The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN A 7 D LONIAT UNII:ED STAT . By the Yorkshire, which a rrived nn Wednesday morn ing from New York , we h ave received advices from that city of the 16th ul,imo. These advices communicate a mass of details concerning the movements of the United States forces. The utmost activity prevailed at Camargo in the despatch of the troops en roule to the interior. G enera l T a ylor was expected to make a further advance with the volunteers by the Ist of September at the latest. The accounts with regard to the Mexican force still re.- wain indefinite and meagre. A repoit was in circulation at ISLitamor.:s that a party of American adventurers had t a ken possession of Montery without encountering resis tance. According to the accounts from New Orleans we may look for a vast importation of corn and flour from that place.. . We learn from St. Louis that two Mormon spies had been shot by the nnti•Mormon mob at Nanvoo. This, it is feared, is the commencement of a sanguinary conflict between these factions. _ _ . The Marmion arrived here on Thursday from New York. She brings little additional intelligence to that we have already given. The Mormon troubles in Illinois bad as,,umed a most threatening aspect. The anti-Mor mons had assembled to the number of one thousand two hundred men, armed with several field pieces, and were on the point of marching against Nauvoo, with the inten tion of throwing red hot balls into the city, and deter mined to drive the Mormons from the spot. The Mor mons, on the other hand, had fortified their celebrated temple, and also armed with a few pieces of artillery were resolutely determined to repel the imminent attack. A battle was lully anticipa ed by the citizens of St. Louis. The southern coast of the United States had been visited by terrific gales. On the 7th ult. a loss of seventeen lives took place near Galveston, Texas, the steamer New York baying been shuck by a sea and sunk, while running from that port to New Orleans. The captain, and the remainder of the crew and passengers, were afterwards picked up aed taken to New Orleans. INDIA Intelligence was received in London. on Wednesday, fiem India. The following, from the Delhi Gazelle of the 29th July, is all that is important:— . News reached .us bite last night giving an account of the complete faiin , e of the force sent from Lahore under Mi's Bhagwsn Singh, who had intended making a night aitack, and carrying all before them. Dewan IVLoolraj, however, was " wide awake," and having received secret information of the plan conceited, he completely out nrai,ceuvrfd his opponents, by turning their flanks, and, baying got into their rear, he " opened the ball" at mid night with great activity. Three hundred men of the Dur bar are said to be killed or taken prisoners, and four of their guns have also been captured. Flesh troops were urgently applied tor, and left Lahore to-day for the scene of action (From the Delhi Gazette of August 5.) We have, since the above was written, heard that an army is to be assembled. It will prubAbly consist of all the regiments brought up from below to relieve those now on or below the frontier, and therefore will he a very formidable assemblage. The orders may, we are told, be expected very soon. We await further intelligence with anxiety. The Gazette already announces the formation of two Anglo- Seikh infantry cores to be raised on the left bank of the Sntlej, to be caned respectively the regiments of Feroze pore and Loodianah. CALcorrA, AUGUST 15.—The money market is still easy. and transactions of safe character command assis tance at current bank and haziar rates; but within the last three or tour days the market has been rather dull, and there has been demand for accommodation ; the out ward retruttances from home have been limited, and ac count. from the up country marts are not quite so fa- Yourabl.l as before. The market, excepting for cotton piece goods, and yarn, is generally less active than at the cl , te of our last issues ; there is an absence of less speculative demand, especially from the upper provinces, and the aversion which native dealers have to enter upon heavy engage ments preceding the approaching native holidays imparts dulness in the market.—Cotton Piece Goods.—Business in this trade continues extensive ; our present exhibits considerable sales of heavy white goods, as jaconets, mulls, cambric, madapolams, and s .irtihgs, but prices bare been rather lower; the lighter fabrics for native wear have been more inquired after, as usual, preparatory to the approaching native holidays; chintzes and coloured goods are still neglected.—Cotton Twist.—Sales to con. siderable extent continue ; latterly medium numbers have been let off at slightly reduced prices; imports are heavy. SPAIN.—The most preposterous reports have ben in cir culation in Madrid regarding the royal marriages,evidenly concocted for the most mischievous purposes. Great pre parations were making for the celebration of the double marriage. The war between the government and the newspaper press continued. The editor of the E.zpecta dor has just been tried and acquitted, for some factious remarks on the Infanta's proposed marriage. The Eco del Comcrcio had been seized for the eighth time. On the Ist the senate commenced the discussion of the pro ject of hiw relative to the levy of 25,000 men, which was proceeding when our advices left. The Herold° denies positively that any further note or protest bad been ad dressed by M. Bulwer to the Spanish government. FRANCE.—The Paris papers still harp upon the Mont pensier marriage. It is stated that the Marquis of Nor manby communicated to M. Guizot on Monday a copy of the second note or protest, addressed to the Spanish Government by Lord Palmerston. Some technical in formality had, it was said, been discoyered in the mar riage contract of the infanta, which might occasion some dr lav, but this is in all probability one of the many ab surd reports which were in c irculation on the Bourse on j Tuesday, for the purposes of stock jobbing. A telegra phic dispatch was received by the French Government on that day, which announced the safe arrival of the French princes at Burps, on the evening of the 4th instant. They bad been received with the greatest distinction throughout their journey, and were not called upon to encounter any of those signs of unprlaularity which were so liberally anticipated for them. They left Borges at eight the next morning for Buitrago, have since reached Vittoria amidst great enthusiasm. Many Carlistofficers (;f rank were seized in France, and thrown into prison by the authorities, the moment the escape or Don Carlos's son was known. The French Rentes fell on a report of the recall of Mr. Itulwer, and Lord Normanby not dining with the King of the French on the seventy-fourth anniversary of his Ma jesty's birthday. - - THE WEST INDIES. — The news from the West Ind'a islands is not of great moment. The colonists, although they were somewhat prepared for the event, received the information of the passing of th' Sugar Duties Bill with great discontent; and most of the papers are loud in in. vective against the Horne Government for passing such a measure; many of the merchants go so far as to assert that the result will be absolute ruin to them, and to the future prospects of the island.. Dysentry prevailed in many places, particularly at Trinidad ; the other islands may be considered healthy, although to a limited extent sickness bad prevailed. At Grenada, on the 6th of Sep. tember, a very severe shock of an earthquake was felt on shore. The shipping in harbour, however, was not affec ted. The Medway brings home six prisoners, for a mu. tiny on board the Sea King, off New Orleans, bound to Havannah. The British brig George Canning, Harvey, master, was wrecked off Kingston on the 24th ult.—crew and master saved, and a portion of the spars and rigging. The vessel was totally lost. MEXlCo.—Despatches received by the United States Government confirm the intelligence contained in private letters with regard to the movement of General Taylor's forces from Camarg,o. Adyices from St. Louis renew the expressions of solicitude mentioned in cur last with regard to the supplies required for General Kearney's command. Verbal accounts from Santa Fe state that Armigo had been called upon by the principal citizens of New Mexico, to repel the invasion of their country. Armigo is said to have expressed his willingness to do so, were competent fo cs placed under his command. The United States frigate Potamac had arrived off the harbour of Pennacola from Vera Cruz. No intelligence had been received from her up to the close of our despatches. A letter from Vera Cruz, dated August 25th, states that the officers of the unfortunate brig-of-war Truxton, were residing with the Lientevant-Governor of Tuspan, and were in perfect safety. An arrival from Campeachy revives the doubts entertained as to the nature of the relations of Yucatan with Mexico and the United States. The accounts re ceived convey intelligence that Tabasco had joined in the revolt for the recall of Santa Anna. The blockade of that port by the United States brig-of-war Somers, was threat ened AWashinaton correspondent of the NereYorkHerald, writingonthelith ult. fromthecapital, states that the War Department had resolved to change the base cf operations in Mexico from Monterey to Tampico, on the Gulf Coast. A copy had been received of Santa Anna'saddress. It is a vet y long-winded document, devoted chiefly to a vindication of himself and aspersions of his opponents. As to the pro secution of the war, or endeavours to nvgociate a peace, the address throws very little light, if any. Something may be inferred, perhaps, from the marked absence of hostile expressions when the United States are spoken of or referred to; and something, it may be, from the ela borate endeavour to hold op the project of a European monarchy as the most fearful event which Mexico could encounter. But, apart from these, we can see nothing in the address which affords the slightest indication of the writer's future policy. In the great cigar factory in Manilla, ten thousand girls are employed, all Indians of the country, or 1% lalays. Letters from Persia announce the total disappearance of the eholera from Teheran, and the return of the Shah to his capital. Louis Philippe, King of the French, completed his seventv.third year last Tuesday. tie is the oldest sovereign in Europe, except Ernest, King of Hanover. There has been another skirmish at our settlement at Aden. A body of 5,000 Arabs attacked the town in broad daylight, but being repulsed, they were soon compelled to ret , re with a severe loss in killed and wounded. CRIME AND ITS PENALTY.—A man of the name of Bright, living in North Carolina, lately shot a negro, Wounding him so severely that the poor fellow died shortly after. Bright was arrested, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of 5 dollars. TRIESTS, SEPT. 28.—Letters from Odessa, dated 16th September, state that corn had risen two paper rubles the ischetmert. More than 60,000 lcchet were sold during the week. A quantity of corn had arrived from Bessa rabia, where there was an abundant harvest. A lesser quantity had arrived from Poland. The rise is to be at tributed to the i nfluence of foreign markets. A lettex from Galacz, of the 12th, says, that little had been done in corn ; wheat had fallen, barley and ry e were fi rm : In dian corn was at a high price. In Bulgaria the barley crop was scanty; according to letters from Varna, im fOrtatioll iacreaapd there, as alas at Ilaitachaek, the pri..es dirr;nieb:..d aceord;riglv. Accow from Alex andrkt, of nw hth nit., state_that there NAN great activity I tor,rket there. ht.d alone bought 24(!;OPO ardeb4 of rent for Eogi.nd. and that it see SeqUe f:C The King of Prussia intends to devote X 120,000, out of his own private purse, to the formation of a covered gardtn, of extensive dimensions, in the centre of Berlin, to serve as a public promenade in the winter season. The visitors will breathe a tropic atmosphere, the temperature being maintained at spring warmth, while without are all the rigours of winter. PRINCELY GENEROSITY.—The Journal de Francforl states that the Duke of Saxe Coburg, in the five mouths from January 1 to May 31, distributed to 700 of his pea santry in Humtary, who were suffering from the defici ency of the last year's harvest, 11b. of meat and 21b. of bread each per day, and gave employment for all who were able to work—thus expending during this period 28,000 florins, upwards of 70,0001., in food; and 144,000 flirins, about 360,500 f., in labour. The warrant, on political grounds, for the arrest of the advocate, Dr. Mendelssohn, has given rise to a curious mistake. At Herbestahl, a little Prussian town, near the Belgic frontier, the gen- d'armerie arrested the advocate's cousin -Berman, the celebrated composer, Felix Men deissolan Bartholdy, who was on his return from England. The production of his passport only convinced his captors that he was the Dr. Mendelssohn, and he was incarce rated in prison till some friends procured his release the next morning. _ _ The Lisbon correspondent of the Morning Chronicle says, the failure of the crops of all kinds of grain has caused a very considerable rise in the price of bread ; and that failure, coupled with the deterioration of potatoes, not in particular districts, as occurred last year, but generally throughout the country, has excited very serious apprehensions of a scarcity of food. Accounts from Berlin state that the price of food in Prussia is extremely high, the rye crop having failed. In Belgium and the north of France the potato crop is reported to be not only good, but abundant ; the unsound crop of last year being succeeded by one perfectly healthy. DEPARTURE OF El. M. ' s 16TH LAFCERS.—The rem nants of the gallant 16th Lancers embarked on board the Marion at Prinsep's Ghaut yesterday morning, after a long and distinguished career in India, during a period of twenty-four years. The regiment marched from DIM- Dunn at an early hour in the morning, and was played out to a considerable distance by the military band, the men of the artillery giving them three hearty cheers as a parting fatewell on their leaving the barrack square. The progress of the regiment through the city was not marked by a similar demonstration of feeling, but although the heroes of " and many a hard fought field were permitted to leave our shores in silence, as far as the good people of Calcutta were concerned, it was the silence of admiration and respect, for we are sa tisfied that the 16th carry with them the esteem and good wishes of all India as one of the most distinguished regi ments that ever came to this country, whether we regard their gallantry in the field, or their good conduct and hos pitality in quarters. Of the original number who landed in India in 1822 scarcely more than three or four remain, including Colonel M`Dowell, who, we believe is the only officer now present who landed with the regiment; and it must be a source of no small pride and gratification to him to return to his native country at the head of the gallant band, who have earned such honourable distinction for themselves after a long and arduous career of active ser vice, seldom equalled and never surpassed, for everything honourable to the proud fame of British soldiers.—Cal cutta paper, .Aug. 13.-I:Since the regiment embarked.. seven others of the men have died.] IRELAND. For several days last week a dreadful hurricane rage !, along the Irish coast. A number of disasters will be found in our shipping intelligence. The Lords of the Treasury Lave agreed to advance the sum of £50,000 towards the constiuction of a floating dock in Liawrick ATTACK ON A MAIL CAR.—On Saturd§y, Bianconi's car, plying between Roscrea and Clonmel, was attacked near Tempiemore. The traces were cut, the driver beaten, and the mailbag carried off. Dr. Crotty, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Claque, died on Saturday week. He has been a good deal in Portugal, and was president of the Dish College at Lis- bon, and subsequently president of Maynooth College. A gentleman whilst shooting hares, the other day, at Lowtown, Antrim, accidentally fired at the head of a son of the keeper, who was accompanying him, and killed him. Government having no security for what they have ad vanced to the Irish landlords, it has been suggested that the former should constitute itself a mortgagee on a large scale, and should enter on the lands relieved by advances, leaving to the proprietor his equity of redemption. The pig fair at Clonwel last week was so crowded, that one gentleman writes to the paper that it was with much difficulty he could keep the pigs from breakfasting with him, as his ball door was near being burst in several times. TTTE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. One ohktule is removed from - the alleviation of Irsh risteat7. of : the multiplicatiqn of useless roads, thelabi - nir th 2 -, eople , rnay now be i:reeteci into that afford a return for the expenditure. The Lt.rd Lieutenant has, on his own responsibility, under taken to correct the imperfections of the Labour Act, and Sessions may now present for " works of a reproductige character and permanent utility," in the assurance that such of them as shall be recommended by the Board of Works his Excellency will sanction and approve. This is a step in advance, and it taken earlier would have saved a good deal of needless discussion and a great many ridiculous proposals. Plans for drainage, &c., will now be entertained, so that land may be improved while po verty is relieved. The editor of the Cork Constitution was last month en joying himself with some friends in Lanarkshire, and in consequence, the usual "leaders" in that paper did not make their appearance. A day or two before the return of the editor a mysterious statement appeared in the Ro mish newspaper at Cork congratulating the friends of " Catholicity" on his conversion to the " true faith," and announcing that he was then at the " College of Oscott, in the midst of the Newmans, the Fabers. and the Puseys, confirming his belief in the creed of the fathers." The editor on his return writes an editorial notice of the cir cumstance in the Constitution, in which he says the cir cumstance "will, at all events, afford a hearty laugh to certain kind-hearted friends with whom, while it was making its appearance, instead of poring over the pulings of a demented theology in the sombre cells of Oscott, we were breathing the pure air of Heaven on the healthful hills of Lanarkshire." CHARGE. AGAINST AN AMERICAN CAPTAIN.—AII investigation was held in Passage yesterday into the cir cumstances attending the deaths of three emigrants, on board the American ship, the Meloka. The vessel in question bad left Liverpool a short time since, with Irish emigrants, bound for New York, but having suffered some damage, after leaving port, she was obliged to put into Passage to refit. The emigrants on landing here, alleged that they had experienced bad treatment from Captain M`Lareorn, the captain of the Meloka, and that his con duct to the individuals who had died on the voyage from Liverpool, was cruel and neglectful. After a long exami nation of witnesses the decision of the bench was read to the effect that with respect to the first charge—that the passengers died on board from neglect of the Captain— they acquitted him of that ; they were of opinion that the second charge—that the provisions and water were not served out according to law—was proved, and they there convicted Captain M•Laren in the mitigated penalty of £25 sterling. They reduced the penalty on account of the small number of hands on board (which, however, was net the fault of the Captain), to which they attributed the want of water complained of by the passengers, more than to any neglect of the Captain, or want of supply. The magistrates were unanimous in their determination, and that if the penalty was to be paid by the owners, and if it amounted to £5OO instead of £25, they would have given it gainst them. The owners bad been guilty of dreadful neglect in sending out the Meloka from Liver pool with not half the number of hands she would have carried.—Mr. Walsh, counsel for the Captain, thought it right to mention that the American Consul, came over here in an American vessel of 1,200 tons and only 22 men. According to the practices in the American service, such a number of hands was considered quite sufficient.— Cork Constitution. FOREIGN FRUIT AND CATTLE.—The Battavier, Dutch steam-ship, arrived on Thursday at St. Katharine's wharf from Rotterdam, with 70 oxen, 12 calves, 50 sieves of grapes, and a large quantity of alnuts. The Antwerpen steamer, from Antwerp, arrived the same day, with 100 bags of walnuts. The Essex Standard says that the potato crop in that neighbourhood, is decidedly freer from disease this year than last. The Nottingham Journal says that parties in that county, who are digging their potatoes, find them much better than anticipated, both in quality and quan tity. Most of the provincial papers of last week speak in somewhat similar terms as to this useful vfgetable. Lord Fitzbardinge and his brother, Granary Berkeley, member for West Gloucestershire, for reasons best known to themselves, have quarrelled, and the noble earl has announced to the constituency that he will not sup port his brother at the next election. Mr. Berkeley has published a long address, challenging his brother to at tend a meeting of the electors. AN ACTRESS IN DISTRESS.—Mrs. Anna Yates, an actress at the Pavilion Theatre, aged about forty, at trmpted to drown herself in the Taarnes the other day, hut was prevented by a waterman. It appeared she had been in want, and stated that a person to whom she owed money had insulted her. A very high character for inte grity was given to her by a worthy baker, who, co: jointly with another person, became bail for her. AWFUL EVENT.— Last Sunday morning, Thomas Jones, one of the young men engaged as assistant filler, wile throwing in a basket full of cinder into the furnace, by some means or other overbalanced himself, and fe.l into the fuller of the heated cruMble, and in about three minutes was ..o't rely consumed. The blast was immedi ately thrown off. I ut. trot a fragment of the body could be toui.d.—MonnttulksAire Merlin. THE CARLTON CLUB.—The whole of the Premises in Pall Mall, situate between the Carlton Club and the Duke of Buckingham's, have been razed, the site they occupied being required for the enlargement of the Carlton Club house. It is intended to raise the building another story ; an entirely new architectural frontage will also be built, the estimated cost of the alterations and improvements being 22.1100. It is st,ited that the Marquis of Exeter intends to allow his potato crops to remain in the ground through the winter, a coveriog - of manure being laid over them to exclude frost—G. Finch, Esq., of Burley-on. the-Hill, has had his potato crops burnt, having considered them as unfit for man or beast ! The benevolent gentleman has made a handsome provision of rice for his labourers, as a substitute. An officer of artillery of high standing has been se lected, with the com•ent of both parties, to test the merits of Lieutenant Warner's inventions, both of the shell and long range ; and that the Treasury has appropriated the sum of 1.:1,50.3 to defray the expenses of the experi ments ; so that the curiosity of the public has at length some prospect of being gratified in respect to this questio vexata. The official returns of the public revenue, for the year and quarter ending the 10th of October, were made up at a late hour last night. We call attention to the gratifying fact that they exhibit an increase on the year and quarter, as compared with the corresponding periods of last year, the increase on the year being £88.264, and on the quarter £539.064 ; and that in the Excise department there is an increase on the year of £182,717, and on the quarter of £226,820. The Property -tax also eAhittits an increase on the year of £265,031, and on the quarter of £148,245. An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in , the Years and Quarters ended the 10th of October, 1845 and 18-16, showing the Increase or De crease thereof. EARS ENDED OCTOBER 10 1845. I 1846. I Incr . Excise, 18,652,552 1 18,150,933 .... 12.069.215 12.251 932 182 712 6.961,370 6,983,129 21,75! 4,228.221 4,238,560 10,27! 5,127.126 5,332,157 205,031 688.0 •0 8t2,000 114,001 145,000 115.000 .... 501,619 THE C,,URT to FASHIONABLE WORLD. Stamps Her Majesty will, next week, quit Windsor Castle to pay a visit to the Queen Dowager, at Cashiobury Park. The Hon. Robert Boyle has been appointed a Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. Earl Cooper is likely to be appointed Lord Lieutenant of K2nt, in the room of Lord Thanet. Lord and Lady Stanley have returned to the Earl of Derby's seat, Knowsley, from the Earl and Counrigs of Ellesmere, at Worsley Hail, Lancashire. It is said that Lieut.-General Sir Edwsrd Blakeney will be promoted to the rank of general ; Prince George of Cambridge from major-general to lieut..general, and be appointed to the command of the forces in Ireland. The Duchess of Gloucester has been spending last week with toe Earl of Ellesmere, at Worsley. The Dowager Lady Wharncbti.: bad been on a visit to the noble earl for a few days preliously. We regret to announce another elopement in high life, under circumstances of an aggravated nature. Captain Francis Lovell, of the Eat Life Guards, has been paying his addresses to Lady Rose Somerset, fourth daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort. The parents objected to the marriage at present, on account of the youthful age of the lady, being only seventeen, but admitted the Cap tain as a constant visitor. Advantage was taken of the absence of the Duke and Duchess from Badminton, and the parties eloped to the border. TaxeS Property Tax Post Office Crown Lands Miscellaneous 30,000 Total Ord nary Revenue.. . Imps est &othe Moneys .. 902,910 1,324,518 421,58 k 48,774,504 49,198,259 955,37 406,619 224,747 .... 531,619 181,872 Repayments o Advances 1,325.760 1,172,141 153.619 Total Income. 150,506.883 150,595,1-17 1955.374 Deduct Decrease.. 867,110 Increase on the Year £88,264 ARTERS EN Customs ... Excise ..... Stamps Taxes Property Tax Post Office . Crown Lands Miscellaneous Total Ordinary Revenue.... ImprestScother Moneys .... Repayments of Advances Total Income 4,848,363 3 955,106 1,780,175 201,279 1,8'23.883 209,000 30,000 465,102 13,312,908 24,591 473,881 113,811,3 N t Decrease DI;D OCTOBER 10. 1 Incr 5 310,835 462.472 4.181.926 '226,820 1,774,364 .... 209,940 8,6611 1,972,128 148,245 217,01)0 8,000 45,000 j 15,000; 403,554 14,116,717 33,815 199,882 867,110 Decr. I 5,811 1 59,548 869,198 65,359 273,999 4,350,444) 878,4221 339,358 Deduc 339,M8 Increase on the Quarter.... £539,064 GENERAL MISCELLANY. The personal estate, in England, of the late Lord Met- I calfe, has been estimated for duty at £lOO,OOO. It is stated that between seven and eight thousand jour neymen tailors are now out of employment in Loudon. The Bank of England pays £30,000 per annum as in come-tax. A project is on foot for placing a small steamer en Co niston lake by next summer. Eliza Lawrence, the Swiss giantess, drowned herself in the Thames, on Tuesday, in a fit of despondency, induced by want. Sir George Grey, Bart., Secretary of State for the Home Department, has suffered the penalty of disfran chisement. The flaw in Sir George's claim was clerical. An explosion of fire-damp took place on Monday at a pit connected with the Clyde Iron works, by which six persons lost their lives. The import duty on wheat is row 7s. per quarter. It is expected to be 4s. (the lowest it can be under the pre sent law) in the course of a week or two. The French newspapers state that almost all the fish have this year quitted the ccast of France, and betaken themselves to that of Scotland. PAPERING A PLACE OP WORSHIP.—A novel mor'e of decorating a place of worship, has been displayed in the papering of Bridge-street chapel, Bi intol. On Monday, a riot took place between some labourers on the Newcastle and Berwick railway, in which one of the Irish Labourers stabbed a man, who died immedi y. The perretrator was secured. The body of a man named Richard Green, of Rowley Regis, has been found dead in a pond, under very suspi cious circuit stances of having been foully murdered; but no evidence of the offender has yet been traced. Lord Napier has written a letter to Captain Napier. in reference to a discussion in the India House. His lord ship declares " his entire approval of Sir Charles Na pier's conduct." FALSE PROPERTY lIETURNS.—The government are prosecuting some parties in the neighbourhood of Not tingham, for having made false returns under the pro perty and income tax acts. A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle is of opi nion that in the highlands and islands of Scotland 50,000 families have to maintain themselves on less than ss. a week. Last week, a baby was suffocated in London, whilst at its mother's breast. The mother fell asleep on the sofa, with her infant in her arms, and when she awoke, the child was black in the face. CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.—Out of seven men killed and four injured at the lamentable accident at the Aberdeen Railway, "Alexander" was the Christian name of seven of the unfortunates. A medley lot of " Reformers" held a preliminary meet ing on Friday at the Hall of Commerce, for the purpose of establish'ng a society, under the title of "The Na tional Alliance," with the view of organising all political parties to effect a reform in the House of Commons. It is proposed to establish a fund, to be raised on the plan of the Anti-Corn-Law League, and tracts and mission aries are to be disseminated all over the country, in order to accomplish the end proposed. The commissioners for the encouragement of the fine arts have given notice that, with the view of selecting ar tists skilled in oil-painting to decorate the new houses of parliament, three premiums of £5OO each, three pre miums of £3OO each, and three premiums of £2OO each, will be given to the artists who shall furnish oil-paintings which shall be deemed worthy of them. The paintings are to he sent, in the course of the first week in June, 1847, for exhibition to Westminster-hall. FOOT RACE —On Tuesday a match between J. Sher don and R. Monks (both of S:teffield) came off in thepre sence of a very large assemblage of persons. Sheldon staked £l2O to £lOO of his opponent. The ground cho sen for the occasion was from the second mile post to the first on the Doncaster and York turnpike road. The betting was 5 to 4 on Sherdon. Manks gave up about 400 yards from home, and Sherdon went in the winner.— Doncaster Gazelle. A FLAW !—A rather curioas flaw, not in the indict ment but in the " improvement" act, which, it is said, cost the citizens of Hereford some £l5OO, has just been discovered. In the marginal note to one of the clauses a penalty is prescribed against parties who wash carriages in e public streets, whereas, on reference to the clause itself, the fine is for making carriages in this odd work shop, to which it is not likely any handicraftsman would resort. The clause is, therefore, not merely useless but ridicu7ous.—Hereford Journal. Miss .•!;trick fano accuses Lord Campbell of stealing from her " Lives of the Queens of England" to fill up his " Lives of the Chancellors," and the editor of Dolman's ? I 'ragazine accuses Miss Strickland of stealing from Dr. Liegarti's notes in his " History of England," in order to fill up her biography of the Queens. But as the learned doctor's notes are, all of them, stolen, or at least mere transcipts and translations from old chronicles, we think it will require all the editor's acquired jesuitry to bring in ,Miss Strickland guilty. DISMISSAL OF CADETS.—Notwithstanding four gen tlemen cadets were expelled from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. under the command of Colonel B. Parker, C. 8., some days ago, for an outrage upon the person of another cadet, who was compelled to go to the hospital, yet it has been found necessary to expel four more on charges of intoxication, &c. The gallant Lieut.- Governor is determined not to allow the least impropriety of conduct degrading to the service. SELF-STARVATION.—Thomas Miller, 39 years of age, of unsound mind, was committed to the Westminster House of Correction, on the 10th of last month, from Marylebone Police-court, for creating a disturbance in the street, and in default of finding sureties. From the moment he entered the prison he obstinately refused to take any food, and, although a small quantity was forced down his throat, he died on Monday morning. A coro ner's jury found that "he died from disease of t brain.' Twenty sears SHOCKING EXEIDITION.—A few days ago, a man THE STAGE.—The theatre is declining. named Beckett, hostler in a village i n Y or k s hi re , di e d i n ago, the hi'her and middle classes numbered many pro consequence of having attempted to d r i n k t wo quar t s o f leased admirers and patrons of the drama. Kemble ant ale in one draught a few days previous. Kean, Matthews and Macready, had their myriads of ad- It is announced by a contemporary that Mr. Pugin has mirers, and the stage was a common topic of conversation been looking at Mr. Crockford's shut-up hell, and it is in general society. Now, Covent.earden is given up to surmised that it is to he concerted into a Roman Catho- • musical promenades, and Drury-lane to an Italian opera. he chapel. Mr. Graham sings at taverns, Mr. C. Kemble lectures Mr. Btaham, it is said, is about to retire from proles- and reads Shakspeare in mechanics institutes. Mr. sional life, though previous to doing so he will make a Macready is acting at the Surrey Theatre! tour of the provinces. The death of his daughter's bus- DEPRESSED STATE OF THE PRINTING BUSINESS.— band, the Earl of Waldeg race, without issue, renders it The scarcity of employment wh ich h as p revailed for a no longer necessary that ie should pursue his labours. considerable pot tion of the present year amongst the prin- FATA L FlRE. —stn Friday night a dreadful fire took ters of the metropolis has scarcely ever been equalled. place at the bookseller's shop of Mr. Sharpe, Scuthwat k. During the last six months the compositors of London have disbursed towards the relief of their brethren out of The premises were eomp'etely destroyed, and M r. Sharpe's £ eldest daughter. aged 19, was unfortunately burnt to death work a sum exceeding 1200. Each person has received during the conflagration. Os. a week, the number of recipients ranging from 160 to 230. Even at the present time, when trade in former THE CORN A VERA GES.—It appears by the weekly re years has been considered good, their number amounts to turn of the general averages of grain , that the sales of wheat have amounted to the very large extent of 181,300 210. quarters, and of barley to 45,447 quarters. The duty upon N ews have arrived of the tot a l wre c k of the ship Active, fore'gn wheat is on the decline. of London, the property of Messrs. Wilson and Cooke, On Tuesday week, as some workmen were putting in a reerchants, of Bermondsey, on the coast of Coramandel. T new window at Carlisle Cathedral, a stone weighing four the greater part of the passengers were saved, but nine tf the crew were drowned. The vessel and her contents cwt., fell into the choir, within a few seats occupied by the clergyman, the precentor, and singing-boys , all of were totally lost. The wreck has exc ted considerable whom escaped unhurt. attention from the fact of the charts by which Captain The poll for the election of the Lord Mayor of London T Renant steered being incorrect to the extent of fourteen are at roll, 1,653 ; Wood, 1,644 ; Hooper, 324. Sir George was closed on 'Tuesday, when the numbers were—Car-rnii. b etwee n T x h 3 e o, v a c l o t o i e ando of t h x e 4 s o li m i n oci a . n d The cargois owners computed under- Carroll has since been chosen Lord Mayor by the Court stood to be fully insured. of Aldermen. I RRELIGI ON OF TIIE DAY. — There is nothing too Last week, an incendiary fire took place on the pre- sacred now to escape the fate of going halo Punch. As the Herald says , w e ma y soo n expect a Comic Prayer miser of Mr. James Watson, of Wandlev, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, by which fourteen stacks of wheat Book; and then Punch laughs at the Herald,—the ob and hay were destroyed. The value is estimated at jest of occasional portions of its comicality, as "My £2,000. gran dmother." 'Weak people are l aug h e d out o f th e i r morality, their loyalty, and their religion. The regions of On Sunday, the wall of the esplanade at Weymouth folly are isulie jo lywide enough without these invasions of was much injured by a violent storm. The waves carried s u b ject of the day offered finer materials away a portion of the carriage road, and the spray broke ribaldry. . ~ _ ,___,,,,,„ I for ridicule than same of the proceedings of the " British as high as the bed-room windows of the opposite houses , The amount of damage is estimated at £I,UOO. 191GBWAY ROBBERY BY LADS.—On Wednesday The Earl of Chesterfield, Prince George of Cambridge, eve the lion. Captain Forrester. aid Captain M'Donald have, , during six days in Nottinghamshire, killed 186 , 1 head of rung, hetwen six and seven o'clock, astGeoree Leman, a la') thirteen years of age, in the employ of Mr. Levy, the aredy to be equalled, but not to be sur toll-contractor was pr , ceeding from the toil• gate in the ~ s tate in the kinerh -,,, Brornpton-reAd to the Kensington turnpike up the Won , . Aysociatio count. game ; sport s , passed upon at dangerous effects:6 likely bottles after cleansing. umfrceted h tention_to the t ot. - .Lskly • a,.x.,..... ----, result from leaving shot In eester-road fie was met by five or six lads Id O.-kr ttym nin thre medicli Gazette me.ri tions self, who knocked him down and rifled his pockets, from baying been recently poisoned one of which they took a brown parer parcel containing r in which it was afterwards ablit t 8 in gold and silver, which he was entrusted to to the Kensington-gate, and got clear ntT. A pAice yheard the cries of the boy and hastened to the spot, t ,v h e a r t e l s aiter depositedila viog carbonate guff ere o d f c n e m r n r but by the timc he rcached the thiecc, 1,.„; ---- , ' an instance of a r after Laving drank lig, proved two pellets of s lead. The iodivitlual Fee violult pains. scaped conference with ir Oct. la, 1846. - - citation eif tee.. UNIVERSITY 4- C I,E 1U(',11, VEIT'S. ! T457E ARR•VA L or Amenreeer Fr otia.—The New i It is stated on what we believe to be unquestionable atien of useless , `_`ere ezel:etsship, Northumberland, re risen oil Thursday authority, that the French Government —or, in other e .I•xeeted into THE NEW BralOP.—The Rev. John b 111, D.D, .- ea the Lont:ein Lee:: ieitie eeeil barre% of flour, each cite: '.. his 7.i ete.sty Louis Philiape—has de e. - •- el the canon of teediture. The Exeter cathedral, has been named as the probe weighing one hundred weight and three qeartee n s, a large errender of 1) n Cat L 6 s Louis .stMerrell - reine Merr-n e in by ibilny, under- ble first bishop of Manchester.lan lis shortly expected home. quantity of cheese, and 3,000 kegs of turpeetine. tile Fnglith Cabinet. We hear that the reply of L or d The Bishop of New ibour Act, and WHOLESALE POACHING.—The trains of the White. Palmerston to this monstrous requi s iti o n was the on l y found a reproductive His lordship's is to bring haven Junction between Workington and Harrington, one a British Minister o u ght t o ma k e — t h a t E ng l an d was ir a p t t at : w e r u goor r y ß ue a ea n i Board great assurance that ahnoi y sf a" Rev. T. Dale in the vicarage of Sc. Bride, London. The the city churcees, has been appointed successor to the The 'Rev. Mr. Marshall, an evening lecturer in one of sion before the Church in England. e necessities of his mix- haven numbers of hares, which get upon the line from a tree country, and that any for e i gn e r , no matter w h a t the adjoining preserves of Henry Curwen, Esq., thus might be his political opinions, w as e n ti t l e d t o an asy l um enabling the gate-keepers to participate in the luxury of an so long as he respected our laws.—Morning Post. r occasional dish of hare soup. Loss OF THE BRIG ' C LIFTON ,' OF N EWCASTLE , l it S C a e c s ci t " m w w o h i n l while he nosy A cask of treacle was, in May last, delivered by mistake WITH SIX OF HER CREW, AT SEA.—It appears that living is worth £550. with some casks of liquid manure. The labourers min- the Clifton took on board at Buctush a cargo of timber A representation has been made to the Bishop of Chi- with it with compost and applied it to turnips, and a splen- for London ; and on the 9th of September proceeded on cheater by the parishioners of New Shorei am, near Br igh did crop has been the result. The railway official who her intended voyage. On the 19th of the same month ton, relative to a sermon on auricular confession recently committed the blunder arrived just as the unctuous fluid she encountered violent gale s , rang i ng f rom th e S . to the words, " Ishire, and in delivered by the Rev. Mr. Wheeler, the vicar Show thyself to the priest." In, founded on the event of was running auroad in a bed of dung. N.S.W., at which pt:riod the vessel bec ame wa t er -l ugge d, paper did not the bishop declining to interfere the circumstances will be Letters dated Trieste, 28th ult., state that on that day an and turned bottom upwards : her masts then gave way, r o e r d e the return t rui l i de e tf i ha f n ie r t i t h e r h , n u e , 1 8 e y, s , brought under the notice of the Archbishop of Canterbury. estalette had arrived in that port from London, supposed and she righted. Six men were drowned!* After the , ,„ to be from the British government, with orders to buy up survivors had spent three days and three nights in the CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—At the meet• v . " 8 all the Indian corn at that place and at Alexandria, loge_ main-top, they were seen by Captain Gorwin, of the of the General Committee, on the Ist inst., fifteen new sß an °o d i. titer with all the peas, beans, and all the other lentils to be barque Secret, who took them on board, and brought them grants,.anounting to £1262, were made; ten of these are hail there. to Penarth Roads on Thursday.—Cardiff Paper. ege, of Oscott, for additional curates, one is to provide an income for the The new Mariners' Church near London Dock, the THE LATE COURT-MARTIAL.—At Hounslow barracks incumbent of a new church and district, and four for lay foundation stone of which was laid by the Prince Albert on Wednesday afternoon, the finding of the late court a'awtshhaeyirisse2:ihte T wej ' ar ' e s. assistants. The aggregate population under the, ministe lice of the cis- in the early part of the summer, is rapidly approaching martial was read with the sentence, the latter being im rial .care of the incumbents is 114 400, and the average completion, and the rapidity with which the structure has prisonment for six months, including solitary confine amount of their incomes £l6l. Thirteen of the incum mrty laugh to been raised has surprised every one. The tower and spire merit at various portions of that period, not exceeding bents are wit bout rarsonage-bouses. At the same meet: are finished. two months. Private Mathewson objects to the legality ing, twenty-one grants for additional curates and five for vet the palin gs On Wednesday, the tide of the river Thames rose to an of the proceedings, on the ground that h e was t r i e d b y society now su of Oscott, we .ds 311 incu eibents, lay-assistants, amounting to £1950, were renewed. The alarming height, causing a serious destruction of pro- the name of Thomas Mathe wson , w hil e is proper name serial the healthful having under their minis.. care 2,151,027 souls, or each an average charge of perry situate in all the low-lying cellars and warehouses is John Thomas Mathewson. F ormer l y th at o bj ect i on 6916 souls, while the average rate of their incomes is only near the water-side. At Bankside and Lambeth the loss would have been fatal to the proceedings; b u t s i nce every , !APTAIN.—an £199, and 156 of these incumbents are without, parson- of property is very great. The flood is mainly attributed man entering the army has latt er ly h a d a num b er g i ven into the cis- age-houses. The grants provide stipends for 296 clergy- to the boisterous state of the weather. him, by which he is alone known an d t r i e d, i t i s con emigrants, on The vessel inOn Tuesday evening week, Robert Scurfield, Esq., sidered that the objection will not stand good. men and 68 la •assistant, calling for an expenditure nf well known as a most extensive shipowner and very SCOTLAND.—" The Times Commissioner has been sent £32,333 per annum, y when all the grants shall be in opera ce, with Irishwealthy inhabitant of Sunderland, committed suicide, by to the Highlands of Scotland. He dates the first letter lion. 235 curates and 61 lay-assistants, are now sup ; suffered somehanging himself. One statement assigns the fatal act to from Ardgay, Ross-shire, on the 22nd of September. The ported by the scciety, and the actual payments of the in d to put into a morbid apprehension of poverty, which, notwithstanding result of his investigation thus far is, that there has been stitution are now at the rate of £26,423 per annum. Twenty-three applications for grants for seventeen addi g here, alleged his great wealth, had recently haunted his imaginati on . a general failure in the potato cro p, an d t h a t t h ere i s con from Captain Urinal curates and six lay By an explosion of sulphur at the coal-pit of the late sequent scarcity and privation ; but th a t goo d employ sum of £1822 to provide the stipends, are now before the that his con- -assistants, requiring a further Mr. Horton, Lytt'eton-hall,West Bromwich, on Saturday meta is abundant in the eastern i s l an d s , an d t h at with ; voyage from Committee. Amongst the last grants was £5O towards week, three men lost their lives, and seven others were activity and self-dependence the pressure may be met. a long exams- dreadfully burned, their bodies in some parts being lite- He extends his investigation to the general cause of po the payment of a curate at St. John's Church, Liverpool. ch was read to rally roasted by the flame and blackened by the clouds of verty in tee Highlands, and discovers that they are oth ..._. rge—that the THE REVENUE. vapour. nographical—the idleness and helpl essness o f th e C e l t i c the Captain— FOREIGN F R U IT AND CATTLE.—The Battavier, Dutch race. In Ireland, the descendents of the ancient Scots einion that the steam-ship, arrived on Thursday at St. Katharine's wharf submit to filth, poverty, and helpless lack of improvement, (From the Observer.) from Rotterdam, with 70 oxen. 12 calves, 50 sieves of because they " will not be fashed" with any necessary ter were not 31 ‘. e ., t: „. ft r i . alnt i nn a s ,, o r. f .i t n h i e h p ,s ?h , l i i , c ,,, r7 s vz revenue, .t . l . r . . year.. grapes. and a large quantity of Walnuts. The Antwerpen effort at improvement. rid they there- .„ The Duke of Leeds, Mr. Grantley Berkeley, and the editor of the Examiner, have succeeded Lord Ripon and Mr. Crowther, as the principal group i n the vublic letter writers of the day. The Duke refuses to allow his deer forests to be invaded by tourists. A tourist writes a word about this to the editor of the Examiner; Mr. Grantley Berkeley counterchecks the tourist in a letter to the same editor, in his individual capacity; the editor, in his individual capacity, snubs Mr. Berkeley ; and the Duke concludes the whole by a letter to Mr. Berkeley, confirming (against the Examiner's correspondent) the defence made of him by Mr. Berkeley, but apparently rather surprised that the editor, being " your friend, and, therefore, of course, a gentleman," should allow such things to be. DREADFUL TRAGEDY.—On Wednesday morning, Sharruck Richard Bragg, a bricklayer by trade, living in the parish of Elham, about ten miles from Folkestone, rose at an early hour, and while his wife was in bed with an infant by her side, he struck her violent blows on the temple with a hammer. He then committed the like vio lence on a little girl fire years of age, who lay in a side bed, and then destroyed his own li.e by cutting his throat immediately afterwards. His wife and child also expired the same night. The coroner's jury found " that the deceased, Sharruck Richard Bragg, killed and slayed Mary his wife, and Ellen his daughtrr, whilst in an un sound state of mind, and wnilst in that insane state, did destroy himself by cutting his throat with a certain razor." The wretched man was in his twenty-ninth year, and bore a good character. A CUittOuS APOLOGY.—Yesterday a funny looking man named Lapitt, dress( din a red coat. was charged with being, drunk and incapable. lie made the following de fence—" Heaven bless your honour, I'm as innocent as a babe. By your leave tell you the fact, I have got a queer leg, a most awkward leg, which sometimes sho w s off all manner of antics. It reels from side to side, then dashes into the middle of the road, halts suddenly, then hurries rapidly along, carrying me Heaven knows where. Presently you may see me leaping into the air, then comes the catastrophe; the other leg, as sober and well conduc ted a leg as any man need wish for, is thrown off its equi librium and there is nothing to be dine but to fall pros trate, when up comes a policeman and naturally fancies I am drunk"' He was discharged amid the laughter of the court.— Cambridge Advertiser. THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE IRON TRADE.—BIR MINGHAM, THURSDAY. - -The fourth quarterly meeting for the year of the ironmasters of the midland districts was held in the Town-ball this day. The predictions of the last few days were fully verified. Business was brisk, and the prices previously fixed and announced at Dudley and Wolverhampton were firmly maintained. As a mat ter of course, some of the smaller masters evinced a dis position to undersell; but the general feeling was rather in favour of an advance than a reduction. A fear that tbe men would demand an increase of wages alone prevent° an advance of price. The difference of opinion which for some time past has existed with respect :o the week ►n which quarter days properly fall, has again occasioned considerable inconvenience; many of the factors refusing to settle until next week, when, as they contend, their quarterly accounts become due. The nailers in the neigh bourhood of Halesoweo still remain out, the masters being determined to resist the advance of price demanded. Hitherto the turnouts have conductM themselves peace ably. TUE NATIONAL ANTI-POOR-LAW UNION.—A preli minary meeting was held at St. Alban's on Thursday, to consider a plan for eneouragirg the working classes to save themselves from the new Poor Law system by means of a National Anti-Poor-Law Provident and Benevolent Union. It was understood that such a plan would be proposed •by Mr. Cabbed, M.P., who, it will be recol lected, was returned to Parliament for that borough in August last, as "an unc.onpromising opponent of the Poor Law," and avowing that he " wool.' look espe cially to the interests of the poor, their education, and their moral improvement." The meeting was held in the court-room of the Town-hall, and was attended by a number of the tradesmen and inhabitants of St. Alban's, and by many working men ; at least 200 persons were present, and listened with great interest to the proceed ings frJm first to last. The Mayor (Mr. Kentish) pre sided. There was a dinner at the Town-hall in the evening, at which about 200 gentlemen sat down, the Mayor again presiding, and having Mr. Cabbell on his right. It was stated that Mr. Cabbell would start the Anti-Poor-Law Union with a subsc:iption of 1000 guineas. DOUBLE SUlClDE.—Considerable sensation has been created in the vicinity of St. Mary Otters, Devon, by the following dreadful occurrence, by which the deaths of twq factory girls, both young women, were involved. On Friday week the deceased Mary Ann Olderidge, aged twenty-six, and Jane Smith, were visited by a man of in different character, of whom Olderidge contrived to pos sess herself of half-a-crown to get some l'quor with, and never.returned, the other deceased following her. The man subs-quently meeting with them, he threatened to expose them to their employer if they did not immediately return him his half-crown. Not having sufficient to make up the required sum ; the threat appeared to operate ,so powerfully on their minds, that they purchased 3d. worth of arsenic, with which they resolved to destroy themselves. They then resumed their work at the factory, and on leaving at night went to a public-house, where they mixed the poison in some cider, and drank it. Olderidge died in dreadful agony on Wednesday, and Smith followed in twenty-four hours after. An inquest was held on the bodies, when the jury returned a verdict of •' Felo de se." Both were interred without Christian rites, in the burial ground of the parish church. AN OBIGINAL LETTER Or GRACE DARLING'S. —We (Sherborne Journal) have been favoured with the original of the following letter, written by the lamented Grace Darling to Mr. S. Burton, the sailors' missionary, in re ply to one sent by him relating to her conduct at the wreck of the Forfarshire. The letter is written in a neat lently that mdwritinz tneek Christian spirit for which the memory of'Grace Darling is revered as much as for her heroism and self devotion t--" Deer Sir,-1 recd. yours Dated the 9th Inst., for which I begg to return my sincere thanks for the good advice Contained in the sate. .May the Almighty, who alone Enabled us to do what we did, Enable me to make good use of your advice; you needed no Apology for t our letter, for I assure you it was very welcome i • although I am but a very weak Christian, yet I hope to be found in that fold whose Sheapherd is Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. I can say that I re " jcdee in every thin.; tha I think tends to the advance.: cent of his Kingdom. lamat a loss to explain my better, but my parents learned me to read & wright , the Church of England Catechism, and the General Assem blies Short Catechism, which 1 admire as a butiful little Book. lam well Provided with a good Bible, and if it Please God to open them to me, I may be enabled, through the assistance of the Holy spirit, to gain the pearl of great Price. I am, Dear Sir, with sincere re- ipect and good wishes to a Minister of Jesus Christ, Your most Obt. Servant, G. li. DARLING, Longstone Light, March 22d, 1839. Rev. S. Burton, Post-Office, Exeter, Devon." FEMALE FACTORY OPPRATIVES.—On Wednesday a meeting was held in Bradford, for the purpose of effect ing an improvement in the moral and social condition of the female factory operatives. Lord Morpeth, W. Bus field, Esq., :VI. P., and the Rev. Dr. Scoresby were amongst the gentlemen present. It appeared from one of the reso lutions that there rire not fewer than 12,000 young women engaged in various departments of the trade of Bradford, of which number 2000 are married, and froin 1000 to 1200 live in loth-jogs ; and the employment and situation of these young women, especially of the married and those not residing with their own families, lay them under great disadvantages, and expose them to many moral dangers. Another resolution was to the following effect :—" That among the means of promoting the social and moral wel fare of this class, the following, recommended by a cool- mittee of gent!etnen on mature rlsideratio and after a of the spinners and tnanulacturers of nt—first, t n3rta Of g women RAILWAY INTALLIciENCE. The Strangford and Peterborough railway was opened last week. The meeting of the Chester and Birkenhead railway railway on Wednesday, was adjourned till to-morrow. Sir W. Verner has been restored to the deputy-lieu- The Great Northern have Confirmed the purchase of tenancy of the county of Tyrone ; and the Lord-Lieu- the Stamford and Spalding, and Captain Laws says that tenant has approved of the appointment of Mr. John at least 100 miles will be in work before July, 4848. O'Connell, M.P., to the deputy-lieutenancy of the The Scottish Railway Gazelle of Saturday gives a de county of Kerry. plorable account of the mischief done to the North British The proposed meeting of landholders in Dublin, for the line by the floods following the " heavy and continuous purpose of calling on the government to authorise present- rains.' , merits for reproductive works, and devising other means SHREWSBURY AED CHESTER RAlLWAY.—Engines for the alleviation of the prevailing distress, has been have traversed the line from Chester as far as Ruabon postponed sine die in conseluence of the lord-lieutenant's during the last few days: but the opening of this Railway announcement mentioned in another paragraph. for public use has not yet been officially announced. The Limerick papers, though generally containing too The first experimental trip on the Lynn and Ely Rail-. many pecounta di' evstrescts egninnt lit= and pinprity, wca - c ...DV ...... P."" . .".."..- V" . .-7 C. - .... 1 -'7' , ... t.' pc , "ainmr The train conveyed a number of the directors and their last week unusually full of such occurrences. Horses have been shot, fields of potatoes dug up, houses entered friends. It is expected that the line will be opened through ' and rifled, lives attempted—an enumeration even of which in a few weeks. we have not room for. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE.—An important junction REPEAL IN BELFAST.—The " independent" Repealers between this line and that of the Maryport and Carlisle, of this town have resolved to adjourn their important is in contemplation of being formed at Saint Nicholas, operations for a month. The reason is said to be the dif- thus obtaining at once a direct railway communication ficulty of collecting "the rent" during this season of de- with the sea ports on the west coast of Cumberland.— pression. As the rent is the most important psrt of le- Carlisle Patriot. peal, it is no wonder that adjournment should be made The Bridlington branch of the Hull and Selby Railway when the tin is not forthcoming. was opened lest week. The line being jointly leased to On Wednesday as Major Bevan was returning from a the York and North Midland and Manchester and Leeds shooting excursion, on a car, with three other gentlemen, Companies, the directors and their friends to the num near his father-in-law's, Mr. Brew, of W ildbrooke, ber of about 1,000 left Hull about 11 o'clock in the fore county of Clare, he had his loaded fowling-piece with the noon, in a train consisting of 51 carriages, drawn by three butt-end resting on the foot-board, when it accidentally engines. The train stopped at Cottenham, Beverley, and went off and shot him through the head. He was a ye- Driffield, to take up the inhabitants of those places who teran soldier, and had been thirty years in India. had received invitations. The train arrived at Bridling- A VOICE FROM DARRYNANE.—Mr. O'Connell has ton shortly after one o'clock. issued trona his " mountain home" a third essay on the FIRE IN A RAIKWAY TRAIN.—As one of the trains state of the country, in which he repeats all h s previous was proceeding near Whitacre to Birmingham, a mass of arguments in favour of holding a mock Parliament in red hot cinders from the funnel of the engine fell amongst Dublin for the purpose of prescribing to the Government the passengers of a third-class carriage. One gentleman such measures as may best seem fit to the " Convention" had his cost completely destroyed, and a female passenger to meet " the horrible emergency in which the country is had a vary narrow escape. Her umbrella took fire, and iuvolved." The repeal rent last week was £126. the flames were communicating with her dress, when a GOVERNMENT DEPOTS.—FAMINE PRICES.—A COM- man, at a great risk, rescued her from the burning ftag munication has been addressed by Commissary-General ments, and saved her from dreadful injury, if n)t from Hewitson to Major Beamish, in reply to his representa- death. The passengers were in imminent peril of being tion of the exorbitant price exacted for Indian meal by the roasted alive. retail corndealers in the towns of Skull and Ballydehob, DESTRUCTION OF A BRIDGE.—Among the disasters West Carbery. and urging on the government the opening occasioned by the recent floods is one dreadful to look of their reserve depots. By this letter it oppears that go- upon. In the place in question there is an embankment vernment have actually commenced operations with refe- which, we are told, is quite without a rival in regard to rence to a supply of food, but that their depots will not be extent. This embankment fills up a deep and extensive opened so long as the market prices remake " within mo- ravine, and so connected two projecting points of the Berate hounds." What the Treasury nction of " moderate ravine as enabled the railway to proceed along. This bounds" may be remains to be seen. majestic embankment is 136 feet in height, and about 50 FAIAL AFFRAY AT CASTLECOI•INELL. A draft of in breadth. Under it were a few barrel arches for the 88th or Connaught Rangers, which had been in Nenagh purposes of allowing free course to the water leading from on the previous Friday when on route to Limerick, ar- the adjoining towns. These appear to have been too rived at Castleconnell, and were quartered there on Sun- small for the purposes intended. At all events, on the day wee.k They conducted themselves, whilst in Nenagh evening of Monday and morning of Tuesday, the water on Friday, in a scandalous manner, shouting and yelling stood in a body for about half a mile in length, up the through Ihe streets. A party of them went to the po li ce glen, and upwards of 100 feet in height. This unwonted barracks in Castleconnell, and proceeded to break the circumstance burst the barrel arches ; the mighty body windows with stones. The police rushed out armed, of water referred to covered trees, outhouses, and some forced on the party, and shot one of them dead, and a dwelling-houses; and, pressing against the embankment, civilian who was in their company. Two others of the carried it away, causing the chasin.—Edinbro' paper. sol , iiers were wounded. A BANKRUPT RAILWAY COMPANY.—A fiat of bank- DISTURBANCES IN THE SOOTS.—There are accounts ruptcy was opened in London. on Tuesday morning in town from the counties of Tipperary, Limerick, Cork, againgst the Tring, Reading, and Bassingstoke Railway and Clare, of assemblages of the people, for the purpose Company, the shareholders !ravine determined upon of preventing the transport of corn and provisions to the " winding up " the scheme, and resolving that the disso large towns. Upwards of twenty horses have been shot lotion should be considered as an act of bankruptcy. in these counties during the past two or three days, and There seems to be little doubt but that the remaining farmers who have not been deterred from loading others assets, variously estimated at from £12,000 to £20,000, will with corn have received notices that it They do not desist fully satisfy the demands of the whole of the creditots, so that the contest respecting "liability," or " non-liability," from sending food cut of their respective parishes, not only their horses :Jut themselves will be Aot. The con- will ultimately rest between the provisional committee sequence of this is, the corn, flour, bread, and all other and the shareholders. As these reapeetive parties have at provisions are rising rapidly in price in the towns so be. the recent meetings held on the aff:iirs of the company ma leagured from without. nifested a strong degree of antagonism, it seems likely ANOTHER " DIFFICULTY."—AIMOSI the whole of the that the proceedings under the bankruptcy will furnish barony of Farney, in the county of Monaghan, is, it is some curious disclosures relative to the organization of well known, the proper yof two landlords—the Marquis the project, and the subsequent allotment of shares under of Bath and Mr. Shirley. According to the Evening the 9th and 10th Victoria, chap. 28, it hr,s excited more Mail, " their agents arranged to employ every man in than usual interest among parties who identified them barony on the lands, without presenting. All was set- selves with the late railway speculation, especially those tied, apparently most satisfactorily, when the tenants on defunct and abortive undertakings. the Shirley estate refused to work on the estate, and de- ACCOMMODATION BY THE LONDON AND NORTH mended public works, because 5 percent. was eventually WESTERN RAILWAY.—The number of stations on this to be charged them for the improvements made, though line from -London to Birmingham, with branch to Ayles they admitted that they would be benefited 25 per cent. bury, 120 miles, is in all 25, of which— Such is Ireland ! The quarrel is •to be determined and stations. a are in Middlesex settled by Government inquiring into the matter." 7 in Hants Population .1,576,515 • 157.237 . )56,969 . 107,9,7 . 199,062 . 402,121 DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING. — In the lin Bucks townland of Killaghey, near Donaghadee, during the 2in Beds awful thunder storm which occurred on the 28th ultimo, 5 in Northamptonshire a thunderbolt descended through the roof ' of a house, sin Warwickshire.... belonging to a man named John Jamison, and killed his 2 5 2,598,g6t son, a boy about eleven years of age, and a goat that was Showing that the London and North-Western, in it s standing in the middle of the floor. Jamison's wife, who first section of 1 9 0 miles, between London and Binning. was sitting at the fire, was struck senseless, and deprived ham, accommodates, with its five-and-twenty stations, a of sight for a considerable time. A child in the cradle population, between north and south, of 2,598,961. On fortunately escaped without injury. The electric fluid its branch from Northampton to Peterborough, 47 mil es, then separated, one portion te ar i ng aw ay the front of the there are 1 4 stat i ons , all in Northamptonshire. From cabin, the other pr o c e edi ng b ac k war d s i n t o th e s l e epi n g Birm i ngham to Li verpoo l , 974 m iles, there are 24 statio ns , apartment, and thence into the cow-house, where it killed of which— two cows—the man's entire stock. The house is so much , stations Population . 02.121 .._...... damaged that it cannot b e occupied.—Downpatrick ... 3 are in Warwickshire Recorder. 9 in Staffordshire ADUSE OF CHARITY IN IRELAND. —The cry from 9in Cheshire ........ Ireland is fur employment, and the mode of providing it 3 in Lancashire has been decided to be the making of such public works 7: 4 as will be most permanently beneficial to the country, So that this section of 974 miles, and 24 stations, accorn and employ the greatu•st amount of unskilled labour. It modates 2,974,691 souls. On the Northern branch, from seems that under the catalogue of permanently beneficial Liverpool to Manchester, 30 miles, there are 21 stations. works are to he ranked Roman Catholic chapels. At all in Lancashire. From Birmingham to Manchester, 35 Timoleague, in Cork, £3OO has been ass esse d upon the miles, there are 26 stations-3 in Warwickshire, 9in people of ail classes for the building of a Roman Catholic St a ff or d s hi re , Mayo, Mr. Dil!o n B rowne 11 in Cheshire, and 3in Lancashire. On chapel. At Balintubber , in the Chester and Birkenhead, in the same counties, there exerts all his bland persuasions upon the Lord-Lieutenant are 11 stations in 16 miles. Hence the London and to have the ratepayers assessed for a similar purpose ; North-Western accommodates a population of upwards while Mr. Thomas Steele announced to the Repeal Asso- of 3 millions over its total area of 328 nines, exclusive of ciation, amidst great chtering, that "he had just returned its large collateral traffic from the north and south, and from. Clare, where he attended a baronial sessions at from Ireland and Scotland, basing connected with its which £3500 was granted for finishing the Catholic large ramifying system a total of 121 stations. —Railway church at .Ennia." Cvlroaigis.. 510,205 305,3(,g 1,667,063 2,974,691 are of a . , the regis- stabli4— ution of Wl' al üb-so inr and facllitating of immediate caper the town, in each of which Crow 21 t Inow livir i; 19(IgIng.1, may real prudent and motherly hcungkeei:e !ration of Places Of tent et' evening sc nerdiewor K, s I selected lib occasional delivery of lecture fourthly, the organisation of E;llfid practical principles, for deposits is the savings bank." 50 you