The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN. The noble steam-ship Great Western, Capt. Matthews, arrived here on Sunday morning, having been detained off the port in consequence of not meeting with a pilot. She arrived off Holyhead on Saturday at noon, having left New York on the Bth. She acoomplished the passage in six teen hours and a half. The principal feature of the intelligence is that relating to lbe war between . the United States and Mexico, wilich had again assumed a more threatening appearance. The Americans seem to have changed their tactics, and the of ficial organ of the American government declares that " the war must be carried on with vigour. We must compel her people (of Mexico) to share its expenses with us by levying contributions upon her for the support of our army." Toe accounts received by this arrival confirm the r ported capture of Santa Fe by the American army under General Kearne. The resistance offered by I progress of the force amounted to a show of opposition merely ; and he afterwards fled to Chihuahua. General Kearney immediately issued an address to the 'Mexican soldiery and populace, proclaiming himself governor of New Mexico, and raised the American flag on the public stations. The principal officers of the government took the oath of allegiance to the American government. and the administration of Governor Kearney commenced yithout delay. A. part of General Kearney's forces were about to leave for California. On the frontier affairs appear to be again converging to wards a collision between the Americana and Mexicans. A letter to the New Orleans Picayune. dated at Seralvo, September 3d, states that General Taylor would probably be within cannon shot of Monterey on the 18th or 20th of September. Ampudia is at Monterey, wit'a the entire control. Two thousand Mexican troops of the line ar rived there on the 31st of August, with four pieces of field artillery. Canales was at Marina ' with 6000 Rancheros, to dispute General Taylor's march upon Montery. To this intelligence the correspondence of the New York True Suss adds, that by advices from Camargo to the Bth of September, it must be apprehended that a bat tle had been fought at Seralvo between General Worth and the Mexicans, as a force of the latter, 1,000 strong, was seen advancing towards that place, and within forty miles of it. Intelligence of the fact was sent by express to General Taylor, who immediately pressed forward with a portion r'f his troops, by forced marches, to the relitf of General Worth. The Mexicans were reported to be ral lying from all points to join the forces under A From the Pacific and the Gulf we have no fur telligef York C Quarte Washington corresponc rcial Advertiser states, that General J ter-General had been ordered to the se of a S, OCC. , G economical manner dit for his a gement of this branch of the The Steam Ship Hibernia arr t Boston on the 3d instant been received in N Janeiro to the 31st August had The American Cot- the following summary of the Commercial intelli e from the NMI, York Sun ton M t conti New one quarter of confirmed, and the market a closes firm. "Wheat, pt of Liverpool advic flour, and Indian corn being in active demand, the demand in Euro; in consequence of the supply in maaket being much larger than t the same season in any former year. We quote best Western Canal fl.:ur B's 50 to $5 62 1-2 per bar rel. The New York Canll returns up to the 4th week in September, report 1,851,088 barrels of flour de livered at tide water, being an increase of 510,235 barrels over the same period of last year. Of wheat, to the same period, 1,368 916 bushels, being an increase of 891,38.5 bushels. Of barley, the receipts are 347,812 bushels, an increase of 106,743 bushels. Of Indian corn, the receipts Flour does not sustair proporti are 1,155,654 bushels, being an increase over last 1,126,718 bushels "The U sited States government having exhausted their funds in the Mexican war, Mr. Walker, the secretary of the treasury, repaired to the city of New York, Octcber 3d, to borrow five trillions of dollars. He offered five per cent. interest, but the barks demanded six, so he passed to the private banking-house of Brown, Brothers and Co.', who took the loan, mostly on English account. Money in New York is worth 7 per cent. on the best commercial paper, having six months to run. Three months' paper is done at six per cent. Apprehensions of a scarcity of money begin to be entertained, as peace with Mexico becomes more distant." SPAlN.—Accounts from Madrid are of the 17th instant. The royal hull .fight, which took place on the preceding day, was described as truly magnificent. Upwards of 30,000 persons were present at it. Eleven hulls, and the usual proportion of horses, were killed. The departure of the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier stood fixed for the 22d. The decree of amnesty had been signed by the Queen, but bad not yet appeared in the Gazelle. The royal pardon was to be extended to all the military from the rank of colonel inclusive, and to civilians from that of political chief. Persons invested with commands by insurrectionary juntas were alone to be excluded. but her Majesty is to exercise her clemency towards them when circumstances shall permit. The Heraldo, in noticing the declaration of the British minister against the succes sion of the Infanta's children, adopts the opinions set forth in the Britannia:—" The moment England recog nised at Eu the propriety of the marriage of the Infanta with the Duke, after the birth of a son with the Queen, of an heir who may not live, she has lost all right to pro test against that union and its consequences. England and Europe may require that the letter and spirit of the treaty of Utrecht be observed, and that the crowns of France and Spain be not united on the same head ; but they cannot prevent the son of a princess of Castile, who holds his right from nature and the will of the Spanish nation, from ascencing the throne of his ancestors." On the 10th of October Mr. Cobden dined with the British Ambassador at Madrid, and on the 11th went with Mr. Bulwer to the Queen of Spain's drawing-rcom. On the 14th Inst., a grand banquet was given in honor of Mr. Cobden, at Madrid by the " Spanish Commercial Association." THE KAFIR \VAR —lntelligence from the Cape of Good Elope, to the 19th August inclusive, has been re ceived. From the scenes of hostilitiet. in Kafirland, there is not much news of importance. The events are, how ever, distressing, though the general aspect of affairs is not greatly altered. A day or two more were expected to bring all the divisions upon the Buffalo Poort, where it was confidently believed that the main body of the Kafirs would be assailed and brought to action. His Excel lency the Governor was on the Bth of August at Pieree, ready to move either upon the Amatalo, or upon the up per spruits of the Buffalo. There had been a good deal of skirmishing with the Kafirs, but no general engage ment. The results do not appear to have been very im portant. The accounts mention seventy of the enemy as killed by Colonel Hare's division, and fifty-seven by Sir A. Stockenstrom's ; while the loss on our side is said not to amount to more than ten or twelve killed, and a few wounded. A Graham's Town paper, of the 25th August, contains accounts from Sir Andreas Stockenstrom to the 4th or sth. In conjunction with the division of the co lonial forces under the command of Colonel Hare, he had driven the Kaffirs from their strongholds in the Acuatola mountains. No general action had taken place, the Kaffirs having been unable to concentrate their forces ; but they were driven from all their positions with consi &Table loss, and they were left in full retreat upon the Kei River. Sir Andreas only waited supplies of ammu nition and provisions to follow them to the Keeshema district. Sir Henry Pottinger has been appointed, in addition to the office of Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, her Majesty's High Commissioner for settling and adjusting the affairs of the eastern and north-eastern frontier of the colony. The mountains in the eastern frontier of France were covered with snow at the end of September. This is con sidered an indication of an early winter. The news from Switzerland is considered of a most ominous character—a civil war is all but inevitable. Yet a word from Rome, withdrawing the Jesuits, would pre vent the fearful danger. THE SCINDE PRIZE MONEY.—A correspondent of the Times complains that, although three years and a half have elapsed since the plunder of El ydrabad, no public intima tion is given of the amount of shares of different ranks, except the account that £70,000, or 1-16th, will be the probable share of the gallant Governor of Scinde. The King of Bavaria has suppressed all the newspapers in his dominions. From the Ist of January next he pro mises to issue a daily State Gazette of his own for the edification of his people. if he prove as poor an editor as he has a poet, the State Gazette will be a wretched thing indeed. DUELLING IN PRUSSIA.—The Gazette des Tribunaux calls the attention of its readers to the state of the law with respect to duelling in Prussia, by which officers in the army are placed in a singular dilemma. The penal code punishes them with imprisonment in a fortress if they accept a challenge, and the Court of Honour deprives them of their commission if they refuse. An example lately occurred when a lieutenant of artillery was con demned, by 27 votes to 3, to lose his commission for hav ing refused to accept a challenge. A packet vessel which left Monte Video on the 27th of August, arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday morning. She brings despatches for the government, the purport of which is not yet known ; but letters received by mer chants, affirm that Mr. Hood, (the envoy extraordinary despatched by the English government to mediate between the contending republics on t e River Plate,)had succeeded in the object of his mission, having "arranged everything satisfactorily both with the Buenos Ayres Government, and with General Oribe." We trust this may prove to be the case, and that nothing will occur to obstruct the final settlement of a war which has been so injurious to com mercial interests. TAPPING AN AQUEDUCT.—A novel case of fraud has been lately discovered near Boston, in America. An aqueduct company which supplies the city of Salem with soft water, were at a loss to account for the failure of the supply for some time past, and went to great expense of examination of logs and pipes to discover the supposed leak. A labourer in a tannery revealed the secret—that his roster, a proprietor of a very large establishment, had secretly tapped one of the logs, and had been for a consi derable time drawing from it with a pipe whose capacity was ten gallons a minute. He had thus not only supplied his own . tan-yard, but bad let out a right to one of his neighhours, wi•o was ignorant whence the water came. lie was lutested and held to large Dr. Arnoldi, the Archbishop of - Treves, so famous for his part in the " holy coat" affair, has addressed a circu lar to all the ecclesiastics of his diocese, recommending them, in the most pressing terms, to employ all their in fluence to discourage the faithful from further pKgrimages to Treves, and stating that such demonstrations., far from being acts of piety, were rather prompted bywanity, sa vouring of superstition. INUNDATIONS ON TUE CoNnwmx.r.—:The Loire has risen to a fearful height, and it is feared will cause great ravages. Oa the 19th the waters were , already two me tres higher than at the time of the terrible inundation of 1840. Roanne is completely inundated,,antla great many houses are said to have been-washed-awayin the neigh bourhood. At Andrezieuz, the whole valley of Forey is under water. o.le of the faubourgs at'Nevers has greatly _ _ suffered ; at Angers the Loire rose/ five metres (about 16 feet) in one night, driving back the waters of the Maine. A letter from Orleans, of the 21st,says.:—" Yesterday, at 11 at night, a sudden rise of the waters of the Loire carried away part of the viaduct owthe Orleans and Vier zon railway. A house near •the bridge was carried away by the waters,but the workmen -who were inside escaped by means of a boat. The opening of the Orleans and Vierzon line is again retarded by this new disaster." The level of the Seine, which on the.2oth was not more than 70 centim. above the low-water mark, marked on the 21st 2 m. 70 centim., having thus risen two metres in one night. 'DREADFUL GALE AT NEWFOUNDLAND.—One of the most terrific hnd destructive storms of wind and rain by which Newfoundland has ever been visited occurred on September 20th. Houses have been blown from their foundations and torn in fragments, in two lamentable in stances .crushed beneath the ruins some of their unfor trees, in almost every direction, have seen uprzoted from their beds or broken in pieces by the fury of the gale. Many bridges, fences, and other erec tions have also been carried away or much injured by the great and rapid rise of the rivers, which, in some instances, rose fully ten feet above their ordinary levels, deluging the low lands near their courses, and strewing their margins . with immense quantities of wrecked materials. Among the most distressing results of the gale in the town, we may particularize the total destruction of that spacious but unfinished building, the Natives' Hall, which, since the late fire, has afforded shelter to several families. At about five p.m. it fell with an awful crash. and by its fall, melancholy to relate, a brother and sister of the name of Duggan, of the respective ages of about five and twenty years, were killed, and their mother so severely injured, that hopes were scarcely entertained of her recovery.— tunate tenant more or less hurt. The new church ars to have been lifted from its foun f the gale, as it has been removed A. great portion ises in course of erection for I rapidly approaching completion lv, was say unf kbout twenty other build e been levelled to the ground, many others injured. Every bridge crossing the , from Quidi Vidi to Long Pond, has been either t away by the flood or much damaged. The arch of ne erection, the King's Bridge, is entirely iver-head bridges have also suffered, although ntre part of the long bridge ite the Hon. R. Job's cot several smaller bridges in nt. The c Very serious injury has also been sus- Mill-works. From ports 10 !be south- NC Petty Harbour, s is very distres done to the fishing.boats f stages, &c., id One man, named Patrick Kelly, a cooper, w a s kill e d by the fall of a stage. At Bay Bulls, about forty boats ,‘f a store, two brotl rushed to death, a❑ s, young men named Brien, were heir father had his limbs fractured. to Newfoudland, three of which had run sheiter, barely escaped shipwreck by cutting away their masts. The schooner Dartford, of this part, belonging to Mr. W. Dillon, loading with fish at Petty-harbour, was lost. A vessel was wrecked at liar- Grace, and another at Carbonear. From Renews we have also a lamentable account ; seven men are stated to have been drowned, about twenty boats lost, and many sages destroyed. Four of the dead bodies have been picked up. lUNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS. The Lord Bishop of Salisbury last week consecrated two new churches in his diocese—at Me!plash and West Fordingtnn. _ The - Rev. Gilbert Eliott has been appointed to the living of Trinity, Nlarylebone, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Pentuld. It is said that Mr. Newman hesitates about becoming a priest of the Church of Rome, and may, like the Rev. W. Sibthorpe, retrace his steps. On Wednesday, the foundation stone of a new church to be built in Elizabeth -street, Preston, was laid by the M ay or. The clergy of the archdiocese of Dublin, at a meeting on Wednesday, came to the unanimous resolution of peti tioning the sovereign for the restoration of the now vacant see of Kildare The body of the Rev. Mr Stagg, who lost his way and his life while ascending Snowdon, has been found in a bog about half way up the mountain. It appears he refused to take a guide, as he had been there several times before, and hence the melancholy result. The Bishop of London, in his charge delivered to the clergy on Monday, said, with reference to the Evangelical it.diance, that it was " an association which contains within itself the elements of disunion, and must soon, crumble into pieces, if it be not turned into a mere in strument of aggression against the Established Church." A correspondent of the Record, alluding to the recent finding of many carvings of winged lions at Nineveh, calls to observation the very remarkable and interesting conformity brought to light between those ancient re mains and the words of Scripture (Dan. vii. 4), in re ference to the Assyrian empire, "'!'he first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings." CHRIST CHURCH, HEATON NORRIS.—The consecra tion of this beautiful edifice, opposite the Heaton Norris Railway Station, took place on Wednesday, by the Bishop of Chester. On the 29th July, 1844, the foundation stone was laid by Wilbraham Egerton, Esq., of Tatton Park, who not only gave the land, but endowed the church with £l,OOO, and presented the committee with a donation of £2OO towards the cost of the spire. TRACTARIAN COMFORT DRAWN FROM THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S CHARGE.—Acnong other blunders of the journalists, we were especially amused with the naivete of a Tractarian weekly paper. It endeavours to evade the censure of the charge in the following fallacious manner: —" Any how, if WE gain but little, we moat certainly lose nothing. If the bishop be as far offrom Rome as evor, most certainly he is no nearer to Geneva." Now, who expected, or imagined, that the bishop should be drawing " nearer to Geneva?" Who asked, who desired, any movement that way ? No one. But observe the other limb of the proposition :—" WE—i. e., the Trac tarians—gain but little by the present charge," because the bishop is as far off Rome as ever." It is true, this little slip of the tongue tells us nothing that we did not know before, but it is well to catch these gentlemen some times in the confession that their real and sole object is to draw people over to Rome.-111orning Herald 1 CHURCH EXTENSION.—The Bishop of Ripon, at the meeting of the Ripon Diocesan Church Building Society, narrated the following instance of the effects of church extension :—" In an out-township of the manufacturing parish of Calverley, a church was built through the aid of this society, five or six years ago. So averse were the population to the erection of a church, so indifferent to the ministrations of religion, that only £l6 was raised throughout the whole district towards the building of a church which probably cost about £l5OO. A clergy man has been ministering there for three years ; and now between £lOO and £2OO has been raised to provide him witb'a parsonage." But the Bishop of London, in his charge delivered last week, narrates a more striking fact. He says :—" The average aggregate number of persons forming the congregations of the seven new churches lately erected in Bethnal-green had been 1500 in the morning, and 2000 in the evening. There were in those churches 460 communicants ; and 3254 children attended the National and Sunday schools. As the number of attendants at the parish church and the parochial school had not diminished, they were justified in regarding the numbers he had mentioned as a gain to the church. In the single parish of Bethnal-green, which was now divided into 12 districts or parishes, there were employed, at this time, 20 additional clergymen, having under their imme diate direction 15 schoolmasters and mistresses, 100 Sun day school teachers, SO Scripture readers, and 101 district visitors, all engaged in making known the truths and duties of their holy religion in that long neglected neigh bourhood." THE CONVERTS TO ROME.—The efforts which have for some time past been systematically made to revive amongst the members of our own communion opinions and practices which have been usually regarded as pecu liar to the Church of Rome necessarily tend, as 1 have before observed, to perplex and unsettle sensitive and imperfectly constituted consciences, and to prepare them for an acknowlQgment of the paramount authority of that church, which as it concedes nothing, nor admits the possibility of its erring, even in the minutest feature of that complicated system, which was stamped with the character of unchangeableness by the decrees of the Council of Trent, has manifestly a great advantage in dealing with unstable and doubtful minds, when even one step has been taken in advance towards that system. This is especially the case with females, the natural constitu tion of whose minds disposes them to rest upon the au thority of others ; while their livelier sensibilities are more easily excited and satisfied by an aesthetic and cere monial form of religion. Indeed, it is in minds of this class—even in our own sex also, with some exceptions— that a Romanisin tendency is most perceptible. Some few there are who seem to have Leen caught in the meshes of their own subtilty others appear to be perplexed by erudition ill-digested and misapplied; but a great number of those persons who have been, unhappily, perverted (and, after all, how inconsiderable Is that number in com parison with those who hold fast the truth without waver ing) seem to have been misled by the treacherous light of a practical mysticism, following the guidance, not of their reason, but of imagination, or to have fallen a prey to Romish sophistry for want of sound and well-digested theological learning. 'We must, I fear, look for more instances of perversion occasioned by these causes, and it behoves the clergy to be prepared with a competent store of reasons wherewith to combat the delusive argu ments of Romish emissaries, and to establish and settle the faith of the weak-hearted members of their Sleek s . The present is too plainly a time at which it is most need ful for those who stand on the watch-towers of the church to observe the approaches of the adversary, and to cry aloud to every soul that Is given to them in charge, " Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ bath made us tree, and be not entangled again in the yoke of bon dage.—Bishop of London's Charge. IRELAND. Prince George of Cambridge was at Clonmel on Friday, inspecting the troops. . The Limerick Chronicle says, the navy promotion will come out with the army brevet on the 9th of November. The Cushmans are about to play a few nights at Belfast, previously to their leaving this country for New York. The Limerick Examiner states on the authority of a medical gentleman, that four persons have died.of starva tion in that neighbourhood. . At the two bOtels of Ballinasloe, the week before last, during the great fair, two thousand four hundred turkeys were slaughtered for the guests. At a recent meeting, Dr. Daly, Bishop of Cashel, stated that nine out of the twelve prelates, and 1.100 out of 2000 of the clergy of Ireland, had entered their pro tests against the national scheme of education. _ _ The yacht "Wandering Spirit," the property of Lord Kilworth, son of Lord Mountcashel, was wrecked off Kinsale, on Saturday week, and has gone to pieces. Lady Mountcashel and two of her daughters were saved in one of the boats. Official returns announce an increase of 50,000 inmates in the Irish workhouses, as compared with the month of October, 1845. And, as a set off to this distressing evi dence of the progress of destitution, it is notified that 52,500 people are now receiving daily employment through the medium of public works. The Times' Dublin correspondent says—" It is, I be lieve, quite true that Mr. O'Connell has resolved to waive his claim this year, ar►d that consequently there will be no tribute Sunday for 1846 ; at least so it is stated by the managers of the national debt,' as the secretary faceti ously styles this annual impost." On Thursday morning, the body of a man, named Maurice Hartnett, was discovered in Clonmel Gaol, sus pended by a web, to which was attached a portion of his blanket, which had been torn off and twisted into a noose. The unfortunate deceased was confined on a charge of stealing an ass. THE ULSTER LANHLORDS.—Lord Lurgan has pre sented £2OO to the town commissioners of Lurgan to wards the expenses of Lighting the town, and he has announced his intention of reducing the rents of his humbler tenantry, in consequence of their losses by the failure of the potato crop. THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—NearIy all the clerks in the repeal association have been dismi,sed, and parties connected with the establishment state that an adjourn ment of the meetings for six months is about to take place—the association to commence its labours on the Eve of St. Ms. The liberator has done it all to oblige the "base, brutal, and bloody Whigs." CLONMEL.—The gunsmiths in Clonmel cannot procure arms fast enough for the demand, the peasantry are pur chasing them so rapidly. The flour carts going from Clogheen to Clonmel were robbed of their cargo, near Knocklofty, by a body of men. We fear that all the merchants' corn must be escorted by cavalry or police throughout this great corn district.—Dublin Mail. SLAUGHTER OF SHEEP.—A multitude of rustic la bourers crowded the town of Mallow, county Cork, on Tuesday morning, at an early hour, and, disappointed in work on the railway, made a simultaneous onslaught upon the farm of Richard Barrett, Esq , a mrgistrate, in the vicinity, where they seized upwards of fifty sheep, and proceeded to slaughter them, despite of the police. On Wednesday, the neighbourhood of Limerick and Cork were visited by a furious storm. Considerable da mage was done to the shops, houses, and fields, by the winds and floods. Waterford was also on the same day visited by the storm. A lighter belonging to Messrs. Malcomson of Clonmel, laden with 350 bags of flour, was upset, and several vessels were driven from their )orings INTIMIDATION IN TIPPERARY.—RENTS.-011 Friday evening, about eight o'clock, a man armed with a blun derbuss, entered the dwelling of John Cormack, of Bally hogan, within two miles of Nenagh, and ordered Cur rnack not to attempt to pay any rent whatsoever, and also desired him to tell all the tenants on the property to act similarly, and swore he would give the contents of his blunderbuss to Cormack, or any one else who paid rent. —Nenagh Guardian. _ _ _ _ DUBLIN.—At the repeal meeting, on Monday, in Conciliation Hall, a letter was read from Mr. Daniel O'Connell, in which he expresses his unwillingness to give up the plan for a national committee of landed pro prietors in Dublin. The Hon. Cecil Lawles, (now 11I.P. for Clonmel,) and Mr. O'Neil, (who thought he had been unfairly passed by,) came to an explanation. Mr. J. O'Connell, Captain Brodrick, Mr. Steele, Mr. Reilly, and others, addressed the association. The rent was short of £7O. DAY OF HUMILIATION.—The Primate of Ireland has addressed a circular to the clergy of his diocese (Armagh), enjoining the observance of Friday, the 30th insthnt, as a day "on which public prayer should be offered up, in acknowledgment of the divine hand which has sent this calamity." In consequence of an earnest hope from the Lord Lieutenant, that one and the same day may, by ap pointment of the several diocesans, be observed as a day of humiliation throughout Ireland, the Lord Primate has since postponed the day until Friday, the 20th November. O'C ONNELL AND THE RENT.—The Nation, in stating the conditions on which only the party it represents will return to Conciliation Hall, gives the following intelligible hint on the present disposal of the funds :—" The funds of the association should be accounted for in a regular and satisfactory manner. No more false, plausible de fences for the public, while the actual fact remains as now —that no committee, body. or individual whatever, has the smallest knowledge of, or the slightest power of obtaining any insight into, their condition—with the single exception of Mr. O'Connell." Two MEN DuowNED.—A yawl laden with fresh fish came up the river to Cork, on Saturday, in which were four men rowing. When they neared the Custom-house, a hawser, which had been attached to the Nimrod steamer, then on point of starting for Liverpool, from the Blarney screw propeller, for the purpose of swinging the latter round to be taken in tow by the Nimrod, came in contact with the boat, and threw three of the men into the river, two of whom were drowned, but the third was picked up, having been severely hurt by a blow from the hawser which had struck the boat, and was by the force of the pressure snapped in two,—Cork paper. . . ATTACK ON A FLOURCART—ROBBERY OF THE FLOUR. —On Monday morning, as a man named John Prender gast was proceeding to Clonmel, in charge of a cart-load of flour, the property of Samuel Grubb, Esq., of Castle Grace Mills, he was attacked near Knocklofty by about twenty persons who came out of a house. Several of them laid hold of Prendergast and they then dragged the horse and cart down a narrow road. They opened one of the sacks of flour and divided it into empty bags which they carried. They then took three more sacks which they also divided. Prendergast states that he thinks he will be able to identify some of the party. WRECK.—The Rose, from Belise, which arrived in Cove on 15th October, reported that she fell in with the barque Ellen Jane, of Liverpool, from Belise, in lat. 39. 40, long. 58. 30 ~ waterlogged, foremast only standing, decks broken-up, and hull entirely under water; two men alive in the foretop, took them off with much diffi culty, the sea was running so high. They had been in that situation nine days, with three others who died from exhaustion. The master and six men left the ship in the lorg boat on the 19th of September, but it is supposed they perished, as no boat could live in the sea which was running. The two survivors lived on the remains of their comrades, who died on the wreck.— Cork Reporter. IRISH PRESENTMEETS.—SOme time ago we asked whence was the money to come which was voted away so readily, or where would the collectors find it when they went to look for it. Perhaps few even of those who took such an active part in disposing of the public property are aware of the sum with which, were the Board of Works as insane as " the Sovereign People," the country would be saddled, and saddled for purposes for the greater part worse than unprofitable. The items are worth reprint ing. Although they amount to £608,015 13a. 7d., inde pendently of presentments for drainage, and if to this we were to add the customary charges under the head of Grand Jury presentments, many of those who have to pay them would, we doubt not, be a little startled.— Cork Constitution. SHAMEFUL OUTRAGE.—On Friday, between the hours of one and two o'clock, as C. W, Harvey, Esq., agent to the Earl of Donoughmore, was proceeding to this town on an outside ear, he was attacked near Mr. Bagwell's ice-house, at the Waterford side of the river, by four men, with crape covering their faces and otherwise dis guised. One was armed with a blunderbuss, another with a long gun, and the other two wiih pistols, all of which they presented at Mr. Harvey's head, at the same time telling him to deliver up his money, or that they would shoot him. He remonstrated with them, but all was to no purpose ; they would have put their bloody threat into execution, had he not delivered up his pocket book to them, containing cheques, letters of credit, and notes, to the amount of about £9OO. One of the party called out to the other " to shoot the horse ;" but Mr. Harvey and the man who drove the car interfered, and they did not shoot the horse, but backed him, car and all, over a precipice at the road side; they then made off through Mr. Bagwell's wood. Mr. Harvey was collect ing rents at Knocklofty, and was on his way to lodge the money he had received in the bank.—Clonmel paper. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LAW INTELLIGENCE, IMPORTANT TO SPORTING " GENTS."—The question of liability to pay duty for those sporting vehicles called " dog carts," although the original cost of which did not exceed 19 guineas, was determined by the commissioners of the assessed taxer at Kensington a few days back, on an appeal by a colonel in the Guards against the assess ment. The commissioners decided in favour of the assess ment, on the ground that the act only applied to persons in " trade or business," using it for that purpose. W e understand this decision is in accordance with that of the Court of Queen's Bench. ALLEGED liIIISANCE.—On Friday and Saturday last, Mr. Currie, barrister, sat in the grand jury room of the Session-house to bear thecase of Gerard, Bart. v. Gamble, which was, at the last assizes, agreed to be left to an arbi trator, two somewhat similar cases, in which Sir John was plaintiff, having been decided in his favour. A number of witnesses for the Messrs. Gamble said that no muriatic gas escaped from their works, but that it was wholly con densed ; and therefore it was argued by Mr. Brandt, f or the defendants, that no possible injury could have been occasioned to the plaintiff's plantat►ons. The award was postponed. SPORTING INTELLIGENCJ. GREAT STEEPLE CHASE FOR £looo.—The match made between a noble earl, connected with the turf, and J. R. Cornwall, Esq., is sow fixed to come off on the 30th of December, over four miles of Market Harbo. rough country. The stakes, £5OO are in the hands of C. Richardson, Esq. Miss Atherton and Colonel Clowes, it is said, have finally o determined not again to lease r 14 Kersal-moor tcor.racin_LPFPoW. RAILWAY INTALLIUEACE. A viaduct of ,no less.than 73 arches will be constructed over the Tweed at Berwick, in the formation of the New castle and Berwick railway. _ _ A large viaduct on the Orleans and Vierzon railway fell last week, whilst undergoing the government proof of a heavy load. _ __ • SUNDAY TRAVELLING. — The directors of the Edin burgh and Glasgow .Railway have agreed to discontinue the Sunday passenger traffic after the first of November. They will, however, convey the mail as usual. RAILWAY EXPEDITION. -- A respectable tradesman in Spalding closed his shop on Saturday night at ten o'clock, was in London all Sunday, and again opened his shop at the usual hour on Monday morning at Spalding, having travelled during that period 257 miles, and spent the whole day in the metropolis. _ On Tuesday Mr. Miles, one of the police in the service of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company, in attempting to get on a train of loaded earth waggons, whilst in motion, near Sedgwick, slipped and fell on the rails, when two of the waggons passed over him and killed him on the spot. The Directors of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company have concluded with Mr. Brassey, the well-known contractor, for the completion, within two years from this time, of that por tion of their line between Chester and Warrington, on terms, that will reduce the cost below the Parliimentary estimate. _ _ We have just learned that the arrangement of the Lon don and North-Western with the Scottish Central is•now completed. The latter are to be guaranteed 6 per cent. on their present outlay, or 7 per cent. if they complete the line. It will now only be necessary for the former to complete a similar arrangement with the Caledonian, and they will have an unbroken communication, under one management, from London nearly to Aberdeen. TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.—In order to expedite the works upon this line, the directors have, it is said, guaran teed a bonus of £lO,OOO per month to the contractors for every month saved in the completion of the railway under the time originally specified in the contract ; and such has been the impetus given to the works, in consequence, that it is expected, should the winter prove favourable, that the line will be opened in January next, instead of May, as was intended.—ltiorning Chronicle. OPENING OF TUE FIRST RAILWAY IN POLAND.— The line from Warsaw to Parikau has been opened for traffic, in the presence of the Viceroy, Brince Paskewitch. The distance, 19i Polish miles, (109 kilometres), has been performed in four hours, comprising some delays occasioned by the festival occasion. This line will be o great importance to Poland, as it will bring in a few miles of the Prussian Silesia, which is already traversed by the Breslau-Berlin line, which, again, passes close to the Austrian frontier.—The Builder. IMMENSE TRAINS.—Two luggage trains passed by the Rugby station on Saturday on the London and North Western Railway, one of which consitted of 96 carriage by one of Stephenson's new patent six-wheeled engines and two %thers. The other train consisted of 84 car riages, and contained 384 tons of goods, drawn by one of the new patents and two common engines. The length of the first train was upwards of a quarter of a mile, ex tending from the platform to the first bridge. Competition for railway speed is going or Western, it is said, are about to build an ek wheels, still larger than the " Great Wester. IDt t with the weight more equally distributed over a greateellumber of wheels, so that it will not press on any one point with so great and incessant weight as their " Great Western," and will unite all the improvements which the working of the latter has pointed out. The engineers of the uniform gauge are not idle in the work of seeking for greater speed. Mr. G. Stephenson has more than one engine ready which are to accomplish 60 miles an hour. The Brighton Com pany also have two engines which are to make the journey of 50 miles within an hour. The Great S ine with eight NORTH BRITISH R A ILWAY.—A meeting of the share holders in this line, resident in Liverpool, was held on Thurs:!ay, in the Clarendon-rooms. Mr. Wotherspoon was called to the chair, and a resolution was unanimously passed .expressive of the meeting's " strong disapprobation of the course pursued by the directors in dealing with the Carlisle Extension shares, without again consulting with the proprietors • and in issuing the quarter shares, and proposing to allot scrip quarters, in a manner calculated to give inconvenience, trouble, and cause risk and loss to the proprietors." After a lengthy address from the chairman, a resolution was also passed against the pro posed purchase of or amalgamation with the Edinburgh and Perth line. _ _ - .... USE OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — The other day a pheasant which had perched upon the wires of the Lin coln and Nottingham railway was killed by electricity. The railway people :were conveying a message along the line, which was doubtless the cause of its death. The telegraph was employed the other day to stop a clandestine marriage. A young lady and gentleman decamped to gether by rail from Nottingham to have the indissoluble knot tied at Lincoln; hnt about an hour after the loving pair had set off, the lady's mamma, finding her daughter absent, went to the railway station, and ascertained that she had left for Lincoln with her lover. The telegraph was instantly set to work, and when the lady and gentle man arrived at Lincoln, a policeman was in attendance to receive them, and the pair were forthwith taken out of their carriage, placed in a return train, and sent back to the mamma, who had unfortunately found her daughter " was out."—Lincoln Mercury. WEST BIDING UNION RAILWAY.—The first sod of these important lines was cut on Wednesday by the Right Hon. Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The schemes embrace a line from Halifax, through Low moor and Staningley to Leeds, which may be considered the main line of the proposed extensions; a !.ranch from the above line to Bradford ; another through Wortley, to the Leeds. Dowsbury, and Manchester line ; another from Pudsey, on the above line, to the Leeds, Manchester, and Dewsbury extension line at Edwalton ; a line from Low moor to Dewsbury ; a branch from this line to the main one, to shorten the distance to Huddersfield; one from Pickle-bridge to Brighouse; and a line from Halifax to Huddersfield. When these lines are completed, there will be a net-work of railways embracing all the towns of the West Riding, and, with the company's other lines, will form an extent of territory equalled by few in the kingdom. ECTRIC TELEGRAPHS.—M. Arago has communi cated an important paper to the Paris Academy of Sciences, on some of the effects of lightning upon the electrical tele graphs in the United States of America, observing that the facts had been communicated to him by M. Eben Mariam. of Brooklyn, and were entitled to confidence. On the 29th of April of the present year the lightning fell on the wire of an electric telegraph at Lancaster, without melting or breaking it. In the room, however, where the electric battery, by which the line is worked, is placed, a noise was heard like that of the discharge of a pistol, and several sparks were seen. On the 18th of May, a tele graph wire was broken by lightning, and several of the posts supporting the line were split. In this case there was a report equal to the discharge of two or three muskets. On the 3d of J une. the wire of the telegraph from Washington to Baltimore was so broken, that the communications be tween the towns were suspended for several hours. On the following day, during another thunder storm, the wire was not snapped, but at every stroke of thunder the hands of the telegraphic instrument moved as if the bat tery was at work. THE C. c a r FASHIONA BLE WORLD ROYAL VISIT TO CASIIIOBURY PARK, THE SEAT OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—On Wednesday forenoon, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by his Serene Highness, accompanied by Edward, Prince of Saxe Weimar, Sir Horace Seymour, and others, left the man sion to enjoy the excellent shooting afforded within the park. The party, with the illustrious prince, did not shoot. Prince Albert and Prince Edward were taken to the preserves at Calloland Springs, and in an hour and a half killed 46 head of game. Prince Albert killed 31 pheasants, 4 hares, and 2 rabbits ; Prince Edward 7 phea sants, 1 partridge, and 1 hare. his Royal Highness, her Majesty the Queen, and the retinue afterwards drove to Moor Park, the seat of the Dowager Marchioness of Westminster. They were conducted over the whole apartments, and shown the works of art there deposited by the late Marquis. The heads of the family Si: tre un avoidably absent. The royal party were afterwards enter tained at dinner at Cashiobury Park, to which a party of illustrious guests had been invited. On Thursday, the Queen and Prince Albert honoured the Marquis of-Salis bury with a visit to Hatfield-house, where also a distin guished party was present, including the Duke of Wel lington, the Duke of Rutland, and a large number of the most distinguished of the nobility. RURAL FETE.—On Friday whilst the royal visitors to Hatfield House, were engaged inspecting its beauties, a characteristic scene was being enacted in the park oppo site the north front, arid in the presence of some 2,000 or 3,000 people. A bullock which bad been roasting having been pronounced quite done, the ponderous iron frame in which he was enclosed was shifted on a moveable truck, to which, amidst the cheers of the rustics around, some 8 or 10 stout smockfrocked youngsters harnessed them selves. They then formed, with the aid of the shouting, yelling crowd, and escorted by a few of the yeomanry, a sort of cannibal procession of triumph up the park to the place where the tables were laid for those who were to discuss the carnal merits of the broiled animal. Present. ly, amidst redoubled shouts, there came rolling into the arena a long line of barrels of beer, to quench the expect ed thirst of the privileged partakers of the feast. On the tables were placed large hunches of bread, mugs, platters, and knives and forks ; and it was said that therei was accommodation for between 400 and 500 eating men, women, and children. Some mystical ceremonies having been first performed, the iron ribs which encased the animal were withdrawn, and lie was speedily sliced into innumerable pieces. In a very few moments the dishes (scantily enough supplied peihaps) were on the different tables, and many a hard-working peasant who bad not tasted meat before in the year got his allowance. All the while this was going on hundreds of persons stood around the enclosure watching the interesting energy with which so many mouths were champing in simultaneous unison, so many knives stuck bolt upright on the tables, so many mugs lifted upwards for deep drawn delicious suction. A party from the house, consisting of the Prime Minis ter, the Duke of Rutland, Lordiglarownlow, Lord Marcus Hill, and Lady Spencer, came down to witness this rude rustic banquet. On Thursday, during the royal visit to Hatfield-bonne, Prince Albert shot 140 head of game, the Duke of Wel lington shot 14 pheasants. It is said that the marriage of Miss Hoghton, daughter of Sir Henry Bold Hoghton, Bart., of Hoghton Tower, Lancashire, with Capt. J. Ireland Blackburne, only son of J. Ireland Blackburne, Esq., M.P., of Hale, is to be solemnized earltin the present month. Oct. 27, 1846. STATE OF TRADE MANC ET ESTER.—The same causes which have contributed re cently to produce depression in this market remaining unabat , d , it cannot be expected that any improvement, either in the ex tent of business done or in prices, can be noted. The position of spinners and manufacturers is every day getting worse, for as their stocks of cotton, laid in before the advance. becomeaenxd hausted, their means of supplying the market with Yartrffi. goods at the low sates of the day are rendered still m""cue diffi cult. cult. The advance on Cotton is now fully 25 to 39 per whilst buyers reiuse to concede on the manufactured ar ticle an advance of 5 per cent. Foreseeing the inevitab'e ten dencies of the market, we were the first to recommend manu facture rs to revert to the first principles of commercial policy In such cas e . by reducing supply. Slowly end reluctantly our contemporaries have followed in our wake, but at length all parties are becom ing agreed as to the tendency of acting upon the suggestion. Already a considerable number of factories have been put f)n short time at Preston, Bolton, Oldham, &c., but to-day (Friday) meetings of manufacturers are being he .d at Stockport an d Blackburn, an which will doubtless be followed h ere an d fa other surrounding towns, for the purpose of adopti ng the tale' the manufacturing districts. The unsettl e d condi tion of foreign markets at the present time holds out no pros pects of enc uragement to shippers, and certainly the prospect s of the home trade are gloomy enough, whilst the present sP°' culations are operating on the prices of food. It is therefo re , 0 highly inexpedient to go on producing stock at the high rates at the raw material, whilst the great vents of commerce are novr choked up with excess of supplies. If production be limited to eight hours per day, it will be some time before there w ill be that diminution of stock. both here and abroad, that will resto re an equilibrium between supply and demand, and subsequently enhance prices proportionately to the recent advance in cotton . Reductions in wages would be an unmixed evil, at once cruel. unc-Oled for, and impolitic ; the speculator in cotton has a ° right to a profit out of the wages of labour—the corn speculato : is making the poor man's loaf small enough already—and be sides the paltry reduction in this element of cost, alth,,ugh it might reduce the workman to extreme privation, would be a miserable nibble from the advance on cotton ; —furthermore, it would not create a demand (the thing wanted) for a single piece more. With respect to the operations of this week we may sal. after the fullest inquiry, that they have been even more limited than those of the week before. Printing cloths have continued in moderate request; prices are unchanged, although a hard struggle was made on Tuesday to effect an advance on p r evious rates. Within the last two or three days there has bee n a little more inquiry for both 36 and 4 f-inch shirtings, but as holder s have bee - , rather firm in their endeavours to effect a small ad vance, the business done has not been large. In yarns therehae been no material alteration, but, on the whole, the transr.ctioa s have been at least equal to those of last week. We quote th e following as the current rates demanded ;-26 inch l,rinters , 4s. 6d. to 4s. 7icl.; 27 inch, 66 reed ditto, 4s. (id. to ss. 13d. ; 21 inch, 72 reeds, ss. 3d. to ss. 104c1 36 inch, 66 reed shirting s, 7s. gd. to Bs. 6d. ; 72 reed tilt°. gs. to lost 4s inch G. E. India Longcloths. 66 reed, at Bs. 73d to gs. 3d. (superior makes of this e quantities this week at gs. fo r fabric have been sold in moderate printing;) 40 inch, 72 reed ditto, are held at gs.6d to 10s. UDDKR4FIELD.—Our market continues much in the same state as last week ;if anything a little more doing. Prices the same. Leans.—There continues to be a complete absence of speee" lation in our cloth market both on Saturday and to day. 11 T, purchases at the Cloth Halls were confined to present denia" for the home tra , 'e, and with the exception of a few orders f ° ! Spanish stripes, &c., for the India and China markets, wireu are out, them is little doing by the houses in the foreign trade. Prices are steady, but the manufacturers complain loudly of the want of remuneration. Business in the warehouses is much the same as for the last few weeks. te prices. B RADFOR D.—WOOI Market.—The transactions to-day and throughout the week have been extremely limited ; an d as the marke t which mat causesi sw el supplied, e staplers th toe purchasersonly take for Yarn Market. immediate aruet use. There is a great firmness manife s t e d i n t h e country" —We cannot learn that cur market i s any worse to. day, the business may be considered very similar to several wee" past. The very low prices for Yarn are telling upon our oper atives. The Wool c mbers are not so f u lly employed, which clearly indicates that the machinery is not fully in work• - ; Piece Market.—There is nothing very particular in the demand for goods to-day. Low moreens and damasks are mere In quired after ; also Orleans, merinos, and paramattas are iD steady request, without alteration in prices. it LEICESTXR.—We are sorry to bear comilaints from the mane" facturers principally engaged in the London trade, o n the c th oo e Untied flatness of the dema, d. Considering that it is now usually dull. The country houses are better r . e ca ;cel a foil average business in wrought hose : the suPPIY At Wool * equalto the demand. The straight-down branch is "" and Yarns are stationary, , A ith rather less doing A policeman, named Bowling, 347 K, deposed that he was sent for by the girl's master, that she made the same gisenbeuraslieedongi 'good city statement to him, and he took the prisoner into custody ; Tim NAVIGATION LAws.—Mr. Cobden 's •ible en. and that upon proceeding to the house with the girl on of Manchester is well disposed to do that honorable g stair- Mrs.t F ie rrn a c n e ' i s o w m or a k kir b ig ra t v h e a ly t . kin W at h io il m st t s h t e ill sa a rn s heenrigphrot,pleiretyfr in n d t a he child's passage c a case. The girl, to give a further colouring . to the ma tt er , vert to free trade, by pointing out to them that one of its leading (identified tto the b y stated that when she entered the prisoner's house with results will be the destruction of the colonial supremacy Rowling, she saw the cap thrown from the top of the of Great Britain, Man; by her Chamber of Com a the h u former m ander landing on the top of the staircase, but although she saw merce, is about to lend a helping hand to our faithle o the hand which threw it down stairs, she did not see the ally over the channel, by procuring from a Whig govern' body of the person. ment (if it can be done by men ace or ca j o lery), a repea l On this evidence the magistrate bad no alternative but of the navigation laws. For the sake of saving a trifling to commit the prisoner for trial, and he was sent away in impost now applied to those who complain, but who ar e the police van to gaol, not before he had loudly protested very far from being the real sufferers, these patriotic Ina; his innocence, and declared that the girl was perjured. nufacturers are, in their insanity, committing an act 0 The same evidence was given on the trial, and his pro- suicide upon themselves. The repeal of these 1 8 1 °S , testations of innocence, and the excellent character he re- would reduce Great Britain to a fifth-r ate power. ceived from several witnesses, availed him nothing. He owe their establishment to the Protector Cromwell : tbel was found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned and form one of the solitary flowers reared by him amid till, kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for three desolation which he had caused and cultivated on the so!: months. of the monarchy, and had he done nothing more. and le" Among the witnesses to character was a respectable undone all that he did besides, no one would have con: woman, named Swift, a former landlady of the prisoner's, tested his right to a statute as one among the benefactors who after the trial expressed publicly a strong opinion of of England. The wise administration of these laws ba . his innocence, and the wickedness and perjury of the girl helped to establish the naval supremacy and the corn' Evans. Two or three nights after the trial, the girl rnercial greatness of the empire. By them cur vast car' Evans was sent out upon an errand, and she returned rying trade is secured to British subjects, and the itnl ,l)r ; with her bonnet torn, her clothe s i n di sor d er , an d bl oo d taut art or science of ship-b u ildi ng encoura g ed w ithin 1_ streaming from her face. On th e mas t er an d m i s t ress own private and public es t a bli s h men t s . By th e ir repea l ' inquiring how she came to b e i n t h a t s t ate, s h e state d t h a t our ports would be fill e d by f ore i gn vesse l s bearing °,13,. she had been waylaid by th e woman S w if t, w h o ma d e a produce; foreign crews wor ki ng th e s hi ps so emp loye' ; furious attack upon he r an d cut h er f ace. O n t h e even i n g and we should not a l one h ave di s t ress among a w ide clas s of Friday, the 2 n d i nstant, t h e g i r l was aga i n sent ou t, t o who have not hith erto gr i evous l y f e lt th a t v i s i ta ti on , bu t fetch some milk, an d s h e returne d apparent l y su ff er ing with it we s h ou ld l ose our nurser y f or seamen , an d oar from violence inflicted upon her, and said the woman navy would , as long as it remained to us be built in ' ce Swift had aga i n waylaid her i n t h e B ac k- roa d, an d after reign yard s . Th ere i s no d ou bt b u t th a t, i,, f this new n e i i striking her several times about the head and face ran mand fur repeal be complied with, foreign seamen won away. On the following day, she complained that Mrs. be engaged to work at a considerably lower rate of vraq a Swift had as sau lt e d h er while she was cleaning the door than our own, and vessels for English proprietors `co l '', steps. In consequence of these alleged repeated attacks be built on French; and !American stocks at I n° , on the girl, s h e was advised to seek redress at the police- less cost than they are now built on our own ; but tbe,6., court, and obtained a peace-warrant against Mrs. Swift. adv antages .0 bf pin with would he ruin in the end, 0n` . 1 .1 1 ,1 On the following afternoon (Sunday, the 4th instant, ) would be found that a repeal of the navigation laws Vt'°u 4 about half-past one o'clock, the attention of the girl and be, in reality, an enactment for enriching the foreigner at her cries for help, and upon proceeding into the front par- the mortal and countless cost of the people of Great Br a ' lour, armed with a large carving-knife, and after knocking tamp.— Church and State Gazette. CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY The following report of the speech of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile at Bristol, on Tuesday, in aid of this valuable society, we take from the Bristol Mirror. The rev. gentleman, referring to the terms and tone of the preceding resolution, said—lt invited them to humble themselves before God ; it invited them to look at His dealings with them ; it called them to a penitential state of mind, and from that position. where alone a fallen creature could gather strengtb, it invited them to rise up and serve Him mote faithfully, more devotedly. There were two sorts of sorrow spoken of in scripture. The sorrow of the world which worked unto death, and a godly sorrow which worked repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of. They should learn that their present afflictions, which are but for a moment, worked for theuta far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, when they were looking not to the things which were seen, but to the things which were not seen. The rev. speaker proceeded to say that there was nothing existing upon earth in which evil was not mixed with the good. A national establish ment and endowment of religion was a good, a great duty on the part of a government, a great blessing to a country. But it was not an unmixed good. Where in such a world could they find one? It tended to pro duce an evil and a very serious one. It had caused this country for many years to consider that the ordinances of religion were matters with which no persons had any concern to procure or supply; that it was a matter for the state entirely ; that it was the duty of govern ment to supply churches and ministers; and English men had grown up with the feeling that there was no necessity for their doing anything individually, since it was all done, or ought to be done, by the state. The national church was national only in name ; it had ceased to be national in its character. Its power of expansion was not adequate to meet the growing wants of the population. What had been the result? While the state, by the operation of extraneous elements, had been prevented making national grants, the people of this country, long used to have the means of grace provided for them, had not awakened to the necessity of providing for themselves. Therefore the members of the church of England, in proportion to their wealth and numbers, had done less, by means of voluntary contributions, than any others. The Church Pastoral Aid Society had come at the right crisis to invite them to do what was their duty. Suppose no Dissenters had arisen,no Romanists,tbat there had been no clamour to open the legislature to such people, and the legislature had remained as a body of churchmen, into which no man could be admissible who had not re ceived the communion of the English Churc would have been no difficulty in obtaining grants from the legislature to build churches and supply pastors, and they would not have to be called upon to make efforts, and voluntary exertion would have been required or But the demand of the Church for rigid le. The stringent provisions of the Act of Uniformity prived 3000 parishes in England of faithful pastors. tent countri, her pa had de a proceeding. If the managers of their National Church, at that time, had been wise enough to perceive that there might be unity without conformity ; that men might work together for a great object, without all doing so in the same way ; that men might love one another without being like one another ; that hearts might beat together when countenances would not measure together; that there might be co-operation without similarity—if they learnt this they would have known how _to deal with enthusiasts withotddriving them out of the pale. The fact, however was that dissent had grown up in the land, and the National Church was national only in name ; they could not disguise the fact. All that now remained was to strive, if it was yet possible, by individual liberality, to keep up even an ap pearance of nationality about her. If they were deter mined to have a National Church, they must put their shoulders to the wheel, and their hands in their pockets. If the church was to be maintainel they must do it. Par liament would not. Parliament was a mongrel set of Papists, Socinians, and all sorts of Dissenters. There were men in it who loved the Church, and men who hated it ; men who respected it, and men who detested it. All were mingled together, and the enemies of religion were louder than its friends. Good and respectable men had characters to lose, and therefore acted with something like moderation, but there was a generation who had no character to lose, and therefore cared not what they said. Such a Parliament they had and must have. It would prove worse rather than better, and therefore they could expect no endowment for the Church from Parliament. The reverend gentleman then went on to speak on the topic of lay agency. He fully agreed with the remarks of the chairman on that subject. There ought to be a stated and regularly ordained ministry, whose sacred office it was to administer the sacraments in the church, a doctrine and view of duty) which was according to scripture, and ought ever to he maintained. The idea gradually and erroneously came to be entertained that the lay members of the church were not to instruct their neighbours, and fellow countrymen, and fellow sinners. Not only was there no valid objections to this, but he considered it to be the duty of Christian laymen to preach the gospel. He wanted not only lay agency, but female agency. He wished that the ladies would take ex ample from the Romanists; they sent their Sisters of Mercy to the dwellings of the poor, with their little douceurs of tea and sugar, for the purpose of more readily insinuating the subtle poison of their princip:es. He ur gently pressed upon Protestant ladies, the young ladies especially, to go to the dwellings of the poor, and whilst they ministered to their spiritual, not to neglect their tem poral wants. It was so easy to take little luxuries from their own table, in their baskets and reticules, which would be most gratefully received. Of all the enjoyments man was capable - of there was no thrill of such ecstatic rapture as that which arose from the consciousness of do ing good to others. Bad as they were that was still left in them. Fallen as they were that yet remained in man. The secret satisfaction of seeing happiness conferred on another far exceeds anything which they ever had or ever could desire from selfish gratification. Mr. Mc. Neile further urged upon ladies not to neglect the spiritual wel fare of their servants. OPENING OF THE PORTS.-SCARCITY DEARTH OF FOOD. The Provost of Pollokshaws has received the following letter, acknowledging the receipt of the memorial of the inhabitants of that burgh to Lord John Russell, praying for the opening of the ports, and prohibition of distilla tion from grain : Downing-street. 16th Octoler, 1846. Sist,—l am desired by Lord John Russell to acknow ledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th ult., and of the memorial of the inhabitants of Polkshawa which accom panied it. Lord John Russell is deeply sensible of the calamity which now presses so severely on the poorer classes of the United Kingdom, owing to the almost total failure of the potato crop ; but he trusts that the measures which the Government will adopt, and the exertions of pro prietors on their own estates, will tend very greatly to mitigate the dis'ress. I have also been instructed to inform you, that it is not the intention of government to prohibit the distillation from grain.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, __ _ (Signed) R. W. GREY: . . William Hector, Esq., Provost of Pollokehaws CONVICTION OF AN INNOCENT MAN On the 27th of last month, a poor man, named Thomas Nott, a tailor, was convicted of felony at the Clerkenwell sessions, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. His innc,cence has since been made apparent under very singular circumstances. A girt, named Mary Ann Bevans, only fourteen years of age, in the service of a Mr. Still, accused Nott of having robbed her master. The evidence taken against him at the Thames Police-court went to show, that Mr. Still had missed a great many articles of linen and wear ing apparel, and the girl swore that on the night pre ceding the apprehension of Nott she saw him in the rear of her master's house, and after he had gone a quantity of children's linen and wearing apparel, hung out upon the lines to dry, were missing, and that a portion of them were found in an adjoining yard, which the thief must have passed over, on the same night. She also stated, that on the following morning, when she got up, she saw the prisoner standing close to the parlour window of her master's house, and immediately recognized him as the man she had seen in the yard the night previous, and that some time afterwards he came to the house with a bundle which contained a portion of the stolen pro- perty, and placing the buncl!e in her hand, begged of her not to say anything to her master and mistress, and Le would reward her her down with the child in her arms she opened the front door and ran away. Immediate pursuit was made, but no tidings of Mr. Swift could be gained. Some wearing, apparel, linen, and other property, were missing directly afterwards, and Mr. Still made an application at the sta tion-house for assistance to police-sergeant Harris, who immediately suspected the girl was the thief, and on in quiry being made, it was found that on the Saturday morning, when Swift was represented to be in Lucas street, she was upwards of two miles from the spot. A lodger, who had some suspicion that the girl was an im postor, looked up the chimney in the girl's bedroom, where he found a bundle of wearing apparel fastened with a cord, which the girl bad led Mr. and Mrs. Still to be lieve had been stolen by Mrs. Swift. Sergeant Harris made further inquiries, which satisfied him of the innocence of the man Nott, and of Mrs. Swift, and that everything the girl had said about them was false from beginning to end. She afterwards made a full confession of her guilt, and said that Nott was innocent, and that she had dropped the child's cap in his house for the purpose of securing a conviction against him ; that all she had said relating to Mrs. Swift was false, and had inflicted the bruises on her head and face with her own hands, to be revenged on Mrs. Swift for the observations she bad made concerning her. She signed two declarations, affirming the inno cence of Nott and Mrs. Swift, and expressing her regret at having made false charges against them The inspec- tor's report; the declarations of the girl, and a memorial' from Mr. Still, have been laid before the Home Secre tary, sad Nott has been since discharged. The girl Evans has been discharged from her situation, and is at large. REVIEW OF THE TRADE OF THE KINGDOM. Official tables of imports and exports have been pub lished by the Board of Trade. The period embraced in the official tables is to the sth of September, but with a comparison of the same periods of the two preceding years. Under the heads of cattle and grain some idea may be formed of the progress made under the recent changes of the tariff in the anticipated increase of our supply of provisions from abroad. It is shown that we have added to our own stores, in the first eight months of the present year, from foreien sources, no less than 3.043,505 qrs. of wheat, and 2,905,252 cwts. of flour and meal. Within the same period, 58,559 head of live ani mals have been imported into this country. Including bacon, beef salted and fresh, hams and pork salted and fresh, 185,447 cwts. have also been imported under the head of " provisions." In timber, the increase of tr is enormous, being_ 1,117,758 loUds in 1846 , 29,429 in 1845, and 642,900 loads i showing an The importation increase in two years of 100 per cent of linseed is extremely small. The wool of all kinds retained for consume year, is fully 2,000,000 lbs. less than last year export trade in which the national industry is t quantity of foreign e present Of the whole a reduction equal to two millions has taken place. The following table will show the account more clearly : INCREASED Declared value exp to sth Sept. to sth Se Cotton yarn Hardwares and cutlery 1,455,884 1,501.491 45,607 Machinery Silk manufactures 9,539,432 10,900 451,752 57,645 DECREASED 8 1,310,896 Declared value exported to sth Sept. to Cotton manufactures 0,189 11,789,662 1,130,527 Earthen war Glass 10,128 Leather wrcught and 1 237,801 15,033 unwrought. Linen manufactures Linen yarn 2,080,373 1,854,062 226,311 708,500 548,121 1611,379 1,230,407 998,769 231,638 137,436 106,130 31,306 332,729 271,275 61,454 385,762 182,352 203,410 682,208 558,808 123,400 9 4,691,699 965,650 Copper and brass Soap Refined suaar Wool, sheep or lambs' Woollen yarn Woollen manufactures . 5,567 25,145,820 21,887,881 3,257,939 The largest decrease in 1846, as compared with 1845, in the exports of cottons and woollens, is to Belgium, to the United States. and to China; the increase is to Cuba and the Brazils. There is an increase, particularly of cottons, to France.—Halifax Guardian.