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aurratUrt. NOTICES g, M.A.. C William Cu 3 Sons, I a not Km the n labouring to aw and their by a portion o matters, in one volume, b; )lain of St. Nicholas ;lit to Inok for counte- Free _Thoughts on Pri the Rev. 'l'. G. Gil Within, Dublin ; Groombri The wa very important cr al Pro nation to a se Protestant lib visited communi ly of t went and even reviling from ehalf, and for 0 r own, the Our Protestant Associatiol organisation in 'disgust ;It t were insulted d tram pl were the most zeal ere prepared to strug falling away fro ostration— en they upon by rampant libera: .r profs s of reverenc and affection for the Protestant institutions of their coun try and of abhorence of the oaoal system. The members have b' met in th Is for . id in the working of h the rebuke—' are embarrassing a - Conservative ministry, which is con ferring boons upon commerce since the power of Whig- Radicalism is overthrown, by an agitation which is no longer called for. We have nothing to fear from Popery, since it has been placed in leading strings by a Conserva tive government. It is only an old bugbear now—a poor effete .thing, which we can keep quiet with a sop now and a sop then ; a college or two, a bit of patronage to O'Connell, an endowment for its priesthood and the recognition of the titles of its hierarchy. Be quiet we _ are going on very well. Neither Church nor Skate is in danger. ' The object of Mr. Gregg is to waken the great body of the nation from this delusion—to shew that our legislation is in a 'wrong direction— to hold up before its eyes the real, the unchanged, and unchangeable nature of this monster evil in our social fabric, Popery, which we are treating as if its fangs were drawn, and it had become harmless and imbecile. These "free thoughts," which are only called such, we presume, because, the rev. gentleman has thrown aside, the trammels of regular Thesis, and grappled,with his important subject in whatever form, and with whatever weapon, he has judged it, at the moment. assailable, if attentively pondered upon and carried out to their conclusions by the intelligent reader, are calculated both to warn and instruct. Th-y recapitulate the evidence against . Popery afforded by the history of its past waiver sations—they shew, as well, that the intolerant spirit, which prompted its past inroads upon the liberties of man kind—is not dead—is not quenched—but has only changed its modes of working out its objects—has only laid aside the savage fury of the tiger to assume, for awhile, the subtlety of the serpent. Mr. Gregg complains that the English mind is misled with respect to the position and the influence of papacy in Ireland ; that we regard its existence and the virtual su premacy of its power there as an evil, against which there is no contending. Most firmly we believe, with the rev. gentleman, that this is a lamentab'e mistake, based upon wilful blindness with respect to Gets and experience. Nay, it is a blasphemous error to suppose that the power of Go in spreading his truth should he restricted to any land or to any portion of the globe. We admit that the supersti tions of Popery—its shows, its gaudy trappings, its pre tended miracles—have a peculiar hold upon the minds of an imaginative people like the Irish. We know that its ecclesiastical thunders and menaces have also a strong hold upon the fears of such a people, exposed as they are and debarred of adequate protection from the arm of the law against outrage and persecution. The Word of God, and his blessing with it, have, however, prevailed against stronger barriers than these ; and they will prevail, when ever the effort is made in a right spirit, and with ade quate energy and assistance. _ _ We have not space now to enter fully into an analysis of Mr. Gregg's views upon this portkn of it, or upon the important subject of his " thoughts" generally. The volume should be perused by Protestants, and weighed especially by Protestant statesmen. In all probabiiity, we are about to 1.-gislate upon the delusive idea that to overthrow the fabric of popery in Ireland, or, in fact, to do anything except to aggrandise and recognise it as a national institution, is hopeless. Surely, we should pause before doing this ; we should listen to a man intimately acquainted with the working of popery in Ireland—who has proved the innate weakness cf the system—who knows the hopes, the aspirations, the fears of its clergy and its laity ; and above all, is prepared with a correct estimate of the amount of aid at our disposal in the effort to settle the distractions of Ireland, without forfeiting for England the character of a Protestant nation, by recognising and endowing falsehood. We shall return to the subjct at some future time, when we hope to do more justice to Mr. Gregg's work, and to allow him to give expreseiou to a few of his own views. The Layman's Prayer Book. London : F. Baisler, 121, Oxford-street, The author of the work before us is impressed with a feeling of serious objection to many portions of the Li turgy of •the Church of England, which. he considers, offer stumbling-blocks to many pious and intelligent Christians, and tend to turn some from its pale into the arms of dissent. As a step to a proper remedy for this alleged evil, he has published, under the above title, a new version, in which such points of doctrine or of prac tice, upon which doubts may be raised, are withdrawn from observation, by the expurgation of the passages which suggest them, or expressed in language which it is assumed will be more intelligible to the mass of lay readers. Before, however, examining the manner in which the author has performed his task, we shall quote his own explanation of his views, given in a little tract entitle:' "The Layman's Voice,"* prefixed to the book and in the preface, addressed to the laity of England. The author sacs : I. The Oxford Tracts have led persons to examine their prin ciples and scrutinise their Prayer-took, which I find, with grief of heart, to have many defects. d. The oftener I examine them the more dangerous they ap the more I seek to think them ripht. the more I mint pear them wr has it been so with ti. my Christian brother " Do you think the Baptismal Service will hardly bear the light that the argume, ts you have listened to do riot prove its uth, and that learned explanations of it only puzzle you the " Do you feel that you would not like, in secu'ar affairs, to need long explanations and skilful arguments to save your words (rum being lalse, your statements trom being lies? It is so with me, brother: is it so with you?" . _ He proceeds to give his objections to the service of Baptism; and then continues:— " I do not mean to tire you, brother, with endless reasonings, but only to remind you, that as these detects are being noticed by pious young men preparing for the ministry, they are abso lutely prevented from declaring (as they must do if they would be ordained) that the Prayer-book containeth nothing contrary to the Word of God. Such young men feel that they could not say over the grave of a zn,n, whose 1 fe had been cane of forget fulness of God. It bath pleased Almighty God, of his great mercy, to take unto himself the soul of our dear bro her': they dare not affirm what they do not know to be true—dare I? My brother layman, dare you ? •• What then will become of us when all these young men shall hay eb , en excluded from our pulpits? ‘N hen we can no longer find a genuine Protestant divine to lead our devotions, and to instruct us amt our families ? To whom Omit we then confide those under our care ?' With respect to the work itself, he says in the preface " This volume is presented to yon, not as a perfect work which defies you - censure, nor as the best which can be writ ten, but, simply, as a Prayer-book differing so lithe from that by authority as not to be rendered unfit for ordinary use in churches, a d yet altered so as to avoid every passage which plainly countenances popish error. More alterations might well have been made, but it was jiOged inexpedient to derange the order of the services. unless they appears d to be very much !seeded. Some alterations may. doubtless, appear uncalled for and unnecessary, but they will be found to exist chiefly in those services where the va lation will not occasion much inconveni. I also, it is hope-1, be found to tend to a more emancipation from the remains of Popery." ence; and they wi An examination of the work, however, will shew that the author has not only removed what may by some be considered excrescences in the Liturgy, but has cut away, or altered so as to pervert, vital principles, which are re cognised as such by all sound theologians. For the alte- ration of -th of the sick, baptismal and funeral services, the visitation the form of alterations appear to t weak consciences may be lotion, unnecessary as these he expediency of smisf)ing jut it cannot with resp , xt, for instailce, to theorMision in the creed of the words. with respect to our Saviour, " he descended into bell." The taking away of one shred from the truth of the great scheme of man's redemption is not to be permitted, for the satisfaction of those who hesitate at the threshold of the church to make a conditional bargain for their entrance. We should not have objected so much here to a change of the mere words, originally adopted, most probably, with that due regard for brevity which characterises the whole of the context; but the scriptural truth, which these words were intended, to convey, and which, in the sense in which they are inter preted by all theologians, we are sure our author wou , d be the last to deny, ought not to be withdrawn from the ♦few of even lay churehmen. The same remark applies to the suppression of the Athanasiau Creed, and other omissions. We have said already that we cannot see the necessity of this new version of a Liturgy of such acknowledged beauty and accordance with Scripture as our own. A few passages there doubless are which, taken apart from the context, may rtle superficial or timid I3ut we are not satiAed whether these passages, involving as they do, for their proper understanding, the patient exa mination of the thoughtful Christian, are not more ad vantageous to the spread of true religion. as leading men to " mark, learn, and inwardly digest" the meaning and doctrines of scriptural truth, than a version which avoids everything that is not e,sy of comprehension. The ma thematical student, who goes round, ins'ead of over, the pons asinorum, is not likely to get very well through Euclid. We give every credit to the author for the motives which appear to have prompted his labours. They are most worthy ; but we cannot think that they are calcu lated to be acceptable to any great body of churchmen. The Layman's Prayer Book, we may add for the credit of the publisher, is very neatly got up and cheap. . * This little tract is d also separately VARIETIES EXPOSURE TO TUE SUN. —There are few points which eem less generally understood, or more clearly proved, than the fact, that exposure to the sun, with o ut exercise sufficient to create fre e perspiration, will produce illness; and that the (same) exposure to the sun, with sufficient exerc6e, no t produce illness. Let any man s l eep i n the sun, he will awake persp i r ing and very ill—perhaps he Will die. Let the same man dig in the sun for the same length of time, and he will perspire ten times as much, and be quite well. The fact is, that not only the direct rays of the sun, but the heat of the atmosphere produce abundance of bile, and powerful exercise alone will carry off that bile.-7Poptclar Errors Explained. ORIGIN OF THE WORD "Quiz."—Very few words ever took such a run, or were saddled wit ings, as this monosyllable ; and, however strange the so many meal word, it is still more Strange that not one of our lexico- aphers, from B a yley to hnson, ever attempte tion of i The reason is very Planation, or give a der obvious—it is b, 'rom any langu lecawe it has no meaning, nor is it derived age in the world ever known, from the tivity to this day. When Richard Daly of the Irish theatres fashion of the da Gambling when the manager staked a large sum that he would have spoken all through the principal streets of Dublin by a certain hour derived from no known language;—wager stakes deposited. Daly repaired to the theatre, and des patched all the servants and supernumeraries with the word " Quiz," which they chalked on every door and shop window in the town. Shops being shut all next day, everybody going to and coming from their different places ere laid of worship saw the word, and everybody repeated it ; so that " Quiz," was heard all through Dublin. The cir cumstance of so strange a word being on every door and window caused much surprise; and ever since, should a strange story be attempted to pass current, it draws forth the expression—" You're quizzing me."—Sharpe's ndon Moylzine. her Levi engaged herself as a ser vant in the house of Mr. Goldsmith, an Israeli ETHER chant, residing in Cheapside, London; and, a - s she was mild, complaisant, and desirous of pleasing, she obtained the good feeling of all the family. Mr. Goldsmith bad always forbade his children being harsh to servants. " That which we have a right to expect from our ser vants," he observed ; " is that they fulfil their duties with regularity. Humanity then exacts that, far from aggra vating their position, we should, by treating them kindly, lessen their sense of servitude." This principle was faithfully observed, and, at the end of some years, Esther was considered as one of the family. Misfortunes accu mulated on the house of Goldsmith. Two of the children died; war with France interfered with the c.mmerce of England, and ruined Mr. Goldsmith, who died of grief, after a lingering illttes., which exhausted his last resources. His poor wife, left without rents, fortunes, or defender, was maddened by despair, and her health became seriously affected be continued watchings and grief. One morn ing, the afflicted widow called her servant, and with tears in her eyes said, " My good Esther, we must separate. Your devotion merits a rich reward ; but, alas! lam ru ined, and it is with difficulty I can pay the wages I owe you. Take this money, the last I have left, and accept as a token of my friendship this deg, the only one of my jewels I have not parted with." " What are you pro posing to me ?" rejoined Esther, sobbing ; "would you send me away? Can I quit You, when you so much need my services? Have I asked for my wages? When you were rich, you trusted me as your child ; and now you are aged, poor, and sick, I will regard you as my mother. You cannot work ; but never mind, 1 am young and strong, and can strive for us both." For ten years Es ther fulfilled her generous terms. She supported Mrs. Goldsmith by the work of her hands, and with so much cheerfulness, that she always appeared the obliged party, and exercised so much delicacy, that no person suspected her heroic devotedness. At length, in 1815, peace was proclaimed between France and England, and Mrs. Gold smith collected some heavy debts due to her late husband. She paS,ed the latter years of her life in calm and easy circumstances, which she doubly enjoyed in sharing them with her faithful domest;c, in whose favour her will ran thus :—" I give and bequeath all I possess to my well be loved daughter, Esther Levi; 'and I desire she may here after bear the name of Goldsmith, to preserve the re membrance of her exalted conduct, in what concerns a family who will never cease to pray to the Eternal that she be rewarded as she merits."—Tales for the Young of the Hebrew Faith. THE DESPOTISM OF DEMOCRACY.—In America (the United States ?) the people constitute the sovereign, and the rule to which they are subject is the popular will. Nor is this tyranny less stern or less exacting because thus diffused and dilived. In the slave states, more than three fourths of the population are regarded as chattel property ; not as men, but as things; and any attempt to enlighten the minds of the negroes, or to awaken in them any aspi rations for advancement in the social scale, would be re sented by the slavehold ers as an atrocity by which the rights of property were invaded ; and summary vengeance would be visited upon the philanthropist who was even suspected of being so regardless of republican rights as to contemplate in thought their emancipation. Between these and the anti slavery states the union must he pre carious ; while, in the slave population, th e y are f ee di ng in their own bosom a volcano, which, sooner or later, must burst forth for their destruction. Nor are the rights of nations held more sacred than the principles which would guarantee to their fellow man, of whatever colour, an equality of civil or social advantages. Witness the an nexation of Texas, and the cool assumption of an exclu sive right to the whole of the Oregon territory (in mani fest contempt of the repeatedly admitted claim of great Britain to a portion of that country), by which they would seem wantonly to provoke an appeal to the sword. Here we have the imperious will overruling the suggestions of reason and prudence, and clearly indicating such an utter disregard of the rights and interests of other states, as no single despot dare venture ueon. withuut_uerillina hia_ sceptre in a general war. We venture to say, that if Russia or Austria dared thus to appropriate any of the rightful possessions of the British Crown, an instantane ous declaration of hostilities would be the consequence on our part, which would be prosecuted with so much vigour that the foul wrong and the fouler contumely must be speedily avenged. But the Autocrat of all the Russias is a modest and a moderate personage, compared to the Pre sident of the model Republic, who overtops him, as the giant does the dwarf, in the magnitude and extravagance of his insolent pretensions. Only le us suppose Nicholas claiming the territory from latitude 53 to 49, as President Polk does from 49 to 53, and we will have a case in point. Imagine that by his ambassador he informs Great Britain, that he asserts his undoubted right to that portion of the American continent—a r:ght which he will not consent to submit to any arbitration—and how long should we re main at peace with him? Not an hour. His imperial character, the absolute power centered in his jingle per son, would give an immense significancy to his usurpa- Lion, which would enkindle a general indignation; while the republican plainness of the American President, and the delegated nature of the authority which he exercises, blind the lovers of constitutional liberty to the astounding audacity of his pretensions. It is, however, quite impos sible that this, or any similar acts of aggression, against the rights of unoffending nations, should be endured by any who possess the power and the spirit to resist them. And we al'ude to the subject only for the purpose of show ing how the despotism of democracy sometimes exceeds the despotism of a single ruler : and that what the latter would never contemplate, being restrained, if not by a sense of justice or of shame, at least by a prurient regard for his own interest, the former would rush upon, from a blind impulse of national vanity or national cupidity, which will see nothing but confirmations of its claims, in the very statements and reasonings by which they may be most effectually disproved.—Dub in University. THE MANUFACTURE OF SAINTS.—To give the reader an idea of the signs formerly considered decisive of saint ship and of martyrdom, it will be necesary to quote a few instances from the antiquarians of the three last cen turies. The learned Bent dic ins, Niabillion, while en gaged in turning over the papers in the Barberini library, met with sore correspondence relative to a pseudo saint supposed to have been discovered in Spain. Some well meaning persons had there met with an ancient stone, inscribed with the letters " S. VIAR.," and concluded it to be the epitaph of a Saint Viar. Nothing daunted by the singattity of the name, or the total want of evidence in support of his sagacity, they boldly established his worship. But the zeal of his admirers, though it had co,iterred the honours of saintship, was unarm to secure his immortality ; for, in their application to Urbanus for indulgences, the Roman antiquarians required some proof of his existence. The stone was therefore forwarded to Rome, where it was immediately seen to be the fragment of an inscription to a PrsefdctuS. VIARum, or Curator of the Ways. We are apt to pity the condition of those who wasted their prayers and praises on the imaginary Viar, but in what respect were they worse off than the suppli cants at the altar even of St. Peter and Sr. Paul. The romance of the eleven thousand virgins is said to owe its to the inscription, existence VRSVLA . ET . XI . 3131 . VI which was read, " Ursula and eleven thousand virgins ;" instead of " eleven virgin martyrs." The history of St. Veronica exceeds all other legends of pseudo-saints in the pertinacity with which it has been supported by the Roman Church, in opposition to the learned of their own communion, and in toe entire absence of traditional evi dence. Its origin and progress hate been brought to light by the researches of Romanist antiquarians. About the d n-kest time of the middle ages arose the custom of paint ing the countenance of our Saviour upon pieces of cloth ; the accuracy of the supposed likeness, or icon as it was called, was attested by inscribing beneath it the words " Vera icon," gradually corrupted into Veronica. Many writers mention these veronicce ; as observed by Mabillon, who has cited passages from Romanus, Pettus Casinensis, and Augustinus Patricius. MabiPion also mentions the petition of a certain Cistercion abbess, dated 1219, to Ja cobus de Trecis, the Pope's chaplain, that he would send her a copy of the picture contained in St. Peter's. He complied with her request, and bagged her to rec, ive the copy as ‘• a holy Veronica, Christ's true image or like ness." The next stage in the growth of the legend (for it does n , t seem to be of later date) W 33 the discovery that the original Veronica was' an actual impression of our Saviours features, miraculously taken at sorn , time or other, according to Mabillion, during the agony in the garden ; to Duncange on the way to Calvary ; and by an other class of persons, as noticed by Baronius, supposed to have been left upon the head-dress in the serulchre. But the story wanted something, and Veronica was at length found to be the name of a holy woman who fol lowed our Lord to Calvary ; and who, while piou!ly wip ing the Redeemer's brow with a cloth, received as a re ward the miraculous impression of His countenance. Of this woman, whom Baronius calls Berenice, there is a colossal statue in St. Peter's at Rome; and what is worse, her image occupies a prominent place in the hearts of an ignorant people. The handkerchief of St. Veronica is publicly worshipped in Rome on stated occasions, and the ceremony is performed with the utmost splendour; perhaps there is no part of the Romish ritual more cal_ collated to strike the imagination. The prostrate multi tude, the dome of St. Peter's dimly lighted by the torches in the nave, and the shadowy baldacchino, hanging to all appearance in the air, form a spectacle not easily for gotten.—Dr. Maittands Church in Me Catacombs. A gentleman of Plymouth lately sent, through the post, to a friend in Scotland, a present of strawberries, packed in pill-boxes 1 THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. EFFECTS OF CORN-LAW REPEAL. [The following extract we take from an excellent pam phlet just published by John Gladstone, Esq., whose opinion on the subject of the commercial reforms now before parliament is beyond all value. As has been well remarked, " When we see such men as Mr. Gladstone and Lord Ashburton, whose opinions have been matured in the great commercial schools of Liverpool and London, who speak, not of things they expect, but of those which they know—who point to the experience of the past, and the realities of the present, not to the dreams and sha dows of a future which rest upon presumptuous theories and sordid self-interests—when, we say, the opinions of such men are disregarded in order that those of the Cob dens, the Brights, and the Thompsons may prevail ; or even the less worthy, because less sincere and less ma turely weighed, opinions of converted Cabinet Ministers, and subservient apostates, we seem to behold the ominous beginning of a change whose end will be the downfall of our glory as a nation." The League has promised us a glorious harvest of peace and plenty from tree trade, but let us hear the sentiments of a gentleman " cradled in commerce," and connected intimately with its interests during a tong life. Here they are :—) " It was wise and expedient to admit cotton and other articles of raw material, necessarily required for the sup ply of our manufacture, free of duty, her which they are dependent either on foreign growers, or those of our co lonies and possessions, as our climate does not admit of their cultivation ; but surely these circumstances can have no bearing on the facts, that we possess the power of producing, within our own resources, all the food necessary to supply the consumption of the people, which is the only safe a,ld certain source of safety on which dependence can be placed, and, therefore, in the experi ence of wise and prudent precaution, requiring special protection, there are very few things we do possess that might not, under circumstances of pressing necessity, be dispensed with, but to which food is an exception, and therefore the duty of every good and efficient government has ever been considered to be to eecure, as far as they possess the power, a safe and certain supply; but whilst keeping that in view it certainly ought not to be made subject to taxation for objects of revenue alone, whilst necessary to be so for the purpose of protection to home grown corn, on which the supply of food must mainly, and, while susceptible- of it, wholly depend. In this country our great resources for •raising revenue from taxes are unavoidably on articles of consumption, in con tributing to which more or less a power of choice is given to the consumers, who, at the same time, contribute to uphold the foreign trade, commerce, and navigation of the country, which could neither be derived from, nor supported by, direct taxation alone, which many advo cate; and therefore by much the greater part of our re venue is derived from duties on general consumption, but from which, for most obvious reasons, corn requires to be exempted where revenue alone would be the object. For is it not clear that the more the pressure of direct taxation is increased on the possessors of real property, the more their means and resources for consumption will be diminished?—since they are the great consumers of foreign productions, which generally form the luxuries of life, and producing a large amount of revenue to the State, such as tea, wines, sugar, &c., &c. " If, then, without any regular market elsewhere, but dependent on such as was afforded in this country, in bad seasons and unproductive harvests, of which the foreign growers more or less availed themselves, they still raised surplus crops, which we must conclude, from their per severance, remunerated them for their cost and labour, and thus, without stimulus or outward encouragements, whilst paid only very low prices for the supply of their home markets, they have not only persevered under every possible disadvantage, but so late as the years 1838.39-40 and 41 they shipped and sent to the markets of the United Kingdom about ten millions of quarters of wheat and flour, which was, in consequence of home deficiency, admitted at very moderate rates of duty, and for which we paid above twenty millions, chiefly in gold. With these facts before us, and in the face of disadvantages, where such results have arisen, may it not be fairly expected, not withstanding the improvements made in cultivation here, the greater acreable production of our crops, and the evident disadvantages to a hich the labour of the foreigner is at present subject, that when we have opened and se cured to him the supply of such an immense market as that which the United Kingdom'affords, he will study to avail himself of it to the utmost, while we have means left to remunerate in money for that bread for which we are about to place ourselves in a state of dependence upon him, possessing, as he does, soils at least equally productive, i❑ many cases superior, great variety of cli mate, for the most part better and fitter for corn cultiva tion than ours, earlier harvests, with abundance of labour at very low rates, in most cases not amounting to one half of those paid here, without tenantry to support, without heavy taxation to bear, without being accustomed to provide for those comforts so well known and pos sessed here, then will he not seek in addition and adopt all our improvements in thorough drainage, in subsoil ploughing, and in the use of improved manures where required. when we are to afford him the most ample in ducements to do so He must be devoid of the ordinary sagacity and foresight that belongs to human nature, if he does not avail himself of the advantages we are about to relinquish, and thus to make a voluntary transfer of them to him ! " A great and hazardous experiment is about to he made, novel in its character, and without the support of experi ence to guide or direct it, embracing and extending over unbounded interests, and pregnant with results that may prove fatal in their conseaueoces. and. that in the iudg ment of many are considered to have been uncalled for, in so far that it could not be acted upon in time to make any provision against the deficiency of the potato crop, to meet which the only means we possessed were, in the admiss'on of Indian cora, duty free, as a suitable substi tute for potatoes. which has been resorted to with good effect without disturbing the ordinary operation of the existing laws. " The progress the Bill has made in the Lords, and the support it has received there, leads to the conclusion that it must be considered as having virtually passed. leaving no choice but to wait patiently for the results, whatever they may be; but it is to be hoped, also, with the deter mination to retrace our steps, should it hereafter appear to have become necessary to do so." LORD G. BENTINCK'S CHARGE AGAINST SIR ROBERT PEEL. (From Mr. D'lsraeli's Speech.) The noble lord (G. Bentinck) stated, that in the year 1829 the right hon. gentleman had admitted, or rather he announced, that in the year 1825 he had informed Lord Liverpool, that what was called the Catholic question must be settled; that it was no longer possible to resist those claims, and that if they could be settled by his leav ing office, he was prepared to make the sacrifice. The noble lord. remembering the right hon. gentleman's con duct in 1827 to Mr. Canning—remembering the effect which that conduct had on the career. probably on the life, of Mr. Canning—the noble lord taking the position laid down by the right bon. gentleman himself, that it was base in a minister to conceal a change of opinion, asked him how it was that when, in 1825, he changes his opinion on the Catholic question, in the year 1827 he rose in that house and made an explanation with respect to the causes of his severance from Mr. Canning, which he never would forget. The right hon. gentleman made an answer which I need not recapitulate, but which I recapitulate only from a desire not to be unfair towards the right hon. gentleman, because it will be fresh in the recollection of every one who listened to it. The right hon. gentleman said that in the year 1829 —not, of course, denying the communication with Lord Liverpool—when he announced that communication to the House of Commons, he an nounced nothing more than he had explained in 1827 in the presence of Mr. Canning himself. Now, it is a re markable circumstance that the right hon. gentleman did not read this speech. He read the speech which he had made in 1827, in presence of Mr. Canning ; but the house will recollect that he never read the speech which the noble lord alleged contained the great admission, and which was the only question before the house. (Cheers.) He referred to that speech, but never read it. I thought it due, however, to the right hon. gentleman to read it, and the following is a passage from that speech, as I find it reported in Hansard :—" So far as my own course in this question is concerne.l, it is the same as that which suggested itself to my mind in 1825, when I was his Ma jesty's principal minister for the Home Department, and found myself in a minority of this house non this ques tion. When I then saw the numbers arrayed aeainst me, I felt hat my position as a minister was untenable. The moment, sir, that I, the minister responsible for the go- vernment of Ireland, found that I was in a minority on the question which was of paramount interest and impor tance to that country, that moment I sought to be re lieved from the duties and responsibilities of office. I stated to the Earl of Liverpool, who was then at the head of the Administration, that in consequence of the deci sion given against me in this house, it was my anxious wish to be relieved from office." Now, sir, I am perfectly ready to admit that that perfectly bears out what the right hon. gentleman said the other night ; and he did not ,ay anything, according to this report (cries of" hear, hear") which he did not say in 1827 in the presence of Mr. Can ning, hut that certainly contradicts all that many gentle men who were connected with Mr. Canning, and who were members of this house at the time, believe. That speech was made in 1829, remember of it. (Cheers.) Now, sir, I make no charge against the right hon. gentle. man (hear, hear), but I say that the speech I have read from is a garbled, a mutilated, or, to adopt the language of this house, a corrected (cheers and laughter) report of the right hon. gentleman's speech : and that it omits and entirely omits that important statement which is the great question to night. (Loud cheers.) That I will proceed to prove. It so happens that in those days there were two reports of what was said in this house; fir there was then not merely Hansard, the speeches of which are ge. nerally corrected by hon. gentlemen themselves, but there was also the Mirror qf Parliament, the speeches of which were taken in short hand, verbatim, by the most able short-hand writers, most of them b'ing men of education and intelligence, and at that time the speeches were pub lished every three days. Now, sir, I call the attention of the house to what it appears from the Mirror of Parlia ment, the right hon. gentleman really said in that famous speech of 1829. (Loud cheers.) "Su far as I am per sonally concerned, I beg to say, my own course, is the same as that which suggested itself to my mind in 1825, when I was his Majesty's principal Minister for the Home Department, and found myself in a minority on that question. I felt that it was no longer advisable that I should continue to he charged with the responsibility of Irish affairs. I stated to the Earl of Liverpool,vr ho was then at the head of the administration, that in conse quence of the decision against me by the voices of the re present Alves of the country, the time was come when something respecting the Catholics ought, in my opinion, to be done, or that I should be relieved from the duties of the office I held, as it was my anxious wish to be.' The words left out of the report in Hansard are these :—. I stated to the Earl of Liverpool that in consequence of the decision against me by the voices of the reprepentatives of Ireland, something respecting the Catholics Aght, in my opinion to be done." But this, sir, is only the com mencement of the proof. Hon. gentlemen may under stand that though you may alter your own speech fur Hansard (laughter), you cannot alter the answer to it.— (Renewed laughter.) There may be .two versions of a speech—the speech for the house, and the speech for pos terity. (Cheers.) An lion, gentleman, who was then at the head of a party who had also been betrayed (loud cries of " bear, hear"), the head of the Protestant varty in this house, and who had since been a member of Her Majesty's Government, in answer to the speech of the right hon. gentleman, as anneared in the Mirror of Par liament, though not in Hauaard (hear), used this lan " If at that period the policy of conceding the Catholic question was clear to the right hon. gentleman, I say that in justice to himself, in justice to his friends. in justice to the country, in justice to Mr. Canning himself, wlio has always been the able, powerful, and consistent advocate of the Catholics, he ought not to have concealed it. (Loud cheers.) If, as he now soya, he had discovered in 1825 the necessity of passing this question, I ask why he did not say so in 1827, and give his support to Mr. Canning then, when the supposed difference between him and Mr. Canning obtained for him the support of many hon. gentlemen who differed with him only on that, which I confess was the case with me ?" (Vociferous cheering.) Sir, that was a memorable speech. It was the speech in which Sir E. Knatchbull used the phrase nusquam luta fides. (Loud cheers.) It appealed to the feelings of the house, who were almost carried away by the feelings of the speaker. The right hon. gentleman was obliged to get up and notice it; but he should not notice that pas sage (loud cheers) ; he never denied that he had proposed to Lord Liverpool, in 1825, that something should be done respecting the Catholics, though Sir E. Knatchbull had repeated that statement. No, sir, the right hon. gentle man admitted his guilt, if guilt it were, and it is only in 1816 that he vindicates himself by referring to a different speech, and quotes a report which I have proved is not a correct one. (Continued cheering.) Now, sir, I have a right to speak of that report of the speech I have read from in Hansard, as being corrected by authority (cheers), for I find a note—and every one knows how seldom one finds notes in Hansard—on the sth of March, 1829. ap pended to the beginning of the right bon. gentleman's speech, in these words, " Inserted with the permission and approbation of Mr. Secretary I'eel." (Vociferous cheers.) Now, I have inquired, and been informed that the report I have quoted from the Mirror of Par!iament was made by Mr. Barrow, one of the finest short-hand writers in the country, and a man of ability and intelli gence. But, after all, it is Sir E. Knatchbull's speech that proves the truth of the matter, and would prevent any imputation being substantiated against Mr. Barrow's accuracy, if there was any made. But not satisfied even with this, I thought it discreet to refer to the report of the most eminent newspaper of the time—The Times of the 6th March, 1829, and there the right hon. gentleman was reported thus :—" He stated to Lord Liverpool, then at the head of His Majesty's Government, that in his opinion the time had come when something respecting the Catholics ought to be done, and that he must be relieved from the duties of his office " (Much cheering.) There fore. sir, it appears also by this report that, in 1825, in the opinion of the right bon. gentleman the time bad come when something respecting the Catholics ought to be done. After this, I think it is unnecessary to offer any more evidence : I have accomplished the vindication of my noble friend, who had not the power of speaking again in this debate. A KEEN ENCOUNTER OF WITS : STANLEY AND BROUGHAM. (From Tue9day's debate in the Lords.) Lord ilroiigham had been listening to some able speeches upon most things except the question before the house—upon the bill in general, but not upon a fixed duty—and speeches by supporters of the bill against the government and against the bill. (A laugh.) They had been making speeches precisely like the protection speeches on the second reading, attuned on the same gamut. (A laugh.) He was forcibly reminded of those choral sym phonies which bad sounded in their lordships' ears for three long nights, with a loudness he never remembered to have heard equalled (hear, hear), and producing, es pee'ally in one not now in the prime of life (a laugh), much the same sensation of fatigue as most persons ex perience late in the evening at a public dinner, after being made to bear the cheers of those at table (a laugh), and the music in the background. (Laughter.) Lord Stanley.—My noble and learned friend, I think, commenced his speech with this observation—that for two hours (" hear, hear," and laughter) he had been lis tening to a discussion, of which not the whole, no—nor the major part (a laugh), no—nor a large portion, no— nor any portion whatever (renewed laughter), had been directed to the subject matter of the amendment now be fore us. After that preface, my lords, I naturally con cluded that my noble and learned friend was about to di rect his attention and that of your lordships' strictly and exclusively to the speech of my noble friend behind me, who proposed the amendment. (A laugh.) But no, my torch:, I have listened with the deepest attention—and with the most amused attention (a laugh) —not for two hours, but certainly for one hour, to the. speech of my no ble and learned friend ; and I may venture to repeat his own words, that not the whole, no, nor the major part, no nor a considerable part (laughter)—l may almost say, no, nor any part at all (loud laughter) was directed to the subject oh; pis' • con sid erattorr. - (Laughter.) Al y noble and learned friend has done great injustice to his own individual person. He began by re gretting the fatigue which, in common with your lord ships, he experienced, and whieh, as the noble and learned lord said, was vverely felt by one who, like himself, was not in the prime of life and beauty. (Roars of laughter.) Now, my noble and learned friend did himself injustice. (A laugh.) lam sure when your lordships look at my noble and learned friend you will be reminded, as I was myself, of these lines of Nlilton ' And now a stripling cherub he appears (loud laughter), ' Not of the prime (renewed laughter), yet such as in his face ' Youth smird ceie-tial (laughter), and to every limb Suitable grace diffused." (Great laughter.) Lord Brougham.--With respect to the remarks of his noble friend (Lord Stanley) applying to himsel, he must say that a less fair or more extraordinary course—he would say, with all kindness to his noble friend, a more unscrupulous course, than his noble friend had taken he never saw in any place ; for his noble friend, in order to introduce his quotation—a very excellent joke, he ad mitted (great laughter)—had put in a word which he (Lord Brougham) had never used (loud laughter), which he never had an idea of using (continued laughter), and which his noble friend could not have imagined that he used. Ile never dreamt of using that word—a word which he, at his time of life, as well as his noble friend at his less advanced time of life, bad both of them the great est possible interest in rasing out of their vocabularies. (Great laughter.) THE CHURCH OF THE CATACOMBS WAS ESSENTIALLY PROTESTANT. — The merely classical student, unless in search of the vernacular language of ancient Rome, will find little in these inscriptions to repay the trouble of perusing them. A few obsolete and barbarous expres sions. the gradual origin of the cursive character, and the uncertain pronunciation of some consonants, indicated by the varied modes of writing the same word, are not the mcst interesting point of investigation suggested by these monuments. B tter purposes are served by their ex amination, inasmuch as they express the feelings of a body of Christians, whose leaders alone are known to us in history. The fathers of the church live in their volumi nous works; the lower orders are only represented by these simple records, from which, with scarcely an ex ception, sorrow and complaint are banished ; the boast of suffering, or an appeal to the revengeful pastions, is no where to be found. One expresses faith, another hope, a third charity. The genius of primitive Christianity, "To believe, to love, and to suffer," has never been better illustrated. These "sermons in stones" are addressed to the heart, and not to the head—to the feelings rather than to the taste ; and possess additional value from being the work of the purest and most influential portion of the "Catholic and Apostolic Church" then in existence. The student of Christian archaeology must nev.r lose tight of the distinction between the actual relics of a persecuted church and the subsequent labours of a superstitious age. When Christianity, on the cessation of its troubles, eurier ged from those recesses, and walked boldly on the soil be neath which it had been glad to seek concealment, the humble cradle of its infancy became a principal object of veneration, almost of worship. To decorate the chapels, adorn by monuments the labyrinths of sepulchres, and pay an excessive regard to all that belonged to martyrs and martrydorn, was the constant labour of succeeding centuries. hence arises a chronological confusion, which calls for caution in deciding upon the value of any infer ence that may be drawn from these sources, respectng points of doctrine. Yet it may not be amiss to premise generally, that in the inscriptions contained in the Lapi darian Gallery, selected and arranged under Papal super intendence there are no prayers tor the dead (unl ess the forms, " May you live," " May God refresh you," be so construed); no addresses to the Virgin Mary, nor to the Apostles or earlier Saints; and, with the exception of "eternal sleep," "eternal home," &c., no expressions contrary to the plain sense of Scripture. And if the bones of the martyrs were more honoured, and the privilege of being interred near them ne re valued, than the simplicity of our religion would warrant, there is, in this outbreak of enthusiastic feeling towards the heroic defenders of the faith, no precedent for the adoration paid to them by a corrupt age. Perhaps it may safely he asserted, that the ancient church appears in the Lapidarian Gallery in a somewhat more favourable light than in the writings of the fathers and historians. It may be that the sepulchral tablet is more congenial to the display of pious feeling than the controversial epistle, or even the much-needed episcopal rebuke. Besides the gentle and amiable spirit every where breathed, the distinctive character of these remains is essentially Christian : the name of Chr'st is repeated in all endless variety of forms, and the actions of His life are figured in every degree of rudeness of execu tion. The second person of the Trinity is neither viewed in the Jewish light of a temporal Messiah, nor degraded to the Socinian estimate of a mere example, but is inves ted with all the honours of a Redeemer. On this subject there is no reserve, no heathenish suppression of the dis tinguishing feature of our religion : on stories innumer able appear,' the Good Shepherd, bearing on his shoulders beep, by which many an illiterate belies er eepr, 8-ea his s• nee of pers , nal salvation. One, according t his " sleeps io Christ ;" another is buried with a prayer that "she may live in the Lord Jesus." Bar most of all. the cross in its simplest form is employed to testify the faith of the deceased : and whatever ignorance may have prevailed regarding the letter of Holy Vt tit, or the more mysterious doctrines contained in it, there seems to have been no want of apprehension of that sacrifice, " whereby alone we obtain remission of our sins. and are made partakers of the kingdom of Heaven."—Dr Mail land's Church in the Catacombs. GEN ERAL MISCELLANY. Several fields of wheat and barley, in the county of Durham, are already shot into ear. The cost of stationery end printing for the two houses of parliament amounts to nearly £250,000 a year. William Henry Norman, the self-accused thief, has been sentenced to seven years' transportion. Saturday was the ninth anniversary of her Majesty's accession to the throne. In London, on Tuesday. inquests were held on five persons drowned while bathing. - A man has been killed at Bakewell, by sheltering under a tree during a thunder-storm. There.is no truth in the report of the cholera having visited Hull. Thursday last was the anniversary of the victory of Waterloo. On Tuesday, a child, four years old, residing with its parents at Clapham. was killed by a sun-stroke. Mr. Ackers, M.P., has announced to the electors of Ludlow that it is no; his intention again to offer himself as a candidate for their suffrages at the next election The total amount of money run for in Great Britain and Ireland, over 152 different racecourses, in the year 1839. exceeded in value the enormous sum of £143,204. The total number of bathers during the last week in the Serpentine alone were nearly 45,000, out of whom one lost his life. At Southampton, on Friday week, a prize fight for 30s. came off between two " navvies," one of whom died on Saturday from the injuries he received. In a garden at Worksop there is a pear-tree which a few weeks ago was laden with fruit; the peals have all fallen off and the tree is now again covered with blossom. On Trinity Sunday Mr. Newman was ordained deacon by Dr. Wiseman. Mr. Newman's wife, it is said, will enter a convent. Lemon's rose in Mauchester to sixpence each, on Whit son week, in consequence of the extraordinary demand for Lemonade. A true bill has been found against Mr. Dunn for per jury, committed by swearing in the Court of Bankruptcy that Miss Burdett Coutts owed him £100,000! No less than three separate fires took place in London between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock on Wednes day night. During the year 1845, the number of. pictures imported into the United Kingdom. according to the return of the customs, amounted to 14.901 I _ _ _ On Saturday week, an explosion of gss took place in New -street, Dunfermline, by which two houses were blown up and several persons severely injured. The premises of Messrs. Bayley and Son, sailmakerF, Bermondsey-wall, London, were, on Tuesday, com pletely gutted by fire, and the stock consumed. The romantic Miss Smith, whose intereit , rig letters to Earl Ferrers created such sensation a short time ago, has had to pay the sum of £1563 6s. as law expenses. At the Marylebone Vrstry, on Saturday, a vote of thanks was passed to Sir Robert Peel for his zeal and in dustry in carrying the Corn Bill. The Marquess of Normanby left town on Wednesday for Florence—not a proof that, in his opinion, there is much prospect of the Whigs regaining office. Messrs. Dryden, the great printing rnsetine makers of London, have set up a machine at the Times office, which prints the enormous number of 5,670 sheets per hour ! _ A motion is to be brought forward in the House of Commons, to-day, by Mr. Spooner, for leave to bring in a bill for the more effectual suppression of trading in seduc.ion and prostitution. _ _ Two young men were drowned in the river at Wor cester last week whilst bathing. One got out of his depth, and the other, in attempting to rescue him, was drowned also. SABBATH OBSERVANCE.—The subscribers of the Clif ton Zoological Gardens, at a meeting last week, decided by a majority of 71 votes to 37, that the gardens should not be opened to the public on the Sabbath. FATAL FIGHT.—A pugilistic set to 8t 13wslern, between John Woolams and John Simpson, was brought to a sud den termination on Saturday, when the former received a knock-down blow, and instantly expired. AN EFFECTUAL CURE. —By the ancient laws of Hun gary, a man convicted of bigamy was condemned to live with both wives in the same house. The crime was, in consequence, extremely rare. At Lla.gollen, on Sunday, during a thunder storm, the electric fluid fell in a plantation, which ignited—but for tunately there were parties present who commenced dig ging round it, and thereby prevented much damage. A fire origi•lated lust week in a shop in London through a number of patent wax lights, exposed for show in the front window, becoming ignited from the intense heat of the sun. In the Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, a verdict of guilty was recorded against a person named Dew, for cor ruptly bargaining for an office in the service of the Hon. East India Co. Two others pleaded guilty. Joseph Carter, shoemaker, who lately stabbed John Oddy in the stomach with a knife, was tried on Wednes day at the Central Criminal Court, and being found guilty of manslaughter, was transported for life. A boy named Benwell, aged 16, drowned himself last week, in a pond at Dulwich, after having tied his hands, and fastened an iron weight, a quarter of a cwt., round his neck. Two men have died at Leicester, after suffering most excruciating agonies, from having been affected with the glanders, obtained in their coming in contact with a dis eased horse. In the year 1215_ 11 raga wan A 54,1,6 th. ...let of session, Holm which it appears that the city of Glasgow. the seat of a university, was considered too narrow afield for more than one bookseller. On Monday, a tradesman in Old-street, London, found his shop boy (whom he had discharged), on the roof of his house, with a large quantity of arsenic on his person, with which he doubtless intended to poison the cistern. He was taken into custody. SHEEP KILLED BY LIGHTNING.-011 Tuesday week, two sheep were killed by lightning in a field upon the farm of Little Swinton, and it is also stated that a sheep was killed by lightning the same afternoon upon the farm at Swinton Quarter.—Netrca.vile Advertiser. Two MEN DROWNED.—Some time during the fore noon of Sunday week a number of labouring men were bathing in the Keer on the Warton side, when, for want of a proper knowledge of the locality, two of the party got into deep water and were drowned.--Lancaster paper. LOCALITIES FOR BIRD'S NESTS.—A correspondent of a IVlanchester paper notices the fact of a bird's nest hav ing been built in a load of coals, and another in the mouth of the lion forming the dexter supporter of the royal arms over Kensington barracks. _ _ Voters in counties must send in their claims on or be fore the 20th of July ; and voters for cities and boroughs must pay, on or before the 20th of July, all poor-rates and assessed taxes due for the last twelvemonths next be fore the 6th of April last past. Farmers are this year obliged to make a considerable advance in the rate per acre paid for mowing, owing to the difficulty of obtaining mowers. We hear that in some parts of Middlesex is. per acre is being paid for cutting meadow grass, which is 2s. 6d. above the average rate paid last year. GUN-svocxs.--The large number of 13,600 gun-stocks and 120 stocks for pistols were brought over from Ant werp a day or two since by the vessel Tyne, which arrived off the Tower of London. These stocks are manufac tured from the wood of the walnut tree, with which Belgium abounds. THE CHOLERA.—It is confidently rumoured in the best informed medical circles. that the labours of the Commission of Sanatory Inquiry will be rendered perma nent, by the appointment of a Board of Health, to sug ge,t and enforce precautionary measures against the visi tation of the Asiatic cholera.—Globe. DEATH FROM DRINKING COLD WATER.—On Wed nesday, a labouring man, named Thomas Pearson, who was at work in a hay-field, near Edlington, drank some cold water, and almost immediately afterwards was ob served to reel and fall down upon the ground. He died about tei m.nutes afterwards.—Doncaster Gazette. Owing to a piece of impertinence to the Earl of Stam ford the other day, in Dunham Park, the privilege of re sort to the park for the public has been already very much circumscribed, and there is some reason to fear that, ere lots;;, the park will be wholly closed, and the public ex cluded. A gentleman of Yarmouth, who had a pint-and-half bottle of castor oil, asked his servant to bring it to him, when he told him it had been used at table for salads, he having from time to time filled the dinner castors with it, believing it, from the label, to be intended for that pur pose. IRON SHlPS.—During the last three weeks three iron vessels were launchA from the building yard of Mr. Coutts, at Walker—a large brig and two schooners. Mi Coutts has also a number of other vessels nearly ready for launching on their destined element.—Gateshead Ob server. DREADFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—AS five colliers were descending in a corfe to their work in a pit near Cheadle, Staffordshire, on Monday week, the rope broke and they were precipitated to the bottom. They fell up wards of 100 feet ; three were killed, and the other two were seriously injured. The steamers bring, every voyage, considerable quan tities of vegetables and fruits from France, Belgium, and Holland, particularly from the latter country, whence cherries, melons, potatoes, and other fruits and vegetables now form a principal part of the cargoes of the numerous steam vessels which pass between Rotterdam, Ostend, the French ports, and London. A SENSIBLE EXPLANATION. — Lord Mount Edg cumbe hiis thought proper to imitate the example of the E4rl of Essex, by the publication of "an apology for raiting." The noble earl begins by confessing, .though in soft terms, that the measure which he supports is a bad measure, and ends by acknowledging that the minist er f or whose sake he supports it is a bad minister. John Graham (aged 16), was tried at the Central Cri minal Court Ses,ions, on Thursday, before Mr. Baron Rolfe, for killing and slaying Thomas Blev.itt, in Drury lane, in London. by shooting bim with a pistol, on the 25th of April. The jury, after relring for more th an fi ve hours to consider their verdict, found the prisoner " not guilty." ALLEGED ASSASSINATION.--A man of the name of Hannan, the father of the child who has been for some time playing as General Tom Thumb, at the Adelphi Theatre, is now in custody, charged with attempting to murder his wife, in Drury-lane, London, on Thursday night last. The woman had a large cut in her neck, and she declares her husband stabbed Boi LER EX PLOSION.—THR EE LIVES LOST.—On Tnursday week, a boiler suddenly exploded in the Tow Law Iron Works, near Wolsingham, Durham, by which two men and a boy were killed, and several others more or less injured. [be shock of the explosion was felt to a considerable distance, and the houses around shook. One half of the boiler was carried several hundred yards from he place, at.d the end of it was blown over a house top. The accident was caused by a deficiency of water, as part of the boiler was red hot. The damage is estimated at £5OO. William Farr, one of the most successful of the Garratt clan of depredators, has pleaded guilty to four indictments of railway robberies on the South-Eastern and Birming ham lines, prosecuted by Mr. Nash for tae company. The female Newland, who is included in the same indict. ments, is to be tried next sessions. At the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, Florence Leary, aged 44, a t ilor, was found guilty of pouring boil ing water on the stomach of a person named Tuthill, by which he was severely scalded, and confined seven weeks to the hospital. Ile was sentenced to two months' im prisonment, having already been several months in pd. son. SUMMARY JUSTICE.—The penalty of rolling the in the gardens of Hampton Court Palace, for any quency in plucking the flowers, has been twice en witbin the last ten days. This regulation, optioi those who wish to avoid legal punishment, has bad salutary effect in diminishing the offence of purloini flowers.—Morning Post, ; walks della domed , nal to a very ing the THE IRON WORKS AND THE BEAT.—Most of the iron works in the manufacturing districts-have been standing during the last few days, the heat being so intense that the puddlers, in particular, cannot work. Several in stances have occurred of men being carried out of the works, baying fainted from excessive heat and exhaustion. —Birmingham Advertiser. Ma. SMITH O'BRIEN.—It is stated by the Morning Advertiser, that Mr. Smith O'Brien has resolved on dis puting the authority of the House of Commons to com mit its members for contempt. The form in which the question is to be tried is, by an action of trespass and talse imprisonment against the public officers of the house—the Speaker and Sergeant-at-Arms. MEAT AND FRUIT.—On Thursday the warerooms of Messrs. Kreling and Hunt, London. contained an inter esting exhibition of no less than 102 sorts of Spanish meats and fruits brought over from Corunna. The meats also comprised nearly every variety of poultry preserved in its natural state, and in the made dishes of the country, with several kinds of vegetables, prepared in the most ap proved Spanish fashion. An interesting portion of the collection was that consisting of fruit, containing, in high condition, strawberries, egg plums, and cherries, which are particularly interesting, as opening a new source of supply in the event, as anticipated, of a deficiency in th cowing crops. As another instance of the increasing ex tent of commercial speculation, on account of the diminu tion of the duties, there was also exhibited a large assort ment of orchidaceous plants, consigned for sale from Rio Janeiro. CHARGE OF MURDER.—A painful case has occurred at Sheffield. Some lightermen quarrelled at the White Horse Inn, at Bigglestvade, and a fight between two of them afterwards was the result. After the fight, a young man of the name of Gray, one of the combatants, was leaving, when his adversary gave him a brutal kick in the abdomen, and caused instant death. His bladder was burst. After killing ;him, the brute was about to throw the body in the locks, but was prevented. A CURIOUS MEETING.—When Ibrahim Pacha visited the Society of Arts, on Friday, by one of those singular accidents which now and then occur, who should fate pre• sent as chairman but Sir Edward Codrington, the man who knocked the Turk's fleet about their ears at Navarino. It is possible that Ibrahim may have secretly vented a " Barikallah," on the occasion, but his natural saroir faire piloted him very safely through the misadventure, notwithstanding an unlucky allusion which the gallant admiral stumbled upon in the first rencontre. SINGULAR rHENOMENUN.—On Tuesday, about half past 2 in the after noon. a sudden whirlwind carried away several waggon-loads of hay from a field belonging to Miss Clay, on the Osma:ton-road, Derby. The hay was held suspended in the air for nearly half an hour, and gra dually fell, spreading over the neighbouring fields and gardens. With the exception of this particular locality, not a breath of air was stirring.—Notts Mercury.—The Manchester Guardian notices a somewhat similar pheno menon in that lown. SUDDEN DEATH BY DRINKING WHILE HEATER'7, We last week reported a death caused by d r inking too much water, and we are sorry to record a similar occur rence. On Saturday week an Irish labourer, residing .in Love-street, while engaged in hoeing potatoes neat Raslint on the Greenock road, had been so thirsty, owing to the great heat, that he went into a public-house, and got a bottle of porter, but not feeling his thirst quenched, he next drank half a Scotch pint of buttermilk, which caused Rigby I votes lr Vw aitshnt t h' ev' t the ensuing governmentsomees uing ti m e l e e sincecti o . almost instant death. —Renfrewshire .Reformer.. retired from the representation in consequence of engage has also expressed relative Westminster, has again addressed the his determine intionbtßhe tion of contesting the representation of the borough. A electors, Vincent,is w. i t il he — soliciting c " li . t is t , meeting of liberal electors was held a few evenings since, m t o e improvements ntB entered when it was resolved that th e y cou ld not consistently sup port Mr. Vincent in the forthcoming struggle. MRS. FRY'S TESTIMON IAL.— O n Wednesday, a meet ing was held in the Egyptian-ball, for the purpose of securing a testimonial to the memory of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Fry. The Bishop of Norwich moved :—" That this meeting, in common with Mr s . F ry and her fellow labourers, the visitors of prisons, have long had to deplore the want of places of refuge, where penitent pi isoners, on their discharge, may be sheltered from the temptations to the re-commission of crime, by which, in the shape of cold, hunger, and evil associations, they are too often suc cessfully assailed." The testimonial will, consequently, consist of the refuge above-named. NOVEL IMPORTATION FROM HOLLAND. All along the coast, during the last few days, there has prevailed a smell of turf smoke; a circumstance which occasioned considerable surprise, because thelneighbourhood around us produces but a comparatively small quantity, and cer tainly not enough to produce such an effect. For some days the phenomenon was regarded as unaccountable, until it was suggested that it came over from Holland; the wind lying in the right direction, and the state of the atmosphere being peculiarly favourable to the floating of the smoky vapour across the German Ocean.—Yarmouth Advertiser. ON DITS.--It is confidently stated in well informed circles, that Her Majesty has expressed her desire that Sir Robert Peel should not abandon his post. We also hear that this has been accompanied with an intimation, that in any case, before the resignation of her ministers will be accepted, there must be an appeal to the country. We think there is great probability of the truth of these rumours ; and for the last few days the impression has become prevalent, that after all there will be no immediate change It is also rumoured, that Her Majesty has ex pressed great dissatisfaction, with the manner in which Lord John Russell failed in the task assigned to him last December, and there is a strong reluctance to allow of ar.other attempt to constitute a Whig Cabinet. EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON. Admiral Sir Hyde Parker has it is said been a martyr to the gout during the whole cruise, and confined to his cabin for half the time , and compelled to carry on his observations under intense suffering; but, had he known of Blair's Gout and gbeu• matic Pills, so serious a calamity to himself and inconve nience to the public service would have found a full and speedy - . _ COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMAS, AND WHEEZINGS Olt THE CHEST CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. — Wh en other medicine wiil afford the least relief in coughs and colds, Holloway's Pills will almost immediately effect a cure in every case however desperate ; and, what is more extraordinary, Astbmas and Wheezings, even if of se ver al years' standing, may be completely got rid of by folios' ing the directions which accompany each box of this C I: lebrated medicine. Many who were nearly at de ath door, not being able to lie in their beds, fearing to °: . choked with phlegm. have had, by their means , a sibmB t tic complaints so effectually eradicated that not the lea symptoms remained. June 2 . 3, 1846. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, THIS DAY. Contrasted with the liberal imports of the preceding week, the supplies into this port during the last are ex tremely light ; as beyond a limited quantity of Oats and Flour, we have little produce from Ireland or coastwise, and except some parcels of Egyptian Beans, the arrivals from abroad are very moderate ; the wind, however, is now favourable, and several foreign vessels are near ,at h and. There is a moderate attendance at this day's market. Prime Wheat sells at Id. to 2d. per 701 b., and fresh su perfine Flour at Is. per sack and barrel above the rates of this day se'nnight. Oats and Meal are steady in value. Bonded Flour, with a free sale, brings an advance of ls. per barrel. Indian Corn is scarce, and meets little attention. ARRIVALS OF CORN From the 16th to the 22d June, inclusive REIGN. !TOTAL Wheat.. Ors. 192 I 20 716 9,8 Barley Qrs. 62 31 93 I Malt Qrs. 194 823 10.7 Oats Qrs. 2102 150 I 2252 Rye Qrs Beans Qrs. Pease Qrs ShelledßarleyQrs Indian Corn. Qrs Rapeseed Qrs Oatmeal Flour Ditto 2082 2182 10 1 5g 4124 8,0 EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs. ; Barley,— qrs. ; Pease, qrs. ; Oats, qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal, sacks ; Flour, 39 brls.—lreland. Wheat, qrs. ; Bar ley, qrs.; Beans, qrs ; Oats,—qrs. ; Indian Corn, 4745 qrs. ; Oatmeal, sks ; Flour, 44 scks, 11 a brls. —Coastwise. Wheat, 45 qrs. ; Barley, qrs. ; Matt, qrs.; Oats, 73 qrs. ; Beans, qrs. ; Pease, S qrs. ; Oatmeal, 25 sacks ; Indian Corn, 7 qrs. ; Flour , 349 sacks 598 bils. AVera, , e prices of Grain, for the week ending. June 13, 1846. Wheat 52a. ed. I - Barley 275. Id. I Oats 235. Fd. I Rye 325. ld Beans.. 355. Bd. Pease.. 345. 9d. ggregate average of t Wheat Ms. ;;ii: Barley 28s. 6d. I Oats Beans.. 355. led. I Pease 235. Bd. I Rye 335. 2d. 345. Bd. Duty on Foreign Prodneethis week Wheatißsod tauley gs Od Oats .. . 5s Od I Rye.. gs 6d Beans 7s 6d I Pease.. 8s 6d I Ind. Corn Os Od Flour loslOd Duty on Canadian Wheat.. is. od. I Barley..2s. od. Oats .. 08.6 d. S Rye.. is Od Beans Os. 6d I Pease Os.6d. I Ind. Corn os.od. I Flour .Os 74d Duty on other British Colonial. Od. jßarley., 2s. od. j Oats, o<. 6d. j Rye... Is. Od. . . Beans.. Os. 6d. I Pease.. es. 6d. I Flour. 2s. 54. Liverpool Averages, week ending June 16, 1846. Wheat, 1398 qrs., price 48s lid ; Barley. qrs., price Os Od; Oats, 3;3 qrs., price 235. I , cl. ; Rye, qrs., price Os. Od.; Beans, 90 qrs.. no. od. ; Pease, 0 qrs., price Os. Od.