The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-13 00:00:00

FOEEIGN AND COLONIAL AMERICA. By the arrival of the New York packet-ship, which reached this port on Wednesday last, advices to the 17th ult. (inclusive) have been received, being two days later than the news brought by the Cambria. The Oregon question was mooted in the Senate on the 17th, and some of the speeches were exceedingly warlike, especially that of General Cass. He thought "it was better to fight for the first inch of Oregon than the last; better to meet the enemy at the threshold than await his approach to the hearthstone." He recommended giving the twelve months' notice required by the treaty with England, and at its termination, " should Britain persist in her claim, it must amount at once to a declaration of war—at once bring on the struggle." Mr. Mangum op posed the course urged by the General, desiring rather so avert than court war. "If a war should break out, it would be, not for Oregon, but one between the antago nistic systems of European monarchies and Republican institutions." Mr. Allen supported Gen. Cass's views, and Mr. Archer those of Mr. Mangum. The latter dwelt forcibly on the mischiefs which might result to the dwell ers on the American seaboard, from the steam-ships of Great Britain. The debate was adjourned. The New York Enquirer, of the 16th, states that an interview, .of some length, had taken place, between the American Secretary of State and Mr. Pakenham, the British Minister, " undoubtedly, on the Oregon ques tion." Some hope may, therefore, vet be entertained, that the business will reach an amic Lble termination THE WEST INDIA MAILS The royal mail steam-packet ship, Tweed ; G. Parsons, R.N., commander, arrived at Southampton at six o'clock p.m., on Tuesday, bringing the Gull and West India mails, sixteen cabin passengers, and some invalids. The news brought from Mexico by this arrival is inte resting, though it all betokens a very disturbed state of the country. The following, written at the last moment of the steamer's leaving, will be found somewhat impor tant, especially as containing the latest news On the departure of the royal mail steamship from Vera Cruz on Dec. 2, the affairs of Mexico were in the most deplorable state. Mr. Slidell, the American envoy, to arrange affairs with the United States, had ar rived on the preceding day, but the courier of the English legation brought the intelligence, on the morning of the Ist of December, that General Paredes, with 8,000 men, was marching on the city from San Luis, demanding a w provisional government, and the convocation of a new popular convention, so that there was no hope what ever of an arrangement with the States, since his princi pal charge against the Mexican ministry was the having entered into negotiations with them for a cession of part of the national territory. There is but little doubt but that the present government will be overthrown, and then it will fall into the hands of the popular party. In the mean time, the Americans are running in crowds to oc- Californias and some of the contiguous pro vinCes. Their army, under General Taylor, were within 22 leagues of Matamoros on the 12th of November, and on the march to occupy the left bank of Rio Bravo del Norte, which they appear determined shall henceforth be the limits between Mexico and the United States. " The city of Vera Cruz was tranquil ; but no one could tell bow long it would remain so. The money was convoyed from the interior, it was supposed, on the Ist of December, as appointed, and specie was in great demand. In short, there is at tl Mexico at work every element of a social di 13 momen solution.' The islands are healthy, and the we part favourable. ther for the most - A petition has been presented to the House of Assem bly, praying for a repeal of the act of incorporation of the city of Kings'on, which was granted in 1801. The Mayor seems to be at the head of this movement, and a good deal of excitement has been the consequence, and meetings held pro and con.; and a number of the inhabitants have prepared a petition praying to be heard by counsel at the bar of the house against t` inhas continued to fall most plentifully in Bar- badoe last a the th weath siting the island both day and night, since our the wind was very boisterous; )unt o a r has range d as low as a very general, 74 degrees. This mrth is completely saturated The Trinidad Council of Government has been much occupied in the discussion of the motion of Dr. Philips to abolish the bounty on passage-money paid for immigrants from neighbouring colonies. On the suggestion of the Solicitor-General, the motion was ultimately postponed, and a committee appointed to inquire into the subject, and the alleged frauds committed by collusion with the captains of vessels bringing colonists to the islands. to Anna continued at Havana, and it is generally d with the view of sooner r later returning to SANDWICH IS LANDS We have received some extracts from a file of Sand wich Island papers, published in English at Honolohu, to the Ist of September. Judging from these papers, the islands are making rapid advances i❑ civilization, as they contain a large number of commercial advertisements, and abundance of that free discussion which indicates a state of society that has interests to preserve. We also find that the H awalians have Legislative Chambers, Mi• sisters of State, and a Court in which etiquette is pre served with as much precision as St. James's. Among the extracts alluded to is a report made to the lature by Mr. Wylie, the Minister of Foreign Af in which will be found the rise and progress of the 1 independence, with several passages from the cor respondence of the British Government with our Consul, General Miller. We have also a petition from certain chiefs, who, jealous of the location and enterprise of fo reigners, protested against strangers being allowed to take the oath of allegiance to King Kamehameha IV., with the negative answer made by his Majesty's Ministers to those representations. We have then the correspondence that took place between Mr. Secretary of State Wylie and Mr. Hooper, Acting Commissioner of the United States, who undertook to suspend diplomatic relations, on the ground that American subjects had been induced to transfer their allegiance to the said Kamehameba, and that the law courts of the realm refused to listen to his complaints. As an additional specimen of the march of the Sand wich Island mind, we should not omit to say that the Court newsman has abundant employment in recording the dinners and fetes given by the King, with the names of the personages honoured by invitations to the Royal table. Alas ! nor should we forget that Honolulu Obai has both a Court of Chancery and an Insolvent Debtors' Court. island EXTRAORDINARY LAW CASE IN TRINIDAD The Trinidad Standard, of the Ist ultimo, reports a case that took place on the 27th of November, before the SUPREME CIVIL COURT of this island, which is con sidered of considerable importance to persons connected with plantation interests. It was a terceria, entered by Messrs. Miles and Kingston, in an action brought by Mr. A. Mackintosh against the heirs and legatees of the late Thomas St. Hill, and Philip W. S. Miles and Thomas Kingston, terceros opositores ; and was tried before the Hon. George Scotland, Chief Justice, and two acting puisne judges. Mr. Scotland, jun., appeared for Messrs. Miles and Kingston ; Messrs. Bowen and Stone for Mr. Mackintosh. Mr. Scotland, before proceeding with the terceria, said that although the levy in the case had been made, and the sugar and molasses in dispute had been sold by the mar shal, in the month of June last, no return of the writ bad yet been made, notwithstanding the case had been several times before the court, and it was promised to be re turned on each occasion. In the case of the terceria of Miles and Kingston, in the previous action, the marshal had stated as an excuse for not obeying the order of the court to return the writ, that the purchase money of the property bad not i een paid to him. In this case there could be no such excuse set up, for the money had been paid five months ago. Unless, therefore, his learned friends on the other side would waive the objection to the return not having been filed, he would apply to the court to adjourn for half an hour, and peremptorily order the marshal to return his writ within that time. The Chief Justice asked where the money now was ? The Attorney General, who appeared for the marshal, stated that the money might be considered as in court; and produced the writ of execution, with the particulars of the levy, but not signed by the marshal. It was agreed that the return should be used in that state, the Attorney General having promised that it should be signed on the marshal's coming to his office. Mr. Scotland then called witnesses, and put in evidence the proceedings of Messrs. Miles and Kingston v the Heirs of St. Hill, and two deeds of mortgage filed there in, granted by the late T. St. Hill, on the Perseverance and Wellington estates, on which they had received a judgment of upwards of £ll,OOO sterling. The estates bad since been carried on by the executor, and the money for them had been furnished by Messrs. Colhoun ' Bro thers, and Co. The matter now in dispute was 13 hhds. of sugar, and 18 puncheons of molasses, which bad been seized on the estates by the marshal, under a writ in the case of Mackintosh v. the Heirs of St. Hill. The plain tiff in this case had obtained judgment on a simple con tract debt. Messrs. Miles and Kingston now came in to claim the proceeds of these sugars and molasses, under their two mortgages. One witness defined the distinctive meaning of " crops" and " produce." Mr. Scotland, who contended that, under these mortgages, his clients were entitled to be paid preferentially out of the proceeds of the sugar and molasses which had been seized in the cause, in consequence of being specifically mortgaged to them, moved the court for a judgment of preference. Mr. Bowen contended that no mortgagee could come in by preference over an execution creditor, unless he were actually in possession of the mortgaged property, which was not proved. The executor was the party in possession ; and in support of his view he cited several English authorities. Mr. St. Hill, in the first mortgage, agreed to ship all his crops, and in the second, 150 hhds. yearly : therefore he had liberty to do with the rest as he wished. Mr. Scotland replied. The cases referred to on the subject of English mortgages were quite inapplicable as regulating such securities by the law of Spain. True, the second mortgage required Mr. St, Hill to ship only 150 hhds., but the mortgage granted on the whole of the crops of the estate was in no way affected by the cove nants, so as to impair it as a security for whatever sum might be due under these mortgages. As to there having been no breach, this was answered by the judgment re corded by the terceros opositores, in their action against the heirs of St. Hill, which action was founded on these two mortgage deeds, and bad been entered, and a decree obtained thereon before the levy. 'The Cbief Justice stated the opinion of the bench. The case was clear. By the law of Spain the owner of a sugar estate had power to mortgage his crops of sugar and molasses, and the mortgagee had the right of arresting, in the hands of the marshal, the proceeds of sales of such crop, when levied upon at the suit of a simple contract creditor of the mortgager, provided that at the time there was any thing due upon the mortgage. The crop of the estates of the late St. Hill had been specifically mortgaged to the terceros. He also referred to the action of the present plaintiffs against the succession of St. Hill, in which they obtained a decree upon these two mortgages. The judgment. of the court, therefore, was for Messrs. Miles and Kingston, the plaintiffs in Terceira, with costs. Eventually an order was made that the Marshal do forth with pay over to Messrs. Miles and Kingston the net proceeds of the mortgaged property, deducting the de positing in cash the amount of the costs of the plaintiff in the action, which would await the further order of the court. The Trinidad Spectator severely comments on the conduct of the Marshal in this case, in retaining the money in his own hands for five months, in place of pay ing it into the Treasury ; and calls upon their Elonours, the Judges, to interfere, and amend a system so irregular and reprehlnsible. It is stated to be in contemplation to erect a handsome club-house at Adelaide, South Australia. Whilst the Emperor Nicholas was at Rome, in one of his walks, a Polish lady threw herself at his feet, and im plored the recall of her son, who had been exiled to Sibe ria. Her prayer was granted. By order of the Emperor of Russia, from the Ist of January no Jew will be allowed to be distinguished by any part'cular article of dress. They are then to assume without exception, the usual dress of the other inhabi tants, or the Russian national costume. _ _ A lamentable accident happened on Saturday week, near Zivelle, in Holland. Fifteen persons were crossing the river from Hallem in a small boat, when it upset in the middle of the river, and every person, including the boatman, perished. Most of these unfortunate creatures have left families in poverty. _ _ The Maydeburgh Gazette publishes details of a horri ble drama which occurred at a village near that town. A man, in a fit of insanity, killed his wife and five children, and then set fire to his house to conceal his crime. He next inflicted on himself two wounds on the neck and chest, and presented himself to a surgeon of Magde burgh, declaring that he had been attacked and thus in- Jared by the individual who had committed this series of crimes. The authorities at once proceeded to the house, and found nearly everything consumed, and the bodies calcined. The man afterwards acknowledged that it was he who had done all himself. _ _ BUENOS AYRES.—Accounts have been received from Buenos Ayres to the 29th October, by the Hermes. There was no change whatever in the political state of affairs. The inhabitants continued to be subjected to the daily drill, which caused great annoyance to thetas, and very general dissatisfaction prevailed among the classe Tne foreign merchants were very busy clearing off all their produce by the 31st October, when the vessels would have to leave, anc many indicid nals we ing. If the convoy of merchantmen about to proceed from Monte Video up the river to Corrientes, under the protection of the British steamers, succeeded in getting up. (and there was little doubt of it.) a great and thence forward increasing trade would be opened out, which would all centre at Monte Video; and, leaving Buenos Ayres isolated, would have a most ruinous result for Rosas' political influence in the states of Entre Rio. Cor rientes, and Paraguay, and would relatively place Monte Video in a flourishing position even if Rosas' army re mained in that province. This step of the allied ministers was highly approved of. PROSPECTS OF EMIGRANTS TO AIISTRALIA.—Emi grants of capital now proceeding to New South Wales, have a great advantage over those who arrived in the co lony a few years ago ; for, in 1839 and 1840, mixed flocks of sheep sold at £1 ss. per head, cattle at £5 10s., while farms were scarcely to be had for love or money ; where as, at the close of 1844, mixed flocks of sheep averaged ss. per head, and horned cattle £1 ss. per head, and very many farms, or small estates, of rich soil, were in the market at extremely low figures. Farms of a thousand acres, completely fenced in, and partly cultivated, with comfortable brick cottages, stables, and all necessary outbuildings, (such as could not have been erected for less than £800,) are now to be readily purchased for ten or twelve hundred pounds from colonists who either are in embarrassed circumstances, or believe they can employ their capital to better advantage than in farming. The persons best adapted for Australian settlers are young men with £2OOO and £3OOO in their pockets, who have sufficient moral courage to resist all the temptations of a town, adhere firmly to the less polished and rather mono tonous routine of a bush life, and are not too fastidious, but, on emergency, could eat damper (a coarse dark bread) and salt junk, using their fingers instead of knives or forks, drink tea out of tin pots, and sleep in the open air with saddles for their pillows, occasionally without even a cloak for a covering. Alter landing, the emigrant of capital cught to be excessively guarded in his move ments, and take no step without due consideration. He should remember that he is in a land of s'rangers, and allow no insinuating tongue or interested giver of dinners, to induce him to embark one shilling of his capital in any colonial business, until he has gained much local experi ence. The emigrant will find that he has plenty to learn, with not a little to unlearn ; and he who spends some months in acquiring colonial knowledge, will find himself, ar the end of a few years, in a very different position from those who foolishly believed themselves possessed of in tuitive knowledge of colonial affairs, and dashed headlong into them. Australia presents many inducements to fa milies having capital of about £Booo—the heads of which are men of education, possessed of strong minds, and good common sense, but not having been brought up to any profession or business, have no likelihood of increasing their capital at home. If, however, the head of the fa mily—no matter how well educated and upright—be a man of vacillating disposition, emigrating to Australia will only have the effect of reducing his family to a worse plight than they were in at home ; for, it is a fact which will not admit of dispute, that, to succeed in the colony, men must think and act for themselves, and oftener listen with suscipion than credulity to advice hat has any refer ence to pounds, shillings, and pence. We will suppose a family, and there are many such, existing upon £2OO or £3OO a year in England; sums which they would consider good interest for a capital of £BOOO. Such a family would, at home, have many difficulties to contend with. They would be excluded, by their poverty, from occupy ing the position in society to which, perhaps, the head of the family, by birth, manners, and education was enti tled. Now, if this family emigrated to New South Wales, their position in society would soon be reversed. They would be no longer dependants on others for their social existence, and they would find out that their £BOOO, judi ciously managed, was quite sufficient for the foundation of a fortune. The whole family could be landed for £2BO in the colony. £lOOO will purchase an improved farm, in any of the respectable districts, with all the requisite buildings, 100 or more acres in cultivation, a good garden and orchard, besides being stocked with fifty head of horned cattle, and eight or ten horses. From the farm alone, without any other delay, the family, however large, would obtain all the necessaries, and some of the luxuries of life ; and if worked as a dairy farm, it would return in terest on the purchase-money. A sum of £2OOO invested in good mortgages, at ten or twelve per cent., will return the family as much as their whole income in England amounted to ; while the remainder of the £BOOO, judici ously expended in sheep or cattle, will, besides increasing their annual income, eventually double and triple the original capital. The position of such a family would soon be changed for the better—their style of living would gradually become more conformable to their increased income.—Balfour's Sketch of New South Wales. THE LATE FATAL GALES As was apprehended in our recent notice of the casual ties along the coast, others of as equally a melancholy character have occurred. A sloop, laden with coal, from Newport, Monmouthshire, in a passage to Caldico Point, was totally wrecked on the Cornish coast, and all hands lost. Four bodies have been washed ashore, and amongst them were those of Mr. Williams, of Redrig, part owner, and the master, Mr. Upton, who were found clasped in each other's arms. The other bodies seemed to be those of seamen, and being naked, it is presumed that they in tended to save themselves by swimming. Near Bude, on a shoal, about two miles distant, on Saturday, was lost a schooner, named the Anne, of St. Ives, laden with copper ore, while proceeding from Deverau to Swansea. The gale at the time was blowing very hard from the W.N.W., and one of the crew, in attempting to take in a reef of the mainsail, was blown from the yard-arm, and falling on the deck, was instantly killed. The crew, by taking to the boats before she struck, succeeded in saving them selves. Another of the crew, however, was shockingly injured by being jammed between the boat and the ship's side, and is not expected to survive. The vessel became a wreck. A brig called the Dorothea, of nearly 300 tons' burthen, belonging to Sunderland, was wrecked about the same time off Hayle, on the Devonshire coast, but for tunately for the crew, nine in number, they were rescued by the pilot boats that put off from that place. Two fatal collisions are reported to have occurred in consequence of the violence of the gales ; one happened on the night of the 28th ult., about four miles S.W. of Beachey-head, to an Oldenburgh schooner, named the Aurora, of Riga, and bound for Bordeaux, which was run down by the Thor waldsen barque, on a voyage from Copenhagen to St. Thomas's. The collision was of so fearful a character, that the schooner sank within a few minutes after she had been struck, one of the crew going down with her. The remainder, consisting of the master, his wife, a child, and several seamen, managed to get on board the Thorwald sen. The latter vessel lost her bowsprit, and seriously damaged her rigging, so much so that she was obliged to run into Portsmouth to repair the injury, where the sur vivors of the sunken vessel were safely landed. The other collision was attended with more fatal results. It occurred off Brighton, on the 27th ult., when thethip Donor, from London, bound to Trieste, came in contact with a French lugger, and sunk her, the crew perishing with her. The ship was immediately brought to, and rendered what as sistance she could : but through the darkness that pre vailed, nothing could be seen of the unfortunate mariners. The Unicorn, of Seaton Sluice, Lumsden, master, foun dered on the morning of the 22d ult., when within 120 miles E.S.E. of Flamborough-bead. Her crew took to the boat, and were picked up by a vessel belonging to Yarmouth, which landed them at Sunderland. One of the vessels previously reported to have gone down in the west bay of Dungeness, has been ascertained to be the Elizabeth, of Newcastle, with a cargo of coals. Three of the bodies of the ill-fated crew were in the course of Sun day washed ashore, and have since been interred at Lydd Church. It will be remembered that in the early part of the gale, one of the Royal Yacht Club vessels, called the Fanny, was totally lost, with all hands, off Bidef.rd harbour. Among the unfortunate sufferers was Mr. John Charles Montgomery, the owner, and Mr. Charles Reilly. The body of the former gentleman was found on Friday, near the lighthouse, on the Branton Sands, and was identified by his brother, Major Montgomery, of the 45th. That of Mr. Reilly has not as vet been washed ashore. Wreckers have made their appearance along the Devon shire coast, and we regret to say in considerable numbers. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. IRELAND. Baron Pennefather has retired from the Chief Justice ship of the Irish Queen's Bench. The Dub Freeman and the Cork Reporter have set up commissioners with a view of replying to the state ments of the gentleman employed by the Times. On Friday last, Mr. Nott, of the firm of Nott and Son, tea-merchants, Dublin, committed suicide at the house of his brother-in law, by hanging himself from a stair case. ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOLARSHIPS IN TRINITY COL LEGE, DUBLIN.-Mr. Heron's claim has, as was sur mised, failed of success. The Archbishop of Armagh and the Bishop of Dublin have finally " dismissed the com plaint." The use of diseased potatoes in Ireland by the destitute poor is becoming, as was expected, a. fruitful source of fever and disease. A. fearful increase in the number of fever patients patients has taken place in the hospital of Fermoy. _ The Limerick journals contain a list of outrages, vary ing little in character from those committed in that county and duly recorded every week, since the long nights set in. There is, however, nothing worse in this last list than firing at a gamekeeper without effect. Threatening notices are too common to command serious attention. . -.-- CROWN PROSECUTIONS. Informations have been sworn against Mr. Duffey, the proprietor of the Nation newspaper, for the publication, in that journal, of a sedi tious libel, tending to incite the people of Ireland to at tack her Majesty's soldiers when conveyed by railway, or to obstruct the railways, and render them unfit for the conveyance of troops. REPEAL YEAR.—On Monday last, at Conciliation-hall Dublin, Mr. O'Connell said, they now began the new year; that was hansel Monday, and hurrah for repeal. He trusted in Providence that it would be the last year of the struggle—the first year of complete success ; and he hoped that bountiful Providence, which had so long afflicted Ireland, would give them cheering hopes that the year would not close till they saw the Parliament rein stated in College-green. MOLLY MAGUIRE IN DUBLIN.—Mis atrocious sys tem appears to be gradually making its way to the neigh bourhood of Dublin. The case of Mr. Alley, of Artone, has been followed up by an attempt to murder the over seer to Mr. George Woods, of Milverton, a magistrate of the county of Dublin. The name of the intended victim was Samuel King ; and while sitting at his own table, on Saturday evening week, a shot was fired in through the window, which fortunately did not take effect. The Lord-Lieutenant has offered a reward of £lOO for the discovery of the perpetrator of the outrage. DRUNKENNESS,—During the past month 872 persons were committed to the city bridewell by the police, of which number 751 were drunkards. For the correspond ing month in the previous (1844), the number committed was 562, of which 433 were drunkards, showing an in crease in the crime of drunkenness of 318 ! During the year 1844, 5,001 persons were committed to bridewell, while for the past year no fewer than 8,246 were com mitted to the same prison, showing a fearful amount in the increase of crime of 3,245 committals. So arduous was the duty on the Bridewell turnkeys, by reason of these committals, that the Board of Superintendence deemed it advisable to appoint an additional turnkey to the prison.—Cork Constitution. A NEW ERA FOR TUE ROMAN CATHOLIC LAITY. — We copy from the Newry Telegraph the second day's proceedings of an investigation of charges between a Roman Catholic Bishop and one of his parochial clergy, (first referred to Rome, and thence back again to Ireland), held in open court, before Dr. Crolly, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of all Ireland, as sisted by some of his Suffragan Bishops. The first day's proceedings have already appeared in our last; and as the case is still going on, by adjournment from day to day, we shall lay its course before our readers to the termina tion. The chief interest attached to this case is its novelty. We believe that this is the first instance in which an inquiry of this kind was ever held in open court, or at which a newspaper reporter was present.— Dublin Mail. At the usual Meeting of the Repeal Association on the sth instant, Mr. O'Connell made the following remarks : —" The King of France," he said, "was an older man than him. His days were numbered, and the moment he fell, his sons could maintain the throne of France only by calling out its military spirit. They must distinguish themselves in the field of battle. or their dynasty is gone. (Cheers.) England would want them then, and she should have them on their own terms, the repeal of the Union." Mr. O'Connell then touched upon the project of raising the English militia. Why did they not speak of raising the Irish militia? That was a question Mi nisters asked each other. ( Hear.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving a series of resolutions, at the con clusion of which they " solemnly pledged themselves, in the name of the brave, the moral, the virtuous, and reli gious people of Ireland, and in the presence of the Bri tish nation, of all the people of Europe and the Ame ricans, that they would consent to 'no surrender,' no compromise, and no postponement of their undoubted rights ; but that they would unremittingly persevere in all legal, constitutional, and above all, all peaceable means, and none other, until they attained the restoration of the legislative and judicial independence of Ireland, and re established their nationality, subject in dutiful and invio lable allegiance to the monarch of Great Britain and Ire land, but protected by a resident Irish Parliament." His allusion to the age of the French King was very much in the character of Esau—" The days of mourning for my father Isaac are at hand, when I shall kill my brother Jacob." POPERY IN IRELAND.-IMPURITY OF THE CONFESSIONAL, The Dublin Statesman publishes a bold letter from a recently-converted Irish priest (the Rev. Roderick Ryder) who abjured the errors of Romanism in St. Audoen's Church, on the 30th day of last month, and was received into communion with our national church, having pro duced the most satisfactory testimonials as to unble mished character and superior ability from four bishops of the Romish church, of which he had been a zealous priest for upwards of eleven years. Mr. Ryder glances at some of the impurities of Ro manism, but the Statesman observes :—" Those hints we have been further compelled to prune of their too rich luxuriance. Bad as those impurities are, we thought they were really more execrable in theory than in practice. But we find that the priests do not shrink from working out the lucubrations of Dens, Delahogues, and Sanchez. Revolting as were the thoughts of these learned worthies, the practice of the confessional is more indelicate and re fined in vice." . The following is a portion of Mr. Ryder's letter. After the " pruning" of our contemporary, we have thought it well to prune yet a little more. Popery frequently escapes a withering exposure of its immoralities before the public eye, because its abominations are too gross to be more than hinted at in journals designed for general perusal. " Now, regarding your practice of auricular confession, I shall merely state facts, which I know by eleven years' experience. All your theologians admit that it is not of divine institution, or in other words, that it was invented by man. That is one fact. The second is, that I know it to be conducive to the most debasing system of de bauchery and licentiousness. I know that questions are asked and answered in the confessional of a character re volting to a pure and virtuous female." " 1 do not blame either the priests or the penitents — but I blame the system ; it is unscriptural in theory, and immoral in its tendency. " Hence the general outcry against the immorality of priests. I could not sit for one half hour in the house of any intelligent Roman Catholic, that the conduct of Fa- Father Tim, Father Tom, Father Mick, would not be brought on the tapis. Some late exposure, some new tour du lit gauchement arrangee would be the subject. While, on the other hand, if you enter into conversation with these holy fathers, their conversation will be about their bishop and his private concerns ;—but every good Catholic knows that to be. calumny. He knows that St. Paul tells every bishop to be the husband of one wife, and that wife is the church, a very respectable old lady of un blemished character, whom the bishop calls his holy mo ther. So that she is his wife and mother at the same time ;—but the pope gives a dispensation. Now these maligners would wish to insinuate that this pious lady is somehow too immaterial ;—but that is calumny. " Be this as it may, one thing is certain, that the outcry against the clergy is universal :—and I believe that three fourths of their complaints have their origin in the con fessional. The priest has a species of access to females which no other man can have ; he is held in a certain de gree of respect in which no other man is held ; he is be lieved to have the power of forgiving whatever sins he may commit, which no other man has. All these privileges are dangerous in the hands of a man who may be inclined to avail himself of them. The scandal that would follow, the disgrace of a whole family, the respect entertained for the priest, and sometimes the attachment of the victim to the culprit, are powerful preventatives against exposure. If the victim move in humble life she is generally shipped off to America, or married to some servant or needy rela tive who is always ready at hand. I know three poor girls, who were shipped off last season by one man under such circumstances. The people are beginning to open their eyes, yet they do not know the one-tenth of what passes, but they see enough. They see the description of servants that some of their priests keep ; the intimacies which they form with pious old maids of equivocal character ;—the dissipated manners which they betray ;—and the rakish tours they take occasionally ;—and they would be as blind as bats not to see these. I admit there are a few of them who have escaped the general contagion, but they are few indeed ; they form the exception and not the rule—' rari nantes in gurgite vasto.' " THE COIIRT 4 FASHIONABLE WORLD. The Queen will leave Windsor Castle on Tuesday for Buckingham Palace. Sir Frederick Thesiger and Sir Thomas Wylde have given an opinion upon a case submitted to them on be half of Prince Albert, to the effect that Windsor Farm was not liable to be rated, inasmuch as the property in question belonged to the crown. THE CHASE. SIR W. M. STANLEY'S HOUNDS will meet To-morrow (Wednesday), Jan. 14, at Bebington Saturday, Jan. 17, at At eleven o'clock. The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, Jan. 14, at .... Tatton-park Thursday, 15, at .... Saturday, 17, at Fox and Barrel Each day at half-past ten SIR W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS Will meet on This day (Tuesday), Jan_ 13, at Thursday, 15, at Nescliffe Saturday, 17, at Each day at half-past ten UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. The Bishop of Hereford has suspended the Rev. Josiah Bartlett from the exercise of clerical functions. The subject of establishing a University at Calcutta, is in agitation. The carriage of the Dean of Leighlin was overturned near his residence, the other night, and his servant killed. The Dean was much hurt. A report of the death of the Archbishop of Canterbury was circulated in London on Friday. It originated in the death of Dr. D'Oyley, rector of St. Mary's, Lambeth. The restoration of Eton College Chapel, including the enlarging of the choir, the erection of Gothic stalls, and a new screen, &c., at a cost of from £lO,OOO to £12,000, is to be proceeded with immediately. The Marquis of Tweeddale has subscribed 20,000 ru pees for the purpose of establishing a co'legiate institu tion, founded on Christian principles, in the presidency of Madras, of which his Lordship is Governor. CHESTER CATHEDRAL.—The re-opening of the choir of this venerable Cathedral was solemnized by Divine Service on Tuesday, when a crowded congregation assem bled, including the principal families of the county and city, all of whom expressed great admiration of the im provements. Morning Prayers were read by the Very Rev. the Dean ; the first Lesson by the Rev. Canon Barlow; and the second Lesson by the Rev. Canon Es ton : the Communion Service was also read by the Dean, the Rev. Canon Barlow reading the Epistle. The music of the Venite and Psalms of the day was by Hawes, the Te Deum by Camidge in F, the Jubilate by Kent in C, the Athanasian Creed by Heatbcote, the Sanclus by Banks, the responses to the commandments by Calah, and the Nicene Creed by Rogers. The anthem was Boyce's splendid composition, most appropriate for this occasion— ' I have surely built Thee an house." The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, from Haggai i. 3. 4v.—" Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste ?" It was a most able, excellent, and impressive discourse, which we trust his Lordship will be able to publish. During the reading of the Offertory Sentences by the Dean, the sum of £l7l ls. Ildid. A donation of £5O was afterwards given by a gentleman of the county. Among the other Cathedral Clergy who appeared in their stalls on the occasion, were the Venerable Archdeacon Clarke, the Rev. Precentor Eaton, the Rev. R. Yarker, Rev. W. Paul, Rev. R. W. Gleadowe, and Rev. W. Har rison, (Minor Canons); the Rev. H. Raikes, Rev. C. A. Thurlow, and Rev. Hugh Mc. Neile, (Honorary Canons). DR. HOOK AND DR. PUSHY PARTING COMPANY AT LAST. (From the Church and State Gazette.) Dr. Hook, of Leeds, has just published two sermons, in which he denounces Dr. Pusey's language addressed to " Mr." Newman. We are not sorry to see this ; but we would ask, nevertheless, how does Dr. Hook reconcile his present opinion of Dr. Pusey with the patronage extended by the former to the latter at Leeds ? Waiting a reply, we will, for the moment, confine ourselves to noticing the following passage in the preface to the sermons in ques tion. Dr. Hook there says : "Such greivous and sinful acts (i.e., as going . over to Rome, though holding all Roman doctrines) are palliated by being styled by the mild term of secession, and not schism—a going forth to labour in another portion of the same vineyard!" And —" There is another way of accounting for these secessions, which is still more shocking. It is said that the Church of Rome has gained possession of the perverted ones, in answer to the prayers offered by persons and societies in that communion for the reduction of England to the Romish faith!" Both the above passages, marked in italics, are quoted from the recent letters of Dr. Pusey in the En,olish Churchman; and yet the writer of those letters bas been, contemporaneously with Dr. Hook's denunciations, preaching some fourteen sermons in St. Saviour's Uhurch, under Dr. Hook's sanction !—and Dr. Hook is himself a party to the withdrawal of an address (condemnatory of Rome) to the Bishop of Ripon, and the substitution of another, to accommodate Dr. Pusey, in Dr. Pusey's own language, silent about Romish corruptions, and speaking of " one part of the vineyard," so as to leave it open to the inference that there is another (viz., the Romish por tion) in which Mr. Newman is " labouring." A REBUKE FROM RIPON (From the Church and Slate Gazette.) The following are extracts from the reply of the Bishop of Ripon to the altered address from Leeds, signed by one hundred and sixty of the clergy, and so " craftily quali fied" to accommodate Dr. Pusey. It is a glorious rebuke; and most happy are we that the attempt to deceive the bishop has failed so signally of success :—__ . . "The immediate cause of anxiety for us all, to which you especially allude, is the lamented departure of several of our brethren who have lately forsaken our communion. It is indeed matter for much sadness and sorrow that any of its members should have been so deceived as to lend their talents, given them, as I truly believe, for far other ends, to support the cause of ecclesiastical usurpation, of crea ture worship, and of religious imposture. But, unhap pily, their minds being thus over-clouded, and their affec tions alienated from the Church in whose bosom they were born anew to spiritual life, and nourished by the ample means of grace therein mercifully afforded to the children of God, and their influence once exerted to seduce others from their allegiance to her, it is, indeed, well that they have gone out from among us, and can no longer misuse the power committed to them by our Church to her own hurt and hindrance." " For these fallen brethren we shall never, I trust, cease to pray, in the spirit of compassionate love, that their hearts may be led by the Eternal Spirit of Truth to dis cern the error of their ways, and to return to the fold which they have forsaleen. " But their unhappy trespass will surely read a lesson of seasonable warning to each of us, and remind us that we cannot, with impunity, pour contempt upon the Church of our baptism, in which we have grown in grace, and in the saving knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; that if we wantonly dispise the spiritual privileges we have enjoyed within it, instead of thankfully and re verently using them, where God has appointed us our place, we may well expect that He will, in his anger, take them from us, and that if we indulge a morbid yearning after an earthly visible centre of union, while we have the Lord Jesus Christ as our spiritual head, ever living to dispense to us from above the rich blessings of His Cove nant of Grace, we may be provoking the Lord of Hosts to punish us as he did the Israelites of old, by giving us up to our hearts and lusts, and letting us follow our own ima ginations. " The lamented fall of our brethren will likewise teach us the danger of tampering with practices which may seem to us innocent and even edifying, but of which history and experience have so forcibly proved to us the peril, and which tie Church of England has either expressly reprobated or tacitly discountenanced. For my own part, I confess that I feel little temptation to despondency or discouragement, when I look to the many signal marks of God's providential care vouchsafed to our Church, to the truth and purity of the doctrines she teaches, and to the many evidences of spiritual life within her, among which I would thankfully acknowledge the assurance given me by such a body as yourselves, of your anxiety to de vote yourselves more earnestly than ever to the duties of your sacred calling in the Church whose vows are upon you. Let us only hold fast her doctrines of primitive authority—let us but carry out, in the spirit of fidelity, her recognised teaching as embodied in that definite ex pression of Gospel truth set forth in her Liturgy, Articles, and homilies, remembering that, in subordination to the enlightenment of the Spirit of God, we have accepted these as our interpreters of His holy word, and we may humbly believe that we shall be safe ourselves, and, like wise, through grace, save them who hear us." SPORTING IN SOUTH LANCASHIRE COURSING CLUB The meeting of this club was held at Chatsworth, on Wednesday and Thursday last, under the patronage of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. The Chatsworth Cup, for 16 all-aged dogs, was won by Mr. Bake's Butterfly ; Mr. King's The Baron ran up. The Devonshire Puppy Cup was won by Mr. King's Miss Sarah ; Mr. Hardman's Mayflower ran up. The Burlington Cup, for 16 all-aged dogs, was won by Mr. Richardson's Reserve ; Mr. E. Taylor's Harpurhey Lass ran up. The Cavendish Stakes. Both the dogs which would have to run the deciding course belonging to one party (Mr. Jepson), the stake was divided between them—viz., Flisker and Peter. The Edensor Stakes were won by Mr. Thomas's Rapid; Mr. Bake's Blythe ran up. The Bakewell Stakes were won by Mr. Bake's Little Bess ; Mr. Chew's Mostyn Lass ran up. To AVOID CRUELTY TO THE HORSE IN HUNTING. — That fox or stag hunting is the frequent cause of a great deal of cruelty and suffering to horses is quite clear ; that is, when they get into certain hands. I have some years since seen the Hon. Mr. P., with his horse spurred from shoulder to flank, and that because, from want of com mon sense and judgment in the early part of the day, he bad beaten a good horse before it was half over. If this is not cruelty, Ido not know what is. Depend upon it, the man who would be guilty of it towards his horse, would be equally the brute to his wife or child. God forbid that he should have either the one or the other ! Let no man tell me that enthusia,sm in the chase is an ex cuse for premeditated and wanton cruelty. I maintain it to be wanton cruelty to butcher a good horse, when the only plea we can produce for so doing is a wish to see more of the end of the run, as if a man could never see another during his life. I can assert from experience and observation—and have had no small share of the former, or want of opportunity for the latter, in these matters — that 1 never knew one of these real butchering riders in the field who was not a brute in all his relative connexions with society. Let it not be supposed, that I mean in any way to infer, that riding straight to hounds necessarily in volves cruelty to the hunter; quite the contrary. I am perfectly satisfied, and I am quite sure the best judges in these matters will agree with me, that the man who rides straightest to hounds, generally speaking, distresses his horse the least; he keeps near enough to watch the lead ing 'hound, or couple or two hounds, by which be is enabled often to avail himself of sound ground instead of heavy, and perhaps cut the whole angle of a 50 or 60 acre field. if hounds throw up their noses for only half a minute, he can give bis horse the full benefit of tbat half minute ; and half a minute, aye, ten seconds, is an age to a horse all but blown. When they hit it off, he is off with them ; they don't gain an inch on him ; he has no ground to make up, for he is ready to take his place. Long may he keep it both here, and in his chase through life.--Barry Hieover's Stable Talk and Table Talk. Cauut has abandoned his action against the stakeholder, to recover back his stakes in the late fight, thus leaving Bendigo in quiet possession of the needful. YEARS ENDED JAN. 5. 1845. 1846. Incr. & Dem.. £ £ £ £ Customs 20,387,672118,105,206 .... 2273,466 Excise.... Stamps Taxes Property Tax.. 5,191,596 5,026,570 .... 165,026 Post Office.... 675,000 731,000 56,000 .... Crown Lands.. 155,000 120,000 .... 25,000 Miscellaneous. 693,630 1,263,241 560,611 .... Total Ordinary Revenue.... 50,081,887 48,799,085 1190,690 2473,492 Imprest & other Moneys .... 287,138 323,944 45,806 .... Repayments of Advances .. 875,513 1,478,959 603,446 Total Income. 51,235,538 150,601,918 1,1839.912 / 2473,942 Deduct Increase QU ARTERS 633,550 £ 1 £ 4,902,135 3,230,940 1,601,658 1,880,490 487,541 146,000 50,000 9,120 547,346 12,307,954 146,750 250,980 107,897 •• • • 190,744 . . .... 4.439 . . 100,556 . 43 000 , .... 25,000 360,2811 701,922 677,341 .... 82,674 153,1991 RAILWAY INTELLitiEn CB, On Thursday the ceremony of raising the first sod of the Irish Midland Great Western Railway was performed by the Lord Lieutenant. The extension of railways during the last three years from about 1,503 to 2,000 miles, has had the effect of in creasing the average receipts per mile from about £l,BOO to £3,200, and the total returns from about £2,600,000 to just £4,000,000. It appears, from a published list of the railway plans deposited at the Private Bill-office and House of Lords, up to the 31st December, that not fewer than 549 of the lines provisionally registered have been abandoned by their projectors. It is said that the Croydon Atmospheric line will be opened for public traffic on Monday week, and that in the experiments lately made with heavy loads, 130 tons have been conveyed over the viaduct of 1 in 50, that bridges the Brighton and South Eastern lines. In consequence of the scarcity of English draughtsmen, a party of about a dozen Dutchmen, imported from Am sterdam, areemployed in copying railway plans at Lincoln. It is stated that Frenchmen are similarly employed in London. RAILWAY SUBSCRIPTION CONTRACTS.—An immense " blue book" has just been issued, in compliance with an order of the House of Commons last Session, and in con tinuation of a return which last year made some consider able stir. It is a list of sabscribers for less than £2OOO, to any of the railways of last Session. The details pos sess no interest whatever. The total amount of these subscriptions is £21,386,703 6s. 4d. LIVERPOOL AND BOLTON DIRECT.—This embryo pro ject, like many of the recent railway schemes, is to ba abandoned, in consequence of its financial prospects being exceedingly gloomy. At a meeting of the acting commit tee, held last week, the first resolution passed was, that the company was insolvent. This resolution was adopted after the statement of the accounts had been produced, from which it appeared that whilst the expenses already incurred amounted to £4,000, the entire deposits were only £7OO ! We understand that the engineer's account against the company is £1,700, and the advertising account upwards of £2OO. There are about forty seven members of the provisional committee, and the solicitors have been instructed to apply to each of those gentlemen for the sum of £lOO, to meet the liabilities. WOOD BRIDGES V. STONE BRIDGES ON RAILWAYS. —The timber bridge costs £lOOO, lasts twenty years, and requires an occasional coat of paint : the stone would cost £3OOO in the hands of the proprietor, and he prefers the timber bridge at £lOOO, placing the iemaining sum of £2OOO in the funds. At the end of twenty years he finds that the accumulated interest has not only doubled his capital of £2OOO and made it £4OOO, but has also paid for the painting and slight repairs of his bridge ; and with his £4OOO he may now build, if requisite, a new timber bridge at an expense of £lOOO, and replace untouched the whole of his original capital. I❑ like manner it will fol low that a timber bridge costing only half of a stone one, and lasting twenty years, will be cheaper in the end than a stone bridge lasting for ever, because the other half of the capital thus saved would, in twenty years, more than double itself, or reproduce the whole sum of the original investment.— Weak's. Ensamples of Railway Making. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—On Friday week, a man en gaged on the Midland railway, at the Methley station, in unloading some waggons, was run over by a train and killed.—On Saturday, one of the workmen employed at a reservoir, at the Leeds station, left his work for a mo ment to watch the departure of one of the trains to York. While he was watching the York train depart, the Sow erby Bridge train came up, and before he could get out of the way, he was struck, and doubled up by the fire-box. He is likely to recover.—A collision took place on the Midland line on Saturday week, when the " brake" of the Selby train was completely smashed, and the two engines attached to the Midland train were shattered to pieces. The broken parts were so jammed together, and such were the difficulties attending their removal, that it was eleven o'clock at night before even one line of rails could be cleared of the fragments.—On Thursday, two men were killed on the Pontop and South Shields line, by the falling of an immense heap of ballast.—On the same day, a train of loaded ballast waggons, with twelve excavators, on the line at present in progress to Canter bury from the South-Eastern Railway, was precipitated down an embankment, in consequence of the train going further than was intended, through the density of the fog. The waggons were dashed to atoms. One labourer was killed, and several others seriously hurt. ABSTRACTION OF TRAFFIC BY RAILWAYS.—We may cite one instance, as showing how the whole carrying business of the districts through which it passes must ultimately find its way to the railroad. In former days, the transit of much of the heavy goods to and from the west of England passed by the Kennet and Avon Canal. When the Great Western Railway was first in agitation, the proprietors of the canal were disarmed from all oppo sition ; they were told that the railroad was only fitted for light goods—that it never would interfere with the canal business—that, in fact, i t would rather be of service to it, by materially increasing the traffic of the district. The railroad was completed. As it passed through the stone districts, it began to carry stone to mend its own bridges : this was natural. As it came from a coal country, it carried coal to its own depots : this was natural likewise. By and bye, it began to add to the carriage of its own Itone and coal the carriage of a little of other people's. ts luggage trains were extended and improved, till it ended by carrying everything for everybody. The only chance the canal had of competing with its gigantic rival was by materially reducing its charges. By so doing, the proprietors preserved their traffic in its former extent; for the canal itself is an excellent one, and all its arrange ments of high order. But, of course, they reduced their profit pr , cisely in the same ratio that they reduced their fares. Now they are wisely following the torrent, and turning their canal into a railroad. It passes through districts where a railroad is much needed, and to which such an establishment will be a great boon.—Church of England Quarterly Review. THE REVENUE. An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended the sth of January, 1845 and 1846, showing the Increase or De crease thereof. 4,354,798 3,331,837 1,792,402 1,876,051 386,985 189,000 25,000 369,471 12,332,532 64,084 404,179 Decrease on the Year. Excise Stamps Taxes Property Tax Post Office . • Crown Lands . Miscellaneous Total Ordinary Revenue.... Imprest&other Moneys Repayments of Advances .. ENDED JAN. 5 Total Income 112,705,693 112,800,798 Deduct Decrease ........ , 855,1211 760,016 760,016 Increase on the Quarter.... £95,105 The returns are in the highest degree satisfactory, ex hibiting a steady progressive prosperity in the finances of the country, and, by a necessary consequence, in its in dustry. The net revenue for the year just terminated amounts to £50,601,988. . _ _ .- .. The net revenue for the year ending January 5, 1845, amounted to £51,235,538. There has therefore been a decrease of £635,550. This decrease is, however, to be accounted for in a manner the most encouraging, namely, by the reduction of the taxation, viz.:— _ _ __.. ___ Customs reduction in Sugar duties ...... £1,300,000 Coal • • ..... Sundries 320,000 Cotton Wool 680,000 £2,418,000 Excise, Auction duties . ... • • £250,000 Glass £890,000 Customs and Excise Here then we have a reduction of three millions three hundred thousand pounds of taxes, and a decrease of six hundred and thirty-three thousand pounds of revenue— equivalent, as every one must see, to an actual increase of the difference, namely, two millions six hundred and fifty-three thousand pounds. The great amount of decrease is necessarily under the head of the Customs ; under which, as we have seen, there has been a reduction of £2,518,000 ; and even under this head the decrease falls considerably short of the re duction—though, as must be apparent where so much revenue has been given up, absolutely and totally, as it has been given up in the case of cotton wool, coals, and sundries, there can be no compensation from increased consumption. In the Excise, notwithstanding the sacrifice of the auction and glass duties to the extent of nearly £900,000, there is an actual increase upon the year to the amount of £17,000; while on the Stamps, the index to an active commerce, as the Excise is to the ease and comfort of Ihe mass of the people, the increase upon the year greatly exceeds half a million. Upon the Postoffice, too, there is a considerable increase. Jan. 13, 1846. 3irtls, itlarriagrs aiib Bratl)s. BIR'T'HS. On the 4th instant, at the Parsonage, Henbury, Cheshire, the wife of the Rev. John Hebden, of 's son. _ On the sth instant, atimitliilllntiSe, Beds, the Hon. Mrs' Petre, of a daughter. ___ Same day, at Giosvenor-square, London, the Hon. W S ' Charles Stanley, of a daughter. On the 7th instant. at Norfolk- crescen t, L on d on , the lady of Sir George Philip Lee, of a son. MARRIED On the 11th ultimo, L. Adams, Esq., solicitor, Ruthin, to ca roline Louisa, daughter of the late P. Jones, Esq. On the 12th ultimo, at Annan, Mr. Joseph Younger, aged -"' 0, to Mrs. Catherine Cousin, of Glass, n, aged 70. This is the fourth husband by whom the blooming Catherine has been led to the Temple of Hymen. On the 23rd ultimo, at Naples. M. Adolphe Auguste DS Stotler, of Berne, Switzerland, to Henrietta Knox, daughter of the late Hon. Lord Bishop of Derry. On the 25th ultimo, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. Mr' Townsend, Mr. Williams, coach-builder. of Shaw's-roW, Rachael, daughter of Mr. Farrar, of London-road. On the 3rd instant, at Denbigh, Mr. S. Jones. of Cefn dog, near St. Asaph, to Miss Catherine Roberts, of St. Asaph. . . On Monday, the sth instant, at the Parish Church, ' Preston., by the Rev. J. Owen Parr, M.A. Vicar, Mr. William Rigg, Lancaster, late of Preston, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Robert Saul, of Preston. Same day, at Hamburgh, Wm. Preller, Esq., of thi to Olivia Charlotte, youngest daughter of Charles Esq., late of London on the 6th instant, at St. Mark's Church, Mr. Charles Tur neau to Mary Ann, daughter of the late T. Wheeler, Esq., of Ulverston. On the 7th instant, at the Wesleyan Chapel, St. Helen , James Stubbs, of Whiston, to Miss Mary:Batten, of St. Helen's Same day, Mr. Thomas Jones, of Great Howard-street, to Eliza, daughter of Mr. J. Windus, of Plumbe-street. Same day, at St. Bride's Church, by the Rev. J. H. Stewart, Mr. John Latham, slater and plasterer, to Mary Ann, youngest daughter of Mr. Joseph Hargreaves. _ _ On the Sth instant, at Man - Chester, Mr. John Evans, of nan golen, to Miss A. Owen. of the former place. Same day, at Leeds, by the Rev. W. .F. Hook, D.D., the Rev. Michael Henry Simpson, 8.A., to Elizabeth He .drick, grand daughter of the late Darcy Lever, Esq., of Alkrington-hall, tD this county. Same day, at Walton-le-Dale, Montague Joseph, second soli of W. Feilden, Esq., of Feniscowles, in this county, member for the borough of Blackburn, to Mary Ann, only child of the 1 ate Mr. W. Valentine, of Cuerdale. On the gth instant, at Llanwenilingfo Church, Anglesey, by the Rev. W. D, Roberts, Mr. Joseph Evans, 14, Mill-street, to Miss Frances Roberts, of Tyddyn Maue, Anglesey . On the 11th in <t , at St. John the Baptist's Church, Tosteth park, by the Rev. J. Hassall, M.A., G. Robertson, Esq., youcgest son of the late Thomas Robertson, Esq., of Hambnrgh, to Anne, eldest daughter of John Clarke, Esq., of Burnes, Herefordshire. Same day. at St. John the Baptist's Church, Toxtetli.parlr, Mr. William Brown, of North Berwick, to Helen. daughter of Mr. William Cunningham, of Leith. On the 12th instant, at St, John the Baptist's Church, Mr. Walter Johnson, son of the late Quintin Johnson, excise-officer, to Ellen, daughter of Mr. James Smith, of Toxteth-park. On the 20th November last, at the Cathedral in Bombay, by the Rev. Archdeacon Ager, Captain Henry Harper Ager, to Elizabeth, fourth daughter of the late Mr. Edward Burne, of this town. DIED On the 25th ultimo, aged 3 months, Mary Kesia, daughter of Mr. William Hughes, pilot, Wa wick-street. On the -7th ultimo, at Sandon, aged 69, Jeremiah Grinders, Esq., formerly of Croxton, Cheshire, and for thirty years the highly-respected agent of Earl Talbot, of Ingestrie. On the 28th ultimo, at Dover, aged 91 years, E.iza Marianne, relict of the late D. Hall, Esq. On the 29th ultimo, at the house of his stepmother, in Tarleton atreet, aged 42, Mr. 'I hemas Wood, watchmaker. Same day, at the Rectory, Clocaerog, aged 67, the Rev. John Saine day, at Nantwich, aged 45, Mr. T. P. Jones, agent tO the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company in Shrewsbury. On the 30th ultimo, at the house of Mr. G. Pritchard, Vaux hall-road, aged 63, Mr. Robert Hunter. Same day, at his residence, Seymour-street, in his 75th years Thomas Dennison, Esq., late American Consul at Bristol. On the 31st ultimo, at Bootle, aged 50, Mr. Joseph Langley. On the Ist instant, after a short illness of 10 days, aged 66, Ann, the wife of Mr. John Evans, coach-builder, of this town. Same day, in Oxford-street, in her 78th year, Elizabeth, relict of T. Nevitt, Esq. Same day, suddenly, aged 29, Mr. Thomas Highdale, tide waiter in her Majesty's Customs. On the 2nd instant, aged 40, Eleanor Sophia, wife of J. P. Kirby, Esq., of Everton. Same day, aged 86, Mr. John Blinkhorn. the chapel of ease at Great Crosby forty years Same day, aged 4 r, John Dicken, Esq., of Waters Upton-hall, Salop He was clerk at Same day, in his 74th year, the Rev. Wm. Ward, formerly of Great Wigston, and for forty-one years the highly-esteemed pastor of the Independent Church at Stowmarket, Suffolk. Same day, after a lingering Llness. aged 70. Rachael Brown field, wife of Mr. E. Lawson, sen., of Upper Hill-street, Toxteth park, and only daughter of the late D. Foulke. Esq., of Gwernigron, near St. Asaph, and granddaughter of the late G. Hockn till, Esq., of Tranmera -hall, Cheshire, On the 3rd instant, aged 35, Mr. T. Hulbert. Same day, at Everton, aged 41, Adam Ashton, Esq. Same day, near Ruthin, in his 68th year, Mr. S. Edwards, formerly overseer of the poor of the pari s h of Wrexham. Same day, at Manchester, aged 73, Robert Scaile, Esq. Same day, at Eccleshill, Mr. Thomas Waddington; also, in her 70th year, Ann, wife of the above. They were both borne to the grave at the same time. Same day, aged 53, Mrs. Mary Stone, late of Falmouth. Same day, at Burtnnwood, in her 82nd year, Sarah, relict of the late M. Gaskell, Esq. Same day, at Mattishall, Norfolk, in her CBth year. Ann, relict of the late Rev. T. Bodham. This venerable lady was daughter of the Rev. Roger Donne, of Catfield, and first cousin of William Cowper. On the 4th instant, aged 11 months, John Robinson, infant son of Mr. J. Atkinson, livery-stablekeeper. Same day, at Whitchurch, Salop, Mary Ann, IA Jenkin, architect and surveyor. On the sth instant, Miss Martha Milnes Rutherford, niece Of Mrs. Broklebank, of Stafford-street. Same day, aged 11 years, Mary Catherine, eldest daughter of Mr. Beausire, of Brighton-house, Wallasey. Same day, aged 78, Maria, relict of Mr. E. Hutchinson. Same day, at Braughing, Herts, in his 83rd year, the Rev. Francis Edward Say, fifty years vicar of Braughing, and rector of Hatley St. Ge rge, Cambridge. Same day, aged 14, William, only son of Mr. W. Clements. Same ay, at her residence, in Cleave-street, Everton, aged 53, Ann, widow of the late Mr. E. Davis, of Commutation-row Same day, at Hull, aged 04, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster. a member of the Wesleyan Society upwards of forty years. Same day, at his residence in the Rue de la Paix, Paris, Mr. Lewis Goldsmith, father of Lady Lyndhurst. His decease was somewhat unexpected, although his health had been in a precarious state for some time. On the 6th instant aged 55, Ann, wife of Mr. J. Stephenson , of Birkenhead. fe of Mr. G She waß Same day, at Lamberton.park, Maryborcugh, Right Hon. Arthur Mc ore. On the 7th instant, in Bruton-street, London, in his 7srd year, Lord Granville. Same day, at her brother's residence, Stanley-crescent, Kirk dale, at an advanced age, Miss Cantrell. Same day, at Surbiton. near Kingston, Surrey, age 1 98, hits. Grace Brodie, relict of the late F. Brodie, Esq., of Moyvore house, county Westmeath. On the Bth instant, aged 71, Elizabeth, relict of the late Mr. J. Sudlow: aged S 2, the Same day, at her residente, Hamilton-square, Birkenhead, Susanna, third daughter of the late H. Duckworth, Esq., of Manchester. Same day, at the residence of his mother, in Russell-street, aged 23, Hugh. youngest son of the late Mr. Thomas Fergie, joiner. Same day, at her residence, Edge-hill, in the 71st year of her age Mary, relict of Andrew Aiken, Esq., late H. B. M.'s Consul at Riga. On the 9th instant, at her residence, Upper-street, Islington, Middlesex, in her 92nd year, Elizabeth, widow of the late J. Cross, Esq. Same day, at Clifton, Miss Elizabeth M'lver, of this town. GALL ANT FEAT.—During the passage of Her ?Majesty's steamer Hecla from Beyrout to Constantinople, a man fell overboard, when the wind was blowing a gale, the sea running very high. Not knowing that the man was a very delicate constitution, Lieutenant Hire, regardless of the risk he incurred, jumped overboard to his rescue, and succeeded in grasping the man firmly at the moment be was sinking. The engines were backed, and a boat lowered, when both were rescued from their perilous position with considerable difficulty. SWINDLING BY A SELF-STYLED RAILWAY " PRO MOTER —At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, a person named Benjamin Brown was convicted and sen tenced to twelve months' imprisonment for having swindled a silly linendraner named Jacobs out of .£5O in cash, and a bill of exchange for .12.50, under pretence of procuring him a situation as clerk on one of two railways , of which he called himself the projector, and which he falsely stated to be duly registered. The lines were mag nilogently styled " The Alb er t L on d on an d O x f or d Rail way," and the " Prince of Wales Oxford and London Railway ! ' LORD PALMERSTON AND LORD GREY.—THE CRIST• —The Times does not do justice to Lord Grey. He did not refuse to sit in the Cabinet with Lord Palmerston. On the contrary, he offered to give him the Colonial office, and take any thing they pleased for himself. But, recollecting Palmerston's vagaries when in office, and his denunciation of the Ashburton Treaty, he would not act if Palmerston was to be Foreign Secretary. Again, the Times represents Grey as having acted with apparent cordiality for a time, and then come out with an objection he kept in reserve. Grey was not privy to the move, and not very early invited to join. He stated this objection from the first. 1 have no more to do with Grey than all of the rest ; but fair play is fair play. Still, it remains to be asked, was Lord Grey right, judicious ? It ma y be said that the whigs ought to have formed an interim Ca' binet to have carried the corn-law, on the understanding that there was to be a reconstruction or resignation as soon as this was done. By making an interim cabinets they could, at its first meeting, have opened the ports bl an order in council; and having done that, resigned next day, sure that Parliament would not dare to shut theta again. Even suppose the party could have been brough t to do this, Lord Palmerston, who would have the Fong° office or nothing, is as much to blame as Lord Grey; But Lord Lansdowne would not hear of so bold and straightforward a course. Cottenham would not ; and Palmerston himself would not. There was nothing to 116 gained worth the risk of letting Palmerston rule the Fo reign office during the week the President's message wa g expected. Peel has the game again in his own hands. If he is not too twisted by habit he can do this :—lntrn' duce and carry an act to decree that, at the end of threes four, or five years, all duties on imported grain shall ceag e and determine : that during the year 1846 a duty of 55 : shall be levied on imported grain ; during 1847, of 49- 1818, of 3s. ; 1819, of 2s. ; 1850, of Is. This would gl ce the total repealers certainty that all protective duties would be abolished, almost as soon as foreign countries could get additional supplies ready for us ; the land: owners, that they had time to prepare for competition the gradually disappearing duty would remove the terne' tation to hold back immediately before it expired, to order to bring in free. Peel could induce his own con' servatives to do this ; the Buckingham-Richmond m al t contents on the one hand—the official whigs, (some them,) and the League, (perhaps,) on the other—mig l . l „ try to thwart him : but the Patrick Maxwell Stewartst id parliament ; the Leadbetters, (Glasgow,) and all that ion of people, would support him. But Ido not think P e : can get over his old shuffling habits sufficiently to do tht Ile will try something less, and make a mess of n• Correspondent of Tait's Magazine.