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

FORELGN .AND C.O:LO NIA L. ARRIVAL 'OF THE GREAT WESTERN. The noble steam-ship . Great Western, CapteMattheces. arrived here on Sunday morning, havinrheen detained-off the port in conseenence of.not. meeting with a pilot. eshe arrived off Holyhead onSatzrday at nooni having left New York on the -Oth. -She accomplished the- passage in six teen hours and a half. The principal-feature of the• intelligence is that rele.ting to the war between the. United States and Mexico, which had again assumed a more threatening appearance. The Atnericans_seem to have changed their tactics, and the of ficial organ of the American government declares that" the war must be carried on with vigour. -We must compel her people (of Mex:ca) to share its expenses with us by levying contributions upon he: for the support of our army." The accounts-received by this arrival confirm the re ported caeture of Santa - : Fe hy the American army:under General , Kearne. The resistance offered by Armijo tc the progress of the-force amounted to a -show of-opposition merely ; and-he afterwards fled to Chihuahua. -General Kearney immediately issued an address to the Mexican soldiery and populace, proclaiming himself govesner of New Mexico, and.raised the American -flag on the public stations. The principal officers of the government took the oath of allegiance to the American government, and the administration of -Governor ,Kearney commenced without delay. A part of General Kearney's forces-were about to leave-for California. On the frontier affairs appear to be again converging to wards a collision between the Americans and Mexicans. A letter.to the New Orleans Picayune, dated at Seralvo, September 3d, states that General Taylor would probably be withincannon shot of Monterey on the 18th or 20th of September. Ampudia is at Monterey, with the entire control. Two thousand Mexican troops of the line ar rived.there on the 31st of August, with four pieces of field artillery. .Canales was at Marina, with 6000 Rancheros, to dispute-General Taylor's march upon Montery. To this intelligence the correspondence of the New York True Sun addS, that by advices from Camargo to the Bth of September, it must be apprehended that a bat tle had been fought at Seralvo between General Worth and the Mexicans, as a force of the latter, 1,000 strong, was seen advancing-towards that place, and within forty miles of it. intelligence of the fact was sent by express to General Taylor, who immediately pressed forward with a portion of his troops, by forced marches, to the relief of General Worth. The Mexicans were reported to be ral lying from all points to juin the forces under Ampudia. From the Pacific and the Gulf we have no further in telligence. The Washington correspondence of the New York Commercial Advertiser states, that General Jessup, Quarter-Master-General had been ordered to the " seat of wm - ," for the purpose of attending to the supply of the several columns of invasion with transportation, mu nitions, provisions, &c., in the most speedy, efficient, and economical manner. eneral Jessup acquired remelt cre dit for his management of this branch of the service in the Florida war. The Steam Ship Hibernia arrived at Bcston on the 3d instant. Accounts from Rio de Janeiro to the 31st August had been received in New York. The following summary of the Commercial intelligence we take from tike New York Sten :—" The American Cot ton Market continues excited. Private acc , ,unts of a short crop are confirmed, and the market at New York, which on the 3rd October advanced ot,e quarter of a cent on the receipt of Liverpool advices to the 19th September, closes firm. "Wheat, flour, and Indian corn being in active demand, all the canals and railroads are busily employed in trans porting them to the sea hoard. Indian corn has advanced to 82 cents per bushel for best white, in consequence of the demand in Europe. Flour does not sustain itself in proportion, the supply in maaket being much larger than at the game season in any former year. We quote best Western Canal flour $5 50 to 55 62 1-2 per bar rel. che New York Canal returns up to the 4th week in September, report 1,854,068 barrels of flour de livered at tide water, being an increase of 510,233 barrels over the same period of last year. Of wheat, to the same period, 1,368 916 bushels, being an increase of 891,383 bushels. - Of barley, the receipts are 347,842 bushels, an increase of 106,743 bushels. Of Indian corn, the receipts are 1,155,654 bushels, being an increase over last year of 1,126,718 bushels !! ! "The United States government having exhausted their funds in the Mexican war. Mr. Walker, the secretary of the treasury, repaired to the city of New York, October 3d, to borrow five millions of dollars. He offered five per cent, interest, but the banks demanded six, so he passed to the private banking-house of Brown, Brothers and Co., who took the loan, mostly on English account. Money in New York is worth 7 per cent. on the best commercial paper, having six months to run. Three months' paper is done at six per cent. Apprehensions of a scarcity of money begin to be entertained, as peace with Mexico becomes more distant." SPAlN.—Accounts from Madrid are of the 17th instant. The royal bullfight, which took place on the preceding day, was described as truly magnificent. Upwards of 30,000 persons were present at it. Eleven bulls, and the usual proportion of horses, were killed. The departure of the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier stood fixed for the 22d. The decree of amnesty had been signed by the Queen, but had not yet appeared in the Gazelle. The royal pardon was to be extended to all the military from the rank of colonel inclusive, and to civilians from that of political chief. Persons invested with commands by insurrectionary juntas were alone to be excluded, but her Majesty is to exercise her clemency towards them when circumstances shall permit. The Herald°, in noticing the declaration of the British minister against the succes sion of the Infanta's children, adopts the opinions set forth in the Britannia :—" The moment England recog nised at Eu the propriety of the marriage of the Infanta with the Duke, after the birth of a son with the Queen, of an heir who may not live, she has lost all right to pro test against that union and its consequences. England and Europe may require that the letter and spirit of the treaty of Utrecht be observed, and that the crowns of France and Spain be not united on the same head ; but they cannot prevent the son of a princess of Castile, who holds his right from nature and the will of the Spanish nation, from ascending the throne of his ancestors." On the 10th of October Mr. Cobden dined with the British Ambassador at Madrid, and on the 11th went with Mr. Bulwer to the Queen of Spain's drawing-room. On the 14th Inst., a grand banquet was given in honor of Mr. Cobden, at Madrid by the "Spanish Commercial Association." THE KAFIR `VAR. —lntelligence from the Cape of Good Hope, to the 19th August inclusive, has been re ceived. From the scenes of hostilities in Kafirland, there is not much news of importance. The events are, how ever, distressing, though the general aspect of affairs is not greatly altered. A day or two more were expected to bring all the divisions upon the Buffalo Poort, where it was confidently believed that the main body of the Kafirs would be assailed and brought to action. His Excel lency the Governor was on the Bth of August at Pieree, ready to move either upon the Amatalo, or upon the up per spruits of the Buffalo. There had been a good deal of skirmishing with the Kafirs, but no general engage ment. The results do not appear to have been very im portant. The accounts mention seventy of the enemy as killed by Colonel Hare's division, and fifty-seven by Sir A. Stockenstrom's ; while the loss on our side is said not to amount to more than ten or twelve killed, and a few wounded. A Graham's Town paper, of the 25th August, contains accounts from Sir Andreas Stockenstrom to the 4th or sth. In conjunction with the division of the co lonial forces under the command of Colonel Hare, he had driven the Kaffirs from their strongholds in the Amatola mountains. No general action had taken place, the Kaffirs having been unable to concentrate their forces ; but they were driven from all their positions with consi- derable loss, and they were left in full retreat upon the Kei River. Sir Andreas only waited supplies of ammu nition and provisions to follow them to the Keeshema district. Dr. Arnolei, the Archbishop of :Treves, so famous for his part in the "holy coat" affair, has. addressed a circu lar to all the ecclesiastics of his diocese, recommending them, in the most pressing terms, to employ all their in fluence to iiscourage the faithful - from further pilgrimages to Treyeea and stating that sucladernonstrationsa far.from being -acts of piety, were rather prompted by vanity, sa vouring of superstition. •INUNALTIONS ON THE Cosmaserr.—The Loire has risen to a fearful height, and it is feared.will cause great ravages. On the 19th the waters were already two. me tres higher than at the time of the terrible inundation of 1840. Roanne is completely inundateeLend a great many houses are said to have been washed away in the neigh bourhood. At Andrexieuz, the whole valley of. Forey is under water. o.le of the faubourgs at Nevers has greatly suffered ; at Angers the • Loire rose five atiitres (about IC feet) in-one night, driving back:the waters of the 'Maine. A letter from Orleans, of the 21st, says.:—" :Yesterday, at 11 at night, a sudden rise of the waters of the Loire carried away part of the viaduct en the Orleans and Vier .zon railway. A house near the bridge was carried away by the waters, but the workmen who were inside escaped by means of a boat. The opening of the (Means and Vierzon line is again retarded by this :new disaster:" The level of the Seine, which on the 20th'.was not more than,7o centim. above the low-water mark, marked on the 21st 2 m. 70 centim., having thus risen two metres in one night. DREADFUL GALE AT NEWFOUNDLANE.— One of the most terrific and destructive storms of wind and rain by which Newfoundl.nil has ever been visited occurred on September 20th. Houses have been blown from their foundations and torn in fragments, in two lamentable in stances crushed beneath the ruins some of their unfor tunate tenants. Trees, in almost every direction, have been uprooted from their be& or broken in pieces by the fury of the gale. Many bridges, fences, and other erec tions have els° been carried away or much injured by the great and rapid rise of the rivers, which, in some instances, rose fully ten feet above their ordinary levels, deluging the low lands near their courses, and strewing their margins with immense quantities of wrecked materials. Among the most distressing results of the gale in the town, we may particularize the total destruction of that spacious but unfinished building, the Natives' Hall, which, since the late fire, has afforded shelter to several families. At about five p.m. it fell with an awful crash, and by its fall, melancholy to relate, a brother and sister of the name of Duggan, of the respective ages of about five and twenty years, were killed, end their mother so severely injured, that hopes were scarcely entertained of her recovery.— Several others were more or less hurt. The new church of St. Thomas appears to have been lifted from its foun dation by the force of the pale, as it has been removed several inches from its former position. A great portions' of the flue new brick houses in the course of erection for Mr. E. M. Archibald, end rapidly approaching completion ; externally, was blown down. About twenty other build ings, mostly unfinished, have been levelled to the ground, and many others injured. Every bridge crossing the river, from Quidi Vidi to Long Pond, has been either swept away by the flood or much damaged. The arch of that fine stone erection, the King's Bridge, is entirely gone. The River-head bridges have also suffered, although not to the some extent. The centre part of the long bridge leading to the south side, opposite the Hon. It. Job's cot tage, was cal - lied away, as were several smaller bridges in other directions. Very serious injury has also been sus tained at Renr,ie's Mill-works. From ports 'o the south ward, the news is very distressing. At Petty Harbour, where, as before stated, the Dartford was lost, consider able damage was done to the fishing-boats, stages, &c., and one man, named Patrick Kelly, a cooper, was killed by the fill of ! a stare. At Bay Bulls, about forty boats are stated to have been swamped or broken to pieces against the rocks—many stages destroyed—and by the fall of a store, two brothers, young men named Brien, were crushed to death, and their father hat] his limbs fractured. Forr vessels bound to New foudland , three of which had run into Bay Bulls for shelter, barely escaped shipwreck by cutting away their masts. The schooner Dartford, of this port, hslorging to Mr. NV. Dillon, loading with fish at Petty-harbour, was lost. A vessel was wrecked at liar- Grace, and another at Carbonear. From Renews we have also a lamentable account ; seven men are stated to have bsen drowned, about twenty boats lost, and many stages destroyed. Four of the dead bodies have been picked up. UNIVERSITY 4. CLERICAL NEWS. The Lord Bishop of Salisbury last week consecrated two new churches in his diocese—at 11Ielplash and West Ford ington. The Hev. Gilbert Eliott has been appointed to the living of Trinity, Marylebone, vaca n t b y t h e d eat h o f t h e R ev. Dr. Penfd. It is said that Mr. Newman hesitates about becoming a priest of the Church of Rome, and may, like the Rev. W. Sibthorpe, retrace his steps. On Wednesday, the foundation stone of a new church to be built in Elizabeth -street, Preston, was laid by the Mayor. The clergy of the archdiocese of Dublin, at a meeting on Wednesday, came to the unanimous resolution of peti tioning the sovereign for the restoration of the now vacant see of Ki:dare. The Lolly of the Rev. Mr Stagg, who lost his way and his life while ascending Snowdon, has been fouud in a bog about half way up ate mountain. It appears he refused to take a guide, as he had been there several times before, and hence the melancholy result. The Bishop of London, in his charge delivered to the clergy on Monday, said, with reference to the Evangelical kliance, that it was " an association which contains within itself the elements of disunion, and must 'soon crumble into pieces, if it be not turned into a mere in strument of aggression against the Established Church." A correspondent of the Record, 'alluding to the recent finding of many corsin g s of win g ed lions at Nineveh, calls to observation the very remarkable and interesting conformity brought to light between those ancient re mains and the words t..t . Scripture (Dan. vii. 4), in re ference to the Assyrian empire, " The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings." CHRIST CHURCH, HEATON NORRIS.—The consecra tion of this beautiful edifice, opposite the Heaton Norris Railway Station, took place on Wednesday, by the Bishop of Chester. On the 29th July, 1844, the foundation stone was laid by Wilbraham Egerton, Esq., of Tatton Park, who not only gave the land, but endowed the church with £l,OOO, and presented the committee with a donation of £2OO towards the cost of the spire. TRACTARIAN COMFORT DRAWN FROM THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S CHARGE.—Among other blunders of the journalists, we were especially amused with the nalveliof a Tractarian weekly paper. It endeavours to evade the censure of the charge in the following fallacious manner: —" Any how, if WE gain but little, we most certainly lose nothing. If the bishop be as far offfrom Rome as evor, most certainly he is no nearer to Geneva." Now, who expected, or imagined, that the bishop should be drawing " rearer to Geneva?" Who asked, who desired, any movement that way ? No one. But observe the other limb of the proposition :—" WE—i. e., the Trac tarians—gain but little by the present charge," because " the bishop is as far off Rome as ever." It is true, ibis little slip of the tongue tells us nothing that we did not know before, but it is well to catch these gentlemen some times in the confession tbat their real and sole object is to draw people over to Rome.—Morning Herald CHURCH EXTENSION.—The Bishop of Ripon, at the meeting of the Ripon Diocesan Church Building Society, narrated the following instance of the effects of church extension :—" In an out-township of the manufacturing parish of Calverley, a church was built through the aid of this society, five Or six years ago. So averse were the population to the erection of a church, so indifferent to the ministrations of religion, that only £l6 was raised throughout the whole district towards the building of a church which probably cost about £l5OO. A clergyman has been ministering there for three years ; and now between £lOO and £2OO has been raised to provide him with a parsonage." But the Bishop of London, in his charge delivered last week, narrates a more striking fact. He says:—" The average aggregate number of persons - . - Sirlienry Pottinger has be en a pp o i n t e d, i n a dditi on t o I forming the congregati6ns OT die seven new churches the office of Governor of the Cape of Good [Jove, her I lately erected in Bethnal-green had been 1500 in the Majesty's high Commissioner for settling and adjusting 1 morning, and 2000 iiii the evening. There were in those the affairs of the eastern and north-eastern f ron ti er o f th e churches 400 communicants ; and 3254 children attended colony. the National and Sunday schools. As the number of The mountains in the eastern frontier of France were attendants at the parish church and the paroci,ial school covered with snow at the end of September. This is con- had not diminished, they were justified in regarding the sid red an indication of an early winter. numbers he had mentioned as a gain to the church. In e The news from Switzerland is considered of a most f the single parish of Bethnal.green, which was now divided ominous character—a civil war is all but inevitable. yet j into 12 districts or parishes, there were employed, at this a word from Rome, withdrawing the Jesuits, would pre- time, 20 additional clergymen, having uLder their irn me vent the fearful danger. diate chrection 15 schoolmasters and mistresses, 100 Suu- THE SCINDE PRIZE MONEY.—A correspondent of the day school teachers, SO Scripture readers, and 101 district Times complains that, although three years and a half have visitors, all engaged in making known the truths and duties of their holy religion in that long neglected neigh elapsed since the plunder of H vdrabacl, no public intima bourhood." tion is given of the amount of shares of different ranks, THE CONVERTS TO ROME.—The Pfforts which have for except this account that £70,000, or 1-16th, will be the probable share of the gallant Governor of Scinde. some time past been systematically made to revive The King of Bavaria has suppressed all the newspapers amongst the members of our own communion opinions in his dominions. Prom the Ist of January next he pro- and practices which have been usually regarded as pecu liar to the Church of Rome necessarily tend, i:s I have mites to issue a daily State Gazette of his own for the edification of his people. If he prove as poor an editor as before observed, to perplex and unsettle s e nsitive and imperfly constituted and to pare he has a poet, the Slate Gazette will be a wretched thing for on e acknowledgment of consc t he iences, paramount pre authority them of indeed. that church, which as it concedes nothing, nor admits the DUELLING IN PRUSSIA.—The Gazette des Tribunaux possibility of its erring, even in the minutest feature of calls the attention of its readers to the state of the law with respect to duelling in Prussia, by which officers in that complicated system, which was stamped with the character of unchangeableness by the decrees of the the army are placed in a singular dilemma. The penal code punishes them with imprisonment in a fortress if Council of Trent, has manifestly a great advantage in they accept a challenge, and the Court of Honour deprives dealing with unstable and doubtful minds, when even one them of their commission if they refuse. An example step has been taken in advance towards that system. This lately occurred when a lieutenant of artillery was con- is especially the case with females, the natural constitu demned, by 27 votes to 3, to lose his commission for hay- tion of whose minds disposes them to rest upon the au ing refused to accept a challenge , thority of others ; while their livelier sensibilities are A packet vessel which left Monte Video on the 27 th of more easily excited and satisfied b y an aesthetic ai , d cere- August, arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday morning. monial form of religion. Indeed, it is in minds of this She brings despatches for the government , the purport of class—even in our ow n sex al so , w ith some exceptions— which is not yet known ; but letters received by mer - that a Romani s i ng t en d enc y is most perceptible. Some chants, affirm that Mr. Hood, (the envoy extraordinary few there are wh o spewco have :Jeen caught in the meshes despatched by the English government to mediate between of their own subtilty : others appear to be perplexed by the contending republics on t e River Plate.) had succeeded erudition ill-digested a n d m i sa p p li e d ; b u t a grea t num b e r in the object of his mission, having " arranged everything of those persons who have b een , un h app il y , perver t e d satisfactorily both with the Buenos Ayres Government , (and, after all, how inconside ra bl e i s th a t num b er i n corn and with General Oribe." We trust this may prove to be parison with those who hold fast the t ru th w ith ou t waver the case, and that nothing will occur to obstruct the final ing) seem to have been misled by the t reac h erous li g ht of settlement of a war which has been so injurious to corn- a practical mysticism, following the guid ance , no t o f their nierci a l i n t erests . reason, but of imagination, or to have falle n a p r ey to Romish sophistry for want of sound and w e ll-di g e s ted TAPP ING. AN A QUEDUCT .—A nove l case o f f rau d h as been lately discovered near Boston, in America. An theological learning, We must, I fear, look for more aqueduct company which supplies the city of Salem with instances of perversion occasioned by these causes, arid soft water, were at a l oss to account f or t h e f a il ure o f th e it behoves the clergy to be prepared with a competent s su pply for some tim e past , an d went to great expense o f store of reasons wherewith to combat the delusive ergo examination of logs and pipes to discover the supposed ments of Romish emissaries, and to establish and settle leak. A Ltbourer in a tannery revealed the secret—that the faith cf the weak-hearted members of their flocks. his master, a proprietor of a very large establishment, had The present is too plainly a time at which it is most need secretly tapped one of the logs, and bad been for a consi- ful for those who stand on the watch-towers of the church derable tune drawing from it with a pipe whose capacity to observe the approaches of the adversary, and to cry was ten gallons 3 EniDlite. He had thus no t on l y suppl i ed aloud to every soul that Is given to them in charge, his own tan-yard, but had let out a right to one of his " Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ bath made neigh'ioura, w 1•0 was ignorsnt whence the water came. 1 us tree, and be not entangled again in the yoke of bon lie was arrested end held to large boil. doge.—Bishop uf London, Charge.. • :),,,T,.--01.,..6-;-..03. IRELAND. Prince Geo - rge of Cambriige-was at Clonmel onFriday, inspecting the troops. The Limerick Chronicle says, the navy promotion will come out with the army brevet on the 9th of November. The Cusbmans are about to play a few nights at Belfast, previously to their leaving this country for New York. The Limerick Examiner states on the authority of a medical gentleman, that founversons have died of starva tion in that neighbourhood. At the two hotels of Ballinaeloe, the week before.last, during the great fair, two thousand four hundred turkeys were slaughtered for the guests. At a recent meeting, Dr. Daly, Bishop of Cashel, ' stated that nice out of the twelve prelates, and 170 J out of 2000 of the. clergy of Iteland, bad entered their pro tests against the national scheme of education. The yacht " Wandering Spirit," the property of Lord Kilworth, son of Lord Mouutcashel, was wrecked off Kinsale, on Saturday week, and has gone to pieces. Lady Mountcachel and two of her daughters were saved in one of the boats. _ _ . Official returns announce an increase of 50,000 inmates in the Irish workhouses, as compared with the month of 'October, 1845. And, as a set of to this distressing evi dence of the progress of destitution, it is notified that .52,500 people are now receiving daily employment through the medium of public works. The Times' Dublin correspondent says—" It is, I •be lieve, quite true that Mr. O'Connell has resolved to waive his claim this year, and that consequently there will be no tribute Sunday for 1846 ; at least so it is stated by the managers of the national debt,' as the secretary faceti oudy styles this annual impost." On Thursday morning, the body of a man, named Maurice Hartnett, was discovered ie. Clonmel Gaol, sus pended by a web, to which was attached a portion of his blanket, which had:been torn off and twisted into a noose. The unfortunate deceased was confined on a charge of stealing an ass. THE .ULSTER LANDLORDS.—Lord Lurgan has pre sented £2OO to the town commissioners of Lurgan to wards the expenses of Lighting the town, and he has announced his intention of reducing the rents of his humbler tenantry, in consequence of their losses by the failure of the potato crop. THE REPEAL Asso-c:ATios:.—Nearly all the clerks in the repeal association have been dismissed, and parties connected with the establishment state that an adjourn ment of the meetings for six months is about to take place—the association to commence its labours on the Eve of St. Tits. The liberator has done it all to oblige the " base, brutal, and bloody Whigs." CLONMEL.—The gunsmiths in Clonmel cannot procure arms fast enough fot the demand, the peasantry are pur chasing them so rapidly. The flour carts going from Clogheett to Clonmel were robbed of their cargo, near Knocklofty, by a body of men. We fear that all the merchants' corn must be escorted by cavalry or police throughout this great corn district. —Dublin Mail. SLAUGHTER. OF SHEEP.—A multitude of rustic la bourers crowded the town of Mallow, county Cork, on Tuesday morning, at an early hour, and, disappointed in work on the railway, made a simultaneous onslaught upon the farm of Richard Barrett, Esq , a mrgistrate, in the vicinity, where they seized upwards of fifty sheep, and proceeded to slaughter them, despite of the police. On Wednesday, the neighbourhood of Limerick and Cork were visited by a furious storm. Considerable da mage was done to the shops, houses, and fields, by the winds aid floods. Waterford was also on the same day visited by the storm. A lighter belonging to Messrs. Maloomson of Clonmel, laden with 350 hags of flour, was upset, and several vessels were driven front their moorings. INTIMIDATION IN TIPPERARY.—RENTS.-011 Friday evening, about eight o'clock, a man armed with a blun derbuss, entered the dwelling of John Cormack, of Bally hogan, within two miles of Nenagh, and ordered Cor rnack not to attempt to pay any rent whatsoever, and also desired him to tell all the tenants on the property to act similarly, and swore he would give the contents of his blunderbuss to Cormack, or any one else who paid rent. —Nenagh Guardian. DUBLIN.—At the repeal meeting, on Monday, in Conciliation Hall, a letter was read from Mr. Daniel O'Connell, in which he expresses his unwillingness to give up the plan for a national committee of landed pro prietors in Dublin. The Hon. Cecil Lawles, (now M.P. for Clonmel,) and Mr. O'Neil, (who thought he had been unfairly passed by,) came to an explanation. Mr. J. O'Connell, Captain Brodrick, Mr. Steele, Mr. Reilly, and others, addressed the association. The rent was short of .£7O. DAY OF HUMILIATION.—The Primate of Ireland has addressed a circular to the clergy of his diocese (Armagh), enjoinirg the observance of Friday, the 30th instant, as a day "on which public prayer should be offered up, in acknowledgment of the divine hand which has sent this calamity." In consequence of an earnest hope from the Lord Lieutenant, that one and the same day may, by ap pointment of the several diocesans, be observed as a day of humiliation throughout Ireland, the Lord Primate has since postponed the day until Friday, the 20th November. O'CONNELL AND THE RENT.—The Nation, in stating the conditions on which only the party it represents will return to Conciliation Hall, gives the following intelligible hint on the present disposal of the funds :—" The funds of the association should be accounted for in a regular and satisfactory manner. No more false, plausible de fences for the public, while the actual fact remains as now —that no committee, body, or individual whatever, has the smallest knowledge of, or the slightest power of obtaining any insight into, their condition—with the single exception of Mr. O'Connell." Two MEN DROWNED.—A yawl laden with fresh fish came up the river to Cork, on Saturday, in which were four men rowing. When they neared the Custom-house, a hawser, which had been attached to the Nimrod steamer, then on point of starting for Liverpool, from the Blarney screw propeller, for the purpose of swinging the latter round to be taken in tow by the Nimrod, came in contact with the boat, and threw three of the men into the river, two of whom were drowned, but the third was picked up, having been severely hurt by a blow from the hawser which had struck the boat, and was by the force of the pressure snapped in two.—Cork paper. ATTACK ON A FLOURCART—ROBBERY OF THE FLOUR. —On Monday morning, as a man named John Prender gast was proceeding to Clonmel, in charge of a cart-load of flour, the property of Samuel Grubb, Esq., of Castle Grace Mills, he was attacked near Knocklofty by about twenty persons who came out of a house. Several of them laid hold of Prendergast and they then dragged the horse and cart down a narrow road. They opened one of the sacks of flour and divided it into empty bags which they carried. They then took three more sacks which they also divided. Prendergast states that he thinks he will be able to identify some of the party. WRECK.—The Rose, from Belise, which arrived in Cove on 15th October, reported that she fell in with the barque Ellen Jane, of Liverpool, from Belise, in lat. 39. 40, long. 58. 30 W., waterlogged, foremast only standing, decks broken-up, and hull entirely under water; two men alive in the foretop, took them off with much diffi culty, the sea was running so high. They had been in that situation nine days, with three others who died from exhaustion. The master and six men left the ship in the lorg boat on the 19th of September, but it is supposed they perished, as no boat could live in the sea which was running. The two survivors lived on the remains of their comrades, who died on the wreck.—Cork Reporter. IRISH PRESENTNIENTS.—Some time ago we asked whence was the money to come which was voted away so readily, or where would the collectors find it when they went to look for it. Perhaps few even of those who took such an active part in disposing of the public property are aware of the sum with which, were the Board of Works as insane as " the Sovereign People," the country would be saddled, and saddled for purposes for the greater part worse than unprofitable. The items are worth reprint ing. Although they amount to X 608,015 13s. 7d., inde pendently of presentments for drainage, and if to this we were to add the customary charges under the head of Grand Jury presentments, many of those who have to pay them would, we doubt not, be a little startled.— Cork Constitution. SHAMEFUL OUTRAGE.—On Friday,between the hours of one and two o'clock, as C. W. Harvey, Esq., agent to the Earl of Donoughtuore, was proceeding to this town on an outside car, he was attacked near Mr. Bagwell's ice-house, at the Waterford side of the river, by four men, with crape covering their faces and otherwise dis guised. One was armed with a blunderbuss, another with a long gun, and the other two with pistols, all of which they presented at Mr. Harvey's head, at the same time telling him to deliver up his money, or that they would shoot him. He remonstrated with them, but all was to no purpos- ; they would have put their bloody threat into execution, had he not delivered up his pocket. book to them, containing cheques, letters of credit, and notes, to the amount of about £9OO. One of the party called out to the other " to shoot the horse ;" but Mr. Harvey and the man who drove the car interfered, and they did not shoot the horse, but backed him, car and all. over a precipice at the road side; they then made off through Mr. Bagwell's wood. Mr. Harvey was collect ing rents at Knocklofty, and was on his way to lodge the money he had received in the bank.—Clonmel paper. LAW INTELLIGENCE. IMPORTANT TO SPORTING " GENTS."—The question of liability to pay duty for those sporting vehicles called " dog carts," although the original cost of which did not exceed 19 guineas, was determined by the commissioners of the assessed taxer at Kensington a few days back, on an appeal by a colonel in the Guards against the assess picot. The commissioners decided in favour of the assess ment, on the ground that the act only applied to persons in " trade or business," using it for that purpose. We understand this decision is in accordance with that of the Court of Queen's Bench. ALLEGED NUISANCE.—On Friday and Saturday last, Mr. Curl ie, barrister, sat in the grand jury room of the Session-house to hear the case of Gerard, Bart. v.Gamble, which was, at the last assizes, agreed to be left to an arbi trator, two somewhat similar cases, in which Sir John was plaintiff, having been decided in his favour. A number of witnesses for the Messrs. Gamble said that ro rnuriatic gas escaped from their works, but that it was wholly con densed ; and therefore it was argued by Mr. Brandt, for the defendants, that no possible injury could have been occasioned to the plaintiff's plantations. The award was postponed. - - SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GREAT STEEPLE CHASE FOR £looo.—The match made between a noble earl, connected with the turf, and J. R. Cornwall, Esq., is now fixed to come off on the 30th of December, over four miles of Market Harbo rough country. The stakes, £5OO a-side, are in the hands of C. Richardson, Esq. Miss Atherton and Colonel Clowes, it is said, have finally determined not again to lease DI let #Kergal4noor for racing purposes. THE LIVERPOOL STANARD. RAILWAY INTELLJGBACB. A viaduct of , no less than 28 arches will be constructed over the Tweed at. Berwick, in thelormation of the New castle and Berwick railway. A large viaduct on the Orleans and Vierzon railway fell last week, whilst undergoing the government proof of a heavy load. SUNDAY TDAVELLING.—The directors of the Edin burgh and Glasgow Railway have agreed to discontinue the Sunday passenger traffic after the first of November. They will, however, convey the mail as usual. RAILWAY EXPEDITION.—A respectable tradesman in Spalding closed his shop on Saturday night at ten o'clock, was in London-all Sunday, and again opened his shop at the usual hour on Monday morning at Spalding, having travelled during that period 257 miles, and spent the whole day in the metropolis. On Tuesday Mr. Miles, one of the police in the service of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company, in attempting to _get on a train of loaded earth waggons, whilst in motion, near Sedgwick, slipped and fell on the rails, when two of the waggons passed over him and killed him on the spot. The r Directors of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company have concluded with Mr. Brassey., the well-known contractor, for the completion, within two years from this time, of that por tion of their line between Chester and .Warrington, on terms, that will reduce the cost below the Parliamentary estimate. We have just learned that the arrangement of the Lon don and North-Western with the Scottish Central is now completed. The latter are to be guaranteed 6 per cent. on their present-outlay, or 7 per cent. if they complete :the line. It will now only be necessary for the former to complete a similar arrangement with the Caledonian, and they will have an •unbroken communication, under one management, from London nearly to Aberdeen. TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.—In order to expedite the works upon this line, the directors have, it is said, guaran teed a bonus of £IOiOOO per month to the contractors for every month saved in the completion of the railway under the time originally specified in the contract; and such has been the impetus given to the works, in consequence, that it is expected, should the winter prove favourable, that the line will be opened in January next, instead .of May, as was intended.—Morning Chronicle. OPENING OF THE FIRST RAILWAY IN POLAND.— The line from Warsaw to Petrikau has been opened for traffic, in the presence of the Viceroy, Brince Paskewitch. The distance, 191 Polish miles, (109 kilometres), has been performed in four hours, comprising some delays occasioned by the festival occasion. This line will be of great importance to Poland, as it will bring Warsaw with in a faw miles of the Prussian Silesia, which is already traversed by the Breslau-Berlin line, which, again, passes close to the Austrian frontier.—The Bu;lder. ImmENsE 'TRAINS.—Two luggage trains passed by the Rugby station on Saturday on the London and North Western Railway, one of which consisted of 96 carriages containing nearly 400 tons of merchandize, &c., impelled by one of Stephenson's new patent six-wheeled engines and two others. The other train consisted of 81 car riages, and contained 384 tons of goods, drawn by one of the new patents and two common engines. The length of the first train was upwards of a quarter of a mile, ex tending from the platform to the first bridge. Competition for railway speed is going on. The Great Western, it is said, are about to build an engine with eight wheels, still larger than the " Great Western," but with the weight mere equally distributed over a greater number of wheels, so that it will not press on any one point with so great and incessant weight as their " Great Western," and will unite all the improvements which the working of the latter has pointed out. The engineers of the uniform gauge are not idle in the work of seeking for greater speed. Mr. G. Stenhenscn has more than one engine reedy which are to accoreplish GO miles an hour. The Brighton Com pany also have two engines which are to make the journey of 50 miles within an hour. NORTH BRUTISH RAILWAY.—A meeting of the share holders in this line, resident in Liverpool, was held on Thursday, in the Cl,lrendon-rooms. Mr. Wotherspoon was called to the chair, and a resolution was unanimously passed.expressive oft he meeting's " strong disapprobation of the course pursued by the directors in dealing with the Carlisle Extension shares, without again consulting with the proprietors; and in issuing the quarter shares, and proposing to allot scrip quarters, in a manner calculated to give inconvenience, trouble, and cause risk and loss to the proprietors." After a lengthy address from the chairman, a resolutiog was also passed against the pro posed purchase of or‘malganaation with the Edinburgh and Perth line. USE OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The other day a pheasant which had perched upon the wires of the Lin coln and Nottingham railway was killed by electricity. The railway people:were conveying a message along the line, which was doubtless the cause of its death. The telegraph was employed the other day to stop a clandestine marriage. A young lady and gentleman decamped to gether by rail from Nottingham to have the indissoluble knot tied at Lincoln ; but about an hour after the loving pair had set off, the lady's mamma, finding her daughter absent, went to the railway station, and ascertained that she had left for Lincoln with her lover. The telegraph was instantly set to work, and when the lady and gentle man arrived at Lincoln, a policeman was in attendance to receive them, and the pair were forthwith taken out of their carriage, placed in a return train, and sent back to the mamma, who bad unfortunately found her daughter " was out."—Lincoln Mercury. WEST RIDING UNION RAiLwAy.—The first sod of these important lines was cut on Wednesday by the Right lion. Charles Wood, Chancellorof the Exchequer. The schemes embrace a line from Halifax, through Low moor and Staningley to Leeds, which may be considered the main line of the proposed extensions; a branch from the above line to Bradford; another through Wortley, to the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester line ; another from Pudsey, on the above line, to the Leeds, Manchester, and Dewsbury extension line at Edwalton ; a line ftom Low moor to Dewsbury; a branch from this line to the main one, to shorten the distance to Huddersfield; one from Pickle-bridge to Brighouse; and a line from Halifax to Huddersfield. When these lines are completed, there vrill be a net-work of railways embracing all the towns of the West Riding, and, with the company's other lines, will form an extent of territory equalled by few in the kingdom. Et ECTRIC TELEGRAPHS.—M. Arago has communi cated an important paper to the Paris Academy of Sciences, on some of the effects of lightning upon the electrical tele graphs in the United States of America, observing that the facts had been communicated to him by M. Eben Mariam, of Brooklyn, and were entitled to confidence. On the 29th of April of the present year the lightning fell on the wire of an electric telegraph at Lancaster, without melting or breaking it. In the room, hzwever, where the electric battery, by which the line is worked, is placed, a noise was heard like that of the discharge of a pistol, and several sparks were seen. On the 18th of May, a tele graph wire was broken by lightning, and several of the posts supporting the line were split. In this case there was a report equal to the discharge of two or three muskets. On the 3tl of June, the wire of the telegraph from Washington to Baltimore was so broken, that the communications be tween the towns were suspended for several hours. On the following day, during another thunder storm, the wire was not snapped, but at every stroke of thunder the hands of the telegraphic instrument moved as if the bat tery was at work. THE CJURT FASHIONA BLE WORLD. ROYAL VISIT TO CASHIOBURY PARK, THE SEAT OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—On Wednesday forenoon, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by his Serene Highness, accompanied by Edward, Prince of Saxe Weimar, Sir Horace Seymour, and others, left the man sion to enjoy the excellent shooting afforded within the park. The party, with the illustrious prince, did not shoot. Prince Albert. and Prince Edward were taken to the preserves at Calloland Springs, and in an hour and a half killed 46 head of game. Prince Albert killed 31 pheasants, 4 hares, and 2 rabbits ; Prince Edward 7 phea sants, I partridge, and 1 hare. Ills Royal Highness, her Majesty the Queen, and the retinue afterwards drove to Moor Park, the seat of the Dowager Marchioness of Westminster. They were conducted over the whole apartments, and shown the works of art there deposited by the late Marquis. The leads of the family were un avoidably absent. The rival party were afterwards enter tained at dinner at Gishiobury Park, to which a party of illustrious guests had been invited. On Thursday, the Queen and Prince Albert honoured the Marquis of Salis bury with a visit to latfi:do-house, where also a distin ,guished party was present., including the Duke of Wel lington, the Duke of Lutland, and a large number of the most distinguished of the nobility. RURAL FETE.—On Friday whilst the royal visitors to Hatfield Home, wer.s. engaged inspecting its be iuties, a characteristic scene was being enacted in the pa, k oppo site the north front, and in the presence of some 2,000 or 1 3,000 people. A bullock which had been roasting having ' been pronounced quite done, the ponderous iron frame in which he was enclosed was shifted on a moveable truck, to which, amidst the elvers of the rustics around, some 8 or 10 stout smockfrocked youngsters harnessed them selves. They then formed, with the aid of the shouting, yelling crowd, and escorted by a few of the yeomanry, a sort of cannibal procession of triumph up the park to the place where the tables were laid for those who were to discuss the carnal merits of the broiled animal. Present ly, amidst redoubled shouts, there came rolling into the arena a long line of barrels of beer, to quench the expect ed thirst of the privileged partakers of the feast. On the tables were placed large hunches of bread, mugs, platters, and knives and forks ; and it was said that there was accommodation for between 400 and 500 eating men, women, and children. Some mystical ceremonies having been first performed, the iron ribs which encased the animal were withdrawn, and he was speedily sliced into innumerable pieces. In a very few moments the dishes (scantily enough supplied perhaps) were on the different tables, and many a hard-working peasant who had not tasted meat before in the year got his allowance. All the while this was going on hundreds of persons stood around the enclosure watching the interesting energy with which so many mouths were champing in simultaneous unison, so many knives stuck bolt upright on the tables, so many mugs lifted upwards for deer) drawn delicious suction. A party from the house, consisting of the Prime Minis ter, the Duke of Rutland, Lord Brownlow, Lord Marcus Hill, and Lady Spencer, came down to witness this rude rustic banquet. On Thursday, during the royal visit to Hatfield-hfluse , Prince Albert shot 1.10 head of game, the Duke of Wel lington shot 14 pheasants. It is said that the marriage of Miss Hoghton, of Sir H enry B o ld H og ht on , B ar t., of Hoghton Tower, • Lancashire, with Capt. J. Ireland Blackburne, only t3ii of J. Blackburne, Esq., M.P., of Hale , is to be liolemuizgd early in the present mouth. daughter CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY. The following report of the speech of the Rev. Hugh M`Neile at Bristol, on Tuesday, in aid of this valuable society, we take -from the Bristol Mirror. The rev. gentleman, referring to the terms and tone of the preceding resolution, said—lt invited them to humble themselves before -God ; it invited them to look at His dealings with them ; it called them to a penitential state of mind, and from that position, where alone a fallen creature could gather strength, it invited them to rise up and serve Him mole faithfully, more devotedly. There were' two sorts of sorrow spoken of in scripture. The sorrow of the world which worked unto death, and a godly sorrow which worked repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of. They should learn that their present afflictions, which are but for a moment, worked for them si far more exceeding and eternal weight of,glory, when they were looking not to the things which were seen, but to the things which were not seen. The rev. speaker proceeded to say that there was nothing existing upon earth in which evil was not mixed with the good. A national establish ment and endowment of religion was a good, a great duty on the part -of a government, a great blessing to a -country. But it was not an unmixed good. Where in such a world could they find one? It tended to pro duce an evil and a very serious one. It had caused this country for many years to consider that the ordinances of religion were matters with which no persons had any concern to procure or supply; that it was a matter for the state entirely; that it was the duty of govern. ment to supply churches and ministers; and English men had grown up with the feeling that there was no necessity for their doing anything individually, since it was all done, or ought to be done, by the state. The national church was national only in name; — it had ceased to be national in its character. Its power of expansion was not adequate to meet the growing wants of the population. What had been the result ? While the state, by the operation of extraneous elements, bad been prevented making national grants, the people of this country, long used to have the means of grace provided for them, had not awakened to the necessity of providing for themselves. Therefore the members of the church of England, its proportion to their wealth and numbers, had done less, by means of voluntary contributions, than any others. The Church Pastoral Aid Society had come at the right crisis to invite them to do what was their duty. Suppose no Dissenters had arisen,no Romanists,tbat there had been no clamour to open the legislature to such people, and the legislature had remained as a body of churchmen, into which no man could be admissible who had not re- ceived the communion of the English Church, there would have been no difficulty in obtaining grants from the legislature to build churches and supply pastors, and they would not have to be called upon to make efforts, and voluntary exertion would have been required only for dis tant countries. But the demand of the Church for rigid uniformity had estranged thousands of valuable men from her pale. The stringent provisions of the Act of Uniformity had deprived 3000 parishes in England of faithful pastors. It was impossible but that dissent must grow up after such a proceeding. If the managers of their National Church, at that time ; had been wise enough to perceive that there might be unity without conformity ; that men might work together for a great object, without all doing so in the same way ; that men might love one another without being like one another ; that hearts might beat together when countenances would- not measure together ; that there might be co-operation without similarity—if they learnt this they would have known how to deal with enthusiasts without driving them out of the pale. Thefact, however was that dissent had grown up in . the land, and the National Church was national only in name ; they could pot disguise the fact. All that now remained was to strive, if it was yet possible, by individual liberality, to keep up even an ap pearance of nationality about . her. If they were deter mined to have a National Church, they must put their shoulders to the wheel, and their hands in their pockets. If the church was to be maintained tbey must do it. Par liament would not. Parliament was a mongrel set of Papists, Socinians, and all sorts of Dissenters. There were men in it who loved the Church, and men who hated it ; men who respected it, and men who detested it. All were mingled together, and the enemies of religion were louder than its friends. Good and respectable men had characters to lose, and therefore acted with something like moderation, but there was a generation who had no character to lose, and therefore cared not what they said. Such a Parliament they had and must have. It would prove worse rather than better, and therefore they could expect no endowment for the Church from Parliament. The reverend gentleman then went on to speak on the topic of lay agency. He fully agreed with the remarks of the chairman on that subject. There ought to be a stated and regularly ordained ministry, whose sacred office it was to administer the sacraments in the church, a doctrine and view of duty) which was according to scripture, and ought ever to be maintained. The idea graduall and erroneously came to be entertained that the lay embers of the church were not to instruct their neighbours, and fellow countrymen, and fellow sinners. Not only was there no valid objections to this, but he considered it to be the duty of Christian laymen to preach the gospel. He wanted not only lay agency, but female agency. He wished that the ladies would take ex ample from the Romanists; they sent their Sisters of Mercy to the dwellings of the poor, with their little douceurs of tea and sugar, for the purpose of more readily insinuating the subtle poison of their principles. He ur gently pressed upon Protestant ladies, the young ladies especially, to go to the dwellings of the poor, and whilst they ministered to their spiritual, not to neglect their tem poral wants. It was so easy to take little luxuries from their own table, in their baskets and reticules, which would be most gratefully received. Of all the enjoyments man was capable of there was no thrill of such ecstatic rapture as that which arose from the consciousness of do ing good to others. Bad as they were that was still left in them. Fallen as they were that yet remained in man. The secret satisfaction of seeing happiness conferred on another far exceeds anything which they ever had or ever could desire from selfish gratification. Mr. Mc. Neile further urged upon ladies not to neglect the spiritual wel fare of their servants. OPENING OF THE PORTS.-SCARCITY AND DEARTH OF FOOD. The Provost of Pollokshaws has received the following letter, acknowledging the receipt of the memorial of the inhabitants of that burgh to Lord John Russell, praying for the opening of the ports, and prohibition of distilla tion from grain : Downing-street, 16th October, 1846. am desired by Lord John Russell to acknow ledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th ult., and of the memorial of the inhabitants of Polkabaws which accom panied it. Lord John Russell is deeply sensible of the calamity which now presses so severely on the poorer classes of the United Kingdom, owing to the almost total failure of the potato crop ; but he trusts that the measures which the Government will adopt, and the exertions of pro prietors on their own estates, will tend very greatly to mitigate the distress. I have also been instructed to inform you, that it is not the intention of government to prohibit the distillation from grain.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) R. W. GREY; William Hector, Esq., Provost of Pollokshaws. CONVICTION OF AN INNOCENT MAN. On the 27th of last month, a poor man, named Thomas Nott, a tailor, was convicted of felony at the Clerkenwell sessions, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. Ills innocence has since been made apparent under very singular circumstances. A girl, named Mary Ann Bevans, only fourteen years of age, in the service of a Mr. Still, accused Nott of having robbed her master. The evidence taken against him at the Thames Police-court went to show, that Mr. Still had missed a great many articles of linen and wear ing apparel, and the girl swore that on the night pre ceding the apprehension of Nott she easy him in the rear of her master's house, and after he had gone a quantity of children's linen and wearing apparel, hung out upon the lines to dry, were missing, and that a portion of them were found in an adjoining yard, which the thief must have passed over, on the same night. She also stated, that on the following morning, when she got up, she saw the prisoner standing close to the parlour window of her master's house, and immediately recognized him as tLe man she had seen in the yard the night previous, and that sonic time afterwards he came to the house with a bundle which contained a portion of the stolen pro perty, and placing the bundle in her hand, begged of her not to say anything to her toaster and mistress, and he would reward brr for her secrecy. A policeman, named Bowling, 347 K, deposed that he was sent for by the girl's master, that she made the same statement to him, and he took the prisoner into custody ; and that upon proceedii.g to the house with the girl on the same night, he found a child's cap (identified by Mrs. Still as her property) in the passage leading to the stair cae. The girt, to give a further colouring to the mutter, stated that when she entered the rrisoner's house with Rowling, she saw the cap thrown from the top of the landing on the top of the staircase, but although she saw the hand which threw it down stairs, she did not see the body of the person. On this evidence the magistrate had no alternative but to commit the prisoner for trial, and he was sent away in the police van to gaol, not before he had loudly protested his innocence, and declared that the girl was perjured. The same evidence was given on the trial, and his pro testations of innocence, and the excellent characte r h e re ceived from several witnesses, availed him nothing. li e was found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in, the House of Correction fur three tll, mouths. Among the witnesses to character was a respectable woman, named Swift, a former landlady of the prisoner's, who after the trial expressed publicly a strong opinion of his innocence, and the . wickedness and pe nury o f the g i rl Evans. Two or three nights after the trial, the girl Evans was sent out upon an errand, and she returned with her bonnet torn, her clothes in disorder, and blood streaming from her face. On the master and m i s t ress inquiring how she came to be in that state, s h e sta t e d t h a t she had been waylaid by the woman Swift, who made a furious attack upon her and cut h er f ace . O n t h e even i ng of Friday, the 2nd instant, the girl was aga i n sen t ou t, t o fetch some milk, and she retu rne d apparen tly suffering from violence inflicted upon h er , an d sa id the woman Swift had again waylaid her in the Back-road, and after striking her several times about the head and face ran away. On the following day, she complained that Mrs. Swift had assaulted her while she was cleaning the door stets. In consequence of these alleged repeated attacks on the girl, s h e was a d v i se d to see k re d ress a t the pollee court, and obtained a peace-warrant against Mrs. Swift. On the following afternoon (Sunday, the 4th instant,) about half-past one o'clock, the attention of the girl and her ei les for help, and upon proceeding into the front par lour, armed with a large carving -knife, and after knocking Oct. 27, 1846. her down with the child in ber arms she opened the front door and ran away. Immediate pursuit was made, but , no , tidings of Mr. Swift could be gained. Some wearing apparel, linen, and other property, were missing directly afterwards, and Mr. Still made an application at the sta tion-house for assistance to police-sergeant Harris, who immediately suspected the girl was the thief, and on in quirf being made, it was found that on the Saturday morning, when Swift was represented to be in Lucas street, she was upwards of two miles from the spot. A lodger, who had some suspicion that the girl was an im poitor, looked up the chimney in the girl's bedroom, where he found a bundle of wearing apparel fastened with a cord, which the girl had led Mr. and Mrs. Still to be lieve had been stolen by Mrs. Swift. Sergeant Harris made further inquiries, which satisfied him of the innocence of the man Nott, and of Mrs. Swift, and that everything the girl had said about them was false from beginning to end. She afterwards made a full confession of her guilt, and said that Nott was innocent, and that she bad dropped the child's cap in his house for the purpose of securing a conviction against him ; that all she had said relating to Mrs. Swift was false, and had inflicted the bruises on her head and face with her own hands, to be revenged on Mrs. Swift for the observations she had made concerning her. She signed two declarations, affirming the inno cence of Nott and Mrs. Swift, and expressing her regret at having made false charges against them. The inspec tor's report, the declarations of the girl, and a memorial from Mr. Still, have been laid before the Home Secre tary, and Nett has been since discharged. The girl Evans has been discharged from her situation, and is at large. REVIEW OF THE TRADE OF THE KINGDOM. Official tables of imports arid exports have been pub lished by the Board of Trade. The period embraced in the official tables is to the sth of September, but with a comparison of the same periods of the two preceding years. Under the heads of cattle and grain some idea may be formed of the progress made under the recent changes of the tariff in the anticipated increase of our supply of provisions from abroad. It is shown that we base added to our own stores, in the first eight months of the present year, from foreign sources, no less than 3,043,505 qrs. of wheat, and 2,905,252 cwts. of flour and meal. Within the same period, 58,559 head of live ani mals have been imported into this country. Including bacon, beef salted and fresh, hams and pork salted and fresh, 185,447 cwts. have also been imported under the head of " provisions." In timber, the increase of trade is enormous, being 1,117,758 loads in 1846, against 929,429 in 1845, and 642,9U0 loads in 1844, showing an increase in two years of 100 per cent. The importation of linseed is extremely small. The quantity of foreign wool of all kinds retained for consumption in the present year, is fully 2,000,000 lbs. less than last rear. Of the export trade in which the national industry is meat con cerned, there is in a few articles an increase, but on th 6 whole a reduction equal to two millions has taken place. The following table will show the account more clearly : INCREASED. Declared value exported. 1845. 1846. to sth Sept. to sth Sept. Inc. Cotton yarn . Hardwares and cutlery 1,455,884 1,501.491 45,607 Machinery Iron and steel Silk manufactures 557,075 614,720 57,645 9,589,432 10,900,328 1,310,896• - DECRE A SE D. Declared value exported. 1845. 1846. • to sth Sept. to sth Sept. Deer. Cotton manufactures 12,920,189 11,759,662 1,130,527 Earthen ware . 580,045 569.917 10,128- Glass Leather wrcught and 237,801 222,768 15,033 unwrought Linen manufactures .. 2,080,373 1,854,062 226,311 Linen yarn ..... 708,500 548,121 160,379' , Copper and brass 1,230,407 998,769 231,638- Soap Refined sugar Wool, sheep or lambs' Woollen yarn Woollen manufactures . 5,567,349 4,601,699 965,650 25,145,820 21,887,881 3,257,939 - The largest decrease in 1846, as compared with 1845, in the exports of cottons and woollens, is to Belgium, to the • United States, and to China; the increase is to Cuba and the Brazils. There is an increase, particularly of cottons, . to France.—Halifax Guardian. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER.—The same causes which have contributed re cently to produce depression in this market remaining unabated, it cannot be expected that any improvement, either iu the ex tent of business done or in prices, can be noted. Ihe position of spinners and manufacturers is every day getting worse, for as their stocks of cotton, laid in before the advance. become ex hausted, their means of supplying the market with yarns and w p r e t t; c c goods .at the low r ates of the day are rendered st ill more dniffit: cult. The advance on Cotton is now fully 25 to 30 advance of 5 p cent. ng the inevita whilst buyers refuse to concede on the manufabcteurteednda the market, e er were the fi Foreseei rst to recommen d manufacturers by reducing supply. Slowly and enci reluctantly to our Contemporaries e s a o n f revert to the first principles of commercia l p olic y ,n such ca s e, have followed in our wake, but at length ail parties are becom ing agreed as to the tendency of acting upon the suggestion. Already a considerable number of factories hare been put en short time at Preston, Bolton, Oldham. &c., but to-day (Friday) meetings of manufacturers are being herd at Stockport and Blackburn, ann which will doubtless be followed here and in other surrounding towns, for the purpose of adopting the rule throughout the manufacturing districts. The unsettled condi tion of foreign markets at the present time holds out no pros pects"" • 4 of encouragement to shippers, and certainly the prospects of the home trade are gloomy enough, whilst the present sPe culations arc operating on the prices of food. It is therefore highly inexpedient to go on producing stock at the high rates of the raw material, whilst the great vents of commerce are noW choked up with excess of supplies. If production be limited to eight hours per day, it will be some time before there will be that diminution of stock, both here and abroad, that will restore • an equilibrium between supply and demand, and subsequently enhance prices proportionately to the recent advance In cotton. Reductions in wages would be an unmixed evil, at once cruel. uncalled for, and impolitic; the speculator in cotton has no right to a profit out of the wages of labour—the corn speculator • is making the poor man's loaf small enough already—and be sides the paltry reduction in this element of cost, alth,ugh it might reduc' the workman to extreme privation, would be a miserable nibble from the advance on cotton ;—furthermore, it would not create a demand (the thing wanted) for a single piece more. With respect to the operations of this week we may sal, after the fullest Inquiry, that they have been even more limited than those of the week before. Printing cloths have continued in moderate request; prices are unchanged, although a hard struggle was made on Tuesday to effect an advance on previous rates. Within the last two or three days there has been a little more inquiry for both 36 and 41-inch shirtings. but as holders have been rather firm in their endeavours to effect a small ad vance, the business done has not been large. In yarns therehas been no material alteration, but, on the whole, the transactions have been at least equal to those of last week. We quote the •• following as the current rates demanded ;-26 inch ; rioters, 4S. 6d. to 4s. 70.; 27 inch, 65 reed ditto, 4s. Gd. to Is. lid, ; 27 inch, 72 reeds, Ss. 3d. to Is. lOad ; 36 inch, 66 reed shirtings. 7s. gd. to Bs. 6d. ; 72 reed d tto, gs. to les 40 inch G. E India • Longcloths. 66 reed, at Bs. ;ad togs. 3d. (superior makes of this fabric have been sold in moderate quantities this week at gs. for printing ;) 40 inch, 72 reed ditto, are held at gs. 6d. to 105. HUDDERSFIELD.—Our market continues much in the same state as last week ; if any thing a little more doing. Prices the same. LEEDS.—There continues to be a complete absence of specu lation in our cloth market both on Saturday and to day. The purchases at the Cloth Halls were confined to present demand for the home trre'e, and with the exception of a few orders for Spanish stripes, &c., for the India and China markets, wlrch are out, ther, is little doing by the houses in the foreign trade. Prices are steady, but the manufacturers complain loudly of the want of remuneration. Business iu the warehouses is much the -ame as for the last few weeks. BRADFOIID.—WooI Nlarket.—The transactions to-day and throughout the week have been extremely limited ; and as the market is well supplied, the purchasers only take for inimeuiate use. There is a great firmness manifested in the country, which causes the staplers to hold for late prices. Yarn Market. —We cannot learn that our market is any worse to-day and the business may be considered very similar to several weeks past. The very low prices for Yarn are telling upon our oper atives. The Wool c tubers are not so fully ernp:oyed, which clearly indicates that the machinery is not fully in work.-- Piece Market.—There is nothing very particular in the demand for goods to-day. Low mcreens and damasks are more in quired atter ; also Orleans, merinos, and paramattas are in' steady request, without alteration in prices. LEI cEsTritt.—We are sorry to hear complaints from the manu facturers principally engaged in the London trade, o, the con" thin:A flatness of the demand. Considering thaqit is now the height of the season for worsted arid wo , lien goods, it is nn" usually dull. The country houses ire better oft, and are dola . g .. a hill average business in wrought hose : the supply is .sca rcely equal to the demand. The straight-down branch is flat. c u and Yarns are stationary, mith rather less doing. r TFIE NAVIGATION LA od city WS.—NIr. Cobden's -° of Manchester is well disposed to do that bonortble ge tleman's woik bravely. Whilst the former is bu si4n _ France in making that kingdom a huge and general c oin vert to free trade, by pointing out to them that one of its results will be the destruction of the colonial supremacy of Great Britain. Man:hearer by her Chamber of Com merce, is aly.ut to lend a helping hand to our faithless ally over the channel, by procuring from a Whig govern ment (if it can he done be menace or cajolery), a re peal , of the navigation laws. For the sake of saving a trifling impost now applied to those who complain, but who are very far from being the real sufferers, these patriotic ma nufacturers are, in their insanity, committing an act of suicide upon themselves. The repeal of these laws would reduce Great Britain to a fifth-r ate power. We owe their establishment to the Protector Cromwell : they form one of the solitary flowers reared by him amid the desolation which he had caused and cultivated on the soil of the monarchy, and had he done nothing more. and left undone all that he did besides, no one would have con tested his right to a statute as one among the benefactors of England. The wise administration of these laws has helped to establish the naval supremacy and the com mercial greatness of the empire. By them our vast car rying trade is secured to British suhjects, and the impor tant art or science of ship-building encouraged within our own private and public establishments. By their repeal, our ports would be filled by foreign vessels bearing our produce ; foreign crews working the ships so employed ; and we should not alone have distress among a wide class who have not hitherto grievously felt that visitation, but with it we should lose our nursery for seamen, and oar' navy would, as long as it remained to us, be built in fo reign yards. There is no doubt but that, if this new de, 'nand for repeal be complied with, foreign seamen would be engaged to woik at a considerably lower rate of wages than our own, and vessels for English proprietors would be built on French, and 'American stocks at much less cost than they are now built on our own ; but these adv sntages to begin with would be ruin in the end, and it would be found that a repeal of the navigation laws would be, in reality, an enactment fur enriching the foreigner st the mortal and countless cost of the people of Great Bris tain.—Church and Stale Gazette.