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

6 , . I XTH ADDRESS TO THE PROTESTANTS OF i for the charcoal will g i ve t o th e pl an t, w h en it b eg i ns to THE EMPIRE, BY THE COMMITTE E OF THE I grow, that which the disease has taken from it, and the NATIONAL CLUB. next crop will be quite sound. But if you cannot do this, plant the seed just as I have before described, and no We are asked, Why this stir about Protestantism ? matter what kind you have, do not be afraid of using it. What is our drift? 'Where is the danger ?—Plain ques- Let the sets be as sound as you cau pet them, but don't Lions which shall have a plain answer. I fear t i use diseased potatoes, if you plant them in dry 1. We admit that we regard our national interests as in weather, and at once—that is, this month or the next — danger, and our Protestant p rinci p les especially. We but in no case later than December; end, if you follow have raised the cry of danger, and we avow it. To meet this advice, please God ! you will have good potatoes nest the danger we bid you collect your strength, and fix your season. aim—one great aim to baffle the plans of those who would JASPER W. ROGERS, C.E. give to the Church of Rome the money and power of the Nottnigham-street, Dublin, Oct., 1846. people of England. This is the practical design of the ---aseeeea-aee majority of our statesmen; —we pray you to defeat it. • THE LOSS OF THE GREAT BRITAIN. 2. We brand it as a design of mischief and of folly,—it is wrong. too one should teach to others what he thinks TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. it wrong to do. If it be right to give up your mind and consc i en ce to the keeping of a pri• et, and to take his word Sitt,—Your laboured article on my statement to the directors of the Great Western Steam-ship Company has in place of God's word, why are you a Protestant? why just this moment reached me. I do not, cannot believe, not join the Church of Rome ? If you think these things with all the power for mischief you unfortunately possess, wrong. why do you lead others to do this wrong ? why a nd e x e rcise wi th evident gratification, that it can do me teach this wrong to the ignorant? any injury. We truly are a paper-ridden people; but 3. But the scheme is as weak as it is wicked. Look there are still many who judge for themselves, and they first to England : who amongst our labourers are the most will increas e , I hop e ; and to them I a pp eal fr o m y our ignorant and wretched, —uncleanly in their habits, homes, self-formed judgment. The idea of a landsman or a and rags,—poor in their fare ? All who know our towns lubber (evidently one or the other is the editorial " we") will answer, the Irish—the Ronan Catholic Irish. They, pronouncing so decided an opinion in such a case is ridicu by their habits, Cegrade the m als and the manners, and lous ; but you well know you have never given the Great lessen the wages of their labo ass,' s ; yet they have lived Western Steam-ship Company, or any person connected among us for generations, and they have lived unimproved; with it, fair play. Why, you can best tell. Your scrib they do not rise to our level,—they sink us to their own. bier says, " Captain Hosken starts with excuses for tak- Why is this? Is there any natural reason? None,— ing the North Channel." Captain Hosken "starts" with no people have higher qualities, quicker and more sus- reasons for doing so, and maintains them to be good and ceptible minds. Yet they live in the midst of civiFzation, sufficient; and then follow sapient remarks and laboured its exception and reproach. What is the reason ? You lines, which I pass over, only noticing a fete of them, cannot get at their minds—their minds are sealed up from leavin g y ou St. Paul's, Charing-cross, Whitehall, and you, from all contact with you—their mind is in thraldom Farringdon-street to wander in, and recommending your to the priest ; their passions have no check from the fear scribbler to extend his walk to Leadenhall-street, to of God, their souls are in bondage to tile fear of man, improve his knowledge in navigation. Mental thraldom, moral abasement, physical wretched- "At half-past five o'clock he has the Isle of Man on his ness I—this is the law of nature. right. He runs straight away, by his own reckoning, 4. Look next to Ireland. Every one wishes Ireland to some thirty miles, and then jumps at a conclusion, at a be peaceful :it is the interest of all that it should ;—why quarter past eight, that he has this same island on his is it not so? Its people are poor — but why? There is /eft." Any of your nautical readers will understand a everything to make them rich ; there, numbers are great, ship's course being altered from N.W.-by N. to N. by - E. —not so great as in England, nor growing so fast. But will bring a light from the starboard to the port or far- they have little capital ;—why? We have too much • we board bow, and this is really all the point in your article; , could flood Ireland with capital. Why do not our holders your winding up, "We have no wish to press hardly on a' of capital go there ? Because life is unsafe, and property man who has suffered already such mortifications and insecure; 'therefore the capitalist stands aloof. You can- losses from his own act," is paltry, and, as it means no not have the wealth, ti's arts, the employments of civili- thing, is unworthy of notice, as I shall consider any more zation among the disorders of the lawless. editorials on this subject. But if " Nautio.us," or any of But is this the case throughout all Ireland? Not your correspondents, attack me with their names, I shall among the Protestants; not in a great part of Ulster ; be quite prepared to answer them. this state of things, then, is confined to the Roman Ca- I am, Sir, your obedient servant, tholic Irish alone. JAMES HOSKEN. Why are they in this state ? Is their religion the Great Britain Steam-ship, October, 28th. cause? Take the facts and mark th en. No people In ..,r,aaara,=asss Europe are so governed by thei aeiests. But the Romish priesthood, torn from cll the iterests of society, have S 1 4 .] C 0 A r D EDITION one grand passion—the lust for power, and wealth, as a • means of power; they live for their church—they seek _ for their church universal empire. They can gain domi nion as other governments do, o:ly bs gaining a holdover ' Standarct , office, Half-past 12 o'cijck. the mind; the ,govern the minis of men by fables ad dressed to their tears,--that is the source of the power of --so.- the priesthood. MUNICIPAL ELECTION. But a multitude who believe fables must be ignorant. Therefore popular. ignorance must be maintained. No - people are so ignorant as the Irish Roman Catholics. ADJOURNED PROCEEDING-S. Such is the fact ; popular superstition, popular ignorance —this is the law of the Church of Rome. Popular ig norance, popular passion, popular disorders—this is the STATE OF THE POLL. law of nature. We may despise this law, we may over- SCOTLAND-WARD. look it, but it is fixed, and it will stand. A powerful priesthood, a turbulent people. 12 o'ceocar. 5. But they say that this is from the ignorance of the Mr. James Holme (c) , priests, and they will educate the priests. Educate the Mr. William Thornhill (n) priests! teach the Church of Rome ! Go and learn from her! the ablest government which ever ruled mankind— SOUTH TONTETIT 'WARD. the longest and the strongest ; which has lived through all ages, races, and climates—the only one which has 20 MINUTES PAST 12. ever sought universel power, and has won it, and holds it Mr. Thomas T. Glazebrook (c) now as firmly as before. But the lii,ll priests are Miter- Mr. William Watson (it) ate—if the State will pay and teach them, they will be come learned. The State pays and teaches the priests of . - -- . - - • . . Belgium and of France, and yet the majority of their priests are grossly illiterate. flow is this? These illi- THIRD EDITION. terate priests are the soldiers of a gree• army. We don't win our battles by ranks of courtiers ; it is the rough • plain soldier who does the work and wins the day. Standard-Q,l 7 ice.Tica o'clock. These rude coarse priests are the soldiers of a rude coarse , people, and fitted to move them. But they have their _______,,,___— generals, and if you would know them, they combine the LIVERPOOL . CORN EXCHANGE.—Tarts DAY. p intellect and the sagacity of the wort-1 : the subtle arts of Owing to the extraordin ar y i n t erru tion's to which the Italy, the learning of the German , the fervour of I re land corn trade in Ireland has bee n lately exPosecloour supplies .o sery and of France, the patient power of ::ngland. These are thence are still very inc ons iderable, coastwise are scarcely wor th namine to those fresh in . t the men who lead them, who work t he vast confederacy consumers, therefore, w ith th e demand: for wantstretilanseits and work it well. These are the leaders whose skitl b affles coast your courts, whose tactics put your diplomacy to sha me. wise and to Ireland, we are o f course d epen d en t on t h e Go and learn from these, the masters of mankind. stocks in granary, or d e li ver i es f rom th e ne i g hb our i ng growers, and on forei gn i m p orta ti ons w hi c h, since this 6. But would you make them your friends , and gove rn ' Ireland through them ? Many governments - have tried day week, furnish a liberal supply of Wheat, and 'Flour, this, all have failed. Will you alone succeed ? Has with a few lots of Barl e y anciPeaso, and 3,938' qrs. of Holland or Prussia or France? Have you succeeded in Indian Corn, as stated below. The decline in London y e sterday has produced an in- India or Australia, New Zealand or Newfoundland, Ca nada or New Brunswick ? What have they done for you creased depression here this morning : altogether,. a very ' there? Have they made the task of your government limited business has been d one , at a reduction, on Wheat more easy? Ask the British merchant; ask your cold- of 3d. to 4d. per 70 lbs. - Sack Flour 2s. to 38.; Barrel, Mal governors, both free and bond, 2s. 6al. Your scheme is a folly ; your plan a delusion. Oats and Oatmeal about support previous , rates, 7. But we must have them as our friends on an; terms. and Indian Corn still commands high prices for any Well, you can have them, but on their own terms, on the spot,. while parcels for future arrival are What are these ? Make your government do their work ; more plentifully offered, and little or no enquiry for tam snake the power and wealth of England raise the power even at reduced rates from those lately obtainable_ and wealth of the Church of Rome. Then they are your friends, your fast friends; but then they are your mas- ARRIVALS OF CORN, tars. Will you take them as such ? Wilt you, the Eug- From tize.27th. October to the 2d Nay., inclusive lish people, submit to be their slaves? To pay the priests, unless you are prepared for this, la CAIW AN AIU.STAT a scandal. It is an insult to common understanding. A It I RE.- (CO A ST is a folly so notable, that it should be n oted, and he who - " 1 "- co,..raza WILSROPY is guilty of it, and boasts of it as though it were a clever Wheat .. ... Ors. 1 JOl 325 1102 1208 15395 scheme, deserves to be pilloried, and branded with the Barley Qr 3. 31 9 50 es i • scorn of England ! slabt Qrs. 25 8 33 Signed, by order of the Committee, Oats RICHARD NUGENT, Rye Qrs. Honorary Secretary. Beans Qrs. 143 13, Cockspur-street, Oct. 27, 1816. Pease Qrs. IN 444 594 ......... ShelledßarleyQrs. Indian Corn. Qrs. U 394.0 HOW TO SAVE THE POTATO. Oatmeal .. Loads 1355 95 1455 Flour. ....Sacks 2377 45 24.22 TO THE PEASANTRY OF IRELAND. Ditto ____ 6103- , 22590 In November last, and subsequently, I laid before the EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat,— qrs.; Barley,— qrs. ; Pease, onvprornent and nthpr leadinr, anthnrities of the country. qrs. ; Oats, '25 qrs.; Indian Corn, —qrs.; Oatmeal, :XPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat,— qrs.; Barley,— qrs.; Pease, qrs. ; Oats, 25 qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal, sacks ; Flour, 15 brls.—lreland. Wheat, 1152 qrs. ; Bar ley, qrs.; Beans, 42 qrs ; Oats, qrs. ; Indian Corn, 3.325 qrs. ;'Oatmeal, sks; Flour, 1090 sks 31337 brls. —Coastwise. Wheat, 2137 qrs. ; Barley, qrs. ; Malt, qrs. ; Oats, 19 qrs.; Beans, 874 qrs.; Pease, 226 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 254 sacks; Indian Corn, 65 qrs.; Flour, 380 sacks 2485 brls. TO THE PEASANTRY OF IRELAND. In November last, and subsequently, I laid before the government, and other leading authorities of the country, the fact that the disease of the potato could be checked, and overcome, by planting the seed in Autumn in place of spring. And had it been the Almighty will that this were then promulgated and believed, and that the planting took place at that period, perhaps famine would not have reached the land ; but it was otherwise ordained, and you, who so truly depend upon the " toill of God!" will feel that what is is best. No one then advocated the messure, because it was not generally known; but now that the proposition has been publicly promulgated, and reason brought to bear upon it, the newspapers have echoed its truth and advantages from end to end of the country. Ido not, therefore, ask you to depend upon my simple word ; but as ail the agricultural authorities now fully bear out what in November last I urged as the real and simple remedy, I implore you, for your own sakes, at once to follow the advice which I pub lish for your good. If you doubt me, ask your clergyman, and he will tell you whether I am wrong or right. Lose not a moment in planting your potatoes; and for this year use beds or ridges, with deep furrows between, so as to let all the water run off. Manure the ground just as usual ; cover the set, at least six inches, with fine earth . ; that is, do not put on clods : make the covering snug and close, and finish your ridges off evenly. Run the beds so that the water may get off readily ; and do not plant in any ground which will be flooded in winter. Follow this plan, and, please God, Toll will have a good crop early next year. Do not be afraid of the frost—it will not injure the set; and even should the shoot come up and be cut off, it will come again, and give you a sound potato early in the sea son, if you but cover the seed as I have told you. And I shall now show you why, because I wish you to know as well as myself. When you put your potatoes into pits in autumn and cover them closely up with straw and clay and that they are a little time lying together, they begin to heat, just as you know a green rick of hay would : but t hey cant take fire, because they are so very wet in themselves—still they heat Well, the consequence is, as soon as they get warm, they shoot and grow ; and if the winter should be mild (as it has been in Ireland for several years) they shoot more; and so, by the time spring comes, the whole pit is filled with shoots, some a yard or two long. Just think of this. Must it not take away almost all the strength of the potato ? And when you pull off the shoots, which are the principal part of its life, and then put that potato for seed into the ground, you cannot surely wonder that it either misses entirely, or that what it pro duces must be weak and diseased. Suppose, now, that you had a parcel of oats, on a loft, that you were keeping for seed ; and that you found, when you were going to sow it, that it was all sprouted, would you not think yourself a very great fool to put that in the ground, hoping to get a good crop ? To be sure you would; in fact you would not use it at all. Yet this is just what you have been doing with the potato for many a year. You have put it in a pit warmer than the ground, or the natural air, and after growing there by means of that increased heat, from November till May very likely, you expect it to give you a sound offspring, although it has left almost all its life in the pit. Now, you know this is quite contrary to nature. You cannot expect a strong child from a weak parent ; and why the poor potato is to be worse treated than anything else in its propagation I cannot see. If you want a good crop of wheat you buy sound s eed ; if oats, you do the-same— in short, for all crops except the potato but you use IT so badly, that you first drive almost all its strength and growth away, and then you put it in the ground more than half dead, expecting it to give you sound produce. • This, then, is the reason why autumn planting should be at once adopted and always followed—because, when you plant at that time, all the power and vigour of the seed is given to the offspring. When nature calls upon it to grow, it grows as she wishes, which cannot be wrong. Not like the forced and unnatural growth in the pit , wh ich is given out uselessly, then lost, and the plant left to de pend on whatever little life may still remain for the repro duction. Do not hesitate, then, to plant your potatoes now; next year you will h a v e a goo d crop , and a year or two will , with the permission o f P rov idence, make the potato as sound as it ever was, if you so continue. Now, if yon can contrive, in addition to this, to burn a it tle turf into charcoal, wh'ich you all understand can be simply done; and after breaking it about as fine as sand, brow a sm"l handful or even dusting of it, on each set , wU find that the crop will be stronger and be Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Oct. 24. 1546. Wheat boa. l d. I Barley 4os. 2d. 1 Oats 255. k. ; Rye aga. Od. Beans..4ss. 9d. j Pease..4Ss. A.ggregate average of the six weeks. Wheat afis. Oct. ; Barley 375. 7d. I Oats.. 245.13 d. liye36s. 2d. :Beans.. 435. 6d. j Pease.. 455. 7d. Duty on Foreign Produce this week. Wheat 4sod I Barley as Od 1 Oats .. . is 6dßye. 2s Od Beans 2s Od.l Pease.. 2s Od I Ind. Corn Os Od Floursas4id Duty on British Colonial. Wheat.. Is. Od. I Barley.. Is. od. I Oats. Is. Od. I Rye... Is. Od. Beans.. is. ad. t Pease.. Is. Od. I Flour. 4p. cwt. Liverpool Averages, week ending Oct. 27, 1246. Wheat, 633 qrs., price (30;. Id; Barley, qrs., price —d.; Oats, 91 qrs., price 30s. 6d. ; Rye, qrs., price Os.. Od. ; Beans, vs.. rs. od.; Pease, qrs., price Os. Od. Duties paid in Liverpool, week ending Oct. 29. Foreign.—Wheat, 1100 qrs.; Barley, qrs. ; Malt, qrs. ; Oats, 169 qrs. ; Rye, qrs. ; Beans, 3.31€ qrs ; Pease, 39 qrs.; Indian Corn, 020 qrs.; Oatmeal, loads ; Flour, 1271 barrels. Colonial.—Wheat, 23 qrs. ; Pease, qrs.; Flour, 767 brls. 116 a Irsearapi GENERAL MISCELLANY. The potatoes in the township of Queenhead are not so much a failure as was anticipated.—Leeds Mercury. The thick coal colliers of Dudley have given notice for a rise of ls. per day, which will make six shillings per day. The Bucks Quarter Sessions decided last week, by a majority of one, not to call upon , the chaplain of the county gaol for the confession of Tawell. Among the list of articles of merchandise imported from Ireland during the past week, may be mentioned 1,509 digs of lead, the production of the sister isle. All the crew, except one, of the steamer Loch Ryan, which was recently wrecked, were saved by a brig which took them from the ill-fated vessel. A young gentleman in London received last week se rious injuries, while making some experiments on the projectile power of gun cotton. A servant girl, whilst cleaning an upper window from tho outside, in Blackfriar's•road, the other day, fell into the street, and was taken up without hopes of recovery. A PEER A PREACHER.—The Right Hon. Lord Teyn ham preached in the long room of the Angel Inn, Sherborne, on Monday. A SPORTSWOMAN.—In a shooting party on the Bien helm domain, the Duchess of Marlbarbugh this week brought down eight head of game with her own gun. It has been resolved to appropriate the sum of .Z 16,000 to the purpose of enlarging the Gloucester docks, in order to meet the increasing trade of the port. At a wedding, which took place on Monday, at Snaith, the bridal party and the guests arrived at the church on sixteen donkeys. A few days since, at a meeting in Edinburgh „Dr. Chal mers announced that it was the last time that he should address a popular assembly. Sir Henry Fetherstonhaugh, the oldest baronet in the empire, expired on the 26th ult., at his seat, Up-park, Sussex, at the age of 92. On Monday, the omnibus which runs between Barnard Castle and Darlington was upset. One pas s enger, Cuth . . bert Watson, Esq., sustained serious injury. A few days since, a woman was poisoned at Bishop wearmouth, through taking a dose of tincture of opium instead of tincture of rhubarb. The dose had been given at a druggist's shop by a boy in mistake. RUSSIAN BUTTER.—A vessel, just arrived in one of the dock establishments from Russia, has brought, in ad dition to a cargo of t , r and wood goods, thirty-nine casks of butter, of Russian produce. Last week a vesel arrived in London from Ghent with 200 orange trees in full leaf and vigour, and another from France with 121 orange trees, and several cases of choice flowers. UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE.—Friday week's Gazette contains only three bankrupts,—a builder, a currier, and a publican ; and in Tuesday's Gazette there are four, namely, two grocers, one hosier, and one victualler. Mrs. Jane Thompson, wife of Mr. Jo h n Thompson , ag'nt of the Berwick Bank, was tried at the court of quarter sessions, Berwick, on Monday and Tuesday last, on a charge of robbing the hauls in August last, and acquitted, 4144 Rah THE LIVERPOOL sTANINAiin. The Daily News mentions a rumour that Mr. Peto,the eminent contractor, will, at the ensuing general election, offer himself as a candidate for the representation of Norwich. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.--On Wednesday, Mr.W. Lake, a highly-respectable City solicitor, whose offices are at No. 18. Aldermanbury, left his residence at Corn berwell at the usual time, so as to reads his office by half-past nine o'clock in the morning. About eleven o'clock his son, Mr. John Lake, called at the office, and was surprised at finding his father lying on the floor, quite dead. RESIGNATION OF A TOWN-CLERK.--At a meeting of the Carlisle Council, on Tuesday week, Mr. Nanson, the respected town-clerk, announced his intention to resign the situation at the next quarterly meeting. So very valuable have been the services of Mr. Nanson to the corporation, that the mayor, on learning the announce ment of the resignation, declared that in losing Mr. Nanson the corporation lost their right arm, so very effi ciently had he at all times acted in behalf of their interests The recorder of Hull, Mr. T. Baines, Esq., a well known dissenter, in an address to the grand jury last week, said, in alluding to the condition of the people,— " The great thing which we should all uni e in seeking, should be the giving of means to every person of learning his duty to God and his duty to his fellow-creatures, and the best way in which those duties can be performed ; and also we should seek to impress upon their minds, that their own interests will be promoted just in propor.. tion to their fulfilment of those duties. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.—The proprietors of the Globe. and Traveller newspaper have unanimously voted a handsome piece of plate to Thomas Chapman, Esq., as a tribute of respect to that gentleman on his retirement from its successful direction as managing proprietor for a period of twenty years. Mr. Chapman has been con nected as a proprietor with the metropolitan journals during the last fifty-two years; and may be termed the father of the London press, having attained, with good health and spirits, the age of 83, on the 12th of last month. SISTERS OF MERCY.—.A community of the Sisters of Mercy has been recently established in Bristol, in a large and commodious house. The Sisters of Penance of St. Dominic, whose labours embrace the whole works- of mercy, corporal and spiritual, are about to be established in another portion of that city. At Penryn, near Fid mouth, a community of the Sisters of Notre Dame has been introduced from Belgium with two establishments; the one for the education of the poor, the other as a pen., sion for the more wealthy class.; the establishment for the poor already educates, and instructs in various branches- of trade, upwards of eighty poor girls. THE BRISTOL Docies.—Very warm opposition seems , to-have been raised at Bristol against making a free port there. A meeting of the " Free Port Association" wilt be held to-morrow (Wednesday) when the proposition will be discussed. A Mr, Visger seems the leader of the oppositionists. "On that day's deliberation" says the Bristol Mirror," in our view, will depend whether the Free-Port Association intends to do anything or not, and, for our parts, we await with anxiety the result. It has b-en a point urged by us from the first—time, time, time, —is the great consideration, and unless this preliminary step be taken, nothing can be done for the next three years. Will such ruinous delay be allowed ?" DEATH OP MR. TERNAN, THE ACTOR.—This gentle man, so well known in the theatrical world, expired on the 7th instant, after an illness of many months, at the age of forty-two years. He engaged in the management of the Newcastle and Sheffield theatres, with most disas trous results;_the savings of his early efforts were lost, energies were crushed by the unexpected termination of the managerial speculation, and despondency took pos session of his mind, and entirely prevented him from the exercise of his profession till his decease, which took place at the house of his brother at Gravesend. By his union with Mrs. Ternan, three children are left. Mrs. Ternan (formerly Miss Jarman) is herself a member of the Surrey company, where she is the chief actress with Mr. Macready. At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Tuesday, a bootmaker, named Poynter, was convicted of obtaining from Mary Woodhouse, of Nottingham, the sum of £2O, under false pretences. It appeared that the complainant entertained an idea that she was entitled to some pro- eerty as the deecendant of a gentleman- named Stokes, end the prisoner was introduced to her as a-person likely to assist her in the recovery of it, and he had, it appeared, be. artful representations that he was in communication with a barrister, and that the property would all be recovered, induced the ptosecutrix not only to-give him all the money she could raise by other means, but actu ally to sell the little annuity which was her sole depen dence, and she was in consequence reduced almost to a state of destitution. Priooness or F3PERy.—During the last fortnight, the Rev. Father Gaudentins has administered- the re spective services at the Catholic Chapel, Selby,.connected with the spiritual retreat. These services have been crowded to excess. Indeed, many hundreds were unable to obtain admission. At seeen o'clock each morning, mass was offered ; in the evenings, sermons were extem poraneously delivered. The solemn benediction of the blessed sacrament, amid the blaze of upwards of 130 wax lights from the altar, intermingled with tibwere of every hue, zoncluded the service.. Beyond these services, the whole of his time was constantly employed in giving in struction to many converts. On Sunday evening, the 11th, no less than ,it of these made a public profession of the faith they had embraced. The applicants have been so numerous, that the Rev. Gentleman has been obliged to prolong his stay - until the evening of- Sunday next, when it is expected a much larger numbar of converts will make a similar public manifestation.—Yorkpaper. NEW MODE ow - FROPULS2ON.—A new mode of pro pelling vessels has been tried with great satisfaction at Boulogne. It has long been considered a matter of im possibility that the principle of the paddlewheel could be rendered of any useful , effect when totally submerged. Ihe present invention has demonstrated to a certainty that such a disadvantage cam be overcame. The principle is based en. the well-known properties. of the: parabola, as-respects light, and the same- propertiesare proved to be true as re spects hydrostatics.. The blades are sections of a paraho loid, and are so constructed as to impinge on the concave surface, whereby the water is grasped and compressed to the centre of the axis, and thrown off in a direct line with the plane of the vessel's csurse, thereby rendering the propulsion superior in efficiency to the common paddle wheel, being uniform and continuous without drawback in respect of back-water. Another advantage exists in the area of -surface as- compared with the screw, as•lese than one-half of parabolic- area will work more efficiently with the same power. THE Creniree.r..--Tbe Standard of Friday night says, —As we have already said, Lord J. Russell end Lord John Cottenham, on Wednesday, urged earnestly the constitutional necessity for an early session, (before Christmas). not only to obtain an act of indemnity for Lord Besborough'e-extension of the Labour Rate Act, but also to obtain a parliamentary sanction for the reduc tion of the 4s. duty on imported grain. On Wednesday, however, the council broke up without coming to-any de finite resolution. At the- meeting of the ministers yes terday the subject was resumed ; and on-this latter occa sion, the opponents of as early session had the advan tage of Mr. Baneroft's asrical from the United States with intelligence that the sup-ply of grain collected in the Ame rican ports for exportation is so ampleos to render it ex tremely improbable the the necessity for a reduction of the duty; thus removing a principal motive for an early session, and relieving the premier from the obligation to take another step in what he is said to call "Me adminis tration of a deepatism."—[The Times of Saturday dissi pates every speculation on this subject. Parliament will not meet until the 12th of January, and the-ports are not to• be opened.j , I.Jeteouli Raceirr STAMP Tax,—A. gentleman in London has been impressing upon the Government, through the newspapers and by meansof a-pamphlet, that an uniform rate-of one penny stamp tax upon all receipts and bankers' checks, in lieu of the present rates, would increase the revenue and put an end to• much heart burning. The general evasion of the duty on receipts which prevails at the present time is the great motive for the proposed - alteration, and s - sine- facts of past years are- adduced to show that a larger revenue would be the pro-. bable result of a more moderate taxe In the year 1783 i when the rates were 2d. for .L2e and under £2O, and 4d.. for all higher sums, the produce estimated by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer was £250,000 per annum. In 1823, when the rates were nearly the same as now, the gross produce of the tax was—from Great Britain, £194,534.,. less by expenses of. management, £8791 ; and in 1843, it was only £187,508, less by expenses of manage-. ment, £12,753. It is evident that the value o: ;this.' branch of revenue has diminished rather than progressed with the increase of population, and hence the prejectoe of the new scheme would try the effect of a lower rate. TH.S OVERLAND Rana-el.—The Morning Herald sees that they have succeeded in showing " the superiority of the route through France, as the following statement will prove :—Mr. Waghorn left Alexandria at 12 20 p.ne. on the 20th instant. The Herald' dispatches left Alexandria a quarter of an hour later—viz., at 12 35 p.m. cm the same day. The Ariel, a new and splendid vessel belong ing to the Oriental Company, bearing our dispatches, arrived at Marseilles. at 5 ao p.m. on the 26th instant, having had very bad weather to encounter. The follow ing account of the voyage has been sent to us :—` The Ariel had gales of wind to encounter all the voyage right ahead, except during part of the 23d. This. vessel, under the most favourable circumstances, can make the voyage, from port to pert, in fire days, and, upon the average, in five and a half days.' It will be observed that in this instance, owing to the bad weather she encountered, she took six days and five hours; and in consequence of the inundations prevailing in France, out courier took half a day longer than usual to perform the distance from Mar seilles. Yet, notwithstanding these great disadvantages, in its throat. the journey from Alexandria to London was performed whole, but nine days and a half, and under favourable circumstances can always be performed in eight days." SINGULAR FACT—A. LESSON FOR GORMANDISRgs.— On Friday morning a kingfisher was found dead on the banks of the pool of Allensrnore, near this city, w ith a which I p , e h r e ch bir a d bo h u a t d tawttoeminpcthedes to s d w a al h lo al w f l t o h n e g fish, ri n ver or a the dorsal fin of the latter appears to have aleee prevented descent or return ; fixed, consequently, in the gullet, the victim caused the death of its beautiful but voracious de stroyer by suffocation. The plumage of the kingfi s h er is furnished with a sort of metallic suctoce. resplendent with the most brilliant hues—hence the action . of water t produces hebi rd will little dart effect beneath up stream and seize its prey transversely. is . remarkable. on it, h ande surface the rfae manner e o f a Returned to its position on a tree or bank, it commences the destruction of the captive. Without losing . its hold, it passes the fish between its mandiblee until it has fairly grasped it by the tail, and then ends the struggles of the prey by beating its head against the place where it sits. The bird next reverses the position, and if it has no you ng to which to bear off the prize, swallows its prey head fore, most. This appears to have been the course in the pee. sent instance, but the repast being WO bount i ful, rued fatal.—Hereford Journal, TIIE DAILY NEWS.—The price of this paper is tell raised to 3d. In an article on Wednesday last, the pro.: prietors fully explain the reason for this trifling advance, viz., a combinationofall the:London morning papers against the Daily News. It appears from this statement that since the News was reduced to 21d, the Herald and it have joined at the expense of foreign expresses. The Times, the Morning Chronicle, and the Post, have also joined together at the expenses of their expresses. By the entreaties of the three latter, however, the Herald has been induced to dissolve with the Daily News, and to take share with its three fivepenny competitors. While, therefore, the Times, Chronicle, Post, and Herald, by this new arrangement, will join at the cost of foreign ex presses, the Daily News is left alone to express for itself at its own cost, and thus incurs an additional yearly ex penditure of many thousand pounds. A meeting was held at Dorchester last week, to take into consideration the best means of improving the condi , tion of the Dorsetshire labourers. 'I he High Sheriff in the chair. The meeting was attended by the Bishop of Salisbury; John Floyer, Esq.. M.P., R. B. Sheridan-, Esq., M.P., the Hon. and Rev. W. H. Scott, A. H. D. Ackland. John Cree, F. R. Martin, Robert Williams, John Mansell, Esqrs., Captain Foster, the Revs. J. A. Templar and John Venables, county magistrates; the Venerable the Archdeacon of Dorset, the Revs. C. W. Bingham, J. Lane, E. Ludlow, G. Wood, R. Smith, G. Wood, R. Smith, G. Fisher, N. flandley, Sanderson, Robins, J. Phillips, T. Thompson, J. Frenow, 0. Fisher, &c. Resolutions were passed, and a society established " with the view of bettering the condition, morally and physically, of the rural labourers and working mechanics and artisans, by carrying out the - field garden allotment system, under judicious regulations." PREACH; T 4) THE DEAF ANI) DVILIB.—It may not be genet ally known that thare has been for some time past a chapel in Red Lion-square London, in which pub lic worship is performed twice every Sunday for the sole benefit of the deaf and dumb. The service is that of the Church of England—singing and the music on the organ being, as a matter of course, omitted. The experiment of communicating to those unfortunate persons deprived of hearing and the power of speech a knowledge of the great truths of revelation by means of those " signs ' r which constitute a language in themselves, have been eminently successful. In the morning, the chapel in Red Lion square is attended by from twenty to thirty deaf and dumb persons. Last Sunday evening the audience consisted of seventeen. After the usual prayers bad been gone through, the teacher commented at considerable length, by means of gestures-, on the Eleventh chapter of the Ist of Samuel, his audience seeming to comprehend every idea which he sought to convey. The services lasted far upwards of an hour and a quarter. COST OF CONVEYING LANDED PROYERTF. How :many of the inhabitants having £5OO to invest ever think of investing it in landsin the way either of purchase or of mortgage? Are not the middle and lower classes practi cally excluded from the purchase of land ? Do the great consumers of all other commodities deal in this? And is this state of things beneficial to any class? Dd you suppose that persons in the rairMle and lower ranks do not - wish to be purchasers - of land? Let the success of the late building societies, which are a clumsy contrivance to supply this demand, answer that question. The Eng lishman does not differ in this- respect from the French man, the Belgian, or the Prussian, except that the men of the last three nations can and do supply their wants in this respect, but the Ei,glishman the law sends empty away; For who, without some other purpose to gain, or having some other object in view, halving a small sum to lay out, would endure the delay, uncertainty, and expense which he knows full well attend the purchase of land ? - He knows not what time he may have to wait for the completion of his title, what - expense he may not incur,' and that after all the purchase may go off altogether and he stands plante la without his interest.. Is it to be won dered at that, under these circumstances, a thousand per sons enter the Stock Exchange to invest , ' their savings for one who goes to the Auction Mart ?L-11f-i 4 - Stewart's letter. AW-ITUL STORM.—A moat fearful storm occurred off the western coast during Thursday and Friday week. The loss of life and property has been truly frightful. On Thursday evening, the brig Charlotte, of Newport, and the schooner Union, of Whitehaven, both bound for Glasgow; were driven on to the- beach near Poolgwae lore, and became total wrecks. The Martha, of Yar mouth, was a total wreck—captain and mate drowned. A schooner bound for Southampton lost,. with all hands, seven in number. The Sir Peregrine, from Bangor for Cork, foundered in shallow water during the hurricane. The crew took to the rigging, and were rescued by the life boat. The coast on each side- of Aberystwith has been the scene of many awful disasters.. Friday after noon a brig and schooner went on shore at the mouth of the Davey,.and several of the seamen perished. To the westward of Padstow, the Samaritan, from• Liverpool for Constantinople, was lost With the master and seven of the crew ; her cargo was very considerable. The Buctouch, of London from Archangel, eras wrecked about four miles to the eastward of St. David's Head, near Milford ; it is supposed that the crew have all been lost.. During the height of the storm the Britain of Cardigan was hurled on the rocks in St. Bride's Bay, and became a perfect wreck. At Swansea, Exmouth, Cardigan, Bideford,.and Portland, the damage has been of a most' lamentable character. At each of these parts many wrecks are described to have oc curred, some being attended with loss of life. Tomi , SHIPWRECK.—The American papers contain an account of the loss of the brig Rienzi, Captain Small, of Boston, together with sixteen of the crew, in the storm to which the Great Wevern was exposed in her last pas sage from . Liierpoo}. The vessel was fallen in with on the 26th September,. by the Minerva, who took of the wreck the second mate and four of thearew in a very exhausted state—the captain, mate, and fourteen of the seamen having been swept away. The-Rienzi was-on a whaling voyage. and had , on board 470 barrels sperm oil. On 'the 15th September she was struck by a sea, the hatches burst off,'and the vessel immediately filled with water. Captain Small,. his mate, and young son about sixteen years of age. together with two , boat-steerers,. ship-keep er and steward, were drown - A in the cabin. Some of the err./ were drowned in the forecastle, and others were washed overboard at the time of the disaster. No pen can depict the sufferings of the remaining crew. All the provisions they had for ten days was about half a deep basket of bread,. which they succeeded in getting from the hold, and which bad been soaked for 48-hours in salt water. The day before they were taken off, they caught a shark by means of a bowline, the liver of which they ate raw, and tried to drink the blood, but found it bitter. All the water they had during their stay on the wreck, they caught by patting an old- shirt in the rain during a shower,- and wringing it out when it became wet. In this way they procured two quarts in all.. They were almost without-clothing and for seven days the/ sea made a con tinued breach on them ; and they could only keep on the wress by, lashing themselves fast. With the exception of the last day they spent on the wreck, they bad no place dry whatever, and then only a small place aft—the brig being entirely lull of water both for ward and amidships. EXT)ENS-1-711 SUBSIDENCE OF EART.II.—On Thursday week a singular fall of earth took place in the garden of Mr. Jesson, Hill-top, near BirMingham. It appears that a. hollow crashing sound was heard proceeding from the grounds, and on the inmates of the cottage proceeding. into the open air, they discovered that the earth, about twenty yards from the house, had given way, and an im mense aperture, about fifty feet in diameter, and many .1 feet deee,,presented itself. Inquiry showed that the gar den-was• farmed on an old mine, which had been closed for the last thirteen years.. No danger to the buildings. was• apprehended, and workmen were speedily employed to fill the yawning chasm. About four o'clock on Sun day morning, however, the inhabitants of the numerous tenements in the neighbourhood were alarmed by the crashing of a high wall which skirted rsir. Jesson's gar den, which was found levelled with the ground. Terror stricken. the tenants of four houses which stood near one end of the garden rushed from their beds, when a second portion of the ground was found to have given way. The houses stand but a few yards from the edge of this second chasm ; and it seems extraordinary that these buildings and their numerous. inhabitants-were not precipitated into the abyss beneath. As it was, a pigstye, with its occu pant, was carried away, and the pig buried far down. The poor people who occupied the i-oases hastily removed their furniture to the neighbouring lane, until some more suitable place could be found. Toe houses remain linte -1 nanted, as it is expeated that a further subsidence will take place. It is supposed that the occurrence has - been. caused by a new coal-pit being sunk in the vicinity, which has afforded an outlet for the water accumulated• in. the old mine, and the support thus-afforded by it to the superin cumbent earth having been withdrawn, this dangerous subsidence has been the result.—BirmingharniournaL TILE NEW. PLANET.—The discovery of the new planet beyond Georgium Sidus is a remarkable exemplification of the soundness of astronomical theories. M, Leverrier, French philosopher, and Mr. Adams, an English mathe matician, had both for, some time been engaged in tabula ting the disturbances" observed in the motion of Uranus, with a view to ascertain whether they did not proceed from the action of an unknown planet. In this. enquiry, M. Leverrier was the first to publish his conclusions, announc ing, with all the positiveness which calculations. based on sound.principles can give, that there was_such a planet— that it was. about 100 millions of miles from Uranus, whose motions it disturbed—that its diameter would be about 50,000 miles, and that it would therefore present a disc of about three seconds in magnitude—that its periodic time of revolution would be about 217 - years—and that it would be found in a certain part of the heavens. This announcement was made public on the 31st of Aug ust; on the 23d of September it reached Dr. Galin, at Berlin, who the very same evening found the pla net where Leverrier bad stated I Leverrier's calau lations did not reach Cambridge until the 29th of September ; but Professor Challis, the very same evening, singled out a star which proved to be the promised planet. And since then it has been readily found by almost all practical astronomers. How great must be the nicety of the instruments, and how un deniably sound the principles by which an astronomer is thus enabled to ascertain the existence, bulk, and periods of an unseen planet, solely from observations of its effect on another planet 150 millions of miles from it, and more than that distance from the earth ! M. Le Verrier calculated the heliocentric longitude of the new planet to be 322 deg. 24 min., a difference of less than a degree. M. Le Verrier has been honoured by the King of the French with promotion (for this discovery) to an officership of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ; and M. Gallo, who first saw the star, has been made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Thus promptly are men of merit rewarded abroad ! We find, by a letter in Wednesday's Times, that an English man, Mr. Wm. Lassell, of Starfield, Liverpool, !n ob serving the planet with his 20 feet Newtonian,, 24 inches aperture, has noticed an appearance of a ring round it, like that of Saturn, and also of one satellite. Owing to the unfavourableness of the atmosphere, Mr. Lassellis not able to speak positively of this discovery ; though be felt a " a very strong persuasion that nothing but a liner atmosphere is necessary to enable hiro to verify the dis covery,." VARIETIES. TWELVEMONTH LAMP.—Take a stick of phosphorus and put it in a large dry phial, not corked, and it will af ford sufficient light to discern any object placed near it. The phial should be kept in a cold place, where there is no great current of air, and it will continue its luminous appearance for more than a year. ANTICIPATION OF REVENGE.,-111 Scotland it is cus- tomary, when a death occurs in a family, to send the neighbours an invitation to attend the funeral. A " guid old wife" was passed by in one of these invitations, and with her heart-full of indignant grief, she watched the fu neral gathering, around a neighbour's door. It was finally, too much for her, and she exclaimed, , in a tone of forced resignation, " Aweel, aweel ! we'll hatve a corpse o' our ain in our ain house some day ! See then wha'll be invited." SUPPLY OF WATI,R, TO JERUSALEM.—Ancient Jeru salem must, like the modern town, have been chiefly dependent upon these domestic precautions for this indis pensable article. This is demonstrated by the multitude of ancient cisterns, which, indeed, are the same now in use, no less than by the inadequate number of springs in - the neighbourhood. This natural deficiency was so sully remedied by art and industry, that few places seem to have possessed more ample supplios of water for every purpose, or to have been so compleleiy secured, in th's respect, against the casualties of war. Neither violence nor stratagem could stop or divert the fountains which were open for them in the heavens; and the dearth which reigned beyond the walls of the city roust always have presented very serious difficulties in the way of a besieging army. It is remarkable, that in the nuraerous accounts which we have in the Prophets and historical books of the Bible, of the sufferings and desolations produced in this country by drought, we seldom hear - of any scarcity of water in Jerusalem. Some difficulty of this sort is some times, though rarely, experienced in very dry seasons, by families insufficiently provided with cisterns;. and water is then brought in goat skin bottles from a fountain a few miles distant from the city, and sold at a low price to those whose reservoirs are exhausted, or who are deposed to indulge in such a luxury during the - warm weather.— Church of England Magazine. WAS " GLYN COTTON" KNOWN TO 1511 , Z INDSANS.— We have beard a good deal lately of the explosive- mate rial called " gun cotton." There may be some doubt whether this substance, or something possessing very similar properties, was not known to dill'erent tribes of Indians at an early period. A quaint old voyager, who sailed with Cavendish im the reign of Elizabeth., narrates the following incident which happened when the ship was lying at Port Desire, on the coast of Americajdr the par pose of taking in wood and water:—" One day, while most of the men were absent on their several duties,. a multitude of the natives showed themselves, thmwing dust upon their heads, leaping and running like brate beasts, having vizirds on their faces, like dogs' faces, or else their faces are dogs' faces indeed. We greatly feared lest they should set the ship on ire, for they would suddenly make fire, whereat we much marvelled. They came to windward of our ships and set the bushes on fire, s that we . were in a very stinking smoke; but as soon as they _came within reach of our shot we shot at them, and striking one of them in the thigh they all presently fled, and we never saw them more. In New Guinea Captain Cook saw a peculiar mode of." suddenly making fire," probably, however, different from this.' -" Three Indians rushed out of a wood with a hideous shout, at about the distance of HQ yards; and as they ran towards us the foremost threw something out of his hand,.which burnt exactly like gunpowder, but made no report. What these fires were we cauld not imagine, We saw fire and smoke resembling those of a musket, and of no longer duration." A. FISHY CAPITAL.—Let us for a moment, step ashore in what our author styles the fishiest of modern capitelsa St. John's Newfoundland. Here codfish are the one thing.. universal; acres of sheds, roofed with cod, laid out to dry, boats fishing for cod, ships loading with it, fields manured with it, and, best of all, fortunes made by it. The accom- - plishment of the daughter, the education of the son, the finery of the mother, the comforts of the father, all are paid for by this profitable fish. The population subsist on it ;- figuratively, not literally. For,. although the sea it alive with cod, the earth covered with it, and the air im pregnated with its odour, it is carefully banished from the dinner table, and "an observation made on its absence from that apparently appropriate position,.excited as much astonishment as if I had made a remark to a Northumber land squire that he had not a head dish of Newcastle coals." But the abundance which renders it unpalatable to the Newfoundlanders, prucures them more acceptable viands, and all the luxuries of life. The climate ungenial, the soil barren, crops are difficult to obtain, and rarely ripen ; even potatoes and vegetables- are but scantily compelled from the niggard earth ; fish, the sole produce. is the grand article of barter. In exchange for his Lenten ratio of I.acallao, the Spaniard sends his fruits and Xeres, the Por tuguese his racy port, the , Italian his- Florence oil, and Naples maecaroni. Everywhere, but especially in those "countries of the Catholic pe,rsuaaion" . where the fasts of the liomish Church are most strictly observed, Newfound land finds customers for its cod and rapplies of its wants. —Blackwood. FERTILITY OF Duna Nom, .THE NOTELIST.—It is difficult to assign limits to the fecundity of a writer, and to fix the number of lines that he shall write in a given time. Romance-writing, •especially, that frivolous style, has • a right to travel post, and to scatter its volumes in profusion by the wayside. Nevertheless, time must be taken to consider a subjfet, to arranga a plan, to connect the threads of a plot - , to organise the different parts of a work ; . otherwise one procends blindfold, and finishes by getting into a blind alley, or by meeting insurmountable obstacles. Allowing for these necdtul preparations, supposing that an author takes no more repose than in absolutely necessary, eats in haste, sleeps little, is constantly inspired; in this hypothasis, the most skil- M writer will produce perhaps fifteen volumes a year —717 - TDEN VOLUMES, do. you -hear, Monsieur Dumas? And, even in this case, he will assuredly not write for lame;: we defy him to chasten and correct his style, or find a moment to correct his proofs. Ask those who work unassisted ; ask our most fertile romance writers, George Sands,lnc, Eugene Sue, Frederic Suu le they will all tell you. that it is impossible to reach the limit we have fixed, and that they never have attained it. - =on, M. Dumas, have published TiIIRTY-SIX volumes in the course of the year 1844.• ' and for the year 1545 you an nounce twice as many. Well, we make the following simple calculation :—The most expert copyist, writing 12 hours a day, hardly achieves 3900 letters in an hour, which gives, per diem, 46,800 letters, or sixty ordinary pages of a romance. At that rate he can copy five octavo volumes a month, and sixty in the year, but he must not rest an hour or lose a second. You, M. Dumas, are a penman of first-rate ability. From the Ist of January to the 31st of December you work regularly twelve• hours a day, you sleep little, you eat in haste, yen deprive yourself of all amusements, you hardly travel at all, you are never seen out of your howe : consequently, if we'euppose that your dramatic compositions, the bringing out of your plays, your correspondence with newspapers and theatres, im portunate visitors, a few casual articles —as, for example, your letters in the Democratic Paci f ique ; (a series of five letters containing a fierce attack on the Theatre Francais, and on its administrator M. Buloz)—supposing, we say, that all these various occupations monopolize only one half of your time, we understand that yon may have copied THIRTY volumes in. the year 1044—but only thirty ! the six others must have been the result of your son's labours. Now, if you are going to publish twice as much this year as,yott did during the last one, how will you manager You rarest either Ore up sleeping, and work the twenty fours through, or eau must teach ycur manufacturers to imitate your handwriting. There is no other plan pos sible. To deliver your manuscripts to the printers as they are delivered to you, would be to furnish proofs against yourself.—Translation from a Pamphlet entitled " Fa brique de Romans.; Maison Alexander Dumas et C 0.," in Blackwood. LABORIOUS Z . z.AL AND PRIVATIONS OF THE COLO NIAL BISHOFS.—The Bishop of Toronto, when on a visitation and confirmation tour in 1842, passed a night on an islandin Lake Huron, under incessant and pene trating rain, and amid a storm which blew down the tents. And the same prelate, on the same occasion, when pre vented from proceeding to the place where he had re solved to holla confirmation, by the dangerous state of the roads anal ferry, remonstrated with his clergy who had made this alteration in his arrangements, and who urged his not proceeding, and assured them that a road which could be traversed by a priest and his people, might welle be adventured on by a bishop. The Bishop of Montreal drove in an open cariole through " a raging snow-storm," and over, o; rather in, deep snow, in which the horse was occasionally almost buried, in order to hold a confirmation, and administered that apostolic rite in a " diminutive wooden building," (the Church sojourning literally in tabernacles,) while melting snow poured down upon the altar part where ha was officiating. The vene rable Bishop of Nova Scotia travelled under a powerfully hot August sun twenty-five miles, to consecrate a church, and hold a confirmation ; he began the journey ,by water, and after contending for a time with a high and contrary wind, was obliged to shift into a settler's waggon, and traverse roads so rough and dangerous, that parts were only passable on foot; on his arrival, he went through the two officea of consecration (church and burial-ground) and confirmation, and delivered an address to the newly confirmed; and after tarrying awhile at a settler's four miles from the church, he went forward twelve miles of a wretched road, part of it through a deep wood full of stumps, and roots, and stones, after nightfall, and after crossing a long ferry, arrived at his destination at mid night ;—and these exertions were made, let it be borne in mind, by a man of advanced age, now upwards of forty years in orders, and more than twenty years a bishop, and whose life, both as priest and bishop, has been spent in labours such as these, End in a rough and variable cli mate. The energy and endurance of the Bishop of New Zealand are so well known, and have attracted so much attention, and the instances of them are so many, that it will suffice to adduce his " pushing four hours in the dark in a canoe through a swamp, end then wading a quarter of a mile to terra firma through black mud up to the knees," when making an inspection of his diocese, and visiting his mission stations ;—his travelling on that visi tation tour, (on which he was absent from his home more than six months,) by sea 1180 miles, walking 762, riding only 864, and going in an open boat 249, making a total of 227 7 4 ;—and again, in another visitation tour, walking in two days seventy miles, and swimming across a river, in order to be present on the third day (Sunday) at the services at one of the mission stations; looking upon an immersion, from the swamping of a boat. " without any very serious apprehension," because Ell his party were swimmers, and he had no baggage ; fording one river with the aid of a tent-pole, and wading through another with " the water to the neck," and in which " the strength of the stream made it difficult to walk." And these only bodily labours; for daily he was evangelizing, preaching, saying prayers and services of the Church, as well in the native language for the aborigines, as in English for the settlers; baptizing, solemnizing marriages, and constantly conferring with natives " to win them to Christ," and with Europeans to confirm and stablish some, to lead °glen tofepentance.--Oxford,and Cambridge Review. Nov. j, DIA Zirtbs, Alarriagto anb 3ratbo. BIRTHS. C.^. the ath of September last, at Calcutta, Mrs. WI L LIAS I THOMSON, of a son. On the 19th of September last, at Mitchell, near Stratford. Canada, the wife of Mr. J. MOFFIT, of two sons and ts' daughters. The mother died within tour hours of her delivery , but the children survived. The family were from Ireland, and in very poor circumstances. On the 27th ultimo, at Egremont, the wife of F. R. GROTE, Esq., of a dangliter. On the 30th instant, the lady of JOSEPH GODDEN, En+ , surgeon, cf Oxton, Cheshire, of a daughter. Same day, at 15 , ., Abbot ford-place, Glasgow, Mrs. A. 0 ' M'COM BE, of a son. *Tao et vete lit*s % . 1 11 tun 11%1 MARRIED. On the 26th ult.. at St. Nicholas's Church, by the Rev. N. Tomlin, Mr. JOSEPH COOKSON, of Holylake, to ELLEN► only daughter of Mr. DAWSON. Same day, Mr. JAMES DAVIS, to Miss MARY ROBERTS't both of T►anmere. Same day, at St. Peter's' Church, Mr. THOMAS DOBSONi joiner, to Miss JANE WOODHOU3E, both of Lancaster. On the 27th ult., at Wavertree, JOHN HANCOCK GRUNDY' Esq., of Torquay, to MAR/A, daughter of the late J. HOLMES ., ' Esq., of Greenock. Same day, at St. John the BaptiAt's C:iurc - h, Mr. JOHg ANDREWS. to Miss SUSANNAH WOMACK. . _ Same day, at the Roman Catholick Church, Wexford, by the Rev. Dr. Murphy, MAURICE .L HORS, Esq., of thi s t ow n, to ELIZABETH FRANCES, second daughter of the late FRANCIS WYSE, Esq., of Pool Drew, county Waterkrd. On the 28th ult., at St. Catherine's Chm'eb, Blackrcd, by the Rey. Dr .A\nislie, Master of Pembroke Colleg., Cambridge , THOMAS COXHEAD CHISENHALE MARSH, eldest son of Wm. Coxher,d Marsh, Esq., of Gayues-park, Essex, to ELIZA ANNE CEIISENHALE, daughter ;if John Cbisenhale Cbisen• hale, ESq., of Arley, in this county. Same day, Mr. JAMES JARDINE, rope-manufacturer, to Miss JANET POLLOCK, daughter of Wm. Pollock, y,sq., of Titwood-house, Mearns, county of Renfrewshire. Same day, at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic - Chapel, by the Rev. Mr. Fayers, Mr. PE lER WILCOCK, to HELEN, third daughter of the late Mr. R. PARKER, of Little Crosby. Same day, at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Chapel, lir' THOMAS NEALE. of Little Alcar, to MARY, fourth daughter of the la - X Mr. R. PARKER, farmer, Little Crosby. Same day, at st. Michael's Church. Ve.teth-park, by the Ref. Wm. Elesketh, M.A., the Rev. GILBERT SANDBACH, rector of Upper Sapey, Herefordshire, to MARGARET,. younto t daughter of the late BRCHIBALD MAXWELL, Esq., of Kelton, Kirkcudbrightshire. Same day, at St. Paul's Church, by the Rev. R. Davies, Mr. T. JONES, merchant, Rhydnnog, near PAibely, to Miss ANN EVANS, of Llaethdu, Arnlwch, Anglesey. Same day, at St. Phitlp's Church. by the Rev. C. H. Burton , M-A., Mr. JOHN DALE. to Miss MARGARET SALTHOUSIL On the 29th ult., at St. James's chur4,l, by the Rev,. It' Graham, Mr. WM'. ROWLAND, surgeon; to MARGARg" youngest daughter of ITHOMAS LLOYD, EA , of Chester street. Same day, Mr.' R. D. REEVES, to CLARISSA, eldest daughter of the late THOMAS NORTON, .Esq., of Tranmere. Same day, at St. Philip's- Church. by the Rev. Mr. Barton,' WILLIAM, eldest wdn of RICHARD GARDNER Esq.. Lead- , brook, Flintshire,. to JANE, only daughter of JOSEPW B RNES, Esq., of this town. Same day, at Nunbank, Dumfries, by the Rev: Dr. Dunbar. Ot 4 Applegarth, WALLACE WALKER, Esq., merchant, tci eldest daughter of W:BLIAM GORDON, Esq. Same day, at Reigate, th^ Rev. H. F. MUILRAY,•second Sor'' of the Lord Bishop of Rochester, to FANNY CATHERINE'' third daughter of J. L. ANDERTON, Esq. Same day, at Edge. it! Church. Mr. ALEXANDER DINGLE,....' to MARTHA, eldest daughter of Mr. JAME,=,` BRAWLEY, Toxteth-park. On the 30th ult., at .se• Parish Church, Gwyddelwern, MAT' . THEW, son of Mr. M. WILLIAMS, of Mount•pleasant, in 0 119 , town,. to MARGARET, daughter cif Mr. P. JONES, of Wea l Ddu, near Corweu. Same day, at St. Nicholas's Chores, Mr. PETER EDWARD S '' tailor, Llanarven, near limthin, Denbigshire, to Miss SARA , ' , WILLIA MS, of the same •place. On the 31st u't.. at St. David's Church, by the Rev. SS C Hughes, Mr. DAVID FERRY, from the county. of Denbigh , farmer, to Miss HANNAH LLOYD. Yesterday, at Upholland, Mr. DANIEL WEBSTER, of the Horse and Jockey, Dair-street, in this town, to Miss ELIO' BETH BALL, of the former place. DIED. Lately,. at Ramsay, Isla of Man, where he went with the eIV pectation of restoratini ri health, impaired br.the orieroes, duties , of manager of the. Limerick Branch of th e Provincial Bank of Ireland, ROBERT HUNTER, Esq., deeply and sincerelf regretted. On Mr. Hunter's resignation of manager of that branch hank, the merchants and citizens of Limerick, and th e noblemen and gentlemen of the counties of Limerick and Clare , voted him plate value nearly £309, with an address, expressing sympathy and regret for the cause of his resignation, and their. admiration of his uniform kindness and gentlem an ly condu c tin the discharge of his dnt ra for the twenty years he lealli el " amongst them as manager of the hank. On the 3rd of August, on board the Cathlena, from Africa , for this port, aged 2g, Mr. JOHN WRIGHT, shipwright, of Whil e " haven, son of the late Sergcant-Wright, of the Royal cumber land Mlitia. On the 6th of August, at Hong Kong, aged 39, Mr. JOO 4 HOLMES, youngest son of Mr.. Henry Holmes, gunsmith, 0 1 this town. On the 11th of September, at Picton, U.S., aged so, Mr. BRUCE, formerly of Cupar Angus-, Forfarshire. On 23rd Sept ,ou board the ship Belmont, on her passage fr°T Liverpool to St. John's, N.B...ANN BLA.AD GRANT, aged r 3 ears, wife of Captain Robert Grant, of that vessel, and daugh ter of Mr. John Stripling, of Liverpool. This sudden dispens e : lion, while it deprives two young children of a tender mother, and a fond husband of ah affectionate partner, afflicting, not only to her parents, but to a large circle of vela " lives and friends, to whom the er4aging manners and am i a b l e disposition of the deceased had greatly endeared h er. Bet remains were interred at St. John's_ will be deep On the 2nd ultimo, at St. Petersburg. aged 95, Meier- General MATHEW CLARK, of the Russian civil service. On. the 3rd ultimo at Pittenweesn, aged isw. M r . T. see ADAM ON, weaver. Deceased had a perfect reco llection of ,s. . Paul Joucs sail past Pittsnweem,, on his w ay to Leith, about p severity years ago, and of the tempest rovidentiall which arose E. nd.drove the pirate out of the Frith. He never was what was rn ay only yea:hi three reall yweeks s i a c b k during . ...a i n a d irofn f t e h n e w w e e h m ol . . whole of hislong life, On the 4th ultimo, at Claremont-house, Aberystwith, ELIZA BETH, daughter of J. SAYES, Esq., land-surveyor, KingtOni Herefordshire. Deceased's sister was married in the morning from the same house, andthe.death occurred in the evening. On the lath ultimo, et the. Isle of Whithoru, aged 95, Mrs. COOK. Deceased was a •vidow fifty years, and was the mother in-law of the late Mr. Collin Cook, of Everton-braw. Same day, in U,Jper Stanhope-street, Mr. S. HIGGINSft upwards of twenty years- a faithful servant to Air. °Jain"' spirit dealer, Cable street. „ A 3 a Mr. T. On the 15th ultimo, after .a shoat illness, 2 ,lc u " PARTINGTON, miller, limekiln laue. Mr. 0 . On the 17th ultimo, aged .22, HELENA, daughter o f BECKETT, passenger agent. JOSEPE I On the 18th ultimo, at Thornbury, In his gist year , d HUMS, Esq., for many years- a well known practical um scientific chemist, in London. M r s On the I9th ultimo, at Birmingham, in her pied years ELIZABETH MORRIS. ea r, Same day, at her daughter's residence, in her 78th Y ELIZABETH, relict of the late Mr. ABRAHAM W A COLLARD. B ERT Same day, at New Melton, suddenly, aged 77, Mr. FLO PINCH, more commonly kn-asn by the cognomen of .. Old 1 7, Bob." The deceased was an eccentric character, and knosvo.`, almost all parts of England, as well as in some parts of itoS g " in which country he had formerly been a huntsman. Same day, aged 3 months ROBERT. son of Mr. BRE.a- On the 22nd ultimo, agecC3s, Mr. JOHN MORGAN, boot a" shoe maker and news agent. Market-street, Leigh. ter Same day, aged 3 years, ELIZABETH EMILY, third date of Mr. P. BARBER, of St. Paul's-square. Or' Same day, at his residence, Parliament-street, aged GEORGE BURROWS, for some time conldential servao r gr , Miss Dutton, of Great. George-street, and second son o f, Thomas Burrows, of Whitchurch. Salop. d O, • Oa the 24th ultimo, at her residence, at Litherland, agy Mrs. MURPHY, widow,of the late Mr. Murphy, pilot. c olt- Same day, at Virginia Cottage, near Douglas, aged 22, E'„ott BETH, eldest daughter ,of the late Mr. J. DAVIES, met of this town. ,set. Same day, aged 40, Mr. .HUGH HUGHES, of Myrtle-Ws' gr. Same day, at Thistleton, near Hu 1, !a his Buth yeara or , of JOHN PERKINS. Deceased was a proprietor and publisw' oe the Hall Rockingham .newspaper upwards of thirty years. o r was an officer on board his Majesty's sb.ig•Buffalo, in the Y o f 1782, and was an eyewitness to the unfortunate catastroaa „e the sinking of the Royal George, at Spithead. On the 25th ultimo, after a short Clucas, aged 23, ''„gfit • ELIZABETH, youngest daughter of. Mr. T. LEATP Prescot. Same day, in Upper-Pitt-street, aged 2a, CAROLINE LOU ISI4 wife of Mr. J, B. BOOTH. Same day, at Erodsham, Mr. JOHN FISH, officer of ExcaSe, Same day, at Brihton, Mr. JACOB OSBORNE, of Glouce St for many years sbopman and clerk to the late J. Wood, $ 94 " of that city, and ono of his executors. Same day, in Nile-street, in her 55th year, ELIZABETH, tb beloved and affectionate wife of Mr. T. G. WH I DBORNE- „ On the 26th ultimo, at the house of her brother-in-laW, ftt a. 5 27, MARY HOLT, eldest daughter of the l a t e T. IMES, of Evei ton. OW Same day, in Breekriock-crescent, Camden New T0W0,,, , , L iga r , don, ALICE, infant daughter o f GEORGE T A Y L OR Esq., late Same day, :SABELLA, wife of, Mr. JOSEPH GERAFI-' of Crosby. ES ° Same day, athis seat, at Upcarle, Susse-, aged 92, Sir IT „. De ERSTONHAUGH, Bart., during seventy-two of sorei enloyed the title. te On the 2 th ultimo, • aged 33, Mr. TilliMAS JONE S, t. press printer, late of Chester. O r- Same day, at Barnard Castle. Durham, aged 33, MA RY tile BANC, Vi lle of WM. RA INE, of that place, aad daughter late Mr. John Tompson, of tills town. • wi fe O f 14r. Same day, in Kirkdale-road, aged 34, ANNE, Nl' JAMES BALDERSTON, of Ingleton, Yorkshire. s ou Of Same day, aged 3 years and g months, EDW IN. fourth Mr. HENRY DOUBLEDAY, of Copperas- 2 ° l l w Same day, CYRUS MARTIN, infant son 0 . STREET, of L i s aßanlgh-street. severe ilin e° ' after a Same day, at residence, at Wootton.. of seeeral weeks, in his tish year, Mr. JOHN MAXWELL..,(,.MUSS Same day, aged years. JOHN, son of Mr. EDW. WHLTE. licensed victualler, Hanover-street. Of Same day, in his 84th year, SAMUEL GREGSCN, Esti , Caton, near Lancaster. . T. C. STAN I' the 28th ultimo, in her 40th year, Miss ELLEN L ll°l4° landlady of the Queen's Head, Ormskirk. Same day, aged 75, ROBERT ;MARSHALL, Esq., o f Bell lo4 Birkenhead. eS-4, Same day, at Ormskirk, after a painful and protracted ilin_ijao borne with great,patience and resignation, aged 36 years , CICILY SNAPE. c olt On the 29th ultimo, at his residence, in Shaw-street, ali e s , 0 1 the Rev. T. TATTER SHALL, D.D., F.C.P S., late Fe&gel Queen's College, Cambridge, and incumbent of St. Augu 3— Chur,.h, Everton. Same day, aged 45, JOHN TOPHAM, Esq., solicitor. or Chaff Same day, LUCY, the wife of Mr. G. WARTNABY, street. 9OP Same day, at her residence, in Edge-hill, in her 54th r o , ELIZABETH, relict of the late Mr. ROGER OAKDEN, ca r r prietor, Hnry-street. oc it, Same day, at P.uketh. Brewery, the residence of his u JOSEPH, youngest son of the late WM. LANGS HAW. ir itie , Same day, at his residence , in Amwell-terrace, Pento n . Co' London, aged 54, Mr. W. H. WILLIAMS, the we11...10 014 ' median. 0 1 ' Same day, aged 32, after a long and painful illne"'Ao o4 JAMES CARSON , shipwright, Blair-street, hi g hly reapecte' deeply regretted. > ,l On the 3,lth ultimo, at her residence, in Chester-street, 0 0 ,0 f 77th year, HANNAH, relict of the late Mr. JOHN COTTS Toxteth-park. O r Same day, aged 50, Mr. RICHARD SUDLOW, late of o 0 Of ford, Cheshire. Same day, aged 52, Mr. BIRKETT WHITTLE, eldest 0 the late Mr. Thomas Whittle, late of Warrington. fk" 'r 014 Same day, after a short illness, aged 33 years, Captain o il — mAS WADLEY, late of the Latimer, of this port, resPe c y all who knew him. 4 .0 . On the 31st ultimo. of consumption, aged 18 years 8 ;71.5, 1 " ,0 months, ANNA, daughter of Mr. RICHARD WILLIA' — of the Talbot Hotel, Aberystwith. Or Yesterday, at his residence, 23, Soho-street, Kt° 41 HODGSON. le Same day, suddenly, at ;.avyton's House, RaitiPln.77-' ,s Mr.JAMES OWEN,