The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIA.. At four o'clock on Wednesday morning the ship Britannia, Captain H ewitt, arrived in the Mersey, after a fine passage from Boston of fourteen, and from Halifax of twelve days. The mails of the 15th, to New York brought no later in- General Taylor's army. A steam- ,„ce of intere,4 trout _ ~.ous riot is stated to have broken out among some Irish volunteers in the Georgia regiment. An Irish com pany from Savannah (the Jasper Greens) was incorpora ted i,to this regiment, and it is probable that there were some exasperating circumstances connected with the out- Wreak, as all the reports from the regiment hitherto show that the Savannah company have deported themselves quietly. Disgraceful riots had also taken place anion 'unteets at B Irish C :lld existin The affair took place on hoard of a steam-boat - which was anchored near the shore. Guns, swords, and bayonets with reckless violence. The colonel of a regi lunteers, who, at the head of two of his compan and his men were the rioters submitted, and a co had Th reaehed ( been either k d or woundec sews of the revoluti neral Tay s camp on t a great sensation. A. letter, dat says, General Taylor would leave terev. The Cincinnatti cers of the !las notices t in consequence of sickr of war Traxton 3 men r ere made prisoners, and i , lunteer corps from that state from the army d en the —the balance of the officer; and cr low fever had mac I vessels of war at Sa- to a great extent on board squadron were U.S. t ult., near the nin nants an Cruz in boat were marched off to its appea crificios. :e on The scurvy prevailed Potomac frigate The balance of a in good 1 Forty hove Reynosa, on the 21st August, the steam-boat Enterprise burst her boiler, and blew up. Five persons were killed instantly, and several wounded. Another explosion took place on board the steamer Ex celsior, while proceeding up the Hudson ever on the 101 h September. One of the firemen and two passengers were killed. The disaster was caused by the water gating too low in the boiler. _ _ _ _ _ _ A great many failures E ring the past year, princ It appears from t • of cotton fills short of last year's by to this the qua difference at t:ie shi only to about 200 I 'ton was dull at Nev Exchange has been in good req improved. Freights for cotton were dull A great fllod had occurred in Crooked Creek, near Madison, Indiana. Much damage was caused and six the rates had lives we re lust A. case of yellow fever had occurred in New Orleans on Ist ult. Mr. Pakenham w,.s on a visit to Mr. Webster. M ,e course the public dinn the Ist October THE BOMBAY AIAIL A list of additions made during the present Pontificate to the index of prohibited books, has just been posted on the church-doors at Rome. It includes Lamennais' Commentary on the Gospels, and a Spanish History of Freemasonry. A Chinese, in his native costume, made hi: appearance in the Palms Royal, in Paris, the other evening ; but he was followed by such a gaping mob, that he was obliged to take refuge in a cab. It was the first time that a Chinaman had evtr been seen in that capital. FRANCE.—The Duke de Montpensier and the Duke d'Aumate left Paris for Spain at six o'clock on Monday k, accompanied by a large train of secreta ries. medical men. aides•de camp. &c. They would arrive at Madrid on the sth instant, and the marriages are to be celebrated on the 10th Inc iary fires continue to desolate France, and Bur- Seven villages of the district of Ay in particular police, it had be anding .be vig o: en impossible to seize the incendia- Un 'Wednesday night, a serious riot took place in Paris consequence of the rise in the price of bread. A mob Isposed o broke into the bakers' shops, and c bread, and then broke the shop fronts and eral of the 1 the The municipal guard was called out were not quelled until mitlniAt VROTECTION TO BRITISH ons have been made tc NI A DEIII the . state of affairs at Madeira. Government are about to dispatch the Bulldog steam sloop-of-war, Captain Davis, was to sail from Devemport on Saturday, and remain at Madeira until her presence is deemed by the British con sul there no longer necessary ; and other men-of-war will be req after the flu Tangier, stating that ever% body at the Deira Ka( er is of opinion and declares aloud that, being con vinced of the itnpos,ibility of success. he has renounced all intention of invading Algeria. this is seemingly con firmed by news from the frontier ; " therefore," says a French ministerial pap' "it is incontEstible that the war system followed in Algiers has proved of and procured the most desirable results—the discouragement of our indefatigable adversary." MONTE VIDEO.—By the Russian brig Bustruys, which arrived at Falmouth trom Monte Video, after a remarka- bly quick passage, en Wednesday, we have intelligence from that city as late as the 27th July. Matters still continued in an un , ettled state, with little prospect of amendment. Mr. Hood, the British consul, was. ab,ent t Baer transpire fLid not Ins tot 'nerally believed, that will be Lo peace with bead even vie( cted a propob al for an exchange A translation of a despatch, issued by the Argentine Government to General Alansilla, commanding the bat teries at San Lorenzo, on the Parana, directing a suspen- sion of hostilities. pending the negotiations of Mr. Hood The orders n ARRIVAL OF ,horn's extraordinary express, rid Trieste, dispatches were received on Saturday from Bom- By Lieutenant W bay to the 27th of Anaust The rainy season hal not then terrninat d, and until the return of the fine weather nothing of an extraordinary na ture was apprehended. The monsoon had been most favourable in all parts of India, and the people engaged in agricultural pursuits were contented. The Sikh Government was in a tottering stile, for the Queen-Mother and her paramour, the Wuzeer, Lail Sin2,h, had no hold on the affections of the people. On I characters were looked And the opportunity of the contrary, t upon as traitors to their count the withdrawal of the British vsmy of occupation awaited by the Khalsees and other fanatics, in order to avenge their wrongs on the present heads of the Lahore Government. The British authorities were not idle in making preparation for the approaching convulsion in the Sikh territory. Regiments were forming at Feroz?pore and Umballa, for the purpose of absorbing some of the best of the disbanded Sikh soldiers. An army was also to be ready on the Sutlej and Bees to protect the British frontiers,and in case of necessity to put down the Sikh revo lution. Lords liurdinge and Gough were at Simla. Gholah Singh is reported to be in a very unsatisfactory state, not only on account of the turbulent chiefs over whom he ob tained the rule, by advancing large sums of money last March, but also from his own intrigues, which prevent him from conforming with the promises of the treaty. It was said that several British offiders had been murdered in his territory, and by his instigation, but the story is not sufficiently authenticated to be implicitly relied on. The Sikh province of Moultan is still at war with the Wuzeer Lall Singh, and the Mahommedan cHef of that fertile district has been victorious in some rencontres with the Sikh troops. Scinde is tranquil, and with the prospect of an abundant harvest. The cholera, after having ravaged Kurrachee and Hyderabad, was attacking the villages along the Indus. There was some sickness at Sukkur, which caused the removal of her Majesty's 17th Regiment to the sea coast. There was a rumour circulated of the speedy retirement from Scinde of Sir Charles Napier, whose health is de scribed as seriously affected by the climate. Five regi ments were, it was said, to be removed from Scinde as soon as the fine weather set in. The probability existed, however, of the occupation by the British of the city of I, A N D. Moulton, which, from its locality, would form an excellent I Six additional stipendiary magistrates are appointed for emporium for Biitish goods, and a corresponding capital Ireland. Among them is Mr. French, sou of Lord for the western part of India, in some degree resembling French, the repealer. Calcuta in the eastern division. A requisition is now in course of signature in Ireland, In Cabul an attempt has been made to enlist Dost Ma- c a lli n g for a public meeting of the landowners, in Dublin, homed in another plot against the British. The agent in t o petition for the immediate assembling of parliament. this scheme had corns from Persia, but the old Dost was Mr. W. T. Power, who stands charged with defrauding too wary to expose himself again to the chances of a con- the National Bank at Clonmel, arrived et that town on tlict with the British, particularly after the recent sue- Wednesday, in custody of the police. cesses at Lahore. His son, the notorious Ackbar Khan, The Earl of Lucan, in a letter dated the Ist October, was not pleased with the pacific policy of his father, and says,--'• lam of opinion that parliament should be as he we; eager to have an opportunity of regaining posses- sembled at the earliest possible day, which I have already sion of Peshawur and even of Cashmere. Intrigues and expressed to her 111;k:sty's Government, or, 1 am con counterplots were in full play at Cabal. vinced, the country IS lost." In the newly-acquired provinces of Jullunder and the OUTRAGE.—A horse, the property of John Bridgeman, dooab of the Beas, the British troops have during six Esq., of Rathleba, was shot on Saturday night at Kil months, been healthy. An attempt was made by the Bri- murry. Mr. Bridgeman bad sent in the morning a load tish resident at the Nizam's Court to arrange the IN cu- of corn to Limerick. The horse was on its return home niary affr,irs of that country. Some refractory landhold- when the outrage was committed.—Clare Journal. ers have been compelled to give accounts of their demands, On Mo nday, a mob entered Sligo, and took possession and the lawless mercenaries, w h o h ave p rove d hitherto to of the bread contracted for the poorhouse, end after a be such a curse to that state, have been disbanded or ex- division, instantly consumed it. They afterwards com pelled from the Nizam's dominions. yelled the bakers of the town to supply them with bread. The conquest of the Island of Bally, which is now at- The government have resolved to supply biscuits at 10s. teropied by the Dutch, continues to be the source of much a cwt. observation at Singapore. It appears to have the tacit The Cork Examiner states that but for the presence of assent of the British Government. the dragoons at the adjourned sessions at Clashmore, in An alarm prevailed at Aden, ill the beginning of Au- the county of Waterford, last week, Lord Stuart de Decies gust, in consequence of a threatened attack on that for- would have been murdered by the people. They threw tress by some Arab chiefs. stones at his lordship, who was protected by the soldiers, The money market in Bombay had decidedly improved, several of the latter were hurt; they fired on the people, and favourable expectations were entertained of the busi- several of whom were wounded. ness of the season which was just opening. Discounts Rumours were circulated in Dublin on Thursday, that had been lowered, and exchange had fallen to Is. ild. to the Lord-Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary had resigned, Is. lldid. per rupee. The market for British manufac- in consequence of a refusal by the Prime Minister to turers was quiet, and cotton had declined from two to three sanction the views of the Irish Executive. There was, rupees per candy, with limited transactions. Freights however, no truth in the report, though the Ministry did had slightly improved, and were last quoted at £2 10s. to di ssen t from some of the propositions of the Irish Go £2 15s. per ton to Liverpool. There are as yet no later vernment. commercial advices from Calcutta. A. requisition has been presented to the Bishop of Derry, signed by the Dean and Archdeacon of Derry, the Archdeacon of Raphoe, and the great :majority of the SPAIN Accounts from Madrid of the 23rd ultimo state clergy of both dic;cesei, beseechi - i,g his Lordship "to that the Infanta Luisa was better, and appearances indi- communicate with the Lord Primate, and to lay before cated that she would be entirely recovered in a few days. his Grace their earnest request that he would use the The Champer of Deputies granted ministers on that day influence of his high character and station with her ion to the required authort,.. _ ievy taxes, by a majority of :Majesty, imploring ner to oraer n uo, .... . J 34 to 12. On the 22nd ult. Mr. Bulwer sent in a pro- liation and prayer to God, to acknowledge the divine test, in the name of his government, against the Mont- hand in this afflictive dispensation, and to implore the pensier marriage. " Finding," he says, " that neither God of all mercies to turn away his wrathful indignation the counsels, the interests, the wishes, nor the friendly from us." His Lordship promises to transmit his Grace's feelings of England were in the slightest degree regarded reply as soon as received. or taken into consideration, Mr. Bulwer was compelled REVOLTING MURDER.-1t pains us to be obliged to to present, as a last measure, a formal protest." state that the calendar of crime for this county is already Accounts from Madrid, of the 25th ult., announce that stained with murder. It appears that a bad feeling had on that day Count Bresson repaired in state to the palace, already grown up between Lamb, the murdered man, and and formally demanded the hand of the Infanta for the his step-mother and two step-brothers, relative to that Duke de Montpensier. General Serrano having written fertile source of crime in this country—namely, a piece to Mr. Bulwer, to know if England had opposed the mar- or patch of land situated in Coldfed, near Christians riage of the Queen with her cousin, as stated by M. town, about four miles from Dundalk, to which in law Isturiz in the senate, our ambassador addressed to him a the deceased would appear to have had a prior claim. The reply, in which be contradicted that statement, and de- quarrels of the respective parties had assumed such a de clared that he had confined himself to protesting, in the gree of bitterness, that they summoned each other to name of his government. against the marriage of the petty sessions. On Monday night, when the deceased Infanta. Mr. Bulwer having authorised General Serrano came on the ground in question, -and entered a barn, a to use his letter as he thought proper, the latter had in- shot was heard, and the neighbours, accordingly suspected serted it in the Clamor Publico. which was seized for pub- something wrong, gave immediate intimation to the po lishing it. The sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on lice, who were soon on the alert, and arrested the sus that day offered no interest.. pected parties in their own house. The body was dragged ALLEGED EXECUTIONS IN SPAIN.—We have this about 60 perches to an adjacent grove where a hole was moment received, says the Paris Consatutionnel, a letter discovered, as if prepared for the interment of the victim from the frontier of Spain, announcing that 80 insurgents, of cold-hlooded avarice.—Newry Examiner. amongst whom were several priests, have been taken and POPULAR OUTBREAK.—OD Monday, a dense multi shot at Lerida. At Seu d'Urgee several priests were put tude of people flocked into the town of Dungarvon, and an end to by strangulation. Amongst them was one who, went through the streets brandishing bludgeons and it is said, performed the duties of bishap, and a canon yelling in the most ferocious manner. In a short time an named Gazi, who long officiated in the French parish of attack was made on the bakers' shops, and several of Nabuja. This latter news appears official. Other letters them were plundered, but others were protected by the from the frontier announce that Count de Montemolino is police. There were two companies of infantry, a party in Catalonia. This is also given in a Paris journal as a of dragoons, and a large police force in the town. Mr. positive fact." Howley, the stipendiary ma%istrate, went into the midst of them, asking what they wanted? They said work and The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeilung ofj the 23rd Sept. wages. They were told they should have both, but all to states that Mehemet Ali intended resigning in favour of no purpose, as they continued to exhibit the same violent Ibrahim Pacha, owing to his advanced age. and outrageous conduct with which they commenced. The Mormons and the Anti-Mormons are on the eve The riot act was then read, but demonstrations of de of battle. A fight is inevitable. fiance and outrage were only the result. A volley of The Mormons are said to have lately organised a regi- stones was poured on the military, and when nothing but went of women, who are in full discipline, and . prom's . e extreme measures could stay the frightful and infatuated by all appearance, to fight far more desperately than their mob, the order was given "to fire," and several were male fellow-soldiers, of the mob wounded. In a short space of time not one The accounts by th e B r i tann i a state t h at t h e potato Canada was a l most r i pe, an d had not sustained w as to be seen in the town. It has now come to this, crop in anil we sincerey deplore the necessity, that those lawless any material injury. The late grain crops were generally d emons t r ations, and those deeds of rapine and outrage, secured. rm must be put down with a strong and fi hand. Intel- Ten thonsan .. , d 1111.F:en Jews were . d arrive • - expec.e to in I ligence has since reached us, that one of the wounded the Holy Land to settle there. This number win add I men has died. On Tuesday, in consequence of some in about one third to the present Jewish population in Syria - by formation con veyed Sir R. M usgrave , the mer c h an t s and Palestine.—Jeicish Chronicle. at Yougal stopped their shipments, but they have again Lieutenant Waghorn was on the 24th ultimo, at Malta, resumed them , the town is quiet, but the demand for bound over to keep the peace for two years, for threaten-depots. Th e Indian meal is extraordinary great at all the ing to kick Lieutenant Barrett, of the 42nd Highlanders.C eres has arrived w ith t hirt y t one , and a cargo of Indian The fracas arose out of an after•dinner conversation. corn is also in port. THE LIVERPOOL sTANDAB,I3. Strong proposals from the leading men of all parties are now making in Ireland for the convention of a National Committee in Dublin, to take into consideration the pre sent difficulty in Ireland. It is not, however, likely to take place; and if it did, it is expected that if it would be productive of any effect, it would be the promulgation of a national declaration for repeal. FORCE AT THE COAST OF IRELAND.—There are now 12 men-of-war steamers, of 1756 collective horse power, 5864 tons, and 720 officers and men, and three storrships of 3000 tons and 100 men, stationed off the coast of Ire land. The above, together with two ordnance lighters, also employed, make 17 sail of nearly 9000 tons and above 850 men, on the coast of Ireland. 'file Marquis of Downshire and a deputation from the Flix Imurovernent Stielety of Ireland had an interview with his Ropal H ighness Prince Albert, on Thursday, for the purpose of explaining the present state and prospects of the society, and the steady advance of the produce of Turns and carnbries were the Irish !lax. .", , pecirriens graciously rec,ivcd by her Majesty At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. John O'Connell enunciated a speech, which he wound up by saying their cry should be " Food for the present—Repeal for , he future." A letter was read from the " Liberator" on the nn-sent fearful condition of Ire. hnd. His suggestion is that the landed poprietors sh(ysild immediately form a national cominiVee to meet ablin, an assist at. isastrous m Bement of ru h Irish affairs as relate to the ap _ proiching f , imitte. Such a hodv would cot:outwit] the attention of the government both in Ireland and in Eng land. He concludes, however, with the usual assertion that nothing but a repeal of the union will permanently benefit Irel nd. Mr. John O'Connell read a letter from Mr. 3. Campbell, of Liverpool. enclosing £6 as the last week's contribution to repeal. Mr. Campbell dehies that m I there is any great falling t.ff in the number of repealers in this town, and states that the asieciation shall receive more substantial proofs of their determination to support the present pol cy of repeal. The weekly rent was .1.:03. RESENTM ENT.— 1 he ex traordinary presentment sessions for the barony of 'bane and Barryroe was held in the Roman Catholic Chapel of Timoleague on Wednesday. This sessions, as wtll as those which preceded it, was numerously and respectably attended. An application was put in to improve the Roman Catholic Chapel of Timoleague, to cost £360. 'fhb parish priest warmly advocated the rebuilding of the chapel by presentment, on the ground of the povery of the district. The Chairman wished to know if any one opposed the presentment ? (Cries of No.") Priest : 1 JOUNTY . . assurevouthere could be no more ti , etul woi k. Chairman: Have we the p wer of doing it? Secretary: .You can grant any public aor Chairman prove of it? (Yes. yes.) At what amount ? Secre'ary £3OO is applied for. Pr est : ?lake it £.:5U0.. Chairm.n You will be very w better put in a presentment for a dwelling-house. Priest: Give us £5OO. for less will never do it. 411 r. Beatnish : Take the £3OO. £3OO was then presented to build a chapel in t disturDan c. when t lengt siderable number of men a, 20th ult September for e return of sever, Iments that the crop v put down for Texas, and the actual 320,974. The quantity of new cotton nuked s up to the Ist of September amounted hibited in the Underwriters'-room that no hostile step is to be taken " against the 'ant vessels which 'main at ('orrientees or may be returning Jo-French vessels of war o up or down the river." All the indeed, are to be permitted to pass without mel which ty ternatiNe mentioned bein; ieral to defend hirnbeit if attacked the on for the struction. Hitherto, the average consumption of fuel by engines employed in draining land, has been 15Ibs. of coal per net horse. po.er per hour, and, in many cases, even exceeding 20 to 25!bs In the Leeelmater engine the expenditure of fuel is reduced to nibs. per net horse-power per hour, or from less than one-sixth to one-tenTh only In the economy of drainin, lanrl rmer atnnunts .inical means, this is as great an imp . ___ __ the old system, as is the modern syst , m of nilways over the am ient means of locomotion. The work Performed by this engine is unprecedented ; it is capable of dis charging 1,000,00(1 tons of water in 2.54 hours. When the three engines are established, and at work, they will dis charge 2,800,000 tons of water in 24 hours; and as the contents of the Lake of Haarlem v which covers a surface of 70 square milts,) are estimated at 1,000,000,000 toes of water, the whole, allowing for contingencies, will be pumped out in 13 months—a feat in hydraulic engineering totally without p trallel. The cost of the engines, buildings, fuel, and workmen, to perform this operation, will be £110,000; by the old system of engines, it would have ex ceeded £210,000; and by windmills, £32o,ooo—the latter requiring four years to complete the work. AMERICAN NV II EAT AND POTATOE CROPS.—The Genevese Traveller, in his letter received from New York, by the Britannia, says :—" Our wheat crop, there is no doubt, is very large, and it must, for the coining season, depend upon your market to fix the price. If you do not require our surplus, wheat and flour will be lower than they now are in this country. The present price of flour may be put at 4 62-100 dollars per barrel. This may be considered a fair average price, tether stationary, with an upward tendency. That tendency. however, is produced by looking to your market, in the expectation of new orders to purchase at advanced prices. 't he home market of the United States, in my opinion, will not sustain flour through the season at four-and-3-11;V dollars per barrel. Our potato crop is suffering considerably with the same disease that is proving such a scourage to Ireland, a species of rot for which no preventative has yet been discovered. Indeed, so far as I can learn, we are now as ignorant of the cause of the disease as we were the first day of its ap pearance amongst us. But the loss of the potato crop in this country is not such a disaster es a similar loss would be in Great Britain. Here, no families, except a I few foreign families of labourers in cities, pretend to live, even chiefly, upon potatoes. Families of eight to twelve persons rarely consume more than fifteen to twenty bushels in a year." occurred yes'erday about midday in Royses Bay, u. ar the Quarry (whence stones are conveyed in flat-bottomed boats for the embankment cf the Foyle,) by which six Into met with a watery grave. The particu following :—One flat had been laden with her complement of ten tons, and she requited to be removed from the jetty into deep water to make room for others. Four men were ordered to do this, but being anxious to commence their half day's work, eleven men went on her deck to re move her by poles quickly. When in the act of doing so farther out, the water rose and ente-ed a hole in her bot tom, and she began to sink at a distance scarcely the length of herself from the jetty. Ten of the men jumped overboard into a small punt, which immediately swamped, nd one remained on dt ck. Three swam to the shore; he one who remained on deck got safely to land by means d a fifth was saved by the fireman of the )f a t al . . sma►l tug steamer who swam to his assistance, and laid hold of him when he was sinking. The remaining six, atter unavailing efforts, sunk to rise no more. What makes the case more tragical is, that when precipitated into the water the men were within an oar's length of the je'ty and of safety.- Derry Sentinel, TIIE POTATO DISKASE.—The fact of potatoes which were left undug being the safest, and the many instances of tubers which were slightly a tacked remaining so, with out the disease making to Cher progress during the winter, and lastly, the abundant supplies which continue to be sent to all our provincial markets, up to the month of May, afford strong grounds for the conclusions that the disease was not progressive, after a certain period last year. There can be no doubt that where the crop was partially diseased, and stored in the usual manner, many of the potatoes rotted, because the circumstances under which they were placed were precisely such as were calcu lated to increase decay, where disease existed, and espe cially where the tissue of the tuber was not sufficiently matured ; but where the potatoes were not put together in too large heaps, the disease d d not increase. As a fur ther proof of this, we may refer to the fact that several lots of slightly diseased potatoes, of various kinds, were put among sand, turf mould, and charcoal, in the Royal Dublin Society's Botanic Garden, and placed in a cellar, where the air was cool and uniform, with a view of ascer taining how lone they would keep. They were thus placed on the 17th of October last year, where they remained till Thursday, the 17th September, when they were taken out, and found to be as sound as when stored, having produced strong shoats about two inches long, free from disease. It will be important to ascertain what their future fate may be, in the conservatory where they haye been placed. LATEST FROM DUNGARVON —lt appears that the report that one of the soldiers of the 67th Regiment was shot by a policeman, in the riots of Itlonday, is not cor rect. Several of the dragoons were, however, seriously it jured. The country all round is still in the greatest state of excitement. The officer of the board of works cannot by the treasury minute pay the labourers more than 10d. a. day, and at this sum they cannot buy provi sions. Indian meal in the market is now worth double that sum per fourteen pounds; nor is this feeling of dis satisfaction confined to the labourers and small farmers. The gentry and magistrates are most loud in the outcry against government for the length they have permitted matters to arrive at without throwing in food, paralyzing enterprise amongst the merchants, by the declaration from the Lord Lieutenant that food shall not exceed a given price, and at another time declaring that trade will not be interfered with. A meeting of the county magistrates it is thought will be brought together imme diately, as many are determined to throw up the com mission of the peace sooner than be the instruments of keeping down by bloodshed excitement caused by want of energy and foresight at bead-quarters. This is not con fined to the county of Waterford. The adjacent parts of the county of Cork are similarly circumstanced. A de tachment of the 67th arrived on Friday, and sixteen more of the rioters were apprehended. The Duke of Cam bridge steamer arrived on Friday, at Youghal, with the right wing of the 47th Regiment, and they were all immediately marched to Dungarvon. AWFUL DESTITUTION, IF TRUE.—At the meeting of the poor law union at Cork, last week, the master's re port was read, stating that on the previous Tuesday 217 persons had been relieved ; Wednesday, 301 ; Thursday. 579; Friday, 724: Saturday, 1000; Sunday, 1400; and that day 1428 ! All had been fed in the yard of the work house, in addition to the 2868 inmates. The guardians heard the report read with amazement, but they appeared perfectly unable to suggest measures to check the crowds that were pressing for food. On looking into the yard in front of the house, it had every appearance of a fair green. Hundreds of men, women, and children were to be seen in all directions, with a dense crowd around the door, through which egress. or ingress was with difficulty attained. Some few of the women were at work, sewing with their needles, but the overwhelming majority were listlessly gazing about them, sitting down, lying in the sun, or walking about. It was evident that all those persons could not be in distress, and the guardians seemed to think so too ; but the difficulty was, to check a system of out door relief to the really destitute, which was evidently abused. On this fearful number of names hav ing been read out by the clerk, one of the guardians stated that he had been met that day coming to the work house, and parties had asked him—" How could he, a Cork guardian, tolerate such a fraud as that, for numbers of women and children were being fad at the workhouse whose husbands were known to be in good employment ?" Another guardian said the vast number of these were from the country : some from Skibbereen, Bandon, Macroom, &e. In this state the guardians seemed to consider that the less they said about it the better, but adopt some mode that, while they fed the really destitute, the ratepayers should be protected, and that no imposition should be practised. The most advisable course which suggested itself was to give the persons applying a break fast daily, provided they arrived before ten o'clock in the morning, and that the door should be closed for that purpose at that hour. ALARMING PROCEEDINGS.—On Friday last about 2000 persons assembled near the chapel of Grange, in this county, beaded by a man on a white horse, who said his name was Power, from the county Tipperary, and made the following regulations :—That the farmers were not to thresh or send out any corn to market. That no milk should be given by the farmers to their pigs, but kept, and given to the labourers, without any charge for the same. That no bailiffs were to be allowed to distrain for rent. That the farmers should at once refund all money paid for con-acre land, and also the value of the seed and labour ; and all able-bodied labourers should get two shillings a day, and the old men and boys tenpence, provided meal was one shilling a stone, and, if higher, the wages to increase accordingly; and every person t o be employed, or paid if allowed to remain idle. That no • process should be served for any debt , on pain of the plaintiff's ears being cut off. They then proceeded in large parties to the principal farmers to enforce their rules, and give notice that any persons disobeying should prepare their coffins. Darby Bryan and Robert Keating, two re spectable farmers, were so terrified that they at once paid , back the money for the con-acre on their lands ; the other farmers promised to do so in less then a week. They said that their leader was to go from parish to parish. They have also stopped farmers going to Dro p mane with rent ; and by all accounts, it does not require much force to prevent their paying. Similar mobs went through the parish of Ardmore on Saturday last ; most of them had fire-arms, and stated there was no law now I to prevent their having pistols in each hand instead of sticks; and they stopped all corn going to market, cut ; the bags, and spilled the corn on the roads, and would not allow the owners to take it up. They cautioned the tenants of Sir Henry Winston Barrow not to pay or ye new bills passed by them for rent. The object in stopping the corn and not allowing farmers to thrash is, that each labourer is to have one stack. James Maher, of Kil cannon, a respectable farmer, and tenant to Pierce Hely. Esq., Esq., had his horse stabbed for paying rent; and John Whelan, tenant to the same gentleman. and for the same reason, bad another horse stabbed. The ma gistrates are completely powerless.— Waltrford Mail. UNIVERSITY 4.- CLERICAL NEWS. A new church, one of ten, was consecrated on Wed nesday in Birmingham. Much interest was excited in Cambridge on Sunday week, by the Bishop of Ely holding his Ordination in St. Michael's Church during the hour of Divine service, and the ceremony being performed in " the face of the whole congrega►ion." Ti►e congregation of St. Mary's Church, Bootle, are about to present their late pastor, the Rev. John Glad stc,ne. with a silver waiter and a coffee and tea service, " as a testimony of their respect and regard, and of the high sense they entertain of his services as minister of the church during nineteen years." The plate is very ele gant, and was manufactured by Mr. Wordley. RESIGNATION —The Rev. Dr. Scoresby. - the Vicar of the parish of Bradford, has resigned his charge —a step which it has been said he has for some time contemplated. We have not heard the reason of the rev. gentleman's resignation, nor if he has obtained any other cure. It is ,tared that the Rev. John Burnitt, of St. George's, Mac cle.field, will succeed the rev. doctor a' Bradford. DR. HOOK ON EDOCATION.—The Times of Thursday, in reviewing the la , t pamphlet of the Vicar of Leeds, has the following :—" We have read with great amusement a quotation from a former pamphlet of Dr. Hook, in which he indignantly condemned the combination he now recommends ; declaring every expectation of obtaining unity and concord trozn an unholy mixture of the orthodox with he , etics ' to be as wild and vain, as that which led dupes of old to seek for gold in the crucible of the alchemi,t." THREE GENERATIONS OF CLERGYMEN OFFICIATING IN THE SAME SERVICE.—On Sunday week, the village of Croston, Lancashire. witnessed the almost unprecedented occurrence of three generations of clergymen officiating in the same service. It was on the occasion of the anniver sary sermons for the support of the Sunday Schools con nected with the Parish Church. Prayers were read by the Rev. G. S. Master, 11. A, curate of Ellesmere; his father, the Rev. R. M. Master, of Burnley; and his grandfather, the Rev. S. Master, M.A., rector of Croston, officiating in the Communion Service. Many eyes were bedewed with the tear of sympathy, when the circumstance was afterwards alluded to in the sermon. SEES OF BANGOR AND ST. ASAPH.—A few days since th , . Bishop of Bangor delivered his charge at Beaumaris, and in the course of it he to,,k occasion to allude to the proposed union of the two sees of Bangor and St. Asap!), a question which the lamented decease of Dr. CAREY, late Bishop of St. Asaph, must bring to a speedy issue. His Lordship of Bangor does not appear to entertain any See, which has been doomed to abolition by our politic economical rulers; he asserts, however, that he does not desp it of the anticipations of the friends of the Church, who would preserve the Welsh Episcopate in all its inte grity, being realized. A renewal, therefore, of the stre nuous efforts which have hitherto been made to rescue it from the threatened spoliation, should be vigorously and honestly promoted. In the mean time, we presume, a new Bishop of St. Asaph will be appointed; unless minis ters should adopt the miserable pro tempore expedient, which has been suggested to them, of assigning the Epis copal care of that diocese to the Bishop of Sodor and Man. THE RECTORY OF MANCHESTER.:-We beg to inform the correspondent who has pointed our attention to the article in the Liverpool Standard, that the canons of Manchester are not rectors of the parish in the sense of having cure of souls, but, like other similar dignitaries of the church, have merely the care of the Collegiate Church. The parish of Manchester is already divided into districts for spiritual purposes, and to each a clergyman is ap pointed. The canons are only properly styled sectors, as a layman mis!ht be in consequence of holding the recto rial tithes. By the new act there will probably be at no distant period a bishop, dean, chancellor, archdeacon, and one canon in residence.—the canons taking the duty by turns, each for the space of a quarter of a year.— Manchester Courier. [We have no doubt that the re presentation of our contemporary is perfectly correct, though we cannot exactly reconcile it with that portion of the " Memorandum" of the Churchwardens of Man chester, which expresses their regret at the loss sustained by the removal of Mr. Parkinson, and the certainty that the " parish" will suffer in consequence. They also ex press their conviction, that " the large parish requires an increase rather than a diminution of clerical superinten- dence."] NEW CHURCHES IN LONDON.—About eieht years ago the Bishop of London issued his appeal for building fifty churches in London. Since then nearly the whole fifty have been consecrated. No further special subscription has been requested by his lordship, and yet it appears, from the report of the Church Building Commissioners, that besides those there are twenty-seven new chinches, four of which are just completed, and the remaining twenty-three in various stages of progress, in or near the metropolis only ; and this in addition to all that had been done in the twenty years preceding. Nor does this pre sent a complete view of what is doing. There are three churches now building in or near the City Road, and two are proposed in Islington ; but none of these five find a place among the above. There may be many others omitted, in like manner, from various causes. INI,r is this all. Men will hardly tolerate, now, the mean and cheap sort of building they were contented with ten years ago. Stone is now becoming, in almost all cases. the material used. A few years back, £4,000 or £5,000 was th.ught a sufficient outlay on a church ;—now £7,000, £lO,OOO, or even £15,000, is often named as the intended expense. There is, notwithstanding, little probability, after all, that the wants of the country will be even mode rately supplied. The statistical view of the metropolis, given by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1836, sta• ted, that to accommodate one-third of the people, as many as 271 additional churches would be required. We certainly have not yet provided, in the ten years which have elapsed, so many as one-half of that number. THE TRACTARIANS.—The Warwick Advertiser states that the Rev. Mr. Bittlestone, curate of the episcopal chapel at Leamington, has excited the displeasure of the Bishop of Worcester, by practices inconsistent with the tenets of the Church of England. Towards the end of last month, it appears that a young female servant called upon a clergyman at Leamington, and anxiously inquired whether he administered the sacrament of absolution. She was questioned, and then stated that she had attended the episcopal chapel, and bad been induced, by the urgent exhortations of the curate, Mr. Bittlestone, to go before him at his lodgings, for the purpose of confessing her sins. He there received her in full clerical attire, and, bidding her kneel down, put into her hand a little book, entitled " Questions for Self-examination," containing a series of minute interrogatories upon each of the ten command ments, " the seven deadly sins," and " the three great enemies, the world, the flesh, and the devil." These in terrogatories she was directed silently to peruse, and, if her conscience returned an affirmative answer to any of them, she was to confess her guilt to him. He also ques tioned her whether she had not committed various sins ; and at length, Inter reading a number of prayers over her, formally absolved her. This interview lasted an hour and ten minutes, and at its termination Mr. Bittlestone en joined her to return in a month's time, for a repetition of this " sacrament of absolution." The girl, however, felt alarmed at the unusual nature of these directions, and resolved to consult another clergyman of the established church upon the subject. The result of her disclosures was, that an app,ication was immediately made to the Bishop of Worcester. who instituted au investigation into the affair. As Mr. Bittlestone did not deny the truth of the girl's statement, the bishop declared that the curate must desist immediately from such practices, or a com mission should be appointed spec•ally to investigate the whole of the circumstances upon evidence, and if the facts of the charges were proved, he would be deprived of his license. Mr. Bittlestone has requested to be allowed a month for consideration, and this time has been granted to bim by the bishop. It is stated that several young persons, some belonging to the upper classes, have been induced by Mr. Bittlestone to confess to him. pected and discarded 3. Our care should not cease with the choice of our representative. He is placed in a post of trial. It is right that he should be backed, and, if need be, checked by the views of his constituents. These, therefore, should not be withheld from him. On every measure which concerns our great interests, the association should be vigilant and active. On the first symptom of attack— on the first suggestion of a plan injurious to our princi les, the association should meet ^or' rec. ,(s opinion, an. convey it to its representative. Thus will he be, if ho_ nest, strengthened—if wavering, he will be warned. This is our wisdom Ii depenc s our s' he influence we can exert. care should be taken to increase this. All who hold our opinions should he urged to join our association, to give and gain strength by union. They should be ad vised to place their names on the register of electors, and should be assisted in doing so. 5. The weight of public opinion on the conduct of go vernment and parliament should ever be borne in mind. With thie view our voice should be exerted by petition, and still more through the public press. The latter is the workshop of legislation. In this we should be constantly active—playing every lawful tool—working a daily work. 6. Our opinions should be especially concentrated on the minds of the community in which we live. For this end such means as we have suggested should be resorted to. Libraries should be established forthe circulation of our publications, and others of a similar tendency. 7. These are the main objects to be kept in view ; how are they to be effected ? Let any person desirous to commence the work invite three or tour clergymen or gentlemen to meet and deter mine who should be asked to join. Let each bring a list of his own, and submit it to the others. Let a day be fixed for meeting, each inviting those best kown to him self. Let that meeting choose a committee, making all clergymen members ex o f ficio, and select a secretary, re membering that on his tact and talent will mainly depend thrir ultimate success. The subscription should be fixed low, so as to admit all . classes who are attached to the constitution in Church and State, but a separate fund formed by donations from the higher ranks. The committee should meet monthly, and communicate the result of their proceedings to the National Club, which will. in its turn, supply them with its papers, and with information of genital interest; they should use every exertion to place upon the registry such voters as will maintain our Protestant Church in its truth and integrity, resist the endowment of Romanism, oppose all concessions to the Popish priesthood, with stand the introduction of a godless, and support a scriptu ral education in our schools. But whilit thus attending to the political, the social objects of the National Club must not be forgotten. Let the committee of each as s, elation seek to secure for the humbler classes who enter their ranks all those benefits which they could derive from joining one of the friendly societies which are so nu merous; let them deliver monthly lectures, inducing clergymen, or laymen of approved character, and cautious in their selection of facts, to do this; let them create a benefit fund, form a register for vacant situations, and thus bind together the wealthier and more influential classes with the poor but honest children of toil, who are equally true to their country and faithful to their God. But to carry through these objects, a central union is wanted. That union will be furnished by the National Club. From each local association the National Club proposes to select one or more influential members, who will enjoy all its privileges. Thus the different societies will he brought into common contact, and enabled to direct all their energies to one common end. If this be done—and nothing but the will is wanting to do it—when the vital struggle comes, the nation will be found ready. Signed, by order of the Committee, RICHARD NUGENT, Hon. Sec. 13, Cockspur-street, September 29th. DEATH OF THOMAS CLARKSON This illustrious philanthropist died at four o'clock on Saturday morning week, at his residence. Playford-hall, near Ipswich. He had attained the age of 8G; but his spirit burned bright to the last, and while he ceased not to direct his though's to the great question of the eman cipation of the human race, he calmly looked forward to " the crown cf life" laid up in heaven for the faithful fol lowers of the cross. He was born at Wisbeach. in Cam bridgeshire, on March 28, 1760. Thomas Clarkscn was the main instrument employed by God in the suppression of the British sl,,ve trade, and in the emancipation of the slaves in the West India Colonies, which was its legiti- mate consequence. In the year 1785 Dr. Peckhard, the Vice• Chancellor of Cambridge, proposed the following question to the senior bachelors of arts, as the subject ot a Latin prize disserta tion—" Ia it right to make slaves of others against their will ? At this time Clarkson was a senior bachelor in the university, and having gained a prize the previous year, he resolved to enter the lists again as a competitor. While studying the general question of slavery for the purpose The Court remains at Windsor, and since our last the of the prize essay. the whole iniquity of the negro slave Queen, Prirce Albert, and the junior members of the trade burst upon his view. He obtained the prize; but Royal family have taken their accustomed out-door exer- the inferior motives of the collegian were annihilated by cise. Sir Robert and Laly Peel left the Castle on Thurs. the nobler purposes of philanthropy. His aim now be day. came the deliverance of the African race. He made a The Princess Royal of Prussia embarked on Thursday vow of eternal enmity to the slave trade, and to slavery in for Germany. every form and resolved to consecrate himself to this gi- On the only Sunday spent at sea, the whole crew of her gamic and then apparently hopeless task. Majesty's vessel was mustered, and the morning service In 1787 a friendship was commenced with Mr. Wilber- His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury , agreeably to read by one of the noblemen of her Majesty's suite. force, and continued uninterrupted till it was put an en d The Queen has appointed Earl Morley to be one of the to by that ruthless destroyer—death. F rom M r .Cl ar k son the Order of Privy Council, has issued the following , Form of Prayer to Almighty God for relief from the Lords in Waiting, in the place of Lord Glenlyon, now M r . Wilb er f orce rece i ve d an i mmense mass o f ev id ence Duke of Athol. dearth and scarcity now existing in parts of the United and facts, to which constant appeals were made, and which Kingdom, owing to the failure of some of the crops of The venerable Earl of Harrowby, who has been slightly gave his speeches so much weight and power. Ia the same the present year. To be read in all churches and chapels. indisposed in Grosvenor-square si n ce his re t urn f rom year h e b ecame connec t e d w ith a comm itt ee composed of of England and Wales, on Sunday, the 11th of October, Tunbridge Wells, was on Friday considered better by his gentlemen from different parts of the United Kingdom and medical attendants. America, most ot whom were Quakers, forethe abolition and two following Sundays. . The Prince Louis Napoleon Buonaporte left Bath on of the slave trade; he also made journeys to Bristol, A FORM OF PRAYER TO ALMIGHTY GOD. " 0 God, at whose bi Saturday for London, alter Lacing sojourned nearly six Liverpool, Manchester, &e., in order to procure informa the life of man, bath withholdedding the earth iu parts which sustaineth of the-e islands weeks in the former city. The Prince is expected to tion on that subject, which was not obtained withou t return again early in the winter. a great deal of difficulty and danger. the wonted provision of food, and turned abundance into Sr William Massey Stanley, Bart., has left town for In May, 1788, be had interviews with Mr. Pitt and scarcity, withdraw, we beseech Thee, the judgment of Hooion Hall, Cheshire. The respected b , ronet was Mr. Grenville (afterwards Lord Grenville) ; and the king which we are justly afraid, that the poor perish not by obliged to leave his shooting quarters much earlier than ordered a Privy Council to inquire into the truth of the famine. he originally purposed, from having been assailed by.in- allegations brought by Mr. Clarkson. The result of the " We acknowledge, 0 Lord, that by our strifes and flammation in the eyes, supposed to have been occasioned examination was the introduction of a bill to Parliament , divisions, misuse of Thy gifts, and forgetfulness of Thy by the discharge of his gun.. Under_ the able advice of which. after considerable debate, passed both Houses. manifold mercies. we have justly deserved punishment.l n 1789 he went to Paris. to promote the cause to Dr. Travers he is now . nearly r ecovered. We have sinned; we have grievously sinned against Thee. Lord Brougham arrived at Widmer Castle on Monday, which he had so earnestly devoted himself; where he was Yet knowing that Thou art full of compassion, we be- a visit to the Duke of Wellington. The noble lord introduced to the Duke de la linchefoucauld, the Marquis seech Thee to pardon the offences of Thy people, to re- on left the residence of the Duke on Wednesday for Calais, de Condorcet, MM. Petion de Villeneauve, Claviere, and lieve the poor and the needy in their present necessities, and thence to Paris, in which capital his lordship will Borisot, and to the Marquis de la Fayette—the latter of and to give and preserve to our use the fruits of the e a r th m ake a brief sojourn on his way to Cannes, his chateau whom received him with peculiar marks of attention. He in all its seasons. in the south to France. His lordship will reside there had also interviews with the king and M. Neker ; on the But whatsoever may be Thy pleasure conc ernin g us, until the middle of January, give us grace to receive Thy dispensations , whether of ANECDOTE or SCHONBEIN'S GUN C latter of whom Mr. Clarkson waited, accompanied by a COTTON.— When Wh . en deputation. While in Paris he was the object of many judgment or mercy, with entire submiss ion to ' I b y will ; Mr. S. attended at Osborne House to exhibit the qualities reports of a mischievous character. Mirabeau also took endeavouring to abate Thy displeasure by repentance, of his gun cotton to Prince Albert, he offered . to explode a f avoura bl e v i ew o f M r . Cl ar k son ' s exert i ons , an d can and showing forth our sense of Thy good ness b y faith a portion on the hand of Colonel B—; but the gal- vassed the National Assembly with success, and Mr. fully keeping Thy commandments. lant colonel recoiled from the experiment, and would have Clarkson was gratified by the intelligence that it had re " Of ourselves we are unable either to will or to do self, however, to do with the novel power. Prince Albert him- solve.] upon a total abolition of all bounties in favour of that which is acceptable in thy sight. We therefore pray e submitted to the test, and off went the the slave trade. Mr. Clarkson, from 1790 to 1794, was Thee so to open our hearts to the influences of Thy good co tt on ,lowwithout smoke, stain, or burnin of Spirit, that, showing compassion and mercy each man to fully occupied in disseminating a knowledge of the ques- Thus encouraged, the colonel took his turn g but t w e he a th i e n ; Lion, and in the later year he was obliged to retire, on his neighbour, and bearing the burdens one of another, the material ene was changed or not for the coarser ; prepare- account of the bad effect which incessant exertion had on we may obtain of Thy favour the supply of our wants, lion, i ave him such a singeing that he leaped up with a the state of his health. He bad, during a period of seven and with hearts knit together in brotherly love, may par eir°vno. f t g ain. A hearty laueh was all the ccirnmiseratioe years, to maintain a correspondence with 400 persons take of Thy bounties in peace and contentment, to the he received. p After this, Mr. S. loaded a foaling-ptece with his own hand, and some book or other to write an honour and praise of Thy name, through Jesus Christ our with cotton in the place of Powder, and the Prince fired nually in behalf of the cause. In that time he had tra- Lord. Amen." both ball and shot from it with the usual effect and perfect yelled more than 35,000 miles in search of evidence, and a The prayer is ordered to be read immediately before the i m punity. —Literary Gazette. grea t p ar t o f these jour ne y s i n th e n i g ht. I n 1805 we find Litany ; and when the Litany shall not be read, befor e ----sese-_____ him again pursuing, with undiminished ardour, the path the prayer for ail conditions of men. FASHIONS FOR OCTOBER. lie had marked out for himself, and making a journey (From the "London and Paris Ladies' .11nrazine of Fashion.") round the kingdom, which he had scarcely finished before The toilettes of the present moment are made suitable his great coadjutor, Mr. Pitt, died. The bill for total for the country and sea-aide, among which peignoirs are abolition was carried in July, 1806, through the House of most fashionable, varying from the simplest style of nep- Lords, and sent from thence to the house of Commons. /ig6to the rich style of oriental robes, opening on elegant where it was amended and passed. During this year the skirts, and termed SP iano peignoirs. Walking dresses nation experienced a loss in the death of Mr. Fox, who are generally high, and no change appears likely to be was an earnest advocate of the rights of humanity. From made in sleeves; the jackets and other additions of the the year 1807 to the present year Mr. Clarkson. though gilet Bonaparte will be entirely given up. The redingotes not quite b 0 publicly engaged, was fully occupied in pro continue fashionable, and hotter's, graduating in size, will motiug the grand object of his long and useful life; and 'till be used ; but the principal ornaments for autumnal we may affirm, that there are few, very few, who have -- es are gimps and fringes with lace headings. Ladies departed from this vale of tears who have left behind who do not wear flounces, or wish for variety, have their them such a character for enlightened benevolence and lighter dresses made with tucks of gradual widths to the fixity of purpose, through all the vicissitudes of this life. number of five or seven. Flounces are, however, very as did the subject of this memoir. How sad, that the general, and equally worn by short as tall figures : they last days of such a man should have been embittered by I are put on with so little fulness as to give the effect of the Sugar Duties' Act of 18-15—a step in favour of that 1 several skirts. Beeiliennie are also in favour : the most , system which it had been his life's work to destroy ! THE APPREHENDED SCARCITY LAW INTELLIGENCE. THE C,,URT 6- FASHIONABLE WORLD, Mr. Vaughan Williams has been appointed to tne judicial seat in the Court of Queen's Bench, vacant by the death of Sir John Williams. Mr. Vaughan Williams, who, it is said, will be the new judge, is the author of the admirable wor k "On Executors." lie also published, in conjunction with Sergeant D'Oyley, an excellent edition of Burns' Justice. He has been twenty-three years at the bar, but still wears a stuff gown. It is understood that the Lord Chancellor, aid d e by his Secretary of Bankrupts, Mr. Vizard, is engaged in the re construction, amendment, and consolidation of the laws of bankruptcy and insolvency, with a view to the intro duction of a comprehensive measure on the subject at the commencement of the ensuing session of parliament. As signments will be embraced in the act, and placed under the management of bankruptcy court officers. RAILWAY INTELLiciEACE. The Soutbpori Branch of the Ordiskirk and Preston Railway is to be brought out next year. it is said that there are 200,000 navigators employed on railways. . The - Crewe railway project, which will connect Wor cester with Shrewsbury, is again revived. Thursday, the directors of the North Wales Mineral Railway traversed the whole of the line from Chester to Ruabon. EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—A general meeting of shareholders of this line was held on Friday, at Bury, when the proposed amalgamation with the Liverpool,Orms kirk, and Preston company was unanimously agreed to. WHATS' IN THE WlND?—Within the last few days parties have been surveying for a line from the Chests r and Holyhead line to the Grand Junction line, avoiding the Chester and Birkenhead station. There was a terrific flood in Newcastle•on-Tyne, on Wednesday. It injured several bridges on the North British Railway, and totally destroyed some of them. The trains were delayed. SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAYS.—We hear that an arrangement for the possession of this line by the London and North-Western Company is on the eve of being com pleted. . . . The foundation stone of the Menpi tunnel suspension bridge was quietly deposited in the presence of the engi- neeri of the district and the contractors on Friday week, The erection of the bridge is expected to occupy three years. The electric telegraph was 'aced vindictively or fonl , sh. ly, on the Eastern Counties Railway, on Monday. Word was passed from Norwhich to London, to stop a thief . creditor, and, of course, an " action will lie." The death of Mrs. Hind, widow of Mr. William Hind, who was killed on the Eastern Counties Railway, took place last Wednesday morning. The fist sight of her wounded husband produced such a shock on Mrs. H., that she gradually sunk. A boy of fourteen, has been killed at the Preston sta tion of the East Lancashire Railway, by attempting to jump on a carriage before the train had stopped : he fell across the rails, and two carriages passed over him. The lad was employed at the station, and was to receive some tickets from the guards of the train. A considerable portion of the tunnel of the Newcastle and North Shields Railway, which commences at North Shields, about a mile in length, fell in on Wednesday morning. No lives were lost. It is thought the accident A splendidly finished salver. twenty inches in diameter, has been presented to Dr. Bowring, chairman of the Llynvi Iron Company, by the workmen, &c of the valley, . . as a testimonial of their gratitude for his exertions in pro: curing railway accommodation for the district, and for abolishing the truck system at the works. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE WALTON RAILWAY TUN NEL.—Owing to the carelessness of the engine -driver in not attending to a party ascending from the tunnel. on . . the 9th of Jay, a young man was thrown out of a skip, and hurt. He died this week. The jury found a verdict of manslaughter against William flornby, the engine- has not since been heard of, FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LEEDS AND THIRSK RAILWAY.—We have to record the untimely end of a young man upon the above line, which happened on Wed nesday week, at Bramhope, being the second fatal acci dent which has happened therein. _ The unfortunate man _ . was descending the shaft after blasting, when a stone which had been loosened thereby fell upon his bead and broke his neck. From official returns it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on nearly 1,800 miles of railway, was £178,037, thus accounted for :—£101,909 for the con veyance of passengers only, £39.829 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £36,299 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an in crease over the corresponding week of last year of £33,153. RAILWAY COMMUNICATION TO MOLD.—We believe, says the Cheater Chronicle, that Mold has now a fair prospect of possessing efficient railway accommodation, on terms that will not be prejudical to any irr crest, but will be acceptable to all. Surveys have been made at the in instance of powerful companies for lines, on the course of the Alyn, communicating with the existing railways to Chester ; and such lines are of easy gradients and cheap to make. The usual notices will be given next month. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday morn ing, as the six o'clock down train on the London and North Western (late London and Birmingham) line was stopping just on this side of Watford to take in water, it was run iuto by one of the up-luggage trains, and the loss of one life is to be reckoned amongst the casualties ac cruing from this melancholy catastrophe, while one of the company's engineers, named Henry Gibbs, had both his legs crushed, and was otherwise much injured. LIVERPOOL, ORMSKIRK, AND PRESTON RAILWAY.— At the first ordinary general meeting of this company, on Wednesday,—Sir W. Fielden, Bart., in the chair,—the report which announced the success of the measure, was unanimously adopted. An extraordinary general meeting then took place, when it was agreed to sell the line to the East Lancashire for 26,162 new shares, of the nominal amount of £25 each, of which £2 10s. shall be considered to be paid, and 3,838 shares, upon which nothing has been paid, to be created by and in the East Lancashire, and that the directors be authorised to perfect deeds and as signments to carry such sale into full effect. LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.—On Monday last a lament able accident occurred on the North British hallway, at Aberdeen. Several arches at the inclined plane bad been completed, and the necessary wooden erections to support it while building were taken away last week ; and arrange ments were in progress to proceed with others. A little before eight o'clock in the morning three of the arches gave way, burying amongst the stones, bricks, and rub bish, a number of the workmen. Measures were ins t antly taken to relieve the unfortunate individuals ; but we la ment to state that after a tedious and arduous task of up wards of an hour, seven were taken out dead, having evi dently been killed instantaneously ; four others were got out, much bruised, of whom two were taken to the Infir mary, and two to their own houses. Two of these have sines died. THE NEW RAILWAY TUNNEL.—The directors of the London and North-Western Railway are about commenl ing the Victoria Tunnel, from Edge-hill to the Waterloo Dock, a distance of 24. miles. A spacious station for goods and cattle will be made between Great Howard street and the dock, extending from Stuart-street to the back of the warehouses fronting Formby-street. There will also be a goods' station in liodson-street, behind By rom-street, which will be the only opening in the whole length. A splendid bridge is to be thrown over the rail way crossing the Wavertree-road, and also an iron bridge to carry Great Howard-street over the railway. The station at Edge-bill will be materially enlarged. When these extensive works are completed, both passengers, merchandise, and cattle will be taken from the side of the dock ; and the great nuisance of driving Irish cattle• through the streets will at once be abated. - The whole of these extensive works have been contracted for by our spirited townsmen, Messrs. Samuel and James Ho!me, and Mr. M'Cormick, the eminent contractor, conjointly, and the cost of them will be under £lBO,OOO. The bridge over the railway in `Vavertree•road is to be completed in six months, and the whole work in two years. Oct. 6, 18E6. fashionable colours are blue broads on gris perdrir r currant on iron gray, lilac on violet; a colour that bar-- monizes well with black lace is the Joinville blue ;fiouncee of lace on silk of that colour, headed by blue velvet, have a pretty effect. The materials are most varied : bariges are still worn ; mutat de lake, relieved by ruches of taffetas, foulards, ta f fetas in showy plaid, &c. Visitet are again in demand ; the newest colour fur travelling and useful wear is sab'e du desert; it is a warmer tint than the dust colour of last year : some of deep blue or green are trimmed with three and five rows of ruches pinked, others with gimp lace laid on flit near the edge. The Pamela form of bonnet is quite abandoned by the first Parisian modistes, t he . form be com i ng every d ay c l oser . Velvets, velours eptogltf, and satin are now beginning to • make their appearance in bonnets and capotes ; for the latter, ribbon edged by a double heading, having the effect of blond, is novel and pretty, with hu..ch of velvet flowers shaded of the same colour. Steel-grey coloured velvet, with leather tinted to matcb, also forms an elegant coif— fure. FOURTH ADDRESS TO THE PROTESTANTS OF ENGLAND, BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL CLUB. We have seen what our resources are—let us now see bow they are to be practically worked. be carried oul? I. The prime object of the association should he to se cure fit representatives —men like-minded with ourselves on those questions which affect the highest in.erests of the state. On this, however, we shall do well to exercise much forbearance. We must not seek for an entire agreement with ourselves in all matters of political dis cussion. Enough for us, as practical men, if we secure the great objects of our union. Ti ese must be kept in view as cardinal points, and on these the mind uf the candidate should be tested. If he dyes not concur with us on these national principles, our support should be withheld. 2. But care should be taken clearly to ascertain bis opinions. We must be on our guard against the vague promises and general profession of those who seek our support. Candidates often decline to st.te their opinions. because they hold it to be unconstitutional to give pledges. It is, however. as just that he who seeks our votes should state his opinions, as that we should give him cur confidence. We cannot trust him unless we know him. If he seeks to represent us, he must tell us whether we are agreed. If he will not declare his views • - e deserves to be sus-