The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY. PROGRESS OF THE WAR. (Prom our Second Edition of yesier(ldy.) BueniatsT, 14th NOVEMBER.. I le Turks, afte r d es t roy i ng a ll t h e f or tifi cat i ons te •Ol , nitza, re - 'crossed the Danube without being • °„,l he ested. .1. 0410 avut.`,ianforce concentrated round Oltenitza, punted to 45,000 men. the 13th, the Russian manifesto was read „„ churche s of Bucharest. Sh ots are continually exchanged near Guirgevo te ,ile Turk s and Russians are trying to get pos -I,l°u of the Island of Mokanon opposite Giurgevo, W ai ll „ B ifin reinforcements were ady . an.eing into c ,_ nt ehia by f orce d marc h es. on al Engelhardt ig ad vanc i ng f rom B ra il ow °li `-4-ma Jalomnitza with a brigade of the sth Sell.'B. He has been replaced by a part of the re cticie cf tile 4th corps,. which have latterly entered. rti en, 4v ia , The reserves are estimated at 12,000 t rer , e , ,, zorni v Post correspondent writes that the des Government had received a telegraphic lit N 4 a ‘ch from its Consul at Bucharest, but the 114 8 : ; w hich he transmits, furnished hiM by the Ito all authorities, may not be altogether trust -3'.2 ktta t ter the affair of the 11th inst., Gortschakoff is ( f'rd the Turks with 40,000 men, and succeeded at el eating them, and that the Turk'sretreated f% th.e Danube without molestation." Consul adds that, as the despatch left bra ~I _ 'est, a continuous cannonade was heard t he direction of the Danube. e p ost also says that a despatch left 13ucharest istma, on Wednesday, and mentions that the of a great defeat of the Russians, at m,'` a rest proves to be without foundation. 'K e had only been some skirmishing. - , °t he Post states in a leading article, that it s l ) a does attact.chh any confidence to the French Consul's PARIS, THURSDAY. e jiinal says there is a telegraphi despatch Berlin, that the Turks have gained another 11 1 ,2 .1- Y at Oltenitza ; no date or other details are ' Xpo li e Times' leading article, after commenting o rtb t he various reports, laments the want of trust "..LY new s . • PRANCE. Nr vo ° ,incial report shows that the yield of the last s ' is 10,000,000 hectolitres below the average eet or nd that up to the present time 3,000,000 P„ l Lresv. of corn had been imported into France Bourse duly on Thursday, three's closed 42 per cents., 99, 65. ( ?rom our Third Edition of yesterday.) la\e• VIENNA, THURSDAY. i t ) csurnal, Austrian Correspondenz says, on the 114 ire Turks blew up their works at Oltenitza, f , i s 'i'ed to Bulgaria. l° 4, 1 0, ° .fticially declared that the corps of observa th "leb. is to be concentrated at Temesvar, is jai tu Purpose of securing the Austrian frontier as f°Yu ." 4 tin the principle of neutrality. 11 Nr ow, ienna correspondent telegraphs as Tel VIENNA, THURSDAY MORNING. advices from Prince Gortschakoff last night state that the Turks have itt e `l N `i all their positions on the left bank of aitpi„4"annbe, except Kalafat, without battle, ' 4 ev (l l' on 'account of the concentration and N re ° Pinent Of the Russian forces. The Turkish th ilehments have been razed. This is e nvc. 1 11 VIENNA., THURSDAY EVENING. t oti; report of the Turks having abandoned their tit t p l4l ° l l on the eft bank, except Kalafat, is offi .V., 'confirmed from Hermannstadt. -4 ' Irks quitted Oltenitza on the 12th, destroy own entrenchments 'urks attempted a passage near , ic.._alaraali, an island opposite GuirgeN 0, but the repulsed them at both places with con loss. letters from Vienna of ihA ovAning nf th e tion that it was positively asserted that .d Braila had been attacked by the Turks. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. -, Nov, 14.—At half-past 12 this morning " ' l ing news was entrusted to the electric ling was renewed near Bucharest, on the ;he morning. It is believed that Omar Pill attempt to cross the Danube above 1 n order to get to Fokshan, in Moldavia. ash Embassy learns that between 90,000 1 00 Turks are already in Wallachia. ~ Jnstantinople correspondent of the Wan -1 l t err ii ,,' v l°te on the 3rd that Selim Pasha had , Ottl es ,''„ the fort of Nikolajowsk. Two great 'Io. - 'lave taken place, and 1,000 Turks are said k 'I% f s IN, - ailen. The village was stormed, and the k o l te e ,cr obliged to retire. The next day, rein- At o by six battalions, the Russians attempted 1 Y If l i'll the fort, but were repulsed and pursued < k , N p l sein Pasha. •, ' Of the letters, from which we learn that a ves \"„llt,,`°,e Russian navy had been captured. She 1;., t4 l aore near Iregri, on the coast of Asia, and P a •„‘%# en by a Turkish cruiser. It was generally Vl' t ll that the diplomatic corps would accom ke, to Sultan to Adrianople. It was stated that Volv'ainder of the combined fleets was soon to 41„ 4 ,4c1 a t he force in the Bosphorous, " Admirals 'q 1,, 4 and Hamelin having shown to the British thNi h te neh ambassadors the necessity of not 17," t jt 'e their forces. Namik Pasha was to sail on meet °' for Marseilles, on his way to ; Paris and ept° , to contract a loan for the Ottoman govern- V e t .gard• , ) ,aii . Ing the campaign in Asia we have further Vlch 111 a letter from Constantinople, of the sth, I.L Ai zo,, ais :—" Yesterday, by the packet from A k - k-) . th e ,,,'4o, news was received from Batoum ; there C t oi• Da Turks have well commenced the campaign. (I,‘‘ of °f their troops has attacked by assault the eeVl te N icholas Krapowsky (called in Turkish, t ki lae . 1 , ( g). 1,000 Russians were killed, and 80 tOrteoners, among whom is a member of the c of ti ) It t 0,,, Gonrief. Seeing 'themselves - forced in kl, h ga t •L„ress, the Russians, in leaving it, set fire kialy 'lle nesir , barracks, which were corn de f% t, ' ,l lestroyed in spite of the efforts of the t 4ri e 3 Nl extinguish the flames. The fortress was tl b / 1 4% by 3,000 men. The Turks found 2,000 4 Zise ll 'lttade on the model of those used by the Iv e .g aai llf 43 of Vincennes, all bearing the mark of Ate al s o cturer at Liege. Three pieces of cannon di„ b ,atti. t aken. The combat was very sanguinary. Z li 4l lß 4i l O, L n• of the Turkish guard particularly Ivii i r /lob -Oiled itself. Five prisoners—a captain and er n be dee rs--have been sent here ; the remainder fa, t, sib, detained at Carakissar. The news of the e t ,„ Is , - , 4 o f the Danube, and the capture of Kalil,- V is Al ie r eceived on the previous day. Large ti f , e fou%Provisions, abandoned by the Russians, forces or c ` 4 in the place. 20,000 Turks, with 20 I li e „ 41 -e a r ,, ; a nnon, were entrenched there, waiting Vion s : v al of the Russians. They had commu h; itli ~ - Pen with Widdin." V.`eh - "Peet to the attitude of Servia, about t le t , O lgrl V 4 O. (tA — a anxiety had begun to be felt, the 4 tt . , O f e - 0 -11 !sPondent of the Times mentions - one 'I 'rr a 4siderable importance that has already tie • e,... 4 , ir, ANee 0 By way of reprisals for the conduct . Vashott".°rtschakoff in Moldavia and Wallachia, 't)i l le all ?f, Belgrade had forced the Hospodar to \ 01.-G e _bne Russians who were in Servia. The g , iaja &term. and his wife are here already. \ t he ob that the means employed for dislodg -41, a. lid 11°0 1-18 diplomatist was a hint from the k !1.1 e r of th tai e w e fortress, that if he did not hi lh kr e s would be dismissed by force. Mon hi to to share the violent indignation which INA b a rY proceeding has excited at the Rus• ''iteN ku a seY here ; and as Servia, though semi -4,014, eat, i s lit f tt th e under the special protection of k t ( ,l t, ejection of her representative can but Db D :ll ete u r t_ ll ,_ e fire which already burns so fiercely iNtIN lourg. Since the mishaps which have ~,( v e . 1 :44„, the . Russians in Wallachia, M. de I NOtiq or .lea's • shown himself extremely sensi Q qiab it tell's, understood to have lodged a formal ,_ t i 0 _ a f ay _ at the Vienna papers systematically r:t• N p th e s "_nr . of the Turks. All nearer informa kit, tb at ,ebject is still wanting, but it is whis "l° ."11s i d• h g, 1 4 0 4 p ; , . a.an wit her Count Ficquelmont, A k er l et i°l • l nd." °l : t °, tel ' S from Servia of the 4th announce that '~u• accord with the reigning Prince of A, , out 'Ate Tui a the Tui 1, 4 14 . from Ssians v klerable ] N 3).iva,te aiv 4 `z kn.( li' 9, 411 11,z T V, 9 1, ' 14 c , ,;•AZA , 151 r 4, 4 4110 * • 1 1 1 10, P4 ?,hti 5 1) 8,; ( 1,: ti "qa w• P Ll t .1 f , %, it Io urk; n u,o( z"ehp co, ore ght ght Bet . 007 10' 11 ite t i , 40, that province, is about to increase the garrison of Belgrade. Several German journals copy an extract from a Russian paper, which states that the Emperor Nicholas will not hear of negotiations until the Turks shall have re-crossed the Danube Private letters from Vienna, dated the evening of the 14th, mention that it was positively asserted that Galatz and Ibraila had been attacked by the Turks. The former town is in Moldavia, on the left bank of the Danube; the latter in Wallachia, on the same side of the river. Private letters from Jassy, of the 6th, anncilince that the Russians were sending their sick and wounded to Kircheneau, a telyr. ' 2 .(J e ssar ab ia . The number of sick ;vas increasing every day, so much So that the hospitals of Wallachia and Moldavia were insufficient to contain them: -The following are the terms, in Which the Sul tan expressed to the Divan his resolution of plac ing himself at the head of the army:— " My worthy Vizir, . . " I cannot sufficiently congratulate myself upon the zeal and enthusiasm of my troops, upon the devotion and fidelity of kny functionaries; senti ments which my subjects in general have never ceased, on the occasion of all the preparations that have taken place, to show me ever since the day that there appeared a probability that the dif ference between my imperial geverntherit and Russia would end in wan "As regards the present—the state Of war being a certainty—l do not doubt in the least tkat every man is ready to lend his support with eagerness, and to fulfil his duties. "As the real cause of this war consists only in the praiseworthy resolution to maintain the sacred rights and the 'independence of my empire, relying on the almighty power of the Creator of all things, and invoking the holy spirit of our Prophet, I have decided, with God's will, to be present at the accomplishment of such a dilty in the first days of spring. It is, therefore, advisable to provide at once for the preparations which ai r y suite will demand, and the first general quarters of my guard will be at Adria nople, It is urgent that all that is necessary for the :troops which will be under my command be prepared beforehand. " You must, therefore, in concert with my minis ters, hasten to take all the necessary measures. " May the Most High, out of love for his Prophet, render my empire victorious and triumphant on all occasions ; and may all those who contribute to the success of this task obtain happiness in this world and in the next !" Paris letters of Thursday evening state that a report has been current to-day that the English and French Governments had come to an understand ing as to the use to be made-of their fleets, now that they have found their way to Constantinople, and that they were determined that they should be im mediately sent into the Black Sea, to act with energy on behalf of the Turks. •It would have been well for the world if that resolution had been adopted months ago ; but it is to be apprehended that even now it is without foundation. But besides this, the winter navigation of the Black Sea is so difficult that it would be a service of danger, to which it might be imprudent to expose the fleets without absolute necessity. (The following appeared in our Second Edition of yesterday.) AMERICA. The Screw Steamer Glasgow arrived in the Clyde this morning at one o'clock, from New York, with three days later news. She has made the passage in twelve days and a half. The Africa, from Liverpool, arrived out at New York on the 4th. The following is a report of the New York markets : ASHES.—About 50 barrels Pot, were sold at 5 dollars. i i t nnikesTuFFs.—The market for Western State Flour, under the Africa's news, advanced from 181 to 25 cents. SOUTHERN FLoun has improved 122 to 181 cents per h rrel R:ilp.s were merle of. cni. nrvirtm-rt to good brands. Other kindS of Flour and Meal were held higher. WHEAT had advanced--RYE was steady.—Bin- LEY unchanged. OATS better. COTTON.- - The market has 'not been materially affected by the steamer's news. Although the weather was quite favourable, total sales of last day 565 bales. LINSEED OIL lower. Sales made of 4,000 gallons English, at 66 to 67 cents, American was selling n lots from store at 67 to 69 cents. PORK was rather firmer, with a good demand. FREIGHTS TO LIVERPOOL. Corn taken at 121 to 13 ; wheat, 13; flour, 3s 3d to 3s 9d ; cotton, id to 3-16 d. The Stock market was buoyant and active. Exchange flat at 1091 for prime signatures on London, and very good bills are offered at 1098 to 1091, the tendency being downwards. The Glasgow brings no political news, of im portance. THE WEST INDIA MAIL. The West India mail-steamer, Solent, arrived yesterday morning at Southampton, with 211,3061. in specie, forty five passengers, and advices from Demerara to the 25th ; Jamaica, 26th ; Barbadoes, 27th, ult., and St. Thomas's to the Ist inst. The session of the legislature had commenced, and Sir Henry Barkley had delivered his speech. The mining operations were very successful ; and the most favorable accounts are given of the agricultural prospects of Jamaica. Business generally was dull, and produce scarcely so high in value. Corn was becoming scarce, as was also tonnage. Exchange on London, at ninety days, was quoted at 1 per cent. premium; sixty days, 11; and thirty days, 2 per cent. In Grenada, owing to a great quantity of wet weather, the crops were small, and from scarcity of labour could not be got in in time• At St. Vincent's, crops very backward, owing to constant rain and scarcity of labour Fever was very prevalent at Grenada and St. Vincent, but troops healthy. The order for withdrawing white troops caused great dissatisfaction. At Demerara, fever in its most malignant form had began its ravages, confining itself, however, to new arrivals and shipping. Weather favorable. A FURIOUS FIIILY.—Au Irish labourer named Hugh Fury, while in a state of intoxication, in a spirit shop in Glasgow, on the night of Monday last, fastened a party quarrel upon an elderly man named Alexander Brown. Fury boasted that he was the brightest Orangeman in the house. " I am no party man," said Brown, "but lam a Freemason." " Then, bedad !" said the furious Fury, " a Freemason killed my fadther," and he struck down the brother of the mystic tie in a twinkling. Fury was fined a guinea on Wednesday at the police-court. NEW ARCTIC EXPEDITION. —It was unanimously agreed at the meeting of the members of the Geographical Society, on Monday night last, that the chairman, Sir Roderick Murchison, should solicit the admiralty to send out an other expedition to the arctic regions,in the summ er o f 1854. None of the solicitations of the society have hitherto been made in vain. It is not int en t e d at present to send out any more expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and his missing companions in a north-west direc tion, although further supplies will, if found requisite, be sent to Bpechey Island for Sir Edward Belcher's expedi tion. The new .4.rcti.c expedition is intented to proceed in quite a contrary direction to any of those previously sent out from this country in search of Sir John Franklin and the officers and crews of the Erebus and Terror discovery ships, now upwards of eight years absent from. England. The Phoenix screw steam-sloop will be again commissiond by Captain Edward Englefield, F.R.S., who was presented with a gold medal by the Geographical Society at the last meeting, and he will proceed to the arctic regions in her, and endeavour to make a passage into the Polar Sea to the north-east of Spitzbergen. In addition to the English bottles found some time ago on the coast of Siberia, and forwarded to England by the Russian Government, in telligence has been received that several deer has been found at Spitzbergen with their ears cut, a proof that they had been in the hands of persons who had adopted that English mode of marking them. The admiralty have liberally granted £5O to each of the gunroom officers, and £35 to each of the other officers of the Phoenix screw steam-sloop, as compensation for the expenses they had incurred in pro viding for their mess for a longer period than their recent four months' voyage would have warranted for so short a period, and as they had prepared their stocks to- last for the winter had they been frozen up during their pro gress. DR. BOWRING'S LECTURE ON DECIMAL CURRENCY, Yesterday, at two o'clock, a lecture on decimal currency was delivered at the Collegiate Institution by Dr. Bowring, who has recently returned from China. The scholars of the institution were present, but otherwise, owing to the short ness of the notice given, there was not a large attendance. Mr. Was. BROWN introduced the learned gentleman to the audience ; he remarked that he had come at considerable inconvenience from Bolton to deliver those leetureth Dr. Bownieret then came forward, and was loudly ap plauded. He said he felt "(meat gratification to be enabled in any '7;*y to co-operate le t -111.the excellent exertions of his valuable friend, Me. - Browe, Who had been endeavouring, and he believed successfully endeavouring to supersede diet strange and barbarous systeni which lied pdssession of the `eoinage and curie* of this Country, and to introduce some thing more intelligible, more simple, and, of course, practi cally more useful. How it had happened, considering that the Divine being had given to every one of them a decimal ele ment—ten fingers—wherewith all ilaqons began to count; how it had happened that they has introduced into their eyeterd so much of entanglement and annoyance as were as sociated with the different forms that we employ was very difficult to understand. For a decimal system seemed so natural that one of the great authors of antiquity, Aristotle, said ;—" It seems the law of nature that 10; 100; and 1,000 should be adopted, Otherwise it is impossible to explain their universality ; not only amongst civilised, but amongst unci vilised nations." He dared to say there were many of his young friends around him who were able to read the Odyssey, and there was one of the earliest records of what might be called elenientary deeiteal netetioh. they, per haps. recollected that Proteus was introduced as counting the Phocce or sea calves, and the poet said, " before he sat down amongst the seals he arranged them all in fives as shepherds range their flocks, and then he laid down to sleep amongst them." Mr. John Quincey Adams in an extremely valuable report which he made to the eongtees in Anierica, says, and with great truth, "that the debit - nal system existed before the flood." They were aware lercipably that the greatest 'Umber that had been found antecedent to the deluge Was the number of years of Methuselah, which were recorded by hundreds, tens, and units. According - to Owl:, arrangement it could be put down by three simple figures ; but the Romans were so little advanced in the art of notation according to the system employed by them, nine figures were necessary to record 969. Throughout all history, the bible, all the early Greek and Ronian histofiene, we find .every thing wrote as it were around lerge niinibeke, and around decinial minebers. Tens; liundieds, thoneandS, hundreds of thonsende, and eVeri Millions had always been found the Most convenient system of notation. He said before that amongst all nations the fingers, which they knew represented the digits, were almost universally employed for the purpose of accountancy and if they Wonld hollow him a little through this enormous and magnificent power which had been created by the decimal system, they would see what an enormous instrument it had been to assist calculations which withot it were totally impossible. Rude nations seldom go beyond the number ten. There was one nation they knew of which had only two numerals, one representing one; and the other representing a niultitdde, and there Were expressions in the language by which the difference between one and the many was recorded. It was easy enough for a savage to get a notion of 5, and even an idea of 10 ; and there were a many, a great many languages; in which the word " five " was re presented by one hand, and the word "ten" by two hands. Even in one of our modern languages the word for ten and the word for toes,—he spoke of the German language—was employed to represent the numeral ten. Now, the multitude of languages in the world was very little understood. He believed that at this moment there were no less than about 3,000 various languages spoken in the various parts of the world. In pursuing ,some of his enquiries he had examined about four hundred of the numerals in four hun dred African languages, and in a great number of those the reckoning went on from 1,2, 3,4, 5, on the fingers of the left hand, and then 6 was made by one finger of the righ hand, 7 by two fingers, and so on up to ten, which was represented by both hands. A great many nations which had got to the point of reckoning 20; tepeaented it by the hands and the feet; called 20, the human being or complete man ; and some savage nations had gone as far as 60 or 80 :, they said two men represented 40, three men 60, and four men 80. All those ideas, they would observe. had been by the decimal system. Amongst the ancients, the Peruvians had made the greatest intellectual progress; and Humboldt gave a very curious list of their numerals, showing that like ourselves they proceeded from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, from hundreds to thousands, and from thousands to a million, always keeping their accounts in decimal rotation. Now, the discovery of the decimal power, was probably ono of the greatest instances of human progress, and tended more to promote all calculating knowledge than any discovery that is recorded in the history of human improvement. What the telescope had done to enable them to penetrate the remotest distances—and he would mention it, as a most extraordinary result, that its powers had now W a putt,. IVIiI,II CI3IA 1.) MAMA lii tale country placed himself at a distance of only 14 miles from the moon, and saw everything in the moon which could be seen at a distance of 14 miles on the terrestrial lobe—yet, even that, the power of the telescope, was less in its con sequences than the power exercised by him who had mastered decimal notation. And, whilst on the other hand, the micro scope enabled them to see objects altogether beyond the reach of our usual faculties, and to magnify them to an extent that an invisible creature might be made as large as the building in which he was addressing them, the decimal power of diminution and division was even greater than that of the microscope. Perhaps one of the most extraordi nary intellects that ever grasped magnificent thoughts was that of Archimedes. Aud when Archimedes was told that the sands of the sea were innumerable, he denied the posi )ion, and said, " Not only are the sands of the sea not innu merable, but I will find the means of estimating them. Aye ! I will estimate more than the sands of the sea, for I have discovered a method, the application of a system, by which (what Greek classics called Cosmos, which was the whole universe, and which he dared to say many of them were aware comprised the whole extent of the celestial spheres— all that the ancients held to extend between earth as the centre, and the planets and stars as the circumference), if a globe of that enormous and almost inconceivable size could be constructed and filled with grains of sand," Archimedes said, "I have the means of calculating them," and his only instrument was decimal notation. Now if any one wanted to see the value of this great power, let him take any other number than 10, and see how soon he got lost in the at tempt to advance. Let him take 2, and go on multiplying it into itself. Well, twice 2 was was 4 ; four times 4 was 16 ; sixteen times 16 was 256 ; but it would take a very sharp youth indeed to tell what 256 multiplied by itself be came, even if they limited themselves to the force of what was called fifth power. Take 3 and the result was the same, and when they came to the third or fifth power, he doubted if many could make the calculation without the aid of a slate, and the devotion of some time to the subject. It was not only a phrase, but the decimal system had approved itself so much to the common sense of the community, that they invariably employed it in the ordinary every day phraseology of life. The Spaniard said, in a complimentary way, " May you live a thousand years," and the kind mother said to her children, " I will give you a million of kisses." If they looked through the Bible they would find that decimal points were constantly occurring, and that de cimals were much more frequently found than any other numbers. Look, for instance, at 100 ; it is of very frequent occurrence, and look for 101, and perhaps you will not find it all. Look for 10, and it is found in a prodigious number of places, but neither 9 or 11 was of frequent employment. The Greeks, or what were called the classical nations, were undoubtedly the most advanced, and they bad gone so far as to find efficient characters to represent as many as eight numbers. They could reach the point of recording 99,999,999, and it was at this point Archimedes took up the question to which I have referred. The Romans did not go so far as the Greeks. The Greeks used the word muriados, which we translate myriad, and in the most ancient writers it was generally found to represent something immense, and not defined, and in the progress of time it became a definite term, and myriads employed by itself was the highest point to which the Greeks ordinarily reached; the highest number that was taught in their schools. That was the point from which Archimedes started ; and if we take this decimal point of a myriad, 10,000, and multiply it by itself, which makes the million, and multiply this million by itself until billions come, and trillions, quadrillions, and centrillions, there is no amount to which I cannot reach. Nothing but the decimal system would enable our astronomers to calculate the distance of the heavenly bodies. It would be perfectly impossible to do so by any other form of nota tion; but by that means they were aware that calculations had become so accurate astronomers had been enabled, by the decimal system, to go up to what was called the 24tu state, and there was scarcely a distance, or scarcely an unit that escaped human sagacity, ,and probably one of the noblest results of the power of numbers was that which enabled two or three individuals, c6ntemporaneously, to make a great discovery by the art of decimal calculation, and to announce to the world that unless there were a planet far beyond what the knowledge of ancient times extended to, and a planet unknown even to modern discovery, it was impos sible that certain appearances of the Heavenly bodies could be accounted for; and so correct were the calculations of Mr. Adams in this country, and of M. Veriere in France, they announced that at a certain time it was impossible that a planet should not exist in a particular locality. They were aware that having announced that a ,philosopher in Ger many had the fortune to discover the new planet Neptune in the very spot where it was announced it must necessarily be, that was one of the great triumphs of decimal arithmetic. He mentioned that the Roman notation was very imperfect, and many of them knew they had no higher number in their lan guagethan centum and mu le , loo and 1,000. The word million was of modern origin; it was introduced on the breaking up of the Roman empire, by the Italians ; meaning nothing nothing more or less than a large mill. A great many ancient nations used their alphabets as a means of enume ration, and of course those alphabets were very limited in their powers. The nation that first conceived the idea—he spoke not of speculations of great philosophers, solitary men such as he had referred to—but the first nation that pub lished a decimal system and understood it were the Orien tals, and particularly the Bhuddists, and those who employed THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES the language derived from the Sanscrit. Ile would give them a notion of the manner in which an idea was conveyed to the ancient Orientals of enorniotts numbers, by explaining what was their theory of what was called the existence of Bhudda. They knew, perhaps, it was a belief amongst the Bhuddists that there had been a succession of gods, who, from time to time, had ruled the earth, and they held that human beings, by adequate devotion, and an enormous amount of virtue, might himself be beatified, and so become a deity . ; Now, what was the first process ? They had laid down as a principle that for a certain number of years, a nian 'Mist keep himself holy and sinless, but of those millions of years they had laid the groundwork in a most extraordinary calculation, namely, that if there were a large cubic mass of granite, and if once in 100,000 years a being were to pas 3 over it clad in light muslin garments, that man passing over it must cause ascertain amount of attritition, and wear away a Certain portion of stone ; and they supposed that this being was to pass over this stone once in 100,000 years, and they.p said by passing over it a certain portion of stone would be removed, and the first starting point would be when the enormous mass of granite should be reduced to the size of a grain of sand. Well, having got this for a starting point, then they go on to say when millions and millions of those periods had passed, the individual would be reputed to deification. He mentioned this as one of those. most extraordinary attempts by which our finite facul ties liad endeavoured to reach what wa.s:infinite and by which the instructors of the people had sought to give them some notion of infinite knowledge. Next to the discovery of the enormous decimal power to which he had referred, the introduction of the Arabic numerals was probably the great est benefit conferred on dvilisation. Ike „spoke of Roman numerals, with which most of themwere Familiar, and they perhaps knew of what those consisted. They took the first point of 10, which was an X ; they cut it in two, and of it they made 5. At the next stage they took the next decimal point, which was 100, and they perhaps knew the form of the ancient C, which was not rounded as we should write it. This they again cut in two, and thcx made it 50, and they took the next stage, which Was, having got 2 5, 10, 50, 100, they took the next Stage, whiCh was the highest, to which they reached mu le , . and according to the old form they divided it into two, which made 500. But nnneeivo tho difficulty ur nailing up a sum-if the business were addition, or subtracting a sum if subtracting were work, with only the Roman numerals. Nothing could be more complicated or more confused, and the consequence Was they newer found high numbers introduced amongst the classic writings of Rome. There was some obScurity about the period in which what we Called. Arabic numerals; Mit which ought to be called Indian numerals, for the Arabs themselves called them Indian-there was some obscurity about the period at which they were first known, but there were traces of them in the fifth and sixth centuries, and with Arabic writers they are often found in the tenth and eleventh. We owed them to the Arabs whO introduced them into Spain, and in the thirteenth and fourteenth century they made their way into the commercial accounts of Italy, and in the fifteenth and sixteenth they obtained very general accepta tion throughout the civilised world. The power of the Arab numerals consisted in this, that with those 9 figures which were called units, all they had to, do, in order to increase and augment or to diminish their value, was to place them in a position, and this, which arithmeticans called the power of place, was in fact the great power of the Arabian numerals ; by placing them to the right or the left they were able to record any conceiveable amount, and this with those of numerals alone. This was in fact a great secret of this enormous arithmetical power. They took, for instance 1, and added 0 to it and it became 10, another 0 aud it became 100, and by continuing to add noughts to this simple de ment, they, lost themselves in amounts which language could scarcely afford the power of expressing. He (Dr. Bowring) observed that it was expected he ghould say something with respect to rotation and the prevalence of the decimal system in China. Ho believed it had been in China not only of in finite use, but of infinite comfort, and one of the most valua ble instruments of education which had ever been held by an instructer or introduced into a school. They carried their inquiries very far; and a Chinaman, by the employment of those five figures, could, by the decimal system, reckon up 100,000. Every figure was made to represent the nine digits, the nine primary numerals, and the way in which he made 9 was, he began by the little finger, and counted the joints, and reckoned 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 7,8, 9. For the three first he counted the joints up one way, for the throe last he counted the same joints the other way, up and down, whilst for the middle figures, 4,4, d, he counted the joints on the other side. Having accomplished 10 by his little finger, he goes on to hundreds, at the next, which he called the ring finger, and that re presented 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, and then he proceeded to the third, finger, and then on this mul tiplied thousands ; and by piecisely the same process he goes up again to 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, and so on to 10,000, and next, as he before told them, to 100,000, and this was no more or less than the application of the decimal system ; but if he employed his right hand as well as his left, it was quite clear he could go to what was called the fifth power further in this manner of calculation, and reckon millions, eumais, gnat/ 'act, bLLLL, WU, NIVr, by a simple application of the decimal systeni, and of this valuable instrument which the Divine Being had given to them all ; and all he shikild recommend his friend Mr. Brown to do, if he found any difficulty in convincing a man of the enormous value of this decimal system, was really to bold up his ten fingers, and show what a wonderful mystery was solved by their use, what difficulties were got over, and what marvellous accounts might be reckoned up. In China all the young people were very fond of arithmetic, and ad mirably did they learn it. He ventured to say they learned more in a month than could be learned in an English school in a year. They did not trouble themselves with the non- Be nce of compound addition, compound subtraction, com pound multiplication, and division. What did it mean ? Could anything be conceived more barbarian than the idea of taking one column and adding it up, and dividing it by four, which we call farthings, aud then another column, which we call pence, adding that up and dividing it by 12, calling them shillings, and then they added up another column and divided it by 20, which they called pounds ; and they did not divide them at all, but they went on adding hundreds, thousands, and millions. (Applause.) He recol lected a speech of Mt. Brown's which he had. read, and it reminded him of what he had heard in his boyhood repeated a hundred times, under the instruction of their nonsensical system :- "Multiplication is my vexation, Division is twice as bad, The Rule of Three it puzzles me, And Fractions set me mad." (Cheers and laughter.) He hoped the time was not far off when they should get rid of all this vexation and non sense, and introduce a system which is universal in China, and not only in China, but in a great part of the civilized world. He (Dr. Bowring) had the pleasure of making his friend, Mr. Brown, acquainted with a simple instrument employed by all schools in China, and by which all their calculations were made. It was exceedingly simple, and was the application of the principle he had mooted to them. The instrument was called Livampoa, and meant a calculat ing board or platter, and there were balls which moved along. The lowest ball represented units, and they went on in order representing, hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands, and millions. By means of thisinstrument all calculations were made with the greatest possible facility, and he (Dr. Bowring) stated before the committee of the House of Com mons, of which his honorable and excellent friend, Mr, Brown was the chairman, of whom he ventured to say, if he suc ceeded in introducing the decimal system, he would be one of the greatest possible benefactors that this country had ever seen. (Hear, hear.) He (Dr. Bowring) stated to him that he had scarcely ever detected an inaccuracy in any account, whether they were the large accounts which he kept on behalf of the government, or the small accounts which he kept for the petty expenditure of his household,- hewarcely ever detected, in fact never detected, an error in in the accounts kept by the Chinese with the assistance of this abacus; on the contrary if a case occurred in which his accounts did not agree with those of his servants and clerks, he found, without any exception he was in the wrong, and that they were in the right. Nothing really can be . more absurd than the whole system of British accountancy. When the governor of the Bank of England was introduced to the committe he was desired to give some explanation of the ancient way in which the bank carried on its calculations in order to estimate the value of an ingot of gold. New acts of parliament have regulated the various conditions by which the value was to be ascertained, and the first condition was that, in order to be what was called standard, it should have two pads in twenty-four of alloy; and then came an act of parliament which declared that, being brought to this standard of purity, or rather impurity, it should be sold by a special form of weight, called troy weight, by the pounds, ounces, pennyweights, and grains troy ; and then another act of parliament declared that it was to be paid for at the rate of a 17s. 100. per oz. troy. Now if any of them wanted, with comfort to themselves, to make an agreeable calculation, he recommended them to fan that some friend had remitted to them from California or Australia an ingot of gold, and they would say to this ingot of gold, inasmuch as no gold was ever produced by nature at the standard required by law, they would suppose this ingot was one-twelfth under or over the standard, and it should weigh 21bs. 2oz. 2 pennyweights and 2 grains, and it should be paid for as he mentioned at 775. lop., and he would be a very clever fellow who would tell him the value of the ingot. He did not mean to say it could not be done by an intelligent youth, but no youtb, however intelligent, would be able to make out such a sum-a sum which was of hourly and daily occurrence in the Bank of England without an enormous amount of labour. And he thought the gover nor of the Bank of England stated they had been obliged, the necessity of the thing forced them to adopt the decimal system, and there has been no confusion such as there would have been had the calculations not been made in decimals. Sir John Herschell, who gave very valuable evidence, stated adulhwi system, a e riad tdso u m tih n npm difficult referencewoet fact,aayr sn e o d a decimals ;aba ns d many absurd, o i n t t all ohr as t bw his a da s done, 1 t c a l t a t hr i calculations n n s had away of f b m e e o fnmr escapinge m n.t , andwhat fhraodm beenth e taannoyanceinsagTutopriadoi wiser of this a and d non-decimal be tter course. system, wasan d n that a only n h l y e There n e e u dw : va d aiv s lsb , e ianrd, tpuh shillings, ope uoyd euse ds;teaarntnlbdidno sterling; then wordeontuhc neep,dnootuthfhnaaedtpr there what caries' weight. Nobody knew where he was. They used the word hundred weight. One would suppose that a cwt. was 1001bs. It was n..) such thing; it was 1121bs. They said a quarter of a cwt. If a party saw this nuniter employed, and had not been initiated into the labyrinths of their sys tem, would suppose a quarter of a cwt. was 281bs. But so it was declared to be. Then with respect to pounds. Why, he had been inquiring in different places with respect to pounds, and he found pounds moving up from 12 to 24 oz. So strange and so ridiculous were the usages of the country. What was meant by a dozen in our language. He went into one shop and he was told 12; he went into a baker's and was told 13. What was meant by a stone ? The other day, at Leeds, he inquired about a stone, and found there were stones that weighed from 6to 181bs. It was quite certain that they ought to get out of this absurd system; they had had quite enough of those nonsensical usages amongst them. Would it be believed that down to the reign of George the Third, public accounts were kept on what were called tallies. They scarcely knew what a tally was. A tally was a stick, generally a piece of hazel wood, and a man brought a. certain amount of money to the exchequer, and then the tally- , keeper brought in a piece of hazel wood, and for £l,OOO a large notch was cut, and so many large notches for thousands, a smaller notch for hun dreds, a notch smaller than that was cut for £lO, and then smaller ones for tinitg, and a smaller one again for shillings, and so on down to pence, and farthings, and then the tally was split in two, and the man went away with one half, and the other was left in the exchequer • and if there was any question about the accounts, the party was obliged to come with his stick, and, if found correct, the ac counts were perfectly in order. (Cheers and laughter.) This state of things continued down to the reign of George lll—ay and down to William IV, the accounts of the the exchequer were kept by Roman numerals, and in dog French and Latin. Ay, and no wonder, for no less a man than Lord Grenville wrote a euriouiT letter to the treasury to say he meant to persevere in the old system. He said, "if we give up the numerals we won't understand the accounts at all." (Laughter.) This was the reason g,iven for per severing in a system worthy of savages, and which, they would observe, originated in a One when nobody could read or write. But; however, they did grow somewhat wiser in the course of time, and they had Wonted in the exchequer the sensible system which merchants had taught to gsvern ment. (Hear, hear.) The system of decimal coinage to which his friend had called the attention of parliament and of the public, had made wonderful way in the world ; and it was a comfort to know that the plain system which Mr. Brown and he (Dr. Bowring) most cordially concurred in recommending, and had been approved by the unanimous vote of this committee of which Mr. Brown was the chair man. The system was due of extreme simplicity. It was in fact that which was, at this nienlenti in use in the greater part, he ventured to say, of the civilized world, There were two decimal systems which prevailed in the world, one which divided the unit of account, and the other which divided the unit of account into hundreds, but with the decimal system of course. In either case it descended from mines td cdntunisi from thousands to hundreds, or it mounted up from centums to mikes if that were found most conve nient. Now, in China, the systerti was a counter part of what they desired to see introduced here. All accounts in China, except their accounts amongst foreigners, were paid in what was called pure silver, of which an ounce was di vided into a thousand parts, and each ounce of silver of a thousand parts usually formed one of the elements of accounts in China. The system of dividing what was called the integer into a thousand parts, prevails throughout the whole of the Chinese empire ; also in the large empire of Japan and its dependencies, It had also been adopted in Portugal and the Brazils, and what his friend proposed, and what had been sanctioned by the unanimous opinion of the committee, was that every pound sterling should be divided into a thousand parts. That did not touch the value of our gold and silver, and the only part of our currency whdse value was affected by it was copper, and the only change would be, so far as he could see, a considerable benefit to the public, inasmuch as instead of 48 farthings for a shilling they would get 50, and instead of 24 for sixpence they would get 25; when the farthing repre sented the thousand part of a pound, instead of the nine hundred and sixtieth, all the work was accomplished, and they had a perfect deehrial system. Some nations had adopted, as they were aware, a division into cents, That was the case in France, in Belgium, and in many of the states of Italy. They generally had a piece of the value of about 10d., which they divided, for convenience, into a hundred parts, and inasmuch as the hundred part of 10d. gave a very small coin; it was not necessary to pursue the decimal system farther ; it was not necessary to divide the coin into miles. In the united States, though they have retained much of our phraseology for old words, have a great hold on the public mind (they employ the word shilling for different values in different places) ; they had adopted the decimal system of which the dollar was the ground work, and that was divided into 100 parts. Now, it is a very remarkable fact, that connected with the emancipation of all the Spanish-American states—l speak of all that part of America formerly subject to Spain—every one of them, imp mediately on establishing its emancipation and its liberty "TT - • which -I— "' a opte t e decimal system he had been recommend ing; and no one ; he was certain, who had been connected with commercial affairs but must have been struck with the facility with which all accounts were kept, examined and audited, would come in a decimal form. The state of things in this country, the difficulty of making calculations with Um system was so great, that he remembered some years ago, Notts's—. in tb.e public ac counts to the amount of many millions sterling \lei t, an_ stroyed, and the public accountants all discharged from re sponsibility, inasmuch as it was impossible to go through the calculations connected with a system so strange and so involved. He hoped the time was not far distant, when to make a niistake in ad account would be a great opprobrium. That was not the case now, and happy Was the person, who in the present day, could go to market and by the principle of pence and farthings, and the multiplication and division of pence and farthings, enter into a contract in any way,— happy was that person if he could return home and calcu late' whether he had paid what was just and right or not. Now having given them an hours talk s and lie hoped suggested some topics for their consideration, he had to thank them; and he hoped his excellent friend might have the reward of seeing the noble purpose which he had proposed to him self made the law of the land. (Applause.) Mr. W. BROWN said, he had it on good authority, that one fifth of the time now spent in making calculations would be saved by decimal system. This was very important to youth, and he thought before leaving, he would make the communication; He then called for another cheer for their friend Dr. Bowring, which Was heartily responded to, and the proceedings terminated. Dr. BOWRING lectured on the same subject in the even ing, at eight o'clock, in the Mechanics' Institute. The at tendance, though good, was not very numerous. The chair was occupied by William Brown, Esq,, Ma, for South Lancashire, The CHAIRMAN, in introducing Dr. Dowring, said that that gentleman had attended there on that evening at great personal inconvenience, and that no one probably in the United Kingdom was better qualified to lecture on the sub ject of decimal coinage than he was. The Chairman, in conclusion, briefly pointed out the advantages of the deci mal system; and expressed a hope that Government Might soon be induced to adopt it. On the conclusion of the lecture, which was loudly ap plauded throughout, Mr. MACILVEBN briefly addressed the meeting, and enu merated the leading disadvantages attendant on our present system of enumeration; and then showed how much the decimal system would facilitate the education of children in arithmetic. Mr. Gtoitan ota T.C., moved that the thanks of the meeting be given to Dr.i Bowring. Mr. THORNLEY, M.P., for Wolverhampton, seconded the motion, and in doing so, bore testimony to the superiority of of the decimal system, and hoped that it would be ere long generally adopted throughout the country. It would not only be an individual but a national gain , . The motion was carried by acclamitien. Dr. BOWRING then expressed his acknowledgments, after which the meeting seoaMted. MR. NORTHCOTE'S LECTURE. Mr. J. Spencer Northcote delivered a lecture at the qa. tholic Institute, Hope-street, at half-past seven o'clock last evening, upon the "Miracle of La Salette," There was a very crowded audience. Mr. Northcote prefaced his lecture by observing upon the cautions manner in which every Catholic spoke of the most authentic miracle s in. thiS try, and the prejudices which existed regaydiiag th.em. He then proceeded to detail the circumstances attending th e ap pearance of the miracle at La Salette, •6. small hamlet in the French Alps, upon the 19th bf September, 1846. These circumstances, which are probably in the recollection of most readers, iMy be briefly recapit u l a t e d. A b oy o f 10 or 11 years ola, and a girl aged about 15, both grossly igno rant even of the simplest matters of religion, and up to Vie previous day unacquainted with each other, saw on the 19th of September, 1846, while engaged in tending cattle on a mountain near the village, the apparition of a beautiful lady, clothed in white, wearing a chaplet of pearls and gar land of roses, taller than mortal size, who was weeping ; she spake to them, complaining of the immorality of the district, their inattention to the holidays and feasts of the church, and their profane words, and declaring that if they did not alter their lives, she could no longer keep the heavy . hand of her Son from falling upon the place, and that all their crops would be destroyed. This she told them, speaking first in French, but subsequently adoptin . g . the patois which the children more easily understood, adding that they were to tell the people what she had said. She also made a sepa rate communication to each of the children, which each was to keep a secret. The lady then disappeared. Near the place where she stood was a spring, which was intermittent, being dried up in summer, but which from that day flowed perpetually. The lecturer then proceeded t o d escr ib e how the children told the tale, which was at first disbelieved, and the variety of tests and harrassing examinations to which the children were subjected, separately and together, by the authorities of France, legal and ecclesiastical, to en deavour to shake the accuracy of the statements, but all of which failed to succeed in making them swerve in the slightest, or vary from their original tale. They also stated that nothing could induce either of them to tell the secret - ", tEIA rA which had been separately confided to tirec 4 e k 1 0tWAr then supported the stet" , by describirke* 4/.1 " ,;0; raculous cures, which had been wrought!) t iOa h fountain, near which the apparition too ir f- , ; 24 14 hillett<cS very minutely upon the evidence, and relxs hia own minute inquiries, aided by au YAW among the clergy and people of the village, a2ld - Imin' The boy and girl, the latter, then a novice in a convent, on the occasion of a visit he made to the spot iu the September of last year. An additional argument which he adduced, was the total change which had taken place in the morals and religious habits of the people since the apparition. He com mented upon the impossibility of supposing that two ignorant children could have concocted such a tale and withstood, without any alterations in the circumstances, the lengthened examinations to which they were subjected. He then replied to a statement recently published -in the Times, alleging that the miracle was concocted by an innkeeper, upon whose property the fountain was, and who made money by selling the water of it to pilgrims. He then stated that there was no river within seven miles of the place. That the fountain was a property belonging to the parish, and that he had himself, upon the last anniversary of the occurrence, seen three or four thousand people crowding round the fountain, drinking and carrying away as much of the water as they could, without paying any one for it. Another statement put forward by the Times the preceding year was, that it Was a concoction of the priests to get money, to which the lecturer replied by stating that the chapel which they were about to build upon the spot, and to which the Times referred, could not be completed, owing to the difficulties of conveying materials up the mountain, for this generation ; and they would therefore be a very self denying clergy, who would risk their souls and their chars c ter, to enable some priest of the next generation to live in almost utter solitude upon the top of a mountain, which for four months in the year was covered with snow. The lec turer finally stated that upon a letter being sent by the Pope to the Archbishop of Grenoble, enjoining the children to communicate the secret in writing to him, they had con sented to obey the order of the Pope, and were brought into a room in presence of some clergy, when paper was given to them, and without hesitation, as if they were copying words set before them, each child wrote as for a latex addrealed Lv the Pope, which was sealed by them, and of which no one saw the contents. Two priests went together to Rome, and presented the letter to the Pope, who seemed greatly affectad upon reading it, and was heard to observe—" These are great evils for France, but it is not France alone which de serves them, but Italy, Germany, and other parts of Europe." This, the lecturer observed was all which was ever known, except to the Pope, of the secret imparted to the children ; but it was sufficient to convince the clergy of France that the secret was no idle tale. Since that time the Pope, who had first enjoined great caution regarding the publication of the miracle, had encouraged its promulgation throughout the world. The lecturer concluded by express ing a hope that his audience would attentively consider the question, and not dismiss it with the prejudice of which he had spoken when commencing, and resumed his seat amid loud and general applause. The Rev. Mr. Nugent briefly expressed the thanks of the meeting to the lecturer. The proceedings then closed with a hymn in honor of the Virgin Mary. IRELAND (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENING. THE TRACT DISTRIBUTION CASE.—Yesterday, Mr. Whiteside, Q.C., applied to the Queen's Bench for a writ of certiorari, to remove the informations, magistrate's order, &c., in the late case of O'Bren nan v. Smith, from the Capel-street Police Office, into that court. The application was grounded on an affidavit of Smith's reciting the facts of the case, as they have already appeared, and concluding as follows :—And this deponent is advised that, by the laws of this country, no man can be imprisoned without a crime committed or an intelligible charge made against him, and submits it is his right to be informed for what offence he has been so dealt with, and against whom, and for what reason he has been so bound by recognizance as afore said, and his money, which he could ill affbrd, ex torted from him. There was also an affidavit of Mr. Nunn's, to the effect that he had applied to Mr. O'Callaghan for the documents required, and been refused. The court granted a conditional order. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—A Colooney correspon dent of the Freeman, dating Nov. 17, writes : " A dreadful accident, attended with loss of life, oc curred hero last night. An omnibus belonging to Mr. Morrish, of the Earl c Hopi. puui creatures wno escaped - - from the ill-fated Californian Packet . to Sligo, and when turning out of this 'town, five miles from Sligo, the two off-side wheels went to pieces; the vehicle of course was upset in a moment, and the unfortunate driver (O'Brien) was killed. Seven others were more or less dangerously injured ; some of them have been conveyed to the Sligo infirmary. All the attention that humanity could suggest paid them by the Rev. Mr. O'Rourke and his curdte. .-r"Z' were quickly on the spot, and did all that men could do u.L.,,a0, the circumstances to alleviate the miseries of the sum,_ I, with some others, examined the omnibus, and I certain that a very heavy responsibility rests some where, but as an inquest will be held, I shall say no more on this subject for the present. Poor O'Brien's remains lie in the Catholic Church of Colooney, pending the inquest." MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—An accident of a very serious nature occurred from the explosion of powder, in Bonmahon, county of Waterford, on Monday evening, about eight o'clock. A miner, employed by the company in the lead mine at the cliffs, obtained a quantity of powder for his work. After going home with his bag of powder, he tried to open the knot on the cord that tied the mouth of the bag; not succeeding, and being without a knife, he attempted to burn it with the blaze of the candle, when the powder exploded, blowing the unfortunate man, his wife, and six children, in every direction, all receiving such injuries that their lives are in danger. The roof was torn completely off the house and the two adjoining houses were in flames. THE BRIGANTINE VICTORIA.—This vessel, which, on her way from Limerick to London was stranded near Kilcredane lighthouse, on the coast of Clare, has become a total wreck. Most of her cargo (oats) is lost also. - - - CLONMEL ELECTION :—The Freeman of to-day gives the math of the meeting yesterday in Clon mel as a pronouncement in favour of the League. But as the requisition calling the meeting was only signed by twenty electors, and the assemblage itself was mostly composed of those who had no votes, this cannot be regarded as a very good cri terion of the constituency's will. Mr. John O'Connell still continues his canvas. The BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN MAIL STEAM-SHIP " EUROPA" sails to-day with the usual mails and passenger MANaIESTER AND SALFORD RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIE'i a. —The annual meeting of this society was held on T iur ty. evening last, the Rev. Canon Stowell in th e chair. 4 day retort I ,lWilug been read, the meeting was Rev. John Richardson, Rector of St. Anne's, e. y the -I,' It an e d v. the addressedtheThe A various Christopherson, resolat of B i nn s having and e , hee a otherea carried, gn i ed etm , the le lon;hs old, died on terminated after the usual vote of thanki sr o eet e u. lige , Te uch p hiA r slia o sih c Tr e Aorn e uen i e r is : named j r& nh sy s lIHNiI)ggER:IISS'ITS-I°l' o uri n ci F °.yrrears of age, who has — D A E- c k la T il lt d, " na lk m x Thursday in a brothel-, • , at 13, D t lE N e y p 9 t s b is y tfl a rl e: v ip s r d l in e Vwrli,thonhlyer,loofts.eisxen - or eeven years old, and erni a's motti,-r. The mother states that she is wife 0 I.lhre nieces tó il'ie ae4erd Joi.iath,stu Iliggins, a sea-faring man, who has been away frothher Tor five y e ars, and that deceased wit; ilcr illegitimate child by a sea caotaini afterlOeyn Thursday she had been ro t c o i s7, i ltn a longerepute v df a a y th age er : itt end Stanley Dock, who is about peed a rather stormy interview liau succeeded in extractit,'g three pounds front him. Her statement further is that &he re turned to the house at four in the afternoon, and gal 'e the child to a woman whose soubriquet is " Cockney Katy," who fed it; that it then became poorly, when they sent for a druggist, and upon his arrival he advised that a doctor should be sent for, but the child died immediately after. Upon the customary inquiries being niade, Anne Elliott, the woman known as ' Cockney Mary," said that tie mother had returned not at four, but between one and two o'clock in the afternoon. The druggist who saw the child, also, stated that it was dead when he went in. Under these cir cumstances an inquest will be held this day. 331rtbo, frtarriaztO, anti ilkatbl. MARRIAGES. On the 16th instant, at St. David's, by the Rev. W. Hughes, John Mackenzie, Esq., merchant, of this town, to Miss Margaret Brown, of Ayr. On the 10th instant, at Walcot, Bath, by the Rev. Augustus Strover 8.A., assisted by the Rev. William Starner, D.D the Bev. Georges D'Arcy Irvine, eldest son of the Rev. Geor ges M. D' A rev Irvine LL.D., chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Leinster, and grandson of the late Colonel Sir George D'Arcy Irvine, Bart., of Castle Irvine, county of Fermanagh, Ireland, to Harriet, eldest daughter of the late Lieuto nant-General Strover, Marlborough-buildings , Bath. DEATHS , At Churchill Has!mere, Surrey, Sarah, relict of the Rev. James Freake Parson, aged 74. On the I4th instant, after a prolonged illness, borne w'th Christian fortitude and resignation, Thomas Gillman, for 47 years the highly respected proprietor of the Angel Inn, Whipeehapel, High-street, in his 76th year. •