The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 1, 1853. THE WEEK THE long-continued wet weather has at length un dergone a favourable change, nearly the whole of the past week having been dry, with occasional frosts and promises of a seasonable fall of snow. This has imparted a degree of freshness and activity which has been quite a relief from the previous dul ness, although the week has not been fertile of in cident to form topics for general conversation. The theatres, for the same reason, have been better fre quented, and the attractions of the various panto mimes have been brought more immediately within the reach of the youthful population by Juvenile nights, when, from the Christmas piece being played first, the young holiday folks have been enabled to return to their peaceful homes at a more reasonable hour than ordinary. The series of concerts at the Philharmonic-hall have also been more generally appreciated, and the problem whether Liverpool can support the performances of first-class music at a low price for aamission is about to receive a favourable solution. The important question of providing a landing stage for the accommodation of large sea-going steamers was brought before the Dock Committee at their meeting on Thursday. It is proposed that the landing -stage, which wil: be of great length, shall be placed opposite the Seacombe Basin, so as to interfere as little as possible with the entrance to George's Dock Basin. The increasing trade of the port in this direction has long rendered such an ac commodation highly desirable, and as it has now become a matter of necessity, it is satisfactory to be able to state that it will shortly be carried into effect. The report of the loss of life at Rhyl, through the capsizing of the life-boat, led to the remark from from the chairman, Mr. CHARLES TURNER, M.P., that several accidents had occurred with the same kind of boat, which was similar to the one which upset at Lytham. At the meeting of the Health Committee, on Thursday, a proposal was submitted for placing sign-boards on the street lamp-posts, to serve as ad vertisements for the neighbouring shop-keepers upon payment of a small rent. Such a plan would no doubt diminish in a small degree the expense of street-lighting, but it would be another among the many means adopted of giving publicity to indivi dual requirements without the payment of adver tisement duty. No decision was, however, come to on the subject. By the report of the medical officer it appeared that the rate of mortality in Liverpool during the previous week was unusually low for the season; a circumstance the more gratifying, as disease has lately been very prevalent in some localities The non-arrival of the steam-ship Asia until "Wed nesday forenoon led to some apprehensions for her safety, particularly as it was known that there had been some violent storms in the Atlantic Ocean. She, however, brought the news that she had been detained two days beyond her appointed time of starting, so that she justified her previous character of being a good sea-boat. The new steam-ship Arabia, belonging to the same line, which sailed from this port on New-year's Day, put into Halifax on the 13th short of coals, and arrived at New York on the 16th of January. The Select Vestry seem to have got into some difficulty with reference to the appointment of an architect and surveyor. It appears that the renu meration offered has been too low for a man of sufficient experience and ability, and they are unwil ling to take one of a lower standard. After having to resort to a casting vote, the Vestry resolved to advertise once more for tenders for the surveyorship, at a salary of £3OO a-year; but perhaps it would have been better to have fixed upon such an amount of remuneration as would have induced a competent man to undertake the duties of the office, or it may be found that the expected saving is the worst economy. Some little excitement has been occasioned by the discovery of Ribbon Lodges in this town, as well as in Manchester, Warrington, Glasgow, and other places on this side of the Irish Channel. By the documents which were found, it would appear that the system had become a regularly organised con spiracy ; but, it is hoped, that the discovery being promptly followed up, will lead to the effectual sup pression of this dangerous combination. Ireland has suffered severely from secret societies, which are prompted and encouraged by designing Romish priests; and it is full time that the strong arm of of the law was interposed to crush such hotbeds of treason and sedition. MR. COBDEN has published some letters treating of " 1793 and 1853." His object is to show that, if we had not interfered with France in the first year, the Republic would have died out ; that no war is just, save a defensive war; and that the Duke of Wellington was not the champion of liberty against the despotism of Napoleon, but a very insignificant aristocrat—by no means so great a man as Richard Cobden ! LORD DRUMLANRIG AND MAJOR BERESFORD have been carrying on a correspondence redolent of gunpower. The noble lord on the Dumfries hust ings stated that Major Beresford had organised an opposition to his election. The Major immediately wrote to Lord Drumlanrig, reminding him that he (the Major) had retired from all superintendence of election business for some time; that the noble lord ought to be cognizant of such a fact; and that it was an impertinent act to state the contrary. Lord Drumlanrig intimates that he is exceedingly sorry if he has stated anything contrary to fact or painful to the Major's feelings ; and that, with regard to any act of his being "impertinent," he is ready to explain, or be otherwise responsible for the same, should the Major require further "satisfaction" than mere explanation. The ex-Secretary-at-War pacifically accepts the explanation and therewith the matter ends. THE EARL OF CARLISLE.—That well-meaning, good-natured, but not very wise nobleman, the Earl of Carlisle, has at last found Popery too much for him. Being but indifferently informed, he readily gulped down, and has ever since stuck to, the assurance given by th e Papists, whil e i n expec tation of the Emancipation Bill, that "the old prin ciples and codes o f i nto l erance once attached to their Church, had fallen into practical desuetude, and were viewed by them with at least as much abhorrence as by ourselves." Unwilling to give up the amiable delusion under which he had so long laboured, the noble Earl makes one more desperate effort to get the English Papists to remonstrate with the Pope (sic against the persecution in Tuscany. If they do not respond to this appeal, even the Earl of Carlisle has made up his mind that there must be an end of the cry " ' Peace, peace,' where there is no peace," and that " a more obstinate and decisive conflict is at hand, than has yet occurred in the world." We congratulate the noble Earl on the discovery he has made; with a little less conceit, and a little more reverence for God's Word, he might long ago have come to this very obvious conclusion.—John Bull. THE CUBA QUESTION.—Mr. Everett's note on the proposed Cuba convention has been published in America, and found its way to England. It la bours under the common fault of American com position—excessive prolixity. It is a dissertatio n , an essay, a lengthened historical prolusion, which would have made the fortune of a magazine, and contrasts oddly with Lord Malmesbury's slipshod and hardly intelligible English. It was not neces sary, surely, in declining such a proposal as this, to quote long and irrelevant passages from Washing ton and Jefferson, to give a compendious but ela borate sketch of American history, to calculate the yearly remittan ces lreland, to enteriwnets Il en a t home by immigrants. from Mexico, or to defence of the annexation of on the advanta ges such a wistful air of self denialvantaesLwhich will b e reaped by the Union when C u b a a similar fate. On this side of the Atlanti c we feel disposed to smile at such phrases as " the irresistible prrentof affairs," "the law of American growth Bo on; or, to ‘l take „ reading them in connexion with tTed commentarya afforded by General Cass's resolution, , somewhat amiss. Where does the , stop ? What are the boundaries of its operation Ever e tt c l ot h es hi s doctrine (the old Monroe claim which Europe ne ver has admitted, and never will) in vague and capacious generalities, whilst General Cass will allow no limit short of the farthest head land of Cape Horn. If so, what becomes of our own West India islands ) Bu t t . the key to all this rhodomontade is that A. t.hear diplomatisticle is i intended . for . home consumption, returning a civil refusal might have done ent o it n in sim ai l l a-dozen words. The proposal itself was essentia]ly t unre asonable, and perpetual engagement s of this kind are generally worthless, and almost always s Iluwie,7-Gaurdigal &THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1853. LOUIS NAPOLEON AND DONNA EUGENIA. Com modus rep u di a t es M arc i a , an d es p ouses Eu genia of Iberia. He parts from the first with a salute on each cheek, pats her illegitimate children on the head, places a pension in their mother's hands, and, wishing her " bon voyage," turns as nimbly as though he were a score of years younger, and offers his homage to the lady whom he (at least he says so) " loves and reveres." The paper read by Louis Napoleon to the wretched Senate, an nouncing his marriage, is perfectly characteristic of the man, In the first place, he could not venture to speak : his ability could go no further than to read what he had been helped to put togethra by some " -Ready Letter-Writer" about the Court. The phrases run glibly enough, and smack of a certain independence. On closer examination, how ever, they are such as might drop from King Cam byses, Bobadil, and Jerry Sneak. "Where they are not braggart and insolent, they are mean and un true.—Church and State Gazette. THE PEACE HUMBUG.—The effective force of the prodigious army of France is undiminished, notwithstanding a recent show of reduction. There are at least twenty ships of war to be provided with steam-engines and screws, approaching com pletion in the arsenals of that country. 'What these great military and maritime forces are in tended for, is a secret at present locked up in the breast of Napoleon 111. We shall probably know, ere long, what this " dreadful note of preparation" really means. Meantime, there is being held in this town a " conference" of very wise gentlemen, who have got it into their heads that their elo quence can prevent a devastating war. If war be the game to be played by the new Emperor of France, what is to stay him except the naval and military powers of the other nations of Europe ? Is it supposed that he will submit his ambitious aims to the tame " arbitration" of a few men as sembled in this centre of that nation of weavers and shopkeepers, so sneered at by his great uncle —Manchester Courier. ROMANIST INTOLERANCE.—In reference to the letters of Earl Carlisle on the subject of the Madiai persecution, I , lr. Chisholm Anstey has published a species of rejoinder :—He says, " I have read with much interest Lord Carlisle's letter on the case of the Madiais, and I heartily con cur with his Lordship in the opinion that, by the conduct of the Roman Catholics of this country with reference to that case, their own sincerity as professing friends of religious equality will have to be jlldged. I regret, therefore, to say, that there is likely to be but one opinion as to the utter insincerity and hollowness of all such pretences. No one who has conversed much with English Catholics, at least upon the case of the Madiais, can have failed to see that amongst them the friends of religious freedom are miserably few, and that nearly every member of the body is persuaded that, in countries professing the Roman Catholic faith, it is the bounden duty of the state to coerce heretics by temporal penalties, and, if need be, TO EXTIRPATE THEM BY THE SWORD !" It is only multiplying the evidence against Rome, to which he . professes to be a devoted adherent. THE BISHOP OF SYDNEY.—AIong with car goes of precious metal growing continually larger, Australia has lately sent us something better—a man worth his weight in it—the good Bishop of Sydney. The reception given to him on Friday in that well-known first-floor in Pall-mall where the venerable society personally resides, was a pictu resque incident, even in the hands of Sir R. Inglis, and the Bishop of London. The man who went out an archdeacon, the highest ecclesiastical officer in the colony, returns a metropolitan—why not an Archbishop l'—with jurisdiction over five sees. His own speech was warm with simple and kindly feeling, and his visit will prove useful, we trust, in more ways than one. We need some such help to realise the value of the present opportunity—the opportunity of winning and keeping for the Church all that we can of the tide of emigration that is spreading itself over the hills and plains of the Australian continent. How vast the spiritual har vest, the labourers how few! An active and a nu merous clergy are wanted in Australia now.— Guardian. ANOTHER. MINISTERIAL CHANGE.—Reports are prevalent in London, to the effect that the Ca binet is about "to suffer a Whig change," but not in anything very "rich or strange." The modifi cation will consist only of a large importation of the old condemned materiel. It is admitted that Lord J. Russell holds the Foreign seals only provision ally, and that at the commencement of the session he will be succeeded in that office by the Earl of Clarendon ! A strange choice for Protestant Eng land, in a Continental crisis like the present. But what is to become of Lord J. Russell ? Oh ! his lordship, of course, retains a seat in the Cabinet, and as nothing better presents, it is presumed, without office. Not so fast if you please—to be without office is to be without salary, and it is per fectly well understood that his lordship can't afford any such sacrifice. Rumour, however, has made a different arrangement, and one more in harmony with his known ambition and supposed necessities. It is said, then, strange as it may appear, that Lord Aberdeen's health will be made the excuse for his retiring from office, tq make way for Lord John Russell, who having thus prudently graduated his approaches to the Premiership, will return to his old position, with the acquiescence of, at least, the corrupt portion of the Brigade.—Dublin Evening Herald. Tsia STEAM-SHIP FAITH reached London on Monday last week, after a passage of seventy hours from dock to dock, deducting stoppages. The weather was unusually stormy, especially on Friday night, and, as the Faith was fully laden with coals, an opportunity was offered to test the qualities of the ship under trying circumstances. An officer in her Majesty's navy, who was on board, states that she behaved uncommonly well, and took the seas with the greatest ease. Another naval gentleman who was on board says that there were ample opportunities to test the ship's qualities as a sea. boat, and that he was never in a finer one. He says that, on the Friday morn ing, it commenced blowing from the northwest, and for two days they had a hard gale, with a high sea. From Holyhead to the Smalls the sea was on the beam, and yet her motion was as easy as:possible, the vessel going along at the rate of ten or eleven knots, and sometimes eleven and a half knots, under double reefs. This, it will be seen, is a favourable result, and one which promises that the African Mail Line will consist of a superior class of steam-ships. She left London, for Plymouth on Thursday, with every berth filled, and a full cargo, and arrived at the latter port on Saturday, in twenty-six hours from the Downs. She took her departure from Plymouth, on her first voyage, the same afternoon. AMATEI*Ii HANGING.—On Sunday, the day after the execution of James Barbour, the inmates of the lunatic ward at Sheffield workhouse conversed for some time on the subject. Among them was George Palfrey, a white metal smith, who has been in the lunatic asylum in Wake field, and in the retreat ward at Sheffield, for about 30 years. He was in such a state of convalescence that he was entrusted with the care of a patient who required fre quent attention. Palfrey's imagination appears to have been inflamed by the conversation, and such was its effect upon him that during Sunday night he slipped out of the retreat-ward, and, having attached his neckerchief to a beam in the privy, he placed his neck within the sling, and, throwing himself off a slight elevation upon which he was standing, hung suspended, with his feet just clear of the floor, until life was extinct. In that posture the dead body was found at an early hour on Monday. An other instance of hanging is a still more singular one, and is, to a great extent, involved in mystery. A boy aged 14, named John Auty, son of a mason, who keeps a beer-house in Kelham-street, London, opposite to the Kelham Grind ingwheel, was on Wednesday evening found hanged in a garret in his father's house. He kept pigeons in the gar ret, and he had been robbed of two or three of his feathered favourites by a prowling cat, which gained ad mission to the garret through a broken pane in the win dow. The boy had been heard to vow vengeance on the marauder, and it appeared that on 'Wednesday afternoon he had set about preparing a noose to fix within the broken pane with the intention of catching the stealthy visitor by the neck and causing it to effect its own stran gulation. It so happened that this design became the instrument of his own destruction. On Wednesday evening his absence created surprise, as he was a very tractable boy, and of uniformly steady habits. As the evening wore on his family became alarmed, and made search for the lost one in every conceivable quarter, but all in vain. About eleven o'clock the distracted mother sent one of her daughters to ascertain whether the boy had slipt off to bed, and then it was that the girl discovered his rigid and lifeless body, hanging from the ceiling in a lumber-garret, on the same floor as his sleeping apart ment. The surrounding circumstances were such as to render the mode of his death a matter of mystery, The garret in which the body was found, and which was the roosting-place of the pigeons, is a low confined apartment with a sloping roof, along the centre of which, six or seven feet from the floor, runs a joist. The boy was found hanging by piece of thick whipcord th a t was a tt ac h ed to a nail in a the middle of the joist. His neck was not in a noose, but in a slin g with a lar g e knot at the en d ; his body was the floor and his head raised o n ly He had evidently fallen o ff two or three feet • h he had been standing , as there were something on which res ting on above it. an old dressing-table and s ome other lumber overturned and lying about the body. The most feasible conjecture was, either that while P upon which preparing to fix the lower end of the cord as a noose t o the window the article he was st an di ng ha d s li ppe d f r om under him, and that, whe n f a lli ng, his head had got w i t hi n t h e s li ng formed by the cord, or else that he had placed his head within the cord from a boyish desire to taste for a moment the sen sationhad lost hanging,hisfoetine of he andsustained • rk that deprived him of the means of se l f a jerk any rate, he and that, during the experiment, deliverance. At pe rished in a most mysterious manner, considering that during the process of strangulation his weight mainly rested y o;t d h e m fligohotr, , u a n n d d er tb o a rd t in b a o r t y h c h ir i c s um ha s n ta d n s ce w s er h e av a e t been applied to the cord for the extrication of his head. FOREIGN NEWS. ITALY.—A letter from Rome, 14th Jan., states that an extraordinary congregation of twenty cardinals was held five days before at the Vatican. Although it was endeavoured to keep the subject of discussion a secret, it is generally thought that the question under consideration was the' cession of the legation of Renevento to the King of Naples for 8,000,000 ducats. The Roman Journal states that on the 12th Jan. King Maximilian of Bavaria, accompanied by Count de Spaur, his minister at the pontifical court, had repaired to the Vatican to pay a visit to the Pope. His Majesty was re ceived at the foot of the staircase by Monsignor Medici d'Ottaiano, major-domo to his holiness, who treated him with all the honours due to his rank. The King, after remaining an entire hour with the Pope, was conducted back to his carriage with the same ceremonial. After his departure, the aides-de-camp of his Majesty were pre sented to bis Holiness by Count de Spaur. The King was to remain ten days at Rome, and to leave afterwards for Naples. Letters from Genoa state that a trial had taken place in that city, similar to that of the Madiai in Tuscany. The name of the accused is Daniel Mazzinghi, 25 years of age, and a surgeon by profession. The trial took place with closed doors, but it is said that he was charged with having, in company with Captain Packenham, of the British navy, preached against the religion of the State and in praise of Protestantism. He was sentenced to im prisonment for three years, by virtue of the 164th article of the penal code. Twenty members of a socialist club have been arrested at Milan. Three of them are mercantile clerks, and the remainder operatives. Masks have been forbidden by the police authorities of Milan, during the approaching carnival. GERMANY.—The official tables of the revenues of the German Zollverein, for the year 1851, have just appeared, with a summary of the preceding years. The following are the comparative amounts of 1845 and 1851 :—lmports, 1845, 823.849,1251. ; 1851, 670,667,775 f. Exports, 1845, 667,663,6751. ; 1851, 636.645,0251. Transit, 1845, 234,220,400 f. ; 1851, 294,409,250 f. SPAlN.—Despatches from Madrid of the 22d state that a negociation bad been concluded between the goveanment and some foreign capitalists for an advance of money on the national property. The sum was 57 millions. Besides the commission the government was to pay 71- per cent. interest, INDIA.—A telegraphic despatch from Trieste, dated 27th Jan. states that General Godwin having imprudently stationed an advanced post of only 400 men at Pegu, 60 miles from Rangoon, and within a short distance of the main body of the Burmese army, the Burmese comman der immediately attacked it, cut off its communications with Rangoon, seized an ammunition convoy, invested the place, harassing the little garrison night and day, and cut off the approaches from Rangoon. A naval force, 150 marines, 300 European soldiers, and a steamer, attempted to force the passage, to relieve Pegu, and were driven back with loss. Two columns of 2,400 men left Rangoon, encountered the Burmese, defeated them with great loss, and suc ceeded in reaching Pegu. AMERICA ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. The British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Captain Lott, reached the Mersey from New York with the usual mails and passengers on Wednesday last. Her advertised time of sailing was noon on the 12th of January, but, owing to the N.E. gales and a severe snow storm, she was unable to leave until 7 a.rn. on the 14th. She experienced severe easterly gales during her entire voyage, and brought 47 passengers and 8201,051 in specie. The royal mail steam-ship America, from hence, arrived at Boston on the 10th. The United States mail steam. ship Baltic, from hence, arrived at New York on the 11th January. The royal mail steam-ship Arabia, from hence, put into Halifax on the 13th, short of coal, having en countered severe weather. There had been heavy falls of snow in the States gene rally, and at New York sleighing and snow-balling was the order of the day. Many of the mails were over-due in consequence of the snow. The caloric-ship was subjected to a second trial on the 11th of January, and it is stated that she made ten knots an hour against wind and tide. The consumption of coal was the same as on the first trip, and the engines are estimated at 600 horse-power. In the United States senate, Mr. Gwin, senator for Ca lifornia, had brought forward a bill for forming the great railway from the valley of the Mississippi to California and the Pacific Ocean. The British barque Sophia, from Liverpool, with a cargo of salt, went ashore near Charleston on the 11th inst., and, after getting off, sunk in seven fathoms of water._ The passengers and crew were saved. In New York, Sontag and Alboni were attracting crowded audiences. The Northern Light had arrived from San Francisco on the 11th Jan., with fourteen days later from California, and on the 13th the Illinois arrived from Aspinwall, whence she sailed on the 3rd instant, arrived at Sandy Hook on the 11th, but did not get up to New York till the morning of the 13th, owing to thick fog and the bursting of the cylinder of the starboard engine. She brought one day's later news from California, and 2,010,543 dollars in gold, brought to Aspinwall by the Tennessee. Her Majesty's sloop-of-war was at Acapulco when the Tennessee left there, and was to sail to England immediately with 800,000 dollars. The news from the mining districts was favourable, but provisions were very high in price. moves steadily upwards. Our New Orleans correspond ents advise us under date of 6th and 7th, that the bulk of the receipts now consist of leafy, sandy, and inferior cot ton. The market closes firmly with very light offerings at the annexed quotations : STRICT LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION. New Orleans Other Gulf and Texas. Ports. Atlantic. inferior.. Low to good ord 9- t o 9.1 9.1 to 91, N. to 9/ Low to good mid lO- to 11 10 to 10/ 91 to 10/ Mii and fair to fair 111 to 124- 111 to 12 101 to 11 Strict " middling," to class out in Liverpool, N. Orleans, 101(1. ; ditto Mobile, 101 d. ; ditto Uplands, 10+d." (From W. P. Wright's Circular of January 18) — This market since Tuesday has been active, and, con sidering our limited stock, the sales have been large. The business has partaken more of a speculative character than in any previous week this season. The quantity taken by home consumers has also been to a fair extent, while for export only small parcels have been sold. Prices are again higher, and I have to advance my quotations to 3 c. per lb. on the Middling grades, and fully z c. on the better qualities. The total sales since 11th instant to last evening have been 8,000 bales, and the export during some time has been—to Liverpool, 1,088 bales ; Glasgow, 58 ; Havre, 165. Total, 1,311 bales. The Southern markets have also been active, at advan cing rates in each. In New Orleans the accounts as brought per Baltic and Arabia have been construed favourably, and considerable sales were made immediately after their receipt at an advance in price. In Savannah and Charleston the improvement has been caused by com parative light receipts, limited stock, and impending freight engagements. The crop question remains the same, and, although the excess is reduced this week, and will be further reduced next week, I continue of opinion that the crop will ex ceed the last. The receipts into the ports, particularly those of the Atlantic States, have been for a week or two interrupted by the bad state of the roads, caused by foe heavy rains of December. The mails from the South having failed for two, or three days, I am without the statement from Savannah and Charleston. The receipts from the latter have been received by telegraph ; those of the former, together with the export from both, are esti mated in the following. The following is a statement of the movement in cotton since the Ist of September last, as compared with the pre vious three years : 1853 1852 1831 1850 Receipts into the ports 1,594,000 1,141,000 1,037,000 1,039,000 Exports to Great Britain 635,000 394,000 309,000 295,000 PP France „ other for. ports 92,000 58,000 78,000 63,000 Total exports Stock on hand Of which during the past week, included in the above : 1853 1852 1851 1850 Receipts at the ports 102,000 120,000 86,000 68,000 Exports to Great Britain 70,000 68,000 31,000 19,000 „ France B,OOO 12,000 10,000 7,000 ~ other for. ports 12,000 10,000 5,000 3,000 Total exports . 90,000 90,000 46,000 29,000 From which it will be seen that the excess in receipts now amounts to 453,000 bales ; the increase in exports to Gt. Britain, 241,000 ; other foreign ports, 34,000. Decrease to France, 28,000. Total increase in exports, 247,000 bls. BREADSTUFFS.-The market has been quiet during the past week, with a slightly downward tendency in qualities suitable for shipment to England. Prices of other descrip tions unchanged :-Western Canal, L 5 43: 1 0. to $5 561 c. per barrel. Ohio and Pure Genesee, $5 624 c. to $5 871 c. Common New York, &c., $5 37,1 c. to $5 431 c. Southern kinds, $5 624 c. to $6. Canada, in bond, $5 621 c. to $5 871 c. Wheat continues in moderate demand at steady prices:-Geneseewhite,l3oc. to 135 c. per 601bs. Southern white, 126 c. to 130 c. Indian corn :-An advance has been realised of 2c. to 4c. per 561bs. Southern yellow and white, 72c. to 74c. Mixed, 73c. to 74c. per 56Ibs. PROVISIONS.-Sales of old mess pork, 150 brls., were made at 819. New is held at $l9 25c. to $l9 371 c. with sales. Prime $l6 to 4316 50c. for old and new. Beef without alteration ; the demand is fair. Lard, dull at 111 c. to lac. Butter, 14c. to 18e. for common, and 181 c. to 24c. for State. Cheese, Bc. to 84c. NAVAL STORES.-Spirits of turpentine, 68c. to 20c. ; rough turpentine, =e4 50c.; common rosin, -B'l 50c. to $1 60e. laoN.—The iron market is firm. 200 tons Scotch pig iron changed hands, at £'32 to £32 50c. , ---- FREIGHTS.—The market is heavy and dull. To Liver pool, for cotton, 5-16 d. ; flour, 3s. per brl. ; grain in bulk, Bd. per bushel. To London, flour, 3s. 6d. per brl. ; grain, in bulk, 10d. per bushel. To Havre, Cotton, lc. ber lb. CHARLESTON, JAN. 17. Sales of cotton to-clay 16,000 bales, at 81e. to 10e. Of these 130 bales brought as high as 10!,.e._ _ - NEW ORLEANS. JAN. 15.—Sales of cotton to day 10,000 bales, notwith standing, a heavy rain-storm. Prices full and firm. JAN. 17.—Cotton firm to day, and sales 7.000 bales ; mid. 9c. to 94-c. Lard declining ; sales, 1,200 brls. at 10c. Ohio flour dull, at S'4 50c. Sales of corn, 40,000 bushels, at 50c. In exchange best sterling signatures realise 8 per cent. Freights firm. PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 17. There is very little movement in cotton to-day, and the market remains about stationary. Flour is steady, with a moderate demand for export. There is very little wheat offering or selling, and the demand continues limited. In freights nothing new, and vessels very scarce. HAVANA, JAN. 12. The exportation of the week, in sugar, is covered by 2,425 boxes. The arrivals of new sugar in small parcels. The shipments for the year 1852, from Havana and Ma tanzas, reach 1.017,446 boxes. short of 1851 by 220,445 boxes. No coffee of first quality to be bad, and no de mand for the stocks we have. Sales of leaf tobacco very limited. Exchange: London, 60 days, 11 to 111 prem. Freights : Two small vessels, Spanish, for London direct, taken at £2 ss. to £2 10s. ; other vessels to load at last rate with molasses at outports for Great Britain. LOG OF THE ARABIA. The following is an abstract of the log of the Royal Mail steam-ship Arabia, Judkins, commander, on her recent maiden trip from this port to New York : January I.—Wind, W.S.W. 12 7, p.m., set on full speed ; 1 24, p.m., passed Bell Buoy : 6 30, p.m., Calf of Man Lights N.N.W. ; 10, p . m ., S out h Rock Light N.N. W. stopped the engines ; 11 12, p.m., set on full speed ; midnight, abreast South Rock, strong breezes and squally, with cross sea running. 2.—Wind, westerly. 10, a.m., Inuestrahull bore S.W. by S. S., distant 4 miles ; 2 30, p.m., stopped the en gines ; 4 10, p.m., set on full speed, fresh gales and squally, with rain. by W. Distance run, 196 miles. Heavy gales, with a high head sea. 4.—Wind, N.N.W. Distance run, 200 miles. Heavy gales, with violent squalls and showers of hail and snow. s. —Wind, N.N.W. Distance run, 189 miles. Heavy gales and squally, with a high sea. 6.—Wind, W.N.W. Distance run, 178 miles. Heavy gales and squally, with a high sea. 7.—Wind, W.N.W. Distance run, 170 miles. Heavy gales, with tremendous squalls, and a heavy sea running. B.—Wind, W.N.W. Distance run, 157 miles. Hard gales, with a heavy sea; 2 47, p.m., stopped the engines ; 3 27, p.m., set on full speed. 9. —Wind, W.N.W. Distance run, 208 miles. Heavy gales and violent squalls, with a heavy sea ; 6, p.m., a sea struck the starboard midship boat, broke the davits, and carried away the boat. 10.—Wind, N.W. Distance run, 215 miles. Heavy gales and violent squalls. A heavy cross sea running. 11.—Wind, N.W. Distance run, 232 miles. Hard gales and squally. 12.—Wind, N.W. Distance run, 231 miles. Strong gales and squally. 13.—Wind, N.W. Distance run, 253 miles. 4 15, p.m., Sambro Island N.W. by W. 3 W. 10 miles; 4 35, p.m., arrived at Halifax, light winds and clear. 14.—Wind, E, 9 31, a.m., left Halifax ; 10 20, a.m., Sambro N.E. by E. E., 5 miles, fresh breezes and cloudy. 15.—Wind, N.W. gales and squally Distance run, 322 miles. Hard N.W. 4, a.m., Fire island Light N. by W., 10 miles ; and at 11 55, a.m., arrived at New York. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. AMR.HExN,who has started a newspaper at lowa, hopes by hard scratching to make a living for himself and his little chickens. AN INQUEST was held recently at New York on the body of a man who committed suicide by cutting his throat while in a temporary fit of insanity caused by at tending " circle" meetings. MR. CHAMBERS, a smith, at North Adelaide, Australia, and a native of Heanor, in Derbyshire, was robbed, one night in Aug. last, of £lOO, though the thieves fortunately threw aside as valueless a packet of notes to the amount of £9OO. NEW FRENCH COURT DRESS.—The dress prescribed is a green velvet coat, with a border (of any width, ac cording to the taste of the wearer,) small clothes of the same material and colour, and white waistcoat and silk stockings. __ CARE OF YOUTH.—A remarkable order has been pro mulgated at Troyes, by which young persons under age are forbidden to enter public balls. The police are sta tioned at the doors, in order to prevent any infringement of the regulations. VERY OBLIGING.—We read in the Patrie :—" The Portuguese government, desirous of giving to France a proof of the good understanding which it wishes to see reign between the two governments, has suppressed a journal published at Lisbon, and which bad expressed hostility against the re-establishment of the Empire." THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH of Savoy was opened on the 18th of January at Turin, in the presence of the pre sident of the council, several of the ministers, and many high functionaries. The first message was sent to Cham bery. Another was sent from :Chambery to Genoa, and afterwards to several intermediate stations, all with per fect success. THE DARIEN SHIP CANAL.-Sir Henry Bulwer and Mr. Clayton have finally exchanged the ratification of the convention signed at Washington on the 19th of April, 1850, between Her Britannic Nfajesty and the United States, relative to the establishment of a communication by ship canal between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. Mr. Clayton invites Sir Henry Bulwer to determine the distance from the two ends of the canal within which vessels of the United States and Great Britain, traversing the said canal, shall, in case of war between the two con tracting parties, be exempt from blockade, detention, or capture, by either of the belligerents. I MORTALITY IN NEW YORK.—The number of deaths which occurred in New York during the past year was about 21,670, which is somewhat less than the number for 1851. If the increase of population be taken into ac count, the decrease of mortality is nearly 8 per cent. of the whole number. 5,296 died under one year of age ; 2,895 between one and two years • 2,488 between two and five years ; 945 between nine and ten ,• 797 between ten and twenty ; 2,171 between twenty and thirty • and from this age the number decreases. Only 3 have died aged more than 100 years. Of the deceased, ]4,871 had their nativity in the United-States, 4,124 in Ireland, and 1,265 in Germany. 1,475 died on Ward's Island, 398 on Blackwell's Island, and 631 at the Belle vue Hospital. At all the public institutions the total was 3,151. The total of coloured persons deceased was 115. TUE CORN SWlNDLE. — Letters from Rotterdam an nounce the failure of Messrs. Hirsch and Co., for £125,000,• consequent upon the recent suspension of Messrs. Coll mann, Stolterfoht, and Co. Although their transactions were important, the firm were never reputed to possess much capital, and it is feared that the liquidation will be unfavourable, and also extremely complicated, from the variety of interests involved. AN IMPRUDENT MIXTURE.—John Taison, an Indian native of Connecticut, being found dead on a winter morning, not far from a tavern where he had b een drink- ing freely of spirituous liquors the evening before, the Indians immediately assembled a jury of their own tribe, who, after examining the body of the defunct, una nimously agreed :—" That the said Taisan's death was occasioned by the freezing of a large quantity of water in his body, that had been imprudently mixed with the rum he drank." JENNY LlND.—Madame Jenny Lind Goldscbmidt has just presented a considerable sum in money, clothes, bed ding, and provisions, to two charitable institutions re cently established at Stockholm, the Hospital of St. Mag dalen and the Institution of the Deaconesses. The celebrated cantatrice, who is at present residing atDresden, has promised to visit Stockholm in the holy week, to take part in two religious concerts, in which Mendelssohn's oratorio of " Saint Paul," and Handel's oratorio of the " Messiah," with the instrumentation of Mozart, are to be performed. SLAVES PURCHASING THEMSELVES.—The Java Bode, a journal published at Batavia, gives an account of a recent sale of slaves at the Chinese camp. The slaves, 12 in num ber, having been placed upon the table of the exposition, disposed in four lots, rattled some money in their hands, and addressed a few words, timidly and in low tones, to the assembly. A person who acted as their agent here stepped forward, and stated that his clients, having accu mulated by long and painful labours some small saving, solicited the favour of being allowed to make a bidding for the purchase of their own persons. No opposition being offered the first lot was cried, and made an offer, through their agent, of 40f. No advance being made upon this sum the slaves were knocked down to themselves. The next lot, encouraged by their predecessors, offered only 24f. The public preserved the same silence, and they became their own purchasers. The third lot took the hint, and were even more fortunate, picking themselves up a decided bargain, for the modest sum of 10f. EXTRAVAGANCE IN NEW YORK.—The New York Express says :—" The extravagance the people of the city are going into exceeds anything in our history. Costly houses of 75,000 and 100,000 dollars, with furniture, mir rors, carpeting, pictures, frescoes, &c., to match, are not uncommon ; but there are dinners, soirees, fetes, dresses, &c., to match. We hear of balls the past week in which diamonds and emeralds worth 30,000 dollars were worn on the person. Thousand-dollar dresses are not uncom mon. Dinner parties aro spoken of, when ladies appear in cloaks embroidered with pearls, Sic. What are we coming to ? The fever is indeed high, and it may be feared that before long there will be a re-action. It is right and proper for those who have enough and to spare, or who are rolling in wealth, as the phrase is, to spend their money freely. Mechanics, working men, manteau makers, storekeepers, and the industrial classes generally, are benefited by such a policy. But there is reason in all things." AGED LADIES.—A correspondent of the Netoburyport (Mass.) Daily Union, writing from Ryegate (Vt.), de scribes two old ladies residing in that town. Mrs. White law, formerly Mrs. Harvey, the mother of Peter Harvey, of Boston, the confidential friend of Daniel Webster, is now 85 years of age. She came to this place when it was an entire wilderness. Her first husband was the agent of a Scottish company. She thus has been the wife of two of the first men of what are now two wealthy and populous towns. The first husband was nearly 40 years old when they married ; yet she was so young that the united ages of her first three children combined with her own made but 16 years, and when her young acquaintance called to see her, the husband would tell her that she might " get the babies asleep and go out and play !" She was after wards the mother of twelve other children, of whom she calls Peter "my baby." Mrs. Brock, now 90 years old, and among the first settlers, seems to have been equally well adapted to living in and peopling a new place as the one named above, and has now living no less than five generations of her descendants. She can say to her daughter, what but few could ever say—" Arise, my daughter, and go to thy daughter, for thy daughter's daughter has got a daughter." THE THREATENED FAMINE IN MADEIRA.—TH con• sequence of the complete failure of the last year's vine crop, the inhabitants of Madeira are reduced to a state of destitution. The population, which is about 110,000, seems to resemble, in some respects that of Ireland a short time ago, being almost entirely dependent for sup port upon one precarious species of produce, and having the soil so minutely subdivided that a bare subsistence is all that can be obtained, in the best of times, by tho peasantry. The quantity of wine made in the island in good years is about 25,000 pipes, but this has lately been reduced to 15,000 pipes, and only one-fifth of the corn and pulse required by the inhabitants is grown by them selves. They have thus to import 45,000 quarters, which they have hitherto been enabled to do. Last year, how ever, in consequence of the vine crops having failed, in stead of 15,000 pipes only 400 have been produced, and the quality of that is so bad as to be fit only for vinegar. Famine, therefore, is imminent, unless assistance be afforded, for the supplies of vegetables which have hither to kept the people alive are nearly exhausted. The landed proprietors are unable to afford any aid, nor can relief be looked for from the embarrassed Government of Portugal. Under these circumstances, an appeal has been made to this country for assistance. SHOCKING MURDERS BY WOMEN IN PRUSSIA.—Two women named Meyer, mother and daughter, the one aged 64, the other 23, were sentenced to death by the assize court of Justerburg, in East Prussia, last week, for a double murder perpetrated under circumstances of peculiarly cold blooded atrocity and premeditation :—Some time last spring an aged Polish Jew huckster, accompanied by his son, aged 15, came to the village of Swainea, and was in veigled, under pretext of dealing, to the lonely cottage inhabited by these two women. Whilst pretending to deal, the women requested the father to send his son to fetch a neighbour residing at some distance, who, as they affirmed, was desirous of making purchases. He having complied, and the boy having departed, the two women suddenly fell upon the Jew with heavy wooden mallets, dashed out his brains, broke in his chest, stabbed him with knives, and then dragged him to a hole already ex cavated feer the purpose in the cow-stall. Scarcely had they effected this deed ere the son returned, and before the boy could open his lips the two furies fell upon him also in the same manner, and, having despatched him, threw him into the same hole with his father, which they covered up, after rifling the pockets of both. The object of this crime was to obtain the large sum of money sup posed to be carried in the victim's girdle ; but, to the utter disappointment of the criminals, they only found six.. pence, in small Polish money. The crimesoon came to light, however, and the perpetrators were convicted upon their own confession, made with all details, but with the most astounding proof of the prejudices that exist in many parts of those wild countries against the Jews. "To kill Jews," exclaimed the elder worn in her defence, "where is the sin of that ? Who ever heard of poor people being troubled about Jew killing ?" ARRIVAL OF THE HUMBOLDT. The United States mail steam.sbip Hnmboldt arrived at Cowes on Friday, with advices from New York to the 15th January, one day later than the Asia's ; but there is no additional news of any interest. There was no change in the rates of exchange. From New Orleans we learn that on the 14th 1200 bales of cotton had been sold at 9c. to 91c. ; and the sales of the week had reached 60,000 bales. The Arabia's news had been received, but up to the hour of telegraphing the market had not been affected by it. Buyers, however, were holding off, and barely 1200 bales were cold on the morning of the 15th. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. By the royal mail steam-ship America, Capt. Leitch, which arrived on Sunday at noon, we have further ad vices from New York to the 18th, and Boston to the 19th of January. She has brought 68 passengers, but no specie. The Royal Mail steam-ship Arabia, Judkins, _com mander, arrived at New York on the 16th January, hav ing experienced very tempestuous weather on the passage. We append an abstract of her log. The passengers by the steam-ship Baltic, on her last passage to New York, presented the lady of Captain Corn stock with a painting of the vessel. President Fillmore and Mr. Everett, the Secretary of State, had each written a private letter to the Duke of Tuscany, appealing for the liberation of the Madiai fa mily, and permission for them to emigrate to the United States. The Vice-President (elect) had left for Havana. His recovery is not beyond probability. It is stated that the United States Postmaster-General was about to submit the subject of the high rates of post age charged on American letters and papers passing through Great Britain in closed mails to the Secretary of State, for the urgency of an:immediate reduction. The perspective of the " New York, Atlantic, and Pacific Railway Company" had been issued, and a bill was before the States Legislature for its incorporation. The company proposes to construct a railroad from the Mississippi Valley, or from the Gulf of Mexico to San Francisco, or some other available point on the Pacific Ocean, reserving, also, to the company the right of a branch to Oregon. After making the necessary provi sions for the survey of the route, the bill provides that the company shall finish a single tract to the Pacific in five years, and for a line, also, of magnetic telegraph. The capital stock is fixed at a hundred millions, in shares of a thousand dollars each. The maximum charge for passengers is limited at four cents. per mile, and at four cents. for two thousand pounds, or one ton, per mile for freight, other than metals, or live stock, or animals. These, omitting the details of organization, are the pro minent features of the bill. The Secretary of State had addressed a circular to the ministers and charges d'affairs of the United States in Europe, respecting the New York Crystal Palace. In it the following passage occurs :—" The Exhibition, in its leading character, though not undertaken by the Govern ment of the United States, will resemble that which was the subject of admiration throughout the civilized world during the summer of 1551. If it should yield, in some respects, of necessity, to that great display of the products of the world's industry, it is believed that, in some other respects, the Exhibition at New York will equal, and, in others. even surpass its prototype. * * You may safely interest yourself, as far as it can with pro priety be done, in the success of the Exhibition. To the inquiries which will be often addressed to you as to the character of the undertaking, you can answer that, though not a Government enterprise. it is viewed with great favour by the President of the United States, and that the Exhibition building will, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, be made a Government warehouse, in order to admit the importation in bond of articles sent from abroad, subject to duty only in the event of their being sold in this country. You can add, that it will be a source of gratification to the Government and people of this country to witness the co-operation, in the projected Exhibition, of the friendly powers of Europe, and of their citizens and subjects." LIST OF PASSENGERS.—From Boston : Mr. D. Moss, lady, three children, and nurse, Dr. Wright, lady, and child, Mr. G. Nicholas, her Majesty's consul, Vigo, Mr. J. Barnett and lady, Messrs. R. Roy, J. Binmord, C. W. Seymour, E. Hudson, J. A. Morrison, J. Inches, A. Jodoin, 8.D., L. J. Lyons, G. Dawson, J. Le Clair, M. F. Klauke, A. Buntin, F. Molson, J. Johnson, J. Kid ston, Boisvert, Home, Welch, W. R. Forsyth, E. Schu bert, F. Weippert, R. A. Hill, G. D. Watson, R. N. Car son, Kennard, Lassale, P. Joynson, Fly Smith, C. L. Eaton, Lakemann, Taylor, Clay, J. Hastings, C. A. Bowman, J. G. Hall, J. Fraser, J. Brown, N. Harris, Kain, William Donald, J. Wilkinson, and Bernardis. From Halifax : Miss Cunard, Messrs. Vassie, Robertson, Le Boutillier, Miller, Des Busay, Frize, Crerar, Dunbar, Kiddy, Cleverdon, Thomas, Warwick, and Wetmore. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK. JAN. 18. MONEY MARKET.—A large amount of business was transacted yesterday, including 850,000 United States 6's of '67, sold at 119 k; 20,000 s's of '53, 100} ; Ohio 6's of 60, 1091 ; and Pennsylvania s's, 974-. To-day the money market was easy, with a downward tendency in rates. At three o'clock 6 per cent was generally paid for strictly first-class paper. In exchange the market is dull, at 8 to 91 for sterling, with first-class bills at 91 per cent. Francs, 515t0 5 131. At New Orleans and other ship ping ports the price of sterling has declined, being quoted at 71 to 8 per cent. for the best signatures. CoTToN.—To-day cotton advanced id., with sales 1,500 bales. The Courier and Inquirer of the 18th inst. of says, " Since our last review of the market per Asia, of the 12th January instant, the sales h ave amounted' to 8,450 bales. Prices ad i nterim have advanced lc. to lc. on the better qualities, and to 4-c. on the lower grades. powermarket of Liverpool thout t o stack, replenishand no tmerely possessing b the reflex of foutherlll 32 lirkel s s and following t cad, operativees. This IRELAND. The Banner of Ulster hints that Mr. Moore is the inti mate friend and associate of the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli. It is said that there is to be a petition against the return of Mr. Alexander for Carlow. It is stated that £5,000 did not cover the expense. LINEN.—The quantity of linen exported from Newry during the past week has exceeded that of any similar period for some time, having amounted to no fewer than 376 packages. MINERS are already at work on iron mines recently discovered in the county of Waterford, between Curragh more and Carrickbeg. Baron Rothschild is at the head of the mining company, which is English. IMPROVEMENT.—An order has been received in Lime rick from a Belfast manufacturer, to engage 5000 muslin sewers and tambour workers, with a promise of constant employment at the highest market rate of wages. COAL IN IRELAND.—The coal lately discovered at Car rickfergus is found to be similar in quality to the Walls end coal. The miners are working night and day, to complete the shaft, in order that the valuable mineral may be made serviceable. THE GARDENER of Charles J. Adams, Esq., of Shin rone-house, had coals brought into his bed-room a few evenings ago, although there was no fire-place in the room ; the consequence was, that he and one of the children were suffocated. TnE CONVICT KmwAw.--Mr. John Wynne, the late Under-Secretary, states that Lord Eglintoun was induced to commute the capital sentence pronounced upon this wretched criminal at the suggestion of the two judges who tried him, the late Lord Chancellor concurring in the recommendation. No other person or party had anything to say in the affair. LONGEVITY.—Last week, a farmer named Nicholas Dill, residing at Ballyvolane, in the north liberties, died at the age of 102 years. His brother, Jeremiah Dill, aged 105, still lives in the same farm. They were bachelors, and resided 'together during their lives in the house in which they were born. Their father lived to be 86, and their mother to 112 years of age. The father, mother, and son, were buried at Caherlogga. AT ACHIL, last week, a Protestant convert died after an illness in which he was attended by the Rev. Joseph Barker, the rector. According to his last request he was about to be buried in a Protestant burial-ground, when his relations carried his remains by force to the Roman Catho lic burial-place,and would not permit the rector to read the burial service over the body. The scene was most melan choly, and the magistrates and police found themselves quite inadequate to keep order. TILE ROMISH BRIGADE.—A meeting of Romanist lay men has been held in Tuam to re-echo the sentiments of their priests on what they describe as " the desertion of the popular cause" by some of the Irish representatives. They hail the result of the Carlow election as " a great popular victory, vindicating the popular honour, and avenging a betrayed people 1" and call on the electors of Athlone " to consummate this great act of national justice" by returning another Tory for that borough in opposition to Mr. Keogh. CONVICT RIOT.—A. mutiny took place on Saturday week among the convicts in the Maryborough depot. The cause of the mutiny, the convicts alleged, was inferiority of diet, and a wish to be sent out of the country. They confined themselves to grumblings and threats on Wed nesday, Thursday, and Friday ; but on Saturday, after breakfast, they became exceedingly mutinous and disor derly, broke the wind° tv and furniture of the day-room, and nine armed th emse l ves w i th the b ro k en furniture, brickbats, and stones, and threatened the life of any person who would a tt empt to enter t h e roo m unless their conditions were agreed to. To reduce them at once to submission would involve personal strife and violence, and it was th oug ht more prudent t o let their rage exhaust itself, and that want of food would soon force them into capitulation. Ei g ht een conv i c ts are now in separateon bread and wa t er di e t, t en of them being placed in irons. Amongst them are some of the worst characters of the country. ECCLESIASTICAL. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. W. H. Andrews, M.A., Rector of Carlton Colvile, SUP folk, to be Chaplain to the Oulton Union. Rev. J. Brooks, to the Perpetual Curacy of Walton-le-Dale , near Preston. Rev. R. J. Clarke, to the Perpetual Curacy of Ocker•bilb Tipton, Staffordshire. Bev. - C. A. A. Craven, 8.A., to the Curacy of Carlton Co'vil e ' Suffolk. Rev. Davies, to the Incumbency of St. Mark's, WhitechaP 6 Rev. R. De Jersey, 8.A., to the Curacy of Moulsham, Essex Rev. R. Hind, to the Chaplaincy of her Majesty's Ship Rod' ney, Portsmouth. Rev. B. Houchen, ALA., to the Chaplaincy of Swaff ham Gaol , Norfolk. Rev. W. Jephson, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cad' bridge, late Curate of St. John the Evangelist, Westminstefi to the Curacy of St. Luke's, Norwood. Rev. J. Kinahati, Rector of Knockbreda, to be Chaplain the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Rev. G. Knowling, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. Paull , Stonehouse. Rev. P. Langley, 8.A., to the Curacy of Olney, Bucks. Rev. J. Lyons, to the Vicarage of Tillingham, Essex. Rev. J. Matthews, to the Professor s hi p o f Physical Mend, St. David's College, Lampeter. Rev. G. Roberts, of Limehouse, to the Incumbency of 5 11 John's Church, Cheltenham. Rev. P. Rogers, to be Chaplain and Naval Instructor to 10 Majesty's Steam-frigate Firebrand, Woolwich. Rev. Russell, to be Evening Lecturer to Ludlow Parish Church. Rev. J. Scott, to be Chaplain of the Bath Union. Rev. F. W. Smith, 8.A., to be Chaplain and Naval Instructo l of her Majesty's Steam-frigate Odin, Portsmouth. DIOCESE OF CHESTER. PREFERMENT, 27TH JANUARY, 1853.—The Rev. J. Aston licensed to the Perpetual Curacy of Bollington, iD the parish of Prestbury, in the county of Chester, void bi the resignation of the Rev. William Pearson. Patrol , ' the Vicar of Prestbury. Value £l7-1, with a house. The Rev. John Stedman to the Stipendiary Curacy 0 1 the Chapel of Scarisbrick, in the parish of Ormskirk, 10 the county of Lancaster, on the nomination of the Refs W. E. Rawstorne, Vicar of Ormskirk. THE BAPTISMAL QUESTION.—A candidate for Orders Mr. Hayward, has been rejected by the Bishop of Ripee , on the ground of unsoundness in his views of the Sacra' ment of Baptism, the Bishop giving the following certifi' cate of the ground of rejection :—" This is to certify 00 the Rev. George A. Hayward was examined by me as a call' dilate for Priests orders ; that his examination in ever/ other respect was satisfactory ; but that I found mysel f unable to ordain him, because he persevered in maintainieg that the inward and spiritual grace of baptism is ` saving grace, which he explained as meaning a grace whieb effectually ensures salvation,' so that none but those who are ultimately saved can have received of this grace' (Signed) T. C. RIPON." NEW CHURCHES. —The Marquis of Blandford has ob,' tained a parli amen t ary return of the new churches require d in parishes in England and Wales where the populatioe exceeds 3,000 souls, as also to the subdivision of parishes/ the additional church accommodation required, the p0p, 11 . ,,' lation of each pl ace , an d t h e amount of church room, pato the proportion of free sittings now provided therein. The return extends to 37 folio pages. In the 26 dioceses 0) England and Wales the new churches required, as alreadl stated, number 580. In the diocese of Canterbury 5 are required, in York 17, in London 58, in Durham 26, b l Winchester 30, inßangor 11, in Bath and Wells 2, in Carl' isle 6, in Chester 21, in Chichester the number is not stated, nor any remarks made, in Ely 4, in Exeter 20, if s Gloucester and Bristol 23, in Hereford 3, in Lichfield 73, in Lincoln 11, in Llandaff 35, in Manchester 80, in Nor. wich 6, in Oxford 14, in Peterborough 11, in Ripon 67, i° Rochester 7, in Salisbury 5, in St. Asaph, 5, in St. David ' s 19, and in Worcester 21. There is no remark as to the diocese of Sodor and Man. The largest number of netC churches are required in the diocese of Manchester, where. it is stated that £lO,OOO can be provided and sites for nest churches. Several parts in the diocese of London ate pointed out—one part ( Hatcham) where there are upwa rds of 7,000 people without a church, at which place apv is required and only £1,500 raised. CHURCH REFORM.- 9. society has been projected for the purpose of effecting a reformation in the governmeo of the Church of England. It is proposed :—That no clergyman should hold more than one living, and that l shall be reside n t th ereon ; an d that every attempt to sea a presentation to a living shall be punished by confiscatiod of the said patronage to the parish ; and every attempt 0 purchase a nomination shall be visited by the clerical de' linquent, by a deprivation of holy orders ; that no clergc man shall fill the office of a civil magistrate that sa i canonries, deaneries, and prebendal stalls be abolished, to their revenues applied to the general purposes of the church ; that the property of the church shall be adroi' nistered by a board of commissioners,composed exclusivell of lay churchmen, appointed by the government, subjected all points to the jurisdiction and investigation of parli am ent; that patrons shall submit th e names of six persons to tbd congregation, that one may be chosen therefrom as the incumbent—each of the six so nominated to pe r foro duty one whole Sunday before the election ; that all lie ings, now in the gift of the crown, bishops, and othel church dignitaries, s h a ll b e w i thdrawn from the same, an the future occupiers of the said livings be chosen by . ta.: communicant members of th e congregation ; that tag', shall be 100 di oceses, t h e same to be divided as equally?' possible ; that each diocese shall be divided into four did: atrsicatns,aesasicshtadnitstbriischt bishop ; t be ia p i r ra n icle a d nn o u v a e l r m by ee a t u in a g sr.tllaaeara4 place of the clergy and churchwardens in each diocese, the proportion of one-half of each, presided over by fLL' bishop, to take int o cons id erat i on the spiritual state of I diocese—a report of the same to be submitted to a ge nersi council of the chu rc h, meet i ng i n June every year, aO,, consisting of the archbi s h ops, bi s h ops, and lay delegate 3 from each dioces an s y no d , w h o shall decide upon 07 matters of doctrine and discipline. It is also proposed that curates shall be paid £l5O a-year ; country inculy bents £250 a-year ; town incumbents £350 a-year ; arch' deacons £750 a-ye ar ; bi s h ops £ 2,000 a-year • the Arch' bishop of York £4,000, an d th e A rchbishop of 'Canterbuff £5,000 a-year ; that church-rates, marriage and baptisma l fees, and Easter offerings, be a b o li s h e d ; and that t hl bishops shall cease th e i r a t tendance in the House 0,, Lords. Such a sch eme i s t oo preposterous for commen t' ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH. -__....._.__._ As we have entered on a new year, the followia extracts from a kind and judicious address by a much respected clergyman of this town to his congregationt may prove both acceptable and instructive : In the first place, I would entreat you to be regular in your attendance at Church. Secondly—Be punctual in your attendance. 1 - 4 , 1 1 attendance is highly inde corous . N o one can be jus t' said to be in time, who is not present before the CO' mencement of the service. S ome m i nutes, at least. Pi required for preparatory p ra y er an d me di tat i on, so Oft when the first note, whether of prayer or praise, is hear" all may be ready to stand up together, and join in coa l. mon worship with one voice and tongue. Thirdly—Let your demeanour be reverential and Every one should proceed sl ow l y an d qu i etly to his pew. and, having craved the di v i ne bl ess i ng, should en d eavo ur to keep himself in a proper p os t ure b oth of m i n d a n body during the whole of the s erv i ce . Kneeling. d ur ing prayer, where health and accom mo d a ti on w i l l admit ir, i 4 the attitude most in unison w ith th e di rections of ora church, as well as with the h um bli ng sp i r i t of devotion. Fourthly—Every worshipp er s h ou ld j o i n audibly in IP; the responses, not o m itti ng th e "A men, " at the end o_, each prayer. Nothin g con d uces more to the animat io n and communion of public wor s hip ; w hil s t not hi ng tent: more to disclose the beauties of our i n i m it a bl e liturgy. i d times the " Amen" of th e congregat i on i s sat 7 to have reverberated through the sanctu ary lik e " a c l a p thunder." devout. Fifthly—ln the Psalmody of the church it is no less the privilege than it is the duty of every one who has to 7 ability, however humbly, t o un it e. The legitimate use °: a choir is not to supersede, but to aid the singing of th e congregation. Sixthly—If the habit of referring to the lessons, wil e ! y read from the desk, as well as to the passages cited o'' expounded from the pulpit, were more general, emor i g o young persons especially, great benefit would result. would serve to fix the attention, and assist the efforts 0 the mind. The departure of the congregation from the sanctuary should be characterised by the same quietness and deco rum which marked thei r en t rance. The bened i c tion of the minister should be follo we d by t h e s i lent an d devout prayer of every worshippe r • nor should any one rush out from hia pew, or from the Church, with unseemly haste. COURT AND FASHION THE ROYAL CHILDREN.—The education of the Ro y children being a matter in which all must feel interested' a few details o f th e manner in %%hie!' the day of th e RoVP scholars is divided may perhaps be entertaining to oel, readers. A primary regard is paid to moral and religion duties. They rise early, breakfast at eight, and dine n two. The various occupations are allotted out with alrnen military exactness. One hour finds them engaged in tb o study of the ancient—another of the modern authore d their acquaintanceship with languages being first f oun de d ir on a knowledge of their gr amma ti ca l construct i on, a afterwards familiarised by conversation. Next they al trained in those military exercises which give dignity an bearing. Another hour is agreeably filled up w ith the lighter accomplishments of music and dancing. Agaii s the happy little pa r ty assem bl e i n the ridi ng - sc h oo l , whey , they may be seen deeply interested in the various evole: tions of the ménage. Thence—while drawing, an d OP further exercise of music and the lighter accomplishment t call off the attention of their sisters —th e young prim e : proceed to busily engage themselves in a carpenter shop, fitted up expressly for them, at th e w i s h o f tb,', Royal Consort, with a turning lathe, an d o th er tog essential to a knowledge of the craft. They thus earl e l become not only theoretically but practically acquaint with the useful arts of life. A small laboratory is occei sionally brought into requisition, at the instance also 0 , their royal father, and the mind s o f t h e c hild ren are 01 led up from a contemplation of the curiosities of chemil i t sc i e nce and the wonders o f nature, to an inquiry into t hey causes. This done, the young carpenters and student! throw down their saws and axes, unbuckle their philoS% phy, and shoulder thei r m i n i ature percuss i on guns—wilie, they handle with th e d exter i ty of practised sportsmen.,, for a shooting str o ll th roug h t h e roya l gardens. The eve" 4 ing meal, the preparation for the morning's lessons, an g a lin m th a n tr ' imonial allia rice te T T e nri x cE E o ivin VACANT feorrr7eadngu p RIBBON t Ea o ta f ersl theothf that order of the Thistle b brief religious i ns t ruc ti on , c l ose t h e day. be is about to be solem n i se d b etween the Hon. E. Russell, 1 $ M.P. for Tavistock, an d Mi ss Elliott, niece of Lady H i s lo? the pry ao H.R.H. THE D UCHESS OF C AMBRIDGE and the .",.ba cess Mary are about t o so j ourn for some days dur i ng B I present week with the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Cast Leicestershire. BY THE D EMISE OF THE EARL OF STAIR, BO b e ,-,„a t t• elevation of N ort h D alrymple, Esq., to the Peerage, "4! Dalrymple, M.P. for Wi g t owns hi re , assumes the so dormant courtesy title of Yiscottut Dalrymple. ~......,,.,,,,,.... MANCRE! to the late I THE BOIL Assize Cour THE Cot lalged, has GRAND T attendance i MR. Rom an intervievs THE keel ply between TH REE R in the imme beans of ski Woldow l black mane I lection of fo TWENTY- A rrow, with Two only w THE So evening► wel of 80 of thc Tun U.S , sailed on 1,1 and a fair co CIVIC BAI the Mayor , about fifty g THREE SE to 10s., at tl gling small c THE Ax. pool Iloroul Juveniles ha: NEw Ti the property day from al , Co. THE Urn son's, Fleet anniversary craft. THE LECTI commence of the first of t toation." A SMALL E Maciver, whi SUre boat, an steamers. ROBER T r of the Genera the 16th insti at much Wa THE CONI assizes to tra Louse of Mr. lest Y's free p THE M ET] lately come f ormers, a t o 150 persons s - - B LACIKBEriI and beerselle by the promc Esq., M.P. f, EMIGRATI for Port Phil. Glenorchy, 28 N., l on: 1 J. B. MAP Louses belon street, and ' Wednesday I GREAT Ha --On Monda connexion w roo m . U p w ,THE THIR ISonconfor m i Institute, vra: evening last. pl ~" SOCI A at the 1 Ilert, to meet end of the ta , A HOARY- Iog to Nestor en Monday tlaille evening AT THE US LeCtUrai and evening, Mr. 4 :PaPer on " ) IN T HE (a m to show caus against Mr. J by What auth, Blackburn. THE FIINE place at St. J ten o'clock, a remains of tl the Huskissoi RAILWAY the damage 1 and North-VI money to rep the rate of £ THE LIVEI Mrlgaged, on 1 tlßatin the Edward Ll o y i It ately the na g t b o o: e i n e T t p e ß o a u r s t u : L ondon-road carous e with for S t e h o e 'rc er i c Ci ( Ratived. Tit( by each pew Plate. There brork":%Tant Street ; and i Rutted, notwii The inmates t A thirteen and Committed fo day last. on a from the lows THE ANNI place on Fri ladies and ge was Mrs. Pet Were supplied the reason I T f u o E n ; : cutting her ti Mal, where , it L vi °e t : o pa y : o n si u s r ' S e Liverpool bax; Martindale 1 11 Lington. SINGULAR, Lawler, a yo, dentallv falli from 111 r. He iron grating cated. C riARLESCI Mut, has bee Court of Cha . t 1,500 a yea Promotion of J udge-Advoci THREE fat Old, the othe week by Mr. the remarkabl fulness each. farm made 28 A ltonnEß Y 1 ,„ 1 ',1 1 eou e r i t ch arge ( t o 1 4, on the be et , ;°..0 p i Offen4: e i l l OW " WILLI AM office, on Frig Nort- wester company, b y Thursday /lig m agistrate or imprisonmen WEST D EI on Wednesda Atkins, the Vleged inapro ad no iustifi ere dismiss' roaster t o the Woods. II: e 84 1 0 1' 8 C) 6 1 IT: I 11: .114hdNisrict!hRei !hi:reel:ll l a s e tlir e a c e n i I d d i lT n a fr ti re gret to 40 ,000 ca atln ls. ea s c e h s h Ras occupied re quiring Cad medicine s h 1 raenced the 3 tow the satisf of £96 10s. 5c close of the pi by Dr. Nottin ST. HELEN frees Garden Ti h ut ) letion. ' Vrectors have tern a state th 131thlie in the c to,qte tO LiV eri ahstern line, Valet' aotnplel is beit tivardin,