria, which sailed hence for Liverpool on the Ist instant, carried out accounts of a very strong market here, produced mainly by the unfavourable ap pearance of the coming crop. The advance noted in my circular for that packet has been followed as usual by a comparative pause in business, which has enabled pur chasers to buy on easier terms, as prices may be said to have occasionally fluctuated an eighth of a cent, in their favour—not, however, more than the usual difference be tween an active and an inactive market. The notice of the arrival at Boston of the steamer Hibernia, with Li verpool dates to the 19th ultimo, was received here by telegraph on Monday, 3rd instant. Her accounts were not of that satisfactory character looked for by operators generally, as holders at Liverpool appeared disposed to supply the market freely at the currency then ruling. Early on Monday, the 10th instant, the steamer Great Westerc arrived with Liverpool dates to the 25th instant, which advices being less flattering even than those by the previous steamer, the ope rations have been checked in a great degree, as holders here are withdrawing their sup pies, except at the full currency previously existing, and are small cellars, even at those rates. In fact, if cotton is no better under the last advices, it is certainly no worse, and these accounts have consequently had no influence on our market, and it has continued throughout the week just brought to a close, like that of the preceding one, in a very inactive state. The sales for the week ending the Bth instart were 5,000 bales ; since, to this date, 4,000 bales, with a firmer market yesterday at my quotations, which are similar to those in my last circular. It is, of course, too early to indulge in any but general remarks with regard to the prospect of the crop now ap proaching to maturity. It is certainly in a precarious position, and it is barely possible that it can equal that of the last season, while the probabilities now are, that it will be considerably less, even with a later frost than we have had for ten years. Exchange has been in rather better request, and the rates have slightly improved. Freights are also firmer at the quotations. POTATOES IN CANADA.—We hear a good deal, in par ticular localities, of damage done by rot to the potatoes. The early crop is abundant, and of very good quality.— Montreal Gazette. The Connecticut House of Representatives, by a vote of 111 to 63, have voted to submit to the people the question of tio amending the constitution as to aSolish all distinction of colour in respect to the privilege of voting. Intelligence has been received at St. Petersburgh that the greater part of the town of Berdiansk, in Southern Russia, was destroyed in the month of July by fire. It is only 11 years since the town was founded. A letter from Palermo, in the Auasburgh Gazelle, states that on the 7th a violent shock of an earthquake took place at Syracuse. Several houses had been thrown down, and 20 persons were said to have been killed. The heat in the island is described as extraordinary. The trial of Henry, the regicide, at Paris, closed on Thursday, when he was declared guilty by a large majority. The discussion by the court, after bearing the evidence, is said to have been most animated, some of the Peers pronouncing him insane, and consequently guiltless, while others maintained that he h-id acted with premedi tation, and with a perfect knowledge of what he was doing, and insisted on his being condemned to death. INFERNAL MACHINES.—Two officers of the Belgian Customs, stationed at Rouvrois-sur.Cethain, seized. on the night of the 13th, a cart containing, in two cases, 250 pistols with daggers made to dart out by a secret spring, the value of which is estimated at 1500 f. They were manuiactured at Liege, and destined for Paris. The driver was, or at least pretended to be, ignorant of the nature of his load. TALMA'S WIDOW.—An old woman of the name of Proche, upwards of seventy years of age, living in a very humble dwelling in the Rue de Tournon, in Paris, not having been seen by the porter for two days going out to execute ber little commissions, be became alarmed, and going to the door, saw through a crevice the body of the old woman lying motionless on the bed. He immediately sent to the commissary of police, who arrived, bringing a medical man with him ; but when the door was broken open it was evident that she had been dead some time. On examination it was found that the cause of her death was a long-standing complaint, for which she had never received any advice. On examining the papers of the de ceased, documents were found which clearly proved that she bad been the wife of the celebrated Telma, from whom she had been divorced. Committee; Several other bills were also forwarded a stage, and the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS •TUESDAY Mr. }Toxin, after alluding to the nine resolutions which be had placed some time ago upon the order book, con demnatory of the proceedings of the Poor-law Commis sioners, declared-that it was not his intention to proceed with the .first eight of theM at present. With respect, however, to the last, which referred to charges of a very grave nature against the proceedings of those commis sioners, it was too important to be passed over without some remark. Parliament bad resolved that every thing done by the Poor-law •Commissioners should be done by them as a board. .Now, the evidence proved satisfactorily that the law in this respect had been completely annulled by the Commissioners ; for it was made out, beyond the ,possibility.of contradiction, that they were in the habit of sitting in their private rooms, and of acting without con sulting each other, and without keeping any regular minutes of their .proceedings as a board. He concluded by moving an Address.to her Majesty, praying, that she would be graciously pleased,to cause a special public in quiry to be made into• the 4legality of certain recent pro ceedings of the Poor-Law Commissioners, and to order their dismissal, if they should-he found to have - Infringed the law laid down for their s guidance. Sir G. GREY observed, that when he represented to Mr. Hume that it would not-be.practicable, at this period ,of the session, and before the evidence taken by the An dover Committee was printed, to go into the subject of •bis resolutions, Mr. Hume bad distinctly assured him, in private, that he would not move them during the present session. Mr. Hume replied, that he had proposed his resolu tions to obtain an opportunity of expressing his opinion tpon them ; but he bad no intention to press them upon the house at present. The motion was then withdrawn. Mr. ETwALL gave ,notice that it xrar his intention to take an early _opportunity next session of bringing the report of the Andover Union Committee under the con sideration.of the house. Mr. D. BROWN E then. called the attention of the house to the state of distress in the county. of Mayo. Mayo was the poorest county in Ireland, and had the greatest number of non-resident proprietors; and, as tranquillity was in great danger, owing to the famine with which its peasantry were menaced, in consequence of the-total dis appearance of the potato crop, -he called upon English members to urge ui - on the government to take more im mediate steps than could be taken under its own plan to relieve the imminent distress of the county of Mayo. The Small Debts Bill and several other bills were ,then read a third time and passed. HOUSE OF COMMONS-WEDNESDAY Lord P&LMERSTON, in reply to Sir Howard Douglas, said that the late government had employed Mr. Hood, the Consul-General at Rio, who was instruc ed, on the part of England, in conjuitcrion with France, to endeavour io effect a termination of the hostilities between Monte Video and Buenos Ayres. Sufficient time bad not elapsed to allow of information on the subject. but he entertained a hope that the desired object would be accomplished. Mr. I.VAKr.sy brought under consideration the case of Haydock Lodge Lunatic Asylum, in Lancashire, to which public attention was attracted some time ago, by a petition to parliament from Mr. Owen Roberts, a surgeon, of Bangor, who complained of the treatment of lunatics in that institution. From the official inquiries which had been instituted, it appeared that Mr. Coode, while he was assistant-secretary to the poor-law commissioners, had a beneficial interest in Havdock Lodge, which was under the management of Mr. Mott, formerly an assistant poor law commissioner. Owing to the undue influence pos sessed by Mr. Coode and Mr. Mott, pauper lunatics were sent to Haydock Lodge from no less than twenty different counties in England, some from the I-le of Man, and some from the island of Anglesea ; and there they were sub jected to treatment which rendered the management of the asylum one of the most frightful and horrible cases of heartless cruelty which had ever fallen under his notice. In that " human slaught r-house," so great e as the mor tality that in the second year 112 had died out of 450; and in the year preceding the Ist of October, 1845, it was sixty. On inspection by the visiting magistrates, they were of opinion that the house could only accommodate 367 persons, while 500 had been compelled to live in it. Mr. Wakley, who spoke at great length, went into much detail on the subject, describing the dietary and treatment of the inmates, contrasting the management of the insti tution with' that of Hartwell,' and contending that the sole object of the owners of Haydock Lodge was pecuniary gain. The subject demanded a complete investigation, not by the poor-law commissioners, w:io were inte rested parties, but by an independent and competent tribunal. If this were not done during the recess he would on the very first day of the meeting of parlia ment, if he had a seat in the house, move for a committee o f i nqu i r y. But he suggested that a commission should be appointed, and moved an address to the crown to that effect. Mr. FIELD'N seconded the motion. Sir G. GREY would not say a word i❑ defence of the management of Haydock Lodge, and admitted that it was most discreditable to any person in connexion with the Poo , --law Commission to have had any interest in such an Institution. The disclosures which had been made ren dered it necessary that the case should undergo a search ing investigation by the Commissioners of Lunacy ; but the remedy for the evils of private asylums, which he feared were generally in a most deplorable state, lay in the hands of the magistracy, by the erection of county asylums. At the present late period, and in the absence of Lord Seymour, who could have given them informati on as to the course which the Commissioners of Lunacy might pursue, be urged the withdrawal of the motion. After some remarks from Mr. R. Yorke and Mr. Borthwick, Mr. WAKLEY withdrew his motion, but renewed his pledge to r,vive the question, if a searching investigation did not take place during the recess. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.-FRIDAY Parliament was prorogued this day by commission, when the following speech was read, by command of her majesty, by the Lord Chancellor, sitting on the woolsack in front of the throne in the House of Lords : " My Lords and Gentlemen, " We are commanded by her Majesty to express to you the warm acknowledgments of her Majesty for the public spirit you have evinced in the discharge of your laborious duties during an anxious and protracted session. " Her Majesty trusts that you will be rewarded by wit nessing the beneficiakresults of the measures which have been sanctioned by her Majesty, for the present relaxa tion and ultimate repeal of protective duties on corn and sugar. " Her Majesty entertains a confident hope, that the more free admission of the produce of foreign countries in the home market will increase the comforts and better the condition of the great body of the people. " Her Majesty feels the greatest satisfaction in reflect ing that her Majesty's efforts to settle, in a manner con sistent with national honour, the conflicting claims of Great Britain and the United States, witb respect to the territory on the north-west coast of America, have been completely successful. " Her Majesty continues to receive from all foreign powers the strongest assurances of their desire to cultivate friendly relations with this country. " Her Majesty commands us to congratulate you on the victorious course and happy conclusion of the war in In dia ; and her Majesty has much gratification in announc ing to you that perfect tranquillity prevails throughout the whole of the British possessions in that quarter of the world. " Gentlemen of the House of Commons, " Her Majesty has observed with satisfaCtion the care you have taken to prevent permanent loss to the revenue, and to maintain the public faith. " Her Majesty has commanded us to acknowledge the zeal and unanimity with which you assented to the in crease in the naval and military estimates, which a regard to the exigencies of the public service induced her Majesty to propose for your consideration. My Lords. and Gent;emen, . " Her Maje s ty has to lament that the recurrence of a failure in the potatoe crop, in an aggravated degree, will cause a serious deficiency in the quantity of a material ar ticle of food. " Her Majesty has given her cordial assent to measures by which this calamity may be mitigated in that part of the United Kingdom where the cultivation of the potatoe has hitherto afforded the chief supply for the subsistence, of the people. " Her Majesty has seen with pleasure that a considera ble diminution of crime and outrage has taken place in those counties of Ireland which had been most disturbed. " Her Majesty is confident that, on your return to your several counties, you will find a spirit of loyalty generally prevalent. The extension of works of improvement has increased the demand for labour, and the tranquillity of the country branches. has favoured the pursuits of industry in all its " Her Majesty trusts that, by a combination of pru dence with enterprise, and of a willing obedience to law with a desire for social progress, her people will. through the Divine blessing, enjoy the full advantages of peace." HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. The royal assent was Riven by commission to various bills, after which her Majesty's speech was read by the Lord Chancellor, and Parliament prorogued until Wed nesday, the 4th of November. HOUSE OF COMMONS.--FRIDAY. A new writ was ordered for Derby, in the room of Mr. Strutt, appointed a commissioner of the Railway Board. In answer to a question from 11 , 1 r. Protheroe,, Sir GEo. GREY stated, on authority, that promotion in the police force was not consequent on the number of convictions obtained, but on entirely different grounds ; and in answer to Mr. Wakley, as to the maltreatment of a witness exa mined before the Andover Union Committee on his re turn to that place by the Poor-law authorities, the right bon baronet stated that the subject should receive his se rious consideration. THE C,URT 4- FASHIONABLE. WORLD. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, after enioving a plea sure trip along the south-western coast, in the course of which they called at Torbay, Plymouth, Falmouth, Wey mouth, Devonport, &c., arrived at Osborne House on Tuesday morning, having had thus a week's yachting. The weather had been rough, but her Majesty kept the deck bravely ; Prince Albert, as well as the Prince of Wales and Princess Alice, suffered from sea-sickness. Her Majesty, on her next marine excursion, is exp ec t e d to visit the island of Jersey. ihe Admiralty have ordered the moorings there to be examined, and a buoy to be placed there. The Queen Dowager of England, the Princess Royal of Prussia, and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, arrived at Woolwich on Friday at noon, from Rotterdam. At the desire of her Majesty, the artizans of the dockyard were granted a holiday. During the recent Royal marine trip, her Maj , -sty and Prince Albert visited Guernsey, where they were received by most gratifying marks of loyalty and affection. About 100 young ladies, belonging to the principal families of the place, most) , clothed in elegant white dresees, strewed flowers in the path of their Queen. Guernsey has cot been visited by its sovereign since the days of King John, now upwards of six centuries ago. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. IRELAND. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland arrived in Dublin from this port on Thursday morning. His Excellency disem barked under a salute of 21 guns. At Nenagh, on Saturday week, one Walsh was hanged for the murder of a man named Barachree. The culprit had previously seduced the wife of his victim. The marine condemned to •death at Cork has received a free pardon, in consequence of an irregulari'y in the proceedings having rendered the sentence of the court martial illegal. The man baa been sent back to his com pany, the authorities expressing a hope that his recent pe ri may have a reformatory cEect. A NOVEL BEEOIVE.—Some time since a swarm of bees altghted on the head of one of the ornamented lions lit front of Viscount O'Neill's residence, Shane's Castle. They proceeded down his throat, and are at present strong and healthy, and seem " secure from every harm." —Dublin Freeman. STRANGE INVESTIGATION.---011 Monday, the magis trates of the city of Cork were engaged in investigating a charge of murder preferred by the police there against cer tain parties, who, they alleged, had murdered a sailor named Kennedy. While the justices were in full con clave in this inquiry, Kennedy - himself appeared to as sist them. IRELAND.—Paddy Bull, it appears, is to go to his set tlement as a pauper on John Bull. Nothing is said of the poor English labourer—the little farmer and trades man—he cannot, a-la-Whig, raise ti,e serfs of Popish rule to our level ; so we are to eiui to theirs. We want -a strong government, that-will .make every man do his duty, and we want nothing el.e. WRECK OF THE " RAMBLER" STEAMER.—It will be recollected that, a considerable time ago, the Rambler steamer was wrecked upon the Maiden Rocks, and that the wreck was abandoned as irrecoverable by advice of se veral eminent engineers belonging to Glasgow. Captain Coppin, of this city, purchased the wreck, for a very small sum, and has, lately, by astonishing ; perseverance. as well as by superior engineering skill, succeeded in raising both of the engines, and is is confidently expected that he will also recover the two boilers.—Derry_paper. _ _ On Wednesday, a meeting of the ieneral assembly of the Preshy'erian Church, in Ireland, was held in Dr. Cooke's church, Belfast. After a long and somewhat angry discussion, the assembly affirmed the principle of attaching itself to the government educational institution, for the present, so far as the reception of the expected endowments for the peculiar education required, the ap plcation for bursaries to excite emulation among the stu dents, together with the admissiAt that the assembly is willing to place its youth under the Professors of the Queen's College, should they be orthodox, can be properly described as an affirmation of the principle. Tti.. IRISH COLLEGES AND THE POPE.—The following appeared in the Dublin Evening Freeman of Tuesday : " We stop the press to announce to the country the most important intelligence we have for some time had to lay before our readers,—it is no less than the decisive con demnation of the godless Colleges Bill by the court of Rome. The lateness of the hour at which we received this intelligence precludes the possibility of our entering into details. We can state, however, upon the best au thority, that the College of Cardinals, having all the do. cuments before them, unhesitatingly, unanimously, and deci.ively pronounced their condemnation of the govern ment measure." THE REPEAL MAGTSTRATES.—AII the repeal magis trates have now received, and duly replied to the " preli minary" letters of the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Fitzgerald, of Murkridge House, gives the model sentence, suggested by M r. O'Connell's letters, a somewhat new turn, thus:— " In reply, sir. I beg to state that I should be sorry to in terfere in the slightest degree with the desire of the Lord Chancellor to perform an act of justice towards those ma gistrates who were so unconstitutionally and unjustly de prived of their commissions by the late government. As one of them, theref re, I can have no objection to resume the duties of the office and be restored to the same position which I held previous to the 25th of May, 1843." Mr. R. A Fitzgerald does not give the slightest thanks for the restoratio❑ of his commission. Although all the Irish repeal magistrates have been re-, stored to the commis ion of the peace, none of the Orange magistrates, with the exception of Colonel, now Sir Wil liam Verner, have been so dealt with, and much dissatis faction exists in consequence. The Dublin Mail says— " the only solution of the disparity which suggests itself to us—and, indeed, it is the only reasonable one—is this, that the measure of condonation is Mr. O'Connell's : that it is his privilege to wield it as he will : that he desires to show his power to reward or punish ; and that in the ex ercise of his good pleasure, he points outs the Repealers for honour—the Orangemen for insult: the Repealers to be restored by an unmerited act of grace, and the Orange men to be punished by wanton exercise o; prejudice." _ _ Lord John—not Russell—but Mac Hal - has again taken to the pen, and again selects a Prime Minister as a correspondent. As ministers have something to do, they must marvel at the pertinacity with which all sorts of scribblers persist in pestering them with prescriptions, and with dull reiterations of facts of which they have been informed a thou.and titres before. Only that the Free man is a devout admirer of the Doctor, we should sus pect him of a quiz when he says, that "his Grace the Archbishop," " with an ability peculiarly his own, pllices the grant for Ireland in comparison with the grants of government in other cases." In truth, the ability is pe culiarly " his Grace's," for it consists simply in an ex ceedingly verbose "comparison" of the aforesaid grants, and a genuine NlacHalian vituperation of men and things which have not had the good fortune to obtain the ap. proval of his intolerance. THE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND.—In the House of Lords, on Friday, Lord Roden called the attention of the house to this subject, and said that he had traversed a great part of the province of Munster, and he was not guilty of any exaggeration when be stated that during the whole progress of that journey he did not see one field that was not either decaying or had not actually decayed, from the disease. This calamity was accompanied by an other evil, the great deficiency of the oat crop in that part of the country. But oats formed a great article of food to the Irish people, and if that crop failed to the extent he was afraid it would in some districts, the calamity would indeed, be awfully increased. On the western coast of Ireland there was an abundance of food of a par ticular species, but facilities of carriage were required to make it uvailable to other parts of the country—he alluded to the fisheries. The people regard this calamity as a vi sitation from heaven ; but they murmured not; and in whatever direction any person travelled in Ireland, he could not but be strut.k with the manner in which they bore their distress. Only that morning had he received a letter confirming had he received a letter confirming, as to the north of Ireland, the statement which the noble lord opposite (Lord Monteagle) had made a few days ago as to the south; and he mentioned these things to induce their lordships to be more anxious, and more zealous, if p .ssible, to remedy these evils ;. and with the hope, also, that it would call forth the sympathies of those who might be able to assist the people of Ireland. At the same time, if his voice could reach the ears of those indi viduals who possessed any property in Ireland, and it could have any effect to speak to them from that place upon so solemn a subject, he would implore them, under every circumstance, to go home to their country and peo ple, to live amongst them, and encourage them in their present difficulties (hear, hear), and to show them that they themselves were willing, under these great trials, to share with them the evils they were forced to bear. AN ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.—During the past week an incident occurred in the military circles of the city, which has afforded much amusement to the public, and caused no small annoyance and vexation to the parties concerned. An officer belonging to a cavalry regiment, stationed near this city, became acquainted, on a voyage from Bristol to Cork, with a young nobleman of agreeable manners and fascinating conver,ational powers, travelling under the name of Lord Clifton. The officer invited his lordship to the mess of the regiment, which the young no bleman, who said he was merely travelling for amusement, gladly accepted. The officers of the regiment were much pleased with their new acquaintance, shewed him every respect. and gave some expensive entertainments for his special honour. At one of these an officer of infantry had scarcely entered the room, when perceiving his lordship the centre of a throng of officers, he went up to him, and recognising him as an acquaintance, saluted him as " Mr. expressing surprise at seeing him in the neigh. bourhood. It would be hard to tell whether his lordship or the officers felt most astonished and disconcerted. The soi-disand hob'eman blushed, stammered, and endeavoured to explain. He said it was true he was not Lord Clifton, but his lordship was his particular friend, with whom he had laid a wager that he would personate his lordship for some time without being discovered, and in carrying out this spree he had introduced himself to the officer who had invited him to the mess. This explanation not being deemed satisfaCtory, his lordship was ejected from the room, turned down stairs, and kicked through the bar rack yard, the officer who had been the first dupe being most remarkable for the punishment he applied to his lordship's person. On the ensuing day a message was conveyed to the officers of the regiment, that Mr. --. was willing to give gentlemanly satisfaction for the decep tion he had practised, but on inciting being made at his address, it was found that he had debamped.—Cork Con s litut ion. _ . A COACH SUBMERGED.—The Dublin mail to this town was on Tuesday delayed three hours in consequence of the heavy rains of the previous night, which involved not only the delay of the arrival of the mail, but also its pro bable loss and that of the lives of eight passengers. The mail left Longford at the usual hour, and proceeded in safety to Tarmon bog, about six miles on the route from that town. When the car arrived at this spot the road was found to be considerably flooded, with a very rapid current vassing over it, also large heaps of earth carried down from the mountains were lying on the road. There was an immense collection of country people at the place, and fortunately a large body of constabulary ; and on the pas sengers paying the country people, they were induced to remove the heaps of earth, The car was then driven for ward, the leader (it was a three-horse car), having pre viously been unyoked, but scarcely had it proceeded a few yards when the horses were turned round by the impetuo sity of the stream, and car, horses, and passengers carried away with its current. The passengers immediately on perceiving the horses being turned off the road, threw themselves into the waves, and most miraculously and providentially, and by mutually assisting one another, were saved from a watery grave. The car, horses, and driver were brought up by the wheels of the car coming against some obsiruction, the water washing over the car and carrying away all loose luggage, and the heads of the horses scarcely above the surface. The country people, on seeing the lives of the passengers in danger, made every exertion to save them ; but they would not stir hand or fo o t towards extricating the car, horses, and driver from their perilous position, until they extracted a promise of payment from the passengers, when six or seven of them went into the water, and with the assistance of ropes, at length succeeded in brining all safe to land. The con duct of the police was very di ff erent. Without any soli citation, afteeatsi3ting to save the lives of the passengers, they followed clown the course of the torrent, and fear lessly entered it to save the various articles of luggage which were floating on the surface. Subsequently they supplied the passengers with clothing (their own clothes and Ipigghge being wholly saturated with wet), so as to permit of their proceeding on their journey.—Tyrawley Herald. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The members of this body assembled on Monday. in the Conciliation Hall. Mr. O'Connell, in his speech of the day, said there was one magic in politics, and that was by putting yourself in the right, and placing your enemies in the wrong,—that magic would not have been carried out, if the association in 1843, or even since, had lent itself to the doctrine of physical fcrce.—Why, even look to the state prosecutions, and, reflecting upon them, see what a conciliatory game the present government were playing. Men talked very much about physical force, and of vindicating the rights of their country by . the sword—men who were afraid to look at a ntiker. (" Hear," and laughter.) He cared not for the Young Irelanders, but he regretted the loss of Smith O'Brien ; bur even for him they could not break through their rules ; for if they did they would peril their safety, and destroy for ever the great cause •in which they were engaged. The fact was this, that, during the perio lof the monster meetings, they intended that if moral force faired they would have recourse to physical force. They were working for high treason; but the basis upon which the association was originally framed, and would always be guided by, was of a different character. He (Mr. O'Connell) was ready to do anything rather than consent to any other than peaceable means; he was even ready to sacrifice ,he cause and abandon it for ever, rather than be a party to any disturbance in the social state, or the breaking up of the happiness of individuals. In fact— he would eTpress himself shortly—no man should belong to the association if he suggested anything like physical force. (Cheers ) The hon. and learned gentleman then mentioned -that his son Maurice had been reinstated in the commission of the peace. They never stood in so good a position for Ireland, for every party was then ready to afford her relief ; not alone because of her position as regarded the potatoe disease, but on the ground of her general state of poverty, set out on the face of the report o' I ord Devon's commission. Sir Robert Peel bad stated that justice should be done to Ireland, and already the government had brought in and passed two good bills to remedy the condition of the tenant, which enabled him to have justice from his landlord. The bill might be fairly considered as a legislative declaration and sanction of the principle so often contended for, " that the power of the landlords of Ireland required to be revised, con trolled, and lessened." This was a Whig question ; and why should he net support the men who passed it, and the men who voted £50,000 to relieve the distress of the Irish people? No doubt £50,000 was but a small sum to do so much with ; but it would also be remembered that, with that grant, a bill was passed in order to give employ ment and enable the people to pay for their own support. He would support any government that would pass good measures for Ireland ; but still, no matter how much he got, he would still rally to the last for Ireland's own parliament, and its restoration. The week's rent amounted to £l3B 16s. Bd. W HERE IS TUE MONEY ?—Mr. J. V. Porter, who was considered a Meat prize by the Repeal Association, until he would insist upon looking into the ledger of Concilia tion Hall, has addressed a letter to the Nation, in which occurs the following paragraph : " The Freeman implies, and would wish its readers to understand, that the committee has full control over the money. It wishes to throw the whole onus upon them ; whereas, in fact, the money is not paid into their hand nor lodged to their credit, neither of the General Com mittee, nor of any Special Committee, but into the hands of Mr. O'Connell alone, and in a way and in a manner so dark and so irregular, that even members of the com mittee, after years of attendance, do not yet know the process." O'Connell may denounce the Nation, and erase it from the list of papers supplied by the Association to his dupes ; but he will find it a formidable instrument in unmasking him. He knows, however, that exposure now is too late to do him much harm. It cannot make him disgorge; the money is in his pocket; and as to the future supplies, it has long been evident that they will barely suffice to pay the weekly expenses of Conciliation Hall. LAW INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Romily, Q.C., has been appointed recorder of Bristol in the room of the late Sir Charles Wetherell. The wilary is £6OO with £lOO travelling expenses. It has been arranged that the next judgeship that be comes vacant will fall to the lot of Sir David Dundas, M.P., the new Solicitor-General. Several of the judges are in broken health and of advanced years. Mr. Jarman, the eminent conveyancer, has given it as his opinion that the deeds deposited by members of build ing societies in the hands of the trustees, on obtaining their advance of money, are not legally liable to any stamp duty. IMPORTANT TO BROKERS.—Ift a case tried on Thurs day, Mr. Justice Cresswell said it was the duty of a bro ker, when be made a contract on behalf of a principal, to enter a record of that in his book and sign it. This was the proper evidence of the contract. They knew by ex perience that brokers very frequently did cot do so ; that bought and sold notes were treated as evidence of the contract, but it would be much better if brokers would enter it in their books and sign it. REVISING BARRISTERS' LIST, 1816 York, West Riding, with Ripon—William Blanchard, Esq., Benjamin Boothby, Esq., Levfrie Temple, Esq. West Riding Boroughs, except Ripon, Pomfret, and Knaresborough—William Gray, Esq. East Riding and its Boroughs, with York Knares borough, and Pomfret—Robert Wharton, Esq. North Riding and its Boroughs, except York—Stephen Temple, EN. Durham and its Boroughs—Richard Matthews, Esq. Northumberland and its Boroughs—Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Esq. Cumberland and its Boroughs, wiih Kendal—Woron zow Greig, Esq. Westmorland and North Lancashire, with Clitheroe and Lancaster—J. W. Harden, Esq. South Lancashire, Warrington and Bury—Percival Andri Pickering, Esq., William Walker, Esq., and Thos. Horncastle Marshall, Esq, Liverpool, Wigan, Bolton, Preston, and Blackburn— Thomas Shaw Brandreth, Esq. Boroughs of South Lancashire, except Liverpool, Wigan, Bolton, Bury, and Warrington—The Hon. Richard Denman. RAILWAY INTELLIUENCE. Mr. Strutt, the member for Derby, is to be the Chief Commissioner of the new Railway Board. FACILITIES FOR THE PRESS.—At the meeting of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company, on Wednesday week, " it was resolved that previous to every general meeting of the company, the secretary should forward to the reporters of each of the Cumberland newspapers free tickets to pass along the line." MONSTER TRAIN.—One of the largest trains ever seen on a railway left Rugby station on Friday. It consisted of eighty-four carriages, and was impelled by three of Ste verson's powerful six-wheeled engines. Its length ex tended to nearly half a mile, and the weight of merchan dise, exclusive of the carriages, was upwards of 20 tons. On Sunday evening week, a man named Robert Black burn, aged 28, employed as a striker at the North Union station, Preston, met with his death at the Farrington station, in his attempt to get on the Blackburn train when in motion, when the wheels of the carriage passed over him, and killed him on the spot. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—On Wed nesday the first trial trip was made on a portion of th!s line—namely, from Carlisle to Penrith, a distance of about eighteen miles, With an engine and tender. An other trial trip was made the same day between Lancaster and Hackthorpe, but it is understood that the rails at va rious places were only temporarily laid for the occasion. A number of the directors came by this train to attend the,general meeting of the company at Penrith. CHARGE OF EXTENSIVE FORGERY BY THE CHAIR MAN OF A RAILWAY COMPANY.—Captain Richardson, Chairman of the Worcester, Tenhury, and Ludlow Rail. way Company, the individual charged with having de frauded Messrs. Coutts and Co., by altering a cheque for £lO to the suin of .£5,000. was on Saturday afterno brought before Alderman Musgrove, at the Mansion house. It was stated in evidence that the prisoner had, as the chairman of this company. filled up and signed the cheque, that it was for £lO, that it had afterwards been returned to him signed by two other directors of the com pany ; and that. subsequently. it had been paid into Messrs. Coutts's bank, the sum of £lO being altered icto the sum of £5,000. Mr. Robert Hare, clerk at Messrs. Coutts and Co's banking house, stated that he paid the cheque produced, which purported to be for £5,000, on the 20th of July, to a person at the counter. He did not know to whom he paid it. He paid the amount in five notes of £l,OOO each. The witness here produced the notes as those which he had paid. Mr. Henry Jerning ham, a clerk in the Bank of England, stated that on the 20th July he changed three £l,OOO bank notes, which were all dated February 13, 1846. The person who pre sented the notes gave the name of J. Jones. Tbey were paid in gold. Other individuals belonging to the Bank of England declared that they had not the least doubt that the prisoner was the person who got the gold. The pri soner declined so say anything, saying he was taken by surprise, and wished to consult his solicitor. He was re manded till to-day (Tuesday.) RAILWAY SURVEILLANCE.—Mr. Morrison's Com mittee on railways have made their report. It establishes the fact that rival companies are only a delusion. They are, it is alleged sure, to amalgamate, and where there is already an established line, the old company brings up the new, The remedy which the committee recommends is, —an efficient system of Government surveillance over roads already in operation, and a careful investigation into the merits of new schemes, conjoined with a prudent re striction of the powers of companies hereafter to be pro jected. The report contains much useful information concerning the continental lines. In Belgium, it appears, a systematic plan bas been laid down by the government . from the commencement, which has ever since been stea dily adhered to. France began as we did, but soon find ing the inconvenience of disorder, adopted a regular sys tem, which has been in force since 1812. In Germany the choice of lines was at first the work of chance; but there also a systematic plan was soon adopted. In all these countries the charges and fares are very much be. low those of England ; in France, for the conveyance of passengers in first-class carriages, little more, in Germany less, than a half ; in Belgium not beyond a third. The proportions of the third-class fares are, 74, 5 7-10, 4, 3 7-10. It may be thought that the lower price of la bour and materials is the cause of the cheapness of travelling on the continental railroads. This is not so ; but, on the contrary, England enjoys an advantage in the Sept. I, ISM. abundance of coal and coke, which enables her to produce the locomotive power much cheaper than her neighbours. The cost of earthwork is much the same in England and France. The rails and chairs on the Southampton line wete laid down at £2,790 per mile, while those on the Paris and Rouen line cost £4,635; the working of the former line costs ls. a mile, of the latter, Is. 4d. ; the locomotive power and the carriages of the former 141 per cent., of the latter, 16 1-3. On the South Western Rail way the general expenses are about 12 per cent., whilst on the Paris and Rouen they are 16. On some other roads, the report states the balance is still more in favour of England. There is, however, one item of expenditure. in which the English companies Jar outstrip their neigh bours of the continent. We allude to the Preliminary charges incurred before the permanent works are even commenced. The Eastern Counties Railway. which is 51 miles long, expended £41,000 in passing their bill, be sides other charges, amounting to £48,000. The Parlia mentary expenses of the London and Birmingham were £650, and of the Great Western, £l,OOO, per mile. In the case of the Rotten and Havre line, the expenses in curred in the inquiry before the board, and up to the time the act was obtained, did not exceed £7OO. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—OD Friday evening as the workmen were engaged at the warehouses in course of erection on the margin of the new docks at Birkenhead,. a scaffold gave way, and a number of men were precipi tated to the ground, burying several of them under thou sands of bricks. Four were very seriously injured. They were immediately attended by Mr. Jermatte, surgeon, who had them removed to the hospital, and administered pniper medical assistance to them. Their injuries are very serious, but it is hoped they will eventually recover. The following is a list of the parties more seriously injured •—Patrick Moran. 33 years, labourer, St. Anne street ; Terry M'Coen, 33 years, labourer, Oak.srreet ; John Conway, 30 years, labourer, Albert terrace ; Henry Roach. 35 years, labourer, 4, Wood street. They were all m 'riled men. The last exhibition for the season, of the Bebington Horticultural Society, took place on Thursday, and was numerously and fashionably attended. Several beautiful baskets of flowers were contributed by Sir W. M. Stanley, Miss Greenham, G. J. Wainwright, Esq., C. Rawson, Esq., and others. Amongst the plants, including a large variety of fuschias and verbenas, with some roses, ericas, petunias, cockscombs, calceolarias, &c. ; the following were prominent for their beauty :—" Budlea Lindleyana," sent by Harold Littledale, Esq.; " Depladenia Cras sinoda' " and " Martynia Fragr an s," f rom th e conserva tory of G. J. Wainwright, Esq. ; " Bourgmansia," " Plumbago." " Lilium Lanceiolium Rubrtm," and " Lilium Lancefolium Album," belonging to Sir W. M. Stanley. Mr. Wainwright had the gold medal awarded to him for having won the greatest number of prizes in the season. Loral anb Vrobtitrial On Tuesday, a man, named Peter Burns, fell into the Clarence Dock, and was drowned. On Wednesday, the foundation stone of the National School at Fleetwood, to be erected as a testimonial to Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, was laid midst great rejoicing. On Tuesday morning, a child named Fagan was found dead in his bed, in Marquis -street ; and another child named Ramsden, in Park-street. On Tuesday, a boy named Lowe, broke his arm whilst playing with other boys on some waste ground, near Northumberland-street. A contract has been entered into for taking down and rebuilding the parish church at Runcorn. Th e wor k w ill be proceeded with immediately. On Monday, Sarah Hallain, aged thirty-seven,residing in Lionel -street, was found dead in bed. She bad been labouring under pulmonary consumption for three years. On Sunday week, as a boy named John Hitchman, was bathing in Tranmere-pool, he got out of his depth, and was drowned. 'The Blackburn factory operatives have signified their approval of the determination to work the mills only four days a week, adopted by the masters, and call upon the latter to assist them in obtaining a ten hours bill. On Sunday week James Holden, a weaver, whilst eat ing voraciously at a beer shop in Oldham-road, Manches ter, was choked by a piece of beef, and died almost im mediately. CRICKET.—A match was played on Thursday between the Olympus, of this town, and St. Helen's cricket clubs, on the former's ground, Toxteth-park, which was won by the Olympus, with eight wickets to go down. Mr. Justice Wightman finished the criminal business on 1 Thursday afternoon, and was occupied during the whole of Friday in trying civil causes. On Saturday morning he returned to London. QUICK WORK.—Mr. Pollock, barrister, left the Crown Court on Thursday morning at a quarter past ten o'clock, went to Manchester by railway, attended the Salford ses sions, defended a prisoner, and was again at two o'clock performing the same office for a prisoner in the Crown Court of this town. The masters of the steam-packets frequenting this port, have presented to Capt. M'Bride, who has recently been promoted from the Clarence to the mastership of the Albert Dock, with a gold snuff box, as an expression of their approbation of his gentlemanly conduct during a period of sixteen years. It will be seen by an advertisement in another part of our paper that the Rev. M. Adolphe Monod will deliver. a lecture at St. George's Presbyterian Church, Myrtle street, on Friday evening next, on the state and prospects of evangelical religion on the Continent. We understand he will also preach in the same church on Sunday next, BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPANY. The half-yearly meeting of this Company was held on Wednesday, when the report of the state of the works, &c. read to the pro prietors present, was deemed very satisfactory. Mr. Ambrose Lace was elected a director, in the room of Mr. Boothby, who has resigned in consequence of not residing in the neighbourhood. The United Order of Forresters had a grand field day on Thursday. The morning was fine, and the members, attired in complete custome, formed into procession, and paraded the principal streets. They then gathered to the Zoological Gardens, the centre of attraction—where old British sports were indulged in through the evening. The Concert Hall was thrown open, and dancing was conti nued for upwards of an hour. STONEMASONS.—A meeting of the operative stone masons of this town and neighbourhood was held on Tuesday. Resolutions were passed pledging the meeting to " continued exertiongs, until the masons of England have one and da become members of the association," and recommending, " for defensive purposes, that a Co operative Building Association be formed, in order to secure employment for the masons when they are unable to obtain it elsewhere on fair and honourable terms." PRINCE ALBERT.— His royal highness having expressed himself much gratified with the works of art executed by Mr. John R. Isaac, of Castle-street, on the occasion of the royal visit, has been pleased to appoint him his medalist, lithographer, and engraver at Liverpool. His roya! highness was presented, through Mr. Isaac, with the gold medal, accompanied by an address, beautifully illuminated on vellum, and emblazoned in a very elegant manner, which was solely executed by Mr. Isaac.' IMMENSE PLACARD.—At the Pilot office, Preston, on Saturdao, a placard of immense dimensions was suspend. ed. It contained the words, " The Pilot is now enlarged to 48 columns," and covers paper to an extent of twenty fuur feet long by thirteen wide. The letters of the word " enlarged" are upwards of six feet long, and the bill altogether is of a size never equalled in a provincial town. Printers will understand its rnagn tude when we state that it is forty.eicht sheets of double royal. EXCESSIVE MORTALITY IN MANCHESTER.—A let- THE POTATO FAILURE A PROVIDENTIAL ter addressed to the Mayor of Manchester, by Mr. 0. K. DISPENSATION. Holland, appears in the Manchester Guardtan of Satur day, in which it is stated that an unusual amount cf fatal (From the Record ) disease is now prevalent in Manchester, being principally The subject of Providential dispensations, especially in various forms of bowel complaint. It appears from a when assuming the character of national judgments, is table given, that in eight of the ten registrars' districts unquestionably ene which requires to be handl-d with (which comprise what is popularly called Manchester), caution. The infidel and sceptic, indeed, would press this the ordinary number of deaths is about 600 per month; caution so far, as to close our mouths entirely. They are but that, in JWy last, it was 1,034, of which 389 are ever ready to warn us not to stated to have been caused or accompanied by bowel corn- o deal damnation round the land, plaint. If the deaths of London-road and Deansgate On each we <teem His foe." districts were added to the above, it is probable that the But the general tenour of Scripture is of a very opposite excess of deaths, caused by this class of diseases, would kind. We are directed, in various ways, to connect pub be found to exceed 120 weekly. tic events with the Divine will. BEAUMARIS REGATTA.—The race for a purse of £l5, Yet, as we have said, much caution is necessary. We for yachts of eight and not exceeding twenty tons, was must not hastily or arbitr,,ily affix our own sense to every won by Mr. F. Little's Jilt, beating the Hon. Col. Pen- dispensation that com,es across our path. Hence, we nant's Diamond, Mr. W. W. Shand's Petrel, Mr. H. Ty- would merely suggest a thought or two to others, arising . rer's Nautilus, Mr. W. Owen's Samuel Smith, Mr. Jo- out of recent events, rather than pronounce a positive seph Edward's Editba, and Mr. R. Batley's Dickey Sam. opinion on them ourselves. The principal prize, of £5O, for yachts not exceeding 1. Last year, 1845, was lamentably remarkable, as be thirty tons, was won by Mr. Birchall's Vision, beating ing the first year in which Protestant England had resol-. Mr. Moss's Phoebe, Mr. J. Grindrod's Leander, and Mr. vedly de'ermined to set up a Popish establishment. For H. Beaver's Zoe. A prize of .£25 was contested for by many years before, she had given an annual dole, or bene yachts exceeding fifteen tons, and not exceeding thirty f iction, to the Romish College of Maynooth ; but each tons. Four warted—Mr. It. Batty's INckey Sam, Mr. W. W. Shand's Petrel, the Hon. Col. Pennant's Dia- year it was declared to be a mere bounty, and was apolo gized for, on the ground that it was a kind of legacy be mond, and Mr. F. Little's Jilt. Immediately after start- queathed to us by the Irish parliament. In 1845, how ingnitheag b Jilty sevent po k minutes,t e lead, and Diamond kepti t s t e h e e o w n d h , o I e an w d ay , P w e tirnt e to ve i r n , c i r t ea w s a e s t p h e e r a v r e a r n se t ly th a re n e d fo q i u d i . te . n n d ee sa d s t l yorimeesaokleveliedt a u ,both a.. third, Dickey Sam having resigned, being at the time full tional act , by endo win g and estab lis hing o_ C o ge for a quarter of an hour behind her opponents. ever, by a statute of the legislature. Here, then,'Was the SHOCKING SUICIDE AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On first adoption and establishment of Popery by a Protest- Thursday morning great sensation was created in the ant parliament ; the plea being, that it would pacify and neighbourhood of Ancoats, Manchester, by a man who tranquiltze Ireland. had cut his own throat attempting to destroy also the :life 2. If this act were displeasing to God, as we firmly be of his wife. The man's name is Abraham Ashworth, and lieve it to have been ; and if he thought fit to rebuke and it is stated that soon after 7 o'clock on Wednesday morn- punish us fcr it,—what kind of a visitation might we ing the wife was awoke by his untying the strings of. her expect ? night-cap, and perceived to her great horror that her hus- When David sinned against the Lord, a pestilence was band had cut his throat, and was attempting to reach her sent among the people. Yet this visitation both grieved own with the same razor. It is said that she instantly and rebuked himself; the latter as shewing that the great rose from the bed and ran into the street, pursued by the populousness of his realm, on which he prided %himself. husband, where some passers-by interfered, and the as- might be made to vanish in a night, by one breath from sailant was easily disarmed, having suffered considerably the mouth of God. from the loss of blood. A surgeon was sent for, but the Ireland was to be pacified, tranquillized, and made unfortunate man, who is supposed to have been labouring happy, and thus Sir Robert Peel's "great difficulty" was under insanity, was dead on his arrival. Jealousy is sup- to be removed, by the Maynooth endowment of last posed to have been the primary cause of excitement in the summer. Was the result realized ? deceased's mind. He was a weaver by trade, and only 18 A new and unexpected calamity quite frustrated this years of age. His wife is only 16 years old. hope. Within a very few weeks after the enactment of MEETING OF THE HIGHWAY CommtssloNees.—On that "healing measure," a strange and portentous visite- Tuesday, the usual weekly meeting of the Commissioners tion came upon Ireland, rendering her government " a of Highways was held at the Parish-office Mr. John difficulty" greater than ever. Holmes presided. The following members were present : An unknown, unforeseen, and hitherto incurable, die- Whitby, Denton, Walthew, Leyland, Kilshaw, Tinne, ease, appeared among the growing crops of that produc- Morris, and Lawrence. Mr. Duncan reported that the tion of the earth on which the people of Ireland chiefly walls of the engine-house in Green-lane were nearly up to depend. And thus before parliament, " after tranquilliz their height, but that there was a want of stone for going ing Ireland," had separated more than a few weeks, the on with their works. At the suggestion of Mr. Mason, state and condition of that unhappy country became more the board sent a written communication to the Dock alarming than it had been for a quarter of a century. And Committee to know when the dock-works at Wapping surely we ought not to overlook the fact, that it was not would be commenced. A letter from the Bootle Water- a drought, or a wet season, cr any other of the common works office announced th a t one of their pipes had been mishaps, that came upon Ireland, but a visitation alto broken by the town-water-works in Litherland-alley. Mr. gether new, inscrutable, and baffling all human skill ex- Duncan made the following report on this subject : erted fur its prevention or removal. "The iron pipe referred to above cannot, in fairness, be The remaining fact to be seriously thought upon is this charged to the commissioners. I can prove that it was of —that this new and strange calamity, which no man mulct so defective a character, and so injured by some chemical foresee or prevent, had this important result, that it des agent, that I actually cut a portion of it with my knife. troyed the Government which passed the Maynooth En- The Bootle Water-works Company ought rather to pay dowment Bill. the commissioners for finding it oat. "At the suggestion Sir Robert Peel's Administration was a successful one, of Mr. Lawrence, a water report, handed by Mr. Simp- and his government appeared unassailable by any human son, to the parliamentary committee some time since, force. He was gradually and prudently relaxing commer- Was ordered to be laid on the table. The board soon cial restrictions, and would have pursued the same course. after adjourned. with certain success and popularity, had not the alarm of ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The Collins family have been an impending famine in Ireland been raised. charming the audiences at the gardens during the past Sir R. Peel has himself told us in Parliament, that this week. On Tuesday, the United A nc i ent O r d er o f event entirely changed his plans. Instead of proceeding F or e s ters held a grand fete, of w hi c h wt have elsewhere gradually with a series of commercial relaxations, he re. attempted a brief sketch ; and for this week the celebrated solved to abolish proter tion, through all branches, by one Mr. Distin, and his four sons, whose performance on the summary process. This change in his plans broke up silver sax-horns, since their first appearance, has attracted his party, and before one year had elapsed, from the pas-- so much astonishment and admiration, have been engaged. sage of the Maynooth Bill, his Ministry was overthrown. The sweet vocalist, Moriat O'Connor, of the Nobilities' Nothing more unlikely could have been imagined a twelve- Concerts, London, will accompany them. Mr. Atkins month previously. Yet it has been already witnessed ; spares no expense in procuring talent, a nd we ar e p ro ud and foremost among its avowed causes is the potato-rot elan that his exertions meet with such success. Ireland, which assuredly was not the work of man. THE SHOOTING SEASON.—In anoi her part of our paper We might go further, and observe, that the sin of the will be found an advertisement of a gun, made by Mr. nation being not abandoned or repented of, the scourge con- Bentley, of South Castle-street, in this town. The ad- tinues to be felt. Apparently, the 7isitation promises to vantages possessed by this gun over those in general use Ibe more severe this year than last. But we will riot at are so manifest, that they will be at once admitted by all tempt to prophecy.—pausing rather to recapitulate the who take the trouble to inspect it. But what renders it facts to which we have already referred ; arid to leave them an improv emen t upo n all others is the mode of fixing the for the consideration of our readers. , nipple or touchhole, which is so contrived that an accident 1. In the summer of 1845, the Wrong Administration of with that particular part—hitherto the most unsafe part of Sir R. Peel used its power to give Popery a national esta the fowling piece —is rendered impossible. Colonel Ham- i blishment in Ireland. her and the late Mr. Johnson, of this town, were of opinion i 2 In the autumn of the same year, a new and unheard , that a mode of discharging a gun by driving the flame from of calamity afflicted the people of Ireland. the priming directly to the centre of the charge was a 3. And before Christmas of the same yeltr. under the great desideratum; and this, with the improvement we influence of this alarm, Sir Robert Peel adopted a course have just noticed, is now accomplished by Mr. Bentley. which, in the end, dissolved his party, and broke up his We recommend our sporting readers to call upon him. Government. WEST DERBY UNION.—At the meeting on Tuesday, a letter was produced and read from the annual overseers of Kit kdale, Messrs. Pee and Wareham. It was on the subject of Mr. Pritchard's complaint of the alleged neglect of his duties, by Mr. Parnell, in his office as assistant overseer, or collector of rates of that township. The two overseers assured the board that Mr. Parnell has their fullest confi , tence, and unqualified approbation ; express their surprise that. the board sh.•uld have paid attention to any " loose, verbal charges" made by " an individual ap pearing before them," seeing that " the board had received no complaint from them" (the overseers) who are, as they say, the responsible parties. Mr. Roskell, one of the guardians for Kirkdale, deprecated any interference of the board in the matter, but ultimately it was agreed to pro ceed on Tuesday with the it quiry. Mr. Rowland, re lieving officer of the Park, addressing the chairman, said that he again felt it his duty to report to the board the alarming prevalence of fever in that place. The streets that were especially spoken of as being in a bad and dan gerous state were, Fisher -street, Ma nn-st reef, Bell-street, and Albert-street ; in the latter, in a court of only six houses, he had, within a very few days, found fourteen per-ons afflicted with fever, which he believed to be tephus. Several of them died, and some were removed to the In fit mare. DOCK COMMITTEE.—Mr. David Rowland, keeper of the telegraph, in Chapel-street, terdered his resignation, which was accepted, and Mr. G. Jones, the assistant keeper, was appointed to fill the vacancy, at a salary of £BO per annum ; Thomas Brannan was also appointed assistant keeper, at a salary of £3O per annum. A report was read on the state of the telegraph stations in Wales, which were represented to be, so far as regarded the buildings and machinery, in an efficient state, and the keepers performed their duties well ; some alterations re commended in the management of the Anglesea branch. The report was adopted, with the exception of that part relating to the general superintendence, which was re ferred back for consideration. In reply to a question put by Mr. Horsfall as to whether the electric telegraph might not be employed with effect on the Welsh coast, Mr. Henderson stated that they were contemplating putting down a line to Formby, on the electric principle, as at experiment ; plans were in progress, and would in a short lime be laid before the committee. It was agreed that the experiment of lighting the vaults of the Albert Warehouses should be tried in the north stack, and that the appointment by the treasurer of Mr. Thomas Burton, a ltiA nook-keeper, be confirmed.—A letter from Mr. Florsfall. chairman of the African Association, ceiling the attention of the committee to the rates proposed to he charged at the Albert wart houses for palm oil, which they considered much too high, was referred to the Ware house Management Committee. Mr. Aikin stated, - as he had done on former occasions, that each association should have been consulted ; he conceived the rates were much too high, and, as a proof of it, stated there were only two vessels now in the docks—tor his own part, he could not afford to send a vessel there. It was stated by Mr. Henderson, that a scale of rates was in the course of preparation by the committee.which would shortly be sub mitted, and, as respects goods brought across the quay, which was the principal grievance, wt uld, no doubt, be satis - actory. A letter was received from the dock solici tor, to the affect that, the trust had power to make re gulitions as regarded the fishing smacks leavine George's Dock Basin, in conformity with the request of Mr. Tear :: a code of regulations was ordered to be drawn up. A letter from Mr. Deane, law-clerk to the Highway Board, respecting the laying down of water pipes, when the altera tions are made at Wapping, in connexion with building the new dock, was referred to the Committee of works- The chairman laid noon the table a bill which had been introduced into the House of Commons for the better management and protection of the ports and harbours of the country, but as it was stated tfat the measure..44:l - deferred until next session the subject was not enter tained. The secretary read a report from the surveyor as to the progress of the new dock-works ; it went consi derably into detail. and represented every department as being in a most satisfactory state ; the total amount ex pended in the new works was £321,491 Ils. lOd. A letter was read from Capt. Crawley, stating that he was about to enter on foreign commission, and thanking the committee for their unform kindness towards him since he bad been an duty in this town. The dock-surveyor stated that it was two years that day since the first stone of the new north works was laid, and be wished the committee to in spect them.