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etteraturr. T ON SH E LLEY, ;o did thy spirit. Leaping aloft w ship's c reign pc pied. by Gwynn burgh p might end buried in RIETI Its birth 3e raised to the Eng it equally to his lord- I his &no Tons fo- pn Gun-cotton n Pall Mall. now occu- atv for the Propagation of the Gospel, was d by Charles 11., as a freehold, to Nell ARGESI Y IN THE EMPIRE munic ipa- r is not above half united into one, ti szow will r AND YFIILEMON o called, in Great Britain—Edin- granted to them, for —An aged married pair united ages numbered ;ed a - wish that they few hours of each other ;ether at the same period, and be This their mournful wish was e old couple lately died within a Rothley o SCOT( d were interred in one grave at Monday —Leicester paper, _RMEN AND IRISHMEN.—We were reminded of an unpublished anecdote of David Wilkie, related to a friend of ours by a London landlady of the artist's. When he came to town, she said, he rented one of her at tic?, and she had an Irishman on her first floor; but in ;ed places. " And so I always Irishmen begin on the first floor find it and end on the first t a hawker c side of t Railway, oily t a piece of taken his crown amo the newspi of the won the Scotch kitchen poke I begin in the garret, Sot long e to a. co mounting and bawl' Johnson, detain the punishe gb to r railway, rattled ,Rue of a his crime 1 every side least pc CURIOUS ALTS y, while t of olio& THE CHURCH AND THE PROTECTIONISTS (From the Oxford and Cambridge Review.) Perhaps it may be thought that the true refuge for the Church under present circumstances is the Protectionist or Country party. We have striven to speak well of the said Country party. We could not but feel a strong sym pathy with them in the late session of Parliament, when they had to battle out a losing cause against the minister who had betrayed them ; but, apart from those peculiar circumstances in which they were at that time placed, we confess that we can but speak of them with very qualified approval. Especially in the matter of the Church, we doubt their having any sounder or deeper views than the mere Conservatives. At least, if the general character of a party may be gathered from the individual character of th . ose units which constitute it, the Church views of the Country party must be, to say the least, somewhat indis tinct and hasy. Lord Stanley, when, as a member of the Peel government, he, in 1845, opposed the St. Asaph and Bangor Bill, spoke more decidedly against the increase of English Bishopricks than any other noble lord who took part in the debate. Lord George Bentinck has not, pro bably, found time to turn his attention to a subject not very congenial, and apparently not very pressing. Mr. D'lsraeli's church views may be described askalf Angli can, half Romanist, and haff Jewish. And as for those very respectable country gentlemen wbo form the mass of the Protectionist party, and give it all its importance, whether in Parliament or in the country, sure we are that not one in ten of them has any other wish with regard to the Church than that things should be let alone—that par sons should not be over pious —and that Puseyism should them that five or six thousand more clergy are wanted for England and Wales, only, that twenty or thirty new bi sbopricks are required, that five thouiand new schools. and nearly an equal number of churches have to be built, that fresh laws are needed with respect to the matters of cle rical supervision, and Church discipline, that the powers of the Diocesan courts should be revived; hint further, that something of liberty in regard to the election, of Bishops, some real voice in the matter should be restored to the Chapters, and add that it is hoped Convocation will ere long be allowed to meet for the dispatch of business. and thenceforth sit regularly with every Parliament—and you will be at once set down for a Puseyite or a luna tic. These respectable gentlemen would hold up their hands in horror, at the bare mention of such a catalogtre of reforms, and would look on the proposer of them as an ecclesiastical radical. Their notion is, that the Church should keep quiet.—` let well alone,' as they phrase it. They would have all remain as they knew it in their days , - these are the sort of clergymen they would wish to see perpetuated, this is their beau ideal of what a clergyman should be. All stir in the Church they deprecate; they think it dangerous; they know not what may come of it. To expect them to aid in that regeneration of our Church which is at present in progress, to expect them to lend a helping hand to what they so little comprehend, and so far as they comprehend distrust, appears to us a very san guine, not to say a silly notion. No ! it may be th.a. the Church is wholly beset by enemies, and has nothing to hope for from any existing political party —it may bet bat the Whig policy will not correspond to our anticipations of it, and the Church will at last be thrown wholly upon herself and her own resources,—all this is yet in the womb of time, and we pretend not to the gift of vaticination,— but of one thing, at least, we are sure, the Protectionists will be found by the Church but a bruised reed for her to lean on. Already is there rife among Protectionists a feeling of anger against the Clergy and the Church generally on account of their tacit aquiescence in the great event of the last session, the repeal of the duties upon foreign grain. That neither University should have petitioned against the change, that the colleges should have remained quiet, that the ,aapters should have looked on in seeming indif ference, that the Clergy should nowhere have made a stand, that a majority of the Bishops should have voted for the Church, in the eyes of that party which has made protec tion its battle-cry, and holds all other points as of secon )rtance. They are provoked, grievously provo- tentedness - under the new arrangement. They cannot un derstand how a class, whose incomes are the most threat ened of any by the change, should so readily submit to it. They fail altogether to appreciate that noble and generous sentiment which has pervaded the clerical body, and in duced the members of it to abstain from all interference, with a legislation, which, while it may fall indeed evme what heavily upon themselves, promises to increase the comforts, and ameliorate the condition of those for whom they are especially bound to care, the poor of Christ's flock. Instead of sympathising with such prais.-.worthy self-denial, they are wont to acuse the clergy of deserting them, and are not unfrequently heard to utter threats of future retaliation. HONOUR TO THE FAIR SEX!-At the risk of vexing some who would not have their good deeds brought too Prominently forward, we cannot avoid making honoura ble mention of the remarkable perseverance and devotion of the daughters of General Simcoe, wbo distinguished himself in the American war. These ladies, on the ruins r which they worked all the stone with erected a church, f their own hands. A large drawing room, commenced by the general, and not finished, served for the atcfl'er. We have a worthy companion for these ladies, whose names we mention with all due respect, in Miss Rickards, of Stow Langtoft, Bury, who has, with her own hands, as we hear, glazed all the windows in her father's church, with stained glass, painted and burnt by herself 1-7-Builder. LD WOMAN AND THE TELEGRAPH.—Last week died with his goods at a small house by the York and Newcastle (Brandling Junction) mut half a mile from the station at South found an old woman at home alone. His ne and ,tering wares tempted her to break into d become a purchaser. After he bad le had gi She had read I also heard her neighbours talk nd climbing aph ; so, snatching up the ip the embankment, she ve an alarm But the poker was the machinery. Back she ran long brush," and re wires of the telegraph, :r voice to inform Mr. and desire him to le might have him —Gaiesh FARE ad Observer e following was the .ceps of real turtle, con- s of sherbet, 6 dishes o' s and oysters, 60 roast s, 46 ditto of capons, 6 ditto of odia curries, 50 French rnamented ; 43 tongues, ons of beef, 3 rounds of 60 ditto of mashed and fish, 4 ditto of prawns, fishes of tarts, creamed ; s of orifoge and other 6 leve: s of partridges. 15 sert-100 pineapples dishes of hothouse grapes, armies. 100 dishes of pears, ates of walnuts, 80 ) plates of preserved )lates of s and Chips, 46 I st any degree of cold successive doses of it malty almost unbear- • seeing the left cheeks of nearly simultaneously frost-bitten in north- y Canadians, and others lings it always ap- On entering, little inn, a number of ling their and sitting in silence immediately in front of st stove of such excruciating power, that it really feels as if it would roast the very eves in their sockets ; and yet, as one endures this agony, the ADVICE TO - AN INTRNDINn SERIALIST.-- have. there back part is as cold as if it belonged to-what ta vatted at Ift.te, tittle opportutitty of judging whether the characters home ' Old Father Christmas!" I one day inquired of a depicted by some of our later serialists, are exact copies fine ruddy honest-looking man who called upon me, and from nature or reverse. I have, however, beard several whose toes and insteps of each foot had been truncated, young ladies declare them to be extremely natural, though how the accident happened. . He told me that the first I confess to have been somewhat puzzled as, to their means er he can' forest, and that after hours, feeling pain sant to remark, that it seems difficult to imagine what kind in hisl from the flesh im- mediate o put them on again sure can be derived from the description of a scene, which, if actually contemplated by the reader, would in spire him with loathing and disgust, or from conversa in which the brutal alternates with the positive ob . The fetid den of the Jew, the stinking cellar of the thief, the squalid attic of the prostitute, are not haunts for honest men, and the less that we know of them the better. Such places no doubt exist—the more is the pity ; but so do dunghills, and a hundred other filthy things, which the imagination shudders at whenever they are forced upon it,—for the man who willingly and deli berately dwells upon such subjects, is, notwithstanding all pretext, in heart and soul a nightman ! Don't tell me about close painting after nature. Nature is n't always His stockings, old ones, soon wore into as hurriedly pr ceedin, out fee saw with alarm, hut with- and then ano ces of brittle stick ; ed to advance till he to an inhabited log-house, reat pain, till his cure was st one tc reached a path wn where he remained —The Etiii.grayit, by Sir F. B. Head SSDI EN —There never to be painted as she really is. Would you hang up such paintings in your drawing-room? If not, why suffer them in print to lie upon your drawing-room tables? What are Eugene Sue and his English competitors, but coarser and more prurient Ostades?—Blacktrood's Magazine. CURIOSITIES IN GARDENlNG.—Gardening, as well as literature, has its "curiosities," and a volume might be filled with them. How wonderful, for instance, the sensi tive plant, which shrinks from the hand of man—the ice plant, that almost cools one by looking at it—the pitcher plant. with its welcome draught—the air trigger of the stylidium—and the carniverous " Venus' fly-trap" (Dio at the shoals of itine- I na?a muscipula— " Only think of ,eing carniverous 1" which is said to bait its prickles with something which at tracts the flies, upon which it then closes, and whose de cay is supposed to afford food for the plant. Disease is turned into beauty in the common and crested moss rose, and a tutus naturce reproduced in the hen-and-chicken daisy. There are phosphorescent plants, the fire-flies and glowing-worms of the vegetable kingdom. There are the microscopic lichens and mosses ; and there is the Rafflesia Arnoldi, each of whose petals is a foot long, its nectary a foot in diameter, and deep enough to contain three gallons, and weighing fifteen pounds! What mimicry is there in the orchises, and the hare's foot fern, and the Tartarian lamb, (Polypodium Baroneylz!) What shall we say to Gerard's Barnacle tree, " whereon do grow certain shells of a white colour tending to russet, wherein are contained little living creatures ; w ich shells in time of maturity do open, and out of them grow these little living things, which falling into the water become fowles, which are called Barnacles!" What monsters (such at least •' are called by botanists) has art ers, in dwarfing and hybridising produced in doubling flow " painting the lily"— alley, and pink violets if it be true that there is no instance of a yellow and blue vari Foreigners turn to good account this foolish rage of ours for everything novel, and monstrous, and unnatural, more worthy of Japan and China than of England, by imposing upon the credulous seeds and cuttings of yellow moss roses, and scarlet laburnums, and fra such like.. grant iteonies, and SIR ROBERT PEEL IN 1841 AND 1846.—" That party, [the Conservative,] " gentlemen, has been pleased to In trust your representative with its confidence . (cheers) ; and, notwithstanding all the remarks that have been made at various times, respecting differences of opinion and jea lousy among them, you may depend upon it that they are altogether without foundation ; and that that party which has paid me the compliment of taking my advice, and fol lowing my counsel, are a united and compact party, among which there does not exist the slightest difference of opinion in respect to the principles they support, and the course they may desire to pur,ue. (Cheers.) Gen tlemen, I hope I have not abused the confidence of that great party." ! ! (Loud cheers.) [Speech of Sir R. Peel at the Tamworth Election, pp. 4, 5.] I give the elo quent and eminent speaker credit for feeling a sot t of twinge, a pang, a spasm, on reading the above. One more extract I will give relative to the recent con.:uct of Sir R. Peel on the sugar-duties !—" The question 'bow is, gentlemen, whether, after the sacrifices which this country has made for the suppression of the slave-trade, and the abolition of slavery, and the glorious results that have en sued, and are likely to ensue from these sacrifices, we shall run the risk of losing the benefit of these sacrifices, and tarnishing for ever that glory, by admitting to the British markets sugar, the produce of foreign slavery ? Gentlemen, the character of this country, in respect to slavery, is thus spoken of by one of the most eloquent writers and statesmen of another country, Dr. Charming, of the United States :—' Great Britain, loaded with an unprecedented debt, and with a grinding taxation, con tracted a new debt of a hundred millions of dollars, to give freedom, not to Englishmen, but to the degraded African. I know not that history records an act so disinterested, so sublime. In the progress of ages, England's naval tri umphs will sink into a more and more narrow space on the records of our race. This moral triumph. ill fill a broader, brighter page.' Gentlemen," proceeded Sir Ro bert Peel, " let us take care that this ' bright page be not sullied by the admissioh of slave sugar into the consump tion of this country, by our unnecessary encouragement of slavery and the slave-trade." [Speech, pp. 8, 9.] —Blackwood's Magazine. us, and ability, had so to an exi ble, anc minds a ployed. '-rs exaggeration impossi- A thousand anon tk of educatio were formerly em- no man eat, though an nn Of then such,i its evils the. 1 tical their ever the 1 .owth of aders and of wri- hatever may be said listributed through , that without them step in the social scale. lerfect gain, and, like all not the least is the as- It assai Is us everywhere nsummate impudence, ent are swarming through cience is too deep, no poli their capacity. They have cts of philosophy and refi ll merely remark, that they he standards both of church nmunicate to their audience Ito reservation. Had you leeting one of these gentle private life ? I have upon luxury ; and, so far as I am m of the platform appeared ate, and ignorant Cockney, itery of a bagman. Such are ct to regenerate the people with iatened to even with avidity, be harity, can cover a multitude of thus they stand, lil o many sons o' Tela of his brazen shield. re at least equally nu. tablished press, the re undeniable; hut of the ly by fostering d entitled to ono a nce c ) matter of what im he people I—Dictate. MATE.--One of the r, produces great effects almost invisible, and, ac -so far as an alteration g almost in vain in the regions in question, swarms of little flies, strange as it may sound, are, and for many years have been, most ma terially altering the climate of the great continent of North America I The manner in which they unconsci ously perform this important duty is as follows:--They sting, bite, and torment the wild animals to such a degree, that, especially in summer, the poor crew urea, like those in Abyssinia, described by Bruce, become almost in a state of distraction, and, to get rid of V the for smoke instinct r assailants, wherever they rushed to the e well that the flies be unable to follow them there. The wily Indian, ;vdly perceived that by xld drive to him his vements eed to trail in search of it ; eminently successful, "en, and still are, in game, instead of his beir and the experiment havii the Indians.for many yf the habit of urning tracts of wood so immense, that from very high and scientific authority I have been informed, that the amount of land thus burned under the influence of the flies has exceeded many millions of acres ; and that it has been, and still is, materially changing the climate of North America. But besides the effect it is producing on the tberrimmeter, it is simultaneously working out an - - other great operation of Nature. Although the game, to avoid the stings of their tiny assailants, come from distant regions to the smoke, and therein fall from the arrows and rifles of their human foes, vet this burning of the fo rest destroys the rabbits and small game as well as the young of the l arger game, an d t h ere f ore , j us t as b ran d y a nd whiskey for a short time raise the spirits of the drunkard, but eventually leave him pale, melancholy, and dejected, so does this vicious, improvident mode of catching game for a short time fatten, but eventually af flict with famine all those who have engaged in it ; and thus, for instance, the Beaver Indians, who, forty years ago were a powerful and numerous tribe, are now reduced to less than 100 men, who can scarcely find w ild an i ma l s -enough to keep them alive ; to abort, the: red p o p u l a ti on is diminishing in the same ratio as the destruction of the 'moose and wood buffalo, on which . their forefathers h a d subsisted.—Sir T. B. Read's Em i grant. TEMPTING BILL C ,f .t the. i.nrri er yesterc pullets, 60 dishes o Captain W - pies, 60 pigeon pies, 03 h 2 quarters of house-lamb beef, 2 si of beef ; 140 jell 40 dish, and 56 sala rets, 80 ph (fron 250 60 ornamented Sa plates of dried fruit and pr ginger, 60 plates of rout c brandy cherries COLD ENOUGH is bearabl to the face able; inch twenty of but th west wind, that this intense cold have recourse, if. peared—infinitel t to my lv worse than for instan strong ab hand; a z about a hundred yards across abl, trong and bitter A HINT TO SOME OF TB capable of judgir to rx a coarse-min the class of men whe of the tongue, and who are LI secur I do no TITE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. NEW ZEALAND Captain Fitzroy, the late Governor of New Zealand, has published a. , small pamphlet on the condition and prospects of that colony, from which we make the follow ing extract. As the= subject is most important for many reasons, we intend is our next to give the gallant Captain an opportunity of explaining more fully the course of po licy he felt it his duty•to pursue there. In the meantime, we give the subjoined answer of Captain Fitzroy to the charge that he issued debentures to the disparagement of the usual circulating medium !-- " The-subject requiring the primary attention of the le gislative council was finance.- At the beginning of this year (1844) the local government was twenty-four thou sand pounds in debt ; the revenue being then estimated at about twenty thousand pounds. All salaries and or dinary current payments were several months in arrear ; there was no prospect of the revenue amounting even to two-thirds of the estimated indispensable expenditure : the establishment was reduced to that which was author ised by the Secretary of State in a despatch received just at the close of the previous year (1843); the governor was strictly prohibited from drawing on the British treasury : and no loan could be raised. "By reducing the establishment of government to an extreme much below what was absolutely necessary for carrying on the daily public business, a less expenditure might have been ensured, but, not only at a loss of effi ciency, almost to the disabling of the local government, but to the extreme distress of many official persons who had been induced to leave their public situations else where to form part of the establishment of New Zealand, where they had been obliged to build •houses and settle their families, at no small expense. In order to carry on the government until assistance and directions could be received from England ; to re lieve the creditors of government from distress ; and to keep numerous families from extreme privation, some from actually starving ; it was decided to issue notes, or debentures, bearing five per cent. interest after the expi ration of one year; and as these debentures were at first refused by several speculators, and therefore seemed likely to be much depreciated; they were made a legal tender. It should be noticed that this paper currency was not intended to be permanent; it was intended to serve instead of coin during a very limited period, not exceeding two years,—before which it was probable that some arrangement would be made by the same govern ment for their withdrawal from circulation. These de bentures enabled the government to carry on its functi ons, and saved an extremity of disorder and distress which can hardly be appreciated by persons in an old country. Their principle has been much condemned by some theorists (who reason about a young struggling co lony without capital, as if it were really circumstanced like any portion of the parent state—supported by banks and capitalists); but since their beneficial effects were practically felt, and fully appreciated by those who might have been actually starved without them, the objections of theorists may be less regarded. As there were then no exports, the colony was drained of its small stock of specie by payments for goods and the usual necessaries of life; and scarcely any circulating medium remained ex cept notes of We Union Bank of Australia. " But as the issue of paper money was in direct contra vention of the governor's instructions, of course he was prepared to bear the consequences. There have been many occasions, it will not be denied, on which deviations from instructions have been productive of public benefit, however indefensible according to a general rule which must be maintained. Whether this was one of such oc casions, the wretched state of the colonists in New Zea land may spew. Impending ruin, and actual starvation, threatened the greater number of the working classes, and many others, at Auckland, who depended on the govern ment expenditure. No assistance from England could be expected in less than a year.—No money could be ob tained by the government, in the colony, or from Sydney, because no person would accept bills drawn by the gover nor without the express sanction of the Secretary of State. "The practical effect of these debentures was not only the removal of actual want, but the promotion of much industry and general improvement. Instead of a com plete stagnation, as at the beginning of 1844, activity and abundant employment soon prevailed. Auckland and its vicinity improved rapidly, and an export trade began. " The necessity under which the principal holders of debentures lay to employ them in the colony, and as speedily as possible, lest there should be any deterioration of value, induced those persons to buy up gum, flax, timber, or copper, or other native produce, to be extorted as remittances to their correspondents instead of money. Some built small vessels ; others improved their landed property by fences and better buildings. The results were conspicuously beneficial." AWFUL DISCOVERY. (From the Westminster Review.) One serene evening in the middle of August, 1775, Cap tair► Warrens, the master of the Greenland, whale-ship, found himself becalmed among an immense number of ice bergs, in about 77 degrees of north latitude. On one side, and within a mile of his vessel, these were of immense height and closely wedged together, and a succession of snow-covered peaks appeared behind each other as far as the eye could reach, showing that the ocean was com pletely blocked up in that quarter, and that he had proba bly been so for a long period of time. Captain Warrens did not feel altogether satisfied with his situation ; but there being no wind he could not move either one way or the other and he therefore kept a strict watch, knowing that he would be safe as long as the icebergs continued in their respective places. About midnight. tlic_wind rose to a sale. seem-ni t ..rile& by thick showers of snow, while a succession of tremen d, us thundering, grinding, and crashing noises, gave fear ful evidence that the ice was in motion. The vessel re ceived violent shocks every moment ; for the haziness of the atmosphere prevented those on board from discovering in what direction the open water lay, or if there actually was any at all on either side of them. The night was spent in tacking as often as any cause of danger happened to present itself, and in the morning the storm abated, and Capt. Warrens found, to his great joy, that his ship bad not sustained any serious injury. He remarked with surprise that the accumulated icebergs, which had on the preceding evening formed an impenetrable barrier, had been separated and disarranged by the wind, and that in one place a canal of open sea wound its course among them as far as the eye could discern. It was two miles beyond the entrance of this canal that a ship made its appearance about noon. The sun shone brightly at the time, and a gentle breeze blew from the north. At first some intervening icebergs prevented Cap tain Warrens from distinctly seeing anything but her masts; but he was struck with the strange manner in which her sails were disposed, and with the dismantled aspect of her yards and rigging. She continued to go be fore the wind for a few furlongs, and then grounding upon the low iceberg, remained motionless. Captain Warrens' curiosity was so much excited that he immediately leaped into his boat with several seamen, and rowed towards her. On approaching he observed that her hull was miserably weather-beaten, and not a soul ap peared on the deck, which was covered with snow to a considerable depth. He hailed her crew several times, but no answer was returned. Previous to stepping on board, an open port-hole near the main chains caught his eye, and, on looking into it, he perceived a man reclining back in a chair, with writing materials on a table before him, but the feebleness of the light made everything very indistinct. The party went upon deck, and having re moved the hatchway, which they found closed, they de scended to the cabin. They first came to the apartment which Captain Warrens viewed through the port-hole. A tremor seized him as he entered it. Its inmate retained his former position, and seemed to be insensible to strangers. He was found to be a corse, and a green damp mould had covered his cheeks and forehead, and veiled his open eye-balls. He had a pen in his-hand, and a log-book lay before him, the last sentence in whose unfinished page ran thus :—" Nov. 14, 1762. We have now been enclosed in the ice 17 days. The fire went out yesterday, and our master has been trying ever since to kindle it again with out success. His wile died this morning. There is no relief—" _ _ . Captain Warrens and his seamen hurried from the spot without uttering a word. On entering the principal cabin the first object that attracted their attention was the dead body of a ternale reclining on a bed in an attitude of deep interest and attention. Her countenance retained the freshness of life, and a contraction of the limb showed that her form was inanimate. Seated on the floor was the corpse of an apparently young man, holding a steel in cue hand and a flint in the other, as if in the act of striking fire upon some tinder which lay beside him. In the fore part of the vessel several sailors were found lying dead in their berths, and the body of a boy was crouched at the bottom of the gangway stairs. Neither provisions nor fuel could be discovered anywhere; but Captain Warrens was prevented, by the superstitious prejudices of his seamen, from examining the vessel as minutely as he wished to have done. He therefore carried away the log-book already mentioned. and returned to his own shin, and immediately steered to the southward, deeply impressed with the awful example which he had just witnessed of the danger of navigating the Polar seas in high northern latitudes. On returning to England he made various inquiries respecting vessels that had disappeared in r.n unknown way, and, by comparing the results of those with the in formation which was afforded by the written documents in his possession, he ascertained the name and history of the imprisoned ship and of her unfortunate master, and found that she had been frozen thirteen years previous to the time of his discovering her among the ice. THE SMITH. AND FERRERS ROMANCE A bulky pamphlet has just issued from the press which is likely to be read by the lovers of romantic gossip with considerable avidity. It is nothing less than a long nar rative from Miss Smith, the young lady who sued E ar l Ferrers for damages for breach of promise, of the rise and progress of her love passage with the earl. Thy authoress dates from Syerscote Manor, Warwickshire, the place of her retirement, and appends her name in formal signature at the close of her statement. She says, having in some measure recovered from the dreadful shock consequent on the unexpected and unfortunate termination of the trial, she deems it a duty to herself and her family to lay before the public a plain statement of facts, with replies to the chi f points in the speech of Sir Frederick Tbesiger. She then proceeds at once with her narrative, stating, that in 1839 Viscount Tamworth resided with the curate of Aus trry. at which time he was seventeen years old, and she fourteen. They became acquainted, and he professed for her an ardent attachment, which she really and ardently returned. When she was subsequently sent to school, she was broken-hearted at the departure. Lord Tamworth was shortly afterwards removed from Austrey. " He re turned home," says Miss Smith, " in the year 1842, and the month after his return, I met with a gentleman, who addressed me as Earl Ferrers, and whom, from my recol lection of Viscount Tainworth's countenance, I believed to be him.- He asked me, reproachfully, if I did not re member him? I replied that I did, that I was perfectly satisfied. He was in deep mourning, and mentioned the death of bis grandfather. He told Me he had never for gotten me, and was now come for the purpose of assuring me how much he loved me, and to know if I retained my former feelings for him. My reply was, that I did. He exprested his delight—his satisfaction ; and swore nothing earthly should prevent our union." The basis of the de fence is, that if the person thus spoken of was not Lord Ferrers, he was an imposter who cruelly and wickedly personated him, and led her on from folly to folly. In providing herself with an alternative, however, she does not profess to believe that she was the dupe of a third party ; on the contrary, she goes into a varied and plau sible statement, and shrewd argument, to show that such could not have been the case. Having defended the cha racter of her younger sister, Miss Smith proceeds to vin dicate herself, displaying great earnestness and consider able tact and ingenuity. The extreme cleverness of this pamphlet (considering the age and sex of the writer) tells against as well as for Miss Smith ; for while it makes out a strong case in her favour, it affords evidence of an abi lity to do so, provided the were armed with the necessary knowledge of the facts the forgeries deposed to. The capability to imitate the handwriting of the noble lord is another sort of gift altogether, upon which no stranger can pretend to offer an opinion. Though she admits that it is possible she may have been the victim of an impo sition, of which Lord Ferrers was not cognizant, she pretty significantly maintains, that it was he who duped her. In noticing Miss Smith's pamphlet, the Britdnnia says it is a curiosity, and may take its place amongst the monstrosities of literature. " Her talent," continues our contemporary, " it must be admitted was severely taxed. I was," she says. " urged to write the next two letters from a circumstance communicated to me by a then intimate friend. She stated that Lord Ferrers was not only engaged to the daughter of an eminent Chancery lawyer, but that it was even thought probable that be would marry a common girl at Stafford, whom he was then noticing. My object in writing this letter was to try if it were possible that this might be true ; for if his lordship could entertain an affection for so many at once, my plot for convincing him of his infidelity might be suc cessful ; hence the assertion that the letter came from one unknown to him." She goes on to state that Earl Ferrers, when she saw him next, mentioned those letters to her, and told ber he had used them to light his pipe with. Hence, she says. she had no scruple in affirming they never had existence t " Supposing that they had all shared the same fate that he assured me the first had. I did not scruple to deny their existence to Mr. Hamel; thus casting a stain upon my nature which, I fear, no after event will ever efface, and had in consequence to submit to a nonsuit ! 'What was meant as a mere girlish frolic has proved a misfor tune of the deadliest kind." It is singular that this unfortunate girl, vvl- ile endea vouring to defend herself from the charge of falsehood, allows it to be seen that she never had the slightest re. g4rd for truth. She speaks of the tissue of deceit she acknowledges, as perfectly allowable, and cannot even imagine that there is any guilt in deliberate and repeated falsities. In her own mind she probably regards the whole plot as a girlish frolic of rather a superior kind, and is proud of the skill with which she carries it on.—Leeds paper. GENERAL MISCELLANY, The Board of Ordnance has rejected the proposal for the use of Schonbein's gun cotton in the British army. The Queen has directed that the Wellington statue shall be removed from its present resting place. On Wednesday Mr. Nicholson, late a solicitor at Wor cester, was thrown from his gig and killed. Three entirely new houses in Oxford-place, Old Bromp ton, fell in on Thursday, and killed two workmen. A vessel arrived from Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, has brought, besides a general cargo, 82,320 lb. weight of dug bones. Mr. Alsager, the ex-city correspondent of the Times, made an attempt on his life, by cutting his throat, a few days since. The unfortunate gentleman still survives. Two steamers on Windermere have had a most success ful season, the proprietors having received a very hand some dividend upon their capital. The Glasgow Examiner states, that though trade is brisk at Paisley, the weekly average of the weavers' wages does not exceed seven shillings. A young female, named Hester Elizabe►h White, has been committed for trial for burglary and robbery at Ealing. During the past fortnight the magistrates of Bucking hamshire have committed 26 prisoners to the Aylesbury House of Correction, for offences against the game-laws. A few days since, while a Mr. Harris, of Bristol, was cutting his toe-nails he let the knife slip, and drew blood; mortification and lock-jaw ensued, and he died. _ _ KENDAL.—John Wakefield, Esq., of Sedgwick, was last week, for the second time, nominated to the dignity of Mayor of Kendal, on the ground of his "activity in promoting the best interests of the town in every way." The remains of Miss Harriet Churchill, of Manor piace, South Chelsea, niece of the poet, and the last member of his family, were on Tuesday deposited in the family vault in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. The nest celebration of the Eton Montem, which will take place in May, 1817, will probably be the last, as the heads of the school are said to have resolved upon abolish ing it. _ _ On Monday week, several youths at Redditch, Worces tershire, went out to shoot rabbits, and as one was firing, he lodged the contents of the gun in the head of one of his comvanions,namedJohnThomas,killiogkitp instantly. Mr. Dcnr.iry, the wutiaei. ror me Hti[i'Adnert7ser, in a recent libel case against the proprietor of that paper, has returned his fee, amounting to fifty guineas, as he con siders the liberty of the press the " living soul" of freedom. GENERAL DISPENSATION.—Liguori declares without hesitation, that in heretical countries it may be necessary and proper, on some occasions, to conceal one's religion, or even to profess to be of the religion generally held. On Monday, Mr. Bettridge, of the firm of Jennens and Bettridge, London, had the honour of waiting upon her Majesty and Prince Albert to exhibit the specimens of paoier mache and japan works. The tolls of the four turnpike gates on the road between Canterbury and Chatham, which were put up for auction two years since at £2OOO, are now advertised to be put up at a little more than £l4OO. Other roads have suffered in still greater proportion. THE''HOP DUTY.—From the return, it appears that the amount this year of the old duty on hops is £242,929, and the aggregate £448,609. This is, we believe, nearly double the ordinary produce of the duty, the crops of hops having been most abundant. The London papers are dull beyond all precedent. The Globe of Saturday week has a leader on Chemistry, and mechanism of the lungs. The chief article of the Times of Monday is an essay on pavvnbroking ; recommending the State as the " great uncle" of the poor people. Mrs. French, the lady of the Dean of Elphin, died a few days since in consequence of having had administered to her by a servant, an embrocation in mistake for a draught, which had been prescribed by her medical atten dant. _ _ It is said that the Court of Directors of the East India Company has privately adopted the resolution of confin ing the grant of cadetships and assistant surgeoncies to candidates who are in some way connected with the mili tary or civil services in India. A MAN STUNG TO DEATH.—On Friday week, an inqaest was held at Hemsby, Suffolk, on the boiy of Mr. Palmer a miller in that village, who, a few days before, bad, while employed in his garden, accidentally overturned a skep of bees. The insects attacked the intruder, and stung him so dreadfully that he died a short time after. P. W. S. Miles, Esq., M.P., has presented to all his allotment tenants, at Shirehampton, a sufficient quantity of seed wheat to sow their land with this year, in order to encourage them to depend less upon the potato crop, which has proved so complete a failure for two successive years. The majority of the bakers in the metropolis last week again lowered the price of bread one halfpenny in each 41b. loaf. The lowest price now charged on the Surrey side of the water, Whitechapel, &c., is 7d. per 41b. loaf, while the best bread is 9d., as charged by the full•priced bakers. On Tuesday last, the wife of a labouring man, at John stone, gave birth to four children. Three of them lived were all males, and not much under the usual size. The mother is doing well ; she is a young woman, and never had any children before. Applications are about being made to parliament for making and constructing a bridge over or across the river Thames, at or from, or near Essex-street. Strand, to the opposite shore. at or near Dowt.en's Wharf, in the Marsh and Wall liberty ; also, for making and maintaining a market at or near the south end of the proposed:bridge. Government hai just concluded the purchase, for £25,000, of about 14 acres of land, on the east side of Birmingham, for the erection of a great central bar-acks for England. The electric telegraph will communicate from the centre of the barracks with all parts of the country, extending along every line of railway that may be made. .....•••••••• THE ARMY.—From a Parliamentary return we learn that in 1834 there were were 5,675 sergeants, 1,789 trum peters and drummers, and 90.831 rank and file, in the army. In 1840, 6,217 sergeants, 1,840 trumpeters and drummers, and 104,597 rank and file, and in 1843, the effective strength of the army consisted of 6,760 sergeants, 2,064 trumpeters and drummers, and 115,124 rank and file. On Thursday morning week, a barrister, named Jones, residing at Lincoln's-inn, in a state of somnambulism, dreaming that he was attacked by banditti, crept out of the window, and, suspending himself by his hands, kicked vigorously with his feet, breaking from five to six panes of a window beneath. He at length lost his hold and fell to the ground, falling within three feet of some iron railing, but was happily not much hurt. THE WATER COMPANY.—A company has been formed and provisionally registered, under the title of the United Kingdom Artesian Water Company, for obtaining pure water by sinking artesian wells. The water used last year by the water companies is estimated at 314,553,012 hogsheads. And it is calculated that, from the chalk bed on which London is built, more than ten times the quan tity needed for all the towns in England could be raised. The company propose, in the first place. to supply the public baths and washhouses, and, instead of iron, to use glass or porcelain pipes. Baron Liebig imagines the essence of the potato dis ease to consist in the conversion of the albumen, a usual constituent of healthy potatoes, into caseine, a principle which, by its great instability of composition, is supposed to cause the potato to putrify rapidly.— The Plough.— The Rev. F. Dauvenov states, in the Taunton Courier, that he has discovered by the microscope a minute insect, crystal-like and transparent, resembling a spider, in the midst of potato mildew, evidently feeding on it, and making its nest among the thread-beds of fungi. From observations made, there must be more than 100 in a single tuber. The gun-cotton may be easily made by saturating cotto with a mixture of equal parts of nitric and sulphuric acid and afterwards washing it well in clean water, and care fully drying it. We would recommend great caution in exploding this substance. It ought to be known that, at a temperature of 130 degrees, the cotton explodes spon taneously. Great care should therefore be taken in drying it. AMIABLE TRAIT IN THE CHARACTER OF THE LATE MR. STEWART, M.P.—Mr. Stewart's filial devotion to his mother, and her affection for him, are well shown in the simple but eloquent fact, that when he was absent from Carnock, never did one post pass without bringing letters from the one to the other. This singularity was almost equalled in his correspondence with his sister the Duchess of Somerset, and other branches of the family. THE DAGENHAM MURDER.—The three police consta bles, named Butfoy, Fearns, and Stevens, who have been under surveillance in consequence of the contradictory evidence they gave relative to the murder of the policeman Clark, at Dagenham, have been dismissed from the force. The Attorney and Solicitor-General were of opinion that as the policemen were not sworn at the time they gave false evidence, they could not be indicted for perjury. ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—A letter in the London Times informs us of the amazing fact that the prices of admission were trebled on Lord Mayor's Day, upon the pretence that, in addition to the ordinary sights, visitors would have an• opportunity of seeing the civic procession ! Surely such profanation as this will draw the attention of the heads of the Church to the indecency of making a show of such a building, whether for hire or not. DR. WAREING'S SPECIAL PLEADING.—Dr. Wareing's quasi contradiction may be, in reality, no contradiction at all. The charge was that the young man was proffered a dispensation. The bishop's defence is that he did not beforehand proffer or afterwards grant any dispensation. No charge was made that he had oranted a dispensation. It was that he had proffered one. He denies that he proffered beforehand; he does not deny that he after wards proffered a dispensation.—Morning Herald. The whole of the magistrates officiating at North Shields have sent in their resignations, in consequence, it is understood, of their refusal to grant a licence to the railway terminus at Tynemouth having been overruled at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, held at Alnwick. An address to the magistrates of the east division of Castle Ward, expressive of confidence in their impartiality and justice, is in the course of signature in the borough of Tynemouth. EXHUMATION.—The body of Mr. George Taylor, of Carlton-upon-Trent, Newark, who died and was buried in November, 1844, was disinterred last week, it being suspected that he was poisoned by Miss Smith, his house keeper, at the instigation of his own wife. Both these parties are in custody, Miss Smith having made a confes sion to the above effect, and Professor Playfair, of Lon don, is making an analytical examination of the contents of the stomach of the deceased. FOREIGN RECIPROCITY.—The Zollverein was said to be the offspring of our corn laws, and sure to expire when these laws should be repealed. The Zollverein has not died, and will not die; and the first step by which it sig nalises its gratitude for the repeal of our corn laws is the imposition of an additional duty of 50 per cent. upon the previous heavy duty on our cotton yarn, and a multi plication twelve fold of the previous duty upon our linen yarn. Is this the promised imitation of our liberal com mercial policy. A MAN KILLED BY A PLOUGH.--On Friday, a man named Thomas Watts, farmer, of Cottenham, met his death in an awful manner, being absolutely ploughed to death. His brother was guiding the plough, and he re quested him to turn the horses round. In doing so, be slipped down and was dragged along, the ploughshare passing over his head, which was smashed to pieces, the brains being completely crushed. He died instantane ously. Watts was a man of some property, and had no wife or children. —Cambridge Advertiser. It is said that M. Guizot, at the request of the King of the French, has furnished Lord Brougham with copies of all the coorespondence which has passed between Lord Palmerston and the French government, on the subject of the Spanish marriages, in order that his lordship may be enabled to vindicate the course pursued by the French cabinet. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Chro nicle says that Louis Phillippe has received an autograph letter from Lord Brougham, congratulating him upon the Montpensier marriage. MELANCHOLY BRIDAL-DAY.—On Wednesday week was married, at St. Mary's Church, Devizes, Mr. Geo. Nash, to Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Charles Bristow. The younger sister of the bride, aged about 16, who had been for some time in a consumption, had looked forward to this day with considerable anxiety, and was more than usually elated when it arrived. She saw her sister in her bridal dress previous to her going to church, and took leave of her ; but at the very moment that one sister was married the other died--Devizes Gazette. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday week, as Mary Ann Edwards, aged 45, a fine, healthy, and able-bodied female, employed as charwoman at the house of Mr. Terry, Chiswell-street, London, was proceeding into the kitchen with a large empty dish in her hand, in stepping up a single step, she stumbled and fell, the dish being broken into several pieces, one of which, of an an gular form, penetrated the right side of deceased's neck, dividing the jugular vein and the carotid artery, and causing instant death. At the election of the Mayor of Nottingham, on Mon day, a question was raised whether a citizen of the United States can hold that office. Mr. Cripps was objected to "on the ground that he had, when in America, become a citizen of the United States. The Town Clerk was of opinion that that .. circumstance w0u1 .. t1_99 . t_ . 12e _a legal , =towect - Dluiseir to LC a loyal subject of the Queen, he was unanimously elected. The discussion of the question occupied much time, and excited great interest. CAPT. WARNER'S LONG RANGE.—It was recently announced that government had determined to incur some expense for the purpose of testing Captain Warner's invention of the long range, and that £l5OO had been ap propriated for this purpose. It is now further asserted that Colonel Chaloner, R.A., and Captain Warner have selected a place on the east coast of Essex for the experi ment; that Colonel W. Dundas, C. 8., Inspector of Ar tillery, is appointed arbitor ; and that an early day is to be fixed for the trial. _ _ _ A sacrilege took place in the church of Butterton, Staf fordshire, some weeks ago, and the only clue to the de predators was a piece of trousers cloth lying near one of the windows. Last week, the Stoke constabulary were removing some persons to gaol, followed by a sympathis ing crowd ; one of the busiest among the spectators was a young named Platt, a joiner, residing at Stoke. This attracted the attention of the chief superintendent, who observed that the trousers he wore were exactly of the kind of which a relic had been left in the church. The result has been that he, along with one of the former pri soner, has been committed for trial for the sacrilege. THE LATE DWARKANAUTH TAGORE.—Three or four years since this wealthy Asiatic made a princely gift of £lO,OOO for the forwarding of education in India, and by his last will he bas left a similar sum of £lO,OOO for cha ritable purposes. Dwarkanauth Tagore has left conside rable wealth ; besides his Zumindaree properties, he had large capital in houses, bazaars, and mercantile pursuits, the whole of which he bequeaths in equal shares to his three sons (who, jointly with his European partner, are his executors), the eldest a partner in his father's house of business in Calcutta; the second, also brought up to business; the third, now in London, prosecuting his education, in view, we trust, to future eminence. BRISTOL FREE PORT ASSOCIATION.—A public meet ing of operatives of the city of Bristol, to the number of upwards of 3,000, was held on Thursday evening in the large public room, Broadmead, for the purpose of aiding the above association in its efforts to reduce the excessive port charges. The speakers dwelt upon the manner in which the pressure of the dock dues had reduced the trade of the city, and expressed the general belief that a reduc tion of charges to the extent of nearly a free port would restore the ancient prosperity of the city. One of the speakers promulgated a plan by which the operatives might contribute over £3,000 a-year to the object ; and it was unanimously resolved to lend all possible aid, as well pe cuniary as otherwise. The members of the Exeter Protestant Association have memorialised Mr. Divett, one of the members of that city, on the subject of further grants to Roman Ca tholics, expressing, at the same time, their determination " to vote at the next general election only for those per sons on whom they can place reliance as defenders of the Protestant faith." Mr. Divett, in reply, declines respect fully, but in the most distinct and emphatic manner, to • give any pledge on t he subject, and considers the conduct of the memorialists " as partaking of religious pride, and not much of Christian charity." Sir J. B. Duckworth, Mr. Divett's colleague in the representation of. Exeter, has also been appealed to on the subject, but does not yet appear to have returned to answer. HERRINGS.—On Tuesday, a fishing lugger was towed into Yarmouth, with the enormous quantity of 25 lasts and 9,500 herrings on board, which were caught off that coast in about a week. Each last of fists contains 10,000 herrings, or 13,200 short tale, 132 being sold for each hundred; the cargo of the lugger therefore amounts to the prodigious number of 342,549 herrings, valued at near £4OO. The same boat brought in nearly 15 lasts about 12 days previous. Such a sight, even in Yarmouth, is rarely seen, for not only was almost every part of the boat filled, but a vast quantity was stowed on the decks, bringing her gunwale to within a few inches of the water, and fortunately the weather was very fine, or they must have thrown a considerable quantity overboard. DEATH OF A MISER. — A notice has ben posted at the Royal Exchange, from the Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, that if the next of kin of Thomas Kane, late of Old Brentford, in the parish of Ealing. dead, intestate, did not come forward, they would be condemned by con tumacy, and administration granted to Thomas Maule, the Treaviry solicitor, on the part of her Majesty Queen Victoria. It seems that Kane, who was well known in Brentford for his penurious habits, and bore the name of a miser, died some few months since, possessed of con siderable wealth. No will could be found, and he was not known to have a single relative, and though every en deavour has been used, no one belonging to him can be discovered The above notice was issued preparatory to possession being taken in behalf of the Crown. A DUCHESS MADE AMENABLE TO THE GAME LAWS. —lt will be in the recollection of our readers that a para graph in the papers recently announced that the Duke of Marlborough was accompanied in a shooting excursion by his lately married duchess, and that the latter person ally took part in the amusement of the day, and with her own hand killed several head of game. Of the fact there is, we apprehend, no doubt • but it has been followed up by consequences little apprehended at the time. Infor mations, it would seem, have been lodged against the duchess for shooting without a licence. It is supposed that this unusual step, which if followed up must in all probability lead to a conviction, bas been adopted in re taliation for some severe measures recently taken by the duke to punish certain trespassers upon his manorial rights.—Britannia. A WHOLE CORPORATION DEFUNCT !—II Is the op nion of legal men that the Town Council of Worcester has virtually committed an act of felo de se, and has no longer an existence, in consequence of the vacancy occa sioned by the death of the Mayor not having been duly filled up within ten days, as required by the act. By, this neglect, which occurred before the recent annual election, the number of Councillors fixed by law was incomplete, and consequently the acts of the remainder are null and void. On Saturday, at the Croydon Police -court, a fortune teller, named Siddens, was charged with obtaining con siderable sums of money from a young and attractive lady, named Elizabeth Markby Dodd, by means of fraudulent pretences. The prisoner informed her that a young man named Anderson, in the East India College, Addiscombe, bad fallen in love with her ; and, strengthening the belief by the most artful means, such as the presentation of dresses, billels-doux, &c., succeeded in obtaining from het considerable sums of money. The infatuation was carried ED far that the young lady left home clandestinely, accom panied by the prisoner, to go to India to marry her un known lover. They were stopped at Dover. The magis trates were of opinion, however, that the evidence did not support the charge, and the prisoner was discharged. The Editor of the Salopian Journal has published circular marked " Private and confidential," from one of the recent lecturers of the Anti corn-law League, in which he explains the objects of the " Liberal Registration Offices," After a somewhat inflated flourish about " the exhaustion of the septennial cycle," which•will render a general election necessary, this document continues—" It becomes essential to the interests of the liberal party that they should be able to form some estimate of their actual position in the various counties and boroughs at the date of the commencement of the present revision of the regi ster, and of. the results of that revision with reference to the state of parties. I shall feel much obliged therefore by the inter position of your kind offices to procure for me such information as you possess or can obtain on this subject, in reference to the borough of Bridgenorth." EDUCATION IN WALES.—A committee has recently been formed in connexion with the Incorporated National Society for the special purpose of improving and extend ing sound education in Wales. The committee is called "The Welsh Education Committee," and consists of many noblemen and gentlemen connected with the Prin cipality, and of various members of the Standing Com mittee of the National Society. The committee numbers amongst its members all the Bishops of the Welsh Dio ceses ; the Marquis of Bute, K.T.; the Earl of Powis, K.G. ; Lord Dynevor ; Lord Kenyon ' • Viscount Clive, M.P. ; Viscount Emlyn, M.P. ; Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., M.P., &c. The annual subscriptions already amount to £2186 25., and donations have been promised to the amount of £ll7B. Among the annual subscribers are the Archbishop of Canterbury for £lOO, the Bishop of Lon don, £300; the Welsh Bishops, £lOO each; and several other noblemen and gentlemen £lOO each. Lord Sandals gives ten guineas annually. . FREE TRADE EFFECTS.—The poor woolcombers of Keighlel have had a market-place meeting, denouncing free trade as a cheat and a delusion ; they were all working and suffering men. The meeting was finished by moon light, and stable lanterns lighted the reporters to furnish their notes. These men now represent large bodies, who are all equally suffering from abort time and shorter wages. We give a brief extract from one of the speakers. " In January last," said M r . J o h n Town, " the masters took it upon them to reduce wages, and he was one of a deputation appointed to wait upon them and ask then) not to inflict that penalty on their workmen. But the masters said, ' No, you must submit to it, and we'll return it to you when the corn laws are repealed.' Bat now their arguments are changed. He had waited On many of them, and on many of those who had joined with them in agitating for a repeal of the corn laws ; and noW they said the combers never can have better wages. And why ? Because, they say, they are a class of men of w eak intellect."—This is adding insult to oppression, and is something like the free trade compliments to the farmers. THE BREVET.—The Gazette of Tuesday contains the long-expected brevet. The following is a summary of the Army Brevet :—Generals to be Field Marshals, 3 ; Lieu tenant Generals to be Generals, 13 ; Major Generals to be Lieutenant Generals, 44; Colonels to be Major Gene rals, 107 ; Lieutenant Colonels to be Colonels, 92 ; Ma jors to be Lieutenant Colonels, 50 ; Captains to be Ma jors, 181. Total number of officers promoted, 490. The promotion of the three senior generals increase the list Of Field Marshals to nine, viz. :—The Duke of Wellington, the King of Hanover, the Duke of Cambridge, the King of the Belgians, Prince Albert, the King of the Nether lands, Sir beorge Nugent, Thomas Grosvenor, and the Marquis of Anglesey, Master-General of the Ordnance. The Navy Brevet gives the following promotions :—Ad miral of the Fleet, 1 (Sir G. Martin); Admirals of the Red, 4 ; Admirals of the White, 6; Admirals of the Blue, 4 ; Vice• Admirals of the Blue, 14 • Rear-Admirals of the Red, 20; Rear-Admirals cf the White, 17; Rear-Admi rals of the Blue, 20 ; Captains, 44 ; Commanders, 80 Lieutenants, 20; Masters, 20; Surgeons, 20; Pursers, 20. Total, 313. ROMISH PR CESSIONS.—The Perth Advertiser has the following paragraph :—"Dunkeld.—Opening and Con secration of Murthly Roman Catholic Chapel.—On Sab bath week this chapel was opened and consecrated with all the imposing ceremonies of the Catholic Church. On the occasion, there were present the Rev. Bishops Car ruthers and Gillis. and assisting clergymen from Edin burgh, Perth, and Dundee, besides the Rev. Mr. Mackay, the officiating priest in that quarter. At eleven o'clock, a procession of bishops and priests, bearing the host, ap proached from the Castle, accompanied by Sir William Drummond Stewart (the founder of the edifice), the Earl of Traquair, and other nol.),lernen.ancLfrienda of. the Ro man catholic persuasion. [Not content with going through the forms of their ritual within the new edifice, or around it, we find here a regular array of the higher and lower ranks of the clergy marching in state, and not only so, but with the host, a prime object of Romish wor ship—rather idolatry. Such exhibitions are common ou the Continent, and there a superstitious, ignorant Pr ies . ridden people feel pleased with the circumstances of the play. But in Protestant. Scotland we might have been saved so public and so scandalous a display of Popi-la folly. Transubstantiation is bad enough, (many who professed t o believe in the monstrous tenet did not): brought out in to tangible manifestation, it will certainly gain nothing in th e way of argument, and as little in the way of respectability) THE ANDOVER INQUIRY REPORT.—The printer to the House of Commons has just sent forth this report , which extends to two thick folio volumes, containing NI thousand and thirty-four pages ; twenty-five thousand Bix hundred and nineteen questions ; and seven hundred and four pages of appendices, the whole, for we have had the two volumes, within an ounce of fourteen pounds. Such a mass of matter nullifies it se lf, f or who will wa de through it. in hunting the late Home Secretary an d the Poor -law Commissioners, for whose neglect o f d ut y the inquiry was called for. The concluding paragraph of the report, though it relates to but one of many similar charges against the commissioners, is, we suppose, con cfrloumsiVet h e office ast o t h i e n necessity which theirof p e r a o n m d p u t a l t y r severe a censure. " That on a review of of the commissioners with respect to the Andover In quiries, and towards Mr. Parker and Mr. Dc --- that they have been IRREGULAR and ARBITRARY! NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATUTE under which th e y' exercise their functions, and such as to shake public con , fidence in the administration of the law." If such a.re hta besemp?lnrvocinucergere theth d 4 so s g re port as this had been made by a committee of the H ouse of Commons, or by an authority far less entitled to !e' spect. of the conduct of a poor exciseman, or a poli c e constable, how long would he be permitted to remain in office ? The government have been in possession of this report since the 20th of August, but have taken no steps upon it ; Sir James Graham, and the Poor-law Commis' sioners ought at least to pay the cost of it themselves. THE TEN HOURS' BILL.—In furtherance of the resa" a lions r.i a g d h o o p u t s e e d , at in a . t he meeting la latter r of p a t r h t e o d f e l e a g s a t t es month,of t e a p various ub short-time committees pei throughout d evening, ti residing i ‘ n %e Hi s n t a hf Halifax s n ap g na , dc h i to e h l ue : e m ld ili on o vicinity,mert ng of w a t s h h e room of the Odd Fellows' Hall, in that town, for the Pu r l pose of giving to the factory workers, an d o th ers i n teresr in the short-time movement, an opportunity of express , ng their sentiments on a question so nearly concerning th e happiness and welfare of so large a portion of the " pro ducing classes." Shortly after eight o'clock, the boo' appointed for the commencement of the meeting, P hi ; Fielding, Esq., M.P., Richard Oastler, Isq., and On e ' friends and supporters of the movement, made their sr pearance on the platform. At this time the room vl densely crowded, and not less than three or four thous aa , people being present. The moment the well known an d irevered countenance of the " Factory King" was rec o g nised by his old friends and parishioners, he was g reeted with' enthusiastic-cheers, and we feel confident from t he fire which lit the eye of this venerable, devoted, and ardent " Friend of the Poor," that his reception by the upon to occupy the chair during the proceedings of the j,, Halifax n Rushton, au d ce a was wo all k that h a mww t ia h sns i hs, addressed e h wi e da a sa r tt unanimouslyco u l by Huddersfield wi sh . Oastler a ß a al d e l nae n: evening, and, as usual, he filled the honourable post wit h a gr ti e l a e t rs c . red A it s . itn T il h a e r m in e e e e t t i i n n: or two previously, at which nearly 2,000-persons were pre, sent. The vicar and several of the clergy were present , and Mr. W. B. Ferrand delivered a powerful address. GALLANT RESCUE OF A CREW.—Tbe gales of las t month were most disastrous to life and property at see. On the 15th of that month, about noon, one of the ce.l6' brated Broadstairs fishing loggers, called the Fame, tti a crew of eight hands, in a heavy gale from the S.S.w perceived a brig on the Longsand, with a terrific el breaking over her. The colours in the rigging shove , ' that the crew had given their vessel up as lost. The crew of the Fame immediately determined to attempt 10 ., rescue them, though at the risk of their own lives. At e' two unsuccessful attempts to reach her by dropping anchor and veering out a cable, they by another effort got o ppos4 6 to her, and finally, at the utmost hazard, got hold of a cabal ladder, which the crew of the brig had fastened to a log' line and committed to the waves. By means of the line stronger rope was got out to them. The danger to the boat was still most imminent ; but John Castle, the master of the lugger, by means of the warp reached th wreck in safety, and found her to be the French wig Adelaide, of Nantes, full of water, and eight men . 011 board. They then perfected the arrangements for gettin4 the Frenchmen off, and after much perseverance, afl u ' running the utmost hazard of their own lives, they euni ceeded in getting all of them into the lugger, and lande, them on the following morning, at two o'clock, at Nor t h Yarmouth. More than three hours elapsed between th e , time of their seeing the brig and that of rescuing h e crew. The Morning Herald concludes a detailed accou nt of the circumstance in these words :—" This noble e n " gallant act of humanity was perfol-med by poor fisherme n ' Not only did they thus peril their lives, but they risk e d the loss of their lugger, the sole means of their livelihol We fervently hope that , although they bad not the qo e _J fortune to save any property, which would have entit le, ' them to salvage, their meritorious conduct in saving th e lives of eight Frenchmen will not go unrewarded." , r , it appears Nov. 17, 1846.