The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-03 00:00:00

SIXTH ADDRESS TO THE PROTESTANTs OF THE EMPIRE, BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL CLU 6. We are asked, Why this stir about Protestantism ? What is our drift? \\There is the danger ?—Plain ques tions which shall have a plain answer. 1. We admit that we r e g ard o u r national interests as in danger, and our Protestant principles especially. We have raised the cry of danger, and we avow it. To meet the danger we bid you collect your strength, and fix your aim—one great aim to baffle the plans of those who would give to the Church of Ron - . )e the money and power of the people of Englsnal. This es the practical design of the majority of our statesmen;—we pray you to defeat it. 2. We brand it as a design of mischief and of folly,—it is wrong. .t:o one should teach to others what be thinks it wrong to do. If it be tight to give up your mind and conscience to the keeping of a priest, and to take his word in place of Gad's word, why are you a Protestant ? why not join the Church of Rome? If you think these things -wrong., why do you lead others to do this wrong ? why teach this wrong to the ignorant? 3. But the scheme is as weak as it is wicked. Look first to England : who amongst our labourers are the most ignorant and wretched, —uncleanly in their habits, homes, and rags,—poor in their fare? All who know our towns will answer, the Irish—the I: 'snail Catholic Irish. They, by their halsits, degrade . ' - e tee .als and the manners, and lessen the wages of their labearers ; yet they have lived among us for generations, and they have lived unimproved; they do not rise to our level, —they sink us to their own. Why is this? Is there any natural reason? None, — no people have higher qualities, quicker and more sus ceptible minds. Yet they live in the midst of civirzation, its exception and reproach. What is the reason ? You cannot get at their minds—their minds are sealed up from you, from all contact with you—their mind is in thraldom to the priest ; their passions have no check from the fear of God, their souls are in bondage to the fear of man. Mental thraldom, moral abasement, physical wretched ness !—this is the law of nature. 4. Look next to Ireland. Every one wishes Ireland to be peaceful : it is the interest of all that it should ;—why is it not so? Its people are poor—but why? There is everything to make them rich ; there, numbers are great, —not so great as in England, nor growing so fast. But they have little capital ;—why ? We have too much ; we could flood Ireland with capital. Why do not our holders of capital go there ? Because life is unsafe, and property insecure ; therefore the capitalist stands aloof. You can not have the wealth, the arts, the employments of civili zation among the disorders of the lawless. But is this the case throughout all Ireland? Not among the Protestants; not in a great part of Ulster; this state of things, then, is confined to the Roman Ca tholic Irish alone. Why are they in this state ? Is their religion the cause? Take the facts and mark them. No people In Europe are so governed by their priests. But the Romish priesthood, torn from all the interests of society, have one grand passion—the Inst for power, and wealth, as a means of power ; they live for their church—they seek for their chtirch universal empire. They can gain domi nion as other governments do, only by gaining a hold over the mind; they govern the minds of men by fables ad dressed to their tears,--that is the source of the power of the priesthood. But a multitude who believe fables must be ignorant. Therefore popular ignorance must be maintained. No people are so ignorant as the Irish Roman Catholics. Such is the fact ; popular superstition, popular ignorance —this is the law of the Church of Rome. Popular ig norance, popular passion, popular disorders—this is the law of nature. We may despise this law, we may over look it, but it is fixed, and it will stand. A powerful priesthood, a turbulent people. 5. But they say that this is from the ignorance of the priests, and they will educate the priests. Educate the priests! teach the Church of Rome! Go and learn from her! the ablest government which ever ruled mankind — the longest and the strongest; which has lived through all ages, races, and climates—the only one which has ever sought universal power, and has won it, and holds it now as firmly as before. But the Irish priests are illiter ate—if the State will pay and teach them, they will be come learned. The State pays and teaches the priests of Belgium and of France, and yet the majority of their priests are grossly illiterate, flow is this? These illi terate priests are the soldiers of a great army. We don't win our battles by ranks of courtiers; it is the rough plain soldier who does the work and wins the day. These rude coarse priests are the soldiers of a rude coarse people, and fitted to move them. But they have their generals, and if you would know them, they combine the intellect and the sagacity of the world : the subtle arts of Italy, the learning of the German, the fervour of Ireland and of France, the patient power of England. These are the men who lead them, who work the vast confederacy and work it well. These are the leaders whose skill baffles your courts, whose tactics put your diplomacy to shame. Go and learn from these, the masters of mankind. 6. But would you make them your friends, and govern Ireland through them ? Many governments have tried this, all have failed. Will you alone succeed? Has Holland or Prussia or France? Have you succeeded in India or Australia, New Zealand or Newfoundland, Ca nada or New Brunswick ? What have they done for you there? Have they made the task of your government more easy? Ask the British.merchant ; ask your colo nial governors. Your scheme is a folly ; your plan a delusion. 7. But we must have them as our friends on an 7 terms. Vs'ell, you can have them, but on their own terms, What are these ? Make your zovernment do their work ; make the power and wealth of England raise the power and wealth of the Church of Rome. Then they are your friends, your fast friends ; but then they are your mas ters. Will you take them as such? Wall you, the Eng lish people, submit to be their slaves To pay the priests, unless you are prepared for this, is a scandal. It is an insult to common underutanding. It is a folly so notable, that it should be noted, and he who is guilty of it, and boasts of it as though it were a clever scheme, deserves to be pilloried, and branded with the scorn of England ! Signed, by order of the Committee, RICHARD NUGENT, Honorary Secretary. 13, Cockspur-street, Oct. 27, 1846. HOW TO SAVE THE POTATO. TO THE PEASANTRY OF IRELAND. In November last, and subsequently, I laid before the government, and other leading authorities of the country, the fact that the disease of the potato could be checked, and overcome, by planting the seed in Autumn in place of spring. And had it been the Almighty will that this were then promulgated and believed, and that the planting took place at that period, perhaps famine would not have reached the land ; but it was otherwise ordained, and you, who so truly depend upon the "will of God!" will feel that what is is best. No one then advocated the measure, because it was not generally known; but now that the proposition has been publicly promulgated, and reason brought to bear upon it, the newspapers have echoed its truth and advantages from end to end of the country. Ido not, therefore, ask you to depend upon my simple word ; but as ail the agricultural authorities now fully bear out what in November last I urged as the real and simple remedy, I implore you, for your own sakes, at once to follow the advice which I pub lish fur your good. If you doubt me, ask your clergyman, and he will tell you whether I am wrong or right. Lose not a moment in planting your potatoes ; and for this year use beds or ridges, with deep furrows between, so as to let all the water run off. Manure the ground just as usual ; cover the set, at least six inches, with fine earth ; that is, do not put on clods : stake the covering snug and close, and finish your ridges off evenly. Run the beds so that the water may get off readily ; and do not plant in any ground which will be flooded in inter. . Follow this plan, and, please God, you will have a good crop early next year. Do not be afraid of the frost—it will not injure the set; and even should the shoot come up and be cut off, it will come again, and give you a sound potato early in the sea son, if you but cover the seed as I have told you. And I shall now show you why, because I wish you to know as well as myself. When you put your potatoes into pits in autumn and cover them closely up with straw and clay and that they area little time lying together, they begin to heat, just as you know a green rick of hay would : but they cant take fire, because they are so very wet in themselves—still they heat Well, the consequence is, as soon as they get warm, they shoot and grow ; and if the winter should be mild (as it has been in Ireland for several years) they shoot more ; and so, by the time spring comes, the whole pit is filled with shoots, some a yard or two long. Just think of this. Must it not take away almost all the strength of the potato And when you pull off the shoots, which are the principal part of its life, and then put that potato for seed into the ground, you cannot surely wonder that it either misses entirely, or that what it pro duces must be weak and diseased. Suppose. now, that you had a parcel of oats, on a loft, that you were keeping for seed ; and that you found, when you were going to sow it, that it was all sprouted, would you not think yourselt a very great fool to put that in the ground, hoping to get a good crop? To be sure you would ; in fact you would not use it at all. let this is just what you have been doing with the potato for many a year. You have put it in a pit warmer than the ground, or the natural air, and after growing there by means of that increased heat, from November till May very likely, you expect it to give you a sound offspring, although it has left almost all its life in the pit. Now, you know this is quite contrary to nature. You cannot expect a strong child from a weak parent; and why the poor potato is to be worse treated than anything else in its propagation I cannot see. If you want a good crop of wheat you buy sound seed ; if oats, you do the same — in short, for all crops except the potato but you use IT BO badly, that you first drive almost all its strength and growth away, and then you put it in the ground more than half dead, expecting it to give you sound produce. This, then, is the reason why autumn planting should be at once adopted and always followed—because, when you plant at that time, all the power and vigour of the seed is given to the offspring. When natnre calls upon it to grow. it grows as she wishes, which cannot be wrong. Not like the f orce d an d unna t ura l growth in the pit, which is given out uselessly, then lost, and the plant left to de pend on whatever little life may still remain for the repro duction. Do not hesitate, then, to plant your potatoes now; next year you will have a good crop, and a year or two will, with the permission of Providence, make the potato its sound as it ever was, if you No Now, if yon can contrive, in addition to this, to burn a little turf into charcoal, which you all understand can be simply done; and after breaking it about as fine as sand, throw a small handful or even dusting of it, on each set, will find that the crop will be stronger and bette for the charcoal will give to the plant, when it begins to grow, that which the disease has taken from it, and the next crop will be quite sound. But if you cannot do this, plant the seed just as I have before described, and no matter what kind you have, do not be afraid of using it. Let the sets be as sound as you cau get them, but don't fear ti use diseased potatoes, if you plant them in dry weather, and at once—that is, this month or the next— but in no case later than December; and, if you follow this advice, please God ! you will have good potatoes next season. JASPER W. ROGERS, C.E. Nottingham•street, Dublin, Oct., 184 G. THE LOSS OF THE GREAT BRITAIN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sett,—Your laboured article on my statement to the directors of the Great Western Steam-ship Company has just this moment reached me. I do not, cannot believe, with all the power for mischief you unfortunately possess, and exercise with evident gratification, that it can do me any injury. We truly are a paper-ridden people; but there are still many who judge for themselves, and they will increase, I hope; and to them I appeal from your self-formed judgment. The idea of a landsman or a lubber (evidently one or the other is the editorial " we") pronouncing so decided an opinion in such a case is ridicu lous; but you well know you have never given the Great Western Steam-ship Company, or any pencil connected with it, fair play. Why, you can best tell. Your scrib bler says, " Captain Hosken starts with excuses for tak ing the North Channel." Captain Hosken " starts" with reasons for doirg so, and maintains them to be good and sufficient; and then follow sapient remarks and laboured lines, which I pass over, only noticing a few of them, leaving you St. Paul's, Charing-cross, Whitehall, and Farringdon-street to wander in, and recommending your scribbler to extend his walk to Leadenhall-street, to improve his knowledge in navigation. " At half-past five o'clock he has the Isle of Man on his right. He runs straight away, by his own reckoning, some thirty miles, and then jumps at a conclusion, at a quarter past eight, that be has this same island on his left." Any of your nautical readers will understand a ship's course being altered from N.W. by N. to N. by E. will bring a light from the starboard to the port or lar board bow, and this is really all the point in your article ; your winding up, " We have no wish to press hardly on a man who has suffered already such mortifications and losses from his own act," is paltry, and, as it means no thing, is unworthy of notice, as I shall consider any more editorials on this subject. But if " Nauticus," or any of your correspondents, attack me with their names, I shall be quite prepared to answer them. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JAMES HOSKEN. Great Bri'ain Stearn-ship, October, 28th. SECOND EDITION. S;andard-qffice, Half-past 12 o'clock. MUNICIPAL ELECTION. ADJOURNED PROCEEDINGS. STATE OF THE POLL. SCOTLAND WARD. 12 O'CLOCK. Mr. James Ilolme (c) ..... Mr. William Thornhill (R) SOUTH TOXTETH WARD 20 MINUTES PAST ]2. Mr. Thomas T. Glazebrook (c) Mr. William Watson (rt) GENERAL MISCELLANY. The potatoes in the township of Queenhead are not so much a failure as was anticipated.—Leeds Mercury. The thick coal colliers of Dudley have given notice for a rise of Is. per day, which will make six shillings per day. The Bucks Quarter Sessions decided last week, by a majority of one, not to call upon the chaplain of the county gaol for the confession of Tawell. Among the list of articles of merchandise imported from Ireland during the past week, may be mentioned 1,509 pigs of lead, the production of the sister isle. All the crew, except one, of the steamer Loch Ryan, which was recently wrecked, were saved by a brig which took them from the ill-fated vessel. A young gentleman in London received last week se rious injuries, while making some experiments on the projectile power of gun cotton. A servant girl, whilst cleaning an upper window from tho cutside, in Blackfriar's•road, the other day, fell into the street, and was taken up without hopes of recovery. A PEER A PREACHER.—The Right Hon. Lord Teyn ham preached in the long room of the Angel Inn, Sherborne. on Monday. A SPORTSWOMAN.—In a shooting party on the Blen heim domain, the Duchess of Marlborough this week brought down eight head of game with her own gun. It has been resolved to appropriate the sum of £16,000 to the purpose of enlarging the Gloucester docks, in order to meet the increasirr , trade of the port. At a wedding, which took place on Monday, at Snaith, the bridal party and the guests arrived at the church on sixteen donkeys. A few days since, at a meeting in Edinburgh, Dr. Chal mers announced that it was the last time that he should address a popular a3senibly. Sir Henry Fetherstonhaugh, the oldest baronet in the empire, expired on the 26th ult., at his seat, Up-park, Sussex, at the age of 92. On Monday, the omnibus which runs between Barnard Castle and Darlington was upset. One passenger, Cuth bert Watson, Esq., sustained serious injury. A few days since, a woman was poisoned at Bishop wearmouth, through taking a dose of tincture of opium instead of tincture of rhubarb. The dose had been given at a druggist's shop by a boy in mistake. RUSSIAN BUTTER.—A vessel, just arrived in one of the dock establishments from Russia, has brought, in ad dition to a cargo of t r and wood goods, thirty-nine casks of butter, of Runsian produce. Last week a vesel arrived in London from Ghent with 200 orange trees in full leaf and vigour, and another from France with 121 orange trees, and several cases of choice flowers. UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE.—Friday week's Gazette contains only three bankrupts,—a builder, a currier, and a publican ; and in Tuesday's Gazette there are four, namely, two grocers, one hosier, and one victualler. Mrs. Jane Thompson, wife of Mr. John Thompson, agent of the Berwick Bank, was tried at the court of quarter sessions, Berwick. on Monday and Tuesday last, on a charge of robbing the bank in August last, and acquitted. The extensive cooperage of Mr. Gordon, at Limehouse, comprising twelve workshops and store lofts, occupying 200 feet in length, and 100 in breadth, were destroyed by fire, on Thursday evening. The damage is estimated at several thousand pounds. A series of public meetings are to be held throughout the manufacturing districts in furtherance of the move ment for obtaining a Ten Hours' Factory Act. Mr. Richard Oastler, " the Factory King," and Mr. Feilden, are expected to atttend the meetings. FATAL BOILER ExPr.osioN.—On Thursday morning, a boiler, 26 feet long and 7 feet diameter, exploded at Charleston, Ashton-under-Lyne, and killed three versons. It belonged to the works of Messrs. Ba ley and Dewhurst, cotton spinners. The government have at length issued the commission to inquire into the state of Education in Wales. Mr. Henry Vaughan Johnston has been appointed to North Wales ; and it is understood to be his intention to com mence his inquiries in Anglesey forthwith. Mr. Haig has successfully introduced his smoke.con suming apparatus into the Ariel, once a Dover steam packet. The experiment was made from Wooiwich ; the people on the river were surprised to see the Ariel go at full speed without any smoke funnel. At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Wednes day, James Newbury, aged 24, groom, was sentenced to twenty years' transportation, for sending a letter to Mr. E. D. Protheroe, M.P. for Halifax, and with menaces, demanding money under a threat of charging him with an abominable offence. At Glossop petty sessions, last week, a man was charged with stealing his own son. It appeared that an illegiti mate child, which had not been affiliated, had been living with its mother, and was stolen by the father. The magistrates decided that the child should live some part of the year with each. At the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, Anne Sinner, alias Ruffey, 29, spinster, was indicted for the wilful murder of Daniel Crawley, by stabbing him with a knife. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, as it appeared that the deceased had made a great disturbance in the eating house, and had insulted Sinner. There is a singular family of mutes in Jeantown, Ross shire. They are orphans, seven lads and two girls, all deaf and dumb, and yet the most industrious people in the village. Three of them have adopted a sea-faring life, and have a boat and net in which they sail by themselves in pursuit of herrings round the whole coast: TEA.—One of the largest importations of tea has just been brought to London from Canton by the ship Buck inghamshire. Her immense cargo comprises 18,156 chests, 8110 half-cheats, 2243 boxes, and 562 other pack ages. altogether the unprecedentedly large number of 29,071 packages of this esteemed and valuable article, in addition to other merchandise. An accident, similar to that by which, last year. an actress named Webster lost her life, occurred on Wed nesday night, at the Princess's Theatre, London, to Ma- Ciame Albertazzi. The side lights set fire to the lower part of her gauze dress, and in an instant she was enve loped in flames. Immediate assistance being at hand, Madame Albertazzi was fortunately saved from any per sonal injuries. The annual meeting of the Protestant Association will be held in Exeter• hall on Friday, the 6th of November, when J. P. Plumptre, Esq., M.P., will take the chair. Among the speakers will be the Rev. Hugh Stowell, and Dr. Kalley of Madeira. The sermon will be preached by Mr. Stowell on Thursday, the sth, at Fitzroy Episcopal Chapel. The celebrated Mr. Feargus O'Connor attended in person at the Bell Hotel, Gloucester on Tuesday at the sale of the Lowband Estate, Redmarley, in Worcester shire and became the purchaser of lot 1, containing 159 acres, £BlOO. The reserved price was £7,000 only. Is this purchase for himself, or is it a move by the Chartists or the Leagne to make votes ? THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. The Daily News mentions a rumour that Mr. Peto, the eminent contractor, will, at the ensuing general election, offer himself as a candidate for the representation of Norwich. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday, Mr.W. Lake, a highly-respectable City solicitor, whose offices are at No. 18, Aldermanbury, left his residence at Cam berwell at the usual time, so as to reach his office by half-past nine o'clock in the morning. About eleven o'clock his son, Mr. John Lake, called at the office, and was surprised at finding his father lying on the floor, quite dead. RESIGNATION OF A TOWN-CLERIC.—At a meeting of the Carlisle Council, on Tuesday week, Mr. Nanson, the respected town-clerk, announced his intention to resign the situation at the neat quarterly meeting. So very valuable have been the services of Mr. Nanson to the corporation, that the mayor, on learning the announce ment of the resignation, declared that in losing Mr. Nanson the corporation lost their right arm, so very effi ciently had be at all times acted in behalf of their interests The recorder of Hull, Mr. T. Baines, Esq., a well known dissenter, in an address to the grand jury last week, said, in alluding to the condition of the people,— " The great thing which we should all unite in seeking, should be the giving of means to every person of learoing his duty to God and his duty to his fellow-creatures, and the best way in which those duties can be performed ; and also we should seek to impress upon their minds, that their own interests will be promoted just in propor tion to their fulfilment of those duties. . TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.—The proprietors of the Globe. and Traveller newspaper have unanimously voted a handsome piece of plate to Thomas Chapman, Esq., as a tribute of re-pect to that gentleman on his retirement from its successful direction as managing proprietor for a period of twenty years. Mr. Chapman has been con nected as a proprietor with the metropolitan journals during the last fifty-two years; and may be termed the father of the London press, having attained, with good health and spirits, the age of 83, on the 12th of last month. SISTERS OF MERCY.—A community of the Sisters of Mercy has been recently established in Bristol, in a large and commodious house. The Sisters of Penance of St. Dominic, whose labours embrace the whole works of mercy, corporal and spiritual, are about to be established in another portion of that city. At Penryn, near Fal mouth, a community of the Sisters of Notre Dame has been introduced from Belgium with two establishments, the one for the education of the poor, the other as a pen sion for the more wealthy class; the establishment for the poor already educates, and instructs in various branches of trade, upwards of eighty poor girls. THE BRISTOL DocKS.—Very warm opposition seems to have been raised at Bristol against making a free port there. A meeting of the " Free Port Association" will be held to-morrow (Wednesday) when the proposition will be discussed. A Mr, Visger seems the leader of the oppositionists. "On that day's deliberation" says the Bristol Mirror, " in our view, will depend whether the Free- Port Association intends to do anything or not, and, for our parts, we await with anxiety the result. It has been a point urged by us from the first—tune, lime, time, —is the great consideration, and unless this preliminary step be taken, nothing can be done for the next three years. Will such ruinous delay be allowed ?" DEATH OF MR. TERNAN, THE ACTOR.—This gentle man, so well known in the theatrical world, expired on the 7th instant, after an illness of many months, at the age of forty-two years. Ile engaged in the management of the Newcastle and Sheffield theatres, with most disas trous results; the savings of his early efforts were lost, energies were crushed by the unexpected termination of the managerial speculation, and despondency took pos session of his mind, and entirely prevented him from the exercise of his profession till his decease, which took place at the house of his brother at Gravesend. By his union with Mrs. Ternan, three children are left. Mrs. Ternan (formerly Miss Jarman) is herself a member of the Surrey company, where she is the chief actress with Mr. Macready. At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Tuesday, a bootmaker, named Poyster, was convicted of obtaining from Mary Woodhouse, of Nottingham, the sum of 4:20, ur_der false pretences. It appeared that the complainant entertained an idea that she was entitled to some pro perty as the descendant of a gentleman named Stokes, and the prisoner was introduced to her as a person likely to assist her in the recovery of it, and he had, it appeared, by artful representations that he was in communication with a barrister, and that the property would all be recovered, induced the prosecutrix not only to give him all the money she could raise by other means, but actu ally to sell the little annuity which was her sole depen dence, and she was in consequence reduced almost to a state of destitution. PROGRESS OF POPERY.—During the last fortnight, the Rev. Father Gaudentius has administered the re spective services at the Catholic Chapel, Selby, connected with the spiritual retreat. These services have been crowded to excess. Indeed, many hundreds were unable to obtain admission. At seven o'clock each morning, mass was offered ; in the evenings, sermons were extem poraneously delivered. The solemn benediction of the blessed sacrament, amid the blaze of upwards of 130 wax lights from the altar, intermingled with flowers of every hue, concluded the service. Beyond these services, the whole of his time was constantly employed in giving in struction to many converts. On Sunday evening, the 11th, no less than six of these made a public profession of the faith they had embraced. The applicants have been so numerous, that the Rev. Gentleman has been obliged to prolong his stay until the evening of Sunday next, when it is expected a much larger number of converts will make a similar public manifestation.—York paper. NEW MODE OF PROPULSION.—A new mode of pro pelling vessels has been tried with great satisfaction at Boulogne. It has long been considered a matter of im possibility that the principle of the paddle-wheel could be rendered of any useful effect when totally submerged. the present invention has demonstrated to a certainty that such a disadvantage can be overcome. The principle is based on the well-known properties of the: parabola, as respects light, and the same properties are proved to be true as re spects hydrostatics. The Hades are sections of a parabo. loid, and are so constructed as to impinge on the concave surface, whereby the water is grasped and compressed to the centre of the axis, and thrown off in a direct line with the plane of the vessel's course, thereby rendering the propulsion superior in efficiency to the common paddle wheel, being uniform and continuous without drawback in respect of back-water. Another advantage exists in the area of surface as compared with the screw, as less than one-half of parabolic area will work more efficiently with .the same power. THE CABINET.—The Standard of Friday night says, —As we have already said, Lord J. Russell and Lord John Cottenham, on Wednesday, urged earnestly the constitutional necessity for an early session, (before Christmas) not only to obtain an act of indemnity for Lord Besborough's extension of the Labour Rate Act, but also to obtain a parliamentary sanction for the reduc tion of the 4s. duty on imported grain. On Wednesday, however, the council broke up without coming to any de finite resolution. At the meeting of the ministers yes terday the subject was resumed ; and on this latter occa sion, the opponents of an early session had the advan tage of Mr. Bancroft's arrival from the United States with intelligence that the supply of grain collected in the Ame rican ports for exportation is so ample as to render it ex tremely improbable that the necessity for a reduction of the duty ; thus removing a principal motive for an early session, and relieving the premier from the obligation to take another step in what he is said to cal " the adminis tration of a despolism."—[The Times of Saturday dissi pates every speculation on this subject. Parliament will not meet until the 12th of January, and the ports are not to be opened.] UNIFORM RECEIPT STAMP TAx.—A gentleman in London has been impressing upon the Government, through the newspapers and by means of a pamphlet, that an uniform rate of one penny stamp tax upon all receipts and bankers' checks, in lieu of the present rates, would increase the revenue and put an end to much heart burning. The general evasion of the duty on receipts which prevails at the present time is the great motive for the proposed alteration, and some facts of past years are adduced to show that a larger revenue would be the pro bable result of a more moderate tax. In the year 1783, when the rates were 2d. for £2 and under £2O, and 4d. for all higher sums, the produce estimated by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer was £250.000 per annum. In 1823, when the rates were nearly the same as now, the gross produce of the tax was—from Great Britain, £191.534, less by expenses of management, £8791 ; and in 1843, it was only £187,508, less by expenses of manage ment, £12,753. It is evident • that the value of this branch of revenue has diminished rather than progressed with the increase of population, and hence the projector of the new scheme would try the effect of a lower rate. THE OVERLAND ROUTE.—The Morning Herald nays that they have succeeded in showing " the superiority of the route through France, as the following statement will prove :—Mr. Waghorn left Alexandria at 12 20 p.m. on the 20th instant. The Herald dispatches left Alexandria a quarter of an hour later—viz., at 12 35 p.m. on the same day. The Ariel, a new and splendid vessel belong ing to the Oriental Company, bearing our dispatches, arrived at Marseilles at 5 50 p.m. on the 26th instant, having had very bad weather to encounter. The follow ing account of the voyage has been sent to us The Ariel had gales of wind to encounter all the voyage right ahead, except during part of the 23d. This vessel, under the most favourable circumstances, can make the voyage, from port to port, in five days, and. upon the average, in five and a half days.' It will be observed that in this instance, owing to the bad weather she encountered, she took six days and five hours ; and in consequence of the inundations prevaiiing in France, our courier took half a day longer than usual to perform the distance from Mar seilles. Yet, notwithstanding these great disadvantages, the journey from Alexandria to London was performed in nine days and a half, and under favourable circumstances can always be performed in eight days." SINGULAR FACT—A. LESSON FOR GORMANDISERS.— On Friday morning a kingfisher was found dead on the banks of the pool of Allensinore, near this city, with a perch about two inches and a half long in its throat. The bird had attempted to swallow the fish whole, but the dorsal fin of the latter appears to have alike prevented descent or return ; fixed, consequently, in the gullet, the victim caused the death of its beautiful but voracious de stroyer by suffocation. The plumage of the kingfisher is furnished with a sort of metallic surface resplendent wiih the most brilliant hues—hence the action of water produces little effect upon it, and the manner in which the bird will dart beneath the surface of a river or a stream and seize its prey transversely, is remarkable. Returned to its position on a tree or bank, it commences the destruction of the captive. Without losing its hold, it passes the fish between its mandibles until it has fairly grasped it by the tail, and then ends the struggles of the prey by beating its head against the place where it sits. The bird next reverses the position, and if it has no young to which to bear off the prize, swallows its prey head fore most. This appears to have been the comae in the pre sent instance, but the repast being too bountiful, proved , fatal.--Hereford Journal. THE DAILY NEWS.—The price of this paper is now raised to 3d. In an article on Wednesda.y last, the pro prietors fully explain the reason for this trifling advance, viz., a combinationofall the:London morning papers against the Daily News. It appears from this statement that since the News was reduced to 2 3 d, the Herald and it have joined at the expense of foreign expresses. The Times, the Morning Chronicle, and the Post, have also joined together at the expenses of their expresses. By the entreaties of the three latter, however, the Herald has been induced to dissolve with the Daily News, and to take share with its three fivepenny competitors. While, therefore, the Times, Chronicle, Post, and Herald, by this new arrangement, will join at the cost of foreign ex presses, the Daily IVews is left alone to express for itself at its own cost, and thus incurs an additional yearly ex penditure of many thousand pounds. A meeting was held at Dorchester last week, to take into consideration the best means of improving the condi tion of the Dorsetshire labourers. '1 he High Sheriff in the chair. The meeting was attended by the Bishop of Salisbury ; John Floyer, Esq., M.P., R. B. Sheridan, Esq., M.P., the Hon. and Rev. W. IL Scott, A. H. D. Ackland, John Cree, F. B. Martin, Robert Williams, John Mansell, Esqrs., Captain Foster, the Revs. J. A. Templar and John Venables, county magistrates; the Venerable the Archdeacon of Dorset, the Revs. C. W. Bingham, J. Lane, E. Ludlow, G. Wood, R. Smith, G. Wood, R. Smith, G. Fisher, N. Handley, Sanderson, Robins, J. Phillips, T. Thompson, J. Frenow, O. Fisher, &c. Resolutions were passed, and a society established " with the view of bettering the condition, morally and physically, of the rural labourers and working mechanics and artisans, by carrying out the field garden allotment system, under judicious regulations." PREACHING TO THE DEAF AND DUMB.-It may not be generally known that there has been for some time past a chapel in Red Lion-square London, in which pub lic worship is performed twice every Sunday for the sole benefit of the deaf and dumb. The service is that of the Church of England—singing and the music on the organ being, as a matter of course, omitted. The experiment of communicating to those unfortunate persons deprived of hearing and the power of speech a knowledge of the great truths of revelation by means of those " signs" which constitute a language in themselves, have been eminently successful. In the morning, the chapel in Red Lion square is attended by from twenty to thirty deaf and dumb persons. Last Sunday evening the audience consisted of seventeen. After the usual prayers bad been gone through, the teacher commented at considerable length, by means of gestures, on the Eleventh chapter of the st of Samuel, his audienca seeming to comprehend every idea which he sought to convey. The services lasted for upwards of an hour and a quarter. COST OF CONVEYING LANDED PROPERTY. How many of the inhabitants having £5OO to invest ever think of investing it in land in the way either of purchase or of mortgage ? Are not the middle and lower classes practi cally excluded from the purchase of land ? Do the great consumers of all other commodities deal in this? And is this state of things beneficial to any class? Do you suppose that persons in the middle and lower ranks do not wish to be purchasers of land ? Let the success of the late building societies, which area clumsy contrivance to supply this demand, answer that question. The Eng lishman does not differ in this respect from the French man, the Belgian, or the Prussian, except that the men of the last three nations can and do supply their wants in this respect, but the Ei.glishman the law sends empty away. For who, without some other purpose to gain, or having some other object in view, having a small sum to lay out, would endure the delay, uncertainty, and expense which he knows full well attend the purchase of land ? He knows not what time he may have to wait for the completion of his title, %hat expense he may not incur, and that after all the purchase may go off altogether and he stands plante la without his interest. Is it to be won dered at that, under these circumstances, a thousand per sons enter the Stock Exchange to invest their savings for one who goes to the Auction Mart ?—Mr. Stewart's letter. AWFUL STORM.—A most fearful storm occurred off the western coast during Thursday and Friday week. The los3 of life and property has been truly frightful. On Thursday evening, the brig Charlotte, of Newport, and the schocner Union, of Whitehaven, both bound for Glasgow, were driven on to the beach near Poolgwae lose, and became total wrecks. The Martha, of 'Yar mouth, was a total wreck—captain and mate drowned. A schooner bound for Southampton lost, with all hands, seven in number. The Sir Peregrine, from Bangor for Cork, foundered in shallow water during the hurricane. The crew took to the rigging, and were rescued by the life boat. The coast on each side of Aberystwith has been the scene of many awful disasters. Friday after noon a brig and schooner went on shore at the mouth of the Dovey, and several of the seamen perished. To the westward of Padstow, the Samaritan, from Liverpool for Constantinople, was lost with the master and seven of the crew ; her cargo was very considerable. The Buctouch, of London from Archangel, was wrecked about four miles to the eastward of St. David's Head, near Milford ; it is supposed that the crew have all been lost. During the height of the storm the Britain of Cardigan was hurled on the rocks in St. Bride's Bay, and became a perfect wreck. At Swansea, Exmouth, Cardigan, Bideford, and Portland, the damage has been of a most lamentable character. At each of these ports many wrecks are described to have oc curred, some being attended with loss of life. TOTAL SHIPWRECK —The American papers contain an account of the loss of the brig Rienzi, Captain Small, of Boston, together with sixteen of the crew, in the storm to which the Great Western was exposed in her last pas sage from Liverpool. The vessel was fallen in with on the 26th September, by the Minerva, who took of the wreck the second mate and four of the crew in a very exhausted state—the captain, mate, and fourteen of the seamen having been swept away. The Rienzi was on a whaling voyage, and had on board 4 70 barrels sperm oil. On the 15th September she was struck by a sea, the hatches burst off, and the vessel immediately filled with water. Captain Small, his mate, and young son about sixteen years of age, together with two boat-steerers, ship-keep er and steward, were drowned in the cabin. Some of the crew were drowned in the forecastle, and others were washed overboard at the time of the disaster. No pen can depict the sufferings of the remaining crew. All the provisions they had for ten days was about half a deep basket of bread, which they succeeded in getting from the hold, and which had been soaked for 48 hours in salt water. The day before they were taken off, they caught a shark by means of a bowline, the liver of which they ate raw, and tried to drink the blood, but found it bitter. All the water they had during their stay on the wreck, they caught by putting an old shirt in the rain during a shower, and wringing it out when it became wet. In this way they procured two quarts in all. They were almost without clothing and for seven days the sea made a con tinued breach on them ; and they could only keep on the wreck by lashing themselves fast. With the exception of the last day they spent on the wreck, they had no place dry whatever, and then only a small place aft—the brig being entirely full of water both forward and amidships. EXTENSIVE SUBSIDENCE OF EARTH.—On Thursday week a singular fall of earth took place in the garden of Mr. Jesson, Hill-top, near Birmingham. It appears that a hollow crashing sound was heard proceeding from the grounds, and .on the inmates of the cottage proceeding into the open air, they discovered that the earth, about twenty yards front the house, had given way, and an im mense aperture, about fifty feet in diameter, and many feet deep, presented itself. Inquiry showed that the gar den was formed on an old mine, which had been closed for the last thirteen years. No danger to the buildings was apprehended, and workmen were speedily employed to fill the yawning chasm. About four o'clock on Sun day morning, however, the inhabitants of the numerous tenements in the neighbourhood were alarmed by the crashing of a high wall which skirted Mr. Jesson's gar den, which was found levelled with the ground. Terror stricken, the tenants of four houses which stood near one end of the garden rushed from their beds, when a second portion of the ground was found to have given way. The houses stand but a few yards from the edge of this second chasm ; and it seems extraordinary that these buildings and their numerous inhabitants were not precipitated into the abyss beneath. As it was, a pigstye, with its occu pant, was carried away, and the pig buried far down. The poor people who occupied the )'ousel hastily removed their furniture to the neighbouring lane, until some more suitable place could be found. The houses remain unte nanted, as it is expezted that a further subsidence will take place. It is supposed that the occurrence has been caused by a new coal-pit being sunk in the vicinity, which has afforded an outlet for the water accumulated in the old mine, and the support thus afforded by it to the superin . cumbent earth having been withdrawn, this dangerous subsidence has been the result.—Birmingham Journal. THE NEW PLANET,—The discovery of the new planet beyond Georgium Sidus is a remarkable exemplification of the soundness of astronomical theories. M. Leverrier, ' French philosopher, and Mr. Adams, an English mathe matician, had both for some time been engaged in tabula ting the " distutbances" observed in the motion of Uranus, with a view to ascertain whether they did not proceed from the action of an unknown planet. In this enquiry, M. Leverrier was the first to publish his conclusions, announc ing, with all the positiveness which calculations based on sound principles can give, that there was such a planet— that it was about 150 millions of miles from Uranus, whose motions it disturbed—that its diameter would be about 50,000 miles, and that it would therefore present a disc of about three seconds in magnitude—that its periodic time of revolution would be about 217 years—and that it would be found in a certain part of the heavens.. This announcement was made public on the 31st of Aug ust ; on the 23d of September it reached Dr. Galle, at Berlin, who the very same evening found the pla net where Leverrier had stated ! Leverrier's calcu lations did not reach Cambridge until the 29th of September ; but Professor Challis, the very same evening, singled out a star which proved to be the promised planet. And since then it Las been readily found by almost all practical astronomers. How great must be the nicety of the instruments, and how un deniably sound the principles by which an astronomer is thus enabled to ascertain the existence, bulk, and periods of an unseen planet, solely from observations of its effect on another planet 150 millions of miles from it, and more than that distance from the earth ! M. Le Verrier calculated the heliocentric longitude of the new planet to be 327 deg. 21 min., a difference of less than a degree. M. Le Verrier has been honoured by the King of the French with promotion (for this discovery) to an officership of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ; and M. Galle, who first saw the star, has been made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Thus promptly are men of merit rewarded abroa d ! We find, by a letter in Wednesday's Times, that an English man, Mr. Wm. Lassell, of Starfield, Liverpool, in ob serving the planet with his 20 feet Newtonian, 24 inches aperture, has noticed an appearance of a ring round it, like that of Saturn, and also of one satellite. Owing to the unfavourableness of the atmosphere, Mr. Lassell is not able to speak positively of this discovery ; though he felt a " a very strong persuasion that nothing but a finer atmosphere is necessary to enable him to verify the dis covery." VARIETIES. TWELVEMONTH LAMP.—Take a stick of phosphorus and put it in a large dry phial, not corked, and it will af ford sufficieat light to discern any object placed near it. The phial should be kept in a cold place, where there is no great current of air, and it will continue its luminous appearance for more than a year. ANTICIPATION OF REVENGE.—In Scotland it is cus tomary, when a death occurs in a family, to send the neighbours an invitation to attend the funeral. A " guid old wife" was passed by in one of these invitations, and with her heart full of indignant grief, she watched the fu neral gathering, around a neighbour's door. It was finally, too much for her, and she exclaimed, in a tone of forced resignation, " Aweel, awed ! we'll hatve a corpse o' our ain in our ain house some day ! See then wha'll be invited.i' . _ SUPPLY OF WATER TO JERUSALEM.—Ancient Jeru salem must, like the modern town, have been chiefly dependent upon these domestic precautions for this indis pensable article. This is demonstrated by the multitude of ancient cisterns, which, indeed, are the same now in use, no less than by the inadequate number of springs in the neighbourhood. This natural deficiency was so fully remedied by art and industry, that few places seem to have possessed more ample supplies of water for every purpose, or to have been so completely secured, in this respect, against the casualties of war. Neither violence nor stratagem could stop or divert the fountains which were open for them in the heavens ; and the dearth which reigned beyond the walls of the city must always have presented very serious difficulties in the way of a besieging army. It is remarkable, that in the numerous accounts which we have in the Prophets and historical books of the Bible, of the sufferings and desolations produced in this country by drought, we seldom hear of any scarcity of water in Jerusalem. Some difficulty of this sort is some times, though rarely, experienced in very dry seasons, by families insufficiently provided with cisterns; and water is then brought in goat skin bottles from a fountain a few miles distant from the city, and sold at a low price to those whose reservoirs are exhausted, or who are deposed to indulge in such a luxury during the warm weather.— Church of England Magazine. WAS :‘ GUN COTTON" 4,NOWN TO THE INDIANS. — We have beard a good deal lately of the explosive mate rial called " gun cotton." There may be some doubt whether this substance, or something possessing very similar properties, was not known to different tribes of Indians at an early period. A quaint old voyager, who sailed with Cavendish in the reign of El zabeth, narrates the following incident which happened when the ship was lying at Port Desire, on the coast of America, fur the pur pose of taking in wood and water :—" One day, while most of the men were absent on their several duties, a multitude of the natives showed themselves, throwing dust upon their heads, leaping and running like brute beasts, having vizards on their faces, like dogs' faces, or else their faces are dogs' faces indeed. We greatly feared lest they should set the ship on fire, for they would suddenly make fire, whereat we much marvelled. They came to windward of our ship, and set the bushes on Me, to that vie were in a very stinking smoke ; but as soon as they came within reach of our shot we shot at them, and striking one of them in the thigh they all presently fled, and we never saw them more." In New Guinea Captain Cook saw a peculiar mode of " suddenly making fire," probably, however, different from this. -" Three Indians rushed out of a wood with a hideous shout, at about the distance of 100 yards; and as they ran towards us the foremost threw something out of his hand, which burnt exactly like gunpowder, but made no report. What these fires were we could not imagine. We saw fire and smoke resembling those of a musket, and of no longer duration." A FISHY CAPITAL.—Let us for a moment, step ashore in what our author styles the fishiest of modera capitals, St. John's Newfoundland. Here codfish are the one thing universal ; acres of sheds, roofed with cod, laid out to dry, boats fishing for cod, ships loading with it, fields manured with it, and, best of all, fortunes made by it. The accom plishment of the daughter, the education of the son, the finery of the mother, the comforts of the father, all are paid for by this profitable fish. The population subsist on it ; figuratively, not literally. For, although the sea is alive with cod, the earth covered with it, and the air im pregnated with its odour, it is carefully banished from the dinner table, and "an observation made on its absence from that apparently appropriate position, excited as much astonishment as if 1 had made a remark to a Northumber land squire that he had not a head dish of Newcastle coals." But the abundance which renders it unpalatable to the Newfoundlanders, procures them more acceptable viands, and all the luxuries of life. The climate ungenial, the soil barren, crops are difficult to obtain, and rarely ripen ; even potatoes and vegetables are but scantily compelled from the niggard earth ; fish, the sole produce. is the grand article of barter. In exchange for his lenten ratio of bacallao, the Spaniard sends his fruits and Xeres, the Por tuguese his racy port, the Italian his Florence oil, and Naples maccaroni. Everywhere, but especially in those " countries of the Catholic persuasion" where the fasts of the Itornish Church are most strictly observed, Newfound land finds customers for its cod and supplies of its wants. —Blackwood. _ FERTILITY OF DUMAS, THE FRENCH NOVELIST.—It is difficult to assign limits to the fecundity of a writer, and to fix the number of lines that he shall write in a given time. Romance-writing, especially, that frivolous style, has a right to travel post, and to scatter its volumes in profusion by the wayside. Nevertheless, time must be taken to consider a subject, to arrange a plan, to connect the threads of a plot, to organise the different parts of a work ; otherwise one proceeds blindfold, and finishes by getting into a blind alley, or by meeting insurmountable obstacles. Allowing for these needful preparations, supposing that an author takes no more repose than is absolutely necessary, eats in haste, sleeps little, is constantly inspired; in this hypothesis, the most skil ful writer will pruduce perhaps fifteen volumes a year —FIFTEEN VOLUMES, do you hear, Monsieur Dumas? And, even in this case, he will assuredly not write for fame ; we defy him to chasten and correct his style, or find a moment to correct his proofs. Ask those who work unassisted ; ask our most fertile romance writers, George Sands, Balzac, Eugene Sue, Frederic Sell lie ; they will all tell you that it is impossible to reach the limit we have fixed, and that they never have attained it. You, M. Dumas, have published THIRTY-SIX volumes in the course of the year 1844; and for the year 1845 von an nounce twice as many. Well, we make the following simple calculation :—The most expert copyist, writing 12 hours a day, hardly achieves 3900 letters in an hour, which gives, per diem, 46,800 letters, or sixty ordinary pages of a romance. At that rate he can copy five octavo volumes a month, and sixty in the year, but he must not rest an hour or lose a second. You, M. Dumas, are a penman of first-rate ability. From the Ist of January to the 31st of December you work regularly twelve hours a day, you sleep little, you eat in haste, you deprive yourself of all amusements, you hardly travel at all, you are never seen out of your halve: consequently, if we suppose that your dramatic compositions, the bringing out of your plays, your correspondence with newspapers and theatres, im portunate visitors, a few casual articles—as, for example, your letters in the Democratie Pacifique : (a series of five letters containing a fierce attack on the Theatre Francais, and on its administrator M. Buloz)—supposing, we say, that all these various occupations monopolize only one half of your time, we understand that you may have copied THIRTY volumes in the year 1844—but only thirty! the six others must have been the result of your son's labours. Now, if you are going to publish twice as much this year as you did during the last one, how will you manage? You must either give up sleeping, and work the twenty fours through, or you must teach your manufacturers to imitate your handwriting. There is no other plan pos sible. To deliver your manuscripts to the printers as they are delivered to you, would be to furnish proofs against yourself.— Translation from a Pamphlet entitled " Fa brique de Romans; Maison Alexander Dumas el C 0.," in Blackwood. LABORIOUS ZEAL AND PRIVATIONS OF THE COLO NIAL BISHOPS.—The Bishop of Toronto, when on a visitation and confirmation tour in 1842, passed a night on an island in Lake Huron, under incessant and pene trating rain, and amid a storm which blew down the tents. And the same prelate, on the same occasion, when pre vented from proceeding to the place where he had re• solved to hold a confirmation, by the dangerous state of the roads and ferry, remonstrated with his clergy who had made this alteration in his arrangements, and who urged his not proceeding, and assured them that a road which could be traversed by a priest and his people, might well be adventured on by a bishop. The Bishop of Montreal drove in an open cariole through " a raging snow-storm," and over, of rather in, deep snow, in which the horse was occasionally almost buried, in order to hold a confirmation, and administered that apostolic rite in a " diminutive wooden building," (the Church sojourning literally in tabernacles,) while melting snow poured down upon the altar part where he was officiating. The vene rable Bishop of Nova Scotia travelled under a powerfully hot August sun twenty-five miles, to consecrate a church, and hold a confirmation; he began the journey by water, and after contending for a time with a high and contrary wind, was obliged to shift into a settler's waggon, and traverse roads so rough and dangerous, that parts were only passable on foot ; on his arrival, he went through the two offices of consecration (church and burial-ground) and confirmation, and delivered an address to the newly confirmed; and after tarrying awhile at a settler's four miles from the church, he went forward twelve miles of a wretched road, part of it through a deep wood full of stumps, and roots, and stones, after nightfall, and after crossing a long ferry, arrived at his destination at mid night ;—and these exertions were made, let it be borne in mind, by a man of advanced age, now upwards of forty years in orders, and more than twenty years a bishop, and whose life, both as priest and bishop, has b een spent in labours such as these, and in a rough and variable cli mate. The energy and endurance of the Bishop of New Zealand are so well known, and have attracted so much attention, and the instances of them are so many, that it will suffice to adduce his " pushing four hours in the dark in a canoe through a swamp, and then wading a quarter of a mile to terra firma through black mud up to the knees," when making an inspection of his diocese, and visiting his mission stations ;— his t rave lli ng on t h at visi tation tour, (on which he was absent from his home more than six months,) by sd* 1180 miles, walking 762, riding only 8 . 9, and going in an open boat 249, ma ki ng a t o t a l of 227 ii ;—and again, in another visitation tour, walking in two days seventy miles, and swimming across a river, in order to be present on the third day (Sunday) at the services at one of the mi ss i on s t a ti ons ; l oo ki ng u p on an immersion, from the swamping of a boat, " without any very serious apprehension," because • nil his party were swimmers, and be had no baggage ; fording one river with the aid of a tent-pole, and wading through another with " the water to the neck," and in which " the strength of the stream made it difficult to walk." And these only bodily labours; for daily he was evangelizing, preaching, saying prayers and services of the Church, as well in the native language for the aborigines, as in English for the settlers ; baptizing, solemnizing marriages, and constantly_ conferring with natives " to win them to Christ," and with Europeans to confirm and stablish some, to lead others to repentance.—Oxford and Cambridge Review. Not. 3, 1846. SirtDo, 3larriagts aiib Deatips. BIRTHS. On the 4th of September last, al Calcutta, Mrs. WILLIAM THONISON, of a son. On the Igth of September last. at Mitchell. near Stratford, Canada, the wife of Mr. J. MOFFIT, of two sons and two daughters. The mother died within four hours of her delivery, but the children survived. The family were from Ireland, and in very poor circumstances. . ----- On the 27th ultimo, at Egremont, the wife of F. R. GROTE. Esq., of a daughter. On the 3oth instant, the lady of JOSEPH GODDEN, Esq., surgeon, of Oxton, Cheshire, of a daughter. Same day, at 6', Abbot ford-place, Glasgow, Mrs. A. G. M'COMBE, of a son. MARRIED. On the 26th ult., at St. Nicholas's Church, by the Rev. A. J. Tomlin, Mr. JOSEPH COOKSON, of Holylake, to ELLEN, only daughter of Mr. DAWSON. Same day, Mr. JAMES DAVIS, to Miss MARY ROBERTS, both of Tianmere. Same day, at St. Peter's Church. Mr. THOMAS DOBSON, joiner, to Miss JANE WOODHOUSE, both of Lancaster. On the 27th ult., at Wavertree, JOHN HANCOC'C GRTJNDY, Esq., of Torquay, to MARIA, daughter of the late J. HOLMES, Esq., of Greenock. Same day, at St. John the Baptist's Church, Mr. JOSN ANDREWS, to Miss SUSANNAH WOMACK. Same day, at the Roman Catholick Church, Wexford, by the' Rev. Dr. Murphy, MAURICE J. HOKE, Esq., of this town, to. ELIZABETH FRANCES, second daughter of the late FRANCIS. WYSE, Esq.,- of Pool Drew, county Waterf rd. On the •'Bth ult., at St. Catherine's Church, Blackr•d, by the Rev. Dr Anislie, Master of Pembroke Collegc, Cambridge, THOMAS COXHEAD CHISENHALE MARSH, eldest son of Wm. Coxhead Marsh, Esq., of Gayncs-park, Essex. to ELIZA ANNE CHISENHALE, daughter of John Chisenhale Chisen hale, Esq., of Arley, in this county. Same day, Mr. JAMES JARDINE, rope-manufaeurer, to Miss JANET POLLOCK, daughter of Wm. Pollock, Esq., of Titwcod-house. Mearns, county of Renfrewshire. Same day, at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Chapel, by the Rev. Mr. Fayers, Mr. PE lER WILCOCK, to HELEN, third daughter of the late Mr. R. PARKER. of Little Crosby. Same day, at St, Patrick's Roman Catholic Chapel. Mr. THOMAS NEALE. of Little Alcar, to MARY, fourth daughter of the late Mr. R. PARKER, farmer, Little Crosby. Same day, at St. Michael's Church, Toxteth-park, by the Rev. Wm. Hesketh, M.A., the Rer. GILBERT SANDBACH, rector of Upper Sapey, Herefordshire, to MARGARET, youngest daughter of the late ARCHIBALD MAXWELL, Esq., of Kelton, Kirkcudbrightshire. Same at St. Paul's Church, by the Rev. R. Davies, Mr. T. JONES, merchant, Rhydunog, near Pwllhely, to Miss ANN EVANS, of Llaethdu, Amlwch, Anglesey. Same day, at St. Philip's Church. by the Rev. C. H. Burton, M.A., Mr. JOHN DALN, to Miss MARGARET SALTHOUSE. On the 2gth ult., at St. Jame,'s Church, by the Rev. Me, Graham, Mr. WM. ROWLAND, surgeon, to MARGARET. youngest daughter of THOMAS LLOYD, EA of Chester street. Same day, Mr. R. D. REEVES, to CLARISSA, eldest daughter of the late THOMAS NORTON, Esq., of Hilt-hill, Tranmere. Same day, at St. Philip's Church. by the Rev. Mr. Rartan. WILLIAM, eldest son of RICHARD GARDNER. Esq.. Lead brook, Flintshire, to JANE, only daughter of JOSEPEI B RNES, Esq., of this town. Same day, at Nunbank, Dumfries, by the Rev. Dr. Dunbar, of Applegarth, WALLACE WALKER, Esq., merchant, to DIANA, eldest daughter of WILLIAM GORDON, Esq. Same day, at Reigate, thv. Rev. If. F. MURRAY, second son of the Lord Bisl'op of Rochester, to FANNY CATHERINE, third daughter of J. L. ANDERTON, Esq. Same day, at Edge-hill Church,.Mr. ALEXANDER DINGLE. to MARTHA, eldest daughter of Mr. JAMES BRAWLEY, of Toxteth-park. On the 30th ult., at the Parish Church, Gwyd !elwern, MAT THEW, son of Mr. M. WILIJAMS, of Mount pleasant, in this town, to MARGARET, daughter of Mr. P. JONES, of Wern Ddu, near Corwen. Same day, at St. Nicholas's Church, Mr. PETER EDWARDS. tailor, Llanarvon, near Ruthin, Denbigshire, to Miss SARAH WILLIAMS, of the same place. On the 31st u t., at St. David's Church, by the R'v. W. Hughes, Mr. DAVID PERRY, from the county of Denbigh, farmer, to Miss HA s:NA II LLOYD. Yesterday, at lipholland, Mr. DANIEL WEBSTER, of the Horse and Jockey, Date-street. in this town, to Miss ELIZA BETH BALL, of the former Owe. DIED. Lately, at Ramsay, Isle of Man, where he went with the ex pectation of restoratio I of health, impaired by the onerous duties of manager of the Limerick Branch of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, ROBERT H UNTER, Esq., deeply and sincerely regretted. On Mr. Hunter's resignation of manager of that branch bank, the m, rcharvs and citizens of Limerick, and the noblemen and gentlemen of the counties of Limerick. and Clare, voted him plate value nearly £3oo, with an address, expressing sympathy and regret for the cause of his resignation, and their admiration of his uniform kindness and gentlemanly conduct in the discharge of his dutes for the twenty years he resided amongst them as manager of the bank. On the 3rd of August. on board the Cathieni, from Africa, for this port, aged 29, Mr. JOHN WRIGHT, shipwright, of White haven, son of the late Sergeant Wright, of the Royal Cumber land M litia. On the 6th of August, at Hong Kong, aged 30, Mr. JOHN HOLMES, youngest son of Mr. Henry' Holmes, gunsmith, of this town. _ On the 11th of September, at Pieter), U.S., aged 80, Mr. B. BRUCE, formerly of Cupar Angus, Fortarshire. On 23rd Sept ,ou board the ship Beln ont, on her passage from Liverpool to St. John's, N. 8., ANN BLAND GRANT, aged 29 } ears, wife of Captain Robert Grant, of that vessel, and daugh ter of Mr. John Stripling, of Liverpool. This sudden dispensa tion, while it deprives two young children of a tender mother, and a fond husband of an affectionate partner, will be deeply afflicting, not only to her parents, but to a large circle of rela tives and friends, to whom the engaging manners and am iable disposition of the deceased had greatly endeared her• Her remains were interred at St. John's. On the 2nd ultimo, at St. Petersburg. aged 9 1 , M a i NIATHEW CLARK, of the Russian civil service. On the 3rd u timo at Pitteeweem, aged ice, Mr. T. ADAM SON, weaver. Deceased had a perfect recollection of se ein g Paul Jones sail past Pittenweem, on his way to Leith, abo ut seventy years ago, and of the tempest which providentially arose r.nd ',hove the pirate out of the Frith. He never was what may be called really sick, and, during the whole of his long life, was only three weeks absent from Pittenweem. o r-General On the 4th ultimo, at Claremont-house, Aberystwith, ELIZA BETH, daughter of J. SAYES, Esq., land-surveyor, Kington; Herefordshire. Deceased's sister was married in the morning fr, in the same house, and the death occurred in the evening On the lath ultimo, at the Isle of A hithorn, aged Ps , , i g r q . COOK. Deceased was a widow tfty years, and was the me' " in-law of the late Mr. Co:lin Cook, of Everton-brow. Same day, in Upper Stanhope•street, Mr. S. HIGGINS GII ., : upwards of twenty years a faithful servant to :ara Richmond' spirit dealer, Cable street. me. On the 15th ultimo, after a short illness, aged 3e, PARTINGTON, miller, limekiln lane. On the 17th ultimo, aged 22, HELENA,,daughter of Mr. 0. BECKETT, passenger agent. On the 18th ultimo, at Thornbury, in his 91st year, JOSEPE! HUIVIE. Esq., for many yews a well known practical and scientific chemist, in London. On the 19th ultimo, at Birmingham, in her 92nd year. Mrs ELIZABETH MORRIS, Same day, at her daughter's residence, in her 78th Yea r ,: ELIZABETH, relict of the late Mr. ABRAHAM WARD COLLARD. Same day, at New Melton, suddenly, aged 77, Mr. ROBER T FINCH, more commonly Ice wn by the cognomen of e Old Deg Bob." The deceased was an eccentric character, and knoWnj a almost all parts of England, as well as in some parts of Russi a ' in which country he had formerly been a huntsman. Same day, aged 3 months, ROBERT, son of Mr. BREWER. a Ott the 22nd ultimo, aged 33, Mr. JOHN MORGAN, boot and shoe maker and news agent, Market-street, Leigh. Same day, aged 3 years, ELIZABETH EMILY, third daught er of Mr. P. BARBER, of St. Paul's-square.. Same day, at his residence, Parliament-street, aged 24, 1 "; GEe RGE BURROWS, for some time confidential servant a' Mies Dutton, of Great George-street, and second son of Mr' Thomas Burrows, of Whitchurch. Salop. Ou the 24th ultimo, at her residence, at Litherland, aged 7 50 Mrs. MURPHY, widow of the late Mr. Murphy, pilot. Same day, at Virginia Cottage, near Douglas, aged 22, ELIZA: BETH, eldest daughter of the late Mr. J. DAVIES, merchant, of this town. Game day, aged 40, Mr. HUGH HUGHES, of Myrtle-street. Same day, at Thistleton, near Hui, in his Seth year, S r ; JOHN PERKINS. Deceased was a proprietor and publisher e' the Hull Rockingham newspaper npwards of thirty years. Ile was an officer on board his Majesty's ship Buffalo, in the Ye at 4 1782, and was an eyewitness to the unfortunate catastrophe " the sinking of the :loyal George, at Spithead. or; the 25th ultimo, after a short illness, aged 23, Me-, ELIZABETH, youngest daughter of Mr. T. LEATHE R ' Present. Same day, in Upper Pitt-street, aged 25, CAROLINE LOUISA , wife of Mr. J, B. BOOTH. Same day, at Frodsham, Mr. JOHN FISH, officer of Excise. Same day, at Brighton, Mr. JACOB OSBORNE, of Gloucester , for many years shopman and clerk to the late J. Wood, Esq•• of that city, and one of his executors. Same day, in Nile-street, in her 56th year, ELIZABETH, t ha beloved and affectionate wife of Mr. T G. WHIDBORNE. On the tieth ultimo, at the house of her brothez•-in-law, ag ed 27, MARY HOLT, eldest daughter of th e l a t e T . IMES, Es'. of Ever ton. Same day, in Brecknock-crescent, Camden New Town. Loa, don, ALICE, infant daughter of GEORGE TAYLOR AMP Esq., R.N. Same day, ISABELLA, wife of Mr. JOSEPH GERARD , l a " of Crosby. Same day. at his seat, at Upcarle, Susses aged 92, Sir h ENO e FE CH E RSTON HAUG H, Bart., during seventy-two of whiff enloyed the title. On the 2 th ultimo, aged 33, Mr. THOMAS JONES. press printer, late of Chester. MARY ERs. Same day, et Barnard Castle, Durham, aged 33, of th w' e BANC, wife of WM. RA INE, of that place, and daug hter late Mr. John Tompson, of this town. le of M. Same day, in Kirkdale-road, aged 34, A-- NNE, JAMES BALDERSTON, of Ingleton, Yorkshi lN T e. A fourth son of Same day, aged 3 years and 9 months, ED , • Mr. HENRY DOUBLEDAY, of Copperas-hill. Mr. T . C. STANI • Same day, CYRUS MARTIN, infant son of STREET, of Raneiagh-street. Same day, at his residence, at Woolton , after a severe illne ss of several weeks, ill his 67th year, Mr. JOHN MAXWELL. Same day, aged 3 years, JOHN, son of Mr. EDW. MUSSEL' WHITE, licensed victualler, Hanover-street. l e tter- Same day, in his 84th year, SAMUEL GREGSON, Esq. , °f Caton, near Lancaster. On the 28th ultimo, in her 40th year, Miss ELLEN LY 01.4 landlady of the Queen's Head, Ormskirk. Same day, aged 75, ROBERT MARSHALL, Esq., of Belmont' Birkenhead. Ines S • ' Same day, at Ormskirk, after a painful and protracted il borne with great patience and resignation, aged 36 years , P .-- CICILY SNAPE. On the 29th ultimo, at his residence, in Shaw-street, aged_ s ! i f the Rev. T. TATTER SHALL, D.D., F.C.P.S., late Fehr' ; s Queen's College, Cambridge, and incumbent of St. Augusti ne Church, Everton. Same day, aged 45, JOHN TOPHAM, Esq., solicitor. , Same day, LUCY, the wife of Mr. G. WARTNABY, Chath e '" street. Same day, at her residence, in Edge-hill, in her 54th Ye e : ELIZABETH, relict of the late Mr. ROGER GARDEN, car I P prietor, Henry-street, ~ger Same day, at Penketh Brewery, the residence of his he -- JOSEPH, youngest son of the late WM. LANGS HAW. e i Same day, at his residence, in Amwell-terrace, Pentonaea,, London, aged 54, Mr. W. H. WILLIAMS, the well.knoW o median. t ie Same day, aged 32, after a long and painful illness, _.,4 JAMES CARSON, shipwright, Blair-street, highly respectede m deeply regretted. On the 35th ultimo, at her residence, in Chester-street, ;. 0 el 77th year, HANNAH, relict of the late Mr. JOHN COTTE R ' Toxteth-park. Same day, aged 50, Mr. RICHARD SUDLOW, late of M a l " ford, Cheshire. Of Same day, aged 52, Mr. BIRKETT WHITTLE, eldest se a the late Mr. Thomas Whittle, late of Warrington .40' Same day, after a short illness, aged 34 years, Captain A Di MAS WADLEY , late of the Latimer, of this port, respeete e all who knew him. a d 5 On the 31st ultimo, of consumption, aged is years !! - , s te months, ANNA, daughter of Mr. RICHARD WILLIAMS' of the Talbot Hotel, Aberystwith. 0:1 Yesterday, at his residence, 25, Soho-street, Mr. JO HODGSON. m ed 04 Same day, suddenly, at Lawton ' s House, Ranh—, ay. Mr.JAMES QWEN.