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ttteraturr. POE I SONNET t►\ sti ELLEY BY T. J. OUSELEY As fr , m the placid hos m ty torrent So tt.cl thy spirit. SH h u•hes forth to life v. from its birth; r 1 thrk strife ; 'grit t - inefiashed ihy lieht e the sc to fascinate, im dashed he gates of Farad se gh paper IA UCIS I the v fly so c AND PHILEMON 1 0 141, f R rf dried fruit ,ger, 60 places of in 1 y cherries. D EFOUGH and col ever the pleam men amot •Dle of jud causes so mina Of climate is c may sound, are, terially altering North America! g, bite, 1 THE CHURCH AND THE PROTECTIONISTS (From the Oxford and Cambridge Review.) Perhaps it may be thought that the true refuge for the Church under present circumstances is the Protectionist or Country party. We have striven to speak well of the said Country party. We could not but feel a strong syrn paihy with them in the late session of Parliament, when they had to battle out a losing cause against the minister who had betrayed them; but, apart fr,in those peculiar . . cierucr.stances in which they were at that time placed, we confess that we can but speak of them with very qualified apooval. Especially in the matter of the Church, we doubt their having any sounder or deeper views than the mere Conservatives. At least, if the general character of a party may be gathered from the individual character t f those units which constitute it, the Church views of the Country party must be, to say the least, somewhat indis tinct and hasy. Lord Stanley, when, as a member of the Peel government, he, in 1845, opposed the St. Asaph and Bangor Bill, spoke more decidedly against the increase of English Bishopricks than any other noble lord who took part in the debate. Lord George. Bentinek has not, pro bably, found time to turn his attention to a subject not ct re congenial, and apparently not very pres-ing. Mr. D'lsraeli s church views may be described as half Angli can, halt Rowanist, and ha?" Jewish. And as for thos.- . very respectable country gentlemen who form the mass of the Protectionist party, and give it all its importance, whet her in Parliament or in the country, sure we are that not one in ten of them has any other wish with regard to the Church than that things should he let alone—that par sons should not be over pious —and that Pus-yisrn should he put down. Speak to them of the Church's needs, tell them that five or six thousand more clergy are wanted for Foreand and Wales, only, that twenty er thirty now hi shopricl4s are required, that five th , usand new schools. end nearly an equal number of churches have to be built, that tresii laws are needed a ith respect to the matters of cle rical supervision, and Church discipl , ne, that the powers of the Diocesan courts should be revived ; hint tus ther, that something of liberty in regard to the election of Bishops, some real voice in the matter should be rest red to the Chaptt rs, and add that it is hoped Convocation will ere long be allowed to meet for the dispatch of busit•ess. and thenceforth sit regularly with every Parliament—and you will be at once set down for a Puseyite or a luna tic. These respectable gt,ttlemen would hold up their hands in horror, at the bare mention of such a catalogue reforms, and would look on the proposer of them as an ecclestastical radical. Their notion is, that the Church siqmld keep let well alone,' as ihey phrase it. Thry would have all remain , s they knew it in their yming , r days,—jolly parsons, eauital fellows a'ter dinner, fair riders, good whist players, exeelltnt-hearted men— these are the sort of eltrgym,n 'hey would wish to see p-rp. tuated, this is their beau We - al of what a clergyman should be. All stir in the Church they deprecate; they think it &ngerous; they know not what may come of it. To expect them to aid in that regen , ration of our Church which is at present in progress, to expect them to tend a helping hand to what they so lit le comprehend, and so frtr as they comprehend distrust, appears to us a very san guine, not to say a silly notion. No ! it may be th it the Church is wholly beset by enemies, and his nothing to hope for from any existing political tarty —it may be that the Whig policy will not correspond to our anticipa!ions of it, and the Church will at last be thrown wholly upon herself and her own resources,—all this is yet in the womb of time, and we pretend not to the gift of vat cination,— but of one thing, at least, we are sure, the Protectionists will he found by the Church but a bruised reed for her to lean on. Already is there rife among Protectionists a feeling of anger against the Clergy and the Church generally on account of their tacit aquiescern e in the great event of the last session, the repeal of the duties upon foreign grain. That neither University should have petitioned against the change, that the colleges shotrci have remained quiet, that the Chapters should have looked on in seeming indif ference, that the Clergy should nowh ere h ave ma d e a s t an d , that a majority of the Bishops should have voted for the c measure—these are so many crimes on the part of the Church, in the eyes of that parry which has made protec tion its battle-cry, and holds all other points as of secon da y importance. They are provoked, grievously provo ked at the quiescence of the clergy, and their apparent con tentedness under the new arr,ngement. They cannot un der,tand how a class, whose incomes are the most threat ened of any by the chana, should so readily submit t.. it. They fal altogether to appreciate that noble and generous s.-ntiment which has pervade the clerical body, and in duced the members of it to abstain from all interference, with a lejslation, which, while it may fall indeed some what heavily upon themselves, promises to i n crease the comforts, and ameliorate the condition of those for whom they are especially b, , und to care, the poor of Christ's 11 alt. Instead of sympathising with such prais• worthy self-denial, they are wont to acuse the clergy of deserting them, and are not unfrequently heard to utter threats of future retaliation. HONOUR TO THE FAIR Sex!—At the risk of vexing some who would not have ti eir good deeds brought too Prominently forward, we cannot avoid making honoura ble mention of the remarkable pi- rseverance and devotion .f the daughters of General S mcoe, who distinguished himself in the American war. These ladies, 4.n the ruins of 'he old Abbey of Dunkswell, near Honiton, have erected a church, for which they worked all the stone with their own hands A large drawing room, commenced by the general, and not finished, s , rved for the al‘Per. We have a worthy companion for these ladies, whose names we mention with all due real. cot in Miss Rickards, of .Stow Lanoott, Bury, who has, with her own hands,_as we hear, glazed an the windows to — tier TaiSer'~' dhurcb. stained glass, painted and burnt by herself !-Builder. ADVICE TO AN INTENDIN SERIALIST.—I have, there fore, little opportunity of judging whoher the characters depicted by some of our later reriallas, are exact copies from nature or reverse. I have, however, heard several young ladies declare them to be extrem. ly natural, though I confess to have been somewhat puzzled as to their means of accurate information. But I may be allowed en pas sant to remark, that it seems difficult to imagine what kind of pleasure can be derived from the description of a scene, which, if actually contemplated by the reader, would in spire him with loathing and disgust. or from conversa tions in which the brutal alternates with the positive ob scene. The fetid den of the Jew, the stinking cellar of the thief, the squalid attic of the prostitute, are not haunts tor honest men, and the less that we know of them the better. Such places no doubt exist—the more is the pity ; but so do dunghills, and a hundred other filthy things, which the imagina , ion shudders at whenever they are forced upon it,—tor the man who willingly and deli berately dwells upon such subjects, is, notwithstanding all pretext, in heart and soul a nightman ! Don't tell me about close painting after nature. Nature is tilt always to he. `-‘1 as she really is. We oe painteu ould you hang up such paintings in your dravting-i. It not, why suffer them in print to lie upon your tirawing-room tables ? What are Fugene Sue and his English competitors, but coarser and more prurient Ostades?—Bleckwood's Itlag.zine. CURIOSITIES IN GARDENING —Gardening, as well as literature, has its " curiositits," and a volume might be filled with them. How wonderful, for instance, the sensi tive plant, which shrinks from the hand of man—the ice plant, that almost cools one by looking at it—the pitcher plant, with its welcome draught—the air trigger of the stylidium—and the caruiverous " Venus' fly-trap" (Dio nma muscipula— " Only think of a vegetable being carniverous!") which is said to bait its prickles with something which at tracts the flies, ut•on which it then closes, and whose de- cay is supposed to afford food for the plant. Disease is turned into beauty .ri the common and crested moss rose, and a luaus nolu ce reproduced in the hen-and-chicken daisy. There are phosphorescent plants, the fire-flies and glowing-worms of the vegetable kingdom. There are the microscopic lichens and mosses ; and there is the Rafflesia Arnoldi, each of whose petals is a foot long, its nectary a foot in diameter, and deep enough to contain three gallons, and weighing fifteen pounds! What mimicry is there in the orchises, and the hare's foot fern, and the Tartarian lamb, (Polypodium Baroneylz !) What shall we say to Gerard's Barnacle tree, " whereon do grow certain shells of a white colour tending to russet, wherein are contained little living creatures; w ich shells in time ‘,l maturity do VARIETIES oPver Lord Palmers ATION Fite ',Otis SGOW TH a shall be raised to the Ent in conwlio ent equa ly to his lord ea er,ices arid hi- d ,n2 , -rous to- P4ll Mall ~ow occu• ion of th, w:as 11., as a fre hold, to 1%1,11 LARGEST CITY IN THE EMPIR.F Sr. ell% to th •-. Toe muoleipa rd of its event or r is nor aP.ove half ui bormi,hs compo 7 itig that Gl4-z. w mill rain in Great Britaiii—Edin- .—An nged married pa;r. hose united ays number , d Mark 170, Ipni exprrs-ed a wish that thi-iv nigh , end their da.s togeiher at the sa,.e period, aiid he buried in one This their mournful wi-h was granted to them. for the old contile !Atelv diva within a few hours of each other, iinit were interred in one gtat;e , it Rothley on 7.Picoihter . . DOTCHMEN AND IRISHMEN —Vt 1. were reminded of uopun tsoed ao-edoir of David Wi kie, relate,i to it nd of ours by a London tandhd, o f the artist'.. said, he rented one of her at e had an Irishman on her fir-t floor; but in aces " And so I altv,vs 'nen b. -gin on the first floor he came to t time they said she, ad in the girr t; theScolchcnen begin in !be garret, i on th , - tint flor HE OLD WOMAN AND THE TELEGRAPH.—Last week a hawker cal d with his utiods at a ' , mall house by the side of the rk end Nt.castle ( randling Junction) R a ilway, abuu' half a mile fr im the station at South Shields. and tormil an nl.l woman at home alone. Ills oily tongue and glitterimg wares tempted her to 'Teak tn.o a piece of gold, and hec nue a purchas-r. Atter he had taken his dep..rtipe by the train she detected a bid h .If crown among the change he had given her She hid read the ufiwspape.s, and had a so heard her neighbours talk if the w ,nderlul electric tel.-graph ; so, snatching up the kitchen cooker, and climbing no 'he embankment. she rushed to the wires to give an alarm But the was sot lone enough to reach the im,chinery. Back she ran to her cottage, caught up the " long brush," arid re mounting the rautay, rattled the wires of the telegraph, bawled nut at the top of her voice to inform Mr. hnson, at Gateshead, of th- friud, and desire him to :am the roo , ue of a hawker that she might have him niched fir his crime.— Gateshead Observer. t TEMPTING BILL OF FARE.--1 he following was the rd Mayo , of London's inauguration 250 tureens of teal turtle, con five pints each ; 200 bottles of sherb t, 6 dishes of 3() entrees. 4 b oleit turkeys and oysters, 60 roast , 60 d , shes of fowls, 46 ditto of (woos, 6 ditto of White's Selim's true India curries, 50 French as, Ornatil. wed ; 43 t.itigue , , barons of beef, 3 rounds of ns, rumps, arid ribs 61) ditto of mashed and Ilti-h, 4 ditto of prawns, t tar at t sterday wrek ed rumi nes of tarts, creamed ; s of orange and other tilly ts, 60 dishes of mince pies, —BO. roes , turkeys, 6 leve t() dishes of partri Iges, 15 Dessert— 100 pineapples fishes of hothouse graves ,pples, 100 dish , s of pears '75 pia , es of w louts, 80 50 plates of presery d nd chips, 46 plates of —ln a calm almost any degree of cold jut th- _ applica ion of successive doses of it e face, by wind becorm-s occ , sionally almost unbear indeed, I rep' ember seeing the left cheeks of nearly of our trost-bitten in ...across a bleak open space, .ig and bitterly cold north that was blowing upon us all. The remedy for tiers simulo mired va,e posed to a to which many Canadians, and others have recourse, is—at least to my feelit.gs it alwa‘s ap geared—infinitely worse than the disease. On ent , rinz, for instance, the -mall parlour of a little inn, a number of strong ahle-hodied felb.wa are discovered holchng. their bands a few inches before their face.;. and sitth,g in :iler., mmediately in front of a stove OF such excruchitiog Dower, uld roast the very eves in as one endures this agony, the if it belonged to what is called at ristma. I" I one day inquired of a ing man who called upon upe, and ; of each foot had been truncated, pened. He told me that the first England, be lost his way in the calking for some hours, feeling vain bow the accident happ winter he came from and th feet, h 3d from the flet:1) im- 10 put them on again ery old ones, soon wore into he was hurriedly pro with alarm, but al' h- one toe and then ano. they had been pieces of brittle stick ; state he continued to advance till he h led him to an inhabited lot;-house, , suffering great pain, till his cure was —The Emigrant, by Str F. B. Head. 4T TO SOME OF THE RESSMEN.—There never . . and in this nn reached a rani ere be r .tiius, and ability, had so of the press is developed Jers exaggeration impossi- A thousand lcrease. a few were formerly em- !owe a nation of reader• and of wri of education, whatever may be said are generally distributed through- so, indeed, that without them end one step in the social scale. imperfect gain, and, like all not the least is the as- hough an Is. Of t It assails us everywheie, ith consummate impudence, is Look at the shoals of itine- it are swarming through ce is too deep, no poli- for their capacity They have subjects of philosophy and reli- I shall merely remark, that they dards bath of church ,ey cotnronnieate to their audience Smith, of meeting one of these gentle st the amenities of private life? I have upon joyed that luxury ; and, so far as I am the Pericles of the platform appeared , illiterate, and ignorant Cockney. !ffrontery of a bagman. Such are ffect to regenerate the people with listened to even with avidity, be- like char k of the I Frtly by tors worst of humar coin can write a decent pa- . . . . . E.ry questn , n, no rngtter of whgt iin i a teacher of the people I— Blackw. .TION OF CLIMATE. --Pne of the ure is the manner in edly, prodcceg great effects as to be almost invisible, and he human race—so far as an alteration erned—are Lbouring almost in vain in .stion, swarms of Little fli• s, strange as it and for many years have been, most ma of the great continent of h'ch they unconsci- s important duty is as follows : —They rment the wild solo als to such a degree, )ed by Br ) get rid of their ssailants, wherever ppened to be nn fire, they rushed to the unite welt that the flies The wily perceived that by Li 'be unable to - follow a eminent sp game:instead his beii - ig of I to trail in search of i ent having proved eminently successful, many years have been, and EVII are, in ling tracts of wood so immense, that from ieteific authority I have been informed, Indians f of the flies has exceeded many millions of acres ; and that it has been, and still is, materially changing the climate of North America, Put besides the effect it is producing on the therii:ometer, it is aimultanerusly working out an r great operation of Nature. Although the game, to d the stings of their tiny - assailants, come from distant a to the smoke, and therein fall from the arrows _ human foes, yet this burning of the fo rabbits and small game as well as the )t the larger game, and therefore, just as brandy s of their ,nort time raise tt.e spirits of the venturilly leave hi m pale, melancholy, and improvident [node of o es this vicious, ig game for a short time fatten, but eventually af with famine all those who have engaged in it; and as, for instance, the Beaver Indians, who. forty years go were a powerful and numerou‘ tribe. are now reduced to less than 100 men, who can scarcely find wild animals enough to keep them elite; in shor, the red population is diminishing in the savie ratio as tt e desTurtion of the moose and wood imffal t n lk h; h their forefathers had antatisted.—Sir I. Head's Emigrant. 'or a a' - , w hi c h bali ng into the water become fowles, which are called Barnacles!" What monsters (such at least they are called by botanists) has art produced in doubling flow ers, in dwarfing and hybridising—" painting the lily"— for there are pink (!) lilies of the valley, and pink violets arid roses, and blue hydrangeas; and many others are now busy in seeking that `'philosopher's stone of gardening," ioys, entitled to assume I the blue dahlia—a useless search, if it he true that there is Foreigners turn to good account this foolish rage of ours for everything novel, ai:d monstrous, and unnatural, mote worthy of Japan and Cbina than of England, by imposing upon the credulous seeds and cuitings of yellow moss roses, and scarlet laburnums, and fragrant ',monies, and i such like. SIR ROBERT PEEL IN 1841 AND 1846.-" That party, [the Conservative.] " gentlemen, ti's been pleased to In trust your representative with its confidence (cheers) ; and, notwithstanding all the remarks that have been made at various times, respecting differences of opinion and jea lousy among them, you may depend upon it that they are altogether without foundation ; and that that party which has paid me the compliment of taking m y advice, and fol _ lowing my counsel, are a united and compact party, among which there does not exist the slightest , diference of opinion in respect to the principles they support, and the conse th..y may desire to ;nu- ue. (Cheers ) Gen tlemen, I hope I have not abused the confidence of that great party. (Loud cheers.) [speech of Sir .R. Peel at the Tamworth election, pp. 4, 5 J I give the elo- :er crec 'eeling a so, quent am twinge, a pang, a spasm, on reading the above. Om more extract I will give relative to the recent con !uct of Sir R. Peel on the sugar-duties •—" The question now is, gentlemen. whether, after the sacrifices which this country has made for the suppression of the slave -trade, and the abolition of slavery, and the glorious resul, s tha: have en- sued, and are likely to ensue from these sacrifices, we shall run the rsk of losing the benefit of these sacrifices, and tarnishing for ever /hat glory, by admitting to the British markets sugar, the produce of foreign slavery? Gentlemen, the character of this country, in resoect to slavery, is thus spoken of by one of the most eloquent writers and statesmen of another country, Dr. Chaining, of the United States :—' Great Britain, loaded with an unprecedented debt, and with a grinding taxation, con 'et( ' a new deht ri a hundred millions of dollars, to give tractect freedom, nor to Englishmen. but to the& graded African. I know not 'hat history records an act so disinterested, so sublime. In the progress of ages, Erglapd's naval tri umphs will sit k into a more and more narrow space on the records of our race. Flits moral triumph will fill a broader, brighter page.' Gentlemen," proceeded Sir Ro bert- Peel, " let us take care that this bright page' be not sullied by the admission of stare sugar into the consump tion of this country, by our unnecessary encouragement of llarery and the slave-trade." [Speech, pp. 8, 9.3 —i3lacotamod's Magazine. y of We•tn THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. NEW ZEALAND. Captain Fitzroy, the late Governor of New Zealand, has published a small pamphlet on the condition and prospects of that colony, from which we make the follow ing extract. As the subject is most important for many reasons, we intend in our next to give the gallant Captain an opportunity of explaining more fully the course of po licy he felt it his duty to pursue there. In the meantime, we give the subjoined answer of Captain Fitzroy to the charge that he issued debentures to the disparagement of the usual circulating medium `' The subject requiring the primary attention of the le gislative council was finance. At the beginning of this year (1844) the local government was twenty-four thou sand pounds in debt ; the revenue being then estimated at about twenty thousand pounds. All salaries and or dinary current plyments were several months in arrear ; there was no prospect of the revenue amounting even to two-thirds of the estimated indispensable expenditure : the establishment was reduced to that which was author ised by the Secretary of State in a despatch received just at the close of the previous year (1843); the governor was strictly prohibited from drawing on the British treasury: and no loan could be raised. " By reducing the establishment of government to an extreme much below what was absolutely necessary for carrying on the daily public business, a less expenditure might have been ensured, but, not only at a loss of effi ciency, almost to the disabling of the local government, but to the extreme distress of many official persons who had been induced to leave their public situations else where to form part of the establishment of New Zealand, where they had been obliged to build houses and settle their families, at no small expense. In order to carry on the government until assistance ana directions could be received from England; to re lieve the creditors of government from distress ;= and to keen numerous families from extreme privation, some from actually starving ; it was decided to issue notes, or debentures, bearing five per cent. interest after the expi ration of one year; and as these debentures were at first refused by several speculators, and therefore seemed likely to be much depreciated, they were made a legal tender. It should be noticed that this paper currency was not intended to be permanent; it was intended to serve instead of coin during a very limited period, not exceeding two years,--before which it was probable that some arrangement would be made by the same govern ment for their withdrawal from circulation. These de bentures enabled the government to carry on its functi ons, and saved an extremity of disorder and distress which can hardly be appreciated by persons in an old country. Their principle has been much condemned by some theorists (who reason about a young struggling co- Inny without capital, as if it were really circumstanced like any portion of the parent state—supported by banks and capitalists); but since their beneficial effects were practically felt, and fully appreciated by those who might have been actually starved without them, the objections of theorists may be less regarded. As there were then no exports, the colony was drained of its small stock of specie by payments for goods and the usual necessaries of life ; and scarcely any circulating medium remained ex cept notes of the Union Bank of Australia. " But as the issue of paper money was in direct contra vention of the governor's instructions, of course be was prepared to bear the con.equences. There have been many occasions, it will not be denied, on which deviations from instructions have been productive of public benefit, however indefensible according to a general rule which must be maintained. Whether this was one of such oc casions, the wretched state of the colonists in New Zea land may shew. Impending ruin, and actual starvation, threatened the greater number of the working classes, and many others, at Auckland, who depended on the govern ment expenditure. No assistance from England could be expected in less than a year.—No money could he ob tained by the government, in the colony, or from Sydney, because no person would accept bills drawn by the gover nor without the express sanction of the Secretary of Stare. "The practical effect of these debentures was not only the removal of actual want, but the promotion of much industry and general improvement. Instead of a com plete stagnation, as at the beginning of 1844, activity and khundant employment soon prevailed. Auckland and its viriniry improved rapidly, and an export trade began. " The necessity under which the principal holders of debentures lay to employ them in the colony, and as speedily as possible, lest there should he any deterioration of value, induced those persons to buy up gum, flsx, timber, or copper, or other native produce, to be exvorted as remittances to their correspondents instead of money. Some built small vessels ; others improved their landed propetty by fences and better buildings. The results were conspicuously beneficial." AWFUL DISCOVERY (From the Westminster Review.) One serene evening in the middle of August, 1775, Cap tain Warrens, the master of the Greenland, whale-ship, found himself becalmed among an immense number of ice bergs, in about 77 degrees of north latitude. On one side, and within a mile of his vessel, these were of immense height and closely wedged together, and a succession of snow-covered peaks appeared behind each other as far as the eye could reach, showing that the ocean was com pletely blocked up in that quarter, and that he hod proba bly been so for a long period-of time. Captain Warrens did not feel altogether satisfied with his situation ; but there being no wind he could not move either one way or the other and he therefore kept a Strict watch, knowing that be would be safe as long as the icebergs cc/rationed in their respective places. . . A boutmidnight, the wind rose to a gale, accompanied by thick showers of snow, while a succession of tremen d us thundering, grinding, and crashing noises, gave fear ful evidence that the ice was in motion. The vessel re- ceived violent shocks every moment ; for the haziness of the atmosphere prevented those on board from discovering in what direction the open water lay, or if there actually was any at all on either side of them. The night was spent in tacking as often as any cause of danger happened to present itself, and in the morning the storm abated, and Capt. Warrens found, to his great joy, that his ship had not sustained any serious injury. He remarked with surprise that the accumulated icebergs, which had on the preceding evening formed an impenetrable barrier, had been separated and disarranged by the wind, and that in one place a canal of open sea wound its course among them as far as the eve could discern. _ It was two miles beyond the entrance of this canal that a ship made its appearance about noon. The sun shone brightly at the time, and a gentle breezo blew from the north. At first some intervening icebergs prevented Cap tain Warrens from distinctly seeing anything but her masts ; but he was struck with the strange manner in which her sails were disposed, and with the dismantled aspect of her yards and rigging. She continued to go be fore the wind for a few furlongs, and then grounding upon the low iceberg, remained motionless. • Captdn Warrens' curiosity was so much excited that he immediately leaped into his boat with several seamen, and rowed towards her. On approaching he observed that her hull was miserably weather-beaten, and not a soul ap peared on the deck, which was covered with snow to a considerable depth. He hailed her crew several times, but no answer was returned. Previous to stepping on board, an open port-hole near the main chains caught his eye, and , on looking into it, be perceived a man reclining back in a chair, with writing materials on a table before him, but the feebleness of the light made everything very indistinct. The party went upon deck, and having re moved the hatchway, which they found closed, they de scended to the cabin. They first came to the apartment which Captain Warrens viewed through the port-hole. A 'tremor seized him as he entered it. Its nmate retained his former position, and seemed to be insensib.e to strangers. He was found to be a corse, and a green damp mould had covered his cheeks and forehead, and veiled his open eye-balls. He had a pen in his hand, and a log-book lay before him, the last sentence in whose unfinished page ran thus :—" Nov. 14, 1762. We have now been enclosed in the ice 17 days. The fire went out yesterday, and our master has been trying ever since to kindle it again with- His wife died this morning. There is no out success relief—" Captain Warrens and his seamen hurried from the spot without uttering a word. On entering the principal cabin the first object that attracted their attentio❑ was the dead body of a female reclining on a bed in an attitude of deep interest and attention. Her countenance retained the freshness of life, and a contraction or the limb showed that her form was inanimate. Seated on the fluor was the corpse of an apparently young man, holding a steel in cue hand and a flint in the other, as if in the act of striking fi e upon some tinder which lay beside him, In the fore part of the vessel several sailors were found lying dead in their berths, and the body of a boy was crouched at the bottom of the gangway stairs. Neither provisions nor fuel could be discovered anywhere; but Captain Warrens was prevented, by the superstitious prejudices of his seamen, from examining the vessel as minutely as he wished to have done. He therefore carried away the log-book already mentioned, and returned to his own ship, and immediately steered to the southward, deeply impressed with the awful example which he had just witnessed of the danger of navigating the Polar seas in high northern latitudes. On returning to England he made various inquiries respecting vessels that had disappeared in ; n unknown way, and, by comparing the results of those with the in formation which was afforded by the written documents in his possession, he ascertained the name and history of the imprisoned ship and of her unfortunate master, and found that she had been frozen tbirteen sears previous to the time of his discovering her among the ice. THE SMITH AND FERRERs ROMANCE A bulky pamphlet has just issued from the press which is likely to be read by the lovers of romantic go:.sp with considerable avidity. It is nothing less than a long rative from Miss Smith, the young lady who sued Earl Ferrers for damages for breach of promise, of the rise and progress of her love passage with the earl. Th authoiess dates from Syerscote Man^r, Warwickshire, the place of ber retirement, and appends her name in formal algoatute at the close of her statement. She says, having in some measure recovered from the dreadful shock con sequent on the unexpected and unfirtunate termination of the trial, she deems it a duty to herself and her family to lay before the public a plain statement of facts, with replies to the chief points in the speech of Sir Frederick Thesiger. She then proceeds at once with her narrative, stating, that in 1839 Viscount Tamworth resided with the curate of Aus trey. at which time he was seventeen years old, and she fourteen. They became acquainted, and he professed for her an ardent attachment, which she really and ardently returned. When, she was subsequently sent to school, she was broken-hearted at the departure. Lord Tamworth was shortly afterwards removed from Austrey. " He re turned home," says Miss Smith, " in the year 1842, and the month after his return, I met with a genttentan. who addressed me as Earl Ferrets, and whom, from my rf col lection of Viscount Tamworth's countenance, I betiVfed to be him. He asked me, reproachfully, if I did not re member him? I replied that 1 did, that I was perfectly satisfied. He was in deep mourning, and mentioned the death of his grandfather. He told me he had never for gotten me, and was now come for the purpose of assuring me how much he loved me, and to know if I retained my former feelings for him. My reply was, that I did. He exprested his delight—his satisfaction ; and swore nothing earthly should prevent our union." The basis of the de fence is, that if the person thus spoken of was not Lord Ferrers, he was an imposter who cruelly and wickedly personated him, and led her on from folly to folly. In providing herself with an alternative, however, she does not profess to believe that she was the dupe of a third party ; on the contrary, she goes into a varied and plau sible statement, and shrewd argument, to show that such could not have been the case. Having defended the cha racter of her younger sister, Miss Smith proceeds to vin dicate herself, displaying great earnestness and consider able tact and ingenuity. The extreme cleverness of this pamphlet (considering the age and sex of the writer) tells against as well as for Miss Smith ; for while it makes out a strong case in her favour, it affords evidence of an abi lity to do so, provided she were armed with the necessary knowledge of the facts the forgeries deposed to. The capability to i nitate the handwriting of the noble lord is another sort of gift altogether, upon which no stranger can pretend to offer an opinion. Though she admits that it is possible she may have been the victim of an impo sition, of which Lord Ferrers was not cognizant, she pretty significantly maintains that it was he eho duped her. In noticing Miss Smith's pamphlet, the Britannia says it is a curiosity, and may take its place amongst the monstrosities of literature. " Her talent,'.' continues our contemporary, " it must be admitted was severely taxed. I was," she says. " urged to write the next two letters from a circumstance communicated to me by a then intimate friend. She stated that Lord Ferrers was not only engaged to the daughter of an etinent Chancery lawyer, but that it was even thought probable that he would marry a common girl at Stafford, whom he was then noticing. My object in writing this letter was to try if it were possible that this might be true ; for if his lordship could entertain an affection for so many at once, my plot for convincing him of his infidelity might be suc cessful ; hence the assertion that the letter came from one unknown to him." She goes on to state that Earl Ferrers, when she saw him next, mentioned those letters to her, and told her he had used them to light his pipe with. Hence, she says, she had no scruple in affirming they never had existence : " Supposing that they had all shared the same fate that he assured me the first had. I did not scruple to deny their existence to Mr. Hamel ; thus casting a stain upon my nature which, I fear, no after event will ever efface, and had in consequence t- submit to a nonsuit ! «hat was meant as a mere girlish frolic has proved a misfor tune of the deadliest kind." It is singular that this unfortunate girl, wl.ile endea vouring to defend herself from the charge of falsehood, allows it to be seen that she never had the slightest re g-,rd for truth. She speaks of the tissue of deceit she acknowledges, as perfectly allowable. and cannot even imagine that there is any guilt in deliberate and repeated falsities. In her own mind she probably regards the whole plot as a girlish frolic of rather a superior kind, and is proud of the skill with which she carries it on.—Leeds paper. GENERAL MISCELLANY The Board of Ordnance has rejected the proposal for the use of Schonbein's gun cotton in the British army. The Queen has directed that the Wellington statue shall be removed from its present resting place. On Wednesday Mr. Nicholson, late a solicitor at Wor cester, was thrown from his gig and killed. Three entirely new houses in Oxford-place, Old Bromp ton, fell in on Thurday, and killed two workmen. A ves,el arrived from Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, has brrught, besides a general cargo, 82,320 lb. weight of due bones. Mr. Alsager, the ex-city correspondent of the Times, made an attempt on his life, by cutting his throat, a few days since. The unfortunate gentleman still survives. Two steamers on Windermere have had a mo-t success ful season, the proprietors having received a very hand some dividend upon their capital. The Glasgow Examiner states, that though trade is brisk at Paisley, the weekly average of the weavers' wages does not exceed seven shillings. A young female, named Hester Elizabeth White, has been committed for trial for burglary and robbery at During the past fortnight the magistrates of Bucking hamshire have committed 26 prisoners to the Aylesbury House of Correction, for offences against the game-laws. A few days since, while a Mr. Harris, of Bristol, was cutting his toe-nails he let the knife slip, and drew blood ; mortification and lock-jaw ensued, and he died. KENDAL. —John Wakefield, Esq., of Sedgwick, wati last week, for the second time, nominated to the dignity of Mayor of Kendal, on the ground of his "activity in promoting the best interests of the town in every way." The remains of Miss Harriet Churchill, of Manor place, South Chelsea, niece of the poet, and the last member of his family, were on Tuesday deposited in the family vault in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. The next celebration of the Eton Montem, which will take place in May. 1847, will probably be the last, as the heads of the school are said to have resolved upon abolish ing it. On Monday week, several youths at Redditch, Worcea ter,hire, went out to shoot rabbits, and as one was firine, he lodged the contents of the gun in the head of one or his companions, named John Thomas, k Ming him instantly. Mr. Dearsley, the counsel for the Hull Advertiser, in a recent libel case against the proprietor of that paper, has returned his fee, amounting to fifty guineas, as he con siders the liberty of the press the " living soul" of freedom. GENERAL DISPENSATION.—Liguori declares without hesitation, that in heretical countries it may be necessary and proper, on some occasions, to conceal one's religion, or even to profess to be of the religion generally held. On Monday, Mr. Bettridge, of the firm of iennens and Bettridge, London, bad the honour of waiting upon her Majesty and Prince Albert to exhibit the specimens of panier mache and japan works. _ _ The tolls of the foirr turnpike gates on the road between Canterbury and Chatham, which were put up for auction two years since at £2OOO, are now advertised to be put up at a litt►e more than £l4OO. Other roads have suffered in still greater proportion. Tuft HOP buiY.—From the return, it appears that the amount this year of the old duty on hops is £242,929, and the aggregate £448,609. This is, we believe, nearly double the ordinary produce of the duty, the crops of bops having been most abundant. The London papers are dull beyond all precedent. The Globe of Saturday week has a leader on Chemistry, and mechanism of the lungs. The chief article of the Times of Wnday is an essay on pawnbroking ; recommending the State as the" great uncle" of the poor people. Mrs. French, the lady of the Dean of Elphin, died a few days since in consequence of having had administered to her by a servant, an embrocation in mistake for a draught, which had been prescribed by her medical atten dant. It is said that the Court of Directors of the East India Company has privately adopted the resolution of confin ing the grant of cadetships and assistant surgeoncies to candidates who are in some way connected with the mili tary or civil services in India. A MAN STUNG TO DEATH.—On Friday week. an inq.lest was held at Hemsby, Suffolk, on the boiy of Mr. Palmer, a miller in that village, who, a few days before, had, while employed in his garden, accidentally overturned a skep of bees. The insects attacked the intruder, and stung him so dreadfully that he died a short time after. P. W. S. Miles, Esq., M.P., has presented to all his allotment tenants, at Shirehampton, a sufficient quantity of seed wheat to sow their land with this year, in order to encourage them to depend less upon the potato crop, which has proved so complete a failure for two successive years. The majority of the bakers in the metropolis last week again lowered the price of bread one halfpenny in each 41b. loaf. The lowest price now charged on the Surrey side of the water, Whitechapel, &c., is 7d. per 41h. loaf, h le the best bread is 9d., as charged by the full priced bakers. The gun-cotton may be easily made SV saturating cotto with a mix' ure of equal parts of nitric and sulphuric acid and ifterw..rds washing it well in clean water, and care fully drying it. We would recommend great caution in exploding this substance. It ought to be known that, at a temperature of 130 degrees, ►he cotton explodes spon taneously. Great care should therefore be taken in drying it. AMIABLE TRAIT IN THE CHARACTER OF THE LATE MR. STEWART, M.P.—Mr. Stewart's filial devotion to hie mo,ht-r, and her affection for him, are well shown in the simple but eloquent fact, that when be was absent from Carnock, never did one post pass without bringing letters I, m the one to the other. This singularity w as almost equilled in his correspondence with his sister the Duchess of ti.imerset. and other branches of the family. THE DAGE N FIAM MURDER.—The three police consta bles, named Butfoy, Pearns, and Stevens, who have been under surve llance in consequence of the contradictory evidence t hev gave relative to the murder of the policeman Clark. at Dagenham, have been dismissed from the force. The Attorney and Solicitor-General were of opinion that as the policemen were not sworn at the time they gave false evidence, they could not be indicted for perjury. ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—A. letter in the London Times informs its of the amazing fact that the prices of admission were trebled on Lord Mayor's Day, upon the pretence that, in addition to the ordinary sights, visitors would have an opportunity of seeing the civic procession ! Surely such profanation as this will draw the attention of the heads of the Church to the indecency of making a show of such a building, whether for hire or not. DR. WAREING'S SPECIAL PLEADING.—Dr. Wareing's quasi contradiction may be, in reality, no contradiction 3i all. The charge was that the young man was proffered dispensation. The bishop's defence is that he did not beforehand proffer or afterwards grant any dispensation. No charge was made that he had granted a dispensation. It was that he had proffered one. He denies that he proffered beforehand; he does not deny that he after wards proffered a dispensation.—Morning Herald._ The whole of the magistrates officiating at North Shields have sent in their resignations, in consequence, it is understood, of their refusal to grant a licence to the railway terminus at Tvnemouth having been overruled at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, held at Alnwick An address to the magistrates_ of . the east division of Castle Ward, expressive of confidence in their impartiality and justice, is in the course of signature in the borough of Tynemouth. EXHUMATION.—The body of Mr. George Taylor, of Carlton-upon-Trent, Newark, who died and was buried in November, 1844, was disinterred last week, it being suspected that he was poisoned by Miss Smith, his house keeper, at the instigation of his own wife. Both these parties are in custody, Miss Smith having made a confes- sion to the above effect, and Professor Playfair, of Lon don, is making an analytical examination of the contents of the stomach of the deceased. FOREIGN RECIPROCITY.—The Zollverein was said to be the , ffspring of our corn laws, and sure to expire when hese laws should be repealed. The Zollvdrein has not died, and will not die; and the first step by which it sig- nalises its gratitude for the repeal of our corn laws is the imposition of an additional duty of 50 per cent. upon the previous r eavy duty on our cotton yarn, and a multi plication twelve fold of the previous duty upon our linen yarn. Is this the promised imitation of our liberal com mercial policy. A MAN KILLED BY A PLOUGH.—On Friday, a man named Thomas Watts, farmer, of Cottenham, met his death in an awful manner, being absolutely ploughed to death. His brother was guiding the plough, and he re quested him to turn the horses round. In doing so, be slipped down and er as dragged along, the ploughshare passing over his head, which was smashed to pieces, the brains being completely crushed. He died instantane ously. Watts was a man of some property, and had no wife or children.—Cambridge Advertiser. It is said that M. Guizot, at the request of the King of the French, has furnished Lord Brougham with copies of all the coorespondence which has passed between Lord Palmerston and the French government, on the subject of the Spanish marriages, in order that his lordship may be enabled to vindicate the course pursued by the French cabinet. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Chro nicle says that Louis Phillippe has received an autograph letter born Lord Brougham, congratulating him upon the Moirtpensi..r marriage. M hI,ANCHOLY BRIDAL-DAY. — On Wednesday week was married, at St. Mary's Church, Devizes, Mr. Geo. Nash, to Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Charles Bristow. The younger sister of the bride, aged about 16, who had been for some time in a consumption, had looked forward to this day with considerable anxiety, and was more than usually elated when it arrived. She saw her sister in her bridal dress previous to her going to church, and took leave of her ; but at the very moment that one sister was married the other died--Devizes Gazette. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday week, as Mary Ann Edwards, aged 45, a fine, healthy, and able-bodied female, employed as charwoman at the house of Mr. Terry, Chiswell-street, Lordon, was proceeding into the kitchen with a large empty dish in her hand, in stepping up a single step, she stumbled and fell, the dish being broken into sever al pieces, one of which, of an an gular form, penetrated the right side of deceased's neck, dividing the jugular vein and the carotid artery, and causing instant death. At the election of the Mayor of Nottingham, on Mon day, a questibn was raised whether a citizen of the United States can hold that office: Mr. Cripps was objected to on the ground that ha had. wben in America, become a e:~s-.. of. United States. The Sawn-Clerk opinion that that cireumAance would not be a legal objection; and as Mr. Cripps avowed himself to be a loyal subject of the Queen, he was unanimously elected. The discussion of the question occupied much time, and excited great interest. CAPT. WARNER'S LONG RANGE.—It was recently announced that government bad determined to incur some expense for the purpose of testing Captain Warner's invention of the long range, and that £l5OO had been ap propriated for this purpose: It is now further asserted that Colonel Chaloner, R. A.. and Captain Warner have selected a place on the east coast of Et sex for the experi ment; that Colonel W. Dundas, C. 8., Inspector of Ar tillery, is appointed arbitor ; and that an early day is to be fixed for the trial. A sacrilege took place in the church of Butterton, Staf fordshire, some weeks ago, and the only clue to the de predators was a piece of trousers cloth lying near one of the windows. Last week, the Stoke constabulary were removing some persons to gaol, followed by a sympathis ing crowd ; one of the busiest among the spectators was a young named Platt, a joiner, residing at Stoke. This attracted the attention of the chief superintendent, who observed that the trousers he wore were exactly of the kind of which a relic had been left in the church. The result has been that he, along with one of the former pri-. soner, has been committed for trial for the sacrilege. THE LATE DWARKANAIITH TAGORE.—Three or four years since this wealthy Asiatic made a princely gift of £lO,OOO for the forwarding of education in India, and by his last will he has left a similar sum of £lO,OOO for cha ritable purposes. . Dwarkanauth Tagore has left conside rable wealth ; besides his Zumindaree properties, he had large capital in houses, bazaars, and mercantile pursuits, the whole of which he bequeaths in equal shares to his three sons (who, jointly with his European partner, are his executors), the e'dest a partner in his father's house of business in Calcutta; the second, also brought up to business; the third, now in London, prosecuting his education, in view, we trust, to future eminence. On Tuesday last, the wife of a labouring man, at John stone, gave bit th to four children. Three of them lived only an hour, and the fourth is still alive and well. They were all males, and not much under the usual size. The .mother is doing well ; she is a young woman, and never bad any children before. Applications are abnut being made to parliament for making and cons'ructing a bridge over or across he river Thames, at or from, or near Essex-street. Strand, to the opposite shore, at or near Dowsen's Wharf, in the Marsh and Wall liberty; also, for making and maintaining a market at or near the south end of the proposed bridge. G , vernment has just concluded the purchase, for £25,000, of about 14 acres of land, on the east side of Birmingham, for the erection of a great central barracks for England. The electric telegrai.h will communicate from the centre of the barracks with all parts of the country, extending along every line of railway that may be made. THE ARMY.—From a Parliamentary return we learn that in 1834 there were were 5,675 sergeants, 1.789 trum peters and drummers. and 90,831 rank and file, in the army. In 1840, 6,217 sergeants, 1.840 trumpeters and drummers, and 104,597 rank and file, and in 1843, the rff etive strength of the army consisted of 6.760 sergeants, 2,(,64 trumpeters and drummers, and 115.124 rank and file. On Thursday morning week, .a barrister, named Jones, residing at Lincoln's-inn, in a state of somnambulism, dreaming that he was attacked by banditti, crept out of the window, and, suspending himself by his hands, kicked vigorously with his feet, breaking from five to six panes of a window beneath. He at length lost his bold and fell to the ground, falling within three feet of some iron railing, but was happily not much hurt. THE WATER COMPANY.—A company has been formed and provisionally registered, under the title of the United Kingdom Artesian Water Company, for obtaining pure water by sinking artesian wells. The water used last year by the water companies is estimated at 314.553,012 hog,b , a ds. And it is calculated that, from the chalk bed on which London is built, more than ten times the quan tity needed for all the towns in England could be raised The company propose, in the first place, to supply the public baths and washhouses, and, instead of iron, to use glass or porcelain pipes. Baron Lit big imagines the essence of the potato dis ease to consist in the conversion of the albumen, usual constituent of healthy potatoes, into caseine, a ptinc i p le which, by its great instability of composition, is supp osed to cause the potato to putrify rapidly.— The Plough. The Rev. F. Dauvenoy states, in the Taunton Cow ser, that he has discovered by the microscope a minute insect, crystal-like and transparent, resembling a Fri ider, in the midst of potato mildew, evidently feeding on it, and making its nest among the thread-beds of fu tai. From observations made, there must be more than 100 HI a single tuber. A WHOLE CORPORATION DEFUNCT !-It iS the op ' , nion of legal men that the Town Council of Worcester has. virtually committed an act of felo de se, and has no longer an existence, in consequence of the vacancy occa sioned by the death of the Mayor not having been duly filled up Within ten days, as required by the act. By this neglect, which occurred before the recent annual election, the number of Councillors fixed by law was incomplete, and consequently the acts of the remainder are null and void. On Saturday, at the Croydon Police-court, a fortune* teller, named 6iddens, was charged with obtaining con- siderable sums of money from a young and attractive lady, named Elizabeth Markby Dodd, by means of fraudulent pretences. The prisoner informed her t hat a young man named Anderson, in the East India Colkge, Addiscombe, had fallen in love with her ; and, strengthening the belief by the most artful means, such as the presentation of dresses, billets-doux, &c., succeeded in obtaining from her considerable sums of money. The infatuation was carried so far that the young lady left home clandestinely, accom panied by the prisoner, to go to India to marry her un known lover. They were stopped at Dover. The magis trates were of opinion, however, that the evidence did not support the charge, and the prisoner was discharged. The Editor of the Salopian Journal has published a circular marked " Private and confidential," from one of the recent lecturers of the Anti corn-law League, in which be explains the cbjects of the " Liberal Registration Offices," After a somewhat inflated flourish about " the exhaustion of the septennial cycle," which will render a general election necessary, this document continues—" It becomes essential to the interests of the liberal party that they should be able to form some estimate of their actual position in the various counties and boroughs at tEe date of the commencement of the present revision of the regi ster, and of the results of that revision with reference to the state of parties. I shall feel much obliged therefore by the inter position of your kind offices to'procure for me such information as you possess or can obtain on this subject, in reference to the borough of Bridgenorth." EDUCATION IN \VALES.-A committee has recently been formed in connexion with the Incorporated National Society for the special purpose of improving and extend ing sound education in Wales. The committee is called The Welsh Education Committee," and consists of many noblemen and gentlemen connected with the Prin- cipality, and of various members of the Standing Com• -s - clittee of the National Society. Th e committee ',umbers amongst its members all the Bishops of the Welsh Dio ceses ; the Marquis of Bute, K.T. ; the Earl of Powis, K.G. ; Li.rd Dynevor ; Lord Kenyon; Viscount Clive, M.P. ; Viscount Emlyn, 11. P. ; S rW. W. Wynn, Bart., M.P., &c. The annual subscriptions already amount to £2136 25., and donations have been promised to the amount of £ll7B. Among the annual subscribers are the Archbishop of Canter bury tor £lOO, the Bishop of Lon- don, £300 . ; the Welsh Bishop., £lOO each ; and several other noblemen and gentlemen £lOO each. Lord Sandoa gives ten guineas annually. FREE TRADE EFFECTS. —The poor woolcombers of Keighley have - had a market-place meeting, denouncing free trade as a cheat arid a delusion ; they were all working and suffering men. The meeting was finished by moon— light, and stable lanterns lighted the reporters to furnish their notes. These men now represent large bodies, who are all equally suffering from short time and shorter wages. We give a brief extract from one of the speakers. " In January last," said Mr. John Town, " the masters , took it upon them to reduce wages, and he was one of a deputation appointed to wait upon them and ask theta not to inflict that penalty on their workmen. But the masters said, No, you must submit to it, and we'll return it to you when the corn laws are repealed.' But now their arguments are changed. lie had waited on many of them, and on many of those who had joined with them in agitating for a repeal of the corn laws ; and now they said the cornbers never can have better wages. And why? Because, they say, they are a class of men of weak intellect.”—This is adding insult to t ppression, and is something like the free trade compliments to the farmers. THE BREVET.—The Gazette of Tuesday contains the long-expected brevet. The following is a summary of the Army Brevet :—Generals to be Field Marshal., 3; Lieu tenant Generals to be Generals, 13 ; Major Generals to be Lieutenant Generals, 44; Colorrls t, be Major Gene rals, 107 ; Lieutenant Colonels to be Colonels, 92 ; Ma j,rs to be Lieutenant Colonels, 50 ; Captains to be Ma jors, 181. Total number of officers promoted, 490 The P romotion of the three senior generals increase the list of Field Marshals to nine, viz :—The Duke of Wel l ington, the King of Hanover, the Duke of Carob, idge, the King of the Belgians, Prince Albert, the Kng of the Nether lands. Sir George Nugent, Thomas Grosvenor, and the Marquis of Anglesey, Master-General of the Ordnance. The Navy Brevet gives the following promotions:—Ad miral of the Fleet, 1 (Sir G. A, artin) ; Admirals of the Red, 4 ; Admirals of the White, G; Admirals of the Blue, 4; Vice• Admirals of the Blue, 14 : Rear-Admirals of the Red, 20; Rear-Admirals cf the White, 17; Rear-Admi rals of the Blue, 20 ; Captains, 44 ; Commanders, 80 ; Lieutenants, 20; Masters, 20; Surgeons, 20; Pursers, 20. Total, 313. Romisa PR CESSIONS.—The Perth Advertiser has the following paragraph :—"Dunkeld.—Opening and Can" secration of Murlhly Roman Catholic Chapel.—On bath week this chapel was opened and consecrated with all the imposing ceremonies of the Catholic Church. On the occasion, there were present the Rev. Bish T s Car ruthers and Gillis. end assisting clergymen from Edin - burgh, Perth, and Dundee, besides the Rev. Mr. Mackay► the officiating priest in that quarter. At eleven o'clock, a procession of bishops and priests, bearing the host, ap proached from the Castle, accompanied by Sir WiTiain laruccuxusna-Stawaxt..( the Uranclor 4:1( fticfice), the Earl of Traqualr, and other noblemen and friends of the Ro man Catholic persuasion." [Not content with going through the forms of their Hindi within the new edifice, or around it, we find here a regular array of the higher_ and lower ranks of the clergy marching in s t a te. and no t only so, but with the host, a prime obj;ct of 11.ornisn wor ship—rather idolatry. Such exhibitions ar e c o mmon on the Continent, and there a superstitious, ignorant Priest" ridden people feel pleased with the circumstances of-the play. But in Protestant Scotland we might have been saved so public and so scandalous a display of Popi h fully. Transubstantiation is bad enough, (many who professed to believe in the monstrous tenet did not): brought out into tangible manifestation, it will certainly gain nothing in the way. of argument, and as little in the way of respectability.] THE ANDOVER INQUIRY REPORT. —The printer to the House of Commons has just sent forth this report. five thousand itnyelfteoenur pages; twenty-questions ; and seven h un dred which extends to two thick folio volumes, containing Iwo sa t t hou sand ehfuoa four d d rpe a ad n g deasntodhf inr appendices, the whol e , f or we h ave h a d the two volumes, within an ounce of fourteen pounds. Such a mass of matter nullifies itself, fur who will wade through it. in hunting the late Home Secretary and the Poor-law Commissioners, for whose neglect or duty the inquiry was called for. The concluding paragraph of the report, though it relates to but one of many sit:lsaac charges against the commissioners, is, we suppose, con clusive as to the necessity of promptly removing them from the office in which their conduct has incurred so severe a censure. " That on a review of the proceedings of the commissioners with respect to the Andover in quiries, and towards Mr. Parker and Mr. Day, it appears that they have been IRREGULAR and ARBITRARY, NOT IN' ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATUTE under which they exercise their functions, and such as to shake public con fidence in the administration of the law." If such a re port as this had been made by a committee of the House of Commons, or by an authority far less enetled to re spect. of the conduct of a poor exciseman, or a police , . . . BRISTOL FLEE PORT AssocIATIoN.—A public meet- constable, how long would he be permitted to remain in ing of operatives of the city of Bristol, to the number of office? The government have been in possession of this upwards of 3,000, was held on Thursday evening in the report since the 20th of August, but have taken no steps large public room. Broadmead, for the purpose of aiding upon it ; Sir James Graham, and the Poor-law Commis the above association in its efforts to reduce the excessive sioners ought at least to pay the cost of it themselves. port charges. The speakers dwelt upon the manner in THE TEN HOURS' BILL.—In furtherance of the reso which the pressure of the dock dues h a d r e duced the trade Lions adopted at a meeting of the delegates of the various of the city, and expressed the general belief that a reduc- short-time committees throughout the West Riding, held ti on of charges to the extent of nearly a tree port would at B. ighouse, in the latter part of last month, a public restore the ancient prosperity o f th e c ity. One of the meeting of the mill operatives residing in Halifax and the v ro ic o i m nit o y f , t w h a e s o h d e d ld F o e n ilo T w h s u , r H sd a a ll y , i e n ve u t: a in t g t , ow it n i . th f, e r s th pa e c p io u u r it_ speakers promulgated a plan by which the operatives might contrihute over £3,000 a-year to the object ; and it was unanimously resolved to lend all possible aid, as well pe- pose of giving to the factory workers, and others interested cuniary as otherwise. in the short-time movement, an opportunity of expressing The members of the Exeter Protestant Association their sentiments on a question so nearly concerning the have memorialised Mr. Divett, one of the members of happiness and welfare of so 'large a portion of the. " pro that city, on the subj e ct of further grants to Roman Ca- ducing classes." Shortly after eight o'clock, the hour tholics, expressing, at the same time, their determination appointed for the commencement of the meeting, John "to vote at the next general election only for those per- Fielding, Esq., M.P., Richard Oastler, Esq., and other eons on whom they can place reliance as defenders of the friends and supporters of the movement, made their ap- Protestant faith." Mr. Divett, in reply, declints respect- pearance on the platform. At this time the room was fully, but in the most distinct and emphatic manner, to densely crowded, and not less than three or four thousa give any pledge on the subject, and considers the conduct people being present. The moment the well known and of the memorialists "as partaking of religious pride, and revered countenance of the " Factory King" was r ecoge tot touch of Christian charity." Sir J. B. Duckworth, n i se d by his old friends and parishioners, he was greete d Mr. Divett's colleague in the representation of Exeter, with enthusiastic cheers, and we feel confident from th e has also been appealed to on the subject, but does not yet fire which lit the eye of this venerable , devoted. " and appear to have returned to answer, ardent " Friend of the Poor," that his recept ion b y the 1-1 e BRINGS.—On Tuesday, a fishing lugger was towed Halifax audience was all that his heart could wish. Ben into Yarmouth, with the enormous quantity of 25 lasts jamin Rushton, a working man, was unanimously called and 9.500 herrings on board, which were caught off that upon to occupy the chair during the proceedings of the coast i , about a week. Each last of fish contains 10, 000 evening, and, as usual, he filled the honourable lost with 1 herrings, or 13,200 short tale, 132 being sold for each great credit. The meeting was addressed be Oa s tler and hundred ; the cargo of the lugger therefore amounts o thers. A similar meeting was held at Huddersfield a day to the prodigious number of 342,549 herrings, valued at or t w o p rev i ous l y , a t w hi c h near l y 2,000 persons were pre near .C4' 0. The same boat brought in nearly 15 lasts sent. The vicar and several of the clergy were present, about 12 days previous. Such a sight, even in Yarmouth, and Mr. W. B. Ferrand delivered a powerful address. is rarely seen, for not only was almost every part of the GALLANT RESCUE OF A CREW.—The gales of last boat filled, but a vast quantity was stowed on the decks, month were most disastrous to life and property at seta• bringing her gunwale to within a few inches of the water, On the 15th of that month, about noon, one of the cele and fortunately the weather was very fine, or they must brated Broadstairs fishing luggers, called the Fame, with have thrown a considerable quantity overboard , a crew o f e i g ht hands, in a heavy gale from the S S.W., DEATH OF A MISER.—A notice has ben posted at the perceived a brig on the Longsand, with a terrific set Royal Exchange, from the Gaut of the Archbishop of breaking over her. The colours in the rigging showed Canterbury, that if the next of kin of Thomas Katie, late that the crew had given their vessel up as lost. The of Old Brentford, in the parish of Ealing, dead, intestate, crew of the Fame immediately determined to attempt to did not come forward, they would be condemned by con- rescue them, though at the risk of their own lives. After tumacv, and administration granted to Tho mas Msule, two unsuccessful attempts to reach her by dropping anchor the Tress Icy solicitor, on the part of her Majesty Queen and veering out a cable, they by another effort got opposite Victoria. It seems that Kane, who was well known in to h er , an d fi li ally, at the utmost hazard, go t hold o f a cabin for his penurious habits, and bore the name of l a dd er , which the crew of the bri g had f a stened to a log a miser, died some few months since, possessed of con- li ne an d committed to the waves. By means of the line a siderable wealth. No will could be found, and he Was stronger rope was got out t o th em . Th e d anger to the n ot known to have a single relative, an d t h oug h ever y en - b oat was st ill most i mm i nent; b ut J o h n C ast l e, t he deavour has been used, no one belon g i ng t o hi m c a n be master o f the lugg er , b y means o f th e warp reac h e d the di s covered The above noti ce was i ssue d preparatory t o wrec k i n safety, and found her to be the French brig p o ssession being taken in behalf of the Crown. Adelaide, of Nantes, full of water, and eight men on A DUCHESS MADE AMENABLE TO THE GAME LAWS. board. They then perfected the arrangements for gettini —lt will be in the recollection ot our re a ders that a para. the Frenchmen off, and after much perseverance, an graph in the papers recently announced that the Duke running the utmost hazard of their own lives, they suc of Marlborough was accompanied in a shooting excursion ceeded in getting all of them into the lugger, and landed by his lately married duchess, and that the latter person- them on the following morning, at two o'clock, at North ally took part in the amusement of the day, and with her Yarmouth. More than three hours elapsed between the own hand killed several head of game. Of the fact there time of their seeing the brig and that of rescuing bet is, we apprehend, no doubt ; but it has been followed up crew. The Morning Herald concludes a detailed account by consequences little apprehended at the time. Itifor- of the circumstance in these words :—" This noble and mations, it would seem, have been lodged against the gallant act of humanity was performed by poor fishermen• duchess for shooting without a licence. It is supposed ' Not only did they thus peril their lives, but they risked that this unusual step, which if followed up must in all the loss of their lugger, the sole means of their livelihoods probability lead to a conviction, has been adopted in re- We fervently hope that, although they had not the good taliation for some severe measure: recently taken by the 1 fortune to save any property, which would have entitle duke to punish certain trespassers upon bit manorial them to salvage, their meritorious conduct in saving th rights.—Brifannie. I lives of eight Frenchmen will not ;o unrewarded," Nov. 17, 1846.